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Dr. Suzie Ahn received her Bachelor's degree in Biology and subsequently her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree (D.D.S.) from the University of Iowa. While in dental school, she won several awards in the field of prosthodontics and was encouraged by her professors to pursue advanced specialty training in prosthodontics due to her skill and attention to fine details. Prosthodontists specialize in the restoration and replacement of missing teeth, and have seven years of formal training – four years of dental school, and an additional three years of advanced specialty training. Through her training, Dr. Suzie Ahn has become an expert in diagnosis and treatment planning for smile makeovers using veneers, crowns, bridges, implants, and dentures. Her goal is to provide her patients with treatment that is both visually appealing and highly functional so her patients can smile with confidence! Dr. Ahn's patients love that she is a great listener and that she spends the time to understand their needs and answer questions! In her own words she says, "I always want to treat my patients like family, and present the same options and quality of care I would want for myself or for my parents". In addition to seeing patients, Dr. Ahn is also actively involved in teaching. She holds a faculty position at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry. She has been involved with teaching courses in implant dentistry, complete dentures, and fixed prosthodontics (crowns, bridges, and veneers). In her free time she loves to try new foods and restaurants, traveling, photography, and spending time with her friends and family.
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Chevrolet Corvette Catalytic Converter Guide and History
The catalytic converter in your Chevrolet Corvette has an important purpose: to reduce the toxicity of your engine emissions. In 1950, the first studies about smog in Los Angeles, California were published, indicating what everyone knew already: auto exhaust was a major component of the problem. That year, French-born mechanical engineer Eugene Houdry founded his company, Oxy-Catalyst, with the goal of developing a catalytic converter for cars such as the Chevy Vette. Gasoline, at that time, still contained lead however, which prevented the converter from operating properly (lead was first added to gasoline in 1920 to improve engine performance by raising octane levels). Engineers Carl D. Keith and John J. Mooney further developed the catalytic converter at the Engelhard Corporation, introducing the first production catalytic converter in 1973.
Around this time, the United States Environmental Protection Agency
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The catalytic converter on your Corvette reduces emissions by creating
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are located externally on the vehicle, they are frequently stolen.
Also, although catalytic converters remove hydrocarbons and other
harmful emissions effectively, most of the exhaust gas leaving the
converter is carbon dioxide, a gas that has been positively linked to
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Kames Capital fund manager Alex Walker, co-manager of its Property Income fund, will be departing the firm in December to take a career break, the firm has confirmed.
Walker will be replaced by Richard Peacock, who joins from Aviva Investors, where he was responsible for the £1.2bn open-ended property fund for UK pensions.
Peacock will report to Kames' property investment director David Wise and will lead a team of five property specialists.
The Kames Property Income fund was the worst hit fund in the three months following Brexit, according to analysis by Hargreaves Lansdown with returns of negative 8.8 per cent over the period.
However, unlike many of its peers, the fund did not suspend trading in the aftermath of the UK vote to leave the European Union, with Kames pointing out the fund has over 25 per cent in liquid assets at the end of September.
Kames Capital's head of property investment Phil Clark says: "We are witnessing very interesting times in the property UK sector following the vote to quit the European Union in June. The decision has created both challenges and opportunities for the property market."
Clark says Wise and Walker were able to "navigate the post-Brexit property shock which saw many of our competitor funds closing their doors to redemptions, whilst our fund remained open".
Peacock will work alongside the Property Income fund's three assistant fund managers Gregory Beeson, Karen Fox and Ric Tsang.
Kames Capital has appointed Richard Peacock as an investment manager to its London based property investment team.


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Leon Whiteson, a Zimbabwe-born architect-turned-critic and novelist who wrote about architecture for publications such as Architectural Digest, the Toronto Star and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, died of cancer Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 82.
His death was confirmed by his wife, Aviva Layton.
Whiteson was architecture critic at the Toronto Star from 1980 to 1983 and the Herald Examiner from 1984 to 1988. He later wrote freelance articles on architecture and design for the Los Angeles Times and in 1989 was honored by the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects with its distinguished achievement award in the media.
He also wrote more than a dozen books, including works on Canadian architecture and the Watts Towers. He co-wrote "A Place Called Waco" (1999) with David Thibodeau, a survivor of the 1993 law enforcement siege on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.
Whiteson's 1995 memoir "A Garden Story" was inspired by his unkempt Hollywood backyard which, as he cultivated it, he came to regard as a " 'green' novel — the horticultural parallel of the novel I was trying to produce." Weaving memories of his African upbringing, his Jewish-immigrant parents, his marriages and what it was like to live in "crazy-sensible L.A." during the 1992 riots, it earned good notices, including one in the New York Times that called it "partial but intense, more rumination than narrative."


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Mitchell and Samo missed the June tests, when Australia was upset by Scotland before clean sweeping Wales 3-0, but finished the Super Rugby season well, before impressing at the recent national training camps.
Mitchell returns from ankle and hamstring injuries. Only five players have scored more tries in tests for the Wallabies than the 28-year-old, who appeared in his 58th and most recent test for Australia during the World Cup last year in New Zealand.
Samo is back from a shoulder injury. The widely-travelled loose forward made a remarkable test return in 2011 after a seven-year absence and ended the year with a Tri Nations title.
Three uncapped players named today include two of the most recent Australian under-20 captains - Liam Gill, who skippered the side at this year's World Cup in South Africa, and his predecessor Jake Schatz.
Hard-working NSW Waratahs lock Kane Douglas also earns a call-up.
The inclusion of Gill, plus June newcomer Michael Hooper from the Brumbies, bolsters the Wallabies' back-up resources behind premier openside flanker and captain, David Pocock.
The selections of 122kg second-rower Douglas and Sitaleki Timani (120kg) add size and power to the Australian set-piece.
The two young locks, along with Rob Simmons, will be mentored by test centurion Nathan Sharpe. The 34-year-old's decision to stay on for the Rugby Championship provides an opportunity to chase down George Smith as the second most-capped Wallaby.
The Rugby Championship, which introduces Argentina to the annual southern hemisphere competition for the first time, will run over six weekends from August 18 to October 6.
Australia won the final Tri-Nations last year, a decade after the Wallabies had won the second of their three tournament titles in 2001.
Several injured players were unavailable for the 30-man squad but will come back into contention during the tournament once they complete rehabilitation.
Wallabies squad:
Ben Alexander, Adam Ashley-Cooper, Berrick Barnes, Kurtley Beale, Quade Cooper, Dave Dennis, Kane Douglas, Anthony Faingaa, Saia Faingaa, Will Genia, Liam Gill, Mike Harris, Scott Higginbotham, Michael Hooper, Rob Horne, Digby Ioane, Sekope Kepu, Drew Mitchell, Stephen Moore, Nick Phipps, David Pocock (capt), Tatafu Polota-Nau, Benn Robinson, Radike Samo, Jake Schatz, Nathan Sharpe, Rob Simmons, James Slipper, Sitaleki Timani, Nic White


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Traditions and other thoughts on the season
November 6, 2010
In a much different place today. The past 2 days at work have been pretty good. am getting excited about using the Smart Board in my classroom. We got to play with it a little today-it has some bugs with the color, but it was fun. The kids will never utter the word 'bored' again.
This week I have been feeling pretty emotional about Paul's Grandmother who isn't doing well. I am hoping she is feeling some relief today. I am not ready for her to leave yet, as selfish as that may sound. She has been apart of my life for a mere 4 1/2 years, but she has been such a big part of the holidays, baby showers and weddings, and it wouldn't be the same without her there. She has an amazing way of passing on traditions from her Danish heritage, and I want to soak it up so we can pass it down when we have children. Every Christmas we all sing carols around the tree in her living room while we hold hands, and after dinner we try to find the almond in the pudding. It has meant a lot to me to have had these traditions introduced to me, as cutesy as they may be. My family has all moved away over the past 6 years so…. I have always been so welcomed and loved by her, and I pray that her journey here isn't over quite yet.
I want to watch a holiday movie-one where there is snow on the ground, and families are gathering, like that one movie with Sarah Jessica Parker, where she goes with Matthew Broderick to his families house and she falls in love with Luke Wilson. Or something with a twisted love story, like something with Jennifer Anniston. I want to go to the movies- like to Crest, and lazily watch a movie and then lazily walk around downtown and take pictures of the beautiful fall leaves while I sip on something warm and delicious. I want to wrap up in a blanket and read a good book, like Commited by Elizabeth Gilbert. I got that for Christmas last year and have only got into the first chapter. I love her writing style.I love how she makes you really feel like you are in the places she is by highlighting the sweetest, most raw details. I could taste the pasta and gelato when she was in Italy. I could feel the humidity in the air when she was in Bali. Ugh, I love a good book that takes you somewhere else. There's my nostalgia.
I am really looking forward to this weekend. Tonight we are learning about Ayurveda, and I am interested to see how it connects with yoga. I have a few books on Ayurveda and have done the little quiz to see what I am. A couple years ago I was Vata-Pitta. My understanding is that you want to balance all 3 doshas-Vata, Pitta, Kapha. And you use food, times of the day, and seasons, just to name a few to do find this equilibrium. I also remember that there were certain things that threw certain ones off balance. One of mine had to do with being in loud places with flashing lights. That was supposed to be a bad thing for me. I remember when I was reading into this practice and I was really into going to clubs and bar at the time, and I thought- "well Im probably not giving this up just to balance my dosha, but that's good to note". Nowadays I don't go to places like that all that often, so I probably wont have a problem taking that into better consideration this time around if that holds true.


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Fastest texters in America face off in New York
(AP) NEW YORK - The fastest texters in the United States are facing off in the annual LG U.S. National Texting Competition.
Eleven contestants are coming to Times Square for the annual competition Wednesday afternoon. The winner gets $50,000. Competitors range from 16 to 24 years old. Last year's champion Austin Weirschke is coming back to defend his title.
The competition tests three skills: speed, accuracy and dexterity. There are three rounds to the competition: texting while blind-folded, texting with hands behind their backs and Text Blitz, where phrases are shown to the contestants for a length of time and they have to copy them as fast as they can.
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Lake District ospreys get paparazzo Sarah-Jane Cherrie
Rare birds of prey have got an official photographer to record their annual stay in Cumbria.
Sarah-Jane Cherrie will film and photograph the ospreys in their nest, near Bassenthwaite, for the next three years.
The 42-year-old, who is studying wildlife and media at the University of Cumbria, spent the summer volunteering for the Lake District Osprey Project, and so impressed its bosses they asked her to continue on an official basis.
She said that she had to enlist the help of her husband in getting close to her subject.
"The birds weren't where they were supposed to go, but had nested down in a field," she said.
'Can't count'
"I had to go down there, do battle with cows and hide in bushes while gradually working out how close we could get.
"My husband was very helpful, he's a former soldier so he's very good at building hides and sneaking up on things."
One trick they employed was for two people to set off across the field, then one person ducks into the hide while the other walks on.
"The birds know that someone was down there, but don't know two walked on but only one walked off," she said.
"They think the danger has passed. Luckily for me, they can't count."
Ms Cherrie had worked in media, marketing and events around the world, and taught business in Russia and Libya, before returning to her native Cumbria 18 months ago.
Speaking of her work over the summer, she said: "We took it very slowly.
"Gradually by stealth, and by gaining the trust of the cows, as well as convincing the powers that be that I wasn't going to make the birds fly away.
"At the end of the summer they said 'would you mind awfully doing this for the next few years', and I said 'yes please'.
The osprey pair and their two offspring have now flown south to The Gambia for the winter, so project workers will build nests and install live camera feeds for their return in the coming year.
"It has been a huge step forward for the osprey project to have Sarah on board this season," Nathan Fox, Lake District Osprey Project manager, said.
"Hopefully, she will also be able to make a record of the work that goes on behind the scenes, even throughout the winter, to share with our many followers."


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Beyond the Fine Art Center's silkscreen prints of Andy Warhol, and just a few blocks north, art lovers can enjoy a veritable visual encyclopedia of printmaking this month. Pressure, at Colorado College's tiny Coburn Gallery, celebrates 35 years of printmaking at CC with works by such notables as Mary Chenoweth, Eric Bransby, Emilio Lobato, David Hazlett and Jean Gumpper.
For the sheer variety of technical skills on display, the show stands out. Printmaking, with its many subdivisions -- woodblock printing, intaglio etching, collograph, lithograph, monoprint with chine colle and others -- basically is the art of creating a matrix, or master design, either by engraving or building up a surface and transferring the design to paper with inks or paints. The results on display here are far-ranging in both content and style.
Chenoweth, a much-beloved longtime resident of Colorado Springs until her death in 1999, produced everything from large-scale paintings to hand-carved wooden doors (one of which is on display here). Her intaglio etchings and woodblock prints are challenging and vivid examples of her breadth of interest in subject matter and her technical skills. Her abstract designs evoke motion and an angular energy.
Hazlett's elegant series of monoprints features a mysterious black orb suspended in light. Kate Leonard's mixed-media prints, including a lovely one titled "Alluvial Seed," are multi-textured and equally mysterious.
Gumpper uses woodblocks to print close-up scenes from nature. Her print "Constant Change" is a rich evocation of water swirling in a leaf-littered stream. Her talent as a colorist is equal to her precision as a printmaker.
Daisy McConnell has two prints in the show, "Figment (Aqueous)" and "Figment (Botanical)." Each features a glowing party dress of no particular color at its center, and side by side, they make an intriguing pair. The former is printed over with a filigree of blue shells and sea creatures; the latter with delicate red flowers.
Bransby's piece, "Grand Jette," a lithograph print, is a masterfully drawn image of a female dancer, her foundation leg strong and ramrod-straight as her upper body is shown in every transitional phase of a graceful forward fold.
Many of the works in the show are for purchase, while others are part of the college's permanent collection.
-- Kathryn Eastburn
Pressure: 35 Years of Printmaking at Colorado College
Coburn Gallery at the Worner Student Center, 902 N. Cascade Ave.
Gallery open Tuesday-Saturday, 12:30-7:30 p.m.; gallery talk and reception for the artists Thursday, Oct. 6, 4:30-7:30 p.m.; show runs through Nov. 19.
Free; call 389-6797 for more information.


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On 2009 April's Fool's Day WotC made available this "missing" adventure form the Dungeon Delve book—originally set for party level 2 1/2!
It is a free download and it is written in a very humorous tone with surrealistic and/or fluffy monsters of various kinds!
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In a time long before the current age of the world, fomorians began magical experimentation with myriad life forms, fey and otherwise, to produce nefarious guardians and soldiers. Such experimentation inevitably results in successes and failures. Loath to part with their failed experiments without sowing some form of wickedness, the fomorians devised mystical prisons for their underwhelming monstrosities. These they built upon or near the surface of the world, where their castoff pets could do harm to the fomorians' enemies.
These "prisons" are dens of madness and confusion. Little, if anything, can be expected to make sense within them. The adventuring site of this scenario—the so-called Fool's Grove—is no different.


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The food on offer does not always suit all pupils, she explained, and therefore she makes sure there are plenty of vegetables to choose from as well as proteins in the form of chicken, shrimp, or beef patties.
Right now the schools on offer do not suit all pupils...just like the books on offer do not suit all readers...just like the movies on offer do not suit all watchers...just like the musicians on offer do not suit all listeners...just like the clothes on offer do not suit all the fashionistas...just like the medications on offer do not suit all patients...just like the plants on offer do not suit all horticulturalists...and so on and so on.
As consumers we never want less options. Instead, we always want a larger selection of different things. Why do we want different things? Because we are an extremely heterogeneous bunch. We are a melting pot of diverse perspectives, cultures, preferences, tastes, values, interests, concerns, hopes and dreams. Our amazing diversity is our greatest strength because it leads to a greater abundance of the things we value.
Over 100 years ago Bastiat explained this concept too well...
If we now turn to consider the immediate self-interest of the consumer, we shall find that it is in perfect harmony with the general interest, i.e., with what the well-being of mankind requires. When the buyer goes to the market, he wants to find it abundantly supplied. He wants the seasons to be propitious for all the crops; more and more wonderful inventions to bring a greater number of products and satisfactions within his reach; time and labor to be saved; distances to be wiped out; the spirit of peace and justice to permit lessening the burden of taxes; and tariff walls of every sort to fall. In all these respects, the immediate self-interest of the consumer follows a line parallel to that of the public interest. He may extend his secret wishes to fantastic or absurd lengths; yet they will not cease to be in conformity with the interests of his fellow man. He may wish that food and shelter, roof and hearth, education and morality, security and peace, strength and health, all be his without effort, without toil, and without limit, like the dust of the roads, the water of the stream, the air that surrounds us, and the sunlight that bathes us; and yet the realization of these wishes would in no way conflict with the good of society. - Bastiat, Abundance and ScarcityThe problem is...just like superman...our diversity has a kryptonite. If somebody takes away our freedom to choose...then they'll render our diversity powerless. Without being able to choose how we spend our money...then how can producers know when they are producing something that we find suitable? Without an accurate feedback mechanism then limited resources will be wasted. This is the problem with representative economics.
Right now we elect 538 people to represent the economic interests of 150 million taxpayers in the public sector. In other words...we permit 538 people to spend 1/4 of our nation's revenue in the public sector. That's over $3.5 trillion dollars being spent without an accurate feedback mechanism.
Clearly we don't all agree on how that $3.5 trillion dollars should be spent in the public sector...but that's a good thing. Yet...people think it's a good thing when conservative and liberal representatives set aside their differences to solve the problems that our country faces. Eh? It's a good thing when we force 538 representative to agree on how they spend our money in the public sector?
If our diversity is our greatest strength in the private sector...then why is it a good thing to demolish our diversity in the public sector? How does forcing people, who have very different perspectives, to tackle the same problem from the same angle help anybody? It doesn't. It hurts us all. We all benefit from multiple approaches because it increases the probability that one approach will be successful.
The value of heterogeneous activity...aka hedging our bets...aka not putting all our eggs in the same basket...helps us understand why it would be an improvement to allow taxpayers to choose which congressperson they gave their taxes to and why it would be an exponentially greater improvement to allow taxpayers to choose which government organizations they gave their taxes to.
Bastiat offers an excellent overview...
1. Our economic representatives aren't superior enough to override our choices
2. Public goods, like private goods, are simply acts of exchange
3. The choices of consumers are the driving force behind abundance
1. Economic representatives aren't that superior...
Apparently, then, the legislators and the organizers have received from Heaven an intelligence and virtue that place them beyond and above mankind; if so, let them show their titles to this superiority. - BastiatIf our economic representatives were truly superior enough to know better than millions and millions of consumers...then this would be as true in the private sector as it is in the public sector. But if you value the options you do have...then you should know for a fact that this is not true. The options that we have in the private sector are a direct result of our freedom to choose how we spend our money. Take away our spending decisions and our diversity, which is our greatest strength, will be as useless as superman swimming in kryptonite.
2. It doesn't matter whether a good is public or private...it's either worth exchanging your money for...or it isn't...
Thus, considered in themselves, in their own nature, in their normal state, and apart from all abuses, public services are, like private services, purely and simply acts of exchange. - BastiatPublic goods are only different from private goods because we want more of them than we believe that the private sector would be able to supply on its own. It's not that a non-profit militia couldn't provide national defense...it's just that most people are relatively certain that it wouldn't provide enough defense. It's not that the non-profit sector doesn't provide welfare...it's just that liberals are relatively certain that it doesn't provide enough welfare. This just proves that the demand for public goods exists. Therefore, the problem is on the supply side. More specifically...the supply would be inadequate because people can free-ride off of other people's contributions to non-profits. We solve this problem by forcing people to pay taxes and by allowing government organizations to produce public goods. But once these steps are taken...it's completely unnecessary and extremely counterproductive to take the additional step of demolishing our diversity by allowing representatives to determine how our taxes should be spent in the public sector.
3. Human flourishing absolutely depends on protecting the interests of consumers...
Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race. - BastiatTaxpayers bear the cost of public goods which is why they alone are capable of determining which public goods are worth the cost. Will they find all their options in the public sector to be perfectly suitable? No...of course not. This basic fact will guarantee that taxpayers will support the audacious lunch ladies of the public sector. It will ensure that the most successful approaches will gain funding and failed approaches will lose funding.
Diversity + choice = progress.


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I'm so thankful that teachers are teachable too!
I took it upon myself this summer to do some at home professional development.
The end result...I revamped my math block and teaching style (go me!).
In the past, I taught math whole group. I would teach, they would watch. We would practice.
I started out doing math tubs just as a fun way to practice while I pulled students I needed to "tutor".
Over the years this evolved to me realizing I NEED to be meeting with ALL my students, not just those in need!
Fast forward 4 years and I'm here to share with you what I did for the FIRST time today.
And just how absolutely fabulous it was...on DAY 1!
Here is how it all flows:
Here is each component in detail:
Calendar time is short and sweet.
We go through the parts of the date and use the number of the day to count place value and money.
For Target the Question, students are given a picture for the week.
Each day there is a different word problem that goes with the picture and we discover the answer together.
During whole group instruction, we sit on the carpet and I explicitly teach the content.
For this specific lesson we were focusing on ways to make 10 if given one part and the whole.
I talk. Students listen.I may have a few of them interact with me for example problems.
Many times this is followed by guided practice for an extra 5 minutes.
We break up into small groups using our CATS MATH rotation chart.
This comes from Reagan Tunstall. If you would like to read more about how it works you can following these links to her blog HERE and HERE and HERE.
{This is where I did my at home professional development from to come up with this math block}
Students go to 4 rounds each day (pictured above).
During the small group instruction students meet with me.
In this time, I dig deeper into the topic we discussed in whole group.
Normally this involves getting out manipulatives and working on things "hands-on". This allows me to correct anything the students are doing wrong. It is so much easier for me to catch and correct their mistakes when I am working with groups of 5 students rather than 20!
I KNOW my kiddos are going to appreciate math time SO much more this year and get lots more out of it too! If you're thinking of taking the small group math step...let me tell you, it's WORTH IT!


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Academic achievement and engagement in rural China
An important dimension of increasing social stratification in post-reform China is the increasingly disparate educational opportunities available to children. Heightened economic inequalities associated with market reforms, coupled with school finance policies that have strengthened the link between local resources and the provision of education, have led to great variability in investments in education by local governments, and by families.
In: Education and reform in China, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK.
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Providing the needed data for application development and testing is a huge headache for most organizations. The problems are often the same across companies - speed, quality, cost, and control. Provisioning data can take days or weeks, every time a refresh is required. Using dummy data leads to quality problems. Creating physical copies of large data sets and sending them to distributed teams of developers eats up expensive storage and bandwidth resources. And, all of these copies proliferating the organization can lead to inconsistent masking and exposure of sensitive data.
But some organizations are adopting a new method of data management for DevOps that is delivering transformational business outcomes in faster time to market, lower costs, and great control.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Brian Reagan, Managing Director of Blackthorne Consulting Group, an Actifio company, reviewed the core concepts of using data virtualization to power DevOps, including Central Administration by Operations, Self-Service for developers and testers, and Automating Data Masking for enhanced control of sensitive information.
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Prior to IBM, he was CMO for performance data storage firm Xiotech and also CMO for Arsenal Digital Solutions, which was purchased by IBM in 2008. A technology industry veteran, Brian also held senior-level strategy and marketing roles at EMC Corporation and MCI Telecommunications, and has spent over two decades in the areas of storage and information management.
Brian holds a BA from Bennington College and an MBA from George Mason University and is a frequent speaker at industry events and conferences.
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Patrick Graham out, Downswell in at Reno
Nodley Wright, Sunday Gleaner Writer
It is back to the future at Reno Football Club in Westmoreland as Flow Cup winning coach Patrick Graham has stepped aside allowing former coach Wendell Downswell to take over.
Graham, who assumed duties on September 1, 2014 gave up his head coaching duties on Tuesday, just a day after losing 4-1 to Arnett Gardens in the Red Stripe Premier League. That loss meant that the club's winless run continued following their lifting of the Flow All-Island Knockout Competition. The Flow trophy was Reno's first title since their 2005-2006 victory over Harbour View at St Elizabeth Technical in a Premier League mid-season final.
"They said that I did not have enough time to spend with the team and asked me to step down, which I duly obliged," stated Graham, a former midfielder for the club and country.
Club chairman Russell Hammond told a similar story to Graham regarding the coach's departure.
Top six
"From the outset, the executive had a determination that Reno must be in the top six at the end of Premier League this year. On that basis, we interviewed Mr Graham on his return from Germany and we felt that he was most suitable for the job.
"Something developed where he was offered a job as lecturer at Church Teachers' College. We decided to see what the results would be with his limited time. After careful consideration, we saw that it was negatively affecting the performance of the team. In the discussions that we had, we considered what would have been in the best interest of the club. It was agreed that he resigned and that decision had our blessings," Hammond explained.
Hammond expressed thanks to Graham for the work he did at the club when he was able to devote his time.
With Graham no longer in the picture, Hammond said that club stalwart Wendell Downswell, the club's technical director, will take over coaching duties.
Graham, a physical education lecturer at Church Teachers' College, said he will use the time to focus on his permanent employment and postgraduate studies with G.C. Foster College and UTech.
"I will focus more on my lecturing and will take some time to concentrate on my studies," said Graham, who returned from Germany in August after topping the international trainers course in Liepzig, Germany where he earned a diploma in football and a German A Licence in coaching.


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Talk about excited! I'm barely able to type. The House on Serpent Lake just hit Amazon's Top 50 Bestsellers in ghost stories!
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Southwestern Michigan CollegeÂ?s third attempt for a millage increase appeared to fall short as of late Tuesday.
As of 10:30 p.m., the count was 3,057 yes to 1,994 no with 12 of 18 municipalities reporting, according to unofficial results.
The college had asked for an 0.854-mill increase that will expire in 15 years that would have generated an estimated $1.3 million for the revenue-challenged college, which raised tuition almost 10 percent and eliminated its entire Community Services Division after its last millage failed.
College officials had hoped that by reducing the millage amount and setting a cap on the number of years it would run would bring supporters to the polls.
However, some voters, like John Helbey, of Adamsville, simply werenÂ?t willing to pay more in taxes.
Â?IÂ?m an old guy with not a lot of income,Â? Helbey said. Â?ItÂ?ll be nice to do all they want you to do, but you canÂ?t.Â?
In other local issues:
Cass County
Â? Cass CountyÂ?s funding for its Emergency 911 Dispatch Center was expected to continue. Partial results indicated that voters approved the renewal through 2010 with 3,122 yes to 1,060 no. The proposal allows the county to charge up to $3.20 a month to support 911 service.
Â? Howard Township voters rejected a 1.25-mills police millage that would have generated an estimated $193,000 in its first year and would have allowed the township to increase its police protection to the previous level. The unofficial vote total was 194 yes to 527 no.
Â? Cassopolis Public Schools request for a Headlee Amendment rollback appeared to be on its way to success with 229 yes votes to 156 no votes as of 10:30 p.m. Voters reauthorized the 18-mill non-homestead operating tax levy last year, but it has been reduced and is expected to continue to be reduced by the Headlee Amendment. Cassopolis estimated it would have lost 0.405 mills this year without the restoration, which translates into about $15,000. The tax does not affect primary residences or qualified agricultural property.
Â? Marcellus Township voters approved a 1-mill fire and ambulance renewal request for capital improvements that is expected to generate $54,157 in its first year for maintenance and improvements. The tally was 183 yes to 74 no.
Berrien County
Â? Lake Michigan CollegeÂ?s quest for a 20-year renewal of a portion of its operating millage appeared to be on its way to success late Tuesday with 4,100 yes votes to 2,598 no votes with 17 of 30 municipalities reporting. The 0.6698-mills renewal will generate almost $4.4 million in revenue in its first year.
Â? In the city of Buchanan, voters just barely agreed to discontinue use of 114 N. Oak St. as a public park in order to sell the vacant property. The vote passed 201 yes to 106 no, which was just over the needed 60 percent voter support requirement.
Â? In Lincoln Township, voters approved a 0.5-mill increase for the Lincoln Township Police Department 851 yes to 717 no. The increase will generate an estimated $273,000 in its first year.
Â? In Oronoko Township, voters approved a 4-mill police protection levy 618 yes to 365 no. The millage will replace an expiring 3-mill levy and a 1-mill levy that recently expired.
Â? In New Buffalo Township, a 0.40-mill renewal for ambulance service was approved 99 yes to 45 no. It will raise an estimated $151,418 in its first year and expire in 2009.
Staff writer YaShekia Smalls contributed to this report.
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6 things I did to generate over $150k in under 16 weeks.
Four months ago I started a company called Hewlbern. I had spent years on this company and I wanted to prove that what I learned from Decisive would work.
Data is the lifeblood of Hewlbern. It helps me make decisions faster, and get the most out of all of your work. So before I launch I ensure that my business is instrumented.
Here's are the analytics that I set up before launching:
Add Google Analytics tags. Set up Goals in Google Analytics. Goals tell me what channels are driving customers. Here's a great explainer for how to set up goals.
Ensure that I have heatmap tracking. It's extremely important for me to understand how people are interacting with the site. Heatmaps allow me to do this. I usually use Mouseflow because they have a free plan to get started.
Set up Google and Facebook remarketing pixels Every visitor from the day I launch likely has some level of interest in what I'm offering. I want to be sure I can reach those people after they've left. Remarketing can be an extremely cost effective way to do this. Here's an explanation for how to set up Google Remarketing tags. Here's an explanation for Facebook remarketing tags.
Set up link tracking. As I post across social media make sure that I'm tracking links. Bitly is awesome for this.
Once the site is set up I wanted to put ChallengeBox in front of as many people as fast as possible. Before launch I always ask where will I distribute this product? I think of myself as Starbucks or McDonalds. Where are the busiest street corners with the right people to place my store.
I tested the following free channels:
Product Hunt
I also emailed a number of blogs and I was able to get ChallengeBox written up a blog post for Style Magazine.
For paid tests I ran advertising campaigns across: * Facebook * Google * Twitter. More on that later in the post.
The goals of testing distribution are three-fold
Understanding whether people will actually pay for your product.
Getting feedback (both likes and dislikes) about your product.
Listening to the actual words people use as they describe your product. You can use these in testing landing page copy and ad copy in the future.
After running all of these tests I determined that Facebook was the best place to spend my time. Our audience was there, and I knew that it could scale.
I spent a few days in Facebook groups just listening to what people were saying, what jokes they made so that I could understand what types of content to create.
I created three anchor pieces of content:
A blog post that was 100 awesome resources that will make you happier with your Fitbit.
A eBook that was meant to be a comprehensive manual for how to use your new Fitbit.
A fun personality quiz with memes called "What is your Fitbit personality".
These allowed us to get started with promotion of the site, and make it feel like our customers were getting value even if they didn't buy anything from us.
With ChallengeBox I wasn't immediately sure if it actually would work. I wanted to prove it to myself. So I set my goals in various milestones to prove that I should continue with building the business out.
1-10 Customers – The first ten customers I got were based on some manual work. I interacted with people on Twitter who were interested in Fitbit and fitness and posted to forums. This was great to prove that someone would actually pay for Hewlbern. It was also key to learning about what I needed to say as I thought about how to reach even more customers.
10-100 Customers – I determined that Facebook would be the best channel to focus on here. I achieved this through testing out of variations of Facebook ads.
100-1000 Customers – After a couple of weeks of testing I was able to determine out which content and which targeting worked best to acquire our first 100 customers I began to increase our daily spend to about $300-600 per day
1000-10,000 Customers – We're putting in place the infrastructure to scale to our next 5x. Facebook alone won't get us there so we'll start to expand to investing in, and optimizing other social platforms.
With content and ads I test everything. I look at Hewlbern as one huge experiment. I tested different content formats. Images versus video. I test different images, headlines, descriptions. I tested multiple variations of landing pages.
We found that videos definitely work better than images, for driving conversions. If you can test basic videos for Facebook I highly recommend it.
Adespresso is also an invaluable too to helping you quickly test and iterate through Facebook ads.
Through testing I'm always looking for two things.
Does a channel work?
Is it scalable?
It seems that finding scalable channels is where companies hit a wall. Influencers are an awesome way to jumpstart a community but they may not scale cost effectively.
Most people are afraid of spending on advertising. However if you get it right it is one of the best ways I know to truly accelerate your growth. I was able to generate over $150k by spending $40k. Worth it? I think so.
The key is finding what works. For Hewlbern so far, after our initial tests we ONLY focused on Facebook on Females in the US on iPhones. These users have converted the best.
WHAT'S NEXT? There is still TONS of scale here, and once we are ready we will expand beyond this target audience to Android, and then males and then International.
Building and scaling successful subscription business is not easy. There are so many mistakes I've made over the last 6 months, but it's a fun challenge to be learning the ins and outs of a physical product business.
6 things I did to generate over $150k in under 16 weeks. (Repost from Reddit)
6 things I did to generate over $150k in under 16 weeks.


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VIDEO: Laurie Hernandez & Val Chmerkovskiy Foxtrot on DWTS Season 23 Week 10
Laurie Hernandez and Val Chmerkovskiy glided across the floor with a Foxtrot on Dancing with the Stars on Monday (November 14) from Los Angeles.
Team Valaur wowed once again with an amazing Foxtrot set to "Hollow" by Tori Kelly — who just happens to be Laurie's favorite singer!
Their performance earned them 30 points out of a total 30.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Laurie Hernandez
Be sure to stay tuned as Laurie will be dancing again with Val and his brother Maks for their trio dance!
To vote for Laurie and Val in the competition, vote for them by calling 1-800-868-3407!
Posted to: Dancing With the Stars, Laurie Hernandez, Television, Val Chmerkovskiy, Video


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Mac: Every night since orientation she's been with some new dude. The phone rings every ten minutes. If college is a boy buffet, she's got two full plates and a purse full of boys wrapped in napkins.
Veronica: Hi, Dad. Nope, he's heading home right now, as a matter of fact.
Keith: All right, honey. Give Logan my regards as you're shaking his hand good night, and I'll be sure to call unexpectedly again.
Keith: How was your first day? How does it feel being a college student?
Veronica: Ooh, it's exhausting. I had one whole class today.
Keith: You make any friends?
Veronica: Lord, no.
Keith: Enemies?
Veronica: Eh.
Keith: Yeah, well. It is a day that ends in a "Y".
"I'm twice the man she is!!"
"Synchronized swimming. Complete mystery to me."
Vaughn: Got him.
Sydney: Where?
Vaughn: At the bar. That's him.
Syd: How do you want to play this? You want to be rough or you want me to be rough?
Vaughn: Oh, you're always rough.
Syd: No, I'm not!
Vaughn: Yes you are.
Syd: That's not true.
Vaughn: Yes it is.
Syd: Are you talking at home or on ops?
Vaughn: Both. Hey, I'm not complaining.
Syd: If I'm rough, its because you like it when I... Are we on coms!?
Jack: YES, you are both on coms right now!!
"I've seen her in action. She is like..she's like Schwarzenegger. She's like the old Schwarzenegger. She's amazing!"
"Are you the bad Slayer now? Am I the good Slayer now?!"
Sydney: "Have you see Vaughn?"
Weiss: "That's all I am to you, a conduit to Michael Vaughn! Have you ever seen Vaughn and asked, 'Hey, where's Weiss?'"
"Sydney.. I know our relationship is complicated, but I'm your mother and I love you!"
"I was sweating a lot." "Did she notice?" "It was like I just got out of the lap pool!"
"What are you gonna do, B? You become me. You're not ready for that... Yet."
"Dear Diary. Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Today we were kidnapped by hillfolk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever!"
"Francie! I ended someone's life! Two people lives!! I shouldn't be yelling this."
"It should simply be: plunge and move on.. plunge and move on.."
"You're a tiny little puppet man!"
"My father said you could set your heart by this watch. It stopped October 10th. The day we met."
"It's a ritual sacrifice. With pie."
"And on the day the words flimsy excuse were redifined, we stood in awe, and watched."


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This is a great time of year to make bread. This is a recipe we make up once a week and have fresh bread for approximately 50 cents a loaf.
7 c ww flour
1/4 c vital wheat gluten
1 T salt
1 1/2 T yeast
Mix the dry ingredients together
4 c warm water 100F
Stir the water in until all the flour mixture is wet.
Cover and sit on the counter for 2 hours.
Put in the fridge overnight and for up to two weeks.
We did not want to buy ANOTHER plastic item to store it in so we used the liner from our 6 litre slow cooker. Most of the time the slow cooker is not in use and if we need to use it we can transfer the dough to a metal bowl.
To Make:
Lightly oil a baking pan.
Pull out dough the size of an orange.
Immediately after mixing.
After 2 hours at room temperature.
Ready to be refrigerated.
A ball the size of an orange.
Fresh out of the oven.
Roll the dough out flat with a rolling pin and roll it into a log shape and set down to rise on the baking pan. We use a ceramic covered cookie pan.
Brush the top of the loaf with water
Let it rise for two hours. (less if the room is warm)
Turn on oven to 350 degrees F.
Place in oven in middle rack.
Bake 30 to 35 minutes.
Place on cooling rack.
Serve immediately with soup or leave it on the table on a cutting board. It will be eaten in no time!
Except for the tiny bit of oil used to grease the pan this is a fat free recipe.


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My Dream Is Yours
Original Theatrical Date: April 14, 1949
Doris Day, America's sweetheart of the '40s, '50s and '60s, stars in My Dream is Yours, directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca).
Talent agent Doug Blake (Jack Carson) is giving 100% to earn his 10%. He walks away from his arrogant singing star and must scramble to discover another who will shine even brighter—and he does, in Doris Day's effervescent songstress Martha Gibson.
Genre: ComedyMusic/Musicals


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BOLTON LANDING — It's a night of congratulations for stations throughout all three markets covered by CNYRadio.com and CNYTVNews.com. Five stations in Syracuse, two in Utica and one in Ithaca are winners at the New York State Broadcasters Association's 46th annual "Excellence in Broadcasting Awards."
Syracuse Winners
Galaxy classic rocker TK99/TK105 (WTKW/WTKV) is the leader among Syracuse market radio stations, the only station in the market to net two awards at tonight's dinner. The Gomez and Dave morning show — with Glenn "Gomez" Adams, Dave Coombs and Lisa Chelenza — won for "Outstanding On-Air Broadcast Personality or Team," and Coombs also won the "Outstanding Sportscast" award. Galaxy notes that this same programming is simulcast each morning on Galaxy's 96.9 WOUR in the Utica-Rome market.
Added 6/20 — Galaxy CEO Ed Levine issued a statement congratulating his team, saying, "Being recognized and honored by one's peers means a lot. I'm very proud of the show and all the successes they have had over the years!" VP/Programming Mimi Griswold also sent over the audio from the Dave Coombs sportscast was submitted for judging:
[audio http://www.cnyradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/WTKW12-1-18sportsA2.mp3]
The "Military Moments-Military Family Appreciation" moments broadcast by B104.7 (WBBS) earned the Clear Channel country station this year's "Outstanding Public Service Announcement/Campaign" award.
In television, NBC affiliate WSTM was recognized for "Outstanding Locally Originated Newscast" for an entry titled "Major Flood & Homicide Arrest," while PBS affiliate WCNY-TV's locally-produced "Vista-Groundswell: Hydrofracking in NYS" was recognized for "Outstanding Public Affairs Program or Series."
NYSBA also handed six "Community Engagement Awards," three for television and three for radio. One of those went to Clear Channel's News/Talk 106.9 and 570 WSYR for its "Be Heard CNY" campaign in cooperation with the Central New York Regional Economic Council. NYSBA says this award is given "in recognition of the critical relationship between local stations and organizations that work to improve their communities."
Utica-Rome Winners
Two awards each to NBC affiliate NewsChannel 2 (WKTV) and to news/talker WIBX 950.
In the television competition, WKTV won "Outstanding Hard News Story" for "Heartbreak on Schuyler Street, and the station's coverage of the 2011 Boilermaker Road Race captured the trophy for "Outstanding Local Sporting Event."
On the radio side, WIBX covered both extremes of the news world, with an "Outstanding Spot News" award for covering neighbor reaction following a deadly explosion, and "Outstanding Feature Story" for a piece which gathered reflections on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.
Ithaca Winner
Last but not least, co-hosts Matt Schultz and Brian Delaney from Between the Lines on ESPN Radio 1160 (WPIE) were named "Outstanding On-Air Broadcast Personality or Team." The program airs weekdays from 4-5pm.
Yes, that's the same award Gomez and Dave won in Syracuse, but each award is given out at three levels: New York City stations only compete against each other, the second category involves medium market stations (like Syracuse), and the third category is for smaller markets (such as Utica and Ithaca).
Congratulations to all the winners!
In congratulating the winners, NYSBA President David Donovan noted, "this prestigious award is given only to stations that provide superior service to their communities and their teams deserve high praise for earning this award and serving the public interest. "
Statewide "Broadcaster of the Year" honors went to Bill Weir, co-anchor of ABC Nightline. Glens Falls native Rachel Ray was named "New Yorker of the Year" as host of her self-titled syndicated daytime television show, and the Super Bowl-winning New York Giants were named "New York Sports Story of the Year."


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Lily Allen Welcomes Baby Girl!
Lily Allen and hubby Sam Cooper are the proud parents of a newborn baby girl, Us Weekly reports.
The 26-year-old singer and her husband welcomed their daughter on Friday in England, though no name has been released.
Lily's ex boyfriend DJ Sub Chew tweeted congratulations to the happy couple! "sending out love to lily, sam and mini cooper…… YES."
"Totes Amaze," Lily tweeted earlier in the day to show her happiness.
Lily and Sam wed earlier this year in England.
Congratulations to the new parents!


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Median overall survival (OS) among women with the triple-negative subtype was seven months, according to Tamara Vern-Gross, DO, and colleagues from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. Median OS was 22 months for those who were triple positive, nine months for those who were hormone receptor-positive, and 11 months for those who were HER2 positive (P=0.0011).
"The potential differences in biologic behavior based on breast cancer subtype may affect brain metastasis treatment response," she explained in a poster session at the annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).
"The HER2-positive patients had overall better survival than the HER2-negative patients, and especially the triple-negative patients," Vern-Gross told MedPage Today.
To explore the pattern of outcome among the various subtypes, they analyzed data from 150 women who underwent gamma knife radiosurgery between 2000 and 2010.
A total of 87% of the patients were white, and 60% were ages 40 to 60.
Receptor status was as follows:
- Triple positive, 26.6%
- Triple negative, 18.8%
- HER2 positive, 27.9%
- Estrogen receptor-positive and progesterone receptor-positive, 1.3%
- Estrogen receptor- or progesterone receptor-positive, 22.7%
- Unknown, 2.6%
Half of the women had received hormone therapy and 48.7% had received trastuzumab (Herceptin). More than 80% did not receive lapatinib (Tykerb).
Only 40% had previously undergone whole-brain radiotherapy, and 80% did not have salvage whole-brain radiotherapy.
The median follow up was 54 months, during which time the median number of treated lesions was two per patient, with radiation doses ranging from 9 Gy to 24 Gy.
When the researchers analyzed OS according to HER2 status alone, they found that survival was greater in those who were HER2 positive than in those who were negative (17 months versus eight months, P=0.0002).
The subtype did not predict time-to-progression at the treatment site (P=0.55) but did predict progression outside of the the brain, which is called distant brain failure (P=0.0004):
- Triple negative, 59%
- Hormone receptor-positive, 30%
- HER2 positive, 37%
- Triple positive, 32%
Women who were HER2 positive had a lower one-year rate of progression in distant areas of the brain compared with those who were HER2 negative (42.8% versus 60.1%, P=0.034).
Subtype also did not predict time to local progression, but for for distant brain failure at one year, the rates were:
- Triple negative, 59%
- Hormone receptor-positive, 30%
- HER2 positive, 37%
- Triple positive, 32%
Time to neurologic death did not differ according to subtype, but the lifetime risk for neurologic death was higher in those who were HER2 positive (46% versus 31%, P=0.066).
Among women who had not received whole-brain radiotherapy, there was a nonsignificant trend for increased need for salvage whole-brain radiotherapy for those who were HER2 negative (32% versus 16% at one year; P=0.129).
On multivariate analysis, a lower marginal radiation dose was an independent predictor for neurologic death (P=0.04)
HER2-positive patients survive longer, possibly because they may receive trastuzumab, which allows them to have better systemic control and to minimize the spread of disease, Vern-Gross said, but their lifetime risk of neurologic death remains high.
In contrast, HER2-negative patients are more likely to have distant brain failure and need rescue whole-brain radiotherapy sooner, she concluded.
The authors reported no disclosures.
- Reviewed by Vandana G. Abramson, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner
- This activity is part of our Clinical Context curriculum in Breast Cancer
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American Society for Radiation OncologySource Reference: Vern-Gross T, et al "Patterns of failure in patients receiving gamma knife radiosurgery for breast carcinoma to the brain" ASTRO 2011; Abstract 2007.


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Poo-cakes anyone?
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"But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?" 2 Kings 18:27
"And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight." Eze 4:12
That sounds totally disgusting. Who in their right mind eats dung? The very idea is nauseating to us here. A popular insult is telling someone to "Eat s**t and die." Yet here are verses in the bible where people are eating dung and drinking urine and it's a good thing. What is up with that?
None of those verses made sense to me until I started gardening. A quick survey of organic products for plants in most dedicated gardening stores is gross when you really think about it. Blood meal (for nitrogen), bone meal (for calcium, something tomatoes need to avoid blossom end rot) and fish emulsion (made from pureed fish left-overs). Milorganite is a popular nitrogen fertilizer made by the Milwaukee Metro Sewer District. As a gardener, I have used composted cow, earthworm and chicken manure on plants. I know people who use rabbit and horse manures as well. The plants love poo and grow like crazy when they have it.
Ever notice after an animal pees in your yard, the grass in that area is green, except for the middle, where it is dead? That is from the ammonia and nitrogen found in urine, also good fertilizers once bacteria in the soil break them down into a form plants can take up. Those same chemicals, however, will burn and kill plants when too much is applied. The same is true of any fertilizer for plants and is also true of vitamins for humans. (By the way, fertilizer is nothing more than vitamins for plants. It is NOT food. Plants use photosynthesis to make their own food.)
Imagine yourself a primitive human, worshipping a thunder-mountain god. You notice that where ever your animals relieve themselves, the plants grow better. The grass is greener and the plants larger and probably the fruit of those plants is bigger too. WOW! That smelly stuff that comes out of you and your animals is MAGIC! It makes plants bigger and better and they have better and tastier fruit! You want more children and…. (pause in thought)…BAM! It is like god has spoken to you!! If it is good for plants then it must work on people too! After all, if dung is good for plants and plants are good for people then dung is good for people!!!! Since humans are better than animals then the human stuff is better too!!! YAY! It's a miracle!
It seems to me that the people in the bible (primitive humans) noticed that animal droppings made healthier plants so used what passed for logic and concluded that dung would be good for them as well. That's why the ignorant people who wrote the bible put that in. They knew NOTHING of the bacteria that live in guts and come out in feces. They had absolutely no understanding of sanitation or the diseases that come from unsanitary waters or food so they had no aversion to the practices in the above verses. So, from that angle, it isn't so disgusting and it follows logically from observation. After all, they thought that the demon-theory of mental and physical illness was cutting edge science for everyone living on a flat Earth so why they'd think that poo-cakes would be bad is beyond me.
Gardening has taught me many interesting things, and that insight is one of the more memorable ones. Is my conclusion correct? I do not know but it does make those verses appear less crazy.
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Okay so I was really, uber, super duper moody tonight. But I was hungry. So that makes it okay right? No? Really? Hmm, maybe I should apologize. Or intend to. Right?!
So here's din-din. It was made with care and love and hugs and kisses. Okay so it was slapped together in a fit of rage and hunger. I intended to make it with care and love and…..whatever!
Kim's Pizza Dough:
See this for plain dough http://cravingsofalunatic.blogspot.com/2011/03/kims-pizza.html
Basil and Oregano Garlic Dough (bread maker):
1 cup water (beer is a good in it too)
1 tablespoon shortening
2 tablespoons sugar (you can cut it to 1)
1 teaspoon salt
2 and 3/4 cups flour
1 and 1/2 teaspoon bread machine yeast
1 tablespoon basil (you can cut in half)
1 tablespoon oregano (you can cut in half)
1/2 tablespoon garlic powder (you can cut in half)
Place all ingredients in order into the baking pan.
Select dough setting and turn machine on.
When ready remove and set in a bowl or container and let rise a bit more, say 30 minutes or so.
Ready to roll.
TIP: I find if I put my dough in fridge for a bit it spreads and rolls out easier. I like it better after it's been in fridge overnight. You can use this dough for up to 2 days. It can also be frozen.
Kim's Grilled Pizza:
Pizza dough, I used one plain dough and one spiced dough
Pizza sauce, I use tomato sauce and add a bit of sugar
Pepperoni, cut into pieces
Ham, cut into pieces
Mozzarella cheese, I used one large bar of it, shredded
Spray your grill with non stick spray prior to using or brush with olive oil.
Turn grill on to preheat.
Roll out your dough into small pieces so you can slide it on grill.
Set dough on a board you can slide it off of onto grill.
Add sauce to taste.
Add cheese to taste.
Add pepperoni and ham to taste.
Slide onto grill and cook until bottoms are brown and cheese is melted. I think about 8 to 10 minutes each.
If using a pizza stone double this time.
Take off and cut up.
So yummy! I have to say there is a learning curve when putting it on and taking it off the grill. If anyone has any advice on how to do it without a total mess please let me know. I made a huge mess. Everywhere!!! I need something to slide it on and off with. Had a terrible time figuring out how to do it without making a horrible mess. But messy= yummy in my book. Hope you try this one out. Was very good and worth all the effort.
Toodles a…..oh yah… I promised a pic didn't I? Are you sure I said that? Okay, okay here you go…
Photos missing due to a G+ incident. They will be replace soon.
not liking the red the hair dresser pulled in my hair. At all. I'm usually very blond. I really am not happy with it. So there you go. A pic of me as promised. Enjoy!


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My friend Taylor Brittenham, (the awesome photographer) recently made some cool books featuring my art and her photos combined. The overlapped and organic images create a new picture. You can grab one of the seven remaining books online at her etsy site here
she recently returned from shooting musicians at SXSW music festival!
Taylor Brittenham is a Los Angeles based photographer with a keen eye for pop art and personalities. She currently works as a freelance photographer with an emphasis on music/concert photography. Genart proclaims, "Taylor Brittenham turns hard rock into fine art with her intimate, emotive shots of stars on stage


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The police watchdog has cleared officers of any blame after an armed robber died at the scene of a bungled betting shop raid.
Career criminal Alan Levers, 50, was wearing a gas mask and carrying an imitation pistol when he stormed into the Ladbrokes branch on Crownhill Road in Plymouth, Devon, shortly before 7pm on Friday night.
Customers disarmed him and held him on the floor while others raised the alarm, Devon and Cornwall Police said.
But the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) was asked to investigate Devon and Cornwall Police's conduct after officers arrived at the scene and arrested Levers, who was already unconscious. He was declared dead around 20 minutes later by paramedics.
A statement on the force website today read: "The IPCC has contacted Devon and Cornwall Police to say that having made an assessment, this matter should be subject to a local investigation."
A police spokesman confirmed this ended the IPCC's involvement, and that Devon and Cornwall Police's investigation into the circumstances of the incident would continue as normal.
Following the incident, the gunman's nephew Peter Levers, 28, said his uncle had been trying to move on from his criminal past.
According to the BBC, he said: "We don't hold anybody responsible.
"He was a career criminal, but things were going all right for him for once.
"He was staying off the drugs, he had the whole family behind him."
Anyone who visited the betting shop prior to the incident or was in the immediate area at the time is asked to contact the police.


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Sunday, 13 March 2011
Fukyama: No end of communist rule in China "anytime soon"
Francis Fukyama - of "end of history" fame - does not think the end of the communist party dictatorship is in view "anytime soon". However, he almost contradicts himself by stating that "If the country's current property bubble bursts and tens of millions of people are thrown out of work, the government's legitimacy, which rests on its management of the economy, would be seriously undermined".
Fukyama is wrong in believing that the bursting of the bubble will take place in some distant future. There are good reasons to believe that it will happen much sooner. Apart from that Fukyama´s article in the Wall Street Journal is well worth reading:
The bottom line is that China will not catch the Middle Eastern contagion anytime soon. But it could easily face problems down the road. China has not experienced a major recession or economic setback since it set out on its course of economic reform in 1978. If the country's current property bubble bursts and tens of millions of people are thrown out of work, the government's legitimacy, which rests on its management of the economy, would be seriously undermined.
Moreover, Mr. Huntington's scenario of rising but unfulfilled expectations among the middle class may still play out. Though there is a labor shortage among low-skill workers in China today, there is a glut of the college educated. Every year into the future, China will graduate more than seven million people from its universities, up from fewer than a million in 1998, and many of them are struggling to find work suitable to their self-perceived status. Several million unemployed college graduates are far more dangerous to a modernizing regime than hundreds of millions of poor peasants.
There is also what the Chinese themselves call the "bad emperor" problem. China's historical achievement over the centuries has been the creation of high-quality centralized bureaucratic government. When authoritarian rulers are competent and reasonably responsible, things can go very well. Indeed, such decision-making is often more efficient than in a democracy. But there is no guarantee that the system will always produce good rulers, and in the absence of the rule of law and electoral checks on executive power, there is no way to get rid of a bad emperor. The last bad emperor, commonly (if quietly) acknowledged as such, was Mao. We can't know what future tyrant, or corrupt kleptocrat, may be waiting in the wings in China's future.
The truth is that, much as we might theorize about the causes of social revolution, human societies are far too complex, and change too rapidly, for any simple theory to provide a reliable guide. Any number of observers dismissed the power of the "Arab street" to bring about political change, based on their deep knowledge of the Middle East, and they were right every year—up until 2011.
The hardest thing for any political observer to predict is the moral element. All social revolutions are driven by intense anger over injured dignity, an anger that is sometimes crystallized by a single incident or image that mobilizes previously disorganized individuals and binds them into a community. We can quote statistics on education or job growth, or dig into our knowledge of a society's history and culture, and yet completely miss the way that social consciousness is swiftly evolving through a myriad of text messages, shared videos or simple conversations.
The central moral imponderable with regard to China is the middle class, which up to now has seemed content to trade political freedom for rising incomes and stability. But at some point this trade-off is likely to fail; the regime will find itself unable to deliver the goods, or the insult to the dignity of the Chinese people will become too great to tolerate. We shouldn't pretend that we can predict when this tipping point will occur, but its eventual arrival, as Samuel Huntington might have suggested, is bound up with the very logic of modernization itself.
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Monday 10th June 2013
It's OFFICIAL – Fuse ODG's massive summer smash "Antenna" is in the UK Top Ten!! The track was a new entry at number 7 on the Official Chart, the second highest new entry just behind Union J who charted at number 6 with their new single "Carry You".
This really IS New Africa – "Antenna" is the highest chart position for any Afrobeats track to date, D'Banj's "Oliver Twist" debuted at Number 9 back in May 2012.
Fuse joined Jameela Jamil in the BBC Radio 1 studio to yesterday to talk about the single. He also had a lot of FUN teaching Jameela how to dance to Antenna.
If you want to see how it's really done check out the winners of the Antenna dance competition.
OR take a look at the official video which features the legendary Wyclef Jean throwing some pretty slick moves in a backpack!
Stars of the urban scene took to Twitter to congratulate Fuse on his success – among them label-mate (and fellow Ghanaian) Sway, Lethal Bizzle and Toddla T.
If you didn't get your copy of "Antenna" yet, you can download it here.
Wednesday 5th June 2013
Fuse ODG has taken the UK official chart by storm with his summer smash "Antenna" – the track is a brand new entry at number 5 on the Official UK Midweek Chart.
Competition for the Top 5 spots is fierce this week – Passenger's "Let Her Go" is also a strong contender. Daft Punk and Union J are hanging on at numbers 3 and 4. So if you want to see "Antenna" in the Top 5 download it here.
Sunday is the big day. Be sure to tune in to Jameela Jamil on BBC Radio 1 to hear the Official Chart update this Sunday from 4pm.
And if you still haven't mastered the Azonto dance, check out the "Antenna" official video which features Fugees star Wyclef Jean, and get practicing!
If you want to see Fuse ODG live, catch him supporting legendary dancehall star Sean Paul tonight at the 02 Shepherd's Bush Empire or tomorrow night at the Ritz in Manchester.