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Lhasa roof of the world, the land of gods, the residence of Dalai Lama. Lhasa is the capital of Tibet autonomous region. It is located at the north bank of Kyichu and a tributary of the Yarlung Tsangpo River at 3650 meters from sea level. Tibet have the earth higher plateau, also known as the roof of the world.
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Following a 4-3 victory over Framingham in the first round, the No. 1-seeded Wellesley Raiders (16-3-2) hosted the No. 8-seeded Xaverian Hawks on Saturday night at Babson Skating Center for their quarterfinal round matchup in the Division I South playoffs.
The Hawks (11-6-5) entered Saturday's tilt off the heels of a 6-2 victory over Mansfield last Wednesday night, thanks to a quad of third period goals by Matt Ryan, Matt Talarico, Mike Pitochelli, and Ty Marchi.
On Saturday, Ryan continued his hot play as the sophomore helped guide the Hawks to a 3-1 upset win over the Raiders by netting the go-ahead goal with 3:21 to play in the game, along with an empty-netter with under a minute to play to seal the victory.
An extremely physical first period that featured multiple open-ice hits by Xaverian's Matt Joyce and sophomore forward Ryan Pomposelli got both student sections into it and upped the intensity. A pair of sprawling saves by Wellesley net-minder Andrew Hubbard towards the end of the first period kept the game scoreless at the first intermission.
The game remained scoreless midway through the second period despite both teams generating a good amount of offensive zone time.
With 6:19 remaining, Xaverian converted on its first power play opportunity of the evening when senior captain and defenseman Tommy Dugan slid a beautiful cross-ice pass onto the tape of Pomposelli, who fired home a one-timer from the right faceoff dot to give the Hawks a 1-0 lead.
Less than two minutes after Pomposelli opened up the scoring for Xaverian, Henry Gould responded for Wellesley. After catching a pristine sneak-away pass from Darrald Webb up the seam, Gould came in on a breakaway and fired home a shot blocker-side of Xaverian goaltender Anthony Scott to tie the game at one for the Raiders at the second intermission.
The third period began with both teams playing rather conservatively. Eric Wainwright had the best opportunity of the first half of the third when the sophomore forward came in on a mini-breakaway for the Hawks with nine minutes to play, but was turned aside by the blocker of Hubbard, keeping the game tied at one.
With 3:21 to play, Matty Ryan put home the rebound off of a net-mouth scramble following a two-on-one by Ryan and Josh Barton, giving the Hawks a 2-1 lead and sending the Xaverian student section into a state of ecstasy.
The Hawks were assessed a penalty in the final minute of regulation and the Raiders yanked Hubbard out of the net for an extra attacker for a six-on-four advantage in an attempt to tie the game. Following a clear by senior captain Ross Vona on the ensuing faceoff, Ryan intercepted an attempted break-out pass by the Raiders and put home the game-sealing empty-net goal with 18 seconds to play to push the lead to 3-1.
At the time of print, the Hawks will travel to Bourne to take on Braintree in the South semifinals on Thursday.
For funny and incisive sports analysis, follow Mike Flanagan on his personal Twitter at @fLAno0, or read his blog at www.flannylive.wordpress.com.


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WWW.SHROUDEATER.COM - The Vampire of Russia - RUSSIA
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The Source:
Paul Barber:
"Vampires, Burial and Death - Folklore and Reality" [1988]
Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1988
The Case:
Mr. Barber informs us that he has found the story in Löwenstimm's "Aberglaube und Strafrecht" [1897]. This is the tale.
The priest of the Veliko-Shukhovits Church made a complaint to the local authorities:
"... the peasants, against his will, had disinterred the deceased peasant girl Justina Yuschkov, had taken her out of the coffin, and had performed on her a 'bestial operation'; and they had done this in order to end the reign of cholera among them. ..."
This - more or less - is what had happened. Justina Yuschkov was the first to die of the cholera. The cholera continued to make new victims, and the villagers sought the help of a medical officer named Rubtsov. He adviced them to dig up the girl and see if she was pregnant and also see if her mouth was open. The grave was opened, the girl cut open but nothing was found inside her. The coffin was searched and a dead baby was found. They also found that the girl's mouth was open. So they drove an ashwood stake through the corpse and reburied her.
The Date:
This at least seems clear: it was on 17 August 1848 that the priest made his official complaint about the peasants. So it seems likely that the events have taken place earlier that year.
The Place:
Sadly, no place name is given. So it is quite possible that although the case took place in Russia, it may now be in a different country like Belarus or the Ukraine. But, until we find further evidence, we will keep it listed under Russia.
Possible Follow-Up:
First go check Barber's account. Then go find the book by Löwenstimm. We do have a nice date. We already have the name of the church, and there also is mention of the medical officer called Rubtsov. Plenty of information to help us get started. What are you waiting for ?
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Lots of people are ditching cable these days. They're often sick of the big bills, or paying for loads of channels they never watch. Or maybe they are just finding themselves spending more time with various streaming services.
I'm finally ready to cut the cord myself, and it is because of Phil Jackson.
Let me explain.
I just came back from covering the Cannes advertising festival. It's a chaotic week filled with press events, dinners, parties, and then more parties. It's stressful enough without spending an hour each night before you go to bed on Twitter searching "Knicks" again and again. But that's what I was doing.
I found myself asking people I bumped into at the airport yesterday whether they were Knicks fans so I could find someone to talk to.
It felt hard being away at Cannes, while a series of terrifying Knicks trade rumours were blowing up. As if there was something I could do about it.
When I got home on Thursday night, sure, I was excited to see my wife and kids after being away for a week, but I was also deeply anxious about whether the Knicks were really going to trade their 21-year old phenom Kristaps Porzingis.
This is not healthy. For me or my family. Funny enough, my wife wasn't so jazzed to watch the NBA Draft with me last night while I bit my nails and texted friends about how "if they trade him this is it for me."
This is sad, and it needs to stop
Ultimately, despite intense swirls or rumours right up until the end, the Knicks didn't trade Porzingis. But the fact that team president Phil Jackson actually thought about it, and that Knicks owner James Dolan was cool with this, was enough for me.
I needed to pay them back for the pain, somehow, and end the relationship.
How do you hurt a team? Particularly one that Forbes ranks as one of the most valuable in sports despite going 80-166 since Jackson became president three years ago?
I could say I'm not going to buy tickets anymore. But truthfully, I rarely buy Knicks tickets. And as a spoiled brat media reporter, I sometimes get to go to games for free. So that kind of vow isn't hurting anybody.
But if I cut cable, MSG Network — which Dolan owns — loses my subscriber fee. The New York Post says that cable providers pay MSG $US5 a month for each subscriber.
Take that Dolan and Phil.
It's time anyhow. Every time my wife and I start another Netflix binge, I wonder why we keep cable. I tell myself the bundle is convenient, and I don't have to think about it. My kids watch lots of on-demand Nickelodeon and Disney shows.
But one of the main reasons I hang on is that I want MSG Network and Yes Network so I can watch the Knicks and Yankees (the Giants are mostly on free TV). The Yankees have been good to me, but the Knicks have been abusive. So following this Porzingis insanity, what better time to ditch Verizon Fios and go for YouTube TV, or Sling TV, or DirecTV Now, or Crackle Gold Plus or whatever other skinny bundle offering launches in the next week. A clean break for a happier life.
40 years of heartbreak
For the non-NBA fan, there's a lot to unpack here, but let me try and help.
I was born a long time ago. November of 1973 to be specific. That means I missed the last Knicks championship by roughly five months. I hear it was great. Phil Jackson, by the way, was a player on that team.
Let's be fair. The Knicks don't have a Cubs or Red Sox type losing streak going. But for NBA standards, being a Knick fan becomes ever more tragic every year.
When I was in high school and college, the Knicks had Patrick Ewing playing center and were briefly coached by Pat Reilly. Then, they seriously owned New York City, but they were still consistently tortured by Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. It was an endless stream of maddening heartbreak that battered my youth.
There was the time they gave up a 2-to-0 series lead on Jordan's Bulls. I can still remember Charles Smith failing to dunk like 11 times in a row. Losing in the 1994 Finals to the Houston Rockets when the Knicks were up 3-2, with the beloved John Starks having a nightmarish game seven.
It gets worse
There was Indiana Pacer legend and Knick tormenter Reggie Miller scoring eight points in nine seconds in a 1995 playoff game that led to a broken chair in my college apartment. They ruined my graduation day by losing a conference final to the Pacers on a missed Ewing finger-roll.
They lost a playoff series against the Miami Heat because of a huge brawl. The got smoked by the Spurs in the 1999 finals.
Those were the best days.
Then, at the turn of the millennium, media baron James Dolan took control of the Knicks. Since then, it has been 17 years of constant garbage and increasing irrelevance.
You can sum it up with the fact that sportswriters have debated the question "Is this the worst Knicks team ever?" multiple times. There was also a serious sexual harassment suit that the team settled for $US11.6 million, as well as the entire debacle that was Detroit Piston legend Isiah Thomas running the team into the ground as a coach and a general manager.
Then they spent two seasons trying to sign LeBron James and never getting close to signing LeBron James.
Things seemingly bottomed out (everything with the Knicks is seemingly) when the Knicks won just 17 games out of 82 two years ago.
And then, fortune struck. The Knicks drafted Kristaps Porzingis, a lanky Latvian nobody had ever seen play.
He is 7 foot 3, but moves like a guard. He can fly into nasty dunks, and shoot three pointers. Best of all he is fearless and wants to be great and play in New York. He looks like a future All Star and maybe even one of the best players in the league if he develops right (he's only 21).
And yesterday Phil Jackson wanted to trade him.
Why? Because he missed an exit interview. And he wouldn't call Phil back.
Porzingis is mad at the Knicks for their directionless dysfunction (like when Dolan had Knicks great Charles Oakely kicked out of the Garden by bouncers earlier this year), and for the fact that Jackson wants to play the ancient triangle offence.
Porzingis seems to think he knows better about how the Knicks should be run.
Phil, he's a millennial! (j/k millennials, you're great).
Jackson was going to trade Porzingis for draft picks. Everyone in the NBA thought this was perfectly insane. Draft picks are maybes. Greg Oden was picked number one, and he was out of the NBA in a few years. Steph Curry was picked 7th, and has been an MVP. A few years ago, the Knicks had a guy named Derrick Williams on the team who'd been a former number two pick. Never heard of him? The guy keeps changing teams, and let's just say it's not because he's going to the Hall of Fame.
Porzingis is really good, in reality. You never trade young talent like this. But Jackson almost did. And Dolan couldn't care less. (When Jeff Bezos tweeted the other day asking for philanthropic ideas, I thought about tweeting back "please buy the Knicks.")
Someone asked me, wasn't Jackson a brilliant coach? He was. But before the Knicks job he'd never worked a day in the front office. That's a big change! I've written about the ad industry for a long time. Doesn't means somebody should hire me to run Pinterest.
Yet it's one thing for a team to have an incompetent president. But Jackson seems to be doing this stuff because he actually hates the fans and wants to hurt us.
Yes, ultimately Porzingis didn't get traded. But it sure sounds like he almost did (he's got to be really excited to come back next season). And Jackson and Dolan couldn't care less what people think.
Why put paying customers through all that?
We could all scream and say we're not going to the Garden next year. But Knicks fans overall are total suckers. Go to any game, watch the Knicks lose by 20 and the place will be packed.
So I need to do something more drastic. I'm out completely. I'm cutting the cord and cutting the Knicks and MSG out of my life. Sure, my wife will miss watching Real Cowgirls of Idaho on Bravo. But we'll find something to stream.
It's over.
Right after I just watch a couple of the team's summer league games next month to see if this French point guard they got can play. Well, and the Yankees this summer (Aaron Judge looks amazing!). And just a couple of the early season Knicks games in October.
Then I'm out.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Mass \Mass\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Massed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Massing}.] To celebrate Mass. [Obs.] --Hooker.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Mass \Mass\, noun [OE. masse, F. masse, L. massa; akin to Gr. ? a barley cake, fr. ? to knead. Cf. {Macerate}.]
1. A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size; as, a mass of ore, metal, sand, or water.
If it were not for these principles, the bodies of the earth, planets, comets, sun, and all things in them, would grow cold and freeze, and become inactive masses. --Sir I. Newton.
A deep mass of continual sea is slower stirred To rage. --Savile.
2. (Phar.) A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.
All the mass of gold that comes into Spain. --Sir W. Raleigh.
He had spent a huge mass of treasure. --Sir J. Davies.
4. Bulk; magnitude; body; size.
This army of such mass and charge. --Shak.
5. The principal part; the main body.
Night closed upon the pursuit, and aided the mass of the fugitives in their escape. --Jowett (Thucyd.).
6. (Physics) The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume.
Note: Mass and weight are often used, in a general way, as interchangeable terms, since the weight of a body is proportional to its mass (under the same or equal gravitative forces), and the mass is usually ascertained from the weight. Yet the two ideas, mass and weight, are quite distinct. Mass is the quantity of matter in a body; weight is the comparative force with which it tends towards the center of the earth. A mass of sugar and a mass of lead are assumed to be equal when they show an equal weight by balancing each other in the scales.
{Blue mass}. See under {Blue}.
{Mass center} (Geom.), the center of gravity of a triangle.
{Mass copper}, native copper in a large mass.
{Mass meeting}, a large or general assembly of people, usually a meeting having some relation to politics.
{The masses}, the great body of the people, as contrasted with the higher classes; the populace.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Mass \Mass\ (m[.a]s), noun [OE. masse, messe, AS. maesse. LL. missa, from L. mittere, missum, to send, dismiss: cf. F. messe. In the ancient churches, the public services at which the catechumens were permitted to be present were called missa catechumenorum, ending with the reading of the Gospel. Then they were dismissed with these words : "Ite, missa est" [sc. ecclesia], the congregation is dismissed. After that the sacrifice proper began. At its close the same words were said to those who remained. So the word gave the name of Mass to the sacrifice in the Catholic Church. See {Missile}, and cf. {Christmas}, {Lammas}, {Mess} a dish, {Missal}.]
1. (R. C. Ch.) The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.
2. (Mus.) The portions of the Mass usually set to music, considered as a musical composition; -- namely, the Kyrie, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei, besides sometimes an Offertory and the Benedictus.
{Canon of the Mass}. See {Canon}.
{High Mass}, Mass with incense, music, the assistance of a deacon, subdeacon, etc.
{Low Mass}, Mass which is said by the priest throughout, without music.
{Mass bell}, the sanctus bell. See {Sanctus}.
{Mass book}, the missal or Roman Catholic service book.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Mass \Mass\, verb (used with an object) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble.
But mass them together and they are terrible indeed. --Coleridge.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
1: formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness" [syn: {aggregate}, {aggregated}, {aggregative}, {mass}]
1: the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
2: (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good deal}, {great deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess}, {mickle}, {mint}, {mountain}, {muckle}, {passel}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty}, {pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate}, {stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}]
3: an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
4: (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
5: a body of matter without definite shape; "a huge ice mass"
6: the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people" [syn: {multitude}, {masses}, {mass}, {hoi polloi}, {people}, {the great unwashed}]
7: the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports" [syn: {bulk}, {mass}, {volume}]
8: a musical setting for a Mass; "they played a Mass composed by Beethoven"
9: a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite; "the priest said Mass"
1: join together into a mass or collect or form a mass; "Crowds were massing outside the palace"
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How ExxonMobil debunked and then modernized the Safety Triangle
You may not be able to reduce the number of major injuries and fatalities by reducing the number of minor injuries. Keep reading to find out what scientific research says about safety triangle and how ExxonMobil modernized it.
The (in)famous safety triangle indicates that:
- There is a stable ratio between minor and major injuries
- That minor and major injuries have the same causes
- That the likelihood of major injuries and fatalities can be reduced by reducing the number of minor injuries
Brief Summary of Research
The reports prepared for the Policy Research Programme of the Department of Health in the UK [1], [2] concluded that there was no stable ratio for minor and major injuries.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data from 1992-2007 [3] indicate that work-related minor injuries across many sectors of the economy have decreased in recent decades, but that fatality rates have not been decreasing at the same pace. This further indicates that the ratio between the minor and major injuries is not stable. In other words, decreasing the number of minor injuries will now lead to a decrease in major injuries.
In fact, a study published in 2013 in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine [4] showed that in the US construction sector, states with high fatal injuries had low rates of minor (nonfatal) injuries. If the Heinrich's triangle theory was right, we should see the same rate for both minor and major injuries.
Researchers from the UK Centre for Transport Studies [5] used data provided by the UK Air Accident Investigation Branch from 1997 – 2010 to explore whether Heinrich's triangle assumptions apply to the Offshore Helicopter Transportation business. They concluded that the "potential for sudden failures during offshore helicopter operations, is in a clear contradiction to classic incident–accident pyramidal relationships" (p.114).
Chevron, the oil and gas company, in their study [6] concluded that "the Heinrich's model fails to recognize that the patterns of high-consequence, low frequency mechanisms of injury do not follow the same pattern as low consequence, high frequency mechanisms of injury" p.1.
Additionally, the Behavioral Science Technology (BST), a safety management consulting firm, conducted a study in partnership with seven major companies, including ExxonMobil, Shell, or Maersk [7]. They concluded that serious injuries have different underlying causes compared to minor ones.
How ExxonMobil Modernized the Safety Triangle
In a separate publication [8] Exxon confirmed that the reduction of injuries at the bottom of the triangle does not correspond to the reduction of the major injuries and fatalities. BECAUSE not all incidents have the potential to turn into more severe ones.
In fact, they found that only 20% of all minor injuries can result in major injuries and fatalities.
Furthermore, the setting in which someone is more likely to witness a major injury or fatality is not as common. For instance, these types of injuries primarily occur to those e.g. working at height, lifting operations, and more, which are managed by a set of controls, such as lock-out/tag-out, confined space entry, energy isolation, etc.
In response to these findings Exxon changed the way they classify and investigate incidents. Whenever an accident occurs Exxon will:
- Determine the actual severity (near miss, first aid, recordable injury, fatality)
- Determine the potential severity, i.e. What could have happened under slightly different circumstances. Could it have resulted in a recordable injury or fatality?
- Deploy expert investigators to deeply explore the factors which contributed to a high actual or potential severity type incident
- Apply a simple and less resource intensive investigation for an incident with low actual or potential. For example, they could choose to implement the 5WHY methodology.
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The Five Stages of Autoimmunity
In this series of articles, I am exploring the Autoimmune Spectrum.
If you have been diagnosed with an Autoimmune condition, I am sorry to hear that. I encourage my patients to think of a diagnosis as a description (or label) for a complex process.
It is a good start, but a diagnosis rarely describes the severity, momentum, and degree of immune system reactivity.
In the previous article I discussed Stage one – An Erratic and Reactive Immune System. If you have not read that yet, tap here.
The Five Stages
- Stage One – An Erratic and Reactive Immune System
- Stage Two – A Stubborn and Tired Immune System
- Stage Three – Active Autoimmunity and Tissue Damage
- Stage Four – Complex Chronic Autoimmune Disease
- Stage Five – Immune System Renewal or Breakdown
In this article I am going to introduce you to Stage Two. If this experience sounds familiar, I encourage you to look into the Ancestral Autoimmune Protocol for Stage Two (See Below)
Stage Two – A Stubborn and Tired Immune System
I often us the metaphor of a dysfunctional marriage to describe Autoimmunity.
If your imaginary marriage is continuing to spiral into dysfunction, you can expect two things to happen.
First, you will become familiar with the fatigue of a futile struggle.
Second, you will find yourself locking horns and trying to win – you probably won't remember why.
I use this metaphore to bring your awareness to that quality of experience. Stubborn and tired. Your immune system is unfortunatlly very good at that style of agrument. If you feel that way and your symptoms feel that way, take advantage of this opportunity to turn your immune system around.
You DO NOT want an Autoimmune Disease if you can prevent it!
The Second Stage of Autoimmunity can be described as Pre-Autoimmune or Hidden Autoimmunity.
Most of the people suffering from this level of immune system dysfunction have had lingering symptoms like:
- Chronic Pain
- Insomnia
- Symptoms come and go in severity
- Symptoms that never resolve
- Low energy
- Low mood
- Slow wound healing
- Poor exercise recovery
In my experience, when a person has a considerable history of Stage One symptoms like seasonal, dust, or pet allergies, exercise-induced Asthma, or Eczema, or chronic infections, and also presents with chronic and lingering symptoms that are not responding to normal treatment, their immune system is stuck in an argument that will eventually exhaust all of their resources. Unless they turn their immune system around.
This may produce chronic physical and/or mental health challenges, and even some chronic diagnosable conditions that are not associated with Autoimmunity.
Why is this stage included if it is not clinically an Autoimmune condition?
Simply, because so many people with clinically diagnosable Autoimmune Diseases spend a few years unconsciously training their immune system to become more stubborn and aggressive. People in Stage Two have usually tried a few medications to control their most limiting symptoms. Unfortunately, these medications often mask the progress of deeper immune system dysfunction.
If you carry the genes for an Autoimmune condition and cannot regulate this kind of 'slow-burn' momentum, it will eventually turn on.
Take Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) for example. IBS is the most common reasons that patients are referred to a Gastroenterologist.
For some people, IBS is triggered by a strange list of seemingly unrelated foods, for others, it is poor sleep, and for others, it is always chronic stress. After years of poor digestion, mild malnutrition and chronic immune system distress, many patients develop active Autoimmune conditions like Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Asthma, Rheumatoid Arthritis, or the condition that runs in their family.
Butting your head against the triggers and stressors that make your immune system more aggressive, or your inner marriage more stubborn and exhausted may push you into Stage Three. If you are not able to control your choices or your level of stress, try Acupuncture or any other therapy that changes your state of being and reduces any cravings.
If you can be consistent with your choices, with or without help, you may be able to reorient your immune system and health in approximately two months.
This is why the Autoimmune Spectrum is organized the way that it is. When I first meet a new patient with Autoimmunity, within a few minutes of asking questions I can have a clearer idea of how long this person may need to restrict their diet and modify their lifestyle. And, more importantly, it becomes clearer exactly which long term protocol is the most likely to produce effective results.
Stage Two – Two Months
This kind of immune system grudge is difficult to treat because it often involves many systems in your body. I always encourage some basic lab tests to see which systems are under the most distress.
In Stage Two, you have to calm your immune system and give it some time to learn a new and better way to be in the world.
In most cases, it is safe to do a broth fast for one day (24 hours) every week. Even if you are eating the healthiest food you can find, the basic process of digestion can be an immune system irritant.
If not eating for 24 hours sounds like more stress than you can adapt to right now, then I encourage you to consider intermittent fasting.
In Stage Two, you don't want to stress your body very much, so an intermittent fasting cycle of 16 hours fasted, with an 8-hour feeding window is ideal. To keep your metabolism stable, eat three times a day once per week.
Focus on a Phase Two diet for one month and then the Phase Three diet for the next month.
If you have a condition that is highly inflammatory or have Autoimmune conditions in your family, begin with a week of the Phase One Diet. I would also encourage you to get a health journal and keep track of your diet, sleep, stress and symptoms. There several online APPs that are free if you are engaged with modern technology.
If you have had this condition for more than two years, then invest two months every year doing the same protocol with a focus on detoxification. If you want some support and accountability with that process, I host an online cleanse at least twice a year. Check it out HERE
The last suggestion I have for anyone in Stage Two is to find a mentor about health and fitness. Find someone that excites you about your own health. I believe that we should all have to go to a gym class every year as a part of our health insurance. Yoga is on every street corner for a reason. If you are new to practices like Qi Gong and Meditation, they are worth every second you spend learning and practicing them. I offer an introductory course here.
I would also encourage you to seek out your local health detective who could help you look into the root cause of your situation. There are several relatively inexpensive lab tests available for long term Stress Tolerance, Hormonal Balance, Intestinal Pathogens, Leaky Gut, SIBO, as well as Neurotransmitter and Detoxification issues.
Here are a few questions I ask patients in Stage Two:
What is the value of your long-term health?
How much of your energy and time is taken up with this illness process?
On a scale of one to ten, how committed are you to changing your health and your life?
Michael Smith is an internationally respected Clinician, Author, and Speaker. Michael practices Functional Medicine, Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and encourages his patients to follow an Ancestral approach to lifestyle and diet. Dr. Smith has dedicated 25 years to the research and treatment of Chronic Illness and Autoimmune Disease. As an Autoimmune patient, Michael is intimately aware of the devastating impact these conditions can have on your quality of life.
Dr. Smith is also at the leading edge of the treatment strategies, dietary protocols, and the precise lab testing needed to resolve these complex conditions.
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Highlights from Paris, France
I am so excited to share a few photos and a recap of the Le Camp Retreat hosted by Oakmoss Collective and Winsome Floral this past fall.
This past November I had such a cool opportunity to co-lead the Le Camp Retreat in Paris, France. We spent a couple days with 5 other ladies where we talked all about creativity, community, self care, and small business growth/ownership. It was so much fun and at our final dinner we all sat around the table talking about how much we'd learned, reminiscing on the sights of the city, and celebrated the friendships we'd all made.
There was so much to see and do in the city, and with our trip's agenda it was hard to do much extra. The extra things we did get to do, however, were a ton of fun! Dinners, shopping, and walks along the Seine were so lovely. I loved getting to teach some breakout sessions and learn from my co-leader Courtney during her breakout sessions too! I can't wait for this summer when we get to travel to Greece for the second Le Camp Retreat.
You can see more photos and learn all about Le Camp and what the retreat entails over on the instagram account of Oakmoss Collective's website. I hope you'll join us for our next creatives retreat!
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You have beautiful photos! It would be so fun to visit Paris one day and experience these places you photographed in real life!ReplyDelete
What a great place to visit! These photos are so beautiful! I can't wait to go here!!ReplyDelete
What a lovely collection of photos!! Some different shots than the usual Paris suite. Looks like you had a lovely time. Enjoy Greece!ReplyDelete
I am BEYOND envious right now. Paris is my ultimate travel dream, and it looks even more appealing in your photos. I so hope I can visit one day!ReplyDelete
This is so pretty. Looks like one of the Hallmark movie locations. Really coolReplyDelete
What an awesome opportunity! Paris has a lot of beautiful little spots.ReplyDelete
Your photos are absolutely breathtaking! What a wonderful trip.ReplyDelete
These are beautiful, Natalie! It looks like it was such a nice time with fellow creatives. It's so awesome that you organized all of this! Excited to see all of the photographs from your next one!ReplyDelete


text: Infrastructure Nortel still on long road to recovery Michael Martin @itworldca Published: March 29th, 2007Nortel was in the news this month for all the wrong reasons yet again. At the beginning of March, the network equipment provider said it would delay filing its 2006 annual report in order to make another round of financial restatements. Unlike past errors though, the corrections were expected to be minor and were made to cover acuarial errors in pension and retirement plans, rather than to correct nefarious accounting practices.Just less than two weeks later, Nortel made the news again when several former executives, including ex-CEO Frank Dunn, were charged with fraud by U.S. and Canadian securities regulators.The latest negative news makes it even easier to dismiss Nortel, a former networking high-flier brought down by the bursting of the technology market bubble and a subsequent accounting scandal. But that would be a mistake.Nortel can't be compared favourably to Cisco in terms of market performance, but the company's Q4 2006 revenue of US$3.32 billion was an increase of more than 10 per cent over Q4 2005's figure.Nortel also has a unified communications alliance with Microsoft, which will see the two companies jointly develop offerings for the enterprise. Nortel can't help but benefit from Microsoft's sales and marketing savvy.Another point in Nortel's favour is there's still no clear number two to Cisco in the enterprise networking market. No customer likes a vendor to have a monopoly, so presumably there's an opening for a networking company like Nortel that can present itself as a viable alternative to Cisco.What does Nortel need to do to improve? Better marketing would help. So would a renewed focus on the enterprise — something current Nortel president and CEO Mike Zafirovski emphasizied as part of Nortel's turnaround plan last year, in addition to mobility and services.If Nortel continues to follow the path it's on, the company might finally get back into the news for all the right reasons in the near future.QuickLink: 074332Would you reccomend this article?00 Related Download Sponsor: LG LG Business Solutions New technologies can ease the burden on IT departments while enhancing productivity and satisfaction for the end users they serve. Learn More Infrastructure accounting, Cisco, mobility


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The Access team is fresh from HIMSS in Orlando, Fla., where we talked with CIOs and CMIOs from hospitals across the country. One of the first questions many industry leaders asked was, "How simple is your technology to get to and use?"
It's clear that having an eSignature solution is an important step but it's just part of the solution. A winning approach means implementing a paperless forms solution that's also easy for clinicians and patients to actually use.
Our goal is to provide technological tools that help clinicians and patients, not hamper them. After all, if clinicians can focus on what they love – caring for people – the greater the likelihood of a positive patient experience. Read on to see what makes our eSignature solutions so easy for clinicians and patients to employ and use.
Clinicians: cutting clicks, saving time
The Access user interface integrates seamlessly into a hospital's existing electronic medical record, regardless of vendor. In most cases, clinicians aren't aware they switched systems because they don't have to leave the EMR to reach the paperless solution.
EMR integration means fewer clicks, which translates to less time in front of a screen and more time in front of a patient.
Our Order-Based Workflow is another way Access saves clinicians time. Prior to a procedure, a surgeon places an order inside their existing EMR. This action triggers the Access system to automatically generate the correct Informed Consent.
But our solution doesn't stop there. It also grabs the relevant procedural content from our cloud-hosted repository and pairs it with the electronic Informed Consent. The clinician no longer has to write this information by hand. The eForms can then be presented to a patient on a tablet for their digital signature.
The procedural content is peer-reviewed and based on best practices. Plus, it's housed on a cloud-based service so quarterly updates are automatically made, which lets hospitals avoid the downtime of an IT update.
The procedural content system provides another important perk for clinicians: the ability to customize. A surgeon may want to include info on the Informed Consent that's tailored to a patient's needs. For times like these, there's a blank "Notes" section where surgeons can add specific patient info, while ensuring all other procedural content is consistent with what's shared across the hospital.
Patients: read, scroll and sign
When it comes to a winning formula, an eSignature solution must be easy for patients to use, too. With our technology, patients can read, scroll and sign all eForms on one tablet. They don't have to shuffle through multiple paper forms and jump to a separate LCD screen to provide their signature.
Another important benefit our eSignature solutions offer is they minimize the risk of a delayed medical procedure.
A surgery is understandably stressful regardless of how "minor" it may be. Being told their procedure is delayed due to missing paperwork doesn't do much to boost a patient's confidence or overall satisfaction with the hospital.
With a paperless solution, though, the necessary forms and signatures are all digitally captured, eliminating the chance of a delayed procedure due to missing paperwork.
Remember, having an eSignature solution is an important step on the path to paperless forms but it's only part of the solution. For a winning approach, implement a paperless system that's easy to get to and that your clinicians and patients actually want to use.


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Joe chatted to the U.K. radio show Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp to talk about the wedding, and one the host's addressed the live stream, saying, "Diplo ruined it for you, though."
Joe replied, "Yeah, he ruined it. I love Diplo, but he loves his 'gram more than a 13-year-old. He posts every five seconds."
However, the couple weren't that upset about the whole thing. "We just laughed," Joe said. "We loved it. We thought it was ridiculous."
Sophie echoed Joe's sentiments while on The Graham Norton Show. She said, "We didn't choose him to be our wedding photographer — he just decided to live stream it."
Still, we're all eternally grateful for Diplo's betrayal!
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A little late recognition but we wanted to give our Boys Water Polo team some love for picking up there first CBL win in 2 years with a 14-12 victory vs Cross-Town rival Eisenhower. Scoring for the Lions was Tyler Osgood, Nolan Edwards, Adrian Rios, Kyle Tomitich, and Jose Alvarado!


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Bashiok received a mysterious package today, and upon opening it found delights upon delights. A fan had remembered his "An idea I always liked is a race car made of chocolate cake, but it just ain?t gonna happen, man." post from last month, and sent him the ingredients to achieve said dream, with nothing more than a mixing bowl and a functional kitchen.
So impressed was Bashiok that he resurrected the @Diablo Twitter feed to crow his joy, and even replied to a few questions before tying on his apron and scurrying off to the nearest oven.
Sadly, as you'll see if you check the link back to our previous coverage of Bashiok's chocolate cake car post, you'll note that I IM'ed Bashiok several links to sites with recipes to make a chocolate cake shaped like a car, to which he replied:
[14:41] Bashiok: a fully functional race car i can drive, made out of chocolate cake
Thus it seems that his ultimate dream has yet to be realized, unless there's a lot more in that cardboard box than the photo shows.
All is not lost though, since in his cake-euphoria of tweeting, Bashiok did reply to one semi-game content question, albeit one we've heard answered before.
@thRobhimself: have u found a way for each class to jump over chasms like the barb did in the first vid?
@Diablo: No, that was just a fun idea for the video. We don't plan for every class to have a jump/teleport ability.


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Fast forward then to last Friday afternoon, sat in the Bon Accord in Glasgow, polishing off multiple pints of Kelburn Dark Moor, Caledonian Brewing Summer Valley, and to my delight Cromarty Hit the Lip. Up to that point I could count the number of non-cask conditioned beers I had drunk on the fingers of one hand. In those three weeks at home I drank a lot of good beer, in some wonderful pubs, while meeting some fascinating people. In short, it was almost the perfect beer fueled holiday.
In the next few posts, I will tell you about some of the breweries and pubs I enjoyed, and no doubt flesh out some of the thoughts that pottered their way through my mind as the pints flowed. Perhaps the beers were there in 2005, but it seemed to me that the brewing world in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland is blossoming, and that brings great cheer to my heart.


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In this episode Richaél Lucero keeps our eyes fixed on Christ by continuing the Lenten exploration of the beatitudes. Reflecting on the third, fourth, and fifth beatitudes, she links them with specific gifts of the Holy Spirit given to us at baptism to grow in each beatitude. Listen now and begin the discussion with Christ about which beatitude he wants to restore within you.
Beatitudes and Imitating Christ (1 of 3) [Poor in Spirit and Those Who Mourn]
Richaél Lucero is continuing the Lenten exploration of the beatitudes. She is drawing connections between the beatitudes, theosis, "death to self," and iconography to paint a detailed picture of the transformation Christ is calling us to this season. Listen in to ensure you can answer Jesus with a full heart.
Beatitudes Introduction
When the Lord preached the beatitudes he was teaching about the meaning of ultimate happiness and how to attain it. Unfortunately, many Catholics today find the beatitudes confessing. Listen as Richaél Lucero provides an overview of this important message of the gospel.
Repost | Lent & Conversion
How the liturgical readings of the Lenten season and our practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving remind us of the true call of Lent—conversion. Listen in for the details.
Lent: You Can Do Hard Things
What should your Lent look like? Have you been selling yourself short during this season that is full of great growth potential? Richaél Lucero calls on Old and New Testament examples to teach you how to get the most out of Lent.
How to Make Decisions the Catholic Way: Discernment 101
Making decisions shouldn't be stressful. In fact, when we use discernment to make decisions with God, we are not only relieved from our stress but the process is simple and more peaceful. Learn what discernment is from the Catholic perspective and how to do it in five steps with Richaél Lucero.
Metanoia: You're Not a Christian Without It
The first act of Christ's ministry was to preach the message of metanoia. Do you want to know exactly what Christ has called us to? Listen as Richaél Lucero defines the meaning of metanoia. In the process she'll expose why popular synonyms used to explain metanoia don't paint the full picture; and leave you with suggestions for preparing three areas of yourself for metanoia.
Not Today Satan: When the Accuser Attacks Your Identity
Did you know the Enemy regularly attacks our identity as Children of God. Richaél Lucero reveals how Satan attempts to manipulate our identity and provides listeners with a surefire strategy to proactively combat his tactics. Listen now.
Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh
Why did the three magi bring the baby Jesus gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh? Listen as Richaél Lucero reveals the meaning of these articles as we find them in the Old Testament and what they proclaim when applied to Jesus in the New Testament. Also learn how this information can add a new dimension when praying over the Epiphany account in scripture.
Reflections on the Twelve Days of Christmas
Enjoy daily reflections on the gifts given during the Twelve Days of Christmas. As each day presents us with new gifts, Richaél presents her insight, prayer take aways, or musings on them.
The Twelve Days of Christmas
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What's worse than Nk with arabs is the modern and open orthodox crowd marching with the gays. The parade organizers are lefty establishment types and banned meir kahane JDL group from marching but let these perverted gays march last three years. Chutzpah.
So every time these guys do something stupid we gonna have to read about it?? Just leave it alone already we know what these guys are all about
NK is not Jewish.
Who supports them? Let us boycott their service and product.
What's there to watch? Just because they're wearing black hats and black suits they're no different than liberal leftists walking alongside Palestinian terrorist. By the way, who says they're not liberal leftists dressed up in chareidi attire with fake payos provocateurs? How do you know they're not?
These tzigelach are demented, and possibly potur from mitzvos. The true blame lies with a certain chasidus, who supports these fools financially, using them as tools for doing what they themselves are too embarrassed to do.
Yes. They are useful idiots. They clearly have emotional issues that weren't delt with. They are too handicapped to realize they are being had. Nonetheless, Matzav and the others should stop giving them any publicity.
No one is perfect. But they are perfect idiots.
Lovely parade with thousands of Yeshiva students marching & organizations in support of Israel
No black hat Yeshiva participated in this parade ever. It's all modern Yeshivoth.
so? how does their comment disagree with yours? are modern orthodox incapable of having yeshiva students? what and according to you does reits not produce rabbis?
Satmar isn't far from NK. But what these people don't realize is that it's too late the medina is here and we can't undo it.
And if there is c"s problems in another country I want to see where they will run to.
Rav Henkin the posek was against Zionism before the state. and made a complete 180 so did agudah of america. in the late 1940s
before zionism succeeded is one thing. but after the fact. how can someone actively try to dismantle a Jewish country??
Say what you want about Nk,but the lefty secular Jews are the real danger. G-d will not destroy Israel because some Nk people are protesting. But having a rebellion against the Torah with open gay parades and Just today at the parade some israeli official announced that forty per cent of Tel Aviv is gay. The increasing chillul shabbos in israel is reason for concern. 225 stores open in Yerushalayim on shabbos. The Torah warns us that the land will vomit us out. Nk is zero dangerous for israel.
Well said! Indeed very true and painful.
I see why real religious Jews boycott this parade. The marchers are not dressed tzniyosdig,hired bands of non jewish females not dressed properly according to jewish law as well as women singers on floats and even the gay synagogue or rather tuma as well as the open orthodox crowd. It's not a place for a frum Jew. Eventually it's going to fall by the wayside as the children of those funding uja intermarry.
I did not and would not attend such an event. Even so protesting by it is very wrong.
During his major fight against Heichal Shlomo the Brisker Rov was asked about protesting at a pro Heichal Shlomo gathering. He answered "arayngain bei yenem iz terror" (going into someone else's place to protest is terrorism)
If there was a specific issue the parade was promoting I could understand a counter protest. Being that the overwhelming majority of those who attended did so simply as a sincere show of solidarity and support of other Yidden it is extremely wrong to protest at such a event.
Those who are interested in Kovod Shmayim and showing the path of Torah can go there and ask people in they are interested in something like Partners In Torah. If even a hundredth of a percent says yes they will accomplish an enormous amount for Hashem and Torah
This protest does the opposite. R"L


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Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2019, Page: 24-34
Complex Dynamics of the Chua's Circuit System with Adjustable Symmetry and Nonlinearity: Multistability and Simple Circuit Realization
Nestor Tsafack, Electrical Engineering Department, Institute of Technology Fotso Victor, University of Dschang, Bandjoun, Cameroon; Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon
Jacques Kengne, Electrical Engineering Department, Institute of Technology Fotso Victor, University of Dschang, Bandjoun, Cameroon
Jacques Kengne, Electrical Engineering Department, Institute of Technology Fotso Victor, University of Dschang, Bandjoun, Cameroon
Received: Jul. 25, 2019; Accepted: Aug. 13, 2019; Published: Sep. 11, 2019
DOI: 10.11648/j.wjap.20190402.12 View 687 Downloads 160
Background: Since the invention of Chua's circuit, numerous generalizations based on substitution of the nonlinear function have been reported. One of the generalizations is obtained by replacing the piecewise-linear with the cubic and/or quadratic polynomial. These nonlinearities are used to be implement using analog multipliers which are relatively expensive. In this realization we propose a different approach to synthetize both cubic and quadratic nonlinearities of empirical Chua's circuit. Methods: The idea is to use diodes, Opamps and resistors to derive a PWL approximation of the cubic and quadratic functions. To demonstrate some complex phenomena observed in the system using the fourth order Runge-Kutta numerical integration method with a very small integration step. The bifurcation diagram which is the plot of local maxima of the temporal trace of a system's coordinate as a function of the control parameter also constitutes an excellent tool for the study of dynamic systems. Results: The above mentioned standard nonlinear analysis tools have been exploited and it is found that the system with adjustable symmetry experiences a plethora of symmetric and asymmetric coexisting attractors. A particular feature of the system is related to the simplicity of the corresponding electronic analog circuit (no analog multiplier chip used to implement the cubic and quadratic nonlinearities). Conclusions: It is observed that the proposed Chua's circuit system is more flexible (both symmetric and asymmetric) and displays complex dynamics behaviors of symmetric and asymmetric coexisting attractors. Note that this striking dynamic can be exploited in encryption algorithms.
Chua's Circuit System, Adjustable Symmetry, Coexisting Bifurcations, Coexisting Attractors, Pspice Circuit Simulations
To cite this article
Nestor Tsafack, Jacques Kengne, Complex Dynamics of the Chua's Circuit System with Adjustable Symmetry and Nonlinearity: Multistability and Simple Circuit Realization, World Journal of Applied Physics. Special Issue: Symmetry and Multi-Stability in Simple Chaotic Systems and Circuits. Vol. 4, No. 2, 2019, pp. 24-34. doi: 10.11648/j.wjap.20190402.12
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What Is It Wednesday: June 15 - Wig Mold
Welcome to "What is It Wednesday - REVEALED"! Thanks to everyone who guessed!
11458-1 Wig Mold Hinged door on side allows interior to be storage for wig care tools.
How is this varnish can tied to the founding of Lincoln?
New Archeology at Fort Robinson
Treasures from Nebraska Museums
Collecting the Here and Now
As I mentioned in a blog post a few weeks back about a Superman comic book, the Nebraska State Historical Society collects and cares for hundreds of thousands of items not all of which are particularly old. We feel it is important to collect items now that will allow us to examine important issues in our state that will have long-reaching impact. One important debate being played out in Nebraska today has been the potential placement of Transcanada's Keystone XL pipeline across our state and the Ogalala aquifer.
That time Superman mixed up Omaha and Lincoln
Superman has been a lot of places, so when DC fans in Omaha were promised that he'd be visiting their city they were understandably excited. It's too bad he ended up overshooting by about 60 miles.
Treasures from Nebraska Museums
Go Big with Buttons
Cape, jacket, and skirt made by Nettie Vertrovsky of Crete and covered with buttons from her collection. (NSHS 7329-4,5) (at right).


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Dental veneers are a great way to transform a smile without the expense or effort often required of other restorations. These thin layers of dental material adhere to the front of teeth as a "mask" to cover chips, heavy staining or other blemishes.
Still, veneers require attention to detail for a successful outcome. Here's a step-by-step look at changing your dental appearance with veneers.
Step 1: Considering your options. While most veneers are made of dental porcelain, composite resin materials are increasingly popular. Although more prone to chipping or staining, composite veneers don't require a dental lab for fabrication. Another option, depending on your dental situation, are ultra-thin veneers that require little to no tooth preparation. Your dentist will help you decide which options are best for you.
Step 2: "Test driving" your new smile. We can help you "see" your future smile with special software that creates a computer image of your teeth with the planned veneers. We can also use composite material to fabricate a "trial smile" to temporarily place on your teeth that can give you the feel as well as the look of your future smile.
Step 3: Preparing your teeth. Unless you're getting no-prep veneers, we'll need to modify your teeth before attaching veneers. Although only 0.3 to 0.7 millimeters thick, veneers can still appear bulky on unprepared teeth. They'll look more natural if we first remove a small amount of enamel. A word of caution, though: although slight, this enamel removal permanently alters your teeth that will require them to have some form of restoration from then on.
Step 4: Attaching your new veneers. After the planning phase (which includes color matching to blend the veneers with the rest of your teeth), a dental lab creates your veneers if you've opted for porcelain. After they're delivered, we'll clean and etch the teeth with a mild acidic gel to increase the bonding effect. We'll then permanently attach the veneers to your teeth with a very thin but ultra-strong resin luting cement that creates a unified bond between the veneers and teeth.
Following these steps is the surest way to achieve a successful outcome. With due care you're sure to enjoy the effects for a long time to come.
If you would like more information on changing your smile with veneers, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can also learn more about this topic by reading the Dear Doctor magazine article "Porcelain Veneers: Your Smile—Better than Ever."
Dental veneers, thin layers of porcelain bonded to chipped, stained or slightly crooked teeth, are an effective and affordable way to transform your smile. Their color, translucence and shape blend so well with the rest of your teeth that it's often difficult to tell them apart.
But traditional veneers have one drawback: although they're less than a millimeter in width, they can still appear bulky on unprepared teeth. To help them look more natural, we often have to remove some of the enamel layer from the tooth surface. Enamel doesn't grow back, so this alteration is permanent and the prepared teeth will require a restoration from then on.
But you may be able to avoid this—or at least keep the alteration to a minimum—with no-prep or minimal-prep veneers, two new exciting choices in cosmetic dentistry. About the width of a contact lens, we can bond these much thinner veneers to teeth with virtually no preparation at all or, in the case of a minimal-prep veneer, needing only an abrasive tool to reshape and remove only a tiny bit of the enamel.
These ultra thin veneers are best for teeth with healthy enamel, and can be placed in as few as two appointments. And besides being less invasive, the procedure is reversible—we can remove them and you can return to your original look without any follow-up restoration. One caveat, though: because of the strong bonding process used, it's not always easy to remove them.
Although their thinness makes it possible to avoid or minimize alterations, there are some dental situations like oversized teeth that may still require extensive tooth preparation. With some poor bites (malocclusions) orthodontic treatment to straighten the teeth may also be needed first.
All in all, though, no-prep or minimal-prep veneers could help you avoid the permanent tooth alteration that usually accompanies their thicker cousins. What's more, you'll have the beautiful, transformed smile that veneers can achieve.
If you would like more information on minimal or no-prep veneers, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can also learn more about this topic by reading the Dear Doctor magazine article "No-Prep Porcelain Veneers."
Those unattractive teeth you see in the mirror are what are standing between you and a truly beautiful smile. If only you could make them go away.
In a way, you can do just that—with dental veneers. For the past three decades dentists have been covering the imperfections of problem teeth with these thin layers of porcelain. What's more, they're usually less involved and expensive than other restorations.
Veneers work best on teeth with moderate flaws like chipping, heavy staining or wearing, or slight misalignments like crookedness or gaps. The dental porcelain used is a ceramic material that so closely mimics the color and translucence of natural teeth it often takes a trained eye to notice any difference.
The first step to getting veneers is to plan your new look with a full examination and a diagnostic mock-up, a temporary application of tooth-colored filling materials applied directly to the teeth. This gives you and your dentist a better visual idea of how veneers will look on your teeth, and to make any adjustments ahead of time. A dental lab will use these findings to create your custom veneers.
In the meantime we'll prepare your teeth to accommodate your veneers. Although they're usually only 0.3 to 0.7 millimeters thick, veneers can still appear bulky when placed straight on the teeth. To adjust for their width we usually must remove some of the teeth's surface enamel so the veneers look more natural. Because enamel can't be replaced, the removal permanently alters the teeth and will require some form of restoration from then on.
When the veneers are ready we'll attach them with special cement so they'll form an almost seamless bond with the teeth. You'll then be able to use them just as before—but with a little caution. Although quite durable, veneers can break under too much force, so avoid biting on hard objects like ice, hard candy or nuts. And be sure you practice good dental care on your veneered teeth with daily brushing and regular dental cleanings and checkups.
The end result, though, is well worth the upkeep. Porcelain veneers can rejuvenate your smile and provide you a new level of confidence for years to come.
If you would like more information on porcelain veneers, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can also learn more about this topic by reading the Dear Doctor magazine article "Porcelain Veneers: Your Smile—Better than Ever."
With exciting innovations in cosmetic dentistry over the last few decades, we can now transform nearly any unattractive smile. One of the best and most cost-effective of these is the porcelain veneer. These thin layers of dental porcelain are bonded over the front of chipped, slightly misaligned or stained teeth to create an entirely new look.
Veneers have evolved over time, especially with the materials they contain that give them their beauty and life-likeness. The first veneers were made mainly of feldspathic porcelain, a mineral composition known for its similarity in color and translucence to natural teeth.
But because this early porcelain had a high amount of silica (in essence, glass), and because they were created through overlaying several thin layers that weren't as strong as a single piece, they were prone to shattering. This made them problematic for teeth subject to heavy biting forces or patients with clenching or grinding habits.
The situation changed dramatically in the 1990s, when dental labs began adding Leucite, a sturdier glass-like mineral that didn't diminish the porcelain's translucence. Not only did Leucite make veneers more shatter-resistant, it also enabled dental technicians to fashion most of the veneer in one piece to further strengthen it.
More recent veneers may now incorporate an even stronger material called lithium disilicate. Because lithium disilicate has twice the strength of Leucite, veneers made with it can be as thin as 0.3 millimeters. Not only does this blend together the most desirable qualities expected of a veneer—strength, aesthetic appeal and easy fabrication—it allows for a broader range of situations and uses.
Both of these materials can be pressed or milled to assume the exact shape necessary to fit a particular tooth. The manufacturing process also allows for creating smaller veneers that can then be overlaid with porcelain for the most life-like appearance possible.
Thanks to these stronger materials enhancing the natural beauty of porcelain, we now have a wider creative palate for transforming your smile.
If you would like more information on porcelain veneers, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can also learn more about this topic by reading the Dear Doctor magazine article "Porcelain Veneers: Your Smile—Better Than Ever."
Porcelain veneers are a great way to enhance an unattractive smile. But are they appropriate for teenagers? The answer usually depends on a patient's current development stage and the type of veneer used.
Veneers are thin layers of porcelain bonded to the front of teeth. But even though quite thin, they can appear bulky if we don't first remove some of the tooth's enamel surface. This is irreversible, so the tooth may require a restoration from then on.
This could be a major issue for teens whose permanent teeth are still developing. During this period the tooth's central pulp is relatively large and the dentin layer not fully developed. As a result, the pulp's nerves are often closer to the surface than in an adult tooth. This increases risk of nerve damage during veneer preparation; if nerve damage occurs, the tooth could ultimately require a root canal treatment to save it.
On the other hand, some types of veneers don't require tooth alteration (or only very little) beforehand. These "no-prep" or "minimal prep" veneers are best for certain situations like abnormally small teeth, so we must first determine if using such a veneer would be appropriate for your teen.
In effect, we'll need to weigh these and other factors before determining if veneers are a safe choice for your teen. That being the case, it may be more advisable to consider more conservative cosmetic techniques first. For example, if enamel staining is the main issue, you could consider teeth whitening. Although the often amazing results eventually fade, whitening could still buy some time until the teeth have matured to safely apply veneers.
Slight deformities like chipping can often be corrected by bonding tooth-colored composite material to the tooth. In artistic hands it's even possible to create a full veneer effect with very little if any tooth preparation. How much we can apply, though, depends on tooth size, and it won't be as durable as a porcelain veneer.
With that said, veneers could be the right solution to enhance your teen's smile. But, we'll need to carefully consider their dental situation to ensure their new smile remains a healthy one.
If you would like more information on cosmetic solutions for smile appearance problems, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation.