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Being proactive with measles important
Joel Lundberg, MD
Measles outbreaks in the United State have been featured prominently in the national new of late. In fact, 228 individual cases of measles have been confirmed in 12 states from January 1 to March 7, 2019. The states that have reported cases to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Texas and Washington.
Measles is a highly-contagious viral disease, and can be serious for young children. A highly effective and safe vaccine first became available in 1963. It is important for parents to protect their children by making sure they are up-to-date on vaccinations, including before traveling abroad.
Measles begins with a fever, soon followed by cough, runny nose and red eyes. Then a rash of tiny, red spots which starts at the head and spreads to the rest of the body.
Measles can have serious and, rarely, life-threatening complications for young children. These include pneumonia and encephalitis (swelling of the brain) both of which can be fatal. Measles spreads through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. It is so highly contagious that if one person has it, up to 90 percent of the people around them will also become infected if they are not protected.
Measles is still common in other parts of the world, including many countries in Europe, Asia, the Pacific and Africa. Every year, unvaccinated people contract measles while they are abroad, and bring the disease into the United States and spread it to others.
Over the past 20 years, I have had many wonderful opportunities to travel abroad on medical mission trips on which I have seen firsthand in developing countries what had become uncommon diseases in the United States like tuberculosis and malaria. These were great learning experiences as well as gratifying and rewarding. I consider myself blessed to have professional skills that afford me the ability to help others.
One of my most memorable experiences was in 1999 when I first traveled to The Gambia, West Africa, where I spent two months serving in medical missions. Within the first two days of making hospital rounds, I was introduced for a three-year-old child who was in isolation. The child, who had not received childhood vaccines, had contracted measles and was also very sick with pneumonia, a complication of the infection. Sadly, the child did not survive, succumbing to the disease. This was a year before a nationwide vaccination program was established in The Gambia, the smallest country in Africa.
Two years later, upon my return to The Gambia, where previously approximately only a quarter of the childhood population had access to vaccinations, 90 percent of children were now vaccinated through a universal national childhood vaccine program. Measles was fast becoming distinctly uncommon thanks to government and missionary run vaccination clinics.
As a result of these and many other experiences as a health care professional in the Fond du Lac area, I remain a strong advocate for childhood and adult vaccinations. They are safe and effective, and do not cause serious complications including autism.
In fact, one of the largest studies to date provides fresh evidence that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine does not cause autism. Danish researchers found no link between the MMR vaccine and autism, even when they focused on children at greater risk for developing autism. In a study of more than 650,000 Danish children, there was no difference in the risk of autism in vaccinated and unvaccinated children.
Parents are in the best position to take proactive steps to protect their children from the measles and other preventable childhood infectious illnesses. To learn more about the MMR shot, talk to your child's physician, call 1-800-CDC-INFO, or visit www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents.
Joel Lundberg, MD, Medical Oncology & Hematology
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What I want to do is, to click on "Reload Captcha Image" link and with JavaScript change the content of the first img tag to a new captcha image, and simultaneously to change reload.png to reload.gif which is and animation that I want to last as much as the new captcha image is being processed. And I want to change back the reload.gif animation to the reload.png static image, right the same time when the new captcha image has been load image. The problem is that the captcha image is being generated by GD library of PHP, and I don't know how much time that will take to create a new image.
Please help me to be able to synchronize.  May be there is a good approach for doing this kind of things…
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The news team discusses the size of their paychecks.
(2013) Comedy (Paramount) Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, David Koechner, James Marsden, Christina Applegate, Kristen Wiig, Dylan Baker, Meagan Good, Harrison Ford, Greg Kinnear, Judah Nelson, Josh Lawson, Fred Willard, Chris Parnell, Bill Kurtis (voice), June Diane Raphael, Tom Clark, Jennifer Gullick, Aubrey Drake Graham. Directed by Adam McKay
One of the characters that established Will Ferrell as one of the top comedy stars of the first couple of decades of the 21st century was Ron Burgundy, the conceited and laughably ignorant local news anchor of San Diego, the classiest city in the U.S. That was nine years ago. Since then a sequel has been clamored for but never realized until now.
Burgundy (Ferrell) has been absent from the San Diego news scene, having moved on to a higher profile news job in New York City, co-anchoring with his wife Veronica Corningstone (Applegate). The lead news anchor and the most respected newsman in New York, Mack Tannen (Ford) – no relation to Biff apparently – is preparing to retire and has decided to promote Veronica to replace him. As for Ron, Mack fires him due to his sloppy performance on air.
This causes a good deal of friction between Ron and…well, Ron and he leaves Veronica and their son Walter (Nelson). He languishes back home in San Diego until he is approached with an offer to work at GNN, the world's first 24 hour news channel which is being fronted by an Australian billionaire named Kench Allenby (Lawson).First however he'll have to reassemble the old Channel 4 news team. Sportscaster Champ Kind (Koechner) owns a fried chicken franchise that uses a cut-rate meat that isn't chicken to skimp on expenses. Reporter Brian Fantana (Rudd) is considerably more successful as a photographer of cats. Sadly, Brick Tamland (Carell) is dead except he isn't as he shows up to his own funeral. Of course, there is a school of thought that Brick was scared all along.
Once in New York, Ron and his team are assigned to the graveyard ship while arrogant Chicago anchor Jack Lime (Marsden) gets the primetime spot. Jack taunts Ron and his team and as a result Ron bets Jack that he'll get higher ratings. Jack, knowing it's a slam dunk, agrees.
The news team are desperate. There's no way they can beat Jack Lime; even if Jack has nothing important to report he'll still kick their butts by virtue of the timeslot he has. Then Ron has an epiphany; rather than telling people what they need to know, why not tell them what they want to hear? The concept turns out to be a huge success and broadcast news will never be the same. Ron's attempts to reconcile with Veronica fall flat – she's dating a psychologist (Kinnear). Ron's boss, Linda Jackson (Good) takes a rather aggressive interest in him and the two start dating, if you can call lots and lots of casual sex dating.
But those who ride high fall further and Ron's ego, never a small thing, is inflated beyond tolerance. However a tragedy will strike that will be the biggest obstacle Ron has ever had to face in his career. Can he do it and can he make it up to those he has wronged around him?
I had high hopes for this movie, being a big fan of the original Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. However this doesn't even get close to measuring up to that movie. The jokes are for the most part old and make you feel uncomfortable more than laughing and most of the best jokes are outgrowths from the first movie (like the news team rumble). I'm not the most politically correct person in the world but I guess I don't find sexism and racism real funny, even if you're making the person with those sentiments look ignorant.
The first film had more cohesion while the sequel seems to be more of a series of gags strung together in a rough storyline. I don't think I've ever seen a film that tried so hard to be funny. The first film didn't have to try.
While I like the characters from the first film and the chemistry they possessed, they seem kind of tired and stale here and there doesn't seem to have been much – if any – further development except that Brick develops a romance from fellow eccentric Chani (Wiig).
Maybe my problem is more that while the first movie had some heart and soul, this one seems to be talking down to us more – as if they realize that the first movie was a comedy classic so they don't have to try at all here and anything these characters do and say is funny so laugh if you want to be cool. The vibe here just was unpleasant and I came away wishing that I hadn't seen the film. It's almost bad enough to make me wish that I hadn't seen it because the first movie that I loved so much has been tarnished by this one.
REASONS TO GO: Some gags work.
REASONS TO STAY: Mostly unfunny. Feels recycled. Drags on too long.
FAMILY VALUES: Some drug use, a fair amount of foul language and some comic violence.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Paramount initially passed on a sequel, citing the budget being too much for them initially but then abruptly changed their minds. Will Ferrell announced the sequel was greenlit in character as Ron Burgundy on the Conan O'Brien show.
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Posted in New Releases	| Tagged 24 hour news, 80s, Adam McKay, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, Bill Kurtis, Christina Applegate, cinema, comedy, David Koechner, Dylan Baker, ego, Films, fluff, Fred Willard, fried chicken, Greg Kinnear, Harrison Ford, James Marsden, Josh Lawson, Kristen Wiig, Meagan Good, movies, New York City, news anchor, Paramount, Paul Rudd, reviews, San Diego, Steve Carell, Will Ferrell	| Leave a reply
Bruce Dern tries to ignore the nagging feeling that he isn't wearing any pants despite all evidence to the contrary.
(2013) Dramedy (Paramount Vantage) Will Forte, Bruce Dern, June Squibb, Stacey Keach, Bob Odenkirk, Mary Louise Wilson, Rance Howard, Devin Ratray, Tim Driscoll, Angela McEwan, Gelndora Stitt, Elizabeth Moore, Kevin Kunkel, Dennis McCoig, Ronald Vosta, Missy Doty, John Reynolds, Jeffrey Yosten, Neal Freudenburg, Eula Freudenburg, Melinda Simonsen. Directed by Alexander Payne
As men grow older their relationships with their fathers change. Whereas young men lean on their fathers, one day we wake up and they are leaning on us. We go from being the children to being the parents in a lot of ways. Whether or not they were fathers of the year or if their parenting was something we endured and survived, deep at the core of our beings they are always our fathers and occupy that role for good or ill.
Woody Grant (Dern) is a stubborn old man. He's got it in his craw that he's won a million dollars in a sweepstakes and that he has to get to Lincoln, Nebraska to claim it. The trouble is that he lives in Billings, Montana. One look at the letter he received tells everyone else that the whole thing is a scam but Woody refuses to listen. It just makes him want to hit the road more and if nobody will take him, he'll walk there.
Woody wasn't the greatest of fathers. He had a drinking problem – one that he refuses to acknowledge even to this day. Of course, if you were married to Kate (Squibb) you might do a lot of drinking too. She's shrill, crude and blunt to the point of cruelty. She has opinions about everybody, isn't afraid to voice them and generally those opinions aren't too complimentary.
Kate and Woody have two sons – Ross (Odenkirk) whose TV news career is just starting to take off, and David (Forte) who sells high end stereos and speakers. David is one of those guys that life happens to rather than life actually happening. His girlfriend of four years who he has been living with is moving out because David can't be sure that she's the One. And with all of his dad's antics, he finally gets fed up. If his Dad has to go to Lincoln, best to take him there so that everyone else in the family can have peace and quiet.
Of course Kate thinks it's a stupid idea and of course she says so but David is adamant so he sets out on the road with his father. They get waylaid when Woody stumbles during a late night drunken walk and opens a gash on his forehead, necessitating that he be kept in a hospital overnight. That means they won't be making it to Lincoln during office hours of the sweepstakes company so David decides to visit Hawthorne, Nebraska where Woody grew up and where much of his family still lives .
There Woody begins to reconnect to figures from his past, chiefly Ed Pegram (Keach) with whom he once owned an auto repair business and whose relationship has some contentious elements. Kate decides to take the bus down there and join them for what is turning out to be a bit of a family reunion and everyone there is under the impression that Woody is a millionaire, despite David's admonition not to tell anyone. That changes the way everyone looks at him – suddenly Woody is in the limelight, and he doesn't mind it one bit.
Still, old girlfriends, old misdeeds and old family rivalries begin to resurface and over all of it hovers the biggest question of all – is the million dollar win legitimate or not?
Payne has become a really fine director with Sideways, About Schmidt and The Descendents among others to his credit. In many ways he is the successor to the Coen Brothers; he has some similar quirks in terms of his sense of humor and a kind of Midwestern earthiness that has a lot to do with his own upbringing in Nebraska (the Coens were brought up in Minnesota). His films have a kind of prairie sensibility.
It doesn't hurt that he has assembled a fine cast. Dern, a long-time character actor who has had flings with leading roles since the 60s delivers what may well be the finest performance of his career. Woody is a very layered character who isn't always very nice and doesn't always do the right thing – in fact it is a somewhat rare occurrence when he does. Still, despite the dementia, despite the drinking and despite the foolish stubbornness, he is ultimately very relatable on different levels depending on where you are in life. You can't ask for more than that from an actor.
Squibb is also getting a good deal of Oscar buzz for her performance. It is certainly the role of a lifetime for her. Some critics have cringed at her scene in which Kate, while in a graveyard paying respects to Woody's kin comes across the grave of an old would-be lover who never sealed the deal. With almost demonic glee she lifts up her dress to show the ghost of her paramour what he had missed. Personally I found it life-affirming and if it is a little shocking, so what? Why do seniors have to conform to a set of behavior anyway? They are quite capable of being raunchy and sexual. It's not like they didn't have sex when they were younger. I'm quite certain they were having plenty of it before marriage back then too.
Editorializing aside, Squibb does a marvelous job and her role is as memorable as it gets. It was extremely telling to me that in a scene late in the movie when Kate is leaving Woody's bedside she bestows on him a surprising gentle kiss that shows that with all the caustic remarks and cruel jibes there is still deep feeling for her man. It's one of those rare grace notes that indicate that the filmmaker gets it.
Forte has little to do besides react to his parents and their relations but he is solid here. There are plenty of supporting characters besides Keach who contribute to the occasional surreal zaniness or to the pathos of the film, like an ex-girlfriend (McEwan) of Woody's who watches him drive by in a truck and the wistful could-have-been expression on her face is priceless.
While the movie isn't for everyone, I think that lovers of good, independent cinema will flock to this. Payne is a legitimate talent who I think at this point has to be considered among the best filmmakers in the business. He's a filmmaker like Scorsese, the Coen Brothers and Spielberg whose films I will go see just because of the name on the back of the directors chair.
REASONS TO GO: Dry and occasionally hysterically funny. Quirky in a good way. Amazing performances by Dern and Squibb.
REASONS TO STAY: A little too much elderly as eccentric crazies syndrome.
FAMILY VALUES: Some foul language here and there.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: This is the fourth film Payne has directed to be set in his home state of Nebraska; it is also the first film he's directed for whic87+*h he didn't also write the screenplay.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
NEXT: The Son of the Olive Merchant
Posted in New Releases	| Tagged alcoholism, Alexander Payne, Billings, Bob Odenkirk, Bruce Dern, cinema, dementia, Devin Ratray, dramedy, family reunion, father-son relationship, Films, June Squibb, Lincoln, Montana, movies, Nebraska, news anchor, obsession, Paramount Vantage, Rance Howard, reviews, robbery, Stacey Keach, stereo salesman, stubborn, sweepstakes winner, tavern, Will Forte	| Leave a reply


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Ex-UN Syria Envoy Staffan de Mistura Quit to 'Avoid Shaking Assad's Hand'
Thursday November 7th, 2019 by AL-ARABY AL-JADEED (London-based pan-Arab newspaper)
In 2014, de Mistura became the third UN diplomat tasked with ending the Syria war which erupted in 2011, before leaving his post last year writes Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
The former UN special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said he quit his position last year to avoid shaking Syrian regime pPresident Bashar al-Assad's hand.
In 2014, de Mistura became the third UN diplomat tasked with ending the Syria war which erupted in 2011, before leaving his post last year.
Speaking in the UK on Monday at the Aga Khan Centre in London, de Mistura lamblasted a deal reached between the US and Russia in 2016 before the presidential election, which fell apart after the regime attacked a UN aid convoy killing more than 20 people.
He said the Russians had wanted the deal because they thought Hillary Clinton would become US president, but it fell apart due to "spoiling events".
"Why did I leave last year? Well, officially, for personal reasons," he said, according to The Guardian.
"Unofficially, because I felt the war territorially was leading to an end and having really fought against what happened in Aleppo, in Idlib, in Daraya, I could not be the one that is shaking Assad's hand and saying malesh [Arabic for don't worry]," he added.
De Mistura said he had not followed a script for the "perfect mediator" as he had condemned war crimes by both sides, angering the regime and opposition forces.
"I could not shave myself in the morning saying 'malesh'. But wars are won and lost and this one territorially has been lost."
Interventions by the United Nations, such as aid convoys, and his own personal condemnation of the destruction of Aleppo may have saved up to 700,000, he added.
The former Syrian envoy also said that the failure of the European Union to address the Syrian war and the waves of refugees enabled the UK's Brexit vote in 2016.
Norwegian diplomat Geir Pedersen replaced de Mistura.
Around 500,000 people have lost their lives in the Syrian war – the vast majority civilians killed by regime and Russian bombing or shelling – while more than half of Syria's population have been made homeless.
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Uduaghan's "Valentine Day" Gift To S'Eagles
Posted on : February 16, 2013 By Blank NEWS Online
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Saint Valentine is a widely recognized third century Roman saint commemorated on February 14 each year and associated with a tradition of courtly love, since the High Middle Ages. Although he died in 269 AD, Saint Valentine's Day is still observed and celebrated in many countries around the world.
In Delta state, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan on Thursday (Valentine) night made members of the Super Eagles proud of their Nations Cup effort when he organized a befitting reception for them and also rewarded them with mouth-watering cash gifts.
On behalf of the Super Eagles, Coach Stephen Keshi and the players who left Asaba walking taller than their heights confessed: "I have really lost words to describe all these. I thank God for making me a Nigerian from Delta State. What can I do and how do I say thank you? The best way to thank you is to pray for you every day of my life," Keshi told Dr. Uduaghan.
For Uduaghan who also invited top musicians and comedians to entertain, "Sports is one of the areas we want to develop and which we hope can help sustain our economy beyond the oil time."
Deltans thronged into the Dome (Event Centre), venue of the reception, to honour the Eagles. The special visitors were greatly entertained. It was a night of laughter, music and celebration of the Nations Cup heroes. In the hall were, interestingly, some of the past heroes of Nigerian football who are of Delta origin.
They include George Ogawon, the first university graduate to play for the Eagles, Jossy Dombraye, Godwin Etemike, Owolu, Ebuwan Didiare as well as Austin Jay Kay Okocha.
Uduaghan, while calling on the sports heroes to mentor the younger ones, said the plan is to get more people into sports and also develop the industry by re-naming of the Asaba Township Stadium as Stephen Keshi Stadium on Thursday, February 14, 2012.
The elated Governor Uduaghan gave out mouth-watering cash gifts to the coach and players, as Keshi got N8 million, a plot of land in Asaba with a pledge to build a duplex on the land.
The four assistant coaches got N4 million each, while each player was given N2.5 million each. In addition, each past and present player in the winning team received N2.5 million with players (Fegor Ogude, Elderson Echiejile and Ambrose Efe) of Delta State origin getting extra N2.5 million.
The Super Eagles Supporters Club received N3 million while the State-funded Warri Wolves Football Club got N5 million for contributing players to the national team. Sunday Mba, Chigozie Agbim and Azubuike Egwuekwe are all Warri Wolves players. Nosa Igiebor, Fegor Ogude and Ambrose Efe all played for Warri Wolves before they left for Europe.
Nigeria's notable artistes, Panshak Zamani (Ice Prince), Delta born Sidney Onoriode Esiri (Dr SID) and stand-up comedians, including Ali Baba, I Go Die and others were among the retinue of entertainers that thrilled the victorious Super Eagles at the state banquet organised by the Delta state government at the Event Centre, Asaba.
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VR Holdings, Inc. - FORM 10-Q/A - November 1, 2011
EX-32.1 - CERTIFICATION - VR Holdings, Inc. ex321.htm
FORM 10-Q/A
Amendment No. 2
[X] Quarterly report under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 For the quarterly period ended June, 30, 2011
[ ] Transition report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Commission File No. 333-166884
VR HOLDINGS, INC.
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)
1615 Chester Road, Chester, Maryland
(Address of principal executive offices)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirement for the past 90 days. Yes [X ] No [ ]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes [ ] No [ X ]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act (Check One):
Large accelerated filer [ ]
Accelerated filer [ ]
Non-accelerated filer [ ]
Smaller reporting company [X]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12(b)-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes [ X ] No [ ]
Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the registrant's classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date. At August 15, 2011, the registrant had outstanding 440,708,343 shares of common stock.
Financial Statements.
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.
Controls and Procedures.
Item 4(T).
Legal Proceedings.
Risk Factors.
Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.
Defaults Upon Senior Securities.
Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
Other Information.
Exhibits.
On August 22, 2011, we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June, 30, 2011. On August 29, 2011, we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q/A. Amendment No. 1, for the period ended June, 30, 2011, to include the Interactive Data Table exhibits with the amended filing. This Amendment No. 2 to our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q is being filed to clarify Note 5 in the financial statements contained in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and Part II, Item 1.
The filing of this Form 10-Q/A, Amendment No. 2, is not an admission that our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June, 30, 2011 when filed, knowingly included any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made therein not misleading.
Except as described herein, no other changes have been made to our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. We have not updated the disclosures in this Form 10-Q/A, Amendment No. 2, to speak as of a later date or to reflect events which occurred at a later date, except as noted.
PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Incorporated by reference from the registrant's report on Form 10-Q/A, Amendment No. 1, dated August 29, 2011, except for Note 5, below.
Note 5 – Litigation
On March 11, 2011, the Company filed a suit in Queen Anne's County, Maryland against Marshall & Ilsley Trust Company and Venable L.L.P. for alleged civil conspiracy beginning in 1998 and continuing through November 2010, at which time the alleged conspirators abandoned their efforts. Marshall & Ilsley allegedly participated with the two lenders to Winterland Concessions Company, a previous subsidiary. The civil conspiracy expanded to damages through additional causes being tortious aiding and abetting, breach of fiduciary duty, negligence, intentional misrepresentation, and negligent misrepresentation, resulting in damages to VR Holding's subsidiaries and approximately 2,500 parties in the amount of $1.6 billion plus punitive damages and legal fees.
On May 25, 2011, the Illinois State Appellate Court ruled in VR Holdings' favor in regards to The Cancer Foundation, Inc. v. Cerberus Capital Management, LP litigation stating that there were no res judicata or statute of limitations problems, and in addition, stated that "…the bankruptcy court in Maryland lacked jurisdiction to decide the contract claim at issue here." VR Holdings was advised that the defenses in the Maryland case were almost identical to the two items eliminated in the Illinois case. The same damages could not be collected twice. For that reason, and since Marshall & Ilsley is believed to be in financial difficulty, there was no reason to burden the court with this suit when a decision on the major defense issues were already ruled on in another suit and the Illinois decision questioned a Maryland court's authority. On advice of counsel, the case was withdrawn.
Incorporated by reference from the registrant's report on Form 10-Q/A, Amendment No. 1, dated August 29, 2011.
See Item 4(T) below.
PART II – OTHER INFORMATION
VR Holdings, Inc. v. Marshall & Ilsley Trust Company and Venable L.L.P.
On June 9, 2011, VR Holdings, Inc., pursuant to an agreement of all parties, dismissed with prejudice as to its refilling its lawsuit against Marshall & Ilsley Trust Company and Venable LLP in the matter of VR Holdings, Inc. v. Marshall & Ilsley Trust Company, et al., in Case No. 1:11-cv-01024-RDB, in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.
The Cancer Foundation, Inc. v. Cerberus Capital Management, LP
On May 25, 2011, a three-Judge panel of the Appellate Court of Illinois, First Judicial District, in a unanimous ruling, granted the appeal filed by MML, Inc. and Morton M. Lapides, Sr. The appellate court reversed the trial judge's dismissal of our case on res judicata grounds. In addition, the appellate court addressed the other grounds on which the Defendants Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., Madeleine, LLC and Gordon Brothers Group moved to dismiss the case and ruled that none of those grounds had legal merit. The appellate court held that Defendants "have not presented grounds for finding that the complaint fails to state a cause of action," reversed Judge Goldberg's dismissal, and remanded the case back to the trial court. The Defendants have not filed a motion asking the Appellate Court to reconsider its decision, nor have they sought leave to appeal the case to the Illinois Supreme Court. The matter has been sent back to the trial court and the trial court is expected to set a case schedule permitting the case to move forward.
Exhibit No.
Identification of Exhibit
31.1*
Certification of John E. Baker, Chief Executive Officer of VR Holdings, Inc., pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §1350, as adopted pursuant to §302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Certification of John E. Baker, Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer of VR Holdings, Inc., pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §1350, as adopted pursuant to §302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Filed herewith.
In accordance with Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Date: November 1, 2011.
By /s/ John E. Baker
John E. Baker, Chief Executive Officer
John E. Baker, Chief Financial Officer and
Principal Accounting Officer
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, this report has been signed by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
/s/ John E. Baker
Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer, and Director
VR Holdings, Inc. Page
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I still think Dutchy M2 has the best intro.
Seriously? Why even vote if you can't provide a 100% accurate vote since you haven't thought through the videos?
You're overestimating human memory; youtube them. They spent months creating their video entries, they deserve a few minutes of your time rewatching them before voting.
. FRAY had the demolished H3 levels and such, with the recurring 3D text animation and Inception trailer music. Michael Bay impressive, but not my fav.
. N&H had the nice music, text, logos, and then after the downbeat, nice Phurion Films 3D logo, Gunnar 3D logo, greyscalegorilla Neighbor and Hysteria text, then well-rendered tD logo and sniper/florescent lights.
. Shocktology 2 just had the film burn, tilting stuff. Not very impressive in my eyes.
I didnt vote for TD one because of i duno, the real life crap was technically part of the intro so that ruined it.
Last edited by JP Syke; 07-22-2010 at 11:05 PM.
Just a heads up: You only get to vote for 1 video during the sub-category voting since winner takes all.
When we do the brackets for Best Picture voting, you'll be able to vote for as many as you like since the top 4 or top 3 advance.


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Life comes at you fast. Sometimes, so do walls.
My boxing coach started worrying aloud the other day about the first woman in the class to break her nose during sparring. We've all been bruised in one way or another, but he's worried a broken nose will really scare us off.
I've been out from actual sparring class recently, thanks to my injury. So I didn't join in the usual verbal sparring we all like to do with our boxing coach. Because the truth is, I've already broken my nose.
I think I'm supposed to say I was lucky, in that the break just mostly flattened the bone, rather than offsetting it. But I won't say that.
I wish I could say I broke it in a cool, devilish way. But really the story is this: a very tall boy I knew was walking through a narrow hallway, waving his arms, and singing "Be Prepared," the Scar song from The Lion King (because sometimes life is truly more metaphorical and full of foreshadowing than you are ever allowed to do in art).
I thought I was prepared. I ducked under his arm as he flailed, expecting to be just clear of the path of his body. But I misjudged the length of his arms. And in an accident that can only be categorized as another metaphor for every interaction I had with this boy (but that's a tale for another day) I got a swift elbow to my eye and my face went crashing directly into a wall. My head split open, my nose busted, and there was blood everywhere.
I left a dent in the wall, by the way.
Yes, that's right. Not only do I have a scar from this truly ridiculous accident, but so too does the theater hallway wall (or did, they've probably patched it over by now).
Did I mention that I was calling all of the stagehand cues for a middle school show of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe? Lions are definitely a motif in this story.
Anyways, I laid on the lobby floor of the theater for a while, telling everyone I was totally fine, I was just a bit dizzy (pro tip: if you need to lay down on the floor to feel okay you are very likely not okay) until they convinced me to go to the nurse's office and get my forehead glued back together. She re-glued my forehead together about six times, worried that I would scar. That was honestly worse than the initial injury, because at least I had an adrenalin response to my face flying into a wall.
Life comes at you fast and sometimes the metaphors are painful.
This gets me back to the noses in a roundabout way. This idea of a good nose, an unbroken nose, an unblemished face. I have two scars on my face. One where I busted my lip at fifteen, and the other scar above my eyebrow where I busted my head open in the aforementioned affair. I've also got a flattened bit of bone on my nose where a nice little ridge that used to hold my glasses up was.
I've always liked these bits of my face. They're pieces of my life, strange stories that I've earned walking through this earth with a bit more carelessness and much more swagger than a girl is ever supposed to have.
I gave this to my character Sana Khan, mostly, but I thought about it with both her and Rachel Recht. About girls with swagger. About giving them faces with character and distinction. About how to describe a nose that is not a button nose, that is also not racially charged. Hooked has been taken out of contention entirely. I went with sloping and occasionally elegant. Because I want to reclaim the idea of what is an acceptable face, an acceptable nose, and what isn't.
So much of our perception of acceptability are shaped by notions of WASPy looks. So much of our notions of acceptability as women hinge on beauty, on presenting as pretty, as contorting our bodies into a space that is distinctly singular in this notion of pretty.
Throughout Tell Me How You Really Feel, I tried to work through this. What does it mean to pay the tax of pretty in a female body? What does it mean to be a female filmmaker looking at other women with what is a potentially trained male gaze? What does it mean to carry the nose of your people on your face-- to have your lineage so distinctly written across your features? Why do we not see button noses as a kind of lineage, as also distinctly written across a face?
I don't know if I got to the bottom of those questions. Maybe it was important that I just started asking them. That I started making the problems in my head visible to other people in a fictional space.
Anyways, this is all to say-- if someone is singing "Be Prepared" nearby, you better be fucking prepared. And also, particularly as a glasses wearer, I really miss that bump on my nose.
I've been thinking about my year. How to sum it up. How to make a list of what I've done, what I've accomplished. What I've read, what I've learned.
But I cannot.
Or maybe, I just don't want to. I do have something of a rebellious streak. In any case, 2018 has been a strange, wild, and surreal ride from start to finish. And I've never been someone who was able to process my reaction to anything quickly, particularly not a phase of my life so filled with learning and growing.
Maybe I'll have a better handle on my year at the end of 2019. I don't know. Instead, I will sign this off with a wish for a New Year that wipes clean what is necessary for you to let go of and holds fast to what you really need for your next orbit on this spaceship earth.
Stay away from boys who flail their elbows and never forget to celebrate Rex Manning Day. I'll catch y'all in the New Year 😘
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I resisted this book for so long. I think I always resist books about white people coming to and appreciating my religion. I think the marketing is always done in a way that makes it seem like this is the only way to have a valid religion. It's an unfortunate side effect, I think, of selling a book, but particularly a book about self and faith and questions and God. Anyways, here I am, diving in. I'll let you know how it goes.
A weird, riotous delight of a film. A movie that takes female competition at its best, rather than at its most clichéd and sexist.
But then again, the female rivals are lovers, despite the marketing telling you otherwise. This is a love triangle with three women and a seat of crumbling power. The men exist to be pretty in the background, and the whole film has director Lanthimos's love of the absurd threaded through in the best and most uncomfortable of ways.
I told y'all that I loved Rosamund Pike narrating Pride and Prejudice and none of y'all told me that she also narrated SENSE AND SENSIBILITY. I'm not sure if we're on speaking terms anymore.
Anyways, Rosamund Pike is equally delightful narrating a much more complicated work of Austen's. Can she recite them all now, please?
"Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It's vulnerability that breeds with self- doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear."
--Michelle Obama, Becoming
Zan Romanoff is the author of Grace and the Fever, A Song To Take The World Apart, and the upcoming Look. She also writes a pretty rad newsletter. She's the kind of person who doesn't simply invite you to a yoga class. She tells you the best teachers to go to, the way she likes to get there, and the street where you can easily find free parking.
For those of you that don't live in a city where people are constantly fighting for space-- in Los Angeles that's particularly a space to put your car-- there ought to be a word for this specific kind of generosity. A word that make you understand that someone is generous in a way that is both everyday but also luxurious. Parking, after all, is the kind of daily premium that you pay to live in LA and it adds up pretty quickly.
Anyways, Zan's books are a revelation. A slow, beautiful burn. Lyrical and everyday. About celebrity and gossip and conspiracy but also teenage suburban girls. Myths and obsession. Love stories that aren't quite love stories. That everyday and luxurious generosity Zan exhibits in her life comes through in her writing, in the way she sees and describes the city of Los Angeles. in the way she approaches teenage girls, particularly messy teenage girls (aka my favorite kind). I have a particular soft spot for Grace and the Fever, which you can pick up on Amazon or your local indie.
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The ETS intercity makes life easy for those who have to travel to Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur and Seremban regularly.
The ETS (which stands for Electric Train Services) intercity is another indication that Malaysians love travelling by train.
Since its launch on August 12, this year more and more people are catching the train to Ipoh-Kuala Lumpur-Seremban.
That is the observation of an Ipoh-based KTM employee who declined to be named.
The Kuala Lumpur-Ipoh service is popular with professionals especially lawyers, he says.
They get on the early morning train from Kuala Lumpur and arrive in Ipoh in time for their court cases, he adds.
Some Ipoh residents who work in Kuala Lumpur are contemplating commuting between their hometown and Malaysia's capital city.
The seats are comfortable and there is legroom in the front of the seat.
I took the ETS from Kuala Lumpur to Ipoh recently and understood instantly why my relatives and friends are passionate about it.
"Speed, comfort and convenience" are among the reasons enthusiasts offer. And I agree with them.
I boarded the train at 8.30am, fell asleep almost immediately and woke up at Tapah Road, the fourth stop before my final destination -- Ipoh.
From Tapah Road the train snaked its way through the track to Ipoh Railway Station and the time on my watch was 10.45am.
I gave an ecstatic sigh of happiness.
The journey time was two hours and 15 minutes on the transit train. The express service would be shorter by some 20 minutes.
I said goodbye to bus trips -- which are longer and do not have door-to-door convenience -- to Ipoh, my hometown.
I got off the train and in less than 30 minutes by taxi I was at my sister's home.
Passengers get off the train at Ipoh Railway Station.
If train journey is under-appreciated in Malaysia it is because people are fed up with old, slow trains which show no signs of retiring.
Those in a hurry, however, find the ETS intercity enticing.
The introductory rail fare of RM 30 (Kuala Lumpur to Ipoh) may put some people off but that is nothing if you hanker for "speed, comfort and convenience".
And yet a train ride can even be a vacation in itself particularly over longer distances.
That was how I felt when I got the train to Ipoh.
Okay, so I slept right through (almost) the journey but that did not lessen the excitement.
There are plans to extend the service to Malacca, Johor Bahru and Singapore for the future.
I hope that would be sooner rather than later.
Train travel is attractive in an old-fashioned way.
Writers have written about it and Paul Theroux's Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China comes to my mind.
Your experience on the ETS intercity may not be as dramatic as Theroux's adventures in China but you can still read, play cards, enjoy the greenery passing by or simply doze off.
High-tech trippers will have their iPods and laptops.
There are compelling reasons -- eco-friendliness, comfort and convenience, to name but a few -- to hop on the next train to Ipoh, Kuala lumpur or Seremban.
Student Izzati Johari says the ETS intercity is the most suitable mode of transport for her.


It wouldn't be Tokyo Game Show for me without a new EDF trailer. It just wouldn't! We've got four and a half minutes of footage from Sandlot's latest entry, Earth Defense Force 5, and it's a hoot.
The battle scene at 2:35 with the hulking humanoid invaders really sealed the deal for me, to say nothing of the Gigantic Unloader Barga mech repeatedly clocking a kaiju in the face at 3:40.
Will I grow tired of blasting the (mostly) same old insects? Not anytime soon! Which is good, because on top of EDF5, there's also Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain in the pipeline for next year.


Getting to Amritsar from the airport is easiest by taxis, which are readily available from the city side of the Arrivals area. The nearest bus station is 8 miles (13km) from the airport, and there is no bus service from the airport. There is a free shuttle to the Golden Temple, and many hotels in the area operate airport shuttle services.
Amritsar Airport Taxis: the taxi fares above are intended as a guideline only.
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