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Primary reasons why patients pursue aesthetic facial surgery are to look younger and more attractive; however, there is minimal literature about the effect of aesthetic facial surgery on perceived age and attractiveness.
To objectively and quantitatively evaluate the degree of perceived age change and improvement in attractiveness following aesthetic facial surgical procedures.
Prospective evaluation by independent raters of preoperative and postoperative photographs of 49 consecutive patients who underwent aesthetic facial surgery between July 4, 2006, and July 22, 2010. The photographs of these patients were presented to 50 blinded raters, each of whom was randomly assigned to 4 rater groups. Raters were asked to estimate the age of each patient in the photographs presented and to rate the patient's attractiveness on a scale of 1 to 10.
Facial plastic surgery private practice in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Patient inclusion criteria consisted of primary facial surgical procedures with a minimum 6-month follow-up period, use of standardized photographs, and no cosmetic procedures in the intervening period. Raters were chosen from the province of Ontario, randomly assigned to 1 of 4 rater groups, and blinded to the objectives of the study.
Main Outcomes and Measures
The mean "years saved" (true age minus guessed age) and change in attractiveness scores after facial aesthetic surgery.
The mean overall years saved following aesthetic facial surgery was 3.1 years (range, −4.0 to 9.4 years). There was a small but insignificant increase in attractiveness scores in postprocedural photographs relative to preprocedural photographs (P > .54).
Conclusions and Relevance
In this study, aesthetic facial surgery was effective in reducing the apparent age of patients but did not consistently improve their attractiveness.
Level of Evidence
The main factors influencing a patient's decision to seek aesthetic facial surgery are to look younger and, by inference, more attractive. Aesthetic facial surgeons typically communicate to their patients that they will look "more refreshed" and "less tired." However, because of a lack of stringent data across the literature, facial surgeons often do not directly state that patients will look significantly younger or more attractive to avoid creating false or unrealistic expectations. Previous studies1,2 have examined change in apparent age after aging face surgery, but none have objectively analyzed apparent changes in attractiveness. It has been previously determined that there are 4 components of facial attractiveness. These are averageness (koinophilia), sexual dimorphism (masculinity or femininity), youthfulness or neoteny, and symmetry.3,4 Therefore, it may be theorized that by looking more youthful one will also appear more attractive. Our objective herein was to objectively quantify the degree of perceived age change and improvement in attractiveness following aesthetic facial surgical procedures as a follow-up study to a previous publication by one of us (P.A.A.), which examined changes in perceived age alone.1
Patients undergoing aesthetic facial surgery by one of us (P.A.A.) during the 48-month period between July 4, 2006, and July 22, 2010, were initially reviewed for eligibility in this study. The inclusion criteria were as follows: (1) primary facial surgical procedures, such as face-lift and neck-lift, upper or lower blepharoplasty, and brow-lift (alone or in combination); (2) patient consent for public viewing of photographs; (3) minimum of 6 months' follow-up data with photographs after surgery; (4) standardized photographs (frontal and lateral) without makeup and jewelry; (5) no cosmetic procedures in the intervening period between the before-and-after photographs, including dermal fillers, botulinum toxin, or laser treatment; and (6) no concomitant rhinoplasty at the time of the original surgery or in the intervening follow-up period.
Initially, 204 patients who had undergone the above-described facial surgical procedures during the study period between July 4, 2006, and July 22, 2010, were considered for eligibility. Among these patients, 49 (24.0%) met the inclusion criteria and were included for further analysis. Of the excluded patients, 91 (44.6%) had inadequate follow-up data or photographic documentation, 31 patients (15.2%) had intervening injectable treatments, 16 patients (7.8%) had secondary or other aging face surgery, 9 patients (4.4%) did not provide consent for public use of their photographs, and 8 patients (3.9%) had undergone concomitant rhinoplasty.
Our study design used 50 unique raters, each randomly assigned to 1 of 4 rater groups, with each group comprising 12 or 13 raters. The raters consisted of laypersons recruited from the community and hospital workers, all blinded to the objective of our study. Rater selection excluded physicians and residents with expertise in facial plastic surgery.
The 49 patients contributed a total of 196 photographs (4 photographs per patient, preoperative and postoperative, with frontal and right lateral views for each). To minimize rater bias, the photographs were randomized into 4 separate binders, with each rater being responsible for viewing 49 paired sets of photographs (a frontal and lateral view of each patient) in the binder randomly assigned to him or her. Half of the photographs were taken before the procedure, and half were taken after the procedure. The order of the photographs remained the same for every rater in each binder. The 4 binders were split into 2 pairs of mirrored binders, such that each binder had a preprocedural or postprocedural photograph of a particular patient but not both. Hence, no rater saw the before-and-after photographs of the same patient.
Raters were asked to estimate and record the age of the patient appearing in each set of photographs. They were also asked to rate the patient's attractiveness on a scale of 1 to 10 on a 20-point scale (ie, 0.5 scores were allowed), with 1 being the most unattractive and 10 being the most attractive. These data were recorded and kept in a confidential log. Before distribution, the photographs were numbered, and each number correlated with a number in a separate spreadsheet file containing actual age and identifying data that could then be examined for statistical purposes. Data analysis was performed using commercially available statistical software (SAS, version 9.2; SAS Institute, Inc).
Perceived age difference was defined as the difference between the chronological age and the perceived age of the patients, as estimated by the raters. In this experiment, 50 raters guessed the age (guessed age) of 49 patients as seen in photographs before and after surgery. For each guessed age, we calculated the difference from the patient's true age (true age minus guessed age) and called this variable "years saved." For each patient, we compiled the collective years saved data from each rater. The mean years saved (hereafter years saved) was the outcome variable in this analysis. We constructed a mixed model (Proc mixed, SAS, version 9.2) to evaluate the effect of surgical procedure and time (before vs after surgery) on years saved; surgical procedures included upper blepharoplasty, lower blepharoplasty, brow-lift, and face-lift and neck-lift. The combination of upper and/or lower blepharoplasty and/or brow-lift was designated as upper facial rejuvenation, face-lift and neck-lift as lower facial rejuvenation, and a combination of the 2 as upper and lower facial rejuvenation. Patient sex and age at surgery were also included in the model to control for their possible effects on the outcome. Initial models included interactions between the predictors. Nonsignificant interactions were removed if they were not statistically significant (P > .05).
The mixed model (Proc mixed, SAS, version 9.2) was used to assess rater differences and predictor variables that may influence attractiveness scores, including rater age and sex, photograph order, and experimenter (binders 1 and 2 vs binders 3 and 4), as well as patient age at surgery, photograph type (before vs after surgery), and patient procedure (upper facial rejuvenation, lower facial rejuvenation, or upper and lower facial rejuvenation). Because raters and patients contributed multiple observations to this data set, a correlation within rater observations and patients was expected. To control for this, rater identification was included in the model as a repeated factor, and patient identification was treated as a random factor. This kind of model is similar to a repeated-measures analysis of variance, and the results in this case were identical to what repeated-measures analysis of variance would produce.
Patients in this study ranged in age from 42 to 73 years at the time of surgery, with a mean age of 57 years (Table 1). There were 37 female patients and 12 male patients. The mean duration between before-and-after photographs was 13.2 months (range, 6-36 months). Rater description data revealed 38 female raters (mean [SD] age, 46 [12] years; median [range], 48 [22-65] years) and 12 male raters (mean [SD] age, 47 [17] years; median [range], 45 [25-76] years), and their mean ages did not differ significantly (P = 74). Overall, the mean rater age was 46 years.
On average, raters estimated their patients' ages to be about 2.1 years younger than their chronological age before surgery and 5.2 years younger than their chronological age after surgery (Table 2 and Figure 1). We referred to this variable as years younger given that most patients were judged to be younger than their actual age even before surgery. Differences in years younger before and after surgery (years saved) reflected the tendency for patients to look younger than their real age to a greater extent after surgery than before surgery. The mean overall years saved following aesthetic facial surgery was 3.1 years (range, −4.0 to 9.4 years). Rater group, experimenter, photograph order, patient and rater sex, and patient and rater age were insignificant variables (data not shown).
Years saved is the true age minus the guessed age.
Sixty percent of all attractiveness scores chosen by raters were within scores of 4 to 6 on a scale of 1 to 10 (75% within the 4-7 range) (Figure 2). Nevertheless, certain trends of variation within and between raters were observed. Scores decreased slightly with patient age and increased slightly with rater age, albeit not reaching statistical significance. Female raters scored patients higher than male raters. Although a negative trend in the attractiveness score was noted for photograph order, this was not statistically significant. There was a small and nonsignificant increase in attractiveness scores in postprocedural photographs relative to preprocedural photographs. Raters who gave high and low patient scores tended to do so consistently to all patients regardless of before or after surgery. Therefore, potential biases were equally shared among the before-and-after photographs.
The histogram compares scores for before-and-after surgery photographs.
Attractiveness scores (the means for each patient before and after surgery) were significantly inversely related to patient age. However, attractiveness scores did not change with surgery even after controlling for patient age and procedure. No differences were observed in attractiveness scores across procedures (upper facial rejuvenation, lower facial rejuvenation, and upper and lower facial rejuvenation as previously described). Changes in the mean attractiveness scores generally ranged ±1.00 U on the rating scale (Figure 3). It may be that patient attractiveness improves with surgery but that the rating scale is insufficient to detect changes. The greatest limitation with this scale is the low variability in assigned scores because 75% of photographs were rated between 4 and 7 (Figure 2).
Shown are the mean scores by each of 50 raters for 49 patients.
Based on our above-described mixed model, interactions between the described predictors were initially explored, but all were ultimately removed because none were statistically significant. The final reduced model is summarized in Table 3. A mean score increase of 0.06 U was observed for every year increase in rater age, and a similar decrease was found for every year increase in patient age. Women tended to rate patients higher than men by 0.8 U. Raters tended to give slightly higher attractiveness scores (0.08 U) to patients after surgery compared with before surgery. There was also a trivial tendency for scores to decline with photograph order (with the highest scores given to photographs seen earlier), potentially indicative of rater fatigue. Although most of the predictors were significant or approached significance, not all the effects were important because this model is based on a large sample size of observations, which can potentially amplify even small effects. Results of this model confirm that surgery had no effect on the mean overall attractiveness of patients in this study but that patient age affects the mean attractiveness score (Figure 4). Figure 5 is consistent with the model, showing no evidence that surgery improves attractiveness differently among patients undergoing various procedures. No sex differences were observed either, as shown in Figure 6.
The trend is the same in before-and-after surgery photographs.
Eighteen patients underwent upper facial rejuvenation, 3 patients underwent lower facial rejuvenation, and 28 patients underwent upper and lower facial rejuvenation.
Boxes enclose the middle 50% of the observations, and vertical lines extend to the smallest and largest values, excluding outliers (circle). Outliers are data points that are greater than 1.5 times the height of the box.
A subgroup analysis was then performed, looking at change in attractiveness scores by procedure (Table 4). The mean changes in attractiveness scores were 0.02 in those undergoing upper facial rejuvenation, 0.34 in those undergoing lower facial rejuvenation, and 0.08 in those undergoing upper and lower facial rejuvenation. The mean overall change in attractiveness scores was 0.08. None of these changes were statistically significant. We then divided the patients into those whose attractiveness score increased (n = 25) compared with those whose attractiveness score did not increase (n = 2) or decreased (n = 22). These 2 groups of patients were surprisingly similar in all respects except the mean attractiveness scores before and after surgery. Patients whose attractiveness improved after surgery had a statistically significant lower mean (SD) attractiveness score before surgery (4.80 [0.71]) than those whose attractiveness did not improve after surgery (5.57 [0.55]), whereas this trend was reversed after surgery. Therefore, these data suggest that there is no relationship between attractiveness after aging face surgery and perceived age reversal by raters.
The drive to maintain a youthful appearance and attractiveness has been an important motivating factor leading patients to seek aesthetic facial surgery. Not only has this desire been intrinsic to our evolution,5 but also the youthful energetic look has been portrayed as a potential competitive advantage in the modern workplace.3 Nevertheless, challenges and limitations exist that temper our goal toward reversing age-related changes. The combined effects of hair and skin changes, soft-tissue atrophy, bony remodeling, and photoaging represent formidable obstacles for the facial rejuvenation surgeon. However, while we often have used the descriptors "more youthful" and "more refreshed" in our discussions with patients, many facial rejuvenation surgeons have often postulated that aging face surgery can make patients appear not only more youthful but also more attractive. This notion seems intuitive and was reinforced in work by Etcoff3 and Symons4 relating to the 4 components of attractiveness. Therefore, a logical conclusion might be derived that if one looked more youthful he or she would also appear more attractive.
To our knowledge, only 2 previous studies1,2 have examined objective reductions in perceived age after aging face surgery, and none have looked at effects on attractiveness after facial rejuvenation surgery. Hence, we designed a follow-up study to a previous investigation by one of us (P.A.A.) to analyze objective age reduction and improvement in attractiveness after aging face surgery.1 Although an all-inclusive study would have been ideal, inclusion and exclusion criteria had to be introduced to limit confounding variables. These include the use of makeup and jewelry, the previously described benefit of rhinoplasty on perceived age,6 and the effects of surgical swelling on early postoperative photographs (a minimum 6-month time frame between photographs has been supported previously7) and the effects of injectable treatments during the period between before-and-after photographs. We used consecutive patients to limit selection bias; however, many patients were excluded because of the aforementioned inclusion criteria.
We included all aging face surgical procedures alone or in combination (ie, upper and lower blepharoplasty, all types of brow-lifts, and face-lift and neck-lift). The senior author previously studied 3 groups of patients, all of whom underwent face-lift and neck-lift surgery; that study showed an overall perceived age reduction of 7.2 years.1 The perceived age reduction of only 4.3 years overall for patients undergoing upper and lower blepharoplasty in the present study can be partially explained by the inclusion of upper facial rejuvenation procedures alone.
Our study found no statistically significant change in attractiveness scores following surgery, despite an overall perceived age reduction. On the surface, this seems to be a contradictory finding; however, several limitations and confounding factors may have had a role in this apparent inconsistency. With most raters scoring the patients within a narrow range (75% of photographs were rated between 4 and 7), this would make it difficult to observe statistically significant improvement in attractiveness. A larger patient sample size may be needed to show an overall statistically significant improvement in attractiveness scores. Moreover, rating attractiveness is perhaps more subjective than guessing one's age. Another potential limitation is that of patient self-selection; the patient population seeking aesthetic surgery may not be representative of the population at large, and the results may not be generalizable. There is also the role of rater fatigue, supported by the fact that the raters on average gave lower scores to later photographs.
In addition, our study may demonstrate that once an age is ascribed to someone others associate that age with a certain level of attractiveness. Specifically, younger people are generally gauged as being more attractive. However, because a person's age is perceived as younger following aging face surgery, his or her attractiveness level is also intuitively perceived to be better, commensurate with the apparent age reduction. From this study, it seems that the attractiveness level will remain the same, regardless of age. As long as a person ascribes a correct age to someone else, that person will perceive the other's attractiveness with his or her assigned age in mind. If true, this will allow one to predict that an attractive child will become an attractive adult and vice versa. In the future, we may consider performing an attractiveness study alone without age estimation. Alternatively, the role of laser skin resurfacing and volumization with soft-tissue fillers or fat transfer in conjunction with aging face surgery may be explored.
In conclusion, the subjective nature of facial rejuvenation surgery presents a challenge in the assessment of successful results. The present study sought to assess objective changes in perceived age and attractiveness after aging face surgery in a consecutive group of patients undergoing various aging face surgical procedures alone or in combination. Our data demonstrate that aging face surgery is effective in reducing the apparent age of patients but does not consistently improve a patient's attractiveness. The age reduction is more substantial when the number of surgical procedures is increased, but this did not significantly improve overall attractiveness. Given the limitations of the attractiveness component of this study as described herein, further investigation is warranted to verify these findings.
Accepted for Publication: February 4, 2013.
Corresponding Author: A. Joshua Zimm, MD, Division of Facial Plastic Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Lenox Hill Hospital and Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Institute of North Shore–LIJ Health System, 50 E 72nd St, Ste 1A, New York, NY 10021 (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Published Online: August 1, 2013. doi:10.1001/jamafacial.2013.268.
Author Contributions:Study concept and design: Zimm, Modabber, Karimi, Adamson.
Acquisition of data: Zimm, Modabber, Fernandes.
Analysis and interpretation of data: Zimm, Modabber.
Drafting of the manuscript: Zimm, Modabber.
Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: All authors.
Administrative, technical, and material support: Zimm, Adamson.
Study supervision: Zimm, Modabber, Karimi, Adamson.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.
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Pizza concepts in the top 50 include Marco's Pizza (No. 38), which grew its sales by 22.6 percent year over year in 2013, to $233.5M. The brand's footprint increased by 422 units last year, or 27.5 percent.
Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza (No. 48) grew sales by 19.2 percent, to $63.2M, and units by 19.4 percent, to 43.
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Money from the purchase and sale of human beings built the campuses, stocked the libraries, and swelled the endowments of American colleges. Slaves waited on faculty and students; academic leaders eagerly courted the support of slaveholders and slave traders.
Ultimately, our leading universities were thoroughly dependent on enslavement and became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it. In short, the American academy never stood apart from American slavery—it stood beside church and state as the third pillar of a civilization built on bondage."
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Most people hold the Ivy League in high esteem as an exclusive oasis of intellectual thinking where one can acquire an excellent education. What they might not know is that its long-revered universities were also once intimately involved in slavery, depending on that evil institution for everything from funding to free labor.
Furthermore, places like Princeton served as a proving ground for the sons of plantation owners being trained in classes on slave management that:
From inciting anti-abolitionist riots, to spearheading the back to Africa movement to teaching courses codifying the notion of white superiority, the Ivy League openly functioned as a subtle affirmation of slavery." Despite the fact that it had played such a pivotal role in the creation and maintenance of a color-coded society, it would later put considerable effort into "cleansing the stain of human slavery from the story of its prosperity."
This is the thesis of Craig Steven Wilder, as eloquently substantiated in Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History. A professor of history at MIT, Wilder's painstakingly-researched opus uncovers the ugly underbelly of Ivy League and other Colonial era colleges like Rutgers and Williams.
The author goes on to point out how, after the Civil War, "some of the best-educated people in the nation were revising history to romanticize and sanitize their relationship to bondage. They erased their pasts as masters or reimagined their slaves as a lower order of adopted family—trusted, faithful, and beloved servants whom they had treated with dignity and human sympathy."
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At Bangalore, debutant seamer Ronit Gajanan More took 6 for 18 as Karnataka drubbed Goa by eight wickets in the south zone leg of the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
More,20, playing his maiden List A match, bowled with lot of control as Goa were skittled out for 54 in 20.3 overs after Karnataka skipper Robin Uthappa won the toss and elected to field. Abhimanyu Mithun also complemented the youngster with two for 21. Reagan Pinto (19) was the only Goa batsman to reach double figures.
More has honed his skills at the MRF Pace Academy and just like Rajasthan youngster Ritu Raj Singh has played for the Australian Institute of Sports during the Emerging Trophy in Brisbane last year.
Brief Scores: Goa 54 in 20.3 overs (Ronit More 6/18); Karnataka 55/2 in 12.3 overs (Robin Uthappa 23)
Rajasthan beat Vidarbha by three wickets
At Nagpur, wicketkeeper-batsman Dishant Yagnik scored a fifty as Rajasthan eked out a narrow three-wicket win over hosts Vidarbha in the Central Zone leg of Vijay Hazare Trophy.
Electing to bat, Vidarbha were folded for 206 in 46.5 overs, courtesy some good bowling by Raman Chahar (3/48), Gajendra Singh (3/37) and Vikrant Yadav (2/35). Urvesh Patel was the top-scorer for Vidarbha with an innings of 72 off 105 balls, studded with five boundaries.
In reply, Rajasthan lost wickets at regular intervals but always looked in control of their chase. They managed to overhaul the target with three wickets and just five balls to spare. Yagnik along with Robin Bisht (36) set the tempo, while middle-order pair of PR Yadav (44) and VA Deshpande (31) sealed the victory for Rajasthan. Spinner SS Ruiker (2 for 31) was the pick of the home side bowlers.
Earlier, Urvesh played the role of an anchor and starred in three crucial partnerships along with opener Akshay Kolhar (32), Hemang Badani (28) and skipper RS Paradkar (34) to take Vidharbha to a decent score.
Brief Score: Vidarbha: 206 all out in 46.5 overs (A Kolhar 32, Urvesh Patel 72, Vikrant Yadav 2/35, R chahar 3/48, G Singh 3/37); Rajasthan: 207 for seven in 49.1 overs. (D Yagnik 51, R Bisht 36, P Yadav 44; SS Ruiker 2/31)
Smashing century by Karthik ensures bonus point for TN
At Bangalore, Dinesh Karthik's blazing century and an equally attacking innings by Srikkanth Anirudha helped Tamil Nadu register a comfortable five-wicket win over Andhra in their opening South Zone leg match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
Karthik, who scored his 16th List A century, was unbeaten on 105 off 83 balls. It was his attacking batting that helped Tamil Nadu get a bonus point as they reached the target of 248 with more than 10 overs to spare.
Anirudha was unlucky to miss out on a well-deserved 100 as he edged one off seamer Syed Sahabuddin to 'keeper Srikar Bharat.
Earlier, it was Tamil Nadu captain Laxmipathy Balaji who grabbed five for 37. Only opener Prasanth Kumar (73) made a significant contribution for Andhra.
Brief Scores: Andhra 247 in 46.4 overs (Prasanth Kumar 73, L Balaji 5/37); Tamil Nadu 251/5 in 39.5 overs (D Karthik 105 no, S Anirudha 94)
UP beat Railways by 17 runs
At Nagpur, Mohammad Kaif (56) and Amir Khan (50) cracked half-centuries as Uttar Pradesh notched up a 17-run victory over Indian Railways.
Electing to bat, UP were dismissed for 186 but the RP Singh-led team returned to bowl out the Indian railways for 169, with Bhuvneshwar Kumar claiming four for 28.
Earlier, UP were rattled by Railway's seamers and at one stage were reduced to 29 for five. Exploiting the early morning life on the wicket, K Upadhaya (4 for 39) and Shailender Gehlot (2 for 29) put Railways in early command. However, Kaif and Amir shared a 104-run sixth-wicket partnership to bring some stability to the batting side but once the duo were dismissed, Railways were once again on top.
In reply, Indian Railways were left tottering at 26 for six by some fierce seam bowling from Bhuvneshwar and RP Singh (3 for 32). Left-handed batsman Faiz Fazal (70) and Ashish Yadav (41) raised some hope for the Railways with some defiant batting but eventually fell short.
Brief Scores: Uttar Pradesh 186 all out in 48.3 overs (Mohd Kaif 56, Amir Khan 50; K Upadhyay 4/39); Indian Railways: 169 all out in 48.3 overs (Faiz Fazal 70, Ashish Yadav 41; Bhuvneshwar Kumar 4/28)
Hyderabad beat Kerala by 2 wickets
At Bangalore, an unbeaten 113 by Kerala batsman Rohan Prem went in vain as Akshath Reddy slammed 110 not out to help Hyderabad snatch a two-wicket victory.
Prem anchored the Kerala innings with two half-century partnerships of 63 for the fourth wicket with Sachin Baby (31) and 66 for the sixth with Pradmanabhan Prasanth (36).
In reply, Hyderabad were 125 for five, but Akshath Reddy and Ibrahim Khaleel (54) added 120 runs for the sixth wicket to steady the innings.
Brief Scores: Kerala 266 for 6 in 50 overs (Rohan Prem 113 not out, Sachin Baby 31, Padmanabhan Prasanth 36, Ashish Reddy 2 for 51); Hyderabad 267 for 8 in 48.3 overs (Akshath Reddy 110 not out, Tirumalasetti Suman 38, Ibrahim Khaleel 54, Padmanabhan Prasanth 2 for 54, N Niyas 3 for 47)
Saha, Majumdar win it for Bengal
At Kolkata, Anustup Majumdar brought up his fourth century in five matches this season to power Bengal to a seven-wicket win over Orissa in their East Zone opener of the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
Chasing a modest 211, Bengal seemed in a spot at 23 for three in the eighth over after the dismissal of skipper Sourav Ganguly (12), opener Jayojit Basu (0) and Arindam Ghosh (3). But Majumdar (100 not out) and Wriddhiman Saha (85) added 190 runs for the unbroken fourth-wicket stand to shut the door on Orissa.
Electing to bat, Orissa found the going tough as they collapsed for 210 in 49.3 overs with left-arm spinner Iresh Saxena taking three for 20 in his ten overs. Ashok Dinda chipped in with two wickets.
The convincing win also ensured a bonus point for the East Zone.
Brief Scores: Orissa 210 in 49.3 overs (Natraj Behera 46; Iresh Saxena 3/20); Bengal 213/3; 34.4 overs (Anustup Majumdar 100 not out, Wriddhiman Saha 85 not out, Souarv Ganguly 12)
Harbhajan goes wicketless but Punjab win comfortably
At New Delhi, Harbhajan Singh went wicketless on his return to competitive cricket but led his team to comfortable four-wicket win over Ranji Trophy semi-finalists Haryana.
Opting to bat first, Haryana scored 243 for six. Punjab captain Harbhajan bowled eight overs giving away 46 runs, while Manpreet Gony (2/40) returned with best figures. Haryana captain Nitin Saini (77) and allrounder Sachin Rana (59) were the main scorers. For Punjab, middle-order batsman Amitoze Singh (76) and his partnership of 61 runs for the sixth wicket with Bipul Sharma (29) proved crucial.
The absence of seasoned Amit Mishra hurt Haryana badly as they didn't have the required experience to check the run-flow during the middle-overs. Young Harshal Patel (2/41) got a couple of wickets but lacked support from the other end.
Brief Scores: Haryana 243/6 in 50 overs (Nitin Saini 77, MS Gony 2/40, Harbhajan Singh 0/46); Punjab 247/6 (Amitoze Singh 76, Harshal Patel 2/41).
Assam defeat Tripura to earn a bonus point
At Kolkata, Dheeraj Jadhav struck an unbeaten 75 to guide Assam to an eight-wicket win with a bonus point against Tripura, in their East Zone leg of the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
Put into bat, Tripura were skittled out for a paltry 180. Two half-centuries from the opening duo of Jadhav (75 not out) and Pallav Das (52) helped Assam chase the target in 38 overs. Medium pacer Arup Das scalped the top three Tripura wickets, including a twin strike in the 12th over to reduce them to 61 for four.
Tripura could not recover from the early blow, even as skipper Vinayak Samant played a defiant 56-ball 45, and bundled out in 48.3 overs.
Sujay Tarafdar (2/26) and Tarjinder Singh (2/29) also excelled for Assam in the bowling.
Brief Scores: Tripura 180 in 48.3 overs (Vinayak Samant 45; Arup Das 3/31); Assam 181/2 in 38 overs (Dheeraj Jadhav 75 not out, Pallav Das 52)


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Douglas High senior Hunter Myers has been nominated for the McDonald's All-American game, set for April 3 at the United Center in Chicago.
Myers was the only Northern Nevada athlete nominated for the game, and one of 13 boys nominated from the state.
In total, more than 800 players from 39 states were nominated for the boys and girls games.
Nominations were submitted by the McDonald's All-American Games Selection Committee, school principals, athletic directors and high school coaches. The final teams will be announced on ESPNU on Feb. 14 at 2 p.m.
Myers has been among the most potent offensive players in the region this season, averaging 18.4 points per game. His play off the glass and on the defensive side of the ball, though, has set his game apart.
He's averaging 10.8 rebounds per game and his 64 blocked shots already have him 14th in the NIAA state records books with six games remaining. He also has 17 steals and 35 assists on the year.
Other Nevada nominees included Findlay Prep's Stanford Robinson, Dion Wade, Nigel Williams-Goss, Allerik Freeman and Christian Wood, Centennial's Marcus Allen, Quest Academy's Stephen Clark, Desert Pines' Julian Jacobs, Bishop Gorman's Rashad Muhammad, Palo Verde's Eris Winder, Lake Mead's Justin Yamson and Valley's Daniel Young.
Five girls were nominated from Nevada, although they all came from Centennial or Bishop Gorman.


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Detail of a gift cover (fukusa)
19th century
Silk tapestry
Museum no. T.262-1959
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Detail of a gift cover or fukusa showing cranes;with red caps and white and blue feathers on a very dark blue ground. Cranes in Japanese textiles generally represent longevity and good fortune. They are most closely associated with Japanese New Year and wedding ceremonies.


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(Based on 4 Rig Offshore Operations)
PSV's and AHTS Supply Boat Cost Savings
Drilling Operations for Four (4) Drilling Rigs operating in the same field could easily be supported with five (5) vessels only.
Eliminates Four (4) Vessels out of Nine (9) vessels.
Estimated Charter Hire Cost: 4 x US$ 18,000.00 = US$ 72,000.00 per day
Four Vessel Release Estimated 32 Metric Tons
4 x 8MT = 32MT x US$ 1,000.00 = US$ 32,000.00
Five (5) Vessel on Hire not Required to Run to Land Base.
5 x 4MT = 20MT x US$ 1,000.00 = US$ 20,000.00
Total Fuel Savings = US$ 52,000.00 per day
Cost Savings US$ 145,600.00 per day
Cost of Warehouse Vessel US$ 47,500.00 per day
Total Savings per day = US$ 98,100.00 per day
This would be a savings of US$ 35,806,500.00 PER YEAR
Cost Savings In Offshore Deepwater Drilling and Exploration
At present most of the new Offshore Drilling and exploration activities around the world are going into deeper water and further offshore as most of the Oil and Gas well near the shelves has been fully explored and produced. With the present day offshore operations, the demand and utilization for a Warehouse Accommodation Barge "ISMAYA" and the Warehouse and Accommodation vessel "TOS Integrity" would be very high usage for these type of vessels and would bring about a big cost saving for the Oil Major. The huge cost savings are achieved through the following:


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Requiem for a Vampire
(Vierges et vampires, 1971)
Jean Rollin
95 min, color, French (English subtitles)
Review © 2005 Branislav L. SlantchevThis is the film in which Rollin introduced the two wandering girls that he would later make much use of in Demoniacs and, more recently, in Two Orphan Vampires. This time, however, the girls are "normal" (i.e., they are neither vengeful ghosts nor vampires), even if the film opens with a bizarre car chase with them dressed in full clown regalia. What one should expect from this film is pure Rollin: surreal landscapes, inexplicable behavior, scantily-clad heroines wandering without much purpose and without saying much, and the occasional fully naked woman or goofy vampire, all of it set to strangely upbeat synthesized music.
|The bizarre car chase opening sequence
|Seeking shelter at the cemetery?
And in this film Rollin delivers huge dollops of his trademark fantastic style. The film is essentially a color entry in the silent cinema era: the rare dialogue does very little to enhance the experience (at does occasionally detract from it), and the heroines don't really speak to each other until the 50th minute of the film. The plot is also not on the cerebral side despite the rare flash of brilliance. What the film lacks in budget and sense, it makes up with flair and style. There are shots here that would make a still photographer proud and that linger long after the film itself is over.
|Marie, as Michelle gets buried alive
|Digging out Michelle
Make no mistake, this is an exploitation film that will offend any run-of-the-mill feminist with its ostensibly misogynist attitude, will drive a self-respecting liberal up the wall with its political incorrectness, and will probably cause any Christian fundamentalist to lay hands on the audience to expel the demons. In other words, don't show this film to your mother. Maybe not even your girlfriend. Fit for Sunday school Bible class though. Sample question: What is the symbolism of the bat drinking menstrual blood straight from a chained woman's vagina after said woman has been brutally raped by a grunting ape-like man? I don't know but it probably has something to do with Rollin having unresolved issues with his mother, or something. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the film is not something you want your Women Studies group to see you watch. Especially because almost all the women that get raped here (there's only one instance of consensual sex from about half a dozen copulations) seem to enjoy it: maybe it's the faint screaming that actually sounds like moaning, or maybe it's one of them getting her hand free from the chain only to hold onto her assailant, or maybe it's Rollin hiring porn starts who are so used to faking pleasure that they can't help themselves, I have no clue. You have been warned.
|Encountering the bats
|Pure 100% Goth
OK, so here I am several paragraphs into the review and not a single word about the story. Here goes nothing. Marie (Marie-Pierre Castel) and Michelle (Mireille Dargent) are on the run. They are dressed as clowns and there's a guy driving the pathetic Renault in which they try to make their escape. Unfortunately, the guy gets shot, and the girls set the car on fire, and wander off into the fields. After tricking a man to get some food, they ride their motorcycle until it runs out of gas and they end up in a remote countryside. For some reason, they go into the woods where they see some bats who apparently put the bite on them and cause them to wander, semi-hypnotized, to the ruins of an old castle.
|Pure 100% Virgins
|Exploring the castle
The castle is not exactly abandoned, which should have been obvious to them from all the lit torches and the nice boudoir where they promptly get naked and get all virginal on each other. Right when the action is about to get X-rated, however, they hear noises, which starts them on another grand tour of the premises, which eventually ends with them discovering a gruesomely decomposing prop that is intended to look like a corpse. They get a bit upset, shoot at it for a while, and finally get trapped by a bunch of sex maniacs dressed as Neanderthals who turn out to be the underlings of two women who aspire to be vampires.
|A beautiful, if unnecessary, scene
|The granddaddy of the goofy vampires
One of them, Erica (Dominique Toussaint) already sports a set of hilarious fangs that threaten to fall out any second. This would have been funny except she actually attempts to bite the girls who narrowly escape and take to the fields yet again. Unfortunately, every path they take leads them straight back to the castle, and night eventually finds them at a cemetery where they are captured, and a decidedly odd-looking Vampire (Philippe Gaste) fails to bite them. He does sick two bats on them for good measure, and the girls are led into the dungeon where there unfolds a scene that would cause indigestion to any censor worth his/her salt.
|See the bats? So the girls are hypnotized
|The dungeon of perversion (red lights and all)
Briefly, the little vampire coven (well, the men really) runs something close to a women's prison. There are several naked women chained to columns or walls, and the ape-like men proceed to grope them and violently rape them. There is no doubt what we're supposed to be concentrating on here: the sequence lasts quite a while, the camera stays either on their breasts being mangled or the mid-torso, never on the faces. The full frontal nudity may have been an attempt to get the attention of an audience somewhat jaded by the hardcore stuff that had started coming out when the film was made, but let me tell you: nothing in this scene can be remotely construed as erotic.
|Marie waiting to ensnare a male victim
|Michelle gets a taste for blood
But perhaps that was not Rollin's intention? I am saying this because we're then told that the girls are virgins and the Vampire wants them to stay that way in order to perpetuate his species. Yeah, that part of vampiric lore was unknown to anyone until Rollin discovered it, but it's interesting. So the master Vampire is actually quite unhappy with his followers torturing women and killing people. And since they are apparently not virgins, they are never going to make it as vampires who apparently are properly disgusted by all the violence that their existence depends upon. At any rate, before the initiation rite, the two girls have to lure to the castle one male victim each. This, of course, gives them a clue what to do if they don't relish the prospect of becoming vampire brides.
|Gratuitous shot of Marie-Pierre Castel
|I have a crucifix and I am not afraid to use it
And here's where Rollin makes things interesting. Whereas Michelle decides to go undead, Marie resolves to preserve her humanity. Michelle quickly attracts a random bicyclist (Paul Bisciglia) by sensually stripping among the ruins, then playing tag, then letting him have a taste of her nubile flesh before decking him. Erica then sucks some of his blood and lets Michelle get a taste of the liquid, which she promptly does. Marie, on the other hand, meets a young man, Frederick and loses her virginity, obviously hoping to thwart the Vampire's evil designs. Her stratagem works perfectly and the Vampire rejects her during the initiation ceremony. Unfortunately, the gang sets out to find her deflowerer, promising to kill both girls unless Marie divulges his whereabouts.
|Gratuitous shot of Mireille Dargent
|One virgin and one whipped ex-virgin
At this point, Marie and Michelle's friendship gets sorely tested. Michelle, who not only has started on her path to eternal sucking (of blood) but is also afraid to die, attempts to get the information from Marie by stripping her, chaining her, and then whipping her viciously even as she begs in tears Marie to tell her where the guy is. Marie could have worked for the French resistance for she betrays nothing. In the end, Michelle breaks down and is unable to continue. Erica enters the cell and attempts to re-invigorate the torture session by carving Marie's eye with a knife whereupon Michelle intervenes and saves her friend. On the run again, the two find Frederick who helps them shoot all the ape-like men before cursing Marie for getting him into this mess and leaving. The Last Vampire pops up, declares an end to his own race, and disappears back into the mausoleum with Erica after leaving change-of-address instructions to the other underling Louise (Louise Dhour).
|I wasn't groping her... honest
|Erica in an Amnesty International expose
All of this is told in loving detail with hardly any dialogue. The Spartan, dimly-lit settings work quite well for setting the Gothic atmosphere, complete with the random skeletons, severed hands, candles, and capes. The acting is what one would expect from an outing that probably took less than a week to make. Castel, however, is remarkably good, her doll-like face being perfect for these close-ups that rely on her huge eyes. The low budget haste of shooting can also be funny: check out the supposedly dead car driver twitching when they dose him with gasoline, or the raped woman losing her grip on the chain that supposedly binds her, or Michelle cracking the whip at least a foot away from the swinging Marie when she's supposedly hitting her hard enough to break the skin. It was also impossible to feel the brutality of the dungeon scene because of the women clearly not looking either afraid or victimized, something that definitely cannot be said about the truly disturbing scene in the scandalous French Irreversible. But perhaps that was the goal? After all, why spoil the campy fun and the gothically romantic feeling of the film with such unpleasant things?
The DVD from Redemption (distributed by Image in the USA) is horrid. The picture is presented in non-anamorphic 1.66:1 ratio, which is correct but that's the only good thing about it. The sources must have been scratched, the colors are washed out and flat. This is a far cry from the other Rollin DVDs they've put out, so I am tempted to blame the source material. Still, they could have cleaned it up a bit, I think. The film deserves it. You can watch the film dubbed in English but I don't see why anyone would want to. Even for those who hate reading subtitles, it shouldn't be too taxing to skim the five sentences of dialogue. The soundtrack is fine, although the spoken parts could have been more audible. The DVD has a trailer which essentially recaps the film, and it is presented in its original French, and in an English translation. Plenty of nice behind-the-scenes photos round up the package. I hear there's a new 3-disc special edition of this film out there. It is worth checking it out.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait... Does this mean they just made a 5th version of the console?
PS3 20,40,60,80gb and now the white PS3! Holy Sh!t. Serious?
one thing i dont understand is, PS3 is non regional, so why dont we just buy it from the cheapest place lol
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Gamertag daviduk2000
Wait, wait, wait, wait... Does this mean they just made a 5th version of the console?
PS3 20,40,60,80gb and now the white PS3! Holy Sh!t. Serious?
Originally Posted by sagema
the ps3 is like a PC. There is one version with different setups. That is all.
OP: The reason for the PRICE drops is because the technology is becoming more common. Like any new piece of tech, it starts off pricey but as it floods the market, as the companies optimize their orders, and the system gains popularity, the PS3 is able to be cheaper.
Sony is actually putting more and more resources into their gaming division, which is noticeable. Add to the fact that many of their projects are finishing up development, they are preparing for a hot 2008.
This should all be common sense.
Originally Posted by daviduk200
Can someone confirm this?
Are PS3s really region free? Surely not.
If they are, wont the language of the Jap models be in Japanese of could this be changed?
I know it is cool, and just to think next to none of this money is going towards SONY as most of that money goes to the producers of the Blu-Ray.Originally Posted by Jay588
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1 GBP = 2 USD approxOriginally Posted by ZeLdA4LiFe
i dunno about that..my mate here in australia has a european ps3, it plays australian games and everything just fine but it doesnt play blu rays or dvds..not sure if thats means its non regional because we both use PAL,thats why the games work fine, but it must be regional because then wouldnt the dvds and blu rays work fine as well? I'm not really sure, but just some insightOriginally Posted by f1982
Playing Disgaea 3, Star Ocean: The Last Hope
Watching Valkyria Chronicles, Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger, FMA: Brotherhood
but they wouldn't easily reduce price in europe because ps3 sales are higher in europe.......
*my opinion: if ps3 ever reaches wii price, there will be nice battle between wii and ps3, with xbox360 on the bottom..... :P
Hmm I dunno, I still like the look of the black one, it looks more... Shiney, lol! But yeah this is good if you got a Wii and other bits of white technology, but with my white Wii, Silver freeview box, black PS2 and silver/black DVD player I got different colours so I don't need to keep a trend going there.
Spoiler Alert!Originally Posted by lenitao3
LOL! It would be an interesting twist in the war if that came true!
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i thought it was totally region free.The PlayStation 3 does not enforce regional lockout on games developed for the platform itself, however backward compatibility modes are region locked. Blu-ray Disc and DVD region codes are also enforced
but this just tells us that the makers are not made to region lock there games
but all its ps2 games are still locked.
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On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 05:34:06PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> * cmd_filter thing is broken as well (we have no access to
> gendisk in question and there's a lot of obvious issues when you have
> several openers).
> #2 and part of #3 are fixable, but I really don't see what to do with #1.
> If nothing else, it's absolutely incompatible with cmd_filter, even if you
> leave aside the issue with non-IDE/non-SCSI drivers.
Actually, cmd_filter changeset breaks all users of blk_verify_command().
It expects that struct file passed to will be that of a block device:
inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;
if (!inode)
return -EINVAL;
disk = inode->i_bdev->bd_disk;
return blk_cmd_filter_verify_command(&disk->cmd_filter,
cmd, &file->f_mode);
Unfortunately, all of those can get struct file of *character* device, with
obvious results.
The minimal fix is to pass disk / mode explicitly. I'll post the patch,
but that still leaves bsg broken.
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The parserThe main function for WPS loading and parsing is
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Review: OraWellness Brushing BlendBy
I was recently offered a bottle of OraWellness Brushing Blend to review. It arrived a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to compare it to the ToothSoap I've been using. I was going to write a nice, long post about the ingredients and how I liked it. Then something came up at home and I had to go 48 hours without a shower or brushing my teeth. At the end of those two days, my teeth were barely fuzzy.
That's it. I'm sold.
Let's be honest. If you do have to go a couple of days without brushing your teeth, you normally have fuzz after 24 hours and serious nasties by the 48 hour mark. Not that I WANT to go like that, but we're (mostly) moms here and we will all admit that sometimes things come up where you have no choice but to put your own needs last. When things like that do happen, I'm glad to know at least I won't have to deal with fuzzy teeth on top of everything else. When your teeth are fuzzy, that's bacteria coating the surface.
OK, all together now…. EWWW!!!
Yeah, that's gross. But with the OraWellness Brushing Blend, I didn't have the nasty fuzzies. To me, that says it really does what it says it will do in regards to killing the bad bacteria in the mouth.
With OraWellness, I feel my breath is better, it stays fresh longer, and my gums look better. And the nice thing about the blend is that it can also be used as a mouthwash and you can put it on your dental floss, too!
The Ingredients
OraWellness Brushing Blend contains organic essential oils of cinnamon, peppermint, spearmint, clove, myrrh and manuka in a base of organic almond oil. Let's look at each essential oil.
In a recent study, cinnamon essential oil had the best germ-killing ability against S. mutans, the bacteria thought to be responsible for tooth decay. (1) Cinnamon is well-known in tooth products and it blends very well with the flavor of cloves.
Peppermint and Spearmint
Mints have been shown in studies to kill the anaerobic bacteria of the mouth such as those that cause gum disease. (2)
Clove is well known for stopping toothache pain. I've personally used it before when I developed dental pain in the middle of the night, and I used it to help my kids through teething. If you've followed my blog for long, you'll remember last Easter weekend when my husband developed a bad abscess and we used clove oil in a mud pack until the dentist opened on Monday. If you have a cavity eat into the nerve, your dentist might apply a clove-derived medication and place a temporary filling into the tooth and give the medication a few weeks to work its magic.
Myrrh is a great antiseptic for mucous membranes.
You might have heard of manuka honey, known for its healing properties. This is the essential oil from the manuka tree. Manuka inhibits bacterial growth and one study found that manuka inhibited bacteria from attaching to the surface of the teeth. (1) That's probably why my teeth didn't feel nearly as fuzzy as they otherwise would have.
The Brush
The Bass toothbrush has soft, rounded bristles and the bristles aren't packed as densely as a regular toothbrush. If you rub your finger across the bristles, it feels gentler to the touch. I imagine that it is gentler on your gums as well. The brush is reasonably priced at $2.75 each and you can purchase a Bass Junior Toothbrush for your kids, too. They also offer a four-pack of two adult and two children's brushes for $10.
OraWellness offers a video showing you how to brush your teeth with the Bass Method on their site.
The Mouthwash
This is where I really love the brushing blend. You can use it as a mouthwash! Just put a drop into some warm water and swish. It's nice to not have to have multiple products cluttering up my medicine cabinet, just the one small bottle and I'm done. And no worries about trying to find a mouthwash that doesn't have yucky ingredients you don't want in your mouth.
As an added bonus, it's easy to throw this little bottle in your purse and take it along when you need to spend the day out and then brush your teeth when you need to be somewhere that evening. No worries about a bottle of mouthwash coming open in your purse and taking up space. Just one little bottle and you're good to go.
Fresh Breath
This technique will help remove bacteria from your mouth and tongue to keep your breath fresh. It does a great job of keeping your breath fresher, longer than any other method I've tried. The OraWellness Brushing Blend gives me better breath after a couple of hours than any mouthwash I've used, including the herbal-based, homemade ones I have tried.
You can take one drop of OraWellness Brushing Blend and rub it across your floss. That gets the blend between your teeth to perform their bacteria-killing karate there, too.
The Cost
Toothsoap costs about twice as much as the OraWellness Brushing Blend. One bottle of the OraWellness Brushing Blend is $22.97 or you can get 3 for $45.94 which is buy-two-get-one-free. Each bottle lasts 2-3 months. If you just purchase the one bottle, that's $7.66 a month if you brush twice a day. That's compared to Toothsoap which costs $24.95 and lasts for 4-6 weeks, working out to $16.63 a month.
If you purchase the three-pack at the buy-two-get-one-free price, that takes the cost down to $5.10 a month. That's about the same amount you'd spend on an organic toothpaste that has glycerine in it, and this blend is far better, especially if you are trying to stay away from chemicals or remineralize your teeth.
The Verdict
After my experiment with this product, I will switch to using OraWellness Brushing Blend. My teeth look better and my gums feel better on this product than with soap.
Myrrh and manuka were new to me, but if you're into natural tooth care, you're familiar with using cinnamon, mint and cloves. The clove flavor is what dominates the blend to my taste buds, and I don't think I'll be able to convince my kids to switch over to OraWellness Brushing Blend until they're a little older as the clove does give you a numb, tingling sensation after you brush.
My husband is trying out their HealThy Mouth System. I'll report back on that in a few weeks once we can see how his gum pockets are healing.
(1) Filoche SK, Soma K, Sissons CH. Antimicrobial effects of essential oils in combination with chlorhexidine digluconate. Dental Research Group, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand. Oral Microbiol Immunol. 2009 Oct;24(5):411-6.
(2) Shapiro S, Meier A, Guggenheim B, The antimicrobial activity of essential oils and essential oil components towards oral bacteria. University of Zurich, Switzerland. Lett Appl Microbiol. 2009 Sep;49(3):354-60. Epub 2009 Jul 14.
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My doctor (who is knowledgeable about and open to traditional remedies) explicitly warned me against ever putting clove oil on my teeth unless I was very desperate and awaiting an emergency dentist appointment. He said that although clove oil is a very useful remedy for toothache in the outback, it can do more harm than good b/c it *causes* cavities. So it is useful as a stopgap when you are in desperate pain, but otherwise you should not allow it on your teeth. I have to wonder why it is in this blend. I assume you rinse afterwards, but still….


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Hmph, I've known that there has to be people out there that don't like it, but I haven't seen anyone say so yet, and I can't imagine why.
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Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's home church is reopening for services this Sunday.
The Wasilla Bible Church building has been cleaned up and partly remodeled after an arson fire was set on December 12.
Five people were inside the structure at the time of the fire, but all escaped and were not injured.
The damage was estimated to be at $1 million.
Larry Kroon, the church's pastor, says insurance is covering the repairs and adds that the church received about a $100,000 in donations to help cover extra expenses.
Kroon said that money will be used to buy a new security system for the church building.
Investigators still have no leads on who set the blaze. They also say they have no evidence to prove that Palin's membership in the church was a motive behind the fire.
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Charging that Oracle has willfully disregarded the licensing terms for its own Java technology, the Apache Software Foundation has called upon other members of the Java Community Process (JCP) to vote against the next proposed version of the language, should Oracle continue to impose restrictions on open-source Java use.
The nonprofit organization has also indicated that it could end its involvement in the JCP if the licensing restrictions stay in place.
"Why would we want to be in an organization where the rules of law don't matter? Our being on the [JCP Executive Committee] would be a sham. It would show that the community doesn't matter, that we'd basically cave into Oracle pushing stuff through, whether or not it would be in the best interest of the community," said Jim Jagielski, president and cofounder of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), in an interview with the IDG News Service.
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