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In Los Angeles, H.Lorenzo’s Retrospective Celebrates Marine Serre’s Artistry
On view until Nov. 30 at H.Lorenzo, the “Marine Serre Couture Database” retrospective charts the Parisian brand’s eco-futuristic garments from past collections, showcasing the designer’s craftsmanship and unparalleled vision. Here’s what it was like at the exhibition’s opening reception.
Photography by Janice Louise.
Exiting the car onto the evening-lit sidewalk outside the H.Lorenzo store on North Robertson, the first thing I notice is the crescent moon behind the glass display. It glows red against a turbulent purple-orange sky, its hollow belly facing downwards. There isn’t anything particularly special about this celestial logo, but I know I can recognize it anywhere. Few brands manage to cultivate a symbol that’s so umbilically connected to their existence as the crescent moon is to Parisian designer Marine Serre.
“The moon for us is like an icon, an emblem, an image, a representation, a flag, a language, a metaphor, an object of what we believe in: crossing boundaries, hybridity and freedom,” Marine told Dazed and Confused. Fast-forward six years from its inception in 2017: Marine Serre is one of the most prolific brands of the moment, thanks to its commitment to sustainability and an honest approach to upcycling. And this exhibition – which features runway looks from spring-summer 2019 all the way up to fall-winter 2023 – is proof.
Curated by H.Lorenzo, a multi-brand boutique based in Los Angeles, the retrospective starts at the storefront with couture pieces from the designer’s more experimental “Red Line.” (There are four lines under Marine Serre, each representing a different vision and varying in wearability and function.) One mannequin is dressed head-to-ankle in safety orange: a fluffy knit balaclava and coat made from upcycled ‘80s knitwear. Another is swathed in a fur coat meticulously constructed out of deadstock leather and animal-print fleece bed covers – an unadulterated piece of brilliant showmanship.
Another sports a knee-length black bubble skirt with a utilitarian-inspired jacket – the opening look from Marine Serre’s 2020 spring show. The collection was called “Black Tide,” and fittingly, the color palette drifted toward dark and foreboding blacks, tapping into the theme of climate crisis – something the designer cares about deeply. There’s so much of Marine Serre’s artisanal aptitude evidenced here; I make a mental note to come back for another look. (These pieces are all made-to-order via H.Lorenzo, with an up-to two months’ lead time to procure fabric.) But for now, I turn around the corner and head toward the opening reception.
It’s around 7:40 p.m. when I make my way to the entrance, and the party is just coming alive. Music spills from the doors. The line for the bar — serving beautifully presented Marine-Serre-inspired cocktails — is quickly gaining length. There’s chatter and gusts of laughter. Everyone’s having a good time, dressed in the brand’s second-skin tops and denim. (I myself am sporting boots from the fall-winter 2022 collection.) Some guests pose for photographs by a custom-made armchair upholstered in the brand’s signature crescent moon print. Others peruse the ready-to-wear pieces from Marine Serre’s past collections, which are displayed in the middle of the store.
I notice some favorites: an ivory sweater made from vintage crochet tablecloths, a long-sleeved pink dress constructed from regenerated t-shirts, and an upcycled denim dress with crescent-moon bra inserts, done with incredible attention to cut and detail. Seeing these pieces side by side, I’m reminded of why I love the designer so much. She rescues and resuscitates such a creative variety of left-behind materials across so many industries. She’ll gather a stockpile of overproduced towels, for example, and craft them into shirts. She’ll find floral quilts – made with a Provençal quilting technique – and patchwork them into a dress. Crochet tablecloths, tea towels, old denim, wrinkled tops from the ‘90s and early 2000s. All transformed.
It’s absolutely amazing how strategic and purposeful Marine and her team are – giving life not just to the piles and piles of unsold, landfill-bound stock, but also to the businesses that couldn’t sell them. That, coupled with extraordinary workmanship, is Marine Serre’s true magic. It’s a kind of magic that’s especially palpable to me here tonight at H.Lorenzo, with so many Marine Serre-heads coming together to celebrate the designer, floral-rimmed cocktails in hand.


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Where are the Greater and Lesser Antilles?
The islands of the Caribbean sea are also known as the West Indies. Within the West Indies, the islands can be divided even further into two groups: the Bahamas and the Antilles.
The islands of the Antilles are then further divided into two sub-groups:
- The Greater Antilles: located southeast of the United States, contain the islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominical Republic), and the islands composing the Cayman Islands.
- The Lesser Antilles: contains smaller archipelagos like the U.S. Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago and Aruba.
Within the Lesser Antilles, the islands can be divided even further into two groups: the Leeward Islands (away from the wind) and the Windward Islands (exposed to the wind).
Why the Distinction?
The islands of the Greater Antilles are larger in size than the Lesser Antilles, but the contrasts do not end there. The geographic location of the two groups is different, with the Greater Antilles located in the northern end of the Caribbean Sea south of the United States. The Lesser Antilles are located in the southern end of the Caribbean Sea, closer to South America. Furthermore, the Greater Antilles are made up of continental rock whereas the Lesser Antilles are mostly comprised of coral islands or volcanic rock. The land of the Greater Antilles is thought to be much older than the land found on the Lesser Antilles.
The Greater and Lesser Antilles also demonstrate different evolutionary patterns for the native flora and fauna. Sometimes, the majority of the islands of the Greater Antilles (namely Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Cuba) are considered part of Latin America culture, and not Caribbean culture, although many argue that this distinction is too much of a generalization to be valid.

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Vegan cabbage, tomato and spring onion stir-fry
- 1 tablespoon rapeseed oil
- chunk fresh root ginger, grated
- 2 spring onions, finely sliced
- 4 ripe medium tomatoes, cored and sliced into quarters
- 1 green capsicum, deseeded and finely chopped
- ½ Chinese cabbage, leaves separated and cut into 2.5cm slices
- 1 tablespoon shaoxing rice wine or dry sherry
- ¼ cup cold vegetable stock, made with a very low salt stock cube (check it’s vegan)
- 1 tablespoon reduced-salt light soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon clear rice vinegar or ciderhard ciderX vinegar
- 1 teaspoon cornflourcornstarchX blended with 1 tablespoon cold water
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1 Heat a wok over a high heat until it starts to smoke, then add the oil. Add the ginger and spring onions and stir-fry for a few seconds to release the flavours. Add the tomatoes, capsicum and cabbage and toss for 3 min, until the cabbage starts to wilt and the capsicum is tender.
2 Add the rice wine or sherry and the stock. Stir in the soy sauce and vinegar, then stir in the blended cornflour. Simmer for a min or so to thicken the sauce, then serve.
Serve with rice and tofu for a full meal
Nutrition Info (per serve)
Total fat 8.3g
–Saturated fat 0.9g
Dietary fibre 4.6g
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We use your personal information as required to submit your case to relevant creditors, credit bureaus, courts and other important third party credit organizations to help resolve matters securely with regard to your credit report. We mail paperwork containing client information through USPS securely, and only the partner to our company submits it, not staff members, or employees. Information such as domain name, IP address, browser type and access time is essential for the operation of our credit repair service. It helps us to maintain the quality of our service delivery, and access useful statistics regarding the use of 60 Day Credit Repair.
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pmgd (Paul McLean Graphic Design) is an independent, professional business delivering attractive, creative solutions for branding, print and digital media for over 10 years. Passionate about design and creating high quality work, pmgd has vast experience producing effective results for a diverse range of clients in a broad range of sectors - all on time, brief and budget, ensuring your business or project looks fantastic and succeeds. Based in the Scottish Borders, pmgd offers a friendly, efficient service from concept to completion. Click the images below to see sample client case studies of pmgd’s work; including branding, logos, printed literature, advertising, display signage, packaging and digital media.
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Scumbags is a punk rock band from Brazil founded in 2017. Relying heavily on their references, which range from classic…
The Riot Before Offer Free B-Side
The boys in The Riot Before have released the b-side “Black Slate” through the website These Numbers Have Faces. The track has a deep social meaning for the band and was recorded during sessions for their recently released sophpmore effort, Rebellion. The band has also included a video explanation for the song’s content which can be viewed below.
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In 2021 Rustler announced they were venturing into the world of motor yachts with the creation of the Rustler 41 Motor Yacht. She bears all the trademark Rustler Yachts traits of her sailing sisters, timeless styling, all weather capabilities and of course incredible level of build quality. The design concept was to create a modern reinvention of the classic gentleman’s launch, and they have done just that.
Designed by the world renowned Tony Castro who set out to produce an elegant, useable and manageable motor yacht, she has a deep V planing hull that delivers fantastic performance and a comfortable motion. She is predicted to have a cruising speed of 25 knots with a maximum speed of 35 knots. This is dependent on the engine option you choose and given she is a new yacht, Rustler will work with you to make your choice work! However the standard engine configuration sees her fitted with 2 x 320hp Yanmars on twin shaft drives, although pod drives or even outboards are possible.
On board she has been designed to be a social day boat yet with the ability to sleep 4 in 2 cabins, making a fantastic cruiser as well. The main deck layout is very sociable but practical and well thought through for when moving about at sea. As you enter through the saloon doors you will find comfortable U-shaped seating with table to port and a galley opposite which has all you need – stove, sink and fridge. The table in the saloon can drop down to make a 3rd double berth or a fun daybed. Forward of the galley is the helm station which has plenty of space for two to sit comfortably with great vision and opening sunroof. A central companionway leads down to the master cabin forward which consists of an island berth. To starboard you have a spacious heads with separate shower and to port is the 2nd cabin with double berth under the cockpit.
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EU forces pace on carbon cuts, challenges others to follow
The European Union is using its heft as a wealthy trade bloc of half a billion consumers to set the global pace of climate change action, challenging others to match the ambitions of its latest carbon cutting plans.
The question now is whether the EU gambit becomes an established benchmark upon which investors and sectors like the auto industry set transition strategies and how big emitters like the United States and China respond ahead of UN climate talks later this year.
"Amongst G7 and G20 nations, the EU position is now the explicit global benchmark," said Julian Poulter, Head of Investor Relations at Inevitable Policy Response, a consultancy on environmental economics.
"It will exert a new influence on that basis, in other industrialized nations and their financial sectors and increase pressure on those nations that remain as climate outliers and spoilers," he added.
In its most ambitious bid yet to hit a goal of cutting net greenhouse gas emissions by 55% from 1990 levels by 2030, the EU on Wednesday laid out proposals that would consign the internal combustion engine to history and raise the cost of emitting carbon for heating, transport and factories.
A proposed carbon border levy would seek to impose on trading partners a carbon price reflecting the level set by the EU's carbon emissions market, the largest of its kind in the world.
Paolo Gentiloni, the European Commissioner for economic matters, said a 10-year transition from 2026 for the carbon levy on goods such as steel, fertilizer and cement, would give others time to adapt.
"At the same time we cannot wait for a quite difficult global carbon pricing system to take place because we know, knowing our partners, that this...

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Sage green resin sets the scene for tiny pale pink cherry blossoms. The oval and wire hang about 1" from the ear. These are one-piece wired earrings. The back is plain.
- Each earring is created using a multi-step technique that involves harvesting flowers, preserving and sealing them, then encasing in clear resin on top of the perfectly mixed colored resin. A healthy dose of patience is required.
- Your Cherry Blossom Wired Earrings come carded and in a hand-stamped box perfect for gifting or storing.
- The metal bezel and ear wire is US-made of lead- and nickel-free brass with fine silver plating. The bezel oval itself measure about 3/4" in long. Earrings include grips to help keep them in place on your ears.
- Additionally, cured resin is highly reflective (you may see me or my ceiling fan), and sometimes flecks of dust/lint get missed.

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Asus P4P8X SE User Manual: Chipset
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Green & Blue LOVE sign made with resin and delicate flowers, a colour match made in heaven.
Featuring babies breath, hydrangea and a bunnies tail.
Dimensions: Approx 20cm x 7.5cm.
Note - as these are handmade they may have unique little quirks such as little air bubbles etc. They may also slightly vary given they are crafted by hand, but that adds to their beauty, we think. We will aim to keep flowers very similar, but there may be slight colour variations due to seasons/availability.


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4 piece layering stencil set made to coordinate with the Inky Floral Background stamp set. There is a separate stencil for each layer, with guidelines on each stencil for perfect alignment when using alone. When using the stencils with the stamped or foiled image you will forego the alignment guides, and instead align each layer to the stamped image.
While you can use them without the stamped or foiled image for a more abstract look, this set is more complete with the coordinating outline image found in the stamp set.
Stencil design measures approximately 4 ¼” x 5 ½”
Pinkfresh Studio - Inky Floral Background Stencil
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Fifield appointed Arts Minister; O’Dwyer to Small Business
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has appointed Mitch Fifield as federal Arts Minister and Kelly O’Dwyer as Small Business Minister.
In a statement, Turnbull said that Fifield, who has also been appointed Communications Minister, will oversee the transfer of the Arts portfolio to the Communications ministry ‘to better align the funding and administration of support and incentives for our creative industries’.
Fifield takes the Arts portfolio from George Brandis, who will remain Attorney General. Fifield’s appointment follows a petition last week signed by Australian writers for Brandis to be removed from the Arts portfolio. Fifield has previously served as assistant minister for social services, and held numerous advisory positions before entering parliament in 2004.
O’Dwyer, who has also been appointed Assistant Treasurer, replaces Bruce Billson as Small Business Minister. O’Dwyer is a former corporate lawyer, National Australia Bank executive and economic policy adviser to former Treasurer Peter Costello.
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2nd October 2014, would be an interesting day in the history of Bollywood since it has two big releases coming together this year. At one end, you have the Bang Bang starring the stylish actor – Hrithik Roshan and Katreena, while at the other end, you have Haider starring the chocolate boy Shahid Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor. This would really pose a touch choice before the audience to choose in between the two, as both happens to come from the bigwigs of Bollywood. The experts feel that it is not a smart decision to release the two movies together; however, considering the number of holidays witnessed here; the filmmakers could have made such decision. Also, both the movies have their genres as different, hence you would not find the two movies killing competition. Yet, you would find a small drop in the audience share for both the said films for being released on the same day. Let us compare the two and understand which movie has the potentials to do the buzz in the market.
The movie has the director who happens to be a veteran of Bollywood called Vishal Bharadwaj. He is known to make a number of classic B Town movies in the past including Omkara and Maqbool. His love for William Shakespeare has been incredible, which makes Haider his third movie on the story of the literature legend, which is based on the story of Hamlet. You can therefore find the movie to be very much intense wherein the film would carry a number of golden moments both from Shahid and Tabu. Also, you have Irrfan Khan, Kay Kay Menon and Shraddha Kapoor in the main leads who were known for acting the best in different movies of the past. The trailer of Haider seems to have garnered good response, getting more than one million views within 48 hours. Ever since the trailer embarked over the social media, it has created a good buzz and fuss inside the audience.
The Flip side of Haider
However, looking at the veteran director- Vishal Baradwaj, he is not a man who is known to direct commercial movies. Indeed, his movies did good business in the past over the box office; hence, you can expect similar performance from Haider as well. It is co produced by Shahid, while the production cost is less especially when you compare it with Big Bang, which can work in the favour of the movie. The tight budget witnessed in the movie would certainly going to work in the favour of Haider especially when it has big budget movies like Bang Bang on the other side.
This high buzz movie of Bollywood with huge budget has hot stars like Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif. It is said to be an official remake of the Hollywood movie called Knight And Day with lead stars like Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. This can be called as an out of the way commercial action flick. Hence, it is very much expected to do good over the box office. You can catch here some of the most stylish action scenes in it, unlike witnessed in the original movie called Knight and Day. This will certainly become a catch for the younger generation audience. Also, the songs, teaser and trailer of the movie has already garnered a good response on the social media sites.
The Flip side of Bang Bang
The high budget movie especially in comparison to the Haider would be a matter of concern for the filmmakers. It would be rather difficult for them to recover the money in just few days considering the fact that they would face the heat of competition laid by Haider. Secondly, you can call Bang Bang to be a typical masala movie, which has everything that a youth audience would aspire to see- the hot babe Kat, power packed action from Hrithik, some incredible dance from the stylish actor and similar other things, which add the spice in it. However, the experts feel that the movie could be a hit over urban areas, though it may have a dull performance in the interiors wherein only mindless action get recognition rather than craftily carried out flips.
The two actors say on the clash
The same day clash of the two movies has certainly recorded the reactions from the lead actors (Hrithik and Shahid) of these movies – Bang Bang and Haider. Hrithik simply called 2nd October to be a great day wherein two really good movies are hitting the theatres, and both would be doing excellent business. Similar was the reaction of Shahid Kapoor as well, he applauded the action and performance of Hrithik. However, Shahid cited about the edge his movie has on budget front, which will certainly going to help them recover their money in no time giving them better ROI (return on investment) as compared to Bang Bang.
Haider and Bang Bang in perspective of business
The trade pundits feel that the two movies come out with two different story lines and therefore have two different audience bases. This means the cut off business rate would be low as both the movies are potential enough to do good business in their respective business domain. Haider is classier hence; the audience with such taste would turn up to watch it for sure, while Bang Bang is a masala movie, which can call the masala loving people. Contrary to this perspective, we have a view of experts of the opposite camp, which feel that two good movies coming together on the same day would really hamper the business of each other. Yet, a majority of the audience would like to watch both the movies, therefore one thing is sure, both would be doing the best the best.
On comparing the two movies in terms of performance, content, star value and other elements, both the movies are more likely to do well over the box office. Since you have a long weekend, with so many holidays coming, a large chunk of audience would have enough time to watch both the movies with friends and family. The only difference would embark in the form of ROI (return on investment), when Haider would gain more for having tight budget and on the other hand Bang Bang would take a little time to get a smart ROI at the end.

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As we continue our examination of natural weed control one does not have to go any further than one’s own pantry. So instead of spraying the weeds with glyphosate, salt them. You can use table salt, it would work just fine, but it could get a little pricey if you had a lot of weeds to get rid of. The best choice (and cheapest) is rock salt, the same salt you use in the winter to melt the snow and ice, a common occurrence in certain areas of the country. Simply apply enough salt to the weeds to cover them sufficiently. Experimentation will tell you how much salt is enough. Check the weather forecast before applying the salt so rain will not wash the salt away before the salt has had a chance to do its thing. For those of you who are curious as to how salt kills the weeds, it desiccates them. Salt is most applicable to weeds in the sidewalk and driveway, areas that one normally salts in the winter (for those ‘lucky’ enough to have snow). One caveat, be careful when using salt where animals will have access to it, it could harm them.
Vinegar; it is not just for making salad dressing and pickles. Vinegar also makes a very good and relatively inexpensive method of natural weed control. Vinegar is simple to use, just place some in a sprayer, add a few drops of dish washing liquid, and spray the weeds you want to kill. It is best to do this in the heat of the day when the sun is shining brightly. Vinegar is an acid and it works by ‘burning' the weed. When applying the vinegar be careful to apply it to only the weeds, it will kill or damage whatever it contacts. Since the weeds do not care what quality vinegar you use, by the inexpensive brand, as long as it is approximately 5% acidity (or greater). For those who are curious, the dish washing liquid is added as a surfactant to break up the surface tension of the vinegar allowing it to ‘stick’ to the surface of the leaves. Keep in mind that like most methods of natural weed control one application may not be enough (especially on the tough weeds) so if you see the weed trying to make a comeback give it another shot, in time it will give up the ghost.
For those of you who do a lot of canning the next item should be familiar to you. Citric acid is common in lemons and limes (which is where the lemons and limes get their tartness) and can be found in varying percentages in numerous other foods. Citric acid, in powdered form, can be found in grocery stores, online, and even in some hardware and home improvement stores (in the canning section). To use it as a weed killer one needs to mix the powder with water to make a solution suitable for spraying. Mixing 1/2 pound of the citric acid powder with 1 gallon of water will produce a solution of approximately 7% acidity, more than suitable for killing weeds. As with the vinegar a few drops of dish washing liquid will help break up the surface tension of the solution and allow for better wetting of the weeds. Citric acid, like with other methods of natural weed control, requires pinpoint accuracy, i.e., do not spray what you do not want to kill. For the curious amongst you, the acidity of lemon or lime juice generally runs between 4% and 6%. So if you have some leftover lemon or lime juice throw it in a sprayer, add a couple drops of dish washing liquid and go spray a few weeds.
In examining various methods of natural weed control one can see a trend, they are all safe. In fact, the three methods in this article are all food items; they are consumed regularly by people throughout the world without much controversy. Along with the methods in “Natural weed control: Who needs glyphosate?” (click here for article) all the methods are safe for people and the environment, when used within reason. So when someone tells you that products containing glyphosate, 2,4-D (agent orange) or any of the other chemical herbicides are safe, tell them they could not be more wrong; tell them there are better ways.

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Ford E. Stinson
Ford Edwards Stinson, Sr.
Louisiana State Representative for Bossier Parish (later District 9)
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Jesse C. Deen
(1914-08-24)August 24, 1914
Benton, Bossier Parish
September 22, 1989(1989-09-22) (aged 75)
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Ford E. Stinson, Jr.
Benton High School
Louisiana State University Law Center
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Ford Edwards Stinson, Sr. (August 24, 1914 – September 22, 1989), was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1940–1944 and again from 1952-1972. In his last legislative term from 1968–1972, he served in a two-member district covering Bossier Parish with fellow Democrat Walter O. Bigby. Prior to 1968, he had been the only Bossier Parish representative in the Louisiana House. Stinson, a native and resident of the parish seat of Benton, did not run again in 1972 and was succeeded by fellow Benton Democrat Jesse C. Deen.
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Stinson was the great-grandson of Major R. E. Wyche, the first Democratic sheriff of Bossier Parish who served during Reconstruction. His maternal grandfather and namesake, J. Ford Edwards, was also a Bossier Parish sheriff for four terms. His father, Robert T. Stinson, was president and cashier of the Bank of Benton and the Bossier Parish treasurer until his death of a lightning strike at the age of thirty-two. His mother married H. L. McKnight after the death of Robert Stinson.
After his graduation from Benton High School, Stinson obtained his degree from the Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge. Stinson served on the Benton Town Council from 1936 to 1934. While a state representative in his first term, he served in World War II. He was active in the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Community Chest, and the United Methodist Church.
Stinson first served in the House during the administration of Governor Sam Houston Jones. He left the legislature in 1944 while overseas, and fellow Democrat Jimmy Boyd of Bossier City succeeded him in the position for eight years. Boyd won his secon

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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Ben Johnson, was a ranch hand and would travel with his father on the rodeo circuit, as a Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association's Steer Roping World Champion in 1953. Johnson was inducted into the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association's ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 1973.
His career began with the Howard Hughes film, The Outlaw. Before filming began, Hughes bought some horses at the Oklahoma ranch that Johnson's father managed, and hired Johnson to get the horses to northern Arizona (for The Outlaw's location shooting), and then to take them on to Hollywood.
Once in Hollywood he did stunt work for the movie, The Fighting Gringo(1939), and throughout the 1940s he found work wrangling horses and doing stunt work.
His work as a stunt man caught the eye of director John Ford, who hired Johnson for stunt work in the movie, Fort Apache(1948), and as the riding double for Henry Fonda. During shooting, the horses pulling a wagon with three men in it stampeded. Ben being at the right place at the right time stopped the runaway wagon. Ford then promised that he would be rewarded, Johnson hoped it would be with another doubling job, instead he received a seven-year acting contract from Ford.
His first credited role was in one of my favorite films, 3 Godfathers(1948). Directed by John Ford and filmed (although not set) primarily in Death Valley. The screenplay, written by Frank S. Nugent and Laurence Stallings, is based on the novel of the same name written by Peter Kyne. Ford had already filmed the story once before in 1919 as, Marked Men. The original silent version by Ford is thought to be lost today. The story is a re-telling of the story of The Three Wise Men in a western theme.
Ford suggested him for a starring role in the film, Mighty Joe Young(1949). Ford cast him in two of the three films that have come to be known as Ford's cavalry trilogy, all starring John Wayne: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), and a another favorite of mine, Rio Grande (1950). The story is about, Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke, who is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against the attack of Apaches. Col. Yorke comes under stress because of serious shortage of troops.
Too add to his problems Yorke's son, Trooper Jeff Yorke, is one of 18 recruits sent to the regiment. He has flunked out of West Point and enlisted as a private in the Army. Not wanting to give the impression that he is showing favoritism towards his son, Col. Yorke ends up being harder on his son than he is with the others. Jeff is befriended by a pair of older recruits, Travis Tyree (Ben Johnson) (who is on the run from the law) and "Sandy" Boone (Harry Carey, Jr.), who take him under their wings.
In 1950, Ford also cast Johnson as the lead in Wagon Master (1950), a small film that was one of Ford's favorites.
Johnson played in supporting roles in Shane (1953), One Eyed Jacks (1961), Cheyenne Autumn(1964), Major Dundee (1965), The Wild Bunch, The Getaway, Junior Bonner (both 1972), Dillinger, Red Dawn(1984), Bite the Bullet(1975), Breakheart Pass(1975).
In the 1966-1967 television season, Johnson performed as the character "Sleeve" in all twenty-six episodes of the Western, The Monroes with costars Michael Anderson, Jr., and Barbara Hershey.
He teamed up John Wayne again, and director Andrew McLaglen, in two films; performing with with Rock Hudson in The Undefeated (1969), and in a prominent role in Chisum (1970).
He acted in four films directed by Sam Peckinpah between 1965 and 1972. In between the four Peckinpah films Johnson would win an Academy Award for his performance as 'Sam The Lion' in The Last Picture Show, directed by Peter Bogdanovich co-starring Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges and Cybill Shepherd.
He portrayed the character Cap Roundtree in the 1979 miniseries The Sacketts.
He also continued ranching during the entire time, operating a horse-breeding ranch in Sylmar, California. In addition, he sponsored the Ben Johnson Pro Celebrity Team Roping and Penning competition, held in Oklahoma City, the proceeds of which are donated to both the Children's Medical Research Inc., and to the Children's Hospital of Oklahoma.
Wagon Master(1950). Director: John Ford. Cast: Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Joanne Dru, and Ward Bond.
Learning of their ability as experienced horsemen, Elder Wiggs, hires Travis Blue and Sandy Owens to guide a small group of Mormons across the West to the San Juan River country in southeastern Utah Territory.
Ford came up with the idea for the story, and Patrick Ford (John Ford's son) and Frank S. Nugent wrote the script. Ford and Merian C. Cooper, were co-executive producers, with Lowell J. Farrell as associate producer. Music was done by Richard Hageman.
Ford had been shooting the film She Wore a Yellow Ribbon the year before (1948) in Monument Valley, near the town of Mexican Hat, Utah, close to the locations where he had also filmed Stagecoach (1939), My Darling Clementine (1946), and Fort Apache (1948). He wanted a different look for his next film and drove to Moab. Wagon Master was shot in less than a month, in 1949, for less than a million dollars. Filmed in black and white, on location, mainly northeast of the town of Moab, Utah in Professor Valley (with additional shotting at Spanish Valley southwest of Moab, and a few stage shots were done at Monument Valley).
The television series Wagon Train (1957-1965), starring first Ward Bond and then John McIntire, was inspired by the film. (Ford directed one episode.)
Friday, June 11, 2010
The Harvey Girls(1946). Based on a 1942 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams about Fred Harvey's famous Harvey House restaurants. Director: George Sidney. Cast: Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury, Virginia O'Brien, Ray Bolger, and Marjorie Main. It won an Academy Award for Best Song for "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", written by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren.
A group of new waitresses for Harvey House restaurants, travel on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad to the little town of Sandrock. Also traveling by train is Susan Bradley, who is is on her way to marry the man whose beautifully written letters letters swept her off her feet. Unfortunately, the man doesn't want to get married, so they agree to call it off. When she learns that the letters were written by the owner of the saloon, Ned Trent, she storms off to confront him and gives him a piece of her mind, which somehow he finds very attractive.
Now needing a job, Susan joins the Harvey Girls, and soon finds herself fighting against Trent's business partner, Judge Sam Purvis , who wants to close them down. Em, who is in love with Trent, sees Susan as her rival and the war is on.. You have to watch to see which girl wins her man.
I thought the film was Beautifully filmed, also..a wonderful supporting cast who all get a moment to shine including Ray Bolger, Virginia O'brien, Marjorie Main, a very young Cyd Charisse and a stunning 19 year old Angela Lansbury.
Angela Lansbury, is a singer in her own right, her voice was considered unsuitable for the character she played and her singing in the film was dubbed by Virginia Rees. Cyd Charisse, who had her first speaking role in the film, also had her singing dubbed, by Marion Doenges.
"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe"
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Sung by Ben Carter, Marjorie Main, Ray Bolger, Judy Garland and chorus
Danced by Ray Bolger
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
The Sons of Katie Elder(1965). Director: Henry Hathaway. Cast: John Wayne and Dean Martin. Filmed in Mexico.
The four sons of Katie Elder all meet in Clearwater, Texas, in for their mother's funeral. They all regret that they have not lived up to her high expectations of them.
The townspeople do not think much of the brothers, John a professional gunfighter, Tom has also ended up on the wrong side of the law as a gambler. Katie Elder was loved by everyone, all knew of her poverty and her love for her sons who neglected her. The brothers want to do something special for their mother, like help her keep her wish to send Bud to college, even though Bud wants to grow up to be like his brothers.
Morgan Hastings, now owns the Elders' ranch after their father death, claiming to have won it from him in a game of cards. He brings in a hired gun, Curley to help protect the ranch. When he learns about the brothers' investigations, Hastings frames them for murder of the sheriff.
I 'm writing this movie review to honor: Dennis Hopper, Dean Martin and John Wayne. Apart from the casting and music, much of the enjoyment of this film comes from the love of the westerns from the 50's and 60's. This film did have its touching moments.. like when they talked about the simple pleasures Mrs Elder found in her beloved rocking chair.
When John Wayne is dragged into the river, you can hear a child calling out, "Dad!". This was his three-year-old son Ethan Wayne, who was watching off camera and knew how ill his father was.
In western history, there is a famous Katie Elder: "Big Nose" Kate Elder, a prostitute and girlfriend of legendary gunfighter John "Doc" Holliday.
The hearse featured at the funeral of Katie Elder is currently in front of the Haunted Mansion at Walt Disney World.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Vera Cruz (1954). Cast: Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, and featuring Denise Darcel, Sara Montiel, and Cesar Romero. Director: Robert Aldrich from a story by Borden Chase and considered one of the most influential Western films ever filmed. The film's Mexican setting, and attitude about violence was thought shocking at the time, and changed the future of Westerns such as The Magnificent Seven, The Wild Bunch, and the films of Sergio Leone.
The story begins as the American Civil War is ending, and Mexico is beginning a revolution against Maximilian, some North American ex-soldiers head to Mexico to offer their services to either side. Ben Trane, who was a Confederate major during the Civil War, and Joe Erin, a western outlaw, meet up in Mexico when Ben has to replace his injured horse. Later, in a small pueblo, Ben receives a very cold welcome from other North Americans who, recognizing Joe's horse, assume that Ben has killed him and are about to beat him up when Joe comes forward. Joe then talks Ben into joining his mercenaries, and they meet with the Marquis de Labordere, who represents the emperor and offers to pay them well. When Ben goes to help a young Mexican woman, Nina, he is rewarded with the theft of his wallet. After Gen. Ramirez, tries to force their hand, Ben, Joe and their men join the marquis to Mexico City. There they attend a society ball at the emperor's home. Joe is very much out of place, but he and Ben manage to charm the Countess Marie Duvarre. Maximilian agrees to pay the men fifty thousand dollars in gold to take on the special mission of escorting the countess through Juarista territories to the port of Vera Cruz, where she will leave for France. The marquis and a troop of lancers led by Capt. Danette, will also join them. Ben and Joe soon believe that the coach is carrying more than the countess...
I thought Vera Cruz, was an excellent film, loved the wonderful score by Friedhofer. My favorite scene was in the plaza, with a great gunfight followed with the meetings of the main characters in the plot including hundreds of revolutionaries and Cesar Romero, whose character is the Emperor of Mexico, Maximillian.
Produced by Burt Lancaster's production company for $1.7 million, it grossed over $11million.
Burt Lancaster was quite happy to let Gary Cooper have top billing, knowing that he had more box office pull than he did.
Eli Wallach has said that the Mexican government was so upset about the negative portrayal of Mexicans in the film that they insisted that the making of The Magnificent Seven (1960) be monitored by censors.
This film is sometimes called the "first spaghetti western," due to the influence on the Italian directors such as Sergio Leone who popularized the genre.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Westward the Women (1951) Director: William A. Wellman. Cast: Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel and John McIntire.
In 1851, Roy Whitman decides to take a group of women west to join his lonely men, hoping they will put down roots and settle down in his California valley.
Roy has the women pick their prospective husbands from pictures he has posted to a board. Two saloon girls, Fifi Danon and Laurie Smith, change their clothes when others like them are rejected. Roy is not fooled, but believes they are sincere in trying to change their ways and decides to let them join the other ladies. Roy hires a hardened trail boss, Buck Wyatt, to lead the wagon train.
On the trail, Buck shoots one of his men for raping Laurie. All but two of the trail hands leave in the middle of the night, taking eight of the women with them. This leaves only the Japanese cook, and Jim Stacey, who has fallen in love with an already-pregnant Rose Meyers to lead the train. Buck, decides the group must turn back. The women refuse to accept his decision. Roy believes that the women can learn to do "a man's job". The women go through one hardship after another. Will Fifi's bravery and determination change Buck's opinion of women?
This movie is very entertaining! It's funny, It's touching, It's violent. It's everything you'd expect from a film called Westward the Woman.
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The First Traveling Saleslady (1956). Cast Ginger Rogers, Carol Channing, James Arness and Clint Eastwood.
The story begins when Rose and her friend Molly, decide to head west to sell barbed wire. Unfortunately, they end up in trouble with the local cowboys. The the cowboys try to run them out of town, certain that the wire will injure the cattle. The women's only friend is horseless carriage inventor Charles Masters.
I thought it was a sweet little film, but no more than that. It was fun to see a Clint Eastwood 26 years old and handsome. He does fit the western mold, although there is little evidence of the figure that Clint would soon become.
The script for The First Traveling Saleslady was first offered to Mae West, who declined, and many of the film's reviewers, Rogers might have been wiser to do the same. "Lame, offbeat, an interesting but failed experiment, The First Traveling Saleslady only underlined the emptiness of such backward-looking fare in changing times," wrote Patrick McGilligan, author of Ginger Rogers.
Ginger Rogers would joke that this picture shut down RKO (it was the last film produced by that studio).
Clint Eastwood's first on screen performance with a speaking part.
Clint Eastwood, film actor, director, producer, and composer. He has received five Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and five People's Choice Awards — including one for Favorite All-Time Motion Picture Star.
Eastwood is known for his action and western films. Following his performance as in the TV series Rawhide(1958), he went on to perform as the Man With No Name in the trilogy of Spaghetti Westerns in the 1960s and as Inspector Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films of the 1970s and 1980s. Eastwood also performed in Every Which Way but Loose and Any Which Way You Can, his two highest-grossing films.
In 1969, Eastwood performed in his only musical, Paint Your Wagon. With Lee Marvin. They played a couple of gold miners who share the same wife. Production for the film had many delays. The film was not a success, although it was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Another favorite film of mine was, Two Mules for Sister Sara(1970) with Shirley MacLaine. The film, is a story about an American mercenary who gets mixed up with a woman disguised as a nun and aid a group of Juarista rebels during the time of Emperor Maximilian in Mexico. The film saw Eastwood perform as a mysterious stranger once more, unshaven, wearing a serape-like vest and smoking a cigar.
Eastwood turned his attention towards a story about a love between a middle-aged man and a teenage girl, Breezy(1973). During casting for the film, Eastwood met Sondra Locke for the first time, who performed in many of his films for the next ten years and in his life. Locke, who was 26 and was too old to play the Breezy part, actress Kay Lenz, who had performed in American Graffiti, was cast. The film was not a major critical or commercial success. But, I thought a very interesting story line. I have mixed feelings about this film because the girl is 18 and her love interest is 45.
For his work in the films Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and for producer of the Best Picture and received nominations for Best Actor. These films in particular, as well as others such as Play Misty for Me (1971), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Escape from Alcatraz (1979), Pale Rider (1985) and Gran Torino (2008), have all received great success. He has directed most of his star vehicles as well as films he has not acted in, such as Mystic River (2003) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), for which he received Academy Award nominations.
He also served as mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California from 1986–1988, tending to support small business interests on the one hand and environmental protection on the other.


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Moccasin Paths and Other Trails
Moccasin Paths and Other Trails, draws together Indigenous knowledge and contemporary
research to build strengths in Native American and First Nations youth, families, schools, and
communities. A related goal is to foster greater understanding of how a synergy of Indigenous
science with contemporary research can create positive environments for well-being and
respect in any cultural group or setting. Authors of this training are Adrienne Brant James
(Mohawk) and Tammy Lunday (Dakota).

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to antibodies, it may also be directly coupled to almost any protein, peptide, carbohydrate, or molecule of interest, including molecules which do not adsorb to colloidal gold. This increases the range of probes possible, and expands the applications of gold labeling. Magnetic- NanoParticles materials have attracted such a strong interest because of the physical, electronic, and magnetic properties resulting from their quantum size. The potential for nano-technology is immensely diverse with potential applications in the fields of electronics, biomedical devices, energy applications, military uses, and waste management. Nano-materials could be utilized to design nano-transistors, to develop and deliver medicines for locally treating diseases and ailments within the body, and for the creation new age weapons and armor for military applications. 6
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efficacy parameter (CAT) at the end of the observational period (visit 3). It was not intended to replace missing data or extrapolate available data. The data analyzed were age, sex, weight, height, diagnosis, smoking history, COPD severity stage according to GOLD, concomitant diseases, concomitant pulmonary medication, adverse events, informa- tion on treatment continuation, reasons for study discontinu- ation, total CAT score at the baseline and after 3 months of the treatment, and the frequency of using the short-acting bronchodilators. COPD GOLD stages were presented as reported by investigators and not evaluated on the basis of spirometry results.
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The collected data included age, sex, body mass index (BMI), smoking status, 6MWT results, BODE index, and comorbid diseases. The diffusing capacity of carbon mon- oxide (DLco) and the residual volume (RV) of the lung were obtained if the patient performed each test ade- quately. Changes in the group assignments of the same patients between the GOLD 2011 and GOLD 2017 classi- ﬁ cations were assessed. The date of death was identi ﬁ ed on the ﬁ rst review of the medical record; if the identi ﬁ ca- tion was not possible, data from the Korean Death Registry on October 22, 2017 were used. Respiratory hospitalization was recorded when the patient was admitted to our hospital due to exacerbation, or it was identi ﬁ ed by an interview during the regular outpatient visit if the patient had been admitted to another hospital. Patients who did not visit the outpatient clinic for more than 6 months were contacted by telephone, and the infor- mation on respiratory hospitalization was obtained. We classi ﬁ ed patients into groups A to D based on the GOLD 2017 and GOLD 2011 classi ﬁ cations using the obtained information and assessed the change in their distribution among the groups. Finally, we compared the abilities of the BODE index, GOLD 2007, GOLD 2011, and GOLD 2017 classi ﬁ cation in predicting mortality and respiratory hospitalization.
19. Jones KJ, Albert MS, Duffy FH, Hyde MR, Naeser M, Aldwin C. Modeling age using cognitive, psychosocial and physiological variables: the Boston normative aging study. Exp Aging Res. 1991;17(4):227–242. 20. Dickinson D, Ramsey ME, Gold JM. Overlooking the obvious. A meta- analytic comparison of digit symbol coding tasks and other cognitive measures in schizophrenia. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2007;64(5):532–542. 21. Piras F, Cherubini A, Caltagirone C, Spalletta G. Education mediates
Perhaps the most studied area is the role and weighting that gold might have in a portfolio. Sherman (1982) suggested a weighting of 5% in an equity portfolio resulted in lower risk and higher return, while weighting as high as 25% has been proposed by Chua (1990), mainly down to the then low or negative correlation between gold and equities. More recent research by Hillier, Draper et al. (2006) suggest weithts in the small percentages for a variety of precious metals, with gold acting as the most efficient diversifier. Considering gold and oil together Bruno and Chincarini (2010) suggest a weight of 10% for non US based investors seeking portfolio diversification, while Scherer (2009) for sovereign wealth funds, Klement and Longchamp (2010) for high net worth individuals suggest a range of between 5-10% allocation by weight to gold in an equity portfolio.
The gold nanorods (GNRc) placed in liquid media (water-rich tissue) show arbitrary orientations relatively on the direction of laser radiation propagation. The optical properties of long GNRs show great dependence on angle of orientation of main axis of nanorods upon direction of radiation propagation (Figs. 1 and 2) leading to decrease of absorption and scattering up to ten or more times. These situations should be taken into account for the purposes of clinical use of GNRs.
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Those were heady days. For those of us entering the fields of genetics and mammalian embryology in the 60s and 70s, the excitement was palpable. As graduate students and post-docs, we saw that long-standing barriers were tumbling down before an onslaught of technological advances. And not only that, the scien- tists breaking those barriers were all around us as mentors and colleagues. The rapid pace of progress and the seemingly bound- less possibilities hooked us into the field and we gradually became aware that we, too, were part of a revolution that was on the way to opening the mammalian genome to experimental alteration. Who could forget the thrill of seeing mice born of a foster mother, knowing that as embryos, they had spent a large part of their preimplantation life in a petri dish? (Fig. 1) (McLaren and Biggers, 1958). Or seeing a variegated mouse that was actually the product of two separate embryos, combined to make a single animal? (Fig. 2) (Tarkowski, 1961; Mintz, 1964; Gardner, 1968). Or later, seeing transgenic mice with visible and profound indications of the activity of an introduced, foreign, mammalian gene functioning within its genome? (Fig. 3) (Palmiter et al., 1982,1983). As we stood on the shoulders of giants, we could peer into a new age of genetic engineering, where alteration of the genome would become a predictable and precise science.
We have demonstrated the successful fabrication of a novel biocompatible Gly–gold nanohybrid to enhance the bioavailability of poorly water-soluble drugs like Sly. In this study, Sly has been tethered on gold nanoparticle surface and aggregated into Gly matrix to fabricate a nanohybrid. We elu- cidated the positive attributes of the therapeutic nanohybrid system as an efficient hepatoprotective agent against liver injury caused by toxins. Compared to free Sly, GSGNPs exhibited significant hepatoprotection with tenfold increase in the potency due to increased solubility, bioavailability, and profuse gut absorption. The findings of this study describe the positive traits of the Gly–gold nanohybrid drug delivery system for enhancing the bioavailability of therapeutic mol- ecules, which open up an avenue for translational research in this direction.
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“headline” in the interests of different actors. The Romans, the Austrians and the Soviets altogether took more than 1,500 tons of gold from the historic mining district in west- central Romania, known as “the Golden Quadrilateral”. In troubled contexts after the fall of communism, a controversial exploitation license was obtained by the Rosia Montana Gold Corporation company for a period of 20 years, from 1999 to 2019. According to the Ministry of Environment and Climatic Changes, the RMGC mining project involves 1346 hectares for exploitation, an area of 2388 hectares covered by the license, 300 hectares covered by the lake for decanting heavy metals and cyanide, which will permanently represent a risk for the life of over 6000 people from the neighboring areas, 4 detonated mountains, 2064 displaced properties, 975 destroyed houses, from which 41 are heritage houses, 7 demolished churches, dynamited or covered by the cyanide lake, 11 displaced cemeteries, 12.000 tons of cyanide every year (a total of 204.000 tons) and only 634 working places for a period of 17 years 3 .
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The presence of heterogeneity led us to an investigation of its origin. A stratification analysis on the prospective versus retrospective nature of the cohort and the median latitude of the place of the study showed a significant difference between subgroups. When we extended the analyses with a mixed- effect meta-regression model, one important study-level variable was identified: the latitude of the place of the study, with decreasing incidence of MRSA with increasing latitude (Figure 5). Also, we identified increasing incidence of MRSA with increasing age of the patients (Figure 6). A multivariate meta-regression was performed, which considered study-level and patient-level variables. The multivariate using mixed- effect meta regression model identified latitude and age of the
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Abstract: Development of multifunctional nanomaterials, one of the most interesting and advanced research areas in the field of nanotechnology, is anticipated to revolutionize cancer diagnosis and treatment. Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are now being widely utilized in bio- imaging and phototherapy due to their tunable and highly sensitive optical and electronic properties (the surface plasmon resonance). As a new concept, termed “theranostics,” mul- tifunctional AuNPs may contain diagnostic and therapeutic functions that can be integrated into one system, thereby simultaneously facilitating diagnosis and therapy and monitoring therapeutic responses. In this review, the important properties of AuNPs relevant to diagnostic and phototherapeutic applications such as structure, shape, optics, and surface chemistry are described. Barriers for translational development of theranostic AuNPs and recent advances in the application of AuNPs for cancer diagnosis, photothermal, and photodynamic therapy are discussed.
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The distinction between biological and nonbiological causes of death is not completely clear in all situations. Observations realized in the paper are based on WHO definitions of cause of death and are mainly based on practical use of the defini- tion. The distinction does not mean that among death listed in "biological" set the external causes have no significance (eg, smoking and lung cancer). On the other hand, it could mean that external factors (mainly accidents) are crucial to deaths listed in the nonbiological set. In other words, an individual without an accident event could be alive for more years. It is a model, and as with all models it has some limits. Age–mortality trajectories from all causes and all diseases were identical over 35 years. Consequently, the distinction between biological and nonbiological causes of death is not important over 35 years here. It is assumed that the distinc- tion between the two categories of death cause could be clear under the age of 35 years.
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Considering the reflection on the interface between the adjacent conductors, the general formulation of effective skin depth for multilayer coated conductor is derived in detail in this paper. As a result of the reflection on the interface between the adjacent conductors, the current concentrate more on the outer coated layer. It is found that the effective skin depths of the gold and gold-nickel coated copper rapidly vary with the thickness of the outer layer (gold) when the gold thickness is less than twice the gold skin depth and achieve stabilization as the gold thickness increases to five times the gold skin depth.
Gold nuggets are classified as having lengths greater than 4 mm or a mass greater than 1 g (Mann, 1984; Webster and Mann, 1984; Wilson, 1984; Hough et al., 2009). Whether gold nuggets or grains are derived from a primary source or precipitated from a soluble gold complex within groundwater systems (Liversidge, 1893), their occurrence in natural system are important from an exploration perspective since the “nugget effect” poses challenges for accurate gold estimations in geochemical surveys. Gold nuggets and grains can be mechanically reshaped and altered when exposed to physical weathering conditions in fluvial environments; therefore, the size and shape of nuggets are not well correlated with transport from primary gold sources (Yeend, 1975; Giusti, 1986; Watterson, 1992; Knight et al., 1999). Physical alterations of gold nuggets and grains include smooth surface textures with round and flat morphologies that are generally attributed to flow rate and bed load within fluvial systems. Although gold grains do not have high economic significance, their morphology and surface texture are similar to gold nuggets. Therefore, many studies have used gold nugget and grain morphologies in association with chemical composition as tools for gold exploration (see Boyle, 1979; Desborough, 1970; Hallbauer and Utter, 1977; Antweiler and Campbell, 1977, 1982; Giusti and Smith, 1984; Sauerbrei et al., 1987; Mosier et al., 1989; Grant et al., 1991). However, gold grain distribution within fluvial systems is broader than that of nuggets since their dispersion is closely associated with the deposition of finer and lighter host-sediment such as suspended pebbles, sand and mud (Nesterenko and Kolpakov, 2007, 2010).
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Individuals who develop age-related macular degeneration (AMD) lose central vision due to involvement of the macula, the central region of the retina specialized to distinguish fine detail, thus permitting activities such as reading, recognizing faces, and driving. Although several retinal layers are affected, vision is primarily lost when photoreceptors die. The term age-related maculopathy (ARM) describes the spectrum of age-related macular changes, from the early presence of a few small drusen (sub- retinal lipid and protein-containing deposits which are the hallmark of the condition) to the most advanced stages with severe anatomic changes accompanied by vision loss. 1,2 Patients with larger and more numerous drusen, often with advanced or visually
The article shows the results of geochemical studies of oil and gas source of the Cenozoic age of the western Ciscaucasia. The geochemical characteristics of the organic matter of the Kumsky rocks show a high oil source potential. Qualitative and quantitative changes reflect not only the new formation of hydrocarbons, but also their emigration. A comprehensive study of the organic matter of Khadum rocks using the methods of bituminology, pyrolysis, and chromatography showed that all types of kerogen are developed in them, but organic matter dominates with moderate source potential. The maximum concentrations of TOC and genetic potential are noted within the West Kuban downwarp, as well as in the outcrops in the area of the Adygei protrusion. The improvement of geochemical parameters in these areas is explained by a decrease in the same direction of the terrigenous component in the original organic matter.
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Abstract: Increased central arterial stiffness, involving accelerated vascular ageing of the aorta, is a powerful and independent risk factor for early mortality and provides prognostic information above and beyond traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Central arterial stiffness is an important determinant of pulse pressure; therefore, any pathological increase may result in left ventricular hypertrophy and impaired coronary perfusion. Central artery stiffness can be assessed noninvasively by measurement of aortic pulse wave velocity, which is the gold standard for measurement of arterial stiffness. Earlier, it was believed that changes in arterial stiffness, which are primarily influenced by long-term pressure-dependent structural changes, may be slowed but not reversed by pharmacotherapy. Recent studies with drugs that inhibit the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system, advanced glycation end products crosslink breakers, and endothelin antagonists suggest that blood pressure (BP)-independent reduction and reversal of arterial stiffness are feasible. We review the recent literature on the differential effect of antihypertensive agents either as monotherapy or combination therapy on arterial stiffness. Arterial stiffness is an emerging therapeutic target for CVD risk reduction; however, further clinical trials are required to confirm whether BP-independent changes in arterial stiffness directly translate to a reduction in CVD events.
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The age of onset was defined as the first occurrence of recurrent cough and sputum, which was reported by the patients in their medical records as a retrospective indicator. Patients were separated into two groups according to the age of onset. The age of Group I was #50 years, while the participants in Group II were .50 years old. The course of disease was detailed through retrospective data and defined as the occurrence of this disease until the patients’ death. The clinical dyspnea index was evaluated using the Hugh Jones Index. The self-reported comorbidities included coronary heart disease (ischemic heart disease, myocardial infarction, and coronary artery disease), diabetes, heart failure, hyperten- sion, malignant tumor, mental disease (depression, mania, dementia), neurological disease, and renal failure (renal func- tion lower than chronic kidney disease [CKD] stage III), all of which were referred from the Charlson Comorbidity Index.
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Venture capitalist Bill Janeway sits down with Brian Price to discuss the notion of productive bubbles. He argues that innovation sometimes requires a higher tolerance by investors for waste and initial failures. From the aviation industry to bitcoin, bubbles always seem to pop up around new technology, but that might not be a bad thing. This clip is excerpted from a piece published on Real Vision on December 21, 2018.


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Heart disease and stroke kill fewer Americans than ever before. Between 1972 and 1983, their incidence dropped by nearly a third. But heart disease still kills more Americans than all other diseases combined, and stroke remains a close third, just behind cancer.
Preventing these cardiovascular disasters could save the country an estimated $78.6 billion in 1986.
But scientists disagree about what the best way to prevent cardiovascular disease might be, even though the heart association and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute have been studying prevention for decades. Last month, scientists presented two diametrically opposed prevention strategies during a science writers' forum sponsored by the American Heart Association here..
The first approach is the predictable one -- find an accurate way to identify the individuals at risk for heart disease or stroke and then rely on them to take the appropriate corrective action. Those at risk for heart disease could stop smoking, and keep careful track of their blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
The second idea is to change the world -- to alter the societal circumstances that lead to the high cardiovascular disease rate. Rather than ask individuals to change, make changes in society, said Leonard Syme, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California at Berkeley, and others. There is no good way to tell if a person is likely to get heart disease or have a stroke. Today, physicians basically wait until a patient's blood pressure or cholesterol level rises too high and then start treatment. But not everyone with the classic risk factors for cardiovascular diseases -- high blood presure, high cholesterol and smoking -- gets heart disease or has a stroke.
The American Heart Association suggests that the entire population be on guard against cardiovascular diseases by shunning salt -- which may be associated with high blood pressure -- and eating foods low in cholesterol and saturated fats. But other researchers, such as Syme and Paul Meier, a statistician at the University of Chicago, contend that this is an inefficient way to reach those who are truly at risk.
Molecular biologists believe they will be able one day to reach into the genes themselves to identify who has a high risk for developing heart disease.
"We think we will eventually make predictions with 100 percent accuracy, and we know we can easily get 90 percent accuracy," said Phillipe Frossard, project leader at California Biotechnology Inc. in Mountain View, Calif.
Frossard reported that his group is using molecular genetics to find "markers" for atherosclerosis and high blood pressure. These markers are tiny pieces of DNA that may themselves have nothing to do with heart disease and strokes but that seem to be close to the genes that do control such things as cholesterol build-up in the arteries.
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Frossard is looking for a pattern of markers that will be able to predict whether a person has inherited a cholesterol metabolism gene that could, for example, cause high levels of blood cholesterol if the person eats a high-fat diet.
Then, if the battery of markers shows that a person is genetically at risk, Frossard suggests that the person begin taking action to prevent the heart disease long before any symptoms occur.
In testing the heart disease markers, the researchers looked at a group of 500 patients at Muenster University Hospital in West Germany. Each patient had had coronary angiography -- a procedure in which a dye is injected into the coronary arteries, enabling physicians to determine whether a patient's arteries are clogged and, if so, by how much.
Frossard's group, collaborating with Dr. Gerd Assman, who heads the atherosclerosis center at the hospital, looked for genetic markers in these 500 patients and tried to determine which markers were associated with an increased or decreased risk of heart disease.
They found that four of the 24 markers are associated with increased risk and three with decreased risk. Frossard points out that, as a group, the patients with one of the markers indicating high risk had lower cholesterol than the patients with one of the low-risk markers. This finding is consistent, he says, with results by others showing that cholesterol levels by themselves are not terribly good predictors of who will get heart disease. Frossard and his associates now are further testing the associations of these markers with risk of heart disease by looking at 3,000 Americans.
The search for high blood pressure genetic markers is similar but has not yet progressed as far, Frossard said. He has found 14 markers near a total of three genes that seem to be involved with high blood pressure.
Other heart disease researchers at the meeting were enthusiastic about Frossard's work and fully expect it to lead to good predictive tests. "Molecular biology has finally come to cardiology in a big way," says Dr. Kenneth Shine, who is president-elect of the American Heart Association and executive chairman of the department of medicine at the University of California in Los Angeles.
But at least one of the meeting participants is not at all sure that this emphasis on the individual is the best approach.
"I have spent the past 30 years trying to identify risk factors for coronary heart disease," said UC-Berkeley's Syme. "My rationale has been that once people are informed of their risk, they will change their behavior to lower their risk."
Syme, however, said he has become disillusioned. He learned the hard way that "a lot of people either can't or won't change their behavior to lower their risk."
"The experience," said Syme, "that really changed my life was my involvement in MRFIT." This was a 10-year, $115 million study, whose initials stand for Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Study, that was meant to test the hypothesis that changing life styles can reduce the risk of heart disease. It was was sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and was completed in 1982.
The MRFIT researchers began by recruiting nearly 1,300 middle-aged men who, by all accounts, were at very high risk for heart disease. They had high blood cholesterol and high blood pressure, and many of them smoked. Moreover, they were motivated to change.
The men were divided into two groups. One group was followed by the MRFIT investigators but was essentially left to its own devices to reduce its risk factors. The other group, called the special intervention group, was in the hands of extensively trained MRFIT researchers. The men were taught by every means the MRFIT group thought feasible to change their diets, control their blood pressure and stop smoking. They were closely monitored and encouraged to turn their lives around.
The MRFIT study, it turned out, was inconclusive. At the end of the study, the heart disease rate was essentially the same in the special intervention group as it was in the "usual care" group. The customary explanation is that the usual care group changed its behavior, too, and so its risk factors ended up nearly the same as those of the special intervention group. But Syme has a different view.
What struck Syme, he said, is that "people in the special intervention group changed their behavior so modestly. Our work with that group was as good an opportunity as we will ever have to work with people on a one-on-one basis to change behavior. We had a state-of-the-art fantastic intervention plan. We worked with them for six or seven years. And the changes were not bad -- 40 percent stopped smoking, for example. But it ought to have been 100 percent."
Syme concluded that it is not only extremely costly but also inefficient to try to convince people to change their behavior simply because you tell them that they personally are at risk. A better way to reduce heart disease deaths would be to change the forces in society that put people at risk, he said. "I'm not arguing against a one-on-one approach, but it seems to me that we have to change the world at the same time as we get people to change."
Changing the world to prevent disease is not a new idea, Syme pointed out. It is essentially the way infectious diseases were conquered in this country in the first half of the century. Better hygiene -- clean water, sewage systems, less crowding, better food storage procedures, for example -- reduced the incidence of disease. And it is also the way that highway fatalities have been reduced. Safer cars and highways, seat belts to some extent, and lower speed limits made the difference. "But in general we have not applied this approach to heart disease," Syme said.
To demonstrate the concept's feasibility, Syme, together with Dr. June Fisher of San Francisco General Hospital, and their colleagues are studying bus drivers in San Francisco and are working on changing smoking behavior in Richmond, Calif., a small town between Berkeley and Oakland.
So far, said Syme, they have data on 1,500 bus drivers, and it turns out that these bus drivers have twice the incidence of high blood pressure as the rest of the population of their age, race, and physical characteristics. But their blood pressure was no different from the rest of the population's before they started driving buses. There is something about driving a bus in San Francisco -- and in many other cities too, Syme is learning -- that leads to high blood pressure.
The central problem, said Syme, is that bus drivers have "a very tough life." They are asked to meet schedules that are simply impossible. "There is no way you could meet those schedules even if you drove around San Francisco on Sunday morning in your racing car," Syme said. Yet they are given demerits if their buses are late. Consequently, they "pretend they can meet the schedules." To do this, they give up their rest stops and food breaks in a frantic attempt to be on time.
The bus drivers also "feel misunderstood. People are always mad at them," Syme said. To top it all off, they tend to work split shifts, which makes their day essentially 12 hours long. After work each day, the drivers spend several hours "unwinding" -- drinking to relax before they go home and fall into bed.
What Syme and his colleagues hope to do is to change the circumstances of the bus drivers' lives, which should reduce their blood pressure. Before starting the project, he spoke to the management of the bus company and received pledges of cooperation. He hopes to show that risk of heart disease for the drivers can be reduced more easily by changing their environment than by teaching them to relax, for example, and give up salt.
The researchers are even more ambitious in their work with the residents of Richmond, Calif. They want to make smoking a socially unacceptable behavior. They will provide assistance to citizens who want to stop smoking but, said Syme, "that's not our goal."
Of course, Syme's approach has its critics. He has been told that it sounds dictatorial, for example. His response is "not at all." Society already lacks free choices, he said. For example, adolescents constantly are bombarded with cigarette advertisements, and all the junk food at the grocery store is at eye level while the more healthful food is on the bottom shelves.
A second criticism is that it is a pretty tall order to try to change the world. Wouldn't it be better to try to get people to change themselves? To this Syme said: "My experience is that it is extraordinarily difficult to try and get people to change their ways."
There is no resolution to these conflicting views on how to reduce the death rate from heart attacks and strokes, and perhaps it is better this way.
After all, said some heart disease researchers, the most effective strategy in the short run might be a combination of the two. Provide a blood test that can pinpoint who is at risk and, at the same time, work on the much slower process of changing the world.


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Among these, the Contemporary Art Evening Auction by Sotheby’s, which presented the work “Devolved Parliament” by Banksy, reaching a new sales record for the English street artist …
The “Contemporary Art Evening Auction” of Sotheby’s attracts all the attention of collectors and art professionals every year in early October.
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