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In this post, Kenneth M. Tinsley, Senior Vice President of Credit and Risk Management and Acting Chief Risk Officer, discusses how the Bank is working to help small businesses with international expansion. He talks about available trade finance products and how EXIM Bank can help.
Question: Tell me about the role EXIM Bank plays in international finance?
Kenneth Tinsley: Particularly with respect to trade finance, we help fill in the gaps not funded by the private market to support U.S. exporters when they sell products oversees on a credit basis. And with small businesses, there is often a big gap. Small businesses that are exporting aren't generally attractive to commercial banks and private credit insurers. Because they're small, they can't take on the risks on their own and commercial banks are not willing to lend against their export receivables. Our role is to step in and fill that void when businesses aren't able to assume the credit risk and access funding associated with their export activity.
Q: Can you tell us how the bank helps small businesses?
KT: Before they even start exporting, many businesses need working capital. We offer pre-export assistance when lenders aren't willing or able to do so. Small businesses in particular have trouble getting money, especially when they say they want to use it for overseas expansion.
We have several products to give businesses working capital. We offer one that allows exporters to buy materials associated with manufacturing a product that they plan to export. Another is an insurance policy that covers most of a small exporter's sales. This is particularly attractive to those who have a lot of business in one market or more than one buyer.
We also offer a select risk product where an exporter can get insurance on only one buyer. Perhaps they have concerns about repayment due to the political or economic situation and they want some guarantees on that particular partner.
In summary, we offer three types of products in respect to small businesses: pre-export working capital, and post-export support for either all or a reasonable spread of their export credit sales or one transaction.
We also offer supply chain finance, which primarily benefits small suppliers of major exporters, or indirect exporters, by monetizing their receivables. For example, if you sell parts to a large exporter and the terms are 60 days, we can help finance those deals so you're paid more quickly through a commitment to the bank that's lending to the primary exporter.
Q: In which regions of the world does the EXIM Bank operate the most? Are there any regions of the world where you have seen increased activity in the last two to five years?
KT: For small businesses, Mexico is a big market because of its close proximity, and by extension Central and South America are large partners.
We have seen some shrinkage in small business exports in the last two to five years because of the financial crisis. But there is growth in areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia and Europe.
Q: What management issues do you believe U.S. businesses should know more about when exporting?
KT: Every market is a little different. If you're new in the export space or if you've been exporting to say Mexico and want to go to Central America and sell to those markets, the experience isn't necessarily directly related. It can be challenging. You have to do your homework about a particular market or region since things can vary.
And in terms of doing your homework, we look at things such as if businesses have done site visits, gone to the market and met with prospective customers. We want to know the extent to which they're familiar with the credit culture in a particular market to make sure the terms are standard. We're also looking to see if companies have experience exporting and how they've managed export credit sales in the past.
Small businesses should use EXIM to expand their export credit sales. The more they put into it in terms of doing their homework before and doing risk-based due diligence, the better. It's a partnership, not just EXIM Bank's risk. The more you contribute, the better the results.
Q: What else should businesses know in terms of understanding the products you offer?
KT: If you're new to exporting in particular, it can be daunting. There are a lot of things to try to get your arms around in terms of basic due diligence.
As part of that due diligence you have to look at risk mitigation products. That can also be daunting. We try to have policy or commitment language that's easy to understand, but that can be hard if you're new to the bank, products or international finance.
Products vary by market and we have to price risk so that minimally we will break even. So we look at the business that's presented, the country risk, the buyer risk as well as pricing in the private market, which we can't undercut. It's an interesting balance of factors that goes into making decisions. But we also don't want our exporters to be at a disadvantage when going up against foreign competitors, many of which get pricing assistance from their own countries.


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I went through a horrible divorce many years ago and it made me feel unwanted and unloved. I can't seem to get past those feelings, and because of that I am not dating or trying to meet anyone. I think it's a combination of being afraid, thinking I am not good enough, and being afraid of rejection. Is there anything I can do to get past those fears and move on?
There are some things you can do that would help you move forward and feel more courageous about dating. But before we get to that, I want to explain how our past experiences create beliefs, mental rules or policies that dictate our behavior in the future.
This process started when you were a small child and everything you saw or experienced created ideas and beliefs about who you are and how you fit in the world. But it's possible that many of these conclusions may not have been accurate.
It sounds like the divorce also prompted you to make some new beliefs about your value and relationships. You may have drawn conclusions that the rejection meant you aren't good enough to deserve love. This isn't a fact, though; it's just a belief (or a subconscious policy or rule) you may have applied to the event.
The good news is while you can't go back and change what happened, you can go back and change what it meant. This is where "time travel" comes in. You have the ability to visualize when you went through that experience and choose a different meaning around it. You can also change the beliefs it created.
To change the meaning of some of your past experiences, find some quiet time when you won't be interrupted and follow these steps:
1. Close your eyes and go back to the situation when you created these assumptions or beliefs about your value or your life. Sit in that place for a while and really feel the feelings that show up. What are the exact conclusions you drew at this time? How did you feel because of these conclusions? After you sit with that for a little while, stop and write the conclusions or beliefs down on paper. What meaning did you apply to the event?
2. Look at those beliefs and write down the ways those beliefs have served you or protected you. You may have held onto them because they served you in some way.
3. Now, think about what these beliefs have cost you. Write down all the damage they have done and how they have negatively affected your life.
4. Ask yourself, are these beliefs worth the cost or would you like to change them?
5. If you think your life would be better if you changed these limiting beliefs, what would you like to believe instead? How would you like to feel about yourself? How would you like to feel about your life?
6. If it would serve you to change these beliefs, try applying new meaning to the event in your past and choose new beliefs to draw from it.
Here's how to do this:
8. Take some time to write down how you are going to choose to feel and process present experiences in light of the new meanings around the past that you have chosen.
You may want to repeat this process a few times, because the more you do it the more you will internalize your new chosen beliefs. According to the neuroscientist, Beau Lotto, in his book Deviate, your brain doesn't know the difference between fantasy and reality. So, when you use visualization and process events in a more healthy way, you actually get the same benefits you would if you had really had the experience that way.
You may also have more courage to start dating if you choose to trust that your value is the same as everyone else's, whether someone likes you or not, and trust in the universe that the right person will like you when the time is right.
You can do this.
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When life is a big disappointment
I love your radio show. It is the only reason I am not completely a mess right now. I could use some help though on a specific challenge I am going through. I feel like I need some tools to deal with disappointment. My husband's job sent us away to live in another country and I'm miserable. I do not like living here at all. I am really struggling as I hate everything about this experience. It has meant putting my education on hold and I'm totally out of my comfort zone. There was a job opening back home and I got so excited that we could move back, and then my husband didn't get it, which has just shattered my mental well-being. How can I cope with all of this better?
Life can be miserable, disappointing and frustrating at times, but a part of our suffering over these disappointments may be self-inflicted. Even though you cannot change the situation, we believe you can change the way you see and experience it.
The answer to lessening your suffering lies in changing your perspective about the nature of life altogether. We are going to help you do that by recommending you adopt a new policy about the nature of life: It is what it is.
If it was supposed to be something else, it would be.
If you look at the universe and the planet we live on, you will see perfect order everywhere. Everything from the smallest insect to the largest planet in the galaxy — they do what they do, when they do it, for a reason. The entire universe is perfect order, beauty and purpose. Can you see that?
Do you really think your life is an exception? Is your life really a bunch of bad luck accidents that mean nothing and serve no purpose?
There is no way to know for sure. There is no absolute, provable truth on whether there is order in your journey or it's all just random bad luck. This means you can choose a perspective for yourself.
You can choose to believe there is perfect order in the universe and everything happens for a reason.
With this mindset you will spend your time looking for the lessons and the blessings, instead of complaining about, resisting and regretting that things aren't different. But you are also going to have to change your expectations, which are nothing but thoughts and illusions you make up and become overly attached to. They aren't real. You must let go of your expectations so you can make peace with life as it is.
We recommend that you get some paper and write down all the expectations you had for your life (write every small thing you expected to be different than it is). Then tie that paper to a balloon and let it float away up into the sky and let those expectations all go.
Decide to embrace what your life is right now as perfect. This doesn't mean you give up working to make things better, though. You can keep working on improving things and finding another job in the states, while at the same time understanding that you are where you are for a reason. There is some beautiful lesson you are meant to learn by being exactly where you are right now.
Here are four more things you can do to change how you feel about your life:
1. Accept responsibility for creating the expectation that your life should be different than it is. You created this illusion so you can uncreate it. Choose a mindset based in truth about the nature of the journey. This will produce less self-pity and suffering. Live in optimism that things will get better, but also in trust that what is — is perfect, for some reason.
2. Practice gratitude. If you are going to compare your life with other people's — at least make sure you compare yourself with those who have less or have it worse than you, not just those who have more or better. There are plenty on both sides. Choose gratitude for what you do have and count your blessings daily.
3. Accept there is meaning and purpose behind every experience. See if you can list 10 positives that the hard situation in your life has created. Look for how your experience could be improving you. Choose to focus on being a better person.
4. Understand that your journey doesn't define you or have any effect on your value.Your current experience is just a location on your journey. It is a class you were signed up for, but it doesn't have any bearing on who you are or your value. We believe you aren't being punished with these experiences but you are being blessed by them. You just don't know why or how yet.
5. Forgive life for disappointing you. You might want to write a letter and vent about your disappointments. Write that you aren't happy, but you don't want to live in bitterness, regret, rejection, resentment, judgment, criticism and pain any longer. Choose to embrace what is — and live in love, trust, acceptance, forgiveness and peace instead.
Every moment of every day you must consciously make this choice. Some days when things are rough we live five minutes at a time. Decide for the next five minutes you will accept your situation as a blessing and choose some form of joy. The anger and sadness might creep back in, but you have the power to choose again. As you practice this it gets easier and lasts longer.
We know it's not easy, but it is that simple.
You can do it.
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These articles were originally published on KSL.COM
Kimberly Giles is the president and founder of Claritypoint Life Coaching and 12 SHAPES INC. She is an author and professional speaker. She was named one of the top 20 advice gurus in the country by Good Morning America in 2010. She appears regularly on local and national TV and Radio.
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SOME personnel of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) have visited Iloilo City to study and address the current traffic situation in the metropolis.
Director Neomie Recio of the MMDA's Traffic Engineering Center said they are now gathering data on the city's traffic.
The Iloilo City Government earlier asked for MMDA's help to address the traffic congestion in the city.
Recio said the first step of their study will be "purely" data gathering, and the data gathered would then be forwarded to their Manila office for evaluation and analysis.
"After that, makakabigay na kami ng recommendation on the proper traffic management of Iloilo City," she said.
She said they will assign a total of 15 persons from MMDA who would handle the study and recommendation of the traffic management in the city.
"Labinlima 'yong tao ko rito na iba-iba yung role na gagawin sa study na gagawin namin," Recio said.
She added that based on their initial observation, there are numerous problems in the city's traffic management. These include the lack of discipline and the absence of loading and unloading areas, illegal parking of vehicles, and faulty traffic signal systems.
"Dapat walang parking. Mag-operate ng illegal parking lalo na ngayon. 'Di ba may direktiba ang presidente (Rodrigo Duterte) natin to clear off all of public roads to all kinds of obstruction? So malaking bagay 'yon," she added.
Recio clarified that the road can still accommodate the number of vehicles, but the obstructions and the drivers' lack of discipline are causing the traffic congestion.
She said they have started conducting the study last Sunday and Monday, August 11 and 12, but they are still uncertain on the volume of vehicles since Monday was a holiday.
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It may not be a Devil Wears Prada sequel, but the real-life Miranda Priestly -- Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour -- ate bacon-wrapped pizza last night on the Late Late Show with James Corden. If that's not a satisfying character arc with an uplifting message about the capacity of the human spirit, then what is?
Wintour, who is now the artistic director of publishing giant Condé Nast, and Corden were playing a game of "Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts," a Late Late Show variant of truth or dare. In the game, they took turns answering uncomfortable questions. If either found their question unappealing, they could instead eat "disgusting foods."
Dishes included the aptly named "Heart Attack on a Plate" (a cheeseburger with bacon in a donut), pickled pig feet, a chili dog smoothie, a bull penis (which Corden ended up trying), a June bug, deep-fried butter, a 1,000-year-old egg, and the bacon-wrapped slice of pizza.
As Corden put it, "Anna, we read about you that your worst nightmare to eat is not the weird things that we've got here, it's actual fast food -- that's your nightmare, you won't touch it."
Wintour claimed that she couldn't remember the last time she'd eaten pizza at all. That changed after she couldn't bring herself to rank the designers Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, and Ralph Lauren from best to worst.
Instead, she took a bite of a slice of the ultra-greasy pizza that had been mummified in bacon, and her heart presumably grew two sizes that day. Frankly, it was all a little perverse.
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Besides the obviously adorable packaging, what makes Korean beauty products (cosmetics, skin care, etc.) superior?
I just got a bunch of TonyMoly masks last night and was like, I'm so excited—these are going to be awesome!! And then I realized I didn't know why... So, what makes them better? Why am I excited again? :)


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For some reason, I really want a pair of yellow shoes. Maybe I'm channeling my inner Minnie Mouse. . . . . who knows!
The thing is, anyone can wear yellow next to their face if they choose the right color of yellow. You might not be able to wear the bright, warm Primrose Yellow right next to your face, but you could wear a nice, pale yellow. That's why there is 1. . . . count it. . . just 1 shirt in this set.
If you want the punch of the bright yellow, but like me, can't wear it in your top, you can find lots of fun yellow accessories right now.
I've put together this Polyvore set to show some of the fun shoes, bags and accessories that you can wear or carry to get your Primrose fix! I really, really love the string wrapped bead earrings.
Here are some other cute Primrose Yellow inspired things I've found on Amazon. They are affiliate links. If you shop through the links, I'll make a small commission, but your price would always be the same. I ACTUALLY JUST ORDERED THE MOCCASINS! I'LL SHOW YOU GUYS VIA INSTAGRAM WHEN I GET THEM!!! Can't wait! Got my yellow shoes. 😄 I'm really diggin' all these other items too, especially the cut-out purse and the leather bracelet! And the Maryjanes are pretty cute, too.
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Happy Birthday Apple (had to do it...)
I thus feel duty bound to congratulate Steve, Woz, Mike and Ron on the company that I am most happy to have been associated with for such large portion of my life (albeit in different ways). May there be at least 30 more.
09:24 AM, 31 Mar 2006 by Mark Aufflick Permalink | Comments (0)
How Australia got to get a bite of Apple [smh.com.au]
How Rudie brought Apple to Australia [smh.com.au].
Computerland founder Rudie Hoess was importing programmable calculators into Australia until he fell in love with the Apple ][ and started importing them in 1977 only one year after it started shipping. That's quicker than Australia has received plenty of more modern devices!
And how about those sideburns - the 70s were a very good era for facial hair :)
My how times have changed. The Sydney Morning Herald is even running:
- an Apple Computer flashback slideshow(I've used all the computers pictured. Wish I had attended the computer familiarisation course at Club Med Noumea though ;)
- an Apple Trivia Quiz(I scored a shameful 8/10)
- and asking us to give thanks to the two Steves in a poorly concevied and written blog (successfully) designed to provoke stupid discussion in the comments.
As much as everyone knows how much I love Apple, I just can't wait for all this madness to stop!
09:16 AM, 31 Mar 2006 by Mark Aufflick Permalink | Comments (0)
Fruity Villains Help Celebrate Apple's 30th Birthday [blog.wired.com]
One thing I have just finished reading that really didn't suck, is this Apple Heroes and Villains on Wired.
I remarkably agree with basically all of their decisions and the comments are pretty accurate. Even to the level of pointing out that the only truly unreliable hardware produced under Steve Jobs has been the Apple III.
It's an entertaining read with short pieces of text and photos - it would actually make a great coffee table book!
Another nice short piece I found is by long time Silicon Valley journo Evelyn Richards: Change is as comfortable as a black turtleneck.
On a related note and almost as if to celebrate their shared history in recognition of Apple Computer's achievments, Beatles label Apple Corps are back at sueing Apple Computer over the use of the Apple name in the music business. Nothing would be more remeniscent of the old days except perhaps a look and feel suit :)
12:07 PM, 29 Mar 2006 by Mark Aufflick Permalink | Comments (0)
MacOS X Leopard to include VMWare-like virtualisation software? [www.macosxrumors.com]
If Apple could ship an XServe + XSan combo that out of the box ran efficient virtualized MacOS X, Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc. boxes it would be a real seller and make Apple a serious name in the business market.
It also opens the way to make money in the Windows market without having to beat windows. Imagine a small business who need an email server and web server. They really want to use Exchange (kindof like how children always want to grab boiling hot pans off the stove) but they've heard that Unix based web servers are better. They buy and install an XServe from Apple, ideally with both OS's pre-installed (yeah, like MS will license that...) and they get the best of both worlds. Then when spam get's too much for them they hire a consultant (me :) to configure spamassasin on another un*x virtual machine to pre-filter their inbound internet email before it gets to the MS Exchange virtual machine.
Makes sense to me.
07:19 AM, 28 Mar 2006 by Mark Aufflick Permalink | Comments (0)
Sybase, it's Californian for ****
It contains actually useful info and discussion (unlike 99% of the other Sybase sites on the net). Unsurprisingly, the first page already contains info on two blatant mysql-esque violations of the ANSI standard that make your code more dangerous and less portable:
Yes, Sybase silently truncates if you try to insert a string that is too long for the field. Handy.
A NULL is a NULL, unless it's a Sybase NULL (or a mysql NULL for that matter). NULL = NULL should be false right? Well in a Sybase where clause, it's true. As if that weren't bad enough, Sybase is not even self-consistent: In join clauses NULL = NULL will not match ie. is false. GAH!
In both cases there are runtime options you can specify to trigger more ANSI-ish behaviour. If I was designing coding standards for a team I would enforce these settings in all code at the point of instantiating a db connection.
08:48 AM, 26 Mar 2006 by Mark Aufflick Permalink | Comments (0)
The pointy end of the plane
I know some readers will be eager to hear how it compares with the woeful rating that I gave to United business. Well that just wouldn't be fair. BA is, after all, competently run - at least they make enough money to buy new seats from time to time. So I will try to resist comparison.
The one similarity is that I have further confirmation of my theory that the toilet seat gets murkier the higher the class. Thankfully there were baby wipes (in a polished walnut dispenser) on hand to clean it down. In this case, however, I believe I was the first male user of the toilet (as soon as the seatbelt light went off). I just think it was very poorly cleaned. The rest of the bathroom was similarly not that great. I gave some of the chrome a polish while I was, you know, sitting there. I'm sure it is a generic airport supplied crew who clean all the toilets, but this is supposed to be first. If I was in charge of the cabin I would have someone on my team personally check the first toilets. Oh, and the toilet paper is terrible.
Speaking of attention to detail - why did the steward ask me if I needed an arrival card for Singapore? One look at the flight manifest would have told him that I'm travelling to London - there's only 14 seats in first, it wouldn't have killed him.
But putting aside my anal tendencies, it really is pretty nice. There is a smidgen more legroom than I remember from flying first a few times in the 90s. The cabin size is the same, but the seats are intelligently angled to use some of the available width to make room for a horizontal foot rest. The nibbles (sorry, canapés) were really nice, and the bourbon is good quality (not sure of the brand - I didn't see the bottle) The TV screen is big and I have 3 crystal clear windows :)
The seat is strangly lacking in little pockets to stow all the bits and pieces that you end up with (toilet bag from airline, noise cancelling headphones for in-seat entertainment, my noise cancelling headphones for laptop/ipod, drink glass, dry ginger ale can, ipod, water bottle, book, f1 racing magazine, first class pyjamas (aka. "sleeper suit"), wallet, passports (x2), mobile phone (off), pda... I don't actually have a pda, but you get the picture! I really miss the little vertical storage cabinets you used to get when you are upstairs in business - do they still have them now that there are beds? I didn't get to fly upstairs with United, and my return business flight is currently positioned downstairs - must see if I can change that.
Oh right - you want to know *why* I'm flying to London. Does there have to be a reason? Having seen the Queen once already this week it can't be to visit Her Majesty... I'm actually doing some training for my new work in the exciting world of international banking - in Royal Mint Place no less (see if you can work out the company from that).
Looks like dinner is on it's way - must pack away now. Oh nearly forgot - for those of you who have never travelled first but might some day, look out for the tremendously loud noise when the nose wheel retracts - it's funny seeing the face of those sho have never heard it before!
03:45 AM, 20 Mar 2006 by Mark Aufflick Permalink | Comments (0)
Harry Seidler dies at 82 [smh.com.au]
Rose Seidler House
Cove Apartments
Capita Centre
Update: Todays SMH contains a very basic article about the man and his work - worth a read if you are unfamiliar with Seidler: When Harry met Sydney
12:23 AM, 09 Mar 2006 by Mark Aufflick Permalink | Comments (0)
Dealing with random Sybase client on Cygwin problems
The context allocation routine failed when it tried to load localization files!!
One or more following problems may caused the failure
Your sybase home directory is c:\sql10. Check the environment variable SYBASE if it is not the one you want!
Cannot access file c:\sql10\ini\objectid.dat
- I made an empty directory c:\sql10
- I copied the directories $SYBASE/locales and $SYBASE/charsets into c:\sql10 (these are static lookup data, so they never change unless you upgrade your client software).
- I created an empty directory c:\sql10\ini
- I added a line to my .bashrc to copy over the up to date ini data:
rsync -r /cygdrive/c/SYBASE/ini/ /cygdrive/c/sql10/ini/
Pretty bogus but it works.
10:07 PM, 07 Mar 2006 by Mark Aufflick Permalink | Comments (1)
You know you've become a cultural icon when...
People are so fascinated with your clothes that you can dress up your own doll (virtual or otherwise) : Joy of Tech (cf. Similar web pages for pop idols which won't be linked here)
Cartoons deride you and your products, while still enhancing your enigma : VG Cats (cf. Genuinely derogotary Newton reference in The Simpsons episode "Lisa on ice")
People talk about people talking about you : Valleywag
07:09 PM, 01 Mar 2006 by Mark Aufflick Permalink | Comments (0)
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This is Part 4 of the "Failplans Stop Here" series.
Plan tags or deal tags are something I created a few years back. The thought behind it is quite simple: apply the principles of content tagging to a business plan, pitch, etc.
I've always appreciated those situations in which a really strong marketing tagline on the cover of a business plan really helped "frame" the vision of the venture in my mind, before I even opened it up and started reading it.
For example:
Open-source inventory management software for small-to-midsize businesses.
Pretty straightforward. I can already tell that they are a software company, what space they're in, and what their customer focus is. Sometimes, though, marketing taglines that might make sense in the real world just don't convey that easily on the cover of a business plan. Then it occurred to me that by using the same sort of "tagging" model that we all use when tagging content online, we could achieve the same effect, with an added bonus of keeping it real and avoiding marketing-speak. And a lot of marketing speak is not something you want to necessarily serve up to investors.
There are an endless number of ways to approach this, but this is the one I use. Ask yourself the following questions:
You can add to this list with your own questions, but the goal is to come up with a very short list of 3-4 description words or phrases. If a phrase, it should be no more than 3 words in length.
Some examples (you likely know these companies):
Deal tags: Open-Source Software | Customer Relationship Management | SaaS
Deal tags: Home Improvement | Retail | Consumer | Affordable
Deal tags: Gourmet Ice Cream | Franchise Model | Unique Culture
You get the idea. The ideal deal or plan tags should describe the gist of your venture, and frame it in the mind of your audience. If you were presenting to a room of investors, and one of them had to get up and leave to take care of an emergency, they should still be able to know where you "fit" within the grand scheme of things (not the least of which is their investment criteria). Additionally, tags are fairly easy to remember, and serve as a way to boost the social conveyability of your pitch. If others can't informally spread your message for you, you may as well pack it in now.
So, how should we represent Frobozz? Well, let's brainstorm. 1, 2, 3, go. Don't over-think this. Just write …
We sell a smartphone app that detects specific people when they get near you.
We sell our product online through app stores.
Our initial market focus is on college students.
Differentiator #1: we find people based on your criteria, not theirs.
Differentiator #2: we do this stealthily, without them knowing about it.
Brainstorming is like making popcorn. When the kernels start popping, it smells great. But you have to know when to stop. When the kernels are only popping every now and then, you've gone too far. Your kitchen is gonna wreak for a week. When the ideas are not rolling off your tongue, you're done.
The above list was created in about 30 seconds of brainstorming (including typing). So, in looking at the list, here is my first cut at some tags:
Deal tags: Proximity-Based | Mobile | People Finder
But we can do better.
Deal tags: Proximity-Based | Mobile | Stealth People Finder
That's more like it. The word "stealth" adds a bit of mystery to the tags, and makes it both a little more unique and descriptive at the same time. However, the word "stealth" also conjures up the bazillion other startups that are in "stealth" mode all the time. And you don't want to be the 25th business plan or deck for a "stealth-mode" startup that the investor has seen that day alone. I do like it, but I'm going to change it a bit.
Deal tags: Proximity-Based | Mobile | Stealthy People Finder
One letter makes all the difference in the world.
Again, we are looking "frame" the vision of the deal for someone here, not describe it fully. These tags describe it just enough – we get the product at a high level, and we get to allude to some possible business models by way of stating that we're a mobile app. Avoid scalable, web 7.0, in the cloud, curve-jumping, paradigm-shattering, ad nauseum. Gist.
Lots of re-use with these, as you'll see. These tags are going to appear on the cover of the business plan, the various decks, etc. Great for business cards, too :)
As you move forward with developing your product and venture, always, always, look back at your deal tags and ask yourself the question: Do these tags still adequately describe my vision? If not, you may have strayed off the path …
I'm done. Could it be better? Always. Everything can be improved, and these tags are subject to evolve just like everything else in the venture – and I'm sure they will. But I'm happy with it for now, so I'm moving on. Doing otherwise would just be burning daylight.
Total time invested in coming up with our tags: 5 minutes. As you'll soon discover, the ROI on those 5 minutes will save us hours, if not days, down the road.
Now that we have some simple keywords and phrases to adequately frame our vision, we're ready to move on to the next installment, where we put together our elevator pitch. After that, I'm going to engage some community mentors to give me feedback on it. Because, remember, all of us are smarter than any of us.
So, however you cut it, your business plan is very important, even at the early startup stage, and even if you can keep it in your head. Before you purchase business stationery, telephones, or rent a location, you should do a business plan.


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This section highlights the importance of information literacy for digital inclusion. The majority of digitally excluded people in Wales are disempowered due to a lack of skills and confidence. This skills gap is information literacy based.
An information literate person can find, evaluate and communicate information using digital means – they are digitally included and able to benefit from the financial, economic and social advantages the internet can offer.
Libraries have a crucial role in enabling people to develop the information literacy skills to become digitally included. Public libraries in particular enjoy a position of trust amongst their local communities and are therefore ideally placed to support people in their communities to become digitally empowered. Through the project network of information literacy champions, we regularly ask for updates on digital inclusion and skills support in their associated libraries. See the updates report for Summer 2013 below.
Digital Inclusion Feedback
This document was the agreed response by the Welsh Information Literacy Project to the Welsh Assembly Government's Digital Inclusion Framework consultation
Summer 2013 – Digital inclusion activities in public libraries to support job seekers and universal credit changes
Digital Wales
Digital Wales (Delivering a Digital Wales) is the Welsh Government's agenda for creating a digital nation. The aim is for everyone across Wales to enjoy the advantages of digital technologies, creating a digitally inclusive nation. You can collaborate with other interested groups in the Digital Inclusion Stakeholder Forum. This includes ensuring Welsh people acquire the necessary digital literacy skills to effectively use digital technologies. The digital literacy skills highlighted within the agenda are intrinsically linked to or based upon information literacy. In order to achieve the Digital Wales objectives, the Welsh Government is working in partnership with other organisations and services including the library sector.
The Welsh Information Literacy Project is one of the projects supporting and helping to deliver the Digital Wales agenda objectives. In particular the project's work supports the Digital Wales goals outlined in Delivering a Digital Wales of embedding digital literacy within formal and informal education (see Information literacy in schools) and developing a digitally literate workforce, enhancing the competitiveness of Welsh businesses (see Information literacy in the workplace).


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Saturday, 26 September 2009
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- Jill said...
beautiful card I love the cute tilda and your wonderful colouring thanks so much for joining us at sketch and stash hugs Jill xx
- 26 September 2009 at 18:42
- Chrissie said...
Such a sweet card Daniele, love those papers!
Thanks for joining in with Sketch & Stash.
- 27 September 2009 at 08:23
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Aww, what a gorgeous card Daniele, so pretty! And Happy Birthday!!
Thanks so much for joining us at Sketch and Stash!
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Vox makes no secret that it's Valvetronix line of amps incorporates a 12AX7 tube. Tube amps have a well earned reputation for excellent tone and most of the classic guitar sounds we are all familiar with were done with tube amps including other amps made by Vox. Unfortunately tube amps also have their drawbacks such as weight and cost so the Valvetronix line of amps fills a good niche. The latest evolution of the Valvetronix line is the Vox Valvetronix VT40+
Vox has determined that adding a tube in the output section produces the best tone as opposed to adding it in the preamp section. In the preamp Vox has a well regarded amp modeling circuit so adding the tube in the output makes perfect sense.
This graphic below describes how the Vox Valvetronix amps work.
In the Vox Valvetronix VT40+ the signal enters the amplifier it first goes through the pedal effect section. The Valvetronix includes a good selection of pedal effects such as multiple overdrives, treble booster, wah and many more.
After the pedal circuit the signal goes into the preamp This is Vox's great sounding amp modeling section. The VT40 includes 33 amp models that range from clean to modern high gain. No doubt there is something in there for everyone. The preamp also includes all the classic tone shaping knobs you would expect on an amp. These controls include Gain, Volume, Treble, Middle, Bass and Master Volume.
After the preamp the signal goes into the modulation/delay effects. this section is the equivalent of an effects loop in that it's after the preamp and before the power amp. The effects included here are flanger, delay, chorus and more and then on to the reverb section. Between the included pedal effects and post-preamp effects, Vox in ensuring you need nothing more than their amp!
After the reverb the signal gets to the power amp. The power amp is the part that really separates the Vox Valvetronix VT40+ from other modeling amps in it's price range. Vox has gone the extra mile to make the output section more responsive than your typical modeling amp.
The 12AX7 tube used in the Valvetronix is actually two tubes in one glass enclosure. Most tube amps use 12AX7s in the preamp and are usually cascaded, meaning the signal goes in the first section of the tube then the next. In the Valvetronix the two section of the 12AX7 is used in the output section to create a true push/pull amplifier. The output section is really a clever combination of old school vacuum tube technology mixed with modern modeling technology.
This graphic has a more complete explanation of the output section is you are interested.
If you are looking for a high quality amp that offers up just about any amp or effect for a reasonable cost the Vox Valvetronix VT40+ is definitely one to look at.
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Double-Double Chocolate Cake
Double-Double Chocolate Cake
October 24, 2010
Double chocolate. Double layer. And a cupful of "double-double": Canada's most popular preparation of Tim Horton's coffee, boasting double the cream, double the sugar. This recipe makes a fabulous cake that's worthy of the double ribbons Moira won at the Harrow Fair. Reprinted with permission from The Harrow Fair Cookbook, by Moira Sanders, Lori Elstone and Beth Goslin Maloney (Whitecap).
2 oz (60 g) bittersweet chocolate, chopped
2 cups (500 mL) all-purpose flour
1 1/4 cups (310 mL) granulated sugar
1/2 cup (125 mL) vegetable oil
1 tsp (5 mL) pure vanilla extract
1Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or a small saucepan set on low heat. Stir constantly until the mixture is smooth. Set aside to cool.
2Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter and flour two 8-inch round cake pans.
3Sift together the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl.
4Mix together the buttermilk, oil, eggs, and vanilla in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment.
5Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients with the mixer on low speed. Add the melted chocolate and the double-double coffee and mix just until combined.
6Pour the batter into the pans, spreading evenly. Bake for 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of a cake comes out clean.
7Cool the cakes in the pans until they are easy to handle.
8 Invert onto a cake plate and spread with icing once completely cooled.
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Olivier Renaudin received the Electrical Engineering degrees from both the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB) and the Université Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France, respectively, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in experimental characterization of the radio propagation channel for vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 2013.
From May 2014 to May 2016, he continued this work as a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Wireless Devices and Systems Group, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, USA, focus more specifically on vehicle-to-vehicle communications in mixed passenger-freight convoys. From June 2016 to June 2018, he worked as a research scientist at the Austrian Insitute of Technology (AIT), Vienna, Austria, on ray-tracing solutions for Bluetooth based indoor localization applications. In September 2018, he joined as a Postdoctoral researcher the Signal Processing for Communications & Navigation Group, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain.
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His research interests include the experimental characterization and the modeling (high-resolution parameter estimation, geometry-based stochastic channel models, ray-tracing) of radio propagation channels in vehicle-to-X or indoor environments, performance evaluation at the PHY layer, signal processing with applications to communications and navigation as well as GNSS receivers.
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U-Space "What's Left When Everything's Gone"
We've all experienced the feeling of loss. It's not necessarily connected to the physical loss of those close to us — it's sometimes caused by the inexorable transition of every particular moment from the category of "present" to the category of "past". What do we all really have? The past is gone, the future isn't here yet and it looks like all that we have is a thin thread of memories and presentiments spliced together with instants of present sliding along. You can tie your necklace but you also can lose all beads — hold on to yours tight as life is so fragile and flies by so quickly!
This U-space designed by Valentina Serebrennikova, using the two paintings of Valeriy Valran.
Technical realization of the project by Konstantin Pakhotin.
Soundtrack by Igor Korobko.
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We will appreciate if after your visit all the U-Space objects will stay in their original places and the installation will remain unchanged.
The room is equipped with a surveillance camera in order to prevent damage of the objects. In case of non-compliance with the visiting rules the administration reserves the right to stop the session.


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I've made no secret of the fact that Bologna -- the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Northern Italy -- is my very favorite place in all of my adopted country (see here and here and here and also here!) Not so long ago I was lucky enough to visit Bologna, a place where I last lived 10 years ago as a student. I traveled with my sister and friend Lavinia (you may remember her from this post) and we all met up with our friend Alice, who is lucky enough to be currently living in BO.
Bologna has changed quite a bit since my last visit two or so years ago -- it's not quite the tranquil city I remembered it being, but rather one with well, lots of tourists. This, due to two factors: 1.) new, cheap Ryanair flights that fly directly to Bologna from many European cities and 2.) an article published in a Lonely Planet guide praising the city as a travel destination, which subsequently put it in on the map. For example: the entrance ticket to climb up the Torre Asinelli -- more on that later on -- now costs 5 euros and requires a booking at a shiny new tourism center, as opposed to its previous cost of 2 euros, no booking needed. To accommodate the new influx of tourists, there are now lots of flashy, red city tour buses; the prices of AirBnb and hotels have gone up, and getting a reservation at a restaurant for dinner has now become a bit difficult. While I admit I experienced a moment of shock -- "Bologna, what have they done to you?!" -- it was, in the end, still the same city it had always been, at least in the most important ways. Piazza Maggiore, Nettuno, and its fountain were still there; the portici gave their usual combination of practicality (shelter from the rain!) and beauty (who knew that a few arches could be such stunners?!) The city offered its usual feast of tortellini, tagliatelle, and piadina, and overall, returning to Bologna was as comforting as slipping on your favorite sweater, or a mug of hot tea on a cold day, and the theme of the trip was, no doubt, nostalgia (a big thanks to Lavinia for putting up with me and my sister as we repeatedly squealed with delight at the sight of everything from the sight of the train station to a random piazza to a street corner -- "so nostalgic!!!") With no further ado, here's what we got up to!
First stop on the nostalgia tour: dinner at Osteria dell'Orsa, a restaurant that I frequented often as a student and one that I make sure to visit every time I make it back to the city. Osteria was, thankfully, just as I remembered: no reservations allowed meant a line of hungry people waiting outside, but superb efficiency from the staff meant a bearable wait time, and most importantly, bolognese cuisine at its very best, which makes sort of wait or hassle worth it. We opted for the most traditional bolognese dish of them all -- tagliatelle al ragu' hand-rolled noodles and all -- plus tortelli, mortadella with crescentine (a sort of fried bread), an impressive display of crostini, and whipped mascarpone with chocolate to finish the meal. All of the food was delicious on its own, yes, but was even more appreciated given the chilly, rainy weather we experienced upon arrival. Off to a good start!
Climbing the Asinelli Tower is a quintessential Bologna experience -- you cannot leave Bologna without having done this, I think. It is, along with the smaller Garisenda tower, that stands next to it, a symbol of Bologna, and both have marked the entrance to the heart of the city for nine centuries (together the Asinelli and the Garisenda are known as le Due Torri or the two towers). They are nearly synonymous with Bologna, and have withstood everything from earthquakes to fires; during World War II, the Asinelli tower served as a lookout tower of sorts, and between 1943 and 1945, volunteers would position themselves on the top of the towers to direct rescue operations to areas struck by bombing. The Asinelli Tower is 97.2 meters high, making it the city's tallest tower; there are 498 steps on a steep wooden staircase to reach the top of the tower, but never fear! There are platforms every few floors where you can stop to take a breather. The long climb is certainly worth it -- once you get to the top of the Tower, the views of Bologna are truly gorgeous. BONUS: A short walk from the towers you'll find Pizzeria Due Torri, an excellent pizza-by-the-slice place.
I know, I know -- why eat Greek food in Bologna, right?! While I usually am all for experiencing the local food of the place I'm visiting, I make an exception for To Steki, because even in a sea of fabulous bolognese food, it stands out. Surprise surprise, it was another one of my favorite restaurants as a student (I did mention this was a nostalgic weekend, right?) and the restaurant was packed, as always (reservations recommended!) After some deliberation, we ordered a superbly hearty moussaka, pork souvlaki, imam bayildi (stuffed eggplant, originally a Turkish dish that the Greeks adopted and added feta to) and lots and lots of pita, tzatziki sauce, and fries, plus Greek yogurt and honey with strawberries, to ehm, keep things healthy. We all left happy and full, all thoughts of ragu' cleared from our minds, at least for an afternoon.
Ahhh, Il Banco del Pane -- this little bakery/bread shop holds a lot of good memories for me, as it was where my sister, our (first Italian friend!) Gloria, and I would go routinely after class at the University of Bologna to get a slice of their famous tenerina, a deeply fudge-y, intensely chocolate-y cake, one that I have tried to recreate at home as well (see post here!). The cake -- brownie-like, dusted with powdered sugar -- was as good as I remembered it to be, the owners were lovely as they always had been, and bonus: due to a new Redhead promotion in the bakery, they even gave ginger Alice some free treats, too. Photos below!
My first ever meal in my favorite city was at Trattoria Belle Arti; it was September 2009, we had arrived in Bologna from Boston just a few hours before, and I was tired, confused, and a little scared, to be honest. After all, I was far from home and meant to live in the city for a whole year, and wasn't sure what to expect, or how I'd do. I remember a few things about our meal at the Trattoria: I was struck by the sizes of the individual pizzas, meant for one person (something that doesn't at all phase me now -- I can easily finish an entire pizza on my own!); I remember opting for orecchiette con broccoli, one of the few non-bolognese dishes on the menu, and something I'd never order now, older and wiser foodie that I am; I recall leaving the restaurant feeling more secure and settled once I'd had a good meal, and maybe even a little excited about what was in store. Ten years later, another visit to the same restaurant gave me an opportunity to reflect on all that had happened between that first meal at Trattoria Belle Arti and my latest one; I've maintained many of the wonderful friendships I made in Bologna, I now speak fluent Italian, and I have made a very good life for myself in Rome. Sentiments and trip down memory lane aside, we had a wonderful meal at Trattoria, with bolognesi standbys like the ever-so-cozy tortellini in brodo, it's slightly richer cousin, tortellini con panna (tortellini served in cream) the usual and always delicious tagliatellealragu', and BONUS: an adorable bulldog named RAGU' -- a fitting name for a bolognese bulldog -- who was hanging outside the restaurant, hoping for a tortellino or two (!!!!)
For our last stop on the nostalgia tour, my sister and I made sure to go back and visit Pasticceria Santo Stefano for their Nutella tart, a favorite treat during our student days -- crumbly cookie crust! nutella filling! chocolate glaze! All these years later living in Italy, I have to say that the tart was, well, typical Italian bar fare -- not nearly as exciting as it seemed 10 years ago -- but at the time it truly was the best sweet in the city for us, something we had not seen in the U.S and that seemed just as magical and special as the city we were residing in. We ordered one to split and enjoyed every (memory-packed) bite of it. Not long after our snack, we stopped to visit our Italian language school, Cultura Italiana, a place where we spent countless hours during our year in Bologna, and the one most responsible for giving us both a solid base in Italian on the way to fluency. Good times!
In summary: if you haven't visited this city yet -- please do go! If you're an expat like me it's a quick trip up north on the train and perfect for a weekend; if you're coming to Italy on vacation and doing the usual Rome/Florence/Venice route, stop for a day or so on your way up to Florence (they're about 45 minutes apart by train). I think you'll find the city as marvelous as I do -- and if this post hasn't been sufficient, I have a strong suspicion that the photos below will nudge you in the right direction.


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An article on the official opening of Provost's Park which Vialii designed and which was opened by our very own Lulu.
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The official opening of Vialii's Provost Park in Bridge of Allan by our very own Lulu Burt.
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Matt and JJ knew they always wanted a house full of children. With large and loving extended families, they wanted to create a home where their own children were loved, nourished, and pursued. After having two biological children and adopting a third, they knew that their home still had room for more. So early this year, Matt and JJ started their journey towards adopting number 4.
They started with Christian Adoption Consultants in January and began their home study. In June they were approved and just weeks later, heard about an expectant mother who was looking to make an adoption plan. A brave woman who was searching for just the right family to raise her daughter.
It turns out, Matt, JJ, and their three children were the perfect fit.
This beautiful girl was born in the fall.
She was pursued long before she was born.
And I'm confident Matt, JJ, and her doting older siblings will love this sweet girl in a home where she is nourished and cherished all her days.


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LOS ANGELES – Some day soon, perhaps Saturday, Thomas Duarte will lay out, extending his fingertips, palms and arms while exposing everything else, snag a pass and — through the magic of television — belly flop right there, into the middle of your living room.
The act, partially daredevil and wholly athletic, will look strangely routine, especially for a true freshman.
That's because it won't be Duarte's first corner route around a coffee table.
There are a lot of training aids available to the aspiring receiver. Duarte's selected tools? A Nerf ball and a blow-up mattress.
Seriously, he used a sponge and a soft place to land to make it to the very hard world of college football, at UCLA, where Duarte is expected to contribute this season, only months after graduating from Mater Dei High.
As kids, he and his little brother, Sammy, would take turns sprinting through the family's living room and diving onto an air mattress to catch passes thrown by their father, Tim, who developed a keen ability to lead his sons just enough.
"You really had to learn how to make the catch and land so you wouldn't run into anything and get in trouble," Duarte says now. "If you hit anything, my mom (Debbie) would come out of the kitchen yelling, 'Who hit the TV!' So, not only would you get in trouble, but you'd feel the pain of hitting whatever you hit."
So far in his brief time at UCLA, Duarte has been recognized repeatedly by the coaches for his hands and his body control. He credits both qualities to the time spent in pursuit of that spiraling Nerf.
Duarte also has been praised for his ability to recognize the open spaces in defenses designed to hide such things. Until switching to receiver in high school, he was a quarterback. The perspective of looking downfield, he says, only helped when he found himself running downfield.
"I know the whole mindset of a quarterback," explains Duarte, who is listed third on the depth chart at the "Y receiver" position. "I know the little pockets where you want the receiver to be in. I know that me-to-you factor that quarterbacks and receivers have to have."
Duarte had his choice of colleges, USC and Notre Dame among those also interested. He has, however, only one mother, and Debbie is a UCLA graduate.
He'd find himself spending his Saturday afternoons watching the Bruins on television, unless they weren't playing. In that case, he'd find himself watching something Mom had lifted off the Pac-12 Network.
"So even if UCLA wasn't on," Duarte says, "we'd be watching a recording of UCLA."
He liked the school, how welcomed he felt here, the location of the campus and the fact the football program was being brought back to life and relevance by new coach Jim Mora.
Duarte was pretty certain he was a future Bruin, but then the rumors about Mora leaving for the NFL started to bubble. He figured that, on his official visit, he better bring up the topic.
Instead, again through the magic of television, the topic was brought up for him. While sitting in the lobby of the football offices, a report about the San Diego Chargers being interested in Mora appeared on the TV.
At that exact moment, the coach walked in.
"He kind of laughed and gave me a smirk and said, 'Don't worry about that. Let's get your visit started,'" Duarte says. "He told me that he wasn't going anywhere. He told me everything about college football that he loved and that he's here to stay. After that, it was kind of a wrap."
It helped that the coaches told Duarte he could play as a freshman, particularly with second-leading receiver Joseph Fauria departing.
Offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone also told Duarte that "Y receiver" is "the backbone of the offense," and, when you're new, who wouldn't want to hear that you'd be lining up so close to a team's central nervous system?
Duarte even liked that the Bruins were only beginning their climb and not already atop college football. To be honest, he liked that maybe most of all.
"UCLA football is really on the rise," he says. "We're making big progress. This program is headed in the right direction. I wanted to go somewhere where it wasn't already the best team in the land.
"The motivation was getting on board with a program that's trying to make a statement, trying to gain the respect of all of college football. UCLA was really falling off in my eyes until Coach Mora got here. He turned the program in one year. It was amazing to see."
And now Duarte is on board. He's part of the football program at his mother's alma mater, a second-generation Bruin.
Some day soon, perhaps Saturday, he'll lay out, make that diving catch and Mom will start yelling.
It won't be the first time for either of them.
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Bacterial Link Between Heart Disease and Gum Disease Clarified
September 30th, 2015 By Managing Editor, DiabetesinControl.com
A study, published in Infection and Immunity, has clarified the mechanism behind a known link between gum disease and heart disease. Periodontitis, which results in an infection that damages the soft-tissue surrounding teeth and the bone supporting the teeth, is commonly caused by Porphyromonas gingivalis. P. gingivalis is a Gram-negative anaerobe that colonizes mouth tissues for lengthy periods of time after initial infection. It is commonly found within the arterial plaques common to heart disease patients.
The study authors discovered that the bacteria alters the gene expression of pro-inflammatory proteins that also promote coronary artery atherosclerosis. This was discovered by infecting cultured human aortic smooth muscle cells with P. gingivalis. Aortic smooth muscle cells were used because they contract the aorta after the pumping of the heart stretches it out.
After P. gingivalis was injected into the cells, the bacteria released gingipains. Gingipains are enzymes that change the ratio between different angiopoietins (inflammatory proteins) in such a way that inflammation is increased. The pro-inflammatory angiopoietin 2 had its expression increased by the gingipains, whereas the anti-inflammatory angiopoietin 1 had its expression reduced. P gingivalis was found to affect the levels of these proteins independent of tumor necrosis factor (TNF).
The study is significant because it helps to pinpoint the relationship between periodontitis and heart disease. Further research can help clarify potential targets for treatment of atherosclerosis.
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Periodontitis and heart disease share a common pathogen, P. gingivitis.
A study found that P. gingivitis alters gene expression to increase production of the pro-inflammatory protein angiopoietin 2 and decreases presence of the anti-inflammatory protein angiopoietin 1. This results in increased atherosclerosis.
The study further clarifies the cardiovascular risk of poor oral health and hygiene.
Paddock C. Scientists uncover bacterial mechanism that links gum disease to heart disease. published in the journal Infection and Immunity. September 14, 2015.
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A type of material called dental tape can be effective for people with large spaces between their teeth, or for people with bridge work.
Floss can be purchased in small self-dispensing boxes. Floss can also be purchased in special, single-use holders, which are useful for people who have a hard time wrapping floss around their fingers, including those with dexterity problems or arthritis.