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What are post-wedding blues, and why do they happen?
Nicole Kinning
As I write this, it has been seventy-one days since I got married.Unopened Target gift registry boxes still border the walls of my storage room, and cards from guests line my desk. My wedding dress hangs in my closet, still brown at the skirt's edges from our reception's beer-covered dance floor, but I can't bring myself to take it to the dry cleaner. Part of me is still holding onto pieces of my wedding, grasping at everything that lingers from the best day of my life.
Before I got married, I had heard of the post-wedding blues and had even experienced them in mild form as a bridesmaid. But from a bride's perspective, I had no idea what I was in for. Since the moment I stepped back into reality after my honeymoon in Mexico, I've felt a hard-to-shake, overwhelming feeling of sadness and loss of purpose. After a quick Google search and speaking with a few newlywed friends, I learned that I was not alone in my feelings.
Major moments in our life disappear in the snap of a finger. Licensed professional counselor Jessica Mostaffa says that people can grieve the end of happy life events as much as they can sad ones.
"It is common to feel a void or like all the air was let out of a balloon after a big event," Mostaffa says. "People think grief is equated only with death, but we can experience grief and loss feelings after big events like a wedding."
Mostaffa, who works at Wild Hope therapy services in Brookside, says possible reasons individuals feel depressed after their wedding could include unmet expectations or hopes for what the day might have been, feeling like they lost out on the joy of planning, missing the positive attention surrounding the big event, or unexpected or traumatic changes as a result of the event.
Along with plain sadness, other feelings recent brides and grooms might experience are worry or ruminating thoughts: Do I regret the flowers I picked? Should I have hired a videographer? Did I seem grateful enough or say hello to every guest?
Mostaffa also says that after a wedding can be a lonely time for individuals, which is something that they don't expect or prepare for. "Planning and preparing for a big event, like a wedding or having a baby, gives individuals social attention and connection through important relationships," she says. "When that's over, people report feeling sad about not getting that special attention or connection anymore."
My husband echoes this sentiment: "You think so much about the big event and everything leading up to that weekend that you never take the time to appreciate the fact that this is most likely the only time that you'll have all of the most important people in your life in the same room."
Licensed marriage and family therapist and owner of the Kansas City Relationship Institute in Independence Paul Busk says that this time in a couple's life—"the honeymoon stage"—can also be challenging for relationships.
"Couples go through developmental stages, just like an individual would, and a wedding or any other major step or transition in relationships like moving in together, getting a pet together, getting married, having kids, changing careers—those transition moments can often shine a light on some growth areas that we might have as people," he says. He adds that coming back from a honeymoon and realizing that, all of a sudden, everything is not perfect and people have to go to work, clean the house and take care of everyday responsibilities might create dissonance between reality and expectation.
Busk says that this, in turn, can cause couples to face challenges like failing to communicate with each other, shutting down, not having sex and experiencing lack of motivation to help with everyday duties like doing the dishes and folding laundry.
For couples experiencing any of these issues, Busk recommends addressing the situation with your partner.
"Start a conversation where you put your partner at ease," he says. "Say: 'Hey, I'm not trying to get you to save me. I'm not trying to get you to fix me. I'm not trying to get you to take responsibility. I'm not trying to get you to apologize, even. I'm just trying to get you to sit with me as I kind of talk through how I'm feeling.'"
Nicole Bradley is Kansas City magazine's former Associate Editor and forever friend.


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Still water on a cloudless winter day, reflections of spruce mirrored in the water. Clean white snow untouched, silence of wilderness around. It's as if heaven has touched the earth and the photographer was graced by it's presence.


Mikatan has just posted an entry on her blog announcing a special re-release of the Miku Nendoroid. Please read on for more information and pictures.
Updated with overseas pre-order information.
Here comes Nendoroid Miku…. AGAIN! If you haven't had the luck to grab her before, here is your chance, though this will be a great addition to any collection. But this time you'll be able to not only get everything the original Nendoroid came with, but also an extra face and accessories.
The announcement also stated that Good Smile Company will support the victims of the recent Japanese earthquakes by donating 1,000 yen for each sale to the Japanese Red Cross.
GSC's online store will start taking Japanese orders on their GSC Online Shop starting on March 25th until April 8th, 2011 (with a scheduled June release). International orders will become available on April 8th, 2011 (with a scheduled July release). Mikatan said that more details on international orders will come later. This figurine will be made-to-order; in other words, they will only produce as many as they have orders for, so pre-ordering her is your best shot.
Now let's take a look at some more images, starting with the ones showing the original release's items.
Next we'll take a look at the new items included in this version.
Here is the new smiling face. Miku is sure to warm hearts and give never ending support with such a beautiful expression.
There is also a support flag shaped like a musical note that reads "You are not alone!" in Japanese on the front and in English on the back.
The bottom of the flag can also be removed and the other side is left blank, a perfect place for any stickers you might want to decorate it with (the figurine will come with some).
Last, but not least, Miku also comes with orange pompoms to help cheer her native country.
The price will be 3,000 yen (taxed in). We will update this post with the pre-order link as soon it becomes available.
The international Good Smile Company website has officially been opened. Reservations for overseas orders will be open until April 21st.
– The buyer must live in the list of shippable areas (you can check the list here. The entire US is on the list!).
– You will be charged for the order as soon as you pre-order (the charge will appear under the name HOBBY STOCK/ホビーストック').
– Products will be made-to-order.
– Orders cannot be cancelled.
– Buyers are limited to five pieces per customers.
– Delivery will be in late July 2011.
– Credit card will be the only payment method available for overseas orders (they accept American Express, Visa, Mastercard, and JCB).
– Your credit card will be charged on order, and not at the time of delivery.
– Shipping to any available countries will be charged at 2000JPY (they will be shipping only by the EMS, Express Mail Service and this charge is the same no matter how many you order).
– Additional taxes and fees may apply when the product reaches your country. These fees are not related to us in any way.
– Payment will be in Japanese Yen.
– Please email shop.overseas@goodsmile.jp if you have any queries. English or Japanese queries only please.
News and Image Source: Mikatan Blog and Goodsmile Company Online Shop.
I already have the original Nendo and this kind of feels like GSC is milking a reliable cash cow…but the new face is so cute and the figure isn't very expensive, so I'll get this one too. Can't wait to try the new face and pompoms on HMO Miku. There's never too many Vocaloid Nendos!
Well if the Figure is 30k yen, and they donate 10k yen for each sale, I would think that they are just breaking even and not making a profit, considering the figures are about that price normally.
If you feel more comfortable donating the entirety of the 3000Y to J-redcross, please feel free to do so.
The figure will be available on the GSC website.
So for buying or pre-ordering she is available starting april 8th is it possible to preorder sooner?
PLEASE BE QUICK WITH THE INTERNATIONAL RELEASE!
So how can we buy it if we don't have Japanese Yen on hand?
Paypal automatically converts USD or whatever your currency available is to yen.
>3< I need to find a way that I would be able to buy it!!!! SO CUTE!!
Dude I'd love this. Too bad that it just ended…. That, and I bought the HMO Miku recently though, damn. 3000¥ is not bad. Btw the front of the flag says "Issho ni ganbarou" – something along the lines of "let's do our best together."


ROTTING CHRIST Stream New Track "The Raven"
Greek metal trailblazers ROTTING CHRIST have unveiled a video for the new song "The Raven". "The Raven" is the third track from their new album The Heretics out on February 15, 2019 via Season of Mist. Watch the lyric video below.
"We proudly present to you "The Raven"; the third song from our upcoming new album The Heretics. It is the epilogue of the album, and one of our most atmospheric and melodic creations. It's a tribute to one of America's most (in)famous writers - Edgar Allan Poe - and more specifically to his influential poem of the same name. Enjoy "The Raven" and see you soon on our heretical path!"
The Heretics was recorded by ROTTING CHRIST guitarist George Emmanuel at his studio Pentagram and mixed by Jens Borgen (AMON AMARTH, AT THE GATES, ARCH ENEMY). Pre-orders for The Heretics on limited deluxe CD Box, jewel case CD, limited LP and more are available now.
Regarding the track, ROTTING CHRIST founder and front-man Sakis Tolis comments, "We're pleased to present to you the second track from our upcoming album The Heretics. The song "Heaven and Hell and Fire" is another chronicle of heresy and is influenced by John Milton's saying: "The mind is universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.""
The artwork for The Heretics, illustrated by Greek artist Maximos Manolis, and track list can be seen below.
ROTTING CHRIST were the first Greek band to break out from the underground and make their impact felt worldwide. The band return with their stunning new album The Heretics. In a signature style honed by 30 years of toil and triumph, the quartet deliver heavy metal thunder so epic that it could have been forged by the gods themselves. The anthemic "Heaven and Hell and Fire", "The Raven" and "Fire God and Fear" are staggering in their size and breadth. The power and majesty of The Heretics can only be achieved by a band with a lifetime's devotion to heavy metal, and proves these pioneers to be among the genre's all-time elite.


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Film-maker Aditya Kriplani Opens Up...
Rangotsav - International Women's Day
Film-maker Aditya Kriplani Opens Up About The Role Of Women And His Upcoming Movie Tikli and Laxmi Bomb
March 10, 2017 by voylla
Many women have inspired me since childhood, chief amongst them being my grandmother, my masi and my mom. As I grew older and closer to adulthood, it's been my wife. The women in my home have constantly challenged traditionally and accepted gender roles in their own way. Outside of the home, it's characters in the film. The most important of them being Clarise starling from Silence of The Lambs, Thelma and Louise and Lisbeth Salander. Then, of course it's random acts of kindness that are an inspiration, like the Chinese family of three generations of women who serve at this food court in Singapore that I used to frequent who saved some friend chicken for me every day, from the portions made for the day and all three generations of women worked in unison like one entity.
With 'Tikli and Laxmi Bomb', I wanted to carry forward the beautiful feminist cinema of our country, in my own small way, with another strongly feminist work; Mirch Masala, Mother India, Chandni Bar, Queen, being a few of the films that inspired me. Both women in my film represent two facets of how men divide women: the old vanguard who is now indoctrinated into chauvinism. And the New order which questions it. Hence Two characters. One 40. One 22.
In one word, the journey of making this film is 'Exhausting'. It's been as close to giving birth as I would get personally I think. Of course, that is debatable. As is any analogy. But I came in 1.5 years ago and I have done only this for almost 1.5 years. It has taken over everything and taken priority over everything in my life. I am unable to be a good relative, a good son, a good son-in-law, a good friend and sometimes an able husband during this time. Though I try. This film is something that feeds purely off me. And then beyond that off other people. But I'm the primary host. And after this exhausting shoot, everyone else will go off. The camera person, the actors, most of the ADs. Only I'll be left feeding, which is editing. Till the film, which will be raw then, reaches a position of enough strength to go forth into the world. And make a name and an identity for itself. And then I'll be known as 'TALB ki maa'. Hopefully, if TALB does the job it's supposed to. My Wife, who's the co-producer says she's the dad and I'm the mom. And I'm glad to be the mom this time around.
Along the way, as I've set out to get this film made, I've had the fortune to meet so many women with such strong characters and strengths of will, from the Director of Photography Aditi Sharma, who walks around with a 16 kg. camera on her shoulders amidst a Basti teeming with rats and drains, to actors who come and spend time in the basti amidst tough conditions and never once complain, to actors like Vibhawari Deshpande, Suchitra Pillai, and Editor Rachita Singh, who don't take their market value on this film because they believe in it this much. Even our Chief Assistant Director Anuradha Pandey is working for us because she believes in the story and feels it must be told.
I hope Tikli and Laxmi Bomb helps us become that little bit more aware of the great chasm that still has to be crossed for both genders to actually achieve equality in India.
-Aditya Kriplani
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UN rights office troubled by accelerated executions in US
UN rights office troubled by accelerated executions in US with expiring drug a factor
Opening of the biennial high-level panel discussion on the death penalty, organized as part of the Human Rights Council's current session. 1 March 2017. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré
Source:UN News.
28 April 2017 – The United Nations human rights office today expressed deep concern about the executions of four men in the United States state of Arkansas, which were reportedly done within the span of eight days to make use of an expiring lethal injection drug.
"Rushing executions can deny prisoners the opportunity to fully exercise their rights to appeal against their conviction and/or sentence, and can also lead to States' shortening their clemency processes, thereby affecting prisoners' rights," a spokesperson for the of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Elizabeth Throssell told reporters in Geneva.
OHCHR noted that the executions had been stayed, but Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson decided to proceed with the executions because the State's supply of one of the drugs used in lethal injections – midazolam – was due to expire on 30 April and it was unclear whether further supplies could be obtained.
The use of midazolam has been criticized for failing to prevent suffering of pain, with reports of botched executions related to its use in the US states of Alabama, Ohio and Oklahoma.
The latest prisoner to be executed was Kenneth Williams, who was pronounced dead before midnight last night local time. Ledell Lee was executed on 20 April, and Marcel Williams and Jack Jones on 24 April.
The executions in Arkansas took place after a "12 year de facto moratorium" on the use of the death penalty in the state, Ms. Throssell said.
The number of death executions overall had declined steadily over the past few years, from 52 in 2009 to 20 last year. Since the start of 2017, 10 executions had been carried out.
The OHCHR spokesperson noted that the "the UN opposes the death penalty in all circumstances and we call on all Governments that retain it to establish an official moratorium on all executions with the aim of abolishing the death penalty."
On 1 March, the Human Rights Council held a biennial high-level panel discussion on the human rights violations related to the use of the death penalty, in particular with respect to the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
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Occult Hepatitis B Virus infection in ART-Naive HIV-Infected Patients seen at a Tertiary Care Centre in North India
Swati Gupta1 and
Sarman Singh1Email author
BMC Infectious Diseases201010:53
© Gupta and Singh; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2010
Accepted: 7 March 2010
Co-infections of hepatitis B and C viruses are frequent with HIV due to shared routes of transmission. In most of the tertiary care health settings, HIV reactive patients are routinely tested for HBsAg and anti-HCV antibodies to rule out these co-infections. However, using the routine serological markers one can only detect active HBV infection while the occult HBV infection may be missed. There is insufficient data from India on HIV-HBV co-infection and even scarce on occult HBV infection in this group.
We estimated the burden of HBV infection in patients who were tested positive for HIV at a tertiary care centre in north India. We also attempted to determine the prevalence and clinical characteristics of occult HBV infection among these treatment-naïve patients and compare their demographic features with other HIV patients. During a period of 6 years between January 2002 to December 2007, 837 HIV positive patients (631 males and 206 females (M: F :: 3.06:1) were tested for serological markers of HBV (HBsAg) and HCV (anti-HCV antibodies) infections in our laboratory. For comparison 1000 apparently healthy, HIV-negative organ donors were also included in the study. Data on demographics, sexual behaviour, medical history, laboratory tests including the serum ALT and CD4 count of these patients were recorded. A sub-group of 53 HBsAg negative samples from HIV positive patients were assessed for anti-HBs, anti-HBc total (IgG+IgM) and HBV-DNA using a highly sensitive qualitative PCR and analysed retrospectively.
Overall, 7.28% of HIV positive patients showed presence of HBsAg as compared to 1.4% in the HIV negative control group. The prevalence of HBsAg was higher (8.55%) in males than females (3.39%). The study revealed that occult HBV infection with detectable HBV-DNA was prevalent in 24.5% of patients positive for anti-HBc antibodies; being 45.5% in HBsAg negative patients. Most importantly the occult infection was seen in 20.7% patients who were positive for anti-HBs antibodies. However, in none of the seronegative patient HBV-DNA was detected. Five of the nine HBV-DNA positive (55.6%) patients showed raised alanine aminotransferase levels and 66.7% had CD4+ T cell counts below 200 cells/cumm.
High prevalence of HIV-HBV co-infection was found in our patients. A sizeable number of co-infected patients remain undiagnosed, if only conventional serological markers are used. Presence of anti-HBs antibodies was not a reliable surrogate marker to rule out occult HBV infection. The most reliable method to diagnose occult HBV co-infection in HIV seropositive patients is the detection of HBV-DNA.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Positive Patient
Occult Infection
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seropositive Patient
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Negative Patient
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) establishes a chronic and latent infection in the body that induces extensive damage to the immune system through virus-related as well as indirect pathogenic mechanisms [1]. HIV infected individuals show not only a quantitative depletion of CD4+ T cells but also an overall immune dysregulation. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a frequent co-contaminant with HIV, mainly because both share common modes of transmission. Whether the presence of one facilitates the sexual transmission of the other is a matter under investigation, but both are easily transmitted through infected blood, unsafe injections and equipments. Over the years, much evidence has accumulated that co-infection with HIV significantly modifies the natural history of HBV infection [2, 3]. Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is well known to prolong the survival of HIV-infected individuals which allows a longer time for cirrhosis to develop in HBV co-infected patients. Therefore, HAART increases the relative proportion of deaths attributable to liver disease in these patients. HAART may also have a major impact on HBV co-infection because of restoration of specific and non-specific immune responses and decrease of aberrant activation and dysregulation of the immune system [4]. Withdrawal or development of resistance to drugs that are dually active against both HIV and HBV has been associated with reactivation of HBV infection and with flares of liver enzyme elevations and hepatic decompensation in patients with advanced liver disease [5, 6].
At our institute all HIV reactive patients are also screened for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), if treating physician has any suspicion of co-infection. However, not all hepatitis B virus co-infections are symptomatic and even routine serological markers can miss the diagnosis of HBV disease. Those patients who turn out to be positive for HBV-DNA in the absence of serum HBsAg are known as occult hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections [7]. Occult HBV infection is characterised by long lasting persistence of HBV-DNA in serum, and/or hepatic tissues of individuals negative for serum HBsAg. The presence of antibodies to HBV core antigen (anti-HBc-IgM) is now recognized as a better indicator of progressing occult HBV infection. But, recent estimates suggest that up to 20% of individuals with occult HBV could be negative even for anti-HBc antibodies or any other serological indicator of exposure to HBV [7]. Some studies also show that the detection of naturally acquired antibodies to HBsAg (anti-HBs) does not exclude the existence of occult infection [8], indicating that diagnosis of occult HBV co-infection is a challenging task for laboratory physicians.
True prevalence and clinical significance of occult HBV infections is scarcely reported in the literature. Occult HBV has been implicated in the transmission of the HBV via transfusion of blood and blood products [9, 10] and transplanted solid organs [11] leading to hepatitis in recipients. Reactivation of occult infection has also been reported in hematologic malignancies [12], and immunosuppressed states [13] with reconstitution of immune surveillance associated with activation of virus and cytotoxic T-cell mediated hepatitis. However, the prevalence of occult HBV infection in HIV-infected persons is more so controversial because of the lack of standardization of diagnostic methods and fewer prospective studies. Studies have reported rates of occult HBV markedly varying from as low as nil to as high as 89.5% [14–17] in these patients. However, there are only a few reports of occult HBV infection, as such from India and even scarce in HIV seropositive patients. In this study, we estimated the burden of HBV in patients who tested positive for HIV at a tertiary care centre in north India. We also attempted to determine the prevalence and clinical characteristics of occult HBV among HIV-infected, treatment- naïve patients.
The study was carried out in the Clinical Microbiology Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). At this referral institute patients suspected with HIV associated illnesses are seen in the medicine out-patient clinics. Here they are counselled by a social worker and informed consent is taken for testing. As a routine, our laboratory follows the World Health Organization (WHO) testing strategies for HIV test followed by post-test counselling of the patients and this is documented. As an investigative protocol at the institute, all confirmed HIV positive patients are screened for Hepatitis B (HBsAg) and C viruses (anti-HCV antibodies) as a part of their pre-ART work-up beside other tests. A retrospective analysis was performed on data collected from January 2002 to December 2007 in the laboratory.
Serum samples from 837 proven HIV seropositive patients (WHO testing strategy III, as mentioned above) were collected, labelled with a laboratory identification serial number and stored at -20°C in separate aliquots for further testing upto 10 years or till the storage space is available. From these samples one aliquot was tested for HBsAg and for anti-HCV antibodies using enzyme linked immunosorbent assay kits (bio Merieux, France). All serum samples were tested in duplicate.
From the stored serum samples of 776 HIV positive but HBsAg negative patients, we selected 53 serum samples randomly, for reasons of feasibility and availability of reagents and quantity of samples. These were tested for occult HBV infection viz. for anti-HBs antibodies (bio Merieux, France), anti HBc total (IgG+ IgM; biokit, Spain) and a qualitative PCR for HBV DNA (SORPOline™ HBV end-point PCR kit) was also done. This PCR kit has a reported sensitivity of 10-30 copies of HBV. Risk factors and transaminase levels weer ascertained at the time of sample collection. Data on demographics, sexual behaviour, medical history, other laboratory tests including., serum ALT and CD4+ count were also analysed from the records. All tests were performed in accordance with the institutional ethical guidelines at that time. Data of 1000 age and sex matched HIV-negative healthy organ donors was also analysed to compare the prevalence of hepatitis markers. These organ donors are screened with due consent for viral markers as a routine work-up for their family members requiring organ transplantation, as described earlier [18].
Comparison of proportions among different groups and characteristics was done using Fisher's exact test. p < 0.05 was taken as significant.
A retrospective analysis was performed on laboratory data from 837 HIV sero-reactive patients who were tested in our laboratory from January 2002 to December 2007. Among the study subjects, there were 631 males and 206 females (M: F - 3.06:1). These patients aged between 1-73 years (median 32 years). Overall, HBsAg positivity (HBV co-infection) was seen in 61 (7.28%) HIV positive patients. This rate was highly significant (p < 0.0001) when compared to 1.4% in the control group which comprised of age and sex matched HIV-negative healthy persons. Further, out of the 61 serologically (HBsAg positive) reactive subjects for HIV and HBV co-infection; 54 were males and 7 female. Our patients were in the age range of 14-69 years (median 36 years), but the HBsAg positivity rate was significantly higher in males (8.55%) as compared to 3.39% in female patients (p = 0.0129). Majority (635 of 837) of the HIV positive patients were aged between 21-40 years. This trend was similar in HIV-HBV co-infected patients also (table 1).
Comparative distribution of HIV positive patients by age and gender divided into two groups on the basis of presence or absence of HBsAg.
HBs-Ag positive (n = 61)
Age Groups (in years) & no.(%)
HBsAg Negative (n = 776)
Age Groups (in years) & no. (%)
Total HIV positive patients (n = 837)
Note the number in parenthesis is percentage distribution in each group.
Among the 53 HBsAg negative samples tested for occult HBV infection, 41 (77.4%) were males and 12 (22.6%) females. The age group of these patients ranged from 21-59 years (median 32 years). The patients belonged to different risk groups, but the heterosexual risk group was the most predominant. None of these patients gave history of vaccination against HBV. Serological markers of HBV exposure (other than HBsAg, i.e. either anti-HBs or anti-HBc antibody positivity) were seen in 45.3% (24 out of 53) patients. While in 29 patients no marker was detected (table 2). Among these 53 patients, 20.7% (11) showed anti-HBs antibodies and 35.8% (19) anti-HBc (total) antibodies. There was no statistical difference in the prevalence of these markers in two genders; being 46.3% in males and 41.7% in females (table 2). Of the various risk factors for occult HBV infection, male gender combined with low CD4+ counts below 200 cells/cumm and raised alanine aminotransferase levels (>40 IU/L) were most significant (table 3).
Characteristics and positivity rate of other HBV serological markers in HBsAg-negative HIV-seropositive patients in whom the occult HBV infection rate was investigated.
Anti-HBs and/or anti-HBc pos (%)
Anti-HBc pos
Anti-HBs pos
Only Anti-HBc pos
Only Anti-HBs pos
No HBV marker detected
Risk factors a
IVDU
CD4 cell counts
≤ 200
ALT levels
Raised b
Other co-infections
HCV pos c
TB pos d
Note: n, total no. tested; HCV, hepatitis C virus; TB, Mycobacterium tuberculosis; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; IVDU, injection drug use. Determined by Fisher's exact test for proportions
a In 2 patients no risk factor could be ascertained.
b Defined as serum ALT levels >40 IU/L
c Determined by anti-HCV IgM antibodies
d Diagnosis of tuberculosis was based on clinical suspicion, chest X-ray findings and sputum mycobacteriology
Characteristics and HBV-DNA positivity in HBsAg negative HIV positive patients with or without the presence of other marker of HBV infection.
Serological Status
HBV-DNA Status*
Positive for any marker
Pos (%)
Neg (%)
Raisedb
Other infections
HCV posc
TB posd
Note: Figures indicate number and percentage (in parenthesis) of patients unless indicated otherwise. n = total no. tested; HCV, hepatitis C virus; TB, tuberculosis; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; IVDU, injection drug use
a Determined by Fisher's exact test for proportions
* In none of the remaining 29 patients, who were negative for all HBV seromarkers, HBV DNA was detected.
HCV co-infection was seen in only 5 (9.4%) of the 53 HBsAg negative patients. This rate was only marginally lower (6.2%) in 61 HBsAg positive pool. Among the HIV-HCV co-infected patients, positivity for anti-HBs/anti-HBc was seen in 80% samples as compared to 41.7% in HCV negative samples (p = 0.163). Tuberculosis (TB) is a common infection in Indian HIV positive patients; hence we compared the presence of these serological markers of occult HBV infection in HIV-TB co-infected and uninfected patients. We found that presence of either of the HBV markers was seen in 35.2% of TB positive patients and in 50% of TB uninfected patients. This difference was statistically insignificant. Anti-HBc alone (in absence of anti-HBs) as a marker of occult infection was seen in 11.3% of samples tested and was associated with lower CD4+ levels below 200 cells/cumm in 84.6% patients (p = 0.032) as compared to higher CD4+ levels (table 3). None of the other characteristics showed a significant association with anti-HBc positivity.
HBV-DNA was positive in 45.3% (24/53) samples which were negative for HBsAg but positive for other HBV serological marker. As mentioned above, none of 29 patients who were negative for all HBV seromarkers was positive for HBV-DNA. In patients who were positive only for anti-HBc antibodies, we found a 24.5% (13/53) prevalence rate of occult HBV infection (HBV-DNA positive). However, the most significant finding of this study was that HBV-DNA was detected in 20.7% (11/53) patients in whom circulating anti-HBs antibodies were detectable. Of the HBV-DNA positives 55.6% (5 of 9) patients showed raised alanine aminotransferase levels while 66.7% (6 of 9) had a CD4+ T cell counts below 200 cells/cu mm. The prevalence rates of HBV-DNA were comparable in both males (36.8%) and females (40%). The demographic and laboratory characteristics of HBV-DNA positive and negative patients were significantly indifferent (table 3).
Co-infection of HIV significantly modifies the natural history of HBV infection. Before availability of HAART it was associated with a higher chronicity rate of acute hepatitis B, higher levels of HBV replication, a lower rate of spontaneous loss of HBV antigens and a high rate of reactivation [2–4]. However, even after widespread institution of HAART, studies have shown increased number of deaths attributed to liver disease possibly due to prolonged survival and time for development of cirrhosis. Reports of flares of necro-inflammatory activity in liver are also documented due to restoration of adaptive HBV specific immune response and innate non-specific immune responses [4]. The treatment of HBV in HIV co-infected patients is complex because the drug(s) used are associated with drug-resistance, cross-resistance, hepatotoxicity and unresponsiveness. Another major concern is reactivation of HBV replication after withdrawal of dually active antiviral drugs leading to emergence of resistant strains.
Our study findings indicate that HIV-infected patients are at a higher risk of HBV co-infection in our set-up, as illustrated by the high prevalence of HBsAg (7.28%) in HIV positive patients in comparison to HIV negative patients (1.4%). Male patients were found more likely to be co-infected with HBV as compared to females (table. 1). This trend can be explained on the basis of higher rate of sexual promiscuity and other exposure risks in males. The majority of HIV-HBV co-infections were seen in the sexually active population indicating a common mode of transmission to these viruses, as has been previously documented [19]. Our study also shows a very high persistence of HBV genome (overall 37.5%) even in those patients who are HBsAg negative. The study further shows that like HBsAg other serological markers were also of lesser value to rule out the occult infection of HBV which is supported by the data that occult HBV infection was frequent in those who were positive for anti-HBc antibodies and also those who had significant levels of anti-HBs antibodies in their serum. Presence of Anti-HBc antibodies alone was also found associated with low CD4+ cell counts (less than 200), even though these patients were treatment naive. Interestingly presence of naturally acquired antibodies to HBsAg (anti-HBs) did not exclude the existence of occult infection.
The clinical relevance of occult HBV infection in humans is not limited to blood banks but it is a still ongoing process. HBV particles may persist for decades after self-limited acute hepatitis and clinical recovery [20]. Thus, though occult infection alone may not have clinical consequences but may become injurious only when the virus is reactivated after immunosuppression [12, 13]. A number of explanations for the persistence of HBV-DNA in HBsAg negative samples have been proposed, including the presence of HBV-DNA at a low copy number [21], genetic variations in the S gene [22] and the presence of immune complexes in which HBsAg may be hidden [23]. Many epidemiologic and molecular studies indicate that persistent HBV infection may have a critical role in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma in HBsAg-negative patients. Occult HBV infection and its potential oncogenicity are traditionally considered a consequence of the capacity of the virus to be integrated into the host genome, although many observations now show that free episomal HBV genomes may persist in the liver cells during occult infection. It may induce mild long lasting necroinflammation [20] and may progress to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma [24]. Studies have also shown that mutations in the hepatitis B X gene (HBx) protein modify the functioning of p53, a tumor suppressor gene [25]. It is still unclear if there is an altered prevalence of such mutations in occult HBV infections or if coinfection with HIV could play a catalytic role.
Though reactivation of HBV infection (in the absence of HBsAg) has been described anecdotally in HIV-infected patients following severe immune depletion and/or lamivudine withdrawal, yet the true prevalence and clinical impact of occult HBV infection in HIV- infected subjects is controversial due to lack of methodological standardisation and fewer prospective studies. The available data on prevalence of occult HBV are wildly divergent and inadequate. In fact, the published prevalence rates range from 0% to 89%, with a considerable number of other studies reporting results between these two extremes [26]. One basis for difference could be the difference in methodologies adopted by various workers and the number of samples tested. One recent study which tested a prospective cohort of 909 HIV positive patients for occult HBV showed a prevalence of 1.3% [17], but the sera were pooled in this study which makes it incomparable to ours. However, there is no study from Indian sub-continent to compare our results.
HBV-DNA detection has made significant impact on the management of these patients. According to treatment guidelines for HIV co-infected individuals, it is advocated that HBsAg positive patients should be treated in presence of elevated HBV-DNA, raised aminotransferases or significant hepatic fibrosis [27]. But, as yet no clear guidelines have been established for occult HBV co-infection in HIV positive patients. Moreover, the issue needs to be addressed whether to offer HBV vaccine to HBsAg negative HIV positive patients harbouring occult HBV infection. This study even though had some limitations, clearly indicates that routinely used serological markers of HBV infection do not rule out occult and ongoing Hepatitis B virus infection and emphasizes application of molecular methods for the detection of occult HBV infection in these patients. Some blood banks around the world have now routinely started nucleic acid testing (NAT) to ensure safe blood transfusion practices. However, this practice needs to be extended at every blood bank and specially when managing the HIV positive patients.
Limitation of The study
A major limitation in our study was the small sample size and that it was a single time point testing without any follow-up. The sample size of the studied patients was small even though we have a large pool of patients due to cost constraints. The HBV-DNA estimation along with all serological marker costs us approximately US 100 per patients. We are in process of getting funds to test all our patients to assess the prevalence of occult HBV infection in all HIV positive patients. We also had limitation of not doing multivariate analysis of the data. Since it was a cross-sectional study we could not comment on the clinical significance of occult HBV in HIV patients included in our study. Lastly, since ours is a tertiary care referral centre, hence a patient selection bias cannot be completely ruled out.
A sizeable number of HIV-HBV co-infected patients remain undiagnosed, if only conventional serological markers for HBV are used. The presence of anti-HBs antibodies is also an unreliable surrogate marker to rule out occult HBV infection. Though the most reliable method to diagnose occult HBV co-infection in HIV seropositive patients remains the detection of HBV DNA, it would not be practical yet to recommend this highly sensitive molecular assay for each and every patient in resource limited countries.
The authors wish to thank Mrs. Veena Balooni for technical assistance. Partial funding for the study was provided by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
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SS was responsible for conceptualizing the study, arranging diagnostic services and facilities and critically reviewing the manuscript. SG analysed the data and prepared the draft of manuscript with data analysis and manuscript preparation. Both authors read and approved the manuscript.
Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 110029, India
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I'm especially excited because the trailers make the movie look pretty true to the book and because the music is going to be awesome.
Have you read or listened to the books? Do you think the movies will do them justice?
p.s. I can't remember who told me this, but apparently Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins also wrote Clarissa Explains It All. Weird, right?


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The Animatrix
Straight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated films from the world's leading anime directors fuses computer graphics and Japanese anime to provide the background of the Matrix universe and the conflict between man and machines. The shorts include Final Flight of the Osiris, The Second Renaissance, Kid's Story, Program, World Record, Beyond, A Detective Story and Matriculated.
Genre: Animation, Science Fiction
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures, Silver Pictures, Madhouse, STUDIO4℃, Digital Network Animation
Keyword: artificial intelligence, martial arts, hacker, post-apocalyptic future, virtual reality, dystopia, cyberpunk, alternate reality, matrix, anime, collection of short films, action hero, supernatural power
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Clayton Watson, Pamela Adlon, Melinda Clarke, John DiMaggio
A student tries to fix a problem he accidentally caused in OZ, a digital world, while pretending to be the fiancé of his friend at her...
Sailor Moon R: The Movie
While enjoying the flower gardens, Sailor Moon (Usagi) and friends encounter an old childhood friend of Mamoru's: an alien! He's come back to give...
Truman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life without his knowledge. His...
The Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.
Blade: Trinity
For years, Blade has fought against the vampires in the cover of the night. But now, after falling into the crosshairs of the FBI, he is forced out...
Ninjas with bloodline limits begin disappearing in all the countries and blame points toward the fire nation. By Tsunade's order, Kakashi is...
A rare mutation has occurred within the vampire community - The Reaper. A vampire so consumed with an insatiable bloodlust that they prey on vampires...
Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him;...
Ranma ½: The Movie 2 — The Battle of Togenkyo: Rescue the Brides!
With the Tendos, the Saotomes, Ryoga, Shampoo and Ukyo misinterpreting Tatewake Kuno's invitation to his two loves, Akane and "The Pig Tailed Girl",...
Detective Sergeant Ma Jun, known for dispensing his own brand of justice during arrests, teams up with an undercover cop, Wilson, to try and bring...
Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been...
The tale of a new breed of cultural insurgent: a punk genius who sparked a revolution and changed the face of human interaction for a generation, and...
Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey
Legendary martial artist Bruce Lee is the subject of this thoughtful documentary by Lee aficionado John Little. Using interviews, behind-the-scenes...
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
Ordered to teach a martial arts class of rambunctious bunny kittens, Po tells stories of each of the Furious Five's pasts.
One Piece: The Movie
There once was a pirate known as the Great Gold Pirate Woonan, who obtained almost one-third of the world's gold. Over the course of a few years, the...
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air...
Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime....
The Delta Force
A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take...
Death Note: The Last Name
In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named...
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
After the Second Impact, Tokyo-3 is being attacked by giant monsters called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind. The child Shinji's objective is...


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Everything someone needs to know about you reflects in this God of Mischief Loki Helmet Necklace.
What Loki lacks in size and strength, he makes up for in power and skill.
This devious Loki Necklace is styled after his Helmet. Loki pendants are made from layered laser cut translucent green acrylic and mirrored gold acrylic. Helmet pendant measures 1.5″ from top to bottom and strung upon an 18″ golden chain with a lobster clasp attachment.
This Loki Helmet Necklace will let all others know that perhaps there is more to you than meets the eye.


If the eggs are too large, cut them in half. I used sea salt on top to help tame the sweetness.
Melt the dark chocolate buttons over hot water or in the microwave. Stir well. Pour onto the baking paper and spread to about 5mm thickness.
Melt the white chocolate buttons and pour in a zig zag pattern over the dark chocolate. With the handle of a table knife, swirl the two chocolates together to produce a marbled affect. Top with the eggs, sprinkles and salt — if using — before the chocolate has set. Chill until set, about 2 hours or leave overnight.
Break into pieces. They can be tied in cellophane or presented in large muffin cases.


Thank you for the story about the work of our Muslim Chaplain, Sheikh Samer Alraey(September 26, 2017).We are fortunate to have him as a part of our campus community working with our Muslim students. I learned more about him and his early life as a result of your story.
Your readers also need to know that while Sheikh Samer began as a volunteer, he does receive modest compensation from the College.
Thank you again for highlighting this interesting aspect of the spiritual offerings CMSA strives to provide our students.


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Townsend, 20, joined the League One side on a Youth Loan earlier this month and has now signed a three-year deal.
Townsend, who graduated through the Club's Academy has made one appearance for Barnsley, coming against Scunthorpe United in the Capital One Cup.
The Solihull-born goalkeeper had a successful loan spell at Conference side Lincoln City last season where he made 17 appearances in his second stint with the Imps.
The former Alderbrook School pupil, also helped Blues U21s to victory in the Birmingham Senior Cup final against Nuneaton Town - the first time that Blues had won the competition in seven seasons.
Captain of Blues Under-21s, Townsend signed a two–year deal with the Club in the summer.
But the arrival of Adam Legzdins and then Tomasz Kuszczak put him down the pecking order in his quest to play regular competitive football.
Everyone at the Club would like to wish Nick all the best in the future.


This setup redirects any TCP traffic from port 3306 of 10.15.22.11 to port 3306 exposed on localhost which is the port the MySQL server is listening to. For an improved set-up you can add redir to your xinetd or inetd configuration. And since redir only works for TCP connections, you might want to give uredir a try for redirecting your UDP connections.


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Photos: 2018 Rose Bowl Youth Football Clinic
Over a 180 kids came out run drills and learn about football during the 2018 Rose Bowl Game Youth Clinic and Health & Fitness Day at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., on Saturday, June 9, 2018. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
By Keith Birmingham | wbirmingham@scng.com and Christopher Yee | cyee@scng.com | San Gabriel Valley Tribune
PUBLISHED: June 9, 2018 at 1:28 pm | UPDATED: June 9, 2018 at 6:16 pm
More than 180 youth football players took the field at the Rose Bowl Stadium on Saturday to learn from some former pros and current college players.
Denver Broncos defensive backs coach and Pasadena native Marcus Robertson and former NFL linebacker and Altadena native Chad Brown joined local community coaches and current UCLA and USC players to lead a football clinic for local youths.
Participant ages 6-13 took part in agility drills, offensive and defensive training and character development exercises.
The event also offered fitness classes and nutritional products for parents and other guests in attendance.
The Rose Bowl Bowl Game and City of Pasadena hosted the event.
Chad Brown pumps of his group as over a 180 kids came out during the 2018 Rose Bowl Game Youth Clinic and Health & Fitness Day at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., on Saturday, June 9, 2018. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
Over a 180 kids came out to run drills and learn about football during the 2018 Rose Bowl Game Youth Clinic and Health & Fitness Day at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., on Saturday, June 9, 2018. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
Former USC and Washington Redskins' running back with a 1990 Rose Bowl and Super Bowl win and former Muir High School player Ricky Ervins as over a 180 kids came out during the 2018 Rose Bowl Game Youth Clinic and Health & Fitness Day at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., on Saturday, June 9, 2018. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
Chad Brown works with kids as over a 180 kids came out during the 2018 Rose Bowl Game Youth Clinic and Health & Fitness Day at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., on Saturday, June 9, 2018. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
Man accused of killing woman near Long Beach courthouse turns himself in
Family dog euthanized after encounter with skunk
CHP asking for public's assistance in finding man who beat woman in bout of road rage in Long Beach
Bellator confirms A.J. and Antonio McKee ready to make MMA history
LBCC announces new multicultural center, office of basic needs for students experiencing hunger and homelessness
At international paper-airplane event, Long Beach man folded under pressure — and won
Photos: Long Beach-area valedictorians for the Class of 2019
Keith Birmingham
Keith Birmingham is a Los Angeles-based photographer specializing in sports, editorial and portrait photography. He has been a staff photographer for 24 years with the Los Angeles Newspaper Group including the Pasadena Star-News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Whittier Daily News and Los Angeles Daily News. His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Nashville Tennessean, GQ, Life Magazine, Sporting News, Los Angeles Dodgers Magazine, National Sports Daily, along with wire services Associated Press and United Press International, and the books Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach by Kenneth Kobre, and Out of the Blue by Joe Haakenson, the story of the 2002 World Series Champion Anaheim Angels. An award winning photographer, including awards from National Press Photographers Association, Pictures of the Year International, World Press Photo, Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles, California Press Photographers Association, he has also won Picture of the Year from SportsShooter.com and been nominated by his paper for three Pulitzer Prize awards. Keith has covered 20 Rose Bowl games, four Men's Basketball Final Fours , two Women's Basketball Final Fours, Three Major League Baseball World Series, the Super Bowl, six NBA Finals, two Women's World Cups, one Men's World Cup and many other sporting events throughout the United States. He has also covered Hurricane Katrina and many major California wildfires.
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Christopher Yee is a reporter for the Pasadena Star-News and San Gabriel Valley Tribune covering cities in the west and central parts of the San Gabriel Valley. He grew up in Monterey Park and studied journalism at East Los Angeles College and UC Berkeley. You may find him at Dodger Stadium or at the Staples Center for L.A. Kings games.
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Jon Gnarr to promote book at Broadway bookstore
Celebs, Iceland, International
By Thor
11:30 am June 17, 2014
The Strand Book Store on Broadway, New York, is to host Reykjavik mayor Jon Gnarr on 19 June.
Gnarr, who made his name as a comedian and activist, is travelling to New York to promote and discuss his book – Gnarr! How I Became the Mayor of a Large City in Iceland and Changed the World.
The Icelander is likely to be a popular attraction in New York given that prominent figures such as Noam Chomsky and Lady Gaga have previously heaped praise on him. Chomsky has gone on record as saying Gnarr is, without competition, his favourite mayor in the world, while Gaga has said that mayors around the world should do more to be like Jon Gnarr.
In 2009, Gnarr founded the Best Party as a way of mocking Iceland's failing political system after its economy crashed a year earlier. Gnarr campaigned to become mayor of Reykjavik on promises of a drug-free parliament by 2020, free towels at public swimming pools and downtown parks to house dinosaurs from Jurassic Park.
He subsequently got the most votes and was named the mayor of Iceland's capital. Since being elected into the position, among the many things Gnarr has done was to dress up in drag to show his support for his country's LGBT community during the Gay Pride festival.
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	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}
	return hex.EncodeToString(buf), nil
}


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post was Fairmont St Andrews. He became head chef at St Ermin's Hotel in 2012, and got to the final round of MasterChef in 2013. He was awarded Scottish Chef of the Year in 2015 and opened his debut solo restaurant The Frog E1 in 2016. Covent Garden's Frog by Adam Handling followed in 2017. The Frog Hoxton opened this July.
You'd be fair to wonder why Handling – the most successful 30-year-old restaurateur in the UK – is offering critique on London's lodgings. But in a move unexpected to everyone but himself, he's just taken skin in the game. He recently won the contract to manage the full food and beverage offering as executive chef at 54-bedroom Belmond Cadogan Hotel in Chelsea, opening this winter as one of the most luxurious hotel projects the capital has seen.
Handling learnt his hospitality philosophy from his parents. 'My dad had this expression, "kiddy on you're at your auntie's", which basically means that while you're under our roof, treat it as home. We want to make people as relaxed as possible while they're eating with us.' You feel the location with casual uniform and an informal manner; at Covent Garden, it cranks up a notch with more formality, but with the same relaxed vibe in terms of interaction with diners.
After finishing his GSCEs, Handling made a pact with his mother. 'She told me I could take on an apprenticeship as long as it was somewhere high-end. It could've been the best painting and decorating firm, or wherever. She thought that going somewhere big gives you an extra bit of protection and something good on your CV.' It makes sense. In a move that would define his career, Handling took an apprenticeship aged 16 at Gleneagles Hotel.
'I peeled a lot of potatoes, made a lot of tea and watched a lot of beastings. I was fine with that to start with, but my eureka moment came about six months in,' he says. 'I was watching a chef make the foie gras terrine, making notes, following his movements and asking questions. He started to get quite pissed off.
'"You want to make the bloody terrine? Get over here then," he said. I was like 'boom', let's go. He called me over and held out a ladle-sized spoon full of the mixture and told me to taste it.
I said "That's raw livers, man!"' The chef laughed and filled the spoon higher. 'Then he said something that stuck with me forever. "I don't care if you don't like it – you have to taste it to understand it."' It resonated.
In 2012 he took the head chef position at St Ermin's Hotel, Westminster. The next year, he got to the final MasterChef and they put his name above the door for Adam Handling at Caxton. It won a place in the Michelin Guide and won him the Food and Travel Best Newcomer award in 2015. Sailing seemed smooth, before the hotel was sold to new owners who changed the identity of the restaurant. Handling walked out.
It forced his hand. He had designs on opening his own place, just not quite so quickly. 'We opened The Frog E1 on £300k. I needed cash to kit out the kitchen, so I took out a loan saying it was for a car. I bought three new cars that year.' Handling was justly confident it would pay off. The restaurant was predicted to turnover £800k in year one; it made £1.4m.
Handling has restaurants east and west, and now a hotel. What's next? 'That's quite enough. The task now is to elevate each to be the best.
I want to be renowned for having standards, not a string of restaurants and being super rich. I want to be the best restaurant in the area, not the best in the world. Each site I have is neighbourhood-friendly and because of that, I get a return rate of 25 per cent.' And there's no better indicator of good hospitality than that. Long live British hospitality.


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Q: Issues parsing code using stringstream My code currently parse a user input string called aLine into different tokens. Currently if I feed I input x = "Foo" .add. "Bar" The tokens are parsed as |x| |=| |"Foo"| |.add.| |"Bar"| which is perfect. However if I try and do the following x = "Foo and" .add. "Bar" it only parses until |"Foo and Bar"| and then the code goes into an infinite loop. Why is this happening?
 void splitLine(string aLine) {

    stringstream ss(aLine);
    string stringToken, outp;
    char delim = ' ';

    while (getline(ss, stringToken, delim)) { // Break line into tokens and store them in rTokenBag

        if (stringToken[0] == '"' && stringToken[stringToken.size() - 1] != '"' ) {
            string torzen;

            getline(ss, torzen, '"' );

            stringToken += ' ' + torzen + '"';
        }
        Token t(readToken(stringToken)); // assing value of stringToken parsed to t, this labes invalid tokens

        R_Tokens.push_back(t);
    }
}

A: When you do
getline(ss, torzen, '"' );

stringToken += ' ' + torzen + '"';

your getline will read up to the next delimiter, in this case ". That means after this exrtaction what's left of the string [x = "Foo and" .add. "Bar"] is [ .add. "Bar"], notice the blank space at the start. Since you specified " as delimiter the space was not consumed.
This mean next time you call getline(ss, stringToken, delim) it will find a ' ' as the first character and immediately stop.
If you instead of changing the delimiter, and manually append a " just do a getline with space as delimiter again.
getline(ss, torzen, delim); // space as delimiter again

stringToken += ' ' + torzen; // torzen = and" so no need to add the "

Now your next iteration should work as intended and get .add.
-- Edit --
I just realized that you change delimiter since you want to read the whole string even if there are more then one space in it.
In that case you just need to dump the space after your operation, so you could do
getline(ss, torzen, '"' );

stringToken += ' ' + torzen + '"';
char dump;
ss >> dump;

Stick with what you already had, but make sure you consume the space after before you let the loop continue.


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1 Piper Curda Wiki Bio
7 Appearance, age and net worth
8 Who is Piper's boyfriend Troy Ogletree?
Piper Curda Wiki Bio
Piper Curda was born in Tallahassee, Florida USA, on 16 August 1997 – her zodiac sign is Leo, she holds American nationality, and is of Asian ethnicity. She's an actress, probably known best for having starred in the Disney Channel series "Didn't Do It".
Although Piper was born in Tallahassee, she moved to Chicago, Illinois with her family when she was very young. Her father is a US Army General, Stephen K. Curda, the first Korean-American to reach the rank of one-star general in the Army Reserve. Her mother, Leslie, is a doctor. Piper has four siblings, Major, Riley, Saylor, and Glory. Her brother Major is an actor as well, while her sister Riley appeared alongside Piper in the musical "The King and I".
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At the age of 12, she played the role of Roly-Poly in the Broadway national tour of "The 101 Dalmatians Musical". After matriculating from a local high school, Piper moved to Wheaton, Illinois to pursue higher education. In 2019, she graduated from Wheaton College with a Bachelor's degree in theatre.
Piper actually made her first film appearance in 2008 aged 11, when she had a minor role in the romantic comedy drama "Nothing Like the Holidays". In 2013, she starred in the family drama "Reading, Writing & Romance", directed by Ernie Barabarsh, written by Todd Mattox, and which starred Eric Mabius, Virginia Williams and Stefanie Powers.
Two years later, we saw her play the role of Elisa, in the Disney Channel original movie "Teen Beach 2", directed by Jeffrey Hornaday, and which also starred Ross Lynch, Maia Mitchell and Gracie Gilliam.
Piper played one of the leads in the 2017 horror comedy "School Spirits", directed by Alison Eckert, and which also starred Tiffany Alvord and Teala Dunn. The film follows a group of girls fighting against ghosts who are inhabiting their small hometown. In 2019, she starred in another horror, "The Wretched", which was directed by Brett Pierce and Drew T. Pierce, and won two Grimmfest Awards for Best Scare.
Piper Curda
Piper made her TV series debut in 2011, when she appeared in an episode of the popular crime series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", and in the same year, she guest starred in an episode of another crime drama – "Body of Proof".
In 2011 and 2012, she was one of the hosts of the Disney Channel comedy show "Rule the Mix"; in each episode, she and her co-host Hudson Thames showed videos that had been sent to them by viewers. Also in 2012, she appeared in an episode of the crime mystery drama "Rizzoli & Isles", following two female detectives working on difficult cases. She was set to play the main character Schmagreggie, in the Disney Channel comedy "Schmagreggie Saves the World", but after the pilot aired, no more episodes followed due to the poor reception.
In the following year, she played the recurring character of Kennedy Van Buren, in another Disney Channel series, "A. N. T. Farm". Piper has also ventured into voice acting for the character Debby Kang, in the animated series "Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja", which aired from 2012 to 2015.
Perhaps the most well known TV series role for Piper has been in the family comedy "I Didn't Do It", created by Tod Himmel and Josh Silverstein, and which also starred Olivia Holt and Austin North. The series aired on Disney Channel from January 2014 to October 2015, attracting about three million viewers per episode. It follows twins Lindy and Logan, and their three best friends Jasmine, Garett and Delia, during their freshman year in high school.
Since 2018, she has been starring alongside Anna Akana, in the YouTube Red original series "Youth & Consequences", created by Jason Ubaldi.
Piper was apparently in a relationship with her "A. N. T. Farm" co-star Jake Short during 2015; they were spotted together in public multiple times, hugging and generally having fun together, but they never publicly announced whether or not they dated.
Since 2016, she has been in a relationship with the American singer-songwriter Troy Ogletree. They began posting photos featuring each other onto their Instagram accounts, and soon revealed to their fans that they are dating. The two still seem to be in a stable relationship, with some rumors speculating that Troy might be ready to propose to Piper soon.
She hasn't been married or engaged, and doesn't have children.
Piper is active on Twitter, with her account '@pipercurda' numbering more than 130,000 followers, and over 13,000 tweets. She is very politically active on the platform, frequently voicing her support for the LGBT community, and other minority groups.
She loves binge watching TV series in her spare time, with some of her favorites being "Stranger Things", "Money Heist" and "Peaky Blinders".
Piper is also a talented musician, and in 2013 she released her debut album "While You Were Away".
Appearance, age and net worth
Piper is 23 years old. She has long brown hair and brown eyes, she's 5ft 1in (1.55m) tall, and weighs around 114lbs (52kgs).
As of June 2021, her net worth is estimated at more than $1 million.
Who is Piper's boyfriend Troy Ogletree?
Troy Ogletree was born in San Antonio, Texas USA, on 9 May 1994 – his zodiac sign is Taurus, and he holds American nationality. He's an actor, singer and a rapper, but perhaps known best for dating Piper.
Troy graduated from the University of Texas in 2016, with a degree in Radio-TV-Film and business.
In the same year, he began uploading covers of popular songs by artists such as Rihanna, Zayn Malik and Mike Posner, onto his eponymous YouTube channel, and two years later, he started making music of his own.
He has also appeared in several movies – he made his acting debut in 2012, when he appeared in the horror "Supernatural Activity". In 2015, he played the role of Romeo in the "Walking Dead" parody film, "The Walking Deceased", directed by Scott Dow and written by Troy's brother, Tim Ogletree. In the same year, he played the role of Dan Terwelp, in the biographical sports drama "My All-American", written and directed by Angelo Pizzo.
Troy is 27 years old. He has short blonde hair and blue eyes, he's 6ft 1in (1.85m) tall, and weighs around 175lbs (79kgs).
As of June 2021, his net worth is estimated at more than $300,000.
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How Private Property Protection Influences the Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Economic Growth?
Abstract Although policy-makers typically assume a positive relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and economic growth, the empirical evidence on the IPR–growth relationship is rather inconclusive. We conjecture in this paper that the weak IPR–growth evidence in previous studies may be due to a neglect of the role of finance markets and private property rights. Our conjecture is motivated by the recent law-and-finance literature. We test our conjecture with a cross-section of 98 countries and find that once we modify our measure of IPRs to take into account general property rights, there is stronger evidence for a positive relationship between IPRs and economic growth. Our findings not only help explain the IPR-innovation puzzle but also have significant theoretical as well as policy implications.
How Private Property Protection Influences the Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Economic Growth? / Zhang, Jihong; Du, Ding; Park, Walter G.
In: Global Economic Review, Vol. 44, No. 1, 02.01.2015, p. 1-30.
Zhang, Jihong ; Du, Ding ; Park, Walter G. / How Private Property Protection Influences the Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Economic Growth?. In: Global Economic Review. 2015 ; Vol. 44, No. 1. pp. 1-30.
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N2 - Abstract Although policy-makers typically assume a positive relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and economic growth, the empirical evidence on the IPR–growth relationship is rather inconclusive. We conjecture in this paper that the weak IPR–growth evidence in previous studies may be due to a neglect of the role of finance markets and private property rights. Our conjecture is motivated by the recent law-and-finance literature. We test our conjecture with a cross-section of 98 countries and find that once we modify our measure of IPRs to take into account general property rights, there is stronger evidence for a positive relationship between IPRs and economic growth. Our findings not only help explain the IPR-innovation puzzle but also have significant theoretical as well as policy implications.
AB - Abstract Although policy-makers typically assume a positive relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and economic growth, the empirical evidence on the IPR–growth relationship is rather inconclusive. We conjecture in this paper that the weak IPR–growth evidence in previous studies may be due to a neglect of the role of finance markets and private property rights. Our conjecture is motivated by the recent law-and-finance literature. We test our conjecture with a cross-section of 98 countries and find that once we modify our measure of IPRs to take into account general property rights, there is stronger evidence for a positive relationship between IPRs and economic growth. Our findings not only help explain the IPR-innovation puzzle but also have significant theoretical as well as policy implications.


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