January 27, 2021 Imagen Dental Partners has launched as a dental partnership organization (DPO) focused on technology-oriented dental practices.
Imagen said that it allows full clinical autonomy for dentists, while emphasizing technology and mastery of advanced clinical skills and encouraging dentists to practice at the highest possible standards. All practices must utilize CAD/CAM technologies and cone-beam computed tomography (CT) or be willing to do so upon joining the partnership, according to Imagen.
Practices that join get paid for the dentistry they produce, as well as for the profitability of their practice and Imagen as a whole. In addition, Imagen said it provides educational and mentoring opportunities by Spear Education and CDOCS, as well as growth playbooks to help practices reach their growth potential. What s more, partner practices can access Imagen s business support services.
Making Magic, Part 2: Structuring Your Unique System
In the last of this article mini-series, WD editor Moriah Richard explains the key components to a hard magic system and gives you some tips on building your own.
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Jan 26, 2021
So, you want to write about magic, eh? I don’t blame you magic is super cool. But there are a
lot of people out there who write about it. How can we go about making our magic seem new and innovative?
In my humble opinion, it’s not the magic that needs to feel new for readers; it’s what your characters do with the magic. And to be able to achieve that, we first need to understand how it works.
Spider-Man s Tony Revolori in talks to join Willow series
January 26, 2021 by:
Ron Howard s
WILLOW starred Warwick Davis as a young farmer who stumbles across Elora Danan, an infant who is prophesied to bring about the downfall of the evil Queen Bavmorda. Teaming up with the mercenary swordsman Madmartigan (Val Kilmer), Willow attempts to keep Elora from the clutches of Bavmorda s legions. It s full of magic, adventure, and is just a hell of a lot of fun. The film has grown to become a cult classic over the decades and Lucasfilm is working on a
Willow TV series for the Disney+ streaming service.
The Best of Walter Jon Williams, Walter Jon Williams (Subterranean 978-1645240020, $45.00, 610pp, hc). Cover by Lee Moyer. February 2020.
Exactly 30 years ago, this column’s lede was “Walter Jon Williams is an interestingly various writer….” The intervening decades have given me no reason to alter that opinion, variations on which I have been repeating just about every time I write about a Williams title. So why should I break the chain now? In 1991, when I drafted that review (of
Days of Atonement), Williams had published seven SF novels and a collection of shorter work and was already a fully formed professional with a range stretching from the cyberpunkish and space-operatic, to alien encounters, to crime-caper/comedy-of-manners mashups. (Not counting five historical-nautical adventures as Jon Williams.) Since then, his output has expanded to encompass fantasies, disaster epics, alternate histories, pocket universes, near-future technothrillers, and less-easil