Clinical trials are what make progress against Parkinson's disease real. There may be a study out there with your name on it.

For true believers, the Bruegel room in Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum must be the holy grail. Though paintings by the artist occupy two rooms in the Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels, they …

Going back the way, before leaving Cyprus my beloved had to get a full work medical this involved multiple tests, ECG, auditory and all manner of blood, urine and the obligatory drug tests, these tests allowed him to begin work in KSA, then we both flew back to the UK for more medicals for our Iqama which involved for myself a little bleed, a little pee and a few questions, my beloved had pretty much the same, then he jetted back to Saudi for his last leg of the Iqama residency process. So fast forward 2 and a half months to January and I am now in country and beginning my own Iqama process and more medicals. My medical involved a very nice lady taking a picture of my chest, another lady taking a gallon of blood from my arm, a pee sample being passed and exchanged for a piece of paper, think I was the lucky one in that exchange, and then ...(apologies in advance) poop sample..... I don't know about you but I cannot poop on command, so I had to take the little pot with the red lid home until nature called. I have been trying to figure out why anyone would need a poop sample for a residency visa, but mine is not to wonder why so they say. Oh yeah and I just remembered whilst we were waiting for the chest x-ray we were given fig roll biscuits, maybe they were hoping that would help with the nature on demand business, well it might had I eaten them, but hell no, I definitely don't eat that kind of carbs, we graciously excepted them and put them in my bag.....had they offered carrot cake I would have been compelled to eat it as it would have been just plain rude to refuse carrot cake. Look at this baby I have been after one of these since forever, well at least since my beloved and I have been together My beautiful new food processor The courgettes I used for practice and finally I purchased it, after much deliberating I settled on the brand I required and then headed to the supermarket for some food to chop. We have taken Stitch for a walk along the sea front, throwing his lead for him to chase, Stitch has three favourite toys, one orange ball found at Limassol beach probably dropped but a young child or baby and the other two are not even toys they are leads wrapped into knots that he just loves to chase, he will also carry them where ever he goes should the fancy take him, so today we threw his lead for him and he raced off to fetch it, occasionally having his head turned by a butterfly that past his line of vision, and then he would chase that too. We have had our first visitors too (well since I arrived), a couple of old buddies from way back when, one Sheila and Jockess and a very pleasant evening unfolded with the visitors amusing Stitch and Stitch returning the compliment, he really is so much better with people now, in fact he even has young children knocking at the door for him to go out and play now.... Found this fella in the towel department His Hers, not that I will be driving anytime soon

These vegetable limoges boxes let you gift your mother the veg you prodded for hours after dinner. She still imagines broccoli in your mouth when you make bridge club cameos and talk politics. Thank her for her resilience. Stuff a Limoges box with a handwritten note and gummies. Buy 3 or 5 to fill your market basket. Design luminaries will call it a collection. Part of our collection, "The Whole Market."

The blindfolded captive, prodded at cutlass-point out onto a narrow beam dangling over the sea, has been as much a part of pirate lore as the buccaneer snarling “Argh!” However, there is no proof that swashbucklers ever made their enemies and victims walk the plank. Instead, real pirates during the 17th and 18th centuries were […]

Here at 99% Invisible, we think about color a lot, so it was really exciting when we came across a beautiful book called The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair. It’s this amazing collection of stories about different colors, the way they’ve been made through history, and the lengths to which people will

“Mr. Nabokov has coolly prodded one of the few remaining raw nerves of the twentieth century”: Donald Malcolm’s contemporaneous review of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel.

This Indian Pudding is adapted from An Olde Concord Christmas, a book from the Concord Museum in Concord Massachusetts. It's often made around Thanksgiving and Christmas here in New England, but I say it's good anytime!

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By the end of your pregnancy, you're likely to have been poked and prodded countless times all in the name of safeguarding your baby's health. Between weeks 35 and 37, you'll have one

Here are this week's Friday Fun Facts about Diana Gabaldon's books. 1) The photo above shows a European polecat (Mustela puto...

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The Mimbulus mimbletonia was a very rare magical plant, surmised to have originated in Assyria.[1] The Mimbulus mimbletonia was most notable for its pulsating and squirming nature and its unique defence mechanism. When prodded, a substance called Stinksap was squirted out from the boils on the surface of the plant. Stinksap was a non-poisonous liquid and was described as dark green and smelling like "rancid manure".[1] As a seedling, it required ample light, excellent drainage, high temperatures

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto prodded the Department of Agriculture (DA) on Monday to tap an available P150-million fund in the DA’s budget for timely food subsidy in community pantries. Recto suggested that the DA’s P150-million budget for Kadiwa ni Ani at Kita could be used to establish a…

Mary Shelley has some serious staying power. The author was born a whopping 215 years ago today, and her work is more relevant now than ever. Not only is Frankenstein , which Shelley began writing when she was eighteen years old, still ubiquitous in…

Part 1 - "A Woman's Wiles" or "Man Ruled by His 'Nether-Parts' " ;) "[Delilah] said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you won’t confide in me? … you have made a fool of me and haven’t told me the secret of your great strength!” With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it. So he told her everything. “… If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.” ...after putting him to sleep on her lap, she called for someone to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him. And his strength left him." (Judges 16) For the unabbreviated story: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%2016&vers... ___________________ Oil on oak 610 x 500 mm Gemäldegalerie museum Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606 – 1669) painter and etcher of the Dutch Golden Age. One of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. _________ Slight restoration by plumleaves

Read our Q&A with rag rug maker and textile artist Sue Dove from Cornwall. Browse photos of Sue's beautiful wall hangings, textile figurines and colourful rag rug designs while learning more about the rag rug making process. Get design inspiration, rag rug tips and more on the Ragged Life Blog.

It’s 4 a.m. and I’m being gently prodded awake by a very sexy man. Nope, not because he’s horny — although, trust me, we did manage to squeeze in a little action — but because my saucy love interes…