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The sextet America loved to laugh with for the better part of the '90s likely won't be gathering for a reunion, "Friends" star Lisa Kudrow told UsMagazine.com Monday.
"It doesn't look like" a "Friends" reunion is on the table, said the comedian, who played goofball musician Phoebe on the show.
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"Everyone is busy!" Kudrow said. "It would be fun, but I don't know. How? Why? Really?"
Kudrow said it wasn't the show's stars that nixed the idea, but that the original writers Marta Kauffman and David Crane weren't on board for a modern-day "Friends" retelling.
"I guess they don't think it's a good idea," Kudrow said.
Stars Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, and Courteney Cox have all continued their careers in film and television -- Cox is back on the TV circuit with "Cougar Town," her ABC hit show.
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40 Swine Flu Cases Now Reported in U.S.
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MONDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- The number of confirmed cases of swine flu in the United States has doubled to 40, with all the new cases coming from a New York City high school that had previously reported eight cases of the infectious disease, U.S. health officials said Monday.
The officials also said they were tightening their travel advisory to Mexico -- believed to be the source of the outbreak that continues to reach around the world -- recommending that all nonessential travel to that country be avoided.
"This situation is evolving very quickly, it is changing quickly," Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during an afternoon teleconference. "We are officially reporting 40 confirmed cases in the United States. The only change from yesterday is 20 confirmed cases in New York City. These are associated with the same school outbreak and really represent additional testing in that group and not an ongoing spread."
All 40 U.S. patients -- 28 in New York, seven in California, two in Texas, two in Kansas and one in Ohio -- have either recovered or had mild infections, Besser said.
"Later today, we will be releasing a new travel advisory for Mexico," he added. "This is out of an abundance of caution, and we will be recommending that nonessential travel to Mexico be avoided."
Mexico is reporting as many as 1,900 possible swine flu infections and as many as 149 deaths.
Earlier Monday, President Barack Obama said the threat posed by the swine flu outbreak was a cause for concern but "not a cause for alarm."
"The Department of Health and Human Services has declared a public health emergency as a precautionary tool to ensure that we have the resources we need at our disposal to respond quickly and effectively," Obama told a gathering of scientists at the National Academy of Sciences, amid increasing worries worldwide about a possible pandemic, the Associated Press reported.
Besser said that he "expects that we will see [swine flu] cases in other parts of the country, and I would fully expect that we will see a broader range in terms of the severity of infection. Thankfully, so far we have not seen severe disease in this country as has been reported in Mexico."
Besser said the United States will step up checks of people entering the country by air, land and sea, looking for signs of infection, and the CDC will begin distributing "yellow cards at ports of entry."
"These will provide information on swine flu, so that people coming into the United States will have information about this outbreak -- what to do if they become sick, what things they can do to prevent the likelihood that they will become sick," he said.
He also said U.S. officials were questioning border visitors about their health, looking for signs of possible infection.
The fast-unfolding events in the United States -- where all 40 cases have been relatively mild and there have been no deaths -- came in response to some 1,900 swine flu infections and as many as 149 deaths in neighboring Mexico.
Officials in other nations around the globe responded to the threat of a possible pandemic. China, Taiwan and Russia considered quarantines, and several Asian countries scrutinized visitors arriving at their airports, the AP reported.
The European Union on Monday advised against nonessential travel to the United States and Mexico. Early Monday, Spain confirmed that a man hospitalized in the eastern part of the country had tested positive for swine flu, in what's believed to be Europe's first case of the disease. Health authorities were also testing 17 other possible cases in Spain, a major travel link between Mexico and Europe, The New York Times reported.
Responding Monday to the EU's travel advisory, the CDC's Besser said, "Based on the situation in the United States right now, I think it is premature to put travel restrictions on people coming to the United States. As the situation changes, that needs to be evaluated by different countries."
On Sunday, U.S. health officials declared a public health emergency in response to the swine flu outbreak.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the declaration was a precautionary measure and did not mean that the threat posed by the outbreak was worsening. But, the move allows federal and state governments easier access to flu tests and medications, she said.
Napolitano said the federal government had 50 million doses of the antiviral flu medication Tamiflu, and a quarter of those doses were being released to states, if needed, "particularly prioritizing the states where we already have confirmed incidence of the flu."
Napolitano also said Sunday that the Department of Homeland Security had started "passive surveillance protocols to screen people coming into the country."
"All persons entering the United States from a location of human infection of swine flu will be processed by appropriate CDC protocols," she said. "Right now, these are passive. They are looking for people and asking about: 'Are you sick? Have you been sick?' and the like. And if so, they can be referred over for further examination. Travelers who do present with symptoms will be isolated."
Speaking at a Sunday press conference, Dr. Anne Schuchat, the CDC's Interim Deputy Director for Science and Public Health Program, said that U.S. health officials had numerous tools to fight the illness' spread and protect the health of Americans. The swine flu viruses found in the United States are resistant to two antiviral medications -- amantadine and rimantadine -- but are susceptible to the antivirals oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza), Schuchat said.
Schuchat said steps were already being taken to devise a vaccine against this strain of swine flu, although the process takes time. "We are taking the initial steps in terms of preparing the seed virus to hand off to the industry partners, to produce large quantities. But, you know, it takes months to produce a vaccine," she said.
Besser said there are steps people can take to help prevent catching and spreading the flu, including frequent hand-washing. "If you are sick, it is very important that people stay at home. If your children are sick, have a fever and flu-like illness, they shouldn't go to school. And if you are ill, you shouldn't get on an airplane or another public transport. Those things are part of personal responsibility in trying to reduce the impact," he said.
Meanwhile, in Mexico, authorities continued to take dramatic steps -- including suspending school and public gatherings -- to try to contain the outbreak that officials say has killed as many as 149 people, and sickened more than 1,900 others in that country.
Some of the U.S. cases involved people who had recently returned from trips to Mexico, Schuchat said Sunday. The two cases reported in Kansas involved a husband and wife who had recently been to that country, she said. And The New York Times reported that some of the students at St. Francis Preparatory School, in Queens, had recently come back from Mexico as well.
Also on Sunday, Canadian officials confirmed four "very mild" cases of swine flu at a school in Nova Scotia, and two other cases in British Columbia. According to the AP, a provincial health official said that the infection that sickened the students in Nova Scotia "was acquired in Mexico, brought home and spread."
Swine flu is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza. Swine flu does not normally infect humans. However, human infections do occur, usually after exposure to pigs. Symptoms resemble those of the regular flu, including sore throat, coughing and fever.
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For more on swine flu, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
SOURCES: April 27, 2009, teleconference with Richard Besser, MD, acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; April 26, 2009, White House press conference with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Richard Besser, MD, acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; April 25 and 26, 2009, teleconferences with Anne Schuchat, MD, director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Atlanta; The New York Times; Associated Press

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Sometime within the next two years, global shipping routes will undergo a massive reorganization.
That's because the Panama Canal will be widened to allow passage of super-sized container ships that currently are too big to go through the canal.
For now, the Panama's water corridor can accommodate ships with no more than about 5,000 containers. At the completion of the five-year project, the enlarged canal will be able to accommodate ships with up to 12,000 containers.
So what's all this global shipping stuff have to do with California? A lot more than you might think.
International shipping is big in California. Los Angeles is the busiest container port in the United States, while Long Beach is close behind in second place. Of the shipments that come to southern California from the Pacific, about half of the goods stay in California or nearby areas; the other half is shipped east via train or trucks.
All that translates into revenue and jobs. In fact, about a half million jobs are connected to the shipments in and out of the two ports.
Once the widened Panama Canal begins service, ships with goods primarily for ports in the Gulf of Mexico and east coast will be able to sail straight through to their destination, bypassing California ports altogether, and at a cost. Some business leaders in southern California believe that redirected container shipping could cost the region 25 percent of its current volume, and with that could go tens of thousands of jobs.
As ominous as things appear, there is a silver lining of sorts. While L.A.and Long Beach have spent resources expanding their capacities, other ports have not kept up. New York, Savannah, Georgia, Charleston, South Carolina, and Miami are not deep enough to accommodate the super-sized container ships. Norfolk, Virginia and Baltimore are deep enough, but lack the capacity to accept the larger container volumes.
Maybe there's an upside to fewer congressional earmarks.
Meanwhile, in the near term, California will continue to thrive because of the problems elsewhere. But once other ports catch up, California may find itself with a smaller slice of the shipping pie. Chewing on that possibility is an uncomfortable thought.


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State and local officials were on hand at the recent ground breaking ceremony which signaled the beginning of the expansion of East Hartford's Raymond Public Library.
The $8.2 million project will increase the size of the current 48,000 square-foot library by an additional 14,000 square feet, making space for computer rooms, a meeting room and a teen area. The project will also include renovations of the current building. When complete, the facility will be decorated with a variety of town-related museum artifacts, including Pratt & Whitney engines and tobacco farming relics. Pratt & Whitney will be storing the engines during the course of the renovation and will also provide a grant to help construct the final display.
A number of speakers took to the podium during the ceremony, which took place on Oct. 31, with East Hartford Library Director Susan Hansen making opening remarks.
"This vision was championed by Mayor Leclerc and supported by so many people in the community," said Hansen, who noted that her position with the library began in July at the "end of all this planning."
"I was very impressed when I arrived here at the scope of the project and the depth of the support and commitment to bring a new library facility to the town," continued Hansen, who acknowledged and thanked a list of organizations and individuals before introducing the other speakers.
"I remember what this library meant to me when I was going to college, doing masters work. It was the place I lived in, it was fantastic. We had a lot of great people and resources," said state Rep. Henry Genga. "But it's long overdue, and there are so many people to thank, starting with governor and his staff who we worked with to get the funding, the former director, people who worked here, the administration and the mayor and all the people who helped put this together."
"I can't wait to see what this is going to be in the future, because we're going to have the finest that you can possibly have, the technology and all the resources that this town deserves and will find a blessing," said Genga.
"This may sound political, but it very much is," said East Hartford Mayor Marcia Leclerc, as she began explaining how the project finally came to be.
"I met with the directors and asked about that library project that was started so many years ago, when the Raymond Library Company commissioned plans to expand the library ... One of my initiatives, and what I was running on, was a platform to make that a reality. It was only after I won the election in November that I was actually able to make it all happen, and I can not, and did not, do it alone. Everyone around me here today played an integral role in the process," said Leclerc.
Speaking of timing and opportunity, Leclerc continued, "I reached out to Representative Henry Genga to see if there were revenues available from the state of Connecticut, we asked other representatives and Senator Lebeau to help make this a reality."
Along with "pockets and pools" of money from a variety of areas, Leclerc noted, "It was only the additional $3 million that was able to make this a reality, and it was only because we have a Democratic governor, and it was only because we had a Democratic mayor at that time, and it was only because we had the support of all our delegation, not only on the Town Council, but all of the other areas of the community, so I stand here very proud to introduce a man who really pulled the pieces together by casting his support to allocate the money, $4 million, to the town of East Hartford to make the expansion of this library."
After jovial opening remarks and laughter from the crowd, Gov. Dannel Malloy pointed out that it has been 45 years since a major project had been done at the library building.
"Nineteen sixty eight," said Malloy. "Quite frankly, that's too long of a time to have transpired without this kind of project taking place. When your legislative delegation and mayor brought to my attention the needs of the community around the Raymond Library, it made simply too much sense. It would have made no sense to avoid moving this project forward for the community."
As with many of the speakers that day who spoke of their childhood memories of the library, Malloy spoke of his struggles learning to read while growing up due to learning disabilities. He noted that he spent many hours at Stamford's public library listening to books on tape.
Once remarks from state Rep. Genga, state Rep. Jason Rojas, state Rep. Tim Larson, state Sen. Gary LeBeau, U.S. Rep. John Larson, President for the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Linda Kelly, Dawn LaValle of the Connecticut State Library, Raymond Library Company Board Vice President Frank Leone, Mayor Leclerc and Gov. Malloy concluded, the ceremonial ground breaking took place.
The expansion and renovation project is expected to take 14 months. Due to construction, the following changes to library services will take place:
The Wickham Library branch hours will be extended to Monday through Thursday, 12 - 8 p.m., Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. These hours will remain until the renovation is completed. The Raymond Library will open in the East Hartford Cultural Center at 50 Chapman Street. The hours of operation will be Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 9 am. - 5 p.m.
Hansen said that during the renovation the library staff will be providing an additional 17 hours of service. The bookmobile will also be operational, and Hansen said she hopes to have the bookmobile schedule available on the library's website by the end of November.
The library is also enhancing 24/7 online offerings by adding new databases, said Hansen.


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A static class is one that has only static methods (functions) and it is meant to support procedural programming. Such classes aren't really classes in that the user of the class is only interested in the helper functions and not in creating instances of the class. While static classes are supported in C# [1], no such direct support exists in Java.
People often mimic this feature by using a private constructor for their class:
public class StaticClass1 { // disallow instance creation by other classes private StaticClass1() { super(); } public static boolean isEmpty(final String s) { return s == null || s.isEmpty(); } }But, this doesn't truly disallow creation of instances. Code (static initializers, methods, inner classes, etc.) written inside the class can still create instances of the class despite the private constructor. A dedicated Java hacker can even revert to reflection to create instances of the class.
Java does however provide support for enums and that can be handily used to create these static classes or Emptytons who can truly avoid creation of any instances:
public enum StaticClass2 { // Empty enum trick to avoid instance creation ; // this semi-colon is important public static boolean isEmpty(final String s) { return s == null || s.isEmpty(); } }Reflection cannot be used to create instances of such classes unlike with private constructors as reflective instantiation of enum types is prohibited [2, 3].
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Info43 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 31 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
GE Cigars , http://www.gecigars.com
We are a new online retailer for Premium cigars, we feature the top "cigar aficionado" brands from the best cigar factories of the world. We offer a great inventory of this high end cigars and offer great variety of accessories and humidors . What we are looking for its a logo that would represent that idea.
"The good life" its our favorite phrase.
The Target Market are Men, age 30 to 64, mostly entrepreneurs, professionals, the kind of people that would enjoy playing golf in a weekend afternoon, going hunting or just watching the NFL football with a good cigar.
Cigars in marketing tend to be similar to wine or whiskey due to the hidden flavors and characteristics found in a smoke, the social factor and the age restriction.
We have a space on the webpage of 980 px by 136px for the logo banner. We would like it to be around 220 px by 136 px so it can cover a good part of the left side. (You can play with the whole 980 if you have a great Idea)
The company name its GE Cigars Co.
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The August 3 Senate hearing is a critical early step in renewing the Combating Autism Act of 2006. The hearing will enable the 22 Senators who are members of the HELP committee to offer their input. This body must act on the bill in order to get it before the full Senate, important steps to getting it cleared by the House and sent to the President's desk by September 30. Until the committee approves the bill, the full Senate will be unable to act.
The autism community is fortunate that nine members of the Senate HELP committee, including ranking member Senator Enzi, are sponsors of CARA. But sponsorship is not enough. These Senate members, along with 10 other committee members who voted for the original 2006 act, must demonstrate their support at the August 3 hearing for a strong continued federal role for autism research, treatment and services.
...The CAA authorized nearly $1 billion of federal spending through 2011 on biomedical and treatment research on autism. It required the federal government to develop a strategic plan to expand and better coordinate the nation's support for persons with autism and their families. Important research findings have resulted and critical studies are underway. Promising new interventions are making a difference in our children's lives. For more CAA success stories, click here.
The 2006 law established autism as a national health priority and increased funding, leading to significant advances in our understanding of autism. But all of that progress could grind to a halt September 30 unless Congress sends President Obama a bill reauthorizing the Combating Autism Act. CARA would continue federal funding at current levels – that's $693 million over the next three years dedicated exclusively for autism-related work by the National Institute of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other federal agencies. The President already has promised to sign a reauthorization bill this year.
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[EDITOR'S NOTE: Immediately after the July issue of Reason and Revelation had gone to the printer, the non-profit Human Genome Project in the United States and its international analogue, the non-profit Human Genome Organization, along with Celera Genomics, a for-profit corporation, announced that working together they had deciphered, for all practical purposes, the genetic code contained in the human genome. We were not able to "stop the presses" on the July issue in order to discuss this momentous feat, but hope that R&R readers will enjoy our two-part series on this amazing scientific accomplishment and its implications for humankind. The reader may find it useful to have on hand the "Genetic Glossary," since some terms in that glossary are employed here for the first time.]
On Monday, June 26, 2000, the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain jointly called a press conference that not only received instantaneous, worldwide news coverage, but also captured the attention of people around the globe (see Office of Technology Policy, 2000). As the ambassadors of Japan, Germany, and France watched (along with some of the planet's most distinguished scientists, who had joined them either in person or via satellite), the two world leaders announced what one science writer called "the greatest intellectual moment in history, bar none!"—the deciphering of the genetic code contained in the entire human genome.
The news media—both popular and scientific—had a field day. The (July 3, 2000) bright red cover of Time magazine screamed in huge, yellow letters—"Cracking the Code!" Upon opening the magazine to read the text of the cover story, the reader was met with an audacious headline in giant type that announced: "The Race Is Over!" The July 3 issue of U.S. News & World Report covered the story under the heading, "We've Only Just Begun" (Fischer, 2000, 129[1]:47). One week later, in its July 10 issue, U.S. News & World Report assigned its highly touted editor-at-large, David Gergen, to write an editorial that was titled "Collaboration? Very Cool" about the success of the joint effort (2000, 129[2]:64). The July 3 issue of Newsweek contained a feature article, "A Genome Milestone," discussing the project (Hayden, 2000, 129[1]:51). The June 30 issue of Science, the official organ of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Marshall, 2000, 288:2294-2295), and the June 29 issue of Nature, the official organ of its counterpart in Great Britain, the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Macilwain, 2000, 405:983-984), each devoted in-depth stories to the "cracking of the code." The July 2000 issue of Scientific American also weighed in (Brown, 2000, 283[1]:50-55), as did numerous other professional journals in countries on almost every continent.
Emotional exhilaration ran high, and descriptive adjectives flowed freely. Professional writers, as well as some of the scientists directly involved in the events that led to the decoding of the human genome, variously described the results as the "holy grail" of biology and "the most important scientific effort that mankind has ever mounted"—and did not hesitate to compare the saga to the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb in the mid-1940s or the Apollo Project that landed men on the moon on July 20, 1969. Time's cover story authors remarked authoritatively: "It's impossible to overstate the significance of this achievement" (Golden and Lemonick, 2000, 156[1]:19).
Amidst all the hoopla, important questions are bound to arise. For example, what, exactly, is the human genome? What do scientists mean when they say they have "decoded" it? What do these events mean for mankind—either now or in the future? What are the potential benefits and/or drawbacks associated with such research? When can humanity expect to experience them? Are there any scientific, biblical, ethical, or moral implications to be considered? If so, what are they and how should we handle them? These kinds of questions often accompany the invention and development of major new scientific technologies, and deserve a well-reasoned, informed response.
One of the newest (and certainly one of the most exciting) sciences is that of genetics. After all, every living thing—plant, animal, or human—is a storehouse of genetic information and therefore is a potential "laboratory" full of scientific knowledge. Genetics had its origin in 1865 as the result of studies performed by an Augustinian monk, Gregor Mendel, whose accomplishments certainly are worthy of recognition. Philosopher Richard von Mises stated, in fact, that Mendel's work "plays in genetics a role comparable to that of Newton's laws in mechanics" (1968, p. 243).
Gregor Mendel died in 1884, never realizing that eventually he would be known as the "father of modern genetics" (see Considine, 1976, p. 1155). Many scientists since have added to the knowledge he provided in regard to this important new science. For example, in 1902, German embryologist Theodor Boveri, and in 1904, American cytologist W.S. Sutton, building on the work of another German embryologist, Wilhelm Roux, documented that what Mendel had referred to as Anlagen (genes?) were distributed throughout the body in the nucleus of every cell in sausage-shaped bodies that Roux called "chromosomes" (from the Greek meaning "color body," because early geneticists had to stain them with brightly colored dyes in order to view them under a microscope).
The effort to locate a gene, determine what it does, and discover how it functions was launched in 1906 when American scientist Thomas H. Morgan began his famous studies on the chromosomes of fruit flies. That same year, at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, English biologist William Bateson suggested the term "genetics" as the name for this new science (see Asimov, 1972, p. 516). In 1908, Morgan identified "invisible heredity units" (that later would come to be known as genes) as being associated with portions of chromosomes. Then, in 1909, Danish botanist Wilhelm Johannsen coined the term "gene" (from the Greek for "giving birth to") as the name for these "heredity units"—a term still in use today (see Bishop and Waldholz, 1999, p. 23). [Johannsen also coined the two terms "genotype" and "phenotype" to describe an individual's inner genetic make-up, and the outward expression of that make-up, respectively.]
The physical location of the gene, therefore, has been known only since the beginning of this century. Shortly thereafter, it became clear that almost every biochemical characteristic in all living creatures was determined by genes. In 1911, scientists produced the first chromosome maps. In the 1940s, O.T. Avery showed that traits could be passed from one bacterium to another by a chemical known as DNA (see Avery, et al., 1944, 79:137-158). The eminent taxonomist of Harvard, Ernst Mayr, wrote concerning this event: "A new era in developmental genetics was opened when Avery demonstrated that DNA was the carrier of the genetic information" (1997, p. 166). By 1941, two Americans, George W. Beadle and Edward L. Tatum, had discovered that the genes' function was to produce proteins—which serve both as structural components of all living matter and as enzymes that assist in the infinite variety of chemical reactions that make life possible. Yet, as Bishop and Waldholz noted:
Despite these remarkable discoveries, the exact nature of the genes remained a mystery. No one knew what a gene looked like, how it worked, or how the cell managed to replicate its genes in order to pass a complement on to its offspring. By the 1940s, however, a series of discoveries began suggesting that the genes were composed of an acid found in the nuclei of cells. This nucleic acid was rich in a sugar called deoxyribose and hence was known as deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA (1999, p. 23).
The still-new science of genetics was advanced greatly by the discovery, in 1953, of the chemical code within cells that provides the genetic instructions. It was in that year that James D. Watson of the United States, and Francis H.C. Crick of Great Britain, published their landmark paper about the composition and helical structure of DNA (1953, 171:737-738). Nine years later, in 1962, they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for their stellar achievement in elucidating the structure of DNA (a subject about which I will have more to say later in this article, as well as in part two of this series). British geneticist, E.B. Ford, in his book, Understanding Genetics, provided an insightful summary when he wrote:
What then keeps...living things in general "on the right lines"? Why are there not pairs of sparrows, for instance, that beget robins, or some other species of bird: why indeed birds at all? Something must be handed on from parent to offspring which ensures conformity, not complete but in a high degree, and prevents such extreme departures. What is it, how does it work, what rules does it obey and why does it apparently allow only limited variation? Genetics is the science that endeavours to answer these questions, and much else besides. It is the study of organic inheritance and variation, if we must use more formal language (1979, p. 13).
As scientists have studied what Dr. Ford called "organic inheritance and variation," we have come to realize that the basic unit of life is the cell. Genes, chromosomes, nucleic acids, and the chemicals that compose them are found within the cells of every living organism on Earth. It is quite appropriate, therefore, that an investigation into matters such as those being discussed here should begin with an examination of the structure and nature of the cell.
Anatomist Ernst Haeckel, Charles Darwin's chief supporter in Germany in the mid-nineteenth century, once summarized his personal feelings about the "simple" nature of the cell when he wrote that it contained merely "homogeneous globules of plasm" that were
composed chiefly of carbon with an admixture of hydrogen, nitrogen, and sulfur. These component parts properly united produce the soul and body of the animated world, and suitably nursed became man. With this single argument the mystery of the universe is explained, the Deity annulled, and a new era of infinite knowledge ushered in (1905, p. 111).
Voilà! As easy as that, simple "homogeneous globules of plasm" nursed man into existence, animated his body, dispelled the necessity of a Creator, and ushered in a new era of "infinite knowledge." In the end, however, Haeckel's simplistic, naturalistic concept turned out to be little more than wishful thinking. As Lester and Hefley put it:
We once thought that the cell, the basic unit of life, was a simple bag of protoplasm. Then we learned that each cell in any life form is a teeming micro-universe of compartments, structures, and chemical agents—and each human being has billions of cells... (1998, pp. 30-31).
Billions of cells indeed! In the section he authored on the topic of "life" for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the late astronomer Carl Sagan observed that a single human being is composed of what he referred to as an "ambulatory collection of 1014 cells" (1997, 22:965). He then noted: "The information content of a simple cell has been established as around 1012 bits, comparable to about a hundred million pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica" (22:966). Evolutionist Richard Dawkins acknowledged that the cell's nucleus "contains a digitally coded database larger, in information content, than all 30 volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica put together. And this figure is for each cell, not all the cells of a body put together" (1986, pp. 17-18, emp. in orig.). Dr. Sagan estimated that if a person were to count every letter in every word in every book of the world's largest library (approximately 10 million volumes), the total number of letters would be 1012, which suggests that the "simple cell" contains the information equivalent of the world's largest library (1974, 10:894)! Stephen C. Meyer suggested:
Since the late 1950s advances in molecular biology and biochemistry have revolutionized our understanding of the miniature world within the cell. Modern molecular biology has revealed that living cells—the fundamental units of life—possess the ability to store, edit and transmit information and to use information to regulate their most fundamental metabolic processes. Far from characterizing cells as simple "homogeneous globules of plasm," as did Ernst Haeckel and other nineteenth-century biologists, modern biologists now describe cells as, among other things, "distributive real-time computers" and complex information processing systems (1998, pp. 113-114).
So much for the "simple" cell being a little lump of albuminous combination of carbon, as Haeckel once put it.
Cells are filled with a variety of organelles such as ribosomes (which aid in protein production), Golgi bodies (which package proteins), the endoplasmic reticulum (the transport system of the cell), mitochondria (which manufacture energy), vacuoles (which aid in intracellular cleaning processes), etc. Furthermore, cells are absolute marvels of design when it comes to reproducing themselves. Cellular reproduction consists of at least two important functions—duplication of the cell's complement of genetic material and cleavage of the cell's cytoplasmic matrix into two distinct yet separate parts. However, not all cells reproduce in the same manner.
Speaking in general terms, there are two basic types of cells found in organisms that procreate sexually. First, there are somatic (body) cells that contain a full complement (the diploid number) of genes. Second, there are germ (egg and sperm) cells that contain half the complement (the haploid number) of genes. Likely, the reason that germ cells (gametes) contain only half the normal genetic content is fairly obvious. Since the genetic material in the two gametes is combined during procreation in order to form a zygote (which will develop first into an embryo, then into a fetus, and eventually into the neonate), in order to ensure that the zygote has the normal, standard chromosome number the gametes always must contain exactly half that necessary number. As Weisz and Keogh explained in their widely used textbook, Elements of Biology:
One consequence of every sexual process is that a zygote formed from two gametes possesses twice the number of chromosomes present in a single gamete. An adult organism developing from such a zygote would consist of cells having a doubled chromosome number. If the next generation is again produced sexually, the chromosome number would quadruple, and this process of progressive doubling would continue indefinitely through successive generations. Such events do not happen, and chromosome numbers do stay constant from one life cycle to the next (1977, p. 331).
Why is it, though, that chromosome numbers "do stay constant from one life cycle to the next?" The answer, of course, has to do with the two different types of cellular division. All somatic cells reproduce by the process known as mitosis. Most cells in sexually reproducing organisms possess a nucleus that contains a preset number of chromosomes. In mitosis, cell division is "a mathematically precise doubling of the chromosomes and their genes. The two chromosome sets so produced then become separated and become part of two newly formed nuclei" so that "the net result of cell division is the formation of two cells that match each other and the parent cell precisely in their gene contents and that contain approximately equal amounts and types of all other components" (Weisz and Keogh, 1977, pp. 322,325). Thus, mitosis carefully maintains a constant diploid chromosome number during cellular division. For example, in human somatic cells, there are 46 chromosomes. During mitosis, from the original "parent" cell two new "daughter" cells are produced, each of which then contains 46 chromosomes.
Germ cells, on the other hand, reproduce by a process known as meiosis. During this type of cellular division, the diploid chromosome number is halved ("meiosis" derives from the Greek meaning to split or divide). So, to use the example of the human, the diploid chromosome complement of 46 is reduced to 23 in each one of the newly formed cells. As Weisz and Keogh observed: "Meiosis occurs in every life cycle that includes a sexual process—in other words, more or less universally.... It is the function of meiosis to counteract the chromosome-doubling effect of fertilization by reducing a doubled chromosome number to half. The unreduced doubled chromosome number, before meiosis, is called the diploid number; the reduced number, after meiosis, is the haploid number" (p. 331, emp. in orig.). In his book, The Panda's Thumb, evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould discussed the marvel of meiosis.
Meiosis, the splitting of chromosome pairs in the formation of sex cells, represents one of the great triumphs of good engineering in biology. Sexual reproduction cannot work unless eggs and sperm each contain precisely half the genetic information of normal body cells. The union of two halves by fertilization restores the full amount of genetic information.... This halving, or "reduction division," occurs during meiosis when the chromosomes line up in pairs and pull apart, one member of each pair moving to each of the sex cells. Our admiration for the precision of meiosis can only increase when we learn that cells of some ferns contain more than 600 pairs of chromosomes and that, in most cases, meiosis splits each pair without error (1980, p. 160).
And it is not just meiosis that works in most instances without error. Evolutionist John Gribbin admitted, for example, that "...once a fertilized, single human cell begins to develop, the original plans are faithfully copied each time the cell divides (a process called mitosis) so that every one of the thousand million million cells in my body, and in yours, contains a perfect replica of the original plans for the whole body" (1981, p. 193, emp. added, parenthetical comment in orig.).
Regarding the "perfect replica" produced in cellular division, the late United Nations scientist A.E. Wilder-Smith observed:
The Nobel laureate, F.H. Crick has said that if one were to translate the coded information on one human cell into book form, one would require one thousand volumes each of five hundred pages to do so. And yet the mechanism of a cell can copy faithfully at cell division all this information of one thousand volumes each of five hundred pages in just twenty minutes (1976, p. 258).
Information scientist Werner Gitt remarked:
The DNA is structured in such a way that it can be replicated every time a cell divides in two. Each of the two daughter cells has to have identically the same genetic information after the division and copying process. This replication is so precise that it can be compared to 280 clerks copying the entire Bible sequentially each one from the previous one, with at most a single letter being transposed erroneously in the entire copying process.... One cell division lasts from 20 to 80 minutes, and during this time the entire molecular library, equivalent to one thousand books, is copied correctly (1997, p. 90).
But as great an engineering triumph as cellular division and reproduction are, they represent only a small part of the story regarding the marvelous design built into each living cell. As Wilder-Smith also noted, the continued construction and metabolism of a cell are "dependent upon its internal 'handwriting' in the genetic code. Everything, even life itself, is regulated from a biological viewpoint by the information contained in this genetic code. All syntheses are directed by this information" (1976, p. 254).
Since all living things are storehouses of genetic information (i.e., within the genetic code), and since it is this cellular code that regulates life and directs its synthesis, the importance of the study of this code hardly can be overstated.
Faithful, accurate cellular division is critically important, of course, because without it life could not continue. But neither could life sustain itself without the existence and continuation of the extremely intricate genetic code contained within each cell. Scientific studies have shown that the hereditary information contained in the code found within the nucleus of the living cell is universal in nature. Regardless of their respective views on origins, all scientists acknowledge this. Evolutionist Richard Dawkins observed: "The genetic code is universal.... The complete word-for-word universality of the genetic dictionary is, for the taxonomist, too much of a good thing" (1986, p. 270). Creationist Darrel Kautz agreed: "It is recognized by molecular biologists that the genetic code is universal, irrespective of how different living things are in their external appearances" (1988, p. 44). Or, as Matt Ridley put it in his 1999 book, Genome:
Wherever you go in the world, whatever animal, plant, bug or blob you look at, if it is alive, it will use the same dictionary and know the same code. All life is one. The genetic code, bar a few tiny local aberrations, mostly for unexplained reasons in the ciliate protozoa, is the same in every creature. We all use exactly the same language.
This means—and religious people might find this a useful argument—that there was only one creation, one single event when life was born.... The unity of life is an empirical fact (pp. 21-22, emp. added).
It is the genetic code which ensures that living things reproduce faithfully "after their kind," exactly as the principles of genetics state that they should. Such faithful reproduction, of course, is due both to the immense complexity and the intricate design of that code. It is doubtful that anyone cognizant of the facts would speak of the "simple" genetic code. A.G. Cairns-Smith has explained why:
Every organism has in it a store of what is called genetic information.... I will refer to an organism's genetic information store as its Library.... Where is the Library in such a multicellular organism? The answer is everywhere. With a few exceptions every cell in a multicellular organism has a complete set of all the books in the Library. As such an organism grows, its cells multiply and in the process the complete central Library gets copied again and again.... The human Library has 46 of these cord-like books in it. They are called chromosomes. They are not all of the same size, but an average one has the equivalent of about 20,000 pages.... Man's Library, for example, consists of a set of construction and service manuals that run to the equivalent of about a million book-pages together (1985, pp. 9,10, emp. in orig.).
Wilder-Smith concurred with such an assessment when he wrote:
Now, when we are confronted with the genetic code, we are astounded at once at its simplicity, complexity and the mass of information contained in it. One cannot avoid being awed at the sheer density of information contained in such a miniaturized space. When one considers that the entire chemical information required to construct a man, elephant, frog, or an orchid was compressed into two minuscule reproductive cells, one can only be astounded. Only a sub-human could not be astounded. The almost inconceivably complex information needed to synthesize a man, plant, or a crocodile from air, sunlight, organic substances, carbon dioxide and minerals is contained in these two tiny cells. If one were to request an engineer to accomplish this feat of information miniaturization, one would be considered fit for the psychiatric line (1976, pp. 257-259, emp. in orig.).
It is no less amazing to learn that even what some would call "simple" cells (e.g., bacteria) have extremely large and complex "libraries" of genetic information stored within them. For example, the bacterium Escherichia coli, which is by no means the "simplest" cell known, is a tiny rod only a thousandth of a millimeter across and about twice as long, yet "it is an indication of the sheer complexity of E. coli that its Library runs to a thousand page-equivalent" (Cairns-Smith, p. 11). Biochemist Michael Behe has suggested that the amount of DNA in a cell "varies roughly with the complexity of the organism" (1998, p. 185). There are notable exceptions, however. Humans, for example, have about 100 times more of the genetic-code-bearing molecule (DNA) than bacteria, yet salamanders, which are amphibians, have 20 times more DNA than humans (see Hitching, 1982, p. 75). Humans have roughly 30 times more DNA than some insects, yet less than half that of certain other insects (see Spetner, 1997, p. 28).
It does not take much convincing, beyond facts such as these, to see that the genetic code is characterized by orderliness, complexity, and adeptness in function. The order and complexity themselves are nothing short of phenomenal. But the function of this code is perhaps its most impressive feature, as Wilder-Smith explained when he suggested that the coded information
...may be compared to a book or to a video or audiotape, with an extra factor coded into it enabling the genetic information, under certain environmental conditions, to read itself and then to execute the information it reads. It resembles, that is, a hypothetical architect's plan of a house, which plan not only contains the information on how to build the house, but which can, when thrown into the garden, build entirely of its own initiative the house all on its own without the need for contractors or any other outside building agents.... Thus, it is fair to say that the technology exhibited by the genetic code is orders of magnitude higher than any technology man has, until now, developed. What is its secret? The secret lies in its ability to store and to execute incredible magnitudes of conceptual information in the ultimate molecular miniaturization of the information storage and retrieval system of the nucleotides and their sequences (1987, p. 73, emp. in orig.).
This "ability to store and to execute incredible magnitudes of conceptual information" is where DNA comes into play. In their book, The Mystery of Life's Origin, Thaxton, Bradley, and Olsen discussed the DNA-based genetic code elucidated by Crick and Watson.
According to their now-famous model, hereditary information is transmitted from one generation to the next by means of a simple code resident in the specific sequence of certain constituents of the DNA molecule.... The breakthrough by Crick and Watson was their discovery of the specific key to life's diversity. It was the extraordinarily complex yet orderly architecture of the DNA molecule. They had discovered that there is in fact a code inscribed in this "coil of life," bringing a major advance in our understanding of life's remarkable structure (1984, p. 1).
How important is the "coil of life" represented in the DNA molecule? Wilder-Smith concluded: "The information stored on the DNA-molecule is that which controls totally, as far as we at present know, by its interaction with its environment, the development of all biological organisms" (1987, p. 73). Professor E.H. Andrews summarized how this can be true:
The way the DNA code works is this. The DNA molecule is like a template or pattern for the making of other molecules called "proteins." ...These proteins then control the growth and activity of the cell which, in turn, controls the growth and activity of the whole organism (1978, p. 28).
Thus, the DNA contains the information that allows proteins to be manufactured, and the proteins control cell growth and function, which ultimately are responsible for each organism. The genetic code, as found within the DNA molecule, is vital to life as we know it. In his book, Let Us Make Man, Bruce Anderson referred to it as "the chief executive of the cell in which it resides, giving chemical commands to control everything that keeps the cell alive and functioning" (1980, p. 50). Kautz followed this same line of thinking when he stated:
The information in DNA is sufficient for directing and controlling all the processes which transpire within a cell including diagnosing, repairing, and replicating the cell. Think of an architectural blueprint having the capacity of actually building the structure depicted on the blueprint, of maintaining that structure in good repair, and even replicating it (1988, p. 44).
Likely, many people have not considered the exact terminology with which the genetic code is described in the scientific literature. Lester and Bohlin observed:
The DNA in living cells contains coded information. It is not surprising that so many of the terms used in describing DNA and its functions are language terms. We speak of the genetic code. DNA is transcribed into RNA. RNA is translated into protein.... Such designations are not simply convenient or just anthropomorphisms. They accurately describe the situation (1984, pp. 85-86, emp. in orig.).
Kautz thus concluded:
The information in the DNA molecule had to have been imposed upon it by some outside source just as music is imposed on a cassette tape. The information in DNA is presented in coded form as explained previously, and codes are not known to arise spontaneously.... Further, consider that human beings have learned to store information on clay tablets, stone, papyrus, paper, film, magnetic media such as audio and video cassettes, microchips, etc. Yet human technology has not yet advanced to the point of storing information chemically as it is in the DNA molecule (1988, pp. 44,45, emp. in orig.).
How, then, did this complex chemical code arise? What "outside source" imposed the information on the DNA molecule? And where does the Human Genome Project fit into all of this?
[to be continued]
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Carolus Magnus
by: Leo Colovini
Game Type(s):
Area control
Players: 2 - 4
Age: 13 +
Available Languages
Status: Out of Print
Stock Number: 162
The players are Charlemagne's heirs and in constant conflict with each other. He has asked them to build castles in his favorite territories. To do this they must seek and maintain the support of the five powerful clans of paladins. The paladins are the o nes who administer the Emperorrquote s lands. During the game, the players have many resources and options. In each round they decide the order in which they will take their turns and how far they will be allowed to move the Emperor, which is cruc ial, since castles can only be built in his presence. When castles are built in neighboring territories, these territories are joined, so that, as the game progresses, great domains are formed, defended by four, five and more castles. In the end, to win t he game and gain the Emperor's favor - and perhaps even the right of succession - a player must have built 10 castles.


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The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook's Oysters Rockefeller
One of the more memorable food related Mad Men moments surely has to be an unfortunate incident involving Roger Sterling, a broken elevator and too many oysters. And we'd like to assume that this little setback didn't keep Roger from enjoying plenty more of his favorite bivalves.
Judy Gelman and Peter Zheutlin, authors of The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook, adapted this recipe for Oysters Rockefeller from a 1977 edition of The Grand Central Oyster Bar and Restaurant Seafood Cookbook. Over the years the Rockefeller recipe used at the storied Oyster Bar has changed but this one is that would be the closest to the ones that Don and Roger enjoyed.
These American classic oysters are topped with wilted spinach, breadcrumbs, shallots, and plenty of butter. But it's the glug of anise-y Pernod that gives these broiled oysters such an intriguing ending.
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Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, GIC announced on Monday that its consortium bought US$500 million stake in one of the subsidiaries of Viet Nam's largest conglomerate Vingroup JSC. Customers enter Vinmart supermarket in Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Ha Noi. Photo foody.vn The consortium signed agreements with Vingroup for a collective investment of $500 million for a minority stake in VCM Services and Trading Development Joint Stock Company (VCM), which was established last month to manage the chains of 121 Vinmart supermarkets and more than 1,900 Vinmart+ convenient stores. GIC said after the transaction, Vingroup continues to be the controlling shareholder of VCM. GIC said Vingroup and VCM have established themselves as reputable retail companies with attractive brands in Viet Nam's fast-growing consumer market, adding that as a long-term investor, GIC is confident in the growth outlook for disposable incomes and household consumption in Viet Nam. GIC is one of the … [Read more...] about GIC-led consortium buys $500 million shares in Vingroup's subsidiary
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Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh greets Slovenian Minister of Economic Development and Technology Zdravko Pocivalsek (Photo: VNA) During the reception, Minh asked Slovenia to urge the European Union (EU) and its members to ratify the EU – Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) and EU- Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA) at an early date in order to deliver practical benefits to the signatories as a means of further strengthening bilateral trade. The Vietnamese diplomat expressed gratitude to the guest for offering condolences over the death of 39 Vietnamese in the UK, and thanked Slovenia for supporting Vietnam's bid to become a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for the 2020-2021 term. On this occasion, the two sides consented to intensify all level delegation exchange, to offer favourable conditions for their businesses to cooperate and invest in the fields of their strength and demand, and to closely … [Read more...] about Vietnam aspires to boost ties with Slovenia
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A scene from the 2019 Golden Lotus award nominee, Song Lang (The Tab Box), a feature film by Vietnamese-American Leon Lê. — Photo courtesy of the producer By Thu Anh HCM CITY — Sixteen feature films have been nominated for the annual 2019 Golden Lotus awards festival organised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in late November. Fans expect movie star and producer Ngô Thanh Vân's Song Lang (The Tap Box) and Hai Phượng (Furie) to win at the awards ceremony. Song Lang highlights the 100-year history and development of cải lương (reformed opera), a genre of traditional theatre in the South. Featuring a group of cải lương artists in Sài Gòn in the 1980s, the film focuses on the challenges they face to preserve their art. The film also centres on the career of a young performer, Linh Phụng, who makes sacrifices to pursue his … [Read more...] about Sixteen films nominated for national Golden Lotus awards
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Doosan Heavy Industries Vietnam (Doosan Vina) shipped the last batch of giant cranes to India on April 2 as part of its contract to supply 12 RMQCs to Bharat Mumbai Container Terminals Private Limited. Each crane weighs 1,480 tons, and is 73.8 meters high, 143 meters long and 26 meters wide. It is designed to handle 65-tonne containers. Three previous batches safely reached the Indian port in May 2017, September 2017 and March 2018. Photo for illustration The company has manufactured and shipped 83 giant cargo container cranes to international markets, including PSA Port of Singapore, Jawaharlal Nehru Port of India and Samarinda Port of Indonesia. Located at Dung Quat Economic Zone in the Central province of Quang Ngai, Doosan Vina is one of the largest overseas manufacturing factories established through joint investment from the RoK-based Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction and Doosan Engineering and Construction. It comprises of five factories, including a … [Read more...] about Three made-in-Vietnam giant cranes shipped to India
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Nation Vietnam, UK release names of 39 people found dead in container The Saigon Times Daily Friday, Nov 8, 2019,23:50 (GMT+7) Vietnam, UK release names of 39 people found dead in containerThe Saigon Times Daily The truck container where the bodies of 39 Vietnamese people were found - PHOTO: REUTERS HCMC – Vietnamese and British authorities on Friday released the names of the 39 people whose bodies were found in a refrigerated container shipped from Zeebrugge in Belgium to Essex in the UK. The Essex Police said in a statement issued on Friday on their website: "Formal identification has been established via an Identification Commission, overseen by Her Majesty's Senior Coroner for Essex, Mrs Caroline Beasley-Murray." The senior officer in overall charge of the enquiry Assistant Chief Constable Tim Smith said: "This was an incredibly important process and our team has been working hard to … [Read more...] about Vietnam, UK release names of 39 people found dead in container


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If you're anything like me, you like to keep your fleet of private jets up to date. But selling an old Airbus on Craigslist can be a pain, so artist Paul Coudamy hacks them apart and turns them into hanging lamps.
His F-Light—a chandelier for aviation fanatics—is made from the interior walls of a decommissioned aircraft, in this case an Airbus A300, with each window being lined with a luminous halo that recreates the effect of sunlight pouring in while the plane is in flight.
The curved form factor of the walls helps focus the light on what's beneath it, and creates a dome-like feeling for those sitting below. And while it's a little out of reach while suspended from the ceiling, I think using the retractable window blinds as a way to adjust the intensity of the lights would have been a clever feature.
If you don't have an old A300 sitting in your driveway, the F-Light lamp does appear to be available for purchase upon request, although we're not sure from where. But if you can afford lighting accessories made from million dollar airplanes, you can probably afford a private detective to track it down. [Coudamy Design via designboom]


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#EJInStyle: Inside InStyle's Exclusive Party for Elizabeth and James Through Instagram
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Behind-the-scenes access: Last night, InStyle hosted designers Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to celebrate the launch of their new handbag line for Elizabeth and James at the Chateau Marmont's room 64. Inside the legendary two-bedroom and balcony penthouse, InStyle editor Ariel Foxman and guests including Ashley Madekwe, Naya Rivera, Stacy Keibler mixed and mingled as the handbags sat pretty on display surrounded by white orchid arrangements, plush couches and art deco gold mirrors. While the party was invite-only, Instagram gave us an inside look at the bash with the hashtag #EJInStyle. Click to see what @instylemagazine, @elizandjames, @afoxman and more posted, including the beautiful sunset backdrop over Tinseltown.
Before The Party Started
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Nicola Jones (@mzjones29), an assistant at InStyle's L.A. office, showed off the sunny view at the party.
Summer Flowers
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White orchid arrangements set the tone for the room, as seen in this post from @elizandjames.
E&J's Fall 2013 Bag Collection
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The full fall collection of @elizandjames were the toast of the evening.
The Setting
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@elizandjames loved the décor at Chateau Marmont's Room 64, a two-bedroom penthouse in the hotel. Plush velvet couches, art deco touches, and white votive candles decorated the room.
The Main Attraction
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@instylemagazine went behind the scenes at the exclusive launch of Elizabeth and James? Fall 2013 handbag collection at the Chateau Marmont.
The Stunning View
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The penthouse's balcony gave a great view of the sun setting over Sunset Boulevard, as seen in this Instagram from @elizandjames.
Bags, Bags, Bags!
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Bag Obsession
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Katherine Power (@katherinepower ), co-founder and creative director of WhoWhatWear, obsessed over this blue clutch.
Photo Booth Moment
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Mad Men's @kiernanshipka struck a pose with The Hunger Games star Amandla Stenberg in the photo booth that was placed in one of room 64's nooks.
Inside the Party
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@elizandjames gave us a look inside the party, where the crowd mixed and mingled while sipping cocktails named "The Elizabeth" and "The James."
End Scene
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Votive candles lit up the balcony at the Chateau Marmont, closing out the bash with a candlelit view over Sunset Boulevard, as captured by InStyle's L.A. assistant, Nicola Jones (@mzjones29).
Sunset Beauties
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@claireholt and Ashley Madekwe enjoyed the sunset on the penthouse's balcony.
Bag Heaven
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"Goody bag heaven!!" wrote InStyle's Editor, Ariel Foxman (
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@amandlastenberg spent the night catching up with Kiernan Shipka and taking photo booth candids.


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This summer, Royal Opera House Restaurants are celebrating English herbs: the Amphitheatre Restaurant's alfresco terrace, one of London's best kept secrets, has been transformed into a herb garden for a summer celebration of English herbs. The garden will supply the ROH's restaurants and bars with fresh and fragrant ingredients.
'We want to let people know how easy it is to grow all these herbs in Britain, and how little space is needed to give it a go,' says Albert Ray, Royal Opera House Restaurants. 'A few pots or a window box will do; you don't even need outdoor space. The Amphitheatre terrace is a fabulous spot that overlooks the bustle of Covent Garden piazza, and is not only ideal for lunch or pre-performance dinner, it is also perfect for our herb garden - to dine on a garden roof terrace in the centre of London is quite something.'
View our sample lunch menu for Herbfest 2013.
The herbs, which include chervil, dill, parsley, sage, rosemary and tarragon, have been selected with the help of Britain's leading herb expert Jekka McVicar.
'Having a small selection of fresh herbs to hand is a great way to make home-cooked dishes sing,' continues Albert. 'Tear them into salads, crumble them with salt to make rubs for meat, infuse them with oil; you can even use them to add a fragrant twist to desserts by jazzing up custard sauces and sugar syrups.'
As a result, the Summer Season menus offer a wide range of dishes, from lobster bisque with chervil cream, to rosemary polenta chips with Barkham Blue cheese and herb salad; grilled red mullet with summer herb butter, to berries with lemon verbena custardand Pimm's jelly.
The herbs are also being used to add a twist to traditional cocktails. Summer specialities include the luxurious English Garden (fresh mint with gin, elderflower cordial, soda water and cucumber) and Basil Blossom (fresh basil with vanilla, ginger, lemon, vodka and ginger ale).
There are six different dining areas to choose from at the Royal Opera House, from the beautiful glass-vaulted Paul Hamlyn Hall Balconies Restaurant to the private dining rooms hidden in the old vaulted dressing rooms below ground. The menus on offer have all been designed specifically to complement each production on stage.
Find out more in our News & Features section, of visit our Restaurant and Bars pages.


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Playing out once again with great wind, amazing people, and the best kiteboarding talent in the world, the Copa Mundial de Kitesurf Adicora provided onlookers with yet another astounding show – major maneuvers and complicated tricks showcased throughout the day.
As this third day was expected to provide the most wind compared to days four and five, it was decided to focus on freestyle heats and move through the single eliminations straight into the doubles.
Singles kicked of for the day with heat #5, which featured Karolina Winkowska (POL) and Rocio Ines Campos (ARG), wherein Winkowska hit an impressive S-Mobe and Back to Blind. In around 18-20 knots of wind, Bruna Kajiya (BRA) and Gisela Pulido (ESP) also put forth their most advanced moves, scoring high and beating their competitors in early rounds. These two eventually went head to head in the women's single elimination, Kajiya achieving earning the win.
The men also surprised and impressed the huge and growing crowd, as well as the online audience, which increased substantially throughout the day. Working with slight chop and shallow water on the inside, competitors Sebastian Garat (FRA) and Alex Pastor (ESP) threw down in one of the closest heats of the day, each man riding at his best and executing Front Blind Mobes, Grab KGBs, and 313s. Fellow countrymen, Kevin Langeree (NED) and Youri Zoon (NED) also went head to head, showing the crowd what major power and perfect precision really looks like.
Mario Rodwald impressed yet again, holding his own and climbing to the top. Additionally, local Venezuelan, Manuel Millan (VEN) drew much praise from the beach, as he completed tricks with a smile and demonstrated immense pride in riding for his country.
The men's finals finally came down to Zoon and Rodwald in the winner's final, and Langeree and Pastor in the loser's final. The eventual results put Youri in first, Rodwald in second, Langeree in third, and Pastor in fourth. This put these riders in prime placement to go on to compete in the double eliminations.
Not long after the singles finished, the doubles began with tough match-ups between Brunaski Carillo (VEN) and Johnno Scholte (NED), Andrez Salazar (COL) and Victor Hays (FRA), as well as Reno Romeu (BRA) and Oscar Hurtado (VEN), who took part in one of the closest heats of the double eliminations. Early advancement of Christophe Tack (BEL), Sam Light (UK), and Nico Suriel (DR) were also major crowd pleasers.
With the beach as full as ever, the doubles wound down for the day, ending with big, clean maneuvers from Alberto Rondina (ITA) and unfortunate minor injuries suffered by Stefan Spiessberger (AUS), who lost to Marc Jacobs (NZ) and Remeu who found trouble in the shallow water. Tomorrow, doubles will pick up again at heat #41, along with the likely addition of course racing.