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Chlamydia trachomatis
Chlamydia trachomatis, an obligate intracellular human pathogen, is one of four bacterial species in the genus Chlamydia.[2] C. trachomatis is a gram-negative bacterium, therefore its cell wall components retain the counter-stain safranin and appear pink under a light microscope.[3] It can appear as either coccoid or rod shape.[4]
The inclusion bodies of Chlamydia trachomatis were first described in 1942; the Chlamydia trachomatis agent was first cultured in the yolk sacs of eggs by Professor Feifan Tang et al in 1957.[5][6]
C. trachomatis includes three human biovars:
- serovars Ab, B, Ba, or C — cause trachoma: infection of the eyes, which can lead to blindness
- serovars D-K — cause urethritis, pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, neonatal pneumonia, and neonatal conjunctivitis
- serovars L1, L2 and L3 — lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV).[7]
Many, but not all, C. trachomatis strains have an extrachromosomal plasmid.[8]
Chlamydia can exchange DNA between its different strains, thus the evolution of new strains is common.[9]
Chlamydia species are readily identified and distinguished from other Chlamydia species using DNA-based tests.
Most strains of C. trachomatis are recognized by monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to epitopes in the VS4 region of MOMP.[10] However, these mAbs may also cross-react with two other Chlamydia species, C. suis and C. muridarum.
Clinical significance
C. trachomatis is an obligate intracellular pathogen (i.e., the bacterium lives within human cells) and can cause numerous disease states in both men and women.[2] Both sexes can display urethritis, proctitis (rectal disease and bleeding), trachoma, infertility and carcinoma.[11] The bacterium can cause prostatitis and epididymitis in men. In women, cervicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), ectopic pregnancy, and acute or chronic pelvic pain are frequent complications. Neonates born to infected mothers are also susceptible to infections of the eye (conjunctivitis) and lung.[12]
C. trachomatis is the single most important infectious agent associated with blindness (trachoma); approximately 84 million worldwide suffer C. trachomatis eye infections and 8 million are blinded as a result of the infection.[13]
C. trachomatis may be treated with any of several bacteriostatic antibiotics: macrolides (azithromycin, clarithromycin, erythromycin, etc) or tetracyclines (doxycycline, tetracycline, etc).[14]
Laboratory tests[15]
- Nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT). These tests find the genetic material (DNA) of Chlamydia bacteria. These tests are the most sensitive tests available, meaning that they are very accurate and that they are very unlikely to have false-negative test results. A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test is an example of a nucleic acid amplification test. This test can also be done on a urine sample.
- Nucleic acid hybridization tests (DNA probe test). A probe test also finds Chlamydia DNA. A probe test is very accurate but is not as sensitive as nucleic acid amplification tests.
- Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA, EIA). This quick test finds substances (Chlamydia antigens) that trigger the immune system to fight Chlamydia infection.
- Direct fluorescent antibody test (DFA). This quick test also finds Chlamydia antigens.
- Chlamydia cell culture. A test in which the suspected chlamydia sample is grown in a vial of cells. The pathogen infects the cells and after a set incubation time (48 hours) the vials are stained and viewed on a fluorescent light microscope. Cell culture is more expensive and takes longer (two days) than the other tests. The culture must be grown in a laboratory.
See also
- ^ J.P. Euzéby. "Chlamydia". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
- ^ a b Ryan KJ, Ray CG (editors) (2004). Sherris Medical Microbiology (4th ed.). McGraw Hill. pp. 463–70. ISBN 0-8385-8529-9.
- ^ "Chlamydia". MicrobeWiki. Department of Biology, Kenyon College. 2006-08-15. Retrieved 2008-10-27.
- ^ "Chlamydia trachomatis". MicrobeWiki. Department of Biology, Kenyon College. 29 April 2011.
- ^ Darougar S, Jones BR, Kinnison JR, Vaughan-Jackson JD, Dunlop EM (December 1972). "Chlamydial infection. Advances in the diagnostic isolation of Chlamydia, including TRIC agent, from the eye, genital tract, and rectum". Br J Vener Dis 48 (6): 416–20. PMC 1048360. PMID 4651177. doi:10.1136/sti.48.6.416.
- ^ Tang FF, Huang YT, Chang HL, Wong KC (1958). "Further studies on the isolation of the trachoma virus". Acta Virol. 2 (3): 164–70. PMID 13594716.
Tang FF, Chang HL, Huang YT, Wang KC (June 1957). "Studies on the etiology of trachoma with special reference to isolation of the virus in chick embryo". Chin Med J 75 (6): 429–47. PMID 13461224.
Tang FF, Huang YT, Chang HL, Wong KC (1957). "Isolation of trachoma virus in chick embryo". J Hyg Epidemiol Microbiol Immunol 1 (2): 109–20. PMID 13502539.
- ^ Fredlund H, Falk L, Jurstrand M, Unemo M (2004). "Molecular genetic methods for diagnosis and characterisation of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae: impact on epidemiological surveillance and interventions". APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica 112 (11–12): 771–84. PMID 15638837. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0463.2004.apm11211-1205.x.
- ^ Carlson JH, Whitmire WM, Crane DD et al. (June 2008). "The Chlamydia trachomatis Plasmid Is a Transcriptional Regulator of Chromosomal Genes and a Virulence Factor". Infection and immunity 76 (6): 2273–83. PMC 2423098. PMID 18347045. doi:10.1128/IAI.00102-08.
- ^ Harris SR, Clarke IN, Seth-Smith HM et al. (April 2012). "Whole-genome analysis of diverse Chlamydia trachomatis strains identifies phylogenetic relationships masked by current clinical typing". Nat. Genet. 44 (4): 413–9, S1. PMC 3378690. PMID 22406642. doi:10.1038/ng.2214.
- ^ Ortiz L, Angevine M, Kim SK, Watkins D, DeMars R (2000). "T-Cell Epitopes in Variable Segments of Chlamydia trachomatis Major Outer Membrane Protein Elicit Serovar-Specific Immune Responses in Infected Humans". Infect. Immun. 68 (3): 1719–23. PMC 97337. PMID 10678996. doi:10.1128/IAI.68.3.1719-1723.2000.
- ^ Chang, A. H.; Parsonnet, J. (2010). "Role of Bacteria in Oncogenesis". Clinical Microbiology Reviews 23 (4): 837–857. ISSN 0893-8512. doi:10.1128/CMR.00012-10.
- ^ Pokrzywnicka, M.; Krajewski, P.; Kwiatkowska, M. (2005). "Chlamydia infections in the neonatal period". Medycyna wieku rozwojowego 9 (1): 65–69. PMID 16082067.
- ^ "Trachoma". Prevention of Blindness and Visual Impairment. World Health Organization.
- ^ Chlamydia Information
- ^ "Chlamydia Tests". Sexual Conditions Health Center. WebMD. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
Further Reading
Bellaminutti, Serena; Seracini, Silva; De Seta, Francesco; Gheit, Tarik; Tommasino, Massimo; Comar, Manola (November 2014). "HPV and Chlamydia trachomatis Co-Detection in Young Asymptomatic Women from High Incidence Area for Cervical Cancer". Journal of Medical Virology 86 (11): 1920-1925. doi:10.1002/jmv.24041. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
External links
- Chlamydiae.com
- 342556674 at GPnotebook
- "Chlamydia trachomatis". NCBI Taxonomy Browser. 813.


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Day 4 of National Teacher Appreciation week and the teacher deserves an apple, or like the printable below says the entire tree! It never ceases to amaze me that when I need to print something my ink runs out and so does my paper. I guess that is what happens in a crafty household.
Have you seen all the EOS Lip Balm crafts on Pinterest? They are awesome. I actually had to come up with this gift to replace another gift that did not come in on time. Anyway. my Miss K was very curious as to how I was going to make that "apple" stick to the paper. Here's the trick. Take it out of the original packaging. Once you cut the circle out of the printable, open the lip balm and then close it back between the piece of paper. I promise, the teacher is not going to mind. Just don't use their yummy lip balm.


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I just got back from a two day "girls' getaway". I spent some time with my girlfriend Sue, her youngest daughter, Taylor and my youngest daughter, Robyn. The girls go back to school next Tuesday so this was really just an excuss to get the girls together and have some fun before we all start back into our regular routines. We stayed at our friends' vacation property in Collingwood (about 2 hours north of Toronto) and we did lots of activities around Collingwood and Blue Mountain.
The girls had a great time painting pottery at Crock a Doodle ... a cute ceramic studio at the Blue Mountain resort. The staff at the studio were amazing and the selection of ceramics was awesome! There was lots of inspiration all around the studio and they had some idea books to look through. Sue and I sat and relaxed with our Starbuck's and just let the girls create. Both of the girls have painted pottery (many times) before and were happy to work on their own. To be honest, it was difficult for me to resist making something too but I really just wanted to sit back, take photos and watch the girls have fun ...
Taylor wanted to paint a garden marker for the new garden at their house and Robyn decided to paint a travel mug that she is going to give to her Dad ...
here is Taylor putting the finishing touches on her piece and
Robyn signs and dates the bottom of her travel mug.
If you have never done pottery painting with your child, I highly recommend trying it. It's so much fun ... the kids love to do it and you will have a unique pottery piece in the end that you will cherish forever. Robyn's sixth birthday party was at a local pottery studio and she still remembers and talks about that day everytime she uses her dog shaped earring holder!
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Creative Chaos and Problogger Countdown
This week has been absolute joyous madness. And the next month is going to get even crazier! It's creative chaos time! My husband is The Scrappy Sculptor. He makes sculptures using old, rusted scrap metal and turning it into beautiful creatures and characters, full of life and personality. His work is amazing. Yes I'm biased, but check this out:
I'm also trying to engage with my own visual art to a level where I can hope to make at least a little food money from it. This month is Escape Artfest, our region's annual festival of all things arty and creative. Jodhi is exhibiting in two exhibitions, I'm exhibiting in one. I'm also teaching a two day master class in clowning, and writing for three writing prizes. So there is a lot of making, writing and searching for inspiration going on in our house at the moment. To top it all off, Jodhi will also be exhibiting in two other exhibitions next month, and these are in western NSW, an 8 hr drive from home (each way). Oh yeah, and I'm on a plane heading to QLD for a week to attend the Problogger event (so very, very excited!). Jodhi's then going to QLD for a different week, so we've got a few long return trips to Sydney ahead for airport drop offs and collections.
So where's the relaxing and slowing down you may well ask? Well, I'm being very careful and conscious to make sure it's all managed well. Lots of rest times, energy scheduling, and being kind to myself. Letting go off perfection and embracing imperfection as part of the creative process. That's always been one of the toughest things for me as an artist and it's meant I haven't put as much of my work on public display as I could have in the past, because of a constant feeling of not being good enough. My own standards are impossible to meet, and the public perception of my work could never be as harsh or critical as my own has been. But not anymore. I'm smiling at mistakes. I'm following the paths they open up to see where they take me. And it's so much more fun this way! It feels more 'creative', more inviting of a creative energy, a muse to lead me to my finished work. Creativity has often been a chore in the past because I made it that way with my self-criticism, judgement and perfectionism. So yeah, that's a 20 year career as an artist that I've often made far more difficult and less enjoyable for myself with my own inner "poo-poo"-er. Well, I'm shutting that little demon in a box and throwing away the key. It serves no purpose anymore, and once I caught a glimpse of life without it, I was hooked!
Do you make aspects of your life more difficult than they need to be?
Do you have your own demon or inner poo-poo-er?
My Perfect Face
I decided to get a new face. Well, I think it's actually been my face all along. Right from day one I knew I wanted a hand drawn header which reflected my journey, and featured my gorgeous soul-place and home, the NSW South Coast. I also wanted it to give the sense of what I was about, and therefore what my blog was about. A healthy, simple life. The environment. Art. Creativity. Joy. And embracing my inner clown all the while (including while meditating).
A gorgeous soul I studied with at uni decided to branch out in her career and explore yet another of her many of talents: illustration. Hello synchronicity! From the first moment I saw Lou's beautiful drawings, I knew I needed her ink on my blog. And so, all prettied up, Raw Once More is ME. Once more.
With enormous thanks to Lou Endicott. Please check out her beautiful illustration blog here. And enjoy the joy and sense of whimsy it brings you.
Art and creativity are such important cornerstones to my life. They form the basis of my career, home, hobbies, purchases, my planning, decision-making, marriage, friendships…. The list goes on. My husband is an artist. I am an artist. My friends are artists. And I've recently started recognising just how much of a hidden artist my mum is. So I plan to honour this in future blog posts and give you more insight into my creative life, the creative stars around me, and the creative muses that dance through my days.
Is creativity a big part of your life?
Celebrating the Scarecrow
Like most small, country towns, Milton (which is up the road a bit from me here on the NSW South Coast) has a wacky annual festival: The Scarecrow Festival. I don't know its origins, but as we're new around town we thought we'd mosey along on Saturday and check it out. It seems there's a theme every year, and this year was Scary Scarecrows. A touch of Halloween in June, using scarecrows on the street? Strange, but strange is what we like best! And it worked!
On a sunny winter's day seemingly the entire town had flocked to the main streets for markets, buskers, dancing, rock wall climbing, and betting on where Maisie Moo the cow would, well, poo. Young children dressed as scary scarecrows for the fancy dress competition. A couple of enterprising young girls with pumpkin faces had even decided to busk by singing 'I'm a Dingle Dangle Scarecrow'. Over. And. Over.
The highlight of the festival is the scarecrows (which is probably a good thing for a Scarecrow Festival). Local businesses and residents get into the spirit by putting their own themed scarecrow on display. They start appearing at around the start of May, and gradually fill Milton and the surrounding towns with scarecrow goodness. A winner was announced, but sadly we missed the judging. But here's a few we snapped:
This is probably the kind of thing I would've mocked (but secretly loved) when I was much younger. Now I can proudly state that I really did love it. It was fun, and quaint, entertaining, and hilarious. It brought much-needed visitors to a town that relies on the cash flow of tourists, who tend to visit less often during winter. And it was a demonstration of one of the main reasons we chose to move to a small rural area. Community. The whole community came together to put on a festival, promote it, and enjoy it. Everyone got involved in one way or another. People shouted hello to each other with big smiles on their faces (painted or plain). People celebrated the pure joy that comes from getting together with the whole town to celebrate bundles of straw in costume. We laughed, we watched, we ate, we enjoyed, and we felt like we had found somewhere we belonged.
Does your town have any strange rituals? Festivals? Crazy things on the main street?
LITTLE STEPS: Down The Drain
Today I thought I'd take a look at something that I think all of us are guilty of doing at some time or another. How often do you contemplate your pipes? Ever wondered about the journey your dish water takes once you pull that plug? Ever stopped to consider exactly how many drops of used cooking oil it takes to kill a fish? Or an ecosystem? This post could be accompanied by some graphic and horrible images, but I thought I'd post photos of some creatures I've met on my travels instead. Creatures who can remind us just how important it is to take the extra effort at home to protect our waterways.
We use water in diverse ways in our homes: cooking, cleaning, washing, playing, soothing, nourishing, drinking, and of course, flushing. But whatever the reason, all the water we use, whether at home or out and about, makes its way via drains to the sewerage system. Still with me? Not the most fascinating topic, I know. But our lack of interest in our drains is causing damage to our waterways, and the ecosystems they support. What goes down the plug hole, also has to come out somewhere, and for most homes it's the sewerage system. After treatment, this water then rejoins the water supply for reuse, or is released into creeks, rivers, and oceans. When we don't pay attention to what we're putting down the drains, the entire system is affected, which can: Read the rest of this entry
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Earth Day and an Announcement
I'm feeling some joyous synchronicity because the day after I publish my first post and commit to writing daily, it's Earth Day! And if there's one thing I do love to bang on about it's this beautiful planet of ours. We live in a wonderous place which provides everything we need, if only we let it. But in typical human fashion we're abusing this relationship and taking a lot more than we give, ie we are screwing up the joint.
But why should we care? Because we have to. We don't get another chance folks, this is it! Economic rationalization, ignorance and apathy won't save us when entire nations are wiped out due to climate change. The latest resource-sucking electronic gadget won't be much use to you if you can't afford to eat due to world-wide food shortages. That's the hard-line. But it's not all doom and gloom. It's also about looking around and realizing just how lucky we are to be here, in this beautiful place. Open your window, go for a walk, Google 'nature'. To get you inspired, I'm going to post a few photos of my latest home on the planet: the NSW South Coast. When deciding to embark on a journey of healing and wholeness, location was important. Because I was starting over again (again!), I had the option to go anywhere (we didn't exactly have the bank balance to go anywhere, but we've never let that stand in the way before!). We chose this area for several reasons. We have been fortunate enough to live in many beautiful locations throughout the world, and coastal areas have always felt most like home to us. Immediately prior to moving here we were living 'out west' in Australia, surrounded by beautiful bush, mountains, valleys, and sunsets that reach forever. It was gorgeous, but it wasn't 'our place'. I believe everyone has a 'soul home', the place that makes you feel most alive, that makes your heart sing. This is it for us. The climate here is also the most conducive to my health: not too hot, not too cold; not too humid, not too dry; clean fresh sea air; peaceful and quiet; unpolluted, and still close enough to capital cities to visit doctors and get a taste of city life and 'culture' (though our desire to take these visits is almost non-existent these days). It was also a location where we really could practice being locovores, thinking globally and acting locally. This region is full of gorgeous fresh food of all varieties. Read the rest of this entry


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APPT Macau: Gaw grabs lead to end Day 2 in ACOP Main Event
Sixty minutes into the 90-minute Level 10, play has been stopped for the night. Just 56 players remain from the starting field of 184, with Andrew Gaw of the Philippines ending the day atop the counts followed by end-of-Day-1 leader Yue Hin Lam (Macau) and Xing Zhou (China).
Team Pros Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Maxim Lykov, Eugene Katchalov, and Bryan Huang all fell on Day 2, as did Randy "nanonoko" Lew and Naoya Kihara of Team Online.
Others hitting the rail today included Hirotoshi Nakabo, high roller Masa Kagawa, Michael Benvenuti, Timothy Finne, David Martirosyan, Danny Wong, David Steicke, Joseph Cheong, Dominik Nitsche, Julian Powell, Brendon Rubie, Jackie Glazer, and Jonathan Karamalikis.
Meanwhile, Gaw, Lam, and Zhou had moved into the top spots on the leaderboard with a couple of hours left to go, and that's where they ended up with Gaw leading (329,200), followed by Lam (303,900), and Zhou (298,000).
Among the remaining Team Pros, Raymond Wu ended the day in the best shape with 144,900, with Vivian Im (33,700), Celina Lin (29,900), and Angel Guillen (10,700) all set to return to below average stacks.
Joining Im and Lin are two other women still remaining in the field, Yuri Ishida of Japan (107,900) and Jennette "Jay" Tan (41,200).
Tomorrow's plan for Day 3 will be to play until 22 players remain and the cash bubble bursts or through the end of Level 16, whichever comes first. More likely we'll see the former, as expectations are they'll reach the money Friday. Then on Saturday they'll return to begin the business of deciding how exactly the remaining players will be dividing up the 17,305,200 Hong Kong dollars that make up the ACOP Main Event prize pool.
Check the box above for full chip counts and the Day 3 table draw. And here's Lynn Gilmartin with APPT President Danny McDonagh once more with the "nightly notables":
Thanks for following the coverage of Day 2 and we'll see you again tomorrow starting at 3:00 p.m. Macau time to continue our chronicling of the Asia Championship of Poker.
Day 2: ACOP Main Event party continues into Day 2
Day 2: Poker Gangnam style
Day 2: Nakabo looks to fashion a comeback
Day 2: Players dealt a welcome club
Day 2: Asia Team Pros battling for ACOP title
Day 2: Following the leaders
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Hello, we are Ivan and Khris and welcome to our humble journal. We are a husband and wife tandem from Quezon City, Philippines although we also regularly spend our weekends in San Antonio, Nueva Ecija. In this blog, we share two of the activities that we love most — traveling and dining out.
Our philosophy is that traveling need not be too far. The secret is to uncover the social, cultural and historical significance of the places that we visit, be it a small church, a park, a lonely building or a busy road. That way, traveling becomes more meaningful and interesting.
We also believe that food and travel invariably go together. A taste of local cuisine is a bite into the culture of that particular place. While we would not go as far as sampling exotic dishes, we make it a point to sample the signature dishes of the destinations that we visit.
On some occasions though, we do love to treat ourselves to dinners in some of the well-known restaurants in the metro.
Most stories in this blog are written by Ivan while all travel arrangements are courtesy of Khris.
Our humble story
We met at our current job in a bank, thanks to a good friend. During the few times that we initially went out, we found out many similarities between us, among these is our love for traveling and the immense importance that we put in our families.
We would like to travel the Philippines, and then the world, full time. But unlike other people who can afford to quit their jobs to trot the globe, we have responsibilities that we deem are of greater importance.
We travel to escape the monotony of the cube farm, to revitalize our bodies so that we may have the energy to take on the daily routine. We travel to learn something new, not just to appreciate the beauty of our world.
We do our best to search for something more profound, beyond the superficial. We particularly like history, culture and heritage. A piece of knowledge, we reckon, is always the best memento that we could take home.
We have been married since April 6, 2014. Perhaps one of the greatest adventures that we have embarked on was to get married. The wedding preparations took us to different places, allowed us to meet different people and, best of all, tested our characters.
About Ivan+Khris' Travels
This blog consolidates Ivan's previous blogs (frenchraisins, Until Next Weekend and The Introverted Weekender) as well as food articles in Zomato and travel narratives in Trip Advisor. As such, while this blog has only been launched last June 2016, expect to find articles from way back 2007.
This blog is not a travel guide but more of a journal of two ordinary people who see beauty in simplicity. It tells stories from the perspective of two simple souls who are both devoid of pretensions or appetite for anything ostentatious.
Ivan+Khris' Travels combines photographs and written words to narrate stories collected from our adventures on the road. We believe that words and photographs create the most effective and powerful stories.
Ivan+Khris' Travels is about living life, pursuing passions, realizing dreams, appreciating culture and history, and just being happy.
To view the list of all our posts, please click here.
About Khris
Khrisna Macalma-Jose, Khris to family and childhood friends, and Ynah to colleagues and close friends, is a graduate of BS in Export Management from DLS-College of St. Benilde. She has been with the banking industry handling Telemarketing for over a decade. Despite the number of years, Khris has been as passionate with her job as she was in day 1.
She is adept in finding great travel and dining deals, as well as in preparing trip itineraries.
About Ivan
Ivan Carlo Jose, Ivan to friends and family, is a graduate of BS Geology from UP Diliman. Since high school, he has been in love with writing. As such, even with a science degree, he pursued a career that allowed him to express his passion. He currently works in the Marketing Department of a bank. He credits Khris for helping him realize his dream of traveling. Perhaps one of the most unforgettable gifts he has received is a pair of rubber slippers with a note from Khris that it will take him to many beautiful places.
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Quality of support we offer customers is more efficient with Helpshift.
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Pros: Helpshift was easy to pick up for me ,and I think everyone in the sales/marketing department had very little problems understanding the workings of this tool.I have also found it easy guiding new employees in the department on how to use Helpshift effectively.
I think our web visitors also find Helpshift easy to use ,as I have got very few complaints from them in terms of being able to communicate with sales agents efficiently with Helpshift. Lastly,I must commend our Helpshift chatbot ,it has eased the level of workload we face during peak time when there are hundreds of visitors on our website seeking attention ; thanks to our chatbot ,we are able to focus on web visitors with complex complaints while the chatbot addresses the simpler queries.
Cons: Helpshift provides my team with just basic analytics on our engagement with web visitors.I will like to see a broad analytics breakdown of our daily activity on Helpshift. Aesthetic-wise ,I think informations can be better arranged on the Helpshift dashboard.
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Pros: Helpshift is a great user experience, and integrates easily with our products.
The easily updatable FAQs have been a massive win for me over other competing products.
Cons: The analytics are thin and not quite usable.
Management of user roles is extremely limited and messy (not able to add admins to groups).
Views are a nightmare to manage as an admin and its far to easy to break them.
Overall: HelpShift has been a paradigm shift in terms of quality and up to date support for our users. Easily updatable FAQs and in-game support has been really well received by our players. Engagement is high and the easily searchable FAQs have been extremely helpful for self service support.
Good platfom to reply Mobile app support tickets, but it lacks features.
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Pros: The feature so far is the cod you can inject in your app to query the remote mobile device hardware and software spec that helps a lot when troubleshooting tickets received.
Cons: it totally lacks a module do some BI number crunching providing basic information like, how much time an agent spent on a ticket ? What's the agent RPH ? there are no statistics at all to help managers to improve the service quality.
Overall: It does the basic job of getting a ticket and responding, splitting incoming tickets into queues, even classifying it with tags, but don't expect a fully developed solution like Zendesk. Helpshift is just no there yet.
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Overall: Easy accessibility, Advanced Chat Portal, Easy Chat Transfers, Agent Tag Routing, Knowledge Database Integration. Multiple Widgets.
Helpshift has improved our support significantly
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The only disadvantage of Helpshift so far was slow response to a significant issue on iOS and the difficult negotiations about renewing the contract whereby the price was increased in a non logical way. In the end this was resolved.
Recommendations to other buyers: More automation of answers
Artificial intelligence is the future,so is Helpshift.
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Pros: In a period when it seems companies are forgetting how to build intuitive user dashboards, I am very impressed with how intuitive the Helpshift user dashboard is,therefore making it easier to use this great product.
Its ease of use has saved us important resource such as time, allowing us train new staffs on how to use Helpshift easily in a matter of hours as against days or weeks ; which is the case with most of the other software we use . Very importantly too, I love the quality of support offered my team by the Helpshift customer service desk..
Cons: We have used this for less than a six month period,however I have been satisfied with the quality of service so far.
Overall: Helpshift enable my organization communicate with customers more efficiently.While also assisting customers find answers to their queries and concerns faster ,without always needing to reach out to the customer service team.
Helpshift provides easy customer support at a cost
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Pros: The best feature of this CRM is their FAQ capability for mobile apps. It wildly narrows down your customer ticket count to those who really can't self-serve. Their tags and segmenting options help to create a super-automated customer support machine.
Cons: The price was high for a service dedicated solely to customer support. We had to contact support several times during set up, but they were helpful. Integration was the hardest part.
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Its really good easy to handle
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HelpshiftCore.install breaks application delegate methods. For example, deep linking started working after removing Helpshift. So the SDK is doing some crazy stuff under the hood.
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Overall: Definitely a powerfull customer satisfaction tool I ever used.
Hopefully chat ops functions would be integrated in future.
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Pros: Downtime or issue is less
Cons: Need lot of improvement in being user friendly especially for agents who use the tool everyday as well as the manager who runs report.
Overall: I have been using helpshift for the past 3 months and I don't really like it at all. Partly bcoz in my previous company I was using Zendesk and I felt its feature much more userfriendly than help shift. It could also be possible that my current company dont feel those features or functionality as neccessary but it really sucks big time. Positive points would be that the downtime is very much less and if issue reported, it is quickly addressed realtime. Keep up the good work in that front. But seriously you shld improve a lot.
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Comments: The company has been acquired by an India company and the new CEO is taking it in a very "customer unfriendly" direction.
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Overall: We we're using the service when doing subcontracting for Suunto Oy Mobile App development project. I don't really have a very deep dive experience of the service, but the times I used or integrated the service to an Android App it was easy to use, and came with easy to understand instructions.


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hey guys, i'm using cinnamon 3.6, and installed and set the numix theme as theme of my cinnamon, i'm using the icons, desktop theme, window borders, and numix controls.
it is really a nice theme with controls and icons etc, but i realize that when i right click on desktop or nemo for example (in a blank area) it sometimes (maybe the majority of times), it kind of freezes the desktop and when i click off the context menu wich the normal behaviour the menu turns out, it keeps there and i'm unable to do anything for a delay, and the menu after that turns to the normal behaviour wich is it disappear when clicked out like all others cinamon's controls, i had tested if it was the cinnamon theme or maybe the icon theme but when i change the numix control the context menus works properly, only with the numix control it has this behaviour.
it comes with the gtk theme of numix i think, and this thing really annoy me.
if anyone knows something about that, or had the same experience, i think the numix controls for cinnamon is one of the bests for which it is, if something can help me i would be grateful.
i'm using mint 18.3.
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Cover the pan while frying except when it's time to flip. Remove the lid toward the end to clear the steam. Fry for another minute before removing the meat.
Friday, May 30, 2014
Thịt Heo Chiên/Nướng (Grilled/Pan-Fried Pork)
Cover the pan while frying except when it's time to flip. Remove the lid toward the end to clear the steam. Fry for another minute before removing the meat.
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- AnonymousJune 27, 2014 at 6:00 PM
Chi Loan, I would like to thank you for this wonderful recipe. I made it yesterday and it was gone in a flash, I tried frying it but it burnt fast on my poor quality pan. I but them in the oven on broil and it came out perfect- like the suon nuong you would order in restaurants! Thank you so much!ReplyDelete
Adding the eggs at the end is a great spin on this recipe. I've been make pork chops million times before reading your blog. Now w/ the eggs, it really help w/ sealing the flavor on top of tenderizing the meat. Awesomeness!! thanksReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2014 at 6:22 AM
I noticed that you used Asian pear to tenderize the meat in a different pork dish. Do you think I can skip the egg part and combine the Asian pear with the marinate? That would save me an extra step:)ReplyDelete
The egg part is to help with sealing the flavor and tenderizing the meat but it's till good if you want to skip the egg part.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2014 at 1:31 PM
I think you misunderstood my question... I meant to ask you if you think it would be ok for me to add Asian pear to the marinate instead of using the eggs. I noticed that you use Asian pear as a meat tenderizer for a other pork recipe.ReplyDeleteReplies
It should be fine to add Asian pear to the sauce. You might want to split the sauce and use 1 part with the Asian pear puréed and the other part without so that you can see which one you like better. Please let me know the outcome.Delete
Yum, yum! Thank you Loan =)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 18, 2015 at 12:39 PM
I cant wait to try this new recipeReplyDeleteReplies
Is this you Happy? :-)Delete


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The Ends of History, "History Without Ends"
Guest Writer: Ezra Claverie
Friday, February 17, 2012
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[On February 10, 2012, the Unit for Criticism partnered with the Trowbridge Office on American Literature, Culture, & Society for a symposium, The Ends of History. The below contribution is from Ezra Claverie. It is the second of two in a series of grad student posts published on the event.]
"History Without Ends"
Written by Ezra Claverie (English)
I have forgiven myself for assuming that the 10 February symposium, The Ends of History, would deal with what Giorgio Agamben calls "the Hegelo-Kojèvian idea of an end of history." A look at some of the Unit's suggested background readings showed me my error, though it might be fairer to say that it made me realize that the wordplay of the symposium's title had offered me two readings of the noun end, and I had taken the wrong one. These are not "ends" in the sense of completion, where a process ceases (in, say, a utopia or, perhaps, a sustainable liberal commonwealth); these are "ends" as opposed to means, the ends of "doing" history—as in methodological historicism. If historicism is the use of history as "theory" in Jonathan Culler's sense—that is, the techniques and assumptions of one discipline brought usefully to bear in another—then the question that the participants in this symposium all seemed to ask was, what kind of historicism should literary scholars do, and why?
One answer is that they should do "surface reading" which could be conceived as a shallower kind of historicism. In articles available on the Unit for Criticism's webpage, two speakers at the symposium, Stephen Best and Heather Love (along with Best's co-author Sharon Marcus) argue from comparable perspectives that the dominance of the "hermeneutics of suspicion" has inflated critics' self-importance leading scholars to fancy themselves as prophets who reveal the meanings encrypted in texts, while simultaneously blinding these very same scholars to meanings hiding in plain sight on the text's surface. A more polemical variation on this argument is found in Rita Felski's essay. But, as Rachel Buurma noted in her lecture, the only speaker to advocate against historicism explicitly is Walter Benn Michaels.
Unsurprisingly, then, a recurring topic at the symposium concerned the distinction between a detached and "antiquarian" historicism (to use the adjective Michaels introduced into the discussion of Best's paper on Toni Morrison's A Mercy), and an ethically and politically committed brand of historicism—which might possibly but not necessarily take its cue from an identitarian politics such as the aim to recover the stories of marginalized or silenced populations. For Americanists this might center on the lost or diminished voices of slaves in the Americas though, from a different point of view, historian Andrew Sartori (whose paper was read at the conference by Zack Sell in History) pointed to African responses to the imposition of capitalist structures in the imperial era. In discussion and in his paper, Michaels argued that understanding the past is neither sufficient for nor even necessary to changing the present. In particular, understanding the historical origins of the high levels of economic inequality in the United States is well and good, he argued; but it does not tell us what to do next, and it does not do that work for us. Most of all, Michaels argued, identitarian focus on race and the history of slavery loses sight of the fact that inequality is increasingly a question of class rather than race. Neither the presenters nor the audience seemed satisfied with Michaels's more polemical claims—including Best, whose published arguments in favor of "surface reading" did not appear to tally with Michaels's position against the history of race in particular and the use of historicism more generally. Nonetheless, those claims did lead to the most energetic discussions of the day.
The claim that racial history is antiquarian may seem simply false to some, but Lauren Goodlad offered a useful way of getting past the debate when she suggested that even an antiquarian historicism could be pedagogically important. Our undergraduates, she pointed out, do not necessarily understand that the world in which they live is significantly different from the world of thirty years ago (or 130 years ago): that is, they often don't understand that the common sense of any given period has, historically, changed over time, with so-called conventional wisdom often (as it is now) in contest. "Mere" antiquarian history, which strives to reconstruct past events and structures of feeling, enables students to formulate their own political opinions—once they are able to realize that the status quo is not (and has never been) either natural or eternal.
My own experience as a teacher of film bears out the significance of these questions. Many times I have interrupted students whose urge to analyze "deep" phenomena blinds them to the obvious:
CINEMA TEACHER: So what do these [camera] framings of the gunfighters do here?
STUDENT: Well, the outlaw is like, a wanderer between the city and the wilderness, which is why he's wearing a hat—hats are a product of civilization—even though we can still see the mountains behind him. And he's from Red River, which is probably something about communism and the Russians—
CINEMA TEACHER: Yeah, but in the reverse shot, you can see the mountains behind the sheriff, too, and the mountains are out of focus in both shots. And the sheriff is also wearing a hat. But over the sheriff's shoulder you can see the stagecoach waiting, and it's in focus. Let's just talk about what we see and hear during these two shots—then let's talk function, then let's talk motivation.
STUDENT: Well, the outlaw is like, a wanderer between the city and the wilderness, which is why he's wearing a hat—hats are a product of civilization—even though we can still see the mountains behind him. And he's from Red River, which is probably something about communism and the Russians—
CINEMA TEACHER: Yeah, but in the reverse shot, you can see the mountains behind the sheriff, too, and the mountains are out of focus in both shots. And the sheriff is also wearing a hat. But over the sheriff's shoulder you can see the stagecoach waiting, and it's in focus. Let's just talk about what we see and hear during these two shots—then let's talk function, then let's talk motivation.
So, yes, "surface reading" makes sense: for students as well as teachers in the humanities.
Yet, I would add that arguments about motivation, why a certain technique appears in an artwork, can and should use historicist methods, especially in the classroom. In the above story, is the camera technique salient without knowing that two years earlier, the same production company made a successful (but now largely forgotten) spy film using the same personnel and equipment? Does the western's supposedly distinctive mountain landscape enter plain sight because the producers shot the film in a location where the costs of labor were low (say, the right-to-work state of North Carolina), or in a country without any movie industry (say, the Canary Islands)—far from the usual locations where Hollywood and Cinecittà shoot their horse operas?
Thus, even non-suspicious research into the histories of production and reception can give our students wider bases on which to interpret texts, whether those interpretations lean toward formalism, "symptomatic" reading, or some blend of the two. Love's call for "descriptive reading" that is close but not deep may require the descriptive inputs of "antiquarian" history–even as students are enabled to understand (pace Goodlad's point) that the conditions of textual production and reception are not and have never been eternal.
My hypothetical student's impulse to find latent or hidden political meanings is not blameworthy, but students imitate their teachers whether or not they have mastered the hermeneutic techniques that their teachers use with such apparent ease. We might do well to rein in our desire to map the submerged part of the iceberg for our undergraduates, until we have carefully mapped the part that anyone can see, and maybe we should convince them that our surface mappings are thorough and accurate before we send them into the depths.


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Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Possession is 9/10ths of Guffaw
You'll have to excuse that subject line; I've topped off my evening's viewing with some BEANY & CECIL cartoons and the puns are pouring out of me.
But it's a true enough analogy when it comes to the movie I chose for my evening's main viewing, Amando de Ossorio's EXORCIST rip-off DEMON WITCH CHILD [LA ENDEMONIADA, 1975], which arrived here on VHS many years ago under the Dostoevskian moniker THE POSSESSED. This tape has been in my attic for about twenty years, watched only once, and I was delighted to find that time had stood still in terms of the tape itself; it still plays like it was brand new. The last time I saw DEMON WITCH CHILD, I merely thought it was bad, so I'm even more delighted to discover that my response to the movie today, twenty years further on, is conspicuously richer and more complex. I'm going to write it up for VW's "Things From the Attic" department, so I'm not going to review it here, but I do feel like previewing some of my thoughts on how this film has dated.
If you haven't seen it -- and there's not many opportunities to do so, as it's never turned up on cable, laserdisc or DVD -- it's the story of an old witch, Mother Gaultier ("the Mother of the Old Ones"), who leaps to her death through a glass window after being arrested for the abduction of an infant required by her coven's human sacrifice. (You know that comic "crashing" sound effect? It actually accompanies Mother Gaultier's suicide, right down to the sound of the plate rattling to a standstill.) In turn, her spirit possesses the body of the police commissioner's daughter, Susan. Before you know it, Susan (played by Marián Salgado, who was 11 or 12 at the time but looks somewhat older, thanks to her sexily cascading hair) is questioning the status quo, criticizing the hypocracies of her elders, sneering at the terminally staid, and startling everyone with words like "shit" and "fuck." Her governess (Lone Fleming, from the first two BLIND DEAD pictures) wails, "Her friends couldn't have taught her such words!"
My friends, welcome to the Twilight Zone. The amazing thing about DEMON WITCH CHILD is that, if you look past Susan's levitation (where the tracks doing the lift are in plain sight) and her transformation into Mother Gaultier and her spider-walk down the outside of her house (during which her skirt curiously defies gravity), everything this demonically-possessed child does to arouse terror in the hearts of her parents, caregivers, and local clergy would pass for standard behavior in an American child of her age in the year 2006!
This was 1975, of course. THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW (or its Spanish equivalent) was still on the air. GIRLS GONE WILD, gangsta rap, and FEAR FACTOR were still no more than glints in the eyes of future pioneers of the arts. It was a different world then. But that doesn't make it any less amazing that, seen today, DEMON WITCH CHILD is only a scene or two removed from a straightforward cautionary tale about the generation gap. In fact, while watching it, I was often less alarmed by the doings of the kid with the snotty attitude than by the ultraconservative, reactionary ways of the adults who encircled her like so many prison bars. That is, until she kills and castrates one of them, and gift-wraps the severed genitals as a present for the victim's girlfriend. That's when Ossorio's movie lets you know, in case you still haven't caught on (as I hadn't), that it's not actually subversive entertainment and has every intention of siding with the grown-ups. Of course, it's possible that the English dubbed version is a travesty and that the original Spanish version is a more sober viewing experience, but I doubt it.
If 35 mm prints of DEMON WITCH CHILD could be found, it might well be the title that could revive the '70s phenomenon of the Midnight Movie. There's nothing that REEFER MADNESS or DAMAGED LIVES have that it doesn't have, and the lousy dubbing adds considerably to its pleasures. I'm in no particular rush to watch my tape of DEMON WITCH CHILD again... but I can't wait to tell my friends about it, and it would be an evening to remember to see it some night in a darkened auditorium with a bunch of of stoned kids out past their curfews.
Would you like to know more? Okay.
Here's a link to an amusing "visual examination" of the film I found online.
And in case you're wondering what Marián Salgado is doing today... incredibly, she's a blogger in Madrid! Her blog is in Spanish of course, and her only entry to date (from what I can understand of it) is sad and possibly tragic in nature; that said, she does seem to be reaching out to others by posting such a message, so I would urge you to proceed there only with the best and kindest of intentions. (And please write to me of anything you find out.) Naturally, I don't hold Ms. Salgado responsible for the shortcomings or the silliness of DEMON WITCH CHILD -- I rather enjoyed her in it -- and her only other movie credit is attached to one of the great classics of Spanish horror: Narcisco Ibañez-Serrador's WOULD YOU KILL A CHILD? aka ISLAND OF THE DAMNED (1976). I sincerely wish her well.
Posted by Tim Lucas at Wednesday, June 28, 2006
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