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Georgia Peach Kabobs
1 lemon, juiced
1 lime, juiced
1 8-ounce container nectar juice
¼ cup olive oil
1 tablespoon fresh thyme, chopped
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
2 to 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, cut into 1-inch pieces
1 small container cherry tomatoes
1 large green bell pepper, cut into 1-inch pieces
1 large onion, cut into 1-inch pieces
3 ripe peaches, cut into ½-inch slices
Several wooden skewers, soaked in water for 5 minutes
Whisk together nectar juice, olive oil, thyme, lemon and lime juice in a small bowl for a marinade. Set aside.
Prepare the kabobs by threading pieces of chicken, peaches, peppers, onions and cherry tomatoes onto the skewers in any order. Lay prepared skewers on a foil-covered baking sheet. Sprinkle salt and pepper evenly on kabobs. Drizzle with marinade and cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Heat grill or grill pan to medium heat. Cook kabobs by turning and brushing with remaining marinade until the chicken is thoroughly cooked and peaches are soft. Remove from grill. Serve with a garden salad. Yields 4 to 6 servings.
Nutrition Facts:
Calories: 365
Total Fat: 22 g
Cholesterol: 66.82 mg
Sodium: 337 mg
No Bake Strawberry Banana Pudding
2 5-ounce packages instant vanilla pudding mix
1 8-ounce container frozen whipped topping, thawed
4 cups whole milk
6 bananas, peeled and sliced
6 to 8 fresh strawberries, halved
3 12-ounce boxes vanilla wafers
In a large bowl, combine whipped topping, pudding mix and milk. Stir well. In a glass casserole dish, place layers of cookies along the bottom and sides of the dish. Add a layer of sliced bananas and pudding. Repeat layers until all ingredients are used. Place strawberries around and on top of pudding with remaining whipped topping. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Yields 10 to 12 servings.
The above recipes are courtesy of Samuel Gaddy, assistant instructor at New Community Corp.'s Culinary Arts Specialist Program in Newark.
The students in the program serve lunch daily, eat-in or take-out, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the New Community Culinary Café, located at 266 South Orange Ave. in Newark. The café is located on the first floor of the New Community Extended Care Center.


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Thanks! Gracias! Merci! Faleminderit! Gracies! Kiitos! Dankjewel! Multumesc!
What many of you don't know is that we have a whole army of volunteers that help us translate our site into the 34 languages it is available in. Some of them work on the Family Tree Builder, some on translating the webpages and some on both.
Our family of helpers consists of over 80 volunteers who help with translations in 30 languages. Most of them have their own sites and know MyHeritage well. They really help us enormously so we think it is only fair to mention them briefly here to thank them!
Among this year's volunteers are (in no particular order):
Continue reading "Thanks! Gracias! Merci! Faleminderit! Gracies! Kiitos! Dankjewel! Multumesc!" »
A carnival called Purim – party on at MyHeritage
Purim is a Jewish holiday that has its roots in the biblical Book of Esther. It is supposed to be celebrated with feasting, maybe that's why it is so popular among Jews around the world. The most obvious way of celebrating it nowadays is that people are dressing up: kids at school, youngsters at parties and grown-ups at company events.
For the MyHeritage Purim party 2009 everyone dressed up as well and our theme was "superheroes". So we dressed up as fantasy heroes from the likes of Batman, Roman gods, Zarra (the female Zorro), Kermit & Miss Piggy, to super cache, super chicken and a super family tree. The costume competition went into a tie break between the super photo page (see picture) and the ToDos slayer together with the invisible power translator. The latter ones were victorious.
Besides the food and feasting, there was also some...
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Family Day and the MyHeritage team as kids
Family Day is the modern version of Mother's Day in several countries across the world like Canada, South Africa and Israel. Here, children are asked to bring drawings and pictures of their family to school; Noa had asked us to bring baby photos of ourselves. We made it into a "Guess who's this" competition in the weeks running up to Family Day and you can see all of them below.
By the way: It was Ayelet who won, with an impressive 17 correct guesses out of 21. You can find her as a kid on the far left, in the red jumper and with the bread (and face) full of chocolate spread.
So this is the Israel-based part of the MyHeritage team, when we were kids. You can find some of us in our "about" section with other vintage photos.
In Israel, Family Day is generally celebrated on the 30th day of
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Thanks for your continued support for MyHeritage
After all the blogposts and articles that you have written about MyHeritage over the last few months, we would just like to say, "Thank You." We were very happy to see that after the news of the new bonds between Kindo and MyHeritage, so many of you have continued to be interested in us and write about us.
And there was a lot of news: the teaming up of MyHeritage and DNA testing company FamilyTreeDNA to offer users the possibility to research their family history through DNA tests, the development of a new version of the Family Tree Builder, the popular research software of MyHeritage with new functionality, and the launch of file sharing on your family sites allowing users to upload and share video's, audio files and documents.
For those interested in reading more, here is a very small selection of the coverage of MyHeritage worldwide:
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Kindo and MyHeritage in Real Life
We've had a couple of wonderful days in Israel, getting to know our new friends in Israel. This picture is from yesterday evening, taken just after we finished a late dinner in Tel Aviv. As you see we're all smiles, Kindo and MyHeritage now being one.
By the way, of all the nice things I've experienced here in Israel, Shakshouka is top of my list. I could eat it morning, lunch, evening, and as a mid-day snack.
PHOTO: From left to right: Nils, Shmulik, Martin, Saar, Mario, Daniel.
Thanks for all your thoughts about MyHeritage and Kindo
This is just to say thank you for all the blogposts and articles that you have written about the new bonds between Kindo and MyHeritage. We were really stunned by your interest, there were at least 130 of you who wrote about us on their blogs and websites.
There are the big American ones like Techcrunch, Venturebeat, Gigaom, but we also care about all the great blogs in other languages, however big or small. And even if we can only put a small selection on our MyHeritage press page, we are putting a full list of all posts about the Kindo MyHeritage story here on the blog. It is sorted by country (though many blogs probably see themselves as international), so let's dive right into it and start with
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Kindo.com joins the MyHeritage family!
The story has been leaked in Sweden, ambushed and delivered first on TechCrunch by a nimble bearded French Israeli, written about, blogged, debated, tossed and turned in hundreds of places. So what can I possibly write that you don't already know?
You can read our announcement. But I thought I'd give you the story from a more personal angle... How it all started, and where it will go from here...
I first heard about Kindo when it was only an idea, a sparkle in the eye of the founders Nils and Gareth, early in 2007. Someone gave me a friendly tip -- there's a good team up in London, folks from Skype, and they're brewing up competition for you - a family tree Web site that will spread all over Europe. Take care, mate.
My curiosity stirred, and in a few months, I travelled to London specifically to meet them (of course they didn't know that, they thought I happened to be in town, only a maniac [like me] would fly 12 hours for a one-hour meeting). Nils and Gareth picked a good place for lunch in Soho. Right from the start we had great chemistry and when each of us described what we do and what we want to build, we said exactly the same things. Even face recognition for family photos, a vision of mine since 2003, that we were developing at MyHeritage intensively, was on their planned roadmap. I really liked Nils and Gareth, so lunch was on me. Kindo had not even official launched yet then. And when it did, a week or so afterwards, I found it to be a very nicely done website, with an online family tree tool that was better than anything else previously available on the Internet. I quickly instructed my team to "borrow" one or two good ideas from the Kindo tree...
With my close team of commando coding comrades, I continued building MyHeritage at ferocious speed, scarcely sleeping, and have met with several other competing companies that year. At least 4 of them. It's a great approach because a personal relationship is always a good basis for future cooperation (or should I say, acquisition and if not, then at least you can part as befriended enemies, look your competitors in the eye and treat them with mutual respect as you continue your battle with them.
On another trip of mine to London in Feb 2008 (this time I really happened to be in town), I caught up with Nils and Gareth again. This time, they invited me to their office in Putney, south-ish London. I remember the office as being very small, with a hot startup environment, just one room with everyone sitting close together and working, 6pm in the evening and the place was packed, not even one of them had called it a day and left for home. Needless to say, I liked it immediately. In my trademark psychopathic style, I always appreciate talent more, when it is coupled with supreme dedication. The walls were filled with sketches and diagrams of future Kindo products. Out of respect I kept my eyes low, I didn't want to look up and spy on what they were building, though I have to say I was quite interested. I then had the chance to meet almost everyone in the team. Our chemistry grew even better. I returned and reported my good impressions. All very young folks, not even one married among them, smart, passionate about what they do, working great together as a team, a future asset for us?
And so it came to be, that several months later we began discussions of a merger, and now it's accomplished. The entire team has joined MyHeritage and we are combining our assets. It's a great combination because Kindo brings us a fresh young spirit. A friendly voice. A love for family and family history. And a true understanding of social networking. Together, we will make MyHeritage the best place online for families. On the eve of the new year here in Israel, I wish us and our users a peaceful, successful, enjoyable, stress-free, financial-turmoil-free, family love-filled new year.
Good news: top investors join the MyHeritage family
Today we've announced additional funding of $15 million, which will help us build even more useful services for you and your family. $15 million is a lot of money of course, but we're just as happy about the quality and expertise of our investors:
Index Ventures has invested in Skype and Accel Partners proudly holds Facebook in its investment portfolio.
Renowned newspapers like the Sunday Times and popular technology blogs such as Techcrunch have written about our funding and praised the incredible growth that MyHeritage has seen this year. By now you, our faithful users, have created more than 25 million accounts (see our world map of users as well) and added names of 260 million people into more than 5 million family trees.
Thank you for all your support so far, we're looking forward to the next chapter.
You can read more in our press release:
Continue reading "Good news: top investors join the MyHeritage family" »
Meet the MyHeritage team
PHOTO: MyHeritage team (click photo to enlarge)
Gal, Chris, Sara, Lora and Achutan (who missed the photo shoot) also say hi...
Enter the metrics…
As of this minute, MyHeritage has...
17,181,904 registered members (yes, that's right, more than 17 million)
147,705 family trees
178,815,922 people in family trees
106,023,182 uploaded photos
508,482 active users of our Family Tree Builder software
182,788 blog articles around the world link to MyHeritage.com, says Technorati.com
0 (Zero) dollars spent on marketing. All this love comes directly from our users, we do not buy publicity.
We're very proud of these figures, all gained since our site went live in January 2006.
But as they are growing so fast, please stay tuned and we'll update them on our blog from time to time...


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The guys over at Cage Potato are in love with Joanne from MMA Girls. Since we're not dead, we're there with them. I'd say dead, old or blind, but old can be cured and blind doesn't mean a thing with that South African accent of hers.
Cage Potato had the brilliant idea of sending over some questions to Joanne, and she answered them in the video below. We thought about doing the same a while back, but just never got past "a/s/l?" Oh well.


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This paper promotes ADR as more appropriate way of resolving disputes in the era of technological advancement. It look into the advantages and disadvantages of traditional method of resolving disputes and after analysing them it suggest that ADR is the most suitable method of resolving dispute. The paper gives highlight to primitive methods of dispute resolution and advent of ADR in India. It suggests the loopholes in adversarial method of dispute resolution. Further, it suggest different methods of dispute resolution through ADR and analytically discuss indispensible method of dispute resolution in the age of technology boom.
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Here's a quick list of "What to Wear and Not Wear!" that that I share with you now so you can look terrific for your TV interview.
1. Don't wear white, black or red. White glows and becomes the most noticeable thing on the TV screen. Black is too harsh and can suck up all the light. Reds "bleed" on camera and are distracting.
2. Pastel shirts work well on TV.
3. The safest color on TV is blue.
4. Don't wear dangly earrings. They distract.
5. Remove jewelry that moves, makes noise, or could hit your microphone.
6. Be wrinkle-free.
7. Don't wear stripes, herringbone, small intricate designs, or flashy jewelry. They are hard for a TV camera to pick up on.
8. Don't wear checks.
9. Dress in a simple, boring manner, unless you are a fashion designer.
10. TV viewers should focus on your face and what you say, not your clothes.
11. Men should have about an inch of their shirt cuff showing.
12. Avoid light colored pants.
13. Wear over-the-calf socks so your skin doesn't show if you cross your legs.
14. Don't wear more than one ring per hand.
15. Women shouldn't wear short skirts if you want people to focus on your message.
16. If you wear a dark shirt, dark suit, and dark tie, you will look like you are auditioning to be a hit man on the "Sopranos."
17. Vests look stuffy on TV.
18. Don't wear stripes. They dance around on the screen and are distracting.
19. Avoid hair products that add shine.
20. No visible logos or companies or brands, except for your own company logo.
21. People shouldn't judge you by your appearance, but they will.
22. If you do or wear anything distracting on TV, people will remember that and nothing you say.
Clothes are the major factor in controlling how you appear to viewers. While appearance is critical for success on television you also must be concerned about the words that come out of your mouth, the knowledge you display, and the self-confidence you demonstrate.
The bottom line: Relax, you'll do fine. The butterflies you're feeling are what will drive you to do your best! Remember, it's not like they are going to ask you the square root of 656! They're asking you about your book, your company, your story which you obviously know. Just follow these helpful tips and you'll look as good as you sound.
These tips were excerpted from a larger article that appeared in the All About Public Relations Web site. It was written by Scott Lorenz, president of Westwind Communications, a PR and marketing firm.


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Poynten, Isobel Mary PhD*; Jin, Fengyi PhD*,†; Templeton, David J. PhD*,‡; Prestage, Garrett P. PhD*; Donovan, Basil MD*,§; Pawlita, Michael MD¶; Fairley, Christopher K. PhD‖,**; Garland, Suzanne PhD††; Grulich, Andrew E. PhD*; Waterboer, Tim PhD¶
From the *Hiv Epidemiology and Prevention Program (IMP, FJ, DJT, GPP, AEG), Sexual Health Program (BD), The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; †Sexually Transmitted Infections Research Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ‡RPA Sexual Health Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia; §Sydney Sexual Health Centre, Sydney Hospital, Sydney, Australia; ¶German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; ‖Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Melbourne, Australia; **Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; and ††Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Royal Women's Hospital (SG), Melbourne, Australia
The authors thank all the participants, the dedicated pH and HIM study team and the participating doctors and clinics. They thank Ute Koch and Monika Oppenländer from the Infection and Cancer Program at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) for their excellent technical assistance.
The Health in Men cohort study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, a component of the US Department of Health and Human Services (NIH/NIAID/DAIDS: HVDDT Award N01-AI-05395), the National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia (Project grant 400944), and the New South Wales Health Department (Sydney). The Positive Health Cohort study was funded by the New South Wales Health Department (Sydney). The Health in Men and Positive Health Cohort studies were also funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. Funding for HPV serology testing was from NHMRC program grant 568971. I.M.P. (1016307), F.J. (571402), and D.J.T. (1013353) are supported by Post-doctoral Training Fellowships from the National Health and Medical Research Council. The Kirby Institute (formerly NCHECR) is affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales and is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent the position of the Australian Government. I.M.P., F.J., D.J.T., G.P., M.P., and T.W. have no conflicts of interest. B.D. has received research funding from CSL Biotherapies Ltd and has been on the speakers' bureau for Merck and Sanofi-PasteurMSD. C.K.F. has received honoraria and research funding from CSL Biotherapies. C.K.F. owns shares in CSL Biotherapies the manufacturer for Gardasil and has received honoraria from Merck. S.G. has received advisory board fees and grant support from CSL and GlaxoSmithKline and lecture fees from Merck, GSK, and Sanofi Pasteur. S.G. has received funding through her institution to conduct HPV vaccine studies for MSD and GSK and is a member of the Merck Global Advisory Board and the Merck Scientific Advisory Committee for HPV. A.E.G. has received consulting fees and conference sponsorship from Merck, the manufacturer of the Gardasil quadrivalent HPV vaccine, and research funding, consulting fees, and conference sponsorship from CSL Biotherapies, the Australian distributor of the Gardasil vaccine.
Correspondence: Isobel Mary Poynten, PhD, The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, NSW, 2052, Australia. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Received for publication February 6, 2012, and accepted April 5, 2012.
Background: Human papillomavirus 16 (HPV16) has been causally associated with approximately 70% of anal cancers. This cancer is markedly increasing among homosexual men. There is limited knowledge of the epidemiology and natural history of anal HPV infection in homosexual men.
Methods: Behavioral data and sera for antibodies to HPV16 L1 were collected annually for 1427 HIV-negative and 245 HIV-positive Australian homosexual men. Seroprevalence, seroincidence, and risk factors were calculated.
Results: Among HIV-negative men, 25.4% were HPV16 seropositive at baseline compared with 44.3% of HIV-positive men. HPV16 seroincidence was 3.1/100 person-years among HIV-negative men and 1.3/100 person-years among HIV-positive men. Seroincidence among HIV-negative men remained >3% per year until 45 years of age, before declining. In multivariate analyses of data from HIV-negative men, seroprevalent HPV16 was associated with sexual risk behaviors and seropositivity for several viral sexually transmissible infections. Seroincident HPV16 was associated with younger age and unprotected anal intercourse with HIV-positive partners. Among men who predominantly practiced insertive anal intercourse, circumcision was associated with a 57% reduction in seroincident HPV16 (hazard ratio = 0.43, 95% confidence interval: 0.21–0.88, P = 0.021).
Conclusions: HPV16 seroincidence remained common in men until their mid 40s suggesting that vaccination may be protective in sexually active young gay men. Both HPV16 seroprevalence and seroincidence correlated well with markers of higher risk sexual activity, particularly receptive anal sexual practices. An association between circumcision and decreased HPV16 seroconversion in HIV-negative men who preferred the insertive position in anal sex was observed.
There are >100 different types of human papillomaviruses (HPV) that can infect either the cutaneous or mucosal epithelium of humans. Of these, the mucosal type HPV16 has been causally associated with approximately 60% of cervical cancers,1 and 70% of anal cancers and anal precursor lesions, such as anal intraepithelial neoplasia.2 There is evidence that anal cancer rates are increasing globally3 and that homosexual men are particularly at high risk of developing this malignancy.4 Those men who are HIV infected are at even higher risk, and incidence rates have not declined since the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy.5 Anal cancer is now the most common non–AIDS-defining cancer in HIV-infected people in Australia.6
In contrast to the extensively researched natural history of the progression from cervical HPV infection to cervical malignancy, there is limited knowledge of the epidemiology and natural history of anal HPV infection. Few studies have prospectively examined the frequency of acquisition and duration of anal HPV infection in homosexual men,7,8 and data on HPV infection in older men, in whom rates of anal cancer are highest, are extremely limited. Most of the published research on HPV-related disease in homosexual men has reported on the prevalence of anal HPV infection by DNA detection.9,10 There have been only a few studies of HPV seroprevalence in homosexual men.11–15 Serological studies allow an estimate of lifetime cumulative exposure to HPV. In one study, the sensitivity of serology was estimated to be approximately 60% when measured against cervical DNA detection.16
Here, we explore prevalence, incidence, and risk factors for HPV16 seropositivity in Australian homosexual men.
Two prospective community-based cohort studies of homosexual men were conducted in Sydney, Australia. The Health in Men (HIM) study involved HIV-negative homosexually active men. The methodology for the HIM study has been published previously.17 Men who were 18 years or older, tested HIV negative, and had sexual contact with at least one man in the past 5 years were eligible to enroll. The study recruited 1427 participants from June 2001 to December 2004 and concluded interviews in June 2007. The Positive Health (pH) study recruited 778 HIV-positive men from 1998 to 2006, who reported sex with at least one man during the previous 5 years or who identified as homosexual, using similar community-based methods as the HIM study.18 Final interviews were conducted in 2007. The HIM and pH studies and the serological research within the 2 studies received ethical approval from the University of New South Wales Human Research Ethics committee.
Participants underwent annual structured face-to-face interviews on a wide range of topics, including sexual relationships and practices. Quantitative sexual behavior data were collected, with number of partners and number of episodes of unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) recorded. At approximately 6 months between annual face-to-face interviews, information on recent sexual relationships and practices and injecting drug use was collected from HIV-negative participants via a short-version telephone interview. In the HIM study, serological testing for HIV and storage of serum samples were undertaken annually among consenting participants. In the pH study, annual serological testing was only performed on consenting participants in the period 2005–2007.
Serum samples were stored at −80°C and shipped on dry ice to the German Cancer Research Center (DFKZ), Heidelberg, Germany, for serology analysis. Specimens were labeled with a unique identifier, and all serum analyses were performed blindly. The samples were analyzed for antibodies to the capsid (L1) proteins of the mucosal α HPV types 16, as previously described.19
All samples were analyzed for HPV antibodies by multiplex serology, an antibody detection method based on glutathione S-transferase (GST) capture ELISA20,21 in combination with fluorescent bead technology.19,22 Briefly, full-length viral proteins were expressed in Escherichia coli bacteria in fusion with an N-terminal GST domain. Glutathione cross-linked to casein was coupled to fluorescence-labeled polystyrene beads (SeroMap, Luminex Corp., Austin, TX,) and GST fusion proteins were affinity purified on the beads. Each fusion protein was bound to a spectrally distinct bead set, and fusion protein-loaded bead sets were mixed. Sera were incubated with the mixed bead sets at a final dilution of 1:100, and bound antibodies were detected with biotinylated goat anti-human IgG secondary antibody and streptavidin-R-phycoerythrin. A Luminex analyzer (Luminex Corp) was used to identify the internal color of the individual beads and to quantify their reporter fluorescence (expressed as median fluorescence intensity (MFI) of at least 100 beads per set per serum).
Glutathione-casein coupled bead sets were loaded with their respective antigens in 1 batch. Study sera were analyzed once on 1 of 4 consecutive assay days. A quality control panel of 188 samples was included each day on each run, made possible by the Luminex high-throughput method. This resulted in 4 quality control data sets to determine interday variation. Autofluorescence of each bead set and background reactions resulting from binding of secondary reagents to the antigen-loaded beads were determined in 1-well per plate without human serum. Mean bead background values were subtracted from raw MFI values and antigen-specific reactivity was determined by subtraction of the MFI of GST-tag from the MFI of the specific antigen.
Cut-off points to determine antibody positivity were selected by visual inspection of the distribution of MFI values among all study participants.23,24 Seropositivity was defined as having an MFI value of 400 or more. Seroconversion was defined by the cooccurrence of 2 conditions: (1) at least 2-fold increase of the previous serum MFI value and (2) MFI value above the cut-off point.25
HPV16 seroprevalence and seroincidence per 100 person-years (PYs) in those initially HPV16-seronegative participants were calculated according to each participant's HIV status. Seroincidence was calculated by the number of type-specific seroconversions divided by the total PYs followed. The exact binomial method was used to calculate 95% confidence intervals (CIs).
In the pH study, limited data were collected on lifetime sexual risk behavioral factors; therefore, risk factors for HPV16 seropositivity were only examined in HIM participants. Predictors of seroprevalent HPV16 were analyzed by logistic regression. Sociodemographic, biologic, and behavioral characteristics and their relation to HPV16 seroprevalence were examined. These included age, occupation, education, circumcision status, level of gay community involvement, lifetime number of male sexual partners, lifetime number of female sexual partners, duration since first sexual intercourse, duration since first anal sexual intercourse, cigarette smoking, marijuana use, history of syphilis, serological evidence of past infection with hepatitis A, B, and C, herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and HSV-2, history of anal warts, and history of genital warts.
Predictors of seroincident HPV16 were analyzed by Cox regression among initially HPV16-seronegative HIM participants. Similar to the analysis of seroprevalence, sociodemographic, biologic, and behavioral characteristics and their relation to HPV16 seroincidence were examined. These included age, occupation, education, circumcision status, level of gay community involvement, number of male sexual partners in the past 6 months, cigarette smoking, marijuana use, UAI by partner type (regular or casual), UAI by anal intercourse position (insertive or receptive), UAI by partner's HIV status (positive, negative, or unknown), receptive oral sex with casual partners, insertive oral sex with casual partners, receptive rimming, receptive fingering, receptive fisting, urethral gonorrhoea and chlamydia, pharyngeal gonorrhoea, anal gonorrhoea and chlamydia, past syphilis infection, incident hepatitis A, B, and C, incident HSV-1, incident HSV-2, prevalent and incident anal warts, and prevalent and incident genital warts.
Multivariate models were developed using a backwards selection method. A significance threshold of a P value of 0.10 or less in the univariate models was used to identify variables to be included in the final multivariate models. Odds ratios (ORs) and hazard ratios (HRs) with corresponding 95% CIs were calculated for seroprevalent and seroincident HPV16 risk factors, respectively.
We performed further analyses exploring the association between circumcision status and HPV seroprevalence and seroincidence in all men and in those men who reported a preference for the insertive role in anal intercourse, using methodology we had previously developed for analyses of the association between sexually transmitted infection (STI)/HIV incidence and circumcision.26
Data analyses were performed using Stata 10.0 (Stata Corporation, College Station, TX).
A total of 1427 initially HIV-negative men were enrolled in the HIM study, and 5959 serological samples were available for analysis. The median age at enrollment was 35 years (range, 18–75 years), and men were followed for a median of 3.9 years, with a total follow-up time of 4538 PYs. In the pH study, the median age at enrollment (45 years; range, 22–71 years) was a decade more than in the HIM study. From the total of 245 men who had sera collected at least once, 394 serological samples were stored.
A quarter (25.4%, 95% CI: 23.1–27.9) of the HIV-negative participants were HPV16 seropositive at their baseline visit compared with nearly half of the HIV-positive participants (44.3%, 95% CI: 37.4–51.5; Table 1). The seroprevalence in HIV-positive men was significantly higher than in HIV-negative men (OR = 2.18, 95% CI: 1.73–2.75), which remained significant after controlling for age (adjusted OR = 1.88, 95% CI: 1.49–2.38). HPV16 seroincidence among HIV-negative men was 3.1/100 PYs and 95% CI was 2.5 to 3.8/100 PYs. HPV16 seroincidence among HIV-positive men was 1.3/100 PYs and 95% CI was 0.3 to 5.2/100 PYs. This finding was limited by the small number of HIV-positive men with a serological sample at more than 1 time point.
In univariate analyses of data among HIV-negative men, HPV16 seroprevalence was associated with older age (P < 0.001), a longer history of any sexual activity (P < 0.001) including anal sex (P < 0.001), and higher numbers of sexual partners (P < 0.001) (Table 2). Men with a history of anal warts or serological evidence of a number of STIs were also much more likely to be HPV16 seropositive at baseline, as were men who reported a preference for and predominantly practiced the receptive position in anal sex.26 Circumcision was not associated with seroprevalent HPV16 (P = 0.26). In multivariate analyses, seroprevalent HPV16 was associated with a higher lifetime number of male partners (P = 0.002), longer duration since first anal sex (P < 0.001), preference for the receptive role during anal sex (P = 0.032), a history of anal warts (P = 0.022), and serological evidence of past infection with hepatitis B virus (P = 0.035), HSV-1 (P = 0.034), and HSV-2 (P = 0.042).
In contrast to HPV16 seroprevalence, HPV16 seroincidence declined with age from 4.1/100 PYs in those aged less than 25 years to less than 2/100 PYs in those aged more than 45 (P = 0.002) (Table 3). Behavioral predictors of HPV16 seroconversion included reporting higher numbers of male partners (P < 0.001), UAI with both casual and regular partners (P = 0.001) and with partners of unknown or positive HIV status (P = 0.002). Receptive anal sexual practices were also associated with seroincident HPV16, including receptive rimming (P = 0.001), fingering (P = 0.053), and fisting (P = 0.023). Several bacterial STIs were significantly associated with HPV16 seroincidence in the univariate model, although there was no association with any viral STIs. Overall, circumcision was not significantly associated with HPV seroincidence (HR = 0.70, 95% CI: 0.46–1.06, P = 0.09).
In multivariate analyses, seroincident HPV16 remained significantly associated with younger age (P = 0.049) and UAI with HIV-positive partners or partners of unknown HIV status (P = 0.046). Although not significant, there was a trend toward participants with higher numbers of recent male sexual partners (P = 0.089) being more likely to seroconvert (Table 3).
Further analysis was undertaken on the impact of circumcision on seroprevalent and seroincident HPV16 among men who predominantly practiced the insertive position in anal intercourse. Among these men (1109 PYs, 25% of total PYs), there was no relationship between being circumcised and HPV16 seropositivity at baseline (OR = 0.98, 95% CI: 0.60–1.61, P = 0.94), but there was a 57% reduction in seroincident HPV16 (HR = 0.43, 95% CI: 0.21–0.88, P = 0.021). When adjusted for potential confounders (number of sexual partners in the past 6 months, UAI by partner's HIV status, and age), the effect remained significant (HR = 0.47, 95% CI: 0.28–0.98, P = 0.043).
In these community-based cohorts of Australian homosexual men, we examined the seroepidemiology of HPV16. HPV16 seropositivity was common and was substantially higher among HIV-positive (44%) than HIV-negative (25%) men. Overall, about 3% of HIV-negative men seroconverted each year. Among HIV-negative men, both HPV16 seroprevalence and seroincidence correlated well with markers of sexual activity, and particularly with receptive anal sexual practices. An association between circumcision and decreased HPV16 seroconversion in those HIV-negative men who predominantly practiced the insertive role in anal sex was observed.
The high rates of HPV16 seroprevalence are comparable with findings from other serological studies involving homosexual men. In a Dutch population-based cross-sectional survey, men who reported sexual attraction to men had an HPV16 seroprevalence of 31.4% compared with 16.8% among heterosexual men.13 Similarly, in US cross-sectional national surveys, HPV16 seroprevalence was 37.7% among men who reported ever having had sex with a man,15 and it was 30% among 169 Austrian HIV-positive men, 59 of whom were homosexual.11 Unlike our findings, other studies have not found a difference in seroprevalence between HIV-positive and HIV-negative men. For instance, Hagensee et al reported a 48% HPV16 seroprevalence among 101 homosexual or bisexual HIV-negative men compared with 42% among 154 HIV-positive men in a serosurvey conducted in Seattle, WA.14
The only other Australian study to describe HPV16 seroprevalence among men found an overall seroprevalence rate of 7.9% in the male general population older than 15 years.27 Similar findings have been reported in a number of US studies involving heterosexual men. HPV16 seropositivity rates of 14.8% of 285 HIV-negative men recruited from mainly through community sources in Arizona in the HPV Infection in Men study,8 14.1% of 340 men in a community- and clinic-based cross-sectional study in Baltimore,28 and 18.7% of 786 HIV-negative STD clinic attendees7 provide consistent evidence that heterosexual men have lower HPV16 seroprevalence than homosexual men. In contrast, homosexual men have similar rates of HPV16 seropositivity to women (29.1%,13 30.2%,7 and 42.3%28) in a number of the studies discussed earlier. This higher seroprevalence among women and homosexual men is thought to be due to HPV infection via mucosal epithelium (vagina and anus) rather than keratinized epithelium (penis). It has been hypothesized that HPV infection of mucosal epithelium may be more likely to induce a humoral immune response than HPV infection of keratinized epithelium.7,12,15,28
Importantly, men who predominantly practiced the receptive position in anal sex were also more likely to have seroprevalent HPV16 (P = 0.014), further strengthening the theory that mucosal exposure leads to greater induction of a systemic antibody response.7,12 Similar risk factors of older age,7,8,12,14 unprotected sex with casual partners,7 lifetime number of male anal sex partners,12,14 and a history of other STIs,12 in particular HSV-2,14,28 have been previously associated with higher HPV16 seroprevalence.
Recently published studies have demonstrated a reduction of incident genital HPV detection among circumcised heterosexual HIV-negative and HIV-positive men.29,30 An important finding of our study was an observed decrease in HPV16 seroincidence among circumcised men who reported predominant practice of the insertive rather than the receptive position in anal sex. Circumcised men were approximately 60% less likely to seroconvert than uncircumcised men. Anal intercourse position preference was reported by 1211 HIM participants at least twice at consecutive annual interviews. Only 2.5% of participants reported a change from their initial preference for the insertive position at one or more subsequent interviews to either receptive or no preference. This indicates that sexual position preferences were constant and reflected actual behavior. Other studies have not found an association between circumcision and HPV16 seroprevalence7,12 or seroincidence.7
The HIM and pH studies have the strength of being large-scale prospective cohort studies. The samples were primarily community-based, and we believe that they can be considered as broadly representative of homosexual men in Sydney. This study measures HPV16 seroincidence in homosexual men and examines the effect of circumcision by anal sexual practices. Both are areas with limited published data available.
There were several limitations in this research. Multiplex serology was used here, a serological method that has been used in numerous other studies. Some assays use virus-like particles as antigens, whereas in this research, we used GST-L1-based assays. Cut-off definitions for positivity vary between laboratories. These differences in serological methods may limit direct comparisons with other studies. HPV seroconversion can occur up to 18 months after HPV DNA detection,22 and thus it is possible that some seroincident cases may represent infection before study entry. Although HPV serology is believed to be specific, it is only a moderately sensitive measure of infection. Therefore, with estimated seroconversion rates of 60%, not all those infected with HPV will develop antibodies.16 The true HPV infection rate is potentially underestimated, which may lead to misclassification bias.13,16 Exposure misclassification may also occur due to waning of antibodies over time8 and due to varying immune response based on exposure via mucosal rather than squamous epithelium.
These results clearly demonstrate that HPV16 seropositivity is common among both HIV-negative and HIV-positive homosexual men. Both HPV16 seroprevalence and seroincidence correlated well with other markers of high-risk sexual activity, particularly receptive anal sexual practices. Circumcision was associated with a reduction in HPV seroincidence in men who were mainly exposed via the penis rather than the anus. Because HPV16 seroincidence declined only gradually with age, our data suggest that there may be a role for prophylactic vaccination of young gay men.
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St. Paul's Baptist Church in Gretna will launch a radio broadcast this evening titled "The REAL Ministry." The broadcast will be from 6:30 to 7 p.m. on WLNO 1060-AM. The show will air every Sunday at the same time.
Orin Grant, pastor, said the idea started when he was approached by a station executive."One of the executives of WLNO 1060-AM had been trying to get me to partner with them in ministry for quite a while, for the last several years," Grant said. "We had kind of been deliberating, and on the week of April 26, it finally came to fruition."
Grant said the mission of the show will be to spread the gospel of Christ.
"Our mission at REAL Ministries is to reach the world for Christ," he said. "So, we're trying to get out the word of Christ through radio and other media outlets to reach people."
He added that the broadcast will take a nontraditional route.
"REAL Ministry is reaching real people in real times and we're going to go beyond just the traditional way of reaching people, although radio can be seen that way," Grant said. "We want to challenge traditional mindsets. We want to be able to talk to homosexuals, drug addicts, prostitutes and hustlers."
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Gov. Neil Abercrombie deserves credit for his suggestion that going to 100 percent mail ballots for state elections will solve recent problems.
In the general election, there were severe shortages of paper ballots. Some 24 polling places on Oahu ran out completely and emergency supplies had to be delivered, delaying poll closings.
But, before the state jumps into the all-vote-by-mail barrel, why don't we investigate the possibility of secure voting online? If we truly want to be efficient (and save millions on postage), allowing those who wish to vote online as an alternative to mail is the way to go.
Yes, we know it would be a first in the United States. But - as a recent report on ABC News detailed - Great Britain, Switzerland and Canada, among others, already allow online voting.
If one searches the Web for "voting online," several companies offer software. But, instead of reinventing the wheel, the state could just ask Canada and Great Britain how they do it.
It would seem that a one-time electronic registration where one is assigned a unique voter identification number, then picks a password, could make a ballot secure. In any event, other jurisdictions are using the technology, so why doesn't Hawaii do the same?
Moving to an all-mail ballot would be - at best - an interim step. If we truly want to solve the problems and bring our election process into the 21st century at the same time, going electronic is the solution.
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William came home beaming on Saturday after a hugely successful first time away at camp. He adored every minute of CVTC and is begging to go back next year! I played tennis with Wills yesterday and there has been great improvement so kudos to you and your staff for all your help, warmth and enthusiasm throughout his two weeks!San Francisco, California
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- food and meal prep
- serving meals buffet style
- dishwashing and clean up
- maintaining the standards of the Health Dept. and the highest degree of cleanliness and food safety.
- unloading and storage of food and canned goods (you must be able to lift and handle items weighing up to 40 pounds)
- dining room and patio prep and cleaning (you need to be able to move tables and chairs)
- breaking down boxes and cartons
- emptying and relining trash cans
- The facility was built in 1999 and the commercial kitchen is very nice
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Hi guys, does anyone own this board? I know rossi isn't so popular but...
I bought a rossi krypto for christmas and I really like the board, its more of a freeride hard charging board. Originally I didn't think much of rossi for snowboards but after seeing the board in person I was really impressed. The only knock on it is the edges are sometimes a little too aggressive for just playing around. It is really better for slashing down the mountain.
So the jibsaw is on sale at sportchek for 200 which is a smoking deal I think. I'm starting to do more park riding and the krypto is the wrong board for that. I want a really fun poppy board to do presses, butters, ollies on. That and hitting small and med jumps in the park is like 70% of the riding I do, and maybe 30% is boxes and rails.
So what do you guys think? The other board I'm considering is a K2 WWW which is supposed to also have a lot of pop to it.
I'm debating getting one right now as well.
Where are you located?
I'm seeing this.
Rossignol Jibsaw Magtek 2012/13 - SportChek.ca
I also have 20% off coupons, which would push it to $150 after taxes.
K you convinced me.:thumbsup:
I'm going to SportChek.:D
Ah. this years is 200.
Hmm, tough call:unsure:
yea none of the sportcheks near me have the leftover 2012. The new one looks much nicer with the black graphic IMO. Where did you find a 20% off coupon?
ok so I ended up buying the 2014, I've only put a couple days on it so far cause we are in the middle of a cold snap here at sunshine. Here are my thoughts so far:
Setup: 155cm, cartels, burton ions, 160lbs 5'9 rider
The board is super light and responsive. This is my first twin and I was really surprised how hard I could ride it all over the mountain. Edge hold is really good with the magnetraction. This board has the more mellow 7S but fresh out of the box I would say it grips just as hard or even harder than my other board that has 7M edges (bigger) but are more beat up.
Anyways you can really lay into a carve and it doesn't seem to bite into soft snow as hard so transitioning is good. I haven't ridden much chunder but for the most part there is not noticeable chatter at high speeds.
The finish is top notch, really like the graphics on this board and I've gotten a few complements on it.
Jumps really well, its very snappy and poppy. Ollies well. Buttering is ok, it is really easy to get a press going but seems a little harder to lock it in, despite the huge flat spots on the nose and tail.
I suck at jibbing so I won't comment on that.
Overall it is a great all mountain freestyle board and I got it for a steal at just $180. I'm pretty happy with it and it really surprised me at being so good outside of the park.
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How did you swing it for $180?
I've wanted to go in & check em out, but I just bought another 3 boards last night:dizzy:
Two vintage decks & a brand new Slasher 61:yahoo:
I might have to hold off for a bit:unsure:
it was 200 and then i used a 10% off coupon. I dunno how they even make money on these boards.. its not even a leftover model and it has a ton of tech in it for the price.
so I want to update this thread cause I have now put 20 more days or so on the board and have a real good feel for it.
I really freakin like this board. It's becoming my favorite to grab when I head for the hill. My setup is the same but I've upgraded to burton SLX boots. This board is so snappy and responsive, it's light and most importantly it is really fun to ride. It does well all over the mountain and carves really well. It doesn't wear me out riding it.
The only weaknesses of this board are powder.. it sucks. Deeper chunder like 6" or more, it gets knocked around a lot. If you are carving trenches in soft snow sometimes the MTX will cut right through and sink you if you're not careful. And if you are really cooking on high speed runs, it gets squirrelly at mach 5.
I can't believe I only paid $180 for this board brand new, if this thing had a libtech logo on it I would have happily paid $400 and not known the difference.
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Every speaker tries to create a love affair with his or her audience. But when the phenomenon called Maya Angelou takes the lectern at Pensacola (Fla.) Junior College, she does not so much speak to the audience as embrace it. She sings, reads verse, thunders oratorically, even dances. Standing a majestic six feet tall and gifted with a resonant voice and oaklike dignity, she is poet, preacher, performer extraordinaire. "People live in direct relation to the heroes and she-roes they have," she booms. Murmured amens rise from the crowd. "Courage is the most important virtue, because without courage you can't have the other virtues."
Angelou has never lacked it. She was born black and poor, trouble enough in the rural South of the 1920s. By age 3, she was the child of a broken home, shunted off to her paternal grandmother's care in tiny Stamps, Ark. Before her 8th birthday, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend and forced to endure the further trauma of his trial; when her assailant was murdered after his release, she blamed herself and spoke hardly at all until she was nearly 13. At 17, she graduated from high school unwed and eight months pregnant. A year later, to support herself and her son, Guy, she became the madam of a two-woman whorehouse in San Diego, and then for a short time a prostitute herself.
Yet today, at 53, this same Maya Angelou is a protean woman, fluent in seven languages and the recipient of 13 honorary degrees. She was nominated for a National Book Award for her nonfiction and a Tony award for her acting. She is also an accomplished singer and dancer. When Bill Moyers launched his Creativity series on PBS last January, he understandably began with an interview with Maya Angelou. "Maya is one of those totally steadfast people with a spine made of iron," says her longtime friend, writer Jessica (The American Way of Death) Mitford. "She's a force of nature with so many talents in every direction that the combination comes like an earthquake."
Recently Maya drew again on her writer's capital—her extraordinary life—to publish The Heart of a Woman. It is the fourth volume of her autobiography, which began in 1970 with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. For her, writing is a hurtful process of "dragging my pencil across the old scars to sharpen it." Alone with stacks of yellow legal pads, dictionary, Bible, bottle of sherry, solitaire deck and an honest rage, she observes that "it's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out."
Her mother, Vivian, reports that Maya undergoes a complete transformation while writing and becomes "a zombie." Adds her friend Mitford: "Maya's so odd, she can't stay home when she's doing it. A couple of times she has rented a deliberately horrid little flat in London, mingy and tasteless so she'll have no distractions. When she wrote her last book—and this isn't complimentary to my house—she came over here and did it in an upstairs bedroom."
Maya's latest move is perhaps the most unexpected. After living in California for a decade, she has dramatically returned to her native South, accepting a lifetime appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. It was an emotionally charged decision, full of ambivalence. "Black people comprehend the South," she has explained. "We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs.... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts." But she decided to return because "I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole." (Of all her awards, she most cherishes the honorary degree she received from the University of Arkansas—which is only a stone's throw from the land where her great-grandmother was a slave.)
Maya's return to the South followed a harrowing series of misfortunes. Within a few weeks last spring she had an ugly dispute with her longtime manager; her seven-year marriage to second husband Paul du Feu collapsed; and her only grandchild was abducted by his mother. It happened after Maya's son, Guy Johnson, 36, was awarded custody in a bitter court battle. With an instinct for survival that is second nature by now, Maya fired her manager and separated from her husband. She also assisted Guy, a poet and personnel analyst in Sonoma County, Calif., in a statewide search for his white ex-wife, Sharon Murphy, and 6-year-old Colin Ashanti Murphy-Johnson. After spending thousands of dollars on private detectives, they learned that Sharon has gone underground with the help of a radical feminist group. "All we know about this group is that they hate men and blacks," says Maya, "and they have my black, male grandchild."
Maya inherited her determination from her family. Born Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, she was the daughter of Bailey Johnson, a civilian dietician for the Navy who died in 1969, and Vivian Baxter Wilburn, whose numerous careers have included real estate broker, surgical nurse and merchant marine radio operator. "Anytime anything was being taught, my mother studied it and got certified," recalls Maya. She has lost track of her older brother, Bailey ("the person in my family closest to being a genius"), but remains in close contact with her mother, now 70, remarried and retired in Stockton, Calif.
When Maya was 21, she married Tosh Angelos, a Greek-American sailor she met while working in a record shop in San Francisco. "I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies," she says. "I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly." When the marriage dissolved three years later, she changed her name to Maya (her childhood nickname) Angelou on her drama coach's advice and tried her hand at show business. While singing calypso and blues in San Francisco's hip Purple Onion, she was hired by a road company of Porgy and Bess and toured Europe and Africa in 1954-55, leaving Guy with her mother in San Francisco.
Homesick for her son, she returned to the West Coast in 1955 and resumed her nightclub career. In 1959 she and young Guy moved to New York, where Maya joined the Harlem Writers Guild, sang at the Apollo Theatre and collaborated with Godfrey Cambridge in producing and performing in Cabaret for Freedom. A rights activist, she was drafted by Martin Luther King Jr. as northern coordinator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Politics entered her romantic life, too: She jilted her fiancé, a bail bondsman, to take up with a South African black activist, Vusumzi Make. During their three-year relationship they lived in New York and Cairo, where she worked on the weekly news magazine Arab Observer. Then, leaving Make because of his frequent affairs, she moved to Ghana, where she was a university administrator and an editor of the African Review, a political monthly.
Not long after her return to the States in 1966, author James Baldwin took Maya to dinner at cartoonist-writer Jules Feiffer's house. "We were drinking and talking and fighting for the right to tell stories," remembers Maya. "The next day Jules' wife, Judy, called a friend at Random House and told him if he could get me to write an autobiography, he'd have something." Busy producing a 10-hour television series for PBS, Maya rebuffed editor Bob Loomis during several phone conversations. Then he baited her. "He told me it was almost impossible to write autobiography as literature and I probably couldn't do it anyway," she remembers. "I said: 'I'll do it'!"
When Caged Bird was published in 1970, the critics were generous—as they were the following year over her first volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie. At a London literary party Maya met Paul du Feu, a carpenter and construction worker who had acquired some notoriety himself as Germaine (The Female Eunuch) Greer's ex-husband and as the first nude centerfold for British Cosmopolitan. She fell deeply in love, and they were married in 1973, settling on the West Coast. Paul remodeled and built houses, while Maya expanded her career. She directed for film and television, acted on Broadway and in TV's Roots (in which she played Kunta Kinte's grandmother), and co-authored the script of the TV-movie Caged Bird.
Then "the eternal, never-to-be-broken-up marriage" failed. Maya is reluctant to discuss why. "I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with," she says. "The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear and I don't know how not to." Paul is now living alone in the Bay Area. "I love Paul du Feu and I feel like seeing him right now," says Maya, "but it would just drag me." She has had difficulties with men before. "I have lost good men—or men I might have been able to turn into good men—because I have no middle passage," she says. "When a voice is raised to me, I think, 'You want to kill me, but you don't have the nerve. Get out. Immediately.' I know I have taken it to the extreme—he might only have said, 'I don't like the way you cook the rice'—because I take everything to the max."
For the past 10 months Maya has been living in a genteel, 10-room house on the wooded outskirts of Winston-Salem, preparing her lectures on politics and literature. She entertains a circle of diverse friends who include Reynolds tobacco gentry, academics and young professionals. Is remarriage a possibility? "I'm not going to be alone forever, I know that," she asserts. "Who I'll be with and under what conditions, I have no idea. My next husband might be a Japanese sumo wrestler. If the man has the wit and the courage to pursue me, then I'll respond."
In the meantime she is continuing a 24-city lecture tour, despite an occasional death threat from bigots inflamed by her passionate opinions. "I will go anywhere at any time," says Maya. "No one frightens me. Everything costs. It would cost me if I was not famous or successful—I would pay for it in another way. I really heard my mother years ago when she told me: 'You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.' "
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All because of a water-main rupture several hundred yards behind the Capitol.
The break forced a rare shutdown of the state government complex, sending thousands of workers home, disrupting business, and disappointing hundreds of children on their spring trip to the state museum.
The pipe break on private property caused water pressure to drop precipitously, prompting Gov. Corbett to order the Capitol closed.
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Fresh off his teachings on the east coast at both Broadway Dance Center in New York, as well as ICON Dance Complex in New Jersey, Kasper is making his rounds throughout the country teaching various master classes, and choreographing, leaving his unique mark where ever he goes. Kasper was featured on the first season of the FOX smash hit "So You Think You Can Dance." He was asked to appear on MTV's "The Wade Robson Project," performed on "Dance Fever" on the ABC Family Channel, and was chosen to be an alternate for the BRAVO show, "Step It Up and Dance". Having let the reality tv shows run their course, Kasper now teaches and choreographs for many different dance teams, high schools, colleges, and universities throughout the U.S. His dance credits include dancing for Manheim Steamroller, as well as Bad Boy Bill at the B96 Summer Bash taking the stage right after Shakira, and just before P. Diddy. He's danced for Nike, Hip Hop ConnXion, and Dance 2XS Chicago. Currently, he is choreographing for the Jump Smokers, and he's been dancing for Ty Taylor (Rockstar INXS) in Los Angeles and in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand, as well as choreographing and performing with Dezmond Meeks from American Idol (Season 4). Having taught on faculty at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Kasper is currently a resident faculty at the Joffrey Ballet Dance Center in Chicago. Kasper loves, and continues to spread his knowledge of dance throughout the country, inspiring students where ever he goes.


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I saw this posted in a mlive article linked in another thread earlier today. I just saw the updated tweet now. Great news for Patty, I can't even imagine. If anyone is wondering Z left practice earlier but he's 'fine'. He was seen running later on, so presumptively he is okay. Pavel also left early with flu-like symptoms.
Ansar Khan @AnsarKhanMLiveabout 7 hours agoBabcock said Eaves got hit in jaw with puck that deflected off his stick and is getting checked. He said Zetterberg is fine.
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Saugus boys basketball applied just enough pressure.
In a game where it led by as many as 13 points, Saugus brought the defense up higher and higher, and Hart couldn't make enough plays in the half-court.
The Centurions survived Hart's second-half run to win 49-46 Friday night at Saugus High.
Saugus led by as many as 13 points in the second quarter, but the Indians crept back into the game and took a late lead of their own.
But Jeremy Gatewood's layup with 16 seconds left helped Saugus seal it to remain in third place in the Foothill League.
"We planned on winning. We felt like we were the better team," said Saugus head coach Derek Ballard. "It was interesting because Hart wanted to play a slow-it-down game, but we were able to pressure them and force them to run."
Neither team shot well in the game, with the Centurions (18-7, 5-3) holding a modest advantage of 34 percent compared to Hart's 32 percent from the field.
After nearly five minutes where neither team scored a point in the fourth quarter, Saugus guard Brad Buchignani broke the drought with a layup at the 1:11 mark to put his team up 46-41.
In Saugus' next possession, it milked the clock down while leading 46-43. With the shot clock winding down, Gatewood dribbled through the lane and sunk the shot off the glass to virtually put it away.
"All I heard was the crowd counting down so I knew I had to go," Gatewood said.
He finished with 17 points and 10 rebounds, and Buchignani had 14 points.
It was the third loss in four games for the Indians (12-11, 4-4), who fell out of a tie for third place in the standings.
"Every game is a rivalry in this league, and everybody's knocking off everybody," said Hart head coach Tom Kelly. "You've got to be prepared every game."
In the first minute of the game, it looked like Hart was plenty prepared, making two quick shots to go up 4-0.
That was followed by 12 straight missed shots, which allowed Saugus to get into a rhythm.
In the second quarter, the Centurions went on a 14-0 run to take a 25-12 lead. Most of their shots were set up by a defense that forced 14 turnovers and blocked eight shots on the night.
Forward Mitch Davis blocked six shots alone for Saugus, which led 31-21 at halftime.
"What we did tonight, believe it or not, takes a lot of discipline," Ballard said. "To be able to keep your pressure up and switch to the double teams, that's not easy."
But Saugus had its own scoring drought in the third quarter, and Delgado took advantage, scoring nine consecutive points to pull Hart within 36-34 at the 3:00 mark.
The senior point guard would end up with a game-high 18 points and 13 rebounds.
Hart eventually retook the lead at the 6:49 mark of the fourth quarter, going up 41-39, but the lead lasted less than a minute.
The shots stopped falling for the Indians, and this time, they couldn't survive the scoring slump.
"Their defense didn't do anything," Kelly said. "We missed some wide-open looks."


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President Barack Obama has offered to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, a standard U.S. response to the periodic outbreak of violence from Gaza. But the current rocket fire from Gaza into Israel is different from past episodes, and the usual cease-fire may not answer Israel's new peril.
On Wednesday, Hamas took credit for trying to destroy Israel's nuclear reactor at Dimona. Three rockets were fired at the installation. Two fell short and one was intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system.
Had the attacks succeeded - and more are expected - widespread exposure to nuclear radiation could have resulted. At the least, Hamas' terror campaign would have achieved a new level.
Around the same time, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri declared, "All Israelis have become legitimate targets." He claimed that the deaths of seven civilians in an Israeli air raid on Khan Yunis, a Gaza settlement, justified this blood claim.
Israel's reply to Hamas rocket attacks has indeed been far more deadly than the provocation. But that is due to three things: the ineptness of most Hamas attacks, the roughly 90 percent success of Israel's Iron Dome system in destroying the missiles most likely to do damage, and the practice of Hamas to put its missiles, command posts and other military targets in the midst of dense civilian populations.
The New York Times reports that before Israel struck the target in Khan Yunis, where seven Palestinians died, the Israeli military called five minutes ahead and then set off a flare to warn everyone to leave the building.
Instead, reported witnesses at the scene, people rushed onto the building's roof in hopes of deterring the strike.
Israel has put up with desultory missile strikes from Gaza for years, occasionally striking back when attacks became more intense.
The last such occasion was in March 2012.
The current surge in Hamas attacks began Tuesday in apparent response to the murder of a Palestinian teen-ager in Jerusalem, itself the unjustifiable response to the murder of three Israeli teen-agers by Hamas operatives last month.
The whole attack-response cycle has had a predictable arc. Hamas shoots wildly at Israel, putting its subjects at risk of Israel's responding air raids, to show it is standing up for Palestinian rights. After harsh words, however, it declares a cease-fire, which it immediately violates, but at a less threatening level.
But this time might be different because Iran has managed to smuggle more powerful missiles into Gaza with sufficient range to cover most of Israel. One fell on a resort town east of Tel Aviv. Israel has closed the Tel Aviv airport, and is taking extra precautions at its main international airport, Ben Gurion. Both airports are within range of Hamas rockets.
The heightened threat level may lead to an Israeli invasion of Gaza.
Meanwhile, Israel also has to worry about the threat from Hezbollah in Lebanon, with as many as 30,000 missiles, including some that have GPS guidance systems. Hezbollah also gets its weapons from Iran, with the help of the Assad government of Syria. It can be expected to unleash an attack if Iran thinks it is desirable. With Iran's help Assad seems to be winning the civil war in Syria, but it is not over yet. Indeed, it has spread to Iraq and now threatens Jordan.
Hamas' aggression against Israel - the murders, the missiles, the rhetoric - threatens to drag Israel into the wider Middle East conflict. A cease-fire may put a temporary stop to the pressure from Iran's proxies.
But Israel's heightened peril will remain.
And that intensifies the need for the international community, including the United States, to help resolve not only the latest violence, but finally the intransigent Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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