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Summer/Fall 2010
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Thanks to better HIV treatments -- and the efforts of treatment advocates -- people are living longer with HIV. As HIV positive people get older, and as increasing numbers of people acquire HIV at an older age, the medical, emotional and social issues typically associated with aging are compounded by HIV-related challenges.
To address these issues, San Francisco AIDS Foundation held an official satellite session at the XVIII International AIDS Conference on July 19, 2010, in Vienna, Austria. The session included a series of presentations on current epidemiology and research, followed by a panel discussion with older HIV positive individuals and a dialogue with audience members.
The satellite session was cosponsored by Gay Men's Health Crisis and amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. Dr. Rowena Johnston, Vice President and Director of Research at amfAR, gave the audience an epidemiological overview of HIV/AIDS in older individuals around the world. She was followed by Dr. Amy Justice, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Yale Medical School and Principal Investigator for the Veterans Aging Cohort Study, who offered a framework for understanding the multiple illnesses that affect people aging with HIV. Dr. Glenn Treisman, Director of the AIDS Psychiatry Program at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, spoke on the interactions between HIV disease and psychiatric conditions.
These presentations were followed by a discussion among HIV/AIDS advocates who are themselves over the age of 50 and living with HIV. Dr. Michael Siever, Director of Behavioral Health Services at San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and Ms. Sylvia Young, Peer Advocate Program Manager at Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Disease (WORLD) in Oakland, California, were joined by Ms. Siphiwe Hlophe, Founder and Director of Swaziland Positive Living (SWAPOL).
Following are excerpts from the presentations and the panel and audience discussions, highlighting important issues and urgent questions around aging and HIV.
"As antiretroviral therapy becomes more widely available, the proportion of people with HIV who are over 50 will absolutely grow."
-- Rowena Johnston
In her overview presentation, Dr. Rowena Johnston cited a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicating that, in the United States, 28% of new HIV diagnoses in 2006 were among people over 45 years of age. Mathematical models suggest that half of all HIV positive individuals in the U.S. will be over 50 by the year 2015.
Data collected by the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) define "adults" as people between 15 and 49 years of age, making it difficult to find information about HIV infection in people over 50 outside the U.S. But a study described in the journal Clinical Interventions in Aging suggests that about 7% of the world's HIV positive population (roughly 2.3 million people) is 50 or older. That proportion will increase as antiretroviral therapy becomes more widely available around the globe and more people have access to life-saving treatment. Already, Johnston said, there are significant populations of older adults living with HIV in Kenya, Jamaica, India, and parts of East Asia.
Where data about HIV in older adults are available, they tend to reflect prevalence (the number of people living with HIV disease) rather than incidence (the number of people newly infected), making it unclear whether HIV was acquired earlier in life or after the age of 50. This gap in knowledge poses a problem, as the medical needs of individuals newly infected with HIV in older age tend to differ from those of older adults who have lived with the virus for many years.
There is also a great need for HIV prevention efforts among older populations. HIV prevention messages rarely target older individuals because of a common assumption that they don't have sex -- a misconception flouted by a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that 73% of people aged 57 to 64 years are sexually active. "I think that probably comes as a surprise to a lot of people," said Johnston. Yet older adults often do not consider themselves at risk for HIV or other sexually transmitted infections; Johnston cited an Australian study suggesting that few older people use condoms or seek HIV testing.
As antiretroviral therapy becomes more widely available and people live longer with HIV, Johnston concluded, more information on the epidemiology of HIV and aging will be necessary to adequately meet the HIV treatment and prevention needs of older adults around the world.
"The question really is, 'What's the total burden of disease, and how do we try to minimize its effects on people's quality of life and survival?'"
-- Amy Justice
Between 20% and 75% of deaths among HIV positive individuals on antiretroviral treatment are now due to causes other than the AIDS-defining conditions specified by the CDC, explained Dr. Amy Justice, citing data from several studies showing that major causes of death among people with HIV are attributable to alcohol use, liver disease, cardiovascular disease, cancer and renal disease. She stressed, however, that while these illnesses are not considered AIDS-defining conditions, they are not necessarily unrelated to HIV disease.
Differences in HIV-related mortality between younger and older age groups cannot be explained by age alone. "Clearly, folks who have HIV infection -- and people who have lived an extended period of time exposed to HIV infection -- are biologically older than people who are newly infected or are not infected," Justice explained, and life expectancy may be shorter even among optimally treated individuals.
Researchers once thought that antiretroviral drug toxicities accounted for the continued higher risk of illness and death among treated patients. But results from the Strategies for Management of Antiretroviral Therapy (SMART) study, first published in 2006, suggested otherwise. In this landmark study, individuals who interrupted antiretroviral treatment when their CD4 counts exceeded a set threshold still had more deaths and more AIDS-defining and non-AIDS-defining conditions than study participants who stayed on continuous treatment, suggesting that long-term exposure to the virus itself accounts -- at least in part -- for the higher rates of illness and death seen among HIV positive individuals.
Today, researchers believe that HIV increases the risk of many "non-AIDS conditions," and chronic inflammation and immune activation appear to play a significant role (see "Inflammation and Immune Activation," below). The relative risk contributed by HIV infection is modest compared with other established risk factors for these conditions, but the effect of HIV increases over time: the longer an individual has the virus, the greater his or her risk for such conditions compared with a non-infected person.
|Inflammation and Immune Activation
When the body is infected with bacteria or viruses (such as HIV), cells in the immune system produce proteins called cytokines. These proteins act like chemical "messengers" and help organize the body's immune response. Some cytokines trigger inflammation, which involves the transport of cells and fluids to the site of the injury; this causes the warmth, redness, swelling and soreness you may notice around a cut as it heals.
Inflammation can occur not only at the level of your skin or in response to a visible injury, but also in organs or body systems such as the immune system or the central nervous system -- and may last far longer than the time it takes for a cut to heal. Chronic inflammation, which is now known to be associated with HIV infection, persists over time and involves the continued healing and destruction of cells and tissues. This type of inflammation is thought to be linked to heart disease and other life-threatening conditions.
Like inflammation, immune activation is appearing more and more frequently in the HIV literature. Soon after HIV infection occurs, massive numbers of immune cells in the gut are destroyed, allowing bacteria that normally live in the intestines to leak into the bloodstream -- a process called "microbial translocation." HIV is also thought to interfere with certain cells, called "regulatory T-cells," which are essential to halting immune responses once an infection is eliminated from the body. Both microbial translocation and the dysfunction of regulatory T-cells appear to contribute to immune activation, and to an overstimulated and overworked immune system.
The list of comorbidities (diseases or conditions that coexist with a primary disease) associated with HIV includes diseases of the lungs, liver, kidneys and heart and blood vessels, as well as neurological conditions and bone diseases. Clinicians with HIV positive clients need to carefully monitor for early signs of these non-AIDS conditions, Justice said, because they can be used to predict HIV disease progression and help providers intervene and work with patients to improve life expectancy and quality of life. For example, some conditions may justify starting antiretroviral therapy early, and conditions such as anemia may become important indicators of HIV disease progression.
Justice also acknowledged that drug toxicities complicate treatment for HIV positive individuals with comorbid conditions, and stressed that individualized care is becoming increasingly important. "If someone already has renal injury, we probably want to avoid drugs that are going to add to that renal injury, but all else equal, those drugs may actually help reverse some of that injury," she explained. "It's getting more complicated, in the sense of the balance that we need to make and the tailoring that we need to do for each individual patient who comes in."
"If you treat psychiatric disorders, [HIV] patients do better."
-- Glenn Treisman
Drawing on his work at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Glenn Treisman focused on three key mental health issues that influence HIV disease: depression, cognitive impairment and substance use, all of which may increase with age and affect treatment adherence, viral load and CD4 cell counts, inflammation in the central nervous system (CNS) and CNS infection.
Depression, Treisman said, is common in the setting of HIV infection -- occurring six to ten times as frequently in aging HIV-infected patients compared with the general population, he estimated. Unfortunately, he explained, depressed patients tend to be less adherent to antiretroviral therapy and other medical treatments and less likely to seek care. Depression can also worsen cognitive function (and be worsened by cognitive decline) and intensifies substance use disorders.
There is also good reason to believe that the virus itself can cause depression, Treisman said, citing studies that link HIV-induced cytokine activity and CNS inflammation to depression in a large subset of patients. HIV and depression thus appear to perpetuate one another: as Treisman put it, the virus "inflames your brain [and] causes depression. As you get depressed, you don't take your HIV medicines and, as you don't take your HIV medicines, your depression gets worse."
Another issue often faced by people aging with HIV is cognitive impairment. "Even though we're treating people, we still see them getting cognitively impaired -- it's just more subtle forms of cognitive impairment ... and the onset is more variable," said Treisman. People with cognitive impairment may experience a general slowing of their thought processes, along with poor coordination, memory loss and depression.
According to a recent study described in American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, cognitive impairment also has a greater effect on treatment adherence in older people, putting them at higher risk for drug resistance and poorer suppression of HIV.
HIV-associated dementia, an advanced form of cognitive impairment, is associated with elevated viral load in the central nervous system. New research is examining whether antiretroviral regimens that better penetrate the CNS may decrease the risk for HIV dementia -- as well as depression. Treisman cited unpublished data from Scott Letendre at the University of California, San Diego, whose research suggests that better CNS penetration of antiretroviral drugs is correlated with improved mood. With drugs that can reach HIV in the CNS and halt its replication there, Treisman said, "not only do we prevent dementia, but we may be preventing depression -- which isn't a surprise to those of us who subscribe to the 'cytokine idea' that depression is caused by elevated cytokines in your brain."
Substance use and addiction represent another mental health issue that disproportionately affects people aging with HIV, Treisman observed, although there is a lack of recognition among health providers that substance abuse is an issue for older patients. Chronic use of opiates such as oxycodone (OxyContin and other formulations) may not be considered "addiction," but it does affect cognition and has a negative effect on HIV health, Treisman noted. Substance-use treatment is a cost-effective but chronically underfunded intervention.
"We can get people better -- all of the things I talked about tonight are treatable," concluded Treisman. "Demand more resources for your patients, and raise a little hell when people say, 'They're old anyway.'"
"I never thought I would have to worry about this: Who is going to take care of me as I get older?"
-- Michael Siever
Following the presentations, the three panel participants gave personal accounts of some of the challenges they are experiencing as they get older with HIV. Dr. Michael Siever prefaced his comments by acknowledging that, being a white male from a wealthy country and having been fortunate enough receive and respond well to antiretroviral treatment, he speaks from a position of privilege and is extremely grateful to have lived long enough to face these challenges. Then he summed up some of the confusion felt by HIV positive people experiencing health problems as they get older: "Is it age or AIDS?"
Researchers are grappling with the same question about the interactions of HIV, HIV drugs and aging, but it is unclear just what the study findings mean to older HIV positive people. Siever spoke of the difficulty interpreting the flood of new research reports on HIV and aging, particularly around HIV-induced inflammation. As he put it, "sometimes too much knowledge is not very helpful."
Sylvia Young admitted that the challenges she encounters as an older HIV positive person sometimes seem endless. She related that a diagnosis of oral cancer the previous year led to three surgeries and loss of speech for two weeks, which in turn led to depression. She battled the depression with exercise, until the exercise caused debilitating fatigue. "It's one thing after another," she said.
All three panelists also talked about the stigma that older HIV positive people often encounter. As a gay man getting older with HIV, Siever faces homophobia, HIV stigma and ageism -- sometimes from within the gay community itself: "There's an incredible amount of ageism in the gay community, where we are, unfortunately, all expected to be young and beautiful and have rippling abs and all kinds of impossible things to have when you're 60."
In his clinical work, Siever sees increasing numbers of older gay men using alcohol and drugs as a way of coping with stigma. He finds it especially painful when older men who have recently "come out" turn to substance use to ease the transition into the gay community, or feel that they won't appeal to potential sex partners unless they offer drugs.
In her work with SWAPOL, Siphiwe Hlophe has seen HIV stigma provoke intimate partner violence. "The most important thing [is] disclosure to your partner," she said, relating that, in her experience, some male partners -- even those living with the virus themselves -- blame women for testing positive.
Hlophe was one of the first women in Swaziland to publicly declare her HIV positive status, and her organization now teaches women to fight stigma in the home and in their communities, as well as in health clinics, where SWAPOL-trained "lay counselors" help HIV positive women get better care as they age. Through SWAPOL, women gain the resilience to live longer with HIV.
"We empower women on issues of HIV and AIDS," Hlophe explained, "especially those over 60, who have started their income-generating project, so that you don't think about the disease -- you think about what you are doing now in order to earn a living."
Young offered a similar view: "In my work at WORLD, as a peer advocate working with women who are over 50 and HIV positive, I have seen challenges, but I also see resilience."
Working with a peer advocate, Young explained, helps older HIV positive women get better attention to their unique health needs -- such as starting menopause in their early forties, or dealing with arthritis and incorporating pain medication into their daily treatment regimen for HIV. "I have seen peer advocacy change the lives of positive women," she said.
"The good news is, we have to think about HIV and aging."
-- Amy Justice
So, what should advocates, providers, individuals, and communities be doing now to prepare for and meet the needs of an increasingly older HIV positive population?
Siever, Young and Hlophe agreed that a major advocacy priority is overcoming the misconception that HIV does not affect older people. They also emphasized the importance of addressing the larger issues of poverty, racism, sexism and ageism, all of which hinder efforts to prevent new HIV infections and improve the health and wellness of those already living with the virus.
Returning to the topic of mental health, Treisman noted that providers often hesitate to offer antidepressant medications to elderly patients because older persons tend to experience more side effects and are generally more resistant to taking psychiatric drugs. He and Justice concurred that, rather than following a single "recipe" for treating all HIV patients regardless of age, providers should tailor care for each individual. Treisman also encouraged providers to look beyond a patient's HIV to ensure that other conditions don't go untreated.
In a similar vein, Justice suggested that providers and individuals draw on resources outside of HIV medicine -- specifically, the field of geriatrics.
For example, falls prevention (such as removing throw rugs and other tripping hazards from the home) is one proactive step that older adults and their health care providers can consider.
"We should be thinking about bone mineral density and thinking about medications," said Justice, "but we also ought to think about the living environment that this person is in: Can we help them prevent having a fall rather than treating it after it occurs, when they have a fracture?"
Justice and Treisman agreed that other fairly simple measures -- such as promoting activities for mental stimulation and switching to clothing with easy-to-manipulate Velcro fasteners rather than buttons -- can help aging HIV positive individuals prepare for and cope with cognitive impairment. "There are lots of resources for elderly patients that are going to be necessary in somewhat younger HIV patients," Treisman concluded.
In terms of what communities can do, one audience member recalled the early days of the HIV epidemic in the U.S., when members of the gay community assumed caretaking responsibilities for their sick and dying friends. His suggestion for meeting the needs of an aging HIV positive population was simple but poignant: "It's time to take care of each other again."
|For More Information on Aging and HIV
On October 13, 2010, San Francisco AIDS Foundation and several community partners held a public forum, titled "HIV & Aging: Now What?"
The forum brought together community members, advocates, health care and service providers and researchers for a dialog about the challenges of getting older with HIV and the latest research on HIV and aging.
This event was part of the foundation's HIVision forum series, which provides a safe venue for discussion of timely and potentially controversial topics in HIV prevention, treatment and care.
To download the executive summary of the forum and learn more about past and upcoming HIVision events, click here.
Manali Nekkanti, M.P.H., is a research associate at San Francisco AIDS Foundation.


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The Watergate files contain hundreds of internal FBI memos, requests for action, investigative summaries, and Teletypes to headquarters from field offices which had conducted hundreds of interviews. There were the first summaries of information on the five burglars arrested in the Democrats' Watergate office building headquarters: their names, their backgrounds, their CIA connections, and their contacts with E. Howard Hunt Jr., the former CIA operative and White House consultant, and G. Gordon Liddy, the former FBI agent. The files teemed with notes, routing slips and queries bearing initials from senior Bureau officials, dates and intelligence classifications.
The outline of the Watergate cover-up was so clear in retrospect. White House counsel John W. Dean III, who later confessed to leading the illegal obstruction of justice on behalf of President Richard Nixon, "stated all requests for investigation by FBI at White House must be cleared through him," according to a summary dated six days after the June 17, 1972, break-in.
A memo on October 10, 1972, addressed The Washington Post story that Carl Bernstein and I had written that day. It was probably our most important story; it reported that the Watergate break-in was not an isolated event but "stemmed from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage" run by the White House and President Nixon's reelection committee. The two-page memo stated that the FBI had learned that Donald H. Segretti, who headed the efforts to harass Democratic presidential candidates, had been hired by Dwight L. Chapin, the president's appointments secretary, and paid by Herbert W. Kalmbach, the president's personal lawyer. Because there was no direct connection to the Watergate bugging, the memo said, the FBI had not pursued the matter.
I smiled. Here were two of the reasons the Watergate cover-up had worked at first: Dean's effectiveness in squelching further inquiry; and the seeming utter lack of imagination on the part of the FBI.
All of this was a pleasant, long, well-documented reminder of names, events and emotions as I sifted through the Bureau memos, as best I could tell almost a complete set of internal memos and investigative files. The files and memos provided a kind of intimacy with what had been four intense years of my life, as Carl Bernstein and I covered the story for The Washington Post and wrote two books about Watergate: All the President's Men, published in 1974, which was about our newspaper's investigation; and The Final Days, published in 1976, which chronicled the collapse of the Nixon presidency.
At the time of my visit I was 48 years old, but I was not there for a trip down memory lane. I was not hunting for more information in the rich history of Watergate; not looking for new avenues, leads, surprises, contradictions, unrevealed crimes or hidden meaning, although the amazements of Watergate rarely ceased.
Instead, I was really there in further pursuit of Deep Throat ...
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I use OSX Lion. I have installed RVM and have put this line in my .bash_profile file.
[[ -s "/Users/Anand/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "/Users/Anand/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # This loads RVM into a shell session.
I installed ruby-1.9.2-p290 and set it as default rvm ruby with this command:
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ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [x86_64-darwin11.2.0]
The problem is, every time I open a new terminal window or a tab, the default ruby is not getting set. The system ruby is instead getting used.
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Re: DLine
posted at 2/22/2013 2:38 PM EST
In response to HonkeyTonkman's comment:
IF the Pats go DL first pick would you rather they combine round 1 and 2 picks and pick as high as they can get in round 1,or just get the two best players they can get staying roughy where they are.With the cavet most of B.B second round picks I wouldnt consider them as football players,more like Black holes that suck the life out of anyone around them.Kind of like certian posters.
Stand pat and pick. Last years D picks was the way to go. I would hope for the same this year. Although I would try and find 1 receiver.
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If they do not have a top 10 pick then it matters little . . . look at the results over the past 10 years, defensive linemen drafted 21-30 have done as well as defensive linemen drafted 11-20. I say if their scouts have done their job then there should a a quality guy for the DL at the spot they are in. This Armstead kid may be as good as anyone they will be getting in the draft so a defensive lineman may not be one of their top picks . . . then they could be looking at a cornerback in the top position.
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It depends on the talent at the defensive line - from what I've read the draft is deap at defensive tackle, so it might be best to stay back or trade up a little bit. Then again if they have the chance to land a real can't miss, top of the line talent on the defnsive line, then I'd go for that. Game changers are hard to come by and they can have a trickle down effect on lesser talent players on your team. Not that this is going to happen, but take a guy like Suh for instance - I would of traded my entire draft and Mayo for him - because he would of made the entire defense much better. In Detroit he is making the players around him household names and millionaires. I'm not saying I think Suh is a nice guy, but the guy is a game changer.


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Throughout 2012 there were new beers hitting the taps and shelves left and right. We did our best to sample and savor as many new releases as we could, recommending some of the best every four months. Below: the fruits of our thirsty work. These are also beers you ought to be able to find if there's a good beer bottle shop in your area, or a big beer-friendly retailer like Whole Foods.
Which brews do you want to try this year? Tell us here.
Bitter American
21st Amendment (San Francisco, CA)
Technically, this was not a brand-new beer per se, but rather a 2011 seasonal-turned-year-round offering for 2012. Good thing. This crisp, bright, and light palate-smacker of just 4.4%abv is fresh and rounded, brewed with British barley malt called Golden Promise and four different hops. In a word? Delicious.
Chainbreaker White IPA
Deschutes Brewery (Bend, OR)
Named for a legendary mountain bike race in Central Oregon where Deschutes Brewery is based, this cloudy-gold 5.6%abv ale is a hybrid of the Belgian wit, or orange peel and coriander-spiced white style of beer, and I.P.A., or India Pale Ale, the assertively hopped, British style being reimagined in American kettles with increasingly tasty results. What might have been a mess in lesser brewers' hands is complex and satisfying here.
Dig Pale Ale
New Belgium (Fort Collins, CO)
This lush-tasting, easy drinking spring seasonal bursts with the flavors of four hops, from Sorachi Ace (calling the taste of lemongrass to mind) to Nelson Sauvin (passion fruit, mango, peach) and finally Cascade and Centennial (pine, grapefruit). It's also sociably light at 5.6%abv.
Belgian Session
Boston Beer Co. (Boston, MA)
We just got our mitts on a taster of this spring seasonal brew included in the Samuel Adams Summer Styles Variety 12-pack hitting shelves in April. At a feather-light 4.3%abv, it would be easy to underestimate this beer. Don't. It's admirably complex for such a light brew, with a dash of delicate Hersbrucker and Ahtanum hops for bittering, and citrusy Strisselspalt hops for a floral finish.
Pale Ale
Sierra Nevada (Chico, CA)
A new release? Hardly. But for the first time ever, this classic brew—the beer that changed everything, brewed since 1980 with whole Magnum, Perle, and pungent Cascade hop flowers, giving it a satisfying bite and grassy, floral nose—is available in cans, which are lighter, quicker to cool, more effective in blocking out beer-spoiling light, easier to recycle, and fit nicely in coolers for camping trips.
Peeper Ale (5.5%abv)
Maine Beer Co. (Portland, ME)
This tiny Portland, Maine brewery is on the rise thanks to insanely drinkable brews like Peeper, a floral and citrusy but dry American Pale Ale (APA), which ups the ante on the old English style. Read: more hops, cleaner finish. This is how it's done, people! Delicious.
Hibiscus Gose (5.5%abv)
Widmer Bros. (Portland, OR)
Pucker up. Gose (say "goes"), the ancient, slightly tart wheat beer style of Leipzig, Germany, has a small amount of salt in it, which only works in the right proportions. Portland, OR's Widmer Brothers' bold new riff on the cloudy style features natural marionberry, hibiscus, clove, and coriander flavors in a slightly sour, refreshing summer sipper.
India Session Ale (5.5%abv)
10-Barrel (Bend, OR)
From Bend, Oregon, comes 10-Barrel, an uber-refreshing ale with a massive, late dose of grapefruity-tasting Cascade, Summit, and Centennial hops. And at just 5.5%abv you're having more than one with that perfect burger or brat.
Bière de Mars Spring 2012 (7%abv)
Almanac (San Francisco, CA)
This Bay Area beer's name means it's brewed in March, according to French farmhouse brewery tradition. But what makes this hazy amber sensation truly unique is a subtle addition of organic baby fennel that imparts a faint but lip-smacking licorice note.
Wild Wild Brett Persica (7.5%abv)
Crooked Stave (Denver, CO)
Rare? Yes. Worth searching for? Absolutely. Colorado-based brewer Chad Yakobsen wrote his dissertation on wild yeast beers and only went pro on his own in 2010. None other than Cantillon master blender, Jean Van Roy, has sung high praise of the Wild Wild Brett series. This tart but well-balanced sour beer bursts with fresh summery peach flavors we cannot wait to try again and again.
Pivo Pils (5.3%abv)
Firestone Walker (Paso Robles, CA)
The makers of some of our favorite big, hoppy ales have been venturing into lager/pilsner territory with this exceptional Czech-style brew seen recently at a number of industry tastings and very lucky beer bars. It's crisp, floral, lemony, and as refreshing as a sunny and cold fall day. We'd love to see it on tap nation wide.
The Meddler (8.9%abv)
Odell Brewing Co. (Fort Collins, CO)
A great take on the Flemish style oud bruin, or old brown, this is a reddish, tart-sweet beer with subtle, hop character and deep layers of vinous, engaging flavors. Odell's is higher in alcohol than many traditional versions, but remains well balanced.
Friendship Brew (5.7%abv)
Green Flash Brewing Co. (San Diego, CA) & St. Feuillien (Le Roulx, Belgium)
This collaboration brew is essentially an oatmeal-based black saison (read: smooth) accented with spicy Styrian Golding and tangy Cascade hops and a subtle blend of secret spices that has a woody note akin to cedar.
Super IPA (9%abv)
New Belgium Brewing Co. (Fort Collins, CO) and Alpine Beer Co. (Alpine, CA)
This is a perfect illustration of the double, or imperial, IPA genre, bursting with tangy, resinous, floral hops. This was a one-off brew we absolutely hope to see again from two of the best breweries in America.
Golden Blend (6.0%abv)
Drie Fonteinen (Beersel, Belgium)
Geuze (say 'gurz' or 'gerz-ah') is a tart, lively blend of aged and younger lambic beer (spontaneously fermented, a.k.a. wild ale) that has been a specialty in Belgium for generations. We can't get enough it. This version by legendary master blender Armand Debelder, just released in the U.S. this fall, has already achieved cult status, with only 540 cases in America. A quarter of the beer is 4 year-old lambic. Good luck finding it. And when you do, pull the trigger.
Grand Cru (9.1%abv)
Green Flash (San Diego, CA)
A twist on the traditional, ruddy-red Abbey ales of Belgium, this American craft-brewed version has the clean, punchy attack of sprucey, aromatic hops balancing a sturdy, malt-accented base with notes of caramel. Delicious stuff.
Crabbie's Original Alcoholic Ginger Beer (4.8%abv)
Crabbie's (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
This Scottish import is hugely popular throughout the U.K., and is now thankfully available on American shores. Steeped with high quality ginger, it's meant to be served over ice with a slice of lemon or lime, and would make a great component of cocktails like the Dark & Stormy and Moscow Mule.
Sahalie (9.3%abv)
The Ale Apothecary (Bend, OR)
Brewer Paul Arney left his position as R+D/head brewpub chief of the legendary Deschutes Brewery with contributions to home run beer recipes including The Dissident under his belt to start this bold, wilderness brewery. Good move. The vinous Sahalie wild ale is a revelation. With intriguing layers of earthy, angular flavors derived from wild yeasts, it's an American take on Orval, regarded as the world classic Belgian Pale Ale.
Scotch Ale (8.2%abv)
Smuttynose (Portsmouth, NH)
Scotch ales traditionally marry mellow-sweet flavors with hints from smoked brewers' malts, which, in lesser hands, can taste too charred, soapy, or earthy. Smuttynose's new-for-2012 brew deftly utilizes peat-smoked grains and a portion of pinot noir barrel-aged beer to deepen and complexify flavors.
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The Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion, 1944
The Armoured Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion underwent some revision during late 1943 into early 1944. Overall these increased the firepower of the unit, and took its overall strength to a theoretical 1100 all ranks.
The Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion, circa 1944
Battalion Headquarters (4 Officers, 19 men)
Communications Platoon (1 Officer, 54 men)
Battle Train and Maintenance (17 men)
Heavy Armoured Car Platoon (1 Officer, 21 men)
6 SdKfz 233
Heavy Company (5 Officers and 185 men)
Company Headquarters (1 Officer, 15 men)
Maintenance Section (13 men)
Battle Train (11 men)
Baggage train (4 men)
Infantry Gun Platoon (1 Officer, 24 men)
Pioneer Platoon (1 Officer, 53 men)
8-cm Mortar Platoon (1 Officer, 57 men) added from March/April 1944
Cannon Platoon (1 Officer, 34 men)
Anti-tank Platoon (1 Officer, 31 men)
Armoured Car Company (3 Officers and 114 men)
Company Headquarters (1 Officer, 9 men)
Maintenance Section (13 men)
Battle Train (12 men)
Baggage Train (4 men)
Heavy Platoon (1 Officer, 23 men)
3 SdKfz 231
3 SdKfz 232
Three Light Platoons, each (1 Officer or NCO, 17 men)
2 SdKfz 223
4 SdKfz 222 or 4 SdKfz 221
Armoured Car Company 'c' (3 Officers, 108 men)
Company Headquarters (1 Officer, 9 men)
1 SdKfz 250/5
Maintenance Section (13 men)
Battle Train (12 men)
Baggage Train (4 men)
Four Platoons, each (1 Officer or NCO, 17 men)
2 SdKfz 250/5
4 SdKfz 250/9
Supply Company (6 Officers, 107 men)
Company Headquarters (1 Officer, 9 men)
Train (9 men)
Maintenance Detachment (3 Officers, 36 men)
Fuel Detachment (18 men)
Munitions Detachment (14 men)
Supply Detachment (1 Officer, 12 men)
Medical Detachment (1 Officer, 5 men)
Company Train (4 men)
Two Armoured Reconnaissance Companies (3 Officers, 194 men), each comprised of;
Company Headquarters (1 Officer, 16 men)
Maintenance Section (13 men)
Battle Train (13 men)
Baggage train (4 men)
Mortar Group (18 men)
Three Rifle Platoons, each comprised of;
Platoon HQ (1 Officer or NCO, 7 men)
Three Rifle Squads, each comprised of 12 men
Total Strength of;
1042 all ranks (29 Officers and 1013 men), later 1100 all ranks (30 Officers and 1070 men)
3 SdKfz 231 and 3 SdKfz 232
6 SdKfz 233
12 SdKfz 222 and 6 SdKfz 223
9 SdKfz 250/5 and SdKfz 250/9
Points of note
As with The Motorised Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion 1943 to 1944 the mechanised equivalent received a Supply Company, but kept its Company level Train and Maintenance elements.
The elements of the Battalion
Heavy Company - largely as for the The Armoured Panzer Grenadier Battalion 1943 to 1944 with two extra Platoons. The Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion kept its own Pioneer Platoon of three Squads, each fifteen strong and carried in two SdKfz 251/7 engineer halftracks. Each Squad had two light machine guns, and each carrier another, and Platoon HQ added a thirteenth vehicle.
During 1944 there was also the introduction of a Mortar Platoon with six 8-cm weapons, each carried by an SdKfz 251/2, plus one more for ammunition and a standard SdKfz 251 for Platoon HQ.
Armoured Car Companies - these remained as previously.
The Armoured Reconnaissance Company - this had undergone some revision from its original format.
The Rifle Squad was still twelve strong, and carried by two SdKfz 250/1 halftracks. Individual weapons appear to have been modified slightly, with the assistant gunner switching to a rifle from a pistol. Other than this there was no change from previously.
Platoon HQ was though amended, and now had both an SdKfz 250/1 and an SdKfz 250/8, the latter mounting a short-barrelled 7,5-cm gun. HQ personnel were reduced, with just a single loader for the gun armed halftrack, but otherwise remained the same.
The Heavy Platoon was drastically curtailed, becoming just a Mortar Group with four SdKfz 250/7 halftracks, two each carrying an 8-cm mortar, two more providing HQ and ammunition vehicles.
The above organisation was arguably the strongest ever envisioned for the Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion. The majority of its combat elements were now halftrack mounted, and fire support was substantial. It was though just a few months before new developments in Panzer organisation were introduced in early 1944 that would change the Battalion again.
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January 27, 2011
Geneva — Ed Snyder, the vice president and general manager of the Lodge at Geneva Ridge, described it as a "Catch-22." He said originally, the plan was to build a 15,000-square-foot water park off the old atrium of the resort on Highway 50 and remodel the locker rooms. With construction brings what most would label unpleasant noises such as hammering and sawing, so according to Snyder, the resort owners made the decision before New Year's Eve not to book rooms. That way, guests wouldn't be complaining about the construction. But it didn't quite work out that way. Although there was a sign stating the Lodge was closed, the water park project now is on hold.
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Elkhorn - A jury trial has been set for early March in the case against Jeremy C. Dees.Dees is charged with homicide by negligent use of a vehicle following the death of 9-year-old Carter Dorwin on a Tuesday morning, Nov. 16. Dorwin, along with his mother and brother were on their way to Eastview Elementary School when Dees struck the Dorwin vehicle along Highway H in the Como flats area just outside of Lake Geneva. He also is being charged with two misdemeanor counts of reckless driving causing injury.On Friday, Jan. 21, Dees pleaded not guilty in front of Walworth County Circuit Court Judge John Race. All three charges will be tried together.
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January 13, 2011
Linn There hasnt been a town election this active in years.Three people want to be chairman, which means a Feb. 15 primary election.Incumbent Chairman James R. Weiss, W4656 Torys Trail, will vie for his spot against challengers Allan J. Polyock, N146 Bissel Road, and Steve Mack, N1807 Sidney Smith Lane.
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January 06, 2011
Elkhorn A police raid last January of a Linn Township home yielded more than 150 marijuana plants, 150 grams of the drug and materials used for growing dope. Freddie G., 44, and Amy B. Rickel, 40, N1510 Geneva Ave., each pleaded guilty Dec. 17 to felony charges of manufacturing marijuana and possession of marijuana with intent to deliver in Walworth County Court. The Rickels also pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia. The Rickels are scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 1 by Judge John Race. The felony charges carry a maximum penalty of 16 years imprisonment $35,000 in fines. The misdemeanor charges carries a maximum penalty of 30 days in jail and a $500 fine.
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December 30, 2010
1. Its tough behind the badgeIt wasnt a good year for some police officers in the towns of Geneva and Linn, especially former Geneva Police Chief Ed Gritzner. Although he received a warm sendoff when his retirement was announced Sept. 16 at a special Geneva Town Board meeting, it was a tough year for the longtime chief. In March, he was suspended for a day by the Geneva Town Police Commission. Then, in August, some people alleged Gritzner had an altercation with another Town Board supervisor during the FunFestival. To date, no town officials have confirmed it. In an e-mail Friday, Geneva Town Chairman Dan Lauderdale said he offers no additional comment on the FunFestival incident.
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December 23, 2010
Linn It could be one for the history books.If the three people who obtained papers to run for town chairman next April file by the Jan. 4 deadline, it would require the first town primary in recent memory.On Monday, Town Clerk-Treasurer Sue Polyock said those who obtained papers for the position so far are incumbent Jim Weiss, W4656 Torys Trail; Allan J. Polyock, N146 Bissel Road; and Steven J. Mack, N1807 Sydney Smith Lane.
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December 16, 2010
Linn Next summer, town residents may have an opportunity to test their tap water for chemical and biological contaminants.The Geneva Lake Environmental Agency and the Linn Town Sanitary District are working on a cooperative program to provide private well owners the opportunity to have their well water tested for fecal coliform bacteria and nitrates at a state certified lab, said Ted Peters, director of the GLEA. Peters also is president of the Linn Sanitary District board.Everyone in the town drinks from private wells, Peters said. Included in the program would be informational fliers sent out to residents explaining the importance of groundwater protection.
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December 09, 2010
Geneva There are three reasons why 14-year-old Logan Tenney decided to build bat houses in Big Foot Beach State Park.Tenney, a Badger High School freshman and former Woods School student, said the very existence of bats are threatened by a deadly disease called white-nose syndrome. He said building four bat houses each of which have a 250-bat capacity will help to ensure the bat population.
BREAKING - Charges filed against Elkhorn man in death of local boy
December 02, 2010
The Walworth County District Attorney's Office filed charges Friday afternoon against Jeremy C. Dees for the Nov. 16 crash that killed 9-year-old Eastview Elementary School student Carter Dorwin and injured his mother and brother.Dees, 33, appeared in Walworth County Circuit Court Friday afternoon via closed circuit television. He was in an orange jail jumpsuit. He still has a brace on his neck and was hunched over for much of his 5-minute appearance. According to the complaint, Dees is being charged with homicide by negligent operation of a vehicle and two counts of reckless driving causing injury.
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December 02, 2010
Linn Although Reek School originally was built in 1939, most of the current facility problems are with the 1993 addition.Theres a list of almost 50 items, including the deterioration of the schools brick and windows, a roof and chimney in need of repairs and flooding and leaking with nearly every rainfall. Recently, members of a special Reek citizens committee, School Board members and district staff and officials voted on which issues are the most important.Those issues prompted builders, architects and financial experts to talk about the possibility of a referendum Thursday, Nov. 18, at a special committee meeting. At a meeting scheduled for Monday, Dec. 6, the committee is expected to narrow the focus on what the proposed Reek School project will cover.
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Unlike their previous escapades, in which the hapless bovines misinterpret normal events as abnormal occurrences, this time Minnie and Moo witness something truly strange: a potato delivering for Universal Package Service crashes on their farm. Using coincidence rather than his trademark animal ingenuity, Cazet solves the UPS problem with rocket retrofitting and a generous donation of MinnieÆs white ""space fuel."" Copyright 2002 Horn Book Guide Reviews
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Cazet's cows are back (Minnie and Moo Meet Frankenswine, 2001, etc.), charming as ever, in an easy reader that is as loopy as ever. Minnie and Moo are soaking in the summer sun when a spaceship plows into the adjacent field. At first they think it might be a new type of tractor, but then the pilot, a one-eyed potato with green bristles whose name is Spud, pops out. Spud tells them the alarming news that he is in the process-after stopping for donuts and then getting lost-of delivering some anti-bump cream to prevent the planets from bumping themselves to bits. Now he needs to repair his spaceship and secure some space fuel. Repairing the rocket is no sweat-Minnie and Moo let Spud cannibalize their farm tractor for parts; they know it has the necessaries because they took the tractor to the Moon on a previous adventure. But the space fuel, that's a tickler, until Minnie has a brainstorm: Could Milk be space fuel? Yes, cries Spud, though it must have high-cream content. Minnie's the cow to deliver just such, which she does, demurely, as a barnyard chorus warbles "Home, Home on the Range." Spud blasts off and all is right in a bump-free solar system. Weird in all the right ways, from the strange little verbal asides to Minnie's mop of blond curls. Another mooover from Cazet. (Easy reader. 4-8) Copyright Kirkus 2002 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved
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PreS-Gr 2-Minnie and Moo are surprised by a one-eyed, package-delivering, potatolike alien named Spud, who crash-lands his UPS ("Universal Package Service") spaceship in their pasture. He needs another ship and five gallons of "space fuel" to deliver a tube of Anti-Bump Cream to prevent planets from bumping into one another-and he has 30 minutes to get the job done. He fixes a tractor to replace his ship, but still needs space fuel. Luckily, that fuel turns out to be a white liquid that tastes good with chocolate-chip cookies that's right, milk. And Minnie, dairy cow that she is, complies. (How a cow can milk herself is anybody's guess.) Spud successfully departs, saves the planets from disaster, and somehow replaces the tractor and leaves a box of donuts by the end of the eighth chapter. (Whew!) The narrative is convoluted to the extreme. Verbal gags are weak; the good one(s) may well be missed by beginning readers. Illustrations are appropriately playful. However, silly stories should still make silly sense, and this one is too muddled to be amusing.-Mary Ann Carcich, Mattituck-Laurel Public Library, Mattituck, NY Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.


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The remake of Red Dawn stars Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Adrianne Palicki and others, and premieres on September 24th, 2010. 364 days! I'm so excited that I'm already re-reading my Marx and Engels, but of course, with this film comes with mixed feelings. I don't really know that the world needs a remake of Red Dawn, especially with a different enemy. What the world really needs is just another good old fashioned Cold War, and an epic Red Dawn (the original) Blu-Ray transfer. Either way, check out these pictures and the video below, or you're a pinko Commie.
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By Kristin Molinaro, The Bayonet
FORT BENNING, Ga., -- A cookie-cutter approach to helping Afghan forces take back control of their country is not what the people of Afghanistan need, said Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, addressing thousands of Soldiers Tuesday, at the 2009 Infantry Warfighting Conference in Columbus, Ga.
Caldwell, commander of the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and the commandant of the Command and General Staff College, spoke on training, equipping, advising and building the confidence of Afghan national security forces as the Army transitions its advisory mission from smaller, transition team elements to brigade combat teams.
"Doctrine which has always been our touchstone is still just as relevant but it's not a cookie cutter approach," Caldwell said. "We need to understand our doctrine and how it applies, but we cannot afford to let our doctrinal molehills to literally become impassible mountains ... the complex situations we are operating today require nothing less.
Caldwell's seminar focused on changing the American Soldier's mindset toward security force assistance and he encouraged Soldiers to partner at all echelons with the Afghan national security forces. If the U.S. advisory mission in Afghanistan fails it is the Afghans who will live those consequences, said Caldwell, citing a story from a deployed lieutenant who recalled an Afghan village that refused U.S. aid because the Taliban threatened to return and kill the villagers once the U.S. pulls out of the area.
"It's imperative for us to develop the Afghan security forces with sufficient capability to protect their people, their government and their borders," he said. "We must leave the Afghan people with enduring capability and force generation capacity for security or they will lose the means to resist (the Taliban) when we leave in the end. It's not (about) how well we can secure them in the short term, but rather how well we prepare them and assist them for the long term."
In building Afghan security forces, Caldwell said there were three conditions for reaching a desirable end state: the force should be able to provide reasonable security, be founded on a rule of law and be sustainable. But Caldwell cautioned Soldiers not to attempt to "Americanize" Afghan forces by imposing rules that impact their culture.
"As we establish training standards and conduct the training of foreign security forces, we need to keep in mind that an American solution may not be culturally acceptable to the local population or any foreign culture," he said. Caldwell encouraged Soldiers to build a rapport with Afghan security forces and foster relationships that build trust.
Key elements that are paramount to be successful in the advisory mission include a change in mindset, flexible brigades, relationships built on trust and being prepared to share intelligence. When considering sharing information, "don't ask yourself, should I do it, ask yourself why can't I do it'" he said. "As General (Stanley) McChrystal said in his guidance 'share the same battle rhythm and information, integrate them into your command and control structures. We must be prudent with OPSEC but we also must realize the need to embrace the development of these forces,'" Caldwell said.
"It's not just sharing intelligence, it's the mindset that tells you how critically important it is that you operate as one entity and develop that trust between yourselves. Our strength comes from our partnerships - and it's about people," he said.
"This is the method and the tools that will allow us to get after what we need done in that battle space in order to create room for national forces to secure the population and create police," said Maj. Gen. Michael Ferriter, commanding general of Fort Benning.
Following his speech, Caldwell took questions from the audience and was presented a 'Follow Me' statue mounted to a brick from Fort Benning's Building 4, the future site of the Maneuver Center of Excellence.
Command Sgt. Maj. Daniel Dailey, senior NCO for 4th Infantry Division, said Caldwell's speech re-emphasized the concepts 4th Infantry Division has integrated into its ranks and hopes it will lead to more resources being available. "We've been living it and training it for some time now," said Dailey, who has one brigade combay team training for the advisory mission, one currently deployed to Afghanistan and another brigade that recently returned home.
Dailey said he expects the advisory mission to be the culminating effort in Iraq that will help security forces transition and take complete control for the country's defense. More work will be needed in Afghanistan but Dailey said the concepts discussed at the conference may make a big difference in the country.
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Instructions:These are easy. These are fun. These are inexpensive.If you've ever made the sugar "see-into" eggs, then you know exactly how to go about making these. If not, here's how.
two- piece plastic ball ornament
cup of sugar
teaspoon of water
one tablespoon measuring spoon (preferably metal)
Christmas cards or small figures
homemade icing or Royal icing
acetate for "window" - optional.
In a bowl, thoroughly mix together sugar and water. Put the resulting mixture into one of the plastic ornament halves. Pack it very firmly, as you would when measuring brown sugar.
With measuring tablespoon, carefully scoop sugar mixture out of the ornament until a shell about 1/4 inch thickness remains.
Cover a piece of cardboard with plastic wrap or waxed paper. Place it on top of the scooped out ornament and carefully turn everything over. Place on tabletop and carefully remove the ornament. If necessary, tap it gently to loosen. Allow the sugar to dry for eight to 10 hours. If you wish to scoop out more of the sugar, you can do this after about three hours, when the outside is rather hard but the center is still loose.
Build a snow scene in the ornament half with Royal icing as the snow, and miniature figures added in. I usually use small buildings, trees and people cut from Christmas cards. Leave a small tab on each figure so you have something to bury in the snow to help it stand up.
Decorate around the front border of the ornament with more Royal Icing. To put in a plastic window, place a small amount of icing on the edge of the ornament, place acetate into position, and cover with decorative icing around the edge.
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If you wish to hang your work on the tree, carefully poke a hole in the partially dried ornament and insert a hanging thread. Place a small bead or button on the underside so the thread will not pull through the sugar.
To make a full, ball-shaped, "see-into" ornament, first make two sugar halves. Before removing from the plastic, take a scoop of sugar out along one side to create a half-circle opening. Do this to each half. When the sugar dries, construct the scene in one half, then use the Royal icing to glue the two halves together. Decorate around the seam on the outside.
To make a blue sky, color some water with a drop or two of food coloring or paint, and VERY carefully paint the sky. Be sure you do not add so much water that you melt the sugar.(from the website)
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