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The Advisory Board is the body that resolves potential conflicts of interest relating to funds created and managed by the Management Company.
By means of provision No. 19602 of 4 May 2016, CONSOB (Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa, the public authority responsible for regulating the Italian financial markets) set up the Arbitrator for Financial Disputes ("AFD") and ruled its operations, structure and procedure via AFD regulation implementing art. 2, paras. 5-bis and 5-ter, of Legislative Decree No. 179 of October 8, 2007 (the "AFD Regulation").
Wise SGR S.p.A. ("Wise SGR") joins the AFD.
The main information on the of AFD operation are shown here-below:
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American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2016 Annual Meeting
Orlando || United States
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American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2016 Annual MeetingOrlando | March 2nd – March 4th| Orange County Convention Center, Hall W-A/B | Booth #2871
The 2016 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting provides orthopedic practitioners access to a wide variety of educational and scientific programs as well as the latest technology the field has to offer.
This year Brainlab invites you to experience our newest tracking hardware created with orthopedic surgery in mind: ClearLens™ instruments. Disposable ClearLens™ tracking arrays remain visible to the navigation system—even when contaminated with fluid and tissue—to ensure undisturbed tracking performance. Snapping quickly into place, ClearLens™ instruments save valuable preparation time in the O.R. and facilitate accurate optical tracking in harsh surgical environments. Visit the drip tray at our booth to see ClearLens™ in action.*
For digital templating, we present TraumaCad 2.5. For over a decade, TraumaCad has set the standard in orthopedic digital templating and this latest release introduces Auto-Knee functionality for TKA, which automatically detects resection lines, positions templates, estimates size, and simulates leg alignment.
In addition, TraumaCad Mobile 2.0 now enables planning for Knee, Upper Limb and Foot & Ankle quickly and easily, using only a few simple gestures.
On the software side, Knee3 helps to provide better alignment and accurate results during software-guided knee surgery and Hip 6 assists in accurate component positioning and leg length and offset measurement.
For Spine, Brainlab Spinal Navigation supports a wide variety of imaging devices and offers seamless integration to correspond with the surgeons' various workflows. For a demo of Airo®Mobile Intraoperative CT, we invite you to also visit us at our partner DePuy Synthes' booth #2545.
Key hardware featured at the booth this year will be our latest version of Curve™ Image Guided Surgery, Kick®Purely Navigation with Optical Tracking and Buzz®Digital O.R.
While you're at the booth, be sure to put on a pair of 3D glasses to see a new dimension in stereoscopic 3D image and treatment plan review with DICOM Viewer 3D Stereo.*
Visit us at booth #2871 to get a closer look at wide range of orthopedic hardware and software.
See you at AAOS in Orlando!
To learn more about our comprehensive orthopedic portfolio, click here.
* Commercial availability pending
March 2nd9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday, March 3rd9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday, March 4th9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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9400 Universal Blvd
32819 Orlando
United States
Hall W-A/B | Booth #2871
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Fieldbus Foundation Announces First Registered Isolated Device Couplers
The Fieldbus Foundation has announced registration of the first isolated device couplers based on its Foundation H1 (31.25 kbit/s) device coupler test specification. Devices from MTL and R. Stahl successfully completed the foundation's rigorous registration process.
As part of a Foundation fieldbus infrastructure, isolated device couplers are installed where the fieldbus trunk (i.e., home run cable) is connected to the various device spurs. Isolated device couplers are specifically designed to allow automation end users to connect more devices per coupler while permitting live segment work in hazardous plant areas. These couplers provide isolated, conditioned power to multiple fieldbus devices and protect against short circuits caused by excess current in a spur. By enabling more devices per segment, they also help reduce controller input/output (I/O) points and associated installation costs.
MTL's 9370-FB Series Fieldbus Barrier provides a range of complete integrated enclosure systems, instead of stand-alone barrier modules. All internal components are live pluggable, meaning that field maintenance can be carried out quickly and safely. Surge protection devices for the trunk and spurs can be easily fitted without requiring product re-design. The product series includes 6- and 12-spur versions in stainless steel or GRP enclosures, as well as a redundant option enabling improved system availability in critical fieldbus networks.
|MTL's 9370-FB Series Fieldbus Barrier
R. Stahl's Series 9411/21 and 9411/24 isolated device couplers are suitable for use in Zone 1, Zone 2 and U.S. Division 2, and are available with plastic or stainless steel housings that can be tailored to fit customer requirements. The series also includes a unique power management feature: during the start-up of a fieldbus segment, the spurs energize one after the other. This reduces the inrush current on a segment by up to 50 percent, requiring less spare energy and making longer segment lengths possible.
|R. Stahl's Series 9411/21 and 9411/24 Isolated Device Couplers


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Cheat Sheet
Emotions play a vital role in our existence
- Emotions, sentiment, and passion are part of being alive and connecting with others.
- Emotions often alert us to issues which we must choose to either work to resolve (take action) or choose to accept (allow the emotion to be released and return ourselves to balance).
Suppressing emotions is bad for you
- Suppressing emotions causes stress.
- Suppressing emotions can cause serious mental illness.
- Suppressed emotions negatively affect your physical health and well-being.
- Suppressed emotions wreak havoc in your subconscious mind and contribute to future negative life experiences.
You have 3 choices when a negative emotion comes on the scene
- Address and/or fix the issue, if possible.
- Express your emotions if you can't fix or address the issue.
- Suppress your emotions by denying that something painful happened to you!
Monday evening I found out that a friend of mine had passed away unexpectedly. Tuesday afternoon I received news that made me equally sad and joyful (that's a weird feeling). So I spent the better part of the rest of Tuesday afternoon on the kitchen floor, propped up against the cabinets with my legs spread out like a four year old, crying and drinking iced tea.
I'm proud of myself for this! The more we take off the "I'm ok mask" the more able we become to live our true, fullest and healthiest lives. Much of what we learn through our societal conditioning teaches and encourages us to adopt the practice of suppressing emotions. That's insane when you consider that emotional suppression causes system wide dysfunction and disease.
How suppressed emotions affects our bodies, our minds and our life experiences.
When you suppress an emotion it does not go away, it goes deeper! Rather than absolving and dissipating the negative emotional energy, we hold onto it unconsciously. Deeply rooted in our subconscious it then affects our bodies, our minds and our life experiences. Emotions create peptide and chemical signals which are sent to our cells. The idea of sickness and disease being related to emotional dis'ease is now well documented in science. The suppressed negative emotions can often be a constant undercurrent to thinking patterns and loss of awareness and presence. They contribute to ongoing and worsening mental health issues, again this is not speculation but well documented. Deeply rooted and hard at work in our subconscious mind, the ramifications of the suppressed emotions play out time and time again subconsciously drawing us toward negative life experiences as we move forward.
Signs you are suppressing an emotion
- You distract yourself.
- You avoid triggers that bring up an emotion (such as talking about a painful subject).
- You find ways to blame others or circumstances for the pain.
- You are using Substance abuse, eating disorders, or other additive type behavior as an escape.
The 3 step process to release rather than suppress negative emotions.
- Stop and fully acknowledge and explore what happened to create the emotion. Remind yourself that you are not what happens to you. For example if a someone is cruel to you and you suppress the emotion you are likely attaching it to some feeling of self-worth, lack of self-love, some sense that you might somehow be deserving of the treatment. By spending time acknowledging the experience you become able to see it more logically and release the emotion in a healthy way.
- Let it out. A good practice can be to change your location, go to a place and body position where you will be free of distractions and allow the emotions to become fully present and released in whatever way feels natural. I sit on the kitchen floor crying. Some people may like to moan, to scream, to bang their fist on something (be careful!) but allow all of that energy to just be released in way that it feels called to be. Focus on your breathing, try not think, process or attach thoughts to the emotion at this point, just let it surface.
- Thank your emotions and look for the good that can come. Negative emotions are often illuminating something for us. A place to learn and grow, providing a catalyst for change perhaps? What light can you see within the darkness?
Of course the best approach is to lessen your exposure to negative events & experiences in your life. Are you ready to make the shift from existing to thriving and take an active approach to how the whole rest of your life unfolds? Check out Miracle Space- I would love to work with you.


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Isabel Marant's 'Andrew' boots feature a triangular mid-heel that perfectly complements the pointed toe – a key shape for this season and next. Crafted from supple black leather and suede for a slouchy, insouciant feel. Pull yours on with everything from mini skirts to skinny jeans.
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Prayer Ministry Opportunities
We would love for you to be involved in praying with us! If you are interested in any of the options below, please contact our office at (985) 781-3172 or at
- Service Prayer
Prayer and intercession during Weekend services
- Join or lead a Prayer Small Group
- 21 Days of Prayer
In January and August, we host a special, three-week emphasis on prayer through daily morning prayer services.
- Sunday Morning Prayer
Praying for our cities and Sunday services on Sunday mornings before service from 8:15-8:45 a.m.


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Ready to pick out your next meal? You can view Teriyaki 2U's full menu right here! Find all your favorite forms of teriyaki, be they beef, chicken, salmon, tofu, pork, vegetable, in a bento, in a combo, or sitting atop a bowl of rice.
Or, if you're in the mood for something different, take a look at our rich variety of alternative options. Try a katsu, a yakisoba, or a ramen. Our Chinese menu features all of the most classic wok-style dishes, from General Tso to Kung Pao. And if you're feeling indulgent, take a few choice selections off of our extensive list of nigiri and fusion-style sushi! It's all here and it's all delicious at Teriyaki 2U!


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Welcome to Crooked Tree Golf Course
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Crooked Tree G.C. is a wonderful, traditional layout with generous fairways, small greens and ample chipping areas that surround the green complexes. The course sits alone among the ironwoods, mesquites and saguaros of the Sonoran Desert. There are no homes lining its fairways- only the rugged beauty of the desert southwest. When Lee Trevino and Dave Bennett, ASGCA, designed Crooked Tree Golf Course, they created one of those pleasant surprises not often found in the search for a nice golf course with reasonable rates. The course is a short 10 minute drive from downtown Tucson.
Crooked Tree proudly hosts the PGA's First Tee program. This outstanding national youth development program is primarily designed to teach/promote character and life-enhancing values through the game of golf.
Come enjoy one of Golf Digest's "Best Places to Play" in 2006, 2007, 2008…Truly one of Arizona's best public golf courses.
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Just found this on Amazon and couldn't resist. Mr. Flagler continues to influence and inspire this city in many ways.
Arguably no man did more to make over a city—or a state—than Henry Morrison Flagler. Almost single-handedly, he transformed the east coast of Florida from a remote frontier into the winter playground of America's elite.
Mr. Flagler's St. Augustine tells the story of how one of the wealthiest men in America spared no expense in transforming the country's "Oldest City" into the "Newport of the South." He built railroads into remote areas where men feared to tread and erected palatial hotels on swampland. He funded hospitals and churches and improved streets and parks. The rich and famous flocked to his invented paradise.


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Asthmatic Bronchitis Smoking
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Asthmatic Bronchitis SmokingThere are some important differences, while bronchitis symptoms like wheezing and shortness of breath are much like the symptoms of asthma. For most people, bronchitis goes away when the disease clears, but "it's also possible to have a viral infection that eventually makes one with asthma," he says. Bronchial Asthma: Disease Is Just Not Always the Culprit "Bronchitis can also be caused by noninfectious irritants," says Castriotta.
Acute BronchitisAcute bronchitis is an infection of the bronchial tree (tubes that carry air from the mouth and nose to the lungs). Acute bronchitis is more often than not caused by viruses that get into the bronchial tree. Anything that causes further damage to the bronchial tree, for example cigarette smoking, will lengthen time it takes for one to get better. You are more likely to get acute bronchitis if your bronchial tree is damaged. For some people who have acute bronchitis, doctors prescribe medicines that are accustomed to treat asthma. It is only through sheer determination that we were able to complete this composition on asthmatic bronchitis smoking. Determination, and regular time table for writing helps in writing essays, reports and articles.
Those who smoke heavily and individuals with chronic lung disease are most likely to experience chronic bronchitis. Individuals with acute bronchitis usually start to feel better within a few days, although they generally can expect to have a cough for 1 to 2 weeks or longer while the airways in the lungs recover. People with chronic bronchitis or other chronic lung diseases are often advised to get an annual influenza * vaccination to prevent symptoms from flaring up in response to infection with flu viruses.
The Infection Will Typically Go Away on Its Own Within 1 WeekIf your physician thinks you additionally have bacteria in your airways, she or he may prescribe antibiotics. This medicine is only going to eliminate bacteria, not viruses. Occasionally, the airways may be infected by bacteria together with the virus. You might be prescribed antibiotics if your doctor believes this has occurred. Occasionally, corticosteroid medication is also needed to reduce inflammation. Now while reading about how long does bronchitis cough, don't you feel that you never knew so much existed about how long does bronchitis cough? So much matter you never knew existed.
Occasionally the cough from a non contagious chest infection months or several weeks. Nevertheless, a cough that does not go away may be an indication of another problem, such as pneumonia or asthma. Writing about how long does bronchitis cough is an interesting writing assignment. There is no end to it, as there is so much to write about it!
Bronchitis is a condition where there is inflammation of the bronchi, the air passages within the lungs. Bacteria or allergens can comes mainly from viruses, but sometimes cause the inflammation that triggers bronchitis. Depending on the period of time your symptoms occur, bronchitis can be qualified as chronic bronchitis or acute bronchitis. Acute and chronic bronchitis share common symptoms of the following: Episodes of bronchitis usually do not cause fever and if they do it's usually low grade.
Bronchitis and Asthma are Two Inflammatory Airway IllnessesThe affliction is called asthmatic bronchitis, ways to cure bronchitis happen together. Common asthmatic bronchitis causes include: The symptoms of asthmatic bronchitis are a blend of the symptoms of asthma and bronchitis. You may experience some or all of the following symptoms: You might wonder, is treating bronchitis contagious? However, persistent asthmatic bronchitis commonly is just not contagious.
Many people with asthma scarcely experience symptoms, generally in response to triggers, whereas others may have symptoms that are marked and consistent. Many environmental factors are associated with asthma's growth and exacerbation including allergens, air pollution, and other external chemicals. Low air quality from variables including traffic pollution or high ozone amounts, continues to be connected with increased asthma severity and both asthma progression. Particular viral respiratory infections, for example respiratory syncytial virus and rhinovirus, may increase the risk of developing asthma when developed as young children. The most powerful risk factor for developing asthma is a history of atopic disorder; with asthma occurring at a substantially greater speed in those who have eczema or hay fever. We have omitted irrelevant information from this composition on asthmatic bronchitis mediion as we though that unnecessary information may make the reader bored of reading the composition.
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09:00 – 17:30 (Monday-Friday)
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Telephone: 029 2074 4181
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Welsh speakers are available to help with patient enquiries.
Some examples of questions you might want to ask are:
- When and how should I take my medicines?
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The farming operation is in hand and run from the Estate Office. Predominantly an arable business with a four crop rotation of potatoes, winter and spring wheat and maize. The potato crop is the focus of the farming operation and is a partnership between Cadland and Whitewater Potatoes. There is a small herd of 80 cattle that are used to manage the heathland, marsh and the more marginal areas.
The main farmland block is mostly light soils. The Estate continues to invest and improve its irrigation infrastructure and has the capacity to fully irrigate the main farm area. The geographic location and proximity to the sea makes this one of the earliest harvesting farms in the country with low frost levels. The ambition is to find another high value crop to complement the potatoes and we are actively investigating options.


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How to Make New Year's Resolutions You Can Stick With
A Different Perspective on Setting Goals
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It's that time of year again. The time of year when our mind turns inward toward ourselves and begins to examine our faults, unfulfilled expectations, and imperfect lives. It's the time of year when we long for a fresh start, set goals to help us achieve what we feel is lacking in our lives, and even commit to solid New Year's Resolutions.
Within the resolution process, we find hope in the promise that we can free ourselves from our past errors and mistakes, make the necessary course correction by using our willpower and desire to succeed, and become determined to let go of everything in our lives that we don't like.
From the instant that the clock strikes 2014, we will dedicate the rest of our lives to fulfilling our ambitions. We will vow to keep a positive outlook, no matter how difficult our goals might seem, and we will refuse to allow failure to poke its head into that equation. On January 1st, failure is not an option for us.
And yet, statistics show that only 8 percent[1] of those who set New Year's Resolutions actually make it all the way to the end of the year and cross the finish line. Despite our good intentions and strong desire to change, we usually don't make it. We usually fall down and skin our knees within the first six months.
Making New Year's Resolutions
Is This You?
But it doesn't have to be that way.
You don't have to be among those who lose sight of what they want and fall by the wayside. You can succeed. You can change. You can find the willpower to make a difference in your life and the lives of others. But to do that, you have to understand what willpower is, where you can find it, and most importantly, how to use it appropriately.
To help you find your way through the mists of self improvement, here are 3 powerful tips for making New Year's Resolutions you can actually stick with.
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If you think that willpower is just going to show up on your doorstep and help you whenever you're faced with the temptation to deviate from your goals, you're greatly mistaken. Setting goals, or having an aim to shoot for, is a good plan but that doesn't mean that willpower has to cooperate. In fact, most people don't have any willpower. They just think that they do. They believe that they are in control of their choices, in control of their actions, but nothing could be further from the truth.
The truth is that many people just react to what happens to them without taking the time to think about it. Someone punches their buttons, and they are off and running toward their arsenal of whining and complaining, demanding that others give them what they feel they are entitled to, or they sit around blaming everyone and everything for the way their life is going. Temptation surfaces, and they completely forget about what they said they wanted.
Others more intellectually inclined might find more sophisticated ways of complaining and blaming, but not before they have used up their own arsenal of self-made rules, following those they consider to be authoritative, and implementing a wide variety of self-improvement programs that just don't work. If you're like most folks, that means:
- weight-loss programs
- debt-reduction schemes
- an effort toward becoming more organized
- saving more money
- improving your relationships with others
- or trying to overcome your faults
But without self-awareness, without a strong inner purpose in your life, events, people, and circumstances will always interfere with what you are trying to accomplish. And if your energy reserves are low or you have forgotten what you wanted to DO, you'll cave into temptation before you even realize what you've done. You'll wake up several minutes, days, or even years later wondering WHY you did that. WHY did you let go of your goals?
New Year's Resolution Tip 1: Increase Your Self-Awareness
Most people create goals that focus on what they believe they ought to DO, rather than on what they want to BE. That's a major mistake because our ability to act with mindfulness and conscious intent is totally dependent on who and what we currently are. The first step in our ability to change must come from within, not from without.
Instead of focusing on outward goals -- diet, exercise, debt, saving money, or cutting out excesses -- all of the things that we believe are wrong with us and will make us happier individuals if we correct, think about the type of person you want to be. Bad habits, a careless attitude about money, a craving for sweets or carbohydrates, laziness, and chasing after thoughtless pursuits at the expense of family and friends, are all by-products of what we are, what we believe, and what we find valuable.
The heart of change always comes down to value.
We do what we find valuable and worthwhile. We ignore or reject everything that we do not. So the first step is always to become more self aware. What do you really want in life? What do you really want to be? Without giving those questions serious thought and allowing the answers to come to the surface of our awareness, any attempt at change is bound to fall short of our ultimate goal.
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Once you know what you want to be, only then will it be profitable to go looking for the substance we call willpower. Until then, our will won't have any power. There won't be a healthy, driving force behind all that we do until we cast out our old motivations and create a new purpose that aligns with who we want to be.
It's purpose that drives our conscious actions. Purpose that helps us decide what to do during each and every moment of our lives. So if we're functioning from an old, warn out, tattered purpose we created in our childhood, for example, a purpose that no longer works for us today, we won't get the results we want until we create something new. We won't be able to accomplish our dreams until we have a mental system that works for us. Something that will help us become what we want to become.
Many people believe willpower is a force driven by emotion and strong desire. So if we can't stick to our resolutions, it's because our human nature entices us to always take the easy path, the path of less resistance. The path that makes New Year's Resolutions extremely difficult to maintain. While it's true that change is always rocky and uncomfortable, change doesn't come from using the strong arm of force. You can't bully your way to change.
That's because true change comes from the mind.
And so does the willpower we need to see our path more clearly. Willpower isn't about forcing ourselves to make the changes that others want us to make. It's about making up our mind to be ourselves. Our True Self. It's about using our mental energy to accomplish whatever it is we set out to do, rather than wasting it on useless thoughts and suggestions from our environment that are not important. It's about being true to our self and letting everything else go.
New Year's Resolution Tip 2: Make Your Goals Important
Will power is mental energy.[2] It's energy that is fueled by the body for the purpose of creation. In this case, creation would be a result of whatever you have decided is important and valuable to do for yourself or others. Once importance and value has been attached to what you want to do, and you have a clear purpose in mind, that goal or aim is fueled by willpower. In order to keep willpower strong, you have to maintain the importance and value attached to the result you want to accomplish.
That takes self-awareness and a clear purpose for what you are doing.
For example, if you decide that you want to eliminate most processed foods from your diet and move to an eating style that incorporates mostly natural and organic foods, there has to be a solid reason and sense of importance and value for doing it that is much stronger than vanity. While everyone always does whatever they feel is right, proper, or justified at any given moment, value has to be maintained in order to avoid justification further down the path for dumping the goal you've decided to make today.
That takes a strong mental attitude, but it also requires you to accept your present limitations. Willpower isn't necessarily limitless. And it's easy to lie to ourselves about what we really want. For that reason, superficial goals won't take us very far. They have to actually mean something to you. They have to be vitally important. If they aren't, something else will come into play in a few days, weeks, or months that will be so important it will uproot everything you have accomplished so far.
If you're new to mindfulness and have been living for quite some time beneath an outdated purpose, it's wise to limit your New Year's Resolution to the ONE THING that is most important to you today.
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The new year often ushers in a strong need to turn over a new leaf. That urge to change is fueled by marketing, the self-help industry, talks and articles on positive thinking, diet books and forums, and other self-help strategies that appeal to our desire for self improvement. But most of these self-help dogmas are a result of circular thinking.
The self-help industry thrives on our failure to accomplish the goals that they suggest we should be seeking after if we want to improve our lives and be happy.
The reasons for failure vary, but if you take a step back and listen to what most of these people, authors, and industries are saying, the failure we often experience is always because we didn't do more. We didn't do something right.[6]
- We weren't positive enough.
- We didn't follow the program correctly.
- We should have tried harder.
- We should have paid more attention to the details.
- We shouldn't have given up hope.
None of that is true, of course. These ideas simply keep us coming back to their program in order to start over. It keeps us going in a circle. We start, we fail, we analyze ourselves, and then we start over again. Nothing changes because nothing is different. We are using someone else's self-help program. And while it might have worked well for them, and maybe even for some of their followers, that doesn't mean it will work for us.
Why? Because our purpose in life might not be the same. Our purpose in life might be quite contrary to the principles and ideas presented to us in the form of a self-improvement program. And the program itself might just be a hidden form of mind control that our true essence is wise enough to reject, even if our present conscious mind doesn't understand that.
New Year's Resolution Tip 3: Stay Aware of Temptations and Make Mental Adjustments
One of the reasons why self-awareness is so important in the process of reaching our aims and goals is because we have to stay alert and watch for the various forms of temptations that have been specially designed to throw us off track. If we aren't watching for them to pop up in ourselves, we won't necessarily discern them, and will end up reacting to their presence in a way that is contrary to what we want.
Big Business thrives on manipulating us into believing that we are ugly, weak, too fat, and too stupid to know what is best for us. They tell us what to eat, what to drive, where to live, what to put on, and where to go if we want to be among the "in" crowd. They send us flying in a dozen different directions at once by using threats of future doom or rejection if we don't listen to them and do exactly as we are told. Buy this. Buy that. Or you'll be sorry.
Listening to them boosts their profits and turns us into slave labor.
All of their junk clogs up our mind. It distracts us from our true goals. It takes up valuable space in our energy centers and leaves us depleted of the willpower we need to accomplish our goals. It robs us of our state of being by turning us into robots. We become weak, enslaved, programmed, and mindless individuals who obey what we are told to do instead of being honest to our True Nature.
Instead of following our dreams, we follow someone else's dreams, because we are too weak to create our own. We are so full of other people's stuff that's it's almost impossible to make conscious choices for ourselves. Choices that are useful to us, rather than them.
The KEY is distraction.[5] That requires self-awareness, a strong sense of purpose, and a willingness to shut out and turn from everything that doesn't help us to fulfill our goals and dreams. That requires us to get the temptation out of our mind in any way that we can as soon as someone tries to plant it there. That holds true rather it comes from inside ourselves, a product of our own thoughts and imagination, or from someone in our environment.
Yes, that blackberry pie looks delicious sitting there on the table, but if our goal is carbohydrate restriction, then we can consciously supplant that image in our mind with something much more vile and less attractive. We can remember what the physical symptoms or outcome of eating it might be, such as that which I would experience were I to eat something that contains gluten, and thereby remain strong and determined to do only that which is valuable for us.
You can also ignore all of the suggestions offered by the media, diet books, and self-help industry that say you are not okay the way you are and need to live up their standard of being. The only standard is your own, the person you want to become.
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Trying to live up to someone else's standard doesn't work. Not only because it furthers someone else's goals but because the goals of others are often loaded with contradictions. Contradictions only cloud our ability to discern between helpful and non-helpful ideas. While it's always wise to have a solid foundation upon which to build, to bear fruit, that foundation needs to come from our own essence, our own desires, not from the dreams and ideals of others.
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West Bengal authorities put media's credibility at stake
A growing outrage is palpable from the civil society against the abuse of media's credibility to arrest Chhatradhar Mahto, the leader of Lalgarh movement in West Bengal, India.
The West Bengal police and authorities disguised as a fake media representative and with the assistance of a local media personnel, managed to reach Chhatradhar Mahto. Mahto was arrested then.
Dr Vishnu Rajgadia, Secretary of Jharkhand RTI Forum and a noted social activist, took the initiative with support from National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM) leaders to begin a signature petition campaign demanding the Prime Minister of India to intervene and stop this trend which is jeopardising the credibility of media in India. Citizens have mobilized individuals to sign a petition against the misuse of media's credibility in West Bengal to arrest Mahto. The signature petition got hundreds of signatures from citizens in a short span of time (signature petition is online here). Prominent among those include the Magsaysay Awardee (2002) Dr Sandeep Pandey, noted Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) activist and adviser to Supreme Court Commissioner on Right to Food Arundhati Dhuru, filmmaker Anand Patwardhan,
"The West Bangal police has misused the credibility of media to arrest a leader of Lalgarh movement, Chhatradhar Mahto on 26 September 2009. This is very objectionable as it is a misuse of the credibility and good name of the media. This is also an encroachment in the autonomy of Media" says Dr Vishnu Rajgadia.
"This will create various problems for the journalists including the threat of their life during reporting in any so-called disturbed area. Therefore, we request you all to consider signing the online petition to protest the misuse by West Bengal police and to support a law to prevent such possibilities" further adds Dr Rajgadia, who began the petition on behalf of several human rights organizations.
It poses serious questions on the way police is functioning in a democratic country. Draconian laws like the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and other such Acts which are rule of the law in other states like Chhattisgarh, have only caused seemingly irreparable damage to social democratic fabric.
When media used disguise to conduct sting operations, the authorities took them to task and hardly any concrete action has come out of the evidence collected thereby in public interest. However authorities shamelessly have used the disguise of media and put media's credibility at risk in West Bengal.
"In a democratic country like India, each and every institution has its own duties as well as each of them have been provided certain space, authority and liberty to execute their responsibility. No institution has any right to encroach the autonomy of other institution" says the petition.
"The media persons are visiting in various remote areas including "Disturbed" fields and they also have to meet with various people including any accused person to collect news and to expose various socio-political-economic conflicts of the society. The media has a credit to keep its sources secret and to not harm somebody during their news gathering process" further states the petition.
"Therefore, the act of West Bengal Government through its CID and Police is totally unethical and unjust. It has created a big threat to the media persons especially for them who are visiting to various remote areas of so-called insurgency. Now, every body will suspect the identity of even the genuine media persons putting them at grave risk" says the petition.
The petition also demands a law in place to prevent any such abuse of media in future. Hope effective measures to safeguard media from any such misuse in future get in place as soon as possible.
[To sign the petition, click here or go to: http://www.petitiononline.com/wbmisuse/petition.html ]
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- Santosh Kumar30 September, 2009
The bengal C.I.D & police dept. have undoubtedly committed a serious offence by encroaching the autonomy of the press. I fully agree to the views and concern expressed in your article and in my opinion something serious should be done immediately to protest this immoral deed of police so that these kind of misdeeds could be checked in future. The police should try to build its own credibility & goodwill by controlling crime in their areas and should stop torturing common or poor people and should stop taking bribe and then they'll never need to use media's goodwill.ReplyDelete
-- Santosh Kumar
- Anonymous03 October, 2009
Journalism is noble profession but that's in document. journalist from media houses like star ananda, Bartaman patrika, Pratidin behave like spokes person of TMC. Whome do you want to respect. These journalist are available on sale. pay them money, they will write for you.ReplyDelete
i do not see why any political worker in Lalgarh or elsewhere should not be available to the police or the court. crime begets crime.ReplyDelete


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Police say four people are dead, including two police officers, following a shooting Friday morning in Fredericton.
One suspect in custody is being treated for serious injuries as police say they are continuing to investigate the deadly incident in the capital of New Brunswick. On Twitter, authorities made clear there is no longer a threat to public safety.
In a news conference, Fredericton police identified the suspect as a 48-year-old Fredericton man who is currently in hospital. Police would not reveal any other details about the alleged perpetrator.
Police say officers responded to a call for shots fired in an apartment complex, and that's when they were shot.
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Fredericton Police Chief Leanne Fitch identified two of the police officers killed while responding to the incident: Lawrence Robert Costello, 45, and Sara Mae Helen Burns, 43.
Costello leaves behind his partner and four children, while Burns is survived by her husband and three children. The two other civilian victims are not being publicly identified at this time, but police confirmed they are a man and a woman.
"Protecting us today, they gave their lives," Fredericton Mayor Mike O'Brien said of the officers. "As mayor, this is something I never want to have to live through."
Fitch told reporters she is "extremely proud" of the response to a "dark" and "difficult" incident. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) will take over the investigation moving forward.
New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant also offered his condolences to the victims.
"Know that all New Brunswickers and Canadians mourn with you," Gallant said.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the news "awful" and said the federal government is "following the situation closely."
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale told reporters in Sarnia, Ont., that the incident is "a huge tragedy for the whole country." He added the federal government is taking the issue of gun violence "very seriously" and has been for months now.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I stopped expaining myself when I realized people only understand from there level of perception." – Annonymous
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Point of view, perception, side, angle; they all mean perspective, and I'm sharing mine.
The mind mapping arena has been good to me; from my perspective, I call it visual mapping and I've used the name Visualmapper to define my persona within the visual mapping arena.
My angle has been one of using multiple formats (Visual mapping) compared to using a single format (mind mapping); visual mapping includes but is not limited to mind mapping and other formats such as concept mapping and flow charts.
Whether you're happy with using a single format or multiple formats, it's all good as far as I perceive this arena; no problem whatsoever, or is there?
From the perspective of software development; the mind mapping arena is somewhat successful. Regarding software names and capabilities; Mindjet, CS Odessa, Simtech, MindGenius, NovaMind and Xmind are a few that deserve to be applauded for their software development work.
Many not mentioned here; they simply clone what the leader such as Mindjet have developed and many indeed make themselves irrelevant to the furtherance of this so called arena, by way of their apparent cloning activities. And if the "other" developers merely have cool functions that add up to maybe a timeline or a different brainstorming capability; hmm, me thinks this arena needs a shakeup altogether.
Who the F**k do you think you are? You may be thinking this if you're one of the "other" developers. Well; I've been involved within the information management scene for some time, my genesis being within industry. I've used and abused quite a few information management products over the past 25 years, some are excellent and some are not so excellent.
From my perspective; the software mind mapping development arena is without a doubt indebted to Tony Buzan for giving them the initial seed of development motivation. Many software products though have struggled to get past the perception (by potential users) of the "stuck in a time warp" traditional mind mapping philosophy developed by Mr. Buzan. A note of recognition also goes to ThinkBuzan; the developers of a truly Buzan approach to software Mind mapping.
I'm personally not a Buzan mapper; yet I do have the utmost respect for what Mr. Buzan initially formalized, and for what it has become in and through the ThinkBuzan flagship product named iMindMap.
The landscape though, certainly is not pretty regarding the plethora (over abundance) of software products that have unashamedly claimed to be mind mapping product. It really is such a shame to see these other developers merely hijack mind mapping as an SEO advantage. But; hey its business and these other developer have the right to develop their angle on the traditional Buzan approach to Mind mapping.
Apart from what I view, use and write about; I certainly perceive the mind-visual mapping arena to be an arena based merely on what the developers create and release as viable product. This product may (or may not) be effectively used within the mainstream information management economy. A note about the "information economy"; it's real and tangible by the way we have aggregated data into information and further contextualized into usable knowledge. Information/knowledge has become the commodity of business success.
The monetary value (ROI) of the data-information-knowledge evolutionary (development) process has indeed been realized through many people, academics and organizations becoming aware of the power of becoming visual information managers; in and through the use of the tools, methods and Mindset of Visual mapping IMO.
There's a conundrum (puzzle) though; and it's one relating to why we haven't experienced a more wide mainstream acceptance of the tools, methods and Mindset of mind-visual mapping. After all; most developers offer really good, capable and effective tools for creating, managing and exchanging (monetary value) data-information-knowledge processes. The gap between fringe (where many approaches initially live) to mainstream may be read as a chasm.
I personally engage with many of the mind-visual mapping developers, and I must say the majority are definitely most giving and open; when it has come to giving me and the rest of my fellow colleague's access to their excellent product.
There has been though; an obvious lack of engagement from the developers to the user base (Voice of the Customer); and this has raised its ugly head as discontent (from a user perspective) towards the mainstream developers that cries "WTF are you developing; we didn't ask for this". So it seems to me (my perspective) that we've certainly arrived at an impasse of sorts between the users and developers.
This impasse has been revealed by the developers focus on merely competing with their perceived nearest competitor. This competitiveness is certainly not bad; yet it does seem to have thwarted further relevant development (evolution) of the needs of the voice of the customer (user base).
There are indeed devotees of specific software packages, and I certainly understand this sentiment. I have a couple of products I simply need to be effective, capable and competitive within the information management arena.
My specific point of view would be one of challenging all developers to take a closer look at their own product and asking a few cutting question such as; are we merely cloning the perceived leaders capabilities and functions, or are we creating functions and capabilities that are enabling a quantum shift in the human condition relating to information/knowledge management. If you're not enabling a shift in the way we humans create, manage and exchange data-information-knowledge; well I would challenge you to consider pressing the pause button and re-examining your positioning within this so called arena.
Merely my perspective and I would be pleased to publish your perspective.


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And now, several generations after the disastrous "Springtime of Vatican II", comes Luther's own pope, the pope of surprises. Who will tell him that these surprises are stale?
Fr. Bouchacourt – SSPX District Superior of France – released the following statement regarding Monday's ecumenical meeting in Sweden. (Link)
On October 31, 2016, Pope Francis signed a joint declaration with the president of the Lutheran World Federation, Munib Younan, in Sweden. This was to mark the beginning of what is planned to be a year-long "celebration" of Martin Luther's break with Eternal Rome. This declaration, in part, stated:
Through dialogue and shared witness we are no longer strangers. Rather, we have learned that what unites us is greater than what divides us. While we are profoundly thankful for the spiritual and theological gifts received through the Reformation, we also confess and lament before Christ that Lutherans and Catholics have wounded the visible unity of the church. Theological differences were accompanied by prejudice and conflicts, and religion was instrumentalised for political ends."
We have discussed the timeless teaching of Holy Mother Church regarding the Lutheran heresy recently, and will continue to provide more concrete and specific information on Martin Luther and his revolution in the coming weeks.
Communiqué from SSPX District Superior of France
Nov. 2, 2016
On reading the joint declaration which the Pope made with the representatives of the Lutheran church in Sweden on 31st October, on the occasion of the fifth centenary of Luther's revolt against the Catholic Church, our sadness has reached new depths.
Faced with the genuine scandal represented by such a declaration in which historical errors, grave attacks on the preaching of the Catholic Faith and a false humanism, source of so many evils, follow one after the other, we cannot remain silent.
Under the fallacious pretext of love of neighbor and the desire for an artificial and illusory unity, the Catholic Faith is sacrificed on the altar of that ecumenism which puts the salvation of souls in peril. The most enormous errors and the Truth of Our Lord Jesus Christ are put on an equal footing.
How can we be "profoundly thankful for the spiritual and theological gifts received through the Reformation", when Luther manifested a diabolical hatred towards the Sovereign Pontiff, a blasphemous scorn for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, as well as a refusal of the saving Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ? He also destroyed the doctrine on the Eucharist by refusing Transubstantiation, turned souls away from the Most Blessed Virgin Mary and denied the existence of Purgatory.
No, Protestantism brought nothing to Catholicism! It ruined the unity of Christendom, separated whole countries from the Catholic Church, plunged souls into error, putting their eternal salvation in peril. We Catholics want Protestants to return to the unique fold of Christ which is the Catholic Church and we pray for this intention.
In these days when we celebrate all the Saints, we call out to Saint Pius V, Saint Charles Borromeo, Saint Ignatius and Saint Peter Canisius who heroically fought the Protestant heresy and saved the Catholic Church.
We invite the faithful of the District of France to pray and do penance for the Sovereign Pontiff so that Our Lord, whose Vicar he is, may preserve him from error and keep him in the Truth of which he is the guardian.
I invite the priests of the District to celebrate a Mass of reparation and to organise a Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament to ask pardon for these scandals and to beg Our Lord to calm the tempest which has been shaking the Church for more than half a century now.
Our Lady Help of Christians, save the Catholic Church and pray for us!
Father Christian Bouchacourt
District Superior of France for the Society of Saint Pius X
Dear Readers, we know where this is going and we know that Our Lord Jesus Christ will not permit the destruction of His beloved Church for which He continues to suffer so greatly. There is no greater love than the love He has shown us. Having died to save us, He will not suffer us to be lost. The only question is how shall this happen. He has told us not to fear those that can only take our lives but to fear the loss of our souls, and this is precisely what we must save – our souls and the souls entrusted to us.
We will be mistaken if we fail to thank Our Lord always for allowing us to witness these times. Already, we have missed Our Lord's Passion, His Crucifixion. But, we are arrived just in time for the Passion of His beloved Bride, His Church. Many of us have been sleepwalking through our lives, unaware of the dramatic battle for the heart and soul of the Church which has been raging right beneath our noses for most – or all! – of our years. If we have nothing else to thank this Pope for, we may thank him for waking us up at last. Now we see what is happening, and we are not too late, no, we are just in time.
Our Lord told Sister Lucia that it is never too late to turn to Him, to seek His help with a humble and contrite heart. Infinitely gracious as He is, He condescends to us and asks if we will help Him. Can you imagine that?! Yes, let us take up His cross, our cross by His most loving mercy, and follow Him.
We cannot solve the immense problems facing the Church, we cannot even fathom them, but we can take up our rosaries, renew our trust in the merciful and wise Mother He has given us, and follow where our rosaries lead.
Updated entry: An excellent post on Eponymous Flower, which is appropos the Bergoglian Reformation is: "Oriented Liturgy: Benedict XVI Stands Behind Cardinal Sarah". This article is very informative!
Related posts:
Of Winter Figs and Falling Stars
The Chalice My Father Hath Given Me
Thank you for reading!
† Most Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.
† Immaculate Heart of Mary, Queen of our hearts, Mother of the Church, do thou offer to the Eternal Father the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, for the conversion of poor sinners, especially our Pontiff.
† Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us!
† Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Thy Kingdom come! Viva Cristo Rey!
† St. Joseph, guardian of the Holy Family, protect our families!
† St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!
~ by evensong for love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Vouchsafe that I may praise thee, O Sacred Virgin! Give me strength against thine enemies!


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Imagine a preschooler who owns a new car or has hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.
Picture a teenager with a yacht and several lines of credit.
Grown children around the country are discovering these hard truths more and more. And experts say it's all because of one of the fastest growing crimes in America: thieves who steal children's identities, often without the child or their families knowing it.
NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit found that many children grow up and find out they do own such things and almost always the result is bad credit, bad background checks, defaulted loans, years of headaches and lost opportunities for the children who had their identity stolen.
Research shows that the theft of children's identity costs families $13 billion dollars every year.
The researchers say most often the identity thieves are involved with organized crime and illegal immigration. They are the ones targeting children and stealing their information such as their social security number, birth dates and other unique identifying information.
Research by AllClear ID found that identity theft of children under the age of five has actually jumped 105% since last year.
Another study conducted by Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab, located here in Silicon Valley in Moffett Field, found 10.2% of the 43,000 children they studied through background checks had their identity stolen. The CyLab study was the first large scale study of its kind to look specifically at the identity theft of children.
Click here to read that study.
While that may seem like a small percentage, the Carnegie Mellon CyLab study showed that's 51 times the rate of identity theft for adults.
Ten-year-old Reilly Dennedy is one of those child identity theft victims.
Reilly's mother discovered her daughter's identity had been stolen 11 years before Reilly was born. Apparently, experts say, the thieves randomly selected and tried to use social security numbers that, at the time, were released sequentially, predicatable and thus easy for thieves to anticipate and guess, steal, then use the number. Since that time social security numbers are no longer released sequentially.
With the help of police the Dennedys discovered that one thief acquired credit under Reilly's name and another used her social security number to set up a utility account.
The CyLab research discovered that children's social security numbers have been used to buy almost every large ticket item you can think of, from homes in other states, boats, even to get loans and obtain employment.
Often, the child victim and their family never discovered who took their identity. That's what happened to Reilly.
"I don't even know who they are," Reilly tells NBC Bay Area, "That made me mad too because I mean, I'm me and there's no way to prove that unless I have that (social security) number."
"I tell you it was an emotional punch in the stomach," Reilly's mother, Michelle Dennedy said.
Dennedy also happens to be the Chief Privacy Officer at McAfee and the founder of The Identity Project, a website that aims at educating people about identity theft.
"Here I was probably one of the most informed people about privacy and identity theft in general," Dennedy said. "I had no idea that this was something particularly targeted to children. I had no idea that it could happen to my family."
The CyLab research shows the primary drivers of these attacks on children are illegal immigration participants who use the stolen ID's to obtain employment, organized crime to commit financial fraud and to help friends and family of the crooks circumvent bad credit ratings of their own.
"I think this is a growing crime because it is undetected," Dennedy said. "People don't really see the harm in it because there are not really enough penalties for the wrongdoers."
Experts say parents need to take charge to protect their children's identities, even as infants.
Hackers have broken into school computer records and medical clinics to obtain social security numbers to steal these numbers. CyLab's research discovered that there is currently no process or organizations such as employers or creditors to check what name and birth date is officially attached to the Social Security number and thus verify the person presenting the number matches other characteristics associated with that number.
Among the recommendations from the CyLab report:
· Creditors must do a better job authorizing accounts and checking backgrounds
· Parents should protect their children's Social Security number as vigilantly as their own
· Parents should educate their children at a very young age about Cyber security and protect their Social Security number
· Parents should regularly check their children's cyber risk and assess whether they may have had their identities stolen without anyone knowing
For more resources about protecting children's identities click on the resources below:


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So, my girlie has a personal blog.
I'll let you guess which one it is in my list of links on the lower right.
Anyway, we went camping for a few days last week and got to see the dog experience all manner of things for
the first time. Which prompted her to suggest I post about some of the funny stuff he does.
I then proceeded to tell her… well, you see I have what we call an "art blog".
I make funny pictures and talk about how they came about. I don't review movies or books I've read or talk about my weekend or anything like that.
It's about me- but about how the art I make relates to my life as opposed to just my life itself.
But then I thought, hmm, I can blog about my camping trip if I make funny pictures of it!
So here's a few:
That top drawing is of some of the awesome RV's in the campground- I think a few were bigger than our condo! And a couple I saw had little welcome signs and windsocks
and stuff around them. A few even had Dish TV's planted outside them- these folks were in for the long haul!
And yes, I did see one with a cow skull on the front, using a 2 mpg RV to tow an 8 mpg SUV with a few bikes on top like in the drawing. Nothing like dragging your house around the country with
Go Green!
That middle drawing is a pretty accurate picture of my dog Thunder after 2 days in the wild. The flies around him aren't to show that he's stinky (although he sort of was) but to show that well, there was
a ton of bugs out there. He was rolling around in all kinds of leaves and other filth laying down at our camp.
He gets this thing when we're camping where he's having so much fun running all over and doing new things that he won't stop when he's tired.
So he'll play and jump around and stuff until he's just so happy and soooo exhausted that's he's just sitting on the ground, panting and excited and fighting really hard to keep his eyes open.
The little chipmunk is there because there was a TON of them in that park- and he could never get one! And boy, did he want to. They, unfortunately, were watching him much more closely than he was watching them. He'd see one and get all alert, then lose focus or lay his head down or see some other critter and while he was distracted- a chipmunk would sneak right past him!
So it was a fun but frustrating weekend for him. One literally walked right around behind him that he never saw.
And then, there's the raccoons. Thunder-well, he's never seen one. And I'm pretty sure he would have liked to get a better view of the one that rather nonchalantly strolled through the next campsite at 7 pm the first night we were there.
So there you are- dog adventures in a nutshell!


text: We had a wonderful tour with Vianney in London. Vianney's love of photography comes through as soon as you meet him. He is an excellent teacher and is very patient. I learned more in a few hours with him than I could ever have learned on my own. I was able to also get some wonderful shots of London after dark and apply my new knowledge at other locations. I would highly recommend Aperture tours and Vianney to anyone looking to improve their skills and to get some excellent photos.


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Dr. Alexandros Manolakis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. Aſter graduating from the University of Freiburg in Germany in 2002, he received his Dr. Med. Dent. degree from the University of Göttingen in Germany in 2003. He was a visiting associate professor in the department of Periodontology in the University of Freiburg until 2004. Aſter attending military service in Greece as a dentist, he maintains since 2006 a private practice specialising dental implants and aesthetic dentistry together with his brother, Kleanthis Manolakis, in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Dr. Alexandros Manolakis is coauthor of a German Periodontology Textbook (Praxis der Zahnheilkunde, Parodontologie, 4th Ed; Elsevier, 2005), has published articles in dental journals and held presentations in various international congresses. He is an official teaching mentor for different dental implant systems and he is giving lectures as well as hands-on courses with live-surgeries in implantology, soſt-tissuemanagement and bone-management.
Areas of special interest include Periodontal Micro-Surgery, Computer-Guided Implant Placement, Immediate Loading of Implants placed in the Edentulous Jaw, New Materials in Implant-Prosthodontics, Development of Soft-Tissue around Implant-Restorations, Applications of chairside CAD/CAM in Implantology. He is an affiliate member of the European Academy of Esthetic Dentistry (EAED).
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