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Ciazza features American fare and a mix of Mediterranean favorites paired with wine and cocktails. A relaxing environment welcomes guests and diners.
CITY: Burr Ridge
The Corner Pocket
Cozy neighborhood billiards lounge.
CITY: Chicago
Fox and Hound Arlington Heights
Neighborhood sports bar featuring 28 big screen TVs, billiards, darts, ping pong, video gaming, and late night entertainment. Private party space available! Full menu till close! Best party in town 7 days a week!
CITY: Arlington Heights
The Publican
An homage to beer, pork and oysters, The Publican's eclectic menu is inspired by simple farmhouse fare in a space evocative of a European beer hall. Executive Chef Paul Kahan and Chef de Cuisine Brian Huston have developed a network of purveyors to supply the restaurant with hand-selected, sustainably-harvested fish and seafood as well as sustainably-raised heirloom pork to anchor a rustic menu of simple, eclectic fare. The extensive international beer list, developed by partners Eduard Seitan and Terry Alexander, features 100 or so ales, lagers, stouts and ciders by the bottle, 12 of those available on tap. The Publican is a design partnership from the James Beard Award-winning team of Thomas Schlesser and partner Donnie Madia.
CITY: Chicago
Javier's Sabor Mexicano
Javier's Sabor Mexican is an everyday celebration of fresh food, margaritas, and a large selection of fine tequila. This Mexican restaurant has been around since 1967. Consistency, quality, and generous portions are what keeps everyone coming back. Javier's Sabor Mexicano features four separate dining rooms and a full service bar for your dining pleasure as well as private parties and special events.
CITY: Arlington Heights
Di Pescara
Serving an eclectic menu of fresh seafood, steaks, and tasty appetizers in a contemporary yet warm environment. Part of the Lettuce Entertain You stable of award-winning restaurants. Open for lunch and dinner daily.
CITY: Northbrook
Cafe des Architectes
This modern yet comfortable restaurant features dramatic colors, overstuffed chairs, a sprawling red banquette and inventive lamps. The artistically presented cuisine is contemporary French with predominately organic ingredients. Open Daily. B: 6am-11:30am; Br (Sat. and Sun. only): 11:30am-5pm; L: 11:30am-5pm; D: 5pm-11pm. Res. Accptd. for Dinner only
CITY: Chicago
Winnetka Wine Shop
Providing fine wines and craft beers for the North Shore. Every wine and beer is hand selected and taste tested before they are placed on our shelf. Stop in to select a bottle to take home or enjoy a glass in the café.
CITY: Winnetka
Rosebud on Rush
Rosebud on Rush is located just west of Chicago's Magnificent Mile. Featuring the finest chops, steaks and best pasta in the city.
CITY: Chicago
Pete Miller's Seafood & Prime Steak!
Nightly live jazz fills the brick and dark wood rooms as you're pampered with excellent service and feast on aged steaks, the freshest seafood, pastas, and great wine.
CITY: Evanston
Pine Grove Restaurant
Family-style restaurant just blocks away from the Allstate Arena.
CITY: Rosemont
Most dishes are prepared over a wood fire, specializing in steak, chops and seafood. The open kitchen provides a front-row view of the chefs as they work the wood-burning oven and rotisserie and flip steaks on a blazing grill. Customer favorites include baby-back ribs, horseradish-crusted filet, spit-roasted herb chicken and roasted prime rib.
CITY: Glenview
Rise Sushi & Saki
Features fresh sushi and sake available in the modern bar and dining room as well as for carry out, delivery and catering.
CITY: Chicago
Spectacular ambiance; vaulted silverleaf ceiling over a champagne and caviar bar. Prime, aged steaks, live lobster and premium seafood. Great lounge offers creative cocktails.
CITY: Chicago
Meatheads Burgers and Fries
Serving fresh-never frozen beef, fresh cut-fries and hand-dipped shakes in an inviting and family-friendly atmosphere. Bring your appetite and enjoy the many options of their delicious hamburgers. Burger Bars available for your off-site parties, too!
CITY: Northbrook
Bennison's Bakery
Bennison's Bakery has been a North Shore institution since 1938, earning a reputation as a high quality full line bakery with emphasis on European style pastries, cookies, and custom decorated cakes. Bennison's Bakery is one of the few bakeries in the country to employ two Certified Master Bakers, and with experience comes unsurpassed quality.
CITY: Evanston
Bar Louie - Evanston
Hip food, cool cocktails, open late!
CITY: Evanston
Jerry Kleiner's over the top restaurant in this 35,000 sq. ft. space is an explosion of taste, color and sound. "Latino flavors with the spice of life." Authentic soulful cuisine offers simple dishes from all over Latin America. A kaleidoscope of colors, salsa music and playful decor ignite the sense of being in a Latin house party.
CITY: Chicago
Sable Kitchen & Bar
New American gastro lounge serving and eclectic, American menu with shared plates. The lounge rivals the kitchen with a complex cocktail program.
CITY: Chicago
Cooper's Hawk Winery and Restaurant
A modern, casual restaurant with a menu created with our own hand crafted wines in mind. Start int he tasting room and sample our winemaker's latest creations. Shop in our gift store and finish the night in our restaurant with a delectable dish and award-winning wine.
CITY: Arlington Heights
Charlie's Ale House
Brings old fashioned fun to this neighborhood saloon. Featuring "down home cooking" and a selection of 68 different beers, boasts seating for 85 plus 100 more in its seasonal outdoor cafe.
CITY: Chicago
Trattoria No. 10
Homemade ravioli, veal medallions with wild mushrooms and lemon sage butter and seafood specialties. Elegant Tuscan setting. L: Mon.-Fri. 11:30am-2pm; D: Mon.-Thurs. 5:30pm-9pm; Fri. & Sat. 5:30pm-10pm.
CITY: Chicago
Tavern at the Park
Tavern at the Park offers food that is easily recognized and effortlessly enjoyed, all at the hands of our three-star executive chef, John Hogan and our Chef de Cuisine Mike Cisternino. We provide a modernly classic setting with the timing and precision of fine dining while maintaining the relaxed air and comfort of your neighborhood tavern. In short, food and drink you've had like you've never had it. Tavern at the Park is located across from Millennium Park at 130 East Randolph Street in downtown Chicago.
CITY: Chicago
Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar
A fun, family friendly restaurant with a full menu that features award-winning traditional wings, boneless wings, chicken tenders, naked tenders, spun in one of 14 signature sauces. From barbeque to blazin, there's a sauce for everyone in the family. The menu also includes burgers wraps, salads, ribs and more. With a multitude of plasmas and big screen tv's it's the perfect place to watch your favorite team.
CITY: Northbrook
CITY: Rosemont
Networks Restaurant
Updated restaurant features to-go and order-ahead service.
CITY: Rosemont
California Pizza Kitchen
Our menu feautures hearth-baked pizzas, creative pastas, delicious desserts and much more!
CITY: Skokie
Gioco Restaurant
Gioco features authentic Italian cuisine including handmade pastas, prime steaks, fresh seafood and wood-fire thin crust pizzas.
CITY: Chicago
Atrium Cafe, Doubletree Hotel
American cuisine. Casual dress code. Serving breakfast, lunch & dinner. Average cost per meal: $10-20.
CITY: Oak Brook
Named after the flower synonymous with celebration and festivity in India. Marigold is a place to celebrate India's culture and food. Marigold's atmosphere offers a vibrant dining experience with a friendly neighborhood vibe. From the fresh chutneys to the family recipes, it is the combination of tradition with the unexpected that makes Marigold special. We hope you'll join us soon.
CITY: Chicago
Buca di Beppo
Guests feast on family platters or real, immigrant southern Italian specialties in a boisterous, celebratory environment that recalls the Italian/American supper clubs of the 40s and 50s.
CITY: Chicago
Willby's Restaurant & Lounge, Holiday Inn
Casual dining for local patrons and hotel guests. American cuisine. Serving breakfast, lulnch & dinner. Average cost per meal: $10-20. Evening early bird specials and the best Sunday brunch around.
CITY: Willowbrook
Halsted's Bar & Grill
A quality bar and grill with one of Chicago's hottest patios with great drinks and high quality food.
CITY: Chicago
North Beach Chicago
We cover it all under one roof, from volleyball and bowling to basketball and wrestling. We are the perfect place for private event or just to come hang out with few friends.
CITY: Chicago
Knuckles Sports Bar
Sports Bar
CITY: Rosemont
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar
Fleming's is a sophisticated, contemporary steakhouse, offering prime steaks, chops, fresh fish and chicken, with a unique wine list featuring over 100 wines by the glass.
CITY: Chicago
Weber Grill Restaurant
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - Great outdoor cooking done indoors on an authentic Weber Charcoal Kettle. Featuring steaks, fresh seafood, and award winning BBQ. Outdoor patio, open kitchen and full bar.
CITY: Lombard
Smart Bar
Smart Bar, located downstairs from the venerable music venue, Metro, continues to take its sounds seriously. The nightly lineup includes cutting-edge goth, underground hip-hop, techno house music and more.
CITY: Chicago
Andiamo Restaurant
Offers a Contemporary & Elegant Atmosphere. Featuring Comfortable Oversized Booths that will make you feel right at home. Andiamo Means "Let's Go"! So don't hesitate to stop in and enjoy our American Cuisine. Choose from our wide variety of menu selections and let our professional culinary Team Entertain you with tastes and specialties from around the world.
CITY: Chicago
Offering a distinctive entertainment and dining venue, Pinstripes celebrates 'sophisticated fun' in its warm and inviting 45,000 square foot indoor/outdoor facility complete with eighteen bowling lanes, six bocce courts, exceptional Italian-American bistro and wine cellar, outdoor patio and fireplace and beautifully appointed event and party rooms.
CITY: Northbrook
Lawry's The Prime Rib
Features USDA prime, rock-salt roasted prime ribs of beef served in a 19th century McCormick Family style mansion.
CITY: Chicago
Geja's Cafe
Romantic fondue dining with nightly entertainment. Cheese fondue to entree fondues including shrimp, scallops, lobster, chicken, and beef. For dessert, the flaming chocolate fondue is a treat. Children must be 10 years or older, for safety concerns.
CITY: Chicago
Tavern on Rush
Classic American. Offers prime aged steaks and fresh seafood items. Check out our menu online.
CITY: Chicago
Mirai Sushi
First three-star sushi in Chicago. Rated one of the best sushi restaurants in the country by Zagat.
CITY: Chicago
Buca di Beppo
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - Recipes enjoyed for generations in villages across Italy inspire our menu, giving Buca di Beppo its authentic Italian flare. Experience the Italian traditions of food, friendship and hospitality. Dishes are served family style and are meant to be shared.
CITY: Lombard
Wildfire - Oak Brook
Wildfire transports you to the aura of a 1940s dinner club complete with vintage jazz music, style and warmth. Try one of our signature dishes and be amazed. No matter the occasion, jazz up your party in one of our private or semi-private dining spaces.
CITY: Oak Brook
Experience the mystery of Asian cuisine in a warm and casual atmosphere. Pan Asian dining at its best. The menu covers most of Asia, including a delicious variety of Thai, Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese entrees as well as an impressive selection of sushi. Special pre-fix dinner available for $31.
CITY: Chicago
McKenna's - Holiday Inn Rolling Meadows
Casual dining restaurant and bar, featuring Wednesday night prime rib buffet. In the Rolling Meadows Holiday Inn.
CITY: Rolling Meadows
Ashford House Restaurant
The Ashford House, located adjacent to Winston's Market, serves the very best authentic Irish cuisine, as well as traditional American favorites. Irish specialties include Irish breakfast, corned beef and cabbage, Shepards pie, and bacon and cabbage. American cuisine includes seafood, pasta, steaks and chops, cut fresh daily at Winston's Market. Also featuring full service bar with daily drink specials and the finest selection of Irish bears such as Smithwicks, Harp, Guinness, Magners and Woodpecker.
CITY: Tinley Park
Alhambra Palace
Bringing local DJs as well as famous DJs from around the globe. Love performances and Chicago promoters spicing up every night of the week. Upscale dress and friendly people await. Visually stunning venue beckons. Unparalleled beauty. Authentic Middle Eastern cuisine, prepared with old world spices and traditional flair. Amazing service backed by delicious wines and Middle Eastern inspired cocktails and martinis.
CITY: Chicago
Texas de Brazil
An award winning upscale Brazilian steakhouse featuring an extravagant 50 item salad area and various cuts of beef, chicken, lamb, pork and Brazilian sausage to sample from until you beg for mercy.
CITY: Chicago
Chama Gaúcha
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - Experience the unique culture and taste of Southern Brazil at Chama Gaúcha, where servers will tempt you with skewers of succulent seasoned meats, slow roasted over a charcoal fire and hand-carved tableside.
CITY: Downers Grove
Mia Francesca's
Delicious northern Italian fare, comfortable surroundings and friendly service. Menu rotating bi-weekly in order to offer fresh, seasonal ingredients.
CITY: Chicago
Medici on 57th
This casual Hyde Park eatery, known for its pizza and burgers, is a favorite hangout of University of Chicago students. Barack Obama is known to have dined here during his U of C days, and the fact is proudly touted by the "Obama Eats Here" t-shirts worn by the Medici wait staff. BYOB.
CITY: Chicago
Twin Anchors Restaurant
Twin Anchors Restaurant & Tavern used to be a speakeasy, and is one of the oldest restaurants in Chicago. Since 1932 it's always been known for great barbequed baby-back ribs that are served in a quaint neighborhood tavern. Since it's opening famous people have eaten here, from blue-eyed crooner Frank Sinatra to Bears QB Sid Luckman; Twin Acres has even been made famous in the many appearances on TV shows, food review sites and movies. Come from the food, stay for the comfortable ambience of a traditional Chicago bar.
CITY: Chicago
The Plaza at Park Grill
Have lunch at The Plaza at Park Grill in Millennium Park, the city's largest outdoor dining venue. Enjoy live music and a sweeping city vista. In the winter, the dining patio is converted into an ice rink, as featured in The Weather Man and Derailed.
CITY: Chicago
Pizzeria Due
In 1943, when Ike Sewell opened a restaurant at the corner of Ohio Street and Wabash Avenue in Chicago, Americans ate pizza primarily as a snack. Ike figured that if you combined some of Italy's old, authentic recipes with impressive quantities of the finest meats, fresh cheeses, ripe vegetables and flavorful spices, pizza would become a hearty meal. It was the start of an American tradition - the Chicago Deep Dish Pizza. Ike's Original Deep Dish Pizza has been imitated many times, but never quite duplicated.
CITY: Chicago
Mr. Beef
Mr. Beef is one of Chicago's premier sources of the great, sloppy and delicious Italian beef sandwich: shaved-thin beef, saturated with garlicky au jus, piled into a sturdy length of bread. Have spicy giardiera as a condiment; and if you are really hungry, add a length of crusty Italian sausage to the beef.
CITY: Chicago
Harry Caray's Tavern - Navy Pier
Harry Caray's Tavern, Navy Pier offers an exceptional dining experience, waterfront location, family friendly menu and sports museum honoring Harry's celebrity partners including Jeremy Piven and Ernie Banks.
CITY: Chicago
The Garden Cafe & Lounge, Doubletree Hotel
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - Pasta and salad bar for lunch, weekdays. Steaks, chops and poultry dishes for dinner in a casual atmosphere.
CITY: Wood Dale
Join us for comfort food for breakfast, lunch or dinner at this diner-style eatery in River North.
CITY: Chicago
Stir Crazy Fresh Asian Grill
Savor freshly prepared Asian dishes featuring the bold and delicious flavors of Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Vietnamese food. The highly-acclaimed menu offers more than 50 dishes ranging from traditional Chinese favorites to innovative specialties from across Asia. Features over 35 great wines by the glass or bottle.
CITY: Northbrook
Hoosier Mama Pie Company
Hoosier Mama Pie Company in Chicago is a new artisanal bakery striving to be a great "old" pie company. The pies are created by hand; kneading the dough, pinching the crust and using only the freshest ingredients. It's one of the greatest pieces of diner pie you've never eaten.
CITY: Chicago
Gino's East - Rolling Meadows
The "World's Most Celebrated" pizza. Deep dish or thin crust. Party rooms, pre-orders, carry-out and delivery.
CITY: Rolling Meadows
Bistro Margot
Step out of time and into this authentic French bistro in the heart of Chicago's Old Town. The inviting staff and elegant decor are only surpassed by the delightful cuisine.
CITY: Chicago
Japanese Hibachi style cooking - a chef prepares for at your table. Steak, chicken, shrimp, scallops & lobstertail.
CITY: Lombard
De Cero
De Cero is a true Chicago gem. Best known for their fabulous 15 a la carte taco menu and killer margaritas. Everything from a traditional margarita to pineapple jalapeno.
CITY: Chicago
Rockit Bar & Grill Wrigleyville
Rockit Bar & Grill puts Executive Chef James Gottwald's contemporary culinary twist on the traditional bar and grill. Offering outstanding casual American cuisine, using the freshest ingredients available in a mouthwatering menu that includes salads, sandwiches, and entrees.
CITY: Chicago
Arrowhead Restaurant & Bar
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - Arrowhead Restaurant & Bar features unique American cuisine with an extensive wine and spirits collection. Patio dining is available. The restaurant offers live entertainment, special events, daily specials and private dining options.
CITY: Wheaton
Kopi A Traveler's Cafe
This comfortable cafe sells coffee in bulk and is a quiet respite for a light lunch. Jalan Jalan, a boutique in the back of the cafe, is crammed with travel books, artwork, textiles, gifts and jewelry from around the world. In the very front of the cafe is an elevated area where patrons remove their shoes to lounge among the pillows that furnish the floor. To complete the intercontinental atmosphere, clocks on the wall keep the current time in various countries.
CITY: Chicago
We serve honest-to-goodness, Italian home-style cooking, skillfully prepared with respect for the finest ingredients we can search out. The menu changes often, based on what's best in the market. Our bias is toward local and organic producers.
CITY: Chicago
Aurelio's Pizza - Tinley Park
What sets Aurelio's apart from other Chicago pizza? We're different because we use only quality ingredients, serve a variety of generous sizes, and specialize in customizing orders to suit each individual taste. Since 1959, the Aurelio family has been devoted to offering the finest pizza, pasta and sandwiches at reasonable prices with fast, courteous, dependable service.
CITY: Tinley Park
Morton's, The Steakhouse
With its signature menu, club-like atmosphere and legendary hospitality, Morton's continues to set the standard, serving USDA prime-aged beef, fresh fish and seafood, hand-picked produce and elegant desserts. Mon.-Fri. 11:30am-11pm; Sat. 5:30pm-11pm; Sun. 5:30pm-10pm.
CITY: Chicago
Cantina Laredo
Cantina Laredo serves authentic Mexican dishes in a sophisticated atmosphere. We offer daily fish specials, grilled chicken and steaks complimented by signature sauces such as chipotle-wine with portobello mushrooms or sauteéd artichoke hearts and roasted red bell peppers.
CITY: Chicago
Rhythm Room Bar and Bistro
Located in the lobby of the CineArts Theatre, Rhythm Room invites you to tstop by before or after the movies...or anytime. A variety of sandwiches, appetizers and spirits are offered.
CITY: Evanston
Frontera Grill
You've never stepped into a grill so energetic as Frontera Grill. Frontera swings casual, like an American grill. But it also rollicks with a vibrant, boisterous, Mexican rhythm. Frontera Grill uses beautiful ingredients, often organic and custom-grown, to bring to you the bold flavors and immediate freshness that jump off the tongue–just as it does in Mexico.
CITY: Chicago
Sarkis Cafe
The "Disaster Omelet" is anything but that - this signature dish is enjoyed by Sarkis' amazingly loyal, young and young-at-heart, diners.
CITY: Evanston
Table Fifty-Two
Our goal is to offer the highest quality, freshest handmade foods in an intimate space where guests can gather at the table to share experiences and food. Reservations recommended.
CITY: Chicago
Riccardo Trattoria
Riccardo Trattoria is a restaurant serving authentic Italian cuisine that has received great reviews from The Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Magazine and Bib Gourmand.
CITY: Chicago
Discovery Bay Restaurant & Lounge, Embassy Suites
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - Offering a relaxing environment for lunch and dinner including fine food, attentive service and friendly charm. We offer a wide array of menu selections, specialty items and fresh seafood. Caribbean/American cuisine.
CITY: Lombard
Custom House Tavern
Elevated food and service, a unique wine list, craft beers and cocktails provide a memorable dining experience. Steps from McCormick Place and theatres.
CITY: Chicago
Bar Umbriago
The newest addition to the Rosebud family, this comfortable wine bar features sharable small plates, classic cocktails & live entertainment.
CITY: Chicago
Village Inn Pizzeria Glenview
The best pizza on the North Shore is now available in Glenview. Carry-out, delivery and dine-in available. B.Y.O.B
CITY: Northbrook
First Slice
First Slice in Chicago isn't just a great place to get slice of pie, it's much more to the hundreds of people they help feed through their Shareholder Program; and even more to the people they help provide skills for so they can find work in restaurants throughout the city. That warm feeling you get from eating at First Slice could just be from the fresh delicious ingredients they use, or perhaps from the satisfaction of helping out.
CITY: Chicago
Lou Malnati's Pizzeria
Lou's is the home of the BEST Chicago-style deep dish pizza in the world. If you love a buttery, flaky crust, sweet and tangy tomatoes, gooey mozzarella cheese, perfectly seasoned sausage, and other fresh ingredients- you've come to the right place. Lou Malnati's Pizzerias pride themselves on making each handmade pizza just the way you like it.
CITY: Chicago
Rocky Vanders Cafe and Bar
American food including pizza, 25 wide screen TVs, live entertainment, 9500 square feet of party rooms. Many food and drink specials.
CITY: Prospect Heights
Uncle Julio's Hacienda - Lombard
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - Border style Mexican food served in a festive atmosphere. Specialties include mesquite-grilled fajitas, shrimp, ribs, quail and our famous Swirl.
CITY: Lombard
Blue 13
Blue 13 is an upscale restaurant and lounge serving contemporary American cuisine in a casual, urban atmosphere. Pairing classic American food with a more modern French and Italian flair whilst providing unobtrusive service.
CITY: Chicago
Cafe Spiaggia
The perfect setting for Chef Tony Mantuano's rustic Italian cuisine in a sophisticated yet casual atmosphere.
CITY: Chicago
Seasons Restaurant
Recipient of the AAA Five Diamond Award and Chicago Magazine's 3.5 Star Award. Offering a selection of innovative French informed North American cuisine in an elegant yet comfortable setting. Seasonal, regional specialties.
CITY: Chicago
Chicago Chop House
Famous Chicago steak house featuring prime aged beef and award winning wine list. Piano bar nightly.
CITY: Chicago
White Fence Farm
Casual, family dining serving chicken, fish, steaks and cocktails. Banquets and bus tours welcome.
CITY: Lemont
Mexx Kitchen at the Whiskey
Offers an enticing combination of contemporary Mexican fare, an extensive tequila collection and a swanky setting.
CITY: Chicago
Chicago Dine-Around
Embark on a culinary adventure to Chicago's finest restaurants. Guests are chauffeured around the city to enjoy hors d'oeuvres served at the first restaurant, the main course at a second restaurant and dessert at a third restaurant.
CITY: Chicago
Master's Clubhouse
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - American cuisine. Resort casual dress code. Serving breakfast, lunch & dinner. Average cost per meal: $10-20.
CITY: Bloomingdale
Go Roma Italian Kitchen
If life gives you tomatoes, make sauce. Better yet, we'll make it for you. At Go Roma Real Easy Italian, we pride ourselves on serving real hearty soups, fresh salads, hot Italian panini, hand-stretched artisan pizza and real Italian pastas and classics. Everything on the Go Roma menu is fresh and made to order. Stop by to savor real, easy Italian for yourself.
CITY: Northbrook


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Olga Kurylenko: Nude Photos Don't Bother Meby Hilton Hater at . Comments
Olga Kurylenko might star as Camille in the upcoming Quantum of Solace, but the actress doesn't need anyone to provide her with comfort over past naked photos.
Kurylenko says she's comfortable with the pictures that have been leaked online.
"There are no actresses who haven't appeared naked. These things are not unusual," she said. "All the magazine pictures are artistic. I didn't do any pornography... It was advertising stuff... It was part of the job... There are much graver things in the world to worry about."
Follow this article's jump to get a look at one of the Olga Kurylenko nude pics in question...
Una mujer muy sexy y con un rostro cautivador, además un cuerpo armonioso y sensual que exhibe unas pequeñas teticas primorosas y un trasero incitador de fantasÃas para rendir culto a Eros con pasión y deleite sin término.
se is really having balls of fire... simply toooooo sexy

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An innovative public sector?
Today's post is by Hannah Kitchen, Policy Analyst in the Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI), of the OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate.
Last week over three hundred people from the public, private and civil society sectors descended on the OECD in Paris. Why? To discuss an innovative public sector. For some of you that might sound like an oxymoron, but over two days stereotypes were left at the door as participants shared stories and learnt about innovation in the public sector.
The conference on Innovating the Public Sector: from Ideas to Impact showcased the public sector at its best. Innovators from around the world stood on stage to give short, dynamic talks about what they were doing at home. There were talks about evidence and innovation in the United States; about police using social media in Iceland; and one about reducing visa applications in Turkey to three minutes online.
Participants also rolled up their sleeves to experiment with innovative approaches for policy making. They tried out design for public services, by mapping their own journey to the OECD and considering how it could be improved. They heard from policy makers from Chile to the United Kingdom, who shared their stories about how they are using innovation labs to build experimental, practical spaces to trial new ways of working and share what works.
Despite all this enthusiasm, the overwhelming consensus was that innovation in the public sector is still no easy feat. It's difficult to get support from above, it's difficult to have the time and space to come up with innovative solutions, it's difficult to find the resources for unproven approaches, and it's difficult rally others.
Over the past couple of years the OECD has been working with countries to develop the Observatory of Public Sector Innovation, to help them make the most of innovation. The Observatory puts the experiences of innovators from across the world at everyone's finger tips. Want to know how the Icelandic police actually made social media work for them; or a Finnish hospital used service design to develop a better, more user friendly hospital? The Observatory contains hundreds of examples from across the OECD about how public services are developing more effective, innovative services.
It shows how countries are innovating across the whole policy making process. They are opening up policy making, so that a broader range of actors can shape policies. One way that they are doing this is by making the most of technological developments. Austria for example, is designing new strategies by crowdsourcing comments, advice and ideas from the public demonstrating how governments can involve a wider range of perspectives to source innovative ideas.
The Observatory also demonstrates that innovation is as much about the journey as the results at the end. That means rethinking how to design new services and embracing experimental approaches, prototyping, and trial and error. Public organisations need more agility, more testing and more experimenting on a small scale before investing large sums to roll out a new policy or service. In the United Kingdom for example, the use of randomised control trials is providing real evidence on the results of policy interventions on a small scale, providing a clear evidence base for action. In Australia, the Concept Lab allows the government to trial and fully evaluate potential improvements to services for families, the unemployed, care givers and parents under actual workplace conditions prior to wider roll-out.
Perhaps most importantly, the Observatory also highlights how innovation is resulting in better solutions for citizens, by responding to citizens' needs, moving the services to them. In France, unoccupied rooms in housing are being used so that the elderly can share flats with others, at once reducing their social isolation and making use of existing underexploited resources. In Sweden, parents can now access information about their child benefits directly from their phone through an app, which also includes up-to-date information for all citizens on their old age pensions.
The Observatory is also an innovation in itself. It was built with an agile, staged approach. Users in countries were involved throughout, testing and retesting prototypes to ensure that it delivers on user needs and to enhance the user experience. More importantly it is a direct interface with innovators themselves – from local schools and hospitals to central government offices – anyone working in the public sector with a story to tell about innovation can use the Observatory to reach an international audience. Through its interactive features users can make their views heard by voting in regular polls, discuss with other users to learn about their experiences, ask questions, and even create their own groups for collaborative projects.
It is just at the beginning of its story. Over the coming months and years we hope that many more people across the public service and beyond will use the Observatory to interact with others and share their examples of innovation.
Have a glimpse of Observatory by watching this video:
The Ripple Effect: Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Today's post is by Naazia Ebrahim of the OECD Environment Directorate
In Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity, Timothy Mitchell tells how in 1942, an epidemic of gambiae malaria in Egypt was caused by a perfect storm of interactions between rivers, dams, fertilisers, food webs, and the influences of World War II. It began with the building of the Aswan Dam and its storage reservoirs around the Nile, which provided the anopheles mosquito with new breeding spots. Thanks to the dams, basin irrigation was replaced by perennial irrigation, encouraging a denser population of humans who no longer needed to disperse to avoid flooding. Government protectionism on behalf of the sugarcane industry then helped it expand at the expense of food-growing lands, while new irrigation techniques led to reduced soil fertility. When ammonia was diverted from fertilizer to explosives manufacturing for World War II, the resulting malnourishment and closely populated settlements created an easy target for this particularly social mosquito.
Splitting technological, agricultural, epidemiological, and geopolitical considerations into separate boxes led at least in part to the epidemic. The engineers building the dam could never have imagined the ripple effects their work created. But today, we know better (well, somewhat at least: it's worth noting that deforestation has been strongly linked to the Ebola epidemic). And, with studies estimating that the global demand for water, energy, and food will increase by 55%, 80%, and 60% respectively by 2050, those ripple effects are going to be all the more critical – especially between these three areas .
Risks in one sector often correlate with risks in the others – but equally often, decreasing the risk in one sector causes it to increase dramatically in others. Figuring out how to provide enough water for wheat farming, hydropower generation, and maintaining local ecosystems, while still decreasing carbon emissions, is not an easy task.
The world is facing unprecedented stresses, and we are going to need an unprecedented response. We're doing our best to help create that response at the OECD. Next week we're hosting a forum on the nexus between water, energy and food. We're looking forward to discussing (with senior private sector leaders, policy experts and government officials) ways to manage these trade-offs, co-ordinate planning across sectors, anticipate unexpected developments, engage business, and minimise risks across all three sectors. If we get it right, there's potential for huge collaborative gains.
During all this work, it's worth remembering that the malaria epidemic was often framed as one of intelligence versus nature. But intelligence and technological advancement were not created through externally imposed "solutions". Rather, they were developed iteratively by engaging and interacting with the challenges. We have no doubt that the same will be true here.
Useful links
OECD work on Biodiversity, water and natural resource management
Export restrictions: facts, fallacies and shovels
Following the twin discovery that governments were composed of politicians and that politicians mostly don't look much beyond the next election, the OECD created the International Futures Programme (IFP) to encourage long-term thinking. A few years later, the UK government decided to set up a foresight unit, and in 2004 I went as IFP representative to a meeting in London where holders of stakes in different industries discussed what strategic thinking meant to them. It was much as you'd expect, with the oil industry explaining that they worked on a 50-year horizon, the pensions industry even longer, the finance industry losing interest after two seconds and going to look for something more exciting… The one surprise was the chief economist of a big mining company. "We don't bother with strategic planning" he explained. "We get all we need from geological surveys and the market. So if the price of copper, say, is going up, we dig till there's none left then move elsewhere. If it's going down, we lean on our shovels until it goes back up again".
I'd like to say they went bankrupt shortly after, but looking at the company's performance, this charmingly down to earth approach seems to work well. At least if you already own a big enough share of the things your business depends on and everybody else needs them. That is practically never the case though for any firm, or even for a country. So as a new OECD report on export restrictions points out, since "no country is self-sufficient in every raw material, it follows that virtually all countries are vulnerable to any attempt to restrict the export of at least some commodities."
And yet, the use of export restrictions seems to have increased over the past decade. The OECD Inventory of Restrictions on Trade in Raw Materials lists over a dozen ways this can be done, but the three most common are making exporters apply for a permit, putting a tax on exports, and restricting the quantity of a product that can be exported. All raw materials sectors are affected, from minerals and metals to forestry and agriculture products.
Emerging and developing countries use export restrictions most, although they're not the only ones. But their citizens can suffer the most. Oxfam puts it like this: "you might think that governments would take urgent action to address fragility in the food system. But […] Governments often exacerbate volatility through their responses to higher food prices. In 2008 the global food system teetered on the edge of the abyss as, one after the other, more than 30 countries slapped export restrictions on their agricultural sectors in a giddying downward spiral of collapsing confidence".
So why do they do it? The idea is that by restricting exports, more of the product is available on the home market, making it cheaper than it would be otherwise for local firms, thereby helping them to grow and compete on world markets. (Except for the producer of the restricted commodity). This probably works wonderfully well in countries with large reserves of iron ore whose principal activity is manufacturing lumps of iron in home-made forges for the weightlifting trade. And on the assumption that all its trading partners let it do this and don't put up the price of anything in retaliation.
Because once you start getting into more sophisticated products, the advantages of export restrictions disappear. These days, final products rely heavily on the so-called "intermediate products" used to make them, sourced from the world's global value chains. They can be high-tech items such as computer chips or very low tech, like wood planks, but more often than not they're imported. The new OECD report describes an analysis of the impact in a number of sectors of what would happen if export taxes were simultaneously removed on steel and steelmaking raw materials. It finds that "When regions that apply export taxes remove these in coordination with similar action by trading partners, their downstream industries actually benefit."
In their report mentioned above, among the solutions Oxfam proposes in relation to food, are "increasing transparency in commodities markets, setting rules on export restrictions" (they also call for "an end to trade-distorting agricultural subsidies"). This sounds very similar to the OECD report's call for "better control, and more transparent use, of export restrictions". The OECD report goes further though and looks at what alternatives are available to countries thinking of applying (or lifting) export restrictions. Chile for example, rather than concentrating on downstream processing, promotes a range of less capital-intensive and less energy-intensive intermediate goods and services industries linked to mining operations, as do a number of other successful minerals-rich countries.
Finally, this just in. Since I started writing today's post, I've learned that my intro about the different sectors is sooo 2004 and the miner and the trader can be friends. A bipartisan report is to be presented to the US Senate today and tomorrow on Wall Street bank involvement with physical commodities. I feel like quoting whole pages of it in full, but in essence: "Since 2008, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley have engaged in many billions of dollars of risky physical commodity activities, owning or controlling, not only vast inventories of physical commodities … but also related businesses, including power plants, coal mines, natural gas facilities, and oil and gas pipelines.".
I used the copper example, and so do Senators Levin and McCain and their colleagues: "JPMorgan built a copper inventory that peaked at $2.7 billion, and, at one point, included at least 213,000 metric tons of copper, comprising nearly 60% of the available physical copper on the world's premier copper trading exchange, the London Metal Exchange (LME)." I quoted the homely image of a man and his shovel, and the Senators quote how even these days, market making isn't all laser beams to transfer data and fancy algorithms to do high frequency trades: "Goldman approved "merry-go-round" transactions in which warehouse clients were paid cash incentives to load aluminum from one Metro warehouse into another, essentially blocking the warehouse exits". But where we talk abstractly about risk, our men on the Hill cite "injuries, an international incident, or worse".
That's the world some policy makers think they can manipulate with export restrictions.
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OECD work on international trade
International trade: free, fair and open? (OECD Insights)
Dial D for Development
Not much good has come from the Ebola crisis, save this: It has raised awareness of the fact that we already have a weapon in our hands that could help fight such epidemics – our mobile phones.
There's already evidence to show that the idea can work. Following the earthquake and cholera outbreak in Haiti in 2010, for example, "call-data records" from mobile phones were used to track people's movements, so allowing experts to "infer, with empirical data and in real-time, where people are, and how many, and where they are probably headed," according to The Economist. That's vital information in health crises, where epidemiologists need to know if people are moving into or out of highly infected areas.
The technique has been also been used to follow people's movements in the wake of natural catastrophes, for example after the 2011 earthquake in Japan. And there's growing interest in seeing how it could be used to track survivors of extreme weather events, such as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, especially as climate change threatens to raise the frequency of such disasters.
But there's a problem. Even if such tracking methods don't involve eavesdropping on callers' conversations, they do involve a breach of their privacy. And in the case of the Ebola outbreak, that seems to have been a major obstacle in preventing mobile operators from releasing their phone records.
There's also the problem that for everyone involved – mobile operators, government regulators and researchers – this is still somewhat uncharted territory. There's a general recognition that call-data records have potential to ease suffering during epidemics and after calamities but, as The Economist again notes, "the data are unlikely to be released without stronger leadership that brings together operators, regulators and researchers".
Still, even if the Ebola crisis has highlighted what remains to be done, it's impressive to see the ways in which mobiles are already being used to collect data in developing countries. Perhaps that shouldn't be a surprise. After all, according to the International Telecommunications Union, mobile-phone penetration now approaches 90% in developing countries (and 69% in Africa). This doesn't mean that nine out of ten people have handsets. But even setting aside all those people and businesses with second or third phones, it's clear that unprecedented numbers of people now have a device in their pocket that's not just a phone but also a powerful little computer.
That's potentially important for developing countries, many of which lack the infrastructure and personnel to compile adequate statistics. As the World Bank's Shanta Devarajan has noted, widely cited poverty data for Africa for 2005 relies on robust statistics from just 39 of the continent's countries, with only 11 able to supply comparable data for the same year.
These data holes make it difficult to measure progress and to identify priorities for development. In response, there have been growing calls for a "data revolution", which would require action on a range of fronts, including greater investment in government statistical offices in developing countries and making better use of "Big Data" and innovative technologies, like mobile phones.
Encouragingly, there are signs that some of this is already happening. For example, an SMS-based survey in Tunisia investigated remittances, an area where hard facts are notoriously scarce and where estimates of how money migrants are sending back home are just that – estimates. It found that more than a quarter of remittances are sent back by hand, more than the total sent via Western Union. Insights like that could help to provide more accurate data on what is an important source of income in many developing countries.
Mobile phones are also being used to "crowd source" data on price changes, which, as Gillian Jones reports, can be used to "compile near real-time consumer price inflation data". Local residents take photos of price tags in shops and markets and send them to a central data store. There, they are analysed to provide data on price changes as well as scarcities. Field agents are paid a few cents for each photo they send, but that can add up to an income of as much as $25 a month. And how are they paid? Over their phones, of course.
Useful links
Global Call for Innovations: The Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21) has launched a global call for innovations to highlight organizational approaches and new technologies to help realise the data revolution. It is seeking case studies in crowd sourcing; data management; monitoring and reporting; open data; real-time data; remote sensing; research standards; visualization; skills development; and technical infrastructure.
Informing a Data Revolution and the Innovations Inventory – PARIS21
Clean water, cold vaccines, cell phones = a simple way to save lives (OECD Insights blog)
OECD Insights: From Aid to Development – The Global Fight against Poverty
International investment in Europe: A canary in the coal mine?
In today's post, Michael Gestrin of the OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs looks at whether declines in the EU's flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) simply reflect a particularly severe FDI cycle or whether there might also be structural factors involved.
At the start of the 2007 crisis, global foreign direct investment (FDI) stocks actually declined, and even today, global flows of FDI are still 40% below their pre-crisis peak. Generally, OECD countries were the sources of the biggest declines while many emerging economies experienced increases in FDI flows. Europe has been one of the worst affected regions. EU inflows are down 75% and outflows are down 80% from their pre-crisis levels.
Inflows into the EU are currently around $200 billion, down from $800 billion at the peak of the global FDI cycle in 2007 (see figures). Outflows are also currently around $200 billion, down from $1.2 trillion in 2007. For the rest of the world, a global economy "without" the EU is doing quite well. In this global economy, inflows recovered strongly starting in 2010 and reached new record heights in 2011, at just over $1.2 trillion. With respect to outflows, the FDI crisis was limited to a one-year decline of 20% in 2009. Although world-minus-EU outflows have not grown over the past three years, they have been at record levels.
Part of the strong performance of the world-minus-EU can be explained by the growing importance of the emerging markets, in particular China, as sources and recipients of FDI. In 2012, emerging markets received over 50% of global FDI flows for the first time, and China is now consistently among the world's top three sources of FDI.
The crisis initially gave rise to a significant gap between the non-EU OECD countries and the rest of world with respect to both inflows and outflows, just as it did for the EU (see figures). A big difference, however, is that for the non-EU OECD countries the gap closed after only two years. While the EU and the world-minus-EU group have been going in different directions ever since the start of the crisis, the non-EU OECD group and its rest-of-world counterpart appear to have returned to a similar cycle after parting ways for a much shorter period during 2008-9.
Comparing the EU and non-EU-OECD shares of world inflows and outflows highlights the extent to which the positions of these two groups have reversed in recent years (see figures). At the turn of this century the EU accounted for over 50% of global inflows and 70% of global outflows. By 2013 both shares were down to 20%. Conversely, the non-EU-OECD countries have seen their shares of global FDI inflows and outflows recover to pre-crisis levels. This group overtook the EU in 2010 in terms of its share of both inflows and outflows, thus reversing the historical relationship.
Why? The greatest declines in inward FDI in the EU have been from within Europe itself (see figures). Before the crisis around 70-80% of the region's inward FDI consisted of intra-EU investment. Today only 30% of inward FDI is intra-EU. This sharp decline in the share of FDI that EU countries receive from their EU neighbours also helps to explain the decline in outward EU FDI.
The decline in the share of intra-EU in total EU inward FDI would seem to suggest a lack of confidence on the part of EU investors in their own regional market. One tempting explanation for this is that these declines have been concentrated in a sub-set of EU countries that have experienced particularly difficult economic conditions (such as Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain) during the crisis.
This has not been the case. The FDI crisis in Europe has been broad-based, with the bulk of the declines in FDI flows concentrated in the largest economies. France, Germany, and the UK accounted for 50% of the $600 billion decline in FDI inflows between 2007 and 2013. Over the same period, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain accounted for only $14 billion, or 2%, of the inflow decline. With respect to outflows, France, Germany, and the UK accounted for 59% of the $1 trillion decline between 2007 and 2013. Over the same period, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain accounted for 12% of this decline.
Part of the explanation for the decline in investment in Europe is linked to an increasing share of international divestment relative to international mergers and acquisitions (M&A, see figures). While pre-crisis levels averaged around 35%, they reached almost 60% in 2010-11 and now stand at around 50%. In other words, for every dollar invested, 50 cents is divested. Consequently, net international M&A investment in Europe is currently at its lowest levels in a decade, at around $100 billion.
The clear "leader" in this regard is the consumer products segment, with a divestment/investment ratio of 148%. This means that for every dollar invested in consumer products over the past six years, around one and a half dollars was divested. This is an example of investment de-globalisation. Domestic and international M&A in Europe have generally followed the same pattern: both are on track to reach their lowest levels in a decade (see figures). Conditions that are holding back international investment in Europe would seem to be discouraging domestic investment as well.
From a policy perspective, the challenges of breaking out of this regional investment slump are daunting but urgent. A useful starting point is the recognition that a supportive environment for productive international investment needs to reflect the evolving needs of international investors. Such a supportive environment has three dimensions.
First, investors generally favour predictable, open, transparent, rules-based regulatory environments, much along the lines put forward by the OECD's Policy Framework for Investment. Where impediments to investment have not been addressed by governments this often has more to do with implementation challenges rather than disagreement over principles. For example, it is widely accepted that excessive 'red tape' is an obstacle to investment but in many countries this is still often cited by business as being one of the most important impediments to doing business. In Europe, many such impediments represent relatively easy opportunities for improving the regional investment climate.
The second dimension concerns important changes in the structures and patterns of global investment flows as well as in the way MNEs are organising their international operations. This is reflected in investment de-globalisation and "vertical disintegration" which has seen MNEs become more focused on their core lines of business over time and more reliant upon international contractual relationships for organizing their global value chains.
Finally, Europe would seem to be confronting a competitiveness puzzle in which declining competitiveness is discouraging investment, and declining investment is in turn undermining competitiveness. A few years ago, OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría outlined six policy recommendations for getting Europe back on a sustainable growth path that also hold for investment:
- Further develop the Single Market.
- Ease excessive product market regulation;
- Invest more in R&D and step up innovation.
- Make sure that education and training institutions deliver highly sought after skills.
- Increase the number of workers participating in labour markets and make markets more inclusive to address social inequalities.
- Reform the tax system, including by reducing the tax wedges on labour.
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Student Pilot and Instructor Killed in Crash
Posted: 05/23/2006 - A student pilot and his instructor were killed in the crash of their small plane at a South Plains airport. The crash happened at Levelland's airport, about 30 miles west of Lubbock.
Posted: 05/23/2006 - A student pilot and his instructor were killed in the crash of their small plane at a South Plains airport. The crash happened at Levelland's airport, about 30 miles west of Lubbock.
Posted: 05/23/2006 - Prosecutors say that the founder of an import-export company and other top officials scammed millions of dollars out of religious investors. Then they allegedly used the money on yachts, planes, a helicopter and plastic surgery.
Posted: 05/23/2006 - The hurricane predictions are out. Now emergency planners will meet one last time in case those predictions come true. Hurricane season begins June first.
Posted: 05/23/2006 - The head of the Veterans of Foreign Wars says the theft of personal information from 26 (m) million vets is a "serious breach" of security. VA officials say they have set up a call center for veterans who think their information has been misused.
Posted: 05/22/2006 - Two familiar faces are taking their places on the Bryan City Council. Annette Stephney and Mike Southerland ran on different issues, but plan on making good on their promises.
Posted: 05/22/2006 - The city of Navasota has a new mayor. Bert Miller was chosen to take on the role at Monday evening's city council meeting. Miller is a local insurance agent who has spent the last year on the council.
Posted: 05/22/2006 - The Brazos County Volunteer Fire Department is often the first response team dispatched to medical 911 calls outside of the city limits. But these days, they are having a hard time making it to all the calls.
Updated: 10/28/2006 - A faculty member from the Texas A&M Health Science Center is gaining national attention. Brian Colwell, Ph.D., associate professor and head of the Department of Social and Behavioral Health at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health, is this year's recipient of the Health Promotion Medal of Excellence.
Posted: 05/22/2006 - School used to start after Labor Day, but in recent years it's crept up to early August. Now it looks like students will get more of a summer, but are local school officials pleased with the change?
Updated: 05/22/2006 - HDTV's first came on the scene in 1998 and since then, different off-shoots of HD have hit the market. So much so, it can be confusing.
Posted: 05/22/2006 - A Blinn Student is dead following an early morning accident at an apartment complex. Police say around 5:30 a.m. Monday, 19-year-old Dylan Graves of Austin lost control of his pick-up truck in front of the Melrose Apartment complex.
Posted: 05/22/2006 - A Brenham man is being held in the Washington County jail on child pornography charges.
Posted: 05/22/2006 - Are you ready for Coca Cola Hot Tamale? Coca Cola has partnered with the Culinary Institute of America to design specialty beverages that combine unusual flavors to pair with foods, similar to selecting different wines.
Posted: 05/22/2006 - Texas school district officials will be checking gasoline prices when they begin cobbling their budgets this summer. They're worried about the rising cost of fuel to transport students.
Posted: 05/22/2006 - Enron founder Kenneth Lay and prosecutor John Hueston confront each other again. Lay's expected to testify in his own defense as soon as Monday at his bank fraud trial -- that is, if prosecutors finish presenting their case by midday today, as they've predicted.
Posted: 05/22/2006 - It's opening weekend of "The Da Vinci Code." The movie has stirred controversy with its themes many say are anti-Christian. But will the negative publicity promote low box office numbers?
Posted: 05/21/2006 - Firefighters from both Bryan and College Station were busy Sunday, battling a house fire in Bryan. Crews were called to the 3100 block of Broadmoor about 6 p.m. There they found smoke pouring from the home, with fire apparent in one part of the house.
Posted: 05/21/2006 - BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Investigators are trying to figure out the motive behind Sunday's shooting rampage in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that left five people dead. Four of the victims were killed while worshipping in church. A fifth person, the suspect's wife, was found dead in a car at a nearby apartment complex.
Posted: 05/21/2006 - HOLMES MILL, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky authorities now believe they know how the five miners killed in Saturday's blast died. A preliminary autopsy finds that three of the five miners likely survived the initial explosion but died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Posted: 05/21/2006 - Warm dry weather brings an increased risk of grass fires. Burn bans aren't in effect right now, but that doesn't mean grass fires can't easily start.
Posted: 05/20/2006 - What started as a relatively small brush fire grew larger this afternoon in Grimes County. The fire on County Road 215 started around 2 p.m. Firefighters requested assistance from the Texas Forest Service, but a bulldozer out of Conroe was delayed in getting to the scene.
Posted: 05/20/2006 - A College Station man is behind bars this evening after struggling with the homeowner he was trying to steal from. College Station Police were called to the 900 block of Montclair Friday after the homeowner found Gary Wayne McGruder in one of his bedrooms.
Posted: 05/20/2006 - HOUSTON (AP) - The retrial of a truck driver accused in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt is scheduled to begin this fall. Jury selection in the trial of Tyrone Williams was set to begin October 3. Prosecutors say Williams drove a tractor-trailer full of illegal immigrants in May 2003.
Posted: 05/20/2006 - AUSTIN (AP) - Prosecutors in the case against Congressman Tom DeLay have asked Texas' highest criminal court to reinstate an indictment accusing him of conspiring to violate state election laws. The appeal filed with the Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday had been expected.
Posted: 05/20/2006 - HOLMES MILL, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky's governor says relatives of five miners killed in an early-morning accident want answers. He says knowing more about what caused Saturday's explosion will "help them deal with it a little more."


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New Delhi, Nov 1 : Celebrity hairstylist Hakim Aalim, who boasts of Bollywood clients like Arjun Rampal, Sunil Shetty and Shahid Kapoor, is now set to give a free haircut to all those who want the commando look from Brad Pitt-starrer "Fury".
Decoding success of 'Haider'
By Arpana, Mumbai, Oct 16 : Shahid Kapoor-starrer "Haider" -- a modern-day adaptation of "Hamlet" with Kashmir as its backdrop -- has achieved many milestones. It has become the first Kashmir-based film in many years to click with the audience, acclaimed director Vishal Bhardwaj's first golden ...
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Mumbai, Oct 12 : After actors Shahid Kapoor, Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff, it's now choreographer-director Farah Khan's turn to pay tribute to the late pop star Michael Jackson.
Good content always finds viewers: Shahid Kapoor
By Uma Ramasubramanian, Mumbai, Oct 10 : Actor Shahid Kapoor's Kashmir based drama "Haider" has crossed the Rs. 50 crore mark at the box office and he says good content always find an audience.
'Haider' - Vishal Bhardwaj's masterstroke (Movie Review)
By Subhash K. Jha : Film- "Haider"; Cast- Tabu, Shahid Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Kay Kay Menon, Narendra Jha; Writer-Director- Vishal Bhardwaj; Rating- *****
'Haider' - a powerful revenge saga (Movie Review)
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'Haider' best film of my career: Shahid Kapoor
Mumbai, Sep 29 : Shahid Kapoor has given one of the biggest hits of his career with Vishal Bhardwaj's "Kaminey" and now the duo has teamed up again for "Haider", which the actor says is the best film of his career so far.
Unfair to compare 'Bang Bang!', 'Haider', say trade experts
New Delhi, Sep 28 : One of the biggest weekends of the year, starting Oct 2, will see the release of two films - Hrithik Roshan's "Bang Bang!" and Shahid Kapoor's "Haider", which are as different as chalk and cheese in terms of theme, budget, cast, and sensibilities. Hence, trade experts opine that ...
I would be very happy if 'Kaminey 2' happens: Shahid Kapoor
Mumbai, Sep 25 : Shahid Kapoor's "Haider" with Vishal Bhardwaj is ready to come out, but that is not enough for the actor. His wish is that the filmmaker should make "Kaminey 2" with him.
Alia Bhatt sets out on 'Shaandaar' journey
Mumbai, Sep 1 : On day one of a new month Monday, actress Alia Bhatt began the shooting for her new film "Shaandaar" with Shahid Kapoor.
Shahid, Shraddha launch music of 'Haider' in Mumbai
New Delhi, Aug 21 : Shahid Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor recently launched the music of their upcoming film 'Haider' alongwith Vishal Bhardwaj in Mumbai.
'Haider' song 'Bismil' was challenging for Shahid
Mumbai, Aug 21 : Actor Shahid Kapoor, who is a trained dancer, found it challenging to move in an unusual manner to the music of the song "Bismil", which features in his forthcoming film "Haider".
'Haider' song 'Bismil' was challenging for Shahid
Mumbai, Aug 21 : Actor Shahid Kapoor, who is a trained dancer, found it challenging to movie in an unusual manner to the tunes of the song "Bismil", which features in his forthcoming film "Haider".
Shahid's work in 'Haider' impresses dad Pankaj Kapur
Mumbai, Aug 20 : "I am happy to see my son doing well," said acclaimed actor Pankaj Kapur referring to Shahid Kapoor's work in his forthcoming film "Haider", an Indian adaptation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet".
I've matured a lot in few months: Shahid Kapoor
Mumbai, Aug 16 : After featuring in the commercial potboiler "R...Rajkumar", Shahid Kapoor is ready to surprise audiences with his intense act in "Haider". He says the past few months have helped him "mature a lot".
Vishal Bhardwaj is lucky for me: Shahid Kapoor
Mumbai, Aug 16 : Shahid Kapoor says a lot of good things in his career have come his way courtesy filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj who has worked with the actor in "Kaminey" and now in "Haider".
Dying to see dad in 'Finding Fanny': Shahid Kapoor
Mumbai, Aug 15 : Actor Shahid Kapoor, who is currently busy promoting his film "Haider", is extremely excited about "Finding Fanny" because the film shows him the other side of his father Pankaj Kapur's personality.
I'm a huge Shahid Kapoor fan: Alia Bhatt
By Subhash K. Jha, Mumbai, July 21 : Alia Bhatt, who has confirmed she has signed Vikas Bahl's "Shaandar" for a role with Shahid Kapoor, says she's a fan of the actor, whom she first fell in love with when she was all of 11.
First Look of 'Haider' launched in Mumbai
New Delhi, July 9 : The first look of 'Haider', a Bollywood adaptation of Shakespeare's famous play, Hamlet, directed by Vishal Bhardwaj was launched by its actors, Shahid Kapoor, K.K. Menon, Tabu and Sharddha Kapoor, and UTV CEO, Siddharth Roy Kapoor, in Mumbai.
'Haider' made me feel inadequate as an actor: Shahid Kapoor
Mumbai, July 9 : Actor Shahid Kapoor, who plays a dark character in his forthcoming film "Haider", says although he prepared for the role the nagging thought that he's not "good enough" for it kept haunting him throughout the shoot.
Shahid's mantra: Anything for the craft
Mumbai, July 4 : There was a time when actors used to do two-three shifts for various projects. But not any more! Different films require different looks nowadays and actors, including Shahid Kapoor, are not compromising on this.
Shahid Kapoor becomes business savvy
New Delhi, July 3 : From going bald to becoming a part of marketing strategies, actor Shahid Kapoor is putting all his efforts into make his upcoming film "Haider" succesful.
Huma Qureshi to marry in 2018?
Mumbai, June 21 : Actress Huma Qureshi has been romantically linked to celebrities like Anurag Kashyap and Shahid Kapoor in the past and continues to say she's yet to be committed to someone. But if one goes by a palm reader, she will get married in 2018.
'Ishq Vishk' turns 11, Shahid nostalgic
Mumbai, May 10 : It's been eleven years since Shahid Kapoor's debut film "Ishq Vishk" hit the screens. Yet, the actor who has given hits like "R... Rajkumar", "Kaminey" and "Vivah", says he still feels like he's new in B-Town.
Would love to work with Shahid in future: Alia Bhatt
Mumbai, April 8 : Actress Alia Bhatt chose to remain silent when asked to confirm whether she is working with Shahid Kapoor in Vikas Bahl's next project "Shaandaar" and says that she would love to work with the actor in future.
Sonakshi 'annoyed' with Shahid link-up rumours
Mumbai, April 3 : Rumour mills are at it again and the target is Sonakshi Sinha, but the actress is not taking it lightly and shoots down reports about dating her "R... Rajkumar" co-star Shahid Kapoor.
Bollywood stars come together for IIFA's 15th edition
New Delhi, March 28 : The International Indian Film Academy Awards has returned for its 15th year and actors Shahid Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar and Hrithik Roshan were spotted at its press meet held in Mumbai.
Shahid Kapoor: Hrithik Roshan best dancer in the industry
Mumbai, March 27 : Shahid Kapoor, all set to host the 15th edition of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards with Farhan Akhtar, is known for his dancing skills, but the actor says he is not even a patch on Hrithik Roshan.
Shahid Kapoor turns 33, bash in Goa
Goa, Feb 25 : Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor, who turned 33 years of age on Tuesday, is all set to celebrate his special day by partying in Goa.
Shahid Kapoor wraps up 'Haider' shoot
New Delhi, Feb. 24 : Shahid Kapoor has completed the schedule of his upcoming movie 'Haider' that was being shot in Kashmir.


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After discovering that Pret A Mangers spankingly fresh fish is actually shipped 7,000 miles from Chile over the course of a month (despite the fact that Scottish waters are just 500 miles away), the Telegraph now reveals that the British chain gets its chicken (one of its fresh, natural ingredients) from a Brazilian processor.
Regarding the fish, Pret says it couldnt source sashimi-grade salmon from anyone in Europe, and the Chilean farm is also said to be fantastic compared to others in Chile that pollute. Also, British law requires fish to be frozen, so what can they do about that? And as for the chickens, Pret says they get more light and air than most. But the Telegraph points to evidence that Brazilian farmworkers often suffer injuries and have to deal with poor conditions (and no health care) while being compensated a mere £250 a month, and the chickens are often fed on limited grain and soy supplies. What does all of this add up to? Ya got us.


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Phyllis Brooks (July 18, 1915 – August 1, 1995) was an American actress and model. Brooks was born Phyllis Seiler in Boise, Idaho. She began her career in films at age 20, and had been known as the "Ipana Toothpaste Girl" due to her work as a model. Brooks, who had about 30 performances in films, was a B-movie leading lady during the 1930s and 1940s, with roles in such films as In Old Chicago (1937), Little Miss Broadway (1938) and the Shanghai Gesture (1941). In the late 1930s, she dated Cary Grant, who called her Brooksie, and rumors that the two would be married were circulated. Brooks, something of a socialite, also dated Howard Hughes.
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Prospective Randomized Clinical Feasibility Study of Red Cell Transfusion Goals in Patients with Acute Leukemias
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Transfusion requirements and triggers have not been systematically studied in acute leukemia or other cancers. Acute leukemia carries a high mortality and any unnecessary increase in morbidity or mortality is not acceptable. Thus, without an obvious benefit gained from using higher transfusion thresholds, the added risks and costs of transfusion may be substantial and unnecessary. The investigators plan to study this issue in this pilot and feasibility study by randomly assigning patients treated for acute leukemia to be transfused with RBCs at either a higher or lower hemoglobin concentration trigger point. In this way, the investigators will be able to accurately determine if there is added benefit or harm to having a lower or higher red cell count during the induction treatment and recovery period for patients with acute leukemias. This safety data will serve as a platform for a larger mortality study in leukemia, and possibly additional studies in solid tumors.
1. Patients older than 18 years of age 2. Acute leukemia patients (AML, ALL, APL, tMN, high grade MDS) 3. Patients already being admitted to Johns Hopkins, Burke Services (WBG 5th floor) with plans for inpatient myelosuppressive chemotherapy
Nearly all patients with cancer experience some degree of anemia, either from the primary disease or from the treatment for their disease.13 Chemotherapeutic agents induce anemia by directly impairing hematopoiesis, including synthesis of RBC precursors in the bone marrow. In solid tumor oncology, traditionally there is not bone marrow involvement and these patients may only require a few units of RBCs during the course of their chemotherapy. In acute leukemia, primarily a cancer of the bone marrow, the space-occupying tumor cells prevent normal hematopoiesis in addition to this mechanism of treatment related anemia. The number of RBC units required to support a leukemia patient through their induction therapy may range from 30 â?? 60 units during the first 2 months of therapy. (Unpublished historical data from Johns Hopkins) These patients are universally supported with red cell transfusions. Depending on the type of RBC unit, transfused RBCs (approximately 300cc) can have a hematocrit ranging from 50-80% and typically contains 42.5 -80g of hemoglobin (Hb) with 147-278 mg of iron. The major benefit of RBC transfusion, not offered by other treatments, is a rapid increase in Hb and hematocrit levels. Hence, RBC transfusion is the only intervention for patients receiving myelosuppressive chemotherapy who require immediate correction of anemia. Transfusion of 1 unit of PRBC has been estimated to result in an average increase in Hb level of 1 g/dL or hematocrit by 3% in a normal-sized adult who is not experiencing a simultaneous loss of blood. Though required in our anemia patients, it must be realized that transfusions come with risks. While individually low, the combined toxicity of transfusions is significant.13 Multiple risks associated with transfusions include transfusion related acute lung injury (TRALI), hemolytic transfusion reactions, (HTR), viral and bacterial infections, transfusion associated circulatory overload (TACO), anaphylaxis, development of red blood cell antibodies, and iron overload. In a population such as ours that is committed to multiple transfusions over their treatment lifetimes, it seems prudent to assess if a minimization of these transfusions is possible. There is evidence that increased transfusions in cancer patients (all tumor types, predominantly solid tumors) are associated with increase in mortality (OR 1.34; 95% CI 1:29-1.38)8 This increased mortality may be related to more advanced disease versus the toxicities of transfusions such as increased infections. Cancer and chemotherapy induced anemia guidelines from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) are broad with large ranges for asymptomatic anemia of Hb 7-9g/dL and if symptomatic, then 8-10g/dL. It was suggested at the 2009 Transfusion Medicine State-of the-Science Symposium from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute that RBC transfusion and/or blood conservation management RBC transfusion trigger strategies should be investigated to improve overall outcomes in different patient populations7 Acute leukemia patients represent a reasonable population in which to employ rigorous clinical trial procedures to address this issue. Much of our understanding of platelet transfusion management for oncology patients was studied in clinical trials involving patients with acute leukemia. 10, 12 Here we propose a pilot study using a restrictive strategy with patients receiving 2 units blood transfusion only when Hb is lower than 7 g/dL. Clinical outcomes, costs and quality of life will be compared. This initial effort will be a pilot study for the following: 1. Identify logistical issues related to protocol implementation. 2. Evaluate feasibility of recruitment rates, and how to perform data collection of clinical outcomes. 3. Define the sample size required for a definitive trial incorporating a mortality endpoint.
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