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Archive for September 16th, 2011
New members of the Spanish Competition Authority
We have just learnt that this afternoon the Spanish government has appointed Joaquín García Bernaldo de Quirós as the new President of the Comisión Nacional de la Competencia (CNC), and Paloma Ávila de Grado as a new member of the CNC´s Council.
García Bernaldo de Quirós was until now the President of the Administrative Law section of the Tribunal Superior de Justicia of Andalucía. An interesting interview with the soon-to-be President of the CNC is available here (in Spanish).
Paloma Ávila de Grado was until now the director of the Advocacy Division of the CNC. Click here to check her CV (English)
Congratulations to both for the appointment, and the best of lucks in the exercise of their new responsibilities.
The current President of the CNC, Luis Berenguer (pictured above), will therefore be stepping down from the post in a few days. We will not hide now that we have been, and are, critical with some of the CNC´s recent attitudes and decisions, and in the past we have clearly stated in this blog the reasons underlying our criticism. However, now that no one can take our words as interested praising, we also want to acknowledge the many good things that Luis Berenguer has done during his tenure. Berenguer was one of the greatest supporters of the Competition Act passed in 2007; he is to a great extent responsible for the increased awareness of Spanish society about competition law issues; and he has been a respected leader of an institution whose members he has consistently supported against all criticism. In sum, he has been a good President, and as such he should be acknowledged.
Pay Tribute
A while ago, Prof. I. Goavere (College of Europe) invited me to write a short text for a liber amicorum in honour for a god of EU law, Prof. J. Bourgeois.
My paper is entitled: "Parallel Trade: Econ-oclast Thoughts on a Dogma of EU Competition Law". Alfonso – and his clients – are fans of this paper :).
The book has now been published. It is entitled "Trade and competition in the EU and beyond" and appears at E. Elgar.
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Thesaurus Antiquorum Lectionariorum Ecclesiae Synagogaeque
generously funded by the Fritz Thyssen foundation
The THALES team is happy to announce
that the database is finally online (in a BETA version)
contact us for further details if you want to be part of the testing team
In Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, few people knew how to read or write. The common person usually became familiar with texts by hearing them recited or by seeing them represented artistically in liturgical, theatrical and ritual performances. Lectionaries – broadly understood as texts of different genres which inform the liturgical performance of one or more biblical passages – are the key link between the Bible and people, between intellectuals and the uneducated, between theory and praxis and, therefore, between the fields of literary and ritual studies. As such, lectionaries are important not only for scholars of Eastern and Western liturgies, but also for exegetes of the Old and New Testaments as well as for historians researching Jewish – Christian relations. In short, they are essential for any scholar attempting to understand Christianity and Judaism as living religions both in the past and present. This database is a deliberate attempt to bring to the fore the dimensions of liturgical performance and ritual in the study of early Christianity and Judaism, where texts continue to be perceived as falling primarily under the elitist domains of philology, dogma and literature.
Scholarly Aims
Our aim is to assemble the vast data contained in all ancient lectionaries, both Jewish and Christian, and make them easily accessible for and conveniently searchable by scholars interested in liturgy, the Wirkungsgeschichte of biblical texts, as well as by historians. We truly believe that publishing materials on the web is the most convenient way to provide free and immediate access to those important texts which form the basis for much of human culture. Publicizing these materials electronically allows anyone with internet access to utilize these texts and enables these materials to reach a broader audience.
Why Is This Database Important and to Whom?
This database will enable biblical scholars to quickly research the ritual Sitz im Leben of scriptural chapters or verses, which is critical for studying the impact of the Bible (the Wirkungsgeschichte). In addition, liturgical experts will be able to compare different reading traditions more easily and comprehensively. Historians as well as patristic and rabbinic scholars can utilize the database for a variety of purposes, such as finding the chronological and liturgical context of a homily or evaluating whether a biblical pericope might have an impact during a particular season of the year. With the help of the database, scholars will also be able to compare the prevalence of a text within the database to the number of extant exegetical treatises, along with carrying out many other statistical queries.
Why Have Lectionaries Remained an Understudied Subject Matter?
Despite their significance, lectionaries have been severely understudied. As a consequence, almost no commentary on the Bible includes thorough references to the liturgical life of a text - despite the fact that modern exegesis has understood the importance of the history of Biblical interpretation (e.g. Evangelisch-Katholischer Kommentar).
One of the factors contributing to this phenomenon is the fragmentation of modern university life, where exegetes and liturgists, scholars of the Church Fathers and scholars of Rabbinic Judaism, rarely collaborate. Liturgy is usually a Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican or – more rarely – a Jewish field. Scholars from each of these disciplines usually focus on their own religious traditions; and liturgical study programs are seldom established in non-theological institutions and rarely carry out comparative analyses of different traditions.
An additional reason why lectionaries have remained an understudied subject matter is that this discipline is highly complex and contains an immense amount of data. The reading traditions of the Christian East as well as those of the West can be distinguished by several large families. On the Christian side we may list among others Roman, Gallican, Mozarabic, Byzantine, Jerusalem [Armenian and Georgian], Coptic, as well as East and West Syrian. The Jewish families consist of Sephardic, Ashkenazic, Yemenite, Byzantine, Italian rites that read the Torah in one year and Palestinian rites that read the Torah in three years or more. Some of these traditions are quite homogeneous (such as Roman and Byzantine Christian or the various derivations of the annual Jewish rite), while others are extremely heterogeneous, differing from manuscript to manuscript (e.g. West Syrian).
A third reason why lectionaries remain an understudied field is the fact that information relating to lectionaries is dispersed throughout many sources and is difficult to locate. Currently, anybody trying to identify when different Churches would read a specific biblical chapter is forced to consult dozens of books, many of which are rare. For serious studies on Syriac, Coptic or Jewish Palestinian liturgy, one would have to locate and consult countless additional manuscripts as well. While the database will not replace these publications, it will make their core information easily accessible and will help the user decide which materials are worth consulting.
An Inclusive Approach: Types of Texts Included in the Database
Our website attempts to be as inclusive as possible and aims to compile all Jewish and Christian texts, thereby providing information on regular biblical readings. Many different genres of such texts exist. First and foremost, there are various forms of lectionaries. Some include the text to be read, e.g. Evangelaries (readings of the Gospels), Epistolaries (readings of the Epistles), and Menologies. Others are simply notations on the margins of biblical manuscripts, give only the chapter and verse number, or merely provide the first and last verses of the pericopes which are to be read. There is also a great deal of data scattered throughout many different texts. This data mainly focuses on local rites in patristic documents, in Midrashim or in some Piyyutim (Jewish liturgical hymns) which mention a Haftarah in connection to a Torah reading in one or the other synagogue of Byzantine and Muslim Palestine.
A Dynamic Approach: A Growing Database
Current and Future Content
The database has been launched with the introduction of a group of basic Christian and Jewish lectionaries, which represent the major liturgical families. We are continuing to expand the database by diversifying the larger families and by adding smaller local rites, single manuscripts and various reconstructions. At the moment, our aim is to digitalize all lectionaries from the first millennium; later we hope to include texts up to the age of print.
We have also begun mapping those lectionaries which will eventually be included in the database, and we welcome any references to lectionaries that we can include in this database.
In addition, important Patristic data exists which can be analyzed for the purposes of reconstructing the Biblical readings of prominent Church figures. Michael Margoni-Koegler (
Currently, the database focuses on readings. At a later point, additional data such as the Sanctorale will be added as will an introduction and bibliography to each lectionary.
Queries That Can Currently Be Carried Out
While we plan to expand the range of possible queries on the database, at this preliminary stage it is only possible to carry out those inquiries that focus on which biblical passage was read at what particular time. As of now, the database allows for three types of such queries:
a) Exactly (readings that exactly match the inquiry). For example:
a. Search all readings exactly like Isa. 11:4.
b. Search all readings exactly like Jer. 30:5b-7.
b) Including (readings that include the whole passage being searched). For example:
a. Search all readings including the whole passage of Isa. 11:4 (i.e. Isa. 11; Isa. 11:3-7; but not Isa. 11:3-4a [verse 4b is missing]).
b. Search all readings including the whole passage of Jer. 30:5b-7 (i.e. Jer. 30; Jer. 30:1-8; but not Jer. 30:1-5 [verses 6 and 7 are missing]).
c) Overlapping (readings that include parts of the passage being searched):
a. Search Isa. 11:4: the result would include readings such as Isa. 11:3-4a; Isa. 11:3-5; Isa. 11:4b-7; Isa. 11; or Isa. 11:4.
b. Search Jer. 30:5b-7: the result would include readings such as Jer. 30; Jer. 30:6; Jer 30:1-8; Jer 30:1-5; or Jer. 30:6-12.
As of now, the database cannot distinguish between the different numbering systems of the various Bibles, but we plan to include a tool converting Hebrew to LXX or Vulgate numbering in the near future.
At a later stage, the database will also include a calendar program for questions such as "Which texts are read during April/Nisan?" or "Which texts are read during the week before and after Passover/Easter?" Ideally, we would also like to include the biblical texts themselves in their original language as well as their English translations. This would allow for searches such as: "When are textual passages read which include the words 'angel' AND 'sword'?"
We also aim to allow for a broader range of possible queries: The user should be able to search for the use of a certain passage during all rites, or during selected rites, solely according to parameters such as chronology, geography, language and liturgical family. With regard to the origins of a certain lectionary, we hope to be able to assist researchers to search the database in a more "positivistic" or "hypothetical" manner. Each researcher should be able to decide whether to include hypothetical reconstructions, such as Jacob Mann's version of the three-year Palestinian reading cycle, or if he/she should only include actual manuscripts in his/her search.
Current Database Content
The construction of this database was launched in January 2006. Today it includes roughly twenty five lectionaries with roughly 8000 individual readings.
List of Lectionaries Included So Far
|Old Armenian Lectionary, ms Jerusalem 121
| Oldest witness for Jerusalem liturgy
|Constantinople Typicon (ms St. Cross 40)
| Tenth century
|Vat. Syr. 24
|Witness of the rite of the Upper Monastery, Eastern Syriac
|Bobbio Missale
| Old Gallican rite
|Mozarabic, Paris BN lat 2269 palimpsest
| Old Mozarabic rite from around 800
|Roman Lectionary, Comes Wuerzburg
| Witness for the Roman rite, end of 7th century
| Roman rite
| Latin
| Roman rite
|British Museum add 14705
|British Library 243 (Add. 14492)
|Paris Bibliothèque Nationale 27 Anc fonds 5
|British Museum LII Add 17103
|British Museum add 14485b
|British Museum add 14485a
|British Museum XLVIIII Add 14442
|British Museum L Add 14437
|British Museum CCXXIV add 12139
|British Museum add 14487
|British Museum XLIV Add 12134
|Burkitt Lectionary BM 14528
| A Syriac Lectionary that might attest to readings used in
|British Museum add 14486
|BM 243 (add. 14492)
| Syriac
|Witness for the Lectionay of the Upper Monastery from 862 AD
| Attestations for fixed readings in the Mishna (3rd century)
|Attestations for fixed readings in the Tosefta, belonging to the rabbinic corpus, perhaps around 300
|Jewish triennial
|(reconstruction acc to Encyclopedia Judaica)
| Siddur Rav Saadia Gaon
| Arabic
| tenth century Iraq
|Jewish Yemenite
|Jewish Sephardi
|Jewish Byzantine (Romaniot)
|Jewish Ashkenazi
|Jewish Italian
.Lectionaries Currently Undergoing Digitalization
THALES Staff Members and Collaborations
Coordinator of the THALES database Project
Daniel Stoekl Ben Ezra - French National Institut for Research (CNRS), Centre Paul-Albert Février, Aix-en-Provence
Cooperating Scholars Contributing to the Database Include:
Harald Buchinger, Faculty for Catholic Theology, Regensburg University.
Margaret Dimitrova, Department of Cyril and Methodius Studies, Faculty of Slavic Studies, Sofia University, Bulgaria.
Emmanuel Fritsch, Secrétaire de l'Episcopal Committee for Liturgy of the Conference of Ethiopian Catholic Bishops, Ethiopia and researcher associated with the Centre francais des études éthiopiennes (CFEE - IFRE 23 - USR 3137)
Michael Margoni-Koegler, Institute for Liturgical Studies,
Ophir Münz-Manor, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, Open University, Israel.
Wido van Peursen, Department of Religious Studies, Leiden University.
Ugo Zanetti, Institut Orientaliste, Université Catholique de Louvain.
Software Engineer: Nicolas Richard
Research Assistant: Avi Perrodin
Previous Research Assistants: Moshe Levi and Avigail Nir
Previous Software Engineer: Uzi Galili
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By: Cheryl Leong Should European Union diplomats be held to the same standards of human rights advocacy overseas? On December 4th The Delegation of The European Union of Singapore organized a human rights seminar. This seminar was entitled "The Role of Judiciary in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights". It was to the horror of … Continue reading GLBT PROTEST AT EUROPEAN UNION HUMAN RIGHTS SEMINAR IN SINGAPORE
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By Nonoy Espina It is to be expected that when President Benigno Aquino III visits Europe, he will boast of his administration's great strides in ridding the Philippines of corruption, resuscitating its economy, establishing peace in the troubled south, and uplifting the lives of the people. What will be left unsaid or, at best, glossed … Continue reading Media Killings Continue in the Philippines


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Since Dec 5, 2000
Well, lets see... I'm 46 years old. A single father with two children, a 23 year old daughter and a 21 year old son. I graduated from West Virginia University in 1996 with Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
I've been a conservative since I acquired an interest in politics when I was 18, during my first year of college. I regret to say, my first presidential vote went to Ross Perot (A youthful indiscretion!) Luckily, a steady diet of the "Rush Limbaugh" show quickly set me on the right course.
I follow the conservative line on most economic/defense/foreign relations issues such as the budget, free trade, war on terror, the UN etc. On social issues I have more of a Libertarian streak - The less government intrusion in people's private lives the better, as far as I'm concerned...
Nannystateism - Nothing makes my blood boil more than politicians that think it is their god given duty to micromanage every aspect of people's lives and to "protect" us from our own stupidity by passing intrusive laws. Some examples are mandatory seat belt laws, mandatory trigger locks, antismoking laws, cell phone use while driving laws, bike helmet laws etc.
The "Voice of the Almighty" - Don't get me wrong, I believe in God, freedom of religion and I respect and admire most devout people. The ones I'm refering too are the ones that declare that they, and only they, are privy to views of the "almighty" and if you disagree with their opinion on anything from moral issues to the deficit, you're guilty of blasphemy and just earned yourself an eternity in hell with weeping, gnashing of teeth and listening to Biden speeches.


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Having explained the structure of the entire visible universe, Descartes now lets his principles of physics loose on earth. He begins with an account of how terrestrial phenomena could have come into existence. Once again, his explanation makes heavy use of the three elements of matter. The Earth, according to his picture, is divided into three regions, each with different sorts of particles, deriving from the three elements. The formation of various bodies from these particles arises from four forces: the general motion of celestial globules, gravity, light, and heat.
Descartes' discussion of gravity, or the "second force," is generally the only section translated into English from the first two thirds of Part IV. It is, without a doubt, his most interesting treatment of a terrestrial phenomenon. Descartes, a pre-Newtonian, does not think of gravity as a universal attractive force. Rather, for Descartes as for the Scholastics, gravity was literally "heaviness." The Scholastics used the Latin term "gravitas" to refer to the supposedly inherent tendency of terrestrial bodies to move downward. Descartes, of course, wants to give a completely mechanistic account of the tendency of earth's bodies to head downward.
Given that the earth moves around the sun, Descartes asks, why do earthly bodies not fly off the planet like sand flying off a spinning top? The reason is that celestial matter surrounds all terrestrial matter. Earth does not move of its own motion but is moved by the terrestrial matter in which it is embedded. Earth, therefore, behaves like a body at rest.
This surrounding celestial matter not only accounts for the fact that terrestrial bodies do not go flying off into the heavens, it also accounts for the fact that all terrestrial bodies tend downward. It is not that terrestrial bodies in themselves have any property of heaviness or some tendency toward the ground (a property that Descartes would not be able to explain as the result of extension). Instead, what causes terrestrial bodies to move downward toward the center of earth is that celestial bodies, which are in motion, are constantly trying to move upward, away from the center of earth.
Since the natural motion of body is rectilinear, when a body is prevented from rectilinear motion, it is constantly trying to regain its rectilinear course and, therefore, tends away from the center of the spiral it has been temporarily forced into. Celestial particles are prevented in their rectilinear motion by encountering the earth. They are therefore, moving away from the center of the earth. In order to move upward, they must displace the particles that are in their way. They cannot displace other celestial particles because these have an equal tendency to move away from the center of the earth. They can, however, displace terrestrial particles because terrestrial particles do not have this tendency to the same extent (though they must have it to some extent since they too need to move in rectilinear motion). The force the celestial globules exert in order to displace terrestrial particles above them is what forces all terrestrial bodies toward the center of the earth.
After explaining the force of gravity, Descartes goes on to attempt to account for every conceivable terrestrial phenomena: earthquakes, the nature of various metals and minerals, the tides, flammability and the nature of fire, the nature of glass, and magnetism.


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Cloud Computing environment is accessed via the internet, which enables end-users to access a range of distributed resources and web services over a network. It can give several clients access to secure shared data at the same time by tokenizing the data during transmission or when it is processed (Zhang, Cheng & Boutaba, 2010; Asma, Chaurasia & Mokhtar, 2012). Cloud vendors (providers) provide a certain level of security for client data; however, clients of cloud services may also need to implement their own security features for peace of mind. When clients add their own security features, this obviously increases the complexity of each application logic in the cloud computing environment as well as that of the physical distributed system itself. There are several security aspects that are in place/time that attempt to ensure the security of cloud services (Look, 2011; The Apache Software Foundation, 2016; Apache Axis, 2016), but access to the base code of the services being protected is required and these aspects are usually controlled by the cloud services vendor (e.g., Amazon Web Service (AWS), Microsoft Azure, etc.)
Cloud computing offers a variety of ways to manage how data flows across a plethora of applications on the web. Cloud computing is relatively new and the range of cloud services is still growing but there is already a wide range of tools available that support the development and deployment of web applications. However, these tools have some serious drawbacks, particularly with respect to ensuring the security aspect of client applications. They are almost completely static and thus do not support the dynamic adaptation of cloud services (Powell, Stembridge and Yuan, 2012). This is unfortunate to say the least as the cloud computing environment is very dynamic. However, due to the quality of the existing support tools, it cannot easily take on new features and it is difficult to reuse some applications or crosscutting concerns already on the cloud logic for different purposes. Cloud computing has to deal with a number of security aspects related to encryption, authentication, denial-of-services attacks, access control and privacy threats (Alani, 2014). The ways in which these are dealt with are usually defined and set when developing or deploying a cloud application and this means that they cannot be altered when the application is running in the cloud. Additionally, cloud services are tightly coupled to cloud applications logic. For instance, when data security involves encrypting the data there is also a need for suitable and well-defined security aspects to be in place for safe and effective data sharing. Ensuring that this is the case, is made more complicated by the highly complex nature of the cloud.
Aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) and aspect-oriented programming languages (AOPL) have been developed to handle such limitations. They can capture new crosscutting concerns and new changes that relate to security. In fact, AOP weaving, as it is commonly known, is a relatively easy way to separate and the scattered or tangled crosscutting concerns logic between modules of the core cloud service with constituting a new cloud service layer. This research aims to propose an approach to enhance the security of applications in the cloud environment. It proposes the utilization of Reusable Service Layer (RSL) to improve the implementation of security-related crosscutting concerns in cloud services and proposes a way in which these concerns can be integrated into the cloud environment at runtime. The proposed approach provides an adequate amount of cloud service metadata (i.e., context information) so that the requisite information can be obtained for effective implementation of security aspects. This is based-on employ AOP to decouple and isolate the security characteristics from the core cloud service.
This research introduces an aspect-oriented cloud reusable security service (ACRSS) model, which can be used for several security scenarios in distributed cloud applications. The main objective of ACRSS lies in the fact that it enables developers to design and implement cloud services that can adapt to the addition of any new security aspects automatically and dynamically. The version of ACRSS library discussed in this paper is based on AOP and is designed to intercept the cloud application at specific execution points that match relevant primitive cloud abstractions. It encapsulates security logic into a separate aspect that can be managed by a dynamic mechanism whereby the entire application could self-reconfigure according to the cloud's aspect.


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Full Time
Posted 4 years ago
We are hiring Graphics designers in our Lahore based office.
- Command on Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator
- Experience in Game and Mobile App designing
- Must be creative
- Creative designer must be able to conceptualize and design App / Website UI / UX
- Ability to create exceptional designs and graphics keeping in view the current and future market emerging trends
- Should have designed at least 2 games or mobile apps already
- Portfolio on Behance and dribble are preferred
- Should have outstanding time management skills to meet deadlines.
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July 24th – August 26th
Giving of yourself is a commitment to Christ and shouldn't be limited to the church. We should also invest in one another – with our time, talents and tithing.
Something as important as our faith is meant to be shared.
We'd like to encourage the SPC family to join us in sharing our journey of faith to friends, loved ones or complete strangers. All it takes is a little creativity and courage.
Here's how it works: in the 33 days between July 24th and August 26th invest $33 in a friend, loved one or complete stranger to share your journey of faith. Then share your story. That's it.
Be creative – meet for coffee, a meal, ice cream, pool your resources as a group – whatever you choose.
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The MB&F Musicmachine 3
With Star Wars on everyone's mind these days, MB&F could not have come at a better time with their new Musicmachine 3. Celebrating their tenth anniversary, the new Musicmachine is inspired by the Galactic Empire's standard issue starfighter and an icon of Sci-Fi spaceships, the Tie Fighter.
Split into three editions with three different styles that include a black lacquer, white uv-resistant lacquer, and a chrome anodized finish. Surrounded by metal lattice work, the "engine" brings together a sophisticated system of combs, winding keys, hand-finished cylinders, and a resonant amplifying base made from 350 year old resonance spruce, Nomex, and Kevlar.
All those puzzle pieces fit together to create a music box with quite the playlist. The right cylinder of the Musicmachine can play the themes from Star Wars, Mission Impossible, and James Bond while the left cylinder can play themes from The Godfather, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, and The Persuaders.
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Dental Care
Our Team
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is constituted by dentist
Dr. Fabricio N. Nunes
, and his team of high quality both technically and human, from assistants to physicians, who daily care of your oral health.
Preventive Dentistry and Oral Hygiene
is essential in any medical field, as this will reduce illness and discomfort.
Prevention in dentistry, should be performed by all members of the medical-dental team, in addition to dentists, hygienists also play an important role in this area not only in practice but also in other fields of action.
Oral Hygiene
is essential for the prevention and maintenance of good oral health. The oral hygiene habits should be transmitted at any age and to everyone.
aims to remove all the plaque and should be done three times a day (after breakfast, after lunch and before bedtime), if you can not wash at lunchtime you should at least rinse vigorously with water. The brush should be soft, to prevent trauma to teeth and gums and a short head to reach all teeth; the brush should be changed every 3 months or when the bristles are crooked.
The toothpaste used should contain fluoride in its constitution (1000-1500 ppm) and the amount used should be approximately 1 cm (slightly larger than a pea).
way of brushing
should consider all the teeth and the gums so as not to traumatize it, circular movements are advisable, however each person can adapt his way of brushing, provided it is done on all teeth in all its faces, the following scheme exemplifies a correct way to do it.
It is also recommended the use of
dental floss
for cleaning between the teeth in cases where the interproximal spaces are very large use a
proper brush
On the left, we present a scheme allusive to the correct passage of dental floss.
Mouthwash is an additional element to brushing that must be used to some criterion, however in special situations such as gingivitis, periodontitis or when the patient during the day can not brush, this method can help. The elixir mouthwash
does not replace brushing
In the practice many procedures can be performed with a view to oral prevention, such as scaling, polishing and fluor application.
Even that apparently you do not have cavities it is advisable to
visit the dentist every six months
in order to confirm with your dentist if all is well and make a scaling (cleaning).


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I've worked with some really amazing people during my professional career on Wall Street (and even when I was in high school and college). But I've also worked with some really shitty people. Shitty in so many ways – from racists to sexist, from unintelligent to power tripping. I've seen it all.
And because I've seen it all. Or at least I think I've seen enough (enough to write a book quite honestly), I want to share with you what it takes to really get someone's respect in the workplace.
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Now first let me break it down.
I've worked at some incredible places like Goldman Sachs where they're all about team work and collaboration. They like to say "you're only as strong as your weakest link." I also worked with some of the senior executives at the firm like David Viniar, Ed Forst…and a bunch of others. Really awesome individuals that were (and still are) highly respected because of what they've contributed to the firm and to the world of finance and beyond.
I worked with some of the most relaxed, yet successful bond investors in the States – that just made you feel a part of something. They made you feel valued, treated you well (like buying you lunch, giving you credit when you deserved it), throw jokes around…they were people you could hang out with outside of work.
And then I got the opportunity to work with some of the nicest people in the world in the Midwest. I think the Midwest is like the South – you just have really really nice people that make you feel like family.
But Not Everything is Gold
I've also worked with some beta males and females that wanted to be leaders or respected but didn't know how or what they were doing wrong. So instead of figuring out what to do they just tried to give people attitude and name drop other people's names.
One guy was a complete fool. He just tried his hardest to not let people know he didn't know anything. He tried to ask everyone to provide him with information and he'd just send it out as his own. And when he didn't get his way, he because a beta male – red in the face, got upset and snapped at people and pouted the whole day.
Then there was this other lady that thought the way to get people to like her was to over promise and under deliver (I'm talking "Ill get to it tomorrow" and three weeks pass by). She would name drop other people's name like "The CEO wants this now. Do you want me to tell the CEO you can't give it to him?" How she thought people would like her more or respect her with this behavior baffles me.
So Without Further Adieu…
I'd like to tell you, based on my experience, what does and does not work in the workplace if you want to gain people's respect.
Let's cut to the chase incase you stop reading here. It all comes down to relationships. Remember that. Now keep reading.
What Does Not Work If You Want to Be Respected At Work
Not Knowing Anything – you can't expect to get a lot of respect if you don't know anything. People will think you're a fool and wonder how you got hired. If you're someone's boss or telling people to do stuff for you – they won't do it happily and they'll probably talk behind your back saying "who does this idiot think he is?"
Never Doing Anything (Always asking for something) – Please don't do this. Sometimes its better to just do something then to tell someone else to do it. It shows you value other people and you're willing to get your hands dirty (even if its for a split second).
Asking for Stuff Last Minute – Once in awhile you might have an urgent request and need a quick turnaround. But to make fake deadlines so you can get something quicker or wait until the last minute to ask for something is not cool. If you cry wolf too many times or make people drop everything their doing for you because you think you're more important than anyone or anything else you're going to have a hard time getting respect.
Not Socializing with People – You can't get people's respect if people don't know you or your name. If you are a hermit and only talk to people when you need something or when it's about work, no one is going to be able to relate to you or know who you are or what you're about. Even if all you do is be friendly and talk for 15 seconds….its more than just being the weird dude/dudette that never talks to anyone.
Not Performing at a High Level – If you're lazy or not doing your actual job then people are going to categorize you as a slacker or someone that just tries to ride other people's coattails. As "cool" as a person thinks he is for just showing up to work and collecting a paycheck, this individual will not get people's respect. You have to pull your own weight.
Being Rude / Getting Emotional – Have I told you how much I hate emotional passive aggressive beta males? Because I do. Or as my girlfriend would say .."genuinely dislike, because hate is such a harsh word." Whatever the case may be, I've had my fair share of run ins with emotional individuals. And I'm not talking emotional like they are passionate about something. I'm talking emotional like rude and b*tchy because things aren't going how they want them to. No one will ever respect someone that gets emotional and treats people rudely.
Blaming Other People – Pointing fingers is an easy way to make enemies. In the corporate world, people like to call blaming other people "throwing someone under the bus." Don't do this. If you did something wrong, man up to it. If someone else did something wrong then tell them they were wrong. But voluntarily blaming other people is such a beta thing to do.
What Does Work to Gain Respect At Work
Speaking to People like Human Beings – I put this one first because so many people seem to power trip or disrespect their coworkers just by how they talk and email them. I remember an interaction I had with the CFO of a billion dollar public finance company I once worked with. I was younger back then but he treated me like I was his peer, not some subordinated analyst that didn't know a single thing. Whereas I've had experience with fools that give so much attitude that it just makes you wonder, who is this loser?
Creating a Bond With People – Building a relationship with others is very important. You come off as sincere. You'll definitely get more respect. Why? Because so many people treat work as work and separate their personal lives. But if you can form a connection with people, even slightly, they'll start to saying good things about you to others. And that's how you build a mountain of respect.
Making People Feel Valued or Important – How do you make people feel valued or important? You tell them. You value their time. You explain to them why they're needed to get the job done. You can either make people feel really good about themselves or you can make them feel like a piece of sh*t by just telling people to do this and that (ordering people around). Oh and saying thank you or giving some sort of positive feedback once in awhile can be a game changer to gaining respect.
Empowering Others – When you start trusting others and giving others responsibilities they will feel empowered. When someone gives someone else this sort of freedom and responsibility, that person is respected because they show they don't have to control everything. By empowering others you show you want someone to grow and continue to be challenged and take on more. This is a great way to get respect from people you work with, especially people that report to you or work below you.
Following Through – If you say you're going to do something, do it. This is really important in everything you do but super important in the work place. Work is about making money. If you drop the ball by over promising and under delivering…people don't forget. Always, always stay true to your word.
Being a Leader – There are so many things to be said about being a leader. But all I will say here is lead by example. Command a room. Give suggestions and instructions more than you receive. Don't be someone that just waits for someone to tell them what to do (but don't also just come up with dumbass ideas for the sake of coming up with ideas). Be someone that can take charge and take control.
Not Forgetting Where You Came From – So many people get good at their job and then begin to think its easy. They forget at one time in their career they had to learn how to do their job just like everyone else. Don't act like you're better than everyone and you don't have time for people. Don't bad mouth things that you used to do that you hated because you don't have to do them any more. Just remember where you came from and pass along the knowledge that got you where you are today.
Final Thoughts
I know some of you are wondering if its really this simple to get respect at work. And the truth is that it is. You don't have to be some extraordinary rainmaker or an executive to be respected. If you treat people the right way and act professionally and friendly and show you care about people then people will treat you a lot differently than if you were just some jerk that only cared about the bottom line.
Have you ever worked with someone that you truly respected? Have you worked with betas that were just terrible people? I'd love to hear your stories.
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When the Gonzales family opened Ciro's in 1972, not only was it a struggle to find traditional Mexican ingredients, but also to find traditional Mexican cooking equipment.
In Mexico, flautas are cooked in a cazo—a wide-brimmed sauce pot generally made from copper—filled with oil, but Oscar Gonzalez's parents were faced with buying an expensive deep fryer, which doesn't cook the same. Their solution in order to make their Ciudad Juarez-style flautas was to cut them in half and pan-fry the individual taquitos and just lay them out on the plate in a line to make one long, broken flauta. Add some beans and rice for the working families of Boyle Heights and that's how one of L.A. most iconic Mexican-American dishes was born.
Today, Ciro's still makes delicious food with many flavors and plates from the Chihuahuan border city with some of the Mexican-American touches that are beloved by locals. On weekends there's a waiting list at this cash only institution personally attended by Gonzalez, whose level of service and attention would put most fine dining establishments in the city to shame. There are many great dishes like cocido (beef stew), machaca mixed with eggs (Cd. Juarez style), steak picado, chile verde, and of course the legendary flautas.
The flautas are filled with beef or chicken (or get both) then bathed in a tomato sauce and covered with thick guacamole and sour cream. Shredded lettuce with a shot of vinegar adds the finishing touch of a regional style of corn tortilla flautas, only cut into smaller taquitos due to the width of the frying pan—a tradition that Ciro's is keeping. The guacamole is thicker than it is in Ciudad Juarez because that's the way people like it here in Boyle Heights, and the beans and rice were added to make sure hard working and hungry locals went home with a full stomach.
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Ciro's, 705 N Evergreen Ave., Boyle Heights, (323) 269-5104


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Sperm-Check using a smartphone app, ovulation tests, testing of hormone levels using ready-to-use test kits …
Fertility tests for self-/home testing are not entirely new, but obviously there are ever more inventive products featuring supposedly greater user friendliness. This, of course, arouses the interest of many men and women.
US researchers have recently presented a prototype of an accessory for smartphones that allows to analyze a semen sample for sperm concentration and motility (according to WHO criteria) using an appropriate App. The goal is to offer a fertility test for men that is simple and reasonably priced in the same way as are pregnancy tests, the scientists say.
But do such tests for men who wish to conceive a child actually provide sufficiently meaningful results?
Of course, there are certain constraints when it comes to consulting a doctor who will then carry out the appropriate examinations in order to assess the patient's reproductive capacity or – put another way – evaluate his virility. Thus, if a couple wishing to have children cannot get pregnant after lengthy efforts, the man might consider using such fertility tests.
According to experts in the field of reproductive medicine, however, it is now known that meaningful evaluation of semen quality entails more than "just" determining the sperm count and the amount of motile sperm in a sample, as described in the example mentioned in our introduction.
It is therefore advisable to go into greater detail, since both partners may have conditions leading to infertility. Unwanted childlessness may therefore be due to male or female factors or to causal factors in both partners.
Modern laboratory techniques enable detailed analyses
As far as infertility or subfertility in men is concerned, modern laboratory techniques are available, allowing for more accurate analysis of the semen specimen, as Dipl. Biol. Magnus Bach (Senior Clinical Embryologist, IVF Centers Prof. Zech) explains:
"A number of relevant factors are being included when it comes to performing sperm analyses in the laboratory. In doing so, we also take a look behind the scenes by adding molecular markers to the parameters being investigated in semen analysis according to WHO criteria (volume, concentration, vitality, motility, morphology). In addition to those criteria and a sophisticated morphological evaluation (MSOME), molecular diagnostics includes the measurement of oxidative stress, a detailed vitality test, DNA fragmentation testing as well as the assessment of sperm chromatin maturity.
The aim of molecular diagnostics in sperm can be compared to a car: At first glance, the bodywork may be very nice whereas the 'inner workings' of the car may be rusted and the motor damaged. However, you can only get a picture of the actual situation when you open the hood and have a look inside."
Against this background, "do it yourself"-fertility tests for men are only meaningful to a limited extent. This inevitably provokes the question:
"What does the result tell me?"
Using home fertility tests may be appealing to both men and women in order to provide them with an initial overview. But what will happen if the result reads that they only have a poor chance of conceiving children?
The situation might become a problem, especially where there is no consultation with a doctor to interpret and analyze the obtained results with respect to the personal medical and health situation of both the male and the female partner and, where appropriate, recommend further examinations to be considered. Thanks to his experience, the physician may also respond to the patients' fears and concerns, thus helping them cope better with a negative test result. In this context, the doctor may offer them specific treatments.
Extensive clarification of the individual medical situation
The ways people deal with particular situations are just as diverse as the preconditions for a term pregnancy. Some people succeed at the first attempt, while others encounter initial difficulties to a greater or lesser extent. For some couples, unfortunately, it does not work out.
For that reason, the respective initial situation should be investigated professionally and thoroughly to be able to help the couples realize their dream of having a child, if necessary also by means of medical support.
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