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Root/Unroot HTC EVO 4G LTE on Windows
shreesh posted a topic in HTCHello Rimwebians, There is too much difference between rooting htc evo 4G (& others also) and 4 LTE Special Thanks to Parin and Hetal because they are currently selling these phones hence I have got an opportunity to post a new topic So lets move to our subject, For rooting you will need to do following things: Download following things: 1. DRIVERS 32bit 64bit 2. Rooting Files Link (Mirror) update drivers using driver files and then double-click on runme.bat. ROOTING Step 1. First, you will want to make sure USB debugging is checked ON under Settings->Developer options. Step 2. Connect your phone to PC and make sure USB connection is set to "Charge only". Step 3. Make sure you have drivers installed for your Windows computer. Go into device manager and make sure you have "My HTC" or kind of "ADB" driver. Step 4. Your Evo 4G LTE will reboot about 3 times and will root. Step 5. Once rebooted after rooting, verify you have "SuperSU" app . Hence your phone is rooted!!!! How to Unroot your HTC EVO 4LTE Step 1. First, you will want to make sure USB debugging is checked ON under Settings->Developer options. Step 2. Connect your Evo 4G LTE to your computer and make sure USB connection is set to "Charge only". Step 3. In bootloader menu you will notice that you have "TAMPERED" Step 4. Go into Settings->About Phone -> Software Information and find the software version, for ex: say 1.13.651.1. Go ahead and download the same version of RUU. Step 5. Make sure you have HTC Drivers installed, you should see "My HTC" or "Android ADB" in Device Manager. Step 6. Now simply run the RUU .exe file and dont run any softwares on your PC while this process! Step 7. Hence, your phone will be unrooted within 15-20 minutes. Step 8. After Unrooting reboot your phone in bootloader and you can see the LOCKED instead of TAMPERED Now you have successfully unrooted your phone! Special Thanks: Youtube link- XDA evohacks


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Only five games have been played between Coventry City and MK Dons but they have resulted in some memorable games and goals…Coventry City take on MK Dons in a SkyBet League One clash tomorrow at the Ricoh Arena and the all time record reads in the Sky Blues' favour.
In the five meetings between the sides, City have won 2, with the Dons winning once. There have been two draws, the last of which occurring in August when the two teams played out a 0-0 draw at Stadium:MK.
Before that there had been a deluge of goals, with both teams scoring in every match played. Every Sky Blue fan will remember the 3-1 victory in 2013 when 7,000 of the Sky Blue Army travelled to Buckinghamshire to see Chris Maguire score two free-kicks to stun the hosts.
Before that, the last City win came in 2012 when they racked up a 3-2 scoreline. Daniel Powell scored for the Dons before Franck Moussa equalised.
Ryan Lowe gave the Dons the lead again, but two goals from Steven Elliott in the second half turned the game on its head and gave the Sky Blues all three points.
One player that will not be playing for City in this fixture for the first time at the Ricoh is Carl Baker, who will be lining up for the Dons instead.

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I know I had put on weight after returning from my Korea trip but didn't realised it was so much until I weighed myself at Expressions. I gained 2 Kg in just 1 short week in Seoul! As no one ever goes on a diet during a holiday, I just ate anything and everything I like, and had to face the consequences after the trip. It's just so frustrating that women put on weight so much easier than men!
Therefore, I was really thankful to be offered the opportunity to review a slimming treatment in Expressions to help me lose some weight.
Expressions is a recognized leader and pioneer in the slimming and wellness industry since 1989. After finding out about my concerns, the consultant recommended that I try the highly popular VIP Body System to lose those pesky kilos.
Previously, I had done a 3-day detoxification programme and Detonix-S treatment as well as the Proslimelt (ultrasound) treatment at Expressions.
What is the Expressions VIP Body System?
Expressions VIP Body System helps in reducing water retention, cellulite and excess fats from the body through the dual action of electrical stimulation and infra-red light.
Upon contact on the skin, the infrared rays facilitate heat transmission and micro-circulation to the tissues, producing a thermal action to reduce fats and increase metabolism.
The concentration of the infrared rays on the area improves blood flow and more efficient combustion of excess fats.
As a muscle firming and metabolic activator system, it improves overall tightening and firming at the area, without any side effects.
The 2 main benefits of the treatment are:
• Reduce overall fat mass
• Increase your basal metabolism rate
One session of the Expressions VIP Body System therapy is equivalent to doing 300 sit-ups and a weight loss of up to 1.5 kg can be expected.
The Process
The therapist proceeded to wrap my body with elastic bands and clip-on wires which are connected to the machine. The therapist also strategically placed infrared plates underneath the wraps.
The wires are responsible for producing electrical currents, thereby stimulating and tightening the muscles. The heat energy produced by the infrared rays help to improve metabolism.
The therapist checked whether I was able to take the electrical currents before lowering or increasing the intensity.
It does not mean that a higher intensity will be more effective, so it is better to stick to the intensity level which your body is able to accept.
The entire treatment lasted for 50 mins.
The advantages of this treatment are that it can target 2 areas at the same time which is more efficient and that it has more benefits than the other treatments I had tried before.
I did my tummy and thigh areas at the same time. The Expressions VIP Body System not only reduces fats and cellulite, it can also lift and tone the area.
Here are my results after one session of the Expressions VIP Body System:
Weight before treatment: 66 Kg
Weight after treatment: 65.5 Kg
Body Fat % before treatment: 37.7 Kg
Body Fat % after treatment: 37.5 Kg
After one session, I had lost 0.5 Kg of weight and 0.2 Kg of body fat %. The weight loss might not be a lot but I understand that slimming treatments also had to work hand in hand with a healthy diet and exercise regime to be sustainable and effective.
So, if you are considering doing slimming treatments, do note that it will take more than one session to see good results.
Now here is the great news!
From now till 31 March 2016, just use the code "GIVEME10" to be entitled to 10% off all products (just quote my blog name at the comment box) during checkout at Expressions.
Contact: 6887 1120
Email: [email protected]
Expressions Wellness website
Expressions Orchard Branch
121 Penang Road
#01-02 Regency House
Singapore 238464
Tel: 6735 7586
Expressions Upper Thomson Branch
200 Upper Thomson Road
#01-09 Sin Ming Plaza
Singapore 574424
Tel: 6358 1555
No monetary compensation was received for this review and all opinions expressed were my own.


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Kid Bedroom Trend DesignsDesigning kid bedroom sometimes can be tricky thing to do if you don't know kid bedroom trend designs in this very year. Among the designs in kid bedroom trend, the one with space theme has always been the favorite of boys. You don't have to think that hard to realize this theme in your kid's bedroom.
All you need to do is to install space wallpaper on the wall with the picture of planets and the night-like sky on the ceiling. To make this theme more real, you might need to add something here. Let's suppose the wall picture is the surface of the moon. Then, you will need to place rocket structure near the wall. It sure is one of nice kid bedroom trend designs, isn't it?
Kid bedroom trend designs might vary each and throughout the year. For boys' room, the space theme is more favored with the wall, ceiling, and rocket decorating the room.
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3 Steps to a Transformation
You might be upset with me today…
But sometimes it's worth getting you a little worked up in order to reach you with an important message.
Let me tell you a little story to explain.
On my internet independence website, I ran a business transformation contest. It was announced to over 6000 readers. Guess how many people entered? …. Two.
That's it. But there was no cost to enter. Heck, there was barely any effort required. Yet still, just 2 out of 6000 "showed up".
The lesson: Take ACTION. You have a lot LESS competition than you think. What's the old Woody Allen quote? Oh yeah,"Eighty percent of success is showing up." Seems to be very true.
So if that's the case, you have a great chance of being one of our next Transformation Contest winners. I assure you, out of the hundreds of people that tell me they are going to start, only a few will finish.
That's reality.
…that also means the reality of you winning gets a lot better.
So if you're wanting to change, but you're struggling, then use the TT Transformation Contest as that final kick in the butt. If you transform, you will NOT be disappointed this summer. Instead, you'll be leaner, sexier, and healthier.
You'll have more energy for your kids, for work, for fun, and even for the bedroom.
So here are the 3 steps you need to take to change your behavior:
Step 1 – Clearly identify and communicate what you want the new behaviour to be and what old behaviour you want to stop.
Step 2 – Reinforce/reward the new desired behaviour.
Step 3 – Make it easy to perform the desired behaviour. So make the necessary changes in your environment that foster the performance of positive behaviors.
For example, research shows that people eat more vegetables when vegetables are stored in the fridge at eye level. Little things like that go a LONG way in helping you change.
The more you make healthier options available to yourself, the more you will make the right choices.
Let me leave you with this:
"Identify exactly what is you want. This takes a lot of thought. Then don't let anything stand in your way of getting it." – Kekich Credo #56
Looking forward to your success,
Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS, CTT
Creator, Turbulence Training Transformation Contest


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The proliferation of unwanted surveys is an urgent issue for the market research industry. Over the years, unwanted surveys (including unsolicited telephone calls, emails and popups) have damaged the relationship brands have with their customers. They have also significantly damaged the relationship market research has with potential participants.
Concern about surveys is not new, but it's an issue that's more critical than ever. Back in 2013, the Australian Government issued a warning to its online citizens to be wary of survey-related spam. This sort of warning heightens the public's alienation from the survey process, damaging the overall reputation of market research.
In the ebook No Spam Surveys, Vision Critical CEO Scott Miller, makes a case for why traditional surveys are no longer sufficient in today's business world. "The era of traditional surveys is over," he writes in the ebook, arguing that companies should consider new tactics to engage and better understand the empowered customer.
What is a spam survey?
A spam survey—just like spam in general—is an unsolicited survey that's irrelevant to the recipient.
The main features of a spam survey are:
- They are sent to people who haven't opted-in and who didn't anticipate receiving them.
- People are receiving too many survey requests, from too many different sources.
- This can be because they are too long, but it can also be because they are written in a way that is unengaging.
- They're often too general purpose; people find the questions irrelevant to them and their lives.
The consequences of spam surveys
Customers have become so annoyed and alienated by spam surveys that many people have withdrawn some or all of their cooperation with companies. Stats show that customer surveys now collect the views of a tiny minority of the population—creating doubts about the validity of the responses.
Writing in ESOMAR's Research World (November 2015), Kathleen Frankovic highlighted that in the U.S. in 1997 "a rigorous effort by public poll" could achieve a 60 percent response rate and regular polls could reach 36 percent. Today, even the best studies only achieve 9 percent—and most achieve much less than that.
"Customers have become so annoyed and alienated by spam surveys that many people have withdrawn some or all of their cooperation with companies."
The second consequence of the rise of spam surveys is that the responses provided to long and boring surveys are plagued with problems of people satisficing (i.e. finding quick and easy ways to complete the survey, rather than answering the questions properly). Researchers and clients often approach this as a problem of bad respondents, but it is mostly a problem of bad surveys. We do not need to change the people—we need to change the survey process!
The research industry has been fighting the wrong battles
Over the last 15 years, governments around the world have been passing "do not call" legislation, followed by restrictions on unsolicited emails and messages. In each case, the research industry has lobbied to have its activities excepted from the legislation. Due to the success of these lobbying activities, the research industry has carried on using spam surveys, increasing the public's alienation from the research process.
This process is still continuing. In the U.S., the FCC is currently proposing to tighten the rules to ban uninvited calls to mobile phones. Not surprisingly, researchers are lobbying for the ability to continue contacting respondents and for FCC to clarify the limits of the proposed new regulation. Some people in the industry have been calling for a different approach. For example, writing in AdvertisingAge, Vision Critical Founder Andrew Reid argues that FCC's autodialer ban will lead to innovation in marketing and market research.
The market research industry needs to have a long-term view. The status quo when it comes to spam surveys will secure a short-term commercial advantage, but it will continue to erode the long-term relationship between the public and research.
Alternatives to spam surveys
As I discussed in my May 2015 post, there are a growing number of alternatives to spam surveys such as insight communities, in-the-moment research and observational research. (READ: Why the Long Survey is Dead)
In his ebook, Scott Miller recommends a four-pronged approach to replacing the out-dated spam survey model. Overall, these steps will help companies avoid sending spam surveys and become a more customer-centric enterprise. He recommends:
- Treating customers like people. Instead of boring them, empower your customers with feedback as well as questions. Prove to them that you're listening.
- Engaging with customers over time. Creating a dialogue with customers, rather than conducting ad-hoc projects, shows customers you're interested in them as people. Ongoing engagement removes the need to keep asking the same questions (e.g. profiling questions).
- Drawing on insight within your company. Treat every interaction with a customer as both a chance to delight the customer and a chance to increase your knowledge about what customers want and think. In many cases, the answer to a business question will already exist within the insight you already have. Do not resort to a survey as your first option—at best, yet another survey should be the last option.
- Breaking down internal silos. To fully utilize the existing insight within your company, you need to ensure that information flows freely around the enterprise. In order to engage with customers over time, you need to know what the organization is planning. Ensure that every part of the company is committed to listening to and engaging with customers.
"Instead of boring them, empower your customers with feedback as well as questions."
Should all uninvited surveys be banned?
Within market research, there are some occasions where a suitably worded invitation might be applicable. If you've put together a conference, for instance, a one-off survey with attendees might be appropriate. However, it's still necessary to check whether the audience is going to see the invitation as intrusive or unwanted. Ask yourself: will they find the survey boring or irrelevant? If the answer is yes, you might want to rethink your approach.
There's also a very different case to be made for social research. Many projects exist where the public good depends on contacting a representative sample—for example, studies where the government needs to understand the unemployment figures in order to be able target expenditure and assistance. In these cases, society needs to trade-off the disutility of unwanted surveys against the public good the information can provide.
If market researchers stop using spam surveys, the societal results of social research should improve as the level of frustration with unwanted surveys will probably decline. Both society and the research industry will benefit if spam surveys don't exist.
If you're annoying your customers with unwanted surveys, the time to stop is now. - @RayPoynter #NoSpamSurveys #MRX (TWEET THIS INSIGHT)
If you're annoying your customers with unwanted surveys, the time to stop is now. An unwanted survey is spam. As an industry, we need to take a hard stance on long, boring and unwanted spam surveys. The reputation of the research practice depends on it.
A version of this article first appeared on the GreenBook blog.


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Richard J. Daley College, a Hispanic Serving Institution, continues to respond to the changing needs of Chicago and its people by augmenting traditional studies with the technical, career, and occupational curricula that prepare students for the 21st century. Daley graduates transfer to colleges and universities all over Illinois or join the work force where they are among its most productive citizens. Daley's main campus is located at 7500 S. Pulaski Road and its satellite campus is Arturo Velasquez Institute located at 2800 S. Western Avenue in Chicago.
Program Offerings
Daley College offers associate degrees, shorter-term certificate programs, free adult education classes, and special interest courses.
Associate Degree Transfer Programs Take the first two years of a degree program at Daley College, then transfer to a four-year college or university and save up to $40,000 on your bachelor's degree.
Career Certificate Programs Specialized courses are available for students who intend to enter immediate employment or upgrade their professional and technical skills.
Adult Education Free literacy, GED test preparation, and ESL (English as a second language) courses. Continuing Education The programs are designed to provide students with lifelong learning opportunities.
College to Careers
Daley College was named City Colleges' College to Careers (C2C) hub for advanced manufacturing programs and works with industry experts to ensure students are prepared for 14,000 jobs in the field coming to the region over the next decade. Through C2C, industry leaders are working with Daley College manufacturing instructors to help align curriculum with new industry standards and ensure facilities provide the hands-on training needed to succeed on the job. Manufacturing classes are also available at Daley College's satellite campus Arturo Velasquez Institute.
Advanced manufacturing at Daley College includes two program areas: Computerized Numerical Control (CNC) Machining and Factory Automation, both of which require substantial mathematics aptitude to direct and maintain computer-guided heavy machinery. Students completing certificates in these areas can earn up to $23 per hour to start, and students completing associate of science degrees in manufacturing can earn up to $32 per hour. The certificate programs are designed to empower students to easily advance to associate degrees and bachelor's degrees.
Student ResourcesDaley College students have access to a host of resources to support them on their path to success including:
Additionally, Daley College offers a variety of clubs, organizations, and athletic teams to add some fun for students.
Recent Accomplishments
Richard J. Daley College's FY2014 Scorecard details progress toward 18 key performance metrics outlined in the City
Colleges of Chicago's Five-Year Plan that taken together help ensure student success. In FY2014, the hard work of students, faculty and staff
resulted in Daley College exceeding 11 of 18 key performance metrics and coming within five percent of an additional six targets.
Daley College saw impressive gains in student completion. The official federal graduation rate reached 13 percent, one percentage point higher
than the FY2014 target and an increase of 63 percent since the start of Reinvention. In total degrees and certificates awarded, Daley College
exceeded its target.
Class ProfileThe majority of full-time students are recent high school graduates; however, many adults also attend classes. The average student age is 28 years old. Classes consist of roughly 25 students. LocationDaley College is an urban campus located in Chicago's Southwest community. The campus is accessible via public transportation:
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Eagle Packet
The following documents comprise the "Eagle Packet." Make sure you download and print out all of these, except the Service Project Workbook, which is interactive and designed to be downloaded and used on a computer rather than printed out.
Read the Letter to Candidate first, then review the entire Eagle Scout Processing Checklist before you do anything else. Also provide a copy of the Letter to Parents at the outset of this process.
Before you begin your service project, make sure you have discussed it with your Eagle Coach, complete the proposal section of the Service Project Workbook and obtain approval of your project before commencing it. You should also obtain a Letter of Need from the beneficiary of your Project before you begin. You can bring out and provide to your beneficiary the "Navigating The Eagle Scout Service Project" pamphlet (link also below) to help with that process.
If you need to raise funds for your Project, make sure you read the Fundraiser Application Policy and discuss any issues or concerns with your Eagle Coach. Your Eagle Coach will also help you fill out your Eagle Scout Rank Application.
Good luck!
Letter To Candidate (Read First!)
Eagle Scout Processing Checklist
Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook – Interactive
Eagle Scout Confidential Appraisal Letter 09-01-2013
Eagle Scout Service Project Fundraiser Application Policy
Navigating The Eagle Scout Service Project (Provide To Beneficiary)
Rank Advancement FAQ (Mostly Re Eagle Scout Rank)
Eagle Court Of Honor Resources
Additional resources:
How To Find A Great Idea For An Eagle Scout Service Project
My Project Finder (Fantastic Eagle Scout Project Idea Generation Tool)
Eagle Scout Project Ideas (From meritbadge.org)
List Of Project Ideas From Scoutorama


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The growth in users of streaming media platforms continues to disrupt. In the second quarter of 2018, Netflix reached 130 million streaming subscribers worldwide. Meanwhile, Amazon's Prime service remains one of the most popular video-streaming service, succeeding Netflix and YouTube.
In line with the growth worldwide, SVOD services are also on the rise in MENA. Although barriers to using these platforms involve the cost and availability of content for free, paying for content is becoming widely accepted in throughout the region: nearly two thirds of internet users have paid to use any platform in 2017. Growth is set to continue as operators customize content and offerings with new titles coming on stream in Arabic.
Within this dynamic and disruptive environment, content platforms, business models, customers' habits are in constant change. SVOD platforms provide easy access and encourage "binge watching" more than one episode of their favorite show in one sitting, at the expense of other often advertising funded media. We found that 28% of internet users in KSA, Egypt and UAE are binge-watching daily, which converts to a potential daily audience of around 9 million adults!
For that reason, to better understand the customers who are the key components of this equation, we have been tracking market trends via the "SVOD Deep Dive" study in MENA since December 2015.
The study tracks the consumption habits, attitudes and behaviors of online users as well as their brand perceptions of the online platforms.
In an increasingly competitive market, to stay ahead it is important for content producers & service providers to understand what works for the MENA region. In this respect, "SVOD Deep Dive Study" will be an essential source to understand the MENA SVOD market and define business strategies.


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I really couldn't leave the chair as-is after the ottoman so I decided today to take it apart.
There were so many staples to remove 😦
Once I got the cover off, I noticed the chair was actually 2 pieces—the back and the bottom. The way the cover was attached, it looked like one solid unit. Rather than keep it the same, I turned it back to 2 separate pieces (it was much easier to reupholster too).
I may add some more nail heads along the bottom edge but right now, here it is.
It was a lot of work but it looks really nice. I also sewed the seam for the front edge of the seat. A very first for me!


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Mobile Hairdressing is a regular part of our daily lives. It's as well effortless to take it for decided, as well as fail to remember the essential task it has in causal to an energetic and enhancing economic climate. Mobile Hairdressing is a trendy profession that many individuals delight in making revenue from. Mobile Hairdressers job – cutting, coloring as well as shampooing customer's hair and several other services. Mobile Hairdressing as a Career has lots of uncommon forecasts and also can additionally offer you time to a hectic social life.
If you are interested in making Mobile Hairdressing as a career or if you are looking at what to do to come to be a stylist, the following to details will undoubtedly be useful for you:
Entry Level
In addition to having appropriate experience, hair stylists likewise need the ideal personal top qualities to advance. Prospects require being celebrated with their hands and passionate to learn brand-new skills. A sensible degree of ideas is required as are excellent customer service skills. These two particular will often be experienced as clients will certainly request for suggestions for different hairstyles for different intents. Along with this, you require to be eager about your job as well as keep alongside each other of new styles and fashions.
If you are a desire to begin a profession as stylish and are aged in between sixteen and also twenty-four you can get brand-new apprenticeship training courses, National Vocational Credentials, and added programs are additionally offered at colleges for people of all ages.
Daily Work
Salons and beauty parlors are consistently open throughout regular office hours from Monday to Saturday. A lot of them stay open late for at least one night weekly.
When mobile hairdressing first begins occupation, they will regularly be provided little work to slowly effortlessness them right into the job. These consist of keeping them clean and also a hygienic beauty salon, attending the phone, washing and cleaning hair and also keep up the storeroom.
Most of the mobile beauticians operate in hair salons; however, the profession isn't limited to just salon work. Mobile Hairdressing can likewise locate employment benefit the militaries, in medical facilities, prisons as well as various other civil services.
Occupation Prospects
Well-qualified stylists continue establishing their skills in top-notch areas. This can consist of tinting and coloring skills along with alternative therapies as well as various other mobile hairdressing solutions.
Offering your hairdressing services to photo album shops
After working as a hair stylist in a hair salon, some hairstylists decide to go into business, opening their very own beauty parlors. Some individuals begin mobile hairdressing and facial services at home for plateful people in the community who have troubles with maneuverability or who are unable to leave their house somehow or who want to go for a photo shoot for their album. If you wish to practice either of these, it is optional that you learn an organization management course. A driving license is additionally required and also is essential for beauticians intends to begin mobile hairdressing organization.


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We live in a time where, unfortunately, people feel they can say whatever they want without even considering how it makes a person feel. Trolls and bullies are real and they have spread like wild fire in the plus size community. When I first started blogging, the horrible comments I would receive, like "You're too fat for a crop top," or even, "You're unhealthy … you should go and exercise now" would really get to me and make me feel like I wasn't accepted or enough. But it was in those moments that I channeled the things that inspired me, things like other fierce plus women and their empowering, fearless behavior. From that, I learned the truth; and the truth is, fat girls can do any they want. We CAN wear a crop top. We CAN run a marathon. We CAN steal the show. We CAN wear bold patterns, stripes, bikinis and cutouts. Most importantly we CAN be seen, because #HereIAM.
I truly appreciate and absolutely adore JCPenney for launching their first-ever private brand designed exclusively for the plus-size woman. Boutique+™ will be a game changer, because it's for the fashion forward millennial (I am totally describing myself here, haha.) With sizes ranging from 0x-4x (5x online) and 16W-30W in both stores and online, Boutique+™ will literally cater to every plus woman's shape and size.
This blog post is in collaboration with JCPenney, all opinions are my own.


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Sunday cooking! I had prawns at home and I had a dish in mind. Unfortunately, the specific recipe I wanted, I could not find.. but I found this one, which I thought was easy to do, again, everything's available in your/ my kitchen. No extra shopping. As always, recipe here
Changes Made
- substituted the Shaoxing Wine (Chinese wine) with a dash of vinegar, and regular white wine (I used some South African wine that the brother bought recently).
- The prawns had already been prepared to be deveined and shells removed, couldn't do anything about that, but they turned out so soft and succulent, that I'd probably keep it that way.
- Not sure how to make kerisik? click here.
I loved the taste, and this is definitely going to get cooked again, multiple times in the future :)


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Trophies serve as a symbol of victory. It indicates a work that has been well performed thus marking the effort and the hard work that one puts in. The basic idea of giving away trophies is to create competition in the society. In order to recognize individuals who able to achieve something, specific awards and ceremonies are organized. It encourages people to focus on achieving their tasks.
If companies want to keep staffs happy and motivated they need to give away trophies which are crucial for business purposes. These are corporate trophies Melbourne. Companies do assemble with award ceremonies, recognition meetings in order to acknowledge the effort of their employees. It serves to foster loyalty and company trust, strengthens team, inspires the employees for better performance and also helps in reducing stress in the workplace. It generates a positive feedback. Business houses and corporate owners use these trophies to honor years of service to teamwork. Some Corporate companies even add certain logos to the trophies. These trophies serve as a means to recognize someone's outstanding achievement in their profession.
A reputed Sydney awards and trophies manufacturer will help you get awards, medals and trophies at affordable price. They provide top quality awards. Many schools, clubs, corporations, business, and individuals use these trophies and awards. They provide an extensive range of trophies for all events and occasions and even engraved trophies for organizations, teams etc.Nowadays, rewarding people and companies has become a standard practice. Rewarding people with trophies who achieve excellence within any activity has become a concept. Everyone who is a winner in any field gets a trophy. Earlier trophies were rare things. Giving away search awards and trophies can act as a powerful motivator. Trophies are available in various designs, sizes and shapes. Some of the features of trophies are unique design, supreme durability, attractive shapes, stylish look and attractive looks. They are made up of pure quality metal. Trophies are designed in such a way that they elucidate the status for which they are awarded. Some of the unique, beautiful and interesting designs of the trophies recognize the event for which it is used. Some of the trophies have computerized engravings as well and they also use diversity of materials and various colors. Some of them are made up of wood, some are made of lead and even some are made up of crystals.The different materials used in trophies, such as the type of metal used, have its own unique feature. For example, bronze is used to claim the third position; silver represents the second and the most exorbitant of all is the gold which indicates the first place. Many of them have the logos; names written on them; figure placed on them. They represent your aptitude and your value. They speak of something more valuable to any individual. They mean so much to you so you must take perfect care of them.


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I recently had the chance to try street luging, thanks to adventure photographer, Kurtis Kristianson. While I'll no doubt be writing more about the experience, I'm thankful that Paul Karchut from CBC's Extreme Canada was filming the whole thing, including a short interview with me, and made a great video of our first attempt at this crazy sport.
Stay tuned!


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Materials: Sand Softcover Book Item# S5946
Using photographs and corresponding text to present facts about these materials, Nonfiction Science Explorers engages students visually, as they read for information.
Teachers and students alike will love the activities in each book, which contain ideas for interesting and relevant explorations.
Each Nonfiction Science Explorer book: Introduces students to nonfiction text features, including a topical "pictionary", a bibliography, and an index.
Engages readers through the use of first person point of view.
Includes activities for further exploration of everday materials.
Awards: Learning Magazine® Teachers' Choice Award


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Lately I've had trouble writing. Usually ideas pester me for days {and nights!} until I write them down, capture those little suckers and turn them into poetry or stories, or both. For the last few weeks I've barely managed a good haiku or two. My mind has been full of birthdays and my cat's arthritis and perfecting the art of housework avoidance. Now Dreaded December is only minutes away and I'm hanging on tightly to November.
"Don't leave me oh beautiful November full of birthdays and sunshine and time!! "
The 1st of December laughs cruelly, "Mwah ha ha ha ha! Only three weeks till Christmas!! Please….step into my December Parlour where time flies as fast as the speed of light, the sun beats down relentlessly and the storms….Oh the storms…..destroy everything in their path. I am glorious December full of humidity and shopping and crowds and stodgy English meals and ……..visitors!! Mwah ha ha ha ha!!"
I sink to my knees and sob!
Today I bought a small plastic Christmas tree. Hopefully it will fit in the smaller gap next to the two-person sofa, which has replaced the one-person chair, with a larger gap. Tomorrow I shall put up this tree, bake the Christmas cake and begin on my Christmas letters and cards. For I know that these stories and poems, all my crazy ideas, are waiting for December to leave before they come out to play again. They do not thrive on stress, so the quicker I move through December, the faster they shall return.
If I had a Time Machine, or was good friends with an incarnation of The Doctor, then I could wake up tomorrow and it would be January the 1st of next year. I would have a brand new notebook and pen, my ideas would be back from their holiday and I wouldn't be writing rubbish about sentient months and Christmas stress. Oh well, I suppose ideas do need a holiday every now and then to keep themselves fresh and I need to make contact with the outside world occasionally. If only December wasn't so …………Dreadfully Decemberish!!
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You can! That's why you got the idea in the first place. That's why you thought of it!
It's your dream to nurture so get ready, get set and go after it knowing you have all you need to make it a success:)
Value yourself. Yes I'm talking to you so don't look behind you.
You know when you're being treated well…you know the great feeling it gives you to be around people who care about you and who take an interest in what you have to say.
You also know the feeling when you are around people who don't have your best interests at heart or who don't really care about what you have to say…it feels bad.
So who do you choose to be with?
Are you moving too fast? Do you rush through one thing and onto another, without taking the time to treasure each experience or at least to understand and learn from in? Are you always in a rush to go nowhere in a hurry?
All you'll get is an ulcer and a blur where you life should be so consider slowing down and savoring the experience of life:)


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These photographs were taken in 2011 and show some relevant landmarks associated with John Clare in the village of Helpston, Northamptonshire where he grew up. A major omission is the countryside which influenced his life, values and poetry. This is because the fields which now surround the village were not there – at least during the early part of his life. An enormous change took place when common land was enclosed and individual strips of agricultural land were reassigned in a bid to make farming more efficient – a process commonly known as the enclosures and it resulted in much of the pattern of fields we see today. While food production did increase, some people were displaced from their traditional holdings and access was restricted, where before people could wander at will.
Below we have the cottage where John Clare grew up,a couple of views of his memorial, and the local church which has his grave in its churchyard.


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B4ST – Hyperfast B4RN broadband for Stainton
Gigabit Vouchder Scheme
If you haven't already, please apply for your gigibit voucher scheme here.
You can find out all about the scheme here and you can find out the easy steps to apply here.
B4ST is a community-led project, bringing hyperfast broadband to Stainton Parish. B4RN enables communities like Stainton to come together, invest in and implement their own hyperfast broadband network, using the skills and guidance of B4RN. Successful B4RN projects are already up and running in neighbouring parishes all around Stainton, so our aim is to extend this to our parish, giving all households the opportunity to benefit from a world-class hyper-fast broadband service.
Why do we need B4RN?
The people of Stainton Parish currently have poor broadband. The likelihood of big improvements from existing providers is slim because it costs them more to install the service to rural properties than it does to urban/suburban properties.
So what do we do about it?
The people of Stainton are an able bunch, and have come together to form their own B4RN project – B4ST (Barn for Stainton). The project is not for profit. Using the skills of the people in the commumity we are going to implement B4RN for the parish of Stainton. This involves everyone who is interested joining in, getting involved in whatever capacity they can and doing something good for the community. In return for this hard work, we all get the fastest broadband available for a very reasonable monthly charge.
How will it work?
The project involves laying high-speed fibre optic cables, to an agreed plan, wherever possible across farmers' fields. This is MUCH cheaper than digging up the roads, and totally independent of other providers' networks (i.e. BT). The digging, connections and services are provided through a combination of community volunteers, donations, and farmers digging in return for shares in the broadband company.
The B4RN connection speed starts at 1,000Mbps and has a much higher capacity than BT are planning for many years, as it is fibre all the way to the home. Once connected to B4RN, the monthly cost will be around £30 per property, which is very competitive with BT and other providers, and much cheaper than a dedicated line.


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Since I had 2 free weeks (short version – they messed up our order about a month ago), of Pizza Hut, for Mikey, I'm a FREE woman, when it comes to choosing pizza. It's like a whole new world (feel free to sing Aladdin there).
Here's Mikey's Pan Cheese Pizza <–he's a man of NO change.
The bald spot is back. Just to annoy me, Mikey ate that piece first.
Since the pizza world was WIDE open, I chose Five Boroughs. (On North Bend Rd – right by Harvest Home Park) I wish I could link you, but they are, apparently, not in the 21st (or the 20th) century yet. 😦 They pride themselves on New York style pizza. You can even go in and order it, by the slice. Which is awesome, for a quick lunch!
I went with the Medium Brooklyn Dodger – Pepperoni, Sausage, Mushrooms, Green Peppers, Onions and a sprinkle of garlic.
Is there a cow shortage, that I'm unaware of? Because, the last 2 places, have given me NO cheese, on my pizzas! I know I'm picky, so I took another picture.
I'm not making it up, I swear.
I was willing to give it a pass (even though they weren't busy and could have given full attention, to my pizza making…just sayin').
The crust was awesome. The sauce needed to be heavier. The cheese, we've established, was non-existent. (even the husband, who isn't as nearly as picky as I am, said the same thing!) Toppings were a decent amount. By far, one of the better pizzas out there – BUT, needs more cheese. I don't know that I can say that enough. That's a pretty important component of a pizza…
I've tried other things, at Cincitalia, from them – they have fabulous garlic knots, stromboli and delicious pasta, too!
If you live on the west side and are looking for something different (meaning, something other than Larosa's!), try Five Boroughs (might want to get extra cheese though). They have a great special, on Mon – Wed…Buy a Large @ regular price and get a Large Cheese FREE. Great for Monday night football. 😉


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Oregon State sophomore Nicole Schroeder is heading to the NCAA National Championships on a major roll, having won the Madison, Wis., Regional by eight strokes Tuesday.
Schroeder shot two rounds in the 60s in the three-round regional, earning a spot at the Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Okla., beginning May 18. The Beavers finished eighth as a team, missing a spot in the finals by two spots.
By winning the regional, Schroeder completed a stunning turnaround from the Pac-12 Championships two weeks earlier when she finished in a tie for 34th at 12-over. Oregon State finished 11th in the conference tournament, but still managed a spot in the 72-team regional line-up, which allowed Schroeder to dazzle the Wisconsin fans.


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This project will deliver three outcomes for investors.
1. Blueprint: The provision of a comprehensive, exhaustively tested body of research validating the size, scale, feasibility and attractiveness of the opportunity to sell premium New Zealand grass-fed beef through an innovative F2C multi-channel format in local and export markets.
2. Commercialization Model: The provision of a fully-costed, pressure-tested business model demonstrating how the opportunity will be monetised. The business model will include a marketing strategy and business plan clearly demonstrating how the venture plans to capture and secure the opportunities.
3. Investment Strategy & Structure: This will underpin the raising of capital to support the new business venture providing opportunities for 999 producers, investors, and in-market partners to engage with and become part of this exciting business opportunity.


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HOPE also opened another Formal School in Thatta. The school was previously situated in the same building as the HOPE Hospital. In 2010, a new building for the school was opened. The school currently has 250 students and ten teachers. There is a science lab, computer room and library. The HOPE school is providing quality education at low costs to the community children.
Mr. Mohsin Nathani of Standard Chartered Bank, Mr. Rohail Mohammad of Engro and Mr Khalid Iqbal sponsor the HOPE School. The official inauguration ceremony for the Thatta School was held on March 5, 2011. Mr. Mohsin Nathani, accompanied by Mr. Ali Habib were present at the ceremony.


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Enjoy the holiday season with Twin Cities most authentic Russian classical version of Nutcracker, set to Tchaikovsky's timeless music.
Performance is faithful to the original Marius Petipa choreography.
Friday, December 13th – 7:00pm
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Tickets for all shows are available for on-line purchase:
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The aim of this work was to evaluate the release profile of vancomycin hydrochloride (VC), as well as the degradation, in vitro antistaphylococcal effect and cytotoxicity in MG-63 osteoblast-like cells of gelatin–starch (GS) films added with different concentrations of microparticles of the bioactive glass 45S5 (m-BG). The biomaterials were obtained through the gel-casting method. Four different composites were prepared at four different weight percentages of m-BG: 0, 5, 10, and 15 %. Glutaraldehyde 0.25 wt% (GA) was used as the cross-linker. The composites were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and the in vitro degradation of the films was studied by measuring the water uptake and weight loss. The drug release kinetics was quantified spectrophotometrically. The inhibition zone test and the plate count method were used to evaluate the antibacterial activity of the samples. Three staphylococcus strains were evaluated: Staphylococcus aureus ATCC6538, S. aureus ATCC29213, and Staphylococcus epidermidis ATCC12228. Cytotoxicity effects were evaluated through the MTT assay. The addition of m-BG to GS films showed no effects on the amount of water uptake, but led to an increase in the weight loss over time, even with m-BG content. The release rate of VC was also affected by the increasing concentration of m-BG in the composite films. However, the antibacterial effects of the composites were not improved by this modulation. All composites strongly inhibited staphylococcal cells with similar strength. On the other hand, liquid extracts from the composites resulted in cytotoxic effects on MG-63 osteoblast-like cells due to the presence of GA, but not to the concentration of VC or m-BG.
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Rivadeneira, J., Di Virgilio, A.L., Audisio, M.C. et al. 45S5 Bioglass® concentrations modulate the release of vancomycin hydrochloride from gelatin–starch films: evaluation of antibacterial and cytotoxic effects. J Mater Sci 52, 9091–9102 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-016-0512-5
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VANCOUVER — British Columbia journalist Dorothy Parvaz said she plans to head back to the Middle East to report for television network Al Jazeera after a couple of weeks at home in Vancouver.
Parvaz made headlines after she was detained April 29 while attempting to get into Syria and then deported days later to Iran. Her disappearance prompted a flurry of appeals — from Canadian and U.S. government officials, journalism organizations, human rights groups and Facebook groups — to set her free.
The 39-year-old was released two weeks later and arrived home in Vancouver on Thursday.
In an interview with the Vancouver Sun, Parvaz urged people to pay attention to the situation in Syria where anti-government protests are being violently suppressed.
"Don't turn away (from Syria)," Parvaz said. "It's absolutely crucial to focus on it. If they're reacting this way, there's got to be a story here."
On Tuesday night, as soon as she cleared customs after getting off a plane in Doha, Qatar, she called her fiance Todd Barker's cellphone.
"I'm very happy to be home," Parvaz said. "Although I knew I was OK, my family didn't."
Parvaz was unaware of the social media campaign to free her that her friends and family set up on both Facebook and Twitter. She knew her family, fiance and employer would notice she was missing, but she had no idea she would be the subject of news stories around the world.
"I know that sometimes journalists become the story, but the only reason a journalist ends up in that situation is because there is a bigger story to be told," Parvaz said. "I really hope journalists and news organizations keep pushing to get reporters in (Syria) and keep reporting."
But Parvaz said her experiences in Syria were terrifying.
"I was really horrified by what I saw and heard in the detention centre in Syria," Parvaz said. "What I heard were not interviews; people were being brutalized."
She said she was handcuffed and blindfolded and made to stand in a courtyard to listen while people were tortured in the detention centre.
"I remain so haunted by the noises and cries of these young men and my two cellmates — two women. I fear so much for them."
When Parvaz first arrived in Syria, the customs agent told that her passport was expired. She says there was a discrepancy with the dates between the English and the Farsi on the passport, but that the discrepancy was sorted out quickly. Parvaz holds Canadian, American and Iranian passports.
Trouble began when she was strip-searched and guards found her American passport, which had an Al Jazeera visa identifying her as a journalist. She also had a satellite phone and an Internet hub. She was accused of being a spy for Israel.
She didn't have a fixer or a translator, but she did tell the authorities that she was there as a journalist.
"People are terrified and paranoid. It's a massive risk to be a translator or a fixer for a journalist in Syria," she said.
She said her interrogator made it clear that Al Jazeera is considered on a par with human rights groups as far as the Syrian authorities are concerned.
On the third day, she was told she was being flown back to Qatar.
"They sent me with my marching orders to talk to my bosses about how Al Jazeera is covering the events in Syria," she said.
But when she arrived at the airport, she was put on a flight to Iran against her will.
Although she was held in the same complex as the notorious Evin prison in Iran, she was in a detention centre, where she was respectfully treated. She said she understands that Iran had to investigate Syria's claims that she was a spy.
She was held in solitary confinement between interrogation sessions, but says the women were kind. Parvaz is a vegetarian, and she said her captors were very concerned about what to feed her, or that she was losing weight.
"My interrogator was effective. This was not a picnic, it was not fun," Parvaz said. "I really pleaded with the man to let me call my father."
Finally, one night, her interrogator told her she would be set free and flown to Qatar the next day.
"I was elated, but I really hoped it was true," she said. "I desperately wanted to tell the story about Syria. I couldn't wait to land in Doha to scream the story out."
Her captors sent her home with three boxes of her favourite candy — Gaz, a nougat with pistachios or almonds — from her birthplace, Esfahan, Iran.
Parvaz moved to Canada when she was 12, and is a graduate of the University of B.C. She worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for many years, and started working for Al Jazeera in 2010.
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Don't you guys remember the time before satellite television came into picture we used to wait for weekends, the only time where you get to see Duck tales, Tale spin etc. It is right after the Sunday morning 9am program. That was the only program targeted for kids exclusively on the television then. Times have changed and so the entertainments in TV channels. You have plenty of channels on the television and some targeting kids with cartoons and other stuff. But there are some movies kids like to see and not all have come in the Indian television (the Indian channels) and that is where &pictures – India's premium mass Hindi movie channel – presents an opportunity of a perfect afternoon for kids and ensure that they watch some blockbusters with a subtle life lesson shared in the most entertaining manner. It's latest summer movie festival, 'Kiddies Express', takes audiences on a fun-filled ride with entertaining global successes along with a lot of learning. Starting from Monday, 9th May, It daily at 12 noon upto Friday, 13th May
Some of the movies include:
Kung Fu Panda
In the Valley of Peace, Po the Panda, finds himself chosen as the Dragon Warrior despite the fact that he is obese and a complete novice at martial arts. The movie is directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne and stars the voices of veteran Hollywood talent like Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, Randall Duk Kim, James Hong, and Jackie Chan.
An excerpt from the film:
Po: "Maybe I should just quit and go back to making noodles."
Oogway: "Quit, don't quit… Noodles, don't noodles… You are too concerned about what was and what will be. There is a saying: yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present."
This film showcases the story of four animals who have spent their lives in blissful captivity in Manhattan's Central Park Zoo. Chris Rock voices Marty, a jaded zebra is ready for a change after ten years of comfortable captivity at the Zoo. He flees for the green fields of Connecticut, prompting a rescue mission by his best friends: the Zoo's star attraction Alex the lion (Ben Stiller), a bossy hippo named Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), and the clumsy, hypochondriac giraffe Melman (David Schwimmer). They are unexpectedly shipped back to Africa and end up getting shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar.
The film teaches us to rejoice everything that life throws our way just as like Kurt Vonnegut said, "Enjoy the little things in life cause one day you'll look back and realise that they were the big things!"
Mr. Go
A crisp narrative and some truly amazing technical expertise combine to make Mr Go one of the best family films with big laughs, big emotion and even bigger thrills. Its engaging plot offers a thoroughly enjoyable experience for all ages. It is based on the classic 1980s comic '7th Baseball Club', the titular character refers to a 285 kg circus gorilla who is the first to be recruited by a savvy baseball agent to join the professional
Korean Baseball League. Setting the stage for the gorilla Ling Ling's journey to Korea is the Great Sichuan Earthquake in 2008, which causes the death of 15- year old Wei Wei's (Jiao Xu) grandfather and leaves her in charge of his circus with a huge debt over their heads. As debtors harass her, Wei Wei is left hassled on how to save the circus and the forty other orphans who stay under its roof. And so, when the wily Sung (Korean actor Sung Dong-il) comes in to assist, she readily accepts his offer to transform Ling Ling into a baseball star. Dreaming of success, Weiwei and Ling Ling go to South Korea and Ling Ling quickly becomes a superstar in the baseball league.
What makes it a must-see film is that it makes you smile with its heartwarming, poignant and inspirational story.
Apart from these they are also featuring Movies like Jumanji and Stuart Little 2.
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|[greenstone-devel] Context Search?
|One of the user requirements for a digital library that I am building
is that the user should be able to browse the hierarchy and then once
they have narrowed down their list of possibilities, they can search
the documents in this part of the hierarchy for documents that contain
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Literary Framework
As with any text there are variety of ways that we can investigate Oedipus the King. For example, one feature that might be particularly significant with this particular text is the cultural context in which the play was written. We might struggle to adequately unpack the text without an understanding of Ancient Greek writing and theatre.
We can use a framework that will help us to investigate Oedipus (and many other texts):
- Setting
- Social structure/lifestyle (of writers; of audience)
- Religious beliefs
- Theatre
- Stylistic features
- Where were the theatres
- Role of theatre in society
- Cummings Guide on Three Theban Plays
- On Greek Theatre Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
- Origins of Theatre
- What are the features of this text?
Contextual (conversations between reader and writer)
- Background to Sophocles
- Politics
- Context/climate the play was written in (linked with Cultural)
Most good responses/considerations of a text will to some degree feature a combination of these 3 perspectives (with the possible exception of the commentary). It is our job to compile details and thoughts on these ideas. How should we share our findings? How should we keep a record?
Paste the details of your investigation into this document.
Check out the short version of Oedipus the King the last IB2's created.
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Cat's Cradle: A Fantasy Town for 5e and Other RPG Systems
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Frog God Games is a 3rd Party Publisher for 5th Edition and The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and a 1st Party Publisher for Swords & Wizardry.
Bill Webb has over 300 books to his credit—
writing, developing and directing the creation of over 150,000 pages of fantasy RPG material as the creative director. His best known works include Rappan Athuk, The Sword of Air, The Slumbering Tsar Saga, Tome of Horrors, Wilderlands of High Fantasy, Dungeon of Graves, Demons and Devils, the Crucible...
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Kingdom Christian Academy is the only non-denominational Christian school in Leavenworth, Kansas and exists under the ministry of Harvest Christian Center International. Our center provides a safe environment where children can learn from our highly-qualified staff. Our goal is to provide a learning atmosphere where parents feel comfortable knowing their children are well cared for, loved and respected.
Preschool hours are 6:30 a.m.- 6 p.m. from August-May.
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Sunday, September 30, 2007
High button shoes
I have been having fun this weekend experimenting on some realistic looking, high button shoes for my doll. I think I am finally happy with the results.
It's amazing how similar to leather, fabric can look and feel after painting it!
The seperate soles were a trick, but with lots of basting & tons of patience, Voila!
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Friday, September 28, 2007
Doll Doodling!
I love to draw, especially faces, and thought I would try to incorporate this a bit more into my dolls. Here is my latest experiment. She is completely drawn in artist's pencils with just the teensiest bit of needle sculpting. This is not an easy task where the hair is concerned! I might have to add a bit of paint to it? Back to the lab & thanks for stopping by!!!!! Have a great weekend too!
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Saturday, September 1, 2007
Ava Grace's Guardian Angel
Here's a peek at Ava's angel (see previous post). (Please click HERE for the silent auction on Sept. 16)
Now to take some pics and a make a few minor adjustments. Can't have crooked wings on an Angel!!!!
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The Retinal Practice: Economics, Benchmarks,
and Career Issues
A seasoned observer's perspective on the unique challenges and rewards.
Although retinal specialists and general ophthalmologists may have started with the same mindset in medical school, retinal specialists' practices, patients, and treatments are completely different from their anterior segment colleagues.
"When we all made a choice to enter the eye care field, I think we were initially drawn to the remarkable features of the eye itself. Not lost in our decision however, was the realization that ophthalmology has a lot going for it: primarily healthy patients and a nice balance of medical and surgical work," says Willie K. M. Shields, M.D. "Ophthalmology is typically financially rewarding, it had good hours, and it had neat tools and things to look at -- really a nice, clean specialty. And then some of us threw much of that away and took up the field of retina."
This is an obvious fact most ophthalmology residents seemingly overlook. It takes luck, connections, brains, some lifestyle concessions and 2 years (5500 hours) to transform a general ophthalmologist into a retinal surgeon.
Your total practice career may be clipped from 35 years to 33 years, but if you're relatively energetic, you will make an extra $500000 or more in each one of those 33 practice years. If you reduce this annual "retinology dividend" for taxes, by multiplying it by 33, and divide it by 5500 (for the hours of extra training time) you arrive at over $1700 per hour that you're paid for every single hour in training in those 2 supplemental years.
That's nearly $10 million in after tax income for the extra 5500 hours of training. There is probably no other domain of post-graduate medical training that pays so handsomely. It's surprising there are only about 1500 of these subspecialists in America. This article will cover a few of the other hallmarks of this financially vital and administratively fascinating corner of eye care.
In my many years of experience traveling around the country as an on-site consultant, I can say retinal subspecialists are just like other ophthalmologists -- only more so. They tend, as a cohort, to be more intense, more intellectually-focused, and more given to anxieties that are out of all proportion to the offending stimuli.
I find retinal surgeons to be somewhat more Renaissance in the breadth of their interests in and out of medicine, and far more enthralled by technology in most cases. I'm not entirely sure if this is because retinology has a higher demand for technology, or the favorable cash flow of retinal practice allows an accelerated adoption of every new technology. Their tendencies toward short attention spans in areas they don't particularly relish can make retinal surgeons very challenging to communicate with on matters requiring patient, linear projection. For example, when having to review financial trends or long-term plans for a satellite, their ample minds can end up with considerable drifting toward interesting but less relevant topics.
With a few prominent exceptions, retinologists are consummate gentlemen and ladies. And the more successful the doctor, the more gentle the person. I believe this flows from 2 aspects of this subspecialty.
First, retinal surgeons are not often about to abruptly reverse the disease process. A "win" for them can often mean a disease's progression has been slowed. As a result, patients who can't be cured are comforted.
Second, retinal surgeons are highly dependent on optometrist and ophthalmologist referrals. As every subspecialist knows, you learn how to be super affable and super accessible to patients and fellow doctors.
Congenial surgical retinal specialists who possess good skills and work hard in markets with an appropriate balance between patients and doctors can expect to generate $1.5 million to more than $2 million in collections, with more than a 50% profit margin available for distribution.
In today's environment, nonsurgical retinal specialists with the same strong professional attributes and favorable settings manage to generate about 60% to nearly 100% profit margin. Hour for hour, the take home pay for surgical care can actually be less than for office-based services.
Newly minted retinal surgeons have at least 6 possible professional venues in which to put down roots and grow their nascent careers. Here is a breakdown of the different paths:
Solo subspecialty practice. This is a bittersweet setting in which to practice retinal care, with none of the delicate give and take required in a group practice, and 100% autonomy. However, being a solo retinologist can be exhausting and professionally isolating. In my experience, a majority of soloists attempt to increase patient growth to a level that will support a colleague joining them.
Group single subspecialty practice. This is often the "sweet spot" of every subspecialty. In a group setting, call coverage is far less of a burden, costly capital investments can be shared, and an intellectual peer is just down the hall in the next office.
As a result, not only are retinal providers in small group practices the happiest and least fatigued, they are also the most financially robust. Nonetheless, there are two prominent downsides to these type of practices. The growth of a successful practice may lead to several far-flung satellite offices, high-strung providers, and more complexity than the average administrator can handle. This can result in lower profits and discord at all levels in the practice.
The other downside, emerging more often as eyecare providers continue to consolidate into larger groups, is that retinal specialists are dependent on larger general groups developing their own retinal service in-house. Whereas a soloist can often scramble to find new referral sources, or go with the trend of become a visiting provider in a multiple general ophthalmology practice. A doctor in a larger-scaled practice can be painted into a corner.
Multisubspecialist practice. By this, I'm referring to a mixed glaucoma, plastics, retina or similar practice with little or no primary care or anterior segment care, so as to avoid competitive conflicts with the referral community. Such practices are not common, and when they do come together they are more often the result of friendships or proximity than advanced planning. Disparate subspecialists in the same practice create many fewer economies of scale and less business focus than a single subspecialty practice.
Generalist/subspecialist practice. Although solo and small group ophthalmic practices are by no means dead, many eye groups in urban and suburban markets are getting larger and vertically integrating by adding subspecialists rather than referring care. This trend can be either "OK" or "terrible" from a retinal surgeon's perspective.
It's "OK" if you enjoy working in a larger professional setting, with perhaps a little more collective acclaim in your market and perhaps secure contract access as a result of your clout and geographic coverage. It's "terrible" if you're on the outside of such a group, working in a single subspecialty practice, and about to lose group referrals as they keep retinal care in-house.
Again, in these settings a retinal department of two providers makes more sense than just one subspecialist buried in a larger, mixed provider group. For fairness and harmony, it is critical that the group's compensation methodology acknowledge the naturally lower cost margins in retina, and not create a comp model where the retina department is unduly subsidizing the general or pediatric ophthalmologists.
Classic multispecialty practice. Multispecialty practices, with everything from appendectomies to vitrectomies available under the same roof, grew in the managed care 90s and are on the wane for the moment. But they will assuredly return with whatever is coming down the line next in health reform. Most such practices are punishing environments because of high overheads, bureaucracy, and a high degree of profit shifting to primary care providers. Unless the group is huge, well-established and august, the prestige and security won't offset the frustrations of practice in such settings for the average, ambitious retinologist.
Institutional practice. Working in an educational, pre-paid health or governmental facility has its attractions. These type of practices can be a stepping stone to the next career stage, or as a haven for retinal surgeons whose financial needs and independent streaks are subordinate to being part of a larger institution with a mission that resonates.
General ophthalmologists, and especially surgically oriented anterior segment practices, have invested significant resources in benchmarking their financial and volume performance against fellow providers, whereas, considerably less benchmarking is performed in retinal practice settings. This is in line with the generally slower pace at which the other vanguard practice management tactics are adopted by these subspecialty practices.
There are several reasons for this:
► Retinal practices, as compared with general ophthalmology practices, enjoy a much higher profit margin. As a result, they have been understandably less concerned about nuances in their cost of doing business or individual doctor productivity.
► Retinal practices have been arguably under less threat of fee reductions than other ophthalmologists over the past decade.
► Retinal practices are somewhat more complex, and can have a higher diversity of patients and procedures. There are more new procedures and clinical maneuvers to master every year. These other concerns can translate into there being less time for the average retinologist to think about the business details of the practice, and much less the administrative minutia of comparative benchmarks.
► Retinal surgeons, while at least mildly competitive with their in-town colleagues, tend to be less adversarial in their relationships compared with cataract and LASIK surgeons. So there is a reduced motivation to compare a retinal practice with others.
► Retinal practices tend to be somewhat insular, and are not comfortable sharing confidential practice performance data.
► There are fewer retinal surgeons and retinal practice managers than general ophthalmologists; so the odds are reduced of someone taking the time to ask benchmarking questions.
► little over 2 years ago, we studied a limited cohort of pure, retina-only practices. The results were not statistically significant, but in line with my on-site observations through the years:
► The average practice ran a 45% average profit margin; this was thrown off by a couple of practices that were still growing, and others that put larger than usual amounts into promotion and outreach.
► The average doctor was generating annual collections of $1.3 million. The most productive practice generated $2.6 million in annual collections per doctor, and the least productive just $848000.
► There was a wide divergence in clinical productivity between groups in this limited study. The most productive doctors saw nearly 600 patient visits per month, and in the least productive saw just 271 patients per month.
► The average practice had 19% new patients. As might be expected, practices with the lowest new patient ratio tended to have the lowest revenue yield per patient visit (due to serial rechecks and a lower surgical yield.)
► The revenue (collection) yield per patient visit (including post-ops) was similarly wide-ranging. In the average practice, the figure was $321. The highest revenue yield was $406, in the suburban solo practice. The lowest was $227. It's interesting to note that this figure was once well below $200, raised in recent years by the use of Ocular Photodynamic Therapy (OPT). Indeed, the average practice performed one OPT for about every 46 patient visits.
► The most efficient practice was able to generate $199000 in collections per lay staff full-time equivalent per the least efficient practice, just $122000.
► Vitrectomy rates were wide ranging in the study group, with a low incidence of one vitrectomy per 54 patient visits and a high of one vitrectomy per 14 visits. The average was one vitrectomy per 31 visits.
As retinal surgeon Willie Shields observed, general ophthalmologists and retinal subspecialists work in remarkably different professional environments. Whereas cataract and refractive surgery occur among primarily healthy patients seeking an elective procedure, often in a festive atmosphere, retina patients are typically down beat, with chronic, permanently sight-debilitating conditions.
In this manner, retina clinics may be more similar to oncology practices, and these patients to my mind do not mix well with the buoyant waiting room atmosphere sometimes established for high volume anterior segment practitioners. The retina world is also ruled by emergencies. This obviously affects scheduling, and by its very nature demands a flexibility of the staff, doctors, and the surgical environment.
Perhaps, in light of these special professional constraints and challenges, the nearly $10 million lifetime earnings premium enjoyed by retinal surgeons is more than appropriate.
John Pinto is president of J. Pinto & Associates, Inc., an ophthalmic practice management consulting firm established in 1979. Pinto is the country's most-published author on ophthalmology management topics. He is the author of John Pinto's Little Green Book of Ophthalmology, Turnaround: 21 Weeks to Ophthalmic Practice Survival and Permanent Improvement, Cashflow: The Practical Art of Earning More From Your Ophthalmology Practice, and The Efficient Ophthalmologist: How to See More Patients, Provide Better Care and Prosper in an Era of Falling Fees. The Women of Ophthalmology, written with Dr. Elizabeth Davis, will be published later this year. He can be reached at (619) 223-2233, e-mailed at email@example.com or on the Web at www.pintoinc.com.