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Join the thousands of people who have already claimed back their money because they were mis-sold a Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) Policy with their loan, credit card, mortgage or hire purchase agreement. With our No Win, No Fee* service you can be sure that there are absolutely no upfront costs. Apply online now to be sent a claims pack or call us on 0207 471 2000 to speak to one of our claims management team.
PPI stands for Payment Protection Insurance. It is a type of insurance commonly added to loans, mortgages, credit cards and hire purchase agreements. PPI is designed to take over repayments if the borrower is unable to work due to unemployment or ill health.
The problem with PPI is the way in which it was sold. In 2006 The Citizens Advice Bureau launched a super complaint branding the sale of PPI 'the biggest protection racket of all time.' As a result of this complaint, The Office of Fair Trading and The Financial Services Authority released reports expressing concern that many people may have been mis-sold policies.
The reports opened the door for people who believe they have been Mis-sold ppi to make claim. In fact, the number of people making Payment Protection Insurance Claims has hit a record high as consumers turn on banks and demand their money back. In 2010 alone The Financial Ombudsman reviewed 49,196 cases of alleged mis-selling up from 31,066 in 2009. Belmont Thornton has already helped more than 60,000 people reclaim over £50 million from their lender and you could be just a click or a call away from starting your PPI claim.
There are many ways in which PPI policies have been mis-sold. Some examples include: staff using high pressure selling techniques or misleading people into believing they had an improved chance of being given credit if they took out insurance; policy conditions and exemptions not being fully explained and costs not being made clear.
It was also discovered that many banks were selling policies to people whose circumstances made them unsuitable. For example, people who were unemployed; retired or in full time education and who, therefore, did not need loss of employment cover. Most worrying of all, it has emerged that many people had PPI policies attached to their loans without being told. This means you may have been mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance and not even realise.
The check list below includes many of the common ways in which policies were mis-sold. If you answer 'yes' to any of the following it is highly likely you may be able to claim PPI refunds.
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If you have taken out a Home Loan in the last 10 years then there is a good chance that some form of Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) was added to your loan and you could be owed thousands. Belmont Thornton specialise in claiming back your money for a PPI policy that was mis-sold with a Home Loan. To find out why you can claim your money back using our No Win, No Fee* service have a look at Why You Can Claim back PPI on Home Loans...
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Have you taken out a Hire Purchase agreement (H.P.)? Maybe you purchased a car or some home furnishings and used Hire Purchase Finance to help spread the payments. Hire Purchase agreements often include some form of Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) and you could be owed thousands. To find out why you can claim your money back using our No Win, No Fee* service have a look at Why You Can Claim back PPI on Hire Purchase...
Have you taken out a secured loan or mortgage in the last 10 years? If so then you were probably persuaded to take out a Payment Protection Insurance Policy (PPI) to cover you in case you weren't able to make your repayments. Secured Loans are often a great way of raising finance but you could be paying far more each month than you need to. To find out why you can claim your money back using our No Win, No Fee* service have a look at Why You Can Claim back PPI on Secured Loans...
Unsecured loans can provide a great way of raising money, but are often sold with a Payment Protection Policy (PPI) making the payments more expensive than they need to be. You can claim back the money you have already paid on your mis-sold payment protection policy. To find out why you can claim your money back using our No Win, No Fee* service have a look at Why You Can Claim back PPI on Unsecured Loans...
Bank Charges have been receiving a lot of press attention recently and it has become increasing difficult to understand if you can claim back your Bank Charges. Most banks offer some form of Payment Protection Insurance (P.P.I.) when you borrow money for a loan or take out a credit card or payment card with them. To find out why you can claim your money back using our No Win, No Fee* service have a look at Why You Can Claim back PPI on Bank Charges...
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Bruce Willis Wax Figure Unveiling At Madame Tussauds New York
Madame Tussauds New York unveils a wax figure of actor Bruce Willis... Fotografia de notíciasArte, Cultura e Espetáculo,Ator,Bruce Willis,Cera,Cidade de Nova Iorque,EUA,Festa de Lançamento,Horizontal,Madame Tussauds,Madame Tussauds New York,Ponto Turístico Internacional,Times Square - Manhattan,Trabalho em CeraPhotographer Craig BarrittCollection: Getty Images Entertainment 2013 Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 29: Madame Tussauds New York unveils a wax figure of actor Bruce Willis in Times Square on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 in New York City. Artists from the famed wax attraction took more than three months to complete the wax likeness, which was launched in time for the next 'Die Hard' installment, 'A Good Day to Die Hard'. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Madame Tussauds New York)

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You there, loitering indecisively in the liquor store. Whip out your phone and point it to this magic. Nocino Campano, a bitter nuts liqueur from Italy, is sporting a custom Tag on the back of its label, so while you're waiting for your friend to text you back about rum versus vodka, you have something to entertain you.
The liqueur is made by the Petrone distillery, a 200-year-old family-run company in a little town called Mondragone that mainly makes limoncello. It's the first distillery in Italy to try Tags. So far Nocino Campano is its only liqueur to get tagged, but Fabrizio Lapiello, an Italian gent who's been working with the distillery to implement Tags, tells me they plan to use more. Currently, the Tag links to a product description and some historical info about the distillery, but they have plans to link to videos of the liqueur's production as well as info about its ingredients.
We've talked before about Zero One Vintners and Bonterra winery using Tags on wine bottle labels, and Zonin Prosecco has used 2D barcodes in its ads. I think for a product that often leaves me squatting in the wine aisle of the grocery store, confusedly comparing label text, mobile tagging is a great way to give consumers more info and make them feel better about making a purchase.
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Back in January, we at Pure Mobile were following all the hottest news in mobile accessories with the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. And among the emergent trends was an iPhone case that was as nostalgic as it was novel.
Mobile accessories maker Smallworks showed off a series of LEGO iPhone cases they had in the works, including some elaborate models, like space ships and dinosaurs.
But another mobile accessories label, Belkin, also had their own LEGO-themed buildable iPhone cases out on display. And this week, they've officially announced a licensing deal with LEGO, meaning the little plastic building toys of our childhood will very soon be making their way onto our iPhone cases.
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Well, you should be, because the this promises to be one of the coolest iPhone cases in years, especially since you should be able to totally customize them with compatible LEGO pieces.
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When news of Anna Dello Russo's collaboration with H&M was announced back in May, the thought of having to wait until October for her upcoming accessories line was almost unbearable. But how time flies! Though we can hardly believe it, October's finally arrived, and along with it, a slew of other fashion-focused things to look forward to. From a pair of shades designed by one of our current girl crushes to a seriously stylish confection, read on for everything we're excited about this month!Anna Dello Russo x H&M Accessories Collection
Stylesetters, get ready to stake your spot in line! One of the most anticipated collaborations this year is Anna Dello Russo's accessories collection for H&M. The Vogue Japan editor-at-large is a beloved street style favorite, thanks to her penchant for eclectic, glamorous, over-the-top outfits dripping in ornamentation. No wonder H&M asked her to design a capsule line, which includes everything from must-have jewelry to sunglasses and handbags, available October 4th.
Aubrey Plaza x Lookmatic Sunglasses ($130)
While Parks and Recreation star Aubrey Plaza's genius comedic timing is slightly out of reach for most of us, we can at least snag her look in these playful, retro-inspired shades. Eyewear company Lookmatic handpicked Plaza--along with other tastemakers like Jessie Randall, Loeffler Randall's creative director--to create an exclusive, limited-edition pair of frames. We're happy to report the sunglasses are as chic as Aubrey is funny (in other words, very much so)!
Lanvin x Laduree Macaron Box Set ($28)
As if we needed another reason to indulge in desserts from Laduree! The French confectionary company called on Lanvin's creative director, Alber Elbaz, to design what is surely the most stylish box of macarons we've ever seen. The brightly colored package contains eight almost-too-pretty-to-eat treats. It'd make a delicious, thoughtful gift for a fashionable friend or yourself--don't worry, we'll never tell!
Andy Warhol Fever
There's no doubt that Andy Warhol had a huge impact on contemporary art, which is why The Metropolitan Museum of Art is running an exhibition, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, from now until December 31st. Can't make it to New York? Pick up the exhibit's companion book ($38) by Marla Prather, Mark Rosenthal, Ian Alteveer, and Rebecca Lowery. You can also pay homage to the late artist with NARS x Andy Warhol's makeup collab, which includes gorgeous eye shadow palettes and brilliant Nail Polish ($18) in hues like Back Room, New York Dolls, Superstar, 15 Minutes, and TV Party.
From Gainsbourg to Lulu ($29)
When a debut album boasts covers by Scarlett Johansson, Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, and Iggy Pop, it's certainly worth noting! From Gainsbourg to Lulu is Lulu Gainsbourg's tribute to his father, Serge, an influential French singer and musician. In addition to musical talent, Lulu's also got style in his genes: not only is he the half-brother of actress, singer, and former Style Spotlight alum Charlotte, he recently collaborated with Karl Lagerfeld on Chanel's The Little Black Jacket project.
A.P.C. + Carhartt Vest ($300) and Hat ($60)
When you marry two brands known for their minimalist, clean designs, the results are actually far from basic. While the U.S.-based Carhartt makes simple, durable workwear, French label A.P.C. is a cult favorite thanks to its stylish, pared-down collections. We can't wait to cozy up to the outcome of their third collaborative effort for fall, like a versatile knit beanie and quilted vest, available October 20th.--Tiffany Tse


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Atalon Cabernet Sauvignon 2005
Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley, California
Winemaker's Notes
Our Cabernet Sauvignon offers a wonderful balance of flavors grown on various different sites throughout the Napa Valley. The wine offers dense and opulent flavors of ripe cherries, black cassis, cedar and vanilla.
Critical Acclaim
The Wine Advocate - "Made in a similar style, the 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa displays a deep ruby/purple hue as well as an elegant bouquet of licorice, new saddle leather, toasty oak, and black currants. Low acidity, velvety tannin, and a medium-bodied, elegant style suggest consumption over the next 10-12 years. "
International Wine Cellar - "Good ruby-red. Enticing aromas of black raspberry, graphite, minerals and flowers. Sweet and moderately dense, with a juicy quality to the black raspberry flavor. Finishes with a bit of unabsorbed acidity. "
Atalon Winery
The soul of the Atalon story is a ghost winery dating back to 1888. Built by General W.S. Keyes, the white-stone building atop Howell Mountain claims a stake in Napa Valley viticultural lore. At the turn of the twentieth century, General Keyes was producing wines considered to be among the best in Napa County from this old landmark.
The famed Howell Mountain property was acquired by the Jackson family in 1996 and renamed the Keyes Vineyard in honor of the early farmer's pioneering viticultural contributions. Today, the historic ghost winery stands as a strong reminder of a 150-year old tradition of growing wine grapes within the thirty-mile stretch of the Napa Valley frontier.
In 1997, Atalon was created to revive the vineyard's past accomplishments and to build on the area's reputation for producing remarkable red wines. Although inspired by ghosts long gone, Atalon wines reflect a modern understanding of farming Napa's rugged mountains and valleys for the most balanced and expressive wines.
Drawing fruit from selected vineyards, the wines are a composite of vineyards stretching from the rolling hills of Napa-Carneros in the south to the peaks of Howell Mountain in the north. Atalon is dedicated to the true essence and flavor of the Napa Valley, a distinction defined by Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. View all Atalon Wines
About Napa ValleyView a map of Napa Valley wineries
It's hard not to think of Napa Valley when thinking of California wines. The region is, after all, the one that brought world recognition to California wine making. The area was settled by a few choice wine families in the 1960's who bet that the wines of the area would grow and flourish. They were right. The Napa wine industry really took off in the 1980's, when vineyard lands were scooped up and vines were planted throughout the county. A number of wineries emerged, from large conglomerates to small boutiques to cult classics. Cabernet Sauvignon is definitely the grape of choice here, with many winemakers also focusing on Bordeaux Blends. Whites are usually Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.
Notable FactsWithin the Napa Valley lie smaller sub-AVAs that lend even more character specifics to the wines. Furthest south is Carneros, followed by Yountville, Oakville & Rutherford. Above those two is St.-Helena and finally, just grated an AVA, Calistoga. These areas are situated on the valley floor and are known for creating rich, smooth Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Chardonnay. There are a few mountain regions as well, nestled on the slopes overlooking the valley AVAs. Those include Howell Mountain, Stags Leap and Mount Veeder. Wines from the mountain regions are often more structured and firm, benefiting from more time in the bottle to evolve and soften.
About CaliforniaIt's not rare to see a wine's country of origin listed as "California." A country into itself in the wine world, California makes enough varieties and styles to match many European wine countries. It produces a diverse range of wines that span the quality spectrum.
The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.
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Hey ho people,i just want to greet all the members of the forum for now.
Ok,i do not know where to begin ! I got so many questions to ask!.
Before i start,sorry for my bad English,and newbie comments which will probably make you laugh or something like that.
I'm coming from Serbia,and ima great lover of ''Pitbulls'',I'm currently 17 years old,Unfortunately i never had the opportunity to buy that kind of dog,now i have the chance,but i do not want to make mistakes,because i have no expirience with Pitbulls,I tried to find some useful advice on Serbian forums,but i did not find what i need.And fortunately i found this forum,so i hope that i'll get some useful informations from experienced people.
The Pitbull that I seek should look like this :
I hope that you get the point,but the problem is the following : These Pitbulls are conducted under the name of : ''American Pitbull Terrier'',and as far as i know,There are many types of Pitbulls,''Pitbull'' is just a name for all types.
If i google : ''American Bully XXL'' i get this :
And they look same to me ..
''American Bully'' is mixture of ''American Staffordshire'' and ''American Pibull Terirer'',i heard that these dogs have a lot of health problems,hard breathing,deformation and so on.
And if is possible if someone could tell me more about their bloodline
But i certainly do not want this kind of ''American Bully'',He is just to small,his legs are deformated,
While XXL's legs are not.XXL - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPxFSOqA ... A1F28F0A3F
But then again if i google ''American Pitbull Terrier'' i get this guy :
And he looks totally different from other Pitbulls,in some way he looks like any ordinary dog,his ears are going down,his body shape looks different (his stance and so on..
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The Don Rodrigues Karate Academy held its 13th annual Toys for Tots Tournament Dec. 1 with more than 40 enrolled in the competition. Entry fee to the tournament was a toy or toys to be donated to the Toys for Tots program run by the Marine Corps. More than 250 toys were collected that will be donated to the program at the Dec. 11 Toys for Tots annual telethon run by Bob Venturini at Warwick Mall. Pictured are most of the competitors along with the toys donated as well as some of the action during the tournament. (Warwick Beacon photos)
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When the legendary Briar King awoke from his slumber, a season of darkness and horror fell upon the Kingdom of Crotheny. Now countless breeds of unspeakable monsters roam the countryside. An epidemic of madness has transformed peaceful villagers from the wildlands into savage, flesh-eating fiends. In Eslen, King William has been murdered, Queen Muriele is stalked by treachery on every side, and their last surviving daughter, Anne, has fled the assassins bent on destroying her family.
Close on the heels of the runaway princess, young knight Neil MeqVren, the queen's one trusted ally, is sworn to rescue Anne from her murderous pursuers. Anne herself undertakes a perilous journey toward the sanctuary of her distant paramour's arms, but along the way lie the sinister agents and hidden snares of a sprawling conspiracy that few might hope to evade.
At the same time, spies in the service of Praifec Hespero, the powerful Churchman, embark upon a mission to destroy the Briar King in the heart of his domain. And the power-hungry Church, spurred on by the mystical events, has launched an inquisition whose repercussions threaten even the queen. As the noose of intrigue tightens across the land, personal fates and a kingdom's destiny alike will be decided in a conflict between virtue and malevolence, might and magic.
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"The age of Everon is ending in the elegiac second installment of bestseller Keyes's fresh and imaginative high fantasy saga that began with 2003's The Briar King. Told in a inventive prose often as disturbing as it is beautiful, Keyes's sprawling multiple-viewpoint narrative explores a weird landscape fraught with 'ancient evils and fresh curses.' Black briars spurt up 'like slow fountains' wherever the Briar King walks in the King's Forest. As the Briar King turns villagers into unholy monsters, creatures such as greffyns and manticores once deemed the stuff of myth attack anyone who dares challenge him. In a land on the brink of civil war, assassins have claimed most of Queen Muriel's family except for her gifted youngest daughter, Anne Dare, who escaped death with her servant Austra, and is now struggling to return home to fulfill a prophecy. Other well-drawn characters include Sir Neil MeqVren, the queen's protector, and Leovigild 'Leoff' Ackenzal, a talented composer. Those who haven't read The Briar King may have problems at first following the plot, but Keyes's lyricism, pacing and deft handling of eternally important topics — the dance between church and state, man and woman, life and death — make this a thought-provoking entertainment." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"The excellent sequel to The Briar King (2003) continues to deliver impressive magical creatures, nonstop thrills, and engaging, believable characters. There will be more." Booklist
"Keyes's sequel to The Briar King features a world of magic and fantastic creatures, prophecies, and bold warriors. Strong world building and superior storytelling make this epic a good choice for fantasy collections." Library Journal
In this gripping sequel to the New York Times bestseller The Briar King, an ancient evil stirs. Bloodthirsty creatures roam the forests, and, on the edge of the wild, entire villages of people go mad. The legendary Briar King has awakened, and he's taking back his land.
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Greg Keyes was born in Meridian, Mississippi, to a large, diverse, storytelling family. He received degrees in anthropology from Mississippi State and the University of Georgia before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of The Waterborn, The Blackgod, the Age of Unreason tetralogy, and the Star Wars New Jedi Order novels Edge of Victory I: Conquest, Edge of Victory II: Rebirth, and The Final Prophecy. He lives in Savannah, Georgia.
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This was another nice win for us. The girls just keep working hard and its paying off, said coach Jenn Gray as the Lady Raiders took on the Lady Shamrocks in the first of four Massena varsity sports venues that are also serving as fund-raisers in the ongoing battle against cancer.
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Its definitely for a good cause, Gray noted.
In their win on Wednesday which raised their overall record to 13-5, the Lady Raiders netted the first goal of the game then countered the only Salmon River tally with three goals in just over two minutes before sealing the win with a last-minute strike.
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Encouraged support for the Harvest NY Initiative through Cornell Cooperative Extension.
Authorized the chairman to sign a contract with the St. Lawrence County Bar Association for assigned counsel representation and modified the 2013 indigent defense budget.
Approved the amendment to the agreement between the county and the city of Ogdensburg in relation to the allocation and distribution of money collected from the sales and compensating use taxes imposed pursuant to Articles 28 and 29 of the Tax Law and authorized the chairman to sign the amended agreement.
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RUSSELL The potential audience for performances at the Russell Opera House will expand thanks to a grant acquired through the Regional Economic Development Council.
The town of Russell will receive $117,705 to replace the roof of the Town Hall and install a lift that will make the second-floor theater known as the opera house handicapped accessible.
We definitely know some people who would like to be able to use it, Supervisor Robert C. Best Jr. said.
The town and supporters of the opera house, which features concerts and plays, had thought a ramp would work, but plans were rejected by the state because the Town Hall completed in 1921 is a designated historic building with arched windows and rows of wooden seats in the theater.
They wouldnt even allow a lift on the outside, Mr. Best said.
The buildings front has a set of steep steps. There is a rear entrance that can reach the theater with fewer steps but it is not fully accessible. The Town Hall also includes the post office and a community room.
To be shovel-ready, the town already has had a historic architect draw up a design for the lift and asked for cost estimates. Supporters of the Opera House raised about $10,000 toward the 25 percent cost-share with the grant.
The lift will go in the location of a handicapped-accessible bathroom that grant money will help to replace.
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They say the truck is already half-full and more donations are coming. In Rockland, Schooner Bay Taxi company is taking two vans of supplies to New Jersey Saturday night, and bringing back hurricane victims to stay at the Beachmere Inn in Ogunquit. Taxi company owner Chris Merritt says he heard about the hotel offer of rooms earlier this week on NEWS CENTER, and offered to provide transportation.
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The survivors of a devastated future Earth lie in suspended animation on a great satellite.When Earth is safe again, they will awaken. But when the Doctor, Sarah and Harry arrive on the Terra Nova, they find the systems have failed and the humans never woke.
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"Come the decorating revolution, the first big furniture-mover to "get it" might be Mary Jane Pool. The radical unchic will break down her eight-foot high office door, lacquered mercury gray (Benjamin Moore); put their feet on her gray (Formica) Parsons table (custom made); defoliate the Reigar begonias (Jean-Jacques Bloos); empty the wicker hampers (imported from Colombia); dump the potpourri (imported from San Francisco) on the gray wall-to-wall; scribble "Down With Ambience" on the mirrored screen (Sutton Glass); and detain this curly-headed (Kenneth) \ pen pal of the National Association of Manufacturers in a lock-up with old plumbing and a view of a trailer camp.
But the editor-in-chief of House & Garden will not live decoratively impoverished for long. If Mary Jane Pool could survive working under Diana Vreeland at Vogue, she can make over a jail. Before you can say "the positive power of color," it will be "pretty, pretty, pretty." Cells will become "living-baths"; beds will become "banquettes"; floors will be stenciled with bitter coffee; cracked plaster walls will be called "the timeless art of pargeting"; everything in sight will be slipcovered somehow; trees will be grown indoors; and classes will be given in basket-weaving.
When the transformation is complete, she will make a deal (her specialty) to have Horst (her favorite photographer) take pictures. And as always, he will keep taking them until Mary Jane Pool says they are right. Then, to avoid a fate worse than death (letting the pictures fall into the hands of House Beautiful, the New York Times Sunday magazine, or Architectural Digest), she will escape down a rope of flowered sheets (smuggled in by her average readers-38.3-year-old suburban women) and hurry back to her office, because as anyone in or out of Conde Nast can tell you, Mary Jane Pool doesn't trust anyone else at House & Garden to decide which of the 400 photos to use.
Welcome to fantasyland. The tasteful, wasteful, wonderful, knife-in-the-back-page world of the shelter magazines. Perhaps you'd recognize them if I called them decorating magazines, since they're devoted (in the religious sense of the word) to the aesthetics of the home. How to decorate your lean-to by emulating the palace of Versailles."
"I'm not laughing at the shelter magazines. I'm laughing at myself for loving them so. Other people have their detective stories, sci-fi, or skin magazines. I prefer a penthouse to Penthouse. My favorite escapist literature is a shelter book. But I'm particular — I like to look at high-priced spreads. That's why the "mass" shelter books, like 60-cent Better Homes and Gardens (circulation 8 million), 60-cent American Home (circulation 2.6 million), 75-cent Sunset (circulation 1.3 million) and 95-cent Apartment Life (circulation 550,000) don't grab me. They are too affordable.
Give me the "class shelters": $1 House Beautiful (circulation 871,000), $1 House & Garden (circulation 1.1 million), and the even classier, rejuvenated Architectural Digest (circulation 150,000), which is so toney it costs $2.95 and is sold only in high rent districts.
My shelter magazines and I have been through twenty-odd years of trends together: dark green walls, beige wall-to-wall, earth tones; Shibui; Frank Lloyd Wright; Robsjohn-Gibbings; the living kitchen; pattern-on-pattern, super graphics; family rooms; dining areas; his-and-her baths; and innumerable how-to's that I still don't know how-to. And now I am preparing to integrate the Bicentennial look into my all-white banquetted living room.
A prurient interest in decorating is called "nesting voyeurism" by anthropologist Ray Birdwhistell. He uses about ten shelter magazines in his course at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. "We analyze houses," Birdwhistell says. "If there's anything important in the species, it's nest building. Even if it's fantasy. Most of the houses in those [decorating] magazines are no more for people than the clothes in Harper's Bazaar. They're metahouses. Not real. It's folklore, like Emily Post."
I'd better not seat Birdwhistell next to House & Garden editor-in-chief Mary Jane Pool at a dinner party. "We at House & Garden are reporting about living in America. Living, living, living," she says.
Nor will I seat her next to an important decorator who says, "The shelter magazines are managed fantasy." But it's no figment of anyone's imagination that Americans spend $21 billion a year on furniture and appliances. And they buy more than basic survival furnishings. They buy, or try to buy, what sociologists call "impression management." Status. Each according to her insecurity — often above her means. Keeping up with the Armstrong-Joneses.
To integrate all these purchases into our lives, we need decorating advice. "The houses in the $1-and-up decorating magazines," says Birdwhistell, "are for the insecure upper-middle class who have never learned to nest, just to live on a stage. They have departed so far from the original nest that now nesting is almost by prescription."
And the prescriptions are being written by the editors' of the decorating magazines."
"Missouri's Mary Jane Pool rules the roost at Conde Nast's' House & Garden. Forty-five and holding, she looks a bit like Elsa Lanchester. Small boned and fair skinned, she's up to the minute, as her Elsa Peretti belt buckle and curly hair prove. She understudied for years at Vogue (also a Conde Nast publication), where she started in 1946 after being runner-up in Vogue's Prix de Paris. She went from art to merchandising to promotion director to executive editor.
Pool-watchers say her executive style is in the tradition of Vogue-the Queen Bee school. "She goes to the furniture markets like the goose with seven goslings behind her… she's insecure. She wants no identification for her editors. House & Garden is one of the few books that don't use by-lines on decorating features. She doesn't want any of her people to have clout in the market. She makes every decision. The editors are always saying, 'I'll have to ask Mary Jane.' She hires talented people and locks them up. She wastes them because she's afraid of competition."
To her credit, it's said that when she came to House & Garden in the late sixties, she uncluttered the look of the rooms in its pages. "In those days," said one shelter buff, "the look in decorating was pattern-an-pattern. There was so much of it, you could have slashed your wrists."
Nowadays, H. & G. is strong on decorating, food, entertaining, and how-to. And of course, since 1946 it's had its House & Garden color program which ties in with hundreds of manufacturers. Get ready for the pale look. It's on its way, says Mary Jane Pool.
Ms. Pool is known to be extra opinionated about more than color. "She has a fetish about banquette living," says one Pool knowledgeable. "She was instrumental in promoting slipcovers. She also likes diagonal furniture arrangements, fat pillows that match the sofa, baskets, purple, and cool, crisp cottons. Which isn't bad," says the informer. "It's just not the only look."
But it's come to be called the House & Garden look. "There is no such thing as the House & Garden look," says Ms. Pool. "For years we've been telling people to do their own thing, and now they're doing it."
House & Garden has more opportunities to editorialize ("We don't preach") about design because it has its own photo studio (unlike House Beautiful and Architectural Digest). Editors do room mock-ups to push merchandise tie-ins with manufacturers. Freed from the constraints of real homes done by idiosyncratic decorators, the H. & G. decorating squad can synthesize ideas that they've picked up from the professionals. The end result is a book that holds together graphically, but it might be compared to eating chicken a la king four days out of seven. H. & G.'s studio rooms are often soft, puffy, and pale, or one color. The same favored accessories are used over and over. H.& G. comments on art by what it leaves out. You'll see more pictureless walls in its pages than in any other decorating magazine. (Behind the art policy is Conde Nast's Alex Liberman.)"
"House Beautiful is a Hearst publication. Editor Wallace Guenther is a 45 year-old Hugh Hefner look-alike. But he's very cordial. A sophisticated hayseed, he runs the H.B. show from behind a cluttered Herman Miller desk. Guenther calls himself "a beige person." He took over the 79-year-old magazine in 1969. He came direct from Los Angeles, where his career progressed from copyboy to sports writer at the Los Angeles Daily News, and, at the Los Angeles Times, from copy editor to editor of the Sunday Home magazine.
"People care about religion, politics, and decorating," says Guenther. So these days H.B. is stressing decorating, remodeling, and table settings. Under his leadership, H.B. has retired pattern-an-pattern ("The readers told us they didn't like it"). Instead, he's giving them Eclectic ("which people can't pronounce"), renamed "The Mix" (which they can), The New Romanticism, and Country Chic.
It's hard to figure out what H.B. is against decoratively. It shows the work of more designers than H. & G., especially the lesser knowns. This contributes to the generally fluctuating level of taste in the book. Shelter-watchers define H. & G. as society-oriented and H.B. as celebrity-oriented.
Architectural Digest is both. A typical A.D. mix might include a baroque castle, an Italian palazzo, a few fabulous penthouses, some celebrity digs — recent choices were the Robert Redfords and Barbara Walters. "Your name keeps coming up," I told 41-year-old A.D. editor Paige Rense. "Yes, I know, we're the hot one." Fifty-five-year-old Architectural Digest, a bimonthly, has put heavy emphasis on interiors for the last twelve years.
"When I was growing up at Hollywood High," says the vivacious Ms. Rense, "Billy Baldwin was my hero instead of Alan Ladd." Rense did her basic training in advertising, public relations, and freelance writing. When she came to the Los Angeles-based A.D. five years ago, she was considered just a "little editor," until she started biting into the other shelter magazines' readership and pushed circulation from 55,000 to today's 150,000. Its readers, "an affluential audience," have a median income of S37,970 a year. A.D. is so toney, editor Rense calls H.B. and H. & G. "mass" magazines.
"Our objectives are different from theirs," she says. "My aim is to be like a European art book, like Connaissance des Arts. We don't do how-to stories, or predict trends. No Architectural Digest blue this month. We show what the top designers in the world are doing."
And they're not doing budget jobs for the most part, although, Rense says, "We won't show houses just because they're expensive. I turned down about twenty million-dollar houses in the past year." But no matter who the celebrity or how expensive the decor, Rense, like Pool, has pet hates. "I've seen all the Boston ferns I care to see. I won't show leopards on the floor. But I can't fight the zebras, there are too many of them. My most hated color is bilious green. I won't run shag rugs, and I crop out all little white ceramic frogs, porcelain cheetahs, and acoustical ceilings. One got in once, but it won't happen again. We've changed art directors since then."
You can't be too demanding in this business. Well-designed houses are to shelter magazines what blood is to vampires. "The magazines," says one shelter-watcher, "are as empty as paper bags looking for something to put inside."
"But special is hard to find. "I rejected five or six hundred homes last year," says Paige Rense. If decorating magazines reject so many homes, how do they find the right places? Generally, the magazines find houses before they're finished, via word of mouth and scouts.
House Beautiful and House & Garden, which are edited in New York, have scouts all over the country. Architectural Digest has six scouts in New York-photographers, writers, social butterflies, architects, and designers. And just to make sure she's not missing out, Rense comes east herself two or three times a year to pop in on the "New York interior-design who's who"; they give her guided tours of their latest work. "I prefer the resident not to be home when I come looking," she says. "It's ghastly when the owner is there with the tea and cakes and you can see it means so much to them."
Mary Jane Pool makes European and cross-country tours as well. Like Paige Rense, she inspects homes that have been staked out by scouts beforehand. But you don't need 007 to tell you that when Pool heads west, she heads for San Francisco designer Michael Taylor.
"House & Garden seems to have the Michael Taylor franchise," Paige Rense says. "But there's enough of his work to go around." Let's hope so, because to make matters more' complicated, you'll never see the same house in two shelter magazines if the editor can help it. Getting the best house is paramount, and virginity is a prerequisite. "We like fresh material," says H. & G.'s Mary Jane Pool. "Our policy," says H.B.'s Guenther, "is, we don't want any other decorating magazine to have the rooms first." A.D.'s Rense says, "We must be the first in the world to show it."
The exceptions to that rule are Interiors and Interior Design magazines, small-circulation trade publications. Another exception, under certain circumstances, is the New York Times Sunday magazine, which publishes two pages of "Design" each week. "I can't take those two black-and-white pages in the Times seriously," says A.D.'s Paige Rense. But she won't use anything that was shown first in the Times's once-a-year decorating supplement. H.B. and H. & G. have similar attitudes.
Vogue and Town & Country compete too; both show expensive residences in their pages. And the shelter magazines forbid previous publication of their homes in these magazines as well. It's enough to make a designer a nervous wreck.
The interaction involved in placing a home in the shelters takes the footwork of Fred Astaire. Then why suffer?
Because there is no better way to certify your taste and acquire status than by getting your home published in one of the shelters. Especially for decorators and designers. With designers, it's publish or perish. They need the certification more than the clients. Even Mrs. Onassis allowed her den to be published for the sake of her designer, Harrison Cultra.
So why not your house?
Let's say you just completed your living room. It's divine, if you say so yourself. All your friends say it's pretty enough to be in House Beautiful. Unless you were born with a dramatic imagination or have hired one, your chances of getting your house published are slim. The rule is, don't call us, we'll call you. But if it's really good, they'll all call. Then you have to choose just one magazine.
Okay, the match is made. If the house is promised to Architectural Digest, the designer or owner has to pay for the pictures himself and supervise the shooting with an A.D.-approved photographer. (They pick up the tab, however, on celebrity homes.) But if it's going into H. & G. or H.B., the publication sends the photographer and foots the bill. (With the Times it depends.)
If the house is promised to House & Garden, there may be some changes made-just a little artistic license. First, enough plants and flowers to open a florist's are brought in. Then some throw pillows .are added; napkins enough for a year of dinner parties; assorted coffee-table knickknacks; some paintings, preferably abstract; and no fewer baskets than the gross national product of some emerging nation. Somehow, when H. & G. gets done, it has its look.
"Do you make major changes in a room when you photograph it?" I asked Ms. Pool. "Very seldom," she said without batting an eyelash.
House & Garden is not the only magazine that pins leaves on trees-it's standard procedure. But the consensus is that House & Garden has raised the practice to an art.
Now they've taken the H.B., A.D., or H. & G. picture. The famous approved photographer has spent the day, or two or three, shooting from every angle. The fact that a hole has been burned in the carpet is quel dommage.
You've survived the photo. You sit back and wait impatiently for the issue. Let's say you gave your house to House & Garden. Chances are they'll be back to rephotograph. Mary Jane Pool has a reputation for finding something very small in the corner of the picture that turns her off. It's often the flowers. "She used to love amaryllis," insiders say. But one day, the story goes, the amaryllis in the photo was listing to the side. "Amaryllis is supposed to stand up," she reportedly said. "Reshoot it with narcissus."
But even· if Ms. Pool approves the flowers, H. & G. could still stage a comeback. Maybe editorial director Alex Liberman nixes the art. So they reshoot the picture with a new painting. And another truckload of fresh flowers, etc. Again you wait for the issue. Actually, they were never crazy about your house, but they didn't want anyone else to have it. Or maybe the interior designer has fallen from grace. Who knows? You're still waiting.
Even when the shelter magazines do print the pictures, there are complaints. "They reduce your work too much or just use part of it" is the standard cry. That's why so many people want to get into Architectural Digest, where each home gets star treatment. A.D. won't run just one room.
Graphically, each magazine has its own style too. Graphic designer Milton Glaser describes A.D. as "discreet … no excess … like an art book. I'd like to read it." Glaser says House Beautiful's layout is "busy, cluttered, confused. One picture is mortised into the corner of another. Words are overprinted on photos. Confusing change of typefaces. Shopping information is separated from the pictures, making it virtually unavailable. Hard to read."
And ditto for House & Garden, he says. He's equally unsparing of the covers. "A disaster."
But Mary Jane Pool is not worried about her covers. What she's worried about is Architectural Digest. According to the grapevine, House & Garden is about to get a major overhaul by Alex Liberman. It's not that sales are slipping. It's not that ads are slipping. What's slipping are the best houses — into the hands of Paige Rense and the pages of Architectural Digest. Now the knock-out Firestone house by designers Easton and LaRocca is going to A .D., and that's the last straw basket.
There is one way for Mary Jane Pool to get even. Paige Rense wants any of Truman Capote's houses more than anything in the world. Will Mary Jane beat her to it? Tune in for the next twelve months."


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Urinary incontinence - retropubic suspension
Retropubic suspension is surgery to help control stress incontinence. This is urine leakage that happens when you laugh, cough, sneeze, lift things, or exercise. The surgery helps close your urethra and bladder neck. The urethra is the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the outside. The bladder neck is the part of the bladder that connects to the urethra.
Alternative Names
Open retropubic colposuspension; Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz (MMK) procedure; Laparoscopic retropubic colposuspension; Needle suspension; Burch colposuspension
You receive either general anesthesia or spinal anesthesia before the surgery starts.
- With general anesthesia, you are asleep and feel no pain.
- With spinal anesthesia, you are awake but numb from the waist down and feel no pain.
A catheter (tube) is placed in your bladder to drain urine from your bladder.
There are two ways to do retropubic suspension: open surgery or laparoscopic surgery. Either way, surgery may take up to 2 hours.
During open surgery:
- A surgical cut (incision) is made on the lower part of your belly.
- Through this cut the bladder is located. The doctor sews (sutures) the bladder neck, part of the wall of the vagina, and the urethra to the bones and ligaments in your pelvis.
- This lifts the bladder and urethra so they can close better.
During laparoscopic surgery, the doctor makes a smaller cut in your belly. A tube-like medical device that allows the doctor to see your organs (laparoscope) is put into your belly through this cut. The doctor sutures the bladder neck, part of the wall of the vagina, and the urethra to the bones and ligaments in the pelvis.
Why the Procedure Is Performed
This procedure is done to treat stress incontinence.
Before discussing surgery, your doctor will have you try bladder retraining, Kegel exercises, medicines, or other options. If you tried these and are still having problems with urine leakage, surgery may be your best option.
Risks of any surgery are:
- Bleeding
- Blood clots in the legs that may travel to the lungs
- Breathing problems
- Infection in the surgical cut, or the cut opens up
- Other infection
Risks of this surgery are:
- Damage to the urethra, bladder, or vagina
- Fistula (abnormal passage) between the vagina and the skin
- Irritable bladder, causing the need to urinate more often
- It may be harder to empty your bladder, or you may need to use a catheter
- Urine leakage may get worse
Before the Procedure
Tell your doctor or nurse what medicines you are taking. These include medicines, supplements, or herbs you bought without a prescription.
During the days before the surgery:
- You may be asked to stop taking aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), warfarin (Coumadin), and any other medicines that make it hard for your blood to clot.
- Ask your doctor which medicines you should still take on the day of your surgery.
- If you smoke, try to stop. Your doctor or nurse can help.
On the day of your surgery:
- You will likely be asked not to drink or eat anything for 6 - 12 hours before the surgery.
- Take the medicines your doctor told you to take with a small sip of water.
- Your doctor or nurse will tell you when to arrive at the hospital. Be sure to arrive on time.
After the Procedure
You will likely have a catheter in your urethra or above your pubic bone. The catheter is used to drain urine from the bladder. You may go home with the catheter still in place. Or you may need to perform intermittent catheterization. This is a procedure in which you use a catheter only when you need to urinate. You will be taught how to do this before you leave the hospital.
You may have gauze packing in the vagina after surgery to help stop bleeding. It is usually removed a few hours after surgery.
You may leave the hospital on the same day as surgery. Or you may stay for 2 or 3 days after this surgery.
Follow instructions about how to care for yourself after you go home. Keep all follow-up appointments.
Outlook (Prognosis)
Urinary leakage decreases for most women who have this surgery. But you may still have some leakage. This may be because other problems are causing your urinary incontinence. Over time, some or all of the leakage may come back.
Appell RA, Dmochowski RR, Blaivas JM, Gormley EA, et al. Female Stress Urinary Incontinence Update Panel of the American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc, Whetter LE. Update of AUA guideline on the surgical management of female stress urinary incontinence. J Urol. 2010;183:1906-1914.
Chapple CR. Retropubic suspension surgery for incontinence in women. In: Wein AJ, Kavoussi LR, Novick AC, et al., eds. Campbell-Walsh Urology. 10th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 71.
Wai CY. Surgical treatment for stress and urge urinary incontinence. Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am. 2009;36:509-519.
Last reviewed 12/12/2012 by Louis S. Liou, MD, PhD, Chief of Urology, Cambridge Health Alliance, Visiting Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School. Also reviewed by A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc., Editorial Team: David Zieve, MD, MHA, David R. Eltz, Stephanie Slon, and Nissi Wang.
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Atorvastatin Versus Vitamin E in Treatment of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
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The purpose of the study is to compare the impact of atorvastatin 20mg qd and Vitamin E 300mg qd therapy on liver fat content in patients with type 2 diabetes associated with high LDL-C and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Fatty Liver
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Drug: atorvastatin
Drug: Vitamin E
Phase 4
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|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|An Randomized Open Label Trial on the Impact of 24 Weeks of Atorvastatin Therapy on Liver Fat Content and Abdominal Fat Content in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Combined With High LDL-C and Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
- Liver fat content(%) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]MRS (magnetic resonance spectroscopy analysis): liver fat content (%).
- Abdominal visceral fat area(cm2) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]MRI (magnetic resonance imaging): abdominal visceral fat area (cm2)
- Abdominal subcutaneous fat area(cm2) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]MRI(Magnetic Resonance Imaging):abdominal subcutaneous fat content (cm2)
- Lipid profiles [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]lipid profiles (total cholesterol, HDL-C, LDL-C, very low density lipoprotein and free fatty acids)
- Liver enzymes [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]liver enzymes (Alanine aminotransferase(ALT), Aspartate aminotransferase(AST), Gamma-glutamyl transferase(GGT))
- Glucose metabolism [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]fasting plasma glucose(FPG), postprandial plasma glucose(PPG), HbA1c, fasting C-peptide and 2-hour postprandial C-peptide
- Body weight [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Body weight
- Anthropometric test [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]waist and hip circumferences
- Muscle enzymes [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]MM isoenzyme of creatine kinase(CK-MM), MB isoenzyme of creatine kinase(CK-MB)
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Active Comparator: Vitamin E
Oral Vitamin E 300mg, qd, for 24 weeks
Drug: Vitamin E
Oral Vitamin E 300mg, qd, for 24 weeks
Experimental: Atorvastatin
Oral atorvastatin 20mg, qd, for 24 weeks
Drug: atorvastatin
Oral atorvastatin 20mg, qd, for 24 weeks
Detailed Description:
Previous studies have preliminary proven the safety and efficacy of atorvastatin tablets in the treatment of Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).However, the sample size of these studies is small and most studies use B-ultrasound or CT for semi-quantitative determination of liver fat content. The defects of evaluation methods seriously affect the accuracy of the studies. Also, antioxidant agents have been proposed as a potentially effective treatment. Vitamin E is a potent antioxidant compound, which has been tested in pediatric NAFLD because of the absence of side effects. Conflicting results have been reported in clinical trials, both in children and in adults. The project intends to adopt advanced proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) to non-invasively and precisely determine liver fat content and understand the change in liver fat content before and after the treatment with atorvastatin tablets or Vitamin E in NAFLD patients with abnormal lipid metabolism and type 2 diabetes. We also intend to compare the therapeutic effects of atorvastatin and Vitamin E in the treatment of NAFLD.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
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|Genders Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Sign informed consent before involvement in any trial-related activity (trial-related activity refers to measures that will not be adopted during the normal treatment of patients).
- Male or female, 18 years ≤ age ≤ 70 years.
- Type 2 diabetes (already diagnosed or oral glucose tolerance test(OGTT) tested and found complying with the 2003 ADA diagnostic criteria for diabetes).
- Patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, MRS measurement of liver fat content> 10%.
- Without taking any lipid-lowering drugs or Vitamin E in 3 months before enrollment.
- LDL-C ≥ 2.6mmol/L.
- No heavy drinking history (alcohol intake: male < 20g/d, female < 10g/d).
- HBsAg (-), HCV-Ab (-).
- 18.5 kg/m2 ≤ BMI ≤ 40kg/m2
Exclusion Criteria:
- Liver, renal dysfunction (ALT or AST is 2.5 times higher than the upper limit of normal, or total bilirubin(TB) is 1.5 times higher than the upper limit of normal, or Cr ≥ 115μmol/L).
- Muscle enzyme is 2 times higher than normal.
- Type 1 diabetes, gestational diabetes, or other special types of diabetes.
- Has not used drugs that may affect the liver fat content, such as glucocorticoids and thyroxine within one month before and during the trial.
- With hypothyroidism, hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction, sleep apnea syndrome, acanthosis nigricans, polycystic ovary syndrome, psoriasis, colorectal adenomas polyps and other diseases that NAFLD is easily associated with.
- Previous history of chronic viral hepatitis, autoimmune liver disease, drug-induced liver disease and other liver diseases caused by genetic factors.
- Severe uncontrolled hypertension (treated, sitting resting systolic blood pressure ≥ 180 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure ≥ 100mmHg).
- Pregnancy, breastfeeding, planned pregnancy, or failure to take adequate contraceptive measures (contraception measures include sterilization, intrauterine device(IUD), oral contraceptives and consistent condom use).
- With intellectual, psychological or language barriers, so that the subjects cannot fully understand or cooperate with the study.
- Any circumstances that may affect the implementation or results of the study.
- Class III or Class IV heart disease by New York Heart Association(NYHA) classification, unstable angina or attack of myocardial infarction in recent 6 months.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01720719
|Contact: Xin Gao, doctor
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|Principal Investigator: Xin Gao, doctor
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|Sub-Investigator: Mingfeng Xia, doctor
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|Xin Gao, doctor
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|Last Updated:
|July 17, 2013
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Keywords provided by Fudan University:
Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Diabetes Mellitus
Vitamin E
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Diabetes Mellitus
Fatty Liver
Liver Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Lipid Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Vitamin E
Anticholesteremic Agents
Enzyme Inhibitors
Growth Substances
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors
Hypolipidemic Agents
Lipid Regulating Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Protective Agents
Therapeutic Uses
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how to mix them", 1922.
Turf Cocktail
Fill the bar glass half full of broken ice and add:
2 dashes of Orange Bitters.
2 dashes dashes of Maraschino.
2 dashes of Absinthe.
1/4 gill of Plymouth Gin.
1/4 gill of French Vermouth.
Stir up well, strain into a cocktail-glass, add olive.
Note especially no squeezed lemon-peel on top.
(recipe by Harry Johnson, New Orleans).
Was this in Harry Johnson's 1882 edition or his 1900 edition?
And either way can it be counted as a Dry Martini, with Olive no less?
I don't recount this being discussed before, so I thought I would bring it up.
"I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names."
---Zsa Zsa Gabor
Edited by ThinkingBartender, 10 December 2006 - 10:18 PM.