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BIEL, SWITZERLAND, MARCH 28, 2014 - ck Calvin Klein Watch + Jewelry Co. Ltd., a joint venture between Calvin Klein, Inc. and Swatch Group, hosted a special, invitation-only dinner to celebrate the 2014 Calvin Klein Watches + Jewelry at fine art museum, Kunstmuseum Basel, in Switzerland. Held during BaselWorld 2014, the world's largest watch and jewelry fair, the event also featured a musical performance by contemporary violinist Charlie Siem.
Huishan Zhang Announced Winner of 2013 Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize
Huishan Zhang is the winner of the 2013 Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize. The award was bestowed to the designer tonight at The Dorchester after a catwalk show featuring the four shortlisted designers of the prize. Huishan Zhang was presented with an endowment of £25,000 from Dorchester Collection's chief executive officer Christopher Cowdray, along with an engraved Baccarat crystal trophy and a stay at a Dorchester Collection property, and in a new element launched this year, the prospect of one-to-one mentoring from a selection of the judges.
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American Idol judge Randy Jackson considers launching a range of handbags
The 'American Idol' judge - who rarely ventures away from his signature style of shirts, trousers and glasses - reportedly held a business meeting at the W Los Angeles - Westwood hotel to discuss creating a line of women's accessories.
A source told the New York Daily News newspaper: "Randy met with a PR agency to discuss how to market a new line of handbags, but he had to cut the meeting short to film 'Idol'."
Randy - who will have a six-month break once the current series of 'American Idol' finishes - is not the first celebrity to venture into women's accessories.


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Photograph of "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Toni Morrison called Ta-Nehisi Coates' book, Between the World and Me, "required reading" when it was published in 2015. Amid the events of 2020, including the dangers of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the protests alongside a national reckoning with racism and police brutality, Coates' book and the new HBO Special based on it are necessary reading and viewing for all of us.
The HBO Special Between the World and Me premiered November 21, 2020 and is available online streaming for free from HBO.
The new HBO Special was also based on the 2018 adaptation of Coates' book staged at The Apollo Theater in New York City. The film includes readings from the book in addition to documentary footage, a clip from a Howard University commencement speech, animations and illustrations, and archival footage from various repositories, including collection materials requested from The University of Baltimore Special Collections & Archives. Some of the featured materials include clips showing Baltimore, Maryland circa 1968-1970 selected from the WMAR-TV Collection at The UB Special Collections & Archives.
Between the World and Me touches on numerous events from the author's life including his childhood in West Baltimore and his college years at Howard University in Washington, D.C. It also describes America's history of racism and white supremacy and how this has affected Coates and Black communities in America.
Coates wrote the book as a letter to his fifteen-year-old son as he was coming of age and finding his place in a country and world that includes racism, but the book is also a letter to America.
Though the book and HBO Special are not entirely about the events of Coates' childhood in West Baltimore, his hometown and childhood experiences permeate the narrative. The film uses archival materials, illustrations, and documentary materials alongside readings from Coates' book to provide a vivid portrayal of Black life in America and illustrate the lived impact of racism.
1800 block of North Collington Avenue, Baltimore MD, August 1985. Photo ID na067. North Avenue (NA) Collection (R0090-NA), University of Baltimore Special Collections & Archives.
As an archivist at the University of Baltimore, but not a Baltimore native, I learn this city's history every day. Seeing the archival materials in the film was an opportunity to be immersed as a viewer in Coates' words and stories in a new way. Broadly, the film demonstrates the power and impact of archives in our society. Archives are full of memories, stories, and experiences waiting for us to listen and to learn from them.
Between the World and Me, as a book and as a film, weaves together the past and present in order to hold up a mirror to our faces. The past and present of the father and son in conversation are shown to be vastly different, but carry the same themes. In archives, we strive to preserve and make history accessible so that we can learn from the past and present, and build a better future. Reading Coates' book and watching the HBO documentary certainly reinforces the hope that one day racism will be learned through archives and history and not lived experiences.
Residents relax on the steps of a rowhouse, Baltimore MD, September 1985. Photo ID: na059. North Avenue Collection (R0090-NA), University of Baltimore Special Collections & Archives.
We encourage everyone to read the book and watch the HBO Special free online. Also visit the HBO Special Website for additional materials including a podcast, behind the scenes content, and more.
You can also Search the Library Catalog and request the book from the RLB Library through Interlibrary Loan or for Curbside Pick-up using the Access Services request form.
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CLIR Annual Report, 2020-21
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A Turbulent Year, and a Tribute to CLIR's Staff
President's Message for the 2020-21 Annual Report
In looking ahead, institutions and organizations often choose a guiding metaphor to characterize recent accomplishments and infer more of the same advancement in the years to come. "A beacon for change," "a new road taken," "a compass for the next decade" are typical descriptions of the symbolic navigational tools, highways, and methods of enlightenment we use to characterize our efforts. This rhetorical strategy requires a working environment over time that has a predictive continuity and familiarity to sustain such comparisons.
In this respect, the past two years confound expository practice. We are just beginning to grasp the immediate and longer-term effects and the adjustments needed to manage the likely sweeping changes ahead. But the effects will be deeply transformative on a global scale, requiring a more exacting accounting of what is under way and a more explicit reassurance of how our achievements can be carried forward into an opaque future.
CLIR, like other organizations, has sought meaningful responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the inspiration of voices committed to social justice, broadly defined as a core tenet of the Black Lives Matter movement.
In so doing, the flexibility, dedication, and insight of CLIR's staff have been indispensable.
As the pandemic surged and confounded our national and international working environment, the exuberant professional colleagues who administer and manage our programs took early responsibility to keep them functional in a world where physical conferences and face-to-face social networking vanished overnight. In solidarity with Black Lives Matter and the systemic inequities confronting our colleagues who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), CLIR's staff were similarly constitutive in accelerating our efforts to identify and reveal historically marginalized resources, archives, records, and stories, striving to integrate those voices into the larger national narrative, and providing nuance and complexity for a more accurate understanding of our historical context. Acknowledging their roles, it is to the Council's staff that this annual letter is dedicated.
As the COVID-19 virus surged, it was understood that CLIR's meetings and events had to become exclusively virtual. These included the review panels of Recordings at Risk and Digitizing Hidden Collections.
The panelists for these programs have always met in person: Building trust among the reviewers is critical, and social contact has been an expedient way to promote a sharing of ideas and perspectives. With thoughtful adjustments to the schedule and additional time allocated for topical challenges, the online formats proved efficient and well received. The largest, most complex undertaking has been to move the entire DLF Fall Forum online.
As protests grew and drew broader attention to the pervasive, entrenched racism in American life and culture, from the blatant murder of people of color by white law enforcement agents to the more subtle codes of class hierarchies and the terms used to perpetuate them, a nation—or an encouraging cross-section of our nation—stirred. At CLIR, work begun in previous years to build programs that reveal and sustain historically marginalized voices that can then be heard and studied became especially timely.
Earlier internal conversations exploring the possibility of formalizing Digitizing Hidden Collections to focus on marginalized cultural expression were invigorated. In February 2021, a new iteration of the program, called "Amplifying Unheard Voices," was announced. Similarly, our partnership with the HBCU Library Alliance was created in part to seek support for projects that would expose a wealth of rare archives and collections sequestered in selected HBCU libraries.
These collections, traditionally inaccessible, are pertinent to the African-American communities and to a more nuanced historical narrative. We are in a planning phase to prototype a hidden-collections-structured approach for neglected and suppressed resources intrinsic to our national identity, with HBCU library resources as the cynosure.
In May 2021, CLIR began a vigorous review of our mission, purpose, vision, and values. We expect this effort, involving CLIR's staff, board of directors, and many supporters and alumni of CLIR's programs, to span much of the next year. We will assess our current circumstances and consider the more tumultuous landscape we are likely to tend in the next 5 to 10 years. The discussions will shape our evolving response in ways that exemplify our commitment to an ethical, just, and equitable commonwealth of shared knowledge. Such a review is requisite for any organization's health and sustainability while acknowledging that our reflections and final recommendations are today particularly urgent and consequential.
While no organization can claim to plot a predictive course in this era of uncertainty, we can affirm that CLIR's dedicated, empathetic personnel uniquely position us to continue to thoughtfully assess and manage the range of challenges, complexities, and opportunities we confront. We will continue to adapt, adjust, pivot when necessary, and anneal on behalf of our global community to arrive together, strengthened and wiser, in what will inevitably be a new place of different metaphors and signposts we will learn to follow.
This entailed transposing a quarter-century tradition of in-person collaboration to a virtual space. With help from dozens of working group members and volunteers, the 2020 DLF Forum was fully accessible in its premier virtual instantiation, as was the adjacent NDSA Digital Preservation conference and 5 for 5: Conversations on Five Years of Digitizing Hidden Collections, which were also originally designed as physical gatherings. More threatening personal circumstances emerged as the pandemic closed borders and airports. Many CLIR fellows are working on dissertations in remote countries with limited connections. Staff worked diligently with funders to redirect grant resources that could safely extend each scholar's stay and assist them in traveling home once the borders reopened.
Charles J. Henry, President


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Francis Kenny A.S.C. is an American cinematographer.

Background and education
Kenny is a twice board member of the American Society of Cinematographers and member of the AMPAS Executive Committee for Cinematographers.

Kenny was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, attending schools in Indianapolis, Indiana; Cleveland, Ohio;, Atlanta, Georgia;, New Orleans, Louisiana:, Portland, Oregon;, Seattle, Washington;, and high school in New Orleans, Louisiana. At 16 he entered The University of Texas, Austin, Texas; he later attended Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Hofstra University, in Hempstead, New York. He holds degrees in Sociology, English Literature, and Communications.

His father, Francis Bernard Kenny, graduated from Princeton University, worked for the Shell Oil Company and eventually became Treasure. His grandfather, Herman Adkins, was a test pilot for the government at the Indianapolis Experimental Station (Civil Aeronautics Authority) and flew the NC-11 "flying laboratory." The airplane is now located at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Herman Adkins later built The Happy Landings Resort, Lake of the Ozark in Sunrise Beach, Missouri. Adkins was a member of the secretive club for aviators called The Quiet Birdmen.

Career

Francis Kenny began his career working on documentaries with the filmmaker David Hoffman whom he met at Hofstra University.

Kenny was the cinematographer on the Academy Award-winning feature documentary He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin. He has photographed commercials and documentaries in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Israel, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Australia, Singapore, Sumatra, Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, England, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Morocco. His feature films and television shows include: Justified, Bonnie and Clyde, Steel Magnolias, Finder's Fee, Sweet Bird of Youth, She's All That, Harriet the Spy, Jason's Lyric, Coneheads, New Jack City, and Heathers.

He became an active member of The American Society of Cinematographers in 1996. He served as the Chairman of the ASC Membership Committee from 2001 until 2011. In 2012 he received the ASC Presidents Award.

Personal life
He currently resides in Santa Monica, California, with his daughter who attends Parsons School of design.

References

External links
 www.franciskenny.us

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Charles Sobhraj: A killer's imaginative streak delved into
In this extract from a new book on serial killer Charles Sobhraj, Raamesh Koirala, the author throws light on how the Bikini Killer was also a storyteller
Raamesh Koirala
Published: 3 Dec 2018, 6:00 PM
In 2003, there were nearly 190 countries in the world. Charles Sobhraj was free and living a happy life in France. Only one country in the world had active cases of murder against him—Nepal. And yet it was Nepal that Charles decided to visit, again. Why on earth did he come to Nepal, only to find himself behind bars?
My question remained unanswered. The many conversations I had had with Charles hadn't answered the question that disturbed and rattled me. Ganesh K.C., the police officer who had caught Charles in Nepal, had boasted to the media, 'He is kept under special security arrangements in prison. He may have escaped from Tihar in India, but he cannot elude us. Charles Sobhraj made a huge mistake in returning to Nepal.'
Whenever I read that statement or thought about it, the question in my head only became bigger. It was a puzzle I had to solve at any cost. 'So, Alain, tell me the motive behind your last visit to Nepal.' I was sitting on a cosy chair in my dream, facing one of the most notorious killers the world has known.
'This is my first and only visit here,' he answered calmly. He could probably repeat this sentence in his sleep; he had said it so often. 'Okay! Tell me the reason behind your first visit then. We both know it was not for the pashmina or the mineral water.' The spot boy jiggled with the lights noisily; he was probably trying to make me look less dark and rugged when compared to our fair-skinned, handsome guest.
'I was here for two different things. One, I wanted to organise an undercover business meeting of some guys from the Taliban with a Chinese heroin producer in the Golden Triads. And second one was a meeting with top brass from India.'
'Chinese?'
'Well, he is a Burmese citizen of Chinese descent. We became friends when I was in Thailand. I lost touch with him when I left Bangkok, but somehow managed to track him down.'
'Do you have close ties with the Taliban?'
'Do you know Masood?'
'You mean the Islamist terrorist who was with you in Tihar?' 'Yes. He introduced me to all the Taliban leaders. That's actually why I visited Afghanistan several times.'
I winced. I had seen some photographs of him in Afghanistan. He had supposedly been there for a humanitarian mission. Humanitarian, my foot!
'I had good relations with the Taliban and the al-Qaeda.
You know, I even had a nuclear deal with Saddam Hussein.' His revelations got more chilling by the minute. They also started sounding ludicrous.
'What?'
'Yes. I had a business contract to supply red mercury to Iraq and had already made a deal with a Russian group. But then, 2003 happened.' For the life of me, I could not decipher if he referred to the 2003 attack on Iraq by the USA or his 2003 arrest in Nepal. Probably both? But in either case, had the incidents of 2003 unfolded differently, he would have probably been supplying red mercury to Saddam Hussein. The latter would have probably used it in a nuclear missile smuggled from the Russian military. I didn't want to imagine what might have happened next.
Our conversation was becoming too long for a half-an-hour television programme. Even with tight editing, it would easily make for two episodes. But I didn't mind. The TRPs were likely to be excellent, and the management could even push it to three episodes. My guest was in a particularly talkative mood, and I was not foolish to stop him.
He went on. 'One day in early September, I was driving to Marseille when I got a call from Reik. He said it was an emergency. The man was frantically screaming about the 9/11 attack. You know, the al-Qaeda had done exactly what I had warned the CIA about.'
I stared at the serial killer sitting in front of me, occasionally sipping from his cup of coffee. This murderer, this con man, claimed to know about the 9/11 before it happened. He had supposedly known in advance about that unprecedented attack on the World Trade Center, one of the most gruesome events witnessed by the world.
'America vowed to finish off the terrorists, of course. You know, America had always had good relations with the Taliban. It was well known that the CIA had sponsored the Mujahideen to fight against Russian invasion in Afghanistan. Later, a fraction of those who had been in the Mujahideen converted to Taliban. And Taliban had good ties with the al-Qaeda, the numero uno foe of the USA.'
"This murderer, this con man, claimed to know about the 9/11 before it happened," said Raamesh Koirala
He paused for breath before continuing to share his insights on the role of the USA in the formation of the Taliban.
'What happened then?'
'As the USA helped them grow, they always had infiltration from the al-Qaeda and the Taliban. In fact, now, they had their sources in the ISIS. But after the 9/11 attack, all the strings between the CIA and the al-Qaeda were broken. It was then that they contacted me. They knew I wanted to help every country I could when it came to fighting against terrorism. I hate how terrorists kill innocent people. I hate killing people.'
Of course, you hate killing people, I thought. It pains you and makes you cry whenever you strangle and stab people, burning them alive and walking away amidst their harrowing screams. 'So, how did you help now?' I somehow forced myself to stick to the questions in the script.
'After the US strike on Afghanistan, the al-Qaeda and the Taliban stopped using electronic devices for communication. The US intelligence agencies were finding it difficult to trace their moves. As the CIA already knew about my good relations with the top dogs in the Taliban, they contacted me immediately to strike a deal. They wanted me to gain the faith of the Taliban, infiltrate into their systems and share any information I could gather with the USA.'
'Then, what was your plan?' I cursed myself for not being well-informed about Islamic jihadists. But truth be told, I had not expected my interview with a French serial killer to take this turn. I wondered if my nervousness was palpable on the screen. My sweat sure was, and I signalled a crew member to lower the temperature settings of the air conditioner.
'Well, I found that the best trap was opium. Afghanistan was the leading producer of opium, and almost the entire trade was governed by the Taliban. They had been struggling for the last few years because the CIA had got wind of the opium trade and started surveillance on their route. If they found someone who could help them with this, someone who could rev up the trade again, it would be a great foundation for a relationship. I shared my plan with the CIA.'
'Then?' I sounded dumb even to myself, asking monosyllabic questions for quite a long time now.
'Then, well, they accepted my plan and funded my tours. My goal was to provide an excellent business deal to the Taliban, something they couldn't refuse. I mean, imagine their angst— the biggest producers of opium, controlling nearly 90% of the world trade, but stuck without a place to sell!'
I let him continue.
'It took me almost two years to convince the Taliban for a long-term deal. I was sure that a factory in Burma or Thailand would be the right choice; I knew these things. But thirty years is a rather long time; I had lost contact.'
I suspected he was now talking about the Golden Triads. Old movies I had seen flashed in front of my eyes. There was the Hindi movie, Drishyam, where the protagonist, Vijay Salgaonkar, was a movie freak. His exposure to all these films—a good number of them thrillers and crime movies—helped him fool the police when he was trying to save his wife and daughter from a murder charge. Then there was the Hollywood movie, The Usual Suspects, where a character—Dean Keaton—would cook up different stories from the notice boards he had seen at police stations. It wasn't all that difficult to fool people, not even the police, especially when you have the gift of the gab, the right information, and the courage to implement this information.
Here, in my TV show, I was witness to a live demonstration of this hoodwinking.
'I went hunting for them,' Alain went on, evidently enjoying the tale. 'It wasn't easy. Again, it took me nearly two years to contact them and finalise a deal for the profitable supply of raw material for heroin.'
I was swiftly losing interest in this heroin talk, obviously fabricated. 'Okay, let's talk about your second meeting. What was that Indian top brass about?'
'Oh, it was a meeting with the IB,' he said, as casually as if he was meeting friends for brunch.
'I helped them from time by time. It was me who facilitated the return of that hijacked Indian Airlines plane from Kandahar.' The reveals were now mounting one on top of the other. It was happening so swiftly that I felt as if Alain was the host and I was merely a spot boy whose sole responsibility was to ensure the air conditioner operated at full blast.
'Can you imagine,' Alain continued with a smug look, 'Advani escaped an assassination due to my tip?'
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An Automated Immunoblot Method for Detection of IgG Antibodies to Hepatitis C Virus: a Potential Supplemental Antibody Confirmatory Assay
Maja Kodani, Miranda Martin, Vivianne Landgraf de Castro, Jan Drobeniuc, Saleem Kamili
Yi-Wei Tang, Editor
Maja Kodani
aDivision of Viral Hepatitis, National Center for HIV, Hepatitis, STD and Tuberculosis Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Miranda Martin
Vivianne Landgraf de Castro
Jan Drobeniuc
Saleem Kamili
Yi-Wei Tang
An estimated 41,200 people were newly infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) in 2016 in the United States. Screening tests for antibodies to HCV may generate up to 32% false positivity in low-risk populations. Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) screening recommendations do not require confirmatory testing of a screening anti-HCV-positive test; however, confirmation is valuable for surveillance in the absence of HCV RNA testing. A recombinant immunoblot assay (RIBA) was used as a confirmatory assay for anti-HCV-reactive samples but was discontinued in 2013. Another anti-HCV confirmatory assay, INNO-LIA, is commercially available in Europe but is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States. We report the development of an anti-HCV assay that was performed on an automated immunoblot platform using a fourth-generation HCV recombinant fusion protein. Based on testing of 70 well-characterized samples, of which 40 were HCV RNA and anti-HCV positive, 15 were HCV RNA positive/anti-HCV negative, and 15 were HCV RNA and anti-HCV negative, the specificity and sensitivity of the HCV-WES assay were 100% and 95%, respectively. Concordance between INNO-LIA and HCV-WES was determined by testing 205 HCV RNA-negative/anti-HCV-positive samples, of which 149 (72.7%) were positive by HCV-WES, while 146 (71.2%) were positive by INNO-LIA. We have shown proof of concept for the use of this test for confirmation of screened anti-HCV results. The HCV-WES assay has advantages over manual Western blot assays and INNO-LIA, including ease of use, lower cost, and reduced hands-on time.
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major public health problem worldwide with an estimated 71 million individuals living with chronic HCV infection in 2015 (1). In the United States from 2003 to 2010, there were an estimated 4.6 million Americans infected with HCV, 3.5 million of whom were estimated to have current infection (2). An estimated 41,200 people were newly infected with HCV in 2016 in the United States (3). Furthermore, it is estimated that more than half of the people infected with HCV may not be aware of their infection status (4). Testing data from a large U.S. commercial laboratory suggest that an estimated one in four HCV-infected people in the United States have significant liver disease and could benefit from treatment (5).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends determining current HCV infection status by screening for HCV antibodies (anti-HCV), followed by testing for HCV RNA if the HCV antibody test is reactive (6), to facilitate linkage to care and treatment with currently available highly efficacious direct-acting antiviral agents (DAAs). Anti-HCV assays have a lower positive predictive value in low-prevalence populations. A recent study showed up to 32% anti-HCV false positivity in a national U.S.-based surveillance study (7). Although positive results for anti-HCV and HCV RNA tests indicate current HCV infection, anti-HCV-positive and HCV RNA-negative results indicate a previously resolved infection or no infection, i.e., a false-positive anti-HCV test result.
In population studies of the true prevalence of HCV infection, a second anti-HCV test is necessary to confirm the first anti-HCV-positive test result. Currently, there are no FDA-approved supplemental anti-HCV confirmatory assays commercially available in the United States. Supplemental anti-HCV confirmatory tests, such as INNO-LIA, a line immunoassay (LIA) (Fujirebio, Sweden), or HCV Blot 3.0 (MP Biomedicals, LLC, San Diego, CA), are commercially available in Europe but not in the United States. Furthermore, the INNO-LIA test requires hours of hands-on time before results and complicated analysis of test results. In this study, we used a recently automated blotting technology, the Simple Western (ProteinSimple, San Jose, CA), to develop a confirmatory anti-HCV assay (HCV-WES) using a commercially available recombinant fourth-generation HCV antigen-containing core and nonstructural proteins NS3, NS4, and NS5. This assay was evaluated using a set of 275 well-characterized serum/plasma samples previously tested for anti-HCV and HCV RNA with other tests.
Clinical samples.Human serum or plasma samples used in this study were selected from collections of deidentified convenient specimens archived in our laboratory. All samples used in this study had anti-HCV and HCV RNA test results available; anti-HCV status was determined using the Vitros anti-HCV IgG chemiluminescence assay (Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, Raritan, NJ). HCV RNA testing was previously performed using the Cobas AmpliPrep/Cobas TaqMan HCV version 2.0 (Roche, Indianapolis, IN). Anti-HCV confirmatory testing was performed using the INNO-LIA HCV score (Fujirebio, Sweden). A total of 275 samples were tested, which included 205 anti-HCV-positive/HCV RNA-negative samples, 40 anti-HCV-positive/HCV RNA-positive samples, 15 anti-HCV-negative/HCV RNA-positive samples, and 15 anti-HCV-negative/HCV RNA-negative samples. In addition, eight commercial HCV seroconversion panels (PHV 913, PHV 920[M], PHV 922, PHV 924, PHV 926, PHV 927, PHV 928, and PHV 929; SeraCare, Milford, MA) were also tested by HCV-WES. For these samples, the anti-HCV and confirmatory results were used as reported by the manufacturer.
HCV-WES procedure.A commercially available 4th-generation recombinant HCV antigen (46 kDa) (ProSpec Bio, Israel) containing a medium-sized core (55 amino acids), nonstructural protein 3 (NS3) (226 amino acids), three epitopes from the NS4 protein, and three epitopes from the NS5 protein was used to detect IgG antibodies to HCV. Prior to loading the samples on the WES separation module cartridge (ProteinSimple, San Jose, CA), antigen was diluted 1:500 in 0.1× sample dilution buffer (ProteinSimple, San Jose, CA), and the secondary antibody and plasma samples were diluted 1:2,000 and 1:20 in the antibody diluent (ProteinSimple, San Jose, CA). The cartridges were loaded according to the manufacturer's instructions, with the following modifications: diluted antigen was run in the capillaries as the "sample," diluted human serum was run as the "primary antibody," and the 1:2,000 dilution of the goat anti-human IgG labeled with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) (SeraCare, Milford, MA) replaced the secondary antibody from the anti-rabbit detection module (ProteinSimple, San Jose, CA). All reagents were loaded into a sample cartridge placed into the automated immunoblotter, WES, with the capillary cartridge. The 4th-generation antigen was separated in the proprietary separation matrix in the capillaries by size. The anti-HCV antibodies from the serum or plasma samples are captured/bound to the cross-linked HCV antigen, and a signal is produced from the HRP-labeled secondary antibody, which is digitally recorded upon a chemiluminescent reaction. The anti-HCV antibodies from the diluted serum or plasma samples are run over the cross-linked HCV antigen, and the capillary is washed. HRP-labeled secondary antibody is then applied over the bound antibodies and washed again. The signal, produced upon the primary antibody from human serum or plasma binding to the anti-HCV antigen, is measured and digitally recorded after a 5-s exposure. Compass software, supplied by ProteinSimple, captures data as a chemiluminescent image of the capillary. The software determines when the signal is higher than the noise and records it in the form of peaks or bands (both views are available). The background determination is based on a "dark" image of the loaded capillaries (i.e., immobilized proteins and antibodies) taken just prior to substrate loading (e.g., luminol/peroxide). This will capture any artifacts derived from sources not induced by the enzymatic reaction. Next, the substrate is loaded, and a subsequent image is captured with emission from the luminol. Compass will then subtract the emission image with the dark image pixel for pixel to determine corrected signal responses. A system control, provided in the running buffer, is used with every sample to monitor uniformity of separation between different capillaries. In the case of HCV-WES, if a band of 42 kDa is detected by the instrument, the sample is considered anti-HCV positive regardless of the band intensity value.
HCV INNO-LIA procedure.Seroconversion panels and a subset of samples used in the evaluation panels were previously tested by a recombinant immunoblot assay (RIBA) and/or INNO-LIA by the panel manufacturer (SeraCare, Milford, MA); however, confirmatory anti-HCV results were not available for 40 samples. These samples were tested using the INNO-LIA HCV score (Fujirebio, Belgium), according to the manufacturer's recommendations.
Relative range and reproducibility of the HCV-WES assay.A well-characterized anti-HCV-positive human serum sample diluted in 4-fold dilutions (neat, 1:16, 1:64, and 1:256) and tested in triplicate was used to evaluate the dynamic range and reproducibility of the HCV-WES assay (Fig. 1). All triplicate dilutions of less than the 1:256 dilution produced positive bands, while two of the three 1:256 dilutions were positive (Fig. 1a). All other dilutions were negative. Twenty-two serum/plasma samples including negatives and a signal range from positives are shown in Fig. 1b. Anti-HCV-negative specimens tested negative by HCV-WES, while screening anti-HCV-positive samples tested positive.
Anti-HCV results using HCV-WES assay. The data shown represent those from two different runs on the WES instrument in the form of gels. The first lane of every gel is a dedicated molecular marker lane, while the last two are a positive (+) and a negative (−) control. (A) Serial dilution of an anti-HCV-positive control sample tested in triplicate to demonstrate the range and reproducibility of the assay. (B) A random selection of a variety of clinical specimens shows anti-HCV-negative (lanes 1 to 3, 5, 7 to 10, and 16) and HCV-positive (lanes 4, 6, 11 to 15, and 17 to 22) samples, ranging from weak (lane 14) to strong (lane 15) positives.
Performance of HCV-WES in clinical specimens.The specificity of the HCV-WES assay was determined by testing 30 anti-HCV-negative serum/plasma samples from patients, which included an equal number of HCV RNA-negative and HCV RNA-positive samples (window period of infection). All 30 samples tested negative by HCV-WES, suggesting the specificity to be 100% compared to the Vitros anti-HCV IgG chemiluminescence assay (Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, Raritan, NJ) (Fig. 2).
Clinical sample testing results. A total of 275 serum/plasma samples were chosen for this study based on their anti-HCV and HCV RNA status, as shown in the second row of boxes. The results obtained by HCV-WES and INNO-LIA, including the number of samples and percentage of the total for that category, are shown in the third row. NT, not tested.
The sensitivity of HCV-WES was determined with 40 anti-HCV-positive/RNA-positive serum/plasma samples; 38 (95%) were confirmed positive by HCV-WES, while 39 (97.5%) were confirmed positive by INNO-LIA compared with the results of an RNA positivity test as the gold standard. One anti-HCV- and HCV RNA-positive sample was missed by HCV-WES only, and this may have occurred due to the sensitivity of the test or antigen incompatibility. Concordance between HCV-WES and INNO-LIA was determined using an additional equivocal panel of 205 samples which were anti-HCV positive but HCV RNA negative; 149 (72.7%) were confirmed anti-HCV positive using HCV-WES, while 146 (71.2%) were confirmed using INNO-LIA (Fig. 2). Almost 15% (30) of the samples were determined to be indeterminate using the INNO-LIA, while HCV-WES scored 16 (53%) of these samples as anti-HCV positive.
Performance of HCV-WES using seroconversion panels.Eight commercially available seroconversion panels were used to evaluate the performance of HCV-WES. Twenty anti-HCV-negative samples in three panels (PHV 929, PHV 928, and PHV 927) also tested negative by HCV-WES (data not shown), suggesting 100% specificity on this set of panels. Confirmation of anti-HCV using HCV-WES occurred 1 week later than confirmation by INNO-LIA, as shown in Table 1 in panels PHV 920(M), PHV 922, PHV 913, and PHV 926.
Analysis of seroconversion panels by HCV-WES assaya
This study describes the development of a novel serologic assay using, for the first time, Simple Western technology for the detection and confirmation of anti-HCV in clinical samples. The system has previously been used for detection of serum antibodies in Salmonella-infected chicken (8), in vaccine development (9), and in place of traditional Western blots in numerous applications (10–14). Simple Western offers advantages such as standardization, higher reproducibility, elimination of human error due to automation, and substantial savings of time relative to that required for traditional Western blotting (15). The WES workflow consists of about 30 to 60 min of hands-on time to prepare up to 25 samples for immunoblot analysis, which is followed by a 3-h run on the instrument. The results are available immediately upon the completion of the run. This is a substantial improvement from a traditional Western blot assay or INNO-LIA, both of which require multiple steps, such as washes and incubations, usually requiring more than 1 working day from sample to results.
The CDC recommends determining current HCV infection status in the clinical setting by screening for HCV antibodies (anti-HCV), followed by testing for HCV RNA if the HCV antibody test is reactive (6). However, in population studies where HCV RNA testing is often not feasible, false positivity by anti-HCV assays has been demonstrated, and it can inflate the estimated prevalence rate of HCV infection (7). Anti-HCV assays have a lower positive predictive value in low-prevalence populations. Previously, all anti-HCV-reactive samples were either confirmed by a signal-to-cutoff threshold or RIBA (16), and all previous estimates have been established based on that antibody confirmation. There has been no alternative FDA-approved confirmatory anti-HCV assay commercially available in the United States since the discontinuation of RIBA. Although positive results for anti-HCV and the HCV RNA test indicate current HCV infection, anti-HCV-positive and HCV RNA-negative results indicate a previously resolved infection or no infection, i.e., a false-positive anti-HCV test result. In population studies of the true prevalence of HCV infection, a second anti-HCV test is necessary to confirm the first anti-HCV-positive test result.
Based on the testing of a panel of 70 well-characterized samples, the specificity and sensitivity of the HCV-WES assay were 100% and 95%, respectively. Confirmation of true positivity was similar between HCV-WES and INNO-LIA, with HCV-WES discriminating 16 samples that were indeterminate by INNO-LIA. Although WES comes with an initial instrument purchase cost, the HCV-WES assay costs approximately one-third as much per sample as the INNO-LIA assay, excluding the costs of importing the INNO-LIA kits into the United States. The HCV-WES assay has other significant attractive features compared to those of a commercial immunoblot assay; these include being easier to use, being less labor intensive, having a faster turnaround time for results, and having a read-out in a digital format that is easily interpretable as positive or negative (17).
In summary, we have provided empirical evidence of the accuracy (high sensitivity and specificity) of the HCV-WES assay compared with that of the INNO-LIA test as the gold standards of anti-HCV positivity and negativity. The HCV-WES assay has the potential for use as a supplementary anti-HCV confirmatory assay for epidemiologic, surveillance, and other population studies of anti-HCV prevalence.
We thank Laurie Barker and Tonya Hayden for critically reading the manuscript and help with editing and David Sloan from ProteinSimple for clarifying how the background is subtracted by the instrument.
The findings and conclusions in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Use of trade names is for identification only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Received 26 September 2018.
Returned for modification 5 November 2018.
Accepted 3 January 2019.
Accepted manuscript posted online 16 January 2019.
This is a work of the U.S. Government and is not subject to copyright protection in the United States. Foreign copyrights may apply.
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Wrestlemania Predictions: IC, US, and Tag Titles
We're back, this time with some title matches. Before you dive in here, I invite you to check out the Kick-Off Show predictions. You'll notice WWE's love affair with muti-man matches is still very much a thing. Though that's been the case at Wrestlemania for almost two decades now. Multiple teams competing for a set of tag belts, multi-man matches for the Intercontinental Title, and that's not even getting into all the Money in the Bank Ladder Matches.
Though oddly enough, they may buck that tradition this year by having one man compete for the Raw Tag Team Titles by himself…
TRIPLE-THREAT MATCH FOR WWE SMACKDOWN TAG TEAM TITLES:
The Usos (c) vs. The New Day vs. The Bludgeon Brothers
Much is made about what match opens Wrestlemania. You can make a strong case for this one being the opener this year. That New Day entrance alone would be a great way to start the show. But then you take into account how the Usos and the New Day have consistently torn the house down in the last several months. I don't see how you can lose with this one.
Despite having been in WWE for about a decade now, this will be Jimmy and Jey Uso's first match on the main Wrestlemania card. So what the hell, give 'em a win. They deserve it after the year they've had. So let one of the Usos pin one of the New Day guys, and give the Bludgeon Brothers a gripe about never being beaten.
PREDICTION: The Usos
FATAL FOUR-WAY MATCH FOR WWE UNITED STATES TITLE:
Randy Orton (c) vs. Jinder Mahal vs. Bobby Roode vs. Rusev
Rusev reportedly asked for his release not long ago, and WWE placated him by adding him to this match. I've got mixed feelings on that. If they're not treating him properly, or not trying to maximize the potential of this "Rusev Day" stuff, then they've got no one to blame but themselves. On the other hand, Rusev has hit on something great here. It might be foolish for him to step away. In any event, they obviously want to keep him around. As they clearly should.
I'm thinking this is Jinder's match to win. Randy Orton only has the title because they need something for him to do on this show, and Bobby Roode desperately needs a heel turn. In theory, they could give it to Rusev. But I see them finding a screwy way to put it on Jinder (Maybe the other Singh Brother comes back?), leading to a program with Rusev.
Incidentally, can we give him his wife back, already? Lana isn't doing much on her own, and everybody knows they're married anyway…
PREDICTION: Jinder Mahal
TRIPLE-THREAT MATCH FOR WWE INTERCONTINENTAL TITLE:
The Miz (c) vs. Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor
Given the skills these three guys have, this match has high expectations from a quality standpoint. That's fair, assuming they have enough time to really deliver. I don't think it needs to be reiterated just how big this card is.
You really can't go wrong in this one. Miz has obviously been an amazing IC Champ, and both Rollins and Balor would be worthy titleholders.
But in the end, Miz should take this one home. Emphasis on should. The guy is on the roll of his career. If they needed him to, he could be a Heavyweight Champion right now. I'm very much in favor of keeping that momentum going. After all, we're probably going to need heel challengers for the Universal Title in the near future. Just saying…
PREDICTION: The Miz
WWE RAW TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH:
The Bar (c) vs. Braun Strowman and ?
This isn't the spot on the card that a lot of us wanted for Braun. He could easily have been the one facing Brock for the title. But this is still pretty good. And to their credit, they've managed to get some decent television out of it. The "Brains" Strowman bit on Monday was hokey, but it got a chuckle out of me.
They can get away with having Strowman win the belts by himself. It doesn't do much for Sheamus and Cesaro. But Braun has the whole superhuman monster thing going for him. It makes sense.
But let's say you have to put somebody with him? Who do you go with? Elias would work. There's been some buzz about the Big Show, now that he's signed a new contract. Rey Mysterio's name has been mentioned. Oddly enough, it would also be a good spot for the recently released James Ellsworth.
Regardless, after Wrestlemania we'll either have some sort of oddball tag team, or Braun defending the tag titles on his own. Both ways work.
PREDICTION: Braun Strowman
More predictions to come!!!
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Q: How to set Infinite Timeout for Azure Function app v2.0 I have a very long running process which is hosted using Azure Function App (though it's not recommended for long running processes) targeting v2.0. Earlier it was targeting v1.0 runtime so I didn't face any function timeout issue.
But now after updating the runtime to target v2.0, I am not able to find any way to set the function timeout to Infinite as it was in case of v1.0.
Can someone please help me out on this ?

A: From your comments it looks like breaking up into smaller functions or using something other than functions isn't an option for you currently. In such case, AFAIK you can still do it with v2.0 as long as you're ready to use "App Service Plan".
The max limit of 10 minutes only applies to "Consumption Plan".

In fact, documentation explicitly suggests that if you have functions that run continuously or near continuously then App Service Plan can be more cost-effective as well.
You can use the "Always On" setting. Read about it on Microsoft Docs here.
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Also, documentation clearly states that default value for timeout with App Service plan is 30 minutes, but it can be set to unlimited manually.
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From our discussion in comments, as null value isn't working for you like it did in version 1.x, please try taking out the "functionTimeout" setting completely.
I came across 2 different SO posts mentioning something similar and the Microsoft documentation text also says there is no real limit. Here are the links to SO posts I came across:

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A: One way of doing it is to implement Eternal orchestrations from Durable Functions. It allows you to implement an infinite loop with dynamic intervals. Of course, you need to slightly modify your code by adding support for the stop/start function at any time (you must pass the state between calls).
[FunctionName("Long_Running_Process")]
public static async Task Run(
    [OrchestrationTrigger] DurableOrchestrationContext context)
{
    var initialState = context.GetInput<object>();
    var state = await context.CallActivityAsync("Run_Long_Running_Process", initialState);

    if (state == ???) // stop execution when long running process is completed
    {
        return;
    }

    context.ContinueAsNew(state);
}

A: You cannot set an Azure Function App timeout to infinite.  I believe the longest any azure function app will consistently run is 10 minuets.  As you stated Azure functions are not meant for long running processes. You may need find a new solution for your app, especially if you will need to scale up the app at all in the future.

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Every time I watch this movie, I'm surprised at how simplistic it is. It follows a very simple storyline between four characters and never veers from that path. Focusing on human emotions and the tribulations we all face (although the cases may be extreme in this case) it's a movie where the acting and humanistic side aren't far off. Add elements that make it a worthwhile plot, and you have the makings of a film debut by Jieho Lee in his first film.
The entire film is based on an ancient Chinese proverb. Life itself is made up of four emotions. Happiness (Forest Whitaker), Pleasure (Brendan Frasier), Sorrow (Sarah
A well known cast with a bit of heart.
Michelle Gellar), and Love (Kevin Bacon). Each of these characters are represented on a hand, all connected by fingers (Andy Garcia). Through four separate "mini-stories" played out in an intertwining fashion, we gain insight into what the Chinese proverb means.
Hey may look friendly here, but he seems always frightening in his films.
Here's something I don't get though. Most critics gave this a bad review. They said that the all-star cast didn't give enough of a boost to the film. I don't think the cast or any of that hullabaloo had anything to do with this movie and how it did. This movie focuses on the plot. Seeing as its a character driven plot, the characters fuel and progress the story by their emotions and actions (finally discovering the emotion they represent by their part's end). People say Brendan Frasier is a terrible actor (excluding The Mummy Series, of course. If you think those are bad, you have no idea what a good action movie is.) but I think this movie proves that theory wrong. Brendan Frasier plays an atypical character to what he normally plays. He's not a muscled buffoon or frozen caveman come to life. He plays a thug, sure. But he plays an introspective thug who thinks before he acts. He has emotions and feelings you don't normally see in a Brendan Frasier vehicle,
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something I'm proud to say he did very well.
There are other reasons this movie is good. Andy Garcia, how can you ever go wrong with that? He's a frightening mobster man in whatever he does, and I'd personally never want to cross him. Forest Whitaker plays outside of what I think his normal roles are with his timid and almost asthmatic accountant position. Sarah Michelle Gellar was at least applauded for this movie, which I think was justly deserved. Kevin Bacon, well, he's just Kevin Bacon. Combine interesting roles with an uncanny cadre of actors and you have yourself an interrelated plot about the human extremes of emotion.
Kevin Bacon. He's footloose in this one.
This movie isn't flashy. It's not presumptuous or too intellectual. It shows you that it is what it is and that's it. An emotional rollercoaster with a happy ending. Not everything that leads up to the ending is happy, but we must all go through trials and tribulations before we see the silver lining (or get to reach it). I think this is an understated film. It's one of those films you should own in your collection as a little bit of a "life check" for when things are bad, or even good. So I would recommend at least giving The Air I Breathe a try. It's thought provoking. 8.2 out of 10.
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So I'd been planning to see this movie with my mom for some time. We're big James McAvoy, and this movie quickly jumped to the top of our list. We thought, "Hey, James McAvoy. A new X-men movie that looks quite good? Definitely." And he didn't disappoint. And neither did anyone else in the film X-Men: First Class. I did expect to take the phrase "First Class" literally, but I was a bit mistaken. (I thought this movie would focus on the first young group that Charles Xavier took into the X-Men academy. Guess not.) But I wasn't disappointed at all. This movie delivered. I would say it did, even more than the original trilogy.
So the plot of this movie is the origins of the X-men. I'm pretty sure it holds true to the comics, and I think this
The rivals unite.
was a big plus. (Maybe a few liberties were taken?) But, either way, this 1960's set X-men classic follows the origins of Erik Lensherr/ Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and Charles Xavier (James McAvoy). This is before Charles was given his wheelchair (explained) and so that's why you see him puttering around on his own two legs. The hip, suave, young Xavier (a welcome change from Patrick Stewart's stuffy portrayal of Professor X) has just become a Professor from Cambridge based on his work on human mutation. (Fitting right?) Parallel to this, Erik is on a rampage (using his harnessed powers) to destroy the German Nazis that imprisoned him during WWII and killing his mother. It was this pain that unleashed his powers as a young boy.
And it is through the power of the government that these two come together to team up for the only time in their lives. To stop an evil mutant of unspeakable power, Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) these two must recruit other mutants across the world in order to prevent nuclear disaster. As you watch the movie, you find that, in fact, the X-Men were what prevented the Cuban Missile Crisis. And then, as expected, things fall apart for the duo, leading up nicely to the next movies made years ago.
It sent chills down my spine when he put that helmet on.
I've heard people didn't like this movie. People gave this a bad review and I was surprised. I found this to be a decent movie that was respectable among X-men entertainment. So I found it hard to believe, with such a good cast and decent special effects, how this movie could even be viewed as a bomb. I mean, come on, James McAvoy (great actor) and one of my personal favorites, Michael Fassbender? You can't get much better than that. Throw in a handfull of cameos (yes, a scene of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and Rebecca Romjin as a view of the older Mystique.) and great foreshadowing, and you have a great prequel.
I mean, I can't say enough about the cast this film boasts. I have to say again, James McAvoy. Having another big action film under his belt, Wanted, he is perfectly comfortable as an action hero (although be it a passive one). Michael Fassbender. He is no newbie when it comes to action films. 300, Centurion, Inglorious Basterds. This guy has done some of the best action films of the decade. And he's such a malicious character actor that when you see him as the villain, you can actually see the evil seething from him. Kevin Bacon. I haven't seen him in a while and they hid it well in the trailers that he was in the movie. And as the villain? That was a shock. But still, he was quite devious. Combine that with Nicholas Holt as Beast (great job to say the least) and Jennifer Lawrence (academy award winner for Winter's Bone.) among other X-Men, and you have a great cast.
Great group. Great cast. Great movie.
From the director Matthew Vaughn, director of some pretty badass action films, Layer Cake (personal favorite), Kick Ass, even Stardust was decent, you have to expect some good acting combined with great visual chemistry. There's a great scene with Michael Fassbender absolutely destroying some Argentinian Nazi fools that brims with gorish action. This movie screams great summer film. If Stan Lee's onboard (not just for the money, I hope) then it has to be good. His baby creation has come to life once again and it's all good. 8.8 out of 10.
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In this travel vlog I explored the Surreal Gardens of Xilitla Mexico! Las Pozas is an incredible thing to see in Mexico created by Edward James. Afterwards going to jump some waterfalls and visit Selva Teenek, an eco park that has Jaguars and Pumas. This was definitely some of the Top Things to do in Mexico!