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The graceful fountain on this invitation against the enchanting background produce a very warm and inviting design that makes it perfect for wedding dinner invitations, destination wedding invitations, thank you cards, save the date invitations, Mother's Day luncheon or dinner invitations, bridal shower invitations and bachelorette party invitations.
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The Blue Springs South Branch of Mid-Continent Public Library is offering the following activities for the month of August. The library is located at 2220 S. Missouri 7. All activities are free, but registration is required, call 816-229-3571.
• Super Science Spectacular, for all ages, 10 a.m. Aug. 1. Come celebrate the end of Fizz, Boom, Read! Enjoy our activities and demonstrations and show us how you used science this summer by bringing in a completed experiment or a picture of your science project to display at the branch.
• Teens at the Library, 7 p.m. Aug. 4, 18, 25. Make crafts, watch movies, play games and more.
• Early Literacy Playdate, for all ages, 10 a.m. Aug. 4, 12, 20 and 28. Playing isn't just for fun. Our activity stations will show how playing can build your child's early literacy skills.
• Container Gardening for the Urban Farmer, for adults, 7 p.m. Aug. 5. Learn how to build window/patio boxes and create a screen trellis for the plants to climb. You'll learn how to select plants for your exposure and what thrives in varying conditions. You'll receive a comprehensive handout with building plans, plants, and local resources.
• Victor and Penny: Antique Pop, for ages 6 and older, 2 p.m. Aug. 7. Victor and Penny are a vocal duo that offers up antique pop from the 1930s and 1940s on ukulele and an old electric guitar. They bring a fresh twist to old standards and some more modern tunes .
• Teen Fest, 2 p.m. Aug. 23. Bring your friends and come celebrate what's happening at the library. Call to see what all of the festivities are for.
• Kids Create, for ages 6 and older, 6:30 p.m. Aug. 28. Kids will spark their imagination and express themselves through art and craft activities.


text: Hotel and Travel Page ContentNEW POLICY: You must be registered for RIMS '13 before your hotel reservation can be confirmed. The six digit badge ID number is required to book a room. Hotel reservations are processed on a first received basis, and are confirmed based on hotel availability. This April, RIMS '13 arrives in the beautiful and vibrant city of Los Angeles, California. With a flourishing Downtown, trend-setting arts scenes and internationally flavored neighborhoods, Los Angeles is a destination unlike any other. LA has has always served as a crossroads and a meeting place for people of culturally diverse backgrounds. In other words, it's the perfect venue for connecting with fellow attendees, making new connections and absorbing the rich resources our exhibitors have to offer. Whether you'll be traveling from around the corner or across the globe, we've provided you with all of the information and resources you need to make planning a breeze. Shuttle Buses Sponsored by Swiss Re Corporate Solutions With the exception of the JW Marriott at LA Live, the Ritz Carlton, the Figueroa Hotel and the Luxe City Center Hotel, shuttle bus service will be provided between all other hotels and the Los Angeles Convention Center. Check out our travel discounts, LA Guide, and book your hotel. So look around and get ready for RIMS '13! WARNING!!! A company called Global Housing Services claims to represent RIMS as a housing agency for RIMS 2013 Conference & Exhibition. This company offers assistance with hotel reservations in Los Angeles. This company has no relationship with RIMS, may require full-payment, non-refundable reservations, and might charge significant cancellation and change fees. RIMS has only one contracted, exclusive housing provider: Travel Planners Housing Bureau. It is highly recommended that you book your room through the our official Housing Bureau.


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The smokers vow
The Smoker's Vow
To be said just before taking your first puff after
having quit for any appreciable period of time
With this puff I enslave myself
to a lifetime of addiction.
While I can't promise to always love you,
I do promise to obey every craving and
support my addiction to you
no matter how expensive you become.
I will let no husband or wife,
no family member or friend,
no doctor or any other health professional,
no employer or government policy,
no burns or no stench,
no cough or raspy voice,
no cancer or emphysema,
no heart attack or stroke,
no threat of loss of life or limbs,
come between us.
I will smoke you forever
from this day forth,
for better or worse,
whether richer or poorer,
in sickness and in health,
till death do us part!
"You may now light the cigarette."
"I now pronounce you a full-fledged smoker."
Postscript: While 1 in 2 marriages end in divorce, the addiction to smoking will last a lifetime – albeit a shorter lifetime. Once a smoker, annulment of the addiction is impossible. One puff can result in a permanent relapse. Dont take the chance of relapsing to this marriage of inconvenience.


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by Laura Jamieson
Olympic games take on a whole new meaning at Germantown Friends School's annual Science Night. At the Physics Olympics Thursday evening, students, faculty, parents and community members shouted and cheered for the science Olympians.
"You usually have to be an athlete or performer to get that kind of response, but on this night the science nerd gets to be the hero," said physics teacher Tracey Spinka.
The games are just one of the featured Science Night events, which also include biology experiments; chemistry concoctions of goo, foam and slime; high-tech presentations of test results; poster-board displays and a panel of experts discussing inequalities in access to health care.
Head of the Science Department Susan Robinson said the event is a great way for students to apply lessons learned in class.
"Science Night is an opportunity for students in grades 8-12 to apply what they have learned [this year] in their science courses," she said. "Science is all about asking questions, performing research and analyzing data in order to draw a conclusion. Sometimes you can lose the true essence of science in the daily grind of delivering curriculum, so Science Night reminds us all of the true nature of science."
The ninth graders spend nearly three weeks planning, designing, building and testing one of six different projects, which are put to the test at the Physics Olympics. In the physics lab, with less then a week before the Olympic games, there was a buzz in the air, along with the smells of hot glue and sawdust. Students huddled in small groups, hunched over balsa wood constructions, discussing, problem solving and rethinking designs.
"The students get very involved," said physics teacher David Williamson. "They write a lot of papers, present projects and write lab reports, but they don't get many long-term projects where they produce something. Hands-on work is so important, and high schools these days often neglect that."
The projects include building light-weight wood towers that need to withstand the weight of sand bags added to a pail hanging from the top and constructing vehicles powered by mousetraps, balloons or a pulley. Students pass around masking tape, scissors, dowels, strings, straws, rubber bands and the other limited resources available to them to create their projects.
The older students remember their projects fondly and often stop by to check in on ninth graders, who are required to talk with former students to get advice. Even with the help, Williamson said the students come up with remarkable things.
"It's still a surprise to see what the students come up with," he said. "Even though the rules and the materials available to each group are exactly the same, the implementation is always totally different."
The events also change from year to year. Some of them, like the mousetrap-powered car, are physics classics, but others require trial and error to perfect.
"It takes years to tweak the projects until they are really good," Williamson said. "A good project has competing design features, so the students are balancing competing variables."
When the traditional egg drop proved too simple, they changed it to a kite-based "winged egg," which is scored for distance as well as for keeping the egg intact.
"The record from last year was 8.75 meters," said Phoebe Altenhofen as she examined her kite.
"We just got 7.2 meters on our last test," teammate Drew Meyer announced, "We're going to break that record!"
Altenhofen agreed.
"Yeah, I think we will." she said.
Williamson sees Science Night as an opportunity for students to push themselves to think outside the box – and to shine. The physics program uses many different types of assessment tests, lab work and homework, as well as the Olympics, and all of them require different thinking and learning styles.
"You'll see some kids who haven't done all that well in the traditional testing format really design something and make it work," he said.
Conversely, teachers see students who test well but over analyze and over think their projects.
"They have to be willing to take risks," Williamson said. "They have to be able to say, Okay, I'm going to try this and if it doesn't work then I'm going to tear it apart and try it differently."
A group working on a pulley-and-weight powered "Joule Mobile" experimented with the height of their car, added a bigger axel and made adjustments to add stability.
"We've had to experiment to find out what works and what doesn't," said Maddy Berg.
"We figured the car would go farther with a taller tower," teammate Ned Weiss added.
Berg pointed out that a taller tower would be less stable.
"Yes, and the more mass the less acceleration," teammate Jessica Lu said. But they all agree on one thing.
"This is much more fun than taking notes," said Weiss. "I really enjoy the concepts of physics, but I'd rather be testing them than taking tests on them. It's a great way to practice the theories that we learn."


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The difference on paper is pretty large. The Infiniti M35h makes 302 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque from its naturally aspirated 3.5 liter V6. This is combined with an electric motor though for a boost of 58 horsepower to 360. This is a rather large advantage over the E350 Bluetec with only 210 horses but packing 400 pound-feet of torque. The thing is, the electric motor provides instant torque in the M35h so it is not exactly hurting in that department.
The results are very one sided. Both vehicles weigh about the same (the Benz at 4242 is 79 pounds heavier than the hybrid) but the Infiniti M35h runs the 1/4 mile in firstname.lastname@example.com versus email@example.com for the E350 Bluetec. This 3.0 liter diesel motor clearly isn't the best diesel the Germans have to offer.
To make matters worse the M35h also managed the exact same gas mileage as the E350 Bluetec at 24.4 MPG. The hybrid provided a sound thumping and it is hard to fault it here. No surprise Edmunds picked the Infiniti decisively over the E350.
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City of Lincoln
Mayor's Office
2009 Media Releases
The public is invited to a ceremony Sunday, March 29 to rename West Stanton Street in northwest Lincoln in honor of Marine Lance Cpl. Michael D. Scholl, who died November 14, 2006 from wounds sustained during combat in Iraq. Scholl's family and friends will be joined by Mayor Chris Beutler, U.S. Representative Jeff Fortenberry and City Council Member John Spatz for the ceremony at 1 p.m. at the Air Park West Recreation Center, 3720 N.W. 46th St. A reception will follow.
West Stanton Street was chosen for re-naming because it is in the area where Scholl grew up. He graduated from Lincoln High in 2002. His mother and stepfather still live in Lincoln, and his father and stepmother live in Friend. His wife and daughter live in Washington state. Scholl was 21 when he died of injuries caused by a roadside bomb in Al Anbar province.
Other speakers at the event include Marine Sergeant John Hunsberger who served with Scholl in Afghanistan and Iraq; Arnold Elementary Principal Kathy Honeycutt; and Cliff Leach, a former State Captain of the Patriot Guard Riders.
To reach the Air Park West Recreation Center from N.W. 48th Street, take W. Seward Street east and turn right onto N.W. 46th.


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Established in 2009, Hong Kong Trombone Association (HKTA) is a non-profit association of a group of passionate trombone enthusiasts aimed at education and promotion of appreciation in western brass music, in particular to trombone music and its entire related works, to the general public. Through organizing performances, workshops, master classes and exchange programs, with local and overseas professional musicians and educators, HKTA is also dedicated to facilitate exchanges of players at different levels towards the advancement of professional musicplaying standards.
The objects for which the Association is established shall be:
1. To promote education and appreciation to western brass music, in particular to trombone and all its related works;
2. To facilitate exchanges among local, and/or occasionally with overseas brass, in particular trombone players towards advancement of overall playing standard;
3. To provide and/or solicit learning and performance opportunities for western brass, in particular trombone players;
4. To establish and maintain linkage, correspondence and/or affiliation with other organizations of similar objects regionally and/or internationally;
5. To host, organize, conduct and present lecture, forum, seminar, workshop, conference, symposium, contest, competition, concert, recital and/or event of any kind which is relevant and rightful towards the attainment of the objects of the Association.
We organize the annual SliderAsia Trombone Festival, which is a premier music festival for Asian trombonists of all levels as an annual get-together during summer. Details can be found at http://www.SliderAsia.org/.
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If ever there was a poster child for those in this world who believe in the virtue of sweating the details, it's former A's Manager Tony La Russa.
Ask anyone who ever played for him or worked with him on anything, the man leaves little to chance. It is that trait, more than any other, that has earned La Russa the honor of being inducted into Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
During his brilliant career as a manager, La Russa always seemed to have the upper hand in nearly any battle of wits.
Sports Illustrated magazine once even used its cover to call him "The Mastermind."
But, as Bud Geracie — this paper's sports editor — astutely pointed out at the time of the announcement of the induction, La Russa's outflanking was usually the result of having to sweat those details. His relentless work ethic, rather than superior intellect, was usually at the heart of those clever maneuvers.
La Russa could fairly be nicknamed the Master of Disaster because he rarely encountered a worst-case scenario during a game or a season that he hadn't pondered and worked out a response ahead of time.
Most of those who played for him will tell you that La Russa had a heart for his players. He never seemed to forget the players were not statistics or machines and that each required a little something different from him. He tried to understand them as people first and baseball players second.
Besides guiding the A's, he served as a manager of the Chicago White Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals, compiling the third-highest number of wins of all time.
La Russa will enter the Hall with fellow managers Bobby Cox and Joe Torre, which is about as distinguished a class of managers to enter at any one time.
But La Russa means more to the Bay Area than just being a former A's manager. He and his wife, Elaine, still live in Alamo and he has become almost as famous off the field as he was on it. He regularly lends his name and support for a variety of charitable causes.
But his most remarkable cause is his creation of a foundation to help rescue animals. The Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF) has grown from a man's vision into an enormous operation that greatly benefits abused and abandoned animals in the local community.
Not exactly a usual charity for an athlete, but La Russa is not exactly a usual guy. In fact, he is an exceptional one, and we are very proud to call him one of our own.


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To begin with, most people are unaware that the Bush and bin Laden families have been close friends and colleagues for a long time. Back in 1976 Osama's older brother Salim bin Laden invested $50,000 in George. W. Bush's budding Arbusto Energy Company. They met through fellow CIA employee and Bush family friend Jim Bath who handled all the bin Laden family's
"How many know that the Bush family and the Bin Laden family have long been extremely close? Or that the former head of the family construction business,
Since the late 1980's the Bush's and bin Laden's have also worked together in the Carlyle Group,
"The Carlyle Group also has very close links with the bin Laden family, who have been both clients and investors. Father Bush has been a paid consultant to the Bin Laden Group. Reports in the Wall Street Journal say these Carlyle investments have been earning the Bin Laden family some 40% a year on their money since 1995." -David Icke, "Alice in Wonderland and the
"The Carlyle Group is the biggest defense contractor on the planet and the majority owners are the Bush family and the bin Laden family. Both families are profiting hundreds of billions of dollars off
Osama bin Laden was the 17th of 52 sons of construction baron Mohammed bin Laden. Back in 1979 The CIA paid Osama to recruit and train Al-Qaeda fighters. When Bush became CIA director in the 1980's they recruited Osama, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban in
In 1999 NORAD performed exercises in which hijacked airliners were used as weapons to crash into targets, one of which being the
In September of 2000, Rebuilding America's Defenses was published by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, and others from the Project for a New American Century team. In it they said regarding their plans for the middle-east that "the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new
On October 24, 2000, MASCAL was a Pentagon training exercise that simulated a Boeing 757 crashing into the building. Back in 1989, Charles Burlingame, an Ex-Navy F-4 pilot who worked at the Pentagon for 17 years, also participated in an earlier version of MASCAL crashing simulated planes into the Pentagon.
In January 2001 FBI deputy director John O'Neill went public that the Bush administration (and
"The next piece of evidence you are about to read is the biggest smoking gun of all. President George W. Bush signed secret National Security order No. W199-eye telling FBI agents as well as defense intelligence officers that if they tried to stop Al-Qaeda they would be arrested under national security implications … This secret, leaked document has been in many publications, including BBC News Online, Agency France-Press, and the London Guardian. Lawsuits have now been filed by FBI agents who were outraged by the fact that they were not allowed to stop Al-Qaeda. The global crime syndicate that George W. Bush and his family work for has everything to gain from the September 11 attacks: a national ID card, a national control grid and a cashless society. It's part of the public record. George W. Bush signed the documents threatening defense intelligence and FBI agents with arrest if they stopped Al-Qaeda. This is the most absolutely treasonous, treacherous thing he could possibly do." -Alex Jones, "911 Descent into Tyranny"
FBI director John O'Neill was so furious that he quit after the Bush administration blocked his investigation of Osama bin Laden. He was then "generously" offered a position in the private sector working as Kroll head of security. Marvin Bush was director of SecuraCom/Kroll which provided electronic security for the World Trade Center, United Airlines, and Dulles airport - all three of which were involved in the 9/11 attacks. The head of security position offered to Mr. O'Neill was for the
"CNN's 'American Morning with Paula Zahn' reported that FBI deputy director John O'Neill resigned because he felt the U.S. administration was obstructing the FBI in their attempts to stop Al-Qaeda (CNN, January 8, 2002, 'Explosive New Book Published in France Alleges that U.S. Was in Negotiations to Do a Deal with Taliban'). The show went on to report that Bush signed W199-eye restricting the investigation. Again, this is high treason and absolute fact. George W. Bush signed this publicly reported document. The BBC has a copy of it. The body of evidence is conclusive. George W. Bush is an intimate partner with bin Laden and a traitor to America … We have already talked about FBI Deputy Director John O'Neill quitting because George Bush signed the order forbidding him to stop Al-Qaeda. The reason for his not going public now? Mr. O'Neill is dead. His new job was head of security for the
Back in 1996 and 1998 the Sudanese twice tried to arrest bin Laden, but
"The truth is that the Central Intelligence Agency, controlled by Wall Street, has been grooming Bin Laden and his family over the last fifty years to carry out dangerous projects in the Middle East, Central Asia, and
In May 2001 the Bush administration gave $43 million in aid to the Taliban. In June German intelligence, the BND warned the CIA that "middle-eastern terrorists are planning to hijack commercial airlines to use as weapons to attack
"Shortly after September 11, witnesses came forward documenting for the record the fact that bin Laden met with the CIA Section Chief for ten days in
On July 24th,
"Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says that he gave the
"An anonymous listener to a
Just a week before 9/11, WTC occupants Zim Israeli Shipping Company suspiciously broke their lease, packed up, and moved out after paying a $50,000 penalty for breaking their contract. Then on Sept. 6th, there were 4 times the normal amount of put-options (bets to go down) placed on United Airlines stock. The next day more than 5 times the usual put volume was placed on Boeing stock. And on Sept. 10th, American Airlines had nearly 11 times its daily put average. No other airlines showed such anomalies. CIA Executive Director "Buzzy" Krongard was implicated along with a few other CIA-related investment firms as being the one who placed the UA put-options, but as of yet, no further investigations have been made.
"Newsweek twice reported that top Pentagon officials had got a warning of the impending attack on September 10th and cancelled their flights for the next day. This confirms that these officials knew both the locations of the imminent attack and the method of using jetliners as bombs." -Paul Joseph Watson, "Order Out of Chaos" (87)
Not only did a group of top Pentagon officials cancel their 9/11 flights,
During a CBS interview with Dan Rather, Tom Kennedy, a spokesman for FEMA's "National Urban Search and Rescue Team" let it slip that they were sent out to
"The National Security Agency intercepted two messages on September 10th indicating a significant event was to take place the next day. The messages were in Arabic and stated, 'tomorrow is zero hour' and 'the match begins tomorrow.' The majority of communication took place between Khalid Shaikh, one of the chief 9/11 planners, and Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker. NSA intercepts also detected multiple phone calls from Abu Zubaida, bin Laden's chief of operations, to the
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STATE v. JOSEPH DIPAOLO, AC 24288
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Criminal; Whether Defendant's Conviction for Operating Under the Influence was Properly Enhanced Based on His Prior Conviction in a State That Does Not Have a Pretrial Diversionary Alcohol Education Program for First Time Offenders. In December of 2002, the defendant was arrested and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicating liquor in violation of General Statutes § 14-227a. In Connecticut, a person charged with violating § 14-227a can attend a pretrial alcohol education program if that person has not been convicted in any other state at any time of an offense in which the essential elements are substantially the same as the elements of § 14-227a. Upon the successful completion of the program, the trial court will dismiss the charge without the necessity of a trial. In this case, the defendant was not eligible for the program because the state subsequently charged him in a part B information with being a repeat offender based on a prior New York conviction for operating under the influence. The defendant also faced enhanced penalties under § 14-227a for being a repeat offender. The defendant moved to dismiss the part B information, arguing that the Connecticut legislature did not intend for enhanced penalties to apply to defendants whose prior convictions were from states that did not have an equivalent of Connecticut's alcohol education program. The defendant also argued that the application of an enhanced penalty here would violate the due process and equal protection clauses of both the United States and Connecticut constitutions. Specifically, he claimed that if his first arrest had occurred in Connecticut, he would have participated in the alcohol education program and would not have been subjected to an enhanced penalty in the present case. The trial court rejected the defendant's arguments, concluding that nothing in the legislative history of § 14-227a created an exception for anyone whose prior conviction is from a state that does not have an alcohol education program. It further determined that § 14-227a is concerned only with previous convictions and that the statute treats all defendants with prior convictions in the same manner. Accordingly, the court denied the defendant's motion to dismiss. Thereafter, the defendant pleaded nolo contendere to operating under the influence and to being a repeat offender, and he was sentenced to an enhanced penalty. In this appeal, the Appellate Court will determine whether the trial court properly denied the defendant's motion to dismiss.


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George loves Italy
George Clooney's The Ides of March will open the Venice Film Festival on August 31st. As you know, George spends his summers at his house in Lake Como. He loves Italy. He can't let go of his Italian Queen. And he's chosen Venice for the debut of his new directorial effort which they hope will kick off a run for award season. And I hope he brings it then to TIFF. OMG. TIFF. That's actually only 10 weeks away. Already?!?!???
Oh but you lucky Italians. You get George Clooney and Ryan Gosling together in tuxedos on a red carpet. Of course you'll get Elisabetta Canalis too. George brought Ely last time he was at the VFF in 2009. If she can make it another 8 weeks, and there's no reason to believe she can't, having survived, literally, almost 2 years, she'll be lording it over her country, yet again, as his plus one.
Attached – George and the IQ in Venice in 2009 for the premiere of The Men Who Stare At Goats. At that point they had only been dating just two months. Even then she was formidable. Even then.
Photos from Wenn.com


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Greg Newbold on Don Weller
Almost immediately after that post, TI list member Greg Newbold sent me a note:
"I saw some work by Don Weller pop up yesterday and couldn't help commenting. Don is a friend of mine since I took a class from him about 20 years ago. I then worked for him off and on doing illustrations for Park City magazine until he gave it up last year. I could contact Don and set something up."
And that's exactly what Greg did - with spectacular results!
Over on Greg's blog you'll find a fabulous two-part article he put together after interviewing his old friend. Part 1 focuses on Don Weller's early career, with many beautiful examples of the Weller's illustration art.
Part 2 focuses on Weller's recent years as a fine art western painter and cutting horse rider.
Spend a few minutes today enjoying both of Greg's posts - and many thanks, Greg, for the time and effort you put into this terrific two-part article on Don Weller!
Greg Newbold on Don Weller, Part 1
Greg Newbold on Don Weller, Part 2
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I was in Don's Adv. Illustration class back in 1979 at Art Center. Learned a lot from him.ReplyDelete
In the late 70's, Don co-taughtReplyDelete
a class with Mike Gaines, an art director at the NFL. Both men were everything a student could want from instructors, they were smart, inspiring, intimidating, kind, and very, very funny. Don was a big source of encouragement to me, in class and right after graduation. He was the probably the busiest illustrator in LA in those days, it's good to see his work again, and the cowboy watercolors are simply Weller at his best.
Don's studio had one of the great names of all time:ReplyDelete
"Institute for the Cure of design".
I loved seeing that return address on stuff at the Society of Illustrators
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Wow, this is really great to run into. Don is my father, and it's really nice to see you paying respect to his work this way. Thanks!ReplyDelete
I was (still am) a huge fan of Don Weller's work ever since I noticed his Weller & Juett stuff in some trade magazine, while studying Advertising Design back in the early 70s.ReplyDelete
In the early 80s, a colleague of mine convinced me to contact Don and see if we could buy him lunch. Basically, we just wanted to see if we could meet one of our heroes and sure enough he accepted our invitation.
We had burgers and lemonade at Hampton's in Sunset Bl., while he talked about the trade and sort of gave us some guidance. He was very sincere, generous and funny. Afterwards he invited us to his home up in the hills. I still remember the huge, rusty Coca Cola button sign right in the center of his living room. It had bullet holes in it. He said he'd found it in the desert.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Aah, the fluffy white bath towel...
...saviour of many a "lightly-clad" young lady back in 1953 - at least that was the case in the pages of the Saturday Evening Post.
Gentlemen seemed always to be dropping in unexpectedly back then, just when a girl was stepping out of the shower or lounging around in the "all-together". Very disconserting. I asked yesterday, what must the readers have thought of all this lascivious behaviour? Surely the editors and art directors were risking raising the ire of their audience in the less cosmopolitan regions of the country.
Check out these letters to the editor regarding a Coby Whitmore illustration of a bikini-clad girl from the late 50's. And consider that the first letter comes from Scarsdale, New York!
Its heartening to see the editor's cheeky response doesn't back down one bit. Hooray for the defenders of the lightly-clad ladies!
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Those are great letters from "disgusted and nauseated" readers complaining about Coby Whitmore's girl in a white bikini. Because I share their moral outrage I went looking for that illustration in your Flickr collection. I felt it would be a public service to take a long, lingering close up look at what the decline and fall of western civilization looks like. I was disappointed to see that it was not represented in your collection.ReplyDelete
I have made it a priority to locate that vile piece by Whitmore so I too can scutinize its disgustingness in greater detail. ;-)ReplyDelete
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Brent oil for March settlement fell $1.18, or 1 percent, to $115.58 a barrel at 3 p.m. New York time on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. The contract settled at $116.76 on Feb. 1, the highest level since Sept. 13. Trading volume was 9 percent above the 100-day average.
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Jeremy7953 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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We are a web-based service that creates online forms for organizations. Our customers send us their paper forms and we convert them to an online version. We take the hassle out of hiring a web developer to build forms online.
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More than 60 years after her father went missing in Korea, Erie resident Gloria Shonrock saw him put to rest during a military funeral and burial.
In February, Army veteran William Day's remains were identified by the Department of Defense Missing Personnel Office and were returned to his hometown in Kentucky for burial in April.
Day was the 100th person identified from 208 boxes of human remains that were given to the United States by North Korea in the 1990s, according to the department's website, http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo.
The boxes are believed to contain the remains of 350 to 400 U.S. service members who fought during the Korean War. The departments estimates that 7,883 service members from the war are still unaccounted for, the website states.
Day's remains were identified with matching x-rays and DNA from Day's brother and Shonrock.
Shonrock, 67, said she has been working with the department in Washington, D.C. for more than 20 years to find her father, who was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950.
On April 7, she finally found peace.
Shonrock and her daughter, Firestone resident Carrie Rose-Martens, attended the funeral in Day's hometown in Kentucky where Day's brother still lives.
They watched the local honor guard carry Day's remains off of the plane in a casket covered with an American flag that sits folded in a wooden box in Shonrock's home.
A local World War II veteran played "Taps" and an open casket revealed a neatly pressed uniform displaying Day's ribbons, including a Purple Heart.
Day's remains – his skull, pieces of his clavicle and teeth – were wrapped in a wool blanket underneath the uniform. The casket was buried in the only remaining family plot, next to Day's mother.
"He got the funeral he deserved after all this time," Shonrock said.
Rose-Martens never knew her grandfather but said she was relieved to watch her mother get the news she had been waiting for most of her life.
In March, an official from the Department of Defense came to Shonrock's home to present the evidence about Day's remains.
A book containing the DNA results, photographs of the remains and records about Day's service was given to the family during the visit.
"To see that this is where he was, it was like walking in his footsteps on paper," Rose-Martens said.
Now, Shonrock hopes to encourage other families to work with the Department of Defense to help identify the remains of their loved ones.
"It's a closure that you need to make your life complete," Shonrock said. "I know what that means. I felt that."
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U.S. service members still MIA
Korean War: 7,883
Cold War: 126
Vietnam War: 1,642
Iraq and other conflicts: 6
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Welcome to the Asia Stocks live blog, a running account of what the region's share markets are doing, along with other news. Today, HSBC\'s preliminary report on Chinese manufacturing comes in far stronger than expected, sending shares rallying, with an assist from overnight night gains in the U.S.
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- 7:44 pm
- The Iron Law of Chinese Data
- by Mike Kitchen
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As they do every month, the folks at HSBC and Markit will offer the first glipse of China's current manufacturing activity as they release the "flash" or preliminary version of their Purchasing Managers' Index.
The April HSBC PMI report printed at 48.1, languishing just below the 50 mark that separates net growth from net contraction, and the current market consensus is for the headline number to nose higher to 48.3, according to TD Securities.
But for TD's own part, it sees a drop to 47.7: "The flash HSBC Chinese manufacturing PMI for May … could sorely disappoint if the relationship between this sentiment indicator and the iron-ore price is any guide."
Yes, it seems that since about two years ago, the China manufacturing PMI has been very closely correlated to iron ore. And as readers of this blog know, the recent action for the key steel-making ingredient hasn't been pretty. According to TD Securities' data, in fact, iron ore is now a full 10% cheaper than it was in April.
We'll know soon enough if the relationship holds.
- 8:36 pm
- Japan follows Wall Street up the hill
- by Mike Kitchen
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U.S. stocks' strong gains overnight and the dollar's rebound against the yen are having a salubrious effect on Tokyo equities this morning, with the Nikkei Average up 0.9% (vs. a 0.3% fall yesterday) and the Topix 0.7% higher.
And it might not have been this way: After Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda sounded some bullish notes on the economic outlook late yesterday, the yen zoomed higher to send the dollar below the ¥101 handle.
But the yen came off those highs after the release of Federal Reserve minutes focusing on how to exit quantitative easing, firming up the greenback — just how Japanese stock investors like it. At this point, the currency pair is back at ¥101.41.
The updraft from the cheaper yen is lifting the usual tech/industrial/auto-making suspects: Panasonic is up 1.3%, Mitsubishi Heavy is up 2%, Trend Micro is up 2.5%, Suzuki Motor is up 3.3%, Mazda Motor is up 2.7%, and Sony is dancing 1.3% higher ahead of its corporate-strategy conference call slated for later in the day.
Among other names with a big global exposure, Nomura is 2.1% higher, and Softbank is up 1.1%.
In his post-policy-decision remarks, BOJ chief Kuroda offered a specific shout-out for the retail sector, saying consumer spending remained resilient despite the April 1 hike in the national sales tax. The comment appears to be sitting well with retailer shares, as J.Front and Fast Retailing advance 1.4% each, and Aeon adds 1.2%.
And the losers? Toshiba is down 1%, giving back some of the gains earlier in the week on reports it would supply chips for a new Google smartphone. And Hello Kitty creator Sanrio is plunging almost 15% on low volume, putting its stock price 40% below what it was at the start of the year.
- 9:11 pm
- Australia stocks: Market cheers Qantas peace offering
- by Mike Kitchen
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Australia stocks are rising into the new day, with the ASX 200 higher by 0.5% — and for a change, it's not the miners and big banks that are leading the action.
For one thing, we have Qantas up 2%, while rival Virgin Australia is back at the flatline after brief early gains.
Amid intense competition between the two carriers — which CIMB says will result in the pair posting almost $1 billion in combined losses for the current fiscal year — Qantas said Wednesday it would halt its strategy of expanding capacity in a previous effort to grab market share. The move offers Virgin a sort of truce (in the words of The Wall Street Journal).
Meanwhile, construction-material firm James Hardie is basking in the glow of a 2.9% climb for its share price after posting a sharp gain in its annual profit and declaring both a special dividend and an additional share buyback.
And then there's Woodside Petroleum. Its shares are 1.8% higher after indicating it's still open to a big deal after pulling out of Israel's Leviathan natural-gas project.
Elsewhere, mining shares are mixed, with BHP Billiton up 0.2%, Rio Tinto up 0.9%, Oz Minerals down 0.3%, and Fortescue down 0.9%. This, as tug-boat workers at Port Hedland, Australia's key ore-shipment center, are threatening a labor strike. Both BHP and Fortescue are asking to government to block the strike action.
- 9:15 pm
- Markets check -- 10:15 a.m. in Tokyo
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.9%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.8%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.2%
- 9:56 pm
- China manufacturing back in business?
- by Mike Kitchen
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Stocks are climbing after HSBC unveiled a much-stronger-than-expected China manufacturing report, with the preliminary Purchasing Managers' Index headline number rising all the way to 49.7 from 48.1 in April.
Perhaps even more encouraging, the output subindex is at a four-month high of 50.3 (it was at 47.9 in April), breaking above the 50 line that separates growth from contraction.
Other details are similarly bullish, with subindexes for both new export orders and overall new orders swinging to gains, though the employment component of the report showed a faster decline than in the previous month.
Mind you that this is only the "flash" version of the May PMI, representing some 85%-90% of the total responses to be used in the final report on this month's Chinese factory activity.
But the markets don't care: Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index is up 0.6% from a 0.4% pre-data gain, while the Shanghai Composite has swung to a 0.3% rise from a 0.1% fall.
And then there's the Australian dollar, reacting to an improved picture for Australia's top trading partner by rising to 92.55 U.S. cents from 92.25 cents before the release. Even Japan is getting into the act, with the Nikkei Average, sporting a 1.2% advance in the wake of the numbers.
- 10:02 pm
- Markets check -- 10:02 a.m. in Hong Kong
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 1.5%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.9%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.7%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 1%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.3%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.5%
- 10:18 pm
- Upbeat China data bolster Hong Kong and Shanghai stocks
- by Laura He
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Hong Kong and Shanghai markets are getting a boost from China's bette
r-than-expec ted manufacturing data, with the Hang Seng Index extending opening gains to 0.7%, and the Shanghai Composite Index up 0.5% after a brief opening loss.
Chinese banks are seeing strong gains, with Agricultural Bank of China up 2.1%, Bank of Communications up 2%, China Merchants Bank up 1.9%, China Minsheng Banking Corp. up 1.9%, and Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, or ICBC, up 1.8%.
Tech stocks are also advancing, as online major Tencent Holdings rises 0.8%, software provider Kingsoft Corp. climbs 2.9%, and online-game developer NetDragon Websoft adds 1.9%.
PetroChina Co. is rising 1%, after its parent company China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) signed a multi
-billi on-dolla r deal with Russia's natural-gas giant Gazprom. According to the deal, Gazprom would supply CNPC, China's largest oil and gas producer, with natural gas for 30 years, starting in 2018.
On the downside, Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group is retreating 0.9% after a two-day rally. The company announced on Thursday that its net profit jumped 29% for the fiscal year that ended in March.
Meanwhile, Chinese railroad major China CNR Corp. is up 0.4% in its first day of trading in Hong Kong. The company is the one of world's largest makers of locomotives and rolling stock by sales.
- 11:15 pm
- China data: Reaction round-up
- by Mike Kitchen
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After some economists shrugged off a series of weak China data in recent months, some are also shrugging off today's strong China data.
Always the first to comment on HSBC's China PMI is the bank's own chief China economist Hongbin Qu. While Qu admits that "the improvement was broad-based, with both new orders and new export orders back in expansionary territory," he's also troubled by the softer employment subindex, "which implies that this month's uptick in sentiment has not yet filtered through to the labor market."
Taking it all into account, Qu renews his call for looser policy from China's central bank: "Downside risks to growth remain, particularly as the property market continues to cool. We think more policy easing is needed to put a floor under growth in the coming months."
After tipping a drop in the HSBC flash PMI, meanwhile, TD Securities is cheering the surprise results but is also unconvinced that the economy is out of the woods just yet.
"Today's data appears to show improvement to be broad-based … However, it is still too early to say whether this index is showing the first signs of breaking its relationship to the iron-ore price," writes TD Securities strategist Prashant Newnaha, referring to the bank's observation that the PMI and iron ore have moved in a tightly correlated pattern over the past couple years. (See earlier post on today's blog.)
PNC senior international economist Bill Adams is also cautious about the signs of a turnaround, saying the data has picked up "to 'meh' in May from 'blech' in April."
"The Asian manufacturing business cycle could be stabilizing a bit in May after a tough April, but the improvement is modest," Adams writes, referring to both the China PMI and similar data out of Japan.
And finally, AMP Capital's chief economist Shane Oliver takes to Twitter to highlight both the upside and downside in the data:
#China HSBC manu PMI 49.7 (v 48.1 in Apr). 5 mth hi. Suggests grth may be stabilizing after Q1 slowdown. Stuck in same range since 2011 tho
— Shane Oliver (@ShaneOliverAMP) May 22, 2014
- 11:23 pm
- Markets check -- 11:23 a.m. in Hong Kong
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 1.6% (at break)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.8%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.4%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 1.2%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.6%
Taipei (Taiex) up 1%
- 12:44 am
- VIDEO: China sits at epicenter of digital-finance revolution
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- 12:48 am
- Markets check -- 1:48 p.m. in Tokyo
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 2.3%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.7% (at break)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.4% (at break)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 1.1%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.5%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.5%
Taipei (Taiex) up 1%
- 3:06 am
- Japan Markit flash PMI at two-month high of 49.9
- by Laura He
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Japanese stocks are popping higher after Markit released its first ever "flash" version of Japan's manufacturing index, which rose to a two-month high of 49.9 in May.
The index rebounded from April's 49.4, although still below the 50 level separating expansion from contraction. Among the sub-indexes, the flash reading of Japan's manufacturing output also touched a two-month high of 49.2, compared with 46.2 in April.
"The manufacturing sector showed welcome signs of stabilising after the steep downturn seen in April, but producers are clearly still struggling as demand has been hit by the April 1st tax hike," said Chris Williamson, chief economist for Markit.
Analysts said the result showed Japan's manufacturing industry has begun to recover after a plunge in the last couple of months.
The weakness caused by the consumption tax hike should be "short-lived", said Marcel Thieliant, Japan economist for Capital Economics.
However, analysts from J.P. Morgan said there were still signs of weakness in the exports sector, as new export orders continued to decline.
The fall in output prices and employment also suggested that firms were not optimistic on the outlook, Masamichi Adachi, Japan economist for J.P. Morgan, said in a note on Thursday.
- 3:27 am
- Markets check -- 3:27 p.m. in Hong Kong
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 2.1% (closed)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.6%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) down 0.2% (closed)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 1% (closed)
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.4% (closed)
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.9%
Taipei (Taiex) up 1.2% (closed)
- 4:05 am
- Markets check -- 4:05 p.m. in Hong Kong
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 2.1% (closed)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.5% (closed)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) down 0.2% (closed)
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Seoul (Kospi) up 0.4% (closed)
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On January 22nd, Sexy Hair kicked off its 2013 Sexy Hair International Conference offering attendees from around the world the ability to learn from company insiders. More than 800 educators, distributors and industry leaders attended this year's conference which was based around the theme "Experience: The Versatility of Sexy Hair." The conference's theme reflected the company's adaptability in addition to showcasing the versatility of its products, haircut collection and styling techniques. On the 26th, a General Session was held which integrated a first look at the company advertising campaign, education, marketing and public relations initiatives in addition to informing attendees about the company's past successes and future goals.
"Sexy Hair experienced another highly successful year with record sales," said Karl Heinz Pitsch, president and CEO. "There were several key elements that lead to our success in 2012 including heightened investment in education, highly successful new product launches in addition to our extensive international expansion into 15 new countries making Sexy Hair present in more than 45 countries worldwide."
"We are excited with our plans for 2013 which will focus on increasing consumer awareness for our brand through both traditional channels but also new mediums such as online," added Pitsch. "Overall, we eager to see how our new strategic alliances will help us create cachet for our brand and help us connect and engage with our consumers."
As part of the daylong event, a special awards program was held which recognized several top Sexy Hair educators for their outstanding service in the field in addition to awarding a dozen national and international Distribution Partners for their excellent work and exceptional service on behalf of Sexy Hair. Lastly, guests were invited to attend the company's highly exclusive Red Party following the General Session, where they were encouraged to "Show Their Sexy Style" by wearing a splash of red.
Sexy Hair officials were also on hand to present representatives from its philanthropic partner Look Good Feel Better (LGFB), a check for $175,000. The amount was raised through various corporate activities including proceeds from sales, a cut-a-thon, warehouse sale and staff charity walk. Overall, Sexy Hair has raised more than half a million dollars for LGFB over the three year partnership. Guests were invited to indulge on delectable culinary delights, sip delicious Sexy Hair inspired cocktails while dancing the night away to the latest in dance music.


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So, Xabber made the buzz:
Xabber IM will go open-source if
@xabber_xmpp will get 50K followers in twitter in a month! Pls RT! #foss #gov2au #XMPP #linux
— Chris Beer (@zBeer) July 18, 2012
Contratulations guys! Not only for the proposition, but also for this nice application!
I would say: if Xabber really wanted to opensource their Android XMPP client, then they wouldn't wait for followers on Twitter… since the opensource crowd may not all be on Twitter (rather outside, maybe StatusNet network for example).
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The Food and Drug Administration gave the green light Wednesday to the first new prescription diet drug in more than a decade.
Lorcaserin, to be sold as Belviq, from Arena Pharmaceuticals works on brain chemistry to create a feeling of fullness. It helps people lose about 5% or more of their starting weight when used in combination with a healthy diet and exercise.
"Obesity threatens the overall well-being of patients and is a major public health concern," said Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research in a statement. "The approval of this drug, used responsibly in combination with a healthy diet and lifestyle, provides a treatment option for Americans who are obese" or overweight patients who have one other weight-related condition, such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes or high cholesterol.
The drug's approval "is a major step in the right direction," says Patrick O'Neil, president of the Obesity Society, a group of weight-control researchers. He worked as an investigator in three of the lorcaserin drug trials.
"No one expects a single medication to work for everyone or to work without nutritional and exercise changes. ... It's not a substitute for changes in eating, drinking and exercise patterns," he says.
Gary Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University in Philadelphia, says the drug "will make the hard work of weight loss easier, but not effortless. You will still have to have a lot of skin in the game."
This is another "tool in the toolbox" for doctors and their patients, he says. He expects it'll work better for some dieters than others. "But to say it's a cure for obesity or a magic bullet would set people up to be disappointed."
Lorcaserin was rejected by an FDA advisory panel in 2010 over safety concerns. The second time the advisory committee met, the members discussed heart valve concerns but decided that the benefits of the drug outweighed the risks.
The drug's manufacturer will be required to conduct six post-marketing studies, including a long-term cardiovascular trial to assess the effect of Belviq on the risk for major adverse cardiac events such as heart attack and stroke, the FDA says.
Sidney Wolfe, director of the health research group at Public Citizen, a consumer group, says lorcaserin doesn't promote much weight loss. "Its benefits are really small, and practically everyone on the advisory committee agreed that there wasn't enough evidence to rule out clinically significant heart valve disease."
He says lorcaserin "will expose large numbers of obese patients, already at risk of cardiovascular disease, to the added risk of damaged heart valves."
History could repeat itself, Wolfe says. "We've already had a weight-reduction drug (fenfluramine) taken off the market because it damaged heart valves."
The FDA says that there "was no statistically significant difference" in the development of valve abnormalities between lorcaserin and placebo-treated patients.
The drug works by activating the serotonin 2C receptor in the brain. Activation of this receptor may help a person eat less and feel full after eating smaller amounts of food, the FDA says.
"Because preliminary data suggest that the number of serotonin 2B receptors may be increased in patients with congestive heart failure, Belviq should be used with caution in patients with this condition. Belviq has not been studied in patients with serious valvular heart disease," the FDA statement says.
Lorcaserin should not be used during pregnancy, the FDA says. The medication may also cause disturbances in attention or memory.
About 36% of adults in this country are obese, which is roughly 30 or more pounds over a healthy weight. Extra pounds increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, many types of cancer, sleep apnea and other debilitating and chronic diseases. About 42% of adults are projected to be obese by 2030, if something isn't done to reverse the trend.
Currently there are only two prescription drugs used to treat obesity, including phentermine, which suppresses appetite, and orlistat (Xenical), which keeps some dietary fat from being absorbed by the intestine. Orlistat is sold in a lower dose over-the-counter version as Alli.
Another diet drug awaiting possible FDA approval is Qnexa (kyoo-NEK-suh) from Vivus. The agency will announce its decision on Qnexa sometime on or before July 17. It helps obese people lose 10% of their weight in combination with diet and exercise.
Qnexa is made up of two other older medications: the appetite-suppressant phentermine and the anti-seizure medication topiramate, which is sold under the brand name Topamax. The latter is used to treat epilepsy and migraines. Some physicians already prescribe the two drugs together for weight loss in what is called an off-label use, which is the practice of prescribing medications for an unapproved indication.
If Qnexa is also approved, then these two medications "will be complete game changers," says Tim Church, director of preventive medicine research at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge and an adviser to Vivus.
"We are going to see a paradigm shift on how we treat obesity in this country. We are going to start treating it like a chronic disease. Insurance companies are going to start paying for these medications, and physicians are going to get extremely comfortable with these and other medications that impact weight."
Lorcaserin, to be sold as Belviq, from Arena Pharmaceuticals works on brain chemistry to create a feeling of fullness.
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The day-to-day activities of the Cruwys/Cruse one-name study with occasional diversions into other topics of interest such as DNA testing and personal genomics
Thursday, 10 October 2013
My new position as Honorary Research Associate at UCL
Professor Mark Thomas and Professor David Balding kindly nominated me for this position. I first met them at Who Do You Think You Are? Live in February this year and have worked closely with them since then to help counter some of the inaccurate and sensationalist genetics stories that have appeared in the press while at the same time clarifying the legitimate genealogical applications of DNA testing. My appointment will allow me to have access to the considerable library and e-library facilities at UCL to help with my research, and I will be able to participate in seminars and lab discussions. I very much look forward to the collaboration continuing.
10 comments:
- Jennifer Zinck said...
Congratulations, Debbie!
- 10 October 2013 at 16:16
- Blondbubble said...
Congratulations, Debbie! Great to hear that your work in the accuracy of genetic genealogy will not only continue, but will be enhanced by further collaboration with colleagues at UCL and its' available resources. Keep up the good work!
- 10 October 2013 at 17:46
- Ex DG said...
Congratulations Debbie.
- 10 October 2013 at 23:30
- Debbie Kennett said...
Many thanks everyone.
- 11 October 2013 at 14:02
- Valmay Young said...
That's great news Debbie! Congratulations!
- 12 October 2013 at 06:57
- Debbie Kennett said...
Thanks Valmay.
- 12 October 2013 at 10:48
- Andrew Millard said...
Congratulations Debbie!
- 12 October 2013 at 17:00
- Debbie Kennett said...
Thanks Andrew.
- 12 October 2013 at 17:35
- Brian Swann said...
I do think this is wonderful news, and I must confess I am a bit jealous! You will find that Mark Thomas has many books on his shelves on population genetics which are not part of most peoples reading backgrounds in this field. For sure that influences how he sees genetic genealogy.
He certainly has thought of himself in the past as a fluent communicator and will go to many academic conferences that we can never get to. But I do strongly believe that a small circle of us can help influence this academic community in ways that were not possible even in the recent academic past. It does open the door to do some genuinely collaborative work with UK population genetics group, and as you will know they are having an ancient DNA facility constructed there at this very moment.
So I look forward to hearing what transpires, and perhaps this can serve as the nucleus of a small group of us with similar interests to try and work more effectively with this academic community than has been possible so far. I take this as a further example that ISOGG and this citizen science community is being taken seriously by academic research in Britain.
- 15 October 2013 at 22:55
- Debbie Kennett said...
Thank you Brian. It will indeed be interesting to see what transpires in the next few years. I think there are plenty of opportunities for collaboration between academia and the genetic genealogy community and we can all learn from each other.
- 16 October 2013 at 00:27


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I can easily say that these two weeks were my best blog-weeks:) As you know, from my previous post, I have been nominated for The Liebster Award! But what caught me by a complete surprise was that I was also nominated for The Versatile Blogger Award:) So firstly a huge "thank you" to Catarina from Your Fashion Boulevard!
I have started my blog less that two months ago and it has been nominated for two awards, this means a lot (lot lot lot....lot) to me! At the beginning you are unsure if what you are doing is really something that people would like to read, see, etc. But then seeing that people actually like what you are writing and support it, gives you straight and makes you do more and better things:)
As all awards, here are the Versatile Blogger Award's rules:
- Nominate some other new bloggers
- Let them know you have nominated them
- Share 7 random facts about yourself
- Thank the blogger who has nominated you
- Add the Versatile Blogger Award to your post
And now my nominees:
- Mak Lind from Beautiful Freaks
- Pepa from Rock and Bows
- Michelle from The Stylish MiMi
- Tean-Mauricete from Cream & Couture


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Why don't we wear flowers in our hair? And long colorful dresses? Today I'll do my bit and drag out my clip in red rose numbers.
I set eyes on the most fabulous book last weekend. I'm a 'regular' at a cafe, set in an old house and in a large country garden, named Colours of San Cris. Just out of town here, each room is filled to overflowing with arts and crafts from South America. And of course Frida features heavily. But, back to the book - Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress: Frida's Wardrobe. When Frida Kahlo died in 1954 Diego Rivera had her bedroom and dressing room in the Casa Azul sealed up for 50 years. In 2004, the rooms were opened and her clothes were once again revealed to the world.Skirts, dresses, rebozos, scarves, boots -the items have been painstakingly restored by loving hands. There are gorgeous photos of the clothes and original pictures of Frida wearing them. Have a little looky see inside here.
Continuing to play around with digital art...here's a work in progress featuring the girl. The quote is from another gorgeous book, Frida's Diary.
Now, how does your wardrobe measure up against Frida's and these celebrities??? A tad smaller perhaps? A tad less full of opulence perhaps? Or perhaps not.....
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I wore mine today! The rest of my dressing is quite boring...I'm afraid I'm a black addict when it comes to clothes. It's so easy. Everything always matches. I don't have to think too hard. Dressing is inexpensive but also still looks chic. How about you?


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The Lady Bucs won two of the three games a year ago and have taken four of five in the all-time series. ETSU won the most important game in the short-lived rivalry as they ended JU's season with a 78-72 victory in the semifinals of the conference tournament last March.
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The Dolphins were selected to win the regular season and conference title by the Atlantic Sun coaches and are led by Preseason Player of the Year winner Ashley Williams.
Head Coach Jill Dunn's club has posted a 16-3 mark after its first 19 games, and are currently on a school record 10-game winning streak.
Williams is averaging a conference best 17.3 points per game; while Virginia Gregoire (13.7) and Regina Omoite (11.4) are also posting double figures in scoring. As a team, the Dolphins are outscoring their opponents, 67 to 58 (+8.0) and have the nation's seond longest home winning streak at 17 games.
The Series
ETSU leads the all-time series 4-1, with the lone Lady Buccaneer loss coming last season in Swisher Gymnasium.
More about Friday's Win...
With its 18-point win over North Florida, ETSU has now won all five games vs. the Ospreys and seven straight against teams from the Sunshine state inside Memorial Center ... four Lady Buccaneer players reached double figures in the scoring column, with sophomore TaRonda Wiles leading the way at 11 points ... Michele DeVault was held scoreless for the first time since Dec. 21, 2005, but still managed to grab a season-high 10 rebounds ... both teams combined to grab 92 rebounds with 49 coming on the offensive end ... the Ospreys scored 39 points, marking the lowest total ETSU has held an opponent this season, and the lowest since Mercer netted only 29 back on Nov. 30, 2006.
Where the Lady Bucs Rank In the A-Sun
The Lady Bucs rank first in six statistical categories among conference games only. ETSU leads the league in scoring offense (74.3), scoring margin (+16.5), three-point field goal percentage (.380), assists (18.2), steals (15.0), and turnover margin (+6.3).
The Lady Bucs are currently 7-0 against teams from the Sunshine State inside Memorial Center in their last seven contests, and have won 11 of 14 against teams from Florida overall.
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The NCAA has challenged all 32 women's basketball conferences to a "Pack The House" night during the 2007-08 season. The competition begins Jan. 1 and runs through Feb. 17, and the object is to come up with a creative marketing plan and sellout or increase your previous year's single-game record attendance. The Lady Bucs have registered for the challenge and will look to sellout or break last season's mark of 1,117 fans against
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Enjoy your tripThe first flurry of snow here in Armagh. A biting wind. Antenna whiskers taste the chill air and the prospect of picture postcard winter days. In no time at all, the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue will be airlifting some foundered ingenu off Cairn Toul.
There is something about the word "accident" that draws people, like fools into a damp gully in March.
If you are driving your children to school in a small car and a man coming the opposite way in a Volvo estate becomes ill and runs into you, busting up your leg bad enough that you will never work again, as happened to a colleague of mine, that is an accident.
If a man falls off Howling Ridge, the cliffs of Belbulben or off the face of Ben Crom ..... well ...., to be discussed.
I have never killed myself on a mountain (that I know of) nota bene the phraseology - "killed myself"- my phraseology although perhaps not yours, but in the hills, solo, I take all responsibility for living or dying on my own shoulders. There is no complicated kit to go wrong and blame, there is no unconscious man in a Volvo estate hurtling towards me to blame, there is no accident to blame.
... and for me, that is at the very heart of hillwalking: my decisions, my smarts and often enough my own very stupids.
Every life threatening situation I have ever got into, (phraseology again) has been got into by me and it has been me that has had to get me out of it. Running off An Stuc in black mist on to the naked crag. Lost off Slieve Bearnagh in nil vis and hanging above Crom Reservoir. Off desolate Macaterick, 180 to the correct bearing, in 2m cloud base, January. On Douglas Crag out of gas at the top of the gully - one step to heaven or hell. And only last year, pretty well done for, trapped at the edge of nightfall between torrential floods off the Glen and Blackstairs rivers.
My demise in any one of these circumstances? Not an accident in sight. All and every one my own doing. Bad planning, bad navigation, inexperience; and far too much bollocks in my head.
This impending winter we can imagine someone might take a skite off some emminently skiteable place or other and we as a community will hold and publicise our awkward and uncomfortable vigils and talk about accidents.
When the day comes that a bad decision launches me, arse foremost, into eternity, I know my friends (because they are my friends) will engage in a raucous debate about about WTF he was doing there, eejit? - and "accident" won't even come into it.
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Got plans for Earth Day 2014?
If not, Disney has an option for you that's sure to tug on your heart strings.
Following up on its 2012 nature documentary "Chimpanzee," which also opened on Earth Day and went on to make $29 million, Disneynature will debut the documentary "Bears," about a family of bears living in Alaska, on April 18, 2014.
The studio just released the first trailer for the film that tracks the lives of mama bear Sky and her two newborn cubs.
Set to the ubiquitous song "Home" by American Idol alum Philip Phillips, the trailer is heavy on familial bonds, sure to entice nature lovers -- and parents -- everywhere.
The film is directed by Keith Scholey and Alastair Fothergill, the directing duo behind Disneynature's 2011 film "African Cats," which was Disney's 2011 Earth Day entry narrated by Samuel L. Jackson.
And if the bears themselves aren't cute enough on their own, Disney has already proclaimed its support for the National Park Foundation, vowing to donate an unspecified amount to the official charity of America's national parks for every ticket purchased during the film's opening week.


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U.S. stocks fell, pulling the Standard & Poor's 500 Index down from a record, and the yen strengthened as concern American lawmakers will fail to reach a budget deal overshadowed better-than-estimated economic data. Oil, gold and coffee led commodity gains as the dollar weakened.
The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% by 4:04 p.m. in New York. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index lost 0.7% while the euro advanced a sixth day versus the dollar in the longest rally in almost a year. Gold futures jumped 2.2%, the most in almost two months, while the Bloomberg U.S. Dollar Index fell a fourth day. Crude added 1.2% to a six-week high. Italian bond yields fell a third day after industrial output increased. The rate on 10-year U.S. Treasuries dropped four basis points.
U.S. equities retreated for the first time in three days as investors watched budget negotiations and weighed the timing of any potential cuts to Federal Reserve stimulus. Barclays Plc told investors to reduce holdings of U.S. stocks in 2014 as less-attractive valuations may end America's leadership in global equities. Lawmakers sought to resolve a few remaining issues in budget talks, including requiring federal employees to pay more for their pensions, according to congressional aide.
"In front of the prospect of a budget deal and the Fed's meeting next week, there's a little bit of nervousness," Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist with BTIG LLC in New York, said in a phone interview. "You're inclined to trade sideways and I think that's what's happening."
'No Deal'
The emerging U.S. budget agreement is already drawing fire from Republicans who don't trust proposals for future savings and from Democrats who say it will punish federal workers.
Representative Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, said he's concerned about the compromise.
"I don't like the deal I've heard about but there is no deal," Hoyer said today on CNBC. "Nobody knows what the parameters of an alleged agreement or deal is."
Stocks pared losses earlier in the session and commodities advanced amid economic reports that beat forecasts. Job openings in the U.S. climbed to a five-year high in October, indicating employers were confident about demand even as Washington's budget impasse shuttered parts of the government.
Another report showed wholesale trade sales and inventories increased more than economists forecast.
"Some of the run in the commodity prices is just reflecting an economy globally which is synchronizing and improving," James Paulsen, the Minneapolis-based chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management who helps oversee more than $340 billion of assets, said by phone. "It's a combo-package of the weak dollar and improved economic growth."
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Alec Baldwin Apologizes For Homophobic Comments During Twitter Rant
Following Alec Baldwin's Twitter rant against Daily Mail reporter George Stark, which included gay slurs, Baldwin has reached out to GLAAD with and explanation and an apology.
Following outreach earlier today, Alec Baldwin wrote the following to GLAAD:
"My ill-advised attack on George Stark of the Daily Mail had absolutely nothing to do with issues of anyone's sexual orientation. My anger was directed at Mr. Stark for blatantly lying and disseminating libelous information about my wife and her conduct at our friend's funeral service. As someone who fights against homophobia, I apologize.
I have worked, periodically, with numerous marriage equality organizations, especially over the past couple of years, to achieve the very rights that gay couples are earning by recent court decisions. I would not advocate violence against someone for being gay and I hope that my friends at GLAAD and the gay community understand that my attack on Mr. Stark in no way was the result of homophobia.
Many Thanks, Alec Baldwin."
GLAAD Vice President of Communications Rich Ferraro replied, saying:
"Alec Baldwin is making it clear that the intent behind his tweets does not excuse his language, especially at a time when there were 11 incidents of violence against gay men in New York City just last month. As we all work to end such senseless acts of violence, allies like Baldwin are right to use these moments to reinforce support for the community and LGBT equality."
Thoughts on Baldwin's apology, Instincters??
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While his attack on Mr. Stark may have had nothing to do with homophobia, his chosen language has everything to do with it. Seriously, Mr. Baldwin? Contact me. Having been a gay man on the receiving end of more than one such attack in my lifetime, I'll be glad to explain to you exactly how it does.