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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Paperback)
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All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings (Paperback)
By Gayle Boss, David G. Klein (Illustrator)
Upstream: Selected Essays (Paperback)
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder (Paperback)
By Richard Louv
Walks of a Lifetime in America's National Parks: Extraordinary Hikes in Exceptional Places (Paperback)
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival (Paperback)
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Listening to the Wind (Paperback)
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New England Waterfalls: A Guide to More than 500 Cascades and Waterfalls (Paperback)
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While other rabbits leap around together in wild excitement, one rabbit is content to sit still and enjoy some human attention.
Hoppy Time is a social event for rabbits and their owners and is held at the EmBark Canine Training Center one Sunday of each month. Sue Anderson, the organizer of the now four and a half year old event, said it offers rabbits great exercise while owners get an opportunity to share their stories and information with one another.
Anderson said the idea came from attending a similar event called "Hoppy Hour" in Golden Valley, Minnesota. This weekly event is of a larger scale–between 80-150 rabbits attend, usually–and even features agility equipment.
Although Hoppy Time isn't quite as extravagant, it has grown over the years and will likely continue to do so. Anderson said she thought November's Hoppy Time would bring in fewer people due to the cold weather, but she was pleasantly surprised to find this was not the case. Some 10-15 rabbits and well over 20 people were in attendance Sunday evening.
Bunnies must be spayed or neutered at least one month in advance in order to attend a Hoppy Time social. A $3 entry fee is also required for rabbit owners to help with event costs, but spectators are welcome free of charge. According to Volume One's article, the next Hoppy Times will be Dec. 9 and Jan. 13.


You're all invited to the in.tum.summerparty 2017!
Get to know other people from the Informatics Department with good food, drinks and music. The summerparty is for all students and employees of the Informatics Department.
At 3 p.m. the table soccer tournament starts. The tournament is organized by us, registration is required at veranstaltung@fs.tum.de. Afterwards the Dean, Prof. Hans-Joachim Bungartz, will greet you all to the evening. At 5 p.m. the traditional barbeque starts, including a jubilee burger. At 7:45 p.m. theEgg Drop Contest begins.
Ahead of the event you can participate in the Photo Competition. Go looking for one of the big "50 Years Informatics Munich" posters and take a selfie with it. Send it to pr@in.tum.de until the July 10th and save your chance for great prizes. The winners will be announced on the summerparty.
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Nvidia has launched a software application which will allows its range of GeForce GPUs to drive the next generation 3D capable television sets.
3DTV Play will be available later this spring for around $40 and will allows PCs equipped with Nvidia graphics chips to feed three-dimensional images to suitably-equipped TVs using the 'shuttered glasses' method.
If you've been walking around with your hands over your face for the last six months, shuttered eye 3D is where images are fed separately to each eye using bulky battery-powered glasses which effectively open and close your left and right eyes sequentially, tricking your brain into thinking you're seeing a single 3D image.
Nvidia has hooked up with top telly maker Panasonic and is currently planning a tour of the USA starting in about a month's time where you'll be able to stand behind a six-deep rabble of snot-nosed kids wondering what the hell is going on.
The software will run on any desktop or notebook PC toting a GeForce GPU and an HDMI or DVI connector.
You will, unfortunately, have to fork out for an HDMI 1.4-compatible TV capable of dealing with the 1080p24, 720p60, or 720p50 3D formats.
The software will be compatible with all future 3D game releases, Blu-ray 3D (with additional video software from Corel, CyberLink, ArcSoft, or Roxio), 3D broadcasts and 3D photos.
Early-adopting Nvidia 3D Vision customers will get the software for nowt once it's released.


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There is a new test that Google is performing for a smaller format for Home Services Ads (HSA).
Rather than featuring a number of providers and links to more results, this new version asks users to enter their zip code the the type of job they need completed before they're shown the list of service providers available for that sort of work in the area.
The initial ad format for HSAs showed individual service providers and took up quite a lot of real estate.
The new version being tested was reported by Mike Blumenthal, and is an interesting departure from the original version. The newer version could provide better-qualified leads, as well as improve the UX by filtering a user's choices up front.
The new HSA format takes users off the SERP to a separate page of listings.
HSA first launched in July in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley areas. For the time being, the feature is currently open to locksmiths, plumbers, house cleaners and handymen via AdWords Express.


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TakeTours > USA > West Coast Tours > Salt Lake City, UT > 7-Day Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton, Mt.Rushmore Tour from Salt Lake City
7-Day Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton, Mt.Rushmore Tour from Salt Lake City Tour Code: 973-1088
Devils Tower : Devils Tower National Monument
Buy 2 Get 3rd Discounted3% Group Discount Airport Pick up
Thu (May - Oct)
Highlights: Visit Las Vegas, Yellowstone, Salt Lake City, Barstow, Casper, Crazy Horse, Devils Tower, Grand Teton National Park, Jackson Hole, Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
(Age 2-9) $778
7-Day Fuel Surcharge $35 $35
Buy 2 get 3rd Discounted (3 or 4 pax sharing one room): (1) Cancellation of discounted-fare passenger must be made at least 7 days before departure. (2) No-show (or cancellation made within 7 days before departure) of discounted passenger incurs $200 penalty fee for the reserved bus seat. If the tour will stay in Yellowstone Cabin, No-show (or cancellation made within 30 days before departure) of discounted passenger incurs $250 penalty fee for the reserved bus seat.
Child Rate: Child rates apply to those 2-9 years and using existing bedding with 2 full-paying passengers (regardless of ages). Please note each hotel room can only accommodate 4 guests (adults or children). Infant under 3 years old with seat will pay the same price as the Child.
Day 1: Salt Lake City
Guests should ride the Hotel's free shuttle from the Salt Lake City International Airport to the hotel for check-in.
Standard Hotel: Ramada by Wyndham Salt Lake City Airport Hotel or Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Salt Lake City Airport
Day 2: Salt Lake City - Jackson Hole - Grand Teton - Yellowstone(330 miles)
Today we will travel to Jackson Hole. Be sure to visit the Elk Antler Arches Square located in the center of Jackson! Afterwards, we will head to Grand Teton National Park. We will visit Yellowstone National Park in the afternoon, stopping at Grand Prismatic Spring, Old Faithful Geyser, the West Thumb Geyser Basin, and many more places. We will spend the night in West Yellowstone.
Famous frontier town, located at the crossing of Grand Teton and Rocky Mountains, it became a heaven for outdoors sports enthusiast. The widely praised Elk Antler Arches Park, with its four arches made with thousands of elk antlers is a must see.
Jackson Town Square
Originating as a park in 1934, the Town Square is most known for its distinctive arches made from shed elk antlers that have been collected from the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole.
Grand Teton National Park, WY
Grand Teton National Park is located in the Rocky Mountains, Northwest Wyoming. Grand Teton National Park is noted for its stunning mountain vistas, its shimmering alpine lakes and its abundant wildlife.
Yellowstone, WY
The largest, oldest, and most famous national park displays a fascinating scenery of hot springs, geysers, canyons, waterfalls, and nature everywhere you look!
Grand Prismatic Hot Spring
The third largest hot spring in the world, the Grand Prismatic Hot Spring gets its color from bacteria around its rim that feed off of the mineral-rich water. In the summer months, the hot spring is a vivid red-orange shade.
Old Faithful is a cone geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park. It is one of the park's most well-known natural features, and is famous for its predictability. It generally erupts every 91 minutes.
Duration: Approx. 1 Hour
West Thumb Geyser Basin
The West Thumb Geyser Basin is the largest geyser basin at Yellowstone Lake, and an impressive area of geothermal activity that contains hot springs, mud pots, and geysers-- some of which are even in the lake itself.
Standard Hotel: White Buffalo/Yellowstone Country Inn/Dude Roundup/Travelers Lodge or similar
Day 3: Yellowstone - Sheridan(244 miles)
Today, we will travel to Yellowstone National Park, home to the world's largest super volcano and over 10,000 fascinating geothermal features like Norris Geyser, Upper Falls, Artist Point, Mud Volcano and more! We will spend the night in Sheridan, WY.
Norris Geyser Basin
Yellowstone National Park is full of areas like this - geyser basins - large, open areas where geothermic pressure from below the ground's surface force up various geysers and springs. The Norris Basin is one of the more accessible.
Upper Yellowstone Falls
Located a quarter-mile upstream of the larger Lower Falls, the Upper Yellowstone River Falls plunge 109 feet down an eroded lava cliff into the basin below. The area below the falls has been subject to heavier erosion than above.
Named after the famous sketches of the waterfalls by Thomas Moran (but not actually the location where the sketched were done) this beautiful location showcases one of the most famous views in Yellowstone National Park.
Mud Volcano Area
The Mud Volcano blew itself apart in the early 20th century, but visitors can still see the impressive crater and other geothermal features in the surrounding area, such as the Mud Cauldron, Black Dragon's Caldron, and Dragon's Mouth Spring.
Standard Hotel: Holiday Inn Sheridan or similar
Day 4: Sheridan - Devils Tower - Mt. Rushmore - Crazy Horse - Casper(526 miles)
In the morning, we will drive to Devil's Tower, the country's first national monument. Next, we will head to iconic Mount Rushmore, followed by the Crazy Horse National Monument. Later on, we will spend the night in Casper.
The first declared United States National Monument. It'is an igneous intrusion or laccolith located in the Black Hills near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County. A monolithic rock formation that rises 1,267 feet above the surrounding land and was once the neck of an active volcano.
Devils Tower National Monument
This massive monolith in the Black Hills of Wyoming was the nation's first national monument, anointed by Teddy Roosevelt in 1906. In recent years, climbing the rock has become popular. The stone column is considered sacred by many Native Americans.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial, SD
This famous United States monument in the Black Hills of western South Dakota depicts the busts of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. The 60 feet tall statues are carved right into the side of the mountains.
Crazy Horse, SD
Crazy Horse Memorial is the world's largest sculpture-in-progress, and frequent drilling and mountain blasts make each visit unique. When completed, Crazy Horse Memorial will stand 563 feet tall by 641 feet long.
Crazy Horse Memorial
This monument, controversial in the Native American community, has been under construction for over 60 years. If it is completed as planned, it would be the largest sculpture in the entire world, at a monstrous 563 feet high and 641 feet wide.
Standard Hotel: Ramkota Hotel Casper or similar
Day 5: Casper - Salt Lake City(408 miles)
Drive to Independent Rock State Historic Site this morning, then we will head to Salt Lake City, where we will visit the Utah State Capitol, the most expensive, luxurious state house in the U.S. We will also Temple Square. After that, we will explore Great Salt Lake Marina.
Casper is a city in and the county seat of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. Casper is also called "The Oil City" and has a long history of oil boomtown and cowboy culture. In 2010, Casper was named the highest-ranked family-friendly small city in the West, and ranked eighth overall in the nation in Forbes magazine's list of "the best small cities to raise a family".
Independence Rock
This granite monolith sits in the Independence Rock State Historic Site in central Wyoming. The rock served as an important landmark for those travelling west via the Oregon Trail in the middle of the 19th century.
Devil's Gate
The Devil's Gate is a natural rock formation that served as an important landmark on the Oregon Trail and helped guide pioneers westward across the barren United States of the 19th century.
Utah's gorgeous capital city sits amidst the mountains of the American Southwest on the shores of the breathtaking Great Salt Lake. The city is steeped in history and architecture in addition to wondrous vistas and scenery.
Utah State Capitol
The home of all of the governmental processes for the state of Utah, the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City. The building is done in the ornate neoclassical revival style, purposefully reminiscent of the nation capitol in DC.
Approximately ten acres in size, Temple Square is the center of religious activity for the Church of Latter Day Saints, housing the Temple and Tabernacle that are central to the religion.
Mormon Temple
This 250,000-square-foot temple is the largest of the temples belonging to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known colloquially as the Mormons. The public cannot tour the interior, but the facade is a sight to behold.
Great Salt Lake
The largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere is the famous Great Salt Lake in northern Utah. People visit the lake's namesake, Salt Lake City, every year to see the natural wonder and tour its shores.
Admission (Optional): Adult $40; Child $40|Duration: Approx. 30 Minutes
Standard Hotel: Radisson Hotel Salt Lake City Airport or similar
Day 6: Salt Lake City - Las Vegas(420 miles)
In the morning we will travel to Las Vegas, where we will spend the night. Guests may take an optional night tour of the city.
Las Vegas Night Tour
This tour is the best way to see the lights of the Vegas Strip! We will see the dancing waters of the Bellagio Fountains, the Volcano at Mirage, and LINQ business street and more.
Admission (Optional): Adult $45; Child $45|Duration: Approx. 3 Hours
KA by Cirque du Soleil Show
A masterpiece in storytelling which uses acrobatic performances, thrilling martial arts techniques from all over the world, and innovations in puppetry and multimedia to tell the epic tale of twins on a perilous journey to fulfill their shared destiny.
Admission (Optional): Adult $182; Child (Over 5 yrs) $182
Fantasy Show
Celebrating more than 12 successful years on the strip, Fantasy Show has shaped itself into one of Las Vegas' leading adult revues as the best and most famous topless show in Las Vegas. It showcases 15 dances set to today's top music.
Admission (Optional): Adult $85; Child (Over 18 yrs, Children must stay with an adult.) $85
David Copperfield is considered the greatest illusionist among modern magicians. His show, held at the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas, is a thrilling display of illusions and slight of hand that will keep you wondering how he does it.
Admission (Optional): Adult $123; Child (Over 5 yrs) $123; Zone D, Zone A $175, Zone A $160, Zone A $150
CRISS ANGEL Believe Show
This show is haunting exploration deep inside the inventive mind of mystifier Criss Angel as he hovers between the land of the living and a surreal world uniquely woven together by the distinctive imaginations of Criss Angel and Cirque du Soleil!
Comic musical & artistic show featuring lots of audience interaction with the blue-painted cast.
As The Beatles, they changed the world. LOVE, Cirque du Soleil's interpretation of their legacy, has changed entertainment. Beyond tribute, the show is a physical manifestation of their music and lyrics.
High Roller Night Ride
High Roller is a 550-foot tall, 520-foot diameter giant Ferris wheel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States of America. It opened to the public on March 31, 2014, and is currently the world's tallest Ferris wheel.
Admission (Optional): Adult $75; Child $75
See the hottest bachelorette party on the Strip. Guys dress as police officers, firemen, sailors, doctors, or a gladiator straight. These men are hot, and were voted the Las Vegas Review-Journal's readers as the Best Male Strip Show in 2011.
Admission (Optional): Adult $90; Over 18 yrs
Jabbawockeez was the first dance company to make headlines on Las Vegas Avenue. Their show "MS.IC" premiered at MGM Hotel in 2010. Jabbawockeez rose to fame in the "Best Dance Company of America" and has since attracted audiences with unique style.
Standard Hotel: Excalibur Hotel & Casino or similar
Day 7: Las Vegas - Barstow - Los Angeles(272 miles)
Follow your tour guide to capture selfies in the hotspot of Las Vegas - Las Vegas Welcome Signboard! Besides, before we leave Las Vegas, we can't forget to visit M&M'S Las Vegas and Coca-Cola Store Las Vegas! You will get to experience an in-depth tour of the two stores. You can also watch 3D movies in the sweet air! Following, we will take an adventure over to the Seven Magic Mountains. Finally, we will drive to Tanger Outlets in Barstow to enjoy some free-time shopping. After, we will continue to LA, where we will transfer you to the Los Angeles.
Kindly Reminder:
Guests who choose to end their tour in Las Vegas will not be able to visit the Seven Magic Mountains and Tanger Outlets. They will then later be transferred to the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, near McCarran International Airport.
The Las Vegas Sign is a quick must-see for any visitors. Conveniently located near the airport, it is easy to reach. Though there are no real activities on site, getting a picture of the iconic sign is obligatory when in Vegas.
Coca-Cola Store Las Vegas
Welcome to Coca-Cola Store Las Vegas! Make Coca-Cola Store part of your Las Vegas adventure! Experience the world's most iconic beverage brand in an immersive retail destination including exclusive Coca Cola branded merchandise, unique and entertaining experiences and true refreshment that inspires the senses.
This four-story store in Las Vegas, NV is dedicated to the candy-coasted-chocolate M&M's. In addition to selling every color under the sun, M&M's World also offers novelties, toys, home decor, luggage, t-shirts, and much more.
FlyOver Las Vegas
Experience a Las Vegas ride like no other on Las Vegas Boulevard! Feel the magic of flight through immersive, state-of-the-art technology that lets you dip, dive and glide over awe-inspiring landscapes without leaving The Strip. Adventure to the land of fire and ice to explore volcanoes, glaciers, history and legends as you soar across pristine Iceland. Or experience the West at its wildest. Glide over vast prairies and towering peaks, dip into valleys where untamed rivers rush and buzz through electric urban spaces pulsing with energy.
Seven Magic Mountains
A large-scale land art sculpture designed by Ugo Rondinone (born 1964), a New York-based, Swiss-born mixed-media artis. The seven fluorescently-painted totems of large, car-size stones stacked 32 feet high.
The Tanger Outlets in Barstow are a shopping oasis in the midst of the arid desert between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. This location offers some of the best prices on clothing, electronics, and much more.
Salt Lake City, UT 5575 W Amelia Earhart Dr, Salt Lake City, UT 84116 (Ramada by Wyndham Salt Lake City Airport Hotel )
Departure: After arriving at the airport, please take free shuttle and self check in at Ramada by Wyndham Salt Lake City or Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Salt Lake City Airport. Please provide Confirmation and valid ID upon check in. Note that hotel check-in is available after 3:00pm
Return Flight arrangement: There are still travel activities on the last day of the tour. Make sure to book a return flight departing from Los Angeles after 9:30pm (domestic flight) or 10:30pm (international flight) on the last day. We highly suggest booking air ticket(s) 1 hour later than suggested time during high season (summer holiday, national holidays).
Include a brown bag lunch in the day trip of Las Vegas- Grand Canyon/Antelope Canyon- Las Vegas
Blue Man (Optional) $133 $133 (Over 5 yrs)
CRISS ANGEL Believe Show (Optional) $110 $110 (Over 5 yrs)
David Copperfield (Optional) $123 $123 (Over 5 yrs)
Fantasy Show (Optional) $85 $85 (Over 18 yrs, Children must stay with an adult.)
High Roller Night Ride (Optional) $75 $75
Jabbawockeez (Optional) $96 $96
KA by Cirque du Soleil Show (Optional) $182 $182 (Over 5 yrs)
Las Vegas Night Tour (Optional) $45 $45
Las Vegas Welcome Signboard & M&M'S Las Vegas & Coca-Cola Store Las Vegas & FlyOver Las Vegas (Optional) $45 $34 (Over 40 inches, 1.016 meters)
The Beatles LOVE (Optional) $133 $133 (Over 5 yrs)
Thunder from Down Under (Optional) $90 /
Great Salt Lake (Optional) $40 $40
Mandatory Admissions: $150/person, including admission to Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Mt. Rushmore, Devil's Tower, Crazy Horse, Great Salt Lake.
For tours upgrade to Yellowstone Cabin:
46 days or more prior to departure - Room fee of Yellowstone Cabin $400/room/night non-refundable.
15-45 days prior to departure - Room fee of Yellowstone Cabin $400/room/night + 30% of total purchase amount (exclude Yellowstone Cabin) will be charged as penalty, around 50% of total purchase amount.
8-14 days prior to departure - Room fee of Yellowstone Cabin $400/room/night + 50% of total purchase amount (exclude Yellowstone Cabin) will be charged as penalty, around 70% of total purchase amount.
(If the tour will stay in Yellowstone Cabin: )
Within 30 days prior departure dates - Customers can NOT chagne names, add numbers of people or rooms
15-30 days prior to departure - 25% of total purchase amount plus $400/room penalty
8-14 days prior to departure - 50% of total purchase amount. plus $400/room penalty
The full refund will be credited directly to your account. The refund can also be forwarded directly to your credit card with a 10% handling fee.
Booking: Please book airline tickets after your tour booking is confirmed, which should be within 1 business day.
Language: All tours are escorted by professional bi- or multi-lingual tour and/or driver guides (English/Chinese). Depending on the number of passengers booked for a particular departure, tours and/or languages may be combined to operate the tours.
Hotel rooms: Each hotel room can accommodate no more than 4 guests (adults or children), and existing bedding must be used.
Chinese Visa holders: Please print out the EVUS form.
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Coronavirus: They cannot work from home. Or follow social distancing. Here is why
For those in the unorganised sector, staying off work could mean having no food on the table for several days.
Aarefa Johari
Mar 17, 2020 · 09:00 am
A woman walks past a mural of Buddha wearing a facemask amid concerns over the spread of the Covid-19 in Mumbai on March 16. | Indranil Mukherjee/ AFP
Raju Kamble has not heard the phrase "social distancing", but he is aware of the government and media advisories urging people to work from home, avoid crowds and maintain a safe distance from others to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. Ask him if he practices any of it, and Kamble merely laughs.
"I am a safai karmachari, my job is to pick up other people's garbage," said Kamble, a sanitation worker in suburban Mumbai. "How can people like us work from home?"
With another sardonic laugh, he brings up the caste identity shared by thousands of garbage collectors, sweepers and sewage cleaners across the city. "All of us in this line of work are Dalit, so people have always kept their distance from us," he declared.
At a time when a large section of urban India is isolating itself to limit the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, another large section of the country – the blue-collared working class – perceives the idea of social distancing as a luxury it cannot afford.
For labourers like Kamble who provide essential services to the public, working from home or avoiding crowded public transport is not an option. For daily wage earners and those in the unorganised sector, staying off work could mean having no food on the table for several days.
How, then, do these masses of marginalised Indians negotiate the fear and panic surrounding coronavirus? Is it fair or practical to expect them to implement social distancing?
'Can't afford to fall sick'
Covid-19, as the disease caused by the coronavirus is officially called, has infected more than 1.7 lakh people worldwide, killing more than 6,600. In India, the disease has so far caused two deaths and infected at least 114 people across 14 states. While these are the official figures, many fear that the number of infected people on the ground may be much higher, because of concerns that India is not testing enough people for coronavirus.
Across the world, healthcare experts agree that the only way to control the rapidly spreading disease and avoid overburdening national healthcare systems is to practice social distancing and limit human-to-human interactions. In the past week, several states across India put this into action by closing down schools, colleges, malls and movie theatres and, in the case of Karnataka, even banning social events involving more than 50 people. In the private sector, many workplaces are either asking or allowing employees to work from home.
For unorganised workers like Manda Ghonge, however, work has been going on as usual. A domestic worker from Andheri, Mumbai, Ghonge cooks and cleans in four middle-class homes, seven days a week. "My employers have told me not to come to work if I fall sick, but I don't know if I will be able to stop going to work if any of them fall sick," said Ghonge, 40, who lives with her husband and two children in a cramped local slum.
While Ghonge's employers have assured her that pay would not be cut if she needs to take sick leave, other domestic workers are not as fortunate. Kalpana Kale, a domestic worker from the same neighbourhood, has learnt from past experience that some employers always cut her salary for any leave lasting longer than a week.
"Most of the people I work for are not going to office anymore because of coronavirus, so I joke with them and tell them that even I should be able to do the same thing," said Kale, who has been annoyed that her employers merely laugh at her "joke" without acknowledging the point she tries to make. "I know they really need me, but I also know that they don't pay me when I am gone for long, so I can't afford to fall sick."
Manda Ghonge is a domestic worker in Mumbai. Photo: Aarefa Johari
'They don't care about our health'
Unlike domestic workers, other unorganised workers have been losing income even after showing up to work every day.
Auto driver Rajesh Kumar, for instance, has been plying fewer and fewer passengers every day for the past week, with his daily income dropping from Rs 800 to Rs 300 within days. "I have to keep working to support my family, and when passengers cough or sneeze in my auto, there is very little I can do about it," said Kumar, who has been driving an auto in suburban Mumbai for the past 25 years.
Kumar lives alone in a slum room and claims he has taken no precautions against coronavirus, because he believes it is a "rumour" that has been needlessly robbing him of his daily income. "If something bad has to happen, it will happen no matter what we do. I think people are just over-reacting to news in the media."
While Kamble, the sanitation worker, believes the coronavirus threat is real, he too is baffled by the "overreaction" of those in positions of privilege. "What is the big deal about this disease? Safai karmacharis suffer from cough, cold, viral fever and breathing problems all the time," said Kamble, whose services are particularly crucial to the city at a time like this, when public hygiene is so important.
Kamble finds it ironic that Mumbai's civic authorities and private contractors who hire sanitation workers are now providing many of them with face masks and gloves – protective gear that workers have been demanding for years as their right. "The government cares about providing us with masks and gloves only now, because of the media attention on the virus," he said. "They don't care about our health otherwise."
A class and caste bias
Several public healthcare professionals acknowledge that there is an unmistakable class and caste bias to India's response to the coronavirus threat, particularly with respect to social distancing. Economically and socially disadvantaged groups, whether urban or rural, have never been in a position to practice social isolation or distancing, even before the Covid-19 outbreak.
"Doctors talk about social distancing as part of routine clinical care, for tuberculosis, influenza and other communicable diseases," said Dr Vijay Gopichandran, a community medicine physician from Chennai. "But it has not been given as much attention before because it is not practical for the poor and marginalised, who navigate their lives by working and living close to other people."
In a recent article co-authored with other community medicine specialists, Gopichandran highlighted problems faced by cattle-grazers in Tamil Nadu who had no option but to live in close quarters with flu-infected relatives, and who were too impoverished to even think of skipping work during an illness. "Most public health advisories that have been released in the past few weeks are highly urban, upper- and middle-class centric," the article said.
According to Gopichandran, the concept of social distancing is not just impractical but also discriminatory if it is not accompanied by reciprocal welfare measures. "If people are expected to work from home, then perhaps the NREGA [National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme] should give everyone minimum wages to survive during that time," he said. "Perhaps rations should be delivered to families at their homes."
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Peter Lorre (született Löwenstein László) (Rózsahegy, 1904. június 26. – Los Angeles, 1964. március 23.) magyar származású amerikai színész, rendező.

Liptó vármegye Rózsahegy városának Fonógyár városrészében született (ma Szlovákia) 1904-ben. Apja Löwenstein Alajos könyvelő, anyja Freischberger Elvira. Megszökött otthonról, német nyelvterületen színészkedett, ebből a korszakból Fritz Lang M – Egy város keresi a gyilkost (1931) című filmjében nyújtott alakításával jegyezték meg a nézők. A nemzetiszocialisták térnyerése miatt Párizsba, onnan Londonba ment, ahol többek közt Hitchcockkal is dolgozott, végül Amerikában színészkedett.

Válogatott filmográfia
 M – Egy város keresi a gyilkost (M - Eine Stadt such einen Mörder), 1931, r: Fritz Lang
 Fehér démon (Stupéfiants), 1932, francia verzió, r: Kurt Gerron, Roger Le Bon
 Amiről az asszonyok álmodnak (Was Frauen traumen), 1933, D, r: Bolváry Géza
 Az ember, aki túl sokat tudott (The Man Who Knew Too Much) 1934, USA, r: Alfred Hitchcock
 Titkos ügynök (Secret Agent) 1936, USA, r: Alfred Hitchcock
 Köszönöm, Mr.Moto (Thank You, Mr. Moto), 1937, USA, r: Norman Foster
 Mr. Moto kockáztat (Mr. Moto's Gamble), 1938, USA, r: James Tingling
 Mr. Moto lehetőséget ad (Mr. Moto Takes a Chance), 1938, USA, r: Norman Foster
 Mr. Moto halálos titka (Mr. Moto's Last Warning) 1939, USA, r: Norman Foster
 A máltai sólyom (The Maltese Falcon), 1941, r: John Huston
 Casablanca, 1942, USA, r: Kertész Mihály
 Arzén és levendula, 1944, USA, r/d: Frank Capra
 Az ítélet (The Verdict), 1946, USA, r: Don Siegel
 Némó kapitány (20 000 Leaugues Under the Sea), 1954, USA, r: Richard Fleischer
  80 nap alatt a Föld körül (Around the World in 80 Days), 1956, USA, r: Michael Anderson
 A nagy cirkusz (The Big Circus), 1959, USA, r: Joseph M. Newman
 Utazás a tenger mélyére (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea), 1961, r:  Irwin Allen
 Rémtörténetek (Tales of Terror) - A fekete macska, 1962 USA, r: Roger Corman
 A holló (The Raven) 1963, USA, r: Roger Corman

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Application of a policy framework for the public funding of drugs for rare diseases
J Gen Intern Med. 2014 Aug;29 Suppl 3(Suppl 3):S774-9. doi: 10.1007/s11606-014-2885-y.
Eric Winquist 1 , Doug Coyle, Joe T R Clarke, Gerald A Evans, Christine Seager, Winnie Chan, Janet Martin
1 Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University; and London Health Sciences Centre, 790 Commissioners Road East, London, ON, Canada, N6A 4L6, Eric.winquist@lhsc.on.ca.
Background: In many countries, decisions about the public funding of drugs are preferentially based on the results of randomized trials. For truly rare diseases, such trials are not typically available, and approaches by public payers are highly variable. In view of this, a policy framework intended to fairly evaluate these drugs was developed by the Drugs for Rare Diseases Working Group (DRDWG) at the request of the Ontario Public Drug Programs.
Objective: To report the initial experience of applying a novel evaluation framework to funding applications for drugs for rare diseases.
Methods: Retrospective observational cohort study.
Measures: Clinical effectiveness, costs, funding recommendations, funding approval.
Key results: Between March 2008 and February 2013, eight drugs were evaluated using the DRDWG framework. The estimated average annual drug cost per patient ranged from 28,000 to 1,200,000 Canadian dollars (CAD). For five drugs, full evaluations were completed, specific funding recommendations were made by the DRDWG, and funding was approved after risk-sharing agreements with the manufacturers were negotiated. For two drugs, the disease indications were determined to be ineligible for consideration. For one drug, there was insufficient natural history data for the disease to provide a basis for recommendation. For the five drugs fully evaluated, 32 patients met the predefined eligibility criteria for funding, and five were denied based on predefined exclusion criteria.
Conclusions: The framework improved transparency and consistency for evaluation and public funding of drugs for rare diseases in Ontario. The evaluation process will continue to be iteratively refined as feedback on actual versus expected clinical and economic outcomes is incorporated.
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Q: Sound effect delayed after first time it's played I am using the SoundJS library within the CreateJS suite.  I use the LoadQueue class to preload all my sounds.  I am finding that when I go to play a sound effect for the first time it's delayed by a good half second before it plays.  After the first play, it will play perfectly after that.
The problem also re-occurrs if you don't play any sounds for a minute or so.  Then playing a sound effect will have that delay on first play.
Any idea why?  Is there a work around to fix the issue?  (ie. playing background music at 0% volume.
Here is my code (using typescript) :
import ReelStop from "../sound/reelstop.mp3";

private queue = new createjs.LoadQueue();

this.queue.installPlugin(createjs.Sound);
this.queue.on("complete", this.handleComplete, this);
this.queue.addEventListener("progress", this.onProgress);
this.queue.loadManifest([
    // other sounds and images
    {id: "reelStop", src: ReelStop},
]);

// after the preload complete has fired, the first time the sound is played there is that 500ms+ delay :

const reelStop= createjs.Sound.play("reelStop");
reelStop.volume = 0.5;

Thanks in advance for any ideas you may have

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Text & Portrait by Zoe Zimmer	Film	Most Read Film
This interview took six months to do. It was done in two different countries, over two different time zones, scheduled and rescheduled numerous times through various assistants. It had to be worked around tour dates, Grammy rehearsals and Oscar press. It's without a shadow of a doubt that I can declare Hans Zimmer the Hardest Working Man in Show Business. And I should know, because I'm his daughter.
If you've been to the movies at all in the past 20 years you'll have heard a Zimmer score—they're hard to miss. After doing some light Googling I've found that my father has worked on close to 200 movies since the mid '80s—everything from The Lion King to The Dark Knight. Action, drama, romance, comedy, animated, good, bad, big, small, he's done them all. And I'm fairly certain he'll keep doing them all until he drops dead at the keyboard.
He is not your average father—or your average composer. And he's definitely not your conventional human being. His work, his music, is what gets him out of bed and down the stairs every morning and keeps him in a studio until the early hours of the following morning. What he does is who he is, and I'm immensely proud of him.
My dad is my favorite person to have a long chat with about life and work and everything in between. The following conversation is just one of our many… except this time it's on the record.
ZOE ZIMMER: OK, this thing is recording now, so let's both try to keep the swearing and bad jokes to a minimum, yeah?
HANS ZIMMER: That's asking a lot…
ZZ: No shit. OK, but really, let's talk about some stuff. Let's start easy: Where do you consider home?
HZ:Nowhere.
ZZ: Jesus, really? I guess that wasn't starting easy after all.
HZ: Yeah, seriously. It's something that really bothers me. I don't know… I think language is partly home.
ZZ: Does it bother you that none of your kids speak German?
HZ: No, but it bothers me that none of my kids have the same accent as me. Anyway, I think if I had to go and declare a place "home," it would be England, but I don't think the English would ever see me as one of their own. Home… I don't know, I'm a traveler, I suppose. I'm a gypsy in a funny sort of way. It's wherever the project is, y'know? It's wherever there are musicians I want to play with. Look, at the end of the day, I'm an entertainer, the way musicians always have been, and we just go from place to place wherever people want to hear our music.
ZZ: Well, for a long time you were definitely based in L.A.
HZ: Well, "based" is different from "home." I suppose my studio is home. I mean, my room is more a home than a studio.
ZZ: That studio's kind of been everyone's home at one time or another. I know it has been for me. I mean, I basically grew up in the back of a recording studio.
HZ: Right, exactly and you didn't turn out so bad! The thing about the studio is that it's an interesting place full of interesting people, and that should always make you feel at home. It's full of possibilities, and there's a creative dynamic that goes on there. There's kind of a weird sense of community, but it's not a community in the normal sense of the word. I mean, everyone's ego is pretty big.
ZZ: Really big.
HZ: And everyone's a little bit odd…
ZZ: Really odd. But really great.
HZ: And I think the only thing that we all really have in common is not so much even the music, it's really just that none of us would be able to get a job anywhere else.
ZZ: Right, you're really all just a big band of outcasts who got lucky.
HZ: Precisely.
ZZ: And there are a lot of outcasts right now—I mean, the studio is just getting bigger and bigger. It might be your home, but it's also the size of a small village. Do you think it's just going to keep growing? Do you want it to keep growing?
HZ: No, I think we have enough buildings now, don't you?
ZZ: I think if there were anymore buildings you would have to start handing out Segways or small ponies for people to get around.
HZ: Definitely small ponies. But you know, I like people moving in and out of there. I like the atmosphere changing and people progressing. What I love is when people get their own careers together, and then they leave and they do their own versions of it, y'know?Like Harry [Gregson-Williams, Shrek] and John [Powell, How to Train Your Dragon] and people like that. And I like new people coming in; I think it's interesting. I think it's interesting that I created this little magnet that draws people in from all over the world, and sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't, but it's always interesting.
ZZ: Does it piss you off when people question the way the studio works? In terms of having people write for you—you know, when it's made out to be Hans Zimmer's Musical Sweatshop?
HZ: Well,they can't have it both ways. Because on the one hand I get knocked for "sounding the same," which of course doesn't actually make any sense—look at the films I did with Ridley [Scott], and that's just one filmmaker: Thelma & Louise doesn't sound anything like Gladiator, which doesn't sound anything like Black Hawk Down, which doesn't sound anything like Hannibal, which doesn't sound anything like Black Rain, which doesn't sound anything like Matchstick Men…
ZZ: I really liked Matchstick Men.
HZ: So did I, but I think we were the only ones. So anyway, on the one hand there's obviously a very strong imprint in the architecture of the studio, and on the other hand… I mean, you already know all of this. I write these pieces and they're very complete, everything's done on them—the orchestration, everything. But like everybody, I need assistants. I'm the architect, but I need a couple of bricklayers, y'know? Do you think Michelangelo painted every square inch of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? Probably not—it would have killed him if he had to do it all by himself!
ZZ: Fair enough. So do you think people who make those assumptions are just uninformed about the system? Because assisting and writing additional music is basically how you get your foot in the door, right?
HZ: Well, yes and no. It didn't really used to be like that. When I got to Hollywood it was slightly different. The studios had orchestrators and arrangers on staff, and they never really got credit for anything. They were just "Backroom Boys." So now I really do fight for credits for people, even really small credits. It's important to me that people get to participate, and that they get credit and that they are visible, so I really do fight fort hem. They might not be the architects, but it's still their time that they give me, that they give to these projects.
ZZ: Interstellar was all you though, wasn't it?
HZ: All me. Interstellar nobody got to write a single note on other than me. And although a lot of musicians played on it, one of the things we tried to preserve was the singularity of my touch and my vision, and literally me playing every note. I mean, on all of these scores I have at one time or another played every single note. But unfortunately the story of me just sitting there by myself and writing is far less exciting and scandalous than the idea of assistants and ghostwriters.
ZZ: Talking about all this always makes me wish I played an instrument. I thought that the other day when I saw Whiplash. I mean, you really hogged all the musical talent in the family. Do you ever wish any of us, your kids, were more musical?
HZ: No. I love that you are all musical imbeciles.
ZZ: Whoa whoa whoa. Hey now…
HZ: No, what I mean is, I think it's really hard tofollowinthe footsteps of anybody. And I think it's really important that you go and make your own path. What I say to all of you is "follow your dream," but at the same time I'm saying "don't be stupid." There are all these people who think following a dream means that you have to be some big star or something. All I'm saying is if you want to become a great plumber, or a great chef, or a great whatever, then do it. Just be a great you, and don't take no for an answer.
ZZ: I know. You've always said that. You've always been very supportive of whatever I've wanted to do. And yeah, of course it can be daunting being related to someone who's not only successful, but so successful in such a creative industry. Growing up with that made me feel like it wasn't about finding a job, it was about finding a passion.
HZ: I know, but I try to be a shining example to you—to all of my kids—that the impossible is possible. Having a passion for something is a tricky thing. There are many ways of going about that passion—you can make it your job or you can make it your hobby, and both are equally valid. You got one life, it ain't that long, so you may as well…
ZZ: Make it count? Have a good time? Don't fuck it up?
HZ: Yeah, but more than a good time. Get real pleasure out of it, not just fun. Feel it all, have conflict, have difficulties, suffer for it a little bit, y'know?
ZZ: God, that's so German of you.
HZ: Yes! But you need it. When your mum and I were first together the electricity used to always get turned off because I wouldn't pay the bill, and it's really hard to be an electronic musician with no electricity! But yeah, I know a lot of really talented musicians who will never really make it, because people realized they were talented early on so there wasn't enough opposition. And you need that, you need friction, you need struggle. Life needs to scare you sometimes; you have to respect it and be in awe of it. So yeah, be a little scared, let it freak you out. I don't know, maybe you shouldn't be listening to my advice.
ZZ: No, I always like your advice. Even if I don't always listen to it. In fact, one of my favorite bits of advice from you was: "Remember, nothing's less attractive to a man than a weeping woman."
HZ: [Laughs.] It's true! It's true! That's some great fatherly advice! I try to be useful, y'know? We have good chats, right?When we're together, I try to give everything there is, I try to come up with ideas…
ZZ: You are useful. I always say that I'd rather have you be the father you are now, rather than the father you weren't when I was growing up, y'know? You were terrible at playing Barbies, but if I'm having trouble with work? Breakup with a boyfriend? Need to know where to buy the best macaroons? You're the first person I call.
HZ: Oh, man. The Barbies…
ZZ: I know, you still have Barbie PTSD. Sorry. Let's talk about something less traumatic. Do you get bored? I sometimes worry you get bored of writing for (insert name of generic comic book movie sequel/prequel).
HZ: Bored? No, not bored. You know, all those big movies still bring me something, they still bring a challenge. Whether it's Spider-Man or Superman or whatever, I strive to do something different everytime. And I get to work with new people, new musicians who have a fresh take on it all, even if it is a sequel. And I try to do new things too, like the shows last year. [Zimmer played two live shows in London at the Eventim Apollo in October 2014.] That was new, it was exciting, and terrifying—I mean, you know how petrified I get about going on stage.
ZZ: Yeah, but only a few of us know. You always pull it off. And you always have a great time in the end, right? If you don't then you fake it really well. You looked like you were having the time of your life at the Grammys with Pharrell…
HZ: I do have a good time, despite the fear. After the first show in London, which was terrifying, I thought maybe the stage fright would get better on the next night. I thought maybe I would learn something, but of course it wasn't better. And I realized that it's not about it "getting better," that's just how I'm built, y'know? I get freaked out. So just do it. Do it despite everything else, because if I don't do it I think it would be something I would regret.
ZZ: So what do you wanna do now?
HZ: I sometimes wish I could just watch an awful lot of television in bed and not engage in the next battle, y'know? But I can't, you know I can't. I think part of what happens is—I don't think there's any middle ground. I think you're either very successful or you're not successful at all. I think if you're in that middle ground then the magnetic pull is always to the bottom. I think being a guitarist playing songs in a subway station and doing a hundred-million-dollar movie are equally great. But the slithering around in the middle is not so great. And the middle ground is really where the sharks swim. They don't swim at the top or the bottom—all the uninspiring people you don't want to hang out with are in the middle ground.
ZZ: Do you remember telling me what the Four Stages of a Career were? "1. Who is Hans Zimmer? 2. Get me Hans Zimmer. 3. Get me someone who sounds like Hans Zimmer. 4. Who is Hans Zimmer?"
HZ: [Laughs—a lot.] Right!
ZZ: Do you worry about what stage you're in?
HZ: Nah, not really. I'm not done, y'know? I still have more to say.
ZZ: Well, yeah, you're not really the type to retire and move to Florida.
HZ: No way. Musicians don't think about retirement. My hero is [the late British comic magician] Tommy Cooper, for all sorts of reasons. For his humor, for his crazy fez, for his courage for going out on the stage and failing. His jokes going wrong, his magic tricks going wrong, and mainly for having a laugh at himself. Even his death, people weren't sure it was real for a while. And he died doing what he loved, he died in the place that he loved… standing on a stage.
ZZ: Don't get any ideas…
HZ: That's just it—I'm going to be here until the ideas run out.
ZZ: Glad to hear it, Daddy. Now let's go get some dinner.
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Immunity to Infection
Part 3: Low Blood Cholesterol Compromises Immune Function
There is a substantial amount of evidence that relatively low cholesterol levels in apparently healthy individuals is associated with increased subsequent mortality from cancer. It is also associated with other, non-heart related deaths. A group at the Center for Clinical Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, tested whether the effectiveness of their immune systems differed in individuals with high and low levels of blood cholesterol.[i] The low cholesterol group's cholesterol averaged 3.9 mmol/L (151 mg/dL); the high cholesterol group averaged 6.8 mmol/L (261 mg/dL). The immune systems of the men in the low cholesterol group were significantly less effective than those of the high cholesterol group. This finding was not surprising as several studies have shown that cholesterol is necessary for the proper functioning of blood cells — macrophages and lymphocytes — that form part of our immune systems. For this reason low blood cholesterol undoubtedly adversely affects our bodies' ability to fight infection. This could well be another reason why infectious diseases are becoming more prevalent in our society.
Tuberculosis (TB), a disease thought to have been conquered decades ago, is returning. It has been noticed that low levels of cholesterol are common in patients suffering from TB. TB patients with low cholesterol also have higher death rates, particularly those cases with small (military) nodules. A hospital for respiratory diseases tested whether giving TB patients high-cholesterol meals would be effective in treating their condition.[ii] They split patients into two groups. One had meals containing 800 mg of cholesterol per day; the other had 250 mg of cholesterol per day. The trial was a success. By the second week, the numbers of TB bacteria in sputum was reduced 80% in the high-cholesterol group; it was only reduced by 9% in the low-cholesterol group. High-cholesterol diets now form part of the treatment for TB.
Infections and deaths in surgical patients
Low cholesterol is also linked to increased susceptibility to infection, including development of postoperative infection,[iii] and it predicts death and adverse outcomes in hospitalised patients.[iv] While some of this could be due to illness causing lower cholesterol, it may also be that low cholesterol contributes to illness; indeed, animal studies suggest lipoproteins may serve to protect against bacterial infection-induced death.[v]
It has been suggested in cases of critical surgical illness that a low cholesterol level is more likely to lead to the development of organ failure and death.
A study of patients undergoing surgery for gastrointestinal diseases at the Universita di L'Aquila in Italy, found that 'Hypocholesterolemia [low blood cholesterol] seems to represent a significant predictive factor of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients.'[vi] Of the patients studied, 35.1% contracted a postoperative infection. The highest incidence of postoperative septic complications (72.7%) was encountered in patients with cholesterol levels below 2.73 mmol/L (105 mg/dl). The authors say 'The results of this study seem to indicate a significant relationship between preoperative hypocholesterolemia and the incidence of septic complications after surgery. Moreover, evaluation of blood cholesterol levels before major surgery might represent a predictive factor of septic risk in the postoperative period.'
Low cholesterol levels have also been associated clinically with the development of hospital infections. A study conducted at the Department of Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, set out to verify this. They found that lower levels of total cholesterol, and of LDL and HDL occurred early in the course of critical illness; this led to the development of a hospital infection; and with or without the infection, lower cholesterol was independently associated with a higher death rate.[vii] The authors conclude: 'Decreased serum cholesterol concentration is an independent predictor of mortality in critically ill surgical patients. Repletion of serum lipids is a feasible therapeutic approach for the management of critical illness.'
Many patients in hospitals have or acquire infections during or after major abdominal surgery. The Department of Surgery at the Catholic University, Rome, Italy, conducted a study to identify factors that influenced mortality in patients who are affected by such infections.[viii] The hospital records of patients who had had a variety of abdominal operations and who had acquired an infection such as peritonitis were reviewed. Checking deaths against a battery of blood measurements, the authors of the study found that low cholesterol levels and low protein levels were both 'strongly and independently associated with the outcome'.
Professor Uffe Ravnskov would not be at all surprised. He found that: 'There is much evidence that blood lipids play a key role in the immune defence system. Bacterial endotoxin and Staphylococcus aureus a-toxin bind rapidly to and become inactivated by low-density-lipoprotein (LDL).'[ix] (Staphylococcus aureus is what the 'SA' in MRSA stands for.) Ravnskov also pointed out that 'Total cholesterol is inversely associated with mortality caused by respiratory and digestive disease, the aetiologies of which are mostly infectious. Total cholesterol is also inversely associated with the risk of being admitted to hospital because of an infectious disease.' In other words, if you have low cholesterol, you are more likely to end up in hospital and more likely to contract an infection while there.
[i]. Muldoon MF, Marsland A, Flory JD, et al. Immune system differences in men with hypo- or hypercholesterolemia. Clin Immunol Immunopathol 1997; 84: 145-9.
[ii]. Perez-Guzman C, Vargas, MH, Quinonez, F, et al. A Cholesterol-Rich Diet Accelerates Bacteriologic Sterilization in Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Chest 2005; 127: 643-651.
[iii]. Leardi S, Altilia F, Delmonaco S, et al. Blood levels of cholesterol and postoperative septic complications. Ann Ital Chir 2001; 71: 233-237.
[iv]. Crook MA, Velauthar U, Moran L, Griffiths W. Hypocholesterolaemia in a hospital population. Ann Clin Biochem 1999; 36: 613-616.
[v]. Read TE, Harris HW, Grunfeld C, et al. The protective effect of serum lipoproteins against bacterial lipopolysaccharide. Eur Heart J 1993; 14(suppl K): 125-129.
[vi]. Leardi S, Altilia F, Delmonaco S, et al. Op cit.
[vii]. Bonville DA, Parker TS, Levine DM, et al. The relationships of hypocholesterolemia to cytokine concentrations and mortality in critically ill patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome. Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2004; 5: 39-49.
[viii]. Pacelli F, Doglietto GB, Alfieri S, et al. Prognosis in intra-abdominal infections. Multivariate analysis on 604 patients. Arch Surg 1996; 131: 641-5.
[ix]. Uffe Ravnskov. High Cholesterol May Protect Against Infections and Atherosclerosis. Quart J Med 2003; 96: 927-34.
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Philly's Pre-K Program Gets Good Report Card From City ControllerAs it nears the end of its first year, Philadelphia's pre-K program gets good marks from city controller Alan Butkovitz.
Philadelphia Celebrates First Day Of Newly Funded Pre-K InitiativeParents brought their toddlers to one new expanded center in Northeast Philadelphia.
All Systems Are Go For Philadelphia's Pre-K ExpansionWith Philadelphia's soda tax receiving court approval this month, the city's pre-kindergarten expansion is on track to begin next Wednesday.
Only About Half Of New City Funded Pre-K Slots Are FilledAbout 1,200 of the 2,000 available seats are filled so far, says the mayor's Education Secretary Otis Hackney.
Philly Pre-K Providers Answer Call For New SeatsAs Philadelphia gears up to expand pre-kindergarten citywide, 85 early childhood centers have applied to provide new slots for pre-schoolers.
Group Makes Case For Increased Funding For Pre-K EducationCraig's Mission Readiness is one of the groups behind the report on STEM and early childhood education.
Philadelphia Officials Discuss Importance Of Pre-K With Administrators From Other CitiesAt the heart of the city's soda tax debate is the mayor's plan to expand city-funded pre-K seats.
Providing Pre-K For Every Philadelphia Child No Easy MatterThe Commission, created by voters in May, estimates 14,000 3-5-year-olds are already in a quality pre-school, but another 16,000 would need to be enrolled to achieve universal Pre-K.
Pa. Lawmakers Wrangle Over Budget, Some Education Programs In LimboPennsylvania lawmakers have spent months wrangling over the budget and the impact of the impasse is being felt statewide. The stalemate could have long-term effects on some of the state's most vulnerable: children.
New Philadelphia Pre-K Funding Commission May Be Decided By Voters This SpringCouncilwoman Jannie Blackwell says a permanent commission to promote enrollment -- and to better fund Pre-K -- is needed.
Older Kindergarten Students May Have Advantage In High School And CollegeA new study finds the oldest children in their kindergarten class are more likely to pass advanced placement tests in high school.


EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J., Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVNT) today announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has assigned a product-specific billing code, or J-code, for KRYSTEXXA® (pegloticase), which is used for the treatment of chronic gout in adult patients refractory to conventional therapy. The new J-code, J2507, becomes effective on January 1, 2012.
"This is an important milestone for Savient, and we are very pleased that CMS has issued a J-code for KRYSTEXXA," said John H. Johnson, Chief Executive Officer and President of Savient Pharmaceuticals. "While it may take three to six months from its effective date for the J-code to be loaded into the entire payer system, the J-code should enable more rapid reimbursement for providers. The J-code should facilitate reimbursement for providers who treat patients suffering from the severe and debilitating disease of refractory chronic gout and who rely on Medicare and Medicaid."
KRYSTEXXA® (pegloticase) is a PEGylated uric acid specific enzyme for administration by intravenous infusion for the treatment of refractory chronic gout (RCG) in adult patients. KRYSTEXXA became commercially available in the U.S. by prescription on December 1, 2010, and is the only U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved product specifically indicated for the treatment of RCG. KRYSTEXXA is not recommended for the treatment of asymptomatic hyperuricemia. For more information about KRYSTEXXA, please visit: http://www.krystexxa.com/.
Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing KRYSTEXXA® (pegloticase) for the treatment of chronic gout in adult patients refractory to conventional therapy. Savient has exclusively licensed worldwide rights to the technology related to KRYSTEXXA and its uses from Duke University ("Duke") and Mountain View Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("MVP").Duke developed the recombinant uricase enzyme and MVP developed the PEGylation technology used in the manufacture of KRYSTEXXA. MVP and Duke have been granted U.S. and foreign patents disclosing and claiming the licensed technology and, in addition, Savient owns or co-owns U.S. and foreign patents and patent applications, which collectively form a broad portfolio of patents covering the composition, manufacture and methods of use and administration of KRYSTEXXA. Savient also manufactures and supplies Oxandrin® (oxandrolone tablets, USP) CIII in the U.S. For more information, please visit the Company's website at www.savient.com.
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Scientists Warn Against Potentially Deadly "Dry Scooping" TikTok Challenge
A social media trend has got scientists worried after research revealed that millions of young people may have seen videos of the new craze on TikTok and other social media channels. Known as "dry scooping", the challenge involves eating spoonfuls of undiluted pre-workout supplements. This can cause serious respiratory or cardiovascular complications – possibly even leading to death.
Pre-workout powders generally contain high amounts of caffeine, plus amino acids and various other compounds that are supposed to give exercisers a boost. Designed to be diluted in liquid, these products can be highly dangerous when ingested neat.
Little research has been conducted into the safety or efficacy of pre-workout powders, and many contain ingredients that are not suitable for children, which is why their sale is typically restricted to adults. However, a new study set to be presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics 2021 National Conference and Exhibition this weekend reveals that these products are becoming increasingly popular among teenagers.
Even worse, youngsters have begun filming themselves dry scooping and uploading the resulting videos to social media as a means of gaining popularity. To investigate the extent of this new craze, the study authors searched TikTok using the hashtag "preworkout", and analyzed the content of 100 videos that appeared in the results.
Of these videos, 31 featured dry scooping, and had amassed more than 8 million cumulative likes. A further 11 videos depicted users improperly mixing or ingesting supplements, while seven involved diluting pre-workout powders in inappropriate liquids such as alcohol or energy drinks. In total, only eight of the 100 videos depicted the correct use of supplements.
"'Dry scooping,' one particularly risky method of consumption, entails putting undiluted powder into one's mouth followed by sips of liquid," write the study authors. "The highly concentrated powder can lead to choking, accidental inhalation, overconsumption, injury, and death."
Given the popularity of TikTok among kids, the researchers warn that the prevalence of dry scooping videos "may mislead millions of impressionable minors into improper use of pre-workout, which could lead to respiratory or cardiovascular distress and/or death."
Earlier this year, 20-year-old social media influencer Briatney Portillo posted a video on TikTok in which she appeared in a hospital gown with a clown filter over her face. The brief video goes on to explain that she had suffered a heart attack after dry scooping before a workout, having previously come across the challenge trending on TikTok.
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Speaking to Buzzfeed, Portillo revealed that her entire body soon "started to feel tingly and itchy." She later experienced chest pains and numbness in her left arm, at which point she called for an ambulance. Though she was fortunate to recover with no lasting damage, the episode provides a stark warning as to the dangers of dry scooping.


One-way communication is useful when we want to provide factual information to a recipient or when we are looking to persuade an audience to gain cooperation. However, outside of business, most of our interpersonal relationships should involve two-way communication.
Otherwise, we end up with bad habits such as: lecturing, yelling, criticizing, blaming, ordering, bossing, nagging, and droning on to a bored audience. These habits can be toxic to relationships, whether it's with your family, your romantic partner, your friends, coworkers, or a service provider like your doctor.
Whether talking or listening, you will find that there is much you can do to foster two-way communication for better relationships. Often, modeling the practice yourself will encourage others to mirror the same.
Are you giving the right feedback?
As Dr. Brené Brown, research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, points out, "vulnerability is at the heart of the feedback process" – so providing positive feedback is an effective way of connecting emotionally with another person.
Sitting next to a person, rather than across from them.
Using nonverbal communication like nodding and eye contact to show you're engaged.
Asking questions so you can fully understand the issue.
Acknowledging what the other person does well.
Recognizing the other person's strengths and how he or she could use them to solve a problem.
Being willing to own your part or responsibility in a disagreement or conflict.
Holding others accountable without blaming or shaming.
Discussing growth opportunities through the resolution of the matter.
Taking ownership of feelings without jumping to conclusions.
It's important to remember that some people are sharing because they need to "get things off their chest," they need a sounding board for their own ideas, or they are seeking sympathy and support. Your natural inclination may be to solve these problems, but sometimes less is best. Sometimes a shoulder to cry on or lending an ear is all that is needed and the best approach is to show you are an active listener.
Are you opening the door for two-way communication?
Practice the 7 C's of effective conversation.
Try talking to people as you are walking or participating in a side-by-side activity.
Ask the other person directly how they think or feel about what you've just said.
Focus on the other person, rather than yourself – praising others for their contributions.
Communicate to express, not to impress – using clear words and avoiding jargon.
Leave room for the other person to speak with silence or pauses.
If you're looking to live well and surround yourself with greater positivity, two-way communication will encourage success in all the relationships you're trying to cultivate.


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Lunar eclipse coincides with winter solstice
Lunar eclipse: Rare event delights skywatchers
The total lunar eclipse falls on the same day as the winter solstice, a rare cosmic event that hasn't occurred in centuries.
By Martin Weil and Debbi Wilgoren
Tuesday, December 21, 2010; 9:38 AM
There are not many days like Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. Take it from people who know: astronomers. There was maybe one day like this Tuesday in the past 2,000 years.
The total eclipse of the moon, which delighted skywatchers in the pre-dawn hours, will be followed later in the day by the arrival of the winter solstice.
A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth blocks the sun's rays from the face of the moon. The moon is then fully in the shadow cast in space by the Earth.
In a clear, cold sky over Washington, the full moon slowly slipped into shadow starting just after 1:30 a.m. People gathered at the Washington Monument, along the George Washington Parkway and at other prime viewing spots - or on their decks and in their backyards - to watch as its bright white glow gave way to a coppery, luminescent orange.
Scattered across the rest of the night sky, the stars appeared brighter than usual in contrast.
(See photos of the eclipse.)
The last time the solstice coincided with a total lunar eclipse on the same calendar day was long before any of our lifetimes, experts say. The year, according to Geoff Chester, public affairs officer at the U.S. Naval Observatory, was 1638. (Starhawk, a prominent Wiccan, told The Washington Post in an essay that the two events have not coincided since 1544.)
Chester said his research took him back to the first year of the common era and involved consulting with "a number of well-respected sources." His finding, essentially was this: "It's a comparatively rare event."
For scientists, Chester added, the coinciding of the two celestial events does not appear to have any cosmic significance.
But for Wiccans, astrologists and others, Starhawk wrote, the coincidence offers an opportunity to "step out of time. We are free of the past, and we can consciously create the future, for ourselves, for our communities, for the earth."
Few alive today are likely to see a recurrence. The next time the winter solstice and a total lunar eclipse will occur on the same calendar day will be Dec. 21, 2094.
The total eclipse began about 2:40 a.m. and lasted 72 minutes, until 3:52 a.m. The moon then continued moving through the Earth's shadow, emerging completely sometime after 5 a.m.
The winter solstice, which occurs later in the day, is the time when the sun reaches its lowest point in the northern sky. The Naval Observatory said this year's solstice will be at 6:38 p.m.
The day of the solstice is essentially the shortest of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Many people consider to be the official start of the winter season.
This year, however, many people will require little convincing that winter has already begun. If temperature is any measure of wintriness, it is clear that December has been much colder than average in Washington.
weilm@washpost.com wilgorend@washpost.com


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Q: Is "forgive" di-transitive? I know that I can say

We would forgive the mistake (that) he has made.

I am wondering if I can reword this into

We would forgive him the mistake (that) he has made.

I have seen a few of such ditransitive structures on the internet and I am not 100 percent sure weather it is a proper English. Any discussion is appreciated.

A: Yes, you can absolutely do that.  It is perfectly idiomatic


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Home news Opus Dei settlement settlement after celebrity priest (Reports)
Opus Dei settlement settlement after celebrity priest (Reports)
Opus Dei settlement settlement after celebrity priest accused of groping woman.
Opus Dei, an influential Catholic organization, paid nearly a million dollars to settle a case against a woman accusing one of its most prominent priests of sexual misconduct in 2005.
As first reported by the Washington Post on Monday, the organization – founded in Spain in 1928 and established as a personal prelature by Pope John Paul II – settled a complaint against Father C.J. McCloskey, a noted conservative priest who helped a number of powerful conservatives convert to Catholicism, including now Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback and Larry Kudlow, who currently serves as the Director of the National Economic Council.
At the time of the incident, in 2002, McCloskey was head of the Catholic Information Center (CIC), a bookstore and hub of Catholic intellectual and spiritual life on K Street in Washington.
According to the Post report, the woman was receiving spiritual direction from McCloskey at the time due to "marital troubles and spiritual depression," when the priest allegedly groped her on multiple occasions.
She went on to note that the incidents only furthered her depression and led to her leaving her employment. She also told the Post that she spoke to McCloskey about her "misperceived guilt over the interaction" during confession and he absolved her.
The victim, who has chosen to remain anonymous, is in her fifties and continues to be involved in Opus Dei. She expressed satisfaction with their handling of the case and said she chose to tell her story in case there are other victims who experienced similar treatment.
Brian Finnerty, a U.S. spokesman for Opus Dei, said that they are currently investigating two other misconduct allegations that have yet to be substantiated.
He also noted that this is the only settlement the order has ever had to pay out in the United States and that is was paid for by an anonymous donor.
In a statement posted online on Monday, the CIC, which operates under the auspices of the archdiocese of Washington and not Opus Dei, said the Post's report was the first they had heard of the settlement.
"While Fr. McCloskey's misconduct long predates the current CIC leadership, we are deeply saddened by this news," said the statement. "We wish to sincerely apologize – and offer our fervent prayers – to the victim, and anyone else who has suffered because of this misconduct by Fr. McCloskey."
Following the settlement, McCloskey was removed from his post and restrictions were placed on his public ministry.
McCloskey, a former Wall Street banker, was ordained a priest in 1981. He previously served as a chaplain at Princeton University before beginning his post at the CIC.
4 Arrested in Connection with LA Celebrity Burglaries (Reports)
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Monkey selfie lawsuit ends in settlement, Report
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Johnson and Johnson implant claims, settlement involves no admission
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