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A Chutzpah look back over the week's good, bad and indifferent including the "don't even go there's."
Charlotte Tilbury's Make-Up Line – If you want to know about make-up, talk to a make-up artist. Or better still, get tips from one of the hottest names in the business. Session make-up artist to fashion & film's most famous names, Charlotte Tilbury, has just launched her own line of make-up at Selfridges. The collection is cleverly built around products that Charlotte uses to define eyes, cheeks and lips to create different looks from Rock Chick, Uptown Girl, Golden Goddess, The Sophisticate and The Bombshell proving that great technique and good, depth-of-colour, blendable products go together like a dream. Shown here is Charlotte Tilbury's eye-shadow palette in 'desk to disco' Rock Chick greys (£38)
BFC's Blogger Panel – Hurrah! The BFC get right behind digital media and show the other fashion capitals that blogger support is a serious marketing move. A team of committed bloggers on a panel to help support the BFC team, coach on social media and to promote British fashion on a global level. Watch this space. And talking of the BFC…
LFW Countdown – The tent's being built in Somerset House's grounds, designers' PR in-boxes are crammed with request and there's the beginnings of pre LFW buzz. And then Natalie Massenet raises the bar further with her 'Letter To London' in the Evening Standard urging all to get involved. Who's excited now?
M&S's Beauty Gifts with Purchase (29th Aug-11th Sept) – Call me cynical but many gifts with purchase are an add on of trial sizes mostly of things you neither want nor need. So, it's great to see m&S giving real value with some great gifts on brilliant niche products in their beauty area. To celebrate the continued success and nationwide rollout of M&S Beauty, there's a fortnight of exclusive offers in store and online. Beauty junkies visiting the Beauty Halls and M&S website between 29th August and 11th September 2013 will be able to enjoy exclusive gifts with purchase such as a free REN Travel Kit when you buy any 2 Ren products* (*excluding Body Washes and Mini Gifts), A free *Bliss Sinkside Six Pack when you buy any 2 Bliss products , free Nuxe Gentle Toning Lotion when you buy any 2 Nuxe products or free Lola Kabuki Brush when you buy any 2 Lola products. There's a host of others too. You just may be converted to some spiffing new niche products.
Maarten Van Der Horst's 2nd Collection for Topshop – Van der Horst goes radical from his first floral collection and chooses a darker 80's New Wave meets New Metallica vibe of hard graphic, black and white pieces for us to get down and Nu-Punk'y. The capsule collection starts at £40 and goes up to £220 for the fab leather biker shown.
Hayley Being Killed Off in Corrie! – NO! How can you do this to us? One of TV's best loved characters, too. Prepare for blubbing.
Microsoft/Nokia – Buying the £4.6 billion of Nokia's phone business (could be good) but dropping the well-known brand name that constantly ranks higher in customer polls than Microsoft's Windows phone. Are you INSANE? A tad like buying over Coca Cola then dropping the brand name and it's association to sugary drinks.
Launch parties that start at 10.30pm, midweek – Again, are you crazy? Journos and others work. And yet, by midnight, you'll wonder why it's chock full of hangers-on.
September Hayfever – Runny eyes and sneezing fits continue. Deep joy.
Erin O'Connor as new face of Radley – Hmm. More impressed if they'd have gone the current big model route. I dunno. Just looks dated.
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When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and love that ends up on the scale. Finally Marie is forced to come to terms with how much a human life truly weighs and which measurements she intends to live by. As she explores her new possibilities, the film seems to unfurl beautifully, the way the first real day of summer seems to spill over with promise and renewal.Learn more
The acclaimed directorial debut from veteran Austrian actor Karl Markovics is an eloquent, affecting portrait of an incarcerated teenager attempting to win parole by working at a local morgue.Learn more
Newly discovered papers reveal the human side of one of history's most merciless killers: Nazi "Final Solution" architect Heinrich Himmler.Learn more
In the sweltering heat of suburban Vienna, six characters ranging from an erratic hitchhiker to a fading beauty queen play out a sweaty pageant of sadism and sexual deviance. With an assured knack for capturing the verisimilitude of domestic terror, documentarian Seidl has made a fiction feature debut whose slowly burning fever cannot fail to register.Learn more
A Film by Barbara Albert - Five independent women are reunited for the funeral of a beloved teacher. From the director of FREE RADICALS!Learn more
A group of friends in a suburban Austrian town reexamine their lives after the unexpected death of a young woman who appeared to be leading a charmed life.Learn more
Featuring unprecedented access to an influential and multi-faceted institution, The Great Museum reveals the inner-workings of Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, one of the most important art institutions in the world.Learn more
HANDS OF ORLAC is a deliciously twisted thriller that blends grand guignol thrills with the visual and performance styles of German Expressionism.Learn more
JESUS, YOU KNOW captures six Catholics in a series of staged confessions -- to both Jesus and the omnipresent camera. Seidl generously allows his subjects to find their own idiosyncratic Savoir -- even with a threat of existential emptiness in the final equation.Learn more
Oscar-nominated director Markus Imhoof (The Boat is Full) tackles the vexing issue of why bees, worldwide, are facing extinction. With the tenacity of a man out to solve a world-class mystery, he investigates this global phenomenon, from California to Switzerland, China and Australia. Exquisite macro-photography of the bees (reminiscent of MICROCOSMOS) in flight and in their hives reveals a fascinating, complex world in crisis.Learn more


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Every year, it seems as though there's some aspect of the Christmas story through which God is particularly speaking to me.
Some years it's been Mary and her faith-obedience to the word of God brought by the angel. Others it's been Joseph and the idea of being a father to the Son of God. Some years it's been the angelic "fear not" spoken to terrified shepherds. Some years the wonder of the Incarnation and pondering the imponderable mystery of God as a single cell in a womb.
Last year, it was the census. I seemed to be so busy last year that I never had much space to just sit down and quietly reflect on the events of the True Story of Christmas, and when I finally did (almost Christmas Eve), what God chose to focus me on was the timing of it all: census time, with everyone bustling around and moving from place to place, the threat of new burdens of taxation from an oppressive pagan government hanging over everyone's heads. And into all the bustle and noise and stress comes a newborn baby Who is God's answer to it all.
This year, the focus seems to be on the various gifts and the season of giving.
In some ways there's a sort of inevitability about it. I've posted about generosity and giving quite a lot over the almost three quarters of a year I've been at this: here under the imprint of Calvary and Easter, here as part of my Chivalric Virtues series, and here as part of an attempt to rescue the word "liberal" from only denoting a political stance. And even that is only the times I've focused in on it; I know I've mentioned the subject in passing on several other occasions, too.
Christmas is, of course, well-known as a season of giving. There are the presents we give each other. There are the Salvation Army's bell-ringers and the other various charities that we like to donate to at this time of year. There's the story of Saint Nicholas, both in its original version and in the metamorphosed popular version as Santa, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Grandfather Frost or whatever you want to call him. There are the original symbolic (and costly) gifts of the Magi to the Christ-child: gold, frankincense and myrrh. And there's the ultimate Gift of God to fallen mankind: Jesus the Messiah.
Some of these are directly related to the True Story of Christmas. Others relate only more distantly, by association or analogy. But all of them combine around the celebration of the birth of the Saviour, and together they make Christmas the season of giving that it has become.
An alien from the planet Pluto arriving on Earth at Christmas time today might suppose that Christmas was created as a conspiracy among shopkeepers to sell more stuff. Certainly Santa and his elves seem in many ways to tie into this mammon-focused perspective, and it can easily become all about stuff and getting.
But even Hollywood pits Father Christmas against the corporate buying and selling culture of Get, and points dimly at something higher than the stress of shopping and the corporate bottom line.
Father Christmas, of course, has become so much a feature of our celebrations as to practically eclipse the True Story, but even he has Christian origins. Though he took on the visual aspect of the Anglo-Saxon and Norse personifications of winter, with beard and sleigh and reindeer and all, he started out as a Christian saint and bishop. His red robes were once those of a bishop of the church (Roman Catholic cardinals today still wear red), of Myra in present-day Turkey (there's another modern-day Christmas word), which was then part of the Greek-speaking Christian world. He is remembered chiefly for his generosity, and had a particular eye to the welfare of the poor in his episcopal see. Giving gifts in secret, he is reputed to have left gifts of money in the shoes of poor young women, enabling them to have the dowry money they needed to marry according to the custom of the day. The reindeer and the sleigh are just camouflage, which itself seems appropriate for the original "secret Santa", and the "Ho Ho Ho" seems very apt as we are told that "God loves a cheerful giver". What better memorial for one of history's chief proponents of generosity than laughter and jollity?
The early church began to give gifts to one another at Epiphany, the feast commemorating the journey of the Magi, held on the 6th of January. Later, in some cultures, the gift-giving moved to the feast of St. Nicholas on the 6th of December, and later still got merged into the more important holiday, or "holy day", of Christmas.
The Magi's gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh were given to Jesus because it would be unthinkable to travel for miles and miles to visit and worship a King of the Jews Whose birth had been announced by the stars themselves without bringing gifts. Really – here is someone so important that the heavens themselves turn out in bright array for Him, and you're going to turn up uninvited with no gift? I don't think so.
Symbolically speaking, gold was the most noble metal, symbolising kingship, frankincense was the basis of the sacred incense burned in the Temple and denoted priesthood and prayer, and myrrh was a costly perfume most often used as part of the embalming process to help alleviate the scent of dead person. In the words of the Christmas hymn: "Glorious now behold Him arise/King and God and Sacrifice".
But the gifts had practical value as well. Despite the jokey cards that suggest that something more "practical" like a baby bed or bottle, would be in order, unbeknownst to Joseph and Mary their ability to provide for their young son was about to be seriously compromised.
The necessity to flee to Egypt and become refugees meant that Joseph probably had to leave his carpenter's shop and all his tools firmly behind. No time to go back and get anything; the life of the Son of Man is at stake here.
The gifts would have financed Mary, Joseph and Jesus' flight into Egypt, bought the silence of anyone who might be tempted to inform Herod, and probably have helped establish Joseph down there.
I may look more at the Magi and their gifts in a successive post, but right now I want to turn my attention to the ultimate Christmas Gift: the gift of God to humanity.
Back at Easter I mentioned how generosity was one of the marks of good Mediæval kingship. Magnanimity was expected, and the size and value of a king's gift-giving was a direct measure of the power and majesty of their throne. I mentioned that God is All-Giving because He is All-Sovereign, how it doesn't matter that Calvary is something we cannot afford, because it is a gift in keeping with the scale of God's majesty.
Now I want to apply that to Christmas.
God, the Lord of the Universe, Most High and Almighty Ruler of all, determines to give a gift to us. To you. To me. A gift in keeping with the scale of His Majesty requires a gift of infinite worth. And so the Most High God gives to us the costliest treasure He has:
The gift of Himself.
He comes down, born as a baby, incarnated into flesh, living as one of us, destined to die to pay the debt our sinful choices had made, the debt we could not pay.
This is the centre of Christmas. This is the Gift at the heart of it all, to which even Father Christmas points dimly. It's a season of giving, because He first gave to us.


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The Research Grant Program supports advancements in the dental hygiene field through the discovery and application of knowledge which includes original research, developmental prospects and qualitative and quantitative research.
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Before Lava Iris X5 4G was rumored to be 2nd-generation Android One smart-phone, which is likely to be found to day on 27 Jul. At this time cellcute proposes that Lava Pixel V1 may be established in India as next-gen Android One cellphone, which is anticipated to cost at Rs. 11,349.
If leakages is the right one then the Lava Pixel V1 will probably be the initial Android smartphone of the company, and may be called in the Android One string of smartphones of Google as the next generation equipment. This double sim smartphone features a 5.5-Inch-High Definition IPS LCD display, a 64-bit 1.3GHz quad-core processor from Qualcomm, 2GB Storage, 32GB of internal storage, a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera, a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, Android 5.1.1 Lollipop, as well as 2,650 mAh battery.
The news states that its 5.5-inch screen is contained in DragonTrail Glass by Asahi, and thus the screen is shielded from scratches and scuffs that usually appear after day-to day-use. The Lava Pixel V1 Android One smartphone contains a-13-megapixel primary camera by means of a BSI detector, SINGLE-LED flash, autofocus, and video-recording abilities which can be 1080p. There's a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, that has 4 lens, that is regarded interpolated right into an answer of 8-megapixels.
The Pixel V1 works on stock Android 5.1.1 Lollipop operating system. Because, the device is straight from Google, therefore it'll certainly get two significant Android updates, as an example, Android M, which is reaching soon.
With reference to parts which is internal, the Lava v1 features a 64-bit quad-core Qualcomm main processing device with ARM Cortex A53 integrated 4 LTE. There's 2GB of Storage, twice of exactly what the first-age Android One smartphones supplied, leading to simpler and better multi-tasking functioning. There's 32GB of internal storage space which is often increased by just as much as yet another 32GB using a microsd card spot. Lava is ensuring battery lifespan which is truly amazing, because of some high-voltage 2,650 mAH battery that's removable.


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Adam Leftwich began singing while working as a teacher and translator in the Czech Republic after graduating from London University in Electronic Engineering. He studied for four years at Ostrava University with professor of voice Josef Fryščák. Adam toured in eight countries with the University Choir, including as guest soloist in Spain, Mexico and Brazil.
Back in England, Adam worked with a number of companies before embarking on a three year postgraduate diploma course in 2005 at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he studied with Patrick McGuigan. He is currently guest at Liberec Opera and Plzen Opera, and studying with Luděk Lébl.
OPERA (in original language except where marked)
Ramfis (Aïda ) Pilzen Opera
Luther, Crespel (Les Contes d'Hoffmann ) Liberec Opera
Rocco (Fidelio) London Opera Players
Der Eremit (Der Freischütz ) Liberec Opera
Sparafucile (Rigoletto) Clonter
Sarastro ( in four different translations) Papageno's, City, Guildford Op
Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni) Woodhouse Opera
Brownwell (War with the Newts - V. Franz) Prague State Opera
Talpa (Il tabarro - in English) Opera Minima
Badger/Parson (Cunning Little Vixen - Eng) RNCM, Piggott's
Winstanley (Roundabout world premiere - Read) The Anvil
Gremin (Eugene Onegin ) RNCM
Leporello (Don Giovanni - Eng) Goodenough Opera
Ceprano (Rigoletto ) Prague State Opera
Mustafà (L'Italiana in Algeri - scenes, Eng) RNCM
Commissario (Madame Butterfly ) Prague State Opera
Luka (The Bear - Walton) Opera Minima
Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro - Eng) City Opera
Zuniga (Carmen - Eng) Riverside Opera
Mr Peachum (The Threepenny Opera ) RNCM
Bass roles (Rainforestworld premiere - Martin Read) Opera Minima
Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra - concert perf.) Opera UK
Angelotti (Tosca ) Capital Opera
Talpa (Il tabarro ) Capital Opera
Osmondo (L'inganno felice - Rossini) Opera Minima
High Priest (Nabucco ) Opera Integra
Colline (La bohème - concert perf.) Vivace Opera
Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte ) Mayer-Lismann
Major-Domo (Capriccio ) RNCM
Marquis of Calatrava (Forza del destino ) RNCM
Tom (Ballo in mascera - Eng) Capital Opera
Swallow (Peter Grimes - concert perf.) Piggott's Opera
Friar (Don Carlo ) Opera Minima
Water Goblin (Rusalka - scenes, Eng) Abbey Opera
Liturgia Domestica (Gretchaninov) Amici Chamber Choir
The Creation (Haydn) Glossop Choral Society
Stabat Mater (Dvořák) Burnley Choir
Czech Christmas Mass (Jan Jakub Ryba) Martinov Kostel
Stabat Mater (Rossini) Morley Opera
Nelson Mass (Haydn) Ardingly Summer Music
Père Laurence (Romeo et Juliette – Berlioz) Opera Minima
Gala Concert with Diana Montague & David Rendall Lyndhurst Music Society
"Bright ring of words" - recital with Neda Bizzarri and Nicholas Bosworth
"Fruits of Conflict" - recital with Cerys Jones Arts Interactive, Leics
2005 to 2010 Patrick McGuigan
2010 to 2011 Nicholas Powell
2012 to present Luděk Lébl
Hans Peter Blockwitz, Nicholas Bosworth, Robin Bowman, Jane Eaglen, Mary King,
Mary Hill, Anthony Legge, Phillip Thomas, Sheila Thomas, Brindley Sherratt, Robbert van Stein, Paul Wynne Griffiths.
COMPETITIONS and AWARDS
Finalist – Independent Opera's 2008 awards
Full ABRSM scholarship for study at RNCM
Entrance scholarship RNCM
Private scholarship RNCM
Fluent - Czech
Singing - German, Russian, Italian, French
"a real Hagen voice – often more difficult to cast than Siegfried" – Jane Eaglen
"With great panache, Leftwich clearly surprised the audience with the power and majesty of his brilliant voice." Surrey Advertiser re Sarastro for Guildford Opera.


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US expels Russian diplomats over cyber attack allegations
The US state department declared the 35 Russian diplomats from the Washington DC embassy and the consulate in San Francisco "persona non grata", and gave them and their families 72 hours to leave the US.The move follows calls from senior US senators to sanction Russian officials who are believed to have played a role in the hacking, which some lawmakers referred to as America's "political Pearl Harbor".
Republican senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, who led the calls for sanctions, said they "intend to lead the effort in the new Congress to impose stronger sanctions on Russia".A Kremlin spokesman told journalists in Moscow that President Vladimir Putin would consider retaliatory measures. Dmitry Peskov said the actions were "a manifestation of unpredictable and aggressive foreign policy", and called them "ungrounded and not legal".
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The Enchanted Wood: Monster Parade LP/Vinyl 12"
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For this new album, The Enchanted Wood have locked themselves in a dark studio with Dudy Ruby (Leo88Man, Fat Supper). "Monster Parade" will pleasure your ears with its quality featurings and nine delightful songs of monstrosity, unspeakable sins and unutterable melancholy. This is a Doryphore / Steelwork Maschine production.
Monster Parade (excerpts) by The Enchanted Wood
With members of La Terre Tremble!!!, Fordamage, Leo88Man / Fat Supper.
Also featuring The Ugly Children Choir: Perrine Labat, Hélène Le Corre (Mistress Bomb H), Astrid Radigue (Mermonte), Laetitia Sheriff, Tim Bewlay.
Cover artwork by Cat the Cat, drawings and inner etchings by Perrine Labat.
Texts, music and crooning by Michel Le Faou. Recorded and mixed by Dudy Ruby and MLF, in Monster Stereo.


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Simplified procedures to cancel registration
According to a circular from the State Administration of Industry and Commerce, the reform of streamlining registration cancellation of enterprises will be rolled out nationwide on March 1.
Eligible enterprises can choose regular procedures or simplified steps to cancel their registration.
Seven types of goods cannot be returned without reason within 7 days
According to a circular from the State Administration of Industry and Commerce, customized and fresh goods, downloaded products, opened audio-visual products, software and other digital products, newspapers and journals cannot be returned without reason within 7 days after purchase.
With agreement from customers, the rule could also be applied to products that may affect people's health or degrade after opening; these lose significant value after activation or trial use, as do products near expiration or with defects.
Postal delivery to be faster
From March 1, the new standard for postal service will take effect, which will cut the postal delivery time by 50 percent. Regular parcels will be delivered directly to the customer, which in the past had to be picked up at the post office in person.
Meanwhile, the new standard requires that every county have at least one post office that has access to international postal service, and every town should have an office where residents can pick up parcels.
Take long-distance bus with real name
From March 1, passengers buying tickets online or offline for along-distance bus must use real ID information.
If someone buys a ticket for another person, he or she should use the other person's ID card to buy that ticket.
Full-process information tracking for imported cosmetic products
The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) will begin implementing new regulations on imported cosmetic products on March 1.
According to the regulation, a consignee who purchased cosmetics from overseas can choose any port to receive their goods and apply for inspection after submitting basic information to an inspection and quarantine institute.
The policy will break regional restrictions and bring down costs for consignees.
Government bond market to be better regulated
The People's Bank of China (PBOC), China's central bank, will start to implement a regulation on the operation of the government bond market on March 1.
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JAPAN: Toyota targets factory CO2 emissions elimination
Toyota Motor said on Wednesday it aimed to sell more than 30,000 fuel cell vehicles around or after 2020, and that it would use renewable energy and hydrogen-based production methods at its factories to completely eliminate CO2 emissions by 2050.
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- exeter
- December 1, 2017
01st December 2017
A weekend of racing to savour
This weekend the Ladbrokes Trophy (formerly the Hennessy) takes centre stage on a great few days of racing which starts today with the return of Thistlecrack in the Grade 2 Long Distance Hurdle. He's back over hurdles today as a pipe opener for Boxing Day's King George which he won so brilliantly last season.
He'll face Unowhatimeanharry who has been incredible since he joined Harry Fry, winning ten of his 11 starts including at Exeter at its Super Sunday meeting in 2016. He looked as good as ever on his Aintree come back this season and has the advantage of race fitness over. It'll be a real treat for racegoers with the two best staying hurdlers in action and a race to enjoy with Thistlecrack potentially running against Bristol De Mai, the highest rated horse currently in training, and Might Bite in the King George on Boxing Day.
The Ladbroke's Trophy is an intriguing race and I think there will be a lot of interest in the Willie Mullins-trained Total Recall who landed a Limerick gamble on his debut for the Irish genius.
It would be fantastic for racing if Bryony Frost won on Present Man. She's riding the crest of the wave at the moment, and she's as good as any jockey riding today. She's a fellow Devonian too, and has had a similar path to me into racing, gaining plenty of experience in point-to-points before riding under rules. And like my late father Philip, her dad Jimmy was a true horseman in a race, and no doubt he gives her plenty of advice today.
The pressure can potentially get to you and she's getting plenty of press coverage, but the one thing with horses is that they are the greatest leveler of all and if you don't keep a level head, they'll soon pick up on it. Whatever race you're riding in, whether it's a Grand National or a handicap hurdle, you have to focus on the job in hand to give your horse the best possible chance in the race and if you start to think too much about it, it can all start to unravel. If Bryony comes home in front tomorrow, it'll be the best result for racing.
I'm at Doncaster today where I ride Enniscoffey Oscar for Emma Lavelle. He ran a decent race at Kempton a couple of weeks ago to finish third in a 2m5f novices' hurdle and I hope he will go well again today.
The Clydesdales were in action at Exeter last Sunday and it was great to be a part of the day. It really helps open up racing to a much wider audience and riding them is a lot of fun. The bookies supported the race by donating every penny they took to the Devon Air Ambulance, and Bryony, who won on Siryl, topped it all off with a brilliant Frankie Dettori –style flying dismount.


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- Research article
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Predicting genetic interactions with random walks on biological networks
- Kyle C Chipman1Email author and
- Ambuj K Singh1, 2
© Chipman and Singh; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2009
- Received: 10 July 2008
- Accepted: 12 January 2009
- Published: 12 January 2009
Several studies have demonstrated that synthetic lethal genetic interactions between gene mutations provide an indication of functional redundancy between molecular complexes and pathways. These observations help explain the finding that organisms are able to tolerate single gene deletions for a large majority of genes. For example, system-wide gene knockout/knockdown studies in S. cerevisiae and C. elegans revealed non-viable phenotypes for a mere 18% and 10% of the genome, respectively. It has been postulated that the low percentage of essential genes reflects the extensive amount of genetic buffering that occurs within genomes. Consistent with this hypothesis, systematic double-knockout screens in S. cerevisiae and C. elegans show that, on average, 0.5% of tested gene pairs are synthetic sick or synthetic lethal. While knowledge of synthetic lethal interactions provides valuable insight into molecular functionality, testing all combinations of gene pairs represents a daunting task for molecular biologists, as the combinatorial nature of these relationships imposes a large experimental burden. Still, the task of mapping pairwise interactions between genes is essential to discovering functional relationships between molecular complexes and pathways, as they form the basis of genetic robustness. Towards the goal of alleviating the experimental workload, computational techniques that accurately predict genetic interactions can potentially aid in targeting the most likely candidate interactions. Building on previous studies that analyzed properties of network topology to predict genetic interactions, we apply random walks on biological networks to accurately predict pairwise genetic interactions. Furthermore, we incorporate all published non-interactions into our algorithm for measuring the topological relatedness between two genes. We apply our method to S. cerevisiae and C. elegans datasets and, using a decision tree classifier, integrate diverse biological networks and show that our method outperforms established methods.
By applying random walks on biological networks, we were able to predict synthetic lethal interactions at a true positive rate of 95 percent against a false positive rate of 10 percent in S. cerevisiae. Similarly, in C. elegans, we achieved a true positive rate of 95 against a false positive rate of 7 percent. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the inclusion of non-interacting gene pairs results in a considerable performance improvement.
We presented a method based on random walks that accurately captures aspects of network topology towards the goal of classifying potential genetic interactions as either synthetic lethal or non-interacting. Our method, which is generalizable to all types of biological networks, is likely to perform well with limited information, as estimated by holding out large portions of the synthetic lethal interactions and non-interactions.
- Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve
- Gene Pair
- Biological Network
- Genetic Interaction
- Decision Tree Classifier
Remarkably, only 18 percent of S. cerevisiae genes are known to be essential for viability [1, 2], as determined by single gene deletions for nearly all of the predicted 6, 000 genes. Similarly, genome-wide RNAi knockdown experiments conducted in C. elegans produced non-viable phenotypes for 10% of the 18, 000 tested genes [3]. The remaining genes that are not required for viability under laboratory conditions are termed "non-essential," though their status more likely reflects the extent to which individual genes can compensate for one another in the event of a null mutation. The concept of genetic buffering [4, 5] has received support from recent studies utilizing high-throughput methods (SGA, dSLAM) [6–10] to systematically implement double null mutations for large sets of gene pairs. One major finding of these systematic studies is the prevalence of synthetic sick or lethal (SSL) interactions. SSL interactions are revealed when two genes that are not essential for viability as single loss-of-function mutants combine to form a double mutant with a lethal phenotype.
A key finding in one of the original system-wide studies conducted by Tong et al. [7] is that genetic interactions tend to run orthogonal to physical interaction. In light of this observation, several recent studies have sought to model this phenomenon in the context of biological networks [11–13]. Kelley and colleagues [11] used probabilistic models to validate the observation that genetic interactions are often oriented orthogonally to physical interactions, and therefore can be modeled as "between-pathway" interactions. This interpretation is consistent with the theory that genetic buffering confers robustness to molecular complexes and pathways functioning in parallel. The authors also found that, in some cases, genetic interactions may overlap with physical interactions, and can therefore be modeled as "within-pathway" models. This is consistent with an earlier finding that 1 percent of gene pairs exhibiting a SSL interaction also share a physical interaction [7], which is 35 times more frequent than would be expected by chance. Protein complexes enriched for genetic interactions tend to indicate that a particular complex is essential, most likely due to a lack of buffering partners. Finally, Ye and colleagues [12] offer additional evidence supporting the notion that genetic redundancy can be interpreted at the complex level, as they use the congruence of synthetic lethal interactions, defined as the similarity in SSL partners in a genetic interaction network, to predict complex membership. A common theme developed in these studies is that genetic redundancy is to a large extent defined at the level of molecular complex, a property that can be exploited to predict novel interactions.
In addition to the aforementioned studies that used physical interaction data to model synthetic lethal interactions, recent work has demonstrated that synthetic lethal interactions can be leveraged to resolve molecular complexes [8, 14–16]. In one study, Collins et al. utilized genetic interaction data to provide finer resolution on the molecular function of 743 genes involved in various aspects of S. cerevisiae chromosome biology. The authors constructed an epistatic miniarray profile (eMAP) from an exhaustive test of pairwise interactions, from which they were able to characterize the extent to which physically interacting proteins act coherently in a common function. The results from this study suggest that genes that have been systematically tested to interact physically are more likely to form a stable complex if they share common genetic interactions. Similarly, St. Onge et al. implemented 650 double deletion experiments corresponding to an exhaustive pairings of 26 genes related to DNA repair. By measuring the fitness of the double deletion strains in the presence of DNA damaging chemicals, the authors were able to detect previously unknown functional relationships and pathway orderings [15]. Thus, these studies collectively suggest that physical interaction data can be used to model genetic interactions, and, conversely, genetic interaction data can be leveraged to provide greater resolution to molecular complexes and pathways that have been inferred from systematic protein-protein interaction and gene co-expression data.
Despite the considerable benefits of high-throughput methods such as SGA and dSLAM, the adoption of SSL screens into the standard toolbox of molecular geneticists would impose considerable cost and time requirements. For example, in order to experimentally map out pairwise gene interactions for the S. cerevisiae genome, an exhaustive search would mandate (6, 000 × 6, 000)/2 = 18 million double null experiments. In the case of C. elegans, one would need to implement (20, 000 × 20, 000)/2 = 200 million experiments to cover all pairwise interactions. This understates the complexity of such an undertaking, as experimentalists need to account for varying culture conditions and hypomorphic alleles for essential genes. Considering these practical limitations, computational techniques that predict genetic interactions are of potential value in providing molecular biologists with leading candidates for pairwise interactions. Towards this goal, Roth and colleagues [17] reported success using topological information in conjunction with functional genomic information, which was used to build a decision tree-based classification system. Interestingly, it was not the functional genomic data but the 2-hop network characteristics that conferred the strongest predictive power. 2-hop network motifs capture the relationship between a pair of genes, e.g. A-B, and a third gene, C. In this example, genes A and B share a physical interaction, while genes A and C are synthetic lethal. The 2-hop scheme would suggest that genes B and C might also be synthetic lethal. Building on this concept, we apply random walks on biological networks to expand genome coverage and prediction accuracy. Furthermore, we incorporate SSL interactions as well as all experimentally validated non-interactions into our algorithm for measuring topological relatedness, resulting in increased prediction accuracy. Our method is capable of detecting SSL relationships for both the "between-pathway" and "within-pathway" topologies (see "Approach"). We report considerable performance gains in predicting SSL gene interactions as characterized by ROC curves.
Our technique is initiated by performing random walks on the individual biological networks, producing proximity matrices for each of the networks. Subsequently, the proximity matrices are combined with the genetic interaction data during the procedure for measuring the topological relatedness between two genes, which is run separately on both the synthetic sick or lethal genetic interaction dataset and the dataset of experimentally tested non-interactions. As a result of this procedure, there are two variables for each biological network (SSL interactions and non-interactions), which are ultimately incorporated into the decision tree classifier as a feature vector to predict genetic interactions.
Random walks
The random walk procedure with restarts is a computationally efficient method to profile the neighborhood of a node [18]. A biological network, G, is represented by G = (V, E), where V represents the nodes (genes) and E represents the edges (significant linkages between genes). The restart node, s, takes on a restart probability, c = 0.2, and the procedure is run separately for each node in the biological network. Ultimately, V and E are translated into a column-normalized proximity matrix, P, which is subsequently used to solve for the stationary vector . The stationary vector represents the steady-state distribution of the neighborhood for a particular node. An overview of the procedure is provided below.
Input: The biological network G = (V, E);
a start node s;
restart probability c;
Output: The proximity matrix P;
Let (V) be the restart vector with value 0 for all of its entries except a 1 for the entry denoted as node s;
Let A be the column normalized adjacency matrix as defined by the edge matrix, E;
Initialize (V) = (V);
*Solve for: ;
*The stationary vector can be obtained by either solving for the dominant eigenvector or running iteratively until convergence. [18].
Algorithm for measuring topological similarity
We used version 3.5.7 of the Weka [19] machine learning software to classify gene pairs as either interacting (SSL) or non-interacting. Specifically, we used the J48 decision tree implementation provided with the package. We applied a 5-fold, stratified cross-validation scheme whereby four fifths of the instances are used for training and the other one fifth of the data is held out for testing (see above).
Scoring of gene pairs
Each gene pair is assigned a probability according to the leaf to which it is directed. Each leaf in the decision tree is associated with a probability according to the ratio of interacting pairs versus the total number of gene pairs assigned to that leaf during the training process. In order to generate ROC curves, we varied the threshold probability associated with the "SSL/interacting" class by a factor of 0.0001 over a range of 0 to 1, thereby generating 10, 000 data points for each ROC curve.
Results and discussion
We compared the performance of our random walk-based method to the leading methods of Wong et al. [17] and Zhong et al. [20]. We note that while other existing studies have successfully modeled genetic interactions [11, 13], these techniques are not optimized for predicting novel interactions and are therefore not incorporated into our performance measurements. We first offer a comparison of the random walk method against the two established methods. Subsequently, for the random walk method, we show the predictive ability of each of the individual datasets in both S. cerevisiae and C. elegans, the added value provided by non-interaction data, and the robustness of our method under conditions where varying levels of information are held out. The performance gain associated with our method is present in both S. cerevisiae and C. elegans.
Comparison to established methods
Integrating the biological networks
Non-interaction data improves performance
Performance as a function of available information
In addition to measuring the area under the ROC curves, one may gain insight into the relative power of the respective methods by quantifying classification performance with varying levels of information, where the amount of "information" represents the fraction of interactions and non-interactions that are utilized by the procedure for measuring network relatedness. For example, in the case where 20% of the information is incorporated into the algorithm for measuring topological similarity, 4 out of 5 instances will be included in the algorithm.
Controlling for biases in the genetic interaction datasets
Biological Datasets
Data Type
S. cerevisiae
C. elegans
Yeast Orthologs
Human Orthologs
The performance of the Zhong et al. classifier was relatively weak compared to either of the two methods utilizing network topology. We suspect that the approach of Zhong et al., which uses Bayes' formula to derive a likelihood ratio to score gene pairs for each piece of evidence, would be better suited for predicting general functional relationships between genes. Indeed, Lee et al. [22] recently published work using a very similar framework to predict functional similarities between gene pairs. However, in contrast to Zhong et al., the authors used GO functionality as their training data, of which there is considerably more information that is better suited for measuring the degree to which proteins may function coherently. And we reiterate that, for the purpose of predicting genetic interactions, the random walk method offers the advantage of combining genetic interaction data with information regarding functional network topology.
While this study focuses on predicting genetic interactions, using random walks as a method for capturing properties of biological networks may be applied to other areas of bioinformatics. One potential application concerns the prediction of novel transcription factor-gene interactions, which was recently implemented using a 2-hop scheme [23]. Additionally, our findings will hopefully encourage the reporting of non-interactions for all studies in reverse and forward genetics. We found that non-interactions considerably improve the performance of our classifier, and these gains represent a lower bound on the potential benefit, as non-interaction data was not available for some of the studies.
We presented a method based on applying random walks to biological networks to capture aspects of network topology that can be used to classify potential genetic interactions as either synthetic lethal or non-interacting. Our method, which is generalizable to all types of biological networks, is likely to perform well with limited information, as estimated by holding out large portions of the SSL interactions and non-interactions.
Biological data
We chose to test the performance of our method on two well-studied model organisms, as it allows testing for consistency across organisms and their respective biological networks. The S. cerevisiae dataset is composed of 3 networks from GO, PPI and SSL interaction data. Co-expression, PPI, SSL, human homologs and yeast homologs comprise the C. elegans study (Table 1).
Genetic interaction data
Data on synthetic sick or lethal (SSL) interactions were aggregated from several studies. For S. cerevisiae, we collected 12, 397 synthetic lethal interactions from the 2.0.31 version of the BioGRID database [24]. In addition to these interactions, we collected 9, 472 synthetic sick or lethal interactions from the Collins et al. [8] study. Note that this study provided a scoring matrix from which we counted scores that were < -3 as SSL. We also collected 97, 450 pairwise interactions that scored > 0, which we categorize as non-interactions. 563 SSL interactions and 17, 498 non-interactions were collected from a study conducted by Davierwala et al. [25]. Lastly, we obtained 611, 509 non-interactions from the Tong et al. [7] study, for which the SSL interactions are already included in the BioGRID database.
For C. elegans, we obtained 1, 246 SSL interactions and 3, 771 non-interactions from the Byrne et al. study [26], which used RNAi knockdown to test for synthetic sickness or lethality. Similarly, Lehner et al. [27] generated 338 SSL interactions and 57, 306 non-interactions, also via RNAi knockdown. Finally, we incorporated 2, 279 hand-curated genetic interactions from wormbase version WS190. In total, there were 3, 863 SSL interactions and 58, 579 non-interactions for C. elegans.
Protein-protein interaction data
For S. cerevisiae, we used the high-confidence protein-protein interaction dataset generated by Batada et al. [28], which includes 9, 857 interaction pairs with representation from 4, 008 different genes. The authors produced the dataset by taking the intersection of multiple high-throughput protein interaction experiments. Specifically, the authors required that protein-protein interactions be present in two distinct experiments measured using two different experimental techniques (e.g. yeast two-hybrid, tandem mass spectrometry). Consequently, at the expense of lower coverage, we reduce the potentially negative impact of false positive protein-protein interactions on our classification scheme.
For C. elegans protein-protein interactions, we used the worm interactome [29] dataset, which covers 1, 371 interactions between 1, 136 proteins.
Homologs of C. elegans proteins
For C. elegans, we incorporated homologs of worm genes that are known to interact in other organisms (also termed "interologs"). These datasets were procured by Marcotte and colleagues [22]. In total, there are 30, 098 interactions between 3, 145 genes of H. sapiens homologs and 56, 193 interactions between 2, 627 genes of S. cerevisiae homologs.
Co-expression network of C. elegans genes
For the co-expression network, we again included data procured by Marcotte and colleagues [22]. The co-expression network prepared in their study includes 287, 130 interactions for 14, 491 genes.
Gene Ontology data for S. cerevisiae
Gene Ontology data [30] for S. cerevisiae was obtained from the project website. In order to construct a gene network for the GO data, we flattened out the information into pairwise interactions using the "has a" relationship rule implemented by Marcotte and colleagues [31]. This produced a dataset of 66, 174 pairwise interactions with representation from 3, 515 genes.
Implementation of existing methods
2-hop method
We implemented the 2-hop characteristics from the Wong et al. method as described in the manuscript, which were subsequently incorporated into Weka's J48 decision tree classifier. We opted to exclude the functional information for two reasons: Figure 1 from Wong et al. indicates that the 2-hop characteristics provide nearly all of the predictive power, while the predictive ability of the functional information was very limited. Secondly, if desired, the random walk method can be complemented with other types of information, just as the 2-hop characteristics were in the Wong et al. study. In summary, both the random walk and 2-hop methods were applied to the same datasets, trained via 5-fold cross-validation with the aforementioned training sets, and scored with a decision tree classifier.
Zhong et al. method
AS and KC designed the experiment. KC implemented the software and carried out the experiments. Both authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Adrian College pulled through with a 3-2 victory over Hope College's Flying Dutchmen at Nicolay Field on Friday, giving the Bulldogs a repeat of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Tournament championship.
Sophomore Brady Wood batted the tie-breaking run in the bottom of the eighth inning. Freshman Trey Miller pitched three innings of scoreless relief to chalk up his first career victory (1-1). He walked one batter, but allowed no hits. Senior Tommy Parsons, Adrian's No. 1 starter in the rotation, worked the ninth inning to earn his first career save in his first relief appearance of 2018. He retired three of four batters he faced.
The Bulldogs are now 18-4 lifetime in the MIAA tournament, with six titles since the event started in 2012. Adrian also captured MIAA postseason crowns in 2012-13-14-15-17.
The win cinches the MIAA's automatic bid to next week's NCAA Division III Baseball Championship for Adrian. The Bulldogs, making their 12th appearance in the NCAA Tournament, will host the Division III Mideast Regional at Nicolay Field from May 17-21. The 58-team field can be found on NCAA.com.
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Welcome to Post-weekend Poetry and the sixtieth poem in this series. This week's piece is by septuagenarian Charles Francis.
Daemon or Bird
Out by the shed
where the mowers rest
a horned lark made her nest
The nest- less than secure-
a hollow in tufts at two birch's narrow breech
the mower can never quite reach
It's no protection, not really,
just a birch and its twin
spaced so the mower can't pass within
Eggs there were
two could be spied
abandoned when I walked by
I saw the male rarely
yellow-white face, almost forlorn
topped with black feathers of horn
His song I heard though
space filling pitch and timbre
a sort of a banter
A ritual spell-casting chant
chi-dit vibrations
vibratile emanations
Not a mixture of sound
but a full musical muster
an occult tonal cluster
There was something ancient here
an age-old cadence
of expectance and puissance
I marvelled at the nest's endurance
at the female's dangers' unguessed
at wonders unblessed
I marvelled at the horned lark's coming
the building of so simple a nest
and then one day at its emptiness
I asked Charles what prompted this piece and he said…
The horned lark nest was in back of my cottage on Young's Mountain, Nova Scotia two summers ago.
Writing what you know. Thank you, Charles.
American-Canadian Charles Francis is a retired Maine high school teacher living in Nova Scotia who writes about Maine local history and nostalgia. Now, at seventy, he's begun writing poetry within setting of his North Mountain (Nova Scotia) cottage. The horned lark is a Nova Scotia rarity.
His blog is http://viewsfromyoungsmountain.blogspot.ca and he's also on Scribd (http://www.scribd.com/Charles%20%20Francis)
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Festivals: Beyond Vanilla had its world premiere at Image&Nation, the gay and lesbian film festival in Montreal, in September, 2001. It has since been touring the international film festival circuit to great acclaim and sold out houses. Below is a partial list of film festivals where it was shown. List of film festivals (partial list) London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, London, U.K. Silver Lake Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA Dublin International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Ireland New York S/M Film Festival Image&Nation, Montreal Queer Film Festival Transculturelles, Luxemburg Brussels Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Belgium Portland Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Portland, OR Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney, Australia QueerDoc, Sydney, Australia Bergen International Film Festival, Norway Verzaubert Queer Film Festival: Munich, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Germany Barcelona Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Spain Out in Africa, Cape Town & Johannesburg, South Africa Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Australia QueerZagreb, Croatia Ljubljana Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Slovenia Pink Apple Film Festival, Zurich. Switzerland.


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I think I maybe added too much salt and pepper to my soup tonight in an effort to make it taste better. I say this because my mouth currently feels like the innermost circle of hell.
To be fair, my interior monologue upon taking it out of the fridge went something like this:
Inner Me With No Filter: Oh! We're having the vomit soup for dinner!
Me-Voice Me: Julie! You MADE this soup, and you like it, it will be fine.
IMWNF: Yeah, I liked it the FIRST time we made it. You know, that time we made it well. That time we made it… edible?
MVM: You'll eat it. And you'll like it.
IMWNF: Incorrect. YOU will eat. I will hate it.
MVM: Fine. I'll add salt and pepper. Now it will be delicious!
IMWNF: …maybe you better put in a little more.
And so I did. Seriously, I need to stop listening to that voice. The soup tastes FINE underneath the searing pain of salty dehydration and pepper-flames…


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Born in Rushall, England, Holmes played junior with Edmonton Bruins. During the 1931-32 season he was a solid rookie for the Hawks on a line with Gerry Lowery and Stew Adams. He played less frequently the next year and was eventually sent down to St. Paul of the AHA. Holmes then played several years in the North West and Pacific Coast Leagues but never returned to the NHL.
After serving for three years in World War II, Holmes signed up with the Edmonton All-Stars of the local senior league. He also skated for the senior New Methodist and Flyers in his hometown before retiring in 1949.
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Organized into multiple components that support a design firm's unique practice, the core-centric space has sit/stand desks, benching tables and drop-in stations around the perimeter, with conference and small meeting rooms around the core and a large flexible project area on the south end of the floor. Each area of the office is distinguished by its deliberate form and honest expression of materials.
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The flexible project areaat the south-end is flanked by a material and reference library. Movable partitions adjacent to these resources create additional sub-rooms and pin-up surfaces allowing for the ebb and flow of the design process of multiple teams. A sense of collaboration, transformation, energy and creativity fills the space and provides an alternate work zone to the more focused individual workstations.
At the heart of Gensler's design practice lies a commitment, to create work that is thoughtfully executed, responsive to user needs and inspiring. The rich local community of artisans and craftspeople fosters many creative partnerships and is an integral part of the Gensler Oakland mission. Equipped with 3-D printers, industrial tools and equipment and other production tools, the in-house workshop space represents the commitment to practicing craft, distillingquality and preserving culture.


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Recently, Google updated their guidelines for requesting reviews. "Don't discourage or prohibit negative reviews or selectively solicit positive reviews from customers."
In response to this, we have removed the ability to check customer sentiment before leaving a review through Customer Voice. Customers will now be sent directly to Google, or any 3rd party review site, to leave a review.
Updated email requests
Selected review sites will now appear directly in the email, and all customers will be asked to leave a review. Existing email templates will remain the same, however, email content will be replaced with new messaging that aligns with the direct workflow. If custom messaging is required, it will need to be changed manually.
This doesn't affect the current SMS workflow, as it already complies with these guidelines.
Next Steps
No immediate action is required. All accounts will be automatically migrated to this new workflow on May 9th.
Feel free to download the attached deck to help communicate these changes with your clients.


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Let me give you a little glimpse of Britt who is the woman, the creative, and the designer behind Yellow Umbrella. I wanted you to hear a part of her story because I think the pursuit of art is so beautiful.
"Design for me has never been something I have done, it has been a lifestyle. I can remember at a very young age creating artwork with just a few colors of chalk over any concrete surface around, only to wait for the rain to come to wash it away so that I could start creating once again. As I grew older I began doodling on any piece of paper put in front of me. Not only that, but I fell in love with paper and the art of notes. Isn't it such a great feeling to receive a handwritten note in the mail? I spent the majority of my young adult life focusing on becoming an elementary teacher, and then later counseling middle and high school students. It was such a rewarding time in my life but I was missing something...design. They say you should make your interests you career, well that is exactly what I did. I began freelancing under the name of Yellow Umbrella and later opened up my first Etsy Shop. I am now focusing on stationery and operating under Yellow Umbrella Stationery. We want every person to realize they can afford and use great design in their everyday life as well as special occasions."
I think the "Bonjour" cards from Yellow Umbrella might be my favorite. Mostly because I've never been to Paris, but it just looks magical, and I'd love to go some day. For now, I can just stare at these cards and keep on dreaming. :)
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This pack contains 51 icons (PNG 512px 256px and ICO, Windows Vista compatible) on the Japan theme.
Such a wonderful work done..love it..
very nice.!
Really very lovely! Arigatou/danke
My anti-virus detected the Keylogger trojan virus when I downloaded this
Very nice
Thank you.
eeks nvm found it
i cannot find the download please tell me where it is
Is there any possibility to use your icons for my forum? I am not sure if you agree with that way of changing license? Aren't your icons available for free?
Awesome work! ^^
Très jolies icônes, je sens qu'elles vont trôner de longues années sur mon pc. Merci pour ce si joli travail !
I love your work but when I try to download it the antivirus recognize the archive as a trojan and it was blocked. Do you know how to solve it? Thank you
Is it normal that my antivirus react when I try to download it ?
Really strange cause I don't meet anything and what's your protection ?
Cause an antivir. can make a reaction with everything when he thing the code is strange.
Cause an antivir. can make a reaction with everything when he thing the code is strange.
I use Avast and I searched on google what is a keylogger and I very don't understand why I have this alert when I try to download ^^'
I love the icon set but sadly ditto on the KeyLogger.
keylogger ? you sure ? it's not a problem from your protection ? cause I work on mac.
I tried to download this and it was blocked for me. My antivirus said it was a keylogger. o_O
Trying to download this, I get a Keylogger virus notice from AVAST, thus it stops the download at 96%, it looks like a valid threat?
Nothing inside, Problems come from your avast I think cause i don't work with windows
I've done this from three different machines now, and gotten the same hit on Norton - finder.ico is somehow infected with a keylogger. You might try to get someone on a windows box to grab the zip pack and clean it up - or just nuke finder.ico for now - its one of those File/header API bugs.
Further investigation shows ../ICO/finder.ico was infected with Threat: Win32: Keylogger-ANN - I let avast delete that file, and the rest show up as not infected. Might want to check your systems out!
@dunedhel, I love your work. Absolutely amazing.
I can't figure out why the "Samurai" icon named "Finder.ico" keeps coming up as a Trojan with Avast v.6.0.1289.
I have submitted for a false positive, so far nothing. I have yet to test it against a site that uses multiple antivirus.
Any Ideas?
I can't figure out why the "Samurai" icon named "Finder.ico" keeps coming up as a Trojan with Avast v.6.0.1289.
I have submitted for a false positive, so far nothing. I have yet to test it against a site that uses multiple antivirus.
Any Ideas?
Beautiful detail!
Very cool
Great icons! It's pity that some file extensions are absent. Could you, please, share with fonts and .psd you made the file extensions with. I'd try to make some of them by myself.
just discovered this great pack of awesomeness! very inventive + top drawing - and i love japanese motives! especially the black dock folders ^__^
sorry i was refering to you dunedhel actually.love your work in general
jadore vos travaux (including dunedhel's).really luv it,truly nice work!
Bravo ! Très beau travail !
Awesome! I used a few to complete my iphone theme I downloaded but was lacking a few icons.
I see some great work here..
me encanto el pack de 10
Thanks for the beautiful work


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Today, a charm-bracelet is a standard piece of jewelry for women everywhere. The "charms" may be pretty tame stuff—a tiny golden poodle, a stiletto shoe, maybe a cute mini-cupcake.
But the origin of the charm-bracelet, and the wearing of charms, was originally a bit more powerful. Charms are amulets, talismans. Their general purpose: to protect the wearer from harm.
The English word "charm" comes from "carmen", the Latin word for song, or singing. Romance languages clearly reflect this origin. In Spanish and French, a polite greeting translates "I am enchanted to meet you" (enchante, encantado)—and in these words, we see the word "chant", as in song. Meaning to literally be charmed, or bewitched, by singing or song.
Many of our favorite pieces of jewelry may be called charms, because their ancient origins trace back to a belief in protective magic. With cultural roots deep in the Mediterranean and Middle East, the "eye", the protective hand, the "red thread" bracelet, even the emblem of the fish are now worn by people all over the world. We've seen the "eye" and the Hamsa worn by young hipsters in Oslo, Tokyo, and lots of other places far from the lands where these symbols originated.
Do charms "work"? We certainly believe that a symbolic gesture of love, such as giving the gift of our "eye" or Hamsa jewelry, surrounds and shields the wearer with good vibes. That's the great thing about love: one size fits all.


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I know many of you are wondering who the winner of the Enchante pillow is, and I must say it was a very hard choice. You all offered some wonderful people who are so deserving and I sincerely thank you for sharing.
The winner of the pillow is the McClenahans and I have added their link so you can all see what a wonderful inspiration they are. What makes this giveaway so special is the person who submitted their name has never met the McClenahans. Rose from Portugal had read their blog and was inspired to submit them. Thank you so much Rose!
Recently I had asked for your creative suggestions for a pillow I was doing and many of you sent the most wonderful sayings for my royal winged giveaway. I have added the picture of the design and I want to thank Karen from Brayton Homestead Interiors for her suggestion.
I hope all of you have a blessed and wonderful weekend.


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WhatBy Edward Cone | Posted 2003-02-01 Print
The media giant's publishing arm broke all its books into thousands of digital assets. But was it too late to win over the rest of the company?s An Asset, And Where Are They?">
For instance, before the Book Group could begin distributing its assets, it first had to determine (a) what one was, and (b) how it would find each, once stored in an archive.
The project team in early 2000 included Gore, the technology project manager for the digital asset system; Madans, who ran the project from the business side; other Book Group staff; representatives from software vendor Artesia (see Dossier); and project managers from Accenture. The team met often with groups of users from 15 departments across the company.
"We went through the whole process of what files they had, how they got them, who controls that," Madans says. "We did workflow charts for every department, identified what assets they had in common."
The team spent about three weeks defining what an asset was. Changeable pieces of information, such as price lists, delivery dates or production schedules, were deemed not to be assets, while sample chapters and jacket copy made the original list of 33 asset types. Some were obvious, like covers and photos, while others took some pondering, like audio clips.
The key word was "reuse," Madans says. "It had to have a purpose to be in there, so that one department could pick up an asset in finished form and use it, or create a new asset out of it." A description of a book, for instance, could be reused as copy for a jacket flap, promo copy for an online or print ad, or summaries for online booksellers.
In the case of Four Blind Mice, the entire text is one digital asset. But a file of sample chapters is a separate asset that hooks readers at JamesPatterson.com. By the time Four Blind Mice hit stores in November, its cover, author bio, review blurbs and other information had been pushed out to sales reps and customers many times and for many uses, from sales presentations to online display. Ingram, the big Nashville-based wholesaler and jobber, had redistributed the same material to the chains and smaller bookstores it serves.
Now, Leung says the Book Group is considering allowing major accounts to pull some information directly from the book division's repository of digital assets, to speed up the process and take the task of chasing down assets off her hands.
But just because a discrete piece of a book can be identified doesn't mean it becomes a separate digital asset. The title, for example, describes the book and is thus considered not an asset but metadata. Metadata is descriptive information about an asset that helps it get found. "Production schedules are not an asset, but things they track, like first-passed pages, are assets," Madans says. "We had to do a lot of brainstorming" to draw the line.
The trick when assigning metadatawhich is really data about datais to use as many descriptors as needed to cover the logical means of identifying a digital asset. But not so much that retrieval becomes unwieldy.
Descriptive information for the Book Group's system includes the publishing industry identification code, known as the ISBN, as well as author, date of publication, genre (e.g., fiction), format (hardback or soft cover) and so on. Some metadata, like the Book Industry Study Group standard used by retailers to place books, was available from the publisher's existing databases.
A wall-sized chart of asset types and metadata was assembled in a crowded conference room that served as project headquarters on the 45th floor of the Time-Life Building. "It was a matrix with asset types across the top and metadata down the side, and in between was how that metadata interacted with that asset type," says Madans.
Thus the top row of the metadata/asset matrix would include asset types such as "fact sheet" or "production manuscript." Below an asset type would be a description of the formats required for that asset, whether Word or PDF for a manuscript or Quark for a jacket mechanical. Under that went information on who was responsible for importing the asset to the system; for example, the art department putting in a cover image. And on the left-hand side were the metadata elements needed for each asset type. This was precision work. Some metadata pertains only to one particular asset type, such as the "foil status" of covers that may be printed on foil-like material.
Creating metadata can be even harder for other media, such as video. Moving images don't come with captions, much less headlines, bylines, summaries and descriptions. "It's really hard to describe some unstructured information," says IBM's Brett MacIntyre. "A name has maybe 25 characters, but a two-hour video has all those imageshow do you describe things when you are dealing not with measurements but attributes?"
So a clip of a Kodiak bear eating a salmon in Alaska might be tagged with key words like, "Alaska," "salmon," "bear," and "eating." More key words might be added to images from key scenes.
In effect, some human being has to translate visual information into descriptions. At AOL Time Warner's CNN unit, video in the digital-asset management system is described in three different ways: by standard text labels, by digital transcripts of the audio track and by the images at each point where a scene changes. Still it's hard sometimes to determine when a video sequence starts and endswhether "bear eating" includes the bear catching a fish or just chewing on itmuch less describe what's in it comprehensively yet concisely.
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