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Database vendors are all over 64-bit. Oracle Corp. and Computer Associates International Inc. on Tuesday embraced Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s release of its new 64-bit Opteron chip, with each company separately announcing support for the 64-bit architecture in their flagship databases. Meanwhile, Microsoft Corp. on Thursday is expected to announce support for 64-bit in SQL Server 2000. Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., announced general availability of its Oracle9i database on Opteron running 32-bit Linux. Company officials said that support for 32-bit Linux and Windows will be available in coming months on Oracle9i Application Server, Oracle Collaboration Suite and Oracle E-Business Suite.
Oracle also announced that it has posted on its Oracle Technology Network a developer release of Oracle9i for 64-bit Linux on Opteron processors.
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How Is Hydropower Gathered or Created?
By Lauren Vork
Humans have long been harnessing the power of naturally flowing water in order to make life more convenient. Before the invention of electricity, river waterfalls were used to move turbines, which powered mills that could grind wheat into flour far faster than any human hand. Not only were these machines so effective that they are still used today, but they became the mechanical basis for generators which could create electricity from the motion of falling water, or hydroelectricity.
The creation of hydroelectric power begins with a water turbine. This device consists of angled blades wrapped around a wheel. Its operation is analogous to that of a pinwheel with the turbine spinning as it comes into contact with moving water. When the turbine is placed in the path of falling water, the turbine moves a shaft which, in turn, powers an electrical generator.
Magnetic Generators
The type of electrical generator that is generally used to power water turbines is a standard electromagnetic generator. This machine works to convert mechanical energy (the energy of moving objects) into electrical energy. This is done through an apparatus which moves magnets around a conductor, generating an electromagnetic field that is then collected as electricity.
Damming
While hydroelectricity can be generated from naturally existing waterfalls, most hydroelectric plants generate water from human-made waterfalls. These waterfalls are made by building dams, which restrict the natural flow of a river into channels where the water will power turbines. This process maximizes the efficiency of energy collection because the control of the water flow creates higher pressure in a smaller area.
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Panchkula horror: Five-year-old murdered after rape in broad daylight
Panchkula, May 13:A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered in broad daylight in a vacant land near a government school in Sector 14 on Monday.
The incident came to light at about 2 pm after the parents of the girl started searching for her and saw her body lying in the vacant land. On the parents' intimation, the police reached the site. Senior officials, including Deputy Commissioner of Police Kamal Deep Goyal and Assistant Commissioner of Police Nupur Bishnoi, also reached the spot. A forensic team also arrived to take the possible fingerprints of the accused.
The incident had occurred about 100 yards from the strong room located in Government College for Women where electronic voting machines (EVMs) from Kalka Assembly segments have been kept under tight security after the Lok Sabha elections in Haryana on Sunday.
DCP Kamal Deep Goyal said the girl's father in his statement to the police said a boy had taken two girls for providing them food (Kanjak) at 10 am. One of the girls returned back. He said the accused had taken the girl to the vacant place after jumping 7-ft high boundary wall of the school. He said after raping the girl the accused had hit on her face to hide her identity.
Goyal said they have taken into custody one suspect who is about 17 year old. He said further investigations were on and added that they were hopeful of cracking the case soon.
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Rosalía León Oviedo was born on July 14, 1974, in Mexico. She actually is an celebrity, known for Dos chicos de cuidado en la ciudad (2003), La academia (2002) and La vida sera una canción (2004). León Oviedo loves to play the guitar, and she always used it in her music. She is the founder and leader of the guitar project "Gliese 229", through which she revisits traditional Mexican songs by singing alongside an acoustic guitar and an electric guitar. She also composes.
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Rosalía León Oviedo was born on July 14, 1974. She is a well-known Singer, and here at FamousFaceWiki, Rosalía trends for being a popular Singer. She is from Mexico, and She is 45 years years old as of 2020.
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She studied singing, guitar and guitar crafting, as well as pan flute and a crystal flute. She studied South American rhythmic guitar techniques with Ciro Hurtado and Ruben Izquierdo; music composition with Daniel Barzau.
She is one of the Bankable celebrities in Mexico. She ranks top in the list of famous singers who were born in Mexico.
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She released her first album through Sony Music in 2003, selling over 50,000 copies in the first four weeks.
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Comedy duo David Baddiel and Frank Skinner's football song Three Lions is on course to top the UK singles chart for a third time.
The world of classical music has been paying tributes to composer and conductor Oliver Knussen, who has died at the age of 66.
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Beyonce, Jay-Z, Ed Sheeran and Coldplay front man Chris Martin will perform at the first Global Citizen Festival to be held in Africa to mark 100 years since the birth of Nelson Mandela.
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Justin Bieber is reportedly engaged to Hailey Baldwin after weeks of dating.
Football anthem Three Lions has hit the number one spot on the Official Vodafone Big Top 40 chart following England's World Cup win against Sweden.
Kimberley Walsh has said her friend Cheryl's new music sounds "exciting", and that she has a good working relationship with their close friend and former Girls Aloud co-star Nicola Roberts.
Gorillaz – the band fronted by Damon Albarn – had their set at Danish festival Roskilde interrupted when a rapper fell from the stage.
The Cure performed in front of a packed Hyde Park in London on Saturday, almost 40 years to the day since their first ever show.
Noel Gallagher prompted boos from fans as he shared his views on England's World Cup game with Sweden, saying football is "not coming home".
Dua Lipa has paid tribute to her breakout number one hit and female empowerment anthem New Rules, which was released a year ago.
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Commenting on an open letter to Donald Trump from 17 current and former European leaders, rubaltic.ru compared Eastern Europe and the Baltic states with mental patients suffering from anxiety and phobia, and the letter itself with therapeutic writing that has no effect on the recipient.
The false fact or narrative: The article implicates that no real Russian threat exists—only Russophobia caused by the "mental disorder" of the Baltic states.
Reality on the ground: The letter was signed not only by Baltic politicians, but also by those from Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The claim that the Russian threat is nothing more than a "mental disorder" of the Baltic states overlooks the fact that Russia is actively waging a hybrid war against the West—violating borders and international laws, assisting far-right nationalist organizations and populist movements across Europe, and waging cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns.
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How do Whole Foods shoppers feel about Amazon's $1 trillion milestone?
Amazon's financial success inspires admiration and dread. But the company doesn't care if it loses the PR battle—it's focused on the longer-term retail war.
Amazon became the second company ever to reach a trillion-dollar market value on Tuesday, quickly matching the historic milestone Apple reached last month. Together, the two tech companies command a vast amount of wealth, representing about 8 percent of the S&P 500's overall value. But while the news is great for investors, it's sure to elicit mixed feelings in everyone else.
On the one hand, let's admit it: Amazon is an unequivocal American success story. As David Streitfeld points out in The New York Times, the company has pursued ambitious goals without catering to the short-term demands of the stock market, finding new ways to entice and delight shoppers in the process. Much of its enormous valuation is based on the perception that the company is playing a shrewd long game. And there's been a sense for some time that, even if its retail business is losing billions now, Amazon will still find ways to own the future.
Taken together, these developments highlight Amazon's janus-faced public reputation: Where some see Amazon the innovator, others see Amazon the corporate tyrant. Which is part of what makes a pair of new studies so fascinating. The first, published by the online review site Yelp, suggests that, for some, Amazon has become the embodiment of a kind of virulent corporate evil—its very name is enough to freak out a vocal group of consumers. But the second suggests that it doesn't really matter whether or not Amazon is winning the PR war. Loved or loathed, the company has found new ways to drive engagement at Whole Foods Market stores across the country, with a remarkable uptick in foot traffic since it took control of the grocery chain a year ago last week.
First, that Yelp study. According to an analysis by a pair of Yelp data scientists, reviews of Whole Foods Market that also mention Amazon have grown more negative over the past year. Since the acquisition, 20 percent of reviews on the site mention Amazon in some way, suggesting that the takeover has strongly shaped consumer perception of the grocer's brand.
Those reviews are significantly more negative—a half-star lower than the company's overall 3.2-star rating. The authors also noted another phenomenon: Many Yelpers were so put off by Amazon's takeover that they updated reviews made before the acquisition. Those reviews were generally revised downward, again by an average of about half a star.
It's hard to say exactly how many Whole Foods shoppers have been put off by Amazon's patronage. Yelp's analysis doesn't give hard data about its sample size, and Yelp users are already a somewhat self-selecting group. But that's what makes the second study, from the market research firm Sense360, so useful. In a way, it doesn't matter how much griping people are doing: Whatever Amazon has done differently with Whole Foods, it seems to be working.
According to Sense360's study, based on the phone GPS data of 2.2 million Americans and a 1,000-person survey, Amazon has found new ways to get Whole Foods shoppers in the door. Using location data, the firm found that Americans are increasingly visiting Whole Foods stores: Among all grocery stores nationwide, the chain's share of visits grew from 4.8 percent a year ago to 6 percent today. That uptick means that Whole Foods is peeling away shoppers from other grocery chains, especially Safeway, Sam's Club, and Walmart. Trader Joe's, though, was the most affected. Sense360 found that shoppers chose Whole Foods over Trader Joe's 3.5 percent more often than they did last year.
In other words, it doesn't matter how many people are bellyaching on Yelp. Amazon has found a formula that gets people to buy more, even if some of us are still uneasy about it. After all, isn't that what Amazon has always done best—find ways to get us on board, despite our reservations? To make things so convenient, so cheap, so irresistibly easy that we simply can't say no, even if we think we might be better off refusing?


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Cliff Maier is a partner in the Palo Alto office of Mayer Brown's Intellectual Property practice. Cliff, a registered patent attorney with a PhD in electrical engineering, focuses primarily on disputes relating to patents and other intellectual property, often involving electronics, computer, software, and business method technologies. Cliff's experience includes litigation in federal courts, arbitrations, inter partes reexamination and other Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings, and International Trade Commission investigations.
Cliff's practice includes patent litigations involving semiconductors, cryptography, biometrics, wireless communications, consumer electronics, human-machine interaction, and networking, as well as business method patents involving financial services technology and banking. He also has experience rendering intellectual property opinions, including with respect to freedom-to-operate, infringement, and invalidity, and he counsels start-up companies on building intellectual property portfolios and on defensive measures to help avoid unwanted litigations. In addition to patents, Cliff's practice includes other intellectual property disputes, as well as other disputes and transactions where technology is an issue.
After obtaining his PhD in electrical engineering with a concentration in semiconductor physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and prior to joining Mayer Brown, Cliff spent a decade designing some of the world's fastest microprocessors, working as an engineer and technical manager for two large microprocessor design firms and a Silicon Valley start-up. As an engineer, Cliff worked in nearly every microprocessor engineering role, including circuit and physical design, logic design, microarchitecture, physical and logical verification and analysis, testing, electronic packaging, and instruction set architecture. His microprocessor design experience encompasses silicon, III-V materials, and both bipolar and CMOS logic and circuit design. He also has extensive experience creating Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, including managing the team responsible for EDA at a major microprocessor design company. In addition to hardware design, Cliff has decades of experience in software engineering, including current technologies such as smartphone app coding, server-side databases, and over a dozen programming languages. Cliff has authored and co-authored numerous papers in the field of microprocessor design that were published in the Journal of Solid State Circuits and other IEEE publications.
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LAHORE: Former president Asif Ali Zardari has expressed hope that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will form the next government in the Centre as well as Punjab, asking workers to gear up for the 2018 election to defeat the PML-N.
Zardari hit out at the Sharifs saying they are only interested in constructing roads to "pocket commission". He also talked about former chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Chaudhry's 'controversial' role in the 2013 election.
He was speaking at a party gathering in connection with the 88th birth anniversary of the late Begum Nusrat Bhutto at Bilawal House, Bahria Town, on Thursday.
"I had met Saddam Hussein and some other kings and found arrogance in them. Today similar arrogance I find in rulers here (a reference to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and some members of his cabinet) who have no regard for the poor, farmers and the youth who have been rendered jobless. They are only interested in construction of roads to get commission. They only choose those projects in which they get commission. They seem to have forgotten to die," Zardari said.
Zardari also took credit of transferring power to the prime minister from presidency. "Some people raised objection when I shifted power from presidency to the prime minister and apologised from Balochistan and named Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on people's wish," he said, adding his government abstained from joining the Syrian war for integrity of Pakistan.
He further said the Bilawal House Lahore would be the centre of politics in next year's general election and soon a Bilawal House in Multan would also be set up which would be centre of politics in south Punjab.
Zardari paid tribute to Begum Nusrat Bhutto for her contributions to democracy and welfare of people. "As a towering woman of great courage and conviction and enduring indescribable personal tragedies in the pursuit of democratic struggle she illumined the path," Zardari said.
"Begum Sahiba stood tall in adversity and in doing so she has imparted lessons in tolerance and endurance that will lift the democracy-loving people to higher goals in life and is worth emulating. It is an irony of fate that when democratic struggle triumphed over the dark forces of dictatorship she was not around to savor the glory," he said.
Former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Chaudhry Manzoor, Sardar Latif Khosa, Bashir Riaz, Sadiq Umrani, Samina Ghurki and Munawar Anjum also paid tributes to her.
Meanwhile, PML-Q leaders Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Pervaiz Elahi called on Zardari at the Bilawal House.
According to a source, Zardari invited the PML-Q leadership to join hands with the PPP in its fight against the PML-N government. They also explored the idea of going together in 2018 election.
When i was i child i heard someone saying, "when one cant do anything,they curse" today i realise the true meaning of that !
Spare us from your governance- please.
Mr EX President Can you please tell us how many of public welfare projects your government had started. If we only look at Karachi public transportation as compare to Lahore your performance can be easily elaborated.
Amazing indeed. Who thought he will say things like that?
Bold but balanced speech by former President Asif Ali Zardari,all the best hopes for PPP to grab Federal,& Punjab seats from rich arrogant rulers,who only cared for accumulating their wealths at home & abroad.People are changing theirs thoughts and mind in Punjab, and willing to vote PPP in Punjab & Centre.It's time for Mr Zardari to move forward cautiously according to people pulse,and promise to deliver the poor and deprived sector of Pakistan,in all provinces,with particular attention to Karachi & Karachiites,the people of Urban areas of Sindh need protection to freely cast their vote,if only protection is provided they will not hesitate to cast vote to PPP candidate,but that candidate must be unbiased neutral,and a guy having good moral background. PPP can get 99% seats in Sindh. Only smart politics required,and PPP has this edge.
This is a good PPP top Leadership decision with strong political will Zardari has expressed hope that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will form the next government in the Centre . The Zardari has focused their attention towards Punjab politics for the future Election . Let's see who will win this chasing game of power politics in the future coming Election 2018.
Now Zardari claims that 2013 election was manuplated, when Imran Khan raised the issue , he was silent hiding behind the excuse 'save democracy'. Thanks to him, PPP has become a provincial party ruling rural Sindh.
@my Comments : They are all one !
You are right, Mr Zardari.
Pml n is far far better than ppp. You have earned enough, please leave is alone.
I know Asif Ali Zardari has smart political vision and Zardari has expressed hope that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will form the next government in the Center !!! Let's See who will win this chasing Game of power politics in the future coming election of Pakistan in 2018. We hope that The main stream political Parties leaderships focus will be the Punjab province for the chasing game of power politics .
people needs result they are not happy with a give and take governance in Pakistan.
Last time he had won riding the sympathy vote. What is his mode of transportation to the pedestal now?
@Abc of politics I can only laugh at your statement. PPP is not in a position to win even a seat of counsellor from Central and Upper Punjab. Thanks to the electronic media the people of Punjab have realized that PPP plays the ethnic card in Sindh and Bash Punjabis and any Punjabi with a little bit of dignity will never ever vote for PPP or even for PTI in the next elections. Both PTI and PPP are exposed badly in the recent months as the Punjab bashers and nothing else.
Anytime PTI will be better than corrupt PPP.
It is unfortunate as we have only two choices and both are core corrupt+incompetent.
PPP will definitely perform better in coming elections. They did real good for farmers in their last tenure. South Punjab is going to give them vote now. Apart from governance issues PPP was damaged by Iftikhar Choudhry by continuous sue-moto actions.
What should be effective 'opposition' awakes from it's slumber when it nears election time. This is the trend of all our political parties bar PTI who gave effective opposition to the incumbent government.
Pot calling the kettle black....very unconvincing.


Senja Rummukainen was born in 1994. She won first prize in the Turku Cello Competition in 2014 and in 2016 was one of the finalists in the Guilhermina Suggia Award cello competition in Portugal. She regularly appears at Finnish music festivals and has performed as soloist with such orchestras as the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Turku Philharmonic, the Kuopio Symphony, the Ostrobothnian Chamber and the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen. She studied with Professor Marko Ylönen and Professor Young-Chang Cho. During the academic year 2016-2017 she also studied at the Norwegian State Academy of Music under Truls Mørk. She has also studied with David Geringas, Jens-Peter Maintz and Wolfgang Boettcher. Rummukainen is a member of the Borea Quartet and has been assistant cellist with the Helsinki Philharmonic, Finnish Symphony Radio Orchestra and the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra. Ïn 2017 she was elected as second principal cello for Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. She has use of a Stefano Scarampella cello from 1897.
Rummukainen is in the Young Chamber Musicians programme.


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What Is Resilience and How Can It Be Nurtured? A Systematic Review of Empirical Literature on Organizational Resilience
HomeResourcesWhat Is Resilience and How Can It Be Nurtured? A Systematic Review of Empirical Literature on Organizational Resilience
Edwine Barasa, Rahab Mbau, Lucy Gilson
Recent health system shocks such as the Ebola outbreak of 2014–2016 and the global financial crisis of 2008 have generated global health interest in the concept of resilience. The concept is however not new, and has been applied to other sectors for a longer period of time. This paper conducted a review of empirical literature from both the health and other sectors to synthesize evidence on organizational resilience.
A common theme across the selected papers for review was the recognition of resilience as an emergent property of complex adaptive systems. Resilience is both a function of planning for future crises (planned resilience), and adapting to chronic stresses and acute shocks (adaptive resilience). Beyond resilience to acute shocks, the resilience of health systems to routine and chronic stress (everyday resilience) is also key.
"Health system software is as, if not more important, as its hardware in nurturing health system resilience."
Understanding the attributes of resilient systems and strategies that can be employed to nurture resilience will be useful in informing global health efforts to strengthen health systems. The authors call for further studies that focus on testing the attributes identified by this review in the health sector, as well as indentifying other factors that characterise resilient health systems.
Governance Everyday resilience
http://www.ijhpm.com/article_3460.html
What is everyday health system resilience?
Everyday resilience in district health systems: emerging insights from the front lines in Kenya and South Africa
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Niger starlet Tidjani Amadou Moutari Kalala's Africa Cup of Nations campaign has been cut short after breaking his leg in Monday's 2-0 defeat by Gabon.
The teenager, who only turned 18 last week, came on as a 63rd-minute substitute only to be stretchered off six minutes later.
Gabon's Stephane Nguema was booked for the reckless nature of his challenge.
Kalala, attached to French club Le Mans, is being flown to Paris to undergo surgery, said the Niger camp.
This is expected to take place on Thursday.
The teenager initially attempted to play on following the foul but was eventually carried off, so leaving Niger, who had already made three substitutions, to play the last quarter of an hour with just 10 men.
Before leaving Gabon, the teenager was visited by Nguema and Gabon team-mate Bruno Magna at the Niger hotel - with the Panthers players keen to apologise for Kalala's early exit.
Making their Nations Cup debut, Niger face Tunisia on Friday before meeting Morocco in their final Group C game on 31 January.


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I do not see many physicians in the Carolinas, the State Board of North Carolina or the Department of Health with this range of brilliance.
Clin Infect Dis. 2006 Jan 15;42(2):273-80. Epub 2005 Dec 5.
Body fat and other metabolic effects of atazanavir and efavirenz, each administered in combination with zidovudine plus lamivudine, in antiretroviral-naive HIV-infected patients.
Jemsek JG, Arathoon E, Arlotti M, Perez C, Sosa N, Pokrovskiy V, Thiry A, Soccodato M, Noor MA, Giordano M.
BACKGROUND: Protease inhibitor treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals has been linked to the development of lipodystrophy. The effects of atazanavir on body fat distribution and related metabolic parameters were examined in antiretroviral-naive patients. METHODS: HIV-positive patients with CD4 cell counts > or = 100 cells/mm3 were randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms: (1) atazanavir, 400 mg given once daily, plus efavirenz placebo; or (2) efavirenz, 600 mg given once daily, plus atazanavir placebo; each drug was administered with fixed-dose zidovudine (300 mg) and lamivudine (150 mg) given twice daily, and patients were treated for at least 48 weeks. Fat distribution measurements (visceral adipose tissue [VAT], subcutaneous adipose tissue [SAT], and total adipose tissue [TAT], as measured by computed tomography; and appendicular fat, truncal fat, and total fat levels, as measured by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry), metabolic measurements (cholesterol and fasting triglyceride levels), and measurements of insulin resistance (fasting glucose and fasting insulin levels) were made at baseline and at week 48 of treatment for a subgroup of 111 atazanavir recipients and 100 efavirenz recipients. RESULTS: Atazanavir and efavirenz treatments resulted in minimal to modest increases in fat accumulation, as measured by VAT, SAT, TAT, appendicular fat, truncal fat, and total fat levels; results were comparable in both arms. In addition, atazanavir was associated with none of the metabolic abnormalities seen with many other protease inhibitors. CONCLUSIONS: Use of atazanavir for 48 weeks neither resulted in abnormal fat redistribution in antiretroviral-naive patients nor induced other metabolic disturbances commonly associated with HIV-related lipodystrophy. Longer-term assessments (e.g., at 96 weeks) will be important to confirm these findings.
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2004 Aug 15;36(5):1011-9.
Comparison of once-daily atazanavir with efavirenz, each in combination with fixed-dose zidovudine and lamivudine, as initial therapy for patients infected with HIV.
Squires K, Lazzarin A, Gatell JM, Powderly WG, Pokrovskiy V, Delfraissy JF, Jemsek J, Rivero A, Rozenbaum W, Schrader S, Sension M, Vibhagool A, Thiry A, Giordano M.
Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
BACKGROUND: Atazanavir, an azapeptide protease inhibitor (PI), has pharmacokinetics that allow once-daily dosing, and it is not associated with significant PI-associated dyslipidemia. METHODS: A randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, active-controlled, 2-arm study comparing the antiviral efficacy and safety of atazanavir 400 mg administered once daily with efavirenz 600 mg administered once daily in combination with open-label fixed-dose zidovudine plus lamivudine twice daily. The 810 treatment-naive patients were stratified by HIV RNA level. The primary efficacy end point was the proportion of treated patients with HIV RNA levels <400 copies/mL through week 48. RESULTS: At week 48, HIV RNA levels were <400 copies/mL in 70% of patients receiving atazanavir and 64% of patients receiving efavirenz (intent-to-treat, difference; 95% confidence interval: 5.2%; -1.2%, 11.7%). Median CD4 cell counts increased at comparable magnitudes and rates in the 2 treatment arms (mean change at week 48: 176 cells/mm with atazanavir, 160 cells/mm with efavirenz). Atazanavir-treated patients relative to comparator-treated patients did not demonstrate significant increases in total cholesterol, fasting low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, or fasting triglycerides over 48 weeks of therapy. Atazanavir-linked bilirubin elevations infrequently resulted in treatment discontinuation (<1%). Atazanavir treatment did not increase fasting glucose or insulin levels. CONCLUSIONS: For initial HIV treatment, a highly active antiretroviral therapy regimen of atazanavir/zidovudine/lamivudine is as efficacious and well tolerated as the combination of efavirenz/zidovudine/lamivudine.
A comparison of stavudine, didanosine and indinavir with zidovudine, lamivudine and indinavir for the initial treatment of HIV-1 infected individuals: selection of thymidine analog regimen therapy (START II).
Eron JJ Jr, Murphy RL, Peterson D, Pottage J, Parenti DM, Jemsek J, Swindells S, Sepulveda G, Bellos N, Rashbaum BC, Esinhart J, Schoellkopf N, Grosso R, Stevens M.
University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill 27599-7030, USA.
OBJECTIVE: Comparison of stavudine (d4T), didanosine (ddI) and indinavir (IDV) with zidovudine (ZDV), lamivudine (3TC) and IDV in HIV-1 infected patients. DESIGN: Randomized, open-label. SETTING: Fourteen HIV Clinical Research Centers. PATIENTS: Two-hundred and five patients with less than 4 weeks antiretroviral treatment, naive to 3TC and protease inhibitors and with CD4 cell counts > or = 200 x 10(6)/l and plasma HIV-1 RNA levels > or = 10,000 copies/ml. INTERVENTIONS: Stavudine 40 mg and ddI 200 mg twice daily plus IDV 800 mg every 8 h compared with ZDV 200 mg every 8 h or 300 mg twice daily, 3TC 150 mg twice daily plus IDV. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The proportion of patients with plasma HIV-1 RNA levels < 500 copies/ml and < or = 50 copies/ml and changes in CD4 cell counts were compared. RESULTS: In an analysis of the primary endpoint, 61% of patients on d4T + ddI + IDV and 45% of patients on ZDV + 3TC + IDV had all HIV-1 RNA values obtained between weeks 40 and 48 < 500 copies/ml [95% confidence interval (CI) for the difference between proportions, 1.7-30.3%; P = 0.038]. In an intent-to-treat analysis, the percentage of all patients randomized with all HIV-1 RNA levels < 500 copies/ml between 40 and 48 weeks were 53% for the d4T + ddI + IDV arm and 41% for the ZDV + 3TC + IDV arm (95% CI, -1.4% to 25.7%; P = 0.068). At 48 weeks 41% and 35% were < or = 50 copies/ml for the stavudine- and ZDV-containing arms respectively (P > 0.2). The median time-weighted average increases in CD4 cells count over 48 weeks were 150 x 10(6)/l cells for the d4T arm and 106 x 10(6)/l cells for the ZDV arm (P= 0.001). The occurrence of serious adverse events was not significantly different between arms. CONCLUSION: The combination of stavudine, ddl and IDV resulted in potent antiretroviral effects over a 48-week period, comparable or superior to zidovudine, 3TC and IDV supporting the use of stavudine, ddI and a protease inhibitor as an initial antiretroviral treatment.
Ann Intern Med. 1997 Mar 1;126(5):355-63.
Clinical efficacy of monotherapy with stavudine compared with zidovudine in HIV-infected, zidovudine-experienced patients. A randomized, double-blind, controlled trial. Bristol-Myers Squibb Stavudine/019 Study Group.
Spruance SL, Pavia AT, Mellors JW, Murphy R, Gathe J Jr, Stool E, Jemsek JG, Dellamonica P, Cross A, Dunkle L.
Health Sciences AIDS Center, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City 84132, USA.
BACKGROUND: Stavudine is a promising antiretroviral agent, but its clinical efficacy has not been determined. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical effect of stavudine (2',3'-didehydro-3'-deoxythymidine) monotherapy in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. DESIGN: Randomized, controlled, double-blind trial. SETTING: 56 outpatient clinics in private practices, universities, and contract research organizations in the United States, France, and Italy. PATIENTS: 822 HIV-infected adults who had 50 to 500 CD4+ cells/mm3 and had previously received at least 6 months of zidovudine treatment. INTERVENTION: Monotherapy with peroral stavudine capsules or peroral zidovudine capsules. MEASUREMENTS: The primary end point was clinical progression, which was defined as all occurrences of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-defining events or death. RESULTS: Patients receiving stavudine reached clinical end points at a rate of 26 per 100 person-years, compared with 32 per 100 person-years for patients receiving zidovudine (relative risk, 0.75 [95% CI, 0.58 to 0.98]; P = 0.03). The risk for death alone was 26% lower in the stavudine group than in the zidovudine group, but the comparison was not statistically significant (relative risk, 0.74 [CI, 0.53 to 1.02]; P = 0.066). The benefit of stavudine therapy was seen in all CD4+ cell strata (< or = 100 cells/mm3, 101 to 300 cells/mm3, and > 300 cells/mm3) and clinical stages of HIV disease (asymptomatic, symptomatic, and AIDS). Four weeks after treatment began, CD4+ cell counts were 30 cells/mm3 higher in the stavudine group than in the zidovudine group; this difference was sustained for 96 weeks (P < 0.001). Nausea and vomiting were more common in patients receiving zidovudine (P < 0.01), and neuropathy occurred more frequently in those receiving stavudine (12% in the stavudine group compared with 4% in the zidovudine group; P < 0.001). Neuropathy resolved completely in many patients (63%) after interruption of stavudine treatment; these patients could resume stavudine therapy at a lower dose. CONCLUSIONS: Stavudine was well tolerated and delayed progression of HIV disease in patients who had previously received 6 or more months of zidovudine treatment. Benefits were apparent in all CD4+ cell strata and clinical stages of HIV disease. Stavudine is an important agent to consider for trials of combination chemotherapy.
N Engl J Med. 1996 Aug 8;335(6):384-91.
ACP J Club. 1997 Jan-Feb;126(1):8.
N Engl J Med. 1996 Aug 8;335(6):428-30.
A randomized trial of clarithromycin as prophylaxis against disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection in patients with advanced acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
Pierce M, Crampton S, Henry D, Heifets L, LaMarca A, Montecalvo M, Wormser GP, Jablonowski H, Jemsek J, Cynamon M, Yangco BG, Notario G, Craft JC.
BACKGROUND: Disseminated infection with Mycobacterium avium complex is the most common opportunistic infection in patients with advanced stages of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). We studied the efficacy and safety of prophylactic treatment with clarithromycin, a macrolide antibiotic. METHODS: We conducted a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study of clarithromycin in patients with AIDS in the United States and Europe. Entry criteria included blood cultures that were negative for M. avium complex, a Karnofsky performance score of 50 or higher, a CD4 cell count of 100 or less per cubic millimeter, and a life expectancy of at least six months. RESULTS: After the first interim analysis, the study was stopped. M. avium complex infection developed in 19 of the 333 patients (6 percent) assigned to clarithromycin and in 53 of the 334 (16 percent) assigned to placebo (adjusted hazard ratio, 0.31; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.18 to 0.53; P<0.001). During the follow-up period of about 10 months, 32 percent of the patients in the clarithromycin group died and 41 percent of those in the placebo group died (hazard ratio, 0.75; P=0.026). In the clarithromycin group, isolates from 11 of the 19 patients with M. avium complex infection were resistant to clarithromycin. Prophylaxis with clarithromycin was associated with an increased incidence of taste perversion (11 percent in the clarithromycin group vs. 2 percent in the placebo group, P<0.001) and rectal disorders (8 percent vs. 3 percent, P = 0.007); however, the frequency of more severe adverse events was similar in the two groups (7 percent and 6 percent, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: In patients with advanced AIDS, the prophylactic administration of clarithromycin is well tolerated, prevents M. avium complex infection, and reduces mortality.
Antibiotic prophylaxis during clean neurosurgery: a large, multicenter study using cefuroxime.
Holloway KL, Smith KW, Wilberger JE Jr, Jemsek JG, Giguere GC, Collins JJ.
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Cefuroxime is a second-generation cephalosporin with in vitro activity against the organisms that are commonly associated with neurosurgical wound infections. Other properties of cefuroxime are an elimination half-life of 1.3 hours, which yields prolonged serum concentrations, and its ability to penetrate the blood-brain barrier in proportion to the degree of inflammation. A prospective, multicenter, open-label study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of cefuroxime for antibiotic prophylaxis in patients undergoing clean neurosurgery. Cefuroxime 1.5 g was given intravenously 25 to 60 minutes before surgery; for procedures lasting more than 3 hours, cefuroxime 750 mg was given intravenously 8 hours after the initial dose. Patients were examined before surgery, daily during hospitalization, and at 8 weeks after surgery. A total of 956 adults were enrolled in the study. The most common procedures in study patients were laminectomy (41.8% of patients) or craniotomy (24.3%), and the mean duration of surgery was 3.2 hours. Infection occurred in 2 (0.3%) of 592 assessable patients by the time of discharge and in 1 additional patient by the 8-week follow-up evaluation for a total of 3 (0.5%) of 560 assessable patients. Drug-related adverse events occurred in 5 (0.5%) of 956 patients. These results indicate that antibiotic prophylaxis with cefuroxime is associated with a low incidence of postoperative wound infection and is well tolerated in patients undergoing clean neurosurgery.
N Engl J Med. 1995 Dec 21;333(25):1662-9.
N Engl J Med. 1995 Dec 21;333(25):1704-5.
Treatment with lamivudine, zidovudine, or both in HIV-positive patients with 200 to 500 CD4+ cells per cubic millimeter. North American HIV Working Party.
Eron JJ, Benoit SL, Jemsek J, MacArthur RD, Santana J, Quinn JB, Kuritzkes DR, Fallon MA, Rubin M.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27599-7030, USA.
BACKGROUND. The reverse-transcriptase inhibitor lamivudine has in vitro synergy with zidovudine against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). We studied the activity and safety of lamivudine plus zidovudine as compared with either drug alone as treatment for patients with HIV infection, most of whom had not previously received zidovudine. METHODS. Three hundred sixty-six patients with 200 to 500 CD4+ cells per cubic millimeter who had received zidovudine for four weeks or less were randomly assigned to treatment with one of four regimens: 300 mg of lamivudine every 12 hours; 200 mg of zidovudine every 8 hours; 150 mg of lamivudine every 12 hours plus zidovudine; or 300 mg of lamivudine every 12 hours plus zidovudine. The study was double-blind and lasted 24 weeks, with an extension phase for another 28 weeks. RESULTS. Over the 24-week period, the low-dose and high-dose regimens combining lamivudine and zidovudine were associated with greater increases in the CD4+ cell count (P = 0.002 and P = 0.015, respectively) and the percentage of CD4+ cells (P < 0.001 for both) and with greater decreases in plasma levels of HIV-1 RNA (P < 0.001 for both) than was treatment with zidovudine alone. Combination therapy was also more effective than lamivudine alone in lowering plasma HIV-1 RNA levels and increasing the percentage of CD4+ cells (P < 0.001 for all comparisons), and these advantages persisted through 52 weeks. Adverse events were no more frequent with combination therapy than with zidovudine alone. CONCLUSIONS. In HIV-infected patients with little or no prior antiretroviral therapy, treatment with a combination of lamivudine and zidovudine is well tolerated over a one-year period and produces more improvement in immunologic and virologic measures than does treatment with either agent alone.
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 1992;5(8):847-8.
Recombinant human erythropoietin and the treatment of anemia in patients with AIDS or advanced ARC not receiving ZDV.
Henry DH, Jemsek JG, Levin AS, Levine JD, Levine RL, Abels RI, Nelson RA, Thompson D, Rudnick SA.
Am J Surg. 1988 May 31;155(5A):91-5.
A multicenter comparative study of cefotetan once daily and cefoxitin thrice daily for the treatment of infections of the skin and superficial soft tissue.
Geckler RW, Eng RH, Fabian TC, Echols RM, Jemsek JG, LeFrock JL, Mogabgab WC, Wilson SE.
Division of Infectious Diseases, Mercy Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21202.
To compare the effectiveness of cefotetan administered at 2 g once a day with cefoxitin at 1 or 2 g three times a day in the treatment of hospitalized patients with skin and superficial soft tissue infections, 194 patients from eight centers were enrolled in an open, randomized trial. Most of the 104 evaluable patients in the cefotetan group and 50 in the cefoxitin group were young men with community-acquired, moderate or severe cellulitis, or abscesses of the upper and lower extremities caused by Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus species, Escherichia coli, Proteus mirabilis, Bacteroides fragilis and other species of bacteroides, peptococcus species, and peptostreptococcus species. The mean duration of treatment was 7.5 days for cefotetan and 7.1 days for cefoxitin. A successful clinical response was achieved in 97 percent of the cefotetan patients and in 94 percent of the cefoxitin patients. Of the 88 and 39 bacteriologically evaluable patients in the cefotetan and cefoxitin groups, respectively, a satisfactory bacteriologic response occurred in 96 percent and 87 percent of the patients. No clinically significant changes in clinical laboratory determinations were noted. The incidence of adverse reactions in the cefotetan group (17 percent) was significantly different from that for the cefoxitin group (6 percent) (p less than 0.05); however, the incidence of treatment-related reactions was not significant and the events were mild. Discontinuation of therapy was necessary only in two patients in whom allergic-type reactions developed. A once-daily regimen of cefotetan was as effective as thrice-daily cefoxitin in this study in the treatment of primarily polymicrobial, moderate, or severe infections of the skin and superficial soft tissue.
Am J Surg. 1988 May 31;155(5A):61-6.
Cephalosporin therapy in intraabdominal infections. A multicenter randomized, comparative study of cefotetan, moxalactam, and cefoxitin.
Wilson SE, Boswick JA Jr, Duma RJ, Echols RM, Jemsek JG, Lerner R, Lewis RT, Najem AZ, Press RA, Rittenbury MS, et al.
Department of Surgery, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance.
Three broad-spectrum cephalosporins (cefotetan, moxalactam, and cefoxitin) proved effective in this randomized, prospective trial for treatment of 303 surgical patients with moderately severe regional peritonitis.
Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1988 Mar;158(3 Pt 2):728-35.
Am J Obstet Gynecol 1989 Apr;160(4):1025.
Comparative study of cefotetan and cefoxitin in the treatment of intra-abdominal infections.
Lewis RT, Duma RJ, Echols RM, Jemsek JG, Najem AZ, Press RA, Stone HH, Ton GT, Wilson SE.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
One hundred eighty-eight patients were enrolled in a multicenter, randomized clinical trial to compare the safety and effectiveness of 1 to 2 gm cefotetan every 12 hours with those of 1 to 2 gm cefoxitin every 6 hours in patients with intra-abdominal infections. Most of the infections were community acquired, were associated with gastrointestinal tract perforation, and were caused by both anaerobic and aerobic bacteria. The median duration of therapy was 6 days for each group. The clinical response rate for the 95 evaluable patients in the cefotetan group was 98%, and that for the 43 evaluable patients in the cefoxitin group was 95%. Bacteriologically, 97% of the 58 evaluable patients in the cefotetan group and 89% of the 27 evaluable patients in the cefoxitin group had a satisfactory or presumed satisfactory response; two patients in the cefotetan group and three in the cefoxitin group were considered bacteriologic failures. Cefotetan was as effective as cefoxitin in eradicating Bacteroides fragilis and other species of Bacteroides, Clostridium sp., and gram-negative bacilli. The incidence of treatment-related adverse reactions for cefotetan (27%) was not statistically different from that for cefoxitin (17%). No clinically significant differences were detected between the treatment groups in changes in the results of clinical laboratory tests performed before and after treatment; a decrease in hematocrit among the cefotetan group was statistically greater (p = 0.04) than that for the cefoxitin group, and a decrease in serum creatinine level for the cefoxitin group was greater than that for the cefotetan group (p = 0.02). Cefotetan may represent an effective, safe, and cost-saving alternative to cefoxitin for the prompt treatment of community-acquired intra-abdominal infections.
Herpes zoster-associated encephalitis: clinicopathologic report of 12 cases and review of the literature.
Jemsek J, Greenberg SB, Taber L, Harvey D, Gershon A, Couch RB.
Herpes-zoster associated encephalitis (HZAE) is an uncommon complication of herpes zoster. Over 8 years, we evaluated 12 patients with this clinical diagnosis. The majority of our patients were elderly, immunosuppressed, and found to have disseminated skin lesions prior to the onset of CNS symptoms. All patients had abnormal EEGs, and CSF pleocytosis was found in most. In the seven patients who were tested, specific antibody to the varicella-zoster membrane antigen (FAMA) was detected in spinal fluid during the course of the illness. Although three patients died during the period of active infection, the virus could not be definitively implicated as the cause of death. These HZAE patients could not be distinguished from our other herpes zoster patients on the basis of age, initially involved dermatome, or mortality rate. However, among herpes zoster patients who survived, duration of hospitalization was significantly longer in those with a diagnosis of HZAE. All surviving HZAE patients had a slow but eventual return to their prior cognitive status.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1981 Apr;19(4):532-3.
Effects of sodium piperacillin on platelet function in normal volunteers.
Gentry LO, Jemsek JG, Natelson EA.
Piperacillin is a new semisynthetic penicillin which is similar in structure to carbenicillin and ticarcillin. Since the latter antibiotics have been shown to cause abnormalities in hemostasis, we studied the effects of piperacillin on blood coagulation and platelet function. Fifteen healthy volunteers received the drug in doses of either 100, 200, or 300 mg/kg per day for a period of 7 days. Serial studies showed no abnormalities in blood coagulation in any subject. Decreased platelet aggregation responses to adenosine diphosphate, epinephrine, collagen, and achidonic acid were commonly noted, but prolongation of the bleeding time occurred in only 3 of 15 subjects after 7 days of piperacillin administration. These results suggest that although piperacillin also induces platelet dysfunction, these effects may be less than those caused by ticarcillin or carbenicillin at an equivalent dosage.
J Infect Dis. 1980 Mar;141(3):310-6.
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Haemophilus parainfluenzae by a kinetic killing-curve method.
Jemsek JG, Martin RR, Greenberg SB, Gentry LO.
A kinetic killing-curve method, designed to mimic several aspects of clinical therapy in endocarditis, was used to test 10 strains of Haemophilus parainfluenzae against 28 antibiotic regimens. In an effort to simulate changing in vivo levels of antibiotic in serum, concentrations of three penicillins, three cephalosporins, gentamicin, and chloramphenicol were sequentially adjusted over a 12-hr period. Against six beta-lactamase-negative strains, gentamicin in combination with penicillin or cephalosporin invariably resulted in an additive or synergistic effect. Chloramphenicol and a penicillin or cephalosporin usually displayed an indifferent effect, but chloramphenicol was often antagonistic when combined with gentamicin. With four beta-lactamase-positive strains, variable responses were noted to penicillin-aminoglycoside combinations; cephalosporin-aminoglycoside combinations were usually synergistic. This dynamic approach to killing-curve studies may be more appropriate than a static system for in vitro examination of the effect of antimicrobial combinations against selected organisms.
Malignant group B streptococcal endocarditis associated with saline-induced abortion.
Jemsek JG, Gentry LO, Greenberg SB.
A 20-year-old woman developed acute group B streptococcal endocarditis following saline-induced abortion. In the pre-antibiotic era, most cases of group B streptococcal endocarditis occurred in parturient or postabortal women. Currently, this disease is rarely described in obstetrical patients, and no previous cases following saline-induced abortion have been reported. Purulent pericarditis and a perivalvular abscess were present in our patient and represent only the second instance in which these findings have been documented in this disease.
PIP: This case report describes a 20-year-old woman who developed acute group B streptococcal endocarditis after a saline-induced abortion. She was admitted 2 weeks after an uncomplicated saline-induced abortion for a 16-week pregnancy with a 1-week history of fever, headaches, dizziness, and shortness of breath. The patient showed poor response to antibiotic therapies (initially to nafcillin and gentamicin and then to aqueous penicillin G). 6 to 6 blood cultures after hospital admission showed group B streptococcus which was penicillin sensitive by tetracycline resistant. On Day 3 of admission, a pericardial friction rub was noted and repeat chest x-rays showed marked enlargement of the cardiac shadow. Surgery was performed, and the mitral valve posterior leaflet was necrotic, and a mitral valve prosthesis was placed and an aortic embolectomy was performed. Postoperatively, she was treated with an additional 6-week course of intravenous penicillin, and subsequently, she has remained asymptomatic after 6 months. An addendum to this report, which was only the 2nd such report of endocarditis after saline abortion, describes another case of group B streptococcal endocarditis in a drug abuser after a saline-induced abortion. She required tricuspid valvulectomy and is slowly improving postoperatively.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1979 Mar;15(3):379-83.
Quantitative nasal cultures from carriers of Staphylococcus aureus: effects of oral therapy with erythromycin, rosamicin, and placebo.
Wilson SZ, Martin RR, Putman M, Greenberg SB, Wallace RJ Jr, Jemsek JG.
Am J Med. 1979 Jan;66(1):51-7.
Haemophilus parainfluenzae endocarditis. Two cases and review of the literature in the past decade.
Jemsek JG, Greenberg SB, Gentry LO, Welton DE, Mattox KL.
Postgrad Med J. 1979;55 Suppl 4:62-6.
Treatment of acute bacterial bronchitis and pneumonia with cefaclor.
Mogabgab WJ, Pollock B, Beville RB, Gentry LO, Jemsek JG.
Sixty patients with pneumonia and/or bronchitis were treated with cefaclor, a new orally administered cephalosporin. Of those 60, 27 adults were treated with 500 mg every 8 hours, 26 adults with 250 mg every 6 hours, and 7 children with 50 mg/kg/day. In the adults, pneumonia was caused most frequently by Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae. The 7 children had pneumococcal pneumonia. All but 2 adults, both elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, were successfully treated. One instance of drug hypersensitivity occurred. All 7 children responded rapidly, with no side effects, to cefaclor therapy.


Mermaid Queen is a beautiful slot machine from Real Time Gaming. In this 5 reeler you'll be introduced to a mythical underwater world filled with mermaids and other creatures of the deep. You may bet on 20 lines in this game and you trigger the great bonus feature by hitting three mermaids on the 1st, 3rd and 5th reel. Mermaid Queen delivers a great looking slot machine with a fun and entertaining theme. The total composition of this Real Time Gaming slot gives a great impression and will surely make you want to dive into the deep blue sea and find a hidden treasure or two.
The overall colouring of the Mermaid Queen slot is different shades of purple. It's a nice looking slot machine but one would think that it appeals more to the female side of the population. The designs of the symbols are all pretty detailed without over doing it. The sound of the spinning reels that is so typical for slots developed by Real Time Gaming gives a good gaming experience. In certain symbol combinations, a musical score is added to the sound. This enhances the excitement of getting closer to hitting a big win on the reels.
The main theme is an underwater world and this is very obvious in the symbols in this slot machine. All symbols are related to the sea in one way or another except for the lower paying one which are the card deck symbols of 10, J, Q, K and A. Apart from these, you will see the male mermaid, aka the merman, fishes, shells and pearls in different forms. The wild is the Mermaid and she'll substitute for all other except for the scatter. The scatter is the Pearl-Clam which is multiplied by the total bet.
Here's a tricky one; the wild (mermaid) triggers the bonus game instead of the scatter which usually unlocks bonus features and such. The wild can only appear on the 1st, 3rd and 5th reels. The free game feature is triggered when you manage to hit all three reels with the mermaid. When this happens, you will be rewarded with 10 free games. These can also be re-triggered while playing the feature but it's only your first 10 free games that are doubled in value. Every scatter symbol that might appear on the reels during the free games gives you one extra free game.
Mermaid Queen has 5 reels and 20 lines to bet on. You can easily configure your betting preference if you click on the Line button in the lower part of the game window. The minimum bet per line is $0.01 and the maximum is $5. Mermaid Queen also has an auto play function which is very easy to use.


April Character and H Comics polls are open!
The two new 10 $ patrons poll for NSFW fan art and for the new h Comics are officially open!
New April Character and H Comic polls announced!
This time i decided to announce Two polls before opening them!
The April Character Poll will open on 15th April (and will close by the end of the month) and the 10 $ Patrons will decide if Lifeline from Apex Legends, Cassie Cage from Mortal Kombat 11 or Amara from Borderlands 3 will have a NSFW fan art!
And the second one will be a new type of Poll! Since the Naughty Ela H Comics series is approaching its end i decided to let the 10 $ Patrons decide which "Naughty" i will do.
The H Comics Poll will open on 15th April and will closed on 15th May!
Enjoy! Don't forget to check out my Patreon page!
Lady/Trish Character Poll end! And the winner is..
Thanks for everyone who votes and see you for the next Character poll!
Nonostante la data sia adatta a scherzi e burle, ecco le consuete quattro pagine delle avventure di Van. Potete recuperare le altre sempre in pagina (se cominciate adesso, dovrete andare indietro di appena due settimane). Se vorrete commentare, condividerlo, o taggare amici a cui piace il genere sappiate che sarà molto apprezzato."
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February Patreon rewards - Ada X Leon + Naughty Ela page 10 uploaded!
Hi, i just uploaded in the Mega folder the NSFW Ada X Leon Resident Evil fan art + two variation of the picture! Plus the 10th page of Naughty Ela!
I'm finishing now the eleven page and the February rewards will be completed!
Don't forget to check out my main Patreon page and my MERCs Patreon page!
February NSFW reward - Ada X Leon promo!
Ok guys, i'm working like crazy on this month reward.
Everything will be uploaded in the Reward Folder ASAP!
In the meantime have this promo of the Ada Wong X Leon nsfw fan art!
Don't forget to check out my Patreon page and my MERcs Patreon page!
"Wulfpack Primo Volume - Pagina #4 - #5 - #6 and #7"
"Wulfpack - First Volume - Page #4, #5, #6 and #7"
Lady / Trish NSFW fan art - March Character Poll is up!
The March Patreon character poll is open! The 10 $ Patrons will choose which, between Lady or Trish of Devil May Cry 5, will have a NSFW fan art! The "Walking Arsenal" or the "Fiendish Femme Fatale"? You decide!


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Чита () град је у Русији и административни центар Забајкалског краја.
Лежи код слива реке Чита и Ингоде и један је од станица на транссибирској железници.
Налази се 800 км источно од Иркутска код Бајкалског језера. Град је и важна војна база. Према попису становништва из 2010. у граду је живело 323.964 становника.

Историја

Прво насеље је установио козак Пјотр Бекетов 1653. Популација 1885. је била 5.728, а 1897. 11.480. У граду су били заточени
и декабристи, који су у Сибиру издржавали казну. Тако је Чита била позната и као "Место прогнаника". Долазак политичких
прогнаника, који су били интелектуалци, се позитивно одразио на интелектуални развој и трговину града. Тако је град постао центар
трговине у Сибиру, нарочито тамошњим ресурсима лесом, уранијем и златом.

Крајем 19. века насељава се пуно Татара, који су дошли трговати. Након неуспеле револуције 1905 у Санкт Петербургу област у граду су преузели бољшевици и разгласили Републику Читу. Краткотрајну област бољшевика су преузели царистичне трупе. Шест вођа бољшевика је стрељано на брду Титовскаја сопка.
Дана 22. јануара 1906. Читу заузимају царисти. Друга република Чита, названа и Далекоисточна република, је проглашена 6. априла 1920 и трајала је до 1922.

Чита је била и циљ другог леденог марша поражених белогардиста 1920. године. У Чити је вероватно био запењен и део царског злата од колчаковог златног воза од стране Јапанаца, који су потпомогли царисте опремом.

Становништво
Према прелиминарним подацима са пописа, у граду је 2010. живело 323.964 становника, 7.321 (2,31%) више него 2002.

Географија

Партнерски градови
  Manzhouli

Референце

Спољашње везе

Градови у Забајкалској Покрајини
Википројект географија/Насеља у Русији

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My good friend, filmmaker Rob Amato, was always brain storming creative visual projects. He regularly purchased old 16 mm film on ebay – the older the better – just to immerse himself in the visual vibe of times gone by. While screening some vacation films taken of Venice in the early 1930's, it struck him how an instrumental I had written, Mahatma (from the Beat.itude album), seem to fit and enhance the film's mood. So he and his compatriot, Alex Rossner, took my track and started cutting scenes from the film to it. This grew into the idea of including me, playing to a screening of the film, complete with an old 16 mm projector, and having images from the screening interact with the cuts from the film itself. All very creative stuff. We did the filming/screening late on Monday night – April 16, 2001 – at the original dizzy's warehouse space. Here is the result.


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Israel Folau reaches settlement with Rugby Australia
David Rogers | Staff Writer
Christian rugby star Israel Folau has settled with his former employer over social media posts.
Folau was seeking AUD $14 million in damages, having raised $2 million, mostly from the Christian community, to pay for high-powered lawyers to help him win his case.
Folau issued the statement below:
Rugby Australia also released an official statement. "Rugby Australia, NSW Rugby and Israel Folau have today settled their legal dispute following the dismissal of Israel Folau after he posted a religious message on social media (the Social Media Post)," they said.
"The Social Media Post reflected Mr Folau's genuinely held religious beliefs, and Mr Folau did not intend to harm or offend any person when he uploaded the Social Media Post.
"Mr Folau wants all Australians to know that he does not condone discrimination of any kind against any person on the grounds of their sexuality and that he shares Rugby Australia's commitment to inclusiveness and diversity.
"Rugby Australia and NSW Rugby do not in any way agree with the content of the Social Media Post. Inclusiveness is one of Rugby's core values and it welcomes all people to the game, including all members of the LGBTI community.
"While it was not Rugby Australia's intention, Rugby Australia acknowledges and apologises for any hurt or harm caused to the Folaus. Similarly, Mr Folau did not intend to hurt or harm the game of rugby and acknowledges and apologises for any hurt or harm caused.
"Rugby Australia and Mr Folau wish each other well for the future. The Parties do not intend to comment further on the terms of their settlement as it is confidential."
Folau is believed to be delighted with the outcome.
The legal case after Folau posted on Instagram the post below, angering his employer as they aim to attract and appeal to a broad cross-section of the population.
Folau has also been in the news recently, stating that the bushfires afflicting Australia were due to God's punishment on the nation.


I love doing school visits! I have been doing them for nearly forty years now, all across the country and across the world. I spent seven years as a classroom teacher myself, and take great joy in being able to share my experiences as a writer with young people.
My standard day consists of three presentations of up to an hour each. With younger children I focus the talk around my first picture book, The Foolish Giant. For grades three and up I generally use The Monster's Ring.
Each presentation begins with some high energy storytelling and includes a fair amount of humor. Along the way I address where ideas come from, issues of editing and rewriting, and demonstrate how a story is put together. The sessions are designed to include practical tips on writing that teachers can use in the classroom. And, of course, I include time for Q&A.
In addition to this, I am happy to have lunch with a small group of students (up to twenty) who are selected because of a special interest in reading or writing. This does not count as one of the presentations . . . it is simply an extra thing that I enjoy doing and is always a lot of fun.
And, of course, I am willing to autograph books.
I can also work with small groups for special purposes. For example, I can do a workshop for students who have an intense interest in writing, or run a seminar style discussion with students who are particularly interested in science fiction. This often makes for a nice change of pace within a day.
If you are interested in arranging an author visit please contact me here. Let me know what you are looking for and the dates you have in mind. I will get back to you as quickly as possible with availability and pricing information.
Making a point . . .