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It is a different sort of business that we run here at Jarrettsville Vet. Very rogue in the arena of veterinary hospitals. It is a mix of No Kill Shelter meets Dr. Mag-dolittle. I suppose I knew long ago that trying to be a great veterinarian and being the wealthiest veterinarian were probably mutually exclusive, at least for me. So, I decided early on in my veterinary career that I needed to create a few 'veterinary commandments' to live by. I believed that if I did this in the end I wouldn't stray too far from where my original new grad Pollyanna view point was. This list was to serve as a guiding tool kit for me, the veterinarian trying to grow up in the real world. I thought that if I could write down a few codes to practice by than maybe my naive vision of who I wanted to be wouldn't get beat up by the jaded experienced vet I was told I would inevitably become? That list has served me well. There are days where I have to walk out of the exam room and take a seat to ponder whether or not I can face myself in the mirror the next day if I go back and and comply with the clients wishes. There are times I walk back into that exam room knowing I am going anger and lose that client because I cannot, or will not, provide the service they are asking for. I cannot lose the vet I wanted to become to be the vet others expect me to be.
I have had many people remind me that "I cannot save every pet." Ten years later I still beg to differ.
Such is the prelude to our latest little addition to the JVC family. This is the story of Dunkin, and how little lives matter, even when all of your experience, training, and knowledge tell you to give up.
I have worked in animal welfare and advocacy for decades. It is the backbone to the reason I do everything. It is my roots, my cause, and my purpose. It is also not my secret.
Jarrettsville Vet resides inside Harford County Maryland. As one of the oldest veterinary clinics in the county we care very deeply about our neighbors and all of the animals within our community. We care about these animals regardless of whether they have parents, resources, or luck. Being homeless, being alone, and being at the mercy of others is only a matter of circumstance and location.
There have been many years of turmoil between myself and the Harford County Humane Society. These have primarily been between differences in opinion in transparency and the actions of what I believe to be fair and just when it comes to caring for the unfortunate strays and surrenders of our county. I have always felt that in the end those animals were the collateral damage to any and all disagreements. Therefore, JVC has remained committed to helping every pet every time we were asked regardless of how they got to where they were, or, the condition they were sent.
About 4 months ago the HCHS sent out a social media request to find immediate foster care or homes for 33 pets. Within a few hours that plea hit thousands of Facebook page's. It was the great power of social media put to the benefit of those in the most dire of need. One of those who answered the call was our technician. She asked me if she could go to the shelter and take one of those 33 as a JVC foster? This was about the 6th foster we have had in about that many years. I am flattered she still asks, but, she knows I will never say "no."
Taking on a foster from another facility is not an easy task for us. We have a credo at the clinic to not turn away a pet in need and often this manifests as us having to foster a former JVC patient while we find them a new home. (Presently there are 6 cats under our roof looking for homes).
In spite of this, off she went to pick one of those 33 dogs so that we could help keep at least one from being euthanized due to lack of shelter space. She returned that afternoon with two. The first was an older Boxer who was sweet but terribly weathered. Her belly was stretched with sagging skin and dangling nipples, no doubt from countless litters she had been forced to serve. She had a depressed manner that erupted into aggression when any other animal even looked at her. She had been a breeding bitch and learned that if she was going to keep herself alive she had to fend off the hungry competition. Life had not been kind to her, and she was not going to be kind to anyone except the hand that fed her. She, we believed, was our tough case to find a home for. But to make up for that hard case our technician chose a puppy as her second choice. She figured get one easy dog and one hard to place dog, and call it even? One old pet who needed us to find herself and trust again, and one cute little puppy who needed a quick make-over and off he would go with his "happily ever after" and no elbow grease to show for it. That seemingly easy-fix puppy was, Dunkin.
Dunkin was one of those 'so ugly they are cute' dogs. At four months old he was already incredibly charming and desperate to be loved by anyone. He had been found wandering the streets alone, brought to the shelter and so he sat waiting.
Of course we all believed that finding our old ugly Boxer a home would be far more challenging than the cute young Demodex puppy, I mean who wouldn't want a slightly defective, but certainly treatable puppy?
Oh, how true that ignorance is bliss statement is! That little Demodex puppy has proven to be our biggest challenge yet.....
Dunkin got his name from his donut sized umbilical hernia. After all, hernia's are easy to fix, aren't they? A few tightly placed sutures and all that extra skin gets tucked away. But, what every vet will tell you is that where there is one congenital birth defect there might be others.
Within about 3 days of having him we realized that he had other problems to add to his 'awful skin' and 'umbilical hernia' list. Dunkin also had megaesophagus. Megaesophagus is a condition where the muscular tube of your esophogus is dilated, weak, and distended. Instead of swallowing food and moving it quickly and efficiently into the stomach the pets with megaesophogus hold the food in the esophagus, inside the chest, and this prohibits the food from making its way into the stomach so it can be digested and provide the body the nutrition it needs to grow. This explained why he was such a fragile, thin, bony pup. Within 1 day of diagnosing this he also acquired the typical sequela to ME; aspiration pneumonia. Within two days of the pneumonia we diagnosed him with puppy strangles. Within 2 weeks of finding us Dunkin became a skeleton hovering on deaths door.
In the early days we hoped that Dunkin's condition would improve if we skipped placing food in his mouth so that it wouldn't pool in his dilated distended and poorly functional esophogus. Placing a feeding tube into the stomach requires an endoscope, which JVC doesn't have. So we sent Dunkin to Chesapeake Veterinary Referral Center in Towson. This was the first Go Fund Me campaign we made. Thanks to that feeding tube he put on the weight and muscle mass that he had not been able to do with his chronic incessant regurgitation. That feeding tube allowed him the nutrients and calories his body had robbed him off.
|Dunkin gets fed (one of his many feedings a day) through his stomach tube.
Who says medicine won't break your heart? How can I ask people to pay for care if I am not even sure the pup will survive? Goodness was I worried that I had gotten everyone involved in a tragedy.
|Dunkin says "Thank You Mom!"
He loves to eat!
Dunkin's story has moved people to donate money when he needed to see a specialist. He has people who beg us for updates. People who stop by the clinic just to meet him (some of them even tell us that they aren't clients but they follow us on Facebook just to see how he is doing), and a team of supportive caretakers that has allowed his frail broken body to overcome obstacles most others would not have been able to.
In the early days we were trying to find him a home. We have since come to realize that his obstacles are too numerous and his condition to fragile and constantly changing to safely place him in anyone else's hands. He can be happy, eating, playful one day and hours later be suffocating from pneumonia and skin swelling. I have had to be honest and realistic with people who want so desperately to be able to will themselves and Dunkin his happy ending. We have had to turn down people begging for him to be theirs because the magnitude of his care is too great and the emotional strain almost immeasurable. There are tears of joy and tears of despair weekly around him.
Dunkin has 24/7 care and monitoring. He is fostered by our technicians and has been shuttled between three specialists. All in the hopes of finding a root cause and crossing one problem off of his list.
Dunkin has become a part of our family. His story has been told in Facebook posts, visits, and inquiries from his long list of friends.


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The ages of teen idols and celluloid heros have come and gone. Onscreen celebrities no longer impress me. Pop star sensations no longer amuse me. The Hollywood Hills escapades, the Scientology revelations, the doping investigations. We're over it.
A great generation is sinking like a setting sun. A silver tsunami is rising. The boomers are breaking down and cashing out. But rest assured, they will not leave us in want of another victory lap. Their swan songs will run long into that dark night.
And as they do, it is their heroes we are condemned to adore. It is their CEO superstars who have captured our imaginations. These wizards of financial witchcraft have mesmerized us with legerdemain and ledger deceit. Not only that, but hell, they know how to party.
Take James Cain, for instance, CEO sensation of Bear Sterns, pioneering powerhouse of economic catastrophe. While his company led the world into financial ruin, Cain went right on living the high life, smoking grass and cutting cards at one of his frequent bridge tournaments. Eat your heart out, Double-0-Seven. Live it up, Cain, and let the era of baccarat and shaken martinis die.
Look no further for the next king of comedy, AIG's newest CEO, Robert Benmosche makes "Take the Money and Run" look like some kind of holocaust docudrama. Benmosche took this position last summer and spent the first two weeks vacationing at his Italian villa on the Adriatic, where the Mediterranean influence presumably nourishes his endless stream of devastating one-liners. (Better than wasting time adopting Eastern European orphans, or some such philanthropic stunt.)
In one of his first public appearances as CEO, Benmosche told reporters that AIG —recipient of over $100 Billion in taxpayer bailouts —was "Getting stronger everyday." Move over, Will Ferrell! More recently, he put the press in stitches by announcing, "We are on our way to paying back the tax payers." Silver-haired and silver-tongued, these devils are merciless. They won't quit until their audiences die laughing.
We once marveled at James Dean, who enshrined himself in eternal youth — the enfant terrible, the precocious rebel, the bane of the establishment. What little we knew of this budding generation and its capacity for treacherous genius. A generation who refuses to surrender the center stage, who will hog the limelight until its last breath, and will never stop dazzling the world with its cavalier knack for originality. From free love to free trade, will they ever stop innovating? Will they ever stop playing by their own rules?
These old hacks have more lives than Sylvester, more comebacks than Travolta, and more sequels than a teenage bloodbath. Every decade a new crop of heroes, and with the aging of America, the current cadre of sixty-somethings promises to be more ruthless than ever. Even before they gambled away everyone else's life savings and 401Ks like a bingeing bachelor party on the loose in Monte Carlo and never looked back, they'd already put the rest of us whippersnappers to shame.
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I asked my friend, the actor Tom Riis Farrell, what he'd been in recently, and he pointed me to a 2009 movie I'd overlooked, Tell Tale. It stars Josh Lucas and Lena Headey, and I finally saw it yesterday.
Tell Tale is an extremely loose Edgar Allan Poe adaptation, which shares in common with Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" one element: a murdered man's heart pounds loudly in the presence of his murderer. Beyond that, Tell Tale goes its own nutty way, telling the story of a heart transplant recipient, Terry Bernard (Lucas), who comes to realize that his donated heart came from a murdered man, and that the murder was connected to a ring of black-market organ traffickers. Terry's heart pounds loudly in his ears whenever any conspirator connected with the murder is nearby, and drives him to kill the conspirator. Thus Terry, possessed by the tell-tale heart, becomes a sort of avenging demon.
In several ways, Tell Tale is a pretty good movie, including engaging performances by Lucas and Headey (as Terry's girlfriend) and, of course, by Farrell, who plays a conspirator in terror of becoming Terry's next victim. The production values are good, the pacing is fine, the narrative interesting, the final frisson effective. But Tell Tale never becomes a great movie.
It isn't that the movie's too far from Poe's source material; most movie adaptations of Poe are remote from the source, and that needn't cause a problem. One of my favorite Poe adaptations, The Haunted Palace (1963), borrows not much more than the title from Poe and is really based on an H.P. Lovecraft novella, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
The biggest problem is that the central conceit of Tell Tale is kind of lame. The transplanted body part taking over the transplant recipient and making him homicidal is an old notion (see The Hands of Orlac, 1924), much more plausible in the days before transplants were common and we realized the recipients did not all become homicidal. Now the notion seems "cute," as one character tells Terry. Further, the horror movie in which the deformed destructive being (the DDB, here Terry) kills his victims selectively and serially to avenge some wrong seems to me to display a weak form of destructiveness for a DDB. It is too rational for a monster. I would much rather that the DDB killed unpredictably or on the basis of some more twisted logic.
Tell Tale is reminiscent of an old Karloff-Lugosi vehicle, Black Friday (1940), in which the recipient of a brain transplant becomes possessed by the donor's brain and takes revenge on the donor's enemies. It didn't quite work then, it doesn't quite work now. But just as Black Friday is worth seeing for some elements, including Karloff and Lugosi, Tell Tale is worth seeing for some elements, including Farrell.
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(Saint) (November 17) Bishop (3rd century) A Saint of exceeding celebrity both in the East and in the West, who is still annually commemorated in the Liturgy. Born at Neo-Caesarea, a then Pagan city of Pontus near the Black Sea, and a disciple of the famous Origen, he became Bishop of his birthplace about A.D. 240. At his accession there were no more than seventeen Christians in the town; and it is related that on his deathbed (about A.D. 270) he thanked God that only that same number of idolaters remained in it. His title of Thaumaturgus, or Wonder-worker, he earned by the marvellous miracles his faith privileged him to work, among them the literal moving of mountains and drying up of lakes. He took part in the Council of Antioch (A.D. 264;, against Paul of Samosata. His literary remains are of value though fragmentary.
- Monks of Ramsgate. "Gregory Thaumaturgus". , 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 26 July 2013. Web. 17 January 2019. <>


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I am now back in Chattanooga, after attending the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History at Pepperdine University.
On Thursday, September 25, I met a childhood friend, Brian Newman, for dinner at Malibu Seafood, a local restaurant that is fairly inexpensive for the area and which overlooks the beach. Brian has the ultimate dream job for a Christian scholar. He teaches in the political science department at Pepperdine, has a reasonable teaching load (if I recall correctly, a 2-3), and lives in a condo on campus that is subsidized by the university. Brian told me that Pepperdine has purchased property all over the world where students can take classes for the semester. In Brian's case, he has taught at the Pepperdine campus in London (in the posh district of Kensington), and in Argentina. During our meal and tour of Malibu, I constantly reminded Brian how fortunate he is to have this job. Of course, he was well aware of that fact!
On Thursday evening, I attended the plenary lecture given by the Civil War scholar Allen Guelzo, who teaches at Gettysburg College. Guelzo is an amazing rhetorician, carefully dissecting the words and phrases used in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. In his lecture, Guelzo explained the simplicity of the address as well as Lincoln's genius in using concise and borrowed language for a stirring effect.
On Friday, I attended a roundtable discussion on "Searching for Jobs, Hiring Colleagues: A Conversation about the Academic Job Search" with T. J. Tomlin, Josh McMullen, Shannon Harris, and Beth Barton Schweiger. As a religious historian who teaches at a secular state school, I really appreciated Schweiger's perspective on applying for jobs and maneuvering through the tenure process. I was struck by how different state universities are from the Christian liberal arts colleges where McMullen and Harris teach. Whereas philosophies of teaching and statements on the intersection of faith and reason are scrutinized by search committees at Christian liberal arts colleges, large secular universities tend to focus primarily on research and publications on a candidate's cv.
Later on Friday, I gave a paper entitled, "Early Evangelicals, Print Culture, and Their Publics." I told the audience that this paper represents the nooks and crannies of my larger project on "Jonathan Edwards and Transatlantic Print Culture" that I am currently working on. Tim Hall of Central Michigan chaired the session and Susan Lim of Biola offered comments on my paper, as well as the paper on magistrates in colonial New Haven given by the TEDS PhD student John Simons. I really appreciated the comments by the members of the audience, and hope to incorporate their suggestions into my research.
Darren Dochuk, Mark Noll, and Molly Worthen, and comments by Bebbington. This session was sponsored by the Maclellan Foundation in Chattanooga, and the papers read will be published in an upcoming edition of Fides et Historia. Having examined the papers days before the session, I was interested to see how Bebbington would respond to the critiques of his so-called quadrilateral thesis by these scholars. In typical fashion, Bebbington proceeded to defend his thesis from each paper presented, point by point. It is apparent that he is committed to retaining the fourfold definition of evangelicalism that he provided twenty-five years ago in his book. Only time will tell if his thesis remains the standard definition of this Christian movement, or if another scholar can offer a better alternative.
Finally on Friday, I attended the banquet and presidential address by John Wigger of the University of Missouri on "Reaching a Wider Audience." Wigger gave a personal account of his publishing history, including his most recent project on Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker. It will be interesting to find out how his talk on wanting to secure a lucrative contract with a large trade publishing firm will resonate with an audience that was dominated by historians at small Christian liberal arts schools who normally have high teaching loads and very little time to publish. Personally, I appreciated his talk, because it made me think about my own publishing aspirations. Should I not be content to work with university presses and scholarly journals to put out my work? Do I need a literary agent? Who is my target audience? I have been thinking deeply about these questions ever since Wigger's talk. I am coming to the conclusion that I am content to produce monographs that will (hopefully) make a contribution to religious history. At least for now, I have no aspirations to write a New York Times bestselling book. Maybe I am strange, but I really love reading a good monograph (including Wigger's exceptional biography of Francis Asbury), and can think of no higher aspiration than to produce such books.
Saturday, September 27, was a much more relaxed day for me. I wasn't giving a paper or chairing a session, so I was able to sit back and enjoy sessions, such as the roundtable discussion chaired by Daniel Vaca on "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Public: Appraising the Many Publics of Randall Balmer's Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory," with papers by Ed Blum, Jana Riess, Chris Soper, and Todd Brenneman, and a response by Balmer. My favorite papers were by Ed and Jana, who presented very witty and humorous commentary on the impact of Balmer's book. Ed, for instance, pointed out the permeating presence of Balmer's physical appearance in the latter's books, tv appearances, and websites, and made sure that the chair of the session mentioned in his introduction that Blum had attended a Word of Life Bible camp and that his parents owned several Thomas Kincaid prints. Not having heard Balmer speak in person, I was impressed and surprised by his humble demeanor. My impression of him before hearing him was that he came across as perhaps a bit too self-assured in his scholarship. Instead, I found him to be a delightful speaker who nuanced some of the definitive statements that he had made about modern evangelicalism in his books. I do believe, however, that Balmer has romanticized 19th-century evangelicalism, seeing 18th-century revivalism as somehow immune from the negative aspects of fundamentalism that crept into the movement's history after the Second Great Awakening. This perception was all the more surprising to me since Balmer began his career by writing a dissertation on 18th-century Dutch evangelical revivalism that was subsequently published by OUP as A Perfect Babel of Confusion.
After attending some of the other sessions, including an eloquent (but long) plenary address by Charles Marsh on "Spread Hilaritas': Writing History out of a Higher Satisfaction," I finished the conference at the wonderful session on "The Place of Mystery in Human Affairs," chaired by Don Yerxa of Eastern Nazarene College, with papers by my former colleague Bill McClay, William Shea of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and comments by John Wilson of Books and Culture. Both McClay and Shea argued for the reality of mysteries in life that cannot be fully explained by scholars in the humanities or sciences. Both made the case that mysteries are purposely incorporated into a human's existence by God who uses them to lead individuals toward belief in a higher power that is sovereign over the universe.
Finally, on Saturday evening, the panelists at the Bebbington session enjoyed a beautiful and lengthy dinner sponsored by the McClellan Foundation at the nearby Saddle Peak Lodge. I enjoyed talking with Molly Worthen and hearing stories about Notre Dame from Mark Noll.
Overall, I had a wonderful time at the Pepperdine conference and thank Jay Green for organizing it.


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It was nearly 4:00 PM on September 7, 2011. I was filing away some papers I had just finished grading and was about to begin the process of logging off my computer at school. Students had been gone for nearly an hour and it was now time for me to head home. Before closing down the computer I noticed the e-mail icon indicating that I had a new message so I decided to read it before leaving...and I'm so glad that I did.
The e-mail informed me that I had been accepted into a professional development program for teachers which culminated in a two-week international travel opportunity in either the Spring or Summer of 2012. So as of that moment on Sept. 7th, I knew I had an amazing opportunity to go...somewhere!
I had first encountered the opportunity for this program through one of various e-mail lists that I receive as a Social Studies Department Chair for my school. Lots of items of "importance" are sent and some I look at while others I discard. I don't remember the exact day I received the e-mail advertising this current opportunity nor do I remember which e-mail list/company sent the information. All I do know is that I scanned through the information and then immediately shared it with other teachers at my school.
It seems like in the two weeks just before receiving the e-mail advertising this opportunity I had been involved within at least four separate conversations with fellow teachers regarding previous opportunities that I have been given for free travel (within the U.S. and internationally) and so I mailed out this opportunity school-wide as a way of saying to all of them "here's an example...most of you qualify too...APPLY!" Unfortunately, I don't think any of them did apply...or maybe that is fortunate for me since it reduced my "competition" :-)
One of the requirements of this program is to keep a travel blog. The blog is not simply to relay information regarding the actually trip itself, but also a way to recount the process leading up to the trip and to reflect upon things I'm learning along the way. The initial phase of this program was an eight-week online course in which I learned some amazing things and meet some awesome teaching colleagues from around the U.S.; over 65 of us are in this program together. My only regret so far is that I did not begin this blog when the course began, because I know that I've learned somethings already that I've probably forgotten...and I hope to remember them again.
So follow with me on this journey...both the actual trip to "somewhere" and the remote roads of preparation to be roamed along the way.


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Missouri's Third Class County Budget Trend Analysis
Download DM4011 Missouri's Third Class County Budget Trend Analysis 1996-2013 (.xlsx)
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This electronic workbook enables Missouri third class counties to analyze county fiscal trends from 1996-2013. A county can carry out a detailed study of its own budget and fiscal performance to identify factors contributing to fiscal stress and to consider actions it may want to take. The workbook also allows a county to benchmark itself against a set standard, its own past performance or the record of another county as a gauge of fiscal performance. This workbook requires MS Excel 2007.
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
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tonight we went out to a nice café to watch a soccer game: north korea vs. south korea. quite a big deal i imagine. the game was not so exciting, and the final score was 0-0. i get the feeling that north korea is a delicate subject when i bring it up with koreans. my students insist that korea is one country (north and south). i think that the general feeling is that they're hoping for re-unification. but then again, what do i know. i never got really in depth with the topic. sometimes i can't believe that north korea is only a short hour ride away from seoul. so close, yet such a different world. i'm quite fascinated by it, but not sure i actually want to go there. it's tempting, but not worth the risk i think. in the meantime i enjoyed the vice magazine documentary about n. korea, it's quite interesting:
in other news, i finally invested in a french press and some coffee beans from starbucks. paying 5$ for a cup of filtered coffee at the coffee bean & tea leaf is just not worth it anymore. coffee is actually a fairly new trend in korea. coffee houses are popping up everywhere, and major american chains are taking over. aaron was saying that when he was here two years ago, there weren't so many cafés. maybe that's the reason why it's so pricey. i'm already excited for the morning now, i don't have to get up 20 min early to go out or miss out and have to drink the instant coffee at school. now all i need is a toaster oven (to compensate for the lack of an oven) and i'll be all set.
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This is a much quicker post than I'd ordinarily devote to a release from my all time favorite nail polish brand, Rescue Beauty Lounge, but I'm moderating a panel at AWP this week (my first – ack!) so I'm just going to bang out the descriptions and pictures! I'll write proper reviews for each polish in the coming weeks.
This is the first time I've ever bought an entire Rescue Beauty Lounge collection. I was motivated by two things: one, every color seemed really intriguing and unique and two, I've had colors sell out on me before. It's always easy to swap away an RBL but it's not so easy to get your hands on a much-coveted shade! I was tweeting about my past experiences and how Jack is the one that got away from me (there's nothing I love more than a good green and Rescue Beauty Lounge's are the best). Well, Ji Baek saw my tweet, looked in her archives and FOUND ME A BOTTLE OF JACK! So, basically, if Ji wasn't my wish-granting nail goddess before she certainly is now! I'm not reviewing Jack here but, yes, it IS everything I dreamed about. I will be wearing this color very very soon!
Note on the pics: I'm so sorry! I took a bunch of these with a new app (Camera+) and I can't figure out how to get them from my iPhone to this website. For now, I'm putting links to the pics in my Instagram account. When I get back next week, I'll try to figure out how to post actual pictures. Also, I have a long way to go before my nail polish blog posts are as awesome as some of the other bloggers out there. I hope you guys will stick it out with me as I learn on the go. Thanks for your patience. 🙂
The colors of the A Poem collection are:
As Sweet Companions – a clear base with big, hexagonally shaped silver-lavender and matte black glitters. The matte black glitter pieces give this polish a cool, multi-dimensional look. Although I was thinking of this as a topper, when I swatched it I realized it would be cool to wear alone as well.
Small, Dim, Summer Stars – a silvery black base with green, blue and pink micro glitters. The combination of the colors makes this polish look like a dark greenish blue metallic and it looks slightly different in different lights. All that glitter does make the polish a little thicker & fiddlier to work with. Because I was powering through my swatches (I did all of these plus some other polishes all in one day), the application on this color is not my best however with a little more care, this polish can be as gorgeous as all my other Rescue Beauty Lounge polishes.
Wild Raspberries Grow – a clear base with bright green micro glitters and larger hexagonal raspberry colored glitters. You can actually get this pretty opaque with 3-4 coats using @Anwyn's glitter polish application technique which is what I used here.
The Mosses Mar – in her description, Ji calls this a less yellow version of Diddy Mow 2.0 (the only RBL green I don't own!). I *do* have Orbis Non Sufficit and this could easily be a lighter, grayer cousin to that color (which until now I considered my all-time favorite green – we'll see if The Mosses Mar or Jack displace it!)
The Mosses Mar (left) compared to Orbis Non Sufficit (right).
Footpath – an earthy mustard yellow. If you'd asked me a few years ago, I would have told you that I'd *never* wear a yellow polish but Ji has won me over and this may even be my favorite color in the collection! It's such a unique, surprisingly wearable and even neutral shade. In some lights, it reminds me a bit of the spice turmeric, in others, the earth tones make it look more like liquid caramel.
Forgotten Road – this is a dark, moody gray that is really elegant and beautiful. There are some blue and purple tones that come out depending on the light. Ji calls it a darker, moodier sister to Stormy.
Stormy (left) next to Forgotten Road (right).
A Lonely House – this is an opaque rich brown. On my fingers it almost looks like melted milk chocolate. Everything I said before about yellows goes doubly so for browns but *this* is a brown that I would happily wear!
Because I only buy five-free polishes, I don't have a huge collection like some of the other nail bloggers so I didn't have dupes for any of these colors. The closest I came was Small, Dim, Summer Stars which was a bit similar to Butter London's Jack the Lad. However, Jack the Lad appears brighter whereas Small, Dim, Summer Stars is darker and moodier.
Below are pictures of the whole collection and my Rescue Beauty Lounge green creams. (I don't have Diddy Mow and I didn't include Abi.)


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- Technique used to introduce impurities into a silicon wafer
- Silicon wafers are placed in a vaccum chamber and are scanned by a beam of high energy dopant ions(borons for p-type and phosphorous for n-type)
- These ions are accelerated by energies between 20kv to 250 kv
- As the ions strike the silicon wafers ,they penetrate some small distance into the wafer
- The depth of penetration of any particular type of ion increases with increasing accelerating voltage
Properties of ion implantation
- The depth of penetration of any particular type of ion will increase with increasing accelerating voltage
- The penetration depth will generally be in the range of .1 to 1µm
Range distributions
Impurity Distribution of implanted ions:- The distribution of the implanted ions as a function of distance x from the silicon surface will be a Gaussian distribution ,given by
N(x)=Npexp[-(x-Rp)² /2ΔRp²]
x=distance into substrate from surface
Rp=projected range
ΔRp=standard deviation of the projected range
Np=peak concentration of implanted ions
An ion implantation impurity profile
The peak implanted ion concentration is related to the implantation dosage Q by
Np= Q/(2π)½ΔRp =.4[Q/ΔRp]
- The implantation dosage Q is the number of implanted ions per unit of surface area as given by such units as ions/cm2.
- The ion density drops off rapidly from the peak value with distance as measured from Rp in either direction
Annealing after implantation
- After the ions have been implanted they are lodged principally in interstitial positions in the silicon crystal structure and the surface region into which the implantation has taken place will be heavily damaged by the impact of the high energy ions
- The disarray of silicon atoms in the surface region is often to the extent that this region is no longer crystalline in structure but ,rather amorphous
- To restore this surface region back to well-ordered crystalline state and to allow the implanted ions to go into substitutional sites in the crystal structure , the wafer must be subjected to an annealing process
- The annealing process usually involves the heating of the wafers to some elevated temperature often in the range of 1000c for a suitable length of time such as 30 minutes
- Laser beam and electron beam annealing are also employed. In such annealing techniques only the surface region of the wafer is heated and recrystallized
- Provides much more precise control over the density of dopants(Q) deposited into the wafer,and hence the sheet resistanse.
- In diffusion process, temperature has to be controlled over a large area inside the oven,whereas in ion implantation technique, accelerating potential and the beam current are electrically controlled from outside
- Possible to have very low values of dosage(Q) ,so that very large values of sheet resistance can be obtained
- Performed at low temperatures


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Amazon.com to help e-buyers with new search subsidiary
- 26 September, 2003 08:01
Amazon.com Inc. will launch a subsidiary called A9.com Inc. that will develop technology designed to help consumers search for products online and make better and more informed buying decisions, a spokeswoman for A9.com said Thursday.
Scheduled to launch in October, A9.com will be fully owned by Amazon.com but it will be operated independently and branded separately from its parent, said Alison Diboll, founder and president of Diboll & Associates Marketing and Public Relations.
A9.com, which will be based in Palo Alto, California, will license its technology to Amazon.com and to other Web sites, she said. At launch, the company will have about 30 employees, a figure expected to rise significantly over time, she said.
While it makes sense for Amazon.com to offer this type of technology to its customers, it's not clear whether it's smart for them to get into the business of developing it, said Rob Lancaster, a senior analyst at The Yankee Group. Developing search technology isn't simple, so it remains to be seen how effective A9.com's offering will turn out to be, he said. Amazon.com could have instead have gone out and acquired the technology, he said.
However, Amazon.com has the money to invest and if the technology is a hit, Amazon.com and its subsidiary will tap into a big market, since this type of service is in high demand from consumers and merchants, he said. Consumers are always looking for good search technology, especially when they're out on the Web planning to buy something. Meanwhile, this technology appeals to merchants because it delivers to their sites Web surfers with an intention to buy a specific product, Lancaster said.
Diboll declined to give details about the search technology A9.com will develop, other than to say it will "improve customers' e-commerce experiences by providing them with the most relevant products" they are looking for. This would include information such as pricing, availability and features, she said. "The company hasn't yet been formed, so we can't comment on the specific nuances of the functionality," she said.
News about A9.com first appeared on Thursday in the online edition of The Wall Street Journal.
Diboll also declined to comment on the competition A9.com will face, but similar e-commerce search services are already available from rivals Google Inc., AskJeeves Inc. and Yahoo Inc.


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When Freda Ens was nine years old, her mother – drunken, broke and broken – sold her to a man in a Prince Rupert bar. The price for one neglected and suffering girl child? One bottle of beer.
The man who 'rescued' Freda, took her home with him to Masset in the Queen Charlotte Islands – to a childhood of poverty, sexual abuse and virtual slavery.
From such adverse origins, she grew up to a triumph over racism and victimization; to become a powerful force within the criminal justice system. Freda Rosa Ens is now the executive director for the Vancouver Police and Native Liaison Society.
"I came to a place where I could let it destroy me or I could go on and fight," she said. "I made a choice that I was going to come out the other end."
Rejected by her mother, infant Freda arrived in Haida Gwai to be greeted with horror and more rejection. Malnourished and covered with sores, wrapped in a hotel towel, she frightened her purchaser's wife, who feared she might die. Her 'rescuer' gave her away, to a woman who regarded her more as chattel than child. Freda grew up as the oldest of 10, with six sisters and three brothers. Drummed into her daily life was the idea that her destiny was to a domestic, a mere maid to the natural daughters of the family, who were Haida princesses.
"Don't get me wrong. I was really very close to my sisters and brothers. And we're still very close. But, growing up, I was never allowed to defend myself, like if I got into fights with my sisters or my brothers or my cousins or whatever."
Yet even before Freda reached an age where she could be capable of defending herself, a nightmare ride of constant abuse began. She was but a diapered toddler when her 'father' sexually abused her for the first of countless times. She suffered beating, verbal bullying and the mental and emotional anguish of being involved by the adults in their life. Rape and sexual assault were her constant lot at the hands of three men: a cousin, her father and the man who paid for her, whom she now knew as 'grandfather'.
"For years I was angry and bitter toward my adopted mom because of what I had gone through. I was very young when my mom and my grandfather caught my dad molesting not only myself, but also my cousins. She never did anything. And for years I blamed my mom until later I found out she had tried to get help."
"She'd gone to the minister, the nurses, the doctors we had, but was always told it was a family problem and had to be solved within the family. And so, having ten kids in a remote reserve – what are you going to do? I can honestly say, at that time, she did the best she could. The police were not interested in child abuse in those years."
With what might seem surprising empathy, Freda speaks with a deep and sincere compassion for her tormentors.
"As much as I despise what happened to me and what I went through, I had to stop and realize that, when you look at our communities and our native people, many of them are the product of residential schools. My dad went to a residential school. He was a victim; my mom was a victim. The same thing with my uncles and cousins."
"So the whole thing, as it happened, was a continuation of what they had gone through. I guess, in a way, it was them getting their power back by victimizing kids in the same way they were victimized."
Freda ran away from home, at 14, to live with a foster family in Seattle for two years. She then went to bible school in South Dakota. But the sexual abuse she suffered had left its mark. On tour with the school choir and billeted in the homes of strangers, she would wake up screaming, "Help me. Help me!"
Nightmares were only a part of the scarring that marked her. "I knew as I got older that it affected my life, that it was hurting my relationships. I would get just so far in a relationship. Then I'd start thinking that the man was going to find out about my dirty little secrets and not want me. So then I would get cold. I would just push, push away."
But a man came along who did appear to want Freda. She lived with him for two years and married at 21. He was white, five years older.
"My husband seemed to be the knight in shining armour at that time; I knew he was going to rescue me. But as time went on I became 'damaged goods'."
He would sneer at her, "Look at you! Who else is going to want you?" She had two children with him but the marriage was bad and getting worse.
"Look at you," her husband would shout. "You're crazy. You're really crazy! Your dad may have given you away when we got married but he only gave part of you away. He'd already taken your virginity!"
Finally, at 30, with her son and daughter in her hands, Freda left the marriage. She joined her sister in Vancouver; lived on welfare; graduated from the Native Family and Community Counseling program with an Outstanding Achievement Award.
Her volunteer work with the Native Education Centre and the Justice Institute was instrumental in getting her recommended for a job as victim assistance worker with the Police/Native Liaison Society. Thirty months later, the director's job became vacant.
"I felt strongly that anybody who did the job had to believe in the people, in the work we were doing. I didn't want to see somebody coming in whose heart wouldn't be in the work, who'd just regard it as a stepping stone to another job," Freda said.
"Just because you have credentials coming out your ears, degrees and everything, it doesn't mean that you can work with the people. I watched and realized that there were practicum students and volunteers coming in to the society who were nothing more than professional students. They had degrees but just couldn't fit in. They just could not work with our people. And clients were very quick to pick up on it, very quick."
"I thought I would just throw my hat into the ring and see what happened," she said. "I was shocked at the number of applications from highly educated people. Doctors, psychologists, lawyers, you name it."
There is still a distinct catch of surprise in her voice. "I was shocked that they chose me."
Nightmares end when father jailed
Along the way, Freda laid charges against one of the men who had abused her.
"I want it to be really clear: my whole court thing charging my dad, was not revenge. My grandfather had died but my father was living in Vancouver and there were still other children at risk. He was babysitting at the Carnegie Centre for mothers who wanted to have an evening out; also for my brother. And kids were getting abused by him."
The man was convicted and sentenced to nine years; he spent six years in jail.
"There were 12 victims in the family. Four of us testified against him. But the most important thing was the sense of validation I got from the court case; the recognition that what had been done to me was really a crime. After he went to jail all my nightmares stopped."
As head of the Police and Native Liaison Society, her achievements are recognized. Justice system worker Romola Trebilcock said, "Freda Ens is a remarkable Aboriginal woman who has triumphed over poverty, abuse and adversity to become a powerful voice in the criminal justice system, advocating tirelessly on behalf of the disenfranchised, marginalized and powerless, affirming in their work and presence the dignity and strength of the human spirit."
The accolade Freda cherishes most is the one offered by her daughter Juanita, then 10 years old. "Look at you, Mom. Look at where you've been and where you are now. When life gave you lemons, you didn't just make lemonade, you made a lemon meringue pie."


text: Vegetarian Recipe: Aromatic Chili Sauce Posted by Susan Siow | Mar 26, 2012 | Sauce, Updates, Vegetarian Recipes | 0 | The vegetarian recipe for Aromatic Chili Sauce: 1/2 cup sauce Ingredients 1/2 cup chili sauce 2 tbsp vegetable oil 1/4 tsp salt Method Heat oil, add chili sauce and salt. Stir and cook until aromatic. Dish out and serve. Share: Rate: