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BEIJING (NYTIMES) - On a sleepless night last summer, her siamese cat Star at her feet, Zhou Xiaoxuan, a 25-year-old screenwriter in Beijing, took out her mobile phone and began writing furiously about the day that had haunted her for years.
In 2014, as a fresh-faced intern at China Central Television, the state-run broadcaster, she was asked to bring fruit to the dressing room of Zhu Jun, a famous anchor. It was there, she said, that Zhu began forcibly kissing and groping her. (Zhu has denied the accusations.)
Zhou's essay about the experience, which she posted online in July, was an impassioned plea for women's rights in China - and a daring rebuke of the status quo.
"It's important for every girl to speak up and say what she has suffered," she wrote in the essay, which totalled more than 3,000 Chinese characters. "We need to make sure society knows that these massacres exist."
Soon, after a friend of a friend reposted Zhou's essay on Sina Weibo, a microblogging site, it quickly spread across the Chinese Internet and inspired women to come forward with their own stories of abuse.
It became so popular that the Chinese government intervened, blocking comments and banning the state-run news media from covering her case.
Zhou was overwhelmed. In a matter of days, she had emerged as a hero of China's fledgling #MeToo movement, a symbol of hope for young women tired of a patriarchal culture. But she had also become a target for hate, receiving hundreds of threatening messages.
Then Zhu, 54, fired back. In August, he filed a lawsuit against Zhou describing her accusations as "blatantly fabricated and viciously spread".
He asked for about US$95,000 in damages, saying Zhou had harmed his reputation and caused emotional distress.
Zhou, who is known in China by a nickname, Xianzi, thought about retreating. Instead, she became emboldened, filing a lawsuit of her own against Zhu claiming damage to her dignity. "Let's get ready to fight," she wrote online.
Since then, Zhou has become a leading feminist voice in China, setting out to push the limits of China's #MeToo movement, which has struggled to gain footing in the face of censorship and reluctance by the authorities to investigate cases of sexual harassment and assault.
Zhou has helped abused women seek justice, accompanying them to police stations to file criminal reports. She has criticised the government and society at large for not doing more to protect women against domestic violence. And she has meticulously chronicled her legal battle, publishing a diary about her triumphs and setbacks.
Zhou acknowledges that women in China face many obstacles, including vaguely defined laws on rape and harassment and a culture that often blames women, not men, in cases of sexual abuse. But she says she is optimistic that attitudes will change.
"Once you light the spark that starts a fire," she said recently at her home in east Beijing, "it will have an impact on people's hearts."
Growing up in Wuhan, an industrial city in central China, Zhou watched as many families in her home town seemed to value sons over daughters, a practice going back hundreds of years.
Her own parents, worried that as a woman she might face harassment or violence, forbade her from taking public transportation until she was 13.
It was not until summer 2014, during her internship at China Central Television, or CCTV, that Zhou says she fell victim to China's male-dominated culture.
The internship at CCTV, working on Zhu's signature show, Artist, was a prestigious job for Zhou, then a college junior who aspired to work in the film industry.
Zhu is CCTV royalty, a former singer, actor, dancer and clarinetist for the People's Liberation Army with an illustrious 25-year career at the network. He is best known as a host of the annual Chinese New Year gala, a programme that is viewed by more than 700 million people.
On Artist, which ended in late 2017, he was famous for asking emotional questions that prompted his guests to cry.
On the day she says she was forcibly kissed and groped by Zhu, Zhou and another intern were invited to interview the famed anchor in his dressing room. When the other intern stepped out of the room, she says, Zhu turned to Zhou, grabbing her hand and telling her he could read fortunes.
He then dragged her towards him and start kissing her, she says, even as she resisted. She ran out of the room when a guest arrived at the door.
Zhu's lawyers and CCTV did not respond to requests for comment. In court filings, he said Zhou's accusations were "made out of nothing and a severe misrepresentation".
Zhu is also suing Xu Chao, a friend of Zhou's who first reposted her essay and Sina Weibo, the microblogging platform that published the essay.
After the dressing room incident, Zhou ran to police.
But the officers urged her to drop her complaints, she said, arguing that Zhu was a force for good in society and warning that she might endanger the jobs of her parents. (Her father worked as a civil servant and her mother at a state-owned firm.)
For years, Zhou stayed silent, telling only her parents and closest friends about the incident, fearing she would be misrepresented.
"People are not allowed to show their pain and wounds," she said. "Many women worry they will be seen as whining." In July, while eating dinner with friends, she saw a #MeToo post by a childhood friend who had been assaulted. She was moved to tell her own story as a show of support to her friend and to let her male friends know that sexual misbehavior was widespread. She stayed up all night writing, posting her essay shortly after 5am.
"I wanted to let my friends know, through this post, that #MeToo was very close to them," she said.
Advocates for women's rights say Zhou's example has made it easier for other women to share their stories of abuse. While China's #MeToo movement is small, complaints by women over the past year against college professors, tech executives, religious leaders and nonprofit executives, among others, have drawn wide attention.
"More young people are willing to stand up and speak," said Huang Yizhi, a lawyer in Beijing who specializes in gender discrimination cases. "They are no longer afraid."
Zhou says she considers herself lucky, not courageous, because her case earned wide attention in the news media. Many women in China struggle to be heard, she said, noting that some victims wait in line for days at police stations, only to be ignored.
"The obstacles that other women experience is beyond my imagination," she said. "It's almost impossible for their cases to be resolved."
On her Weibo page, she offers a mix of inspirational slogans ("the light will come") and reflections on her own struggles. In one recent post, she recounted how she disliked a photo taken by a journalist because it made her look like a powerless victim.
"I am in a cage, lacking courage, insignificant, flinching and escaping, just like this photo," she wrote. "I hope that girls can get more protection and that when they face the camera, they can laugh openly."
On a smoggy October day, Zhou strode into a courthouse in northwest Beijing for her first appearance in Zhu's lawsuit. During the proceedings, she was asked to provide evidence of the assault and to recount what had happened.
After the court session ended, Zhou, nervous and frightened, said she felt so tired that she wanted to vomit.
At a sidewalk news conference, a journalist asked if she felt she was under pressure. Zhou paused for a moment, taking stock of her ordeal.
"This is something I must tackle," she said. "I don't have a choice."


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The Reformation of the Deadbeat Noble Ch 95: A Turning Point for Social Justice
In a groundbreaking move towards social justice, the Reformation of the Deadbeat Noble Chapter 95 has been implemented, aiming to address the long-standing issue of negligence and delinquency among the nobility. This progressive reform has garnered attention and support from citizens across the nation, as it promises to bridge the gap between the privileged and the marginalized. Let’s delve into the details of this transformative chapter.
The Deadbeat Noble Ch 95 is an integral part of a wider set of reforms aimed at reshaping societal norms and rectifying the imbalances that have plagued the nation for centuries. It focuses on holding the nobility accountable for their financial responsibilities and obliging them to contribute to the welfare of the less fortunate.
According to recent statistics, a staggering 70% of nobles have been flagged as deadbeat, failing to fulfill their financial obligations towards society. This has resulted in a substantial burden on the state, impeding progress and exacerbating wealth disparities. With the implementation of the Deadbeat Noble Ch 95, steps are being taken to rectify this pervasive issue.
Under the new chapter, a comprehensive framework has been established to ensure that the nobility fulfills their obligations. One of the key provisions is the introduction of a mandatory financial assistance program, wherein nobles are required to allocate a percentage of their income towards social welfare projects. This provision alone is estimated to generate an annual revenue of $500 million, significantly contributing to poverty alleviation and improving living conditions for the less privileged.
Furthermore, the Deadbeat Noble Ch 95 has introduced strict penalties for non-compliance. Nobles who fail to meet their financial obligations will face hefty fines, which will be directed towards funding education and healthcare initiatives. This deterrent aims to instill a sense of responsibility and encourage the nobility to actively contribute to the betterment of society.
The response to this reform has been overwhelmingly positive. Citizens from all walks of life have praised the government’s commitment to addressing wealth disparities and creating a more equitable society. Social media platforms have been flooded with messages of support, with hashtags such as #NobleReformation and #EqualityForAll trending nationwide.
As the nation witnesses the implementation of the Deadbeat Noble Ch 95, it is anticipated that this reform will serve as a catalyst for broader societal change. By holding the nobility accountable for their financial responsibilities, the government is taking a significant step towards dismantling the barriers that have perpetuated inequality for generations.
In conclusion, the Reformation of the Deadbeat Noble Chapter 95 stands as a milestone in the pursuit of social justice. With its emphasis on financial accountability and mandatory contributions, this transformative reform promises to reshape societal norms and bridge the gap between the privileged and the marginalized. As the nation looks towards a more equitable future, this chapter serves as a testament to the power of policy in creating lasting change.
Keywords: deadbeat noble, reformation, Chapter 95, social justice, negligence, delinquency, nobility, privileged, marginalized, financial responsibilities, welfare, disparities, financial assistance, penalties, non-compliance, fines, poverty alleviation, education, healthcare, wealth, equitable society, government, accountability, societal change.

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- 1 How many carbs are in balsamic vinegar reduction?
- 2 Are there any calories in balsamic vinegar?
- 3 Is balsamic reduction the same as balsamic vinegar?
- 4 How many calories are in balsamic vinaigrette dressing?
- 5 Is balsamic vinegar OK on the keto diet?
- 6 Is balsamic reduction Keto friendly?
- 7 Is balsamic vinaigrette high in calories?
- 8 Is it OK to eat balsamic vinegar every day?
- 9 How many calories should I be eating to lose weight?
- 10 Does balsamic vinegar burn fat?
- 11 What is balsamic reduction used for?
- 12 Do you need to refrigerate balsamic reduction?
- 13 What is the best salad dressing for weight loss?
- 14 What is the healthiest salad dressing?
- 15 What’s the lowest calorie salad dressing?
How many carbs are in balsamic vinegar reduction?
Balsamic Vinegar (1 tbsp) contains 2g of carbs, 0g of protein, 0g of fat, and 10 calories.
Are there any calories in balsamic vinegar?
Nutrients per Serving A one-tablespoon serving of balsamic vinegar contains: Calories: 5.
Is balsamic reduction the same as balsamic vinegar?
Balsamic vinegar is an intensely flavored vinegar made from grapes. It is often used to make balsamic glaze or reduction. Balsamic reduction is made by allowing balsamic vinegar to simmer for around 15-20 minutes. Balsamic vinegar, when cooked for a long time, turns sweet and has a syrup-like consistency.
How many calories are in balsamic vinaigrette dressing?
Balsamic Vinaigrette (2 tbsp) contains 2.5g of carbs, 0g of protein, 2.2g of fat, and 30 calories.
Is balsamic vinegar OK on the keto diet?
Balsamic vinegar contains sugar, even though it’s all natural sugar from the fruit, it can cause the carbs to be too high for Keto or low carb diets. It’s for this reason, I cut the balsamic with 1:1 parts white wine vinegar. With this substitution, you can enjoy Balsamic Salad dressing on Keto without guilt.
Is balsamic reduction Keto friendly?
Learn how easy it is to make a balsamic reduction at home with only ONE ingredient! This sweet glaze recipe tastes incredible on a caprese salad, pork, or atop a crusty piece of bruschetta. And with no added sugar, this recipe is Whole30, Paleo, and keto diet friendly.
Is balsamic vinaigrette high in calories?
Balsamic Vinaigrette Ken’s Balsamic Vinaigrette This Balsamic Vinaigrette isn’t going to derail your diet — it’s 100 calories per serving with 3 grams of sugar. Not too much of a difference from the other dressings we found, but of the most popular brands, this was the most caloric and contained the most sodium.
Is it OK to eat balsamic vinegar every day?
Share on Pinterest Consuming too much balsamic vinegar may cause an upset stomach. There are few risks to using balsamic vinegar, as it is generally safe to consume unless a person has an allergy. Possible risks include: upset stomach from consuming too much.
How many calories should I be eating to lose weight?
And if you eat fewer calories and burn more calories through physical activity, you lose weight. In general, if you cut 500 to 1,000 calories a day from your typical diet, you’ll lose about 1 pound (0.5 kilogram) a week.
Does balsamic vinegar burn fat?
It supports weight loss As mentioned above, balsamic vinegar contains probiotic compounds that help you feel fuller, longer. Unlike other flavoring agents like butter and mayonnaise, balsamic vinegar is fat -free.
What is balsamic reduction used for?
A balsamic vinegar reduction is a concentrated and thickened version of balsamic vinegar that is made by cooking down the vinegar until it has reduced. The balsamic flavor will become more intense and the consistency will thicken. A balsamic reduction is great for salads where you want to add a burst of flavor.
Do you need to refrigerate balsamic reduction?
Storing your balsamic reductions: For long-term storage, refrigerate the reduction, which will maintain quality. But for a week or less, you can certainly keep the sauce at room temperature, it’s not a safety issue.
What is the best salad dressing for weight loss?
Here Are Few Healthy Dressings That May Help You In Your weight Loss Journey:
- Lemon Juice and Olive Oil Dressing. This basic dressing goes well with almost all kinds of salads.
- Greek Yogurt Dressing. If you want your dressing to be a little thick and creamy, you can go for Greek yogurt.
- Balsamic Vinegar Dressing.
What is the healthiest salad dressing?
These are the 10 healthiest salad dressings you can buy.
- Kraft Thousand Island.
- Brianna’s Homestyle Asiago Caesar.
- Newman’s Own Balsamic Vinaigrette.
- Ken’s Honey Mustard.
- Ken’s Fat-Free Raspberry Pecan.
- Kraft Fat-Free Catalina.
- Newman’s Own Low-Fat Sesame Ginger.
- Maple Grove Farms Fat-Free Greek.
What’s the lowest calorie salad dressing?
Stock up on the following dietitian-approved low – calorie salad dressings to whip up flavorful, filling salads you’ll actually enjoy eating.
- Stonewall Kitchen Organic Honey Orange Balsamic Dressing.
- Trader Joe’s Romano Caesar Dressing.
- Primal Kitchen Ranch Dressing.
- Panera Bread Poppy Seed Dressing.

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By Jay Solly
On a bright spring Saturday, area high school and middle school students gathered at an emerging tech hub in North Brooklyn for a two-day student “hackathon” partnered with BNY Mellon, Microsoft and the Bushwick Generator. Organized by students from Brooklyn Technical High School, “Technight” is the first coding and tech event from the student-led nonprofit, TechHacks.
Drawing students from NJ, PA and throughout NYC schools, some 100 coders ages 13 to 18 hunkered down in teams over laptops and XL pizza boxes to tackle coding challenges, learn from and mentor their peers, and vie for prizes and opportunities such as gift cards, headphones, Raspberry Pi mini-computers and internship interviews at major technology and financial services firms.
The free event was the culmination of months of planning and development by student leaders Matthew Bilik, a sophomore, senior Karina Popovich and their team at Brooklyn Tech. As part of their “Mechatronics” team, a robotics and coding program, these student technologists teach beginner programming to elementary and middle school students.
“Computer science will be in all of our futures, as coding solves pervasive problems, but we want to offer incentives to enter,” said Bilik. “This event is great because I get to talk to so many diverse students from different schools.”
“The best age to learn coding is any age, it can be fun for the whole family,” he added.
And corporate sponsors, eager for more qualified technology workers, would agree. BNY Mellon’s Haley Daniels and Ting Pan attended the opening day events to recruit for their Summer Technology High School Associate Program, a secondary school internship that upon successful completion leads to a college internship or a full-time position in a technology career in financial services.
“Demand is staggering, with 50,000 more jobs available than workers,” said Daniels. “These students are so tech-centric and have such a confidence and comfort with technology. We are delighted to be a part of this.”
Pan, one of the internship program coordinators, feels very enthusiastic about the future for the technology labor pool.
“Millennials may have come of age during the advent of the Internet, but it’s a different world for this generation as they are immersed and grasp technology completely,” said Pan.
Unfazed by the demands of the jam-packed weekend, she shared what’s next for her.
“College. Sure, college,” said Popovich. “But I’m interested in entrepreneurship and the marriage between technology and small business. I’ve been exploring starting my own company building on 3D printing. I’d tell you more, but you’ll just have to wait.”
We won’t have to wait too long, as many of these young technologists will likely go on to define and build the emerging technology hub here in North Brooklyn.
For more information about BYN Mellon’s high school internship, email [email protected]
Jay Solly is a former congressional and gubernatorial staffer who co-founded the Brooklyn 501(c)(3), Sustainable United Neighborhoods. He also serves as the Vice-Chair of the Moore Street Alliance.
The opinions, content and/or information in this article are those of the author and are independent of BK Reader.

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text: Step into a world of timeless elegance and prepare to be captivated by the sheer beauty and charm of this classic tunnel entrance home. From the moment you open the front gate, you'll be enveloped in an aura of warmth and light that will make you feel right at home. The spacious floor plan boasts two bedrooms, plus a large sunroom with large closets and southern outlooks that could be used as a third bedroom or an ideal home office. Recently polished to perfection, this home exudes a fresh allure with newly refinished original wood floors and fresh paint throughout. The kitchen has been upgraded with brand-new appliances, ensuring that your culinary adventures are met with style and efficiency. The elegant living room features a fireplace and opens beautifully to the formal dining room. The garden level of the home features a comfortable bonus room with a full bathroom and laundry area. As you step outside into the beautifully landscaped rear garden there is plenty of space to lounge and play! The expansive garage features high ceilings and plenty of storage offering incredible expansion possibilities within the existing envelope of the home. Pine Lake Park and the attractions and endless amenities of the Sunset and Parkside neighborhoods are at your fingertips!

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The topics of our two podcasts this week are vastly different from each other, although both are quite well known within their own realms. “Overdue” tackles what is arguably Kurt Vonnegut’s most popular novel, while “The Bechdel Cast” dives into the world of a well-known Disney fairy tale.
“We decided to get unstuck in time,” Craig declares at the beginning of this week’s episode, referring to the famous line from Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five.”
The book follows protagonist Billy Pilgrim throughout his life, from his service in World War II to his career as an optometrist with a wife and children. His life is told out of order, as Billy believes he has experienced time travel as a result of being captured and experimented on by an alien race. The bombing of Dresden during WWII, which Vonnegut himself experienced, acts as a central event in Billy’s life.
While Craig read the book this week, Andrew had read it before — along with conducting this week’s contextual research — so the two of them are able to have a more in-depth conversation than normal.
They discuss the narrative style, which Craig considers akin to “reading a journalist’s account,” given its somewhat detached nature. This connects to the repetition of another famous line of the book, “so it goes,” which appears 106 times within the text. The hosts speculate that the line is a way for the narrator — Vonnegut himself — or Billy to quickly move past a horrific event when there is not enough time to fully process it.
Craig and Andrew then move on to unpacking the time traveling aspect of the text, which has always been considered ambiguous. It is unclear if the reader is meant to believe Billy is literally traveling through time or if it is an illusion caused by his traumatized state, having survived the bombing and the larger war.
Craig believes the time traveling is essentially a personified mental break. He says, “It’s an attempt for him to make sense of what he saw. … How could the world be this bad?”
Andrew agrees: “(The bombing) is such a bad thing that I can tuck it amongst all of these fantastical sci-fi things, and they both seem as unreal as the other.”
Craig adds that Billy may see being kidnapped by aliens as just as plausible as a bombing that killed mostly civilians.
The hosts wrap up by stating that they feel as if they jumped around a lot in topics this episode, with Andrew joking, “We did it okissn purpose. … This is how literary allusions work in the space of podcasts.”
This joke is a nice note to end the episode on, even though their well-thought-out, careful dissection of this complex plot is far from all over the place.
“The Bechdel Cast”
Jamie declares that she still has a “crying response” (in a good way) to this film, despite the heavy critique that is to come. This week’s film is “The Little Mermaid,” a beloved childhood classic to many people, including Jamie. She and Caitlin are joined this week by guest host Clara Pluton, a comedian and podcaster. The well-known plot follows the mermaid Ariel, who dreams of becoming human. She makes a deal with sea witch Ursula to trade in her voice for legs, which allows her to move to land and quickly fall in love with Eric, a human.
The hosts start by addressing some of the fairly wide criticisms that have arisen over the years. Ariel completely changes herself for a man — she literally gives up her voice, and Eric supposedly falls in love with her without knowing anything about this. Jamie notes that, while these are all major issues, there are even more that aren’t as commonly discussed.
The hosts begin with the fact that Ariel starts off as a complex and intellectually curious character interested in learning about a culture that isn’t hers. She acts out against her father, King Triton, with whom she disagrees and who disregards her. This promising beginning is then derailed, as Ariel’s story becomes solely about a man.
Furthermore, there’s the film’s dubious approach to consent. Ariel’s budding relationship with Eric acts as the basis of the very famous song “Kiss the Girl.” In it, Ariel’s crab sidekick Sebastian encourages Eric to kiss Ariel. The song is not only well known but was even nominated for an Academy Award in 1989. The hosts point out the somewhat glaring flaw in the song, which is more apparent today — Ariel already doesn’t have a voice, and her desires are completely disregarded in this scene. One male character is encouraging another male character to take an action that would remove Ariel’s agency.
Finally, the three take issue with Ariel’s familial relationships. While she has many sisters — all of whom are named — she has no storylines with any of them. The sisters are essentially present for no reason, while the significant supporting characters — e.g. Sebastian, Flounder, Scuttle — are all male. Meanwhile, her relationship with her father depicts a controlling, unsupportive bond. King Triton disregards what Ariel says and throws away her prized collections of human knickknacks in a rage. In the end, their conflict is resolved — with Ariel saying she loves him— but the underlying tensions between them are never actually worked through.
The episode ends on somewhat of a bittersweet note, as Jamie remarks that she still loves this film from her childhood but that it has been “decimating the lives of children for going on 30 years.”

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Welcome to Web Wednesday!
Your digital outlet to Dynamic Corvettes!
1969 Corvette Restomod
Sam is making progress with the 1969 Corvette Restomod project. He has uncrated the new Art Morrison chassis, and prepared the body to go on the new chassis. Upon removing the rear clip of the body, he noticed that it had once been in an accident in the driver side rear corner. The fiberglass in that corner was very thin and was reinforced with a sheet of steel and globs of body filler and resin. Sam removed the sheet of steel, and repaired the corner correctly. After wards, Ed and Sam worked together on getting the new body mount pockets installed.
1964 Corvette Convertible
The owner of the 1964 Corvette Convertible dropped off his chassis the other day after performing the tasks he wanted to accomplish while the body was off. Next, the guys will reinstall the body to the chassis with a new body mount kit and shims then start performing body work.
1965 Corvette – NCRS Restoration
The 1965 Corvette is almost complete. Ed has finished all of the underbody work. He has reinstalled the exterior trim and installed the new exhaust system. We currently have a shaded, tinted, and date coded windshield on order for the car which will be replaced once it arrives.
1966 Corvette Convertible
Corey started to disassemble the 1966 Corvette last week. After removing the exterior trim, he then moved on to the interior and the doors. Once the doors were completely disassembled, he removed the decklid, hood and convertible top. Currently, he is in the process of stripping the paint from the doors, hood and decklid before starting the body.
1964 Corvette Coupe
The 1964 Corvette coupe is making progress. The guys have finished stripping the paint from the body, then grinding out the seams and applying epoxy in the seams. Mark has removed the engine and transmission so they can be sent out to be rebuilt.
We are almost finished with the paint work on the 1958 Corvette. Corey removed the vehicle gauge cluster, stripped the paint, primed and painted it a lovely glossy black. Soon, they will be installing a new dash pad along with a new windshield assembly before we return the vehicle to the owner to have the interior put in.
1988 Corvette – Tire Replacement
The owner of this 1988 Corvette came in for some new tires. Ed has started to remove the wheels and start the tire changing process. While the tires may look good and have plenty of tread on them, they are starting to crack due to age. After inspecting the tires, we found that they were 10 years old! Far too old to be safe anymore! Vehicle and tire manufacturers suggest to replace your tires every 6 years. There is no set “lifetime” of tires, a lot of things come into consideration such as driving habits, road conditions, and weather conditions that may extend or shorten the life span of a tire.
Curious to know how we know the age of these tires? It’s pretty simple if you know where to look!
On the side wall of the tire are a series of numbers and letters following the DOT stamping. The 4 digit code at the very end of the DOT codes is the tire production date code. As illustrated in the picture below, the first 2 digits is the week followed by 2 digits of the year the tire was made.
The code shows, 3315. This tire was made on the 33rd week of 2015, that roughly puts the production time around September of 2015.
Want to read more about this? Swing over to Edmunds.com to read about “How Old and Dangerous – Are Your Tires?”


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Featured in December 13th’s edition of the Times Herald was a coloring contest
for adults and children. It seems adult coloring books are all the rage this year, and why not? Making art soothes the soul!
In the fine print you may have noticed I was responsible for the illustration of the elf sipping a peppermint mocha. Regular patrons may have recognized the little guy as he was modeled after my little elf, Judah!
The Times Herald was kind enough to offer me the entries and it was amazing to see the many interpretations of my drawing. As a child I loved coloring contests- participating and just looking at all the submissions. So, upon review, Kira, our media specialist, be posting them in the downstairs hallway for folks to peruse from this evening until January 21.
Come visit us, check them out and while you’re at it, I recommend the peppermint mocha.
P.S. Winners posted at http://bwne.ws/1YyPN9c


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Prescribing a single agent SABA inhaler to adults with asthma should be considered negligent, a leading respiratory physician has said.
Professor Andy Bush from the Royal Brompton in London was responding to a recent study that found the use of a combined formoterol-budesonide inhaler, taken as needed to relieve symptoms, reduced the risk of asthma exacerbations by 50% compared with salbutamol alone.
The study by Professor Richard Beasley, a Wellington respiratory physician and Director of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, and colleagues concluded that the results provided new evidence supporting changes in asthma treatment guidelines to favour the use of a single inhaler therapy of LABA-ICS over SABA [read our coverage here].
“The trial shows for the first time that when patients take just a single combined preventer-reliever inhaler whenever needed to relieve symptoms, they do a lot better than the current recommended treatment of a regular preventer inhaler taken twice daily plus a reliever inhaler whenever needed to relieve symptoms,” Professor Beasley said.
According to Professor Bush the study added to mounting evidence that intermittent, as-needed regimens were more effective than conventional regimens based on regular ICS, which have poor adherence.
SABA should cease to be prescribed for eosinophilic airway disease at least in adults, a move that would necessitate an immediate and radical revision of guidelines, he advised in a comment published in Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
“It is, unfortunately, impractical to take SABA as a single agent off the market altogether, given that ICS might not be indicated in some airway diseases at the extremes of age, namely non-atopic wheeze in children younger than 5 years, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.. [but] it should be considered negligent to prescribe SABA to adults in any other context,” he wrote.
Prof. Bush called on the medical community to reflect on their mistakes, noting that as a so-called therapeutic community “we have been guilty of uncritically repeating guidelines for far too long”.
“In the words of Bertie Wooster, “Jeeves, this nuisance must now cease!” he concluded.
However, in a major change to the management of patients with mild asthma, the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) recently recommended against starting any patients with asthma on short-acting β2 agonist (SABA) relievers alone.
Instead, its latest guidelines recommend that all adults and adolescents from 12 years are treated with a “more equal focus on symptom relief and preventing severe exacerbations and potential deaths.”

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Houston SCCA Autocross #1 – 2017
For the first time in a long time we made the first autocross of the year, though judging from the weather, not sure that was the best choice! In the downtime we had a relatively minor to-do list, consisting of a new spring package and fixing a burnt up alternator. We’ve decided this year to forgo out usual not-tweak anything other than the rear shocks and bar and make a big change to our spring package, move the shocks into the middle of their range and start getting serious about tuning.
The first event was at Houston Police Academy, a site that neither of us much care for, but options are limited in January. The course map looked like a lot of fun, despite a cringe inducing high-speed run into a 180 right turn pointed at water barrels…
The weather was COLD, and yes my friends up north will laugh that 29 degrees is cold to us Texans, but it is! By the time we ran in X in the 3rd heat, it had warmed up to a balmy 49 degrees, perfect for slicks (sarcasm)!
Our runs were interrupted by an incident on course, so we each got 2 runs and then had to wait while the tires turned cold again. Each run we made a change to the shocks, some better than others. My fastest raw time run was my 2nd, though I collected some cones with the tail of the car. Todd’s fastest was also his 2nd run, but he nearly matched it on his 4th run.
This was my first test using the new GPS overlay features and I forgot to turn it on until our 2nd set of runs. Really pleased with these and the ease of use. Well done GoPro! I also used my Session for the in-car video, unfortunately the roll-bar it’s mounted to is too low, something that’ll have to be fixed. Overall I’ve been extremely impressed with the Hero 5 Black and the Hero 5 Session. The video quality is great and the microphone does a great job of hiding wind noise. I haven’t played much with the video settings, so apologies for being a little over exposed.
This was the 4th run and certainly not my best work. Todd told me he was shifting to 2nd a lot later in the run than I was and it made the first part easier so I figured I’d give it a try. Shifting in the corner wasn’t the best choice on my part and damn near put the car off the end of the course! Luckily gathered it back up and finished the run. The shock settings from this run got changed up later, poor choice on my part with too much rebound in the rear…
Todd’s 4th run was 2 tenths off his best. The finish was a bit scary for us considering the speed we entered the stop box! I didn’t turn on the Session on this his 4th run, so the video you’re seeing is from another one just for entertainment sake.
My Dad also joined in the ’67 to try out the new spring package. He said it worked great, but unfortunately a heater hose loosened up and he nearly spun the car. After a lot of burnt fingers and finagling, I was able to get the hose back on the heater core, but by that time the heat was basically over with, so he only got one more run. Next time though, seems like the new setup has a lot of potential!
We’ve got another event coming up at the end of the month, so look forward to some updates from that.
If “spun the car” is defined as a 360, I was only 90 degrees off. Thought I was going to take out the finish timing light (instantaneous message from brain: “you’ll never live this down”). Snapped so fast I was only along for the ride. Confession: I did have the throttle down and the wheels turned toward the finish when I saw the scenery moving sideways… Dad


Have you found yourself surprised by a game releasing, missing open beta signups, or just wondering if there are streamer meetups in your area? As a streamer, it’s both imperative and difficult to keep track of all the games coming out, which platforms they are on, and when there are early access opportunities. Well, we’re about to make it much easier for you.
Introducing Streamer Calendars! We’ve organized six different calendars to help you follow important dates surrounding streaming. Five of our calendars are game release calendars. These calendars will help you stay on top of game releases and betas for the following systems: PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Other (Mac, Linux, WiiU, Vive, Rift). In addition, we have a combined game release calendar which displays release dates for all systems in one calendar. Our sixth calendar is a Streamer Event Calendar. This one serves to display any conventions or meetups that take place.
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New York Fashion Week in February was, as always, a decadent albeit chilly affair. Though the Fall/Winter 2014 collections were diverse, there were many recurring trends that linked the designers together in their shared fashion consciousness for the season. The stand out trends included an abundance of sequins at Marc Jacobs and 3.1 Phillip Lim; bold, bright furs and shearling patchwork at Rodarte; and utilitarian sportswear and futuristic space motifs at Diesel Black and Gold and MM6.
The sets were often spectacles in their own right. We had walls that bled chocolate at Opening Ceremony, and fluffy clouds suspended over the crowd at Marc Jacobs, and even a mass exodus to – gasp! – Brooklyn for Alexander Wang.


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Hi all! Just wanted to take a few moments to say hi and show you our new family Wii that we got!! We are having so much fun with it, and since it is in the living room, it keeps us all together after dinner!! This sytem is really like no other gaming system. It keeps you at least partially moving at all times which I love! I am glad to see my son not sitting down while he is playing games. And the best part is, if you get a sports game, or exercise game....it keeps almost you entire body move through the whole game. It has even made me to loose a pound so far since buying it!! (I actually break a sweat using the EA Active exercise program when I never broke a sweat the whole 5 months I went to the gym) I am personally thrilled with this purchase and look so forward to getting more active games or exercises on the Wii!! Enjoy the pictures I took!!!
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Wednesday 6 October 2010
Ask Dr. Oz Season 2: Post Op #3
Audience member Brenda tells Dr. Oz [pictured] that she gets bruises and doesn't know why.
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Audience member Mary Louise was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and has the Epstein Bar Virus [sic]. Mary Louise tells Dr. Oz that she has been trying the holistic approach to treatment, but she has a hard time sleeping.
Dr. Oz explains that fibromyalgia is essentially a short circuiting of the body. It creates a flux in energy levels, often caused by a virus, illness, or an emotional event. Dr. Oz suggests that the afflicted keep moving to regenerate energy levels, even if pain occurs. Most importantly, when one has fibromyalgia, Dr. Oz encourages avoiding sugar and sticking to key whole foods.
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Britain’s Bloomberg reported that the UK is planning to deal with a scenario in which gas supply is reduced due to cold winters that last for several days, and leads to an organized power outage for industry, even in residential buildings. .
Under the government’s new “reasonably worst” scenario, the UK could face a power shortage of about one-sixth of peak demand, even after emergency coal-fired power plants come online, according to people familiar with the government’s plans, Bloomberg reported.
Below-average temperatures and lower electricity imports from Norway and France could spark a four-day crisis in January when the UK may have to take emergency gas-saving measures, the sources said, according to those forecasts.
The government’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said in a statement that this scenario “is not what we expect. Households, businesses and industry can be confident that they will have the electricity and gas they need.”
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On October 5th, starting from a pavilion in Father Hennepin Bluffs Park, SlutWalk MN will return to Minneapolis. If it is anything like the SlutWalk I went to as a first year, there will be hundreds of protesters, mostly women, but people of all genders can be found in the crowd, gathered to march the 1.8 mile walking trail around the West River in protest of rape culture and sexual assault. SlutWalk began in April 2011 as a response to a Canadian constable speaking at York University who, during a forum on rape on college campuses, said, “I’ve been told I’m not supposed to say this – however, women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.”
Although it is not true for everyone participating, one of the movement’s goals is to reclaim the word slut, hence the name. SlutWalks have been held around the world since their conception and have given rise to a term that has firmly instituted itself into the rhetoric of feminism and sex positivity: slut-shaming.
Slut-shaming means attacking or criticizing a women for the sexual acts and interests they might enjoy, as well as the pressure to perform highly gendered expectations of what constitutes “appropriate” behaviors. Usually, we are talking about women when slut-shame is used. What actually constitutes slut-shaming depends on a thorough understanding of what advocates label as the patriarchal norms’ demands from femininity. Behaviors that are shamed include having a lot of sex, liking sex, wanting sex, wearing clothing that reveals a lot of skin and wearing glamorous clothing. For many of these examples, the shaming defies the historical repression of sexuality many people have faced; it comes as a retaliation of taking ownership of one’s agency in sex.
Slut-shaming has been really useful as a tool to discuss the blame and anger directed at people asserting their agency over their sexuality, when before they were punished for their desire. However, I think there need to be some serious considerations as to how we are throwing this word around.
Slut-shaming is specific, and describes a specific kind of discrimination faced by some people and some women. One of the most influential critiques of SlutWalk that still hold true years later comes from Black women of the Black Women’s Blueprint, who say that because of the exotification of their bodies and the bodies of other women of color, they do not have access to the same kind of reclamation of slut. The constant sexualization of their bodies makes slut an un-reclaimable word for these women. To call their experience slut-shaming is to ignore the history of racism and colonialism involved in marking their bodies as sexualized by default, rather than coming from the choices the women make regarding their sexual expression.
Furthermore, the construction of the phrase is centered on slut, which can be read in one of two ways: either it is shaming people by calling them sluts or their actions slutty, or it is shaming people who have reclaimed slut for their sexual choices. Those are two really different tones, and I am never quite sure which one people are referring to—which is a problem. Either way, by centering on slut, problems arise that do not come up in similar constructions, like body-, fat- and kink-shaming (all of which refer specifically to shaming someone for their body, fat or kink, respectively).
The dilemma of using slut shaming as a blanket term was highlighted for me last May, when a ThinkProgress article called How ‘Slut Shaming’ Has Been Written Into School Dress Codes Across The Country went viral. As the title implies, the writers go through the rules implemented into school dress codes to punish young girls for not meeting arbitrary standards of so-called appropriate dress. Emphasized in the article was that the codes prevent boys from getting distracted, and that, creepily, school officials who were usually men regulated the bodies of the young girls and determined that they were too revealing.
These examples of regulation are disgusting: they blame girls for the gaze of their harassers; they ask older people and men to designate what for them reads as too sexy on young girls; and extrapolating further, these same rules can be and are used to regulate the presentation of trans*folk who don’t fit a norm.
Many people find power in the word slut, but if the reaction to SlutWalk shows us anything, slut is not a term everyone can or wants to reclaim. When you use slut-shaming in this instance, you are labeling the girls as sluts and/or their “revealing/tight” clothing as slutty—which to me is dangerous. While middle school girls are allowed their sexuality, they should also have the right to choose whether to be empowered through being called sluts. In this case, slut-shaming also ignores the fact that cuts of clothes have been increasingly produced to sexualize younger and younger girls. That too can be and is a violence. That too is important to acknowledge and fight.
Slut-shaming is not equivalent to misogyny, sexism, sex negativity, regulation of women’s bodies, sexualization of young bodies, rape culture or anti-feminism. With such a potentially violent word that has just started to be reclaimed, it’s important to step back and think if this is the right situation to use it. The idea of slut-shaming has value, and what people are calling out as slut-shaming is usually right on: women who have a lot of sex are unfairly targeted, and women in general are punished for their sexuality. It would just be really helpful to talk through regulation of women and girl’s bodies/clothing that isn’t as broad as misogyny and that isn’t as specific as slut-shaming. I am honestly not sure what to do with this problem other than to promise that at least with my column, I will only use slut-shaming to refer to the specific experiences I described earlier. Alternatives I am considering are sex shaming and sexuality shaming, which might obscure the gendered nature of slut-shaming but at least then I am not erroneously offending someone by pushing slut onto them.
Whatever I decide, I promise to do my best to be specific about the choices I make, a specificity born from a critical awareness of what we mean to accomplish with our actions. If in the process of calling for change, people want to reclaim slut, they can as long as they understand that the weight of the word means different things to different people. If you want to go to SlutWalk, power to you; just make sure to wear walkable shoes (learn from my mistakes: marching 1.8 miles plus the ride over is longer than you think) and understand the implications of the movement you are representing. After one SlutWalk and years of thinking on slut-shaming, I realized it’s just not for me, and I want it to stay not for me. There are few definitive commands that come out of this column, but here are two: Do not ever call me a slut, in either the offensive or reclaimed matter. Do not ever refer to any violence that may be done upon my body as slut-shaming. As long as we got that down, we good.


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The Department of Theatre & Dance presents the Dance Open, directed by Azariah Jones ’21 and Katherine Wang ’21. Performances will be Friday Feb. 21st at 7:30, Saturday Feb 22nd at 2pm & 6:30pm in Steinbach Theatre in George Washington Hall. Come see your favorite groups Fusion, Hypno, Blue Stut, Footnotes, Foosteps along with many student choreographed dances including solos by seniors Uanne Chang ’20 & Jackson Diodati ’20.
This will be a memorable show – Andover Dance Group’s Spring performance of Larks & Leaves. Learn more about the performance here. Thank you to Dance Captains Yishu Chen and Michelle Jeon for leading this group throughout the year, and Yishu Chen and Emily Jackson for heading up our dance board. It has been an amazing year of growth!
These fabulous posters created by this year’s student director Uanne Chang feature the co-heads of all the Andover dance teams. Footnotes for the tappers – Blue Strut for jazz – Hypnotiq for Hip-hop – Fusion for Afro-Carribean – and Footsteps for Asian Fusion. Alums – if you want to write any history to these groups, please do so in the comments! Come see these dancers perform along with many stunning solo, duet and group pieces of student choreography, this weekend in Steinbach Theatre.
This week in the dance studios we said “goodbye for now” to Tai Jiminez. Tai has been working with our students in ballet technique since 2010. The end of her final class turned into a spontaneous talk about her career as a dancer with Dance Theatre of Harlem, Boston Ballet, and her more recent calling to start dancing with her own movement vocabulary. As she leaves us to work more with her students at Boston Conservatory, Tai shared valuable words of wisdom for our students. The two areas of advice that stood out to me were “find ways to incorporate mindfulness practices for self care daily” and “if you need to dance to live, then dance,” or paraphrasing: “if dance is your calling, then do it – listen to your own inner voice.” The students sitting in that circle on the floor with Tai will never forget her generosity in that quiet thoughtful sharing. We will miss her so, so much, until the time when she comes back into our studios!
Never a dull moment goes by in Theatre & Dance. This week we had our first checkpoint for our favorite dance event, the “Dance Open”, this year directed by upper Uanne Chang. In the Tang we are completely transforming the space for our winter term production “She Kills Monsters” directed by faculty members Allen Grimm and Libby Jancsy, set by Brad Seymour and lights and costumes by Billy Murray. Also pictured, Tim Duffy at work in our scene shop.
This year’s Nutcracker includes new choreography from Estelle Zhu PA’20 for the Tea variation in Act II. Estelle, who is highly trained in traditional Chinese Dance, worked with dancers Claire Song and Candy, while Samantha Lee used her expertise in rhythmic gymnastics to improve upon our ribbon choreography! Here is a preview of the work in the studio.


N.C. National Guard soldier killed in crash with sheriff's deputies
Posted December 6, 2015 6:05 p.m. EST
Updated December 6, 2015 8:45 p.m. EST
Scotland County, N.C. — One National Guard soldier was killed and another injured Saturday night after the men were involved in a crash with two deputies from the Scotland County Sheriff’s Office.
Highway Patrol troopers said that a vehicle occupied by the two soldiers ran a stop sign on N.C. Highway 144 in Laurel Hill and struck a Scotland County Sheriff’s Office vehicle head-on.
The soldier sitting in the passenger’s seat of the vehicle, Andre Nelson, 22, of Lumberton, was killed. Authorities said they believe Nelson was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash.
The other soldier and driver of the vehicle was identified as Rasheed McLain, 24, of Fayetteville. He was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. Authorities said that charges against McLain were pending Sunday night.
The two sheriff’s deputies were taken to a local hospital for non-life threatening injuries and were released.


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If you own pets, then you’re probably aware that their waste can be hard on your landscaping. Dead grass and brown spots can be a common and unwelcome result when your lawn doubles as a pet potty.
At first you may notice some spots on your lawn looking especially green as the nitrogen acts as a fertilizer for your grass, but as it accumulates you’ll start to notice the dog waste is actually killing it. This “urine burn” effect is from the nitrogen found in your pet’s waste. “Most of the effects are from either concentrated urine or feces, with a high concentration of wastes overloading the lawn,” says Dr. Steve Thompson, clinical associate professor at Purdue University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and director of the Pet Wellness Clinic.
According to Dr. Thompson, this is the same thing that occurs when you apply too much fertilizer in one spot. The problem gets worse during dry spells, when grass is already stressed.
Luckily there are a number of ways you can prevent your lawn from going to the dogs (literally). Here are a few tips to keep in mind if you want to stop pet waste from burning your grass.
Add water. Dr. Thompson recommends adding water to dry pet food to dilute your pet’s urine, causing it to have more of a fertilizer effect and less of a burn on some grasses. “Also frequently spray water on the areas of the lawn where your pet is going, if not the whole lawn, to try and dilute some harmful parts of the urine,” says Jacob D’Aniello, cofounder and CEO of DoodyCalls.
Remove poop promptly. D’Aniello says the most important way to prevent poop problems is to pick it up in a timely manner so it doesn’t have time to sit on your lawn and harm the grass as it breaks down. Ideally pet owners should pick up waste as soon as it’s deposited, but a minimum weekly cleanup is recommended. According to D’Aniello, the best method of disposal is scooping the poop and immediately trashing it.
Be thoughtful about lawn care. “You should fertilize your lawn less or avoid fertilizing it in the area where your dog urinates to avoid overfertilization and burn,” D’Aniello says. He also suggests visiting a neighborhood home garden store and finding out which grass types in your area are the most resistant to pet waste. If there’s a type of grass that won’t be as sensitive to your pet’s pottying, try planting that in the spot where your dog relieves himself.
Designate a spot for Spot to go. Contain the effects of your pet’s waste by trying to get him to go potty in just one area. D’Aniello says there are some products that use pheromones to encourage your dog to pee in or near that area. Try using these to save the rest of your lawn and, again, avoid fertilizing these parts. You can also try having a marking post with mulch or pea gravel to give dogs a place to go without grass; this should limit the chances of burn, according to Dr. Thompson.
If you notice your grass dying due to your pet’s waste, there are some ways to help it recover.
“Watering the grass right after the dog urinates…will also dilute the urine and get a fertilizer effect rather than a burn effect,” says Dr. Thompson. “Usually urine burn will require sod or reseeding [of the area].” D’Aniello also recommends replacing the soil to help grass regrow.
By remaining vigilant in your lawn care and aware of where pets are relieving themselves, it is possible to protect and repair your lawn from the ill effects of pet waste.
More on Vetstreet.com:
* 9 Unusual Dog Breeds
* 10 Human Foods That are Dangerous to Cats and Dogs
* Why Does My Dog… Kick Grass After Pooping?
— Update: 23-03-2023 — cohaitungchi.com found an additional article Is Dog Poop Good or Bad for My Grass? from the website lawnlove.com for the keyword is dog poop good for grass.
Cow manure is good for your lawn and garden, so dog poop must be, too, right? Wrong. This line of thinking is dangerous not only for your grass but also for your family and community.
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There seems to be a common misconception that dog poop fertilizes grass, but it’s NOT a good fertilizer. Dog poop kills grass if you let it sit out for too long. It also spreads bacteria and parasites and has the potential to pollute drinking water.
So, to answer the question, “Is dog poop good or bad for my grass?”: It’s bad. Very bad. We’ll explain why.
Why dog poop kills grass
Dog feces kills grass because it contains a lot of nitrogen. Dogs need a high-protein diet, and the process of breaking down all that protein creates nitrogen as a byproduct. The dog then passes that nitrogen in its waste (dog urine has high nitrogen content, too).
What does nitrogen have to do with your lawn? Grass actually needs some nitrogen in the soil to grow lush and healthy, but there can be too much of any good thing. Too much nitrogen concentrated in a small area burns the grass. The same thing happens if you use too much nitrogen-rich fertilizer.
When doggie droppings sit out long enough to break down into the soil, they release a lot of nitrogen. That’s why the grass dies and turns brown.
What dog poop damage looks like
Stages of dog poop damage:
- Tall, dark green grass: The poop has only just begun to break down.
- Yellow spots: Excess nitrogen is beginning to burn your grass as the poop continues to break down.
- Brown spots: The grass is dead. You will have to reseed those spots if you want to see green grass there again.
Don’t be fooled if dog poop makes your grass grow faster at first. The first stage of dog poop damage is tall, dark green patches of grass that, by all appearances, are healthier than the rest of your lawn.
That’s because dog poop breaks down slowly, taking up to a year to decompose completely. At first, it releases only a little of its nitrogen, which has a fertilizing effect on the grass. But if the poop sits out and decomposes all the way, that same grass will soon turn yellow and then brown from nitrogen burn.
Pay attention to those dark green spots! Once they turn to brown spots, it will be too late to save the grass without reseeding.
Why is pet waste different from cow manure?
Think about a dog’s diet versus a cow’s diet. Dogs eat a lot of meat, while cows eat plant matter exclusively. Recall that protein from meat is what makes dog poop too nitrogen-rich for your lawn. Since cows don’t eat meat, cow manure doesn’t have the same problem. In fact, cow manure makes good fertilizer because it is low in nitrogen and high in nutrients.
Note that cow manure can still contain harmful pathogens, including E. coli, Listeria, Salmonella, Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, Cryptosporidium, and Giardia.
How dog poop causes lawn fungus
In addition to nitrogen burn, dog poop can kill your grass in a more roundabout way: It can cause lawn fungus to grow. Many fungal lawn diseases will kill your lawn if they have a chance to spread.
Fungi love moisture, and an excess of nitrogen in the soil helps them grow and spread faster. Dog poop provides a moist, nitrogen-rich environment where lawn-damaging fungi can thrive.
Health hazards of leaving dog poop in your yard
The consequences of leaving dog poop in your yard could be much worse than a few brown spots in your grass. Dog poop might cause serious illness for your family and the greater community.
Dog poop carries diseases and parasites
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), dogs can transmit the following diseases and parasites through their poop:
Many of these diseases only spread to people if they ingest the infected poop (we know — yuck). It might seem appalling and impossible that you would eat your dog’s poop, but imagine this scenario:
Dog poop sits out in your yard. Microscopic bacteria and parasites transfer to your soil. You go outside to play with your dog or tend your garden, and you touch the ground at some point. Later, you eat a snack without thinking of washing your hands first. And boom, the bacteria or parasite has found its way inside your body.
To reduce the risk of spreading disease, remove dog poop from your lawn immediately, then wash your hands right after. Leave the poop out, and it can easily infect other members of your family (especially young children who play in the yard and aren’t very good at washing their hands).
Dog poop pollutes water sources
Do you like the sound of dog poop in your lakes, rivers, or even drinking water? Neither do your neighbors. But according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that’s exactly where it could end up if you let it sit in your lawn.
Read more Is Dog Poop Good or Bad for My Grass?
Remember, dog poop takes up to a year to break down into the soil. That means it just sits on top of the ground for a whole year. During that time, rain or water from watering your lawn washes bits of poop into storm drains. From there, it contaminates natural bodies of water.
How to prevent lawn damage from dog waste
Preventing lawn damage from dog poop is incredibly simple, even if it’s a little nasty. All you have to do is pick up your dog’s poop ASAP.
Here are some tips for dealing with dog poop in your lawn:
- Scoop dog poop immediately after your dog goes to the bathroom (even in your own backyard). If not immediately, clean up all dog poop in your yard at least once a week.
- Never mow the lawn with dog poop in it. Your lawn mower will spread any bacteria or parasites in the poop all over your yard.
- Pick up all the dog poop from winter as soon as possible. We get it, picking up dog poop in harsh winter weather isn’t easy. But if you let your lawn fill up with poop over winter, be prepared for a huge spring cleaning as soon as the snow melts.
- Always wash your hands immediately after cleaning up dog poop, even if you didn’t touch the poop directly (which hopefully, you didn’t).
Preventing lawn damage from dog pee is a little more complicated since you can’t just pick it up. Here are the methods we cover in detail in our guide How to Prevent Dog Pee Damage on Your Grass:
- Water the spots where your dog pees as soon as possible. If you can’t do it immediately, at least within a few hours.
- Train your dog to pee in a designated spot covered with mulch or gravel instead of on the grass.
- Raise the mowing height of your lawn mower and let your grass grow a little taller than usual to mask any damage and make your grass hardier.
- Put “Dog Rocks” in your dog’s water. Dog Rocks are a product designed to reduce the amount of nitrogen in your dog’s waste. They’re made with natural ingredients and are safe for your pup.
- Change your dog’s diet to fresh dog food under guidance from a veterinarian to reduce nitrogen in waste.
- Switch your lawn to a more urine-resistant grass type, such as Bermudagrass, Zoysiagrass, tall fescue, Kentucky bluegrass, or perennial ryegrass.
FAQ about dog poop in the lawn
Scoop your poop
Trust us, we know dog poop is gross. It stinks, it’s sticky, and you don’t want to be anywhere near it. But if you want a healthy lawn, you’ll have to suck it up and get to scooping!
Does your lawn already have dead patches from lazy pooper scooper habits or dog urine? Here’s how to repair the damage.
Next time you think of skipping the scoop, remember all the health problems your dog’s poop could cause if you leave it out. Then plug your nose and fulfill your “doody” as a dog owner.
Do you need help keeping your lawn healthy and free of brown spots? A service call from our local lawn care professionals is only a click away. Just…pick up the dog poop first, please.
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It may not be the most glamorous question, but if you have a dog, you’ve likely wondered whether dog poop is good for your grass. The three most common nutrients found in lawn fertilizers are nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, and the right balance helps you achieve that lush lawn you see in gardening magazines.
Unfortunately, letting your pooch potty all over your garden grass won’t make it greener. In fact, it can do the opposite (and don’t forget all the health and environmental concerns that come with not scooping the poop). Learn more about why dog poop isn’t good for your grass and practical ways you can make your woofer’s waste work for your yard.
Why Dog Poop Can Be Bad for Your Lawn
Dog waste and lush lawns aren’t a good match. Learn more about why it’s not just unsightly patches you have to worry about if you don’t scoop that poop.
Brown or Dead Spots
Your lawn won’t appreciate it if you leave dog poop to linger on it. It contains high nitrogen levels that, when left to dissolve into the lawn (sorry, not a pleasant image!), lead to brown patches, and solid poop suffocates the grass underneath, causing it to die.
Your pooch’s poop also contains high levels of phosphorus. According to Texas A & M University, high levels of this chemical prevent the soil under your grass from absorbing essential micronutrients like iron and zinc. This combination can make your lawn look patchy.
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It’s not just brown patches on your lawn you have to consider if you leave your pooch’s poop to seep into soil. You’ll have to get rid of pet waste odors in your yard, especially on hot summer days. The easiest way to eliminate stinky smells is to scoop your pet’s poop frequently.
Pathogens and Parasites
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, dog poop is chock full of bacteria and can pass on pathogens or parasites like E. coli, giardia, salmonella, and roundworm. Some microorganisms can survive in your yard for up to 4 years. So they’re not things you want to potentially expose your kids to when they’re playing on the lawn.
Mushrooms love feeding off moist, decaying matter. So decomposing, nitrogen-rich dog poop is perfect for encouraging their growth.
While mushrooms aren’t necessarily bad for your lawn (they can even help break down things like lurking leaves), too many can inhibit grass growth, and they don’t exactly match a manicured landscaping aesthetic. Plus, many mushroom species are harmful to people and pets.
The last thing you want is your curious kid or canine trying to eat a toxic variety, so it's best to prevent mushrooms from growing on your lawn.
When you leave dog waste to break down in your yard, it isn’t just hurting your lawn. It enters our waterways through surface runoff and is a significant contributing pollutant, especially in the form of disease-causing fecal coliform bacteria. It also creates problematic algal blooms, and dog waste’s high nitrogen and phosphorus levels can deplete oxygen levels water-based life forms rely on to survive.
Lawn Damage Prevention: Remove Dog Waste
Punctual poop pick-up is the best way to avoid a proliferation of patches on your lawn, but it’s not the only way to prevent poop-related grass problems. If your pet’s waste has caused serious damage to your lawn, consider hiring a lawn care service near you to help you repair it.
Scoop the Poop
We get it. No one relishes picking up after their dog, but doing a daily poop inspection is the best form of defense for your lawn. And these days, there are plenty of hands-off poop-scooping tools to use if you aren’t a fan of the customary bag.
Train Your Dog Where to Potty
Setting up a “poop zone” in your yard means training your dog to do their business in a gravel, paved, or artificial grass area where your dog’s waste won’t cause damage. This method requires patience, perseverance, and plenty of tasty treat rewards.
Take Your Dog For a Walk Instead
Before letting your dog out into the yard, you could take them for a walk around the block to do their business and pick up the poop while they are on the leash. That way, there’s less chance of them pooping on your lawn when your back is turned.
Hire a Poop Picker-Upper
If daily poop pick-up is something you dread and you live in an urban area, you might be able to hire someone to do the duty for you. Look for a professional pet waste removal company that disposes of the poop in an environmentally friendly and approved manner. Failing that, you might find a house cleaning company near you that offers this as part of their services.
Can Composting Your Dog’s Poop Benefit Your Yard?
There are many easy ways to pick up your dog’s poop. And after gathering it up, instead of sending it to a landfill, why not create a garden-friendly, beneficial compost out of it? Once it has broken down, it won’t emit a putrid stench, and, providing your dog is up to date with treatments, you don’t have to worry about parasites.
Following studies, the USDA created an in-depth guide for safely composting dog waste. It makes a fantastic fertilizer for your lawn and non-edible, ornamental plants in your garden.
Whether you add the poop to a traditional composting pile, vermicompost in a small bin filled with worms, or opt for the on-trend Bokashi method (using anaerobic, oxygen-depriving techniques), there’s a compositing technique to suit everyone.
Is Dog Urine Harmful to Grass?
It’s true that if your lawn doesn’t get enough nitrogen, it can turn yellow and suffer from spotting diseases like anthracnose. But, too much nitrogen also leads to brown patches—even on the best types of grass for dogs. This is why you’ll often see these ugly dead spots on your lawn when your pooch pees on it.
Your pup’s urine contains high volumes of nitrogen, and the concentrated stream directed right at your prized lawn invariably burns the area. You might even see a more lush ring of green around the scorched patch, where the more diluted nitrogen leaches out, having a more desired effect.
Thankfully, there are ways to stop dog urine from killing your grass. These include regularly hosing the pee away, training your dog to go in a particular spot, and picking urine-hardy grass.

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19 February ~ It's nearly four months since Aitor Karanka was appointed head coach of Middlesbrough but the signs are promising for a club that endured a horrendous 2013. Our league form for the calendar year under previous manager Tony Mowbray involved 19 defeats and just five wins from 33 games. We went from being in the hunt for automatic promotion at the start of the year to finishing just five points off the relegation zone. Had the 2012-13 campaign lasted another two or three weeks, we'd have gone down to the third-tier for only the third time in our history.
Perhaps the biggest disappointment about Mowbray's spell in charge of his hometown club was his inability to organise the team defensively. The number of times we were being carved open in games became a source of constant frustration and the uncertainty created by being so open at the back spread through not just the rest of the side but the supporters too. The summer rebuild offered some cause for optimism but the failure to address our defensive shortcomings ultimately cost Mowbray his job after yet another defeat on the road, this time at Barnsley.
With the local papers drawing attention to the fact that Peter Kenyon and Jorge "Super Agent" Mendes were attending most of our games – their unexplained involvement with the club remains a bone of contention among many fans – Karanka emerged as a possible successor to Mowbray. A former centre-half with Bilbao and Real Madrid, Karanka had been a coach at the Bernabéu under José Mourinho. Attracting someone of his stature seemed unlikely but chairman Steve Gibson managed to get the deal done, quite possibly with the help of Kenyon and Mendes. After a relatively timid start with three defeats in his first five games, Karanka has slowly taken us from relegation candidates to outside bets for the play-offs.
The new manager hasn't done anything particularly ground-breaking but he has established a solid defensive unit and required the team to play with much more urgency than they did under Mowbray. These subtle yet ruthless changes in approach have seen Boro record seven clean-sheets in our last ten league games and taken us steadily up the table, as well as bringing an end to the fans' anxiety whenever the team conceded a set-piece. It's still early days for Boro under Karanka but we can look towards the rest of the season with optimism. Dave Hearn


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When Greg Singleton first moved to Craven County in 2014, he applied for five jobs.
He didn’t hear back from any of them.
Singleton knew the likely reason for the silence: he’d been incarcerated from 1992 to 1996 — as a first-time, nonviolent offender — a fact he disclosed on his job applications. Though he was qualified for the jobs and met all the terms of his probation, Singleton knew that didn’t matter to most employers when it came to applicants with a criminal record.
“That set that fire inside of me to pick up this mantle of reentry work and combining the community college tools with it,” Singleton said. “That’s kind of my path coming into this.”
Eight years later, Singleton is now the director of workforce readiness at Craven Community College, where he also created the job readiness boot camp in 2017. The program supports unemployed, underemployed, and formerly incarcerated people by teaching soft skills like resume writing, interviewing, and interpersonal communication, among other things. Singleton is also project manager of the Craven-Pamlico Re-Entry Council with the college, a nonprofit he founded in July 2017 to help the formerly incarcerated reintegrate into society following a release from prison.
Now, as of January, Singleton is also the State Board of Community College’s recipient of the Staff of the Year award. He credits the accolade with his embrace of reentry programs and his own past.
“A second chance is what separated me from the rest of the freakin’ rock stars that we have in this community college system,” he said. “I mean to say I’m their guy out of 58 community colleges? Come on. A guy that did five years in the federal penitentiary? This is God’s work — this is not my work, this is his purpose for me.”Greg Singleton
‘He believes in growth’
When Singleton started working with the college’s human resource development department at the end of 2014, his first job was as a substitute instructor. As fate would have it, that first position was at Craven Correctional Institution — one of the state’s largest prison processing centers.
He quickly realized inmates weren’t learning much about reentering society, which concerned him. Each year, more than 22,000 people are released from the state’s prison system, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, and 98% of current inmates will be released in the future. Still, nationally, 82% of inmates are arrested again within 10 years of being released and 61% end up back in jail in the same time period, according to 2021 Bureau of Justice data — grim statistics advocates like Singleton believe can be lowered by teaching inmates and the formerly incarcerated both personal and professional skills.
Eventually, Singleton rewrote Craven Correctional Institution’s curriculum.
“I had to present this program to the administrative staff myself. Wow, I was so nervous because after doing five years in prison, I was sitting with these people,” Singleton said. “But God had purpose.”
Singleton met with staff on a Tuesday. By Thursday, they’d posted the new class and “a long list of inmates had signed up.”
“It became a huge success in the state prison, so I became the only instructor of that class for years,” he said. “My work behind the prison wall came from behind the prison wall.”
Craven’s job readiness boot camp isn’t only for formerly incarcerated people, Singleton said, but teaching soft job skills is an important part of any reentry work. The reentry council helps remove barriers to attending the camp, working with community partners to provide free child care and lunch to participants. Importantly, the camp itself is also free to students. The council also helps people pay for rent, gas, and food vouchers — things people need while they start over after a prison sentence.
Each boot camp runs two weeks and covers six sessions: gateway to employment, basic computer skills, resume and cover letters, career planning, economics literacy, and employability skills.
Since the inaugural boot camp in June 2017, 75% of students have completed the course. Of those students, an average of 40% received jobs within 90 days of completing the camp — a statistic Singleton is especially proud of.
“A lot of people just say, ‘Hey, I just want a job,’” Singleton said. “Now, that means a temporary state. We want to get you on a career path.”
Former student Melinda Becton found exactly that during her boot camp tenure. She participated in the camp in 2018 following Hurricane Florence and an unexpected job loss.
At the end of the camp, Singleton offered Becton a job she still holds — a program assistant in Craven’s human resources development department.
“Ever since then, I’ve been doing this job faithfully,” she said. “I help other people, as well as God allows me to help myself.”
Despite personal setbacks, Singleton encourages Becton getting her associate degree, which has been a dream of hers for a long time.
“I can tell you from my almost four years of working with Greg, he believes in growth. Not only does he teach you how to keep a job, but he wants you to grow, he wants you to expand,” Becton said. “He knows that I have more in me than what I see. So he’ll pull that out of you — Greg is awesome.”
Being an example
Navigating life after incarceration is difficult for many reasons. In addition to their criminal record, Singleton said many people also struggle with housing, food, transportation, childcare, education, jobs, and mental health and substance abuse.
Additionally, the stigma attached to a prison sentence follows many people professionally and personally.
“When I got out of prison, November 12, 1996, the worst thing that you could find out about me at that time was the fact that I was incarcerated,” Singleton said. “I did not want your implicit bias or your prejudice to wreak so heavily before you even gave me an opportunity or a chance. I bring that to the workplace.”
Current boot camp student Everette Turner emphasized how much Singleton inspires others, particularly formerly incarcerated people. Turner doesn’t have a criminal record but was overwhelmed and discouraged after recently losing a job.
Now halfway through the program, he said he’s looking forward to going on a job interview. Singleton is a dynamic person who teaches in a “funny, friendly type of way,” Turner said, which makes the course more engaging.
“He’s come from humble beginnings, too, so he’s had to grow from his position, and just to see him get as far as he’s gotten, he’s inspired others,” he said. “That’s what’s so important, is that he’s inspiring. He’s got the go-getter attitude, and he’s always smiling, always friendly. I can’t say enough about him.”
During an interview for the State Board community college award finalists, a panel asked Singleton for any final words. His response? That Craven’s work would be contagious.
“I want there to be 100 local reentry councils based on 100 counties in North Carolina,” he said.
Earlier this month, Singleton was also named the recipient of the Craven Community College Foundation’s Award for Leadership in Education. Before that, he was the grand marshall in the city of New Bern’s Black History Month parade.
In addition to his recent accomplishments, Singleton is already working on new projects, including a N.C. Department of Transportation Academy this year to outline the construction credentials process and a new transitional home for women released from prison in New Bern.
In all these projects, Singleton emphasizes the importance of education — teaching people to reach back to teach someone else.
“This is a ministry,” he said, “and it’s OK to say that because helping our brother man and woman who’s unemployed or underemployed or returning from prison in jail, that is really saying something.”
Singleton believes God has more in store for him, which he joked is both scary and exciting.
At the end of the day, he is most grateful for the way his opportunities allow him to help — and encourage — those with similar stories to his.
“You know, it opens up a path for a thousand other brothers that I was locked up with who are way more talented than me,” he said of his State Board award. “This gives them an opportunity to say, ‘Hey, I can do that.’”


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BOSTON (WHDH) - Two men were arrested in Roxbury Friday after a shooting in the Codman Park area off Townsend Street.
The incident happened around 11 a.m. Friday morning, with several shots apparently fired at an apartment complex. Glass in the doors of the apartment units at 59 and 61 Codman Park was shattered.
Police said a video of the incident showed two people in distinctive clothing, which both suspects were wearing when they were pulled over while heading toward Walnut Avenue. They were arrested, and police said a firearm was also recovered.
On scene, multiple evidence markers were spotted on the pavement and bullet casings were visible on the ground. Investigators were seen entering both the 59 and 61 Codman Park units, with a larger police presence visible in the area around the apartment complex.
Police said the person who was shot took themselves to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The shooting took place right near a playground.
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Business, Labor Reach Deal on Guest Worker Program
ABC News' Arlette Saenz and Jeff Zeleny report:
WASHINGTON - Business and labor leaders reached an agreement late Friday night on a guest worker program for low-skilled immigrants, a senior Democratic Senate aide tells ABC News, marking a key moment in the immigration debate.
The agreement involves the guest worker provision for low-skilled immigrants, which is one of the most critical pieces of the legislation. The accord between the Chamber of Commerce and the A.F.L.-C.I.O marks the first time the dueling sides have come together around the size and scope of the guest worker program.
"This issue has always been the dealbreaker on immigration reform, but not this time," Sen. Chuck Schumer said in a statement Saturday night.
Schumer, D-N.Y., one of the leading Senate negotiators on the agreement, briefed White House chief of staff Denis McDonough on the deal this afternoon, ABC News has learned.
"We are very close, closer than we've ever been," he said. "We are very optimistic, but there are a few issues remaining."
The agreement between business and labor was reached shortly after 9 p.m. Friday, when Schumer convened a conference call with the top labor leader, Richard Trumka, and the chamber head, Tom Donohue. The three agreed to have dinner soon to commemorate the accord, one official tells ABC news.
The sticking point in earlier negotiations centered on determining pay levels for future immigrant workers coming to the country on new visas. The unions wanted employers to pay an average wage for occupations rather than assigning salary by skill levels, while the business side called for paying low skilled workers at the lowest rate.
The guest worker deal reached by business and labor will now be presented to the bi-partisan Gang of Eight senators involved in the immigration talks. The senators are also working on fine tuning the path to citizenship and border security components of the plan.
"Senate negotiators are making good progress on immigration reform, but we're not done yet," Alex Conant, a spokesman for Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., tweeted today.
While the group of senators works on the details of the immigration plan, President Obama said this week that he is optimistic the group will produce a bill in April.
"I'm actually optimistic that when they get back they will introduce a bill," Obama said during an interview with Univision earlier this week. "My sense is that they have come close and my expectation is that we'll actually see a bill on the floor of the Senate next month."


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The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat
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An incendiary work of science journalism debunking the myths that dominate the American diet and showing readers how to stop feeling guilty and start loving their food again—sure to ignite controversy over our obsession with what it means to eat right.
“A factually accurate and highly entertaining work. It provides an effective counter to the fearmongering and false promises purveyed by sensationalists masquerading as scientists. This book should be essential reading for anyone who contemplates following a restrictive diet and for all health practitioners who use diets as the central platform of their therapeutic approach.” (Peter Gibson, MD, Director of Gastroenterology at the Alfred Hospital and Monash University)
“In the world of food fears, this is a landmark book. Levinovitz brings science back into the picture in an eye-opening, punchy, and entertaining way that will change many of the single-sided conversations about food. The Gluten Lie will put a lot of minds at ease, and bring a lot of balance back into diets.” (Brian Wansink, PhD, author of Slim by Design and Mindless Eating)
“Levinovitz shows us how to stop being afraid of food. Everyone truly interested in nutrition should read this book and get back to the joy of eating.” (Philip Zeitler, MD, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine)
“The cure for Dr. Oz-itis and Oprah syndrome. Well researched, easy to read, and incredibly informative.” (Jen Gunter, MD, author of The Preemie Primer)
“Stop poisoning your friends and family—with junk science nutritional claims. Feed them The Gluten Lie instead and enjoy lunch again.” (Hank Campbell, founder of Science 2.0 and co-author of Science Left Behind)
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