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The Montana Supreme court ruled the teacher should be re-sentenced for his crime!
Baugh apologized last week for his comments about the victim in a letter to the editor of the Billings Gazette.While this case has drawn wide attention, it's fairly typical for victim blaming and other "minimizing of sexual assault cases" to occur, particularly in situations that involve teachers and students or that don't fit traditional notions about rape, says Jennifer Long, director of AEquitas: The Prosecutors' Resource on Violence Against Women, in Washington.
"Adolescent victims are consistently blamed for either seducing their rapist or for some other behaviors."Members of the public have stepped up to protest in previous cases, such as the teen rapes in Steubenville, Ohio, and "to educate their own community and beyond about the importance of not victim-blaming," Ms. Long says, "but it seems that we are still stuck in this cycle … where [some of] the very people who should know this information – judges, prosecutors, and other professionals – still believe in the myths and still engage in very dangerous practices."
Justices said a new judge must re-sentence Rambold.
A disciplinary complaint against Baugh from the Judicial Standards Commission is pending with the state Supreme Court. Justices say that will be dealt with separately.
Hopefully this will bring justice that is rightfully demanded of the Montana courts.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor


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Programme Description
Are you interested in the medical field and enjoy helping others? Would you like to work in a busy, multifaceted medical office, hospital, or clinic? Provo College's Medical Assisting Programme gives you the education you need to begin your healthcare career with confidence.
The Utah Occupational Long-Term Projections forecast that medical record/health information technicians will be among the fastest growing careers through 2020, with a projected total job growth of 28% or 2,580 jobs, (Utah Department of Workforce Services Occupational Projections, 2012). Our school can prepare you to apply for these future job openings by earning a Medical Assisting Degree. Learn about courses, financial aid, and how to apply by contacting Provo College today.
Programme Overview
The program prepares students for the National Certification Exam for Medical Assistants. This exam is administered on campus and may be taken through the National Center for Competency Testing (NCCT). Certification exam fees are the responsibility of the students.
Students may sit for the following certifications through the NCCT after completing the corresponding course(s):
- Phlebotomy Technician: MED255
- ECG Technician: MED220
- Patient Care Technician (PCT): All core courses (must be CNA certified)
- Medical Insurance and Coding Specialist: MED138 and MED145
Medical Assisting graduates are trained in:
- Microbiology, hematology, venipuncture, and urinalysis.
- Transcription and charting.
- Patient gowning, draping, vital signs, and ECGs.
- Minor surgical assisting.
- Injections and pharmacology.
Average program length:
- Associate of Science Degree in Medical Assisting – 16 months.
Job Titles for Medical Assisting Graduates:
- Clinical Medical Assistant.
- Medical Office Manager.
- Phlebotomy Technician.
- ECG Technician.
- Front Office Manager.
About the School
With thousands of graduates along the Wasatch Front, Provo College is committed to career education in Utah. Our mission is to help committed students attain rewarding careers through student-centered ... Read More

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Tamika Lyles
Tamika was born in Tennessee, where she was raised by her single mother, who worked in two jobs for a living. Having a female presence so strong to guide her, Tamika came to understand that her own passion and work ethic could be a powerful force for change. In her youth, Tamika passed the Tennessee State Board exam to become the youngest certified nursing assistant in the program's history. She volunteered as a Pre-Med student at the largest public hospital in the county and continued her participation in medicine and the community led her to graduate from high school a year early.
Upon obtaining her bachelor's degree, she volunteered to serve in the United States Air Force. Tamika used her training within the medical field to provide medical services to her military family in need. After receiving an honorable discharge from the military, she continued to demonstrate her passion for philanthropy by pursuing her law degree at Birmingham School of Law. Her focus on civil rights, criminal law and fair justice gained her immense attention. She was elected President of the Black Law Students Association after completing only her first year. She was also an active student member of the Alabama Lawyers Association, Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity, and chosen to intern with Justice U. W. Clemon, the first African American appointed to Alabama's Federal Court..
Due to her father's illness, Tamika urgently relocated to Florida to assist in his recovery. To make ends meet, she worked in the local school system and completed her Master's degree in Law. While teaching, she noticed the overwhelming number of homeless children and limited resources available. Tamika started a business providing mediation for homelessness prevention. She also took on work with clients who lack the resources to pursue social security and disability claims on their own to create income for those who were unable to work. Motivated by the overwhelming number of unarmed individuals being killed, Tamika founded a non-profit organization specializing in negotiating fair treatment for those who suffered civil rights violations. Once again answering to the needs of the community, she recently founded a political non-profit organization centered around bridging the gap between legislators and the community.
She has further demonstrated her ability to be a trailblazer by becoming the founding President of the Osceola County Democratic Black Caucus. Tamika didn't stop there. She is also the founding Vice-President for the Osceola County Democratic Veteran's Caucus. She is active with her local Democratic Executive Committee, where she sits on the DEC Steering Committee and heads a local precinct to encourage voter turnout.
Tamika Lyles has proven to be a dedicated mediator, philanthropist, and passionate advocate. Her enthusiasm for social change, avid interest in law and public policy, combined with her multi-level ideas have led her to seek a seat in the Florida House, as a Representative for District 43. Her platform is built around healthcare, education, minimizing poverty, the economy and many other issues that plague communities. She will ensure the voices of the people are represented. The intersection of these issues with human rights, peace, and safety will ensure a stronger economy and happier livelihood for all Floridians.


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Founded in 1998 by physicians, patients' parents and representatives from civil society, the Association for Children and Youth with Cancer (TUCCA) works to increase cure rates and improve the quality of life for underprivileged children and youth with cancer.
The name TUCCA comes originally from the acronym for the Portuguese phrase "Tumor Cerebral em Crianças e Adolescentes" (Brain Cancer in Children and Youth), which is no longer used, since the association has expanded its treatment to include patients with all types of children's cancer.
Hospital de Câncer de Barretos
Founded more than fifty years ago, Hospital de Câncer de Barretos is the most advanced cancer hospital in the country. It attends 4000 patients a day, all of whom are funded by the SUS (Unified Health System - the Brazilian national healthcare system).
Boldrini Hospital
Founded in 1978, the Boldrini Infant Center is a philanthropic hospital specialized in oncology and pediatric hematology located in Campinas-SP, which has become much more than a hospital. Besides the main mission of diagnosis and treatment of patients, assumed an important role in education and training of medical and other health professional programs. Recognized nationally and internationally as a Teaching Hospital, Boldrini also continuously improving through the art of teaching.
The proximity to the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) assists in the scientific and technological development, that has transformed the Boldrini Hospital in one of the largest research centers in Brazil and Latin America in the field of pediatric onco-hematology.


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I posted this blog about using Realtysoft for my website a couple of months ago. Several people emailed me directly with questions and comments, both of which I was happy to respond to. I have since registered my site with Google Analytics to track the stats from viewers coming to my site. If you have a site of your own and have not yet done this, you are missing out on valuable information. I am now able to learn about where people are arriving from when coming on my site, as well as what length of time they spent on the site.
Google Analytics simply defines what you need to know to do a simple assessment on your views. From this, I've developed some further questions. I plan to add a polling widget next on my site, asking a question of those viewing the site.
Isn't there something we can all learn from potential customers that can help us improve our services or make our site more user-friendly? Don't we want people returning because we offer something others don't?
I then made a list of websites I like to return to and took a look at the reasons I would return to them. The changing interest rates on www.debbief.com 's site keeps me returning daily. There is also a tool on this site that allows you to pull up a good faith estimate (ESTIMATE, remember), and a tool that allows you to see what the mortgage payment would be if you paid 1 or 2 points vs 0 points in a refinance.
I hope this blog was helpful. If you have anything to add, share, or some additional sites you'd like to post that offer great tools, maybe sites that keep you coming back...please respond below!


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We had bought some chicken liver at the poultry stall on the market and I had a package of pie dough left in the refrigerator. With some shallots, raspberry vinegar, eggs and cream, I made a nice quiche-like open pie. Why raspberry vinegar? It is one of those French habits. The vinegar helps to killRead More
Chicken liver
Skewered chicken liver with Jerusalem artichoke mash
The hazards of going to the market in November. There are many root vegetables available, among which some lesser known ones like the Jerusalem artichoke. A strange name as it has nothing to do with Jerusalem and it is not an artichoke although the taste has some similarities. It is the root of a kindRead More


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It's a good day! I needed to feel some virtual sun on my face after we had downpours in the physical world and so my visit to SolAria↑ was well timed. When I arrived I discovered a sim with the most glorious textures – I don't honestly care about the guidelines for building that say you shouldn't use large texture files. When you can achieve the detail and beauty that these do, go for it!
I said I would share my graphics settings etc., and this seems like a good backdrop for those boring details.
The following are not intended to be the "right" ones, they're just part of a list of what I have (so far) settled on and there aren't that many. Most of my settings have been suggested by smarter people than I, such as Strawberry Singh↑ (who has a number of tutorials on her blog which will prove far more useful than this).
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I do use Windlight (a lot, I know). My usual objective is to find a soft light that doesn't detract from the content. Sometimes the creator has a default setting in mind and I try and use them. I also turn on Lighting and Shadows – even if I don't use shadows. This helps with anti-aliasing and general quality.
OK, now the Advanced Menu:
- Choose High-Res snapshots if your computer can handle them. You'll get much better quality and you'll find it easier to keep the quality if you decide to do some post-production editing.
- Be kind and mute the sound of your camera – check Quiet Snapshots to Disk.
Further down on the menu, click on Show Debug Settings. You're not debugging anything here (who names these things?), the little window will pop up so you can adjust some settings not available through the menus.
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I use these:
- rendervolumeLODfactor You'll find this defaults to a low number, meaning sculpties don't rez unless you're close to them. I use 14 – but, everytime I lower my graphics settings it goes back to 2, so check it periodically. You might be happy sticking to 5 or 6.
- meshBytesPerTriangle I have this set at 256. I used to use a lower number but a change to the Lab's coding meant I had to raise it to see mesh within 96m.
- meshmaxConcurrentRequests My setting is at 132. Think of this as your mesh cache – if you have trouble seeing some mesh objects, raising the number from the default should help.
- meshminimumByteSize I have this down at 1. I like detail. :)
To try and get good quality (of the image, not my composition) I choose PNG Lossless in the snapshot window and, unless I'm taking a really large photo, I keep it at screensize. For the big ones I stick to a maximum of 4,000 pixels in any direction (this helps me avoid the tiling bug).
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Once I've saved the image to my hard-drive, I use GIMP with plugins↑ to make modifications. It's free and googling helps me figure out how to do what I want. Usually I just crop them to the size I need for this blog, but I also rescale them to at least 250 x 250 pixel density.
Let me leave you with these thoughts. If I take a good photo it's because of the content – somebody has created something wonderful. I've just tried to capture that.
If my angles or perspective are unusual or different, it's because I spend a lot of time flying my camera around to find things that I think look interesting – composition is 90% of the result.
Practice is the main way I improve but there are resources out there I try and learn from. In addition to the amazing photographers on the grid, there are sites such as Light Stalking↑ and Gimp Magazine↑. They don't care what world you're in and I take advantage. I just wish I had more time to study. :)
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TG922 BKK-FRA First Class
The only check-in service to beat this is LH F at FRA (you have your own terminal for heavens' sake) but even there you don't get a complimentary 60 minute massage. There are a lot more staff than passengers in evidence when you approach the entrance to the Thai Royal First Check-in at Suvarnabumi. In true Thai fashion, everyone is friendly and warm. You are escorted to a seat at a coffee table, where a cold towel and fresh water soon appear. You are asked for your passports, your baggage for checking is taken away and a few minutes later you are escorted through immigration and security. We mentioned that we would like to book a massage and the details were taken down. After this, you board a golf-cart for the short drive to the F lounge. As a special treat, the route takes you through the C lounge so everyone gets to see you gliding by.
Once in the F lounge you are offered a choice of several small lounges each in their own individual bay. The unspoken rule is that these are never shared. The restaurant menu arrives with the offer of drinks (including champagne of course). You can reserve a table at the really good restaurant for a proper cooked-to-order breakfast or help yourself to a range of snacks and canapés. At the appointed hour, we mooched over to the spa for our (excellent) massages, a quick shower, glass or two of Champers and it's time to board, with an escort of course.
Food & Beverage
For us, Thai offers some of the best in-flight catering. However, if you don't like Asian food, you may not agree and we would recommend ordering a meal through the pre-order service, which offers excellent choice.
The amouse bouche of mini chicken thigh in pandan leaf was very pretty. Few airlines come close to this in terms of presentation. The caviar and smoked salmon starter were both excellent. Our pre-order mains were also very good and we stuck with fruit for dessert. The fruit was nicely presented but not overly exciting considering what fantastic fruit there is available in Bangkok. Desserts are the one area of Thai's catering that is not as good as the competition, although as we can rarely eat puddings, this doesn't really bother us.
Second service was a prawn salad, and we both chose the chilli king prawns for the main. Unfortunately, we were still full from the first service, so only picked at the meal, although the prawns were tasty.
The Seat
Thai has a number of first class configurations, but we were flying on the old-school A340. Although dated, these seats are wide, highly controllable and very comfortable (of course they are lie-flat). Although some may find that the seats offer a lack of privacy, the seating is definitely not claustrophobic or cramped.
With only 8 first class seats, the cabin is exclusive. However, on the A340, the proximity to the business class cabin behind prevents a true feeling of exclusivity - we prefer the layout on the 747. Had there been a child in the front of C, it could have been a miserable journey.
At our seats, we gleefully pounced on the Rimowa amenity kits (thought these were only for A380 first class) and, shortly after take-off, changed into the new pyjamas (a big improvement in design and fit since last year).
Overall Impression
The service on this flight was not as warm & friendly as on our previous Thai flight to Frankfurt, when we had the best crew and service we have ever experienced in-flight. In general, the crew on this flight were ok, although one of the flight attendants was somewhat surly and just didn't seem to want to be there. Having said that, requests were fulfilled promptly and the couple of problems we had (e.g. my first set of headphones didn't work) swiftly sorted. However, it was not service with a smile.
We are fans of Thai's first class offering - it isn't the best, but the lounge in Bangkok is in the top 2 Worldwide and the food is excellent. The hard product may be patchy (the A380s are spectacular but some of the fleet is showing its age) but the airline has a new first class on both the A380 and 747 (although not the same). If you have the choice, we recommend flying Royal First on the A380, but even the old first is a very pleasant way to fly.
We are fans of Thai's first class offering - it isn't the best, but the lounge in Bangkok is in the top 2 Worldwide and the food is excellent. The hard product may be patchy (the A380s are spectacular but some of the fleet is showing its age) but the airline has a new first class on both the A380 and 747 (although not the same). If you have the choice, we recommend flying Royal First on the A380, but even the old first is a very pleasant way to fly.


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Please note that the price of the surgery itself is provisional and may be accurately assessed only after the evaluation of each individual case.
The default currency in our clinic is Euro, so if you were looking at prices in GBP it may vary depending on GBP / EUR exchange rate at the moment of payment.
All our patients can get a discount up to 10% by:
You can double your discount and receive up to 20% off surgery price if your case meets both conditions mentioned above.
Find out more here.
Please note that the price of the surgery itself is provisional and may be accurately assessed only after the evaluation of each individual case.
The default currency in our clinic is Euro, so if you were looking at prices in GBP it may vary depending on GBP / EUR exchange rate at the moment of payment.
All our patients can get a discount up to 10% by:
You can double your discount and receive up to 20% off surgery price if your case meets both conditions mentioned above.
Find out more here.
Our clinic works with highly professional and educated surgeons. They have 10-15 years of experience in the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery. They perform over 2000 surgeries per year. Our surgeons are board-certified in the UK, Sweden and Denmark. Moreover, our surgeons are members of various prestigious surgical societies both Lithuanian and international.
The clinic is equipped with modern diagnostic and surgical facilities, all analogous to those in Western European clinics. You will be looked after by professional English speaking staff. The wards are fully furnished and equipped with TV, WC and air conditioning. Free Wi-Fi is available while staying in the clinic.
Our clinic is one of the biggest surgical centres in the Baltic region. We work with patients from various countries, among which Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, etc.
Despite the size of the clinic we provide our patients with personal care and assistance. The majority of big public hospitals due to high volume of patients do not have enough resources and medical personnel to pay personal attention to each patient. Whereas we are fully focused on providing exceptional care and undivided attention for our patients.
Without any additional fees patients are tended in the clinic as long as they need. It may take up to 3 days. We only discharge our patients from the clinic when they are in a good health state and ready to leave.
All inclusive price, which is twice lower than in Western European clinics.
Our clinic works with medical professionals of highest education and experience level and uses the same materials as the clinics in Western Europe. More often than not, the quality of our clinic's facilities exceed the ones in Western European clinics. The price difference is only due to considerably lower average salaries and taxes – which is the main reason for medical travel everywhere around the world.
During your entire stay in Lithuania you will receive personal care as well as transport to and from the clinic, hotel, and airport. You will not have to worry about a thing. You will be assisted from the moment of plane landing in Vilnius or Kaunas airport till your departure.
Our clinic is flexible date-wise and can usually arrange your surgery on the date convenient for you.
Everyone in our clinic speaks English, including customer service desk, nurses, assistants and the surgeon.
Our clinic is the only clinic in Europe that offers customer service in 8 languages, among which English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German, Spanish, Russian, and Lithuanian.
We can give you lots of testimonials from our previous patients that had plastic surgery in our clinic. They can tell you their stories and help you make a decision.
2-3 hour regular flights operate from all main airports in the UK & Ireland. Lithuania is closer than you thought. You can find the list of direct flights here. Please note that airlines constantly add new flights and new destinations, therefore feel free to contact us if you need help choosing the flight that suits you best.
Lithuania has been a part of the EU and NATO since 2004. Lithuania has one of the fastest growing economies in the whole region and the second fastest internet speed in the world. Lithuanian medical schools have trained many medical professionals who are highly appreciated and employed by many foreign hospitals, among which hospitals in the UK.
Lithuania has one of the lowest rates of COVID-19 cases in Europe. Its rate of confirmed COVID-19 cases per 100.000 residents in the last 14 days is several times lower than UK. You can read the latest COVID-19 updates here.
What is a facelift?
A facelift, also known as rhytidectomy, is a procedure of facial rejuvenation which reduces the wrinkles that form in the face and neck areas and are caused by the natural ageing process. Time is merciless; fortunately, a facelift can help people who are dissatisfied with their appearance to turn back time.
Although there are different facelift techniques, they all have several steps in common. Facelift can be performed under general or local anaesthesia, depending on the individual case of each patient. The surgeon makes incisions along the hairline as well as along the ears. Skin is then separated from the facial muscles and pulled to remove the wrinkles and excess facial skin. Deeper facial tissue and fat can be redistributed for better aesthetic results. Afterwards, face is bandaged to minimise swelling and bruising. Patients are usually discharged on the day of the surgery, however, in some cases a longer monitoring of the patient is required.
Who is a proper candidate?
As with all surgeries it is of high importance to be in a good overall health in the first place. However, the condition of the skin is specifically important for facelift surgeries. Skin should be flexible and elastic. These features might be affected by alcohol consumption and smoking. If this is the case, patients should consult health specialists about a realistic outcome of a facelift.
People with chronic illnesses such as diabetes, heart and blood clotting disorders are eligible for the procedure. However, such conditions can affect a person's suitability for undergoing anaesthesia and can also disrupt wound healing during the recovery process. It is important to discuss the particular case with a surgeon so that any complications can be prevented and the desired look achieved. The facelift procedure can and should be adjusted to bring the most satisfying results.
Facelift techniques
There are several techniques and types of facelift, and the exact choice should be specifically tailored to fit the individual case. The patient and the surgeon should discuss the scope of the procedure, its degree of invasiveness, and how dramatic the results are expected to be so that the best technique can be chosen to fulfil the patient's expectations.
The minimal access cranial suspension (MACS) lift, also known as short-scar surgery, is more suitable for patients with good skin tone and limited tissue sagging. It is performed under local anaesthesia and the scar is kept minimal by making incisions in front of each ear from the hairline to the earlobe. MACS facelift is designed to affect the lower and middle thirds of the face. As it is not possible to remove a lot of skin during this procedure it is usually recommended for younger patients with good skin elasticity. It is considerably less undermining; however, as facial muscles are not tightened the results are not as long-lasting as with the SMAS technique.
The superficial musculoaponeurotic system (SMAS) facelift is better suited for patients with moderate to severe laxity and sagging of the facial muscles, ligaments and skin. These signs of ageing appear when facial ligaments lose their elasticity and can no longer protect facial skin from gravitational effects. During SMAS facelift the surgeon will tighten the underlying facial muscles using multi-vector pull, i.e. pulling the tissues in several directions for the best contour of cheeks and jawline. Any excess skin will be removed. Note that this procedure requires general anaesthesia. And the results are much more lasting than after the MACS lift.
The deep plane lift technique is designed to fix jowls, "turkey gobbler neck", and laugh lines. The surgeon makes an incision around the ears, separates the musculoaponeurotic system and repositions it by plicating and tightening loose muscles of the neck and the middle part of the face. Deep plane lift allows for an extremely natural appearance and long-lasting results. However, it is associated with a higher risk of complications.
What is the difference between a deep plane facelift and a SMAS facelift?
The deep plane facelift technique is sort of a little step forward from the classical SMAS facelift, but the main idea still remains the same – SMAS layer release and lifting. Therefore, if one asks whether the deep plane facelift still is a SMAS facelift, the answer is yes. There is no other way to perform a facelift than manipulating with the SMAS layer. The only difference is that the deep plane facelift is more precise and focuses nearly only on deeper layers of the skin where the actual problem lies, barely raising the superficial layer (i.e. subcutaneous tissue). It is a straight-to-the-point facelift that does little tissue damage near the skin surface, which results in less bruising and swelling, as well as in less downtime after the surgery.
Special live presentation about facelift surgeries
Facelift types
Depending on the scope of the procedure, facelifts are grouped into classical, full, neck, mid and forehead facelifts. Your doctor will choose a procedure or suggest a combination of a few so that it best fits your needs and expectations.
A classical facelift involves cuts along the hairline and around the ears. Skin is pulled back and the facelift mainly improves the appearance of the jawline and cheeks. Various modifications of a classical facelift allow the surgeon to tailor the procedure to the specific needs of each individual.
A full facelift includes improvement of the neck, jawline, cheeks, and forehead. Full facelift could be suggested for patients with heavy skin sagging as it might be the best option for those desiring a dramatic change in appearance.
A neck lift is suggested for patients with problematic areas on the neck and the chin. It will remove any excess skin and create a more defined contour resulting in a much more youthful appearance.
The mid-facelift, or cheek lift, is an elevation of the cheeks which transforms them from deflated to youthful and prominent. This procedure can also aid in reducing hollowness under the eyes, however, it mainly affects the middle part of the face and is not a substitute to facelift procedures.
A forehead lift improves the look of a person's forehead (e.g. "worry lines" and "frown lines") and is usually not included in the traditional facelift. By lifting the forehead skin wrinkles are smoothened and "hooding" over the eyes is reduced.
A facial fat transfer can be beneficial for people dissatisfied with hollow areas beneath the eyes, sunken cheeks, brows, temples or chin.
A patient might have very specific expectations for the outcome of the surgery, therefore a thorough discussion with a surgeon is necessary in order to select the most suitable method.
Skin condition greatly depends on nutrition. Therefore, the patient should ensure that he or she is consuming enough proteins (which are crucial for wound healing) and vitamins such as zinc, vitamin A and C, which are important for the synthesis of collagen and for maintaining skin integrity. Note that vitamin, mineral and protein malnutrition impairs all stages of immune response, wound healing and tissue production.
It is essential to talk to your doctor a couple of weeks before the surgery as you might be instructed to stop taking medications such as aspirin or other blood-thinning drugs.
Smoking and alcohol consumption should be avoided one month before and after the surgery so that it does not affect the healing process by restricting blood circulation.
Medical examination and a review of medical history is an essential step before the surgery. In order to determine the best facelift type a surgeon will examine the patient's face and will discuss the possible strategies. Patients will have to undergo any necessary lab tests, including a blood work, a urine test, ECG (electrocardiogram), X-rays, or others. The surgeon will explain in detail the plan of the surgery and recovery.
In order to prevent regurgitation during the surgery an empty stomach is required for anyone undergoing general anaesthesia. Therefore, patients should not eat or drink one day before the surgery.
Facelift and Eyelid surgery
For even more expressed results it is possible to combine a facelift with other procedures, including neck lift, eyelid lift or rhinoplasty (nose job).
Possible complications
The most common complications include hematoma, seroma, infection and delayed healing.
After the Facelift
After the surgery is performed, it can take up to four weeks to fully recover. The patient should take time off work for the whole period of recovery.
Bandages are used for covering the wounds, while an elastic facial sling prevents swelling and ensures equal distribution of pressure. If serous fluid drainage tubes are used they will be removed in several days, as well as the stitches (unless dissolvable stitches were used). Bruising should fade away in a couple of weeks. However, to be able to appreciate the final results of the procedure the patient might need to wait from six to nine months until the swelling has fully gone down.
Sun should be avoided for several weeks as it can interfere with scar healing and damage the surrounding vulnerable skin. It is highly recommended to avoid driving after the surgery at least until bruising is relieved. The patient should also avoid wetting the bandages for a couple of days. Strenuous physical activity should be ceased for at least two weeks. The patient should resist applying makeup while the wounds are still healing.
Quality skin care is required to prevent early ageing and it inevitably adds to the effect of a facelift. Weight fluctuation tends to stretch the skin, hence a healthy diet and a stable weight can prolong the results.
We will advise you on travel arrangements including flights to and from Lithuania. We will take care of airport pick up and drop off and arrange a pleasant stay in a comfortable hotel at a convenient location. We will be there for you 24/7 if needed.
• Facelift techniques
• MACS facelift
• SMAS facelift
• Things to know after plastic surgery
• Wound care after plastic surgery
• Seroma after plastic surgery
• Smoking and risk of complications


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Retro Atomic Glass Hanging Shade
Original Mid Century ceiling light shade made of beautiful carnival like glass with iridescent peach detail and hand painted ring details to the top and bottom section.
A beautiful light shade, that would look great in a contemporary or vintage interior.
Height: 19.5cm
Diameter: 30cm
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latest adventure, Blackrock Mountain, took PVE content to new heights with a series of distinct and interesting boss battles. I caught up with Team 5 senior game designers Ben Brode and Mike Donais to chat through some of the cooler designs – how they tie into WoW, what the team was hoping to achieve and how they changed during the design process. IGN: Were there any particularly important lessons from Curse of Naxxramas that informed what you wanted to do with Blackrock Mountain? Ben Brode: I felt like, for Naxxramas, some of the coolest missions were the ones that made you really think differently about the game, about the decks you were going to build, about how you were going to approach the boss with a new strategy. One of my favourite fights from Naxxramas was heroic Maexxna, so I went into Blackrock just wanting to have a higher percentage of fights like that. Fights that make you say - I can't just take a normal deck into this fight: it's a pretty unique thing.
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Fights like Drakkisath were born out of that desire to make you think differently. Heroic Thaurissan I thought was also different in that way. You couldn't just take a normal deck in there, you had to bring ways to keep Moira alive. So that was one of my big goals and I actually think the missions in Blackrock were even better than the missions in Naxxramas. I was more excited about them, and I think they worked out awesome. Mike, anything to add?
We ended up making the normals even a bit easier because a lot of people – the very casual players – had a lot of difficulty with them.Mike Donais: Lessons from Naxx specifically. Hmm. It's a lot of little lessons. Most of the things from Naxx worked out pretty well as far as the card balance and mission balance, but I guess we learned how easy we needed to make the normals and how hard we had to make the heroics. We ended up making the normals even a bit easier because a lot of people – the very casual players – had a lot of difficulty with them. Only a tiny bit easier. For the most part the difficulty was the same.
IGN: The normal boss battles were definitely very easy. Perhaps the solution – at least, what I'd like to see – are achievements. It's great having the challenge of heroic, but sometimes I just want to hop in and have some fun, so why not incentivise us to replay those normal missions in different ways? Stuff like beating each mission with every class, beating each mission with only basic cards. What are the prospects for something along those lines?
Ben Brode: It's definitely really cool stuff to think about. It's one of those things where I think we all wish the content that makes up these adventures is somewhat more replayable, because it's really fun content. [As for] the right way to make those more replayable and whether or not achievements is the way to do it, and if it is, what kind of timeline are we talking about I don't know, but we definitely have discussed the desire to make adventures more replayable, to get you a lot more content, because people really like going in there and playing these bosses. We'll continue to talk about it and I do think that's something we'll be exploring someday.
IGN: And how about the idea that I've seen suggested online of letting you take control of a boss – with his or her deck – to play against a friend?
Ben Brode: That sounds really cool! Again, it's one of those things – we have a lot of really cool ideas we want to do, how do we do them all? And when do we do them if we decide that they're awesome? That's something that sounds pretty unique and different.
IGN: Let's chat through some of the Blackrock bosses with particularly unique mechanics. I'd love to get an insight into the road to the final design for each, and also, how they tie in with their World of Warcraft encounters, which I honestly don't know very well. First up, the Dark Iron Arena. It's a genius concept. Whose idea was pitting the player against an all-legendary deck? Ben Brode: When we were first starting to think about Blackrock Mountain, and what we were going to do for our next adventure, to me, the only way we were going to make that work was to do a greatest hits of Blackrock, because Molten Core didn't have quite enough bosses, and I didn't think any of the other instances and raids in the mountain could hold an adventure on their own, but together, there are so many highlights that are so awesome in the mountain, that this idea of a greatest hits thing had a lot of weight to it. From there we dug down into each wing and thought – what are the coolest fights in Blackrock Depths, what are the coolest fights in The Molten Core? And for Blackrock Depths, for me, one of the most exciting moments, one of the things that sold the dungeon for me was the Dark Iron Arena.
We had a lot of crazy ideas for Dark Iron Arena, but once we hit on this idea of 30 legendaries, and then I had the idea to announce each one, that was the selling point of – oh yeah, that's going to be unique and different, let's do it. From there we started to brainstorm some really cool intro lines for all of these legendary minions from the other sets. IGN: Have you seen any of the videos of players taking that boss to fatigue?
Ben Brode: [laughs] I haven't seen that! Sounds awesome!
IGN: Yeah, Kripparrian did it. The class challenge for Dark Iron Arena was particularly inspired – giving players a deck full of Unstable Portals. It's becoming a signature theme of the adventures actually, thanks to the Webspinner challenge in Naxx, and I love that you're building cool missions around these cards that are fundamentally random by design.
Mike Donais: Yeah, the Mage class challenge is interesting because it's based on a card that's not even in the set. Unstable Portal was actually in the previous set, but it's just such a fun thing to do that we just decided to go with it anyway.
IGN: Totally. That class challenge has a heap of replayability. I find myself hopping into it when I have ten minutes spare and just want to have some fun. And when I draw Millhouse Manastorm it gets even more fun.
Mike Donais: We actually had Millhouse Manastorm in that challenge and then out, and then we finally put him back in, because even though it's super powerful when your opponent plays Millhouse it's super fun too, and that's what it's all about. IGN: Let's move on to the Ragnaros battle. That was a really memorable fight. I loved the bait and switch – you start out playing against Majordomo Executus, who has to be defeated to get to Rag. How did this one echo the World of Warcraft encounter?
Ben Brode: In the World of Warcraft fight, Majordomo is the second to last boss in the encounter. You have to beat everybody else to get to Majordomo. He gives up when you fight him and walks over to Ragnaros' fire pool. He summons Rag- 'oh you guys are going to get it, I'm going to summon Ragnaros.' Ragnaros comes out and is like 'too soon! I'm not at full power!' He kills Executus and sets the stage for this really exciting fight against Ragnaros.
To me that's one of the most memorable moments of The Molten Core – the interaction between Majordomo and Ragnaros – and so trying to figure out how to get that moment into Hearthstone was something that we tried a couple of different ways and this direction was something that – at first – we were not sure if it was going to work because we were worried that players would be really upset when they thought they won and we're like 'surprise! You lose!' but we felt like that moment of excitement and craziness and feeling like we're breaking the rules was potentially worth it. IGN: There are quite a few bosses in this adventure with phases and I think it definitely makes the battles more exciting and strategically interesting. You guys were probably pretty happy about the Molten Giant synergy in this fight too. It was a really important gameplay element – knowing that Majordomo has a hand full of Molten Giants so you have to play around it – that also resonated with the setting of the adventure too.
Ben Brode: It was actually kind of a happy accident. We were bringing in waves to give fights a really different feeling where you have to build a unique deck for it, and Mike just said 'hey, what if we made a deck full of Molten Giants?' I was like 'maybe that'll work, let's try it,' so I threw a bunch in, and they happened to go into that fight, and it turns out that because of the mechanics that we chose for the relationship between Majordomo and Ragnaros it actually became a pretty interesting mechanic for a deck, so it worked out really great.
IGN: What were some of the changes this fight went through? Ben Brode: …we struggled a little bit with what happens when Ragnaros is summoned… when I think of Ragnaros I think of the eight health minion who deals eight damage to a random target, but if the eight health version of Ragnaros comes out, it was like the less exciting phase [of the fight] was the Ragnaros phase, so we experimented with different amounts of armour associated with Ragnaros at that point…
Mike Donais: We also had different amounts of Molten Giants in the deck at different times. Sometimes there were a whole bunch and that got a little more crazy than it is now. We also had [a version where] in the heroic version Majordomo had a bit more health, so the Molten Giants would come out a lot sooner, and that made it much, much harder. So we had to tune that really carefully.
IGN: How about General Drakkisath? As you mentioned earlier, this battle had a really really interesting mechanic, whereby all cards cost one but you both only have one mana crystal. And on heroic he has two. How does this fight tie into WoW? And did that mechanic come in fully formed, or did it change a bit? Ben Brode: This is actually a case of us trying to think of really fun mechanics that are going to make you play differently… how do we force you into going back to Collection Manager and thinking up a cool strategy? We came up with this mechanic. In Blackrock Spire Drakkisath didn't do a lot of really unique stuff. He Cleaved, he Flamestriked, but mostly he was what in World of Warcraft we call a 'tank and spank' – where you just tank him and beat him up until he dies. So I felt like this is an opportunity, because he didn't have a really strong identity - besides from a flavour perspective – in World of Warcraft, so we could build a mechanical identity for him in Hearthstone. So this is a cool mechanical idea that we found a fit for on the Hearthstone side.
IGN: And it gives players an excuse to build a deck with nothing but bombs.
Ben Brode: Yeah, it really mixes up the way you play. There's no way you can bring a standard deck into this fight and win easily, but when you go back and add awesome stuff it's really fun and you feel rewarded for deck building.
IGN: Yeah, turn one Mana Wyrm ain't going to cut it in this encounter. You mentioned the Thaurissan fight a little earlier. Let's dig a little deeper on that one. The Moira Bronzebeard element was a unique and surprising inclusion. I loved the idea that you had to keep her alive for the entire fight and the twist in heroic – where she went from being a 1/3 to a 3/1 was inspired. Can you tell me a little about the design process for this one?
Ben Brode: Sure. In World of Warcraft, it's such an interesting story - Thaurissan and Moira. The king of the dwarves, Magni Bronzebeard, sends you into Blackrock Mountain to rescue his daughter, who he believes has been Mind Controlled by Emperor Thaurissan. You get there with your party, and you kill Emperor Thaurissan and Moira says – 'I wasn't being Mind Controlled, I love him, we're married and you just killed my husband.' It's this tragic moment in World of Warcraft and a really interesting story, and so I tried to bring that relationship and that element into the Hearthstone fight. She's fighting for Thaurissan. She cares about Thaurissan, but you as the player are doing your part to keep her alive.And also I just love the idea of showing you – before you get into the match – that his hero power is 'deal 30 damage' and you're just like 'what?! How am I supposed to beat that?' And then understanding as the fight goes on how it works and what the goal is. The goal's totally different to a normal fight. Mike did you want to talk about the heroic version?
Mike Donais: Yeah, so one of the things we iterated a lot on for this fight was the text on Moira. At first, she would just attack into your taunts and die. And then eventually, we worked on it using A.I. and different programming techniques to make her not do that, and we came up with the idea that we're just going to write exactly that she's never allowed to attack any minions except minions with taunt. And we'll just write that on the card. It actually took us many different iterations to get there because we were playtesting her where she didn't mention it, but she sort of worked that way, and it was pretty confusing.On heroic, obviously she does more damage and has less health, which is pretty scary because we also put multiple minions that deathrattle deal damage to your own stuff into his deck. So right away you're like 'oh wait, she can do more damage to me,' and then when the Abomination or Unstable Ghouls come down you're like 'oh my god this is unbeatable.' For a lot of the heroics we try to blow your mind so the first thing that happens is 'oh my god I can't believe they did this there's no way I'm going to beat this' so if you do beat it you're like 'wow, I can't believe I beat that!' This is one of those… and she is really hard and it's a tough fight in general, but once you either buff her or you swap her attack and health or you silence the other deathrattle minions, there's a lot of different ways to victory, and it's cool figuring that out.
IGN: You pretty much want the Crazed Alchemist as early as possible.
Mike Donais: Crazed Alchemist ended up being pretty essential in the fight. And then once you figure that out and add him to your deck you feel smart and then when you actually play and it's working you feel smart again.
IGN: How about Vaelastrasz the Corrupt? Having the hero power 'Each player draws 2 cards' was another really fun idea, and integrated into the very cool Rogue class challenge where you're basically trying to get cards out of your hand as quickly as possible. That challenge tied into Gang Up in an interesting way and the Rogue's arsenal of low-cost spells too.
Ben Brode: In the World of Warcraft version of this fight, Nefarian is corrupting this noble red dragon. Right before he turns him and takes over his will, he gives this huge buff to the players and they basically have infinite mana and infinite resources to just go nuts during this fight. It just felt really unique in World of Warcraft to feel unhampered by a resource that normally is basically everything to you. And so, for Hearthstone, I thought, what's a way to [recreate this?] Maybe start with ten mana or something, but we were already doing the Drakkisath thing, so just giving you way more cards felt to me like, again, you're going to want to take advantage of this. A new world of gameplay, where you go back to your collection and build a deck for it. IGN: That's interesting, because my first reaction was that he was trying to mill me, and that I had to have as many low cost minions as possible to empty my hand.
Mike Donais: The first time you build a deck for that – particularly on heroic – you're like 'I'll put some really cheap stuff,' so you put some ones, twos and threes, then you play and you're like 'my hand is still getting demolished' so you go even lower. You put zeroes and ones. Maybe this is right?
IGN: How did you go about designing the class challenge off the back of the main boss battle?
Mike Donais: One of the things we want to do in class challenges is demonstrate some cool ideas that you could have used for that fight, like, 'you could have gone with this strategy' and then we provide an example strategy. And sometimes, when you get to the heroic, you'll remember there were a couple of cards in the class challenge that were really effective, so let me add those to my deck. And this is sort of an example of that. Prep, Backstab, those zero cost cards, or less than zero for Prep. And Gang Up. They're all ideas that you might want to use if you play the heroic. And it gets people who normally wouldn't try the heroic an idea that they might not have had to use there.
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By Scott T. Sterling Billy Corgan brought the Christmas spirit to his hometown Chicago's morning news. Related: Billy Corgan Debuts Silent Film 'PillBox' The Smashing Pumpkins frontman was a guest on the WGN Morning News show today (Dec. 22), where he invoked the holidays with a version of "Christmas Dreaming." The track is best known as performed by Frank Sinatra, but it's not an obvious choice. "If I cover a song, I try to pick something that's not sort of in normal circulation," Corgan explained about the song choice, performed as a duet with local television personality Jenniffer Weigel. "I actually played this song at my tea house last year on the banjo," he added, referencing Madame Zuzu's Tea Shop and Art Studio. Watch the full performance below.


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Andre Powell
Andre and his family have been living and pastoring in Rolleston since the beginning of 2017. Andre and Hannah have both been involved in ministry leadership for the past fifteen years. Leadership of youth, worship teams, young adults and evening services have been just a few of the hats they have both worn until Andre was ordained in the Acts churches in 2015. Andre and Hannah have a genuine heart for people, and are committed to seeing Cornerstone grow both…
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Warren Hodge
A gentleman with a big heart, who adores the outdoors and a good laugh! Warren brings considerable experience to the Cornerstone Leadership team with 30+ years as an Anglican Minister.
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Lyndon has a passion to see people meet Jesus. He and his wife Kath bring almost 30 + years of church leadership background to Cornerstone. Lyndon is a natural leader and gifted communicator. Lyndon and Kath own and operate their own farm in Leeston. They have four adult sons and grandchildren too!
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Friends are the family we chose for yourself. They are the true benefactors and soulmates, whom we want in our life. Friends are the most inseparable beings of our life. But there comes a time when the misunderstandings grow and we have to part our ways from our friends. Losing a best friend is the worst pain in life. Someone with whom we share our secrets, pain, dreams, fantasies and many more things is actually close to our heart. You invest so much time being friends with someone, but the person just kicks you off from the life and moves on. It becomes utmost difficult to gather yourself again and come back to the track. (Also read: What are the personality traits in a girl that usually attracts a guy)
How to overcome the pain of losing a best friend?
Don't think a lot about it: You often turn to your best friend when you have to share your grief or the secret with but what to do in the case when you lose your best friend? It is a very bad feeling of not having him by your side when you need him the most. The loss is severe but doesn't think about it much as it will only hurt you.
Don't blame yourself: Stop blaming yourself. Whatever happened had to happen! You should come out of it as soon as possible. You were not solely responsible for the same. Some relationships are not in our hands, thus we have to let them go if they are too easy to slip from the hands. (Also read: How to ignore a guy if you want to end all connections with him)
Don't speak ill of anyone: No matter if your friend has left you, don't speak ill of him. There have been times when you were together and living the life to the fullest. There are certain things in our life, which are beyond our control, so stop thinking about them. By bad-mouthing them you will only abuse your own relationship and bond with them. So become too wicked to abuse them.
Be okay to be alone: Yes, we all need a friend to share our things and hang out with. But it's okay to be alone at times. You also need some space for self-introspection. Spend someone time alone and be friends with yourself. Know about you, shake hands with yourself, smile and move on. Don't be dependent on others for your happiness.
Learn from your bad experience: We all make some mistakes in life and it's okay to do so. But learn a lesson for a lifetime from the mistake you commit. Don't just keep on repeating your mistake again and again. Give yourself a chance but don't be a fool again. Keep your mind and eyes open. Don't depend on anyone for your happiness and don't get too attached to someone. (Also read: What are the most effective ways to make your boyfriend feel secure)


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I'm Boring
I haven't been posting much because, quite honestly, I am boring. Here's my life right now:
- Up at 6:00 (been hitting that old snooze button, so no more 5:30 awakening)
- Leave the house by 7:00 which puts me at work right at 8:00
- Work, work, work
- I bring my lunch most days unless somebody else is buying. Yep, I'm that cheap now.
- Drive home for an hour.
- Arrive tuckered out around 6:30 or 7, so I change clothes, wash my face and plop down.
- Eat something, watch a little TV and try to climb into bed by 9:30.
- Sleep at 10:00.
- Repeat
My weekends aren't any better. The Hunter has won a big contract. It's really big, so he needs me for the admin work necessary to get it started. I put in about 10-12 hours over the weekend trying to tame this behemoth. I have another month or so of this. Don't worry, he's paying me generously for my time. I take those $$ and give them to the IRS.
I am not exercising — I know, this is not good. I was getting up early to run/jog around the neighborhood a couple of laps, but 5:30 has been slipping away. I need to re-start that. It is so healthy for me in so many ways.
I joined a weight loss challenge at work. I am pretty sure I will be the sucker that loses the $20 investment. Meh, I need the competition and accountability I tell myself.
I am looking at some new places to live. I haven't found The One, but we haven't seen that much yet. It did feel me with a bit of angst that I will be so far away from the Hunter. He is a security blanket, but I also still really want my freedom. What a conundrum, but that is a post for another day. For now, I'm just boring…..


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Real Estate. Real Talk.Whether it was watching the sparks fly during Brad Inman's interview of Keller Williams co-founder and Chairman, Gary Keller, or through candid discussions at our booth, we loved the unfiltered commentary and feedback we received.
The founder of @kwri took to the stage of Inman Connect San Francisco to warn that @Redfin, @Opendoor and others would ditch agents if they could. #ICSF https://t.co/CHGYoysre3
— Inman Connect (@InmanConnect) July 18, 2018
This is getting interesting. Gary Keller and Brad Inman. #ICSF pic.twitter.com/gaUEDlDeeb
— Billy Ekofo (@BillyEkofo) July 18, 2018
Since this was our first Inman Connect event and really iovox's first conference exposure of our new call tracking and productivity app, we were ready for some straight talk – good or bad – and we got plenty of it, including these gems.
- "This is smart as hell"
- "How fast can I get all my agents on this?"
- "This is the most interesting thing I've seen."
- "I've never seen anything like this."
- "You mean I can push a call into Salesforce with one button? Here's my card."
- "I need this right now."
- "This other CRM app is sh&%. Your app actually makes a lot of sense".
- "No one will use this unless it's really easy."
Among the real estate pros we talked to, there was no holding back when it came to opinions. We learned a lot about some of the things that frustrate agents and brokers alike, including the pain of interaction tracking as part of the lead management process.
Tracking Interactions is Central to Any Real Estate ProfessionalIt's clear that urgency in following up with a potential new listing or buyer is critical, and regardless of company size or the number of agents, interaction tracking of all the touchpoints in the sales process is essential to success.
Enter real estate CRM.
In addition to the homegrown proprietary CRM systems, there are plenty of big names that serve multiple industries like Zoho and Salesforce as well as specialists like Chime, Boomtown, Firepoint, and Follow Up Boss. At our booth, among the more frequently asked questions was whether our app allowed phone calls to be integrated into CRM systems. The answer is yes…but…
At iovox, our call tracking and management solution works well by itself without any integration with CRM and gives people the ability to tag, search, and add notes to any phone conversation, all while using the dialer that comes with their phone. No special app just to make calls. We learned that this was actually a very important distinction for the following reason.
If you're like most people, you probably use your phone to talk to your family, friends and have many other non-client related phone calls in a typical day. Do all those calls need to be in the CRM? Of course not. Do you remember to use a special CRM dialing app for every call you make? Probably not. What about inbound calls? Can your CRM app track those too? Probably not, unless your combining the solution with a virtual number that you give out to callers.
These are important distinctions with the iovox service when comparing to CRM mobile phone apps.
- We work with your phone's dialer, so no change to the way you make or receive calls
- We support call tracking for inbound and outbound calls
- You don't need a special dialer app
- Only calls that you want shared into your CRM are shared.
To answer the question about whether iovox has CRM integrations, the answer is yes, we've designed our service to be a complement to existing CRM systems. For those that don't want the cost and complexity that can come with CRM, they can use iovox as a standalone solution.
Best of all, the basic iovox service is free unless you want to expand the search history of your call data, but even then you'd be looking at a minimal charge of less than $7 a month. That also includes a desktop interface that gives you all the analytics you need to evaluate performance.
Keep It Simple or Forget About Mass AdoptionAs agents, brokers, and other leaders and influencers passed by our booth, we struck up conversations about the state of technology in the real estate industry and we learned many things.
One familiar refrain was that the amount of new tech can be overwhelming with too many passwords to manage and sometimes steep learning curves for busy people that already have enough to do. One bit of advice we received, was that unless the technology is; 1) easy to use, and 2) easily translated into value, that the tech alone, however sexy, isn't likely to break out as a must-have solution.
"Keep it simple stupid. Don't over complicate things, simplify so you can focus, when you're focused you can execute much better." — eXp CPTO's advice on the interop and integration panel. #ICSF pic.twitter.com/cnCIf1Wm82
— Cynthia Pang Nowak (@CynthiaNowak) July 17, 2018
In fact, when talking with one broker about technology pain points, he indicated that getting agents to simply log call interactions in CRM was very challenging. As a side note, this is not unique to the real estate industry. Ask any sales professional with a large (or small) field sales team and you are likely to hear the same comment. Entering data into CRM is often an afterthought or done at the end of a busy day (if at all).
We know it's critical to get data into CRM and we know it has to be simple. So that's where our integration comes in handy. Without changing the way you make or receive calls, once a call is over, you can transcribe notes into the call history and press a button to share straight into your CRM system.
One of the best lines we heard at our booth was someone who was seeing the iovox solution for the first time and was impressed with how easy it was to use. The person then said, "You mean with one touch of a button I can put those call details into Salesforce automatically?" We said the answer was "yes" to which he replied, "Here's my card." Who knows where that will lead, but we understand simplicity is essential and we're committed to making everything we build as convenient as possible.
Big Apple, Here we ComeWe owe the team at Inman a big thank you for their support in our inaugural exhibition. We now understand why the conference is called Inman "Connect" as we made many new friends and learned a lot from some very smart and experienced real estate professionals. To those of you that stopped by our booth, thank you for doing so and sharing your wisdom with us.
#realestate royalty @jswesey paid us a visit today #ICSF Former Managing Editor of @InmanNews and now partner at @1000wattagency making brands stand out in the industry. Truly and expert in the biz. Thanks for the visit! #iovox pic.twitter.com/vs19Louxzw
— iovox (@iovox) July 17, 2018
International crowd here at @InmanConnect – talking to our friends from @realestate_au and Australia 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇺🇸🇬🇧 #ICSF #realestate #iovox #sanfrancisco pic.twitter.com/VNJF8asU9U
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The Holy Quraan says: "Believers! Fear Allah and waive what remains outstanding of usury, if you are truly believers. If you do not, then take notice that you are at war with Allah and His Messenger (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam). If you repent, you may have only your principal loans, neither inflicting nor suffering injustice." (2: 278,279)
The Quraanic verse is clear in requiring a lender to get back only what he has advanced. (It takes into account all usury, regardless of the extent; whether nominal or exorbitant.) The Holy Prophet of Islam (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) has disapproved of selling two measures of low quality dates for one measure of high quality dates, because he considered that as usury. He told his companions to do each transaction separately for cash, so that there is no element of usury in the deal.
Usury means an addition over and above the principal thing lent. In other words, it is excess, according to legal standard of measurement and weight, in one of two homogenous articles in which such excess is stipulated as an obligatory obligation on one of the contracting parties. Usury includes all kinds of interest whether the rate is high or low and whether the interest is or not added to the principal sum after fixed periods.
The following are, therefore, the ingredients of usurious transactions:
- The two things of exchange between the parties must be homogenous or of same character, viz., gold for gold or corn for corn.
- They must be unequal in measurement and weight. If gold is exchanged for gold of the same weight and quality in hand to hand transactions, it is not interest. If unequal, the excess must be interest.
- They must not be in hand to hand transactions. If a guinea is given for one a half guinea to be paid at a future date, the excess will be considered as interest.
- There must be stipulation or demand for the excess. If excess is paid by way of thanks and gratitude willingly and voluntarily, it will not be considered as interest.
- The two contracting parties must be Muslims or one Muslim and another non-Muslim in Darul-Aman (peaceful country) or a protected non-Muslim.
Creditors using anything of debtors will add interest to the loan advanced. The relation between creditor and debtor is sacred, and any advantage, however insignificant, gained over debtors by creditors in any shape or form will be tinged with the dust of usury. The Holy Quraan declares:
- "Those who swallow down usury arise except as one whom the devil has prostrated by his touch does arise; that is because they say: Trading is only like usury and Allah has allowed trading and prohibited usury". (2:275)
- "And whatever you lay out in usury, so that it may increase in the property of men, it shall not increase with Allah, and whatever you give in charity desiring Allah�s pleasure, it is these that shall get manifold." (30:39)
- "Allah does not bless usury and He causes charitable deeds to prosper". (2:276)
Sayyiduna Jaabir (radi Allahu anhu) reported that the Messenger of Allah (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) cursed the devourer of usury, its payer, its scribe and its two witnesses. And he said that they are equal (in sins). (Muslim)
Sayyiduna Ubadah bin Samit (radi Allahu anhu) reported that the Apostle of Allah (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) said: "Gold for gold, silver for silver, wheat for wheat, barley for barley, date for date, and salt for salt and like for like, equally in hand to hand transactions. When these kinds differ, then sell them as you wish when it is in hand to hand (transaction)". (Muslim) This tradition shows that except the six things enumerated above gold, silver, wheat, barley, date and salt, all other things may be sold in unequal quantity and quality without being guilty of usurious transaction. Thus, one good slave for two black slaves may be sold irrespective of homogeneity or different character. Imam-e-A'zam Abu Hanifa (alaihir rahmah) holds, however, that an animal may not be sold for a promise of payment of price.
Sayyiduna Abu Hurayra (radi Allahu anhu) reported that the Apostle of Allah (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) said: "Usury has got seventy divisions. The easiest division of them is a man's marrying his mother". (Ibn-e-Majah)
Sayyiduna Abu Hurayra (radi Allahu anhu) reported that Sayyiduna Rasoolullah (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) said: "I came across a people in the night in which I was taken to heaven. Their bellies are like houses wherein there are serpents which can be seen from outside their bellies. I asked, "O Sayyiduna Jibra'eel! Who are they?' He said, "These are those who devoured usury". (Ibn-e-Majah)


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Discuss the potential role of corticosteroid administration as adjunctive treatment for septic shock.
College Answer
Controversial unresolved topic, conflicting evidence.
In septic shock, cytokines may suppress the cortisol response to adrenocorticotropin hormone and in almost half of the patients this causes poor adrenal activity. Tissues possibly become resistant to corticosteroids because of fewer corticosteroid receptors or receptors with lower affinity.
- Treatment of deficiency - concept of CIRCI possibly associated with increased mortality
- Pharmacological effects on immune system through nuclear factor kappa B
- Up-regulation of receptors for vasopressors such as noradrenaline
- A possible interaction with vasopressin treatment has been identified but this needs further research
Concept of CIRCI unclear and use of short Synacthen test to determine who may benefit from steroids is controversial
Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines 2012 reoommend 200mg hydrocortisone /24hr for septic shock only if fluid resuscitation and vasopressor therapy have been inadequate to restore haemodynamic stability (grade 2C). Further recommendations are not to use the short Synacthen test, to taper hydrocortisone when vasopressors are no longer required and not to use steroids in sepsis without shock
Clear role for steroids in patients who are overtly hypoadrenal (as opposed to CIRCI) and Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome
Steroid treatment is recommended as early adjunctive treatment in bacterial meningitis but studies evaluating role of steroids in bacterial meningitis with septic shock are lacking and recommendations advise treatment as per septic shock
Consider additional supplementation in patients already on steroid therapy
Treatment effects:
The use of low-dose corticosteroids in septic shock significantly reduces shock duration. No improvement in mortality has been shown except for a possible reduction in 28-day mortality in the subgroup of patients who received a prolonged course (defined as more than 5 days) of low-dose corticosteroids.
Possible adverse effects include: impaired glucose control, increased fungal infection, myopathy and poor wound healing.
Studies using low-dose corticosteroids have not shown an increase in the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding, superinfection, or acquired neuromuscular weakness compared with placebo, but may not have been adequately powered to observe significant differences in side effects.
The use of corticosteroids may affect glucose metabolism and the need for insulin administration.
Relative adrenal insufficiency and the use of corticosteroids in severe septic shock are treated with brief summaries in the Required reading section.
Steroids in shock generally are asked about in Question 12 from the second paper of 2000.
Evidence for steroids in sepsis, and controversies surrounding their use, are asked about in Question 22 from the first paper of 2008: "Outline the evidence for the role of glucocorticoids in ARDS and septic shock and the current controversies surrounding their use in these conditions".
In brief:
- Introduction / definition:
- A certain group of sepsis patients may benefit from the administration of steroids, with improvement in mortality.
- Rationale:
Steroids may produce the following beneficial actions in severe shock:
- Reversal of relative adrenal insufficiency
- Reversal of inflammatory overactivity
- Reprogramming of the immune response
- Improved responsiveness of α-1 receptors (thus, decreased catecholamine requirements)
- Correction of vasoplegia by deactivation of nitric oxide synthase
- Improved cardiac tolerance of bacterial endotoxin
- Improved retention of resuscitation fluid
- Evidence:
- 2002 French study:
- Significant improvement in mortality among 300 septic patients, from 70% to 58%.
- Severely shocked patients, 1.1μg/kg/min (75ml/hr) of noradrenaline.
- 2008 CORTICUS trial:
- No mortality difference associated with the use of steroids.
- Moderately shocked patients, only 0.5μg/kg/min (35ml/hr) of noradrenaline.
- 2009 meta-analysis:
- 17 trials; conclusion: there is a small mortality benefit.
- The same analysis, excluding all but 6 well-designed trials:
- Conclusion: steroids did not improve survival
- 2013 Surviving Sepsis Guidelines:
- Grade 2B recommendation in favour of steroids, provided they are reserved for those patients who are refractory to fluids and vasopressors.
- Rationale: survival only seems to be improved in patients whose mortality from sepsis is likely to be over 60%.
- 2002 French study:
- Advantages
- Cardiovascular improvement (decreased vasopressor dose)
- Decreased organ system dysfunction
- Earlier withdrawal of vasopressor support
- Possibly, decreased mortality in selected patients
- Disadvantages
- Hyperglycaemia
- Fluid retention
- Possibly, increased risk of nosocomial infection
- Steroid myopathy and delayed ventilator weaning
- Increased risk of gastric ulceration
- Own practice:
- practice according to the Surviving Sepsis guidelines, or local policy.
Annane, Djillali, et al. "Corticosteroids in the treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock in adults: a systematic review." Jama 301.22 (2009): 2362-2375.
Sligl, Wendy I., et al. "Safety and efficacy of corticosteroids for the treatment of septic shock: A systematic review and meta-analysis." Clinical infectious diseases 49.1 (2009): 93-101.
Annane, Djillali. "Corticosteroids for severe sepsis: an evidence-based guide for physicians." Annals of intensive care 1.1 (2011): 1-7.
Sprung, Charles L., et al. "Hydrocortisone therapy for patients with septic shock." New England Journal of Medicine 358.2 (2008): 111.
Vassiliadi, Dimitra A., et al. "Longitudinal assessment of adrenocortical responses to low-dose ACTH in critically ill septic patients." Endocrine Abstracts (2013) 32 P26
Annane, Djillali, et al. "Effect of treatment with low doses of hydrocortisone and fludrocortisone on mortality in patients with septic shock." Jama 288.7 (2002): 862-871.


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The Police have received reports of calls targeting former investors of failed gold investment companies such as Genneva Pte. Ltd, Asia Pacific Bullion Pte. Ltd and The Gold Guarantee Pte. Ltd. The callers claimed that they were from litigation or recovery companies and offered to help investors recover their investments in these failed companies via civil proceedings or other methods, in return for a fee.
In some instances, the callers also offered to buy over gold bars at prices higher than prevailing market gold prices, or at prices higher than the investors' original purchase price. However in return, the investors were asked to re-invest their sales proceeds into an alternative investment scheme that promised attractive returns and guaranteed capital protection over a short period of time.
Members of the public are advised to be vigilant when receiving unsolicited calls from purported recovery or litigation firms, and should adopt the following crime prevention measures:
Be wary when an unknown person calls you regarding your investments, especially when you did not approach anyone to recover your investment monies;
Ignore such calls. Do not divulge your personal particulars or information on your investments to the callers;
Do not follow the instruction or invitation of the caller to call him back or to meet him in person;
If you wish to provide any information related to such scams, please call the Police hotline at 1800-255-0000, or submit it online at www.police.gov.sg/iwitness. If you require urgent Police assistance, please dial '999'.
To seek scam-related advice, you may call the National Crime Prevention Council's anti-scam helpline at 1800-722-6688 or visit www.scamalert.sg. Join the 'let's fight scams' campaign at www.scamalert.sg/fight by signing up as an advocate to receive up-to-date messages and share them with your family and friends. Together, we can help stop scams and prevent our loved ones from becoming the next scam victim.
Source: Singapore Police Force