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I need some help with selling something. I am looking for a freelancer who is familiar with setting up a B2B & B2C marketing (not interested in plan) but execution with results. Please note I am not looking for someone who will just create the plan, but am looking for one who knows his work and will go ahead and will execute the plan. Again not simply interested in digital marketers, it's more than just digital marketing. So, if you think you are creative with your marketing, please do bid. Combination of Digital Marketing, PR, Marketing Strategy, Branding, Business Promotion and Campaign Management skills.
Looking for a lead generation/B2B/B2C marketing and well experienced. Candidate must be a self starter to deliver leads based on several ways including but not limited; Email marketing (to the forex industry in South Africa, Botswana,Namibia and Zimbabwe ), social media, and digital content creation. We are looking for a person that had their own proven mechanisms to engage and bring clients to my website and attract customers to enroll for our course that is being offered through my website. This person will require minimum supervision to deliver.
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The Z600 is the first GSM/GPRS clamshell phone with exchangeable front and back covers and also features an integrated camera and color screen.
Sony Ericsson have introduced a new feature called QuickShare with the T610 phone, which is designed to quickly share pictures with other users. Two key presses and a picture is taken, six presses and the picture is sent off to the recipient. The Z600 features a built-in camera, 16-bit colour TFD display and a range of imaging applications. As well as QuickShare, it is also possible to exchange pictures from the Z600 directly over a Bluetooth connection, or even drag and drop pictures to a PC.
The front-and-back covers are available as accessories and come in an array of colours and patterns that enable owners to control the device's exterior. The theme of personalisation is continued on the inside of the phone with the large colour display for themes, images or wallpapers. The phone comes with preloaded themes matching all standard covers and additional themes will be available for download from the Fun & Downloads section of the Sony Ericsson web site.
A second display on the outside of the phone shows information such as caller ID, time, network and battery status. The Z600 also has a dedicated speaker for the 32-voice polyphonic sound, which reproduces musical ringtones and boosts the sound effects of the mobile games. For the aspiring music producer there is the Music DJ feature, a 4-track music creation tool, with which consumers can create their own ring signals and also send them to their friends.
The Z600 comes with several embedded games, most notable V-Rally2, recognizable from game consoles. It allows both single player and multiplayer modes over Bluetooth. The phone supports both Java and Mophun game engines, the latter of which is found in several other Sony Ericsson handsets. The Multi-Action keypad allows for simultaneous key-presses, to for instance move and shoot at the same time. For the devoted mobile gamer, there is also a new game console accessory, the Gameboard EGB-10, which attaches to the phone.
The Z600 claims up to 200 hours of standby or 6 hours of talk time, and weighs in at a chunky 110g.
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A collection of 15 short stories by the late Satoshi Kon.
These stories, serialized in a variety of magazines in the 1980's, give a rare glimpse into the early stages of Kon's uniquely compelling style of storytelling. The buds of dream-like themes and imaginative worldviews that would blossom in his later animated works are also readily apparent.
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Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Pakistan - Young Female teacher burned alive for refusing marriage proposal.
Pakistan - Teenage girl burned alive for refusing marriage proposal. (ET).
A 19-year-old woman who was tortured and then set on fire by a group of men in a village near Murree, succumbed to injuries on Wednesday.
Maria Sadaqat, was admitted in Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) with 85 per cent burn injuries. According to reports, Sadaqat's death led to her family members protesting outside the hospital, claiming that she wasn't given proper treatment.
"She was badly tortured and then burned alive. We brought her to hospital in Islamabad but she succumbed to her wounds today," Abdul Basit, Sadaqat's uncle, told AFP outside a burns centre at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in the capital.
Basit said his niece had been attacked by the principal of the private school where she had formerly worked as a teacher, and by his accomplices after she refused a marriage proposal from his son.
"He was divorced and twice her age, so she refused the proposal and left her job when they pursued her time and again... eventually they attacked her," Basit said.
Grieving relatives outside the centre wept and protested at the teenager's death as police moved her body to another hospital for a post-mortem.
Earlier in a statement, Sadaqat told the police she could identify two of the five attackers. Police officials claimed to have arrested two suspects.
Sadaqat was a teacher at a private school in Dhok Kallar in Lower Dewal.
Police and locals said that five persons tortured Sadaqat at her home on Tuesday after she got back from work. They said one of the attackers worked at the same school as the victim.
According to the victim's statement to the police, the attackers thrashed her, pour petrol over her, and set her on fire. She cried for help but had already suffered massive injuries when neighbours, who lived at a reasonable distance, were able to get to her.
"We have arrested at least one of the accused and a hunt is on for the rest," Mazhar Iqbal, the officer directing the murder investigation, told AFP.
Speaking to The Express Tribune on Tuesday, PIMS spokesperson Dr Ayesha Ihsani said that the victim had suffered 85 per cent burns.
A doctor at the hospital said Sadaqat had succumbed to serious burns.
"The poor woman was becoming better but then could not survive because most parts of her body had serious burn injuries," said Ayesha Ihsani. More here.
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John le Carré is about the best genre writer sitting in my bookcase—he writes literate espionage thrillers with exquisite style, keen observation, and dark wit. His books are complex in texture and thought and are rich with detail, atmosphere, and mystery. They bear re-reading, becoming a different experience each time, as new slippery meanings and treacherous ambiguities pulse under their surfaces. In le Carré's world, the concrete under our feet grows thin, eroded by betrayal and poisonous secrets.
It's not surprising his former antagonist Salman Rushdie recently said he thought Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy to be one of the great novels of post-World War II Britain. His novels also seem to be portraits of a nation in steep decline, falling so low, it no longer has control over its own foreign policy and, hence, its fate.
Another le Carré theme is the dilemmas faced by good guys when they become ensnared in bad deeds on behalf of the institutions whose values they loyally serve, even when those values are betrayed.
A Delicate Truth, le Carré's twenty-first title, returns to that theme. It opens from the enigmatic point of view of a nameless veteran official in the British Foreign Office who, dressed in a second-hand alias fitted by his superiors, is sent as a behind-the-lines observer on a mission to capture a suspected jihadist said to be hiding out on the island of Gibraltar.
The mission, as far as he can see from watching via a bank of fuzzy video monitors, looks to be a success. The diplomat, whose real name is Christopher "Kit" Probyn, is rewarded a sinecure post in the Caribbean and retires with a knighthood, confident that he did right by King and Country.
At the same time, another side player in this game, Toby Bell, a private secretary to Minister Fergus Quinn, supposedly the raid's architect, is wondering exactly what his boss has been up to. Despite Toby's official relationship his boss, Quinn and his allies do not trust Toby's blend of easygoing liberality and integrity, and so they excise him from their inner loop, leaving him a puzzled spectator.
Gnawed ratty with suspicion, Toby cleverly records an ultra-secret meeting between Quinn and the raid's commandos. From there, he nudges about, trying to share his information. But he's ignored and then finally warned off by his Foreign Office mentor, Giles Oakley. After the raid, he's abruptly shunted to a faraway post in a faraway corner of the globe, where, those in power suppose, his suspicions will do no harm.
Three years later, Kit is visited by Jeb, one of the commandos Toby recorded on his secret tape along with Kit, as it turns out. Jeb's conscience is eating him to death. He tells Kit that he saw nothing of what really happened that night: the raid did not go off as promised and, in fact, led to an ugly, if unsurprising, tragedy.
Kit, with his pleasing old-style Englishman's sense of honor and human decency, is staggered by this revelation of his culpability. He reaches out to Toby for help in uncovering the ugly truth of what happened that night and seeing that justice is done.
I don't think this le Carre's best book, but it's still very good, in how its plot and story twist and wind about. It end with an extremely taut and hair-raising climax, as the cover-up unwinds at the same time that dark forces wind in around Toby and Kit.
The prose is finely sinuous as ever, but the author sometimes seems too determined to hammer home his dismay about the current conduct of the so-called War on Terror. A Delicate Truth hectors more than I like and feels a little too "ripped from today's headlines." (Full disclosure: I don't like overly "messagy" prose, regardless of whether I agree with its sentiments or not. It's fine for characters to have opinions, but a third-person narrator should be circumspect. Once an author starts shaking his own finger in my face I . . . well, I sometimes get peckish.)
Also, as awful as the crime that hides within A Delicate Truth's is, it feels dwarfed by the real events of the last twelve years. It feels like more of a footnote than a symbol of something larger. While reading, I thought about the many pages of nonfiction out there that would do a better job in facing the same issues probed here.
For example, if we had also seen events as they happened at the other end of the gun barrel, the novel might have been more effective.
At its best, A Delicate Truth portrays our queasiness at being trapped between a realistic fear of jihadist war and an equally plausible fear we should feel about those we're supposed to look to for protection.
Le Carré, the ex-British spy, has been out of the actual espionage business for fifty years now and much about spying has changed. But reading his books, I'm still left with a sense of how things really work in the world of espionage and fading empires.
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For the past four years, a surveillance camera mounted on Martin's Tavern in Georgetown has kept silent vigil over a single block of Wisconsin Avenue, paid for by two dozen homeowners and merchants fed up with crime.
In the next few weeks, three more cameras could be added to the neighborhood, with as many as 10 coming in the next few months, trained on residential streets and controlled by the Citizens Association of Georgetown.
"Our goal is deterrence," said Diane Colasanto, the civic group's public safety chair, adding that the idea came from the tavern camera. "Even though we don't have a lot of serious crime, we do have crime. We want to make it just that much more difficult for people to break into cars, and to break into houses, and to take cellphones out of people's hands."
Police surveillance cameras are ubiquitous in many big cities across the country, but the unusual move by a community association to record people's comings and goings is evoking fears of neighbor spying on neighbor.
Although there is no expectation of privacy in public space, the civic group's initiative adds another dimension to the debate over increased surveillance by the government and others.
The civic group says that it is taking privacy concerns seriously and that its strict guidelines ensure the cameras won't intrude on residents' personal lives. Cameras will be mounted on private property and video can be accessed and turned over to authorities only after a crime has been reported to police.
But even people comfortable with law enforcement watching the citizenry may be wary that a block captain could play video voyeur with the habits of neighbors.
Georgetown resident Jennifer Fiore objected on an Internet bulletin board moderated by D.C. police, wondering how the Citizens Association of Georgetown had the authority to install cameras — generally in residential areas east and west of Wisconsin Avenue — which she said should be the responsibility of police.
"We are not, after all, a private, gated community with the CAG as the governing board," Fiore wrote. In an interview, she said she was concerned "about the amount of information that is public about people. I just like having privacy. I have an expectation that I will blend in, that unless there's something wrong, nobody will be watching me."
Arthur Spitzer, the legal director of the Washington chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said there's nothing illegal about what the civic group is doing. In fact, he said, it has more leeway than the police, who have to worry about constitutional protections against illegal search and seizure.
But he warned of the temptation to use the videos to keep tabs on city work crews, go after residents who put their trash out too early, or intercede in petty neighborhood squabbles and civil claims.
"Once the video is there, it's hard to control how it's used and who gets it," Spitzer said.
"We don't like the whole idea we're turning into a surveilled society." But, he said, "Most people seem quite willing to trade a feeling of freedom for a feeling of security."
Authorities in the District and surrounding jurisdictions say they aren't aware of a comparable situation involving civic groups, although Montgomery County police say an increasing number of homeowners have cameras trained on public streets. A spokesman said that has helped detectives in recent theft cases and has helped determine the speed of a car moments before a serious crash.
A community group in Baltimore recently signed an agreement with the city to wire 16 cameras it's buying in the Mount Vernon area directly to the police department. Officers in Baltimore continuously monitor 580 surveillance cameras and an additional 250 from public and private institutions, many transmitting live feeds.
Baltimore police said the agreement with the Mount Vernon group is its first with a civic organization. Steve Shen, who is on the Midtown District board, said his organization eventually wants to hire off-duty officers to monitor the group's cameras exclusively.
D.C. police, who support the Georgetown initiative, are working on forming video partnerships with businesses and public institutions, but only to more quickly obtain footage taken at crime scenes, according to Cmdr. James Crane, head of the tactical information division.
Police in the District have 16 permanent and 84 mobile surveillance cameras — far fewer than other big cities. D.C. law imposes restrictions on how they're used. Police say they rarely monitor the cameras live because conducting what is called "random monitoring" requires the presence of a supervisor. The law also doesn't allow police to zoom in too closely on individuals.
The Urban Institute released a study last year saying that Baltimore's highly visible camera system with live monitoring was a cost-effective crime deterrent. The study faulted the District, saying the restrictive rules mean the D.C. cameras "did not appear to have an effect on crime."
That is one reason Edward "Chip" Dent organized his neighbors to buy the camera attached to Martin's Tavern and why he is helping the Georgetown group get its program started. That D.C. police aren't tied in to other surveillance systems, he said, "I find to be a distinct handicap." He said his camera has helped police in hit-and-run accidents, vandalism, muggings and store robberies.
Colasanto said Dent's camera sparked her group's interest. The cameras, which each cost about $2,200, are paid for through donations. A local businessman is footing the installation costs.
Colasanto said the images will be kept for a limited time and recorded over. The response has been overwhelmingly positive, she said. "Everybody we've heard from so far has said, 'How can I get this on my block?' "
Colasanto said protocol governing who can watch the videos and when should ease concerns.
"You can't say, 'Someone is messing with my flowers,' " Colasanto said. "It has to be something serious enough that somebody reported it to the police and they know about it. . . . We are very sensitive to the concerns of people feeling their privacy is going to be violated. We balance those concerns adequately given the dangers we face."


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Gastroenterology Research and Practice
Volume 2012, Article ID 106965, 6 pages
Frequency of Celiac Disease in Adult Patients with Typical or Atypical Malabsorption Symptoms in Isfahan, Iran
1Department of Internal Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
2Poursina Hakim Research Institute, P.O. Box 81465-1798, Isfahan, Iran
3Iranian Celiac Association, Isfahan, Iran
4School of Public Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Received 8 December 2011; Accepted 24 January 2012
Academic Editor: K. L. Goh
Copyright © 2012 Mohammad Hassan Emami et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Aim. Atypical presentations of celiac disease (CD) have now been shown to be much more common than classical (typical) form. We evaluated the frequency of CD among adult patients with typical or atypical symptoms of CD. Materials and Methods. Patients referred to two outpatient gastroenterology clinics in Isfahan (IRAN) were categorized into those with typical or atypical symptoms of CD. IgA antitissue transglutaminase antibody was assessed and followed by duodenal biopsy. In patients for whom endoscopy was indicated (independent of the serology), duodenal biopsy was taken. Histopathological changes were assessed according to the Marsh classification. Results. During the study period, 151 and 173 patients with typical and atypical symptoms were evaluated (mean age = and years, 47.0% and 56.0% female, resp.). Frequency of CD in patients with typical and atypical symptoms was calculated, respectively, as 5.9% (9/151) and 1.25% (3/173) based on positive serology and pathology. The overall frequency was estimated as at least 9.2% (14/151) and 4.0% (7/173) when data of seronegative patients were also considered. Conclusions. CD is more frequent among patients with typical symptoms of malabsorption and these patients should undergo duodenal biopsy, irrespective of the serology. In patients with atypical symptoms, serological tests should be performed followed by endoscopic biopsy, and routine duodenal biopsy is recommended when endoscopic evaluation is indicated because of symptoms.
1. Introduction
Celiac Disease (CD), also known as gluten-sensitive enteropathy, is a genetic disorder affecting both children and adults. People with CD are unable to eat foods that contain gluten because, in these patients, gluten sets off an autoimmune reactions that cause the destruction of the small intestinal villi and leading to a malabsorption syndrome [1, 2]. While it was previously thought to be rare, epidemiological studies using sensitive and specific serological tests with biopsy verification established higher prevalence of CD (up to 1 : 100) in most countries [3–5].
Classical symptoms of CD in adults include chronic diarrhea, steatorrhea, and weight loss. Steatorrhea is associated with severe, extensive enteropathy, but it is often absent in patients whose disease is limited to the more proximal portions of the small intestine [2]. Classical symptoms of CD are present in less than 50% of the patients at presentation [1]. Abdominal discomfort and bloating are common at early presentation and often result in a mistaken diagnosis of more common gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and dyspepsia for a long time, which contributes to a considerable delay in diagnosing CD [6, 7]. Untreated CD can be life threatening and increase the risk of certain types of cancer and lymphoma and also increase the risk of mortality compared to the general population [8]. Although there are no drugs to treat CD and there is no cure, a gluten-free diet (GFD) can lead to a normal and healthy live and can decrease the risk of malignancy and mortality [2, 8]. Therefore, prompt diagnosis of the disease and nutritional treatment is of great value.
Despite the large epidemiological studies and screening and nutritional programs conducted in western countries, there are only a few investigations on the prevalence of CD in the general population in Asia, particularly Middle East [5, 9]. Epidemiological studies in Iran also are insufficient to provide an accurate estimation of CD among high risk or suspicious groups. Since there are few documented cases of CD in our society, it seems to be remained underdiagnosed [5].
There is still a controversy on cost-effectiveness and benefits of the population screening for CD [10, 11]. In the absence of a population screening program, targeting the screening to the certain high risk groups (case finding approach) can be an efficient use of the resources [10]. Epidemiological studies providing an estimated prevalence among different target groups (e.g., apparently healthy, suspicious CD, and high-risk groups) will enable us to establish further genetic, immunologic, and nutritional researches to control the disease. According to the wide aspects of presentation and variety of complications, and also regarding the lack of epidemiologic data on CD in Iran, we aimed to determine the prevalence of CD among patients referred with typical or atypical symptoms of malabsorption to see if routine screening of these patients is worthwhile.
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Patients and Setting
This study was conducted between 2004 and 2005, on all patients with typical or atypical symptoms of CD referred to Poursina Hakim Research Institute (including two outpatient clinics of gastroenterology) in Isfahan, Iran. Classic or typical symptoms of CD were considered as chronic diarrhea, steatorrhea, and weigh loss. Atypical symptoms included unexplained abdominal pain, excessive gas passing, malodor stool or gas, constipation, intermittent diarrhea, bloating, and unexplained nausea or vomiting. The ethics committee of the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences approved the study and informed consent was obtained from all patients after explaining the aims and protocol.
2.2. Assessments
Data including demographics, clinical symptoms, complete past medical history, and associated disorders, and family history of CD were collected by a trained physician using a structured questionnaire. Laboratory data included thyroid function test, complete blood count (CBC), ESR, CRP, calcium, phosphor, and 3 times stool examination for all patients.
2.3. Serological Assessment for CD
The IgA antitissue transglutaminase (anti-tTG) antibody was measured for all patients using an enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELIZA) technique by a commercially available kit (ORG540 A, ORGENTEC Diagnostica GmbH). The upper limit of the normal range (cut-off value) for t-TG IgA antibody, as determined by the manufacturer, was 10 u/mL. If the results was very low (<5 Au/mL), IgA level was measured to rule out IgA deficiency.
2.4. Pathological Assessment for CD
Endoscopic biopsy was recommended to all patients with typical symptoms, seropositive atypical cases, and those with IgA deficiency [1, 12]. Also, duodenal biopsy was done in seronegative patients with atypical symptoms, who had other indications of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy (due to their symptoms). Endoscopy was done with a standard 110 cm long video endoscope (EG 2940, Pentax EPM-3300), by a single gastroenterologist, during which at least four biopsy specimens were obtained from the distal part of the second portion of duodenum. The specimens were processed and stained with hematoxylin and eosin and studied under light microscopy by a gastrointestinal oriented pathologist. Histopathology was reported according to the modified Marsh classification [13]; Marsh type I: infiltrative phase with >30 lymphocytes per 100 enterocytes; Marsh II: infiltrative/hyperplastic phase; Marsh IIIA, IIIB, and IIIC: partial, subtotal, and total villous atrophy, respectively. Seropositive patients with at least Marsh I of villous atrophy and also seronegative cases with Marsh II or III of villous atrophy were considered to have CD if they had good response to GFD [12].
2.5. Statistical Analysis
The data were analyzed using SPSS software for Windows v 16.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Comparisons were done with independent -test or Mann-Whitney test for quantitative and Chi-square or Fisher's exact tests for qualitative data, and a value of <0.05 was considered to be significant.
3. Results
During the study period, 151 patients with typical symptoms (mean age = , 47.0% female) and 173 patients with atypical symptoms (mean age = , 56.0% female) were evaluated. Comparisons of the two groups regarding demographic characteristics and symptoms are presented in Table 1. The differences between patients with typical and atypical symptoms in age and gender were not statistically significant (). The frequency of intermittent diarrhea and constipation was higher in atypical () and fatigue/weakness in typical cases (). Duration of symptoms was longer in patients with atypical symptoms ().
3.1. Patients with Typical Symptoms for CD
In patients with typical symptoms, thyroid function test, stool exam, ESR and CBC results did not specify a diagnosis. Patients ≥ 50 years old (17 cases) underwent total colonoscopy and none of them had malignancy or inflammatory bowel disease. Family history of CD was not reported and IgA deficiency was not detected in any patient. Totally, 8.6% (13/151) of the patients with typical symptoms were seropositive for tTG-IgA, 12 patients accepted to undergo endoscopy. Histopathological studies showed Marsh IIIc in 4, Marsh IIIb in 3, and Marsh I in 2 patients. As upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was offered to all patients, 40.2% (56/139) accepted this procedure. Histopathological studies among these patients showed Marsh IIIc in 1, Marsh IIIb in 2, Marsh IIIa in 3, Marsh II in 1, and Marsh I in 9 patients. GFD was started in all patients with positive serology and a biopsy result suggestive of CD and in seronegative patients with Marsh III or II. One seronegative patient with Marsh IIIc and one with Marsh II did not respond to GFD and after more evaluation including colonoscopy, the patient with Marsh IIIc was diagnosed to have Crohn' disease. Other patients responded to GFD clinically and antibody became negative after six months in seropositive cases. Therefore, the prevalence of CD in patients with typical symptoms was calculated as 5.9% (9/151) based on positive serology and confirmed pathology and the overall prevalence was estimated as at least 9.2% (14/151) when data of seronegative patients were considered, as well. Patients' characteristics are shown in Table 2.
3.2. Patients with Atypical Symptoms for CD
In this group, 8 patients were diagnosed to have IgA deficiency, but none of them had CD. Totally, 2.8% (5/173) of the patients were seropositive for IgA anti-tTG, and in all of them duodenal biopsy was taken. Marsh II was shown in 3 of the patients, and 2 of them had normal histopathologic examination. As upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was offered to all patients with prolonged and unexplained symptoms, 37.5% (63/168) patients accepted this procedure. Among these patients, 2 had Marsh IIIa, 2 had Marsh II, and 6 Marsh I. GFD was started in all patients with positive serology and a biopsy result suggestive of CD and also in seronegative patients with Marsh III or II. All patients responded to GFD clinically and serology became negative in seropositive cases after six months. Finally, the prevalence of CD in patients with atypical symptoms was calculated as 1.25% (3/173) based on positive serology confirmed by pathology and the overall prevalence was estimated at least 4.0% (7/173) when data of seronegative patients were considered, as well. Patients' characteristics are shown in Table 2. The frequency of CD was higher in typical than in atypical patients (OR = 2.423, CI 95% = 0.95 to 6.17, (one sided)).
Comparing patients with and without CD regarding presenting symptoms is presented in Table 3. Abdominal pain, diarrhea, bloating, and steatorrhea were more frequent in CD than non-CD patients (), but the differences regarding other symptoms were not statistically significant. Also, there was no significant difference between CD and non-CD cases in age or gender ().
4. Discussion
Previously, CD has been considered to be very rare in the Middle East and, based on this assumption, it was not generally considered as a possibility in the differential diagnosis of patients coming with nonspecific gastrointestinal symptoms [9]. By the development of more sensitive serological tests and a higher degree of disease suspicion, a marked increase in CD prevalence and incidence has been reported in recent decade [5]. Some evidence showed that a large proportion of patients present with atypical symptoms of malabsorption that can lead to misdiagnosis for a prolonged time [6, 14]. This delay can result in higher complications of CD such as different types of cancer and organ damage. Thus, prompt diagnosis of CD is of great important and while there is still a controversy on the cost-effectiveness of population screening for CD, case finding approach is more financially viable [10]. With this approach, we attempted to determine the frequency of CD in patients presenting with typical symptoms of malabsorption and those with nonspecific gastrointestinal complaints. We found that CD is present in about 9.2% of the patients coming with typical symptoms (12.1% (13/107) of the patients with chronic diarrhea) and 4.0% of those who come with atypical symptoms of malabsorption. Other studies from Iran also reported that CD is the most common cause of chronic nonbloody diarrhea in adults and children, ranging from 6.5% to 19% [15, 16]. These results indicate that classic presentation of malabsorption, specially with chronic diarrhea, is the main presentation of CD in our society. However, we found that 4.0% of patients coming to the outpatient clinics of gastroenterology with nonspecific symptoms of CD finally were diagnosed to have CD, which is much higher than that reported from screening studies of the general population in Iran, up to 1% [5]. Dyspepsia and IBS are the most common disorders diagnosed in outpatient clinics of gastroenterology. There are some studies with case finding approach that are done in these patients. The frequency of CD is reported from 1.4% [17] to 7% [18] in people with dyspeptic complaints and from 0.4% to 11.4% in patients with IBS [19–21]. A meta-analysis showed that biopsy-confirmed CD is 4-fold more prevalent in IBS patients than the general population (Pooled odds ratio = 4.34, CI 95% = 1.78–10.6) [22]. Studies with cost-effective analyses showed that testing for CD in patients with IBS-like symptoms is acceptable when the prevalence of CD is above 1% and it is a dominant strategy when the prevalence exceeds 8% and also in those with diarrhea predominant IBS [23, 24]. In spite of this evidence, most of the studies from Iran have shown no difference between patients with IBS-like symptoms and the general population in the frequency of CD [25]. More recent studies with large sample sizes also did not find a higher frequency of CD [20] even among patients with diarrhea-predominant IBS [19]. Therefore, decision for screening of these patients must be based on the population prevalence of CD, the accuracy of serological tests in that population, and the costs of IBS treatment [23].
An important finding in our study was the low sensitivity of serology (anti-tTG IgA antibody) in detecting CD patients specially in patients presenting with atypical symptoms. IgA anti-tTG antibody is the single most efficient serological test for the diagnosis of CD [26, 27]. It is well known that IgA anti-tTG levels correlate with the degree of intestinal damage, and that values can fluctuate in patients over time [28, 29]. Serological tests help in diagnosis of CD, but the gold standard is based on pathological study. We found that about 35% of CD patients with typical symptoms are seronegative that shows the best method for diagnosing CD in these patients is a panel of serological tests and endoscopic biopsy together, which is previously recommended by other investigators [1]. In patients with non-specific gastrointestinal symptoms we found positive serology in less than half of the patients. Accordingly we recommend that diagnostic approach in such patients should be started with serological tests and when the endoscopy is indicated for evaluation of the symptoms, duodenal biopsy and evaluation for CD histopathology should be considered. During the endoscopy, the presence of features of villous atrophy (such as scalloping of mucosal folds, absent or reduced duodenal folds, or a mosaic pattern of the mucosa) has a high negative predictive value for CD and could be helpful in decision for biopsy [30, 31]. However, such features have a very low sensitivity [31, 32] and also evidence has shown that duodenal biopsies reveal other abnormalities and could be helpful in patients with chronic diarrhea and/or abdominal pain for further following workups [33]. Therefore, we recommend routine duodenal biopsy in endoscopic evaluation of patients referring with nonspecific gastrointestinal symptoms.
5. Conclusion
We found that CD is more prevalent among patients referring with typical symptoms of malabsorption specially chronic diarrhea than patients with atypical symptoms. Any patient who has classic symptoms of CD should undergo duodenal biopsy, irrespective of whether serologic testing for CD has been performed or was positive. In patients with atypical symptoms, serological tests should be performed followed by endoscopic biopsy. In these patients, routine duodenal biopsy is recommended when endoscopic evaluation is indicated.
Conflict of Interests
The authors did not declare any conflict of interests.
This study was supported by Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (Grant no. 82398). The authors are thankful to personnel of Poursina Hakim Research Institute and Iranian Celiac Association especially Mrs. Zahra Bashari and Dr. Zahra Kazemi who helped us conducting this study.
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
The Next Financial Crisis
This is an excellent production with superb editing, imagery, commentary and archival clips. The idea of an overheated economy with too much government influence (which this production explores) is a common theme however, which is often oversimplified. This documentary is no exception.
Testimony by Ben Benanke, indicating that there does not appear to be any evidence suggesting a housing bubble, is captured. In defense of the Fed chief, the existence of the bubble was often questioned, but rarely predicted. The market reflected that perception, that housing prices were not over inflated. Hindsight is always 20/20, so many wonder, "How could everyone have been caught left-footed?"
Peter Schiff is frequently featured and captured, indicating that the government had to provide housing loans, because the private sector would not have invested in mortgages, with the risk that such investment required. This is not totally accurate. The private sector in fact lost billions, as a result of its exposure to the sub-prime market.
The documentary indicates that the stimulus lacks definition and that public spending on projects which are unproductive, will not help the economy in the long term. Although there is substance to this argument and may well be the reason why the fiscal spending initiative has not succeeded in lifting the economy out the recession, there is a school of thought which suggests that any form of government spending (irrespective of its perceived merit) will help the economy from sinking deeper into negative growth.
In the U.S. the move out of recession has been lackluster, while the economy has until now, avoided an increase in unemployment and further recession. The producer, Devell Borgs, suggests that because of the increase, artificially, in government spending and the monetary policy of the Fed which has been "excessively loose", worse is yet to come.
This supposition ignores the Keynesian approach to recession, which advocates increased government spending (with a loose monetary policy). Conversely, in the times of high economic growth, Keynesian economics would dictate decreased government spending (with a tighter monetary policy), with intent to flatten activity curves and decrease volatility in the economy.
By current accounts, even when the government does participate in the economy to reduce the impact of a recession, lower overall government involvement is an objective which is ultimately sought. This is the approach which Greenspan and Bernanke have adopted, although their management of the economy has been limited to driving the reins of monetary policy, rather than fiscal policy.
Many, like Borgs, argue against any government participation, as this only creates an illusion, hiding the real challenges within an economy, suggesting that the approach is ill-conceived and that it will ultimately come to haunt its manhandlers.
Devell Borgs' documentary is highly recommended, if not just for its consideration of an economic approach which I do not agree with, but which has gained some support.
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Rating: 7/10
Label: TSM/SLW 2011
Review by: Urban "Wally" Wallstrom
How could you possible go wrong with a moniker such as TWO WHEEL EEL? Excellent! I noticed they have a British vocalist (Jon Dunmore) but they're actually from New Jersey, U.S. of A and the influences are definitely both foreign and homegrown and showing on their sleeves. It's the early to mid seventies rock sound throughout the record and very much in the style of blue collar aka working class heroes of the past.
Guitarist and main 'eel' Johnny Renken started playing at seven years old. He grew up touring the tri-state area club and college circuit for a few years. With the intense desire to have his own original band, Johnny started a band called "The Tilt" later to become "Second Coming." Under the production and management of Ron Johnsen who had worked with Kiss, Billy Squire, Carol King, The Troggs and other great artists in the early days. Unfortunately without major label support, the group soldiered on in search of new vocalist front man. They started over again with the same great rhythm section, Allen Paul on bass and Tony Rock on drums. When Johnny and Allen went to a Mount Holly NJ studio to record the clsoing track on this very CD, "Waiting for You" they met British vocalist Jon Dunmore and the beginning of Two Wheel Eel had been born.
Opener, "Hey Annie", hardrocking blues, "The Ecology Song" a nice mixture of early UFO and The Who. "Runaway (Hitching In L.A.)" revokes the Beatles (Lennon) and more so the 'all the young dudes' formula and old rock of Mott The Hoople and obviously David Bowie as he wrote the 'dude' song after all. "Heaven and Hell" speak of John Miles and John Lennon influences but more importantly pure AOR as this power ballad could almost have been the work of early cult acts such as The Baby's. But then again, UFO did these sort of ballads already on the 'Lights Out' album. "Melody", another sappy ballad but now like a 50/50 mix of Rod Stewart and more so of the drama in the vein of Smokie. "Red Light", yet another sappy but actully quite nice tune. Once again a tad too much of the 70s 'Smokie' and John Cougar and not enough of the 'Classic Rock', but nevertheless nice... in a harmless sort of way. "We're All The Same" reeks of The Hollies, The Who, and every other U.K. act while "Head For Home" rocks in the style of UFO lite.
Dunmore is a fine 'old school' rauchy U.K. vocalist and you could almost imagine him upfront with the likes of The Hollies (70s era), Smokie, UFO, or why not Strange Fruit? The latter act obviously from the 'Still Crazy' film and not a proper band (very UFO inspired music anyhow). Definitely worth checking out if you're into the seventies sound and production. Nicely done!


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Monday, 27 May 2013
Trinity in man
In my book Radiance of Being I write about "tripartite anthropology" or the idea of Trinitarian Man in the chapter on Nature and Grace. David Clayton summarizes some of this in his own exposition here. There are several ways of seeing the divine Trinity as it were reflected in the constitution of man, beginning with St Paul and St Augustine. Thomists sometimes object, preferring the dualism of body plus soul to the dualism of soul plus spirit, but it is easy to reconcile the two traditions by regarding the spirit as simply the inner face of the soul – the face it turns towards God.
In his fine book On Liturgical Asceticism, David Fagerberg explains that Christianity inherited the concept of soul as the animating force of a body (animals have souls) from the Greek tradition, and the concept of spirit as the immortal intellectual principle that knows God from the Hebrew. In man, unlike the angels, the spirit functions as the form of the material organism – so we can say either that the soul is the spirit functioning as animating form, or that the spirit is the soul functioning as intellectual principle.
When the body dies, the presence of the soul is withdrawn, and so the soul withdraws into the spirit. This is the same as the confrontation with God – the removal of the veil between creature and Creator. This is also the Judgment, because time is one of those veils now removed, and all our actions in life are seen at once, and their meaning revealed. All that is not compatible with the love of God will be burned away. And when the new body, the new earth, and the new heavens are created (Rev. 21:1), the body will express the spirit (1 Cor. 15:35-57) – instead of somewhat obscuring it, as it does in this life. The Holy Spirit will then shine through it like sunlight through a clear window.
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"If the world had any ends, "Aldous Huxley wrote in 1934, "Belize would certainly be one of them. It is not on the way from anywhere, to anywhere else."
Much has changed since 1934. The secret's out. If Aldous Huxley were to visit Belize today, he'd see that the remarkable multi-cultural country, tucked under the Yucatan Peninsula, has become a sought after destination among wander lusters and adventure seekers from all corners of the globe.
Mostly covered by rainforest and jungle, Belize has one of the lowest population densities in the world. Even with the recent increase in tourism, Belize still feels like the remote paradise Huxley once spoke of. It's 175 miles of coastline along the Caribbean Sea are protected by a great barrier reef, second only to the Great Australian Barrier Reef. More than 200 subtropical islands dot its turquoise waters and the Great Blue Hole, a site made famous by Jacques Cousteau, is a geological wonder. Belize was once the very center of ancient Maya Civilization. With over 900 historic sites, tours of these sacred areas remain favorites among visitors.
For its geography alone, some might say Belize is the world's largest playground. Dive or snorkel with whale sharks, go cave tubing through the majestic Mayan underworld, fish and kayak along the coast among abundant marine wildlife, go rappelling and ziplining at Mayflower Falls, hike or climb through Jaguar Reserve, learn how to make chocolate on the banks of the Sittee River, or simply spend an afternoon swinging on a hammock strung between two coconut trees.
Time observed year-round is the same as United States' Central Standard Time. Although, Daylight Savings Time is not observed in Belize.
Belize is a safe country. However, like everywhere else, you need to exercise caution. Do not wear flashy jewelry and carry large amounts of cash.
Geography & Location
Belize covers an area of 8,867 square miles. More than 65 percent of the country is forested with over 150 offshore islands. Belize boasts the second largest barrier reef in the world.
Population & Language
Total population of Belize is 351,755. Belize differs from the rest of Central America in that it was previously ruled by Great Britain, not Spain. It only gained its independence in recent years, the official language is English. Still, you'll hear Creole, Spanish and Garifuna spoken throughout the country.
Currency & Economy
The official currency for Belize is the Belize Dollar. The exchange rate is BZ$2 to US$1 and currency can be exchanged at banks and hotels. Most businesses accept US Dollars and Credit Cards (American Express, Discovery, Master and Visa Cards). The tourism industry is the number one foreign exchange earner followed by marine products, citrus, cane sugar, and bananas.
Visitors who travel to Belize require a valid passport and in some instances, an entry visa. US, British, and Canadian citizens do not require entry visas. However, visas are required for Belize travel by citizens from the following countries: China, Cuba, Columbia, South Africa, Taiwan, India, and Libya. It is always best to check with your travel advisor. Your passport should be valid for six months past your date of departure from Belize.
Travelers to Belize are permitted to stay for 30 days. Extensions to stay longer can be processed through the Immigration Office in Belize City for a fee of BZ$25.00. The departure tax is US$39.25 per person paid at airport, and US$18.75 per person at northern or western borders.
Cell Phones
In order to have mobile cellular service in Belize, an unlocked GSM (Global System Mobile Communication) 1900 MHz cellular phone is required.
When traveling to Belize, please remember to bring all your prescription medication with you. There are small pharmacies throughout the country but some may be limited in supplies.
Belize Driving
Driving in Belize is safe in the more populated areas as the roads are paved. For Belize adventure touring, it is recommended to get a four wheel drive vehicle if you are exploring a great deal of the country. The vast majority of the drive from Belize City to Hopkins is on the stunning Hummingbird Highway.
Belize enjoys a subtropical climate characterized by two seasons. Wet (June to November) and dry (December to May). Spring is a great time to visit.
Casual Clothing for Belize Travel
Belize is an informal country, with a very casual lifestyle. Bring your shorts, T-shirts and bathing suits, as well as some comfortable shoes. Hopkins is rustic charm at it's best! Other suggestions for your Belize adventure tours:
A cap to protect your head from the tropical sun when you are boating or fishing.
Loose fitting, light colored cotton pants and shirts, along with a comfortable pair of hiking shoes for exploring the mainland or trekking through the rain forest.
A backpack, water bottle, snacks, camera and binoculars are also handy accessories for travel in Belize.
Evenings can be cool in the winter seasons and a light wrap is suggested.
Voltage is 110 like in the USA. Outlets are the same as in the USA.


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Infectious Diseases and Disease Control
Despite decades of efforts at organising campaigns and programmes for control of diseases, several infectious diseases claim a heavy toll in India. Tuberculosis and Malaria contribute to several avoidable morbidities and mortalities. Infectious diseases, in addition to hindering overall development of the nation, are also drivers of poverty in several areas and populations. Recent changes in lifestyle and rapid urbanisation and environmental changes pose new challenges for various emerging infectious diseases like Dengue, Chikungunya and zoonoses. Several infectious diseases are under-researched and neglected. Thorugh focused research and action on infectious diseases we seek to contribute to improved disease control and elimination in India.
On-going Projects
- Optimising the involvement of Private Practitioners in Tuberculosis Care and Control in Inida
- Private Health Sector Involvement in National TB Control Programme: An intervention research, Tumukur District
- SPEAK India – Setting the Post-Elimination Agenda for Kala-Azar in India
Completed Projects
- Qualitative Research Study on Barriers to Point Of Care Testing in India
- Evaluation of the Results Based Financing Strategies for Tuberculosis Care in India
- Determinants of sputum conversion at two months of treatment under National TB Programme, South India
1. Vijayashree Yellappa, T. Battaglioli, S. K. Gurum, D. Narayanan, P. Van der Stuyft .
Private practitioners' contributions to the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme in a South Indian district. Int. Tuberc Lung Dis. 2016;20(5):659–665.
2. Vijayashree Yellappa, Pierre Lefèvre, T. Battaglioli, D. Narayanan, P. Van der Stuyft. Coping with tuberculosis and directly observed treatment: a qualitative study among patients from South India. BMC Health Services Research. 2016;16: 283.
3. Vijayashree Yellappa, Pierre Lefèvre, Tullia Battaglioli, Narayanan Devadasan, Patrick Van der Stuyft. Patients Pathways to Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Treatment in a Fragmented Health System: A Qualitative Study from a South Indian district.i
4. Nora Engel, Gayatri Ganesh, Mamatha Patil, Vijayashree Yellappa, Caroline, Vadnais, Nitika Pant Pai, Madhukar Pai. Barriers to point-of-care testing in India: Results from qualitative research across different settings, users and major diseases. Plos One; 2015. 10(8): e0135112.
5. Nora Engel, Gayatri Ganesh, Mamatha Patil, Vijayashree Yellappa, Caroline, Vadnais, Nitika Pant Pai, Madhukar Pai. Point-of-care testing in India: missed opportunities to realize the true potential of Point of Care testing programs. Bio Med Central. 2015;15:550. DOI 10.1186/s12913-015-1223-3.
6. Vijayashree Yellappa, Narayanan Devadasan, Anja Krumeich, Nitika Pant Pai, Caroline Vadnais, Madhukar Pai, Nora Engel. How patients navigate a fragmented health system to reach a diagnosis: A qualitative study from India. Global Health Action. 2017 (In Press).
7. Vijayashree Yellappa, HimaBindu, Devadasan Narayanan. T. Battaglioli, P. Van der Stuyft. Understanding Retail Private Pharmacist's Role in Private Tuberculosis Market: A Qualitative Inquiry from a South Indian district. 2017 (Submitted to TMIH).
- Blog at International Health policies, advocating for collaborations with private sector on 03.06.2015: http://www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/regulate-or-collaborate-the-puzzle-of-private-medical-practitioners-engagement-in-disease-surveillance-in-india/.
- Newspaper, The Hindu, carried my research findings on 21.08.2016 in Science Tech division:http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/improving-access-to-dots-is-crucial/article9012067.ece. This coverage is based on my research paper titled 'Coping with tuberculosis and directly observed treatment: a qualitative study among patients from South India'. BMC Health Services Research. 2016;16: 283.
- Newspaper, The Hindu, carried my research findings on 23.08.2016 demonstrating the poorinvolvement of Private doctors in the Indian National TB Programme: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/private-practitioners-not-fully-involved-in-fight-against-tb/article9019285.ece
- Blog by a Science Journalist, based on based on my paper titled Coping with tuberculosis and directly observed treatment: a qualitative study among patients from South India. BMC Health Services Research. 2016; 16: 283; https://journosdiary.com/2016/08/21/tb-dots-therapy-rntcp-flexible/.
- News paper, Bangalore Mirror carried a news to showcase the poor involvement of private practitioenrs in TBNational TB Programme, based on my research paper Private practitioners' contributions to the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme in a South Indian district. Int. Tuberc Lung Dis. 2016;20 (5):659–665. http://www.bangaloremirror.com/bangalore/others/Private-participation-in-TB-control-programme-abysmal/articleshow/53162986.cms.
- Healthcare Executive Magzine carried my interview about 'spiraling health cost in India' on 15.07.2016 :https://www.healthcareexecutive.in/focus-preventive-care.
Vijayashree H Y
Project Lead
N Devadasan
Manoj Kumar Pati
Praveenkumar Aivalli
Prof.Patrick Van der Styuft
Prof. Bart Criel
Dr Madhukar Pai
Dr Nora Engel
Dr Mamata R. Patil
Neethi V Rao
B. L.Himabindu
Munegowda C M
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Whilst I was aware of them, I had never built a Sweet kit before and so was very interested to get my hands on one. I had to source it directly from Japan in the end, they are a little tricky to get hold of this side of the globe but Hobbylink Japan (what a great company they are!) came to the rescue again and within a few days it was in my hands.
The fuselage then went together perfectly with no seam at all. I filled the tank locating holes on the underside of the wing, as these would not be needed, installed the wing section (which is a single part), added the tail planes and air filter extremities and that was basically it! Now came the fun part, masking the 1/144 scale canopy. This was a truly difficult feat, in the end I used incredibly thin strips of tape and moulded them to shape to get a decent edge. One sentence does not do justice to the work involved, but eventually I got there.
Once dried, I masked off and applied the wing leading edge yellow strips and the white band around the nose. The customer wanted the white identification stripes around the wing but these are supplied as decals in the kit, which made things a little easier. I gave the plane a coat of Klear and left it to dry. At this point, I turned to the undercarriage parts, painted them up and assembled them so they would be ready for installation later, and likewise the prop and spinner and the exhaust stacks.
I then applied a black oil wash which brought out the wonderful panel detail on the model far better than I had hoped. It was then a matter of coating with matt varnish, and adding a little staining and dry brushed wear and tear.
The moment of truth was now on me - removing the canopy masks. As it happens, they had worked as well as I could have hoped, with only one snag, nothing to do with the canopy masks. There was a highly visible piece of tissue paper grinning at me through the canopy - it must have come loose from the masking I used on the air tubes. On a sealed cockpit model, this is a modellers worst nightmare as there is no obvious way to remove it short of removing the canopy. As I know to my cost, doing this on a nearly finished model is a tragedy, as you can never really get it to look as seamlessly joined after a removal once all painting and finishing is done. What to do? In the end, and after much experimentation, I managed to insert a fine length of wire through the air duct on the bottom (and found it hard not to giggle whilst I was doing this) through into the cockpit and managed to remove the offending foreign body, or at least tuck it away out of sight. Talk about keyhole surgery!
This is a beautiful little kit, highly recommended to anyone who dares tackle such a small plane in such a small scale. It surpasses in detail what I had previously assumed to be possible in 1/144 and is a real joy to build, if you have good eyes.


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Day 54
I discovered a new author - Victoria Laurie - two weeks ago. Her books are about a psychic who reluctantly gets involved with murder investigations. I found these books compelling, and also that they punched my own intuitive buttons on several levels. I sat down and wrote an extensive review of the aforementioned protagonist and each book in turn - which you can read on my Muse du Jour blog at http://musedujour.blogspot.com/ Together with that inspiration, came the fully formed idea for this painting. I nixed trying to paint this image in a multi-session attempt, or in a greater size: I'm having enough trouble starting the small one-session paintings I post here. Also, I haven't painted a human figure in a good long while as they are quite demanding to do. I tried last week to start painting this image - on a smaller canvas, as the support I wanted to use wasn't ready - but it wasn't working out, and I scrubbed it out three times. Deciding I wasn't ready to paint it then, and being dog tired, I gave it up till this week. So, with the right sized canvas, and sick of endlessly painting the darn thing in my head, brushstroke by brushstroke, I painted it yesterday. With a migraine...
Still it isn't too bad, in spite of the washed out face - trying to photograph a dark glossy surface is hell.
Palette consisted of a slightly larger array than usual: Burnt Sienna, French Ultramarine, Cadmium Yellow Hue, Titanium White, Cadmium Red Light, Permanent Rose, and Cobalt Violet. Brushes were a 1/2" Filbert, a Size 2 Round, a Size 6 Round, a Size 4 Filbert, and a big fluffy blending brush.
Whew, now that's over, now I can get back to painting something else. The universe wasn't going to let me paint any other subjects until I'd gotten this one off my chest.


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Shooting woes hurt Panthers; Skevas leads way with 12 points
PLYMOUTH, N.H. – Rhode Island College used strong defense and balanced scoring as key ingredients Saturday enroute to a 58-41 win over Plymouth State University in Little East Conference men's basketball action at Foley Gymnasium.
RIC, which held the Panthers to just 27 percent shooting (13-of-49) from the field, improved to 10-5 overall and 4-1 in the LEC. Plymouth State falls to 8-7 and 2-3.
Leading by just four points, 24-20, at the intermission, RIC used a second half surge to win its fourth consecutive game. The Anchormen increased their lead to double-digits, 38-26, early in the second half following a pair of Tom DeCiantis (North Kingston, R.I.) drives, one an old fashioned three-point play. The visitors, who increased their lead to as much as 20 points, were never seriously challenged down the stretch.
The game began as a two-sided defensive battle with neither team able to find the bottom of the basket for the first 4:30 of play. PSU's Shomari Morgan (Manchester, N.H.) finally got the scoreboard working with a steal and lay-up, however it would be the last time the home team would lead in this contest. A minute later Rhode Island College broke its drought when Austin Cilley (Westerly, R.I.) drained a three-pointer to give his team the lead for good.
It looked as though RIC would run away with this one early as it went on a 19-0 run after Morgan's lay-up. PSU dug deep and went on an 18-5 run over the final 6:37 of the first half to close the gap to 24-20. A three-point bomb by Logan Kesty (New Boston, N.H.) capped the comeback and gave Plymouth State momentum into the break.
PSU sophomore Uche Nwokeji (Lynn, Mass.) hit an inside shot to start the second half, drawing the Panthers to within a pair, 24-22, but that would be as close as they would get. The Anchormen responded with a 19-4 run to put the game in their favor.
Cilley led RIC with 11 points while Terrance Tribble (White Plains, N.Y.) chipped in with 10. Reserve center Victor Smith (Providence, R.I.) came off the bench to score nine points and haul in five rebounds. The Anchormen shot 54-percent (15-28) from the floor in the decisive second half.
Plymouth State was led by senior Petey Skevas (Wethersfield, Conn.), who scored 12 points. Morgan and Curtis Arsenault (Berlin, N.H.) each had six points while Alex Burt (Dover, N.H.) and Nathan Clarke (Reading, Mass.) had five points apiece.
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Greetings one and all. Today we (finally) get around to posting the next installment in our foreign film-inspired-dinner series. This time, selected Francois Truffaut's Day for Night (originally la nuit américane). Set in the French countryside, this movie-about-making-movies is a modern classic. To mirror the flick that night, we opted for a French Bistro menu, straight out of Anthony Bourdain's modern classic, The Les Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking.
There are plenty of clips from the movie available on the youtube, but below please find a loving tribute to the ideas and style of the film in the form of a hilarious AmEx ad by Wes Anderson.
We began with a simple mushroom soup consisting of little more than the beloved fungus, some onions, butter, finished with a touch of sherry.
We found another pork shoulder recipe in this beloved tome, and dissatisfied with my first attempt, we struck out again (Avid readers may remember this trial being referred to already in the Cuban Sandwiches post. Yes, this was the shoulder that born those self-same cubanos, consider this exposition for the sake of completeness or perhaps ret-conning, if you like.) This shoulder wasn't slow-roasted via oven, but rather simmered in our dutch oven for several ours with a crust of homemade breadcrumbs and mustard. Pork Shoulder is a bit fatty, and a little on-plate surgery may be required when the finished product finally makes it to the table, but it's completely worth it.
Above is the finished plate (consideration for authentic French titling provided by Elizabeth). Onions, carrots and garlic from the roast pot decorate a little couscous, a holdover idea from the first attempt. I highly recommend Bourdain's book, Truffaut's film and any pig's humble shoulder for a Saturday night that's humble and exotic, relaxing and exciting.


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Actual tax points: payments: payment under a separate loan agreement
You may encounter claims that a payment, apparently received in connection with a supply, is not in fact payment for the supply but is the result of a separate loan agreement. This was a further feature of the case involving Mercantile Contracts Ltd(VTD 4357) (see VATTOS4330). The company under took refurbishment work for an associated company. In considering when the basic tax point for the supply occurred, the Tribunal were required to establish the status of various payments made by the customer as the work proceeded. These were either directly to the company or to the company's suppliers. The Tribunal accepted the claim that these payments were made under a separate loan agreement and thus did not create tax points forthe supply of building services.
Similar claims should therefore not be dismissed lightly. Nevertheless, the tax payer must provide evidence to substantiate the existence of a loan agreement. Although this might not amount to a written agreement, it is not unreasonable to expect existence of the loan to be supported by correspondence, minutes of board meetings, or other contemporary records. In the absence of satisfactory evidence you may normally take the view that the amounts represent payment for the supply.