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Hello all! My name is Ken and I own a performance training studio in Memphis, TN, that helps children and adults alike improve their talents. Each year, we host b/t 4 and 6 different themed summer camps for ages 6 - 14. These themes have varied from Broadway, to Pop Star, to Princess, to Hip Hop Dance Bootcamp to a Disney Camp.

This year, I’m wanting to do something a little different. I want to ask you, the parents of these students, what you and your child would like to see us offer in our 2009 Summer Camps. What do you suggest we do to create the funnest, most awesome camp ever! What activites would help make that camp not just enjoyable, but memorable? Keep in mind our camps will be for 3 or 4 hours a day and meet up Monday - Friday for a week, two weeks tops.

What camps would work best for you and your child? Do you like the Pop Star Camp? What about High School Musical? Broadway is a standard… should we continue to include that camp? Also, if there’s anyone brave enough to throw something out there that we haven’t considered before, please feel free to do so. To voice your opinion, please visit this site - Performing Arts Summer Camps and contact us with your thoughts via the email listed at the bottom of the page.

We appreciate your input and look forward to you joining us for our camps assuming you live in the Memphis area. Also, if you’re interested in finding out more about voice or dance lessons, please visit SingStudiosMemphis.com.

There are a lot of adult dyslexics out there (about 10% of the adult population over 30). Now we screen out dyslexics in elementary school, test them and help them deal with their dyslexia. But 95% of adult dyslexics over 30 are unaware of their condition and have never been through dyslexia testing.

Dyslexia is a neurological condition. A dyslexic’s eyes may see fine, but the signals his eyes send to his brain lose something in the translation somehow. Commonly it affects the ability to read, makes it hard to go from the thought behind words to the sound of words to the symbols (letters and spelling) of words.

We know from statistics that about 1 out of every 10 people (about 10% of the total population) has the symptoms of some sort of dyslexia. Dyslexics over 30 or so years of age had no help from the educational system. They were stigmatized, belittled, classified as dull, slow learners, sub-par. They learned to hide their problems, worked out ingenious ways to conceal them.

The problem is dyslexics learn differently. Once diagnosed they can receive the special training they need to do practically everything that non-dyslexics can. But undiagnosed, they suffer needlessly in silence, taking jobs below their abilities to avoid having to read aloud or transcribe things, etc.

If you or anyone you know has difficulty in reading, in going easily between the written and the spoken word, then you or they might be dyslexic and should check yourself out. The first step might be to take a free dyslexia test, a screening test to check for dyslexia symptoms.

If the free test gives you any cause for concern, then consider a full adult dyslexia testing checkup. This can be done with a home dyslexia test that can be done online in the privacy of your home. It takes about half an hour and costs less than a dinner for two in a medium-good restaurant.

Take the free test and then think about it. If you have some symptoms, almost any symptoms, take the full test. You’ll be glad you did!

Disclaimer: This posting is based on information freely available in the popular press and medical journals that deal with dyslexia. Nothing herein is intended to be or should be construed to be any sort of medical advice. For medical advice the reader should consult with his or her physician or other medical specialist.

I’m sure that there are good places to drop your Mobile Phone. Dropping it on your bed might not be a bad place. Maybe even dropping it on a carpeted area where there’s no one around wouldn’t be too awful either. Mobile Phones are pretty tough, I’ve discovered and even if you’re as clumsy as I am, they stand up to a fair amount of abuse. I’ve bounced my Nokia Mobile Phone off of various surfaces accidentally, and I was just beginning to relax. Maybe I had finally found a gadget that could stand up to my carelessness. Well, that was what I thought until just last week, when I realised that there was a good reason that my girlfriend, as soon as I told her I was getting a Nokia N96 Mobile Phone, that I get the Phone insurance to go with it.

“Just you wait,” she said ominously. “You put a nice piece of tech in your hands like that and it’s going to last exactly ten seconds.” Well, she was wrong, but she was right to insist that I get the insurance, at the end of the day. It didn’t take me ten seconds to break my Mobile Phone. It actually lasted three weeks, and if you know anything about the way that I usually treat my things, that is something of a miracle. Thankfully, the Mobile Phone insurance was in place and I didn’t have to hunt everywhere for a replacement or worry about not being able to afford a replacement in the first place.

This wasn’t my fault really. I was trying to get from work to the bus stop and whipping out my phone to call my girlfriend and ask her if she wanted to me to stop and get any food for dinner that night. The sidewalk was pretty crowded and I wasn’t anywhere near as observant as I should have been. The result of this ended up being that walked into someone a lot bigger than me, rebounded and got to see my Mobile Phone flying right out of my hand and disappear into the crush of feet below. It took me almost a full minute to track it down and by then it was much too late. The screen was cracked and when I tried to turn it on, it made a manful attempt before going dead. From way that something rattled inside it, I wondered if it had been stepped on as well. I got on the bus and headed over to my girlfriend’s house, where she took one look at the damaged Nokia mobile and looked up the Mobile Insurance claim number for me to call.

Mobile Phone insurance is a great thing to have when you’re clumsy. Mobile Phones are definitely built for toughness, but if you are as bad as I am, some extra protection is going to count for a lot. We discovered that this particular incident fell right under the accidental breakage category, and within 48 hours, my claim was handled and I was hooked up to the world once again. You see, not only am I clumsy, I’m connected to everything through my phone, so I have some extra fears about breakage. I got my life back and my N96 Phone back before I even missed them and that made a ton of difference.