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Oral Thrush or Candidiasis
Hi Doctor Kalmar and thank you for your quick answer (wich is pasted below) now the white spots have dissapeared, the next day I noticed them) but this morning I woke up an noticed a white area on the back lower side of my tongue which hurts a little bit if I touch it with my nail. Is it possible that the fact that I had an aspirin against that side the other night may have caused this? it`s not round is more like a strip or extended area along the side Thanks again.
Question: Good afternoon, I`m not sure how to call it or if it`s the same condition. But is it possible to develop this condition as a few maybe 2 or 3 tiny white spots on the tongue in an area that is no bigger than 1cm by 1cm? and if so would it hurt or is not painful? Sorry for my english but I`m from Argentina and it`s not my first tongue Thank you very much in advance Jose
Answer: Thank you for visiting NetWellness. It is difficult for me to understand your question. Can you provide me with more information?
1. Do your tiny white tongue spots hurt? 2. How quickly did they develop? 3. How long do they last? 4. Where exactly do they appear on your tongue? 5. Do they always appear in the same place?
Knowing the answers to these questions will keep my guesswork to a minimum.
What you are now describing sounds like it is one of the normal structures of the lower side of the tongue. This structure is known as the fimbriated fold. This little ridge of tissue may have finger-like projections (fimbriae) and can usually be seen on both sides of the tongue. While the two sides might not look identical, they are often very similar.
Occasionally one side might become injured from biting or chewing or sharp food and this can produce slight tenderness. Any mild symptoms should clear up with 3-4 days. Hope this helps.
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Ihave recently picked up a XDM 40 and just don'tlike the feel of the trigger. i have other pistols with the same style trigger saftey oon them, but this one seems to have alotmore travel to it. When I fire a round and comeback on the trigger to release another it just feels wrong. any advice or ideas would be great!
I know the Powder River kits for regular XD's are amazing. I don't know if they make something similar for XDm's but I'd check it out...
Springer Precision does a trigger that I've heard good things about.
I almost find the trigger too quick. The gun gets ahead of me every once in a while.
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She may have walked away from her catwalk career, but nothing's been stripped from Gisele Bundchen's success — except for maybe her clothes if you've seen Vogue Brasil's May cover.
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Recent celeb beauty endorsementsKate - May 12th, 2011
A number of big name celebrity beauty endorsements were announced recently, and what better way to show off their acting abilities – than to pretend they use drug store products?
Here's a rundown:
"Modern Family" funny/hottie lady Sofia Vergara will be the face of COVERGIRL cosmetics, with an ad campaign starting in January 2012.
From the looks of it, the brand is going for a slightly more sophisticated audience this time around, having cornered the girl-next-door market already with Taylor Swift and Drew Barrymore.
"We couldn't think of a better person to represent our Brand. Sofia is gorgeous inside and out and has broad appeal," said Vince Hudson, General Manager, COVERGIRL cosmetics in a press release. "She personifies what it means to be a COVERGIRL through her confidence and beautiful sense of humor."


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I've read three YA books in the last several weeks where the dialogue between each of the characters was filled with expletives. While I understand the authors are writing about teenagers, and trying to give them an authentic feel, I wonder how much adding expletives is pure laziness put in the place of writing something of quality.
I write YA fiction and yes, my characters swear every once and while. I'm not a Pollyanna. I get it. It's human nature. Something frightens us, makes us angry, makes us hurt, and we swear. That's understandable. But when the dialogue between two high school girls turns into a swearing match, which by the way adds nothing to the story, I get frustrated.
I've read many YA novels where the characters are in peril, and they have every reason to swear, but somehow the author manages to express their frustration without adding curse words. This to me is the mark of an excellent writer. They understand the genre, they connect with the audience, and they can appeal to them without going deep into the gutter with the language.
This all reminds me of a professor I once had who told me that when cursing seeps into your writing, it's time to step away from the work. It's a sign your writing is failing. Why? Because you can't come up with creative enough words to explain the scene or evoke emotions from your characters.
So I wonder what other writers think about expletives in YA fiction. Is there a way to add it so that it gives authenticity to a story but doesn't take away from the work? Can you not include them but still connect with the YA audience?
Whether or not you write YA, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this topic. Respond in the comments and let me know your point of view.


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Daniel Sturridge believes Brendan Rodgers' footballing philosophy will help drive Liverpool forward over the coming seasons — and the striker has set his sights on challenging for trophies.
Sturridge signed with the Reds in January this year, and quickly became a hit with Kopites, who watched him plunder 11 goals in 16 games.
And he is eager for the team to build on a strong finish to the 2012-13 campaign when Rodgers begins his second season in charge in August.
"With the philosophy that the manager has, we should be challenging for honors," Sturridge told the official monthly LFC magazine. "I think it's going to be great for us in the future and we can move forward.
"I think we did things last season, both prior to me coming here and then with my help, to deliver some better statistics than we have had in previous years in terms of goals and attacking play.
"It's exciting to be part of that philosophy and the new regime that the manager is forming for us to move forward as a club."
When Sturridge looped the ball over Mark Schwarzer to seal his first Liverpool hat-trick in May 2013 at Fulham, he also became the fastest Red to hit 10 goals in the Premier League era.
Such a cutting-edge in front of goal constitutes arguably the forward's greatest asset — and he intends to utilize it to the full to propel Liverpool back towards the top of the table next season.
"It's the reason why the manager signed me and Philippe Coutinho as well as the players he signed at the start of the season," said Sturridge. "The aim was to help the team get back to where it belongs.
"We'll all be doing everything in our power to make sure that Liverpool is a club that is challenging for Premier League titles because the fans have been waiting for that for a long time and hopefully next season we'll be in the running.
"When you play in the Premier League, everybody's goal is to lift that trophy, to have the celebrations and to know that you've succeeded and been a champion over everybody else in the division.
"So the main aim for next season and the seasons ahead is to try and help the team do well in the Premier League. I'm sure with the philosophy that the manager has, we'll be able to do that."
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Terrytown's Artis Silvester competes on "Survivor." "Big Brother" finale set. TV tweet of the day so far.
TV Linkzilla Daily for 9/19/12 starts now.
A 53-year-old information-technology specialist and Terrytown resident, Artis Silvester used none of his work skills playing "Survivor: Philippines," which debuts at 7 p.m. Wednesday (Sept. 19) on WWL-TV. "Oh, hell no," he said, laughing. Much more applicable was his knowledge of the game acquired via avid fandom dating back to the show's first season.
"Back when season one first came on, I was intrigued because it was almost like a situation where people were on a plane and it crashed and boom, they had to survive," Silvester said during a recent phone interview. "And I thought that was a great concept for a show. And the fact that they were competing for $1 million just added icing on the cake.
"I was hooked. They had me hook, line and sinker. It was just an intriguing thing to have people from various, different backgrounds -- various races, various educational and professional backgrounds -- forced to be in a situation where they have to survive."
Silvester immediately began submitting applications to participate, a process he repeated many times over the past decade-plus. His only break in his quest to compete on the show came while he was undergoing treatment for cancer.
"I think the man upstairs kind of gave me a double-edged sword," said Silvester, a Washington, D.C., native who now works for the Department of Defense. "Prior to my cancer treatment, I was a pretty big dude, and although I didn't act like it, I was kind of self-centered. I think he was like, 'I can't add to your ego by letting you on the show.'
"After going through my cancer treatment, I was pretty much demoralized. I was crushed. I literally lost everything. Every physical attribute that I had was taken away from me. I think what ended up happening was, he had better things in store for me. I was able to survive, and he was like, 'OK, you didn't quit. I threw some stuff at you but you overcame it, and as a reward I'm going to go ahead and give you something you've been trying to do for a long time.' I came to appreciate that wholeheartedly."
"Survivors" is kind of a theme on this season of "Survivor." One of the show's gimmicks this time is the return of three players -- Michael Skupin, Russell Swan and Jonathan Penner – who left earlier seasons via medical evacuation. Another is the participation of Lisa Whelchel, who survived child stardom ("The Facts of Life").
The game, Silvester said, was much harder than he expected.
"It was pretty much the hardest thing I ever went through in my life," he said. "It was rough. If you think it's hard on TV, you just need to multiply that by 10.
"You don't train for a situation like that. You don't spend your life training to be put in a situation like that. If it happens, it happens. You have to draw on what you have, what you naturally have.
"I went in there as myself. I didn't do any extra training or anything like that."
Silvester said he also didn't spend any time concocting an artificial persona to deploy as tactical gamesmanship, as some players – usually heels -- do. Accordingly, he added, he displayed no behavior he fears seeing televised to family or friends.
"I definitely was not somebody that was trying to portray a character," he said. "My whole mindset going into it was I was going to be me – good, bad or indifferent. I don't have anything that I think I need to be ashamed of. Every thing I did was genuinely me, so I'm not going to have to explain anything.
"I was not going to be one of these contestants who create a character to go on a reality show, not understanding that millions of people watching it didn't know who you are from the beginning. So all they have to go on is what you're doing out there, and now you've got to spend the rest your life saying, 'Oh, no, I was just playing a character. That's not really me. People who know me know that's not really me.' I wasn't about to go through that."
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone raked in a record breaking $5 million in limited Sunday previews, Variety reports. Warner Bros. claims the Sunday sneaks were the highest single-day grosses in U.K history. The movie opens in the U.K. and North America Nov.16. Meanwhile, a special screening of Harry Potter on Sunday in Washington was greeted by protesters from the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The group opposes Coca-Cola's $150 million partnership with Warner Bros., accusing the soft drink giant of peddling junk food to children. The deal, signed in February, makes Coca-Cola the sole global marketing partner for Harry Potter.
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R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck is set to appear in court Monday for an alleged air rage incident on a British Airways flight from Seattle to London in April, Reuters reports. Buck has been charged with common assault on cabin crew, criminal damage, being drunk on an aircraft and disobeying an aircraft captain. The trial is expected to last five days.
In General
Fleetwood Mac is back in the studio to record its first album since its 1997 reunion. The group, however, will be one member short. Singer/keyboardist Christine McVie has reportedly retired from rock 'n' roll and is living in an English castle. The four-piece band will include drummer Fleetwood, bass player John McVie, and songwriters Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Fleetwood has denied rumors that Sheryl Crow will help out, Reuters reports.
Brian Dennehy will portray former Indiana Hoosiers coach Bob Knight in a made-for-TV movie, The Associated Press reports. The movie, based on John Feinstein's A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers, will air on ESPN March 10.
Jay Leno led the 18th annual charity Love Ride on Sunday in Glendale, Calif. The 50-mile ride, followed by a barbecue and a concert, is expected to have raised $1 million for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and other charities. According to AP, riders included X-Files star Robert Patrick, Ian Ziering of Beverly Hills 90210 and daredevil Robbie Knievel.
Clive Barker (Hellraiser) and Todd McFarlane (Spawn) have signed a deal with Universal Pictures to produce a picture based on Barker's action figures. McFarlane Toys marketed the six action figures, Clive Barker's Tortured Souls-Animae Damnatae, in limited numbers last July and promptly sold out, Variety reports.
Forest Whitaker is in talks with Twentieth Century Fox to direct aFat Albert live-action picture, Variety reports. The feature film is based on Bill Cosby's cartoon Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids that ran on CBS for more than a decade. The film is slated for a 2003 summer release.
Paul Newman will reprise his role as Battler in the teleplay The World of Nick Adams, based on Ernest Hemmingway's collection of short stories. According to Variety, the teleplay will also feature Alec Baldwin, Matt Damon, Brian Dennehy, Morgan Freeman, Julia Roberts and Gwyneth Paltrow and will be presented at Avey Fisher Hall in New York on Nov. 19.
Sylvester Stallone is working on a new script for a fourth Rambo movie, PageSix.com reports. The story would pit Rambo against leaders of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Rambo IV could be ready by next year.
A set of old teeth belonging to Jack Nicholson will be auctioned off on the British TV show Auction World on Dec. 10, the BBC reports. Nicholson is reportedly upset that his teeth are to be sold this way and plans on buying the back. The set consists of a mix of small baby teeth and adult molars.


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Tom DeFrank's piece in a Daily News is a touch vague about just when President Bush found out about Karl Rove's role in the Plame leak. The only explicit reference to timing comes in the lede where DeFrank writes that [emphasis added] "[a]n angry President Bush rebuked chief political guru Karl Rove two years ago for his role in the Valerie Plame affair."
Now, 'two years ago'.
In the Plame case a lot of things happened around two years ago. What happened almost exactly two years was the first intensive coverage of the story in the mainstream press. For the first couple months the scandal was largely the province of various disreputable blogs and other untouchables.
So, DeFrank really doesn't provide us with enough detail to say with any confidence precisely when the president knew. But it seems he's saying the president unloaded on Karl right about the time the story blew up into a serious scandal and spawned a Justice Department investigation.
So what was the president saying around that time?
One of his most detailed statements came on October 7th, in a brief exchange with the press just before a cabinet meeting …
[T]he investigators will ask our staff about what people did or did not do. This is a town of — where a lot of people leak. And I've constantly expressed my displeasure with leaks, particularly leaks of classified information. And I want to know, I want to know the truth. I want to see to it that the truth prevail. And I hope we can get this investigation done in a thorough way, as quickly as possible.
But the Justice Department will conduct this investigation. The professionals in the Justice Department will be involved in ferreting out the truth. These are citizens who will — were here before this administration arrived and will be here after this administration leaves. And they'll come to the bottom of this, and we'll find out the truth. And that will be — that's a good thing for this administration.
Then, a few moment later, the president expressed an odd lack of confidence that the case would ever be solved …
Randy, you tell me, how many sources have you had that's leaked information that you've exposed or have been exposed? Probably none. I mean this town is a — is a town full of people who like to leak information. And I don't know if we're going to find out the senior administration official. Now, this is a large administration, and there's a lot of senior officials. I don't have any idea. I'd like to. I want to know the truth. That's why I've instructed this staff of mine to cooperate fully with the investigators — full disclosure, everything we know the investigators will find out. I have no idea whether we'll find out who the leaker is — partially because, in all due respect to your profession, you do a very good job of protecting the leakers. But we'll find out.
Given the question of dating noted above, one might speculate that the president learned of Rove's action the next day. But if the DeFrank piece is accurate, it certainly seems likely that the president knew of Rove's complicity while he was saying these words.
Late Update: A lot of news has been bubbling this morning. And in the mix I neglected to note that there is another reference to the time frame of these events in the DeFrank article. TPM Reader MO notes this passage down at the end …
None of these sources offered additional specifics of what Bush and Rove discussed in conversations beginning shortly after the Justice Department informed the White House in September 2003 that a criminal investigation had been launched into the leak of CIA agent Plame's identity to columnist Robert Novak.
We're still hanging on the "shortly after" here. But this would seem to nail this down a bit more conclusively: President Bush knew Karl Rove was one of the culprits when he made those statements above.


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Baylor Law Alumnus Ike Vanden Eykel Inaugurated As Dallas Bar Association's 101st PresidentFeb. 8, 2010
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Ike Vanden Eykel, a Baylor Law alumnus and partner at Koons, Fuller, Vanden Eykel & Robertson PC, has been inaugurated Jan. 23, as the Dallas Bar Association's 101st president.
"My plan for the Dallas Bar Association this year will focus on adding strength and definition to the first-class programs the Bar already has in place," said Mr. Vanden Eykel. "I view this as an opportunity to build on what my predecessors have established--to make the DBA stronger and to help direct our association's future."
"Ike follows in a long line of distinguished Baylor lawyers who have given themselves over selflessly to assume leadership roles among their peers," said Baylor Law Dean Brad Toben. "The Dallas Bar Association, one of the largest metroplex bar associations in the nation, has wisely called upon Ike to lead. Ike's keen and admired abilities in the courtroom and in the conference room make him a splendid choice to lead the DBA further in its long path of service to the bar and to the public. Ike understands the lawyer's obligation to serve, and will, as always, set the bar for those who follow."
Inaugurated as president in January, Vanden Eykel began his tenure with the Dallas Bar Association in 1998 when close friend and fellow Baylor Lawyer W. Mike Baggett suggested that he would enjoy working as a board member of the bar.
Since then, Vanden Eykel has served in various leadership positions in the bar and the community. He was first elected to the board of directors of the DBA in 2000, and has served as vice-chair, chair of the board, second vice-president, first vice-president and president-elect. He served as president of the board of directors of the Community Service Fund and is currently a trustee and a Fellow of the Dallas Bar Foundation. He was general chair of the Campaign for Equal Access to Justice. He has been active in both the local and state Family Law Section.
In the community, Vanden Eykel has served as a member of the boards of directors of the Dallas Opera, Heritage Farmstead, Collin County Children's Advocacy Center Inc., the Child Abuse Prevention Center and the Domestic Violence Legal Help Center.
Born in Slayton, Minn., Vanden Eykel's family moved to Wheaton, a western suburb of Chicago, when he was two years old. Early in life, he thought about becoming a minister. However, in seventh grade, he took an aptitude test that recommended he become a lawyer. He earned a bachelor of science degree from Drake University. He decided to attend Baylor Law School to become a trial lawyer. He graduated with his JD in 1973.
After law school, Vanden Eykel settled in Dallas and started practicing business litigation with Stroud & Smith, a firm which ultimately merged with Vial Hamilton. He continued his business litigation practice with Seeligson, Douglass, Falconer & Vanden Eykel and, in January of 1990, he moved a practice group to Koons, Fuller, McCurley & Vanden Eykel. In July of 1992, he became managing partner of the firm that is today Koons, Fuller, Vanden Eykel & Robertson. His firm now consists of 25 attorneys practicing in four different offices and is the Southwest's largest law firm that handles exclusively family law cases.
Vanden Eykel is a prolific author who has teamed with firm members to write books on how to make the divorce process less painful. He has written a book on Texas family law titled Successful Lone Star Divorce; co-authored the Texas Family Law Practice Guide; and has recently published a new book with fellow Koons Fuller attorney Rick Robertson, titled Protecting Your Assets From A Texas Divorce. In addition, Vanden Eykel and attorney Sharla Fuller have collaborated on an additional book, Lone Star Divorce: The NEW Edition. He is also the co-author of a new edition of the assets book with partners Heather King, Charla Conner and Rick Robertson.
Vanden Eykel and his wife, Cathy, have been married for 31 years and have three children: Eric, Lindsey and Steven.
The Dallas Bar Association (DBA) was founded by 40 lawyers in 1873, during an era that witnessed remarkable growth in the city of Dallas. Today, the DBA boasts a membership of approximately 9,000 lawyers and is dedicated to the continuing education of its members as well as public service programs and improvement of the administration of justice.
Contact: Julie Carlson, Baylor Law School, 254-710-6681
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Haiti (MNN)–Violent crime has hit Haiti in a wave within recent weeks. The poorest country in the Americas, Haiti has struggled to contain poverty-related violence since Aristide's ouster in 2004.
Christian World Outreach's Greg Yoder says rising kidnappings caused their team concern, especially when the troubles hit too close to home. "Our director's daughters, there was an attempted kidnap on them two weeks ago. For their safety, he sent his daughters to live with family in Florida for a short period of time till things can quiet down a little bit."
The constant unrest, explains Yoder, takes its toll on their staff in the ministry center. Sometimes, the team needs a reminder that they haven't been forgotten. "There's a lot of tension that goes on there. So, part of what I did was just be able to be there with our staff and pray with them and support them and encourage them to keep going on. Sometimes it seems like there's not a lot of hope in Haiti when you look at all the things that are going on."
Yoder's visit was initially taking care of a forty-foot container of supplies for their team in Haiti. The team was thrilled to see over 300 rolls of fabric, a complete dental office, cosmetology chairs, 600 lbs of flour, 13 bicycles, 12 cases of notebook binders and two complete cubical offices.
The chairs, cloth and flour will be used in the vocational training center that trains women how to dress hair, sew or bake to earn a living.
Many of the other supplies will not only help the Haiti team provide critical services to the community, but it will also open doors for further evangelistic work.
For more information on CWO's work in Haiti, contact them using their information listed here.
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Kidnappings, violent crime surge in Haiti; hit too close to home.
Haiti (MNN)–Violent crime has hit Haiti in a wave within recent weeks. The poorest country in the Americas, Haiti has struggled to contain poverty-related violence since Aristide's ouster in 2004.
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- Evangelical: 16.0%
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The long rumored deal for Chipotle to take over the former City Vista Sales center is finally done. The lease has been executed. All retail spaces at City Vista are now under lease.
The final roster is:
- Safeway
- Ryse N Shine (Cafe/Bakery) – targeted Spring opening
- Chevy Chase Bank (or is it Capital One now?)
- Chipotle
- Fifth Street Hardware
- Busboys & Poets
- Taylor Gourmet
- Kushi
- Mandu
Ray's the Steaks
- Ray's Hellburger – targeted summer opening
- Vida Fitness – Fall 2011?


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SeriousCapital offers building owners 'no-money down' efficiency
Investment November 3, 2011 Greenbang
What do you do when people — or "consumers," as they're called these days — stop consuming because they don't have money, even for things that could actually save them money over the long run? If you're like a growing number of cleantech companies, you start getting creative with your financing programs.
Efficiency-focused Serious Energy is the latest firm to join that crowd, rolling out a zero-upfront cost program called SeriousCapital. The program is billed as a service that "cuts energy and maintenance costs and creates more comfortable and efficient properties for building owners and tenants."
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I know; it's been a while since I blogged. This past weekend, I actually received a tweet asking "are you dead?" It's a little dramatic, but it's quite true. I've been kind of dead on social media for about 4 months, even though I am still alive in person. I've just been too busy doing other works, which I will tell you later, but that's not an excuse for not writing.
To prove that I'm not dead, I will restart blogging again! Today, I want to pick up where I left off with my mini-series on big data, so let me jump right in because I want to make up for lost time.
Data ≠ Information
Today, we are going to talk about data and information and the difference between them. Although they are different, many people speak of them as if they are synonymous, which is almost never true. However, the difference between data and information is quite subtle, so let's try to understand it.
Data is simply a record of events that took place. It is the raw data that described what happen, when, where, how, who's involved, etc. Well, isn't that informative? Yes, it is!
Data does give you information. However, the fallacy of big data is that more data doesn't mean you will get "proportionately" more information. In fact, the more data you have, the less information you gain as a proportion of the data. That means the information you can extract from any big data is asymptotically a diminishing return as your data volume increases. This does seem counterintuitive, but it is true. Let's see if we can clarify this with a few examples.
Example 1: data backups and copies
If you look inside your computer, you will find thousands of files you've created over the years. Whether they are pictures you took, emails you sent, or blogs you wrote, they contain certain amount of information. These files are stored as data in your hard drive, which takes up certain storage volume.
Now, if you are as paranoid as I am, you will probably back up of your hard drive regularly. Think about what happens when you backed up your hard drive for the first time. In terms of data, you've just doubled the amount of data you have. If you had 50 GB of data in your hard drive, you would have 100 GB after the back up. But will you have twice the information after the back up? Certainly not! In fact, you gain NO additional information from this operation, because the information in the backup is exactly the same as the information in the original drive.
This happens at the file level too. Each of the thousands of files in our computer contains some fixed amount of information. If you made 100 copies of a file in your computer, you will increase the amount of data in your hard drive by 100x the size of your original file. Yet, the amount of information you gain is zero.
Although our personal data is not big data by any means, this example illustrates the subtle difference between data and information, and they are definitely not the same animal. Now let's look at another example involving bigger data.
Example 2: airport surveillance video logs
Firstly, video files are already pretty big. Secondly, closed-circuit monitoring systems (CCTV) in an airport are on 24/7, and high definition (HD) devices increase the data volume further. Moreover, there are hundreds and probably thousands of security cameras all over the airport. So as you can see, the video logs created by all these surveillance cameras would probably qualify for big data.
Now, what happens when we double the number of camera installations? In terms of data volume, you will again get 2x the data. But will you get 2x the information? Probably not! Many of the cameras are probably seeing the same thing, perhaps from a slightly different angle, sweeping different areas at slightly different time. In terms of information content, we almost never get 2x. Furthermore, as the number of cameras continues to increase, the chance of information overlap also increases. That is why as data volume increase, information will always have a diminishing return, because more and more of it will be redundant.
A simple inequality characterizes this property: information ≤ data. So information is not data, it's only the non-redundant portions of the data. That is why when we copy data, we don't gain any information even when the data volume increase, because the copied data is redundant.
Example 3: updates on multiple social channels
What about social big data, like tweets, updates, and/or shares? If we tweet twice often, twitter is definitely getting 2x more data from us. But will Twitter get 2x the information? That depends on what we tweet. If there is absolutely zero redundancy among all our tweets, then Twitter will have 2x the information. But that typically never happens. Let's think about why.
First of all, we retweet each other. Consequently, many tweets are redundant due to retweeting. Even if we exclude retweets, the chance that we coincidentally tweeting about the same content is actually quite high because there are so many tweeters out there. Although the precise wording of each tweet may not be exactly the same, the redundancies among all the tweets containing the same web content (whether it's a blog post, a cool video, or a news article) is very high. Finally, our interest and taste for content are not random; they remain fairly consistent over time. Since our tweets tend to reflect our interests and tastes, even apparently unrelated tweets from the same user will have some redundancies, because the tweeter's interests and tastes are the same.
Clearly, even if we tweet twice as often, Twitter is not going to get 2x the information because there is so much redundancy among our tweets (likewise with updates and shares on other social channels). Furthermore, we often co-syndicate contents across multiple social channels. Since this is merely duplicate content across multiple social channels, it doesn't give us any extra information about the user.
We've seen three examples that illustrate the subtle difference between data and information. Although data does give rise to information, they are not the same. Information is only the non-redundant parts of the data. Since most data, regardless of how it is generated, has lots of built-in redundancy, the information we can extract from any data set is typically a tiny fraction of the data's sheer volume.
I refer to this property as the data-information inequality: information ≤ data. And in nearly all realistic data sets (especially big data), the amount of information one can extract from the data is always much less than the data volume: information << data.
As a data scientist, I certainly recognized the importance of big data. Moreover, data is the foundation and key to most of my research. But even as a data scientist, I must confess that the value of big data is really overrated, because the value of big data is in the information that it can provide. And information is only the non-redundant portions of the data, which is a tiny and diminishing fraction of the overall data volume.
Michael Wu, Ph.D. is Lithium's Chief Scientist. His research includes: deriving insights from big data, understanding the behavioral economics of gamification, engaging + finding true social media influencers, developing predictive + actionable social analytics algorithms, social CRM, and using cyber anthropology + social network analysis to unravel the dynamics of communities + social networks.
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Trying to equate "data" with "information" is not really a relevant discussion. Information is all in the eye of the beholder. In the social example you gave, maybe I am interested in knowing how user's retweet. Not sure why, but who knows maybe somebody cares about this and for them this is information. Same with the multiple surveillance camera scenario. The multiple angles may contain valuable "information" to someone but on a typical day it just just duplicate data.
I think we are going through a cycle where capturing and trying to make sense out of vast volumes of data (social data, sensor data....etc) is becoming more economical and somewhat mainstream with respect to technology and tools. However, this is a cyclic I believe, at some point business will realize that maybe they are getting diminishing returns on all this data they are capturing and storing. For example, do I really care what I tweeted 20 years ago (20 years from now). I probably will never have the time to go back and look at it and I am not sure it is valuable to any marketing person (but who knows).
There is definitely gold to be mined in many data sets that now go untapped and technologies like Hadoop, BigQuery, Storm to name a few are good tools to use but I have to agree that not everything fits into the Big Data tent either.
There has been a lot of hype around Big Data these days and I see a lot of people trying to fit problems that really have no reason being shoe horned into Hadoop, other than it being the cool thing to do. You could do the data crunching in easier ways for example. However, the tool sets are expanding to give developers, scientist and business people more options when deciding how to store and analyze their data.
When thinking of Big Data first ask yourself the following question:
1) How much data do I want to capture and store (do you need persist detailed records/data?)
2) How fast is this data being created (velocity).
3) How long do I want to keep it (forever??)
4) How long am I willing to wait to get "information" when I run my analysis (batch/hourly/daily or realtime).
This might help you determine in which of the particular emerging Big Data technology buckets your problem best fits.
Hello Sam,
First, thank you for commenting on my blog.
What you are describing, the information that are in the eyes of the beholder, is actually the difference between signal (information that you want) and noise (information that you DON'T want) rather than the distinction between data and information. Unlike signal and noise, which is rather subjective, because it depends on the problem that you are trying to solve and the models that you use, information actually has a very rigorous definition in statistics.
The information that I am talking about is the data entropic information (a.k.a. Shannon information) in the statistics. This concept of information is first defined by Claude Shannon in his ground breaking Information theory, which revolutionized the entire field of communication and enabled wireless communication that we often took for granted now. And this entropic information is related to the information in layman's language in the way that it is an absolute upper bound on the amount of information tha people can extract from the data. So regardless of whether they are useful info (signal) or useless info (noise), which is the eyes of the beholder, the entropic info of a data set is the maximum amount of information anyone can possibly extract from the data set with any method or technologies.
So information (in statistics) is definitely not in the eyes of the beholders. Given a data set, the entropic information can be computed and has a well-defined value. But signal (as opposed to noise is the relevant and useful information) is all in the eyes of beholders (see If 99.99% of Big Data is Irrelevant, Why Do We Need It?) And that is even smaller than the absolute entropic information that we are talking about in this article. So the data-formation inequality should say:
Signal (the relevant and useful information) << Information << data
What you said about the diminishing return on data will definitely happen even if it is not due to data aging, because the more data you collect, the less information (in statistics) gain, since the more data you have, the greater the probability for redundancy to occur.
BTW, information theory is very powerful and can help you extract information and signal (i.e. the relevant information) from big data and make sense of big data. But most people who only focus on the technology, such as the SMAQ stack and those you mentioned, just don't know much enough about it.
There is definitely much hype about big data, that is why I started this mini-series on big data. And since I do much research and statistical modeling with big data, there will be more to come.
I hope you will enjoy the rest of this mini-series. See you next time.
It's good that you've drawn attention to the fact that data isn't worth much by itself, but I think it's very difficult to gauge the value of raw data and decide what to keep or discard.
An example arises within one of your own cases: You might not see retweets as valuable because the content mostly duplicated data, however it might be important if you wanted to decide what time of the day is best to share a product announcement to maximize its virality.
One of the biggest benefits of Big Data technologies is that we can store first and ask questions later.
"data >> information" is a really cool thought, and I love the idea of a law of diminishing returns with data size.
But I suppose the size of the data might in itself be a valuable piece of information.
Here is why ...
1. By counting Tweets, I can find out how many people something is affecting, and who they are.
2. By using more data in estimating trends, I may be getting more accurate estimates. When I have 2x data, I am performing a coin toss experiment 2x times and consequently getting a more accurate reading of the statistical parameters.
With that caveat, I agree with you wholeheartedly! :^)
Cohan (Aiaioo Labs)
Cohan Sujay Carlos
2. By using more data in estimating trends, I may be getting more accurate estimates. When I have 2x data, I am performing a coin toss experiment 2x times and consequently getting a more accurate reading of the statistical parameters.
I might argue that your point #2 actually cuts the other way and confirms the OP. Think about it this way: if you flip a coin 10 times and measure heads and tails. You might finish with 6 heads and 4 tails (a 3 to 2 ratio). Obviously, if you flip it 1,000 times more (more data as you note), you will begin to approach a 1 to 1 ratio. Your information will indeed improve for awhile but eventually it begins to approach infinity. So, would flipping the coin a billion times provide much more information than flipping it one million times? It may provide a minute amount of information (and maybe in some cases that minutae is worthwhile but not really in this example). As you approach the limit of the 1 to 1 ratio, the information << data.
More quantity of data also means more low quality data if it is gathered ad hoc. If the data comes from a process (example: modern jet engines produce big data quantities on long flights but it is all consistent while capturing social media conversations means the data is extremely messy, inconsistant and full of, frankly, questionable data points.)
Great article. Thanks for posting it! I've started following you on Twitter!
Hello Jon Davey,
Thank you for the comment.
You are totally right that that one of the advantage of the big data technology is that you can store first and ask the question later. There are couple of earlier posts I wrote that addresses your comment
1. If 99.99% of Big Data is Irrelevant, Why Do We Need It?
2. Searching and Filtering Big Data: The 2 Sides of the "Relevance" Coin
To answer your question about retweets. First, redundancy or redundant data is NOT the same as irrelevant data. And redundancy is also NOT the same as exact copies or duplicates. In statistics and information theory, there is a very precise and rigorous definition of what redudancy is. So when I say retweets contain redundant data and therefore do not contribute additional information, it doesn't mean they are not valuable.
In terms of twitter data, no retweets are exact the same, even if the textual portion of the tweet is identical, because the tweeter is different, and they retweeted a tweet at different time. These are the NON-redundant portion of the data. So we can learn something and gain information from these non-redundant part of the retweet data. And they do contribute to the overall information content of the data set. But text portion of the tweet that is identical between each of the retweets from different user at different time, location, etc, are the redundant portion of the data set. And we will not gain more information from those parts of the data.
See the difference? Even retweets that look exactly the same have some non-redundant portions (in addition to the redundant portions). Only the non-redundant portion contributes to the overall information content of the data set, the redundant part don't add information.
All data have built-in redundancy. The mere fact that we are tweeting in English means that the data will have SOME redundancy, because we will use the same common words, and we all use the English alphabets. But not ALL of it is redundant. Again, if you see my response to Sam (above), you will understand what precisely I meant by redundancy, these are statistical and entropic redundancy, not the fact that they are merely duplicates. To be rigorous, even exact copies of data have some non-redundant parts from the mere fact that they are in two different location. I will think about how to illustrate this abstract concept of entropic redundancy and Shannon information in a later article.
But in the mean time, I hope this clarifies your confusion or misunderstanding.
Hope to see you next time.
Hello jscranton and Cohan Sujay Carlos
First of all, thanks for the comment and discussion.
Now, let me try to address both of your questions and discussions together here since they are related.
So the question is, does more data lead to more accurate statistical estimate? Despite the common believe of most people, the surprising reality is that this is NOT always true.
It really depends on your statistical model, and your data. If you are merely computing simple statistics, such as average, then it is USUALLY true. But not ALWAYS, because when we compute the arithmetic mean by averaging, we usually assume the underlying distribution of the data is Gaussian, or at least unimodal. These assumptions may not be true.
One of the classic example is that a group of scientist is trying to get an average high of certain family of cactus in desert. And they different groups collecting data from deserts all over the world and naively computed the average, which leads to a completely wrong answer. The reason is due to the bi-modality of the cactus data. It turns out that the data they collected from Africa were all very tall cactus: about 7-8 ft tall with standard dev of 1 ft. But the data they collected from South America were very short: about 1 ft tall with standard dev of about 0.5 ft. The average they get is about 4 ft +/- 2 ft. But there is not a single cactus around the world from that family that is roughly 4 ft tall. They are either ~1 ft or 7.5 ft tall, never 4 ft. Very wrong answer.
There are a lot more of these counter examples that I can give you, but I want to point out other situations where this more data is not always better.
More data doesn't mean better estimate, becase it also depends on how complex your statistical model is. If you use some nonlinear models, then more data can sometimes hurt your estimate because you may actually introducing more noise into the system by using more data. And if your model nonlinearly amplified those nois, then more data actually give you a worse estimate. I did an analysis on our social media data trying to predict election outcome. And had to discard unstable data to reduce noise in order the get a more accurate estimate. If you are interested, please check out the follow blog post AND the discussion:
Big Data, Big Prediction? – Looking through the Predictive Window into the Future
Finally, I want to point out again that the size of data is merely one bit of implicity information, it is included in the estimate of the data-information inequality. The entropic information that I am talking about here (see my resply to Sam and reply to Jon Davey above) is a statistical upper limit on how many question you can answer with a data set of certain size. That information includes how big the data set is, how many people are retweeting who, etc. that are useful, as well as information that are not as useful such as 3057 people tweeted using 1 word, or even less useful information. As I said in my reply to Sam, regardless of whether the information is useful or not, they are informaiton. I call relevant info Signals, and irrelevant info Noise. But they are both information that is extractable from the data set.
OK, I think this reply is getting long. So I hope I clarify some of the more subtles and abstract concepts that may be less familiar. But the main point of the post is just to point out the fact that data is NOT the same as information. And the amount of info you can derive from any data set is always much smaller than the data set itself. If you get that much, I'm happy. I can dive deeper into the more technical topics later.
Hello Peter Mancini
Thank you for commenting and following me on twitter.
You are absolutely right. Social media is very messy and that is definitely a challenge that I have to deal with every day. That is why before I analyze any social media data, I always have to preprocess it to make sure that I am analyzing the relevant data to maximize the accuracy of the result. That is why search and filtering technology is so important.
And good point about consistency. That is precisely the reason that I have to discard old data end up introducing more noise to my election forecast model, which will ultimately reduce the accuracy of the forecast (see Big Data, Big Prediction? – Looking through the Predictive Window into the Future and the discussion under that article).
We are definltely thinking on the same line. here.
Thanks again and see you next time. In the mean time, feel free to check out other big data articles!
What other Big Data Fallacies do you see? Perennial favorites from client work, include:
As you no doubt sense, the above follow from an applied decision-making (e.g., decision-led, information-purposed, data-lagged) perspective. Where do your favor fallacies tend to arise? Is that different from where the most (or the most audacious) arise?
And I wonder if you see the same fallacies at work in analytic domains fundamentally involving data reduction (e.g., segmentation) so to characterize across independent actors (e.g., "buying groups") as those involving characterizing the behavior of each buying group (e.g., longitudinal models).
Kind regards,
Nice article and follow up discussion. Thanks.
How would your thoughts on big data change if one was interested in the temporal component, especially if the information had multiple time-scales? I would imagine that big data is essential to study long term evolution... Perhaps it isn't relevant when studying social media? Or perhaps for the type of social media measures of interest, short-term stationarity assumption is sufficient? Thanks.
Hello KP,
Thanks for the comment.
You list is very good, and I've indrectly talk about a few of them in earlier posts and/or the discussions that follow. I will just elaborate a little bit.
There are many fallacies around analytics too. Being a mathematician/statistician, there are just too many for me to write about, and most will probably bore you. In general, most of these are really just misconceptions about data and inexperience in advance statistics and machine learning. So they can definitely be considered as Big Data fallacies, but not really specific to big data per se.
For example, one common misconception about data is that more data means better and more accurate statistical estimate. That is not always true. I've discuss this in great length with examples in my reply to jscranton and Cohan Sujay Carlos above. But there are literally too many of them. Maybe I will write a few more in later posts.
Thanks again for sharing your list of fallacies.
And I hope to see you again.
Hello Esp (and KP, this might be relevant for you too)
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you like the discussion.
Great question. Temporal dimension is definitely an important aspect of data. In fact temporal variation, such as trends and seasonality, are some of the most common ways that people look at data. However, data is data, whether they are time series data or not. So the data-information inequality still holds. In fact one of the reason why data have so much redundancy is because information about a system typically have multiple time scales. And these time scales are usually slower than our measurement time scale. As a result, we created a lot of temporal correlation or serial correlation in the data that shows up as statistical redundancies.
Big Data are not necessarily for studying long term evolution. They can be used in short time, but with a large population as what I did when predicting election outcome. However, it is true that sometime short-term stationary assumption is sufficient, and that depends on what problem you are trying to address. But that has nothing to do with how big your data set is. Even over a short time, you can still get huge amount of data if your sampling, or measurement frequency is high enough. Maybe you can take a look at an earlier post on: Why is Big Data So Big?
Anyway, I hope this will give you some perspective.
I will discuss the issue about temporal correlation in a later post. So I hope to see you then!
Dr. Wu, Thank you for the prompt response. Analysis of social media is an interesting domain, and there's much to be learned. -- Esp
Hello Esp,
No problem.
Yes, social analytics is definitely a very interesting area. I am learning myself too.
I simply bring to the table some of my more rigorous background in math and stats, which seems to be missing in most of the social analytics discussions.
Thank you a lot Mike for your post and welcome back! Most e-commerce businesses today have only access to transactional data (purchase history, contact details, delivery adress). What do you think will happen if they would add social features to their e-commerce web sites (social shopping) to enable user engagement and social interactions with products. No doubt, this will increase the amount of data (Big Data) but do you think that more data (in terms of social data) will generate more revenue?
Hello Hans,
Thank you for continue to be a loyal reader and thx for asking this excellent question.
The short answer is yes. Big Data in the context you describe definitely has the potential to drive more revenue. But just having big data alone, that is simply capturing the social interactions and conversations on their c-commerce site, is not sufficient. It depends on what you do with the data.
I can immediately think of several ways to use the combination of transaction + social interaction data that is extremely valuable. But there are probably a lot more:
There are probably more, but this is a really great question Hans.
Thank you for asking.
And I hope to see you again next time.
I really enjoyed the post and the discussion. Will keep coming back
I think your argument works well in a "big data versus very big data" scenario, but our typical scenario is more one of "some data versus big data" and here I would disagree with the point you are making.
You are making a point about diminishing-returns of data, but this I think only holds in cases where your problem has been long fixed and you **already have a huge amount of data**. Take your camera example: in some cases you have a 100 cameras and get zero information because none of it shows you the angle that you want. Then you add the 101st camera and BOWM you get the information that you wanted, huge increase in returns.
I agree that the probability of this gets lower as the number of cameras grow, but only after you have many million cameras... Another way to put it: some things cannot be measured until you reach a critical mass of data. In this case you inequality holds horribly true because basically information=0 until you reach a sufficient amount of data, then it make a jump which may be worth millions in revenue!
Hugo Zaragoza
Director of Websays.com
Hello Hugo,
Thank you for your interest and the nice comment.
I've edit it only for the formatting, since the paragraph / linefeeds did not appear to show.
I believe there is some misconception about what information really is. If you have been following the discussions (I know there is quite a bit), I think you might have miss my reply to Sam that describes how information is define in information theory. That is the more rigorous and objective way to look at information and data. I really recommend you take a look at that reply, and also an earlier blog post I wrote that distinguishes the information you want vs. the information you don't want: If 99.99% of Big Data is Irrelevant, Why Do We Need It?
So let me reiterate, Information has nothing to do with whether it is relevant to you or not. That is the distinction between signal (information that you want) and noise (information that you don't want. If you don't get this, please see: If 99.99% of Big Data is Irrelevant, Why Do We Need It?). That is the amount of information in data has nothing to do with whether it is information you want or not. Even if the data contain nothing you want, it doesn't mean it is has no information. Because someone else may find some useful information from it. Even if the data contain no information that anyone wants, it still doesn't mean it has no information. Because someone in the future may find something useful in it.
A data set will almost always contains some information whether it is the information you want or not. It may be a very small amount of information (1 bit), or a lot. And that amount of information is an absolute quantity, measurable and computable from statistics and information theory. It is the absolute maximum amount of information that you or anyone can extract from the data with any means possible. This is sometimes refer to as the entropic information.
Now, back to your argument concerning the camera. If you have 100 camera and none of it have the angle you want, it just didn't have your signal (the info you want), because to you they are all just noise (info you don't want). Then you add 1 camera, you get the info you want, your signal (which could very well be someone else's noise), and that info is with $1M to you. Great! So you've extracted $1M value from the data that is recorded from 101 camera. Now what if your boss ask you to derive $2M value. Will 202 cameras be sufficient to help you derive that $2M value? I doubt it. Even if you got luck or you are super-smart and were able to derive $1M value from just the data in one camera or from some data set of fixed size, now ask yourself, how much more data would you need to derived $2M value. That is what I meant when I say diminishing return.
So the law of diminishing information return on data volume still hold. In fact, it will always hold for any data set, because it is a proven theorem in statistics. That means it is true under the rigor of mathematical logic. It is as true as the Pythagorean Theorem, in that it is absolute. It just holds true even more strongly in cases where the problem is long fixed as you described.
I agree that some things cannot be measure until it reach certain critical mass, but that quantity is signal, NOT information. Noise is information too, but it's just information that you don't want, so it has no value to you, or irrelevant for the problem you are trying to address. But they are information, and may be valuable to your competitor or other random people at some random time. That information is in the data set whether you like it or not.
The discussion of what is signal and what is noise is no doubt subjective. And for a long time, mathematicians and statisticians believed that information is also somewhat a subjective concept. But that is NOT true anymore, not after Claude Shannon invented information theory, which objectify the computation and discussion with regard to data and information, and make it rigorous like other disciplines in science and engineering. And that is a great triumph of the human mind, so we should learn and move the field forward.
From the disucussion and questions that arise, it appears that a lot of people still didn't understand what information really means. So I think I will write a bit more about that next time. However, in the meantime, I hope this is clarify some confusion for you, so you can understand this post more fully.
I certainly hope to see you again next time with great indepth discussions.
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Weill Cornell Medical College's recent study of six practices found patients preferred email and other electronic communication, but providers say it doesn't pay
Patients like the idea of emailing their doctor, and with patient portals on the way, this method of communication should only increase in popularity. However, according to a study from Weill Cornell Medical College, providers feel that unless they are compensated for the extra time it takes to communicate via email, they will be unwilling participants if they participate at all.
The study involved leaders of 21 practices that embrace email, and staff in 6 groups that use email extensively. The study, here on Health Affairs, found, "Electronic communication was widely perceived to be a safe, effective, and efficient means of communication that improves patient satisfaction and saves patients' time but that increases the volume of physician work unless office visits are reduced."
In a press release from Weill Cornell, the study's leader - Dr. Tara F. Bishop - is quoted as saying, "Leaders of medical groups that use electronic communication find it to be efficient and effective — they say it improves patient satisfaction and saves time for patients. But many physicians say that while it may help patients, it is a challenge for them."
According to Bishop, "The lack of compensation is one issue, and another is that unless the practice takes steps to reduce a physician's daily workload of patients, communicating with patients is extra work that makes some doctors feel that their day can never end."
The overall advantages of emailing patients were obvious - it was an efficient system for sending test results, requesting prescription refills, scheduling appointments, and asking questions. The amount of emails that studied doctors sent varied from 5 to 50 fifty per day.
Healthcare IT News reports that while communicating with patients online reduces office visits, it doesn't actually decrease a physician's workload. "One leader said that the work never ends. It takes a psychological toll on some people — the feeling of never being done. Another said that in one day, he sometimes sees 10 patients face-to-face but communicates with another 50, commenting that he works all the time," said Bishop.
According to the study, unless the payment model changes and doctors are compensated for the extra time they spend online with patients, email is still unlikely to emerge as a popular form of communication. Bishop also predicts, "I think there are ways to make a transition to electronic communications in healthcare work. Our study offers some good examples, but I still think we have a long way to go before physicians routinely email their patients."


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I Need Help With Italian Nocciola Cake Filling Recipe!!!
Baking By steffy1818 Updated 3 Jul 2013 , 5:36am by scrumdiddlycakes
I have a cake due this weekend with an italian nocciola cake filling. I cant find the recipe anywhere. If anyone could help, I would really appreciate it!!!!
Thank you.
Well, nicciola just means hazelnut, there is 'torta di nocciola', which is a traditional Italian cake, it is not filled though.
If you just want a good hazelnut filling, a ganache with chopped hazelnuts and even some nutella stirred in could be yummy. Or you could do a whipped frosting with hazelnut cream, or hazelnut paste mixed in.
It really depends what kind of cake you are making though, does it need to be fondant covered?
If you can't find hazelnut paste, it's very easy to make. And you can mix it into a lot o different frostings, I put it in IMBC all the time, and it is amazing.
3 egg whites
2 cups confectioners sugar
1 pound chopped roasted hazelnuts
2 teaspoons hazelnut liqueur
Grind the nuts in a food processor a little at a time until a coarse flour. Once done add in the other ingredients and blend til a paste is formed, and that's it.


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CROSS Country runners from Uffculme School have been putting in some strong performances on both the county and national stage.
For the second year running, Phoebe Killen, year 10, was selected to represent both Devon county and Devon Schools.
Phoebe joined Alfie Devine-Wright ran at the UK Counties Championships in Birmingham.
Both runners finished in the middle of the packs of around 300 runners from all over the UK.
The following weekend, Phoebe, James Hughes-Woods and Finley Mclear, who was crowned Devon School's Champion in February, ran at the English Schools Championships at Castle Donnington.
Each of these races had around 340 runners.
Phoebe who was running up a year, finished in 181st, James 173rd and Fin an excellent 45th.


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Bankruptcy Law
Bankruptcy Law Questions? Ask a Bankruptcy Lawyer.
I am wife, married 18 years, on disability, receive $2000 per month plus medicare, husband is computer network administrator, makes $67000 per year. We have $60,000 in credit card debt with US Airways Mastercard, CitiBank, Arizona Central Credit Union Visas, $40,000 his student loan, $20,000 my student loan, House is upside down, two mortgages, Wells Fargo $70,000 and Arizona Central Credit Union $67,000, Car Loan on Kia Sportage 2011 for $19,000, own 10 years old chevy truck and 18 year old motorcycle. Need to file for bankruptcy. Is it possible???
Response 1: It is possible. However, you need to do it after divorce because your husband makes too much money. You qualify to file for bankruptcy alone as a single person but not as married person. If you are married, your husband's income would be used to calculate the Means Test, your eligibility for filing for bankruptcy protection. and should it be done before or after divorce??
Response 2: After divorce.
Any special exclusions due to me for disability??? Response 3: Your Social Security Disability income would not be used in calculating the Means Test. So, if you file as a divorced person, you would meet the Means Test.
Should small things be sold before or after??
Response 4: It does not matter so long as they are sold at fair market value.
You would be eligible to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, if you meet the Means test—the income test. If your income is equal to or less than the current income guidelines for your family size in your state, you would be eligible to file for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy all things being equal. The income used in calculating the means test is the income for the 6 months before the filing of the bankruptcy petition. This means that if you are filing for bankruptcy protection this month, September 2012, the income that would be used is your income from March 2012 to August 2012. If you are filing next month, October 2012, the income that would be used in the means test calculation would be the income from April 2012 to September 2012, etc. In Chapter 7, if the Court grants you a Discharge your debts will be wiped out with some exceptions as student loans, taxes, and alimony. You would get a clean state, a fresh start.
If you want your student loans discharged, you must filed adversary proceeding—unless you file adversary complaint with the Bankruptcy Court to determine the dischargeability of the debt due to extreme hardship and the Court rules in your favor, the student loans would not be discharged as part of a bankruptcy case. See 11 U.S.C. Section 523(a)(8). The adversary complaint is similar to a regular civil case with the student loan lender most likely to respond to your complaint to determine the dischargeability of the debt and file discovery requests including but not limited to requests for production of documents, interrogatories, and deposition.
The filling fee for Chapter 7 is $306.00. You may able to waive this filing fee if your income is 150% below the current poverty guidelines. Click here for current poverty guidelines:
These are current income guidelines for the State of Arizona:
Family size of one person $42,691.00 Family size of two persons $55,479.00 Family size of three persons $58,292 .00 Family size of four persons $63,201.00 Add $7,500.00 for additional individual
You must receive budget and credit counseling from an approved credit counseling agency and obtain a Certificate of Credit Counselling to be filed with his bankruptcy case. The agency will review possible options available to you in credit counseling and assist you in reviewing your budget. Different agencies provide the counseling in-person, by telephone, or over the Internet.
It is usually a good idea for you to meet with an attorney before you receive the required credit counseling. Unlike a credit counselor, who cannot give legal advice, an attorney can provide counseling on whether bankruptcy is the best option. If bankruptcy is not the right answer for you, a good attorney will offer a range of other suggestions. The attorney can also provide you with a list of approved credit counseling agencies, or you can check the website for the United States Trustee Program office at http://www.usdoj.gov/ust/eo/bapcpa/ccde/cc_approved.htm
After your case is filed, you must complete an approved course in personal finances. This course will take approximately two hours to complete. Your attorney can give you a list of organizations that provide approved courses, or you can check the website for the United States Trustee Program office at http://www.usdoj.gov/ust/eo/bapcpa/ccde/de_approved.htm
Consult a local bankruptcy attorney for further explanations of your rights and responsibilities.
The sites below are good resources for finding bankruptcy attorneys in your area:
If you cannot afford an attorney, then the next best alternative will be to use bankruptcy petition preparer. Bankruptcy petition preparers prepare bankruptcy forms but they cannot give you legal advice because they are not attorneys. Click on the links below for some of the bankruptcy petition preparers. You can do some searches on Google or Yahoo if you do not like the ones on the links below.
If I decide to stay married can we reaffirm or file the one that wipes out the second mortage based on the house being worth less than the second mortage?
An individual or individuals ("consumer debtor" or "debtor") would be able to file a Chapter 13 if the debtor has disposable income--extra income after necessary expenses every month to fund a Chapter 13 plan and the debtor must also meet the debt limit requirement. In order to file for Chapter 13, a debtor's unsecured debts must be less than $360,475.00 and secured debts must be less than $1,081,400.00. In Chapter 13, the debtor prepares a payment plan and makes payments to his/her creditors on 3 or 5-year plan. If the debtor's income is equal to or less than the current income guidelines for his/her family size in his state, the debtor would do a 3-year plan. However, if the debtor's income is more than the current income guidelines for his family size in his state, he would do a 5-year plan. His mortgage arrears and unsecured debts would be paid through the Chapter 13 plan.
The filing fee for Chapter 13 is $281.00
Lastly in chapter 13 you do get to keep your house correct??? And the balance of the debt after the 5 years is wiped out???
Lastly in chapter 13 you do get to keep your house correct??? Response 1: Yes, you can keep the house both in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 so long as mortgage payments are being made. And the balance of the debt after the 5 years is wiped out??? Response 2: No. All unsecured debts are paid off through the Chapter 13 plan. You would continue to pay for the first mortgage after the conclusion of the Chapter 13.
Sorry one more, If we do not stay together and split up during the chapter 13 reassignment plan what happens? I am on disability, do I end up taking half of the reassigned debit with me for the remainder of the 5 years? If I cant pay it do I end up in jail??
Sorry one more, If we do not stay together and split up during the chapter 13 reassignment plan what happens? I am on disability, do I end up taking half of the reassigned debit with me for the remainder of the 5 years? If I cant pay it do I end up in jail??Response: Everything remains the same if both of you continue to make payments under the plan. However, if payments are not made, the Chapter 13 would be dismissed and both of you would remain liable for the debts as if you never sought for bankruptcy protection.


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TD legislator Bonda Uma flays YSRCP for stalling Assembly - NTv
Thu, Sep 08, 2016, 10:52 AM
Even as Andhra Pradesh (AP) Assembly was adjourned, Telugu Desam (TD) legislator Bonda Uma flayed YSRCP for deliberately stalling the proceedings. They had agreed upon holding the Assembly for three days and other issues in the Business Accounts Committee (BAC) meeting, but came up with adjournment motion on special status, he pointed out. The Opposition is not serious about development of the state, he added.


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Helpful hints on 'roughing' it outdoors
A show of hands, please. Who complained about the near 100-degree weather on Tuesday? You? You, too? Bad, that's a bad human.
It doesn't matter that it was a tad bit too hot. At least there is some color outside. Drooping color, but it's better than dirty snow.
Although I'm not confident enough to put away my winter jacket and boots just yet, it is about time to dust off the old camping gear and take part in one of Minnesota's other long standing traditions, "goin up Nor't ya."
I remember, as a young lad, every Memorial Day and Labor Day, I would pack up my bags and get "shipped the heck out of the house" as my parents would say, meet up with my grandparents and venture forth in a giant RV. Sure, it wasn't exactly "roughing it," a weekend away from his Nintendo was difficult for any 1980s kid. Now, I haven't been camping in a decade or so, but that doesn't mean that I've forgotten all of my suburbanite-camper survival skills. And what kind of a person would I be if I didn't share the useless jewels of wisdom with you, my two loyal fans.
Bug spray (and more)
The first thing in any "survival" pack should be bug spray. Common sense, I know, but if anyone has turned on MTV in the last couple of years, you know that common sense is in short supply these days. Besides the plethora of nasty spiders covered last week, you've also got to contend with mosquitoes, flies, bees and worse. Nothing ruins a good lounge in the sun with an iced tea and fine imported cigar than a mosquito bite in the butt or a bee sting in the neck. That's a bad day, but it could be worse.
Although flies and bees can be swatted and killed with a wave of the hand, if you venture out into the "real" wilderness, it would be a good idea to pack some powerful pepper spray, just in case you run into something bigger, like a bear, cougar or pachyderm. There was a woman in Kansas last month who ran into a tiger in a bathroom so I'm not that paranoid.
Deodorant and lots of it
Everyone remembers the sunscreen, but if you are going out in the wilderness for an extended period (and don't have a humidor full of cigars to overpower the B.O.) you are going to start developing some "funk." The thing about "funk" is that you don't smell it right away, and by the time you do, it's far too late. You might not be around a shower for an extended period of time, or a body of water that isn't full of fish, and fish bathrooms (and, if recent toxicology tests were any indication, traces of cocaine apparently), but that is no reason to not at least mask one noxious odor with another, not-as-noxious odor.
Fire-based snacks are good
Probably the most important thing you can bring on any nature getaway is plenty of snacks. And not that fake "trail mix" stuff either. I'm talking about real snacks that take a real bonfire to make. S'mores are a staple, of course. So are hot-dogs and bratwurst. But one thing you should not be without is a massive bag of pepperonis. Yes, pepperonis.
Hear me out. All you need is a paper plate (because things can get greasy, and as everyone knows, greasy means tasty,) a telescoping fork to put the sliced pepperonis on, and about two minutes of "simmer time." Just as the grease stops dripping, and the edges are just this side of burnt, pull them back and you've got one of the best snack foods to enjoy on a clear night, watching the stars and completely forgetting that diet you started over the winter. Go ahead and try it. You're welcome.
Chris Hamble is a freelance writer and humor columnist serving newspapers in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and is a lifelong Stillwater resident.


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SUPERMARINE will be missing a number of key players when they look to extend their unbeaten run in Division One South & West at Wimborne tomorrow.
Defence has been hit particularly hard with Tom Cole and Kyle Lapham absent, while Jon Beeden has a facial injury and Craig Curtis is doubtful with a hip and groin problem.
Skipper Dave Bampton is expected to soldier on despite a broken nose, while Rob Dean should have recovered from a whack in the face.
The division's current top scorer, Ash Edenborough, is currently troubled by back problems.
"It's a bit desperate at the minute, but this is why we've got the players we've got," admitted boss Dave Webb.
"We managed to cope on Monday against Cirencester even though we lost Jon Beeden and Dave Bampton in the first 20 minutes.
"We'll probably be three or four down but I'm hoping the others will be fine. There will be a number of enforced changes that you don't want to make when you're four unbeaten.
"We've been scoring goals but we just need to keep the ball out of the net, and hopefully we can do that on Saturday.
"We have other players that can play centre-back and fill the void, so we should be fine."
There is an outside chance that Marine could have a new striker on board in time for tomorrow's game, with a 19-year-old local front man on Webb's radar.
The manager was hoping the youngster would train last night, as he looks to provide cover for his frontline.
"We've only got three strikers and we may be able to add one more, although I'm very happy with the ones I've got," said Webb.
"This may help us through a spell with Ash struggling and TJ (Bohane) has not had a lot of football, we're a bit thin in that area."
Wimborne crashed out of the FA Cup to Fareham on Saturday and then were defeated by Poole on Monday. but Webb is well aware of the threat they will pose.
"I've had the rundown on them so I know what they are all about," he said.
"They are very well-organised with a good work ethic, they play for each other and it's not going to be easy by any means.
"I'd hope to get something from there and we really need to get something from it before we play Hungerford on Wednesday."
He added: "This is the sort of league where everybody will be taking points of everyone else, and we have seen that already this season.
"I am lucky I have a great team helping me and we go into every game feeling well-prepared.
"There is a mixed amount of experience in the team becuase there are a few guys who have been there and done it and a few who are quite new to this level.
"They are a good bunch who are working hard, listening and doing their best for the club, and that is really all we can ask."
Elsewhere in the division, Cirencester host Didcot, while Chippenham welcome Hitchin in the Southern Premier.


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Literacy Activities for Children
Welcome to our Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Literacy section!
We have a range of activities, and have also divided the section into age-group:
Literacy 1-3 Years
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We have activities for the other six learning goals:
Physical Development
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Prague (Dec. 1)
In the Czechoslovakian provinces propaganda leaflets have been distributed calling for the Ku Klux Klan organization there. It is being formed on the American plan and is against Germans, Jews, Clericals and Communists.
Samuel W. Trost, 75, dropped dead Tuesday noon at the Business Men's club in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was president of the Samuel W. Trost Cigar Box Manufacturing company.
Mr. Trost was a member of the Cicinnati Board of Health for many years. Previous to his appointment to this post be served on the University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees.


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Report: AEROSMITH Frontman Steven Tyler's Collapse In Paraguay Due To Food Poisoning
October 25, 2011, 5 years ago
As reported earlier by Reuters, AEROSMITH singer Steven Tyler was taken to a hospital in Asuncion, Paraguay on Tuesday (October 25th) after falling in his hotel bathroom, the country's largest newspaper ABC reported.
ABC said a relative of one of the newspaper's employees saw Tyler being brought into the hospital emergency room. A man who identified himself as Gustavo Perez, a bellboy at the Bourbon Hotel, told local radio that Tyler slipped when he was taking a shower and "had a nasty fall." Reportedly Tyler's face was bloody and he had lost several teeth.
According to an update from TMZ.com, who claim to have spoken to sources connected to Tyler, he was "suffering from dehydration caused by a bout of food poisoning when he collapsed."
Tyler's injuries were decribed as minor and he has been released from hospital. Watch for updates regarding the band's current tour schedule.
Aerosmith performed on Saturday, October 22nd at Estadio San Marcos in Lima, Peru. AeroForceOne have posted the band's setlist, as well as a gallery of photos from the show.
Aerosmith performed the following setlist:
'Draw The Line'
'Same Old Song'
'Mama Kin'
'Eat The Rich'
'Chip Away'
One Way Street'
'Livin' On The Edge'
Drum Solo
'Rag Doll'
'What It Takes'
'Last Child'
'Stop Messin''
'Sweet Emotion'
'Walk This Way'
Check out a gallery of photos from the show at AeroForceOne.com.
Check out some fan-filmed footage from the show below:


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Happy Mother's Day! Here at First Book, we feel the best way to celebrate any holiday is with a great book! So here are some great reads for Mother's Day:
The Runaway Bunny
By Margaret Wise Brown, Illustrations by Clement Hurd
In this charming book, a mix of color and black and white illustrations come alive as a mother shows her child that she will always be there, even if her little bunny runs, swims or sails away. Runaway Bunny, by Margaret Wise Brown, the author of Goodnight Moon, is the perfect book for any mom to read to her son or daughter!
Mama, Do You Love Me?
By Barbara Joosse, Illustrations by Barbara Lavallee
In Mama, Do You Love Me? beautiful watercolor illustrations capture a unique Artic setting and the power of a mother's unconditional love. As a child tests the limits of her independence she learns that her mother's love is forever, no matter where she goes. Joosse's book is rich with culture and perfect for children (and adults) of any age.
Only You
By Robin Cruise, Illustrations by Margaret Chodos-Irvine
Only You, by Robin Cruise and illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, celebrates how strong a mother's love for her little one can be. In this book, a diverse range of parents and children combine with bold, yet simple, illustrations to make Only You the perfect book for even the youngest of children and the people that love them.
A Chair For My Mother
By Vera Williams
This award winning classic tells the story of a young girl, her mother, and grandmother saving this money to buy a much-needed chair.


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Vita buys a used guitar, thinks up a great band name – The Vita-mins – and then puts up flyers at school to hold auditions to find some bandmates. Some kids show up but none of them play an instrument. They meet again anyway and a plan starts to come together. Plinko and Jay have video skills, Tanya writes songs, Walt's an artist and Vita can sing. It's not a band, but it IS something special.
|Zebrafish is a graphic novel with great pictures and a great story. The kids are real – not comic book superheroes. If you like lots of illustrations and stories that show true-to life kids dealing with real life problems, try these:


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Back in May, things were looking grim for Austin-based TrackingPoint. The company, which manufactures Linux-powered smart rifles capable of nailing moving targets more than a thousand yards away, had posted a notice on its website saying that it stopped taking new orders. Multiple news sites began publishing stories saying that TrackingPoint had laid off half of its employees and was on the verge of filing for bankruptcy.
Then this past Tuesday, TrackingPoint emerged from what it calls a period of "restructuring" and is once again taking orders. TrackingPoint founder John McHale is now in the role of CEO, and former CEO John Lupher stepped in as vice president of engineering (a role similar to where he was back in 2013 when Ars first wrote about TrackingPoint). Another former CEO, Frank Bruno, will become a Chief Operating Officer.
"The new TrackingPoint is really a clean start for the company," McHale explained in a telephone interview with Ars on Wednesday. "We have invested $35 million in research and development, so that's our core asset. And we re relaunching, recapitalized, with financing from three large investors, including McHale Labs, which is my investment company." The re-launched TrackingPoint will continue to focus on both civilian and military sales, and the company will have four main products: a large bolt-action rifle chambered in .338 Lapua Magnum, and three AR-15 carbines, chambered in 5.56mm NATO, 7.62mm NATO, and .300 AAC Blackout.
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The FAA Flight Operations Evaluation Board (FOEB) has revised the Master Minimum Equipment List (MMEL) for MD Helicopters Model 369 Series/500N/600N helicopters.
The FOEB has identified a need for certain procedures to provide an adequate level of safety while providing relief for some items.
These procedures must be established by the operator and may be based on the aircraft manufacturer's recommended procedures, Supplemental Type Certificate modifier's recommended procedures, or equivalent operator procedures. When recommended procedures are published the operator should comply with these procedures.
To read the entire MMEL, click here.