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I'm starting this thread because a lot of the generous artists who leave critiques around these boards often give great advice about what a person ought to study, but there's not really a whole lot of talk about HOW to go about making a good study.
What is it that you personally define as being a good study? What differentiates a good study where the artist is gaining a wealth of knowledge by hammering out the rough spots in a study, and when said artist is gaining nothing from a study?
In other words: How do you determine if a study is a good study, or not good? When one is useful, or not useful.
I've heard a lot of people say that "there is no such thing as a bad study, drawing is drawing" but I beg to differ. I believe that some studies are just time wasters, and you're better of scrapping that study and starting a new one at a certain point.
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So I am bitter and resentful that you girls Stateside get all the coolest bargains, where as in the UK we are always paying top buck for everything and not even getting decent customer service either.
Anyway there's a bargain store we have here called – er, Home Bargains. Oh the shame, the shame. I scour the shop for cheap bits and bobs – and I spotted these face masks for 10p each!:
Hey, cheaper than Montage Jeunesse….
So I tested one out today – Strawberries and Cream which is a thermal mask. A sloppy texture but nothing that will drip of the face. But the thermal! Owwwww! It was warming it was boiling. Within a few mins my face began to itch and it dripped a bit into my mouth (and tasted ok actually…but don't eat face mask, please).
Washed it off now and my skin does feel smooth but also slightly sore – ouch! I am not sure what they can put in a 10p face mask that can make it that beneficial…
Verdict: Give it to the boyfriend.
Not everything at Home Bargains is rubbish though – check out this squirty flower!
19p!! Yeah!! It will come in useful the next time I browse at a MAC counter.
'Yeah, what chu wont?'
*pppsssttt* water attack
Ooh by they way – this was the free back to mac lippie I choose – Slimshine in High 90s. A orange-red – very bright, and pigmented:
Applied lightly above. To be honest I swatched loads of MAC lippies and nothing captivated me so instead of going for a boring nude, I choose high 90s. Mmmm its ok – would I have paid for it? Nope.
Finally – people seem to be going nuts over these 88 colour palettes. In the UK, the main place to buy them is EBay – I bought one years ago from crazy woman in Canada (who lectured me about how I was deny food from her children because I complained that the item hadn't arrived after THREE months. Paypal dispute time…"I AM ONLY TRYING TO FEED ME KIDS!!!" But I digress.)
The quality was pretty good – can't argue about the colours being soft and easy to apply, pigmented and of course great if you don't have much make up since you cover a huge range of shades.
But the thing is…I was offered a chance to buy 100 pcs of this palette. It all basically comes from the same factories, but with different names printed on the front. Cost? Let's just say you couldn't even buy a coffee from Starbucks for the price per unit. You couldn't actually buy anything from Starbucks for the amount these palettes cost at (small) wholesale. I paid £22 for my 88 palette back in 2005…its a pretty steep mark up.
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Thursday night if Gok's Fashion Fix night…never really liked How to look good Naked (Answer: Don't look in the mirror) but Fashion Fix is a great show – Gok really shows he knows what he's doing! Love, Love, Love him and he's a nice Chinese* boy.
*I am aware he is mixed race, but Chinese Boy flows better than Anglo-Chinese Boy or Mixed-Race-British-Chinese-Origin.
Every damn week though, Alexa Chung says 'Ooh it's a close one this week'. After the break she says, 'Gok you won by a million votes.' But you just said it was close! Be consistent Alexa!
Gok has won every week so far. Love him, but the audience who are voting hardly look like Haute Couture aficionados; more like I'd-like-a-doublewhopper-with-cheese-experts.*
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Robthebob wrote:Joseph Chikva wrote:mvanwink5 wrote:I'll believe anything if there is a steady job in it."
Why not? It is very rational position and viewing from this side you will always have bread, butter and piece of bacon.
we're scientists, we're in the business of logic and reason.
Great!! Just add the money as part of model you are so skillful to develop and get the freedom - be rich. Once you add money in your model you may learn that your skill in "logic and reason" is not so advanced behind the universities walls.
The guys working on Polywell should have an ownership with very modest current compensation. I do not think that just a good "training" is enough to make a breakthrough, people should bet their lives to make such accomplishment.


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If you're going to use Google Plus as a social media strategy, then you need to screen who you are adding to your circles. If you don't, you will wind up with nothing but fake profiles and pics of fuzzy animals in your daily feed. And nothing makes me want to remove a user from my circles faster than when I look at their posts and all of them look like spam.
What I am about to show you will save you a lot of time on Google Plus. After all, you don't want to take the time to create content worth posting just to share it with a bunch of spammers who don't care about sharing it right? Here are some ways to screen who you are adding to your circles.
Use Google Images Search
First thing you always want to do before you add someone to your circle is use Google Images to check that their profile picture is legit. Here is an example of one that I entered into the Google Images Search:
As you can see this photo is showing up on multiple websites, none of which seem to be from the same company. And this example above only shows 3 out of the 5 different websites this profile pic appears on.
Granted this may very well be the original picture attached to this profile, but I always like to err on the side of caution in this situation. What I have found is that when you add this tell-tale sign to the rest of the list below, you can usually feel confident about not adding this person's profile to your circles. I also try to make sure I only add users that have a clear identifiable face in their profile picture.
Review Their Google Plus Posts
The next thing I like to do is check their recent posts. Check to see if they have recently posted any original content. Stay away from the profiles that are littered with pictures of fuzzy animals or the ones that only share other people's irrelevant content.
The occasional picture of a fuzzy animal or a link to some great content is okay. But if that's all that is in their feed then it's just not worth while adding them. Remember you want real live people in your circles that the Google Plus community can trust.
Look For Social Proof On Their Google Plus About Page
This one is my favorite. Go to their "About" page and look to see what other social networks in which they are involved. If they haven't listed any then I usually don't add them. Here are the social network profiles that I hope to find listed on the About page of a user I want to add:
- YouTube
- WordPress (or any of the top blogging sites)
I will actually go to each of their social networks to make sure they have recent posts so that I know they are actually connected to these places. If I look into their Twitter account and they haven't tweeted for a year, that is a red flag for me. And I definitely use that info in my decision along with any other negative signs involved.
Audit Their Google Plus Circles
One of the last things I like to do before I add someone is do a quick audit of who has them in their circles. I am always concerned if I see a bunch of profiles with no pictures, or profile pictures with no faces in their circles. It makes me wonder about the intentions of the person I am considering adding. Last thing I want is a bunch of spammers coming after me once I have added someone.
Review Them Again Once They Are In Your Circle
And last but not least, I try to go back and review a user once they have added me to their circle. Sometimes the information I am looking for in the first audit is not available until after they have added me. I have revealed several bogus accounts by using this technique. Especially when I get to review their posts once they have added me.
Well that's all for now and hopefully you understand how to screen people you want to add to your circle. All of these steps should take you no longer than a couple of minutes once you get the hang of it. You will start to realize without having to complete all of these steps every time who is worth adding and who is not. I have found that the users that can pass any of these simple tests usually are legitimate users who were worth the time to add to my circle.
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WASHINGTON — Walking around the grounds of FedEx Field, I came to realize why sportscasters deemed the June 7 match between the Spanish national team and El Salvador a "friendly."
Surrounded by fans sporting T-shirts, flags, and even instruments representing the colors of their favorite teams, I was amazed to see how many Salvadoran fans eagerly invited individuals sporting Spain's red and yellow paraphernalia to chat about the upcoming game or share some prepared food.
Having grown up in a household that became visibly depressed and bitter after a favorite team lost a championship game, I could not understand what I was seeing. Why were fans of opposing camps becoming friends before one of the most publicized matches on the Road to Brazil? Although El Salvador is no longer eligible to play in the World Cup, didn't these fans realize that they were associating with the enemy, the defending World Cup champions?
As I talked with many of the fans from both camps, I began to realize that the World Cup represents a chance to bond with people of all nations over a common love for the game of soccer.
Daniel Garcia-Donoso, assistant professor of Spanish at The Catholic University of America, explained how he is able to experience the same camaraderie that is maintained within his home country of Spain when he attends games like this.
"I am far away from my country, from Spain," said Garcia. "I wear this jersey once or twice a year when watching the Spanish team, and I feel part of a community. I see other people wearing shirts from Spain or shirts from El Salvador, and we all form a community when we watch the game."
Another Spanish fan, Daniel Lledo, shared similar sentiments.
"In a game like this, to be playing against El Salvador, our brothers from across the pond, it's a friendly," said Lledo. "Everyone is here to have fun and enjoy the game together."
Salvadoran soccer fans gather outside Washington for a friendly with Spain before the World Cup. (CNS/TylerOrsburn)
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This is the essential mala, similar to the ones worn by Buddha, Gandhi and the Dalai Lama. Tuck this traditional rudraksha mala inside your shirt, to be worn against the skin. The subtle saffron colored threads will be noticed by the most observant, as the beads may peak out on occasion, continuing the mystery of these powerful malas. In and out, in and out, isn?t it ALL just an exercise in breathing?
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Following her win in Las Vegas, Alyssa traveled to São Paulo, Brazil to represent the USA in the 60th Annual MISS UNIVERSE® Competition held on September 12, 2011. She competed with 88 other contestants and placed in the Top 16 during the live telecast, which is viewed around the world by more than 1 billion viewers.
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A natural in front of a camera, Alyssa made several television appearances including NBC's "American Giving Awards" where she served as a presenter during the program. She put her cooking skills to the test on Food Network's "Celebrity Cook-Off", a cooking competition pitting Team Guy Fieri and Team Rachael Ray against one another that aired on January 1, 2012. A huge fan of celebrity master baker Buddy Valastro, she made a guest appearance on his program, TLC's "The Next Great Baker," which was televised on January 23, 2012. As Miss USA, Alyssa also took her passion for modeling and hit the runway for designers, such as SACHIKA, during the 2012 New York Fashion Week.
Alyssa was raised in Manalapan, New Jersey where she developed an interest in the modeling and entertainment industries while living so close to Manhattan. Active in school plays and dedicated to her studies, she graduated with honors from Freehold Township High School a year early after receiving a scholarship to the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts in Manhattan. A natural born blonde, Alyssa dyed her hair in 2005 to fit the role of Cherry Valance in the play, "The Outsiders." She decided the red hair fit her red hot personality and has kept it ever since.
In 2006, Alyssa decided to give pageants a try and was crowned Miss New Jersey Teen USA 2007. She went on to represent New Jersey at the 2007 MISS TEEN USA® Competition placing 1st runner up. The title of Miss New Jersey Teen USA was rewarding for Alyssa, as the exposure helped launch her modeling career. She has modeled for numerous fashion designers, major retail stores, book covers for romance and thriller novels, and was featured on the movie poster for "Get Him to the Greek."
In May 2010, Alyssa left the East Coast and moved to Los Angeles to continue her pursuit of a career in acting and modeling. She decided to compete in the 2011 MISS CALIFORNIA USA® Competition and won the crown on November 21, 2010.
Alyssa is a self-proclaimed "geek" with an extensive knowledge of the "Star Wars" series and a passion for European History. When she manages to find free time in her busy schedule, she enjoys traveling, reading, Pilates and cooking.
Alyssa currently spends her time in Los Angeles and Toronto with her longtime beau, Torrance Coombs. They have adopted two cats named Renly & Daenerys. She runs a fashion/style, food, and travel blog called "Jumpers & Jasmine". Click here to check out her blog.


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The governments of Russia and Ukraine, the two main Black Sea wheat exporters, seem to have some difficulty grasping the concept of truly open grain markets.
After imposing prohibitive export taxes, licensing requirements or outright export bans in three of the last five years, their leaders have promised this year they will not impose export curbs. Numerous press stories give them credit for exercising "restraint" in avoiding their market meddling tendencies in spite of a drought that reduced their wheat production to below that of 2010.
Russia banned grain exports that year and Ukraine stopped exports with licensing requirements. On the surface, their current stances look more enlightened. But, let us take a closer look at how the market has reacted this year to the slightly more subtle signals Ukrainian and Russian leaders have sent.
Ukraine's government has announced it expects to export 4.0 MMT of wheat in 2012/13 and major Ukrainian exporters have agreed with the Agriculture Ministry not to exceed that limit. One has to assume that if the limit ever does get exceeded, the government would step in to enforce it. What is the difference between an export embargo and the threat of one if the limit is not voluntarily kept? From a practical standpoint, there is no difference at all.
Russia has been less obviously inconsistent with both the Deputy Prime Minister and the Agriculture Minister proclaiming for months that the government will not need to impose an export embargo.
The Minister of the Economy, however, recently said that export curbs are still "quite possible."
The Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR) currently estimates Russian wheat exports at 9.5 MMT this year, and even as they proclaimed that restraints would not be needed, their leaders carefully reserved the right to change their minds if grain exports should exceed projections.
While the threat of export restrictions has not been as explicit as in Ukraine, the message to the exporters in both countries was loud and clear. Sell more than the government thinks you should export, or contract for more than a couple of months ahead, and you just might not be able to deliver. Buyers, too, must take that risk into account.
Trade scrambling
As a result, the trade has been scrambling to get as much grain as possible out the door as soon as possible, lest the door slam shut. The result has been to sell too soon, too cheaply, driving prices down not only for Russian and Ukrainian farmers but also for other exporting nations.
With drought in the Black Sea region, the United States and Australia this year, world grain prices are well above last year's levels, but they have nonetheless been depressed from what they would have been. It is a temporary buying opportunity, perhaps, but also a more unstable market for buyers.
Everyone in the grain trade expects Russian and Ukrainian exports to come to a halt quite soon and that world prices will have to rise to draw supplies out of Europe and North America (see Wheat Letter, Sept. 13, 2012).
Russia and Ukraine's approach has served to push their grain sales at post-harvest lows and to be out of the market if and when prices are higher later. That is not a strategy designed to maximize returns to the Black Sea wheat supply chain.
If, however, Black Sea area farmers and exporters could have been certain no export restraints would be imposed, they could have held some grain back from the market in the hope of higher prices, and their cadence of export would have more efficiently spread their grain movement out through the rest of the year.
Every time governments meddle in the marketplace, or even if the trade just thinks that such meddling is likely, the wrong price signals go to every player in that market. Trade flows differently than it would have — a clear trade distortion — and even worse, faulty investments are made.
The promise of open trade is to maximize resources for everyone, but when governments interfere, some part of those resources is inevitably wasted. This is as true of import curbs and trade distorting domestic support as it is of export restraints.
Perhaps if the World Trade Organization (WTO) members ever get serious about concluding the Doha round, proposed measures in the latest negotiating text to discipline export restrictions and prohibitions will result in a better trade environment.
In the meantime, the uncertainty created by the potential of further Russian and Ukrainian meddling in the grain market is distorting those markets and adding volatility to world prices.


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Miami, FL – Juan Pierre scored the game-winning run on Brandon Lyon's ninth-inning, bases-loaded wild pitch, as the Miami Marlins again rallied for a 2-1 victory over the slumping New York Mets in the middle test of a three-game set at Marlins Park.
Chris Coghlan and Juan Pierre reached safely to put runners on the corners to open up the ninth, Donovan Solano poked an RBI single to right to tie the game. Lyon, who was dealt with a blown save, then replaced starter Jeremy Hefner and was forced to intentionally walk Placido Polanco. His breaking ball attempt in the dirt, though, scooted past Anthony Recker to easily score Pierre for the game-winner.
The N.L. East rivals met less than 24 hours following Monday's 15-inning, 5- hour, 31-minute marathon which the Marlins won, 4-3. Tuesday's game, however, lasted just 2 hours and 25 minutes.
Miami, which has won three straight, saw starter Kevin Slowey last eight innings and allow a run on eight hits. Ryan Webb (1-1) picked up the win with a perfect ninth.
"We're trying to find ways to win," Pierre said. "We found all the ways to lose. Now we're trying to get on the winning side."
Recker's sacrifice fly in the fifth proved to be the only offense for the Mets, who extended their season-high losing streak to six games and once again let a late lead slip away versus the Marlins. Hefner (0-3) tossed eight-plus innings and was tabbed for two runs on four hits, though he did strikeout eight in defeat.
"That's my job to go out and give length, go deep in the games, and for the most part, I did that," Hefner said. "I wish I could have finished it, though."
In similar fashion to Monday's game-tying ninth-inning rally, Miami broke out the bats when it mattered most. Coghlan led off the frame with a pinch-hit single and quickly advanced to second on Hefner's wild pitch.
The Mets looked to catch a break as the next batter, Pierre, dropped a bunt down in front of home plate and Recker attempted to throw Coghlan out at third. David Wright applied the tag as Coghlan appeared to overslide the base, but was ruled safe to keep runners on the corners with no outs.
"Sometimes the calls go your way, sometimes they don't," Wright added. "What we need to do a better job of is offensively going out there and scoring more runs. You can't expect to win games, 1-0."
New York's only offense came in the fifth. Daniel Murphy smacked a leadoff double and Ike Davis followed with a deep fly to center which moved Murphy to third. Recker then made it 1-0 with a sac fly to left.
Game Notes
Hefner's last victory came versus Miami on October 3, 2012 ... The Mets have lost in all of his six starts this season ... Slowey is still searching for his first win since September 18, 2010, while with Minnesota ... Miami outfielder Giancarlo Stanton was sent to the 15-day disabled list Tuesday with a strained hamstring he suffered in Monday's win ... It's the Marlins' first three-game winning streak since July 4-6 of last season ... The Mets have scored 11 total runs during the losing skid.


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"My Scottish Borders"
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THE FAIR LILLIARD andLilliardsedge is a high point on the main road north to Edinburgh and takes its name from The Fair LILLIARD. She fought with the Scots at the Battle of Ancrum and her grave carries the rather gory inscription:
Little was her stature
But muckle was her fame
Upon the English loons
She made many thumps
And when her legs were cuttit off
She fought upon her stumps
["muckle" means"big"]
Three miles form my home is LEADERFOOT VIADUCT spanning the 90 mile long River Tweed near its junction with one of its many tributaries - the Leader Water. The viaduct, built to carry the Berwickshire Railway, stands 116 feet above the river bed and each of its 19 arches has a 43 foot span. The railway bridge opened in 1865 with the last train running over it just a hundred years later.
- Henry Francis LYTE (1793-1847) wrote two of the most popular hymns still sung today - "Abide with Me" and "Praise my Soul, the King of Heaven" - and he was a Borderer born at Ednam, near Kelso, Roxburghshire. After studying at Trinity College, Dublin, he took Anglican holy orders and served in parishes across the south of England.
- The Lee Enfield Rifle - the supreme weapon of infantrymen was designed by Borderer James Paris LEE (1831-1904). He was born in Hawick, Roxburghshire and emigrated with his parents to Canada where initially he followed in his father's footsteps to become a watchmaker. He then set up the Lee Firearms Company. The Lee Enfield - bolt-action, magazine fed and repeating rifle - was the main firearm of Britain and the Empire, adopted in 1895 and used until 1957.
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through the Scottish Borders
M is for
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The Scottish Borders
The old counties of Berwickshire, Peeblesshire, Roxburghshire & Selkirkshire
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A-Z Challenge E - Elliots, Earlston, Enigma Hero & Eyemouth Tart
A-Z Challenge F - Flodden, Fletcher and Flowers of the Forest
A-Z Challenge G - A Green & Pleasant Land and Galashiels
A-Z Challenge H - Hermitage Castle and Hawick
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Along with its phenomenally expensive 645D - a snip at just £10,000 - Pentax also confirmed the launch of the K-5 at the Photokina show in Cologne.
Based on the K-7, the new interchangeable lens digital SLR camera will cost £1199.99 and comes with an 18-55mm WR kit lens. It also boasts a new high-speed, low-noise CMOS 16.28 effective megapixels image sensor with the company's PRIME II imaging engine.
There's an extra-wide sensitivity range between ISO 80 and ISO 51200 (when expanded via a custom function) and full HD-proportion movie recording at 1920 x 1080 pixels to expand the boundaries of high-quality visual presentation.
Adding other improvements and refinements — such as a faster autofocusing speed, an upgraded HDR (High Dynamic Range) function now usable in handheld shooting, Pentax claim this is a "better camera" all-round.
Backing up what the company says, the K-5 certainly felt good in the hand and is designed to be functional if a little on the boxy side. The external mic socket is a good inclusion and there's a certain industrial look and clunk to the mode selector dial on the top and the side switches as well.
The K-5 will be available from mid-late October 2010.
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By Catalyst Yogi
"The whole world may give you support...but if your own mind does not support you, you will not be in a position to do anything in life.
Your own mind cannot be controlled and guided and give you the support until it is brought to a discipline. That word which brings a mind to a discipline to support you is called "Mantra." Man-Tra: to bring discipline to the mind."
-Yogi Bhajan 6/25/87
Mind can drag you down into the pit of hell or exalt you into the heavens. Mind can spin you into heart pounding anxiety or into peaceful loving compassion for all.
The power of the mind is incredible, and without meditation it is like giving a child a high powered race car without proper instruction. Our mind crashes us into life by creating drama, conflict and just overall bad decisions. Our mind can have us spinning our wheels by distracting us with useless, albeit entertaining information.
There are so many juicy distractions for the mind in this information age—facebook, e-mail, texting and googling. Everything Yogi Bhajan predicted is coming to fruition—all information is available to us with a few keyboard strokes and a credit card. So the issue is no longer about finding the information; it is about bringing a level of consciousness to face all of these distractions. In this way you KNOW what information is true and right to serve your Soul's destiny.
Mantra is a powerful technology given to us by the ancients to cultivate our consciousness. Mantra gives focus to the mind. Mantra is the discipline for the mind. Discipline comes from the root word disciple which comes from the Latin word meaning learner or follower. Mantra focuses your mind so that it follows you—not the other way around.
As we enter the Aquarian Age we are shifting our authority from our mind to the Soul. That means we can no longer use our mind to make our decisions for us. As a human species we are evolving past mental awareness into a self-sensory awareness system. The mind will not give up its authority so easily and you may have already experienced its protestations when you have chosen to listen to your intuition instead. Mantra is the tool to assist you in gracefully making this transition.
It is a good idea to choose a pran sutra, a mantra that is personal to you. You will know it is yours because you will have a deep resonance with it when you vibrate it.
Whenever your mind starts spinning out of control, this mantra will bring it back to its true role which is as the servant of your destiny. If you practice it diligently, it will penetrate into your subconscious mind and it will become part of you. For example, if you are in danger—a car cuts in front of you—it will be the pran sutra on your lips and not a cuss word. And at that moment when you take your last breath, your mind will serve you by vibrating this mantra to take you back home to the Infinite.
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I think John Howe is pretty much the undisputed master of straight-up high fantasy art:
There was an 18th century Italian guy called Piranesi, who did these amazing phantasmagoric drawings of impossible 'prisons', and which were obviously a big influence on Escher:
Nicholas Roerich is worth a look, too.
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New Guidance on Clinical Trial Design in Developing Treatment for HIV Infection
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued new guidance intended to assist sponsors in the clinical development of drugs for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Specifically, this guidance addresses the AgencyÕs current thinking regarding designs of clinical trials that use HIV ribonucleic acid (RNA) measurements to support accelerated and traditional approvals of antiretroviral drug products. It is also intended to serve as a focus for continued discussions among the Division of Antiviral Drug Products (DAVDP), pharmaceutical sponsors, the academic community, and the public.
The draft version of this document, first posted in August 1999, was based on a DAVDP advisory committee meeting, convened in July 1997, to discuss the use of HIV RNA endpoints for traditional approval of antiretroviral drugs. This document has been updated to address public comments to the draft version and to include pertinent information from a DAVDP advisory committee meeting, convened in January 2001, to address issues relating to trial design in heavily treatment experienced HIV-infected patients.
This guidance does not address specific phase-1 and phase-2 development issues, development of alternate dosing regimens, or the use of HIV-1 resistance testing. These issues will be addressed separately in future guidance documents.
In addition to consulting guidance documents, sponsors are encouraged to contact the division to discuss specific issues that arise during the development of an antiretroviral drug product.
Accelerated approvals of antiretroviral drugs have been based for years on changes in surrogate endpoints, such as CD4 cell counts and plasma HIV RNA levels. Traditional approvals were based on clinical endpoint trials assessing the effects of a drug on mortality and/or HIV disease progression. With the availability of potent antiretroviral drug regimens and sensitive assays for assessing plasma HIV RNA, the standards of clinical practice evolved to a paradigm emphasizing maximal and durable HIV RNA suppression. In addition, with the successes of combination therapy and the subsequent decline of HIV-related illnesses (Palella et al., 1998; Hogg et al., 1999), it became clear that a requirement for clinical endpoint studies for every traditional approval was no longer necessary nor feasible.
In July 1997, the Agency convened an advisory committee meeting to consider the use of changes in HIV RNA levels as endpoints in clinical trials supporting traditional approval of antiretrovirals. To evaluate the feasibility of using HIV RNA levels as a study endpoint, a collaborative group of pharmaceutical, academic, and government scientists investigated relationships between treatment-induced changes in HIV RNA and clinical endpoints from ongoing and completed antiretroviral trials (Murray et al., 1999; Hill et al., 1998). In several analyses of more than 5000 patients in multiple trials, a clear association was identified between initial decreases in plasma HIV RNA levels and reduction in the risk of clinical progression and death. This relationship was observed across a range of patient characteristics including pretreatment CD4 counts and HIV RNA levels, prior drug experience, and treatment regimen. Based on these data, the Division of Antiviral Drug Products advisory committee concurred that treatment-induced decreases in HIV RNA levels were highly predictive of meaningful clinical benefit and that HIV RNA measurements could serve as endpoints in trials designed to support both accelerated and traditional approvals. The Division proposed that accelerated approvals could be based on studies that show a drugÕs contribution toward shorter-term reductions in HIV RNA (e.g., 24 weeks) while traditional approvals could be based on trials that show a drugÕs contribution toward durability of HIV RNA suppression (e.g., for at least 48 weeks). The committee agreed with this proposal and also recommended that changes in CD4 cell counts be consistent with observed HIV RNA changes when considering approval of an antiretroviral drug.
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Lactobacillus Bulgaricus
Veterinarian Reviewed on June 20, 2012 by Paulina Nelega, RH
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Lactobacillus Bulgaricus
Lactobacillus bulgaricus, previously classified as Lactobacillus delbrueckii subspecies bulgaricus; is a beneficial bacterium that is primarily used in the proper manufacturing of yoghurt and cheeses. It can be found in products that are naturally fermented. It is a rod shaped Gram-positive bacteria that requires a low pH level to grow and flourish effectively.
Lactobacillus bulgaricus is used together with Streptococcus thermophilus for making yoghurt. It is often called beneficial bacteria as it is also used to kill bad bacteria and yeast infections as well. This method is called Probiotics treatment and it is very much used in modern medicine.
History and Origin
Lactobacillus bulgaricus was first discovered by a Bulgarian doctor named Stamen Grigorov in 1905. It was a first seen as a promising way to preserve milk since it feeds on lactose that in turn produces lactic acid. A French professor, Ilya Metchnikoff, from the well known Pasteur Institute in Paris, studied the relation of longevity in Hungarians and their love of consuming yoghurt; he concluded that it was the fortified content of yoghurt that fight microbes which produce harmful toxins in the intestine.
Ancient Uses
The advantages of probiotic treatment were not heard of during the ancient times. Ancient cultures merely used a decoction of different herbs to use for many illnesses of the gastrointestinal system.
Modern Uses
The fantastic ability of Lactobacillus bulgaricus to withstand the grueling digestive process and building colonies of good bacteria in the intestines is why it is utilized in probiotic treatments today. Lactobacillus bulgaricus actually has the ability to help keep bad bacteria, viruses, fungus, yeast and other toxins at bay and ultimately promotes much better digestion and nutrient absorption by the digestive tract.
Lactobacillus bulgaricus also has the unique ability to produce antibiotics and it can live in your digestive tract where it works to prevent food borne diseases and digestive tract infections from occuring. In people who are on a diet, detoxification of the entire body starts with colon cleansing. Colon cleansing products have fiber that sweeps the colon clean from toxins and bacteria; after this process, a good supply of Lactobacillus bulgaricus is often the next step to making the gastrointestinal tract healthy again, plus it also aids in the absorption of nutrients as well.
There are many dairy products that contain Lactobacillus bulgaricus and strains of Lactobacillus Acidophilus; yoghurt, cheeses, milk products and milk drinks are stepping ahead above all the other food groups as a way to have a healthier digestive system.
Side Effects
There are no significant side effects when you take in milk products fortified with Lactobacillus bulgaricus. Even pregnant and breastfeeding mothers can benefit from the health giving goodness of milk drinks and yoghurt with live strains of this good bacteria.
Although some people experience stomach pain and gas production after drinking or eating yoghurt with strains of this good bacteria, these minor side effects may just go away on their own through regular daily intake of food or drinks with Lactobacillus bulgaricus.
It is advised to seek expert advice in dieting, complete body detoxification and the use of probiotic treatment from a medical expert or qualified herbalist to achieve desired results.
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Of Azog's origins we know little; he was the chief of the Orcs of Moria, and apparently the most important Orc of the northern lands. The average lifespan of an Orc is unknown, but it is conceivable that he was one of those sent to Moria by Sauron in about T.A. 2480. He had one son that we know of, Bolg, who succeeded him after his death.
Azog entered history in the year T.A. 2790 due to King Thrór's desire to revisit and perhaps refound the lost realm of Khazad-dûm, in whose mighty ruins Azog dwelt. Azog captured and slew Thrór, and branded his hewn head with his own name, "AZOG". He flung the head at Nár, then a money purse containing "few coins of little worth", warning that he would tolerate no future Dwarf beggars entering his domain at Moria.
When news of this reached Thrór's heir Thráin, he was greatly angered, and mustered a force of Dwarves to seek revenge on Azog. So began the War of the Dwarves and Orcs: the Dwarves hunted Azog, and many battles were fought beneath the earth. After nine years of war, the climactic Battle of Azanulbizar was fought before the gates of Moria itself.
King Thráin II and his son Thorin were in that battle (it was here that Thorin gained the surname Oakenshield). Near the end of the battle, Azog himself emerged and fought with Thráin's cousin Náin and, after breaking Náin's neck, his young son Dáin. Though only 32 years old, Dáin swept the head from Azog's shoulders, and helped to win the day. Azog's head was impaled on a spike, with the same coin-filled purse stuffed in his mouth that he had flung at Nár after he killed Thrór nine years before.
The Dwarves made no attempt to press their advantage, though, because Dáin had glimpsed Durin's Bane during his battle, and warned the Dwarves not to attempt to enter Moria. Azog's underground dominions in the north, though greatly reduced in the War, fell to his son Bolg, who held them for more than 150 years until he too met his end at the Battle of Five Armies.
The meaning and origin of the name Azog is unknown. It is most likely a name in the Black Speech (e.g., the similarity between azog and nazg), though Mágol may also be a possibility.[4]
Portrayal in Adaptations
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- Azog will be played by Conan Stevens.[5]
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "An Unexpected Party"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "The Clouds Burst"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "Durin's Folk"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, John D. Rateliff (ed.), The History of The Hobbit, Return to Bag End, p. 787, note 38
- ↑ Peter Jackson, "Casting News for The Hobbit" dated 19 May 2011, Facebook (accessed 23 December 2011)


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Netanyahu tells Obama Israel may attack Iran alone if necessary
WASHINGTON — Highlighting their different views of the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program, President Barack Obama insisted Monday that diplomacy still has time to halt the effort, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reasserted Israel's right to take unilateral military action, saying the Jewish state must remain "the master of its fate."
Obama spent two hours in discussion with Netanyahu that was dominated by the crisis over the nuclear program that Iran claims is for peaceful purposes and that the United States, Israel and other powers charge is covertly developing the capability to build nuclear weapons.
A new report by a former U.N. nuclear inspector said that it is unlikely that Iran will move to build a warhead this year. But the report added that Iran could now build a crude bomb and that only a "negotiated long-term diplomatic resolution" can ensure that it doesn't break out of the international treaty designed to halt the spread of nuclear arms.
Speaking with reporters before their talks, Obama and Netanyahu were more relaxed with each other compared to their last meeting, in May 2011, when Obama sat silently as Netanyahu sternly rejected a U.S. plan to revive stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Yet Netanyahu left no doubt about the seriousness of Monday's talks. Looking directly at Obama, he reiterated Israel's right to take unilateral military action against Iran's nuclear facilities, which the Jewish state — estimated to have several hundred nuclear warheads of its own that it refuses to acknowledge officially — views as an existential threat.
He didn't once refer to international sanctions aimed at compelling Iran to comply with U.N. demands to suspend uranium enrichment — which produces fuel for reactors and bombs — or European-led diplomatic efforts aimed at trading a halt to the program for financial and other incentives.
"Israel must have the ability always to defend itself by itself against any threat," Netanyahu said. "After all, that's the very purpose of the Jewish state: to restore to the Jewish people control over our destiny. And that's why my supreme responsibility is to ensure that Israel remains the master of its fate."
He was expected to repeat that theme in an evening speech to the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, an influential pro-Israel lobbying group.
Addressing the 13,000 conference attendees on Sunday, Obama insisted that he wouldn't hesitate to use force to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, although he thinks there's time yet for economic sanctions and diplomacy to bring Iran to terms before resorting to force. He also said that he is not pursuing a containment policy, the approach the United States used for decades to check the influence of the nuclear-armed Soviet Union.
As he and Netanyahu sat next to each other Monday in straight-backed chairs in the Oval Office, Obama repeated those positions, as well as U.S. concerns that a nuclear-armed Iran would spark an arms race in the oil-rich Middle East, and he raised the possibility of Tehran slipping a warhead to a terrorist group.
"That's why we have worked so diligently to set up the most crippling sanctions ever with respect to Iran," Obama said. "We do believe that there is still a window that allows for a diplomatic resolution to this issue, but ultimately the Iranians' regime has to make a decision to move in that direction, a decision that they have not made thus far."
Netanyahu told Obama that Iran sees no difference between the United States and Israel.
"For them, you are the Great Satan, we're the Little Satan. For them we are you and you are us," he said.
It was clear, however, that Obama wants to avoid using military force, concerned that striking Iran's nuclear facilities wouldn't terminate its program and would trigger Iranian retaliation, such as blockading petroleum shipments through the Persian Gulf, which would deal a blow to the still-shaky global economy.
He said that he would continue working "on the diplomatic front" to tighten sanctions that the U.S. says are beginning to hurt Iran seriously, creating a hard currency shortage that has interrupted the oil sales on which the Iranian economy depends and forcing a devaluation of Iran's currency.
A senior White House official, who insisted on anonymity to discuss the talks, said the U.S. assessment is that Iran doesn't yet have the ability to assemble a warhead. Tehran would first have to expel U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors before proceeding, which would alert the international community, he said.
The Israelis, however, fear that Iran is entering a "zone of immunity" beyond which its nuclear facilities will be too heavily defended for Israel to destroy, and they think that only the U.S. military has the ability to take them out.
"The U.S. sees that we have time, we have superior military capabilities, we have time to see if sanctions play themselves out," said David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a pro-Israel think tank. "The Israeli fear is that you might not know if they convert" their facilities from producing low-enriched uranium to producing the highly enriched uranium required for a bomb.
In his new report, former U.N. nuclear inspector David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security said that Iran already has the ability to make highly enriched uranium and a crude nuclear weapon.
But, the report continued, sanctions, covert intelligence operations and intense international scrutiny of the Iranian program have dissuaded Tehran from building a warhead, and it is "unlikely" to do so in 2012 "in large part because it will remain deterred from doing so."
Only "a negotiated long-term resolution" can ensure that Iran doesn't build nuclear weapons, the report said. It called for a combination of tougher sanctions and "creative diplomatic methods of achieving a compromise," such as reviving a proposal to freeze sanctions in return for Iran freezing uranium enrichment.
Iran's newest nuclear advances could stoke tensions
After killings of Iranian nuclear scientists, Israeli diplomats targeted
U.S. imposes new sanctions on Iran, turning up heat
Iranian leader dismisses sanctions, warns U.S. against war


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Dog Sports protection dog tournament
This tournament will be directed at all dog trainers, handlers, and will offer the unique opportunity for a decoy competition as well!
Entrants will not have to be members of any organization. Entries are open to all breeds, including mixes. You may enter as many classes as you wish. An exception: A dog handler team that won any previous year's competition will not be allowed to enter the same level, Unless it was advanced.
Judging will be based on how well the dog gets the job done. The obedience portion will be judged by the normal standards for obedience. Penalties will be given for extra commands, tight leash, forging, lagging, and wide.
The protection portion will be judged by a panel of judges. This panel will consist of at least two judges to observe the dog and handler, and another to observe the decoys' work. A consensus score will be obtained at the end of each exercise. Points will be given or lost based on accuracy of the performance, control, willingness to engage, and of course, to out on command.
All decoys will be wearing a full body suit. There will be no penalty for dogs that bite arms, or legs, but the decoy will be instructed to work as if he/she does not have a suit on. No bites will be "fed" to the dog, and the decoy will not "freeze" on the outs.
When gun fire is utilized, it will be 38 blanks, "Hollywood" loads. These are somewhat louder than the .22s commonly used by some clubs. There will be three levels of competition. Beginners, intermediate, and advanced. All work in the beginners level is ON LEASH, including the obedience. Each dog will have to perform the same obedience, the exception will be that at the intermediate and advanced level, the dog will be off leash. The advanced obedience will contain different distractions than the beginners and intermediate.
The ninth annual Dog Sports Open is being held August 18-19, 2007. The theme for this year is "Jail Break"! Please make sure you bring your own theme music, or risk Cheryl Carlson picking it for you!
If you are anywhere near St. Johns, Michigan, I highly recommend you make the drive to watch this tournament! We went last year and it was FANTASTIC!!!
Here are my writeups from last year's tournament. I never did the advanced thread.


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THE MYXO FILE PART III Now Available on Kindle Direct Publishing
The FDA 510(k) process is a complex process allowing Companies to apply or to not apply for a new 510(k) application. The Myxo File: Part III, Published January 24, 2013 just released through Kindle Direct Publishing will provide documents from the FDA, SEC and the US patent office action to further understand the issues that go into heart device manufacturing in the US patients. It will help the patients further understand how the FDA process works, and who is protecting their interests in the operating room.
"The patients need to understand this process and the Myxo File Part III provides a step-by-step chart for a patient to ask the important questions prior to going for open heart surgery," says author Nalini Marie Rajamannan M. D. Sacred Heart Cardiology, Chicago, IL.
"My book will help to educate the citizens of the United States of America and Globally to ask the important questions prior to open heart surgery as to whether the device that will be used to repair their valve is FDA registered, cleared, approved, investigational or none of the above."
Rajamannan was inspired to create the Myxo File when the documents she accumulated over a five year quest to get the information regarding the patients ended with a search of the US SEC website. The Filings indicate the chronology of disclosures of the medical device to investors. "With my electronic file and 3-Agency Chart, you still have to take action, and ask your physicians whether you are about to be included in a clinical study to test devices prior to FDA clearance, but at least the citizens of the United States will have a guidepost to help them ask the right questions."
Nalini M. Rajamannan is a cardiologist at Sacred Heart Cardiology, Sheboygan, WI, and Chicago, IL. She is the CEO of ConcieValve LLC, and recently published her textbook on Cardiac Valvular Medicine, Springer Publisher. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN and Mayo Medical School and Mayo Graduate School, Rochester, MN for all of her medical training. She is the chair of the recently published position statement from the NHLBI, NIH working group on Calcific Aortic Valve Disease. Dr. Rajamannan has published an International Clinical trial on the effects of statins in slowing the progression of aortic valve disease in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology with her colleagues from Spain and Portugal.
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- Museums around the globe offer year-round peeks into the history of high style
- Museo Salvatore Ferragamo in Florence, Italy, specializes in shoes worn by the stars
- Museo de la Moda in Santiago, Chile, is the only fashion museum in South America
- Tassen Museum Hendrikje in Amsterdam holds 4,000 purses, trunks and accessories
The women's spring 2013 runway shows have wrapped up in New York, London and Milan and Paris, previewing what's newest and next in ready-to-wear. But a handful of fashion museums — from the Big Apple to Amsterdam to Kobe, Japan — offer year-round peeks into the history of high style.
Thanks to their rotating exhibitions and permanent collections, they help visitors connect the cultural dots between the history of fashion and what's happening now. You don't have to be a designer-obsessed fashionista to check them out.
"Everybody from a 2-year-old child to a grandmother has a sense of the role of fashion in their lives," says Dr. Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, whose New York exhibitions include "Gothic: Dark Glamour;" "Love & War: The Weaponized Woman" and "The Corset: Fashioning the Body." "People get information about fashion from so many sources. The museum is just one more medium, but it's outside the commercial realm. We're not trying to sell them anything—just to inspire them."
Fashion museums, whether in the United States, South America, Europe or Asia, tend to specialize in certain aspects of style. In The Netherlands, Amsterdam's Tassen Museum Hendrikje is all about bags and purses; thanks to its namesake's footwear roots, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo in Florence, Italy, offers a well-heeled walk through Hollywood. Others, like The Museum at FIT (which considers itself a "think tank," Steele says) not only stage chronological and historical exhibits and yearly symposiums, but also introduce visitors to student-created fashion collections.
"All of the time, we try to reach out to make it accessible to the general public, as well as for students, industry professionals and fashion connoisseurs," says Steele, a professor and author who The New York Times has called a "High-Heeled Historian." "We go the extra mile about not just showing pretty dresses, but to think about what they mean in the cultural sense. I'm a great believer that fashion is not something superficial, but a part of our culture and history."
Here's a glimpse of the sartorial style you'll find at 10 of the world's top fashion museums. Click through examples of the museums' offerings in the gallery above.
Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Florence, Italy
Florence, Italy
Housed just downstairs from the company's flagship boutique on Florence's ultra-chic Via dei Tornabuoni, the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo pays tribute to this legendary Italian fashion company's products -- and the global celebrities who helped make them famous. Naples-born Salvatore Ferragamo became "shoemaker to the stars" in the 1920s after opening a shop in Hollywood. With rotating exhibitions like "Marilyn" and an impressively displayed permanent collection of Ferragamo's iconic footwear, this museum is a must-see for the casual and footwear-obsessed fashion follower.
Museo de la Moda
Santiago, Chile
Santiago, Chile
Founded in 1999 by Jorge Yarur Bascuñán, a descendant of wealthy Chilean-Palestinian textile merchants, the privately funded Museo de la Moda boasts an impressive 10,000-piece collection. With pieces acquired through auctions and donations, the Museo, the only fashion museum in South America, is in the Yarur Bascuñán historic family home. Its collection, which dates back to 5 B.C., includes the military jacket John Lennon wore during a LIFE Magazine photo shoot in 1966 and the strapless black evening gown then-Lady Diana wore in 1981 during her first public appearance after her engagement to Britain's Prince Charles.
The Costume Institute at the world-famous Met houses more than 35,000 costumes and accessories, a collection spanning five continents and dating back 500 years. Actress Sarah Jessica Parker narrates the Institute's audio guide, "Costume: The Art of Dress," which highlights the cultural significance of fashion throughout the ages. The museum stages at least one special exhibition each year, with recent ones including 2004's "Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century;" 2006's "AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion" and 2010's "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity."
The Museum at FIT
New York
New York
Housed at Manhattan's famed Fashion Institute of Technology, The Museum at FIT is known for its innovative and award-winning special exhibitions. In July, it earned accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums, the highest national recognition possible for a museum. Founded in the late 1960s, it is visited by 100,000 people each year. With a permanent collection of 50,000 garments and accessories from the 18th century to the present, the Museum at FIT places an emphasis on "aesthetically and historically significant 'directional' clothing, with an eye toward contemporary avant-garde fashion.
Kent State University Museum
Kent, Ohio
Kent, Ohio
Housed on a university campus in northeast Ohio, the Kent State Museum contains important collections of fashion and decorative arts, with eight galleries featuring rotating exhibitions of work by artists and designers. Affiliated with Kent State's Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising, the museum gives students an up-close-and-personal look at historic and contemporary fashion and costumes from global cultures. Accredited by the American Association of Museums, Kent State's collections span from the 17th to the 21st centuries.
Kobe Fashion Museum
Kobe, Japan
Kobe, Japan
"The first museum in Japan to specialize in fashion," the Kobe Fashion Museum houses materials open to students, industry professionals and those working in the business of fashion. The museum's fifth floor offers a space for young people to gather for events and entertainment, designed to promote "a new culture of fashion in Kobe." The collection here not only includes garments from Asia, but also from around the world.
Les Arts Décoratifs
Located in the west wing of the world-famous Louvre museum, Les Arts Décoratifs houses three museums in one: Arts Décoratifs, Publicité and Mode et Textile — and it's this one that's home to temporary but dramatic fashion exhibitions. The currently staged "Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs" traces the careers of the French-born creator of 19th-century trunks and accessories and the American designer who spent 15 years as artistic director at the house Vuitton built. With more than 81,000 works, the two-floor Mode et Textile space owns collections of design legends including Paul Poiret, Christian Dior and Elsa Schiaparelli.
Fashion Museum
Bath, United Kingdom
Bath, United Kingdom
The English town of Bath seems an unlikely place for a museum dedicated to high style, but it has been home to the Fashion Museum (formerly the Museum of Costume) since 1963. About 100,000 visitors come each year to check out its annually rotating exhibitions, guided tours and interactive displays. A bonus: family-friendly "dressing up activities," in which kids can try on replica archery costumes and Victorian garb over their own clothes.
Tassen Museum Hendrikje
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
With 4,000 bags, purses, trunks, pouches, cases and accessories, this Dutch museum claims to have the "world's largest bag collection." It certainly has got some of the world's most interesting ones. Located in a traditional central Amsterdam canal house, the Tassen Museum boasts Western-style handbags dating back 500 years. Beyond hosting exhibitions of contemporary bag designers from the Netherlands and abroad, the Tassen offers bag-designing workshops, kids' bag-decorating birthday parties, and afternoon tea in one of its elegantly decorated 17th and 18th century period rooms.
ModeMuseum Province of Antwerp (MoMu)
Antwerp, Belgium
Antwerp, Belgium
The second-largest Belgian city is known for its sense of style and hipster cool, so it makes sense that a museum celebrating fashion is housed here. A totally renovated 19th century space is the backdrop for ModeMuseum's thematic exhibitions, which showcase specific designers or fashion-related topics. Rather than parking items in glass cases, curators tailor the museum's interior spaces to the feel of each exhibition, adding a larger cultural context to the fashion that's on display.


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A galaxy of cinema luminaries from Ken Loach and Ettore Scola to Wim Wenders and Bernardo Bertolucci pay tribute to the great Italian cinematographer Carlo di Palma, in this loving documentary that chronicles di Palmas extraordinary work for such directors as Elio Petri, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Woody Allen.
Directors and actors receive all the attention, but one of the key collaborators when making a film is the person behind the camera: the director of photography, or cinematographer.
Over the history of cinema there have been some extraordinary cinematographers. Pre-eminent amongst these names is that of Carlo Di Palma.
But, as this finely crafted tribute to Di Palma shows, his life and career ran even deeper than the extraordinary contributions he made to cinema.


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Stranger Danger Kids Safety Show
April 26, 1:30 PMSissonville Branch Library
Type: Special Events
Age: Pre-K 3-5 Years
Topic: Entertainment, Magic
For the Week of the Young Child (April 24-28, 2017), local magician and performer Robert Edsel Young presents the Stranger Danger Kids Safety Show. Designed specifically for preschoolers, this show is filled with magic and puppets while educating young children about personal safety. Topics are "Stranger Danger," "Calling 911," and "What to do if you get lost." Mr. Young has been performing throughout West Virginia for more than 30 years. Call your local library for more information. Sponsored by The Friends of The Library Foundation.
Location Details: Sissonville Library meeting room
Presenter Name: Robert Edsel Young
Contact Name: Terri McDougal
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PotterCast is the official podcast of The Leaky Cauldron website. PotterCast is hosted by Melissa Anelli, Sue Upton, John Noe and Frankie Franco III.
Notable interviews and appearances
- J. K. Rowling - interviewed in episode #130 and 131
- Arthur A. Levine - Editor of the American editions of the Harry Potter books and the person widely credited with bringing Potter to America.[1][2] Episode #22 -#24
- Cheryl Klein - Continuity editor of the American editions of the Harry Potter books. Often mentioned as "Hottt Cheryl" in throwaway references. Appeared as a co-host, participating in all segments of the show. Episode #47
- Matthew Lewis - Actor who plays Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter film franchise. Matt appeared for an extended interview that was spread out over three weeks. He also spoke to fans via a call-in show. He voiced the intro for a time before Deathly Hallows was released. Episode #51- #53
- Rupert Grint - Actor who plays Ron Weasley. Voiced the intro for episodes 112-129.
- Jamie Waylett - Actor who plays Vincent Crabbe. Appeared as a co-host of the show, spending the entire hour with the PotterCasters. Episode #31
- Bonnie Wright - Actress who plays Ginny Weasley. Episode #1
- Evanna Lynch - Actress who plays Luna Lovegood. Participated in a call-in discussion show. Episode #69
- Chris Columbus - Director of the first two Potter films.
- Alfonso Cuarón - Director of the third Potter film.
- Mike Newell - Director of the fourth Potter film.
- Stuart Craig - Art director on all Potter films
- Chris Rankin - Actor who plays Percy Weasley. Chris has appeared on the show a few times, including hosting a game show and appearing as a live call-in guest.
- Joe Walker, Brian Holden and Dylan Saunders - Actors in A Very Potter Musical and A Very Potter Sequel. They played Voldemort/Umbridge, Professor Lupin and Dumbledore respectively.
- M. Night Shyamalan - Director of "The Sixth Sense," and "Unbreakable." Discussed, amongst other things, what he would do if offered the chance to direct a Potter film. Episode #48
- Matt Birch and Justin Manning - Producers for the Order of the Phoenix computer game from EA Games.
- Danny Bilson - Producer, writer, and director. Worked on the initial creation of the Harry Potter video games.
- Laura Mallory - Georgia woman attempting to ban Potter books from school libraries for religious reasons. Episode #119
- Duff Goldman - Owner of Charm City Cakes, who created a cake for the LA premiere of Order of the Phoenix.
- John and Hank Green - The VlogBrothers of YouTube fame
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Invasive weeds represent one of the most significant threats to the economy and ecology of the United States, causing billions of dollars in damage each year to farms and ranches and degrading millions of acres of critical wildlife habitat. NFWF's Pulling Together Initiative provides modest grants to help local communities effectively manage these plant invaders.
The Pulling Together Initiative is one of the only public-private partnerships to address invasive weeds nationally. Pulling Together Initiative grants are intended to help support the creation of local cooperative weed management area partnerships. Such partnerships bring together local landowners, citizens groups and weed experts to develop and implement strategies for managing weed infestations on public lands, natural areas, and private working lands.
Funding priorities for this program include:
Since 1997, this program has awarded approximately $24 million to 650 projects. Leveraged by an additional $51 million in partner contributions, these grants have resulted in a total of $75 million for local communities fighting invasive weeds. The Pulling Together Initiative has facilitated the creation of cooperative weed management areas in 16 different states, greatly improving not only national invasive weed management, but state weed management. Cooperative weed management areas typically range in size from the county level to the multi-county and watershed level.
Major funding for the Pulling Together Initiative is provided by the Bureau of Land Management, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and USDA Forest Service. All awards must be matched by non-federal contributions from project partners, either cash or in-kind, on at least a 1:1 basis.


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Julia De Lucia is a Porn Star from Spain. She was born in Romania on February 6, 1990. She is listed on FreeOnes since 2011 and is currently ranked 9075th place. She currently has 232 gallery links and 46 videos in her own FreeOnes section.
Our records show that Julia De Lucia is currently active which means she is still making movies, doing live shows and/or doing photo shoots.


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Our sources say DJ AM, a recovering addict, developed a dependency to Xanax and other benzodiazepines (a group of drugs used to treat anxiety) as a direct result of the plane crash a year ago. We're told AM (aka Adam Goldstein) developed a tremendous anxiety over flying -- something he had to do frequently for his job.
We're told doctors began prescribing Xanax and other anti-anxiety medications to relieve his fear, but the benzos triggered a relapse into addiction. We're told benzos are particularly dicey for recovering addicts.
Our sources say DJ AM's relapse was "recent" -- he was not abusing for a prolonged period of time before his death.
We're also told the OD had "absolutely nothing to do with his recent breakup."
Our sources say the evidence strongly indicates cause of death will be a combination of crack cocaine and benzos.


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