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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Europe's Magic Kingdom? It's all a load of Mickey Mouse
Widespread protests erupted today over the decline of the ailing Euroland theme park. Once Europe's most popular destination, in recent years it has become a byword for failure, fraud and corruption.
Millions of holidaymakers from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean have signed a petition complaining that they have been ripped off for years.
Euroland opened in a blaze of glory, aiming to emulate the success of parks operated by Disney and Universal in the United States. But it has been plagued with problems from the start.
Widespread protests erupted today over the decline of the ailing Euroland theme park. Once Europe's most popular destination, in recent years it has become a byword for failure, fraud and corruption
Visitors complained about high admission prices, poor service and arrogant staff. Many of the main attractions have fallen into disrepair or collapsed completely.
Beef Mountain was supposed to be Euroland's answer to Disney's signature ride, Space Mountain, and turned out to be just as frightening. It burned down mysteriously in 2001 during the BSE in cattle crisis, following mass demonstrations by French farmers protesting against imports of fresh meat from Britain.
All attempts to transplant popular American attractions on to the European stage failed dismally.
The Pirates Of The Caribbean ride on the European Wine Lake was scuppered after a blockade by Spanish factory ships and French fishing boats. Commissioners in Brussels ruled that bringing in vessels from outside the EU was a clear breach of the Common Fisheries Policy.
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs had to be abandoned because the unions insisted on 28 dwarfs being employed on full-time contracts to cover for emergencies and public holidays.
Kinnochio, the adventures of a Euro puppet whose nose grew and grew the more lies he told, never achieved the popularity of the Disney original, although he regularly managed to make the audience fall about laughing.
High Street UK, which was designed as a European version of Main Street USA, went into receivership. Those premises which are not boarded up are now occupied almost exclusively by bookmakers, coffee chains, charity stores and pound shops.
Euroland opened in a blaze of glory, aiming to emulate the success of parks operated by Disney and Universal in the United States. But it has been plagued with problems from the start
Visitors also complained that they were excluded from some of the most popular rides, including the European Gravy Train, which runs twice a month between Brussels and Strasbourg.
Modelled on the luxury Venice-Simplon Orient Express, seats on the Gravy Train are available only to politicians, senior bureaucrats and their staff, who all travel free.
There were thousands of protests about the catering. While management and staff at Euroland dined on lobster suppers and champagne in heavily-subsidised restaurants on the exclusive Rue des Jeunes Garcons, day-trippers had to fend for themselves in self-service canteens.
Many popular dishes were banned by food safety officials in Brussels, including omelettes and medium-rare steaks. The sale of bent bananas was also made illegal under rules introduced to harmonise the appearance of all fruit and vegetables.
A chain of popular fast-food franchises in the park was forced to close following the introduction of strict labelling regulations. Sales slumped dramatically when sausages had to be described as 'Emulsified high-fat offal tubes' and hamburgers renamed 'Mechanically recovered meat patties'.
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs had to be abandoned because the unions insisted on 28 dwarfs being employed on full-time contracts to cover for emergencies and public holidays
This didn't, however, prevent cheap Italian jug wine being re-labelled as 'Premier Cru' chateau-bottled claret and sold at sky-high prices to unsuspecting punters in fake French brasseries on High Street UK.
As Euroland expanded to include dubious, second-rate attractions from behind the former Iron Curtain, costs continued to rise. A typical family of four now has to spend around £700 per visit simply to meet the price of admission.
Since the project began, Euroland has stumbled from one financial crisis to another. Despite billions of euros in turnover, it has never made a profit.
Theft and fraud by staff is estimated to cost the park around four billion euros a year, yet no one has ever been arrested. This is just one reason why the auditors have refused to sign the Euroland accounts since 1994.
When the Banko Kleftiko went into liquidation, it started a run on the 'euro' which was to have a knock-on effect on all the major attractions, sparking riots in Never Never Land
Construction costs for new attractions have run spectacularly over budget. There have been particular problems in the Club Med resort, which is littered with half-finished apartment blocks.
The Spanish City, which was supposed to attract thousands of high-rollers each year, is little more than a building site. A purpose-built new, state-of-the-art airport, designed to serve the resort, lies deserted.
Leisure industry experts blame Euroland's decline on a decision to introduce its own 'money' back in 2001. In order to gain entry, visitors would have to swap their deutschmarks, francs and lira at the gate for specially produced tokens called 'euros', which they could then spend in the park.
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A new attraction, called Never Never Land was built specifically for visitors from the Club Med countries, who were allowed to charge everything to Euroland credit cards.
This one-size-fits-all 'currency' began to unravel when it became apparent that the holidaymakers in Never Never Land were running up bills they couldn't afford to repay.
Euroland carried on printing 'money', but it was never going to be enough. The management had borrowed heavily to keep the park going.
When the Banko Kleftiko went into liquidation, it started a run on the 'euro' which was to have a knock-on effect on all the major attractions, sparking riots in Never Never Land.
Someone drove an abandoned bulldozer through the Greek Taverna theme restaurant, and the ever-popular Emerald Isle pavilion quickly ran out of Guinness.
In an attempt to boost attendances, Euroland took the rash decision to let in millions of visitors from Romania and Bulgaria for nothing.
This backfired when the Eiffel Tower zip-wire ride was stolen and dismantled by Eastern European scrap metal thieves.
Romanian gypsies flooded through the Tunnel of Love and set up a cardboard city in High Street UK, driving away paying customers and poaching carp from the ornamental boating lake.
Meanwhile, many of the original attractions are facing closure on health and safety grounds.
Revellers have been left stranded in mid-air for hours as the Ever Closer Union Roller Coaster is hit by daily power cuts, caused by Euroland's decision to switch all electricity generation to wind farms and solar power.
In the cavernous Bavarian Bier Keller, styled on the Nuremberg original, German tourists are in mutinous mood because they have discovered that they are picking up the bill for everyone else.
The novelty of Euroland has long since worn off for British holidaymakers, who are returning in droves to home-grown attractions, such as UKIP's Olde English Village, which will take only sterling and serves warm beer 24 hours a day.
It appears just a matter of time before the banks call time on Euroland and the liquidators move in.
One disappointed visitor yesterday was asked for his verdict on the abortive attempt to build a Magic Kingdom called the United States of Europe.
He thought for a minute and said: 'It's all Mickey Mouse, innit?'


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Austin Dunn coolly released the ball, with a Carroll County defender hot on his heels. Fired from behind the 3-point-line, the ball hit its target.
The crowd, and Dunn, went nuts, screaming and roaring as the Wildcats clawed their way back from an early deficit.
It was his third 3-point shot in a row, and part of a second-quarter surge that helped the Wildcats beat the Panthers 69-51 last week.
One game at a time.
After years of disappointing seasons, Bill Covington said earlier in the season, it's litterally one game at a time for his Warriors.
Nine games into their season, the Warriors matched the number of wins from the last two seasons.
In a long week that featured two hard losses to Kentucky Country Day and Gallatin County — neither of which he was inclined to discuss — the Warriors picked up their second win on Saturday, a low-scoring, 30-25 grueling match against Portland Christian.
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With the holidays right around the corner, struggling families and American workers face uncertain budgets in the New Year because the payroll tax holiday and unemployment insurance benefits are set to expire at the end of this month.
As President Obama said and Speaker John Boehner has echoed, Congress should not adjourn for the holidays until it finishes the pending work on these items.
As we approach the final days of the year and literally wrap up a hectic month of shopping, it's good to take a moment to reflect on what the past dozen months have brought.
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According to the 2011 U.S. Animal Protection Laws Rankings, compiled by the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Illinois laws do more than the laws in any other state. Kentucky is ranked 50th, sharing the "Worst Five" ranking with South Dakota, Iowa, Idaho and North Dakota.
By a 2-to-1 margin, Henry County, and New Castle voters spoke out last week: Alcohol by the drink will be allowed.
But there are limitations; the question on both ballots was narrow. Alcohol by the drink will be allowed only with a meal, and will be limited to restaurants with seating for 50 or more.
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The Egg Harbor Township detective had been waiting for months to capture the man accused of impregnating a 12-year-old girl. Now, as she and three other investigators stood on a New York City street, he was right in front of them.
"It was surreal," said Detective Heather Stumpf, who began investigating the case in April, after it was discovered that the victim was going to have Joseph Caracciolo's baby.
Caracciolo, 47, is currently in federal custody on charges of crossing state lines to have sex with a minor. He also has charges from the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office that include aggravated sexual assault. Investigators believe there may be more victims, and are urging them to come forward.
But there wasn't even a name to go on when the pregnant preteen was brought to Egg Harbor Township police five months ago. The girl knew him as Joe Crillo or Grillo. Another name he had used was Bobby Giovanni.
All of them were aliases. None of them led anywhere.
Stumpf reached out to the U.S. Marshal's New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force to help. Even they couldn't track the names. They tried his various tattoos.
"We kept coming up with zero," said Inspector Rob Kurtz, of the task force.
"It drove me crazy," Stumpf said. "It drove me nuts. Just knowing he's out there and is he victimizing anybody else?"
They knew "Crillo" had traveled to Atlantic City casinos — and eventually to the victim's township home — from New York, so the task force's Manhattan and Long Island divisions were brought in to help the Atlantic City office. There was surveillance, interviews with ex-girlfriends and even visits to former residences.
Because "Crillo" also took the victim to the Poconos, crossing state lines, his crimes fell under federal jurisdiction, so Kurtz said the FBI was brought in last month.
Then, the investigators got a date of birth.
"We didn't know what was real and what wasn't at that point," Stumpf said.
The FBI ran it and hit on a registered sex offender. As soon as his picture came up, Stumpf knew it was the face she had seen in pictures for months.
A phone call was taped between him and the victim Aug. 22. On Aug. 28, Stumpf and investigators from various agencies made an early morning trip to New York. The U.S. Marshal's Service was able to use technology to trace him to within a four-block area in Midtown Manhattan, Kurtz said.
They scoured the city blocks, Stumpf said. Some were in cars. She was on foot with FBI Agent Tim Walsh, Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office Detective Bill Adamson and Atlantic County Sheriff's Officer Greg Engsler, of Innocence Lost Task Force.
Stumpf said the focus wasn't as much on faces as it was on forearms, the places of Caracciolo's tattoos.
As they stood waiting at a red light at about 11 a.m., Stumpf looked across the way and saw a left arm with the tattoos she knew Caracciolo had. At the same time, Walsh seemed to spot the right arm, she said. They started walking toward him, the four together.
"You're wanted for aggravated sexual assault with a minor," Stumpf recalled Walsh saying.
Later that day, the detective went to the victim's home to tell her and her mother. She does not want to reveal how the girl met the man, since it would help in identifying her.
While Stumpf said she has training to deal with young sex assault victims, her talks with the girl were "just about being a human. Just being compassionate and empathetic to what she was going through."
"The beauty of it is, he walked right into Heather," Kurtz said of Caracciolo. "This guy would have never been caught if she didn't stick to her guns and keep this case going."
Stumpf insists it was a group effort. She is just glad to know he's off the street.
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It was a busy weekend for prospects from Baltimore Gilman School.
Penn State offensive line commit Brian Gaia has declined to comment on the Nittany Lions' evolving situation. That hasn't stopped other schools from calling to test his commitment, namely Maryland, West Virginia, Notre Dame, Ohio State and Vanderbilt.
ESPNU Watch List defensive tackle Henry Poggi and athlete Wyatt Dickerson visited Maryland for the Notre Dame game this weekend. Poggi has several scholarship offers and figures to be one of the top prospects in the 2013 class from the Mid-Atlantic region -- if not the nation.
"It went well," Poggi stated in a text to ESPN. "I liked the uniforms."
Poggi knows Maryland well, but he was also able to check out the Fighting Irish.
"Yeah, I think so," he said when asked if Notre Dame will be in the mix. "I like how their defense flies around and that they are fundamentally sound."
Dickerson was also impressed.
"It was awesome," he said of the visit. "I really liked the jerseys for both teams and Notre Dame played a great game."
Dickerson said he thinks he has scholarship offers from Syracuse and Navy and has been in contact with Michigan State and North Carolina State. His dream schools, however, is Vanderbilt.
Who is THE in-state power in Tennessee?
Tennessee had better be careful or it may not be the Volunteer State's most dominant football team -- recruiting or otherwise.
The Vols lost out on one of their top recruiting targets on Saturday when Andrew Jelks from Paris (Tenn.) Henry County committed to Vanderbilt. Later that day, the Vols lost 49-7 to Arkansas and Vanderbilt beat Kentucky 38-8.
Wait, there's more.
Now, Vandy (5-5) has a better record than the Vols (4-6) heading into their matchup on Saturday.
Jelks didn't shy away from the impact that his commitment might have on the recent recruiting rivalry between the two teams.
"I want to make a statement," he said. "That's a big thing. Vandy's not here to be overshadowed by anybody."
Strong words. Yet there's more, even from out-of-state prospects.
Vandy also made a strong impression with receiver Ian Thomas from Reistertown (Md.) Franklin this weekend.
"Great people here," Thomas stated in a text message to ESPN about Vanderbilt. "I feel like a necessity. I feel like what the coaches were saying was really genuine."
Thomas also has scholarship offers from Rutgers, Iowa, Maryland, Virginia and Notre Dame.
And as for the Tennessee-Vandy game on Saturday.
"Oh yeah, I like Vandy's chances in that game," Jelks said. "I like Vandy's chances in about any game."
Of the 30 top prospects in Tennessee, five are committed to Vandy while two are committed to be Vols.
The one thing Tennessee still has in its favor is that its class ranks higher overall as the Vols sit at No. 16, while the Commodores are No. 25.
Buckeyes will be a factor
Derrick Green now has 12 scholarship offers after Oklahoma joined the list this week. The ESPNU Watch List tailback from Richmond (Va.) Hermitage will, however, always consider Ohio State thanks to the influence from his grandfather. The two watched the school most every fall Saturday.
"He always had me watching Eddie George," Green said referring to the former Buckeyes tailback. "I looked up to him growing up. I still study him to this day."
That will help the Buckeyes, but it doesn't mean they'll automatically land Green, who could be one of the top tailbacks in the 2013 class.
"Ohio State is always going to be in my top schools," Green said. "I'm always going to love Ohio State but as the process goes on, you have to see what schools have to offer to me.
Clemson can get better
While it's hard to believe, but Clemson's class could actually get an unbelievable boost that it doesn't even need to be considered one of the best, most efficient classes in the nation.
Tailback Keith Marshall from Raleigh (N.C.) Millbrook took his official visit to Clemson this weekend. He was joined at the last second by four-star defensive end Jonathan Bullard from Shelby (N.C.) Crest.
Package deal?
I still say Marshall to Clemson is a longshot, but it's definitely worth watching. My prediction is that the Marshall package deal will actually be going to Georgia, but it won't be with Bullard. It will be Marshall and fellow North Carolina tailback Todd Gurley from Tarboro (N.C.) High School.
Clemson will manage. It's 2012 class is ranked fifth in the nation and has six ESPN150 prospects, but can the rich can get richer?
Gilman and Good Counsel are good
Well, I really didn't learn that this weekend but it was strongly confirmed in my mind. The two powerhouse teams will face off for a championship title this weekend after easily moving past last weekend's semifinal opponents.
Why does that matter in recruiting? Because it will be one more week before recruiting kicks into high gear for the senior prospects on both squads. Several official visits and, subsequently, commitments will surely follow after a champion is crowned. Good Counsel beat Gilman 26-21 in September.


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Modeling emergency department visit patterns for infectious disease complaints: results and application to disease surveillance
Concern over bio-terrorism has led to recognition that traditional public health surveillance for specific conditions is unlikely to provide timely indication of some disease outbreaks, either naturally occurring or induced by a bioweapon. In non-traditional surveillance, the use of health care resources are monitored in "near real" time for the first signs of an outbreak, such as increases in emergency department (ED) visits for respiratory, gastrointestinal or neurological chief complaints (CC).
We collected ED CCs from 2/1/94 – 5/31/02 as a training set. A first-order model was developed for each of seven CC categories by accounting for long-term, day-of-week, and seasonal effects. We assessed predictive performance on subsequent data from 6/1/02 – 5/31/03, compared CC counts to predictions and confidence limits, and identified anomalies (simulated and real).
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We found that ED CCs provided timely indicators for outbreaks. Our approach led to successful identification of a respiratory outbreak one-to-two weeks in advance of reports from the state-wide sentinel flu surveillance and of a reported increase in positive laboratory test results.
Traditional public health surveillance for specific conditions is unlikely to quickly identify a disease outbreak. Emergency department (ED) data appears to have the potential for more timely disease surveillance
Crucial to any surveillance is an understanding of normal patterns in the data. Utilization patterns in the ED are thought to be difficult to predict, due to large variability that arises in part because EDs are required to medically evaluate and stabilize everyone who requests care. Therefore, ED visit rates cannot be controlled by insurers, institutions or policies.
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This paper reviews our experience with an operational near-real-time surveillance system, the Bio-Surveillance Analysis, Feedback, Evaluation and Response (B-SAFER) system. B-SAFER is the result of collaboration between the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, and the New Mexico Department of Health. Medical surveillance systems such as B-SAFER require considerable expertise in computer science and systems integration for their design and architecture, to comply with security and privacy issues, and to ensure timely flow of information
This observational study uses data from the Emergency Center of the University Hospital, Albuquerque NM (UH), a tertiary-care county-university health sciences center. The Emergency Center includes pediatric and adult emergency departments, an urgent care center, a trauma center and an observation unit. There are roughly 200 patient visits per day, or 73,000 per year, representing 36 % of Emergency Department visits in Albuquerque. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Data stream
The data is from the computerized ED patient tracking system in place since 1994. Data in the system includes: date and time of arrival and discharge, age, sex, chief complaints, discharge diagnoses and disposition. CCs are recorded by the nurse at the time of triage and entered into the system by a clerk. The clerk may select from a drop-down menu of complaints or may enter the complaints as free text. The menu option is rarely used because clerks find free-text entry more flexible and convenient.
We group daily CC counts into seven categories: respiratory, gastrointestinal (GI), undifferentiated infection (UDI), lymphatic, skin, neurological, and "other" (Table
Table 1
B-SAFER dictionary for matching chief complaints to body systems
UDI (undifferentiated infection)
Chest congestion
Chest pain
Cold Congested
Stuffy nose
Abdominal Pain
Abdomen/back pain
Abdomen pain
Abdominal cramps
Abdominal pain
Blood in stool
Food poisoning
Stomach pain
Non responsive
Altered mental status
Difficulty Talking
Difficulty thinking
Difficulty Walking
Facial droop
Facial weakness
Loss of consciousness
Slurred speech
Thinking slow
Trouble talking
Trouble thinking
Trouble walking
Unresponsive Weak
Abnormal Skin
Bug Bites
Chicken pox
Insect bite
Pox Rash
Skin redness
Skin swelling
Tick bite
Arm pit
Lumps in neck
Red streaks
Skin streaks
Body aches
Body sores
To obtain this scheme, we reviewed a frequency table of all CCs which occurred at least 5 times over nine years and assigned relevant CCs to groups, as was done for example in
Each CC is assigned to a group when the first match was made between a word in the CC and a word in our CC dictionary. There were no examples of negative chief complaints such as "no cough", in our nine-year database, so we did not develop a system for handling these. Any negative complaint would have been classified into the category of the key word.
First order model
The training set for model development was retrospective cohort data from 2/1/94 through 5/31/02. We used least squares regression in started log scale to fit trends, seasonal effects, and day-of-week effects. The "started log" is the logarithm of one plus the number of daily CCs. We add one before taking the logarithm to avoid problems with taking the logarithm of zero counts. The started log scale results in more symmetrically distributed forecast errors with variance that is much less dependent on the mean count. Results are back-transformed to natural scale for display. Error bars behave as desired (widening when the CC count increases) and skewing is commensurate with the magnitudes of the baseline values.
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This model arises from transforming the counts to started log scale and adding day-of-the-week effects to the regressor variables in a cyclical regression model
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Predicted Respiratory Complaints
Predicted Respiratory Complaints. The predicted respiratory complaints and corresponding upper confidence limits illustrates seasonality and day-of-week effects.
Evaluation of goodness of fit
As with all statistical models, it is important to assess goodness of fit. A careful residual analysis reveals trends in the forecast errors, the most important of which follow from the one-size-fits-all character of the model. That is, the first order model postulates that complaint activity peaks with the same magnitude and at exactly the same time of year from season to season. Such postulated behavior is only approximately true, and the season-to-season differences lead to the trends in residuals from the model.
For example, if a peak of respiratory complaints occurs later than average in the year, then the baseline will initially over-predict (in anticipation of an average peak time) and then under-predict (when the season's peak actually occurs). Similarly, if the amplitude of a season's peak is higher or lower than the historical average amplitude, predictions will be consistently too low or too high near the peak. We return to this subject in the section on hierarchical modeling.
Near real time monitoring: Page's test
By comparing CC counts to predictions and confidence limits, anomalies can be identified
A particular test, based on Page's statistic, is optimal for detecting a constant excess above baseline when the start time and duration of the excess is unknown
Page's statistic is a type of cumulative sum, which we denote as
Comparison to other data streams
A comprehensive comparison to other data streams is beyond our scope. Briefly, we compared our respiratory CC counts to existing influenza data for the 2002–2003 influenza season. We evaluated New Mexico (NM) Department of Health sentinel influenza surveillance data reported weekly by approximately 20 clinics. When the week-long monitoring period is combined with the time needed for compilation and dissemination, notification of an outbreak early in one week is often not formally received until two weeks after it occurred. We obtained virology laboratory data from routine clinical and surveillance testing of respiratory specimens reported by three laboratories that conduct at least 75% of the clinical virology testing for NM. Such data streams have their own timeliness issues, due in part to culturing of samples.
ED data from 2/1/94 – 5/31/02 is used as training data for least squares fitting to establish control limits; data from 6/1/02 – 53/31/03 is then used in near real time surveillance. Approximately, 17% of the complaints fall into the respiratory category, 10% gastrointestinal, 6% undifferentiated infection, 3% skin, 3% neurological, 1% lymphatic and 60% "other."
Day-of-week effects
For all systemic complaint categories there are day-of-week differences. See Figure
Figure 2
Day-of-week effects for each CC category
Day-of-week effects for each CC category. The average day-of-week effect with corresponding error bars for six CC categories.
For respiratory and UDI complaints, there is an average difference of 7 cases per week between Monday and Friday, and the weekly differences conform to a bell-shaped statistical distribution. While day-of-week effects are statistically significant in all categories owing to the size of the data set, in some categories there are so few complaints that the difference is of no practical consequence. For example, in the lymphatic and neurologic categories, the average difference between the weekly peak (Monday) and weekly minimum (Saturday) is less than one case per day. Certain other daily effects may exist, e.g. holiday effects
Seasonal effects
As is well known, there are annual cycles of respiratory complaints with peaks in January or February. Figure
Figure 3
Annual cycles in Respiratory Complaints
Annual cycles in Respiratory Complaints. Annual cycles in respiratory complaints (by week) for the past three flu seasons, from 2000–1 through 2002–3.
Long term trends
Total ED visits increased over the study period by 4%, in part reflecting the population increase of about 1.5 % per year for the metropolitan area. Rates for most of the complaint categories have changed over the eight years that data has been collected. Respiratory complaints show a decrease of roughly 20% over the monitoring period (Figure
Figure 4
Average daily number of respiratory complaints by calendar year
Average daily number of respiratory complaints by calendar year. The average daily number of respiratory CCs decreases over the training data.
Patterns observed in the Test Year
We focus on respiratory CCs because they have the strongest season-to-season variation, which makes them the most challenging to predict, and because respiratory is thought to be one of the most important bioterrorist categories. Overlaying the data streams on the baseline plot in real time allows for visual inspection of the results, similar to that for a standard control chart. Figure
Figure 5
Results on validation data for Respiratory Complaints
Results on validation data for Respiratory Complaints. Prospective data (June 1, 2002 through May 31, 2003 (a) Daily, predicted, and upper control limit for respiratory counts ; (b) Scaled forecast errors for respiratory counts; (c) Page's statistic applied to the same forecast errors. A control value of 3.3 bfor Page's statistic results in an approximate theoretical 2.5% false alarm rate when forecast errors are Gaussian.
The peak in respiratory CCs and the elevated
Simulated outbreaks
In a simulation study we injected
In Table
Table 2
The fraction of simulations (out of 1000, so the 95% confidence limit is approximately ± 0.03) in which the Page statistic (or the one-at-a-time statistic) exceeded its 2.5% false alarm threshold during the simulated outbreak for the baseline model, the baseline model with residuals modified by EWMA, the null model, and the null model with residuals modified by EWMA.
Outbreak duration
Baseline + EWMA
Null + EWMA
1–10 days
1–10 days
>1 day
>1 day
1 day
1 day
Long-term trends can occur in surveillance data for multiple reasons. Changes may occur in: local resources (more or specialty EDs), access and reimbursement practices (facilities change which insurance plans with which they are associated, major shifts in insurers drives patients to other facilities), changes in the underlying population (shifts in population size or age), and changes in the local economy. Moving averages were not used because although they generate visually pleasing curves they smooth over day-of-week and seasonal effects that are important for developing baselines.
Concerning model quality, one useful test is whether the forecast error variance in the testing data is approximately the same as that in the training data. Upon dividing the forecast errors in the test data by their standard deviations in the training data, the scaled forecast error variances range from 0.87 to 1.07 for the seven CC categories (ideally, these ratios should be near 1). Further, the fraction of scaled forecast errors that exceed 1.96 ranged from 0.0 to 0.033 (when the model holds and residuals are Gaussian, the portion of one-sided residuals exceeding 1.96σ is 2.5%). Thus, departures from stationarity in the time series are mild enough that the forecast errors show that future complaints can be reasonably well predicted using a single baseline model for each category.
When monitoring complaint levels over multi-year time frames, it is necessary to periodically update baseline model coefficients in order to minimize the extrapolation in forecasting. One approach to choosing an update frequency is to do a planned update every year, but also monitor residuals for patterns, including shifting variance, that have not been observed previously to check whether additional updates are needed.
Hierarchical modeling to capture season-to-season differences
The first-order model is useful for routine monitoring. It has the obvious shortcoming, however, of describing each season in a one-size-fits-all fashion. As noted above in evaluation of the model's goodness-of-fit, forecast errors reflect modelling imperfections as well as random variability, limiting somewhat the sensitivity of surveillance to detect smaller anomalies. Improving on this situation requires more refined baselining.
Hierarchical methods
Applying the hierarchical model to respiratory CC data illustrates the season-specific nature of chief complaints. On the average, our respiratory complaints peak on January 22, with a season-to-season standard deviation in the day of the peak of 12 days. The durations of individual seasons, defined in terms of the standard deviations for the Gaussian-shaped peaks, vary by factor of two over the monitoring period. And there is no apparent relation between the time that the peak occurs and the magnitude of the flu season.
Use of hierarchical models for real time syndromic monitoring could be considered, but at a significant computational cost. In order to capture the peak time and magnitude of an ongoing season, the model must be updated on a frequent (e.g., weekly) basis, involving lengthy runs of Markov chain Monte Carlo software. Because the first order cyclical regression model fits the data sufficiently well to detect anomalies of interest, we have used the first order model for routine monitoring. A similar first order cyclical regression model is used by the Centers for Disease Control to monitor pneumonia and influenza related mortality data
Related efforts
Influenza surveillance basing alerts on comparison to historical data were described by Irvine
Lazarus et. al.
Reis and Mandl
The EWMA also adjusts to multi-day outbreaks and therefore suffers from signal loss if the outbreak persists for multiple days (the results in Table
Use of free text chief complaints
Many surveillance systems report the use of CCs or discharge diagnoses based on ICD-9 codes. Most of these use discharge diagnosis ICD-9 codes in specialized settings such as the Military
By contrast, free text chief complaints are obtained at the time of patient entry into all Emergency Departments and free text discharge diagnoses are determined at or close to the time of ED discharge. Therefore, use of our grouping scheme is relevant to the majority of EDs in which chief complaints and discharge diagnoses are recorded as free text and are available for "near-real time" surveillance.
Because of their timeliness, CCs are used in our "near-real time" surveillance system B-SAFER
There are other potential limitations in using ICD-9 codes for surveillance. It is to be expected that early cases of unusual diseases will be misdiagnosed. Assigned ICD-9 diagnostic codes may be more reflective of the diagnostic bias or practice patterns of the provider, than of the true incidence of disease. Furthermore, ICD-9 diagnosis code assignment is potentially subject to billing bias: codes which garner the highest reimbursement may be used, rather then those that most accurately represent the disease process. Use of ICD-9 codes for chief complaints is also problematic. Because ICD-9 codes were developed for classification of diagnoses, the dictionary for chief complaints is not robust. Therefore, the use of free text chief complaints may result in increased sensitivity, although the B-SAFER team believes that some types of coding standards would be beneficial
Results and applications
Day-of-week patterns in EDs have been previously reported in the literature
Seasonal effects in infectious diseases are best known for respiratory infections (e.g. influenza and respiratory syncytial virus). This seasonality is in large part due to the yearly winter influenza epidemics. Our data is quite consistent with these findings. However, we provide an analysis of the pattern of respiratory related chief complaints based on the longest (8.6 years) historical data base. Furthermore, the seasonality of infectious disease complaints for other body systems, or for non-ID related complaints has not previously been reported. Seasonality in specific GI infections has been noted in other settings. Some gastrointestinal infections are more common in the winter (e.g. rotavirus) while others (e.g.
Seasonality is also important because the signal-to-noise ratio in complaint counts maychange depending on time of year. As illustrated in Figure
It is unclear why, in our data, the number of respiratory complaints fell with time while the number of fever complaints rose. This may reflect the relative mildness of recent influenza seasons. Alternatively, rather than actual differences in patient presentations, this may represent changes in the practices of choosing or recording chief complaints. This would require further investigation. Implementation of a standard drop-down menu for chief complaints might prevent some bias over time in the selection of chief complaints. Use of a new system, however, would likely change the distribution of chief complaints and thus not allow for the creation of baselines based on historic data.
Using the models described above we successfully identified a respiratory outbreak in advance of the traditional flu-reporting data streams described in the Methods section. Incoming B-SAFER reports were monitored at least once daily, seven days a week, by the project epidemiologist. This allowed for prompt handling of events indicating a condition reportable by statute to the NM Department of Health. Because there is approximately a 2-week delay for traditional flu-related data sources, provided our respiratory CC captures some of the NM flu cases, we expected to, and did, identify a flu-related respiratory peak in advance of these other sources.
This analysis is based on data from one ED and patterns identified may be somewhat specific to metropolitan Albuuerque. Indigent or Hispanic populations may be over-represented in the ED studied as compared to other EDs. Visit patterns may differ by the local health care infrastructure, population insurance status, access to care, or local climate. We wewere fortunate that electronic ED data was available for the previous eight years. Other institutions may lack the source data for a similar analysis.
CCs are determined by a nurse and recorded in free text by a clerk. This process may conceivably distort patients' literal CCs. Free text CCs are quite variable and require extensive processing. These CCs may also have varied had they been recorded by a physician. Although the rationale for using CCs rather than discharge diagnoses was provided above, there is a tradeoff between the better timeliness of CC data and the better sensitivity of discharge diagnoses
Any approach to disease surveillance using either CCs or discharge diagnoses requires large numbers of symptomatic patients. Analyses based on such large-scale counts are unlikely to discover a small and geographically dispersed event such as the anthrax Anthrax outbreak of October 2001.
As we work more with our data, we will understand it better. Opportunities exist for performing sensitivity analyses, comparing the baseline patterns for CCs to those for discharge diagnoses, and more thoroughly evaluating the performance of our signals as compared to existing standards.
We have demonstrated a robust statistical approach to characterize baseline data for ED visits. We demonstrated day-of-week, seasonal and long-term effects by infectious disease in grouped chief complaint categories. ED data provides information on daily visit patterns, rather than just 5-day-a-week patterns. Using respiratory complaints as an example, we have shown that these models when applied to "near real-time" surveillance data provide an early indicator of an anomaly. This increase in respiratory visits was identified early by a rise in Page's statistic. This anomaly corresponded to events detected later by more traditional methods. Understanding baseline patterns in ED data provides the ability to distinguish expected versus unexpected events during infectious disease surveillance.
Competing interests
The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
JB and EU provided medical advice from the ED and public health perspectives. They were responsible for choice and groupings of chief complaints. JB obtained IRB approvals and recruited sites. TB and RP are responsible for choice and implementation of statistical tests. DF provided computer systems, interface and architecture. EJ provided technical input, review and project direction. JB, EU, TB and RP collaboratively wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Supported by: Los Alamos National Laboratory directed research funding
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I have great faith in the emotional healing power of plants, their oils and how they can have a powerful effect on your well-being. The amazing healing properties of flowers, in particular, can be used to activate our body's energy centers, otherwise known as the chakras.
Root Chakra
Known as Muladhara, you will find this particular chakra at your spine's base. Consider it, if you would, the very plug that connects you to the life force of the Earth herself and assists you to remain grounded. When this chakra is in balance, you should feel secure and stable. Should it become imbalanced, however, you may feel somewhat stuck (or lost) in life and find yourself focusing on subjects that do not serve your greatest interests. Read the rest of this entry »
The Metaphysical Properties Of Carnelian
Carnelian is a part of the Agate family and a form of Chalcedony, the gemological term used for all types of quartz in cryptocrystalline form. It can be red, orange, and red-brown and has both the properties of Agate and Chalcedony.
Agate is effective in balancing the yin and yang energies. It stabilizes the aura and gives a cleansing effect. It transforms and eliminates negativity. Agate further increases analytical abilities and precision and awakens natural talents. It creates inspiration from, and connection with entities in the spirit world.
Chalcedony is part of the quartz family. It is traditionally used as a sacred stone by Native Americans and is good in balancing energies of mind, body, emotions and spirit. Chalcedony represents good will, while decreasing hostility, sadness, or depression. It also increases receptivity, responsiveness, and giving. Read the rest of this entry »
All About The Chakras
Chakra theory originates from Hindu mysticism. There are seven main chakras (there are others too) in the body. Chakras are also known as energy vortices. Each chakra is associated with a different color, as well as various physical, emotional and spiritual issues. Reiki is an example of a metaphysical system of energy work that uses the chakra system as the focus of intent.
Root Chakra
The root chakra is located at the base of the spine where the coccyx is located. It is associated with the color red and our feelings of stability and how we relate to the physical world. Some of the issues related to this energy vortex are problems finding housing or work, or an inability or unwillingness to take control of our lives. Problems with this chakra may also show up as an inability to create organization when dealing with tasks and jobs. Read the rest of this entry »
Using Stones To Heal – Agates
Crystals and gemstones have been used by almost every culture for healing and mystical purposes. They amplify the user's vibration and bring to the healing practice their own energy and symbolism.
I used to live by a beach that was covered in agates. I collected them and revered them, somehow instinctively connecting to their magic at an early age. Years later I began using a large variety of agates in my healing practice.
Black or Banded Agate. This agate helps to center the first chakra. It is a great stone for combating anxiety and to ground the physical body. Use this stone for self control, physical energy, grounding, and resilience. Read the rest of this entry »
The Metaphors In Chakra Colors
We are very affected by the colors in our homes, work environment and by the colors of food we eat and the colors we wear. Color permeates our very existence.
In Kundalini yoga, it is the tradition that teachers wear white outfits made of natural fibers, with a white covering over their heads. Just like the color white deflects the sun and black absorbs it, white also deflects negativity and the color black attracts and absorbs it.
Teaching Kundalini can attract students who are very evolved, and also many who are really struggling and sometimes even emotionally unstable. Wearing white can protect a teacher from the negative energy that may emanate from a person in class and is sometimes directed toward, or projected onto the teacher. Read the rest of this entry »
Crystal Therapy For The Seven Chakras
Stones and crystals have energetic properties to bring about balance within your energy body which is known as your chakra system.
The power of crystals are due to their resonant energy. Resonant energy is the vibrational quality of the things around us. Everything carries an energy signature, and the reason why crystals are quite popular in metaphysical practices is because the energy these crystals resonate is often at a higher frequency compared to other tools and esoteric objects. This is due to their unique matrixes and the minerals within each crystal.
Using crystals for energy healing is quite simple. You can carry the crystals around with you, wear them as jewelry, and also use them in your spiritual practices such as meditation. The best way to use the crystals is to set your intention, and then visualize the energy coming into alignment through the aid of the crystal. Read the rest of this entry »


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Whole Life Pure Salmon Freeze Dried Dog Treats
Ingredients100% pure Wild Alaskan salmon.
Crude Protein (min): 52%
Crude Fat (min): 28%
Crude Fiber (max): 1%
Crude Moisture (max): 2%
Calorie Content: ME (calculated metabolizable energy) is 11 kcal/treat
Approximately 44 treats per 2-oz bag and 220 treats per 10-oz bag.
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Lewis is a very special cat who has successfully made it through emergency surgery having to do with urinary tract dysfunction. He is unable to have any treats or food that could cause him further stress. Whole Life Pure Meat Freeze Dried Salmon Treats are perfect. He loves them and we have fun giving them to him occasionally. Everything is wonderful!
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Obamacare does not, as Romney insinuated, take $716 billion away from current Medicare recipients.
Ryan insinuated that the Democratic Party is selling the American people a welfare state.
The bureau, however, dropped the confidential informant, Emad Salem, who had insinuated himself into the plot.
It was insinuated that he had actually proceeded in this way, and put himself under the direction of Peter and the Judean Church.
But she gave him a glance which insinuated more than all she left unsaid.
Sergeant Colgan, though Gallagher insinuated evil things about him, was a man with a strict sense of propriety.
If it was meant to be insinuated that he was untrue to her, she simply disbelieved it.
My answer to the lie you have insinuated against me shall be my immediate marriage with my old friend's orphan child.
"Do you good," he insinuated, pushing the bottle gently over.
I hope the latter is quite well; for Miss Huff insinuated somewhat to the contrary.
1520s, from Latin insinuatus, past participle of insinuare "to throw in, push in, make a way; creep in, intrude, bring in by windings and curvings, wind one's way into," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + sinuare "to wind, bend, curve," from sinus "a curve, winding." Sense of "to introduce tortuously or indirectly" is from 1640s. Related: Insinuated; insinuating; insinuatingly.


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�Wrath of the Titans�
8 p.m. and 11:45 p.m. on HBO. Perseus (Sam Worthington) ventures into the underworld in order to rescue Zeus (Liam Neeson) from the clutches of Hades (Ralph Fiennes), Ares and Kronos, who want to steal Zeus� power and subjugate humanity.
�Maz Jobrani: I Come in Peace�
8:30 p.m. on SHO. Comedian Maz Jobrani performs a stand-up set.
Winter X Games
9 p.m. on ESPN. Day 3 of the 17th action-sports festival in Aspen, Colo. Scheduled: snowboarding (women�s superpipe final); and skiing (Big Air final). Kelly Clark and Bobby Brown are defending champs. Sal Masekela hosts.
�Six Little McGhees: Special Delivery�
10 p.m. and 1 a.m. on OWN. Mia prays for a reprieve from drama after a hectic family trip to church; Ro has to deal with a problem at work and leaves Mia to handle the sextuplets by herself.
�Saturday Night Live�
11:29 p.m. on Chs. 7, 10 and 22. Adam Levine is the host. Music guest: Kendrick Lamar.
�Dr. Phil� at 7 a.m. on OWN. Grown children living off their parents is discussed.
�Good Morning America: Weekend Edition� at 7 a.m. on Ch. 5.
�Today� at 7 a.m. on Chs. 7, 10 and 22. A mom�s choice to put her kid on a diet; a reunion between 70-year-old twins separated at birth; �Today�s Weekly Rewind.�
�CBS This Morning� at 8 a.m. on Chs. 4 and 12.
�Dr. Phil� at 8 a.m. and 2 a.m. on OWN. A troubled young couple, the parents of two children, are counseled.
�Real Time With Bill Maher� at 10 a.m. and midnight on HBO2.
�Dr. Phil� at 6 a.m. on OWN. Part 1 of 4. An intervention for a violent dysfunctional family.
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The oldest church with the precise date of constructing in Budva is crunch of St. Maria's. It's placed in Old Town of Budva. This is a short Latin inscription in stone about the building of a church in 840.
budva municipality
The comparatively large Orthodox church of the Sveti Trojica is distinctive in architectural design. It is also in the middle of the citadel, in the group of ecclesiastical buildings.
One of the most famous churches in Budva is the Catholic church of Sveti Ivan also know as St. John the baptist, the seat of the diocese until 1828. It is not clear when the church was built.
Seven kilometers from Miločer towards Petrovac is monastery Reževići, near the Adriatic highway. It was named after a Pastrovsko tribe – Reževići. The exact time of establishment of this important religious center is not known with absolute certainty, we can not ascertain who were his patrons. It is difficult to determine whether it is the place where in the past was some ancient temple (according to one of the many legends Pastrovic).
Praskvica Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Čelobrdo, a village in the Budva municipality in modern-day Montenegro. It was a spiritual and political center of the Paštrovići clan. The name of the monastery is taken from the peach-scented water of the nearby spring (praskva, diminutive praskvica, meaning a "peach").
In the northeastern part of the field of Budva, on the right side of the road that leads to Podostrog, is the monastery Podmaine. There are no information when was it built but judging by it's appearance can be assumed that it was a very long time ago.
Podlastva Monastery is the main and most important religious monument of Grbalj, the only active monastery in the area. It is 8 km from Budva, was named after the village Lastva Grbaljska.
The Old Town in Budva has many different tales and stories of its origin. Scholars and Historians believe it to be originally an island, which later joined the shore to form a sand isthmus. The Old Town, along with the city of Budva was said to have been discovered by a Greek sailor by the name of Boutoua.
Sveti Nikola island is located opposite to the town of Budva, 1 km from Budva's old town. The island is 2 km long, and it has an area of 36 hectares (89 acres). The highest point on the island is a cliff that rises 121 meters (397 ft) above the sea. The island is a popular excursion site in the Budva area.
It is situated beneath the former summer resort of the royal Karadorevic family, which was built in 1934 and it is separated from the high way with a wall with two gates, one leading to Przno, and the other one to St. Stefan. The beach is 380m long, and in the background there is Milocer forest spreading out in the area of 18 hectare.


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UK Immigration Law
Have UK Immigration Law Questions? Get Answers Now.
Ok, if you appeal and then submit a new application then the new application must disclose that you have an appeal pending. This is likely to result in you being asked if you want to proceed with the application or the appeal - you would be expected to choose one. Therefore you should not usually submit a new application if you have an appeal pending.
There are exceptional circumstances where an applicant might let an appeal go for a while before submitting a new application - the intent would be to buy time and then change to the new application, but BOTH should not be considered at the same time. This is why I am not saying you cannot submit an application while an appeal is pending but I am telling you what will happen if you do this.
If you make the application then it might be accepted in terms of taking your payment but you will usually then be asked to choose the appeal or the application. The general advice is therefore to NOT submit an application while the appeal is pending UNLESS you have a specific reason for wanting to submit a different application that will replace the appeal.
If your refusal was very recent then you can quickly submit a new application because your leave to remain will have effectively been extended pending receipt of the decision and your leave will therefore effectively have ended on the date of the decision. You are of course allowed to submit a new application up to 28 days after your leave to remain expires. A new application should therefore be accepted.
I hope that is clear.


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New Gpcode (encryption) ransomware speading via botnet
This one is encrypted AES-256, so may not be as unbreakable as the one back in June that used a flipping RSA 1024-bit key.
Kaspersky created a utility to help restore files for that one, btw:
Tips on dealing with cryptovirology
First of all, based on reading the behavior of most of these threats, it appears most ransomware tends to create a duplicate file of the existing one and renaming it with a crypto-reference. Then it deletes the original. That right there tells me even low-level 'undelete' utilities could recover the file as it was before it was encrypted. Anyway, here's a few articles I came across touching on what to do...
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Aug 15, 2008 at 2:21 UTC
Just a follow up on the previous post. If you intend to try undeleting original files, it's obviously best to follow those best practices. Stop using the drive immediately and slave it to another computer to run any undelete utils.
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If you didn't know about ransomware back in 2008, you definitely do now. I'd be curious if this method has much luck against the modern generation.
Mar 20, 2009 at 9:56 UTC
I didn't even know it but the author was quickly tracked down.
Nov 30, 2010 at 3:21 UTC
Looks like this ransomware is back in action and this time it is using an enhanced RSA 1024-bit key cipher. I've been reading multiple reports on it the last couple days. Not sure if anyone is going to read this but figured I'd share anyway.
Dec 1, 2010 at 8:44 UTC
I'm reading, and I've been following this one too, thank you for the links and the updated information, I always appreciate what you post, though I rarely say so.
This discussion has been inactive for over a year.
You may get a better answer to your question by starting a new discussion.


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Camp Y-Zone
As of 6/18/2017 camp registration is closed for all grades and all weeks except for the week of July 3rd.
2017 Camp Registration Begins January 14th at 9:00 AM
For more than 90 years boys and girls have been creating special memories, forming lifelong friendships, and developing leadership skills at Greater Morristown YMCA summer camps. The name and location of our camp may have changed but our goals remain the same. We provide many creative activities, field trips and most of all fun while instilling a sense of belonging in a safe and nurturing environment. This summer will be our second year at the Y-Zone facility. The Y-Zone is the perfect setting for kids to unplug and connect with nature and each other. There are fields for sports, woods for exploring and shaded tables for crafts and games. Inside we have an art room, basketball gym and game room. Your child's day will be structured but there will be time to just be a kid, hang out and use his or her imagination.
We look forward to welcoming all of our new and returning campers.
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The Y-Zone Facility was created specifically for camp. Located on 3 wooded acres the property has everything a kid needs to have the best summer ever!
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I like all sci-fi, I tend to really appreciate hard sci-fi more, but the advantage of softer versions is the release of the imagination, and in general better character treatment (not always). Thus, while soft, Ray Bradbury is one of the best ever. On the other hand, when an author can command characters, and go places usually so strange only the liberation of soft-sci usually leads there, such as Stanislaw Lem or Greg Egan, that's even better.
Lost is interesting, rather than being somewhere in the middle it's more like a mix of hard sci-fi with fantasy, relative extremes mixed rather than compromised. Lost uses the liberation to explore interesting philosophical questions from the philosophy of science, like issues of free will and determinism, so it's all good. However, my least favorite part of sci-fi on the show was the idea that they had to get the same people on 316 to return. That wasn't so bad in itself, because there were decent arguments for why the fate of the plane would be linked to the fates of the people on it, and given a "WHH but Not Always" system of time flow, that works. But when it came down to having a man's shoes, one corpse for another, etc, never explained (fiction-)scientifically was too much. It doesn't make me dislike Lost, of course, but it's the weakest part of the sci-fi so far for me.
So for me it's not great that this is all leading to another "we need these people to get off the island on a plane" focus. I think it won't affect the ending that much, and is merely bringing things to a head, but still, I wonder if they will explain why particular people are needed, or just leave it soft, "that's the way things are, some people are 'special'".
Do you think they will harden this whole area, will we hear about time tubes and the fate of people interacting in such a way to explain what it means for some people to be special? I hope so, but I don't think so, I think this is the soft side. Perhaps that's fitting, because in soft sci-fi you take amazing things on faith, and in hard sci-fi, you don't, and what is more Lost than that?


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Kashmiri Chai (Organic)
$ 9.50
Very aromatic and zesty, our Kashmiri Chai features an all organic lineup of traditional spices plus the addition of peppermint. A medium-bodied chai, but still excellent with the addition of milk, sugar or honey if so desired.
all organic: black tea, cardamom, peppermint, nutmeg, tellicherry pepper.
Use 2 grams of tea for every 6 ounces of water. Generally this works out to a teaspoon per every 6 ounces of water. Steep for 4 to 5 minutes with boiling water. This tea is preferred with milk and/or sweetener.


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4a/39 James Street Fortitude Valley, QLD 4006
|Opening hours
|Tues-Sat 7am-10.30pm,Sun-Mon 7am-3pm
|Accepts bookings, Bar, Breakfast-brunch, Family friendly, Groups, Licensed, Outdoor seating
|Moderate (mains $20-$40)
|Timmy Kemp
|Diner's Club, eftpos, Visa, Mastercard
|07 3852 5155
James Street Bistro's rebirth as Chow House late last year was timely - it was starting to look a little shabby among all the shiny new offerings on the street. Now its conservatory-like frontage with cool living 'green wall' can mix it with the best of them. Another canny move by the owners was to bring in chef Timmy Kemp to lend her considerable experience to the venture. As well as her trademark ability to fuse Eastern flavour with classic European technique, there's an obvious use of quality ingredients that lift pan-Asian street food dishes, such as chargrilled pork balls with sambal olek, satay and sugar cane prawns, above their humble origins. Continue past the metaphoric street food stalls to mains, and reap culinary rewards, such as juicy grilled Sichuan boned quail with quail egg, Asian slaw and rice cake, gently tea-smoked duck or pork belly with sticky star anise-scented jus, crisp curls of pig's ear and a refreshing lychee and orange salad.


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love the different feels for each one
blue one
Love it!
Ich liebe deine Illustrationen fürs Stoned!!!!! Kommt `ne neue dieses Jahr dazu??
Sehr geil!
these are awesome
i guess the one that figures in the 2014 edition we can see in the web is also yours, nice too
i guess the one that figures in the 2014 edition we can see in the web is also yours, nice too
Love the artwork!
Sehr geil gemacht! Du könntest sogar sehr coole Tarot / Lenormand - Karten gestalten und verkaufen
I love it!
Totally Awesome...!!
You are great artiest
Thats great
a great combination of styles!
awsome! I'm your fun, your drawings about red hair girls is wonderful!
Yes, Alphonse Mucha but with an attitude...a rebellious one just like your Tank Girl. Very well done!
I have a friend who played with his band at Stoned from the underground. it was about 2 years ago and that was the first time I saw the artwork on the posters/stickers and loved it! I'm very happy I found out who did them
All three look great! Never heard of this festival, tell me more.
J'aime beaucoup ce style rétro
I like the Jugend style here.
Great Job Sir!
just loooooove it ! fantastic
These are really awesome! Nice job!
Alfonse mucha
that first one is toooooo rrraaaddddd
You should also post this in #The-Gigs-Poster-Art
excellent design mixed with great lines of drawing !!!
love it !!
love it !!
Great naughty "Mucha" style posters
nice and clean
They give you a feeling of vertigo. A pleasent ride to the other side... Great job!
Spetacular work, good friend!
These are awesome; Although I think the first one is the best. It seems very well balanced and anchored, and I think the bikini/underwear is a nice, sexy touch. Beautiful ladies!
Wow, wieder einmal Exzelent !!!
Great, different body types.
Fantastic work I love the design, very excellent!
mmm, sensual , i like it all three
the one i love the most is the one in the middle! nice work!
Impressive I love it
Impressive I love it
I love your women always but I gotta say I'm very impressed with how well balanced and aesthetically harmonious that calligraphy is.


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The Red Brigades are armed units under the guidance of the All-Soviets Union which are sent to member countries and aspirant ones for the purpose of stabilisation or protection against anti-revolutionary forces.
Although largely composed of Russian troops, every brigade contains battalions from a number of countries in a bid to show international proletarian solidarity.
Red Brigades are recogniseable at their dark red head gear on which is painted or sown the symbol of the ASU (a crossed hammer and sickle) within a red star fimibriated gold.


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Alessandria is one of all favored towns of Italy. The city was called after Pope Alexander the third. The city is an ancient town that played an essential position in ancient wars. All these are reflected in the architecture of the city. The town is currently a railway hub. The city has numerous old houses, monuments and events throughout the year which attracts both domestic and foreign tourists.
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Dambulla: Farveez Maharoof's sensational hat-trick helps Sri Lanka to crush India by seven wickets in the 6th match of Asia Cup in Dambulla.
Maharoof (5/42) with a hat-trick in the 39th over as India collapsed for a paltry 209 in 42.3 overs.
India vs Sri Lanka, 6th Match - Scorecard
In-reply Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene helped Sri Lanka to reach the target in the 38th Over.
Asia Cup 2010: Fixtures | Points Table | Top10 (R/W)
Maharoof changed the course of the match in a span of three balls, dismissing Ravindra Jadeja, Praveen Kumar and Zaheer Khan for a first ball duck.
Rohit Sharma (69 off 73), Dinesh Karthik (40) and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (41) were the main contributors in the Indian innings.
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India today set the tune for US President Barack Obamaâs visit later this week, with National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon playing down on the US role on sharing intelligence about Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley and highlighting how Indo-US relations has improved in recent years.
Menon praised the US for allowing Indian security agencies interrogate Headley post 26/11 â something he thought was "unprecedented and not possible five years ago". While emphasing the need for both countries to be pragmatic, the NSA said he was very optimistic about the future of Indo-US ties.
"The kind of access we got on Headley was unprecedented. It would not have been possible five years back. There is a debate in India on how much did the US know about Headley and when and how much did they tell us. But giving access, is not something many states do very easily," said Menon at a function – Dialogue on US-India Strategic Partnership – organised by FICCI.
The remarks came a few days after Home Secretary GK Pillai expressed his disappointment with US authorities for not sharing complete information on Headley even after the Mumbai terror attack.
"In India people expect much more out of this relationship. So, a lot of dissatisfaction we hear, whether it is outsourcing or counter-terrorism, it is because we expect this relationship to do much more," said Menon. He hoped Obamaâs scheduled visit from November 6th would help further strengthening the long-term relationship with the US.
"The level of engagement between our two countries is unprecedented. We never had this kind of engagement with each other in our history. There is no sphere of human endeavour in which we do not actually cooperate. The range of our engagement is quite unprecedented," the NSA signed off.