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Harish Feb 5, 11:47 pm
Thanks a lot Adrian. This is really great. I read on Smashing magazine, that this can be used on commercial work, themes, etc. is that true?
Wiik Jun 15, 8:24 pm
Why downvote Adrians' post? Silly!
Does this mean I can sell a site design on e.g. themeforest and include these icons in the zip file? (And of course you'll get credit for the icons!)
Nastya Feb 12, 5:06 pm
Beautiful set, thanks a lot. Can i use it in commercial project without any attribution?
Marc Feb 19, 6:08 am
These are beautiful! Loved them so much, I swapped out the previous ones I had in my personal site! Thanks to the open web for paying it forward~
Eduardo Santos Feb 20, 10:10 pm
Nice set! Thanks. Will there be more icons available? Any future length (over 100 or 200 icons in the same style) package that we can buy (or free)?
Toni Jun 12, 1:23 pm
It's possible to change the icons in "FONT_HTML_CSS" ? i want to make my own icons but using ur format. How can i do it ?
Thnx ur amazing dude!
Sergey Shmidt Jun 12, 7:13 pm
Hey Toni!
Thank you for the reply! You can use http://icomoon.io/app/ to create your own set of html/css font from svg icons.
kz411 Jul 17, 9:50 pm
hey! please create a word/pfd/excel. i like this font but i need these icons to avoid using an image for them =) thanks!!
Ben Major Aug 9, 4:35 pm
Thanks for your great work on these. Out of interest, what is the rounded sans-serif font you have used in the app screenshot? I've been looking for it for quite some time.
Thanks again for your awesome work on Linecons man.
Ning Sep 17, 1:07 pm
Thank you for giving this.
However, I seem have problem download it.
I didn't get any email. Would you please let me know what should I do?
Frank Sep 19, 3:24 am
I received the email, but when I go to download the icons I get a message from dropbox saying the file doesn't exist 503. Have you moved the icon pack off of your dropbox??
Tomas Oct 14, 1:52 pm
HI Guys! Thanks for great icons. Download link is wrong though? It downloads PolarisUI-Free.zip.. thanks
Nir Bentia Oct 20, 8:01 am
Just wondering here…
Some icons have rounded corners on the outside, but on the inside they're 90 degrees.
Is there any way to achieve this but to manually draw a shape on top of it and Dividing them?
Alice Nov 20, 1:21 pm
Hello guys,
thanks for the great icons!
I was wondering if I'm allowed to use some of them in a design for sale? Also, is it okay to customize them?
nastya Nov 28, 12:48 pm
Hi, i've used some icons from this pack in web site and now client wants to use your icon for print.
Is it allowed? Or do he need buy some license?
Thank you
Valerie Dec 10, 12:38 pm
Hello Adrian, I absolutely love your work!
I'm a student in multimedia and I really wanted to use your icons for my schoolproject but with school I had to buy Adobe CC (Creative Cloud) and I can't open your icons with mij CC version, could you make an .eps or something like that for all the people like me that have a more recent version?
Thank you! :)
Eldar Apr 26, 7:04 pm
Great set !
Can an icon from this set be used for a brand of an unfunded startup ?
Daniely Wright May 13, 12:08 pm
I used the HTML/CSS version of the icons, but they're not showing up in IE. Any idea why this is?
Pratik Feb 26, 3:51 pm
Can we have more icons in same line as it seems lots of icons are missing to use on website?
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Asian currencies had their worst weekly loss in six months as signs of a deeper economic slowdown in China and the Federal Reserve's support for tapering asset purchases weighed on emerging markets.
South Korea's won led the declines as a gauge of manufacturing in China, the nation's biggest export market, fell to a seven-month low. Thailand's baht had its steepest five-day drop of 2014 as anti-government protests turned deadly, while violence in Ukraine also damped sentiment. Fed policy makers backed further stimulus cuts at their January review, the minutes of the meeting showed, a program that drove capital into developing countries.
"Investors remain cautious and are concerned about downside risks coming from a slowdown in China and political instability in Thailand, Ukraine, Turkey and Argentina," said Dariusz Kowalczyk, a Hong Kong-based strategist at Credit Agricole CIB. "There are potential outflows to Treasuries as the Fed tapering is likely to push their yields up as well."
The Bloomberg JPMorgan-Asia Dollar Index (ADXY), which tracks the region's 10 most-active currencies, declined 0.6 percent last week, the biggest decline since Aug. 23, to 115.33 in Singapore. The won dropped 0.8 percent, the most in a month, to 1,072.09 per dollar in Seoul, data compiled by Bloomberg shows.
A preliminary Purchasing Managers' Index of factory output in China fell to 48.3 this month from 49.5 in January, HSBC Holdings Plc and Markit Economics reported Feb. 20, below the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of 49.5. A reading lower than 50 indicates contraction.
Yuan Slides
The yuan headed for its biggest weekly slide since September 2011 in offshore trading, while the onshore spot rate also fell following the numbers.
The currency dropped 1.2 percent from Feb. 14 to 6.1082 per dollar in the offshore market in Hong Kong, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The onshore rate declined 0.4 percent in Shanghai to 6.0914, the biggest five-day loss since June 2012.
"The PMI is helping to scale back renminbi appreciation expectations," said Paul Mackel, Hong Kong-based head of Asian currency research at HSBC. "I'd expect offshore yuan profit-taking to extend."
On the U.S. front, several Fed officials backed a continued decrease in bond purchases unless there is an "appreciable change" in the U.S. economic outlook, according to the minutes released Feb. 19. The central bank has pared the debt-buying program by $20 billion this year to $65 billion a month and plans to make further cuts at future meetings.
Some $21 billion was pulled from emerging markets in the first six weeks of 2014, EPFR Global data show.
Thai Protests
Bank of Korea Governor Kim Choong Soo said this week the nation's economy will show stability even as the U.S. tapers stimulus and that its monetary policy is "very accommodative."
In Thailand, a violent clash between police and protesters on Feb. 18 left five people dead and injured at least 69. The demonstrators are ramping up efforts to oust Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on claims her government is corrupt. Data on Feb. 17 showed the economy grew 0.6 percent last quarter from a year earlier, the slowest pace in almost two years.
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Elsewhere in the region, India's rupee weakened 0.3 percent during the five days to 62.13 versus the greenback in Mumbai. The ringgit climbed 0.3 percent for a third weekly advance to 3.2954 and Indonesia's rupiah strengthened 0.7 percent to 11,743. The Philippine peso gained 0.4 percent to 44.555. Taiwan's dollar fell 0.2 percent to NT$30.395 and the Vietnamese dong was steady at 21,105.
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This article is a travel topic
Tourism is a multi-billion dollar industry and it's hardly a surprise that many large and small software companies are offering various tools to help the traveller on the road. A lot of this software can be safely ignored; however, a few are truly invaluable and deserve some mention.
Metro is a small application originally developed for the Palm Pilot platform. It stores the route plans of subway and/or bus services of various cities around the world. It allows you to easily find the best connection between two places using the public transportation network of your current city. It will display instructions on what lines to take, where to change, and an estimate of how long the trip will take. It does not store schedules. The current version (April 2004) covers over 250 cities from Australia to Wales.
The author of these lines tested it with various cities (Paris, for example). Metro does a very good job at what it was designed to do. It's highly recommended for anyone with a supported PDA who travels into a city with more than two subway lines.
Portable Apps
Portable Apps are portable applications that can be put on any USB drive/iPod/media device and toted along with the user. The apps can be launched from the USB drive and used nearly anywhere in the world. Apps vary greatly, from web browsers and email programs (Mozilla's Firefox and Thunderbird), to word processors (OpenOffice), and even audio and image editing software (Audacity and GIMP). Portable apps are free and lightweight, and are only limited to the amount of space the user's drive allows.
The English version of the Wikipedia is easily the world's largest free encyclopedia, a printed edition of this reference guide would fill a whole bookshelf, but you might prefer to carry it in your pocket or check it in as hand luggage. Hopefully this script can be adapted to Wikitravel, so that a copy of Wikitravel can come with us on the go.


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The perils of catalogues
When the weather is foul and we are not in the least tempted outside - or, indeed, when the weather is beautiful but the day ends quite early in the afternoon - these are the most enticing moments for catalogue browsing. To be transported to another world: what bliss!
We should also be going through last year's notes and picking out the things we should like to order and grow ourselves, but catalogues remind us of what we might have overlooked. Yet they are full of traps.
"New" is the most enticing adjective, the most likely to appeal to our baser yearnings. "Old", I have to point out, is likely to mean well tested and a worthwhile survivor. Perhaps that is where our attention should be focused for a start.
Daydreaming is good when you're not in the mood for being active, but you need to reserve a strong sense of scepticism. After all, the plant seller has to make a living, so he needs to present a beguiling portrait of his goods. If a colour is referred to as "subtle", it's probably recessive and insignificant. Subtle combinations of colours are the kind that you'll have to point out to a visitor, otherwise they'll go unnoticed.
One recommendation for a plant is if it has received the RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM) - this will usually be mentioned and rightly so, as the plant in question will have been judged worthy from its practical performance, either in an RHS trial or in the gardens of the judges, who cover a large cross-section of the professional and amateur public. But... here we go again. The AGM will generally have been awarded to a clone that has been truly tried out and assessed. The plant on offer by the nurseryman, although of the same name and description, may be an inferior clone.
The only safe course is to see what you are buying, when it is doing its stuff, and to judge by what you see - remembering, additionally, to take into account the length of time that it is likely to be looking attractive.
Nurseries build up a reputation for reliability (or otherwise). It is only natural to gravitate to them for supplies, although, of course, you want to give new entrants into the fray a chance to prove themselves. Catalague browsing is fun, anyway. Some catalogues are witty and really well written. It's a pity if they have no mail-order business, but they may be worth a collecting detour.
The relevant catalogues probably arrived last autumn, but few of us study them seriously till the new year, and this dead season is just the moment.


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NFL Free Agents 2012: Michael Bush to Bears Proves Elite Backs Are ExpendableMarch 22, 2012
Elite NFL running backs are fast becoming expendable.
Just ask Matt Forte.
After the Chicago Bears and Forte failed to see eye-to-eye earlier in the re-signing process, the team decided to offer the running back the franchise tag to keep him from hitting the open market.
In response, Forte has since threatened to hold out of the Bears' offseason workouts.
According to the Chicago Tribune, new general manager Phil Emery has said the two sides are still negotiating:
We continue to work with Matt and his agent in that effort. I'm not going to get into details, but we continue to work with each other to find common ground. Obviously, we want Matt to be a Bear for the long term. We're working toward that resolution.
The Bears have since bolstered their roster by adding the best running back on the open market in Michael Bush.
Per NFL Network's Jason La Canfora:
RB Michael Bush deal with Bears 4yrs $14m, $7m guar #freeagency— Jason La Canfora (@JasonLaCanfora) March 22, 2012
It's a deal worth $3.5 million per year—a far cry from the type of money Forte has been looking for, not to mention that the Bears are only on the hook for $7 million.
That's less than they would be paying Forte for one year if he were to sign the franchise tag, which is at $7.7 million.
In essence, the Bears have put themselves in a no-lose situation. Even if Forte decides to hold out from now until kingdom come, the team won't miss a beat.
I'm not in any way trying to suggest that Bush equals Forte. What I am saying is that the line between elite and serviceable at the running back position these days is blurry at best.
The NFL is a passing league, a quarterback-driven league.
In Chicago, Jay Cutler—not Matt Forte—runs the show. While Forte is exceptionally gifted on the field, he is only a cog in the machine, not the man running the machine.
When the Minnesota Vikings paid Adrian Peterson in the offseason (seven-year, $96 million), I was stunned at the lack of perception on their part. They were still stuck in the past. You don't pay running backs that kind of money in the NFL any more.
Emery and the Bears understand this truth.
Running backs, elite or otherwise, are going to get injured. Their shelf-lives are extremely limited.
Just ask the Vikings.
Besides, just look at what the Green Bay Packers and New England Patriots have been able to do lately without an elite running back on their rosters.
The Bears made the right decision to bring in Bush. To be honest, the deal they made with him is a steal.
Last year, Bush only started nine games. However, he still managed to run for nearly 1,000 yards and score seven touchdowns on the ground. Additionally, he caught 37 passes for 418 yards and one touchdown.
He will be more than adequate to handle full-time starting duties for the Bears in 2012 if Forte should decide to pout all year long and miss the season.
What's more, if Forte wants to come back, the Bears would then have the best one-two punch at the position in the league.
You can win in the NFL without an elite running back. Forte needs to come to that realization and lower his expectations a bit.
Otherwise, he'll be the only one upset at the end of the day because Bush gives the Bears all the talent they need to succeed next year and beyond.
Fans in Chicago must be falling in love with Emery—finally, a man with some football sense!


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green beer & green breastmilk.. what should i do?!!! HELP
In leau of St Patrick's day, I am reminded that not all of us use our common sense and good moral judgements and as a parent, we can't afford not to.
I have witnessed my 20 year old cousin consuming alcohol underage.. big deal right who wasn't drinking at 20? Problem is she is still nursing her 15 month old daughter! She is an all out, in your face breastfeeder and while i prefer some modesty paticularly in the company of my two little kids and ahem, my husband i havent made a big deal about that. What does bother me is her lack of judgement when she drinks and then nurses her daughter very publically so I know she isn't pumping and dumping. While maybe, just maybe, a glass of wine may be acceptable ( it sure isnt to me) she drinks a few glasses! Some of these instances have been at family parties such as a baptism and a birthday. once she did it at my christmas party.
Tonight she posted on her facebook, herself dribking a very large pint of green beer. I just want to smack my head on the screen of my laptop!! Why??!! her family is all under age, she is 20 and her sister 18, her mom has serious medical problems and they hang around drinking and watching soaps all day "watch'? the baby. all i couls think is great, baby is getting green breastmilk tonight...
what are your thought? Am i making too big of a deal of this? Should i say somethins?! what would you do?? I commented on her post " pump and dump, scarlett is too young to celebrate st patty's day like that haha"
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Seafarers under increased psychological pressure
The North of England P&I club has noted an increase in incidents involving crew members suffering from psychological problems at sea. In the latest issue of its loss-prevention newsletter ', the club suggests that growing fear of criminalization could now be a contributory factor.
According to North of England's risk-management manager Tony Baker, "It is not clear what the main causes are, but family pressures and increasing anxiety about criminalization of seafarers are certainly possibilities. The symptoms are on the rise, ranging from mild anxiety attacks and depression to aggressive behavior to fellow crewmembers and, more tragically, suicide."
Factors also contributing to the worsening mental health of crewmembers are cited as increasing length of time spent away from home, reduced ability to get relieved from a ship and greater pressure to remain at sea longer and send more funds home.
"In the modern world of shipping, turnaround times in port are also much quicker and shore leave may be restricted by the authorities," says Baker. "This creates more work for both officers and crews and less opportunity to relax, resulting in greater fatigue and stress. But whatever the cause, mental illness must be taken extremely seriously, both to protect individual crewmembers but also their colleagues on board."
North of England points out that true mental illness occurs independently of any physical ailment. Normally a difference in behavior can be seen, ranging from just slightly unusual to completely abnormal, though the sufferer may not be aware of it.
The club says it is very difficult to diagnose mental illness in detail and all that can usually be done at sea is to recognize the condition, handle the situation correctly and deliver the patient into skilled hands at the earliest opportunity.
"Anyone who appears to deeply depressed or who talks of suicide should never be left alone," warns Baker. "In practice this can be difficult, but the crewmember should be confined to a cabin and remain their under supervision. The deck is a dangerous place and the ship's side may be a temptation."


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Pope, at audience, contrasts St. Bonaventure with St. Thomas Aquinas
March 17, 2010
Continuing his series of weekly talks on the great intellectual figures of Church history, Pope Benedict XVI spoke at his public audience of March 17 on St. Bonaventure, offering his third talk on the great Franciscan theologian.
Together with his contemporary, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Bonaventure advanced "that fruitful dialogue between faith and reason that characterized the Christian Middle Ages, making it a period of great intellectual vivacity as well as of faith and ecclesial renewal." The Pope said that the "spiritual freshness" of these two great theologians was a factor in the movement that "renewed the entire Church in the 13th century."
St. Thomas distinguished between knowledge and action, assigning to knowledge a higher value, the Pope told the crowd in St. Peter's Square. But St. Bonaventure introduced a third element, "wisdom," which includes the former two and moves on toward contemplation. "For St. Bonaventure," the Pope observed, "the primacy of love is decisive."
Their separate approaches led Sts. Thomas and Bonaventure to define man's ultimate aim in different ways, the Pope continued. St. Thomas said that man finally wants to see God. St. Bonaventure argued that the ultimate happiness comes in loving God. "In this context," the Pope continued, "we could say that the highest category for St. Thomas is truth, while for St. Bonaventure it is goodness; yet it would be wrong to see a contradiction between these two positions."
The resolution of the two different approaches lies in the fact that "where reason no longer sees, love does," the Pope said. St. Bonaventure did not reject the power of reason, but argued that ultimately the love of Christ transcends it. Thus, he concluded, St. Bonaventure offered "a great school of mysticism which ... represents a high point in the history of the human spirit."
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Did anybody but I ever read about "St. Bonaventure on Women"? I recall leafing through it in my Catholic college library during the '60s and saw some shocking stuff. When I told the librarian, an Ursuline nun, I was told that I should read it "in context", that he was writing to seminarians and the women he excoriated so vehemently were prostitutes. Didn't get much "primacy of love" in that treatment. Can somebody straighten me out?
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A man has been charged following a collision that left a grandmother with serious injuries.
Linda Reeve, 57, broke both her arms and legs, shattered her kneecap and suffered head injuries when she was hit while crossing Whitehall Road, close to the junction with Brooklands Road in Sale on Wednesday, January 23.
She was taken to Wythenshawe Hospital, where her condition was described as critical but stable.
Nathan Evans, 21, of Swayland Drive, Sale, has been charged with driving without due care and attention, failing to stop at the scene of an accident, and failing to report an accident within 24 hours.
He is due to appear at Trafford Magistrates Court on Thursday, February 7.


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Forgive the cross posting. It is nice when my worlds come together! Access to forms was a recent issue on the Resna list serv. I agree with Kelly about the PDF converters doing as much harm as good. Of course, another thread reveals that I feel that way with regard to PDF in general! At the vocational rehabilitation center where I work, paper forms have been a problem for years. This is true for folks with vision impairments but also motor and cognitive issues as well. In practice, getting the forms in PDF or even in the original WordPerfect (or Word) file format has not helped. Various clinicians have experiment with a variety of OCR form tool software, but none have been a real panacea. The problem with these (and with getting the form as a word processing document) is that they look okay in print, but are not designed for filling out on-screen. A typical example is that a line is created by the underscore character or underlined spaces. Typing on the "line" moves text all over the page! This is the simplest example, there are lots more problems with boxes, font size changes, and the like. Our approach has been to CAREFULLY re-create the form in the word processor so that the person using the screen reader (or other adaptive technology) can search for "INDENT" (or similar white space code) and then safely enter text without effecting the formatting of the form. There is still the possibility that the person will backspace one time too often (and start deleting code) and there are other hazards. Usually we can train around these issues. This is obviously a very labor intensive approach, and not a very generalizable solution to the problem. There are advertised products that are suppose to take paper forms and convert them into databases. We have not been able to make them work, especially with screen readers. Has anyone else had better success? There are some nice high-end adaptive technologies out now for dealing with paper, but they tend to be read-only mechnanisms. Has anyone had good sucess with the Kurtzweil Omni 1000 or Omni 3000 (www.kurzweiledu.com) when it comes to accessing forms? Robert Neff wrote: > This is a reply to Kelly: > > I agree. Not all files are seamlessly converted. You need to be aware > what you are converting. If it is a document with text, then it should be > ok. However if it is a form, it may not convert well. You should test > before you post! > > Does anyone know of PDF Form (where you can enter data)? Would like to > see how these convert. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kelly Ford [SMTP:email@example.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 7:57 PM > To: firstname.lastname@example.com > Subject: RE: Re: Adobe And TRACE Launch Enhanced PDF Access Via Email > > I don't want to start a debate here but my personal opinion is that all > thse converters do as much harm as good. If you ask me pdf is a > problematic file format at best for people that are blind. I recently > tried to convert a batch of IRS documents and the results were disasterous. > Yet the person at the IRS knew all about these converters and pointed me > directly to them and seemed oh so very pleased that the documents would be > made accessible by this convert technology.Received on Wednesday, 2 September 1998 11:46:11 UTC
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DALLAS — Texas coach Mack Brown pulled an unprecedented stunt Tuesday during his appearance at the Big 12 Media Days.
For the first time in the 16-season history of the event, Brown was accompanied to his media gathering by cheerleaders representing the conference's 10 schools.
"I asked the ladies to join in," Brown said. "If I had any hard questions, I would let them support me. So we'll just ask them to step up and answer any questions that we need here. Got my back. Questions?"
Brown's acted prompted a quick question from veteran Oklahoman columnist Berry Tramel, who in Brown's first question asked them who they wanted to start at quarterback for the Longhorns this season.
Brown appeared no closer to picking a starter between Case McCoy and David Ash after that question.
"They would want the worst one. I think that would be without question," Brown deadpanned. "There aren't any Longhorn cheerleaders in that group, there."


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President Bush has a reputation as a "regular guy," but everyone knows he's no fan of dissent, especially when uttered by critics as acerbic as Stephen Colbert.
Departing from the clubby tone of the White House Correspondents' Association dinners past, Comedy Central's faux conservative pundit didn't tone down his material last weekend to accommodate a president who's usually sleeping when his program airs.
One can understand Mr. Bush's irritation with Mr. Colbert's self-styled brand of "truthiness" - he's not used to it. But why did organizers of the annual event invite a satirist known for his daily skewering of the Bush presidency to headline what has always been a chummy gathering of Washington's political and media elites?
When The Colbert Report spun off from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last year, it established itself as one-half of the smartest hour of political satire on cable TV. On his talk show, Mr. Colbert plays a Bill O'Reilly-style pundit who ostensibly supports the President. While praising Mr. Bush, Mr. Colbert undermines him with well-modulated irony.
"I stand by [President Bush] because he stands for things," Mr. Colbert told the dinner crowd. "Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound with the most powerfully staged photo ops in the world."
Washington insiders accused Mr. Colbert of violating an unspoken rule that the press go easy on the President one night a year. Coverage of Mr. Bush's self-deprecating skit with a look-a-like entered the 24-hour news cycle with little or no mention of Mr. Colbert's scathing monologue.
This isn't surprising. Mr. Colbert indicted the D.C. media establishment for mindless complacency as well. To mention Mr. Colbert's criticism of the President would also have meant examining his charge of media bungling, too.
Mr. Colbert received a chilly reception in the hall. Hacks and politicians were scandalized by his honesty and "bad manners."
What did they expect Mr. Colbert to do? It was like hiring George Carlin for his street cred, but hoping he'd turn out to be more like Yacov Smirnoff. Instead Stephen Colbert did his shtick while media royalty and Mr. Bush did theirs.
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Justin Bieber is planning a very special Valentine's Day treat for one lucky group of fans – the teen pop star is set to show up unannounced at a screening of his new concert movie Never Say Never.
The 16-year-old hitmaker has been celebrating the release of the behind-the-scenes documentary and he left one Los Angeles theatre full of devotees stunned on Saturday when he stopped by a showing with his mentor Usher.
Taking to his Twitter before stepping into the cinema, Bieber wrote: "About to surprise another theatre with the crew!! U support us so we support u. Thank U! Let's shock the world."
Usher also tweeted about the event moments later: "We surprised some fans… @ Regal LA LIVE today Never know who you'll see when you go to the movies…"
And Bieber has been surprising even more theaters and wants to repeat the treat on Monday and make this Valentine's Day one to remember.
He says, "I'm gonna take my mom out (for Valentine's Day), then in the night time, I'm actually flying out, but before that I wanna go to a random theatre that's playing my movie and just surprise them."
If you've been following Justin on twitter, then you've probably seen videos from his theater surprises. Check out one of his visits below as well as his performance from the Grammys last night.
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1Semmelweis University 2nd Dep. of Paediatrics, Budapest, Hungary; 2Semmelweis University 2nd Dep. of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary.
A 17-year-old boy was referred to our Department. In his medical history Crohns disease had been supposed because of abdominal pain and distention. He had previously undergone minor surgery as having large tongue with neuromas and hypertrophic gums. Due to his marfanoid appearance, arachnodactyly, massive eyebrows and lips together with his medical history, multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B (MEN2B) was suspected, which is a very uncommon hereditary disease. It consists of typical dysmorphia, mucosal neuromas, ganglioneuromatosis, medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) and phaeocromocytoma, and the prognosis depends on the presence of MTC.
Two weeks later a 10-year-old girl presented with a hard mass at her neck. She had massive lips, neuromas on the tongue and solitary thyroid nodule. Thyroid scan showed a cold nodule in the right lobe, and fine needle aspiration cytology suggested MTC.
Genetic analysis was carried out in both patients and revealed a point mutation at codon 918 (M918T) of the proto-oncogene RET. Adrenomedullary function tests showed normal levels of serum and urinary fractionated catecholamines, however, high levels of plasma calcitonin related to MTC. Imaging studies did not identify metastases. Both patients underwent total thyroidectomy and lymph node dissection. Histological examination verified MTC in the thyroids and in the lymph nodes, too. After the operation the plasma calcitonin level of the girl decreased, but it remained high in the boy, so PET-CT was performed to look for metastases. These were found at his cervical region, therefore a reoperation was made with a more extensive node dissection. Since the operations (2006) both patients have been doing well.
Our conclusion is that whenever the M918T mutation of proto-oncogene RET is found total thyroidectomy should be done right after the diagnosis, or if possible within the first 6 months of life.
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Ciara recently went on NY's Hot 97 for an one-on-one interview with Angie Martinez. Watch the Ciara interview below, as she talks about her new album, Fantasy Ride.
Ciara also appeared on SNL this weekend, performing Love Sex Magic and Never Ever. We just posted the two Ciara performances on our site today!
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MIAMI -- The videos were spliced together to give the false impression of never-ending effort and resilience. "It is our destiny," growled the narrator amid highlights of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh dunking and celebrating one after the next.
The JumboTron dangled over the Miami Heat court like a piano above a large plate of glass. From its screens read this concluding message:
And hardly anyone did. The only audible noise was coming out of the loudspeakers. The support had to be synthesized because moments earlier Paul Pierce had stared down LeBron James from the three-point line, the ball dribbling from his hand to the beat of a calm and confident heart. "Right when he gets into the footwork, you knew he was going to shoot it," said Celtics coach Doc Rivers. "At least I did, because I've seen him enough." But James, who before this series had mentioned how well he and Pierce knew the games of one another, backed away to leave Pierce the space for the three-pointer that gave the Celtics a four-point lead that robbed the arena that everyone loves to hate of its bluster.
The Celtics stole a 94-90 win in Game 5 on Tuesday and a 3-2 lead in the Eastern Conference finals, just six days after they'd fallen 0-2 in overtime while Pierce watched from the bench after fouling out. Miami must now win Game 6 on Thursday in Boston. Anyone who has been paying attention to the last four games will realize how difficult that's going to be.
Afterward Dwyane Wade would roll his eyes and laugh sardonically over the bad luck that followed the two-handed dunk attempt by Boston's Brandon Bass that Wade blocked midway into the fourth. The ball caromed high and was tapped by Rajon Rondo out to Mickael Pietrus in the corner, and, in fact, there was nothing lucky about that play. "Rondo not only saved it," said Rivers, "but he saved it toward one of our shooters."
The loose balls were there for Miami to seize, and yet they surrendered to the older, thinner team, with a bench made up of leftover players like Pietrus, who sank that three-pointer from the corner tapped out to him by Rondo and in so doing slashed Miami's lead down to 78-75 with 6:01 left. Pietrus, who was waived in December by Phoenix and will need knee surgery this summer, went 5-of-8 from the floor (including a couple of threes) while his defense helped prevent LeBron James (30 points on 25 shots) and Wade (27 on 22 shots) from dominating the game. The case can be made that no one in a Miami uniform helped James and Wade as much as Pietrus helped the Celtics. For Miami it was the two of them going one-on-one while no one else could manage double-figures.
You can see where this is headed for the Heat. If they don't win Thursday and lose in six games to an old contender that needed seven games in the previous round to survive the low-scoring 76ers, then this outcome is going to land hard on coach Erik Spoelstra. The Heat are going to look at the coaching moves and the inspirational team-building of Rivers and wonder why they can't squeeze more out of less as Boston has done. Maybe Wade is unable to create his own shots because he is injured, as speculated, or maybe he breaks off plays and attempts impossibly hard turnaround jumpers and sprawling drives because he likes those chances better than he likes the idea of running the plays called by Spoelstra. The truth will come out soon enough if the Heat don't put together the kind of comeback that seems beyond them.
"OK," said Spoelstra as he began his postgame news conference with a statement of phrases pasted out of Pat Riley's old notebooks. "It's a loss, and that's all it is. And that's what our focus is right now, is to fight any kind of noise from the outside or any human condition, and to collectively come together strong to prepare for the next game. And this is what the playoffs are all about. It tests your collective character and your resolve. And this is the journey that we have to be on right now, for whatever reason."
Human condition? Collective character? These are not the kinds of things James and Wade hear Rivers saying to his players, who have had no reason to believe they can win another championship and yet stand five games away from the kind of goal that James and Wade insisted was going to be so easy two Julys ago on this very court. Not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven.
There were 15.2 seconds remaining, during which Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett would each make a pair of free throws to protect and extend their team's 90-88 lead. Rivers was diagramming the inbound pass as Alonzo Mourning, the retired Heat star who six years ago won a championship alongside Wade, looked out at the audience blindly from the video screens. "No excuses, no second chances, no regrets," he said. "Seize this moment. Make the decision right now to be a champion. This is the time when we stand tall and make a point about who we are."
Of course it's unfair to single out these videos, because every team in the NBA shows versions of the same theme. They are cited here and now because they had so clearly and dramatically lost their meaning. What worked for Riley in the 1980s and for Mourning in the new millennium has not yet worked for James and Wade. The fans had begun to leave by the dozens with 41.1 seconds remaining, when their team was trailing 90-86, which should have been a manageable deficit for two extraordinary stars. And yet to Riley's left were bare patches of expensive lower-bowl seats, shiny and bald, like hair torn out of the franchise's head. For all of their promise, the stars of Miami had generated little faith. When the Celtics were shooting free throws down the stretch, they were greeted by half-hearted boos that sounded nothing like what the Heat will hear Thursday in Boston.
Miami lost on a night when Chris Bosh returned to do more good than harm in his 14-minute series debut (though he was victimized defensively by Garnett at the end of the first half). Rondo was 3-of-15 from the floor and his routine 13 assists were offset in part by five turnovers. Pierce went 6-of-19 for his 19 points. The Celtics were outrebounded 49-39 and Allen (2-of-9) had to return to the locker room in the third quarter for treatment on his painful ankle. All the same, the Heat lost this game as surely as they lost Games 3 and 4 in Boston and as surely as they were fortunate to steal Game 2. They hadn't been in control since the opening night of this series, and yet they were eight-point favorites going into Game 5. Hadn't anyone grasped the larger trend?
Garnett (26 points and 11 rebounds) was magnificent and spry, and above all the Celtics believed in themselves and their plan. "Our execution down the stretch, defensively and offensively, the different lineups we threw out on the floor, going back to man and zone with guys that hadn't been in those positions," said Rivers, smiling at what had been accomplished on the way to the larger goal. "I asked a lot of our guys, maybe too much at times. And they came through."
It would be a tremendous story if Miami is able to pull itself together and win the next two games to return to the NBA Finals. But it wouldn't be nearly so inspiring or celebrated nationally as the story that will be told of the Celtics should they triumph. Two years later and the Heat are still defined by that hollow celebration they threw for themselves before they'd ever played a game together. Potential is just another empty word.


text: Hi all: The following is just a "word of warning" about IPv6 causing initial connect slowness in Kernel 2.6. Target audience: packagers of kernel 2.6 in Fedora Core 2 (maybe provide a work around or configurable shut off mechanism) or any kernel hackers or someone with additional familiarity. I'm writing this purely out of my personal experience and hope that it might be helpful for those on this list. Without disabling IPv6 in /etc/modprobe.conf with "alias net-pf-10 off", in certain environments that evidently do not support "it"--"it" being quite a nebulous definition since I am far from understanding any piece of IPv6--initial network connections will be obnoxiously slow, both DNS lookups and simple "telnet www.google.com 80" tests. The following threads provide some additional background information using Mandrake 10+ with Kernel 2.6: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=151050&perpage=15&pagenumber=3 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=158683 And fedora test list (the second gives netstat, interface, route information): http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-March/msg00350.html http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-March/msg00349.html Some websites that normally take 3 to 4 seconds to download, take up to 20 seconds under 2.6 with IPv6 enabled. Disabling it causes dramatic speed ups. The intriguing thing is that this problem doesn't occur in all network topologies. On my ADSL at home using Fedora Core 1 as a gateway, I have no problems at all with IPv6 running. However, in my office (same machine cause it's a laptop) it's slower than dog going through an Intel NetStructure VPN box. I could see Redhat, OSDL, et al. having a difficult time replicating and finding this since they most likely have a more homogenous network (vendor?) topology: Linux based servers, gateways, etc. My current system is an IBM T30 laptop running the following kernels under Redhat 9 (sorry i'm not using fc2-test outside of chroot environments yet, please forgive me..): Speed Rating (using feels-good(tm) benchmark) kernel-2.4.20-28.9 (distro) nominal kernel-2.4.24-1.ll.rh90.ccrma nominal kernel-2.6.2-1.156 (arjan) slow with IPv6; nominal without kernel-2.4.20-30.9 (dag) nominal kernel-2.6.5-1.332 (arjan) slow only on DNS with IPv6; nominal without (had to use links because my mouse and /udev stuff doesn't work yet) I will be installing fc2-test on another partition quite soon so I can test again with my laptop under the latest environment using the tools mentioned in the second thread on the fedora-test list. Sorry if I piss anyone off for mentioning running on an old distribution and/or if this off-topic. I hope this email will be useful to those who've yet seen the issue and might see it pop up again. take care, -- -jeff PS. Disclaimer: I'm just joining the list. There's a bunch of lists, and I've tried to do a preliminary search (http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aredhat.com%20kernel%202.6%20network%20slow) to see if this has been discussed; I apologize for any redundancy if one exists.


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Paramount announces Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan for 4K Ultra HD on 5/8!
All right, the big 4K news continues this week! But first...
We've just posted two new disc reviews here at The Bits, including Tim's thoughts on Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky, now available in a fine new Blu-ray edition from Criterion, and also my take on Darren Aronofsky's challenging Mother! available in 4K Ultra HD from Paramount.
We've also got more new disc reviews coming, including several more BD titles from Tim and I have no less than three new 4K Ultra HD reviews coming in the next 24 hours as well, including Sony's The Dark Crystal. So watch for that starting later today here at the site. [Read on here...]
Telling Tales with John Harrison and George A. Romero
[Editor's Note: This feature was first published on the original Bits website back on November 01, 2001. We republish it here for the enjoyment of those who many not have seen it before. We'd like to dedicate it to the memory of our friend George A. Romero.]
You know how they say it never rains in California? Well, they lie. What they mean to say is that it never rains in California... unless you really need to be somewhere. But they also say something about April showers, right? So on this appropriately gloomy morning in April, I'm racing up the 405 freeway in a heavy downpour, running late for an appointment. But not just any appointment. I've been invited to sit in on the audio commentary recording session for Paramount's new Tales from the Darkside: The Movie DVD, with its director, John Harrison, and screenwriter, the legendary George Romero. Who could pass a chance like that up? Certainly not me. [Read on here...]
Paramount finally makes the Trek Into Darkness BD right with Star Trek: The Compendium!
All right, let's get the new week started off right, shall we?
I believe I promised you a new column from our own Michael Coate, so here it is. Today being the official 25th anniversary of the original theatrical release of Tim Burton's Batman, Michael has delivered the latest installment of History, Legacy & Showmanship column: Wings of Change: Remembering Tim Burton's Batman on its 25th Anniversary. It's well worth a read, as Michael's column always are, delivering not one but two fine interviews and a wealth of detail. So be sure to check it out today.
And now for that surprise title announcement we mentioned on Friday: Paramount is finally making good on the Star Trek Into Darkness Blu-ray debacle with the 9/9 release of the 4-disc Star Trek: The Compendium Blu-ray box set (SRP $39.99)! [Read on here…]
Paramount Has a Blu-ray Problem
All right Bits readers – this post I've wrestled with all night and all morning as well.
Yesterday afternoon, I received a Blu-ray review copy of Paramount's Star Trek Into Darkness. As regular readers will probably know, I actually liked the film. But when it was finally announced for Blu-ray release, I was surprised at the list of bonus content in the press release, specifically the lack thereof – just seven featurettes. I quickly sent an e-mail to the studio PR people, asking if this was indeed the complete list of bonus content, and was told that it was. But somehow, I guess I just didn't believe it. So somehow, I was still excited to see and review the disc. [Read on here...]


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Former Teacher/Coach Gets 15 Days In Jail For Sex With Student
By Mike Perleberg
(Brookville, Ind.) – A Franklin County man who was a teacher and coach at Connersville High School has admitted to having an inappropriate relationship with a student.
James D. Spivey had a relationship with the 17-year-old student and girls basketball player at Connersville High in January and February of 2013.
At the time of Spivey's arrest, Indiana State Police alleged he and the student began a relationship shortly after the start of the basketball season which later became a sexual relationship with the encounters occurring at Spivey's residence in Brookville. The two would also kiss and hug in the school parking lot after basketball games.
Spivey, 30, was sentenced on August 12 in Franklin Circuit Court II after pleading down from Child Seduction (Class D felony) to a misdemeanor charge of Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor, The Brookville American-Democrat reports.
Judge Clay Kellerman sentenced Spivey to a year with 335 days suspended to probation. With good time credit, he could serve as little as 15 days in jail. He will begin serving his stint in jail Monday.
Under the plea agreement negotiated by defense attorney Andrew Baudendistel with Franklin County chief deputy prosecutor Christopher Huerkamp, Spivey's Indiana teaching license will be revoked.
"You will no longer be able to work in the (teaching) profession, and that is a good thing," said Judge Kellerman, according to the newspaper.
The now 19-year-old girl and her parents testified at Spivey's sentencing, asking for leniency from the judge. Spivey and the teen told the court they are still in a relationship.


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cannot get king games to work at all any ideas
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meg commented
connected ok but then i cant access the start of the games at all - any ideas ?
Heather commented
Mine not working, sent all info from trouble shooter but no change. 24hrs has passed ,which they claim that they hope to solve problems within 24hrs. No contact at all from customer service.
VIP treatment, well I've yet to see it.. can't wait am getting bored without my entertainment.
Anonymous commented
Well - now I can access the site again!!!! I notice also that the number of users online has increased!!!
Anonymous commented
I have had the same problem, yesterday and today. I sent an email to the support desk and it bounced back as not received. Ironically, if you access the main page it tells you how many people are currently playing!!!!
ryan commented
not working for me either... site must be down :( pisssed if with it


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Happy thanks giving Danny.
But what was batman thinking, there's something known as an EBONICS TRANSLATOR. I mean, obviously this took place pre-internet. Fun for everyone.
another warming masterpiece from everyones favorite jiggahoe.
Haha, funny as hell. Very stylish drawings and animation. Some backdrops and color would make this perfect, but I still think it looks awesome without. The batman music cut off before it was done, maybe put it on loop to fix that. Pretty awesome job though.
(Again, color would make this kickass)
Wow I think I'm going to blow my lungs out
I don't know what it is. Those jokes would be boring to the average audience.
I was watching the series up to third part and I couldn't stop laughing.
I think it's that kind of laughter I get from reading chat from others online and they simply don't know how to spell and that just cracks me up.
Anyways, that part where the savage guy took a long time to say no AFTER he said he would translate it was the best part.
Seriously is there any specific study of this kind of humor, because man it beats all those other jokes.
Very entertaining
I loved the drawings they were spot on... and the music obviously was perfect... it was great up to the point he got turned into a turkey... then it kinda dragged on a bit... Maybe its just me but with a better storyline that could be front page material...
Pretty good.
The part where he says "no" after he is told to translate was funny. Good job.


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Anaheim-based Yogurtland is collaborating with cuteness empire Sanrio, stocking its 130 locations with spoons, cups and collectibles featuring Hello Kitty, My Melody, Keroppi and Chococat.
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A Calgary company is involved in a clinical trial attempting to harness the potential cancer-fighting properties of a common weed.
AOR Inc. is developing a specially formulated dandelion root tea that will be tested on patients in Ontario.
"Dandelion has been used medicinally for centuries," George Templeton, director of operations at AOR, told CBC News. "In the last couple decades it's been started to be used for cancer treatments, mostly just through patients self-medicating."
The Calgary company, which produces natural health products, was contracted to produce the tea after University of Windsor researchers found dandelion root showed promise in the fight against cancer.
The two groups were connected by a non-profit organization, Mitacs, which helped fund the project.
"We scientifically validated that dandelion root extract has very potent anti-cancer activity," said Dr. Siryaram Pandey, professor of biochemistry at the University of Windsor, According to Pandey, the tea is being developed as a therapeutic agent, not a nutritional supplement.
How the tea is made
After a year and a half of painstaking work, scientists at the Calgary lab have formulated a dandelion tea powder that is six to 10 times more potent than something available at a health food store. Dandelion root is milled, an extract is created and then freeze-dried.
The end product is a fine mustard coloured powder that patients can dissolve in hot water and drink. "We've gone through many trials to find what does work and what doesn't work," said Rachel Jacyszyn, research associate at AOR
"We finally found something that does work"
AOR is now working to produce 6,000 doses of the tea for a clinical trial at the Windsor Regional Cancer Centre.
The one-of-a-kind trial, approved by Health Canada in 2013, involves 30 patients with blood cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma who have had no success with conventional therapies.
Dr. Caroline Hamm, a medical oncologist at the Windsor Cancer Centre in Windsor, Ont. who is leading the study,she's seen improvements in some patients who drink dandelion root tea purchased at health food stores,
"Most of the responses that I have seen are very short. but there's a signal there that I think is worthwhile of further investigation," she said.
Hamm expects the trials to start within the next month.
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: oh for the love of chocolate frogs! by pheonix flames
Follow the life of lily evans as she deals with her complicated life and of course James potter. Starting from the end of the sixth year and her final year at hogwarts can lily take all the preasures of being a teenager or is it all becoming to much for her? Will lily ever stop getting herself into stupid situations, oh and her addiction to chocolate frogs might not be making things easier.
Genres: Drama, Humor, Romance Era: Marauders Characters: James , Lily, Lupin, Sirius Pairings: James/Lily, Lily/OC, Remus/OC, Sirius/OC
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Laveran and the Discovery of the Malaria Parasite
Alphonse Laveran was born in Paris on June 18, 1845. Like his father, he embraced the career of a military doctor. In 1874, at age 29, after a competitive examination ("aggrégation") he was appointed professor of military diseases and epidemics at the School of Military Medicine of Val-de-Grâce in Paris. While carrying out his duties in this position, he also acquired expertise in anatomic pathology. By age 34, he was already the author of a "Treatise on Military Diseases and Epidemics" and 62 other scientific communications.
In 1878, he was posted in Algeria (then a French territory), first at the military hospital in Bône, then in the military hospital in Constantine. Malaria was then a serious problem in the army, and this untiring worker meticulously studied the disease's clinical aspects and its anatomic pathology – providing, for example, an excellent histologic description of cerebral malaria. His ultimate objective was to identify the causal agent of the disease.
Earlier theories were that malaria was caused by bad air ("mala aria" in Italian) from marshlands. However, following the discoveries of Louis Pasteur that most infectious diseases are caused by microbial germs (the "germ theory"), the hypothesis of a bacterial origin of malaria became increasingly attractive. As related in Laveran's "Treatise On Marsh Fevers" (1884), numerous studies, mostly in Italy but also in the United States, had searched for an infectious agent in marshland soil and incriminated various algae, aquatic protozoa, and bacteria such as Bacillus malariae in Italy. (Protozoa are micro-organisms that are single-celled, with a well-defined nucleus, and without cell walls.)
Laveran, for his part, used observations from his work in anatomic pathology – deaths due to malaria were frequent – to guide his search for the causal agent of malaria. By studying the lesions in organs and in blood in two very different clinical situations, severe attacks and chronic malaria, Laveran found that the only constant element was the presence of granules of black pigment in the blood. These pigmented granules occurred at very different frequencies depending on the cases. Laveran concluded that these pigmented granules were specific to malaria, and that they originated in the blood. He patiently performed many examinations of freshly collected blood specimens, without the benefit of staining techniques (these were not yet available).
At the hospital in Bône, Laveran noticed spherical bodies, free or adherent to red blood cells. Some of these bodies were glassy ("hyaline") and difficult to see; others contained dark granules of pigment exhibiting ameboid movements. He also noticed pigmented bodies that were crescent shaped. He was able to clearly differentiate all these elements from pigment-carrying ("melaniferous") leukocytes, which had been known for 30 years (Risori, 1846).
But the revelation came at the military hospital in Constantine, in the early morning hours of November 6, 1880. Examining the blood of a patient who had been febrile for 15 days, he saw "…on the edges of a pigmented spherical body, filiform elements which move with great vivacity, displacing the neighboring red blood cells." By chance, but also thanks to his tenacity and patience, he had seen the exflagellation of a male gametocyte, a phase in the life cycle of malaria parasites which usually occurs in the stomach of the Anopheles mosquito. The motility of these elements immediately convinced Laveran that he had discovered the agent causing malaria and that it was a protozoan parasite. After observing these motile elements again, some adhering to the spherical bodies and others free, Laveran sent two notes to the Academy of Medicine, in November and December 1880 on this "New Parasite Found in the Blood of Several Patients Suffering from Marsh Fever."
During the following years, Laveran continued his work in Algeria. He also visited Italy in 1882, where he looked for the parasite in the air, the water, and the soil of marshlands. That search proved negative, making him suspect that the parasite could be in the body of mosquitoes, which were abundant in that environment. He put forward this hypothesis in his "Treatise on Marsh Fevers" of 1884 and defended it at the International Congress of Hygiene in Budapest (1894). In his 1891 treatise "On Malaria And Its Hematozoon," he wrote, without giving a reference, that "King, in America, had the idea that mosquitoes played a role in malaria."
Laveran's publications were generally met with skepticism, especially among the Italians and the disciples of Louis Pasteur (except Elie Metchnikoff), who were in favor of a bacterial cause. Later, following his return in 1884 to the Val-de-Grâce School of Military Medicine, Laveran invited Pasteur to visit and see under his microscope the motile, flagellated bodies. Pasteur was immediately convinced (Roux, 1915). It was not until the years 1885-1890 that the parasitic origin of malaria was accepted.
After the development of stains with methylene blue (Ehrlich, 1899), doubt was not possible anymore, and the various species of malaria parasites were identified. (Laveran had until then been in favor of a single species.)
In 1884, Laveran left Algeria and returned to the Val-de-Grâce School of Military Medicine, where he was professor of military hygiene. He continued his research on malaria, both at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital and in the field in the Camargue (in southern France) and on the French island of Corsica. He left the Army in 1896 to work as a volunteer at the Pasteur Institute. There he devoted himself to the study of protozoal infections of animals and humans, especially trypanosomiasis. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907 in recognition of his discovery of the malaria parasite and for his overall work on protozoa as causes of diseases. He gave the proceeds of his prize to the Pasteur Institute for the creation of a laboratory devoted to tropical diseases.
Laveran died in Paris on May 18, 1922. He was a patient and persistent observer, remarkable for the rigor with which he drew conclusions from observed facts. He wrote more than 600 scientific communications and 6 books. He was a solitary worker whose only interest was science, to which he dedicated 45 years of his life.
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