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It's no secret that we have a lot of fun here on TwentyTweets. As a group of young women, we take pride in entertaining and informing all of you as our readers. With that said, we couldn't be more excited to promote National Breast Cancer Awareness Month across the entire blogosphere. All kidding aside, we will be featuring a different topic each week as it relates to the month-long recognition and celebration of improving women's health. These posts will, of course, relate back to things that we typically cover here on TwentyTweets. Together we can promote breast cancer awareness, share information on the disease, and find ways to support the cause. Join us in this journey! There's no better time than the present to educate, entertain, and empower one another.
Stay tuned for a post every Wednesday throughout the month of October. We will be covering everything from breast health, fashion, celebrities, and everything in between. Erika, Jenna, and I will each produce our own insightful breast related post, tailored to our personal interests.
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26 Jul How to Make Email Marketing Worth It
By, Jessie Philips, Marketing Director
Sending regular emails to your newsletter contacts is about more than just checking it off your to-do list. You might feel great that after carefully crafting the perfect email, you hit send and your message is delivered to a HUGE audience. But what if only 1 reader actually opens the email? Or only a handful clicked on the link you wanted them too? Then you're patting yourself on the back for sending content no one saw or engaged with.
Here are a few tips from us to step up your email marketing game.
Don't Overthink Your Subject Line. But Don't Underestimate It.
Google the topic of email subject lines and you'll find thousands upon thousands of recommendations of the best words to use, the best subject lines with the most opens of ALL TIME! Don't get lost in this chatter. The important thing to remember is show some personality in your subject line and don't be afraid to EXPERIMENT. Every list is made up of different demographics looking for different types of content to engage with. What works for a coffee shop isn't necessarily going to work for a women's clothing boutique.
In most cases I find that simple beats clever. Show some personality in your subject line, but don't try to be discovered for your comedic skills either. Don't give so much information away that they don't need to open the email, but don't make it so generic that they don't want to.
Keep It Short. Keep It Interesting.
Let's face it; people can barely sit still long enough to watch a Boomerang video these days. Don't drown your fans in too much information. Keep it short and to the point. Have an in-store event and want people to come? Just say that! Call out the most important details like date, time and cost in bold and describe the event in 4 sentences or less. If there's ticket for purchase or a further action they need to take, then, well… read our next tip.
Make It Easy to Click Through
Sounds obvious I know, but really. You have a very short window in which people will scan the info in your email and choose to take an action or not.
Make it easy for them to take the action. Instead of one word being a link, insert a large colorful button that spans from edge to edge in your email. If you can't make a button, at least make sure your link spans over more than one word.
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Keeping an accurate log of the development process is becoming increasingly difficult and time consuming. Modification of Programmable Software Development Environment to automate this record keeping process has begun and for the present will be top-priority.
Each of the software parts commands can be terminated by a comment. This comment can be used to provide a checkout breakpoint, ";<—-". It can also be used to associate a completion date with the command.
The process associated with the development of standard software parts will consist of the following four versions: experimental, alpha version, beta version, and released version.
A Text file report will be prepared each time a software parts library is modified. This report will contain the total number of commands, the number of commands with checkout breakpoints, and the number of commands with today's date in each software part defined by the software parts files contained in the library development project.
The checkout of the revised Programmable Software Development Environment is complete. Status reports have been successfully generated. All versions of the software parts library have been successfully generated.
The revised Programmable Software Development Environment is currently being aggressively tested by using it to revise its manual. When this revision is complete and any errors encountered are fixed, the Programmable Software Development Environment will be published. One minor problems has been encountered and fixed.
The Manual Effort requires an update in the Project File, Development Task File, and the Library Sub-Task File sections.
Saturday: The Command Sequence page for the Development Task File section has been started, This page is similar to the Command Sequence page for the Project File. Both of these pages will be defined by a single point text source. Improvements on both pages are expected.
Monday: The Command Sequence Page for both the Development Task File and Project File sections should be completed by tomorrow,
Tuesday: The Command Sequence Page for both the Development Task File and Project File sections has beens completed. The pages for the Development Task file commands will now be started. Single Point sources will be used where appropriate.
Thursday: The _UPDATE command page for the the Development Task File has been prepared. Due to the fact that this command is used in both the source and library sub-tasks, a Single Point Source was used.
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The star Sirius rises before our sun, it is a helical rising issuing a declaration that the 'ATLANTEAN, EGYPTIAN, and SIRIAN NEW YEAR' has begun.
Beloved Family of Light, we come to you at this inspiring and tumultuous time on Planet Earth. After the shift of the 2012 Portal, the Earth continues to shift into New Patterns and Ways of Being.
This month the group in collective returns to talk about what's ahead for planet Earth. Now the group speaks of an important event that will take place in November of 2013 that will plant the seeds of a new life on Earth.
At this time, there is a call that can be felt in the hearts of people. There is a sincere desire to find, deep within yourself, who you are and to not be determined by outside influences; to not be manipulated by everything you are told from the outside, but to return to the core of your being: a soul, a star of Light.
Life in a body, male or female, is an interplay between your soul and that of the Earth. Honor your beautiful body, the body I have given to you. It is an expression of female or male energy, so feel the beauty of that. Observe it from within.
Opening is what is happening this month, this amazingly powerful month of May during which the Lunar and the Solar Energies and the Eclipses and the Company of Heaven and You!
I want to remind you of the true nature of Mother Earth. She is an angel herself. Think of the beauty of the forests, the oceans, the flowers. That is the true nature of Being on Earth, and you are part of this majestic reality.
As the cycle of life continues to twist and turn, many of us have become so wrapped up in keeping on keeping on that we forget to pause every so often to remember that we are vibrant beings living on a vibrant, spinning planet.
The emergence of light is stronger than ever, and in this month's energy forecast I mention how the Earth herself is activating now, pulsing energy waves upwards which we are feeling strongly in our bodies, emotions and actions.
This channelling continues the discussion, a very controversial one, that Human scientific advancement is controlled... released to Humanity when it is ready.
The past few days have seen an exciting announcement from the world of science. The existence of the God particle has been confirmed by the CERN particle physics laboratory in Switzerland.
This reality is wonderful in its creativity. It is to be celebrated, but it is not the only reality. Do not be so arrogant as to think that this is all that your Father, the creative Source, would allow to be created. If that were true it would be a limitation.
What an exciting week in the skies we've had. First a meteor hurled into Russia creating a magnificent light-show – and unfortunately thousands of broken windows and related injuries. However that's incredibly fortunate given that it was a fireball travelling at 66,000 miles an hour!
It has been an intense time since the Portal Transit in December 2012. As we move into the New Year, I think there are few of us who cannot say that we have experienced some kind of huge transformation and transition in our own personal lives as we enter into this space of the "New Reality" and a Quantum Experience of Time and Space.
My dear friends... And so we begin another year. Another cycle in the continuous circling of the Earth around the Sun. Another passage of the Body, Mind, and Soul through the Labyrinth of Life. And as we end the latest of these rotations and begin again yet another, every thinking person must ask, "What is the point of this? Are we truly just going round in circles, pretending that our elliptical course is a straight line actually going somewhere?


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Santa Barbara Island is open to public access. Landings at the island are restricted to the rocky ledge adjacent to the dock. In order to ensure a safe landing, boaters need to carefully assess the weather conditions, particularly the tide and swell heights, prior to landing in this area.
The dock remains closed and is not expected to be repaired in the near future due to the severe nature of damage that occurred with successive storms the past two winters.
Santa Barbara Island is the only southern Channel Island in the park. This island is the smallest of the Channel Islands, yet it is big on wildlife and adventure.
Visitors step from the boat onto a ladder and climb to a small dock. From the dock there is a ½ mile trail that leads to the top of the island.
Located about 55 miles from Ventura County, travel time is 2.5 to 3 hours depending on harbor of departure. The longer channel crossing increases the opportunity to see a variety of wild life such as whales, dolphins, and seabirds.
The isolation of this island makes it an ideal place for many species of nesting seabirds and also for breeding seals and sea lions.
There is no potable water and no shade trees on this island, so bring ample water, a hat or visor, and sunscreen.
This small island is rich in native flora, with a number of island endemics. Like the other Channel Islands, the spring wildflower bloom is colorful, yet many of the endemic plants actually bloom in the summer and fall, on this island


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Photo by ChrisSinjoThe concept for an electronic keyboard instrument that rivaled the number one acoustic models was conceived in the early 1980s. Years before the Internet, computers and Smart Phones, the Clavinova Yamaha crafted was capable to create digital piano music that sounded authentic, but was yielded on a keyboard small than many spinet pianos.
This Japanese organization has been creating conventional acoustic pianos since 1900. These instruments are recognized for good quality and good sound, and are utilized in various concert halls now. At the dawn of today's development, technicians were excited at the possibility of recreating digital music on instruments that rivaled their acoustic counterparts.
This piano series shortly created its own marketplace. Because it combines the newest technologies with conventional musical topics like theory, composition and tranquility, the instruments shortly became popular with teachers. These keyboards provide the sound and feel of the real piano, but could fit conveniently into a tiny studio or practice area.
They are additionally affordable. The price on a standard acoustic grand piano makes them from the reach of many homes, and even the humble upright is pricey to purchase hot. One concept behind the creation of the electronic series was common accessibility, providing more folks a chance to practice on and play a genuine, top-quality sounding keyboard. Today they are utilized by over 700 music schools.
These pianos are all tested thoroughly before exiting the factory. The realistic sound not requirements pricey tuning, and maintains the correct pitch indefinitely. Headphone plugs are standard, creating lengthy hours of practice private and quiet. Because this business pioneered digital sound technologies, continuing development makes them a reliable musical instrument brand internationally.
For novices, numerous models even have a built-in metronome, and advanced players may take pleasure in the advanced software qualities. The Clavinova Yamaha has become a respected musical instrument with a voice and touch that rival any similar acoustic piano. Construction components, completing details and fine tuning are all expertly completed. It is an great method to start musical understanding, as well as for accomplished pianists is a sensitive, flexible expert instrument.


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The Great Quake of Montlake Terrace is trending…. A 2.8 magnitude earthquake was reported near Mountlake Terrace about 3:20 p.m. Wednesday…we've had 9 small quakes in the last three days. ROSEANNE CAST MAY STAR IN A NEW SHOW WITHOUT ROSEANNE BARR The network is discussing options. The cast will either get paid for doing nothing or get their own show. You may have heard that story out of Graham…Two teenage girls have confessed and are in tears after a Washington man nearly crashed his motorcycle after he drove through fishing line tied across a road. "They told deputies they were trying a trick to suspend a teddy bear in the air so cars would drive under it and see it floating in the air."
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Embrace your inner harlot with The Slut Training Kit! Straight from the devious mind of Mistress Petra Hunter, this Kit contains a sexy black garter belt, a matching black g-string, a pair of fishnet thigh-high stockings, a tube of naughty lipstick in Pink, a smoky eyeshadow palette, black mascara, black liquid eyeliner, two seven-inch naughty rubber toys (one nude, one pink), a ten-inch naughty rubber toy, a three-piece jeweled silicone plug set, a blonde bob wig, and an assignment. Each item comes individually wrapped, packaged in a box and shipped discreetly inside a plain white shipping bag. Each Kit also includes three makeup remover wipes for easy clean-up.
This Kit includes Assignment #24, which may also be purchased separately.
Choose your garter and panty size (given in men's sizing) and plug set color. Upgrade your Kit to include protective drawstring bags for each of your plugs and three samples of personal lubricant for an additional $8. Makeup brushes for the eyeshadow palette are not included, but a seven-piece brush set in a beautiful case may be added for an additional $15.
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The year was 1997, REI (Research engineers international) developed a structural analysis and design computer program. The place was Yorba Linda, CA a suburban city in orange county, California. The program named as STAAD – III. The program initially used by Iowa State University for educational purposes. The first version of STAAD III was made in 1978.
The initial program start with selecting printer selection where you want to print the output. Once you select the printer you had to log out and log in again to select other printer. These were the days of starting computer era. Once you have completed printer selection you will be at the GUI of STAAD III. It was looking like this:
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Basic information about STAAD III was given like ""STAAD_III for Windows / Windows NT is a comprehensive structural engineering software that addresses all aspects of structural engineering -model development analysis, design, verification, and visualisation. STAAD-III for Windows / Windows NT is based on the principles of "concurrent engineering". You can build your model, verify it graphically, perform analysis and design, review the results, sort and search the data to create a report -– all within the same graphics based environment."
"Following are the main options available from the Concurrent Graphics Environment:
• STAAD-III Analysis and Design
• STAAD-PRE Graphical Input Generation
• STAAD-POST Graphical Post-Processing"
In late 2005, REI was bought by Bentley systems. Since then, STAAD has gone through Leap advancement. The versions released so far after STAAD III are as below:
- STAAD. suite 2001
- STAAD.Pro 2003 2nd Edition, along with a structural toolkit consisting of 26 modularized design programs, Sectionwizard, a section property calculator and STAAD.foundation, a new and revolutionary product capable of analysing and designing mat foundations, pile caps, slabs on grade and isolated and combined footings.
- STAAD.Pro 2004: STAAD-III, the world's most powerful and popular structural analysis and design software was in use across the globe since 1980. In 2004, it was available in the form of STAAD.Pro which consists of STAAD + STARDYNE +FEM kit + Visual Draw.
- STAAD.Pro 2005
- STAAD.Pro 2006 build version 1001, 1002 and 1004
- STAAD.Pro 2007 build 01, 02 and 03
- STAAD.Pro V8i and build 05
- STAAD.Pro V8i Select series 1 to 6.
Select series 6 is the latest current version being used.
Hello friends, here you are reading what is STAAD.Pro? STAAD stands for "Structural analysis and design".
STAAD.Pro is a general purpose structural analysis and design software. It can be used for analysis and design of almost any kind of structure. The program consists of :
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I have found a beautifully, well thought out anylsis of the movie Labyrinth, which you might enjoy. It explains both the movie's and book's sexual symolism, morals, postmodernisim, and everything else under the sun! It has brought everything to new light!
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Alright, so I thought it's about time you lot were all introduced to the possibly genetic and very likely environmental cause of my total inability to leave a cook book alone, and my weakness for spending hours thinking about, looking at and experimenting with food. This is a double-recipe I've taken from my mum, Joanna, who is basically otherwise known as the black-belt lord master of catering.
My mum knocks out a blindingly good supper for ten with one hand behind her back, one eye on a BBC drama and our rottweiler hanging around her ankles. She will have two hundred cupcakes, bars, muffins, biscuits and slices ready for a hundred-fifty head celebration, three hours ahead of time, and still make a chili con carne for her kids before she trucks out to host it. I watched this documentary last night, and found myself readily able to empathize with Jiro's sons – it's no wonder why!
This happens in our house three out of four weekends. Yeah, I know – amazing, right? It's a deadly idea that makes good food that much easier to access for two meals instead of one. The heart of the concept is to make enough dough to cover for pizza bases and bread. I should note that my mum nearly wouldn't let me post this, as, in her words, "I can't give you a recipe! The ingredients change every time!" Despite this, I managed to get one good combination out of her for the purposes of writing this out – it is as follows:
2pm, Saturday: Make Dough
Combine (We use a Kitchen-Aid):
500g Organic Whole Meal Spelt Flour
500g Organic Strong White Flour
250g Organic Coarse Maize Meal
2 Tbs Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Generous Pinch Sea Salt
1 Sachet Yeast
500 – 600 Mls Hot Water
Very energetically stir (in a large mixing bowl) or Kitchen-Aid this Mixture for approximately seven minutes, until the dough is coming away from the sides of the bowl. Once that's happened, put the bowl aside and cover it with a tea towel.
6pm, Saturday: Make Pizza for Four
Small Jar Red Pesto & 1/2 Tube Tomato Paste, Combined
1 White Onion, Chopped
250g White Mild Cheddar, Grated
Selection of Raw Chopped Vegetables & Fruit, to Taste & Preference
Selection of Cold Meats/Beans/Fish, to Taste & Preference
Fresh or Dried Herbs & Spices, to Taste & Preference
1. Preheat your oven to 220 celsius (fan). Drop the dough out of your bowl onto a clean work surface dusted with plain flour, and knock it around with your hands – act like you're beating it up! Split into two balls. Set one dough ball aside. Take the other half of the mixture, form it into a rough oblong and then cut that oblong into four.
2. Grab a rolling pin. Re-flour your worktop and roll out each of the quarters of the oblong to a flat circle. Presto – you have your pizza bases! These will make a thin, slight yet intensely good bread for the pizza base, wonderfully light and firm at base with a crisp edge. They'll also make a much lower calorie pizza than you'd perhaps have come to expect from shop bought or take out varieties – because the base is so fine and slight, we're talking 700 – 850 calories for an entire, ready-to-go pizza (provided you don't superload your tops!)
3. Place each base on a baking tray. Spoon a dollop of the pesto tomato mix onto each and spread very thinly, so that you don't soak the dough – it'll look like less than you think you need, but trust me, this turns out just fine. Sprinkle with chopped onion, and then add whatever toppings you like. I love canned tuna and broccoli florets, or baked beans; my little sister likes apples and grapes; my brothers dig chorizo, beef, barbecue chicken and ham. Sliced red pepper, mushrooms and sweetcorn also feature frequently! Finish with a sprinkle of grated cheese on each. Try paprika, herbes de provence, chili powder, parsley or spinach leaves as toppers. Keep to a set of three 'main' flavours at most, and you won't go wrong.
4. Place two pizzas in at a time, one on the top shelf and one on the middle. After ten minutes, swap their shelf places and bake for a further five minutes before plating, cutting and serving. Heaven. (And they make really good breakfast leftovers, too…)
9 am, Sunday: Make Bread
1. Preheat your oven to 250 Celsius (fan). Grab that remaining dough half and place it on a baking tray. Form it into a long, even oblong. Score across the top with a knife, four times. Let it sit for at least an hour like that – longer if it's particularly cold in your kitchen. After that, straight into the oven on the top shelf for nine minutes. When your times goes, reduce the temperature to 220 Celsius and move the bread to the middle oven shelf for a further thirteen minutes. You will know the loaf is ready if it sounds hollow when you tap it on the bottom. Take out, wrap in clean tea towel and leave to cool.
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Handspun from Lorna's Laces Top
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This is some yarn I spun from Lorna's Laces superwash wool top in the Layette colorway. It is approximately 150 yarns of worsted weight yarn. This would make a cute baby sweater, or there's plenty of yarn here for a hat and booties set.
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The genus Vidua contains 19 species of small finches distributed widely across the African continent. In ten species, the breeding males called indigobirds are shiny black with short tails. In the remaining nine, breeding males called whydahs (V. paradisaea) have long ornate tails used in elaborate courtship rituals. - CBK
Carel Brest van Kempen of Utah was born in 1958. He has won many awards of excellence and best of shows and illustrated many books including Rigor Vitae: Life Unyielding, Biology of Gila Monsters, Dinosaurs of Utah, Pythons of Australia and Savannah and Grassland Monitors. His work is in collections of the Springville Art Museum, Leigh Yawkey, World Center for Birds of Prey, Sonora Desert Museum, Natural World Museum and Bennington Center.
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*Note: I did not include LEGO Star Wars or LEGO Star Wars II on this list, since both were collected in "The Complete Saga"
LEGO Star Wars was the game that started it all. In 2005, TT Games introduced fans to a simple formula: Retell classic stories using LEGO. LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga contained story levels for all 6 Star Wars Episodes. Jedi Battles, Space Dogfights, Troop Battles, Bounty Hunts, and so much more.
Why #6? It took me a while to find the right places for LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga. When I started the list it was #1. Honestly, LEGO games today would not be a thing without LEGO Star Wars. Then I wrestled with it being in the top 10 at all. By nature of it being the first game in the series, it clearly shows it's age and has been improved upon time and time again by more recent games. In the end, I didn't feel right making this list without including LEGO Star Wars in the top 10. It was the forerunner for the LEGO games and it is still one of my favorite video game versions of the movies I love so much. 10 years later it's lost a little polish, but it's not a nearsighted scape pile just yet.
- It's Star Wars from start to finish
- Ton of stuff to do
- Feels dated compared to modern LEGO games
- Heavy slow down when there is a lot on screen


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updated January 28, 2012, 9:04pm EST
A 26-year-old man died in a fall aboard Carnival Fantasy on Friday (January 27, 2012).
Carnival said the passenger fell from an upper level in the ship's atrium to the lobby level while the ship was docked in Nassau late Friday evening, approximately 11:30pm. The police in the Bahamas, which are investigating the incident, characterized it a little differently, saying their initial reports indicate the man died when he was trying to jump from one floor to another. The police in the Bahamas confirmed the man was from South Carolina.
Due to the ongoing investigation, Saturday's call at Freeport was canceled and the ship remained in Nassau until 3pm on Saturday. Carnival Fantasy is on a 5-day cruise to the Bahamas from Charleston (SC) which departed on Wednesday (January 25). The ship will return to Charleston as scheduled on Monday (January 30).


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Welcome to Pets in the City
Our indoor doggy daycare is based on an open area concept where dogs are encouraged to socialize and play together.
During their day, dogs are taken out for two scheduled walks are free to wrestle with their friends, play games initiated by the caregivers, or just hang out. We have something for everyone!
Dogs are constantly supervised and never left alone.
We are open Monday thru Friday, 7am — 6pm. Come join our pack!
The first time you bring your dog to Pets in the City in Courtenay, we will schedule an interview with you and your pet so that we can ensure that it's a good fit for your needs, which takes about an hour. Dogs are introduced to each other one by one and there is time in the group, partly with the owner present and partly without. This allows us to assess suitability and needs.
This interview must be booked prior to your dog's first day of daycare with us.
Give us a call and we will be happy to set up a time! 250–338‑7996
While your dog is with us we'll watch over him or her all the time. We take them out for a bathroom break, then in for a play, and the first walk is at 9 am. We get back at about 10:30 and have some relaxing time.
Dogs who have a lunch are fed, then we have some indoor playtime. The afternoon walk is from noon to 1:30, when we come back for relaxing, naps, and playtime.
- When dogs are on walks they are always on leash.
- There is fresh water available at all times.
- We are open from 7:00 am through 6:00 pm, Monday through Friday.
We cater to those who want a regular schedule of daycare, or for those that want the occasional daycare.


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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 85: Can a Dentist's Drill Help You Lose Weight?
"I intentionally scheduled my dentist visit for a Thursday afternoon so I could reap the benefits of not eating much for dinner."
Yesterday I went to the dentist to have two crowns put on, one on an upper tooth and one on a lower tooth. I have an aversion to going to the dentist. I guess I associate the dentist's chair with pain, discomfort, and the whirring sound made by what I regard as an instrument of torture, the dentist's drill. And I feel this way even though I go to a first-rate dentist who is reasonably sensitive to my feelings of dentist dread.
I was in that chair and shot up with a sufficient amount of novocain for two hours. Not fun. Not fun at all. The dental assistant gave me an iPod with head phones to drown out the whirring drill, and I appreciated the gesture, but even though there was a fair amount of music on it, by the end of my stint in that chair, I was reduced to listening to Cat Stevens' Greatest Hits over and over again. I wasn't being followed by a moon shadow. I was being followed by a damn dentist's drill.
But I am focusing on the down side of a two-hour visit to the dentist. There is an upside as well.
It's kind of the ultimate good news, bad news proposition. The bad news is that I was in that chair for two hours. The good news is that I couldn't really eat much for dinner last night because after the numbness of the novocain wore off, one side of my mouth was so sensitive.
I must admit, I intentionally scheduled my dentist visit for a Thursday afternoon so I could reap the benefits of not eating much for dinner the night before weighing myself for this post. Is that bogus? What would they say about my gambit at Weight Watchers or Overeaters Anonymous? Have any of you ever used a visit to the dentist to help control your weight?
The Weigh-In
This week started with me jumping on the scale on Monday and discovering I weighed 219. Egads! That terrified me, though as the week progressed I was on a steady downward path. I was at 216 for last Friday's post, and I was really hoping to get back into the negative weight loss column today. Here goes: 216. No change. Next time I might have to ask the dentist to drill harder.
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TNCS-0028 - Why Your NAS is 'Slow'
Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices are extremely popular these days. They offer a very convenient method of sharing files between multiple users in a home or small office environment. NAS devices are essentially file servers that are packaged as appliances and thus are generally easy to configure and use.
As a Mac user, however, you have probably noticed that managing files on your NAS device is not quite as zippy as doing so on your local hard drive. If you also have Windows or Linux devices attached to the NAS, you may have noticed that those computers seem to manage files on the NAS better than your Mac. The internet is chock full of forums and threads where users have noticed this and questioned why their Macs were slow compared to PCs. These posts often degrade into flame wars with little attention being paid to the original question. This tech note seeks to address this question in an objective and factual way.
First the good news — your Mac is not sub-par compared to PCs. It is an extremely capable and sophisticated computing device running a very advanced yet user-friendly operating system. Many of the technologies packaged into your Mac are far more advanced than anything available on any other computing platform. There is no reason to feel like you've chosen a second rate platform — far from it! Unfortunately, however, there is a bit of bad news — your Mac is at a disadvantage when it comes to file sharing with others via an NAS. Why, you ask? Well, read on…
The basic reason that you might not achieve optimal performance is that your Mac and your NAS do not speak the same language when it comes to storing files. macOS historically has had "special needs" when it comes to storing and managing files. This dates all the way back to the original Macintosh in 1984. While other filesystems would store little more than a filename and timestamp for each file, the Macintosh has always wanted to store much more. Information such as custom icon, color label, the character set used to name the file — even the location that the file appeared in a Finder window — were all stored with each file. This extra metadata was something other filesystems had no need to store and thus made no effort to accommodate. This always put Macintosh file storage at odds with the rest of the world.
Fast forward to today and macOS has evolved significantly to adapt and fit in with the rest of the computing world. However, the metadata storage requirements have not decreased over time. A lot of the old metadata is still stored for backwards compatibility. If you add to that the newer types of metadata such as Access Control Lists and Extended Attributes, it's easy to see that the metadata storage requirements have actually increased.
Here's where the problem comes in: no commercial NAS device (that we know of) uses a native Mac filesystem to store its data. They are all either Linux or Windows based and thus use a Linux or Windows native file system to store files. In order to accommodate all the extra metadata that macOS wants to store, such devices need to figure out a way to emulate a Mac native filesystem and store the metadata elsewhere on the drive. How bad can that be? Well, take the example of trying to obtain some simple metadata from a file such as the Finder label color and the size of the file. If we're dealing with a native Mac filesystem, we simply need to locate the catalog record for that file on disk, read it and extract this information from the record. Presto — done! An NAS device, however, needs to locate the catalog record of the file and determine what metadata can be extracted from it. Since not all the metadata is there, it then needs to locate the catalog record of another, invisible file that the NAS device is using to store the Mac-specific metadata. The NAS device then needs to open the file, parse its contents, extract the needed information, close the file and return the results. This is a LOT of work! Multiply this by the tens or hundreds of thousands of files that a typical ChronoSync backup session manipulates and you can see that an NAS device has to work a lot harder to store and maintain all those files.
Of course, not all NAS devices are created equal and some do a much better job than others at managing all the extra Mac metadata. When shopping for an NAS you should always compare the Mac-specific performance between models and brands. Don't look at Windows or Linux benchmarks and expect them to be consistent with Mac file storage because they probably won't be. The important point to take away from this is that you should expect NAS performance for Mac file storage to be slower than the same device offers for Windows and Linux clients — and often SIGNIFICANTLY slower than a locally attached drive.
So, what is one to do? Here's a few pointers:
- Experiment with file sharing protocols. Many NAS devices require you to use the SMB protocol, so you really have no option to experiment. However, some offer "Mac Native" file sharing and thus some form of "AppleShare." AppleShare will use the AFP protocol, which is much more Mac friendly. However, don't immediately assume that because you are connected via AppleShare/AFP that you are communicating the fastest way possible. Some NAS devices may not have a good AppleShare/AFP implementations and SMB may actually offer better performance.
You can control how you connect to an NAS or file server in Finder by choosing "Connect to Server" from the "Go" menu (or just COMMAND-K). You then specify the URL of the NAS device/server that you are trying to connect to.
For AFP connections, it will look something like this:
whereas SMB would look like:
There is also an older version of the SMB protocol that you can try by specifying:
This may be beneficial with older NAS devices and file servers that may have difficulty with the newer SMB protocol (or Apple's implementation of it). More details can be found in this article.
- If at all possible, don't use an NAS. Take an older Mac and set it up for file sharing. This will almost always be a better option for you because a) the hard drives will be formatted with a Mac native filesystem, thus there won't be any trickery required to store metadata, and b) you'll be using a file sharing protocol and software that is designed by Apple and optimized for Mac clients. If using ChronoSync for syncs and backups, you'll also have the option of installing ChronoAgent on the Mac file server to achieve even better performance!
Note that even when using a Mac as a file server, you should pay attention to the protocol that is being used (as mentioned above). Apple has shifted away from AFP as the default protocol in favor of SMB. We have yet to witness Mac-to-Mac file sharing that performs better with SMB than AFP for real-world usage, so you will want to ensure you are connecting via AFP. Or you can disable SMB completely on your file server if you don't need the ability to connect Windows or Linux clients.
Heres a good article that shows how to configure an old Mac to be a file server. The article discusses using the built-in file sharing features of macOS. You can also splurge and spend $20 to install macOS Server. This will offer the ability to host Time Machine backups and so much more.
- Whether you are connecting to a true NAS device or another Mac file server, you should give consideration to creating a sparse disk image on the device. You'd simply mount the disk image and store all your files on the disk image instead of directly on the device/server. This yields far better performance and truer file system fidelity. In fact, it is exactly what Time Machine does when using an NAS or file server for backup.
The reason this yields better performance is that only larger blocks of information are transferred over the network — the file system commands themselves and the transfer of small amounts of information all takes place locally without going over the network. The file system fidelity comes from the fact that you are, in essence, communicating with a native Mac filesystem when doing this.
The drawback to using a disk image is that only one user can mount it at a time, so if you need to share the information between users, it won't be a convenient option. Plus if you have Windows or Linux users, they won't be able to mount the disk image at all. If such is the case, disk images can still be used to store backups for your individual Mac computers.
We have a guide on using ChronoSync with disk images that discusses the process of creating and mounting disk images. It is informative, even if you are not using ChronoSync with your NAS/server.
Confused by any of this? Wonder exactly which approach you should take or how to fine-tune your setup? Just drop us a line at firstname.lastname@example.com. We'll be happy to help!
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Informational (nonfiction), 842 words, Spanish Level N (Grade 2), Lexile 730L
A Prairie Dog's Life provides information about prairie dogs by describing the adventures of Charlie the prairie dog. The book informs readers about where prairie dogs live, what they look like, and how they respond to danger. The book includes photographs with captions,a diagram, and a map.
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Make shopping enjoyable to encourage sales
In a previous blog, we share a finding from Centriam's 2017 Retail Study: customers who had an enjoyable shopping experience were more likely to be promoters. This finding is especially robust among millennials, the largest generation in the US. Millennials who said their experience was extremely enjoyable were nine times more likely to be satisfied with the price they paid, and twice as likely to repurchase as millennials who said their shopping trip was slightly or not enjoyable. These findings suggest that making shopping enjoyable could potentially double your sales among this key demographic!
Download the full Centriam Retail Study here!
Millennials who said their retail experience was extremely enjoyable were nine times more likely to be satisfied with the price they paid. [Click to Tweet!]
Millennials are selective customers
Yet numerous retailers have found that millennials can be particularly discerning customers. It has been claimed they are less loyal than older shoppers. As a group, this is true: they are 40% more likely to be price sensitive, and 60% more likely not to repurchase than older shoppers. While some might use this as a reason to avoid engaging with this difficult generation, that simplistic excuse ignores a significant growth opportunity. When brands successfully cater to the preferences of millennials, or embody their values, millennials become highly loyal and are often willing to pay more for such alignment.
Three ideas for delighting millennials
So how does a retailer make shopping enjoyable to begin earning these millennial dollars? In a previous blog, we shared three ideas to reduce millennial detractors, here I will focus on creating millennial promoters. I highlight a few concepts that retailers have implemented, and then emphasize the important infrastructure necessary to take advantage of the joy being created.
Many retailers make shopping enjoyable using experiential retail. Fashion chain Urban Outfitters has opened coffeeshops and pizza cafes inside their stores. Nike is devoting less space to products, and more to Trial Zones -- including half-court basketball, soccer pitches, and a treadmill with virtual reality of Central Park. Vans Shoes latest stores contain skateparks, live music venues, theaters and art galleries. But you don't have to use floor space to accomplish this: Ikea has held sleepovers, H&M stores have thrown concerts, and Lululemon has after-hours yoga classes inside the store.
Another popular direction for retailers is to embrace social responsibility, in what has come to be known as "conscious capitalism". 40% of millennials indicate they are more likely to buy when a product supports a cause they believe in. Some brands match purchases for those in need – Hanes' socks and underwear; Tom's shoes; Warby Parker's glasses; and Leesa's mattresses. Others donate a portion of sales to environment concerns. Patagonia donates 100% of Black Friday sales, and thousands of businesses have joined the 1% For the Planet organization.
A few companies have found other imaginative ways to generate fun experiences. Whole Foods developed a recipe bot that allows customers to search using emojis for ingredients -- type in 🍆, 🍅 and 🌶, get instructions for ratatouille. Residence Inn has introduced giggling, dancing, robotic butlers as a pilot project at a few Los Angeles area hotels. When given a positive rating for room service delivery, these 3-foot robots light and up shimmy. Spotify uses the listening habits of its customers to make highly personalized playlists weekly.
Evaluating the effect
Whichever route you choose, you will need robust data integration to measure how the joy produced relates to the bottom line. Keep track of which customers are taking advantage of experiential retail events; join that information with response history and purchase data; and quantifying the impact of the promotions becomes attainable. To determine the values of your customers, augment a survey with routine customer feedback and a study on key customer experience drivers. Assess the impact of a more inventive promotion by merging customer information with social listening and verbatim text mining on feedback to identify how customers are judging your performance.
If you can gather and analyze the data generated, enjoyable shopping experiences will reap dividends from all your customers. Especially millennials.


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Dermatology Associates, P.C. accepts many insurance plans for your convenience. To see if we are contracted with your provider, please click here .
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We accept cash, personal checks, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover.
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How CCOF works:
- At your visit, you will swipe your credit card of choice and sign the pre-authorization at one of our new terminals to save that card on file. A copy of the signed form can then be printed or emailed to you for your records. That's it!
- If you are the guarantor for your household, you may file the card for your spouse or family members as well.
- The authorization lasts for up to twelve months.
- Your credit card information will be safely held on a secure, encrypted gateway site. No financial information will be available to our staff or held in our system or at our office.
- Co-pays will remain due at each visit and can be paid in any manner you choose at that time.
- If you have insurance contracted with Dermatology Associates, we will submit your claim for you as usual.
- In approximately 1-3 weeks, you should receive an explanation of benefits (EOB) from your insurance company that outlines what part of your service has been covered by your insurance and reveal exactly how much you owe to our practice for services rendered.
- We also receive a copy of your EOB from your insurer. If there is a balance due, a statement will be mailed to you indicating the amount due. You will have two weeks to contact the office to arrange an alternate form of payment or to set up a payment plan. If we have not heard from you, your card will be charged for the full amount due two weeks after the statement date.
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This card has been made with LDRS dies and a new Christmas stamps from the Polkadoodles HSN range, Winter land papers and some of the new winter dies.
The card has been made with the the Allifair Build-A-Card Die Set. The image has been die cut with the Fancy Rectangles & Layers Die Set. This is a die I am using a lot. It's the perfect size for motives on a card. The silver snow boarder has been diesed out with Snowy Day Border Die Set. The holly leaves has been created using dies from the Holly Wreath Circle Die Set.
The papers used here, is from the sweet Christmas paper pad - Winter land. The stamp is from the new Polkadoodles Winnie Winterland Stamp set. This is so sweet.


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Intro Lectures – During this lecture we talk about what we all want, how we got to this place of wanting and how to actually get what we want in this life. We talk about the purpose of life. We discuss how and why Ascension works as well as all the health benefits of practicing. We look at the different states of consciousness and show you how to cultivate a higher state of consciousness. This is a great way to learn more about the Ishaya's Ascension.
First Sphere Weekend – The beginning Ascension course where you learn the "First Sphere" which is the first four techniques of the Ishayas' Teaching of Ascension.
Advanced Weekend Intensive Course – These courses are for people who have already taken a First Sphere and would like to dive deeper into the teachings. The course is filled with plenty of group Ascension time as well as awareness exercises, question and answer periods and many topics for discussion. The course is designed to help you become more Self-Aware in order to realize True Freedom.
Advanced Weekend Retreat Course – These courses are for taking time to go inward, rest, heal and focus on the Eternal aspect of yourself. Most of the day is spent Ascending with breaks for stretching, meals and an evening discussion.
7 Week Course – The commitment is to one 3-hour meeting a week for seven weeks. This course mirrors the needs and wants of the students. During this time you will either ignite or deepen your experience and knowledge of the Source of Peace and Happiness, your True Nature. You will also discover the thing that you are doing that keeps you separate causing pain, suffering and dissatisfaction. This course is about learning how to evolve consciously while dealing with everyday life. Very powerful.
Ascender's Day – Once a month (or so), usually on the last Sunday of the month we will have a full day of, Group Ascending and discussion, Pot Luck Lunch, viewing or listening of some type of spiritual (educational) material with a discussion afterward and more Ascending. All Ascenders are welcome (no charge). Please bring a vegetarian dish for the pot luck.
Teacher Training – Contact us if you would like to become a teacher of the Ishayas' Teaching of Ascension.


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Drag King devin's favourite persona is Justin Timberlake. "He's an amazing dancer," Devin explains. "I love his music and I love doing his stuff. For me it's very sensual."
Devin's blue eyes sparkle mischievously. "Performing is sexual because it's like a window. I can show people things they don't usually see.
"I love to perform," Devin adds. "Drag is art for me."
The natural redhead founded Kings of Vancouver about a year ago. Now, Devin not only performs with the troupe but also uses it to teach workshops. Being in the spotlight is a tool, Devin notes. "I use it to open people's eyes. It's gender play. I use it to show people there's not just female and male anymore."
Devin's workshops focus on everything from applying facial hair, to adjusting facial expressions, to teaching people how to move and stand in gender-based ways. The goal: helping people get by in a world intent on labels.
"I can use my drag performance to educate other people or just have a good time and make people smile," Devin says. "The workshops are a major part of it for me because they're an outlet where I can actually teach people.
"When I got into it, it was about being sexual and being in the spotlight," Devin continues. "Now Kings of Vancouver is about introducing and teaching other people about drag and getting it out into the more mainstream. It's risqué and new and hot and it's just catching on now. I'm trying to change it up."
Devin and a friend started the drag king troupe because they were infinitely irritated and let down by the then-existing arrangement at drag shows. Drag kings were not being treated equally or taken seriously. "The drag queens were getting paid but the kings weren't," Devin remembers. "I mentioned to some of the other drag kings that I was really frustrated about this. I wanted to do shows." The result: they created their own space.
It worked. The increase in people's awareness of drag kings in the past year has been noticeable, says Devin. "Now we're getting paid. That's a huge step forward. I've been fighting a long time for this. I quit my job to do KOV full time. I've worked hard. This year we're getting more calls to perform for money. Everybody's paying us! And people want bigger performances.
"I've been a drag king for four years. It took one year to get this far, and now I'm a professional drag king and I get paid for it."
Engagingly cocky and confident, Devin recently joined the newly re-opened Celebrities staff to host its Friday night parties. "I get paid to walk around as a drag king and mingle. It's awesome."
Devin identifies as neither male nor female, preferring the term "gender fluid." The transition from one gender to the other began several years ago. "I'm not transitioning completely. I'm happy where I am now. I don't want to become a dad, I do want to become a mom and it took a long time to come to that place and be okay with that. This is not a phase, this is who I am."
Devin says coming out to the family at age 17 was almost a non-event. "'Hey mom,' I said, 'I like girls'-and she said, 'Okay,' and, 'so?' and she continued washing the dishes. Then I came out and said 'I'm transgendered.' Mom said, 'Okay, what's that?'"
After Devin explained the concept of gender fluidity, the family was still accepting. "I think my dad cried but he didn't show me. I think that's because his little girl wasn't his little girl anymore-and now he calls me Devin sometimes. I've been really lucky to have a family who supports me."
The rest of the world is slower. "I was going as a girl to work because it was easier. When you're trying to pass [as male] and somebody calls you 'she,' it hurts so much."
For the most part Devin tells people: "It's okay that you said it [she] to me because I'm able to teach you-but it's not okay for the next person who isn't and who's been crushed by it."
Devin pauses.
"I'm a really strong person. I'm not afraid. I know that my gender is always going to be fluid and some days I look like a girl and I feel like a girl and my energy's all about being a girl-and that's what I am in that moment and no one can tell me that I'm not. And when I'm boy I feel like I'm a boy and I am a boy and that's who I am and no one can tell me otherwise. It's on the days that you're unsure, that's when it's scary."
Kings Of Vancouver.
Beyond male and female
Devin uses the stage to teach gender fluidity
Drag King devin's favourite persona is Justin Timberlake. "He's an amazing dancer," Devin explains. "I love his music and I love doing his stuff. For me it's very sensual."


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Now we gotta help our bretheren in Zoos & Aquaria. According to the AAM, "language contained in the recently-passed House version of the "Jobs for Main Street Act" (H.R. 2847, Sec. 1702) prevents zoos and aquariums from accessing any funds for job creation."
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Steaming is one of the first techniques that comes to mind when we talk of healthy alternatives. Unfortunately, steamed food has earned a bad reputation over the years for yielding lack-lustre and bland results. Let's begin by busting this myth and rethinking the idea of steaming. Steamed food need not be boring; if well-seasoned and appropriately garnished, it can be extremely flavorful and nutritious.
Steaming is a simple and easy way to cook food. This method is very versatile and can be used to prepare a wide range of food. Typically foods are steamed by placing them above a pot of boiling water, in a vessel with slots or holes, which allows the steam to come through. Specially designed bamboo or steel steamers are easily available in most parts of the world; these are extremely convenient to use in a home kitchen.The hot rising steam cooks food gently but thoroughly, without dehydrating it. A big advantage while steaming is that food is rarely burnt or overcooked.
When food is boiled in water, cooking oil or liquid of any sort, much of the nutrients dissolve and are lost in the liquid bath. However, this doesn't happen when steaming. Vitamins and anti-oxidants are maintained to a greater degree in steamed food. Besides, one can completely avoid butter, ghee and oil when steaming food. Perhaps the only fat needed, is the thin layer applied on the steamer to ensure food doesn't stick to it. This too can be avoided if one uses butter paper, foil or even leaves of some sort to wrap the food. Typically,it is lighter foods like vegetables, fish, seafood and poultry that are steamed. Meats like beef, pork and lamb aren't usually steamed, as they require higher temperatures to cook. However, when these meats are minced or shredded they too can be steamed.
The Chinese and other South East Asian cultures have used steamers for several centuries to prepare a wide repertoire of traditional dishes. In fact, the Chinese even make a steamed wheat bread called mantou, which is a staple in the colder northern regions where rice doesn't grow easily.The Chinese also make steamed dumplings or dimsum which have become popular world over. Bite size parcels are stuffed with seasoned poultry, seafood, meat or vegetables and steamed in bamboo baskets. These delicately crafted snacks can be extremely healthy. Dimsum making has evolved into quite an elaborate art form in the present day!
Steamed fish is a staple in most South East Asian cultures, usually topped with a light dressing and freshly chopped herbs. Fish being the lightest kind of meat, is extremely easy to steam. Besides, most fish is loaded with essential oils which are extremely nutritious. So a steamed fillet of fish with a salad on the side makes for the perfect dinner.
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For many healthcare practitioners marketing is a sort of guilty secret. They know that in this dog-eat-dog world they ought to do it, and yet it doesn't seem right when you're in the business of helping people.
The bigger names, though – the ones you know not because they're better but because their marketing is better – are living proof that it can and should be done.
So far so obvious.
The next – and equally important – question is should you do it yourself or should you pay a professional to do it?
Like many questions in healthcare itself, there are pros and cons in each individual case and therefore no one simple answer. And before we go any further, let's look at the case for the prosecution.
I speak as a tech professional who helps others with their online presence, although I am not selling my own skills here.
By the way, my experience of healthcare is on the receiving end, and in a very specific but also very broad area. Before I cleaned up and got my life in order, I was both an alcoholic and a drug addict. My journey back to fully-functioning wellness brought me into contact with medical professionals from addiction experts to psychologists and nutritionists
You may not know much about this, and if you want to find out, you can learn about addiction here. I needed professional help – and I got it. And it probably saved my life. And I will be forever grateful.
As regards doing your social media marketing yourself or using an agency, in my opinion there are six things to consider.
1. Do you have the skills?
You know deep down whether you're up to it or not: you just need to be honest with yourself. Are you "good with technology" or does it drive you round the bend? When a technological issue arises do you tackle it yourself or do you immediately reach out to the nearest teenager and get them to tell you how?
It's no use being just "quite good" at this. You can get in a real mess if you don't know what you're doing on the technical side. I'm sure you have no time for cowboys (better known as charlatans in your profession). Step out of your own area of expertise and that's what you can become.
That just picks the lock to the office. Once you're in there you will need to know what you need to do, as well as how to do it.
So, how's your understanding of social media? Can you sum it up in a sentence? Can you explain how it has crossed over from teenagers telling each other about their crushes to being a business tool?
What part does this brave new world of social media play in your business plan?
A social media marketing company knows all about it. Because that's what they do.
2. Do you have the time?
Let's say you answered yes to question 1. You're confident you have the aptitude, the technological grasp and the knowledge of the marketing business, which may be home to a certain amount of BS merchants but also contains some very clever and accomplished people.
Have you thought about how long this would take you every week? Or is that the very reason you're reading this – because it's taking up too much of your time?
It's time away from your core business. Even if you're the senior partner, handling the business side, chances are you're still involved with patients to a certain extent, because that's where your heart lies – it's why you went into healthcare in the first place.
Do you really have the time to spend implementing your social media strategy and all the nuts-and-bolts work that goes with it?
3. Equipment and software
Walk into a marketing agency's offices and in addition to the very different characters you'll find lurking there, you will see IT equipment that your office doesn't have. They'll be using software that you've never even heard of. Sure, you can maybe master it, but you're not the master of it right now.
So that's more time, more money, more energy devoted to doing it yourself.
4. Knowledge of your business
This is where the tables are turned. Your sphere of expertise is something you've built up over the years and no outside agency is going to get past first base with it.
That means if you put them in charge of your social media marketing you're going to have to give them an intensive introduction to your area and insist that they bug you constantly for information, because you can't allow them to make it up as they go along.
A good social media company will have at least one writer, who is adept at writing about anything you throw at them. But he or she will either be rehashing your ideas or finding information on the net and using that. That's dangerous and you will have to scrutinize every word they write, to make sure they haven't introduced something that shouldn't be there.
And then there are the designers. These (often very talented) people will occasionally need a header, a caption or a line or two to make their design look right. They don't see words, they see shapes, but they will be putting words in your mouth.
However, a proof-reading and general checking session takes far less time than doing the writing and design yourself.
5. Budget
This is closely related to the time and skills sections. Using an outside company to do your social media marketing doesn't come cheap. So you'll have to get a quote, or several quotes, and balance their projected charges against what it would cost you to be devoting your time to it. And factor in the effectiveness too. If these guys know what's going to be productive and profitable for you, they might be generating extra income. Conversely, if you don't know what works and what doesn't, you could be pouring money down the drain.
6. Trust and control
The moment you employed someone else rather than being a one-man band, you relinquished a degree of control, and while you can stay at the helm and be involved in as many decisions as you want to, gradually you have to put your trust in people.
If you're the type who can't do that within your own four walls, how are you going to feel when this techie crew on the other side of town are doing their stuff on your behalf?
I can't tell you which is the right way to do it: only you can make that decision.
So, do it yourself? There are those who say you should and those who say you shouldn't. The six points above should lead you to your decision.


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Integrative Hood River
Community Wellness/COVID-19
Somatic Experiencing
Structural Integration
Embodied Pelvic Care
"And then the time came, when the risk to remain
tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Anias Nin
What is EPC?
Embodied Pelvic Care offers a holistic lense to personal pelvic health. EPC is a radical somatic approach to working on and within the pelvis. EPC supports the body's ability to reorganize and heal from scar tissue caused by birth injuries or trauma, gynecological procedures, chronic pelvic pain or pain associated menstrual cycles, endometriosis, pain with sexual intercourse and so much more. Embodied Pelvic Care is a modality that includes "hands-on and hands-in" manual touch of the pelvis, scar tissue remediation, somatic education and nervous system tracking.
Boundary repair, pelvic mapping and scar tissue remediation are at the foundation of Embodied Pelvic Care. Boundary repair and Somatic Experiencing are used to support individuals finding their voice and personal autonomy as we venture into the encompassing territory of the pelvis. Once a felt sense of personal boundary is experienced, pelvic mapping is used as an embodied education and exploration tool. Pelvic Mapping is also used as a tissue quality assessment for working with scar tissue and structural imbalances. Mapping involves "hands-on and hands-in" touch to become familiar with your pelvic territory. Mapping is a somatic journey of both the outer and inner world of your pelvis, including genitals.
We explore personal pelvic health through the following lenses:
We discuss nutritional and gut health, hormonal balance and medication/drug history. Biochemistry (anything that effects blood chemistry or toxic load) can effect tissue quality, blood flow to pelvic organs, create inflammation in small or large intestines and contribute to scar tissue, as well as muscle tension. We discuss way to support healthy tissue through nutrition, hydration, lifestyle changes and various detox practices such as peri/vaginal-steams, castor oil packs, enemas ect.
We assess overall body alignment from "head to toe". As we support the ability of the body to reorganize to gravity by assessing globally, habitual strain patterns ease and often chronic pain is alleviated. We explore daily movement (or lack of) movement patterns, flexibility, strength, core mobility, internal organ placement, as well as integrity in and of the pelvic floor.
Our emotional stories and landscapes are often overlooked in traditional medical models. Emotional or traumatic experiences may impact our psyche at both conscious and unconscious levels. When the nervous system does not complete it's stress response after an overwhelming experience, sleep, cardiac, digestion, respiration, and immune system function can be seriously disturbed. Unresolved physiological distress can also lead to an array of other physical, cognitive, and emotional symptoms.
As we work together with hands-on, hands-in modalities, emotional experiences or memories may spontaneously arise. We track these somatic experiences by becoming aware of sensations, images, spontaneous movements, emotions and stories or memories our body may shares. This process allows for integration without re-traumatizing through a titrated process.
Scar Tissue
The visible scar of a cesarean section or abdominal surgery are only the tip of the iceberg. These scars often lay down roots just like a tree, underneath the skin. These roots may adhere to bone, muscle, nerves, and ligaments reeking havoc. Scar Tissue may spread creating adhesions to the pubic symphosis (pubic bone), the hip flexors, pelvic floor, back muscles and vertebrae restricting movement and causing pain. Additional remifications can include nerve damage, low back pain, neck pain, sciatica,incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, bowel issues (constipation,IBS), nueromuscular disfunction, and diaphram restrictions that inhibit breathing and rev up the nervous system.
What can you expect from treatment?
EPC sessions last 75-90 minutes. A thorough history will be taken and we will address questions and concerns. We start sessions with nervous system tracking and body awareness practices. We may move on to abdominal work and/or bone holding, followed by detailed pelvis and vulva mapping. Mapping allows clients to become familiar with their own pelvic territory. Once you are comfortable, we move from external to internal work. It may take more than one session before we begin internal work as each person's journey and timing is unique and honored.
Internal work is always done with written and verbal consent (see rules and regulations below). Internal pelvic work is always practiced using gloves and uses a lubricant as needed. Internal work may include additional pelvic mapping, scar tissue remediation, pelvic organ assessment and nervous system tracking.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 687 Stats. Implemented: ORS 687.121
Internal Cavity
(1) An internal cavity massage must be performed using gloves and utilizing universal precautions for communicable disease control.
(2) Internal Cavities consist of nasal cavities, oral cavities, auricular cavities, anal cavities, and vaginal cavities.
(3) Prior to performing these special procedures, an LMT must:
(a) be able to present evidence of the completion of specialized contact hours as training beyond the minimum competencies, which includes but is not limited to, indications, contraindications, therapeutic treatment techniques, expected outcomes, client safety, client consent, client communication, draping techniques, sanitation, and ethical responsibilities related to internal cavity massage;
(b) be able to articulate a therapeutic rationale which is acknowledged by the client; rationale may include a medical prescription and/or permission to consult with the clients health care provider(s);
(c) acquire prior written and verbal consent before proceeding;
(d) intra-anal and intra-vaginal written consent must include clients' option to accept or decline to provide a witness, in addition to the client and LMT.
(4) While performing these procedures a LMT must use appropriate draping techniques at all times. Any temporary exposure of the genital area for the purposes of treatment is acceptable only in respect to appropriate procedures for that treatment. Immediately following treatment of the area, the genital area must be covered again.
(5) Under no circumstances will intravaginal or intra-anal techniques be performed on individuals under 18 years of age.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 687 Stats. Implemented: ORS 687.121
Integrative Hood River
413 Sherman Ave.
Hood River, OR 97031
Community Wellness/COVID-19
Somatic Experiencing
Structural Integration
Embodied Pelvic Care