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Dr. Donna Watson
Chiropractor in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A Place of Health
Dr. Donna Watson is a native Floridian born in Coral Gables and grew up in Dade and Broward Counties. When Dr. Watson was 15 years of age, she was very involved in competitive sports and became an accomplished athlete. During this time, she was involved in a car accident that didn't appear to be detrimental at the time.
However, many months later Dr. Watson was in so much pain that she could not continue with her workouts. After being taken to "The Best" orthopedic in town, she was informed that nothing could be done do to fix her problem. At that point, she decided she could not let go of her passion of sports and looked for another option.
Realizing that something needed to happen differently, Dr. Watson's mother took to her to an older gentleman who was called a "chiropractor". He also was a practicing acupuncturist, which was very rare back then. Within two weeks, she was free of all pain and began competing again within a very short time. Strongly impacted by this area of medicine, she then vowed to become a chiropractor so that she could give people a chance for a pain-free life in very much the same way she gained back her spinal health by the now deceased Dr. Bailey.
Dr. Watson realized that dream and became a licensed chiropractor in 1994 and started A Place of Health Chiropractic in Fort Lauderdale and Broward County in 1996. She has won many awards for excellence year after year and has grown her large holistic and integrated chiropractic practice. When asked why she thinks she achieved such success, her answer is "Once you know what it feels like to be a patient, it makes you listen differently when you become a doctor". Dr. Watson adds, "I have been there, I really understand and care about each patient as an individual person. No one is being rushed in and out of my office. All of my patients get 100% of my attention and 100% of my commitment to help heal them from whatever their healthcare issue is. That's what I would expect if I were the one sitting on the doctor's table looking for help".
- Organizations
- Florida Chiropractic Physician Association
- Florida Chiropractic Association
- Florida Chiropractic Society
- Broward County Chiropractic Society
- Kiwanis Broward County
- Ft. Lauderdale Chamber Commerce
- Broward Professional Group
- Business Network International
- Member American Association of Integrative Medicine
- Education
- Doctorate of Chiropractic, Life Chiropractic College, 1994
- Board Certified in Acupuncture, 2000
- Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine, 2006
- Diplomate in Acupuncture, 2000
- Bachelors of Science, Regents College, 1990
- Licenses & Certifications
- State of Florida Chiropractic License, January 1996
- State of Florida Board Certified in Acupuncture, 2000
- Nationally Board Certified in Naturopathic Medicine, 2009
- Board Certified In Integrative Medicine, 2009
- State of New York Chiropractic License, June 1994
- State of Florida Certified Workers Compensation Doctor, 1996
- Awards Received
- 2009 Through 2019 "America's Top Chiropractors" from Consumers Research Council of America
- 2014 Through 2020 "America's Best Chiropractors" from the National Consumers Advisory Board.
- Fort Lauderdale "Best Chiropractor 2009 through 2020" - "Hall of Fame" from U.S. Commerce Association
- 2015 Honored as one of the "100 Most Outstanding Women in Broward County" by the Boys and Girls Club of America
- 2018 SFGN Awarded "Out50 Broward County"- Animal Activist
- 2009 Hopes Heros award by Broward House
- The 2008 Chiropractor of the year - "New Times Magazine"
- Life College Clinic Excellence Award
- Deans List Fourteen Quarters Life Chiropractic College
- Life Chiropractic College, Graduated Magna Cum Laude
- Regents College, Graduated Highest Honors
- Research Assistantship, Life College
- Techniques
- Applied Kinesiology
- Bio Energetic Syncronization Technique
- Full Spine
- Activator
- Cranial Release Technique
- Thompson
- Totaly Body modification
- Cranio-Sacral
- Cox
- Gonstead
- Upper Cervical
- Logan Basic
- Continuing Education
- Diplomate Acupuncture
- Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine
- Workers comp seminars for certification
- Erhart X-ray Seminar Series
- Applied Kinesiology 100 Hrs Twice
- Total Body Modification Basic and Advanced
- Bio-energetic Synchronization Basic and Advanced
- Logan Basic Seminars
- Extremity Adjusting / Sports Medicine
- Nimmo
- Sports Physiology
- Yearly update on Laws and Rules and Ethics state of Florida C.P.R.
- Community Involvement
- Founder Dr Donna Pet Foundation a 501(c)(3) whos mission is to fight against animal abuse and promote animal welfare
- Authorship
- Dr. Watson has written many health related research articles: (click an article to open up the PDF)
We at A Place of Health believe in proactive versus reactive health care. Proactive healthcare works to identify and correct the underlying cause of illness. In contrast, reactive healthcare usually uses suppressive drugs and restricts itself to treatment of the symptoms, which only results in recurring, chronic conditions. To isolate the root cause of chronic pain and compromised health, Dr. Watson utilizes laboratory blood tests, salivary testing, and stool analysis when necessary to see why the body is not healing and why symptoms continue to occur or worsen in spite of repeated traditional efforts. In addition, Dr. Watson uses the best and most reliable laboratories ALCAT and ZRT to identify food allergies and environmental sensitivities and intolerance's not picked up by traditional blood testing.


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Teddy Bear with Wreath Wood Mounted Rubber Stamp from Penny Black! This 2 1/2" x 2 1/4" rubber stamp features a bear with a wreath and glowing candle. It can be used on cards, scrapbook pages and paper crafts.
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The first thing I noticed is that the annoying song is gone, replaced with a very interesting bouncy song, an annoying laugh at random, and a rather weird screeching. The song is definitely much better, I swear I've heard that laugh somewhere before, and I'm not quite sure about that screech. I'm quite certain, however, that it's the sound of a prehistoric pteridactyl. *whispers off screen* Did I spell that right? You don't know? Okay. *clears throat and continues*
The next thing you notice is that this game is definitely prehistoric looking; it includes bones, what looks to be some sort of ram, and some flying Neopets in the background that sound like... oh here's that word again. The big P one... can someone look that word up? We don't have the computers running? What kind of a news station is this?! *clears throat again*
Now the player comes in contact with several options: Start the game, view instructions, turn music off, turn visual effects off. Starting the game obviously brings a new menu up, instructions tells the player how to play the game, turning the music off makes that interesting music go away, and the visual effects means... no more creepy Neopets flying in the background. Let's continue; click the start button please.
Zen Mode- Classic stress-relief mode. We saw this effect in several games, like Sutek's Tomb. You get no actual level score or anything else, just pure fun smashing colored blocks for hours on end. This mode also means you don't get to send your score in for Neopoints, considering you don't get a score in the first place TO send in.
Classic Mode- Remember our old buddy, Destruct-O-Match 1, when we were very first introduced? Well, it's brought back into number three. That's right, it gives you a specific number of points you have to have before you can get to the next level and, even if you pass the number, you are not allowed to roll over those points into the next level. That means if you get "Next Level 120 of 100" those 20 extra points don't stroll onto level two with you. No fun for those of us who start having trouble in later levels.
Extreme Mode- This comes in from Destruct-O-Match 2. Remember when you had to click the little blocks really fast and keep them from reaching the top of the screen? Well, it's back again. Classic and just like last time, you only click once and the same-colored boxes touching it all disappear in a satisfying sound. The longer you go the faster the boxes bounce themselves up. No wonder they have a Zen mode; stress to the max in this case.
Double Trouble Mode- We're finally into the new aspect of Destruct-O-Match; this is the introduction of the new part that makes this number three. Instead of a full screen of blocks that you have to destroy in order to go into the next round, you now have the screen split in half. That's right; you get two columns with two "next level" spots on either side of the screen. The interesting part is that you only get to keep the two power-ups on the bottom of the screen; the player doesn't get four. The one column never affects the other column, and the power up affects both columns at the same time. I recommend doing one column first and then working on the next one after you finish that column; however, you can do it one column and then when that one is finished you can go onto the second one. Either way you choose to do it, you still get two columns you have to finish off.
Double Trouble Extreme Mode- This is the same as Double Trouble; however, it mixes two aspects of the game. Just as it sounds like it mixes Double Trouble mode and Extreme mode together into one part. You get two columns and they both start at a specific level and start to bump their way up to the top of the screen, getting faster and faster as the player progresses through the game.
That wraps up the important in-game stuff; what else is there? Well, there are several new aspects to the game other than the actual game part itself. For one, the blocks fit together perfectly and are much easier to distinguish from one another. The player still has to deal with the annoying aspect of yellow vs. orange being a bit too close in color for comfort, but other than that, the game is much more interesting and fun to play. There are also some new power ups to deal with and they all do different things.
~~The Scorchio face shows up as a wing on the bottom of the screen on one of the grey tablets. When pressed, the wing disappears and a Tyrannian Scorchio flies across the screen and mixes up all the blocks, giving you a new combination to work with.
~~The Tyrannian Grarrl (which is green for some reason...? Are they green? Oh well) makes a rather large footprint appear on one of the big grey tablets. When this option is pushed, the Grarrl stomps across the screen with a terrifying tendency to make all of the blocks jump up and down from the force of the Grarrl's weight on the ground below. This fella makes your last move come undone.
~~The Scamander. This guy only works in extreme mode even though you can see him in all the modes, from what I can remember. Anyway, all he does is make a noise and hang out on top of that row of blocks to stop them from going up anymore for a limited amount of time.
~~The Volcano is just like Destruct-O-Match one and two, where you got the option of blowing up several blocks in this block's vicinity. It just shows up as a picture of a pure black block with an erupting volcano in its center.
~~The Three Chicken Legs? This guy is a nice power up to get; make sure you click on a block below it or above it, clicking on just this block won't allow you to use it, as it's sort of a wild-card and can be destroyed with anything. If you destroy it with two blocks you're going to get six points; it triples your score.
~~The Wand. I'm still not sure if it's an actual wand or if it's some sort of Battledome item, I don't remember seeing it around the site. I'm sure it's actually a club of some sort, but for simplicity's sake I'm going to call it a wand. Either way, this wand shows up as one of the many colors, and after it's matched up with one or several of the other colors on the board the player may click on it. Clicking on it makes all of the other blocks of the same color on the game screen go poof. Be warned! If you had a lot of blocks on it of that color, you don't get the points for them; you only get the points for the blocks that you clicked on. For example, the wand happens to be on a grey block and it's matched up with one other block and you have fifty other grey blocks on the board. Once those two blocks are clicked, then all of the grey blocks, all fifty-two disappear, and you only get two points for the whole set. So be careful how you use this guy.
~~Gift-wrapped block. This block has what looks like four stripes, one from each direction, come together in the center. This block is what I'm going to term the wild-card as every so often it will change its color to another color that's still on the board. I choose to get rid of this block in the very beginning because it tends to annoy me more often than not, but it can also be used to your advantage at the very end if you have four blocks left and you want that extra bonus at the end.
~~Three Gifts One Block. Don't ask; I couldn't think of a more creative name for it. It's just a block with three small white blocks on it, it doesn't actually give you three prizes. Anyway all this block does is, once it's been cleared with the rest of the blocks in its color and as long as there is some room on the board, it will make one block appear in every row. It falls from the sky and lands all nicely on top of the other blocks in that row and you get another block to clear up.
Two Spears- An actual wild-card. This block can be used and destroyed with any other block color. :) Very, very useful.
Time Bomb- This is an older one from some of the other games, like several of the ones listed above. The Bomb starts out at 15 seconds and counts down slowly; when it hits 0, it makes the same noise it used to and turns into a 'dead' block that can't be destroyed unless it's with the volcano blast.
Well, that's about it. All I can say now is that with the visual effects off, you don't have to wait, hear, and watch the ram at the bottom of the screen hit the side of the wall to give you your options. It's a bit time-consuming and quite annoying. However, clicking this doesn't get rid of the visual effects in the game. That means you still get to watch the Scorchio flying across the screen if you get that power up, and to watch the Grarrl stomp angrily across your screen if you get that one. Overall, the game is very interesting and done up much nicer than the other ones. Good luck, fellow block-breakers, and don't worry. Hopefully they'll start to re-make the other games. Hopefully a game like Sutek's Tomb can be re-done. I mean, it makes a promise about some sort of treasure on the other side of the pyramid and nobody has ever made it there yet! I don't know about anybody else, but I'm disappointed.
Note- TNT has done a much better job explaining away the power ups better than I ever could, so please, if you need a visual of anything I've said above, please visit the game, click on Instructions, and then click More. The power ups are listed there with everything you need to know about them.


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Lawyer and death penalty critic Eugene Thuraisingam has apologised in court yesterday for making statements that were in contempt of court. He previously implied that ministers turn a blind eye to death penalty laws in Singapore because they are only after financial gains. His Facebook post was a response to Ridzuan's death sentence as the man was found guilty of trafficking heroin.
The lawyer acknowledged his mistake and insisted nobody forced him to apologise. "There is no basis for me to have insinuated that judges have subordinated their judicial duty to financial greed or that they are more concerned, or preoccupied, with acquiring financial wealth and material goods which causes them to turn a blind eye to the injustice of the law they apply."
He also said he voluntarily took down the post.
Orh-horrrr. What do you think, was he too outspoken?
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Jammu, December 8:
The 270-km-long Jammu-Srinagar national highway was closed for traffic on Sunday to facilitate "necessary repair work", while one-way traffic resumed on 434-km Srinagar-Leh highway and Mughal road after remaining closed for several weeks due to heavy snowfall, officials said.
Inspector General of Police, traffic, Alok Kumar said vehicular movement on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, was suspended for the day to allow road maintenance agencies to carry out "necessary repair work".
While convoys of security personnel were allowed to ply on the highway from both sides– Srinagar and Jammu, civilian traffic was restricted.
The step was taken to ensure that the highway which was damaged by recent landslides in Ramban sector can be repaired and to facilitate the passage of security convoys.
Meanwhile, the 434-km Srinagar-Leh national highway was reopened for one-way traffic on Sunday morning after remaining closed since November 27 following heavy snowfall in Zojilla pass and adjoining areas, the officials said.
They said the traffic was allowed to move from Kargil towards Srinagar after the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), which maintains the highway, gave the green signal after clearing snow from the road.
Similarly, the officials said that the Mughal road which connects the border districts of Poonch and Rajouri in Jammu region to south Kashmir"s Shopian district was also cleared of accumulated snow and thrown open for one-way traffic after remaining closed for more than a month.
Traffic was allowed from Shopian side but the drivers were cautioned to drive carefully due to slippery conditions at some places, the officials said.
The Mughal road was closed for traffic on November 6 after most parts of Kashmir valley including Pir Ki Gali experienced first major snowfall.
After several weeks of hectic efforts, the road was cleared on November 26 but a fresh spell of snowfall delayed its reopening, the officials said.
Both Srinagar-Leh national highway and the Mughal road usually remain closed for traffic during winter months due to heavy snowfall.


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An examination of the advertising columns of any publication will speedily determine the fact that the use and influence of illustrations is growing right along.
It is not so many years ago that some advertisers used to snort at illustrations. Take Wanamaker's advertising for instance. Before Mr. Gillam took hold of John Wanamaker's advertising lever, no cuts were used in the Wanamaker announcements. Today they are lavishthe cuts are as carefully prepared and made to fit the text as is possible for cuts to be. Every Wanamaker adwhether in New York or in Philadelphia-has a goodly sprinkling of cuts.
Bloomingdale Bros., Siegel-Cooper Co., Macy, Adams and all the big New York retailers use cutsand use them lavishly too. Illustrated advertising, like illustrated journalism, has come to stay-it is here in response to a demand of the public to get at the story of advertising articles without waste of trine.
The illustration that does not express a distinct idea is a poor illustration. It should be clearly drawn by an artist with an abundance of ideas to be conveyed in the fewest lines possible. The etcher and electrotyper should see that these lines are cut deep and clear. When there is a superabundance of detail in the drawing and a lack of depth and clearness in the workmanship of the cut, the result is disastrous as far as retail advertising is concerned. The average newspaper, city and country, is printed on a rapid press with poor ink on poor paper; that is why so many cuts come out blurred and blotched.
Some retailers keep the cuts indexed in their own advertising offices, some ask the newspapers to file away the cuts. Some unwise merchants keep the cuts in old barrels and dry goods boxes. When contingencies arise the cuts are difficult or impossible to find. In large cities, where the matrix system can be worked, it has been found that the best plan is to have the matrices indexed in the store's advertising office and the electrotypes or stereotypes in the newspaper composing rooms. In small towns, I believe, the best system is to have the newspapers index the cuts and the advertiser to be supplied with several proofs of each. When the " printer's devil " knows his business this is all right; when that individual is careless there is constant trouble on account of cuts mislaid or lost.
In Boston there is a greater demand for wood engravings than in any other city. But wood engravings are more expensive in production than the usual outline cuts known as chalk plates, zinc etchings, pen and ink drawings, etc. On good paper wood engravings show up more clearly the fabric of the suit or the grain of the wood than any other newspaper cuts. But the fine effect of a wood engraving is lost in the poor paper, ink and press work of so many dailies.
Generally speaking the chalk plate or ordinary outline cut is the cut for the retailer. It costs little to get up.
In the matter of advertising garments for men, women and children cuts are very necessaryalmost absolutely necessary. A garment ad without a cut is not one-fifth as eloquent as an ad with the picture of the garment advertised. Garment cutsand other cuts for that mattershould do more than merely picture the article being advertised-they should suggest the time and place forits uses. A man portrayed walking down Broadway, with a handsome covert overcoat, instantly suggests to the good male dresser of Danbury, Denver or Dover, a Saturday afternoon saunter in the principal street of his town cutting a swell in the same garment. An effective illustration, showing a couple of ladies on Fifth Avenue, on Easter Sunday morning, resplendent in stylish spring capes and skirts of the latest mode, in a moment strikes a note of admiration and keen appreciation in the mind of every lady in the city or rural district, who would like to appear to equally excellent advantage in the same outer garments. Columns of talk could not make this impressionbut a few words deftly strung together describing the garments and their prices, make the combination sure to win custom. The first great point in advertising is to under-stand the art of attracting attention, then retaining it long enough to tell your story. Cuts will help you as nothing else in this regard. It is like retailing. First induce the customer to come to your store then win him by the excellence of your values. Induce the reader to glance at your ad by your bright cut and happy catch-line, then retain his attention by the brightness and logic of your talkkeep him fastened to your ad until his head is filled with the tale you would impart.
You have noticedI have noticedevery student or even casual observer of advertising has noticed the past few years, an evolution in cuts. The same evolution has taken place in the ads proper. This evolution is
Not so many years ago in the minds of many advertisers the proper caper in illustrations was a man falling off a precipicea boy turning a handspringan individual having his eyes pulled from the socketa woman chasing a cat with a broomstick or some other idiotic caricature to give point to an equally idiotic joke or drivel. The point aimed at was " to be original." In the desire for originality all the canons of decency, common sense and art were forgotteneverything was swept aside to bring before the public eye a far-fetched and labored witticism or effort to be extraordinarily unusual.
What nonsensebosh-rot!
Nowadays there is very little of that.
The eminently plain, beautiful and dignified now is justly considered in cuts as well as in ads, and it will be justly considered unless advertising takes a swing back to its dark agesof which there is no danger.
The first-classartist can invest his illustrations with the proper amount of originality by the natural force of his individuality. He will take a pair of shoes, a silk hat or a corset, and with a few strokes of his pencil give it a winsome, harmonious effect, brimful of suggestion and action, originality and thought, yet so easy and natural in its artistic effect that the most ordinary reader can in a moment grasp its points and uses.
Originality cannot help flowing from the pencil of the good artisthe will naturally give an original turn to every picture he makes. All the while he is not straining for this effect, but rather following the natural bent of his artistic nature in reproducing the article and hinting a thought as to its performances.
Same way with the advertising writer. In telling his tale he need burst no suspender-buttons in a wild desire to be original, because originality will naturally follow in the wake of clearness and conciseness, which are the first considerations he aims at. His mind, like the artist's, is trained in the direction of bringing out the best in the article being advertised-both have the creative faculty-the application of this creative faculty gives the illustrations and the ads all the originality necessary.


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If you're a founder, product manager, scrum manager, or technical lead working with a team of developers, you know it's not always easy to add Agile methodology to their workflow. This is especially true if you try to get developers to use software they don't understand, think they need, or want to use.
We'll let you in on a little secret: developers hate to forced into a project management approach. In a perfect, pristine world, we developers could focus just on writing code and nothing else. We get that there are other people involved; designers who create digital assets for us, writers who spin words that capture the work we've done. Even marketers, we suppose, need to be kept in the Agile loop.
But we hate having to use an entirely different system on top of coding, git commits, and pull requests.
If the developers on your team feel the same way, don't try to herd cats; instead let them use one of the tools they know and love: GitHub.
So how can you add Agile methodology to your source control tool AND keep your developers happy?
1. Use GitHub's Agile Projects
Since October 2016, GitHub has offered a way to track GitHub Issues, Pull Requests, and Notes, with Projects. GitHub Projects let you have kanban-style boards for managing work, and cut across separate code repositories. This lets you round up, say, all the tasks for your next sprint and list them in one place.
GitHub Projects are great for developers because they are an extension of what developers are already used to: GitHub Issues and Pull Requests. When developers finish writing code to fix a bug reported via an Issue, the message they wrote to summarize what they did can automatically close an Issue once it's live. This means you don't have to harangue your developers to keep the project management app up-to-date; it's already done.
What's more, GitHub Projects let you group Issues and Pull Requests (which are code waiting to go live) by Milestone. Let's say you have a first quarter release that's important to sales and marketing. Developers will be able to report the status of their work in detail through Issues. This allows everyone else on the team, or other teams, to see their progress by viewing Milestones.
If you've ever used Trello, working with GitHub Issues (like Cards) and Projects (like Boards) will be very familiar to you. Let's take a closer look at how Github Projects work.
Creating GitHub Projects is pretty easy:
1. Log into your company's GitHub account.
2. Go to the "Projects" tab.
3. Give your new project a name, a description (optional), and start with the "Kanban (Basic)" template.
4. Click "Create Project."
5. Your new Project will open, with a handy set of instructions on the left, and Issue cards, which you can drag into their proper places, on the right.
6. Continue to add issues that you want to track (such as the resized logo you need for the next release) into the Project. You can search for existing (open or closed) Issues, or add notes. GitHub Notes are hard to find in the documentation, but easy to create once you know the trick: click the + next to the ellipses to the right of a Project columns' name.
2. Make GitHub Projects more Agile with ZenHub
As nice as GitHub Projects are, they're missing one really important Agile methodology ingredient: Epics.
In Agile methodology, Epics are bigger than single user stories, sometimes bigger than any one sprint or iteration. For product managers, founders, and executives, they're the things that matter most.
Unfortunately, GitHub doesn't have Epics (neither does Trello, out of the box). But there's a neat service for GitHub called ZenHub, that adds Epics, enhances Projects, and adds a number of very useful reports to GitHub.
With ZenHub Epics, you can organize a bunch of User Stories in the form of Issues into a single coherent whole; scheduling it, tracking it, and measuring its progress.
Not having Epics as part of your Agile toolbox can hurt your team. If you use Trello, but not Epics, each sprint will fill up with small issues and improvements. Meanwhile, the big things, the things that matter most and that would normally have been captured as Epics, will not be addressed fast enough.
ZenHub does more than Epics for its approximate $5/month per seat price tag. It can actually predict delivery dates so you don't have to do the math, and delivers management-ready release reports.
And for your developers, ZenHub offers burndown charts to show progress made towards completing a Milestone.
3. Consider a third approach to Agile management: Trello
GitHub and ZenHub are great solutions when your Agile team is mostly developers. But what if they're not? What if most of your cross-functional team are people who don't think like developers? Or you don't want to complicate the software development process with issues from other teams, that have nothing to do with software development?
Trello makes for an excellent Agile management tool for teams more interested in results and process than management reports. With it, and a consensus around how your team will use this tool, you can orchestrate both simple and robust Agile projects.
Trello straps rockets to a kanban board: you can have as many boards, lists and cards as you need. You can add information, links, and integrations to cards, and move cards from list to list and board to board as needed. Here's a great Agile starter board you can use as a template.
Most Agile project management tools have a product backlog list for defined tasks, a sprint backlog for the tasks enumerated for this sprint, and a current sprint for tasks in progress. But if this structure doesn't work for your style of Agile management, Trello lets you set up your own lists as you see fit.
Your team members are free to create and edit cards, adding comments, checklists, due dates, tags, and notes — essentially having all the conversation that's needed about a specific task. Trello will make sure everyone is up to date, log comments, and alert team members when they are mentioned in any card.
Four things make Trello particularly well-suited for Agile management:
- Chrome browser extensions: Such extensions can add specific features to Trello. For example, they can create functionality for creating task points, tracking time spent on tasks, generating Gantt charts, and exporting cards.
- Power-Ups: There's a wide variety of powerful integrations available for Trello, including integrations with GitHub. Everything from adding calendar views, to including custom fields that connect to Google Drive documents. The Power-Ups are great for your developers, who may be feeling a bit left out.
- Agile features: Trello Agile documentation, examples, blog postings, and use cases demonstrate why Trello is an excellent platform for Agile management.
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I recently attended a weeknight beer event being run by a friend of mine who works for Fat Head's Brewery, one of Ohio's best brewers of intense hoppy ales, nuanced traditional German styles, and everything in between.
The night was sultry and the air was close, and it had been raining intermittently out of a low, gray sky for most of the afternoon. Consequently, my friend Richard ("Head Hop Wanderer" at Fat Head's) was plying patrons with two of his lighter brands: Bumbleberry, a honey blueberry ale available year-round but most beloved in the heat of summer, and Sunshine Daydream, a fantastic session IPA named, like many Fat Head's beers, as an homage to the Grateful Dead.
Richard was sampling customers, working the room, talking beers and distributing samples as a beer rep is wont to do. He very graciously offered to buy me a beer; I ordered a Sunshine Daydream, and the bartender set my 20oz glass down right next to the bulbous, fishbowl-like pitcher from which Richard had been pouring samples of the same beer.
And a thought immediately struck me: beer color is strange.
Of all the different ways we've collectively agreed to quantify beer attributes, color is the most deceptively simple, I think. After all, it's the only attribute that relies on a single sense (that is, sight – all other qualitative attributes are experienced through some combination of smell, taste, and physical sensation), and it's the one that in theory should be the easiest to agree on. Although there's some amount of Philosophy 101 at play in pondering whether your brown is the same as my brown, within a fairly narrow field we'll almost certainly both agree on what brown is, even if we may differ substantially on whether a given beer smells more like pomegranate or lychee.
And we can break colors down to numbers in a way that we might struggle to do with tastes and textures. While you might describe a beer as being "chestnut with garnet highlights," you can also assign it a numerical color value (SRM or Standard Reference Method), but both mean, basically, brown, or maybe reddish-brown.
Assigning flavor and aroma descriptors like "passionfruit" or "bread crust" to a beer is a way to try and express verbally (and thereby enable shared knowledge about) a sensory experience that really isn't easily quantifiable – we can probably both agree pretty easily on a common "brown," but agreeing that a certain flavor note is "bread crust" as it presents in a colloidal solution of 6% ethanol by volume in association with dozens of different esters, phenols, alcohols and acids is a fair bit less straightforward.
Beer color, despite the easy number, isn't straightforward either. Although you can crack any beer book and find style descriptions that contain quantitative data on beer color – usually expressed in SRM, or Standard Reference Method, about which more presently – that number and the color scale that goes along with it does relatively little to explain why a tall glass and a fat pitcher of the same beer should look so radically different. So what gives?
The color of beer is a reflection (or perhaps refraction) of the color of the malt used to make that beer. Part of beer recipe formulation is considering what color one wants the ultimate, fermented beer to be: a tawny porter, a deep orange IPA, an inky black stout, etc. Color is, for better or worse, one of the principal ways that we identify style; while the past decade or so of craft brewing has seen brewers using color to experiment with and defy our expectations (in the case of the "blonde stout" or "Cascadian dark ale," whose star has so precipitously fallen), color still communicates a lot to the drinker about how a given beer is "supposed" to taste.
And so when a brewer plans a recipe to arrive at a certain color, she is using an abstract quantifiable to determine what the color of the beer will be given the malt she is using – usually the Standard Reference Method of calculating beer color, also known as SRM. All malt, whether purchased by a homebrewer or large commercial brewery, should come with a spec sheet that lists its SRM, and "the SRM value of the malt is roughly equal to the wort color achieved when 1 lb of malt is mashed in 1 gallon of water" (Mallet 17). So if one were to make a simple tea of some crushed barley malt with those proportions, the color of the resultant liquid should closely match that of the malt's SRM value as indicated on the SRM color chart.
Still with me? Think of SRM as color "points" – the higher the number, the darker the color of the malt and by extension, the beer. The scale begins at 2-3 SRM ("pale straw") and tops out at 40 SRM ("black"). Brewers make an educated guess at beer color by making calculations based on the SRM scores of all the malts they use in a given recipe, at given amounts.
However, as John Mallet notes in his excellent "Malt," part of the Brewing Elements Series, "The simple quantification of color does not tell the whole story. Analytically, a brilliant orange wort and muddled grayish brown wort may generate similar SRM color values, despite a vast difference between them."
Beer color profoundly influences our perceptions, not just of style, but of flavor."
This is because lots of other factors also influence perceived beer color, such as the concentration of proteins and polyphenols, the pH of the solution, and brewhouse procedures. Long boil times and decoction mashes (wherein a portion of the mash is removed and boiled to deepen and concentrate malt flavor) can also darken beer beyond its malts' calculated SRM potential – if you've ever made a caramel from white sugar on the stovetop, you get a sense of how heat and time can effect a color change. Beyond the brewhouse, age can also darken a beer, especially lighter-colored ones, as oxidation takes its toll.
SRM is a measure of color density, determined by the amount of light at a given wavelength that is absorbed by a liquid sample at a specific volume. The perceived color of the Fat Head's Sunshine Daydream in the picture above is vastly different from pitcher to glass – more of the light is absorbed by the higher density of particulates suspended in the liquid in the fat, squat pitcher than the tall, skinny glass, so the former has a "pale amber" color (say, SRM ~9), while the latter appears "pale gold" (perhaps SRM ~4).
A lab-tested sample would of course reveal that they are of course both the same color, and the color in the glass is almost certainly closer to the SRM originally calculated by the brewery in recipe formulation.
As with so much else in beer (and life), color can be as simple or as complex as you'd like to make it. While I can just barely grasp the basics of the science behind beer color, I know very well that it profoundly influences our perceptions, not just of style, but of flavor.
The next time you're at a bottle share (or just drinkin' on the porch), try a little experiment: blind taste a beer in an opaque container. Think through what you're tasting: malty? Hoppy? Heavy? Light? Strong? Sessionable? Now, take an educated guess at the color. Did your impressions match your supposition?
Think, drink, repeat. And enjoy. Cheers.
Header photo thanks to Kyle Kastranec and Fathead's.
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If you've ever been in an online casino, you know just how many games there is to choose from. Like in real life, you have a wide array of choices and any choice could lead you to a big win. Additionally, any game could end up leaving you completely out of cash. So, what you need to do is find games that don't tilt so far in favor of the house. Which games are those?
1) Blackjack - One of the simplest card games in the world, single deck Blackjack is as close to a toss-up as you are going to find in a casino. As long as you do a minimal amount of research, you'll be able to stay competitive until you find your way to a win.
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By Abu Shaw, London Bureau Chief
The recent death of an African journalist in Liverpool, England, has since brought more questions than answers as the deceased is still unknown up to the time of writing this story.
A press release sent by email to media and refugee organisations in the United Kingdom could not unravel the mystery. The Bristol based Exiled Journalists Network (EJN), the Greater Manchester Refugee Groups, the Refugees & Asylum Seekers Adults & Families North West Consortium and the Refugees & Asylum Seekers Resettlement Support Team in Liverpool have all been left dumbfounded despite ceaseless efforts to trace the origin of the dead journalist.
According to a press release dated 22 February 2006,the Manager of the Refugees & Asylum Seekers Adults & Families Consortium, Mr. Karl Oram disclosed the name of the dead journalist as Mr. James Ntanda.
Mr Oram noted that James Ntanda is believed to have come from the East African state of Uganda and he was granted an Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK by the Home Office about two years ago. He said the African Journalist was said to have died of natural causes. His corpse was found in his flat near Holt Road in Liverpool.
The identification of the African Journalist became even remote after persistent public appeals to identify him failed to bear any fruits. "We have not been able to trace any friends or relatives so far. If anyone has had contact with any relatives or friends please forward the details to us," the press release signed by Karl Oram added.
Mr. Oram was disappointed over the little information available on Mr James Ntanda and he subsequently feared that his burial would go ahead without the attendance of acquintances who know him.
As a follow up, the Patriotic Vanguard informed a former Ugandan Sports Minister in late Idi Amin's regime Captain Muhammad Seruwagi. Captain Seruwagi, currently exiled in England, confirmed the familiarity of the James Ntanda name but he too could not appropriately trace the journalist. He however thanked the Patriotic Vanguard for the information.
Captain Seruwagi in turn contacted a veteran British Journalist and writer Bob Astles in London. Mr. Astles, a former Senior Adviser to Idi Amin, was equally shocked and he too was unable to identify the media house James Ntanda was associated with. Captain Seruwagi later told the Patriotic Vanguard about relaying the news to the press in Uganda.
Brian Dodd, the Property Protection Officer at the Adult Protection Unit Municipal Buildings in Liverpool, was put in charge of the funeral arrangements for James Ntanda. Mr. Dodd proceeded with the funeral after they failed to discover anything significant during a search of the deceased's flat.
The remains of James Ntanda were cremated at the Anfield Crematorium in Liverpool on Friday February 24 at 4.00 pm. "I've also arranged for a coffin spray so the occasion will be as dignified as possible but without many mourners at the moment," Mr Dodd said shortly before the cremation.
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Choose a technology partner that listens
Improve efficiencies and support students with IT services
- A technology partner should listen and learn about the unique needs of each customer, then tailor its approach accordingly
- For small institutions with small IT teams, managed services can be the answer to directing resources toward the core mission
- Managed technology services let staff members focus on student support
What the University of Arkansas System eVersity looks for in a technology partner.
Michael K. Moore, Chief Academic and Operating Officer, University of Arkansas System eVersity
So, we took a hard look at "What is the core function of a university?" And that really comes down, in my mind, to the academic stuff, the curriculum, the teaching, how you support students and their learning. And the rest of it, we wanted to look for ways that we could find private-sector vendors that might be more efficient at doing what we're doing, and also able to scale with us and that bought into our mission.
We needed somebody that was willing to pause what they were accustomed to doing, listen to us, and understand that they have a solution that may be needed to be sort of adjusted a little bit to fit our unique business case and were willing to sort of go on that march with us.
That, to me, was the real appealing thing about Ellucian from the very beginning. It began with the sales conversations. We looked at other vendors as well. Everybody does. It's no secret. But from the very beginning, it was clear that they were willing to listen to us, and more importantly, weren't going to sell me things I did not need.
And then the consultants that came on site—absolutely outstanding. They, too, listened. And they knew our story before they got there, so we didn't have to waste precious time trying to explain to them the unique business model that we were trying to do.
We are an entirely online university and I have an IT staff of one. And when we began this project, we had zero, no IT. Ellucian is our IT office. So, they manage all the bundles and all the upgrades, all the patches, all that stuff that needs to be taken care of. They schedule it. They make sure everything's working. We have a problem, we talk to them, they solve it.
That's the kind of thing I want. I want somebody that can be held accountable, that understands what we're doing, and is able to take care of all of our needs and let us focus on what is at the core mission of the university, which is teaching and learning and supporting students.


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I've taken a week MC after going through a minor surgery to remove my wisdom teeth. It has been a pain but I am so relieved after having to live with it for 2 years (2 years guys!). Long story short, the first one came out when I was studying abroad. I went home to…Read More
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Province confirms it is seriously considering the possibility…but it may take awhile
The launch this week of Ontario's regulated online gambling website PlayOLG.ca (see previous InfoPowa reports) has triggered renewed media interest on the topic and speculation that Alberta may become the eighth Canadian province to embrace online gambling.
Approached by local media for comment on the issue, a spokesperson for the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission (AGLC) said the commission is examining the possibility of creating an online gaming portal in Alberta, but declined to provide details on what progress has been made.
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Hi everyone. Ive been watching this thread for a few years now and seeing what you all have to say. I have an excellent job working in a factory making 50k plus a yr, but my true dream is to open a lawn care business and turn it into a garden center someday. I have a degree in horticulture and am very good with the yard care thing and have worked at garden centers for about 6 yrs b4 I got this factory job. My question is what do you really need to get started, what a good price to charge, and if anyone knows the prices to start a garden center/nursery would be very much appreciated.


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If you are like me then you eagerly await your pay cheque. It's one of the only times when whatever job you do is worth it because it gives you the opportunity to pay your bills. Unfortunately, that happiness usually disappears when I realize how much money was taken out for taxes.
When I go shopping, I have to ensure that I ask if the price on the item includes tax. If not, I know I have to add 16.5% for G.C.T. Then I go home and find a notice from the tax office reminding me that I need to pay my property tax.
Taxes Galore
It seems that wherever I turn there are more taxes to pay. Income tax, Property tax and General Consumption Tax are the main taxes that most consumers have to contend with the most. There are more taxes than money and it seems like being given a pan with holes to carry water.
Is there any relief in sight?
The government had announced a tax package that would allow all those who earned below $1.5 million to receive a tax break. This adjustment to the income tax threshold resulted in an increase of as much as $8,490 in monthly take-home pay.
Is it enough?
Well since then a lot of things have increased and going grocery shopping now is an exercise in economic gymnastics. Consumers have had to stretch their funds to get all their needs met even if they benefited from tax breaks.
Let's not forget the tax dodgers
There are number of working professionals who choose not to pay their taxes. Some persons genuinely don't have the funds, but others seem to delight in hiding funds from the government or under reporting how much they make.
They hope that they will never be caught even as they amass millions in debt.
Sooner or later they get caught and wind up before the judge where they can get fined or imprisoned depending on the charges brought up against them. It surely does not pay to hide your income!
It's important whether you are an individual or business to keep track of what you owe. If you find yourself falling behind the best thing to do is to go to the tax office and make arrangements to pay your debt.
Do we really need to pay taxes?
Although it's a pain to pay taxes, remember that besides avoiding legal troubles we should pay taxes because it provides revenue for essential services such as police, a justice system, social services, health care and education which benefits all citizens.
So what's your take on the issue? Let me hear from you!
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Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration
This event happens annually on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in downtown Bloomington.
Black History Month
Join us for the inaugural Bloomington Black & Brown Arts Festival, Saturday, May 19 at the Banneker Community Center (930 W. 7th St.) from 12:00-4:00 p.m. This is a celebration of African and Latino creative arts and artists to affirm community space, preserve arts appreciation, and enhance pride in the spirit of diversity of the Bloomington community.
National Latinx Heritage Month
National Latinx Heritage Month, Sept 15 through Oct 15, is dedicated to celebrating the history, culture, and contributions of Hispanics in the United States.
29th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
Join us on Plaza 1A on the Bline, Saturday, July 27th, 2019 from 9am-12pm!


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*Quinoa is Often referred to as the super grain, quinoa (KEEN-wah) is high in fiber and high-quality protein. In fact, it contains more protein than any other grain while also packing in iron and potassium. One half cup of quinoa has 14 grams of protein and 6 grams of fiber.
*Quinoa contains healthy fats such as omega-3 and omega-9 fatty acids. There is a low risk of allergy with quinoa and it's easily digested, making it an excellent choice for young children. … "Quinoa is a great addition to anyone's diet because of its high nutritional value – it's a great source of vitamins and minerals."


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It's been full speed ahead this week again, still struggling with a severe cold, but it is slowly clearing up. Last week I went to the garden centre and bought five insect hotels. They're supposed to house solitary bees, butterflies and ladybirds.
They're meant to be fixed at a hight between 1,5 and 2 meters and face a east-west direction.
We've put up three in the neighbourhood of the stables, one is in the car port and another one is going up in a tree.
After just two days we saw that a couple of holes of the hollow reeds were filled up nicely. Will post a picture once they're full up.
We're not exactly booked solid for the Easter holidays, but the weather isn't that great. It has been below 10ºC during the day and it might freeze at night, so all insects are not coming out to play.
I did make one myself, cutting up some neighbourly bamboo shoots I cut down that were growing into our garden.
I stuffed them together with other bits of material lying around into a wooden wine box (which I was actually planning on making into a bird house). It has been up for nearly a month now and so far I have only seen spiders dangling from bits of twigs.
Dr Livingstone pointed out to me that the holes were actually to small to house any bees.
2 comments:
- Ellie May said...
nice houses but I have never heard of insect houses before, well enjoy them let us know how it works out this summer with them. love the pictures, do take care.
- 9 April 2012 at 03:49
- Ellie May said...
I didn't know there were such things as Insect houses, me myself I like bird houses. well please let me know how the insect houses work this summer, do take care and happy Easter.
- 9 April 2012 at 03:53
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