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Gearing up for global growth, AsureQuality wanted IT to function as a true enabler. Revera Homeland Government Cloud IaaS did the job.
There are few good reasons to manage so-called commodity infrastructure when specialist providers do the job better and more transparently. And while these factors drove AsureQuality to look closer at IaaS, it was the opportunity infrastructure services provided to re-focus on higher-value business initiatives that clinched the deal.
AsureQuality tendered for an IaaS offering to replace in-sourced IT. The NZ government-owned food safety services company's Christchurch data centre was starting to creak and its server platform and two SANs were at the end of their lives.
The company was growing quickly and believed as-a-service IT would scale easily, provide better cost control, and ensure IT kept pace with its business. After reviewing both government and non-government IaaS offerings, AsureQuality selected Revera's Homeland Government Cloud IaaS – a move that would ultimately unite infrastructure services with the company's network (provided by Revera sibling Spark Digital) and pave the way for end-to-end service management.
AsureQuality's IaaS experience
Better focus: Released from day-to-day management of commodity infrastructure, AsureQuality has turned attention to higher-value business services. Accordingly, the makeup of its IT team has changed from infrastructure specialists to business and service delivery analysts and project managers.
Faster: Everything happens faster now. AsureQuality CIO Darren Wilson says infrastructure works at the speed of business. Standing up new environments and adding users is quick and easy.
More flexible: When things get busy, AsureQuality buys more capacity. When demand cools, capacity is pegged back. There's no waste or idle capacity. And when it makes better sense to locate workloads closer to international offices, Revera's control panel connects to public cloud platforms.
Transparent costs: Buying price-tagged infrastructure services from a government catalogue makes costs visible and easier to manage. There are no hidden costs – AsureQuality knows the price of everything, and which departments should pay for what.
Reassurance: DIA manages the master government IaaS contract, including SLAs and predefined escalation paths. DIA and Revera also work together to ensure catalogue offerings remain current. And audits confirm that Revera complies with cloud infrastructure security and performance standards.
"We like the service consumption model and transparent pricing. It's much more flexible and geared to move up and down with business demand. IT is moving at the speed of business now." – AsureQuality CIO, Darren Wilson
Click here to learn more about Homeland Cloud IaaS.
"IT is moving at the speed of business now."


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I dreamt of the Angel Gabriel. She was nude, standing with her back to me, and I kept whispering in her ear the phrase ' you are so cold'. She then was next to me and I continued to whisper the phrase to her. She became upset I then whispered ' you are very beautiful, and so cold'. She asked me a question which I cannot recall, and I answered with an abrasive 'No'. We were standing in a room with several others, I did not see faces, most had back to me. I woke feeling nervous and startled. Cannot think of a life event that would trigger such a dream.
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When prehistoric skeletons are discovered during an expansion of the London Underground, palaeontologist Matthew Roney (James Donald) believes them to be remnants of early man. But the strange metal object found with them is tougher to explain, and Professor Bernard Quatermass (Andrew Keir) thinks it evidence that the creatures came from space. More digging in the area reveals the corpses of actual Martians and a strange energy field that sends London into a panic.
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As the central piece of the room, choosing the right size and style for your dining table is an important decision. There is nothing worse than having buyer's remorse once one of the most pivotal pieces of furniture in your home has been delivered. Using the below guidelines we feel you can successfully answer the important questions about the right dining table size for your room and have a pleasurable furniture shopping experience.
Shape and Size
Before jumping ahead to the most popular question of "How many people can I seat?", we need to determine the best shape and maximum size table your dining room can comfortably hold. Grab your measuring tape and let's get ready to do a little bit of math! Start by measuring your dining space. Measure from wall to wall if there is no other furniture in the room. If you do have pieces in the room already, measure the space from the edge of the furniture to determine your maximum dining table and chair space. If you do not currently have and sideboards or other pieces in the room but plan to in the future, allow about 24″ for each piece.
Now that you have that measurement (for example 15′ x 12′) subtract 6′ from both numbers. In our example that would bring us down to 9′ x 6′. The reason for doing this is to give an allowance of 3 feet on each side of the table for pulling chairs in and out and walking past while someone is seated. This number will determine the maximum size your table can be. Is your number a square number or more of an oblong rectangular number? A more square number lends itself to having a round table while a more rectangular number benefits most from a rectangle or oval table.
Number of People You Can Seat
For normal seating we recommend 24″ of table length for comfortable seating. Below are some examples of table sizes and the number of people you can seat for both rectangle and round table shapes. During large gatherings and holidays it is acceptable to squeeze more people in around the table than the recommended numbers below.
Rectangle Table
- 6 feet long = 6-8 people
- 7 feet long = 8 people
- 8 feet long = 8-10 people
- 9 feet long = 10 people
- 10 feet long = 10-12 people
Round Dining Table
- 4 foot diameter = 4 people
- 5 foot diameter = 6 people
- 6 foot diameter = 8 people
- 7 foot diameter = 10 people
The Forgotten Dimension, Table Height
Many people forget to check the table height and more importantly the distance from the floor to the bottom of the table or apron to ensure the table is the appropriate height for their chairs. The average height of a dining table is 29-31″. We recommend a measurement of at least 24″ from the floor to the bottom of the table/apron unless your chairs have a shorter than 18″ seat height. Also, if having your arm chairs slide all the way under the table is important to you, be sure to check the arm height versus the table height. Most tables are not high enough to allow arm chairs to slide all the way underneath, as traditionally they would have been kept simply pulled up to the table.
How to Visualize the Table in Your Room
In order to visualize how a table is going to look in your space we recommend putting down tape, cardboard, or folded bed sheets in the size and shape you are interested in to see if you are comfortable with the scale of the top in the room. This will give you a chance to walk all the way around and make sure you have plenty of clearance for chairs and other pieces.


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Last Sunday I was at a potluck. The person across from me asked the natural polite question I hate answering: "So when is the game going to be done?"
Scheduling Software Is Hard, Indie Games Harder
In this video update we show how applying some best practices, previous experience, and a little old fashioned flubbery we have calculated a feature complete date for the game!
We start with analyzing the core features:
I then spent roughly 10 hours analyzing the state of the current code base and work to date to figure out what still needed to be finished, made, and designed.
That resulted in a series of SCRUM stories I made up in Visio. To keep things sufficiently "macro" I limited myself to just four bullets to describing the story. While this was often difficult, it was a good practice to keep this a useful scheduling diagram and not a design document in another form. Nic and I then estimated how much effort (in days) it would take in design (idea. layout, content) and implementation (UI, coding).
The next step was to prioritize the features. Sometimes priority is based on pre-requisite, or what has to be in the game if funding got cut and only half of it could be done. This was difficult to decide for "my baby". In the end I color coded them across 5 levels of priority. I then grouped same priority into swim lanes so I could tell if I had put 20 as top priority and only 1 as bottom priority (which I did, but the swim lane showed me I was being silly). When done the ~30 stories were split evenly across the priorities.
At this point we had a good handle on the mountain of work in front of us, but still no closer to a date. WHO will do WHAT and WHEN? This took another 5-6 hours in MS Project to gantt chart out. I didn't have project installed on this laptop and there were challenges to finding my legit copy, so I tried some free gantt solutions (Tom's Planner, GanttProject). Those were a waste of time: so simplistic as to be useless. One doesn't do dependencies driving start dates, and the other won't let you drag and move a task around in the schedule. Then there were problems putting in non-working days by project, split tasks, and multiple resources on the same task (2 people on a 10 day task is 5 days calendar, not still 10 days GanttProject!) In the end I managed to find my Project and get it installed.
Then There are the Unknowns
An Unknown are unanticipated things: bugs (ours and Unity's), impromptu meetings, misunderstandings, rework, finding the fun, illness, new Star Wars film, catastrophic disk failure, etc. And those are just the common ones!
So how many unknowns are there between now and finishing the project?
If you said "It's unknown" you are correct! So we know something bad is going to happen, probably repeatedly, so how do we account for this?
At my software company, across many years and many projects, we discovered scheduling a 5.5 hour day was the most realistic/accurate way to schedule effort vs calendar. My calculator says that's about 68% efficiency; reasonable for a 10 person team. Smaller teams are more efficient (less meetings, less misunderstandings), so we went with 75-80%. The actual way we implemented it was by scheduling "3 weeks on 1 off".
I could have simply added 25% to all estimates, but I did it this way so we have a one week gap in the schedule for testing, polishing, content filling, bug fixing, and possibly pushing out a release. The gaps are easier to schedule around and track slippage than simply adding a blanket %. Second, if your 10 day task says it will end in 10 days not 13, that helps keep to the original estimate you gave. It's a psychological trick to keeping people honest and self correcting on estimates in the future.
This resulted in our grand project plan:
This is the most accurate and realistic date we have ever published.
Now if you find yourself at a potluck with someone asking when Archmage Rises will be finished, you can answer!
"And knowing is half the battle, yo Joe!"


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On the juiced-box, dedicated to Donald Crawford: The Holograms – Drunk Dial
[Press 'Play']
Here's an excerpt of the 911 call (as an mp3) where he talks about his truck being 'tooken'.
[Press 'Play' to feel better about yourself.]
This guy might be bad, but i still say the drunk guy who got arrested for fondling the nurse who was delivering his baby takes the keg.
Here's a recent acquisition on the juiced-box, drafted especially for Ken. In my review of The Limits Of Control, i referenced an LCD Soundsystem song called "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House". Ken said the title tickled his funny bone, and whatever a regular wants, a regular gets.


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About Sarah
Sarah grew up on a farm on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She spent much of her childhood in quiet wonder growing tomatoes, uncovering crawfish, and collecting the prettiest rocks.
In college and grad school, geology felt like the perfect fit. Sarah received her Ph.D. in glacial geology and geomorphology, completing research right down the road from her family farm.
After a few years analyzing seismic hazards and a stint in a Community College classroom, Sarah realized that she really loved talking about science and sharing that information with everyone she met. She enrolled in the Science Communication program at UC Santa Cruz, where she interned at the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Eos, Stanford News, and EARTH Magazine. Recently, she joined EARTH Magazine again, where she experienced the other side of science journalism as an Acting Associate Editor.
Now a GSA Communication Fellow, assistant producer at Big Picture Science radio show, and freelance science writer/editor, Sarah writes about changing climate, new technology, volatile volcanoes ... and everything in between.
Feel free to ask her about her rock collection.


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I think this show is better than it might seem on superficial first glance. Richard Ross's photographs of institutional spaces include interrogation rooms, prisons and execution chambers. But also high-school corridors, hotel phone booths and religious spaces. If you take these connections too seriously, it seems like Ross is making silly, agit-prop connections. But if you stand back and allow the show some irony space, it begins to make distinctions that are much more interesting. The show, Architecture of Authority, first appeared in New York and is now in Washington, DC, at the National Building Museum. And as most things at the NBM, it's worth some attention. My review is here.
The Architecture of Authority
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Overcome mental obstacles
Q: Im not a beginner I consistently shoot in the mid 80's but am trying to take my mental game to the next level. I feel I am physically capable of shooting in the 70's but cannot overcome the mental aspect of the game. I become really frustrated when I hit a bad shot and thats the beginning of my high score. I try to block it out obviously, but it stays with me. I like to play competitively, just not with myself. So is there any help I can get for this problem or is it just something i have to take care of myself? I would really like to get past this problem, I feel I have the potential to be a better player. Any help would be appreciated.
A: The book I would suggest you read to help you overcome mental obstacles is "Golf's Sacred Journey" written by Dr. David Cook. You can find it on-line at the linksofutopia.com.
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Following the Seattle Symphony's first Grammy®-nominated Henri Dutilleux disc comes the second installment in the Symphony's venture to record a complete survey of the orchestral music of this late, great, long-lived, and most important French composer whose music has been authoritatively described as "sumptuous… fastidious… rigorous… seductive… non-dogmatic…" – Guardian. This time Ludovic Morlot and his musicians turn their attention to Dutilleux's most well-known and exciting orchestral work – Métaboles. Augustin Hadelich joins for a performance of the violin concerto, L'arbre des songes, with the disc completed by a performance of the composer's Second Symphony ("Le Double"), the recordings realized within the spectacular acoustics of Seattle's Benaroya Hall, and, in the cases of Métaboles and the Symphony No. 2, recorded live in concert. Founded in 1903, the Seattle Symphony continues to be one of America's leading symphony orchestras. Music Director Ludovic Morlot has been leader of the orchestra since September 2011. Constantly astonishing audiences with his phenomenal technique, poetic sensitivity and gorgeous tone, violinist Augustin Hadelich's remarkable consistency throughout the repertoire, from Beethoven to Thomas Adès, is seldom encountered in a single artist.
|Métaboles: I. Incantatoire
|Métaboles: II. Linéaire
|Métaboles: III. Obsessionel
|Métaboles: IV. Torpide
|Métaboles: V. Flamboyant
|L'arbre des songes: I. Librement - Interlude
|L'arbre des songes: II. Vif - Interlude 2
|L'arbre des songes: III. Lent - Interlude 3
|L'arbre des songes: IV. Large et animé
|Symphony No. 2 Le double: I. Animato, ma misterioso
|Symphony No. 2 Le double: II. Andantino sostenuto
|Symphony No. 2 Le double: III. Allegro fuocoso - Calmato
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Clinical Treatments
Our Dermal Clinicians understand the science behind skin conditions and ageing and will recommend a suitable procedure for you to maintain a natural and youthful appearance.
At Skin Clinic @Blyss we offer an in depth skin consultation prior to all new skin treatments. This is a crucial part of your first treatment, enabling us to accurately diagnose your skin and prescribe the best options. During the consultation, we will listen to your concerns and prescribe the appropriate treatment options and homecare, taking into consideration your lifestyle, history and skin goals. This diagnosis & analysis ensures that we fully address your concerns for now and into the future. It is at this stage that we offer you our unique 6- 12 month skin care plan, ensuring total skin health.
* There is no charge for this service if you are receiving a skin treatment at time of consultation.
Medical needling, also known as micro skin needling triggers a natural healing response in the skin that leads to collagen production and remodelling within the skin. The Benefits of Medical Skin Needling include;
- Repairs acnes scars and surgical scarring by breaking down scar tissue;
- Stimulates blood supply and the production of collagen to improve skin tone and texture as well as improve stubborn pigmentation;
- Dramatically improves skins texture and tone.
What is involved in the treatment?
Prior to treament the area is cleaned and then numbed with a topical anaesthetic cream. The Medical Needling device is moved across the skin making tiny 'micro' channels in the outermost layers of the skin and creates microscopic injuries. It is these microscopic injuries that stimulate new collagen and elastin to rejuvenate the skin.
What are the risks associated with Medical Needling?
As there is no laser or light heat and, the risks are minimal and is recommended for sensitive and darker skin types. If performed by trained professionals, risks could include bruising or infection. At Skin Clinic @Blyss, our staff are highly trained clinicians to ensure the highest of care.
Is the treatment painful?
Due to the use of a topical anaesthetic, there is minimal discomfort.
What can I expect post treatment?
Skin will appear 'flushed', similiar to having had a hard workout at the gym or a moderate sunburn. You may have a mild tingling and skin tightness. This will subside within 24 – 48 hours. Skin may be dry and some will flake for a few days. We recommend the use of an anti-bacterial cleanser and an occluding balm for 5 days post treatment as well as a quality SPF.
You will see the real results with Medical Skin Needling 7 – 10 days after treatment, with increased results after each treatment. Best results are seen with a course of 3 – 4 treatments at 4 – 6 week intervals, with the production of new collagen continuing for up to 12 months post procedure.
Cost $345 | Course of 4 $1190
Epi-Blading also known as Dermaplaning is a gentle method of deeply exfoliating the skin. Using a special surgical tool, we are able to remove the outer layers of dead skin cells as well as any fine hair (also known as vellus hair or 'peach fuzz').
Benefits include
- Epiblading is the perfect alternative for clients with sensitive skin or who are pregnant or breastfeeding as there is no need for the use of product on the skin.
- Epi-blading can be used as a stand alone treatment or in conjunction with IPL, chemical peels or LED light therapy for enhanced penetration of product
- Epi-blading will remove the fine, white vellus hair that is unable to be treated with laser, without changing the growth of the hair (it will not grow back coarse or dark)
- Minimizes superficial acne scarring while improving uneven skin tone
- Perfect for more mature skins, removing cellular buildup that slows with age
- Gives skin the perfect canvas for a flawless makeup base
- No Downtime. Epiblading is the perfect 'lunch time' treatment.
Cost $140
Combining blueberry extracts rich in antioxidants and the power of lactic acid, the Blueberry Antioxidant Peel from Cosmedix is an instant brightening treatment that corrects dull or ageing skin, blocked pores and mild acne. This peel will gently exfoliate the dead skin from the outer layer of your skin to reveal healthy, glowing skin – with no downtime!
- Stimulates collagen and elastin production
- Excellent resurfacing treatment to boost the skins moisture levels
- Reduces fine lines, lightens age spots
- Loosens dry, flaky skin – sloughing away the uppermost layers to reveal healthier skin
- Suitable for dry, dull, ageing, mild acne, congested skins or a pick me up treatment
- The perfect treatment before a special event
How many treatments will I need?
For optimum results, we recommend 3 -6 treatments at 3 -4 weekly intervals. This treatment is also suitable for a 'pick me up' for special occasions and can also be incorporated into a facial treatment.
Peel only $140 | Course of 3 $350 | 60 min $170
The Benefit Peel from Cosmedix is a chirally correct peel combines Vitamin A with Vitamin C- a powerful antioxidant to neutralize irritation, and Salicylic Acid. The Benefit Peel reduces congestion while improving the overall appearance and texture of even the most fragile of skins.
- Improves fine lines and wrinkles
- Corrects skin tone and texture with instantly clearer, brighter and calmer skin
- Soothes and corrects sensitive, reactive or fragile skin types
- Brightens and hydrates dull and dry skins
- Reduces redness; perfect for rosacea and congestion
Skin concerns : Fine lines, wrinkles, sagging skin, dry, rough, uneven texture, rosacea and redness.
Peel only $150 | Course of 3 $410
How many treatments will I need?
Best results come from 3 – 6 treatments at 4 week intervals
The Societe Peel is a gentle oxygenating peel that is suitable for sensitive skin, dehydrated skin and skin suffering from breakouts.
• Targets acne, kills bacteria
• Lightens pigmentation
• Heals & soothes skin post surgery, laser or peel
• Sanitizes the skin for extractions
• Makes extractions easy
• Brings radiance to the skin
30 min $150 | 60 min $180 | Add on $40
The Cosmedix Timeless Peel uses Vitamin A – the workhorse of all anti-ageing ingredients, and Lactic Acid. The Timeless Peel works in the deeper layers of the skin to improve skin texture and tone and lighten pigmentation, including melasma or ' the pregnancy mask".
- Improves cell turnover for a brighter and clearer complexion
- Lightens age spots and pigmentation – in particular melasma caused by hormones
- Corrects imperfections, evening out skin tone
- Softens fine lines and wrinkles
- Anti-ageing
How many treatments will I need?
While you will see an improvement in your skin in 1 – 5 days, for optimum results we recommend 3 treatments at 4 week intervals
Peel only $250 | Course of 3 $699
The Deep Sea peel is a non-acid, chemical-free peel that utilizes manual exfoliation to resurface the skin, lifting away stubborn pigmentation and softening the look of acne scarring. This peel is stronger than the Timeless and salicylic Peels and not recommended for sensitive skins. A Deep Sea Peel is a medium depth peel that will improve congestion, fine lines, scarring and all types of pigmentation including melasma.
- Improves scarring, fine lines and wrinkles
- Lightens pigmentation
- Stimulates collagen and Elastin
- Antioxidants prevent free radical damage from environmental stress
How many treatments will I need?
This is dependant on the condition of your skin and concerns. Typically, the Deep Sea Peel requires 1 -3 treatments at 4 week intervals.
*Please enquire in clinic for the Deep Sea Peel
By layering peels, we are able to increase the results of our treatments. Using a combination of salicylic acids and Vitamin A, we are able to see visible results without the downtime for hard to move pigmentation and acne as well as ageing concerns and pigmentation or discolouration of the skin.
- Improves stubborn pigmentation that is difficult to move
- Premature ageing
- Deep lines and wrinkles
- Improves acne scarring and textural changes (open pores).
How many treatments will I need?
This is dependent on the condition of your skin. Most skins will receive 3 – 6 treatments at monthly intervals.
* Please enquire in clinic about these peels
ASPECT DR PEELS – LACTIC ACID PEELS – 20%, 30%, 40% and 60%
An instant brightening treatment, lactic acid is hydrating to the skin, giving an instant pick me up. Lactic Peels by Aspect Dr are superficial peels that loosen thickened surface layers of the skin that present as dry, rough and flaking skin.
- Resurfaces the skins outermost layers and boosts moisture levels
- Lightens age spots and general pigmentation
- Softens fine lines and wrinkles
- Brightening
How many treatments will I need?
For optimum results we recommend 3 – 6 treatments at monthly intervals. This treatment can also be done as a brightening treatment or added to a facial treatment (20% only).
Peel only $140 | Course of 3 $350 | Course of 6 $699
Aspect Dr Salicylic Peels for Pigmented skins are suitable for men and women of all ages for the management of epidermal and hormonal hyperpigmentation, age spots and skin discolourations. This peel combines clinical strength Alpha and Beta Hydroxy Acids to lift away the dull, discoloured skin cells whilst whitening the skin through optically pure Vitamin C and Tyrostat.
- Reduces pigmentation
- Improves fine lines and wrinkles
- Restores clarity to give skin radiancy
How many treatments will I need?
For optimum results 3 – 6 treatments at monthly intervals
Peel only $140 | Course of 3 $350 | Course of 6 $699
Salicylic acid calms the redness associated with acne and kills the bacteria that causes inflammation and infection. Salicylic Acid Peels by Aspect Dr are able to penetrate an oily skin due to it's chemical structure. Once penetrated, Salicylic Acid dissolves the 'glue' that holds skin cells together and decongesting a problem skin.
- Reduces inflammation and redness
- Exfoliates the skin and removes congestion and dead skin buildup
- Improves skin texture
- Antibacterial for the effective treatment of acne and problem skins
How many treatments will I need?
Depending on the severity of acne, 3 -6 treatments at 3 – 4 week intervals. We recommend ongoing maintenance treatments as needed. Your clinician will discuss this with you during the consultation.
Peel only $140 | Course of 3 $350 | Course of 6 $699
Salicylic Peel for Skin Ageing by Aspect Dr combines clinical strength Beta – Hydroxy Acids with Red Wine (think antioxidant). The salicylic acid will turn over dead skin cells that lead to dull, discoloured skins.
- Fresher, smoother skin
- Evens out skin discolourations
- Softens fine lines and wrinkles
- Improves skin texture – minimises pores and creping in ageing skin
How many Treatments will I need?
For optimum results we recommend 3 – 6 treatments at monthly intervals.
Peel only $140 | Course of 3 $350 | Course of $699
* Salicylic Acid is not suitable for those that have an allergy to aspirin or salicylates
A Medi Facial is a medical-strength cosmetic treatment, this doesn't mean that a Medi Facial needs to be harsh on your skin – it just means it's more 'results' driven than a generic facial treatment.
Medi Facials are tailored to your skin type and skin conditions such as rosacea, acne, scarring, pigmentation, sun damage, ageing and more. Medi Facials also help to promote faster and healthier cell turnover while also deeply exfoliating the skin. Typically, a Medi Facial may include peeling, an infusion and/or LED depending on how your skin presents on the day.
Cost $240
LED light therapy is a non-invasive treatment used for skin rejuvenation and the treatment of acne. LED is a painless, light based skin treatment that delivers light via thousands of tiny light emitting diodes. The infrared wavelengths increase cellular activity, helping to bring nutrients to the treated area. This leads to an increases in blood flow, promoting the production of collagen and elastin fibres.
What do the different LED light therapy coloured panels do?
Red Panel (630nm)
- smoothes texture and brightens complexion
- accelerates healing to minimise scarring
- minimises fine lines and wrinkles
- regenerates and stimulates collagen production
- minimises melanin production (pigmentation and sun-induced freckles)
- excellent for post surgery to reduce bruising, puffiness and oedema (swelling)
The red panel is used for the treatment of ageing and sun damaged skin. By activating the skin cells, skin will be hydrated and skin will be brighter.
- reduces inflammation
- tightens and tones the skin
- alleviates minor muscle aches and pains
- reduces inflammation associated with inflamed acne
BLUE PANEL (410nm)
The blue light is used in the treatment of acne as it kills the P.Acne bacteria that cause infection and inflammation while drying out sebaceous activity (oil).
The blue light activates a substance called porphryns which undergo a chemical reaction, destroying the acne bacteria without damaging the surrounding healthy tissue.
We are also able to treat:
- rosacea
- fungal conditions
- psoriasis
How many treatments will I need?
LED treatments can be done on their own, within a facial treatment, post peel, medical needling or as a 'boost' to any skin rejuvenation treatments. Depending on the condition being treated, best results may require a course of treatment, 1-3 weekly over a 4 or 8 week period. For resistant acne, you may require more sessions. LED treatments using the WHITE or RED panel will speed up the healing process after any surgical procedure.
What can I expect during treatment?
During treatment, you will be required to wear goggles. The increase in blood flow will have a warm feeling, similiar to the feeling of sun exposure (without the nasty UVA/UVB light).
20min $105 | Course of 6 $525 | Course of 8 $665
Facial treatment with LED $179
Vitamin Infusion Treatments
Th Environ DF Vitamin Infusion Treatment uses Iontophoresis to aid in the penetration of ingredients such as vitamin A and C, hyaluronic acid and antioxidants into the skin.
Sonophoreseis uses low level sound waves to increase absorption of these active ingredients by up to 400%, leaving the skin hydrated and more youthful.
- Immediate plumping effect on the skin
- Reduced appearance of fine lines and wrinkles
- Pigmented skins will appear more even
- Boost in skins hydration
- An excellent anti-ageing treatment that can be performed within a facial treatment, with a peel or on its own.
How many treatments will I need?
Treatments can be performed weekly or fortnightly if you are prepping for an event or as a maintenance treatment within your monthly visit.
30 min $140 | 60 min $185
With a peel $199 | Add on $45
IPL (Intense Pulsed Light) Photorejuvenation
As the population ages, ever increasing numbers of people are interested in improving their appearance. We are all born with beautiful skin, unfortunately many of us ruin our skin with exposure to UV rays from the sun and other environmental toxins such as smoking, excessive alcohol and drugs.
IPL skin rejuvenation works by a broad spectrum light that penetrates the tissue and is absorbed by either blood (vascular lesions/broken capillaries) or melanin (freckles) and denatures (damages) it. The body's natural processes will then remove the injured tissue, leaving the skin with a more even complexion and youthful looking appearance. IPL is also effective in the treatment of skin conditions such as rosacea.
What can be addressed with IPL treatment?
IPL photorejuvenation evens out skin tone, treats pigmentation (freckles), discolouration, redness and broken capillaries. Your skin will also have a more refined texture, with pores reducing in size and an improvement in mild acne scarring.
During treatment you may feel a slight sting similar to that of a small elastic band to the treated area.
How Many treatments are needed?
To achieve maximum results, a series of 3 – 5 IPL treatments is recommended, depending on skin condition, at 3 – 4 week intervals. You may require IPL to be used in conjunction with other treatments for ideal results.
What to expect post treatment?
Post treatment you may feel flushed and appear red, similar to that of an exercise workout. Brown age spots (pigmentation) will darken, as will vascular lesions (capillaries). This will clear anywhere from 3 to 10 days leaving the skin more even, refined and glowing.
IPL can be used to treat the face, neck, chest, hands and most other parts of the body. This is an ideal treatment for those with a more active lifestyle as the procedure requires minimal downtime with a low risk of side effects.
We ask that you avoid direct sun exposure and the use of fake/chemical tans to the area to be treated during the course of IPL treatment.
Full Face $340 | Course of 3 $899 | Course of 5 $1520
Chest $340 | Course of 3 $899
Face and Neck $510
Face and Chest $620
Half face – $225
Neck $220
Hands $135
Arms $570
Photodynamic Therapy (PDT)
How does Photodynamic Therapy work as an anti-ageing treatment?
PDT is the use of a photosensitising agent, 5ALA (Aminolevulonic Acid) and then activated by light to regenerate the cells and reduce sun damage.
ALA is a natural product found throughout the body and essential for haemoglobin synthesis. PDT kills unhealthy damaged cells only, assisting in the formation of fresh healthy new skin. The results are clearer, smoother and healthier glowing skin.
What can be treated with PDT?
- fine lines and large pores
- blotchy or poor quality skin
- rosacea
- psoriasis
- warts
- hypertropic lesions
- sun spots and freckles
- ACNE – see acne page
- cystic acne
- Bowens disease (medical)
- sebaceous gland hyperplasia
- seborrhieic keratoses
- PDT for acne treatment
Acne Treatment
Acne is a common problem, especially for teenagers. Research has proven that 30% of patients are cured of acne following one treatment and up to 60% following two** as an alternate treatment to Roaccutane™ without the side effects associated with Roaccutane™ use.
PDT works by;
- the destruction of sebaceous glands
- destruction of P.Acnes, the bacteria that causes acne,
- improves the texture and tone of skin
This treatment is suitable for those that have not responded well to antibiotics and prefer not to proceed with Roaccutane™. Most can expect an improvement in two weeks. (** With use of daily home care.)
How is the treatment performed?
After a thorough consultation, the skin is cleaned. The solution, 5-ALA is applied to the affected area. When applied to the skin 5-ALA is absorbed into abnormal and damaged cells. Once absorbed, an LED or IPL light source is focused on the treated area for a period of time. When exposed to this light, the abnormal skin cells are destroyed revealing new smoother, fresh healthy skin.
What happens post treatment?
Post treatment your skin will need to go through normal healing. You will be photosensitive (sensitive to light) for 24 – 48 hours. It is best to keep indoors as much as possible during this period. Expect that your skin will feel sunburnt and appear red and for some, mild swelling for 1 – 2 days. Your skin may also flake, crust or peel for 3-7 days. This is a normal result and means the treatment has worked by destroying the damaged cells. After 7- 10 days the redness would have all but disappeared and be well on it's way to healing. Skin may still be dry and tight. 10 -14 days later healthy, smooth, clear skin will be revealed.
All skins respond differently depending on the skins condition, and may require repeat treatment.
Call for an appointment (02) 9664 8011.
Kleresca® – The Latest in Acne Treatment
Our latest addition to Skin Clinic@Blyss, the Kleresca® acne treatment provides an alternative to medication, by harnessing the power of BioPhotonics to safely treat your acne and stimulate the tissue's own repair systems.
Acne is a complicated medical condition that affects approximately 85% of adolescents and some adults at some stage of their life. Research shows that only 30% of sufferers consult a Doctor or Dermal Clinician / Dermatologist / Therapist for their condition. Mild, moderate or severe acne can occur on the face, shoulders, chest or back and if left untreated can lead to acne scars and even depression.
With Kleresca, patients are simply treated twice a week for six weeks for just nine minutes each time. That's literally all there is to it!
What is Kleresca®?
Kleresca® is a breakthrough BioPhotonic treatment that significantly and comfortably improves acne, with a demonstrated safety profile. It is offered exclusively in professional clinics.
Kleresca® harnesses the power of BioPhotonics to safely treat your acne and stimulate the tissue's own repair systems. The treatment uses a high intensity in-clinic lamp together with a photo converter gel to kill bacteria in the skin and initiate healing.
The treatment is administered twice a week for six weeks. First we apply the Kleresca® gel to your face. It's then illuminated under a multi-wavelength LED light for nine minutes.
You may feel a warm sensation on your skin, and most people find the treatment pleasant and comfortable. After nine minutes under the light, the gel is removed. Your complexion may experience redness after the treatment.
What is BioPhotonics?
BioPhotonics is a unique light conversion system that is designed to stimulate your skin's own repair at the cellular level. Kleresca® is an innovative BioPhotonic treatment which utilises a multi-wavelength LED light combined with a photoconverter gel.
The gel allows the spectrum of wavelengths to penetrate into the skin to kill bacteria and stimulate your skin's own repair systems. This treats your acne and encourages the build-up of collagen, which may assist the repair of acne scarring.
When can I expect to see results?
You should see noticeable improvements to your skin as the deeper layers respond and skin repairing occurs during the six-week treatment course.
For at least six weeks after your treatment, you can expect to see additional improvements to your complexion. Results have been seen to have a long-lasting effect.
Safety information
The Kleresca® treatment takes place on your skin and is not absorbed or metabolised, making it a well-tolerated treatment option for acne and an alternative to prescription medication.
In clinical trials, Kleresca® showed high safety with no serious adverse events, and the treatment itself was considered to be a pleasant and comfortable experience. Side effects in those treated include redness and hyperpigmentation (bronzing of an area of the skin) and slight discoloration of hair. All side effects were transient and did not require any intervention by the clinic. This makes Kleresca an option to Roaccutane treatment.
The science
In clinical trials, Kleresca® showed high efficacy on people with moderate to severe acne. Nine out of 10 people saw an improvement to their skin, whereas every third person achieved clear or almost clear skin.
In an extended clinical trial, 92% of the people who had previously achieved an improvement of two grades or more on the Investigators' Global Assessment (IGA) scale for acne severity went on to maintain this improvement. None of the people treated returned to their original acne severity. Improvements were maintained for at least six months.
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Cosmelan - Pigmentation Treatment
Cosmelan is an innovative system designed to target unwanted pigmentation. Cosmelan works by fading existing pigmentation whilst sedating the formation of new pigment within the skin, working fast and effectively, without the use of hydroquinone. Cosmelan is able to be used on old and new pigment as well as all ethnicities with outstanding results
The first phase of the two-step program is performed in clinic where the skin is prepped, followed by the application of the depigmentation mask.
This mask is then left on the skin between 8 to 12 hours, depending on your skin type, and simply washed off at home with the aftercare products provided.
The following days after the treatment the skin may feel slightly warm and tight. We recommended strict guidelines with homecare to ensure the best results. SPF is vital, as well as keeping the skin well hydrated to help reduce dryness.
The skin may look slightly red when initially washing off the mask at home which may last a few days. The skin may feel tight and can start to flake and may even look a little swollen, this is completely normal. Downtime can vary and can last anywhere from 4 to 14 days but can vary. Again, we strongly recommend using the homecare provided.
This treatment can be performed anytime of the year. Depending on the depth and severity of the pigment most patients may need as little as one to three treatments. Top ups are also available.
What Conditions does Cosmelan Treat
- Pigmentation
- Melasma
- Sun spots
- Post Inflammatory Hypopigmentation (PIH)
- Brown Post – acne marks
What to expect / Things to know
It's important not to pick or pull the skin, a light fruit enzyme mask such as the Aspect Fruit enzyme mask to dissolve dead skin cells a week following the treatment.
It's imperative to avoid sun exposure during and after the treatment.
Cost $1250 (this includes homecare)
Laser Genesis uses advances in light therapy to restore your vibrant, youthful skin quality. Using a Q-Switched laser, controlled heat is delivered directly to your skin's dermis where collagen growth is stimulated. The treatment is well tolerated with no downtime and can be combined with other laser treatments such as laser toning and the famous China Doll Laser Facial, also known as the Hollywood facial.
Genesis laser uses a specific laser technology to gently heat the skin in the dermis. The temporary thermal heat increases the skin's collagen production, breaks down damaged capillaries and shrinks pores on the skin's surface. Genesis laser can be performed on several areas of the body, including the face, chest and neck and is suitable for men and women.
How many treatments will I need?
The condition of your skin with determine how many treatments are ideal for you. Generally we recommend 6 – 8 treatments at 2 week intervals
The power of carbon! The carbon peel is the newest treatment on the market to reduce pore size, enhance the skin's radiance and promote a smooth, clean, glowing, toned complexion. This treatment is very popular in Asia and has been made famous by Celebrities. A thin layer of carbon cream is applied to the skin, acting as a photo – enhancer. Once the carbon has penetrated the pores, the light from the laser is applied and absorbed by the black carbon particles. These particles then shatter and blast from the skin, taking with it both dirt and dead skin cells from the outer most layer of the skin (the epidermis).
The Carbon Laser Peel gives you glowing skin after just one treatment. In addition, this treatment also resurfaces the skin and provides effective skin rejuvenation with outstanding clinical results and NO DOWNTIME!
- Enlarged pores
- Acne, pustules, blackheads, whiteheads
- Sun damage
- Fine lines and wrinkles
- Skin tone and texture
$240 | Course of 6 $1200 | Course of 4 $880
Combining the carbon peel with laser toning and laser genesis, The China Doll Laser Facial is a laser procedure for enhancing the skin's radiance and promoting a smooth, glowing complexion. Also known as the Hollywood Facial, the China Doll Laser Facial helps to reduce imperfections including enlarged pores and acne, which originate from the outer skin layer. This laser facial treatment gives an instant improvement to your skin tone and texture, many people like to have a single session to have china doll porcelain skin before a big event or night out.This is why the China Doll Laser Facial is so popular.
With the advancement in laser technology, you can now fully enjoy an innovative way to rejuvenate your skin without the need to stay out of action for any time at all, the perfect no downtime treatment.
How many treatments will I need?
A course of 6 – 8 treatments over 2 months is recommended, depending on the condition of the skin to achieve maximum results.
You may also wish to enjoy a single China Doll Facial session to prepare your skin for a special occasion.
ULTRAFORMER is the World's No. 1 System for ultrasound lifting, tightening and contouring areas such as the neck, eyelids, chins, jawline, brows and areas of the body that are wrinkling or sagging.
With over 1 million treatments performed worldwide, the Ultraformer offers a multifunctional ultrasound device for those patienrts that are not yet ready or do not want top go down the path of surgery, capturing an audience of people from 30 years of age all the way to 80.
Ultraformer III is the premium multi-functional ultrasound device, offering both face and neck tightening and body contouring in one system.
And the bonus is that it can be performed over 30 minutes in a lunchtime break with no down-time, minimal side-effects and is almost completely pain free.
Using advanced patented elliptic transducers to deliver fast and consistent energy throughout treatments, the Ultraformer has improved patient satisfaction on both comfort and results. Ultraformer is a complete package that allow you to see improvements even after the first treatment, and no downtime associated with surgery.
Another feature that makes the Ultraformer III stand out is that it is calibrated to target multiple skin layers when used in the body mode to elicit the same lifting and tightening effect as on the face.
The Macro-Focused Ultrasound energy delivers high peak power consistently and is designed to lay wider thermal coagulation zones when used in body mode. This technology allows you to offer significant improvement in body contours on target areas without surgery and its risks.
Ultraformer works for face lifting, skin tightening, winkles, pores, V-line forming, jowl line, cheek, skin tone improvement, and overall laxity improvement.
Whole Body contouring such as décolletage, arm, abdomen, flank, thigh, axilla, lower leg, ankle and back.
ULTRAFORMER is the World's Only Micro and Macro-Focused Ultrasound System. Multi-functional cartridges delivering focused ultrasound energy at various depths – 1.5mm, 2mm, 3mm, 4.5mm, 6mm, 9mm and 13mm allows treatment on both face and body areas with optimal speed, comfort and efficacy for collagen stimulation, dermal micro-coagulation, and subcutaneous fat micro-reduction.
High-peak power means ultrasound energy is delivered effectively into the target area without heat diffusion to surrounding tissue. This produces the best clinical results, faster treatment times and increased comfort during treatment.
Coagulative temperatures of 60-70°C contracts and activates the skin's immune healing process, making way for collagen regeneration and remodelling for that lifted, tighter look that everyone is raving about.
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Why now Viceroy Snowmass? Last December, Snowmass Base Village acquired the Viceroy Snowmass, per Trip Advisor Snowmass Village's No. 1-rated hotel. They're just completing $3.5 million in renovations in its public areas, including adding a new Pan-Latin restaurant from Richard Sandoval, a new coffee shop, and a new fitness center, too. In the spring, they'll be upgrading the swimming pool and hot tubs, and reopening outdoor slope-side dining space.
Snowmass Village is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The Colorado resort boasts 94 trails, the largest vertical descent of any resort in North America, and a new 5,700-foot, rider-controlled alpine coaster opening this December. Snowmass is operated by the Aspen Skiing Company. With one lift ticket, one can ski four mountains in the area: Snowmass, Aspen, Aspen Highlands, and Buttermilk. Snowmass Village residents have ready access to the town of Aspen's famed high-end restaurants and boutiques at a generally much more approachable price. (Realtor Chris Klug of Aspen Snowmass Sotheby's International Realty covers this topic extensively in the third quarter market report posted on his site.)
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Every now and again I wonder: Why do people watch television? I include myself in this. In fact, let's rephrase the question: Why do I watch television?
I love watching television shoes and movies. I don't own cable; I watch Netflix, Amazon Prime, and whatever I can cadge off the Internet. My question ponders the act of watching other people pretend to live other people's lives.
Personally, I like getting lost in other worlds. I usually watch shows that have little similarity to my own life; so, it is an escape. Fortunately, I am aware of this.
I have just finished watching Bosch Season 3 on Amazon Prime. I've read most of the Bosch novels by Michael Connelly. Titus Welliver is the perfect actor to play this sardonic character and Jamie Hector looks and acts exactly as I pictured J Edgar. Perfect casting makes the characters real for me as I watch people pretend to be other people, who are themselves figments of an author's imagination.
Thousands of years ago, would humans have even thought about such a phenomenon as television and streaming video? Well, they went to see plays or listened to stories about historic figures– watching (or listening to) people pretend to be people that may or may not have existed. This fascination with imagining and enjoying other people's lives is nothing new. Perhaps television is an inevitable evolution of our artistic enjoyment, embedded in the human genes. Those who don't watch TV or videos might scoff because they read books. However, even reading books represents the same phenomenon: experiencing other people's lives, some of whom may exist or have existed at one time; much of the time, fictionalized lives.
As I watch Titus Welliver, I realize that he is the actor doing a fine job playing Bosch, the character himself, Bosch as depicted by or deviating from the character as conceptualized by Michael Connelly. I consider the artistry that makes me believe that Welliver is Bosch. Camera angles, soundtrack, lighting, all work together to create a mood and narrative as depicted by the director (among so many others).
When watching televised performances, I frequently consider technical aspects. So much is involved in creating even the shortest film. The other day a colleague showed us a 15-minute film of herself folding paper cranes while reading a poem she'd written that used cranes as metaphor. A few months before, she had read this poem to us while teaching us how to fold cranes.
These events are totally different. We shared this with her after she showed us the film. For me the film was a performance. Some people would view it as an art installation. I asked her about camera angles. I assumed that someone else had filmed her. However, she had filmed and edited everything by shooting and reshooting from different vantage points, editing and re-reading, editing and re-reading, until she acquired the effect she wanted.
I was fascinated by the process and her talent. Reading this, you probably are thinking that watching someone folding cranes isn't the most interesting thing. However, it was very meditative watching one segment of a person's life, while listening to her read a poem about the history of indigenous people. I have taken all the juice out of the experience with these flat words. Yet, at bottom, that is exactly what went on.
And if I were to flatten out the scenes from Bosch, the words would be something on the order of watching a police detective go about doing his job. Many of the scenes are just he and his partner driving around talking. Every now and again, there is a chase, gunplay, or other physical action emotionally intensified through music. Scene after scene. It is a performance that many, such as myself, find enjoyable enough to spend hours watching.
Our ancestors might not have been able to imagine television, but I think they would have understood the fascination.
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Lockleaze Renegades Basketball Club are proud to annouce the sponsorhip of its teams by the Raj Mahal Indian Restaurant. This has been a huge support to the club with its move to St Bedes and also its new team for the 2011/12 season.
Players and Officials have already enjoyed a great pre season meal at the Raj which showed why the Restaurant is such a successful business the Food was excellent and the service fantastic.
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Q98.5, Gilley's Heating and Air, Speedway Automall and Hammertime Sports are giving you a chance to ride off in a new 2014 Dodge Ram truck or one of two Polaris ATVs during the Great 98.5 Days of Summer.
A total of $98,000 in prizes, including the 2014 Dodge Ram Truck and two Polaris ATVs, will be given away during the grand prize drawing will Sept. 13 at Rockford Speedway. Entrants must be present to win.
All finalists will need their printed ticket on the day of the giveaway.
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Gilley's Heating & Air
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Advanced Medical Rehab
1820 Windsor Rd Loves Park
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Louise is a charming single story stone cottage ideal for a family of 2 to 5 people. The atmosphere is romantic, soft and cosy and very calming with natural materials, pastel colours, comfortable beds and furniture. It is suitable for families with young children as the garden is enclosed. So charming !
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Sri Lanka court bans foreign travel of Perpetual Treasuries officials
ECONOMYNEXT – Top officials of Perpetual Treasuries Plc, have been banned from travelling abroad by court over alleged tampering with digital evidence and submitting false information to a commission of inquiry.
Arjun Aloysius, who controls the Perpetual group, Chief Executive Kasun Palisena, Chief Dealer Nuwan Salgado and IT Executive Sachith Devathanthri has been issued a travel ban by Colombo Fort Magistrate, Sri Lanka's Daily Mirror newspaper said.
Criminal investigators had started to probe an incident where data has been deleted from the voice recording system of Perpetual Treasuries.
A Presidential Commission is probing alleged rigging of bond auction when Aloysius' father-in-law Arjuna Mahendran was governor of the central bank.
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At first glance, this stat seems ridiculous. However, after ESPN's Ben Goessling released an article on star running back Adrian Peterson's workout routine during the Minnesota Viking's off-season workout program, the claims are undoubtedly true.
At his gym in Houston, Adrian Peterson is training to outrun history https://t.co/mA5zyuFDqd
— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) July 12, 2016
Peterson's routine consists of at least 3.5 hours of track running, sprints, and weight lifting, often times lasting much longer. The main course of this workout feast lies in the sprints: 10 sets of 40-yard dashes with only 30 seconds of rest in between. The slowest Peterson's trainer permits for any sprint is 4.49-4.55. This would infer that on Peterson's best sprints, he is clocking well below 4.5. When compared to his NFL Combine 40-yard dash back in 2007, which was 4.44, anyone who is questioning if Peterson still has gas left in the tank? Now does this warrant us to say he should be considered a first round draft pick for your fantasy football team? Not necessarily.
Adrian Peterson as No. 1 overall? https://t.co/xVwKz0FMK6 Perhaps… — Sarah Bojarski Lewis (@Sarah_Lewis32) July 13, 2016
Although Peterson led the league in carries, yards and touchdowns in 2015, you have a few things to consider. Le'Veon Bell was injured for the entirety of the 2015 season and stands to have a breakout season, projected as the #2 overall pick in fantasy, just behind Antonio Brown. Peterson, on the other hand, is projected at #4 in RB ADP, behind Bell, Todd Gurley, and David Johnson.
With that being said, Peterson is on a Minnesota Vikings team that cannot yet confidently rely on the arm of young Teddy Bridgewater for offensive production, thus, the Vikings may still largely look to Peterson.
If he still has what it takes to put up great numbers for another consecutive season, and this news about his workout routine says yes, Peterson may be your go to back for a late first round pick. That being said, Adrian Peterson is aging and no longer feels like a legit #1 overall candidate. If you're picking at that spot, bypass "All Day" for someone with a little more upside and reliability.


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A Prescription for Wine? Really? Yes, in 1920.
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by Jan Moran Fancy a glass of wine with dinner? In 1920, you'd have to have a doctor's prescription for that elegant indulgence. In the US, the National Prohibition Act was in force from 1920 to 1933. During my research visit to Napa Valley for The Winemakers, I heard some amazing stories about how winery… Read More


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A new study suggests one of the earliest signs of Alzheimer's disease could be how well you sleep at night, even when no other memory problems seem evident.
Researchers found that sleep efficiency is slightly worse among people with preclinical Alzheimer's disease, compared with those without the condition. Sleep efficiency is defined as the ability to sleep throughout the night, with minimal disruptions.
"We think this may help us get a better feel for the way this connection flows -- does sleep loss drive Alzheimer's, does Alzheimer's lead to sleep loss, or is it a combination?" study researcher Dr. Yo-El Ju, M.D. said in a statement. "That will help us determine whether we can change the course of disease with pharmaceuticals or other treatments."
The study included 145 people between ages 45 and 75. When they enrolled in the study, none of them had any cognitive issues. However, their spinal fluid was analyzed, and researchers found that about one-third of them were very likely to have Alzheimer's-linked amyloid plaques in the brain (considered preclinical Alzheimer's).
Researchers found that those with the evidence of preclinical Alzheimer's had worse sleep efficiency than those with no evidence of it -- 80.4% versus 83.7%. Plus, those with evidence of preclinical Alzheimer's spent less time actually sleeping when they were in bed than those without it, even though the two groups spent the same amount of time in bed.
Those who were the least efficient sleepers in the whole study -- meaning their sleep efficiency was less than 75% -- were also the ones with a five times higher risk of having preclinical Alzheimer's.
This is hardly the first time sleep woes haven been linked with Alzheimer's. Last year researchers reported their findings that mice with Alzheimer's-linked plaques also experienced abnormalities in their sleeping patterns when the plaques were developing.
Plus, a study presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference last year showed an association between sleeping fewer or more than seven hours a night in women, and an effect on the beta amyloid 42/40 ratio, which is an early sign of Alzheimer's disease.
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This is a quick explanation of who we are and what we do.
Accident Specialists is a claims management company with over 13 years of experience on managing RTA (road traffic accidents), accidents at work and medical negligence.
Over the years we have realised that there are only few sources of information for people who are interesting in claim process. To make it easier we have decided to start our own Accident Specialists blog. As an experienced business owner I know what sort of information my clients were looking for, and how to say it making sure it is easy to understand.
We are aiming to create a good source of information by gathering all updates and changes in claims regulations, explaining clearly and deeply all aspects of making a claim. I will try to use a simple casual language, so it will not be as difficult as reading a specialists press but I will keep the quality up to standard.
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Wimbledon prize money up more than 10 percent
Total prize money for this year's Wimbledon tournament will reach $42 million, an increase of 10.8 percent that will mostly favor the early-round losers.
The All England Club said Tuesday that the men's and women's singles champions will each receive $2.9 million, a 10 percent increase on last year's top prize won by Andy Murray and Marion Bartoli.
But the main increases are for the early losers, with players who fail to get past the third round receiving prize money worth 12.5 percent more than in 2013.
"We've placed emphasis on the large group of players who need our help the most, those players who lose in qualifying and in the early rounds of the championships," Wimbledon chairman Philip Brook said. "We also had an eye to being competitive internationally, and we do keep our watch on what is going on in other tennis events and in particular the other Grand Slams."
The grass-court Grand Slam will be played from June 23-July 6.
In keeping with player demands for a larger slice of Grand Slam revenues, all four majors have greatly increased their prize money in the past two years, with Wimbledon offering the biggest amount following a record 40 percent increase last year.
The French Open now offers more than $34.5 million, the U.S. Open increased its purse to $34.3 million and the Australian Open went up to $31 million.
The Wimbledon prize money for the majority of singles players who lose in the first three rounds of the grass-court tournament has been increased by more than 100 percent over a three-year period. The main increase this year is for first-round losers, with each receiving $45,450, 14.9 percent more than last year.
"This year we've got a very generous increase once again," Brook said. "We wanted to build on the focus from 2012 and 2013."
There will also be an increase of 8.7 percent in prize money for doubles and a 6.1 percent increase for mixed doubles.
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We hear a lot about buying a practice, but we don't often hear from advisor that has successfully sold a business. Leesa Cattley retired from the industry at the end of 2012 and has not looked back. She has some great insights with the benefit of several years of distance from the transaction. Listen in to hear how she did it and the lessons she learned.
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It's Monday…& I don't know about y'all but I'm feelin' the heat and motivated for what's to come! Well, maybe that's more the Summer weather talkin' while I enjoy the sunny, warmth this state has to offer (for another 5-6 weeks). ; )
Regardless, I've got a few things brewing in this creative Cott brain of mine … but with any vision or goal come set backs and doubts. Sometimes we see the things or people that inspire us along our journey and think 'well shoot, I'm definitely not there yet!!' But instead of focusing on just the destination, today I'm focusing on my 'windy road' to success and enjoying the journey set before me. 🙂
I'm such a visual person, so when I found this quote I thought 'Boom. That's it!' No road to your success is a straight arrow. There's bumps and bruises, hills and valleys. I loved this reminder and hope you do too!


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Part of the series about Children with Disrupted Attachment.
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This program discusses issues affecting staff, including child care workers, camp counselors, and group home supervisors. Topics include the importance of attachment, understanding behaviors, testing limits, ongoing repair and crises, developmental level, developing trust, routine, consistency, and predictability, limits and control, containment and self-regulation, self-care, building basic skills, feelings, touch, strengthening families and maintaining connection.
When a child has a poor attachment to their parent, it leads to all kinds of problems, because they have not learned how to regulate their emotions, they have not learned self-control, they have not learned self-reliance in a positive way. So all these problems come out in every other relationship in their life. Alexandra Cook, PhD
A secure attachment system forms the foundation for a child's development. The often devastating impact of attachment disorder on children's sense of self affects their capacity to recover from violence and abuse in the home, and to form attachments with new caregivers if necessary.
In this four-video series, the presenters describe the impact of attachment disorder on the ways that children see themselves and interact with others, and how adults can respond most effectively. They explore such topics as setting limits, avoiding power struggles, providing structure, and building a trusting relationship. Their observations are reinforced by the accounts of foster and adoptive parents, group home staff, and former foster children. The presenters emphasize the importance of understanding what drives children's behaviors, rather than simply reacting to them, and provide concrete suggestions for containing negative behaviors and improving adult-child interactions
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Consultation Determined Admission Arrangements 2020
DITTON C of E JUNIOR SCHOOL
(Voluntary Aided)
Determined Admission Arrangements 2019
Ditton C.E. Junior School admits pupils into year 3 in the September following their seventh birthday. The current admissions number for pupils in each year is 64. Children will also be accepted into school at any point in the year provided that there is space available.
Over Subscription Criteria
Priority will be given to children who have applied to the school who have a statement of special educational need (SSEN) or Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP). As a result of this the published admissions number will be reduced accordingly. For the year starting 1st September 2019, where the number of applications exceeds the remaining number of places available the following criteria will be applied in the order set out here to decide which children shall be admitted.
- Children in Local Authority Care or Previously in Local Authority Care – a 'looked after child' or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements, or special guardianship order. A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989).
- Attendance at Ditton Infant School – (Linked Admission arrangement)
- Current Family Association – A brother or sister in the school at the time of entry. Ditton Infant and Ditton Junior schools are considered to be the same school for this criterion. In this context brother or sister means children who live as brother and sister in the same house, including natural brothers or sisters, adopted siblings, stepbrothers or sisters and foster brothers or sisters.
- Health and Special Access Reasons – Medical, health, social and special access reasons will be applied in accordance with the school's legal obligations; in particular those under the Equality Act 2010. Priority will be given to those children whose mental or physical impairment means they have a demonstrable and significant need to attend a particular school. Equally this priority will apply to children whose parents'/ carers' physical or mental health or social needs mean that they have a demonstrable and significant need to attend a particular school. Such claims will need to be supported by written evidence from a suitably qualified medical or other practitioner who can demonstrate a special connection between these needs and the particular school.
- Nearness of children's home to school – we use the distance between the child's permanent home address and the school, measured in a straight line using the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) address point. Distances are measured from a point defined as within the child's home to a point defined as within the school as specified by NLPG. The same address point on the school site is used for everybody. When we apply the distance criterion for the school, these straight line measurements are used to determine how close each applicant's address is to the school.A child's home address is considered to be a residential property that is the child's only or main residence (not an address at which the child may sometimes stay or sleep) and which is either owned by the child's parents or guardians or leased or rented to them under a lease or written rental agreement. Where partners live apart but share responsibility for the child and the child lives at two different addresses during the week, we will regard the home address as the one at which the child sleeps for the majority of week days.
In the event of a tie-breaker, where there are two applications which cannot be separated the proximity of the pupil's home address will be the decider. Where the two applicants live the same distance from the school a random selection will take place.
Waiting list
The school operates a Waiting List in which prospective pupils are re-ranked in line with the published oversubscription criteria, every time a child is added.
Parents must notify the school that they wish their child to be placed on the waiting list for the relevant year group. As places arise, the school will contact parents, according to the priority on the list, to allocate the place. Should the place no longer be required, the place will be allocated to the next name on the waiting list. Parents will not be informed of their place on the waiting list as this can change as new people join the list and other leave thus changing the priority of a child.
Applying for a place in other year groups or outside of the normal Year 3 admissions process
Children will be accepted into school at any time provided there is sufficient space within the year group. Our admissions number for each year group is 64.
Parents who would like to apply for a place should in the first instance contact the School Office to arrange a time to visit the School and meet the Headteacher. Parents will then be asked to complete an In-Year Common Application Form along with the school's own application form and return both to the school.
Requesting admission outside of the normal age group
Parents may seek a place for their child outside of their normal age group, for example if the child is gifted and talented or has experienced problems such as ill health. Requests should be submitted to the Headteacher as early as possible in the admissions round associated with their child's date of birth, but they should continue to submit an application for their child's normal age group at the usual time. The Headteacher will reach a final decision on whether or not it is appropriate for the individual child to be taught outside of their chronological age group and respond to the parents in writing. If the request is agreed the application for admission to their normal age group should be withdrawn and a new paper application made the following year which should include the letter from the Headteacher consenting to admission in that year group.
The Governing Body has established arrangements for appeals against non-admission.
These arrangements include an independent element.
Mrs A Coulbault
Ditton C of E Junior School
Approved by the Full Governing Body – 04 July 2018


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Not really being able to focus on anything other than the inside of my eyelids during most of December, none of my projects got any attention.
Having to miss my favourite little girls 2nd birthday was likely more painful than anything this flu bug could do to me. I consoled myself with some colourful yarns and knitting needles and somehow managed to get a little scarf together.
Just before the big nasty virus launched it's attack in early December, I did get a few gifts in just under the wire. After hundreds of feathers were cut, stitched and turned over many months, (OK, maybe not hundreds, but lots and lots), there were finally enough for this little Owl doll. Ollie the Owl is a creation of Angela Yosten, from her book "Sew Modern Baby" published by Stash Books of C & T Publishers. With big, round googly eyes and colours galore, it has to fun!
|Scads of scraps from previous baby quilts were used up for the feathers.
|Fusible interfacing and machine applique quickly took care of the details.
|Ollie dressed for the party.
With a number of new babies in the family this past year, I stitched up several more Owl towels using up some of the left over feathers.
|Left over feathers came in handy for the owl's head.
|The face was machine appliqued using a fusible interfacing which softens up nicely after washing.
A coordinated binding, machine stitched on both sides, finished the towels quickly and easily and off they flew to meet their new little owners.
|3 sets of towels with handy bath mitts for mom and baby.


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New Server/
Sorry blogging has been so sporadic lately, folks. It's just that we've been very busy at the office and any extra time I have has been thrown into this project.
You remember my post about getting a new PC, right? Well, junking my old PIII just added to a rapidly-expanding collection of old PC parts that have been taking up room in my apartment. Well, no longer...
Cruising eBay, I found a deep 4U rack case for $25 that came with a power supply, 48x CD-ROM, floppy drive and pretty much everything else I would need to put together a pretty cool server. So I bought the thing and it came to the office on Monday.
Last night, my mission was to get everything out of the old Gateway and into the new rack box. This sounds easy, but there were some challenges along the way. The old Gateway came in one of those cases where cards and drives aren't held in place by good, old-fashioned screws, but by green plastic clips. So there was a good deal of poking around the apartment looking for spare screws. Thankfully, I found enough to keep cards mounted to card slots and drives snug in their cages.
Another challenge was figuring out which wires to solder to new connectors so that LEDs light up and power and reset switches are connected to the motherboard. That was about a 10-minute brain teaser.
Then there was the wonderful task of finding jumper settings for an old 16X DVD-ROM drive that had no labels or model numbers on it anywhere. (In the end, I just guessed that moving the jumper one space to the left would change the drive from master to slave on the IDE channel. Turns out I was right.)
In just under 3 hours, I got it all taken care of. It boots. All the lights light up. All the fans are turning. Speaking of turning fans, the new case came with three of them! With the improved airflow in the box, the CPU cooler I mounted to the top of the processor's heatsink and the blower I'm about to go snag today from CompUSA, I'm thinking maybe I should overclock the hell out of the PIII.
In any case, my next step is to install a SCSI card out of an old PII 400 that blew up about a year ago. I have a nice 18GB 10,000 RPM Seagate SCSI hard drive that I want to throw in. (After all, it would be a shame to leave it just laying around.)
When I finish this project server up tonight (hopefully), I'm mounting it into the desk you see it sitting on in the picture. The desk has 60 rack spaces in it. (Here's a picture of the desk from the manufacturer.) I've got all my guitar effects processors, MIDI gear and power amps mounted on one side of it. I'll put this server and another rackmount server I already own on the other side. No silly towers cluttering up the place.
The old rackmount server used to run weekly backups of my other machines across the network with Norton Ghost. The new server will pick up those duties and I'll wipe the old one clean, install Linux, Apache and MySQL and use it as a test environment. (I'm teaching myself PHP and I'm dying to try a couple new things out.)
I'll post more on this project after tonight, but I've geeked out enough for now.


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June 21 keeps children active with Summer Learning Day
On June 21 schools, libraries, parents and more will share how their children are making their summer count with Summer Learning Day.
Summer Learning Day, June 21, is a national event designed to connect children with learning opportunities through out the summer. On June 21, add your summer learning event to the national map and see what opportunities are occurring locally now and throughout the summer.
Participate In Summer Learning Day events all summer long online and in person. Connect with participants across the country using Twitter hashtags #SLD2013 and #SummerLearning to share your summer learning events and ideas.
Get your child ready for the school year and engaged all summer with summer learning events, ideas include: host an art fair to showcase student work, organize a student concert or live performance, host a 'reading scavenger hunt' event to keep kids reading.
Utilize local community organizations for summer learning events: partner with a zoo, local farm, or Department of Natural Resources to teach children the importance of protecting wildlife. Organize a Career Day with local businesses.
Brianstorm and share your summer learning activities on June 21 to help children stay active, engaged and learn all summer.


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Dr. Renee Bohn never considered the cards, letters and care packages she constantly sent to Sgt. Lavern Patterson in Iraq to be that big a deal. After all, Bohn said Patterson, who worked at Lancaster One Medical as a medical specialist, was part of her extended family. "I was just supporting my girl," Bohn said. But when Patterson, a Kershaw native with the S.C.
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The S.C. National Guard's 3rd Battalion, 178th Field Artillery, once based in Lancaster was deactivated in August, but its legacy is alive and well.And now, thanks to the members of American Legion Post 31, the unit – called Palmetto Thunder by some and the "Third Herd" by others – won't be forgotten.Those who attend Saturday's Veterans Day ceremony will get a chance to see what gave that unit its ground-shaking name.
I'm originally from the small town of McColl, which is out in the woods somewhere between Clio and Bennettsville.Growing up, I heard a thousand times the tragic story of M.L. Jackson and his death at the hands of the Imperial Japanese Army. I vaguely remember kids running up and down the street beating on pots and pans one day.
Fire up your cauldron and get out your broom! Bubble bubble, toil and trouble, get ready for Halloween on the double!You don't need a magic spell to make your home the best haunt in town, just follow these decadent decorating tips to assemble a ghastly menu.Here are a few boo-tiful decorating ideas:– Place a branch in your chandelier, stretch fake spider webs over it, top with black plastic spider. This is a must for a spooky dinner party.– Use the fake spider web to get that special "haunted house" feel.
When it comes to baptism, age is never an issue.Neither is a medical condition. Just ask 83-year-old James Neely.Neely, who is confined to a wheelchair, was baptized Sept. 24 at Crestview Baptist Church.James' health might not be the best and he might be hard of hearing, but he realized it was time to make peace with the Lord at a recent singing at New Hope Baptist Church in Heath Springs, said his wife, Jackie Neely.The Neelys have been married for 60 years.
On a late afternoon, Ray and Barbara Fleming relax by soaking in the view from the front porch swing at their home at 317 Bailey Road.Hanging baskets filled with potato vines and ferns surround them while, just ahead, the front door is flanked by towers of ivy that winds and climbs along pointed wire forms.Rocking chairs welcome guests to join them to sit and enjoy the day, too.The view extends to the front yard where a blend of low-maintenance shrubs with colorful foliage are complemented by perennial and annual blooms.
In March 2003, the 15 members of Destiny Bible Church were worshiping in the Stephen and Stacie Braswell's Kershaw home.
When Kevin Spencer was 5 years old, his mother told him he was going to be a magician when he grew up. Three years later, his parents gave him a magic kit for Christmas.He did magic tricks throughout grade school, high school and worked his way through college with his own magic act.But it wasn't until he saw Harry Blackstone Jr.
When Sue Robinson felt a lump in her breast in February 2002, she knew she had cancer.
She had felt some pain first, and when she checked it out, she felt the lump.
"It was, of course, devastating," Robinson, 55, said. "It put me on my knees."
That was a Saturday. She called her doctor Monday, and a office assistant said her doctor could see her in two weeks.
"I said, 'You don't understand, I'm driving there right now,'" Robinson said.
Sue Robinson and Joannie Wood sorted through clothing racks at Hi Lites on Wednesday, in search of the perfect outfit with the help of Julie Walters and Norma Burnette.
The Shiloh Zion Volunteer Fire Department has been a community hub for 50 years now.
With three teenagers at home, Laura Joyner is always looking for ways to save money.These days, she constantly reminds the two oldest (ages 16 and 18) to watch their spending habits by coming home for meals."We've cut out eating out and are eating at home a lot more," she said.Not only that, but her husband, Chuck, is opting to come home for lunch."I fix him a plate and put in in the refrigerator," she said.
Reggie Mathis went to work this morning just like he always does. And if he did his job right, nobody noticed, which is just the way he likes it.Mathis, 40, has been delivering copies of The Lancaster News to more than 250 homes along Grace Avenue and throughout portions of Erwin Farm for 20 years.He is one of the 44 independent carriers who combined to work more than 100 hours this morning and drove more that 2,150 miles to make sure you're reading what you're reading right now.He hit the road about 2 a.m.
The switch from analog television to the digital age is still a little more than four months away.But Doug Crenshaw has a piece of advice for homeowners who still use an antenna to get their television signal.At midnight, Feb.
Lancaster County is rich in history with buildings, churches and homes that have withstood the test of time. Now another local landmark is getting added to the list of local treasures.The Lancaster and Chester (L&C) Railway will proudly be recognized at 3 p.m. Sunday when a S.C.
Evelyn Springs didn't take sides in a bidding war for Shawn Crawford's 2008 Olympic bag Tuesday night during an auction at "Lancaster Cooks 2008 – Look Who's Cooking" fundraising banquet for Autism Speaks.When auctioneer Richard Patterson banged his gavel, Bruce Brumfield won the framed bag that Crawford, a two-time Olympic medalist and Van Wyck native, used during the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.(But won may be a relative term.)Brumfield forked out $6,000 as he outbid Crawford's friend, Lisa Barber, for an aut
Two of inspirational music's best loved vocal acts are bringing their tie that binds to Lancaster this week.Gold City – one the top male quartets in Southern gospel music – will be together with Ivan "The Voice" Parker at Second Baptist Church, along with King's Cause. The concert is 7 p.m. Friday.Regularly featured on Bill Gaither's Homecoming Video and Concert Series, and a member of the Gaither Trio, Parker just received another favorite soloist award during the National Quartet Convention.
Attention all bluegrass music fans – it's time once again for the Carolina Legends Festival, to be held today and Saturday at Andrew Jackson State Park.This year marks the festival's 20th anniversary, although this is the first time it has not been held on Mother's Day weekend, said Christina Chastain, galleries and program director at the Lancaster County Council of the Arts.
The Lancaster Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association is sponsoring a workshop on drip irrigation, deer damage prevention and insects and diseases at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Steele Farm, 241 Community Lane.
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Fall TV Survey: 17 Showrunners Reveal How They Chose Their Show's Title
Mike Schur, Jason Katims, Shawn Ryan and others share the stories behind how they named their series.
Ahead of the fall television season's debut, The Hollywood Reporter surveyed a number of this year's top showrunners about their new series, making content in 2016 and the state of broadcast TV.
Below, Mike Schur, Jason Katims, Shawn Ryan and other small screen vets share how they settled on their show's title.
Dan Fogelman
'This Is Us' (NBC) and 'Pitch' (Fox)
"This Is Us was originally called 36, which is the age all the characters on the show are turning. I knew I didn't love 36 — it felt like thirtysomething, but I put it on the title page since I was sick of doing 'untitled Dan Fogelman.' At a certain point, it was a lyrical thing: I liked how This Is Us sounded and started thinking of the campaign: 'This is love, this is happiness, this is reality.' NBC was cool and went with it. For Pitch, I never had a title in mind. It was a communal effort with Fox and we wanted a title that said baseball but didn't alienate non-baseball fans. By the time we approached Major League Baseball, we had Pitch."
Liz Friedman
Conviction (ABC)
"My partner, Liz Friedlander, came up with it. We thought it was great because we're looking at these convictions to see if they hold merit or not and then it's also about the lead character's commitment to this and her personal conviction. So, it has a nice double meaning there — and it's one word and looks good in red letters. What else could you want?"
Josh Berman
Notorious (ABC)
"It came to me when creating the show. The intersection of law and media is notorious, and Notorious was perfectly suited. It's one of those times where if a one-word title can summarize it all, you grab it."
Scott Silveri
Speechless (ABC)
"We wanted something to capture the specificity of Micah's character, J.J., non-verbal [he has cerebral palsy], but we didn't want it to just be about that. It ended up being something that spoke both to his life and Minnie's character's outrageous behavior."
David Guggenheim
Designated Survivor (ABC)
"It was a no-brainer, [Kiefer Sutherland's character] is the designated survivor so I had to go with it."
Shawn Ryan
'Timeless' (NBC)
"In video village, while making the pilot, we learned that NBC thought our original title 'Time' was too simple. So cold, wet and sleep deprived we started pitching alts to each other and when someone said "Timeless" we all looked at each other and said, 'That works.' Then we went back to warming ourselves by a heat lamp."
Jeremy Slater
'The Exorcist' (Fox)
"We had a little help from a gentleman named William Peter Blatty."
Rock Reuben and Bruce Helford
'Kevin Can Wait' (CBS)
"'Kevin' rhymes with 'heaven.' It was easy."
Corinne Brinkerhoff
'No Tomorrow' (The CW)
"My co-writers Scott McCabe and Tory Stanton pitched it."
Mark Goffman
'Bull' (CBS)
"Fortunately our lead character's last name is Bull, so that was an easy one. I have Paul Attanasio and Dr. Phil to thank for that. Why is his last name Bull? Pretty much every connotation of the word fits the show's description."
Jason Katims
'Pure Genuis' (CBS)
"The title of the show was originally Bunker Hill — but CBS felt that sounded like something between an old school Medical drama and a Revolutionary War re-enactment. So we changed the title the morning they announced the pick-up of the series."
Mike Schur
'The Good Place' (NBC)
"I find titles to be the hardest part of creating a show, so I was relieved when the concept itself easily translated into a good, pithy name."
Jeff and Jackie Filgo
'Man With a Plan' (CBS)
"We had a title everybody liked with the word 'Friend' in it, but when Matt LeBlanc — who was famously in Friends — came along, it suddenly sounded weird. After that it was a months long process with hundreds of choices, but we like our new one better."
Chris Harris
'The Great Indoors' (CBS)
"Mike Gibbons (the creator) was brilliant enough to think of the perfect title, and I was brilliant enough to leave it alone."
Peter Lenkov
'MacGyver' (CBS)
"That was actually done for me 31 years ago."


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Occasions magazine- Winter 2012
Sweet, southern, sentimental touches was the theme du jour for Casey and Thomas' nuptials. And though Thomas popped the question in snowy Colorado, there was no trace of winter at this garden party inspired wedding. The reception site, the charming Primrose Cottage in historic Roswell, was the perfect place for Casey and Thomas to put her design background -- and their shared love of gardening and florals-- to work. The end result? One fine day.


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We've already heard great reports from some of our guides and volunteers who helped us in our projects. Many volunteers who participated in the count reported it was an eye opening experience, and their experience inspired them to do more for the homeless community. Todd*, a guide, reported he was able to use his money from participating in the census to get the tools and boots required for his new job, a goal that would have been unreachable without his work on the census. Jenny* used her money to get a haircut before several job interviews. We've received many such stories from our partners and it's always thrilling to hear firsthand accounts of positive changes throughout the community.
Our partners at The Center for Collective Wisdom have expressed the importance of small groups of community members who care about each other, and subsquently act together in the achievement of community wellbeing. We are pleased to note that we saw strong evidence of this during our homeless census. Teams of volunteers and homeless guides left deployment centers focused on their task of enumerating and returned excited about the work they had done together, the relationships they had forged, and their contribution to an enhanced sense of community wellbeing.
*Names changed to protect anonymity.