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Caryn Heilman is an Authorized Continuum Movement teacher®. She has an MFA in Dance from the University of California, Irvine where her graduate fellowship study focused on a somatic fluid system approach to choreography and improvisational dance performance and training supported by organic interactive media. Caryn is the Artistic Director of LiquidBody media, movement, and dance and of Topia Arts Center, a green arts and education center in the Berkshires. She was a member of The Paul Taylor Dance Company for 10 years performing in over 50 countries and collaborated on over ten new works. She is currently Vice President of ISMETA, a Continuum Teacher Association member, and has served on the Professional Advisory Committee of the Dance Notation Bureau and of the Somatic Movement Arts Festival. She teaches in-person and virtual classes/workshops worldwide.
Gary David has led numerous lives: professional musician, teacher of applied epistemology or Epistemics: the Science-Art of Innovating (Ph.D.) since 1966, and steward of The Art of Learning, a monthly online forum. A student and guide in the biology of emotion and the Affect-Script Psychology of Silvan Tomkins. Met Emilie Conrad in 1966. Emilie and Gary married in 1975 and were together for over 20 years. He participated in Continuum for 15 years as musician, consultant, and student, and is currently a member of the advisory board of Continuum Movement. Learning and living with Emilie and her community was a turning point in his development.
Jamie McHugh, RSMT is a teacher, performer, and visual artist living on the Mendocino Coast. Jamie has been teaching body-based work worldwide for the past 40 years and is the creator of Somatic Expression, a somatic-expressive approach to rewilding the body. Jamie first encountered Emilie Conrad and Continuum in 1994 at Esalen, which was the beginning of a life-changing, delightful 20 year mentorship and friendship. www.somaticexpression.com www.naturebeingart.org
Teri Carter RSMET, CMT, CC is a movement artist, educator, and therapist with a BFA and Masters in Dance. She shares over 35 years of experience in mindful body approaches internationally through workshops, performances, online webinars, and private sessions to assist individuals in cultivating their innate potential. Teri is an Authorized Teacher and current Director of Continuum Movement®, and she had the honor of performing with Emilie Conrad in the Continuum Movement Theatre Ensemble. She is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Past President of ISMETA, a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner, Vice President of Not Man Apart Physical Theatre, and an editorial board member of the Journal for Dance and Somatic Practices. Based in Los Angeles, Teri founded SOMAfest, Somatic Summit, Somatic Movement Arts professional training, and Somatic Equine Arts.
Thomas C Goelz has a BA from Stanford University (1978). He is owner and Chairman of Flotech Inc. He started studying Tai Chi in 1978, was asked to teach Tai Chi at UNF in 1990. He has continued to teach Tai Chi with his wife Donnalea at their integrative health center, Cobalt Moon, in Neptune Beach, Florida.
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Donnalea Van Vleet Goelz, PhD, is executive director of Continuum Movement®, founded by Emilie Conrad-Da'oud, and also Chair of the ECD Initiative for research in the somatic movement arts. She is the founder and owner of Cobalt Moon Center, a center for integrative health in Neptune Beach, Florida, and a Tai Chi Instructor (1990). She is on the faculty of Esalen Institute, Hollyhock Educational Institute and teaches workshops nationally and internationally in Continuum, Tai Chi, and healing arts. She has a PhD in Somatic Clinical Psychology. Currently, she is working to develop a research and education institute with Dr. Stephen Porges and Dr. Sue Carter that will examine the biology and possible interventions of trauma. She also has a research project underway at the University of North Florida on stress and military veterans which will utilize Tai Chi as one of its main interventions.


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Clarifying the definition of an "aggravated felony" for immigration purposes
On Monday, the Court clarified a key point of immigration law, holding in Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder (No. 09-60), that a second or subsequent conviction on a simple drug possession charge is not an "aggravated felony" for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) when the state conviction is not based on the fact of a prior conviction. [You can read my preview and recap of oral arguments in the case here and here.]
Petitioner Jose Angel Carachuri-Rosendo, a legal permanent resident of the United States, was convicted of two misdemeanor drug offenses in Texas: possession of a small amount of marijuana, followed by possession without a prescription of one anti-anxiety pill. For those crimes, he was sentenced to twenty and ten days in prison, respectively. The U.S. government then initiated removal proceedings against him. Carachuri-Rosendo agreed that he was removable by virtue of his crimes, but he sought relief from removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(a), which allows the Attorney General to cancel an order of removal as long as the non-citizen has not been convicted of an aggravated felony. However, the Immigration Judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals concluded that Carachuri-Rosendo was ineligible for cancellation of removal because his second conviction was an aggravated felony, and the Fifth Circuit affirmed.
The Court reversed. In an opinion by Justice Stevens, the Court held that although. Carachuri-Rosendo's second conviction could have been charged as a felony because of his first conviction, that mere possibility does not mean that Carachuri-Rosendo was in fact "convicted" of an "aggravated felony" for purposes of the INA.
The Court began with the text of the statute itself, which makes clear that an "aggravated felony" is a conviction for "illicit trafficking in a controlled substance." In the Court's view, neither Carachuri-Rosendo's second simple possession offense nor the sentence that it carried "fit easily into the "everyday understanding' of those terms." Moreover, the Court noted, the government's construction of the INA cannot be reconciled with the text of the statute, which renders a non-citizen ineligible for cancellation of removal only when she "has . . . been convicted of a[n] aggravated felony"; "[t]he text," the Court reasoned, "thus indicates that we are to look to the conviction itself as our starting point, not to what might have or could have been charged."
The Court also emphasized the procedural requirements imposed by federal law, which prohibits prosecutors from seeking a recidivist enhancement unless they so charge the defendant in the criminal information and the defendant has an opportunity to challenge the fact of the prior conviction itself. Such procedures, the Court emphasized, "have great practical significance with respect to the conviction itself and are integral to the structure and design of federal drug laws."
The Court rejected the Fifth Circuit's reliance on its decision in Lopez v. Gonzales (2006), explaining that "the "hypothetical approach' employed by the Court of Appeals introduces a level of conjecture at the outset of this inquiry that has no basis in Lopez." And, finally, the Court emphasized, "it seems clear that the Government's argument is inconsistent with common practice in the federal courts" insofar as it "is quite unlikely that the "conduct' that gave rise to Carachuri-Rosendo's conviction would have been punished as a felony in federal court."
Justice Scalia concurred in the judgment, offering a rationale which he characterized as "more straightforward than the Court's." He explained that although, pursuant to the Court's decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, recidivism can serve as a sentencing factor rather than an element of the offense, it did not follow that "an alien has been "convicted of' an aggravated felony . . . when he has been convicted of nothing more than a second state misdemeanor violation, the punishment for which could, because of recidivism, be extended beyond one year."
Justice Thomas separately concurred in the judgment, offering a third rationale for the Court's judgment. In his view, two requirements must be satisfied for a state conviction to qualify as a drug trafficking crime capable of rendering an alien ineligible for cancellation of removal: first, the offense "must be a felony"; and, second, the offense "must be capable of punishment under the Controlled Substances Act." In Carachuri-Rosendo's case, Justice Thomas concluded, the second requirement was satisfied, but not the first.


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Today you are going to see something about your health, your wealth and your future. It's the most important part of your health and it is the water you drink. Because you are 71% water, there is nothing more important than the water you drink. Water is so important to your body that every organ in our body runs on water. We are lubricated with water. We are heated with water. We are cooled with water. When you get something in your eye water cleanses and expels the object. Water carries nutrients into our bodies. There is nothing more important to your health, your wealth and your future than the water you drink. As we discuss "The Journey of Water" most of the questions you have ever had about water will be answered. Throughout this water show you are going see some things about water that you have never seen before. I want you to think about it and make a decision in your own personal life. What are you going to do about the water you drink? Because that is your job as we go through this show is to decide, "What kind of water are you going to drink?" You are going to learn some things about water that you have never learned before. Today we are going to put tap water on trial. This water right here is tap water (Reed turns on tap and fills bowl with tap water). We are going to prove that this water is absolutely filthy and unable to do the job water was intended to do. This is distilled water (Reed turns on tap and fills another bowl with distilled water). We are going to prove that distilled water is absolutely pure, is able to do the job water is intended to do, and distilled water is the water we should put in our body. We will be able to see the difference between these two waters. The first test we will conduct is called "The Boil Test." What we do is boil down a ½ a cup of distilled water in this pot over here. It's the only thing my wife makes me cook. We also boil down a ½ a cup of tap water in this other pot. Now if these waters are clean when they boil out of these pots, then the only thing that should be left in the pots is… nothing right, if the water is clean. We will find out, "Which water is the cleanest?" The tap water or the distilled water. We will start that test right now because it takes a few minutes to compete it. While we are waiting for The Boil Test, we will conduct "The Electricity Test". One question I have here is, "Does water conduct electricity?" If it is tap water, it is absolutely filthy and we know it does. (Reed then picked up an instrument with a light bulb attached to a long clear tube with two long metal prongs.) If I touch these two wires together that light goes on. If you were an electrician you would call this a "normally open circuit." If I put this in distilled water, it does what it is supposed to do and that is nothing. Because those wires are not touching and it is an open circuit the light should not turn on. But if I put it in tap water, it closes that gap. There is something in the water that is making that gap close. The difference between these two waters is this water is absolutely filthy water and this water is absolutely pure water. Tap water started out as distilled water. In nature we have lakes, rivers and streams. The sun heats these vessels of water up and the water vapor rises into the upper atmosphere, where it cools and is condensed. Whenever you take water and change it to vapor and then back to water, that is water distillation. Distilled water is completely clean and pure and void of pollutants. The rain water (or distilled water) falls through an absolutely filthy atmosphere. The rain water is absolutely pure and is distilled water but everything in the air is gathered up by the distilled water as it falls down to the earth. We have emissions from factories, smog from cities, solvents from all kinds of chemicals, emissions from cars, trains, planes, and buses. All of that is in the air, that is one the reason the light turns on in the tap water. Our tap water then hits the ground, in one teaspoon of dirt we have billions of bacterium, virus and parasites. The reason we do is because every animal or insect that has ever lived, reproduced, died and decomposed has become part of the soil. And that is the food for the bacterium, virus, and parasites. When the rain hits the ground it picks up these bacterium, virus, parasites, decomposed animals and insects. It carries them to a like to a river, stream, lake, or well and that water is full of everything that is in the soil. It comes to a lake where fish live and die there. And we drink that. We drink everything that is in the soil, every microorganism, everything that comes in contact with water , water absorbs and transports. Then the water comes to a Water Treatment Plant, where we are chemically treating our water, that is why it is called the Treatment Plant. Our water is exposed to many chemicals. This is a newspaper in Utah called Capital Connections- News for and about people and government, with the Utah State Seal here. On the back in an article titled, "Making sure your water is safe." Written by Carol Sisco with the Utah Department of Environmental Quality and Public Information Office. The article quotes Dr. Eva Nieminski, who has a PHD in Environmental Engineering and is over all 50 Water Treatment Plant in the State of Utah. Dr. Nieminski said: "We're learning about very resistant pathogens in water. They are very difficult to kill so you need strong disinfectants. These chemicals may ultimately cause cancer over a lifetime. So the question becomes, would you rather have diarrhea today, or cancer over a 70-year period?" Raise your hand. So who wants diarrhea? Who wants cancer? Pretty good choice there huh. Those are the two choices we have drinking tap water. I think we should drink something else other than tap water. The cancer they are talking about is Prostate Cancer, Bladder Cancer, Colon Cancer… your Urinary Tract Cancers because that is where water goes first and your body is exposed to all of those chemicals. We know chlorine mixes with acids in water and that causes tri-ethylene compounds. Tri-ethylene compounds are linked to spontaneous miscarriage and various cancers according to John Hopkins University in New York and USA Today. When our water leaves the water Treatment Plant it travels though the pipe system. Some of these pipe systems are hundreds of miles long and hundreds of years old. In Ogden, Utah where we are filming this Watershow, our pipes are 108 years old. Made of cast iron pipes with lead joints. The tap water goes back and forth through hundreds of miles of pipe and then comes up into our tap. We turn on our taps on and drink out of our beautiful faucets and think nothing about the journey that water has been on. The Journey of Water is a long, filthy journey. Everywhere that water has been is everywhere we walk. Everything on the bottom of your shoe is in your water if you ever think of it that way. That is why when we put the light in tap water it conducts electricity. There are 80,000 chemicals in our water. In 1903 we had 3 people in 100 dying of cancer. In that hundred years until now we have developed 80,000 commercially produced chemicals. Today 1 in 4 people die of cancer and 1 in 3 people get cancer and the cancer rate is still rising. You think about the chemicals in our lives, we wash our hair with chemicals, we brush our teeth with chemicals, we wash our clothes with chemicals, we have chemical on our food… we are a chemical society. The only thing that takes that out of our bodies is the water we drink. Water absorbs and cleans everything out of our body as is goes through our system. Distilled water is totally different. Distilled water does not conduct electricity and we know it is absolutely pure water. The Journey Distilled Water is different than tap water. Water is brought to a boil in a heating chamber. The steam rises and leaves all of the impurities behind in the boiling chamber. The steam is forced through the coil and the fan cools the coil and changes the steam into 99.9% pure water. Periodically we drain this boiling chamber out. So for example, when we have made 50 gallons of water through the distillation process what was in 50 gallons of water in now is trapped in the boiling chamber. When we clean that boiling chamber out we are totally amazed with the amount of filth that is in that boiling chamber. (Reed holds up a quart sized clear jar with a thick brown silt substance.) This is the filth in 50 gallons of Salt Lake City tap water. And people wonder why they are getting sick and why they are getting diseases. This is Ogden City Utah water right here. (Reed hold up a quart sized clear jar with a thick white substance.) You never would believe it if you didn't see it for yourself. After we distilled 80 gallons of Morgan City water we found this in the boiling chamber. (Reed holds up a quart sized clear jar with a sea blue substance.) Does that look like one of the chemicals they use at the Water Treatment Plant? (Reed holds this quart jar up to a contain filled with the chemical copper sulfate. Both containers look the same.) It does, doesn't it…looks like the chemical Copper Sulfate. Now the reason they add Copper Sulfate into the water is because they have algae growing in the water pipelines and Copper Sulfate kills algae. Algae won't hurt us will it, but when it starts to die a rot in the water it smells. Many of you have smelled the algae in the Great Salt Lake when it dies, it has quite a foul odor. When that same gas in is the water pipes and chlorine is injected in the water supply, the reaction of the algae gas and chlorine it creates Tri-elemethane Gas . Tri-elemethane Gas is very carcinogenic. That is where we come up with Prostate Cancer, Bladder Cancer, Colon Cancer and other cancers. I met a lady who said she only drinks water from the North Ogden spring. Here is 30 gallons of North Ogden water. (Reed holds up a quart size clear jar with a thick white substance.) That is what Is in the spring. Remember whenever you are drinking right out of the ground, right out of the dirt, you are drinking dirt. You are drinking filth. You are drinking everywhere you have walked. You are drinking everything that is on your shoe. It doesn't matter where that water is from the filth is there. These inorganic minerals are what we are drinking. This is right out of a distiller. (Reed holds up a plate with white, crusty, hard materials.) Does that look like it would be good for the inside of our bodies? Dr. Charles Mayo of the Mayo Clinic said "Water hardness (inorganic minerals in solution) is the underlying cause of many, if not all, of the diseases resulting from poisons in the intestinal tract. These (hard minerals) pass from the intestinal walls and get into the lymphatic system, which delivers all of its products to the blood, which in turn, distributes to all parts of the body. This is the cause of much human disease." In Dr. Banik's book "The Choice is Clear" he says, "If you are concerned about arthritis, hardening of the arteries, kidney stones, gall stones, cataracts, glaucoma, loss of hearing, diabetes, obesity or emphysema. Do not drink the inorganic minerals found in water." He is just talking about the inorganic minerals, we have talked about 80,000 different chemicals in our water. We have talked about the insects, bacterium, parasites, virus, and dead animals in our water. When I installed a water distiller in my home, during the very first week this is what we took out of the water. That is what six people would have drank in tap water in just the first week. When I got showing this to people and my wife and kids they were astonished. Can you see right there? Look there are actually animal hairs here. There are six animal hairs in this bottle. (Reed holds up a quart sized clear jar with a white substance and points to one of the six thick, course, dark animal hairs.) When I called the Water Treatment Plant manager and asked him why there were animal hairs in my drinking water, he said "I thought they took that all out." I said, "Well what animal was it?" He said, "We don't know what the animal was, it was too badly decomposed." I said, "Well why didn't you tell everybody that they were drinking a dead animal this week?" And he said, "Oh don't worry we put more chlorine in your water!" Chlorine is 400,000 times more poisonous that DDT. It is linked to a lot of diseases, even cardiovascular disease because it roughens up the artery walls which causes inorganic materials to stick to your blood vessel walls. Because a rough spot makes it easier for things to stick. You may go around for 10, 20,30, 40, 50, 60, or 70 years before you have any cardiovascular disease cause you any problems. But if the wrong blood vessel gets plugged off, they call that a heart attack. If the wrong blood vessel in your brain gets plugged off, they call that a stroke. If the inorganic minerals get into our body, into our joints, in our ear, it can cause aging diseases that we don't have any cure for. Right here in the laboratory let's take distilled water through the same journey as tap water has been on and make the light go on. We will have to add a lot of things to the distilled water. First we will add bacterium, virus, and parasites, I will wash my hands in this distilled water. (Reed then washes his hands with the distilled water in the bowl.) Five parts per million will make this light go on. We will see just how dirty my hands are. (Reed placed the light bulb test module into the distilled water. The light does not turn on.) Tap water is still hundreds of times dirtier than this distilled water I washed my hands in. Do you know the really funny thing about this? (Reed scoups up ½ cup of the water and offers it to an audience member to drink.) You won't drink this water will you? The audience member answers "No!" Reed said, "Why not?" "It is still hundreds of times cleaner than tap water." Did you just see what your eyes did to your brain? You saw something in your water! What do you really want in your water? Nothing, me too! When I saw this for the first time that is what I decided, "I don't want anything in my water!" I wanted clean water. Let's take this experiment a little bit further… let's add some inorganic minerals to it. We'll add some chemicals from farms and factories in there. Then we will stir it up. What is it starting to look like now? Mountain Dew right? Now we will take it to the water treatment plant where we will add some technology to the water and we will stir that around. With the right amount of chemicals we can make that awful looking yellow water look just like tap water. (After adding all of the inorganic minerals, chemicals, and other pollutants the water color was yellow. Then the water treatment chemical was added and it changed the color of the water from yellow to the color of tap water.) Isn't that cool. Now let's see if we made this distilled water into tap water. Let's see if the light will go on. (Reed puts the device in the water and the light bulb turns on.) Yep! Now according to Dr. Eva Nemenski that water is safe to drink. (Reed scoops out some water and offers it to an audience member) You don't want to drink it? Why not, it is safe? What is the definition of safe water? Won't cause Diarrhea today. Let's see what we have done with this TDS meter. TDS stands for Total Dissolved Solids, that means anything that is totally dissolved in the water will show up on this TDS meter. (Reed places the TDS meter in a cup of distilled water. Reed has an audience member read the meter.) What does the TDS meter read? Zero. This means zero parts per million. Tap water from Ogden City reads what? 308 parts per million. Now let's find check out the distilled water we added all that filth to and made into tap water. What does it read? 54 parts per million. That is still six times cleaner than tap water. Can you imagine how much filth is in tap water? If you could see where that tap water has been – the animal carcuses, the dead insects, the inorganic minerals, all the chemicals that are in this water. If you could see what was in this tap water making the TDS meter read 308 parts per million, you would never drink it and you shouldn't. We only had 54 parts per million in this water and you saw everything I put in that. You wouldn't even drink the water after I just washed my hands in it. We had 26 little kids here one day and they all washed their hand in this distilled water and it still wasn't dirtier that tap water. It still did not have as high of a TDS reading as the tap water. Let's check out our pots and the Boil Test. This pot had tap water and this pot had distilled water. Is there a big difference between these two pots? Remember this is just a half a cup of water boiled down. (The pot with distilled water is clean. The pot with tap water has a white residue of film on the bottom of the pot.) How many cups of water are we supposed to drink in a day? 8 cups. This is 8 cups of tap water boiled down. (Reed showed another pot with more white residue.) That is what you are drinking into your body every day! That is one day, here is 7 days, here is 365 days, and this is ten years. (Reed showed different sizes of jugs containing filth from water.) How old are you? If you are 45 you have run 4.5 of these through your body. This is what your body has to deal with drinking tap water. Our bodies are wonderful machines aren't they. They can handle a lot of filth, but after so many years of drinking filth into our body it has an accumulation effect. And someday it is going to cause us some health problems. If we had a new BMW and we opened up the hood and poured this down the oil spout of that car, what would the dealer say to us about the warranty of that car engine? He would say it is void, wouldn't he. (Reed held up the plate of hard, crusty inorganic minerals.) You know our bodies are the same way. Our bodies are the finest piece of machinery on earth. Our body depends on proper maintenance to run smoothly. And our body is the most amazing machine in the world. It is run on solar power, we eat carbohydrates and they are produced by the sun. And we reproduce. And when we get a cut we heal; we have a pretty neat machine. Does your car fix itself when it breaks. It doesn't does it. Our bodies are 71% water. There is nothing more important to our body that the water we drink. And if we are putting this much filth in our bodies, our machine every day. (Reed holds up the pot with 1 days worth of filth.) We will void the warranty on our machine. How long to we get to stay in our machine? Until we wear it out, until we put enough filth in it and we wear it out. Then we get to leave our machine. So there is nothing more important to us than our health. We can have all the money we want, we can have all the time we want, we can squander all of the money and time we want. BUT is we squander our health, all of our time and money will be spent trying to get our health back! Water is so important. Your have 71 trillion cells in your body and every day billions of them die. The only thing that carries them out of our body, the only thing that carries out the dead cells, the spent minerals and vitamins out of our body is the water we drink. Now if I went out on the farm and worked and got totally filthy and then came to your house and took a bath in your bathtub and saved the water, "Would you like to crawl into that bathtub and take a bath?" No. Why not? Because the water is absolutely filthy isn't it. Well that is the same way with this tap water here. There are 308 parts per million in this tap water. Do we expect that water to clean the inside of our body? That's what we are drinking water for. Three day without water and we die. If our water is already absolutely filthy, it is like taking a bath in a bathtub that is already filthy. What do you want to drink? What do you want to bathe in? You want to bathe in clean water don't you. You should bathe the inside of your body with clean water. Zero parts per million water is what you should be drinking. Water carries the toxins out of our body. There is more important to our body, more important to our health, our wealth and our future than the water we drink! Out of all of the waters you can drink you want water that cleans your body. When we get water to this point to the tap or faucet, we drink that into our bodies. Let's see the difference between the two waters (tap water and distilled water) as then enter our body. We will put 200 mililiters of tap water in this bottle. And this represents the filth in our bodies. We will put 12 drops of filth into both bottles. (Reed puts 12 drops of filth in the tap water.) Now let's shake this around. Now as this water goes through your body, up to your brain, through all of your organs, and around your body you will see something happen to this water. As that water goes through your body what happens? There is an accumulation of filth in that water. (The flask has build up stuck to the sides.) When you eliminate this water from your body through urination, does it leave something in your body? It does doesn't it. The tap water is not able to absorb, transport, and eliminate the waste in your body. Now this is distilled water in this bottle, in this body. We will put 200 milliliters of distilled water in this bottle. We are going to have the distilled water contend with the same amount of filth, 12 drops. This isn't magic or anything it just shows how distilled water deals with filth. Now as this water goes through your body, up to your brain, through all of your organs, and around your body you will see something happen to this water. This water is actually able to absorb, transport and eliminate the waste in your body. When you eliminate this water from your body through urination, What happens? (The bottle is clear and clean, no residue is left behind.) Distilled water carries the filth with it. There is a big difference between these two waters isn't there. Distilled Water is able to absorb, transport and eliminate the waste from your body. Now does anybody have any questions about water at the end of this show?
There is a controversy about fluoride in water what can you tell us about that?
I don't really know, but I just know that on Government Toxicity Chart Fluoride is just a little bit more toxic than lead and not quite a poisonous as Arsenic. I do have two tubes of toothpaste here from the same company, one is fluoridated and the other is not fluoridated. But on the back of the fluoridated toothpaste it says "keep out of the reach of children under the six years of age and if accidentally swallowed more than during regular brushing call the poison control center immediately." On the back of the non-floridated toothpaste it says you can eat all you want… there is no poison warning, it is totally safe for children or anyone. I know that sodium fluoride is quite a controversy right now in our drinking water. The EPA has come out against the fluoridation of drinking water. I am not a scientist so I don't know really if it is good or bad but there are some really reliable sources out there that say fluoride is not good for us. For me, I think that fluoride or any other poison I don't want in my body just overloads my body. My body already has to deal with other poisons. Flouride is used in: Rat Poison, Pesticides, Dental Offices, Municipalities, and Drinking Water.
Does Distillation get fluoride out? What other chemicals does it get out?
Distillation gets all the chemicals out of the water, including fluoride. Volatile gases however do distill over across, that is why we put a post-carbon filter on the distiller. The carbon filter had a broad spectrum of filtration for volatile gases. A lot of your volatile gases are: petroleum or oil, chlorine, and pesticides (many of them are phyrethroids) . We know the combination of the distillation process and the carbon filter take all of this out of the water, up to 99.9% and you would have to drink millions of gallons to get any adverse effect from those chemicals.
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When you talk the talk then when your moment to shine comes about you fail and fall on your face.
Fail under pressure. Over hyped based on performance in critical matters, at critical times.
The McCain/Palin ticket was steamrolling having gained the republicans vote based on polls leading up to the election, then when actually given a chance to speak they both LaBroned and burst into flames.


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Golf cart theft probed
Dave Vorhees
Thursday, August 17, 2017
The Wapakoneta Country Club was the target of cart thieves sometime during the night Tuesday as workers arrived at the club and noticed eight golf carts missing.
The golf carts are not owned by the country club; they are leased from a third party. The Auglaize County Sheriff's office is currently investigating the incident and is not releasing any more information at this time.
"The report is incomplete," Chief Deputy Mike Epperly said Wednesday. "All we know is that they disappeared overnight."
The Wapakoneta Country Club preferred not to comment at this time so as to not hinder the investigation.
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Rita Burke is a Senior Facilitator with Impact Performance Group, Inc. She is adept at sales training both new hires and existing sellers in small groups and large classrooms. Focused on Consultative Selling Skills, enhancing Emotional Intelligence and improving Presentation Skills, she is recognized for her training and coaching skills as well as for her direct experience in leading sales teams.
Prior to her work with Impact Performance Group Rita held a number of senior level positions at Ziff-Davis Media. She led international sales and designed and delivered global sales training in France, UK, Germany, Mexico and China. She spearheaded the company's efforts to sell customized, integrated advertising and sponsorship programs to top clients including IBM, Dell, Microsoft and HP. As President, Sales for Zinio, a digital start-up, she was responsible for closing new business, developing strategic high-level client relationships, negotiating agreements with key accounts and training and coaching the sales, account management and production teams that led to extraordinary growth in the US client base.


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The article examines the social foundations of constitutionalism in China, focusing on constitutions as a historical response to particular events. The goal is to move beyond an analysis of the constitution as a formal text to shed light on the de facto constitutional order in China, on China's living constitution and its social, historical, cultural, economic, political and legal foundations. Part I begins with a brief historical overview of China's constitutions. Parts II discusses the current constitution, passed in 1982, and its four subsequent amendments. Part III explores the main functions of the constitution in China today and how the constitutional order actually operates. Part IV discusses China's living constitution. Part V concludes with some thoughts about the future of constitutionalism in China, and the possibility of a party-state alternative to liberal democratic constitutionalism.Image credit.
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The Advanced Engineering Group (AEG) operates strategically to influence trends and extract value at the concept development stage of a project. The Group is the innovation engine of the ICD business charged with identifying, developing and commercialising new technologies and techniques, to enhance our services and unlock value for our clients across assets, for example:
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A great and large plot of land of 14.000 sq.m in total for sale in one of the most beautiful traditional villages in Crete as it was lastly voted by official organisations!
6.000 sq.m are situated within the construction plan of the village so they can be built a lot either of private use or commercial one(rentals, etc) while the remaining plot is located outside the village's building plan and although it can also be built the building rights are less.
It is pleasantly situated on the edge of the village next to traditional buildings!
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Yesterday when we were at church the verse (that I CANNOT find for the life of me) that talks about the importance of regularly surrounding yourself with believers came to mind. I have always known of this verse but never really understood the significance of it. During service yesterday my eyes were opened to the power of that verse.
Don't get me wrong, one on one time with the big guy is very important, just like studying for an exam after class is essential to do well on the exam. BUT would you do well on the exam if the teacher didnt teach you the new material? There are aspects of being in a group of believers that you can't obtain on your own. Fellow believers can empower you, send you in the right direction, open your eyes to things otherwise unseen, etc. Plus what is stronger than an encouraging word?
I encourage you to surround yourself with fellow believers that will help you become better in your walk with the Lord. And.... SMILE of this happy thursday! :)
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Oct 28, 2011
The Aquarian Suite is one of the CDs you look at and say, "Don't I know these guys from somewhere…?". If you are any kind of jazz fan, the answer is an unequivocal yes.
Blake has risen to prominence working for artists like Esperanza Spalding, Julian Lage and Danilo Perez. He is a saxophone player with great ability to mould his sound to different settings and timings without losing his own sense of self. For The Aquarian Suite, he has put together a piano-less quartet to record an album of original material dedicated to his many musical heroes. A lecturer in music history at Brooklyn College, Blake knows his stuff, both on and off the bandstand.
The band features an adventurous sounding bass from Jorge Roeder (Gary Burton, Lage, Maria Schneider), solid drumming from Richie Barshay (Spalding, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea) and a trumpet played by Jason Palmer (Greg Osby, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ravi Coltrane) ready to tangle with Blake's tenor sax and give no ground.
The material is uniformly strong, whether it's the Monk-ish "Mister Who", the ballad "You Cry So Pretty", dedicated to Miles Davis, or my favorite, "The Whistler", dedicated to bop legend Horace Silver. Blake kicks the tune off the a solo that recalls Ornette Coleman with its swirling reach, and then moves into tight interplay between Blake and Palmer, with Roeder providing perfectly placed fills to complete the sound.


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coach in many countries have agents that can be searched, in China he has become our consumer goods. Hong Kong and Shanghai have already have a coach of the store, but Japan also introduced a coach that expensive, luxury brand, became his second of the Kingdom. We always see the screen "C" word, many celebrities are a big fan of coach, can often present with a variety of parties, fashion styles you, beautiful colors, enough to attract the eye. Star advertising effect, so that more people understand that coach.
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This time of year is a time for reflection for many of us, a time for stopping and taking stock. We had a wonderful family celebration in our woods. It was magical and a complete contrast to the run up to Christmas where both my husband and I had been working at such a hectic pace. It's the nature of our work so the quiet of Christmas is most welcome.
I have such plans for 2018; so many it feels like sometimes my head is spinning. There is so much I want to do and achieve it would be easy to get lost. So it's a time for planning, reflecting on what is REALLY important, what resonates. To go with the heart. I have never been terribly good at doing things that don't resonate, and the times I have I've just become terribly unhappy and ill.
So before I start, before we step through the door to 2018, I have stopped. I have become my own still point, listening to what calls me, draws me the most and for me it's important to always be learning.
Top of my list is deepening my Yoga and Qi Gong practice. Somewhere on the list is the rapid induction / street hypnosis course. And of course most important of all, my wonderful family. Which brings this to a close, it's nearly 6, my husband has built a fire outside, I'm waiting for the chips to par-boil, and we've got friends coming over for New Year Celebrations.
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Lough Muckno Easter 1 Festival 2014
This was the 1st of the Easter festivals held on Lough Muckno, Castleblaney, county Monahan, Ireland. 42 anglers fished on a section rotation basis over 3 days. Coming out on top by over 2 kg was venue expert Phil Jackson who put in consistently brilliant performances each day to finish with a 29,090 kg total. Second overall with 27,060 kg was Phil Walton. Cathal Hughes is hardly ever out of the frame and this festival was no exception as he finished 3rd with 26,170 kg. I just finished in the money coming 6th with 23,720 kg.
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view from my peg on Black island
my day 1 catch just under 20lbs
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view from my peg on yellow section
my day 2 catch about 20lbs again
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Resort News
26 February 2018
The Snow.com Spring 96-Hour Sale Returns Feb. 27 to March 2 with Vacation Values Across Vail Resorts Destinations
Beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 27, the Snow.com 96-Hour Sale clock starts ticking with the best values on mountain getaways across Vail Resorts and RockResorts destinations, including Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Park City, Lake Tahoe, Whistler Blackcomb and Grand Teton National Park. http://www2.snow.com/info/96hoursale
17 January 2018
Vail Resorts Partners with 92 Groups to Help with Critical Community Issues
The Best of Tahoe Resorts, Heavenly Mountain, Northstar California and Kirkwood Mountain Resorts, granted cash and product donations to 92 nonprofits from South Lake Tahoe, Meyers, Jackson, Stateline, Minden, Gardnerville and Carson City as well as organizations from Truckee, Tahoe City, King's Beach and Incline Village. The EpicPromise grant announcements were made at community events held at Zalanta in South Lake Tahoe and the Alpine Club in the Village at Northstar in mid-December.
06 November 2017
Last Chance to Ski the Best of Tahoe and Whistler Blackcomb with an Epic Local Pass is Sunday, Nov. 19.
Ski and snowboard season is just around the corner at Lake Tahoe and the last chance to purchase a 2017-2018 season pass for the Best of Tahoe Resorts, as well as Whistler Blackcomb, is Sunday, Nov. 19. Heavenly Mountain and Northstar California Resorts began snowmaking earlier this month in advance of opening day slated for Friday, Nov. 17 at Heavenly and Northstar and Wednesday, Nov. 22 at Kirkwood. This announcement comes after receiving more than 700 inches of snow during the 2016-2017 winter season – the most snowfall on record for more than two decades.
18 May 2017
Vail Resorts' 1% For The Forest Partnership with The Nature Conservancy Helps to Protect and Restore Ecological Stewardship Projects
The Nature Conservancy and Vail Resorts announce the 1% For The Forest initiative, a beneficiary project in which one percent of revenue from Epic Discovery activities at Heavenly Mountain Resort help fund important ecological restoration and conservation projects managed by The Nature Conservancy. The important eco-discovery projects, the Independence Lake Preserve and River Fork Ranch Preserve, connect citizens of the region with uniquely iconic natural settings.
12 March 2017
The 2017-2018 Tahoe Local Pass Unlocks the Best of the West with Access to Tahoe, Park City, and Colorado; 2016-2017 Ski Season Extended at Heavenly and Northstar
While Tahoe continues to enjoy the largest snowpack in 22 years, the Best of Tahoe Resorts today announces the availability of the Tahoe Local Pass for the 2017-2018 season, providing unrestricted access to Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood. The Tahoe Local Pass also includes limited access to all of Vail Resorts' iconic mountains in Colorado and Utah.
22 February 2017
Heavenly Mountain Resort, Northstar California Announce Extended Ski Season
Amidst the largest snowpack in 22 years, the Best of Tahoe Resorts announce extended ski seasons for Heavenly Mountain Resort daily through April 23, and the weekend of April 28 – 30; Northstar California now offers skiing through April 23. Kirkwood continues with legendary spring skiing through April 16.
08 February 2017
Vacation Values Abound with the Return of the Snow.com Spring 96-Hour Sale, Feb. 14 through 17
Beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 14, the Snow.com 96-Hour Sale clock starts ticking with the best values on mountain getaways across Vail Resorts and RockResorts destinations, including Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Park City and Grand Teton National Park. www.Snow.com/96hoursale
05 January 2017
As Much as Six Feet of New Snow Delivered in the Last Week to Top Ski Resorts Across the Western United States
The New Year has resolved to deliver massive amounts of snow across ski resorts in the western United States, with as much as six feet falling in the last week. A heavy band of snow is expected to continue falling today across the mountains throughout the day, including Colorado's Vail Mountain, Beaver Creek Resort, Breckenridge and Keystone; Utah's Park City Mountain; and the Lake Tahoe Region's Heavenly Mountain Resort, Northstar California and Kirkwood Mountain Resort.
16 December 2016
Famed Signature Terrain Slated to Open at Best of Tahoe Resorts
North and South Lake Tahoe, Calif./Nev. – Dec. 16, 2016 – 5 to 18 inches of fresh snowfall this morning has enabled Heavenly Mountain Resort, Northstar California and Kirkwood Mountain to open additional terrain to guests of all ability levels this week, with more trails scheduled to open for the weekend. Combined, the three resorts offer guests the most open terrain within the Lake Tahoe region.


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As a result of continued growth and expansion we are actively recruiting for a Solutions Director to join in to our Global Systems and Solutions team.
Global Systems & Solutions is responsible for definition of technical solution for customer bids and ensuring that development plans meet the customer needs. The team is the primary interface for the EMEA business and its various functional areas – Sales, Product Management and Customer Program Implementation – towards Global R&D.
As an experienced Solutions Director you understand and collect the customer requirements and business drivers. Based on these you gather the team to ensure that we can deliver the technical solution meeting the customer needs. You contribute to developing strategies to win new opportunities, prepare presentations and drive proposals for RFI/RFPs in EMEA region.
By coordinating the technical bid support you provide solution proposals for customer's requirements including development effort, cost and delivery schedule estimates. You drive the creation of technical part of the Statement Of Work by coordinating the solution design proposal and schedule estimation with the relevant architects, PM's and R&D managers. During the development phase you ensure transparent information sharing between customer project and R&D activities to make sure the solution will meet the committed content and delivery schedule. This includes reporting and organizing regular meetings with key interfaces.
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Simplified Chinese Copywriter - Based in Beijing
Posted Jul 16, 2018 - Requisition No. 68134
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The Studio is Bloomberg's in-house creative group. We work on assignments for digital, print, environmental, interactive and broadcast projects. The Studio has excellent writing, design, production and content capabilities. Our creative team has a strong hands-on and highly collaborative approach to both campaign concept development and graphic design systems. The team ensures ideas are realized to world-class standard execution. The Studio drives projects across the full spectrum of Bloomberg, rolling out campaigns both internally and externally. The team works across a global workflow, with staff in all our major offices.
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Our Studio team is searching for a talented, versatile, energetic, creative, detail-focused Simplified Chinese copywriter. In the role we will trust you to create relevant and effective marketing ideas and copy in Simplified Chinese to engage current and prospective audiences. You will be able to add strategic insights to the overall creative process, and demonstrate a real passion for our brand.
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- Confidently collaborate with a variety of marketing managers, art directors and designers across borders to develop non-traditional, unorthodox approaches
- Interact professionally with internal business partners and clients, and to understand their business objectives
- Manage workflow in a dynamic environment
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- Write expertly in Simplified Chinese for a mainland Chinese audience
- Strong comprehension of the English language in order to understand technical documents, briefs, feedback and direction in English
- Trans-create English copy into effective and clear Simplified Chinese copy
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- Be as comfortable developing new creative concepts as you are writing technical marketing collateral
- Demonstrate experience in producing world-class creative and strategic communications
- Develop concepts and copy for integrated brand and product campaigns across multiple formats
- Demonstrate a versatile sensibility and command of language that can adapt and change tone to represent different attitudes and/or audiences
- Be comfortable with and able to manage workflow in a global, fast-paced, always-on environment
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Liquidity risk is a topic growing immensely in importance in risk management. It has been much neglected by financial institutions and regulators in recent years and receives, in the course of the sub-prime crisis, sudden and great attention. This book is well-structured and provides a comprehensive and systematic approach to the topic. It will help risk controllers to systematically set up a liquidity risk framework in their bank.
Peter NEU, European Risk Team Leader, The Boston Consulting Group, and co author of Liquidity Risk Measurement and Management
Mr Duttweiler's book is a welcome addition to the literature on liquidity risk measurement and management. In addition to his contributions to liquidity risk theory and liquidity pricing, the author provides a good overview of all of the critical elements.
Leonard Matz, International Solution Manager, Liquidity Risk and co-author of Liquidity Risk Measurement and Management
Liquidity Risk Management has gained importance over recent years and particularly in the last year, as major bank failures have led to a re-evaluation of the significance of liquidity in stressed market conditions. Liquidity risk is closely related to market risk and solvency, suggesting its significance in times of volatile and 'bear' markets, wherea single bank's failure can have dramatic effects on market liquidity.
The term liquidity is not well-define, and a comprehensive understanding of its common elements is often missing within a banking organisation. In too many cases, liquidity risk management has not been developed with a coherent framework and generally accepted terms and methods, creating weaknesses in its structure and vulnerability to market risk. In this title, Duttweiler advances the study of quantitative liquidity risk management with the concept of the 'Liquidity Balance Sheet', which allocates portfolios into a specific structure, and consequently is able to account for potentially negative surprises so that the necessary buffers can be quantified.
The book begins with an overview of liquidity as part of financial policy and highlights the importance of liquidity as part of a general business concept and as protector and supporter of a business as a going concern. The author examines the role o liquidity in helping managers to achieve high-level liquidity aims to support operating units to achieve business goals. He looks at quantitative methods of assessing a banks liquidity levels, including LaR and VaR, to establish an integrated concept in which liquidity is incorporated into the framework of financial policies. He also presents methods, tools, scenarios and concepts to create a policy framework for liquidity and to support contingency planning.


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Brian Matusz turned in his ninth quality start of the season, but the bats bailed on him again.
"If you just look at him pitch, you wouldn't think he's that young," interim manager Juan Samuel said. "He's got an idea. He knows what he wants to do on the mound, so when he needs to make good pitches, he's been able to make good pitches and get out of potentially big innings for the other club. He's been able to control the damage very well, so that was very nice. He's been doing that for us all year."
Any chance the lack of run support and the losing - his record is 2-9 after tonight - could become an issue for the rookie?
"I don't think so because we've seen him throw the ball very, very well," Samuel said. "He's really not showing his age out there. He's making pitches and that's all that matters for us. He is progressing. He's making good pitches. We're not worried about him at all."
Samuel praised plate umpire Fieldin Culbreth for the way he handled a potentially volatile situation in the fifth inning, when Matusz hit Daric Barton and Oakland starter Vin Mazzaro appeared to retaliate by drilling Julio Lugo.
"The umpire felt like he had to send a warning just to stop anything that could happen," Samuel said. "That was the end of it, hopefully. He did not do it on purpose. I did not think we did it on purpose. We were just trying to get the pitch in a little bit. The umpire did a good job."
Oakland stole a season-high four bases tonight, the most against the Orioles in a single game this season.
Orioles relievers have allowed two earned runs and 12 hits, with four walks and 14 strikeouts, in the last five games totaling 19 1/3 innings.
I'll save you the math: That's a 0.93 ERA.
The Orioles are 2-10 in games decided by two runs.
Felix Pie was 4-for-5 with a double and run scored at Double-A Bowie.


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1. Re: Dynamically displaying a hosted pdf using a urlSantiago Sanchez Mar 13, 2017 4:50 PM (in response to Chelsea Ursaner)1 of 1 people found this helpful
Hi Chelsea,
Looks like the 2nd screenshot is from Tableau Desktop, which uses QT Webkit instead of one of the fully supported browsers (more info here: Browser Used to Render Web Page Objects in Tableau Desktop | Tableau Software). Once you publish the workbook to Tableau Server or Public, your browser will take over. Have you tried publishing and do you still see the same message?
Hope this helps!
2. Re: Dynamically displaying a hosted pdf using a urlChelsea Ursaner Mar 13, 2017 7:19 PM (in response to Santiago Sanchez)
Genius!! Thank you! Unfortunately though Tableau crashes every time after I see that black screen. I select the option of sending an error report every time, so maybe they'll fix it. But the City is getting up and running with Tableau Server so I'll try adding the url in the web editor sometime in the next couple of weeks.
3. Re: Dynamically displaying a hosted pdf using a urlSantiago Sanchez Mar 14, 2017 8:41 AM (in response to Chelsea Ursaner)
Sounds great! And fantastic idea about submitting the error report. In the meantime, you could setup the web part with an empty URL like this one:
With that you should be able to publish (just don't click on the program launching the URL action so you don't get the error on your desktop). Once published, you can click program and the dynamic URL should work as usual.


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Meet The Staff
Diane Lutz, RDH
Diane has been a member of Smile Arts Dental for six and a half years. After earning her B.S. degree from the University of Iowa, Diane has been a practicing hygienist since 1981 in various locations around the United States. Diane enjoys getting to know her patients and helping them improve their oral health. She has been married for 26 years. Her husband Jim is a partner for a fortune 100 insurance company and serves as the head coach of Viper Aquatics in Westfield. Diane and Jim have two sons, Kyle and Kory.
Nelli Vitkin, RDH
Nellie earned her degree in dental hygiene from the Indiana University School of Dentistry in 1998. She has practiced as a dental hygienist for over 16 years and focuses on ensuring her patients receive the most comprehensive yet gentle care. Nellie is experienced in all aspects of dental health including nutrition and supplements.
Nellie and her husband reside in Carmel. She enjoys reading, traveling and spending time with family and her dog, Charlie.
Ana Moran, RDA
Ana is an expanded functions dental assistant, earning her certification from the Indiana University School of Dentistry. Ana is originally from Belorussia, but lived in Israel and Canada. She has lived in the United States since 2008. Ana is busy with her two children and also working for Trinity Free Clinic. In her free time she enjoys spending time with her friends and loves to travel with her family in the U.S. and abroad.
Linda Hughes, Schedule Coordinator
Linda joined Dr. Balaban's practice in August 2013 as the office Coordinator. Prior to that, she had worked in specialty as well as family practice for past several years. Linda and her husband Kent reside in Indianapolis. Besides spending time with family and friends, other interests include baking, vacations at the beach and the Colts.
Luba Balaban, Office Manager, RDH
Luba Balaban is an active member of ADHA, mother of 5 children: 2 boys and 3 girls. She graduated in 2000 with the degree of RDH from the IU dental school. Luba moved to USA in 1996 with the Degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery from the State Medical University of the Republic of Moldova. During intensive training back in 1990-1995, she met her future husband Dr. Alex Balaban and graduated successfully in 1995 with a 3 month old precious boy. Luba is happy to have been a part of Smile Arts Dental from the very beginning when it was founded in August, 2004. Her mission is to help the office grow, create a happy environment for both staff members and patients and support Dr. Balaban to be able to give patients the best up-to-date dental care possible. She loves being around kids and is happy to make the young generation become responsible independent grown-ups with beautiful happy healthy smiles!


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WAWIKO showcase systems
WAWIKO is a practical and inexpensive system for the display of your trains which consists of acrylic tubes with optional wall brackets. The trains are protected against dust, well presented and easy to display or to remove via means of coupling to your model railway layout. In future there is no need to hide your valuable trains in boxes or in the lower level of your layout. Free your layout of some rolling material to be able to drive more freely once again.
Both sides of the tubes are locked with transparent gates, which run in deep milled tracks. Breaking through of the trains is impossible!
With tracks bautiful and useful
The acryl tubes are delivered without tracks, so you can select the tracks system of your choice. It is our opinion that to the presentation of a train belongs also a visible track bed. As the experience shows, it is not necessary to fix the track to the tube, but it can be done very easily.
Dimensions of the tubes
You can order all length ot tubes for the price of the next standard length.
Tubes with an unlimeted life period?
Our tubes are made of a strong acrylic material with a material thickness of 4mm. The tubes are welded together and therefore very durable and "bend secure"! We use high quality acrylic material! As a result of our outdoor tests the last 15 years, we estimate indoors an unlimeted life period with cristal clear material.
Wall holders
are manufactured from plastic-coated aluminium profiles and available in a silver-grey colour. The tubes come to rest on robust fastened bolts. The wall holders are equipped with three holes to fix them to the wall. Wall fixings are included in the delivery.
The wall holders are also avaliable made of finished beech wood. We use a natural product based on citrus for the finish.
Dimensions of the wall holders
Examples of use
Feel free to send us pictures of your implementations
Easy transport
Easy transport with two kitchen papers at both ends.
Dust protection tubes
Use this tubes to protect the parking trains on your model railroad layout against dust
internal measurements: Scale H0 / 00 width 86mm x height 50mm
Scale TT width 64mm x height 45mm
Scale N width 46mm x height 35mm
The prices are the same as the prices of the normal tubes.
Please order this dust protection tubes with a note in the comment field.
Accessory slats for cars
Scale H0 – cars in a scale N tube. The cars are mounted on the slats with glue pads.
Prices: 20cm - 120cm 9,--€ / 121cm - 250cm 15,--€
Please order this accessory with a note in the comment field.
Slats in place of tracks
If you don't want to equip your tubes with expensive tracks so we have two alternative solutions to stabilise the trains with flatt acrylic slats.
a) Slats in the middle of the tubes
It is necessary to mount the slats with short strips of transparent double-sided
self-adhesive tape (7,5m) 2,50 €.
Prices for one slat: 20cm - 120cm 5,--€ / 121cm - 250cm 7,--€
Please order "middle-slats" with a note in the comment field.
b) Slats right and left
The two slats are the better solution for trains with sliders.
It is advantageous to mount the slats with short strips of transparent double-sided
self-adhesive tape (7,5m) 2,50 €.
Prices for on pair of slats: 20cm - 120cm 7,--€ 121cm - 250cm 9,-- €
Please order "side-slats" with a note in the comment field.
Suitable for all wall areas
... also for pulse tilts.
Couple the tubes to your plant
.... and let drive the trains into the tubes
Protect your couplings
Especially rail car trains have sensitive couplings. So it's better to transport the train en bloc with WAWIKO-Tubes.
Weathered and grassed tracks
Mr Seiler is using weathered and grassed tracks to present his trains.
Tubes equiped with backdrops
Mr. Aumüller is using wooden slats which are laminated (wallpaper paste) with backdrops. The slats are positioned between the trains and the backside of the tubes.
Lighting of the tubes
Do you like to do handicrafts? Then it's a lot possible to lighting the trains. It's also recommendable to use LED ceiling spots to lighting the whole Showcase to reduce shades and to see your trains in the true colors.
A work of art?
You see a N gauge system (tubes 90 cm and 112cm). My wife said; Wow, that looks like an work of art. Perhaps we should buy more of this.... .... and that after she was against the showcase in her flat.
Cleaning the tubes
Clean or take dust off with a slightly moist cloth (with window cleaner).
Small scratches on the display can be removed with the polishing agents freely available on the market.
For deep scratches, first wet-sand with the enclosed special sandpaper (grain 2500) and after this use chrome polish.
Price list of the Tubes
*) inside length = outside length minus 2cm
Price list of the wall holders
You need at least 2 wall holders.
Shipment costs
The shipment costs outside of Germany are depending on the destination. Please ask for an attractive offer.
Your order
Please order here via E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com"
Please let us know:
- Name and address
- Telephone number
- Scale H0,TT or N
- Tubes (length and quantity)
- do you also need wall holders?
Thanks a lot!


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So yeah, I ended up picking up Wolfestein: The New Order via the summer sale. To be honest, I wasn't expecting much: A decent FPS to while away a few hours while I wait for another release. I wasn't expecting to enjoy it much, and I definitely wasn't expecting to actual give a crap about parts of the story.
Let me be clear here: The overall plot arc is boilerplate. BJ Blackowitiz is like every military action hero you've ever met who growls literally all of his dialogue, sent on a mission to kill the some evil Nazi scientist: Spoliers for the prologue, it doesn't work out well, and we end up in a weird alternate-history where Germany beat everybody. And I do mean everybody. Largely because their army has giant killer robots and cyborgs.
But here's the thing: Wolfenstein pulls off things it has no business doing: Having a lot of fun with a frankly bit of a tired premise (though in the glut of modern shooterfests it's practically a breath of fresh air to not be shooting at terrorists for a change) and yet managing scenes that have give the subject matter some weight. Sometimes you get interludes like the one in the video above (which is fantastic), and sometimes you get a story-heavy sequence about going through a god-damn concentration camp and it's as horrible and dehumanizing as it should be. There are scenes that are downright chilling, and even a few great emotional moments as well. And then suddenly it jumps to weirdness, like 'BJ trips on Acid! (Yeah, that's a thing that happens) and it works. It breaks the tension and ends up being hilarious. Basically, sometimes the game is Saving Private Ryan, sometimes it's Inglorious Basterds, and sometimes it's a shade of Schiendler's List and it all kind of hangs together. It shouldn't, but it does.
One thing I hear brought up a lot is that sex is also handled maturely—and I have to be honest, I'm not 100% on that. There've only been two in my playthrough and I felt them a little gratuitous, but they were just sort of there, instead of say, treated as some sort of achievement the way Mass Effect or Dragon age might (with long, lingering cutscenes set to soft music and montages, that kind of thing. You saw them coupled, there was some dialogue—often BJ reminiscing about finding a little comfort in the margins of something terrible or some little affection between them). That said, I will say something I like is that weirdly, the relationship between BJ and Anya feels like a real relationship to an extant, if that makes sense. It's the little things; a fleeting touch here or there, a little change in tone to one another even as they go about day to day. Rather than weighty declarations of love, we see what most relationships are like, at least in public: a sort of invisible connection between a couple characters.
Downsides? Well, to be blunt, I had to look up Anya's name. She's not all that memorable and ends up largely filling the FPS 'Voice-in-my-head' role. (On the other hand, Caroline, who is wheelchair bound and serves as the sort-of-leader is a god-damn badass.) On the gameplay side, while the game can be tricky at times (I've died in quite a few sequences—even your basic foot troop can kill you if he flanks) it has little to do with the AI and more to do with weapons just being lethal. The AI is often as dumb as a post, almost randomly jumping out of good cover as if to say 'Okay time for me to die'. Most times the gunplay is frantic and fast paced, but there are too many segments that devolve into 'Stand behind cover, edge out and pop heads as they come out'. Which is a shame, because running around dual wielding machine guns like some sort of crazed maniac is a freaking BLAST. Missions are varied, but tend to follow a somewhat linear 'Now is the time to stealth. Now is the time to run and gun' feel (to its credit though, you can screw up stealth sequences and just murder everything. The reverse less so).
In any event, fans of old school FPS, or even FPS in general should give it a shot. Fans of ANY genre provided it's quality should try it. People who dislike FPS or hate ANY modern conventions in FPS should probably avoid it. It stays old school (carry ALL of the guns! Your health doesn't regenerate much—to the nearest 1/5th, basically, and armor does not! There are secrets, and hidden pathways that allow you to approach encounters optiomally!) in some ways but plays to modern conventions in others (lean-and-fire is the most efficient way to not die in most scenarios. There are iron sights, although running around hip firing will work for most of the game. Lots of exploration, but still not as linear as some.)
So yeah, I ended up picking up Wolfestein: The New Order via the summer sale. To be honest, I wasn't expecting much: A decent FPS to while away a few hours while I wait for another release. I wasn't expecting to enjoy it much, and I definitely wasn't expecting to actual give a crap about parts of the story.


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|WSOF president Ray Sefo
ATLANTIC CITY - The sport of Mixed Martial Arts has exploded over the last decade, so much so that the industry's leader, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, doesn't have enough work for its growing stable of fighters.
The pay-per-view juggernaut opened some eyes last month by releasing former world champion Jon Fitch, a top star for years in both the middleweight and welterweight divisions. Fitch, though, had gone 1-2-1 in his last four bouts and his grinding style didn't always translate to the box office in an entertainment-based business.
Fitch and 15 others fighters were cut loose by the UFC and a new doctrine was established -- win (or at least sell tickets), otherwise, you're gone.
Enter the World Series of Fighting, which has joined Bellator as an alternative for top-level fighters like Fitch, who quickly signed a deal with the fledgling promotion after UFC jettisoned him.
Although WSOF has only promoted one card thus far, it's already on the map thanks in large part to Jeff Cokin, a veteran television rights negotiator and former NBC executive who brought the promotion together with the new NBC Sports Network.
The first event, a Nov. 3, 2012 card from the Planet Hollywood Resort in Las Vegas, headlined by former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski and Devin Cole, was both an artistic success as well as a solid ratings producer for the re-branded network.
So much so that Cokin was able to get the second card, which takes place on Saturday at Atlantic City's Revel Resort, on NBCSN as well as well as Univision Deportes.
"The first one was a time buy," Cokin said in a telephone interview earlier this week. "NBC was so impressed with everything, from the card to the production, they signed on for three more years."
Saturday's broadcast will also mark the first time a live MMA event will air on Univision Deportes, an offspring of the powerful Univision Network.
"Networks are looking for more of the product (MMA)," Cokin said. "The day I closed the NBC deal, another network was calling me and asking about getting involved."
In today's world of on-demand viewing, Cokin believes professional sports is the one commodity that has proven its immunity from falling ratings and the fast-forward mentality of DVD viewers, something very important to potential advertisers.
Ray Sefo, the New Zealand born kickboxer, boxer and mixed martial artist, is the WSOF president. A former six time Muay Thai World champion and eight time K-1 World Grand Prix Finals tournament participant, Sefo is thrilled to be involved on the ground floor of something that can only help the sport he
has dedicated his life to.
"It was very important to our league and the sport as a whole to be able to come out on national television on NBC and do so well, " Sefo said.
To do well again the main event must deliver in Atlantic City. Arlovski, who has gone unbeaten in his last five fights including a first round smashing of Cole in the main event of the inaugural WSOF show, is back to headline Saturday's event against another former UFC fighter, Anthony "Rumble" Johnson.
"I just know he's tough and he'll give me a test for three rounds," Arlovski said when discussing Johnson. "He doesn't need to cut any weight and he just focused on hard work at the gym. We'll see. He wants to beat me and I want to beat him even more. We all have one goal. We're gonna see who's gonna be the better man this fight."
The undersized Johnson was once a standout in the UFC's welterweight division but was plagued by weight issues and was released after a shaky move up to middleweight. In his 205-pound debut in WSOF, he upended D.J. Linderman and quickly called out Arlovski, something right out of the Chael Sonnen book of fight-building and a shrewd mood by Johnson.
"Everything is still there," Johnson said when asked about the move up to heavyweight. "The speed and power is still there. I'm still an athlete. I don't feel like I'm sacrificing anything. Andrei is a bit bigger than me and heavier than me. That's it."
Perhaps understanding the UFC would be able to cherry-pick any fighter who stands out, building the brand is Sefo's top priority.
"Our goal is to put on exciting fights, make sure we challenge ourselves," Sefo said. "We're not here to challenge UFC. We're here to challenge ourselves and make sure the next show is as good as the last one if not better. Our goal is to keep putting on exciting fights for the fans and fights that make sense for our guys as well.
"We want to crown a champion by the fourth event. Everyone should look at being a champion as the ultimate in any sport at any level."
In the world of television, a network deal is like the championship belt. UFC has FOX and STRIKEFORCE used to be on CBS.
"There are a lot of avenues to build upon," Cokin said. "Pay-per-view is one but getting on NBC is another and who knows, maybe (the WSOF) will do so well, they will want it."


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If you've ever had the misfortune of trying to find a lost pet, you know that every second counts. The sooner you can get word out that your pet is lost, the sooner you can ask friends, neighbors and community members to keep their eyes peeled.
When most people lose a pet, they hang up flyers and call friends and neighbors. But depending upon where you live, this could take hours or even days. Social networking has become the new go-to tool for pet owners who want to spread the word quickly about a lost pet. Create a Facebook page with all of your pet's details — including a physical description, where he was last seen, your contact information, and any applicable reward information. Post it, tweet it, and blog and and with the click of a button, all of your friends, family, and readers will have info about your missing pet.
Another option is a new service called Pet Amber Alerts. According to the website, this group has a 75 percent success rate in finding lost animals. By quickly sending a recorded message to hundreds of neighbors and faxing local shelters, veterinarians, and pet stores, Pet Amber Alerts can get the word out fast that your pet is missing. Packages start at $50.


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September 22nd, 1928
July 25th, 2018
With dignity and grace Catharine passed away peacefully in Huntingdon, Quebec, on July 25, 2018 at the age of 89. Beloved wife of the late Rolland Poirier (1997). Survived by and loving mother to Bruce (Teresa), David (Susan) and Stephen. Cherished grandmother to Brian, Andrea, Alexander and Brandon and great-grandmother to Sunwoo and Avabella. Private arrangements were entrusted to Rodrique Montpetit et fils, 170, Châteauguay,Huntingdon, Quebec. Online condolences and tributes may be made at www.rodriguemontpetitfils.com


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Today, acknowledging summer's demise, I finally turned on the heat. Air chill, perhaps related to the gray, darkening sky. Or, perhaps, the turning of the seasons announced boldly; the date on the calendar be damned! I wonder, how cold was it, nine years ago, when the world went a bit chill?
Well, perhaps not cold, but rather hot. So often, since Nine-Eleven, Americans delved head-first into fear based reaction. Easily wrenched into "evil=muslim" paradigm. Fear. Our world shown uncontrolled, our dominance shown illusory, and the grand mirage of a world looking longingly at us (US?) for love and guidance blown apart. Fear shoved into our face, our people unused to this sensation. Irrational rage birthed.
I hoped that we, as a people, would remain above petty vindictiveness and bigoted rage. That we would be stronger, less alarmist. Our reaction to such tragedy based on effectiveness and reason. My hope remains longing for fulfillment. At moments glimmers of hope exist. Yet, I see this rage everywhere.
For me, Nine-Eleven speaks to the ease at which rage takes hold. Those flying the planes delighted in the suffering they caused. People chose immense harm, overriding all scripture's demand for compassion. Ultimately, failure of humanity to rise to it's potential. A potential spoken of by myriad prophets. Compassion, love; God's commands overridden by a mad desire to slay for God. Madness!
In this morning's chill I drove to breakfast with friends. On my drive I passed our local fire station, noticing the flag at half-staff. A sober reminder of the dreadful history of this day. Yet, up in the sky, against a horizon of blue sky and fluffy clouds sat a hot-air-balloon. They drift skyward upon a wave a hope. Autumn, a time of winding down, approaching the death of winters, glimmers with the residual hope of summer, acknowledging its eventual return. Life returns, hope remains; for that. A day will come when warmth returns, life blooms, and the heat turns off for a few months.


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I had the chance to review this young adult thriller called the Assassin Game!
About the Book (Courtesy of the Publisher)
Who will be left after lights out?
At Cate's isolated boarding school, Killer is more than a game- it's an elite secret society. Members must avoid being "Killed" during a series of thrilling pranks, and only the Game Master knows who the "Killer" is. When Cate's finally invited to join the Assassins' Guild, she know it's her ticket to finally feeling like she belongs.
But when the game becomes all too real, the school threatens to shut it down. Cate will do anything to keep playing and save the Guild. But can she find the real assassin before she's the next target?
What I Thought
I enjoyed this book! I thought it took me a few chapters to really get into it. You first get introduced to Cate when she's taken by classmate's to kick off the beginning of a game they call "Killer" (what could go wrong with that kind of game, right?). She has to go through a pretty gross initiation into this exclusive game along with three other kids getting initiated into the game.
Then comes along a guy from her past, a guy named Vaughan that she last saw when she was 8 years old and changes the dynamic of the game and how things end going for Cate and her friends. I really really liked this character a lot. In fact, he was my favorite character. He reminds me of a guy I once knew in high school actually.
As for the setting was an isolated coastal island that is set in Europe. It's rocky, beachy, cold feeling. I thought the setting was vivid enough to make it feel real but wasn't an important factor to the story.
For the plot line, I thought it got to be very exciting when the game really started and especially got excited when there was a real threat that begun for the students playing the game. I'm a sucker for a traditional whodunit as I love seeing if I guess right and of course, I usually am NOT right. But it was still fun and this book kept me guessing (my suspect list was not right at all!).
There was a little romance that occured in the book, it was a perfect amount without making it distract from the suspense. Also being that this is a young adult book, if you are a parent considering recommending this, the romance doesn't go beyond kissing and handholding.
Overall, I'd give this about three and a half stars. Which is not bad at all for me! I think there were some slowish parts, but overall, I think this an exciting young adult thriller perfect for YOU and the teen/pre-teen in your life you want to recommend this to.
You can purchase this book on Amazon (it's titled as the "Killer Game") or Barnes and Noble.
You can purchase this book on Amazon (it's titled as the "Killer Game") or Barnes and Noble.
I received this book courtesy of NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.


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Philip Bassham
Missionary in Thailand
What you say if I told you that there is a place where there are millions upon millions that have never heard the gospel message? A place that is so dark that you would blush with shame to know what is going on in streets alleys and dark roads. Places where promiscuity is rampant and the world knows it. It is a Mecca for the sexually perverted. It is a place where Satan has a strong hold. This place is Thailand and I would like to introduce to you a man that has decided to forgo the comforts of America and take the gospel where it is the darkest.
Philip Bassham studied and did an internship at the Our Generation Training Center. And now he is currently learning the language in Bangkok Thailand. He trotting along in learning a language that is EXTREMELY different than english. He puts in 10-12 hour days learning the language and studying a culture that is vastly different than the culture he grew up in Texas. He is experiencing things that most Americans will know nor understand. His wife is currently pregnant with their second child while in Thailand. Can you imagine being away from your family in culture that you don't understand. A language that you don't understand. What a chore to live let alone bring another life into this world. Imagine the doctor's visits, unable to understand fully what is being said to them.
Now a question one might ask is why? Why would a young family go to a place like Thailand. There is no family, no friends no co-workers. They are alone. Why? Well I will tell you why. It was the gospel that changed Philip Bassham's life and it was the gospel that changed Lori Bassham's life and they can not but speak of the things they have seen in the Word of God and have experienced from it. They know that same gospel can change the people in Thailand.
So my question that I pose to you is this. Why not go and take the message that changed your life to people that have relatively no chance of ever hearing it? Why not pray about Indonesia or China or India or Somalia or Paraguay or Croatia? Why not ask God to send you to take his gospel to a world that is dark? I think if you listen to Him, he already has. God has told his church time and time again to take his gospel and go into the world and teach it. So the real question is are you willing to pay the price?
Check out Philip's blog!!


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If you think that a lot of the newest technology from Japan is focused on safety then you'd be right, which is why the country is at the cutting edge of robotics , earthquake monitoring and rapid-response equipment . In the latter category comes a high-tech helmet from Tanizawa .
The U-Met Utility Helmet is packed with technology that records events, keeps wearers in touch with base and even creates its own power. Available in two different configurations according to intended use, the U-Met includes a solar panel, a 3G phone, head-mounted lights and a video camera, IC tags, a GPS sensor and vibrating panels that operate as alerts in noisy areas.
Communication the key
Among the scenarios Tanizawa describes for the U-Met are fire-fighters being able to relay video and location data precisely from an incident, security guards recording and tracking assailants, rescue services efficiently coordinating efforts and teams keeping in touch when working in dangerous environments.
Although the current prototype weighs almost 1kg, Tanizawa hopes to halve that before long. There's no word on pricing yet, but if they can fit in a drinks dispenser and a laser-guided paintball gun then we'll take two.