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Antioch's Taste of Summer Festival
4 Days of fun in Downtown Antioch. Carnival rides, delectable foods, and top entertainment. Enjoy live music, Antioch IDOL and kids activities. Enjoy the sidewalk sales and find craft booths too. Visit AntiochChamber.org for an updated entertainment schedule.
Antioch's Summer Arts & Crafts Faire
This newly designed Summer Hand-Crafted Arts and Crafts Faire will feature artisans from around the country. Enjoy more than 140 booths of hand-crafted goods for summer and fall, food and free admission. There will also be plenty of children's free fun including face painting, balloon art and Paint our Town!
Frontier Days
The annual festival presented by Frontier Days, Inc. is traditionally held over the 4th of July holiday in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Frontier Days, which takes place in Recreation Park, attracts top name and local musical acts to the multi-day festival to play on multiple stages. The Frontier Days festival also includes food and beverage, carnival rides, family and sporting activities and an enormous 4th of July Parade that marches through the center on town at 10am. Parade July 4 10am Oakton Street and Dunton
CITY:Arlington Heights
2015 Christkindl Holiday Festival
Come to downtown Barrington for the annual Christkindl Festival. This is an open-air event during the holiday season featuring authentic German food, live entertainment, drinks, fun activities for families and kids crafts, live reindeer, carousel & train rides, Gingerbread House competition and even Santa's house. Please visit the website for a complete list of entertainment.
Buffalo Grove Days 2015
This annual festival has fun for everyone. The festival will include the chamber beer garden, a business and craft fair, free entertainment all day long, a carnival, games, special events, a parade and fireworks on Sunday. Please visit the website for more information.
CITY:Buffalo Grove
The 12th Annual Buffalo Grove Invitational Art Festival
Currently rated as one of the top 100 art festivals in the country, the festival hosts more than 100 juried artists from around the globe. Art enthusiasts will have the opportunity to watch the masters at work with art demos and booth chats taking place all weekend long! In addition to the work of the 100 juried artists, festival-goers will have the opportunity to view and purchase works from young artists, ages 18 and under, who participate in the Youth Art Division of the festival taking place on Sunday. In addition to the artwork, festival-goers will enjoy live performances from a variety of musical acts, great food and art activities for kids, including an art scavenger hunt and spin art at the festival and much more!
CITY:Buffalo Grove
ARTumn Harvest Art Festival
Come out and discover Deer Park Town Center's 4th Annual ARTumn Harvest Art Festival. Approximately 70 artists come from across the U.S. to participate in our juried art show held around the gazebo. In addition to fantastic fine artists, enjoy the live music, hands on kids art fun and food.
CITY:Deer Park
Tin-Man Triathlon
Designed for experienced triathletes and beginning participants. Triathlon includes a 300 meter swim, 6 mile bike course (helmets required), and a 3 mile run. This event is good for getting in shape for more ambitious triathlons. There are no age group awards, everyone who finishes is a winner. Check-in time is at 7am at Deerspring Park and race begins at 8am. Registration is on a first come/first served basis. Ages 8 & older only. Please visit the website for complete details.
Grayslake Summer Days
Family music festival with activities for the entire family. Music, carnival games, food vendors, business booth area and "Grayslake's Got Talent" Contest. Bike and Pet Parade - 12 noon Saturday. Summer Days Parade kickoffs at 7pm Saturday evening. Festivities will be held downtown Grayslake. Visit the website for complete festival activities. Friday: 5pm-12am, Saturday: 11am-12am.
3rd Annual Color Aloft Balloon Festival
Bring the family out for this exciting new event held at Central Park in Grayslake. The Color Aloft Festival will begin with hot air balloons being inflated and compete in a "Fox and Hounds" contest in which competing balloons seek to land closest to the 'Fox'. Balloons will be retrieved and return to the park. After dark they will be internally illuminated by their burners and glow. Enjoy family activities, a Civil War Era baseball game, live music and food vendors.
87th Annual Lake County Fair
Come out and enjoy 5 days of fun at the 87th Annual Lake County Fair. Events at the fair include live entertainment, food vendors, carnival rides and games, live animals, motor crossing, banana derby, demolition derby, flower show, expo hall and so much more. Please visit the website for updated information.
MuckFest MS - Chicago
The run is pure athletic hilarity on a 5K course full of mud, and featuring 15+ outrageous obstacles that will spin, swing and fling you up, down and sideways. Entry fees are $55 by Apr 29 and $105 on race day.
Throttle Fest Chicago
This 3-day motorcycle fan's dream will feature Mike, Angie, Jesse, Goat, Jackyl and much, much more! Burnout pits, Wall Of Death, music all weekend, mainstage concerts, tattoo tent, motorcycle accessories and vendors of all kind! Limited space for camping is available. Tickets can be bought individually for each day or a 3-day pass for $30.
Windy City Dub Fest
The event will include VW and Audi judging contest for categories of 'Best of'. Winners will take home an award. Online registration will be available in May of 2015. Car Clubs are welcome and will not be limited to just VW's and Audi's and will be open to all makes and models. Come with a car or just as a spectator. Food and drinks will available, along with live entertainment. Visit the website for updates.
Lake County Count-I-Con
Lake County's biggest comic, toy, game and art convention. Children and adult costume contests, skits, and entertainment hosted on our stage both days, Aussie Pet Care's pet costume contest, Magic the Gathering tournaments all day, and Brass City Games will be hosting drafts, Commander, and standard MtG tournaments all weekend. There will also be massive video game tournaments with different console and PC gaming tournaments. Discussions with panelist, James Renner, Author and cold case investigator, and panelist, Tim Maile, radio show host, author, and paranormal investigator. More to come please watch the website for more information.
43rd Annual Gurnee Days Celebration
Gurnee Days returns this week for 4 days of family fun. Activities include a bicycle rodeo, live entertainment, Farmers Market, Gurnee Idol, golf tournament, and amusement rides, a 10K race, baby contest, rib fest and eating contest, fireworks, a pancake breakfast, parade, Scoop the Loop Car Show, petting zoo, pony rides, a talent show, exhibitors, games, food booths and stage events. Please visit the website for times and entertainment schedule.
Six Flags Great America Fright Fest
It's Thrills by Day, Chills by Night at Fright Fest Presented by Snickers®. Six Flags Great America will be totally transformed into a Halloween playground, Fridays - Sundays. Have a ghoulish good time with hair-raising shows, electrifying street entertainment and thrilling haunted houses. Plus, experience all the rides in the dark. There will also be a special trick-or-treat trail just for kids.
Six Flags Great America & Hurricane Harbor 2015 Season
Six Flags Great America is fun for the whole family with 14 heart-pounding roller coasters, a free water park with over 30 heart pounding water slides, spectacular shows and parades, family rides and big pint-sized fun for the kids with children's areas and over 35 rides for the little ones. Don't miss Goliath, a triple record breaking roller coaster. It is the world's fastest wooden coaster with the tallest and steepest drop, plunging riders down 180 feet and rocketing through twists and turns at 72 miles per hour. Also enjoy Hurricane Harbor and Riptide Bay, the water park that boasts more slides and attractions. Catch a wave at the only place to surf on Lake Michigan.
Legions of Craft Beer
Plans are in motion for the first Legions of Craft Beer. This event will include at least 30 beer vendors, Gurnee restaurants, food trucks and a wide range of bands. There will also be a shuttle service from the Metra train in Libertyville and Waukegan for the attendees from out of the area. Please watch for updated information.
Ravinia Festival 2015
Another exciting year of entertainment at the Ravinia Festival. With a variety of performances, there is something for everyone. Choose from artists like Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, Steve Miller Band, Bush and 3 Doors Down, ZZ Top, Little Big Town, Jackson Browne and many more. Please visit the website for a complete schedule and to purchase tickets. Bring a picnic or pick up a complete picnic spread at one of the on-site restaurants or kiosks and sit back and enjoy the show.
CITY:Highland Park
Golden Dragon Acrobats from China
Bring the kids out for this great kid's show. They will be amazed at the combined award-winning acrobatics, traditional dance, spectacular costumes, ancient and contemporary music and theatrical techniques to present a show of breathtaking skill and spellbinding beauty. Reserved tickets are $15 and lawn seats are $5.
CITY:Highland Park
Highland Park's Art Center's Festival of Fine Arts
Situated on the beautiful tree-lined streets surrounding TAC, the revamped festival will showcase original works from 120 juried artists. Exceptional examples of fine arts and fine craft, including ceramics, fiber, glass, jewelry, wood and more will be featured at the festival. The Art Center's Festival of Fine Arts will offer activities for children and families, as well as live entertainment and tasty festival treats throughout the weekend. Art enthusiasts will get a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into making these original works of art with live art demos taking place at the festival.
CITY:Highland Park
Port Clinton Art Festival
Port Clinton Art Festival is one of the most successful juried art festivals and attracts more than 250,000 art enthusiasts from places near and far. More than 260 of the world's most celebrated artists come together to showcase their work over the course of the weekend, creating an atmosphere brimming with renowned creativity. Alongside established artists, a youth art division celebrates the talents of young artists ages 18 and under, offering them the opportunity to participate, exhibit, and experience the inner workings of an art festival.
CITY:Highland Park
Jackson Browne at Ravinia
Playing guitar and piano, and collaborating with musicians on stage, Jackson will perform songs from his entire body of work, with varying set lists. Enjoy an night of songs like The Pretender, Running On Empty, Lawyers in Love, Doctor My Eyes, Take It Easy and many more. Tickets: $100/90 & Lawn: $38 in advance and $43 the day of the show.
CITY:Highland Park


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Friday Five: Alaska
On this day in 1973, President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline. Four years later, it was finished. Since that time, over 16 billion barrels of oil have traveled down through the last great frontier of tundra. A handful of good country songs have been inspired by Alaska over the years. These are five of our favorites.
5. Johnny Cash (with June Carter) – "When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)"
Something tells me that this tune wasn't utilized much by the Alaskan Tourism Board.
4. John Denver – "Alaska and Me"
This song appears on at least three of Denver's albums, but it was first released on Higher Ground. Here, he toasts the state, "Here's to Alaska, here's to the people/ Here's to the wild and here's to the free/ Here's to my life in a chosen country/ Here's to Alaska and me."
The fantastic fiddler and bluegrass songstress recorded a great song about leaving your troubles behind by moving to Alaska: "Can't take my brother, he don't like the north country at all/ Can't take my sister, if there's no mirrors on the walls/ Can't take a book to read 'cause I'm only thinkin' of the land where I am bound/ I think I'll go up to Alaska where the heat of the summer's comin' down."
2. Joe Walsh – "Fairbanks, Alaska"
This is from his 1992 album, Songs for a Dying Planet. He wasn't always sober during that era. It makes more sense at that point.
1. Johnny Horton – "North to Alaska"
Gold, mushing dogs, northern lights and true love. Yeah, it's got everything a great old-fashioned, classic country and western song needs.
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I used to think Hank Thompson's "Squaws Upon the Yukon" was an Alaska-based song, and that "squaws" was just a synonym for Eskimo. But, recently I met someone from Yukon, Oklahoma, which I had never heard of before. Given Thompson's Oklahoma roots, I suspect that song was not about Alaska after all. In that vein, the only other county-ish song with something Alaska in the title that comes to mind is Ray Stevens' "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon." Alaska plays a key role in Lefty Frizzell's "Saginaw, Michigan" (the protagonist prospects in Alaska, then sells his father-in-law a bogus gold mine).
"Squaw" has never been a synonym for eskimo but that Hank Thompson song is definitely about Alaska, not Oklahoma. Not that it's likely to be embraced by the Alaska Tourism Board, either.
And "Sgt Preston of the Yukon" refers, some of a certain age will well-remember, to a kids-oriented adventure show (they had those) of the mid-1950s by that name. He was a mountie, and we learned about mounties, sort of. He said "Mush; mush! On you huskies!" a lot.
Of course, you are right LOS: I forgot the mention of Cheechakos, as well as the last line of "The Squaws ALONG the Yukon": "Carry me back to old Alaska." And the song came along around the time of Alaska statehood (as did the Horton songs), so there would be a reason the 49th state was on Thompson's mind.
Note that Sergeant Preston was, as Barry says, a Mountie, meaning that the Yukon in that title refers to the Canadian province, not the river that runs through the state of Alaska.
"When It's Springtime In Alaska" was, of course, a big hit for Johnny Horton, compared to whose version the Cash/Carter one is, sadly, pretty humdrum. I had in mind that it was a follow-up to "North To Alaska," but I see that it was actually the other way around.
The Del McCoury Band's "White Pass Railroad," on their Family Circle album, is based on actual Alaskan history.
"Saginaw Michigan" is probably my favorite country song about Alaska. But if we're venturing a little farther afield musically, I think I like Michelle Shocked's "Anchorage" even better.
"Springtime In Alaska" was Johnny Horton's first #1 hit. "North to Alaska" was the title song to a John Wayne movie a year or so later–Presumably, the earlier record spurred the producers of the movie to choose Horton to sing the song.
Horton is a guy who should be inducted into the H-o-F. To my mind, one thing that puts him over is staying power. Aside from his influence on later artists, like Yoakam, Horton's own records have been continually played for the last six decades and you still occasionally hear them today in all sorts of places.
I also like "Denali, Not McKinley" by Eric Brace and Peter Cooper.
My favorite John Denver song about Alaska is "The Wrangle Mountain Song" due to it's high yodel content! (lol)
I love Hank Thompson's "Squaws Along The Yukon" partly because by today's standards it is very politically incorrect! If any pretty salmon colored eskimo gal wants to sit upon my knee, well that's just fine with me! (lol) That may be the only song that compares a woman's body to parts of an airplane. Hmm…
NM wrote "Saginaw Michigan" is probably my favorite country song about Alaska.
I saw Jimmie Dale Gilmore the other day and he sang that song- great song
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The first time I heard Joe Floren speak I was standing behind him in an elevator in his law firm's San Francisco office tower as another lawyer informed him that the subpoena Joe Floren had served the previous day on a colleague of mine had reached her in the hospital, after a difficult delivery of her first child, while she was breastfeeding for the first time.
"Really? That's beautiful. I love it!" He replied with glee.
Joseph E. Floren, Esq., is a lawyer at Morgan Lewis, the white shoe law firm defending Goldman Sachs against Overstock's prime broker litigation, and tonight I celebrate the mistake Joe Floren made yesterday. In filing Goldman's response to Overstock's motion to vacate the trial court judge's decision to stay his own decision to unseal various documents related to this litigation (in more straightforward English: the trial court judge decided to unseal some documents while also deciding to delay acting on his decision, but we objected to this delay, and Goldman responded to our objections), Joe Floren screwed the pooch. He filed something containing an attachment he forgot to redact. That attachment is a previous filing of Overstock's, a filing which contains but a sample of the shenanigans at Goldman and Merrill that has turned up over the course of five years and millions of pages of discovery, but which filing we had redacted when we made it (as good litigants do).
Fortunately for the cause of all that is good and right about America, Joe Floren's goof came to the attention of a diligent 1st amendment attorney in California named Karl Olson, who represents the Economist, Bloomberg, the New York Times and Wener Publications (owners of Rolling Stone magazine) in their efforts to obtain the documents. Karl Olson provided Joe Floren's sloppy filing to his clients. Tonight these stories appeared:
Rolling Stone: Accidentally Released – and Incredibly Embarrassing – Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling'
Bloomberg: Goldman, Merrill E-Mails Show Naked Shorting, Filing Says
Economist: An enlightening mistake
Really, Joe Floren? That's beautiful. I love it.


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Boating and fishing enthusiasts will find plenty to interest them at the Savannah International Boat Show, to be held February 29 to March 2 at the Savannah [Ga.] International Trade and Convention Center. In addition to the exhibitors at the convention hall, the show will boast its own "static display" of sport cruisers, motor and express yachts, sailboats, sport fishing boats, ski boats, runabouts and family cruisers at the river.
Those who prefer to find adventure on terra firma will likely enjoy one of the special features of this year's event- the DuPont Chevy Monte Carlo NASCAR training simulator. Combining a hydraulic motion system and computer controls with an actual race car, the simulator gives users the heart-pounding feel of competing in a NASCAR race.
There will be plenty to do in town when the show ends each night, as Savannah kicks off its St. Patrick's Day festivities in February.
The most convenient airport for business jet travelers visiting the show is Savannah International, seven miles northwest of the city. Rental cars are available and two FBOs are on the field to serve business jet operators.
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Is the Big Ten back?
Is the Big Ten back?
Is the Big Ten back?
By Joe Nelson
Although year ten of the ACC–Big Ten Challenge will go in the books as another win for the ACC, moving to 10-0 in the history of the event, there are some promising signs for the Big Ten Conference. After being considered significantly down last year the Big Ten could be surprisingly solid overall this season, although the conference may lack an elite team to lead the way.
In the past two years the ACC has dominated with a 16-6 record in the Challenge and the six wins by the Big Ten all came on home courts. This season the Big Ten gave the ACC a great run, losing 6-5 with Iowa and Illinois suffering two-point losses that could have swung the title to the Big Ten for the first time. In fairness, the ACC lost two games by just two-points as well so one could argue that the results could have just as easily been a familiar 8-3 result.
Even with another loss in the Challenge the Big Ten made a statement with three wins in ACC arenas. Ohio State won at Miami, Wisconsin won at Virginia Tech, and Penn State won at Georgia Tech while the ACC only won two games in Big Ten arenas. Most projections have Miami and Virginia Tech rated as the next two teams in line in the ACC behind North Carolina and Duke so getting wins in those buildings is impressive. With wins from Penn State, Northwestern, and Minnesota, programs that have struggled in recent years, the Big Ten showed that there is much better depth and that is could be a much stronger overall conference this season. The Big Ten also only played four true home games in this year's challenge making the 5-6 mark even more respectable.
The 2005 Challenge was the last time the Big Ten came close with a 5-6 result. That season six Big Ten teams made the NCAA tournament field so it could be a promising sign after the conference hit a low-point in last year's tournament with only four teams making the field and no team getting past the Sweet Sixteen. ACC fans do not like hearing this, but the Big Ten has had more tournament teams than the ACC in the past four tournaments with 21 versus just 20 for the ACC. The ACC has a slightly better tournament record but the Big Ten has produced more Final Four teams in that span.
North Carolina and Duke delivered dominant victories to set themselves apart from the rest of the field in either conference. Duke completely dominated a Purdue squad with everyone back in West Lafayette while North Carolina cruised to a blowout at a spacious Ford Field, site of the Final Four this season. No Big Ten team appears to be on pace with either of those teams at this point in the season. However the ACC appears to lack depth after those top teams and the conference may have a hard time getting a lot of teams in the tournament. The overall conference strength may not be that strong as several teams appear to be stuck in cycles of mediocrity with teams in the middle of the conference beating up on each other.
The most storied program in the Big Ten, Indiana, appears to be in the worst shape this season as many of the typical basement teams should be pretty competitive. Northwestern has never made the NCAA tournament but the Wildcats feature three of the top ten returning scorers in the conference. Penn State is off to a 7-1 start and has three wins away from home already, after winning just three times in road or neutral games all last season. Minnesota had a nice turnaround season last year, finishing 20-14 and making the NIT. Under Coach Smith the Gophers are already 7-0 and the win against Virginia was incredibly impressive on the defensive side of the ball.
Iowa may be a team still in transition but the second year under a new staff and system should make some progress and a couple of newcomers could make an impact. Michigan struggled last season but also in the second year under a new coach. The Wolverines could see serious improvement with four starters back and an early season win over UCLA is a great stamp on the resume. Illinois lacks size but could again be a solid team once some adjustments are made.
At the top of the conference it may be another year where it is tough to figure out which team is best as the Big Ten lacks a true frontrunner. Purdue has all five starters back after going 25-9 last season and making the second round of the tournament. Michigan State played last week without a key starter and features enough talent to be a postseason force. Wisconsin continues to put together solid teams and the Badgers have won 30 games in each of the past two seasons. Ohio State may be the forgotten team after so much player turnover in the last two years but the Buckeyes have a great freshmen class and were the NIT champions last season, currently riding the nation's longest win streak at nine games dating back to last season.
The Big Ten should have four solid NCAA tournament teams and another one or two teams could emerge in conference play. In many ways it could be a typical Big Ten season as the conference may be underrated with the lack of a marquee team towards to the top of the polls but several teams will dangerous teams in the postseason that could make deep runs even if they are not championship contenders.
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|Boots Healthcare International
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|Reckitt Benckiser
Nurofen is the brand name of a range of pain-relief medication made by Reckitt Benckiser. Introduced in 1983, the Nurofen brand was acquired following Reckitt Benckiser's acquisition of Boots Healthcare in 2005. The brand is primarily marketed and sold in the United Kingdom, other parts of Europe, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
There are 11 variants of Nurofen, all of which contain the analgesic ibuprofen as an active ingredient.[1] The ibuprofen is variously formulated as the free acid or the lysine salt, or may alternatively be in the form of a gel cap. In some cases these are marketed as being useful for treating specific types of pain such as back pain or period pain. The primary difference among the various formulations is speed and duration of ibuprofen absorption. According the United Kingdom Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, the form of ibuprofen in Nurofen Tension Headache (ibuprofen lysine) is aborbed nearly twice as quickly as the form in Neurofen Period Pain (ibuprofen free acid), with the former reaching peak blood concentrations in 38 minutes compared to 80 minutes for the latter.[2]
Some variants of Nurofen contain other active ingredients; for example, Nurofen Cold & Flu contains the non-sedating decongestant pseudoephedrine. Nurofen can help reduce back pain, menstrual pain, fevers, toothache or headache. Others are advertised as being targeted for specific pain types (for example "Period Pain Relief").
Nurofen Plus[edit]
Nurofen Plus is a pain relief medication based on codeine and ibuprofen.[3] It contains 12.8 mg of codeine phosphate (a mild opioid analgesic) and 200 mg of ibuprofen,[3] which is an NSAID. Nurofen Plus is the only product in the Nurofen range that contains codeine.
The original tablet was manufactured in two equal parts, joined together and coated. One part would contain the 12.8 mg of codeine phosphate and the other part contained 200 mg of ibuprofen. The tablets could be forcefully split for recreational use of codeine. Such drugs have a potential for misuse because they are available freely to the public.[4]
After concerns were raised about the addiction risk posed by the codeine content of these medicines (both Nurofen Plus and competing brands which contain codeine), an addiction warning was placed on the boxes in 2009 to warn users the medicine may cause addiction and must only be used for three days. There is still concern in places where these medicines are available over the counter, and certain groups suggest they should be made prescription only medicines (POMs).[citation needed] Over the counter codeine containing drugs can only be sold in the presence of a qualified pharmacist, and pharmacists can question repeat customers and refuse sales of these drugs if overuse or abuse is suspected.
Nurofen for Children[edit]
Nurofen for Children is a brand of children's medicine, distributed by Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare (UK) Ltd. Nurofen for Children is suitable for babies and children from 3 months (over 6 kg) to 12 years.
It is used for the fast and effective reduction of fever, including post immunisation pyrexia and the fast and effective relief of mild to moderate pain, such as a sore throat, teething pain, toothache, headache, minor aches and sprains.
Nurofen for Children is sugar free and colour free and comes in two flavours – strawberry and orange. It is available in bottle packs and in sachets. An easy dosing syringe is included in every bottle pack to aid accurate dosing.
2011 product recall[edit]
In August 25, 2011 it was reported that several packs of Nurofen Plus were found to contain Seroquel XL—a powerful anti-psychotic drug used to treat schizophrenia—in Boots stores across London.[5][6][7] The next day, a safety alert was issued by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Pharmacists were told to check each package of Nurofen Plus to look for anti-psychotic drugs. There were three batches of Nurofen Plus which were affected by the alert. Reckitt Benckiser, manufacturer of Nurofen Plus, said that it did not know where the drugs had been switched. The product was re-released in cellophane-sealed packs.[8]
Christopher McGuire was later found guilty of one count of contaminating goods and two of administering a noxious substance and jailed for 18 months. McGuire cost the manufacturers £2.4m and saved himself £7 when he put anti-psychotic drugs in empty packets of the painkiller. The scheme involved asking for Nurofen Plus at a pharmacy counter and then attempting to pay for it with a card he knew would be declined. This created a sufficient distraction for McGuire to discreetly swap the contaminated packet for the fresh one and walk away.[9]
- ^ "Nurofen website". Nurofen.com. Retrieved 2011-11-17.
- ^ "MHRA Approval Summary" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-08-05.
- ^ a b The Medical Journal of Australia. Nurofen Plus misuse: an emerging cause of perforated gastric ulcer. Accessed 2 July 2009.
- ^ Chetty, R; Baoku, Y; Mildner, R; Banerjee, A; Vallance, D; Haddon, A; Labib, M (2003). "Severe hypokalaemia and weakness due to Nurofen misuse". Annals of Clinical Biochemistry 40 (Pt 4): 422–3. doi:10.1258/000456303766477101. PMID 12880547.
- ^ "Nurofen "sabotaged" across London". Bellenews.com. 2011-08-26. Retrieved 2011-11-17.
- ^ Jo Adetunji (2011-08-27). "Nurofen Plus recalled as drug manufacturer suspects sabotage". Guardian (London). Retrieved 2011-11-17.
- ^ "Nurofen Plus recalled amid sabotage fears". Telegraph (London). 2011-08-26. Retrieved 2011-11-17.
- ^ "Nurofen Plus goes back on sale in tamper-proof packs". BBC News. 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2011-11-17.
- ^ "Nurofen Plus tampering: Christopher McGuire jailed". BBC News. 2012-05-28. Retrieved 2013-03-12.


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Research Output for Lakshmi Kantham
Note: The 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 publications have not been audited.
Jump to: Publications | Grants and Consultancies | HDR completions
2004 School of Health Sciences
Gao, Yuan, Feng, Helen C., Walder, Ken, Bolton, Kristy, Sunderland, Terry, Bishara, Natalie, Quick, Melissa, Kantham, Lakshmi and Collier, Greg R. (2004) Regulation of selenoprotein SelS by glucose deprivation and endoplasmic reticulum stress - SelS is a novel glucose-regulated protein, FEBS letters, vol. 563, no. 1-3, pp. 185-190, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam, Netherlands [C1]
ERA journal ID: 2215 – Scopus EID: 2-s2.0-1842737643
Citation counts: Scopus - 39, Thomson - 42
DRO entry for this publication
2003 School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
Collier, Gregory, De Silva, A., Tenne-Brown, Janette, Sanigorski, Andrew, Segal, David, Kantham, Lakshmi and Walder, Ken (2003) Transcriptional profiling and gene discovery, Progress in obesity research, vol. 9, pp. 36-39, John Libbey Eurotext Ltd, London, England [C1]
ERA journal ID: Not matching ERA journal list
DRO entry for this publication
Kantham, Lakshmi, Kerr-Bayles, Lyndal, Godde, Nathan, Quick, Melissa, Webb, Ryan, Sunderland, Terry, Bond, Judy, Walder, Ken, Augert, Guy.* and Collier, Gregory (2003) Beacon interacts with cdc2/cdc28-like kinases, Biochemical and biophysical research communications, vol. 304, no. 1, pp. 125-129, Elsevier Science, New York, N.Y. [C1]
ERA journal ID: 2147 – Scopus EID: 2-s2.0-0037466452
Citation counts: Scopus - 15, Thomson - 16
DRO entry for this publication
2003 School of Health Sciences
Gao, Yuan, Walder, Ken, Sunderland, Terry, Kantham, Lakshmi, Feng, Helen, Quick, Melissa, Bishara, Natalie, De Silva, Andrea, Augert, Guy*, Tenne-Brown, Janette and Collier, Gregory (2003) Elevation in tanis expression alters glucose metabolism and insulin sensitivity in H4IIE cells, Diabetes, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 929-934, American Diabetes Association, New York, N.Y. [C1]
ERA journal ID: 16015 – Scopus EID: 2-s2.0-0037380429
Citation counts: Scopus - 20
DRO entry for this publication
2003 School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
Collier, Greg*, Walder, Ken, De Silva, Andrea Michelle*, Kantham, Lakshmi and Zimmet, Pau Zev* (2003) Obesity related gene expressed at least in the hypothalamus, liver or pancreas, Obesity related gene expressed at least in the hypothalamus, liver or pancreas, Other international (5) [I]
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2002 School of Health Sciences
Collier, Gregory, Walder, Ken, De Silva, A.*, Morgan, S., Segal, David, Kantham, L. and Augert, G.* (2002) Which genes are important in the development of type 2 diabetes?, Insulin resistance and insulin resistance syndrome, pp. 175-186, Taylor & Francis, London, England [B1]
DRO entry for this publication
Collier, Greg, Walder, Ken, De Silva, Andrea, Tenne-Brown, Janette, Sanigorski, Andrew, Segal, David, Kantham, Lakshmi and Augert, Guy (2002) New approaches to gene discovery with animal models of obesity and diabetes, Annals of the New York academy of science, vol. 967, no. Fourth International Meeting on , pp. 403-413, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, N.Y. [C1]
ERA journal ID: 11271 – Scopus EID: 2-s2.0-0036289546
Citation counts: Scopus - 13
DRO entry for this publication
Walder, Ken, Kantham, Lakshmi, McMillan, Janine, Trevaskis, James, Kerr, Lyndal, de Silva, Andrea, Sunderland, Terry, Godde, Nathan, Gao, Yuan, Bishara, Natalie, Windmill, Kelly, Tenne-Brown, Janette, Augert, Guy*, Zimmet, Paul* and Collier, Greg (2002) Tanis: a link between type 2 diabetes and inflammation?, Diabetes, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 1859-1866, American Diabetes Association, New York, N.Y. [C1]
ERA journal ID: 16015 – Scopus EID: 2-s2.0-0036260143
Citation counts: Scopus - 62
DRO entry for this publication
Kerr-Bayles, Lyndal, Kantham, Lakshmi, Sunderland, T., Walder, Ken and Collier, Gregory (2002) Beacon interacts with CDC2/CDC28-like protein kinase 4, Proceedings of the Australian Health and Medical Research Congress, National Health and Medical Research Council, Balnarring, Vic. [E3]
DRO entry for this publication
Klein, Reuben, Kantham, Lakshmi, Segal, David, Bond, Judy, Walder, Ken and Collier, Gregory (2002) Effects of beacon on transcription of metabolically active genes in adipocytes, ADS & ADEA 2002 : Australian Diabetes Society and Australian Diabetes Educators Association, Annual Scientific Meeting, p. 353, Australian Diabetes Society, Sydney, N.S.W. [E3]
DRO entry for this publication
Grants and Consultancies
No grants and/or consultancies found or audited – the 2014 HERDC financial return has not been completed or loaded as yet.
Higher Degree by Research Completions supervised by Lakshmi Kantham
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So...I need a little bit of help coming up with a nearby weekend destination. I am fairly new to sailing, and I have a new to me 27' Hunter moored in NYC (79th st.). For my birthday I would like to grab a few friends and head out for a weekend trip. It's taking the place of my summer camping trip, so hopefully something serene and private. Maybe with some nice swimming and hiking nearby? It will be my first overnight- so I am hoping to find something challenging but not TOOO terrifying. I would like to anchor (to save money) which is something I have never done- so a nice easy anchorage would be great. I was thinking south shore of long island, or Sandy Point, or maybe even further up the Hudson
Anyone have any ideas? Something that meets at least some of these criteria: Only a days sail away from Manhattan, Clean water to swim in, Easy anchoring, and Good sailing in the area. I need a break from sailing New York Harbor!
I'll take as many ideas as I can get...perhaps I can make a couple trips this summer. Thanks!!
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Milk Fed is now sold almost exclusively in Japan, where the clothes are produced and where the company has a store called Heaven 27. When they are in Tokyo, Sofia and Stephanie always stay at the Park Hyatt hotel, where ''Lost in Translation'' is set. ''They let us film there because I've stayed at the hotel,'' Sofia explained. Yet another connection made.
In 1995, Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth) gave Coppola a copy of ''The Virgin Suicides,'' the first novel by Jeffrey Eugenides. It's set in the 70's in Grosse Pointe, the Detroit suburb, and tells the story of the beautiful, tragic Lisbon sisters. ''I loved how the book talked about something gone,'' Sofia said, ''whether it's an era or a person or innocence. I felt like Eugenides understood that feeling.'' Francis Coppola has said that he believes Sofia's deep attraction to ''The Virgin Suicides'' was related to the death, in a boating accident at age 23, of her oldest brother, Gian-Carlo, known as Gio. ''Gio was that kind of enchanting older brother who would take me on adventures and treat me like an adult,'' Sofia recalled. ''Gio and my other brother, Roman, did everything together. I was in Napa with my mother when Gio died. It was a heartbreaking time. You never really get over something like that.'' Sofia paused, then went on to say: ''I think some of that sadness went into 'The Virgin Suicides.' I think I'm always drawn to projects that help me understand something about myself.''
Sofia began adapting the book for the screen even before she secured the rights to it. She worked slowly. She based the look of the Lisbon sisters on Stephanie Hayman's younger sister, Leslie, whom Sofia saw as cool, blond and every suburban teenage boy's dream, and after the script was done, she cast Leslie as one of the sisters. The look and feel of ''The Virgin Suicides'' was inspired not by other films or even the setting (it was actually filmed in Toronto) of the movie but by contemporary art photography: the pictures of William Eggleston, Tina Barney, Bill Owens and others. ''It was the beauty of banal details that was inspirational,'' Coppola explained.
While writing the script, Sofia contacted Julie Costanzo, an executive at her father's company, American Zoetrope; Costanzo tracked down the filmmakers who already held the rights to ''The Virgin Suicides.'' After reading Sofia's script, they junked their adaptation and gave her the project. She cast the child actress Kirsten Dunst, who was most famous for passionately kissing Brad Pitt in ''Interview With a Vampire,'' in her first ''adult'' role and gave Josh Hartnett his first major part. ''The Virgin Suicides'' is a shimmering paean to adolescent obsession and desire, seduction and abandonment, innocence and its destruction. Here, as she is in ''Lost in Translation,'' Coppola is fascinated by memory, by moments -- good and bad -- that will never be forgotten, moments at the center of which are young women on the verge of something they cannot quite articulate but feel compelled to act upon. It's these particular moments Coppola has captured on film so beautifully and movingly.
One sunny July afternoon in Hollywood, Coppola pulled up in her dark blue Porsche at the Directors Bureau, the company that her brother, Roman, who is six years older than she is, co-owns. She and Spike Jonze live nearby, in a stone-and-stucco midcentury house in the hills of Los Feliz. Until recently, she drove a Cadillac (''my Mafia princess car''); the Porsche is a new toy. She opened the car door and tugged at her keys, which were stuck in the ignition. ''I'm having a midlife crisis,'' she said, alluding to a scene in ''Lost in Translation.'' ''I bought a Porsche.'' She pulled at the keys, twisting them right and left. ''I can't get them out,'' Sofia said, smoothing her short black skirt. ''I'm going to go get Roman. That's why I have a big brother.''
At the Directors Bureau, Roman Coppola has spent most of his time channeling the late 60's. His feature film ''CQ'' was an homage to all things cool in 1969 (from the vantage point of the year 2000). Roman also has directed videos for fellow aficionados of time tripping -- bands like the Strokes and, his new favorite, Phoenix, a French pop group whose music is featured in ''Lost in Translation.'' On this day, Roman was blowing up a large plastic pillow in the ground-floor lobby of the Directors Bureau. He made the pillow, which resembled a six-foot bubble, out of clear garbage bags, from ''Inflatacookbook,'' created by the 60's art collective Ant Farm. ''They built these for happenings and whatnots,'' Roman said as he inflated the pillow with a fan. ''We're applying this pillow for another purpose.''
Roman was constructing the plastic bubble for a Toyota Prius commercial that he would be shooting the next week. This was before he was flying off to Monte Carlo to play roulette, but that's another story. ''It was a bit of a eureka moment when we thought of the pillow,'' Roman said to Sofia.
Now Sofia's friend Brian Reitzell arrived, with the first CD's of the ''Lost in Translation'' soundtrack. Reitzell plays drums with the French electronic group Air, which Sofia had tapped to compose the soundtrack for ''The Virgin Suicides.'' Reitzell himself put together the soundtrack for ''Lost in Translation,'' coaxing the reclusive Kevin Shields, founder of the seminal group My Bloody Valentine, out of seclusion. Reitzell is also the boyfriend of Stephanie Hayman, Sofia's good friend and partner in Milk Fed.


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The Bank Lobby Steps Up Its Attack on Elizabeth Warren
Representatives from the Chamber, ABA, ICBA, Consumer Bankers Association (CBA), CUNA and NAFCU testified in favor of the House bills, which gives a pretty good sense of where Republicans are getting their legislative direction. "I certainly think they're talking to the Chamber," says Mark Calabria, a former Republican aide on the Senate Banking Committee who is director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute. "I certainly think they're talking to the bankers." Different sectors in the finance community feuded over Dodd-Frank, but now they're united in efforts to weaken the bureau.
The Chamber has an entire division devoted to fighting Dodd-Frank, the Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, and a huge budget. In the first quarter of this year, the Chamber spent $17 million on federal lobbying, far more than any other group, with a dozen lobbyists focused on the CFPB alone. In 2009 the Chamber was anything but subtle in its attacks on the bureau. "We're fundamentally trying to kill this," said senior director Ryan McKee. It called the CFPB an "unprecedented expansion of government intervention" and a "new tax" on small businesses. But after losing round one, the Chamber and other opponents decided to work behind closed doors. "They're much more stealth than they were before," says Mierzwinski of USPIRG. Who needs a public campaign, after all, when you have the House GOP as a new best friend?
Alabama Republican Spencer Bachus, chair of the House Financial Services Committee, aptly described the mindset of the incoming GOP majority in December: "In Washington, the view is that the banks are to be regulated, and my view is that Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks." Bachus led the House GOP's effort to raise Wall Street money in 2010. In a meeting with 100 financial services lobbyists two months before the election, he castigated banks for giving more money to Democrats than to Republicans, according to Politico. The strategy worked—of the $22 million commercial banks gave to political parties and Congressional candidates in the 2010 cycle, 62 percent went to Republicans, compared with 52 percent in the 2008 cycle. Bachus was more reliant on donations from the finance sector during the 2010 cycle than any other member of Congress. In the first quarter of this year, 97 percent of his donations came from out of state, including $18,650 in one day from pawnbrokers across the country.
In addition to introducing the aforementioned legislation, Congressional Republicans tried unsuccessfully to cut the CFPB's budget earlier this year and succeeded in mandating two audits of the bureau per year. "It's a death-of-a-thousand-cuts strategy," says Mierzwinski. "They're throwing spaghetti at the wall to see if anything will stick," adds Lisa Donner of AFR. The hope is to intimidate the Obama administration and/or lay the groundwork for a Dodd-Frank repeal if Obama loses in 2012. "If the House Republicans had their way, they would just repeal the CFPB!" said Hazen Marshall, a former Republican staff director for the Senate Budget Committee, earlier this year.
Before Dodd-Frank, the banks had rarely lost a fight on Capitol Hill. They don't want to lose another one, which is why they're trying to defang every aspect of the law. The twenty-six largest financial firms spent more money on lobbying in this quarter than during the peak of the reform fight last year. The ABA alone dropped $2.2 million on lobbying and has eleven lobbyists working on the CFPB, led by Wayne Abernathy, a former aide to Senate Banking chair Phil Gramm, who co-sponsored repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which helped spawn the economic crisis. The ICBA has spent $1 million on lobbying in 2011. The banking sector clashed over Dodd-Frank, with the ICBA supporting parts of the bill after winning an exemption from CFPB enforcement, while the ABA remained bitterly opposed. Yet both have backed the House GOP bills. The ABA claims Dodd-Frank will drive 1,000 small banks out of business.
To blunt the potential impact of CFPB, the biggest banks have leaned on their existing regulator, the industry-friendly Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, for support. "For years, the OCC has had the power and the responsibility to protect both banks and consumers, and it has consistently thrown the consumer under the bus," Warren told The Nation in 2009. The OCC used its authority more than twenty times at the height of the bubble to pre-empt states and cities that tried to go after predatory subprime lending. As part of the CFPB's creation, the banks managed to get an amendment that limited the ability of state regulators to sue national banks at the state level. The OCC recently announced a settlement with the country's largest banks, which have admitted to massive foreclosure fraud, that is viewed as far more lenient than a deal being pursued by state attorneys general. (Republicans have accused Warren of masterminding the state AG deal, which Geoff Greenwood, spokesman for Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, calls "simply not true.") The CFPB was established to mitigate this kind of cushy arrangement, which allowed banks to prosper while consumers suffered.
The banks have also found a strange bedfellow in the $42 billion payday lending industry, even though banks support the CFPB's efforts to regulate that industry at the federal level for the first time. "The payday lenders would be the top foe of the CFPB," says Mike Calhoun, president of the Center for Responsible Lending. "They recognize that CFPB has the power to put them out of business or make them fundamentally change their business model." During the Dodd-Frank debate, payday lobbyists defeated amendments that would have capped payday interest rates and limited the number of loans one person can take out. "We have lobbyists, and they made their point," industry spokesman Steven Schlein told The Huffington Post.
The industry continues to flex its lobby muscle to evade regulation. In 2002 the Community Financial Services Association, a trade group for payday lenders, hired top lobbyist Tim Rupli, a former aide to Tom DeLay "known for his ability to kill legislation and his prodigious fundraising power," according to The Hill (he's also on the payroll of ICBA). Another association for the payday industry, the Financial Service Centers of America, recently moved its headquarters from New Jersey to Washington and retained the services of ex-Senator Don Nickles, former GOP chair of the Budget Committee, as part of what FiSCA chair Joe Coleman calls its "greatly expanded lobbying teams." He says the industry "must focus like a laser beam" on the CFPB. Everyone from Tea Party darling Dick Armey to civil rights groups like the National Urban League has worked with the industry. Former Democratic Representative Larry LaRocco, whose firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck represents the payday titan ACE Cash Express, is launching a website to monitor the bureau. "It's going to be a huge bureau with many tentacles," LaRocco predicts. "It's going to be like an octopus shaking hands with itself."
In response to these lobbying efforts, the CFPB is keeping its post-July plans close to the vest and focusing on low-hanging fruit, such as clearer mortgage disclosure forms, that can draw consensus among consumer advocates and industry groups. Everyone agrees the real fights are yet to come, once the CFPB goes live and begins tackling difficult issues like policing scams in the credit and mortgage markets, and cracking down on overdraft lending fees and shady prepaid credit cards. "There's bound to be a fight about every single rule-making, supervision and enforcement action," says Donner of AFR. That's when the CFPB's clout within the Obama administration will really be tested. "The dirty little secret in our community is that once in a while we succeed in passing laws, but keeping up with the trench warfare of implementation is enormously expensive, and we almost never have the resources to do it right," says Travis Plunkett, legislative director of the Consumer Federation of America. One consumer advocate described the current stage as the honeymoon period between the CFPB and industry. If this is the honeymoon, Lord knows what the marriage will look like.
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Since becoming the CFPB's interim director in September, Warren has begun a well-publicized "charm offensive," meeting regularly with leaders of the biggest Wall Street banks and the Chamber. She's met with community bankers from all fifty states and won praise from JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and local bankers alike. The president of the ABA, former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, even said in May he'd support her nomination to lead the bureau, before quickly walking back the endorsement under pressure from fellow bankers and Congressional Republicans. "We've embraced the CFPB because we want to make sure they get it right on behalf of the banking industry and the consumer," says CBA president Richard Hunt. "It's reality. Deal with it." Warren's open-door policy has helped win over skeptics. "Right now she's trying to get out and just lower everyone's anxiety," says AFSA lobbyist Bill Himpler. At the very least, she's forced some companies that are privately lobbying to weaken the CFPB to say nice things about it. "I reject the allegation that we're trying to cripple the bureau," says Talbot, who in '09 said his goal would be to "kill" it. "Our goal is to make it as effective as possible." American Banker named Warren its Innovator of the Year in 2010.
Warren has been something of an outcast even within the Obama administration, dating back to her time as chair of the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel, when her withering questioning of Geithner achieved cult status among econ junkies on YouTube. "I'm a thorn in this administration's side as much as in the last administration's," she said in 2010. Her populist politics scared the likes of Geithner, Larry Summers and Rahm Emanuel, and she was only reluctantly appointed interim director after an intense public campaign on her behalf. The administration has reportedly offered the CFPB post to former Delaware Senator Ted Kaufman, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and three state AGs, all of whom have turned it down. After all, Warren is uniquely suited to lead the agency she created.
For months the administration tried to find a director who could please Warren and Richard Shelby, ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee. But now that Shelby has threatened to block any nominee without changes to the bureau, the Obama team may be more inclined to install Warren via a recess appointment, which would last until the end of 2012, even if she complicates its outreach to the business community. "I was troubled the administration was going so slowly, but now Republicans have solved that problem with their announcement that they wouldn't confirm anybody," says Barney Frank, who calls Warren the front-runner. Sixty-five House Democrats have circulated a letter urging Obama to recess-appoint Warren, while a pro-Warren petition by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee generated 175,000 signatures in two days. (Harry Reid has urged her instead to run for the Senate in Massachusetts against Scott Brown.)
Shelby has said that a Warren recess appointment would be "dangerous to the American economy," and the White House seems reluctant to pick another fight with him. The cantankerous Alabama senator, who last year put a hold on seventy administration nominees while fighting for a defense contract in his home state, recently scuttled well-regarded nominees for the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Fed Board of Governors (the latter, Peter Diamond, boasts a Nobel Prize in economics). ABA lobbyist Wayne Abernathy predicts that some industry groups might challenge the legality of a Warren recess appointment. More broadly, five of the ten top federal financial regulator posts are empty or occupied by temporary caretakers, which suits opponents of reform just fine. If Obama doesn't step in soon, the entire Dodd-Frank legislation may unravel from inertia.
Warren has seen this play before. In 1994 Congress established the National Bankruptcy Review Commission. Warren was its chief adviser. Banks hated the idea and urged Congress to ignore its findings. In 2005 Congress and the Bush administration enacted a bankruptcy bill, favored by the credit card companies, that made it harder for people to file for bankruptcy. Warren is determined not to let something like that happen again. "If it's going to be weak," she said of the new consumer bureau, "we'd just as soon not have it at all."


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