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AUDIO - HSP #218 - Heidi Glastetter
Making Hygiene Fun covers the importance of preventive dentistry with Kolibree's innovative toothbrushing technology.
Heidi practiced as a clinical dental hygienist for over 22 years in Washington State and Switzerland, before pursuing her MBA at The George Washington University. She also worked at the University of Washington Graduate Periodontics Clinic, served as a clinical dental hygiene Board Examiner for Washington State, along with teaching local anesthesia administration and amalgam/composite placement at Shoreline Community College. Heidi has held various offices in the Washington State Dental Hygiene Association, the American Dental Hygiene Association, the Swiss Dental Hygiene Association, and is a member of the International Federation of Dental Hygienists. She has lectured extensively in the United States and Europe, while serving as a Professional Educator for Philips Sonicare, and is currently the Director of Dental Sales and Education for Kolibree, the amazing Bluetooth-connected sonic toothbrush.
Howard:	It is a huge honor today to be interviewing Heidi Glastetter. You're a hygienist, an RDH, I'm a DDS, and we both have an MBA. We both have a love for the clinical dentistry and the business of dentistry.
Heidi:	Absolutely.
Howard:	I'm so excited to interview you, because I've done a couple hundred of these podcasts and they've exploded. People love multitasking. Instead of sitting in a lecture, where you had to close the office and go sit and learn for a day or doing a study club after work when you're tired and exhausted, now they're just listening to these things while they commute an hour to work or on the treadmill. Too many of my podcasts are about fixing disease, placing implants, doing root canals. We've had a dozen implantologists, a dozen endodontists and all this stuff. That's really not what dentistry is about. Dentistry is about preventing disease, and you're really excited about an electric toothbrush. I can't wait to talk to you about it, the Kolibree. It's www dot K-O-L-I-B-R-E-E dot com.
We tell all of our patients ... I'm going to start with this, Heidi. We tell all of our patients to ... Well, I've got to read your intro first. You're amazing. Heidi practiced as a clinical dental hygienist for over 22 years in Washington state and Switzerland before pursuing her MBA at the George Washington University. I don't know if a hygienist should go to George Washington University when he had wooden teeth, but we'll let that one slide. She also worked at the University of Washington Graduate Peridontics Clinic, served as clinical dental hygiene board examiner for Washington State, along with teaching local anesthesia administration and amalgam composite placement at Shoreline Community College.
Heidi has held various offices in the Washington State Dental Hygiene Association, the American Dental Hygiene Association, the Swiss Dental Hygiene Association, and is a member of the International Federation of Dental Hygienists. She has lectured extensively in the United States and Europe while serving as a professional educator for Philips Sonicare and is currently the Director of Dental Sales and Education for Kolibree, the amazing Bluetooth connected sonic toothbrush. That's what's got me so excited because hell, we're doing a podcast on an iPhone right now. It's Bluetooth. I use that in the car and to my speakers at the house. The million dollar question that everybody who will listen to this will want to know: Does an electric toothbrush really remove more plaque than manual?
Heidi:	Yes. The studies are abundant in that case. Other companies have done studies. We've done our own studies, but Sonicare has existed for over 17 years. They did a lot of studies on the efficacy of sonic technology, how it's a better technology than just manual tooth brushing alone or use of oscillating toothbrushes. Unfortunately, they fell off the patent cliff. Any wonderful company out there, ours included, can use a sonic technology for their toothbrushes. Our toothbrush is just a little bit less aggressive, if you will, than the Sonicare brush, but it uses a similar technology.
Howard:	That's what's coming up, is that this patent from Sonicare is expired?
Heidi:	Mm-hmm (affirmative), yeah.
Howard:	That's what we also see in orthodontics, where it sounds like the Invisalign patents are expiring. You see all these other clear retainers popping up and all that stuff. Basically why does sonic energy ... Why does it remove plaque better than manual brushing?
Heidi:	Well, if you look at the sonic wave motion under slow motion, you can see it's brushing on its own back and forth. If you use 22,000 waves per minute, it's going to have more brushing power. It's going to be just going back and forth against the tooth surface, removing that gingival plaque layer a lot more efficiently and a lot more thoroughly than just manual brushing alone.
Howard:	You said 22,000 waves per minute, or per second?
Heidi:	Yeah, per minute.
Howard:	Per minute? Huh. I'm very familiar with slow motion, especially when I'm just looking at myself in the mirror. I've spent 53 years in slow motion. What is Kolibree, and where did you get that name? K-O-L-I-B-R-E-E, Kolibree. Is that the name of the founder?
Heidi:	Well, our brush is based out of Paris, Neuilly-sur-Seine, which is a suburb of Paris. Colibree with a C is the name for hummingbird. Kolibree with a K is the name for [inaudible 00:05:04].
Howard:	For what?
Heidi:	For a hummingbird in Spanish and I believe even in Italian, but I'd have to double check that. Universally, it's like a little hummingbird in your mouth, if you will.
Howard:	In French it's Colibree with a C?
Heidi:	It's with a C.
Howard:	Why did you go K?
Heidi:	Well, it wasn't me that chose the name, but our founder thought that that would be a good idea because it would be more universal. It's German. He just liked the look of it.
Howard:	Oh, Colibree is German too?
Heidi:	German also. It's a [crosstalk 00:05:37]
Howard:	For hummingbird?
Howard:	Wow. I wonder how the Germans and the French ... Because the French is a romance language. It comes from Rome. That's the root of the languages in Romania, Italian, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Heidi:	Romansh as well.
Howard:	The Germans was a completely different language, but they came up with the same word, huh?
Heidi:	Mm-hmm (affirmative).
Howard:	Colibree. Huh, that's very interesting. That hummingbird, just that vibrating motion, and the hummingbird getting the ... Yeah, well know, it's really great in branding. That's why I named my book "Uncomplicate Business," because uncomplicate's not a word. When you type in a Word document, it sends you to spell check. It's totally unique. That's why they went with words like Xerox and just names ... That's why all the pharmaceutical prescriptions all have an X, Y, and Z in there, because they're all made up words.
Heidi:	Haagen Dazs.
Howard:	Tell us how your brush works, and how is your brush different than Sonicare?
Heidi:	Well, our brush works using the sonic connected gaming technology and most of all position awareness, to not only show patients where to brush, but to know where in space they have been brushing. We have an app for an iPhone or Android product [crosstalk 00:06:56]
Howard:	Okay, so how do we get that app? You go to your iPhone's app store?
Heidi:	Right. Just go to the [crosstalk 00:07:03]
Howard:	Type in Kolibree?
Howard:	K-O-L-I-B-R-E-E, or hummingbird, and then you download the app. How much does the app cost to download?
Heidi:	The app is free to download [crosstalk 00:07:12]
Howard:	By downloading that app ... Tell me about that app.
Heidi:	The app has two subapplications. You have two games, if you will. I call it more than a game and more than a toothbrush. You have a pirate, Go Pirate app, and then a Coach app. The Coach is, I say it's more for your sophisticated clients. People who would need to systematically learn how to brush their teeth, but they don't really want a game. You're just leading them through all the sextants of their mouth, the occlusal, buccal, lingual surfaces. If they follow this pattern successfully, then they'll get points and they are told ... They get feedback, real time feedback, on how well they're brushing.
Then we have the Go Pirate app, which I just think is adorable. I usually show that to people as much as I can. You'll see a pirate that's running down a boardwalk. The app indicates that he should run to the left or brush on the lower left area. With the Kolibree toothbrush, you'd be brushing on the lower left and watching the application. Then he'll run to the right, and you can see on the application that you should be brushing on the lower right or the upper right buccals. It leads you through all the areas of your mouth.
After following the pirate along and brushing with the indicated areas that he's running, in two minutes you'll systemically have brushed all the areas of your teeth. It's great as far as distracting kids or people who are using the app and also engaging them at the same time.
Howard:	You know, you've seen these patients every six months for 20 years and every single time they miss the same area. You know when they go brush their teeth, they're not thinking about ... What did you say, six sectants? Are there a certain number of sectants?
Heidi:	The coach breaks down the mouth into sextants, so there's six. The pirate application will have you brushing in quadrants. That's the difference between [crosstalk 00:09:24]
Howard:	That's what a great athlete is. A great athlete knows where there body is in time and space. You know what I mean? Most people, especially children, don't have any concept of where that toothbrush is and if they're removing plaque and all that stuff. This is exciting. Is this the first one that's a Bluetooth connected electric toothbrush?
Heidi:	Well, we were the first to develop this technology and the first to achieve patents in certain areas. You might hear other people saying, "Well, we have Bluetooth technology as well." It's true, there are a couple toothbrushes, very well-known toothbrushes, that have come out with their own model of Bluetooth connectability but what really differentiates our brush from any other brush that you'll see on the market right now is that not only do we show the patient where to brush, so that they can systematically brush their teeth in two minutes, but we know where they are brushing.
I would say that our technology is something that would really be appreciated by NASA more than the common consumer, because we use a gyroscope, a six axis accelerometer. We know where in the mouth the patient is brushing their teeth, and we do give that real time feedback. Some other Bluetooth connected brushes will say brush to the left or right, but they don't know if you're doing it. There's no connectability other than knowing that the toothbrush is on.
Howard:	Then when that kid comes back for a six month cleaning, do you look at his app? Do you look at the data? Does the hygienist and the dentist look at this?
Heidi:	Well, we're developing technology right now that would allow ... If the parents would want that or if the children ... If you want your children's data to be shared with your dental professional, that could be a possibility in the near future. We could sign up for a program through the dental office. You'd say, "I don't know what to do. I can't get Johnny's teeth brushed. Would you be able to help us?" Then the dental office would be able to offer that toothbrush to the parent and say, "Well, we can track how well they're brushing. We can send little reminders. We can even have Mary the dental assistant or Susie the dental hygienist give a quick call every now and then and say, "Hey, are you having any problems brushing your teeth?"
There can be an added benefit for going to this dental practice and having an extra layer of prevention on top of just the six month recall.
Howard:	Do you remember that little controversy a little while back where a hygienist on Dentaltown, actually, was talking about the blue sparkles in one of the toothpastes. She was finding that the sparkles were still there. They weren't dissolving. Do you remember that?
Heidi:	I missed that, no. Tell me about it.
Howard:	There's a toothpaste that had these little sparkles in them and they were an FDA food product, but hygienists and dentists were finding them underneath the tissue and these things were there. The toothpaste company actually decided they were going to quit using them. I had mixed feelings about that, because for kids, the biggest thing is you want to motivate them. I was sitting there thinking well, if your toothpaste sparkles or it tastes good or whatever, anything to make them brush.
Howard:	I think the biggest issue is they just don't brush.
Heidi:	Well, they don't know how. I mean, they haven't learned. It's a learned skill. We have found that the kids that use this Kolibree Go Pirate app are thrilled to use it. I don't have kids myself, but the moms that have used the toothbrush and gotten back with me say they race to the bathroom to be able to use the toothbrush. They argue about who will get to use the toothbrush first if they only have one brush until they get another one for the second kid. They just are really engaged with it. It's shocking. I've got kids that have done testimonials and they're thrilled with it. They like it because it provides a small level of competitiveness. They compete with their parents, who's got the best score for brushing for that day or if they beat their sister. It just puts fun into the whole experience.
Howard:	When you say you don't have kids, does that mean you're also MENSA and a millionaire? Does that just go hand in hand that you were just too smart [crosstalk 00:14:05] to fall for that trick? You're a what?
Heidi:	I'm a lot of fun. I'm a DINK: double income, no kids.
Howard:	Double income, no kids. My point is that in dentistry, everyone wants to talk clinical dentistry. They all want to talk about how to do a root canal or an implant or gum surgery or whatever. The bottom line is two out of three cavities diagnosed are never filled and most of your state dental societies won't even give credit for courses on practice management that teach you the business side of it. Too much of dentistry is focused on drilling and filling and billing as opposed to preventing. I think it's funny how ... Your whole career as a hygienist was invented by a toothpaste company. It was Amos and Andy getting on those TV's when they only had three channels. They were on every one saying, "Brush your teeth with Ipana and get your teeth cleaned every six months." Somebody in marketing just pulled that out of thin air. I mean, it wasn't based on anything. It was just like, "Well, you should get your teeth cleaned twice a year."
It was so pervasive that even the dental insurance company said, "Well, we'll cover your cleaning twice a year." Now it's exciting to see a toothbrush company leading the way of trying to prevent more disease.
Heidi:	Absolutely. Well, I've always been thrilled with your philosophy about the importance of good practice management and just the love of business is what has led me to get more involved with business and get my MBA. If we can do anything to help kids prevent decay, it's going to be good for society at large, but it's also going to be a good practice draw. Quite [inaudible 00:15:50] if you have something [inaudible 00:15:52] your patients that the practice next door doesn't, the word's going to get around. It goes pretty viral pretty quickly. A lot of people are just very excited about these opportunities that are coming up.
Howard:	I remember when Bob Barker, who was the first dentist to be going around trying to talk dentists into setting up hygiene departments and all my dentist friends who are like 90 years old would be telling him that. He would go lecture that. Most of the people in the room would say, "I don't have time for that crap. I do 10 dentures a week and you want me to set up a hygiene department. How do I got time for a hygiene department when I'm doing 10 dentures a week?" They didn't even get it that well maybe if you had a hygiene department, you wouldn't be doing 10. The reason you never see a house on fire is because most of the time, the firemen are going around doing building inspections and fire codes. It's all about prevention with the fire department. They don't want to go into a house on fire.
I think it's real exciting. Does it sound like the Go Pirate is more for pediatric patients and the Coach app would be more for people who have adults that are fighting periodontal disease?
Heidi:	Well, yes. That's the obvious breakdown. Your more sophisticated client, like I mentioned, the adult that would feel the need to have a little bit more coaching as to where they're brushing would go for the Coach app. Kids are just in love with the Go Pirate app. There's other markets that I would like to explore a bit more as well. DD clients, developmentally disabled patients, kids with more severe autism have been really engaged when they see the Go Pirate app. There's also a completely untapped market. The baby boomer generation is aging, and people are living longer. They're not necessarily healthy up until the very end of their days. Patients that find themselves in assisted care facilities oftentimes are not capable of brushing their own teeth.
When we give that care up to a third party and we have Mary coming in to brush five different clients' teeth, it's nice to be able to track if that's being done. If you are the general manager of the assisted care facility and you really want to see if the teeth are being cleaned by your caregiver, you can just look at the data. We can have up to five clients on each phone and then just pull the data randomly and do a random screening. If that is not in place yet in the assisted care facility and you wanted to do that for your own mom, you get them a smartphone, you get them a toothbrush, and you say, "Listen, I'm paying to get her teeth cleaned on a daily basis. I want to know that this is what's being done. Here you go. This is another tool, and I'd like to come in here on a weekly basis or just randomly and double check it myself." You can do that.
Howard:	With both of us an MBA, the one thing they drill in our heads, if you don't measure, you can't manage it.
Heidi:	You can't manage it.
Howard:	Nothing gets done until you start measuring.
Heidi:	That's true.
Howard:	The NFL. The score is so important, they have six refs on the field. The score is everything. When you go to a dental office, you walk in there. They don't know what their break even point is for the day. They don't know if they made money, lost money. When I was looking at kids and stuff, I was just thinking, well the main thing is kids just don't brush. Period. I mean, they even tell you. Do you brush your teeth before you go to bed? They're like what? Just having an app that just said did you pick up a damn toothbrush or not would just be huge and monumental.
Howard:	The kids are just so into video games. That's why I thought this was just so exciting. I never thought of the nursing home though. I've actually gone into a dozen nursing homes and spent time with the CNA's. Oh, my God. These poor girls. I mean, they'll be in charge of ... Number one, they're usually like 5' 1" and 100 pounds. They'll be in charge of 20 people in a wing. They've got to bathe them and shower them and feed them and brush their teeth. You couldn't do what they're supposed to do if they had a gun to their head. If you're a big heavy person ... If I'm ever in a nursing home, I fall out of bed, no CNA's going to get me back up in the bed. They literally call the fire department sometimes. Did you know that?
Heidi:	Yeah.
Howard:	Big, heavy people will fall down in the shower and they'll go get another CNA and between two little 5' 1" 100 pounders, they don't know what to do. They have to call the damn fire department. I think that's amazing. What is it, 4.6 percent of all Americans will spend the last years of their life in a nursing home. That's one out of every 20. [crosstalk 00:20:42] How much does this thing cost, and how are sales going?
Heidi:	Well, sales are picking up all the time. I mean, we've got quite a lot of people who are interested in the brush. Right now, the price point is $149 per brush. That includes the charger. We have an inductive charger. The toothbrush itself, obviously it has two handles ... Or one handle and two brush heads. All the information is in the handle. The apps, as we mentioned before, are free to download off the web.
Howard:	This is all based out of Paris, France, you said?
Heidi:	It's based out of Paris. We have three offices. We have one in Neuilly-sur-Seine, right outside of Paris.
Howard:	What's the city outside of Paris?
Heidi:	It's Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Howard:	Huh. That is a hard language. Outside of Paris [crosstalk 00:21:32]
Heidi:	Just right in the suburb there. Then we also have an office on Madison Avenue in New York. I'm based out of Gig Harbor, which is right next to Seattle. I cover the West Coast and a little bit on the East Coast as well. We do have an office near our factories that manufacture the base in Hong Kong.
Howard:	What I love about you the most, you live in Seattle and you're still an Arizona Cardinals fan and you hate the Seahawks. That just touches my heart.
Heidi:	No comment.
Howard:	That just touches my heart. Tell me about the website, the dental practitioner's website, www.smart ... what is that, hyphen, oralcare.com? Smart-oralcare.com? What do you call that little ...
Heidi:	Correct. Smart-oralcare. Yeah.
Howard:	Smart-oralcare.com. Tell us, who is that for? Is that for dentists and hygienists?
Heidi:	Exactly. It's for dental practitioners, dentists, hygienists primarily or dental assistants can join. Anyone who works in a dental office can join the dental practitioner program. We are developing it more and more all the time. I referred to it previously when I mentioned that there will be very soon a means of if the patient wants to have their data shared with that particular office. The office could either provide the toothbrush for the patients and then monitor how well they're brushing, do data collection, do surveys and studies in the office based on the data that they have collected on their patients and then provide that real time feedback to the patients on how they're doing, send out weekly reports if they want, check on their brushing habits when they come in for the three to six month [inaudible 00:23:23].
There's any number of things that you could do with that, but then also just by signing up as a member of the smartoralcare.com dental practitioner program, we'll be able to connect with practitioners and hear their feedback on our product and hear ways that we can improve it for all dental practitioners that are involved.
Howard:	You should start a thread on Dentaltown. I know you're a townie. You should start a thread discussing this, because like I say, we need to move the ball to ... Dentists can't spend all their time on how to put out a fire. They need to spend more time thinking about how do you prevent disease with community water fluoridation with fluoride in the toothpaste, with [crosstalk 00:24:03]. When you see the American Dental Association putting out a gazillion social media advertisements all over and they're doing so good, it's always the same message: Brush two minutes twice a day.
What does two minutes twice a day mean if some are doing it with manual toothbrushes, some are doing electric toothbrushes? On yours, does it take two minutes also? Does two minutes twice a day apply if you're doing manual or electric?
Heidi:	Well, yes. We still recommend that patients brush at least two minutes two times a day. There's a lot of studies out there that do prove that by brushing more, you're going to be doing a better job. With the sonic technology, you're going to automatically be brushing your teeth more efficiently, more effectively. Being able to track if you're doing that or not is very important. If a patient is only brushing once every four days and that's the data that comes up on the phone, then we know that we should be having a better conversation with them.
Howard:	Also, what other protocols are you thinking about? There's a hygienist, Trisha O'Hehir...
Heidi:	I love Trisha.
Howard:	She always made me so aware of the research showing that you actually don't even need toothpaste. When you brush for two minutes ... She calls it dry brushing.
Heidi:	Dry brushing, mm-hmm (affirmative).
Howard:	One of her deals that she put into my head the most is that everybody always wants to talk about toothpaste. They'll even say to dentists all the time, "Well, what toothpaste do you recommend? Do you use Crest or Colgate or this or that?" The bottom line is that you don't need any toothpaste to remove the plaque.
Heidi:	You've just got to get the plaque off the teeth. You need manual remove of the plaque. If you could have a dental hygienist come in and polish your teeth every day, I suppose, that would be one way of doing it but if you can use sonic technology to systematically brush all areas of your teeth and you can track that that's being done, that's a wonderful way of doing it. We also have little messages that can pop up on the screen. "Don't forget to floss. Brush your tongue. Brush the roof of your mouth. Fluoride is good for you. Limit your sweets."
Howard:	Do you personally yourself ... Do you dry brush, or do you use a toothpaste?
Heidi:	Well, it really depends on the day. I mean, sometimes I'll dry brush. Sometimes I'll brush with water. Sometimes I'll brush with toothpaste. The trick is just getting in there and brushing your teeth, and brushing efficiently and thoroughly and not with a heavy hand, but doing an efficient job.
Howard:	I want to ask you ... This is dentistry uncensored, so I'm always in search of the most uncensored complicated questions. There was a controversy awhile back, and I think it was a year or two ago, when you hit 53, the first thing that goes seriously is your memory of time. I'll tell my four boys, "Remember five years ago when we did that?" They'll say, "Dad, that was 10 years ago."
Heidi:	Is that selective memory?
Howard:	Yeah, I don't know, but it was just awhile back. I'm thinking it was a year ago, but that might mean three or four. Anyway, one of the mouthwash companies, I believe it was Listerine, was saying that if you swish with Listerine, you don't even need to floss. When you looked at the research, they had the research obviously to back up what they were saying. Of course, it ruffled all the feathers of all the hygienists. No one wanted to hear anybody saying you don't have to floss. What do you think about mouthwash? Do you think that's an effective protocol of home care and for pediatric kids and/or adults with gum disease or without gum disease? Are you recommending of what you know ... Do you think mouthwash is an important part of your home care routine?
Heidi:	What's that saying, there's lies, damn lies and statistics? I suppose you can always find something if you're looking hard enough, but I still am an advocate of flossing. I showed patients how to floss for years. I will disclose the patients, too, before they came in. We could see right along the margins of the teeth where they were missing with their flossing and missing brushing. I'm an advocate of getting all the plaque off. I think any tool that a person can use to do that is great. If a person physically, for whatever reason, they cannot use their hands well then use rinses, then that's fine. Just use mouthwash.
I like interproximal brushes. I like floss. I think that in some areas where you have real large embrasure spaces, sometimes an interproximal brush might do even more than floss for certain patients, but by disclosing them, by looking at where the plaque is, then we can really modify the behavior based on the patients' needs. It all comes down to the individualization of the patients' needs.
Howard:	I want you to talk about tongue scrapers. There are some hygienists who are always pushing tongue scrapers, and then there are other hygienists who have never mentioned it. There are dental offices that have never even brought it up over a 30-year career. What are your thoughts about tongue scraping? Also, do you think that's an effective part of reducing disease, missing and filled teeth, and periodontal disease?
Heidi:	I think anything that you can do to reduce the bacterial load in the mouth is going to be good. I think tongue scraping is fine. I personally brush my tongue, and I encourage patients to brush their tongue. If you have a shag carpet in there, but there's no bacteria on it, that's all right. If you can reduce that and keep it clean and you've got a little linoleum surface in there, then you're going to have less plaque sticking to that.
Howard:	Heidi, you just gave away your age saying shag carpet. I don't think there's any woman over 39 years old that knows that shag ... Under 39 that knows what shag carpet is. You want me to go back and edit that part out? Hey, I want to talk about the other uncomplicated question that's not just uncomplicated in the patients' view, but of dentists and hygienists around the world. There still is a massive debate about abfractions. I mean, some people look at those abfractions and say that they're sawing back and forth with their toothbrush and that's toothbrush abrasion. Then there's dentists who work on animals at the zoo, and they say, "Okay, look. How do all these zebras and gazelles, how do they all have the exact same abfractions and they are never seen brushing their teeth in a sawing motion?" It's the flexure of the tooth and that occlusion and biting and the flexing of the tooth is popping off the neck. Take a coat hanger, you can't pull it apart with tinsel string but if you start abfracting it back and forth, it just breaks in half.
The bone is holding in the root. The teeth are clenching and grinding and where they pivot, the neck is popping off of that fraction. What are your thoughts on it? What do these big toothpaste companies and Sonicares and Crest and Colgates, what is your thoughts on the abfraction?
Heidi:	Interesting. That wasn't a question that I had anticipated. I can speak to it having worked in St. Moritz, Switzerland for four years. The doctor that I worked for did not do a lot of crown and bridge, so you could actually see longitudinally the wear in all areas of the mouth. He did some crown and bridge, but he didn't overdo it. He didn't do a lot of full mouth cases. We did see abfraction on certain patients, severe in some cases and not at all in others. It was very interesting to see wear patterns in the mouth. I would say that, again, case by case, there are some people that they bite their teeth down and for whatever psychological reasons, they thrust their tongue forward or they just flex back and forth, or they grind like nobody's business so everything is completely flat as a pancake.
I think that some perio can be certainly influenced by the occlusal forces that patients create themselves in their own head. Then there is some other wear that I would see that was from the use, in my opinion, I felt very strongly it was the use of oscillating toothbrushes. I won't name names, but there were some patients that would use round oscillating toothbrushes and they would use hard bristles. The wear that you would find along the gingiva there was just atrocious. I would always try to get them to switch over to a sonic brush, sonic based technology. It was not as popular in Switzerland, so it was difficult to find that brush, but those patients seemed to do a lot better with that when they came back in. Again, I would always disclose and I would do a little plaque chart and always a perio chart. I saw where people did improve and where they got worse, but usually they improved.
Howard:	You know, I love lecturing. I always think lecturing in another country is a vacation. I never consider it work. I never forget lecturing in Geneva, Switzerland. I was looking at this beautiful mountain. The guy said, "That's the Matterhorn." I go, "Matterhorn? That's the roller coaster at Disneyland." I had no idea that's what [crosstalk 00:33:30]
Heidi:	It's real?
Howard:	Yeah, I had no idea that was a real mountain, so I went there. How did you get all the way over to Switzerland? They say you only go to a different country ... Only one percent of the seven billion earthlings today live in a country they weren't born in, and they say that they only leave the country for three reasons. It's love, it's money, economics or a job, or they're running from the law.
Heidi:	Well, I wasn't running from the law.
Howard:	Oh, come on Heidi. This is dentistry uncensored. You can tell us why the sheriff put you on a one-way plane to Switzerland. Was it from not flossing? How'd you get over there? Was it love or money? How'd you get all the way on the other side of the pond?
Heidi:	Well, I think I fall out of the bell curve on that one. People have asked me that a lot, and I would say that truly the only answer that I could legitimately come up with that resonated was that my name is Heidi and I've just always ... You know, you hear the story as a kid. Switzerland [crosstalk 00:34:28]
Howard:	Heidi is a Switzerland name?
Heidi:	It's typically Swiss. Swiss-German, German. Yeah.
Howard:	Now I remember Switzerland as basically it's ... Half of it is touching Germany and they're all German speaking and the other half is touching France. It's like two suburbs of France and Germany rolled up in one country. Is that fair to say, or not really? Did I just piss off everyone in Switzerland?
Heidi:	No, I don't think so. There's some people who are cheering and some people who are a little upset. There's four official languages in Switzerland: Swiss-German and French, which is pretty true to the classic French, and Italian down towards the border of Italy, and then Romansh, which is an area up in the mountainous section next to St. Moritz in the Engadin Valley. That is a Roman-based language, just like you were mentioning earlier.
Howard:	Well, I have to tell my Swiss listeners, because every show is being downloaded by a couple hundred countries. It's funny how I'm sharing my perception of when I went to your country. You know what I mean? I always laugh when people say, "Oh, yeah. I visited America. I love it." The first thing I say is, "Where did you go?" It's always going to be if they're from Asia, they went to San Fran. If they're from Europe, they went to Manhattan. If they're from Central South America, they went to Miami. That's the only place they saw. Here I grew up in Kansas, well Manhattan's not quite how a hundred million people live. You know what I mean? When you fly into a country and you just see this one little sampling ...
I want to go onto mouthwash, toothpaste. Do you think any of those are better than others, or do you think that's not a deal breaker? When patients ask you, do you use Crest, Colgate, Close-Up, what do you tell them?
Heidi:	Well I try not to micromanage my patients in the areas that I think didn't matter too much one way or the other. I would, unfortunately, say that mouthwash fell into that category. I would say if you like it, if it makes your breath smell better, it makes your mouth taste better, that's great. There have been some people who have spoken about some of the strong mints in mouth rinses actually numbing the tongue so it feels smoother and feels cleaner. I think that that's not here nor there. If a patient loves it, then that's great. If it's really cutting into their budget and they're spending a lot of money, I don't want anybody to buy snake oil either. I'm not real big on telling them that they should definitely use one type of mouth rinse or definitely not use anything.
Howard:	What I've been doing is telling my patients to quit brushing for two minutes and start doing 20 minutes of coconut oil swishing, oil pulling. I've read on the internet ... Have you been seeing that on the internet?
Heidi:	I've seen several studies [crosstalk 00:37:27]
Howard:	Oh, my God. Really? Your solution is not to brush for two minutes but to swish for 20? You can't get anybody to brush for two. Who the hell is going to swish coconut oil for 20 minutes? Back to this toothbrush. Do you recommend that the patient buys the sell? Are you just telling your patients go to K-O-L-I-B-R-E-E, go to Kolibree.com and buy it yourself or do you think it's more successful when the dentist sells it in their office? If they do go through selling it in their office, do they have any skin in the game? Do they make any money off this? When you talk about the price, since in economics, MBA school ...
Howard:	If you're trying to get your MBA, and you're taking a test and you don't know the answer, and you just circle price, you'll be right almost 80 percent of the time. That was my walk in MBA school. If in doubt, just circle price. Talk about the price and the distribution.
Heidi:	Well, right now patients and dental offices can find our brush directly on the website, www.Kolibree.com or on Amazon. You can pick it up on Amazon as well. We are running a special for dental practitioners. If they put in the code HGTHIRTY, so H-G-T-H-I-R-T-Y, it recalculates the cost to $115 and that includes shipping.
Howard:	Where'd you get HGTHIRTY?
Heidi:	That's my code.
Howard:	Oh, that's Heidi.
Heidi:	Heidi Glastetter.
Howard:	What's 30?
Heidi:	That reduces the price of the brush by 30 percent.
Howard:	Oh, I see. Can they buy it on that smart-oralcare.com?
Heidi:	They would actually go directly to the website and then go to purchase on the website. If they go to smart-oralcare.com, they can then link to our website directly there.
Howard:	Again, I'm sorry ... For my older brain. What's the difference mainly between smart-oralcare.com and Kolibree.com?
Heidi:	The smart-oralcare.com is a site that we're setting up specifically for the dental practitioner.
Howard:	To teach them how it all works?
Heidi:	Yeah, exactly.
Howard:	The Kolibree ...
Heidi:	It's like a club [crosstalk 00:39:42]
Howard:	Would you say the smart-oralcare is the b to b, business to business, dentist to dentist website and the Kolibree is the b to c, business to consumer site?
Heidi:	Yes.
Howard:	Okay, so that's that. I want to also ask you ... You taught local anesthesia administration and amalgamate composite placement at Shoreline Community College. Was that an expanded duty, function assistant program?
Heidi:	No, this was before we had the EFDA program in Washington state. Washington hygienists, since I want to say 1973, correct me if I'm wrong, have had the ability to place restoration. We could place composites and amalgamate [crosstalk 00:40:28]
Howard:	They could do that since 1973?
Heidi:	Yeah, I believe it was '73 or '75, right in there.
Howard:	I wouldn't know because I wasn't born at that time yet. I was born in the '80s. What I'm wondering, because I'm in a state that doesn't have EFDA, but we just passed it. Arizona just passed it. We don't have any yet because once the politicians passed it, they went to the two dental schools and they said, can you create a program to educate them and teach them and license them and all that stuff. Now the dental schools are trying to put together a program. I was just wondering, how successful a program ... What percent of the dentists actually said in Washington, "Yeah, I'll just do the irreversible stuff. I'll just go in there and prep the tooth and then I'll leave and delegate someone to come in and place that." What kind of penetration did it get?
Heidi:	That's something that I personally haven't measured, and I haven't seen any studies actually done on that, but I can tell you just from my personal experience, I was a restorative hygienist for many years. It wasn't exclusively restorations that I did. Basically it would be if you had a patient that came in to the practice and they needed a little filling, one, two, three surface composite and the doctor that I was working for felt comfortable in my abilities, then I would just go ahead and anesthetize them because we do that in Washington state. Then I'd place a rubber dam, put the clamp, basically prep the tooth any way that the doctor wanted it to be prepped for his preparation himself.
He would come in, he/she would come in, and then do the work with the bur and finish it up, and describe how they would like it to be finished at that point. I'd put a little bit of Dycal in or liner or base or whatever they thought would be good. We'd talk about it and then fill it up and then I'd have them come in and take a look at it at the end.
Howard:	Why would one dentist on earth be against this? I just can't figure it out.
Heidi:	Psychology is not my forte, but I would say any number of reasons. I don't know. Maybe they just weren't aware of what training I'd receive or other hygienists had received. The dentist that I worked for that wanted me to do restorative in their practice, they were happy with the results.
Howard:	I almost stayed in Kansas and didn't come to Arizona. I wanted to come to Arizona because it was an exploding town back in '87 and I was from Wichita. It hadn't had any growth since Fred Flintstone. The reason I almost didn't go is because Kansas had that expanded duty function. I would go to dental offices and my mentors when I was in middle school and high school, they would go numb, numb, numb. Then they would go prep, prep, prep. Then they'd go sit in their office and read the newspaper for half an hour while three assistants did all the work. I just think it was an amazing thing. Then I also thought the strangest boogie man in dentistry uncensored was all the crazy talk about when hygienists are trying to get independent practitioners.
What the dentists don't get is that the oral surgeon and the endodontist love it when they get a referral from a general dentist to do a root canal or a pull. All those towns in Colorado where there was an independent hygienist, every time she saw something wrong, she had her little prescription pad and referred it to a dentist up the street. The dentist up the street just loved her. Everybody was courting her, sending her doughnuts, wanting to be her best friend because ... I just don't understand how anybody could not think ... As a dentist, I think the focus is on the patient and the most important thing we have to do is make dentistry available and accessible and affordable.
I'm more excited about what you're doing with the new iPhone and Droid and Samsung and connecting that up ... This is like Star Wars stuff. A gyroscope, a six sector gyroscope and getting measurements back. I just think the preventive side of this profession is 10 times more important than the drill, fill, and bill side.
Heidi:	It's lucrative as well. If you had a dentist that really promotes prevention in the office, patients are going to like that. Patients don't come to the office specifically to get anesthetized and filled. Anything that they can do to prevent that from the patients' point of view is going to be a good thing. If the practice is prevention oriented, then patients are going to flock.
Howard:	Do you recommend the patient go to the site and buy it themselves, or do you recommend the dentist buys them and sells them at the office?
Heidi:	Well, it really depends on what the practice wants to do. If the dentist wants to not carry any stock, what we can do as I had mentioned a few moments ago, my code is HGTHIRTY. If the dentist or patient puts in that code, then they can have 30 percent reduction in cost. It brings it down to $115. If the doctor wants to present the patient with this option of having toothbrushes in the office, they're Kolibree brushes and they just love the brush, they want more of their patients to get Kolibree, then we can get that code for the doctor as well. The doctor can just give the patient the Kolibree brush. If the doctor, of course, wants to hold stock we can always negotiate that with them, too, and get them an even lower price as well. They can contact us directly on the website.
Howard:	I think all people are mostly excited about the next generation, the little kids, the pediatrics as opposed to grandma and grandpa. Do you have a famous pediatric dentist product champion that's behind this?
Heidi:	Well, we do have pediatric dentists in France that are behind it. We have a consultation group of dentists that have helped design the brush from its inception in Paris. Pediatrics, orthodontics, prosthodontics are all involved.
Howard:	Dentaltown has 205,000 registered dentists on it. The most viewed and listened to pediatric dentist is Josh Wren. You should send me an email, Howard@dentaltown.com and I'll reply back to you and Josh. If Josh got behind this thing, and he really loved it, that would be explosive.
Heidi:	That would be fantastic. We'd love that too.
Howard:	I think everybody listening to this ... When Josh Wren puts up a pediatric dentistry course, it's taken all day everywhere. You wake up and they were taking it on the other side of the planet. It's amazing. I be you a lot of people are wondering what Josh thinks about this.
Heidi:	I'd love that.
Howard:	He's a good old boy from Mississippi. I'm not sure they have electric toothbrushes in Mississippi. This might be the first one down there. I've only got you for 10 more minutes. Is there anything I didn't ask or should've asked or ... Have I covered all the bases?
Heidi:	I think that's pretty much it. I hope that I've remembered to cover everything that was important. I'd love to ship you out a brush so you could try it out as well.
Howard:	You know, I was born and raised in Kansas so I quit brushing my teeth 20 years ago, just like all my uncles and cousins. I think the last technical thing is ... I've got to cover this. I'm sure there's a lot of listeners who don't know what Bluetooth even actually means. What is Bluetooth? I graduated in '87. I live in a house with five dentists, five dental students, for four years. Do you know four of those five never use the internet to this day?
Heidi:	Oh, that's interesting.
Howard:	Dentists are one of the last enabled people with secretaries. When they came out with the answering machine, three million secretaries lost their job. It was one of the most disruptive technologies in the labor force. It was 10 times worse than the ATM machine was for banking. Dentists, since they have a business that requires front office ... I asked my roommates, how do you buy a book? "Well, I just go give a note to Emma and she buys it." Well, how did you buy the plane tickets to come to the townie meeting? "I don't know. Emma does it." Every dentist has two receptionists, so a lot of the older guys, they don't need to get on the internet. They don't want to buy anything on Amazon. They probably don't even know what Bluetooth is. What exactly is Bluetooth?
Heidi:	Well I think you hit on it when you referenced the internet. It's a wave that communicates between two different devices. If you have your iPhone and you walk into Starbucks and you say, "Well, I don't want to use my minutes from AT&T or Verizon," I'm going to hook onto the wi-fi connection in Starbucks. Well then, there's information that's being shared over that invisible wavelength. Bluetooth technology, I am absolutely not a computer engineer, but Bluetooth technology operates in a similar manner. It allows two devices to communicate. You'll have the phone and you'll have your device. They'll be able to communicate. The phone will tell me to brush on the left side or brush on the right side and the toothbrush will then tell the phone if I'm doing it.
Howard:	That is interesting. Again, tell the listeners out there ... I know it gets exciting to learn about different implants and bone grafting. We're always looking at CBCT's and surgical guides and all we want to do is put out fires, but we need to spend a hell of a lot more time preventing fires. We need to spend ... It's still a tragedy that 30 percent of the 19,022 towns in America don't even have community water fluoridation. How can you be in a town of 5,000 and go work 40 hours a week drilling, filling, and billing when you don't even have fluoride in the water? Getting your kids fired up to go learn how to brush and floss. You're marrying a Bluetooth, you're marrying a video game, an electronic toothbrush, a sonic wave. This is just really exciting stuff. Doc, you've got to get more excited about preventing disease than putting out disease.
You don't want to be a fireman. Every morning he gets up at 8:00 and it's a five-alarm fire that he's going to go throw water on all day. You've got to get to a point where hey, yesterday nothing burned down in Phoenix. In Seattle, we want the only fire to be the Seahawks stadium. That's a whole other subject, right?
Howard:	Okay. [crosstalk 00:51:41] Go ahead.
Heidi:	Howard, if I could just add that if you're going to be putting this podcast on in the next few days, I don't know when it's scheduled to be released, but we are at the American Dental Association conference in Washington, DC today. We just set our booth up. We're also going to be at the greater New York dental conference in a couple of weeks at the end of November. We'd love people to swing by our booth and answer some questions.
Howard:	My son, Ryan, does that. Ryan, can you put her in the que to go out next? She's actually podcasting from the ADA in DC. Instead of putting her in the que and not coming out for a long time, can we push her out tomorrow?
Ryan:	Yeah.
Heidi:	That would be fantastic. [crosstalk 00:52:20] I'm in a hotel room.
Howard:	That's why you're in a hotel room? Okay. Well, again, Heidi .. By the way, just for my listeners, this isn't a commercial. Heidi didn't give me money to pitch her product. By the way, I contacted Heidi and Heidi's response was, "Howard who?"
Heidi:	I was thrilled.
Howard:	It was Howard who? She said, "I thought you died 10 years ago. You're still alive?" Anyway, yeah, this is a public service announcement because I'm real excited about what you're doing. I'm real excited about all this. On behalf of my 3-year-old granddaughter, who I'm going to vote for Hillary just because I don't want her to think all the presidents are men. A lot of my guy friends are extremely upset that I'm going to vote for Hillary. It's about my granddaughter. It's not about which lying politician that you're going to vote for. Every dental office ... My Today's Dental, I have a merry-go-round for free on those little three-horse things that goes in a circle. It's right by the front door, and people drive by. I think it's a big practice builder. They think oh, he must like kids.
The bottom line is, kids are the most stressful part of my practice. I mean, I'd rather do anything than treat a 3-year-old which should make you even more excited about trying to get that 3-year-old to play a video game on the iPhone to brush and floss so that you don't have to do fillings and pulpotomies and [cromasil 00:53:45] crowns. That is absolutely the worst part of dentistry, is doing a pulpotomy on a 3-year-old. It's horrible. Who wants to have that as a job. Heidi, I really congratulate you on what you're doing. I think you're a wonderful person and your pedigree is amazing. I wish you the best of luck. Anything I can do to help lower the world's diseased, missing, and filled teeth rate I'm excited about. Thank you for all that you do for dentistry.
Heidi:	Thank you. You're fantastic. We really appreciate you having us on. I'm personally thrilled. Thank you.
Howard:	All right. Bye-bye. Have a great day.
Heidi:	Bye.


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Q: Arduino Yun HttpClient Example malfunction This is my first time posting on Stack Overflow, so please excuse/point out ways I have transgressed in formatting this question, and I will try to do better next time. I am running the HttpClient example from what I believe is the "Bridge" library on my Yun. Instead of printing out ASCII like it is supposed to, it prints this:

<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>

301 Moved Permanently

nginx/1.4.2

This is the code that is running:
#include <Bridge.h>
#include <HttpClient.h>

void setup() {
  // Bridge takes about two seconds to start up
  // it can be helpful to use the on-board LED
  // as an indicator for when it has initialized
  pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
  digitalWrite(13, LOW);
  Bridge.begin();
  digitalWrite(13, HIGH);

  SerialUSB.begin(9600);

  while (!SerialUSB); // wait for a serial connection
}

void loop() {
  // Initialize the client library
  HttpClient client;

  // Make a HTTP request:
  client.get("http://www.arduino.cc/asciilogo.txt");

  // if there are incoming bytes available
  // from the server, read them and print them:
  while (client.available()) {
    char c = client.read();
    SerialUSB.print(c);
  }
  SerialUSB.flush();

  delay(5000);
}

I believe my Yun is properly connected to my Wifi network but I know very little about how it works or how the HTML gets processed, so any sort of explanation would be helpful.
Thanks!

A: Change
client.get("http://www.arduino.cc/asciilogo.txt");

Into
client.get("http://arduino.cc/asciilogo.txt");

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 21, 2013
"THE NEXT BIG THING" 2013 WINNER: ALEX RUNIONS
www.alexrunions.com
The Finals show of Big Dog 92-7/Astral Media's "The Next Big Thing" country talent competition was held last night at The Whiskey Saloon in Regina, with Alex Runions (Regina), JJ Voss (Regina), Samara Yung (Yorkton) and Tenille Arts (Weyburn) aiming to convince an esteemed panel of judges that they should be selected as this year's winner. The judges were left with a very difficult decision following stellar performances by all four artists, with Alex Runionsbeingdeclared the winner at the end of the night.
Alex Runions (Regina): Already a familiar face amongst small town dirt roads and hometown saloons, Regina-based (Kipling-raised) country singer/songwriter Runions is growing his fanbase faster than a prairie fire, alongside accolades and accomplishments which include opening for Gord Bamford, being a finalist in the Radio Star National Songwriting Contest, performing at Craven Country Jamboree, Dauphin Countryfest, Wascana Park Canada Day Festivities and the Casino Regina Downtown Summer Concert Series; and receiving a Saskatchewan Country Music Award (SCMA) nomination for Best Male Vocalist/Rising Star.
The Next Big Thing started out with a large number of submissions from artists all across Saskatchewan, which was narrowed down to Twelve Semi-Finalists by a music industry jury. The Top 4 artists were then selected to perform in the live finals, where each performed an original set that was evaluated by the judges on criteria including vocal ability, songwriting, overall performance/stage presence, originality, market potential, and audience response.
A large crowd was on hand to enjoy the show. Four music industry professionals formed the judging panel: Chris Foord, Music Director/Drive Home Announcer, Big Dog 92-7/Astral Media; Skip Taylor, Performing Arts Coordinator, Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils; Karen Mondor,Entertainment Buyer, Casino Regina; and Erin Aldridge, Director of Marketing & Artist Relations, Invictus Entertainment Group.
Runions receives a custom-tailored prize package worth over $15,000, including $10,000 cash, and is offered performance spots at the Craven Country Jamboree and Queen City Ex. He will next meet with SaskMusic to decide upon a plan of action for investing the prize into his career and taking advantage of additional opportunities that may arise as reigning champion. It is hoped that the prize will have a true and lasting impact on his career.
Big Dog 92-7/Astral Media and SaskMusic note that they were extremely pleased with the quality of artists who submitted this year and are so proud of the talent within the Saskatchewan music community. Congratulations as well to the eight semi-finalists who rounded out this year's Top 12: Amy Nelson, Grain Report, Kelsey Fitch, Lexie T, Shantaia Poulin, Steve Gibson, Tommy John Ehman, and Val Halla. Thank you to The Whiskey Saloon, our venue sponsor.
For information regarding The Next Big Thing please contact Lorena Kelly, SaskMusic, 1-800-347-0676 or lorenakelly@saskmusic.org.
Regina's True Country Big Dog 92-7 launched on February 20, 2008, and is owned and operated by Astral Media Radio, which operates radio stations across Canada. SaskMusic is a member-based, non-profit corporation that stimulates the growth and development of the Saskatchewan commercial music industry through leadership, promotion, training, advocacy and partnership.
THE NEXT BIG THING FINALS SHOW: THE TOP 4
THURSDAY JUNE 20, 8:00pm
The Whiskey Saloon, Regina
Featuring Alex Runions, JJ Voss, Samara Yung and Tenille Arts
With special guests: 2012 Next Big Thing Winner, The Midnight Roses
Come on out and cheer on these talented artists!
Admission $5 at the door
Presented by Big Dog 92-7 / Astral Media.
Produced by SaskMusic, www.saskmusic.org or call toll-free 1-800-347-0676.
Show Poster: PDF
BIG DOG 92-7'S "THE NEXT BIG THING"
TOP 4 ARTISTS TO COMPETE IN FINALS
We are pleased to announce the Finalists for this year's Next Big Thing competition. Congratulations to Alex Runions, JJ Voss, Samara Yung, and Tenille Arts, who will be performing live on Thursday, June 20 for the general public and a panel of music industry jurists.
On this exciting evening, one outstanding artist will be chosen to receive the grand prize package valued at over $15,000, and the title of "Next Big Thing 2013". The winner will be offered a spot at the 2013 Craven Country Jamboree and other opportunities. This year's champion will join the impressive list of previous winners: WYATT (2009), Chris Henderson (2010), Jess Moskaluke (2011) and Myshel Pajuaar and The Midnight Roses (2012).
JJ Voss (Regina): Delivering an unmistakable mainstream brand of outlaw with an infusion of Americana, JJ's music is derived from his rural roots in Western Canada and his passion for honest, blue-collar storytelling. His dedication as a relentless "live show" road warrior has paid off with prestigious appearances at the Canada Summer Games, World Curling Championships, JUNOfest, Calgary Stampede, The Millenium Music Festival, Dauphin Countryfest, Big Valley Jamboree and Craven Country Jamboree. Produced in Nashville by Grammy-nominated producer and former Steve Earle band member, Harry Stinson, his current album "Show 'em Who's Voss" was voted Roots Album of the Year by the SCMA.
Samara Yung (Yorkton): Samara has been performing professionally from a very young age, developing her love of music from her musician father Murray. She released her debut album, "Show Me the World" (produced by Steve Fox) in 2008, which led to two SCMA awards. Her second album, "July Rain," was released in December 2011. Since then she has received 4 more SCMA awards, and made the second ballot for CCMA Female Artist of the Year. Her video for "Mardi Gras," directed by award-winning Stephano Barberis, received airtime on CMT Canada, and her new video for "I Wonder Why" was recently released.
Tenille Arts (Weyburn): Tenille grew up singing in Weyburn and is now poised to make her mark. At 18, she has won countless regional vocal competitions and performed at Craven Country Jamboree, Casino Regina and Telemiracle. She was a finalist on the Idol-style talent show Karaoke Star Junior (CMT/YTV/Corus Entertainment) and represented Saskatchewan in Canada's National Talent Competition in 2009 in PEI. A discovery of her music on YouTube has led to a team of industry elite forming around her, and she is now writing songs for her first album, due for release in 2014.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 31, 2013
Twelve emerging country artists have been selected as semi-finalists in the 2013 version of The Next Big Thing, competing for a chance to take their careers to the next level and win a custom-tailored prize package valued at more than $15,000 – consisting of $10,000 cash PLUS options of their choosing, such as a professional single released to national radio, showcasing for music industry professionals, hands-on career guidance, and more.
Each semi-finalist submitted two original music tracks plus biographical and other information for consideration in the competition. From this year's very strong pool of submissions, a panel of seasoned music industry professionals has determined that this year's Top 12 artists are (in alphabetical order):
Alex Runions (Regina)
Grain Report (Regina/Gerald)
JJ Voss (Regina)
Lexie T (Radville)
Samara Yung (Yorkton)
Shantaia Poulin (Spiritwood)
Steve Gibson (Foam Lake)
Tommy John Ehman (Craik)
Heather Prosak, Brand Director/Morning Show Host for Astral Radio, states, "We are very excited to help support local talent in our province. Since its inception five years ago and with the partnership of SaskMusic, Big Dog 92.7's Next Big Thing has watched winners like WYATT, Jess Moskaluke, Chris Henderson and The Midnight Roses do amazing things with their careers, and we can't wait to find out who will take home the 2013 title."
Information on the semi-finalists is available online at www.bigdog927.com for fans to preview and find out about these talented artists. The Top 4 finalists will be announced on June 10. These finalists will perform in a showdown of their original music live for the public and a panel of music industry professionals in the Finals show on Thursday, June 20. A special panel of Canadian music industry professionals will be on hand to adjudicate their performances and select the winner of this year's Next Big Thing, to be announced that evening.
Featuring the Top 4 finalists PLUS guest artists,
2012 Next Big Thing winner "The Midnight Roses"
Thursday, JUNE 20 8pm at The Whiskey Saloon, Regina
The Next Big Thing is produced by SaskMusic on behalf of Astral Media – Big Dog 92.7.
For more information, please contact Lorena Kelly, SaskMusic, 306-347-0676 or lorenakelly@saskmusic.org.
Big Dog 92-7 Contest Returns for a Fifth Year with Grand Prize of $15,000+
Artists from solo to full bands in country and related genres (such as bluegrass and roots) are invited to submit an entry. A panel of music industry professionals will select the Top 12, who will be unveiled to the public at the end of May. From there, the Top 4 Finalists will be selected, and will perform in a live showdown in June to determine who will be chosen as The Next Big Thing.
"In addition to the very useful $15,000 prize, our winner will have additional opportunities – last year's winner had performances during Canadian Country Music Week, at the Queen City Ex, and Craven Country Jamboree, just to name a few. It's a great promotional tool, and provides a step up for an artist's overall career," states project producer Lorena Kelly of SaskMusic. Previous Next Big Thing winners are Saskatoon's WYATT (2009), Regina's Chris Henderson (2010), Langenburg's Jess Moskaluke (2011) and Swift Current's Myshel Pajuaar and The Midnight Roses (2012).
To make an entry, artists will provide two original songs in audio or video format, a photo, biography and other information for evaluation by a panel of music industry professionals. See contest Rules and Regulations below for full details.
Submissions will be received until May 9 at 4 pm.
Presented by Big Dog 92-7/Astral Radio. Produced by SaskMusic.
Please note, you must be a Saskatchewan resident.
2) Fill in the online entry form including all requested information, before 4 pm on May 9.
The Finals show, where the Top 4 Finalists will be performing live, is Thursday June 20 in Regina.

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Since our company was founded, we have actively conducted research and development in the field of FRP (fiber reinforced plastic). We have established our position as a research and development company among the large businesses and various types of research institutes that compete to develop new materials and technologies. Despite being a small company, we have entered the limelight with technologies such as our very own VaRTM technology. Every day, we are engaged in research and development with "never giving up easily and challenging new technologies and projects" as our motto.
The reason our company is so widely known in the composite material industry is because of the VaRTM molding method that we developed. With the VaRTM molding method, resins are put into a vacuum state, poured into a mold, and then hardened by applying heat to them. This method has existed for several decades, but our company has devised a pouring method which makes the resin permeate evenly; we have the leading knowledge in molding as a whole. As a result of this method, we have received a reputation as a company that can accomplish high-quality products which are described as 'beautiful'. By improving product manufacturing with VaRTM molding technology, we have entered the automobile, aerospace and aircraft industries, which seek higher quality.
Our company has been working on every FRP (fiber reinforced plastic) in response to requests from customers. Currently, we are using the knowledge we have fostered over the years and focusing all of our efforts on developing FRTP(fiber-reinforced thermoplastic), which is what we specialize in. The demand for FRTP, which is suited for mass production, is increasing, and processing and molding technology for practical use has been desired in many fields. It is a physical change that is not accompanied by a molecular structure change, so by repeatedly heating and cooling the resin, the resin is able to be renewed, showing promise as a recyclable material.
Development of the Automatic Composite Material Molding Equipment That is Found Only at KADO Corporation, an Expert in Composite Material Field.
The demand for mass production and automation in the composite material industry is becoming stronger. Among the various composite material molding methods our company has worked on, we have begun to develop technologies for manufacturing methods and production lines that are optimal for each material, auxiliary material and process condition. We have pioneered this industry, established molding methods that implement robots and machinery, and realized an automated production system. We respond to the request of each customer with pinpoint accuracy and propose process designs and production equipment designs to ensure our customers' operations. We provide the design, assembly, training, sales and maintenance for materials handling equipment that creates robotic hands, mounts cutting blade machinery, and passes material through a press machine, takes them out of the press and then cuts it. We install your equipment, starting with a single unit. Drawing on the accomplishments and knowledge we have in the yacht, automobile and aircraft industries, we will aim to find the optimum combination of raw materials and molding method, continue to develop automatic composite material molding equipment, and realize a faster, more accurate automatic mass production.
In the future, we want to use the knowledge we have that cannot be imitated by other companies and strive to create advanced composite materials that are suitable for every industry, while pursuing and deepening VaRTM methods. We will also aim to reduce costs, improve quality, and increase functionality, and hope to contribute to society and the environment by developing and supplying advanced composite materials that can be used widely, not just within this field or within Japan. In order to achieve this, our efforts to gather information, research and develop will never dwindle, and we will "Never get hung up on doing things our way." In other words, we intend to respond to the customer's request and conditions and work vigorously towards researching and developing with a flexible imagination.
Founder Yasunari Kuratani has enjoyed everything associated with the Ocean ever since he was a child. In 1994, at the age of 20, he became involved in shipbuilding. The following year, he went abroad to New Zealand, the leading country in yachts, where he learned advanced shipbuilding, techniques. After completing his three years of study, Yasunari returned to Japan and experienced building yachts and inspecting ships as a member of the shore team of the Japan Challenge Team in the America's Cup 2000. In June of 2000, after the competition had ended, Yasunari founded 'KADO Marine' (now 'KADO Corporation' ) with the initial purpose of building, repairing and selling yachts.
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This Cricket Liquid Level Indicator in stylish turquoise is an innovation in kitchen convenience and safety. The chunky design makes it easy to clip onto the edge of any cup, glass, mug or bowl perfect for users with arthritis or those with an otherwise weak grip.
Once secured, the two prongs prevent spills and injury with hot and cold liquids alike, allowing you to pour with confidence. When liquid reaches the first prong the sensor begins to vibrate, quickening when the level rises above the second prong. No more overflow ever!


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Pros and cons of investing in commercial property
Ryan Boyd 2 Jul 2019
Investing in a residential property as a rental is common for New Zealanders, but could investing in commercial property be just as, if not more, profitable?
We looked at the pros and cons of commercial property investment within the Auckland region by speaking to a specialist.
Peter Churchill from Barfoot and Thompson has worked in commercial property investment for more than 40 years and gave us the lowdown.
But, he warns, "you have to know what you're doing when investing in either residential or commercial property and in both cases, you need good management in place."
Capital Growth:
"Auckland's residential market has had huge capital growth over the last few years, but yield can be fairly low, such as around 2% to 3% after costs," Churchill says.
"Commercial property also has the capital growth, but usually higher net yields than residential, of 5% or more.
"As a landlord of a residential property, the landlord pays the costs such as rates and insurances, while the tenants have most of the rights.
"As a landlord of a commercial property there is a detailed lease agreement, in which the tenant could potentially pay more of the costs, however the leasing costs and agents fees will be met by the landlord.
"A landlord of a commercial property arguably has more rights than a landlord of a residential property.
"Commercial property issues are also dealt with in a 'commercial' manner, rather than through the Tenancy Tribunal for residential tenants," Churchill said.
Risk of vacancy:
Although commercial properties potentially have a higher risk of vacancy than residential, it is very much dependent on the location.
"In the Auckland market, commercial property vacancies haven't been this low in more than 40 years," Churchill said.
"Even neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city, like Drury, have low vacancy rates in commercial property and that's reflected in the land values.
"The prices in Drury would be around $350 per square metre, whereas East Tamaki or Mairangi Bay would be between $600 to $800 per square metre to buy.
Lease length
Residential leases can be anywhere from a short-term-fixed term of at least 90 days, or a 12-month fixed term or a periodic contract that has no end date.
The average length of residential tenancies in the Auckland region as of 2016 were around two-and-a-half years, according to Barfoot and Thompson data.
"Most commercial leases are between three to nine years but for large corporates, leases can go up to 12 years, with rights of renewal," Churchill said.
Areas of opportunity
"Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch are all good centres for commercial property but also areas like Hamilton, Tauranga and Palmerston North are showing big growth opportunities.
"In Tauranga and Hamilton there is still growth and slightly higher yields because the market isn't quite as strong as Auckland.
"But with land values and construction in Auckland growing so much, the average rental cost is much higher.
"Five years ago, a warehouse in Auckland would be rented out at $100 per square metre but now it's $135.
"In the Auckland market, with its historically strong yields, low interest rate environment and high rental growth, we have seen the yields compress significantly, generating great capital growth.
"Residential has had huge growth too but capital growth has tapered off, whereas we haven't seen that tapering off in commercial," Churchill said.
Commercial properties require a larger deposit than a residential investment property and there is more complexity around commercial property.
The additional risks of commercial property are around the terms of the leases and tenure, quality and number of tenants.
This requires further due diligence which can incur additional cost.
Mortgage rates also differ between commercial and residential where commercial rates are usually higher.


The Rotary Foundation transforms your gifts into projects that change lives both close to home and around the world. As the charitable arm of Rotary, we tap into a global network of Rotarians who invest their time, money, and expertise into Yet 400 million people in the world can't afford or don't have access to basic health care. We believe good health care is everyone's right.
Disease results in misery, pain, and poverty for millions of people worldwide. That's why treating and preventing disease is so important to us. We lead efforts both large and small. We set up temporary clinics, blood donation centers, and training facilities in underserved communities struggling with outbreaks and health care access. We design and build infrastructure that allows doctors, patients, and governments to work together.
Pakistan and Rotary are cutting through a whirl of migrating families and cultural barriers to turn what was 'a badge of shame' into a model for disease eradication.
At a busy toll plaza in Kohat, Pakistan, a three-member vaccination team is working fast.
Outfitted in blue Rotary vests and flanked by armed military personnel, the vaccinators approach a white van as it pulls away from the scattered stream of traffic, cars rattling east toward Islamabad and west to the nearby border with Afghanistan. One worker leans toward the driver to ask a question as another reaches into a cooler to prepare the vaccine. Among the crush of passengers in the van, they identify one child who has not yet been vaccinated.
There is no time for second-guessing.
There is not even enough room for the boy to crawl toward the front of the vehicle or through one of the doors; a relative must hand the young child to the vaccinators through one of the rear windows. He is quickly inoculated with two drops of oral polio vaccine, and his pinkie finger is stained with purple ink to indicate that he's received his dose. He cries as the vaccinator hurriedly passes him back through the window. The van speeds off, fading back into the dizzying hum of traffic, as the vaccinators look for the next car and child.
This scene plays out thousands of times a day at transit posts like this one — makeshift vaccination clinics set up at bus stops, border crossings, army posts, and police checkpoints across the country in an effort to reach children who are on the move.
Here in Pakistan, home to almost all of the world's polio cases just a few years ago, these moving targets require a vaccination strategy as agile and stubborn as the virus itself. At hundreds of sites, teams of health workers verify that every child passing through receives the vaccine.
The interaction is fleeting — faster than getting a meal at a drive-through restaurant — but the benefit is permanent. Another child, another family, another generation is protected, and Pakistan moves one step closer to having zero polio cases.


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The schools within the United Schools Federation (USF) have been using the International Primary Curriculum (IPC) for a number of years as a way of delivering an exciting curriculum and preparing the children for a life in an increasingly global society. We believe that preparing the children to be future citizens of the world supports their learning in all areas and promotes the development of an environmental perspective for the future world in which they will all have an active part to play.
The IPC have developed new units to help to support the delivery of the new National Curriculum and an overview of the units being covered is available.
In addition to the IPC, the schools in the USF will enhance the curriculum with other specialist units. These will :
A local study project – to meet the requirements of the new National Curriculum and celebrate the historical and geographical influences on the area where we live.
Film Week – to inspire writing and creativity through film.
Arts week – to promote creativity and cross curricula learning.
Find out more about the International Primary Curriculum.
Further information regarding our Curriculum
English Programme of Study Key Stage 1 and 2
Mathematics Programme of Study Key Stage 1 and 2
Science Programme of study Key Stage 1 and 2
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'Creed' director Ryan Coogler set to take on Marvel's 'Black Panther' Film
by Victoria Massie
Film, News
One of the Hollywood's hottest up-and-coming directors has been given the lead on Marvel's much anticipated Black Panther film.
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige noted that Ryan Coogler, the mastermind behind Creed (2015) and Fruitvale Station (2013), is set to direct the film in an interview with Empire Magazine.
The announcement comes after fans had long speculated about who would get the coveted opportunity to craft the storyline on screen. This summer, Selma director Ava DuVernay was rumored to be a frontrunner. However, in a July interview with Essence, DuVernay confirmed meeting with Marvel but ultimately passing on the project:
"In the end, it comes down to story and perspective," she said. "And we just didn't see eye to eye. Better for me to realize that now than cite creative differences later."
Her reasoning is sound and appreciated. While we have no doubt about the possibilities DuVernay could have done with the film, her concerns were less about her telling the story than making sure the story is told in the way it deserves, which Coogler can do, without a doubt.
Coogler's first feature-length film Fruitvale Station garnered critical acclaim. He caught the eye of some of the industry's most esteemed icons, including Academy-Award winning actor Forest Whitaker, a producer for the film.
"I've worked with a number of truly unique voices, true auteurs, and I can tell when I'm talking to one," Whitaker said to the New York Times. "You can see a subtle hand, even in the short films. You could recognize he was going to view this story in a special way."
Coogler would go on to win the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for U.S. Dramatic Film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival for the care he gave to to story of the last day of Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old African-American man killed by an Oakland Police Officer on New Year's Day 2009 at the Fruitvale Bart Station. His death was one of the first police brutality cases to be caught on camera and shared through social media.
His latest film Creed, the latest segment of the Rocky series, starring Fruitvale's Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stalone as Rocky Balboa, is already generating Oscar buzz.
Black Panther is the one of the last stand-alone superhero films launched by Marvel Studios in its move to revamp the Avengers series.
It is scheduled for release Feb. 16, 2018.
Black Panther, Creed, Fruitvale Station, Marvel, Ryan Coogler, The Avengers
Victoria Massie
Victoria M. Massie is a freelance writer and anthropologist who is currently the Staff Writer for Black Youth Project. Her work focuses on feminism, politics, science, and diaspora, but, more often than not, she spends her time obsessing about ideas of "home." She is a National Science Foundation fellow and a Lifetime Member of the West African Research Association.


Golden Boy by Tara Sullivan is a realistic fiction book based on facts about growing up with albinism in Tanzania. Habo is a thirteen-year-old albino boy living near Lake Victoria. Especially in that region, albinos are murdered because their body parts are thought to bring good luck. The killing of elephants in the area is also part of the story. This is a riviting story that I highly recommend for students in middle school and older.


Come on out this Tuesday to celebrate Birmingham's traditionally African-American communities and culture through an engaging set of short films produced by students in UAB's Ethnographic Filmmaking course. Presented by Michele Foreman, UAB Center for Urban Affairs.
Part of the Collective Perspectives 2008 series.
Vulcan Park and Museum is proud to present Collective Perspectives 2008 in honor of Black History Month, a series of non-traditional programs designed to educate, entertain, and enlighten participants on the cultures that have made Birmingham the culturally diverse, compassionate and flourishing city that we are today. The Terminal is happy to be serving as a partner in presenting this series.
Join us every Tuesday in February from 5 – 7 p.m. and enjoy African-inspired foods during an energizing social hour and then explore the fabric of our neighborhoods during a one-hour program. Learn about the experiences of Black Americans in our society, the vital role this community has played throughout our shared history and draw inspiration from their important messages.
Led by Daniel Western, director of jazz studies at Miles College, this week hear Milestones perform hot jazz from the 1920s, when the quintessential American art form underscored dancing and fun on Birmingham's west side, along with "Tuxedo Junction" and other circa 1940 big band classics.


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All Songs Anamnesis Desert Tune The Moon and The Fire Circle
Anamnesis
Desert Tune
The Moon and The Fire Circle
#17 in Pop SongVault Certified
On Network Since Jan 17, 2008
#63 in Rock SongVault Certified
On Network Since Mar 5, 2009
#225 in Folk SongVault Certified
I'm Dirty
Alternative Folk
Shauna Burns
Nevada, United States
www.shaunaburns.com
Alternative Folk / Singer/Songwriter
Anamnesis is pianist/singer/songwriter Shauna Burns� next work to be released under Red Rock Music in April 2009. This 5 song EP is the continuation of The Moon and the Fire Circle and the next step in her musical journey. Anamnesis, which means "recollection" or "remembrance", focuses on the senses that live in our memories. "Music is a trigger for things we remember," Shauna explains. "Each of the songs on Anamnesis represents one of the senses." The first song on the EP is titled "Smell" ...its reference is obvious. "A Letter" embraces the gift of sight, "Wind" references touch, "Driving Far" taste, and "So Tell Me�" our sense of hearing. The new album is full of Shauna�s trademark piano and vocals, James Clark on drums and percussion, Steve Lemmon on guitar and bass, Ryan Tilby on mandolin and dobro, Kiley Astle on violin and Steve Nelson on cello.
Shauna�s latest release in 2008, The Moon and the Fire Circle, was a fusion of the dark and light sides of the soul. It was a journey from the light to the dark and back to the light again. The Promise Live cheers: �With her ethereal voice, spacious arrangements and lots of piano, you can't help but become enchanted with The Moon and The Fire Circle.� And Southwest Blend acclaims that �Shauna Burns is a phenomenal talent, and the music on this album will take any listener on a journey that will connect one�s inner soul to the universe.� Now the journey continues�
Shauna's ethereal vocals and beautiful piano developed while growing up in Miami, Florida. Inspired by her mother's love for the piano, her songwriting thrived and when she headed west for college and her music met cheers and enthusiastic recognition. After receiving�a bachelor's degree�in Anthropology at the University of Utah, Shauna spent a year in Europe preparing�her debut album. Released under Red Rock music in 2005 Every Thought was the foothold that lifted this talented pianist and singer to critical acclaim. �Beautiful cascading piano [and] ethereal vocals� a new fangled fusion that will ignite a spark that will be hard to replicate. Perfect.� States Smother.net. Shauna's songwriting extension to Every Thought�was her 2006 follow up EP�release entitled, Desert Tune.
Shauna has embarked on multiple vigorous tours since 2006 with over 75 shows and appearances stretching from coast to coast in the U.S. and the U.K. More tour dates will be announced for 2009.
�Around You�, the first single from The Moon and the Fire Circle, reached number 7 on the FMQB AC Chart, was one of WCH Radio�s �Top Songs for 2008� and reached number 1 on �Song Vault Radio�. The Moon and the Fire Circle was selected �Best of 2008� by Collected Sounds and The Promise Live. Radio Crystal Blue also chose Shauna as one of the �Top Recording Artists of the Year 2008�.
Shauna's debut CD, Every Thought was selected as one of the Top CD's of 2005 by Collected Sounds and the single,��Pink Girl�, was chosen as the number1 single from the MAACP show. The album was chosen for �Best of the Batch� from the Music Industry News Network and featured on TowerPod.com, Billboard, VH1, Artist Direct, AOL Music, Fox TV and countless others.
� 2009 Red Rock Music LLC
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