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Ani is the 2013 SoCal Gold Medalist in Powerlifting and is the world's leading author on detox, superfoods, wellness, and fitness. She has written seven award-winning and best-selling books, including "Ani's 15-Day Fat Blast", "Ani's Raw Food Essentials", and "Ani's Raw Food Kitchen," awarded "Best Vegetarian Cookbook USA" by Gourmand International. She offers Mastery Raw Food and Detox Certification Courses to help people learn how to make delicious, healthy food at home and/or for business while providing guidance to students who wish to start their own small business in the wellness and natural product categories.
Ani graduated from Cornell University in 1990, where she majored in Business Management and Design & Environmental Analysis, with a minor in Nutritional Sciences. She studied International Business Management at Yonsei University in 1989 and at Ewha University in 1987. In 1992, Ani studied computer art, 3D modeling & animation, and social psychology at SUNY Buffalo until she relocated to San Francisco to work in multimedia gulch in 1994.
Ani works with the White House and the U.S. Surgeon General of the United States, Vivek Murthy, on Obama's Initiative for Asian American Pacific Islanders as a stakeholder. She is an ambassador for the Office of Women's Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington D.C. where she helps encourage women to make our health a priority. Locally, she works with the Los Angeles City Mayor's Office as a committee member advocating for healthy food.
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Never Missed a Day of School
Published May 21st, 2007
She's never missed a day of school in her entire life. This Thursday, Aine Coughlin celebrates her achievements over the last thirteen years.
Coughlin was told by people her entire life that she wasn't smart enough to graduate school with a standard high school diploma. Her parents taught her otherwise.
Her father Ed Coughlin says, "I think what we tried to tell her if you can't do it one way there has to be another way,of doing it. Always think outside the box."
This year, she's the only student in the Marion County School System to graduate with perfect attendance throughout her high school career.
By Sarah Pusateri, WCJB TV20 News
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OKLAHOMA CITY – Chris Paul had a chance.
After the Clippers snuck back from a nine-point fourth quarter deficit Wednesday night at Chesapeake Energy Arena, Paul got a shot to win the game. But his turnaround jumper from the left elbow over Russell Westbrook went awry and the Thunder took control in overtime to outlast the Clippers, 117-111, snapping L.A.'s six-game winning streak.
"We should have won that game," Paul said. "We know it. They know it. I think the frustrating part is we had an opportunity to win it. Regardless of what anybody says, it's going to be hard for us to win a game if I play that bad. It's tough because you work so hard and you know there are going to be nights like that."
Paul made just two of his 14 field goals and missed two shots down the stretch in regulation that could have tilted the game. Still, the Clippers (8-3) were nearly able to overcome a 34-for-39 free throw parade and 11 3-pointers from Oklahoma City (9-3) and the absence of starting small forward Caron Butler, who missed the game with a strained right shoulder.
"We can play better that's the exciting thing about it and we know that and we need to," Clippers head coach Vinny Del Negro said.
Blake Griffin said, "We played poorly." And later added, "We have a tough squad and we're a squad that never gives up and that's promising."
In overtime Westbrook and Kevin Durant made 3-pointers on two of the first five Thunder possessions and after a turnover by Paul was sandwiched by 3-point misses by Jamal Crawford and Matt Barnes, Westbrook nailed a tough leaner on the left baseline and Oklahoma City salted the game away at the free throw line.
Difference Maker: Serge Ibaka. The league's best shot blocker showed versatility as offensive threat as well. He had 15 points, including a baseline jumper from a step in front of the 3-point line late in the game and a buzzer-beating 3-pointer at the end of the first half.
Paul got Kendrick Perkins to switch out onto him in the waning seconds of the first half and after dribbling down the shot clock, launched a 3-pointer over the Thunder big man. The shot went awry and Ibaka banked in a 3-pointer on the other end as time expired. Ibaka's basket gave the Thunder a 10-point lead at the half and answered a four-point possession from the Clippers 30 seconds earlier.
In addition to his shooting proficiency (5-for-9) he collected 12 rebounds and was shot-blocking threat in the lane, finishing with three blocks and a number of contested plays at the rim.
Moment of Truth: Paul's miss that sent the game to overtime.
Stat Line of the Night/Day: Matt Barnes. In relief of Butler, Barnes did just about everything that could be asked of him. He scored 19 points with nine rebounds and four steals before fouling out in overtime. He also battled Durant throughout the night.
After the game he talked about what the objective is when defending the three-time scoring champion. "Make him earn it," Barnes said. "He shot 21 free throws, which is tough; 19-of-21, that's a little hard to swallow. With a great player like him you want to be physical, but they weren't letting us be too physical tonight. He's a great player and he carried his team like he's supposed to.
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Durant. The superstar scored a game-high 35 points and while he was held to 7-for-19 from the floor he got to the foul line 21 times, including four makes in the final 52.4 seconds of overtime. He also had six rebounds, five assists, five steals and six turnovers.
Griffin. In his only regular season game in Oklahoma City this season, Griffin returned to his hometown to score a team-high 23 points with six rebounds and three steals. He made 5-of-6 free throws down the stretch to help the Clippers come back in regulation. However, Griffin was relegated to the bench for the final 7:04 of the third quarter with four fouls.
DeAndre Jordan. He showed as much poise and growth as any time in his career en route to 12 points, 10 rebounds, two steals and a blocked shot. Jordan scored five points in overtime including a step-through layup that drew the sixth foul on Ibaka. More importantly, Jordan converted the free throw that followed. Overall, he was 4-for-6 from the foul line (3-for-4 when Thunder head coach Scott Brooks employed the intentional foul strategy twice in the last half of the fourth quarter).
"It was a great play for us," Jordan said of his 3-point play in overtime. "It was not only an and-one, but Serge had five fouls and that gave him six. It was big for us to have that shot-blocking presence out of the game."
Hot: Kevin Martin. The Thunder's top bench scorer had 20 points off the bench and did it in just 10 shots, going 6-for-10 from the field and 5-for-5 from the charity stripe. He also made a pair of timely baskets that curtailed Clipper runs, none more vital than a dunk on a run-out after Griffin was stripped on his way to the rim with a chance to cut L.A.'s deficit from four to two.
Not: Paul. The superstar had nine points and nine assists, but shot just 2-for-14 from the field and committed four turnovers.
"I couldn't throw the ball in the ocean," Paul lamented. "I took a couple of bad shots, a few shots. We were down three [and] I missed a layup that would have put us down one. They came down and got an and-one. There were untimely mistakes, untimely misses. I went baseline looking for Jamal and threw it to Blake, turnover."
On Paul's final shot:
Jordan: "Chris got a great look. We'd live and die off that shot. We fought but we definitely made some mistakes tonight and they made more plays than us down the stretch."
Barnes: "Great shot. That's our best player. Down the stretch, even though he didn't shoot the ball that much tonight, he's the one we want taking that shot. He got a clean look off Westbrook and missed, but we'd take that shot every night from him."
Scott Brooks: "Chris Paul is one of the best at finding a great shot in the last six seconds of the shot clock. He just has that knack. He can do it himself or he can find an open big underneath the basket or an open 3-point shooter on the wing. I thought we did a good job."
On what set the tone for the game:
Hasheem Thabeet: "Just get out and get there first. That's what we talked about doing harder before we went out. We served up all the plays and we said 'we're going to go out there and we're going to play harder,' and we did. We went out there and competed and props to my teammates."
On the play of Matt Barnes:
Del Negro: "He had to [play a lot of minutes], we're a little there without Caron [Butler]. Matt rebounding the ball, guarded Kevin the whole time about as well as you can, he got to the line a lot."
Notes: Lamar Odom had a season-high eight rebounds. It is the first time since April 13, 2011 he had as many as eight in a game… The Clippers had 17 offensive rebounds. It's the second game in a row they have collected 17 or more boards on that end of the floor… Crawford scored 20 points for the seventh time this season. He is leading the Clippers and all bench players in the NBA with 19.7 points per game… Westbrook was whistled for a technical foul in the second quarter for arguing with an official. He had 23 points and nine assists in the game… Thabeet scored 10 points on 4-of-4 shooting… The Clippers entered the game with a 3-0 road record for the second time in franchise history. They have never been 4-0 on the road to start a season.


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The first 2 articles in this 3 part series: "The 'First Implant': Protocol for the GP," covered treatment planning and surgical aspects of a dentist placing his or her first dental implant via "the first implant protocol (FIP)." In the third and final part of this series, laboratory communication, abutment design concepts, impression techniques, and other important aspects of restoring an implant will be described. The process of taking the implant from the provisional to definitive cemented restoration will be discussed in great detail.
The dentist's "first implant" was initially treatment planned using a cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) scan. A single implant was then placed utilizing a CT-derived surgical guide based on the correct prosthetic/restorative position, followed by the provisional restoration cemented onto a temporary titanium implant abutment. After 3 months of healing, allowing for osseointegration, a fixture-level impression was required to transfer the position of the implant from the patient's mouth to a working cast so that the laboratory can create a permanent cementable crown.
The protocol demonstrated in this series of articles has been based on the straight-walled, internal hex implant (BioHorizons). There are unique restorative advantages to the BioHorizons system, with the most important feature being the "3inOne" abutment that comes with the implant. This abutment has 3 purposes: (1) it serves as an implant fixture mount, allowing for easy and accurate implant placement; (2) it serves as an impression transfer coping when an additional ball top screw is placed into the abutment; and (3) it can also serve as a permanent titanium abutment after extraoral modification by clinician or laboratory technician (Figures 1 and 2).
|Figure 1. 3inOne abutment (BioHorizons) used as a carrier to place an implant in position.
|Figure 2. Ball top screw for 3inOne abutment, being used as an impression transfer.
In part 2 of this series covering the surgical aspects of placing a "first implant," it was stated that the implant was placed with the flat side of the 3inOne abutment toward the facial aspect of the receptor site. This rotational orientation was recommended to allow for consistency in the positioning of the abutment after modification. In addition, the temporization phase required the use of an abutment; therefore, the 3inOne abutment placed at the time of surgery and provisionalized became a reusable temporary abutment that could be reused in future cases after being cleaned and autoclaved. The sequential steps later in this article will explain this further.
At 3 months, the provisional restoration and temporary titanium abutment will be removed and osseointegration verified. A fixture-level closed-tray impression will be taken with a new unprepared 3inOne abutment and the ball top screw impression coping. This second 3inOne abutment will be used as an impression coping in conjunction with the ball top screw to fabricate a soft-tissue cast. The abutment will then be used as a permanent abutment after laboratory preparation to gain good marginal adaptation to the surrounding soft tissue. Placing the flat side of the abutment in a predetermined facial position at the time of surgery allows for reuse of the titanium temporary abutment for future cases.
In order to take an impression of the implant and transfer the clinical position in the mouth accurately to a dental laboratory, an implant impression transfer coping must be used. There are 2 types of implant impression methods: (1) an "open-tray" technique, where the long impression coping screw secures the coping to the implant, protrudes through the tray, and is unscrewed in the mouth after the impression sets; and (2) the second option is the "closed-tray impression" technique, where a traditional type crown and bridge impression is taken of the impression coping after it is secured to the implant with the reusable impression transfer coping.1 The FIP utilizes the 3inOne abutment (BioHorizons) and a reusable Ball Top Screw (BioHorizons) impression transfer coping. The use of the 3inOne abutment and closed-tray impression technique provides for simplicity and accuracy for the FIP.
When the impression utilizing the implant impression coping has set, the coping is then removed from the implant intraorally and attached to an implant analog or implant "replica" (Figure 3). The color-coded implant analog diameter will correlate to the size of implant used, and will contain the appropriate internal hexagonal connection. The impression coping and implant analog is then placed back into the impression, making sure of proper fit and orientation. An opposing arch alginate impression is required, along with a rigid bite registration (Regisil Rigid [DENTSPLY Caulk]; Blu-Mousse [Parkell]). The implant impression coping, analog, opposing arch study cast, and bite registration will then be sent to the dental laboratory team with appropriate instructions.
After the implant is surgically placed, a transitional restoration is fabricated. The FIP protocol uses a "nonfunctionally" loaded provisional tooth on the implant.2 This means that the transitional tooth will be vertically reduced so that it is out of occlusion and nonfunctionally loaded when the patient leaves the office. The transitional restoration will require the use of a secondary abutment. This "extra" abutment will also be a "3inOne" type abutment, which will be prepared extraorally to allow for good marginal adaptation and retention. Therefore, there are actually more than 3 uses for the 3inOne abutment.
When the virtual plan is established, the exact length and width of the implant is chosen. Allowing for adequate time prior to surgical intervention, it is required that the proper implant body, implant analog, ball-top screw, and second 3inOne abutment be ordered and received by the office. The ball-top screw is universal to all of the BioHorizons internal hex implant sizes, but the analogs are specific to each implant size and are color-coded. Yellow represents the 3.5 mm diameter platform, green the 4.5 mm platform, and blue the 5.5 mm platform implants. Having these parts on hand allows for better organization, and makes sure the case moves along smoother. The FIP requires that certain of these parts be sent to the dental laboratory at the time of impressioning.
|Figure 3. Implant analog attached to 3inOne abutment and ball-top screw.
|Figure 4. Extraoral preparation of 3inOne abutment to support a provisional restoration.
|Figure 5. Provisional 3inOne abutment hand tightened to support a provisional restoration.
|Figure 6. Provisional (Pro Temp [3M ESPE]) being filled with dual-cured resin after being light-cured.
|Figure 7. Bite relationship of provisional restoration out of occlusion. (A nonfunctional immediate provisional.)
Once an implant is placed with the FIP, a dentist creates a nonfunctionally loaded provisional restoration for the patient. This is accomplished through extraoral preparation of the 3inOne abutment on a special abutment handle (BioHorizons) (Figure 4). Various titanium carbide burs (Meisinger USA or Brasseler USA) can be used for this procedure.3 The abutment is prepared so that the chamfer on the facial is at or just below the free gingival margin. It is recommended that a small dimple be placed on the flat side of the abutment, so that after preparation, the flat side can still be identified. Once this is done, the abutment is hand tightened on the implant using a .050 hex hand wrench (Figure 5). A light-cured moldable provisional crown (Pro Temp [3M ESPE]) is formed over the abutment and light-cured. Prior to curing the provisional crown, the patient bites down into centric relation occlusion. This bite relationship allows for easy adjustment of the provisional to be out of occlusion in all movements. After the provisional crown is light-cured, a dual-cured resin is placed on the occlusal surface of the crown, and the patient bites down on it, allowing it to cure (Figures 6 and 7). After trimming and occlusal adjustment, the provisional crown is cemented with a strong temporary cement (TempBond [Kerr Sybron Dental]). An important aspect of the FIP is to have a nonfunctional provisional restoration during the 3-month healing period.
The first step to restore the provisionalized implant after 3 months of recommended healing is to remove the provisional restoration and the temporary modified 3inOne abutment using a 0.50 hex hand wrench to unscrew the abutment from the implant body (Figure 8).
The second step is for a ball-top screw (BioHorizons) to be placed on a second brand new 3inOne abutment, and an impression is taken with the clinician's impression material of choice. The authors use light and heavy body vinyl polysiloxane (VPS) impression materials (Aquasil [DENTSPLY Caulk]; Imprint [3M ESPE]) combined. A radiograph needs to be taken to verify full seating of the 3inOne impression coping. This radiograph ensures that the rest of the steps are done with the impression coping in its proper position. A closed-tray, full-arch, crown and bridge type impression is done in a very simple manner using a syringe to inject material around the transfer impression coping. The closed-tray technique versus an open-tray technique is preferred in the FIP, due to its simplicity, reduced parts, and accuracy due to the ball-top interface.4 If the 3inOne abutment and ball-top screw allow the patient to close without interference, then a full-arch Triple Tray (Premier) can be used. If the 3inOne abutment interferes with the patient's bite, then a full-arch impression tray is used. A face-bow registration should also be done at this time (Figure 9).
The third step in the FIP is to place the 3inOne impression coping and analog into the impression. Once an impression has been completed, the "second" 3inOne unprepared abutment is removed from the mouth, and a corresponding sized Biohorizons implant analog is attached to it along with the ball-top screw. Once these are connected via the ball-top screw, they are inserted into the impression. The flat side of the abutment and corresponding impression markers on the 3inOne abutment are placed accordingly into the impression. There are other indentations on the 3inOne abutment that allow for a secure orientation into the impression. There should be a solid "snap" seating into the impression with a secure type feeling (Figure 10). The impression, bite registration, and counter impression (if it isn't a full-arch dual-arch tray) is sent to the dental laboratory team.
|Figure 8. Body of internal implant (BioHorizons) after removal of 3inOne
|Figure 9. Ball-top screw on 3inOne abutment in place for a closed-tray impression.
|Figure 10. 3inOne abutment with analog placed into impression, ready to be poured in stone by the dental laboratory technician.
The fourth step in the FIP is to return the temporary restoration with prepared 3inOne abutment placed onto the implant with the dimple towards the facial. The dimple allows easy reorientation of the abutment. As per the FIP, the flat side of the BioHorizons abutment being placed facial, this orientation is effective for all future cases and serves to verify the abutment position in the mouth, and on the working cast. To elaborate on this further, this concept is effective based on the orientation of the internal hex of the implant body. Rotating the flat side of the internal hex initially at the time of implant placement addresses the multiple orientations that are possible when a hexagon shapes the platform, and allows for consistency and accuracy. If this weren't done, the prepped 3inOne abutment couldn't be used in a future case as the margins would be off center. The previously made provisional can now be recemented onto the first implant abutment that was prepared.
The fifth step in the restorative FIP is to add occlusion to the original provisional restoration. The addition of light occlusion allows for progressive loading of the bone.5 This progressive loading will now take place during the next 3 weeks while the laboratory is creating the final restoration and preparing the final abutment. The sixth restorative step is to send the final impression with the analog and abutment to the dental laboratory.
The seventh and final step is for the dentist to deliver the implant supported, cement-retained crown. The dentist first removes the provisional restoration on the temporary abutment with gentle rocking of a hemostat. The underlying abutment is next removed by unscrewing the abutment screw with the BioHorizons 0.50 hex wrench. The patient is asked to rinse with a solution of chlorhexidine gluconate (Peridex Chlorhexidine Gluconate 0.12% Oral Rinse [3M ESPE]) at this point to remove any debris in the site.
The dental laboratory team is provided with the final impression with the implant analog and impression coping inserted into the impression, along with the bite registration and face-bow registration. The authors prefer to place the analog into the impression so that the clinician can verify the placement. It is important to protect the impression during shipment to the laboratory so that the analog is not dislodged.
The provisional restoration that was on the implant for the past 3 months has formed an emergence profile and mature tissue around the implant. The laboratory will fabricate an accurate soft-tissue model, replicating the sulcus formed intraorally.6-9
This FIP utilizes a cement-retained crown instead of a screw-retained crown.10 A cement-retained crown allows the 3inOne abutment to be utilized as the final titanium abutment. Taking an impression with the 3inOne abutment for cement retention also reduces parts that need to be ordered, and helps to contain costs. Furthermore, a cement-retained crown eliminates a screw-access hole that can create porcelain fracture and is often in the position of an occlusal stop or embrasure.
Since the FIP requires abundant bone with healthy keratinized tissue and good interarch clearance, the 3inOne abutment can usually be used as the final abutment. The BioHorizons 3inOne abutment is designed with a chamfer prepared at 3 mm from the implant platform. In the posterior molar region that is out of the aesthetic zone, the dental laboratory can utilize this chamfer, but the authors recommend a definitive preparation to allow enough room for metal and porcelain at the gingival margin or just below.
In the molar region, due to the often large mesiodistal spacing, a PFM crown with sufficient underlying metal supporting the mesiodistal cantilever is also recommended by the authors. The metal support of the porcelain reduces the chance of porcelain fracture.
In a premolar area, a zirconium-based crown can be utilized for aesthetic purposes. There is often limited mesiodistal space in the premolar area. The laboratory should be instructed to lower the chamfer on the abutment to 0.5 mm to one mm below the free gingival margin to improve the aesthetic results and hide the gold abutment color.
The minimal height of an abutment to support a cemented crown is 5 mm. It is important that the dental laboratory allows for adequate retention on the abutment in both height and taper. Retention grooves can be placed into the abutment by the laboratory if increased retention is required.
|Figure 11. Soft-tissue laboratory model and the PFM crown.
|Figure 12. Laboratory-prepared 3inOne abutment implant body, screwed into place.
|Figure 13. View of the permanent PFM crown after cementation.
The laboratory abutment is then removed from the soft-tissue model and inserted into the implant fixture intraorally and hand tightened. The laboratory-produced crown is then tried-in for fit, marginal adaptation, interproximal contacts, and occlusion (Figures 11 and 12). The occlusion is rechecked. It is important to instruct the dental laboratory to create light occlusion on the implant crown. The reason for this is that teeth intrude when a patient bites hard, and implants do not, due to the presence of a periodontal ligament on a tooth. If the implant is hitting at the same level as a tooth, the implant will get more force than the adjacent teeth, and this could cause bone loss and implant failure due to being overstressed. This has been called implant-protected occlusion by Misch and Bidez.11 When the crown is ready to cement, the abutment is torqued down to 30 Ncm with an implant torque wrench. A light-cured flexible resin material (Fermit N [Ivoclar Vivadent]) is placed in the screw hole.12 The permanent crown is then cemented with a permanent type cement (TempBond; Durelon [3M ESPE]). The FIP uses a permanent cement to reduce micromovement and possible future prosthetic problems (Figure 13).
This is the third and final article in a 3-part series demonstrating the steps to take the clinician from the intial treatment planning phase to placing a single implant, and then restoring the "first implant" following a specific protocol. It is once again emphasized that an appropriate hands-on course is highly recommended prior to commencing these steps for the first time. After understanding the principles in this series of articles and attending an appropriate course, it is the authors' belief that placing a dental implant in adequate bone and soft tissue, based upon proper 3-dimensional diagnosis afforded by the use of a CT scan, and CT derived surgical template, is well within the reach of the general dentist.
- Ganz SD. Obtaining impressions for the clinically successful implant-supported restoration. In: Masters of Impressionism. Mahwah, NJ: Montage Media Corporation; 1997:6-11.
- Lindeboom JA, Frenken JW, Dubois L, et al. Immediate loading versus immediate provisionalization of maxillary single-tooth replacements: a prospective randomized study with BioComp implants. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2006;64:936-942.
- Ganz SD. Three A's in achieving prosthetic success: abutment selection, abutment preparation, and abutment connection. Presented at: IPIS/ICOI Meeting; August 14-16, 1998; Dearborn, MI.
- Lee H, So JS, Hochstedler JL, et al. The accuracy of implant impressions: a systematic review. J Prosthet Dent. 2008;100:285-291.
- Misch CE. Progressive loading of bone with implant prostheses. J Dent Symp. 1993;1:50-53.
- Ganddini MR, Tallents RH, Ercoli C, et al. Technique for fabricating a cement-retained single-unit implant-supported provisional restoration in the esthetic zone. J Prosthet Dent. 2005;94:296-298.
- del Castillo R, Drago C. Indexing and provisional restoration of single implants. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2005;63(9 suppl 2):11-21.
- Castellon P, Casadaban M, Block MS. Techniques to facilitate provisionalization of implant restorations. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2005;63(9 suppl 2):72-79.
- Shor A, Schuler R, Goto Y. Indirect implant-supported fixed provisional restoration in the esthetic zone: fabrication technique and treatment workflow. J Esthet Restor Dent. 2008;20:82-97.
- Dudley JE, Richards LC, Abbott JR. Retention of cast crown copings cemented to implant abutments. Aust Dent J. 2008;53:332-339
- Misch CE, Bidez MW. Implant-protected occlusion. Pract Periodontics Aesthet Dent. 1995;7:25-29.
- Ganz SD. A new light-cured material for obturation of screw-access canals in fixed-detachable implant prostheses. Implant Soc. 1991;2:12-13.
Dr. Tischler is a general dentist in private practice in Woodstock, NY. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral Implantology Implant Dentistry, a Diplomate and Fellow of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists, a Fellow of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry, and a Fellow and graduate of the Misch International Institute. He is on the CE editorial board for Dentistry Today and on the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Implant and Advanced Clinical Dentistry. He has published many articles in various dental journals and lectures internationally on the principles of implant dentistry and bone grafting. He is the director of implant education for Davinci Dental Studios and is also on the BioHorizons educational speakers' panel. He offers in-office courses at his teaching facility in Woodstock many times during the year and has a popular instructional DVD available that covers the principles of implant dentistry and bone grafting. He can be reached at (845) 679-3706 or at tischlerdental.com.
Disclosure: Dr. Tischler lectures for BioHorizons and is compensated at times for speaking.
Disclosure: Dr. Ganz is a lecturer for BioHorizons, Imaging Sciences, and Materialise Dental.


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Wow nice work! Any non WP-Version planned to be released, maybe as a smart one page?
Thanks Here the HTML template version – http://themeforest.net/item/wellios-vcard-template/3637697
Sorry for the translation (google) On the page about me, here's what appears to me:
In the edition and the website is the same.
[tab title="Main" active="yes"]
[main_info_list] [main_info title="Name" value="Christina Summer"] [main_info title="Date of Birth" value="November 16, 1986"] [main_info title="Address" value="New York City, United States"] [main_info title="Profession" value="Designer"] [main_info title="Phone" value="+0 (123) 456 789"] [main_info title="Email" value="firstname.lastname@example.com"] [main_info title="Website" value="www.summer.com"] [/main_info_list]
thank you
There're shortcodes of the theme, and you can put here your combinations of shortcodes or edit content of current structure.
Please let me know if you have any questions
great theme!
Is it possible with WP 3.9, please?
Thanks for your response
great theme I have one problem tho, on the ribbons/tabs along the top, where it has the images, (home-house image etc) My portfolio tab doesn't have an icon? I know it should be the "star" image but don't know where it has went??
Thanks in advance
Here the solution, just put the "portfolio" class to the menu item on menu editing page http://take.ms/ITaig
I have problems on my website, the vision plugin does not appear in the text editor so I can insert the shortcodes page and the blog is not working. help me, look www.jmcwd.com.br
Hi, just apply "Blog template" to the blog page – http://take.ms/ixpru
I've done it I saw all the help, and not of right, and vision plugin have to buy it?
No vision is free with out theme
I sent a private message on, help me
Two quick questions:
1. Is there a linked In social media button? 2. Does the portfolio use Pretty photo or is that something else. ( I ask this because I want to know if it can hold pdf or other docs like Pretty photo can.
1. Yes, you can add your social profiles link to the footer. But blog hasn't possibility to share the post, you can install 3-rd part plugins for this.
2. Yes, we used Pretty photo, and our theme support uploading images and video. Unfortunately theme doesn't have a possibility to PDF upload.
Another Question:
I Purchased the theme. I'm thinking of using it for a small scale class I'm teach at summer school for 16 students. I'm running a multisite website that will allow them to feature themselves and share a bit of their work they've done this summer? I've been experiencing issues using it on the demo site on the network. I want to ask if this theme can be used on a multisite before i start trouble shooting.
Hi, if you've setup the WP right, you can use our theme for multiple websites. However, the regular license on Envato gives you the rights to use the theme only for one website.
You can use one theme for several websites, but we can't guarantee, that the method or plugin you use will work without problems.
Do you know if its working on Wordpress 3.9? I tried in on another site an for some reason its not showing anything.
Single website looks like: http://ryantolbert.net I don't have any plugins running and the default theme looks normalon the multisite it looks like this: http://ryantolbert.bridge-enterprise.org I've published pages with content on them but none of them are showing up.
Do you have any trouble shoots? I'm more concerned about the second example than the first
We didn't testing the theme with latest WP but we don't support and update this theme for now.
Seems like your multisite solution (plugin or script) don't compatible with this theme. But you can email us to email@example.com with wp-admin credentials and we will try to help you.
Thanks again for your reply. I'll be sure to shoot an email. Quickly though, When is the last stable supporting version of Wordpress Wellios supports? Maybe I can downgrade to that
The last stable version is 3.5
Hi there, I've been having similar issues with my install. I also have been getting the install fail messages: 'The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.' I've been uploading the zip.file each time. I also checked the unpacked file and I can see it does have the style.css stylesheet. I've logged out and logged back in several times, deleted themes, used different browsers (Firefox and Safari), but no luck… please help! Oh and thanks in advance!
Also tried downloading on different browsers with no effect
Are you sure you used proper .zip archive?? The thing is that we have just found out that there is no wellios.zip file, but the whole folder. If you have this folder with theme files just zip it and then try to install.
Another option is to just upload the theme folder to wp-content/themes on the ftp.
How can I have the menu item text (which appears while we hover the mouse) sticky (should be visible all of the time)?
Put this styles in style.css: .navigation li a span { position: absolute; bottom: 90px; left: 50%; margin-left: -44px; width: 88px; height: 48px; background: url(images/ribbon_slide.png) top right; box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); color: #560101; text-align: center; text-indent: 0; text-shadow: 1px 0 2px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: 700; font-size: 11px; line-height: 48px; opacity: 1; -webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; -moz-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; -o-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; pointer-events: none; -ms-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; }
instead of
.navigation li a span { position: absolute; bottom: 120px; left: 50%; margin-left: -44px; width: 88px; height: 48px; background: url(images/ribbon_slide.png) top right; box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); color: #560101; text-align: center; text-indent: 0; text-shadow: 1px 0 2px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: 700; font-size: 11px; line-height: 48px; opacity: 0; -webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; -moz-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; -o-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; pointer-events: none; -ms-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; }
I would like to purchase this theme. Does this work with the latest wordpress 4.1?
Sorry, but we don't support this theme for WP 4+ yet
Any word on this being compatible with the latest wordpress version?
Theme is compatible with 4.2 We've checked it yet.
The about me page is broken in the demo.


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8 Retailers At Risk Of Disappearing From Canada
It seems hardly a month goes by these days without announcements of layoffs or dismal earnings at Canadian retailers. Canada's economy is humming along (though job numbers could be better) so why are so many retailers closing stores like it's the middle of a recession?
There's no one simple answer. There are many factors coming together to create a perfect storm for Canada's retail industry. Here are some of the major ones:
— Online retail. Canada lags many other developed countries when it comes to buying and selling online, but online sales are eating into brick-and-mortar stores' sales all the same. Bookstores are particularly vulnerable to the Amazon juggernaut, but electronics retailers are also suffering from "showrooming" — customers coming in to the store to check out a product, then buying it cheaper online.
— The American invasion. Numerous U.S. retailers are pushing into the Canadian market these days, led famously by Target. But others, such as Marshalls, J. Crew and Nordstrom, are either already here or about to arrive. That's putting pressure on the retailers already here. As a recent HuffPost special report showed, native Canadian retailers are fading from the country's malls.
— The wealth gap. A recent CIBC report suggested that low-end retailers like Dollarama and high-end retailers like Saks are going to be the winners in Canadian retail going forward. The report notes that incomes at the high end have been growing twice as fast as incomes at the low end in recent years. That means the rich have more money to shop and the middle class are increasingly searching for bargains. The losers in the equation are those who focus on middle-income earners — stores such as Target and Sears.
Amidst all this, many Canadian retailers have already folded. Tabi, for instance, shut down in 2011, and Zellers largely disappeared in 2012 (though a location actually opened in Ottawa earlier this year).
Others are also at risk. Here are eight chains that could soon disappear from the Canadian retail scene:
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One of Canada's most storied and oldest retailers went bankrupt in 1999. The department stores founded by Timothy Eaton in 1869 became famous for their catalogues, sponsorship of the Toronto Santa Claus parade and the downtown Toronto shopping centre that still bears its name.
This chain of grocery stores was rebranded as A&P before it was bought out by Metro. We miss the chain founded in 1919, party because of those plastic grocery bins you could load onto a conveyor belt to get them outside, but mostly because of their awesome font.
Although Toronto is home to the Bata shoe museum, the chain has shuttered all of its Bata and Athlete's World stores in the country where it was once based. It does, however, continue to sell footwear on almost every other continent. Pictured: Bata founder Tomas Bata.
It was once Canada's largest music retailer boasting "140 locations, coast to coast." The chain was founded by Sam Sniderman in 1937. Along with A&A Records and Canada's last national music store chain, Music World, it fell victim to the Internet age by the end of the 2000s.
A&A had noticeable flagship stores in downtown Toronto and downtown Montreal. It launched in the early 1960s and went bankrupt in 1991.
Even if you weren't a fan of lumber shopping, how could you complain about being dragged through a store whose logo is an overall-clad, skipping beaver? Also, it was owned by Molson — yes, the beer people. What's more Canadian than that?
This was THE convenience store chain -- known for its plastic jugs of milk -- for many small-town Ontarians before being sold to the parent company of rival Mac's Convenience Stores in 1996. It was so Canadian, its chocolate milk got a shout-out in the special thanks section on many Rush albums.
Believe it or not, Ontario once had another pharmacy chain that gave Shoppers Drug Mart a real run for its money.
This novelty-items store was where you could buy any Troll doll or Beanie Baby, or marvel at the dirty gift selections while pretending to shop for a Troll or Beanie Baby.
For all your canvas clothing and accessories needs. The wallets and pencil cases were must-haves for 1980s Southern Ontario kids.
Ever since this retailer of cliched Canadian clothing shuttered, we have no idea where to get puffy paint sweatshirts with pictures of loons on them, or the ugly Christmas sweater for all of those trendy theme parties.
The home to discount menswear and flamed shirts galore was once an institution in malls across the country, but has been reduced to just a handful of shops in small-town malls.
Once a staple in Western Canada and Ontario, it had great, cheap jeans.
The classic Canadian "mom store" closed in 2011, after 30 years in operation.
A Zellers-esque chain perhaps best known to eastern Canadians, who might be familiar with the chain's animated squirrel named Sparky.
The free popcorn made arguing over which VHS movie to rent bearable.
Zeddy! Need we say more?
A perfect blend of Costco affordability and Whole Foods quality. http://www.traderjoes.com/
Another option for a mid-priced department store with a diversity of offering is always welcome. Plus, the stores are so well decorated at Christmas. And we love the sales! http://www.macys.com/
Because Harold and Kumar aren't the only ones willing to make a road trip for their stoner fare. http://www.whitecastle.com/
Recently named America's favourite hamburger chain based on food quality, value and service. http://www.in-n-out.com/
For your Mexican-inspired salad bar alone, please expand outside of B.C. In fact, we'll take White Spot too. http://www.carlsjr.com/
The U.S. retailer of all things outside is like a Canadian Tire, SportsChek, MEC and Golf World combined. http://www.dsgcamps.com/
This drugstore chain has everything — and cheap. Might we suggest shaking up the Shoppers Drug Mart-dominated space a little? http://www.walgreens.com/
Let's give our full-figured sisters a trendy alternative to Penningtons and Addition-Elle already. http://www.lanebryant.com/
A more casual and (slightly) more affordable J.Crew sister store? Yes please. https://www.madewell.com
We're sick of watching Friends re-runs and not being able to shop where Rachel Green worked. http://www1.bloomingdales.com/
An edgier, smaller-scale department-esque store that sells their in-house brand and others.This powerhouse brand has outposts in LA, New York, London and Tokyo, as well as a magazine and TV channel. http://www.openingceremony.us/
Nordstrom The luxury department store chain will open in Toronto's Eaton Centre in 2016.
Chico's The figure-flattering women's wear chain will open its first three Canadian locations in the Greater Toronto Area later in 2014.
Designer Shoe Warehouse The U.S. discount shoe chain purchased a 44 per cent in Town Shoes earlier this year and is expected to open some of its big box style retail locations.
Saks Fifth Avenue Hudson Bay Co. has announced two Toronto locations for the high end U.S. retailer, one at the Eaton Centre in 2015 and the other at Sherway Gardens in 2016, but has said it may bring as many as seven to Canada. It will also bring as many as 75 more affordable Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5th locations.
American Girl The doll store with a cult like following opened its first two Canadian stores inside Chapters/ Indigo stores in Toronto and Vancouver earlier this year and plans to roll out a cross-country expansion.
Dylan's Candy Bar The brightly-coloured candy retailer founded by Ralph Lauren's daughter Dylan is reportedly looking for retail space in Canada.
Jimmy Choo The American women's shoe designer is expected to open its first Canadian standalone store in Toronto's Yorkdale mall later this year.
Bloomingdale's Ok this one is speculation at this point, but several retail sources in Canada since 2012 have reported this could be in the works.
NEXT: 10 Things The Fast Food Industry Doesn't Want You To Know
McDonald's had higher sales growth in 2008 than in 2006 or 2007, opening nearly 600 stores that year, according to Slate. The chain was able to take advantage of Americans' recession tastes: Cheap, convenient food.
One Reddit user claiming to be an ex-McDonald's worker said he once left a bag of chicken nuggets out on the counter for too long and "they melted. Into a pool of liquid." That didn't stop him from loving the nuggets, "still delicious," he wrote.
More than 60 percent of low-wage workers are employed by big corporations, according to a July analysis by the National Employment Law Project. And more than 90 percent of those companies were profitable last year.
Fast food workers in New York City make an average of $9 per hour, according to the Village Voice. That comes to about $18,500 per year for full-time workers.
For 40 percent of private sector workers, taking a sick day and still getting paid isn't an option, according to the Baltimore Sun. Fast food workers are especially likely to be part of that 40 percent.
Many fast food workers saw their health benefits put at risk this year, if they even had them at all. Papa John's CEO John Schnatter said he would likely reduce some of his workers hours so that he wouldn't have to cover them in response to Obamacare. Jimmy John's founder, Jimmy John Liautaud told Fox News in October that he would "have to" cut workers' hours so that he wasn't forced to cover them under Obamacare.
The average hourly pay at McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King and Taco Bell is less than $8 an hour, according to salary data cited by CNBC.
As more workers fight for limited jobs, many older employees are gravitating towards the fast food industry. The median age of a fast food worker is 28, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data cited by the Atlantic. For women, who make up two-thirds of the industry's employees, that age is 32.
Fast food worker's went on strike in late November in New York City, showcasing a rare effort to organize the industry's workers. Labor leaders often don't make an effort to organize these workers because the high turnover makes the challenge daunting.
For all their work, fast food workers get very little dough. The lowest paid job category in New York City is "Combined Food Service and Preparation Workers, Including Fast Food," according to Bureau of Labor Department Statistics cited by Salon.


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Libya's Saif al-Islam Gaddafi profiled
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's capture in southern Libya after three months on the run was an ignominious end for a man once widely considered Muammar Gaddafi's heir apparent.
Despite holding no official position in the Libyan government, he was long seen as the most influential figure in the country after his father who had been in power since 1969.
The 40 year old is being held in the city of Zintan and has said he would prefer to be tried by the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he is wanted for crimes against humanity for his alleged role in the suppression of opposition protests in 2011, rather than in Libya where he could face the death penalty.
Until the rebellion - and the government's response - this stylish English-speaker was considered the reformist face of the Libyan government.
As rebels closed in on the capital, though, the second of Col Gaddafi's nine children vowed to fight to the end against the insurgents, accusing them of being drunkards, thugs and terrorists.
The rebels claimed to have captured him in August, during their advance on Tripoli. But he later turned up outside a hotel in the capital, greeting crowds of cheering supporters, before disappearing again.
Western links
The Western-educated English speaker was once regarded as the reformist face of the Libyan government, playing a key role in Libya's rapprochement with the West between 2000 and the 2011 uprising.
As head of the Gaddafi family's charity and allegedly the multi-billion dollar sovereign wealth fund, the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) - although he denies this - Mr Gaddafi had access to huge amounts of money, which he used to smooth relations with the West.
He was involved in the negotiations which led his father to abandon his nuclear weapons programme and later helped mediate the release of six Bulgarian medics accused of infecting children with HIV in a Libyan hospital.
He also negotiated compensation for the families of those killed in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, the 1986 Berlin nightclub attack and the 1989 downing of UTA flight 772.
Again, he is said to have been involved in talks about the controversial 2009 decision to free from prison the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.
After these agreements, international sanctions were lifted and with Mr Gaddafi prominent both politically and economically, Libya seemed set to embark on an era of remarkable change.
Its oil sector was starting to open up and Libya had agreed to tackle the growing flow of sub-Saharan African migrants through the country to Europe.
Mr Gaddafi owned a house in London and had links to British political figures as well as the Royal Family. He met the Duke of York twice - once at Buckingham Palace and on another occasion in Tripoli.
He is known to have kept two tigers as pets and also enjoyed hunting with falcons in the deserts - a pastime traditionally enjoyed by Arab royals - and is a keen amateur painter.
Mr Gaddafi, whose first names mean Sword of Islam, always denied that he was seeking to inherit power from his father, saying the reins of power were "not a farm to inherit".
He also called for political reform - a theme he addressed in the doctorate he obtained the same year from the London School of Economics (LSE).
When Mr Gaddafi's role in the crackdown against protesters was reported, LSE director Howard Davies resigned from his post after facing criticism for accepting donations from the charitable foundation led by the son of the then Libyan leader.
The University of London was asked to investigate the authenticity of Mr Gaddafi's PhD thesis, amid reports it was plagiarised - but it decided it should not be revoked as "the thesis has been annotated to show where attribution or references should have been made," an LSE statement said.
Mr Gaddafi was caught on 19 November 2011, a month after his father died after being caught by rebel forces in his home town of Sirte.
The militia holding him in Zintan want him to be tried in that city - and not the ICC.
"I am not afraid to die but if you execute me after such a trial you should just call it murder and be done with it," Mr Gaddafi was quoted by lawyers as saying in August.


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It comes to something when it falls to Bill O'Reilly to point out that you might be a bit too extreme. But that's the situation Rick Santorum finds himself in after a testy one-on-one with the Fox News host last night. But it's just an example of how the media spotlight has turned its glare on the former Pennsylvania senator after his near-win in Iowa on Tuesday night.
We'll have more on that today as the race for New Hampshire continues. Plus – will Newt Gingrich's grumbles over Mitt Romney's super-pac blasts turn into a roar?
Will Jon Huntsman, who has bet his metaphorical farm on New Hampshire, make any sort of headway?
And to what extent will the Republican establishment's attemts to crown Mitt Romney as the inevitable nominee gain any traction today? We'll have all the news from the campaign trail from our reporters on the ground and our commentators in their armchairs.
Our regular campaign blogger Richard Adams is off today: but I'll be keeping my finger on the throbbing pulse of the Republican race from here in New York.
Most of the candidates are pounding the ground in New Hampshire today – except for Mitt Romney, who is on his way to South Carolina – next on the primary schedule – after only the briefiest of stops in Salem, NH.
Newt Gingrich has a full schedule of campaign stops today, including a town hall meeting at Littleton Opera House. (No word on what he'll be singing. Any suggestions for a Gingrich opera?) After that, he's "touring local businesses" on Main Street, Littleton.
Rick Santorum is touring Manchester, Northfield, Concord, and at lunchtime he's stopping off at the Tilt'n Diner in, er, Tilton. It's part of the Common Man Family of Restuarants (of course it is) and, according to its website, comes complete with 'be-boppin' music and hearty breakfasts served all day". It also boasts of being a "must stop" on the New Hampshire presidential primary campaign trail, which I'm sure has the custom flowing in.
Jon Huntsman pitched up at a suspiciously early meeting of the Hampton Rotarians at 7.15am today; he'll be attending a business lunch in Southampton later and a town hall meeting in Newport at 7pm.
Rick Perry, who repaired to Texas bruised by a poor showing in Iowa, wobbled over whether to press on. He declared on Twitter that he would battle on in South Carolina, and has no events scheduled for New Hampshire today. Nor, oddly, has Ron Paul, although watch out for last-minute changes.
More on Santorum's encounter with Bill O'Reilly on Fox News last night. It's well worth a watch. Under the guise of "helping" Santorum, saying the candidate would inevitably face scrutiny and be "demonized", O'Reilly pressed him on what he called his "extreme" positions.
O'Reilly, a Catholic, pointed to Santorum's position that states should be allowed to ban some forms of birth control, saying that "98% of Americans" supported contraception. He also said it would be a "big issue" if Santorum's plan to support a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage would force the dissolution of licences that have already been granted.
O'Reilly also brought up Santorum's comment that "black people's lives" shouldn't be "made better with other people's money". Santorum claimed he didn't say it.
I looked at that, and I didn't say that. What I started to say was a word that sort-of changed and then sort-of "bllllluuuurgh" came out, and people said I said black – I didn't. I don't use the term black very often. I use "African American" more than I use "black".
I think that's cleared that one up, hasn't it?
the candidate leading the polls out of New Hampshire has gone on to win the nomination – usually after coming from behind to overtake the previous front-runnerHere's why New Hampshire is important this time. An analysis of past polling trends by Gallup shows that both Iowa and New Hampshire have been significant in changing views of voters. Since 1976, which Gallup says was the "first year in the modern nominating era in which there was a competitive Republican contest",
Historical Gallup data show that the Iowa and New Hampshire contests usually alter the dynamics of the race in terms of the size of the front-runner's lead if not who the actual front-runner is. In all recent contests, the front-runner's lead shrank or disappeared after Iowa, after New Hampshire, or after both.
The Iowa caucuses helped produce a new co-leader in 1980 and a new leader in 2008. In 1980, George H.W. Bush tied Ronald Reagan nationally after Bush's surprise win in the Iowa caucuses. He was fourth nationally before Iowa, at 9%. In 2008, Mike Huckabee's Iowa victory moved him past Rudy Giuliani in national nomination preferences after Giuliani had led throughout 2007.
That would tend to suggest that Romney should be worried – but he has a commanding and long-standing lead in the New Hampshire polls, and is confident enough even to take his campaign to South Carolina today.
The Associated Press has been analysing the money flowing into the candidates' campaign coffers, and it reveals a stark disparity. Rick Santorum may have boasted on Wednesday about having raised $1m in a day, following his Iowa bump – but it merely served to highlight how little he had raised so far (he has no national fundraising network).
Romney raised more than $32m in the first nine months of 2011 – more than his rivals put together. Ron Paul ran him down hard with $12m. But of the other frontrunners, Gingrich took in just under $3m and Santorum just over $1m.
Meanwhile Romney's campaign has spent more than $17m since January 2011, while Gingrich and Santorum have each spent less than one-sixth of that.
These figures don't tell the whole story: political action committees, known as super PACs, can raise and spend unlimited amounts, so long as they remain independent from campaigns. The Romney-suppring Restore Our Future PAC infuriated Newt Gingrich by running a barrage of critical ads in Iowa, causing his support to slump.
Together, these groups spent at least $5m on ads leading up to the Iowa caucuses – most of that was from Restore Our Future.
The Santorum-leaning Red, White and Blue Fund, spent about $500,000 in Iowa media markets, and Foster Friess, a prominent businessman who supports conservative causes, said today that he's contacting supporters to back Santorum.
"His energy level and his willingness to go face-to-face to people is truly impressive," Friess said. "If you go to any of those town halls, there's this great electricity because they believe in him as a person. And that's the magic of his campaign."
Still, with just with just five days to go before the New Hampshire primary, it's unclear how Santorum and the others can compete financially with Romney in New England and beyond.
On the campaign trail today, Rick Santorum has been attempting to tamp down expectations of his performance in New Hampshire, after his surge in Iowa.
He'd been a addressing a Rotary Club breakfast in Manchester, the largest city in the state (note the venue: the Puritan function rooms). He spoke to reporters afterwards, pointing out the huge gap between him and front-runner Mitt Romney.
We're the folks that have the momentum. We're the folks that people are getting excited about. Obviously when Mitt Romney is at 40% in the polls the chances in five days to make up a 35- or 40-point lead is going to be limited.
says Politico. The real battle is for South Carolina on January 21, where Mitt Romney (on a 15% base) looks vulnerable.Don't be fooled into thinking New Hampshire is important, just because all the candidates have desecneded on the state today,
Now, Republicans in and outside the presidential campaigns believe South Carolina is the best — and maybe the only — opportunity left to put Romney's grasp on the nomination in real peril.
"South Carolina will become the ground on which an 'ABM' movement starts to coalesce — the anybody-but-Mitt crowd," said Republican strategist and veteran South Carolina hand Tucker Eskew. "Perhaps not successfully, but there will be a drive to coalesce that vote."
But Rick Perry's decision to stay in the race complicates matters for the Anyone But Mitt camp – he's positioning himself as the "only true conservative", thereby posiing problems for the other "only true conservative", Rick Santorum.
Poll alert: Suffolk University's tracking poll shows Rick Santorum gaining a little ground – up to a commanding, wait-for-it, 8%! Who-hoo. He was on 6% the previous day.
Mitt Romney is down two points on the day to 41%.
Ron Paul was second on 18%, up from 14 percent a day earlier – he's very much in the game here.
Jon Huntsman's campaign is looking pretty threadbare, it has to be said. He's had the state all to himself for the past few weeks, and he's tied with Newt Gingrich on 7%.
Some 17% are undecided.
(The poll is based on phone interviews conducted on January 3 and 4 of 500 and has a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.)
Mitt Romney was in and out of New Hampshire almost before Rick Santorum arrived. Not surprising: Romney jetted in on a Boeing 737 (shades of Air Force One?), giving him a full day in the state before heading off to South Carolina this morning. Santorum, meanwhile, pootled over on a King Air propeller that didn't land until dusk.
Where was Rick Perry in the Suffolk poll? On the slow train from the Nobody Inn to Nowheresville, making all local stops, that's where.
Much of the talk in the punditry class is about whether Santorum is under-valued in single-digits. Republian political consultant Mike Murphy certainly thinks so, giving 50-50 odds on a strong finish in New Hampshire.
besieged by reporters at the Tilt'n Diner in Tilton (Real Food! Real People!).The press pack has decided that Santorum is the story of the day: our correspondent Paul Harris reports that he's
Poll alert: Gallup's national tracker, updated at 1pm ET, shows that Santorum has broken through double digits for the first time, putting him at 11% – almost double where he was a week ago and closing in on Ron Paul at 13%.
Mitt Romney is up one point to 27%, equalling his strongest position so far.
what the New Hampshire primary is all about: the silver medal.The sharp cookies at the Los Angeles Times have identified
With Mitt Romney so far ahead in the polls and so well entrenched, the race is on not to win but to be the next-best unRomney:
Barring a late surge – be it from caucuses runner-up Santorum, libertarian favorite Ron Paul or New Hampshire-or-bust hopeful Jon Huntsman – the real race is among those candidates for second place.
Such was the declaration by longtime Union Leader chief political scribe John DiStaso, who wrote in his weekly "Granite Status" column that the first in the nation primary "will likely have a large say — and possibly the final say — in who will be 'The Romney Alternative' as the race moves on to South Carolina next Wednesday.
John DiStaso's column is worth reading (always at this point in the election cycle). He says that once again it's all about the expectations game:
If someone else breaks out of the pack and comes close to Romney — within 10 percentage points or less — then Romney loses even if he wins. He exits here a damaged front-runner and the race is wide open heading south.
This is Richard Adams taking over from Matt Wells.
Newt Gingrich looking glumly at a giant Gummi Bear? You want Buzzfeed Politics.Photographs of
The Guardian's Paul Harris is in New Hampshire and sticking to Rick Santorum like news-glue
On his second stop of the day, former Senator Rick Santorum's called at the Tilt'n Diner in the small town of Tilton, New Hampshire. It is such a regular place on the campaign trail of any New Hampshire presidential wannabe that the Associated Press called it a "must stop" for all candidates. Well, Santorum can now tick that one off of his list of places to visit.
Santorum emerged from his truck surrounded by an intense mob of TV cameras and other journalists and walked inside the pink and stainless steel building which was thronged with people trying to eat. The scene rapidly became chaotic as it often does when candidates of the moment fulfil their duties by carrying out stops in old-fashioned diners.
Scores of journalists mixed with bemused eaters in the restaurant's narrow aisles and booths, with some photographers even invading the kitchens to get a decent shot of the man who nearly beat Mitt Romney in Iowa. But some folks had actually come there deliberately to meet their hero. One family posed near the diner's door holding a sign that read: "Welcome to New Hampshire, Mr Santorum."
Not everyone was so happy though. Several would-be diners, unaware of what was going, took one look at the crowd inside and beat a hasty retreat. Another man fled out of the door, asking reporters: "How long do you think he is going to be in there?" As Abraham Lincoln said, you can't please all the people all of the time.
Mr Santorum? So polite, the people of New Hampshire.
Signs that the Rick Santorum campaign is taking itself seriously: Santorum has, over the past couple of days, tried to reinterpret and recast some of his controversial remarks from the past.
So far, he's hilariously explained away his "black people" comment, as we mentioned earlier today, by claiming he really said "bllllluuuurgh" rather than "black". Yes, that will work. Now he's also trying to talk around his infamous "man on dog" equivalence with gay marriage.
On CNN, Santorum claimed with a straight face that what he was doing was differentiating between bestiality and homosexuality: "I didn't connect them, I specifically excluded them."
New York magazine's Dan Amira is having none of it, and deconstructs Santorum:
Santorum's revisionist interpretation — that he went out of his way to differentiate between homosexuality and pedophilia/bestiality — is absurd. He did the opposite. He had a basket labelled "ungodly things that can't count a marriage," and tossed in homosexuality, "man on child," and "man on dog".
go around the country demanding lower taxes for wealthy people.Were you wondering what happened to Herman Cain? No, me neither. But a kindly trillionaire appears to have taken pity and funded him to
In the meantime Herman's on Fox News being passive-aggressive and channelling Michael Scott from The Office:
I mean, somebody's going to be doing a town hall meeting and talking about all these general platitudes. They might look up and see me across the street doing a rally, talking about 9-9-9.
Actual Michael Scott quote:
At the end of my life, when I'm sitting on my yacht, am I gonna be thinking about how much money I have? No. I'm going to be thinking about how many friends I have, and my children, and my comedy albums. I mean, I have a yacht, so I obviously did pretty well money-wise.
Some of our British readers, denied access to US cable television, may never have seen the top political guru Larry Sabato in the televised-flesh.
Well here he is, sporting a Santorumesque sweater-vest. But don't be distracted, listen to the words of wisdom, people. According to the Sage of Charlottesville, there were three big winners from the Iowa caucuses:
The first, and most important, is Mitt Romney, who was lucky enough to get two finalists he is very likely to beat. The second big winner is Rick Santorum, who could have easily been left for dead in the cornfields of Iowa but instead has at least a few more weeks of life. The third and most durable winner is the Iowa caucus, an institution that might have expired had Ron Paul gotten a few thousand more votes. A Paul victory would have given future Republican candidates an automatic pass to skip Iowa.
This is Matt Wells taking back the blog reins from Richard Adams.
cautions against fellow pundits calling it for Mitt Romney, written in modeish list-style. No 1 is sensible advice:In her latest post, the Guardian's redoubtable Ana Marie Cox
You will look foolish each time he does not perform to expectations, though it's true that the punditry's willingness to keep lowering those expectations (while declaring his inevitability!) has been helpful in that regard. But are you willing to keep going on Morning Joe after every lackluster showing and declare Romney will be the GOP nominee, pretty much whether voters want him or not? Oh. Right.
... and No 3 is funny
Romney is not so much the Microsoft of candidates as the talking paperclip of candidates: "It looks like you are experiencing economic hardship!" Sure, he's helpful at first, but JESUS CHRIST, HOW DO YOU SHUT HIM OFF?
Santorum appears to have got himself into a bit of a tangle over gay marriage at his latest campaign stop in Concord, New Hampshire, getting himself booed by some of the college-age audience.
For reasons probably not unconnected with the fact that he is so passionately opposed to gay marriage, he allowed himself to be dragged into a protracted discussion, ending up comparing it to polygamy.
David Corn of Mother Jones reports that Santorum declared if gay marriage was allowed, why not marriage for three men? And he went to to say that when children are not raised by a man and a woman, "we are harming children....we are harming society".
Jim Acosta of CNN says he asked the crowd: "Are we saying everybody has the right to marry?" To which the (inevitable) reply was "Yes! Yes!"
And Rosie Gray of Buzzfeed Politics says that when the event ended, Santorum was roundly booed.
Google problem. Search engine experts say he's making things worse by constructing his website poorly, and duplicating content on a second site.That seems like an opportune moment to revist Santorum's
To put it in election terms the Santorum campaign can understand, it's as if Rick Santorum has cloned himself, hoping to win an election on Google but failing to succeed because he's splitting the total Santorum vote between two different Santorum candidates.
In any case, the "problematic" site is only problematic to Santorum. It is, in effect, a protest site, set up to campaign against his attitude towards gays. As such, it's relevant to a search on "Santorum".
Given that Santorum hasn't suddenly embraced concepts like gay marriage, his rise as a candidate is only going to further focus attention from some on his views toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. That protest site becomes more relevant than ever.
Plus, mischief-makers on Reddit have dedicated a thread to making things worse for the former senator, posting endless links to the protest site, thereby boosting its ranking in Google.
Of course, linking to rude websites about Santorum every time you mention Santorum's name online is not something we would endorse at all.
according to Talking Points Memo.Newt Gingrich has been trying out his "anti-Romney stump speech,"
At a senior center in Plymouth, Gingrich's debuted an extended riff bashing "Massachusetts moderate Mitt Romney" for straying from conservative principles as governor.
Among the ills Gingrich cited: Romney "appointed liberal judges to appease Democrats" and "put Planned Parenthood in Romneycare by name."
"I don't believe a Massachusetts moderate is in a very good position to debate Barack Obama," Gingrich said, warning that it "blurs" the contrast between the two parties.
CNN describes as a "major ad buy" in South Carolina, whose primary is held after New Hampshire, on January 21.Rick Santorum has made what
John Brabender, a senior strategist with the Santorum campaign, told CNN it "shows we are starting to get in significant funds and options we didn't have before".
cut revenues and increase the government deficit.A non-partisan think tank has passed judgment on Mitt Romney's tax plan – and found that it would
If the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire, revenues would fall by $600bn by 2015 ($180 billion if the tax cuts remain), according to to the Tax Policy Center.
It would also result in tax cuts for wealthier Americans, while those earning less than $40,000 a year would pay more. Ka-pow!
That's it for today – more excitement tomorrow. To wrap up today's blog, here's a summary of the day.
Republican candidates descended on New Hampshire, the next state in the contest to find the GOP presidential nominiee. Front runner Mitt Romney also travelled to South Carolina, the third state to pass judgment on the putative nominees.
Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has broken through double figures in national polling for the first time. Gallup's tracking average puts him on 11% – almost double where he was a week ago and closing in on Ron Paul at 13%. Mitt Romney is up one point to 27%, equalling his strongest position so far.
Santorum was booed at a campaign stop with college students in Concord, New Hampshire. The former senator's views on gay marriage – he compared same-sex unions with polygamy – went down badly with the crowd.
A non-partisan think tank has declared Mitt Romney's tax plan would cut revenues and increase the government deficit. The Tax Policy Center said revenues would fall by $600bn by 2015 ($180 billion if the tax cuts remain).


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Texas Senate OKs Gay Adoption Bill
Taiwan's Top Court Set To Rule On Gay Marriage
NOM Calling On Trump To Protect Gay Marriage Foes
Mayor Pete Buttigieg Backs Notre Dame Walkout Of Mike Pence Commencement
At Least 22 Die In Bombing At Ariana Grande Concert In UK
Texas House Advances Transgender 'Bathroom Bill'
A gay teen is calling on President
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to wear purple next Friday in support of
Spirit Day.
Katy Butler, the Ann Arbor, Michigan
teen who led a protest against the Motion Picture Association of
America's (MPAA) decision to give the documentary film Bully
an R rating, on Wednesday launched her petition asking for the
presidential candidates' support.
Wearing purple on Spirit Day signifies
support for troubled gay teens who have been bullied.
"I am asking President Barack Obama
and Governor Mitt Romney, who is from my home state of Michigan, to
wear purple on October 19th for Spirit Day," Butler, a
Spirit Day ambassador, wrote in her petition.
"If both of these influential men
participate by simply wearing purple it will show LGBT teens like me
that there are powerful people who care about us. I know what it's
like to feel alone, and seeing two of our country's political leaders
show that they care about our lives could make a huge difference to
LGBT students, who are 3-5 times more likely to experience depression
and attempt suicide than their counter parts. Barack Obama and Mitt
Romney could take a big step towards ending that feeling of
isolation," she added.
As of Wednesday night, more
than 1,700 people had joined the petition.
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I didn't get it at first because it jumps from spot to spot but once I got it, it was good. I like the colours and overall design.
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Awesome submission dude. You're killing it right now. I do share the same thoughts as FA though. Besides that I love this design! It's still a tee I'd buy if it printed on Monday :)
i had trouble reading it too but i didn't mind, it's still great! poor thing
I concur about the readability issue
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I really like the idea, but had trouble with the reading order.
I agree with frickinawesome.. It's already a great idea but it could be greater!
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I don't get it!!! But it's still kewl.
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really funny and nice looking. If the textwas a little easier to read I think would for sure print.
btw, my cousin lives on Antarctica. :P She is a chef for a research station down there.
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I didn't have a problem reading the text, and it made me laugh. Very cool!
LOL Totally going to print!
maybe if you grouped the speech bubbles closer together (with three sort of near the top of antarctica and three grouped at the bottom) it would be easier to understand. It took me a while to get it. But i love it otherwise.
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Nothing seems to stay still around Rusti Miller-Hill. When I call her with a follow-up question about her three-year-old son, Brandon, she begins to describe to me again what a blessing he has been. Then she tells me to hold on. "Be quiet!" she tells him. "And pull your pants back on!" She returns to our conversation and says, in the same breath, "Really, he has changed my life."
Miller-Hill, 36, shocked the people in her life by deciding to have Brandon. The first doctors she spoke to were against it. After all, she was an ex-addict with HIV, and already had a grown daughter. "But I did my own research," she says, "and went into Albert Einstein's [a Bronx hospital] immunology program for women with HIV." With the group's help, and the rock-steady support of her husband, Kevin, Miller-Hill armed herself with the info needed to plan for her baby and their future together.
"It's important for women to know that there is life after HIV -- that you can still have a baby," she says. "HIV doesn't mean I stop being a woman and stop loving."
Looking at Rusti now, it's hard to imagine the person she describes herself as being six years ago, when she was full-time addict. Things reached a breaking point when, just out after a year of treatment for crack, she relapsed and her daughter, Brandi, saw her drugging for the first time.
"I'd been out on the streets for three days," she recalls. "I hadn't washed, changed clothes or combed my hair. I had on sneakers two sizes too big for me. Brandi told me, 'Don't come back until you bring my mother back.'" Miller-Hill falls silent, then says, "I just went out and drugged some more. Why not? I had my excuse. My daughter didn't love me no more."
Not too long after, Miller-Hill was arrested for possession of crack with intent to sell, and was sentenced to three years in jail. "It was the out I needed from a situation I didn't have the strength to walk away from," she says. "God gives me everything I ask for, and I begged him for help. I just had to be more specific."
There was a real change in Miller-Hill behind bars, but when released, she was faced with some grim reminders of her previous self. "My mother took me to every place that I'd ever drugged at, and asked me if I wanted to go back," she says. "The same people I'd left were still standing on the corner. I was afraid to walk the streets for fear that I wasn't strong enough."
But Miller-Hill was set on a new life. "My new independence felt so good. I liked the person I became." She devoted herself to AIDS advocacy and eventually won an appointment to the mayor's HIV Health and Human Services Planning Council of New York City, also serving as co-chair of the council's PWA Advisory Group. Today, Miller-Hill is the housing entitlement specialist for the nonprofit Momentum AIDS Services. "I do this work," she says, "because when I was coming around, there were very few women who would openly share their lives and status."
Six years clean, Miller-Hill says she spreads the word to other women to accept what they cannot change and change what they can. Each day, she tells them, is a new challenge and new chance to beat the odds. "I remind myself that I'm always just a step away from being a crackhead again," she says simply. "Not to get high is a conscious choice I make every day."
Now it's almost dinnertime and Miller-Hill has to get a steak ready. Before we hang up, she tells me again how much her family's support means to her. Brandi, who recently gave her mother a grandson, Jarelle, and Kevin were completely involved in Brandon's prenatal care. Kevin is HIV negative, and Miller-Hill thinks it's sometimes even harder for him than it is for her. When she gets sick, she says, she can see the fear in his eyes. But, she tells me one last time, when she asks God for things, He delivers.


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Lumberjacks got a career-scoring night from junior Erikka Banks and received several career contributions from their freshmen, but Sacramento State pulled away in the second half to turn a halftime tie into a 104-79 victory Thursday night. Banks led four Lumberjacks in double-figures with a career-high 28 points, but NAU fell to 0-3 in conference play and was unable to keep pace with the nation's third-highest scoring team.
"We know their style of play, they're a high possession team, and we turned the ball over 35 times and you can't win any game with 35 turnovers," said head coach Sue Darling. "We played into their hands a little in the second half and they just wore us down a little. I'm proud of the way we came out in the first half but we just couldn't stay with it in the second half."
The game was played at a frenetic pace as dictated by the Hornets' style and the Lumberjacks went toe-to-toe with the home team in the first half. The lead changed hands 16 times in the first half as both teams exchanged blows from the very opening possession. After Sacramento State hit a three-pointer, the first of 17 for the night, on its first possession, freshman Taylor Leyva answered with a layup which was followed by a three-pointer by senior Amanda Frost. That gave NAU a 5-3 lead in the first of a series of lead exchanges.
The Hornets, who came in averaging 93.4 points per game, eventually went on a 7-0 run to take their biggest lead of the first half at 33-26 with just under five minutes until halftime, but the Lumberjacks finished the half in a big way as freshman Rene Coggins' three-pointer beat the first half buzzer to send the teams into the locker rooms all squared at 43-43.
The NAU momentum carried into the opening minutes of the second half. The Hornets got the opening basket, but Coggins, freshman Cately Preston and Banks connected on three consecutive possessions and the Lumberjacks grabbed a quick 49-45 lead. Their advantage would vanish in a blink of an eye though as the Hornets put together an 11-0 run to steal the momentum in just a minute and a half. NAU responded with baskets on four of its next five trips down the court and following a layup by Banks with 14:40 remaining, the Lumberjacks trailed just 60-57.
A corresponding 15-2 run by the Hornets put the game out of reach though and NAU got as close as 12 the rest of the way.
The Lumberjacks shot 49.3 percent for the game and was above the 50 percent mark until the final minutes compared to the Hornets who shot just 40.5 Averaging 43 three-point attempts per game, the Hornets hit 17-of-49 for the game (34.7 percent). Despite outrebounding the Hornets by a 48-39 margin, the Lumberjacks were hurt by a season-high 35 turnovers, which turned into 48 points for Sacramento State – a team which ranks first in the country in steals per game.
Playing without two of their starters – Raven Anderson and Brittani Lusain – due to injury, Preston and freshman Avonna Lee were among those that stepped up. Preston missed a triple-double but notched all career-highs with 13 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists, while Lee totaled eight points off the bench. Coggins (14 points) and Leyva (career-high seven rebounds) also starred. Banks finished with her third triple-double of the season with 11 rebounds to go with her 28 points on 11-for-14 shooting and Frost added 12 points.
"I was proud of all the freshmen," Darling said. "They played with poise and this isn't an easy environment. Catelyn had eight assists, which was tremendous. I thought Rene had a great game, Taylor had a great game, Avonna had a great game, but we didn't have the energy at the end of the game that we needed."
The Lumberjacks are back at home for a brief stop Monday vs. Southern Utah at 6:30 p.m. in the Skydome before heading back out on the road to Eastern Washington and Portland State next weekend.


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Published six times per year as the official journal of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and founded in 1959, the Journal of College Student Development (JCSD) is the largest empirical research journal in the field of student affairs and higher education. JCSD is included in numerous research databases, including the Social Science Citation Index, where it is one of only five domestic and international higher education journals indexed. JCSD receives national and international manuscript submissions from a wide range of academic fields, including student affairs, higher education, sociology, psychology, social work, nursing, business administration, and health sciences. Approximately forty editorial board members, with extensive scholarly expertise and experience in a number of fields, review manuscripts for JCSD.
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In a new video for the website Nowness, Washed Out's Ernest Greene talks about the inspiration behind his latest album, Paracosm (Sub Pop). Influenced by the natural world, the tropical-haze record is the result of Greene's long months sitting by his studio's window, watching the seasons change. Produced by Yours Truly and directed by Babak Khoshnoud, the cinematic video follows the young musician around the charming town of Carmel, CA, and ends with Greene and his band performing Paracosm's title track.
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I am sixteen almost seventeen years old, I had a very large nose with a droopy tip and bump. I asked the surgeon to raise the tip and take out the bump. I stressed that I didnt want a huge rhinoplasty. I now have a tiny little pig nose my facial proportions are incredibly out of whack. it is way too small. My family and friends have told me that also.
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