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Days Inn And Suites - Vicksburg
Days Inn And Suites - Vicksburg
Hotel Guest Rating: 5.2/10
90 Warrenton Road
Vicksburg, MS 39180
Welcome to the Days Inn And Suites - Vicksburg
Free parking, cable TV, an outdoor pool and free continental breakfast are Priceline guest-pleasers at this hotel in historic downtown Vicksburg, overlooking the Mississippi River.
Hotel Features
The two-story Days Inn & Suites Vicksburg has 60 rooms that provide microwaves, refrigerators, coffeemakers, high-speed internet and flat-panel TVs with premium channels, including HBO. The hotel offers a free continental Daybreak Breakfast each morning. There's a seasonal, outdoor pool for guests to enjoy, free coffee is available in the lobby, and parking is free.
Hotel Location
Offering easy access to I-20, the hotel is three miles from the Vicksburg Convention Center and a mile from Riverfront Park. Ameristar Casino and Diamond Jack's Casino are within a mile. The famous seawall murals on Catfish Row are three miles from the hotel, and Vicksburg National Military Park is four miles away. Vicksburg Factory Outlet Mall is a five-mile drive. Jackson-Evers International Airport is 54 miles from Days Inn & Suites.
Guest Favorites
Priceline guests love the "good view overlooking the Mississippi River" at Days Inn & Suites Vicksburg, which also features free breakfast, free parking and an outdoor pool.
Days Inn And Suites - Vicksburg Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Alarm clock
- Coffee/Tea maker
- Complimentary continental breakfast
- Complimentary in-room coffee or tea
- Desk with lamp
- Exterior corridors
- Free newspaper
- High speed internet access
- High speed internet connection
- Ironing board
- Meeting rooms
- Microwave
- Refrigerator
- Security
Hotel Information
You must show a valid photo ID and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all special requests cannot be guaranteed and are subject to availability upon check-in. Additional charges may apply. Guests are required to show a photo identification and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all Special Requests are subject to availability and additional charges may apply.
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May 21, 2015
Solo Traveler
November 25, 2014
Family Traveling with Young Children
Management needs to get the hotel together. We left three days later and they still didn't have the phone lines fixed. Not safe. ABSOLUTELY no parking spaces bc they share with a waffle house. Thin walls and doors. All u will hear is walking all night long.
July 8, 2014
June 8, 2014
Group Traveler
Great view of river
May 13, 2014
Family Traveling with Teens
Hotel is in a great location overlooking the river but there is a storage trailer parked right in the view. The staff was very friendly and professional. The beds were terrible. The room has peeling wallpaper.
October 5, 2013
July 3, 2013
Over all very nice
October 27, 2012
No volume adjustment on TV. Only one set of towels. I had to clean the AC filter. Cig. burns, rip. Telephone headset cable was missing its locking tab so it frequently came out and we lost our call.
September 23, 2012
The location has great potential overlooking the river, but the place is filthy and needs to be completely remodeled. The continental breakfast was lousy. The bagels were old and disgusting.
August 7, 2012
It was a pleasant stay, the room was clean and the lady in the office was very friendly! If I am ever in the area I will plan to stay here again.
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Tuesday September 5, 2006
By BERNARD SEE
THE second oldest lighthouse in the country located at Fort Cornwallis in Penang will be open to the public next week.
State Tourism Development Com-mittee chairman Teng Chang Yeow said more than RM100,000 was spent to spruce up the lighthouse built in 1882.
"The lighthouse has been given a new coat of paint.
"Originally known as Fort Point Lighthouse, it underwent renovation in 1914 and 1925, and was renamed the Penang Harbour Lighthouse.
Teng said visitors may later be charged a nominal fee of RM1 for the upkeep of the lighthouse.
"This lighthouse is special as it is the only one in the country that looks like a ship's mast. It is also the only one in Peninsular Malaysia that does not serve any navigational purpose," he added.
He said there were two other lighthouses in Penang located in Muka Head and Pulau Rimau here.
The oldest lighthouse in Malaysia is located in Tanjung Tuan, Malacca. It was built about two years before the Fort Cornwallis lighthouse.
Teng said Penang was all geared up for an influx of tourists during Visit Malaysia Year (VMY) 2007.
He said a series of promotional events had been planned for the launch of VMY 2007.
"The front liners of the industry such as the tourist guides have also been trained.
"A committee was recently set up to attract tourists to the state for the nation's 50th Merdeka Day celebrations next year," he added.
Neighbours heard cries of children being beaten
RM1mil reward offer for information on Dr M's alleged misdeeds
Body of child found buried in kitchen
'Wild' party ends for 51 at popular mall
Money down the drain
Image on Google Street View may be that of missing boy
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"Championship of Alpine Passes" or "Seealpen & Liguria"
Originally the plan has been to discover the mediterian island of Corsica, the dream island for every biker to finally figure out by myself what parts of all the tales and stories from and about this island are true. There are rumors that the island is the best and most beautiful place for motorbikers . Not easy to belief for a guy like me which grew up with Alps in the backyard, Black-Forrest in the front and the french Voges right around the corner. Not easy to believe indeed, so most highly time to either prove true or shut them all up for ever!
Because finding myself in the most priviledged situation having some more vacation-days on my account than my loved one, I decided to start the trip earlier than her. She supposed to fill up the 30 liters that belong to here in the right box of my goat and we managed to book a night-train Zurich to Genua.
The five days which I left earlier I wanted to use for discovering another corner of the Alps which I have on my to see list" since quiet a while;
The Seealpen" a Part of the Alps that stretches between Lac Leman in Switzerland and the touristic shores of the northern Mediterian Sea. On the loop the most western corner shall be the Grand Canyon de Verdon which I somehow managed to drive by for the last 10 yrs, several times and because of several different reasons of other priority.
As every tour, even this one starts a) at the earliest possible daytime and b) with one nicely strong coffee.
It is no secret as well, that ALL the REAL good things in life one first has to earn in sweat and pain. For the westward traveling Central European this means: Eating Autobahnmiles.
At least until the little village of Martigny one post of the northern gate to the Seealpen.
Unfortunately does "eating miles" not very clear describe traveling on Swiss Autobahn.
200mls usually take you several hours because on one hand, we have probably the best maintained roads in the whole world, but on the other hand we have simply too many cars around. Because, as everybody in the world knows, we are one of the wealthiest nations in the world, there are many many cars trying to prove this day by day. But thats not all! The very most problem is the through-traffic! All the trucks that are bringing the goods, equipment and all kind of stuff from Europes North to its south drive through our country. The Alps naturally separate the northern part from the southern part of the continent. There indeed are very limited chances to cross this huge obstical economically so we find ourselves flooded by foreign trucks and cars all year long. Most terrible: They dons even stop in our country to have a coffee or buy some whatever. They just haul all the potatoes from Holland down to Italy, only for cleaning and than back to Germany for packing and back to Italy again into the shops or onto markets where they will be sold as "Bio-Food".
At peak time finally, the summer vacation time, sometimes I expect the whole fuckin Eurasian landshelf to flip over to the south, as each and every gdamned car from the north heads southward over St. Gotthard- or St. Bernhard-Pass! One very spectacular, deeply impressive thing every year.
But, where have I been .? Ok Martigny.
Only a few miles after Martigny, the road leads up to the Grd. St. Bernhard Pass. The famous abbey on its top where the famous dogs come from. It took some hundred year of breeding and cultivating that race of dogs. Today they have the little barrel around the neck right at birth. It will be the job of the next few generations of pationated breeders to make sure the barrels contain some fair quality of booze.
If your heart is not beating faster on the way up to this pass, you might remain at fingerboarding and exchange your bike against one little piece of plastic to be wrap around the fingers instead of using your fingers to turn on the throtle.
Its already pretty cold up here, autumn sends its first messengers announcing a long and hard winter. However; Reaching an alpine pass, even by motorbike, always makes me somehow feel like a little conquestor, explorer or discoverer. A not very common feeling these days, especially not in my age.
One almost can smell the fresh air:
Later on the way goes down to the Valle dAosta, takes me for a short time up this valley on an unspectacular freeway to the little town of Courmayeur. Breathtaking views on the Mt.Blanc compensat fort he last two dozen kilometers on which one shares plenty of dark, cold tunnels with overtired truckdrivers who too often try to chase their lack of sleep with a pinch of cocain or some wodka and fight some pretty spectacular position-fights on the long, boring road.
Architectural evidence that Courmayeur, here at the bottom of Europes highes Mountain, truly stands for climbing and mountaineering (check the rope at the wall)
Ltl. St. Bernard...
....Col de l'Izoard..
...to finally check into Lanslebourg only to realize later that day, that in this one-horse town can not even be found one single sportsbar, pub or similar where a traveller can have his well deserved brew before sleeping.
I anyway will regret the decision to stay here over night as instead the place presents one unforgetable views to the several 10'000-feeters which surround it. The views are spectacular in the early morning sun:
Motorbiking (and anything else) gets quiet a bit into background in moments where one facess this breathtaking views and one realy has to resist doing a photostop each minute. http://cooltours.smugmug.com/photos/37569662-M.jpg
Climbing and descenting Col du Mt. Cenis I experienced on nearly empty roads and in the first sunbeams of the day. Up here, several spectacular offroad tracks meet (Giorgio might be able to report about them) and only the remaining chill of the night forces me forward yet and keeps me from stopping too many times, only to soak up the scenery in my mind, heart and soul.
In Susa it runs me westward again. All along the mainroad until Olux where I finally manage to get my daily shot of breakfast-, well, brunch-caffeine.
In Lausiers the championship most definately starts. "Col de Restefond" and right after that, the "Col de la Bonnette", the highest, legally reachabel point by motorvehicle in Europe (for common people at least)!
Among the other things a man should have done in his life (planting a tree, procreate a child, loving a woman and riding a GS) having been up here is "MUST" number 5 in each motorbikers life.
Might be because of the cold or just because of the grey, unfriendly sky, I did not enjoye my stay up there as much as I should have done. So, fast, shooting the compulsory pictures
and than, once again, down into an new, nameless vallye, waiting to be discovered by me.
At that point I somehow cant reconstruct the rest of that day's trip. One thing I remember clearly enough: The leg was twisty and one endles rush of curves and winding, allmost empty roads. A never ending lovestory between a man, his bike and the scenery they're temporary part of.
I also still have the picture in mind which, at the Croix de la Mission, 10 mls before my destination Castellane, almost have been the last picture in my life ever; A blue truck, a bold driver, plenty of white around the black of his eyes . Well, the name of the place indeed promises that it wouldnt have been the worst place to leave the planet .
Sorry for not getting to the point yet. Need some creative break and more consultation of dictionary first.....
2 b continued.
Great stuff, thanks for sharing. :freaky
Ok, here we are back again.
As mentioned before (or was it elsewhere) the little french village Castellane is one of my favourite places since many years. I can exactly explain the reason for that. The village is very small, theres not much to see and do, anyway I like the place very much.
I remember that this place was the first place to stay outside of Spain when we did our Iberian loop back in 2004. 6 weeks of experience with proud, most of the time unfriendly and cold-distanced Spanish hotel-stuff... Might be that the nice "what can I do for you my friend" at the hotel-desk gave me a more friendly impression that it would have done coming from an other side.
How ever, of course I do have made great experiences too with the local f&b-industry and the fact, that each time I was there the sun was shining might have done the rest to make the place simply "a great place to be". By the way also the fact that at this place meeting several famous and very popular motorcycling-roads does for sure not disturb this impression at all.
The following morning promises allot (as btw every moring does, especially if its a sunny one)! The peaks of the surrounding hills infront of my hotelroom-window seem to burn in the sun, only the haze of the morning which still remains at the canyons entry keeps me from starting the engine allready at 7pm.
9pm anyway was early enough to head east (theres a band with that name right??)Some persistent fog at the door to the continets most impressive canyon still bungle me some of the great views at this position.
Instead I take the chance for some self-portraits, most of theme come out with average result.
Im following the D952 along the northrim of the Canyon, all the way to Moustiers .
.and, you might guess it, make a first coffeebreak at the shore of Lac de Ste Croix. Im taking the brown one in openair-the pub campingplace in which the staff is currently busy to clean up the last leftovers from the Ricard, Pastis and Wodka - orgy which obviousely just have finished some short time ago.
:clap Great photos!
WOW, what great shots! We have some great riding in California, but the grandeur of the Alps is just jaw-dropping. Great report!
This ist the most western point of my loop. Im heading back east on the D19/GR99, all along the southrim of the Canyon and the lookouts, scenery and roads confirm most clearly, that this is for sure MUST number 6 for every humand with a motorbikers heart beating in his chest. . Thats the reason why Im discovering the world by motorbike!
The D19, the hat brim on the Grand Canyon de Verdons southern rim.
Meanwhile the sun warmed up the day and the yet narrow curves around the GCdV slowly change into wider, great prepaired bows. The trip between Comps and Logis du Pins is another dream from which I only awake at the time Im reaching Nice and its monster-traffic.
Still having the lonely roads in mind, Im strolling along the harbour of Nice and try to find out whether I might exchange my goat for on pot like that. .
Well, not that I want to place to fast and thoughtless a too motorcyclist-proud never ever!". But Im sure that this pot would have to be REAL big, equiped with sufficient stuff for all kind of jobs" and finally would have to be exchanged back again immediately for my loved goat!...
For sure not necessairy to explain that I cant find an affordable place to stay for the night in the City of the rich, beauty and famouse. Who cares! Im anyway still too horney for motorcycling and who anyway Stopps his tour at 3pm just because he reached his destination for the day.
Excellent pics and report! :thumb
Defitely frontpage materiall Baldyyyy hear meeeee:clap
Great report and photos so cool thanks alot buddy :thumb
Hey, geil Alter! :D
Seealpen, it's a nice place. I did there about 30 "Cols" last year :lol3
And my favourite warm-up:
You can see more pictures on my homepage.
So it's quick decided to proceed riding further east again. I'm pretty familiar with the corner around here, called the "Cote d'Azur". So I can resist easely the temptation to follow the coastline as it supposed to be more nice.
The one who's doing that to oneself indeed, will be nothing but bitterly disappointed. This coast is probably more populated than the shores of the Hudson-River and catching one little glance of the Mediterranean sea is truly much more difficult than getting a date with Paris Hilton or being invited by GWB to discuss the national security-situation. In fact; deciding to follow the coastline in this area is nothing but a COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME. Time, which one truly can use way better on a later stage of this trip.
So I gratefully accept the kind offer of the Autobahn again bringing me fast and safe more east, toward Ventimiglia, the City right at the western edge of Pizza-, Pasta-, Ferrari- and Dolcevita-Country.
For what ever reason at all, I decide for a turn north, after I checked out my map for a village which in my eyes looks most as it would offer me a place fort he night.
Unfortunately Pigna doesn't fulfill my whish. Instead of a room to stay, there's very nice camera-feed:
So there's not much left than heading more north, all the way towards Molini di Triora. As it soon will be clear, the very most highlight of the day! 2nd, 3rd gear… for 1.5hrs or more…. all along forests and smooth hills…. That there are wild, untouched places like this right in the middle of Europe… I really am highly pleased about this finding! It feels like being transfered back in time.
Finally I'm finding myself in the only little Albergo that in the village of Molini di Triora is offering. Tired and, once more, happy and grateful for one brilliant day, some new findings and another experience I can share.
The owner of the place is two heads smaller than me and her voice is two octaves deeper than mine.
Whats for dinner you want to know !?" She looks busy-contemptuous to me in my flashy bikers gear while shes placing huge plates, no, better said, bowls of Gnioggi and Pasta onto the table in front of a couple of customers.
"Go, get yourself clean and dont dawdle too long.." was the answer I get. Well, who could resist these kind of unmistakable and clear stated whishes .?!
It happens later, that at this glory day in the fall 2005 ive not only had one of the most beautiful motorcycle rides in my long bikers-life, but also eat the best Spaghetti-Vongole after prior to that I eat the best Tagliatelle of my life ever and right before I put the most delicious wild boar Ive had ever right on top of it.
To keep company Im mixing all these delicacy properly with a bottle of the vino de la casa which finally explains for sure why Im falling to sleep right before my ears touching the pillow.
The dismissal on the other morning is most hearty, all the familys helping me saddle up and I promise to come back very very soon.
The detailed study of the map shows, that thered be plenty of fire-roads to be discovered here. Later, while writing down the trip, I shall figure out, that there is an access to the legendary Ligurian Boundary Road" maybe one of the last REAL adventures one can have around here. How ever, I safe this trip for another occasion.
Instead Im taking the difficult to pass"-marked SP17 towards Pieve di Teco.
The landscape showing the same picture as yesterday. It is a scenery that is giving the traveler this certain feeling of peace and freedom. Forrest, hills, breathtaking views over and over
Just somewhere here, up on one of the plenty nameless colles I meet Luigi. Luigi is retired and now passionately is going about his hobby; Castels and older buildings. Hes not keen on all these famous, popular places like Carcasonne in France or Indias big castle, the city of Jaipur. Also Schloss Neuschwanstein" doesnt really find his deepest interest too. No, Luigi is most keen on the small, almost unknown little castels which neither have had huge political or strategic value nor represents some great architectonical value.
Unfortunately I didnt work my way much more deep into his preferences. The reason for that clearly is my poor Italian knowledge on one, but completely inexistent foreign language knowledge of Luigi on the other hand.
How ever, we agree meeting in one of the next villages. There, as Luigi reports, right next to the church shall be found one of these buildings. Additionaly, as Luigi knows too, shall there be one Taverne right next door which is offering the very best Piati di Giorno all around northern Italy. Well, after yesterdays supper, I have quiet some claims on quality food .
So it comes, that Im enjoying one piati di Giorno together with Luigi, the Honda CBR-rider and passionated rock-pile-freak in a nameless village right next to a nameless building out of the late 16. Century. Further it comes that we are communicating more than 2 hours although were not speaking the same language and on top of all the pensioner from Asti can not be talked out to invite me for the unbelievable dinner.
My journey brings me more east again. All the way through idyllic little villages in each one one wants to stop on the small piazza and just get in harmony with slow and relaxed beating the puls of this places where the time seem to stand still at least since 50 years.
My next break is in Pieve di Teco. Im satisfying my coffee-addiction in a cosie place right at the village-entry. Ralf, a German family man is speaking to me right as Im emptying my cup. Quiet some years ago hes emigrated and now living here a "way better life". In my inborn sceptical way against all German kindness and offers for brothership I first gratefully but firmly refuse his offer to show me some great roads on the map. Truly German as he will be even after 100yrs staying in Italy, he cant accept my refuse, much more he, as a profound connoisseur of the area, insists that Im trying out his "me-loop" at least.
In the end my curiosity is anyway more strong than my inborn urge for Swiss punctuality and Im happy to report, that the decision is a good one!
The loop goes gain more to the north; Aquetico, Ponti, Pian die Prati, Colla S. Bernardo, Nava und zurück nach Pieve di Teco.
And indeed, how could it have been else; The loop is worth each minute and mile. Obviously its a popular motorcyclists area here as I meet plenty more of them than I did all the many miles before. This loop all through woods and along little creeks finally strengths my intention to come back to this place as soon as ever possible.
Its getting late. Im supposed to pick up the tickets for the vessel from Genua to Corsica at the counter in Genua. As Ive never been in Genua before and as everybody knows that Italian Citys are pure horror regarding traffic, I decide to head toward that obligation I have.
Again the Autobahn does best service to me and brings me in shortest time right to the gates of Genua.
Theres a room-reservation already at a hotel next to the station and at 2am Im expecting my girl to arrive with the night-train from Zuerich right in the arrival hall. Having her luggage roll under her one arm, lots of stuff in her hands and the heavy shoes on her feet shes showing up in the crowd of foreign workers coming home for some days being with their familys. And while Im standing there Im allready looking forward to the second part of this trip to be started tomorrow in the mist of the morning and which will be somewhen reported here under the titel "The Corse-Loop" or "Cooltourix in Corsica"!
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High-risk populations
Causes and symptoms
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Extrapulmonary tuberculosis
- Bones. TB is particularly likely to attack the spine and the ends of the long bones. Children are especially prone to spinal tuberculosis. If not treated, the spinal segments (vertebrae) may collapse and cause paralysis in one or both legs.
- Kidneys. Along with the bones, the kidneys are probably the commonest site of extrapulmonary TB. There may, however, be few symptoms even though part of a kidney is destroyed. TB may spread to the bladder. In men, it may spread to the prostate gland and nearby structures.
- Female reproductive organs. The ovaries in women may be infected; TB can spread from them to the peritoneum, which is the membrane lining the abdominal cavity.
- Abdominal cavity. Tuberculous peritonitis may cause pain ranging from the vague discomfort of stomach cramps to intense pain that may mimic the symptoms of appendicitis.
- Joints. Tubercular infection of joints causes a form of arthritis that most often affects the hips and knees. The wrist, hand, and elbow joints also may become painful and inflamed.
- Meninges. The meninges are tissues that cover the brain and the spinal cord. Infection of the meninges by the TB bacillus causes tuberculous meningitis, a condition that is most common in young children but is especially dangerous in the elderly. Patients develop headaches, become drowsy, and eventually comatose. Permanent brain damage is the rule unless prompt treatment is given. Some patients with tuberculous meningitis develop a tumor-like brain mass called a tuberculoma that can cause stroke-like symptoms.
- Skin, intestines, adrenal glands, and blood vessels. All these parts of the body can be infected by M. tuberculosis. Infection of the wall of the body's main artery (the aorta), can cause it to rupture with catastrophic results. Tuberculous pericarditis occurs when the membrane surrounding the heart (the pericardium) is infected and fills up with fluid that interferes with the heart's ability to pump blood.
- Miliary tuberculosis. Miliary TB is a life-threatening condition that occurs when large numbers of tubercle bacilli spread throughout the body. Huge numbers of tiny tubercular lesions develop that cause marked weakness and weight loss, severe anemia, and gradual wasting of the body.
Diseases similar to tuberculosis
Supportive care
Drug therapy
- Lowering the number of bacilli as quickly as possible. This measure minimizes the risk of transmitting the disease. When sputum cultures become negative, this has been achieved. Conversely, if the sputum remains positive afterfive to six months, treatment has failed.
- Preventing the development of drug resistance. For this reason, at least two different drugs and sometimes three are always given at first. If drug resistance is suspected, at least two different drugs should be tried.
- Long-term treatment to prevent relapse.
General measures
Prophylactic use of isoniazid
- close contacts of TB patients, including health care workers
- newly infected patients whose skin test has turned positive in the past two years
- anyone who is HIV-positive with a positive PPD skin test; Isoniazid may be given even if the PPD results are negative if there is a risk of exposure to active tuberculosis
- intravenous drug users, even if they are negative for HIV
- persons with positive PPD results and evidence of old disease on the chest x-ray who have never been treated for TB
- patients who have an illness or are taking a drug that can suppress the immune system
- persons with positive PPD results who have had intestinal surgery; have diabetes or chronic kidney failure; have any type of cancer; or are more than 10% below their ideal body weight
- people from countries with high rates of TB who have positive PPD results
- people from low-income groups with positive skin test results
- persons with a positive PPD reaction who belong to high-risk ethnic groups (African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Asians, and Pacific Islanders)
tuberculosis/tu·ber·cu·lo·sis/ (-sis) any of the infectious diseases of humans and other animals due to species of Mycobacterium and marked by formation of tubercles and caseous necrosis in tissues of any organ; in humans the lung is the major seat of infection and the usual portal through which infection reaches other organs.
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The most common mode of transmission of tuberculosis in the United States is inhalation of infected droplet nuclei. In some other parts of the world bovine tuberculosis, which is carried by unpasteurized milk and other dairy products from tuberculous cattle, is more prevalent. A rare mode of transmission is by infected urine, especially for young children using the same toilet facilities. Tuberculosis is also seen as an opportunistic infection in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
The tubercle bacillus is capable of surviving for months in dried sputum that is not exposed to sunlight. Within the body it can lie dormant for decades and then become reactivated years after an initial infection. This secondary tuberculosis infection (endogenous reinfection) can occur at any time the patient's resistance is lowered. For this reason, periodic evaluation for evidence of the disease is extremely important for anyone who has had a primary tuberculosis infection. The tubercle bacillus is destroyed by boiling for 5 minutes, by autoclaving, by contact with coal tar preparations, e.g., phenol, and by ultraviolet radiation.
The primary infection usually involves the middle or lower lung area. The primary lesion consists of a small area of exudation in the lung parenchyma (Ghon focus) which quickly becomes caseous (cheeselike) and spreads to the bronchopulmonary lymph nodes, where it gains access to the blood stream. Thus the stage is set for the development of a chronic pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis at a later time. In most instances, however, a secondary reinfection from inside the body (endogenous) or outside the body (exogenous) does not occur because of the subsequent development of tuberculin hypersensitivity and cellular immunity. The presence of antigen concentrations at the initial site of infection brings about necrosis and eventually fibrosis and calcification of the tissues, which arrests the infection and renders the disease inactive. If, however, the infection is not controlled, the patient develops the symptoms of progressive primary tuberculosis.
Secondary tuberculosis develops as a result of either endogenous or exogenous reinfection by the tubercle bacillus. This is the most common form of clinical tuberculosis. In the United States development of secondary tuberculosis is almost always the result of an endogenous reinfection, which occurs when the primary lesion becomes active. This most frequently happens in debilitated persons who have lowered resistance to disease.
Resistance to tuberculosis depends on the general health and living conditions of the individual. Poor health, crowded and unsanitary housing, malnutrition, and other illnesses can lower the body's defenses. A second factor that can lead to activation of the disease is frequent exposure to the bacilli or exposure to such numbers that even a healthy person cannot escape infection.
Chronic pulmonary tuberculosis is often accompanied by pleurisy. Pleurisy with effusion often is the first symptom of tuberculosis. In certain cases, complications are possible and each has its characteristic symptoms. At a fairly late stage, the tuberculosis bacillus may cause ulcers or inflammation around the larynx (tuberculous laryngitis). Less often, tuberculous ulcers form on the tongue or tonsils. Sometimes intestinal infections develop; they are probably caused by swallowed bacteria-contaminated sputum. A most serious complication is the sudden collapse of a lung, the indication that a deep tuberculous cavity in the lung has perforated, or opened into the pleural cavity, allowing air and infected material to flow into it.
When a fairly large and previously walled-off lesion, or infected area, suddenly discharges its contents into the bronchial tree, the result is the infection of a large part of the lung, an acute and dangerous complication which causes tuberculous pneumonia.
Tuberculosis bacilli can spread to other parts of the body by way of the blood, producing miliary tuberculosis. When a large number of bacilli suddenly enter the circulatory system, they are carried to all areas of the body and may lodge in any organ. Minute tubercles form in the tissues of the organs affected; these lesions are about the size of a pinhead or millet seed (hence the name miliary). Unless promptly treated, and occasionally even then, the tiny lesions spread, join, and produce larger areas of infection.
Tuberculous pneumonia can begin in this way, as can tuberculosis of any other organ. Miliary infections involving the meninges produce a particularly serious disease; indeed, until the development of antibiotics, this condition nearly always proved fatal.
Practically all parts and organs of the body can be secondarily invaded by tubercle bacilli, a common type being involvement of the kidneys, which often spreads to the bladder and genitalia. Bone involvement, particularly of the spine (pott's disease), was once common, especially among children.
Lupus vulgaris, or tuberculosis of the skin, is characterized by brown nodules on the corium; another form of tuberculosis of the skin is tuberculosis indurativa, a chronic disease in which indurated nodules form on the skin. When the adrenal glands are affected by tuberculosis, a rare occurrence, the condition can cause addison's disease.
Masks may be necessary for those having intimate contact with a patient who is just beginning chemotherapy, and in caring for patients who cannot or will not take precautions against spreading the infection. Usually, two to four weeks after medications are begun restrictions are removed regarding activities and contacts. Handwashing is essential to prevention of cross-infection. Fomites are not considered important in the transmission of tuberculosis and so no special precautions are required for eating utensils and other inanimate articles in the patient's room. Screening of family members and other contacts should be done. Standard precautions are used for patients with extrapulmonary tuberculosis and those who have a positive skin test even without evidence of disease. Institutionalized patients with pulmonary or laryngeal disease should be kept on airborne precautions. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published "Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in Health Care Facilities." The document can be read on their web site at http://www.cdc.gov.
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M. tuberculosis and characterized by the formation of tubercles in the tissues.
M. tuberculosis.
fungal uveitis Uveitis caused by a fungus such as Candida albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans and Histoplasma capsulatum. It is often accompanied by other disorders (e.g. choroiditis, retinitis). It may have spread from other bodily tissues (e.g. skin, mouth, gastrointestinal tract) in patients who are intravenous drug addicts, patients with indwelling venous catheters or patients who are immunosuppressed.
intermediate uveitis A chronic inflammation of the ciliary body (cyclitis) or its pars plana zone (pars planitis) or of the peripheral retina and vitreous (peripheral uveitis). The cause is unknown in most cases but others are associated with systemic conditions such as multiple sclerosis, sarcoidosis or HIV infection. It affects mainly young adults and is bilateral in about 80% of cases. Symptoms are floaters and, sometimes, blurred vision, and there may be anterior chamber cells and flare. Ophthalmoscopic examination may show vitreous condensation and gelatinous exudates ('cotton balls' or 'snowballs'). Snowbanking, i.e. a whitish plaque or exudates involving the pars plana, often the inferior part of it, appears mainly in pars planitis. Intermediate uveitis may be associated with retinal vasculitis (i.e. inflammation of a retinal blood vessel). In a few cases the condition is self-limiting within a few months. However, in most cases the condition lasts several years may lead to complications such as cystoid macular oedema, posterior subcapsular cataract, retinal detachment or cyclitic membrane formation. Treatment includes corticosteroids and in resistant cases immunosuppressive agents.
posterior uveitis A uveitis involving the posterior segment of the eye. Symptoms include floaters and visual loss if the choroiditis involves the macular area. Ophthalmoscopically there is an accumulation of debris in the vitreous and choroidal lesions appear as yellow-white areas of infiltrates surrounded by normal fundus. Retinitis is also present in most cases, as well as retinal vasculitis. Posterior uveitis may be associated with AIDS, Behçet's disease, Lyme disease, histoplasmosis, sarcoidosis, toxoplasmosis, syphilis, tuberculosis, Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome, sympathetic ophthalmia, etc.
viral uveitis Uveitis caused by a virus. Common viruses are: herpes simplex, which is usually associated with keratitis and may cause anterior uveitis; herpes zoster which may also be associated with keratitis; human T-cell lymphotrophic virus; measles; cytomegalovirus; rubella; human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). See herpes simplex blepharoconjunctivitis; herpes zoster ophthalmicus.
tuberculosisInfectious disease A disease first known to the ancients; there are one million new cases of Mycobacterium tuberculosis/yr worldwide, of which ±10% of those in developing nations eventually die; 'smear'-positive cases in Africa–165/105, are more often clinically inactive than those in Asia where the rate is 110/105 US incidence: 9.3 cases/105–white/Hispanic 5.7/105, black 26.7/105, Asian 49.6/105; the previous trend of ↓ TB in the US reversed itself in the mid-1980s, due to ↑ of M tuberculosis and M avium complex in AIDS; up to 10 million in the US have latent TB–many of whom are poor, aged, malnourished; homeless or IVDAs Clinical Coughing, chest pain, hemoptysis, weight loss, fatigue, malaise, fever, night sweats Diagnosis Ziehl-Neelsen or Kinyoun AFB stains, viewed by LM; auramine-rhodamine stain with fluorescent microscopy; NAP test, nucleic acid probes, PCR Treatment-1º drugs Isoniazid, ethambutol, rifampicin, streptomycin 2º drugs Ethionamide, capreomycin, kanamycin, cycloserine, pyrazinamide, para-aminosalicylic acid. See Latent tuberculosis, MOTT, Mycobacterial infection, Multidrug resistant tuberculosis, Runyon classification. Cf Pseudotuberculosis.
tu·ber·cu·lo·sis (TB),(tū-ber'kyū-lō'sis),
In 1993 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared TB a global emergency. Fully one third of the world's population is infected with TB. On a global scale, TB ranks first among infectious diseases as a cause of death. Two thirds of all the world's cases are in Asia, but the disease is also endemic in parts of Africa (where the highest incidence rates per capita are found) and eastern Europe. War and social upheaval have played a role in the spread of tuberculosis beyond endemic zones. Prevalence of infection is higher among refugees and immigrants. One third of all people with tuberculosis in the U.S. were born outside this country, and more than 50% of newly diagnosed cases occur in people of foreign birth. From the 1950s, when antibiotics began to be used for the treatment of TB, until the 1980s, the incidence and mortality of the disease declined steadily in the U.S. During the 1980s the incidence began to rise because of many new cases in people with AIDS and because of increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant strains of M. tuberculosis. Since 1993 the figures have again declined, chiefly because of improvements in TB prevention and control programs in state and local health departments as a result of increased federal funding provided to states. At least one third of people with AIDS contract TB, and TB is the cause of death in one third of people who die of AIDS. Because antibiotic resistance in M. tuberculosis has been a growing problem for years, multidrug regimens, usually including isoniazid, rifampin, and pyrazinamide, are standard. Other drugs, such as ethambutol, streptomycin, kanamycin, and capreomycin, may be added or substituted. The success of treatment is limited not only by the resistance of organisms to several agents but also by the risk of severe toxic effects with all standard agents. Unlike most infections treated with antibiotics, TB requires not merely days or weeks of treatment but rather months and years. Long-term compliance with treatment regimens tends to be poor among mobile, indigent, and uneducated people. According to WHO, the principal reason for the spread of multidrug-resistant strains of M. tuberculosis is ineffectual management of TB control programs, particularly in developing countries. An inappropriate or unfinished course of chemotherapy not only leaves the patient still sick and still contagious, but favors the selection of resistant bacteria. It is estimated that 50 million of the world's cases of TB involve multiply resistant tubercle bacilli. The prevalence of infection due to drug-resistant strains is particularly high in some former Soviet states. Currently WHO urges that TB programs worldwide adopt the practice of directly observed therapy (DOT), in which a health care worker observes each patient swallowing each dose of medicine. In a study performed at several U.S. centers, DOT for TB was found to be cost effective when the cost of relapses and treatment failures was added to the cost of self-administered therapy, even though the raw cost of DOT was higher. U.S. public health authorities have established as a national goal the elimination of TB (defined as an incidence of less than 1 case per 1 million population) by 2010.
tu·ber·cu·lo·sis(TB) (tū-bĕr'kyū-lō'sis)
tu·ber·cu·lo·sis(TB) (tū-bĕr'kyū-lō'sis)
tuberculosis; TB chronic, debilitating disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis ; characterized by night sweats, fever, weight loss and local effects (e.g. chronic cough [pulmonary TB]; local pain, swelling, bone/joint distortion [TB osteomyelitis/septic arthritis]); of increasing incidence/prevalence due to TB bacillus resistance to antimicrobial drugs (especially in the immunocompromised [including those with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)]), homeless, debilitated); bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination offers immunity to TB
acute miliary TB generalized dissemination of TB bacillus via blood; characterized by multiple tubercles in organs/tissues
cutaneous TB; lupus vulgaris; tuberculosis verrucosa cutis localized TB skin lesions caused by direct inoculation of bacillus into skin (occasionally by haematogenous spread); cutaneous TB often affects foot skin; symptoms (e.g. patches of dry, atrophic skin, pigmentation changes, nodules and verrucous plaques) develop slowly
open TB; pulmonary TB; TB ulcer characterized by TB bacilli in body secretions; subject is actively contagious
TB of the skin cutaneous TB
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As a game, not even relating this to the original, DmC is nothing special.
Story: Boring and uninspired.
Characters: Unlikeable.
Combat: Average.
Platforming: Repetitive.
Puzzles: Not even.
Unlockable/Upgrade system: Boring.
Sorry, I just don't see how people like the game and praise it. Its nothing special, the entire game is essentially average or worse on every level. Regardless of being a "DMC" game, this game is below average across the board.
I see all these "this game is amazing" topics(some trolls) when it really, really isn't.
O_O Are people really making threads saying "its amazing" just to troll/spite the anti's? Doesn't that put you on the same level?
All that combined with the glitches equals 4/10
Goku can lift a MINIMUM of 3.1212 quadrillion tons in base form, get it right ScrewAttack
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6/10 to 7/10 Game.
'Fraid so, broseph.
FireMage7777 posted...
All that combined with the glitches equals 4/10
The gliches aren't gamebreaking outside of the boss ones. Though NONE of these gliches should be happening to the extent where the enemy is just stuck/not going to attack.
i know this game is awful.
platforming in this game are boring,alice game are better.
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akira_hisyam posted...
i know this game is awful.
Quite honestly any game that has actual platforming, does it better.
akira_hisyam posted...
i know this game is awful.
It's not a platformer. I have never seen a hack and slash game that doesn't have poor platforming. In fact... this DmC game is probably the best out of the hack and slash games I have played for platforming.
(\ (O_O) /) Praise the sun!
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akira_hisyam posted...i know this game is awful.
God of War 1's platforming was horrible. I hate
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akira_hisyam posted...i know this game is awful.
Thats nice, BUT since darksiders 2 has actual/decent platforming, i'm just going to assume the "Well I didn't play ____________ game" or any other hack and slash for that matter.
A lot of butthurt in here.
I disagree with everything TC said
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Near the checkout counter at the Grant R. Brimhall Library in Thousand Oaks is a small display featuring works by radio giant Norman Corwin, who died Tuesday of natural causes at age 101.
The "poet laureate of radio" left behind a treasure trove — scripts, correspondence, production notes, research material, photos and sound recordings — that is in the library's upstairs climate-controlled storage room.
Corwin's collection is a key component of the library's American Radio Archives, established by the library foundation, which includes collections from Rudy Vallee, Frank Bresee and the Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters.
"The importance and depth of the serious dramas he created cannot be overstated," Special Collections Librarian Jeanette Berard said of Corwin. "He gave such insight to what was going on in World War II."
Corwin wrote and directed "We Hold These Truths," commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, which aired shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The program drew an audience of 65 million listeners. Another landmark piece was Corwin's 1945 "One a Note of Triumph," which aired on V-E Day.
An Emmy and Golden Globe winner and Academy Award-nominated writer, Corwin was a onetime newspaper man whose works spanned radio, television, the big screen and academia.
Along with acquiring his collection of works, the library and the foundation acquired a supporter.
Corwin wrote the forewords in "Television Series and Specials Scripts, 1946-1992: A Catalog of the American Radio Archives Collection" and "Radio Series Scripts, 1930-2001: A Catalog of the American Radio Archives Collection," compiled by Berard and archivist Klaudia Englund.
In 2007, Corwin directed his radio comedy "The Strange Affliction" at the library. It starred Carl Reiner and Samantha Eggar, with Norman Lloyd, Linda Henning, Marvin Kaplan and Janet Waldo, among others. Proceeds from the event went to a fund to build the American Radio Archives and Museum.
"It's a tissue-thin comedy and a wacky premise," Corwin said of the play, in an interview with The Star at the time. "I just want the audience to have a good time."
Thousand Oaks Library Director Steve Brogden remembered plans to give Reiner and other cast members a tour of the library after a rehearsal had to be scrapped.
"He was all business," Brogden said of Corwin. "Norman had him in rehearsal. He took it very seriously. He was great."
Brogden and others affiliated with the library shared several meals with the radio legend over the years.
"He was ever the gentleman. He was a scholar. He was, of course, very eloquent, but he always had a twinkle in his eye," Brogden said. "He was just special. He was just a very special man."
Berard said she had never met someone who truly enjoyed reading the dictionary the way Corwin did. If he came across a word he didn't think Berard knew, he'd spell it out.
"He had a way of making people his friend," Berard said.
The public can contact the library to make an appointment to view his archives.
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- Madeline Cartoon Episode Guide
- DiC Entertainment
- Cartoon Characters: Madeline, Genevieve, Cloe, Nicole, Danielle, Pepito, Miss Clavel.
- Originally Released in 1993.
- Color
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
Cartoon Summary:
Hot day, too hot to do anything but sit and moan, then Lord Cucuface comes by to take girls out to sea on a yacht that he borrowed from a friend called Lord Poopdeck. Goes sailing, Lord Cucuface teaches Pepito how to operate the yacht, but shakes Madeline's request off. Madeline spies and listens in on the lecture anyways. Decide to stop at a port, all but Madeline and Pepito gets off, ship's strings break, Pepito and Madeline drifts off to high seas again. Hits storm and gets through safely. Docks at an island, gets off and explores a bit, comes across a pirate band. Overhears their plan to take over a nearby village. Meanwhile the rest of the gang borrows a motorboat, did not have Madeline's luck, sinking. Pirates notice them. Madeline quickly notices them also, rushes back to yacht, set course to rescue, was successful. Then so-called pirates approached. Turns out to be friendly islanders who're rehearsing for a play that will be held on an upcoming celebration. The girls join in the fun. Next day, set sail for home. The girls then go to bed.
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Pierce and KG will overtake Parish and Ewing, respectively. The big story for the Celtics/Hornets game this evening is Doc Rivers vs. his son, Austin. But, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce also have the opportunity to accomplish some major milestones. Garnett (24,809) trails Patrick Ewing (24,815) by just 6 points for 16th place on the NBA's all-time scoring list. Meanwhile Pierce (23,317) is just 17 points behind Celtics legend Robert Parish (23,334) for 22nd place. There's a very good chance we'll see both those marks eclipsed tonight. Ray Allen (23,336) just passed "The Chief" for the #21 spot on the list Monday. If Pierce can score 20 by 10:30 pm tonight (there's a later than normal 8:00 pm start) he'll move past Ray; who will then likely regain his position soon after the Heat tip off at Golden State. Follow Mark on twitter @LucidSportsFan
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Norway PM turns taxi driver to find out 'what people really think'
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OSLO – Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg revealed Sunday that he has gone undercover as a taxi driver for an afternoon, in a bid to find out voters' real concerns.
"It's important for me to hear what people really think. If there's one place where people say what they think, it's in the taxi," he said in a video posted on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
The video was released while campaigning was in full swing for the September 9 general election, which Stoltenberg's ruling center-left coalition appears likely to lose, according to the latest opinion polls.
Stoltenberg wore an Oslo Taxi uniform – complete with a badge – one afternoon in June and picked up passengers in a black Mercedes in the Norwegian capital.
A hidden camera fitted in the cab recorded reactions from the passengers, including one who remarked: "From this angle, you really look like the prime minister."
An elderly woman who also recognized Stoltenberg urged him to do something about the salaries of corporate bosses, complaining that "they should not make millions like that."
From the backseat of the cab, voters discussed issues ranging from education to oil policy.
Beyond revelations from the clients, Stoltenberg himself had one to give away, admitting to a passenger that he had not driven in eight years.
"I think it is going rather well," the young female passenger replied, adding: "At least I am alive."
Another female passenger was less impressed after Stoltenberg suddenly slammed on the brakes.
"This driving is not exactly the best I have seen," she said, laughing, adding: "I am not satisfied with this driving."
Asked by tabloid Verdens Gang if he would like to be a taxi driver if he lost the elections, Stoltenberg said: "I think that the country and Norwegian taxi passengers are better served if I were a prime minister and not a taxi driver."
According to the tabloid, the passengers did not have to pay for their journeys.
The Labor leader has steered the Norwegian economy – buoyed by the country's oil wealth – through the 2008 financial crisis virtually unscathed.
But his party, which took office in 2005, has seen support slide as it is viewed as having been in power for too long.
It has also faced harsh criticism for the authorities' lack of preparedness ahead of Anders Behring Breivik's Oslo bombing and island shooting rampage in 2011 that left 77 people dead.
An opinion poll published Monday showed the government garnering just 41 percent support, while the opposition Conservative party and its three allies had almost 53 percent of voter sympathies.
Stoltenberg did however win over at least one voter with his cruise around town.
While alighting from the taxi, an elderly male passenger told him: "This has been nice… I will vote Labor Party."
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Kitchen Rescue
The power and the glory of the crispy 'chicharon'
A picture of a giant chicharon shown to me by Dimple Lim led to a trip to the R. Lapid plant in Valenzuela last week.
"Chicharon King" Rey C. Lapid is one of those people who chase their dreams, stopping at nothing to make them come true.
He is unassuming, even shy, yet with a quiet confidence that only someone who has worked his way to the top could exude. He says R. Lapid's Chicharon now has a hundred outlets and is expanding overseas.
Pork skin
Rey remembers dreaming of making chicharon on his own when he was 12 years old. During school breaks in summer he would wake up at 5 a.m. to go with his father, Federico J. Lapid, who had a meat stall at Quinta Market.
"Many of our customers, after paying for the (pork) meat, asked us to remove the skin, which we discarded as waste," Rey recalls, adding that he asked his father if he could have the skin. He would eventually go around the market asking for the pork skin from other vendors.
One Sunday, his father opened the refrigerator and was shocked to find it stocked with all the rinds he had gathered.
From there his dad started making chicharon to be sold at the family stall in Quinta.
The mission
In 1974 Rey started his own business, R. Lapid's Chicharon and Barbecue, at a small stall along R. Hidalgo Street in Quiapo. Rey and his wife Violeta sold chicken barbecue, longganisa, tocino and chicharon.
Later on he went to America, venturing into the restaurant business which he wasn't familiar with. He realized that he bit off more than he could chew.
He came back to the Philippines in 1986, eager to start anew. He adopted new methods and technology to improve his chicharon.
Thus was born R. Lapid's slogan, "Laging Bagong Luto"—the mission was to serve crispy, newly cooked chicharon at its best, all the time. To further enhance the experience, he also reconcocted the vinegar that went with it.
Rey considers his chicharon more than just snack food. "Ulam siya," he says.
Though the brand has earned many awards, Rey swears he still goes to the plant every day, manning the operations.
The secret to his success, he says, is no secret at all: "We maintain the highest quality of ingredients and constantly search for better ways to improve the way we process, cook and package our products… Further, we treat our employees as family."
He says never in his wildest dreams did he think that his food shop would attain the success it now enjoys: "I still pinch and ask myself, if this is all real."
Personal favorites
Giant Chicharon: Handpicked large, uncut pork skin. It requires delicate handling and gradual cooking for it to puff to perfection, to produce chicharon that's delicate, airy, crisp and tasty.
Like most of R. Lapid's Chicharon, this is available in plain, chili and super chili flavors. By order and pickup only. Allow two days lead time for your orders, for pickup at the R. Lapid's branch nearest you. Having it at your appetizer table gives your guests much to munch and talk about. A real fun party food!
Chicharon with Laman: Fresh, high-quality imported pork skin with fat and meat delicately cooked crisp in pork oil that Rey says he himself makes for this chicharon to be tastier. I love this chopped coarsely with munggo or champorado.
Chicharon with Special Laman: A new type of chicharon made from the highest quality imported fresh pork loin with fat and much thicker meat. It makes for a heavy snack. It can also be eaten with rice, added to binagoongang baboy, or coarsely chopped and sautéed with bagoong.
Manila Fries: Made from pork skin without the fat and meat. This is what I like to call "chicha-corn." These chicharon bits are as addicting as "cornicks."
For orders, call R. Lapid's at tel. nos. 4433083 to 84 and 4567131.
Chicharon with 'achara'
I enjoy chicharon best with good achara, specifically acharang Calaca. Here's a recipe from Dindo Montenegro from my Taal Culinary Tour days.
Achara should have the right mix of sweetness, sourness and saltiness—or adjust accordingly to what suits your taste.
Acharang Calaca
1 k young green papaya, shredded (other possible ingredients are ubod ng niyog, labong ng kawayan and ampalaya)
½ c salt
Combine the grated papaya with salt and toss them together.
Leave it for 30 minutes.
With a clean piece of cloth, start squeezing the papaya to extract all the liquid. You may sun-dry the papaya for three hours to further take away the moisture.
Pickling solution
½ c ginger (thin slices)
2 tbsp fresh turmeric
4 cloves native garlic, sliced thin
1½ c light brown sugar
1 pc medium-size red and green bell pepper (cut in fancy shapes for garnish)
1½ L vinegar (native sukang irok/kaong)
Bring vinegar to a boil, and add sugar.
Add ginger and garlic.
Check seasoning.
Add papaya, peppers and carrots.
Let sit overnight.
Serve with chicharon.
Using the right vinegar, in this case sukang irok, makes all the difference.
For achara or sukang irok orders, call Dindo Montenegro at tel. 0916-5522074.
For a copy of my new cooking class schedule, call tel. nos. 9289296, 4008496, 0908-2372346 and 0917-5543700.
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Dr. says Beckham's Achilles' tendon totally torn
TURKU, Finland David Beckham's left Achilles' tendon was totally torn, and the doctor who performed the surgery said the England midfielder is expected to be out of action for about six months.
Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Sakari Orava said the 34-year-old Beckham is expected to be out of action for about six months.
Orava told The Associated Press that Beckham was in "some pain" after Monday's surgery but was doing well and would start walking with his crutches on Tuesday.
"These walking exercises are the first day's program after surgery," Orava said. "After that he will get a detailed program for further rehabilitation, and then, (Wednesday) probably, he flies to London, and then to the U.S."
Beckham's spokesman, Simon Oliveira, said the tendon was completely repaired, and he expected the 34-year-old midfielder to play again.
"David is expected to make a full recovery," Oliveira said.
He also told the AP that Beckham's wife, Victoria Beckham, was expected later Tuesday in Turku.
"Of course she is coming," Oliveira said. "She is his wife and wants to be there."
The former England captain was injured in the closing minutes of AC Milan's 1-0 win over Chievo Verona on Sunday. He was on his second loan to the Italian club from Major League Soccer's Lox Angeles Galaxy.
Orava said Beckham planned to spend the night at the clinic and likely will leave Finland on Tuesday.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sent a get-well message to Beckham and praised his role as an ambassador for his sport.
"He emphasized what a tremendous ambassador Mr. Beckham is for English soccer and wishes him well in his recovery, as I think the whole nation does," Brown's spokesman, Simon Lewis, said.
Using crutches, Beckham hobbled out of a private jet at Turku airport in southwestern Finland and left in a Mercedes. Just minutes later, he arrived at the clinic surrounded by security guards amid cheers from hundreds of fans who had gathered outside the entrance.
"I am upset but (want) to thank everyone for their messages of support," Beckham said in a statement posted on his personal Web site before his arrival. "I hope to make a swift and full recovery."
The injury shattered Beckham's hopes of becoming the first English player to appear in four World Cups and put his future on the national team in doubt. He will miss most of the MLS season.
"Injuries are an unfortunate part of our game and they are even more disappointing when they happen to a player who was so close to realizing his dream of representing his nation at this summer's World Cup," Galaxy coach Bruce Arena said Monday. "David remains an important player for the Galaxy and we look forward to welcoming him back to the club and assisting him in his recovery."
With only a few minutes remaining in the Chievo game and the score 0-0, Beckham was by himself in the center circle when he took a pass with his left foot, stepped back awkwardly, then stepped forward and started hopping on his right foot with an expression of pain on his face. He reached a hand down to his left heel, then stood up and gestured as if he was breaking a twig in half to show the AC Milan bench he knew the tendon was broken.