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By adjusting your personal retirement plan, you may be better positioned to generate enough income to last a lifetime.
Remember, retirement planning is ongoing. Periodic adjustments are needed to ensure that you'll continue on the path toward your retirement goals.
If you're in retirement, you may need to consider these questions:
- How can you continue to generate a stream of income?
- How can you help protect your retirement savings and assets from unplanned expenses?
- What effect will working during retirement have on your Social Security benefits?
MetLife can help you with all of your retirement decisions - before and after you retire.
Bill's retirement is in full swing. He is worried about depleting his income sources by withdrawing too much too soon. At the same time, he wants to keep his money ahead of the inflation curve.
Bill sold his home for a profit and put some of the proceeds into an immediate income annuity. His house profits have now been converted into a stream of income that will help cover his day-to-day expenses and provide him with a stream of retirement income he can't outlive if possible.*
There are several types of annuities, but the one that can help generate income as soon as it is purchased is called an immediate income annuity. By converting a portion of your assets into an immediate annuity, you may be able to cover your basic living expenses with a guaranteed stream of income throughout retirement.
Annuities are also flexible, allowing you to customize your income payments. The amount you receive will depend on the type of immediate annuity you purchase and other factors such as your age, the time of purchase, interest rates at that time, and the payout option selected. A fixed immediate annuity will provide you with the same amount for every payment, while the amount you receive from a variable immediate annuity will fluctuate with the market value of the selected funding options.
Immediate income annuities can be a key component to your retirement savings plan. You may have more questions about annuities, so let MetLife help you decide which one might be right for you.
Medicare is our country's national health insurance program. You will be eligible for Medicare after you turn 65, whether you continue to work or not. Medicare has two parts:
- Part A. Hospital insurance that helps pay for inpatient hospital care and some follow-up services.
- Part B. Medical insurance that helps pay for doctors' services, outpatient hospital care, diagnostic tests, prosthetic services, physical therapy and other medical services. Part B is an optional program, and you pay a fee for benefits.
Since Medicare will not cover 100% of your medical expenses, you should:
- Make sure that other health insurance coverages you have, such as an HMO or employer's plan, know you are eligible for Medicare.
- Consider obtaining a Medigap insurance policy that may cover Medicare's deductibles and "fill in the gaps" in your Medicare coverage.
A Medigap policy is health insurance sold by private insurance companies to help pay some of the health care costs that the Medicare plan doesn't cover. Insurance companies can only sell you a "standardized" Medigap policy. These Medigap policies must all have specific benefits so you can compare them easily-choose from up to 12 different standardized Medigap policies (Medigap Plans A through L).
It's important to compare Medigap policies because costs can vary; however, the benefits in any Medigap Plan A through L are the same for any insurance company.
Your retirement plan should also include financial solutions for unforeseen long-term care expenses that may not be covered by your healthcare plans.
People manage long-term care expenses in different ways. You can pay for long-term care yourself, choose to rely on family, relatives and/or local social service resources, or purchase long-term care insurance.
You may wish to work in some capacity after you retire, but know that if you work while claiming early Social Security benefits, your benefit amount will be reduced, but only until you reach your full retirement age. You can use the following formula to determine how much your benefit will be reduced: If you are under full retirement age when you start collecting Social Security payments, $1 in benefits will be deducted for each $2 you earn above the annual limit (the annual limit, or retirement earnings exempt amount, is determined by an automatic adjustment procedure that will be adjusted periodically). In the year you turn full retirement age, $1 in benefits will be deducted for every $3 you earn above a different limit, but only counting earnings before the month you reach the full benefit retirement age. Starting with the month you reach full retirement age, you will receive your benefits with no limit on your earnings.
When figuring out how much is deducted from your benefits, only the wages you make from a job or your net profit if you're self-employed are counted. This includes bonuses, commissions and vacation pay, but not pension, annuities, investment income, interest, veterans or other government or military retirement benefits. It is important to remember that when you continue to work while you get benefits, Social Security will check your record every year to see if those additional earnings will increase your monthly payment. If there is an increase, they will send you a notice of your new benefit amount.
The simplest way to ensure that your funds, property, and personal effects will be protected and distributed according to your wishes is to prepare a will. To ensure your wishes are acted upon, there are three important documents you should consider drawing up now:
- Living will. This document tells doctors exactly what kind of care you want and don't want to receive if you become terminally ill or incapacitated.
- Durable power of attorney for healthcare. Allows you to name a person who will make medical decisions for you if you are unable to make those decisions on your own; also know as a healthcare proxy.
- Durable power of attorney for finances. This document designates the person who will handle financial decisions for you.
All of the documents need to be executed at a time when you are able to make decisions, so it's important to put them in place as early as possible.
Having a life insurance policy in place can help provide guaranteed* income for your loved ones and lessen their financial burden when you're no longer here. The money can help with everything from mortgage payments to college tuition.
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Most insurance policies and annuity contracts contain exclusions, limitations, reduction of benefits, surrender charges and terms for keeping them in force. Your financial representative can provide you with costs and complete details.
A variable annuity is a long-term investment designed for retirement purposes. In essence, a variable annuity is a contractual agreement in which payment(s) is/are made to an insurance company, which agrees to pay out an income or a lump sum amount at a later date. There are contract limitations, fees, and charges associated with variable annuities, which include, but are not limited to, mortality and expense risk charges, sales and withdrawal charges, administrative fees, and charges for optional benefits. Early withdrawals may be subject to surrender charges, and taxed as ordinary income and, in addition, if taken prior to age 59½, an additional 10% federal income tax penalty may apply. Withdrawals reduce annuity contract benefits and values. Investments in variable annuities will fluctuate and values upon redemption may be less than the original amount invested. Variable annuities are not guaranteed by FDIC or any other government agency and are not deposits or other obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank or savings association.
Variable annuities are offered by prospectus only, which is available from your registered representative. You should carefully consider the product's features, risks, charges and expenses, and the investment objectives, risks and policies of the underlying portfolios, as well other information about the underlying funding choices. This and other information is available in the prospectus, which you should read carefully before investing. Product availability and features may vary by state.
The amounts allocated to the variable investment options of your account balance are subject to market fluctuations so that, when withdrawn or annuitized it may be worth more or less than its original value.
MetLife fixed income annuities, like all annuities, are insurance products and are not insured by the FDIC, the NCUSIF or any other government agency, nor are they guaranteed by, or the obligation of, the financial institution that sells them. All product guarantees are subject to the financial strength and claims-paying ability of the issuing insurance company.
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EUGENE, Ore. – The University of Oregon acrobatics and tumbling team has added an additional seven prep standouts, bringing its total incoming newcomer class to 14. Head coach Felecia Mulkey has announced seven incoming freshmen have signed National Letters of Intent in the recent late signing period.
UO's signing class consists of five Oregon products, four natives of California, two from Nevada and one each from Washington, Colorado and Georgia.
The Ducks won their fourth consecutive NCATA National Championship on April 26, beating Azusa Pacific in the finals with the second highest score in NCATA history. Since the NCATA's inception four seasons ago, UO has posted a 43-3 overall record while winning four national titles, 30 event titles, winning 11 All-America honors and two athlete of the year awards.
Oregon's challenging task of replacing five standout seniors will be made easier by welcoming back 32 student athletes, including three All-Americans, while adding a talented signing class of 14 accomplished recruits.
Alexis Cross
5-foot-3 / Eugene, Ore. / Marist H.S.
A hometown product out of Marist High School, Cross has 12 years of club cheerleading experience and is a varsity letter winner. Cross also earned letters in soccer and in tennis. She was an all-state selection in soccer in 2013-14 and was a four-year letter winner for Marist. In the classroom, Cross is a four-time honor roll selection and a member of National Honors Society.
"We're excited to have Alexis as part of the Duck family," said Mulkey. "She is a dynamic athlete with a work ethic to match. You will see her as a top and possibly a mid-level in the pyramid event."
Lauren Jones
5-foot-6 / Lithonia, Ga. / Southwest Dekalb H.S.
Jones is the team captain of Southwest Dekalb's varsity gymnastics team, and was named most valuable player last season. Jones was also the captain of her club competitive cheerleading team, and was named MVP of her high school's varsity cheer squad. She is also a member of her school's band and is an honor roll honoree.
"Lauren is a power house in both tumbling and acro," said Mulkey. "Her excitement for this sport is contagious. We are excited to welcome her to our family."
Kianna Vestuto
5-foot-1 / Las Vegas, Nev. / Palo Verde H.S.
Vestuto has seven years of cheerleading at Palo Verde High School under her belt, and is a two-time team captain. Last season, Vestuto earned MVP honors and was named the Best Tumbler award winner by her team. Vestuto is an all-state academic award winner.
"You will see Kianna in the toss events and possibly as a top in acro and pyramids," said Mulkey. 'Hey body control and air awareness well make her an asset in those events."
Nicole Czyz
5-foot-1 / Lake Tahoe, Nev. / Bishop Gorman H.S.
Out of Bishop Gorman High School, Czyz has been the team captain of her freshman, junior varsity and varsity cheer squads. Czyz is a four-year MVP award winner and was voted the best tumbler at Bishop Gorman's cheer camp. She also excelled in the classroom and was the editor in chief of her high school newspaper.
"Nicole is a very talented athlete and will be a great addition to the team," said Mulkey. "We're thrilled to welcome her to the family."
Reagan Trussell
5-foot-4 / Irvine, Calif. / Woodbridge H.S.
Trussell attends Woodbridge High School in Irvine, Calif. She has 12 years of club gymnastics experience. Trussell has been named her club team's Most Improved Gymnast award winner. In the classroom, Trussell earned honor roll accolades and is a Fellowship of Christian Athletes member.
'We're excited to have Reagan's tumbling background as part of our program," said Mulkey. "Her strength will also prove an asset in the acro and pyramid events."
Ali Garwood
5-foot-8 / Albany, Ore. / Santiam Christian H.S.
Garwood competed for Stingray All-Stars; a competitive club cheer team from Marietta, Ga. At Santiam Christian High School in Albany, Ore., Garwood was an honor roll member and a member of the competitive cheer squad.
"Ali's strength will make her an asset right away in the pyramid and toss events," said Mulkey.
Heather Hovander
5-foot-4 / Alamo, Calif. / Monte Vista H.S.
Hovander will join the University of Oregon with 13 years of gymnastics experience. She is a level nine gymnast, and a qualifier to western nationals. Hovander has been selected to the all-state team the past two seasons and is a five-time state champion.
"Heather is a powerful gymnast with impeccable technique," said Mulkey. "Her strength and skill set will translate well into this sport."
Oregon announced the signing of seven prep standouts on Nov. 18, 2013, in the early signing period.


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Dvd Release Date: 2001-09-04
Genre: Drama,
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Duration: 1hr 31min
The emotional story of four sisters and the relationship they share with their recently widowed mother. While trying to help her cope, each of the sisters begins to understand what is missing in their own lives and relationships, and the lessons they learn affect the entire family. Difficult times test the values of the family, and dissenting points of view create rifts between individuals. Through good times and bad, the sisters come to rely upon each other as never before. And when tragedy strikes, the family members turn to each other for comfort and support.
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March is "Women's History Month", and to commemorate this we'll look at women who have paved the way for others, or those who have made their passion to highlight the successes and cultural progresses is of other women throughout history.
One of those women is Karen Stasser.
Stasser is the founder of the National Women's History Museum (NWHM), which has administrative offices in Alexandria, Va.; just outside the District of Columbia.
She was inspired by diverse travel and living experiences, coupled with post-graduate education and corporate practice in managing change within complex systems guided Stasser, via NWHM's website. Her vision was for the organization to serve as a catalyst for cultural change on a national basis.
She quickly moved to establishing base in her basement as the initial foundation of this future organization. She then produced a "white paper" which outlined the explicit need for a national women's history Museum. This basement office eventually became an established not for profit entity which would lead to galvanizing support from people in all walks of life.
In 2012 the National Women's History Museum eventually made changes to its governance thanks to a Huffington Post investigation.
There is no physical structure that is the NWHM, there is a NWHM Cyber-museum (www.nwhm.org), and NWHM newsletter, "A Different Point of View."
While Stasser's group seems to be moving in the right direction, it did experience growing pains in the form of mismanagement and lack of accountability through a HuffPost two-month investigation.
"Board members are keenly aware of the challenges we have in front of us. We need to grow the organization. We need to make some changes," mentioned Joan Wages, then-NWHM President and CEO to Huffington Post.
A report stated:
Wages confirmed that "a couple" of fundraising events had "not worked out" since the story ran. She said plans were under way for other events in Washington and additional cities but gave no details. She also said legislation in Congress to allow the museum to buy or lease a spot on the National Mall is "still not in a stage to talk about."
The museum had "no indication" that Meryl Streep, the distinguished actress, Kennedy Center Honoree, and Oscar-winner who had been its most visible and important supporter, was going to withdraw financial support. Streep serves as spokeswoman for the museum.
Once the museum is built it will be known as the first on the National Mall designed by a woman.
There is also a statement that Wages had released, saying:
"It took some time for us to, I mean, we felt like we were being attacked, and so it took some time for us to take a step back, take a deep breath. In hindsight, maybe it could have been done differently. That's why we're trying to start over."
Stasser now lives in Anchorage, Alaska.
Through her valiant efforts suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were returned to the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
National Women's History Museum has administrative offices located at 205 S. Whiting St., Suite 254, Alexandria, VA 22304.
To learn more about the national women's history Museum and their efforts and establishing a location on the mall you can contact them at (703) 461-1920, or check out their website www.nwhm.org.


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How to easily send trackable emails from your iPhone
You can easily configure JangoSMTP on your iPhone, and send trackable emails from your iPhone. A free JangoSMTP account lets you send up to 200 emails/month. Just set your outgoing server to relay.jangosmtp.net, specify your User Name and Password, and you're all set. Please note: JangoSMTP is only for sending emails. You should keep your incoming email settings as they are.
After creating a free JangoSMTP account, follow the instructions in the screenshots below.
1. In the Settings section, go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars
2. Click Add Account
3. Choose Other
4. Go to Add Mail Account
5. Fill out each section in New Account and click Next
6. Scroll down to Outgoing Mail Server and set your Host Name to relay.jangosmtp.net and enter your JangoSMTP User Name and Password. For Incoming Mail Server, use your usual settings.
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I have had an instant dislike towards Louie, just with young girls instead of an old man. But there are major, major differences between the two lurking underneath. I did not care about Louie at first, but while I have, upon rewatching it, grown to love Louie, I still cannot watch Girls.
I. Girls as Entertainment.
The reason that would be easy to come up with would be "You don't like Girls because you have a penis and therefore cannot identify with any of the characters, stupid." But that ain't right, I can identify with Veronica Mars just fine. I also don't mind playing female characters in video games at all, you know. Besides, I'm not a forty-eight years old divorced dad, it's not like Louie is a carbon copy of myself – and yet, again no problem at all to identify with him. Part of the answer comes, instead, from very simple, "mundane" (in the context of this website) movie analysis. Louis CK is, for example, a dynamite director. I wish I could link the motorcycle sequence to you, or the Afghanistan episode, but I can't, so you'll just have to believe me. Cinematrographically, Louie is simply a lot more impressive.
Moreover, though, it is difficult to be invested in characters who are 1) terribly narcissistic and 2) exhibit zero agency, or even the illusion of agency. You can get by with either/or, but not with neither. Tony Soprano is a narcissist, and he doesn't even have that much agency – in fact, the whole show is practically about how little control he actually has; but The Sopranos also has a wider array of characters who together form a frighteningly accurate parable of America. Girls is just a parable for… Girls. And even the protagonist of the excellent series Rectify, despite being about a man who really just stares a lot, has some agency (which he exerts mostly through staring). Many characters of The Wire lack agency, but at least they are sympathetic so that you wish they would. Louie has agency, and very clearly so; Louie is a father, and bringing up kids is quite automatically an act of creation. A sort of deferred act of agency perhaps, but agency nevertheless. Hannah et. al, on the other hand, do nothing at all. All of their energy is spent on being terrible people, I guess…
But this is, at the end of the day, arguing against the mere face-value of the show, which is important, of course, but there are more conventional domains for such criticism. Something that further irked me, however – and that is far more easily within the reach of post-modern contortions –, is the idea of Girls somehow being a feminist work.
II. Girls as a feminist show.
My approach towards feminism or gender-issues in general is that the ultimate goal has to be a de-signification of gender. This would be analogous to the history of jeans, which went from 1) use-value in the 19th century to sign-value in the 20th century, starting roughly in the forties:
What followed was a semiotic warfare (cf. Fiske: The Jeaning of America) which, in the end, resulted in a plethora of different potential interpretations of what jeans signify – raggedness, culture, nature, the east, the west, casual wear, smart wear, femininity, masculinity, metrosexuality. This semiotic richness resulted – which Fiske, in the text linked above, fails to see when he disparages the opinion of a psychoanalyst as being concerned only with the pathological – in jeans ultimately becoming an empty, indeterminate sign, a de-signified object, an (almost) truly neutral object, the wearing of which barely says anything about the wearer (as close to truly neutral as anything can get, that is, keeping in mind that one cannot not communicate), which hides more than it says.
Another example of this process of de-signification: consider the German green party. One of their tenets of internal organisation is that their leadership is to always consist out of one man and one woman. But what would happen if they abandoned this rule now? I would argue that, after being conditioned to vote for one man and one woman for the past 30 years, this rule could be safely abandoned. In the first few years they would, perhaps, still vote for one man and one woman as a gesture. Then, at some point, two men would win the vote, or two women, so that finally the leadership position would, in regard to gender, be successfully de-signified; people would simply stop looking at gender as a means to determine this position. The crucial steps for feminism are, in other words, to show that 1) women would, in any given position, be just as capable as men and that 2) women would, in any given position, be just as incapable as men – so that gender becomes a useless tool of selection, and more accurate operationalisations of the construct "competence" would be used instead.
In analogy to this development, then, both female and male characters would have to become so overcharged in a plethora of different configurations that no one individual work of cultural work could be said to signify any kind of gender bias; characters would be "strong" (whatever that means exactly) or "weak" and coincidentally happen to be either female or male, a post-gender character. In this regard, Girls or, say, The Hunger Games would, in such a post-gender cultural landscape, be perfectly fine – after all, just like there are weak and strong (or any other kind of oppositional characterization) men, so there are weak and strong women.
However, one of the crucial stages of the de-signification process has never been completed. Since the medium is the message, i.e. since all cultural works combined will always have more meaning than any individual cultural work, we would need a multitude of cultural works with strong characters in conjunction with cultural works such as Girls, and this is what is missing. In other words, Girls portray female characters without agency in a cultural environment that doesn't portray any female characters with agency – except for Homeland or The Bridge, i.e. shows where the characters are "broken" (Bipolar and Asperger respectively) and would not be "strong" if they were not "broken."* What is left, then, is Girls as the celebration of twenty-something women (and men) being assholes. Which is not a problem per se – The Sopranos was about a colossal asshole, so was Seinfeld. But when shows like Girls, or Skylar from Breaking Bad are used to exclaim that "see, the utopia of post-feminism has been reached, all is well now!", then, then we have problem.
[nota bene: Inspiration and fundamental ideas lifted from PartialObjects / The Problem of Wives on Cable TV]
* Note that e.g. BBC's Sherlock is perfectly fine, because there are enough other "stron"g male characters without a psychological ailment (not that Conan Doyle originally wrote the character that way, but whatever), so that Sherlocks two dominat identity-markers: "broken" / "incredibly analytic and intelligent" not being incidental to one another does not say anything about masculinity.


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Tomcat - I think this shoot was awesome. I've always had a thing for hot women dripping with sweat. There's no site out there that I've found which provides a showcase for this content. One of the reasons I join this site is that as a result of the machines the girls often work up a sweat. I loved the test shoot with Dia you did quite some time ago. Any chance this will become a regular occurrence on FM or perhaps kink will create a site for it? I for one would sign up for that site in a NY minute.
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Russell Crowe seems to be content trying to create a filmography that would make him a titan if only it were generations earlier. "Gladiator" and "Robin Hood" were large-scale period films that sought to recall the grandeur of "Ben-Hur." Since then, he's been working away at smaller films, saving the tent-poles to more interested men. Until this weekend, when Crowe channels another period with "Noah."
Crowe plays the man known throughout history for his ark. Opening with a brief background of what has occurred prior, we come across a peasant boy and his father. While performing a rite of passage, Noah's father is slain and forces his family to live in hiding. Years later, after becoming a husband and father of three boys, Noah has a vision for The Creator: a great flood will cleanse the world and its wickedness. The Creator tasks Noah with building an ark to survive the storm and shepherd two of each animal to a world safe from their innocence.
Many are familiar with the story of Noah, as the story and the controversial discovery of the ark are topics that constantly cause turmoil in a religious debate. A lot of communities are using their influence to discourage seeing the movie without actually seeing the finished product. Though controversy can be a good thing, being critical of something without understanding it sadly exists at the core of each of us, something that the film touches on.
"Noah" is a film rich in scenery and grandeur. Deviations from the source material notwithstanding, the story is still fixed in the world of faith, love, and celebration of nature. It may turn off some by how the events unfold, but Crowe carries the film with the conviction we've come to expect of him. Call this the third part of Crowe's moments in history. It pails before "Gladiator," but curious moviegoers will find a solid story that survives most of its unnecessary endings. 2.5 out of 5 stars.
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National Lemonade Day is August 20, 2013, and to celebrate this 13th century beverage let's make our own fresh lemonade drink. This Mediterranean refreshment made its way to Europe and eventually America and is a popular summer drink. The beverage was sold as an everyday drink, and as a tonic to treat colds and other ailments. In France, a glass of lemonade purchased from street vendors was called "lemoadiers."
Fresh Lemonade Recipe
1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
¾ cup sugar
4 cups water
1 lemon, unpeeled, cut in cartwheel slices
Ice cubes
- In a large pitcher, mix the lemon juice and sugar; stir to dissolve sugar.
- Add 4 cups of water; stir.
- Add ice cubes and a cartwheel slice for garnish.
- Substitute honey to taste for the sugar.
Prep time: 15 minutes
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E*Trade is one of the oldest and well-known online stock brokers in the US. E*Trade is an award winning brokerage firm and offers a wide variety of investing tools, resources, and features that place it among the leaders among both full service brokerages and discount brokerage firms.
More importantly, E*Trade is affordable, with a commission and fee schedule that is good for both active traders and long term investors. Let's take a look at some of E*Trade's features and why they are a solid brokerage account for a diverse group of investors.
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E*TRADE Complete Investment Account. The E*TRADE Complete Investment account is their entry level offering, but don't let that fool you – there is a lot of service and value in this plan. You have the ability to open an E*Trade bank account which can be integrated into your investment account, making it easy to make quick trades and transfer funds. The E*Trade banking account comes with free unlimited checking, a debit card, free online bill pay, and Free ATM fee refunds. But that's just the bank – the brokerage offers the following:
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- There are over 1,300 no-load and no-transaction fee mutual funds,
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- The minimum balance to open a standard trading account is $500.
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For the second week in a row, "300: Rise of an Empire" was No. 1 for movies on demand from June 30 to July 6, 2014, according to Rentrak. After its victory over Leonidas' 300, the Persian Army under the command of Xerxes marches south towards the major Greek city-states. The Democratic city of Athens, first on the path of Xerxes' army, bases its strength on its fleet, led by admiral Themistocles. Themistocles is forced to an unwilling alliance with the traditional rival of Athens, oligarchic Sparta whose might lies with its superior infantry troops. But Xerxes still reigns supreme in numbers over sea and land. Starring Sullivan Stapleton, Rodrigo Santoro and Eva Green. "300: Rise of an Empire" got mixed reviews from critics, but it was a big hit with movie-going audiences.
"Non-Stop" rose from No. 3 to No. 2. Liam Neeson stars in "Non-Stop,"a suspense thriller played out at 40,000 feet in the air. During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks (played by Neeson) receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the airline to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every 20 minutes. Also starring Julianne Moore, Michelle Dockery, Nate Parker, Anson Mount, Lupita Nyong'o and Scoot McNairy. "Non-Stop" got mixed reviews from critics and was better-than-average business in cinemas.
"The Lego Movie" dropped from No. 2 to No. 3. This original 3-D computer animated story follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously under-prepared. The movie's voice cast includes Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Charlie Day, Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman. "The Lego Movie" was highly praised by critics and was a blockbuster in cinemas.
"The Grand Budapest Hotel" debuted at No. 4. The comedy film "The Grand Budapest Hotel" recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune — all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. Starring Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Edward Norton, Mathieu Amalric, Saoirse Ronan, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Léa Seydoux, Jeff Goldblum, Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson and Tony Revolori. "The Grand Budapest Hotel" was well-received by critics and movie audiences.
"Lone Survivor" fell from No. 4 to No. 5. Based on a true story, "Lone Survivor" tells the incredible tale of four Navy SEALs who get trapped in the mountains of Afghanistan, leading them into an enemy ambush. The all-star cast includes Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster, Emile Hirsch and Eric Bana. "Lone Survivor" got mostly positive reviews from critics and was a hit at the box office.
Here are the Top 5 movies on demand for the week of June 30 to July 6, 2014:
1. 300: Rise of an Empire (No. 1 in the previous week)
2. Non-Stop (No. 3 in the previous week)
3. The Lego Movie (No. 2 in the previous week)
4. The Grand Budapest Hotel (debut)
5. Lone Survivor (No. 4 in the previous week)


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- Address: No.500, Hengfeng Road, Zhabei District, Shanghai
- Tel: 021-52539999 (Book this hotel, call 800-2682918)
- Hotel Name in Chinese: 上海浦西洲际
- Lowest Price: $259
Opened in 2009, the InterContinental Shanghai Puxi is located in the Commercial Center of Zhabei District,closed to Hongqiao Development Zone,Bund and Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street. It is 2km away from the Shanghai Railway Station, 15km away from the Shanghai South Railway Station and Shanghai Hongqiao Airport, 50km away from the Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
The InterContinental Shanghai Puxi offers a total of 533 guest rooms in various standards, including deluxe room, superior deluxe room, executive suite, duplex suite, intercontinental suite and president suite. In addition, the intercontinental executive building is equipped with spacious and luxury club. There are Chinese and Western restaurants in different styles, Italian restaurant and Japanese restaurant and leisure bar in the hotel. The large scale banquet hall, multi-functional conference rooms and small theaters are available in the hotel. For recreation and relaxation, the professional spa, indoor swimming pool, sauna service and gym and so on are available in the hotel. Apart from these, the hotel also provides facilities and services such as business center, parking lot, pick-up service, currency exchange service, postal service, ticket booking, luggage service, etc.
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Hotel Amenities: Elevator, Parking, Air-Conditioned Facilities, Indoor Swimming Pool, Sauna, Business Center, Gift Shop, Gymnasium , Tennis court, Suitable for wheelchairs, Meeting Room, Ballroom, Deposit Box at Front Desk, Airline Desk, Fire Detector
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Quote, unquote: just-food's week in words
UK minister Heath said government could only reassure consumers after beef tests
Few stories in recent months have caused as much comment as the horse meat scandal, which last week deepened with the news Findus lasagne sold in the UK contained the ingredient. Elsewhere, Dairy Crest said potential takeover targets wanted too much money, Nestle found another country looking at the implications of its Pfizer infant formula acquisition and Kraft Foods Group went to court over the Cracker Barrel trademark.
"We are confident that we have fully resolved this supply chain issue" - Findus UK after admitting its frozen lasagne contained up to 60% horse meat.
"The FSA is now requiring a more robust response from the food industry in order to demonstrate that the food it sells and serves is what it says it is on the label" - in the wake of the Findus contamination, Catherine Brown, chair of the UK's Food Standards Agency, outlines its demands for the country's food sector to urgently test their meat products.
"The most important thing we can do is to carry out the testing. The FSA has asked every retailer and processor to check every beef product they have to make sure it is what it says it is. If that it is the case, we will be able to give that reassurance. Until then, frankly, we can't" - UK food minister David Heath tells the BBC only after the results of tests demanded by the FSA can the Government reassure consumers of the composition of beef products.
"We're keeping our money in our pocket" - a Dairy Crest spokesperson says the UK group's takeover targets had placed too high a price on their businesses - and the company is now focusing on improving its balance sheet.
"During [this] time Nestle will license out the existing Pfizer products for sale under different brand names to an independent licensee. After the 20-year period, Nestle may re-introduce the Pfizer brands with their original branding into the market" - South Africa's Competition Commission puts forward a plan to protect competition in the country's infant formula market after Nestle's acquisition of Pfizer's global infant nutrition business.
"The cereal category in the UK continues to be competitive but we saw improvement. Recent innovations are all off to a good start and we are optimisitic as we start 2013" - Kellogg president and CEO John Bryant reflects on the US group's performance - and its prospects - in the UK cereal market.
"[The] defendants' actions threaten to destroy the substantial goodwill that Kraft has created in its Cracker Barrel trademark, and to create significant confusion and cannot be permitted" - Kraft Foods Group launches legal action against US restaurant chain Cracker Barrel's plans to sell branded products in US retail stores.
"We will consolidate our position in Spain and broaden the range of processed cheese products that we offer our customers" - Nicolas Barral, general manager of Group Bel's Spanish business, explains why the French firm has moved to buy Spanish brand Tranchettes.
"These decisions were carefully considered and made with the ultimate goal of serving our customers, growing our business and creating shareholder value" - a spokesperson for Delhaize Group's US business outlines why the Belgian retailer is to cut 500 jobs from its chains across the Atlantic.
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Paris and Nicole live very sexy lives filled with wealth, beauty and fame. But all that couldnt save these Beverly Hills princesses from the long arm of the law. And when they get their spoiled little asses thrown in jail, they find themselves leading completely different lives. In the end, they have a much better time then expected, they have some very sexy adventures with their now friends. And they learn how to use their own bodies as currency to survive and to get what they want. Thats hot!
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Woman fired by Catholic Church for same-sex marriage receives petition support
Colleen Simon was fired in May after her marriage
A petition supporting a church employee fired for being married to a woman made it to the Diocese of Kansas City, but not without some struggle.
A petition drive in support of Colleen Simon acquired more than 30,000 signatures, said petition organizer Georgia Walker. Those who signed had asked the diocese to reinstate Simon, who was fired after "an irreconcilable conflict between the laws, discipline, and teaching of the Catholic Church...," according to a letter Simon received from the diocese after her dismissal.
Walker and other supporters attempted to hand-deliver the signatures to the diocese, but were halted once they arrived inside the church's downtown headquarters.
Somebody eventually took the signatured and promised to deliver it to Bishop Robert Finn.
"These are concerned Catholic parishoners who are all here to say we've had enough," said Walker. "We want a change. We want a change toward compassion. We want a change toward acceptance and inclusivity."
Simon married a woman in Iowa, and was fired in May after 10 months of work with St. Francis Xavier as its Parish Social Concerns Minister.
The diocese's director of communications, Jack Smith, forwarded a statement to 41 Action News.
The Diocese has not seen the filing, so we cannot comment specifically at this time. In general, as a Church we have the right to live and operate according to our faith and Church teachings. We regret this situation has resulted in litigation, however it is our sincere hope that the matter can be resolved amicably. As needed, we will defend our constitutional freedom to practice our faith and uphold the integrity of our mission and public witness.
Smith also noted to 41 Action News that the petition organizers, a group called Faithful America, is "a progressive online petition mill with no guarantee that its signatories are local or Catholic."


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"We are delighted to present this inaugural report on foundations in the Washington, DC, area," said Anita H. Plotinsky, director of the Center's DC office. "We hope that it will strengthen public understanding of the size, scope, and activities of philanthropic institutions located in and around the nation's capital."
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Coinciding with this report, the Foundation Center and Washington Grantmakers have released the latest edition of the Guide to Greater Washington, DC Grantmakers on CD-ROM, a research tool with more than 3,000 grantmaker entries, nearly 30,000 grants awarded to area nonprofits, and a searchable index of nearly 17,000 trustees, officers, and donor names.
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The lunch-hour concerts, comedy and other entertainment are returning to Moraine Park Technical College with the start of the 2009-10 academic year. The week of Aug. 24 kicks off the fall semester and features several events that are open to the community.
Fond du Lac campus: A Movie of the Month will be shown Tuesday, Aug. 25, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and again from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The general public may purchase food at each showing for $5 per meal.
A Comedy Fun Night on Friday, Aug. 28, will feature comedian Adam Ace from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. and Mission Improvable from 8:45 to 9:30 p.m. Ace's show combines physical comedy, music, improvisation, props, stand-up comedy and audience interaction. Mission Improvable is an improv and sketch comedy act. A catered meal will be served from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. The event is free to everyone, but if you plan to attend the meal please RSVP to Adam Ninmann, Moraine Park Student Life, at 920-924-3101 or email@example.com.
Both events will take place in the Cyber Center cafeteria.
Beaver Dam campus: Comedian Adam Ace will perform on Wednesday, Aug. 26, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the commons. The public may purchase lunch for $5 per meal on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, contact Lisa Manuell, Moraine Park Student Life, at 920-887-4462 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
West Bend campus: On Wednesday, Aug. 26, join staff and students for a free concert by the reggae band Natty Nation, based out of Madison. Since 1995 Natty Nation has played around the country and abroad, earning several awards. The band will play on the patio outside the cafeteria from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Food and beverages are available at cost for the public. For more information, contact Bradley Mitchell, Moraine Park Student Life, at 262-335-5743 or email@example.com.
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Lorraine had such searing pain in her left arm that she thought she was having a heart attack. Instead, she had two collapsed discuses in her back that were hitting a nerve in between them.
She went through a revolutionary new surgery at North Colorado Medical Center and had a full and completely pain-free recovery. The surgery replaced those discuses with stainless-steel forms. The technique eliminates the need for fusing vertebrae and allows patients to maintain full mobility in their necks.
Before her back pain, Lorraine had survived breast cancer because she underwent newer forms of treatment. "Basically my recovery (from breast cancer) was because a lot of women went before me and said yes to something experimental.''
Lorraine decided it was time for her to do something groundbreaking and has never regretted the decision to go with the new spinal surgery technique. After she woke up from her surgery, she was pain free, a miracle considering how much agony she had been in for eight days straight, she said.
Lorraine has returned to her busy life of selling real estate and helping lead the Morgan Humane Society. She and her husband also love to hike and camp and Lorraine has easily gotten back onto the trail. "That would have been a really bad thing if I had been in pain all the time.''
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This tasty pizza is so easy to prepare. My family, including my young daughter, loves it. What an easy way to make a delicious, veggie—filled meal! —Dawn Bartholomew, Raleigh, North Carolina
- 1 package (6-1/2 ounces) pizza crust mix
- 1/2 cup Alfredo sauce
- 2 medium tomatoes
- 4 cups chopped fresh spinach
- 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded Italian cheese blend
- Prepare pizza dough according to package directions. With floured hands, press dough onto a greased 12-in. pizza pan.
- Spread Alfredo sauce over dough to within 1 in. of edges. Thinly slice or chop tomatoes; top pizza with spinach, tomatoes and cheese.
- Bake at 450° for 10-15 minutes or until cheese is melted and crust is golden brown. Yield: 4-6 servings.
Originally published as Spinach Pizza in Simple & Delicious January/February 2008, p30
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"My crust didn't cook all the way through in the center so I'll use a pre-made crust next time. I'll also use about half the amount of cheese. I used Alfredo sauce in a jar, the lighter version and it was good."
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On July 26, the folks behind San Diego Comic Con sent Salt Lake Comic Con show producers Dan Farr and Bryan Brandenburg a cease and desist letter, saying the event cannot use the term "comic con" or any variation in logos, press releases, merchandise, and other promotional materials, claiming SDCC has a copyright on the term and its variations.
Today (August 6), Farr and Brandenburg made their official response to SDCC's demands. As Farr stated bluntly, "We will not back down."
"While everyone's lawyer always tells them they will win," Brandenburg explained at the press conference, held at Salt Lake City's Grand America Hotel earlier today, "our lawyers have assured us we will win."
Taking turns explaining this seemingly frivolous threat, both Dan Farr and Bryan Brandenburg explained the baseless notions of the letter, ultimately saying SDCC essentially has no case. "San Diego Comic Con claims they were the first fan convention to use this term, but this is simply not true," Brandenburg explained. "San Diego Comic Con started in 1970, while New York Comic Con started back in 1964, and there's a comic con in England that started in 1968. There are new comic cons starting up each week it seems, and we seem to be the only ones singled out."
It's easy to see why Farr and Brandenburg feel this way, too. Although Salt Lake Comic Con has been gaining momentum quickly since its first show in September 2013, it certainly is not the only only comic book convention to use the term "comic con". Metropolises such as New York, Chicago, and Denver all have their own Comic Cons. San Diego Comic Con has attempted similar suits against Chicago and Denver without success (the latter being awarded a copyright on for the name "Denver Comic Con" recently). Though Farr and Brandenburg have filed copyrights for both "Salt Lake Comic Con" and "Salt Lake Comic Con FanXperience", time will tell whether those go through or not.
Despite the fact there is no guarantee how San Diego Comic Con will respond to Farr and Brandenburg's response, the one thing both want the fans to know is that the show will go on.
"We want to assure fans, sponsors, partners and the general public that the show will go on. We will have another record-breaking event in September and we are currently under no legal obligation to change our current course in any way," Farr stated. "We're prepared to do whatever it takes to protect our event, intellectual property and secure our ability to produce the Salt Lake Comic Con."
Salt Lake Comic Con will be from September 4 through September 6 at the Salt Palace Convention Center. Tickets are still available here.


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Background: Systemic manifestations of Bartonella henselae infection are rare in the immunocompetent host. The infection generally has initial symptoms of prolonged fever and multiple granulomatous lesions in liver and spleen.
Methods: Retrospective analysis of the records of all patients with hypoechogenic lesions in the liver and/or spleen diagnosed from 1990 through 1996 in three pediatric clinics in northern Italy,
Results: Among the 13 patients reviewed, 9 had evidence of B. henselae infection and hepatosplenic involvement: five had prolonged and unexplained fever lasting from 3 to 16 weeks, and four had typical cat-scratch disease and peripheral lymphadenitis. All patients had increased sedimentation rate and normal aminotransferase serum activity. Five children had a liver biopsy, by laparotomy in three and by needle in two. In all, the predominant liver lesion was a necrotizing granuloma. All patients were treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics. Fever lasted from 3 to 16 weeks, and hepatic and splenic lesions resolved in all with residual splenic calcification in one.
Conclusions: Systemic B. henselae infection represents an important cause of inflammatory hypoechogenic hepatosplenic lesions in children. Serology provides rapid diagnosis, avoiding multiple and invasive investigations. Hepatosplenic involvement can be found even in children with typical cat-scratch disease without apparent systemic manifestations. The frequency of liver and/or splenic involvement in cat-scratch disease is probably underestimated.
Cat-scratch disease (CSD) is a benign disease manifested in most cases by self-limiting lymphadenitis after an inoculation, usually inflicted by a cat. Bartonella henselae is the causative agent of CSD, and laboratory confirmation of the diagnosis is now possible by testing the specific antibody response (1). Systemic B. henselae infection has been reported in small series of immunocompetent (2) and immunocompromised children (3) and generally has initial symptoms of prolonged fever and multiple granulomatous lesions in liver and spleen (4).
The purpose of our study was to report the clinical features of hepatic and/or splenic involvement in children with serologic evidence of B. henselae infection. For this reason, we retrospectively reviewed the records of all patients in whom hypoechogenic lesions in liver and/or spleen was diagnosed from 1990 through 1996, in three pediatric clinics in northern Italy. The reports of nine cases involving serologic evidence of B. henselae infection are the basis of this article.
The immune response to B. henselae was evaluated by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and by an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test.
This procedure was performed as previously reported (5). Briefly, B. henselae (strain Huston-T-isolate; American Type Culture Collection 49882) was grown at 37°C in 5% carbon dioxide for 5 days on Columbia blood agar. Bacteria were harvested in sterile distilled water and maintained frozen at -80°C. The bacterial cells were sonicated and centrifuged, and the pellet was resuspended in distilled water and stored at -20°C until ready for use. After dilution in 0.1 M carbonate buffer (pH 9.6) to yield the protein concentration of 5 µg/ml, a 0.1-ml aliquot of this solution was placed in each well of a flat-bottomed plate. Serum dilutions were 1:200 for both immunoglobulin (Ig)G and IgM. Phosphatase conjugates of goat anti-human IgM and IgG were diluted 1:4000. The immune reaction was developed by adding substrate solution. The absorbance was read in a microplate reader at 405 nm, and the positive control reached an optical density value of 1. Normal values were taken as less than 0.5 optical density for both IgM and IgG, which represented a value of more than 2 standard deviations above the mean of normal healthy people. The cut-off value was established from the sera of 32 patients with clinically proven CSD and from 55 healthy control subjects. The serologic test has a sensitivity of 87.5% and a specificity of 96%.
Determination of IgG anti-B. henselae by indirect immunofluorescence was performed according to the manufacturer's instructions (M.R.L. Diagnostics, U.S.A.). IFA results were expressed as the highest reciprocal IFA serum titer at which bacillus-specific fluorescence was noted. Positive values had been determined to be greater than or equal to 128. In our hands, this serologic test has a sensitivity of 90.6% and a specificity of 92%.
We retrospectively reviewed the records of all patients with diagnoses of hypoechogenic lesions in liver and/or spleen, from 1990 through 1996 in three pediatric clinics in northern Italy. Patients reviewed were 11 boys and 2 girls (median age, 8 years 9 months; range, 2 years 6 months to 14 years). All had serologic evaluation for B. henselae infection (five retrospectively on frozen sera), and eight had liver biopsy (four percutaneous and four by laparotomy). All had single or multiple hypoechogenic lesions in liver and/or spleen. Serologic evidence of B. henselae infection was present in nine. Three of the remaining four patients received diagnoses of Crohn's disease, primary hepatic actinomycosis, and chronic granulomatous disease, and one 5-year-old girl who had fever of unknown origin and lymphadenomegaly that remained undiagnosed, showed a progressive amelioration of the clinical course on broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment.
Seven of the nine patients with B. henselae infection had prolonged unexplained fever lasting 6 weeks to 4 months, and 3 had acute lymphadenitis and fever. All had increased sedimentation rate (range, 30-110 mm/hr) and normal serum aminotransferase activity. Hypoechogenic lesions on ultrasound and/or hypodense areas on computed tomographic (CT)-scan involved the liver and the spleen in seven, only the liver in one and only the spleen in two. Liver histology performed in five showed necrotizing granulomatous lesions in all. The main clinical and laboratory features of the nine cases are summarized in Table 1. All patients were treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics. Fever lasted from 3 weeks to 4 months, and hepatic and splenic images normalized in all with residual calcifications in one.
In 1994, a boy aged 2 years 8 months had symptoms of prolonged fever and hepatosplenomegaly. Laboratory evaluation showed microcytic (69/fl) anemia (hemoglobin, 8.6 g/dl), thrombocytosis (500,000 mm3), leukocytosis (18,350 mm3), high sedimentation rate, and high C reactive protein level (60 mg/dl; normal value, <5 mg/dl). Multiple serologies for bacterial, mycotic, and viral infections were negative. Results of a Mantoux test were negative. Abdominal ultrasound showed multiple hypoechogenic hepatic and splenic lesions. The patient was treated with 10 days of imipenem intravenously with resolution of fever and normalization of biochemical abnormalities. One year later an ultrasound examination showed normalization of liver images and multiple hyperechogenic calcified lesions in the spleen. Retrospective analysis of a convalescent serum for B. henselae demonstrated specific IgG anti-B. henselae in absence of IgM. The family had a kitten in the home.
In 1993, a 13-year-old boy had high fever, fatigue, anorexia, and diarrhea. He was treated at home with clotrimazole and cefuroxime. He was in good general condition, the liver was not enlarged, and the spleen was palpable. Laboratory tests showed high sedimentation rate and high C reactive protein levels (150 mg/dl), hypergammaglobulinemia (2.5 g/dl), and hyper-IgG (3082 mg/dl). Abdominal ultrasound and CT-scan (Fig. 1) showed multiple hepatic and splenic lesions with abdominal lymph node enlargement. The child underwent open liver and lymph node biopsies. Histology showed granulomatous lymphadenitis and necrotizing granuloma in the liver with central microabscess and palisading epithelioid cells. Fever lasted 3 weeks after surgery. He was treated with rifampin and ceftriaxone with resolution of fever and normalization of image abnormalities with 3 months. Retrospective analysis of a serum at admission was positive for B. henselae by ELISA determination of IgM and IgG and by IFA. The boy had been scratched by a kitten before onset of acute disease.
In 1996, a boy aged 13 years 10 months had high fever lasting 3 weeks and axillary lymphadenitis with evidence of multiple cat scratches. He had been treated with amoxicillin and clotrimazole. The liver and spleen were normal at clinical examination. Sedimentation rate was 36 mm/hr, C reactive protein 66 mg/dl, and IgG 2035 mg/dl. Abdominal ultrasound showed multiple hepatic and splenic hypoechogenic lesions. B. henselae IgG and IgM ELISA and IFA results were positive. He was treated with rifampin with resolution of fever and normalization of biochemical abnormalities within 1 month and of hepatic images within 10 months.
A 10-year-old boy was scratched by a kitten in 1996 1 month before admission. He had high fever lasting 1 week and axillary lymphadenitis with evidence of an inoculation lesion. Liver and spleen were normal at clinical examination. Sedimentation rate was 30 mm/hr, and C reactive protein level was 19 mg/dl. Abdominal ultrasound showed a unique hypoechogenic lesion in the spleen. B. henselae IFA serology was positive. Fever and biochemical abnormalities resolved without treatment within 2 weeks, and the splenic lesion resolved within 2 months.
A boy aged 2 years 6 months was admitted in 1990 for evaluation of presumed metastatic neuroblastoma. He had septic-like fever and multiple hepatic and splenic hypoechogenic lesions on abdominal ultrasound. General conditions were not compromised, but the liver and spleen were enlarged. An open liver biopsy was performed, and analysis showed necrotizing granulomata with multiple abscesses. He was treated with different antibiotics which included rifampin, vancomycin, and netilmicin with resolution of fever and normalization of biochemical and image abnormalities. Diagnosis of B. henselae infection was made retrospectively by the analysis of Warthin-Starry staining of the liver biopsy specimen which showed bacillary forms (Fig. 2) and by ELISA and IFA serology. The patient had a kitten at home.
In 1992, a 6-year-old boy was admitted for evaluation of an unexplained fever lasting for 1 month. He had been treated with different antibiotics including ceftriaxone and netilmicin. General conditions were not compromised; the liver was moderately enlarged. Abdominal ultrasound showed multiple hypoechogenic liver lesions with a unique lesion in the spleen. The boy had a kitten at home, and he had been scratched several times. B. henselae ELISA and IFA serology were positive. He was treated with rifampin, and fever and biochemical and image abnormalities normalized.
In 1995, a 10-year-old boy had fever, inguinal lymphadenitis, and evidence of a scratch from a kitten at home. Liver and spleen were not palpable. Abdominal ultrasound showed two hypoechogenic splenic lesions. B. henselae ELISA and IFA serology were positive. Fever lasted 2 weeks after admission, and he had been treated with rifampin with resolution of splenic lesions.
In 1992, a girl aged 7 years 9 months, living at a farm with kittens had fever, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. She was treated with amoxicillin, erythromycin, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. Her general condition was good, there was no lymphadenopathy, and liver and spleen were not palpable. Laboratory test results showed high sedimentation rate and high C reactive protein levels (180 mg/dl); fibrinogen was 650 mg/dl, albumin 3 g/dl, and total γ-globulins 1.5 g/dl. Abdominal ultrasound showed multiple hepatic and splenic lesions. Fever lasted 4 weeks, during which she was treated with teicoplanin with resolution of image abnormalities. Retrospective analysis of a convalescent serum by IFA was positive for B. henselae.
In 1995, a boy aged 11 years 2 months had high fever. He was treated at home with ceftriaxone for submandibular lymphadenitis. There was no adenomegaly, and the liver and spleen were not palpable. Laboratory tests showed high sedimentation rate and high C reactive protein level (130 mg/dl); fibrinogen was 500 mg/dl. γ-Glutamyl transpeptidase activity was 1.5 times the upper normal value. Abdominal CT scan showed multiple hypodense hepatic lesions. The child underwent an open liver biopsy. The liver had a "nutmeg" appearance, and histology showed stellate necrotizing granulomata surrounded by palisading epithelioid cells. The boy had had several contacts with a kitten. Warthin-Starry staining was negative, but B. henselae serology was positive by IFA.
Systemic B. henselae infection with hepatosplenic involvement has been reported with increasing frequency in immunocompetent children (2,4). Prolonged fever, with or without peripheral lymphadenitis associated with such systemic symptoms as malaise, fatigue, myalgia, and weight loss are the most frequent clinical manifestations. All our patients had long-lasting fever of unknown origin, and peripheral lymphadenitis was present in approximately half of the patients, a rate similar to that reported by others (4,6). Peripheral lymphadenitis may help in determining the diagnosis, even if systemic CSD may develop in absence of peripheral lymphadenitis. Two of our patients (patients 4 and 7 in Table 1) who had lymphadenitis and fever with no systemic symptoms showed evidence of systemic involvement demonstrated by the presence of isolated hypoechogenic lesions of the spleen on ultrasound. This suggests that systemic involvement may be more frequent than currently thought and may not be associated with severe symptoms.
Visceral involvement was clinically latent in most of our patients; only two had hepatosplenomegaly and/or reported mild abdominal pain. Abdominal pain has recently been reported to be an important clinical symptom suggesting visceral involvement in CSD (6), but our and others' experiences (2) suggest that systemic B. henselae infection should be considered even in the absence of this symptom.
Abdominal ultrasound was helpful in the diagnosis of visceral B. henselae infection. It should always be performed in cases of prolonged fever of unknown origin, even in absence of clinical and biochemical evidence of liver involvement. The finding of single or multiple hypoechogenic lesions in liver and/or spleen in a child with prolonged fever should suggest systemic B. henselae infection.
In our experience, B. henselae infection was a frequent cause of hypoechogenic hepatic and/or splenic lesions. Histopathologic examination, when performed, showed granulomatous lesions. It is worth noting that B. henselae is not included in the list of causative agents in granulomatous lesion in the liver in a distinguished pediatric hepatology textbook (7). This could be related to the peculiar epidemiology of CSD. In fact, so far, systemic B. henselae infection has been reported mostly in people living in North America (2,4,6). Only recently have there been reports in Europe (8).
Diagnosis of disseminated B. henselae infection was difficult until recently, and most of our patients had many invasive investigations, including surgical liver biopsy. Warthin-Starry staining of affected tissue can suggest diagnosis but is of low diagnostic sensitivity during later stages of the disease (9). Serologic test for B. henselae showed in a different experience a sensitivity and a specificity close to 100% for indirect fluorescence antibody test and for titers more than 1:256 (1,5,10). The presence of high IgM titers to B. henselae is suggested to indicate a recent or ongoing infection (5). Serology for B. henselae thus provides a rapid diagnosis, avoids invasive investigations, and excludes potentially life-threatening disease associated with lymphadenopathy. It should always be performed in children with hypoechogenic hepatosplenic lesions.
All our patients were treated with different types of antibiotics. There is limited evidence of a beneficial effect of antibiotic treatment in disseminated B. henselae infection in the immunocompetent host (9). Treatment with oral azithromycin was recently shown in a controlled study to produce significant clinical benefit in typical CDS (11). In our experience, in patients with hepatosplenic involvement, lesions resolved in all within 6 months of onset, with residual calcification of a splenic lesion in one. In light of recent experience, azithromycin could be proposed in patients with systemic B. henselae infection to accelerate healing of visceral lesions.
In conclusion, systemic B. henselae infection must always be considered in children with fever of unknown origin and represents a frequent cause of inflammatory hepatosplenic lesions in children. Serologic tests allow a rapid and noninvasive diagnosis. Systemic B. henselae infection in a self-limiting disease in immunocompetent children, and diagnostic procedures should be limited to serology. Hepatosplenic involvement can be found even in children with classic CSD with peripheral lymphadenitis, even in absence of apparent systemic manifestations. The frequency of systemic involvement in typical CSD is probably underestimated.
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Bartonella henselae; Fever of unknown origin; Liver granuloma
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American steaks are the envy of the rest of the world, with Texas steaks being that much more so. So, I was very glad to be hosted to experience McAllen, Texas' Salt - New American Table! The dining room is lower-lit, but not furtive; you could go with friends or loved ones and dress fairly casually.
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Salt has the local touch in cocktails, but they're lucky: there are Texas-made rums, vodkas and tequilas. I tried an interesting drink with I suppose, a healthy touch. The Carrot Colada features Texas' White Hat Rum, fresh carrot juice, coconut water, orange and coconut sugar. Coconut sugar has a flavor akin to brown sugar, but the drink was not overly sweet.
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Do you have lots of money kicking around?
Well if you do and you want to have an artistic body view of Sally Humphreys, 36, then call on Ronnie Wood, the notable rocker who has spent most of his musical career with the Rolling Stones.
Wood, 66, married Humphreys in December 2012.
Instead of painting portraits of his aging bandmates on tour, he has just brushed a delicate full-frontal nude painting of his young wife.
Humphreys, an attractive dark-haired woman, is revealed posing seductively on her knees and lifting her arms above her head.
Wood is one of the most notable guitarists in the world, and he also has an amazing talent for painting.
When reached for an interview on the phone, he stated, "When I get inspired, I get almost possessed and I just have to paint. There is no kind of therapy like the one you have from starting and seeing a picture through to the end."
He adds, "I get the musical mode when I'm on tour - I might do a few sketches - but I'm mainly concentrating on the music. Then when the tour's over I can relax and I then find myself getting the brush out. Music and art is very relaxing to me."
The painting of his wife comes with a whopping £200,000 price tag and right now is on secure display at the Castle Fine Art gallery in London's Mayfair, where Wood is artist-in-residence.
The 66-year-old musician trained as an artist before joining the Rolling Stones in 1975, when he replaced guitarist Mick Taylor in the band.
He studied at Ealing College of Art in London and when he was 14, his music teacher paid him a few pounds for a snow scene.
He has since received much widespread critical acclaim for his paintings, which mostly include images of his friends - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts .
He religiously listens to Mozart while working at his easel.
Prices for Wood's artwork range from around £1,500 for a signed limited edition print up to around £300,000, which the star charged for a recent portrait of the Rolling Stones.
It was in 2008 that Wood painted a female nude who was believed to be 19-yearold Kazakhstan-born cocktail waitress Ekaterina Ivanova with whom he had an affair while he was married to his ex-wife Jo.
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Country superstar Miranda Lambert is healthy and happy after her rumored 45-pound weight loss, and slammed speculation that she's suffering from the eating disorder anorexia.
"I'm not anorexic," Lambert told USA Today. "I'm not sure if I'm not pregnant, because I'm supposed to be having an alien child. That's the next headline. I'm happy. You'll have to ask Blake how he feels [about our marriage]."
Miranda said she tries to avoid reading sensationalist tabloid headlines, which have simultaneously reported that she's anorexic, pregnant, and/or getting divorced from husband Blake Shelton.
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Lambert said she's vigilant about her diet and exercise routine because she can easily regain the weight if she slacks off.
"It's really easy to gain weight and it's really hard to lose weight," Miranda told Women's Health. "Smaller portions help. I haven't given up everything. I try to just cut everything in half. We do cardio and a lot of circuit-training."
Lambert, whose favorite snack is Cheetos, credited a portion-controlled diet and rigorous cardio and fat-burning circuit-training workouts for her stunning transformation. Miranda said she tries not to get discouraged by the numbers she sees on the scale, saying constantly weighing yourself is an exercise in torture.
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The blonde beauty said was shocked at the amount of attention she received after the weight loss, because she didn't think anyone would notice. Unfortunately, some of the attention wasn't positive.
Lambert recently hit back at rumors that her weight loss was due to plastic surgery. A furious Miranda denied she underwent weight loss surgery, and underscored that she had slimmed down the "good old-fashioned" way: through diet and exercise.
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Miranda, who has sold more than five million albums, recently dropped her fifth album, Platinum.
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Pear, Walnut & Cheddar Salad Cups
Makes 6 servings.
- 2 cups pear, diced
- 1/2 cup celery, diced
- 1/4 cup dried cranberries
- 1/4 cup walnut pieces, lightly toasted
- 3 Tbsp. mayonnaise
- 2 Tbsp. sour cream
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- Black pepper, to taste
- 3/4 cup Cheddar cheese, coarsely grated
- 12 Boston lettuce leaves
Toss all ingredients, except lettuce, to combine. Place 2 lettuce leaves on each plate; spoon pear mixture into each leaf and serve. Pear mixture can be prepared up to 4 hours before serving.
*The pears, cranberries and nuts in this recipe all complement the sharpness of the Cheddar in deliciously fresh and very different ways. Serve the salad before the main course or as an appetizer or to add a European twist. Serve the salad after the main course to refresh the palate.


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