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Paris is one of those place that bring up the romance in people.
And now you can have an iPhone case with the main attraction of Paris the Eiffel Tower.
I don't think that this case automatically brings romance in your life but it may bring back some nice memories from you visit to France.
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the Eiffel Tower is printed on a world map with some travel related things on it to to make it look like a world trip stop.
And if you traveled the world to go see the Eiffel Tower then they will ship you this iPhone case all over the world for Free.
Protect your iPhone with a little bit of France the Eiffel Tower iPhone 4s and 4 case.


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See DSiAM included in a segment on the Hallmark Channel's morning show HOME & FAMILY on Friday, May 23, 2014. Check your local listings!
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Ian Drake necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 85 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
I developed NotifyWire to make Craigslist better by making it easier search Craigslist across multiple locations and categories. It can also monitor your search for new results and soon, I'll be adding new features to make it easier and safer to respond to ads and post new ads on Craigslist (no, not an automated spamming engine).
I'll be needing future support for this project in the coming months, so please only submit designs if you don't mind follow up work to be paid on a per unit basis. In the future I will need, more icons, ad templates, and other design elements to be incorporated in to the site.
During this contest, I will be *extremely* available to answer your questions and to provide feedback as designs come in. I can't wait to see what the amazing talent on 99Designs can come up with.
Craigslist users - Men and Women 20 - 40 years old in the United States.
Clean and simple (looking) web 2.0 look and feel.
960px wide and centered.
Submit 2 designs based on the Page 1 and Page 2 wire frames (listed below).
Two or three finalist maybe asked for one additional page concept to determine the winner.
Winner is responsible for completing the other pages with similar look and feel.
"NotifyWire", in a fancy, web 2.0, typeface should go where the wire frame says logo.
I like:
Wiree frames boxes show mental boundaries, don't interpret as visible div boxes. Their size or proportion are approx.
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Home Tour
Sunday, September 14, 2014 from 10am to 4pm
Organized by the Volunteer Associates of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Home Tour returns to the Crescentwood, River Heights, and Tuxedo neighbourhoods this fall. This self-guided tour raises funds for the WAG. The 2014 edition features some of Winnipeg's most interesting modern houses by local architects and designers, including:
- 1 Palk Road - John Patkau and Denis Jesson
- 104 Harvard Avenue - George Cibinel, Cibinel Architects Ltd.
- 51 Renfrew Street - Peter Hargraves, Sputnik Architecture
- 59 Renfrew Street - Dovide E. Secter, Secter Associates Limited
- 315 Bower Boulevard - Clayton Salkeld, Design-Built
Don't miss this rare opportunity to peek inside!
Tickets $35
Purchase at the WAG, McNally Robinson Booksellers (1120 Grant Avenue), or at one of the houses above (September 14, 2014, 10am-3pm). For more information, call 204.786.6641.
2014 Home Tour Committee: José Koes (Chair), David Carr, Catherine Maksymiuk, Jenni Jooristy, Pat McCullough, Marian McLennan, Carla Pienaar, Esme Scarlett, and Ellie Topnik.
Image credit: Cibinel Architects Ltd., photo: Ted Geddert
Gallery Hours
- Tuesday 11am-5pm
- Wednesday 11am-5pm
- Thursday 11am-5pm
- Friday 11am-9pm
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Christmas Mantel Inspiration
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
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Beautiful Rene! I love that you are drawn to the natural elements and simplicity in the holiday decorations. It's so peaceful and can carry through the whole season.ReplyDelete
Oh, that wreath grouping is so awesome! Totally new picture to me!ReplyDelete
Thanks! I love the photo of the one with the cedar and pinecones....ReplyDelete
Oh, my, we're getting an early start. But there's nothing better than a well-laid plan.ReplyDelete
I don't think there's anything better than using natural materials to decorate. Happy to see a few of my favorites included. I just got to meet Kelly McGuill a few weeks ago. Not only is her house is to die for, she a total sweetheart.
Nice post. I don't think people need to go any further for holiday inspiration.
These are so beautiful. I am totally up for the early inspiration this year. Not sure why exactly but bring it on! Very pretty, Rene.ReplyDelete
Perfect post...I needed some new ideas...I do change it up and love these photos!!ReplyDelete
ahh christmas decorations already, yes!! all these photos make me wish that i had a mantle to decorate and a place for me to actually hang stockings!ReplyDelete
Great inspiration shots - so often mantels are overdone and these simple ones are perfect.ReplyDelete
Linda decoração de natal, aqui tenho muitas pinhas, vou fazer umas assim.ReplyDelete
Tenha uma ótima semana.
I go all out for Christmas with lighted garlands and collectables with alot of shimmer and shine. But I need some of those cute boxwood wreaths asap!ReplyDelete
Have a nice weekend,
xo Nancy
I am a simple greenery girl myself! Some white candles and anything from the outdoors. I had to start a new board and do some pinning here.ReplyDelete
I love all the greenery! Your mom's mantel is so lovely--I see where you get your great style!ReplyDelete
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Matisyahu is an American reggae musician. He was born in June 30, 1979 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He was known for blending traditional Jewish themes with Reggae, rock and hip hop sounds.
As such, Matisyahu stands out for wearing the traditional clothing of Hasidic Jews and not performing on Shabbos. Since his debut, Matisyahu has received positive reviews from both rock and reggae outlets.
He was brought up a Reconstructionist Jew. Sometimes he performed under the alias MC Truth for MC Mystic"s Soulfari band. His family eventually settled in White Plains, New York. He spent some time as a young man as a self-professed "deadhead". At 16, Matisyahu took part in a semester-long program that offers students first-hand exploration of Jewish heritage.
Matisyahu"s experiences there significantly affected his feelings towards Judaism eventually leading to his decision to adopt Orthodox Judaism. Initially he found his way to the Carlebach Shul on the West Side of Manhattan.
Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach pioneered contemporary Jewish music as well as counter culture Judaism. Rabbi Carlebach established the first alternative Jewish Center, The House of Love and Prayer, in San Francisco"s Haight-Ashbury district in 1966.
Matisyahu then found his way to Chabad of Washington Square. He finished high school at a wilderness program in Bend, Oregon. Following this seminal event, Matisyahu began playing with the Jewish band Pey Dalid. Matisyahu is married to Tahlia. He has two sons.
He also has a younger sister named Julie. Since 2004, he has released two studio albums as well as one live album. Through his short career, Matisyahu has teamed up with some of the biggest names in reggae production including Bill Laswell and duo Sly & Robbie.
He was recently named a spokesperson for Kenneth Cole. In 2004, Matisyahu, after having signed with JDub Records, a not-for-profit record label that promotes Jewish musicians, released his first album, Shake Off the Dust...Arise.
At the time a relatively unknown musician, he did not rise to prominence until Bonnaroo 2005, when Trey Anastasio of the band Phish invited him a guest spot on his set. This would prove to be the event that launched his career.
Matisyahu live album, Live at Stubb"s was released and recorded at a concert in Austin, Texas. Each album marks significant changes in Matisyahu"s style. Most markedly between Stubb"s and Youth, when more rock music influences are evident. In late 2006, Matisyahu released No Place to Be, a remix album featuring re-recordings and remixes of songs from all three of his earlier albums, as well as a cover of "Message in a Bottle" by The Police.
On March 16, Youth was Billboard magazine"s number-one Digital Album. Matisyahu appeared once again at Bonnaroo, this time performing a solo set in front of an estimated crowd of over 10,000 people.
In spring 2006, right before the release of Youth, Matisyahu cut ties with his managers at JDub Records, which resulted in some controversy due to Matisyahu"s role in the founding of the label. Contrary to popular belief, JDub managed his act, but was not his record label.
Matisyahu was a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. However, as of 17 July 2007, he told the Miami New Times in an interview that he no longer "necessarily" identifies with the Lubavitch movement. Additionally, while on a family vacation spent primarily in Jerusalem"s Nachlaot neighborhood he has expressed interest in another Hasidic sect, that of Karlin.
Matisyahu counts Bob Marley, Phish, God Street Wine and Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach among his musical inspirations and gives credit to Rabbi Simon Jacobson"s book Toward a Meaningful Life for the lyrical inspiration to Youth"s title track.
As part of his faith, he does not perform in concert on Friday nights in observance of the Jewish Sabbath. An exception to this occurred at a 2007 concert in Fairbanks, Alaska, which he allowed because the sun didn"t set until 2am.
In January 2007, Matisyahu performed in an impromptu concert at the Park City Film Music Festival in Park City, Utah, while in Park City for the Slamdance Film Festival. Matisyahu"s music is part of the winning documentary film "Unsettled" which won at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival.
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There is no one knows when the death comes. It will reach everyone suddenly without any warning. Modern people commonly don't believe in angel that has a duty to take someone's soul. But, there are some believe it because it had written in the bible. People also make the symbol of death to warn other that they exist in this world. That symbol is varied. There are some that describe death angel with a skeleton with hoodie coat. There is also believer symbolize it as an invisible angel with coat and carry sharp lance. The summary is that death symbolized with something dark and scary.
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At night, Alison Silva sleeps with the light on, and sometimes she'll keep the whole house alight to ward off the intense hallucinations.
The childlike New Jersey painter with the vivid imagination has always had migraines, but just over two years ago, the headaches became fiercer and the terrifying visions intensified.
"Most of them are pretty much ghostly," Silva, 33, told ABCNews.com. "Sometimes I see shadows in the room and it almost looks like it's snowing, like fairies. It's an out-of-body experience."
December 2006 brought about what she calls "the big bang."
"It pretty much felt like a carnival ride -- flashing lights, wavy lines, everything was blurry and I felt very clumsy," Silva said.
Doctors at Columbia's New York Presbyterian Hospital found a dangerous web of blood vessels tangled in her brain -- a cavernous malformation that was oozing blood and could lead to fatal hemorraging or seizures.
Fearing that she might die, Silva was at first depressed and turned inward. But when she had the courage to paint again -- in oil, acrylics and Japanese ink -- her fantastical imagery took on new depth and inspiration.
Documentary Explores Outsider Art
Her inner battle is part of a documentary on outsider or visionary art, work by self-taught artists that is outside the mainstream. The film, "The Artists' Sanctuary" by Dog Day Productions, will be submitted to film festivals this year.
Ultimately, Silva chose not to have surgery, knowing that the very thing that might kill her had also allowed her painting to flourish.
"I was scared the operation would change my art," she said. "I wanted to paint every day after that. One detail, one emotion almost became like a diary. It put me on the edge and forced me to be even more creative."
Like others who say their art was inspired by their visions -- Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allen Poe and Sylvia Plath -- Silva says she feels a "kinship."
"I always kind of felt like I was running around in Wonderland," said Silva, whose close friends call her "Alice."
"I'm afraid, but knowing that other creative people went through this stuff emotionally and were misunderstood, you become brave," she said.
Numerous medical cases point to a relationship between brain injury and creativity.
In 2003, a Washington woman who had been adept at math and science underwent surgery for a brain tumor in the same region as Silva's lesion.
Brain Injuries Fuel Art
Afterward in art therapy sessions, the 43-year-old reported that even though she "couldn't even draw a stick figure before," she had "unleashed" a budding artist.
In another case reported in the 2006 issue of Neurology magazine, a woman whose frontal and temporal lobes had deteriorated because of dementia developed new artistic skills. As her disease got worse, her art improved.
Researchers concluded that as disease damages the thinking side of the brain, other emotional parts have "freer rein."
Such was the case with former businesswoman Judi Kaufman of Los Angeles, who has had a succession of brain tumor operations since she was 49.
"I was pretty much a prude, big time, and never talked about sex ever in the 1950s," said Kaufman, 65, who now writes poetry, much of it about sex, and does sculptures.
Grateful for her new gift, she founded the nonprofit Art of the Brain at UCLA , which helps promote artists with brain injuries.
"Most of us lose our self-esteem," she said. "We do things to help them believe in themselves."
Silva's lesion -- also called a hemangioma -- sits in the brain's left temporal lobe, where mood and memory are formed. But it also puts pressure on the brain's visual center and may explain why Silva sees the world differently.
Cavernous malformations are a relatively uncommon cluster of abnormal, dilated blood vessels. They can bleed, causing weakness, numbness, distorted vision and even epileptic seizures.
The damage from bleeding is cumulative, according to Steven Karceski, associate professor of neurology at New York Presbyterian Hospital, who treated Silva.
"When it's a younger person, you assume they will live into their 70s and 80s," he said. " Unless surgery is done, there is concern for memory and language which is on that side of the brain."
Karceski admits the relationship between brain damage and the artistic process is not well-understood, but admits, "taking away the over-thinking can make the creative process richer."
"I think of the brain as like an orchestra with a lot of different instruments," he told ABCNews.com. "Each brings its own kind of melody or musical notes. Each person in the orchestra is looking to the other person to make the music harmonious and all together they make the symphony. The symphony is like the higher cognitive function."
Dr. Ilya Bogorad met Silva as one of the neurologists on her case at Columbia and said she inspired him to begin a fellowship in the field of epilepsy.
Epilepsy and Artistic Vision"We are almost certain that she has seizures, but she doesn't have the grand mal and shake," Bogorad told ABCNews.com. "But I don't know for sure."
Though controversial, "great creative figures" in history have also suffered from seizures, according to Bogorad, including writers Carroll and Fydor Dostoyevsky, as well as painter Vincent van Gogh.
"Her seizures are more experiences inside," he said.
Whatever the science, Silva said what's going on in her brain makes her a better painter.
"I felt I was not arguing with myself as much," she said. "Painting every emotion taught me to be more detailed with the work. I think before I was holding back."
During the filming of the documentary last summer, Silva and three other untrained artists explored their demons on camera while living and painting together at the Full Moon Art Center in East Moriches, N.Y. -- a sanctuary for artistic innovation.
"For many of these artists, there was a difficult world that they were coping with," said Ronnie Wiener, center director and executive producer of the film. "At some point they had this breakthrough that they could and had to express themselves through the form of art."
"Each had a discovery that their art was their commitment to themselves and their struggles," Wiener told ABCNews.com.
The film's director and Silva's longtime friend, Ross Brodar, agree that her art has become "deeper, darker and more psychological."
"She reminds me of Frida Kahlo," Brodar told ABCNews.com. "Her mortality is gripping her."
Silva's signature painting, "The Warrior of Mananz" (its name drawn from the symbol of self in the ancient Viking runes), sold for $4,000 at the culmination of the documentary.
'Warrior of Mananz' Filled With Symbolism
The 30- by 40-inch painting is rife with animals and symbolism: a woman's brain split open, with a monkey and squirrel atop her head; a swarming bee's nest; and tree branches as intertwined as the venous lesion in Silva's head.
Today, Silva's painting is prolific as she readies for art shows with Brodar in Amsterdam and Berlin, balancing her fear alongside her artistic dreams. She has even begun a writing project, a fantasy book for young adults.
"Most of the time I want to curl up like a ball and wait until the pain goes away," she said. "When [the lesion] presses, it feels like a bunch of earthworms in the brain."
But, she admits, the experience with brain disease has "definitely spiced things up.
"I'm forced to let it be and I'm comfortable with what's going on," said Silva. "I am happy because I have become stronger."
"At first, I felt so alone," she said. "Now, I feel I can have a mad tea party."


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Billing itself as an online version of television's Nielsen ratings, Click Forensics released figures for the third quarter of 2007 that track click fraud. They aren't pretty. According to the company, a little over 16 percent of all online ad clicks are fraudulent. That's a rise of more than three percent from the same period last year.
Sadly, those are the best figures that Click Forensics reported. Taking a close look at the traffic on the major search engine networks, such as Google's AdSense and the Yahoo Publisher Network, revealed click fraud rates of around 28 percent for the third quarter of 2007. That's particularly disheartening because the rates for the same time last year were more than two percent lower – and the rates for the first three months of this year were just under 22 percent.
And the bad news just keeps coming. For parked domains and "made for AdSense" sites designed specifically to funnel traffic to advertisers for money, Click Forensics said the click fraud rate was more than 60 percent for the third quarter of 2007. When click fraud rates go this high, many expect smart advertisers to start putting their money elsewhere.
Click Forensics CEO Tom Cuthbert believes we're seeing that trend already. ""The issue of click fraud on these major networks is becoming a real problem for advertisers, and increasingly, they are choosing to stay away and look into alternatives," Cuthbert insists. He's particularly upset at Google and Yahoo for not doing a better job of ferreting out click fraud. His company puts its figures together from statistics provided by 4,000 advertisers and agencies participating in its Click Fraud Network group.
Click Forensics is not a totally disinterested party. It wants to develop itself into an "objective third party" used by advertisers and even the search engines themselves for identifying online ad fraud. So naturally it has a vested interest in hyping the numbers. But is there some truth behind those statistics?
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Click fraud is defined by Wikipedia as "a type of internet crime that occurs in pay per click online advertising when a person, automated script, or computer program imitates a legitimate user of a web browser clicking on an ad, for the purpose of generating a charge per click without having actual interest in the target of the ad's link." The problem with detecting click fraud should be obvious: how do you tell the intention of the clicker just from the actions traced in a web log?
In some cases you can spot robot software or zombie computers clicking repeatedly on ads. But when the bots are programmed to behave in a "human" manner it gets trickier. In some parts of the world you can even find ads running in newspapers for people to make money by clicking on ads online, which further clouds the issue.
And then there are the reporters. In mid-October the New York Times published an article by Adam Liptak titled "Competing for Clients, and Paying by the Click." For someone familiar with the pay-per-click industry, there were relatively few surprises. He did list a useful site I hadn't heard of before: CyberWyre, which features a list of the highest paying (or most expensive) search terms on the web.
He pointed out that "mesothelioma," a kind of cancer one gets from inhaling asbestos, is going for a premium. Advertisers who use that word in their pay-per-click ads pay $50 and $60 per click, and often more. His article discussed the fact that lawyers are now using pay-per-click to attract clients for relatively easy and lucrative cases. One of the people he interviewed indicated that it was a sign that PPC had become a mature tool because "Lawyers are usually the slowest to adopt any form of new technology."
All of this is interesting, but why am I mentioning it? It's the tag line of the article that stopped me short. Every time you click on a sponsored link, you cost someone money – and if you're a reporter researching an article, you can cost advertisers quite a bit of money. "This had not occurred to me," Liptak admitted. "In working on this column, I looked at a bunch of lawyers' web sites, at a cumulative cost to them of, oh, $1,000. Sorry." This is a legitimate reporter working on a legitimate article that was published in a legitimate newspaper – but he clearly had no personal interest in whatever the lawyers were offering. So, do his clicks amount to click fraud? Perhaps this is a small problem – but with the number of reporters in the world, to say nothing of all the bloggers who take their craft seriously, who can say?
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So what does Google have to say about these disturbing figures? For that we need to turn to Shuman Ghosemajumder, the search engine's senior product manager and, according to Forbes, "resident click-fraud czar." He insists that third-party auditors such as Click Forensics deliver inflated click fraud numbers, in part because they count "fictitious clicks" in their estimates, clicks that Google does not count. They also don't take into account Google's own efforts to detect click fraud; instead, they "estimate the amount of click fraud that's being attempted, not how much is going undetected and is charged to advertisers. That means they're counting the clicks that we throw away as invalid, not just the ones advertisers pay for."
Ghosemajumder also notes that click fraud numbers reported by third-party auditors are all over the place; some estimates are as low as less than one percent, while others are as high as 15 percent. That makes it hard to know who to trust. But why should we trust Google when they say the problem is not as bad as the auditors make it out to be? Ghosemajumder points to one reason: "You need a lot of data to do any sort of statistical analysis, and auditors don't have nearly as much as we do."
So what exactly does Google see that the third-party auditors don't? Ghosemajumder explains that it is "impression data – not just when the ads are clicked, but how often they're viewed…Since we know exactly how many times an ad appears, we have much more data than the third-party auditors for any given advertiser."
In his interview with Forbes, Ghosemajumder also argued that, contrary to popular opinion, Google does not have an incentive to ignore click fraud because of the extra revenue it generates. Google itself is a publisher, after all, and gets all the revenue for the ads that appear on Google.com. If there are bad publishers in the system, advertisers will pay less to runs ads in the system, because of the decrease in the return on their investment. Ultimately that means less money for Google. "It also means the clicks on Google.com make less money for us," Ghosemajumder notes.
But when Ghosemajumder is asked whether the search engine has seen an increase in click fraud in recent months, he becomes evasive, explaining that it's difficult to measure. He does state that the number of cases in which Google has refunded advertisers for click fraud has remained stable, but that's hardly an answer to the question unless you assume Google is infallible at spotting click fraud.
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But the lack of transparency, and the suspicion it breeds, seems to be one of the biggest issues in combating click fraud. Ghosemajumder said that "the real power of our detection systems lies in the fact that we analyze hundreds of different factors, the majority of which are secret." As Forbes correctly points out, revealing too much about these metrics might help criminals engage in click fraud more successfully, while revealing too little about them will make advertisers suspicious.
It isn't just Google who is hiding metrics. Tom Cuthbert also gave Forbes an interview. He explained that independent auditors like Click Forensics have access to several kinds of data that Google doesn't have. "Most importantly, we see what happens on an advertiser's site when a click leaves Google's page and goes to the landing page. We see how deep the clicker goes and whether the click converts into a sale," Cuthbert said, describing such data as "really critical in exposing click fraud."
And why doesn't Google have this data for analysis? Cuthbert explained that advertisers don't trust Google enough to hand over the data because "Google's pricing system is a black box…based on many factors that are built into Google's algorithm, which is constantly changing." Advertisers are afraid that keyword prices will go up if Google ever finds out the exact value of a click, particularly the conversion rate. It's a sort of vicious circle: Google won't share data with advertisers, so advertisers won't share data with Google.
For its part, Google says it is opening up a little and even offering more traffic quality tools than any of the other major search engines. In June, Google launched IP exclusion and Performance Placement Reports. The former lets users tell Google what IP addresses they want to avoid with their ads, while the latter lets advertisers see which sites are performing the best among those displaying their ads. This knowledge lets advertisers use various site exclusion and targeting tools to tackle click fraud.
The problem, however, is ultimately Google's – and perceptions matter. If advertisers truly believe they are not getting their money's worth, they'll go elsewhere – and crooked sites and honest sites alike will lose out on the potential ad revenue. In a situation involving a lot of money, relatively little trust, and real fraud, having a genuinely disinterested independent party – outside of Google, the advertisers, and perhaps even the current crop of auditors – is starting to sound like a good idea after all.


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Mr. Speaker, today the Federal Court ruled in favour of Dennis Manuge and other veterans who have been waging a court battle with the Conservatives over pension clawbacks. The government was wrong to litigate in the first instance, and now the court has ruled.
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Jack Pierce and The Bride
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- Caftan Woman said...
A grand find.
That Barbara Barry and I would not get along.
Gee, I hope they were able to salvage Lyle Talbot's hat.
- April 30, 2014 at 9:52 AM
- Rick said...
Yes, it's new to me, Pierre. My first thought -- before reading your identical one -- was that Jack was cropped from the familiar shot of Elsa touching up her lipstick. Nice stuff.
I'd love to see a shot of Pierce with Lugosi's Monster. I've always wondered if maybe Jack hadn't shunted the bulk of that work off to an assistant. Not that a publicity photo would prove anything one way or the other.
Nice FIND, indeed.
- April 30, 2014 at 12:58 PM
Make that three of us! I suspected a crop, too, but it may indeed just be several shots from one shoot.
- April 30, 2014 at 7:33 PM
- John Cox said...
Sensational! Thank you, Pierre.
- May 1, 2014 at 6:49 PM
- Robert Kiss said...
The peril of posing alongside any outlandish creation such as The Bride, is of course that the person in normal attire will end up simply looking drab. My first instinct, from a layout point-of-view, would likewise be to crop Jack Pierce out of the shot too... and I dare say this is a fate that's befallen numerous other make-up artists in shots we think we know already from across the decades.
- May 2, 2014 at 8:15 AM


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A host of labels are associated with the Free State Province in South Africa; the Golden Country for the wheat crops and sunflower fields that extend for miles, Sheep Country for the expanses of natural grazing, Big Sky Country for the clear air that brings out the stars at night and the Granary, an area considered to be the country's breadbasket. All are accurate, for this flat region of the country has the ideal climate and soil suited to agriculture and livestock farming.
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2. Probably one of the most photographed sandstone formations is the striking Brandwag Buttress in the Golden Gate Highland National Park. The park has a number of ancient rock art sites to visit and hiking trails meander through steep ravines and via caves.
3. Clarens is a picture-perfect town with quaint eateries and craft stores running along the length of the main road. The town is a springboard to outdoor activities such as mountain climbing in the Maluti Mountains, 4x4 trails and hiking routes surrounding the town.
4. The 12000ha Willem Pretorius Game Reserve encircles a large dam and is the home of the black wildebeest. Rhino and various other small mammals can be viewed. A fine example of a stone hut, built by the Ghoya tribe, is located here and believed to date back to the 15th century.
5. Fishing of yellowfish is a favourite pastime at the scenic Gariep Dam. A tour of the dam wall gives an indication of this impressively engineered project. Travel to nearby Bethulie to see the largest concentration camp site of the South African war, an emotional experience.
6. Once hunted to extinction in the province, 2 male cheetahs have been reintroduced at the Laohu Valley Reserve. The reserve is unique in that it is helping conserve the South China tiger. Tigers born into captivity are released into the park and later returned to their country of origin. The tigers assist to create a balanced biodiversity in the reserve too, as they share the same diet as a lion.
7. The cherry festival takes place at Ficksburg during November. This pretty town attracts thousands of visitors to the festival and is transformed into a party town, celebrating the fruit through food stalls, beer tents, golfing events, street processions and live music. The festival ends with the crowning of a Cherry Queen.
8. Tour the Basotho Cultural Village to experience some of the Basotho tribal customs, sample their beer and enjoy a dance demonstration. Stayovers are possible in traditional huts. Before leaving, purchase a mokorotlo (Basotho hat), cone-shaped and thickly woven from grass, a perfect sunscreen.
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CRESTVIEW � Students at Northwood Elementary School learned how to keep track of their progress, while helping others in need, during a recent canned food drive.
CRESTVIEW � Students at Northwood Elementary School learned how to keep track of their progress, while helping others in need, during a recent canned food drive.
The second grade classes collected 763 non-perishable food items, donated to the Lifepoint Church food pantry for residents in need.
"We made it a competition and each class charted their results on a giant graph in the hallway," second grade teacher Nikki Thomas said. "The students graphed their results each day during math."
Several students involved found the competition to be beneficial.
Second grade student Brycen Clause, 7, said, �I learned that graphs are really fun.�
Fellow classmate Cheyenne Long, 8, agreed.
�When I looked at the numbers it was hard to see who had more cans, but when I put the numbers in the graph I could see the winner a lot easier,� she said.
In the contest, the teacher whose students collected the most donations threw a pie in the face of the teacher whose class collected the least amount.
Students in Erika Holt's class watched their teacher throw a pie in the face of Crystal Daniels.
Holt said the overall purpose of this competition was to fill in a educational need.
"The whole project started because our students struggled with graphing skills, mainly reading graphs and interpreting the information," she said. "I think (the competition) was a success because since this project, the students have showed improvement on assignments where graphs were involved."
In addition to furthering their education, Holt said the competition also gave students insight into giving to others.
"I think it was also a meaningful experience for them to load up the food and realize they were collecting them for someone else," she said. "Kids this age usually don�t see the world from a bigger perspective, so to collect things to give away to other people was another added bonus lesson."


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Belchertown was settled in 1731 and incorporated in 1761. It was named after Jonathan Belcher who was the Royal Governor of Massachusetts from 1730 to 1740. Belcher had been a large landowner in the district. It is in the eastern part of Hampshire County. When the Quabbin Reservoir flooded the towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott, part of Enfield was merged with Belchertown and many Enfield residents moved there as well. Originally owned by Samuel and George Longley, D. D. Hazen purchased this general store in the mid 1880s. It is said that Hazen found a supply of snuff, tobacco, playing cards and jewelry left by the previous owner. Selling these items apparently ran counter to Hazen's beliefs, and even though they were worth money, he threw them out of the store and burned them.
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A spokeswoman for the Millard County sheriff's office says 37-year-old Roberto Miramontes Roman was captured around 8 a.m. Wednesday in Beaver County.
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Lindsay Mitchell says Roman was taken into custody along with another suspect, Ruben Chavez.
Chavez is the owner of a Cadillac that was stopped early Tuesday by Millard County sheriff's deputy Josie Greathouse Fox, who was shot dead.
Roman, the subject of an intensive manhunt, has been charged with capital murder.
Beaver County Sheriff Cameron Noel told The Salt Lake Tribune that deputies found both suspects asleep inside a shed.


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An alert reader recently sent me a link to this article in the New York Times, which reports that 60% of doctors have used or would use a placebo. Accompanying this report is the obligatory and entirely unsurprising whine from a bioethicist (I believe whining to be their native tongue) decrying the use of placebos as a violation of patient autonomy and informed consent.
To an extent, they are right. Patients should be informed regarding their diagnosis, and should be informed of the nature of their treatments. I don't think anybody would argue with that. There are circumstances, however, in which full disclosure is not therapeutic and may even be detrimental to the necessary alliance between physician and patient.
For the purpose of this discussion, I'd like to expand the concept of a "placebo" The denotation of the word is a medicine that does nothing. In this discussion, I'm not talking about the classic sugar pill or vitamins or other inert substances. Those are not widely used and I would say that an intervention with no conceivable medical benefit is indeed beyond the pale. In the current context, though, what I am really talking about is a real medicine which does something, perhaps something other than, in addition to, or less than what the patient thinks it does. It may be that a med has multiple mechanisms of action, or it may be that it is a real medicine which the patient did not truly need. Or there may be equipoise -- a med may be more of a nostrum that has never been proven to be effective, but has widespread acceptance as "doing something."
The central point here is to explore the limits of consent, and the degree to which it is acceptable for a physician to skirt or evade explicit consent for an intervention. Bear in mind that in most cases in the ER, there is a blanket consent obtained at registration, that things happen quickly even for non-critical patients, and it is common for interventions to be initiated before a working diagnosis is arrived at. We do not generally stop and have a prolonged discussion at each step of the process. Usually we do tell patients what we are doing, what meds we are giving, with an assumed consent. My practice is to have a fuller conversation at the conclusion of the encounter to summarize the diagnosis, the treatments in the ED, and the aftercare expectations. This assumes an uncomplicated and noncontroversial ED course, and I do modify it as needed for each individual patient.
One thing that I would like to exclude from the discussion. The linked article referred to doctors giving what I call "Go Away pills" -- antibiotics given for a viral illness, for example. I do not consider bad medicine to be a placebo. It is harmful, and not to be condoned.
Some real world examples may be illustrative of the dilemmas we encounter, and how placebos come into play in the ED:
The "worried well" patient. This patient is commonly triaged as "flu-like symptoms," in the patient's words. No fevers documented, of course. Just vague constitutional complaints, such as body aches and fatigue, perhaps an episode or two of emesis. Ultimately, there is no clear diagnosis. Now, in most cases, I am honest with these patients: I don't have a diagnosis, but I am reassured at the absence of serious signs and we can observe them without doing anything else. That goes over OK in many cases. But patients react poorly to a perceived "there's nothing wrong with you," they feel dismissed. Nonspecific diagnosis such as virus or dehydration may be well received; I may hold them out as possibilities. But often, if the ER is busy, the patent will have received a lab work-up and an IV from triage standing orders. In that case, I often will give the patient interventions such as IV fluids and/or an anti-nausea injection. This is universally perceived as therapeutic by patients. They feel very validated in their "illness" and at discharge I point to the empty IV bag as evidence that they are going to feel better now. Or maybe they are a little sleepy from the side effects of the anti-emetic and they interpret this as the medicine having been "really powerful." Now, understand that I knew they weren't dehydrated, absent reports of fluid loss, and even if they were, they could have been rehydrated orally. I probably would not have ordered an IV placed, but it was already there. I can rationalize these interventions as being potentially therapeutic, they are certainly harmless, and I know the patient will feel better. So it's totally a placebo, but is it wrong? Do I need to tell the patient in advance, "You are not dehydrated, but I think IV fluids will help you feel better"? How much honesty is necessary?
The Nostrums. Patients with chest pain can get a variety of medicines while we are doing the work-up to exclude serious causes of chest pain. One common treatment is the "GI cocktail," which is usually a mixture of maalox and viscous lidocaine. If the cause of the pain is acid reflux in the esophagus, it can be very effective in treating the pain. But it also works for pain from anxiety, pleurisy, and ischemic heart pain (beware using it as a diagnostic tool!). It tastes so nasty and creates such a strange sensation in the chest that a lot of folks are convinced that it had a potent effect and just "feel better" after its use. Sometimes we add donnatol or belladonna alkaloids, which can relax smooth muscle spasm -- that's quite useful for abdominal pain as well. Since these are effective as symptomatic relief, it's not clear that they should be described as a placebo. But since they really don't do anything to cure the underlying disease, and their mechanism of action is unrelated to the nature of the illness in some cases, it sure feels like a placebo to me. It's not supported by any strict evidence-based standards, but experience shows it to be helpful. I defend this intervention as being genuinely unclear and so I would not subject it to strict disclosure requirements.
Those are the easy examples. It gets a lot dicier when you are dealing with psychiatric complaints, or cases in which the patient's perception of the problems differs from the physician's.
An anxiety attack manifesting as chest pain. Understand that an experienced ER doc can spot this a mile away. We do work it up to exclude serious illness, but also need to treat the true diagnosis How about some ativan, a valium-like sedative? It will predictably make the patient feel better. Is it necessary to tell the patient up front that they're "just anxious," before treating their anxiety? Does the patient need to explicitly consent to an anxiolytic? How much disclosure is needed prior to treating the patient? An honest but excessively blunt diagnosis is likely to backfire, producing a hostile patient interaction and a refusal of care. Sometimes, with very careful diplomacy, in a patient with good insight and an open mind, I am able to broach this and get an explicit consent. That's optimal. But most of these folks are convinced that they are dying, are unable to accept in their native state that their illness is psychogenic, and if you even hint at that up front it's game over. In this case I often have to be less than forthright initially. I put on my grave face, validate them and make them understand that I share their concern (even though I do not); I tell them that we will be doing tests to rule out life threatening illness (which we would do anyway), but I also need them to relax and so I am going to give you something to take the edge off their nerves. It's very paternalistic, and usually accepted gratefully. Only later, once they are treated, can I tell them that they were "just anxious." Even then, diplomacy is required. But it is also clear that at least initially, there is an abrogation of fully informed consent.
Another common clinical complaint that can be positively impacted with a placebo is a condition called cyclic vomiting syndrome. This is a poorly understood phenomenon. There will be a patient who comes into the ED with intractable retching maybe ten times in a month. Then we don't see him or her for a year, and then they come in again ten times. Sometimes they are really dehydrated, but as often, in my experience, they are euvolemic. Often they are never seen to actually bring anything up, and there is a strong affective overlay to their presentations. Standard antiemetics seem not to work, but patients will often tell me that "only" dilaudid works well for them. This makes no sense. Dilaudid is a pain reliever that is well known to induce vomiting, so it's entirely paradoxical to treat vomiting with it. Many of these patients are perceived as drug seekers, and some may well be. I have a hard time figuring out which are abusers, since they all seem to present in a highly dramatic and wretched state. Due to the typical co-existent complaint of pain, opiates almost always are required to relieve the symptoms, but I have found that ativan works as well or better. Is it because this is a psychogenically driven illness? I don't know. Ativan is an effective anti-emetic; just ask any oncologist. So how much do I have to tell the patient before giving them ativan for this illness. Most patients are, quite frankly, not interested in the names of the meds. I can tell them "I'm going to give you something to stop the vomiting," and they are happy to accept. If it worked, they may ask the names of the meds later. Others will ask questions, and I give answers which are general to begin with and become more detailed as the patient's questions become more specific. Again, it's not clear to me whether this is a placebo, but my perception of why this medicine works is somewhat different from the patient's. I pretty much never tell the patient the real reason I think they were vomiting, partially because it's speculation on my part, but also because I know that it would not be well received. Patients with CVS are often "veteran" patients with fixed ideas about their illness, and there's no value for me in picking a fight that is not going to help the patient.
Let us not forget the placebo value of the therapeutic x-ray. Radiation does not help patients, but a chest x-ray or ankle x-ray is so valuable at making patients happy and feel better (relief of anxiety yet again) that thousands of doctors ignore bullet-proof evidence to routinely order x-rays on patients who do not need them. Should we inform patients that the x-ray is not necessary but if they want it they can have it?
And the most powerful placebo I have found is the deep confident voice of a tall male physician with gray hair at the temples. I have gotten good at playing that guy. I review their symptoms, discuss a differential diagnosis and why the bad things are excluded, and why I am reassured that they will be well. It's theater, pure and simple. Of course it is good medicine to be a good communicator. But it has never failed to amaze me how often a patient will hear my explanation (even when I don't do any tests), let out a deep breath, and say "Oh, what a relief. I was just terrified I had 'x'. I feel so much better now." (This is also why it's often helpful to ask in advance what the patient's real concern may be.)
In the end, I don't really know what a placebo is. There's a no bright line that separates the "sham" treatments from the "real" ones, and consent is a variable which is inconstant in terms of patients' ability or need to explicitly understand and agree to the treatments.
As an amusing side note the AP version of the article notes that the referenced study was funded in part by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The irony just makes my head spin.
28 October 2008
What exactly is a placebo, anyway?
An alert reader recently sent me a link to this article in the New York Times, which reports that 60% of doctors have used or would use a placebo. Accompanying this report is the obligatory and entirely unsurprising whine from a bioethicist (I believe whining to be their native tongue) decrying the use of placebos as a violation of patient autonomy and informed consent.
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That particular article seemed somewhat misleading to me. After all, one of the questions involved giving a dextrose pill if it was shown to be more effective than no treatment; other questions involved what you called the "go away" meds. Few doctors are actually prescribing pure sugar pills.ReplyDelete
I'm not a tall male doctor with gray hair, but rather a short young female doctor. However, I fancy myself to be pretty good at reassuring the worried and anxious. It's all in the confidence you project, the reassurance that you've ruled out serious conditions, that their heart and lungs sound good, etc, and to have empathy with their worry. I agree that this can be rather paternalistic, but I also agree that many patients seem to be okay with this.
And, of course, never ever use the phrase "it's all in your head".
In medicine, the word placebo has a definite meaning. I don't really think your "expanded" definition has anything to do with a discussion of placebos.ReplyDelete
A good example of a placebo are some of these crayzee suburban hospitals that have aromatherapists on call for lavender therapy. Thing is, placebos work for a lot of this ruminating/anxiety crap and don't have any side effects. Certainly, the aromatherapist has to present this treatment in the light of how it will HELP the patient and blah blah, not "hey, this is a placebo to get you to think that we're doing something special just for you."
Ativan is not in any expanded definition of "placebo".
- Anonymous10/28/2008 8:33 PM
As an individual whose been to the ER for CVS, I can say that 100mg of amitriptyline works best for my symptoms.ReplyDelete
Great post.ReplyDelete
I wrote about this topic here.ReplyDelete
That article wasn't actually about placebos at all, if you read it. It was a survey that specifically avoided the word "placebo" -- and then has ethicists sounding out about how terribly dishonest their use is.
I have a new name for CAM: Placebo medicine.
- Anonymous10/29/2008 7:22 AM
when i was less experienced i would sometimes tell patients that they had a higher likelihood of having an adverse effect from the radiation exposure of an x-ray than the likelihood of finding a fracture. not well received.ReplyDelete
i've definitely lowered my threshold for the "go away" x-ray
If you're giving a real medicine that treats the symptoms successfully, does it really qualify as a placebo? Aren't (most) patients in the ER/ED just hoping you will make them feel better?ReplyDelete
So, if what you do works, even if it involves waving a magic wand and intoning some special baritone doctor words, I don't see why you need to fully disclose the mechanism of action to the patient.
Meanwhile, you've had an opportunity to evaluate them for more serious problems.
Sounds like a reasonable solution to me (as a patient).
When I worked as a volunteer EMT in New York, I discovered that plastic adhesive bandages, especially those with cute cartoon characters, worked wonderfully as pain relievers for children.ReplyDelete
I once had a little boy with a broken arm as a patient. I splinted his arm and we were on our way to the hospital. He was crying and complaining of pain, nothing I said or did helped. Remembering that, when I was a kid, sometimes putting a Bandaid(TM) on a small boo boo made it feel better, I asked if he wanted me to put a Bandaid(TM)on him. He nodded. We had some fun ones just for kids, so I applied one to his arm. He immediately stopped crying and when asked, said he felt better.
I'm all for the placebo effect.
I can't tell you how many patients I have who are getting ATC 8mg on zofran, have ATC compazine, and often times a daily dose of decadron that still have nausea. 1/2mg-1mg of Ativan works like a charm for them though. Yep, you're right, our oncologists like it. Not that cancer patients are usually stressed or anything...ReplyDelete
There's a lot of evidence that cyclic vomiting syndrome is linked to migraine. It's kind of an interesting phenomenon.
I tend to agree that things like Ativan aren't a placebo. It's a drug that's actually treating the problem.
CVS is kind of a hodgepodge diagnosis. It describes the symptoms, but the underlying causes can be varied. Indeed migraines may be one of the causative agents, which is why a TCA or a triptan might work on occasion. Other patients have metabolic disorders that make it easy for them to become ketotic. Others might have "abdominal migraines."ReplyDelete
All symptoms' severity is influenced by the perception of those symptoms, and this is the part that "placebo" treatments can influence. Whether it is acupuncture, homeopathy, or a deep calming voice, what you are altering is the patients' perception of their symptoms, not the underlying cause of the symptoms.
"Should we inform patients that the x-ray is not necessary but if they want it they can have it?"ReplyDelete
Yes, absolutely. I really, really wish my doctor would be so honest with me.
As it is, I am never sure if he is ordering a test because he is unable to make a diagnosis without it, or if it's defensive medicine, or if he simply can't figure out why I would come in to his office when (to his mind) there is clearly nothing seriously wrong with me so he's giving me a test to make me go away without complaining.
"But it has never failed to amaze me how often a patient will hear my explanation (even when I don't do any tests), let out a deep breath, and say "Oh, what a relief. I was just terrified I had 'x'. I feel so much better now."
You have been practicing medicine for many, many years. Why in the world would it amaze you that a patient would take your highly-educated professional opinion at face value? As you mentioned, there are things an experienced doctor can spot a mile away. We patients know this too.


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California's insurance commissioner scolded Anthem Blue Cross for raising rates for small businesses while praising industry rival UnitedHealth Group Inc. for cutting worker premiums.
Escalating his campaign against rising health insurance rates, Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said Anthem's premium hike for companies with 50 or fewer workers, which he pegged at 11%, was "unreasonable" because the company overstated its projected medical costs and improperly added fees related to the federal healthcare law.
But state regulators have no authority to block Anthem's rate increase from taking effect this month. "This is a huge loophole in California law and in the federal Affordable Care Act," Jones said.
A November 2014 ballot measure backed by Jones and consumer groups would grant state officials the power to reject unreasonable rate increases for health coverage. The insurance commissioner has that authority for property and auto policies under Proposition 103. Thirty-seven other states already regulate health premiums, Jones said.


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You've located the World Cup television schedule, found your vuvuzela from 2010 and your remote control, planned your daily schedule around the matches and you're now ready for two solid weeks of the best international soccer on the globe -- three, sometimes four matches in a day.
OK, so maybe you just realize that there's going to be at least one match every day from June 12 to 26 and you're going to try to see as many as you can.
If you can't watch them all, or you want to DVR/TiVo (or whatever today's recording device is) the ones you can't see live, here's a guide to the most intriguing and potentially entertaining matches to watch during the group stage.
We won't include the knockout round because, well, every match will be must-see TV when it's one-and-done. But if you're going to pick from group play, here are five games you won't want to miss:
1. Brazil vs. Croatia, June 12
Traditionally, the host team plays in the World Cup opener. So it will be Brazil, the third-ranked team in the world according to FIFA, and Croatia, ranked 18th, getting things started from Arena Corinthians in Sao Paulo on Thursday. This venue was one of those that was in a race against time to be completed and ready for matches, and as recently as Saturday, work was still being done.
The match will showcase Brazil's star-studded "Selecao," featuring Neymar, Hulk, Fred, Dani Alves, Thiago Silva and David Luiz -- all of whom play for top-flight European clubs -- among others. Croatia will begin its quest to make it out of Group A against favorite Brazil, struggling Mexico and Cameroon.
But protests and unrest could steal some of the spotlight. Many Brazilians are unhappy about a World Cup infrastructure that has displaced residents in some city neighborhoods and consumed government funds better used to improve livelihoods and services in the country.
The transit workers' demonstrations continued in Sao Paulo on Monday, so things might not be resolved until the last minute, if at all.
2. Spain vs. Netherlands, June 13
This rematch of the 2010 World Cup final pits the Spaniards against the Dutch in the Group B opener. Spain enters the competition as the top-ranked team in the world while the Netherlands is 15th.
It's the Oranje's big three of midfielder Wesley Sneijder and forwards Arjen Robben and Robin Van Persie against La Furia Roja's stacked roster of stars from three of the world's best clubs -- Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Atletico Madrid. The big names for Spain are Andres Iniesta, who scored the only goal in the World Cup final four years ago, Xabi Alonso, Cesc Fabregas, Juan Mata, David Villa and Fernando Torres, plus goalkeeper Iker Casillas, who plays for Real Madrid.
3. Ghana vs. USA, June 16
The Yanks' unfavorable draw landed them in Group G with No. 2-ranked Germany, No. 4 Portugal and No. 37 Ghana. Based on the rankings (the U.S. is No. 13), the Americans should be favored to open group play with the all-important win they'll need to have a shot -- and a long shot at that -- of advancing out of the group and into the knockout round.
But there's a catch: Ghana is the opponent that knocked the U.S. out of the past two World Cups. The Black Stars defeated the U.S. 2-1 in 2006 in Germany, with the U.S. needing a win to advance out of the group stage. Then in 2010, Ghana ousted the Americans again by the same score.
It was a heartbreaker for the U.S. team, and a few players from that match are back in 2014.
No chance the recent World Cup history between these teams is lost on either side. But in a group with Germany and Portugal, this is as close to a must-win match for both teams as there is in World Cup group play.
4. Switzerland vs. France, June 20
These figure to be the top two teams in Group E, and Les Bleus will look to atone for a poor showing four years ago in South Africa. The Swiss have the No. 6 world ranking, which puts them ahead of several better-known European soccer powers like Italy, England, the Netherlands and No. 17 France.
The French took a strong team to South Africa, but were knocked out in the group stage amid turmoil between players and the former head coach. It was a national disgrace for a team that won the World Cup as recently as 1998 and was in the final in 2006.
Karim Benzema, a striker for Real Madrid, is the big name for France, which has more individual star players than Switzerland. But the French will be without wing Franck Ribery, who will miss the World Cup due to injury. The loss of Ribery, a stalwart for Bayern Munich, could prove significant.
5. Italy vs. Uruguay, June 24
If there's a second "Group of Death," it's the Group D draw that boasts three top-10 teams in No. 7 Uruguay, No. 9 Italy and No. 10 England along with Costa Rica. By the time this match rolls around, Italy and Uruguay could be battling for first place in the group or the group's final berth in the knockout round.
This matchup is about as even as it gets. The two teams have faced each other eight times and each side has two wins, two losses and four draws. Even the goals scored for both teams are even at seven apiece.
The strikers for both sides will be front and center, with the Azzurri's Mario Balotelli and Ciro Immobile, who is a rising star in Europe, trying to outperform Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani of Uruguay.


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Ken O'Mahony needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 69 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
We'll film everything and anything to do with equestrian life in Ireland
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WalkoverA race in which only one horse competes.
Washed OutA horse that becomes so nervous that it sweats profusely. Also known as "washy" or "lathered (up)."
WeanlingA foal that is less than one-year-old that has been separated from its dam.
Weigh InThe certification, by the clerk of scales, of a rider's weight before (after) a race. A jockey weighs in fully dressed with all equipment except for his/her helmet, whip and (in many jurisdictions) flak jacket.
Weight For AgeAn allowance condition in which each entrant is assigned a weight according to its age. Females usually receive a sex allowance as well.
WheelBetting all possible combinations in an exotic wager using at least one horse as the key.
WhiteA horse color, extremely rare, in which all the hairs are white. The horse's eyes are brown, not pink, as would be the case for an albino.
WireThe finish line of a race.
WithersArea above the shoulder, where the neck meets the back.
WorkTo exercise a horse by galloping a pre-determined distance.


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Is it just me, or are there not actually any condoms in that parking lot?
Anyway, I will now transcribe this entire clip, because I think the words will look really funny when written out.
I'm Isiah Carey. Coming up, a condom here. Oops, stop—a condom there. A condom there. One more time, a condom there. Oh, look out, there's another condom. Aaand a condom there. Too many condoms in one parking lot.
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holdem8 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 54 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
We are a group of investors who are about to launch a global multi-platform mobile app store, just like iTunes, Nokia Ovi, Mobango.com, GetJar.com, etc.
We have secured the category-defining domain name MobileApps.com and will be launched as an enormous mobile app store that cuts across all platforms, devices, OS and mobile operators. Our website will potentially be accessed by billions of people who will download mobile apps for their phones.
The phenomenal explosion of mobile apps, since the launch of Apple Apps Store has ignited the mobile apps craze. The winning design will enjoy huge exposure and we will create a link at the bottom of our website to give credit to your design for 3 months. This will create lots of exposure for you.
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Target audience: End-users who download apps from our app store AND app developers who will use our ecosystem to sell their apps to the end-users.
This will be a very prominent logo which will be seen by millions worldwide. It must create the spirit and excitement of the mobile app economy. It must be readily relate to the target market.. which are the end-users who download apps from our app store AND the app developers who will use our ecosystem to sell their apps to the end-users.
You must do the necessary research on the mobile app marketplace, visit current app stores, get ideas from the latest app platform and technologies. The logo must be simple, sharp, intelligent, and meaningful. We love fresh & vibrant Web2.0 colors that depict the characteristics of the mobile internet.
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I gotta ask, what or who is your avatar?
The reason I ask is because growing up I read Marvel Comics and one of their characters is a hero known as Moonknight or was it Moon Knight? Anyways your avatar looks like him.
I just want to post here a big "Thank you!" for your thread http://www.basenotes.net/threads/247...antos-Revisted
This thread inspired me for several months (!) of studying regular Santos, and I have decided to go blindly for Cartier Santos Concentree (can't find it here...) as my signature scent.
Now, I am waiting just 25 days more for my aunt to arrive from the USA and bring it to me...
Hi there,
I wondered where you ordered your bottle of Santos cartier concentree. Did you get it on-line?
I'm looking for an extremely reliable on-line store.
Kind regards
"In a world where people smell bad, it is the personal responsibility of every Basenoter to improve the world one SotD at a time..."
You couldn't be more right. Especially in the UK. Most people I encounter have a problem with either smelling a) bad, b) like Angel (girls), c) Acqu di Gio/Joop (guys). Its insane.
It's good to meet fellow UK people who appreciate nice smelling frags.
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The appeal in trading for Dustin Byfuglien
It's a recent playoff series that's slowly fading away into the NHL history books without much thought. The 2010 Western Conference finals wasn't a seven-gamer. In fact, it was quite the opposite. The Chicago Blackhawks swept the San Jose Sharks in a series that was fascinating because it was brief yet extremely competitive. This wasn't a mismatch. Every game was close.
You would talk to Joe Thornton after every loss to try and get answers and he would kind of shrug and say, "I liked how we played." And he was right — they just weren't winning.
Had it gone longer, the Conn Smythe vote might have looked different that postseason because Dustin Byfuglien was dominant at times in this series. He scored a goal every single game against the Sharks, including the game winner in three of the four games.
There was one moment in the Blackhawks' dressing room during a tight Game 3, when Byfuglien let his Blackhawks teammates know exactly how it was going to end.
"He said, 'I'm going to get this one,'" Blackhawks forward Kris Versteeg said Wednesday afternoon. "He went out and scored it. He almost called his shot. That's who he is. He's a confident person."
When you're a young team trying to win your franchise's first Stanley Cup in decades, having your 6-foot-5, 270-pound forward announce he's going to win the game can be a confidence booster.
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