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I'd been home from Bhutan for a number of months before it dawned that I wanted a Buddha. Our trip to the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon had been very special, quickly turning from holiday to pilgrimage as we came under its spell. With the help of our guide, Tshewang, we'd learned about Gross National Happiness coupled with everyday Buddhism and how the impact they made together affected life.
Sitting in monasteries with monks and nuns as they chanted, played enormous trumpets and celebrated auspicious days had a profound effect. I'm not a Buddhist, but I saw what a difference it made when actively applied to ordinary life and I was impressed.
Holidays usually fade quickly once the case is unpacked and the washing done. But this one lingered on. I often thought about the nuns who welcomed us into their meditations, sharing butter tea and offerings. And the monk who came and took our camera so he could get us some good shots of the Lamas and the temple. It was the lack of reverence that stayed with me. There was nothing precious about their temples – all treated with deep respect, but also familiarity, as the Buddha shared his altar with the duster and cleaning materials.
I wanted some of that in my life
It was those memories that led me to want a Buddha sitting in our house. But not just any Buddha – it had to come from Bhutan. Fortunately I'd stayed in touch with Tshewang via whatsapp. After a short discussion we embarked on an adventure together that was very special.
First step was to find the right statue. Pictures arrived of the painted versions, so popular in Bhutan, but not what I had pictured. I had in mind a tiny replica of the vast statue that looks down over Thimpu – all gold and shining bright. We also had to consider the size – so pictures arrived with his arm beside the statue to give me an idea of just how big it was. After a few attempts, we found what I hoped was exactly what I was looking for
Garnering blessings
The statue is just the first step I discovered. Next it was to go to a Master to be filled with relics and to be blessed. Tshewang sent pictures of the process, as the base was packed with rolled up mantras to imbue the metal with spiritual life. I learned later that the Master had been so pleased that someone from UK wanted a Bhutanese Buddha that I got extra relics!
Still it wasn't done. Now it was to spend 24 hours on an altar of my choice. We chatted through the different options, but the one that came immediately to mind was the nunnery where we'd shared butter tea. Sitting with those women was special. First came the huge teapot – of church fete proportions – brought round to each nun and us, so we all had a cuppa to help us through the long ritual. Then a nun carrying a huge plastic bucket full of biscuit packets, crisps, sweets and fruit stopped in front of us. In my British way I politely took one packet and said 'thank you'. But that clearly wasn't sufficient. A plastic carrier bag was brought over and filled to the gunnels. Turns out these were offerings made to the Nunnery on this auspicious day and our job was to take them out into the world and pass them on to anyone we saw.
So off the statue went to sit with the nuns for 24 hours. I imagined him placed between his huge counterpart and the cleaning fluid.
Finally I needed to make my offerings to the Master and to the nuns community in thanks for their prayers and support. Tshewang paid on my behalf and the Buddha was finally ready to come to it's final home.
The long journey home
We needed to work out which carrier to use. Turns out that DHL functions well in Bhutan and could provide the service we needed. I transferred all the money over and the Buddha was carefully packed up and delivered to it's first staging post. From then on, regular alerts told me exactly where it was, until it finally landed on the doorstep.
It had all taken so long that I felt apprehensive. What if it was too big? What if it was too small and made no impact at all? What if I didn't like the design?
The box sat in state on the dining table. I could hardly bear to open it, so waited until John came home. So much expectation had been built and so much money spent.
Thank heaven and all the deities – the statue was perfect! I can't tell you the thrill of seeing it emerge from its wrappings. Just the right size and proportions, we just sat and gazed in delight.
But the story doesn't end there
The family all got to know Buddha. For over a year he's sat in our lounge waiting for us to organise a mediation space. He's seen growing grandkids, family Christmas, work time, arguments, long discussions about life, thoughts about the future, loss of loved ones. I always felt it was a positive force and Martha, my eldest daughter, tells me the energy in that room is the best in the house. (You can find out how she knows that by reading her blog The Curious Mystic)
So when we announced we were returning to Bhutan, the requests were immediate. Could we have a Buddha? Would Tshewang organise it to go to the Master and sit with the nuns?
Heading back to Bhutan
So here we are, in Thimpu once more and in discussions about the next Buddha. One small one found in Patan City, Kathmandu for Miriam. Photo's taken, sent on whatapp from a café at the side of the square. The final choice made, then doubling back up and down the street to find the right shop again!
And on arrival, the request that Tshewang was prepared for. Martha was really keen that her Buddha was made in Bhutan, so Tshewang had contacted his friend who had two ready for purchase. It will take the full two weeks we are here, so the plan needs to be put in motion. We'll go back to the same Master who did mine, since he will understand about these strange westerners and then to the nuns altar for their blessing.
This time we are in on the journey and it's feeling very special.


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Newcomer Pittsburgh Slim's Island Def debut rap album proves that you can't judge a CD by its cover. Don't be deceived by his mysterious image on the front (or the sly one on the back) of Tastemakerbut dotake cues from the powerfulness even his look exudes. In the first self-titled track, Mr. Slim gets loud...and he continues that way throughout the half-hour long album. If the first song doesn't convince you that he is big in his hometown, the second track, "Superstar Extraordinaire," should show you that he's world-wide. Pittsburgh Slim's smart, energetic lyrics foreshadow the truth in his self-proclaimed stardom. You don't even have to imagine his rise to the top of his game. In "My Flashy World," you can picture him "ridin' in them caddy's with them girls."
Hip-hop and rap's expected themes like women, money and cars, are present and even more prevalent in a song about Slim's desires called "Girls Kiss Girls." You can smell the hit-potential of "Sunrays featuring Sonny Cheeba of Camp Lo," in which Slim spits smooth lyrics about pretty sunsets and girls over a sample of the popular "Break My Stride" by Matthew Wilder. The energetic CD is a "Kiss And Tell" of all of Pittsburgh Slim's talent and is over too quickly with the final track, "Toy." In the closer, the rapper offers himself up as a prize to anyone worthy of a listen, noting "this ain't a hit record, it's magical." Though not unconventional in his genre, there may be some credibility to Slim's egotistical lyrics. Check out the CD as a sample of feel-good rap.
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ANAFI, the next generation quadcopter from Parrot, is now available as an Extended version. You can take this full pack with you anytime, anywhere thanks to its compact shoulder bag. This pack provides a total flight time of one hour and 15 minutes with its three smart batteries (included in the pack).
ANAFI Extended is a one of a kind flying 4K, HDR camera with a zoom, providing high-quality footage that rivals a DSLR camera. This Parrot drone contains advanced photo and video features* especially designed to create incredible footage. These include:
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ANAFI Extended comes complete with remarkable features that were engineered to truly challenge existing standards. This Parrot quadcopter is an outstanding drone in every way.
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ANAFI Extended has a built-in 4K HDR camera that is stabilized on three axes. The camera can vertically tilt at 180° – an industry first and has a lossless zoom of 2.8x (3x in standard mode). Very easy to use, the drone has many automated camera movements, effortlessly creating highly complex and incredible shots.
Thanks to its ergonomic and stylish travel bag, you can take it with you on all your adventures. Always at hand, ANAFI unfolds in just three seconds, and is instantly ready to take flight to capture your most beautiful moments.
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In a world that revolves around photography, ANAFI Extended frees your inspiration. Providing a new and inimitable perspective of the world, the drone can capture photos and videos from new angles thanks to its spectacular camera movements. From photography and video amateurs, to seasoned professionals, everyone can create high quality content.
Thanks to a new version of the software*, ANAFI Extended further enriches the flight experience with its advanced photo and video features:
HDR+ for photos and videos: Perfectly rendered images
The new HDR+ mode offers a wider dynamic range and automatically adapts to the current lighting conditions. Whatever the environment, the images captured are perfectly contrasted. All details are visible and excess noise is reduced. HDR+ mode can be activated in 4K video, 1080p resolution and in photo mode.
New modes and video effects: Unlimited imagination
ANAFI Extended contains video modes and special effects such as:
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ANAFI is the first drone on the market to offer this cinematographic effect. You can now create a Dolly Zoom with a Point of Interest (POI) as the central element, such as a landmark or a specific element in the environment.
- Hyperlapse video: Perfect for evolving landscapes, the Hyperlapse video mode creates new visual experiences with accelerations of x15, 30, 60, 120, or 240 videos.
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Panorama photo mode*: Stunning shots
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With a simple click via the FreeFlight 6 app, you can access:
- Vertical Panorama: the ANAFI Extended gimbal carries out a 180° movement, an exclusive function on the market, while the 4K HDR camera with 21MP sensor takes dozens of shots. They are instantly processed and assembled to form an impeccable image.
- Horizontal Panorama: ANAFI Extended rotates on its axis and creates a panoramic image quickly and easily.
- Panorama Sphere: In just seconds, ANAFI Extended rotates 360° on its axis while its camera vertically sweeps the scene at 180°.
Thanks to the computing power of the FreeFlight 6 app, once processed, the shots are assembled to form a 360° image in which you can move around. This can be shared on your Facebook page for example, allowing your friends to be a part of your world and discover an incomparable immersive experience.
- Little Planet: Your environment is transformed into a spherical image resembling an incredible floating planet. Quite simply, you create your own world.
- Tunnel: A spherical image is created. Contrary to Little Planet, the sky is in the centre of the image. It's all topsy-turvy.
ANAFI Extended, with its new software and features is pushing the boundaries and giving customers the opportunity to unleash their creativity. There are plenty more features to discover as you learn to master this matchless drone.
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Entrepreneurial Science- Provita Pharmaceuticals
Provita Pharmaceuticals strives to improve the quality of life of patients by extending the lifespan and increasing the efficacy and cost effectiveness of their medications.
Provita is a virtual, student-run, startup biotech firm with technology aimed at extending the longevity and efficacy of medication and treatments; their main goals are to research, develop, and distribute new technologies. Directed, researched, and developed by high school students at Bergen County Academies, Provita manages and develops relationships with pharmaceutical companies, businesses, and prospective investors. The company makes annual presentations to the FDA and several pharmaceutical businesses.
Provita takes place during a Wednesday project called Entrepreneurial Science and students pick a sector they are interested in. The two sectors of the company are Business and Research and Development. The Business sector focuses on how Provita can become an actual company, financial and marketing aspects while the Research and Development sector is split into four distinct groups that correspond to one of the four product lines: Flying Syringe, Coagula, VitaClick, and MeshCare. The project is led by Dr. Pergolizzi and a student executive board composed of a CEO, CSO, CFO, and CMO. Claire Whang, the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), has been involved with the project for two years. Her favorite parts of Provita were "The fact that it 'meshes' (no pun intended) both the business and bio-science aspects of running a biomedical company. Also, it is such an incredibly individual and unique experience and opportunity! In what other high school are you given two hours every Wednesday to develop a real-world applicable biomedical product, and have the potential to back it up? It's like a real company in many aspects, and administration is developing ways for us to patent our products."
Provita's four product ideas are aimed to be unique, innovative, and beneficial for consumers. Ms. Whang's favorite product is "Meshcare! It was the product I originally started with last year, and it seems like one of the most viable products at the moment. It has great market potential because such a significant percentage of men get adhesions after a hernioplasty." MeshCare is a coated surgical mesh product that aims to reduce post-operative adhesion scarring in the bowels of patients who have undergone an inguinal hernioplasty. Flying Syringe is a project that is currently working on finding methods to genetically engineer mosquitoes to distribute a West Nile Virus vaccine. Coagula is a drug that will treat patients with Hemophilia A, who lack Factor VIII (the clotting factor that most people have) which is essential to blood clotting. Vita-click is a more cost efficient and user-friendly alternative to EpiPens; the product aims to be reusable, smaller, and less costly.
How can people that are interested get involved?
Anybody interested in Provita can email the Provita board at [email protected] for more information. Provita would definitely be open to additional support, and would love to open this up to more people. It is a really unique opportunity! You can also help by spreading the word, and by supporting future marketing campaigns. Provita is currently considering Kickstarter for marketing, so look out for that!


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Straw Dogs
Virginie: Her Two Lives
Sabbatical: A Romance
When Lao-tse wrote that "the sage is ruthless and treats the people as straw dogs," he provided an epigraph for the cruel frivolities of John Hawkes's and John Barth's latest fiction, in which the hapless characters are raped, carved up, burned with cigarettes, bestialized. Characteristically, Hawkes's novel is a solemn, black-crepe affair, while Barth's is antic and disheveled; but in both books the characters are pulled through the wringer and impatiently slapped on the line like so many lumps of wash.
Nothing so rude or airy as life itself breezes through these pages, for Hawkes and Barth are sovereign masters of metafiction, intent upon bending every detail to their authorial will and whim. In their appetite for empty chatter and sordid incident, the two are practically kin. "I can't help but think of fictions as artifacts created out of always the nothingness and always pointing toward that source of zero, a sort of zero source," Hawkes observes in a recent interview. "That is why for one reason among others I so admire John Barth, because the more elaborate the fiction gets, the more you create, the more you know exactly the nothingness it inhabits."1 Elaborate nothings are what these novels are, curling heaps of phenomenological macaroni. Now and then a well-turned sentence emerges like a golden strand, only to be smothered with gobs of wordy excess. Lumpiness rules the void.
With Virginie: Her Two Lives, Hawkes is once again playing the keeper of the crypt, decorating the sarcophagi with amorous doodles. The novel, narrated by a tremulous waif named Virginie, shuttles like a time-machine from a castle of regimented decadence in rural France (the year—significantly—is 1740, the year of Sade's birth) to a low-rent house of bawdiness in Paris (1945). Under both roofs Virginie flits about on her errands like a nest-tidying bird, bearing rapt witness to the debaucheries and sadistic rites of all these devoted sensualists. She's the Eternal Child, enveloped in a milky glow of unsullied innocence. In the chateau, where Virginie conscientiously tends the hearth, the harem-master—Seigneur—is a noble, enigmatic swell in ivory-colored breeches whose speechifying (tediously) spells out the novel's theme.
"I must tell you, Virginie," he said at last, the strength of his deep voice belying his sadness, "that the man who creates women is an artist clearly comparable to artists who create images or coerce solid matter into new and startling forms. Is it actually not more difficult to work with a woman's living flesh than to squeeze paint from tubes or chop away at blocks of stone or chunks of wood? Oh, yes, the creator of women is burdened, challenged, inspired as no ordinary artist is: how can a lifeless work of art compare with a woman?…"
In the Parisian household, Bocage—Virginie's brother—is also given to philosophizing about the avid needs of the flesh. Giving the girls an earful, he gasses:
"What is this woman's very person if not desire? What does this ordinary woman understand if not…
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Donald Trump emerged to victory defeating Hillary Clinton in the recent US president elections. Behind Trump's victory lies the role of analytics which helped trump to understand the dynamics of the campaign and manage it from time to time. But there is an Indian angle which can not be overlooked. An Indian software engineer, dexterious in big data and analytics, was in charge of understanding the tone of the US public. Avinash Iragavarapu who is also responsible for the victory and managing analytics for Trump guided the Trump campaign with adequate, accurate insights gathered from the unstructured data lying scattered on social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, etc) and the internet. Iragavarapu spent time decoding the mood of the Americans and hence provided Trump with information which proved crucial in winning the voters' heart.
Avinash Iragavarapu, an MBA graduate from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, helped Donald Trumpto win the US Presidential elections. Political campaigning is his natural forte. He joined the YSR Congress's election campaign in Andhra Pradesh after quitting his job with HCL Technologies Ltd in New Delhi.
"Reason for Trump's victory: Telugu guy Avinash Iragavarapu. 30 yr old on an H4 visa from West Godavari Andhra Pradesh. He's from IIM Lucknow, did data analytics and crunched the numbers. He did his research on every state and found out what words people like to hear in each state. Based on his research, Trump's speeches were written and executed. He's one of the four people Trump took with him while campaigning for nomination. He moved to the US in June 2014 to visit his wife who was a student at that time. He found a roadside placard in Chandler and helped the local Republican mayor with his ideas to victory. He quickly moved up the ranks within the GOP and Avinash currently holds the position of Sr. Executive Director for the GOP. Avinash is expected to get citizenship by approval from Trump immediately and a position of Arizona senator"
His keen interest in politics could not keep him away from it even in the US. Avinash's wife works for Intel in Arizona. He went to join her for holidays in 2014, and it was then where it all began.
Arizona was going for polls to elect its governor. Avinash did his own research and polls chose Doug Ducey as his candidate for the primary and wrote to his campaign. Ducey's campaign made Avinash a part of itself and he used to do a lot of "data work and polling", primarily identifying the areas where they could spend the money they raised to gain votes.
Arizona traditionally is a Republican leaning state. Ducey went on to win the primaries, and even the Arizona Gubernatorial election in November 2014, defeating Fred DuVal comfortably. Avinash's data work was well praised by the Arizona GOP chairman Robert Graham.
With his astounding performance, he went on to achieve heights within the Arizona GOP. He was promoted to political director and then to executive director within a span of a year. This portfolio put him in charge of all the elections for Arizona, including the general elections.
Avinash was tasked to help Donald Trump win Arizona, a state that has been a Republican stronghold since George Bush won it in 2000. Donald Trump successfully won the state of Arizona and the 47 delegates that come with it.
"I have met Donald Trump personally. He knows I am from India. He's a totally fine person, and he's embraced me with open arms. He has only spoken out against illegal immigration," says Avinash.
Hailing from Andhra Pradesh, Avinash Iragavarapu, a 30 years old, is in the US on H4 visa. He's an IIM Lucknow alumnus who also spearheaded the Trump's march among the Indian-American lobby. With the best big data skills in his baggage, he guided Trump to chalk out lucrative poll strategies.
Iragavarapu had also played a crucial role in India during the 2014 general elections where he helped YSR Congress Party in Andhra Pradesh. Iragavarapu has also worked in the past for HCL.
After moving to the US in June 2014 on H4 visa, he found a roadside placard in Chandler to help the local Republican mayor. Thus began his march towards making Trump the next president. He helped the local candidate to win the election. His big data and analytics skills brought him to the spotlight. This proved a triggering point in his career and pushed him up in the ranks in the GOP. The Republican Party is commonly referred to as the GOP (Grand Old Party). Iragavarapu currently holds the position of Sr. Executive Director for the GOP. Because of role, it is probable that Iragavarapu gets the US citizenship soon.


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Adoption of new technology, though appearing to be significant departures from tradition, are in reality rooted in it, trailing usually unrecorded strands of history which weave back in time along seemingly unrelated paths (Sundbo, 1998). For example the creation of the Internet would not have been possible without the development of telecommunications and that in turn would not have been possible without the discovery of electricity.
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Orhan Pamuk's new novel: a slow-moving drawl of a yarn
The Red-Haired Woman represents a poor effort at a shambolic narrative
Turkish Nobel laureate author Orhan Pamuk at his desk at his house in Istanbul, Photograph: Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty
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Reading Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk's ham-fisted new novel raises several questions, most notably at what point does a writer relinquish any interest in self-criticism or stylistic quality-control?
The Red-Haired Woman represents so poor an effort at stringing together a shambolic and pretentious narrative in which no one could possibly believe a word, that it appears to suggest that once you have won the Nobel Prize, which Pamuk did in 2006, that from then just about anything goes – and everything does exactly that in this slow-moving, repetitive drawl of a yarn, largely told by a smug narrator who brings self-absorption, along with purple prose, to new levels of irritation.
This subject has been explored many times in vastly superior works
In ways the narrator, Cem, who surprise-surprise, always wanted to be a writer, could as easily have wandered out of the pages of Spain's ultra cool literary dilettante Javier Marías, although his sophisticated egomaniacs tend at very least to be marginally interesting.
In the bland, forgettable Cem, Pamuk, who has increasingly been a slave to digressions and over-writing, has a shaky structure upon which to hang his theme, fathers and sons, along with repeated riffs about the Oedipus complex in literature and art. Unfortunately for Pamuk, and even more tediously for the reader, this subject has been explored many times in vastly superior works.
Central to the serious problems besetting this novel – and the reader – is grasping why Pamuk chose to write it in the first person when he could, just possibly, have salvaged something had he instead chosen the detachment of either an omniscient narrator who could well have been as bemused as the rest of us, or at the very least he could have written it in a flat third-person voice and hoped for the best – which is to say a "best" which would have amounted to more than this self-regarding travesty.
Father and son theme
By allowing the humourless Cem to tell his own story – itself a master class in whinging self-justification – all hope of credibility is effectively killed off within pages. Cem informs us that he is the handsome son of a handsome father, a serial charmer who runs a pharmacy. Dad has a habit of disappearing, he is involved in politics and as the novel is set in Turkey, well, one day he never returns. His disappearance leaves Cem and his mother destitute. Young Cem is already consolidating future greatness as a writer: he is working in a book store.
In order to fund his academic ambitions, Cem, then 16, accepts a job assisting a master well-digger. This character is named Mahmut and is another handsome, slim man, unmarried, obsessive, possibly insane. He certainly believes in digging for water in the dry dust which passes for earth outside Istanbul. The teenage boy is treated as if he were an infant. The prose is so cloying that it frequently becomes embarrassingly maudlin. Mahmut refers to Clem as "little gentleman". For Clem the term confirms that the well-digger is acknowledging his social class. "He may have been teasing me for being too delicate for manual labour, but it made me glad to hear him call me 'little gentleman'. Those two words told me that Master Mahmut knew my family was educated city folk, which meant he would look after me as a father and not burden me with heavier tasks. They made me feel that he cared about me and took an interest in my life."
The boy often gazes at the night sky which inspires him to utter: "Did it seem right that, rather than reaching up toward the gleam of the stars, we had resolved to burrow into the ground on which we slept?" Cem does enjoy parading his philosophical streak. There is a charming sequence in which he recalls seeing shooting stars which for the well-digger is souls going to heaven.
The closing sequence narrated by the eponymous femme fatale provides the death knell to a weak, complacent and predictable soap opera
The relationship between the master and the teenager is affectionate if tense. Pamuk labours the father and son theme. But this is soon overtaken by Cem's sighting of a beautiful red-haired woman. She notices him: "A melancholy smile formed on her perfectly curved lips, as if she'd seen something unusual in me…her smile unexpectedly sweet and tender." The boy becomes obsessed with the woman, who belongs to a travelling acting troupe. He also basks in the fairy stories the well-digger tells him, something his own father never did.
Comparable to a long volley in a tennis game, the narrative slogs back and forth between father and son themes, and newly discovered obsessive sexual desire. Finally Cem succeeds in sneaking his way into seeing a performance. As expected his wildest fantasies are later fulfilled by the woman twice his age.
Predictable events
Back at the excavation site another predictable event occurs and throwing all plausibility to the winds, Pamuk's narrator runs away. Even if the story were not so ridiculous, the prose is syrupy and clichéd. "A star was falling. I felt with every bit of me that the world before my eyes coincided perfectly with the world inside my head, and I focused intently on the summer sky. If only I could decipher the language of the stars, their disposition would surely reveal all the secrets of my life."
On his return to Istanbul, Cem, whose behaviour defies comprehension, is reunited with his mother – "I could tell that he [his father] never called my mother. But why didn't he call me?" – returns to working in the book store and eventually enters university. His life becomes a success: he marries a saint and builds a construction empire. Yet he is childless, unhappy and continues exploring the Oedipus myth. Pamuk, in fairness, is generous with art history and myth, only it is not enough to carry a melodrama. The closing sequence narrated by the eponymous femme fatale provides the death knell to a weak, complacent and predictable soap opera.
He and his translator Ekin Olap were far more successful with the rambling if likeable Dickensian romp
As long ago as 1997, Pamuk wrote The New Life, a better novel about obsession. He won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award with My Name is Red, his finest novel to date, while both he and his translator Ekin Olap were far more successful with the rambling if likeable Dickensian romp, A Strangeness in My Mind (2015). Readers will be disappointed, while the cartoon dénouement, turgid prose, faux philosophy and banal dialogue will haunt Pamuk and, to a lesser extent Olap, for a long time to come.
- Eileen Battersby is Literary Correspondent and author of Teethmarks on My Tongue


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With positive data results from phase III trials announced last August, and a nod of recommendation by a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review panel in April, all that is keeping Mannkind Corporation's inhaled insulin drug Afrezza from being launched is its Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) date set for July 15.
Though this date has already been pushed back three months, the company is gearing up for commercial operations at its Danbury, Connecticut facility, according to CFO Matt Pfeffer, who discussed Mannkind's manufacturing strategy at a recent investor conference.
"We didn't fully build [Danbury] out because it's quite expensive to do so, pre-approval, but the facility is scaled to do up to two billion cartridges per year fully built out," he said at the Jefferies Global Healthcare Conference earlier this month. However, the biggest bottleneck to scale-up is fill finish capacity, he added.
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Afrezza is based on Mannkind's Technosphere technology, which uses the excipient fumaryl diketopiperazine (FDKP) as the particle matrix to carry recombinant human insulin to the lungs. The product is inhaled from the cartridge using a device described by Pfeffer as looking a "little bit like a whistle in use," powered by inhalation alone.
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Pfeffer reiterated the site's anticipated capacity at the Goldman Sachs Healthcare Conference last week, saying demand for orally administered insulin comes from type 1 diabetes patients on both rapid-acting prandial insulin, and longer acting insulin products such as Sanofi's lantus, as well as type 2 oral patients who are expected to be transitioned onto insulin.
"Afrezza has a very fast rise time to peak concentration in the blood within really 15 minutes of inhalation as compared to say 45 minutes to an hour for rapid-acting analogs," he said.
He added the drug's administration leads to an avoidance of big swings in blood sugar associated with other delivery forms, as well as aiding compliance due to its discrete and convenient use.
If approved next month, Afrezza will become the only inhalable insulin drug currently on the market. Disappointing sales and warnings that it could lead to lung cancer caused Pfizer to pull its product Exubera off the market in 2007, at a cost of $2.8bn (€2bn).
"Certainly the Exubera experience has left its mark in maybe the waters a bit," Pfeffer said at Goldman Sachs, but "[Afrezza] does happen to share the trade of being an inhaled insulin, but Exubera was an inhaled insulin who had inhalation as its really only advantage.
"Tthe connect profile was essentially the same, maybe not even quite as good as rapid-acting analog injected where as our connect profile is quite different and really fundamentally different from, and better than an injected insulin."


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The grey bamboo lemur is also called the grey gentle lemur, or the eastern lesser bamboo lemur (Hapalemur griseus).[2] This is the smallest of the bamboo lemurs. It lives mostly in bamboo forests in eastern Madagascar. It is normally active at dusk, eating bamboo leaves and shoots.
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- ↑ Andrainarivo C.; et al. (2008). "Hapalemur griseus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 1 January 2009.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- ↑ Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds) (ed.). Mammal Species of the World (3rd edition ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 116. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) CS1 maint: extra text: editors list (link) CS1 maint: extra text (link)


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Boss on decision to let Molyneux go out on loan
Steve Davis says it was important for the club's winger Lee Molyneux to go out on loan to Rochdale to gain first-team football. The summer acquisition from Accrington Stanley has struggled to hold down a regular place in the Crewe starting XI and has moved to Spotland until early January.
Molyneux has made just four starts for the Railwaymen following his move to South Cheshire an hasn't featured since a late substitute appearance away at Wycombe in the FA Cup.
The Alex boss says he will monitor Molyneux's progress at Spotland before deciding on his immediate future. He hasn't ruled out extending his loan spell.
Steve told the club's official web-site: "We'll see how it goes with Lee. We're not looking too far ahead.
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yes, the energy weapons has no legs. Neither has nukes, mini or otherwise IMO. Missile and or demo combined makes the most sense.
Given Pentagon = no plane wreckage yet obvious high speed impact / explosion (video and aftermath) and Shanksville = no plane wreckage yet obvious high speed explosion (possible impact but not necessarily) and BBC TV horizon footage showing no in bound 2nd craft in one pan and momentarily later 2nd in bound craft having traversed a significant distance across horizon that is not possible given duration of camera pan AND given 2 of 4 impacts (or explosions) were clearly not aircraft why conclude remaining 2 would be different causes?
Multiple B.S. stories. Doesn't matter which one you subscribe to so long as you subscribe to one.
Arguing over the how is time consuming and entangling. Review the material, make a decision and move on. Point new comers to the info you consumed but don't become entangled. Many people you encounter will be agents looking to tie people up in the various what ifs and doubt seeding theories.


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If you're driving a Zipcar and get into a serious-injury collision that is your fault, would you be financially protected under the insurance coverage offered by the company? Maybe not, The New York Times reports.
Zipcar is a popular car-sharing company that allows members to rent cars by the hour, and it just had its initial public offering last week. But one way the company keeps costs down, according to The Times, is by offering minimum insurance coverage to members. And that might not be enough in a serious-injury collision, according to The Times.
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It caps the liability insurance coverage it provides for members at $300,000 per incident, no matter how many people they may hurt.
Hertz's copycat car-sharing service, Connect by Hertz, provides even less insurance: the pathetically low bare minimums that each state requires. And even though Hertz sells better coverage to traditional rental car customers on a daily basis, it does not do so for its Connect customers. Zipcar has no such offering either.
As The Times notes, that might have to be enough to cover "mangled limbs, brain damage, pain and suffering and anything else that might befall all the people that a Zipcar vehicle mowed down or plowed into."
If you're wondering why a personal-injury lawyer wouldn't go after the company first in a case of liability, The Times explains why the driver, especially someone with assets, could be at-risk:
They could try, but a federal law shields rental car companies in many instances, and Zipcar has already cited it in at least one legal skirmish over someone injured in an accident involving a Zipcar.


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AMC's The Walking Dead Returns With Season 4 October 13 9/8c
The Walking Dead, the most watched drama in basic cable history, returns for another terrifying and exhilarating season on Sun., Oct. 13 at 9/8c. In this post-apocalyptic world, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his band of survivors continue their ongoing struggle to survive the threat of walkers as well as the dangers that lurk among the living. A 16 episode season of the series which the The New York Post gave 4 stars, will air in two parts with the first eight hours kicking off Oct. 13 and returning Feb. 2014 with the final eight episodes. Internationally, The Walking Dead will return to audiences in 120+ FOX International Channels (FIC) markets the week of Oct. 13, as part of FIC continued commitment to broadcast the series near date-and-date globally. Following The Walking Dead will be the season premiere of AMC's live after show, Talking Dead, hosted by Chris Hardwick at 10/9c. AMC's The Walking Dead is the first original cable series ever to end the broadcast TV season as the number one show in delivery for adults 18-49.
The Walking Dead premiere will coincide with AMC's annual blockbuster marathon of thriller and horror films, AMCFearfest. Celebrating its 17th year, AMCFearfest will feature 19 consecutive days of themed programming and more than 70 films, running from Sun., Oct. 13 through Wed., Oct. 31. In addition, AMC will air a The Walking Dead marathon from Oct. 7 through Oct. 13, beginning with Season 1 straight through to the premiere of Season 4.
In the highly anticipated new season, we find Rick and the group fostering a thriving community in the safe haven of the prison. Sadly, in this brutal world, happiness is short-lived and walkers and outside threats are no match for danger brewing inside the fences. The group's home and new way of life will be thoroughly tested, and their struggle to survive has never been so perilous. Season 4 also introduces several new characters including Bob Stookey (Lawrence Gilliard Jr., The Wire).
Based on the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics, The Walking Dead stars Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Lauren Cohan, Chandler Riggs, Scott Wilson, Melissa McBride, David Morrissey, Emily Kinney, DanaiGurira, Chad Coleman and Sonequa Martin-Green. The series is executive produced by Scott M. Gimple, Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, David Alpert, Tom Luse and Greg Nicotero.
The season premiere of The Walking Dead will be complemented by a wealth of exclusive content at AMC.com, including the Emmy-nominated two-screen app The Walking Dead Story Sync, which garnered both the Social TV Award for Best Mobile Phone, iPad or Tablet Social TV application, and Variety's Entertainment App Award. Fans can also check out Inside The Walking Dead videos, episode sneak peeks, "Talked About Scenes," Talking Dead bonus scenes, production diary interviews with the cast and crew, production photo galleries, fan trivia games and new behind-the-scenes videos from the set in Atlanta.
Following The Walking Dead Season Premiere will be the third season debut of AMC's live after show Talking Dead at 10/9c, hosted by Chris Hardwick. Last season, the Finale of Talking Dead garnered its largest audience to date, reaching 5.5 million viewers. The after show features Hardwick spending time with fans, actors, producers and TV enthusiasts, recapping the most recent Dead episode, providing sneak-peeks and discussion of upcoming episodes and taking questions and comments from viewers. The series is executive produced by Michael Davies and co-executive produced by Jen Kelly from Embassy Row.
The Walking Dead" is the first original cable series ever to end the broadcast TV season as the number one show for adults 18-49. The Series has garnered two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Prosthetic Make-up, a Golden Globe® Award nomination for Best Television Series — Drama and a WGA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Writing Derivative New Media, among other accolades.Read More


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In this book, Ayatullah Dastghaib has presented the phenomenon of sin, the classification of sins, and the necessity of avoiding them. He has also described fifty different types of Greater Sins. See also part I and III of this book. About sins and particularly the greater sins (Gunah-e-Kabira). Covers sins such as association with God (Shirk), fornication, drinking alcohol, and gambling.
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It's launch day!
One short month after launching my new short fiction sci-fi series War of the Three Planets, Book Two is now available on Amazon.com!
It's a quick, but fun read at a pretty cheap price and is also part of Kindle Unlimited, so please check it out and let me know your thoughts.
I've been a fan of science fiction for a long while, but this is really my first foray into writing it. I'm sure I'm breaking all sorts of long established sci-fi rules, but I'm having fun with it.
Again, check it out now on Amazon.com and take a peek at the cover below. You can also grab Book One – Daughter of Athelon as well while you're at it. 🙂


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Looking at my options
Hi everyone, this is my first post, I was diagnosed last November, after I had noticed my nipple was inverting. If it hadn't been for that I would not have known anything was wrong as I had a clear mammogram the previous Dec. Unfortunately It was HER2 positive, and then the Pet scan showed it was in the lympth system and something on the bone scan. I started Chemo, Hercepton and Perjeta 5 days before Christmas. I have now had 4 chemo treatments with 2 to go. On the 19th March I see the surgeon, I have heard I probably won't have enough clearance so will lose one breast, but was wondering whether its safer to have both off as its in the lympth system. I know that my surgeon will discuss this with me, so I am really divided about what to do.
Mollygirl Brisbane Member Posts: 213 ✭Hi @bakerr, talk to your surgeon firstly. I chose to do bilaterals as I was fearful of the other breast going rogue but also symmetry. If you have lymph involvement it doesn't make you more likely to get it again or in the other breast. A lot comes down to personal choice. Whilst I miss having breasts I would do the same again if I had my time over. Running without a bra, some small compensation !!!!!! Xx4
Eastmum SydneyMember Posts: 494 ✭HI @bakerr - first of all I wish you all the best for your treatment.
I'm relatively new here too - I was actually diagnosed in January but I've delayed my surgery (with the blessing of my medical team) until April - booked in for double mastectomy 7 April. It's really such a personal decision whether you have the single or double and one that you need to discuss with your doctors. I've heard that some surgeons won't remove a healthy breast however if you are absolutely determined that you want to go that way you can push for it. I actually don't have a choice because they've found breast cancer on both sides. Keep in touch and let us know how you go - this forum is such an amazing support.0
Zoffiel Regional VictoriaMember Posts: 2,995 ✭Hi @bakerr
That's a tough decision. I had both off and don't regret it. Others think differently, it's something that you need to nut out with your surgeon from a medical perspective then balance that information with what your gut tells you. Good luck. Mxx0
Thank you all for your kind comments, I will let you know how I go with the surgeon. I feel more positive now about seeing the surgeon. As I am a DD running without a bra sounds fabulous lol xx1
onemargie queenslandMember Posts: 1,258 ✭Hi there @bakerr I was diagnosed may 2016 Triple neg breast cancer. Stage 2A grade 3 no lymph nodes and scans clear. I had the left boob off if I kept it I would of had to have chemo and radiation and I had a really strong gut feeling to take it off I then had 8 rounds of chemo then took the other boob off no regrets from me either. Definitely the best decision for me for sure too. Listen to your team but trust your guts too love and you will know what's best for you. Biggest hug. Margie. Xx1
Hi girls,
I am just giving you the update from my surgeon. I have now had 5 doses of chemo with one to go yeh! The Chemo has shrunk my tumour so much she now wants to do breast conserving surgery. She said it is unlikely to come back in the breast, and as its in 8 lymph glands if it comes back it would come back somewhere else. I would also have to have the lymph glands out . Apparently there are some new studies suggesting that with radiation you may not need to take out all the lymph glands under the arm, but this is not a confirmed fact. I am hoping I won't get lymphodemia. So good and bad news, I shall just have to hope the drugs, chemo and radiation kill the cancer, and trust my surgeon. xx4
primek Broken HillMember Posts: 5,365 ✭That's fabulous news.0
Sister Adelaide Hills, SAMember Posts: 4,612 ✭Excellent news!0
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I spent more time Hunter than any other abilities, but they all follow roughly the same pattern. They are just like a tug-of-war with the sport itself: as levels begin to require more expertise, you learn more efficient methods to train. As grindy as Runescape is, so long as you really feel as though you're about keeping up with the ever-lengthening EXP bar, and so long as you have a clear goal in sight, OSRS gold's never too daunting.
But many skills plateau disappointingly early on. The EXP bar keeps getting bigger but there's nothing new to do in sight, which is really where leveling skills begins to get boring.
I discovered the crafting skills especially dull. To train Herblore, for instance, you withdraw inventory following stock of water and herbs out of your storage, then you just watch your personality combine them. It is a slow process that never necessarily changes, because unlike putting distinct traps in Hunter, no matter what potion you're making, you are always doing the identical thing.
These kinds of abilities are in their worst when you are losing money on the offer. They feel like another cheap Runescape gold you have to cover. Some other abilities, such as Agility, feel incongruous. Agility lets you access time-saving shortcuts around the Earth, however you train it by running circles round rote barrier courses. Agility is lively and beneficial in activity, but training it is a chore that's completely divorced from what you really use the skill for.


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/// to see the way she frames her goals and read her post click on the photo above or click here. This picture is hers, though I wish it were mine! Also, holy I want a graphics tablet for no other reason than to write all over pictures. I think I'm gonna have to analog that for now, though I did get a new scanner last month… ///
Elsie over at a beautiful mess wrote the other day about how she and her partner have been writing down and trying to stick to 4 simple goals per season. Being the type of person that makes 'new week, new start' and 'new shampoo, new start' lists frequently this obviously appealed to me. What also appealed to me is that the idea is to challenge myself to do something positive, something that can be done to enrich my life, and (of course I'm drawn to this) I get to reward myself once I achieve each goal!
So, with that said, here is mine:
I'm going to explain these one at a time, and therefore stretch out the posts! Just kidding. I'm trying not to write excessively long posts all the time because who has time for that? short-ish and sweet-ish, that's what
I always say have never once said. Anyway, expect more posts with this photo as a heading as I explain my different goals, talk about how they are going, and when I wrap them all up at the end of December. Yeah sticking goals out! (not like those other failed projects)
It was hard to choose just 4. Cut from the list (because my libra self needed a good balance and 7 seemed like a lot) was 'quitting smoking' – which I'm going to do anyway, 'redecorating house' – only one style goal allowed, 'practice photography' – because I didn't want to directly copy Elsie.
so without further ado I present: 'SIMPLE GOAL #1' : eat fresh fruits and veggies every day
okay, so this one is a directly copy from Elsie BUT ITS SUCH A GOOD ONE! I have been falling into sad/broke eating, which has mostly consisted of carbs that fill me up and random proteins like quinoa, beans and hamburgers. I've been craving more fresh plants in my life so here it is at #1 on my list of simple goals. I do mean simple too, I live only a couple of blocks from a great, year round, produce market that is cheap and I really have no excuse except laziness for not taking advantage. So in honour of my soon-to-be 30year old body, I offer fruits and veggies galore!
To do this I'm going to start making my morning smoothies again, I'm going to put berries and fruit on top of my morning granola, put more veggies in my cooking, and try and have one salad a day, maybe for lunches?. Added bonus, I'm gonna have to up my salad dressing making skills!
new age, new job, new season, new start.