Tamara de Lempicka Dormeuse painting

Tamara de Lempicka Dormeuse paintingTamara de Lempicka Breast feeding painting
Give me another go."
"No," said Harry. "You've had your go. You saved four. Ron saved five. Ron's Keeper, he won it fair and square. Get out of my way."
He thought for a moment that McLaggen might punch him, but he contented himself with an ugly grimace and stormed away, growling what sounded like threats to thin air.
Harry turned around to find his new team beaming at him.
"Well done," he croaked. "You flew really well —"
"You did brilliantly, Ron!"
This time it really was Hermione running toward them from the stands; Harry saw Lavender walking off the pitch, arm in arm with Parvati, a rather grumpy expression on her face. Ron looked extremely pleased with himself and even taller than usual as he grinned at the team and at Hermione.

Pablo Picasso Seated Bather painting

Pablo Picasso Seated Bather paintingPablo Picasso Mandolin and Guitar painting
and fly once around the pitch. This was a good decision: the first ten was made up of first years, and it could not have been plainer that they had hardly ever flown before. Only one boy managed to remain airborne for more than a few seconds, and he was so surprised he promptly crashed into one of the goal posts.
The second group was comprised of ten of the silliest girls Harry had ever encountered, who, when he blew his whistle, merely fell about giggling and clutching one another. Romilda Vane was amongst them. When he told them to leave the pitch, they did so quite cheerfully and went to sit in the stands to heckle everyone else.
The third group had a pileup halfway around the pitch. Most of the fourth group had come without broomsticks. The fifth group were Hufflepuffs.

Michelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam detail painting

Michelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam detail paintingPierre Auguste Renoir The First Outing painting
Harry thought Ogden was being extremely dim; the stranger was making himself very clear in Harry's opinion, particularly as he was brandishing a wand in one hand and a short and rather bloody knife in the other.
"You understand him, I'm sure, Harry?" said Dumbledore quietly. "Yes, of course," said Harry, slightly nonplussed. "Why can't Ogden — ?"
But as his eyes found the dead snake on the door again, he suddenly understood.
"He's speaking Parseltongue?"
"Very good," said Dumbledore, nodding and smiling.
The man in rags was now advancing on Ogden, knife in one hand, wand in the other.
"Now, look —" Ogden began, but too late: There was a bang, and Ogden was on the ground, clutching his nose, while a nasty yellowish goo squirted from between his fingers.

Fabian Perez geisha painting

Fabian Perez geisha paintingFabian Perez Full Moon Empty Heart paintingFabian Perez For a Better Life III painting
doubt it, to be honest, Harry," said Mr. Weasley slowly. "You see, when Lucius Malfoy was arrested, we raided his house. We took away everything that might have been dangerous." "I think you missed something," said Harry stubbornly. "Well, maybe," said Mr. Weasley, but Harry could tell that Mr. Weasley was humoring him.
There was a whistle behind them; nearly everyone had boarded the train and the doors were closing.
"You'd better hurry!' said Mr. Weasley, as Mrs. Weasley cried, "Harry, quickly!"
He hurried forward and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley helped him load his trunk onto the train.
"Now, dear, you're coming to us for Christmas, it's all fixed with Dumbledore, so we'll see you quite soon," said Mrs. Weasley through the window, as Harry slammed the door shut behind him and the train began to move. "You make sure you look after yourself and…"

Pierre Auguste Renoir After The Bath painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir After The Bath paintingPierre Auguste Renoir After The Bath 1888 paintingJohn William Waterhouse Odysseus and the Sirens painting
them, Fred and Georges windows hit the eye like a firework display. Casual passersby were looking back over their shoulders at the windows, and a few rather stunned-looking people had actually come to a halt, transfixed. The left-hand window was dazzlingly full of an assortment of goods that revolved, popped, flashed, bounced, and shrieked; Harrys eyes began to water just looking at it. The right-hand window was covered with a gigantic poster, purple like those of the Ministry, but emblazoned with flashing yellow letters:

WHY ARE YOU WORRYING ABOUT
YOU-KNOW-WHO?
YOU SHOULD BE WORRYING ABOUT
U-NO-POO--
THE CONSTIPATION SENSATION
THAT'S GRIPPING THE NATION!
Harry started to laugh. He heard a weak sort of moan beside him and looked around to see Mrs. Weasley gazing, dumbfounded, at the poster. Her lips moved silently, mouthing the name "U-No-Poo

Claude Monet Venice Twilight painting

Claude Monet Venice Twilight painting
Alphonse Maria Mucha The Judgement of Paris painting
wizards seemed stunned that his closed living relatives took so little interest in the famous Harry Potter.

"It's fine," Harry assured her. "It doesn't matter, honestly."

"Doesn't matter?" repeated Hestia, her voice rising considerably.

　　　"Don't these people realize what you've been through? What danger you are in? The unique position you hold in the hearts of the anti Voldemort movement?"

　　　"Er –no, they don't," said Harry. "They think I'm a waste of space, actually but I'm used to –"

"I don't think you're a waste of space"

Claude Monet Boulevard des Capucines painting

Claude Monet Boulevard des Capucines painting
Horace Vernet Judith and Holofernes painting
You took you time!" roared Vernon Dursley when Harry appeared at the top of the stairs, "Get down here. I want a word!"

　　　Harry strolled downstairs, his hands deep in his pants pockets. When he searched the living room he found all three Dursleys. They were dressed for packing; Uncle Vernon in an old ripped-up jacket and Dudley, Harry's, large, blond, muscular cousin, in his leather jacket.

"Yes?" asked Harry.

　　　"Sit down!" said Uncle Vernon. Harry raised his eyebrows. "Please!" added Uncle Vernon, wincing slightly as though the word was sharp in his throat. Harry sat. He though he knew what was coming. His uncle began

Vincent van Gogh Cafe Terrace at Night painting

Vincent van Gogh Cafe Terrace at Night painting
Vincent van Gogh Wheatfield with Crows painting
would lift – in later years they reestablished, if not a close then certainly a cordial one.) However, he rarely spoke of his parents or of Ariana from then on, and his friends learned not to mention them.

Other quills will describe the triumphs of the following years. Dumbledore's innumerable contributions to the store of Wizarding knowledge, including his discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood, will benefit generations to come, as will the wisdom he displayed in the many judgments while Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot. They say, still, that no Wizarding duel ever matched that between Dumbledore and Grindelwald in 1945. Those who witnessed it have written of the terror and the awe they felt as they watched these two extraordinary wizards to battle. Dumbledore's triumph, and its consequences for the Wizarding world, are considered a turning point in magical history to match the introduction of the International Statute of Secrecy or the downfall of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named

Caravaggio Amor Vincit Omnia painting

Caravaggio Amor Vincit Omnia painting
Raphael Saint George and the Dragon painting
SHALL WE CHOOSE DEATH? (1)Bertrand RussellDecember 30, 1954I am speaking not as a Briton, not as a European, not as a member of a western democracy, but as a human being, a member of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt. The world is full of conflicts: Jews and Arabs; Indians and Pakistanis; white men and Negroes in Africa; and, overshadowing all minor conflicts, the titanic struggle between communism and anticommunism. Almost everybody who is politically conscious has strong feelings about one or more of these issues; but I want you, if you can, to set aside such feelings f

Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting

Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting
Frederic Edwin Church Sunset painting
this symposium my part is only to sit in silence. To express one's feelings as the end draws near is too intimate a task 　　 　　But I may mention one thought that comes to me as a listener in. The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and to say to oneself: The work is done.But just as one says that, the answer comes: "The race is over, but the work never is done while the power to work remains. The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be, while you still live. For to live is to function. That is all there is to living."

Salvador Dali The Rose painting

Salvador Dali The Rose painting
Salvador Dali The Persistence of Memory painting
The secret of much murder and evildoing is to dehumanize the victim, to make him alien, to make him Other, a different species. When we have done that, we have prepared ourselves to kill him, for to kill the Other, to kill a snake, a roach, a pest, a Jew, a scorpion, a black, a centipede, a Palestinian, a hyena, an Iraqi, a wild dog, an Israeli … it’s O. K.If Saddam Hussein was a poisonous snake in the desert, and he had 1 million poisonous snake arrayed around him, then it was good sense to drop bombs and kill 100,000 snakes and thus turn back the snake menace.But , of course, the 100,000 Iraqis were not snakes.To kill 100,000 people and to feel no pain at having done so may enter, deaths

Vincent van Gogh Cafe Terrace at Night painting

Vincent van Gogh Cafe Terrace at Night painting
Vincent van Gogh Wheatfield with Crows painting
The new Wembley is planned to hold 90,000 people and include a four-star 200-bed hotel, 100,000 sq ft of office space, two banqueting halls, restaurants, a museum and numerous corporate hospitality suites.The costs also include improvements to the local Underground station and a road building scheme
The cast of 'Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2' (L-R) director Joe Berlinger, actors Kim Director, Tristen Skyler, Jeff Donovan, Erica Leerhsen and Stephen Barker Turner pose at the premiere of the movie at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on October 23, 2000. Artisan's 'Blair Witch 2' arrives in theaters October 27.
LOS ANGELES - With Halloween just days away, it doesn't take a wizard to figure out this is a good weekend to debut horror flick "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2," but even John Travolta's newest film, "Lucky Numbers," shows that a little comic bewitching can make for scary situations.

Pablo Picasso Le Moulin de la Galette painting

Pablo Picasso Le Moulin de la Galette painting
Pablo Picasso Gertrude Stein painting

Princeton stopped about four miles from the New Brunswick station and was stuck on the tracks for about six hours.She said one woman went into labor, and about 100 passengers abandoned the train."I saw them rolling down to the bottom of a hill that had barbed wire," Knapp told The Times of Trenton.

Indonesian residents survey the wreckage of cars after bombs exploded outside a church in Jakarta on Christmas Eve.
The blasts, including one outside Jakarta's main Roman Catholic church near the presidential palace and the main mosque, happened as prayer services were about to get under way this evening local time. The explosions set cars ablaze and damaged some churches.

Amedeo Modigliani Reclining Nude painting

Amedeo Modigliani Reclining Nude painting
Claude Monet Venice Twilight painting
Last year, Microsoft gave more than $34.3 million in cash and $200 million in software to nearly 5,000 nonprofit organizations. In addition, Gates and his wife, Melinda, have made millions of dollars in donations through a private foundation they established in their names."Today, Bill Gates is being a modern-day Andrew Carnegie," declared Rangel, comparing the computer whiz to the steel magnate of a century ago, whose philanthropy included the funding of public libraries across America.Andrew Carnegie," has announced a donation of $12.3 million and $88 million in software by the computer giant to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America."It's a great time to be a kid," the billionaire businessman and philanthropist told youngsters Monday in the gymnasium

Claude Monet Sunflowers painting

Claude Monet Sunflowers painting
Johannes Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring painting

Tests found that in five out of six cases, bacteria that causes potentially deadly blood poisoning was identical to bacteria previously found in their noses.
BOSTON, Jan. 3 — Most hospital Staphylococcus aureus infections — best known for causing toxic shock syndrome — are caused when bacteria lodged in the noses of patients spread out of control, according to a study by German scientists reported in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine.Their tests found that in five out of six cases, the bacteria that causes potentially deadly blood poisoning and which killed 82 percent of the hospital patients it infected before the advent of antibiotics, was identical to the bacteria previously found in their noses.The discovery gave doctors a new strategy for attacking the bacteria, which increasingly is becoming resistant to antibiotics.

Eric Wallis Draped Room painting

Eric Wallis Draped Room painting
Vincent van Gogh Irises painting
I believe things happen for a reason," Bush said Wednesday night, hinting at something his audience was still too bruised to even imagine. Does it take a war, a flood, to leave us no choice but to start all over again? Bush campaigned for a year against partisan politics — and that was before partisanship became so poisonous that it polluted every institution of government. The man who talked less about what he would do than how he would do it finds that his bet has been called. You promise to be a uniter, not a divider? Here is a broken, cloven polity. You promise to change the tone? We can't bear to listen anymore to the rancor of the past five weeks, or eight years, or 13, if you extend this period of pitiless politics back to the confirmation hearings of Robert Bork. But there's more. Bush staged the most inclusive Republican Convention in memory, surrounded himself at every chance with poor schoolchildren whom he promised he would not leave behind — and in the end won a smaller percentage

William Bouguereau Birth of Venus painting

William Bouguereau Birth of Venus painting
Douglas Hofmann dying swan painting
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of the Inspector General is working on a final report for Congress that will assess how well major airlines have kept their voluntary pledge, made in June 1999, to improve air travel for disgruntled customers.The report will also examine the increase in flight delays, cancellations, and the impact of the Internet on ticket sales.Until the report is released (it's expected later this month) Congress has put on hold legislation concerning a passenger bill of rights.Still, the Inspector General's preliminary findings in June 2000 found the airlines had made "a clear and genuine effort at strengthening the attention paid to customer service, but bottom line results were mixed, and the airlines have a long way to go in restoring customer confidence."

Frederic Remington paintings

Frederic Remington paintings
Francisco de Goya paintings
The justices took a dim view of the government's "tying" claim that Internet Explorer and Microsoft Windows were illegally linked together, experts said, and tore into the idea that Explorer monopolizes the browser market. District court judge Thomas Penfield Jackson may never have proved there is a separate browser market to monopolize, the judges said. "They were brutal on the government lawyers … I think there's a 50 percent chance that the entire thing will be vacated," said Bob Lande, a law professor at the University of Baltimore. Unusually, the judges also spent this afternoon criticizing Jackson's out-of-court statements during the trial, where he badmouthed Microsoft to journalist Ken Auletta and others. Auletta later published some of Jackson's statements in a book, World War 3.0.

Seascapes paintings

Seascapes paintings
Still Life paintings
Vast glut of obsolete computer equipment was all but inevitable in an era in which a common cliche is that your new computer is outdated by the time you get it home.
　　Vast glut of obsolete computer equipment was all but inevitable in an era in which a common cliche is that your new computer is outdated by the time you get it home. 　　Now IBM Corp., one of the world’s biggest computer makers, hopes to provide relief to a problem some environmentalists see as one of the biggest solid waste issues to emerge in decades.　　Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM today is kicking off a program aimed specifically at individual consumers and small business owners, two sizable groups of computer users that up till now have struggled to find ways to rid themselves of unwanted computer hardware.

Henry Peeters paintings

Henry Peeters paintings
Hessam Abrishami paintings
Since the early 1990s, Peru has been a key South American ally in the United States' war on drug trafficking. Once the world's leading producer of coca leaf, the raw material used to make cocaine, Peru supplied Colombia's Medellin and Cali drug organizations. Much of that cocaine went to the United States, the world's biggest consumer of the drug.The Peru military has since shot down about 25 suspected drug planes on their way to Columbian cocaine refineries from the coca-growing regions of Peru's Amazon.This is the second time the US has had a "situation" with Peru. In April 1992 the Peruvians shot down a US Air Force C-130 flying off the Pacific coast, claiming they thought it was running drugs.The missionaries' plane was en route from the Brazil-Peru border to the city of Iquitos, about 625 miles northeast of Lima, when it was attacked, a spokesman for the Association of Baptists for World Evangelists said.

Vladimir Volegov Sun Drenched Garden painting

Vladimir Volegov Sun Drenched Garden painting
Guillaume Seignac Jeune femme denudee sur canape painting
In true White House fashion, John Adams used the tragedy for political advantage. Rather than receive Thomas Jefferson at the Executive Mansion after Jefferson defeated him in a re-election bid, Adams snubbed him, claimed he was still mourning his dead son."It was a lame excuse, considering that Charles had been buried three months earlier," Anthony writes. "Adams hadn't attended the burial, but he had appeared at numerous public events since then."If It's Not the Kids … Just about each of the recent presidents has had to deal in public with family squabbles. Patti Davis, President Reagan's daughter, bared her body in Playboy and admitted to have used cocaine, even as her stepmother was promulgating the "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign.

John William Waterhouse My Sweet Rose painting

John William Waterhouse My Sweet Rose painting
Rembrandt Rembrandt night watch painting
legislative victory for Bush, whose call for tax relief was the centerpiece of his 2000 presidential campaign. "A year ago, tax relief was said to be a political impossibility," Bush said this morning. "Six months ago, it was supposed to be a political liability. Today, it becomes reality."Amid the political upheaval caused by the Democratic takeover of the Senate, Bush argued the enactment of the tax plan was a victory for bipartisanship and the "new tone" he had pledged to bring to the nation's capital. "Tax relief is the first achievement produced by the new tone in Washington," he said, flanked by 20 members of Congress, many of them Democrats, who helped shepherd the bill through passage. "It is the first major achievement of a new era — an era of steady cooperation."

Douglas Hofmann Model painting

Douglas Hofmann Model painting
Claude Monet La Japonaise painting
But NASA's new emphasis on cheaper, more plentiful space missions will overburden the network, Miller says. And that means scientists will have to be flexible with the time they are allotted to communicate with their spacecraft. Trading Time SlotsNASA officials say some scientists could potentially lose data, but that scientists are already used to trading time slots on the network."Not everybody will get exactly the coverage they want," Miller says. "But they're willing to give a little here and get a little there. And most of the time it works out."Although Miller says he thinks scientists can successfully juggle their needs to communicate with faraway machines, the traffic jam could be a liability if there are any mechanical difficulties."There's still some risk," Miller says. "The big antennas could fail. They are

Gustav Klimt paintings

Gustav Klimt paintings
Georgia O'Keeffe paintings

Three hijacked planes crashed into major U.S. landmarks on Tuesday, destroying both of New York's mighty twin towers, hitting the Pentagon in Washington and plunging the United States into unprecedented chaos and panic.
Three hijacked planes crashed into major U.S. landmarks on Tuesday, destroying both of New York's mighty twin towers, hitting the Pentagon in Washington and plunging the United States into unprecedented chaos and panic.Loss of life was expected to be catastrophic from the collapse of the giant towers of the World Trade Center where many thousands of people work. The two enormous edifices both fell in a huge cloud of smoke and fire two hours after the initial impacts.New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said there had been a ''tremendous

Dirck Bouts paintings

Dirck Bouts paintings
Dante Gabriel Rossetti paintings
China's ruling soccer body cancelled a song and dance extravaganza scheduled immediately after the game at the stadium, including several Hong Kong pop icons, fearing the build-up before the match would distract players.They also thought it was premature to plan a celebration before knowing China would win, according to state media.Authorities were concerned that a premature build-up 'could let the cooked duck fly away,' said the Guangzhou Daily
Michael Jordan, a five-time National Basketball Association most valuable player who led the Chicago Bulls to six championships, said today he is returning to the game.
Jordan, who came to Washington to be president of the Wizards but saw the team struggle to a 19-63 record in the 2000-2001 season, ended the suspense with a modest written statement disclosing his plans.He said he has signed a two-year contract."I am returning as a player to the game I love,"

wholesale oil painting

wholesale oil painting
There were some technical hitches though, with cash machines out of order in many places including the Grand Place square in Europe's administrative capital of Brussels. Where people did manage to get hold of the new cash, their verdicts were mixed."It doesn't look real. It's small, isn't it? It's a funny color. It doesn't smell like money," said Irish tourist Kieran O'Brien, 38, who had just withdrawn an orange and brown 50-euro note from a cash machine in Amsterdam."God how ugly! They look so cold metallic, boring and soulless," said Michela Moccia, 34, handling euro notes in Rome.The new notes in purple, yellow, green, blue, red and orange bear architectural designs of bridges and arches rather than national cultural symbols or figureheads. The coins bear national emblems on one side like Germany's landmark Brandenburg Gate and Belgium's King Albert, a map of Europe on the reverse.

Knight painting

Knight painting
Lady painting

In the fourth film, Harry Potter will experience his first love with a Chinese girl.The filming is under way in Scotlandand and will be the most expensive movie ever made...
Harry Potter used to be a little boy with magical powers. In the fourth film, Harry Potter and The Globet of Fire, Harry will experience his first love with a Chinese girl—Zhang Qiu.The filming is under way in Scotlandand and will be the most expensive movie ever made, according to the film director, Mike Newell.The film will cost an estimated 170 million pounds (308 million USD). That's 5 million pounds (10 million USD) more than the entire Lord of the Rings series.In Australian schools, students are required to read the Harry potter series. "The reason for watching Harry Potter is that it shows some aspects of how children develop their resilience and how they improve their life chances," Melbourne University professor, Dr Glenn Bowes said.

Nude painting

Nude painting
Oriental paintings

Believe it or not? A thin black silk blouse will cost buyers $1,150 — more than the average Chinese's earnings in a year. Even the lowest-priced item, a salmon pink T-shirt costs $120...
Believe it or not？A thin black silk blouse will cost $1,150 — more than the average Chinese's earnings in a year. A pair of slippers is $424, while other prices range up to about $2,400.Even the lowest-priced item, a salmon pink T-shirt costs $120.These extremely expensive goods are shelved at the newly opened flagship store of Giorgio Armani, the famous Italian designer. The store is located in Shanghai's famed Bund, joining a wave of foreign designer brands targeting China's new rich.Other luxury brands like Haagen-Daz, which charges $3 for an ice-cream cone, are already a symbol of wealth among Chinese.

Claude Monet Boulevard des Capucines painting

Claude Monet Boulevard des Capucines painting
Thomas Kinkade NASCAR THUNDER painting
Unlike most hydrogen-powered vehicles, the H2R doesn't operate on a fuel cell but rather uses a modified 6-litre, 12-cylinder combustion engine for its propulsion that essentially emits nothing but steam. 不象其他氢燃料内燃动力汽车，H2R 轿车采用 BMW经验证的12缸6升发动机。这种发动机除了蒸汽外，不会产生任何废气。The company cautioned, however, that while the cars don't pollute, production of hydrogen as a fuel does entail pollution.然而宝马公司提到：虽然轿车本身不会污染环境，生产其燃料氢气所带来的污染是不可避免的。"We had just 10 months to develop the H2R prototype," said project manager Juergen Kuebler in a statement. “我们仅用了10个月来生产出H2R 轿车” 项目经理uergen Kuebler说。H2R, the world's fastest hydrogen-powered car, was unveiled at the Paris auto show. The car is capable of exceeding 300 kilometers (185 miles) per hour. Unlike most hydrogen-powered vehicles...

Fabian Perez white and red painting

Fabian Perez white and red painting
Jacques-Louis David Napoleon at the St. Bernard Pass painting
rent pyramid. Rather, the graphic will be part of a larger food guidance system and will include just a few motivational slogans--urging consumers, for instance, to count calories and exercise regularly. The details of the nutritional advice will be explained in printed material and on a revamped, interactive Web site.
If people have to have a passport, it's going to disrupt the honest flow of traffic. I think there's some flexibility in the law, and that's what we're checking out right now," the president said.
President Bush stepped back on Thursday from plans requiring passports from people to enter the United States, concerned the effort to tighten borders against terrorists would hamper legal travel from Canada, Mexico and other U.S. neighbors.The president said he was surprised by the proposed rules announced last week by the State and Homeland Security departments.

Fra Angelico paintings

Fra Angelico paintings
Frederic Edwin Church paintings
No students were hurt in Tuesday’s shooting. The 1,400-student school about 35 miles northwest of Knoxville was closed for the rest of the week, officials said.Ken Bartley Jr. was taken to a juvenile detention facility, Sheriff Ron McClellan said. Bartley’s family declined comment.“He has been in trouble before, but I just wouldn’t expect something like this out of him,” said classmate Courtney Ward, 17. “He is a big jokester. He is rowdy. But I just couldn’t see him doing this.”Authorities didn’t know whether Bartley would be charged as an adult. They said he was grazed in the hand by a bullet fired from his own .22-caliber handgun when he was subdued.“I don’t know what he was thinking or what his motives were,” McClellan said. “Investigators are piecing together ... what

Edwin Austin Abbey paintings

Edwin Austin Abbey paintings
Edward Hopper paintings
link between low HDL levels and arterial inflammation, which has emerged as a risk factor for heart disease, might explain the results, Packard said."My working hypothesis is that statins block inflammation, and thereby reduce the deleterious effects of low HDL," he said.Another possibility is that statin treatment affected the balance between the build-up of fatty deposits in the arteries, which is mediated by LDL cholesterol, and the removal of those deposits, which is mediated by HDL cholesterol, the researchers said.The report used data from a study of more than 5,800 men and women aged 70 to 82. All had a history of cardiovascular problems such as heart attack and stroke, or were at high risk for these events due to conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes or smoking. Half the participants got a daily dose of a statin, while the others got a placebo.

Irene Sheri paintings

Irene Sheri paintings
Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky paintings
SCARLETT: Oh, what did you say?CHARLES: Miss O'Hara, I said, would you marry me?SCARLETT: Yes, Mr. Hamilton, I will.CHARLES: You will, you'll marry me? You'll wait for me?SCARLETT: Well, I don't think I'd want to wait.CHARLES: You mean you'll marry me before I go? Oh,Miss O'Hara...Scarlett...when may I speak to your father?SCARLETT: The sooner, the better.CHARLES: I'll go now, I can't wait. Will you excuse me?Dear?(The day after Melanie and Ashley's wedding, Scarlett marries Charles Hamilton.)MELANIE: Scarlett. I thought of you at our wedding yesterday and I hope that yours would be as beautiful.And it was.SCARLETT: Was it?MELANIE: Now we're really and truly sisters. Charles.CHARLES: Don't cry darling. The war will be over in a few

William Bouguereau the first kiss painting

William Bouguereau the first kiss painting
Gustav Klimt Three Ages of Woman - Mother and Child (Detail) painting
My lord, Kafa, our father, died when we came to manhood, and my brother Imotu was made king in his place, and for a space reigned and had a son by his favorite wife. When the babe was three years old, just after the great war, during which no man could sow or reap, a famine came upon the land, and the people murmured because of the famine, and looked round like a starved lion for something to rend. Then it was that Gagool, the wise and terrible woman, who does not die, proclaimed to the people, saying, `The king Imotu is no king.' And at the time Imotu was sick with a wound, and lay in his hut not able to move.
"Then Gagool went into a hut and led out Twala, my half-brother, and the twin brother of the king, whom she had hidden since he was born among the caves and rocks, and, stripping the `moocha' (waist-cloth) off his loins, showed the people of the Kukuanas the mark of the sacred snake coiled round his waist, wherewith the eldest son of the king is marked at birth, and cried out loud, `Behold, your king, whom

Pablo Picasso Family at Saltimbanquesc painting

Pablo Picasso Family at Saltimbanquesc painting
Alphonse Maria Mucha Winter painting
I am your friend and you are mine, for always," she said. "Such a friend as I never had before. I have had many dear and beloved friends--but there is a something in you, Leslie, that I never found in anyone else. You have more to offer me in that rich nature of yours, and I have more to give you than I had in my careless girlhood. We are both women--and friends forever."
They clasped hands and smiled at each other through the tears that filled the gray eyes and the blue. wheel went over him. He fell on his back. Anne--Anne--I can see it now. I shall always see it. Anne, all I ask of heaven is that that recollection shall be blotted out of my memory. O my God!"
"Leslie, don't speak of it. I know the storylittle dress; and since I had to lose little Joyce I like to think that the dress she wore was the one you made for her when you let yourself love me."
"Anne, do you know, I believe I shall always thought you were so beautiful--I longed for weeks after to find out who you were."

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres The Grande Odalisque painting

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres The Grande Odalisque painting
Bartolome Esteban Murillo Madonna with the Rosary painting

cruel as to take that darling lamb from us when we all love her so much."
"He has taken others as well beloved," said Marilla hoarsely.
But at dawn, when the rising sun rent apart the mists hanging over the sandbar, and made rainbows of them, joy came to the little house. Anne was safe, and a wee, white lady, with her mother's big eyes, was lying beside her. Gilbert, his face gray and haggard from his night's agony, came down to tell Marilla and Susan.
"Thank God," shuddered Marilla.
Susan got up and took the cotton wool out of her ears.
"Now for breakfast," she said briskly. "I am of the opinion that we will all be glad of a bite and sup. You tell young Mrs. Doctor not to worry about a single thing--Susan is at the helm. You tell her just to think of her baby."
Gilbert smiled rather sadly as he went away. Anne, her pale

Peder Mork Monsted paintings

Peder Mork Monsted paintings
Pierre Auguste Renoir paintings
Do," said Mrs. Harmon effusively. "Jane isn't a bit proud. She just means to associate with her old friends the same as ever. She'll be real glad to see you."
Jane's millionaire arrived the last of May and carried her off in a blaze of splendor. Mrs. Lynde was spitefully gratified to find that Mr. Inglis was every day of forty, and short and thin and grayish. Mrs. Lynde did not spare him in her enumeration of his shortcomings, you may be sure.
"It will take all his gold to gild a pill like him, that's what," said Mrs. Rachel solemnly.
"He looks kind and good-hearted," said Anne loyally, "and I'm sure he thinks the world of Jane."
"Humph!" said Mrs. Rachel.
Phil Gordon was married the next week and Anne went over to Bolingbroke to be her bridesmaid. Phil made a dainty fairy of a bride, and the Rev. Jo

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Yep."
There was another long silence. Finally Sam removed his straw again and said,
"Will yeh hev me?"
"Wh -- a -- t!" gasped Anne.
"Will yeh hev me?"
"Do you mean -- MARRY you?" queried poor Anne feebly.
"Yep."
"Why, I'm hardly acquainted with you," cried Anne indignantly.
"But yeh'd git acquainted with me after we was married," said Sam.
Anne gathered up her poor dignity.
"Certainly I won't marry you," she said haughtily.
"Wall, yeh might do worse," expostulated Sam. "I'm a good worker and I've got some money in the bank."

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Fabian Perez tergopelo II painting
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, I haven't. Nothing's been done to me."
"You've been very unhappy ever since you did wrong, haven't you?"
"You bet!" said Davy emphatically.
"That was your conscience punishing you, Davy."
"What's my conscience? I want to know."
"It's something in you, Davy, that always tells you when you are doing wrong and makes you unhappy if you persist in doing it. Haven't you noticed that?"
"Yes, but I didn't know what it was. I wish I didn't have it. I'd have lots more fun. Where is my conscience, Anne? I want to know. Is it in my stomach?"No, it's in your soul," answered Anne, thankful for the darkness, since gravity must be preserved in serious matters.
"I s'pose I can't get clear of it then," said Davy with a sigh. "Are you going to tell Marilla and Mrs. Lynde on me, Anne?"
"No, dear, I'm not going to tell any one. You are sorry you were naughty, aren't you?"
"You bet!"

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Gustav Klimt Death and Life painting
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That's what Dora said. But I thought p'raps He mightn't have noticed just at the time. Anyway, I'd rather tell you first."
"WHAT is it you did?"
Out it all came in a rush.
"I run away from Sunday School -- and went fishing with the Cottons -- and I told ever so many whoppers to Mrs. Lynde -- oh! 'most half a dozen -- and -- and -- I -- I said a swear word, Anne -- a pretty near swear word, anyhow -- and I called God names."
There was silence. Davy didn't know what to make of it. Was Anne so shocked that she never would speak to him again?
"Anne, what are you going to do to me?" he whispered.
"Nothing, dear. You've been punished already, I think."

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John William Waterhouse The Lady of Shalott painting
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Couldn't you have changed her name?"
"No, the thing was impossible. I tried to, but I couldn't do it, any more than I could change yours. AVERIL was so real to me that no matter what other name I tried to give her I just thought of her as AVERIL behind it all. But finally I got a plot that matched her. Then came the excitement of choosing names for all my characters. You have no idea how fascinating that is. I've lain awake for hours thinking over those names. The hero's name is PERCEVAL DALRYMPLE."
"Have you named ALL the characters?" asked Diana wistfully. "If you hadn't I was going to ask you to let me name one -- just some unimportant person. I'd feel as if I had a share in the story then."
"You may name the little hired boy who lived with the LESTERS," conceded Anne. "He is not very important, but he is the only one left unnamed."
"Call him RAYMOND FITZOSBORNE," suggested Diana, who had a store of such names

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Thomas Kinkade almost heaven painting
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It has been a nice summer," said Diana, twisting the new ring on her left hand with a smile. "And Miss Lavendar's wedding seemed to come as a sort of crown to it. I suppose Mr. and Mrs. Irving are on the Pacific coast now."
"It seems to me they have been gone long enough to go around the world," sighed Anne.
"I can't believe it is only a week since they were married. Everything has changed. Miss Lavendar and Mr. and Mrs. Allan gone -- how lonely the manse looks with the shutters all closed! I went past it last night, and it made me feel as if everybody in it had died."
"We'll never get another minister as nice as Mr. Allan," said Diana, with gloomy conviction. "I suppose we'll have all kinds of supplies this winter, and half the Sundays no preaching at all. And you and Gilbert gone -- it will be awfully dull."

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Lord Frederick Leighton Nude on the Beach painting
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Charlotta the Fourth felt that some mystery pervaded the stone house that afternoon. . .a mystery from which she was excluded. Miss Lavendar roamed about the garden in a distracted fashion. Anne, too, seemed possessed by a demon of unrest, and walked to and fro and went up and down. Charlotta the Fourth endured it till atience ceased to be a virtue; then she confronted Anne on the occasion of that romantic young person's third aimless peregrination through the kitchen.
"Please, Miss Shirley, ma'am," said Charlotta the Fourth, with an indignant toss of her very blue bows, "it's plain to be seen you and Miss Lavendar have got a secret and I think, begging your pardon if I'm too forward, Miss Shirley, ma'am, that it's real mean not to tell me when we've all been such chums."
"Oh, Charlotta dear, I'd have told you all about it if it were my secret. . .but it's Miss Lavendar's, you see. However, I'll tell you this much. . .and if nothing comes of it you must never breathe a word about it to a living soul. You see, Prince Charming is coming tonight. He

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Albert Bierstadt California Coast painting
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Father is here. . . just think of that! Father is here! Come right in. Father, this is my beautiful teacher. You know, father."
Stephen Irving came forward to meet Anne with a smile. He was a tall, handsome man of middle age, with iron-gray hair, deep-set, dark blue eyes, and a strong, sad face, splendidly modeled about chin and brow. Just the face for a hero of romance, Anne thought with a thrill of intense satisfaction. It was so disappointing to meet someone who ought to be a hero and find him bald or stooped, or otherwise lacking in manly beauty. Anne would have thought it dreadful if the object of Miss Lavendar's romance had not looked the part.
"So this is my little son's `beautiful teacher,' of whom I have heard so much," said Mr. Irving with a hearty handshake. "Paul's letters have been so full of you, Miss Shirley, that I feel as if I were pretty well acquainted with you already. I want to thank you for what you have done

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into them. As for that old duckhouse, I'm glad it's smashed, for maybe now Martha will agree to having it taken down. She never would before for fear it might come in handy sometime and I've had to whitewash it every spring. But you might as well argue with a post as with Martha. She went to town today -- I drove her to the station. And you want to buy my platter. Well, what will you give for it?"
"Twenty dollars," said Anne, who was never meant to match business wits with a Copp, or she would not have offered her price at the start.
"Well, I'll see," said Miss Sarah cautiously. "That platter is mine fortunately, or I'd never dare to sell it when Martha wasn't here. As it is, I daresay she'll raise a fuss. Martha's the boss of this establishment I can tell you. I'm getting awful tired of living under another woman's thumb. But come in, come in. You must be real tired and hungry. I'll do the best I can for you

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pencil and paper to do it now, because I daresay I'll forget the best parts before I reach home."
Diana the faithful had a pencil and discovered a sheet of wrapping paper in the box of the buggy. Anne folded up her dripping parasol, put on her hat, spread the wrapping paper on a shingle Diana handed up, and wrote out her garden idyl under conditions that could hardly be considered as favorable to literature. Nevertheless, the result was quite pretty, and Diana was "enraptured" when Anne read it to her.
"Oh, Anne, it's sweet. . .just sweet. Do send it to the `Canadian Woman.'"
Anne shook her head.
"Oh, no, it wouldn't be suitable at all. There is no plot in it, you see. It's just a string of fancies. I like writing such things, but of course nothing of the sort would ever do for publication, for editors insist on plots, so Priscilla says. Oh, there's Miss Sarah Copp now.

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wouldn't mind that if I were only sure they would understand my motive in peeping in at their pantry window. My sole comfort is that the platter is just the kind I want and if Miss Copp will only sell it to me I shall be resigned to what has happened."
"What if the Copp girls don't come home until after night. . .or till tomorrow?" suggested Diana.
"If they're not back by sunset you'll have to go for other assistance, I suppose," said Anne reluctantly, "but you mustn't go until you really have to. Oh dear, this is a dreadful predicament. I wouldn't mind my misfortunes so much if they were romantic, as Mrs. Morgan's heroines' always are, but they are always just simply ridiculous. Fancy what the Copp girls will think when they drive into their yard and see a girl's head and shoulders sticking out of the roof of one of their outhouses. Listen. . .is that a wagon? No, Diana, I believe it is thunder."
Thunder it was undoubtedly, and Diana, having made a hasty pilgrimage around the house, returned

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Flamenco Dancer dance series painting
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there will certainly be something else nice to say about it," said Anne easily. "There always is about a baby."
The baby was pretty, however, and Mr. White felt that he got his five dollars' worth of the girls' honest delight over the plump little newcomer. But that was the first, last, and only time that Lorenzo White ever subscribed to anything.
Anne, tired as she was, made one more effort for the public weal that night, slipping over the fields to interview Mr. Harrison, who was as usual smoking his pipe on the veranda with Ginger beside him. Strickly speaking he was on the Carmody road; but Jane and Gertie, who were not acquainted with him save by doubtful report, had nervously begged Anne to canvass him.
Mr. Harrison, however, flatly refused to subscribe a cent, and all Anne's wiles were in vain.
"But I thought you approved of our society, Mr. Harrison," she mourned.
"So I do. . .so I do. . .but my approval doesn't go as deep as my pocket, Anne."
"A few more experiences such as I have had today would make me as much of a pessimist as Miss Eliza Andrews," Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror at bedtime.

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Vladimir Volegov Beyond the Sea painting
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embroidered centerpiece on it.
In spite of. . .or perhaps, human nature being what it is, because of. . .this, the Society went gamely to work at the only improvement they could hope to bring about that fall. At the second meeting, in the Barry parlor, Oliver Sloane moved that they tart a subscription to re-shingle and paint the hall; Julia Bell seconded it, with an uneasy feeling that she was doing something not exactly ladylike. Gilbert put the motion, it was carried unanimously, and Anne gravely recorded it in her minutes. The next thing was to appoint a committee, and Gertie Pye, determined not to let Julia Bell carry off all the laurels, boldly moved that Miss Jane Andrews be chairman of said committee. This motion being also duly seconded and carried, Jane returned the compliment by appointing Gertie on the committee, along with Gilbert, Anne, Diana, and Fred Wright. The committee chose their routes in private conclave. Anne and Diana were told off for the Newbridge road, Gilbert and Fred for the White Sands road, and Jane and Gertie for the Carmody road.
"Because," explained Gilbert to Anne, as they walked home together