MORENA BACCARIN ÁLLANDÓ SZEREPLŐKÉNT TÉR VISSZA A GOTHAM MÁSODIK ÉVADÁBAN

Morena Baccarin visszatér a Gotham második évadjára is, és ezúttal állandó szereplője lesz a sorozatnak.

A Dr. Leslie Thompkins szerepét játszó Baccarin, először januárban csatlakozott a Fox sorozatához. A TVLine szerint, a színésznő szerződése állandó szerepet ígér neki az ősszel érkező évadban.

Baccarin számára nem újdonság a képregényes közeg. A Homelandben, a Fireflyban, és a V, mint veszélyesben is feltűnő színésznő a Deadpool mozifilm Copycat nevű mutánsát fogja alakítani, a The Flesh-ben pedig Gideon hangját adja.

A Gotham második évada pedig, mint kiderült, a Minority Report sorozatbeli folytatásával egy napon kerül majd műsorra valamikor az év második felében.

Admin of WhatsApp group stabbed after removing 2 members

An owner of a garment shop has been left grievously injured after he was attacked with a knife, beaten up and punched by two men in Ulhasnagar. The duo was asked to carry out the assault by two of their friends who were removed from a WhatsApp group, the adminof which is the victim. Two of the accused have alleged that the group admin owed money to them. One of the perpetrators has been arrested – the son of an ex-corporator, who will be produced in court.

Bunty Kurseja (30), the owner of Mayaji Boutique, a garment shop in Ulhasnagar, had created a group titled 'Jai Ho' on instant messaging application WhatsApp. The group was created so that members could exchange info and updates of the garment industry in minimum time.

However, two of the group's members, Anil Mukhi and Naresh Rohra, would keep sharing pornographic content. This irked the others, who sent personal messages to Bunty, the administrator, asking him to remove the duo.

Bunty warned Anil and Naresh to refrain from sending such content, but the two men didn't pay heed. A few days later, Bunty removed the duo from the group.

The now ex-members asked two of their friends, Naresh Chavan aka Bablya, a history-sheeter, and 21-year-old Babu Suresh Gaikwad, the son of ex-corporator, to attack Bunty.

Pretending to be customers, Bablya and Babu entered Bunty's shop on May 27 and ended up arguing with him over the bill, after which they brandished a knife and attacked him.

Manoj Chouhan, investigating officer of Hill Line police said that when Bunty's statement was recorded, he mentioned that he had borrowed a sum of money from Anil and Naresh. "The loan of a few lakhs was borrowed a year ago due to some family problem. The duo would keep pressing Bunty to cough up the amount, but he was unable to do so," the officer added.

The duo's removal from the group was the final straw, which is when they asked Bablya and Babu to carry out the attack, said officer Chouhan, adding: "One of the accused, the son of a former corporator, has been caught and will be produced in court soon. We have got footage of the shop's CCTV, where it is clearly seen that the victim was attacked with a knife by the accused."

Satya Kumar, a resident of Ulhasnagar, said: "After the incident, owners of garment shops got angry and held a meeting to discuss the same. They kept whole lane in Ulhasnagar no 5 area shut, as a mark of protesting the attack."

The case was registered the very next day under IPC Sections 307 (Attempt to murder) and 507 (Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication). Investigations are ongoing to locate the other three accused.

Jack Vettriano hangs up paintbrush due to shoulder injury

Scottish painter, who had popular retrospective in Glasgow, signs up to physiotherapy course and ‘long recovery’ after dislocating right shoulder

Jack Vettriano, the Scottish painter, said he would be unable to paint for the foreseeable future after dislocating his right shoulder.

The 63-year-old, who said he believed he was facing a long recovery, released a statement after a “substantial number of inquiries” regarding new paintings following his retrospective exhibition at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, in Glasgow, which ended last year.

More than 123,000 people went to see the Glasgow show, which featured more than 100 of his paintings, between September 2013 and February 2014, making it the most visited art exhibition at the institution.

Vettriano said: “The reality is that I am going to be unable to paint in the foreseeable future. I am undertaking a course of physiotherapy but am facing a long recovery period. In the meantime, I would like to thank the public for their continued support and interest.”

Vettriano, born in 1951, grew up in Methil, Fife. He left school at 16 and did not take up painting full-time until the age of 40. In 1989, he found fame when two of his canvases submitted to the Scottish Royal Academy sold on the first day. His work has since featured in exhibitions in Edinburgh, London and New York. He was made an OBE in 2003.

One of his most famous paintings, The Singing Butler, sold for £744,000 in 2004 and became one of the best-selling posters in Britain.

Iggy Azalea cancels her Great Escape tour of the US for a second time

Australian rapper says she is still committed to upcoming festival appearances and will ‘be back out on the road when the next album is done’

The Australian rapper said in a tweet: “As you may know, the tour is cancelled.” She added that she was “so sad and sorry to let my fans down”.

Azalea announced in March that the Great Escape tour would not begin in April and was being rescheduled due to production delays to take place in the fall

Azalea did not offer further details about the second cancellation. Representatives from her record label, Def Jam, and tour promoter, AEG, did not return emails seeking comment.

The Grammy-nominated rapper, who recently released the single Pretty Girls with Britney Spears, said in a tweet she would be “be back out on the road when the next album is done”.

Azalea said she was still committed to her upcoming festival performances.

Movie Review: ‘Aloha’

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Aloha, Aloha.

And welcome to the summer movie season, even though you’re not a sequel or a prequel or a remake or a spinoff, and even though there’s not a superhero or a gunfight or a car chase or an incendiary explosion in sight.

Aloha is a romantic comedy from director Cameron Crowe that boasts a come-hither cast but is burdened with a hither-and-thither plot.

Crowe is undoubtedly grateful to his fetching cast for being likable enough to smooth over the film’s very rough edges because, as charming as many individual moments and exchanges in Aloha are, the storytelling ability that Crowe demonstrated so vividly early on in his career, while it doesn’t exactly desert him this time, let’s just say it struggles to keep its footing.

Maybe that’s why the first half of the film often feels like the second half of a movie that you missed the first half of.

Bradley Cooper plays Brian Gilcrest, a cynical defense contractor and Air Force officer, wounded in Afghanistan, who returns to the United States’ space program in Honolulu, Hawaii, the site of his triumphant military career.  He has been assigned to oversee the launch of a weapons satellite from Hawaii.  But Crowe’s exploration of space exploration is either incoherent or incomprehensible.

There Brian more or less bonds with, and maybe falls for, the aggressive and enthusiastic Air Force pilot who is one-quarter Hawaiian and has been assigned to him as a watchdog, Allison Ng, played by Emma Stone.

At the same time, he finds himself reconnecting with an ex-lover played by Rachel McAdams, who married a virtually silent Air Force pilot played by John Krasinski after her relationship with Brian went kablooey.

That McAdams and Cooper have unfinished business, however, is obvious to everyone the moment they’re in the same zip code.

And while trying to get his love life in order, Brian finds an abandoned ethical value system kicking in, offering him a shot at some kind of redemption.

Writer-producer-director Crowe, whose impressive resume includes Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire, Say Anything, Singles, Vanilla Sky, and We Bought a Zoo, addresses the issue of the militarization of space as background for this romantic-triangle piece that also dabbles in Hawaiian culture and mythology and politics.  But he can’t seem to fuse the thrusts together so that they seem to be part of the same movie: Aloha has more subjects than its title has meanings.

The George Clooney-starring, Hawaii-set The Descendants, which shares a number of elements with Aloha, handled the juggling of same much more effectively.

Crowe’s strong supporting cast also helps – and that includes Alec Baldwin, Bill Murray, and Danny McBride, none of whom have enough to do.  But Cooper, Stone, and McAdams are in the center ring, and perhaps it’s the not only proverbial cutting-room floor that holds the secret to the film’s essential confusion.

So we’ll dance the hula wearing 2-1/2 stars out of 4.  This romcom is no bomb, but Aloha gets a begrudging hello and a quick goodbye.

Duncan James: Dressing in drag turns me on

The Blue singer is preparing to play drag queen Tick in the musical 'Priscilla, Queen of the Desert' and has revealed the idea of taking on a different persona aroused him.
He said: ''I've never done drag before but I really got in to it.

''My new role is nothing like I have ever done. Normally I play a metrosexual man but this time is different. 

''I can relate to the character so much. He has a 10-year-old son, so do I. He's a gay guy, I'm a gay guy.

''My agent thought it would be a good way to show a different side to me and I really was turned on by that actually.''

The 37-year-old star - who came out as gay in 2009 - admits that although he's never done drag professionally before, he has dabbled in wearing women's clothes.

He told the Daily Star Online: ''I did it at my birthday party.

''[Former 'Dancing on Ice' judge] Jason Gardiner came to my party at my mum's house and we were very, very drunk.

''Upstairs my mum has a wig and Jason was like, 'Oh my God, you've got to do drag, I'll do you make-up, put your mum's wig on then come down and freak everybody out.''

''I was drunk so we just did it, it wasn't nerve wracking.''

However, Duncan admits his Blue bandmates - Lee Ryan, Simon Webbe and Antony Costa - weren't too keen on his new look.

He added: ''I didn't go all the way and do proper make-up, it was just a bit of mascara and lipstick.

''I came downstairs, the Blue boys were there and everyone was like, 'What the f**k are you doing?' ''

Stocks, bond yields fall on Greece worries, US data

A money changer counts U.S. dollar bills at a currency exchange office in central Istanbul April 15, 2015.

Global equity markets and bond yields both fell on Friday, as data showed the U.S. economy contracted in the first quarter and as investors were unnerved by mixed signals from Greece's debt talks.

In Europe, shares also fell on data showing that private loan growth in the euro zone stalled in April, while Wall Street shares reacted to details in the U.S. gross domestic product data indicating that after-tax corporate profits declined 8.7 percent in the first quarter.

Conflicting reports that Athens was close to clinching a reforms-for-cash deal with its creditors pushed German 10-year bond yields down 4 basis points to just under 0.50 percent.

"It's just Greece, Greece and Greece," said David Madden, a market analyst at IG in London. "The lack of news in either direction tells you why traders are sitting on their hands."

U.S. debt yields also dropped, with the 30-year U.S. Treasury yield falling to its lowest level in three and a half weeks, at 2.84 percent, while benchmark U.S. 10-year yields hit a three-and-a-half-week low at 2.097 percent.

The U.S. government slashed its GDP estimate, reporting the economy shrank at a 0.7 percent annual rate in the first quarter, instead of the 0.2 percent growth it initially estimated in April. The economy appears poised for its worst first-half performance since 2011.

Consumer sentiment fell this month, a survey by the University of Michigan showed, while the Institute for Supply Management-Chicago Business Barometer unexpectedly fell in May.

The data supported the notion that the Federal Reserve may consider the U.S. economy too fragile for a hike any time soon in interest rates; it has been nearly a decade since the Fed last raised rates. Higher rates would crimp bond prices, which move inversely to their yields.

"The market simply doesn't believe the data will be strong enough to let the Fed (boost rates) this year," said Aaron Kohli, interest rate strategist at BNP Paribas in New York.

MSCI's all-country world index .MIWD00000PUS of the stock performance in 46 countries fell 0.61 percent. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 .FTEU3 closed down 1.79 percent at 1,586.30 points.

Wall Street also finished lower.

The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 115.44 points, or 0.64 percent, to 18,010.68. The S&P 500 .SPX slid 13.4 points, or 0.63 percent, to 2,107.39, and the Nasdaq Composite.IXIC lost 27.95 points, or 0.55 percent, to 5,070.03.

U.S. 10-year notes pared most gains late in the session to end near break-even, yielding 2.1284 percent.

Oil surged almost 5 percent as a rally in the dollar faded and after data a day earlier showed four straight weekly draws in U.S. stockpiles.

North Sea Brent LCOc1 settled $2.98 higher at $65.56 a barrel, and U.S. crude CLc1 rose $2.62 to settle at $60.30 a barrel.

The dollar index .DXY was down 0.06 percent at 96.902 and remained on track for a rise in May, resuming a string of nearly uninterrupted monthly gains that began last July.

The dollar was off 0.33 percent against the euro, at $1.0982. Against the yen, it rose 0.13 percent to 124.10 yen.

Bobby Jindal says he'll sign medical marijuana, pot penalties legislation

Gov. Bobby Jindal on Thursday said he plans to sign legislation that would change the state's medical marijuana laws and soften penalties for marijuana offenders.

There are three bills moving through the state legislature affecting Louisiana's marijuana laws. Two of them (SB 241) and (HB 149), which are nearly identical, would reduce the tough sentences judges are allowed to hand down for repeat marijuana offenses; reduce a second marijuana offense from felony to misdemeanor; and allow first-time convictions for simple possession to be erased after two years.

The bills also set up a simple possession charge for smaller amounts of marijuana and more serious charges that can be brought for larger amounts of marijuana that drug dealers and distributors typically possess.

The third bill sets up a framework for patients in need of medical marijuana treatment to be able to get the drug if a doctor prescribes it.

Technically, medical marijuana has been legal in the state since 1971, but there's never been rules written to regulate growing, prescribing or dispensing it.

The bill, introduced by Sen. Fred Mills, R-New Iberia, includes those rules but Jindal in the past had said he wanted "to reserve the right" to examine the bill in more detail.

"If it got to our desk we'd sign it," Jindal said during a Thursday press briefing. "Our view on medical marijuana was, it had to be supervised and had to be a legitimate medical purpose and his bill meets that criteria."

On the nearly identical bills introduced by state Sen. J.P. Morrell and Rep. Austin Badon, both Democrats from New Orleans, Jindal said he is similarly supportive of the legislation.

"We are fine with the idea of providing rehabilitation and treatment for non-violent drug offenders, and I think this bill does that," Jindal said. "I think that's good for those offenders and it's good for taxpayers. That's another bill that if it got to our desk we'd sign that as well."

Fiscal analysts have said that Morrell's bill could save taxpayers as much as $16 million over five years.

All three bills have made significant progress passing both committee and at least one of the two chambers of the State Capitol. Badon's bill has passed the full House; Morrell's bill has passed the full Senate; and Mills' bill has passed the full Senate. 

Mariah Carey slams 'American Idol,' calls show 'fake'

It seems safe to say that Mariah Carey doesn’t have any fond memories of her “American Idol” days.

“It’s so boring and so fake,” the 45-year-old pop icon told Australian KIIS FM hosts Kyle and Jackie O on Thursday.

The “Infinity” singer explained judges were expected to make up stuff about the contestants and their performance to keep the show going.

“I’m sorry I just think it’s… when I say it’s fake… I mean like you have to make up things to say about people,” she said of the recently cancelled show. “Half the time the performances are good, you just be like “it was good” and you feel like ending it there: “You were really good.”

Carey, who appeared on season 12 of the show, alongside Randy Jackson, Keith Urban and (perceived rival) Nicki Minaj, said she has no interest in participating in an “Idol” reunion show either.

“Hell, no! Absolutely not, that was the worst experience of my life,” she said.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post

Smartphones Are So Smart They Can Now Test Your Vision

British ophthalmologist Andrew Bastawrous moved his family from London to Kenya in 2013 with $150,000 of equipment, a team of 15 people and an ambitious goal: to understand the causes of blindness in rural Africa. It didn't take long before he encountered all sorts of obstacles, including unpredictable power supplies and the regular need to run a gas-fueled generator to keep the equipment going. Many of the villages he was trying to reach had no roads and no electricity.

There had to be a better way, Bastawrous thought as he set about developing a smartphone app to help conduct high-quality eye exams without the need for heavy or expensive equipment. In the first published study on the app, called Peek, he and colleagues report that, for a group of older Kenyans, the phone-based vision test worked just as well as the gold-standard methods used in a doctor's office.

Of the 285 million people in the world with vision impairment, 80 percent live in low-income countries. The vast majority have preventable or treatable conditions, like glaucoma or cataracts. By increasing access to simple and affordable eye tests, Bastawrous hopes to create awareness about eye conditions and, in turn, connect patients with vision-saving treatments.

"For most people, it's an accepted consequence of old age that as you get older, you lose your sight," he says. "If we can create a freely downloadable app with high-quality results, it means that hopefully more people with vision problems can be identified, particularly the most vulnerable groups."

There are two standard ways to test vision. One is with a traditional letter chart that shows progressively smaller letters as patients read down each line. A newer, more accurate method uses an electronically powered box that illuminates letters of various sizes.

The Peek vision test looks a little different. On the phone's screen, patients see just one letter: an "E" that can be displayed with the prongs facing up, down, to the left or to the right. Patients don't need to be able to read or to know the English alphabet. They just point a finger in the direction they see the E facing. If it looks like a "W," for example, when pointing up.

The test-giver, who does not need to be a trained health care worker, stands 6 feet away and simply swipes the phone to indicate the way the patient thinks the E is positioned. If the patient shakes his head because the letter is too blurry, the test-giver shakes the phone. That's the "don't know" response.

At the end of the test, which takes a little over a minute, the phone vibrates and dings. Results appear immediately on the screen and can be translated to the 20/20 scale. The app can also show the patient's level of blurriness compared to normal vision.

For the latest trial, Bastawrous' team evaluated 233 Kenyans who were 55 or older. At home, patients took two eye exams: one with the Peek app and one with a standard paper chart. The next day, the same people went to a temporary clinic, where they completed the same two tests as well as one with the newer electronic technology.

Results, which appeared Thursday in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology, showed that the Peek test was as accurate as the other two methods for testing vision. The app's test, Bastawrous adds, was as quick if not quicker than the paper chart.

The phone method has other advantages, he says, including more objectivity. While paper charts require an examiner to look frequently back and forth from the patient to the chart to check for accuracy, a test-giver holding a phone never has to make any assessments at all. The phone does all the work. And once the results are on a smartphone, they can be shared remotely with doctors who are not in the field. The app also performs retina scans and other kinds of vision tests that are undergoing their own trials.

In a follow-up study that has not yet been published, the team found that people were very accepting of phone-based vision tests, possibly because the technology is so familiar. In sub-Saharan Africa, according to the United Nations, more people have cellphones than have clean, running water.

A portable, easy-to-use vision app could be useful in settings where ophthalmologists might be scarce, like developing countries, or even for patients who want to monitor their eyesight at home, says Jeremy Keenan, an ocular infectious disease expert at the University of California, San Francisco.

"This could greatly expand the ability of public health agencies to include vision screening in their outreach programs," Keenan says. "The hope would be that this type of tool could help identify people with eye disease before they have lost too much vision and at a time when treatments are still available, though whether this will be the case needs to be studied further."

One important step that needs to be worked out: how to translate vision test results into action.

"No matter how good the technology is, it's just a test," Bastawrous says. "You have to link people to very dedicated health workers and good quality services."

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App to test eyesight 'as accurate' as traditional sight charts, study suggests

The Portable Eye Examination Kit, or Peek, was found to be as reliable as standard paper-based charts in eye clinics

Using a smartphone app to test eyesight is just as accurate as the traditional sight charts, a study suggests.

The Portable Eye Examination Kit, or Peek, has been designed and developed the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the University of Strathclyde and the NHS Glasgow Centre for Ophthalmic Research.

Research published in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology showed that the results from the app tests were as reliable as those from standard paper-based charts and illuminated vision boxes in an eye clinic.

The eye tests are designed not to be dependent on familiarity with symbols or letters used in the English language, and instead feature a “tumbling E” on the screen, showing the letter E in different orientations.

From a distance of two metres away from the smartphone, the patient points in the direction they perceive the arms of the E to be pointing and the tester uses the touch screen to swipe accordingly on the screen.

“With most of the world’s blind people living in low-income countries, it is vital we develop new tools to increase early detection and appropriate referral for treatment,” said Dr Andrew Bastawrous, lead author of the report and co-founder of Peek.

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Dr Bastawrous, who is a lecturer in International Eye Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, added that mobile phones are widespread in low-income countries, maing them an ideal platform” for eye tests.

Tests carried out in 233 patients' homes found that Peek Acuity software produced results which were equivalent to the much larger and more expensive standard electricity dependent chart.

“In this study we aimed to develop and validate a smartphone-based visual acuity test for eyesight which would work in challenging circumstances, such as rural Africa, but also provide reliable enough results to use in routine clinical practice in well-established healthcare systems,” Dr Bastawrous said.

"Our ultimate hope is that the accuracy and easy to use features of Peek will lead to more people receiving timely and appropriate treatment and be given the chance to see clearly again.”

'Bachelor' couple Chris Soules, Whitney Bischoff call off engagement

It's another "Bachelor" breakup: Chris Soules and Whitney Bischoff have called off their six-month engagement. 

The reality stars called it quits two months after their much-hyped Season 19 proposal aired on ABC.

The matchmaking series' creator Mike Fleiss first broke the news on Twitter on Thursday. 

"Sad news to report: @souleschris and @whitbisch are no longer engaged..." he wrote.

The former couple then followed up by releasing a joint statement to Us Weekly and People that said they ended their engagement "mutually and amicably."

"They part with nothing but respect and admiration for one another and will continue to be supportive friends. They wish to thank everyone who has supported them through this journey," the statement said.

Soules, 33, who earned the nickname "Prince Farming" on the show, and his remote Iowa farm life were showcased on the latest season. Bischoff, a fertility nurse from Chicago, was among the few women who were willing to take on the rural lifestyle and settle in new pastures. 

After the finale, Soules appeared on "Dancing With the Stars," and that's when rumors of trouble on the homefront churned out.

The farmer shut down the breakup rumors earlier this month, telling Us Weekly, that they were "making the best of a really cool situation ... that's not going to last much longer."

"We're just normal people living a kind of abnormal life for a couple more weeks," he told the mag.

Soon after that, he posted several snapshots of Bischoff on his farm that he captioned "#farmerintraining"

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Tattoos last, but for 1 out of 10, so does the pain

An estimated 25% of people in the United States have a permanent tattoo, making it one of the most popular forms of body art. But those colorful etchings of birds and symbols can sometimes cause ugly and painful skin problems. A new study suggests that 10% of people who get inked experience infections, itching and other adverse reactions, sometimes lasting more than four months.

Researchers at New York University asked people in Central Park whether they had a tattoo, and if so, whether they had any reactions after getting tattooed that they thought were out of the ordinary, such as redness and scarring.

Out of the 300 people the researchers surveyed, 31 (10.3%) said they developed abnormal reactions. In 4% of these cases, the reactions, including pain, itching and infection, went away within four months. Some required antibiotics. The other 6% had itching, scaly skin and swelling around the tattoo site that lasted for more than four months.

"I was totally surprised by these numbers," said Dr. Marie C. Leger, assistant professor of dermatology at NYU Langone Medical Center and lead author of the study, which was published Thursday in the journal Contact Dermatitis. "I see patients with complaints about their tattoos, but I didn't have any idea how common it was," Leger added.

However, as Leger pointed out, it is not clear if the numbers in her study are representative of this large subset of the population. Researchers need to study bigger groups of people, and follow up with physical exams and biopsies to confirm and diagnose their conditions, she said.

Leger got motivated to study tattoo complications after treating a patient who developed itching and raised, scaly skin around only the red parts of a tattoo on her arm. She had the first tattoo for years but the symptoms started after getting a more recent tattoo on her foot. In addition to the problems at the tattoo site, she developed a rash over her whole body. "It was like her body decided after being exposed to red dye more than once, that it just didn't like it," Leger said.

There are many questions over what is causing these undesirable side effects. Leger said she suspects that allergic reactions to the dyes, especially red dye, are responsible for some of the chronic reactions lasting more than four months.

In Leger's small survey, chronic reactions were more likely in people who had more variety of colors, and red seemed to be particular problematic. Other small studies have also reported lesions associated with red tattoos.

If chronic problems do arise, it is possible to remove the tattoo, Leger said. However in the case of the patient who inspired the current study, the tattoos covered too much of her body to easily excise.

Many of the problems that the survey captured, both the acute and chronic reactions, "don't have anything to do with the tattoo parlor or the artist," Leger stressed. "It's not anybody's fault, it's body meets ink and what happens," she said.

Nevertheless, some of the acute problems that occur in the days and weeks after body and ink meet can be avoided. For example, people should make sure to clean the tattoo site to reduce infection risk, and follow other instructions from the tattoo artist, Leger said. The study found that acute problems were more likely among people who had many tattoos and tattoos that covered a large part of their body.

If any signs of an infection develop, such as warmth, swelling and drainage at the tattoo, people should go to an urgent care clinic or get some other medical help immediately, Leger said.

Although the numbers in the New York survey seem high, they may underestimate the complications linked with getting tatted. "Some of the skin reactions may be very subtle and require a dermatologist to diagnose exactly what it is," said Dr. Jared Jagdeo, assistant professor of dermatology at UC Davis, who was not involved in the current research. Problems with tattoos on the back or other out-of-sight areas may go unnoticed, too, he added.

Studies in Europe have found similar, and in some cases higher, rates of tattoo complications.

"The findings [of the current study] highlight the importance of educating the general public prior to tattooing," Jagdeo said. "Anytime you introduce a foreign substance into the body, in this case the skin, there is the potential for adverse events [such as] infection or something more serious like an allergic reaction," he said.

However, tattooing is a lot safer now that many states and cities inspect tattoo parlors to make sure they are using safe practices and equipment such as single-use needles, Jagdeo said.

There are no federal regulations on tattoo ink. "I think the composition of dyes is an area that will be looked at in the future at the state and potentially federal level," Jagdeo said. "This study is very important to bring attention to this important topic," he said.

Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif's special request to Zoya Akhtar

Actors Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif are excited about filmmaker Zoya Akhtar's upcoming multi starrer, Dil Dhadakne Do.Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara was a big hit and was appreciated by everyone.  The actors had an amazing time working with Zoya on Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and they can't wait to see how Dil Dhadakne Do has turned out. 

Hrithik and Katrina have been after Zoya to arrange a special screening for the team of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara.  Like ZNMD, Dil Dhadakne Do also has an ensemble, promising cast.

Dil Dhadakne Do has been garnering a lot of buzz and the two are very curious to know how it has turned out.

Brad Pitt Giving Angelina Jolie A Seaplane For Her 40th Birthday? Angie Talks Shooting Movie With Husband And Kids

Brad Pitt is reportedly giving wife Angelina Jolie a seaplane for her 40th birthday.

According to the Sunday Mirror (via the Express Tribune), Pitt, 51, is also "arranging flying lessons" for Jolie, who turns 40 on June 4, so "that she is able to use her present promptly."

The couple apparently plan to keep the plane on a runway at their French estate, where they married in August.

After tying the knot last summer, Jolie and Pitt, along with their six kids -- Maddox, 13, Pax, 11, Zahara, 10, Shiloh, 8, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 6 -- immediately jetted to Malta, where they wrapped up shooting "By the Sea," written and directed by Jolie. In the film, Jolie and Pitt play a wife and husband who "seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants," according to IMDb. The movie, Jolie's third directorial effort, is set to be released Nov. 15, 2015.

"Yes, we spent our honeymoon playing two people in a terrible marriage. I'm sure a therapist would have a field day analyzing the films I choose to do," Jolie quipped in a Dec. interview. "But it's been 10 years since Brad and I have worked together. It felt like it was time."

The newlyweds enjoyed working together so much that they plan to re-team for "Africa," a Richard Leakey biopic. Jolie will direct and Pitt will star, according to reports.

"I've felt a deep connection to Africa and its culture for much of my life," Jolie said in a statement last year, "and was taken with [Oscar winner Eric Roth's] beautiful script about a man drawn into the violent conflict with elephant poachers who emerged with a deeper understanding of man's footprint and a profound sense of responsibility for the world around him."