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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Working with the 0.03 multiliner
0.03 mm Multiliner
One of the unique tools Copic makes is the finest point sized inking pen in the world, the 0.03 mm Multiliners or Multiliner SP's. If you've ever tried them, they take a very delicate hand. These are a high-quality art supply that is a joy to use.
As you can see from this comparison, this is one fine line. Look at how chunky the 0.3 pen looks compared to the fine delicacy of the 0.03. These are not for the heavy handed artist.
So what should they be used for?
I use them for fine cross hatching or drawing hair.
Stampers use them for adding details to stamped images.
Calligraphers use them for micro-writing competitions.
What you probably shouldn't use them for: Writing a check (my husband figured that one out for me). If you have a heavy hand and break even the strongest of tips, then this pen should be avoided. If you are heavy handed and want a fine pen then go for the 0.1 mm or 0.2 mm pens.
What do you use these tiny pens for? What would you use it for if you had one? Leave a comment with your answer. The winner of this blog candy will receive a free Multiliner 0.03 with some other neat goodies, so leave your comment with e-mail address on today's post and we'll draw a winner on Friday!
For the final image today I drew on this little, mini domino with the 0.03 mm Multiliner. Once I'm done, I need to heat set it, then ideally coat it with something to seal in the multiliner. As you can see from the penny, this is one tiny little piece of work (can you solve the maze?). Happy Turkey week! Marianne
Note: Congrats to V! She figured out the trick to my tiny maze - it goes in one side and out the same side. Mazes are one of my favorite things to draw, and I like to make them a little different each time.
112 comments:
- Kim Ross said...
I, too, am thankful for Copic's wonderful products! :) Thanks for yet another chance to win!
- November 25, 2008 at 12:18 AM
- Sonja said...
This multiliner would realy be of help when some tiny details should be added or corrected due to bad stamp-print.
Thank you for your wonderful instructions, I have learned a lot of new ways how to use my markers. - November 25, 2008 at 12:29 AM
- Elaine said...
I would love to use the pen to write little names on stamped images and little tiny street signs on my 'city image' stamps.
Or I could share it with the gal that helps me at work - she is OC and has the most amazing notebooks I've ever seen with teeny tiny writing and utterly stunning "doodles"!! - November 25, 2008 at 1:12 AM
- Carol said...
This multiliner would be great for stamping corrections. I am new at using copic markers and with the wonderful instructions I am learning new ways to use them.
- November 25, 2008 at 3:13 AM
- Gillian McMurray said...
I would use mine for my pen and ink drawings of animals. Looks like it would be great for drawing fur. I would also use it for adding detail to small size canvases e.g. inchies and for touching up rubber stamped images (if the images hasn't stamped out properly). So many ideas!
- November 25, 2008 at 3:30 AM
- donatelloh said...
Congratulations on your Anniversary! I would probably use the pen for stamping touch ups and details in my journal. I would welcome the opportunity to find other uses for it too :D
Thanks for all your fantastc instructions. I always come away from your blog with a new trick or technique.
D in FL - November 25, 2008 at 4:17 AM
- Connie K. said...
I would use the pen to fill in my stamped images when I stamp them incorrectly, or to add small details to larger spaces on the stamp.
Connie K. - November 25, 2008 at 4:35 AM
- Tina W. (TeaDub) said...
Happy Anniversary! I'm also thankful for Copics. They rock! If I had the super fine multiliner, I would try writing on a grain of rice for fun! :o)
- November 25, 2008 at 4:48 AM
- Lisa Charleton said...
I once took a class on lettering with brush-tip markers and they taught me to kinda of doodle around the letters. I think these fine markers would make for great doodles ON the letters!! Thanks for such an informative blog!
- November 25, 2008 at 5:31 AM
- lia said...
I am a stamper and this pen is PERFECT for drawing in missed lines!!!
- November 25, 2008 at 5:37 AM
- Lisa C. said...
I love having different size pens on hand. I use the smaller ones for fixing botched stamp images, so much better then having to restamp. I have been using the micron ones, but would love to try one of these
- November 25, 2008 at 5:48 AM
- RoseC said...
I'd love to give this pen a try to create those great little grounding elements to stamped images. I've tried archival pens that are not so thin. Love reviewing your work and appreciate your great tips! ~ Rose
- November 25, 2008 at 5:52 AM
- beedoodle said...
I can't wait to get your tips and techniques! I'd use it to repair Montessori materials in my classroom. These are very expensive materials that have to last for years.
- November 25, 2008 at 5:55 AM
Thank you for sharing so much great info with us! I like using my fine tip pens to complete those line images that might not completely stamp. Thanks for the chance to play!
- November 25, 2008 at 6:25 AM
- Coralmoon said...
I am thankful for the amazing information you share with us on Copics. I've recently started teaching others how to use these fabulous markers, including how to "perfect" or highlight their stamped images with the multiliners.
Thanks! - November 25, 2008 at 6:27 AM
- freida said...
I love stamping, but I am forever not getting the complete image. I know this pen is exactly what I need.
Speaking of being thankful, I am so thankful to have found your blog! You write fantastic tutorials that are so easy to follow. Thank you so very much! - November 25, 2008 at 6:32 AM
- Suzanne Q said...
Thanks so much for all the information you share. I'm starting to build my Copic collection, but I've got a long way to go, with all those wonderful colors out there.
I've often looked at the multiliner pens in the store, but I haven't bought any yet. I would use them for detail drawing, filling in missed details in my stamped images, and for doodling zentangles.
Thanks for offering this blog candy! - November 25, 2008 at 6:43 AM
- Allison said...
This pen would be perfect for writing the little notes I like to leave my kids from little people like the tooth fairy! Little writing makes little people more believable.
- November 25, 2008 at 6:46 AM
- Rachel said...
Awesome techniques/tutorials! I am here everyday reading every inch of our blog!!!
- November 25, 2008 at 6:47 AM
- Lynn Mercurio said...
Oh wow, Maryanne - I don't think I've ever seen a 0.03 marker, but I'm thinking what a handy tool to have. You know when you stamp an image, and sometimes you might not get a full complete images...only a little part is missing? Well, wouldn't this multiliner come in handy for filling it. It's thin enough to mascarade as a stamped line! Thanks for all of your inspiration.
- November 25, 2008 at 6:49 AM
- Dawn said...
Yay, more Copic Blog candy!! The .03mm is on my list of things to buy as the .3 (as you said) is just too thick. I'm another stamper and sometimes you just need a little extra in there.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. - November 25, 2008 at 6:51 AM
- Liliana said...
Besides my family and friends I am also thankful for your blog. This multiliner can be very usefull in my stamping images.
- November 25, 2008 at 7:05 AM
- mitch47 said...
Thank you for your wonderful instructional blogs. I am relatively new to COPIC markers, and I am in the "learning" stages. I almost gave up on them, until I discovered your blog.
Like most of the stampers who responded, I would probably use this little marker for filling in stamping voids, especially on sentiments, where the missing parts really show up. - November 25, 2008 at 7:10 AM
- Yvette said...
How neat is this! Well, since I cannot draw like you do, I would use it to add detail when working with watercolor pencils, at least until I got to go to your demo at Debra's Cottage on 12/7 and get a feel for Copics.
- November 25, 2008 at 7:11 AM
- jkstiles77 said...
I don't have one of these pens, but it looks like it would be fun to use! Thanks for offering us a chance to win one. Happy Thanksgiving!
email@example.com - November 25, 2008 at 7:33 AM
- Donna C said...
First off , congratulations on becoming a part of the Copic team many years ago .... Happy Anniversary ! You have shared so much of your knowledge with us and please keep it up for many more years :-)
These fine pens would be great for adding small detail or redrawing poor stamped images ( and yes , I confess to a few of those :-) I can also see myself doodling more on my cards with this pen !
Love your blog and HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all of you across the border ! - November 25, 2008 at 7:58 AM
- Unknown said...
I use my multiliners for correcting "bad" stamping and filling in the teeny details that need a bit more. They also rock for paper piecing teeny images and filling in on inchies.
- November 25, 2008 at 8:11 AM
- Lady and the Stamp said...
Writing with a super fine pen (like .01 or .03) just looks elegant. Its not the clunky, thick, and crude look of a regular pen...it is refined, crisp, sturdy yet tiny.
I recently had a furniture repair-man at the house and he came into my art room and saw all my Copics....at which point I think I sold him all the Earth toned ones to repair coloration issues for furniture! Not good for the multiliners, but great for other Copics. Thanks for the blog. Live for the tips.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Anne Schuster - November 25, 2008 at 8:13 AM
- jackie ranieri said...
Thanks so much for the chance to win this multiliner!! I am unfortunately the queen of bad stamp images!! Boy, would this help me. I have such a problem with the Thomas Kincade stamps.
Jackie - November 25, 2008 at 8:23 AM
- Lueyes said...
I would use them to fill in lines where the stamped image was not quite perfect and also they would be good to draw in a ground line or grass so the image is not floating in air. Happy Thanksgiving, Marianne
- November 25, 2008 at 8:44 AM
- april_sp1 said...
I love visiting your blog! You have so much great information about copics! I would use this multiliner to fill any parts of a stamped image that didn't leave an impression. Thanks for the chance at the giveaway!
- November 25, 2008 at 8:48 AM
- Paula said...
I would use mine for touch ups to stamped images, and to very delicately sign my name on the backs of cards I have created. Thanks for the chance to win!
- November 25, 2008 at 8:49 AM
- Dragonfly Lady said...
You have inspired me yet again today. I love your posts they have improved my cards and pages 100%. Thank you so much for such great information.
- November 25, 2008 at 8:52 AM
Hi, This is exciting to have blog candy from Copic! I would use the pen to correct errors in stamping to start with and hopefully learn new ways to use it from you!
- November 25, 2008 at 9:03 AM
- Anne Holliday said...
I would use the 0.03 multiliner to write little stalker notes to Marianne! I am so very grateful for the opportunities and freedoms we all sometimes take too lightly.
- November 25, 2008 at 9:09 AM
- Diana said...
This pen looks like fun! I'd use it for adding fine details, swirls, and dots...maybe even lettering!
Thank you so much for all the hard work you do teaching us how to use Copics; I really appreciate it! - November 25, 2008 at 9:11 AM
- Elizabeth S. said...
It would be great to use when you want to put in some extra fine detail to your project. I would love to give it a try. Thanks for the chance to win one.
- November 25, 2008 at 9:23 AM
- Erica Hettwer said...
I'd totally write teeny, tiny love notes to my hubby! :D
- November 25, 2008 at 9:24 AM
- Melissa said...
Happy Anniversary! I would get a lot of use out of the multiliner. I would use it for drawing, touching up or altering stamped images, and for personalizing the domino Christmas ornaments and pins I make each year. Thanks for the chance to win one!
- November 25, 2008 at 9:27 AM
- V said...
Okay, that is one seriously cool maze. I stared at it intently for a couple of minutes before I realized that it didn't go in one side of the domino and exist out the other! :)
I would use it to create teeny tiny little notes on the mats under my photos on my scrapbook pages. I'm always on a lookout for a super fine point pen for doodling or journaling around the very edges of my photos. - November 25, 2008 at 9:30 AM
- minnaming said...
I would use this itty bitty tiny liner to do crazy-making stippling (well, all stippling is crazy making, really) as well as the tiniest notes to go with the little glass beads I'm making for my nieces.
- November 25, 2008 at 9:59 AM
- Michelle Woerner said...
I am a stamper, so I would use a tiny pen like that to add to stamped itmages -you know, the ones that aren't stamped quite clear enough. Or to add a little something to the images. It's perfect cause the pens won't smudge with the Copics.
- November 25, 2008 at 10:36 AM
- Kathi said...
This ultra-thin multi-liner would be helpful when correcting a poorly stamped image or one I inadvertently colored over the line detail.
Additionally, I occasionally like to add little details and/or tiny writing to designs.
Another alternate use would be to label tiny circle stickers with numbers of my Ciao copics to put on their caps. - November 25, 2008 at 10:42 AM
- Denise ~ Paper Ponderings said...
Oooooohhh...that would be perfect for the little mistakes...add a line, doodle something tiny. Thanks for the chance to win!
- November 25, 2008 at 10:43 AM
- Amanda said...
I am a very light handed and find that I often have to go over my work. I have a feeling that this multiliner would work great for me! This Thanksgiving I'm very very thankful. We have been having financial issues lately and I just got a very big blessing today. Happy Thanksgiving!!
- November 25, 2008 at 10:50 AM
- Jannette said...
I keep looking at the multilines but have yet to get one. I'd use it to some of my shading (cross hatching) on some of my stamped images. Thanks for the chance for some candy.
Jannette D.
email@example.com - November 25, 2008 at 10:58 AM
- B2-kun said...
I seldom use my 0.03 mm because of my heavy hand, but I can say I am quite thankful for your informative blog. I do enjoy the 0.3 and 0.5 mm SP pens for general sketching. Happy Thanksgiving!
- November 25, 2008 at 11:07 AM
- horsebroad said...
I love the idea of using the pen to fix stamping mistakes! Thanks for the opportunity to win one!
- November 25, 2008 at 11:15 AM
- Kerry said...
Wow, that is one tiny maze. I would use the multiliner to fill in areas of stamps that didn't stamp probably.
- November 25, 2008 at 11:50 AM
- christina d said...
I love all the tutorials you have done. I wold use the marker for all the detail work that always needs to be done on my art.
- November 25, 2008 at 11:50 AM
I love birds, so I think this might be the perfect pen to draw a line for my stamped images to sit on! Thanks for the chance!
- November 25, 2008 at 11:54 AM
- Aimee said...
This pen would be wonderful to add details to my cards... I love all of copics products. Your blog is wonderful as well.
- November 25, 2008 at 12:31 PM
- Stampin_melissa said...
I can see that I"m not orginal in wanting to use it to correct stamping mistakes, however. . . . I love Elaine's idea of using it to add details to stamped images (names to street signs)!
Thanks for the chance to win one of these! *crossing fingers* - November 25, 2008 at 12:53 PM
- kris fulk said...
I'm not a stamper, just an illustrator. The finest multiliner I own is a 0.05mm and I've since realized that one cannot use it with a heavy hand. I did like the "shaky" hand effect I achieved by imperfectly going over the same lines two or three times (for example, http://mari-kris.deviantart.com/art/Little-Sultan-90322016). It's kind of hard to see with the small dimension of the image, though.
With an even smaller tip, I will definitely be experimenting - with the first experiment again trying to achieve the "shaky hand" effect, but with a much lighter touch. I want to see how a gossamer thin outline overlapping on itself will affect the color or the composition. - November 25, 2008 at 1:17 PM
- Lynda said...
I usually do most of my sketchbook drawing with a 0.3 or 0.35 multiliner, but when I start to feel like my drawing is going stale I work with the 0.03 or the 0.05 instead.
Something about the dramatic difference in line weight makes everything feel bright and new again, and it gets me out of a rut. - November 25, 2008 at 1:39 PM
- pancho2008 said...
Ilove the multi-liners!! I am asking santa to bring me the color .3 set for xmas...
- November 25, 2008 at 1:55 PM
- Jessrose21 said...
I would use the micro pen for touching up stamped images and for adding on to a stamped scene. Such as drawing a horizon line or lengthening a branch. This pen is already on my Copic wish list so I would be thrilled to win it! Thanks for the chance to win!
- November 25, 2008 at 1:58 PM
- Mari said...
I have always LOVED a fine tip pen. Way back in the day I used to demand 'college ruled' notebooks and fine point pens.
Now I'd use that lovely little pen to fix images that didn't print well and attempt to use with my (limited) copic palette! :) - November 25, 2008 at 1:59 PM
- Rebecca Ednie said...
I'd use the multiliner to draw in details or fix stamped images if the ink missed a bit. I wish I could drawfrom scrat h!
- November 25, 2008 at 2:23 PM
- Kerry Johnson said...
Thanks so much for the chance to win - Happy Anniversary with Copic. I would use it to fix stamped images, as well as draw in floors, horizons, tabletops, etc...
- November 25, 2008 at 2:26 PM
- Ann said...
Congratulations on 8 years with Copic Marianne! How blessed you are to love the company you work for. I'd use the .03 for drawing in little details on my stamp work!
- November 25, 2008 at 3:15 PM
- Sheri said...
I am a stamper and would use it for the detail as you suggested but also when I stamp something and for some reason it does not all stamp and I have blank spots, I could go in and fill it in. No one would be the wiser and I would not have to toss the paper and start over!
- November 25, 2008 at 3:20 PM
- Holly Nester said...
I would use the multi liner for doodling and drawing on surfaces like acrylic. In fact I have one of these pens and used it to touch up a stamp I did w/ acrylic paint on an acrylic accent.
- November 25, 2008 at 3:28 PM
- Karen M said...
I have never had the pleasure of trying Copics. I am very new to this forum. I dont have a hobby lobby in my town so I would have to order online. I sure would love to try one out before making a committment. I hope I win the chance. Thanks for the offer.
karen - November 25, 2008 at 3:35 PM
- Karen M said...
ooops I forgot to leave my email address.. firstname.lastname@example.com ha ha sorry about that..
- November 25, 2008 at 3:37 PM
- Cheryl said...
Wow, I'm note sure what I would use it for but I know that once I had one, I would use grab for it alot. I love thin fine line pens. As once coment stated, to fill in the missed stamped lines from a stamped image. Anywho, happy Thanks Giving. Cheryl
- November 25, 2008 at 3:38 PM
- craftyteaspoon said...
I am thankful for my family and their understanding of my obsession with Copic markers. ;O)
If I had a tiny .03 multiliner I would use it to add hidden details to my work. Like adding a tiny heart on my son's card that no one would notice but him (because he is like me and looks for those type of things). - November 25, 2008 at 4:05 PM
- onewinron said...
I love my ciao markers and would love to use the multiliner, especially for correcting stamping details as well as adding fine details.
- November 25, 2008 at 4:18 PM
- Saundra Grose said...
I am so glad you posted on this subject; I have wanted toby one of the multiliners but had no idea about sizes, uses, etc. I look forward to reading you blog every day and have learned so much.
- November 25, 2008 at 4:56 PM
- Sumtoy said...
To use theses would be awesome if I had a steady hand. Many times I have tiny little spts that I would love to add color to only to have the marker tip just too big for the area.
- November 25, 2008 at 5:40 PM
- Gloria said...
Tiny details on stamped images, would be what I would use this pen for. Can't believe the detail you did on that domino. Thanks for the chance to win.
- November 25, 2008 at 5:51 PM
- Alfredo Gallardo said...
Multiliners are the best when I'm masking. Laser images or photocopies peel-off easily, ruining my work...
- November 25, 2008 at 6:27 PM
- Susan said...
I would love to try one of these babies. I would probably use it to fix the tiny lines in my stamping. Then I would love to try some small illustrations. I love your blog and have learned so much about copics and how to use them properly. Thanks for the chance to win some goodies!
- November 25, 2008 at 7:16 PM
- mumgranny said...
All the help you give us and now BLOG CANDY too! You are too good to us, Marianne
- November 25, 2008 at 7:34 PM
- Just Jo, Joe with no e said...
Just yesterday, I was thinking it would be good to have one to add detail to a stamp I thought needed "just a bit more".
- November 25, 2008 at 7:45 PM
- mushroommeadows said...
I use this multiliner pen (I actually have this one) for doodling and then scanning the image onto my computer. The pen is fine enough for details and bold enough for editing in photoshop! :)
email@example.com - November 25, 2008 at 7:48 PM
- jbjudd said...
Thank you Marianne for sharing your gifts & skills as well as knowledge about art & Copic. I recently discovered your terrific blog while Google searching for info about Copic markers. I was hooked on "I Like Markers" after reading the first few lines of the entry I discovered. The markers are now on my Christmas Wish List. :-) Thanks for teaching & inspiring us all!
May Your Thanksgiving Celebration Be Abundantly Blessed! - November 25, 2008 at 8:09 PM
- SusanH said...
I'm a stamper and use my tiny pens to fill in when I don't quite get that nice clean image. And I like to do some journaling, even with the little pens - you can get in tiny corners and write tiny words! Drives people crazy!! (I also like to doodle...)
- November 25, 2008 at 8:24 PM
- Janet M said...
I just found your blog on a Google search. You will now be a part of my daily blurfing!! Thank you for all of the great tutorials.
- November 25, 2008 at 8:32 PM
- Teri said...
add me to the list of stampers who would use it to correct images.
congrats on your anniversary! - November 25, 2008 at 9:11 PM
- H. said...
congrats on your anniversary! I think I would try it first to touch up stamped images. happy thanksgiving!
- November 25, 2008 at 9:24 PM
- Pat Moore said...
This would be perfect for correcting stamping misses. Thanks for all you do for us.
- November 25, 2008 at 9:26 PM
- Katie said...
I have a few Copics and am loving them so far! I haven't seen the multiliner before! It's too cool. I could see that it could have many uses. I asked my Santa Hubby for more copics for Christmas so my fingers are crossed! Thanks for the chance to win. Katie (email@example.com)
- November 25, 2008 at 9:29 PM
- gale said...
Hmm I am not very creative and I can't draw so I would probably use it mostly to fill in badly stamped images. I think it would be great to put in lines for 'shadowed' areas too.
- November 26, 2008 at 1:27 AM
- Julia said...
I would use it to add wording to photo's(or repairing). I write notes to my grand daughters & hubby(of 32Yrs. dec. 4th). They would be great for furniture touch-ups. Be great for drawings of all kinds & sizes-much better control, & would look better too. Could fix a lot of mistakes. Can just look around the house & see the possibilities, :).
Not on topic but just have to tell you what a great site you have. The instruction is wonderful & easy to understand, so thank you & keep up the good work,(as even though I can't afford the markers right now, I plan on it soon, am even getting my local scrap shop"Scrap-Happy" here in Longview, Wa. to get them in,can't wait. You are in Or. ,one day be able to travel(am home bound due to surgery gone wrong) be very nice. Julia - November 26, 2008 at 2:10 AM
- AShu93 said...
I would love to try one of these for correcting details that don't stamp correctly. Thanks for the chance to win.
- November 26, 2008 at 4:49 AM
- Mary Kelly said...
I'm thinking the .03 would be PERFECT for filling in those stamped lines that didn't quite come off the stamp just right. This fine line would bring the right amount of detail so the touch up would look manually edited!
- November 26, 2008 at 4:53 AM
- Amy Johnson said...
Thanks for your wonderful blog. I read every post. It has really helped me with my coloring. I would use my multiliner for fine journeling or doodling in a scrapbook or for adding details in stamps.
- November 26, 2008 at 5:09 AM
- Jaymerz said...
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- November 26, 2008 at 5:40 AM
- Jaymerz said...
Marianne thanks for all the wonderful insperation, I am very thankful for all I have learned from you. If I had one of these pens I would use it to add detail to my stamping images, I have seen people do it and really want to try.
Thanks again for everything!! - November 26, 2008 at 5:42 AM
- Jodi said...
You are just amazing with your drawing and such! The multiliner would be a great help when a stamp doesn't stamp correctly or if I want to add a little detail to a stamp. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
- November 26, 2008 at 6:03 AM
- Nancy Ward said...
The options possible with the 0.03 multiliner are fantastic...especially for those like me who enjoy 'fiddly' designs.
Please stick my name in the hopper for this prize.
Nancy Ward
http://paperfriendly.blogspot.com - November 26, 2008 at 7:31 AM
- The Bug said...
I loving using my Copics and have been learning a lot from your site - Thank you very much! I would love to try one the 0.03 mulitiliners - I can see using it for some intricate detail work on some Christmas presents I have been working on and haven't found a stamp with enough detail.
- November 26, 2008 at 7:46 AM
- Stephanie Sullins said...
I don't know if I am too late for the contest, but I have been drooling over all the Copic pictures people are posting all over the web, and I really want to get some of these markers! They are definitely on my wish list once I finally find a job! UGH, I hate job hunting! lol
- November 26, 2008 at 9:24 AM
- liannallama said...
Wow! That really is fine--I love what you did on the domino! I love your blog--thanks so much for teaching us!
- November 26, 2008 at 9:54 AM
- Robin said...
I have been following your blog and learning so much. I would love to be entered in for the chance to win the 0.03 multiliner. Thanks.
Robin - November 26, 2008 at 10:34 AM
- Unknown said...
I hope to be thankful for Copic's products on Christmas Day if hints were gotten :) I can see using these tiny nibs for small scale and intricate work...these could be fun!
- November 26, 2008 at 4:48 PM
- Susan said...
I would use them for small detail work on my images. susan
- November 26, 2008 at 5:11 PM
- Karen said...
I would use it to correct my stamping errors when I don't quite get the image solid.
- November 26, 2008 at 5:16 PM
- Jenn said...
I love tiny pens! I have one in my purse that I use on a regular basis for writing notes and my checks. I also use them during my crafty stuff when I detail. Currently I am working on a drawing for my mother for Christmas and when I am done with the sketching I will be using my multiliners to add details.
- November 26, 2008 at 6:13 PM
- mew808 said...
Mahalo for sharing your knowledge and talent. I'm new to the use of Copic pens and fine your site a necessity.
thanks again - November 26, 2008 at 6:13 PM
- cookNice said...
I would use these pens for writing in my journal, and working on
- November 26, 2008 at 6:35 PM
- StampingbugKerry said...
I love black markers and the multiliner is perfect for adding permanent, finer details that don't bleed away...I love that they are refillable too! I would use the fineliner to add details, fix "blurred" lines on stamped images, doodle and draw zentangles and zendalas in my sketchbook... and even write sentiments inside my cards...
:_ Happy Thanksgiving and I'm thankful for my copic collection too!
Kerry Urbatch - November 26, 2008 at 7:00 PM
- SmilynStef said...
#104 ~ I'm always afraid to add hand-drawn doodles and accents to my card ... but with this fine line, I would give it a try. Thanks for the chance to win.
SmilynStef at aol dot com - November 26, 2008 at 8:30 PM
I don't have a multiliner yet, but I would use for detailing my stamped and colored images.
Julie - November 26, 2008 at 11:47 PM
- Kelly Booth said...
So thankful for my Copics...Just Love them!
I would use the multi liner for corrections or faux stitching...would Love to have one!
Thanks for all the wonderful Instructions you give us! I am learning a lot! - November 27, 2008 at 5:52 AM
- JoyceAnna D of DesignDolcezza said...
would give it to my husband, who always complains the multiliners
i buy him are too thick for his artwork! - November 27, 2008 at 8:04 AM
- Christine said...
wow, love that fineliner. This would be so fun to use when adding doodles to a stamped image.
- November 27, 2008 at 7:32 PM
- altermyworld said...
I outline ALL my work, the mulitliner works great with the Copic markers are most times it does not smear.
Work for me!Ang - November 28, 2008 at 5:47 AM
- Joyce said...
I'm a stamper so I would use this to add details and doodles to my images. I love that it's such a fine line.
Thanks for sharing your expertise with us! - November 28, 2008 at 3:46 PM
- Jen D said...
Happy thanksgiving!! thanks for sharing all your knowledge :)
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Gidon Kremer was born in Riga (Latvia) in 1947, the only child of parents of German origin. After receiving his first musical instruction at home – both father and grandfather were professional violinists – he studied at the Riga School of Music and then at the Moscow Conservatory under David Oistrakh. Kremer enjoyed notable success at competitions in Brussels (1967), Montreal and Genoa (1969), and Moscow (1970). After extended tours through the former Soviet Union, he began appearing with increasing frequency in the West: his first concert in Germany came in 1975, followed by debuts at the Salzburg Festival (1976) and in New York (1977). Gidon Kremer was also one of the artistic directors of the music festival "Art Projekt '92" in Munich.
The international chamber music festival in Lockenhaus (Austria), founded by Gidon Kremer in 1981, has been a forum for young artists to present challenging and innovative chamber music concerts – programmes which are also taken on tour. In 1992 the festival in Lockenhaus was named "KREMERata MUSICA". In 1996 Gidon Kremer founded the KREMERata BALTICA chamber orchestra to foster outstanding young musicians from the three Baltic states. He undertakes regular concert tours with this orchestra. Gidon Kremer is also Director of the Musiksommer Gstaad (Switzerland).
Gidon Kremer's repertoire ranges from the Baroque to works by Henze and Stockhausen. Composers of the former Soviet Union such as Schnittke, Pärt, Gubaidulina and Denisov have been introduced to Western audiences largely through Kremer's efforts. Martha Argerich, Valery Afanassiev, Oleg Maisenberg and Vadim Sakharov are his favorite musical partners. Gidon Kremer plays a Guarneri del Gesù – ex David – dating from 1730.
Since 1978 Gidon Kremer has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, and he signed his first exclusive contract with the Yellow Label in 1987.

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Google to sell Internet glasses to contest winners
Google is giving more people a chance to pay $1,500 for a pair of the Internet-connected glasses that the company is touting as the next breakthrough in mobile computing.
Google is giving more people a chance to pay $1,500 for a pair of the Internet-connected glasses that the company is touting as the next breakthrough in mobile computing.
The product, dubbed 'Google Glass,' will be offered to 'bold, creative individuals' selected as part of a contest announced Wednesday. Participants must live in the U.S. and submit an application of up to 50 words explaining what they would do with the Google Glass technology. Entries must include the hash tag 'ifihadglass' and be submitted through Google Plus or Twitter by next Wednesday. Google did not say how many glasses it will sell this way.
Winners will receive the 'Explorer' version of Google Glass, a forerunner of the product that is expected to be released to the mass market next year. Google Inc. already sold an unspecified number of the glasses to computer programmers who also paid $1,500 apiece at a company conference last June.
The people picked to buy this next batch of glasses will be notified in mid- to late March. They will have to travel to New York, Los Angeles or the San Francisco Bay area to pick them up.
Google Glass is supposed to perform many of the same tasks as smartphones, except the spectacles respond to voice commands instead of fingers touching a display screen. The glasses include a tiny display screen attached to a rim above the right eye and run on Google's Android operating system for mobile devices.
Because no hands are required to operate them, Google Glass is supposed to make it easier for people to take pictures or record video wherever they might be or whatever they might be doing. Online searches also can be more easily conducted by just telling Google Glass to look up a specific piece of information. Google's Android system already has a voice search function on smartphones and tablet computers.
In the latest demonstration of the product's potential, Google posted a video showing people wearing the glasses while skydiving, riding a rollercoaster, skiing, riding a horse and even swinging on a trapeze. The company, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., also posted photos of the glasses in five different colors: charcoal, tangerine, shale, cotton and sky blue.
To gauge how people might use its glasses, Google is encouraging entrants in its contest to include up to five photos and 15 seconds of video with their applications. The company doesn't want to see any nudity or violence. 'Basically, don't add anything you wouldn't be OK with your Mom seeing,' Google advised.
Google Glass is at the forefront of a new wave of technology known as 'wearable computing.'
When he demonstrated the glasses at last June's company conference, Google co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged the company was still working out bugs and trying to figure out how to extend the product's battery life. Brin has been overseeing the work on Google Glass, which the company first began developing in 2010 as part of a secretive company division now known as Google X.
Now that Google Glass is no longer a secret, Brin is often seen wearing the product in public. He sported a pair of the glasses during a Wednesday appearance at an event announcing the creation of a $3 million annual prize for outstanding achievements in medicine and biology. Brin, who owns Google stock currently worth nearly $20 billion, is helping to fund the annual awards.
Brin has said the mass-market version of Google Glass will cost less than $1,500, but more than a smartphone.
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Fourth installment by sociologist Dave Horton, from Lancaster University, as a guest writer. Dave has written a brilliant assessment of Fear of Cycling in an essay and we're well pleased that he fancies the idea of a collaboration. We'll be presenting Dave's essay in five parts.
We might suppose that fear of cycling has become locked into a downward spiral from which it seems almost impossible to break, unless the practice of cycling can be spatially relocated, and performed under 'new', 'safe' conditions. This section examines recent attempts to create such new, safe cycling spaces.For most of the twentieth century, the great majority of cycling in the UK took place on roads. The dominant, widely shared assumption was that (declining numbers of) cyclists shared space with (increasing numbers of) cars, trucks, buses and taxis. Riding in an environment dominated by potentially lethal motorised modes of mobility was a taken-for-granted, normal part of cyclists' ordinary experience. But over the last decade or so, a fundamental shift in cycling policy and infrastructure has occurred.Cycle lanes have been introduced across the length and breadth of Britain. Many cycle lanes are 'on-road'; the use of white lines and coloured paint is intended to mark a boundary between space for motorised traffic and space for cyclists. Although often criticised and sometimes ridiculed, at its best this infrastructure aims to make cycling journeys more attractive; quicker, easier, safer, more pleasant.
In the UK, recent years have also seen major development of off-road cycling routes, shared not with motorised traffic but with people walking, dogs and horses (for details, see Cotton 2004). Many such routes have been developed and promoted by Sustrans, a charitable organisation committed to encouraging sustainable transport (see Sustrans 2000; www.sustrans.org.uk). These routes are emerging most explicitly around the figure of the cyclist, and they have certainly boosted interest and participation in cycling (Peace 2004; Sustrans 2006).
However, an unintended consequence of their popularity may be that the dominant public perception of cycling is becoming of an activity which best occurs in 'safe' and pleasant places (on disagreements around this issue within cycling policy circles, see Rosen 2003; Jones 2004). 'Normal' roads are no place to cycle; they are to be feared.It is worth noting here the long-standing contentiousness, among British cyclists' organisations, of off-road cycling routes. The decades spanning the middle of the twentieth century saw British roads struggling to accommodate the car and the bicycle harmoniously.
A pamphlet produced by the Cyclists' Touring Club and titled Road Safety: a fair and sound policy (CTC n.d.b[c.1935]) states: 'It is often said that there is not room on our present roads for everybody and so the cyclist should be removed. The only traffic that cannot safely use our present roads is high-speed motor traffic, for which special highways should be provided'. In the ensuing battles over which group of users should be 'pushed off' the roads, cyclists eventually 'won', with the development of the motorway network for which they had long campaigned.
However, the rapid growth in levels of motorised traffic meant that there was no going back to 'the golden age' of cycling which they presumably had hoped the provision of motorways, by taking cars off existing roads, would enable. The organisational views expressed in the 1930s, during cyclists' resistance to the idea that cycling should be relocated to cycle paths, ought perhaps to provoke reflection on the situation today. For instance, in Making the Roads Safe: The Cyclists' Point of View, we find the following:
It is impossible to escape the conclusion that most people and organisations who advocate cycle paths are not actuated by motives of benevolence or sympathy, although they may declare that their sole concern is the welfare of the cyclist … A great deal of the cycle-path propaganda is based on a desire to remove cyclists from the roads. That is why the request for cycle paths is so often accompanied by a suggestion that their use should be enforced by law. Therein lies a serious threat to cycling.
Cyclists' Touring Club 1937, 11-12Of course the situation today is different. Perhaps most obviously, many people who fear cycling on the roads apparently desire to cycle elsewhere. Unsurprisingly, forms of off-road cycling - not only leisure cycling on 'traffic free' routes, but also BMX, mountain biking, cyclo-cross, trials riding and track - all seem to be gaining in popularity. And with the expansion of places to cycle off-road, the expectation grows that such places are the places to cycle.The road stops feeling like a place to cycle; it begins to feel as though cycling does not belong there. The institutionalisation of this sensibility, anticipated by cyclists 70 years ago, is potentially not far behind. In 2006, the draft of the revised Highway Code instructed cyclists to use off-road routes wherever they exist. These planned revisions were opposed by cyclists, led by CTC, but they nonetheless make clear how the provision of 'attractive' alternatives produces the cyclist-on-the-road as ever more out-of-place. New ideas of 'normal' are being produced, and it is becoming less normal to see roads as appropriate places to cycle.Meanwhile, riding on the road becomes an ever more fearful prospect for ever more people. Without any necessary objective change in the conditions prevailing on the roads, the provision of off-road routes increases people's fear of on-road cycling. Further, the promotion of such routes tends to feed (on) this fear. Sustrans' publicity material, for example, makes regular use of an adjective which has assumed enormous power in UK cycling promotion; 'safe'. One recruitment leaflet calls on people to 'help us build safe attractive cycle routes in your area' (Sustrans n.d., my emphases).Arguably therefore, today's youngsters are growing up with the expectation that, if they cycle at all, it will be away from cars. It would of course be wrong to see these shifting sensibilities as unopposed. Cycling advocates are increasingly insistent that today's youngsters must be trained to ride on the roads, and government funding towards that aim has recently been forthcoming. But tensions around the proper place of cycling constitute a major new battleground of mobility and sustainability conflicts in the twenty first century. It is also worth noting, for what is to follow, that spatial re-allocation of cycling away from the road is shifting the object of fear, from cycling to the cyclist. On off-road routes, the cyclist is no longer so viscerally threatened and endangered, and instead becomes perceived as the source of threat and danger to slower-moving, more leisurely others. The source of fear shifts from the practice to the practitioner.Before continuing on the theme of fear of the cyclist, I want briefly to summarise this section. The road safety industry, helmet promotion campaigns and anyone responsible for marketing off-road cycling facilities all have a vested interest in constructing cycling - particularly cycling on the road - as a dangerous practice.Cycling, in other words, is made 'dangerous' by these attempts to render it 'safe'. Each of the cases I have discussed is (perhaps unwittingly) therefore implicated in the production of a fear of cycling. This fear of cycling stops people cycling, and stopping people from cycling is an effective way of continuing the reproduction of a fear of cycling. But now I want to tackle more directly something at which up until now I have only been hinting, the potential relevance of a fear of the cyclist to a fear of cycling.[Coming up shortly on Copenhagenize.com]References:- Cotton, N. (2004) Traffic-Free Cycle Trails (Frome: CycleCity Guides).- Cyclists' Touring Club (n.d. b [c.1935]) Road Safety: a fair and sound policy (London: Cyclists' Touring Club).- Cyclists' Touring Club (1937) Making the Roads Safe: The Cyclists Point of View (London: Cyclists' Touring Club).- Jones, T. (2004) 'Household Travel Behaviour Adjacent to the National Cycle Network: the Network's Role in Encouraging Utility Cycling', paper presented to Cycling and the Social Sciences Symposium, Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University.- Peace, R. (2004) 'Damned Lies and Statistics', in Cycle, August/September, 20-2.- Rosen, P. (2003) How Can Research into Cycling Help Implement the National Cycling Strategy? Review of Cycling Research Findings and Needs, (University of York: Science and Technology Studies Unit).- Sustrans (2000) Millennium Miles: The Story of the National Cycle Network, (Wilts: Good Books).- Sustrans (2006) The National Cycle Network: Route User Monitoring Report To End of 2005 (Bristol: Sustrans).- Sustrans (n.d.) Help us build safe attractive cycle routes in your area (Bristol: Sustrans).Series:
Fear of Cycling - Part 01 - Introduction
Fear of Cycling - Part 02 - Constructing Fear of Cycling / Road Safety 'Education'
Fear of Cycling - Part 03 - Helmet Promotion Campaigns
Fear of Cycling - Part 04 - New Cycling Spaces
Fear of Cycling - Part 05 - Making Cycling Strange
Dave Horton is a sociologist and lover of all things cycling. He is part of the Cycling and Society Research Group, which has pioneered a 'cultural turn' in cycling studies and which holds an annual symposium in the UK. Dave works at Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, on the project 'Understanding Walking and Cycling'. He tries to do, to write about, and to promote all kinds of cycling, because cycling is essentially good.


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Creative Ways To Use Branches, Twigs, and Sticks
I recently moved away from the progressive playground of Portland, Oregon, which among other things, is a city at the center of the "creative repurposing" trend. Strolling through any of the many quaint neighborhoods, you're certain to discover some sort of clever, maybe-crazy application of "old
Posted — UpdatedIf you're into creative repurposing, and you enjoy the nature-inspired décor that seems to be all the rage these days, check the following list for a few ideas on how you might re-use discarded tree branches, twigs, and sticks. They're pretty, they're practical, and of course, they're oh-so-Portland.
1. Use branches to create garden edging. You can simply lay them down single file along borders, to create a representative break. Or, if you have a lot of them, you can actually stack them to create a functional barrier. Either way, it will lend your yard a charming, rustic vibe.
2. For another take on a rustic-inspired yard, you can use branches to build a short fence. There are many ways you can go about doing this – using nails or screws to attach them to a frame, using twine to tie the branches together, or by sinking them into the ground. Whichever way you choose, this result will be a fantastic decorative fence, just perfect for a quaint, welcoming front yard.
3. Branches make perfect hooks for hanging things, if you use a section that forks. Try two of these side by side, attached to your house or fence, for curling up your garden hose in an aesthetically pleasing way.
4. You can move inside with the hook idea as well. Natural wood is showing up everywhere in the design world, from tree stump stools to cross section coasters. So try a few branch hooks (again, using a length of branch that has a natural fork) in the kitchen (think oven mitts or large utensils), bathroom (think towels or even toilet paper!), or elsewhere (like hanging jewelry in the bedroom, or coat hooks in the entryway).
5. You can use larger branches to build a beautiful, nature-inspired decorative head board for your bed. Just use a piece of plywood as a the backing, then screw or glue the branches either vertically, horizontally, or if you feel up to it, in a random patchwork pattern for a more artistic take.
6. So obvious I almost consider it cheating to include this, but here goes: use a relatively straight tree branch as a stand-in for a curtain rod.
7. You can make a lovely display by gluing smaller branches or twigs around the outside of a vessel. Use a coffee can or soup can and you've got a pretty vase to use as a holiday centerpiece. Use a glass mason jar and you've got yourself a lovely candle holder, perfect for little tea lights. These would look great along a mantle or appetizer table.
8. And speaking of the holidays, why not take a few long, thin branches and arrange them artfully in a large vase. Then, you can hang a select few carefully placed ornaments, for an all natural, minimalist-modern holiday feel.
What's your favorite way to bring a bit of nature into your home? Please share in the comments below!


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10 Nights | 10-DAY GREEK ISLES & ITALY: ANCIENT EMPIRES
About Livorno, Italy
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Valletta is the capital of Malta, colloquially known as Il-Belt in Maltese. It is located in the central-eastern portion of the island of Malta and the city proper has a population of 6,098. According to Eurostat, the larger urban zone of Valletta has a population of 368,250. Valletta contains buildings from the 16th century onwards, built during the rule of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, also known as Knights Hospitaller. The city is essentially Baroque in character, with elements of Mannerist, Neo-Classical and Modern architecture in selected areas, though World War II left major scars on the city. The City of Valletta was officially recognised as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1980. The city is named for Jean Parisot de la Valette, who succeeded in defending the island from an Ottoman invasion in 1565. $$https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGlRHAOUQvk$$
Messina, Italy
Messina is a harbor city in northeast Sicily, Italy. It is the capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina, and has close ties with Reggio Calabria. The city's main resources are its seaports (commercial and military shipyards), cruise tourism, commerce, and agriculture (wine production and cultivating lemons, oranges, mandarin oranges, and olives). The city has been a Roman Catholic Archdiocese and Archimandrite seat since 1548 and is home to a locally important international fair. The city has the University of Messina, founded in 1548 by Ignatius of Loyola. Messina has a light rail system, Tranvia di Messina, that was opened on 3 April 2003. This line is 7.7 kilometres (4.8 mi) and links the city's central railway station with the city centre and harbour. The city is home to a significant Greek-speaking minority, rooted in its history and officially recognised.
Mykonos is a Greek island, part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Syros, Paros and Naxos. The island spans an area of 85.5 km2 (33 sq mi) and rises to an elevation of 341 m (1,119 ft) at its highest point. The island is composed primarily of granite. It has little natural fresh water and relies on the desalination of sea water in order to meet the needs of its population. There are 9,320 inhabitants (2001) most of whom live in the largest town, Mykonos, also known as Chora, which lies on the west coast. Mykonos is one of the most cosmopolitan islands in Greece, known for its diverse and intense nightlife as evidenced by a vast number of bars and nightclubs. Mykonos is also known for its beaches. The island has an international airport, and is a frequent destination for cruise ships.
Naples is a city in Italy; it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. Known for its rich history, art, culture, architecture, music, and gastronomy, Naples has played an important role in the Italian peninsula and beyond for much of its existence, which began more than 2,800 years ago. Situated on the west coast of Italy by the Gulf of Naples, the city is located halfway between two volcanic areas, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields. Naples has the fourth-largest urban economy in Italy, after Milan, Rome and Turin. It is the world's 103rd-richest city by purchasing power, with an estimated 2011 GDP of US$83.6 billion. The port of Naples is one of the most important in Europe, and has the world's second-highest level of passenger flow, after the port of Hong Kong. The city has long been a major cultural centre with a global sphere of influence, particularly during the Renaissance and Enlightenment eras. In the immediate vicinity of Naples are numerous culturally and historically significant sites, including the Palace of Caserta and the Roman ruins ofPompeii and Herculaneum. Culinarily, it is synonymous with pizza, which originated in the city.
Livorno is an Italian port city on the Ligurian Sea, on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy. Traditionally been known in English as Leghorn, it's known for its seafood, Renaissance-era fortifications and modern harbor with a cruise ship port.
Piraeus is a city in the periphery of Attica, Greece and within the Athens urban area, located 12 km southwest of its center and upon the Saronic Gulf. According to the 2001 census, Piraeus has a population of 175,697 people within its administrative limits, making it the third largest municipality in Greece and the second within the Greek capital following the municipality of Athens. The Piraeus urban area extends beyond the administrative city limits to the suburban municipalities, with a total population of 466,065.
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Civitavecchia is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Rome in the central Italian region of Lazio. A sea port on the Tyrrhenian Sea, the name ''Civitavecchia'' means "ancient town". The modern city was built over a pre-existing Etruscan settlement. The massive Forte Michelangelo was first commissioned from Donato Bramante by Pope Julius II, to defend the port of Rome. The upper part of the "maschio" tower, however, was designed by Michelangelo, whose name is generally applied to the fortress. North of the city at Ficoncella are the Terme Taurine baths frequented by Romans and still popular with the Civitavecchiesi. The modern name stems from the common fig plants among the various pools. And also next to the town is the location of the cruise ship docks. All major cruise lines start and end their cruises at this location, and others stop for shore excursion days that allow guests to see Rome and Vatican sights, which are ninety minutes away.
Chania is the second largest city of Crete and the capital of the Chania regional unit. Lies along the north coast of the island, about 70 km (43 mi) west of Rethymno and 145 km (90 mi) west of Heraklion, it is one of the two places you are most likely to see on arriving in Crete. It is breathtaking - that is to say much of the Chania you will want to see is clustered close to the harbour - old buildings, museums, churches and crafts shops.


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Sunscreen confusion may continue through this summer. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on May 11 that it's giving sunscreen manufacturers an additional six months to make labeling changes that will help users better protect themselves.
Last summer, the FDA told manufacturers they had until this June to revise their sunscreen labels in order to distinguish brands that could be labeled as "broad spectrum," meaning they protect against both ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B rays, which contribute to skin cancer and early skin aging. The new guidelines also say brands cannot claim to be sweatproof or waterproof on their labels, to alert users that they must reapply the products.
(MORE: Sunburn and Indoor Tanning Still Putting Young People at Risk for Skin Cancer)
Manufacturers said they were having difficulty meeting the original deadline, which is less than a month away. So in a formal announcement, the FDA said it will give companies six more months, until December, to make the necessary changes. Smaller companies have an even more generous deadline of December 2013.
The agency argues that without the extension, there would be sunscreen shortages. "We asked for the additional time," Farah Ahmed, chair of the sunscreen task force at the Personal Care Products Council, told USA Today. Ahmed said changing labels on thousands of products "is a huge undertaking" and that unprepared manufacturers wouldn't be able to ship new products after June 18, resulting in shortages.
"The FDA took a major step backwards today, and as a result, more consumers will likely get burned this summer," Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed told the Associated Press. Reed has long encouraged the FDA to enforce stricter sunscreen regulations.
(MORE: Study Finds Dramatic Rise in Skin Cancer Among Young Adults)
Sunscreen products do not need to be reformulated to meet the new guidelines, but the label revisions can take a lot of time, Ahmed told the AP. The FDA is still encouraging brands to quickly re-label and put those products in stores as soon as they can, and some companies have already done so.
When the guidelines are finally enforced, here is what the FDA says consumers can expect:
- Broad-spectrum designation: Sunscreens that pass the FDA's broad-spectrum test, to see if they protect against both ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B rays, may be labeled as "Broad-Spectrum SPF" on the front label.
- Use claims: Only broad-spectrum sunscreens with an SPF value of 15 or higher can claim to reduce skin-cancer risk and early skin aging if used as directed with other protective measures. Other sunscreens, including those with an SPF value between 2 and 14, can claim only to help prevent sunburn.
- Waterproof, sweatproof and sunblock claims: Sunscreens cannot be labeled as waterproof or sweatproof, or be identified as a sunblock, because those words overstate their effectiveness. Sunscreens cannot claim to provide sun protection for more than two hours without reapplication or to provide immediate protection without having submitted data to obtain FDA approval.
- Water-resistance claims: "Water-resistance" labeling must indicate whether the sunscreen is effective for 40 minutes or 80 minutes while swimming or sweating. Other sunscreens must include a recommendation advising consumers to use water-resistant sunscreen if swimming or sweating.
- Drug facts: All sunscreens must include standard drug-facts information on the back or side.


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Wednesday, 24 October 2012 05:40 PM EDT
Aspirin, one of the world's oldest and cheapest drugs, has shown remarkable promise in treating colon cancer in people with mutations in a gene that's thought to play a role in the disease.
Among patients with the mutations, those who regularly took aspirin lived longer than those who didn't, a major study found. Five years after their cancers were diagnosed, 97 percent of the aspirin users were still alive versus 74 percent of those not taking the drug.
Aspirin seemed to make no difference in patients who did not have the mutations. Special: This Small Group of Doctors are Quietly Curing Cancer
This sort of study can't prove that aspirin caused the better survival, and doctors say more research must confirm the findings before aspirin can be recommended more widely. The study wasn't designed to test aspirin; people were taking it on their own for various reasons.
Still, the results suggest that this simple medicine might be the cheapest gene-targeting therapy ever found for cancer. About one-sixth of all colon cancer patients have the mutated gene and might be helped by aspirin. And aspirin costs just pennies a day.
"It's exciting to think that something that's already in the medicine cabinet may really have an important effect" beyond relieving pain and helping to prevent heart attacks, said Dr. Andrew Chan of Massachusetts General Hospital. He and others from Harvard Medical School led the study, which appears in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.
Cancers of the colon or rectum are a leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. More than 140,000 new cases and 51,000 deaths from them are expected this year in the United States.
Several studies suggest that aspirin may help fight cancer, especially colorectal tumors. It is often recommended for people who have colon cancer and others at high risk of developing it. But it's not advised for wider use, or for cancer prevention, because it can cause serious bleeding in the stomach and gut.
What has been lacking, doctors say, is a good way to tell which people might benefit the most, so aspirin's risks would be justified. Chan's study suggests a way to do that.
It involved 964 people diagnosed with various stages of colon cancer who were among nearly 175,000 participants in two health studies based at Harvard that began in the 1980s. Every two years, they filled out surveys on their health habits, including aspirin use.
Most had surgery for their cancer, and many also had chemotherapy. They gave tumor tissue samples that could be tested for gene activity. Researchers focused on one gene, PIK3CA, that is involved in a key pathway that fuels cancer's growth and spread. Aspirin seems to blunt that pathway, so the scientists looked at its use in relation to the gene.
In those whose tumors had a mutation in that gene, regular aspirin use cut the risk of dying of colon cancer by 82 percent and of dying of any cause by 46 percent during the study period of about 13 years. Special: This Small Group of Doctors are Quietly Curing Cancer
Only two of the 62 regular aspirin users whose tumors had the mutated gene died within five years of their cancer diagnosis versus 23 of 90 non-aspirin users with such a mutation.
The results are "quite exciting," said Dr. Boris Pasche, a cancer specialist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who wrote an editorial that appears with the study in the medical journal. Half a dozen drugs are used to treat colon cancer, but only one meaningfully extends survival in people whose cancers have not widely spread, he said.
"Now we may have aspirin. That's why it's a big deal," Pasche said.
In the study, the dose of aspirin — baby or regular — didn't seem to matter, just whether any aspirin was regularly used.
The test for the gene is not expensive and is simple enough that most cancer centers should be able to do it, Chan and Pasche said.
The National Institutes of Health and several foundations paid for the study. One of the 17 authors consults for Bayer, a leading aspirin maker. Pasche has been a paid speaker for two companies that make cancer treatments and has two patent applications under review related to cancer treatment.
Researchers warn that aspirin may not be responsible for the improved survival seen in this study. Differences in how the patients' cancer was treated could have played a role.
For that reason, they say the next step should be a study where some people with the mutated gene are given aspirin and others are not, so their cancer outcomes can be compared more directly. Special: This Small Group of Doctors are Quietly Curing Cancer
One colon cancer patient, L. Stewart Keefe, 60, a retired interior decorator and painter from Alton, N.H., decided several years ago to try it.
"I figured, what have I got to lose by taking some aspirin? It just seems like it was a simple enough thing to take," she said. "For me the bleeding risk is a very small possible consequence" compared with the risk of cancer coming back, she said.
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This section contains miscellaneous & general financial information that you may find useful when dealing with certain life events.
Capital Gains Tax
This document contains a short explanation of Capital Gains Tax, the allowances available in the 2017/18 tax year, and how you can use it in your year end tax planning.
Civil Partnerships
Civil partnerships in the United Kingdom, granted under the Civil Partnership Act 2004, allow same-sex couples to obtain essentially the same rights and responsibilities as civil marriage. Though from March 2014 full same-sex marriage was legalised in England and Wales, civil partnership remains available. Designed to be very much equivalent to marriage for same sex couples, a civil partnership carries both rights and responsibilities, in very broad terms, attracting the same legal and tax protections/advantages/disadvantages as a traditional marriage. This article explains further.
Inheritance Tax
A short explanation of Inheritance Tax and how to plan for it in your tax planning.