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Hep C Update: Vertex, Merck and Gilead
BOSTON ( TheStreet) -- Updates on hepatitis C stocks from a weekend at the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD) annual meeting:
Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX): Telaprevir was the superior hepatitis C drug coming into AASLD and no data or information released over the weekend, including from Merck (MRK) and its competing drug boceprevir, changed that view.
If there's a debate left to have about telaprevir vs. boceprevir in hepatitis C, it's forecasting the market share each drug may garner once both are approved next year. Right now, the Street's consensus is overwhelmingly in favor of telaprevir (roughly 70-80%) to boceprevir's (20-30%). Analysts expect telaprevir sales in the range of $2.5 billion by the end of 2014.
Whether those estimate and market share splits change significantly or not could depend on feedback analysts and investors get from Hep C doctors attending AASLD after they get a chance to see full data presentations from the phase III studies of each drug Monday and Tuesday.While we wait for those presentations, Vertex did issue a press release Saturday updating results from the two, previously announced phase III studies in treatment-naive hepatitis C patients. As a reminder, in the phase III "Advance" study, 75% of patients treated with telaprevir plus the standard of care (long-acting interferon plus ribavirin) achieved a sustained viral response, which is essentially a cure. That compares to 44% of patients treated with standard of care alone. A second phase III study dubbed "Illuminate" confirmed that patients who respond well to telaprevir can be treated and cured in six months, half the time it normally takes to treat Hep C. New data from the Advance study showed that 62% of African-Americans/Blacks were cured after treatment with telaprevir compared to 25% of African-American/Blacks treated with standard of care alone. This is significant because, historically, African American hepatitis C patients respond poorly to standard therapy. Also from the Advance study, 62% of people with advance liver fibrosis or cirrhosis achieved a cure with telaprevir compared to 33% of similar patients treated with standard therapy. Vertex also disclosed that 58% of telaprevir-treated patients in the Advance study and 65% of patients in the Illuminate study were able to cut total treatment time to 24 weeks from the 48 weeks of therapy normally needed to achieve a cure. Merck: A press release Saturday updating results from two phase III studies of boceprevir contained a dizzying array of statistics but the overall profile of the drug -- not quite as good as telaprevir -- didn't change much.
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Detention Center Enhances Visitation With Inmates
The Lexington County Detention Center will conduct citizen visits with inmates exclusively via video visitation effective on Monday, July 14 in order to expand visitation hours for inmates and maximize the number of housing units for which visitation is offered for inmates.
Lexington County Sheriff A. Lewis McCarty said the exclusive use of video visitation for citizens to visit with inmates housed at the Detention Center will enable the facility to expand visitation hours by one hour on weeknights. It also will enable visitation on weekends to be conducted for inmates in all 14 housing units at the Detention Center, compared with the two housing units in which inmates currently are able to conduct visitation on weekends.
Inmates in seven housing units at the Detention Center have conducted visitation exclusively via video visitation since the Detention Center implemented the video visitation system on November 29, 2012, McCarty said. In 2013, inmates at the Detention Center conducted 15,675 video visitations. So far this year, inmates at the Detention Center have conducted 13,127 video visitations.
Inmates and their relatives increasingly have chosen to conduct video visitations, McCarty said. During the week of June 30 through July 4, 245 slots were available for inmates to conduct in-person visits in the visitation room at the Detention Center. Of the 245 slots available, inmates signed up for only 82 in-person visits, which were conducted through a glass window that does not allow inmates and visitors to have contact with one another. During the same time period, inmates conducted 348 video visitations.
Effective on Monday, visitation hours at the Detention Center will be 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Friday, McCarty said. On Saturdays and Sundays, visitation hours will be 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Video visitation with inmates at the Detention Center can be conducted from any computer that is equipped with a web camera and from any location where there is high-speed Internet access, McCarty said. Citizens can schedule video visitations online via a computer or smart phone by accessing https://securustech.net/.
Video visitations that are conducted via a computer at a home or some other location can be conducted during the same time periods on weekdays as video visitations that are conducted at the Detention Center, McCarty said. On weekends, video visitations that are conducted via a computer at a home or some other location can be conducted between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday as well as 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Citizens who do not have access to a computer with high-speed Internet service and a web camera can conduct video visitations at the Detention Center during scheduled visitation hours at seven booths that are available for video visitations, McCarty said. The Detention Center is in the process of adding seven additional booths at the facility for video visitations. Citizens also can schedule video visitations at the video visitation booths at the facility.
Video visitation that citizens conduct with inmates at video visitation booths at the Detention Center will be limited to 20 minutes, McCarty said. Video visitation that citizens conduct with inmates via a computer at their home or some other location can be conducted in 20-minute intervals or 40-minute intervals.
Citizens who conduct video visitations with Detention Center inmates via a computer at their home or some other location can have children younger than age 12 participate in the video visitation, McCarty said. Children younger than age 12 were not allowed to participate in personal visits that were conducted with inmates at the Detention Center, and children who are younger than age 12 also will not be allowed to participate in video visitations at the Detention Center.
Inmates at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center in Columbia and the Sheriff Al Canon Detention Center in North Charleston already conduct visits with citizens exclusively via video visitation, McCarty said. Lexington County Detention Center supervisors informed inmates at the facility about changes in the facility's visitation policies and procedures earlier this week.
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24th and 25th May 2014
Welcome to the Warwick Pentath-Run website.
Well the 12th anual Pentath-run has been run and won..
Results from the event are now loaded on our "Results" tab. For individual races you can go to the Timingplus Website for results if you prefer.
Many thanks to all the competitors for the 2014 event.
A special congratulations to our winners and many thanks to the sponsors and the many many volunteers who helped make the event the success it was.
Be sure to return as more details will follow (finishers certificates, survey, etc)
If you are looking for photo's we will have them loaded this week. Sorry but it will not be sooner.
We look forward to seeing a record number of runners next year
Race Dates for 2015 are the 23rd and 24th May 2015
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John Hancock Advisers, LLC Provides Statement On Auction Rate Preferred Lawsuit And Related Matters
BOSTON, March 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- John Hancock Advisers, LLC ("JHA") announced that on March 1, 2011, an order was entered dismissing with prejudice shareholder derivative complaints that were filed in the Superior Court of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Suffolk County, with respect to two leveraged John Hancock closed-end funds that it advises, John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III (NYSE: HPS) and John Hancock Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund (NYSE: HTD). The order of dismissal was entered after the two actions were consolidated by the court. Previously, HPS and HTD each received a demand letter from the same law firm on behalf of putative common shareholders of the respective funds. The complaints named JHA, JHA's parent company Manulife Financial Corporation ( USA), and certain of the interested Trustees, executive officers and portfolio managers of HPS and HTD in connection with the redemption of auction preferred shares ("APS") of HPS and HTD. The complaints alleged, among other things, that the named defendants breached their fiduciary duties to HPS and HTD and their common shareholders by redeeming APS at their liquidation preference and alleged that such redemptions caused losses to HPS and HTD and their common shareholders.
Statements in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined by the United States securities laws. You should exercise caution in interpreting and relying on forward-looking statements because they are subject to uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond the funds' control and could cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements.
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The Boston-based mutual fund business unit of John Hancock Financial, John Hancock Funds, manages more than $65.9 billion in open-end funds, closed-end funds, private accounts, retirement plans and related party assets for individual and institutional investors at December 31, 2010.About John Hancock Financial and Manulife Financial Corporation John Hancock Financial is a unit of Manulife Financial Corporation, a leading Canadian-based financial services group serving millions of customers in 22 countries and territories worldwide. Operating as Manulife Financial in Canada and in most of Asia, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States, Manulife Financial Corporation offers clients a diverse range of financial protection products and wealth management services through its extensive network of employees, agents and distribution partners. Funds under management by Manulife Financial and its subsidiaries were Cdn$474 billion ( US$460 billion) at December 31, 2010. Manulife Financial Corporation trades as 'MFC' on the TSX, NYSE and PSE, and under '945' on the SEHK. Manulife Financial can be found on the Internet at www.manulife.com. The John Hancock unit, through its insurance companies, comprises one of the largest life insurers in the United States. John Hancock offers a broad range of financial products and services, including life insurance, fixed and variable annuities, fixed products, mutual funds, 401(k) plans, long-term care insurance, college savings, and other forms of business insurance. Additional information about John Hancock may be found at www.johnhancock.com. SOURCE John Hancock Advisers, LLC
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Brothers In Arms 2: Global Front Answers for iPhone - iPodHome / iPhone - iPod /
Game Questions & Answers (Q&A) service lets you ask questions about video games for game consoles or PC games. So ask your Brothers In Arms 2: Global Front question for iPhone - iPod and get answers from real gamers or answer questions and share your insights and experience with the rest of the gaming community.
- Developer: Gameloft
- Publisher: Gameloft
- Genre: Adventure General
- Release Date: Feb 22, 2010
- ESRB: Not Set
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Armor Purchases are forgotten but dog tags are gone
My game forgets my armor purchase after the first use. I spent 2000 dog tags on t-39 and now I can not equip it. But the dog tags are gone from my wallet...
Answer from: Rook
Report it to gameloft it can be happen if your game is not properly installed in your I pad
Answer from: AAAAAAAANDREW
Go to ur exp bar click on it go to the third thing (armor) check on there to equip itif its not there make sure you had 2000 dog tags when u bought it and if that doesnt work then the game glitched and just try agian for 2000 dog tags when u get it buy it again and it should work if it doesnt...Sorry u have to get the lower grade armor
Answer from: DaveB4C
Darn, I tried to buy some medals and that failed too. But they charged my Itunes/PayPal account. These guys have a real racket going on here.
Answer from: StealthyNubcake
DaveB4C, if you contact Gameloft about being charged for purchases you never received, they will refund you for the money you spent. I'm not too sure about the dog tags though. If you purchased the dog tags using money, you might be able to get a refund, but otherwise, I doubt Gameloft will restore your dog tags. You should also post this issue on Gameloft's official forum for BIA2 (forum.gameloft.com/?category_id=13). They'll have someone from customer support contact you and help you with your problem.
Answer from: Anniemole
This happened to me too after the latest update. Fortunately I had enough dog tags to repurchase. Also I found that if I left ipod on and just exited the game (it seems to be still running in the background or something) they would still be there next time. Also got major lagging problems after the update. Way to go Gameloft!
Answer from: Azteckt-ingame
I bought combat boots from the shop for 20 medals. used once and tbh i dont think they even made me faster maybe they degrade..
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Firefighter sues over being blamed in SFO Asiana crash death
Asiana responder says she was made a 'sacrificial lamb' and that another crew member drove rig that killed girl
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A San Francisco firefighter claimed in a lawsuit filed Friday that Fire Department officials falsely identified her as having driven the rig that fatally struck a teenage survivor of last year's Asiana Airlines crash.
Elyse Duckett, 49, was made a "sacrificial lamb" so department leaders wouldn't have to answer further questions about the Fire Department's response to the crash July 6 at San Francisco International Airport, said the suit filed in San Francisco Superior Court.
Three passengers died, including 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan of China. She survived the crash but was killed when she was run over by two rigs as she lay on the ground near the Boeing 777's left wing.
"Elyse was a scapegoat so there wouldn't be a magnifying glass on all the other things that went wrong," including a breakdown in command procedures, radio communications and the triaging of victims, said her attorney, Eduardo Roy.
Duckett, who has been with the Fire Department for 24 years, was away from the airport shopping for groceries when the Asiana flight crashed on landing, according to the suit. Duckett raced back to the airport, climbed into a fire rig and headed out to the scene.
By the time she got there, the suit says, Ye had already been killed by another fire rig and her body was obscured in flame-retardant foam. Duckett's rig then ran over the girl, the suit says.
The San Mateo County Coroner's Office determined that Ye was alive before being struck by the rigs, but an autopsy report did not say which rig killed her.
Duckett's suit says fire officials blamed her for Ye's death, even though they knew that the other rig, driven by firefighter Jimmy Yee, had been the first to hit the girl.
Fire officials singled out Duckett because as an African American lesbian and single mother, she does not fit into the "fraternal" Fire Department, Roy said.
"She doesn't travel in packs," Roy said. "There is only one African American lesbian. ... So what do you do? You pick on the weaker, smaller group."
Fire Department officials subjected Duckett to a "surprise interrogation" at which they tried to pin Ye's death on her and later leaked her name to the media, the suit says.
The suit asks that department leaders acknowledge that Duckett did nothing wrong and identify whoever leaked her name. Duckett is also seeking $300,000 in damages.
Mindy Talmadge, a spokeswoman for the Fire Department, declined to comment on the lawsuit. But generally, Talmadge said, Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White is proud of "all of the first responders who responded to the Asiana incident and performed extremely well under the extraordinary circumstances."
Will Kane is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @WillKane


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The Supreme Court's new rules for undercover police stings mean the Douglas Hales murder case should end in a mistrial, says the accused killer's lawyer.
Crown and defence lawyers in the first-degree murder trial were at Saskatoon Queen's Bench court Friday to deal with a legal twist in the case caused by the recent ruling from the country's highest court, which laid out new tests for admissibility of evidence gathered in controversial "Mr. Big" stings.
Friday was supposed to be the day Justice Gerald Allbright released his verdict. Instead, he asked the lawyers to discuss the implications of the Supreme Court decision in R. v. Hart. Full arguments are scheduled for Sept. 22.
Defence lawyer Bob Hrycan told reporters outside court he will ask Allbright to declare a mistrial rather than reopen the case to reargue evidence. Hales is accused of killing Daleen Bosse, a mother and university student who went missing in May 2004.
"When the law changes this significantly, it's almost impossible to revisit the evidentiary landscape of a trial and rejig that to conform to the new law," Hrycan said, later adding a mistrial could avoid an even longer appeal process.
"In some respects, a new trial may be the shortest distance between two points, because if the court declines to declare a mistrial and evidence led on the reopening is unsatisfactory to cope with the new legal paradigm, the Court of Appeal may look at this and decide a new trial is warranted anyway. So there are risks with that," he said.
The Supreme Court did not ban Mr. Big stings - in which undercover RCMP officers pose as criminals to recruit a murder suspect into a fake gang with the hopes of eliciting a confession - but it did set rules on the requirements for the admissibility of evidence gathered during the ruses in order to protect an accused's right to a fair trial.
Undercover officers targeted Hales in a 2008 sting, wining and dining him and paying him for fake criminal jobs in an attempt to gain his trust. Hales, in several recorded conversations, told undercover RCMP he killed Bosse and once led them to her remains in a wooded area near Martensville.
The confessions were central to the Crown's case; the defence argued the confessions were unreliable, and that Hales falsely confessed in order to impress his new friends and criminal bosses. Hales maintains Bosse died of alcohol poisoning, then he panicked and burned her remains.
Crown lawyer Matthew Miazga said evidence heard in court earlier this year meets the new requirements for Mr. Big stings. The Supreme Court decision mentions an accused's knowledge of the crime scene as a test of reliability of confessions; Miazga said Hales leading officers to Bosse's remains is a strong piece of evidence.
"(The Supreme Court) set out a very simple process of reliability and abuse of process. We argued reliability extensively in this case," he told reporters.
"Obviously, when you're asking for someone to be convicted, you're asking the court to find those statements reliable. It's just a matter that we didn't know the test at that time. The end result is still the same - if the court doesn't find the statements reliable, they won't be used to base a conviction upon."
Hrycan disagreed. "It's convenient to say 'Regardless of the new legal framework, nothing would have been done differently and everything would look as it does now,' " he said. "Our view is that the changed legal framework would have resulted in a changed evidentiary landscape at trial."
Allbright told court he expects to make a ruling at the end of arguments on Sept. 22 about how the trial will proceed, if at all.
Everyone agreed they're facing the unusual situation of having to accommodate a Supreme Court decision made after a trial's arguments are finished but before the verdict.
"(Allbright) mentioned that this is likely an event that hasn't occurred before," Hrycan said. "From our research, it is without precedent."
Bosse's family and supporters packed the courtroom Friday. Her family is frustrated by the latest delay, but satisfied it's in the best interest of justice, said her aunt, Ingrid Bignell.
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With my XD and the CT, it was substantial. . . the grip is almost round. I would draw from the holster and would have to reposition the pistol in my hand about half the time. Without the laser, it was dead on every time. It doesn't change the grip angle or anything, but it's like grabbing a ball without looking, and expecting it to be in the same position every time. The disclaimer here is that I had just gotten the pistol and was still getting accustomed to it, but I've never had that problem with any other pistol, nor did I have the problem with the XD without the CT.
Also, the CT grips that came with my LCR didn't have that problem, it's only the 'sleeve' style that I think has an issue.
Why do odd shooting positions favor one laser over the other? I'd think the Lasermax would be a bit superior in that regard since you have a really slight offset on one side, you have to get the whole right side of the pistol clear rather than just the muzzle. Not that you'd expect that kind of precision to matter, but there wouldn't be any disadvantage to the Lasermax, which is directly below the muzzle itself.
Like I said, the offset was just annoying, it wouldn't be a practical issue, but it bugged me. Just a touch of OCD, lol.
The only thing I didn't like about the Lasermax for the XD is that it seems like the guide rod and spring assembly that came with my pistol is a lot heavier duty than the one on the Lasermax, but some of the other Lasermax modules for other calibers are as heavy or heavier than the assemblies that came with the gun. Must not be a problem, since they have a great warranty and great customer service, and a fantastic reputation.


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Hi I was an actual client that was helped by Jeffrey Reiff. He was an excellent attorney that went above and beyond all means to make sure that I got the maximum amount for my auto accident. This lawyer really knows the law and brings the client justice. The case I had was settled in a quick but very efficient manner with an amount that even I couldn't believe I was getting. This is coming from a single parent working hard everyday so I was extremely pleased with the results. In fact I referred my girlfriend and she too was quite please with the way the attorney jumped right on top of her case getting all the necessary paperwork done in such a timely manner. I honestly believe that word of mouth is the best way to have this attorney to continue to go even farther in life. He is truly a wonderful and pleasant man besides being just an attorney.
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Thoughtful, professional and personable Jeff Reiff is an outstanding personal injury lawyer that is loved by clients and admired/feared by his peers nationally. He is a dedicated, compassionate and exceptionally gifted lawyer that understands the long term implications serious injuries have on individuals and their families. He has great case instincts knowing when to settle and when a trail is the best option. Jeff and his team of professionals know how to handle complex cases with ease while remaining very informative and focused on the end game – something you just can't find in other lawyers today. It is without reservation that Jeff gets my highest recommendation.
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A 53-year-old Billings man has been charged with raping a 17-year-old girl nine years ago and then relentlessly stalking her for years.
Leslie Dean Ernst has been charged with felony counts of sexual intercourse without consent and stalking.
Ernst has also been charged with a third felony offense of privacy in communications involving a second woman who prosecutors say received lewd text messages from Ernst in July.
Ernst was convicted of felony privacy in communications for harassing the same woman in 1994 and received a five-year prison sentence.
Ernst was arrested earlier this month on a $75,000 warrant. He made his initial appearance this week in Yellowstone County Justice Court, where Judge Larry Herman set bond at $50,000.
Herman reduced the $75,000 bond amount requested by Deputy County Attorney Juli Pierce after Ernst's attorney, Robert Kelleher Jr., said the rape charge is nearly 10 years old.
Kelleher also argued that Ernst has lived in Billings for 40 years and is self-employed.
Herman ordered Ernst to appear for arraignment Sept. 26 in Yellowstone County District Court.
A January 2009 story in The Billings Gazette featured Ernst in a report about family members who provide care to elderly parents. Ernst told a reporter that he quit his job as a psychology professor in Idaho two years earlier and moved to Billings to care for his 85-year-old
ailing father.
An eight-page affidavit filed by prosecutors outlines the current charges against Ernst, and it alleges Ernst has a history stretching back to 1984 of "multiple complaints regarding inappropriate sexual behavior with female minors and young female adults."
In 2008, Ernst filed a complaint of elder abuse against a home health-care agency providing care for his father. A police investigation determined that the claim was unfounded after employees of the agency were interviewed.
The employees said the agency discontinued services to Ernst's father because of Ernst's behavior toward the care providers. Ernst would "rub up against them," follow them while they were working, and solicit them to model for him for money, the affidavit states.
The victim of the rape in 2004 was then a 17-year-old high school senior who said she met Ernst on Nov. 1 of that year through an online chat room. Ernst claimed to be 27 years old.
The girl said Ernst gave her his telephone number and she began speaking to him by phone. Ernst asked to meet her, she said, and she replied they could meet in a public place. Ernst refused, and when the girl declined to meet him a few days later she received a text stating she had better come to his house or she "would not like the consequences," the affidavit states.
The girl said she went to Ernst's house the next evening. She found him waiting for her in a downstairs bedroom wearing only a robe. She told him she was leaving because he was much older than he had claimed, but Ernst grabbed her, threw her on a bed and raped her, court records state.
The girl reported the rape to Billings police three days later, after she received several harassing and profane phone messages from Ernst, including one which stated she could "say goodbye" to her job and school unless she returned his call.
The messages were reviewed by a police detective, and on Nov. 16 officers served a search warrant at Ernst's residence on Cody Drive. Several items were seized, including computer equipment.
The computer equipment was analyzed by a state agent, but no charges were filed against Ernst at that time.
The stalking continued, and the victim would later tell police that she received numerous harassing phone calls despite changing her cellphone number three times in three and a half years.
In 2008, the victim, who was then 21, reported the harassing calls to the Yellowstone County Sheriff's Office. No charges were filed at that time.
Then in February 2010, a Billings police detective contacted the woman about the complaints she filed in 2004 and 2008.
The woman said the harassment had continued even though she had changed her cellphone number numerous times.
The woman said the stalker "was somehow able to obtain her new cellphone numbers and a significant amount of personal information," court records state.
The woman said she was afraid and wanted the harassment stopped.
In July 2010, the woman obtained a permanent order of protection against Ernst. But early the next year, she began receiving messages from a person she believed to be Ernst on her Facebook account.
The messages were from people she did not know, the woman said, and made reference to the restraining order and Ernst. One person the woman suspected was Ernst claimed to be a woman wanting to know what she thought of Ernst and what he had done to her.
The harassment continued this year, when the woman started receiving harassing phone calls and text messages in March. The messages were similar to those she had received in the past, court records state. The woman was taunted to guess the identity of the caller, who would state, "You know my name."
Some of the calls were made as the woman was leaving work or arriving home, making her believe she was being followed, court records state.
County Attorney Scott Twito said Wednesday that his office only learned of the 2004 rape report in June when the stalking case was referred by the Billings Police Department for possible charges.
Police Capt. John Bedford said it appears that a decision was made after the 2004 rape investigation not to refer the case to the County Attorney's Office for prosecution. But it is unclear who made that decision and why, he said.


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A Weekend Away from Dhaka
- Submitted by: Andrew Morris, United Kingdom
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- Submission Date: 02nd Sep 2006
I am feeling particularly adventurous today. Up with the dawn and off to the bus station. Its a national holiday on Sunday, giving us a long weekend, and I have decided to revisit Rajshahi, up in the North. The air is fresh this early morning, and I am carrying my weekend things in a small bag. Surely this, at last, is proof of my integration. Only outsiders carry big bags, I have decided. Once, in Africa, a passing nomad looked at the sizeable briefcase I carried to class and asked if I was going away for a month. But not any more, oh no.
I arrive at the ticket office in good time to catch the little feeder bus out to the station on the outskirts. There are lots of people there. They all have small bags. The shuttle bus comes along and I hop nimbly on. Good grief, I am pleased with myself - here I am leaping on and off local buses in the sunrise, with my small bag.
It is only when I reach the bus station itself that the clerk looks at my ticket and informs me calmly that I have hopped on the wrong shuttle bus and am on the opposite side of town from where I ought to be.
Never fear, there are still forty-five minutes to go, still time to counteract this, ahem, minor setback. I jump into a taxi and ask the driver how long it would take to get to the other station. 'Forty-five minutes. On a good day'. For once I am actually urging the driver to drive faster. He, in turn, needs no further encouragement, and so we hare across town, through impossible gaps, collecting a few scrapes to prove our valour, like notches on a weapon. But he is true to his word, and I arrive at the Green Line office with three minutes to spare. It takes a while for my heart to stop knocking - well after the bus has eased its way on to the open road.
A round man sits down next to me and stretches out a hand. 'As we are travelling together, should we not get to know each other?' Suddenly years of painstakingly avoiding travel talk crumble under this simple and benevolent logic, and we chat for a while. The bus eats up the miles, and I settle down among the lime green curtains and wine-coloured velour seats. The call to prayer rings out from the speakers, and floats oddly among the chords of the song in my headphones. To either side, a brilliant green carpet of paddy. Lone farmers thigh-deep in the water: a woman, motionless, holding a cow. We pass a young couple on a motorbike, her arm sinuously round his waist. Cyclists wobble along the village paths, luminous in the silver early mist.
Now and again a bustling township: a melee of rickshaws, watermelon sellers, shouts and the blasts of the horn as the bus battles through. A man lifts a huge and battered tin pot on to his head and begins to walk, spitting a powerful jet of red betel juice onto the ground. Snack wallahs selling samosas and cucumbers shout up to the bus, taking advantage of our momentary stasis. But then we ease beyond them and plunge back into the palm-crowded countryside. Sudden glimpses of purple flowers in a field - the villages blurry in the distance. Above us the skies brighten and expand. I am, for a moment, indescribably content.
Life out here is slower - there are more people sitting, taking things in. But this apparent rural idyll masks a harsh life, under the pitiless sun. A more conservative and devout life too - here there are far more veils and more beards to be seen.
The hours pass, and eventually, lulled by sleep, we roll into Rajshahi. Its a laid-back, green and elegant provincial town, dotted with old British buildings. There are hardly any cars and the Padma (known elsewhere as the Ganges) flows by, broad and lazy as the Mississippi.
Getting down from the bus there is no need to head straight for the hotel. I make first for Ps house - he was the guard at the college where we worked - bearing gifts of milky sweets. Sitting in his tiny slum, I am fussed over and smiled at, once they have got over their surprise that I am no longer the chubby-cheeked person they knew. 'Are you ill?' P. asks with genuine concern. Here of course you are only considered well if your belly bulges. Slim people are worrisome - like ravenous ghosts.
I look around this small room in which three grown people (their 10-year-old daughter I once knew has blossomed into a 16-year old young woman) spend their entire lives. There is evidence all round of the careful systems of managing life in a confined space. Up above there are cooking pots. Bedclothes for the one double bed shared between three (no parental intimacy here) are folded neatly in the dresser. Dog-eared books are stacked up on the table which serves for food, study and storage. For decoration there are a hundred bright little trinkets, and photos, torn from a magazine, of Aysharawya, the beautiful film-star queen of Bollywood. A faded poster of Tower Bridge nestles incongruously next to a gaudy portrayal of Meccas main square. An old-fashioned square clock on the wall has stopped at 10.30, although we are now early in the afternoon.
P. has not worked in the last few years, and so sits at home, feeling sorry for himself. His long-suffering wife claps her eyes heavenwards when he says to me he will come to Dhaka to see me and find work. 'Him? Hell never go anywhere, just you see.' By contrast, their daughter has just sat her exams and has a rosier outlook. Maybe she will break free from this corrugated-iron confinement.
Later that day I go to the hotel and catch up on some sleep. I am struck, there on the outskirts, by the absence of something, but I cant work it out at first. Then I realise, there is no sound of hammering. This little corner of Bangladesh, at least, is not a building site, and so I am able to fall into a pleasant late afternoon sleep. Time passes and the sun moves through the room,. It casts angular slabs of light, and, slowly bathing my face, wakes me up.
In the evening I head off to see S - a colleague back when we worked here. She is a large, imposing woman with a bold laugh. Since the birth of her daughter she is now even larger, and walks through these dusty streets like a galleon in full sail, her voice ringing out.
We stroll for a while, talking of family and friends, and of life in Bangladesh, and then return to her house. The walls are pale green and scuffed, the furniture set back hard against the walls, as often here, at formal right angles. Her mother comes in bearing a tray of sweets, bananas and apples. Another impressive figure, her teeth stick out independently of each other at improbable angles, but her face is knowing and generous.
It is evening by now, and as we sit the power suddenly fails. I lean back and observe the fleeting shapes in the black room. There are rapid, practised movements and candles are soon mustered, so we remain where we are and talk in the flickering half-light. A gecko scuttles across the wall, feet splayed, past the calendar showing the poet Tagore, and is lost in the gloom.
S. suggests we go and sit on the flat roof instead, as without the fans it is now too hot down here in the dark. So up we go, pull two old metal chairs into place, and enjoy the cooler evening air. But the day is dying, and the darkness moves in on us like a sea. In the distance, frogs have started up their croaking chatter around the pond. S. sits talking, now just a silhouette in the slate-blue light. Then we are just two voices. The brittle stars wink overhead. Finally, there is silence.
I fall into bed that night and sleep untroubled by dreams. When I wake it is sunrise - a liquid orange glow seeping into the room. A new day, but, in the surprising way these things take you when you are on the road, a sudden feeling of overwhelming loneliness.
I somehow manage to shake it off despite a melancholy breakfast of rubbery fried eggs, sweetened bread (not recommended) and rather bitter brown coffee. Ive had better, but by the time I am out on the dusty road into town, rolling along in the morning breeze, my spirits are as high as crows again.
Today will be a day full of house visits (one which will see me return home exhausted at 10.30pm). Bangladesh is, after all, about people. The countryside can be stunning but there isnt a whole lot to look at in the towns - the architecture is pretty undistinguished, there is concrete everywhere and the roads are honking and congested. The true wealth of the country lies in its incredible welcomes, its friendliness, and its humanity. So if you dont want to get to know the people, youd perhaps be better off in Bangkok. Or Basingstoke.
The rickshaw hits the old town of Rajshahi and we ply down narrow winding streets. The rollers on shop fronts clatter as they are raised to greet the morning. The heat is already cranking up now. In a dingy barbers shop a man patiently raises his arm while the barber shaves his armpit. A woman in a small shack at the roadside brews some tea for the men squatting around. There are loud voices and laughter.
My first port of call is J, who was our cook when we lived here. She lives in the Mission, with its tidy little church and its tended lawns. Being Christian, the people call out Namaskar, a greeting they share with Hindus and Buddhists as an alternative to Salaam aleikum.
J, who is divorced, lives with her family in a small neat compound, four rooms surrounding a little yard. There are bales of hay, earthenware cooking pots, a flyblown fluorescent light. The sun is warm on my face and arms as we sit and talk. She is an outstanding cook, but at the moment is once again out of work as the Swiss natural resources expert she worked for has now moved on. She keeps an eye out for the next foreigners to move in - I promise to look out for her in Dhaka too. Will she mind moving away from this family hearth? Not at all - first you have to earn, then you can enjoy your family '
More visits follow all day - for each one I buy sweets, and then am force-fed copiously as we sit and talk about old friends and old times, until it is at last nightfall, and I heave my body, like a ball and chain, back to my hotel. I can face no more food for a week at least.
The fun over, I am up once again with the sunrise, and off to the bus station for the hurtling journey back to what is now my home, across the diaphanous green countryside towards the beckoning capital.


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