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- Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 71, Issue 6, 1 Dec 2004, p. 723 - 731
f PHARMACOKINETIC INVESTIGATION ON THE THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF ARTEMOTIL (β-ARTEETHER) IN THAI PATIENTS WITH SEVERE PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM MALARIA
Pharmacokinetic data were obtained to evaluate the therapeutic potential of Artemotil (β-arteether) in 56 Thai patients with severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Intramuscular administration was given at 1) a low dose of 3.2 mg/kg on day 0 and 1.6 mg/kg/day on days 1–4 and 2) a high dose of 4.8 mg/kg on day 0 at 0 hours, 1.6 mg/kg at 6 hours, and 1.6 mg/kg/day on days 1–4. Cmax values of 63.7 ng/mL at 6.1 hours and 140.8 ng/mL at 5.7 hours were reached in low-dose and high-dose patients, respectively. Drug concentrations decreased slowly with half-lives of 12.5–22.4 hours on day 0 and 31.6–40.7 hours on day 4 for both dosage regimens. Although the maintaining dosage on the last day was much lower than the loading dose on day 0, the area under the curve (AUC) and Cmax on day 4 were significantly increased (2.85–4.55 fold), suggesting drug accumulation in the blood. Dihydroartemisinin (DHA), an active metabolite of Artemotil, was detected in most patients. The mean ratios of DHA and Artemotil were 0.16–0.19 in both dosage regimens for the entire study period. Similar to previous reports, all patients showed a slow response to treatment with mean values of 77.2 hours for the fever clearance time (FCT) and 75.8 hours for the parasite clearance time (PCT) (low dose) and 70.1 hours for the FCT and 64.4 hours for the PCT (high dose). Interestingly, a very rapid response to the treatment was exhibited in patient 151, with an FCT of 4 hours and a PCT of 36 hours, with different pharmacokinetic data from others on day 0. The patient had a very high Cmax (2,407 ng/mL) and AUC (12,259 ng·hr/mL) values without an intramuscular absorption phase on the first day. These values were approximately 21.9 (Cmax) and 2.6 (AUC) times higher than in other patients; this patient may have been to be injected through a vessel at first dosing. In conclusion, the patients treated with the high dosage regimen had higher AUC values and higher antimalarial efficiency (cure rate = 48%) than the low-dose subjects (cure rate = 23%). Despite the high accumulation and longer exposure time (9–11 days) when compared with other artemisinin agents, due to the slow prolonged absorption of Artemotil from injection sites, the two dosage regimens did not show a better therapeutic effects than other artemisinin drugs, including α/β-arteether dissolved in peanut oil used in Indian patients.
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The young Blues secured their place in the semi-finals of the Youth Cup with a hard-fought 2-1 win over Derby County at Pride Park. An early Lewis Baker penalty and a late Alex Kiwomya winner, either side of Mason Bennett's leveller on the hour mark, saw Adi Viveash's side secure a two-legged last-four tie against either Hull City or Liverpool.
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Nathan Ake returned to the Youth Cup fold for Adi Viveash's side to slot in alongside familiar partner Alex Davey at the heart of the Blues defence, with Adam Nditi and Andreas Christensen continuing at left and right back respectively, in front of Mitchell Beeney between the sticks.
Lewis Baker skippered the side from midfield, with Ruben Loftus-Cheek and John Swift alongside him, while Reece Mitchell led the line in front of Jeremie Boga and Alex Kiwomya on the flanks.
Islam Feruz was unavailable for selection.
First half
With the home side going into the game following a run of seven games without defeat in league and cup, it was important not to let them get into their stride early on.
Ake, fresh from his recent involvement with the first team, showed the first sign of real quality in the game, playing a delightful ball into the path of Nditi, only for the Blues left-back to lose his footing as he shaped to cross.
We should have been in front as early as the sixth minute after some great work down the right-hand side by John Swift, whose cross ran perfectly into the path of Lewis Baker. The skipper controlled it with his first touch, but with only the goalkeeper to beat fired straight at his feet.
The hosts were enjoying plenty of possession during the opening exchanges but it was Chelsea enjoying the better chances, and moments later Jeremie Boga went close with a dipping effort after some neat footwork allowed him to advance beyond his marker.
We were threatening every time we pushed forward, and in the 14thminute Reece Mitchell took advantage of a defensive lapse, and was awarded a penalty after rounding Ross Etheridge and being brought down.
Baker was the man entrusted with taking the kick, and the skipper fired us into the lead with a well-taken spot-kick, his second of the FA Youth Cup campaign.
Mitchell received prolonged treatment in the aftermath of winning the penalty but was unable to continue and Viveash replaced him with Fankaty Dabo, in a move that required a slight tweaking of positions. Kimonya moved central to lead the attacking line, with Dabo supporting from the right flank.
The hosts were setting the tone with some hard-hitting challenges in midfield, though it was a free kick opportunity that Jamie Hanson bent just over Beeney's bar, after a foul on the edge of the box by Davey, that was the game's next action.
Kiwomya then had a few decent opportunities to punctuate what had been rather a quiet spell for the visitors since taking the lead. Initially he poked a chance just past the far post after good build-up play between Boga and Baker, before the former expertly teed him up with a deft turn and flick, though Etheridge kept out the shot right at him.
As the interval loomed it was Kiwomya threatening again, this time with his pace down the left as he led a quick Chelsea break, though after cutting inside his final effort was comfortable for Etheridge.
Yet it was almost a Derby equaliser in stoppage time of the first half as Bennett rose to head a centre from the right flank onto Beeney's post, with the keeper beaten. It was a let-off for the visitors, coming so soon before the break, and allowed them to go in at the interval with their slender advantage intact.
Second half
Viveash was forced to make another change at half time, sending on Dion Conroy for the injured Christensen, who seemed to take a heavy knock moments before the break. Derby started the second period brightly, with Rhys Sharpe testing Beeney with the first minute of the restart, although the Blues stopper was down well to get his body behind the ball.
At the other end Nditi, now playing further forward as a result of the reshuffle that saw Dabo drop to right back and Aké move to the left of defence, blazed an effort over the bar.
With the majority of a 4,188 home crowd roaring them on, the hosts grabbed an equaliser on the hour mark. Bennett stole possession from Dabo down the Derby left and his driven delivery looped off the unfortunate intervening Davey and over Beeney into the back of the net.
It was a rather fortuitous leveller, though Dales rattled the crossbar just a couple of minutes later to send a further warning sign to Chelsea as the young Rams enjoyed their best spell of the game. The Blues did a good job of absorbing the pressure from the home side, however, with the centre-back pairing of Davey and Conroy defending resolutely.
Nditi had another decent opportunity that was well blocked after promising interplay between the defender and Loftus-Cheek, while Kiwomya was proving to be a real menace on the counter-attack with his pace in behind. As the game ticked towards the possibility of extra-time it was the speedy striker who got in behind the Derby defence and beat the offside trap, though his contact wasn't strong enough to beat the onrushing yet stranded Eldridge.
Bennett then had a great chance to win the game as he powered into the box with the play building down the right, though he got minimal contact on the header and should have done better to test Beeney from a promising position in the box.
It was Viveash's boys breathing another sigh of relief shortly after as Dales capitalised on some loose play between defenders at the back and headed directly towards goal, though the excellent Davey made a very good tackle to thwart the danger.
That was to be a game-changing moment as Chelsea raced up the other end to grab the winner. Kiwomya worked a couple of yards over the covering defender and rifled a brilliant effort down low into the corner of Etheridge's goal.
There was time right at the death for Boga to hit the top of Etheridge's crossbar with a deflected effort and for the hosts to return the favour, with Hanson's swinging free kick rebounding off Beeney's woodwork with practically the last kick of the game.
The young Blues had hung on and progressed from a very tricky, hard-fought contest in the Midlands to move one step closer to defending their Cup crown.
Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Mitchell Beeney; Andreas Christensen (Dion Conroy h/t), Nathan Ake, Alex Davey, Adam Nditi; Ruben Loftus-Cheek, John Swift (Charlie Colkett 68); Alex Kiwomya, Lewis Baker (c), Jeremie Boga; Reece Mitchell (Fankaty Dabo 18).
Unused substitutes: Ben Killip, Isak Ssewankambo.


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First Person: My Life as an Insurgent
Former insurgent said his goal in fighting the Americans was to force them to leave. Photo by Ali Ameen.
I never thought of fighting the Americans because I didn't regard the United States as a colonising country. I thought it was a civilised state. Unfortunately, after the invasion, the opposite proved true.
President Bush didn't send doctors and engineers, or construction and democracy specialists, or experts from NASA and Google. Instead, he sent uneducated gangsters who didn't know anything about Arabic and Iraqi traditions. This was one of the main issues that triggered the resistance.
When I saw the first US tanks in Fallujah in 2003 I opposed their presence, but at the same time I had always been against Saddam Hussein's regime. I just wished that change would not have come from the outside. A perfect change would have been through a coup or an assassination, not an occupation.
I joined al-Qaeda on April 28, 2003, after several US soldiers killed more than 13 Iraqi civilians from the rooftop of an elementary school in Hay al-Nazzal, south of Fallujah. The Iraqis were staging a demonstration and demanded that the Americans leave the school.
The Americans killed the civilians and then refused to let us remove the dead bodies. It was then that I felt the rush to fight. (Editor's note: The US military maintained that its soldiers were returning fire.)
I met several young men who were thinking of attacking the school. At 1 am, eight of us went to the school carrying RPG7s and AK-47s, which we found at deserted Iraqi army bases. We were surprised to find another group preparing an attack.
We quickly agreed to launch a coordinated assault. It lasted several minutes and we fled quickly, fearing strikes from Apaches and Blackhawks.
The group we met was from al-Qaeda.
My goal in fighting the Americans was to force them to leave.
The event that made me angry and committed to killing was when my best friend was killed in an air strike on a house in central Fallujah. He was passing by that house.
My anger quickly subsided when I opened fire on a Marine and saw him collapse. I thought, "I've avenged my friend."
My brigade was responsible for engaging the Americans at a distance of less than 200 metres. We were 120 fighters in Fallujah. Only a few are still alive and even fewer would be objective and fair in telling the story.
I had more than 60 engagements with the Americans while I was with al-Qaeda. I did not go out on a mission unless it was to fight them. I feel very lucky to have survived all of these operations. Perhaps it was God's will that allowed me to survive and tell my story.
Al-Qaeda's combat technique is similar to guerrilla warfare. It is not systematic, which made it difficult for the Americans to fight back. If we were a regular army the Americans would have then be able to defeat us, but we were like the liquid that slips through your fingers.
Some operations required a lot of planning while others only needed a few hours. The most difficult thing was staging a tactical retreat. Most of our casualties occurred not during our attack but when retreating. The Americans react quickly. Within a few minutes after each operation, their choppers and soldiers would show up and we would come under fire.
As a result, we devised strategies such as wearing black clothing, hiding in trees and orchards and parking getaway cars at a distance.
We received intelligence by bribing police, army and Shia sources. The Americans considered [Shia] more trustworthy than Sunni.
We used to communicate using Thuraya (satellite) phones or through human contacts. We would meet as needed. Sometimes, we would have three meetings over several days, but a week could pass without a single gathering.
One of the things we witnessed was how a 100 US dollar improvised explosive device, IED, was capable of destroying an armoured vehicle that cost one million dollars. The IEDs were the best weapon for al-Qaeda and the insurgents in Iraq.
I never planted IEDs in cars. I was in a combat brigade against the Americans and this is why I am at ease with myself.
I was seriously wounded four times. We had a small clinic in central Fallujah that treated wounded Arab fighters who couldn't go to public hospitals. This clinic had medical supplies and medicine donated by pharmacies. The doctors were in Fallujah. Some of them volunteered to treat the wounded. Others were sent for and would show up minutes later.
Islam teaches us to tell the truth, even if it is against us. There was a Marine who fought bravely against us in 2004. He fiercely repelled many of our attacks on his own. But he couldn't keep it up for long because he was outnumbered by al-Qaeda fighters.
He went down during the engagement, clutching his dog tag. I respected him a lot because of his fighting. I wished that the Iraqi government had half of this Marine's courage and his sacrifice. Iraq would have been a better place.
My brigade consisted of Iraqis and foreign Arabs. The foreign Arabs didn't want to spend time with us. They carried out their duties and went to their special headquarters in Fallujah, the location of which was constantly changing.
This was one of the main reasons why we did not have strong relations with them. Iraqi (insurgency) leaders were always in direct contact with them.
The sole mission of the foreign Arabs was to fight and die in Iraq. They looked at death as a wish that they wanted to come true so that they could go to heaven.
Suicide or martyr operations, call them what you want, were carried out regularly. Sometimes, it got so competitive that every fighter wanted to drive a detonated car and attack an American or an Iraqi target. They even resorted to drawing lots.
Before a suicide mission is carried out a ceremony is performed, a kind of party in which everyone bids farewell to the driver. During the farewell, there are religious songs, food, laughing and congratulations on his martyrdom. The ceremony concludes with the taping of his will, which is sent to his wife and family.
In every ceremony that was held, I was assured that the Americans had found themselves in a real quagmire because al-Qaeda had come to Iraq to fight the Americans. They would go to Mars if they knew the Americans were there. There is so much hatred and I think it's because of President Bush, the father and the son. It's President Obama's bad luck that he is burdened with past mistakes.
The secret of al-Qaeda's power was the Sunni tribes. They were aware of our plans and operations, and when we lost this factor we became weak. The Americans realised that and they bought them off.
Al-Qaeda didn't pay anyone. The fighting was voluntary and based on deep convictions. No one would take such extraordinary risks with his life for money or power.
Back then, I worked as a teacher once or twice a week. The situation was unstable in Anbar so we only worked part-time. No one would go after you if you didn't show up.
My family was living in fear and apprehension. I felt how much my wife loved me then, more than at any other time. My wife, my son and my brother-in-law asked me to quit fighting because they feared for my life. But I ignored them just as a smoker ignores a doctor's orders to quit.
My time with al-Qaeda was a bit unusual because I disagreed with them about many things, such as bombing markets, killing civilians, imposing fatwas (edicts) from Afghanistan and killing Shia. I did not think they should target Christians, American civilians and construction workers. This was very important to them.
I was never involved in killing Iraqi forces, and this was one of the reasons I left al-Qaeda. I used to tell them that I was only fighting the occupiers, just like the Vietnamese, Somalis and Chechens who fought the Russians. They accused me of tarnishing my Islamic faith.
I believed that a ceasefire was imperative for the Iraqi forces to take over security from the Americans. I thought that targeting the Iraqi forces would lengthen the occupation.
Over time, things changed a lot. al-Qaeda was no longer supported among Sunni. It carried out executions and killed hundreds of people in markets.
If al-Qaeda were to rule Iraq, it would not have succeeded because it prohibited so many things and imposed new rules. They saw Shia as infidels who should be killed. Christians were given three options: to pay tribute, convert to Islam or be killed.
Iraq is a complex country. It is impossible to apply al-Qaeda's rules here because this is a diverse nation. Al-Qaeda would mean the end of Iraq. Everyone would have to flee or be killed. Barely one quarter of the population would have remained.
I left al-Qaeda when I realised that things started to get out of control. Some of the fighters started to disobey orders after [local al-Qaeda leader] Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed.
Zarqawi was a strongman who directed battles in Mosul and in Tal Afar through phone calls from Fallujah. No one dared to act without consulting him. I think if al-Qaeda finds a man with the same characteristics it will stage a huge comeback.
The night I left, I told my neighbours and friends, including a fighter who was very close to me. I had always confided in him about my fears and my opposition to the future of the resistance and jihad because of the actions of some al-Qaeda fighters.
I called another fighter and told him that my son was seriously ill. I said I would have to leave quickly for Syria and stay there for a long time. He told me that my wife could take care of my son, but I told him that she couldn't survive without me. He was angry and I knew he didn't believe me.
I left quietly, as anyone with al-Qaeda should. I travelled at night with my family to Syria and stayed there for nine months. I rented my furnished house to a Baghdad displaced family. The rent helped me survive in Syria.
When I came back to Iraq, I discovered that all of the fighters I knew were killed, imprisoned or their whereabouts were unknown.
I went to live with one of my relatives in another province. My wife and children went straight to our house to check the situation and see if I could return.
After a few days, my wife confirmed that I was not being chased by the Sahwa (Sunni Awakening Councils) or al-Qaeda. I returned. The Sahwa didn't pursue any of the fighters who killed Americans, but instead hunted those who carried operations against the tribes.
Al-Qaeda's biggest strength is its rigidity – its uncompromising, unyielding, non-negotiable stance. If al-Qaeda decides to assassinate someone, they will do it even if ten years have passed. Even if [a politician] leaves office, even if he is on deathbed, they will kill him with a kitchen knife because they see this as a religious obligation, just like praying, fasting and jihad.
I am afraid of being assassinated by those who might believe that I betrayed them. For them, betrayal has many faces, and one is deserting the battlefield. Few people outside my circle of trust know about my involvement with the resistance and I fear them.
Now it's better to stand back and watch because the battle is not over yet. I worry that the Sunni may ask us to take up arms again if Iran gains political power after the US pullout.
I used to support the US withdrawal but now I don't want it to happen so quickly. They (the Americans) should end the Iranian influence before they pull out. If they withdraw and Iran is in Iraq this will create a new Sunni armed uprising.
The US, the Iraqi government and a large number of al-Qaeda fighters damaged Iraq. This period of history will be revealed by me. I will tell the truth, as I saw it, to future generations.
Abu Najim is the nom de guerre of a former Iraqi member of al-Qaeda in Anbar province. He told his story to an IWPR-trained journalist whose identity is not revealed due to security concerns.
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An antibody to beat staph at its own game
About 60,000 infants are born prematurely each year with very low birth weight—less than 1,500 grams (3 pounds, 5 ounces)—requiring hospitalization and intensive care. A 2012 study showed that 3.6 percent of these babies develop sepsis or meningitis from Staphylococcus aureus infections, with a 26 percent rate of mortality and often leading to severe neurological issues for those who survive.
These babies are at high risk for developing staph infections because their immune systems aren't fully developed; they hadn't yet received a full complement of antibodies from their mothers. S. aureus is a particularly elusive pathogen too. Since it can cause infection in any part of the body, it has evolved an elaborate toolset to defend itself against the immune system. Some methicillin-resistant, or MRSA, strains now even resist workhorse antibiotics like penicillin.
In a study recently published in the journal Vaccine, University of Chicago microbiologist Olaf Schneewind, MD, PhD, and his team showed how to beat S. aureus by taking away one of its primary tools. The findings mean that someday physicians could have a new antibody at their disposal to protect very low birth weight infants from staph infections, and prevent recurring infections in other at-risk patients.
One of the weapons S. aureus uses to evade the immune system is a protein called staphylococcal protein A (SpA). Normally, when the body's immune system detects an antigen (a virus or bacteria like S. aureus), it produces antibodies that can neutralize it before it does anything bad. But SpA turns the tables and neutralizes the antibodies first.
"Protein A is an interesting molecule," Schneewind said. "It binds to the antibodies and neutralizes their effective function. So the argument is that if you have an antibody against S. aureus that cannot be neutralized by Protein A, then not only will you neutralize this surface attribute of the organism [SpA], but you also provide an antibody for the antigen itself."
Schneewind and his team were able to isolate antibodies from mice and rabbits that did just that—neutralize the SpA protein produced by S. aureus before it could short-circuit the immune response. When newborn mice pups in this study were given the SpA-neutralizing antibody, they were protected against infections.
This antibody has a second potential use in boosting the immune system's adaptive immune response against future infections. Normally the body's B cells, tiny factories that produce antibodies, recognize antigens and produce more B cells and antibodies to fight back. The immune system tries to do this against S. aureus, but normally its SpA dampens the response.
In Schneewind's experiment however, mice that were able to fight off staph infections with the new antibody were immune to subsequent infections too. This could potentially help protect patients who are at risk for recurring skin infections from staph, such as diabetics who develop foot ulcers.
Schneewind and his team have created a version of this antibody that can be given to humans, and look forward to starting clinical trials to test its safety and effectiveness. The potential payoff, he says, is worth it.
"The cost in human life, and the cost in medical care that's associated with infections in these very low birth weight infants is terrifying, just mind boggling," Schneewind said. "We owe it to ourselves to try."


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Know what to expect
- Know your area's flood risk. Check with your local emergency management department for this information.
- If it has been raining hard for several hours, or steadily raining for several days, be alert to the possibility of a flood.
- Listen to local radio or television stations for flood information.
- Floods can take several hours to days to develop.
- A FLOOD WATCH means a flood is possible in your area.
- A FLOOD WARNING means flooding is already occurring or will occur soon in your area.
- Flash floods can take only a few minutes to a few hours to develop.
Prepare a family emergency plan
- Check your homeowner's or renter's insurance to see if it covers flooding. If not, find out how to get flood insurance.
- Keep insurance policies, documents, and other valuables in a safe-deposit box or on a memory stick that you can take with you.
- Assemble a Disaster Supplies Kit containing First Aid Kits, canned food and bottle opener, bottled water, rubber boots and gloves, battery powered radio, flashlight, and extra batteries.
- Identify where you could go if told to evacuate. Choose several places, a friend's home in another town, a motel, or shelter.
Flood Watch and Warnings
- Move your furniture and valuables to higher floors of you home.
- Place tablets, phones and laptops on chargers to charge batteries in case you lose power
- Fill your car's gas tank in case an evacuation is issued.
- Listen to local radio and television stations for information and advice. If told to evacuate, do so as soon as possible.
Flash Flood Watch and Warnings
- Fill your car's gas tank in case an evacuation is issued.
- Listen to local radio and television stations for information and advice. If told to evacuate, do so as soon as possible.
- Be alert to signs of flash flooding and be ready to evacuate at a moments notice.
- Or if you think it has already started, evacuate immediately. you may have only seconds to escape. Act quickly!
- Move to higher ground away from rivers, streams, creeks, and storm drains. Do not drive around barricades, they are there for your safety.
- If your car stalls in rapidly rising waters, abandon it immediately and climb to higher ground.


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You've probably heard this story before: Responsible older sister and flighty, passionate younger sister search for love and fulfillment.
In fact, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman has called her new novel, The Cookbook Collector, a " 'Sense and Sensibility' for the digital age."
Now, one could argue that comparing your own work to Jane Austen's is like waving a red petticoat in front of a Janeite. But frankly, those estimable souls are probably still too green around the gills from "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters" to object strongly.
Goodman is an intelligent observer who specializes in social comedies. Her settings have ranged from Orthodox Jewish communities ("Kaaterskill Falls") to cancer research labs ("Intuition"). Here, she re-creates the heady days of the late 1990s, when bestsellers had names like "Dow 36,000" rather than "The New Frugality," and it seemed as if every other 20-something was dropping out of college to have venture capital flung at them by double-handfuls.
Like the Dashwoods, Emily and Jessamine Bach have lost a parent – in this case, their mother. Their dad has a new family, and parental interaction is limited to tense visits at Thanksgiving. ("It's the worst of both worlds," said Emily. "Guilt without home cooking.")
Sober, diligent Emily is about to become a dot-com millionaire, thanks to her California-based company, Veritech. Jess is a grad student in philosophy at Berkeley, who subsists on her part-time salary from an antiquarian bookshop. Yorick's (from "Tristram Shandy," not "Hamlet") is owned by George, who comes from old West Coast money: He's a Microsoft millionaire.
Jess is a wild-haired vegan with a penchant for lanky tree activists, while tidy Emily is engaged to golden boy Jonathan, who is poised to make his own fortune at ISIS, a start-up Internet security firm in Boston.
While Austen believed in rewarding "boring" virtues like duty, self-sacrifice, and propriety (after all, if the good guys can't win in fiction, where can they?), Goodman's sympathies here seem to lie on the side of sensibility.
"I guess I never understood why 'grounded' was such a positive thing," a poet tells his son, the head of IT at ISIS.
That may be because Goodman adds technology to the equation. One sister tries to find socially acceptable uses for spyware, while the other adores reading old copies of Edna St. Vincent Millay. (I'm going out on a limb here and guessing that Goodman does not own a Kindle.)
While Emily and Jonathan are storming the NASDAQ, Jess catalogs 16th-century cookbooks, whose recipes read less like instruction manuals than alchemy.
"To make a tarte of strawberyes, wrote Margaret Parker in 1551, take and strayne theym with the yolkes of four egges, and a little whyte breade grated, then season it up with suger and swete butter and so bake it."
"The Cookbook Collector" ranges across a wide cast of characters, from IT specialists named after constellations to Orthodox rabbis who engage in day trading, sometimes abandoning Emily and Jess for chapters at a stretch.
There's a rather unbelievable coincidence near the end of the novel that doesn't add much except a few winces, and Goodman succumbs to the same need to rope in Sept. 11 that appears to afflict most modern novelists of any ambition. "They didn't know it was September 11, but no one else did either."
But Goodman also has brilliant analogies, like a Veritech employee reading "Winnie the Pooh" to her children and realizing his fall from the honey tree perfectly sums up her experience of the NASDAQ's swoon.
And the recipes themselves are gorgeous, even for those of us who never plan to serve larded peacocks at a party. Despite some missteps near the end, "The Cookbook Collector" remains a smart, witty treat – ideal for those who like a little intellectual oomph in their summer romances.
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If I boot to safe mode I can get into Vista, and can set the resolution from the safe mode 600 X 800 to a higher res and see everything fine, but no matter what settings I change in safe mode I cannot get the regular boot to honor them.
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Many of Kiva's partners continue to extend the reach of microfinance, and one such example of this is Philippines-based partner Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation (NWTF). In recent months, NWTF has embraced Kiva's renewed focus on catalytic loan products and has introduced a program dedicated toward offering community-impact loans to clients. The program is targeted at enterprises that can add significant value to poor communities, in terms of number of people positively impacted. NWTF offers flexible, low-interest financing for these projects that caters to the needs of each enterprise. In collaboration with Kiva, NWTF has recently approved the Negros Organic Rice Industry Association (NORIA) for a one million Philippine Peso revolving line of credit.
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We show the unique form that must be taken by a tax system based entirely on realization accounting to implement a uniform capital income tax, or, equivalently, a uniform wealth tax. This system combines elements of an accrual based capital income tax and a traditional cash flow tax, having many of the attributes of the latter while still imposing a tax burden on marginal capital income. Like the traditional cash flow tax, this system may be integrated with a tax on labor income. We also show how such a tax can be supplemented with an optional accounting for a segregated subset of actively traded securities, subjected separately to mark-to-market taxation at the uniform capital income tax rate, to permit a fully graduated tax system applicable to labor income.
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The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked Bob O'Hara of the Deep Thoughts and Silliness blog to answer a few questions.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Who are you? What is your (scientific) background?
My name is Bob O'Hara, but I comment on blogs and such places under the absolutely impenetrable pseudonym of Bob O'H. I have a blog on Nature Network, called Deep Thoughts and Silliness.
I'm a full time academic, which means I get to be both a nerd and as obscure as I can manage. I used to be a plant epidemiologist, but I now work in biostatistics, mainly in ecology and evolutionary biology.
What do you want to do/be when (and if ever) you grow up?
What is your Real Life job?
Butler to The Beast (pictured). It's only a part-time position, and he pays me in cat hair, which the bank doesn't accept. I think it must be because they don't like Australian currency.
When I'm not acting as a resting place, I'm an Academy Fellow. The academy in question is the Academy of Finland: the position is basically that of a lecturer, only without the lecturing. I live in Helsinki, dodging the polar bears and itinerant OS developers.
What aspect of science communication and/or particular use of the Web in science interests you the most?
I really enjoy the pissing around, rather than taking the science too seriously. But I am now becoming more interested in using online tools for collaboration, for example wikis. A lot of my work is collaborative, so I'm looking for tools to make it easier. Emailing Word documents is hardy optimal.
How does (if it does) blogging figure in your work? How about social networks, e.g., Twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook?
I've used blogging to kick a few ideas around, getting one piece published, and stirring up interest with some others. I'm using wikis to help collaboration, but I think they don't integrate well enough into usual work practices yet. I guess we'll have to wait for Google Wave.
Other social networks don't really figure in my work, except as excellent vehicles for prevarication. Few of my colleagues use them, so they don't figure in my work. Hopefully that will improve.
When and how did you discover science blogs?
I can't remember! I had looked at Panda's Thumb a few times, but really started following it during the hilarities of the Dover trial. That dragged me into other science blogs (I know it's not original, but Pharyngula was one of the first blogs I read - at least it was before ScienceBlogs started up).
What are some of your favourites? Have you discovered any new cool science blogs while at the Conference?
There are too many good blogs to plug! But a couple of blogs that I think should be better known are Prerogative of Harlots and Masks of Eris. Masks of Eris, in particular, should be required reading, especially if you want to understand Finland and the Finnish mentality.
I think I also have to plug Grllllllsciennntissssst, and her efforts to win a trip to Antarctica.
I didn't discovered any new bloggers, but meeting Propter Doc reminded me to check out her blog more often.
Why did you come to the Conference?
It was mainly to meet people who I knew virtually in the flesh. I had met some poeple in London, but obviously not many Americans.
I was hoping to meet JanieBelle, but she didn't attend, and sent her grouchy uncle Lou instead.
Is there anything that happened at this Conference - a session, something someone said or did or wrote - that will change the way you think about science communication, or something that you will take with you to your job, blog-reading and blog-writing?
Probably the main thing was the discussion of Open Access. It's something I find interesting from the sociological point of view: the technology has opened up the possibilities for OA, but acceptance of it needs some changes in the way we pay for publication. On top of simply the finances, web based publishing makes it possible to try out some very interesting ideas.
What was clear to me was that there is a large gap between the idealism of some OA advocates, and the world that most scientists inhabit. So, the idea that journals shouldn't have to judge importance when deciding whether to publish a piece of research seems naïve: there is certainly a place for that sort of journal (as readers of this blog are well aware!), but I think the importance of publishing in a "good" journal can't be ignored: whether we like it or not, scientists use this as a marker for the quality of their work, for gloating to their colleagues, or for judging other researchers' output. This is part of the sociology of science: it's how we behave as scientists. My impression is that this simply isn't appreciated by some OA advocates, and it can make their message sound irrelevant.
As an experienced denizen of the blogosphere, I know that I don't have to provide any answers - I can criticise as much as I want!
It was so nice to finally meet you and thank you for the interview. I hope to see you again next January.
And you. I had a lot of fun in NC, so hopefully I'll be able to visit again next year.
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In a teaser from his upcoming interview with Apple Music's Beats 1, which debuts on February 15, the "Yummy" singer opened up about his marriage to Hailey Bieber and couldn't help but gush over his bride.
"I'm freaking married now," he told host Zane Lowe. "I got the best wife in the world. She supports me through so much. I'm really honored to be her husband."
In fact, he revealed that his new album Changes is a love letter to the model, noting that their time together as newlyweds served as his inspiration for the highly-anticipated record.
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Back in July 2018, Bieber popped the question to Baldwin during their trip to the Bahamas and got married in a New York City courthouse months later. Then in October 2019, the pair tied the knot again in a lavish ceremony in South Carolina surrounded by their friends and family.
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Switching gears, the duo also discussed how Bieber found his way back to making music. Crediting his surprise performance during Ariana Grande's 2019 Coachella set with validating his career and talents as a performer.
"I seen the reaction of how people reacted when I went on the stage. It was like, 'Okay.' It gave me kind of, like, a boost of confidence and reminded me—'cause it'd been so long since I'd been on stage—just kind of reminded me what…'Oh, this is what I do. This is what I'm good at. And I don't need to run away from it.'"
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It is a social media competition organized by Cathay Cineleisure Orchard in search for social media savvy youths who can promote and represent the various food, fashion & leisure facet of the mall!
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Dr. Al Koller, of SpaceTEC, was recently interviewed by Dr. David Livingston on The Space Show. Dr. Koller spent the 1 and ½ hour interview discussing the founding and purpose of SpaceTEC, the importance of aerospace technicians and the need for national certification, and also discussed the uncertain future of America's Human Space Flight program. You can listen to the interview here.
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I have a linux application that generates text data tables that we study with JMP. I'd like to be able to open these files in JMP with a hotkey.
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I've tried a batch file with this:
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%I IN (\\server\path\to\file\with\path\to\text\file\to\open) DO @"C:\Program Files\SAS\JMP\12\jmp.exe" %%I
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Based in Faridabad (Haryana, India), Precision Holding Devices has been a key manufacturer and supplier of Collets and allied Accessories. We design and engineer these products for a range of industrial applications. Our comprehensive line of products includes Traub Collets, Collets & Accessories for Milling Machines and Precision Revolving Centres etc. They are carefully manufactured to suit your exacting application and need. Also, our line is based on proven technologies and graded materials that make it more effective and reliable. Precision, durability, functionality and toughness are a few of the important aspects of our engineering products. As a result, our collets exerts strong clamping force and are perfect for holding a tool / workpiece.
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Rs. 35 million
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Entire Europe and USA
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Collet Type 5C, 16C, 3J
Din Collet Type 100E, 101E, 125E, 136E,138E, 140E, 145E, 148E, 161E,162E, 163E, 171E, 173E, 177E, 185E, 324E, 349E. 355E, 358E, 359E, 364E, 385E, 386E
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Feed Fingers and Collets for Multi Spindle Machines namely Acme, Davenport, Wickman, Guildmiester, Conomatics and other Machines on order
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Collets for Engraving Machines
Revolving Centres
Collets for Sliding Head Machines
Collets for Bar Feeders
Collets for Brown and Sharp Machines
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How are the jitters?!... Cue our weekly Norwich City fun and games, with the latest edition of The PinkUn Show live from The Woolpack in central Norwich.
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The Rhode Island Department of Corrections has been awarded a $287,574 Second Chance Act grant and a $391K Family Reunification grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Together, these Federal monies will allow for a greater emphasis on an important area of prisoner reentry work, the RIDOC's Family-Focused Initiative.
Not only does a parent's incarceration at least temporarily sever the relationship between parent and child, it also results in young people struggling with economic, social and emotional burdens. The RIDOC has long recognized that family support is critical to successful reentry and in recent years has focused on engaging the family as soon as possible in an offender's incarceration, offering support and referrals that will keep family ties strong during a father's imprisonment.
It is not at all uncommon for several generations of one family to be locked up at the same time. In some cases, there are members of the same family in numerous facilities. The overall desired outcome of the Family-Focused Initiative is to create a system that promotes responsible fatherhood and encourages fathers to be engaged in the lives of their children -- the results of which will contribute to sustaining healthy relationships, lead to crime-free lives, end family inter-generational incarcerations and create safer communities. The three phases of the initiative are listed below:
Phase I: Institutional Inmate Intervention: Upon sentencing, the RIDOC will identify eligible inmates and their families through the use of the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R) assessment tool. "Since the introduction of the LSIR, we are able to identify those offenders who are high risk, so we can focus our efforts on them, not the more compliant low risk individuals who have tended to be the ones to seek out services and who have a lower risk to recidivate," notes Professional Services Coordinator Ken Findlay. "This high risk group is more difficult to engage, but the stakes are higher." Priority will also be given to those fathers who owe child support payments with the intent of keeping them engaged in their children's lives while working on the barriers such as education and employment which may have caused the increased arrearages. Upon agreement to participate in the RIDOC's Family-Focused Initiative, inmate fathers will be placed on a specialized caseload, enrolled in the Family-Focused Initiative track of existing and newly created innovative and intensive family-centered programming, and given enrollment priority for programs that address their individual risk factors as identified by the LSI-R results.
Phase II: Family-Focused Intervention: Second Chance grant funds will also pay for a family worker who will be hired to coordinate the Family-Focused Initiative work with incarcerated fathers and their families. The family caseworker will be assigned to the families, conduct strength-based assessments and provide support and referrals to the families and children. This is an exciting new approach that will engage inmates and families with the same professional when their loved one is incarcerated and after his release.
Phase III: Policy/System Improvements: A State Reaction Survey will be conducted with the goal of identifying how the State's support systems did or did not react to the parental incarceration. The results will be presented to two bodies created by Executive Order: the Statewide Prisoner Reentry Council and the Rhode Island Fatherhood Coalition. Both initiatives were tasked with creating the mechanisms for systems change by establishing cross-system collaborations.
With Department of Justice funding, the Department purchased the copyright to the Level of Response to Traumatic Events (LORTE) model. The model is used to design training curriculum for anyone who may come in contact with children affected by parental incarceration. So far, the model has guided the Department to create a curriculum specifically designed for elementary and middle school children, teachers, caregivers and incarcerated fathers. The project ensures that all disciplines send the same message to the children regardless of where they live, play, attend school, etc. Among its goals is to increase the resiliency of the children of prisoners and ex-prisoners and to explain why adverse behavior is so often exhibited.
Parenting Coordinator TeLisa Richardson piloted a mini-version of the LORTE training in three Department of Corrections buildings last year, and this grant will now enable her to bring the training to all of the sentenced facilities, with the goal of graduating 50 inmate fathers per year from the program during the life of the Second Chance Act grant. Before and after comments from inmate participants indicate that the curriculum has had a profound impact on them.
Another component of the initiative is called Fathered to Fathering Maps (FFM) and is overseen by Tanya Glantz from The Rhode Island Child Welfare Institute. The FFM engages inmate fathers in creating a map detailing their history with their own father (if one was present in their lives) indicating community supports and mentors where they existed. They also do the same type of map for themselves in relation to their own children. "It's a visual way to get inmates to understand their lives and interactions with their children," notes Glantz. The goal is to have the 50 inmates complete the FFM while enrolled in the LORTE program.
Supported by ARRA funds, a new parenting program called Parenting Inside Out is offered in four men's facilities (Max, Medium Moran, Medium Price and Minimum, as well as both women's facilities) by Family Service of Rhode Island. Three Family Service of Rhode Island employees - Jennifer Etue, Jeanne Sherman, and Shebna Wagnac - teach the evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral parent management skills training program created for incarcerated parents.
At the core of Parenting Inside Out is the Parent Management Training (PMT) curriculum, which appears on the "best practice" lists of the American Psychological Association, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Office of Victims of Crime, the U.S. Department of Justice. This outcomes-based program is focused on helping parents promote healthy child adjustment, preventing child problem behavior, and interrupting the cycle of inter-generational criminality. In PIO, parents develop both parenting and citizenship behaviors they can use for the rest of their lives, guiding their children toward positive, constructive adult lives. There are three versions of PIO, the jail, prison, and community versions, each of which is taught at the RIDOC depending on the facility where it's offered.
One program the DOC has partnered with other agencies to promote is the Big Mentor League. This program of the Big Sisters of Rhode Island, the Urban League of Rhode Island, and the Rhode Island Mentoring Partnership pairs volunteer mentors with a child whose father is incarcerated. The idea is to develop a relationship with a nurturing, caring adult and a stable environment that can promote healthy values and strong families.
"Under Assistant Director of Rehabilitative Services Roberta Richman's leadership," notes Ken Findlay "we are far ahead of many other states in the area of fatherhood and parenting initiatives." Findlay explains, "We are trying to get fathers engaged in their children's lives so they can better support the children." In addition to increasing our male-specific programming, the Department now works closely with Child Support Services. CSS has been fairly successful working with non-custodial fathers to get their child support payments stopped while they are incarcerated. Otherwise they get so far behind that they leave buried in debt, feeling overwhelmed and unable to ever catch up.
In addition to parenting education, substance abuse treatment, Fatherhood Mapping, and family reunification, the Family Focused Initiative includes Books Beyond Bars. This volunteer-run program pairs a volunteer with an inmate parent who records the inmate reading a story to their child or children up to the age of 18. The books and recordings are then mailed home to the child or children so they can feel a connection to their incarcerated parent. Further information on the Books Beyond Bars program can be found on the Department's website at www.doc.ri.gov.


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The great thing about home security systems is that they're getting smarter, and even easier to manage. If you don't already have one, now is the perfect time to set up your smart home security system. Advances in technology have made these systems easier than ever to set up and the expanding list of features makes using a smart security system the obvious choice for protecting your home.
Plus, with summer just around the corner, chances are you'll be away from home more often, making it even more important to make sure your home (and everything inside it) is protected. Here are a few security systems we like because they are easy to set up, can be monitored remotely and won't blow your budget.
Piper Home Security ($199)
The Piper is a Wi-Fi enabled system that keeps you one step ahead with some pretty impressive features, including: HD panoramic video, a siren, a motion detector, 2-way audio, environmental sensors, customized alerts, and home automation. With Piper, there's no service contract, monthly fee or installation. Once it's up and running, you'll have a complete view of the security situation in your home, via your smartphone, no matter where you are.
The Piper app offers fully customizable security alerts based on your level of concern. You can ask it to tell you "the front door was opened" or "motion was detected". You can establish situational rules, too. For example, if motion is detected in your home, video will automatically record. The Piper even gets along well with other technology, integrating with smart devices (like all of your Z-Wave products) to give you a holistic view of everything going on in your home.
Tattletale Portable Alarm System ($339)
What makes the Tattletale awesome is that it is completely portable, plus it's wireless so you can pack it up and take it along on vacation or when you move to a new house or apartment. It takes 60 seconds to install and you can control it remotely with a keyfob and get alerts on your phone.
There are over 50 sensors users can integrate into their completely customizable system including smoke, motion, door and glass-break sensors. They've taken other things into account like a pet button that allows your pets to roam the house without setting off any false alarms. There's also a hot button that will monitor "high target" areas like a gun safe or your child's windows even if the Tattletale is disarmed.
Skylink Connected Home Alarm Starter Kit ($149.99)
Skylink lets you protect your home with a smart system you can control from anywhere. Arm and disarm your alarm through the Skylink app, get push notifications when sensors are triggered and see a live view of your home at any time all from your phone. The system also comes with a keychain remote, perfect for kids or grandparents, that lets users arm/disarm the alarm and press the panic button if there's an emergency and they aren't near a phone. The live video monitoring built in to the system also provides 2-way audio and can support up to 10 wireless cameras.
Expanding your system is easy, and there are several options. Use your security system to automate your home by turning lights and appliances on/off straight from the app. Simply integrate the HomeControl Receivers into your system and you're set. You can also get a garage keypad, solar outdoor sirens, outdoor cameras, water leak sensors and more.


text: Sunday on ABC's "This Week," when asked about President Barack Obama saying she did not put national security at risk when using a private email sever during her tenure as secretary of state, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton echoed Obama's claim. Clinton said, "I have not spoken to him. I appreciate what he said, of course, I never endangered national security. That's absolutely false. I said it was a mistake. It wasn't the best choice. And now we know, Colin Powell had a private e-mail account. Aides to Condi Rice. I think that what's going on will be resolved. And obviously, all of us will go forward knowing what we now know. Making sure that no one can raise any questions in the future." HAHA you basically just said you put our National Security in danger with your personal email server by saying it was a mistake. Let's also not forget you put our national security in danger when you allowed an attack in Benghazi Libya to unfold without giving the men any back up or protection, during the almost days long siege by radical Islamist. Having a private email server on the taxpayers dime, should be a danger alone to America since it's your own private unclassified email server, that you have sent out top secret information out on to foreign interest around the globe. Not only has she put our country in danger but she has drastically lied to us about what's on the server, with only constant proof of her sending Top Secret information out on the server. So Hillary saying she didn't put national security at stake, should only baffle us beyond belief for the one reason being that thousands of top secret documents and information has been emailed out to foreign interest. Hillary you have been caught by America for putting us in danger, so please stop the lies. You been caught so be prepared for the consequences.


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Coronavirus puts scare into Asian markets
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Stocks in the Asia Pacific region sank on Monday as fears mounted over the spreading coronavirus, and the impact it could have on the regional, and global, economy.
Travel-related stocks were the hardest hit.
"Any economic shock to China's colossal industrial and consumption engines will spread rapidly to other countries through the increased trade and financial linkages associated with globalization," Stephen Innes, Asia Pacific market strategist at AxiCorp told the Reuters Thomson news agency on Monday.
The Australian markets were closed due to the public holiday in lieu of Australia Day which fell on Sunday.
Shares in Air New Zealand and Auckland International Airport were sold heavily on the New Zealand stock exchange. At the close of trading Monday, the benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index was down 70.67 points or 0.59% at 11,807.14.
In Japan, the Nikkei 225 closed down483.67 points or 2.03% at 23,433.51..
Chinese markets were closed for the Lunar New Year, which has been extended by two days in Shanghai because of the coronavirus outbreak. The Shanghai Markets, which have been closed since 23 January, will re-open next Monday 3 February.
The Hong Kong exchanges will open this Wednesday, but the usual ceremony to welcome the new year has been cancelled - for the first time in the exchange's history.
Our decision is based on the increasing risk of coronavirus infection in Hong Kong, and knowing that the health and safety of our guests and colleagues remain our highest priority, the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) said in a statement.
Currency markets were volatile. The Japanese yen rose sharply to 109.09. The British pound was stronger at 1.3061.
The euro dropped sharply to 1.1029.
The Swiss franc was easier at 0.9710. The Canadian dollar was little changed at 1.3161.
The Australian dollar, tumbled to 0.6808, an acknowledgement of the significance of China as an importer of Australian goods, particularly commodities, chief among them, iron ore.
The New Zealand dollar was only marginally weaker at 0.6578.


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A HOMESICK JOURNEY TO IRAN | A Show and Tell in Brooklyn
I spent most of Spring 2014 in Iran, returning to my native country after three long and filled-with-longing decades of absence, and I have not stopped talking about it since! So it's only inevitable that somehow or other I am giving this 'show and tell' talk about a journey that I like to call 'My Epic Trip to Iran' – Sunday August 24, 2014, 5 pm at De-Construkt art space in Brooklyn.
Full synopsis of the event and details::
After 3 decades of self-imposed exile, Azita Houshiar finally returned to her homeland country of Iran, as she had longed to do since the very minute she left it as a 10th grader. It was an epic journey, lasting nearly 3 months, and one that saw her exploring the bazaars, palaces, art galleries, bookstores, beauty salons, museums, mosques, Zoroastrian sacred sites, cemeteries, cafes, restaurants, shops, parks and private homes in Tehran, Isfahan, Yazd, Shiraz, and Kermanshah. She basked in the glow of renewed friendships and familial love, ate lots of delicious food, saw many amazing things, and feasted her eyes as often as she could on the sight of the majestic snow-peaked mountains of Alborz. And she found out whether a hyphenated person can ever really go back 'home'.
Please join us as Azita gives a NON-POLITICAL talk and shares select photographs, short videos, and stories from her poignant "bittersweet" journey to her homeland and also touches on the concept of 'exile' and the issue of 'identity' for an Iranian-American straddling that seemingly implausible hyphenated line.
If you have ever wondered:
Who are Iranians? What is an ordinary Iranian like? What is daily life like in Iran? What do Iranian people do for fun? Do they even ever have fun? Do they go out? Do men and women interact? How do women observe the mandatory hijab? Do women work? Are there any parks in Iran? Can people have pets? What do they watch on TV? Do people go to see plays or to concerts? Is music allowed in public at all? Do they have any movie theatres? Do women drive? Do they even have roads and cars in Iran… don't they just live in the dessert and ride camels? Is there an art scene? Do they have bookstores? What is identity when straddling that hyphen for hyphenated people? What is exile? Forget about all this, just tell me about the Persian food, what is the food like in Iran?
Then come and find out!
The hour long event includes a slide show of photographs and video snippets and the stories that go along with it. There will be Persian music and Persian food and sharbat will be served.
When | Sunday August 24, 2014 | 5 pm
Where | De-Construkt | 41 Seabring Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Note | This is a cultural, non-political event. (Here's the invite on Facebook.)


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- 100 gr day-old bread
- 2 tomatoes
- 1 or 2 cloves garlic
- olive oil
- 1 egg
- Serrano or Iberian ham
- salt
Place the egg in a pot with cold water and salt, and cook it on medium heat. Ten minutes after the water starts boiling, remove the egg from the heat and let it cool.
Chop the day-old bread and place it into a bowl.
Grate tomatoes and add them to the bowl.
Pour a generous amount of olive oil. Chop garlic and add it.
Stir it and set it aside.
When the bread is soft, beat the mixture until it is smooth and, if necessary, strain it. If it has a lot of bread, it will be thicker. If you want less thicker, add more tomato. Taste it and add more salt, olive oil (and even garlic) until your taste.
Serve salmorejo at room temperature in winter, and fresh in summer. Serve it with chopped ham and boiled egg over it.
If there's a step in this recipe that is not clear or can be improved, please, write a comment. Thank you.