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Rendezvous with 71
Till 18 September
This is an inaugural exhibition of retrospective works, in a range of mediums, by 71 young artists from Karnataka.
10am-8.30pm. KalaRasa Art House, 62, Sixth floor, The High Street, 11th Main, Jayanagar, 4th Block (49401300). For details, visit www.kalarasa.com.
Lights Out
17 September
Directed by Suresh Babu H.S. and written by Manjula Padmanabhan, the play is set in 1982's Mumbai. The play talks about the issue of rape in India, and the irony that a society obsessed with propriety and external virtue would quietly allow such a heinous act to occur so commonly. Penned as a comedy, the play is essentially tragic in its pulse. 1 hour, 10 minutes.
7.30pm. Ranga Shankara, 36/2, 8th Cross, 2nd Phase, JP Nagar (26592777). Tickets, Rs.100, available at in.bookmyshow.com.
18-19 September
Director Abhishek Majumdar's Treadmill explores the personal journeys of people from Indian small towns, and the awkwardness they face while living in a city, investigated through the metaphor of a treadmill. The comedy speaks of the various instances in people's lives where they continuously run without getting anywhere. Relationships between husband and wife, mother and child, travellers in a train, among several others, come to light. 1 hour, 10 minutes.
7.30pm. Ranga Shankara, 36/2, 8th Cross, 2nd Phase, JP Nagar (26592777). Tickets, Rs.150, available at in.bookmyshow.com
Mad Orange Fireworks
15 September
Bangalore's funk rockers return to play in the city after a series of gigs in support of their debut album Lifeline Cast, launched in August. The band comprises Michael Dias (vocals and guitars), Ramanan Chandramouli (vocals and guitars), Kaushik Kumar (bass and vocals) and Deepak Raghu (drums). Expect tunes from their latest release along with their regular set-list favourites.
6pm. Phoenix Marketcity mall courtyard, Whitefield Road, Mahadevapura, KR Puram (67266333).
Dead Man's Cell Phone
Till 15 September
A dead man's cellphone rings incessantly in a quiet café. The play by Pulitzer prize finalist Sarah Ruhl explores memorializing the dead, and how remembering changes us. Those aged 16 and above can watch the play.
8pm on Friday and Saturday; 3pm and 6.30pm on Sunday. Jagriti Theatre, Ramagondanahalli, Varthur Road, Whitefield (28475373). Tickets, Rs.300, available at in.bookmyshow.com.
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Love, Sex And Zombies
15 September
Four short plays by ASAP productions—addressing subjects like love, prospective brides, betrayal, and zombies with humour—will be shown. The plays are Thiruvanathapuram, Nice To Meet You, All About Al and How To survive a Zombie Apocalypse. 2 hours.
4pm and 7pm. Alliance Française, College Road, Nungambakkam. Tickets, Rs.200, available at www.indianstage.in.
Children's Carnatic Choir
15 September
Directed and conceptualized by Bombay Jayashri, Children's Carnatic Choir will feature 18 children in the age group of 9-16 who will sing popular songs of the Trinity (Tyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar and Shyama Sastry). Proceeds will go to Drishti Eye Care Foundation.
6pm. Music Academy, TTK Road. Tickets, Rs.300, available at in.bookmyshow.com.
Nature in Fountains of Life/The Rain Room/The Sand Storm
Till 30 September
This is an exhibition of mixed- media artworks focused on environment. While Sujatha Shankar Kumar explores salt pans of Marakkanam, Tamil Nadu, in her photographs, Aneesh Kalode Rajan uses charcoal and graphite on paper to highlight the effects of global warming on ocean life. Each artwork speaks of an issue, a struggle and a triumph that has been unfolding in the environment around us.
11am-6.30pm (Sundays closed). Apparao Galleries, Wallace Gardens, 3rd Street, Nungambakkam. For details, call 9941012388.
Maharaj in Vishwaroopam
15 September
This is a dance recital by Padma Vibhushan Pandit Birju Maharaj and his team. The Kathak performance is created to enthral not just dance lovers but anyone who wants to experience the perfection and beauty of this style. The event is presented by 21 Events.
7pm. Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall, Harrington Road, Chetput (28363921). Tickets, Rs.500, Rs.1,000, Rs.2,000, Rs.3,000 and Rs.5,000, available at in.bookmyshow.com
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RSJ Live Nites
15 September
The second edition of Rock Street Journal's Live Nites features performances by local metal heavyweights Undying Inc., Phobia, Collosal Figures and four-piece Mumbai band Zygnema, winners of Rolling Stone Metal Awards 2011: Best band and song (popular choice).
10-11.30pm. blueFROG, Seven Style Mile, Kalka Dass Marg, Mehrauli (30800300). Entry, Rs.200.
Johannes Möller
19 September
Witness an evening of guitar recital by Swedish composer Johannes Möller. The event is in collaboration with the Delhi Music Society. Möller's performances have been received with much applause across Europe, Asia, and North and South America. In 2010, the self-taught composer was awarded first prize in the GFA (Guitar Foundation of America) Concert Artist Competition, considered to be the most prestigious guitar competition in the world. Möller's skills extend beyond the guitar. He won the prestigious Dutch Vriendenkrans Concours in 2008, where he was competing against performers in all instrumental categories.
7pm. Habitat World, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road (43663333).
United Art Fair 2013
15-17 September
Looking to buy some decent art without burning a hole in your pocket? Stop by at the United Art Fair 2013 (UAF). Besides paintings, sculptures and photography, the fair will offer graphic, folk and tribal art, fashion, textiles, furniture, ceramics and architecture.
Curated by a team of well-known names from the world of art and design, led by Peter Nagy, the second edition of UAF features a majority of artists who are yet to be part of the gallery ecosystem and will be showcasing their work in public for the first time. The fair will have around 400 artists from India and abroad.
11am-8pm. Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. Entry, Rs.100 . For
more information, visit www.unitedartfair.com.
more information, visit www.unitedartfair.com.
Open Frame International Film Festival 2013
Till 21 September
Organized in collaboration with the Public Service Broadcasting Trust, the 13th edition of the documentary film festival focuses on narratives of and by women. More than 30 films, including those from India, Egypt, Germany, Canada, Lebanon and the UK, are part of the festival. The festival also includes discussions and workshops.
Timings vary. India International Centre, 40, Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate (24619431). For detailed schedule, visit www.psbt.org. Admission on first come, first-served basis.
The Battle of Algiers
18 September
Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 film chronicles the Algerian people's struggle to overthrow the French colonial government in the mid-1950s. The film, mostly shot in playback, shows the real consequences of defying popular will with institutional aggression and military force. The film was given "Best Film" honours at the 1966 Venice Film Festival.
6.30pm. Italian Cultural Centre, 50-E, Chandragupta Marg, Chanakyapuri (26871901). Photo ID required for entry.
14/15 August 1947
14 September
Written and directed by M. Sayeed Alam, 14/15 August 1947 is a monologue by Saleem Shah on and about Partition and Pakistan. The play, in which Shah plays a 90-year-old, uses humour to pose serious questions on the division of India. 1 hour, 45 minutes.
7pm. Alliance Française, 72, Lodhi Estate. Tickets, Rs.200, Rs.300 and Rs.500, available at in.bookmyshow.com.
Off Broadway
13 September
An evening of music from Broadway musicals, presented by Aching Shaiza on vocals, piano and ukulele, Reuben Israel on vocals and Kyoko Ito on piano. Through the music of Broadway, the artistes explore the various aspects of life, love and relationships—the serious, the funny, the tragic, the ridiculous, the painful, the joyous, and the exhausting.
7.30pm. Epicentre, Apparel House, Sector 44, Gurgaon (0124-2715050).
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14 September
Directed by Mohammed Ali Baig, the play is based on the legend of the founder of
Hyderabad, poet-prince Quli Qutub Shah, and his beloved Bhagmati. The heritage production by Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Foundation shows how their feelings for each other transform and give birth to a city and a distinct identity to its people. 1 hour.
Hyderabad, poet-prince Quli Qutub Shah, and his beloved Bhagmati. The heritage production by Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Foundation shows how their feelings for each other transform and give birth to a city and a distinct identity to its people. 1 hour.
7.30pm. Chowmahalla Palace, Khilwat, Motigalli. Entry by invitation only. For details, email theatrefoundation@ baigtheatrefoundation.com, or contact Anuj Gupta, 9391336181.
Landscapes of Ladakh
Till 19 September
Kishor Krishnamoorthi's debut photography exhibition is based on Ladakh. Before becoming a professional photographer, Krishnamoorthi was an oil trader in London. He graduated in e-commerce from the University of Essex, UK.
10am-10pm. The Blue Door, Road No.45, Jubilee Hills. For details, call 9908228822.
14 September
The Telugu play delineates the mystery surrounding the
disappearance of the tribal prince warrior of Dandakaranya who had a secret meeting with the Pandavas on the eve of the battle of Kurukshetra.2 hours.
6.30pm. NTR Auditorium, Nampally. Tickets, Rs.200 and Rs.500, available at www.indianstage.in
By Viswanath Pilla
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The Day I Wasn't Born
13 September
The Goethe-Institut is screening Florian Cossen's The Day I Wasn't Born (2010) as part of its Friday Films@Max Mueller Bhavan series. The film is about Maria Falkenmayer, a young German woman who during a stopover in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile hears a Spanish nursery song and reacts in a troubled way. Where does she remember this melody from? In the search for an answer, she learns the truth about her family, her origin and her identity.
6.30pm. Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, 8, Ballygunge Circular Road, Ballygunge (24866398).
15 September
Theatre group Sudrak will stage Dahananta, the story of a lonely old couple. Their son lives in the US and daughter in Delhi—both are busy with their own lives to spend time with the parents. At the same time, they are keen about their parents' property. The couple's another son was killed in an encounter. 1 hour, 50 minutes.
6.30pm. Rabindra Sadan, 1, Cathedral Road, near AJC Bose Road. Tickets, Rs.100, available at the venue. For details, call 9830158656.
Mélange of Milieu
Till 10 October
In 'Mélange of Milieu', artists use their diverse experiences to illuminate the shared mysteries of being human. The participating artists include Prokash Karmakar, Ramananda Bandopadhyay, Gourango Beshai, Subrata Das, Shyamal Mukherjee, and Basudev Pal Mazumdar, among others.
2.30-6.30pm (mornings by appointment). Idiyas Gallery, 15, Dover Road. For details, contact Diya on 9831005003.
By Indranil Bhoumik
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O Caminho das Nuvens (The Middle of the World)
14 September
The 2003 film O Caminho das Nuvens (The Middle of the World), directed by Vicente Amorim, narrates the tale of a migrant family who travels 3,200km across five states in Brazil to Rio de Janeiro on their bicycles in search of jobs. 1 hour, 25 minutes.
7.30pm. Little Theatre, National Centre for Performing Arts, NCPA Marg, Nariman Point (22824567).
Around town
Dirty Talk 5.0
15 September
Organized by Gaysi Family, a literary website for members of the LGBT community that allows them to write on any topic, the evening session will address issues of homophobia and transphobia faced by the community through posters. One poster has Harrish Iyer, an equal rights activist and survivor of sexual abuse as a child. Another poster features transgender activist Urmi Jadhav. The discussion will be followed by performances by musicians and comedians like Sidd Coutto, Saba Azad and Imaad Shah, Roshni Baptist, and Ash Chandler's Ministry of Schtick.
5pm. The Barking Deer Brew Pub, Mathuradas Mills Compound, Lower Parel (61417400).
How To Manage Your Interns
19 September
Bombay Connect, a collaborative work space, is organizing a workshop on managing interns, and the kind of internships that could be developed within an organization for growth. Further focus will be on case studies, best practices on internship management, and how to recruit the most suitable interns. 1 hour.
7pm. Bombay Connect, Candelar Building, 26 St John Baptist Road, Bandra (32220475). RSVP on email@example.com. Limited seats available.
Photo Talk
13 September
K. Madhawan Pillai, editor of Better Photography magazine, will conduct a talk on the "Future of Photography and New Emerging Trends". 2 hours.
6pm. Piramal Art Gallery, National Centre for Performing Arts, Nariman Point (66223737).
Noises Off
17-22 September
Noises Off is a play within a play about an ambitious director and his troupe of mediocre actors. The cast and crew are putting together a silly sex comedy—a single-set farce in which sardines fly, lovers frolic, and embarrassing hi-jinks ensue. Written by Michael Frayn in the 1980s, the play has been adapted for stage by Mumbai's the company theatre. 2 hours.
9pm; and 6pm/9pm on Saturday and Sunday. Prithvi Theatre, 20, Janki Kutir, Juhu Church Road, Juhu. Tickets,Rs.300, available at in.bookmyshow.com.


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ATI Radeon x300 Driver Problems
hi, i just installed Linux Mandrake 10.1 and noticed it has issues with my X300 PCIxpress 16x card. when installing and trying to config it, it kept telling me that it wasn't responding, and now that it has rebooted, it goes to the black and white mode. it asks me to log in but i dunno how do log in like that either! :( i noticed on the ATI site that they had the Xfree86 thing, i have no idea how to use it or install it via a console.
please give me a link to a place to download the right driver, then tell me how to tell mandrake in console to install the file from a CD drive.
Thanks in Advance :)
Don't bother with ATI just use XFree86 drivers cause they're are a piece of shit on both Linux and Windows. I went back to Windows to use my 9600 AIW and after installing the ATI drivers for XP SP2 the computer turned off twice on its own, after reading the error logs it was the ATI drivers. They cater mostly to Apple, and Microsoft. For Linux/Unix they have some company that sells drivers for certain cards and kernels, I just wouldn't bother. The best solution is to purchase and Nvidia Card next time, Nvidia works pretty well with opensource.
I regret that my Nvidia GForce4 Mx 440 SE busted, I should have just bought another one it was only $40.00, but this 9600 AIW was only $99.00 on sale so I bit into the bait and now I'm regreting it.
Further more, if you are using PCI Express you should use Kernel 2.6.15 and above, as PCI Express is supported; though still experimental.
Yeah i kno, im buyin a new system in a few months, im using Nvidia GFX + AGP, no pcixpress till it's solid in linux, i shall never buy ATI's again (cuz i plan to use Linux from now on) here are my qestions:
1. Where can i get that kernel version, i'll take the experemental kernel.
2. How do i install it via a CD drive which i don't know the letter for (i have 2 cd drives, i bet it's either like D, or E, cuz i'll burn it onto a CD-RW (to save a disk) then i gotta log in with the console (which i learned how to do :) ) then i need the command to tell it to install and ne other instructions, cuz it has never loaded the KDE desktop yet cus its saying my pciXpress card isn't responding prob cuz it's talking to the wrong hub.
The :newbie: Kavon
Kernel Versions
You can download a variety of kernels @ http://www.kernel.org.
I am using 220.127.116.11
how should i install it via a CD? whould the command (while in root) be:
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Hall's Chicken Shack is a Trip to the Moon on Barbecue Wings
Lesson I should've learned a long time ago: Check your order before leaving the drive-through. I never check—feels rude, like I am questioning the drive-through lady's order-taking abilities. But after today, I'm changing my ways: From now on, I'm an A-Hole Drive-Through Order-Checking Person, just like the rest of y'all.
I went to Hall's Chicken Shack, which just opened a location on Forest and 75ish. The nice lady at the drive-through window (who exclusively referred to me as "Mama") told me they'd been open about two months since taking over Hawks Catfish. Hall's has five other locations in town, and at this new Forest location, other than changing literally a couple letters on the sign, the place seems pretty much the same. Hell, I'm betting that even the grease they're frying in is the same. Mmmmm.
I ordered chicken and waffles, and after waiting about 10 minutes for my made-to-order meal, I got my bags of food and gassed it. I could not wait to get a fork full o' fried chicken plus waffle plus syrup into my face.
Hall�s Chicken Shack
Hall�s Chicken Shack 8131 Forest Lane 469-330-7595
Times I uttered �Holy crap� with a mouth full of wings: 31 Times drive-through lady referred to me as �Mama�: 9
At home, I opened the to-go box and gasped: There's no chicken. There's only "and waffles." Whatthefuck!
There are few things in this world that piss me off more than a food fail. But luckily for me, in addition to my chicken and waffles, I had also ordered 12 additional hot wings with spicy barbecue sauce. And fried okra. And corn. OK, so maybe the drive-through lady was just looking out for my heart. Either way, the fried okra and spicy barbecue hot wings sent to my mouth straight from Gawd (Somehow these wings were both crunchy and sopped in sauce. Only superior beings can pull off something like that.) made everything all better. For starters, they were the meatiest wings I'd ever had, and for enders, there was sauce under my fingernails for days, so I had leftovers with me whenever I wanted them!
Not into spicy barbecue sauce? That's cool. Hall's offers as many sauce options as Pluckers. Go to Hall's. Order some chicken. Cry happy tears.
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Whistleblowers have been praised for helping bring issues at Braintree's biggest care home to light.
An undercover Panorama investigation at the Old Deanery followed contact from Compassion in Care - a charity which supports people reporting misconduct in care.
Concerns about the Old Deanery were allegedly first raised with bosses and authorities by 11 whistleblowers in August 2012.
Essex County Council and the CQC investigated and found that staffing levels were "woefully inadequate" and some residents were waiting too long for call bells to be answered.
Special measures were put in place, but concerns remained and the whistleblowers approached charity, Compassion in Care, which in turn contacted Panorama.
Speaking to the Times, Compassion in Care founder and director, Eileen Chubb, said she was "proud" of the whistleblowers for speaking out.
She said: "They got the wrongdoing stopped and we helped them to do that."
See the Times for the full story


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Apr 20, 2009 - I now have been going to Raydine for 6 years since I moved to Chicago. I love how much time she will take with me, and if I have a real problem she will explain everything to me. Her cuts are wonderful. She really understands curly hair as her hair is curly....She has opened up her own salon up from where she was and it is even easier to park around here.


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Phin & Phebes Spiked Milk Shakes at Sunday Supper #2
We were so excited when Phin & Phebes said they'd donate ice cream for our boozy milkshakes at this weekend's Sunday Supper #2 at Luncheonette!
What was even more fun was testing the milkshakes at chef Tony's house last night. And when I say testing, I mean gulping down delicious ice cream shakes spiked with all sorts of booze. Good thing Tony lives on the same block as us…
We had four flavors to test: Banana Whama, Vietnamese Ice Coffee, Vanilla Snap & Ginger Cookie Snap.
Phin & Phebes ice cream is "14% butterfat, super premium ice cream packed with creamy, all-natural New York state dairy otherwise known as "SUPER MILK." We tried them all and can attest to their deliciousness.
The Banana Whama really was the crowd favorite, with a stand-out banana flavor. Mixed with Makers, it was mind boggling!
While the Vietnamese Coffee was nice and espresso flavored, we all didn't get the the Vietnamese flavor, which I guess really is just sweetness from condensed milk. We mixed it with kahlua and Maker's Mark bourbon and needless to say downed all the samples.
Vanilla Snap was nice and spicy and had a holiday feel, which we are trying to get away from given that Christmas is over – thank God! It was delicious mixed with Vanilla Flavored Vodka, Kahlua and caramel sauce. You pretty much can't go wrong there.
Last was Ginger Cookie Snap – oh Ginger Cookie Snap – where have you been all my life? That flavor was the most distinct, it tasted like ginger, but also had an exotic edge to it and nice fresh ginger texture bits that were interesting. That being said, it was subtle and after filling up on BBQ sliders, we needed something that would really stand out. We first mixed it with tequila, which was a great flavor combo. Then we added lime and cayenne, which was like a spicy margarita milkshake. Nice.
The winner in our Phin & Phebes Mikshake challenge was Banana Whama with Maker's Mark Bourbon.
Seymour (Frenchie cutie above) agreed!
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As they were vacationning in Lech (Tyrol), Princess Maxima and Prince Willem of the Netherlands, had to stop for the traditional family photo shoot. While their oldest daughter, Amalia was smiling and joking around, Alexia didn't seem to enjoy the moment as much, and as she started crying, and she made her baby sister Ariane, 10 months, cry too. Alexia has taken on the habit to always weep in front of the photographers.
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Enterprise social media marketing platform and service provider Syncapse has closed a $25 million Series C funding round with ABS Capital. CEO Michael Scissons tells us the money will go towards accelerating development of its platform and expanding its global services group.
Syncapse is one of the biggest companies in the Page management, custom app development, and social measurement space, with over 150 employees, including over 40 in Europe. The Syncapse Platform, formerly SocialTalk, lets clients build and manage Facebook Pages, Facebook applications, YouTube channels, Twitter accounts, blogs, and handle conversation management, compliance, influence management, and measurement.
In September, Syncapse purchased Facebook app developer Nudge. That team is now building app templates and custom apps for Syncapse's clients.
Scissons believes that the world's largest corporations and brands want to work with a reputable company with global presence, opposed to the many smaller companies moving into the space. He explained it took his company a year to get situated in Europe, so he believes the high barrier to the enterprise industry will allow Syncapse to repel the multitude of new entrants.
Clients aren't signing long term deals with companies like Syncapse because there's still a lot of potential for disruption. However, Scissions thinks the funding will help it become more established, answer more client needs across channels, and emerge as a leader in social marketing regardless of whether its on Facebook or forthcoming services.
When asked whether Syncapse would consider adding Facebook Ads API services to its offering, as Experian and Vitrue recently have, he explained that he believes most corporations and brands want an agency to handle all their advertising, and so it won't move in that direction at this time.
With Facebook now allowing Pages to use iframe tab applications, 2011 could be a healthy year for funding and acquisitions in the Page management and social marketing industry as companies look to add iframe apps and other services to their offering. Scissons agrees, but thinks these companies will mostly focus on smaller brands and local businesses. Meanwhile, we see Syncapse and other larger platform and service providers like Buddy Media winning the cash-flush multinationals.


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Motorcycle operator Michael E. Wilson, 47, of Auburn, and his passenger, Michelle L. Reser, 34, of Angola, were pronounced dead at the scene, the sheriff's department reported.
The department said:
Wilson and Reser were traveling southwest on County Road 24's east junction, which curves to the left.
Wilson reportedly failed to negotiate the turn, and the Triumph motorcycle left the road and went through a grassy field and up the embankment to U.S. 6. The motorcycle then flew airborne into traffic and crashed into the semitractor truck.
The truck's driver, who was not injured, tried to avoid the motorcycle but told police he couldn't do so.
A witness said the motorcycle appeared to have been traveling at high speed before the accident, police said. Wilson and Reser weren't wearing helmets.A man was reported to be in critical condition after a motorcycle accident at 2:58 a.m. Thursday in the 8500 block of Coldwater Road, Fort Wayne Police said.
Police said the driver, Justin Seyfert, 23, of Fort Wayne, reportedly was traveling at a high speed southbound on Coldwater Road. He failed to make a curve in the road and went off the west side, where he was thrown from the motorcycle.
No other vehicles or objects were involved in the crash, and Seyfert was the only person on the motorcycle, police said. It doesn't appear he was wearing a helmet.
Paramedics took him to a local hospital, where he was reported to be in critical condition, police said.
The Fort Wayne Police Department FACT team continues to investigate the accident.Investigators have determined Tuesday's fire at 1509 Cass St. was accidental, caused by a child playing with a lighter.
No one was hurt in the fire, but the home was heavily damaged.
A woman and a child who were in the home when the fire broke out made it out safely before firefighters arrived, according to a Fort Wayne Fire Department news release.Khampaseuth O. Lothvilaythong, 36, of the 2800 block of Queen Street, was charged with child molesting, a Class C felony, Wednesday in Allen Superior Court.
According to a probable-cause affidavit, Lothvilaythong fondled or touched a child under age 14 between January 2011 and March 2012. The child's mother told a doctor of her suspicion that her child was being molested, and the Indiana Department of Child Services investigated.
A Department of child Services caseworker contacted Lothvilaythong in April 2012, and the defendant denied the allegations, according to court documents. However, the court found probable cause exists and ordered the clerk to issue a warrant for his arrest.A man who gave a woman a ride home Jan. 21 allegedly raped her, according to a probable-cause affidavit. Da Wood, 36, of the 1600 block of Hobson Road, was charged with rape, a Class B felony; criminal confinement, a Class D felony; and sexual battery, a Class D felony, on Wednesday in Allen Superior Court. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
According to the affidavit, Wood gave the victim a ride home, but parked the car behind a building and forced her against the car door, took her clothes off and raped her.Lawrence C. King, 51, of the 400 block of Pettit Avenue, was charged with two counts of child molesting, one a Class A felony and one a Class C felony, in Allen Superior Court.
According to a probable-cause affidavit, King fondled a young girl twice in March.
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Eagles to honor 1960 championship team
Published: May 3rd, 2010 | Tags: Chicago Bears, Chuck Bednarik, DeSean Jackson, Green Bay Packers, Pete Retzlaff, Philadelphia Eagles, Tommy McDonald
No. 60 is hallowed in Philadelphia. Hall of Fame center/linebacker Chuck Bednarik wore No. 60. Of course, Bednarik was known as the last of the 60-minute men, as he played the entire game on both sides of the football.
And the Eagles defeated the Packers, 17-13, to win the 1960 NFL championship. Almost fittingly, it was Bednarik who stopped Packers running back Jim Taylor at the 8-yard line to cement the win on the last play of the game.
The Eagles announced on Monday that they would be honoring that 1960 championship during the team's home opener vs. the Packers with a celebration at halftime and they also unveiled 1960 kelly green throwback jerseys that the team will wear (via the team's official Web site).
Hall of Fame players Bednarik and Tommy McDonald, along with Pete Retzlaff joined some current Eagles to model the jerseys. Retzlaff spoke on behalf of the championship team, saying what a special time that was in Philadelphia. Retzlaff said that the Philadelphia fans were demanding back then, "even if they don't know what they are talking about."
Retzlaff noted that players from that team rarely had to pick up a check in Philadelphia from the day after that game, or until the next season because managers and fans were willing to pay the tab. A good thing, too since the players did not make much money back then, Retzlaff joked.
Hopefully that trio didn't expect WR DeSean Jackson to pick up the bill today, because he feels that he is underpaid.
The Eagles are not the only team breaking out throwback jerseys this year. The Packers already announced that they would honor their 1920s team with a third jersey.
The Bears will honor the 1940s — when the 'Monsters of the Midway' won four titles — by wearing their throwbacks twice this season.


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In a small New England town in that hectic era when the sixties turned into the seventies, there lived three witches. Alexandra Spoffard, a sculptress, could create thunderstorms. Jane Smart, a cellist, could fly. The local gossip columnist, Sukie Rougemont, could turn milk into cream. Divorced but hardly celibate, the wonderful witches one day found themselves quite under the spell of the new man in town, Darryl Van Horne, whose strobe-lit hot tub room became the scene of satanic pleasures.
To tell you any more, dear reader, would be to spoil the joy of reading this hexy, sexy novel by the incomparable John Updike.
©1996 John Updike; ©2008 Random House Audio
""Enjoyed" the movie more"
The novel is beautifully written with prose and imagery that, to me, provides new ways of looking at nature and fertility. Yet, the story is so languid and dry that it takes forever to get anywhere. This novel is brilliantly written, but I really enjoyed the movie more, although they are really two completely different things.
This is a brilliant novel by one of the best contemporary writer. It is full of fun, sadness, wisdom, and deep understanding of life's desires.
I never liked reading (Dyslexic) until Audible, now I cannot get enough books!
"How did this thing ever become a best seller?"
Never to have been written! How did this thing become a best seller? The story is bad and the people in the book are all so nasty and unlikable that you want them all to just die by the end of the book. What was the point of this mess and it is gross about sex and woman.
I don't know but I do know I will never read anything by John Updike again!
They are all so unlikable that there is none.
All of them!
I really was looking forward to this book. I had heard it was nothing like the movie so I did not go into it thinking it would be. However, I have never read a book before that makes you hate every person in it and can also makes you sick with the gross details of the women's monthly and what they do with their fluids. Mr. Updike must hate woman big time to write this book. Good God what did his mother do to him as a kind for him to feel the way he does about woman?
Joe Polson
"Damn can this man write women."
Every sentence is like he's working a spell. I just stared out the window entranced. I only wish there were more than two. I love that he wrote the sequel 30 years later, in his life and in their lives. Remarkable.
"horrible! drags on and on."
pure punishment to finish! I can't decide if I want to listen to the sequel that I purchased at the same time.
"Dated but still fun"
The writing is nice but I can't decide if the author loves or hates women. The racism sprinkled throughout is a sign of the times I guess. I was not terribly enthralled with the read through but overall the narrator did well. Perhaps to have to be of this generation for it to really hold you.
"I'm not really sure what I was wanting to gain...."
....from reading this book.....I had seen the movie years ago and thought it was pretty good and I think Jack Nicholson is the PERFECT Darryl Van Horne....just what you imagine him to be while reading the book. The book...at times....made me feel a bit uncomfortable because of all the wanton sexual escapades between Darryl and the 3 women/witches (Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie. I really like the women when they were struggling with everyday life situations and I loved Sukie and her happy-go-lucky spirit. Jane was just a bit too brash for me to feel any kind of emotion towards her other than a bit of dislike. Alexandra was the typical reminder of how all women seem to be too hard on themselves and worry to much about weight.....illness......looks......children.....etc.
The book was funny in places but it was more of a heavy type read and the ending was really not that happy......I felt a bit sad and disheartened by it and it really wasn't what I thought would be a more light....quirky type of read. I guess I was just expecting more and so therefore I was letdown. Don't get me wrong......the writing style of John Updike is beautiful and so full of description that it is very easy to visualize what he wants you to see.....it just wasn't that amazing book that I was looking for....it was more of an okay book that you are neither happy or sad that you read it.
I'm an avid audible book listener. I am a huge fan of supernatural books and like stuff that is scary but well written. I live in Denver Co
"Didn't finish"
Didn't enjoy the book. I listened at double speed towards the end just to finish, then decided with 1.5 hours left to just stop. So disappointed.
"The movie is better"
Normally the movies butcher the book, but this is one of the few books in which the movie was far, far, far better than the book. I had a very hard time finishing this story. I kept waiting for it to become interesting or to follow the movie, but it never did. Rent the movie and say our credits.
"horrible narrator she's dull as dishwater"
ugh this was the dullest book read by an even dull person ugh ok n
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Yesterday, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba made the announcement many investors have been waiting for: The company has filed to go public. Here we go again.
Each time another one of the hot technology, e-commerce or social-media company files its registration statements, I cringe. Each seems to be bigger than the last, and in Alibaba's case, that pattern is likely to continue.
That is not to diminish what the company has accomplished so far. Getting to this point would have been unthinkable 10 or 15 years ago. But, still, the prospect of owning a piece of the company that is said to control up to 80% of China's e-commerce may be thrilling to some investors, but not to yours truly.
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Despite China's growing economy during the past several years and emergence of a consumer class in that country, it is still a communist country. The Chinese government is still in control, and as long as it is, I would be hard pressed to put capital to work in that environment, even if Alibaba were reasonably priced.
But I suspect that it won't be reasonably priced, at least in my narrow, Ben Graham-inspired perspective on valuation. There have been early estimates that the company may be worth $150-$200 billion.
According to the company's F-1 registration statement, Alibaba had revenue of $5.5 billion in 2013. Revenue is admittedly growing rapidly, given the $6.5 billion in revenue generated in the nine month period ended in December.
Let's imagine that the company can generate $10 billion in revenue this year. That would put the company's price to sales ratio at between 15 and 20, assuming it is indeed valued by the market at the aforementioned range.
There's no doubt that the company is already extremely profitable, according to financial statements provided in the F-1. Net income in the nine months ended in December was $2.8 billion. That represents an incredibly high net profit margin of more than 43.3%. In fact, it's downright staggering.


text: Crops & Markets USDA puts grapevine moth in its crosshairs By Don Schrack May 17, 2011 | 4:54 pm EDT Comments Print The U.S. Department of Agricultureâs Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service released nearly $17 million in emergency funding Feb. 7 to help California eradicate the European grapevine moth. The money indicates the federal department recognizes the importance of Californiaâs wine and table grape crops, said Larry Hawkins, a Sacramento-based spokesman for the USDA, and wants to prevent the pest from becoming established. The quarter-inch long moth was first discovered in California in fall 2009. The 2011 emergency funding is nearly double the federal commitment in 2010 and enables the joint federal-state-county campaign to set 25 traps per square mile, up from the 16 traps per square mile level last year, Hawkins said.When the pest was found in traps last year, grower-shippers treated the area with baited attractant, which brought very good results, he said. âOnce the bait was out there, the numbers found in the traps fell through the floor,â Hawkins said. An advantage for growers is that the moth âis something of a homebody and doesnât fly very far,â he said. Another advantage is that the moth has few plant hosts, which narrows the regions where it may be found. âIt prefers grapes, and its second favorite is olives,â Hawkins said. Eradication can be declared, as per international protocols, if no moths are found in traps over a period of three life cycles, which would end in late summer, Hawkins said. The moth larvae burrow into grapes and can cause major crop damage, he said.


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ViewScream is a varp (a video-augmented role-playing game), a low-prep hybrid of story game and larp. Designed for play over video-chat programs, ViewScream produces tales of treason, murder, and horror. Premise: Four officers (Medical, Bridge, Weapons, and Engineering) find themselves aboard a damaged starship, in great peril. They're cut off from each other, and can only communicate via viewscreens throughout the ship. Will you turn on your shipmates? Will you work with them, even though some of them may be guilty of horrific crimes? What happened to the rest of the crew? How many minutes do you have before it happens to you, too? Can you escape, or will someone find your mangled corpse floating in the void?
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Citation: Luo, Y. 2009. Developing Science-based Approaches to Reduce Produce Safety Risks at the End-user Levels [abstract.]. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: An increasing number of food-borne illness outbreaks associated with the consumption of contaminated fresh and fresh-cut produce significantly impacted public health and consumer confidence. The urgent need to improve produce safety demands actions from growers, processors and consumers. The main objectives of this study were to determine the microbial profile of fresh tomatoes in the supply chain, and to assess the practicality and efficacy of consumer removal of the stem scar and underlying tissues in reducing food safety risks. Fresh tomatoes were obtained from retailers, wholesalers, and growers of various locations. Microorganisms on tomato surface, and internal tissues including pericarps, locules, and adjacent 5 mm segments along the central core from stem-scar to the blossom end were determined. The routes and mechanisms of pathogen internalization were investigated. We found that the vast majority of microorganisms are located on the stem-scars and in the underlying vascular bundle tissues within 15 mm of the stem-scar. Examination of tomatoes post-submerging in suspensions of fluorescent microspheres of similar size to Salmonella spp. revealed that the microspheres were concentrated in the vascular bundles connecting the stem-scar and internal tissues, suggesting that these vascular bundle tissues play a critical role in microbial internalization. It also supports our findings that internalized microorganisms are mostly concentrated in this region. Washing tomatoes with chlorinated water effectively inactivated the surface attached microorganisms, but failed to reduce the populations of internalized microorganisms. However, physical removal of the stem-scar and the underlying tissues, in conjunction with a surface wash achieved a significantly more effective reduction of both surface attached and internalized microorganisms. These results provide important information for consumers and food processors to develop science-based strategies and practices to reduce food safety risks associated with fresh tomatoes.


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Ibrahim, Roliana (2008) Viable system model and integrated information behaviour to capture coordinated actions in a situation dependent and recursive states of bioinformatics experiments. In: Innovations in Information Systems. Penerbit UTM, Johor, pp. 115-138. ISBN 978-983-52-0619-1
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The aim of this chapter is to present the Viable System Model (VSM) and Integrated Information Behaviour Model (IIBM) concepts, which is believe to be applicable for systems analysis in order to design an automated workflow system for bioinformatics experimental work. In this study, the work of bioinformatics experiments was treated as virtual organization in a situationdependent state. The meaning of situation-dependent state is that the bioinformatics experiments were conducted in a particular situation. Therefore, the focus of the situation in this study is the situation where bench scientists perform bioinformatics experiments for determining the function of a gene sequence.
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The Wider Spatial-Economic Impacts of High-Speed Trains: A Comparative Case Study of the Lille and Manchester Sub-Regions
This paper will present empirical evidence on the wider spatial-economic impacts of High Speed Trains (HSTs) at the intra-regional level. It represents follow-up research to a previous empirical study at inter-regional level, based on UKIC125- an upgraded HST system. The findings suggest that HST has had substantial and demonstrable effects in aiding this transition within a 2-hour travel limit of London, but that the effects have not been automatic or universal. The need for integrated planning combining transport, economic, and spatial issues to promote dynamic city-region development should not be overlooked. Particularly, the UK is currently situated at the critical turning point considering a long-term commitment to High Speed Two (HS2): whether, to what extent, and how the arrival of a HST hub in a city could act as the agent of change for transforming surrounding sub-regions. Thus, a finer-grained and deeper-probing analysis at the intra-regional scale is needed, in the form of comparative case studies of two post-industrial city-regions. Lille/Pas-de-Calais and the Manchester city-region are chosen, the first to examine the effects of the TGV after its arrival in 1994, the second to provide a prognosis for Manchester and its neighbouring towns after the projected arrival of HS2. In the Lille Mètropole, the TGV brought about a dramatic change in economic fortunes. But, within the wider Nord-Pas de Calais region, two divergent developmental trajectories of traditional manufacturing industries have increasingly manifested themselves: Lille Mètropole has increasingly strengthened its service-based growth, whereas the former coal area and coastal region seems not to have attracted knowledge-based development. In the Manchester city-region, the new generation of 300 k/hr HST lines will undoubtedly in their turn have major spatial-economic impacts as Manchester is brought closer to London with the dramatic shrinking of critical time-distance. The relationship between Manchester and its neighbouring towns may however be negative to poorly connected towns like Burnley which is reflected in its weak economic performance. Overall, this research aims to fill in the gap with empirical evidence of intra-regional impacts of HSTs and disentangle the complex forces and the developmental phases in the dynamic process of city-region regeneration.
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To Break TB
Tuberculosis is once again the most widespread infectious-disease killer in the world. Working out of a remodeled grocery store on campus, six top-flight researchers are going after it.
By Robert Roper and Mary Ann Ayd
Now, as we sit and talk with Grosset about the disease that he has toiled for more than half a century to cure, our conversation somehow drifts to the novel 1984. More particularly it settles on the author, George Orwell, who was dying from tuberculosis as he struggled to complete the frightening tale. When Orwell succumbed to TB in 1950 at the age of 46, he became one of the last in a long line of literary artists to be felled by the disease that the 17th-century author of Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan, called "the captain of all these men of death."
Grosset says he had no idea that Orwell had tuberculosis, but when he read 1984 as a young man, something about the futuristic tale of a totalitarian world made him recognize life in a sanatorium. "I think Orwell's illness is present in his book, in the oppressiveness of the atmosphere. You can sense the sadness of what was happening to him."
We discover that Grosset is supremely qualified to make such an observation, because by the time he was 24 he had come face to face with tuberculosis himself. He contracted the virulent lung disease in 1953 as an intern in a French hospital and can still describe the chronic chest pain and draining fatigue. He remembers well what it was like to cough up blood daily. He had been planning to become a surgeon. Instead, he says, "the sky fell on my head." The diagnosis was an antibiotic-resistant strain of tuberculosis that he had contracted caring for hospitalized patients. He spent the next two years in a sanatorium in the French Alps.
It's because those years are etched in his memory that Grosset knows that the way Orwell described Big Brother was exactly the way rules used to be applied in a French TB sanatorium. Before antibiotics became available, the basis of treatment was bed rest. But for young people to stay in bed for months, he says, is virtually impossible without almost military discipline and control. "We all understood. We all tried to cheat.
"I knew I had a 50 percent chance of dying from the disease," Grosset says. "The chief medical doctor at the sanatorium told me, 'Your future is behind you.'"
Finally, doctors cured him by removing the top of his right lung. But the experience literally changed Grosset's life. He would not be a surgeon. Instead, he would go on to become renowned for his studies of the disease that nearly killed him. From the sanatorium in the Alps (where he was warned to seek only part-time employment if he managed to regain enough strength to even work at all), he would travel to the Pasteur Institute in Paris. There, he would spend seven years testing new antibiotics' ability to fight TB. He would work another seven years at the Pasteur Institute in the newly independent Algiers on ways to shorten the lengthy TB treatment time. Then he would return to Paris as a professor of microbiology at the Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpetrière until, under French law, he had to retire at age 65.
But Grosset is hardly the retiring type. When the call came from Hopkins, he would jump. Because in Grosset's field, the Johns Hopkins Center for TB Research is the most vigorous program anywhere.
Tuberculosis has never been off the screen at Johns Hopkins. Before the discovery of streptomycin in the 1940s, before the development of multidrug regimens and other modern strategies, TB was the most common fatal human infection. Victims of the disease were mainly the poor, but throughout history almost everybody was in danger of dying of TB. And diseases with that kind of grasp were of supreme interest to the brilliant group of scientists who began flocking to Hopkins at the end of the 19th century. Starting in 1898 with William Osler's request for a $500 grant to study TB containment, most of the 20th-century research into both the clinical and epidemiological aspects of the disease was undertaken at or in association with the School of Medicine or the School of Public Health.
After the early 1950s, for about 30 years, tuberculosis appeared to have run its course. But by the mid-1980s, the great plague that streptomycin and other antibiotics were supposed to have eliminated had resurfaced at an alarming rate. Fueled in part by the appearance of multidrug-resistant strains, in part by the hospitable environment created by HIV infection, in part by a host of such negative social factors as homelessness and intravenous drug use, tuberculosis was once again the largest single cause of infectious death. Not only were AIDS victims dying from it in astounding numbers, people worldwide were. And while many factors can be adduced to explain this data, the central reality is that M. tuberculosis is a resourceful pathogen that swiftly takes advantage of any compromise of the immune function.
And so, in 1998, when the Johns Hopkins infectious diseases specialist Richard Chaisson brought a critical mass of brain power and funding into a remodeled grocery store at the southern end of the medical campus and began taking on the full gamut of TB's challenges, the School of Medicine once again stepped into the vanguard of the effort to contain this scourge.
For a disease that's entirely curable, Chaisson's Center for Tuberculosis Research has an enormous agenda. The only effective test for latent TB is 100 years old. The vaccine still in use was developed in 1921. Diagnosis hasn't changed since 1960. And the multidrug treatment worked out in the 1950s still takes at least six months to get rid of the infection. "Thirty years ago," Chaisson says, "people thought everything we needed to take care of TB existed. It turns out they were wrong. The tools were good, but not good enough. We still need a better vaccine, because the existing one doesn't work very well. And the test for latent infection—not the tine test; that's useless—has to be refrigerated, injected just so, and interpreted several days later. We need new approaches to prevention. We need better drugs."
Today, with grants that have grown from $3 million to more than $60 million, six principal researchers (Chaisson, Grosset, Susan Dorman, Eric Nuermberger, Yukari Manabe and William Bishai) and several collaborators at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the center is at work on every one of these fronts. It is developing new methods for staving off TB, tests to detect and eradicate the latent infection before it progresses to clinical symptoms, and more workable treatments for the active disease. In the process, it has quietly burgeoned into an international powerhouse.
"There's a sense of being involved in something very large," Susan Dorman says of the work going on in the group that Chaisson built. "Something of real importance." Dorman, an infectious diseases specialist, is the center's testing expert. Aiming to come up with a faster and more accurate way to identify tuberculosis, she is running clinical trials in Honduras and Rio de Janeiro of a new field test, called MODS ("microscopic observation for detection and susceptibility"). Her preliminary results are good: "We can grow the TB faster," she says, "and culture it in the presence of relevant antibiotics. It lets us know quickly which drugs a strain may be resistant to. The automated systems we have in this country are just too expensive, about $10 per sample. That just doesn't work in sub-Saharan Africa or Asia."
The benefits of a reduction in testing time, even by a mere week or two, could be profound. Nowadays, the standard exam in most of the developing world is still a sputum smear, which picks up only the most infectious patients. "When you factor in that you're not getting to anything like 100 percent of all ill people," Dorman says, "and that you're not identifying all the ones you do get to, a diagnostic that works faster and better can mean something staggering in terms of human lives saved."
This work to curb TB both locally and in developing nations thousands of miles from campus is one reason why Chaisson has begun referring to the center as TB's Mall of America. "There are a number of places that have big lab programs, but nothing clinical," he says. "Others have clinical programs but no laboratory. We cover the entire TB spectrum: very basic science, clinical research, training, clinical care—and we do it all over the globe."
"We're also a one-stop shop," molecular biologist Bishai points out. "If you want to do a clinical trial, Chaisson has got sites in South Africa, South America, the Far East, the Caribbean. If you want to do a local trial, we have all the patients in Baltimore who have tuberculosis. If you want to test a new drug in an animal model, we've got the world's expert, Jacques Grosset. And if you want to do some bench research on making a better vaccine or a better drug, you've got our lab."
Bishai himself is a basic scientist. He investigates TB genetics and the remarkable ability of the tuberculosis bacillus to remain dormant for years. His work on the animal model for TB has proved crucial in developing treatment-shortening regimens, drugs for multidrug-resistant TB, and simplified preventive treatment for latent tuberculosis. And his genomic evaluations of M. tuberculosis are helping identify potential gene targets for new drug development, while shedding light on basic TB pathogenesis.
"We still don't understand how people get TB, not really," Bishai says. "It's an airborne disease that doesn't respect national boundaries, and it's not something you can avoid getting with clear-cut health practices. Some people are highly susceptible. Others are resistant despite massive exposure. We're not even sure if you can get TB a second time, after having once been cured." Furthermore, not every antibiotic can penetrate the candlewax-like coating that encases the organism or survive the onslaught of enzymes it secretes. Standard antibiotics like penicillin are useless.
That particular impediment, Grosset says, is one of the biggest problems in curing the disease, "so every time a new antibiotic comes along, I test it." His determination has paid off more than once. About 15 years ago, he figured out how to cut the arduous treatment regimen for latent TB, which is treated differently than the active disease (even many internists find this confusing, Chaisson says).
Typically, patients take only one drug, isoniazid, to wipe out the latent infection, but they must stay on it for a laborious nine months. Grosset discovered that by treating latent TB with a combined dose of the drugs rifampin and pyrazinamide, he could reduce the treatment time by an amazing seven months. Chaisson proved him right in clinical trials. Then, in subsequent studies, Chaisson found unacceptable rates of toxicity in the approach. And so, the group kept looking. Now, it is focused on rifapentine, a cousin of rifampin. Again, Grosset and Bishai have proven the drug works in mice to treat latent TB. So, the center is testing it in the United States, Brazil and South Africa. Keeping up with such field trials keeps Chaisson on the run for weeks at a time and in the air for thousands of miles each year.
Until a few years ago, TB was more of a sideline for Richard Chaisson. He arrived at Hopkins in 1988 to direct the AIDS service. Chaisson had always been fascinated by infectious diseases, though, even in 1982, when he earned his M.D. at the University of Massachusetts and almost no one shared his enthusiasm for what he calls the classic battle of man versus microbe. "In those days," says the professor of medicine, epidemiology and international health, "infectious diseases was a dying field, mostly limited to hospital-acquired infection."
Just a year earlier, however, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had described the first cases of HIV infection, and during his residency at the University of California at San Francisco , Chaisson began noticing that more and more patients were being seen by both the AIDS division and the tuberculosis clinic. Like others during those early years of AIDS, he started realizing that the two diseases—one ancient, the other brand new—seemed to overlap. In 1986, during his fellowship, he was among the first to show that the phenomenon was no coincidence. "We expected to find maybe five patients with both diseases," he says of his study in San Francisco. "We found dozens."
Today, Chaisson knows exactly what those early statistics meant. "HIV-positive people convert to active TB at a much increased rate, and then they infect more healthy people. A third of the world's population," he says, "is infected with TB and at risk of becoming sick with it. Once you've got TB, a vaccine won't work. So, we're in a race for developing more active and interventionist strategies. We need new drug-treatment models. And we need new drugs, and new methods for developing drugs, and new vaccines and methods for evaluating vaccines. Most urgently, we need bold new public health approaches to control HIV-related TB."
"Because," adds Bill Bishai, "TB is this incredibly sophisticated microbe with a truly scary portfolio of virulence factors."
The treatment for active cases of TB—little changed in half a century—is an unforgiving regimen of four antibiotics (isoniazid, rifampin, pyrazinamide and either ethambutol or streptomycin) for two months, followed by two of the antibiotics for another four months. This multidrug therapy knocks out the most susceptible bugs first, then sticks around to ensure that any remaining bacteria are killed before they mutate into a resistant strain or go into hiding. Quit too soon and you'll relapse. Drop one or more of the antibiotics and you'll end up with bugs even more difficult to kill.
The biggest problem is getting people to stay the course. Once the symptoms of the disease disappear (after about a month of treatment), even the most motivated patients lose their incentive to keep taking their medication. Among TB's most likely victims, the poor and those with myriad social problems, discontinuing treatment is standard behavior. When tuberculosis rates began surging in the mid-1980s, health departments in hard-hit cities like New York and Baltimore tried to lick this tendency by implementing a strategy called directly observed therapy or DOT: Health care workers were deployed to actually watch patients take their drugs. Chaisson, who's an expert on DOT, says it's been effective in the United States, but in other parts of the world where TB runs rampant, such labor-intensive monitoring is difficult to carry out. In Africa, even efficient DOT programs are being overwhelmed by HIV infection.
"What we see in Africa is that DOT is not sufficient," he says. "We're in a race for going beyond DOT, developing more epidemiologically sound—more proactive—strategies."
Until recently, 30-year-old rifampin was the last class of drug that had panned out for active TB. Then, four years ago, both Grosset (in France) and Bishai (at Hopkins) separately launched some of the first studies on moxifloxacin, showing it to be one of the most promising new treatments ever. Since arriving at Hopkins, Grosset has continued evaluating the drug in mice. And now, Chaisson is running two big clinical trials comparing moxifloxacin with standard treatment to try to demonstrate conclusively its enormous benefits.
"Our hope," he says, "is that it will chop off two months from treatment. Everyone in this field knows that if TB only required three months of treatment, that would be much better. It's unlikely we'll ever have one shot to make it go away. But six months is just not good enough."
And so the work goes on. Grosset is convinced that one day soon there will be new tools to really control TB. "And we're working hard to develop new treatments," he says. "But for now, the focus is on the basic chemistry." And despite the fact that he's now 73—or maybe because he's now 73—he isn't about to quit.
"More and more, my future is behind me," Grosset deadpans, then lets go with a booming Gallic laugh. Then, bounding from his chair to within inches of your eyes, as is his custom when he's making a crucial point, he says, "The reason I came here is because this center is the most complete in the world. I came to Hopkins because they asked me to. I rushed to come."


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Washington, DC– Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released the following statement today in reaction to recent progress by U.S. forces versus the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan:
"President Obama and his national security team have put together a plan that is working in the volatile Afghanistan-Pakistan region. By all accounts, the major offensive in Marjah is achieving important successes. In recent days, the Pakistani government has also arrested key Taliban leaders which will disrupt their operations. As the U.S. continues to carry out its strategy, we remain hopeful that the Pakistani government will maintain their commitment to achieve our shared goal of defeating these terrorists.
"There will undoubtedly continue to be ups and downs in Pakistan and in the conflict in Afghanistan, but I'm encouraged by these recent developments as we press forward to defeat this enemy. I remain confident in President Obama's judgment and leadership to keep our country safe from those who seek to harm us."


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Well, in my case it was the Fast CGI that fasthosts.co.uk use.
I finally got them to look at the .htaccess rewrite requirements for SilverStripe and they admitted that their system only allows simple .htaccess commands.
They basically can't support SilverStrip, joomla, wordpress or anything else that requires rewrites, so I'm guessing in my case that the install crashed out and incorrectly reported the PHP 5 required message.
Moved to another hosting company that doesn't use Fast CGI - works a treat now!
I guess I need to be carefull when customers already have a hosting plan to check that their system will indeed support the proposed CMS, although I was pretty surprised that with fasthosts claiming to be the UK's #1 ISP, they don't support pretty much 99% of all the current web design packages.
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The Mommy Shops first launched in November, 2011. The concept is simple:
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Some online shops take payment through their own site. This can cause hassles with inventory stock, payments being moved over to the business owner's account and so on. For these reasons, Toni decided to direct the buying traffic right to the business owners website.
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Graphical Timeline is a new and interesting way of debugging in Firefox. It visually displays the events happening in your browser in real-time. Currently events like Network calls, DOM events, and memory collections events are being tracked. More will follow as I continue the development of this Developer Tool.
To use the developer tool, simply choose 'Graphical Timeline' from Web Developer Menu under Firefox menu or Tools Menu. (or hit Ctrl + Shift + Q). Click the record button to start capturing the events.
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Do you ever just get a bug in your brain that says, "I HAVE to have something, this thing needs to exist and be mine?" That's how I felt after watching LaurDIY's awesome DIY kimono tutorial. I suddenly had to have one ... but tie dyed. Can you believe I'd never, ever done tie dye before? Crazy.
I bought four yards (I really only needed maybe two) of cotton and, after work, got to cutting and hand-sewing this kimono-inspired cardigan. Let me be totally honest — I did the worst, laziest sewing job. I may or may not own a sewing machine (if it's in this house and I didn't sell it on Craigslist, I have no idea where it actually is). When I tossed this in the dryer after rinsing out the dye, I had to actually redo a sleeve because it completely unraveled. I love the final result enough that I'll probably re-hem it with a sewing machine or ask someone who knows what they're doing with a sewing machine to do it for me. But lack of skill/willingness to make a full-assed effort aside, this was a fun, easy project and it's so on-trend.
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This weekend, the Norwegian action monster troll documentary The Troll Hunter premieres on Video on Demand. (And yes, all of those words belong in that sentence.) Director Andre Ovredal's new film is an eagerly anticipated new genre-bender about a beleaguered troll hunter who lets a young documentary film crew tag along as he investigates a strange rash of troll attacks, fighting monsters as big as mountains. You can find our enthusiastic review here. We sat down with Ovredal to discuss the genesis of his strange film project, the lack of decent troll movies in Hollywood (and the preponderance of bad movies like the infamous Troll 2), along with the plans for an American remake!
Crave Online: I wanted to get the hardest part of any interview out of the way. This is the part where I tell you what I thought of your film.
Andre Ovredal: Okay…?
Crave Online: It's really good.
Andre Ovredal: Okay, great!
Crave Online: I actually really enjoyed The Troll Hunter, and one of the things… It was refreshing to see a different movie monster. Obviously trolls are ancient creatures, but vampires are so hot right now…
Andre Ovredal: Yeah, and zombies.
Crave Online: What was it about trolls?
Andre Ovredal: It's part of my mythology, my country's mythology. I wanted to make a Norwegian blend of American filmmaking sensibilities and Norwegian mythology and Norwegian characters. So it would appeal to Norwegian audiences – which was my primary target audience – but have the movement and the humor of an American film… The trolls are such a big part of Norwegian culture but they haven't been used very well.
Crave Online: I can't think of many troll movies. There's Troll, Ernest Scared Stupid, but all those are kind of jokey. Has there ever been another troll movie that you thought was pretty good?
Andre Ovredal: In my opinion there's never been a troll movie [before]…
Crave Online: A proper troll movie…
Andre Ovredal: Yeah. I haven't seen these Troll films, which are… I guess not so good.
Crave Online: They're really bad. Everyone says Troll 2 is bad, like 'the worst movie ever made,' but Troll 1 is almost as bad.
Andre Ovredal: (Laughs) – But those are completely different creatures to me. They're like leprechauns…
Crave Online: Or goblins. That's literally what they were in Troll 2. In Troll Hunter you feature many different breeds of troll. Are those based on myth or did you make any of them up?
Andre Ovredal: Our knowledge of trolls in Norway is based on a book of fairy tales that was written in the 18th century. It's a collection of like 200 short stories…
Crave Online: All about trolls?
Andre Ovredal: I think maybe a third of them are about trolls. And there are some amazing drawings that are really scary; trolls that are as huge as mountains. This is what inspired [the] trolls in Troll Hunter. This is the way I see trolls. When I see any other kind of troll, I'm almost, you know, "What is that thing?"
Crave Online: There are a lot of different elements in Troll Hunter. There's sort of an action movie element, a documentary element, straight up horror… What was the first thing that started you on the project? "Let's make a troll movie?" "Let's make a faux documentary?"
Andre Ovredal: No, it was the character.
Crave Online: The character of the troll hunter?
Andre Ovredal: Yeah. I wanted to make a movie about an action-type hero but in a different way. So I was trying to think of some character, and the troll hunter came up pretty quickly actually: the idea of a guy who does something amazing for a living [and] doesn't really know it. He doesn't acknowledge that fact.
Crave Online: It's sort of mundane to him. It's his day job.
Andre Ovredal: Yeah, it's his day job. To us it's an amazing job. You know, a lot of people do that… I even find myself [in that situation]. I direct commercials for a living, to me that was actually an amazing job, but…
Crave Online: Every once in a while you catch yourself saying, "Oh my god, I have to go to work today…"
Andre Ovredal: Yeah. I have to go to South Africa or Argentina…
Crave Online: You bastard.
Andre Ovredal: (Laughs) – Yeah, basically. And I'm complaining because I have these long flights, and that's ridiculous. So I wanted to put that understanding of life into the film. And then of course the trolls came second, and then the documentary style came third. They all came pretty quickly after each other. We couldn't do a Jurassic Park style movie in Norway, even now. I'm sure there are people who'd want to do that now, after Troll Hunter…
Crave Online: It's interesting that you mention Jurassic Park, because I was actually reminded of Jurassic Park specifically while watching Troll Hunter. Your movie gets a sense of scale out of its monsters that even giant monster movies don't always get these days. I don't know if you saw the remake of Godzilla we did in America, but there are very few big shots of the monster, lots of cross-cutting, but in Troll Hunter the monsters are enormous, we see things move as they walk, there's loud booming noises… It's so otherwordly to me.
Andre Ovredal: The sense of scale was extremely important to me, obviously. Sometimes it's very simple: putting people in the foreground and a troll in the background, but other times you have to construct that feeling. And also of course the sound is so important, because if you don't have the sound… The troll is 200 yards tall. You'd have a collision between the image and the sound.
Crave Online: The Troll Hunter is obviously a Norwegian film, the trolls are obviously Norwegian monsters, and watching it as an American I had little context. But it struck me that there's a sort of undercurrent of political criticism. Is that your take on an American convention, or is that your take on something [going on in Norway]…
Andre Ovredal: It's not really a big commentary. You want to come up with ideas that add fire to the story.
Crave Online: Well, in America there's a general theme in a lot of our action movies: a general distrust of the government. Is there any parallel to that in Norway, that would help audiences understand the context of Troll Hunter better?
Andre Ovredal: I think, well, there is the same thing with the government. You never know what the hell they're up to. (Laughs.)
Crave Online: I'm not asking you to take a stand!
Andre Ovredal: No, but also I think what is funny, what I think is kind of fun, is that we have these kind of issues in Norway with large, dangerous animals. Like wolves and bears and that kind of stuff, so there's always conflict with the people living in Norway. These animals, should we eradicate them, should we keep them? That feeds a little into Troll Hunter; how you treat the large animals in your country. And the government has put [trolls] into reserves and kept them a secret, because otherwise there would be panic… So I wouldn't say there's a criticism in the film, but I would say it's utilized, those ideas.
Crave Online: Has there been any talk of doing a sequel? Because we don't even see half of the trolls mentioned…
Andre Ovredal: Of course, yeah. Actually, now the focus is going to be hopefully on the American remake.
Crave Online: How involved would you be with that? Would you direct it…?
Andre Ovredal: I don't know…
Crave Online: Still early?
Andre Ovredal: Still early. I'd like to be involved with it…
Crave Online: I'd hope so…!
Andre Ovredal: But I really want to also do something that is completely different.
Crave Online: I heard that Troll Hunter you kept very much a secret while you were shooting it. You didn't even tell people the title. Is the news cycle different in Norway? Because in America the entertainment industry is very scrutinized from early on in production. If you even think about making a movie people are talking about it.
Andre Ovredal: I think it's more difficult in Norway, because the country's so much smaller, and everybody knows everybody. Some of the actors I knew. Even a film critic from the largest newspaper in Norway came to audition for a role in the film. It's like, "How do you keep this a secret?" Also, it's governmentally supported so they have to publicize what the film is about. We actually talked them into, at the last minute, keeping it a secret, saying it was a documentary… Actually, strangely enough no newspaper picked up on the fact that it was a documentary with a budget of 3 1/2 million dollars… That doesn't make much sense.
Crave Online: "That's one hell of a documentary! What are you doing?!"
Andre Ovredal: So I was actually surprised when nobody mentioned that more at the time when it was announced.
The Troll Hunter is available on Video on Demand this Friday, May 6th. It opens in theaters on June 10th.


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Handling Sarah Palin week: What to do when a major newsmaker with credibility problems blitzes the media
As Sarah Palin kicks off a media blitz this week to hawk her new book, Going Rogue, you have to wonder how the national media got hornswoggled into this mess.
Even as major interviews with infotainment figures such as Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters air in syndicated TV and on ABC, reporters from the Associated Press have fact-checked Palin's quickly-written memoir and find it to be full of misleading, sometimes inaccurate statements.
Palin also makes claims about how she was treated by the campaign of then-running mate John McCain during their bid for the White House which have been denied by others who worked there. In particular, former officials there refute her claim that she was billed $50,000 for expenses related to her vetting at a vice presidential candidate -- saying the McCain campaign did not bill her and was not asked to help cover any expenses she might have incurred on her own. (See the St. Pete Times' fact checking Web site PolitiFact's area on Palin here)
So how will journalists treat Palin when she sits down? If, for example, Barbara Walters' pre-taped interviews don't address these issues, should ABC News feel hoodwinked? (Click here for a summation of Palin's Oprah appearance by the Chicago Sun-Times; the interview airs here at 4 p.m. on WFLA-Ch. 8)
Jonathan Martin of Politico summed up the issue in an appearance today on MSNBC: "Should we in the media treat Sarah Palin like a conventional politician, who may run for office someday, or a political personality -- somebody on par with a Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity?"
My question: What's the difference? Especially given that media personalities such as Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck are inspiring and/or promoting politically active advocacy groups and movements?
Palin seems to have avoided hard news environments in her initial interviews for the book, rightly concluding that those who love her will believe whatever she says and those who dislike her won't be swayed by an interview with a hard news reporter.
But anybody who interviews her without bringing up the numerous inconsistencies already revealed about Going Rogue risks their own credibility while furthering Palin's rather opportunistic media strategy.


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I have tons of stretchmarks, below the belly button (which is no longer a belly button in my opinion) is mostly just wrinkled extra skin, however, I have quite few gashes of vertical stretchmarks that are above the bellybutton canvasing under my ribcage. I know the stretcmarks cant be removed even if slightly pulled down. I am just curious if a surgeon would turn me down for this reason?
Is There Such Thing As "Too Many" Stretchmarks for a Tummy Tuck?
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Are Patients with Extensive Stretch Marks Good Candidates for a Tummy Tuck(Abdominoplasty)?
Yes indeed. A Tummy Tuck is the only procedure that will remove stretch marks.The stretch marks(known as striae) that are below the belly button will be removed; the stretch marks above the belly button will unfortunately remain, but they will be pulled somewhat lower. You should seek consultaion with an experienced, board-certified Plastic Surgeon, who can evaluate your situation and propose the right treatment for you.
Best wishes!
Too Many Stretch Marks For A Tummy Tuck?
A surgeon would not turn you down for a tummy tuck due to extensive stretch marks, unless your expectation were that you wouldn't have any after the procedure. A good plastic surgeon will not give a patient an unrealistic expectation or opereate on one who has unrealistic expectations.
Stretch marks
Thank you for your question. While the stretch marks above your belly button will not be removed, this is no reason to not perform the operation. A Tummy Tuck operation can remove many of the stretch marks below your belly button, however. The most dramatic effect of a tummy tuck though is the significant tightening effects on both the skin and muscles that can greatly improve the contour.
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Stretch marks and tummy tuck
Thank you for your question. I doubt you would be turned down for a tummy tuck because of your stretch marks. One of the main indications for a tummy tuck is to remove the loose, stretched out skin below the belly button. Depending on how much loose skin you have, you will have a variable amount of skin removed from above the belly button as well. The upper abdominal stretch marks will be moved down low onto your abdomen but will not be removed completely. Make sure you seek out a board certified plastic surgeon to have allof your questions answered. Good Luck!
Stretch marks and tummy tuck issues
One of the main reasons that patients come see me to be evaluated for a possible tummy tuck is because they are bothered by their stretch marks on the abdomen. I tell my patients that most if not all of the stretch marks below the belly button will be removed with the tummy tuck; however, most of the stretch marks (if they are present) above the belly button will still be present. After a tummy tuck those upper abdominal stretch marks will be "on stretch" and a bit tighter and I have found they typically bother patients less. Also they will now be "located" lower down in the lower abdomen afterwards. I have never had a patient with bad stretch marks regret having had a tummy tuck. I still think it helps even if it cannot remove all of the stretch marks.
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Stretch marks below the belly button are typically removed with a tummy tuck
Great question! Depending on how much loose skin you have, the stretch marks below the belly button are usually removed. Sometimes, the stretch marks above the belly button can be removed. Before the stretch marks are removed, the abdominal muscles are tightened to help flatten out the belly. The entire procedure can be done as an outpatient with about 7-10 days for recovery. Good luck! Dr. Schreiber...Baltimore Plastic Surgeon
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As you know, stretch marks below the BB are removed those above move down. As long as you are aware of this and accept it, you should be a fine candidate.
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Tummy tucks and stretch marks
Thanks for your question.
A tummy tuck in most cases will remove the skin and fat from the level of the belly button to a line just over the pubis, taking all the stretch marks with it. When this gap is then closed, the stretch marks above the belly button are moved to level of the pubic groin crease incision. Those that were in the middle of the abdomen are now positioned much lower. If your stretch marks extend all the way to the rib cage then likely you will still have them covering the whole abdomen.
The difference is, the skin will be tighter and wrinkling problem solved. You have to decide if that result would be worth it to you.
Good luck with your decision,
Douglas Hargrave, M.D.
Too Many Stretch Marks For A Tummy Tuck
Stretch marks are a primary reason for seeking a tummy tuck procedure because no other treatment exists to eliminate them. The stretch marks at or below your belly button should be removed with a tummy tuck. Unfortunately, the stretch marks above the belly button will remain.
I would recommend meeting with a few board-certified plastic surgeons to address your particular circumstances. Reviewing pre- and post-op photos from board-certified plastic surgeons can also be very helpful in visualizing what can be done with a tummy tuck procedure.
Best wishes!!!!!
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Extensive Stretch Marks and Tummy Tuck?
No, the presence of extensive stretch marks do not contraindicate tummy tuck surgery. Unfortunately, you will probably be left with residual stretch marks (after tummy tuck surgery) given the location/extensiveness of your current stretch marks on the abdominal wall.
When the time is right, seek consultation with board-certified plastic surgeons; ask to see lots of examples of their work.
Best wishes.
Learn more: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/Procedure_tummyTuck.htm
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Nouvelle Époque Cabaret-Salon Pays Tribute to Belle Époque
On Friday, July 17th, get geared up in your most fabulous 1920s outfit, from speakeasy to top hat and tails, and head over to The Players for Nouvelle Époque Cabaret-Salon. Hosted by Gemini and Scorpio, known New York City event organizers, the evening will present a range of eclectic and classic activities that are not to be missed. The Players is a private club located in an old mansion from 1847 that overlooks Gramercy Park, and will be rented out exclusively for this event.
Indulge in a VIP ticket and enjoy a two hour private cocktail reception, complete with cigarette girls and entertainment as well as chocolates from Michael Allen. If not, join the fabulous crowd after 9pm in the Great Hall for dancing and cocktails (there is also a complimentary dance class at 830pm for those in need of a quick brush-up). A cabaret will be presented from 9pm until midnight, after which DJ Shakey will keep you moving and grooving til the wee hours of the morning.
All the full details can be found here, or on the Gemini and Scorpio website, just be sure you have your top hat dry cleaned in time for the festivities!