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Ajatus is a new distributed CRM that “runs as a local Ajax web application on your own computer. It uses the CouchDb object database for data storage and enjoys a wide range of plug-in and replication possibilities.”

The Ajax side of the house uses jQuery for fun and profit.

It is a lot of fun to see people get excited and creative around CouchDb, which recently had the first major release featuring:

• a REST API using JSON instead of XML for data transport,
• a JavaScript view engine based on Mozilla Spidermonkey,
• a GNU Autotools build system supporting most POSIX systems (Noah Slater) ,
• a built-in administration interface (Christopher Lenz),
• experimental fulltext search with Lucene (Jan Lehnardt) and
• countless tweeks, enhancements and other small refinements.

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BANGALORE, India (AFP) - A two-year-old Indian girl born with four arms and four legs was due to leave hospital Saturday, more than a month after an operation to remove her extra limbs, a doctor said.

Lakshmi will return home after recovering well enough from last month’s marathon operation to separate her from a headless, conjoined twin, said surgeon Sharan Patil.

Lakshmi is due to be discharged later Saturday, said Patil, who led the team of doctors that performed the 27-hour operation.

“She is going home and she is good enough to be going home,” Patil told AFP in southern Bangalore city, adding that her wounds have healed.

“Lakshmi is normal,” eating well and in good spirits, he said.

“She has responded well to the post-operation treatment.”

“(But) There are a lot more things that need to happen to her,” the doctor added, declining to give details about her post-operative care.

Lakshmi, named after the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth, was born fused to the pelvis of a twin that had stopped developing in the mother’s womb.

In the rare and risky operation, the first of its kind to be performed in India, surgeons separated her from the organs and body parts of the other foetus, a condition that occurs once in 50,000 conjoined twin births.