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Yahoo! Shareholder Letter Outlines Forward Momentum and Urges Election of Its Board Nominees
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Yahoo! Shareholder Letter Outlines Forward Momentum and Urges Election of Its Board Nominees09:00 EDT Wednesday, May 02, 2012
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (Business Wire) -- Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), the premier digital media company, today
released the following letter to all shareholders from its board of
Dear Shareholder,
Since last August, Yahoo! has moved forward aggressively, implementing a
plan to position itself for future success and to increase the value of
Yahoo! for you, our shareholders.
Just four months ago, we appointed CEO Scott Thompson, a highly
accomplished and dynamic leader with the experience and expertise
required to lead Yahoo! to renewed growth, innovation, and success.
Scott is already moving the company forward fast – dramatically
reorganizing the business around its core strengths with a mindset of
focus, speed, discipline, and putting the customer first.
The company has reconstituted the board of directors, with the
optimal mix of expertise, experience, and fresh perspectives to
accelerate the company's transformation. We recruited five new, highly
qualified independent directors through the Nominating and Corporate
Governance Committee's thorough search process. In addition, four of
our directors volunteered not to stand for re-election at the 2012
shareholders' meeting. As reconstituted, following the annual meeting
a majority of Yahoo!'s directors will be new to the board this year,
and all directors will have joined the board since 2010.
Following a detailed and diligent review in an accelerated timeframe,
the company produced a comprehensive strategic framework that
will change what we do and, most importantly, how we do it to enable
us to put our customers first in everything we do. We will deliver
fun, engaging, and personalized experiences on all screens and forge
strong relationships with our advertisers by producing measurable
results, including consumer insights derived from our vast data, and
delivering a higher rate of return on advertising spend. Specifically,
we will focus all we do on the consumers who trust us to deliver
personalized content and communications in our core businesses, and on
the advertisers who want to connect with our consumers. Just as
importantly, we are identifying what we will no longer do, in order to
direct resources toward those businesses that generate the highest
consumer engagement and the best return on our investment. As we excel
in our core business, we will earn the right to pursue new growth
With this renewed operational focus, the company has defined a new
organizational structure to support our core business and put
resources closer to our customers. Effective May 1, Yahoo! will
operate in three groups – consumer, regions and technology
– allsupported by our corporate teams. Each of these three
groups will have clear accountability for getting results by
delivering the best customer experiences. This more efficient
structure will enable faster decision-making and more effective
delivery of innovative products and services that measurably impact
the bottom line.
Beyond our core business, we are committed to continuing to be prudent
stewards of our non-core assets and investments and to be thoughtful
and diligent about monetizing their significant value at the right
time and in the right manner. Should we do so, returning capital to
shareholders will be a high priority.
In identifying qualified new members for the board, the Nominating and
Corporate Governance Committee, led by its independent chairperson Patti
Hart, conducted a thorough and impartial search process. Working
with a leading executive recruitment firm and using the committee's
desired skill sets and experience for new board members, the committee
identified over 100 potential candidates and sought input from a number
of our major shareholders. Committee members engaged with over 20
individuals, including the four nominees proposed by Third Point.
Committee members then conducted numerous in-depth interviews and
carefully analyzed the qualifications of each candidate, including each
of Third Point's nominees. Committee members conducted additional
interviews with those candidates that warranted further consideration,
as determined by the committee in its meetings held throughout the
process. Following completion of the full process, the committee and the
board determined that the distinguished group of five candidates
recently announced were the best choices, based on their individual
accomplishments, experience directly relevant to Yahoo!'s business and
its challenges, and records of value creation.
The new directors havestrong records of significant
accomplishment at the highest levels of media, advertising,
marketing, Internet, technology, and finance, including corporate
finance and restructuring, and insight into customers' perspectives. The continuing
directors areindependent thinkers who bring impressive track
records of success, and have been actively and constructively engaged as
the company has developed its strategic framework to deliver renewed
success and value to shareholders. We are challenging Yahoo!'s entire
leadership team by asking tough questions, establishing rigorous goals,
and developing a framework for strict accountability to move Yahoo!
forward… fast.
Our focus now is on operating the company so that it deliverssuperior
value to our shareholders. Supported by the many talented people who
have contributed to charting our new course and inspired by the many
shareholders, customers, and employees who have communicated passion for
this great brand, we know that we will succeed.
Regrettably, our efforts to avoid a proxy contest with Third Point were
unsuccessful. Following the recommendation of the Nominating and
Corporate Governance Committee, we offered Third Point two board seats,
including one of its nominees and a second mutually agreeable candidate,
which would bring Third Point's perspective into the boardroom.
Unfortunately, Mr. Loeb declined to end his proxy solicitation on that
basis, insisting that there could be no settlement unless he was
personally appointed to the board. The board continues to believe that
Mr. Loeb himself does not bring the relevant skill set and experience to
the board, particularly in comparison to the candidates selected by the
board. In addition, we believe that, based on the specific
qualifications of Third Point's nominees relative to Yahoo!'s business
and opportunities, the candidates nominated by the board's Nominating
and Governance Committee are significantly superior to those proposed by
Third Point. Nevertheless, we want to emphasize that we remain committed
to an open dialogue with all our shareholders and to working in a
constructive manner with Third Point.
At the end of the day, we recognize that you, our shareholders, will
make the decision as to the board you want to lead your company. We are
confident that when you assess our new board's qualifications against
Third Point's slate, you will come to the same conclusion that we
did—that this is the right board with the right mix of skills and
experience to lead the company forward to create value for shareholders.
We also recognize that we have a great deal of work to do to support and
challenge the management team to move the company forward fast. We
intend to keep ourselves and the company focused and we do not intend to
let ourselves be distracted from the work at hand.
Yahoo! is looking forward, focused on delivering superior
value to all of our shareholders. We are building momentum with a
great leadership team, unified in focusing the company on its core
strengths, redeploying resources to the most productive areas of the
business, and equipping the company to invest in growth and innovation.
Your new board includes individuals who have proven operating expertise
in media, advertising, marketing, Internet, technology, and finance, and
have consistently proven to be thoughtful and responsible stewards of
shareholder value, with a strong emphasis on disciplined capital
allocation and a willingness to embrace structural change. They are
already contributing to the rigorous action plan to realize Yahoo!'s
potential and deliver increased value for shareholders.
With new leadership and the new board, we are building a stronger,
nimbler, more profitable Yahoo! that is better equipped to innovate
for our customers and will ultimately increase the value of Yahoo! for
all shareholders.
You can read more about Yahoo!'s actions to move the company forward and
create shareholder value at http://yahooforward.com.
Thank you for your support.
Yahoo! Board of Directors
Important Additional Information
Yahoo! has filed a preliminary proxy statement with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and will be filing a definitive proxy
statement with the SEC in connection with the solicitation of proxies
for its 2012 annual meeting of shareholders. Shareholders are
strongly advised to read Yahoo!'s 2012 definitive proxy statement
(including any amendments or supplements thereto) when it becomes
available because it will contain important information.
Shareholders will be able to obtain copies of Yahoo!'s 2012 proxy
statement, any amendments or supplements to the proxy statement, and
other documents filed by Yahoo! with the SEC in connection with its 2012
annual meeting of shareholders for no charge at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Copies of the proxy materials may also be requested from the Company's
proxy solicitor, Innisfree M&A Incorporated, by telephone at (877)
750-9499 (toll-free) or by email at email@example.com.
Yahoo!, its directors, executive officers and certain employees are
deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies from shareholders in
connection with Yahoo!'s 2012 annual meeting of shareholders.
Information regarding Yahoo!'s directors, executive officers and other
persons who, under rules of the SEC, are considered participants in the
solicitation of proxies for the 2012 annual meeting of shareholders,
including their respective interests by security holdings or otherwise,
is set forth in the preliminary proxy statement Yahoo! filed with the
SEC on April 27, 2012 and will be set forth in the definitive proxy
statement for Yahoo!'s 2012 annual meeting of shareholders when it is
filed with the SEC.
About Yahoo!
Yahoo! is the premier digital media company, creating deeply personal
digital experiences that keep more than half a billion people connected
to what matters most to them, across devices and around the globe. And
Yahoo!'s unique combination of Science + Art + Scale connects
advertisers to the consumers who build their businesses. Yahoo! is
headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit the
pressroom (pressroom.yahoo.net)
or the company's blog, Yodel Anecdotal (yodel.yahoo.com).
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements concerning such
matters as our strategic, operational and product plans, our expected
financial and operational performance, our management and organizational
changes, and creation of value for our shareholders. Risks and
uncertainties may cause actual results to differ materially from the
results predicted. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among
others, the costs and management distraction attendant to a proxy
contest; the impact of management and organizational changes; the
implementation and results of any strategic plans as well as Yahoo!'s
ongoing strategic and cost initiatives; Yahoo!'s ability to compete with
new or existing competitors; reduction in spending by, or loss of,
advertising customers; risks related to Yahoo!'s regulatory environment;
interruptions or delays in the provision of Yahoo!'s services; security
breaches; acceptance by users of new products and services; risks
related to joint ventures and the integration of acquisitions; risks
related to Yahoo!'s international operations; failure to manage growth
and diversification; adverse results in litigation, including
intellectual property infringement claims and recent derivative and
class actions; Yahoo!'s ability to protect its intellectual property and
the value of its brands; dependence on key personnel; dependence on
third parties for technology, services, content, and distribution;
general economic conditions and changes in economic conditions;
transition and implementation risks associated with the Search Agreement
with Microsoft Corporation; and risks that the benefits of the Framework
Agreement Yahoo! entered into with Alibaba Group, Softbank Corporation
and certain other parties regarding Alipay may not be realized. All
information set forth in this press release is as of May 2, 2012. Yahoo!
does not intend, and undertakes no duty, to update this information to
reflect subsequent events or circumstances. More information about
potential factors that could affect Yahoo!'s business and financial
results is included under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations" in Yahoo!'s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
ended December 31, 2011, which is on file with the Securities and
Exchange Commission ("SEC") and available at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
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We are doing some volunteer work at a non-profit daycare center this weekend. See pic of the front of building that needs work. I have several more pics. The area is on the south side of the building with plenty of sun. Zone 5 West Michigan. It is around 70ft in length and around 25-30 ft from building to parking lot, with a big slope starting around 15 ft from building. We were thinking taking out the plants along the building and starting from scratch putting mulch down and planting a mix of shrubs/perenials, and a couple small trees (we have a owner of a garden center willing to donate plants..). Any ideas would be appreciated, it is in bad shape (weedy grass). Thank You |
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Once it is completed who will care for the plants? That might impact how much is going to be planted and what plants selected. Also It may be good to ask what the garden center owner what he is willing to donate. |
There are volunteers at the center that will take care of the plants, we also may have to do a volunteer day a couple times a year. We definitely need lower maintenance plants/shrubs.Here is another pic.. The garden center told us to put in a request, anything they can't provide could also be purchased, we have a $500 budget as well.. Thanks |
Here are some suggestions that re-use the Iris and Liriope. Once plants are installed, it's important that they are weeded regularly during the establishment period ... especially perennials as it's difficult to eradicate weeds from them after they've gotten a foothold. Mulches will help, but weeds need to be eradicated first. |
I like the idea to move around the existing plants...Do you think it would be a good idea to create a bed along the stairs and up around the concrete walkout as well? Is there a shrub you would reccomend to plant with the Iris/Liriope. Also - what tree would you reccomend, something smaller that flowers, maybe dogwood or redbuds? Thanks! |
I would only create a bed along the steps IF it was a low (less than 8" ht.,) tough groundcover with a bed width matching the upper landing. Know that installing a groundcover where there were formerly weeds requires diligence in making sure that weeds do not return. If they do, then the work is in vain. I would not plant a shrub WITH the Iris/Liriope ... but only INSTEAD of it or in that alternate place I mentioned. Usually, with these volunteer & charity situations, there is limited variety of plants available. Once you know what's available, pick what you know to be good or post a question about it here. |
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Fans can make an impact
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Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under The Comics Journal, Mickey Mouse, Kevin Huizenga, Floyd Gottfredson, Disney, awards | 3 Jul 2012 3:03 AM |
The nominees for the 2012 Harvey Awards were announced yesterday and we're pleased to share that we've received 3 nominations:
Ganges #4 by Kevin Huizenga — Best Single Issue or Story
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse by Floyd Gottfredson — Best Domestic Reprint Project
The Comics Journal — Best Biographical, Historical, or Journalistic Presentation
Winners will be announced at a ceremony on September 8, 2012 at the Baltimore Comic-Con, as per tradition. Browse and order all of our 2012 nominated titles here, and see here for links to past years' award honorees. Congratulations to all the nominees!


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Investigating Insect Interactions on Pentaclethra macroloba, Arlin Alger
The Fluid Velocity and its Reorientation in Simulated Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection, Adriana Borrayo
Dispersion of Ions in the Drift Dark Matter Detector, Nicole Chen
Oxy Students' Attitudes about Rape, Spencer Choy
The Metaphor and the Literal- language and Deleuze, David Cole
Simulation and analysis of regular and chaotic particle dynamics in asymmetry-induced transport, Jacob Coleman
The Suburban Myth and its application to the San Fernando Valley, Deanna Dupuy
Rhetoric or Reality?: The Integration of Women's Issues into 21st Century US Foreign Policy, Jessie Durrett
Gender in Recipes: A Look at the Food Network's Top Chefs, Kirsten Easton
The Effects of Aspect Ratio on Onset Pattern Formation in Simulated Rayleigh-Benard Convection, Mary Flagstad
Summer 2012 Program: Affordable Housing Internship, Bianca Fonseca-Cervantes
Translations for Language Teaching and Civic Engagement, Jessica Galvez
The Implementation of the FAIR Education Act: Teaching LGBT History in Schools, Priya Ghose
Glucose and Fructose Ingestion following High Intensity Exercise does not Affect Subsequent Exercise Capacity, Adam Gutierrez
The Development and Characterization of Polyvalent Anti-Influenza Antivirals, Kevin Hong
A Kinematic and Electromyographic Analysis of the "High Knees" and "Butt Kicks" Running Form Drills Compared to Running at an 8 Minute Mile Pace, Marnie Kinnaird
Corruption and Capital: the effect of corruption on foreign investment, Megan Lang
Assisting with hardware R&D for the DRIFT Dark Matter Detection Project, Everest Law
Communication Across a Conceptual Divide: Effects of Collaboration on Evolutionary Reasoning, Jai Levin
Stress-Induced Alcohol Preferences: A Novel Test in Selectively Bred Rats, Chardonnay Madkins
Why Bill Maher Is Dangerously Misguided and Why It Matters: A Philosophical Exploration of the Religious Dimension of Human Existence, Natalie Malter
Mind the Gap: An Instance of Grotesquely Defamiliarizing Indeterminacy in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, Gabriel Mathews
70 Years of College Life: OxyCorps Student/Alumni Interviews, Sarah Mooney, Isabel Osgood-Roach, Taylor Rowland, and Ryan Rambach
Optimizing the purification of wild type and mutant recombinant phospholipase D: An approach to producing a Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis vaccine, Utsav Patwardhan
"Signal to Noise" Ratio of a Novel Object Increased By Ritalin: A Study with Two Rat Strains, Alexander Posell
Herbivory on Toxic Plants and Gut Microbial Diversity in Tropical Katydids, Kenjiro Quides
Solution of Laplace's Equation for a high end potential with a biased center wire in a Malmberg-Penning trap, Kyle Reuther
The Role of Metacognition in Conceptual Change, Sharang Tickoo
Locomotion and Anxiety After Caffeine Intake in HiS and LoS Rats, Jennifer Wang
Abundance and Size Variations in Eelgrass-Associated Fish Assemblages In San Diego Bay, Morgan Winston
Submissions from 2011
The Prevalence of Populational and Negative Facts in Children's Books About Nature, Katie Abelson
PerceptionsofNature: MalleabilityDuetoVisualPrimingandRelationtotheUnderstandingofEvolution, Yih-Hsin A. Ban
A Study of Intrinsic Knots and Links: a Tale of Two Graphs Alex Barylskiy and Hannah Schwartz, Alex Barylskiy and Hannah Schwartz
The Givenness of Being in Late Plato, Peter Beer
The Fluid Velocity and its Reversal in Simulated Turbulent Rayleigh-B?nard Systems, Adriana Borrayo
The Thermal Expansion of the Heavy Fermion Antiferromagnet YbAgGe, Caitlin Brown
Over the River and Through the Woods: Nature and Cognitive Development, Danielle Caban
Magnetoresistive Correction to Cernox Thermometers below 4K, Thomas Cahuzac
An Analysis of the Effect of Rectangular Geometries on the Large-scale Circulation in Turbulent Rayleigh-B?nard Convection, Zamara Cardenas-Licea
Parental Input Regarding ?Negative? Information About the Biological World, Isabel Checa
Quality Control in Engineering DRIFT IIe Detectors, Pt 2, Nicole Chen
Virus-Based Heparin Reversal Agents, Ho Yong Cheong
Behind the Veil: Feminism, Racism, and the Call for the Liberation of the Muslim Woman, Margot Clifford
Effect of Soil Type on Abundance and Diversity of Insect Herbivores of Pentaclethra macroloba , Audrey Crocker
Engineering a Dark Matter Detector: the Intricacies of Construction of DRIFT IIe, Sean Curran
The Effects of Storm Drain Runoff on Fish and Invertebrate Populations at Palos Verdes Peninsula, Sara Damore
Alone, Together: The Social Culture of Music and the Coffee Shop, Margaret de Larios
Community-Based Organizations and Pre-Service Teacher Education: A Case Study of 826LA, Sarah Duer
The Biomechanics of Pirouettes in Elite Female Dancers, Chelsea Duncan
Cyanotype Slipstream, A Family Portrait, Tucker Eason
Activation of CiD Interneurons in Zebrafish by the Venom of the Fish Hunting Cone Snail Conus catus , Erika Edmund
Triangle-Y Families of Complete Graphs, Greg Ellison
?Love too thick??: Narrative Structure, Reader Response, and Violence in Toni Morrison?s Beloved and Jazz , Mirin Fader
Heparin Alternative Using Virus Scaffolds, Conrad Fihn
Quality Control in Engineering DRIFT IIe Detectors, Pt 1, Jennifer Fox
Population dynamics of Strongylocentrotus -dominated sea urchin barrens on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, Anthony Fredericks
A Mouse Model for Corynebacterium Pseudotuberculosis Vaccine Development, Kristina Geiger
Two models of PTSD in Rats Selectively Bred for High and Low Saccharin Intake, Wesley Goodman-Levy
A Nation of Homeowners: The American (Day)dream, Katrina Gould
An Enantioselective Synthesis of Prozac, Jennifer Griffin
An Empire Divided: Regional anti-Catholic Policies in Bismarck's Germany, Joel Haas
Improved Simulation of Lava Flow Cooling Supports Hypothesis of Rapid Transitional Geomagnetic Field Change, Lydia Harmon
Re-Collecting Dove: Virtually Archiving the Life and Work of Cruzan Artist Lloyd "Dove" Braffith, Elsa Henderson
Willa Cather, McClure's Magazine and "The Problems of Suicide", Will Holmes
Contested spaces: Narrating Claims to the Mosque-Cathedral of C?rdoba against the Specter of the Moor, MaX Horten
All in Your Head? Exploring Pain Relief of Endogenous Opiate Activation in Rat Models, Jordanne Ho-Shue
Mathematical Modeling of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms via Micro-Array Analysis, Thomas Jemielita
Camouflaged Modernism: Tracing Corbusian Symbolism through the Rodger Young Village, Anna Jane Jones
Electrochemical Reshaping of Cartilage, Jeremy Kallick
China in Africa: South-South Camaraderie or Exploitation, Elizabeth Kennedy
City of Hope: Analysis and Purification of CEA samples, Elissa Kim
When is seeing believing: Issues with Stem Cell therapy research, Emily Kimes
Predicting Relapse in Leukemia Patients Using WT1-specific RNA Transcript Levels, Irene Kim
A Simplified and Greener Approach to Patterning Surfaces with Metallic Nanostructures, Sohyun Kim
Reactions of 1,4-naphthoquinones with Nucleophiles, Tiffany Kim
The Young Women's Christian Association: Activism and Gender Identity in Postwar America, Teigynn Knight and Schwartz
Livable Los Angeles: Evaluating Transit-Oriented Development in Hollywood, Mike Kralovich
Properties of Phosphatidylethanolamine and Monofluorinated Phosphatidylcholine Mixtures, Kamini Kuchinad
Emission Spectra of Cytochrome P450 and Protein Structure, Sally Landefeld
Searching for KK Axions with the DRIFT-IId Dark Matter Detector, Joseph Landers
The Impact of Physical Education on Student Outcomes: A Review of Research in Economics, Education, Kinesiology, and Psychology, Alexander LaRose
Expressive Musical Terms Index: A Case for Web-Based Technology as a Means of Interpreting Musical Scores, Calvin Lesko
Unveiling Venom: Comparison of Novel Conus tulipa Conotoxins to Other Species of Fish-Hunting Cone Snails, Nicole Leung
The Effect of Meditation on Maximum and Minimum Dollar Willingness to Pay, Jai Levin
The Prologue of the Gospel of John: Abstract Theology or Jewish-Christian Polemic?, Aidan Lewis
Classical Conditioning Blocking with Biologically Prepared Stimuli, Kimberly Lockwood
Detecting Dark Matter - The DRIFT Dark Matter Project, Brent Magnusson
The Process of Conflict Resolution and Team Cohesion, Elizabeth Martin
Classifying and Documenting TY-Realizable Trees, Scott McCalla
U.S. Democracy Promotion in Egypt: a Critique of USAID, Meagan McGinty
Studies Directed Toward the Enantioselective Synthesis of Cymbalta?, Colin McKinlay
TheDynamicNatureofStateCourtsinEducationRightsLitigation, Sara McKnight
(Re)Writing, (Re)Reading: Maurice Blanchot and The Space of Literature , Rebecca Miller
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It's been several weeks since I've last checked in with you guys, so I'm sorry, I didn't mean to drop off the face of the earth. Real life gets in the way sometimes. And I have been busy!
I'm back from Hawaii now. My family all went on a summer trip because they like tropical places...in all honesty, I wasn't too excited since I don't really like warm weather. Anyway. My dog died while we were away though. :( He'd been sick for a while but he'd been getting better so it was kind of unexpected. I don't know if you guys remember but back in June he got really sick with some type of immuno-deficiency disease and his platlette count plummeted and it was pretty certain that he wasn't going to make it but then he improved and got to come home from the hospital.
So I'm done at MICA. We left on Saturday morning after 4 weeks there. At the end I really didn't want to leave--home won't feel like home anymore. I realized how little of a connection with people at home I have, which is sad, but since my friends have graduated I guess I kind of expeced it. At least a lot of us at the program shared the sentiment, and some of them don't even have decent art programs to go back to back home. I never got around to describing everyone I met there for you guys did I?
MICA continues to be a lot of fun, a lot of work, not much sleep and way too hot. I went to a thrift shop of sorts yesterday called The Book Thing, where they have rooms and rooms of used books, and they're all free! I got a box full, 16 in total, I think. I felt like such a gutton, but they were all so beautiful I couldn't choose.
So it's the second day of pre-college. We still haven't started class yet, it's a lot of icebreakers and getting-to-know-you stuff. My room is decent actually, and it's got two big windows, so that's nice. Unfortunaely, there faren't as many queer-art girls (or anyone, really) here as I'd hoped, but I'll be busy working likely so I doubt I'd have the motivation to pursue someone anyhow. There are a few cute dyke-y girls though, and some of the RAs are rather attractive. It's always the older unattainable girls, isn't it. :/
I'm in NJ for right now, visitingmy grandparents before I head off to study at MICA for a month. Consequently, my oasisizing time is really sporadic,since my mum is always borrowing my laptop, but I'll be around still.
Finals are this week, starting Tuesday and I am freaking out. I have so much to study for and only one day left, really. My English teacher threw this big group speech on us at the last minute, and my group has to give it during our lunch break because she messed up the scheduling.
I know it's been a rather long time since I've written anything. I guess I just haven't had much of anything interesting going on in my life. Meh. I finally finished with AP testing last week though. :) It was bad.
I also realized today that all of my close friends are graduating in a few weeks, which sucks, and means I will probably derp/lurk around awkwardly for the first quarter of school next year until I find someone new to talk to. Ugh, not looking forward to it. I'm bollocks at meeting new people.
I'm sittting here trying to write this 10 page paper for English class on Kerouac, and my dad is washing the dishes and the're making this *shlorp* noise and I'm just
I can never focus on anything, and it's such a problem. I've been thinking of maybe asking my doctor if I have ADD or something because this can't be normal. Ugh.
I just spent half and hour typing a really long post, and then the interenet ate it when I double-checked that my hyperlink worked. Ugh. Now I have to type it all out again, and I'll probably forget stuff.
Supposed to be writing english homework, but spent 45 minutes looking at tumblr. ...the hell? Gah, I'm so unproductive, I wonder if this diagnosable. (<-------- is that a word?)
G'night guys
This is for an English assignment and it's only a rough draft. Sketch, in words, a person who does not know you are watching them. Any comments, critiques, suggestions etc. are greatly appreciated.
To the Girl in the Green Sweater
You're sitting in the row behind me me in the auditorium
wearing a sweater the colour of olives
no, not quite olives, like olives and lichen and some other deeper thing, like the confidence rolling off you in waves is stiched into the yarn of your sweater
Will be back Friday I think, but I don't know if I'll have oasis access while I'm gone.
I have stories for you all when I return! (read: Raccoon Boy had a party and it was epic)
I've missed writing things on Oasis. I just don't have much going on right now. Actually, I do but it's all schoolwork and not very interesting, since Evy got all weird again and said she couldn't see me anymore.
::Rant Alert::And she told me this over Facebook, I mean really?!
She lives 5 bloodly minutes across town and she complains that we never see eachother and then doesn't make any time to do that anyway. And besides, it's not like she needs to be with me 24/7 anyway, is it?
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Any of about 4,000 species of predatory dipterans in the family Asilidae, found worldwide. Robber flies are the largest of all dipterans; some species are 3 in. (8 cm) long. Most have a dull-coloured, stout body resembling that of a bumblebee and a moustache of bristles between the large-faceted eyes. They use their long legs to capture insects in flight and hold them while eating; a fluid injected into the victim breaks down muscle tissue. A few species are serious pests of apiaries.
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Where you want to end up
Let's start with the goal — by the end of your first week you want to have a highly-productive kingdom that is an unattractive target for other players to attack. I stress "unattractive" because (unless you're spending a ton of money) you simply cannot make yourself anything like as strong as players who have been playing a long time. If they want to hit you and take your stuff, they can so the trick is making it not worth their while.
Early days: Focus on production
Civony is a game where economic investment pays high returns. You start off producing tiny amounts of basic goods but in a week you'll be producing relatively vast amounts. Where you end up on the production curve will be determined largely by how quickly you move up it during those critical early days.
Meanwhile you have an incredibly powerful asset — beginner protection. Mightier than the tallest wall full of defenses, beginner protection means you are absolutely untouchable by other players while it lasts. Because of this, any resources you spend on defense are dead until the protection period ends. That doesn't mean you shouldn't build any — you'll need troops to conquer valleys and you need to improve your wall to improve your town hall, for example — but building defenses should only be done as a means to building up production, not as an end in and of itself.
Do whatever you can to avoid running out of investment resources. Their unit-for-unit value is very high for you in the early days because whenever you run out you are losing time which is your true scarce resource. You should use each of your levies early on. You'll recover from the discontent easily and with the quest bonus you get plenty of goods to make it worthwhile. (Later on the quest bonus will be trivial and levying won't be particularly exciting as an option.)
You should also look at buying resources, with gold and/or game cents. (Even if you plan to play for free you begin with a small amount of money and one of your quests is to spend it.) One cent translates to 4,000 lumber. When you're producing over a million lumber per hour that's not much help but early on that could mean the difference between making your next investment and waiting an hour or more.
Don't waste time. Again, it is your scarce resource — you have a lot to accomplish in your first week! You'll notice that your outdoor buildings can be built up to level 2 or 3 (depending on the resource) with the "instant speedup" option, so start off using that. Then try to minimize your dead time as you build up your production engine.
Focus on Lumber more than the other resources — it's more valuable to you in the early game and has a higher trade value on the marketplace (at least currently) so at the moment it's almost strictly superior to the other goods.
Follow the quests in a balanced way. They are useful both because they provide you a reasonable guideline of how to develop and because the bonuses are often more than the cost, but think about how each one will affect your development. An easy beginner mistake to make is completing a quest and then getting to work on the next one right away. You almost never want to complete the next level of a particular quest immediately — there will be something easier and more rewarding elsewhere.
Joining an Alliance
As a medium-sized Civony fish (98K prestige as I write this) I can assure you that choosing the right alliance is critical. You'll see a lot of advertisements for alliances on world chat and perhaps you've thought of forming your own. Don't. There are currently over 2,700 alliances and you want to join one of the top ones.
The reason is simple — when I or someone like me looks at your kingdom as a potential raiding target, your defenses are unlikely to be a factor. You may feel proud of your level 6 walls with 500 archer towers and 1000 traps but that's not going to cause me significant casualties if I decide to attack…and the more powerful players can knock past that with a sneeze.
Your best defense is membership in an alliance that we don't want to fight with. If possible you should shoot for a top-200 alliance.
Let me give you an example. I just finished scouting someone with 15K prestige and found nearly three million in goods and gold and virtually no military defenses. Fortunately for him, he's a member of the Knight alliance…so he gets a pass. Instead I'm attacking someone with just 600K resources and slightly better (but still irrelevant) military defenses…and no alliance.
Another advantage to joining a top alliance is that you're very likely to find players that will give you resources to help you keep developing. It's a simple matter of scale — fifty thousand resources is huge when you're in early days but it's a trivial gift from someone who has been playing even for just a couple of weeks.
So why should a top alliance want you? Your best bet is to show them that you're the type of player they want, which probably means active and mature. Contact a nearby member of a powerful alliance (you can check using the search function under Alliance List) and email him or her. Send a respectful greeting, saying that you're new in the game and that you'd appreciate any advice he or she has to offer. If you get a helpful response, email again to say thanks and then follow up a couple of days later to raise the prospect of joining their alliance. (Naturally you should read the blurb and find out whatever other information you can first — it may be that joining is impossible.)
Stress that you are an active player, because this translates to "I'm small now but I'm growing." I was accepted into Legends (a top 100 alliance) with only 15K prestige, in part because I'd spoken with one of the more powerful lords and in part because I'd shown that I was active so they could see me becoming useful.
Once you're in the alliance, make yourself known and useful. Talk on alliance chat, send goods to other alliance members to help them with key construction (when you can afford it) and offer whatever knowledge you can. Alliances can run out of room and will tend to kick smaller and inactive players if they need to.
Preparing for the end of beginner protection
During the final couple of days you want to make sure that you're in a good position to come out on your own. Hopefully you've found a strong alliance, but either way you can reduce the risk of being attacked by understanding what makes you look attractive to a predator.
First, let me repeat — your defenses don't actually impress me. That doesn't mean you shouldn't build them, but don't ever think that they are really stopping anyone from hitting you. Arrow Towers and Traps are pretty much useless against ballistae, and the real predators in this game can happily throw thousands of troops at you if they want to.
The real defense is to be more trouble than you're worth. That means being in a strong alliance if possible but it also means not keeping a huge stockpile of goods. Most of my targets have total goods in the millions, so if you've only got 200K total or less you're probably not worth attacking. That means you only have to worry about other relatively new players, in which case your defenses are a more serious deterrent.
Another valuable thing is to look active. Even if you have half my prestige or less, you're a less attractive enemy if I think you're actively engaged in the game.
To reverse the perspective, I was recently scouted by a player considerably more powerful than I. (I knew because he only sent a couple of scouts and mine caught them — this is what happens when you scout a target with more scouts than you send.) I immediately emailed him to ask his intentions. Unsurprisingly, he was simply sending out scouts to look for attractive targets. He liked that I spoke with him directly rather than, as he put it, cowering like most others did, but in any case he knew that I was an active player and that made me less attractive. He hasn't bothered me and in fact said that he'd pass on to his alliance not to attack me.
It's sort of like the joke about the two hikers who come across an angry bear. As the bear looks at them, one of them puts on his track shoes and the other says, "That's crazy, you can't outrun a bear." The first guy finishes tying his laces and says, "I don't have to outrun the bear." Your goal is to be a less tempting target than other cities. You can accomplish that by making yourself look like a painful target (alliance, active, defenses) and by looking like a low reward target (no stockpiling).
There are tricks to help, of course. You can hide goods and/or gold in the marketplace by making unattractive bids. For example, if lumber is currently selling for 0.24-0.25 gold, offer to buy a lot of it at 0.1. The gold to pay for your offer disappears and can't be seen or taken from you by other players but you can get it back (minus the post fee) any time by canceling the bid. This is a particularly good thing to do when you sign off or if you need to accumulate a lot of resources for a particular upgrade. You can learn a lot of other tricks in the forums or by asking players in your alliance.


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The lives of NFL coaches are an anomaly. They're extremely well compensated for their craft while working absurd hours. One year of success is cast aside when a losing season is suffered.
Andy Reid's tenure in Philadelphia is coming to an end. Juan Castillo's firing was the decision of a desperate man. We've ruminated on former stars and their inability to cope with normal life. Reid's decision to continue coaching after the death of his son during training camp was stunning to outside observers – he's really going to take no time off? But for Reid, a person who can't see himself as anything else but the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, it was standard. The Eagles have been near the top of the NFL during Reid's tenure. Consider how many coaches have been fired since 1999 – his first year in Philly. The Bills alone have had six different head coaches during that span.
Sunday's loss against Detroit marked the end for Castillo. Nnamdi Asomugha calling out his defensive coordinator for changing coverage packages on Calvin Johnson that had been working was the first time Eagles players openly questioned the braintrust's decision making.
Which brings us back to Reid. Michael Vick has played poorly, the Offensive line is terrible (why was Castillo was moved to defense again?). Reid's in game decision making continues to baffle Eagles fans and neutrals alike. Though yards against isn't the best metric to analyze a defense, the Eagles rank 12th in that category and that's without Trent Cole and Jason Babin doing much of anything. It isn't the defense that is holding Philadelphia back.
Owner Jeffrey Lurie states he had doubts over the Castillo hiring. Asante Samuel is taking swipes at his former boss on twitter. The sharks have circled.
Reid is left with one choice. Turn to rookie QB Nick Foles and hope.
The Philly Inquirer's Jeff McLane:
Reid was asked if was willing to roll the dice on the rookie in light of the success a number of young quarterbacks have had in the NFL over the last few seasons. "I'm looking at everything," Reid said. "I'm going to try and do what's best for our offense in this case and then whatever that decision is, I'm going to do. Right now, Michael's the guy."
- Mike Mularkey wants Blaine Gabbert to scramble more. Considering how awful Gabbert is when inside the pocket this makes sense. [Florida Times-Union]
- DeMarco Murray and the Cowboys disagree on his timetable for return. [NFL.com]
- Staying with the 'Boys, Jerry Jones think they can win the Super Bowl this year. In other news, Jones remains insane. [PFT]
- C.J Spiller and Fred Jackson will continue to rotate every two series. [BuffaloBills.com]
- Brady Quinn will be given a chance to by the guy when Matt Cassel returns from injury. [ESPN]
- James Harrison has battled through 'double digit" head injuries. Harrison also has a large gun collection. America. [AP]
- Reggie Bush really wants to lead the league in rushing. [Miami Herald]


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Nov 17, 2011 10:12 AM, By Steven Swift
Fort Leavenworth conference upgrade combines high tech with fiscal responsibility.
Advanced features
Otting, who has worked in meeting support for more than 20 years, says the new FCC systems are the most advanced he has ever seen.
"The video is crystal clear, the audio is unbelievably clean, and it's user-friendly. I can set up the AV for a major conference by myself," he explains.
According to Otting, by putting virtually all of the system components into a master control room, Martin and CTI made it possible for a single technician to support the multiple meetings typically going on at the center. A 17in. AMX Modero touchpanel in the control room gives Otting the ability to operate every system in the facility, switching inputs, dialing videoconferences, even adjusting the gain on microphones.
In addition, 12 7in. AMX touchpanels give presenters basic controls over individual systems, and a password-protected technician's page on each gives Otting the ability to finetune the systems. "We also have a wireless AMX panel, which I can take from room to room during setups or use for close support of an important meeting," Otting explains.
The 64x64 matrix switcher allows Otting to route any signal from any source to any combination of displays and sound systems in the facility, allowing very flexible overflow for large meetings. Otting can also route cable TV programming into the lobby or meeting rooms, which he does frequently for social events.
The ballroom includes an ABC room-combining audio and video system, with individual
Panasonic projectors and Da-Lite screens on the north walls serving each section and a larger projection system on the east wall serving the combined room. The room-combining and other audio functions are handled by seven Biamp AudiaFlex processors.
CTI installed two Polycom HDX8000 videoconferencing systems, one in the ballroom and one in the 20-seat Centennial Room (shown on this issue's cover), together with Polycom EagleEye HD cameras. There's an additional Polycom system on a rolling cart, which can plug into any of the other meeting rooms and combine with the center's AV and control systems.
Another rolling cart delivers a Mackie 16-channel mixer and 100ft. snake to any meeting room. Otting uses it mainly to mix microphones for events with multiple presenters or speakers. Seven wireless mics can be assigned individually to a particular room from any of the technicians' touchpanels. A ClearCom Tempest wireless intercom system allows up to three technicians to communicate during larger events.
A facility-wide paging system extends into every meeting room, hallway, kitchen, and nearby outdoor area, making it easy to reach any officer or address any group should there be a major or minor emergency.
There's also a digital signage system, powered by a KeyWest MediaZone server, which can send messages to an LCD panel in the lobby, another outdoors, and to each of the meeting rooms. The outdoor system uses a 55in. LG LCD display in an iTech environmental enclosure.
Still have their place
As conservative as FCC managers have been with their capital and operating budgets, they are very pleased with the capabilities they have been able to add. "The more I work with the AV system, the more I am amazed at all the features it has," Otting explains.
"The other day, for example, I set up 16 microphones on a U-shaped table. Some of the generals are a little older and don't speak very loud. I was able to leave all the mics live and adjust the gain for each individually, with absolutely no trace of feedback."
"Analog systems still have their place," Martin adds. "When thoughtfully designed, they can provide exceptional value and outstanding service for many years to come.
Steven Swift is a freelance writer based in Des Plaines, Ill. Images: Pamela Kudlacek of Conference Technologies
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Here's a kernel of wisdom about one of summer's most coveted items: Fresh corn tastes best within a day of purchase, but unshucked ears can be kept for up to 3 days tightly wrapped in a plastic bag in the refrigerator.
If that window starts to dwindle and your corn is still sitting untouched, place the corn in a resealable plastic bag (you can freeze the cobs whole or remove the kernels first) and store in the freezer for up to 3 months. Corn can be frozen before or after cooking, but blanching them first helps preserve color, flavor, and texture.


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Has anyone heard whether or not Florida's Citrus ban will end in the near future?
All but a couple of my citrus were purchased in Fl..from Briteleaf and Harris Citrus. I would like to add a few more trees...Getting antsy, lol. This ban has been going on, what 5-6 years? I'd appreciate an update..thanks much, Toni |
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Toni, I don't know the answer to your question, but I will tell you that I've been seeing a lot more publicity about Citrus Greening disease of late. Heck, it's even been on our local news! I doubt that we'll see the ban relaxed any time soon. Have you looked into nurseries in the other citrus states? |
- Posted by jojosplants Az. z. 9 (My Page) on Thu, Mar 3, 11 at 17:39
We can't get citrus shipped into Arizona, but luckily one local nursery carries a huge selection. I got a pink variegated Eureka last week. Have you checked local ? JoJo |
- Posted by sultry_jasmine_night Florida z9 (My Page) on Thu, Mar 3, 11 at 18:14
hopeful, I haven't heard of anything lately. Meanwhile, you might wanna take up grafting. If you can get good rootstock, Logees has quite a few NICE varieties of citrus (I believe thiers are rooted cuttings but you can take a piece to graft onto the rootstock). Some of them, I haven't even seen around here in FL yet soooo.. I just watched a really good grafting video this morning. This guy at Fairchild Botanical Garden makes it look so easy lol. I have done a few grafts before and had some success. Here's a link to the video. |
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Do you know a picky eater?
Are you a picky eater? Even I have my moments…
I'm here to warn you that kimchi is one of those dishes – a Mount Everest for some culinary Adventurers and a potential moon landing for our beloved but stubbornly picky eaters. Here's why: Kimchi is fermented, pickled, fishy, spicy, and totally funky. It can take months and months to make, fermented in large vats with such delicacies as raw oysters or fish chunks. Astonishingly, the end result shouldn't be overly fishy but mildly sweet and sometimes spicy, although there's a little residual zing from the fermenting.
Lest you run away in fear, let me assure you – two entire countries – North and South Korea – eat kimchi with giddy enthusiasm some people reserve for birthday cake… so I say go for it. Expand your mind. Buckle up. Enjoy the ride. This Kimchi recipe is quick and simple. It'll get your feet wet in the world of fermented cabbage. The entire process takes no more than 3 days (and 98% of it you don't have to do anything).
You just might come out on the other side with a new favorite dish.
1, 4 lb napa cabbage
4 Tbsp salt
2-3 inches ginger, grated (1 Tbsp packed)
4 large cloves garlic, grated
1 bunch green onion, cut into 1 inch pieces
1/4 cup shrimp paste (I used sweet)
1/3 cup red pepper powder
1 tsp sugar
Hop on the next plane to South Korea and grab a large, heavy head of napa cabbage. Don't forget to enjoy the view.
Give the cabbage a good rinse and cut an "X" into the root end – going about 3 inches deep.
Pull apart at the "X" to easily divide the cabbage into four equal segments. I'm thinking this would make a good party trick. But I'm sort of dorky, so don't take my word for it.
Cut away the tough core and chop the cabbage into bite sized pieces. Place in large bowl. sprinkle with salt and let sit 2-3 hours, tossing once in a while.
Here's the mixture after just 2 hours. It's reduced by half – the magic of salt.
Meanwhile, grate the ginger and garlic and cut the green onion into large pieces.
Measure out the hot pepper and shrimp paste. You could easily double the hot pepper for a fiery hot kimchi. Our version is a medium heat.Drain the cabbage, pressing through a colander and return to mixing bowl. Stir together with the rest of the ingredients until…… evenly distributed. Place in an airtight container and let sit on the counter 2-3 days.
Everything will soften up, the juices will release and it'll be ready for nibblin.' Refrigerate and use as desired. The kimchi will keep a couple of weeks in the refrigerator.
Congratulations! You're a kimchi rockstar. Enjoy your first bites on the beaches of South Korea with a few new friends!
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river 2600 miles (4184 kilometers) W Africa flowing from Fouta Djallon NE, SE, & S into Gulf of Guinea
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/div>Country, western Africa, on the southern edge of the Sahara. Area: 459,286 sq mi (1,189,546 sq km). Population: (2009 est.) 15,306,000. Capital: Niamey. More than half the people are Hausa; there are also Songhai-Zerma and Kanuri. Languages: French (official), Hausa, Arabic. Religions: Islam (predominantly Sunni); also traditional beliefs. Currency: CFA franc. A landlocked country, Niger is characterized by savanna in the south and desert in the centre and north; most of the population lives in the south. The Niger River dominates in the southwest and the Aïr Massif (a mountainous region) in the north-central part of the country. Niger has a developing economy based largely on agriculture and mining. Under the constitution it is a multiparty republic with one legislative body, with the president as its head of state and government, but the constitution was suspended after a coup in 2010, and a military junta assumed rule of the country. There is evidence of Neolithic culture in the region, and there were several precolonial kingdoms. First explored by Europeans in the late 18th century, it became part of French West Africa in 1904. It became an overseas territory of France in 1946 and gained independence in 1960. The first multiparty elections were held in 1993. Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara led a military coup in 1996, but after his assassination in 1999 the country returned to democratic government.
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Most in the esthetic and medical esthetic fields are familiar with the terms intense pulsed light (IPL), light-emitting diode (LED) and LASER (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation). Technically, a laser is a source of high-intensity optical, infrared or UV light. The photons involved in the laser-emission process all have the same energy and phase so that the laser beam is monochromatic and coherent, allowing it to be brought to a fine focus.
A laser beam is different from IPL and LED because it is coherent, simply meaning that the beam has the ability to remain focused over a distance. IPL and LED are noncoherent, meaning the light scatters with shorter depth of penetration, while laser is coherent, thus providing a targeted treatment. With coherence, the scattering of light decreases, allowing the light to strike the target at perpendicular angles, increasing its absorption and transmission to deeper tissues.
Cold laser therapy—also known as low-level light therapy—supplies energy to the body in the form of nonthermal light photons, hence the term "cold laser." Cold lasers use light waves in the near-infrared ranges that penetrate the deepest in the visible spectrum.
Cold laser light:
Because of cold laser's deep penetration, light is transmitted through the skin's layers—the epidermis, dermis, and the subcutaneous tissue or tissue fat under the skin—and reaches the mitochondria of the cell. This is very important because the mitochondria are the cell's power producers.
Mitochondria convert energy into forms that are usable by the cell. Located in the cytoplasm, they are the sites of cellular respiration that ultimately generate fuel for the cell's activities. The mitochondria is the organelle known as "the powerhouse of the cell," because of its ability to manufacture a substance called adenosine triphosphate (ATP). ATP is essential, because it is what your body uses for energy—in fact, it is the only substance your body can ultimately use as energy. Without adequate amounts of ATP, living organisms are unable to survive and thrive. On the contrary, abundant supplies of ATP mean that cells have adequate energy to do all the things they must do to not only stay alive, but also to thrive exceptionally. (See Mitochondria.)
If your body could create more ATP in a local area, the implications would be significant. Extra energy in the form of ATP can be used by cells, tissues and organs to do many things beyond simple survival. How can the cells create more ATP? The answer is cold laser therapy.
Scientific research has shown that, although many cells have numerous kinds of receptors, the body has at least three specific kinds of receptors in every single cell. Receptors exist for:
Cold laser impacts the light receptors. Each cell can contain thousands of mitochondria, which move about producing ATP in response to the cell's need for chemical energy. When the infrared light of a cold laser is applied to an affected body area at a frequency of between 600–905 nm (which penetrate up to 5 cm below the skin's surface), it causes the mitochondria to create more cellular energy in the form of ATP. When various body cells or tissues are presented with extra ATP, they can use it to detoxify, rebuild, regenerate, reduce inflammation, produce collagen and elasticity, and generally aid in the healing process of injured or diseased tissue.1
In dermatology, cold laser therapy has beneficial effects on wrinkles, acne scars, hypertrophic scars, and burns. It can reduce UV damage both as a treatment and as a prophylactic measure. In pigmentary disorders, such as vitiligo, cold laser therapy can increase pigmentation by stimulating melanocyte proliferation and reducing depigmentation by inhibiting autoimmunity. Inflammatory diseases, such as psoriasis and acne, can also be managed.2, 3
European and Japanese physicians have been using cold laser extensively for decades for pain-reduction, wound-healing, sports therapy and esthetic treatments. In the United States, cold lasers have been used during the past several years primarily for pain management, sports therapy and chiropractic treatments. Now, cold lasers are gaining popularity in esthetic treatments, due to their efficacy and healing, stimulating and restoring ability for the skin at the cellular level. In addition, cold laser therapy may be used on all skin types and tones without risk of damaging the skin.4 (Editor's note: Cold laser is generally within the scope of practice for estheticians if it is a Class I device, but you should check your specific state regulations before offering treatments based on the equipment. Complete contact information for the state boards can be found on www.SkinInc.com/education/statelicensing.)
Another key benefit of cold laser therapy in esthetic treatments is that the treatment time is short—10–15 minutes during a facial—and there is no downtime or pain during the treatment. It is performed on dry skin that has been cleansed and exfoliated. Using skin care products with high levels of active ingredients, such as cosmeceutical-grade skin care that has at least one bioactive ingredient working at the cellular level, will have significant penetration and increased efficacy following cold laser therapy. The results of cold laser therapy in esthetic treatments improve with each service. Generally, packages of treatments are recommended in a series of three, six or nine treatments, depending on the skin's damage and needs. Once a state of skin health is obtained, a maintenance program of monthly or bimonthly treatments maintain the results. Given the versatile benefits and safety of cold laser therapy, it can be an instrumental component of an overall beauty and wellness program.
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