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Streeterville has perhaps one of the city's most colorful histories. The Chicago neighborhood is named after a con artist and petty merchant (who also dabbled in a ownership of a traveling circus, as well as Civil War soldiering) named George 'Cap' Streeter who moved to Chicago and promptly bought a small steamship with the intention of running guns to South America, but set his sights closer to home. Streeter ended up dumping his boat on part of the Chicago shoreline and leaving it there for years while he forged documents and made claims to state that the new shoreline he was creating around his ship was property outside of the city or states control, his own District of Lake Michigan. The intent, as stated by witnesses in his 1902 land fraud trial, was to extort millions from developers and lakeshore owners who would have to buy him off to get him to leave. Gradually expanding the land around his reportedly crashed ship, Streeter even went so far as to sell lots and collect property taxes on the freshly created lakefront. He would even send teams of squatters, once his organization was well underway and he was selling property far and wide that he had no right to, to set up overnight shanty towns and then defend them with tooth and nail, complaining to the city about thugs and capitalist plots against his homegrown property development. Numerous instances occurred where both private security and even police were injured or killed by gunfire, axes, and worse. However most of these cases ended with the con artist and his men declared not guilty—acting out of self-defense. (to be continued)
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After ten years of marriage, Casey Affleck and Summer Phoenix are calling it quits.
"Casey Affleck and Summer Phoenix have amicably separated," Affleck's rep confirmed to E! News. "They remain very close friends."
The 40-year-old actor proposed to Joaquin Phoenix's younger sister on Christmas Day in 2003. They were previously introduced by Joaquin after he starred in To Die For with Affleck in 1995.
The following year, the engaged couple welcomed their first child together, son Indiana August. The Triple 9 star ultimately wed Phoenix in 2006 and the actress gave birth to their second child, son Atticus, in 2008.
Both vegans, the film stars shared a love for animal rights and are avid supporters of various environmental charities, including PETA.
The news falls on the heels of brother Ben Affleck's split from his estranged wife, Jennifer Garner. Coincidentally, the pair had also just celebrated their tenth anniversary before announcing their divorce in June 2015.


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Central Europe: Fertile Ground for Libertas?
February 25, 2009
Declan Ganley, the founder and main financier of the eurosceptic Libertas party and the man behind the Irish No-Lisbon campaign, have been touring Central Europe for political allies and recruiting local politicians for the Libertas party lists with mixed results.
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Over the last 2 weeks I have noticed a dramatic increase in back pain patients. This is due to what I call…'Binge Gardening!' the weather as we all know has been terrible, so all gardening and manual labour outside has been put on hold. The problems that I find as a chiropractor who treats the community is that once we have a sniff of good weather for a few hours, everyone goes out and binges with the digging etc.
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Delivery Health 101 for Foreigners living in Japan
Section 1 – How to order JAV star Maria Ozawa to be you personal Delivery Health provider.
Section 2 – How to find a Japanese Delivery Health company that services foreigners in Japan.
Section 3 – Interview with a Japanese Delivery Health company owner.
Section 4 – Overview on how Japan Delivery Health companies operate.
Section 5 – The original Japanese デリヘル Delivery Health article published on CrazyGaijin.
SECTION 1 – How to order JAV star Maria Ozawa to be you personal Delivery Health provider.
Yes, it really is true that JAV mega-star Maria Ozawa is now offering Deri Heru – Delivery Health Services – for a few hundred dollars. Wonder why one of the bigger AV companies doesn't just offer her a ton of cash to make proper AV movies in the USA or Europe?
If you click on this picture it'll take you to the website for the Japanese Delivery Health company that Maria Ozawa is working for.
This second picture will take you to the exact section of that website where a person can order Maria Ozawa's delivery health services.
Click here for more pictures of Maria Ozawa.
SECTION 2 – How to find a Japanese Delivery Health company that services foreigners in Japan.
Below is the text of a comment I received from a reader wanting to promote their Delivery Health services targeted to foreigners living in Japan.
I am living in Tokyo and doing Deri-feru" business for forigner!
We will guide and support our foreigner customer by using English and others language (as we can) as a services.
But the companion may not speak well or totally cannot speak in English.
We are sincerity to provided and satisfaction your needs by cross over the language wall.
If you looking for information, please feel free to visit our website.
SECTION 3 – Interview with a Japanese Delivery Health company owner.
Not long ago I saw this interview on 2ch. It's a perfect example of how skuzzy these self-serving Japanese Delivery Health company owners are.
You run delihel only?
Only delihel. Without going into details, places where they run delihel are usually because the area prohibits brothels by ordinances.
Tell us your income and stuff.
About ¥10,000,000 annually. Nothing special, I run it by myself. I can handle it by myself, but dealing with the girls and customer phonecalls is nothing but hassle.
Are the outfits which run "VIP courses," like 25,000 for 90 minutes, offering girls who'll go all the way? [Delihel girls supposedly do not have sex with customers] Do those shops not report themselves to police?
I can't speak for all, but even amongst outfits that report to police many close their eyes to what girls do. The places which send you leaflets are reporting, no mistake. Our girls don't do it at all though.
So they're ignoring it. I tried a place with a VIP course which let you have sex with them as much as you like in the time limit, so I though they might all do it that way. Maybe it was just the girl.
Yeah. Girls might do it for money or fun. I don't know about shops which make girls do that.
But it's their responsibility, and if they do that the shop's image will be harmed so we strictly forbid it. Hardly any girls like that though.
I have a friend do a spy check on them to see what they get up to…
How much do you pay to the authorities?
Honestly, I pay some to the cops.
Sometimes I'm seeing girls to and from clients. As a bodyguard type, do you have to be buff?
I'm 170cm and quite slim. As long as you're not really frail it's fine. That sort of thing only happened to me once before.
You know any yaks?
I know them.
When you start a shop up, you have to speak to the organisation?
I think you're OK with just the cops. If you're in with the yakuza it'll be nothing but trouble all the time. I tell them to be discreet.
Tell me your region and prices, and the names of your best 3 girls.
Saga prefecture. Fees are ¥15,000 for an hour. Telling you their names would give away who we are so I'll leave it at that.
How many girls do you have?
15 girls at the one shop. Usually 3-4 are at work. Later I expect it'll go to 20.
You have new girls fellate you at interviews?
Never done that. Our girls are mostly experienced in the sex trade.
How long do you work?
From the evening until 3-4AM, when the girls finish up.
I ran one and when I told the girls my number a lot asked me for loans. Are there a lot of them who have financial problems?
Our girls are young and want to live luxuriously, and a lot of the girls want to get rich quick. Most of them are from normal homes rather than poor ones.
What are the employment criteria for your girls? Looks, manners?
Honestly, I don't check manners and just prioritise looks. Ugly fatties are definitely out. They're a nuisance to cute girls too.
How much do they earn? Half and half?
Yes, roughly half and half.
How much do you spend on magazine and prostitution site advertising? A lot of them give discounts if you say you saw the ad there, do they work well?
I spend about ¥400,000 on advertising. About ¥10,000-30,000 per site. If you aren't on popular sites, customers won't come. At first I didn't know what was effective, so I spent more on things like magazine ads.
How many johns do you get each day and when do they come?
For us it's 100% night customers. If it goes well, it maxes out about 21, but it can be as low as 5.
How many johns on average?
As boss what exactly do you do ordinarily?
Handling phone calls, checking on the girls' work, updating the site, meeting them or sending them off. We only have 3 people so I end all doing a bit of everything.
Do you do much to provide a good working environment? Do anything for their mental wellbeing? I get the impression some girls are pretty flaky, what do you see?
You don't really know how they do until they start. There was one girl with mental problems, she was cutting her wrists, so I had her quit after a week. Maybe there's a better way, but I only take any notice of the stuff on the outside.
What happens to the girls who quit? How do they move on?
I don't ask what happens to them when they quit. Most of the girls doing this are sluts so I doubt they can get out of the business.
You been burned by any customers?
Some want forbidden acts [sex] or excessively perverted stuff.
What are the difficult things about this job?
There's no future in sight, and I can never tell my parents what I do.
I make tons of cash though so I've no intention of quitting.
Do you take precautions against STDs?
Honestly, I think they're an unavoidable part of the business. Generally we have girls go to the hospital for a checkup once a month.
What gets girls wanting to do this work?
In this day and age, there's no particular reason or set of circumstances.
As I was saying, the girls mostly want to get rich quick and can't hold a regular job. Lots say they want their own shop, but basically the reasons are as above.
Things ever get hairy?
I once took a punch – I had to stop a customer who was demanding full sex from a girl.
You have any girls no guys would be pleased to see?
We drop really bad ones at interview, but yes, there are some girls who are neither good nor bad.
Is there really that much demand for this? With hotel fees and extra charges for sex it comes to 20,000 a time?
Near my house there's a place with rooms which gives full sex and 40 minutes for only 10,000. Shouldn't you be adding value with image play and SM and so on?
I keep saying it, but we don't let girls have sex with customers.
As to the shop, I don't know any like that. We make a lot from having girls who behave amateurishly and give a sham romance type experience.
Do you use your own shop?
Use my own shop? Never.
Well, it's time to go home, so I'll be off. Later.
SECTION 4 – Overview on how Japan Delivery Health companies operate.
Delivery health, or "deri heru", is one of the Japanese sex trade's finest euphemisms, referring to the massive industry for callgirls. The nubile escort is driven to the customer's house, or a love hotel, so "delivery" seems appropriate enough, but it's not clear where "health" comes into it. Maybe it's something to do with the exercise. Regardless, "health" is an English loanword commonly used in Japan's mizu-shoubai ("water trade") to refer to sexual pleasure.
The industry, which has been officially recognised since 1999, has estimated to take in almost 500 billion yen a year, nearly a third of the value of Japan's whole sex industry. According to a police report in 2001, there are more deri heru businesses in Japan than branches of McDonalds (of which there almost 4,000 at the time).
The law prevents these companies from offering "full sex". However, the definition of this is very narrow, and businesses are still able to provide oral sex, masturbation, and even anal sex for money. Even though straight sex is formally barred, there seems to be nothing the police can do once the customer and his girl are behind closed doors.
Even when they are operating illegally, the remote nature of delivery health protects the businesses from prosecution. Japanese vice laws are full of grey areas, and focus on punishing the vendor, not the customer or the prostitute. Not being tied to a specific location allows deri heru companies to avoid police interruption. Unfortunately, this anonymity also companies to commit more sinister indiscretions – delivery health services are known to employ more underage girls than Japan's other sex establishments.
Pinku chirashi
Masses of fliers for these companies ("pinku chirashi") clog up phoneboxes and apartment letterboxes throughout urban Japan. The front of the leaflets feature salacious photography of varying pornographic strengths, details of how much a visit costs, and a list of cryptically-titled services offered. This list might include himitsu play (secret play), which is how pink chirashi refer to straight sex without attracting the attention of the police. There might also be a list of "types" of girls available, catering to every preference – from bored housewife to hard-up college student to attention-starved OL (office lady). The back of the fliers are for recruitment – with information for women who are considering selling their bodies.
Cheap and discreet
The boom in deri heru has come at the same time as a slump in the rest of the sex industry. These services are competitive because they are cheaper to provide, with lower startup costs and overheads. A deri heru session might cost as little as 10,000 yen, while an evening in a soapland typically costs five times as much. Many customers find deri heru offers more convenience and less embarrassment than having to cruise around the nearest red light district. The businesses have also benefited partly from Japan's economic problems, with more women than ever finding themselves drawn into prostitution. More than 150,000 women are estimated to work as deri heru escorts.


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When Vincent Laforet released Reverie last year, the digital revolution seemed poised to sweep across the world of moviemaking. Shot entirely on a prototype of Canon's then yet-to-be-released EOS 5D Mark II, the short film revealed the camera's extraordinary low-light sensitivity and HD video capabilities, all with the photographer's choice of lenses. It appeared to be an all-in-one movie studio replacement.
The fact that HD video and cinematic quality was being offered at consumer rates thrilled the online video community. "Laforet's, in particular, showed off the real upside of working with the 5DII's light-sensitive sensor: When you can work with smaller lights, your production budget goes much farther," said photographer and End User writer Ryan Brenizer in an e-mail.
It seemed that a few big Hollywood studios would no longer dominate our viewing agenda, that an indie revolution was imminent and that the dam on a reservoir of creativity had been destroyed. But that has not been the case. So why are we not awash in studio-quality, low-budget flicks? The answer is complex, and it zeros in on an ever more important relationship between the tools of production and the actual talent of filmmaking — the two of which people often confuse.
Canon's announcement last month of their latest model, the EOS 1D Mark IV, was coupled with another release by Laforet, using a Mark IV prototype. Again shooting under tight time restrictions and using no additional lighting, the short, Nocturne, immediately became the subject of intense internet chatter.
Video enthusiasts were thrilled by news of the expanded ISO range and ability to shoot at 24, 25 and 30fps at full 1080p, but before many had the opportunity to see the movie, Canon requested it be pulled. No official explanation has been offered by either the company or Laforet himself, although it has been noted his use of Zeiss lenses during production may be the cause. The incident is just the latest in a series of missteps and blunders which has caused consternation amongst potential subscribers to the DSLR as movie camera.
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For a car company, not having a sport utility vehicle to sell is like preventing some poor mutual fund broker from acting on a hot tip and watching the stock soar to new heights. It's the height of frustration.Such has been the case with Mazda. Forced to sit on the sidelines as it watched other companies (especially Honda with its CR-V) reap the rewards of SUV-dom, the company finally has its own knobby-tired sport ute. It's called Tribute and it's a compact-sized, Japanese-designed, car-based sport-ute co-developed with Ford that marries the company's reputation for fine handling with


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- "Often the easiest way to make crime pay is to make your competitors pay for their mistakes. A rival crew has run a big shipment of product aground just east of the Wind Farm, and are bringing in a Cargobob to try to airlift it out of there. Sabotage the salvage operation and deliver the container to the drop-off."
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Coveted is a mission available to the player in Grand Theft Auto Online. Whilst it is heavily implied it is performed for Martin Madrazo (as the player is tasked to deliver the container to his lock up), it is not offered via a phone message but started by walking into the blue corona (marked by a star icon on the players radar) on the hilltop above the cove (west-soutwest of The Cove parachute jump and due north of the Palmer-Taylor Power Station) in GTA Online freemode between Midnight and 08:00 am.
A rival gang is attempting to move an unknown shipment via Cargobob and Martin Madrazo wants it to be intercepted and given to him at a lock-up of his. The player or players must use the Cargobob to try and pick up the shipment which is inside a ThriftEX container and will be encountered with enemies using Assault Rifles, SMGs and Micro SMGs and then deliver it to the designated location.
- For best results, use 4 players.
- Start out shooting the man guarding the Granger then start shooting the men at the far end of the cove with a sniper rifle.
- Use the Granger at the end of the hill to dive to the far left of the landing zone of the Cargobob, use it for cover while you wait for the Cargobob.
- Kill the pilot and steal the Cargobob. Then use the grapple hook to take the container.
Mission Objectives
- Go to the cove.
- Retrieve the container.
- Deliver the container to Madrazo's lock up.
- This is one of six co-op "contact" missions not directly given by the contacts in GTA Online (including Coasting, Potshot, Crystal Clearout II & III and Dirt Road). It can be accessed immediately upon reaching the required Rank by the Start>Online>Jobs menu or by walking into the job corona on the map (although the map coronas are limited by time of day).
- This mission became particularly famous for being used to make fast money, given how easy it was and how, unlike in most other missions, the payouts don't get cut in half after being played the first time (the same only happening with Rooftop Rumble). However, Rockstar has already increased the difficulty and decreased the payout.
- Oddly, photos taken in Snapmatic during this mission can't be uploaded to the Social Club.
- Rockstar Games removed Coveted, as well as Dirt Road, Factory Closure, Truck Together, Crystal Clear Out III, Crystal Clear Out II, Close Action, Coasting, and Potshot from GTA Online start Jobs menu after introducing Patch 1.12. They were still accessible from their map coronas and were reinstated to the jobs menu in update 1.13
- As of patch 1.14 (I'm Not a Hipster Update) the following difficulty changes have been made to the mission:
- New objectives added: When the players arrive at the cove their objective becomes "Secure the landing site". Players then have 2 minutes to reach the Cargobob's landing area and kill nearby enemies. Failing to do this in 2 minutes will fail the mission.
- Enemy placement: Around 50% of the enemies have been moved from the beach to the hill leading to the landing site. This is to create more of a shootout on the way down to the landing site.
- Cargobob now takes around 2 minutes to arrive once the players have reached the cove.
- 2 enemies near the objective container now have RPGs (Low Accuracy).
- Enemies on the beach no longer have Extended LOS, meaning they won't shoot at the players as they fight down the hill.
- Once the player has collected the container, an enemy helicopter spawns and pursues the Cargobob. To lose the enemy helicopter, lure it towards the RON Alternates Wind Farm wind turbines as they can easily take down the enemy helicopter, but do be careful as to not get hit by the turbines yourself.
- Instead of delivering it to nearby Martin Madrazo's Lock-up, the container must now be delivered to Cypress Flats railyard.
- As of patch 1.16, the mission's payout has been reduced, making it less profitable to play.


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MIA News
The MIA's new committees
The new remit of the MIA's committees for the period 2016-2018 was concluded last December and one of the items on the agenda of the newly appointed Officers team was to set its strategy and direction for its current term.
An important part of the Institute's mission is executed through the medium of committees and working groups which will run for the period 2018-2019. For this reason, the Institute reached out to all members to be an active member in any of the Institute's committees/groups.
The committees' modus operandi was restructured by increasing the number of committees/groups in line with the new realities that we as professional accountants are faced with and with the Institute's expanding activities. Such restructuring now include the following categories and committees/groups:
Core Committees
AML Committee | Audit & Assurance Committee | Direct Taxation Committee | Ethics Committee | Financial Reporting Committee | Indirect Taxation Committee
Focused Committees
Digitilisation/IT Committee | Financial Services Committee | iGaming Committee | Local Regulatory Committee | Public Sector Committee
Focused Groups
PAIB Advisory Group | SMP Advisory Group | Young Members Group
Professional Support Groups
CPE Advisory Group | Education Advisory Group
Social Groups
Senior Members Networking Group
Most of the above mentioned committees started their meetings, and in due course members will be informed of the committee's progress through the Institute's communication channels. The following are the details of the composition of each committee (the Public Sector Committee, CPE Advisory Group and the Senior Member Networking Group will be finalised within the next few weeks):
Audit & Assurance Committee
Chairperson: Simon Flynn
Members: Silvio Busuttil, John Debattista, Joseph Ellul Falzon, Shawn Falzon, Thomas Galea, May Heng (Ben Scicluna substitute), Lucienne Pace Ross (Simon Flynn substitute), Ernestino Riolo, Janice Lyn Schembri, Bernard Scicluna, Sam Spiridonov
AML Committee
Chairperson: Juanita Bencini
Members: Arianne Azzopardi, Alan Craig, Aronne Debono, Dr Manfred Galdes, Dr Rakele Gauci, George Gregory, Vanessa Marletta, Lucienne Pace Ross, Joette Sciortino
Direct Taxation Committee
Chairperson: Craig Schembri
Members: Michael Agius, David Farrugia, Jana Farrugia, Ruth Farrugia, David Ferry, Jozef Wallace Galea, Chris Naudi, Paul Pace Ross, Edward Zammit
Digilalisation/IT Committee
Chairperson: Claudine Cassar
Members: Christopher Azzopardi, Franco Borg, Ramon Cutajar, Robert Debono, Ivan Grech, Gordon Micallef, Rudolph Mifsud Saydon, Adrian Mizzi
Ethics Committee
Chairperson: Anthony Doublet
Members: Nikolai Camilleri, David Caruana, Marcel Coppini, Etienne Dalli, Angie Fleri Soler, Mario Galea, Dunstan Magro, Nicolette Mirabelli, Franz Wirth
Financial Reporting Committee
Chairperson: Fabio Axisa
Members: Conrad Borg, Giselle Cini, Jonathan Dingli, Stephania Frendo, Dr Ivan Paul Grixti, Monique Micallef, Ernestino Riolo, Janice Lyn Schembri, Michelle Vassallo Pulis
Financial Services Committee
Chairperson: Alex Azzopardi
Members: Robert Ancilleri, Michael Bianchi (Investment Management) / Ian Coppini (Insurance), Christ Briffa, Luke Calleja, Joseph Camilleri, David Demarco, Elvia George, Christopher Portelli, Bertrand Spiteri, Aurelio Theuma, Reuben Zammit
iGaming Committee
Chairperson: Conrad Cassar Torregiani
Members: Chris Azzopardi, Jean Paul Busuttil, Vladimiro Comodini, Alan Craig, Lara Falzon, Shawn Falzon, Romina Soler, Audrey Vella
Indirect Taxation Committee
Chairperson: Anthony Pace
Members: Saviour Bezzina, Chris Borg, Jean Paul Busuttil, Russell Camilleri, David Ferry, Paul Giglio, Daniel Mifsud, Roderick Muscat, Karen Spiteri Bailey, Matthew Zampa
Local Regulatory Committee
Chairperson: David Leone Ganado
Members: Chris Balzan, Marcel Coppini, Clifford Delia, Mario Galea, Roderick Grech, Rolan Micallef Attard, Karen Voisin
Education Advisory Group
Chairperson: Maria Cauchi Delia
Members: Caroline Cassar Reynaud, Victoria Darmanin, Simon Flynn, Michael Falzon, (Paul Giglio substitute), Dunstan Magro, Adrienne McCarthy/ Jonathan Dingli, Maria Micallef, Stephen L. Muscat, Chris Naudi, David J. Pace, Paul Giglio
PAIB and Advisory Focus Group
Chairperson: Stephen L. Muscat
Members: Karl Bartolo, Stefan Bonello, Jacqueline Camilleri, Malcolm Camilleri, Noel Camilleri, Alan Frendo Jones, Kevin Mallia, Franz Wirth, Charles Xuereb
SMP Advisory Focus Group
Chairperson: David J. Pace
Members: Paul Bugeja, Silvio Busuttil, Zachary Cachia, Michael Curmi, John Debattista, Jean Paul Debono, John Richard Falzon, Jozef Wallace Galea, Paul Giglio, Roderick Grech, Dunstan Magro, Roderick Muscat, Franco Privitelli, Mark Scalpello, Arthur Turner, Carlsten Xuereb, Edward Zammit
Young Members Focus Group
Chairperson: Jean Paul Debono
Members: Giljan Aquilina, Clarence Attard, Christ Briffa, Zachary Cachia, Reuben Debono, Stephania Grech Duca, Steve Mamo, Michael Mercieca, Stefanel Mercieca Zammit, Dean Micallef, Noel Micallef, Daniel Mifsud, Roderick Muscat, Luke Sammut, Carlsten Xuereb, Matthew Xuereb, Reuben Zammit


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Straighten your hair at home:
5 easy tips to straighten your hair at home.
Everyone wants to adopt something new in his personality and many boys want to figure out their character which everyone can admire. And for that, looking good is their (boys) utmost priority. Hence, it requires them to know what actually the meaning of beauty is. Your complexion and your hair both are the main objects that count in the beauty. However, if you don't have good hair, then you should try to make them look better. Mostly, boys who have curly or frizzy hair remain worried that how should they straighten their hair without much fuss. So, here are some of the treatments and processes that I have complied for you that can help you straighten your hair at home without much difficulties.
Let's take a look.
5 easy tips to straighten your hair at home:
So, in regard of straightening of hair, I am going to explain you some tips by which you can get your hair straight and smooth within no time. Further, this process will help you retain your hair shine and will not alter your hair growth in any way.
There are two ways to get your hair straight. One, you can use a hair straightener (Artificial method) if you want your hair to be straight for the time being; however, second one is the natural means which can make your hair straight and make it look shiny, smooth, and silky for a good period of time. Remember, artificial straightening of hair can damage your hair if used again and again.While the natural remedies are always a good source of getting the desired thing fulfilled through the right and apt manner without much side effects.
Natural ways to straight your hair:
- Frizzy hair, when taken a bath, becomes soft. Additionally, if you will use the conditioner of any good and medicated company you will find the best result. So, a good conditioner and shampoo plays a vital role. Hence, choose correctly! Comb your hair while they are wet. Slowly, when your hair begins to dry you will find them shiny and straight.
- Massage with Aloe Vera is another good option for you. It has the gel type material that helps fasten the growth of the hair besides making them soft and straight.
- There is a mud found in Multan (Pakistan) called Multani mitti. If you can get a hand to it, it can help you in several ways. It can make your hair naturally straight. One cup of fuller's earth with the egg white or albumen mix together and apply it for one hour, you are going to receive the best result ever.
- Olives and eggs are the evergreen options and have been used since ages. This is the ancient method used to make the hair soft and shiny. One egg and some crushed olive mixed together if applied on the hair for one hour can produce the outstanding outcomes. Thus, it is also good to use. You can repeat this procedure twice in a week to get your hair nourished.
- Last but not the least, milk and butter is a good option to avail. It is very easy to do. Take the coconut milk and butter – butter produced by natural means in the home is better. Mix both the material and then apply it thoroughly to the hair roots to the tips. Leave it for half an hour and then wash off your hair with shampoo.
Artificial means to get your hair straight is only one. If you want your hair smooth and soft urgently, then you can use the hair straightener lotion and then straight hair with the help of straightener. However, frequent use of straightener can damage your hair. This is why many people prefer the home remedies.


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Karen is an Executive and Leadership Coach based in the Bay Area and Singapore. She works with clients to achieve successful leadership transitions, create new professional futures, build their personal brands and improve relationships that matter to them. While strongly focused on clients' goals and desired outcomes, Karen's coaching is not transactional: it aims at deep, personal transformation. Her coaching will help you take yourself out of the box, and see things in completely fresh ways. In turn, it requires your commitment to explore, learn and act.
An experienced leader in the Singapore Public Service, Karen is concurrently a Director in Singapore's Smart Nation team, which uses technology to improve the lives of Singaporeans. A globally sought-after speaker on topics at the intersection of technology, policy, and Government, Karen also holds an appointment as start-up advisor and Faculty at Singularity University, where she works with executives on how emerging technology will transform their organizations. She is also founder and editor of www.techandpublicgood.com, a community of writers who want to see technology utilized for maximum public benefit. Her articles have been re-published globally.
Currently based in the Bay Area, Karen spends significant time in the US and Singapore and has clients and engagements globally. She is wife to a Statistics PhD student @ Stanford, and mom to a toddler.
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She also runs workshops for middle managers in the areas of coaching and leadership development. Her clients range from Series B-D start-ups to Government organizations. Topics covered include: when to coach vs when to teach; fundamentals of a coaching conversation; difficult conversations and feedback; expanding leadership flexibility.
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Growing up, it's common advice to "keep our options" open, but in adult life, doing this actually paralyses us.
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — They are called the "Oscars of the food world." The James Beard Foundation recently announced Minnesota is represented in nine categories.
Ten chefs from around the Twin Cities are recognized in the "Best Chef of the Midwest" category.
While that sounds like an impressive number, is it more recognition than we've seen in past years?
"We're a little more adventurous. There used to be a reputation that you know, ketchup, was maybe a little too spicy for Minnesotans and now, we are pushing the boundaries," Jason DeRusha said.
DeRusha, who does his "DeRusha Eats" segments every Saturday morning and has reviews in Minnesota Monthly Magazine, said the process to be nominated for this prestigious award is quite under the radar.
"Nobody knows when the James Beard Award judges are going to show up in your restaurant, but there they come and they will eat your food, experience your service and then they vote," he said.
DeRusha said this year's votes show just how far the Twin Cities food scene has come.
"Just five years ago, there were only four semi-finalists from this area," he said. "Now there's an expectation that in every national category, there will be one representative from the Twin Cities."
Peter Ireland is a former James Beard semifinalist and the owner of the Lynhurst neighborhood's newest restaurant, The Lynn on Bryant.
He said just one award in a region will create a domino effect years later.
"One of the criteria is a James Beard award winner has to have eaten in your restaurant and given a recommendation," Ireland said.
Ireland's worked in kitchens in New York and Chicago and he said it wasn't a coincidence he came to Minneapolis.
"Part of the reason, my wife and I moved here is because it combined a lot of things that we wanted," he said.
A main component? A vibrant culinary scene with a neighborhood feel.
"The fact that so many restaurants are now opening, despite the economy being a little bit weaker now is a sign that people care more about restaurants," he said.
There are three rounds before a winner is selected in each category.
And there's only one winner in the country.
The awards will be announced in May.
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The mRELEVANCE team has a lot to be thankful for this year. As an agency, we are thankful for our clients, business partners and friends. We are fortunate to do what we love everyday and to be able to work with people and companies that we enjoy spending time with and that have visions that align with ours.
As individuals we also have lots to be thankful for. Many of our team members chimed in with what they are thankful for this Thanksgiving. Here they are – enjoy!
Amanda Meade – This year I made two incredibly huge investments in life; conveniently within less than a month from each other. I became a first-time homeowner and I gave birth to my second little girl. I am without a doubt the most thankful person for having the means and opportunities to become a homeowner at the ripe age of 26 and having two perfect little girls. On top of that, I have a career that I love and a few loved ones who always have my back.
Carol Morgan – I am thankful for family, good friends and exceptional clients. I appreciate all of the love and support I have had this year. My father passing has left a hole in my heart, but getting closer to my siblings has helped to fill it. I also want to give a huge shout-out and thanks to our mRELEVANCE team. They are incredible and I am thankful for them daily. Thanks for taking great care of our clients and working hard everyday to ensure we prove ROI to them.
Courtney Rogers – I am thankful to have a family that loves me unconditionally, a great circle of friends that surround me and support me, and a job that allows me to challenge myself and grow every day.
David Stiles – I am thankful for my beautiful wife and a flexible company that worked with me when life changed! Additionally, I'm grateful to Facebook for releasing thousands of server grade processors into the market dropping the prices by over 90 percent so broke guys like me can buy one!
Doug Silk – As always, I'm thankful for fruit flavored pop-tarts and healthy children who relate to my sarcastic sense of humor.
Lauren Pond – I am thankful for my family and children. I am also thankful that the Cubs are the 2016 World Series Champions.
Mandy Holm – I am thankful for the opportunity to work for such an amazing company. I am so grateful to work with a team that genuinely cares for and values its employees and their hard work and efforts.
Melissa Stocks – I'm thankful for my amazing family. Embracing parenthood this past year-and-a-half was certainly a challenge, but my husband and I have loved every bit of it. I can't believe Madeline is almost two! I'm so honored to be her mommy.
Mitch Levinson – I am thankful that you [Carol] re-write everything I write (including this), and that I have continued help with messaging and communication. I am thankful for my family and my three fabulous kids — each unique and special in their own way, all growing up to be successful and positive members of society.
Njugu Gachugu – I'm thankful to have this job. In particular, I'm thankful that my co-workers and higher-ups have shown me nothing but respect and acceptance, and that I feel 100 percent comfortable and happy surrounded by all these cool, intelligent people.
Oksana Malevanaia – This year I am grateful for finally having the opportunity to visit my old friends who have lived too far away from me for more than 15 years. I'm also thankful for the people in my life who love and care for me and help my dreams to come true, and for Las Vegas.
Shreyas Gaonkar – I am thankful for all of our brothers and sisters in the Armed Forces who have made sure we all get a sound sleep every night by sacrificing their lives to protect the country and all of its people, letting us live the life that we wish. I'm thankful for their determination, bravery and their sacrifices.


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Master Yoda was right: before we can even start, you're going to have to unlearn what you have learned…about diets and dieting.
Because if you plan on losing weight–and keeping that weight off–you need to understand something: diets are bad. Here at Geek Fitness, we don't like diets.
So when I use the word diet, I am using it to mean the kind of food that you eat, not to restrict yourself for weight loss. If you follow my plan, follow what I did to lose weight, you will not be going on a diet; you will just be changing your diet.
You see, weight loss and healthy living is about one thing: sustainability. I don't care if you can lose over 9,000 pounds on the Superfast, Ultrafun Make-You-A-Millionaire Diet if you gain back that weight the moment you stop restricting yourself. In the end, it didn't work.
The only thing that will effect sustained weight loss is a change in lifestyle. Period.
So instead of thinking about this as a diet you're going on, think about it as the quest for your new lifestyle–your fitness quest.
Also, there is one, primary rule if you're going to follow my plan: you will not deprive yourself. I want you to be happy. I do. Really.
On top of just being a nice guy, I know that if you're not happy, you won't stick with the quest. So if you want that slice of cake, have that slice of cake. Just make it a smaller slice, if you can. If not, no big whoop–unless you're having that cake every day.
You do whatever you have to do to be happy. That's what matters. Because there is no end-date for this. This is not a diet, remember? It's your lifestyle. And you're losing weight to be happy, right? So be happy.
Remember, it isn't that you can't eat that cake, it's that you don't. There's a big difference.
When I first started out on this quest, I used a modified version of the low-glycemic index diet to effect that change in myself and my lifestyle. In the spirit of openness, I actually can't take credit for this. I found out about it from my in-laws. So, you know, big thanks to them, right?
Like really big thanks. Turns out, they had each lost about 40 pounds eating low-glycemic and never lifted a finger to exercise.
I said, "Sign me up."
Eating low-glycemic is not eating low carb. It's eating low simple carbs. You can have a moderate number of complex carbohydrates each day and lose a ton of weight. In essence, you avoid anything white, eat a moderate amount of stuff that's brown, and a lot of stuff that's green–or other colors.
The reason being that your body burns simple carbohydrates very quickly for energy. And if you don't exercise that energy away, your body stores it away for later use as fat. Once it's burned away, you're hungry again, so you go and eat more, despite not having used the energy from the first meal.
Complex carbs, on the other hand, take longer to process. So you get more energy from them, and you stay full longer. Which means you won't be eating as much or as often.
And in all honesty, that's it. That's all it took to start me on the road to losing 140 pounds. Really. Not eating simple carbs. Just that.
The calories in carbs aren't what hurt you. The extra calories–the ones you eat from burning through your food too quickly–hurt you.
So as you make progress through the stages of your newly accepted fitness quest, remember the two rules to sustainable, Geek Fitness-style weight loss:
- Don't deprive yourself–It isn't that you can't eat cake, it's that you don't.
- Eat no white food, eat some brown food, eat bunches of every other color.


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Why Do You Need Employee Onboarding and Exiting Checklists?
There is much excitement when we welcome a new hire to our team and many administrative tasks need to take place to get this individual up and running.
Policies and procedures must be in writing, available to employees, and monitored to ensure that they are followed to protect patient privacy as required by our professional colleges and privacy legislation. Otherwise, you face all sorts of risks, including privacy breaches and other legal problems.
To ensure that onboarding a new employee is a smooth transition, it is imperative to follow a practical checklist procedure to make sure no important steps are missed. There are also many other managerial benefits to adopting this high-quality process
- Better job performance and satisfaction
- Greater commitment to protecting privacy in the organization
- Reduced stress and better staff retention
Employee Privacy and Security Checklist
Policies and procedures is a reasonable safeguard to protect the personal and health information entrusted to us. But polices and good intentions alone is not enough; we also need to take action to ensure our policies are understood and being followed by all our employees.
Training new and existing staff on privacy and security best practices is instrumental in making your healthcare practice a success and maintaining its fine reputation. Following a systematic approach to welcoming a new employee, transitioning an existing employee into a new position, or offboarding an employee who is exiting will guarantee that valuable privacy and security training and accesses are completed.
Read this Privacy Breach Nugget that explains what can happen if you don't have these good practices in place. Do You Know Where Your Policies And Procedures Are?
New Employee Orientation / Onboarding
New employees are a welcome addition to any team and there is a vast amount of training that needs to take place from general procedures on how to handle phone calls to signing confidentiality oaths to becoming familiar with all policies and procedures, in addition to learning the everyday job duties for their own position.
Since privacy is good for business, we do not want to miss any important opportunities to train our new staff on privacy and security best practices. Using the Employee Privacy and Security Checklist will help facilitate training discussions and document the authorized accesses of each employee.
Existing Employees / Annual Review
The checklist will also act as a tool for each employee at their performance review. Provide positive feedback and observations of an employee's successes in protecting personal information. Discuss opportunities for improvement, too. This is also a good time to review an employee's current authorized role based accesses and determine if any changes to match the employee's current job duties is needed.
Ensure that the employee still has 'tokens' that they were given at the time of their hire, like identity badge, keys to the clinic or Alberta Netcare RSA fob.
Privacy and security best practice dictate that confidentiality oaths should be signed on an annual basis and annual privacy awareness and security refresher training should also be provided to all employees. In the event of a privacy incident or breach, it is imperative that a healthcare practice can prove by their documentation that regular privacy and security training is provided to their staff.
Transferring / Exiting Employees
When an employee transitions into a new role or is terminated, review, and update the privacy and security checklist to ensure that access and permissions are appropriately modified or terminated.
Custodian Responsibility
Custodians have an obligation to ensure reasonable safeguards to protect the privacy and security of health information. This includes having appropriate policies and procedures in place, as well as demonstrating and documenting that you have implemented your plans. This is a requirement of professional college standards of practice and privacy legislation like the Health Information Act (HIA).
See the article Do You Know Where Your Policies And Procedures Are? to learn what can happen to you if you don't have your employee training process well documented
The Employee Privacy and Security Checklist will make it easy for you to ensure your new hires, existing employees, and transferring or exiting employees are privacy and security compliant.
If you are a member of Practice Management Success, login and access the webinar replay, and the policy, procedure, and checklist template.
When we know better, we can do better…
Jean L. Eaton is constructively obsessive about privacy, confidentiality, and security expecially when it comes to the handling of personal health information. If you would like to discuss how I can help your practice, just send me an email. I am here to help you.
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text: SANET folks, A while ago I posted a query looking for detailed CSA handbooks or how-to guides. As promised, here are the results. I got many responses but lots for the same publications (I've left off duplications). Thanks to ALL who responded. -John * * * * * *. Here is my brief list of publications with CSA how-to info. Keith Richards, Southern SAWG PUBLICATIONS on CSA: Basic Formula to Create Community Supported Agriculture by Robin Van En. Step-by-step guide to forming a CSA, including budget, harvest and distribution information. 80 pages. $10.00 postpaid. From Indian Line Farm, Box 57, Jugend Road, Great Barrington, MA 02130. Community Related Agriculture. Brochure outlining the organization and planning of Community Farms, CSAs, and Subscription Farms. 10 pages. $1.00 + SASE. From the Bio-Dynamic Farming Association, P.O. Box 550, Kimberton, PA 19422. Community Supported Agriculture by Robyn Van En & Cathy Roth. University of Massachusetts Cooperative Extension Publication C-212. A basic introduction. 4 pages. $2.00. From Bulletin Center, Cottage A. Thatcher Way, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003. U-Mass Publication Office: 413/545-2717 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA): Making the Connection by Bill Blake et. al. Handbook for farmers, includes information about getting started, designing CSAs, recruiting members, creating production and harvest plans, setting share prices and legal issues. Incorporates ideas and strategies of many successful CSAs. $31.81 (make check payable to UC Regents). UC Cooperative Extension, Attn: CSA Handbook, 11477 E Avenue, Auburn, CA 95603; phone (916) 889-7385. "CSA Farm" by Hugh Lovel. Acres USA, August, 1992, pp. 35-36. The experiences and insight of a Georgia farmer after five years of operating a CSA. Farms of Tomorrow: Community Supported Farms and Farm Supported Communities, 1990, by Trauger Groh & Stephen McFadden. CSA philosophy and practice. 176 pages. $12.00 + $2.00 postage. From the Bio-Dynamic Farming Association, P.O. Box 550, Kimberton, PA 19442; 800-516-7797 or 215-935-7797. The Harvest Times, P.O. Box 27, Mt. Tremper, NY 12457; 914-688-5030. A newsletter offering assistance to CSAs with information on operations, promotions, and organized groups. Subscription $10.00/year. Our Field: A Manual for Community Shared Agriculture, 1994, by Tamsyn Rowley and Chris Beeman. Community Shared Agriculture (CSA), often called "Community Supported Agriculture" in the U.S., is described and promoted as means for farmers to better connect with community members and for community members to have more influence over how food is produced. Chapters focus on beginning and marketing CSA projects, as well as on the best agricultural practices suited to CSA. Includes appendix of CSAs across Canada. 89 pages. Canada$15. Tamsyn Rowley, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1; phone 519-824-4120 ext. 8480; fax 519-763-4686. Rebirth of the Small Family Farm, 1996, by Bob and Bonnie Gregson. Tells one family's story of beginning and operating a small, organic vegetable farm in Washington run on community supported agriculture (CSA) model. Provides general information about managing small-scale farms, describing start-up requirements, crop selection, marketing strategies and related topics. Includes resource list of periodicals and organizations related to organic farming and CSAs. 64 pp. $9.95. IMF Associates, P.O. Box 2542, Vashon Island, WA 98070; 206-463-9065. Toward an Agricultural Ethic, by Bonner McAllester and illustrated by Victoria Reed. A capsulization of a six-week long study circle to determine the basis of an 'agricultural ethic' in Berkshire County, Massachusetts by a small community group including local farmers,a banker,environmental lawyer,professor of humanities and others. $1 each or multiple copies upon request from: CSANA or UMASS/ Berkshire County Cooperative Extension, 44 Bank Row, Pittsfield, Ma. 01201. * * * * * * 1996 CSA FARM NETWORK by the Northeast Organic Farming Association. This is an 88 page directory of CSA's in the northeast, with several informational chapters, including forming CSA's, specialty crops, core group development, keeping people happy. Contributors include Elizabeth Henderson, Michael Doctor, Steve Gilman, and more. This was a Sare funded program, coordinated by Steve Gilman of NOFA NY. (Steve Gilman, CSA Farm Network, 130 Ruckytucks Road, Stillwater, NY 12170). Copies available from all the NOFA chapters: Send $7.50 (includes postage) to NOFA-NJ 33 Titus Mill Rd. Pennington NJ 08534. from: Emily Brown Rosen Technical Director NOFA-NJ * * * * * * Maximizing Shareholder Retention in Southeastern CSAs: A step toward long term stability. by Deborah Kane and Luanne Lohr, University of Georgia. To request a free copy, contact: Deborah Kane, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2202. E-mail: email@example.com Hope this helps, Deirdre Deirdre M. Birmingham * * * * * * (Note: I think most of the following are shorter articles, not detailed, how-to handbooks for growers. -John) Furusawa, Koyu. 1994. "Tei-Kei: Partnership between farmers and consumers" in ILEIA Newsletter (pp 10-11) Getz, Arthur. 1991-92. "Design for Community: Consumer-Producer Co-Partnerships: A Direct Marketing Approach" in PERMACULTURE ACTIVIST (Vol. VII#3 (pp 3-10) Gibson, Eric. 1993 "Community Supported Agriculture" SMALL FARM NEWS (nov/dec), Univ. of California (pp 1, 3-4) Hoffman, Judith. 1996. "Community Supported Agriculture--Part II" in THE NATURAL FARMER - Special Supplement on Community Supported Agriculture Laird, Timothy. 1995. CSA: A STUDY OF AN EMERGING AGRICULTURAL ALTERNATIVE (MSc Thesis for Natural Resrouce Planning dept. of the University of Vermont, Burlington) Lamb, Gary 1994. "Community Supported Agriculture - can it become the basis for a New Associative Economy?" in BIODYNAMICS (Nov/Dec) pp 8-15 Amunda Salm Canada * * * * * * END John Hendrickson Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems University of Wisconsin-Madison 1450 Linden Drive, Room 146 Madison, WI 53706 email@example.com (608) 265-3704 FAX (608) 265-3020 http://www.wisc.edu/cias


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Join Brightcove founder/CEO, Jeremy Allaire, and Brightcove Alliance partners from the Bay Area for an evening of networking, brainstorming, and demos. Learn how leading media companies and marketers are taking advantage of our partner ecosystem to deliver powerful and innovative solutions built on top of the Brightcove online video platform.
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Painting Workshop Melbourne » Layers of Movement with Katie Kendrick
We're less that 3 weeks away from welcoming "Katie Kendrick" to Art More Place, for a painting workshop in Melbourne, FL … and I'm giddy with excitement!
This intuitive painting workshop is for both the beginner and the experienced painter!
In this painting workshop we will gather together with a "beginner's mind" as we trust our intuition; learning to feel more comfortable metaphorically "walking in the darkness" as we paint, gently supporting and following the flow of the sacred mystery.
In Katie's words: "We'll explore that rich and mysterious landscape, roaming the outside edges of our comfort zone in loving support of our curious and expanding soul. We'll playfully experiment with techniques and exercises that engage our senses and I'll share practices that sharpen our intuition and deepen the communication between our heart and the canvas." WOW!!!
I met Katie in San Miguel Allende a few years ago…and was totally in awe of her gentle, intuitive way of teaching. She really helps you connect with your creativity in a loving and non threatening way.
I am so honored that she said "Yes" to teach painting classes at Art More Place.
This is the "art of your soul"… I hope you will gift yourself this amazing 2 days of painting with Katie.
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Intervention to Increase Screening for Glucocorticoid Induced Diabetes (CDA-GID)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01743963
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : December 6, 2012
Results First Posted : July 2, 2015
Last Update Posted : July 2, 2015
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|Condition or disease
|Diabetes Mellitus
|Behavioral: Decision support Behavioral: Usual Care
|Not Applicable
Aim 1: Conduct a single site randomized controlled feasibility trial of a decisional support intervention to reduce ADRLLS by improving providers' adherence to GID prevention measures. Approximately 20 primary care providers (caring for approximately 100 veterans on chronic steroids who have not been screened for diabetes in the last year) will be randomly assigned to receive decisional support for GID prevention measures (automatically-derived orders for hemoglobin A1C, to be co-signed by providers). These providers will be compared with 20 providers (caring for 100 veterans not screened for diabetes in the last year) who are randomly assigned to not receive decisional support for management of GID (i.e. the control group). The trial will be conducted at the VA's Eastern Colorado Health Care System (ECHCS) and will last approximately 6 months. Study administration will be coordinated through the Colorado Research Award Enhancement Program (Colorado REAP).
Aim 1a) Procedural Endpoints: As a feasibility trial, this study includes multiple procedural endpoints, such as provider participation rates, to assess the viability of the intervention, rather than a single primary efficacy outcome measure (for details, pages 6-7).
Aim 1b) Preliminary Estimates of Efficacy: We will determine the Delay Interval-the number of days from when a provider is randomized until the provider orders the GID prevention measure. Use of this continuous measure will maximize the power of this feasibility study, though we will also determine proportions of patients for whom these measures were ordered at six months, so that we may estimate the sample size for a subsequent multi-center randomized control trial.
Aim 1c) Post-trial de-briefing: Using structured interviews, we will examine the opinions of providers after they have participated in the GID feasibility trial, in order to gather additional qualitative data regarding the ADRLL framework and refine the intervention for a subsequent randomized controlled trial. Providers will also complete a brief survey assessing their preference for the intervention.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|38 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Single (Participant)
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|Official Title:
|Intervention to Increase Screening for Glucocorticoid Induced Diabetes
|Study Start Date :
|December 2012
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|March 2014
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|March 2014
Experimental: Decision Support Intervention
Clinical pharmacists mediated computerized decision support
Behavioral: Decision support
Clinical pharmacists mediated computerized decision support
Active Comparator: Usual Care
Clinicians' typical approach for GID monitoring
Behavioral: Usual Care
clinicians typical apporach for GID monitering
- Delay Interval (Days From Randomization Until the Provider Signs the Order for a hgbA1C Level). [ Time Frame: 6 MONTHS ]For follow-up laboratory data within the VA system, adherence will be monitored through prospective accrual of administrative data and review of the medical record. Results will be reported as the proportion receiving the preventive measure versus time, i.e. with Kaplan-Meier plots. We will then determine the variance of Delay Interval. For the preliminary measure of efficacy, the Delay Interval will be compared between patients whose providers were assigned to the intervention and patients whose providers did not receive the intervention.
- Feasibility/Reach/Adoption [ Time Frame: 12 months ]Measurements of intervention delivery include recruitment numbers and provider Participation Rates for enrollment and retention. The definition of study feasibility consists of provider enrollment rates >= 50%. Results reported using descriptive statistics (proportions, means, standard deviations, and ranges).
- Feasibility/Reach/Adoption [ Time Frame: 12 months ]Measurements of intervention delivery include the "representativeness" of providers (differences between participants/non-participants). Results reported using descriptive statistics (proportions, means, standard deviations, and ranges).
- Feasibility/Reach/Adoption [ Time Frame: 12 months ]Measurements of intervention delivery include the rationale used by clinicians declining participation. Results reported using descriptive statistics (proportions, means, standard deviations, and ranges).
- Feasibility/Reach/Adoption [ Time Frame: 12 months ]Measurements of intervention delivery include numbers of veterans excluded from the intervention. Results reported using descriptive statistics (proportions, means, standard deviations, and ranges).
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 90 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion criteria:
- Must be 18-90 years old
- Must be served by the ECHCS VA sytem
- Must have chronic glucocorticoid exposure (greater than or equal to 90 days of oral glucocorticoids)
- Eligible providers will consist of those primary care practitioners within the ECHCS with at least one patient meeting the above criteria. For each veteran, the primary care provider (PCP) will be defined as the patient's current general internal medicine or family practice practitioner. In the rare instance in which the patient has no PCP within the VA system, the specialist with the greatest number of patient encounters during the past 12 months will be eligible for inclusion. For every patient, only one provider will be randomized (to avoid multiple exposure to the intervention for some patients). The consent procedure is described below.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Veterans who have had a hgbA1C test within the previous 12 months will be excluded.
- Providers without eligible patients (described above), will be excluded.
- Providers declining to give consent will be excluded.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01743963
|United States, Colorado
|Liron Caplan
|Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045
|Principal Investigator:
|Liron Caplan, MD, PhD
|Veteran Affairs
|Responsible Party:
|Liron Caplan MD, PhD, Associate Professor, VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System
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|First Posted:
|December 6, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|July 2, 2015
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Humangog - Wednesday 30/10/2013, 09:51
They are back in clint city ! Footballers , Defender, Midfielder and attackers , they are all there, from the four major championships ( France , Italy, England , Spain), they are all there in order to triumph in Clint city ! Who will win the second edition of this vent is for football fans !
You must choose a player before register me stating his position , which will influence the size of your deck against other players from the vent.
The vent will be held as follows :
- There will be 128 players (40 backgrounds , 40 forwards , 40 defenders , and 8 have a choice at the end , but there must be at least 40 players at each position ) .
- The entrance fee is 500 clintz order to make it accessible to all the vent .
- There will be three intermediate events ( one for the defenders , one for media and one for attackers ) , and the best in each position will advance to the main vent to claim the title of best player !
- The formats vary in each phase , there will be several phases in the intermediate vents, and phases in the main event , so it will have a fairly substantial collection (minimum guru) .
At intermediate - events, players will encounter Only hosts players who are in the same position as them , then you can face a different position player .
Formats will be revealed once we have all the members , so that the clans allowed not influence your choice
The fights will be in 3 winning sets in the group stage , then five winning matches when you do not have an opponent to face
Be sure to spend about 1 and a half months before the event register !


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Corals in deep-sea environments fluoresce to 'amplify' the amount of light they receive, and generate critical photosynthesis in symbiotic algae.
Preserving coral biodiversity: A gift to the future
It's IVF, Jim, but…. Mary Hagedorn is preserving coral biodiversity with giant condoms
Coralbots: swarming to save reefs
How robots could be used to help restore the natural beauty of coral reefs…
All About Corals
Crazy over coral. Passionate about polyps. Eliot Barford tells us why Darwin was right to call coral reefs the 'oases of the ocean'.
Science Behind the Photo #18
Coral reefs around the world are rapidly being degraded by a number of human activities including over-fishing, coastal development, and the introduction of sewage fertiliser and sediment. Climate change is also a major cause of coral reef destruction. Coral reefs are often described as "the rainforests of the sea", as they are home […]


text: The Cultural Center "Brancoveanu Palaces" Mogosoaia is a special place on the cultural map of Romania. Beyond the architecture itself and the collection of carpets, the visual art exhibitions organized in the Palace and the adjacent spaces, the events involving concerts, theater plays, movies, poetry and literature, make the former residence Brancoveanu / Bibescu, one of the most interesting centers, not only in Bucharest & surrounding area, but throughout the country. This statement is fully balanced and assumed, the undersigned being otherwise involved in the last decade as a critic, curator and musician in numerous projects implemented at the Brancoveanu Palaces. The latest, at the time of writing, in the summer and autumn of 2018, exhibitions and concerts. Finally, we do not pretend that the place is good because we participated in its events, but we associate ourselves with this Cultural Center because the artistic expression offer here is very attractive.


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TGIF: The finish line approaches, dear readers – the end of another productive workweek and the beginning of another autumn weekend.
Speaking of autumn weekends, check out this handy dandy pumpkin-picking guide by our friends over at the Long Island Press.
Dig it: Continuing the theme of things grown and picked, today is Oct. 12, which also happens to be National Farmer's Day.
That doesn't mean what it once did on Long Island. But agriculture is a major part of our regional history and, considering the popularity of Island-based vineyards and wineries, remains a viable employer and revenue-generator today. So, go hug a vintner.
It all comes out in The Wash: Oct. 12, 1216, was a very bad day for Bad King John, the fabled villain of Robin Hood lore who lost a king's ransom in stolen jewels and coins when a flood tide swamped his royal caravan.
John, known to hoard jewels and other riches, was crossing an East England bay called The Wash when a flood arose, washing away the baggage carriage carrying the royal treasure – including jewels, silver plates, gold goblets, the sword of Tristram and more.
Current value of the treasure: $70 million. And according to legend, it was never found.
Medicine women: The Female Medical College of Pennsylvania (later the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania), the first U.S. medical school for women, opened on this date in 1850.
Name that house: The White House – known previously as the "President's Palace," the "Presidential Mansion" and the "Executive Mansion" – officially received its ivory ID on Oct. 12, 1901, by order of President Theodore Roosevelt.
Although The Rough Rider made if official, the mansion was actually dubbed "The White House" as early as 1811, when it was repainted white to cover up fire damage inflicted by British forces.
Given the shaft: A groundbreaking ceremony for a ventilation shaft marked the beginning of the seven-year construction of the Holland Tunnel – known then as the Hudson River Vehicular Tunnel – on this date in 1920. The Manhattan-to-Jersey City tube finally opened in November 1927.
Iron girl: And happy birthday to the iron lung, the artificial respirator that was first used on Oct. 12, 1928, to help a young girl at Children's Hospital in Boston, paralyzed by polio, breathe normally.
Actual biological birthdays on this date include famed American playwright Alice Childress (1916-1994); Weight Watchers founder Jean Nidetch (1923-2015); Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007); and Australian "Greatest Showman" Hugh Jackman (born 1968).
This is gonna hurt: And take a bow, Adam Rich – cute little Nicholas from "Eight is Enough" turns 50 today.
Fifty? Yeah, that stings. Ease your pain by sending a story tip or calendar suggestion to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Hagar the horrible: And thank you, newsletter reader Jody Fisher, for writing in to note that David Lee Roth's vocals "defined" Van Halen – and Sammy Hagar merely "stood on the shoulders of the giant that came before him."
A word from our sponsor: Whether it's helping in site selection, cutting through red tape or finding innovative ways to meet specific needs, businesses that settle in the Town of Islip soon learn that we take a proactive approach to seeing them succeed. If your business wants to locate or expand in a stable community with great quality of life, then it's time to take a closer look at Islip.
Funding, in store(age): Through the state's $1 billion NY-Sun program, Albany is making $40 million available for solar projects that integrate new energy-storage technologies – accelerating progress toward NY-Sun's ambitious goal of storing 1,500 megawatts of electricity by 2025, as mandated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2018 State of the State Address.
Storing solar-generated electricity without losing the lion's share in the process is quite the technological challenge. Wednesday's announcement, made at the annual Alliance for Clean Energy-New York conference in the state capital, is meant to promote collaboration between the evolving solar-energy industry and innovators working on new-and-improved storage technologies.
The $40 million investment complements the $200 million the NY Green Bank – a division of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority – is looking to make in storage related-investments, "which will help drive down costs for the strategic deployment of energy storage at scale," according to the governor's office.
Aiming high: Score a big one for Woodbury-based Janam Technologies, which announced Wednesday that American Nutrition – a leading manufacturer of pet foods and treats for national brands and private retailers – is now arming its workers with Janam's XG3-ER mobile computers.
The gun-shaped devices, capable of accurately reading barcodes from distances of up to 50 feet, are shooting the lights out at three of the Utah-based pet-food-peddler's world-class distribution facilities, according to a statement from Janam, which noted improved supply-chain visibility and real-time access of business-critical data among the bull's-eye benefits.
Noting it's "imperative that we meet performance metrics," American Nutrition Information Systems Manager Jim Dalpias said the rugged handheld devices were proving to be a silver bullet. "The XG3-ER has allowed us to use modern apps and data techniques," Dalpias said in a statement, adding the wireless computers "increased employee productivity and efficiency by 20 percent in a very short amount of time."
Copter robber: Luminati Aerospace founder Daniel Preston wanted to land his new rotor-craft division in Calverton, but stalled negotiations with the Town of Riverhead rerouted those jobs upstate.
Lights, camera, abscess! Melville-based healthcare products and services distributor Henry Schein has launched a brand-building video series marketing its dental-business chops.
The mother of all centers: Huntington Hospital has delivered its new Center for Mothers and Babies, a state-of-the-art birth-o-drome complete with private bathrooms and lobster dinners.
Northwell Health is exploring new dimensions, while the U.S. Small Business Administration is helping New York startups explore the world.
Spreading it around: Shocking news from Forbes, which says the next electric revolution might short circuit the centralized-power-station model.
Running start: Inside Innovation explores how today's transportation disruptors can influence tomorrow's transportation regulations.
Because one mentor won't do: Fast Company explains why the modern young professional needs a personal board of directors to help chart a career path.
+ SUNY Old Westbury has announced three personnel moves: Jacob Heller has been promoted to assistant vice president for institutional research and assessment; he was formerly an associate sociology professor. Claudia Marin Andrade has been hired as dean of students; she previously served as assistant dean of students and director of student advocacy at Hofstra University. Rossano Rovello has been hired as director of advancement initiatives; she previously served as associate director of individual giving at St. Francis College in Brooklyn.
+ Wayne Buchen has been hired as vice president of strategic sales at Applied DNA Sciences. He most recently served as Lacoste's senior vice president of global sourcing and operations in Hong Kong and senior vice president of global sourcing in New York.
+ Mazars USA has announced two promotions in its Long Island office. Stacey Barbaro has been made partner in the consultancy's Entrepreneurial Services Group and Jennifer Safran has been made partner in its Real Estate Group. Both served previously as senior managers for Mazars USA.
+ Michelle Nettuno has been hired as a technology marketing manager at Jericho-based E&I Cooperative Services. She was previously marketing manager at Melville-based Honeywell.
+ Lindenhurst-based AARCO Environmental Services has announced two new hires: Katherine Jones has been hired as an executive assistant; she was previously a waitress at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Brews in West Babylon. Victoria Whelan has been hired as director of remediation; she previously was an associate at Plainview-based CA Rich Consultants.
Where the ghouls are: Travel + Leisure crosses the country to scare up the best Halloween road trips.
Albergo diffuso: That's "scattered hotel" in Italian, a potential destiny for one tiny Swiss Alps village looking to repurpose itself as a single, sprawling inn.
Innovation is a road: Before you book your next trip, check out this primer on how innovation is reshaping the vacation-rental industry.
Bon voyage: Wherever this weekend takes you, be safe and happy. And please remember to support the great causes that support Innovate LI, including the Town of Islip's world-class Office of Economic Development.


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What is it
Shimano's first foray into the 12-speed mountain bike drivetrain world, the new XTR M9100 group is a ground-up redesign that aims to directly compete with SRAM's wildly popular Eagle set-up. Top line highlights of new Shimano XTR include a 510% wide range 10-51 cassette, smooth Hyperglide+ shifting functionality, Scylence (and silent) freehubs, an impressive dropper post remote, and 4-piston XTR level brakes (plus a lighter 2-piston version for the XC crowd).
For a more detailed tech rundown of the all the new XTR-level goodies, check out this post on the drivetrain, this post on the new brakes, and this post on the new hubs, pedals and more. Here's a look weights and prices of key components compared to SRAM XX1 Eagle.
Price Comparison: SRAM Eagle XX1 vs New Shimano XTR
- Shifter: Shimano $130 | SRAM $162
- Rear derailleur: Shimano $260 | SRAM $289
- Crankset: Shimano: $420 | SRAM $455
- 12spd Cassette: Shimano $380 | SRAM $420
- Chain: Shimano $65 | SRAM $85
- Chainring: Shimano $130 | SRAM $99
Weight Comparison: SRAM Eagle XX1 vs New Shimano XTR
- 12spd Cassette: Shimano 10-51 – 367g | SRAM 10-50 – 360g
- Rear Derailleur: Shimano Long Cage – 240g | SRAM – 265g
- Shifter: Shimano – 79g | SRAM – 124g
Availability of the new XTR group is slated for Fall 2018, but no exact date has been released yet. An XT group with similar features and functionality will roll out sometime in 2019.
For now the only people riding new XTR are a handful of sponsored pros such as Richie Rude, and a gaggle of journalists (Mtbr included) who got the chance to put the group through its paces during two days of testing in and around the MTB Mecca of Crested Butte, Colorado. Thus everything you read from here forward are preliminary impressions based on one 3'ish-hour XC ride, an afternoon at the Evolution Bike Park, and a longer 5'ish-hour backcountry adventure on the famed Trail 403-401 combo.
For the XC ride we piloted the exceptionally well-sorted Yeti SB100. After that we jumped onto an Ibis Ripmo (which we absolutely loved) for the bike park and trail ride session. Not surprisingly, Shimano appears to have knocked it out of the proverbial park in both form and function, though we'll need to log far more ride time before we can make any assertions about durability — or cast judgement on if it's better than SRAM Eagle. Keep reading to find out what we liked the most.
- Finally a truly wide gear range option from Shimano
- Able to smoothly shift under heavy load
- Exceptionally quiet system operation
- Superb brake modulation
- Tighter gear steps where it counts
- Well defined shifter clicks
- Low force requirement when shifting
- Yet another freehub "standard"
- Expensive — bring on XT
- Big gear steps in the middle of the cassette
- Encountered some brake lever pump on extended descent
- Not available until fall
Mtbr's Take
Perhaps the most telling moment of my recent encounter with Shimano's new XTR drivetrain and brakes came several days after my two-ride test session. On a sunny Sunday morning, I headed out for a 3-hour spin aboard this Shimano XT equipped Santa Cruz Hightower. It wasn't a bad ride by any means, but the difference between old and new was profound, especially the shifting and braking performance — and overall noise.
Indeed, while many if not most people will cringe at the idea of yet another freehub "standard," Shimano's new Micro Spline Scylence freehubs are blissfully quiet, silent in fact. And while this isn't something I've been pining for, after just a few rides I quickly grew to appreciate the lack of noise from the rear hub, or even the slightest hint of chainslap. Instead I was acutely aware of rattling cables, squishing suspension, tire traction, and the greater world around me, which in the case of Crested Butte was a really nice place to be. Who knew you could enjoy birdsong while shredding serpentine singletrack?
Key observation No. 2 — and the one that will likely garner the most long-term attention — was the ability to shift like a complete idiot but suffer no negative consequences. This is thanks to Shimano's Hyperglide+ system, which aims to let you to pedal and shift gears at the same time, say halfway through a steep, techy climb when backing off the gas likely means a dab or worse. I put this technology to the test several times, intentionally grabbing gears while cranking the cranks. Without fail, the chain quietly and smoothly moved into the desired next cog. And this was true whether climbing at a snail's pace or mashing tall gears on the flats. It's a more pleasurable (and more efficient) riding experience, as you never have to slow your cadence to get into the right gear.
Along those same lines, Shimano took a slightly different approach than SRAM Eagle to the gear steps of its 10-51 cassette (one of three options, and the only one we tested). Both Shimano and SRAM cassettes are identical through the first eight cogs (10-12-14-16-18-21-24-28), but Eagle saves its largest jumps for the end, going 28-32-36-42-50, while the new Shimano XTR cassette runs 28-33-39-45-51. The key, of course, is that last Shimano shift (from the 45 to 51 versus 42 to 50), which is smoother and much less abrupt. Being a rider who spends a lot of time spinning, I definitely prefer the 45-51 approach, though a stronger rider (who doesn't need the bailout gear as much) may lean the other way.
Overall, shifting was just what you'd expect from the Japanese component maker, exceptionally smooth with well-defined clicks and minimal required lever force when moving into an easier gear. Shimano also carried over the ability to shift down two cogs with one lever push, but also made that second click a touch harder to help prevent accidental double shifting. Also of note is the position and shape of the shift lever, which is set-up in such a way that your thumb motion is more of a natural glide than a push with the tip. It's a subtle difference, but one you definitely notice.
Same goes for the new dropper post lever, which mimics the XTR shift lever and has a natural light feel, making it easy to maintain a firm grip on the bars while moving your saddle up and down. And both shifter and dropper levers are coated with tactile traction enhancing rubber pads, lessening the chance of finger slip.
Last, but certainly not least, a few words on the new brakes, which were terrific. Gone is the sometimes disconcerting on-off light switch feel that I get on the aforementioned XT-equipped Hightower, replaced with well-tuned modulation, making it easier to stay in control on steep and/or loose terrain. Shimano also made the enduro brake levers slightly taller for a more reliable hand feel, and they went back to an alloy lever blade, increasing the chances that they'll survive a bad crash (fortunately a feature we did not test).
The new XTR brakes engagement point is also more consistent because the new mounting position lessens, if not eliminates flex even when pulling with all your might. I did, however, experience a hint of lever pump on the 4-piston set-up near the bottom of one particularly long steep section of Trail 403. When I mentioned this to the Shimano tech team afterward, they said that the set-ups we were testing were not final-final production product, and thus the hint of inconsistency.
That will certainly be something to keep an eye on when long term testing begins, which we've been told will commence near the end of the summer (fingers crossed). The bottom line for now, though, is it appears that while very late to the wide-range, 12-speed party, Shimano has come to market with a high functioning drivetrain that delivers new levels of precision — and silence — along with the requisite wide gear range that's come to define the modern mountain biking experience.
Rating: 5 out of 5 (for now – more test time needed)
Price: See breakdown below
More Info: www.ridextr.com


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I admire your restraint and equanimity, Noah. The Atlantic anti-foodie screed you reference elicits in me not discomfort, but mostly this:
It's hard to know where to even begin. The piece would deserve a thorough fisking but I'm not sure I have the time.
The piece staggers to and fro like a drunk, with no purpose, rhyme or reason, violently hurling at whatever comes near. There is no there there, only inexplicable, intense contempt for a vague class of people who have a hobby the author doesn't understand.
Let's try to summarize what the author hates about foodies: they really, really like food. They spend a lot of time and money on it. And they feel morally superior to non-foodies (he does have a bit of a point here).
People who have hobbies tend to be overly enthusiastic about them, care passionately about minutiae, and spend what is to an outsider lots of money and time on it. That's what hobbies are. I don't really "get" making and owning and playing with plenty of model trains as an adult. I don't, however, see myself dedicating several pages in a prominent publication to virulently mocking and insulting people who have that hobby, and publicly defecating all over their subculture. Whatever floats their boat, man.
Foodies (a group never defined, by the way), we learn, are "barbari[ c]", "quickly lose interest in any kind of abstract discussion", and have no "interest in literature or the arts—the real arts", a bigoted litany so self-evidently ridiculous that one is left with no recourse but the repeated banging of head against desk.
It is endlessly hinted at, but never actually explicitly said, that the author's real beef (ahem) with foodies is that they eat meat from animals, and that the author regards this as immoral. Which, well, let's set aside the merits of that proposition for now, but if he wants to make that argument, perhaps he should make that argument, instead of rambling incoherently and hatefully for five pages.
I originally intended to write here a ringing defense of foodism, but this loony logorrhea requires none. It's only a helpful reminder of Chateaubriand's remark that "the world is full of the needy, so I must be sparing with my contempt."


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SEOUL (REUTERS) - Two Vietnamese crewmen on a South Korean fishing vessel in the Indian Ocean have allegedly stabbed and killed the ship's captain and the engineer over a dispute, South Korea's coast guard said Monday (June 20) .
The two, both aged 32, have since been overpowered by other crew members and are locked up aboard the vessel as it sails to the Seychelles capital Victoria, a coast guard official in South Korea's southern city of Busan said.
The attack against the captain and the engineer took place early morning South Korean time on Monday and was reported to the coast guard by the vessel's owner located in Busan, coast guard official Kim In Ho said by telephone.
The Vietnamese crew members were believed to be drunk at the time of the incident, Kim said. "They are said to have been unhappy with the orders given by Korean bosses," he said, adding their exact motive will have to be investigated.
South Korean maritime police will dispatch a team of investigators to the island state on Tuesday, and the suspects will be brought back to South Korea, Kim said.


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Very simple to make, and always a hit with kids. You can use other types of bread, I prefer French bread.
YUM! But seriously, 1 cup of mayo? I used 2 tablespoons. 4 stars because if I would have used 1 cup of mayo, I'm positive this would have been inedible. I omitted the onions, added a shake of garlic salt, and a little dill relish. I've never tried mozzarella on a tuna melt before, but it was awesome. Thank you! - 12 May 2008 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
Years ago my mom used to make chicken melts but she couldn't remember how she made them. As soon as I read this recipe, I knew this was it. She substituted canned chicken for the tuna, same amount of mayo (I used light), onion optional, cheddar cheese on a toasted english muffin. Bake it in the oven until warm and cheese is melted. Yum!! Thanks for helping me recreate my mom's recipe. - 13 Nov 2008 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
Too much mayonnaise and lacks flavor. Maybe use 1/2 cup of mayonnaise and add some garlic salt and black pepper. - 25 Jan 2004 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)


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|Our team
The c. 30 workshop participants consisted of a rare but excellent combination of upper secondary school students, (head) teachers, researchers and school administration. During the one-day event, we were engaged in lively conversations on multilingual environments from several viewpoints: we discussed the latest results from contemporary research projects, learnt about students' insights and perspectives, and draw plans for future cooperation. I summarized the presented papers and the group discussions in my guest post on the Jyväskylä Language Campus Blog.
Szabó, T. P.: A workshop on co-located schools. Kielikampus blog, 19.12.2016. URL: http://kielikampus.jyu.fi/blog/3074/


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Schedule of Events
Monthly meetings are held on the 4th Saturday of each month at noon at Trinity Homes, 305 8th Avenue NE, Minot, ND, unless otherwise noted. All meetings are open to the public. Meetings are followed by a music jam.
Summer Schedule:
From May through September, music jams are held on the 4th Saturday of each month at 1:00 pm at the location listed above and are open to the public. There are no meetings during the summer months.
The Frozen Fingers Festival is Held Every Year in February:
This year's festival was held on February 14-15, 2020.
Visit the Festival 2020 page for more information.
Join us again next year for a time of music, workshops and fun!
This project is supported in part by a grant from the North Dakota
Council on the Arts, which receives funding from the state legislature
and the National Endowment for the Arts.


text: Which set of .223 Lee dies are best to use? They have the standard 3 die set and the deluxe die set. Which set works the best and easiest? Also is the factory crimp die needed for loading .223? I am going to start loading .223 and have everything except dies. I have been loading 9mm and .45 ACP. The .223 will be loaded on a Lee single stage press at this time. Any info or experience would be helpful before I buy. Thanks


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Last night Rihanna celebrated her best friend Melissa's birthday in Toronto. Rih's in the city because she'll be performing there on Wednesday and Thursday. Although Melissa posted some videos on her Instagram, we didn't get a good look at Rihanna's outfit in any of them. However, a few fan photos have popped up and even though I'd normally wait for high quality pictures before making a post, those don't seem to be coming. So let's work with what we've got (I'll update if we get better pics).
Rihanna was spotted by a few fans heading into Fring's where the dinner was held. I immediately recognised the dress but the bag took a little more work. In the end it came down to the details. Here's what she wore:Rihanna rocked a dress from Alexander Wang's Spring/Summer 2016 collection [Look 40]. All those slip dresses on the Spring 2016 runways looked like they were designed with Rihanna in mind so it's no surprise that she's starting to wear them. This 100% silk maxi gown looks like a slip dress and a lace-trimmed racerback bra had a baby. The dress features thin adjustable straps and a deep v in the back. Grab it from Net-a-Porter ($2,495) or in store at Alexander Wang.
She carried one of Jimmy Choo's Locket Petite handbags. I couldn't tell which colour she has because of the photo's quality so I've included a picture of the textured gold version. The small bag boasts stud detail on the sides, an enamel closure and a long chain handle that can be shortened. You can purchase a few different colours from Net-A-Porter ($1,626) or on Jimmy Choo's website.
- Alexander Wang silk satin maxi dress with lace trim ($2,495)
- Jimmy Choo Lockett Petite handbag in gold ($1,626)
Dirtyyy 30 #Blessed #Thankful #Bfflyfe @badgalriri
A video posted by @mdollas11 on
On April 11th (Melissa's actual birthday) Melissa posted a video of the two of them hanging out and here Rihanna wore a hoodie from the ANTI World Tour merchandise.
The pull over hoodie is exclusively sold on the singer's website. It features a drawstring hood, kangaroo pocket and red text. On the back are a series of Rihanna portraits. It's up for pre-order and will ship around April 15th.
- Rihanna Anti-High camo pull over hoodie ($49.95)


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High quality anti-static wide-toothed comb
Professional quality and yet affordable, the label.m Detangling Comb is a useful accessory that you won't want to be without. This carefully conceived comb features a carbon fibre additive and so is genuinely anti-static. The wide teeth pas through wet hair with ease to gently remove any tangles and stimulate your roots. Also ideal for distributing conditioners, masques and other treatments evenly through your hair, this comb is a versatile tool that you should always have to hand. There's no sharp edges to damage your hair and if you don't have a detangling comb, this Label.m tool would be a great place to start!
- Anti-static
- Light
- Professional quality
- No sharp edges
- Detangles
- Distributes conditioners and masques evenly


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Welcome in Sobrio by Norma
Sobrio, a nice little village is located on a sunny terrace, in the Leventina Valley, north Ticino,
The village can be reached,
by walking : www.stradaalta.ch
public transportation : www.sbb.ch
by car : Highway A2 / exit Faido - in 15 minutes ( see travel planer)
Sobrio is a worthwile destination for holiday guests, climbers, bikers and snowshoers.
climbing : www.moser.ch
hiking : www. wandersite.ch/stradaalta.html
biking : www.mytourfox.ch
snowshoeing : detailed report in ( aktivitäten )
Looking forward to see you, Norma