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My husband and I are planning a trip to Tunisia and Egypt in mid May this year. I have seen all the postings with respect to security issues in Egypt, but I am wondering if there is anyone out there with some up to date information. We only plan to spend 4 days in Cairo-spending one day at Luxor and the Valley of the Kings. We plan to travel through Dan Tours, a company from Toronto, Canada. Any ideas on what we can do to minimize the risks inherent in travel to this part of the world? We are also having great difficulty in obtaining much information on travel to Tunisia. It seems that this is not a popular destination from North America. Any information from travellers familiar with this country would be appreciated.
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Re Tunisia: I don't know about familiar but I have been there and done a few excursions. I went over Christmas a couple of years ago. The weather at that time of year was very mild, especially compared with the UK. I was based at Port el Kantoui near Sousse. Guide books are available for Tunisia, I took the Blue Guide but I'm sure there are other good ones (Fodors?). Tunisia is quite cosmopolitan, you'll have little language trouble as most of the younger generation seem to be able to make themselves understood in about six languages, including English, French, German, Italian and of course Arabic. Most of the hotels should offer quite a range of excursions. In Port el Kantoui a camel ride through the local villages was available and I guess something similar is on offer wherever you stay. Coach excursions include day trips to Tunis to see the old town, the Bardot museum (not a tribute to starlets turned environmentalists but Tunisia's foremost collection of antiquities), Sidi Bu Said (a pretty village where local legislation dictates that everything is painted blue and white) and the ruins of Carthage. You can take a two or three night side trip to the south to see Matmata (where Star Wars was filmed) and Gabes and take a dawn camel ride in the Sahara. Another highlight was Dougga, a vast Carthaginian/Roman city built atop a mountain. It is reasonably preserved and very extensive. Also worth a vist is the amphiteatre at El Djem. Unfortunately all the beautiful looking mosques in Tunisia are closed to non moslems. The hotels in Port el Kantoui were quite self contained with their own patch of beach, tennis courts, pool etc. There are a couple of golf courses in the Port el Kantoui/Sousse area. I would assume this pattern is also true in the other major resort area around Hammamet. Our hotel had a, much flaunted by me, prohibition about bringing in alcohol (well bottles of anything really) but beer wine and spirts are available in the hotel bars and restaurants, they may not be widely available outside. Local alcohol is reasonably priced, but not cheap, but any imported alcohol like Johnny Walker, Gordon's or cognac is very expensive. Tunisian wine is quite palatable. Tunisian food is typically north african with a smattering of french/italian but hotel cuisine is largely european style with the odd cous cous night.
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Sorry, the trip to the south is one or two nights (two or three days depending on the itinery).
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All my reports from Egypt indicate that there is an
abundance of quasi-security people and very few tourists. However, everyone has stated that they
did not feel threatened at all during the tour and
enjoyed the warmth of the Egyptians. Since you are touring in a group, they will have the itinerary laid out so that you will not be in harm's way. Just use commonsense and if you have any doubts confer with the tour director.
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Thank-you Mr. Holt for your reply regarding travel to Tunisia. I did have one further question which relates to the issue of exchange control. I understand that one cannot get any Tunisian currency outside the country itself. How did you deal with this? I expect that there must be currency exchanges at the airport but what a potential nightmare is eveyone on the arriving flight is lining up to exchange currency at the same time! In the past my husband and I have always carried small American bills for tipping in various parts of the world. Is that a viable option here or is another currency preferable? Do you have any suggetions as to the most painless way to convert our (Canadian) travel dollars to Tunisian currency on arrival? Thanks for your help.
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Thank-you Mr. Holt for your reply regarding travel to Tunisia. I did have one further question which relates to the issue of exchange control. I understand that one cannot get any Tunisian currency outside the country itself. How did you deal with this? I expect that there must be currency exchanges at the airport but what a potential nightmare is eveyone on the arriving flight is lining up to exchange currency at the same time! In the past my husband and I have always carried small American bills for tipping in various parts of the world. Is that a viable option here or is another currency preferable? Do you have any suggetions as to the most painless way to convert our (Canadian) travel dollars to Tunisian currency on arrival? Thanks for your help.
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I am unfortunately not familiar with Egypt, but have been several times to Tunisia & even worked there as a tour rep. The country is delightful & very much unspoiled. Re. trip to the south (matmata, mountain oasis, Chot El Jerid...), if your age & health make it possible, do not take the bus, but the jeeps, the trip is something completely different. If you want to see some real life, stay for a day or two in Nabeul in the north of the country, this will give you an idea about the country. They have a wonderful camel fair there - if I remember right, every Friday; colorfull local markets for the local people and not only for the tourists, best pottery, great food, lots of nice hotels & decent beaches.
As far as the money is concerned, there are normally several counters at the airport, so no real trouble & if not, you can exchange in the hotel, bank or exchange office - the rates are identical. Enjoy your holidays, if you want more info, just e-mail me, I'll be glad to help you with anything.
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Olja Baumgartner has at least partly answered your currency question. For my part, to be honest, I don't remember what I did about cash when I arrived in Tunisia. I believe there were exchange desks in the baggage hall or customs hall and I changed some money whilst waiting for my baggage, but that may have been somewhere else. It was a package holiday so I was being picked up and may have left money changing until the hotel. For the rest of the holiday I changed Sterling or Sterling travel cheques at the exchange kiosk at the hotel, I beleive this was run by a local bank rather than the hotel. Any 'hard' currency is acceptable in Tunisia and I assume Canadian Dollars count here. Over the last 15 or so years I've traveled to so many countries with 'mickey mouse' currency that I don't think about it any more. If you have a package flight you are generally collected at the airport and taken to the hotel so you don't usually need money on arrival. One thing I have found is that countries that practice this currency control are usually organised to change money at the airport, and to change it back on the way out (but run your local money down to be sure). Exchange little and often to keep down the amount of currency you hold, pay for excursions and so on with credit card where possible or exchange just enough to cover the bill. When I travel I carry my Mastercard, some Sterling notes, Sterling travellers cheques, a small amount of US Dollar bills (they're like 75 pence notes to me) and some US Dollar travellers cheques. I've never NEEDED to change US Dollars as Sterling has been perfectly acceptable in all the places I've been to around the Med and the Balkans.
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I was just in Egypt a couple of weeks ago - I havebeen there many times. I was not worried about security. It is always helpful to dress conservatively (men and women - no shorts, anyone!) so as not to offend more conservative cultures. As you have probably guessed by now, it is very common for countries (Third World, Developing, etc.) to have currencies that are not convertable outside the coutnry. (These are called "soft currencies") This is not just because of their controls, although that is part of it. The other part is because the rest of us big economic powers do not require their currency the way they do ours. Therefore, there is little global interest in keeping supplies of EGyptian pounds or Tunisian dinars, etc. The previous writers are correct; it is extremely easy to change currency all over the place, in both countries. You do not need to carry American dollars; Canadian will do just fine. In Tunisia, don't miss Carthage and the Bardo Museum, also go to Sidi Bou Said. It is an unbelievably beautiful country! Egypt is spectacular. Nothing like it on the face of the earth. You will have a wonderful time. Feel free to e mail me with questions.
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Hi. I had, with my family, the pleasure of visiting Tunisia about a year and half ago. I can tell you it was one of the best holidays we have ever been on.
We stayed in a hotel right on the beach in Nabeul. The staff were wonderful and very helpful. Nabeul has a great camel market held once a week were a verity of vendors gather. It's also a grate place to get pottery. TIP take with you cheap things with logos on such as pens, pencils…We found that this items were great for exchanging.
Defiantly take the safari excursion. It's worth every penny. Matmata is excellent. You also get to have lunch were the bar scene was filmed on Star Wars. The amphitheatre at El Jem is breath taking. And nothing can prepare you for the experience you'll have when you climb the dunes to have a look at the vastness of the Sahara Desert. The various oasis you will visit are beautiful. Don't miss the ride on the Red Lizard. A train ride through a canyon were many of those famous spaghetti westerns were filmed.
The beaches were great and the locals don't really hassle you. The food is good if not a bit European. Try to buy the Safia water bottles they taste the best.
Have a great time.
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I just returned from 11 days in Egypt and wish it had been 11 weeks or months. There is plenty of security and no one on our tour felt the least concern. You, of course, don't wander off down back alleys by yourself, but aside from those obvious no-no's you should find extraordinary precautions aren't necessary. This is the most fantastic place - you're sure to be delighted!
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Argh. Wont tell you that updating my aged hardware is an option at this point so please don't suggest that...
Trying to get my wife's Nexus 10 tablet to use Google print. Long story short, when logging in to her gmail acct via my laptop, the connection wont work properly because my laptop never worked w/ the wireless connection properly. Trying to remedy that first...
I am using the WPS54GU2 which is not connecting right. I reset it several times, got a new IP address, still nothing. I set up the IP port as well, that's not working... Got to this posting and now have the problem of the firmware won't upgrade. Windows 7, WPSM54G_v1019.bin, etc.
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Seems the issue you're having has something to do with the firmware, you update the firmware first. This is the most current version, Ver.6032 then after the upgrade you might have to reset it to make sure the firmware is loaded properly. Article below will guide you;
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Thanks for replying, nice to know someone's keeping up w/ this forum.
Firmware 6032 is installed, what's currently running.
Whoever wrote the technical replies earlier (above) said that using the firmware for a different product (WPSM54G) worked for him, and his Dell laptop running Windows 7 Ultra. I have neither of those, but was going to update the printserver's firmware w/ the latest WPSM54G firmware he mentioned (1019).
What I'm running:
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Canon Pixma MX700 printer
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Tried to get it all to work last night for 3 hours. Ridiculous it should even take that long but I'm no networking expert. I've got a lot of other things on the plate too. Sorry.
Updating the firmware of a device with a different model may damage the device but whatever it takes to make the device to work is I guess worth a try. Just make sure that there's connectivity between the computer and to the print server so that you will be able to try LPR printing. If this will not be successful in your end then perhaps you can try other options like (file &) printer sharing.
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I'm fairly hesitant to try to install the incorrect firmware as well. I know it's really not something I can undo. So, thinking that if there's another way which can be implemented, I'd go that route. (And maybe learn something in the process, which is good.)
Thing is, I don't know at this point what hasn't been done / why the printer isn't doing what it's supposed to. If there were a step-by-step remedy I'd try to experiment. Many of the examples I've seen on Cisco's site so far are fantastic.
So, if I knew that I must do A first, then get B to work, then go back and do C, etc etc, then I'd more than likely be successful. However right now since I'm technically savvy but still a newbie when it comes to networking hardware, it's more a hit or miss outcome. Like, I know the printserver drivers may not be installed or something elementary which is holding this process up, but it is really now a matter of getting into it again when I've got days off. Can anyone offer a bit of advice, just seeing a snapshot of my print queue below? Something obvious here? The first item was generated by my wife's aforementioned Nexus 10. The second item was from my laptop (after the tedious 3hrs I spent trying to get this to work a few days ago). Silly things still haven't printed...
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Series: Conan Chronicles, the
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King Conan is betrayed by the Kings of Ophir and Koth, and captured with the sorcerous arts of the wizard Tsotha-lanti. Chained beneath the Wizard's castle Conan contrives to escape and confronts the monstrous snake Satha, the devil-flower Yothga and frees the Wizard Pelias, rival to Tsotha-lanti. Pelias summons a winged entity to transport Conan back to his capital for a final confrontation.
Published in Weird Tales dated January 1933.
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Original title: The Scarlet Citadel
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Genre: Fiction→ Fantasy→ Sword and Sorcery
This work is a subwork of the following works : Skull-Face and Others (1946) [Collection] Author: Robert E. Howard
Conan the Usurper (1967) [Collection] Authors: L. Sprague de Camp
, Robert E. Howard
Conan Chronicles Volume 2: The Hour of the Dragon, the (2001) [Collection] Author: Robert E. Howard
Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, the (2003) [Collection] Author: Robert E. Howard
Complete Chronicles of Conan, the (2006) [Collection] Author: Robert E. Howard


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" Asda's Measure Up Strawberry Milkshake is a meal replacement supplement, aimed at aiding weight loss. It is a cheaper alternative to others, but works well and is easy to use. The taste may put some off. "
So here we are again on another weight loss jaunt. In a bid to kick start weight loss after too many jubilee celebrations I took the decision to go on the Slim Fast diet for a period of 7-10 days. A trip to Asda later and I had decided to try the pre mixed Asda own brand meal replacement shakes as opposed to the Slim Fast ones, mainly due to the cost. I am reviewing the product not the diet - thats a whole other review!
I firstly checked whether the calories and supplement values were on par with Slim Fast, of which they were, in fact the Asda carton came in slightly lower on calories than the slim fast one.
Cost wise a pre mixed Asda carton came in at 85p per carton whilst the slim fast one was £1.25. There are often deals available on both brands but not at the point when I purchased them. For your 85p you get a 330ml pre mixed ready to go meal supplement shake with a straw attached for convenience. The shake is presented in a cardboard tetra pack carton, like kiddies fruit drinks, with calorie content on the front and coloured to represent your flavour. Flavours available are Strawberry (pink), chocolate (Brown) and vanilla (cream) in our local Asda.
I wasnt expecting too much on the taste front, it is a diet drink first and foremost, but was most pleasantly supprised. After piercing the pack with straw you instantly get a gently whiff of stawberry. The shake itself is nice and thick with no powdery or gritty quality to it, and the strawberry flavour I felt was more than pleasant, a tiny bit synthetic but still pallatible. It did also leave me feeling satisfied, I wont say full as I dont think you can feel full if you havent physically eaten, I dont feel any hunger pangs for a good couple of hours afterwards.
Good luck if you do go on the meal replacement type diets, they are not easy, but this product is not all that bad!
In a bid to lose some weight .. again, I came across Asda Measure Up Drinks. A meal replacement drink for weight control.
The picture above is of the cartoned ready made version, which I have tried however I am reviewing the powdered version which you have to make yourself as this is the one I buy most often.
Measure Up comes in a 450g white plastic tub with a screw off lid. A large sticker is placed all around the tub showing us a picture of a glass of shake and informing us about the drink. The tub clearly tells us on the front it is Asda Measure up Strawberry flavour shake mix. It also tells us it's fortified with vitamins and minerals and is meal replacement for weight control. Below this it also tells us it contains 202 calories per serving and you only have to add water. Now this I liked the sound of as I know with other meal replacement shakes you have to add milk.
This large tub costs just £4, which is usually cheaper than other brands even when they are on offer too.
The back of the tub offers an ingredients list, how to store this product, the vitamins it contains and also allergy advice. The powder does contain milk and soya and may also contain traces of nuts and/or seeds.
I will list some of the vitamins within the shake powder but not all as there are so many but just to give you an idea of what this shake contains, vitamins A, D, E, C, Folic Acid, Calcium and Iron amongst many others.
I was a little worried at first that this would be some sort of thin, watery, dribbly substance when made which wouldn't taste anything like the cartoned version. The cartoned version costs just 88p and comes with a straw making it a more convenient drink to take somewhere for lunch or just buy when you're on the go. In the carton it tastes thick, creamy as well as milky with a lovely strawberry taste to it. I knew that one of these filled me up for a good few hours too so I kept my fingers crossed before trying the powdered version.
Opening the lid first you have to peel off the paper seal beneath and then you are met by a creamy coloured powder with a plastic spoon/scoop sitting on top. Smelling the powder alone you can smell a faint strawberry smell but it has a chalkiness to it, like you can actually smell the powder.
Measuring my water and forming my scoops in the plastic scoop provided I shook my drink inside a cocktail shaker. The tub does advise that a shaker is best to use or a blender - if you don't you will end up with a really lumpy drink which tastes absolutely disgusting with the odd lump of powder to swallow. If mixed thoroughly so you do have something which actually resembles a strawberry milkshake, it's pink in colour with frothy bubbles at the surface and surprisingly looks thick despite being made with water. It smells of strawberry too which was pleasing when I first made it. I was a little scared to drink it at first, I wasn't sure what to expect, but I was quite pleased with it. It tasted of a thick, strawberry milkshake, fruity but not overly so and actually had a creamyness to it as if it was made with milk too. Drinking the shake was just like drinking another milkshake however I could feel myself filling up almost straightaway. I was even more pleased with the fact that the shake actually kept me feeling full and satisfied for a good 3-4 hours. If I have one of these shakes I only have them once a day, this way I don't feel like I'm going a day without actually eating something. But as a quick dinner in work these shakes do keep me full for a good few hours to finish off my day, so I can end my day with a nutritional and tasty tea with my sons.
I'd definitely recommend trying these to anybody who likes meal replacement drinks, and wants to save a little bit of money buying them. As I only have them to have them for dinner, one tub tends to last me about a week. You don't just have to buy it in strawberry flavour either you can also buy Chocolate - which I also like and Café Latte which I havn't tried. If buying a carton version you can also buy vanilla which is also very tasty too.


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The Story Of Cane Sugar
The front panel of the leaflet features the text The Story Of Cane Sugar, with two cartoon elves (possibly drawn by Vernon Grant), each sitting on a red box of Quaker Sugar, reading a white-covered world atlas. A red lantern hangs by a chain over their heads. The overall background is blue, though the white title text is over black. The back panel features a blue and white Quaker girl as part of the company's logo. Text below begins Refined In The U.S.A., following by a promotional message. At the bottom of the panel is a color drawing of a cartoon teacher and three students sitting at old-fashioned school desks, with the teacher pointing to a chalk message on a blackboard, which reads Always Insist On Quaker Sugar. The leaflet first unfolds to reveal a three-fold, four-panel color drawing of portions of the world where Quaker Sugar comes from. The leaflet unfolds further to reveal another map, plus the story of sugar cane (Growing, Harvesting, The Mill, Raw Sugar, and Transportation) and of refining sugar (Unloading, Washing, Char Filtering, Crystallizing And Drying, and Sorting And Packing). Tow smaller panels include six dessert recipes.
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Brand Name: Quaker Sugar
Publisher: Pennsylvania Sugar Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.)
1940 (ca.)
22.9 x 10.1 cm
Language: English
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Copyright: This item is under copyright.
Citation: The Story Of Cane Sugar. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=6687


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I had a Photofacial 5 weeks ago. The procedure resulted in a burn spot on my cheek. It is size of a tip of pencil eraser. First, it was red/stingy. Blister formed after (sort a bubble with liquid in it). Then a scab formed. Once scab came off, scar darkened to intense brownish/red (see picture).
Is this permanent scar? What are my best options to completely remove this? And how long will it take for it go away? Please please HELP.


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One of my favorite mottos is, "expect the best but prepare for the worst." As an optimist, I have no trouble expecting the best, but that very optimism can be a deterrent to preparing for the worst. Why? Because I allow my optimism to cloud reality. This post is therefore a self imposed challenge to become better prepared. Hopefully, these tips will also help you if any of the following unexpected events occur in your life:
Your wallet is lost or stolen.
Remove sensitive information you don't need to have with you, such as your Social Security card and personal information numbers for any and all financial transactions. Photocopy (or make a list) of the items you normally carry in your wallet.
You lose your cell phone.
Download one of many free or low cost apps which will track your phone by GPS. Lookout Mobile Security, for example, will not only find your phone, but will allow you to remotely make it "scream" even if the device volume is set on low or silent. (Note: I downloaded the free app on my Droid, tried it, and was quite impressed. It does what it says, and the "scream" will definitely get your attention.) Another tip: you should also check with your carrier to learn how to make a backup of your address book.
Your power goes out.
The best preparation is to have a whole-house (or portable) generator, fueled up and ready to kick in. Other suggestions: know where to find your candles and matches, keep flashlights readily available, maintain an inventory of extra batteries (including an extra, charged cell phone battery), purchase a portable – perhaps a hand cranked – radio, and keep your freezer packed with ice in order to be able to preserve your food as long as possible.
Your car breaks down.
If your car's warranty or auto insurance includes road side assistance, keep the contact number in your glove box and your cell phone. Make sure you know where your car jack is located and how to use it. Also, double check your spare to ensure that it is inflated and road worthy. Keep an emergency roadside kit which includes a jumper cable, flashlight (with extra batteries) and, if winter weather is a factor, a blanket and gloves.
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Research Topics
Denis Glotz
Country: France
Detail Information
- Antidonor antibodies and transplantation: how to deal with them before and after transplantationDenis Glotz
Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Hopital Saint Louis, Paris, France
Transplantation 79:S30-2. 2005..However, recent advances both in the ABO and human leukocyte antigen settings, detailed in this paper, have led to successful transplantations in the presence of antidonor antibodies, with preliminary evidence of accommodation...
- Intravenous immunoglobulins and transplantation for patients with anti-HLA antibodiesDenis Glotz
Department of Nephrology, Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou, 20 rue Leblanc, 75015, Paris, France
Transpl Int 17:1-8. 2004....
- Endothelial cells as targets of allograft rejectionDenis Glotz
Department of Nephrology and Transplantation, Hopital Saint Louis, Paris, France
Transplantation 82:S19-21. 2006....
- Desensitization and subsequent kidney transplantation of patients using intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIg)Denis Glotz
Department of Nephrology, INSERM U 430, Hĵpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Am J Transplant 2:758-60. 2002..All other patients had uneventful courses, without any episodes of rejection, with a follow-up of more than 1 year. Thus, IVIg therapy allows safe and prompt kidney transplantation of immunized patients...
- Calcineurin inhibitor-free monotherapy in human leukocyte antigen–identical live donor renal transplantationMarion Venot
Nephrology and Transplantation Department, Saint Louis Hospital, Paris, France
Transplantation 91:330-3. 2011....
- [Renal biopsy practice: results of a French study and recommendations]Guillaume Bollée
UMR970, INSERM, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France
Nephrol Ther 8:168-76. 2012..Our working group, appointed by the scientific commission of the Société de néphrologie in France, aimed to depict the main aspects of the practice of RB in adults in France, before establishing some guidelines...
- Complement-binding anti-HLA antibodies and kidney-allograft survivalAlexandre Loupy
Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, INSERM Unité 970, Department of Kidney Transplantation, Hopital Necker, Universite Paris Descartes, and Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris AP HP, Paris, France
N Engl J Med 369:1215-26. 2013..We investigated whether the complement-binding capacity of anti-HLA antibodies plays a role in kidney-allograft failure...
- Pulsatile perfusion preservation for expanded-criteria donors kidneys: Impact on delayed graft function rateImad Abboud
Nephrology and Transplantation, Saint Louis Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
Int J Artif Organs 34:513-8. 2011..We conducted a prospective controlled study aiming to evaluate the impact of pulsatile perfusion preservation (PPP) on DGF rate...
- Kidney graft dysfunction in simultaneous pancreas-kidney recipients after pancreas failure: analysis of early and late protocol biopsiesDenis Viglietti
Service de Nephrologie et Transplantation, Hopital Saint Louis, Paris, France
Clin Transplant 27:E249-55. 2013..Kidney graft survival in simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) recipients is known to decrease after pancreas graft failure...
- Antibody-mediated vascular rejection of kidney allografts: a population-based studyCarmen Lefaucheur
Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Saint Louis Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, INSERM U940, Paris, France
Lancet 381:313-9. 2013..We aimed to improve characterisation of different kidney-allograft rejection phenotypes, identify how each one is associated with anti-HLA antibodies, and investigate their distinct prognoses...
- Donor-specific antibodies accelerate arteriosclerosis after kidney transplantationGary S Hill
Laboratoire d Anatomie Pathologique, Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou, APHP, Paris, France
J Am Soc Nephrol 22:975-83. 2011..In conclusion, these data support the hypothesis that donor-specific antibodies dramatically accelerate post-transplant progression of arteriosclerosis...
- Value of Donor-Specific Anti-HLA Antibody Monitoring and Characterization for Risk Stratification of Kidney Allograft LossDenis Viglietti
Departments of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation and Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, UMR S970, Paris, France
J Am Soc Nephrol . 2016..33; 95% CI, 1.03 to 1.62; P<0.001 and 0.95; 95% CI, 0.62 to 1.28; P<0.001, respectively). Thus, pre- and post-transplant DSA monitoring and characterization may improve individual risk stratification for kidney allograft loss...
- Regulatory T cells in kidney allograft infiltrates correlate with initial inflammation and graft functionCécile Taflin
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale INSERM U940, Hopital Saint Louis, Paris, France
Transplantation 89:194-9. 2010..Several studies have shown in BL and SCR the presence of a Th1 immune response, qualitatively similar to but quantitatively reduced in comparison with infiltrates typical of acute cellular rejection (ACR)...
- IgG Donor-Specific Anti-Human HLA Antibody Subclasses and Kidney Allograft Antibody-Mediated InjuryCarmen Lefaucheur
Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Saint Louis Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Mixed Research Unit S970, Paris, France
J Am Soc Nephrol 27:293-304. 2016..These results suggest IgG iDSA subclasses identify distinct phenotypes of kidney allograft antibody-mediated injury. ..
- Determinants and Outcomes of Accelerated Arteriosclerosis: Major Impact of Circulating AntibodiesAlexandre Loupy
From the Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation and Cardiovascular Disease, INSERM, UMR S970, Paris, France A L, D Viglietti, O A, J P D V H, J P E, P B, D G, C Legendre, X J, C Lefaucheur Paris Descartes University, Sorbonne Paris Cité and Necker Hospital A L, J P D V H, C Legendre and Department of Transplantation, Saint Louis Hospital D Viglietti, D G, C Lefaucheur, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France Methodology Unit EA 3181 CHRU de Besançon, Besancon, France D Vernerey Department of Pathology, Necker Hospital, Paris, France J P D V H and Department of Pathology P B and Department of Cardiology X J, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Paris, France
Circ Res 117:470-82. 2015..The role of circulating antibodies in addition to traditional cardiovascular risk factors in the development of accelerated arteriosclerosis and their long-term clinical consequences have not been demonstrated...
- Kidney allograft fibrosis after transplantation from uncontrolled circulatory death donorsDenis Viglietti
1 Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Saint Louis Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France 2 Department of Pathology, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Paris, France 3 Biostatistics Unit, Paris Cardiovascular Research Centre, L Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France 4 Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Saint Louis Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France 5 Department of Pathology, Saint Louis Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France 6 Department of Urology, Saint Louis Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France 7 Department of Kidney Transplantation, Necker Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France Deceased
Transplantation 99:409-15. 2015..Existing data suggest that increased interstitial fibrosis may occur abnormally in renal transplants from donations after uncontrolled circulatory death (uDCD)...
- Early steroid withdrawal and optimization of mycophenolic acid exposure in kidney transplant recipients receiving mycophenolate mofetilYannick Le Meur
Department of Nephrology, University Hospital, Brest, France
Transplantation 92:1244-51. 2011..We assessed the feasibility and safety of early steroid withdrawal in low-risk patients receiving cyclosporine A (CsA) and the impact of optimization of mycophenolic acid exposure on steroid withdrawal success...
- Prospective assessment of renal histopathological lesions in patients with end-stage liver disease: effects on long-term renal function after liver transplantationYvon Calmus
Liver Transplant Unit, Hopital Saint Antoine, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris and Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
J Hepatol 57:572-6. 2012..The goal of this study was to make a prospective evaluation of renal histological lesions in a group of unselected patients awaiting liver transplantation...
- Biopsy-confirmed de novo renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in renal grafts: a single-centre management experience in a 2396 recipient cohortGuillaume Ploussard
Service d Urologie, Département DUNE, IUH Université Paris Denis Diderot Hôpital Saint Louis, France
BJU Int 109:195-9. 2012..To study the natural history of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) development in renal grafts and their management...
- Study of the allogeneic response induced by endothelial cells expressing HLA class II after lentiviral transductionCécile Taflin
INSERM UMR S 940 Institut Universitaire d Hématologie, Paris, France
Methods Mol Biol 960:461-72. 2013....
- Preexisting donor-specific HLA antibodies predict outcome in kidney transplantationCarmen Lefaucheur
Département de Néphrologie et Transplantation Rénale, Hopital Saint Louis, Paris, France
J Am Soc Nephrol 21:1398-406. 2010..Quantification of HLA antibodies allows stratification of immunologic risk, which should help guide selection of acceptable grafts for sensitized patients...
- Molecular microscope strategy to improve risk stratification in early antibody-mediated kidney allograft rejectionAlexandre Loupy
Paris Descartes University and Hôpital Necker and Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, Unité Mixte de Recherche S970, Paris, France
J Am Soc Nephrol 25:2267-77. 2014..16; P<0.001). Compared with conventional assessment, the addition of gene expression measurement in kidney transplants with ABMR improves stratification of patients at high risk for graft loss. ..
- Human endothelial cells generate Th17 and regulatory T cells under inflammatory conditionsCécile Taflin
Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, Unité Mixte de Recherche Santé 940, Hopital Saint Louis, 75010 Paris, France
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:2891-6. 2011..Finally, these data open therapeutic perspectives in human organ transplantation based on targeting the IL-6/STAT-3 pathway and/or promoting CD54 dependent Treg proliferation...
- Thymoglobulin induction and sirolimus versus tacrolimus in kidney transplant recipients receiving mycophenolate mofetil and steroidsDenis Glotz
Department of Nephrology, Saint Louis Hospital, Paris, France
Transplantation 89:1511-7. 2010....
- The Seville expert workshop for progress in posttransplant lymphoproliferative disordersDenis Glotz
Nephrology and Transplantation Service, Hopital Saint Louis, Paris, France
Transplantation 94:784-93. 2012..Finally, new classification criteria were outlined that may help facilitate standardized reporting and improve our understanding of PTLD...
- Renal histopathological lesions after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT)Evangeline Pillebout
Hopital Saint Louis, Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Paris, France
Am J Transplant 5:1120-9. 2005..These investigations have therapeutic potential, that is, they may lead to a more aggressive treatment of hypertension and/or diabetes...
- A three-arm study comparing immediate tacrolimus therapy with antithymocyte globulin induction therapy followed by tacrolimus or cyclosporine A in adult renal transplant recipientsBernard Charpentier
Service de Nephrologie, Hopital de Bicetre, Le Kremlin Bicetre, France
Transplantation 75:844-51. 2003..A study was undertaken to assess the efficacy and safety of ATG induction on tacrolimus-based and cyclosporine A (CsA)-based therapies compared with immediate tacrolimus triple therapy in kidney transplant recipients...
- Chronic kidney dysfunction in patients alive without relapse 2 years after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantationImad Abboud
Department of Nephrology and Transplantation, St Louis Hospital, Paris, France
Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 15:1251-7. 2009..Renal impairement was correlated with TBI and cGVHD. Minor incidence of CKD and a relative stability of renal function were noted between 2 and 5 years after HSCT...
- Regulation of the CD4+ T cell allo-immune response by endothelial cellsCécile Taflin
Sorbonne Paris Cité, INSERM UMR940, Institut Universitaire d Hematologie, Universite Paris Diderot, 75010 Paris, France
Hum Immunol 73:1269-74. 2012..This review provides an update on the characteristics of the endothelial cell activation of the CD4(+) T cell response and an analysis of the factors, which can modify this activity in favor of either graft rejection or tolerance...
- What is the relevance of systematic aorto-femoral Doppler ultrasound in the preoperative assessment of patients awaiting first kidney transplantation: a monocentric prospective studyGuillaume Ploussard
Department of Urology and Paris 7 University, Saint Louis Hospital, Paris, France
Nephrol Dial Transplant 25:270-4. 2010..The purpose of our study was to study the relevance of a systematic aorto-femoral colour Doppler ultrasound (DUS) in the evaluation of first renal transplant receivers...
- Access to, and outcome of, renal transplantation according to treatment modality of end-stage renal disease in FranceYlana Chalem
Etablissement francais des greffes, Paris, France
Kidney Int 67:2448-53. 2005....
- A case report of adenovirus-related acute interstitial nephritis in a patient with AIDSElodie Mazoyer
Service de Nephrologie, Hopital Saint Louis, AP HP, Paris, France
Am J Kidney Dis 51:121-6. 2008..This case illustrates another cause of acute kidney disease in very immunosuppressed patients with AIDS, probably underdiagnosed...
- Evidence for an important role of both complement-binding and noncomplement-binding donor-specific antibodies in renal transplantationDenis Viglietti
aDepartment of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Saint Louis Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris bParis Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, INSERM, UMR S970, Paris, France
Curr Opin Organ Transplant 21:433-40. 2016....
- Donor Specific Antibodies are not only directed against HLA-DR: Minding your Ps and QsAmy R Cross
INSERM UMRs 1160, Institut Universitaire d Hematologie, Universite Paris Diderot, Hopital Saint Louis, Paris 75010, France LabEx Transplantex, AP HP, Hopital Saint Louis, Paris 75010, France
Hum Immunol 77:1092-1100. 2016..We also consider existing data in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation concerning HLA directed DSA...
- Successful outcome using rituximab as the only immunomodulation in Henoch-Schonlein purpura: case reportEvangeline Pillebout
Department of Nephrology, CHU St Louis, Paris, France
Nephrol Dial Transplant 26:2044-6. 2011..Complete and sustained skin and renal remission resulted from the treatment. Thus, further studies are required to confirm the efficacy of rituximab as first-line treatment in HSP, and it might be an interesting new therapeutic option...
- Optimization of an elispot assay to detect cytomegalovirus-specific CD8+ T lymphocytesBrigitte Godard
Unité d Immunologie Biologique, Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou, AP HP, Paris, France
Hum Immunol 65:1307-18. 2004..This highly sensitive test may be a useful tool to assess T-cell immunity directed against CMV in immunodepressed patients...
- Chronic interstitial nephritis in an HIV type-1-infected patient receiving ritonavir-boosted atazanavirDenis Viglietti
Néphrologie Transplantation, Hopital Saint Louis, Paris, France
Antivir Ther 16:119-21. 2011..Many reports have described atazanavir-associated urolithiasis, but this is the first case that describes chronic granulomatous nephropathy...
- Acute vascular humoral rejection in a sensitized cardiac graft recipient: diagnostic value of C4d immunofluorescenceJean Paul Duong Van Huyen
Department of Pathology, Unit of Cardiac Transplantation, Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Hum Pathol 35:385-8. 2004..This case shows that C4d deposits represent a sensitive marker of acute humoral rejection in cardiac transplantation. Therefore, C4d immunofluorescence should be more frequently assessed in endomyocardial biopsies...
- Candida albicans arteritis transmitted by conservative liquid after renal transplantation: a report of four cases and review of the literatureHoa Mai
Nephrology Unit, Bicetre Hospital Le Kremlin Bicetre, Paris, France
Transplantation 82:1163-7. 2006..We report four cases of mycotic arteritis due to C. albicans after renal transplantation but which have been inoculated during organ harvesting or conservation...
- Renal biopsy practice in France: results of a nationwide studyGuillaume Bollée
Paris Descartes University, APHP, Department of Nephrology and Transplantation, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, Paris, France
Nephrol Dial Transplant 25:3579-85. 2010..Practices vary widely among nephrologists, depending on personal experience and the availability of particular techniques. The purpose of our study was to depict the main aspects of the practice of RB in adults in France...
- Dual Invasive Infection with Phaeoacremonium parasiticum and Paraconiothyrium cyclothyrioides in a Renal Transplant Recipient: Case Report and Comprehensive Review of the Literature of Phaeoacremonium PhaeohyphomycosisMarie Alice Colombier
Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hôpital Saint Louis APHP, Paris, France
J Clin Microbiol 53:2084-94. 2015..The death rate was 19% (n = 8). Management of Phaeoacremonium infections is complex because of slow laboratory identification and limited clinical data, and treatment relies on a combination of surgery and systemic antifungal therapy. ..
- New insights in antibody-mediated rejectionClément Gosset
aNephrology and Kidney Transplantation bINSERM U 1160 cLabEx TRANSPLANTEX, Saint Louis Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France dUniversité Paris Diderot 7, Paris, France
Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens 23:597-604. 2014....
- Oxidative stress mediates a reduced expression of the activating receptor NKG2D in NK cells from end-stage renal disease patientsMarie Noelle Peraldi
Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, U662, Paris, France
J Immunol 182:1696-705. 2009..Taken together, these studies suggest for the first time that both low NKG2D expression and up-regulation of its ligand MICA are related to ROS production and may be involved in the immune deficiency of ESRD patients...
- Detection and quantitation of BK virus DNA by real-time polymerase chain reaction in the LT-ag gene in adult renal transplant recipientsAli Si-Mohamed
Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Unité de virologie, Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou, 20 rue Leblanc, 75908 Paris Cedex 15, France
J Virol Methods 131:21-7. 2006....
- Are peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors new therapeutic targets in diabetic and non-diabetic nephropathies?Henri Boulanger
Department of Nephrology and Transplantation, Saint Louis Hospital, 1 avenue Claude Vellefaux, 75475 Paris Cedex 10, France
Nephrol Dial Transplant 21:2696-702. 2006
- Outcome of relapse in lupus nephritis: roles of reversal of renal fibrosis and response of inflammation to therapyGary S Hill
Hôpital Broussais and INSERM Unité 430, Hopital St Louis, and Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France
Kidney Int 61:2176-86. 2002..However, not all patients do so. This report explores the roles of response of inflammation to therapy and of glomerular scarring and interstitial fibrosis and their potential reversal to outcome of renal relapse...
- Early epithelial phenotypic changes predict graft fibrosisAlexandre Hertig
Urgences Néphrologiques and Transplantation Rénale, Hopital Tenon, 4 rue de la Chine, 75020 Paris, France
J Am Soc Nephrol 19:1584-91. 2008..In conclusion, early phenotypic changes indicative of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition predict the progression toward interstitial fibrosis in human renal allografts...
- Therapeutic failure of cinacalcet in a renal transplant patient presenting hyperparathyroidism with severe hypercalcaemiaHenri Boulanger
Nephrol Dial Transplant 20:2865. 2005
- Antibody-mediated rejection criteria - an addition to the Banff 97 classification of renal allograft rejectionLorraine C Racusen
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Transplant 3:708-14. 2003..This classification represents a working formulation, to be revisited as additional data accumulate in this important area of renal transplantation...


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Monday's "scoping" meeting raised questions about additional housing, water use, traffic and construction practices -- issues that were added to 128 items previously generated by the Planning and Transportation Commission and other reviewers.
The council did not vote on suggestions by council members, which were noted by EIR consultants.
Stanford Medical Center is proposing a complex project of new construction, retrofitting and demolition that would add a net 723,800 square feet to Stanford Hospital, add 401,500 square feet to the Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital, completely replace 415,000 square feet of medical school buildings and add about 186,000 additional square feet of medical office space.
The new hospital would have three 130-foot towers (eight stories) and the Children's Hospital expansion would rise about 85 feet, well above the city's current 50-foot height limit.
The shopping center expansion will create a 120-room hotel and add 240,000 square feet of retail space, staffed by 185 additional employees, according to EIR consultant Trixie Martelino.
Several Palo Altans told the council Monday that saving lives is laudable, necessary work and is nearly all that should be expected of a top-notch research hospital and medical school, -- espousing a position that resonated with Councilwoman Judy Kleinberg.
"I am thrilled this opportunity is before us," Kleinberg said. "This is a jewel in the crown of our community."
While solidly supportive of Stanford's plans, Kleinberg acknowledged the project will affect Palo Alto.
Mayor Yoriko Kishimoto and several other council members focused on the effects of the hundreds of additional vehicles, more than 2,000 new employees and the other impacts of the 1.3 million-square-foot medical center expansion.
"It's a very large project, the impacts will be large," Kishimoto said. "Working with Stanford … we end up with an overall better community as a result of this project."
Fifteen members of the public commented on the project, many expressing support of Stanford's plans.
Councilman Peter Drekmeier said he wanted the EIR to examine the additional housing need generated by the project, as well as increased water use. He urged Stanford leaders to use environmentally friendly construction practices.
Councilman Jack Morton said he'd like to separate the project components needed to meet state seismic standards from those included to expand the facilities.
He emphasized the enormity of the project's effects.
"I hope that (Stanford) will get most of what it wants in a way that we want it," Morton said.
Public meetings on the projects are scheduled for Oct. 4, Oct. 18 and an unspecified date in November, with the issue returning to the council Nov. 19, Martelino said.
Comments on topics to be studied in the environmental document will be accepted until Oct. 1 and should be directed to Steven Turner, 250 Hamilton Ave., fifth floor, Palo Alto, CA 94302 or e-mailed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
In other business:
* Delegates from one of Palo Alto's Sister Cities, Enschede, the Netherlands, attended the meeting to kick off a five-year economic alliance between the two cities.
The Palo Alto City Council unanimously approved the project, which will involve the cities, their business communities and Stanford University and Enschede's Twente University.
The groups will work together to improve their economic bases through exchanges of students, entrepreneurs and others, improved communication and additional efforts, the program description states.
Mayor Yoriko Kishimoto presented Enschede Mayor P.E.J. den Oudsten a golden key to Palo Alto. In exchange, the city received two photographs of innovative projects in Enschede.
The project is not expected to use City of Palo Alto funds, city staff members said.
* On a 7-1 vote, the council approved a letter to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission stressing the urgency of the proposed improvements to the massive Hetch Hetchy water system and urging the commission to minimize the additional use of water from the Tuolumne River. Drekmeier, an employee of the Tuolumne River Trust, did not vote on the letter and Kleinberg was opposed, because she interpreted the letter differently than her colleagues, saying it did not actually oppose additional use of the Tuolumne River.
The Hetch Hetchy upgrade includes a $4.3 billion series of projects to strengthen the system's ability to withstand and recover from an earthquake and to amplify the water supply, which currently serves 2.4 million Bay Area users.
A draft environmental report for the project is available at www.sfgov.org/site/planning_index.asp?id=37672. Comments are due by Oct. 1.


text: Culture 25 December 2000 No mountain high enough. Ben Pimlott acclaims a monumental biography of Keynes, who struggled against an incurable heart condition to become the architect of the postwar consensus John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937-1946 Robert Skidelsky <em>Macmillan, 580pp, £25</em Sign up for our weekly email * What makes a human being describable as great? The main thing is to have changed the world. Economists, widely seen as technicians, seldom make the grade. In the past century, there is only one exception: Maynard Keynes. In this gripping and brilliant final volume of his biography, Robert Skidelsky compares Keynes to the wartime prime minister. "Churchill fought to preserve Britain and its empire against Nazi Germany," he begins. "Keynes fought to preserve Britain as a Great Power against the United States." The historic irony, Skidelsky suggests, is that both men won the battle but, in the long run, lost the war. Germany was defeated, and Britain came out of the conflict with a courtesy seat at the top table. But it was shortly to lose both an empire and any pretension to world economic leadership. For the modern reader, the interesting question is how much of the victory and defeat can be laid at the door of individuals - and especially a particular individual who never sought an executive role. Skidelsky's answer - warding off the revisionist historians who have argued that Keynes was merely one important cog in the so-called "Keynesian" wheel - is to blame the epic economic defeat on changing world conditions, and to credit a significant part of the victory to Keynes, whom he compares not only to Churchill, but to Odysseus - a successful hero, not a tragic one. In volume one, the author looked at Maynard the picaresque adventurer, tweaking the beards of his betters. In volume two, Skidelsky focused on the genesis, gestation and publication of the most celebrated work on economics of the era, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, which appeared - not by chance, historians may consider - in the turning-point year of 1936. Volume three covers the "long Second World War", from looming war clouds to hungry, fearful aftermath. If the first two volumes were about a brilliant but usually marginal thinker, the third places Keynes firmly at centre stage, with an influence that pervades every corner of the free world's economic planning and action. It is a story of restless endeavour, intellectual fecundity, of travel, diplomacy, politics and horse-trading. It is also an account of debates over public policy pursued at a higher cerebral level than ever before or, possibly, since. That Keynes should have had such a role is more remarkable because, for much of the time, he was seriously ill with an incurable heart condition. Fighting for Britain opens with his long convalescence following an attack. Health problems and alarms punctuate the book. Yet physical constraints seldom seem to have dampened Keynes's spirits, or his optimism, not least in relation to the war. Indeed, it is part of Skidelsky's case that his subject was upbeat about practically everything. He quotes Keynes as saying, during the war's darkest hour, "I do not feel the least anxiety as to the eventual outcome", and predicting that the Fuhrer would "meet his Waterloo a long way east of Berlin". By and large, however, the economist had little to say on the fighting. Keynes had been a semi-pacifist in the 1930s; in the early 1940s, he steered clear of the generals, merely noting, from time to time, that the top brass tended to take the bottom line for granted. Skidelsky wryly observes that, when Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin got together, they did not talk about sums. (It is symptomatic of the curiously submerged nature of economics that there is only one mention of Keynes in the whole of Churchill's five-volume history of the conflict.) This is more extraordinary because Keynes was close to the heart of affairs throughout the war. His entry ticket was partly The General Theory (which, however, aroused suspicion as well as admiration) and partly a polemical squib called How to Pay for the War, published early in 1940, which rejected reliance on inflation as a de facto system of rationing by reducing working-class consumption and, instead, recommended compulsory savings. In May 1940, the government collapsed and Churchill formed his coalition. "For almost a year, Keynes had been knocking at the Treasury's door," according to Skidelsky. "At last he was let in." In August, he was taken on as an unpaid adviser-without-portfolio, with a place on important committees, access to secret information, and permission, more or less, to poke his nose in wherever he felt like it. "In the Treasury but not of it", Keynes enjoyed astonishing freedom, retaining his position until his death six years later - by which time, he had served three very different chancellors: Sir Kingsley Wood, Sir John Anderson and Hugh Dalton. "He was enormously influential," writes Skidelsky. Few would dispute it. He "was the Treasury", according to a colleague - the architect of successive Budgets and of the Bretton Woods Agreement, which laid the foundations for the postwar economic system. He was, however, much more than a technical expert. He was a fifth columnist for his own teachings - something that became apparent with Wood's 1941 Budget, the launch pad for the Keynesian revolution. It helped, rather than hindered, that Churchill took little interest in the home front and left domestic matters to Anderson, as Lord President, and to the powerful Lord President's Committee. Flanked by a dozen or so disciples in the new Economic Section of the Cabinet Secretariat, Keynes's ideas captured first the Anderson Committee, and then Whitehall. How did he do it? Skidelsky rightly stresses that Keynes's influence was the result of persuasion, not command. He provides a vivid portrait of this most improbable of revolutionaries, gauntly stalking the corridors of the Treasury, with dark blue eyes, dark clothes and ivory pallor, "in slow processional dignity", lord of all he surveyed entirely on the basis of his intellectual authority. Or almost. It did the government's chief economic adviser no harm that, despite the prime minister's serene disregard for the dismal science, he knew Churchill personally. Little did Hitler appreciate the hidden power of very British get-togethers such as the Other Club, a dining society set up by Churchill himself, and of which Keynes had been a member since 1927. "I went to my Other Club and was put next to Winston," Keynes wrote to his sister, typically, in September 1940, "so I had some two or three hours conversation with him . . . he placed my new war damage scheme in his speech in the afternoon, so I am now hopeful that that will get through." Was Keynes a thorn in the flesh of the Establishment, or part of it? According to Skidelsky, the economist thought "orthogonically" - that is, at an angle of 180 degrees to orthodoxy. Yet by "upbringing, inclination, aptitude, language and, above all, by his Englishness", he was a quintessentially Establishment figure. The knack was to wrap up radicalism in the language and context of social accessibility. Keynes was an iconoclast, and yet, like his Fabian friends the Webbs and the Woolfs, he did not scruple to exploit his access to inner-circle networks; in the Second World War, a direct line to the apex of the political pyramid gave him an asset of incalculable value. Yet it would be quite wrong to see Keynes as power hungry in any commonplace sense. On the contrary, his secret lay in conveying the impression that he minded more about winning an argument than victory in a political fight. Perhaps there was an element of bluff. However, no serious control freak would have retired to Cambridge every weekend in order to administer the affairs of his college (King's) as its bursar - a post he continued to hold, without reluctance or leave of absence, until his death. He had other hobbies and idiosyncrasies. One was chairing what became the Arts Council. A second was advising his old school, Eton, on its investments. A third was a penchant for counter-intuitive, Bloomsburyish quips, which often unnerved less confident people. Thus Keynes once remarked that the unworldliness of G E Moore's Principia Ethica made the New Testament, by comparison, a "handbook for politicians". Embarked on the planning of the world post bellum, he affably commented that he "used the calm of war to reflect on the turmoil of the coming peace". He also remarked - with superficially chilling cynicism - that he hoped "the Japanese would not let us down by surrendering too soon", something that they proceeded to do, upsetting Keynes's economic calculations. He was, indeed, not right about everything. As well as misjudging the timing of the end of the war, he misjudged its effects. He was over-pessimistic about domestic employment (when William Beveridge published Full Employment in a Free Society at the end of 1944, Keynes wrote that a target of 3 per cent unemployment was unobtainable). More important, he was wildly over- optimistic about American attitudes to giving Britain a postwar loan on favourable terms. If there is a major criticism, it is here. There is a case, too, for saying that, in his final, postwar enterprise as negotiator for the Attlee government in Washington, Keynes was not so much a hero, even a tragic one, as a Don Quixote - naively imagining that, because he had convinced himself that American generosity to Britain was in the US's own interest, American negotiators would see the logic and act accordingly. The result was a disappointing and ill-fated package based on unreal assumptions, which brought down the financial world around the ears of the British government in July 1947, barely a year after Keynes's death. Having sought "to avert a financial Dunkirk" - as he saw it - in Washington, Keynes returned to Britain so weary that, at a welcoming party, he had to lie on a sofa and rest for most of the evening. When he died a few months later, he was hailed as a genius. Even his intellectual enemies acknowledged his achievement. Friedrich von Hayek wrote, at the time, that "he was the one really great man that I ever knew, and for whom I had unbounded admiration". Keynes died at the height of the Labour government's orgy of spending on social reform and reconstruction, prosecuted by the then chancellor, Hugh Dalton, "with a song in his heart", on the back of the American loan. Whether the obituaries would have been quite so enthusiastic had Keynes died 15 months later, after the party was over and Britain was close to bankruptcy, is impossible to say. It was one of Keynes's strengths that he had exquisite timing. Good timing, it should be said, is one of his biographer's strengths, too. The triumphant conclusion to Skidelsky's own 20-year enterprise catches a tide in which Keynesian ideas - after a period in the doghouse - are back in fashion, albeit in modified form. Modern followers will find this marvellous book a rich source for many years to come. Meanwhile, among biographers casting around for subjects, Skidelsky's work will cause disquiet as well as pleasure. In political and economic history, there are no higher mountains to climb. Ben Pimlott is warden of Goldsmiths College Subscribe from just £1 per issue More