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Since 2006, when the U.S. FDA published a draft guidance on drug interaction studies, it has expected new drug applications to include in vitro data on the interactions of new drug candidates with drug transporters. The rationale is that if a new drug is a substrate of a transporter (e.g., an efflux transporter such as P-glycoprotein [P gp/MDR1]), its absorption, metabolism, distribution, or elimination could be affected by a co-medication that is a substrate or inhibitor of the same transporter.
Conversely, if a new drug is an inhibitor of a transporter (e.g., an uptake transporter such as OATP1B1), it could alter the disposition of a co-dosed drug (e.g., a statin) that is a substrate of the same transporter.
In either case, the consequences could be loss of efficacy and/or compromised safety of the victim drug. Not only is in vitro drug-transporter interaction data "expected" (in fact, review of some NDAs has been delayed until such data is included), but an implicit assumption is that they should be performed in such a way that the results predict what will happen in patients. Surprisingly, this is not always as easy as it sounds.
This article will cover some of the common mistakes to avoid in order to improve the translation of in vitro transporter interaction data to the clinic.
Drug developers are certainly complying with the FDA's expectations; of the 24 oral or IV small molecule drugs approved by the agency in 2012, 18 have labels that reference transporters. Not only that, fewer and fewer labels reference clinical transporter data because the data is being generated in vitro instead. It seems clear that the FDA is pushing so hard to get in vitro transporter data in order to fill in the current gap in our knowledge about the clinical importance of transporter-mediated drug-drug interactions (DDIs) and the translatability of in vitro test systems.
Within a few years, one hopes that they will have accumulated sufficient data to determine whether the intelligent use of vitro transporter assays can make drug development both faster and safer when it comes to investigating the potential for clinical DDIs.
In the meantime, it is imperative to take into account a few important considerations that can mean the difference between a true result and a false negative (drug regulators have extremely low tolerance for these) or false positive (which will eventually be sorted out later, in clinical trials if necessary). These include:
Do you have the concentration(s) of the test compound you think you have in your in vitro assay? After carefully digesting the relevant regulatory guidance documents, you know the relevant concentration range; for transporter inhibition, it is typically a multiple of the plasma Cmax (total or unbound, depending on the agency) at the highest proposed clinical dose or a fraction of the estimated concentration in the lumen of the small intestine (highest dose divided by 250 mL). So you prepare a dosing solution at the proper concentration. But what concentration of test compound is available to interact with the test system? Don't assume anything until you have tested:
These considerations collectively comprise suitability testing and should be looked at before a transporter assay is run, to ensure the validity of the results of the assay.
Efflux transporters such as P-gp, BCRP, and BSEP are tested with one of two assay formats, (i) bidirectional transport across monolayers of a polarized epithelial cell line (e.g., Caco-2 or transfected MDCK cells) in a dual-chamber plate, or (ii) uptake into inverted plasma membrane vesicles prepared from cells expressing the transporter of interest. Either false negatives or false positives can result unless the characteristics of the test compound are matched to the optimal test system.
Transporter-expressing inverted vesicles fail to identify (false negative) transporter substrates with high passive permeability because the compounds leak back out of the vesicles almost as fast as they are pumped in (Figure 2). Cell lines such as Caco-2, with native expression of P-gp and BCRP, can also fail with highly permeable compounds when active efflux (greater in the basolateral-to-apical direction than apical-to-basolateral) is small in magnitude compared to passive permeability (which is the same in both directions).
For these reasons, the only test system that may be able to identify this type of substrate is a bidirectional assay with a cell line such as MDR1-MDCK, in which P-gp is over-expressed. It should be noted that regulatory agencies are less concerned with in vitro assays missing highly permeable substrates of an efflux transporter because such compounds are unlikely to be victims of DDIs involving the transporter.
On the other hand, for compounds with low to moderate intrinsic permeability it is important to accurately identify transporters for which they are substrates, mainly because of the risk of clinically significant DDIs. For this class of compounds, either inverted vesicles or natively expressing cell lines can be used but the latter may be more clinically relevant due to expression of the full (or nearly full) complement of both uptake and efflux transporters that a drug will encounter in the body.
The importance of the interplay between multiple transporters, including an uptake transporter on one end of a polarized cell and an efflux transporter on the other, is probably under-appreciated. It is noteworthy that overexpressing cell lines such as MDR1-MDCK can result in either false negatives (for compounds requiring a basolateral uptake transporter) or false positives (exaggeration of a minor substrate interaction due to non-physiological expression levels of the efflux transporter) with this type of compound.
To complicate matters even further, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) expects sponsors to evaluate drug candidates as substrates of efflux transporters in two different in vitro test systems, one (e.g., Caco-2) to test for DDI risk involving intestinal absorption and another (e.g., MDR1-MDCK) for DDIs involving systemic disposition.
At least when evaluating a compound as a substrate of uptake transporters, it is a good idea to test a matrix consisting of several test concentrations and several time points; otherwise, there is risk of false negatives as shown in Figure 3.
Chris Bode, Ph.D. ([email protected]), is VP of scientific and corporate communications at Absorption Systems.
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Yeah, you won't find much on MDA, because the level on Mark's Carbohydrate Curve that would correspond to ketosis is understtod to be only for an occasional excursion. Not a focus of interest here.
The most readable account seems to be Volek & Phinney's book The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living. It's interesting and worth getting and reading. I'd say that outside specific applications -- epilepsy, Alzheimers, endurance sports, etc. -- it's not clear that ketogenic diets are a must. However, to state that they're known to be harmful seems like going out on a limb to me. I don't know of any evidence that that's so. Steve Phinney himself has been on a ketogenic diet for 7 years. Since he's a well qualified medical doctor and researcher with a range of equipment and tests available to him I guess he'd have noticed by now if it was affecting his health negatively.


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A: Hmmm. Sounds like the three main things check out: you're pruning at the right time (right after blooms should've happened), you're getting enough sunlight, and the plants should be old enough now to have bloomed. Also a big factor in hydrangea non-bloom is growing a variety that simply isn't bud-hardy. In other words, the plants survive winter just fine, but the flower buds are too tender to make it through most winters. But in this case, if your baby came off of a mother that blooms reliably, that can't explain it either.
The only thing I can think of is your soil nutrition could be seriously out of whack. A soil test would ferret that out. But I really don't think you're going to find anything that bad there either. Which basically means I'm stumped.
Maybe the thing is just being ornery. Once in awhile, root-pruning a balky bloomer will jolt it into flowering because it thinks its survival is in question. This involves coming out about a foot from the main trunk and ramming a shovel down through the roots. Skip a shovel width and do the same thing, repeating the process until you're the whole way around.
Give it one more year after that, and if the hydrangea doesn't produce, try hanging a picture of a really nice new 'Forever and Ever' hydrangea in full bloom next to it. Maybe it'll get the idea. Or maybe you'll make it nervous that you're thinking about replacing her. (It has to be a "she" because a male would've got this blooming thing done by now.)
Seriously, though, if the soil checks out and the root-pruning doesn't help, I'd give up and yank it. There are too many other nicer hydrangeas and shade shrubs to waste space on this deadbeat.


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The Shona proverb I cite most often is chisingapere chinoshura. It's often used to console those enduring hardship, or to help people maintain a sense of perspective at the end of some venture. Sadly, the time has come for me to speak that proverb over myself and this blog.
Outside In has been going for almost two years now. Over that period, I've had the immense pleasure and privilege of writing about life in Ireland, as well as commenting on global current affairs. I've learnt an incredible amount, and have relished the privilege of discussing, debating and sometimes just fighting with all sorts of people – important public figures, anonymous internet users, and Mark, my housemate. I am grateful to, and humbled by, all those who have taken the time to read the things that I've written, those who have gone on to share their own views, and most of all, those who became part of the Outside In community.
So why stop now? Part of the reason is that I don't really have much else to say about the underlying debate informing all the issues discussed on this blog. I can't say precisely what that underlying debate is, but it definitely involves questions around the possibility of making claims for justice and recognition from a position of difference, be that with respect to global poverty, migration or multiculturalism. One of the philosophers I am currently reading, Alasdair MacIntyre, suggests that people within liberal societies have a tendency towards engaging in debate for its own sake, even though there is no hope of resolving those debates. The existence of such debate, he suggests, merely serves to create the impression that various positions are being taken into consideration, when in reality that is not the case; not really. True to my resolution at the beginning of the year, I refuse to Bug Out.
One could argue that I have just given a reason to carry on blogging. Spending the next two years trying to move beyond debate for its own sake, or trying to understand why MacIntyre's critique of modern Western society holds so much water would be time well spent. Maybe one day. For now, I'm tired. I have too much else on my plate. There are other questions, other tasks, which for me are currently more pressing.
So, here ends this particular journey. I leave you in the very able hands of my colleagues, the other Irish Times bloggers. To quote another Shona saying, vakambowonana havashayane, which basically means, 'till we meet again…'


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Taylor said responding deputies walked into the same line of fire and had to take cover behind their cars for a period of time. The father was behind a tree and the daughter was behind another car.
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The enhancement of Decatur's lakefront area in the Nelson Park basin is expected to attract visitors to Decatur, spur economic development, and improve quality of life for all in our community. This project will integrate Nelson Park with the existing attractions located in Scovill Park (Scovill Zoo and Children's Museum of Illinois). For detailed project information, visit the Lakeshore Landing website at www.lakeshorelanding.org. If you have questions or comments, please call Bill Clevenger, Decatur Park District Executive Director, at any time (217/422-5911).
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Transcobalamin II (TCII) is a cobalamin (Cbl)-binding plasma protein
that promotes the cellular uptake of Cbl (vitamin B12) by many
tissues. Transcobalamin II deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive disorder.1
A girl, born to healthy nonconsanguineous parents, was seen at age 3
months with pallor, lethargy, failure to thrive, and hypotonia. At age 7 months,
she was seen by a physician because of pallor, purpura, hypotonia, myoclonia,
epileptiform episodes of blinking, and chronic upper respiratory infections.
Her blood cell count revealed severe pancytopenia. Serum Cbl levels were in
the low to normal range. Methylmalonyl aciduria and homocystinuria were detected.
The total unsaturated Cbl binding capacity of serum, measured as previously
described,2 was 48 pmol/L (reference range,
440-880 pmol/L), without binding of [57Co]Cbl to TCII. Immunoreactive
TCII serum levels were 95 pmol/L (reference, >370 pmol/L). Culture findings
from the patient's fibroblasts incubated with 35S-methionine expressed
immunoreactive radio-labeled TCII with the same molecular weight as native
TCII, but no Cbl-binding TCII was secreted into the culture medium. The patient
was treated with intramuscular cyanocobalamin, 1000 µg every 10 days
for 1 year, and subsequently with oral cyanocobalamin (1000 µg per day)
and oral folic acid until age 16 years.
At age 13 years, she was seen for headaches, lipothymia, epileptiform
myoclonic episodes, cerebellar dysfunction, impairment of the pyramidal track,
and was found to be moderately retarded. There were no ocular abnormalities.
However, at age16 years, she complained of a decrease in visual acuity, found
to be 20/30 OU. Findings from fundus examination revealed a dark oval in the
macula, surrounded by a ring of hypopigmentation. These findings were bilateral
and symmetrical. The peripheral fundus examination showed a diffuse area of
salt and pepper retinopathy associated with rare bone spicule formation (Figure 1). Fluorescein angiography showed
an ovoid zone of hypofluorescence in the macula surrounded by a diffuse hyperfluorescence
(Figure 1). Indocyanine green angiography
findings are shown in Figure 2.
Visual field analysis demonstrated bilateral annular perifoveal scotomata.
Electroretinogram analysis showed decreased amplitude of both A and B waves.
The patient was then started on intramuscular hydroxocobalamin (5000 µg
3 times per week). The episodes of myoclonia and the cordonal posterior pyramidal
signs decreased, as did the methylmalonyl aciduria and homocystinuria. At
age 19 years, best-corrected visual acuity, visual field analysis, electroretinogram
recording, and fluorescein and indocyanine green angiographies remained unchanged.
A, A dark oval area is observed
in the central macula, surrounded by a ring of hypopigmentation. The periphery
of the fundus shows a diffuse area of salt-and-pepper retinopathy associated
with peripheral bone spicule formations. B, At 26 seconds, a diffuse salt-and-pepper
appearance was observed in the whole posterior pole, suggesting association
of window defect and pigmentary mottling. The central macula remained profoundly
hypofluorescent during the sequence.
A, At the early phase, a blockage
of the deep choroidal fluorescence was observed in the central macula (white
arrows). B, Hypofluorescent dots, scattered in the pericentral area, were
observed only on late phase of indocyanine green angiography.
The retinal findings in this patient support the diagnosis of "unusual"
pigmentary retinopathy, with salt-and-pepper fundi. A peculiar bilateral brown
macular ovoid zone was observed, which was hypofluorescent on fluorescein
and indocyanine green angiographic studies. This retinal degeneration may
be similar to the ophthalmologic complications reported in some patients with
the inherited Cbl deficiency. Indeed, 5 patients with inherited Cbl deficiency
and a similar retinopathy to that described in our patient have been reported,
but most of them died in infancy.1,3,4
To our knowledge, this is the first report of retinal dystrophy associated
with congenital TCII deficiency. It is notable that while the patient was
receiving high doses of intramuscular hydroxocobalamin supplementation, no
progression of retinal degeneration was observed.
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Phase II: Possible Conjugations
Glucuronic acid Conjugation
Sulfate Conjugation
Glutathione Conjugation
Conjugation with amino acids
Conjugation with CoA
Glucuronic Acid Conjugation Accounts for major share of conjugates in urine/bile. why?
Good supply of glucuronic acid in liver
Many functional groups can conjugate
Glucuronidation reaction involves:
1.Uridine-5'-Diphosphate-a-D-Glucuronic acid (UDPGA)
2.Binds to the Functional Group
3.Using the enzyme: UDP-Glucuronosyl Transferase (UGT)
Activation of Glucuronic Acid for Transfer
glucose 1-phosphate + UTP------> UDPGA
enzyme: UDPDG dehydrogenase
cofactor: 2NAD
which type of glucuronidation involves the formation of an ester and is very reactive
Acyl glucuronidation
since Acyl Glucuronide forms an ester what tends to happen?
-migration from C1 to C2(occurs by tranesterification)
- Haptens
Concentration of Glucuronides in Urine & Hydrolysis: what happens with Benzidine?
Some glucuronides get cleaved in the urine and return back to the parent form which is a carcinogen and causes bladder cancer
Some endogenous ones excreted into intestinal tract w/ bile(__________)
enterohepatic cycling
__________ in _________ hydrolyzes the glucuronide conjugate back to the drug (for reabsorption into portal circ.)
beta-glucuronidase in intestinal flora
Steps in Enterohepatic Recycling of Glucuronides and consequences?
1. secretion in bile(intestine)
2. hydrolysis by beta-glucuronidase
3. reabsorption into portal circulation
Very lengthy action from recycled drugs!!
Sulfate Conjugation (Sulfation) substrates:
Endogenous: steroids, neurotransmitters, bile acids, thyroxine,
Xenobiotics: phenolic drugs
Conjugation w/ CoA:
What does CoA do?
What are the potential problems with CoA conjugates?
1. activates things for transfer( STILL ACTIVE)
2. makes another active cpd, can be transferred to something else for example a protein
Glutathione Conjugation substrates
Glutathione (GSH)= tripeptide of glycine, cysteine, and glutamic acid
Glutathione Conjugation:
1. Drugs can conjugate to GSH through __ atom, conjugates generally excreted in bile/urine
2. They can then be transformed to ___________( more soluble)
2. mercapturic acid derivatives
mechanism of Glutathione S Transferase (GST)
increases ionization of thiol in GSH
increases its nucleophilicity towards potentially harmful electrophiles, which then react with GSH
Important in detoxification
Suicide mechanism
Reacting and being destroyed to keep other more important parts of the cell safe
Glutathione Conjugation sample substrates
electrophilic carbons
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If Black Label Society's performance at The Forum on Tuesday night is anything to go by, then the tens of thousands of fans who are due to flock to the Melbourne leg of the 2012 Soundwave Festival later this week are in for one hell of a treat.
From the moment guitar icon Zakk Wylde, complete with extravagant native American headdress, and Co. kicked things off with an electrifying rendition of 'Crazy Horse' to the show-ending 'Stillborn' that whipped the loyal members of the BLS Melbourne chapter into a frenzy, the Doom Crew delivered in bucketloads.
BLS supplied their legions of metal-thirsty headbanging junkies with a healthy dose of ass-kicking 'Brewtality' that made the hour-long set seem to go by quicker than the way Zakk's fingers race up and down the fretboard during one of his mind-blowing solos.
And speaking of solos, the former Ozzy Osbourne axeman left everyone gobsmacked when he preceded the final three songs of the night with a guitar-shredding exhibition that lasted no less than eight minutes!
But that was just one of many highlights from a ball-tearer of an evening.
After 'Crazy Horse', the fellas ripped into the fist-pumping 'Funeral Bell' and by the time the third track 'Overlord' was done, you could forgive the fans for needing a breather because the collective amount of energy expended by that time would have already been enough to power the Spirit of Tasmania across Bass Strait and back.
However, the mosh pit continued to feed off the band unabated throughout the set and reached its chaotic zenith when 'Stillborn' pumped through the speakers to cap off an awesome night.
Songs such as 'Fire It Up', 'Bleed For Me' and 'Parade Of The Dead' also stood out in terms of crowd interaction.
In all, four tracks were played from the band's last studio release Order Of The Black (2010) with the other six choices coming from four of the five albums that immediately preceded it.
The fact that no songs were chosen to be played from the band's first two brilliant LP's Sonic Brew and Stronger Than Death may have caused some consternation amongst the traditionalists in the crowd.
But even the slightest hint of disappointment was undetectable from a supremely satisfied audience who bore witness to BLS producing a phenomenally tight, adrenaline-inducing performance.
It's sometimes easy to forget that there are three other members of BLS such is the sheer presence and aura of Mr Wylde, but John DeServio (bass), Nick Catanese (rhythm guitar) and newbie Chad Szeliga (drums) all played their parts seamlessly to ensure a faultless, super professional showing.
Their concert was shorter than usual because Hellyeah served as support along with Black Tide.
Hellyeah, led by legendary Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul, were a ball of fun and provided the perfect warm-up for BLS.
The southern metal supergroup took all the components of Pantera, Damageplan, Mudvayne and Knives Out! and compressed them into an attention-grabbing energy-filled 40 minutes.
Hellyeah will also feature at Soundwave on Friday at the Melbourne Showgrounds and are definitely worth checking out.
BLS setlist
Crazy Horse
Funeral Bell
Parade Of The Dead
Bleed For Me
Suicide Messiah
Fire It Up
Zakk Guitar Solo
Godspeed Hellbound
Concrete Jungle
Hellyeah setlist
Matter Of Time
Hell Of A Time
Rotten To The Core
You Wouldn't Know
Cowboy Way
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They flock to Washington, D.C. from all over the country with one goal: to pray for America.
Stay-tuned for continuing CBN News coverage of TheCall in Washington, D.C., throughout this weekend.
They gather for a few days, a few weeks, some for over a year - young people who stand in silent prayer each day in front of the Supreme Court.
What are they praying for? Mainly that Americas would give their hearts to Jesus Christ, and in turn, more righteous leaders would arise.
But at The Justice House of Prayer, they are anything but silent. JHOP is within walking distance of the Supreme Court. And it's where people like Tiffani and Christina fulfill the biblical mandate of praying for leaders and those in authority.
"We have already seen two righteous justices put into the Court, and that's the first time that has happened in 11 years! So prayer, even in the weakest form, silently in front of the Supreme Court does work," Tiffani said.
The idea came about in the fall of 2004 when God led Lou Engle, co-founder of TheCall - another prayer movement - and a group of young adults to pray for Washington elections.
Subsequently, Engle prayed for God to provide a location close to the Supreme Court, the White House, and the Capitol, where they could begin to pray for America's leaders. God answered and JHOP was established.
"What we do in America impacts all the other nations of the world. Our music, our culture, our laws, they affect the other nations. So if America is a bright and shining lamp for Jesus, then it'll affect all the nations of the world," Christina said.
Christina is convinced that through fervent prayer, America will return to the biblical foundation on which she was established.
"I was like asking the Lord, 'What do You want me to do?' And He's like, 'Pray the Constitution.' So I went and got a Constitution at one of these little shops here and just started praying the Preamble, "We the people of the United Stares, in order to form a more perfect Union…" Our country's not unified…" she said.
And pray she did.
"I just started praying for unity, to establish justice - that's the second thing…union and justice," she recalled. "We're right out there in front of the Supreme Court and I'm like, 'Wow Lord, I can see why You want me to pray this.' God wants us to honor Him. And when we honor Him we'll honor one another and it'll be a perfect place to live."
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New theatre offers tragedy by candlelight
15 Jan 2014 - 11:49
LONDON: London has a new theatre lit entirely by candles, transporting audiences back 400 years to the kind of performances seen on winter nights in Shakespeare's time.
Constructed mainly of oak, the building sits alongside the open-air Globe theatre on the south bank of the Thames — but it offers a very different experience by replicating an indoor playhouse of the early 17th century.
While the Globe's thatched amphitheatre is breezy and holds more than 1,500 people, the new Sam Wanamaker Playhouse — named after the American actor and director who came up with the idea for both venues — is intimate, with just 340 seats.
Stepping inside is like entering an antique marquetry box, with the flickering candlelight illuminating woodwork and a painted ceiling that make a fine setting for the inward-looking psychological dramas of the Jacobean period.
In many ways the small indoor space is an "anti-Globe," according to artistic director Dominic Dromgoole, whose production of John Webster's dark tragedy "The Duchess of Malfi" opened there on January 9.
Modelled on drawings that fell out of an old book in the library at Worcester College, Oxford, in the 1960s, the new playhouse offers a wintertime option for Dromgoole and his team.
The second venue builds on the outdoor success of the Globe, which has been putting on shows since 1997 and had its first transfer to Broadway in November. Given the British weather, the Globe can operate only from April to October,
The sketches that form the basis for the £7.5m ($12.4m) project are the earliest surviving evidence of what an indoor Jacobean theatre would have looked like, although the final building is not a copy of any particular historical venue.
The idea of heading inside in the winter months would have been very familiar to William Shakespeare and his peers - as would the choice of play.
"The Duchess of Malfi" was first performed by the King's Men acting company to which Shakespeare belonged at a similar indoor theatre across the river at Blackfriars in 1613 or 1614.
It is a tale of corruption, murder and madness that exposes the dark side of human nature, prompting the poet TS Eliot famously to describe Webster as a dramatist who "saw the skull beneath the skin".
With a macabre scene of waxwork corpses and a grave-digging semi-werewolf duke, Webster piles on a surreal horror that gains a claustrophobic immediacy in the small candle-lit theatre.
The show burns through dozens of beeswax candles to illuminate the action, some in candelabras and others held by the actors, although a certain amount of artificial electric light does leak in through internal windows in some scenes.
The effect is unique, with the candlelight reflecting off the actors' white neck ruffs and glittering from the golden dress worn by Gemma Arterton, who plays the doomed duchess.
The play will have its press night today but the show, which also includes period music, is already getting rave write-ups on Twitter from those who have seen it, with visitors describing the setting as "gorgeous" and "amazing".
Dromgoole is preparing next to present other works from more of Shakespeare's contemporaries — including Francis Beaumont and John Marston — as well as an opera by Francesco Cavalli and several concerts.


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The intertubes is a funny thing. In various forums on various websites, I've been aware of Marty Hansen, aka The Godbeast, for years. His work has always been amazing to me from his custom cast Battle Beasts, M.U.S.C.L.E., and MOTU to his prototype sculpting/design work, to his totally original creations. When I heard that The Godbeast was going to be at C2E2 with some amazing exclusives in tow, I just had to do a quick pre-convention interview with him.
The Godbeast was cool enough to take tome time out of his C2E2 preparation in order to answer a few of Nerd City's questions:
I've enjoyed your work for years, from your custom cast Battle Beasts to MOTU pieces. How did you get started on the whole process of sculpting/ casting your own stuff?
In 1998 or so I was sculpting and attempting to mold/cast these sculpts and toys. Without the proper equipment my casts were demolding filled w/ air bubbles. In 2001 I was at the Brookside Art Show in Kansas City, MO. While strolling, looking at the different artists' works, I stopped at a booth that had incredible large caricature sculpts and multiple copies of each. It just so happened I stumbled upon who would eventually be NECA Toys' master mold maker/prototyper Adam Smith. While I was asking him about his incredible works of art, he offered to have me come work w/ him in his studio. I waited about 3-4 months (didn't want to come off as a fan-boy/stalker) and ended up training w/ Adam for a few hours a few time a month for 1-2 months.
Over the years, you've done some amazing prototyping work for other people, as well. How did that come about?
Lee's Toy Review did an article about me in March 2006 issue #161. That I do believe was the first door that opened for me enabling me to reach toy designers and collectors that were in need of my skills. Other than that, I do believe it is also a lot of "word of mouth."
What classic toylines inspire you and what current stuff do you think is cool?
Battle Beasts obviously inspired me for years. Now I would have to say my sons' sketches & sculpts, along w/ other resin artists' works inspire me way more than the big toy cartels' mass produced plastic. I think my interests and inspirations have definitely evolved as I have aged.
I think it's really cool that you're producing some pieces based upon designs by your sons. Can you tell us a bit about those lines and how that idea came about?
I was a visual arts educator for 7 years in North Kansas City, MO. During that time I taught summer sculpting art lessons to several of students. During my final year of teaching (became a stay-at-home-father) I had just trained w/ Adam and the thought of reproducing multiple copies in endless colorways of my students work would be incredible!!! Even though I never attempted this, after years and years of my sons asking me, "Dad when can we make toys?" and "Dad when I grow up I wanna do what you do and be an artist." a light bulb went on in my skull…I thought to myself, if they can sculpt their own characters from their sketchbooks, I could mold and cast their sculpts/characters into toys of their own. It was never a $-making idea, it was more pure than that and I thought of it as more of a kid "bragging rights" thang for my sons w/ their friends. Like, "Hey, I have my very own toys/figures!"
What is your workspace like?
I have 2 studios…a indoor sculpting/painting studio and a detached molding/casting studio. I am fairly organized and tidy, however, when I have been working like a sweatshop, things pile up at times. I always clean up and organize my studios/workplaces every couple of months.
What can we expect from The Godbeast at C2E2?
I will have a limited # of Larvoids (like 20-21 tops), 8 different Infection figures (possibly as many as 12 sets) which I will sell individually for the first time, and several other goodies.
What future projects can we look forward to from you?
For starters, Mr. Simeon Lipman has put together an incredible wax packs card series of Artists for release in June. http://www.thearthustle.com/ When he asked me to participate, I didn't even have to consider it for more than 1 second. This "Art Hustle" card series 1 looks to be pretty snazzy and Simeon is quite the visionary.
Simeon also asked if I would like to have a piece of my work included in a Pop Art & Culture auction through Freeman's Auction House in Philadelphia, Sept. 2010. They will be auctioning off my Albino Abominable. (Photo on my site under prototyping)
I have a pretty earth shattering project I have been negotiating w/ a lead sculptor (now freelance) for a major toy company. If this project comes to fruition, there will be PLENTY of super stoked fans out there in toyland.
Thanks, Marty!
The Godbeast will be at C2E2 at the Jay's CD & Hobby booth (#1219) on 04.16 from 1pm-6pm and on 04.17 from 11am-3pm.
For more info on The Godbeast and his work, please check out his official site here.


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Jack Forsyth BRISTED + Isabel Stuart REID - Wellington
Jack Forsyth BRISTED (1896-1984)
was married 24 August 1937 at First Church, Dunedin to
Isabel Stuart REID (1910-1973)
* Isabel's sister, Betty Stuart Reid (Mrs Kenneth MASON) travelled down from Karori, Wellington to be her matron of honour.
* They spent a month in Sydney, Australia for their honeymoon, leaving on the Tasman passenger liner "WANGANELLA" on 2 Sep 1937
JACK BRISTED was born 4 May 1896, a son of:
Arthur Henry BRISTED (1859-1943) of Avonside, Christchurch, a well known sportsman and editor of the "Weekly Press" and the "NZ Reference" and of Kathleen 'Kate' GRIFFITH (1868-1926)
Jack's known siblings were:
* 1895 - 1917 - Edward Griffith "Ned" Bristed
Edward was KILLED IN ACTION Ypres Belgium 3 Dec 1917
* 1902 - 1941 Frank Griffith Bristed
- married Frances Jean McDOUGALL (1901-1988) in 1928
Frank DIED OF WOUNDS Egypt WWII 20th Infantry Battalion, Egypt
* 1904 - Kathleen Griffith Bristed
Kathleen she was a champion NZ swimmer & diver and the Secretary of the Shirley Golf Club, Christchurch in 1929
she married W. G. HEWSON and moved to Bride, Cornwall in 1942 (they had been living in South of England before they moved to Gibraltar in 1931) where her husband was secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet
- she returned to Christchurch in 1937 for a visit, giving a 5 o'clock party at her brother Frank Griffith Bristed's home in Fendalton, Christchurch (which has a reputation as one of the country's more well-to-do and refined suburbs)
ISABEL REID was born 18 June 1910, a daughter of Charles Stuart REID (1867-1912), a Stock Agent of North Taieri, Otago who died aged 35 after a motor accident when Isabel was 21 months old and of Elizabeth PATRICK (1872-1949) of Dunedin
Isabel's known siblings were:
* 1898 - Mira/Mina Isabella Reid
- married Robert Gemmell Burnett SINCLAIR in 1925
* 1900 - Donald MacGregor Reid
- married Olive Margaret EMERSON in 1924
* 1904 - William Patrick Reid
- married Kathleen SPENCE in 1925
* 1906 - Betty Stuart Reid
- married Kenneth Randall/Randel MASON in 1928
* 1908 - Frances Margaret Macgregor Reid
During the 1930s "5 to 7 o'clock parties" were very popular and often held as a social get together for many reasons such as pre wedding parties, "pre dancing" get togethers, farewells, entertaining dignitaries, etc etc
Jack attended may of these parties before and after his marriage - his sister had married Paymaster Lieutenant Commander W. G. HEWSON R.N. (Jack & Isabel spent the Christmas holidays of 1937 at their seaside home with the Hewsons in South Raumati and the following week they all motored up to Taupo)
On the evening of the 21st March 1939 Jack and Isabel entertained a number of their friends at their residence of 187 The Terrace, Wellington at a 5 o'clock party
As the Hostess, Isabel wore an afternoon frock of black tulip wool crepe with a single rope of pearls at the high neckline. She had arranged beautiful flowers in the reception rooms
Among the invited guests were:
ASHTON, Charles & his wife
BLUNDELL, Barry & his wife Marjorie (nee MORICE, a granddaughter of the Hon Richard John SEDDON, see link below)
- Barry was a son of Walter Blundell of the "Evening Post"
BOOTH, Miss Grace Spencer. From Frizinghall, Yorkshire, England. She married George 'Duncan' Dunbar GRAY in September 1939 at St Paul's Cathedral. She was given away by Jack Bristed. The reception was held at Jack & Isabel's home. Her brother, Spencer BOOTH was given several hours leave from his anti-aircraft battery to attend the wedding
BRADSHAW, Gerald Belfield (1894-1977) & his wife Eileen Annie (nee BRIDGE 1901-1962). In 1939 they lived in Friend St, Karori
BRANDON, Mr Alfred de Bathe D.S.O., M.C. was a Flying Officer in WWI and was awarded the M.C. for a gallant attack on a Zeppelin and the D.S.O. for services in the destruction of Zeppelins. He was to marry Ada 'Mabel' PERRY (1903-1993) in January 1942. Mabel was given away by her brother Roland Maunsell Perry (1899-1991) shown at that link with his aunt Frances Pigott MAUNSELL (1865-1959). The parents of Mabel & Roland were George Henry PERRY & Ada Mary MAUNSELL of Masterton. Mabel had been living in Heretaunga for a number of years where she had a riding school. They lived for a time afterwards at 17 Hobson St Thorndon
BRANDON, Philip (1900-1992) & his wife Vivienne (nee MORRIS). Philip was a Solicitor and a brother of Alfred de Bath Brandon above (see link). They lived at 15 Oban St Wadestown, Wellington in Octobr 1934 when a son was born - a day before a son was born to Colin & Catherine CLAYTON (below).
BUXTON, Tom
CLARRY, Wilfred Masey & his wife Cecil? Margaret Wentworth (nee STOCK). Wilfred was born in Australia. Cecil's grandfather was the Venerable Archdeacon Arthur Stock of Wellington. Her father was Bernard Robert Stock, well known in yachting and goling circles and manager of the AMP Society in Dunedin, he died in London in 1936, her mother, Mary Florence COOKSON died in Wellington in 1929. Wilfred was promoted to Corporal of the G Company in 1917 by the Commandant of Trentham Camp, Lieutenant Colonel H. R. POTTER. He served as Sergeant Major #40664, with the New Zealand Rile Brigade, Reinforcements G Company, embarking on 12th June 1917 on the HMNZT 86 MAUNGANUI. In July 1936 Cecil & her sister Audrey Florence (Mrs Norri Stephen FALLA) travelled together on the "Makura" for a visit to England. Wilfred served in WWII as a Liutenant, enlisted in January 1940, entered asa probationary n.c.o. at Trenthamwas reported missing, later found to be a Prisoner of War in February 1942, repatriated in 1944. His next of kin was his wife at 56a Hobson St Thorndon, Wellington. Wilfred was a very keen golf player, played badminton & tennis and played bowls for the Thorndon Club
CLAYTON, Colin Rhuddian (1907-1991) & his wife Catherine Marya (nee HARPUR-NIXON 1907-1999) of Fancourt St Karori. A number of these guests often attended their 5 o'clock parties also. They had a son on 28th Octobr 1934, a day after the BRANDON's (above) had a son
COLLEDGE, Geoffrey
- a baritone singer of radio and stage & Captain of the Kiwi Concert Party
COOKE, Philip & his wife Valmai Digby (nee GORE 1901-1990) of 6 Halswell St Thorndon - sister of Eru Digby & Ross Digby GORE below. In June 1937 they held a 'sherry party' for 70 people at their home in Halswell St prior to them all attending the Thorndon Lawn Tennis Club annual dance at the Mayfair Cabaret. They gave a 5 o'clock party in March 1938 for Paymaster Liuetenant Commander W. G. Hewson and his wife Kathleen Griffith (nee BRISTED) who were leaving for a months visit to Kathleen's father in Christchurch, a number of these guests attended that party
GAMBLE, J. & his wife
GILMER, Miss Mae, sister of Patricia Gilmer below
GILMER, Miss Patricia
- married Eric REEVES in June 1939. Some of the people here attended her wedding; Tripe, Mason, Blundell, Levin,
GILMOUR, Lindsay Ritchie (1899-1983) & his wife Linda Annie (nee POST 1902-1983). Linda was from Invercargill. They lived for a time in 1931 in Lower Hutt. Lived at 243 The Terrace in 1938, and moved to Sayes Court The Terrace.
GOODWIN, Geoffrey Denzil Mallaby & his wife Mildred (nee HEWETT). He was a Flight Lieutenant with the R.A.F. serving in Malaya, the Dutch West Indies and Ceylon. In 1931 they lived in Lower Hutt. They were among the first in New Zealand to fly their own private aeroplane, ZK-AAF, making frequent flights around the country when aerodromes were few. He was the first overseas competitor in the King's Cup Air Race and the first member of the Wellington Aero Club to go solo and get his A licence. In February 1932 they flew down to Marlborough for a tennis party at Mrs Everard WELD's, returning that afternoon
GORE, Eru Digby (1906-1947)
- son of Henry Morland GORE & Annie Elizabeth MILLER
- Eru was a Land Agent on The Terrace and Secretary-Manager of the National Art Gallery in Wellington, also a brother of Ross below and Valmae (Mrs Cooke) above
GORE, Ross Digby (1904-1981) & his wife Barbara (nee STANDISH)
- brother of Eru and Valmai (Mrs Cooke) above
GRAY, George 'Duncan' Dunbar . He married Grace BOOTH in September 1939. They lived at Grant Rd, Thorndon
LECKIE, Mr B
LEVIN, Charles & his wife of Homewood Ave, Karori
MacDONALD, John & his wife
MALFROY, Margaret
MARCHBANKS, Charles & his wife
MASON, Howard & his wife Anne (nee MARCH)
MASON, Kenneth & his wife Betty (nee REID), see above link at Howard
MAUDSLEY, Miss Valmai June
- Valmai married Leiutenant Henry Edward Martin WILLIAMS N.Z.M.C. in 1940
MILNE, George & his wife
NOAKES, Mrs Norman of Auckland. Possibly a sister of Erna Porter. Her husband Norman was a well known Waihi dentist who received a commission in the Dental Corps in 1916
PATERSON, B & his wife
PATERSON, Morton & his wife
PORTER, Miss Erna, lived in Bolton St, Wellington in 1935
REEVES, Major Eric
- in July 1926 his motor car valued at 300 ($25,651 in 2010) was stolen and driven about for 2-3 hours by Norman Francis SANDBROOK.
- married Patricia GILMER (above) in 1939
- a Wholesale Agent, Eric Reeves & Co., in Ford Building, Courtney Place Wellington
- an Officer of the NZ Ex Libris Society, President of the Wellington Tennis Umpires Association, Chairman of the National Relief Fund for Spanish Refugee Children, Dominion organiser of the NZ Defence League
- lived in Tinakori Rd in 1939 & Lower Hutt in 1941
REID, Brian & Mrs
RIDDLER, Stanley (1890-1967) a Surgeon Dentist & his wife Irene Irene Elizabeth May "Betty" (nee GORST-TRAVIS 1902-1995) of Eastbourne & Heretaunga
ROBERTS, George & his wife
TODD, Andrew & his wife
TRIPE, Richard Edward (1906-1968) & his wife
- son of Joseph Albert TRIPE (B.A., LL.B. Barrister & Solicitor in partnership with Thomas Young, son of Dr Tripe of Wellington) & Mary Elizabeth RICHARDSON of Heretaunga
- graduated in 1930 from Auckland Unversity with a LL.M.
TURNBULL, W. G. & his wife
WARD, Hon Vincent & his wife Sybil Mary (nee PETRE)
- the Hon. Vincent Aubrey Ward was born in Bluff on 4 January 1888. He was the son of Right Honourable Sir Joseph George WARD, 1st Bt, 17th Prime Minister of NZ and Theresa Dorothea de SMIDT. He married Sybil Mary PETRE, daughter of Robert George Petre and Elizabeth Grace FERGUSON, on 14 December 1926. He died on 9 February 1946 at age 58.
WEBSTER, Daniel Garcia "Dan" & his wife Letty (nee Levien) of Heretaunga. A son of Dr Garcia Webster an Ophthalmic Surgeon
WELSH, St Vincent his wife
WHITCOMBE, Alexander "Alec"
WHITCOMBE, Basil Cuthbert Hawkes (1899-1976) & his wife Jennie "Billie" Spotswood (nee BEAN 1895-1951). Billie's parents were the Reverend Walter Stanley Bean and Jane Ann SEDDON, eldest daughter of the Right Hon. Richard John Seddon, Premier of NZ
WHYTE, Douglas & his wife
WHYTE, Miss Helen
WHYTE, R. A. & his wife
WILLIAM, T. W. & his wife
WIREN, Sidney Archibald (1899-1970) & his wife Marjorie Halstead (nee CARR) - Sidney graduated from the Victoria University with a B.A. & LL.B. in 1919
YOUNG, Russell - eldest son of Arthur Young of Kelburn Wellington. Attended Victoria University College where he studied Chemistry and gained his B.Sc and M.Sc degrees. Represented Victoria College in Tennis. Held the NZ University Boxing title. Received his lawn tennis full Blue at Cambridge University in 1926. Lived in Wadestown in 1935
In 1937, shortly after their marriage, Jack & Isabel were living at Carlton Flats, The Terrace, Wellington
In 1939 Jack & Isabel were living at 187 The Terrace, Wellington
In 1940 Jack & Isabel were living at 23 Everton Terrace in Kelburn, Wellington
In May 1937 Jack attended the wedding held in the Wellington Basilica of Alison May Pearce of Wellington & Bryan Martell Silk of Wanganui both of two well known families, Bryan being an amateur golf champion, Kirk-Windeyer Cup representative and holder of the Wellington Provincial title. There were over 400 guests
In July 1937, a month prior to their wedding, Jack & Isabel attended the
Annual Ball of the United Services Club held in the St Francis Hall in Wellington
Among the many guests were:
the Governor General, his Excellency Sir George Vere Arundell Monckton-Arundell Galway Viscount GALWAY GCMG, DSO, OBE, PC
Major A. PURVIS and his wife
Captain STUART-FRENCH
Lieutenant Colonel R. W. FENTON, N.Z.A. and his wife
Captain R. D. OLIVER, R.N. and his wife
Captain J. MERCER and his wife
Captain JERVIS N.Z.S.C. and his wife
Doctor & Mrs J. ZOHRAH
Squadron Leader A. de T. NEVILLE
Major General Sir William SINCLAIR-BURGESS
Liuetenat Colonel O. H. MEAD and his wife
Liuetnant Colonel R. A. ROW
Wing Commander T. WILKES and his wife
Commander V. G. WEBB and his wife
Colonel W. H. CUNNINGHAM and his wife
Colonel R St J. BEERE
Colonel F. T. BOWERBANK and his wife
Major W. G. STEVENS and his wife
Major R. S. PARK and his wife
Major D. A. CARTY
Major W. H. BULL and his wife
Major C. H BEACH and his wife
Major W F. SHIER and his wife
Lieutenant B. D. FITZGERALD
Captin M. J. R. McBRIDE and his wife
Captain S. G. NICHOLSON
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Jack's mother Kate died in Christchurch in May 1926 aged 58.
She was a daughter of E. G. Griffith an English journalist
In 1926 Jack was a Supervisor for the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co., Adelaide
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The Pet Shop Boys (yeah, I didn't know they were still around either) have released a new video for their single "Integral". It is, in their own words
"... sung from the point of view of the authoritarian New Labour-style government. "If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear" is always used as a justification for ID cards. What we object to about ID cards is that they're intelligent cards with a data strip that can link to a central database containing personal information which may be shared with America; when you say you don't want that, they always say that if you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to hide. But I think we all have a right to privacy. I feel it's a move that suggests we have to justify ourselves to the state before the state will trust us, and I think it's for us to trust the state and not the other way round. I think the government has to win our trust, not us win their trust."
So, here is the video (although it works better in widescreen, available on their website).


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New York pizza is probably the best known pizza "type" in the world - but it's evolved, grown, and spawned several important subtypes worthy of mentioning here.
NOTE: most pizzerias in New York City sell pizza either in whole pies or by the slice. If a New York pizza place doesn't sell slices, they'll let you know!
First, the basic NY Pie, usually known as Neapolitan, or 'round'. Referred to by several pizza writers and aficionados as "neo-Neapolitan", because it differs from the true Neapolitan pizza in many significant ways (see our page on Verace Pizza Napoletana). The New York pizza found on just about every street in the City and suburbs is round in shape with a reasonably thin crust (not wafer thin, maybe around 1/4"), with sauce, aged mozzarella cheese, garlic (usually pronounced gah-lick) powder, and various toppings. Usually made in a gas oven, the dough is stretched (occasionally tossed, but that's mostly for the tourists), covered with a sauce primarily made of canned tomatoes with spices or a cooked sauce, and liberally covered with cheese.
The second most common style of pizza in New York City is the Sicilian, or 'square' pie. Characterized by its thick crust, sicilian pizza is baked in an oiled pan, giving the crust a completely different taste from that of its round cousin. The crust of a sicilian pie is much more bready than the neopolitan, and usually has a tomato sauce that was more thoroughly cooked before the baking of the pie. Most places also use a lot of cheese on Sicilian pizza. More and more, it seems like New York pizza is defined by "a lotta cheese."
A notable exception is L & B Spumoni Gardens in Brooklyn. L & B grates their cheese over the sauce, producing a lighter slice. Not light, but lighter, and more balanced with less cheese, with a taste like no other.
Spumoni Gardens is more than just great and unique Sicilian pizza - it's a journey into a working class Italian-American Brooklyn that most Americans haven't seen outside the movies. If you visit Brookyn and you haven't been to L & B, go for the pizza, the spumoni (a delicious ice milk dessert) and for the overheard conversations! Just don't listen too closely, capisce?
The quintessential article on Grandma's pizza and its history was written by Erica Marcus for Newsday in 2003. The article was reprinted in Newsday's food blog in September 2008 and can be found here.
While it's not very difficult to find amazingly good pizza in New York City, many New Yorkers agree that the general quality of New York pizza has declined tremendously in our lifetime. The mere existence of chain and franchise pizza restaurants in NYC shows how things have changed - a Pizza Hut or even a Sbarro's trying to open in Manhattan, Brooklyn or The Bronx 25 years ago would have been met with a loud "getoutaheah" and "fuggedaboutit"; now they're everywhere! And many neighborhood pizzerias, traditionally the keepers of the flame, now produce an overcheesed and undercooked product, giving the consumer a feeling of fullness and a 'pizza-esque' taste, in some cases out-franchising the franchises!
How did this happen? The major cause is the shift in generations - the older pizzaioli are mostly out of the game and the younger generation doesn't want to make pizza - leaving the art and craft of pizza making in the hands of those who lack the skill and/or passion.
It seems to have been one or more of the Ray's Pizza places that began the 'cheesification' of New York pizza.
As you travel the streets of Manhattan, you'll see many pizzerias bearing the name "Ray's Pizza" or "Original Ray's Pizza," or most commonly, "Famous Original Ray's Pizza." In fact, an episode of The Simpsons that aired in the late 1990's featured a pizzeria with a sign that read, "Famous Original Ray's Pizza - Not Affiliated With Famous Original Ray's Pizza!"
All Ray's pizzas and slices, no matter where they are, are distinguished by a doughy undercooked crust, plentiful toppings, and mozzarella cheese both under and OVER the toppings! And some people just love it.
Who is Ray? Well, the question of Ray's identity has never been as important to New Yorkers as which was the first Ray's, or Famous Ray's, or Original Ray's, or Famous Original Ray's. Cary always thought it was the Ray's pictured above, the one on Sixth Avenue and 11th Street, where he had OD'd on the mozzarella many times back in the '70's. Cary was incorrect.
Almost twenty years ago, there was a legal war among a number of pizzeria owners claiming to own the name Ray's Pizza. People still argue over this, although the mystery seems to have been solved in a 1991 New York Times article:
Documents gathered during the Rays' legal battle show that there was no Ray's Pizza listed in the 1959 Manhattan telephone book. That was the year Ralph Cuomo, the 22-year-old son of immigrants from southern Italy, opened a pizzeria in Little Italy, using his mother's recipe.It was at 27 Prince Street, between Mott and Elizabeth Streets, on the first floor of a building that his family lived in and owned. The next year's telephone book listed the name: Ray's Pizza.
It was at 27 Prince Street, between Mott and Elizabeth Streets, on the first floor of a building that his family lived in and owned. The next year's telephone book listed the name: Ray's Pizza.
Could there have been a Ray's Pizza without a phone in the 1950's? Sure. But nobody has come forward to dispute Mr. Cuomo's place as the authentic original Ray. And he's still serving up the slices at 27 Prince Street.
Now if you're not confused enough, even though the Ray's at 27 Prince is the original Ray's Pizza, it's not one of the pizzerias known as Famous Original Ray's Pizza. In the same 1991 article, Ralph Cuomo says, "Their pizza gives us a bad name...I don't want to knock anyone else, but there's nothing like our Ray's."
In our opinion, if you really love your mozzarella, one Ray's is about as good as another. And for better or worse, it's New York pizza.Return from New York Pizza to Types of Pizza
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Sir, As a retired GP and a practising consultant psychiatrist, we have a collective experience of the lifetime of the NHS. We have been through numerous meaningless structural changes, but never before have we witnessed such an assault on the values of the founding principles of the NHS. The reforms proposed by Andrew Lansley (report and leading article, Dec 16) would in practice create only illusive empowerment of GPs and patients. It is a recipe for confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation, especially if implemented with breakneck speed and against the advice of professional bodies such as the British Medical Association and


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Chicken Satay Gets a Little Nuttier with Almond Butterby Joseph Erdos in Recipes, Shows, May 21st, 2014
For this week's Chopped Dinner Challenge, the chefs of Food Network Kitchen chose to feature the basket ingredient almond butter. Traditionally a satay is made with peanut butter, but the chefs wanted to prove that almond butter makes a great substitution, with a slightly nuttier, richer flavor. In this Almond Chicken Satay recipe, the almond butter gets combined with coconut milk to create a tasty sauce for seared chicken breast, snap peas and rice noodles. Try this unique take on the classic Thai dish for dinner tonight.


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Wake Forest did all its work in the third and fourth innings to hold on to a 5-2 victory over Clemson at Wake Forest Baseball Park on Thursday night.
The Demon Deacons, who took a 1-0 series lead, improved to 30-22 overall and 11-17 in the ACC. The Tigers fell to 32-22 overall and 16-12 in league play.
Wake Forest hit five singles in the third inning to score three runs, then a two-out double plated another run in the fourth inning. Richie Shaffer laced a two-out, two-run double in the eighth inning, but it was not enough for Clemson, who out-hit Wake Forest, 7-6.
The Tigers looked to mount a rally in the sixth inning when Jason Stolz led off with a single to left field. Steve Wilkerson followed with a hit up the middle, but Tim Cooney snagged the liner to start a double play.
Clemson starter Dominic Leone (6-4) suffered the loss, as he surrendered six hits, five runs (four earned) and three walks with five strikeouts.
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quote: Another complaint they have is that no warning sounds are emitted when the vehicle is idling.
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I have similar loogey issues. It usually hits right after I eat. Starts with needing to clear the throat and ends with a massive hawker. I have noticed since being primal for almost 2 years, that I only get it now when I eat and extra saucy/spicy meal. Dry salad or meat doesn't provoke this response, but anything covered in sauce does. Sauces in this context can be anything from butter to olive oil or CO oil. However, the worst phlegm build-up occurs after getting a non-primal sauce like you'd find at an oriental restaurant with soy sauce, MSG, or corn starch.
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Updated late afternoon Tuesday.......
The NWS in Omaha is conducting storm surveys on the tornadoes from Monday.
One of the twin tornadoes hit the town of Pilger and the NWS has confirmed at least EF4 damage with the survey continuing.
The second tornado passed just outside of Pilger.
EF4 damage would have winds of 170 to almost 200 mph.
Here is an aerial view of the tornado track right through the center of town.
Here are before and after pictures of the bank downtown.
There were 10 large grain bins in town and all of them were destroyed.
Here is a pic of the tornado as it was hitting Pilger.
It is very rare to have two strong tornadoes this strong side by side like this.


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No city in the world has more free stuff to do. In addition to world-class museums without a ticket admission, you get the parks, canal walks, super markets (Portobello Road Market at Notting Hill Gate, Camden Market at Chalk Farm Rd, wonderful Columbia Road Flower Market at Gosset St in East London etc) and maybe some royal-spotting, and you can fill a life. London, thank you! Here's the mere start of the free list: 1. The London Traveler. London city guide. LONDON. Visiter Londres à la sauce rock. Visiter Londres, c'est immanquablement aller voir Big Ben, monter dans la coupole de la cathédrale Saint-Paul, passer son dimanche dans Camden Town, flâner le long de la Tamise jusqu'aux Docklands, traverser Hyde Park le nez au vent ou courir dans la prairie de Hampstead Heath.
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"The King County Sheriff's Office believes in the crime prevention and crime reporting value of alarm systems," explains Sheriff Dave Reichert. "However, the toll on police resources from false alarms has reached the point that your Sheriff's Office can no longer respond to every alarm report it receives," he said.
It's a little like the boy who cried wolf, although it isn't clear what will happen if the wolf strikes after the fourth false alarm.
According to Captain Dick Baranzini of the Sheriff's Office, "it just costs too much" to send officers to each false alarm the county has.
Once a premise reaches three alarms in a six-month period, the owner will receive a notice from the county advising them of the no-response status after the next alarm. The alarm-monitoring company, if any, will also receive the notice.
The City of Woodinville will begin enforcing a similar program, though it will fine rather than not enforce.
According to the Sheriff's Office, the goal is for the owner or alarm company to take steps to fix their system. Since 1994, the county has been working with other police agencies and alarm companies to educate home and business owners about the value of maintenance and training to reduce false alarms.
"Our 1999 change is just another step in a series of actions to reduce the drain on police resources caused by false alarms," said Baranzini.


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Economic Information Bulletin No. (EIB-101) 36 pp, October 2012
Farm operators and their households have a choice in how their
entrepreneurial and managerial skills are used to earn business
income. They can focus on traditional commodity production, use
farm resources to produce other (noncommodity) goods and services,
or operate an off-farm business in addition to their onfarm
activities. Close to a third of U.S. farm households generate
income by engaging in off-farm business ventures and onfarm
activities independent of commodity production. The latter,
referred to as onfarm diversification activities, range from
operating agritourism ventures to supplying forest products to
selling output at farmers' markets. Farm operators also may own
off-farm businesses, which face fluctuating conditions in the
economy. Average off-farm business income earned by farm households
was $63,800 in 2001, peaked at $76,800 in 2006, and fell to $42,700
in 2008.
In 2007, close to a third of all U.S. farm households-or 686,600
farm households-engaged in 791,000 income-generating activities
distinct from commodity production, creating $26.7 billion in
household income. Onfarm diversification activities and off-farm
business ventures each accounted for about half of these
income-generating activities, but off-farm businesses had the
largest impact on the local economy by generating about 80 percent
of total noncommodity business income earned by farm
The farms operated by households engaged in alternative (i.e.,
noncommodity) entrepreneurial activities produced almost 40 percent
of the total value of U.S. agricultural production in 2007. This
suggests that households associated with farms of all sizes engage
in alternative entrepreneurial activities, not just those
associated with "part-time" or "hobby" farms.
Over 290,000 farm households engaged only in onfarm
diversification activities in 2007, earning approximately $14,400
per farm from these activities. Custom work, direct-to-consumer
sales of local foods, and agritourism activities like pick-your-own
operations accounted for almost 90 percent of the total amount of
income earned from onfarm diversification activities. The type of
commodities grown on the farm and the farm's location relative to
urban markets influenced participation in these activities. Farm
households engaged in onfarm diversification devoted almost 50
percent more operator work time to the farm than did farm
households not engaged in such activities.
Onfarm diversifying households tended to operate larger farms,
averaging over 660 acres, and were twice the average size of farms
not engaged in any alternative entrepreneurial activity. Farm
households engaged in onfarm diversification appeared to use their
larger physical asset base more intensively to support their onfarm
business ventures.
In 2007, 395,600 U.S. farm households operated an off-farm
business. Multi-enterprise farm households typically earn incomes
above those of farm households not engaged in these activities;
portfolio entrepreneur households-those operating off-farm
businesses in addition to their farms-earned incomes ($140,200 per
year) nearly twice the average for farm households not engaged in
alternative income-generating business activities ($72,610) in
Off-farm businesses operated by farm households generate strong
links to the nonfarm economy. In 2007, off-farm businesses
generated $21.6 billion in profits based on estimated sales of
$111.6 billion, contributed an estimated $54.6 billion in
value-added income to the gross regional products of their local
economies, and paid out $24.5 billion in wages and salaries to
853,100 part-time and full-time employees. Excluding sole
proprietors, off-farm businesses employed six workers, on average,
from local nonfarm labor markets.
The share of a nonmetro county's employed labor force linked to
farm household-operated businesses increases at greater distances
from an urban core. In 2007, jobs directly linked to such off-farm
businesses accounted for 0.2 percent of the employed labor force in
metro counties, 1.6 percent in micropolitan counties (urban
populations of 10,000-50,000), and almost 2.4 percent of employment
in noncore counties (urban centers of less than 10,000).
Most of the data in this report came from the 2007 Agricultural
Resource Management Survey (ARMS), which was supplemented with data
from earlier and subsequent ARMS, and from the 2007 Census of
Agriculture. ARMS is a detailed, annual survey of farm businesses
and associated households conducted jointly by the U.S. Department
of Agriculture's Economic Research Service (ERS) and National
Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). This report also uses the
direct coefficients of the 2002 benchmark input-output tables
published by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic
Last updated: Thursday, November 15, 2012
For more information contact: Stephen Vogel


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The things they revamped more are things like how far you can see, polys that make up the snow terrain, the trees, and the character models. Things like rocks still look iffy and current gen, but I think it looks nice for a snowboarding game - seeing everything in sight would kinda freak you out when you're on the mountain looking down. Like so:
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