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I was just strolling around Glorietta yesterday morning, and now I hear this news. I can just imagine the panic this must have caused, particularly for the numerous tourists that frequent the popular hotel-flanked mall. And this happened during the lunch break when yuppies flood the mall to eat at the restaurants. Scary! Text or call your friends in the area to check if they’re safe.

Watching TV. I will post ABS-CBN headlines on tv here as they come out to update my friends who only have access on the net, but not the television. Read the updates after the jumP

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David Copperfield (illusionist)

David Copperfield (born David Seth Kotkin) is a multi Emmy Award winning, American magician and illusionist best known for his combination of illusions and storytelling. His illusions include making the Statue of Liberty "disappear", "flying", "levitating" over the Grand Canyon, and "walking through" the Great Wall of China.

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Donna Rosetta

Donna Rosetta embroidery designs are developed inhouse and provide various range of products, piece dyed and embellished with accessories such as Batik, Tie & Dye, Logo-embroidery, Sequin work and Logo-prints. In our pursuit to create a difference we have lately introduced Beaded Work on Hand Painted and Printed Silk Fabric.

Perfection at all levels is the watchword at Donna Rosetta; be it Cutting, Beading, Embroidery, Fabrication or Checking. Each phase is passed through the vigilant eyes of in-house quality controllers; and pieces are rejected or sent for rectification at the slightest variation from the base design. The management keeps track of each and every action that goes into production, and a system of Reporting by Quality Controllers at each stage is maintained.

The entire production processes are performed in-house under the supervision of qualified technical personnel.

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joey bishop

Joey Bishop (February 3, 1918 – October 17, 2007) was perhaps best remembered as being a member of the "Rat Pack" with Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. He was the last survivor of that group of entertainers.

In 1941, Bishop married Sylvia Ruzga, who died in 1999. They had one son, Larry Bishop.

Bishop appeared on television as early as 1948 and was a frequent guest on television talk shows, game shows, and comedy shows. He is listed as #96 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest standups of all time.

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Bishop

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Joey Bishop

AKA Joseph Abraham Gottlieb

Born: 3-Feb-1918
Birthplace: Bronx, NY
Died: 17-Oct-2007
Location of death: Newport Beach, CA
Cause of death: Natural Causes

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Comic, Actor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Rat Pack member

Joey Bishop grew up in South Philadelphia, and started his comedy career doing vaudeville. Still known as Joey Gottlieb, he was briefly in a comedy group that called itself "The Bishop Trio", named for the group's driver. When the act broke up, Bishop kept the name for himself.

His sitcom, The Joey Bishop Show, ran from 1961-65, with Bishop playing a showbiz schmooze-type who (in the second season) became host of a TV talk show. When he hosted a talk show in real life, also called The Joey Bishop Show (1967-69), his sidekick and comic foil was the young Regis Philbin. As a running gag, Bishop routinely needled Philbin on the air, but the gags ended when Regis stalked off the set during a live broadcast, and stayed away for several days.

Bishop seems generally the least-remembered member of the Rat Pack, five cool stars and pals of the 1950s and 60s (the other four were Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Peter Lawford). He appeared in the Rat Pack movies Oceans Eleven (1960) and Sergeants Three (1962). He said or did something that annoyed Sinatra (it's unclear exactly what) and was booted from the pack while their next film, (Robin and the Seven Hoods), was in pre-production.

Father: Jacob Gottlieb
Mother: Anna Gottlieb
Wife: Sylvia Ruzga (m. 1941, d. 1999)
Son: Larry Bishop

High School: (dropped out at age 16)

Vinnie DiMartino

Vinnie DiMartino got hooked on cars at the age of nine. He started working at a repair shop owned by his father and by the time he was fifteen, he was doing high performance work on all his friends' cars. Eventually, he worked with long time friend Paul Jr. at Orange County Choppers and his love for cars morphed into love for bikes.

Ultimately, he became part of the reality television show American Choppers. In the show, he works as a custom-bike fabricator alongside childhood friend Paul Jr.

Jennifer Letzkus Engagement

Jennifer Letzkus is a teacher in Chicago, she was previously an investment banker. This will be the first marriage for Jennifer Letzkus and the second marriage for Patrick Fitzgerald. They have a decent age difference; she is 34 and he is 46, but that is nothing unusual these days.

Jennifer Letzkus is an interesting match for Patrick as he generally spends long hours at the office. He is most well known in the news for prosecuting Lewis Scooter Libby as he is a U.S. Attorney. The marriage to Jennifer Letzkus is planned to be a private ceremony and they have not chosen a date as of yet.

Oak Park’s Iman Shumpert Announces He Will Play for Georgia Tech Basketball

The #1 rated basketball senior has announced that he will be playing for the ACC with Georgia Tech. Iman Shumpert was deciding between North Carolina, Georgia Tech, and Marquette. The Chicago Tribune reports:

Oak Park guard Iman Shumpert, one of the top uncommitted basketball recruits in the country, walked onto the “Chicago Tribune Live” set Thursday evening and announced his decision on Comcast SportsNet.

“Next year I’ll be attending Georgia Tech,” Shumpert said.

That ended four days of uncertainty during which high school and college fans, media and recruiting analysts had speculated on just who would land the 6-foot-4-inch shooting guard.

A virtual unknown a year ago, Shumpert stormed to elite status after some eye-opening performances at spring and summer tournaments, including LeBron James’ showcase event in Akron, Ohio.

After James’ competition, college coaches on hand rated Shumpert among the five best off-guards in the nation. With passing and ball-handling skills to match a deadly perimeter jumper, Shumpert is expected to make a smooth transition to point guard at the next level.

He is rated by rivals.com the No. 1 senior in the state and No. 26 in the country.

source:http://sportswrap.berecruited.com

Joey Bishop dead at 89

The last of the Rat Pack is dead.

Joey Bishop, who along with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Peter Lawford comprised the Rat Pack in the late 50s and early 60s, died of multiple causes in Newport Beach this morning.

Besides several movies, including the original Ocean's Eleven and The Naked and the Dead, Bishop starred in two different TV series titled The Joey Bishop Show.

The first one was a sitcom that ran from 1961 to 1965 (on two networks, ABC and NBC), the second was a late night talk show that ran from 1967 to 1968. The announcer and second banana on that talk show? Regis Philbin. Bishop also guest starred on Match Game, Murder, She Wrote, Trapper John, M.D., Get Smart, and guest hosted The Tonight Show.

Bishop's most recent work was an interview in a Frank Sinatra special in 1998 and the Comedy Central series 100 Greatest Standups in 2004.

What mighty contests rise from trivial things

This issue is a distraction from the real challenges that face our culture and our nation. We might as well create an amendment denying folks the right to be tall or to be short.
What is normal? "Much madness is divinest sense."

We need to care for elderly, our working poor, our uninsured families. I would support an amendment requiring compassion and tolerance. It would make more sense and would have as much real impact on real day-to-day life as this foolishness that is being floated to distract us from the more important issues.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection

What is MRSA?

Staphylococcus aureus is a species of bacterium commonly found on the skin and/or in the noses of healthy people. Although it is usually harmless at these sites, it may occasionally get into the body (eg through breaks in the skin such as abrasions, cuts, wounds, surgical incisions or indwelling catheters) and cause infections. These infections may be mild (eg pimples or boils) or serious (eg infection of the bloodstream, bones or joints).

MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which is a type of Staphylococcus aureus that is resistant to the antibacterial activity of methicillin and other related antibiotics of the penicillin class.

The treatment of infections due to Staphylococcus aureus was revolutionised in the 1940s by the introduction of the antibiotic penicillin.

However,, most strains of Staphylococcus aureus are now resistant to penicillin. This is because Staphylococcus aureus can make a substance called ß-lactamase (pronounced beta-lactamase), that degrades penicillin, destroying its antibacterial activity.

In the early 1960s, a new type of penicillin antibiotic called methicillin was developed. Methicillin was not degraded by ß-lactamase and so could be used to treat infections due to ß-lactamase-producing strains of Staphylococcus aureus. Subsequently, methicillin was replaced by newer and better penicillin-type antibiotics (such as flucloxacillin) that were also not affected by ß-lactamase.

Unfortunately, shortly after the introduction of methicillin, certain strains of Staphylococcus aureus emerged that were resistant to methicillin (and also to the newer drugs such as flucloxacillin) These methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus became known as 'MRSA' for short, and although methicillin is no longer prescribed, having been replaced by flucloxacillin, the term MRSA continues to be used.

Although other types of antibiotics can still be used to treat infections caused by MRSA, these alternative drugs are mostlyy not available in tablet form and must be administered through a drip inserted into a vein or by injection.

MRSA infections in hospital

MRSA infections are a particular problem in hospitals. As with ordinary strains of Staphylococcus aureus, some patients harbour MRSA on their skin or nose without harm (such patients are said to be 'colonised'). However, these patients may develop infections if the MRSA spread to other parts of the body (eg if MRSA spread from the colonised nose to a wound). When this happens the resulting infection is described as 'endogenous'.

Some patients are at increased risk of developing infection. They include those with breaks in their skin due to wounds or indwelling catheters which allow MRSA to enter the body, and those with certain types of deficiency in their immune system, such as low numbers of white cells in their blood.

Individuals colonised with MRSA may also serve as a 'reservoir' of MRSA that may spread to other patients. This may happen, for example, if hospital staff attending to a colonised or infected patient become contaminated or colonised with MRSA themselves (often only briefly) and spread the bacteria to other patients with whom they subsequently have contact. These patients may in turn become colonised and/or infected. The spread of MRSA (or for that matter other bacteria) between patients is called cross-infection. In addition, MRSA may be spread via contaminated equipment or through the environment.

Some strains of MRSA are particularly successful at spreading between patients and may also spread between hospitals, presumably when colonised patients or staff move from one hospital to another. These strains are known as epidemic MRSA (or EMRSA for short). During the 1990s there was a marked increase in infections caused by MRSA in hospitals in the UK due to the emergence and spread of two particular stains of EMRSA known as EMRSA-15 and EMRSA-16.

MRSA infections in the community

Patients may be colonised with MRSA when they leave hospital, and there has long been concern that MRSA might spread from hospitals into the community.

In recent years increasing numbers of cases of MRSA infection in the community have been seen in many countries around the world, particularly the USA. However, investigations of these cases have shown that in many instances, the strains of MRSA found in patients in the community are distinct from those strains seen in hospitals and it now appears that these so called 'community-associated MRSA' have evolved independently of hospital MRSA. Although infections with 'community-associated MRSA' occur frequently in some countries, they are uncommon in the UK.

Studies in the USA and other countries have shown that the 'community-associated MRSA' often cause infections in previously healthy individuals who lack the risk factors seen in hospitalised patients. Many of these strains have a toxin called the Panton-Valentine leucocidin (usually referred to as 'PVL') which may contribute to their increased ability to cause infections.

Luckily, 'community-associated MRSA' are frequently susceptibility to a wide range of antibiotics (apart from those belonging to the penicillin class). As further evidence of their independent evolution, 'community-associated MRSA' are generally susceptible to a wider range of antibiotics than are hospital strains.

Can the spread of MRSA be controlled?

There are several steps that may be undertaken to minimise the spread of MRSA between patients.

• • Hospital staff should wash their hands scrupulously before and after having physical contact with patients, using soap or rapidly acting antibacterial alcohol solutions.
  
  
• Patients colonised or infected with MRSA may be kept away from other patients by being placed in separate rooms, either alone or with other patients who also have MRSA. Access to such rooms should be restricted to essential personnel.
  
  
• Hospital staff should wear gloves and disposable gowns prior to having physical contact with MRSA patients. Before leaving the room, they should discard these safely, and wash their hands.
  
  
• Visitors and carers likely to have a lot of physical contact with patients should also wear disposable gloves and gowns. All visitors should wash their hands before leaving the room.
  
  
• MRSA can survive on inanimate objects or surfaces such as linen, sinks, floors and even mops used for cleaning. For this reason, areas where MRSA patients are nursed should be thoroughly cleaned using disinfectants.
  
  

How is infection or colonisation with MRSA diagnosed?

To diagnose MRSA infection, specimens such as a swab of an infected wound or a sample of blood are taken from the patient. These are sent to a microbiology laboratory, where bacteria present in the specimen are cultured and identified. This process may take several days.

In addition, sometimes more rapid tests which detect the DNA (the genetic material) typically found in MRSA may be undertaken. Colonisation with MRSA is detected similarly, using swabs of a person's skin or from the inside of the nose.

How is MRSA treated?

Patients colonised with MRSA

Patients colonised with MRSA may have a special antibiotic called mupirocin applied onto their skin (Bactroban) or the inside of their nose (Bactroban nasal). This helps to eliminate the MRSA and reduces the risk of the bacteria spreading either to other sites on the patient's body, where they might cause infection, or to other patients. Some strains of MRSA are, however, resistant to mupirocin.

Individuals colonised with MRSA may also wash their skin and hair with suitable disinfectants, such as chlorhexidine.

Patients infected with MRSA

Patients with infections due to Staphylococcus aureus often need antibiotics. Infections due to normal strains of Staphylococcus aureus are often treated with flucloxacillin (eg Floxapen), but this is ineffective against MRSA. To make matters worse, MRSA are often also resistant to other types of antibiotics such as erythromycin (eg Erythroped) and ciprofloxacin (eg Ciproxin).

Although MRSA are resistant to many drugs, most remain susceptible to the antibiotics vancomycin and teicoplanin (Targocid). Infections due to MRSA are therefore often treated with one or other of these drugs. Both must be administered by infusion or injection, and for this reason, they are used for treatment only in hospitalised patients. Injection of vancomycin into muscle is painful and thus not used, while rapid administration into a vein may produce an allergic-type reaction (the so-called 'red man' syndrome). To overcome these problems, vancomycin must be given by slow infusion into a vein. In contrast, teicoplanin may be safely administered by injection into muscle or rapid infusion into a vein.

A very few MRSA resistant to vancomycin and/or teicoplanin have been found in the USA and although there is concern that they may become more common, there is no evidence of this happening to date. Fortunately, in the last few years further antibiotics that are active against MRSA have been developed and licensed for clinical use.

One such drug, called linezolid (Zyvox) may be given either by intravenous infusion (in severely ill patients) or in tablet form. Clinical trials have so far shown it is useful (either alone or in combination with other antibiotics) for the treatment of pneumonia and skin and soft tissue infections.

More recently, another drug called daptomycin (Cubicin) has been licensed for the treatment of skin infections including those caused by MRSA.

Source:http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/mrsa.htm

Asa Coon Death Photo

Sure enough as usual, there is a controversial photo going around featuring somebody lying in a pool of blood. This one features Asa Coon, the 14 year old shooter at the Cleveland school. I am not linking to the death photo, however the article provided does give details as to where you can view the photo. It has been on the internet for a while now, and don't see any reason why it would be taken down. Read more about the Asa Coon death photo at the link provided.
Source:http://www.cleveland.com/crime/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/iscri/1192523485269960.xml&coll=2