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Prose 500
Prose 500 2017 Longlist Microfiction
Abhishek Srivastava
Lakshmi V
Gautam Banerjee
Sajeev Kumar
Anila Vivek
Dr Diwakar Pokhriyal
Kamalika Ray
Nimi Arora
Next Time by Abhishek Srivastava
"Teena"
"Present Ma'am" replied Teena.
"Yes Ma'am", said Yash.
There was a silence in the classroom. "Zubin... Aren't you listening? I am calling your name"
"Yes...yes ma'am", said Zubin hurriedly waking up from his world of dreams, the little dreams of a sixth standard lad but of immense importance to him.
"All right kids... So today is the last day of your school before summer vacations. I have already given you homework. So you all must be visiting various places this summer. So when you come back after holidays you must bring a travelogue written by you only... I repeat... it should be original. Ok!"
"Yes Ma'am", all replied in chorus.
Zubin was very happy. Why shouldn't he be? After all he was going to visit for the first time out of the town this vacation since last three years. Her mother has promised to him. She has saved ten thousand bucks for the trip to Zubin's maternal grandparents place in Manali, a hill station famous for its scenic beauty.
Zubin was a boy from humble background. His father was a clerk in a private firm but he chose to give education to him in best school of the town where he used to study with kids of elite class. After every vacation his friends used to narrate their experiences of having fun and adventure in places across the country. Zubin could only visualise images in his mind of what it would like be to bathe in a waterfall or travel in a ropeway.
Zubin ran to the home after the school hours. "Mom, where is dad? Has he taken reservation in the train? When are we going?"
There was an awkward silence. Then his Mom said, "Go and first wash your hands... dinner is ready."
Zubin smelled something wrong. At the dinner table Zubin's father told him that his grandpa is admitted in the hospital out of a minor heart attack and they do not have enough money to visit Manali this year.
Zubin went to his study table and started writing a travelogue; after all he needs to win this year too in the travelogue competition.
Her mom came with tears in her eyes and started caressing him... Zubin said, "No problem momma. I am happy." His voice stumbled as he spoke and tears rushing through his cheeks he said, "Next time..."
Perspective by Gautam Banerjee Back to Top
Hari's mother started vomiting immediately after her evening meal. Pressing her stomach she retched and threw up again and again. She wailed, complaining of a severe abdominal pain. Seeing the awful mess her mother-in-law was making, Mala slammed down a broken plastic mug before her.
"I can't clean up your vomit! Use this!"
Too weak to retort, Hari's mother pulled the mug to herself.
Neither Hari nor Mala tried to comfort the old woman. They no longer showed any sympathy to her frequent bouts of illness.
She groaned and writhed in agony.
"Get me some medicine please!" She said meekly.
Hari couldn't see her face. The kerosene lamp was put out for the night.
"It's late mother. Shops are closed." Hari's voice sounded gruff.
"Please!" She was weak and barely audible.
Hari clenched his teeth. "Stop whining!" He was losing patience.
They wouldn't get a wink of sleep that night.
"I promise an offering to Goddess Kali the day she dies." Mala muttered under her breath while patting her youngest who had started weeping in her sleep.
Hari envied his kids who slept soundly.
Many a time he also wished his mother had died. This emaciated ailing woman, an onerous burden, only ate and slept. For a casual worker like Hari, with six mouths to feed, her death would definitely be a relief.
"Medicine! Where will the money come from?" Mala hissed, grinding her teeth. "Now and again she's sick. Are we millionaires?"
The stagnant air sharply smelled of vomit. Hari lit the lamp. His mother moaned and grimaced. In between gasps and retches she puked up a dark, foul fluid.
"I can't bear the pain anymore."
Her constant nagging was getting on his nerves.
A waning crescent moon still hung in the sky when Hari carried his mother out of his shanty on the outskirts of Kolkata. Her frail body was unbelievably light. Scanning his surroundings Hari almost began to run. The old woman opened her eyes enquiringly.
"Hospital," Hari said.
She looked askance at her son but only whimpered.
Hari's feet were almost numb as he reached a far end of the empty railway station. He staggered. Sweat broke across his forehead and his mouth was dry.
His mother, in a state of semi-consciousness, was breathing in shallow gulps.
Boarding a train they crossed a few stations, how many Hari couldn't remember.
It was almost dawn when Hari abandoned his mother under a tree. He slipped away without looking back. The old woman had passed out without knowing that her trust had been betrayed.
The following night, after a long time, Mala undressed and cuddled up to Hari. Their 60 square feet shanty had enough space and privacy, she thought. Running his fingers over her undernourished body- all skin and bone- her matted hair, sunken eyes, perched lips and sagging breasts, Hari wasn't excited at all.
Instead, he felt completely drained.
Then, curling into a fetal position, he clung to his wife and began to sob.
Silence by Lakshmi V Back to Top
It was the morning of hot weather. Nevertheless I had decided to just keep silent the whole day, since understanding one another headed towards negative vibration.
As I adjusted to look up the sky, my thoughts sought to collect the importance of a wedding - the kanyadaan, parents giving away the daughter's hands in the bridegroom's hand!
It was the D-day, surely our day too, lest we even realised that, the gloominess of the biggest separation was going to standout - that of a mother and son!
Silence, tears, consoling words - that's the end of the huge preparation.
But, God's plans submerged all our plans. The music was played, chants reverberated, the greatest role of the kanyadaan shifted!
The bride stood strong, the groom accepted, we too remained silent in that cluster of acceptance and adjustment. That's life!
Untitled by Kamalika Ray Back to Top
They are inside the main hall of the Central library, all of them. About twenty-seven people huddled together into the gap between the two tallest and longest bookshelves.
The lights are on, thankfully. So are the sound boxes, through which they can hear the alarm, incessantly going off every ten minutes, ever since the first warning came. That it was an emergency drill they were conducting, for a bomb alert.
The warnings too have been going on ever since.
They were first told to move away from the windows. Then, after two minutes, almost in a panic, the mechanized voice told them to come together, preferably in a covered place.
The sleepy librarian, fifty-eight year old Suresh Joshi, awakened into sudden activity,held his paunch protectively with one hand like a pregnant woman and used the other hand to vigorously wave and collect all of them like cattle herd to that spot between the bookshelves.
Their usual hideout in all drills.
The drills on an average last for about fifteen minutes.
But it has been more than forty-five minutes now. The wait has started to get on their nerves. If it's just an emergency drill, it surely should not be taking this much time, should it?
Two impatient students in a bid to look 'cool', were already taking calculated slow steps out, mainly to tease the tense librarian. They giggled when Mr.Joshi's quivering voice requested them to come back.
A queer nagging fear pricked up somewhere in the alert minds. Was this damn thing a drill or not? Few started to write messages to family. Starting with innocent enquiries and then revealing their own situation, deftly disguising the seriousness behind a joke. But mobiles started ringing anyway.
And though the next warning prohibited them to talk on mobile phones, some of the angry ones, kept on at it.
Fifty-six year old Mrs.Mitra was browsing the History section, when the alarms went off. Not yet ready to become a part of history herself, she had readily followed all directions of everyone and stood in the middle of the group. But now, after carrying her eighty kilos for so long, her little tired feet were giving away. She was on phone too, talking to her retired husband at home in hushed whispers. Considering the possible dire situation she was in, she now imagined that her words might be the last ones being spoken to her husband. Well in that case, she decided, to choose her words well.
"Don't waste the Mutton curry left in the refrigerator if I die. Eat it up, as if you didn't know. Otherwise I won't rest in peace. And the maid, I have paid her in advance. Don't let her fool you into paying again, in my absence…"
Mrs.Mitra's words were cut short that day, by another alarm.
No, she didn't die. Nobody did.
It was the last announcement.
A clear female voice 'hugely regretted' the delay and then finally, told them to relax, go home and live.
Rust in Trust by Dr. Diwakar Pokhriyal Back to Top
"I will not marry now," She said in anger.
"No beta, you should marry at this age" Her parents tried to make her understand.
"No, I will marry a boy of my own choice" She was adamant.
"No, we will also check. After all, it's the matter of your life" They said.
"I am mature enough to take care of that," She said and left the room in anger.
"If they think I can't live on my own then why they want to marry me" She was thinking and suddenly her mobile rang.
"Hi, how are you" A smile crossed her lips.
"Missing you," A boy was on the other side.
"Let's marry," She said in a flash.
"Ok, should I come to your home?" He joked.
"My parents will not agree," She said in a low tone.
"Let's run away. Once we will get married they will surely accept us" He said.
"But I am scared" She opened her heart up.
"Don't worry I am with you. We both will be happy forever my love" He said in a romantic tone.
"Ok then on Monday night" She decided.
"Done, I will let you know the time. Love you" He said and they disconnected the phone.
On Monday night she was feeling anxious. It was after all the question of her future. Indecisiveness was at the peak.
"Should I go or not" She was thinking.
"But I love him a lot" Her mind was wandering.
She again looked around and slowly started to walk.
"No-one should see me. I should move silently" She looked around and found everyone sleeping in his house.
"Oh God, please help me, no one should wake up" As she prayed she heard some footsteps.
"Oh No," She ran inside the bathroom.
After some time she looked at her watch and realizes that she has to hurry.
"Let's go," She thought and came out of the bathroom and slowly walked out of the house.
Her destination was still at some distance. She ringed the bell.
"Hello, where are you?" She said.
"I am coming for you, my love" A voice came from another side.
"I am about to reach," She said in excitement.
"I will be there in few minutes darling," He said.
The darkness was at its peak. Trees were breathing life in and out and humanity was drowned in the world of immature dreams. She stopped and glanced at the endless road.
A car headlight flashed and her smile widened. It was the perfect time they had planned to flee to unite forever.
"Why are you late," She said while opening the door and went inside.
The door closed and car started in a flash. As she hopped into the car, she realized the fluke.
"Who are you?" She was surprised.
"You should ask that to your boyfriend" The man laughed and pounced on her.
In an instant, her life was over. She didn't realize when the rust mixed with trust.
Escape by Anila M Vivek Back to Top
Apertures opened slowly... It was floating in a fluid like substance. Dark walls closed in on all sides. It tried to move but no avail… Exhaustion creeped in - sounds drifted in from far away - the apertures closed…
The next time, it awoke to a feeling of energy. There was a cord connected to one of the walls to the middle of its curved shape. Strangely it seemed to be gaining more strength from the cord. It tried to push against the walls of captivity, but soon tiredness crept in…
At times there was prodding and an invasion seemed imminent but nothing happened.
Sounds could be heard more clearly, all types of noises assailed its senses but the struggle against the walls yielded no result. A few sounds could be sensed continuously. It could feel a tingling sensation at times. When the walls were pushed the sounds grew louder and the tingling was more frequent.
Then when it had gathered enough energy and strength, it started pushing with all its might. Strangely, the walls seemed to help now. It pushed, struggled, fought. It seemed like the walls wanted to get rid of it. There were louder voices and more unbearable clamour. It pushed its way through a narrow opening. And then light hit. The blinding light drew a sound of happiness, anticipation and excitement…Free at last!
Surprised, elated and overwhelmed. The struggle seemed to have ended after ages of captivity. The strength derived from the cord, the relief on reaching a new world, the shiver of anticipation – it emitted a sound on its own trying to express its feelings for the first time, in the new unfamiliar territory.
"Congratulations! You have delivered a baby girl!"
"Oh look at her flailing fists! Isn't she a darling?"
"She takes after me…"
The welcoming voices, the caresses, the kisses…
Okka Aidu Rupayala by Sajeev Kumar
"Uncle, okka aidu rupayala!"
The thin but penetrating voice made my eyes roll up to see the source of the out stretched hand!
A ragged looking, ill clad boy, probably ten years old! My immediate reaction was an irritating denial, which was soon overpowered by a thought,
"May be this poor boy really wants to drink a glass of lemon water to beat the heat!'
I was on a tender coconut water mission for my wife  last summer!
The coconut vendor's shop was about one furlong from my house.
The above mentioned scene occurred just hundred meters before the 'tender' man's shop at a cool drink spot! It was around 7 p.m.
"Come back", I screamed at the boy, who had walked away in desperation! When I handed over a five rupee coin to him,
I could see an ocean of gratitude in his big, but painful eyes. He looked at me with an awestruck expression for a while, and then disappeared in darkness! I stood dumbfound! I crossed the busy, narrow road with a lot of difficulty; the remarkable traffic sense of multitude stole ten minutes of my time just to achieve the task of crossing the road!
Reaching the tender coconut seller's shop, I ordered my stuff. "Bhai, ek bottle"! These coconut vendors are great business people; they sell each coconut for thirty rupees during the peak summer season;
the customers have the option of buying single ones or a 650 ml full bottle! They are equipped with new plastic bottles to meet this challenge! I always buy the full bottle for Rs.100!
Because that comes with an absolute guarantee of satisfaction; we can always see the quantity of water due to the transparent character of the bottle!
This guarantee would not apply when you buy a single coconut; you would be lucky if there were a glass full!
When you enter a tender coconut vendor's jurisdiction, you'll not miss the 'slate' board, bearing the cost, which varies depending on the mercury scale!
In fact, the slate manufactures owe a great deal to these coconut vendors.
They are the only souls who made a fortune with the 'slate' boards, which were the 'chrome books' of last generation!
Now no schools use them! The slate industry would have gone out of business if the coconut vendors opted for a different mode of advertisement!
"Sir", the tender coconut wala called me to hand over the bottle; I paid the amount!
While coming out of the shop I happened to glance upon the next shop, which was of a flower seller's!
The beautiful ambience of yellow and orange flowers was obstructed by the figure of the boy, who had run away with the coin.
I, with a trembling sense of curiosity, went closer. A dam broke in my heart! The vagrant boy was dressing his younger sister's hair with strings of jasmine flowers!
I realised it was not to beat the heat, but - the day was of festival Ugadi!
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How Touch-Screen Buttons Netted NYC Cabbies A Cool $144M
By presenting riders with three default options, in-cab credit card readers increased tips.
By John Pavlus 2 minute Read
How much is a touch screen button worth? If you're a New York City cabbie who was forced to install a credit card reader in your taxi, it'd better be worth a lot, because those damn things were expensive. Well, according to the New York Times, those credit card readers increased tips from 10% to 22%, on average. Designer Joshua Gross did some arithmetic and it turns out that the touch-screen buttons were worth an extra $144,146,165 in tips.
Defaults require less thinking, and we view them as implicit recommendations.
So how could three buttons on a screen bump tips by over a hundred million bucks? Such is the power of user experience design–specifically, the power of the default option. A taxi rider paying her fare by credit card is presented with three buttons for adding a tip: 20%, 25%, and 30%. You can enter whatever tip you like manually, but you're probably just going to hit one of those buttons. Since the average tip increased to 22%, that implies that most people hit the middle or lower option.
I asked behavioral economist Dan Ariely, author of the new book The Honest Truth About Dishonesty, why default options are powerful enough to turn even hard-boiled New Yorkers into generous tippers. "One reason is that they're the path of least resistance," he says. "Defaults always require less thinking, which is very tempting. But we also view default options as implicit recommendations–we assume that whoever designed the system thought about it and came up with this set of the 'right' responses."
So buttons make us tip better because we're lazy and we don't want to be wrong. Could cabbies have made even more money if the UI designers had presented higher percentages on the tip buttons? "I think the answer is absolutely yes," says Ariely.
But before you go thinking that UI designers could Jedi-mindtrick us all into emptying our wallets just because the buttons say so, Ariely says that even our laziness has limits. "If the options were 21, 26, and 31, i think [the average tip] would have gone higher. But the range has to reflect some possibility of normal behavior. No one is going to leave a 100% tip." Not unless you're Jay-Z, anyway.
And remember that the highest default option was 30%, but average tips only increased to 22%. This "middle to low" behavior emerges from the system presenting three buttons instead of two, or one. "When you present three options, people think this is the range of acceptable possibilities," Ariely explains. "They don't want to be too high or too low, so they tend toward the middle option. But this is money, so they're still motivated to save and go lower as well. This might explain why the average tip reflects an amount in between the lower and middle default options." Still, $144,146,165 isn't chump change. So the next time you have to explain (or justify) the vaporous concept of "user experience" in design, just drop that figure into the conversation. It should make things clear as day.
[via Joshua Gross; Top image by Nadirco/Shutterstock]
John Pavlus is a writer and filmmaker focusing on science, tech, and design topics. His writing has appeared in Wired, New York, Scientific American, Technology Review, BBC Future, and other outlets
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CLEVELAND – Donald Trump's party in Cleveland this week is about to kick into high gear — but unless the Republican presidential nominee can bridge the rift with Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Trump's chances of carrying the key battleground state will remain in doubt.
There are signs, however, that some top Ohio Republicans are parting with Trump's former rival in his refusal to help elect the billionaire businessman, realizing their support may be key in a contest that polls indicate will be tight.
The display on the convention floor Tuesday night was striking, however, as just about every state delegation cast its votes for Trump save for the convention host state of Ohio, which awarded its delegates to Gov. Kasich based on the state's primary results.
Kasich, meanwhile, has complicated the unity push by refusing to endorse Trump and not attending the convention, after a hard-fought GOP presidential primary in which Trump prevailed over 16 major challengers including Kasich, whose only win was his home state Ohio.
Though not officially involved in the four-day convention, Kasich has worked the fringes all week — giving speeches that include thinly veiled criticisms of Trump.
"I'm thrilled to be in Cleveland, but it's not where I need to go because [the platform] is not what I stood for throughout the campaign," Kasich said at a speech before the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
Kasich is particularly at odds with Trump's positions on immigration, which includes plans to build a wall along the southern U.S. border to keep out illegal Mexican immigrants and his calls to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the country, amid a series of global terror attacks by radical Islamic terrorists. "This anti-immigration is unhealthy," Kasich said later Tuesday, in a speech before the International Republican Institute.
Still, some other top Ohio Republicans are nudging their colleagues toward unity.
Dave Yost, Ohio auditor of state, published an op-ed on Cleveland.com Wednesday arguing that despite Trump's "flaws" he'd bring a better team to Washington than Hillary Clinton.
"Ultimately, that will be what this election is about. It's not the coach, it's the team," he wrote.
Ohio voters picked President Obama in the past two presidential elections, after going for Republican President George W. Bush in the two previous White House races.
Trump does have the support of Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, though the senator is in a tough reelection bid, with Washington Democrats making him a top target for defeat.
Portman told FoxNews.com on Wednesday that the state delegation seems to be coming around to the idea of backing Trump.
"I was talking to people this morning, and everybody was in a good mood talking about it," he said.
Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort recently called Kasich "petulant" for avoiding the convention and not endorsing Trump, despite taking a pledge to do so.
The remarks brought a sharp response from Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matt Borges that also suggested the Trump campaign has misplayed its effort to win over the state GOP delegation.
Republicans from outside Ohio say it's time to unite.
David Avella, chairman of Republican recruiter GOPAC, said Wednesday it will be important for the Trump campaign and top Ohio Republicans to come together, for the good of the entire Republican ticket from presidential to congressional candidates.
At the same time, he said this election has shown "voters don't care who the politicians are supporting," and time will tell what the impact of lackluster support from Ohio officials may be.
In a state like Ohio, small shifts in support could make the difference. One recent Quinnipiac University poll showed Clinton and Trump tied at 41-41 percent in the state.
Former Arkansas GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee acknowledged Wednesday that the Republican path to the White House indeed goes through Ohio. But he argued this year's unconventional race suggests history might not have to repeat itself for a GOP win.
"He could have at least shown up and said hello," he said, arguing the governor at least owes a personal thanks to the police officers who have come from across the country to protect convention-goers in his state.


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Council asks: Defer Mactan airport's fee hike
CEBU -- The Cebu City Council asked the Mactan Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA) and the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) on Wednesday to delay a planned increase in the passenger service charge, fearing it will dampen tourism.
The councilors also asked the Office of the President to let MCIAA retain the P14.4-billion premium GMR-Megawide paid earlier this year for the airport expansion project.
In a privilege speech during the council's session Wednesday, Councilor Nestor Archival said that MCIAA should use the P14.4 billion so it won't have to increase the service charge, commonly known as the terminal fee, collected from all departing passengers, except overseas Filipino workers.
Archival, chairperson of the committee on energy, transportation and communications, also expressed his opposition to the increase during a public hearing last Tuesday.
"The P14.4 billion is an enormous amount of money. It is approximately the entire budget of Cebu City for three years. That money is sitting in the Cebu airport's bank account, in cash," he said.
Archival said the proposed increase in the passenger service charge (PSC) is huge.
For domestic passengers, the proposed rate is P300, from the present rate of P200. For departing passengers of international flights, the terminal fee will be increased from P550 to P750 if the proposal is approved without changes.
As stated in the concession agreement between the government and GMR-Megawide, the PSC will be increased by 10 percent every five years, on top of the one-time increase upon the completion of Terminal 2.
The GMR-Megawide Cebu Airport Corp. (GMCAC) will take over management of the existing terminal on November 1 and has announced it will begin constructing the new terminal in early 2015. The projected construction cost is P17.5 billion. Its contract to manage both terminals is good for 25 years.
"If the MCIAA proceeds with these increases, we, the passengers from Cebu, will be paying terminal fees higher than those in Manila," Archival said.
He pointed out that the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) imposes only P200 as terminal fee for domestic passengers and P550 for international passengers.
The increase, he said, will discourage passengers and tourists from flying from or through Cebu.
Also on Wednesday, Archival questioned why, out of the proposed PSC increase, GMCAC will be getting more than 50 percent of the new rate.
'Why now?'
It was earlier reported that GMCAC will get P181 and P383 from the service charges of domestic and international flights, respectively.
"Why are they getting such amounts when, in fact, the new airport infrastructure that GMR will be operating is not even in place? Would that not seem like the passengers will be the ones paying for or investing in the airport expansion rather than GMR?" Archival said.
Moreover, Archival said his committee doesn't subscribe to the reasoning of MCIAA that it needs to increase the fee to compensate for the loss of revenue, as a result of the takeover by GMCAC.
He believes the MCIAA should explain their basis for saying their revenue will drop from P1.5 billion to P500 million, and open to the public their previous year's financial statements.
During the second public hearing on the proposed PSC increase last Tuesday, MCIA General Manager Nigel Paul Villarete said the increase is needed to cover the decrease in the airport authority's revenues as a result of the privatization of some airport operations.
He said that in 2013, the MCIA had gross revenues of about P1.5 billion, half of which was for operations and maintenance expenses. After income tax and value-added tax deductions, MCIA's net operating income was about P300 million. Some P150 million was remitted to the National Government for its dividend.
Big change
This means that the MCIAA only has P150 million left for all expenditures, capital and otherwise, for the passenger terminal and airside, the airport manager said.
"Once the concession agreement is in effect, the only remaining revenue we have is less than P500 million, which will be almost equal to or just a little more than our personal services and maintenance and other operating expenditures, without anything for capital expenditures or even income taxes," he added.
After the turnover, the MCIAA will remain responsible for the airside operations, including the maintenance of the three-kilometer runway, taxiway and general aviation services, among others.
If MCIAA decides to push through with the planned increase in the PSC because it is "very necessary", Archival is asking the authority to impose it in tranches to ease its impact on passengers and tourism.
The council has scheduled an executive session with the MCIAA so the legislative body will be enlightened on the increase in the passenger service charge. (Sun.Star Cebuj)
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The Strange Fisherman
Wilson McCoy
"The Golden Princess"
"Queen Pera the Perfect"
"The Strange Fisherman" is the 13th Phantom Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Wilson McCoy.
2.7 India
2.8 Italy
2.9 Mexico
2.10 New Zealand
The current Phantom
Greta Marshall
Lana Marshall
Prince Simitar
The Skull Cave
Noticias Graficas ? – December 3, 1947
"The Strange Fisherman", The Phantom #40 (1951)
"The Strange Fisherman", The Phantom #135 (1958)
"The Strange Fisherman", The Phantom #1063 (1994)
"Estranho Pescador", Gibi #1035 – #1101 (1945-46)
"O Estranho Pescador", Fantasma #51 (1961)
La Patrie July 1, 1945 – December 2, 1945
"Kalastaja", Mustanaamio 7 – 9/2004
"Un étrange pêcheur", Classiques de l'aventure #5 (1964)
"L'étrange pêcheur", Le Fantôme #427 – #430 (1973)
"L'étrange pêcheur", L'âge d'or – Le Fantôme #4 (1980)
"The Girls", Indrajal Comics #30 (1966)
"Lo strano pescatore", Albi nuove avventure #1 (1946)
"Lo strano pescatore", L'invincibile #5 (1954)
"Alvar il contrabbandiere", Albo Traguardo #31 (1953)
"Lo strano pescatore", I Classici dell'Avventura #6 (1962; redrawn by local artist)
"Lo strano pescatore", L'Uomo Mascherato #68 (1964)
"Lo strano pescatore", Serie Cronologica #41 – #44 (1973)
"Lo strano pescatore", L'epoca d'oro di Phantom #4 (1980)
Phantom - L'Uomo Mascherato #2 (2019)
"El extraño pescador", El Informador August 12, 1945 – January 27, 1946
The Boys' Paper #7 – #18 (1947)
The Phantom #179 – #180
Allers 11–12/1946–45–46/1946
"Fiskeren", Fantomet 7 – 9/2004
"El Príncipe Simitar", El Hombre Enmascarado #1 (1949)
"El Príncipe Simitad", Phantom #7 (1998)
"Den sällsamme fiskaren", Vecko-Revyn 10 – 32/1948
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More info on Jonathan Crane (New Earth)
Jonathan Crane (New Earth): Misc
From DC Database
The Scarecrow
Jonathan Crane
Schrocken; the Scarebeast
The Injustice Gang, formerly the Secret Society of Super-Villains, The Legion of Doom; Member of the Sinestro Corps
Karen Crane (mother)
A lanky frame
Professional criminal; former Professor of Psychology
Gotham University
Bill Finger, Bob Kane
World's Finest #3
(Fall, 1941)
2 Blackest Night
3 Powers and Abilities
4 Paraphernalia
4.1 Equipment
7.1 Footnotes
As a youth, Jonathan Crane was forever the victim of taunts and jeers due to his lanky frame and spindly legs. The other boys in the neighborhood would throw rocks at him and call him cruel names such as Ichabod and Scarecrow. Because of this, Crane became obsessed with fear and thoughts of revenge, but he was too overwhelmed by his own perpetual state of fear to ever take action. Some five years later, he learned the origin of one of his nicknames when he read Washington Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He regarded the story's main character, Ichabod Crane, as his personal hero, particularly, the man's skill at dancing. However, he also despised the fact that Ichabod was an utter coward and Jonathan swore that no one would ever laugh at him again. Inspired by the tale, Jonathan developed his own style of "violent dancing" which he combined with elements of Crane style Kung Fu.
When Crane was seventeen, he developed a crush on a high school classmate named Sherry Squires. Unfortunately for Crane, Squires was romantically involved with another boy named Bo Griggs. Griggs embodied many of the traits shared by the bullies that used to torment Jonathan as a child. In October of that year, Jonathan mustered up the courage to ask Sherry to be his date at a costume party. Sherry agreed, but in truth, she was conspiring with Bo Griggs to play a cruel prank on Crane. Sherry led Jonathan into a dark room where Griggs surprised him, wearing a Jack O'Lantern mask. Much like the antagonist Brom Bones from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Griggs chased Crane and threw the pumpkin where it smashed across the back of Crane's head. Crane swore revenge against both of them. He committed his first murder at the age of eighteen by brandishing a gun in his high school parking lot during the senior prom. Dressed in the ghoulish scarecrow costume that would later consume his identity, Crane attacked Griggs and Squires in their vehicle, causing them to have an automobile accident which paralyzed Griggs and killed Squires. Crane then discovered a savage delight in frightening people -- literally to death.
After high school, Jonathan enrolled at Gotham University where he became the prized student of psychology professor Avram Bramowitz. Although he had great respect for Bramowitz, he was bothered by the fact that his mentor could so easily dismiss the importance of the psychology of fear. Despite this, Crane wanted to be Bramowitz' colleague, however, there were no available staffing positions at the school. Undeterred, Crane turned his interests towards chemistry where he developed a powerful hallucinogen that caused people to psychologically experience their greatest fear. He used this toxin against Professor Bramowitz, leading to the pedagogue's death. With Bramowitz out of the way, Crane was able to take his position as a professor of psychology with an emphasis on the study of fear. Crane was eventually dismissed for firing a bullet at a flower pot in a classroom demonstration of a body's reaction to fear. (a shard hit a student in the face, just missing her eye). After which, he killed the people responsible for his dismissal and became a career criminal. He took the moniker "the Scarecrow", the favorite taunt of the hated bullies, as part of his revenge. [1]
The deaths of the Gotham University dean and four regents earned Crane the attention of Gotham City's newest guardian - the Batman. Batman, working alongside the recently promoted police captain James Gordon, investigated the case and fought with the Scarecrow. Crane was apprehended and sent to Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane.
The Scarecrow was a regular member of the Injustice Gang and briefly joined the Secret Society of Super-Villains. In later years, his modus operandi has made him unsuited to work in teams, and he is not often seen outside the Batman family of characters.
A psychopathic sadist, the Scarecrow was one of the many criminals in Gotham City to be confined to Arkham Asylum whenever Batman apprehended him. Ironically, the Scarecrow had a phobia of birds, although he has been shown occasionally as having a pet crow named Craw.
During the events of "War Games", the Scarecrow was briefly transformed into a murderous creature known as the Scarebeast by the Penguin to kill off the Penguin's disloyal colleagues.[2] In this incarnation, the Scarebeast possessed super strength and endurance and could release an even stronger hallucinogenic gas. After being defeated by Batman, the Scarebeast reverted back into Jonathan Crane.
The Scarecrow later became the pawn of Darkseid and his sycophantic toadie DeSaad. They used their resources to transform Crane into a being named Schrocken. Crane was taken to Apokolips, but was later rescued due to the efforts of Batman and Superman.[3]
Jonathan has recently been seen in issues of Blackest Night instilling fear into civilians. As of Blackest Night #6, the Scarecrow is a member of the Sinestro Corps for his great ability to instill fear into people.
Psychology: Jonathan Crane is an expert in the field of psychology, specifically the study of anxiety disorders. He is a walking textbook on the study of fear, and can recite the name and description of nearly every known phobia. He often demonstrates his intellectual prowess by analyzing his fellow patients at Arkham Asylum.
Chemistry: Jonathan Crane is a proficient chemist and has used this skill to develop his infamous "fear toxin".
Violent Dancing: When forced to fight, Crane uses his own martial arts style he calls "violent dancing", which is based in part on the crane style of kung fu, and makes full use of his long arms and legs.
Intimidation: Using a variety of toxins that cause his victims to hallucinate that their phobias have come to life, the Scarecrow instills fear in all who see him.
Skull Bulb
Fear Gas
The Scarecrow was once offered membership in the Sinestro Corps, but Green Lantern Corps officers Hal Jordan and John Stewart intercepted the Qwardian Power Ring before Crane could be initiated. If chosen, Crane would have worn the ring of the late Sinestro Corps member Amon Sur.[4] The same ring was offered to Batman.
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↑ Batman #627
↑ Superman/Batman #37-40
↑ Green Lantern (Volume 4) #27
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About 1,700 students will be picking up diplomas this year.
Springfield's five largest high schools will have graduation on Thursday and Friday evenings at JQH Arena, 685 S. John Q. Hammons Parkway, on the Missouri State University campus.
Thursday's graduations include:
• 5 p.m. — Parkview High School
• 7 p.m. — Hillcrest High School
• 9 p.m. — Glendale High School
Friday's graduations include:
• 5:30 p.m. — Kickapoo High School
• 8:30 p.m. — Central High School
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Superintendent Norm Ridder, who was hired in mid-2005, will address Springfield graduates for the last time this week. He will retire June 30.
Other district graduations include:
• Study Alternative High seniors will graduate at noon May 14 in the school cafeteria.
• Middle College seniors will graduate at 5:30 p.m. May 14 at the Gillioz Theatre, 325 Park Central East.


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• PLEASE MOVE FORWARD AS FAR UP AS POSSIBLE ON THAT STRETCH SO THAT SIX OR SEVEN CARS CAN DROP OFF AT THE SAME TIME.
• FOR THEIR SAFETY, CHILDREN SHOULD BE DROPPED ONLY ON THE SCHOOL SIDE OF THE ROAD.
• CHILDREN MAY NOT ENTER OR EXIT THE SCHOOL VIA THE STAFF CAR PARK ENTRANCE.
• PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT PARENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED TO PARK IN THE STAFF CAR PARK AT ANY TIME. IF YOU ARE RETURNING TO THE SCHOOL TO DROP OFF FORGOTTEN LUNCHES, SCHOOLBAGS, ETC., WE WOULD ASK THAT YOU PARK IN THE BUS STOP AREA AND ENTER VIA THE PEDESTRIAN GATE. (PLEASE CLOSE GATES AFTER YOU LEAVE).
• PUPILS, SIBLINGS AND PARENTS ARE REQUESTED TO DISMOUNT FROM SCOOTERS AND BICYCLES AT THE OUTER SCHOOL GATE, I.E. AT THE JUNCTION OF DISWELLSTOWN ROAD AND CARPENTERSTOWN ROAD.
THESE REQUESTS ARE MADE TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF YOUR CHILD/CHILDREN AND WE ASK THAT THEY BE OBSERVED AT ALL TIMES.
THERE ARE DOUBLE YELLOW LINES AT THE ROUNDABOUT AT THE JUNCTION OF DISWELLSTOWN ROAD AND CARPENTERSTOWN ROAD. BY LAW NO PARKING IS PERMITTED ON DOUBLE YELLOW LINES OR ON A ROUNDABOUT. THERE IS AMPLE PARKING SPACE AVAILABLE AT SPAR. A TRAFFIC WARDEN SERVICE IS PROVIDED TO GUIDE CHILDREN SAFELY TO THE SCHOOL GROUNDS.
Minister Brian Lenihan launched the Road Safety Campaign for Fifth Class children in the school today. Garda Kieran Shankey and Garda Joanne Martin delivered the programme to the Fifth Class children. Congratulations to the children who won prizes for their Road Safety Posters and to all who took part in the competition.
Today marks the launch of St Patrick's Science Club. The club will run on the second Tuesday of every month from 2.10 to 3.10pm and will be facilitated by teachers from the school, parents and scientists/engineers with different facilitators hosting the event each month. The club is limited to Fifth Class children and places have been offered today.
If an original birth certificate and baptismal certificate was submitted to the school on registration, these are now available for collection from the Main Office. Once the school has seen the original, it is only necessary for us to keep a photocopy on your child's file.
The Celebrate! Festival is taking place on 19 and 20 October 2007 in Blanchardstown. The Global Village will host an array of family friendly marquees featuring music, dance, drumming, theatre, cinema, storytelling, face painting, henna, hair braiding, clowns, sport, arts & crafts and food from around the world. For a full programme of events, please see www.bap.ie/celebrate_home.html.
On Monday 15 October, Senior Infants, Second, Fourth and Fifth Class children will attend "Music in the Classroom" in the Helix. Senior Infant and Second Class will attend the 10.00am concert and will return to the school at 12.00noon approx. School will continue as normal for them until their usual hometime. Children from Second, Fourth & Fifth will attend the afternoon concert and we expect them to return to school at 2.30pm approx.
Well done to all those who took part in this year's competition. The standard was so high that a number of merit awards were also made at each class level. Prizes, apart from the books, were kindly donated by TetraPak & Fingal County Council and are made from recycled materials. Congratulations to all!
Please note that the Spanish Class will be taking place on Mondays instead of Thursdays. (Please note: Spanish Class will take place on the Thursday of Staff Meeting weeks). There are still a few places left in the French, German and Spanish classes. All classes begin next week. The children should line up on Line 5 after school to be collected from there by Mr Waring.


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I'd say the majority of writers like to start a story with a character, and I'm one of them. Usually a face I've seen somewhere takes hold of my imagination and I begin to build a character behind it. Before I list tips on how to start a story with a character, I want to emphasize two dangers when developing characters.
Too Much Backstory and Not Enough Real Story
One problem with creating characters is that a writer will get so caught up in characters charts, personality quizzes, and history that he or she neglects to actually move on to writing a story. Playing with our characters is fun, like playing with our kids. But at some point, playtime is over, and it's time to do homework.
You probably know some writers who are always in the planning stages of writing a novel, who talk all the time about the fascinating characters they're developing. But they never graduate to plotting a story.
When you first discover an intriguing character, by all means, have fun. Enjoy the discovery process as the character reveals different aspects of her personality and history. But keep in the back of your mind all this fun is pointless unless you actual settle down to writing a story about this great character.
Take Off the Rose-Colored Glasses
Characters are like our children. We often overlook their flaws and only see their virtues. This can be deadly in a story. If I'm reading a story in which one of the main characters is consistently praised by every other character, I begin to dislike him or her. If you have a likable character, let readers come to that realization on their own. Those kind of discoveries are a joy for readers. You don't have to prime the reader's pump by having the other characters constantly point out a main character's sterling qualities. Yes, friends or family would complement each other, but keep it to a realistic minimum.
One of the things I enjoyed about writing my mystery short story, "Bovine", was describing my fictional Marlin County, Ohio, in a negative way. The main character is a New York novelist who comes to the county to enact his perfect crime. Not being used to country life, or country people, and being entirely self-absorbed and nasty, he views the area through his snobby perception. He considers all locals "bovine." Not only was this character a change of pace for me but it helped me see my fictional world in a new way.
Make Your Character Fit Your Genre
If your hero has weathered more trials than Job, he probably won't work in a rom-com. If he's a comedian, he might not fit in a gritty police procedural. Once you have a decent grasp on your main character, determine which genre will work best for him.
Road Test Your Character
If you have no idea what kind of plot to drop your character into, write a few scenes as road tests to see how she operates under different conditions.
A scene in which she is kind
A scene in which she is angry
A scene in which she has a victory
A scene in which she has a defeat
A scene with her best friend
A scene with her closest relative
A scene with an enemy
A scene with a difficult person
After you've seen how your character behaves, hopefully, you will start generating ideas for plot in which he can get to work.
For another view on creating characters, click here for a ten-part series on The Write Conversation.
For character prompts, click here.
How do you start a story with a character?
Inspiration for Creating Characters
I'm a character writer. I can't start a story until I have a good grasp of most of my major characters. I usually start with a face that catches my attention for some reason, but there are so many other ways for finding characters. If you need inspiration for creating characters, try the suggestions below.
Yearbooks–especially if you are writing historical fiction
Crowds–for finding faces and for overhearing passing conversations. The way somebody talks or a comment about someone can spark a character.
Old movies–and I mean old. Look at movies from the '30's, 40's and 50's. You might be surprised at the casting choices of old Hollywood.
Songs--I've always thought "Lyin' Eyes" by the Eagles would make a perfect noir, as long as one of the three characters described in the lyrics is killed. Click here for more on songs as writing inspiration.
Bible—Click here for my post on the Bible as writing inspiration.
Friends and relatives–although use them with caution. I never take a someone I know and dump them into a story as a whole character. They may not care for the character I choose for them.
Free image sites--I use Pixabay. I use the search term "portrait" or "faces" and see what comes up. Below are the portraits that have turned into characters.
Her name is Coral. She's twelve. She loves working outdoors on the family farm with her father and grandfather. She also loves animals, both domestic and wild, and hates everything about school.
Her name is Egypt. She's twenty-two. Her grandfather calls her Gyp. She fights with him but is very loyal to him and has an explosive temper.
Now it's your turn. Where do you find inspiration for creating characters?
Start a Story with a Setting
Settings are the ugly ducklings in the world of literary elements. They aren't appreciated for how rich they can make a story. But some writers can't begin a story without first finding the right setting. Maybe you want to start a story with a setting, but that's as far as you've gotten. How can you develop characters? Concoct a plot? Find a theme? Ask yourself the questions below so you can home in on why this setting seems perfect for inspiring a story, beyond that you kinda like it.
What first attracted you to the setting?
Is it because you are very familiar with it? Knowing a setting down to its roots can make it come alive to readers. Maybe it's the small mountain town where you grew up. Or the fishing boat you worked on for three summer in high school. Perhaps you've worked at a fish hatchery for ten years and know that business inside and out. Or you love to bird and love the settings you've visited to pursue your hobby.
Or maybe the setting captured your interest because you'd love to know more about it. I started watching Nova and Nature on PBS years ago because my oldest is a science nut. I still watch them because I find them introducing me to worlds and occupations I never new about. Several years ago, PBS showed a series on a revitalized Gorongosa Park in Mozambique. A wildlife filmmaker who grew up in neighboring African countries was the host. Through the series, I learned about him, the rangers in the park, his sister, who studies elephants, and the politics of the country, both past and present–all kinds of information stemming from a gorgeous location.
Who lives in this setting?
Once you pinpoint why you think your setting would be terrific for a story, make a list of the people you would find there. If you're not sure, do research. Like I said above, I learned about the people who live in and around the national park, enough to spark ideas for stories set there. If you can visit your setting, talk to the people living there. While on vacation on the coast of North Carolina, my family took a pontoon boat to Cape Lookout. The captain of our boat had the strangest accent– it sounded like a cross between Australian and southern. As he spoke to other passengers, I learned that he had been raised on one of the barrier islands along the North Carolina coas, and those people have their own unique accents. I'd heard the same thing about people growing up on islands in Chesapeake Bay.
That got me to thinking: why do they have unique accents? Do people still living there retain them or is the outside world making them sound like everyone else in North Carolina? What would it be like to grow up in a place that's isolated enough to produce its own accent?
How do people live in this setting?
Once you start getting to know the people of a setting, plots will start popping. If you want to use your hometown, maybe it's because a corrupt mayor was arrested there when you were in junior high and you think that could kick off the plot for a mystery. Since I tend to write for teens, I might wonder what it'd be like for a high schooler to have grown up on a barrier island and feel torn between a life there and one in the larger world.
For more advice on writing about settings, click here.
How would you start a story with a setting?


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Q: Is there a way to have jmeter beautify json data within the response data tab? I'm tired of copying JSON text from JMeter's "response data" tab into notepad++ and using the JSON Viewer plugin to make the JSON text readable.
Is there a plugin for JMeter to do this by default?

A: just to visualize D-Klotz's answer, here's the dropdown button (JMeter version: 5.3)

A: Its already inside of JMeter. /sigh
Within the "View Results Tree" just above the list is a drop down combo-box and right there is a JSON renderer.
Perhaps this will help the next person who skips over the combo-box.

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Galerie Xippas is pleased to present a large solo exhibition of Brazilian artist Waltercio Caldas, which will bring together works made in the recent years.
Waltercio Caldas, a major figure of Brazil's contemporary art scene, started his artistic practice in the 1960s, a period marked by the Neo-Concrete movement. For five decades now, the process of perception and the relations between the gaze and reflection have been at the heart of his work, where extremely pure and almost minimalist forms coexist with a conceptual complexity. His sculptures are both present and immaterial and show not so much the objects but rather the space between these objects. As Guy Brett writes, "the minimum of physical material reveals the maximum latent spatial energy."[1]
Waltercio Caldas's sculptures outline objects whose very essence is left undefined. In Wings (2008), steel circles hung on the wall, like a kind of anchoring point, and linked together with cotton strings, create geometric shapes both simple and ephemeral. Through the setting up of only lines and points, this piece alludes to emptiness and silence. Its title itself, Wings, subliminally recalls air, which, in Caldas's work, is associated with the space structuring the objects, and becomes a location for the projection of thought.
Caldas, who often uses only the contours of objects, as in Blue glasses (2012) where steel structures outline glasses without showing the physical objects, pushes the paradox between presence and absence – and between transparency and opacity – to its extreme. This paradox is reinforced through a play on mirrors, a recurrent technique in his work. Here again, the artist develops the idea of reflection without actually employing mirrors. In creating several planes where lines and objects replace the reflections of one another, the artist reveals a three-dimension mirror and materialises the idea of reflection, a process he considers as a "functional dismantling of the mirror."[2] Thus Caldas goes beyond the duality between presence and absence, positive and negative, and manages to reach a paradoxical fusion between a tangible reality and thought.
Language plays a fundamental part in this process of constructing meaning. Because of this essential relation between names and objects, between what we see and what we read, the title becomes an integral part of Waltercio Caldas's work. Language introduces a new approach, that of reading, and also confers another dimension to the word – its physical presence. For instance, in Not now (2014), words and steel rods create an inseparable ensemble, enter into a game of repetitions, reflections and transparency.
This use of language, both poetic and conceptual, also allows Caldas to introduce references to art history. The titles of his sculptures often allude to names of artists, such as Brancusi (2014), and trigger a reflection on the work of art itself, on the distance between art and art history.
Waltercio Caldas's sculptures, while displaying a rare visual fineness and using such an economy of means, invite the viewers to experience his/her own reading of the work, somewhere between an immediate comprehension and an intellectual interpretation. In the same line as Umberto Eco, who, more than fifty years ago in The Open Work (1962), argued that the viewer was now part of the creation process of an art work, Caldas wants to involve his viewer in the experience of interpretation and opens multiple possibilities of meanings. What matters when approaching his work, is the precise and enigmatic moment of perception revealing the work as a process, an echo to phenomenological thought which argued that the object only exists in the eye of the viewer.
Waltercio Caldas was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1946, where he still lives and works.
His first solo exhibition took place at the Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro in 1973 when he was only 27. Numerous museums and art institutions have dedicated exhibitions to his work since, including the Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands (1992), the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal (2008), the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, United States (2013), the State Pinacotheca in São Paulo, Brazil (2013), etc.
He represented Brazil in the 47th Venice Biennale and took part in the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. He also participated in the dOCUMENTA 9 in Kassel (1992) and in the 5th Mercosul Biennial (2005).
His works are included in major collections throughout the world: Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), the Museum of Modern Art (New York, United States), the National Gallery of Art (Washington, United States), the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), among others.
His monumental public installations are present in numerous countries: Brazil, Uruguay, Spain, Norway, Germany, etc.
[1] Guy Brett, « Taking Liberties » in Waltercio Caldas, in Conversations with / En Conversacion con Ariel Jimenez, introduction by Guy Brett, Fundacion Cisneros, New York, 2016.
[2] Waltercio Caldas, in Conversations with / En Conversacion con Ariel Jimenez, introduction by Guy Brett, Fundacion Cisneros, 2016, New York, p.76.
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If your house in Rancho Mirage has water lines with soft copper tubes under the concrete slab foundation, you may undergo under slab leaks. These water leaks may be serviced by searching out the water leak and sawing into the slab to find and fix the water leak. The drawback with this kind of maintenance is that a different possible leak is likely in some other places in the under slab system. The actual only real long-term solution is to repipe, bypassing all the under slab water lines.
Others who live nearby in Rancho Mirage have already experienced a slab leak.
The diminished water pressure you feel is actually because of a low amount of water. As galvanized water pipes age, the rust and corrosion cause the internal surfaces of the water pipe to close off, constraining the circulation of water. While doing so the lower volume of water within the system is not suitable to supply several fixtures simultaneously. The rust within the water lines is also transferred to the water you are taking a shower with or even more serious, drinking. Over time the corrosion will create a hole in the iron water pipe and you will definitely endure leaking or total collapse.
Shouldn't my nearby plumbing professional in Rancho Mirage repipe my home?
Even as it may appear like it's a great idea to contact your local plumbing technician or plumbing company, the truth is that a PEX or Copper Repipe is a technique that involves not only the Repiping itself, but also the care and skills in the total restoration, including patching the open wall spaces and safe guarding the furtinure.
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Eric Bellinger & Ne-Yo Become Dance Instructors In "Dirty Dancing"
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Just in time for the summer, Eric Bellinger and Ne-Yo have combined their talents to deliver on the music video for their "Dirty Dancing" collab.
"This is a summertime BOP! The song is infectious and fun, as is the video," Ne-Yo notes of the collaboration. "Makes you wanna dance. What's better than that?"
In the new clip, directed by Arrad, the visual opens up with the two crooners posted up in Eric's BMW i8 before he spots a woman coming from out of a dance studio. After informing he woman that he is the dance instructor of her course, the antics begin.
"I remember sending the song over to Ne-Yo and just remember hoping he'd jump on it," shares Eric Bellinger. "One night he hit me and told me to come by the lab but didn't say for what. When I walked in he said, 'surprise!' He pressed play and he had recorded his verse for 'Dirty Dancing,' I couldn't believe it!"
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La púrpura trombocitopénica trombótica es una enfermedad hemorrágica microangiopática poco frecuente.

El primer caso fue registrado en 1924 por Moschcowitz.

 Púrpura significa que se presenta como moretones (equimosis) en la piel, característicos de la enfermedad.
 Trombocitopenia significa disminución del número de plaquetas (o trombocitos).
 Trombótica significa que se forman trombos.
Existe una estrecha relación entre la púrpura trombocitopénica trombótica y el síndrome hemolítico urémico.

Causas
La PTT, tal como otras anemias microangiopáticas, es causada por la agregación espontánea de plaquetas y la activación de la cascada de coagulación a nivel de los pequeños vasos de la circulación sanguínea. Las plaquetas son consumidas durante el proceso de coagulación, además de unirse a la fibrina, producto final de la cascada de coagulación. El complejo plaqueta-fibrina forma microtrombos en la circulación causando la ruptura de los glóbulos rojos que pasan a ese nivel, produciendo hemólisis.

Existen dos formas de PTT: "idiopática" y "secundaria". La forma hereditaria, en la cual existe un déficit de la enzima ADAMTS13, es llamada "síndrome de Upshaw-Schulman".

PTT idiopática
La forma idiopática de la PTT fue recientemente vinculada con la inhibición de la enzima ADAMTS13 por parte de autoanticuerpos, por lo cual esta forma de PTT es de tipo autoinmune. ADAMTS13 es una metaloproteasa responsable de la ruptura del factor de Von Willebrand (vWF), una proteína que actúa a nivel de la agregación plaquetaria, uniendo las plaquetas durante el inicio del proceso de coagulación. Existen dos formas de esta proteína, una está compuesta por grandes multímeros del factor, los cuales son más proclives a iniciar la coagulación. Por lo tanto, sin el adecuado clivaje de la proteína vWF por parte de la enzima ADAMTS13, la coagulación ocurre de manera descontrolada, especialmente en aquellos lugares donde el factor de Von Willebrand es más activo debido al alto roce producido por el flujo sanguíneo (en la microvasculatura)

En esta forma de PTT, existe una disminución en la actividad de la enzima ADAMTS13 (<5 % de lo normal) el cual puede ser detectado en más de un 80 % de los pacientes, encontrándose un subgrupo de un 50&9bsp;% de pacientes en donde se encuentran inhibidores de la enzima. Esta teoría es también llamada "hipótesis de Furlan-Tsai", luego de que ocurriesen dos investigaciones paralelas por parte de ambos científicos publicadas en el New England Journal of Medicine en 1998.
Esta teoría no ha resultado ser suficiente para explicar la etiología de la PTT debido a que muchos pacientes que genéticamente carecían de la ADAMTS13 no manifestaron la sintomatología clásica de este síndrome.

PTT secundaria
Esta forma de PTT es diagnosticado cuando en el paciente existe alguna condición conocidamente asociada al PTT. Corresponde a un 40% de los casos de PTT. Dentro de las causas destacan:
 Cáncer
 Trasplante de médula ósea
 Embarazo
 Fármacos:
Quinina
 Inhibidores de la agregación plaquetaria (ticlopidina y clopidogrel)
 Inmunosupresores (ciclosporina, mitomicina, tacrolimus/FK506, interferón-α)
 VIH

El mecanismo del PTT secundario  es pobremente comprendido, ya que en general la actividad de la ADAMTS13 no se encuentra disminuida como en el PTT idiopático, y tampoco se han hallado inhibidores. Probablemente, la condición proviene del daño causado a nivel endotelial.

Síndrome de Upshaw-Schülman
La forma heredada de PTT es llamada Síndrome de Upshaw-Schülman, generalmente asociado a la deficiencia de enzima ADAMTS13

Son característicos los trombos hialinos (conglomerados de fibrina adherida a las plaquetas) esparcidos por la microcirculación, lo cual causa la insuficiencia renal y síntomas neurológicos.

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Véase también
 Púrpura de Schönlein-Henoch
 Púrpura trombocitopénica idiopática

Enlaces externos
 Tratado.UniNet.edu (red universitaria).
 NLM.NIH.gov/MedlinePlus
 UMM.edu (Centro Médico de la Universidad de Maryland).
  (Enciclopedia de Salud Ilustrada).
 UPMC.com (Manual Merck, capítulo 155: «Trastornos hemorrágicos»).

Referencias

Hematología
Enfermedades hematológicas
Coagulopatías

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Today I consider some best practices regarding a compliance hotline.
The hotline should be developed and maintained externally. It seems axiomatic that employees tend to trust hotlines maintained by third parties more than they do internally maintained systems. Through the submitting of reports via an external hotline there is a perceived extra layer of anonymity and impartiality compared to a system developed in-house. A third party provider is also more likely to bring specialist expertise that's difficult to match within the organization.
The hotline supports the collection of detailed information. As with most everything else, information is power. If a CCO can gather and record information throughout a complaint life cycle, the company will have greater insight into the situation and a company can protect itself more effectively from accusations of negligence or wrongdoing. A hotline reporting system should provide consolidated, real-time access to data across all departments and locations, plus analytic capabilities that allow you to uncover trends and hot spots. All reported materials should be consolidated in one comprehensive, chronologically organized file, so a CCO can monitor ongoing progress and make better, more informed decisions.
The hotline must meet your company's data retention policies. Retaining data in a manner consistent with your internal data retention policies is important. A hotline should offer a secure, accessible report retention database, or you may be faced with making your own complicated and costly arrangements for transmitting and storing older reports to a permanent storage location.
The hotline should be designed to inspire employee confidence. Retaliation or perceived unfairness to those making hotline complaints will destroy the effectiveness of the internal reporting process and poison the corporate culture. A hotline must be seen to offer the highest levels of protection and anonymity. To encourage employee participation, the hotline should allow them to bring their concerns directly to someone outside their immediate chain of command or workplace environment – especially when the complaint concerns an immediate superior. The hotline should also enable employees to submit a report from the privacy of an off-site computer or telephone. It may seem like a small convenience, but giving employees the freedom to enter a complaint from a location that is safe can make a huge difference to participation rates.
The hotline offers on-demand support from subject matter experts. Opening lines of communication can bring new issues to your compliance group. It is therefore important that once those reports are entered into the system, a person or function has the responsibility to follow up in a timely manner. One of the biggest mistakes you can make is to sit on a hotline complaint and let the employee reporting it fester. Additionally, with the short time frames set out in the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower timelines for resolution before an employee can go the SEC to seek a bounty, the clock is literally clicking.
The hotline provides inbuilt litigation support and avoidance tools. A company must make certain that its hotline is preconfigured to meet the legal requirements for document retention, attorney work product protection procedures, and attorney-client privilege. Developing these tools in-house can add significantly to your costs, and maintaining a hotline without one exposes your organization to unacceptable risk.
Get the word out. If employees do not know about the hotline, they will not use it. Allocate a portion of your time and budget to promoting the corporate hotline through multiple channels. Put up posters and distribute cards that employees can keep in their wallets or desk drawers. Deliver in-person presentations where possible. And do not think of the promotional initiative as a one-time effort. It is important to remind employees regularly, through in-person communications, via e-mail, or through intranets, newsletters, and so on, that this resource is available to them. Some hotlines offer promotional materials to help make the job easier; make sure you ask what type of promotional support may be available.
Response is critical to fairness in the system. Seeing a hotline system in action in this way can go a long way toward dispelling employee fears of being ostracized or experiencing retaliation because if they see that their concerns are heard clearly and addressed fairly, they will learn to view the hotline as a valuable conduit. If your compliance group responds promptly and appropriately to hotline complaints, you can ensure robust participation and ongoing success. Even when a complaint proves to be unfounded, it can still provide an opportunity to open a dialogue with employees and clear up any misunderstandings. Responding to reported issues also gives compliance officers a chance to prove that issues can be resolved or addressed while protecting the privacy and anonymity of the whistleblower.
Get the word out to your employees about your company hotline through a variety of mediums and platforms.
Train your employees on the use of the hotline.
Use data from your hotline to continually update and improve your compliance program.
What are some of the best practices around internal reporting and hotlines?