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New Breed of Cat:
Clones to Make Debut at Annual Show
By JAMES BARRON
A certain long-running musical had lots of singable names for the animals that purr and meow: practical cats, dramatical cats, pragmatical cats, fanatical cats. Oratorical cats, Delphic oracle cats, skeptical cats, dyspeptical cats. Political cats, hypocritical cats, clerical cats, hysterical cats. Cynical cats, rabbinical cats.
There were no cloned cats in "Cats." But yesterday, two of them landed in New York in preparation for what the people traveling with them said would be the first display of cloned kittens at the annual cat show at Madison Square Garden, which begins tomorrow.
Actually, the two kittens and the donor cat landed in Teterboro, N.J., in a chartered jet. Then, like celebrities, they were driven to Midtown Manhattan in a limousine.
Of course they had an entourage. It included executives of the California company that brought them into being, a company whose name is likely to prompt pun haters to caterwaul: Genetic Savings & Clone.
The two cloned cats are named Tabouli and Baba Ganoush. They are 4 months old. They are genetic duplicates of Tahini, a female Bengal cat who made the trip with them, but in a separate carrier. The two clones were carried by different mothers - one a tortoiseshell, the other a Lynx Point (a breed many cat lovers call a color point Siamese).
Lou Hawthorne, the chief executive of Genetic Savings, said Tabouli had "this health issue" - conjunctivitis, a malady also known as pinkeye, which is being treated with antibiotics. He did not want Tabouli's face photographed, even though, from across a crowded hotel room, Tabouli's eye did not look as bad as if, say, Baba Ganoush had taken a hard swipe at her.
They appeared as playful as any two kittens who had just endured a long airplane flight and were now exploring a strange place. Tabouli sniffed the bed and seemed fascinated by a photographer's camera. Baba Ganoush chased a toy that looked like a tiger's tail when Pam DelaBar, the president of the Cat Fanciers' Association, dangled it in front of her.
Mr. Hawthorne sprawled on the bed with the two cats. He said the company had several "pregnancies in progress" and talked about Peaches, the 8-week-old clone of Mango, an orange cat that belongs to Leslie Ungerer, the animal handler who was keeping watch on Tabouli and Baba Ganoush. Mr. Hawthorne said the company would deliver five cloned cats in the next few months.
Mr. Hawthorne said the idea for Genetic Savings began with - horrors - a dog. He said he was having breakfast with a friend in 1997, after Dolly the sheep had been cloned. "His dog Missy, a great dog, was under the table at that moment, and he said, 'You know, we ought to clone Missy.' ''
It turned out that cloning a dog is harder than cloning a cat, and after being deluged with cat owners wanting exact copies of Tigger or Muffie, the company financed a grant to Texas A&M University. A cloned cat called Cc - the abbreviation for carbon copy, pronounced "see-see" - was born there in December 2001.
Everything has a price. Genetic Savings & Clone charges $50,000 for a cloned cat and $295 to $1,395 to store a cat's genetic material.
And the Missy clone? Missy - three-quarters border collie and one-quarter Siberian husky - died in 2002. But the company has her genetic material in storage.
The Cat Fanciers' Association, which produces the annual cat show and maintains the world's largest registry of pedigreed cats, is setting up a gene bank with Genetic Savings.
Allen Scruggs, the show chairman, described the cat fanciers' group as "a very old and very conservative organization." He said its interest in cat cloning reflected its interest "in showing the world that we were not so stuffy and fuddy-duddy - that we were aware of what technology has presented the animal world."
"We had heard this discussed on and on and on," he said, "and it finally happened. There is huge interest in the cloning of cats."
Mr. Hawthorne said the bank would "rigorize the registration" of cats.
"Right now, when C.F.A. establishes a pedigree, that pedigree is based to some extent on honor and reputation, signatures on documents and so on," he said. "There's really no scientific backup that the claimed pedigree is the pedigree." The bank could provide that, he said, and could store cells for cloning as well.
So what about Tabouli and Baba Ganoush? He said he had intended to adopt Tabouli, but his sister pre-empted him and adopted both cloned cats.
"It's really fun to see how much personality they have," he said. "I like seeing the personality similarities as well as the differences. We've been hearing critics say for years, 'There won't be any personality similarities, and they won't even look that much alike.' We've seen how much they look alike, and we've seen dramatic personality similarities. We've seen some differences as well. It's something to reflect on. If you have it right in front of you, it's like having a nature-nurture experiment right in your living room."
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Marie's Golden Cue
by J.H. Palmer
Chicago, Brooklyn 11215
Neighborhood: All Over, Brooklyn
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A couple Sundays ago my husband and I played pool, something I haven't done in years. I'd been invited to an appreciation party for volunteers of the Old Town School of Folk Music, a Chicago institution that recently celebrated it's 50th anniversary. I've never attended an OTSFM volunteer party, but this one took place about two blocks from my house, in an old pool hall named Marie's Golden Cue. I've been a volunteer at Old Town for about 3 years off and on, depending on how busy I am at work and how high my tolerance for crowds and strangers is. I'm a secret agorophobe, so having to help strangers find their seat in a concert hall or selling artist merchandise to crowds of people waving twenty dollar bills at me can sometimes be terrifying. On the other hand I'm also a secret extrovert; I sometimes like to pretend that I'm in a rock and roll band, and I enjoy the questionable authority that comes from wearing a name tag that says "Volunteer."
Volunteering at Old Town, besides being a nice thing to do for a great institution, has its benefits. If you volunteer at a concert, you get to see most of it for free. I was introduced to the music of Alejandro Escovedo through volunteering a couple years ago, and I got to see Tinariwen and Mamadou Diabate last fall, which was amazing.
There's also a system of points that you earn through volunteering, and after accumulating enough you can register for a free class, I've taken a few guitar and dance classes this way. Volunteering can be fun – if you're at the right concert, and work with a good group of volunteers, it's not a bad way to spend an evening. It can also be quite taxing, as I discovered when I made the mistake of volunteering for teen open mic night. I spent the evening sitting at a card table next to an angry, barrel shaped man who yelled at the kids like they were delinquents. I kept my nose in a book to avoid conversation, but he wanted to know what I was reading – The Story of French, a fascinating book by Jean Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow, but just knowing the title wasn't enough. The angry man gave me his opinion of the French judicial system, denounced the Napoleonic code as barbaric, and put me on the defensive for a civil code that was written a hundred and sixty seven years before I was born, in a country that I've never lived in. I went home exhausted. I'm pretty sure that was the last time I volunteered at Old Town.
My only experience of Marie's Golden Cue up to now had been as my polling place, I've cast my vote within its walls in every election since I moved to this neighborhood, and it tickles me that the site of my civic duty occasionally sports lettering on their 1950s era astro style marquee sign spelling out things like "we have the strongest shafts and the smoothest balls."
Marie's Golden Cue is located in a 1930s deco storefront with white glossy terra cotta tiles. Across the street is a funeral home, and one door over is the El Gallo Carniceria y Fruteria, and the Clothespin Laundromat bearing a sign that reads "Open at 6am only for you." Gentrification hasn't quite made it to this block of Chicago, although it has touched just a few blocks north in the form of Starbucks, and in the countless condos that have sprung up in recent years. The picture window is hand-painted with the words "Cue Stick Repair Shop, Professional Workmanship," and if pool isn't your game, there are a handful of video games and a coin operated claw machine at the front to keep you busy.
Although Chicago is now officially smoke free, there's plenty of evidence of Marie's smoky past – beneath the rails of each of her 20 Brunswick pool tables are dark burn marks from cigarettes smoked long ago. I took a moment to read the signage on the walls, and there was plenty of it; fading signs written in pre-Helvetica script with directives like "Masse shots are not allowed," "rule of the house – keep your butt and your butts off the table," and "I once gave up pool, it was the most terrifying weekend of my life."
The front desk featured a hot dog spit slowly spinning three wrinkled franks; it was the most well lit object in the whole place. The spinning mechanism moved in starts, resting every few seconds, then soldiering on for another cycle. Behind the desk and out of reach on a back shelf were boxes of instant ramen noodles in Styrofoam bowls. Like the rest of the house, there was plenty of signage. A caricature of a chef beamed next to one that read "Snack Bar Special #1 – 2 Hot Dogs, Chips, Sm. Drink $4.50 plus tax." The price had been written in black marker on a sheet of 8×10 paper and taped over the original price. There was also a Snack Bar Special #2, which advertised "Polish Sausage, Chips, Sm. Drink $4.25 plus tax."
My fellow volunteers were scattered about the room, some huddled against the wall in observation, others enjoying a slice of free pizza and a dixie cup of soda near the video games, and some playing lighthearted games of pool with each other. My husband picked up a rack from the front desk, brought a couple of cue sticks down from the wall, and someone at the front desk flipped a switch that lit up our table.
My husband set up the balls and made the break. It had been a while since either of us had played, so it took a few turns before either of us sank one; he took stripes, I had solids. Leaning over the table to get my shot I was transported to a different game played years ago, in a pool hall on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. I don't remember how old I was exactly – nineteen, maybe twenty, and I was home for the summer. It had been a few years since I'd lived in Brooklyn, my mother and I had moved to Pelham – a suburb just north of the Bronx, right after I finished junior high because my mother was engaged to a widowed Catholic man who she met at work, and he lived in Pelham with his four children. We moved to a nondescript two bedroom apartment on the other side of town rather than move into his house – he didn't want to live with my mother before they were married. They broke it off before the end of the school year, but we couldn't move back right away because my mother had rented out the brownstone in Brooklyn, so I left home and went to boarding school in Poughkeepsie for the remainder of high school.
Ninth grade is a fragile time to move, and I lost touch with everyone I'd known in Brooklyn. We moved just a few miles away, but may as well have moved across the country. My mother recently sent me a few boxes of my old things, and I found an autograph book with signatures of classmates from the end of junior high at I.S. 88.
"To J," one begins, "I really had some fun with you, don't tell my mom. Do not allow weeds to grow on the road to friendship. I love you. Love, Gabby 24 E. 2nd St." Folded in half along the crease of the page is a late pass dated 6-20-85 for Gabriella Napolitano, she was late for Mr. Neilson's language arts class. Everything on the slip is written in pencil, in Gabby's handwriting, except for the time – 9:32 am, written in ink in Mr. Neilson's handwriting.
There are signatures of the popular girls I idolized – the two Francescas, Amanda, and Abby – whose real name was Almond. Someone named Simon wrote "I already wrote something in the other one," and Adam Ableman wrote "I hope you have a dandy time in Pelham with all them goyem."
My best friend Anna wrote "Dear J, Well it's been 4 years that we've known each other. God! Now we're both going to H.S. It's going to be hard for the both of us regardless of what town we're in. But look at the good side – no more Mr. Ashkar or Mme. Winkler! Yeah! So let's keep in touch. Love, Anna." In the corner in all caps she wrote "ONLY WIERDOS READ CORNERS." We'd first met in the fourth grade at the local temple's after school gymnastics program, we were both latchkey kids and needed a place to go after school before our mothers came home from work.
By the seventh grade she'd blossomed into the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen in real life. While I had become more awkward over time – I'd gotten a pair of pink plastic framed glasses in the fifth grade, and braces in the sixth – she'd become lithe and elegant. She went to modeling classes where an instructor taught her how to tweeze her eyebrows, started wearing makeup to school and blow drying her dark blonde hair. I felt possessive of her, and intensely jealous as all the boys who'd previously ignored us flocked to her, almost helplessly, while I remained in the background with my mass of frizzy hair and lack of social skills. I wasn't with her when the photographer took pictures for her portfolio; I only saw the slides later. Here, a picture of Anna posing coyly on a park bench, there a picture of Anna leaning against a tree. When I saw her kissing Nico outside the candy store on 16th street where we played Pac-man and hung out after school, it was as if I'd been stung by an electric eel. Nico was my lab science partner, and I'd developed a monster crush on him. With tears in my eyes I asked Anna why she'd kissed him – as if she could give me a reason that I'd find acceptable.
In the eighth grade she started dating Drew, a kid from the neighborhood. He was older than us, probably only by a couple years, but he seemed like a grown man to me. One night we all hung out in Prospect Park with two 40 ounce bottles of Olde English 800 that Anna and I had bought from a corner store, the clerk didn't even ask to see our I.D. Drew's friend Stan was there, and Anna had said that Stan liked me. Where Drew was tall and mysterious – a man of few words, Stan was a little thick around the middle, wore Cazal glasses like D.M.C., and talked a mile a minute. We drank too much, and Stan offered to walk me home. Anna took me aside and whispered:
"Don't let him take advantage of you!" She was kidding, but I was terrified. I'd never gotten drunk before, and had heard about boys who took advantage of situations like this. I practically ran home, looking over my shoulder every few paces to make sure I wasn't being followed. When I got home I threw up, lay down on my bed, and watched the ceiling spin until I fell asleep. A few months later my mother and I moved to Pelham.
The summer when I came back, I ran into them again – Anna, Drew, and Stan. Anna and Drew weren't dating anymore, and the four of us began spending evenings on the stoop of my mother's brownstone. It was deep summer, too hot to stay inside. My bedroom was on the top floor of the house, and at night I'd put a fan in each window – one facing out, the other facing in, for maximum air flow, and took a quick shower to cool off before trying to sleep through the sticky Brooklyn night. Gradually it became clear that Drew had become interested in me. My years away had given me the advantage of disappearing for most of my awkward phase, and I had returned appearing more comfortable in my own skin. I wore contact lenses, the braces had been removed from my teeth, and I had figured out how to tame my frizzy hair.
One evening someone suggested a game of pool, so we all headed for Brownstone Billiards on the corner of Flatbush and 7th Avenue. Drew was wearing a purple silk shirt that made his plum black skin look iridescent under the streetlamps, and when he looked at me I felt like I'd been hit in the chest with a bb gun.
It was a weeknight, and not many tables were in use. I didn't know how to play, so Drew taught me how to line up a shot, standing close to me and reaching around my waist to adjust the cue stick in my hand.
"You gotta line up the shot," he said, his breath tickling my ear, "and then follow through." I was entranced.
It was still early when we finished playing, so we walked back to my mother's house and sat in the kitchen, sipped ginger ale, and traded stories. After a while Anna left, and then Stan, and it was just me and Drew. We talked, leaning forward on our elbows, faces getting ever closer.
"Can I kiss you?" Drew asked, looking right into my eyes. At nineteen years old I had kissed exactly four boys: Dan, the Jewish kid from the suburbs of Philadelphia who I met at summer camp; Paul, the boy from Pelham High School who tricked me into kissing him one day when he walked me home – I avoided him for the rest of the school year; Mick, the troubled kid who I met in upstate New York at a Quaker youth retreat; and Mark, my high school sweetheart, who was the most non-threatening boy you could ever hope for. Nothing in my life had prepared me for this moment.
"No," I said, surprising us both, "But ask me again sometime."
After that I got a job, so I couldn't hang out as much. I remained awkward, Drew remained mysterious, and eventually the summer ended.
Back at Marie's, I won a game and lost two. There were cardboard boxes full of t-shirts that had a drawing of a guitar and a banjo leaning against each other, and the word "Volunteer" printed in capital letters underneath; if you won a game, you got to take a t-shirt. My husband didn't want one but I did, so I sifted through the pile until I found one in my size in a mustard orange color. We left the pool hall, walked home in the unseasonably cool weather, and settled in for the evening.
J.H. Palmer is a secret writer who works an office job, and has lived in Chicago since 1992. She grew up in Park Slope in the 80s, and still gets into arguments over Chicago deep-dish vs. New York thin & foldable (she's on the side of thin & foldable). She comes back to New York as often as possible to get her pizza fix.
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BIG FAT SURPRISE
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The landmark book from New York Times-bestselling author Dr. Jason Fung, one of the world's leading experts on intermittent fasting for weight-loss and longevity, whose 5-step plan has helped thousands of people lose weight and achieve lasting health.
"Not only full of insights but also surprisingly funny. Read it to understand why the world became fat, how to reverse the epidemic--and how to stay thin yourself."
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Everything you believe about how to lose weight is wrong. Weight gain and obesity are driven by hormones--in everyone--and only by understanding the effects of insulin and insulin resistance can we achieve lasting weight loss.
In this highly readable and provocative book, Dr. Jason Fung sets out an original, robust theory of obesity that provides startling insights into proper nutrition. In addition to his five basic steps, a set of lifelong habits that will improve your health and control your insulin levels, Dr. Fung explains how to use intermittent fasting to break the cycle of insulin resistance and reach a healthy weight--for good.
Primal Fat Burner
Author of the popular Primal Body, Primal Mind and widely recognized Paleo expert and nutritionist, Nora Gedgaudas presents a revolutionary, scientific, accessible high-fat diet for maintaining health, losing weight, and reversing some chronic diseases.
Popular nutritionist Nora Gedgaudas returns with advice that may sound counterintuitive: Eat fat to burn fat. In her new book, Primal Fat Burner, she explains the benefits and science behind a ketogenic (or fat-burning) diet, which switches your metabolism from a dependence on sugar to running on healthy fats. As Gedgaudas reveals, numerous studies in recent years refute the long-promoted anti-saturated fat and anti-cholesterol agenda. Now, Gedgaudas explains the science that fat isn't a "no-no" but rather a "yes-yes"--if you know the right kinds of fats to eat. In her accessible, enjoyable style, she also lays out a practical meal plan with recipes. When you follow a ketogenic diet, you consume fewer calories overall!
Author of the bestselling Grain Brain, Dr. David Perlmutter writes in his foreword that Primal Fat Burner is, "Wonderfully actionable, compassionately taking the reader from 'why' to 'how.'" On this diet, you efficiently and effectively metabolize fat (ketones and free fatty acids) as your primary source of fuel, rather than glucose from carbs, starches, and sugars. Because fat is so satisfying, you naturally wind up eating less--without feelings of hunger or deprivation. And natural dietary fat is ultimately key to optimum health and longevity.
Gedgaudas communicates a real appreciation for and understanding of the central role that dietary fat plays in your body and brain, and explains how you can eat to feel better, look better, think clearer, and live longer.
Nora Gedgaudas
Real Food/Fake Food
"Olmsted makes you insanely hungry and steaming mad--a must-read for anyone who cares deeply about the safety of our food and the welfare of our planet." --Steven Raichlen, author of the Barbecue! Bible series
"The world is full of delicious, lovingly crafted foods that embody the terrain, weather, and culture of their origins. Unfortunately, it's also full of brazen impostors. In this entertaining and important book, Olmsted helps us fall in love with the real stuff and steer clear of the fraudsters." --Kirk Kardashian, author of Milk Money: Cash, Cows, and the Death of the American Dairy Farm
You've seen the headlines: Parmesan cheese made from wood pulp. Lobster rolls containing no lobster at all. Extra-virgin olive oil that isn't. So many fake foods are in our supermarkets, our restaurants, and our kitchen cabinets that it's hard to know what we're eating anymore. In Real Food / Fake Food, award-winning journalist Larry Olmsted convinces us why real food matters and empowers consumers to make smarter choices.
Olmsted brings readers into the unregulated food industry, revealing the shocking deception that extends from high-end foods like olive oil, wine, and Kobe beef to everyday staples such as coffee, honey, juice, and cheese. It's a massive bait and switch in which counterfeiting is rampant and in which the consumer ultimately pays the price.
But Olmsted does more than show us what foods to avoid. A bona fide gourmand, he travels to the sources of the real stuff to help us recognize what to look for, eat, and savor: genuine Parmigiano-Reggiano from Italy, fresh-caught grouper from Florida, authentic port from Portugal. Real foods that are grown, raised, produced, and prepared with care by masters of their craft. Part cautionary tale, part culinary crusade, Real Food / Fake Food is addictively readable, mouthwateringly enjoyable, and utterly relevant.
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Peter Stewart has undertaken some major surveys of local churches and churchyards. He has published these in a series of beautifully illustrated books. These include monumental inscriptions, burial registers and many other topics. We are pleased to make online versions of five of these books available to a wider audience.
We gratefully acknowledge the help of the Reverend Douglas Wilks in preparing the online versions of these books. Douglas is a member of the Jewellery Quarter Research Group.


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Hepatitis E Outbreak, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya, 2012
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To the Editor: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is transmitted through the fecal-oral route and is a common cause of viral hepatitis in developing countries. HEV outbreaks have been documented among forcibly displaced persons living in camps in East Africa, but for >10 years, no cases were documented among Somali refugees (1,2). On August 15, 2012, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Nairobi, Kenya, was notified of a cluster of acute jaundice syndrome (AJS) cases in refugee camps in Dadaab, Kenya. On September 5, a CDC epidemiologist assisted the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its partners in assessing AJS case-patients in the camp, enhancing surveillance, and improving medical management of case-patients. We present the epidemiologic and laboratory findings for the AJS cases (defined as acute onset of scleral icterus not due to another underlying condition) identified during this outbreak.
Dadaab refugee camp is located in eastern Kenya near the border with Somalia. It has existed since 1991 and is the largest refugee camp in the world. Dadaab is composed of 5 smaller camps: Dagahaley, Hagadera, Ifo, Ifo II, and Kambioos. As of December 2012, a total of 460,000 refugees, mainly Somalians, were living in the camps; >25% were recent arrivals displaced by the mid-2011 famine in the Horn of Africa (3). Overcrowding and poor sanitation have led to outbreaks of enteric diseases, including cholera and shigellosis (4); in September 2012, an outbreak of cholera occurred simultaneously with the AJS outbreak.
Figure. . Cases of acute jaundice syndrome, Dadaab, Kenya, July–November 2012. The arrow indicates the point at which outbreak control measures (e.g., construction of new latrines and hygiene messaging) were initiated by...
During July 2–November 30, 2012, a total of 339 AJS cases were reported from the camps and 2 nearby villages: 232 (68.4%) from Ifo II, 57 (16.8%) from Kambioos, 26 (7.7%) from Ifo, 12 (3.5%) from Dagahaley, 10 (3.0%) from Hagadera, and 1 each (0.6%) from the nearby Kenyan villages of Biyamadow and Darkanley. The epidemic curve of the outbreak is shown in the Figure.
Of the 339 AJS case-patients, 184 (54.3%) were female. The overall median age was 23.5 years (range 1 month−91 years). The median age among female and male residents was 24 years and 20 years, respectively. Among the 134 women of reproductive age (15−49 years), 72 (53.7%) reported being pregnant; the median gestational age was 17.4 weeks (range 8.7−35.3 weeks). Death was reported for 10 of the 339 case-patients (case-fatality ratio 2.9%), 9 of whom were postpartum mothers (case-fatality ratio 12.5%) and 1 a 2-year-old child.
Serum samples were obtained from 170 (50.1%) AJS case-patients for testing at the Kenya Medical Research Institute/CDC laboratories in Nairobi, Kenya. Of the 170 samples, 148 were tested for hepatitis E virus (HEV) IgM by using an ELISA (Diagnostic Systems, Saronno, Italy), and 93 were tested for HEV RNA by using the GeneAmp Gold RNA PCR Reagent Kit (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA). Of the 170 samples tested, 131 (77.1%) were positive for HEV IgM, HEV RNA, or both: 120 (81.1%) of 148 tested for HEV IgM and 48 (51.6%) of 93 tested for HEV RNA were positive. In response to the outbreak, UNHCR and partners initiated control measures, including training of health care workers, increasing community awareness, improving hygiene promotion activities, and hastening latrine construction.
The outbreak also affected refugee resettlement to the United States and other countries. At the onset of the outbreak, ≈100 Dadaab refugees per month were scheduled for US resettlement. The incubation period for HEV is 15–60 days (5); thus, there was concern that refugees could become ill in transit or within weeks of US resettlement. Acute HEV infection, including progression to fulminant hepatitis, had been reported among travelers returning from regions where the disease is endemic (6). As a precaution, the International Organization for Migration and CDC conducted heightened AJS surveillance during pre-departure and arrival health screenings. As of February 2013, no cases of AJS were reported among refugees from Dadaab who resettled in the United States.
Dadaab has faced grave insecurity: aid workers were abducted from the camp in late 2011, and Dadaab has experienced numerous blasts from explosive devices (7). Thus, UNHCR and CDC have been limited in their capacity to collect data and conduct a thorough outbreak investigation to identify risk factors. An earlier study in the Shebelle region of Somalia suggested an increased incidence of HEV during the rainy season and elevated risk for infection in villages dependent on river water (8). Further evaluation is needed to identify the risk factors for HEV transmission and HEV-associated deaths in this region, including the role of person-to-person transmission. UNHCR and CDC investigations of HEV outbreaks in refugee camps in southern Sudan may provide data to answer these questions.
HEV is believed to have infected humans for centuries (9); however, the reemergence of the disease in refugee camps is a major concern because of the difficulty in implementing effective preventive measures under camp conditions. Point-of-care tests will be useful for rapidly detecting outbreaks and could potentially save lives. The progress made in developing effective vaccines is encouraging (10). Once available, HEV vaccination should be prioritized in this population, especially for pregnant women.
All work related to this report was funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Jamal A. Ahmed , Edna Moturi, Paul Spiegel, Marian Schilperoord, Wagacha Burton, Nailah H. Kassim, Abdinoor Mohamed, Melvin Ochieng, Leonard Nderitu, Carlos Navarro-Colorado, Heather Burke, Susan Cookson, Thomas Handzel, Lilian W. Waiboci, Joel M. Montgomery, Eyasu Teshale, and Nina Marano
Author affiliations: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nairobi, Kenya (J.A. Ahmed, L.W. Waiboci, J.M. Montgomery, N. Marano); United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Nairobi (E. Moturi, W. Burton); United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva, Switzerland (P. Spiegel, M. Schilperoord); Kenya Red Cross, Nairobi (N.H. Kassim); Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi (A. Mohamed, M. Ochieng, L. Nderitu); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (C. Navarro-Colorado, H. Burke, S. Cookson, T. Handzel, E. Teshale)
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Тернер () — небольшой город (таун) в округе Андроскоггин, штат Мэн, США. Согласно данным переписи населения США 2010 года, население города составляет 5734 человека.

История
Поселение, из которого впоследствии вырос город, было основано в 1690 году на землях плантации Сильвестр и получило самоуправление 7 июля 1786 года.

География
Город находится в юго-западной части штата, на берегах реки , вблизи места впадения её в реку Андроскоггин, на расстоянии приблизительно 30 километров к западу-юго-западу (WSW) от Огасты, административного центра штата. Абсолютная высота — 90 метров над уровнем моря.
Согласно данным бюро переписи населения США, площадь территории города составляет 162,44 км², из которых, 153,48 км² приходится на сушу и 8,96 км² (то есть 5,5 %) на водную поверхность.
Климат Тернера влажный континентальный (Dfb в классификации климатов Кёппена), с морозной, снежной зимой и теплым летом.

Демография
По данным переписи населения 2010 года в Тернере проживало 5734 человека (2861 мужчина и 2873 женщины), 1641 семья, насчитывалось 2193 домашних хозяйства и 2481 единица жилого фонда. Средняя плотность населения составляла около 37,4 человека на один квадратный километр.
Расовый состав города по данным переписи распределился следующим образом: 96,77 % — белые, 0,45 % — афроамериканцы, 0,33 % — коренные жители США, 0,3 % — азиаты, 0,09 % — жители Гавайев или Океании, 0,94 % — представители других рас, 1,12 % — две и более расы. Число испаноязычных жителей любых рас составило 2,72 %.
Из 2193 домашних хозяйств в 34,7 % — воспитывали детей в возрасте до 18 лет, 60 % представляли собой совместно проживающие супружеские пары, в 9,5 % семей женщины проживали без мужей, в 5,3 % семей мужчины проживали без жён, 25,2 % не имели семьи. 18,5 % от общего числа семей на момент переписи жили самостоятельно, при этом 6,9 % составили одинокие пожилые люди в возрасте 65 лет и старше. Средний размер домашнего хозяйства составил 2,61 человека, а средний размер семьи — 2,94 человека.
Население города по возрастному диапазону по данным переписи 2010 года распределилось следующим образом: 24,3 % — жители младше 18 лет, 7,1 % — между 18 и 24 годами, 25 % — от 25 до 44 лет, 31,9 % — от 45 до 64 лет и 11,8 % — в возрасте 65 лет и старше. Средний возраст жителей составил 41,1 года.

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Setting the Course
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Johan Lundgren,
Deputy Chief Executive of TUI Travel PLC and member of its Mainstream Management Board. Following the merger Johan Lundgren will also be Deputy Chief Executive of the "new" TUI AG.
Oliver Dörschuck,
Chief Operating Officer, TUI Deutschland GmbH
Companies like their customers to be happy. But for TUI that is not enough: TUI wants to make customers happy, to delight them. Sounds like an advertising slogan – but the Group takes this aspiration very seriously, as we shall see by peeping behind the scenes of an ambitious project called "Customer Experience".
360 degrees: The CX project has brought together an international team of 24 TUI specialists seeking to optimise the customer experience before, during and after a holiday.
Every new beginning is magical, isn't it? Oliver Dörschuck grins at the question. He prefers "enthusiasm" to "magic", at least when he is talking about TUI's Customer Experience (CX) project, which he has been leading ever since it was set up in early 2014. There is certainly a good idea behind it – and a lot of work too. The project is part of the "one Mainstream" programme initiated by Johan Lundgren, Deputy Chief Executive of TUI Travel PLC and member of its Mainstream Management Board. That is gathering pace. "We have taken something that TUI has done effectively for a long time and we hope to place it on a new footing. We want to turn satisfied customers into unreservedly happy TUI fans," says Oliver Dörschuck. An ambitious objective defined by the 40-year-old manager from TUI Deutschland and his team of 24 colleagues from around the world. In the next few years he and many other Group employees will be implementing it stage by stage.
Make fans out of customers – a lot of companies would love to do that, but it isn't easy. "We will certainly have our work cut out," says Oliver Dörschuck. He doesn't look like the sort of person to be worried about that, more like an optimist embarking on a new venture. "A dose of the start-up spirit probably helps," he admits. "But we are not starting from scratch. There are so many things TUI already does really well. We aren't planning a revolution." The project is expected to propose a constructive mixture of innovation and continuity.
Stefanie Schulze zur Wiesch,
(co-)Lead Customer Experience Mainstream & Director Marketing, TUI Deutschland GmbH
How exactly will it work? The first step is for TUI to perform an analysis, carefully scrutinising everything customers do before, during and after a holiday. What they value, what they want, and how to eliminate any stumbling blocks, little or large, that can occasionally sour the holiday mood. Oliver Dörschuck's team, made up of experienced managers from all major Group operations, are currently taking a close look at TUI's value chain with a view to optimising it piece by piece: from the travel agencies, call centres and digital media, via the on-board flight experience and everything that happens at the destination – contact with the travel rep, accommodation in the hotel – to the return journey and arriving home. There has also been a detailed survey of TUI employees in destinations and very many customers, and from this the team can see the big picture of what people want where. All these impressions and ideas are being collected, evaluated and prioritised.
Effortless, consistent, committed
"Free wifi at all airports", "online hotel check-in" and "free water at arrival at destination": those are just three of the 70 ideas the CX team received from the survey. "Of course that can't all be implemented overnight, but our customers will start noticing the difference in summer 2015," says Stefanie Schulze zur Wiesch. The TUI manager works at Group headquarters in Hanover and she is Oliver Dörschuck's right-hand woman on CX matters. She is the person who pulls all the project threads together. "Our aims are clear-cut: TUI customers will soon be receiving individual information relevant to whatever stage of their holiday they are at, they will experience a consistently high level of service, and they will be able to contact TUI effortlessly by various channels of communication," says Stefanie Schulze zur Wiesch. TUI as a positive brand experience – always and everywhere.
For a clear view of exactly when during the holiday TUI customers pick up these "brand-building" impressions, the CX team is working on a kind of holiday script. It defines all the key stages a traveller goes through, such as the booking procedure before the trip, the hotel check-in or the flight home. "In a few situations we want to generate more happiness and enthusiasm. There may be other points where we could perhaps dispense with a service because customers don't need it, aren't asking for it and wouldn't pay for it," explains Stefanie Schulze zur Wiesch.
Feeling good about the world – happiness and enthusiasm – sometimes it only takes a little gesture to trigger these emotions: friendly, helpful bus drivers, for example, or that bottle of cool water placed in a hotel room to slake the traveller's thirst after a long journey.
Other tasks are trickier. On Crete, for instance, like at many other destinations, the airport is packed in summer. For a while now, TUI has offered customers upon request the chance to book an additional service in return for a small fee: access to a lounge. A freshly furnished oasis of tranquillity with plenty of seats, complementary drinks, biscuits, sandwiches and wifi. Guests can stay here until they board. They are collected in person by a TUI rep and taken straight to the plane, bypassing the queue. "There is big demand for it," says Stefanie Schulze zur Wiesch: "We feel sure that similar offers would work equally well at other busy airports."
TUI digital
One way to book features like the airport lounge leads us to the Internet. Most people have got used to regarding their smart phone and tablet as indispensable companions, especially when they are on holiday. So online services are an important key to giving TUI customers more spontaneous choice and information options. "That's why we are optimising and expanding the functionality of our TDA app, the TUI Digital Assistant," says John Boughton, a Director at TUI Travel in London and responsible on the CX project for mobile end device strategy. "Our customers are using the app more and more as their main tool for communicating with us."
»Our customers are using the app more and more as their main tool for communicating with us.«
John Boughton, Director of Mobile Strategy at TUI Travel PLC
This means customers can reach TUI at any time, by text or telephone, e-mail and social networks like Facebook or Twitter. At the same time, up-to-date information and service offerings can be integrated into the app in real time: a tip-off about an excellent little-known restaurant near the hotel, a note about when the yoga course starts tomorrow morning, or confirmation of the departure time and meeting-point for the airport transfer.
If travellers have a question, comment or even a problem, they only have to tap it into the TDA, no matter what time it is or where they are. TUI staff will answer within two hours – that is the target. If, for example, a holidaymaker in the Maldives suddenly decides it would be nice to take a boat trip the next morning, the travel rep can be contacted via the TDA and a ticket will be reserved – with just a few clicks of the finger and without anyone having to get out of their deckchair and leave the pool. And customers can use the TDA to save information too, so that it will be ready to hand next year, for instance, when they are looking for just the right holiday.
It all sounds simple and logical, but putting this into practice is tricky. After all, every TUI contact and service in the world needs to be migrated from different systems into one centralised, web-based databank. "The challenges relate to the different technical specifications that apply in different parts of the Group and to the data interfaces. Besides, we have to integrate six different languages. But we are making rapid progress," says John Boughton. "The TDA content and functionality are growing fast."
Mikael Ahlerup,
Director Destination Service and Customer Experience
There are lots of opportunities for using the TDA app and a smart phone to personalise a holiday with more ad hoc input. But the status of the human fac-tor is at least as important in the CX project. Mikael Ahlerup knows all about this. He is in charge of Destination Service and Customer Experience at TUI Nordic. His office is in downtown Stockholm, but the 52-year-old will not be found there very often. He spends much of his time travelling. He is observing and optimising, among other things, airport transfers, bicycle excursions and aqua fitness classes on Gran Canaria and in Turkey. He is also responsible for the know-how and concerns of the staff.
Good employees are TUI's biggest asset, Mikael Ahlerup firmly believes that. They guarantee those special encounters that people happily tell their friends about back home: the kind supervisors at the Kids Club, the friendly crew on the plane or the helpful service staff at the hotel. It gets even more exciting, from the Swede's perspective, when the CX project links these qualities to the untapped potential of the new communication media. "Just imagine," he says, gazing into the not too distant future: "On the plane a hostess accidentally spills a soft drink over your trousers. She uses her smart phone to send a message to your destination hotel and asks them to put a bowl of fruit in your room with a note saying 'Sorry for the mishap on board. TUI hopes you have a great holiday!'"
"Can you imagine what effect that would have?" Mikael Ahlerup's question is rhetorical, because to him the answer is obvious: any traveller would thoroughly appreciate a gesture like that, which isn't complicated and doesn't cost much. And that very combination is the secret: pre-emptive, effective, and ultimately inexpensive. "If we can identify those points and implement them quickly, we will be achieving a big competitive edge over our competition," says the TUI Manager.
If little kindnesses like this are soon to become routine at TUI, the underlying technology has to function. But the vision also calls for committed, resolute TUI employees who do their job with pleasure and dedication. "The more motivated and satisfied they are, the more authentic and successful we are as a Group," declares Mikael Ahlerup with conviction. "They create those points of contact that stick in people's memories and will make TUI an even stronger brand."
TUI customers will start noticing the improvements in summer 2015. These ideas, and many more like them, have come from the customers themselves.
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Vijay Mallya offers settlement package of nearly Rs 13,960 crore to avoid extradition to India
Vijay Mallya has offered a comprehensive settlement package of Rs 13,960 crore to the consortium of banks in India as the fugitive liquor baron seems to have exhausted all his judicial options against his extradition to India.
Mallya's counsel told the Supreme Court about him offering a comprehensive settlement package to a consortium of banks. Vijay Mallya's counsel further said that if the offer gets accepted then all the cases by Enforcement Directorate against him would be sorted out. However, it is not yet confirmed what is the exact amount that Vijay Mallya has offered before the Supreme Court bench headed by Justice SA Bobde.
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Spectrum will be auctioned: Ravi Shankar Prasad
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Q: Apache Tika and Apache PDFBox 2.0 We are using tika 1.4. Now we need to use PDF Box 2.0.1 for digital signature. I can see that some of the classes of PDF box is used in tika. Is Pdf box part of tika? If so, I needn't add pdf box separately. do I? Is tika 1.13 backward compatible with tika 1.4?

A: The first version of Apache Tika to bundle Apache PDFBox 2.0 was Apache Tika 1.13, as shown in the Apache Tika latest news on the project homepage
Versions of Apache Tika are generally backwards compatible, any issues are noted in the release changes file
It isn't possible to use PDFBox 2.0 with an old version of Tika like 1.4. If you want to use the latest PDFBox, you must upgrade to a matching newer Tika version
So, you should upgrade your Apache Tika version to a newer one like 1.13, and upgrade all of the Tika dependencies

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The Statemachine DSL (Finite State-Machine) covers the synchronization of external (slave) browsers to a main (master) browser connected to an OS.bee server. The requirement was mainly inspired by the need of a customer display for the OS.bee application OS.pos. In this context it was required to display data for the customer on a secondary display.
DisplayName must be followed by the postfix Display as the class is generated like this to be seprarate from other dialogs. Language tags specify a language locale with its country component, like "de-DE", "de-AT", "en-US", "en-EN". The country component is necessary to decide the currency symbol and other country specific formats.
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In this display "customer", we define in the 2 parts(left part & right part), if they will be shown and what will be shown in UI.
In operation "initImages", the image of customerDisplay could be set.
In operation "computeTotal", the total amount of CustomerDisplay could be calculated and set.
The references of a DTO that is attached to a display are always synchronized across all connected displays. Single fields must be synchronized by displayText.
► The referenced DTO must be the rootType of the Display definition in the ui model.
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ERDC engineer Luke Gurtowski holds up one of his team's two foot long graphene oxide membranes they will begin testing soon. Other researchers throughout the world are still restrict to working with membranes only and inch and a half in diameter. (Brandon O'Connor•The Vicksburg Post
ERDC researchers developing new water treatment system
By Brandon O'Connor
Published 9:00 pm Friday, October 27, 2017
Researchers at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center are working to change the world.
A research team in ERDC's environmental lab is on the cutting edge of developing a new water treatment system using a mix of graphene oxide and a byproduct made from shrimp shells.
"What I have been working on most recently is developing membrane technologies out of graphene oxide," Luke Gurtowski, a research chemical engineer at ERDC, said. "Graphene oxide is one of the most heavily researched materials right now in the scientific world. Not just in water treatment, but in a lot of other ways as well."
The team currently working on the project includes Gurtowski, Victor Medina, Chris Griggs, Jose Mattei and Brooke Petery. The team recently won an ERDC research and development award for its project developing new membranes for water filtration.
"Those are pretty hard to come by," Gurtowski said. "I think we were one of only two within the environmental lab who actually won awards this year and there are seven ERDC labs. That is a pretty big accomplishment."
The ERDC team's breakthrough was the ability to scale the membranes from the inch and a half diameter membranes other labs throughout the world are working at to sheets stretching up to two feet long with the potential of making them as big as needed.
"The reason why the rest of the research world is operating at that small scale is because they are using a certain fabrication technology using another material called a nanodisc. It is a small aluminum disc that crosslinks with the graphene oxide through an assembly method," Gurtowski said. "The problem is they can't move them out of laboratory scale. It is important to move it out of the laboratory scale because if you can't make it big, you can't use it."
The ERDC team has developed a method to replace the aluminum disc and instead use a byproduct from shrimp shells called chitosan. Their current testing model is using a membrane the size of a cellphone.
"You can actually mix Chitosan with graphene oxide and if you mix it a certain way you can make the membranes in any size you want just by a process of letting it dry," Gurtowski said. "It basically does the same function the aluminum has. It gives it a structure and allows you to mold it and make a sheet … We can make it as large as we want it."
The project is being funded by the Army. Its intent is to develope an effective method to decontaminate wastewater that's been used to disinfect soldiers or equipment exposed to biohazards during warfare. The membranes, once their ability to be functional on a larger scale has been proven, could also be used to purify drinking water.
"The thought process is if we can treat that water we can treat any water," Gurtowski said. "If we can take salts out of water or very small pollutants or radiological pollutants, we can take pretty much anything out and we can do it efficiently, cost effectively and quickly. That is why we are driving this research. Even though it is an Army-funded project right now, it is not limited to the Army."
Graphene oxide membranes work as effectively as the current "gold standard" for water purification, reverse osmosis, Gurtowski said, but in a much more cost effective way.
"Reverse osmosis is the gold standard, but it is very expensive because you need a lot of pressure to pass it through a reverse osmosis. I am talking 200 psi essentially," Gurtowski said. "We can get the same performance at much less pressure, 50 psi. The reason why we want to cut down in terms of pressure is that saves a lot of energy."
The team at ERDC is currently applying for a patent on their method of mixing the graphene oxide with chitosan. The next step is to prove the membrane can work at any size, improve its durability and finalize the method allowing the membrane to work in a spiral-wound cylinder instead of just as a flat sheet.
"Spiral-wound is the way most membrane technologies are used now because you can have large membranes fit into a really small area," Gurtowski said.
The team at ERDC is tasked with developing the technology, but it will be the private sector's responsibility to help take the technology to market as usable products. Taking products like the graphene oxide membranes to market is the goal of the planned technology transfer at the Old Mississippi Hardware building in downtown Vicksburg.
"I think it would be huge," Gurtowski said of having a technology transfer center in town. "Research has to go somewhere and if we can get a better avenue or a better vehicle to be able to get our knowledge or technology transferred outside of ERDC and sometimes outside of the government, it makes it a lot more fulfilling. It is definitely necessary. Research can't stop at just research. It has to move forward."
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No matter what business you're in, there's an online clique, made up of relevant blogs, news sites, information sites, shopping sites, forums, competitors, potential business partners and many, many more.
These sites offer fantastic opportunities for earning backlinks and promoting your business.
Clique Hunter makes it easy to find these cliques made up of hundreds, even thousands of such sites and we'll show you how in this video.
Brad owns a gourmet cheese website based in Wisconsin so he's going to be interested in gourmet cheese websites. But if he concentrated just on gourmet cheese, he'll miss many great link prospects.
That's because any gourmet food site could potentially be interested in Brad's – so that's a clique he should explore.
Don't be too narrow in your own thinking – think carefully about cliques that could be relevant to you.
Let's look at how Brad can explore the gourmet food market – and you can follow exactly the same steps for your niche!
Collect a list of popular brands of gourmet food suppliers. The more popular these brands are, the more links they'll have and the more link prospects they can uncover for you. Brad has collected a list of 20.
Now, we want to find out which of those have the most authority… go to tools and choose Bulk Backlinks.
…and sorts them using Trust Flow – this tells him which of the 20 sites has the most authority. Hit Check 'backlink counts' and the tool does its work.
Clique Hunter finds sites that link to two or more of the supplier sites Brad has entered. The thinking is that if they link to other relevant websites , they're likely to link to Brad – they should be low hanging fruit.
Clique Hunter has found almost two thousand prospects.
Brad orders them by the number of matches descending and then Trust Flow descending.
Now, there'll be a lot of 'noise' at the very start – like Blogspot and WordPress – just ignore these because there are lots of gems to find below.
Scan the list to find likely prospects and then add those to the Bucket too.
The Kitchin for example links to all 10 sites I entered and has a high Trust Flow of 64.
One great thing about this tool is that I can see the links in situation so I can see why the link was given.
Each of these numbers is live – click on the number and you see the links in more detail – and you can click through and see that page on which the link sits.
So here you can see that the kitchn.com linked to Bristol Farms because of their unusual goats ice cream.
We're going to store the prospects we find like Kitchen.com in the bucket where we can store up to 400 – and then pick some more from the list.
Again we can open it up in a new window and scan the site quickly to make sure it's a good fit and find contact details.
Now maybe you're thinking that sites like thekitchn.com and Serious Eats are too big for you to approach… perhaps, you want something easier?
Well, let's try some blogs that are still good quality – but maybe not quite so popular.
So with Majestic, we can jump ahead to, say page 9 – there's still lots of great blogs there – and maybe it's more realistic to approach them at this early stage.
Another quick scan of the site and we find their product review policy contact details – that's another quick win!
You can go on doing this – finding sites that you like and adding them to your bucket.
Remember, you can store up to 400 in the bucket.
And download them whenever you want.
You can do the same thing for your market, think about popular suppliers that are likely to have lots of links.
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I will try this method. This seems somewhat complicated but I will learn. Thank you.


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Bangalore is global 'garbage' city, says Times of India
The chief minister of Karnataka, Jagadish Shettar, is quite happy that Bangalore is a "global city". So global and newsworthy that even its trash is big news for the international media. The irony that Bangalore is catching global attention for the wrong reasons seems to be lost on the chief minister. ASHA RAI reports.
For the global media, Bangalore is a metaphor for the new India: the good and the bad. A decade ago it was symbolic of India's giant strides in the Information Technology space. The city became a verb with 'Bangalored' standing for job losses in the US. Today, Bangalore, again, stands as a symbol for the underbelly of India's rapid economic growth. For mountains of waste generated by the new, consuming middle-class, for the inability of the weak civic agencies to get it off the roads and dispose them off scientifically, for the collapse of the local administration.
It is also ironic that Bangalore's garbage problem gained national eyeballs only when the international media saw if fit to run large reports on it. Though the problem – festering for a couple of months now – has received saturation coverage locally and is the topic of conversation on pavements and Page 3 parties, rising mounds of urban waste is such a common phenomenon in India that it excited nobody beyond the city limits other than the villages where it was being dumped hitherto.
Unfortunately, for the last few months, Bangalore's making national and international headlines for the wrong reasons. The sight of thousands of north eastern people fleeing the city in fear of their lives had barely receded from people's minds when the agitation over sharing of Cauvery waters with Tamil Nadu – with its endless bundhs and disruption to daily lives – broke out.
The crisis was barely contained when the garbage problem cropped up when people living in villages where the two main landfills are located decided they have had enough and refused to accept garbage in their backyards.
In a way, the current, un-resolved stink over the garbage is reminiscent of the city's infamous traffic problems that surfaced a decade ago. Both are caused by city planners and administrators being caught off-guard by the dramatic growth of the city.
Commute problems stay though efforts are underway to ease the problem. The bus service has dramatically improved while the Metro has started limited operations. If the same pace to problem solving is transferred to garbage, it might well take half a decade for the city to have scientific solutions to its waste at the very least. How global does that make Bangalore then, Mr Shettar?


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Over 250 people have been killed or missing in heavy torrential rains and floods that have wreaked havoc in China with about 2.5 lakh people still trapped in the central HubeiProvince.
While the floods have claimed 114 lives with 111 missing in Hubei province during the past few days, 18 others have died with nine others listed missing in Anyang city, Henan Province.
At least 114 people have been killed and 111 others missing in Hubei province. Local authorities have evacuated nearly 3.10 lakh people.
Over 700,000 hectares of crops have also been destroyed, leading to direct economic losses of over 16 billion yuan (Rs 16, 055 crore).
The worst-hit Daxian Village of Xingtai City was almost empty after a flash flood swamped it early Wednesday. At least 8 villagers were killed and one missing.
"I heard people yelling 'flood' about 2:30 am. I woke up my wife and children and rushed out of door immediately. In no time the water level was above my waist," said Zhang Erqiang, a local villager.
"My wife and I panicked and we climbed to a tree, and stayed there for several hours until rescuers arrived in the morning," Zhang said.
"But our daughter and son were washed away and their bodies were just found," he said.
The news of heavy casualties in Xingtai, just 400 km south of Beijing, only began emerging over the past 24 hours when thousands of local residents took to the street to protest against the alleged belated disaster warning and ineffective rescue efforts, the Hong-Kong based South China Morning Post reported.
Flood waters burst river banks and submerged at least 12 villages. Daxian village is one of the worst-hit, where at least nine people, including five school kids, are dead or missing, media reports said.
In the village of Renma, villager Ren Jingmin was clearing his home as his sofa, bed and other furniture were soaked and cracks had appeared in the walls.
"Power went out before the village's loudspeaker finished broadcasting. And soon floods submerged my bed," another villager Zhang Yechao said.
Qiu Wenshuang, deputy mayor of Xingtai, said on Saturday that at least 25 people were killed and another 13 missing in the city. He said rescue operations and disaster relief have been initiated immediately after the flood.
Nearly 30 speedboats and 300 soldiers were dispatched to repair breached levee and transfer trapped residents, while another 1,200 people joined the rescue operation later, according to Qiu.
The local government has also sent 15 working teams into 12 flooded villages to investigate the situation, comfort villagers and carry out epidemic prevention.
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang presided over a national meeting on flood control and disaster relief in Beijing on Saturday, urging governments at all levels to put safety of the people first and strengthen flood control measures.


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the cost of bitcoin, the globe's major cryptocurrency by marketplace capitalization, fell to its least expensive level because April 1 on Tuesday.
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Welcome to the Artistic Outpost Design Team January Blog Hop! Each month, the fabulous designers at Artistic Outpost showcase projects created with various Artistic Outpost stamp sets. This month, the Designers are sharing projects they created using a Transportation theme.
My form of transportation is ice skates! I used stamps from the Artistic Outpost Skating Emporium stamp set.
I masked the sentiment from the skating collage ATC image then stamped it in Coffee Archival on Vanilla cards stock. The sweet children in their vintage skates are stamped in Coffee Archival on Vanilla card stock and colored with Ranger Distress Inks, sponged with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink and popped up on the panel for added dimension. I randomly stamped the "central park" on the background pattern paper panel. To embellish my card, I added Vintage Brown Seam Binding and a Button tied with twine.
I love the picture in the background with the people standing in front of it. Great jobl.
The masking on the skating collage image is so effective and brilliant with those adorable kids. Great layers and finish as always! Love it!
Love your take on transportation! Lots'a layers that really make this card pop!
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Mule is een plaats in de Noorse gemeente Levanger, provincie Trøndelag. Mule telt 304 inwoners (2007) en heeft een oppervlakte van 0,28 km².

Plaats in Trøndelag
Levanger