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The Book
Soul to God
We are Soul (Continued)
Every heart feels the pull of God whether it recognizes this consciously or not. For those of us in the waking process, we experience a divine discontent. This growing discontent drives us to challenge preconceived notions held by society. A persistent, inner voice calls us to awaken—awaken to our calling, awaken to our God-Self.
This inner voice is like a mother stirring its child from a deep slumber. She bends down to whisper, "It's time to wake now." Our sleepy eyes blink open to see her divine face. She encourages us to remember why we've come here—what we agreed to do. After lifetimes of slumber, it's time to begin a new day—our Day of God. It's time to awaken to a new world, to a deeper truth, which can't be spoken or written. This profound truth can only be experienced in Soul awareness when we venture beyond all that we've known and believed, to surrender to a timeless calling, to learn how to enter into a deep, spiritual oneness with God. This truth encompasses all truths, holds all realities, and is the fabric of all universes.
For those in this waking process, truth sounds familiar, like the deep reverberating gong of an ancient Tibetan bell. We feel the Divine pulling at our hearts and ancient memories stir. Insights come to us that seem strangely familiar. Life is nudging us forward, encouraging us to enter into the next stage of our journey home. We step out of what once was, onto a path that mystically pulls us along. Our pace quickens as the long path winds through dry deserts and wild rivers, over mountains and through forests towards an open vista. We've shed all karma and fears along the way. Like old, tattered garments, everything that once protected us but is no longer needed, drops away. Our curiosity is piqued. We feel refreshed—renewed.
We intuitively still our heart and mind to enter in the Now—to allow the Knower to become one with the Known. Stepping out of the forest, we view an amazing scene. An ageless ocean of light greets us. It knows us and loves us deeply. It greets us as one of Its own. Our faults have no meaning in this realm. It's wisdom runs too deep to find fault. We judged ourselves and others from a limited state of being. All that is gone now. All of our burdens have dropped away. Embraced, we become suspended within Its divine bliss and transcendent love. The Great Compassion fills us. Our heart marries with The Divine's heart. Filled with this ocean of light, we marvel how effortless we love every being within all the universes because it's our nature to love. We are this ocean of love, wisdom, and mercy. We are God-in-disguise. As Soul, we've worn a cloak of a separate identity from God for all these lifetimes. We've journeyed through many worlds for eons of time, to return home with the wisdom of ages.
Our entire journey was a gift from a perfect heart to help us become spiritual adults. We once envisioned this as the end of our timeless journey. Now we clearly see that we have arrived at a new beginning. We've entered into an entirely new realm of evolution where we must re-enter life to act and maintain our being more consciously in God, to become the teachers and guides for those still on the journey. Divine winds fill our sails again to propel us forward into new adventures, in loving service to our brothers and sisters-of-the-journey. Our evolution continues—and in truth—never ends.
Each of us is on this path. There are countless souls ahead of us, behind us, and beside us. Highly evolved souls have been assigned to guide each of us, ancient spiritual friends. They are always near, speaking to us in ways we don't always comprehend. They work to implant ideas, bring about coincidences, link people to us and help pave our way. We are never alone.
As you read this book, I'm beside you now—a fellow traveler. We are walking together on this journey home. Let me speak to you as we walk, entertain you with stories that enlighten and ease the miles.
Let me begin by saying your viewpoint is sacred to me. I wouldn't change it. But I would invite you to open your mind while reading this book, to escape your life for a few hours by giving yourself permission to tune into a deep state of stillness. In that stillness rests the Source of all life, all love, all intelligence. In that stillness can spring an organic form of change the happens within the deepest part of us, then grows outward to manifest a more fulfilling, happier life—a friendlier universe.
The spiritual strength and guidance we long for is a heartbeat away. We just need to get-the-knack of relaxing our conscious mind to tune into the wisdom of higher thought—to tweak the dials of our perception to experience the consciousness of saints. It is possible to transcend thought and opinion, to enter into a state of pure being and knowing. This book is made up of stories about that experience and is intended to act as a meditation—a spiritual exercise in exploring your unique path to the Divine. The road we share is long, and we have much to talk about.
Our Divine Story
We live within an agreed upon reality defined by fears, prejudices, limited information, restricted ability to reason, desire for community, and need to regulate our society. As a species, our impulse is to organize this chaos. Throughout history, communities have created Divine Stories to give meaning to life on Earth and to provide guidelines for social behavior. According to Wikipedia, there are roughly 4,200 religions in the world. Within each religion, there are are many private interpretations. We modify our ancestral beliefs as we grow and learn. For instance, I was surprised to discover that my Roman Catholic parents had evolved beliefs outside their religion. In their late seventies, my mother confessed that she believed in reincarnation, but couldn't believe in karma. My dad, who was sitting at the table when my mother shared this viewpoint for the first time, was taken back. He then confessed that he believed in karma, but not in reincarnation. In my eyes, they were a perfect match, one balancing the other. So within our community's Divine Story, we individually evolve our own Divine Story as our spiritual growth outstrips the larger communities ability to evolve. This is an evolutionary process. Souls eventually evolve beyond the limited group viewpoint to finally enter into an understanding that does not separate through fear and ignorance, but embraces the whole in a detached, mature, compassionate wisdom and love—a God's eye view of life.
Einstein once said, "The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe." We can see many believe they live in a hostile universe. They are caught up in alienation, war, and fear of people from different nations, faiths, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and backgrounds. Their innate response is to alienate those that they fear, seek power over those they feel threatened by, and manipulate societal laws to acquire control, wealth, and power. They seek physical security through the acquisition of wealth, and emotional security by associating with similar, closed-minded individuals. They enjoy a false spiritual security within their religion, loving those who agree with them, while condemning those who look, feel, think, and act differently.
I believe the world is now going through the process of evolving beyond these difficult-teenage-years as large Soul populations grow into spiritual adults. We see the negative, fearful side becoming more agitated, as the positive, more inclusive side becomes favored, more free and expressive. The old society feels threatened by people who believe differently than they do. The more people that were in their club, the more secure they felt. Now that people are leaving their club, they feel a loss of power and control—and fear for their future. We see a dramatic polarization of societies throughout the world which, I believe, will be eventually resolved within this evolutionary process.
This process of evolution is not accidental. We have been genetically designed to evolve through the use of our binocular brain. Binocular is a term usually reserved for vision; two eyes provide two viewpoints to afford us depth perception. We can accurately calculate where an object is in space in relation to our body.
Our human brain could be thought of as binocular also. Similar to our vision, our brain provides binocular views for interpreting our environment and who we are. We have two very distinct brains, a left, and right hemisphere, that have two very different views on life. Our dominant left hemisphere brain tends to see the world as hostile and threatening. Its focus is on the past and expected future. It can not process the present moment without referencing its past and predicted future. It can handle only a tiny fraction of reality, yet believes it sees the whole clearly. It makes up our ego, our sense of identity, and can sometimes border on being stupid. This narrow view of life helps us focus on the task at hand and accomplish wonderful things. It helps us create the world in which we live. This part of our brain, however, has spiritual-tunnel-vision. It was not designed to perceive the present accurately or higher spiritual realities. It was designed to function in time and space, a four-dimensional reality, to provide a context to learn how to work and manifest our dreams. Soul's challenge is to grow beyond an egocentric world of alienation, the me-them syndrome, into an awareness of Its connection and responsibility to God and all life. In doing so, It becomes able to appreciate other points of view and find compromise in working towards building a better world.
Our Lifeline from Source
Humans have been thrown a lifeline from the heavenly worlds. Our right brains appear to be hard-wired to our higher consciousness self and God. This lifeline from Source links us to our divine purpose and Soul awareness. Its focus is on the present moment—which one could argue—is all there is. We lived our past in a present moment, and will live our future in a present moment. In the deepest sense of reality—all life happens within an eternal Now. But our left brain gets confused here because it needs to organize time and events sequentially to function. Its perception of time dominates our Earthly experience. Like my parents seemingly opposing viewpoints, our two brains combine to make an efficient team, able to learn from its past and plan a future, while embracing a deeper wisdom and connection to God within the present.
If we block our left brain perspective for a moment and view life through our right brain, we live in a friendly universe. We don't feel alienated from others or God because we intuitively experience Soul awareness. We tap into deep levels of creativity that inspire works of creation outstripping our limited past. The conservative world often devalues, and even ignores, our right brain's abilities to add meaning to life, to experience bliss, joy, compassion, and love. These attributes add no value to its bottom line. It fears an evolution beyond itself.
We function best by paying attention to both parents of evolution, our right and left brains. We can be mindful of the lessons of the past, while opening pathways for communication with our higher-self, embracing a sense of sacred oneness with others and God. The left-brain sense of separation and need to dominate through fear has ruled humankind since its prehistoric beginning. A new age is upon us. It's time for balance, allowing the sacred to work through us in every way. This new path can bring peace on Earth.
Our minds are not the originator of thought as once believed. Our brain acts more like a radio, able to receive different frequencies of thought from an endless field of consciousness. Our life is shaped by our environment, upbringing, and by any karma brought forward by Soul to create our life lesson path. Thought patterns are chemically imprinted in our physical brain simultaneously creating a signature link to our etheric sub-mind (subconscious mind). These create habits of thinking and perception. We activate these streams of thought simply by placing our attention on them. The thought pattern is immediately activated, and we find ourselves on the hamster wheel of that thought pattern, which can repeat itself many times a day.
We've all noticed our tendency to think the same thoughts over and over through the day. Thought patterns can become like ruts in a frequently traveled dirt road. Our thinking tends to fall into these ruts whenever we go down-that-road. Soul intelligence within us can break up these thought patterns. We can experience new thoughts, appreciate new viewpoints, and incorporate new thinking into our lives.
Most of us don't realize we have the ability to reach into more sophisticated levels of integrative thought. Higher frequency thinking is more interconnected and logical. It's imbued with spiritual wisdom. Lower frequency thought supports less integrated, has more conflicted perceptions, often based on fear. Higher thought can create harmonies such as music, poetry, art, and a more integrative, holistic science.
Our saints had the gift of being able to tune into thought frequencies that most of us don't experience on a daily basis. Those who know how to reach beyond their ego, to pray humbly, can do the same.
Prayer and Meditation
Prayer is talking to God. Meditation is listening to God. We need both for a healthy relationship. If we talk all the time and don't listen, we miss the guidance being offered and slow our spiritual growth. If we listen without talking, we become passive and fail to reach our full potential as creative beings. We need to combine the prayerful traditions of the West with the meditative practices of the East to become whole and balanced.
Our calling is to become the fullest expression of our unique, divine being. It's best to pray, meditate—and then create. It's best to dream the best that we can dream, and then be flexible enough to allow God to give us something better. Life works best when we recognize our divine guidance and are brave enough to act on that advice. To express the Divine is to evolve into fuller expressions of ourselves. We'll be healthier and happier. Our world will no longer be based on fear, but upon a love and wisdom that rests within the greater creative resources of our being.
When we meditate, we learn how to still the habitual, repetitious thoughts of our left brain's monkey-mind to tune into subtle frequencies. Prayer and meditation can tweak the radio dial from its regular, preset stations to receive frequencies many of us don't readily receive. In fact, most of Earth's population is unaware of their ability to play with the radio dials of their conscious perception so that they can remember their past lives, tap into ground-breaking insights, and experience a healing, transforming, life energy.
Mental Filters
We each have mental filters that distort our perception of reality. Some of the filters are there to protect us—we are born with them. For instance, most people don't remember their past lives because those memories would not serve them. Memory blocks were placed before we incarnated to be removed only when we are prepared to remember. Many memories are not constructive to growth until the Soul is stable in its environment and needs further information to proceed spiritually. In the final stages of our evolution, it becomes necessary to remember and heal from this life and all past lives, to remember and forgive everyone—especially Self.
Many of our mental filters are man-made, subconscious programs. We create these programs both consciously and unconsciously to protect us from a threatening world. These self-created programs are defense mechanisms designated to protect a false ego—our illusionary self. They also create a feeling of separation between our perceived self—and God. When these filters are suspended—even for a few moments—we can then see there is no separation between God and ourselves. This is a delightful, life transforming experience and at the core of many profound spiritual experiences.
These mental filters are like blinders on a plow horse; they block our peripheral vision helping us focus on the task at hand. They also block our spiritual memory, reduce awareness of a higher truth, inhibit dream recall, propel us towards belief in fear and alienation, and drive us deeper into escapes like addictions to food, sex, power, alcohol and drugs. The list of problems these mental filters cause is almost endless—but so are the solutions.
It's possible to evolve to a state where we no longer need to have our filters active all the time, to protect a false ego. Once our false ego begins to dissolve, many defense mechanisms fall away on their own allowing us to experience a deeper peace and connection to God with a natural impulse to love life. I'll help you recognize which filters are necessary and serve you, and which ones you can begin to deprogram, so they no longer interfere with achieving your life's contracted goals. One of the most important deprogramming skills is learning how to forgive, to let the past hurts be reframed and their influence on our life dissolved.
Exciting new techniques in hypnotherapy have evolved that can lower these subconscious filters under hypnosis, allowing us to experience an awareness of ourselves as an immortal soul, with memories of our past lives, and our life between lives. Hypnotherapy can be a useful experience to help us open up in ways our conscious mind is unable to. In fact, with the assistance of a competent spiritual hypnotherapist, it's possible for us to have a conversation with our higher self, our guides, and our lost loved ones. This experience of temporally having our mental filters suspended is a blissful, sacred experience. Hypnotherapy can be a tool to understand, reframe, and forgive the past so that we can live in a more energized, healthy present. We can also do this self-work on our own with some guidance. In truth, there are no shortcuts. We must do the work ourselves. We must lift our own weights to gain the strength we need for the journey ahead, and drop the weights that are unnecessary and have been slowing us down. We will then become strong and free.
My Life Story
I've always experienced life a bit differently than most. For instance, I've never feared death because I remember dying so many times and know what comes afterward. I know that I'm Soul, having his human experience. At two years of age, I recalled my life between lives, my friends and teachers before I incarnated, and how rewarding our work was. Those memories stuck with me but made life very uncomfortable. I felt like I was trapped in a dark world and was homesick for the higher realms. At five, I began suffering from frequent nightmares of a violent past life death. At twelve, I started having past life memories of my life in Tibetan Monasteries, Japan, and India. I've learned to hide my abilities and experiences so that I blended in. I was quiet, careful only to share what others were prepared to understand. I realized that they were not experiencing the same thoughts and love. Otherwise, it would be impossible for them to be cruel and not care about all life.
I chose to keep my abilities and experiences under wrap until the time came when I was comfortable, and I felt more confident that the world was ready to listen. I'm not completely comfortable with sharing now, or convinced that I'm the right person to be doing this. I'd much prefer someone like Wayne Dyer or Deepak Chopra write this book. I feel like I'm a bit under-sized for this task, quiet and less well spoken. But I've kicked-the-can-down-the-road long enough. As Wayne advised, we need to share while the music is still in us. I don't think I would be able to leave this world comfortably without writing this book. In a way, this book completes my life.
While reading Soul to God, I invite you to relax deeply into a stillness within and experience the quiet presence of a friendly being. Pay attention to the subtle inner nudges, and ideas that occur to you. Be bold enough to experiment, test your inner guidance, giving it a chance to prove itself. Don't worry about where you are spiritually. Avoid comparing yourself to others and don't be concerned about what you don't know. Be confident that what you need to know will come to you in its own time. Relax and grow naturally from where you are. You are in the most critical place and time—you are Here-NOW. Your path is unique—and you are unique. Rest in that.
The stories in Soul to God are not meant to convince you of my viewpoint. They are intended to entertain and be contemplations. They are not an accurate history of my life or lives. They are my honest personal perspective, and as such, personal viewpoints are always skewed by the observer. But my deepest belief is that I'm not the real observer. I believe God is the true observer through our eyes. That's the point of this book, to begin to see through the eyes of God and feel through Its heart.
At heart, I am a skeptic and take everyone and everything with a grain-of-salt. I have deeply ingrained memories of my life as a Tibetan Buddhist Monk growing up in a Lhasa Monastery in the fourteenth century. As a part of our study, we participated in sport-like debates in an outdoor courtyard to deepen our comprehension of Buddhist doctrine in order to advance in our studies. I loved the sport of debate and was good at it. I later became a Lama instructing debate traditions to young monks.
Within these debate exercises, I taught my students how to think logically, to challenge all viewpoints, especially their own. I emphasized that we take nothing for granted in our efforts to open wide the doors to comprehension and clear perspective. I believed these open doors led to the enlightened state—Nirvana. I confess that I did not reach Nirvana in that lifetime, much to my frustration on my death bed. My last thoughts in that life were that I must use my future lives to explore other paths to realize the one, unnamed path that leads to the final liberation. Some five centuries later, here I am writing this book after experiencing lives as a Shinto Monk, Zen Buddhist, Hindu guru and pilgrim, a Hasidic Jew, a Sikh, and Christian. I never dreamed the Final Liberation I'd imagined in Tibet was just the beginning of another stage in the ongoing evolution of Soul.
The reason I've waited so long in writing this book is that I am that Tibetan Lama skeptic who challenges all—including himself. I see things from my viewpoint while deeply appreciating differing views. I don't assume that my position is entirely accurate or the final word, so I'm very careful in expressing my ideas. I was born with an ingrained, almost fierce, need to challenge any viewpoint that appears illogical. In my Senior year at a private, all-boys, college-prep Catholic High School, I got wind that the teaching Jesuit Brothers had created a list of trouble makers. Most of the list consisted of students who had been in fights or suspected of petty crimes. My friend, who had seen the list while he was assisting a brother in the office, told me that I was number six on the list. The Brothers' complaint was that I openly challenged Catholic doctrine in Religion classes. I smiled when my friend told me this and inwardly thought, "YES!" Being on that list was a badge of honor to me. I dared challenge the prejudices of the status quo.
There comes a time in a person's life when they respectfully set aside the viewpoints of others to claim the freedom to express one's truth—and let the chips-fall-where-they-may. I realize my life stories are a bit fantastic. The coincidences seem implausible. One reason I've waited so long to write this book is that I wanted to get out of writing it. I felt that, if I were in your place, I'd find these stories too difficult to believe. I saw other, more capable spiritual teachers saying about the same thing in a more elegant way. I reasoned, my voice was unnecessary. Why risk exposing myself?
But that was an excuse—a delay tactic. I'm sixty-five, and I won't be around forever—so here it is, Soul to God. I remember starting to write this book when I was seven. I had about ten pages done when my mother asked me what I was writing. I told her I was writing an important story about my life. She asked me how the story ended? I responded, "I don't know—but I can't wait to find out!" She laughed, and I realized that I didn't have a clear plan for the book, only a trust and a sense that I had to write it. All my life, I've felt like I needed to document all the miracles that happened to me—not to impress or seek attention, but to share and invite the reader to discover the divine in their life.
And so, 58 years later, I'm again setting out to work on this book with a trust in God and some help from above. I'm uncomfortable calling attention to myself. I've always preferred to be quiet and work in the background, to channel spirit to others without them knowing. Now, I'm being asked to step up and share my thoughts, and stories of my lives, both inner and outer. I remember my guide, Cho-mon, saying to me, "We didn't put all this work into your life for just you."
Life-Nuggets after each chapter are take-away points. Like a prospector panning for gold, pick out the valuable nuggets you want to keep then drop them into your pouch. They'll serve you well on your journey home.
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Shenbagam Hospital was initially started as a clinic in the year 1967 and has blossomed into a hospital with bed strength of 75 with ISO 9001 2008 certification. The hospital is located in Anna Nagar, a quite residential area, closely connected to all the important centre in Madurai.
The hospital is headed by Dr. MACS.RAJENDRAN, MS., FICS. Founder Chairman. He is the chief consultant with 35 years of experience in medical service. He is a pioneering Surgeon and Endoscopist. The Managing Director of the hospital is Dr. MACS. R.SURENDRAN, MB.,MS.,Dip.,MIS.FAIS,FAGE., a consultant General Surgeon, Surgical Gastro Enterologist, Laparoscopic surgeon, and Endoscopist . He underwent training in London for three years and now he is the MD of the hospital. Dr. MACS. R. SATHISH, MBBS, D.Ortho. is the Orthopaedic Surgeon with rich experience in general Trauma and Accident Surgery and he is the Medical Director of the hospital. Mrs.S.Janaki Geetha B.E.[Hons] is the General Manager of the hospital. In addition to the above-mentioned doctors this hospital has its own consultants and visiting consultants from all specialties.
Shenbagam hospital caters to the needs of patient from all walks of life. It was the first hospital to have intensive care unit in Madurai and also the first hospital to perform renal transplantation in South Tamil nadu.


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On Monday morning, the watercooler talk among VF Corp. employees looks more like a Yelp review than the typical weekend replay. Employees chime in about The North Face jackets they wore skiing, the Lucy yoga pants they tested out and the Jansport backpacks they took hiking.
Steve Rendle, vice president of VF Corp. and the group president of its Outdoor and Action Sports Americas division, says this comes with the territory of being part of the world's largest apparel manufacturer — with $7 billion in revenue and a portfolio of global consumer products brands.
"We choose not to sit in our ivory tower and predict what the consumer wants," Rendle says. "We're fortunate that our employees to a great degree are our consumers."
A 25-year veteran in the outdoor industry, Rendle was president of The North Face for seven years before heading up VF's Outdoor and Action Sports Americas unit last year. Based in San Francisco, he manages a portfolio of eight, activity-driven brands, including three worth more than $1 billion each — The North Face, Timberland and Vans.
Rendle is tasked with leading the brand strategies that will resonate with VF's customers over the world. When it comes to front-end operations, he says there are very specific skills sets that help the company cultivate connections between its brands and consumers. The most significant is how the company develops its brand strategies: by making them a lifestyle. The company calls this "the art and science of apparel."
"It's that deep immersion into that consumer and understanding the consumer's needs and expectations of our business that helps us really fine tune how we apply our business initiatives to grow our businesses," Rendle says.
Here's how Rendle uses these strategies to develop VF's fastest-growing division of brands.
Dive deeper
The first step in developing a brand lifestyle is figuring out who the brand's potential customers are in the marketplace.
"It's taking an approach of first understanding who the consumers are," Rendle says. "The 'who' aspect is a very important part, and we invest a tremendous amount of money corporately and from our brands to understand our consumers through global segmentation studies."
While research from focus groups and surveys is beneficial from a targeted point of view, understanding a customer's lifestyle takes a deeper level of interaction, beyond a phone call or email. You can look at annual research or employee feedback to get ideas about what customers are going to want, but to understand who they are requires a deeper level of knowledge only possible through one-on-one interaction.
"First and foremost, we're an organization built of passionate consumers," Rendle says. "But that's not enough. We want to go into the marketplace. We want to think about our brands globally and do a lot of qualitative and quantitative research to engage with these consumers and understand how they think of our brands. What do they expect from our brands? And more importantly, how would they like us to communicate with them?"
Branded events are one way that Rendle and his team get answers to these questions. Sponsoring fun, action-oriented events that engage consumers allows the company to interact with people in environments that reflect their interests and lifestyles, giving the company a better idea of "who" they are.
"We're able to engage and understand how they're thinking about us, how they're thinking about this particular event and learning about their product needs," Rendle says.
In addition to the millions of followers that Vans and The North Face have in the digital realm, both brands also generate a tremendous following by putting on popular outdoor events. Rendle frequently travels with the product and sales teams to see how the brands are represented in retail, but also attends the key brand events to learn how they are connecting with consumers.
The North Face hosts its "Endurance Challenge," a series of endurance races across the globe that attract 1,000 to 3,000 runners per event. These races are a great opportunity to meet runners who fit the brand's performance market as well as hold mini "expos" for families so that they can interact with the brand, Rendle says.
Similarly, Vans uses its national Vans Warped Tour, a day-long outdoor music and action sports event to connect with some of its key consumer groups, from skateboarders, to musicians and BMXers. With a history as the original skate shoe manufacturer, Vans now focuses on the broader market of men's and women's footwear and apparel. So as the partial owner and operator of the summer concert series — the longest running in the U.S. — it draws more than 600,000 people each year and offers a direct line to its youth audience.
"It's a very impressive music-driven event, but it's also an event where we're able to touch the consumers and listen and learn as they interact with the music culture how they're thinking about the brand, the brand's products and how the brand is communicating from a marketing standpoint," Rendle says. "Events are a powerful tool to not only tell the stories of our brands but to interact with those consumers."
Ask the experts
It's important to understand not just who your customer is but also what he or she expects from you. Because there is whole host of running footwear and running apparel competitors for The North Face, for example, the brand can't gain market share just by resonating today's consumer trends today. It also must stay abreast of the running lifestyle and how it's changing. To do that, the company uses brand ambassadors.
Each of VF's Outdoor and Action Sports Americas brands, specifically The North Face and Vans, partners with teams of professional athletes to participate with the brands at a high level, engaging with different products and contributing ideas. The North Face has more than 70 such athletes active around the world.
These brand ambassadors help provide insight into what the brand's customers want and will want in the future.
"The North Face is the best example, where we have the mantra of 'athlete-tested, expedition proven' as that primary input into our product engine," Rendle says. "We can make sure that we're building the most authentic and technically relevant products possible that enable our consumers to enjoy their outdoor experience to the greatest degree."
Tapping brand ambassadors is also useful for brand innovation and product development. Your "experts" in a brand lifestyle can help you identify pain points or product ideas that you may not spot or study based on customer or employee feedback alone.
A prime example is when The North Face runner Kami Semick participated in a high altitude race in the French Alps. After nearly contracting hypothermia from the cold, wet environment, she helped the brand identify a key need for lighter-weight apparel to protect athletes from adverse moisture and weather. Semick worked with the product teams to design a new technology for the brand's fabrics that eliminates the distraction of moisture when during athletic performance. This year, the company is releasing about 100 new products featuring the FlashDry technology.
"North Face is the brand that provides the ultimate outdoor protection," Rendle says. "So we bring that thinking and that knowledge base into running apparel."
Concentrate your efforts
With global brands, you need to do lot of work to identify who your potential customers are. But equally important is figuring out your brand identity. To put it into perspective, brands such as The North Face are trying to capture market share in a $320 billion global market in the outdoor and action sports business, Rendle says.
Figuring out how to position these brands in the marketplace requires Rendle and his team to spend a lot of time looking at the macro-market to size up opportunities.
"That's building the business strategies using the consumer insights and the market intelligence to help us craft very clearly focused strategies that we execute on five-year basis," he says. "It's always the rolling five-year plan and looking very specifically at where those opportunities are to drive our growth."
Looking at the larger, macro market data, VF applies filters to examine the size of different opportunities:
What is the business doing specifically from a retail standpoint? What are the best ways of communicating to the consumer within those specific segments? Who are the competitors?
In this process, it's necessary to look at brand competitors from a very critical point of view as far as what are they good at, Rendle says.
"We're trying to understand what makes them unique — what are their points of difference and what things are more parody," he says. "Then we look for those white spaces where we know that our brand naturally plays or places that we should be focusing to look for incremental growth."
The points of difference are unique to your brand, whereas your points of parity are things you need to do just to stay in business — fit of garment, for example.
"It's not really something that we would own, versus a specific focus or an innovative platform might be a unique point of difference and gives us an emotional connection to the consumer," Rendle says.
An example is the women's yoga brand, Lucy. While Lucy was the first brand in the women's training space, it lost its way before VF acquired it in 2008, giving the Canadian brand Lulu a lead in sales and brand recognition.
"When we look at the difference between those two consumers — the Lulu consumer and the Lucy consumer — we see some very distinct differences in how she thinks, how she acts, how she wants to interact with her brand and honestly how she looks at those activities," Rendle says.
The company also uses its brands' leveragable platforms, or things that each brand does well, to position fellow brands stronger in the marketplace. The key is to utilize each brand's strengths, without losing sight of how each brand consumer — and consumer lifestyle — is different.
"We focus on understanding the brand's purpose and really understanding what we stand for and what our unique value to our consumer is," Rendle says.
"It's making sure I help those brands remain autonomous because it is those specific brand identities and cultures that make these brands successful. At the same time, it's helping them leverage the VF platforms to scale and access capabilities at a much more effective price."
After applying these kinds of lenses to see what a brand does well, you can learn how to build "permission" with customers to bring new lines to market where you don't have established expertise, Rendle says.
The ability to introduce new products to consumers is a critical step in making a brand's products part of a "lifestyle" the can continue to grow and evolve. Currently, The North Face is trying to do this with the footwear segment — using running apparel to break into running shoes.
"For us to sell footwear it needs to be uniquely different and bring some specific value that other brands are not," Rendle says. "Where we know we have permission to compete first is in the trail, so really playing off of that outdoor heritage and enabling consumers to run off the road and onto the trail."
The way the company creates its brand strategies is also changing the way Rendle and his employees think about the business, Rendle says. By creating brand lifestyles that resonate with consumers, the Outdoor and Action Sports Americas division has grown from less than 10 percent of VF's total sales in 2000 to close to 50 percent.
"It's helped us understand that this deep connection into the consumer's lifestyle gives us a unique point of difference, and a unique way of competing against the many number of other choices that consumers have to make in their apparel purchases," he says.
How to reach: VF Corp., (336) 424-6000 or www.vfc.com
1. Use events to connect with customers.
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Steve Rendle
vice president and group president, Outdoor and Action Sports Americas
VF Corp.
Born: Spokane, Wash.
Education: Bachelor of science, the University of Washington
What do you like most about your job?
I get to get up every day and come to work and participate in businesses and touch activities that I really love. I grew up skiing. I grew up climbing. I'm a very active outdoor user. I've dabbled in surf. I'm not a skater but I absolutely enjoy those people as much as I do those that I've grown up with. I get to live and play in a marketplace that I'm just deeply passionate about. To also build that passion of building success, in this case successful businesses that add shareholder value — I may very well have one of the best jobs in our company.
On his transition from president of The North Face to division group president: First you have to immerse yourself in the businesses. I'm fortunate enough that I've worked with each of these brand leaders as a peer for many years. But I needed to take a step back, remember that my job is not to only think only of The North Face, but to think about eight specific brands, their contributions to our portfolio and the larger VF. It is just to take a step back and forget about what I loved so much, and begin to understand that I have eight things that I get to love.
How do you regroup after a tough day?
My best tool for sorting out a difficult day is to get outside for some sort of physical activity. My favorite choice is to jump on my road bike and roll out for a long ride. No distractions. Just time to focus on the activity and subconsciously sort out my thoughts.


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You don't know a real Greek salad, "horiataki" as it's called in Greek, until you've been to Greece, or had a Greek make one for you. You know how sometimes you can find a, so called, Greek Salad in most all American type restaurants, well, I say "Bleh"! I'm going to teach you the proper way to have a Greek salad. The way I had it when I would spend summer's in Greece. After a long swim in the Mediterannean we would go to a Taverna and chow down, right before we went home for a nap! Usually we would get a bunch of small dishes and all share, a Greek salad was one of these dishes and ALWAYs included in our lunch times.
This dish is easy to make and a crowd pleaser because it looks so pretty. You can cut everything up the "morning of" and they will be fine sitting in the fridge till you are ready to go. Here are the ingredients for a large salad (and remember, a Greek salad should NEVER have lettuce in it--yes, I feel very strongly about that!)
5 large large tomatoes sliced into bite size pieces
1/2 a sliced red onion
1 cucumber also chopped into bite size pieces
A small hand full of fresh dill
Handful of Kalamata Olives
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-Drizzle with Olive Oil and Sprinkle with vinegar (enough of both to make the desired amount of dressing. Remember, your ratio of olive oil to vinegar should be 3:1, if you are unsure, make the dressing separately).
-Now bring the salad to the table and toss in front of your guests!
-And don't forget about one of the best parts! Grab your bread and soak up some of those delicious juices! Mmmmmm, I'm hungry just thinking about it!
-And don't forget about one of the best parts! Grab your bread and soak up some of those delicious juices! Mmmmmm, I'm hungry just thinking about it!


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Universalizing Secondary Education in India: Is SGD4 achievable?
The Education 2030 agenda adopted in 2015 provides a new international vision for education. Its main objective is to "Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all". How can countries best plan for the implementation of this ambitious and comprehensive education vision? This question will be the focus of the 2016 IIEP Strategic Debate series.
- Speaker: Keith Lewin, Emeritus Professor, University of Sussex
- Discussant: Jordan Naidoo, Director, Division for Education 2030 Support and Coordination, UNESCO
- Moderator: Michaela Martin, Programme Specialist, IIEP-UNESCO
The Education 2030 agenda commits countries to provide universal access to education up to Grade 12 by 2030. This goal reflects aspirations to ensure the right to education for all, to address growing inequalities at educational levels above primary, and to meet new educational needs. In India, the Government has committed to universalizing completion of secondary school by 2020. But whether this goal can be reached will depend upon several factors: the supply of qualified entrants; equitable access; a more efficient strategy concerning location, size, and operation of secondary schools; curricula reform; and questions of affordability, funding, and resource allocation. Using large scale research data, this Strategic Debate will identify both bottlenecks and opportunities which are likely to affect the successful implementation of the country's secondary education development programme.


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We have received some awesome hampers to give away to celebrate the launch of the SUICIDE SQUAD Movie
Each hamper is worth over R1000 and they include the following:
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DHS Vadodara Recruitment 2017
DHS Recruitment 2017 for Vadodara
District Health Society Vadodara DHS published latest jobs official notification for the post of Taluka Program Assistant, Data Entry Operator, Malaria Technical Supervisor Recruitment at Baroda DHS – District Health Society. So Interested & Eligible candidates apply Baroda DHS jobs read read full official notification and other details are mention below.
DHS Technical Supervisor, Program Asst & DEO at Vadodara
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Who is looking for a suitable protective case for the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus and cannot decide, then we would like to recommend the cases of the company Spigen.
Spigen produced for some years cases for smartphones and offers significant quality features:
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A word or two on gratitude...
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talk, this one is about gratitude by Louie Schwartzberg. It is visually stunning as well as thought-provoking... watch it and see for yourself.
Two other great talks I've seen in recent times are by:
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text: Journal of the International Academy of Periodontology 2017 19/4: 138–144 Efficacy of Two Pre-Procedural Rinses at Two Different Temperatures in Reducing Aerosol Contamination Produced During Ultrasonic Scaling in a Dental Set-up - A Microbiological Study Amruta Arun Joshi, Ashvini Mukul Padhye and Himani Swatantrakumar Gupta Department of Periodontics, MGM Dental College and Hospital, Navi Mumbai, India Abstract Aerosol has been considered one of the main concerns in the dental community because of possible risk of infection transmission. Antiseptics used in the form of pre-procedural rinses can reduce aerosol contamination during dental procedures. The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare the efficacy of 0.05% cetylpyridinium chloride and 0.2% chlorhexidine pre-procedural rinses at 47ºC and 18ºC in reducing aerosol contamination during ultrasonic scaling procedures. Forty subjects were divided randomly and equally into four groups: A1 and A2 to receive cetylpyridinium chloride and B1 and B2 to receive chlorhexidine as a preprocedural rinses. Aerosol produced during the ultrasonic scaling procedure was collected on blood agar plates at three different locations, which were incubated at 37ºC for 48 hours and analysed for bacterial colony forming units (CFU). Cetylpyridinium chloride (0.05%) as a pre-procedural rinse was found to be equally effective in reducing aerosol contamination when compared with 0.2% chlorhexidine rinse (p > 0.05). Also, greater reduction of CFU was found with the use of tempered rinses at 47ºC with a highly statistically significant difference (p < 0.001). Cetylpyridinium chloride (0.05%) can be considered as a promising alternative to the gold standard 0.2% chlorhexidine, with tempering the rinse showing the definite edge. Keywords: Aerosol, pre-procedural mouthrinse, cetylpyridinium chloride, chlorhexidine, ultrasonic scaling, temperature Introduction Aerosols emanating from human fluids and medical procedures are solid or liquid particles, ranging in size from sub- to multi-micrometre, that are suspended in a gas (Occupation Safety and Health Administration). Harrel et al. (1998), Harrel (2004) and Saini (2015) stated that dental aerosols produced with the use of high speed hand pieces, ultrasonic scalers, air polishing devices and abrasion units, are complex and dynamic, wherein some particles are projected onto surfaces, Correspondence to: Amruta Arun Joshi, Department of Periodontics, MGM Dental College and Hospital, Junction of NH4 and Sion-Panvel Highway, Sector 1, Kamothe – 410209, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Phone: +919619140326; E-mail: email@example.com © International Academy of Periodontology some settle due to gravity, and others can remain suspended in the air for long periods of time. Elevated levels of these contaminants present in the aerosol have been found during ultrasonic scaling procedures that may get inhaled and transported to alveoli. This process could result in respiratory problems and increase the risk of transmission of tuberculosis, severe acute respiratory syndrome, avian flu and herpetic infections from patients to health care workers (Barbeau 2000; Harrel, 2004). Worrall et al. (1987), Harrel (1996) and Gupta et al. (2014) inferred that use of a pre-procedural antimicrobial mouthrinse may decrease the microbial aerosol contamination to a great extent. According to Lyle (2000), chlorhexidine (CHX) is considered the gold standard rinse due to its broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity and high substantivity. However, CHX presents side effects such as temporary loss of taste, staining of teeth, dryness and soreness of mucosa, and bitter taste. Joshi et al.: Effect of disinfectant temperature on the reduction of aerosol contamination during ultrasonic scaling Therefore, a need arises for evaluation of other equally effective antimicrobial rinses. Albert-Kiszely et al. (2007) and Silva et al. (2009) found that cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC), a member of the quaternary ammonium compound family, is an effective anti-plaque and anti-gingivitis agent. It is monocationic at oral pH that permits dual retention in the oral environment, as both surfactant chains and cationic charges may adsorb to intraoral surfaces, which are lipophilic and anionic. CPC acts primarily by penetrating the bacterial cell membrane, causing leakage of cell components, disruption of bacterial metabolism, inhibition of cell growth and finally cell death (Quirynen et al., 2005) Complementarily, Konig (2002) demonstrated that temperature appears to be a key determinant in altering the kinetics of the active ingredient in a mouthrinse. Tempering 0.2% CHX rinse to 47ºC demonstrated significantly more intensive anti-plaque effect as compared to the solution cooled at 18ºC. In a previous study by Reddy et al. (2012), tempered 0.2% CHX demonstrated reduced bacterial counts in dental aerosols when compared to that of non-tempered CHX and sterile water. A vista that remains to be explored is modulating the temperature/concentration of CPC for enhancing its antimicrobial activity when used as a pre-procedural rinse. Hence, this study attempts to evaluate and compare the efficacy of two pre-procedural mouth rinses containing 0.05% CPC and 0.2% CHX at two different temperatures of 47ºC and 18ºC in reducing aerosol contamination during ultrasonic scaling procedure. Materials and methods This single-centre, double-masked, randomized, prospective, four-group parallel designed study was conducted over a period of 60 days. From September 2015 to October 2015, 40 patients (28 males and 12 females, mean age 32.5 years) were recruited. The patients were included if they had a minimum of 20 natural teeth present, excluding third molars, diagnosed with chronic gingivitis having a sulcus probing depth of ≤ 3 mm, modified gingival index ≥ 1 (Lobene et al., 1986) and gingival bleeding index > 30% of the sites examined (Ainamo and Bay, 1975). Exclusion criteria were history of known allergies to constituents found in conventional mouthrinses, patients with untreated/grossly carious teeth, those who had undergone non-surgical or surgical periodontal therapy and antibiotic and/or anti-inflammatory therapy within the past 6 months. Systemically compromised patients and pregnant and lactating women were also excluded. The study was carried out in accordance with 'The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association' (Declaration of Helsinki, 64th WMA General Assembly, Fortaleza, Brazil, October 2013) for experiments involving humans and the protocol was approved by the Institutional Ethics Review Committee of Mahatma Gandhi 139 Mission's Dental College and hospital, Navi Mumbai and a detailed informed consent was obtained from the 40 empirically selected patients. Two commercially available solutions of 0.05% of CPC mouthwash (Colgate Plax® Colgate Palmolive Ltd, Mumbai, India) and 0.2% CHX mouthwash (Hexidine® ICPA Health Products Ltd, Ankleshwar, India) were procured from manufacturers and were transferred into identical opaque white bottles labelled as A1, B1, A2 and B2 for the purpose of blinding, by an investigator not involved in the study. The identity of the samples was revealed at the completion of the study. To calculate the sample size at 80% power, the level of significance was set at 0.05, to detect a standard deviation (SD) in CFU counts of 18.80 (Konig, 2002) with a ratio of sample sizes in both groups equal to 1. These data, when analyzed by MedCalc Statistical Software version 13.3.1 (MedCalc Software bvba, Ostend, Belgium; http://www.medcalc. org; 2015) yielded a sample size of 10 per group. Computer-generated random numbers were used for randomization, and 40 patients were divided into four groups of 10 each as follows: Group A1 - warm 0.05% CPC (47ºC); Group B1 - warm 0.2% CHX (47ºC); Group A2 - cold 0.05% CPC (18ºC); Group B2 - cold 0.2% CHX (18ºC). For tempering the rinses to 47ºC, 10 mL of specified mouthwash was heated in a calibrated beaker in a thermostatically regulated water bath. Similarly, the solutions were cooled to 18ºC using a portable cooler (Lab Hosp Corporation, Kalbadevi, Mumbai, India). All patients were asked to rinse with 10 mL of the assigned rinse for 60 seconds, 10 minutes prior to the ultrasonic scaling procedure. Prior to each appointment, a closed operatory was fumigated using 34% formaldehyde and all surfaces were disinfected with 70% isopropyl alcohol (A.B Enterprises, Mumbai). Only one patient was treated per day by the same right handed operator for the entire span of the study, so as to allow the room to be free of aerosols. At the beginning and end of the treatment, the ultrasonic scaler unit (SUPRASSON® P5 Booster, France) was flushed with 0.5% sodium hypochlorite (Clorox disinfectant cleaner) for 10 minutes to ensure disinfection of water lines. Oral prophylaxis for all of the study participants was carried out in a standardized dental chair using distilled water with controlled frequency (30 KHz) and water pressure (0.3 MPa). No person other than the patient, the operator and the assistant was allowed in the vicinity of the operatory within the diameter of four feet to avoid contamination of the operating field. Blood agar plates, used to collect airborne microorganisms were prepared as instructed by the manufacturer (Micro Master Labs Pvt Ltd, Thane, Maharashtra, India). Briefly, blood agar base was sterilized at 121ºC for 15 minutes and then cooled to 50ºC in a water bath to which 5% sterile sheep blood was added aseptically. 140 Journal of the International Academy of Periodontology (2017) 19/4 This was dispensed in sterile petri plates and stored at 2 - 8ºC until further use. The blood agar plates mounted firmly on a board were suspended with strings around the necks of the patient, the assistant and the operator, such that it rested on their chests at a standardized distance of 12 inches from the patient's mouth with the philtrum of the upper lip serving as a fixed reference point, as shown in Figure 1. These plates were labelled as P, A and O respectively. The labelled plates were exposed at the start of the scaling procedure performed for a duration of 30 minutes, and were left uncovered on the operator's stool, assistant's stool and the back rest of the dental chair for additional 30 minutes to collect samples of any aerosolized bacteria. These were then closed with a lid and placed upside down to prevent contamination of blood agar with the moisture on the under surface of the lid. The plates were incubated at 37º C for 48 hours to facilitate the growth of micro-organisms, following which they were analyzed for bacterial colony forming units (CFUs) using a colony counter (Lab Line Stock Centre, Mumbai, India). Statistical analysis Data analysis was done using 'MedCalc Statistical Software' version 13.3.1 (MedCalc Software Bvba, Ostend, Belgium). Scores were averaged for age, number of teeth present, MGI and GBI across all groups. All variables were expressed as mean with standard error. The averaged values were tested for normality using the Kolmogorov Smirnov test. The data presented normality and the parametric test of analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA) was used to find which pairs differed significantly with respect to temperature difference. Intergroup comparisons were done using unpaired ttests at p < 0.05. Results The non-compliance rate for our study was zero and there were no dropouts. Table 1 represents demographic characteristics of the sampled population. Figure 2 demonstrates mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM) CFU counts for all groups at three different locations, namely the chest areas of patient (P), assistant (A) and operator (O). Among all the groups, the patients' chest area of group A2 demonstrated maximum mean CFU counts (103.60 ± 4.08) while the assistant's chest area of group B1 showed the lowest counts (38.50 ± 2.20). On applying an unpaired t-test to compare groups A2 and B2, a statistically significant difference was found for the assistant's chest area location (p = 0.02). However, no statistical difference (p > 0.05) was found on intergroup comparison for all other locations, thereby proving that both mouthrinses were equally effective irrespective of the temperature difference (Table 2). Table 3 represents multiple comparisons using ANCOVA performed to find out which pairs differed significantly at the 5% level of significance with respect to temperature. A highly statistically significant difference was found on comparing group A1 with A2 and B1 with B2 (p < 0.001). Table 1: Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of the four groups. Subjects Group Group Group Group p value A1 A2 B1 B2 Age 32.5 Males/females 7/3 Number of 26.52 teeth MGI 2.5 GBI 46% 32.7 32.64 33.0 NS 6/4 7/3 8/2 NS 27.24 27.11 26.83 NS 2.7 49% 2.3 47% 2.5 43% NS NS NS, not statistically significantly different; MGI, modified gingival index; GBI, gingival bleeding index. Figure 1. The position of the blood agar plates at three different locations, namely the chest areas of the patient (P), operator (O) and assistant (A). Joshi et al.: Effect of disinfectant temperature on the reduction of aerosol contamination during ultrasonic scaling 141 Figure 2. Comparison of mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM) colony forming units (CFU) counts at three different locations in all four groups. Table 2: Results of unpaired t-tests comparing mean colony forming unit (CFU) counts between groups. Location and rinse Patient Group A1 (Warm CPC) Group B1 (Warm CHX) Group A2 (Cold CPC) Group B2 (Cold CHX) Assistant Group A1 (Warm CPC) Group B1 (Warm CHX) Group A2 (Cold CPC) Group B2 (Cold CHX) Operator Group A1 (Warm CPC) Group B1 (Warm CHX) Group A2 (Cold CPC) Group B2 (Cold CHX) t-test p value Significance 1.712 0.104 NS 0.095 0.9249 NS 0.083 0.9348 NS 2.383 0.0284* S 0.655 0.5208 NS 1.177 0.2547 NS *p value < 0.05; NS, non-significant; S, significant; CPC, 0.05% cetylpyridinium chloride; CHX, 0.2% chlorhexidine; 142 Journal of the International Academy of Periodontology (2017) 19/4 Table 3: Results of ANCOVA test comparing mean CFU counts within groups with respect to temperature difference Location and rinse Patient Group A1 (Warm CPC) Group A2 (Cold CPC) Group B1 (Warm CHX) Group B2 (Cold CHX) Assistant Group A1 (Warm CPC) Group A2 (Cold CPC) Group B1 (Warm CHX) Group B2 (Cold CHX) Operator Group A1 (Warm CPC) Group A2 (Cold CPC) Group B1 (Warm CHX) Group B2 (Cold CHX) F value p value Significance 53.79 < 0.001* HS < 0.001* HS < 0.001* HS < 0.001* HS < 0.001* HS < 0.001* HS 35.31 25.56 *p value < 0.05; HS, highly significant; CPC, 0.05% cetylpyridinium chloride; CHX, 0.2% chlorhexidine This analysis revealed that the groups A1 and B1 (47ºC) showed the maximum reduction in bacterial counts in all three areas as compared to their cold counterparts A2 and B2 at 18ºC. Discussion Under the traditional paradigm, a dental health care worker would be considered to be at high risk for droplet transmission. Legnani et al. (1994) and Bennett et al. (2000) showed that use of ultrasonic scaling procedures resulted in peak concentrations of microbial aerosols in dental treatment rooms. Harrel and Molinari (2004) enumerated three levels of defence in the reduction of aerosols as personal protective barriers, routine use of pre-procedural rinses and high volume evacuation devices. Personal protective equipment, such as a surgical mask, face shield, or eyewear prevents the projection of microorganism-laden particles onto the mucosal membranes. However, they do not counter an ever present hazard of inhaling particulate aerosols when near an infectious patient. CHX has already proven its efficacy as a pre-procedural rinse in reducing bacterial aerosol contamination with the use of an air polisher, as studied by Logothetis and Martinez-Welles (1995) and ultrasonic scaler as demonstrated by Sawhney et al. (2015). Konig (2002) inferred that increasing the temperature of 0.2% CHX to 47ºC was effective in reducing vital plaque content, as assessed by the vital fluorescence technique. A 25% increase in bacteria kill rate was observed following irrigation with the tempered CHX solution. This effect was not solely due to the physical parameter "temperature," as the combination of heat and water resulted in unchanged vitality rate of micro-organisms cultured from plaque samples. The biologic basis and rationale for this anti-plaque effect could be attributed to enhanced bactericidal activity at an elevated temperature. Also, CHX has been found to have an increase in sporicidal effect when the temperature was increased to 60 - 70ºC (Shaker, 1986). However, use of CHX is not free of undesired side effects. The potential of CPC as an anti-plaque agent is well documented in the literature (Silva et al., 2009; Garcia et al., 2011). But there exists lacunae regarding the role of tempered 0.05% CPC as a pre-procedural rinse to control aerosol contamination. The Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (2015) reported that degradation of pure CPC occurs at 130ºC, with complete thermal decomposition at 234ºC. Konig (2002) also reported that tempering rinses to 47ºC exhibits neither painful sensations nor permanent pulpal damage. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to simultaneously assess the efficacy of two commercially available mouthrinses, 0.05% CPC and 0.2% CHX, when used as pre-procedural rinses at two different temperatures, in reducing aerosol contamination. Various investigators (Bentley, 1994; Chiramana, 2013) have studied the spread of aerosols within the range of 2 to 6 feet. In the present study, the perimeter of the operatory was limited to a diameter of 4 feet and the aerosols were collected on blood agar plates, which are considered as a valid non-selective medium for culturing airborne bacteria (Johnston et al., 1978). These plates were positioned at three different locations at a distance of 12 inches from the patient's philtrum as performed previously by Gupta et al. (2014). Further exposure of these plates for an additional 30 min after ultrasonic scaling was done so as to allow gravitational settling of airborne bacteria (Larato et al., 1966). Joshi et al.: Effect of disinfectant temperature on the reduction of aerosol contamination during ultrasonic scaling The results of our study suggest that the pre-procedural rinse containing 0.05% CPC is as effective as 0.2% CHX in reducing aerosol contamination, which is in agreement with the study conducted by Feres et al. (2010). Our results are also in accordance with the study conducted by Reddy et al. (2012), where the tempered solutions heated to 47ºC were found to be significantly more effective in reducing aerosol contamination at the chest areas of patient, operator, and assistant as compared to the cold solutions used at 18ºC. Nevertheless, on comparing mean bacterial counts at the assistant chest area after rinsing with only cold CPC and CHX solutions, a statistically significant difference was noted, indicating CPC was more effective than CHX at 18ºC. The CFU estimation in our study includes only aerobic bacteria capable of growth on blood agar plates; anaerobic bacteria and viruses that require specialized media were not isolated, which needs to be addressed in further investigations. No attempt was made to differentiate these bacteria based on cultural characteristics. Within the limits of our study, the emerging evidence beckons towards the role of tempered CPC in effectively reducing aerosol contamination. Nonetheless, these data need to be interpreted with caution, as sample size was small. Hence, there is a need for longitudinal studies of a single cohort with a larger sample size demonstrating efficiency of tempered CPC in mitigating aerosol bacteria and viruses. Conclusion Overall, the results of our investigation clearly indicate that a pre-procedural rinse containing 0.05% cetylpyridinium chloride can be considered as a promising alternative in reducing aerosol contamination during ultrasonic scaling procedures when compared to the gold standard 0.2% chlorhexidine, with tempering the rinse showing the definite edge. Also, it can be concluded that the amount of viable bacteria in aerosol is maximum at the patient's chest area followed by the operator and assistant in a descending manner, thus reinforcing the use of personal protective barriers to minimize the risk to dental professionals. Acknowledgments Department of Microbiology, MGM Medical College and Hospital, Navi Mumbai, India. References Albert-Kiszely A, Pjetursson BE, Salvi GE, et al. Comparison of the effects of cetylpyridinium chloride with an essential oil mouth rinse on dental plaque and gingivitis: A six-month randomized controlled clinical trial. Journal of Clinical Periodontology 2007; 34:658-667. 143 Ainamo J and Bay I. Problems and proposals for recording gingivitis and plaque. International Dental Journal 1975; 25:229-235. Barbeau J. Waterborne biofilms and dentistry: The changing face of infection control. Journal of the Canadian Dental Association 2000; 66:539-541. Bennett AM, Fulford MR, Walker JT, Bradshaw DJ, Martin MV and Marsh PD. Microbial aerosols in general dental practice. British Dental Journal 2000; 189:664-667. Bentley CD, Burkhart NW and Crawford JJ. Evaluating spatter and aerosol contamination during dental procedures. Journal of the American Dental Association 1994; 125:579-584. 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Charles W. Johnston age 78, of Plover passed away Tuesday morning February 28, 2012 at his home surrounded by his family. Charles was under the care of Ministry Hospice after a courageous two year battle with cancer. Friends and family will gather to share memories from 1:00 – 6:00 PM on Sunday at the Plover V.F.W.. Shuda - Plover Funeral Home is assisting the family.
Charles was born February 2, 1934 in Tomahawk, the son of Erava and Ruth (Martell) Karau. After schooling, Charles entered the United States Army on February 6, 1951 in Milwaukee. He served his country as a Private and earned the Korean Service Medal with e Bronze Stars, United Nations Service Medal, and the National Defense Service Medal. He was honorably discharges on February 5, 1954. Upon his return Charles worked for the Larkee Family Amusement Shows throughout Wisconsin. He married Barbara Liebe on February 3, 1962 at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Stevens Point. The couple settled in Merrill where Charles worked as a wood working laborer. They moved to Stevens Point in 1964, and Charles began his career at Vetter Manufacturing. When Vetters closed, Charles went on to work at the Port Edwards and Nekoosa paper mills until his retirement in 1991. He and Barbara enjoyed to travel and going to casinos and playing bingo.
He is survived by his wife Barbara, Plover; four daughters : Shelly House; Christine Stremkowski; Wendy Johnston; Jodi (Lawrence) Barrington. 10 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. His 3 brothers James "JK" Johnston, Texas; Erava (Margareta) Karau, Merrill; Michael John Karau, WI. His sister Sandy Kozelka, Praire du Chien. He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother Berry Karuau.
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Based on my previous essays on truth, I think it's fairly obvious that I think that people should not lie, if at all possible.
I find that most people I meet do not want to tell people the truth if it might offend or sadden them. As far as I know, they do this either to be nice to them, or because they want to avoid conflict, or don't care. For all people who think like this, especially the people who do not want to offend others, the reality is you're being nice to them by considering their feelings, but you're being a lot more inconsiderate because they deserve to know the truth so that they can know and so that they can fix their problems.
If I do something that offends, annoys, makes someone angry or sad or anything else, I want to know. I will not get offended, and even if I do, I know that it's better to know the truth, and that I should not be offended, so it's OK.
With that said, when you tell someone the truth you should not do so angrily, you should do so nicely, for their sake, to inform them, not to show their anger.
Most people don't do this though, and it's weird for me to ask people to do it, especially if I barely know them. For this reason, I would like to ask anyone who is reading this who knows me to please, in all situations, be honest with me. if I ever do anything to annoy, offend, insult, or make you angry or sad or anything similar, please tell me. But also, please tell me to inform me, there is no need to tell me angrily, I just want to know that you're informing me, not venting or trying to offend me. Regardless, I will not get offended, and I will try to fix the problem. I don't want others to have to put up with something just for me.
To everyone who I have offended, insulted, annoyed, or made angry or sad, and to all those who I will do this to in the future who will not tell me about it, I'm sorry. I don't mean to. Please tell me about this in the future, no matter how little you know me. Thank you.


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During the 1890s, Russian physiologist, Ivan Pavlov was looking at salivation in dogs in response to being fed when he noticed that his dogs would begin to salivate whenever he entered the room, even when he was not bringing them food. Many leaders of our churches salivate when a new member with lots of money joins the church, when they are given gifts and praised. However, that is not what disturbs me for the person who shows true signs of Pavlov's dogs are those who exhibit salivation when their "master" walks in the room.
We are not talking about God but the one who it otherwise known as line manager, superior, boss, governor, etc. When these people are around, the otherwise known as employee, slave, caretaker, etc. are the ones whose belief is to expect (with cap in hand). When the master is not around they behave and show no signs of apathy but when their giver of life arrives they are able to do the impossible. Even if it means climbing the highest mountain or swimming the deepest lake. For God cannot be compared to the master who pays them a salary.
They do not understand that God is their master, sustainer of all life and provider for their sustenance. Instead they are dependent upon other mortal beings. When Christians lose perspective of who their true sustainer is, they also lose faith in His providence thus dependent from other sources. Thereby becoming independent believing that it is they who work and provide for themselves as God is unable to meet their desires. The spiritual is then gradually compartmentalised for it lacks the ability to provide for the physical, only good for the spiritual.
Such Christianity could easily be liken to those Deists, whose beliefs are that God does not interfere with our lives – merely watches from afar. Such notions are contrary to the existence of Jesus Christ incarnate and refutes such fantasy. God is interested in our daily lives and whether we are in Christian ministry or working in secular employment. We are to acknowledge that God has placed us where we are and for His purposes and plans.
So, if you are climbing the corporate ladder, ensure that you are being sent by God to that sector. Our lives should not merely be random chances of existence. For we are God's workmanship for good works – prepared beforehand and in all that we do – we should do unto Him. We are to be diligent in our work places – treat our employers with respect and not as gods to whom owes our life's breath.
If we are to live according to the Kingdom principles of God at our vocations then we are to first believe that where we are positioned is where God wants us to be – "salt and light," thus being able to change our environment.
I've witnessed how many Christians have a duplicity in lifestyles with a great divide between the church and the world and neither shall meet. Though Jesus teaches us that though we are in the world, but not of the world. For He chose us out of the world, therefore the world hates us. However, many seem to believe He meant that we have to have two lives which are God-fearing on Sunday and man-fearing on weekdays. Hence it is so apt that Jesus would say to us, you cannot serve two masters.


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Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run, each Shaun The Sheep story is 6-8 minutes long, with no dialog, featuring the adventures of a flock of misbehaving sheep and their clueless owner on his little farm in the English countryside. How did they go wrong? They strayed from the formula that made Shaun The Sheep so endearing- the farmer gets amnesia and moves to London, and the flock goes to the big city to find him and rescue him. As a result, all the characters are removed from the farm for most of the movie, and the sheep are separated from the farmer for almost the whole thing. Don't mess with success, I say. I am amazed that a show that my son and I have enjoyed for many years was adapted into a movie that my son didn't like all that much and he hasn't asked to see it again. Oh well. Stub Hubby grade: C


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Getting damage whereas working on automobiles seems to be the price of admission to the experience. Cuts and scraped knuckles are annoying, however the real risk is working underneath cars. Detail oriented. Service technicians should pay attention to small details when inspecting or repairing automobile methods, as a result of mechanical and electronic malfunctions are sometimes due to misalignments or other straightforward-to-miss causes. Contemplate how far you're from the car's location. You'll need to have shipped or towed, or if lot drivable lease a flat mattress trailer from a rental retailer. I typically use U-Haul.
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Gujarat Forest Guard Result 2016 Check Gujarat Vanrakshak Exam Cut off Marks, Merit List, Result Expected Date Declared at forests.gujarat.gov.in and ojas.gujarat.gov.in:
Gujarat Forest Department conducted written examination to take in the eligible candidates for 1484 available posts of Forest Guard. The test was taken on 9th October in which a lot of aspirants sat to move on to the next recruitment phases. In order to be in contention with the selection luck, they need to be selected in the merit list that will be published along with the Gujarat Forest Guard Result 2016 which is due to be published soon on the website: forests.gujarat.gov.in or ojas.gujarat.gov.in.
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Written exam was MCQ sort. 100 inquiries were determined to its subjects. The examination board will soon upgrade its server with the official result of the selected applicants which will be accessible on the site mentioned above. Competitors can get to their outcome utilizing their roll number and other necessary details.
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Answer key for the test is now accessible in PDF format and respond in due order regarding every one of the sets are transferred and candidates can coordinate their answers with the formally provided answers as per the set for which they sat for the exam. Answer key is dependably a solid measure to gauge your exam performance and get thought on plausible marks in light of the fact that the examination board will take after the answers supplied in the solution manual.
Latest Update (05.01.2017): Gujarat Forest guard reuslt 2016 for 9th October Exam has been declared and candidates can check there results from bellow link, S7info Team wish all the best….!!
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Examination board will likewise redesign Cut off Mark alongside the answer key. Still now, it has not indicated certain cut off bar that it will keep up to get ready merit list. Least marks required to clear the exam will be settled in view of various variables, for example, add up to number of hopefuls, exam toughness, normal marks obtained by the applicants and so on. It is expected that minimum marks needed for General classification will be 33% and for reserved quota, the bar will be 23% according to the example kept up in earlier years.
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Every one of the competitors who have appeared for the exam is excitedly sitting tight for the outcomes with the goal that they can join the forest office of the Gujarat State. In this way, every one of the applicants is thus educated that the outcomes will be discharged by the forest branch of Gujarat state when the assessment procedure gets finished for all the personnel. The applicants can check the outcomes furthermore and detailed cut off list with respect to categories from the Gujarat forest division site.
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After the publication of written result, physical proficiency test will be taken for chosen competitors. The individuals who will fail to clear in the physical test will not be considered for interview. Chosen individuals in PET will be called for individual meeting. Final list of selected applicants of PET is probably going to be distributed inside 7 days. So, you all have to be alert about any news updates that you will be able to access through our new portal that is dedicated to bring you the latest happenings from the job recruitment sector of the country.
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Chosen candidates in the physical test will be called for meeting in which their records, for example, scholarly authentication, admit card, photograph and other important archives will be checked. It is an absolute necessity for all to submit unique reports. No photocopy will be conceded. After record confirmation and meeting, last chosen rundown of applicants will be distributed.
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- 8 Official Website: forests.gujarat.gov.in | ojas.gujarat.gov.in