The club was quite an impressive place, from the outside at least: not far from Castellana and close to the football stadium. There were signs outside promising salsa with authentic Cuban rhythms, all the way from Habana, but everyone knew the place was just another tourist trap, even when the coaches that you'd see parked up outside every night weren't around.
In the daytime at least, the interior was not as impressive as the façade. Any place that comes to life in the night has a bleached out dirty look when the sun is up, especially in the mornings. There was a stale reek of alcohol that a solitary lady with a mop was attacking with forlorn determination. On the low stage at the far end of the club, only the piano was still standing. The other musicians had taken their instruments with them, even the drums. The piano looked lonely and battered; its lacquer scratched and peeling.
– It still plays well, Jorge assured them.
He'd come out from behind the bar and was observing as Oscar peered closely at the instrument.
– Feel free to try it, if you play.
– No thanks, Oscar replied; we've come about your wife.
When they'd finished, Jose read the statement back to Mendoza and he confirmed that it was true. After that they left the club. Oscar said that it was the time for a coffee. Jose knew a place nearby.
– What did you think of what he said? Oscar asked.
– I wouldn't say he's lying exactly, Jose replied, but there was something he's not telling us.
Oscar seemed more inclined to stir his coffee than drink it.
– This reminds me of a very old case I read about once, he ventured.
– I suppose you're going to tell me all about it?
Leopold Gottfried was a free spirit as well as a brilliant composer. In every age there are some whose genius leaves behind an enduring legacy that enhances their reputation as the years pass. Then there are others, equally talented perhaps, who make barely a ripple: their work sinks from obscurity to oblivion through no fault of their own. Leo was one of those.
It was an age when composers were no longer content to hang around court churning out melodies to order. They had discovered self expression and all become idealists. Of course, given the price of sheet music and rehearsal space, they still needed sponsors to bring their ideals to life. Leo did not suffer any false modesty regarding his gift; and in due course the brash, abrasive youth came to the attention of certain Bavarian patron of the arts.
The Count of X was a genuine nobleman with his own family seat in the mountains. He lavished praise and support on artists of all kinds, but architects and musicians were his obsessions. It was assumed by everyone that the Count was fabulously rich, although after his death, it turned out that he'd squandered the family wealth and near ruined himself adding ever more grandiose extensions to the ancestral Schloss and seeking out new music fit to be heard in its booming halls.
Leo was more than happy to move into the palace; and pleased rather than dismayed when the Count seemed to forget about his existence almost as soon as he arrived. He had everything he needed. There was even a competent string quartet in residence and its bored members were willing enough to test Leo's compositional ideas.
The problems started when Leo fell in love with the Count's sister.
By all accounts she was no longer a young girl when they met and she was rather stout, but there is no reason to suppose that the couple's affection was not genuine. Leo lived in his head and the Countess was a strong, independent minded lady with a ready wit and her feet firmly planted on the ground, unlike her brother. It seemed clear to Eugenie that she was not likely to marry anyone else. She'd long ago tired of her brother's talk of finding a prince with a bloodline worthy to be joined to their own family.
There seemed no possibility of the Count producing an heir. The artists he invited to the Schloss were invariably male and physically handsome. Eugenie was the only lady of any rank in the castle and it was hinted that the tenderness which the Count showed for his sister was something beyond normal fraternal love.
The Count would never agree to give his beloved sister away to a low born penniless musician, however much he adored the arts. He was terribly conventional in his attitudes even though he liked to dress in uniform like the monarch of a bygone age and sometimes behaved quite outrageously.
Of course, the liaison was discovered and the Count reacted like a mediaeval tyrant. He announced to everyone that Leo was moving into the tower of the Schloss so as to remain undisturbed while he worked on a very special commission. The Count was all smiles as he told them that he'd dreamed of a melody that was the most soothing, consoling and perfect piece of music that had ever existed. It had been a supernatural vision and Leo had agreed to help him recover the sound of it. Until further notice, Leo would be staying in the tiny conservatory at the very top of the tower, taking his meals and sleeping in the small adjoining bedroom. The rooms were directly above the Count's own private chambers that were always kept locked from the inside every night (another of the Count's peculiarities). There was a piano in the top room and a speaker tube device that would allow the Count and no-one else to eavesdrop on Leo's progress.
In spite of the smiles and the kid words, everyone knew what it meant. There was no way down from that tower except through the Count's apartment, unless you learned to fly over the decorative battlement and down the sheer face of the wall. Leo was a prisoner.
No-one heard any more about Leo for more than two months and no-one dared to ask after him. Meals were carried up the steps and it was assumed that empty plates and full chamber pots came down. In those days and in that place, commoners could still disappear without undue worry for persons of nobility who had been inconvenienced by them. As for the other guests, the Count was unpredictable and no-one wanted to end in the same condition as Leo.
Then one morning in November, the Count failed to open his door to let in the family retainer who delivered his breakfast. Whenever he was at the Schloss, the Count had dined on the same food, brought at the same time, by the same servant, every morning since his childhood. Clearly this was a serious matter.
When the servant went to alert the Countess, Eugenie was missing from her chambers. The domestic staff were thrown into panic. When they eventually broke down the main door to the Count's room, all the other entrances and windows were locked and secure as he'd always insisted. The Count was lying where he'd fallen, by the great fireplace, with the speaker tube cupped to his ear and a serene expression on his face.
Jose had been sitting still for a long time. He shifted uncomfortably to relieve the ache in his buttocks.
– The musician killed him, I suppose.
– All the doors and windows were barred.
Jose thought about it for a moment.
– He poured poison down the tube and into the Count's ear.
– Like Hamlet's uncle, Oscar laughed; I never knew you were so cultured Jose. But no. The Count was an eminent man and the death was unusual. There was a proper autopsy of course. Poison was ruled out.
Here the story becomes uncertain. No-one in that part of Bavaria heard from Leo or the Countess ever again. The story is that Leo did exactly what the Count demanded. He produced a composition of such transcendent beauty and harmony that a susceptible listener like the Count became captivated by hearing it. Savants have theorised that the body's heart and vital functions quickly became attuned to the music, so that the Count's life was synchronised with it. It was quite a simple piece, supposedly, with no real beginning or end. You could play it over and over indefinitely. The final cadences give the impression that the tempo is slowing, although really it stays the same; but the pulse and breathing and the brain activity of the hearer do slow down. The listener becomes more and more relaxed, more and more adagio, until eventually he stops.
– If you don't mind me saying so, Jose commented; that sounds like the sort of fairy tale that gets invented to cover up a family scandal.
– There were no other explanations.
– What happened to the music? It should be famous.
– There was sheet music left behind in the conservatory. All anyone could remember was that it was a piano score in D minor. The manuscript was at the keyboard and there was an open window where a rope had been lowered. Leo must have had help. None of the servants wanted to touch the music score: they imagined it must contain witchcraft.
There was another musician staying at the castle at that time; a tall, bony-fingered man with long hair and a wild expression. People said there was something devilish about him, except that in fact he had been ordained as a priest. Anyway, this man went to the tower and spent some hours alone in the room with the piano. When he emerged, he said that he'd had to burn the manuscript. It was the only copy.
– Very convenient, Jose snorted. If you're finished, we have to go. Or would you like another coffee?
– Back at the club, Oscar prompted him; the piano.
– And no cigarette butts overflowing in Paco's ashtray, even though the cleaning woman hadn't been near the stage when we were there.
– I've never been in that place when Paco's not been sitting at the piano, day or night, Jose admitted. Always with a cigarette burning and a finger of the best whisky in front of him that he never seems to touch. I thought he was a fixture.
– Me too. If he wasn't working he was picking at some obscure chord or working out the parts for some tune that he'd be humming. But now no Paco and no Mrs Mendoza.
– You saw Jorge. He was more sad than worried. Marilou is young enough to be his daughter and he always claims Paco is like a son to him. What do you think?
– I think we shouldn't waste too much time looking for the missing wife.
– Musicians you see. Even if the tune that lulls you to death isn't genuine, the musicians are always the same. And they're unreliable. The women seem to like them though, better than policemen anyway.
Jose returned their empty cups to the counter. Oscar stood up.
– Come on, he said; let's go and find ourselves some real police work.


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Kalie Shorr's 'Love Child' Leads New 'I Got Here By Accident' EP [Listen]
Catherine Powell
Kalie Shorr tells her life story in her new song "Love Child." The autobiographical tune is the title track of a forthcoming EP.
"Daddy came here on a boat / Mama came here on a plane / I got here by accident, but God doesn't make mistakes," she sings to open "Love Child," which covers the basics — the good and the bad — of her family and childhood in Portland, Maine. "I'm a wild, wild love child / Lookin' for a wild love," Shorr professes in the chorus, which changes each time to reflect some of her musical influences, from Fleetwood Mac to Nirvana.
"If I could only play one song to introduce myself to a stranger, it would be 'Love Child.' It's a three-minute autobiography that covers everything from being a first-generation American, to my love for Fleetwood Mac and tarot cards," Shorr says in a press release. "Sonically, I love the energy of the guitars and the use of all-organic instruments that go back to my '90s and 2000s pop-rock influences."
"Love Child" is one of five songs on Shorr's next project, the I Got Here By Accident EP. She worked with acclaimed musician and producer Butch Walker on the EP, which also features the TikTok hit "Amy."
I Got Here By Accident follows Shorr's debut full-length album, Open Book, originally released in 2019 and then re-released with four additional songs (as Open Book: Unabridged) in 2020.
The I Got Here By Accident EP is due out on Aug. 13, via TMWRK Records; it's available to pre-save and pre-add here, and full details are below. One day after the EP's release, Shorr and Walker will perform together at the Grand Ole Opry.
Kalie Shorr, I Got Here By Accident EP Tracklist:
1. "Amy"
2. "I Heard You Got a Girl"
3. "I Hate the Way This Feels"
4. "Love Child"
5. "Alibi"
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Source: Kalie Shorr's 'Love Child' Leads New 'I Got Here By Accident' EP [Listen]
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Privacy Friendly WiFi Manager helps you automatically turning on/off your Wi-Fi while you are not near a known WiFi network. The app keeps track of the cell tower ids in your area while you are connected to a WiFi network. By keeping this information, the app tries to learn where your WiFi is located without using GPS.
By switching off the device's WiFi when it is not required, so-called tracking via WiFi is avoided. Privacy Friendly WiFi Manager also saves battery life by automatically disabling your device's WiFi in case it is not near an already known WiFi network.
The app preserves your privacy by tracking least necessary data. All data is kept on your phone. No data is sent to anybody. We also try to use the least permissions possible. Privacy Friendly WiFi Manager requires access the the device's coarse location to retrieve the cell tower information. It furthermore requires access to the WiFi state and the permission to change the WiFi state.
The app belongs to the Privacy Friendly Apps group developed by the research group SECUSO at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.


Are you interested in Ceremony? Deities? Sacred Art? Do you have visionary dreams? Please join Ekabhumi Ellik for a series of events celebrating, utilizing, and learning about the sacred art of making and maintaining a home altar.
This is a "hands-on" intensive with all the supplies and materials included. You will learn more about deities, offerings, and ritual conduct. You will leave with the basic skills for a simple practice of invoking a divinity, protecting your loved ones, and expanding your awareness.
Tickets, along with more details, are available from EventBrite or by sending payment via PayPal to: oneearthsacredarts at gmail dot com along with your full name, email address, and phone number.
Registration is limited to 12. Hope to see you there!


After a few Workaway experiences we still have a mix of sad/happy emotions.
If you are wondering what Workaway is, we can briefly say that it promotes fair exchange between budget travelers with people that are looking for help.
We spent two weeks in Andalusia, three in Algarve, a whole month in Lisbon and, right now, we are in Ontario, Canada… and much more has to come! Since we left home we shared our story, we learned many things, met new friends and even dressed up as cows in a carnival party!
In the end, was always sad leaving our hosts and the places we considered home for a while. We have to admit that it was exciting at the same time because we were never coming back to our daily routine in Italy, but moving somewhere else, with something new to discover and other people to meet.
First of all, we learned that Workaway is a real community, and it truly works!
It is not merely a trip planner, but a network of people willing to share the same aim and needs. Even if we are still at the beginning of our journey (or maybe because of it) we needed help several times like for tips about documents and Visa application, general information about hosts or even just travel suggestions.
We just wrote to unknown workawawayers and we got what we were looking for. They all answered us in a short period of time, most of them in just a few hours!! So, in the end, asking questions directly to people in the platform could save you hours of googling that could make just a big mess in your head.
Try to have at least a Skype call with your future hosts. In many cases, for the most in hospitality related positions, the host itself will ask you for it. It's always good to have a better idea of the place you will go and the tasks you have to fulfill. Talking directly with your host will always help, in the end, you'll live closely with new people, from a couple of weeks to few months, so it's nice to have a proper introduction before.
Ok, you may have some doubt now but don't! People related to this community are trustworthy, and all the information about hosts and places are most of the time genuine. You may doubt (as we did before leaving Italy) that someone will wait months for your arrival, but that's exactly what happens! Hosts are scheduling the arrival of the volunteers, as you'll schedule the stops of your journey, so they won't forget about you.
You may think there could be nasty surprises, that beautiful host profile could be a lie or you'll end doing terrible unexpected jobs. Well, we can not exclude it for sure but it never happened to us. We usually choose hosts with good comments, or at least some, in order to be sure that they had some experience and if we are still in doubt, we just ask for someone who's been there.
Be prepared to carry out any kind of task, you'll never be bored and you'll learn a ton of new and useful things! In most of the cases, you don't need to have specific expertise but just the willingness to do activities that you may not be used to do.
Don't be scared about tasks. Hosts usually ask you about your skills and interests, in order to not to push you too far from your comfort zone. Based on our experience, most of the time hosts are there to teach you how to do things in which you are a newbie.
Nevertheless, bringing an entire working outfit, from shoes to hat, is necessary. Avoiding shoveling dung with the same clothes you'll use to welcome guest in a hostel the week after is always a good idea!
Workaway is truly human-based, and this of course has it's pros and cons. Volunteers that are choosing this platform can't just expect to find a bed and some food in exchange of few hours of work; most of the time you will share the same roof with people willing to know you and your story. So, even if you can explore around just in your free time, you can discover the real customs and traditions of the people in the country you are visiting.
Obviously, when human relations are involved, things could go wrong too, it's part of the game. Luckily it never happened to us, things went almost every time different as we expected, but never bad. In any case, one of the good things of this way of travel/living is that you didn't sign any contract, so you are free to go if you don't feel comfortable anymore.
Things might be slightly different if you pick a company based profile (i.e. guest houses, big farms, hostels…). In this case, your staying there could be more similar to a regular job, with regular tasks based on a daily routine and sometimes you might have a proper boss.
Even in this case, you will find human connections, you might share the place with other Workawayers (that maybe come from the next place you will visit or going in your same direction) or with guests of the place your volunteering for.
Our advice is to try both options, so you can have a complete overview and decide by yourself which one suits your needs the most.
We have to say that in the end, all the Workaway experiences we had were a chance to share and grow, thanks to the hundreds of people we met during this adventure… and a lot more has to come. Keep following us!


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Deena and Stefan
Chagossian visit to Chagos Islands: Boycotts by several Chagossian groups
The latest UK government organised visit to the Chagos Islands will be going ahead at the end of October. The 12 day trip will be funded from the £40m support package announced last November when the UK government decided not to proceed with a Chagossian return programme.
The visit, however, has been boycotted by several Chagossian groups, including the Chagos Refugees Group and the Seychelles Chagossian Committee. This is in protest that the UK will not allow Chagossians to return permanently to their homeland.
The visit will continue, with 6 Chagossians from Mauritius and a selection living in the UK. The UK government has commented that selections were made on the basis of who had previously not been involved in a trip to the islands.
Pierre Prosper, Chairperson of the Seychelles Chagossian Committee, stated that a lack of clarity from UK officals also contributed to their decision to boycott the the trip.
"When the Brits came with the proposal to improve the living conditions of the Chagossians and the sum of £ 40 million, we asked for clarification on the cost of the visit to the Chagos and how the money will be used," says Pierre Prosper. But to this day, he adds, the British have given no details," Mr Prosper stated.
#Chagos #Chagossian #SeychellesChagossianCommittee #Seychelles #ChagosReturn #Return


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Check out this terrific Tucson! Just arrived on trade & won't be here long! Drives smooth & pulls nicely. Good-sized interior but not too big outside so it's easy on gas & easy to park! Great all-round family vehicle @ a nice price!


Burnham on Crouch library in May. © 2018 Nick Skeens.
Burnham has an excellent little public library at 103 Station Road, on the corner of Millfields Road that runs down to the Dengie Sports Centre.
They offer computer/wifi facilities too.
The library is owned by Maldon District Council.
A statue to commemorate the Unknown Soldier, a Tommy from the First World war, was unveiled at 9.30am on Friday 3rd August, 2018.
It is just outside the library.
Members of the Burnham Royal British Legion were also there, despite not being invited because MDC wanted an 'intentionally low-key unveiling'.
To find out more about MDC's initiative, click here.
Similar statues are being erected all over the country.


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In astronomy, a vertical circle is a great circle on the celestial sphere that is perpendicular to the horizon. Therefore, it contains the vertical direction, passing through the zenith and the nadir. There is a vertical circle for any given azimuth, where azimuth is the angle measured east from the north on the celestial horizon. The vertical circle which is on the east–west direction is called the prime vertical. The vertical circle which is on the north–south direction is called the local celestial meridian (LCM), or principal vertical. Vertical circles are part of the horizontal coordinate system.

Instruments like this were more common in 19th century observatories and were important for locating and recording coordinates in the cosmos, and observatories often had various other instruments for certain functions as well as advanced clocks of the period. The popularly known example in the observatories, were the Great refractors which became larger and larger and came to have dominating effect to the point that observatories were moved simply to have better conditions for their biggest telescope, in the modern style where observatories often have one instrument only in a remote location on the Earth or even in outer space. However, in the 19th century it was more basic with observatorys often making recording of coordinates of different items and to determine the shape of the Earth and times.

See also
Meridian circle
Equatorial telescope
Comet seeker

References

Astronomical coordinate systems

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FLUSHING, N.Y. (Oct. 4, 2018) - Because of continued maintenance in the purposes of renovating Fitzgerald Gymnasium, the general locker rooms at Queens College will be indefinitely closed until renovation is complete.
This process will begin on Friday (Oct. 5) at 11 a.m. While the cleaning is ongoing, users will be directed to store their belongings in the varsity locker rooms adjacent to the general locker rooms. Signage will be posted around Fitzgerald Hall directing users of this notice and providing directions to the varsity locker rooms.
The rules for locker room usage will still apply, therefore all lockers are for daily use only. Locks will be clipped in the case of those who do not abide by the rules of the locker rooms.
For more information regarding this, please contact the Queens College Department of Athletics at (718) 997-2795.


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Politics: Gov't, parties condemn courthouse bombing
Δημοσίευση 31 Δεκεμβρίου 2010, 14:56 / Ανανεώθηκε 27 Ιουνίου 2013, 14:55
The government on Thursday sternly attacked a same-day bomb attack outside the administrative first instance courthouse in Athens, with the government spokesman emphasising that "the government categorically condemns any action that attempts to dispute democracy and terrify the people".
"Authorities are on alert and ready to deal with these actions; those who attempt them will merely earn society's and the state's condemnation," Giorgos Petalotis said.
Justice Minister Haris Kastanidis, in a statement from the site of the terror attack, stressed that "verbal condemnations are unnecessary. We are called on to continue our mission via the practices we follow; terror attacks do not faze democracy."
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) MP and former justice minister Nikos Dendias also blasted the attack, noting that "New Democracy condemns this provocative action against the country's lawful order and calls on all political forces to act accordingly. The political world must make it clear to society that terrorism is a huge danger for everyone. It severely harms the country's image abroad during a period of great economic crisis."
Τhe Communist Party of Greece (KKE), in announcement, underlined that "such actions do not frighten monopolies' power, on the contrary, they (monopolies) take advantage of (such actions) to disorientate and intimidate the people and use them as an excuse for counter-terrorism laws, new surveillance systems and the restraint of the working class movement. The people have the experience to reach essential con-clusions".
On its part, the Popular Orthodox Rally (LA.OS) party stated that "we are being led, as country, towards general anarchy, with galloping terror actions, criminal activity and political downgrading".
"Τhe terror path is historically misbegotten and condemnable" cites in an announcement Synaspismos
Acting in the name of popular interests but always without the people's consent, it becomes the greatest alibi for the state's restraint and society's arbitrariness. Such actions facilitate the opposite of that they suppose to achieve.
Finally, the Coalition of the Left stated that "the path of terror is historically misbegotten and condemnable".


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Q: Is there a C# datetime library that can handle dates from present to 12,000 bc? That's pretty much it. I don't need high precision in the Paleolithic Era, but I would like to be able to represent these date without jumping through too many hoops.

A: Noda Time supports times +/- 290 million years.

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Questions? Get answers about Carestream software by downloading our brochure and white papers, exploring frequently asked questions, or contacting us directly.
Does it make sense to buy a viewer and a back-end archive from the same vendor?
Yes. VNA companies are buying viewer companies and vice versa.
Can we plug in viewers from other vendors?
Yes. We have proven experience with Viatronix, Medis, Confirma, OrthoView, Phillips Portal, Syngo.Via, GE portal, Vital Images, TerraRecon, and more.
Is the unified core a VNA-grade solution?
Yes. The Clinical Collaboration Platform meets the criteria for a vendor-neutral archive as defined by Michael Gray and the widely accepted Acuo checklist.
Does the unified core preclude working with deconstructed solutions?
The Clinical Collaboration Platform can work as an enterprise imaging platform with a unified back end, and it can also work in a fully deconstructed manner. The internal structure is deconstructed, so that any Carestream component can be replaced with a third-party component if necessary. However, because all Carestream components have been built on our unified core, they share the same application infrastructure – including configuration management, user management, audit, log and so on. With Carestream components integrated through the unified core, you can significantly reduce implementation, maintenance and administration costs. And you get optimum performance, with no need to duplicate databases.
Why should I consider a platform with a unified core?
The Clinical Collaboration Platform provides standards-based data capture, management, archiving and distribution for imaging data across the healthcare enterprise. The unified core is the backbone that enables this enterprise-wide imaging and associates all the data for each patient with a single patient record. This imaging data can be easily integrated with the enterprise's EMR/EHR, and extensible modules provide access to images, videos and waveforms within a clinical context that's relevant to each stakeholder across the continuum of care. The unified core manages imaging workflows – such as acquisition, interpretation and reporting, distribution, and communication – and is agnostic to data formats and transfer protocols. The result is a manage-anywhere, access-anywhere imaging environment for your entire enterprise, including remote locations, telemedicine providers, payers, patients and more.
I need to produce data for quality reporting. How would this solution help?
Vue Beyond, our real-time business operations dashboard, provides a wide variety of productivity metrics and allows extraction of data from patient medical records for further reporting.
We would like to expand our Telehealth services, providing access to our specialists for remote patients. Can you help?
Yes. Clinical Collaboration Platform offers zero-footprint web services for easy implementation of clinical data acquisition and management capabilities at remote sites. Specialists can view images for diagnosis using Vue Motion, the enterprise collaboration viewer.
Does the Clinical Collaboration Platform work with my BYOD (bring your own device) strategy?
Yes. Vue Motion has been evaluated and approved by the FDA for clinical reading on various mobile devices. It's a truly device-independent enterprise collaboration viewer.
How does the Clinical Collaboration Platform support meaningful collaboration between physicians and their patients?
The MyVue patient portal can be embedded in the EMR patient portal, enabling patients to access, manage and share their own clinical data results. Studies have shown that patients place a high value on clinical images. With the insight these images provide, patients can have more productive discussions with their physicians regarding treatment and health maintenance options.
How do end users pull prior data from the vendor-neutral archive?
Metadata tagging allows a specialist (such as a radiologist) to retrieve prior data from the local ancillary PACS using the Clinical Collaboration Platform. Metadata is archived immediately, with pixel data streamed and tunneled for optimum performance. Regardless of the data source, metadata tagging provides a meaningful context to clinical data to users across the Clinical Collaboration Platform ecosystem.
What if I have another company's PACS?
Likely, your company already has another vertical workflow management system in place, which may or may not include a vendor-neutral archive. Because the workflow is customized for the needs of a particular department, your PACS can't effectively serve the needs of users beyond that department who need access to clinical information using their own preferred systems and methods. The Clinical Collaboration Platform is designed to bridge these gaps, providing clinical information within a context that is meaningful to users across your healthcare enterprise and beyond.
What if I already have a Carestream PACS?
If you have a Carestream PACS installed with Vue Archive, then you already have a radiology archive capable of becoming an enterprise repository, but not yet accessible and usable across other service lines, departments and organizations. Work with your Carestream team to understand how the Vue Archive can ingest other data formats from other departments.
How can we image-enable our EMR/EHR via the vendor-neutral archive module of the Clinical Collaboration Platform?
Our zero-footprint universal viewer can be embedded within the EMR/EHR, and has been cleared by the FDA for mobile use.
I have departmental PACS, how will I use this solution?
The Clinical Collaboration Platform is vendor-neutral and complements your existing workflow. If there's a departmental PACS that is managing the diagnostic reporting workflow, the Data Acquisition Management module can help ingest and tag proprietary data for enterprise distribution, such as image-enabling the EMR, patient portal or universal viewer.
How are the various standards used?
Patient context information can be integrated via HL7, FHIR or IHE. Exam context information from the modalities is provided via DICOM or direct web-transfer services.
What is your image lifecycle management strategy?
The Clinical Collaboration Platform offers an Archive module that provides multiple storage tiers, including online, near-line, offline and cloud storage. The metadata you specify can be used to determine the lifecycle migration of clinical records. Recent, high-value content can remain online and accessible in real time, while older content migrates to the appropriate tier automatically, following your specified retention and deletion rules.
A content management provider already manages my image data. What can the Clinical Collaboration Platform do that they can't?
Traditional content management companies typically handle smaller data sets and general-purpose file formats such as TXT and PDF files. Our expertise is in managing large clinical data sets and workflows for those who provide, manage, receive and reimburse care. That means we can offer tools, views and support for stakeholders throughout the healthcare ecosystem. Clinicians, administrators, payers and even patients themselves can collaborate to deliver more efficient, effective care.
Can you handle non-DICOM format images?
The Clinical Collaboration Platform can ingest, manage and archive non-DICOM format data. Tag morphing is used to ensure proper display of protocols and comparisons without regard to the format limitations of ancillary systems such as departmental PACS.
I already have an electronic medical records system that can associate scanned documents with the patient record. Do I still need the Clinical Collaboration Platform?
It depends. Not every EMR system can capture, index and manage clinical data such as large image datasets. The Clinical Collaboration Platform complements your enterprise content management and EMR systems to ensure you have a complete clinical record for each patient, with all images and data accessible and contextualized according to the needs of each EMR system user.
How is this different from enterprise content management solutions?
Traditional content management systems are designed to manage smaller data sets and general-purpose file formats such as TXT and PDF files. Carestream's expertise is in managing large data sets and complex workflows specifically for those who provide, manage, receive and reimburse care. Because we specialize in managing clinical data, we can also offer healthcare-specific tools for patient engagement, analytics, quality reporting and more.


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Job Candidates Prefer Private Equity over Hedge Funds: Survey
Written by: Michael Goodman Published on: February 10th, 2015
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Michael began his career in Executive Search in 1993 and he's been recruiting for the Alternative Investment industry ever since. In April of 2004, Michael launched Long Ridge Partners with then colleague Adam L'Esperance. Michael has an expertise in recruiting for a number of different disciplines including Portfolio Management, Trading, Research, Risk Management, Marketing, Investor Relations, Legal and Finance. Over the years he has recruited for a number of different investment firms including hedge funds, fund of hedge funds, private equity firms, venture capital firms, family offices and investment banks.
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A new survey found that private equity firms hold a slight edge over hedge funds in recruiting prospects from investment banks.
More than one-third, or 39 percent, of investment banking analysts preferred to work at a private equity firm once they leave their IB position, according to the survey by Long Ridge Partners, a New York executive search firm that mainly places executives at alternative investment firms like private equity, hedge funds and investment managers. About 37 percent of those surveyed chose hedge funds over PE firms.
Many candidates prefer private equity because it's more secure than hedge funds, said Michael Goodman, Long Ridge's managing partner and founder.
Investors in hedge funds can pull out after one year if the lockup period has expired, Goodman said. "That doesn't occur in PE which typically has seven- to 10-year lockups on their investor capital," he said.
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Long Ridge Partners surveyed 100 IB analysts across the country in the fourth quarter. Half, or 51 percent, of those questioned were in their second year of the IB analyst program. Nearly one-third, or 27 percent, were in their first year, while 22 percent were in their third year.
Private equity and hedge funds are recruiting IB analysts much sooner, many in the first six months of the analyst program, Goodman said. Nearly all, or 84 percent, of IB analysts questioned said they were open to leaving the program early.
About half, or 52 percent, received job offers in their second year, while one-fifth, or 21 percent, got offers in their first year.
Long Ridge found that only 9 percent of those analysts questioned wanted to stay at the investment bank.
"Investment bankers work very long hours," Goodman said. "It's very political and very hierarchical."
Brian Rich, managing partner and co-founder of Catalyst Investors, said he wasn't surprised by the results. He noted that investment banking jobs have fallen out of favor with younger people. Those candidates that do take banking jobs typically use the position to get trained and then move on, he said. "What do to after IB, but before B-School? Well, PE is a great alternative," Rich said.
"Besides, who wouldn't want to be in VC/PE?" he added.
In private equity, the typical path is for candidates to complete a two-year investment banking analyst program. They then often secure a position at a PE firm as an associate.
Most PE firms expect associates to leave after two years and return to business school, Goodman said. Some firms, typically the larger ones, sometimes promote candidates to VP without the need for B-school. "Those are exceptions," he said.
Many candidates, even though they sign on with a PE firm, don't want to go back for the MBA, Goodman said. Business school is very expensive. Candidates typically give up two years of earnings while in school, which can be anywhere $400,000 to $600,000, he said. They also incur about $250,000 in loans for the advanced degree. That's a $600,000 to $800,000 swing for most people, Goodman said.
Pay for a private equity can be enticing. Base salary for associates can range from $100,000 to $150,00 in their first year, while bonuses can be anywhere from $100,000 to $150,000, Goodman said. While the compensation is good, he cautioned that associate work "is a lot of heavy lifting." This can include research, due diligence as well as building and maintaining detailed financial models of different companies.
Still, "It's a more exciting job than banking," he said.
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Sara Shafiei and Ben Cowd at 'Prosperity, Community and Identity: The built environment and creative capacity,' conference at the Legatum Institute.
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We dismantled this barn in East Orange, VT.
It is approximately 26' x 32' with hand-hewn beams.
It has an unusually steep pitch to the roof.
The Rumney Cape and Barn (c. 1791) have been rebuilt as the centerpiece of a new organic farm project in Hudson, New York.
The Cape has been converted into an office and a store, while the Barn has been resurrected as a milking parlor for the cows.
This barn from Greenfield, NH measures 36' x 70'.
It features hand hewn beams and Oak gunstock posts. It also has a very unusual truss and king post structure.
This hand-hewn, post and beam Rumney Barn is at its new location in Hudson, New York.
The barn plays a central role in a new organic dairy farm, as does its sister structure, the Rumney Cape.
This 3-story mansion was designed for Moses Payson of Bath, NH by the architect Alexander Parris in 1810.
While the building has endured fire damage and years of neglect, it still bears the look of a Parris design.
Parris was a prominent architect-engineer in New England, designing many structures throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, including the Nathan Appleton House in 1818, the Somerset Club in 1819, and most notably, Faneuil Hall Market (Quincy Market) in 1826.
This hand hewn frame was built by Tim O'Hara and Jason Dunnet of Keeper Barn as designed by project managers David Anderson Hill and Susan Fuller.
The hand hewn beams used were salvaged from barns that were incomplete but still contained valuable pieces, most dating from the years around 1800.
Images of the frame installed were taken by Rob Karosis Photography.


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It's Official: An Obi-Wan Kenobi Movie Is in the Works (Updated)
Well, it's finally happening. The Hollywood Reporter says that Stephen Daldry, the Oscar-nominated director behind Billy Elliot and The Hours, is in early talks to direct and develop a script about Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi. Ewan McGregor, however, is not yet attached.
Disney would not offer a comment.
This has long been a film fans have been clamoring for, even though the adventures of Obi-Wan Kenobi between Episode III and IV have actually been explored recently in the comics and on Rebels. And though McGregor isn't part of the movie yet, he has said time and time again it's something he wants to do. If Lucasfilm and Daldry want him, it's a good bet he'll turn on that lightsaber again. Again, this is all in very early stages.
Star Wars films are on the schedule for the next three years, with The Last Jedi in December, the Han Solo movie in May 2018, and then Episode IX in May 2019. And though the CEO of Disney, Bob Iger, has said Lucasfilm was developing a standalone movie for 2020—which most people assumed would be about Obi-Wan anyway—this is the first acknowledgement that something along those lines is really happening. BUT, to be fair, we don't 100 percent know it'll be the next film. Common sense just dictates it is, since they are in the process of hiring a director and writer.
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Q: Passing file descriptor from one program to another on the same host using UNIX sockets I have two prgrams lets say prog1 and prog2. I am opening a file with prog1 and doing some operations
on it. Now without closing the file in prog1 i am sending its file descriptor to prog2 using unix
sockets which then does some operations in it.
Though i get the same descriptor i passed in prog1 but doing a fstat() on the fd recieved in prog2
throws an error saying Bad file descriptor. I have opened the file in prog1 with corerct permissions
that is read and write for all, still i get an error.
Why is it happening so. If my way of passing a file descriptor is wrong then please suggest a correct
one.

A: I believe this site has what you're looking for:
http://www.lst.de/~okir/blackhats/node121.html
There's also information in Linux's man 7 unix on using SCM_RIGHTS and other features of Unix sockets.
Fix for broken link: http://web.archive.org/web/20131016032959/http://www.lst.de/~okir/blackhats/node121.html

A: This is normal. Each program has its own file descriptors.
EDIT: Well, it seems that you can pass file descriptor using local socket.
You can see them in /proc/PID/fd, they are often symlinks to your files. What you can do with unix socket is allowing a write to a file from one program to another with sendmsg/recvmsg. See this question for more detail.
But there's way many better way to write concurrently to a file. You can use fifo, shm or even just pass your offset position between your 2 programs.

A: A file descriptor is a small int value that lets you access a file.  It's an index into a file descriptor table, a data structure in the kernel that's associated with each individual process.  A process cannot do anything meaningful with a file descriptor from another process, since it has no access to any other process's file descriptor table.
This is for basic security reasons.  If one process were able to perform operations on an open file belonging to another process, chaos would ensue.  Also, a file descriptor just doesn't contain enough information to do what you're trying to do; one process's file descriptor 0 (stdin) might refer to a completely different file than another process's file descriptor 0.  And even if they happen to be the same file, each process needs to maintain its own information about the state of that open file (how much it's read/written, etc.).
If you'll describe what you're trying to accomplish, perhaps we can help.
EDIT :
You want to pass data from one program to another.  The most straightforward way to do this is to create a pipe (man 2 pipe).  Note that the second process will have to be a child of the first.
An alternative might be to create a file that the second process can open and read (not trying to share a file descriptor), or you might use sockets.


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Hard to split the top two selections. CAESAR'S QUEST coming off a win to break maiden at Launceston and drawn the rails, should go well. SECRET GOLD winner at Launceston and placed twice this campaign but failed to win as a favourite last start at the track, in the mix. SKIP TOWN MIKE trial in the 28 days since last run could help and has two placings from five runs this prep, in with a chance. A TAD MORE has four placings from seven runs this prep and ran two lengths back from the winner last start at Launceston, sneaky chance.
Unplaced in all five runs this prep and finished midfield last start at Launceston. Appears safely held.
Has placed in three runs from seven this campaign but faded to finish seventh last start at Hobart on a soft track. Up in trip. Not the worst.
Only just missed last start, finishing half a length back from the winner at Launceston and has trialled since last race 28 days ago. Has placed in two runs from five this campaign. Expected to be a contender.
Placed last start at Hobart on a soft track and has three placings from 10 runs this prep. Claim should help. Place chance.
Won last start to break maiden at Launceston and draws to do no work. Chris Graham has had success aboard previously. Big chance.
Winner despite being unwanted in the betting last start to break maiden at Launceston but awkwardly drawn. Faces a rise in trip. Place.
A 10 start maiden and down in distance. Runs poorly with the sting out of the ground. Sneaky chance.
Ran as favourite last start and placed at Launceston but winner at the track, placed twice this campaign. Down in distance. Should fight out the finish.
Short back-up of five days. Finished in the middle of the pack last start at Hobart on a soft track and has three placings from seven runs this prep but cannot entertain.
Beaten by 20 lengths last start at Hobart. Expected to settle off the speed and just the one placing this campaign at Launceston. Not in this.


Jon Hicks presents a guide to creating the perfect favicon size image from scratch using Adobe Illustrator.
This guide will show you how to make a professional-looking favicon size image for your website – it's easier than you think! Even if you've never created any other types of icons before, I'm willing to bet that everyone reading this has at some point made a favicon.
They're an ideal place to start, as we can look at ways of achieving pixel-crisp artwork and clarity at small sizes – and it will be unique and far better than the free icons you'll find on the web. We'll be using Illustrator CS6 but you can use most versions of Ai up to the very latest Creative Cloud edition.
Favicons (also called shortcut icons) first appeared in Internet Explorer 5, where placing a favicon.ico icon in the root of a website would cause a 16px square image to appear next to the URL in the address bar and in bookmark lists, without requiring any HTML. Initially this had the added benefit of estimating how many times our sites were bookmarked by counting requests for the favicon, but this is no longer reliable since browsers started supporting the favicon for more than just bookmarks.
The difference between favicons and application icons, is that there's no deliberation over the correct metaphor here. Their purpose isn't to summarise an action or overcome language barriers, but to represent the site as a signpost and extend its branding into the browser. As such, it will almost always be a smaller version of the site's logo. Fortunately, it is generally simpler to recreate a logo in 16 pixels than an application icon.
While much larger sizes can also be used these days, a 16px version is essential and an ideal place to start if you're new to designing icons. The skills you pick up from creating them will serve as the basis for the other types we'll be looking at later. If you can achieve clarity at this size, the rest will fall into place!
Even if you've never created any of the other types of icons discussed in this book, I'm willing to bet that everyone reading this has at some point made a favicon and, for the majority of you, that it's a regular task.
A favicon could appear on a variety of backgrounds, so we will need to use transparency to get the best option to fit all. It won't always be displayed on a white address bar background – it may appear on Windows Aero glass, a grey Mac OS X UI, or a dark browser theme. Firefox 4 also adds a grey button background to favicons in its address bar; it is set slightly larger so it will always border the favicon.
16px: For general use in all browsers, could be displayed in the address bar, tabs or bookmarks views!
Do we really need to supply all of these? As always, it depends on context. A site for a Mac and iOS software company would benefit from the various iPad and iPhone specific icons, whereas an intranet site that will only be displayed in Internet Explorer would be better off with a multi-resolution ICO file. A web app, designed to be viewed on mobile and desktop would benefit from spending the time creating all of these sizes.
While it is possible to use a 32px icon that can be reduced by 50% to 16px (for example, by using 2px strokes that will reduce neatly to 1px), this relies on the browser to scale it, and it may crop it instead. It'll also result in a larger file, and we want to keep the favicon files as small as possible.
If you don't include a basic 16px favicon, it's a lost opportunity to extend the brand of the site beyond the page itself. A missing favicon.ico file also causes problems on high traffic sites, as the server will generate a 404 error for every first request. Firefox remembers sites that are missing a favicon and doesn't re-request them, but it's the only browser that does this.
The ICO file is still the most widely supported. Unlike PNG it can contain multiple resolutions and bit-depths, which is very useful on Windows. Internet Explorer uses favicons in a variety of sizes, such as the 32-pixel icon for the Windows 7 taskbar, and an ICO is the only way to offer these. It's also the only format that is detected without using a <link> element.
PNG can be more convenient, however, as it doesn't require any special tools to create, it supports alpha transparency and gives us the smallest possible file size. Its only drawback is that Internet Explorer doesn't support it (it only accepts ICO).
GIF and animated GIF offer no advantages other than support for very old browsers.
JPG is an unlikely choice, even if the image is a photo. It lacks the crispness of PNG, and you won't see any benefit from its better blends at such a small size.
SVG would be excellent if more browsers supported it for favicon use, but only Opera does currently.
There is also a cheeky little subformat of PNG – APNG (animated PNG) – supported by Firefox and Opera, but its usefulness is questionable. An animated favicon just looks irritating and needy!
Now we've looked at the background information and preparation for creating favicons, let's get our hands dirty and start drawing some icons.
Five Details designs and develops software for Mac, iPhone and iPad. For this company with more than 100,000 users of its Flow and Seamless apps, and an Apple Design Award under its belt, Hicksdesign created the Five Details logo, branding and website.
For our example workflow, we'll be taking our original vector file and creating a 16px favicon from it, as well as the other sizes for the website. As Five Details focuses on Mac software, the context for this is going to mean a heavy emphasis on Mac desktop browsers and iOS mobile devices. It's worth spending time, therefore, making sure the full range of optimised Apple Touch icons are created as well: 57px for iPhone and iPod Touch, 72px for the iPad and 114px for the iPhone 4's Retina display.
In Illustrator, I've set up an artboard for each icon size. I prefer being able to see each size, side by side, rather than have an individual file for each. The artboards are named with their intended filename (such as 'favicon' or 'apple-touch-icon-114x114-precomposed') as this will be used when exporting with the script included in the goodies pack.
We'll begin by resizing the artwork to 16px and seeing what we get. If the original happens to be a neat multiple of 16, then we'll be off to a good start, but it's more likely that it will need to be tweaked or redrawn from scratch, possibly even as pixel art (drawing each pixel individually) to ensure clarity. That isn't as daunting or time-consuming as it sounds, though!
If the image needs to include a background (as the Five Details icon does), then any padding that you need will reduce the size of the actual logo even further. While your icon doesn't require a background, it might help to control its contrast in a variety of environments. A simple grey favicon might look nice and subtle in a white address bar (bottom right), but when displayed on a grey tab in a Mac browser such as Firefox, it's easily lost (top right).
Unfortunately the edges don't fall neatly on to full pixels, and the gap between the two parts of the logo is almost closed up. In some cases we can tweak the anchor points of the path to make it sit on the pixel grid properly. If your chosen graphics editor supports pixel snapping (where it snaps the path you're editing to the pixel grid) then you'll find that you need to alternate this on and off for different tasks: for snapping straight edges it's very useful, but editing curves (such as the right side of the logo) is easier if it's off. Sometimes we'll want the path to sit halfway between pixels, not just for curves, but to deliberately create softer edges for elements such as shadows.
In this case, however, the simple shapes are easier to recreate in vectors from scratch. This at least gives the right proportions to help us recreate it. Placing the reduced artwork in separate layers and locking it allows us to use it as a guide, working on top of it.
The border has been accentuated by adding an inner highlight – a 50% white stroke that is just enough to provide contrast, making the edge feel crisper. Some applications like Illustrator and Opacity allow you to add multiple strokes to the same vector object. For those that don't, you would need to make sure that you reduce the rounded corner radius to suit. For example, if the outside border had a radius of 4px, the inner highlight radius would need to be 3px to look correct.
Our favicon artwork is now finished, but there are other pitfalls to avoid. It's best not to try and reproduce any perspective as this will reduce the icon's visual weight and require more anti-aliased pixels, making edges appear less crisp. Notice how the Reeder app website changes the isometric box logo to use a side-on perspective for the favicon. It's clear and still recognisable as the Reeder app.
There are always exceptions, though, and despite your best efforts the logo and restrictive size is against you from the start. The BBC favicon is a good example of a logo that doesn't scale easily to a favicon, but also can't be reduced to a selected element without losing the brand. The white space top and bottom reduces its visual weight compared to other favicons, thereby diluting its importance.
The only way to avoid this is to add a 16px PNG favicon as well and add the <link> element to the HTML.
If we're just making PNGs then this stage is straightforward, but creating the ICO requires a few more steps. There are many free online tools which will take a PNG and create an ICO for you (see appendix), or you can export it as one directly from Photoshop.
Any sizes or colour depths that aren't needed can be removed in the sidebar. If all looks good, we can then save as an ICO. Iconbuilder can also export in other formats at the same time, such as a set of PNGs for each resolution – very handy.


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DOI:10.1053/JHEP.2001.20798
Outcome of hospital care of liver disease associated with hepatitis C in the United States
@article{Kim2001OutcomeOH,
title={Outcome of hospital care of liver disease associated with hepatitis C in the United States},
author={W. Ray Kim and John B. Gross and John J. Poterucha and Giles Richard Locke and E. Rolland Dickson},
journal={Hepatology},
W. Kim, J. Gross, +2 authors E. Dickson
Published 1 January 2001
We describe mortality and resource utilization for inpatient care of hepatitis C (HCV) in comparison to alcohol‐induced liver disease (ALD) in the United States and identify factors that affect outcomes. The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project database, a national inpatient sample was used to identify hospitalization records with diagnoses related to liver disease from HCV and ALD. Outcome of hospitalizations was analyzed in terms of in‐hospital deaths and health care resource utilization…
Hepatitis C, Chronic
HIV Infections
Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury
Hepatorenal Syndrome
Adrenoleukodystrophy
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
The burden of hepatitis C virus infection is growing: a Canadian population-based study of hospitalizations from 1994 to 2004.
R. Myers, Mingfu Liu, A. Shaheen
Canadian journal of gastroenterology = Journal canadien de gastroenterologie
The present studies' findings confirm the growing burden of HCV on the Canadian health care system and strategies to prevent HCV infection and maximize the dissemination and most effective use of potentially curative antiviral therapies are necessary to reduce these trends.
VIRAL HEPATITIS Trends in Health Care Resource Use for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in the United States
William C. Grant, R. Jhaveri, J. McHutchison, K. Schulman, T. Kauf
Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection affects approximately 3 million people in the United States and places tremendous demands on the health care system. As many observers have predicted, the…
Trends in health care resource use for hepatitis C virus infection in the United States
As patients continue to age and disease burden progresses, suboptimal decisions regarding HCV treatments will bring increasing opportunity costs for the health care system and society.
Hepatitis C and hospital outcomes in patients admitted with alcohol-related problems.
J. Tsui, M. Pletcher, E. Vittinghoff, K. Seal, R. Gonzales
Patients admitted to the hospital with alcohol-related diagnoses have longer hospital stays and are more likely to die in hospital if they have a diagnosis of HCV, which is known to act synergistically with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.
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Patterns of Hepatitis C-Related Inpatient Mortality in the United States in the Era of Direct-Acting Antivirals
Mohammad S Alzahrani, M. Maneno, M. Daftary, L. Wingate, E. Ettienne, C. Howell
Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology research
The findings indicate that major disparities in the HCV disease burden exist in the era of DAA, and the burden of HCV infection is substantial given the disease is now curable.
Nationwide increase in hospitalizations and hepatitis C among inpatients with cirrhosis and sequelae of portal hypertension.
G. Nguyen, D. Segev, P. Thuluvath
Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association
A significant increase in the incidence of hospitalization for complicated portal hypertension between 1998 and 2003 and a growing burden of hepatitis C-related disease have profound economic impact and underscore the need for interventions to prevent progression to advanced liver disease.
Increased mortality among persons infected with hepatitis C virus.
L. H. Omland, P. Jepsen, +7 authors N. Obel
HCV infection is associated with increased mortality; younger patients (age, 20-29 y) have an increased risk of unnatural death.
Chronic Hepatitis C Disease in North Carolina: Epidemiology, Hospital Utilization Trends, and Implications for State Policy Change
L. K. Carswell
The objective of this paper is to summarize the current state of knowledge about HCV in North Carolina, with an emphasis on the impact or burden of the disease.
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Mortality and hospital utilization for hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States.
W. Kim, G. Gores, J. Benson, T. Therneau, L. Melton
Closer epidemiologic surveillance to understand causation of HCC at the population level and to help implement primary and secondary prevention is urgently warranted.
Diabetes mellitus is an independent prognostic factor for major liver‐related outcomes in patients with cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis C
L. Elkrief, Pascale Chouinard, +11 authors D. Valla
In patients with chronic hepatitis C and cirrhosis, diabetes is an independent prognostic factor andimproving diabetes control may improve the outcome of Cirrhosis.
Cost-Effectiveness of 6 and 12 Months of Interferon- Therapy for Chronic Hepatitis C
W. Kim, J. Poterucha, +4 authors John Gross Jr.
Annals of Internal Medicine
The cost-effectiveness of interferon- treatment from the point of view of society was assessed by comparing the number of liver-related deaths, quality-adjusted survival, and costs among the treatment strategies.
Clinical outcomes after transfusion-associated hepatitis C.
M. Tong, N. El-Farra, A. Reikes, R. Co
The New England journal of medicine
In a group of patients seen at a referral center, chronic post-transfusion hepatitis C was a progressive disease and, in some patients, led to death from either liver failure or hepatocellular carcinoma.
Determinants of outcome of compensated hepatitis C virus‐related cirrhosis
L. Serfaty, H. Aumaître, +4 authors R. Poupon
In patients with compensated HCV‐related Cirrhosis: complications of cirrhosis are frequent, whatever the viral genotype; and the severity of cir rhosis and the absence of IFN therapy are independently predictive of bad outcome.
Long-Term Mortality after Transfusion-Associated Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis
L. Seeff, Z. Buskell‐Bales, +9 authors C. G. Hollingsworth
Patients with transfusion-related non-A, non-B hepatitis who had been identified in five major prospective studies conducted in the United States between 1967 and 1980 are traced.
Hepatitis C: The clinical spectrum of disease
J. Hoofnagle
This important liver disease has protean manifestations but is often insidious and can lead to end‐ stage liver disease despite the presence of few symptoms and signs of illness.
Reduction of health‐related quality of life in chronic hepatitis C and improvement with interferon therapy
H. Bonkovsky, J. Woolley
It is concluded that patients with chronic hepatitis C with or without cirrhosis have markedly reduced HRQOL, and successful interferon therapy provides meaningful improvements in HRZOL in patients with Chronic hepatitis C.
Chronic hepatitis C virus infection causes a significant reduction in quality of life in the absence of cirrhosis
G. Foster, R. Goldin, H. Thomas
Patients with chronic HCV infection who had used intravenous drugs in the past had the greatest impairment in quality-of-life scores, but the reduction in quality of life scores was still found in patients who had never used drugs.
The prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection in the United States, 1988 through 1994.
M. Alter, D. Kruszon-Moran, +5 authors H. Margolis
The strongest factors independently associated with HCV infection were illegal drug use and high-risk sexual behavior, and poverty, having had 12 or fewer years of education, and having been divorced or separated were independently associated.
The APACHE III prognostic system. Risk prediction of hospital mortality for critically ill hospitalized adults.
W. Knaus, D. Wagner, +7 authors A. Damiano
The overall predictive accuracy of the first-day APACHE III equation was such that, within 24 h ofICU admission, 95 percent of ICU admissions could be given a risk estimate for hospital death that was within 3 percent of that actually observed.
Racial differences in responses to therapy with interferon in chronic hepatitis C
K. Reddy, J. Hoofnagle, +5 authors T. Joh
African‐American patients participating in the study were similar to white patients in mean age and baseline levels of HCV RNA but had lower rates of cirrhosis and more frequently had viral genotype 1, and there are marked racial differences in virological responses to interferon in hepatitis C.


Since the Russian government has been warning of this possibility, the exact opposite must necessarily therefore be true.
"There are many terrorist organizations in Idlib," a reporter asked as a follow-up to previous questions regarding Russia's allegations that terrorist factions had received a large batch of chemical weapons which they intend to use in a false flag attack.
We're all familiar with the classic movie trope of the battle scene in which the protagonists have been beaten back and are surrounded by the enemy hordes, awaiting their certain doom, only to hear a trumpet blast and see reinforcements storming over the hills to save the day. The audience is relieved, and they watch with delight as the villains are attacked from both sides and driven off.
Well, the occupiers of Idlib are in that exact situation, except it isn't heroes who've been beaten back and surrounded, and those reinforcements are not coming.
Unless they can arrange a miracle.
This past April the US, UK and France launched airstrikes against Damascus in retaliation for an alleged chemical attack allegedly perpetrated by the Syrian government against civilians in the city of Douma. The strike was launched with no investigation having taken place whatsoever into the nature of the civilian deaths, and subsequent investigation found no evidence implicating the Syrian government in a chemical attack. This is unsurprising, because the Syrian government had no incentive to use chemical weapons in a battle it had already won at that point and every incentive not to provoke the wrath of powerful western military forces just to suffocate some kids to death.
This is all public knowledge. We know with 100 percent certainty that the terrorist militants occupying Idlib have been made 100 percent aware that (A) the US, UK and its allies will launch an aggressive military assault against the Syrian government in response to any reports of chemical weapons use, (B) such a military assault would take place without any investigation into the nature of the chemical weapons use, which would instead be immediately blamed upon the Syrian government, and c) killing the civilians they are holding hostage with chemical weapons is literally their only hope of escaping the military onslaught that the Syrian government and its allies are preparing to launch.
Keep an eye on this one, please. Syria is a key strategic region that the western power alliance has been plotting to take control of for decades, and it is entirely possible that they will pounce on any opportunity to prevent the Syrian government and its allies from shoring up control of the nation and bringing stability to the region. Stay skeptical.


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Rosemary, Sage, Oregano, & Thyme.


Shoplifting charges in Georgia can be local ordinances, misdemeanors and even felonies. All of the above will have a serious impact on your record and remain forever, unless a better resolution is negotiated. This article has been written by our attorneys to provide you with real, helpful insight on shoplifting charges in Georgia and how to best defend your case.
Almost every retailer- Walmart, Home Depot, Kohls, Publix, etc. - produce shoplifting cases on a daily basis. Often times, clients are detained before they even walk out the front door, though clients have also been arrested days later if their identity wasn't discovered until after they left the premises. If you've been arrested for shoplifting, make sure to write down a detailed account of what happened. Everything is important: Were you arrested or just given a citation? Did you sign papers before the cops arrived? Were you forced to pay $150 or any other fee to the retailer that day? What merchandise did they recover from you? What was the alleged dollar value of the merchandise? Was this a one-time occurrence or did they mention or indicate they had previous surveillance of you doing the same thing?
Under Georgia law, if you're accused of shoplifting more than $500, your case will automatically be a felony and punishable by a minimum of 1 year in prison, though your sentence can be probated. If the amount of items was less than $500, then you can be charged with a local ordinance or misdemeanor charge. There can be important differences between local ordinances and misdemeanor charges, so make sure your attorney has explained them to you along with the benefits of each.
Note: I always try to keep a local ordinance charge, if possible. Local ordinance charges can help minimize the visibility of the charge on your record.
If you've been cited for shoplifting, I always encourage clients to take a proactive approach to some predictable court ordered requirements. Certain community service work, therapy and courses can help in negotiations with the prosecutor, especially when we are aiming for a dismissal of the charges. Make sure you speak to us about what our recommendations would be for your case.
Most courts in Georgia have some form of pretrial or first offender program for shoplifting charges. However, the programs and terms will vary greatly from court to court, so do not assume you'll have the same outcome as everyone else in Georgia. Throughout the years, we have learned how to negotiate for the best resolution for your record, rather than some of the less beneficial options. For instance, pleading under Georgia's first offender law is usually not an ideal option for a first shoplifting. Additionally, even some diversion programs have traps we know to lookout for and keep you from falling into.
If you've been arrested or given a citation for shoplifting, give us a call 24/7 to discuss your case. We will go over the most important aspects of your defense with you in our first conversation, and can setup a more in-depth consultation to further discuss your defense. Both of our lawyers represent dozens of clients annually in shoplifting cases throughout Metro Atlanta and North Georgia.
We can be reached at: (770) 676-1340.


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U.S. Relations With Vietnam
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits a shop along the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam. (Dec. 15, 2013)
U.S.-Vietnam relations have grown rapidly over the past 20 years with two-way trade in goods sky-rocketing to more than $25 billion in 2012, compared with just $451 million in trade logged in 1995.
Twenty years ago this month, the United States and Vietnam took a major step in normalizing relations by resuming bilateral trade. The decision by former President Bill Clinton on February 3, 1994, to lift a two-decade long trade embargo against Vietnam set the stage for establishing full diplomatic relations with the Southeast Asian nation the next year. Secretary of State John Kerry attended a Vietnamese Embassy-hosted reception in Washington on February 10 to mark this anniversary.
U.S.-Vietnam relations have grown rapidly over the past 20 years. Two-way trade in goods has sky-rocketed to more than $25 billion in 2012, compared with just $451 million in trade logged in 1995. Apart from trade, Vietnam-U.S. relations have grown considerably on a host of fronts, including education, science and technology, healthcare, the environment and dealing with the aftermath of the war.
Looking to the future, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a high standard regional free trade agreement, will open more markets in both nations, raise standards on labor, environment and intellectual property rights, create jobs and promote growth on both sides of the Pacific.
Vietnam is a priority market in this and other trade programs, such as President Barack Obama's National Export Initiative. Indeed, U.S. businesses are on track to double U.S. exports to Vietnam in five years.
Vietnamese Travel Restrictions Impinge Human Rights
Calls For The Release Of Dinh Dang Dinh


Students study the four language abilities in a well-balanced way through a practical curriculum, aiming for enrollment at a university, graduate school or vocational college.
Prepare to work as Japanese language instructors in the home country by gaining the knowledge and skills necessary for a non-Japanese to become a Japanese language teacher.
In this course, we aim for each student to achieve professional expertise, advanced Japanese proficiency and the communication skills required for interpretation and translation in order to get a job at a company in Japan or their native country.


Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks, without knowledge, of things without parallel.
As with most of our horse rescues, this one began with a phone call. An ex-race horse, winning nearly a million dollars but no longer able to breed was now considered useless by his owner and being readied for slaughter. The call came from an employee of the stable who had grown attached to the horse and was hysterical at the thought of his fate.Would we please accept him? Two weeks later, Kohen would arrive at our facility.
I placed Kohen in isolation until the vet could examine and geld him. The surgery was a miracle in itself as it would prove, due to massive infection, the horse was lucky to be alive. Life had not been easy for this big, beautiful stallion. His legs showed signs of pin firing and he had been nerve blocked—both legal procedures performed to permit a horse to continue racing with injuries but without being aware of his pain. Definitely not the miracle fix it appears to be. Kohen could no longer feel the lower part of his legs, causing him to walk with a stiff, robotic gait. Unable to feel a touch, in order to lift his front feet, he had to be thrown off balance. Over the years, the effect of these procedures would cause unimaginable damage to his back.
Kohen was an easygoing horse. He loved people and got along well with all the other horses. In fact, they had developed a deep-seated bond that even I wasn't aware of.
Several years had passed when one afternoon I noticed Kohen and another horse, a mare, romping and playing in the field. Fascinated by their antics, I watched them for awhile. They were having such great fun when suddenly the little mare bumped Kohen off balance and he fell. Try as he might, he was unable to get up. I ran to him and with much maneuvering and an adrenaline rush, I positioned myself under his back end and lifted him to his feet. Still struggling, he was up but I didn't know for how long. I telephoned the vet.
The vet arrived, checked Kohen thoroughly and told me that I had done everything possible. He explained that the many years of added stress on Kohen's back, due to his compensating for his front legs, had caused his spine to give out. He said the humane solution would be to euthanize Kohen.
Horses normally run from illness or death of another horse, but to our amazement as the vet prepared to release Kohen from his pain, all the other horses gathered around him. As I tried to hurry them off, they pressed tighter and tighter against Kohen, as if to embrace him. As Kohen passed away, I watched in awe as the horses very slowly and evenly parted, easing his lifeless body to the ground.
I covered him and waited for my husband to come home from work. When we returned to the field, Kohen was uncovered. Scuff marks and patches of missing hair were evidence that his devoted pasture mates had tried to wake him, to get him to rejoin the herd.
As we raised Kohen to move him to the back ridge we beheld a sight we had never seen before. Eighteen horses, one following immediately behind the next and with their noses to the ground, formed a procession and followed directly behind us to Kohen's gravesite two fields away. Total silence from all except, at the very end of the procession, our little donkey mournfully braying.
When Kohen was placed in his grave and covered, his loyal companions returned to their fields. The little donkey would cry until the chimes of midnight.
What was this special bond and why with this horse? Maybe the others realized that, other than my husband and me, Kohen had no one. After the hundreds of thousands of dollars he won and the many, many top race winners he produced, he was callously discarded. Not seen fit for anything but slaughter by anyone but one determined employee who thought he deserved more in life.
I'll never forget and probably never again see, eighteen horses and a little donkey in a proud procession to lovingly say good-bye to their forever friend.


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UK and US advance discussions over ending Trump-era steel tariffs
The UK and the US have agreed to intensify discussions over ending Donald Trump-era tariffs on British steel and aluminium, with talks set to begin as soon as tomorrow. International trade secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan spoke with US secretary of commerce Gina Raimondo today, with the pair announcing they were both committed to "an expeditious outcome [...]
Labour secure 32-point lead against Johnson's Conservatives in London
'partygate'
The Labour party has secured a 32-point lead ahead of the Conservative party in London, as the 'partygate' scandal takes hold in the capital. If the voting intention, revealed by YouGov, is upheld at a general election – it could see Boris Johnson's party lose eight seats in the city, leaving them with just 13 [...]
Hong Kong's 'draconian' travel restrictions push out corporate expats, says report
'zero covid-19' stance
Hong Kong may see even more residents pack their bags, with 44 per cent of Hong Kong expats saying they may leave over the city's travel restrictions, a new report has revealed. Some 26 per cent of businesses in the global financial hub are also thinking of relocating, the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong [...]
New laws proposed to strengthen UK's fight against cyber crime
New laws are needed to drive up security standards in outsourced IT services used by almost all UK businesses, the government has said this afternoon.
Searches for 'vote of no confidence' and 'Boris lies' surge 300 per cent as party gate plagues Tory party
New data has revealed that in the wake of the illegal lockdown gatherings held by the Tories, the Great British public's sentiment towards the Prime Minister has been less than appreciative, with the search term "vote of no confidence" having risen 300 per cent since October when the scandals came to light.
Face masks and working from home scrapped as Plan B restrictions axed in England
Boris Johnson has scrapped England's Plan B Covid restrictions, which include a call to work from home if possible and for mandatory face masks in indoor public settings. They also included mandatory Covid certificates for large events and night clubs. From next Wednesday the restrictions, brought in last month to slow the spread of Omicron, [...]
'In the name of god, go!': David Davis tells Johnson to resign at PMQs
Senior Tory MP David Davis has called for Boris Johnson to resign in a fiery Prime Minister's Questions, telling the beleaguered PM "in the name of god, go". Davis said Johnson has not taken responsibility for the Downing Street parties saga and that his time was up. It comes as rumours swirl about a potential [...]
Northern Tory MP defects to Labour ahead of testy PMQs over "disgraceful" Johnson behaviour
Christian Wakeford, the Conservative MP for Bury South, has defected from the party to join Labour in a sign of the increasing pressure on PM Boris Johnson. It is another damaging blow to the Prime Minister as the fallout from his attending a lockdown garden party continues. The defection raises the stakes for the Conservative [...]
Boris Johnson faces rebellion as 2019 MPs try and force no-confidence vote
Boris Johnson will try to save his premiership today as he faces a mounting rebellion from 2019 intake MPs trying to force a no-confidence vote in his leadership of the Conservative party. Johnson will appear at Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) today with rumours swirling that he is about to face an imminent challenge to his [...]
UK's second lockdown was based on 'wildly incorrect' Covid-19 modelling, MPs told
The prime minister imposed the UK's second lockdown based on "wildly incorrect" Covid-19 modelling which was leaked to the press, MPs have heard. The model, from Cambridge University and Public Health England (PHE) warned of 4,000 deaths a day by the end of December. Deputy chairman of the Covid-19 recovery group, Steve Baker advised Boris [...]
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