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Stair lift (chair glide) available from Broad Street foyer entrance to the sanctuary
Our covenant which we say together every communion service is above, followed by the Statement of Faith of the United Church of Christ, which we hold as our own. We also hold in reverence the historic creeds of our church.
United Church of Christ Statement of Faith
We believe in you, O God, Eternal Spirit, God of our Savior Jesus Christ and our God, and to your deeds we testify:
You call the worlds into being, create persons in your own image, and set before each one the ways of life and death.
You seek in holy love to save all people from aimlessness and sin. You judge people and nations by your righteous will declared through prophets and apostles.
In Jesus Christ, the man of Nazareth, our crucified and risen Savior, you have come to us and shared our common lot, conquering sin and death and reconciling the world to yourself.
You bestow upon us your Holy Spirit, creating and renewing the church of Jesus Christ, binding in covenant faithful people of all ages, tongues, and races.
You call us into your church to accept the cost and joy of discipleship to be your servants in the service of others, to proclaim the gospel to all the world and resist the powers of evil, to share in Christ's baptism and eat at his table, to join him in his passion and victory.
You promise to all who trust you forgiveness of sins and fullness of grace, courage in the struggle for justice and peace, your presence in trial and rejoicing, and eternal life in your realm which has no end.
Blessing and honor, glory and power be unto you. Amen.


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£2.1 million extension to Sheffield primary school unveiled
The £2.1million project, completed by energy and regeneration specialist ENGIE on behalf of Sheffield City Council, has seen the construction of a new two-storey teaching block to the rear of Totley Primary School and a single storey extension to the existing school building, located adjacent to Baslow Road in Sheffield.
The new extension, which has created space for six additional classrooms, a staff room, media suite, library and dual food technology and science lab, was officially unveiled by Head Teacher Ben Paxman, along with representatives from Sheffield City Council and ENGIE.
Sean Corcoran, Regional Director for ENGIE's Places & Communities division, said: "After months of working with our partners to help them transform their vision for the school into a reality, we're delighted to see this project unveiled to the public by those who are most proud of it.
"The team have really enjoyed working with the school; giving the children behind the scenes tours of the extension as it has progressed through the development stages as well as offering plenty of engagement activities to teach them about the industry.
"We hope that the schoolchildren thrive in their new teaching space and hopefully we might see one or two of them become the next generation of construction talent."
Councillor Jayne Dunn, Cabinet Member for Education and Skills at Sheffield City Council, said: I'm delighted to see the completion of the expansion at Totley Primary, which provides state of the art facilities for local children and the local area.
The expansion is a key part of our work to meet the increased local demand for school places in the north-east and south-west of the city.
Ben Paxman, Head Teacher at Totley Primary School, said: "Seeing the children take such pride in showing off their magnificent new school to parents, governors and a whole host of special visitors was such an honour.
"The modern learning environments which have been created by the team of designers, engineers and builders are truly inspirational and have given our children the very best facilities in which to flourish."

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Photonics Workshop & Social Networking Event
09 Mar, 2018, 02:00 GMT
SHENZHEN, China and SAN DIEGO, March 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Photonics Workshop & Social Networking Event will be held at San Diego Convention Center in San Diego on March 14th 2018. The event is co-organized by Photonics Society of Chinese-Americans of Southern California (PSC-SC), China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE) and the Optical Society (OSA).
To serve the mission of bringing together photonics professionals and enhancing the communication and collaboration in the optical industry, this event has been organizing technical and social events during OFC2018. The panel of the workshop consists of well-respected experts from service providers, network carriers and marketing analyst in the optical industry. The latest data center, fiber deep and highspeed access, and 5G wireless technologies will be elaborated on. Market opportunities and challenges will be discussed along with the technology trends and the business strategies among the US, China and the rest of the world markets.
100+ representatives will be invited to this workshop, and a post-panel networking dinner will be held afterward. All photonics professionals are sincerely invited to join this great gathering on the evening of March 14.
Panel Workshop:
Title: "Market Opportunities and its Challenges: the US and China Perspectives"
Date: March 14th, 2018 (Wednesday) 5:00pm to 7:30pm (Workshop only)
Location: SDCC Room, 14A Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA
Fee: Free
Workshop Schedule:
5:00pm to 5:30pm: Registration & Social Networking
5:30pm to 5:50pm: PSC/OSA Introduction/Acknowledgment
Presider: Genzao Zhang, President, PSC-SC
Welcome remarks from:
- Elizabeth Rogan, CEO, OSA - The Optical Society
- Eric Yang, The Secretary General - CIOE
- Helen Wen Martinez - OFC China Office & Wen Global Solution
5:50pm to 7:00pm: Panel Presentation & Discussion:
Moderator: Subu Subrahmanyan, AO Asset Management
- Chengliang Zhang, VP, China Telecom Beijing Research Institute
- Don Frey, Principal Analyst, Transport and Routing, Ovum
- Terran Huang, Senior Network Architect, Tencent
- Rich Baca, Titel TBD, MSFT
- Zhensheng Jia, Distinguished Technologist, CableLabs
7:00pm to 7:20pm: Picture Taking Session
Post-panel Networking Dinner:
Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Jasmine Seafood Restaurant, 4609 Covoy Street, San Diego. (858) 268-0888
Fee: $35 (pre-registration), $40 (on-site) per person
Organizing Committee:
Genzao Zhang, PSC-SC 2017-2018 President
Howell Zhao, PSC-SC 1st Vice President
Cedric Lam, PSC-SC 2nd Vice President
Norman Kwong/Genzao Zhang, PSC-SC Co-Treasurers
Jane Xiao/Cong Liu, PSC-SC Co-Secretaries
Shoa-Kai Liu, Steve Yao, Frank Chang, Jinghui Li, Hsu-Feng Chou, K.K. Wong and David Li, PSC-SC Advisors
About CIOE (WWW.CIOE.CN/EN)
China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE) is the world's largest exhibition in optoelectronic industry. It is the first as well as the most influential optoelectronic exhibition in China. The event is an annual gathering for the global optoelectronic professionals to gather around to network with business partners and discover the future trends. CIOE presents an entire optoelectronic industry chain. It is a meeting place where you could meet the people from every corner of optoelectronics fields including optical communications, lasers, semiconductors, infrared Imaging, precision optics, and photonics.
About PSC (WWW.PSC-A.ORG)
The Objectives of PSC are to promote friendships and collaborations among Chinese-American engineers and scientists in the field of photonics so that they can enhance their professional and business contributions for better quality of life in this fast changing world.
Contact us on or visit event website for more information.
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SupTech Sunset Paddleboard 10'4"
Item Details
SupTech Sunset Paddleboard
Sunset Series Stand Up Paddleboards were engineered from the ground up as a flat water SUP. It sets a new standard in stand-up paddle board design. They are relatively short, at only 10'4" in length, and 31" wide. The Sunsets unique bottom shape and outline give it the speed and directional stability of a much longer board.
Unlike a traditional wave board shape which can be slow and ill-suited for flat water paddling, the Sunset has a penetrating vee nose section, integrated keel fin and deep double concave bottom design that cuts through the water and channels it back to the winger tail section. The result is an extremely stable board that first time paddlers will love, and the speed, directional stability and glide that even the most advanced paddlers will appreciate.
- Stand-up paddleboard
- For flat water cruising and touring, for fitness training or just playing at the beach
- Flat, comfortable non-slip standing area with large "sweet spot"
- Made of xtremely durable, high impact polyethylene
- Designed in Hawaii and built in the USA
- Integrated ergonomic carry handle
- Fishing pole holder in tail
- Bungee carry net on nose
- Inserts in the nose for securing tow loop
- Slotted tail for stacking boards on top of each other
- Length 10'-4"
- Width: 31"
- Thickness: 6"
- Weight: Approx 41 Pounds


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By Reyne Rice, Trend Analyst and Trend-Spotter/ Consultant, New York, New York. July 2013
First posted on the YourToyCom.com blog forum and community website serving the toys, games and childrens' technology industries, on behalf of the Spielwarenmesse. Spielwarenmesse is the leading and largest International ToyFair in the world, held annually in Nuremberg, Germany in early February.
Pop Culture, as a trend factor, influences many categories of goods, including toys and games. Some areas where Pop Culture plays a significant influencing role are Blockbuster in-theater movies, character licenses from TV entertainment or publishing, music & musicians, celebrities, fashion brands & icons, sports franchises, comic books, etc. Let's review some of the latest new licenses and entertainment properties for second-half 2013 and as we approach 2014. Are you on-board?
In Theater Movie Entertainment is on the Upswing
Just-released statistics reveal that the blockbuster movie summer slate in 2013 boosted theater ticket sales through the beginning of July 2013, and is projected to increase the summer box-office dollars to over 18 percent this year, in North America (Source: Box Office MoJo). 2012 Summer movies captured 4.3 Billion US dollars. The 2013 summer box-office take is expected to surpass the best-ever US summer box-office record of .4 Billion US dollars, achieved in Summer 2011. This prediction was made even BEFORE Despicable Me 2 and Smurfs 2 hits the big screens! Internationally, many of the same movies are also creating Box office increases for global markets, so we may be in for a worldwide record breaking summer season at the movie theaters.
All of this can add up to licensed merchandise sales boosts at retail, too. Based on this wider exposure of Super Heroes, character favorites and other highly merchandisable licensed properties, we can expect entertainment and licensing retail sales to ring cash registers throughout 2013 and 2014. At least a portion of these BlockBuster franchises, offer relatively safe bets, in particular for evergreen character franchises such as IronMan 3 (Marvel/Disney) and Superman: Man of Steel (Warner Bros), and for anticipated movie sequels that were popular the first time around, such as Despicable Me 2 (NBC Universal), and Smurfs 2 (Sony Entertainment / IMPS).
In Annual 2012, Licensed Property merchandise tallied 112.1 billion US dollars in North American retail sales dollars. Character-related merchandise ( Entertainment, movie, TV and celebrity licensing) captured an estimated 49.3 billion in retail sales dollars, representing nearly 44% of all North American Licensing dollars at retail. (Source: LIMA: 2013 Licensing Industry Survey).
Here is a sampling of some of the latest 2013 summer movies, and a slate of some of the more merchandisable 2013 movies that haven't yet hit theaters.
At the International Licensing Expo in Las Vegas, in mid-June 2013, the 2014 slate was revealed and is also quite robust, with these movies being slated for in-theater launches, with full entertainment and retail licensing programs, across multiple categories. This is not a complete list, but just a sampling:
Character Licensing grows by spanning generations
Character licensing franchises are also moving into new categories, and broadening their age group targets. Notable expansions include the Hasbro My Little Pony Equestria Girls range, being targeted to older girls and tweens, teens and young adults. The highly anticipated new launch of Disney Infinity, targeted for worldwide launch in August 2013, will span generations of Disney fans, younger, older and the avid D23 fanbase, with physical action figure characters and their rich hybrid gaming platform. Skylanders (Activision) will continue to appeal to the hybrid gamers, with their newest expansion, SkyLanders Swap-Force, slated for an October 2013 launch worldwide. Skylanders has also expanded its' licensee list, selectively choosing categories and licensees across multiple territories worldwide.
TV entertainment properties, focusing on the retro and evergreen properties such as Super Heroes (DC Comics/ Warner Bros/ Mattel) and Marvel Super Heroes (Marvel/Disney/ Hasbro), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Nickelodeon/ Playmates), Power Rangers (Saban Entertainment/ Bandai), and Transformers (The Hub/ Hasbro) continue to show depth in their licensing programs. Other strong retro licensing programs include video-gaming character Sonic the HedgeHog (SEGA), publishing character Hello Kitty (Sanrio), and the TV animated series, The Simpsons (20th Century Fox).
Popular Characters on TV screens across the world:
Newer Disney brands such as Sofia the First, Jake and the Neverland Pirates and Doc McStuffins continue to grow in popularity and their merchandising programs are expanding. Peppa the Pig (Entertainment One = eOne) continues to broaden across international territories and categories. Newer properties such as Tree Fu Tom (Fremantle Media), Tickety Toc (Zodiak Rights), Bubble Guppies (Nickelodeon), UmiZoomi (Nickelodeon, Mike the Knight (Hit Entertainment) and Canimals (Vooz) are gaining recognition and retail shelf space, as kids and parents seek out products for these popular character brands.
Keeping track of Pop Culture media influencers and the merchandised physical products that are associated with those Pop Culture icons is a way for manufacturers and retailers to find the licensed and entertainment properties that match their core consumer. Once that connection is identified, matching the Pop Culture icon with merchandise and licensing deals that appeal to your consumer is the next step. Balancing popular brands and licenses with a mix of basic traditional play patterns will ensure a more balanced selection of toys and games for your core customers. Cashing in on those Pop Culture influences at the retail store level is a learned skill, and over time, you will be able to select those licensed properties and entertainment brands that work best in your manufacturer product mixes, and with your core retail customers.
Later this month, we will also review, in a second post, Pop Culture Music and Sports Licensing, and a third post with news from the San Diego California ComiCon Convention: 2014 News for Collectors and Fans of Pop Culture , so stay tuned for more Pop Culture News and Llcensing insights.
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by Reyne Rice 22. July 2013
For more Pop Culture news and an update on the blog post Pop Culture Appeals to an Avid and Targeted Fan Base: Are you on-trend?, see a second Pop Culture blog post focusing on Music and Sports Licensing, posted July 22nd, 2013. A third blog post, revealing Pop Culture Fan & Collector News for 2014, from the San Diego ComiCon Convention, will be posted at the end of the month.


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Just a Blogging Platform
The thing I find most challenging is "simple". So far this morning, the best thing I've found online is just a blogging platform.
Since the advent of Jekyll - static site generator, many developers are moving the blog to Github. Writing a blog with Jekyll is relatively simple.
Jekyll at its core is a text transformation engine. The concept behind the system is this: you give it text written in your favorite markup language, be that Markdown, Textile, or just plain HTML, and it churns that through a layout or series of layout files. Throughout that process you can tweak how you want the site URLs to look, what data gets displayed on the layout and more. This is all done through strictly editing files, and the web interface is the final product.
Then I found Scriptogr.am, a tool for generating simple, elegant, static weblogs by reading Markdown files stored in your Dropbox folder.
Put simply, Scriptogr.am is a tool for generating simple, elegant, static weblogs by reading Markdown files stored in your Dropbox folder. Writers are free to write with their preferred editor app, and publishing is as easy as hitting the "Synchronize" button in the Scriptogr.am dashboard.
I also found Dropplets, a fresh platform dedicated to making blogging simple again.
There's no database or confusing admins to worry about. Install in seconds, compose in markdown, then drag and drop to publish.
And lastly I found Ghost, but still in development (would be completed within few days). I can't wait to try it.
Ghost is an Open Source application which allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even (gasp) fun to do. It's simple, elegant, and designed so that you can spend less time messing with making your blog work - and more time blogging.
So, what do you think?


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A program written in Pascal for playing Tic-Tac-Toe or "Five in a Row" (an extended version of Tic-Tac-Toe), which learns from its mistakes.
I wrote this Pascal program in the times of yore, inspired by the movie WarGames (1983), where a computer on the verge of starting a global thermonuclear war is made to play tic-tac-toe against itself so that it may learn that there are some games which cannot be won.
My program starts by playing tic-tac-toe at random and whenever it loses a game it analyses and learns from it, improving its way of playing until it becomes unbeatable.
Alas as it becomes unbeatable it declares that the game of tic-tac-toe can always be won :) … this is due to a particular situation not being dealt with by the program (see below).
The program can also play five in a row and start learning and improving on it as well, although the improvement may perhaps lead to problems of combinatorial explosion of the information that the program has to handle.
At the time I was running this program on a "jurassic" unix mainframe, whose name I have long forgotten, but I remember that while learning to play five in a row it got to a point where there were more than a handful of new schemes to be generated and analysed and the program had to be left running overnight to get over them.
Some of the procedures in this program also deal with a rather laughable problem by today's standards, i.e. that of sending characters to an ASCII terminal to try and make it look like a graphical display.
What could be worth resuscitating from this program is the basic idea of using schemes and backward analysis, which might turn out to be a viable alternative to the forward search approach commonly adopted by engines playing these kinds of games.
Downloadable files:
- Tic-Tac-Toe.p program source code
External links:
- Tic-Tac-Toe rules and online engine
- Five in a Row rules and online board
- WarGames movie clip: WOPR playing Tic-Tac-Toe
Extracts from Tic-Tac-Toe.p
Two players in turn lay their mark (a circle or cross symbol) on a grid. The player that manages to align a certain number of marks, horizontally, vertically or diagonally, wins the game.
The dimentions of the grid and the number of marks to be aligned are selectable (see boardrows, boardcols and winalign). The standard Tic-Tac-Toe can be played by selecting a 3x3 grid with 3 marks to align and Five-in-a-Row can be played by selecting a larger grid with 5 marks to align.
Main Procedures
The program contains two main procedures:
- Procedure playthegame is for playing the game.
- Procedure improveschemes is for improving the schemes used by the program to decide on the moves to play, based on the game just played.
A scheme represents a set of conditions which determine a threat, i.e. the possibility of executing a sequence of moves which leads to win the game.
The schemes used by the program can be found in the record schemes of linked list list. In schemes, elements from 1 to totfree in the matrix free and from 1 to totheld in the matrix held indicate the squares on the grid which must satisfy respectively the conditions of 'being empty' and 'being marked with a sign by the player that makes the threat'. When all conditions are satisfied the move being threatened on the grid corresponds to the (0, 0) square in the scheme.
A single scheme represents multiple positions on the grid and the program derives those positions by centering, rotating and flipping the scheme. To do this the program tracks the orientation of the scheme through side and degrees and takes into account the number of rotations and flips (see usefulturns and usefuloverturns) that can be performed to derive all the positions.
To speed up calculations the program also handles the scheme boundaries in up, down, left and right, which are mainly used by the fits function. For instance up is the maximum integer value among the rows of all the squares in free[] and held[].
Each scheme in list has an associated level. The level of a scheme defines the number of moves to win the game when following the shortest sequence, assuming that the opponent does not hinder its execution (if he does, it will still be possible to win the game by following other longer sequences of moves). Schemes in list which share the same level are grouped in sub-lists that can be followed using the list.next pointers. The firstschemeoflevel matrix is indexed by the level and can be used to access the relative list.
The program does not need to handle lists of moves because the procedure improveschemes constructs new schemes from lower level schemes, so that after applying the move indicated by a scheme, it will be always be possible to find other schemes in list which apply to the new position and indicate the following moves.
Data Files
The schemes generated by the program can be saved on Tic-Tac-Toe-Data files, to be maintained through application restart. The program uses a non standard reset available in the Unix environment to differentiate between the nominal parameter DataFile and the actual file name, which is defined in schemesfilename.
The type of schemes that are to be constructed depends on the number of marks that need to be aligned to win the game, hence schemefilename defines different file names depending on winalign.
The program assumes that if there are two victoryplans that cannot be immediately thwarted by the same move then it is possible to win the game. This however is not the case, as there can be a move that thwarts one victoryplan and at the same time threatens a winning sequence. Then it may become necessary to respond with a countermove which is different from the move requested by the other victoryplan, so that the opponent may then thwart the other victoryplan as well.
For instance in the standard tic-tac-toe this position may occur (where X = user and O = computer):
and the program may be using this scheme (where # = held and ~ = free):
In this case the program will not recognise that placing a O on a side square creates a threat which allows to thwart the two victory plans generated by the scheme (used as is and symmetrically with respec to the centre square). Hence the program will consider the position lost, and through improveschemes this incorrect interpretation will be rippled back to the start of the game, which will be considered lost when the opponent places its mark on a corner.
As it happens, the program will still end up making the correct move in this particular case, but this limitation is most certainly having an adverse effect for extended variations of this game.


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We do a lot of signaling as we work on a intracellular signaling scaffold which functions in a lot of different pathways, so I always pay attention to new email from SABiosciences/Qiagen on their new PCR and luciferase arrays. Upon reading about it the Cignal Finder 45-pathway array seemed to provide an awesome way to apply very sensitive luciferase assays to test 45 pathways in a single shot.
It is a 96 well plate with 45 reporters in duplicates and 3 positive and negative controls that you can use to test you drug, siRNA, over expression plasmid on your cell line of choice. The protocol is simple and straightforward: the DNA is in the wells, you add the cells and transfection reagent and the next day you test for luciferase and renilla activity. At $1,600 for a 10 plate pack, plus dual-luciferase assay reagents, it can run around $200-300 per plate, which in triplicates for 2 conditions can be almost $2,000 per experiment. But screening 45-pathways at once could be totally worth it and SABiosciences always run some kind of deal on the plates (and you can use a fraction of the luciferase reagent recommended in the Promega protocol).
We know our protein of interest would really strongly activate NF-kappaB and we have done it with a different reporter, so that was our positive control. The first plate was amazing! There were very clear difference between reporters, the duplicates looked very consistent and a whole bunch of interesting pathways lit up in addition to NF-kappaB in our experimental condition. The dynamic range of response was incredible with some reporters with intensity in the 2,000,000 intensity units and some in the 2,000. And so we embarked in a huge study with over expression and siRNA...and ordered another 10-pack. Qiagen provided us with a handy Excel file for analysis where we just needed to plug the results of luciferase and renilla for each plate and everything would be calculated and plotted for us.
I was intrigued by some of the results and started paying a lot of attention to the intensity measurements, and that is when things started getting ugly. We had noticed that some of the duplicates were asymmetric in intensity when a low intensity reporter was next to a very high intensity one. I had had similar problems in the past with white plates in our luminometer, where we noticed spillover of fluorescence in neighboring wells. Some people say it's the fluorescence passing trough the white walls, others that the detector is far from the plate and the fluorescence spills over from above like a halo. Also instead of looking at the results in the Qiagen spreadsheet where they are in linear format, I analyzed everything in plate format, where I could see which well was above, below, left and right of any particular reporter. That is when half of our hits became uninterpretable because they could simply be due to spillover from the strong hit next door. Qiagen recommended to half the amount of lysate, but that didn't help much as the results were basically identical. So we were stuck with the option of spending $500 per troubleshooting attempt or find some other solution....
They said it must be our luminometer, which is a possibility, but that's the machine we have in the department and their product should work even for older machines. They gave us 2 plates for free for testing, which was nice, but still leaves for $500 per troubleshooting for each one of the other variables (machine, reagents, lysate amount). Right now I am faced with a conundrum: I have some data I believe from the array and some data I do not believe, which I think is due to spillover. I cannot publish the whole array because I would have to explain it is a problematic product and I have requested for a sample of the 6-8 reporters that are iffy, but I was told I had to buy them individually, which I am not inclined to do at this time, since I do not want to waste my grant money to troubleshoot their product for them.
At the same time, their reporters work beautifully and the data we have is very robust, though for us it was more a 30-pathway array than a 45-pathway because of the issues.....I am open to suggestions from other people who may have tried the product and who may have other ideas. Also, I am not entirely satisfied with the way they recommend to analyze the reporters and I'd love input on that also.


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Hotel Jen Penang by Shangri-La
2 August 2015
In celebration of the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, Hotel Jen Penang is delighted to offer a variety of classic to modern and innovative flavours packaged in four exclusive gift boxes.
Indulge in delicious Mid-Autumn offerings with some of the hotel's classic flavours, such as White Lotus with Single or Double Yolk and Green Tea.
New offerings include several modern flavours, such as White Coffee Paste with Pure Durian Paste, Black Sesame Paste with Custard Paste, Chocolate Paste with Macadamia and Walnut, Latte Paste with Orange Paste and the all-time favourite, Farmer's Grown.
For every purchase of four mooncakes, guests will be able to pick an exclusive packaging of their choice. The exclusive gift sets feature delicate and sophisticatedly designs with either flowers or the "S" designs in silk embroidery or velvet finishing. Each box is priced at RM 120nett per box.
This autumn, local media and bloggers will be invited to a mooncake-tasting session and 3D lantern-making workshop, organised by the hotel. These heart-warming Mid-Autumn Festival activities aim to promote culture and, harmony and encourage families and friends to spend time together.
Early-bird purchases enjoy 20 per cent off all mooncake prices from July 26th to August 31, 2015.
Guests may purchase the mooncakes at a designated counter at the lobby of Hotel Jen Penang. For enquiries and orders, please call the food and beverage team at
+604 2622 622 extension 8030.Catering to urban adventurers, the Hotel Jen brand delivers quality, comfort and value with a playful twist and friendly service. Hotel Jen embraces the love for life and travel, helping curious travellers to leave boring behind through spontaneous experiences, unpublished insights and unconventional perspectives. Launched in 2014, Hotel Jen offers 10 vibrant hotels in some of the best locations across Asia Pacific, including Singapore; Hong Kong; Beijing and Shenyang, China; Manila; Penang and Johor in Malaysia; Brisbane, Australia; and Malé, Maldives. Hotel Jen is slated to open in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia in 2018. For more information, visit www.hoteljen.com or join the conversation on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.


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On a Sunday morning in a rural area nine miles north of Atmore, congregants packed into a small makeshift chapel at the City Hope Church campus in town to sing praise and worship songs and hear a message from pastor Jerry Taylor. The message is broadcast to each of City Hope's six Alabama campuses and two overseas locations.
At this particular campus, the message is heard solely by men living in the Holman Correctional Facility, a state prison home to more than 1,000 prisoners, many of whom are either on death row or facing a life sentence. Holman is the place where all of the state's executions are conducted and was the site of a large-scale prison riot in March. A recent MSNBC documentary, "Lockup: Holman Extended Stay," painted a bleak picture of the facility, where men with lengthy, sometimes unending sentences face lives of intolerable Southern heat, danger from prison gangs and overcrowded cells.
But on this particular Sunday, a handful of those inmates are smiling, dancing and raising their hands while City Hope's worship band plays a Hillsong United song called "Glorious Ruins." The church believes reaching into the prison system is part of its core mission to spread the gospel of Christ to all corners of the Earth.
"It is amazing to see guys at Holman who have really bought into the message," City Hope Mobile campus pastor Josh Sullivan said. "We have guys who tithe regularly and give back to the church based on their in-prison income from making license plates. It is amazing. We've had guys get baptized, and they invite other inmates to church."
With multiple campuses open today, an additional location coming to Saraland and plans to expand into other correctional facilities, City Hope is one of a handful of multisite churches broadening their reach in Mobile and Baldwin counties in the face of a national downward trend in church attendance figures.
"The new megachurch"
As mainline Protestant and evangelical denominations have experienced steep declines in membership in the last few years, churches with multiple campuses seem to be flourishing in coastal Alabama.
University of Mobile professor Dr. Jay Robertson said churches in Mobile and Baldwin counties are part of a nationwide trend over the last 10 to 15 years. Robertson, pastor at Crawford Baptist Church in Semmes, said over the past 15 years more than 8,000 multisite churches with 5 million worshippers have been founded in the United States.
"Multisite is the new megachurch," Robertson said. "The mentality in the '70s, '80s and '90s was to build these huge, cavernous churches for people. Then you would basically ask people to come fill these buildings once or twice a week. Some nationwide megachurches could serve 9,000 people in a weekend. But the trend today is for churches to expand with multiple sites and stream the Sunday message online."
While multisite churches appear to be on the rise, a 2015 Pew Research Center survey of more than 35,000 adults indicated the Christian share of the nation's population fell from 78.4 percent to 70.6 percent from 2007 to 2014.
During the same period, the evangelical Protestant population — Southern Baptist Convention, Assemblies of God, Churches of Christ, Presbyterian Church in America, et cetera — fell from 26.3 percent to 25.4 percent, and the mainline Protestant population — United Methodist Church, American Baptist Churches USA, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Presbyterian Church (USA) and Episcopal Church — fell at a more drastic rate, from 18.1 percent to 14.7 percent.
In keeping with the Pew study's findings, last month LifeWay Christian Resources released its annual church statistics, which showed a steep decline in membership in Southern Baptist Convention churches, traditionally the nation's largest Protestant denomination. The study showed the SBC's total membership fell by more than 200,000 in the last year.
While the SBC defended the numbers, saying roughly 8 percent of its churches did not report membership figures last year, Robertson said there is evidence to back up the study's results.
"I think a lot of mainline, traditional evangelical denominations are at best stagnant," Robertson said. "I've seen studies that show 85 to 90 percent of churches in America have plateaued, meaning they are either barely seeing membership increase or they are decreasing. I also know there are some mainline, traditional churches that report they have not baptized anyone new since the 1990s."
According to Robertson, multisite churches such as City Hope and 3Circle Church, which are expanding their reach on both sides of Mobile Bay and beyond, are thriving because their methods — considered unconventional by some mainline Christians — reach young people who may have been drawn away from the church after leaving home for college and those who are considered "unchurched." Robertson said studies show 75 to 80 percent of Mobile County's population is largely "unchurched," so many evangelical churches consider it a mission field.
"There is hope in the multisite vision," Robertson said. "There are a lot of younger people who are looking for a church that stands out and has solid, Gospel-driven preaching. If they are going to go to church, they want to go somewhere that is making a difference in the community. These churches are doing that."
For 3Circle Church pastor Chris Bell, the multisite vision is based in biblical values. With campuses in Fairhope, Daphne, Midtown, Semmes and Thomasville, 3Circle Church considers the Mobile area and Alabama Gulf Coast part of its "local circle." The church takes its name name from Acts 1:8, which calls Christians to preach the Gospel to "the ends of the Earth."
Bell said the multisite church vision may be considered a new idea today, but it is founded on the way the church spread in the New Testament.
"If you look at what the apostles did in the New Testament, it was essentially the first 'multisite' church," Bell said. "It may appear to be this new, progressive idea but we believe the multisite idea is rooted in the Bible."
3Circle Church was founded 16 years ago as the Church on the Eastern Shore. In 2013, it changed its name to reflect its multisite vision. Five years ago, the church opened a second campus in Thomasville. Since then, the 3Circle has expanded and now has five locations. Besides its home base near the intersection of state highways 181 and 104 in Fairhope, 3Circle has campuses in Daphne, Thomasville, Semmes and Midtown Mobile in the former Sage Avenue Baptist Church building.
"Locally, our circle encompasses Mobile and Baldwin counties," Bell said. "If our goal is to impact the entire community around us, not just one city in Baldwin County, we had to make a choice. We could build a huge campus in one place and ask everyone to come to us, or we could go to the places we say we want to reach."
Each campus has its own church staff with a local pastor and praise and worship band. Bell's message originates at the Fairhope campus and is streamed live at the other campuses 80 percent of the time. At other times the message is delivered live by a campus pastor. Bell said because he delivers most of the Sunday messages, campus pastors are free to spend more time in their respective communities.
"We are not out there trying to expand our brand or anything like that," Bell said. "We aren't a franchise. We are not a McDonald's. We are trying to create and plant life-giving churches in our communities."
While some have criticized multisite churches for their perceived inability to offer proper pastoral care to congregants at each campus and delivery of an impersonal sermon on Sundays, Bell said every 3Circle campus pastor has a duty to love and serve the community they are in.
"Our campuses each have a local staff and they are all different. We believe they are reflective of the community they are in," Bell said. "Our campus pastors are enabled to disciple and lead people in the church. They can devote time to serving the campus and the community they are placed in. Because I take most of the weight of pastoring, they are free to be out in the community, which is our mission."
"Healthy churches grow"
"Just like healthy plants and healthy people grow, healthy churches also grow," Sullivan said. "I think they will continue to grow as long as they preach the message of the Gospel. I thank God for big churches with big buildings because I believe God calls people to that. But I'm also thankful there are churches out there willing to expand and reach people in more than one place."
Taylor founded City Hope at the intersection of Interstate 10 and State Highway 181 in Malbis as Bay Community Church 18 years ago. Six years ago, the Malbis location experienced rapid grown, and roughly 250 people were driving from Mobile to the Malbis campus.
"We looked at those 250 people who took the Bayway every Sunday for the service and realized that they should be able to be planted where they are," Sullivan said. "They shouldn't have to drive 30 or 40 minutes to church, when they could have the same City Hope experience in their own neighborhood. That way it would be easier to invite their neighbors to church and to really be involved in the community."
City Hope's Mobile campus started with those 250 members in the Hollywood Theater building and has since moved to a location on Airport Boulevard. While Sullivan would not discuss overall attendance figures, the church has since expanded to become one of the largest multisite churches in the area, opening campuses in Malbis, Mobile, Foley and Bay Minette. City Hope plans to open a campus in Saraland soon.
The church has also expanded internationally, with campuses planted in Honduras and an unspecified location in Asia.
Similar to other multisite churches, City Hope has campus pastors and staff at each location. Sullivan is the campus pastor in Mobile. Taylor delivers the Sunday message in Malbis, and that message is then broadcast to other campuses.
"We want to reach people. Christians are supposed to make a positive impact on the community around them," Sullivan said, recalling a passage from the book of Matthew. "Jesus called us to be salt and light in the world. Having multiple sites enables us to do that in an effective way."
Local churches bucking national trends
"I think the idea of 'traditional vs. nontraditional' is subjective and I think that what people see as 'traditional' today is not necessarily rooted in church history," Bell said. "A hundred years ago people thought the idea of Sunday school was crazy and 'nontraditional.'"
Bell believes the wave of multisite churches is partly the result of changes in modern technology, which allows 3Circle and other multisite churches to live stream their Sunday sermon to multiple campuses.
According to Bell, in the last century churches were wary of broadcasting their message on the radio, but today any number of church services can be heard on radio stations nationwide on Sunday morning.
"Churches should take advantage of all of the tools at our disposal," Bell said. "God gave us this technology and we need to use it to glorify him. Sure, multisite is a trend right now, but 100 years ago church radio broadcasts were probably considered a trend. Multisite is effective if done right and it is cost efficient. The technology has allowed us to reach many more people for Christ than we could without it."
Robertson said the Mobile area is in line with declining national church attendance numbers, but recent reporting in national news media on those numbers often ignores the growth of churches at the local level.
According to Bell, mainline evangelical churches are collapsing because they have abandoned their orthodoxy.
"The churches that are surviving and growing today are the ones that are truly serving their community," Bell said. "As a church we dearly and deeply love the communities we are in because Christ loves those communities. That's what we are passionate about. You have to love the city you are in before you can reach it."
Robertson's church, Crawford Baptist Church in Semmes, numbered just 140 members eight years ago. Today its membership has swelled to more than 400 with multiple active ministries. If the opportunity arises, Robertson said he is open to a multisite approach. For now, he said, the church's future lies in planting churches in other states. He said there is potential to plant a church in Las Vegas, Nevada.
"I'm a professor and I always give my students a syllabus outlining the things I expect them to learn and do during the semester," Robertson said. "Jesus gave us a syllabus, and it told us to go and make disciples, and if we aren't reaching and baptizing people in the name of Christ, we are failing our basic mission as Christians. I think a lot of our churches have become too comfortable in doing the same things over and over again."
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Nearly 90% of C-store Retailers Expect Their Business to Be Negatively Impacted by FDA's Recent Announcements
NEW YORK — An overwhelming majority of convenience store retailers expect recent regulatory proposals by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hurt their tobacco business. However, many retailers acknowledge any final action could be years down the road.
Wells Fargo Securities LLC's recent Tobacco Talk survey found that roughly 90 percent of c-store retailers see "huge" potential downside from any menthol ban on cigarettes given the segment's importance to the category.
In addition, nearly two-thirds disagree with the agency's rationale to ban menthol ban on cigars; many of those surveyed don't see menthol cigars as a significant gateway for youth initiation, according to Bonnie Herzog, managing director of tobacco, beverage and convenience store research at Wells Fargo Securities.
Tobacco Talk surveys c-store retailer contacts representing approximately 55,000 stores.
"Unsurprisingly, retailers are broadly disappointed by and against the FDA's action on e-cigarettes and proposals to ban menthol from cigarettes and cigars, calling it 'far too extreme,' an 'overreach' of authority and 'knee-jerk,'" Herzog said.
On Nov. 15, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced several key proposals for FDA's Center for Tobacco Products to tackle:
- Only allow the sale of all flavored electronic nicotine device (ENDs) — other than tobacco, mint and menthol flavors or non-flavored products — in age-restricted, in-person locations and, if sold online, under heightened practices for age verification.
- Advance a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would seek to ban menthol in combustible tobacco products, including cigarettes and cigars, informed by the comments on its initial Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which was issued in late March.
- Address the presence of flavors in cigars, including those that were subject to the compliance policy for newly deemed products and those that fell within the grandfathered clause.
Notably, the Tobacco Talk survey revealed nearly 80 percent of retailers disagree with the agency's decision to enforce age-restricted access points within the store with several of our contacts noting this action benefits big tobacco vs. Juul on a relative basis.
In addition, nearly 90 percent of retailers expect their business to be negatively impacted as a result despite e-cigarettes relatively small contribution — less than 3 percent — to overall inside store sales.
"Although Juul is a big part of the e-cigarette category, its relation to the total nicotine category is less than 2 percent of revenue. I believe there will be a lot of change over to mint and menthol with many smokers reverting back to combustibles," one Tobacco Talk respondent noted.
Even with the proposals on the FDA's table, most retailers have no immediate plans to implement significant changes in their stores or to their current sales practices, according to Herzog.
"The FDA's recent action to restrict e-cigarette flavors shouldn't have a material impact on sales in stores given their relative size and most retailers are taking a 'wait and see' approach before implementing any broad set of in-store changes," Herzog explained.
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In previous posts I have taken up the cause of victims of Peter Vandever's photography theft. I've shown deliberate theft, passing off, callous disregard for others and all done for personal profit. I've highlighted his different ways of viewing the world and shown example after example from multiple websites and Social Media, varying methods of theft and degrees of deception.
In this post I provide the actual evidence by way of an entire copy of his commercial photography and website development business Jabez Prints taken today 27 March 2015. It shows the extent of his illegal activities.
If you know what you're doing and you don't want my commentary or help how to reverse image search, here's the link to go directly to the archive:
Explaining the archived data
Peter Vandever established Jabez Prints as a commercial venture buying the domain name in 2013. He started into commercial photography in mid to late 2014.
He commenced developed the Jabez Prints website in late 2014 and his course of deception culminated in a mass upload of plagiarised images in March 2015.
He took his entire website offline in early March 2015, but pages still remained on Google's cache. In time they will fall off Google's search indexes though. While Peter removed Word Presses browsing (so that all pages pathed to the holding image) he did not remove the actual images. They still remained in situ and fully browsable directly.
In a normal situation this would render the images invisible, for there would be no clickable link through to them and therefore the Search Engine robots would not know of their existence. The robots can only follow visible links.
But on 27 March 2015, today, I again took an entire download (scraped) of all images that Peter had ever uploaded, using WGET, a Linux tool. The command I used was:
wget –recursive –html-extension –page-requisites –convert-links http://jabezprints.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/
The reason that this simple command worked was that Peter had left open browsing on his sub-folders so that if there was no index file, Apache returned a list of files, rather than a 404 Error which is best practice for Server SysAdmins.
Here is the difference between my server which returns an error when trying to access a subdirectory and Peter's server that displays the files and directories.
This failure in basic Server security enabled my wget to browse the entire uploaded files directory by directory and within a few minutes have an archive of all Peter's plagiarised images safe and away from Peter's "DEL" key! And all of this perfectly legal, and of course the last thing any image theif would normally want – bulk evidence in the hands of a third party.
You are welcome to use this archive for legal purposes as you so wish, and I can provide additional evidence to validate the timing and/or legitimacy of this evidence gathering if you need it. I also have the data on backup locations for additional security.
Archive Usage
Just click through to each year/month to get an index page listing all the files uploaded month by month.
You can see a few images uploaded in June and December 2013, a few in early 2014, more in later 2014, and larger volumes including many plagiarised images in 2015.
To reverse search in Google, right click on the link and copy to your clipboard.
Paste it into Google's Image Search (https://images.google.com/searchbyimage?image_url=[pasted image URL here]) and then compare Peter's image with the other URLs which in most cases are where he has stolen the image from.
You will note that the thefts come in batches, typically travel websites and marry up with the commentary and examples I have provided to date.
There's your evidence . . . explore and see the true nature of the man who claims to be a Christian Missionary, web developer and photographer.
You'll find some other 'interesting' images in there too . . . enjoy.
The Archives:
And Peter? I'd turn your directory browsing off in Apache on your server if I were you. That's just Server Security 101.
- The Other Side of Peter Vandever - the orginal post of 2011 exposing Peter's deception. Peter's conduct ensured that it became my number one viewed page alongside of my public warning about Ormita
- Peter Vandever, now outed as a thief - 19 March 2015 The first of a series exposing immoral conduct
- Peter Vandever, Outing the Plagiarist - 22 March 2015 The second post
- Peter Vandever, Unravelling a Mass Plagiarist - 26 March 2015 The evidence builds
- Peter Vandever, Plagiarist, The Evidence - 27 march 2015 The Evidence in gory detail
- Peter Vandever Responds: F*ck Off! - 4 April 2015 A single finger salute sums it all up
- Peter Vandever – FACEBOOK WARNING - Page for distribution to Facebook participants


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The Round Mound of Rebound… Sir Charles… Chuck… No matter the nickname you prefer, Charles Barkley's playing and television career has spawned dozens of great quotes, commentary, and hilarious moments. To honor one of the greatest power forwards of all-time and look forward to his coverage of March Madness, we will pay homage to several of his best catch phrases in this weekly installment reviewing some of the top anecdotes and stories from around the game of college basketball, What Would Charles Say?
Let Me Tell You Something… The Final Four is set, and to say that we're thrilled with the matchups would be an understatement. Kentucky, Kansas, Louisville and Ohio State are four of the most regal programs in the sport, collectively boasting 13 national championships and 49 Final Four appearances. What's more is that all four of these teams this year would make for worthy national champions — each team has already won 30 or more games, each is led by an outstanding coach, and each has legitimate NBA talent up and down the roster. Oh, and one of the semifinal games — we won't tell you which one — just happens to represent one of the bitterest rivalries in the entire sport. The last time a Final Four was this star-studded was 2008 (with Kansas, Memphis, UCLA, and North Carolina), and you certainly remember how that one ended — with KU's Mario Chalmers hitting a massive 3 to send the game to overtime (where the Jayhawks eventually won the game). It wouldn't surprise us to see a similar ending like that one in Monday night's championship game. (more…)


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The outlook for the next six months is positive for global equity markets, said Bob Parker, senior advisor at Credit Suisse. He shared his market outlook.
"You're going to get positive growth surprises out of the States and Japan and the growth momentum in Latin America and Asia is being maintained," Parker told CNBC.
"We're not going to see any slowdown in growth over the next six months."
In addition, Parker said corporate earnings numbers have been positive in the fourth quarter and expects a similar picture for the current quarter.
"Investors are very defensively positioned," he added. "We're now seeing investors now switching out of bond markets and into equities."
Parker said growth in the first half of the year for the U.S. is expected to be close to 4 percent, annualized.
"The second half of this year, there is a real risk that we see a growth slowdown in the U.S. and also those very good numbers out of Japan reversing while the growth outlook in Europe, at best, remains mediocre," he warned.
"Where U.S. companies will do particularly well is those U.S. companies which generate a significant part of their profits and revenues from emerging markets," he said.
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text: Carmile Zaino Part-time Associate Teaching Professor Email firstname.lastname@example.com Office Location A - Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12th Street Download vCard Profile SNAPSHOT: Graphic Designer, Educator. Executive Creative Director, Bookspan/ DoubleDay Entertainment. Principal, Zaino Design. Formerly: Creative Director of Creative Services Department, Newsweek, Inc.; Editorial Art Director, Americana Magazine of the American Heritage Publishing Company; Promotion/ Advertising Art Director, American Heritage and House and Garden magazine. Clients included: Time-Warner, CBS, NY Times, Time, Money, Newsweek, and Forbes magazines; CBS, Book-of-the-Month Club, the New York Times. Book designer: Miracles of Mary (Harper Collins), and the National Geographic Guide to Public Gardens Awards: Society of Publication Designers. "Re-Mixes" 2016 to 2020: Juried Nationwide Exihibitions Since graduating from the Parsons School of Design in 1967, I have spent my career as an promotion and editorial designer for such companies as American Heritage Publishing, and as Creative Director for Newsweek and Book of the Month Club. In intervening years, I also ran my own design company, Zaino Design, with such clients as the Money Magazine, Forbes, TimeWarner, and CBS. A few years ago I left my last position at Doubleday Entertainment as Executive Creative Director to pursue an increased teaching schedule and re-entered the world of freelance designing. Partnering with both Lauren Stransky in 2008 at Stransky Studio, design and marketing company, and with Pentimento Design,Inc. as Brand Consultant in 2012, a visual communications and design studio, NYC & Balitmore, Md., my goal is to continue to uphold the highest standards in design and marketing and provide service to clients that share the same passion for excellence. I have taught several courses in Communication Design as an associate part time professor at Parsons School of Design for the past 35 years. I also taught Capstone Thesis at FIT in the MFA Illustration Department from 2009 to 2016 and taught Designing with Typography and Publication Design at Altos De Chavon School of Design in the Dominican Republic during their Winter and Summer semesters. In 2009 I returned from an interesting month in China where a group of Parsons students and professors collaborated with students from Tsinghua University in Beijing on various design projects for Nokia and The United Nations. And, in 2012 I traveled to India's West Coast to pursue my interest in the typography of the many regions in the North and South by photographing hand painted signs and walls. After photographing these signs I returned home to continue to photograph and then "remix" the symbols that I saw around me everyday. The art of "Re-Mixing" reflects my love of letterforms of all kinds, especially hand lettering, calligraphy, and typography and my fascination with digital collage by which the mundane and literal is transformed into the abstract and innovative. That is the work I am now exploring. I commuted for years between my studio in NYC and my home in the western Catskill Mountains. My dogs spent their time hunting frogs and snakes and tearing with wild abandon through the flowerbeds that I so lovingly tended. Now that I am a full time New York City dweller, I clutter my apartment and studio with antiques - stuff (I collect alphabets and typography books), enjoy cooking for family and friends, running to see the next great art exhibit, and attending a good performance at The Met. I try to get out on a river to flyfish (I will tell you about the "one" that got away!) and I am, through good times and bad, a diehard Yankee fan. Follow me on Instagram @zaino_711 | See my "Re-Mixes" #CarmileSZaino Current Courses Explorations in Typography Explorations in Typography (Spring 2020) Graphic Design 1 (Open Campus) Graphic Design 1 (Spring 2020)


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50ml Paste
A toothpaste that repairs damaged gums, increases blood flow and helps protect from infection and bleeding gums.
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General wear and tear on teeth, gums naturally receding with age and various lifestyle factors means our mouth health can suffer as we get older.
With this deterioration, the risk of gingivitis and gum disease increases. And as anyone who's suffered from these conditions will tell you - this can be painful, expensive and lead to further mouth problems.
Fortunately there's Neydent toothpaste. Also known as neydent zahncreme, neydent contains electrolytes, vitamins, biomolecular proteins, and an antibacterial matrix called liquor amnil – a proven fighter of infection and harmful bacteria in the mouth. Neydent also contains kiesel acid, which is a special acid, particularly effective on receding gums by getting more blood flowing to the gum tissue itself. More blood flow means better cell activity and more cell regeneration.
Of course, neydent also contains the ingredients of traditional toothpastes, such as fluoride and sea salt (a natural tooth cleaning aid) but there's plenty to smile about as anti-aging toothpaste neydent is the complete mouth-health toothpaste.
Biological regenerative toothpaste, containing bovine bimolecular proteins from placenta, membranes, tissue and cells. Liquor Amnil, Anti bacteria matrix, Anti-bodies, Electrolytes, Vitamins, Hormones, and Enzymes. Yeast containing B complex, Vitamin C, Rathania and Johanniskraut oil, Kiesel acid, fluoride, aromatic oils, sea salt. NeyDent ® toothpaste prevents and heals bleeding gums, infections and inflammations of the mouth as well as paradontois and all the usual things like loose teeth, bad breath and pain. It prevents caries and the pain when teeth are extremely sensitive. Better blood flow strengthens the gums and builds up resistance against infections and colds. NeyDent ® has biological cleaning power, tastes great, and creates fresh breath and a fresh feeling in the mouth. NeyDent ® contains a combination of natural regenerative and protective supplements, manufactured under a unique patented method. The unsurpassed effect of NeyDent ® is achieved by a combination of 11 ingredient groups.
After each meal, or at least twice a day, use a soft or medium toothbrush. Let the foam stay on a little longer than usual. The gums should be massaged softly, either with the finger or electric toothbrush. NeyDent ® must stay on for a little time in order for it to work properly, before you rinse.
NeyDent ® contains Alkyl-4-hydrobenzoate (Parabene). In rare cases, patients have showed sensitive reactions.
Storage Instructions:
NeyDent ® must be stored dry and at room temperature. Do not use after the expiry date and keep out of the reach of children.
The above information is the translation of the manufacturer's insert. It is provided under the supplying company's terms and conditions and should not replace the advice of your personal physician.