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"Idol Fatigue" a Factor in Success of The Voice, Says Prof. Jeff McCall '76
May 12, 2013
"People kept waiting for American Idol to be dethroned as the biggest reality competition show," begins a story in Macleans, Canada's national weekly current affairs magazine. "They didn't know it would be by basically the same show with a different title." The piece, which looks at the ascent of The Voice, includes comments from several media analysts, including Jeff McCall.
The Voice is focused more on music than its hosts, and McCall, professor of communication at DePauw University, says Idol has been "trending down" ever since Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul were replaced by "a series of what the audience still considers to be fill-in judges."
Jaime Weinman writes, "McCall adds that the format of The Voice, where the judges lead teams and have a vested interest in helping singers, makes it 'a warmer show generally.' It may be part of a trend on the part of the show's producer, Mark Burnett, who has moved from the cynicism of his previous hits, such as The Apprentice, to more feel-good entertainment, such as his hit scripted miniseries, The Bible. The Voice could be just another example of how audiences now respond to sweetness and light, rather than sourness."
In the final analysis, the professor says the success of The Voice may have as much to do with "viewers who were getting 'Idol fatigue'" as anything.
Access the complete piece at Macleans online.
A 1976 graduate of DePauw and a former broadcast journalist, Jeffrey M. McCall is the author of Viewer Discretion Advised: Taking Control of Mass Media Influences and is frequently called upon to discuss media matters. His op-ed on broadcast indecency was published last weekend in the Indianapolis Star and he was quoted in the April 30 edition of California's Orange County Register and was cited in the April 17 Los Angeles Times.
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From Dec. 7 through Dec. 11, Observer staffers will hit the road in search of the Key's most spirited decorations. This year will feature categories of condominiums of more than 100 units and condominiums of fewer than 100 units for first-through-third prizes. Condominiums, along with single-family homes and commercial businesses, can compete for the "Publisher's Choice" award.
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Headley determined to improve upon career year
NL Gold Glove and Silver Slugger Award winner at third sees room for growth in '13
By Corey Brock / MLB.com
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Last year, Chase Headley won National League Silver Slugger and Gold Glove Awards, led the NL in RBI's and pieced together one of the best all-around, single-season performances in Padres history.
Headley has his sights set on being an even better player in 2013.
The star third baseman arrived in Peoria early with a checklist of things that he wants to be better at for the upcoming season, aspects of his game he believes can still be improved.
"There are always things you're working on," Headley said Saturday.
In Headley's case, you have to look pretty hard to find them.
After a blissful 2012 season during which Headley hit 31 home runs, knocked in 115 runs and was probably the best player in the game from Aug. 1 on, the 28-year-old is prepared to use his time in Arizona to tighten up some things defensively while also cutting down on his strikeouts.
"Defensively, there are a couple of plays, specifically, I want to work on -- going to my glove side, working on the chopper double-play," he said. "It seems like watching film from last year that I bobbled that a few times or didn't get rid of it as quick as I wanted to."
At some point in the near future in camp, Headley will head over to the back field to spend time on specific infield plays with third-base coach Glenn Hoffman, who works with the Padres' infielders.
"As I was pulling the ball out of my glove, my footwork wasn't the same," Headley said. "I wasn't as consistent. I want to try to throw the ball the same way with the same velocity every time, so the second baseman gets used to how I throw the ball.
"If I get a bad grip or fumble with it a little, it throws his timing off."
In winning his first Gold Glove Award, Headley went from a -2.9 UZR (ultimate zone rating) in 2011 to 6.0 in '12, according to Fangraphs.
Offensively, Headley would like to be the kind of hitter all season that he was after Aug. 1, which means cutting down on his strikeouts. Once the July 31 trade deadline passed, Headley hit .318/.389/.632 with 19 home runs and 63 RBIs, winning the NL Player of the Month Awards in both August and September.
"Offensively, I want to be the kind of the hitter I was in the second half of the year," Headley said. "That [includes] making sure I'm aggressive from the first pitch, right when I get in the box, every single time.
"In turn, I think that will lead to fewer strikeouts. I'm not thinking about just lowering my strikeouts, but thinking about being more aggressive."
Headley feels like something clicked with his swing a year ago, something that's repeatable, from both sides of the plate.
"I think I learned a lot about what makes my swing work last year," he said. "Now, the biggest thing is to become the type of player I was last year -- consistently -- and figure out what I have to do to do that year in and year out."
As far as projecting where Headley will finish statistically, no one is concerned with that. Not Headley, not his manager Bud Black or hitting coach Phil Plantier. While projections of regression seem entirely fair, Plantier isn't buying it.
"It's fun to watch a guy figure it all out and piece it together," Plantier said. "I don't see any reason why this isn't going to be normal production for the rest of his career. Hitters evolve ... good and bad. Chase is doing things in a way right now where I think he'll be able to sustain a version of this for a lot of years.
"This is not a fluke. It's very real."
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Yesterday, news broke that that Sheryl Crow was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor. Now the singer is letting all her fans know that she really is doing okay.
She took to Twitter last night to reassure her fans that they shouldn't be concerned about her health:
Hey everyone – don't worry about my "brain tumor", it's non-cancerous. Feeling healthy, happy & working on my new record!
— Sheryl Crow (@SherylCrow) June 6, 2012
Crow is currently 5 years cancer-free after undergoing treatment for breast cancer starting in 2006, has admitted to suffering a bit of memory loss as of late, causing her to forget the lyrics of "Soak Up The Sun" at a recent show. But the tumor is benign, hence why Crow placed the words "brain tumor" in quotes.
The "If It Makes You Happy" singer also wrote a longer note to all her Facebook friends saying, "I know some folks can have problems with this kind of thing, but I want to assure everyone I'm OK."
The 50-year-old even lets everyone know she's not slowing down one bit. Crow is hitting the road later this month with a new band and working on a follow-up to her 2010 album, 100 Miles From Memphis.
She went on to ask for a different kind of support from fans in a later tweet:
Appreciate the love and support, I'm fine, really! Watch me on @TheTonyAwards this Sunday night!
— Sheryl Crow (@SherylCrow) June 6, 2012
Her upcoming tour kicks off June 16 in Enterprise, Alabama. And she just asks that everyone excuse her if she forgets any of the lyrics.
You can sing along with Sheryl when she comes to your town, check out her tour dates below:
6/16 Bama Jam- Enterprise, AL
6/22 Walker's Bluff Winery- Carterville, IL
6/24 Harrah's Cherokee Casino- Cherokee, NC
7/20 Wells Fargo Center For the Arts- Santa Rosa, CA
7/21 The Mountain Winery- Saratoga, CA
7/22 The Mountain Winery- Saratoga, CA
7/23 Wente Vineyards- Livermore, CA
7/25 Pacific Amphitheatre- Costa Mesa, CA
7/26 Humphrey's Concerts By The Bay- San Diego, CA
7/27 Humphrey's Concert By The Bay- San Diego, CA
8/9 Caesar's Circus Maximus Theatre- Atlantic City, NJ
8/10 Artsquest Center at Steelstacks- Bethlehem, PA
8/11 Boot and Hearts Music Festival- Bowman, Ontario, CA
8/14 Artpark- Lewiston, NY
9/6 The Center For The Performing Arts, The Palladium- Carmel, IN
9/7 Four Winds Casino Resort- New Buffalo, MI
9/8 Kent State University- Kent, OH
9/9 Wharton Center for Performing Arts- East Lansing, MI
– Shannon Carlin, CBS Local
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Although the first day of classes isn't until Thursday, Sept. 5, the residence halls open Sunday, bringing about 2,300 students — along with accompanying parents and family members — to campus.
Move-in Day, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., will be coordinated by about 250 University Housing staff and 450 student-athletes hired to help students and their parents move belongings from curbside into the halls.
More than 5,000 vehicles and more than 14,000 people are expected to arrive Sunday in Menomonie, according to Martin Fritz, University Housing. Sections of several streets in and around north and south campus will be closed or restricted, and some parking areas will be closed.
From 650 to 700 students, mostly fall-sport athletes and students who are employed on campus, previously moved into residence halls.
Students and families will spend approximately $250,000 at Menomonie businesses Sunday. Family members of freshmen are invited to 30-minute informational sessions at the halls after their students have moved in.
New student orientation also will begin Sunday. The Blue Rah pep rally and evening social is from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Williams Stadium, followed by comedian Ronnie Jordan from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. Various student orientation activities are planned Monday, Sept. 3, which is Labor Day, and Tuesday, Sept. 4.
The academic year at UW-Stout officially began Monday, Aug. 26, as faculty returned for the start of the contractual year. Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen's opening address was at 8:45 a.m., followed by faculty and staff engagement sessions until 11:15 a.m.


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Stuffing for Christmas
Yup, Microsoft always do a good job of channel stuffing. All those 'projected' new PC sales, with new Win 6.1 licenses are 'actual' sales this quarter as far as Microsoft are concerned.
Price discounts and high channel expectations are paving the way for a healthy holiday shopping season for Microsoft. In its first-fiscal quarter, Microsoft claimed its highest ever number of licenses sold in a three-month period. September was the highest single month of Windows unit sales ever. Given Windows 7 wasn't …
Yup, Microsoft always do a good job of channel stuffing. All those 'projected' new PC sales, with new Win 6.1 licenses are 'actual' sales this quarter as far as Microsoft are concerned.
A (generally) good and popular Win7 must surely be a kiss of death for the *next* release... ? Business and domestic users no longer excited by 'new' features and rejecting the 3or4-yearly refresh in greater numbers each time round... XP already good enough or nearly... Signs of market saturation & maturation evident in recent M$ results. Windows 8? No, I'll pass on that, thanks!
Do all of those Blista machines with their upgrade rights to 7 each count as 2 licences? That must make some difference.
I would imagine Vista SP3 will be quite a success. General comments have been positive from users, even users which you would expect to be fairly negative, with linux and apple users being at worst a bit smug about their systems still being better in certain respects.
I've never run vista, taking the micky out of my brother in law for being an early adopter of 'fistula' over the last couple of years, but I am giving serious consideration to finally upgrading our little fleet of a dozen or so machines here at work to win 7. Of course I'm also experimenting with linux, and I think that will continue, as the tools for interoperability with win only apps get better and better for us non it specialists who have to manage it resources. So for us it is a tough decision, whereas a well executed vista would have been a 'no brainer' - which is bad news for Microsoft, as a certain number of small businesses will make the jump to linux instead, and I very much doubt many will come back - 'free' is quite compelling, as is 'no vendor lock in'.
But at least MS is a consideration again, whereas if 7 had been another vista, well we'd have continued buying licences from ebay for XP until we couldn't, and then moved to linux - no question. Which for MS isn't just windows licences gone, it's office licences, it's SQL licences - we've already deserted exchange - but without windows the rest aren't even an option.
Win7 is a big deal for Redmond.
It's UKP150 for an upgrade! Sod that for a game of toy soldiers.
Channel stuffing is a bit like an addiction though. While you can keep it going, things may look OK, but the reality is that there is trouble being stored away, sometimes big trouble.
All these "early adopter discount" retail sales, the ones being touted as indicative of the success of Windows 7, are actually the opposite.They are people buying early because they know they won't want to pay the full retail price later. They are sales that Microsoft will not be able to profitably recover later.
Maybe that won't matter, because MS are still hoping to rely on their sweethearts in the Wintel-centric desktop and notebook markets (MS don't have sweethearts in the server market, and the netbook market is looking risky, and as for the non-x86 market, forget it).
"In the new Windows 7 era, netbooks will be available with Windows XP, Windows 7 Starter Edition, or Windows 7 Home Premium."
I thought MS would stick the knife into XP now. Sorry MS but it's time to stop faffing with 'editions' Home and Pro is all 'we' want to see, just make it easy ;)
"In the new Windows 7 era, netbooks will be available with Windows XP" *
* Available while stocks last
The only sad state of many netbooks is that their max memory is not 4gig!
Why the heck would they limit memory in a netbook?
I really need to find a netbook that can handle 4 gig of ram.
Anyone have a make and model#?
"Given this is the shop-tasitc season of Thanks Giving and New Year - a period that boosts revenues of companies serving consumer markets"
In the UK, we don't have Thanks Giving and we don't traditionally give gifts at New Year. We have a thing called Christmas (on 25th December) which is a time for buying lots of gifts, especially for family members. You should try it in America, I've never seen it mentioned in American sourced articles so I assume you don't have it there.
It started off as a religious celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ (Christ Mass) but it's turned into a simple, secular, booze, food and consumerism-fest. Whatever, consumer stuff sells in the run-up to Christmas.
How many licences are going to be double booked free upgrades from vista ?
Discount 50-60% and watch those licenses move.
Here are a few theories to bat around: if Windows 7 does well in Q2, then they left money on the table by discounting; Windows 7 is overpriced; Microsoft captured the low-hanging fruit and license sales move back into normal or sub-normal numbers; all the beta/RC installers set up great word of mouth which set up great pre-sales which will set up more word of mouth and there will be rapid turnover from XP/Some Vista to Win7/Some XP at full cost (Ka-ching).
I lean towards overpriced, but I'm biased because I'm sitting on my hands until either I have to upgrade or I can go from Vista Business Pro to Win7 Business for about 60 bucks or so. I expect deals that will get me to spend will appear in February or March, if not sooner.
Bought it.
It made me upgrade my BIOS before I could install.
It took 6 hours to install on a dual core laptop.
Except for the "transparent" toolbar I have no idea why it is not a Vista service pack.
Unless you are on XP and want a nicer interface then stay with XP. Most people get the
32bit version so it can't address any more storage than 3GB just like XP.
Operating systems just are not important anymore..."It's the applications stupid"
And Steve-O Balmer also just looks stupid.
...or any other Micro$haft OS - No thanks.
I look after about 150 PCs on a network and recently dropped MS operating systems in favour of Linux. All working well with much less hassle and without the pain of continually 'upgrading' on Patch Tuesday. So that's around 150 licences that MS won't be selling.
Mine's the one with the penguin in the pocket..........
A final peak from consumers believing the hype, then in a few years years an attempt to release version-next with the same tired old ideas, and that's it. I have come to the conclusion that Microsoft won't last more than the next four or five years. They are tired, old and out of ideas. Some mainstream OEMs are finally going to admit they are as sick of it as the rest of us and come out strongly allied with Linux for the desktop market.
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Chrissy Teigen: 'I Don't Want to Be a Bridezilla'
Chrissy Teigen is best known as a model and one of Sports Illustrated's star bikini babes, and her name is also attached her famous fiance, sultry crooner John Legend. But Teigen's turning her beautiful head in a brand new direction to make her mark courtesy of her other passion -- food. (A model who loves food? We know -- it's quite shocking!)
Teigen's showing off her love of all things culinary with an engaging food blog, So Delushious!, and a new gig as a celebrity panelist for an online food awards program called The Munchies: People's Choice Food Awards, presented by General Mills, Tablespoon.com and "Bizarre Foods" host Andrew Zimmern.
Wonderwall had a wide-ranging chat with Teigen about the food awards, her tasty blog, "snarky" Twitter posts and, of course, her upcoming nuptials. Oh, and there's something that John Legend might want to keep an eye on: Teigen's obsession with Padma Lakshmi!
Wonderwall: How are the wedding plans coming along?
Chrissy Teigen: It's a little bit nonexistent wedding wise. We have locations that we love, but most of [the planning] is revolving around food. So, if the restaurant [at a potential location] isn't good, then that place is completely thrown out the window. Right now, I'm working on dresses, which is exciting and fun in a way that I didn't think it was going to be. I thought it was going to be nerve-wracking and difficult, but I have such a good group of girls around me and awesome bridesmaids, so it's a really fun experience. I'm enjoying that now. I thought of myself as the anti-bride at first, but I'm getting into it slowly. It's just hard for me after watching all those wedding dress shows, because I'm very self-aware and I don't want to be a bridezilla, and so I go the opposite way. I think I have to pump up the excitement a little bit because he is, of course, very wonderful.
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WW: Speaking of John Legend, what does your fiance think of your food blog?
CT: He loves it! ... It really shows more of my personality. Sometimes I can be really snarky and mean on Twitter -- that's more of a boredom thing -- but my blog is more me; it's my heart and my soul and my passions. And he sees that. … And he knows a meal is not set down at our table without me taking a photo of it. He puts both hands on the table and knows better than to dig in before I get that photo for the blog (laughs).
WW: Your blog definitely shows more of your personality, it's fun and fresh and you swear a lot. Are you happy you started doing it?
CT: I've bawled writing the posts before. They go off on these odd tangents, and it can be therapy thing for me. A lot of times, it's not even about food -- it's about my anxieties trying to break into this food world, a girl who has no credibility yet but is excited about the future of it. [The blog] is such a different world from Twitter. It's such a nice community on my blog, so warm and nice. I'm so happy I did it.
WW: Let's talk Munchies! I'm told you had a hand in helping select the voting categories. There are so many and it's such a fun, comprehensive list. Are there categories that you are more passionate about?
CT: I'm such a reality TV junkie, especially when it comes to food reality competition shows. And of course my heart has been in "Top Chef" for many, many seasons. I absolutely adore that show, and I think it set the standard for food reality competition shows. I'm absolutely obsessed with Padma [Lakshmi] in a way that most people wouldn't be comfortable with. I love her! She's such an inspiration. One day I would love to judge people and know that much. I really look up to her, so she and the show get my votes. The other votes that were easy for me are tacos and burgers.
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WW: But I read on Twitter this morning that you might be changing your vote for tacos and burgers?
CT: I know, I know! The taco one got me because Torchy's Tacos in Austin is amazing! I went there during a music festival and I kind of doubted myself because I had been drinking. Was it just delicious because I had been drinking? (laughs) But I think I'm going to vote for that one anyway. … And I love a Double Shack Burger [from Shake Shack in New York]. That is a must. In-N-Out is an easy pick for people, so I went for the Shack Burger.
WW: As a model, do you find that you have to defend your love of food?
CT: I always do! My blog gives people a chance to see that I'm eating, that I'm at home cooking and drinking, which I will never lie about. I'm definitely a red wine drinker when I cook. The blog brings it all to life, and people can see the food that I love. I do have to defend myself a lot, but I'm also the first person to say that I work my butt off when it's time to shoot -- and I do. I cut all carbs out completely and I'm back in the gym. It's not an easy thing, but I don't think it's cool to brag about eating this kind of food without the balance of working out too.
WW: I can see you opening your own restaurant. Is that something you'd like to do? Or what does the future hold for you in the food biz?
CT: I'm too much of a stress ball to really think about opening my own restaurant (laughs). … I wanted to go to culinary school, but it was very expensive at the time, and it's still really expensive. But modeling is the more timely matter. I can go to culinary school at any time but you can't model forever. So, next step, I would love to have my own cooking travel show on Food Network or Cooking Channel, or just get out there more as a TV food personality, but I know that I have to earn my stripes and be more knowledgeable, and I'm ready to do that.
WW: Is that why Padma is such an inspiration for you?
CT: Yes, she has books and a show -- she's a mogul in her own right. And she's beautiful and she tells it like it is and she knows what she's talking about. That's important to me too, not to just be a girl that is talking about food. I wanna love it, and I want to really know all about it. I'm going to try and get there first.
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WW: First, you'll be getting yourself to the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend. I saw your tweet about Lindsay Lohan and Justin Bieber, who are both expected to attend. You encouraged your followers to keep up with your tweets from the event because of them being there. If you do bump into Lindsay or Justin, which one would you like to have a conversation with?
CT: Of course I say all this stuff and then I'm going to end up bumping into one of them. And I'm going to have to be like, 'Heyyyy! So good to see you!' That's going to be the hard part (laughs). ... We'll see.


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When I investigate this it appears that my mental fabrications with suicidal content are merely the surface layer of a deeper wish than just to be free from affliction. Beyond that is a desire to know what will happen to me when I die. If we wager with the Buddha about rebirth, we still have to take his word for it until we die. But it's worse than that. We don't even know what or how we'll know after we die. We don't even know if we'll "know" anything, as we understand knowing in this life. And even if we master samma-samadhi to the point of being able to direct our knowledge to our own and others rebirths, we still don't have ultimate proof we didn't just imagine it.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned MN 144 yet, the Channavada Sutta: Advice to Channa. Channa was a monk who claimed to be an arahant and killed himself because he was in a lot of pain. In the footnotes to his translation, Bhikkhu Bodhi doubts the commentarial (Majjhima Nikaya Attakattha) assertions that Channa's claim to arahantship was invalid, and gives the impression he thinks Channa was an arahant, claiming not only that the text itself implies this, but that the Buddha agrees. The translation of the commentary says:
Then Bhikkhu Bodhi states,He cut his throat, and just at that moment the fear of death descended on him and the sign of future rebirth appeared. Recognizing he was still an ordinary person, he was aroused and developed insight. Comprehending the formations, he attained arahantship just before he expired.... Although this declaration (of blamelessness) was made while Channa was still a worldling, as his attainment of final Nibbana followed immediately, the Buddha answered by referring to that very declaration.
If BB's right, the inference is that killing yourself is okay for arahants under certain circumstances. But an arahant has the luxury of "knowing" her destination is happy, although the commentators want us to believe an arahant wouldn't kill herself. And what about stream-enterers, once-returners and non-returners? Do they have the same "okay"?It should be noted that this commentarial interpretation is imposed on the text from the outside, as it were. If one sticks to the actual wording of the text it seems that Channa was already an arahant when he made his declaration, the dramatic punch being delivered by the failure of his two brother-monks [Ven Sariputta and Maha Cunda] to recognize this. The implication, of course, is that excruciating pain might motivate even an arahant to take his own life--not from aversion but simply from a wish to be free from unbearable pain.
And if Bohdi's assertions are correct, are we to draw the lesson to not be to hard on ourselves for having suicidal thoughts, desires, etc...? And if Bodhi's right, don't Sariputta and Cunda come off as jerks, e.g., more concerned with the validity of Channa's awakening claims than the unbearable physical pain he endured?


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Wurz returns as Williams mentor
Alex Wurz has returned to Williams as a driver mentor to Pastor Maldonado and Bruno Senna.
Wurz spent four years with Benetton before moving to McLaren as a reserve driver, before regaining a race seat with Williams in 2007. He has enjoyed much success racing sportscars, however, and won the 2009 Le Mans 24 Hours driving for Peugoet. He has now taken on the role of driver mentor and will begin working with the team at the Barcelona test this week before traveling with Williams to every race.
With Williams boasting a driver line-up with just 45 grand prix starts between them, Wurz said he was looking forward to helping Maldonado and Senna deliver consistently.
"This is a great initiative by Williams and highlights just how hard the team is pushing to optimise its performance," Wurz said. "Throughout my career as a sportsman, which started at the age of 12 in BMX racing, includes over a decade in Formula One and is still ongoing (racing in the World Endurance Championship), I am lucky to have gained so much experience.
"I grew up in a family business of driver training and naturally I enjoy helping fellow athletes to operate at their best. I'm really looking forward to using my expertise to help Williams at this important stage in its history."


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Proper etiquette calls for a man to remove one of the berries from the mistletoe before planting a kiss; once the berries are gone, the kissing is over.
Holiday Plant Lore
'Tis the season to be jolly -- and to attend holiday parties. Do you have trouble making small talk? Here are some fun facts about holiday plants to help you break the ice and get the conversation started.
Poinsettias are the number one flowering potted plant sold in the U.S., which is especially impressive since almost all of them are sold in the six weeks before Christmas. How did this tropical plant become such an important symbol of the winter holidays?
Legend has it that a poor Mexican girl, embarrassed for not having a gift to bring to Christmas Eve church services, fashioned a modest bouquet from common wildflowers. When she placed the bouquet at the nativity scene, it was transformed into a display of brilliant red flowers. Witnesses claimed a Christmas miracle and named the plant "Flowers of the Holy Night."
Joel Roberts Poinsett, the first U.S. ambassador to Mexico and a skilled amateur botanist, was so enchanted by this plant's colorful show that he brought samples back to the U.S. and began cultivating it in his South Carolina greenhouses in the 1830s. The plant was classified as a new species and called Poinsettia pulcherrima; the genus name honored Poinsett, and the species name translates to "very beautiful." Later, botanists agreed that the plant belongs in the genus Euphorbia (so it's now called Euphorbia pulcherrima) but the common name poinsettia has stuck.
Christmas Cactus
Another tropical plant that has come to symbolize the holidays is the Christmas cactus. Native to South America, the plant is a tropical rainforest epiphyte, growing high in the tree branches. Despite abundant rainfall, water up there drains quickly so the plant is adapted to short periods of drought.
Every wonder why your "Christmas" cactus blooms too early? It's possible that it's a Thanksgiving cactus. Although similar in appearance, they are different plants. Both Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera russelliana, aka S. bridgesii) and Thanksgiving cactus (Schlumbergera truncata) respond to the shortening days of autumn by setting flower buds -- Thanksgiving cactus just responds about a month sooner. To tell them apart, examine the leaf pads. Leaf segments of Christmas cactus are gently lobed; those of Thanksgiving cactus have spikes on the sides of the stem segments.
If your cactus blooms too late, it might be an Easter cactus (Hatiora gaertneri, formerly called Schlumbergera gaertneri and Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri). Look closely at the tops of the leaf segments. If there are small bristles, you have an Easter cactus.
Yule Logs
The tradition of burning a Yule log originated in Scandinavia as a celebration of the winter solstice. The solstice is the shortest day of the year, after which the amount of daylight begins to increase. Norsemen (Vikings) cut down the biggest tree they could find and burned it to honor the gods and to bring good luck in the coming year. The ashes from the log were then scattered over farmers' fields to bring fertility. Later, in the fourth century, when the Pope decided to celebrate Christmas around the winter solstice, the Yule log tradition was continued, but the symbolism began to shift. The fire came to represent the light of the Savior instead of the light from the sun.
Now most people are aware of the Yule log only by the 24-hour-a-day television broadcast of a burning log during the holidays (now broadcast in high definition for your viewing pleasure).
Evergreen plants were another potent symbol. They were revered in ancient times as promises of rebirth and renewal, because they remained green throughout the dark, gray winter. Evergreens, especially hollies, were thought to ward off evil spirits and protect a home's inhabitants.
In ancient Rome, people decorated trees with pieces of metal to celebrate Saturnalia, a winter festival in honor of Saturnus, the god of agriculture. The Druids believed that the pointy leaves of holly trees provided protection from witches and lightning strikes.
Mistletoe is a parasitic plant; it attaches itself to tree limbs and burrows in, robbing the tree of nutrients and water. A bad infestation of mistletoe can kill a tree. Where on earth did the practice of kissing under the mistletoe arise?
The first association between kissing and mistletoe is found in references to the festival of Saturnalia. Mistletoe was believed to have the power to bestow fertility. In ancient Scandinavia, mistletoe was a symbol of peace, and this led to the custom of kissing under a tree bearing mistletoe.
Mistletoe fruits were considered the seeds of life, since the plants appeared to arise spontaneously in treetops. The Anglo-Saxons observed that mistletoe would often appear on a branch where birds had left droppings. "Mistel" is the Anglo-Saxon word for "dung," and "tan" is the word for "twig." So, mistletoe means "dung-on-a-twig." Romantic, huh?
According to the rules of etiquette, a man should remove one of the berries when he kisses a woman under the mistletoe, and when the last berry is gone, the kissing is over.
And how does one harvest a plant perched so high in the tree limbs? Historically, I don't know, but these days people use a shotgun to blast it out of the tree.
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Oh noes! It's that weekly installment of overshare from (usually classy) New York magazine: the "Sex Diaries" column. Advice this week: what to do when you're a 29-year-old woman in l-u-v with a 19-year-old? Hint: "I ignore [his] call on purpose to seem not so interested... This is my tactic to keep him interested and wondering what I'm doing. [NY mag]


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Capitanich warns sanctions could be imposed against agricultural producers
The government does not rule out fining agricultural producers who refuse to complete liquidation of their gains as they await a much convenient dollar price.
In a press conference today, Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich stressed the government has got the power to implement fines "in order to generate the conditions to preserve the interests of Argentines."
"The main problem of the development of the Argentine economy is that those who amass foreign currency are not assigning it to the productive market," he said. "The small and medium producer does not speculate, because he liquidates as soon as he produces to go on working," he explained, adding that, on the other hand, big businesses "are able to keep the harvest."
The chief of staff indicated the government "cooperates for the agricultural sector's profitability" through several benefits, and asked "all those who have the responsibility of liquidating exports to do so with solidarity towards the Argentine people."
Capitanich along with several government officials is scheduled to meet later today with representatives from grain companies to "coordinate expectations and establish mechanisms of currency liquidation."
To conclude, Capitanich confirmed "meat business leaders are committed to take back prices to last week's values."


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Five seasons in, Don Draper seems less like a beacon of cool than he did when viewers began their journey with the Mad Men protagonist.
On last night's (May 6th) episode of the AMC drama, Draper poses the question, "When did music become so important?" He asks this in the context of his clients, who are suddenly teeming with requests for specific artists and songs to be used in the ad campaigns, but you get the sense that Draper is talking about more than just work. Culture is shifting, and so is music's role in it. Draper has not kept up. But it's 1966: The boat's about to rock on the swinging sixties, and Draper may want to grab a proverbial life jacket and seem less like "The Man." "No one can keep up," Draper's decidedly modern wife, Megan, tells him. "It's always changing."
This specific incident involves a client – men's cologne Chevalier Blanc – who want a shot-for-shot reinterpretation of The Beatles' "Hard Day's Night" film, released in 1964 (so already two years out-of-date). And the clients want a song from the Fab Four in the ad. After what happened with Draper's quest for the Rolling Stones' "Time Is On My Side" to be reworked for a Heinz commercial, he knows better and instead promises the client that they'll find a youthful band that sounds like The Beatles. Names are thrown out: Herman's Hermits, The Merseybeats, The Zombies, though the Zombies are dismissed quickly. The matter is put out of mind as more urgent plotlines – lying, cheating, the usual – emerge.
Finally, as the episode starts to wrap, we revisit the Beatles, whom Draper saw live just last season when he took his daughter to their legendary 1965 Shea Stadium show. Time to pick a suitable Beatles ripoff. Members of Draper's team play a cover of "September in the Rain" by a little-known band called the Wedgewoods, who admittedly sound a little like the Beatles. Out-of-touch Draper thinks it is the Beatles, while the hip new guy at the firm – Ginsberg – proclaims with utter disgust, "that song's like 30 years old!" Indeed it is: "September in the Rain" was first published in 1937, and was covered by the Beatles in 1962 for their audition with Decca Records, who infamously rejected them. This song won't work, and the group doesn't seem to know what will.
But that's not all for the Fab Four in this episode, titled "Lady Lazarus" (after a poem by Sylvia Plath). When Don comes home to Megan, who has just quit the ad firm to follow her acting dreams, she hands him a copy of The Beatles' Revolver, released just a few months prior to massive acclaim. Start with this one, Megan instructs him, and scampers off to her acting class. Drink in hand, Draper puts on the album's final track – "Tomorrow Never Knows" – and takes a seat, but he doesn't exactly turn off his mind, relax and float down stream, as the lyrics encourage. Halfway through the trippy song, Draper gets up, moves the needle away, and walks into the other room. Apparently Draper's not amused by John Lennon's song, which he penned after taking LSD and reading The Psychedelic Experience (co-written by Timothy Leary). Don fails to realize that it's even harder to keep up if you refuse to listen – especially when those around you are heeding Lennon's words.
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, November 14, 2008, 12:00 AM
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Military kids alter district's plans
Original post made on Nov 14, 2008
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, November 14, 2008, 12:00 AM
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a resident of Blossom Valley
on Nov 14, 2008 at 8:35 am
Is it me, or is this district always in reaction mode? The children of our military should be given first pick at any school, to include Huff, ahead even of neighborhood families. And these kids come with extra federal dollars per head to be spent specifically on them, a fact that isn't even mentioned in this article!
a resident of North Whisman
on Nov 14, 2008 at 8:56 am
I agree Steve!! What the heck?? Property rights for Bubb-yeah and Huff too, right... but the rest of us, well we should just put up with being moved around this district aimlessly so that people who buy houses across from "these" schools can get in. I believe we did have word of the military families coming back, and Slater would have welcomed these families with open arms. Hopefully the district will have some consideration of them and all the families that will probably move back into the Summerhill apartments, when they have a chance to re-open Whisman in 2011. Our neighborhood will welcome the military families.
a resident of another community
on Nov 14, 2008 at 10:39 am
Perhaps they should be looking at re-opening Whisman. The bulk of the military kids used to go there when it was part of the Whisman district.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Nov 15, 2008 at 11:39 am
Well, if they hadn't closed Slater this wouldn't have been an issue, would it?
a resident of another community
on Dec 15, 2008 at 1:45 pm
When they closed Slater the military was moving families OUT of Moffett, not in, and no one was saying they were coming back. Whisman school was mostly military families, but when the Navy started moving people out of Moffett back in the 90's there wasn't enough enrollment to keep it open. Now I guess they're moving them back in, but I don't think the Navy bothers to consult with the local school districts before making these kids of decisions.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Dec 16, 2008 at 9:19 am
I think the point here was that military families should have greater input and options, like sending their kids to Huff, and not that their problems are actualy tied to the services to which they belong.
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A CHINESE Buddhist woman has been conned out of valuables and cash by a "spiritual healer" who offered to bless her belongings.
The 64-year-old handed over jewellery and money in a bag to be blessed and was told not to open it for a few weeks so the charm could take effect.
But when she opened the bag a few days later, she discovered her belongings had been taken.
The theft took place last Tuesday after two other Chinese women approached her in the St James Centre and offered the chance to meet a spiritual healer at the Balmoral Hotel later that day.
When she arrived for the meeting, a third Chinese woman offered to bless her family's valuables and cash.
The Buddhist woman went home and put jewellery and money in a red bag before meeting all three women at the corner of West Register Street, where the theft took place.
Police are now urging anyone who can assist with their enquiries to come forward.
Constable Kris Harvey said: "The victim has been specifically targeted because of her ethnicity and faith, having been led to believe her valuables were blessed to bring her family good luck.
"She has subsequently been robbed of several thousand pounds of cash and jewellery and has been left devastated as a result.
"All of the females who approached the woman are believed to be involved in this fraud and local enquiries are underway to trace them.
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The bride-elect is the daughter of Paula Blackwell of Russellville and Gordon and Leslie Blackwell of Russellville. She is the granddaughter of the late Bill and Betty Blackwell, formerly of Russellville, and the late Euel and Vorea Tackett, formerly of Atkins. Brooklyn graduated from Russellville High School in 2008 and the University of Central Arkansas in 2013. She is currently attending the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Pharmacy School and plans to graduate in 2016.
The prospective groom is the son of Joe and Adelle Pruett of Conway. Luke is a 2007 graduate of Conway High School. He also graduated from the University of Central Arkansas in 2011 with a degree in accounting and in 2013 with a masters degree in business administration. Luke is currently working at Preferred Medical in Conway.
The wedding is planned for Nov. 9, 2013 at the First Presbyterian Church in Conway. A reception will follow at the Centennial Valley Country Club in Conway. Invitations will be sent.


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Heart attacks are the leading cause of death for both men and women all over the world.More than five million Americans visit hospitals each year with chest pain. The goal of the Society of Chest Pain Centers is to significantly reduce the mortality rate of these patients by teaching the public to recognize and react to the early symptoms of a possible heart attack, reduce the time it takes to receive treatment, and increase the accuracy and effectiveness of treatment.
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Oklahoma Tornado: League, NCUF Assessing Impact
Employees of Oklahoma credit unions and the Credit Union Association of Oklahoma lost property and had family members affected by the enormous tornado which tore through Moore, Okla., on Monday afternoon.
CUAO CEO Gary Jones said the association staff was on the phone all Tuesday morning with credit unions affected by the storm
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So why does riding down a slide with a parent have a greater fracture risk than if a sliding alone? Well, if a child's foot gets caught on the slide, he can stop sliding to free himself. But if he's sliding with a parent, the adult's weight may make it harder to stop or for his leg to be freed. Most of the fractures reported by the researchers involved children under three years old.
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It charges very quickly and doesnt need charging very often.
I tend to change the brush every 2-3 months, not because it is needed but because they are so cheap to replace; alwasy buy in packs of 3 rather than individually.
This is the best toothbrush I have ever had, it cleans my teeth brilliantly and I would be without it.I even take this toothbrush on holiday with me.If I use a manual toothbrush it is never as clean as using my electric toothbrush.If you press on your teeth too hard a red warning light will flash to let you know.This has five different brushing modes, although we don't use them all.It has a two minute timer so you know how long you should brush your test for, but I usually take longer than two minutes, which fine because the brush just slows down slightly then speeds up again if you want to continue brushing.
I absolutely love this toothbrush. I got it while it was on offer as it is pretty expensive for a toothbrush. After using it, however, I found that it is completely worth it. The smart guide is such a good tool. It shows which quadrant of your mouth to brush and ensures that you brush it for the right amount of time. I love the timer feature and after thirty seconds of brushing a quadrant the toothbrush stops spinning and bleeps to let you know that you need to move onto the next quadrant - which is highlighted on the smart guide. After all quadrants have been brushed which will take two minutes a smiley face appears on the smart guide with four stars. After two and a half minutes you get five stars. It's also possible to change settings. There is deep clean, teeth whitening, sensitive and polish. I also got three toothbrush heads with the toothbrush - floss action, whitening and sensitive. I prefer the floss action but when I had toothache the sensitive toothbrush head was a lifesaver.
My dentist recommended that I purchase one of these as she said it would benefit me due to its many features which include:
Wireless smart guide technology which tells you which part of your mouth to brush and for how long ensuring that you don't miss any areas and give each the optimum level of brushing.
It has an flashing red indicator that informs you on the brush with a vibration and smart guide visually, if you are putting too much pressure on your teeth/gums, this was really important for me as my dentist said i was damaging my gums with my normal toothbrush.
The oral B triumph also has a timer to guide you on how long to brush for (2 minutes is the recommended amount of time).
It comes with three different brush heads, a 3d white , floss action and sensitive. I found all of these were fine to use and gave a good all round clean, but my preference was the sensitive head.
There are five different brushing modes including daily clean, massage , sensitive, polish and deep clean. These go at different speeds to your preference.
All in all a great value if not slightly expensive electric toothbrush, if you keep an eye on amazon you can usually pick one up at the ''half price'' of £80. I you can afford it then i would highly recommend it as my teeth and gums are in much better condition and my dentist says she can see a real difference!
After being givena stern dressing down at my most recent dentist appointment, I decided to up my game and get this top of the range electric toothbrush to replace my manual one. Needless to say, this brush was expensive, but I got it on special offer and it has been well worth the money.
It comes with different brush heads - sensitive, floss action and whitening, and it also has a deep clean setting which I use once a day. I also love the floss action head as I have a bit of a phobia about using traditional dental floss! The smart guide monitor may seem like a gimmick but it has proven to be valuable. I didn't realise just how long two minutes brushing is - I think my teeth were lucky to get a minute with the manual brush! It also has a quadrant indicator which lets you know how long to brush each section of your mouth, and when to move on. I feel confident now that my teeth are getting a proper clean every day, and I can genuinely feel the difference from a manual brush.
It remains to be seen if my dentist notices the difference, but I definitely feel more confident about my smile now, and to me, that makes it worth every penny.
In our house we have always used Braun Oral B electric toothbrushes - myself, husband and kids, but it has always been the ones on the cheaper end of the scale. The Triumph 5000 was given to me for Christmas, which I was quite pleased about because I don't think I could bring myself to fork out well over £100 on a toothbrush - no matter how many bells and whistles it has got.
The toothbrush comes with a selection of heads, a base unit/charger, a timer (which is called the smart guide) and a carry case. The base unit also has space to store 4 brush heads.
I was pleased with the inclusion of the brush heads, as Oral B makes so many different types and it gave me an opportunity to try others as I generally just stick to the precision clean as I like the small head. Having said that I still consider the precision clean head to be the best.
My eldest daughter has fixed braces and I love that I can get a special orthodontic head for her, this has to be purchased from a specialist orthodontist though so there is a heavy price tag.
The toothbrush has 5 different cleaning modes which are accessed by pushing the smaller button on the front, it has a 30 and 45 second clean, a polishing, sensitive and a massaging mode. These modes interact wirelessly with the smart guide to let you know which setting you are using and the time for each quadrant of the mouth. I tend to use the 30 second mode as I find this works the best for me.
The brush and the smart guide interact seamlessly with each other, even at a distance. When you turn the toothbrush on the smart guide immediately starts to count and the quadrants fill up just in time with the toothbrush beeping to tell you to move to another quadrant of your mouth. When you have finished brushing if you have completed the required amount of time you get 4 stars and a smiley face!
However my favourite feature of this brush is the angry red flashing light that appears if you press to hard against the teeth, my dentist was always saying how I brush to hard and it was having a bad effect on my gum margins but I never was able to stop scrubbing at my teeth, until now!! It has really stopped me pressing too hard and now my gums are a lot more healthy.
All in all I am extremely pleased with this brush, it is suitable for all the family, my youngest child is 7 and she uses it with the precision head and really enjoys brushing her teeth properly so she can get her stars and happy face. All of my family have found our teeth feel a lot cleaner after using this brush, I have a feeling the movement of the head is a lot more involved than the cheaper models and this makes a great deal of difference.
Most of all though when we had our annual check up last week no one needed a filling and myself and my husband only had a very quick clean! This is what prompted me to write this review never before have we come away from the dentist without any work needing to be done!
The brush is in one word amazing, even so I really do not think it justifies anywhere between a £100-£200 price tag, if I were to have to get a replacement I would defiantly wait for a half price offer. I can't see myself using another brush for a good while to come!
I have recently changed from using a normal old style toothbrush to buying a new top of the range electronic toothbrush. Now this toothbrush is pretty expensive considering it is a toothbrush! But if you want amazingly clean teeth and comfort know that you are taking care of them properly then it is worth every penny. Excitingly the toothbrush has five different modes which cover cleaning, massage, deep clean, senstitive and polish. The brush actually alerts you if you are pressing too hard by beeping and it turns on a red light on the back which you can see in the mirror so it's easy to spot. It's very easy to switch between each mode and if you keep pressing too hard the brush will change itself to sensitive mode.
As well as the toothbrush, you also get a smart guide which connects to the toothbrush wirelessly and can show you how long you have been brushing and can keep track on how long you brush each part of your mouth for. It has a system which ensures you brush each quadrant for 30seconds at a time. As well as this, it also shows you if your brushing too hard just like the toothbrush does.
This toothbrush is very gentle, especially with the sensitive brush head which is good for me as I have sensitive teeth and I was worried about buying a electric toothbrush for this reason. It's real easy to use, it charges easily and it's great to keep track and make sure you are cleaning properly
For years, the family have always used a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, and whilst we always thought that it was good at cleaning our teeth, it always annoyed us that the little nocks and crannies in the handle and under the head would always gather 'gunk' and were difficult to clean. A few months ago, the battery finally gave out and I started to look around for a new electric tooth brush for the family. Now for a long time, I've held a passing interest in the Oral-B models and what they claimed to be able to do, and now decided to look at them in earnest, where this Triumph 5000 model sits at the top of their model tree. With its Smart Guide remote feature and an original selling price of around £160, I thought it was expensive and that the inflated price was just paying for the gimmicks that I wouldn't use.
But then I started to look at other points. This toothbrush was a Number 1 recommendation from the Gadget Show, and it has also received the only Platinum Award awarded by the British Dental Health Foundation for an electric toothbrush. On Amazon, it had nearly 100 reviews of 5 star rating. Just looking at the costs of running it and I could get 4 replacement heads for around £10, whereas 2 for my old Sonicare model cost me nearly £20. And when Amazon had this Oral-B Triumph 5000 model on sale for just under £70 before Christmas, it was pretty much a 'no-brainer' that this Oral-B Triumph 5000 model was going to be a good purchase option. Hence, with a few swift clicks on the keyboard, I took delivery of it from Amazon.
So what do you get? OK, for starters, it comes in a nice presentation box - but that's not very good for cleaning you teeth. But inside the box you get the control handle, a selection of 3 brush heads, the Oral-B Smart Guide, a travel case, a charging base and an additional base stand to hold the charger and four brushes. Now let's look at the key bits in turn.
Starting off with the brush heads, you get 3 different interchangeable heads - 3D Whitening, Floss Action and Sensitive. Now Oral-B produce a variety of heads for this toothbrush, each having different benefits and uses, but what I really wanted was something that would clean my teeth very well, and with the variety of brushes on offer, it can all become a bit confusing. I was sort of expecting that there was one brush for general cleaning, and then, if you wanted, another for polishing, a different one if you had sensitive teeth etc. But it isn't quite as simple as that, and I did a lot of research on the web about the different types of heads and what they could do, and sort of narrowed the choice for general cleaning down to 2 brushes - the Floss Action head (which is supplied) and the Precision head (not supplied).
Of the 2 heads, the Precision head looked like a small round version of a conventional manual brush, and I couldn't really see that it would have much difference in performance to a manual brush. However, the Floss Action head seems to get the better reviews, claiming to remove twice as much plaque as an ordinary brush. To look at it, it does look the business and it seems to be a combination of brushes, having 'micro-pulse bristles that penetrate deep between teeth for a floss-like clean and maximum freshness', meaning that it has a number of brush elements which are each designed to do different things, but all combined onto the one brush head. So this was the brush head that I decided to use.
Now let's look at the control handle bit. Overall, it is quite a stylish handle. At the top, you have the small paddle bit to which you attach the toothbrush head with a simple push fit. Down the front you have 2 buttons, a radio signal indicator and a charge level indicator in the form of a vertical bar, and on the back just behind the paddle brush attachment bit, you have a big warning light affair (more about that later). Switch the brush on using the top button, and the front lights up, looking like some sort of phaser or light sabre that wouldn't go amiss in an episode of Star Trek or Star Wars. So overall, it looks pretty funky, but it's the insides where all the wizardry really happens.
In action, the control handle moves the brush head in a 3D movement, moving the head in just about every conceivable direction to clean your teeth. So it pulsates, rotates and oscillates the brush head to remove 100% more plaque than an ordinary brush, and as it works, it cups each tooth to have the maximum cleaning effect. But this control handle has a few additional 'bells and whistles' to consider. It has 5 different modes of cleaning which are all controlled by the second button on the front, and pushing that once will give you a 30 second timer, a second time for a 45 second timer for extra cleaning, again to switch on the polishing mode, again for the delicate mode and finally a pulsating massaging mode, all easily selectable whilst you are brushing. But that's not all. Remember I mentioned the big warning light affair on the back? Well, if you try and brush too hard, this warning light flashes red to tell you so, which is then accompanied by a change in tone of the brushing motor as it stops the pulsating mode to remind you that you are pressing too hard, just in case you miss the visual sign. As a further indication, it also automatically switches the brush into the Sensitive mode of brushing. So it is pretty hard not to notice at least one of these notifications if you do brush too hard.
Now let's move on to the Oral-B Smart Guide which is the separate remote unit to give you an indication of how you are brushing. This is basically a small white plastic unit with an LCD display on the front. Across the top, you get an indication of what mode the brush is operating in (30 second, 45 second, Polishing, Sensitive etc). Below this on the left, you have the timer, which immediately starts counting the moment you switch the control handle on. Below that you have the star awards which link into the right hand display which indicates 4 quarter circles in a ring. As you brush, each quarter flashes, where each quarter is meant to represent a quarter or your mouth. So when you start, the counter starts counting for the first 30 seconds and the first quarter flashes. When the 30 seconds are up, the flashing quarter goes solid and you are 'awarded' your first star, after which the second quarter starts to flash (indicating that you should clean the next quarter of your mouth) and the counter continues for another 30 seconds up to the minute mark, whereupon on completion of that you get your second star etc, right up to 4 stars when you have completed 2 minutes of brushing across the 4 quarters of your mouth.
Now normally, I am sceptical about such additional external features as the Smart Guide because I always think that I am paying the extra cost for a feature that I wouldn't really use. But this Smart Guide is very addictive, and almost vindictive, where the whole psychology behind it is very interesting. Dentists recommend that you should brush your teeth for 2 minutes, and this guide tries its' best to make sure that you do just that, almost like angry teacher standing over a naughty school boy in detention. When you start brushing, the big bold timer is there on the Guide counting for you, and that is backed up with the flashing quarter ring, and since everyone likes to be rewarded for their efforts, the only way you will be awarded with a star for that quarter of teeth cleaning is if you complete the 30 seconds of brushing on that quarter.
You can try to walk away from it to another room, but the Guide still counts away and registers what you are doing whilst you are away because there is a long range wireless link between the Smart Guide and the control handle. If you brush too hard, as well as all of the signals that the control handle gives out, there is also a red light indication on the Guide to tell you to stop pressing to hard, and the device even shows up a sad face in the middle of the circle to show that it is not happy that you are brushing too hard. And just when you think you can walk away from the timer on the Guide and maybe get away with a shorter cleaning time, the Guide makes sure to remind you via that wireless link that it is still in control, because as you reach the end of each 30 second slot, the control handle stops momentarily and gives a beep to say 'now move on to the next quarter'. And when you've finally done all your quarters and completed your 2 minutes of brushing, it awards you the final fourth star and puts up a smiling face in the middle of the circle to say 'Well done'.
But whoa betide if you try and cut short and give your teeth just a quick clean for less than 2 minutes, because then you don't get your stars, and as you walk away and think 'I got away with it', you know that the Guide will be sitting there in the evening, staring at you and shaming you because you didn't get 4 stars when you last cleaned. No smiley face and no 'Well done', and you can just feel the Guide looking at you saying 'Get that brush back in there and give me another 30 seconds!!!'. It even works with my family to shame us because if we don't get the 4 stars ourselves, whoever uses the brush next can see that we didn't clean our teeth properly for 2 minutes, and when you're telling your kids to clean their teeth properly, and they see that you have only got 3 stars, it sort of embarrasses you that you are not 'practising what you preach'.
And that is the whole psychology with this brush. You have this Smart Guide awarding you stars for being a good brusher, playing on that feeling that everyone wants to be awarded for their efforts. It tells you when you are brushing too hard, and when you try and get away from it, the control handle tells you instead how to brush, when to move on to the next quarter, when you are pressing too hard. If you try and cut short by not brushing for the full 2 minutes, the Guide sits there just waiting for you to return later so that it can shame and embarrass you because you didn't get awarded all 4 stars when you last brushed, and even ropes your family in to embarrass your further.
It's crazy, but this Oral-B Triumph 5000 tooth brush with this Smart Guide really does make you brush better, and I can see and fully understand why it is so highly rated and why it has been awarded the only Platinum Award awarded by the British Dental Health Foundation for an electric toothbrush. It psychologically gets to you, and when you brush you teeth with it and couple it with the Floss Action head, you really feel like you are brushing your teeth the best you can, because that 3D action of the head really does a good job, cupping each tooth and getting into the gum line and between the teeth for that 'squeaky clean' feel to your teeth.
For years, we thought that our Philips Sonicare toothbrush was the business and gave us expert cleaning. But this Oral-B model is in a whole different league of cleaning performance, where it is not just the design of the system that cleans well, but the whole psychological thing with stars, visual timers and smiley faces that really ensures that you clean you teeth properly.
Without doubt, this is the best toothbrush I have ever used and fully justifies the highest recommendation I can possibly give.
Review also on Ciao under Randal1.
I got this toothbrush as a Christmas present a couple of years ago. It was purchased on offer in Boots and I have subsequently noticed that there are frequent offers for this toothbrush and £70 is an average price for it.
I had earlier models of the Oral B toothbrush but the Triumph knocks them out of the sink!
In terms of style, it is nothing out of the ordinary looks wise but is comfortable to hold and easy to move around your mouth to get to the back of your teeth.
The brush heads are medium bristle so just the right texture for good brushing without being too severe.
the toothbrush comes with a little monitor which tells you how long you have been brushing for and what mode you have been brushing in. There is standard brushing mode, massaging mode and a little bit of both mode.
even without the monitor, the brush vibrates in a different way every 30 secs so you know when it is time to move to the next section!
The brushing mode is perfect for every day use and i use the massaging mode when i am polishing my teeth with colgate professional clean for example which i use once a week for an extra clean.
Either way, your teeth are left feeling squeaky clean. I have checked that i am brushing properly by using disclosing tablets and the brush cleaned every last bit of residue away. I have also been complemented on my cleaning by my hygienist so it is doing what it says on the tin.
A couple of years into use i am finding that the battery is losing charge very quickly and i have to recharge every couple of days. If it is down to even half power you really feel the brush struggling. Time to invest in a new battery i think! i haven't looked into buying a new battery so i hope it is easy to find and not difficult to replace as I don't want to be without my triumph. I would have no hestitation recommending this to anyone
I used to use an electric toothbrush several years ago but changed back to manual. I recently went to the dentists to have a check up, all my teeth were good however i was brushing my teeth too hard and my gums were starting to recede earlier than they should so he recommended investing back in an electric toothbrush for christmas. After doing a lot of research, i chose to buy the £70 oral-b Triumph 5000 for christmas last year. Boy was it worth the money! After only the first brush my mouth felt cleaner and i started to wonder why i had ever gone back to manual. It came with three different brush heads, with two of them having little plastic flappy bits which get knocked about by the vibrations and helps to remove unwanted food lodgers in the back of your mouth. The toothbrush also has a built in timer which vibrates at 30 second intervals before doing a big vibrate at 2 minutes to let you know that your time is up.
What i found amazing was that the charging area at the bottom of the toothbrush was covered in plastic, as was the base unit which means that there is no risk of an electric shock should water be accidentally spilt onto it. This is a big upgrade form the old electric toothbrushes. You also get an electric timer which sits on the side in the bathroom which indicates which area of your mouth you should be brushing at the the given time which i found helps you to clean areas of your teeth which you may not have bothered with if you had a manual brush. The stop/start button is very robust and depending on the number of times you press it, it gives a different setting of speed if you have particularly sensitive teeth like me. This is useful because sometimes i find that the high speed can hurt my teeth when they're feeling extra sensitive but normally it's fine.
The weight and size of the brush is good which because i have big hands means i'm not fiddling around with manoeuvres all the time.
Extras that are included are the holdall for the brush heads which is attached to the base unit so you can tidy the away each morning and night without them touching the bathroom tiles or other contaminent-infested areas. The base unit is all dishwasher-able if it gets really mucky and the plastic charging bit means you can just wipe off with a damp cloth any muck that gets on it making this brush extremely easy to clean. All-in all a brilliant toothbrush which has reinstated my trust in electric toothbrushes and i probably won't go back to manual again.
I recently received this tooth brush from oral B to test, and on first use i felt it was much better than my standard old manual toothbrush.
It retails in stores at anywhere between £80-£160 at the moment, which is definately a lot for a tooth brush. It comes with a selection of heads, for different functions. One a soft bristle, another dedicated to making teeth whiter, the third for normal brushing, along with some floss for interdental cleaning. It also comes with a timer to tell you how long to brush for. The tooth brush itself has 4 different settings, for different types of cleaning; normal clean, deep cleans etc.
I've been using the polishing head, as like anyone else i would like my teeth whiter and i love it. I don't necessarily think theyre whiter, but theyre definately cleaner and i think over time that will change. Initially my gums did feel a bit sore, with the odd bit of bleeding, but over time i've gotten used to it and that has gone away. The brush will also stop working if you press to hard, and a red light flashes on the timer.
The batteries on the toothbrush are charged via the mains, but you will need to buy an adaptor to plug it into the wall.
I feel that this tooth brush is definately a few steps up from the average manual. It is made to give you the best clean possible, and you can tailor make it to what you need. For example if your teeth are in bad condition, you can extend the recommended quadrant brushing time, and you can change to head depending on your needs.
The only downside is the cost. 100 or so pounds is a LOT to spend on a toothbrush but im a firm believer that good oral health is a necessity in life, and as such i'm not too bothered. I do say this, in the situation where i have been given the product free of charge, and i'm not sure if i would've spend that much. In reality, i would probably have found a cheaper alternative had i not been given this one initially. However now i would replace with a similar quality model if required.
Well, after having no fillings for years and years a finally decided I invest in my teeth in this almighty toothbrush, I bought it near christmas last year in the sale- i also got my husband one- we work shifts so we use seperate bathrooms. i bought a big bundle of drush heads and it also came with plenty.
the brush itself is nicely made, and you feel you can give it a good wash without damaging it. i love the time indicator on both the brush- buzzes each quadrant and especially the sperate display, this is very
handy expecially if you are guilty of brushing too hard. the brush is powerful and lasts a good few days without charging.
The travel case is good if you do decide to take it on holiday. i dont use the stand i find it got messy and takes up too much room and the lid kept coming off. But the brush more than makes up for it.
you certainly feel you get a GOOD brush with it, and its hard if we go on holiday to use a manual brush,
it just doesnt feel right.
It does come in the box with a variety of brush heads for you to try.
This isn't a cheap toothbrush actually it's quite expensive at almost £170.
Amazon are selling it at the moment for £69.95
but I think it works extremely well at not only cleaning your teeth but also flossing them.
This toothbrush can do both of these things and more.
It comes with a bright blue travel case this is of great use when traveling because you want to keep your expensive toothbrush safe. The base that comes with it is made of heard plastic and is used to store all of the brush heads and flossing implements. I was happily surprised to see that you can actually put the base in the dishwasher. No other part of the set is dishwasher safe.
There are several different brushing modes, and you can use all of the oral B heads that are available on the market today. The most unusual part of this product is the little monitor that comes with it. This sits in your bathroom and beeps if you brush too heard. It also beeps to tell you when to change sides and then beeps twice when it's time for you to stop. This is really useful as over brushing is as bad for your teeth as under brushing.
It looks very different to your average electrical toothbrush. It actually looks expensive. It sits comfortably in your hand and is a pleasure to use.
I highly recommend it.


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Brownsville, Texas: Smallest sit-down hamburger joint ever!Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
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