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I've been coveting just about everything in Dior's new Spring 2010 makeup collection, particularly Lace Poudrier Dentelle Illuminating Lace-Effect Powder For Face. You see, makeup and lace are two of my favorite things – so scooping up this highlighter is a no-brainer. Dior Vernis in Gris Perle (Silver Pearl) is also high on my shopping list.
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Bobbi Brown Heart Truth Bronze Shimmer Brick Set
For the fifth year in a row, Bobbi Brown is proud to be a sponsor of the The Heart Truth's Red Dress Collection 2010 Fashion Show. The show, which brings some of Hollywood's leading ladies together on one runway, will be taking place on February 11th during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Bryant Park.
This year Bobbi created an exclusive, limited-edition Bronze Shimmer Brick Set in partnership with The Heart Truth campaign and its annual Red Dress Collection Fashion Show to raise awareness about women and heart disease. Ideal for creating a warm, bronzy glow, the set includes Bobbi's iconic Shimmer Brick in Bronze and a Mini Face Blender Brush.
Only 500 of these limited-edition sets, which feature a specially designed package and the tagline "Listen to Your Heart," will be available from bobbibrown.com for $40 each.
Bobbi Brown Cabana Corals: Spring 2010
Problem: You love coral, but worry it'll look too bright or chalky.
Solution: Bobbi's modern formulas and juicy colors take an old-fashioned favorite for a fresh, modern spin. Introducing Bobbi Brown Cabana Corals collection.
"This spring, there is a beautiful selection of coral shades perfect for lips and cheeks. The shade range spans from fresh new Pink Corals to universal Nude Corals to true Coral shades – every woman can find the coral shade that's right for her." -Bobbi Brown
Metallic Lip Color is made with a unique combination of high-shine emollients and
light-reflective pearls for medium coverage with multi-dimensional shimmer. Available
in three new shades: Coral Reef, Coral Glaze and Calypso Glaze.
Lip Color, $22
Bobbi's classic lipstick: rich, full coverage with a soft matte finish. Available in two new shades: Cabo Coral and Guava.
Infused with subtle sparkle, Shimmer Lip Gloss is perfect worn on its own or over your favorite lipstick. Aloe extract soothes, Vitamins C and E offer anti-oxidant protection, and Jojoba and Avocado Oils keep lips soft and moisturized. Available in three new colors: Sunset Beach, Coral Sand and Golden Nectar.
Bobbi's purse-friendly Pot Rouge – now in a new sunny shade of coral. Creamy and easy to blend – pat on lips and cheeks for a beachy pop of color.
Bobbi's iconic Shimmer Brick Compacts are hand-made in Italy and have five bars of luxe, pearlized pigment for a shimmering glow. Run the Face Blender Brush across all five bars and lightly dust over cheeks and forehead, or brush on eyes for subtle glimmer. Available in two new shades: Nectar and Pink Quartz.
Follow Bobbi Brown on Twitter @AskBobbiBrown.
New From NARS: Orgasm Illuminator!
New from NARS: Introducing Orgasm Illuminator, a scintillatingly sheer, weightless fluid that instantly makes skin refreshed, radiant and glowing. Flecks of gold, peach and pink shimmer softly diffuse light, melting into the skin to allow natural luminosity to shine through.
Apply Orgasm Illuminator all over the face for a barely-there, healthy glow. Use as a highlighter for a glimmering accent on the cheekbones. Layer it under, over, or mix directly with NARS Foundations for added overall brilliance. Wear it on the neck, shoulders or décolleté for a silky, subtle, eye-catching sheen.
The Orgasm Illuminator, a new product category for NARS, joins the cult-followed collection of NARS Orgasm-hued products, which includes Blush, Lip Gloss, Nail Polish and The Multiple. Revered by makeup artists and consumers worldwide, NARS Orgasm products have been the recipient of numerous beauty accolades.
NARS Orgasm Illuminator contains raspberry and black currant; bisabolol; Indian Frankincense, Panthenol and Sodium Hyaluronate. It is non-comedogenic.
The NARS Orgasm Illuminator is available exclusively at Sephora.
Makeup Mondays With Mario: How To "Luminize" Your Face
Celebrity makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic is answering your burning beauty questions!!! Every Monday, he will answer a beauty/skin care question as part of a weekly column on Spoiled Pretty, Makeup Mondays with Mario.
Hi Mario!
What is your favorite luminizer? And how can I luminize my face?
Love, April
I have a few favorites when it comes to luminizer. LORAC makes a really good one that comes in two shades. A pearly color for lighter skin and a golden/bronze shade for darker tones. Sometimes I will mix a bit of both together to create my own shade. This luminizer is oil-free and great for sensitive skin. You can luminize your face by mixing some of your foundation and/or moisturizer with the luminizer. I prefer to apply it on the cheekbones with my finger and blend with a damp sponge. Also use a bit on the bridge of your nose and center of lips. Try to not use powder directly on top of the luminizer and instead only on your t-zone. If you really want your face blinged-out, brush some shimmer powder over the liquid luminizer only on cheekbones and only at night.
Thanks for visiting Makeup Mondays with Mario!
Got a question for Mario? Email your makeup and skin care queries to firstname.lastname@example.com, and check back next Monday to read Mario's expert advice!
I TEMPTU. Do You?
I recently received the TEMPTU Airbrush Makeup System to test and review for Spoiled Pretty, and I'm really dreading having to give it back. That's how amazing it is. Watch the video to find out why I'm awarding TEMPTU with 'holy grail' status.
TEMPTU is a great holiday beauty gift (the recipient would love you forever). The TEMPTU Airbrush Makeup System is available at Sephora and costs $225. A duo of foundation pods (there are 12 shades) costs $55. Blush pods (4 shades) are $30 and highlighter pods (4 shades) are $35 each.
For more expert gift picks, check out Spoiled Pretty's 2009 Holiday Beauty Gift Guide!
New York Fashion Week: Alice & Olivia, Spring 2010
For the Alice + Olivia Spring 2010 presentation, MAC created two very different makeup looks. The first was a black super smoky eye, worn by The Plastiscines, who performed at the show.
The models, on the other hand, sported two different shades of pink shadow (Rosy Outlook and Perky) along with a white shade (Just So). Irridescent powder was applied to the cheekbones and the inner corner of the eye. Cream blush in So Sweet was blended onto the cheek, and the above pink shadows were blended together and layered on top. The brow shape was kept natural and kept in place with brow gel.
Angel Lipstick (Kim Kardashian's fave) was applied to lips, with Lipglass in Underage and English Accent on top. Silver dust was also mixed with moisturizer and applied to the entire body, for a ethereal glow.
Key Makeup Artist Nadine Luke emphasized that the look flatters a wide range of complexions, as evidenced by my backstage photos.
Andre Rodman, Lead Stylist for Fekkai added a fun, punky edginess to the s weet, girly looks at the Alice + Olivia show. To get the look Andre twirled crimped hair around a double barreled iron in a figure eight pattern. He then pulled the front piece to the side, smoothed it with Fekkai Coiff Magnifique Ultra-Light Finishing Crème and secured it neatly with jeweled pins. Finally, Andre set the style using Full Blown Volume Lifting Hairspray.
These boots were made for Payless…and that's just where they'll be.
One of these days these boots are gonna come on home with me.
Katty Besnard, lead singer of the Plastiscines (note the sooty black eyes)
After Midnight, We're Gonna Let It All Bling Out
The key to cosmetics is never looking like you tried too hard, even if you've worked up a sweat…though it's preferable to just use simple products that yield simply amazing results.
Which is why I'm currently enamored with Urban Decay's Midnight Cowboy Body Shimmer Lotion. Inspired by their best-selling eye shadow, this subtly fragranced shimmering lotion imparts a golden shimmer – without making you look like you're trying to be JLo 2.0. No chunky glitter means it's subtle enough for day, but still potent enough to turn heads 'round midnight.
Midnight Cowboy Body Shimmer Lotion ($28) is available at Sephora and urbandecay.com.
YSL Fall 2009
YSL Fall 2009 Beauty Collection: Inspired by the YSL Fall RTW Fashion collection of exquisite tailoring with sumptuous textures, a flawless complexion is offset by magnetic pearl grey eyes and intense plum lips.
* Perfect Touch Radiant Brush Foundation
* Touche Éclat Radiant Touch in Luminous Radiance
* Palette Y Collector Palette for the Complexion (limited edition)
* Crème de Blush Cream Blush in Powdery Rose (limited edition)
* Ombres 5 Lumières 5 Colour Harmony for Eyes in Midnight
* Volume Effet Faux Cils Luxurious Mascara in Sublime Grey
* Rouge Volupté Silky Sensual Radiant Lipstick in Exquisite Plum
* La Laque Long Lasting Nail Lacquer in Stormy Grey
Don't Forget About The Nordstrom Anniversary Beauty Exclusives Event
I recently got my hands on a sneak preview of Yves Saint Laurent 'All Fore Eyes' Set, one of this year's exclusive offerings.
All For Eyes includes a full-size Touché Éclat Radiant Touch No. 1 Luminous Radiance, a travel-size Instant Eye Makeup Remover, and a full-size Volume Effet Faux Cils Luxurious Mascara No. 1 in Black – which is responsible for the impossibly lush lashes I've been sporting as of late (True Blood-sucker Jessica, eat your heart out!)


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When I upload images it works quickly. When i go to other links on the comccast.net personal web pages everything else works fast. When I click on the View and Manage Files tab, it takes 10 minutes for that to finally upload. All of my images are uploaded "private" by default, so I need to make each of my images public. Is there anyway I can upload them public and skip that private stuff by? Or change my default to have them all automatically uplaod public? I can go to ftp://upload.comcast.net/ and see all of my files there, but if I don't make them public, they're useless in there. Or is there anyway I can make them public in there? Or is there a back door or something I can go to? Thanks, Mike
If you use FTP to upload your files/images they are automatically public. To see an image (for example an image named MyTruck.jpg) uploaded via ftp to upload.comcast.net you would point your browser to http://home.comcast.net/~yourUserName/MyTruck.jpg. Please note that case matters.
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Thanks for the reply Fishman. I'm not a computer expert at all as you can probably tell. Anyway you can take me step by step? You told me to use FTP to upload..How do I do that? In the File Manager, I browse my photos and upload. Is that what your'e talking about? Or do I need a FTP program or something.Thanks in advance.
You need an ftp program or if you are using windows you can use windows explorer.
These instructions show one method of uploading files to your PWP space from Windows XP. (You can also use a FTP client or the PWP Wizard)
1. Ensure you have enabled PWP for the account for which you want to upload files
2. Create or locate the files you want to upload on your computer. Remember where they are on your local computer
3. In windows XP right click on start then select explore
4. In the windows explorer address bar type "ftp://upload.comcast.net" then click go or enter
5. In the login window type in your username and password for the account where you want to upoload the files, click "Log On"
6. The contents of your PWP space will now be displayed in the window
7. Locate the files you want to upload and drag and drop them to the PWP space display window
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Fairfax High School | |
Location | |
Los Angeles, California, United States | |
Coordinates | 34°04′55″N 118°21′36″W / 34.082°N 118.360°WCoordinates: 34°04′55″N 118°21′36″W / 34.082°N 118.360°W |
Information | |
Type | Public |
Motto | "Fare fac" (Say and Do) |
Established | 1924 |
School district | Los Angeles Unified School District |
Principal | Carmina Nacorda |
Grades | 9th through 12th |
Enrollment | 2400+ |
Campus | Urban |
Campus size | 24.2 acres (98,000 m2) |
Color(s) | Crimson, gold, black |
Mascot | Lion |
Newspaper | 'The Colonial Gazette' |
Website | Official website |
Fairfax High School | |
Location | |
Los Angeles, California, United States | |
Coordinates | 34°04′55″N 118°21′36″W / 34.082°N 118.360°WCoordinates: 34°04′55″N 118°21′36″W / 34.082°N 118.360°W |
Information | |
Type | Public |
Motto | "Fare fac" (Say and Do) |
Established | 1924 |
School district | Los Angeles Unified School District |
Principal | Carmina Nacorda |
Grades | 9th through 12th |
Enrollment | 2400+ |
Campus | Urban |
Campus size | 24.2 acres (98,000 m2) |
Color(s) | Crimson, gold, black |
Mascot | Lion |
Newspaper | 'The Colonial Gazette' |
Website | Official website |
Fairfax High School (officially Fairfax Senior High School) is a Los Angeles Unified School District high school located in Los Angeles, California, near the border of West Hollywood in the Fairfax District. The school is located on a 24.2-acre (98,000 m2) campus at the intersection of Fairfax Avenue and trendy Melrose Avenue.
Several sections of Los Angeles, including the Fairfax District, Park La Brea, portions of Hancock Park, and Larchmont, and the city of West Hollywood are served by Fairfax. Some areas (including parts of West Hollywood) are jointly zoned to Fairfax High School and Hollywood High School. In fall 2007, some neighborhoods zoned to Hamilton High School were rezoned to Fairfax High School.[1] Bancroft Middle School, Emerson Middle School, Le Conte Middle School, and John Burroughs Middle School feed into Fairfax. In 2009 some territory from the Los Angeles High School attendance boundary was transferred to Fairfax High School.[2]
Fairfax High School was founded in 1924 under the direction of Principal Rae G. Van Cleve, for whom the athletic field is named. The original Spanish Colonial Revival main building did not meet earthquake safety standards, and most of the original campus facilities were demolished in 1966. However, the historic Dewitt Swann Auditorium and iconic Rotunda were spared by preservationists, retrofitted, and are currently being renovated. Greenway Court, originally built in 1939 as a social hall by the students at Fairfax as a class project, was also spared and was moved to its current location on Fairfax Avenue, where it was converted into a theater in 1999 by the Greenway Arts Alliance and renamed the Greenway Court Theater.
Fairfax High School has been known since the 1930s as a breeding ground for future major figures in the entertainment industry.
Former NFL official Jim Tunney served as the school's principal from 1964 to 1970. Under his watch, most of the current campus facilities, except for those mentioned above, were built between 1966 and 1968, including the gymnasium.
When the 1971 Sylmar (San Fernando) earthquake struck on February 9, 1971, with a magnitude of 6.7 on the Richter scale, nearby Los Angeles High School was damaged severely and closed for repairs. Students from Los Angeles High attended Fairfax High on "double sessions," with Fairfax students using the campus from 7 am – 12 noon, and LA High students from 12:30 pm – 5 pm.
Fairfax was the foreign language magnet school in the 1960s and 1970s, offering Hebrew, German, Chinese and Latin, among other languages. The Fairfax Magnet Center for Visual Arts opened in 1981 and remains the only visual arts magnet in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
In 1984, Dr. Virginia Uribe, an LAUSD teacher and counselor for 42 years, founded LAUSD's Project 10 program, the first dropout prevention program specifically for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students in the United States.[3]
Organized by a group of local theater artists, the first Melrose Trading Post was held in 1998 in the school's parking lot. Regarded as most successful on-going fund-raising activity in the LAUSD, the flea market evolved into the Greenway Arts Alliance, the Friends of Fairfax and the Institute for the Arts at Fairfax High School, all which are of immense benefit to the school and students.[4]
In Fall 2008, Fairfax High School was reconfigured from a comprehensive high school into a complex of five new small learning communities (SLCs) and the existing Fairfax Magnet Center for Visual Arts.
The table below represents the number of enrolled students at Fairfax High School through 2003–2007.
2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
2,838 | 2,949 | 3,131 | 3,174 | 2,889 |
As of the 2011–2012 school year, there were 2,407 students enrolled in Fairfax High School.
The racial/ethnic composition (as of the 2011–2012 school year) was as follows:
Fairfax High School re-opened in Fall 2008 reconfigured into a complex consisting of the existing Fairfax Magnet Center for Visual Arts and five new small learning communities (SLCs). The campus was divided into six areas of "contiguous space." Non-magnet students and staff were reorganized into five new schools-within-a-school. Subsequently, in 2010, two of the SLCs were replaced by a single SLC, bringing the total down to four SLCs and the Magnet. Currently, these SLCs are:
Fairfax is home to the Fairfax Magnet Center for Visual Arts, which attracts students from across the 700 square miles (1,800 km2) of the district. It opened in 1981 and is the only visual arts magnet in Los Angeles Unified School District.
In 2007, the Lions Boys Basketball Team, under the coaching of Harvey Kitani, took the title of State Champions, Division 1A.
A special edition of the Zoom Lebron IV was produced for the basketball team using the school's colors.
In 2010, the Lions Football Team, under the coaching of Shane Cox, won the CIF Los Angeles City Section Division II championship.
In 2007, the Fairfax Marching Lions and Color Guard, under the direction of Raymundo Vizcarra, First Place in the LAUSD Division I Band and Drill Championship 2010. It was the first year in more than 20 years that Fairfax had a band eligible to compete.
Fairfax High School is home to the Greenway Arts Alliance, which operates the Greenway Court Theater, a 99-seat Equity-waver playhouse, and through the Institute for the Arts at Greenway, provides arts educational programs, mentoring, and employment opportunities to Fairfax students.
Since 1997, the Melrose Trading Post outdoor flea market has created opportunities for Fairfax High School and the surrounding neighborhood. Every Sunday 250+ local vendors, collectors, artisans, and artists gather in the parking lot on the corner of Melrose and Fairfax Avenues to celebrate the thriving community culture. Food vendors and live music round out this weekly local event hosted by the Greenway Arts Alliance. Money raised by this nonprofit organization from the low-cost patron admission and vendor booth fees fuel a thriving arts education program on the FHS campus called, Institute for the Arts at Greenway.
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Welcome to the Lake County Quilters Guild!
We are happy to see you visit our website, but most important we extend to you an invitation to come and join us for a meeting and get to know our members and the activities we are currently engaged with.
We are one of very few guilds in Florida which still host an annual quilt show, so please visit our Quilt Show page for more information about our 33rd Annual "Fan"tastic Quilt Show.
For more information about the guild, see our About Us page.
Please take time to visit our Calendar for upcoming events and/or seminars. Many events are open to other guilds and the public for a fee, space permitting.
You will find our newsletters (Scrap Basket Newsletter) on our News page.


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From May 1 to July 31, HydraMaster conducted a contest exclusively for its distributors at the company Facebook page, inviting them to post pictures of the new HydraMaster truckmount installs. The distributor who posted the winning entry was rewarded with a $500 gift card, and a $100 gift card was awarded to the customer who had the install done.
The winning distributor entry came from Century Supply in Houston, Texas. It is an install of a HydraMaster Titan 575 truckmount with all of the bells and whistles. The owners of this unit are David and Ann Frankel of Asure Carpet Cleaning.
Other entries that scored highly were a Titan 575 install by Gene Dulac of the Cleaner's Connection in Arkansas and a unique Boxxer 318 install by Interlink Supply of Colorado Springs.
To see pictures of the entries, simply visit the HydraMaster Facebook page at www.facebook.com/cleansolutions.
For more information on HydraMaster and CleanMaster products, visit www.hydramaster.com.


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Welcome to the Forest/Wood Industry Educator Community -- a centralized communication medium for educators interested in the Forest/Wood Industry.
Access tools to assist you in developing/delivering programs that will prepare high-school students for entry-level careers and postsecondary programs in the Forest/Wood Industry. Access over one hundred teacher planning guides to assist in developing flexible three-year lesson plans full of active learning. The program's clustered approach is ideal for high schools with programs in Technology Education and/or Agriculture and in Career and Technical Schools.
High-school curriculum developers/administrators will find scope and sequences of competencies with crosswalks to national academic and workplace standards. Information and links are provided to sites that provide teaching resources for all levels.
Educators can share resources and materials that they have found successful in teaching the competencies in the program. Contact schools currently developing programs that prepare students for the Forest/Wood Industry.
Ask the "experts" and fellow educators questions about the units as well as situations that arise when using the materials or developing programs. Find out about inservice opportunities related to the Forest/Wood Industry and the real-world experiences of schools that are implementing related programs.
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I'm over my illness now but I was still sick the night I was supposed to go to my cake decorating class. But I was a good student and did my homework from the workbook and decorated this near disaster of a cake.
First problem: My cake wasn't done in the center. My teacher suggested a tip to keep the cake from growing a huge "dome" in the oven that you have to slice off to make a smooth top. You bake the cake a little longer at a lower temperature. I discovered that trick failed on me when I cut the top of my cake off and revealed a spongy squishy mess. Oh well, I could still decorate it, right? Even if I can't eat it?
Cupcake on a cake, cheesy, right, I know but it was good practice. I even had a bead border. Second Problem: It must have been the humidity but my cake frosting never fully "set" or became firm enough to smooth it out well which is why it looks lumpy. It was good for a first try and I got to use a few different icing tips.
I asked Peanut what grade she would give me. She meowed and said "B-." Ok, not really. What she probably said was "Leave me alone. Can't you see I'm trying to nap??"
Next class lesson is little flowers, shells, and leaves on cupcakes.
October 21, 2010
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The Supreme Court on Friday rejected Kingfisher Airlines' plea against the Karnataka High Court's order directing it to deposit around Rs.185 crore with the Income Tax Department as TDS from its employees' wages.
The apex court, which had asked the cash-strapped airlines to deposit the money within four weeks, refused to extend the time limit as sought by the Kingfisher's counsel.
The bench headed by Justice R. M. Lodha rejected the airline's plea to give three more weeks.
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CSIRO aims to establish and build relationships with members of the community. We welcome people of all ages to come and explore our facilities, holiday programs and public events.
Phone: 1300 363 400
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CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.
Large-scale, long-term, multidisciplinary science to address Australia's major national challenges and opportunities.
CSIRO manages national facilities and collections that are opened to researchers around Australia and overseas.
Soil sampling in Coober Pedy, South Australia.
The Biomes of Australian Soil Environments (BASE) project will provide the first comprehensive continent wide inventory of soil biodiversity.
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Glen Paul: G'day, and welcome to CSIROpod, I'm Glen Paul. Australian soils mirror the continent's great age, and as a result are products of environmental conditions of this long history, such as climate, topography, parent material, and the organisms that make soils their home. Surprisingly far less is known about these microscopic communities of organisms compared to above ground biodiversity, and with them playing such a crucial role in ecosystem function, Scientists naturally want to know more.
Now with the help of new technology the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments, or BASE Project, has been established to bring together a number of agencies, including CSIRO, and the Victorian Department of Primary Industries, for a two year $3 million study of soil ecosystems across the entire Australian continent. Joining me on the line is the Director of the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity, CSIRO's Professor Andrew Young.
Andrew, this is obviously a massive project, but is it just a matter of scientific curiosity, or is there something more to be gained by understanding all these different soil ecosystems?
Prof. Young: Yes, soil is probably the least understood environment we have across Australia, and one of the ones that perhaps has greatest ecological significance. Soil environments are important in nutrient cycling, in maintaining ecosystem stability, in underpinning the productivity of our agricultural systems, and up until now it's been very difficult to look at the soil micro biome, all the microbes that make up that environment, using traditional lab techniques, and so being able to move into the world of metagenomics and use DNA technologies to understand the composition of those ecosystems is something that's going to be really helpful in understanding what is one of our really important ecosystems.
Glen Paul: Hmm, sounds like it. But where did metagenomics kind of spring from?
Prof. Young: Metagenomics is really a product of a revolution in DNA sequencing technology. So 20 years ago when I was a PhD student it took several months to extract DNA from maybe 20 or 30 samples and sequence with short pieces. With the advent of two things really, very high throughput genotyping technologies called next-generation sequencing, which has come about over the last five years, and huge advances in bioinformatics, so the ability to handle very large sequence datasets, have meant that we can now isolate very large numbers of samples and analyse them to see what DNA there is in an environmental sample, and then we can take that sequence information, search it against a database of microbes, and use that to tell us what microbes are available.
So really it's been a combination of sequencing technologies and big advances in bioinformatics, the handling of large numbers of sequence data.
Glen Paul: And 20 years ago you probably wouldn't even contemplate undertaking something as vast as this. Just how much of Australia is going to be surveyed, and who's involved?
Prof. Young: So having said we can do it because of the advances in these two fields, that's true theoretically, but operationally we can only undertake the project by collaborating with colleagues at Bioplatforms Australia who are undertaking the large portion of the sequencing effort, and colleagues at the National Parks Service. So we're using the National Reserve system, which is managed by Parks Australia, as a sampling framework to collect samples from, and also the NCRIS (National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy) and TERN (Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network) sites, the long term environmental monitoring sites, and ecological sites run by DECWA in W.A., so it's bringing those three together, they give us the samples, Bioplatforms Australia is doing the sequencing, and CSIRO is doing the bioinformatics analysis. So really it's the three large partners, those doing the environmental sampling, those doing the sequencing, and ourselves doing the bioinformatics, which is letting the project happen.
In terms of the scale of the sampling, we're certainly in the first instance trying to sample 250 sites from as broad a range of Australian environments as possible. So we've built environmental models of the country that include both soil and vegetation, and then distributed those 250 samples as best we can to cover as much of the environmental amplitude as is possible.
Glen Paul: OK. And what about the samples themselves, how do you collect them? Is it just a matter of going out with a garden trowel and putting soil into a plastic bag, or do you take core samples? How does it work?
Prof. Young: Yeah, so taking environmental samples for DNA analysis, whether they're soil samples, or water samples, or samples from sewerage pipes, which some of these are used for, is a difficult thing to do – you need to keep the samples very clean, because you don't want contamination. So when we go to a site we put out a 25 by 25 metre plot, we take nine soil cores down to about 30 or 40 centimetres, and we divide them into the top ten centimetres and 20 centimetres and below, because you get quite different microbial communities in those two environments – one which has more oxygen than the other – and then we freeze them, bring them back to the lab, and we can do the metagenomic analysis.
Glen Paul: When the study is complete, how will the microbial information be used to better farming practices?
Prof. Young: So there's really two bits to the project. The first part, which we're largely involved in at the moment, is trying to set a bit of a baseline. We know so little about soil microbial communities, the initial questions are pretty simple – what do we have; how much is there; and how does that relate to environment? So they're really the three big first questions we're trying to ask. It's sort of an audit of Australian soil, microbial diversity, and we can then compare that because we are part of what's called the Earth Microbiome Project, we're the Australasian node of that project, and we can compare what we have here in Australia to samples from all over the planet that have been taken by labs in other countries.
So some of it's a bit phenomenological, we're just trying to see what we have, where it is, how does that relate to environment, and then we're using those data as a baseline and taking another 250 samples in a whole range of different agricultural sites, so cotton, wheat, forestry sites, horticultural sites, and by comparing those against the baselines we can start to understand how agricultural practices change the soil microbial community, and what that might mean for long term productivity and ecological sustainability.
And interesting also with there being a big push to look at restoration of native forests in some areas, and grasslands, so turning old unproductive agricultural land back into native ecosystems, we can start to get a feel for what kinds of microbes we might want to restore as part of that process, because managing the microbes in that way could really help us with the long term success of native revegetation projects as well.
Glen Paul: So are you expecting any surprises from it, perhaps an idea that might be confirmed, or maybe a new species that might turn up?
Prof. Young: I guess one of the really big things we'd like to know is whether soil microbes obey the same broad ecological rules that higher organisms like plants and animals do. So do you see changes in soil communities in the same sorts of way along energy gradients, along latitudinal and longitudinal gradients, across environmental gradients? So are they basically responding to the same kinds of cues as aboveground biodiversity?
And that's something that we don't know much about, so it's a pretty important thing to try and find out. But I think it's going to be full of surprises. I think it's going to be full of surprises in understanding how these organisms behave ecologically, simply because we haven't had the ability to look at them in detail before. And I think it's going to be full of surprises in seeing for the first time suites of microbes that we just might not have seen before, that might even be completely new to science.
Glen Paul: That of course would be very exciting, so best of luck with the research, and thank you very much for discussing it with us today, Andrew.
Prof. Young: A pleasure.
Glen Paul: Prof. Andrew Young. And to find out more about the research being undertaken at CSIRO, and to follow us on other social media, go to www.csiro.au.
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