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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale lightweight rowing team will travel to Princeton, N.J., on Sunday for the Princeton 3-Mile Chase. The college-only regatta, held on Princeton's Lake Carnegie, will feature all but one of Yale's EARC opponents, giving the Bulldogs the opportunity to test their relative speed against league competition before entering winter training.
The Bulldogs will also use the Princeton Chase as a chance to obtain valuable racing experience. In addition to its three entries in the varsity lightweight eight and one entry in the freshman lightweight eight, Yale will enter four lightweight fours and four pairs in the small boats competition, meaning that many Yale oarsmen will race twice on the day.
Yale's first varsity eight, in accordance with its fourth-place finish at last years' regatta, will start fourth in the varsity lightweight eights event, which begins at 10:30 a.m. The Bulldogs will begin the race in front of Delaware and behind Navy. The freshman eight, which includes the coxswain and all four oarsmen from the Head of the Charles champion lightweight four, will race at 11:00 a.m. The lightweight fours will race at 11:30 a.m. , and the pairs will race at 2:30 p.m.
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Ventilated ATEX container for process analyser (gas chromatograph)
For a customer in the Far East, ELECTROMACH has developed an explosion protected container for a process analyser for usage on an oil refinery.
Gas chromatograph
The gas chromatograph will measure the amount of hydrogen. This should be done at the refinery and as close to the process gas pipe as possible. For the most accurate result, the hydrogen measurement must be completed in a limited time frame. The length of the heated sample-pipe has a major influence on the amount of total time necessary for this measurement.
The Ex-container
The gas chromatograph will be installed in an explosion protected container. The container has been designed as a fully welded construction and has been insulated and specially coated to meet the extreme site conditions.
To guarantee the functioning of the analyser, the temperature inside the container will be kept on a average of approx. 25°C, while the temperature outside the container can vary between -5°C and +60°C.
The container will be equipped with an ATEX Ventilation & Air Conditioning System supplemented by an ATEX heater to ensure this temperature so that the system can function properly and can also be started at all circumstances.
The inside of the container has been classified as an ATEX Zone 2, IIB+H2 T3 area. Around the gas chromatograph a potentially hazardous area may occur, as the gas chromatograph measures the hydrogen content and works with pure hydrogen as a reference gas.
An ATEX Ventilation systems creates an under pressure in the container and thereby preventing the emergence of an explosive atmosphere. The system monitors and dilutes any hydrogen gas present with clean air, by creating a differential pressure between the inside and outside using ventilation. The amount of hydrogen in the atmosphere will be kept beneath the dangerous LEL level (Lower Explosion Limit) and will be monitored with H2 meters.
In consultation with the customer, the amount of oxygen will also be monitored, to ensure a safe working environment for the process operators who will be visiting the container on a daily base.
The ventilation system automatically adjusts the air inlet when a dangerous concentration of hydrogen or nitrogen will be measured. The signalling and communication of the gas chromatograph as well as the safety system are managed by the DCS system.
In this project Electromach was responsible for the engineering and production of the complete container assembly, containing the ATEX HVAC and ventilation unit, installation of the gas chromatograph and the associated process sample conditioning units outside the container and the Exde control panes.

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text: Minnesota's Corn Crop Might Fall Short of Last Year's August 2, 2013 12:46 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Fran Howard AgWeb Contributing Writer Email Wet weather, late planting and an armyworm infestation are just a few of the problems that have plagued the North Star State. Minnesota's corn crop appears to have taken the brunt of this year's abnormally cool, wet weather. Last year, the state produced the largest corn crop in state history, at 1.37 billion bushels on an average yield of 165 bushels per acre. Whether Minnesota producers can best that production this year is uncertain. "There's a lot of variability in the corn crop across Minnesota," says Dan Martens, University of Minnesota extension educator for Benton County in central Minnesota. Persistent and consistent rainfall this spring led to late planting, replanting, and soil compaction, he says. "Corn planting in Minnesota occurred from the first week of May through July 8," notes Martens. While cash-crop producers finished planting in time to meet insurance requirements, beef and dairy farms continued to plant into July, hoping to get silage. According to USDA's latest Crop Progress report, only 60 percent of Minnesota's corn was silking as of July 28, compared with 98 percent last year at this time and a five-year average of 71 percent. Condition ratings, however, were positive, with only 8 percent of the state's corn crop rated poor or very poor. "In Benton County, some corn is barely a foot tall," Martens adds. "An early frost could be a huge issue this year." For corn planted between June 15 and July 5, even a frost that occurs near the average first-frost date could cause widespread damage to the crop, he adds. March of the Armyworms Adding to the state's problems, an armyworm infestation moved across a wide arc of cropland, stretching from southeastern South Dakota to southeastern Minnesota in July. The worms caused scattered but widespread damage, reducing some cornfields to stubble. Armyworms, which are uncommon in Minnesota, survive best in cool, wet springs like the one the state had this year. "It's probably been 10 years for more since we've seen an outbreak like this year's," says Bruce Potter, a University of Minnesota extension entomologist at the Southwest Research and Outreach Center in Lamberton. "Fields that were heavily infested were totally defoliated." That said, the number of severely infested fields was relatively low. "The armyworms are the least of the problem," says Potter. Late planting, washed out fields, and now excessive dryness in southwestern Minnesota are much larger issues. Despite the adversity, the Minnesota corn crop could produce an average yield close to last year's or even higher, says Jeff Coulter, agronomist with the University of Minnesota, Saint Paul. "It has been so cool that the crop is using very little water," says Coulter. But some areas of the state, including the southwestern portion, need timely rains within the next seven to 10 days if they are to achieve their potential yields, he adds. Back to news


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Dreadator from The New Adventures would fit in well with the Classic mold. So What does the Org think? I know i've been putting alot of New Adventure topics up lately, it's mainly cause i've been marathoning the series the last couple of days.
Dreadator from The New Adventures would fit in well with the Classic mold. So What does the Org think? I know i've been putting alot of New Adventure topics up lately, it's mainly cause i've been marathoning the series the last couple of days.
I can't remember him, any pics of him at all?
Thanks Mike i was having difficulty finding a good pic of him.
You're welcome man.
I love this character. He is essentially the Predator with a different look but hey who cares? he is cool.
He-Man put Gepple's goo to good use in this episode.
I likes!!
I am going to have to rewatch all these episodes, I have not seen them for well over 10 years, and I did enjoy them.
Blimey, come to think of it, it might even be over 15 years!
I don't think I've seen this episode, but I like his look! I'll take one!
MOTUC Most Wanted: Skeleteen, Prince Keldor, Captain Randor, The Great Black Wizard, Lady Slither, Spirit, Tuvar, Baddra, Cursed Marzo, Tug-O-War, Scrollos, Songster, Mini-Comics Spirit of Castle Grayskull, and for the love of the Sorceress and Julie Winston, ODIPHUS!!!
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this guy would be so easy to make essential all that is needed is a new head. The armor is essentially Skeletor's, the skirt piece is Horde Primes, and thats all he really is
I don't remember him... But why not?
With so many important NA characters still missing (Hydron, NA Skeletor, Flogg, Mara....) I doubt we'll see him anytimesoon though!
10 Most needed items for MOTUC...
Heroic: King Miro / Prince Dakon
Evil: Skeleteen
POP: King Micah / Twiggets 3 pack
Horde: Hunga the Harpy
POG: Oracle, Sharella
NA: Sebrian / Sagitar
Dreadator ? Not before 2017, thank you !
Only after Crackers the clown. Which would translate to never.
One purple turd deserves another.
Yes please!
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A one time use character to me.
Skeleton-Warriors, Ra-Jar, Spinwit, Rock Golem, General Tartaran, Hawke, Slob-Boar, King Agho, Hunga the Harpy, Sh'gora, Masks of Power Demons, Nocturna, Lizzor, Sagitar, Crimson Fury, Lodar, Vizar, Angast, Negator, King Miro, Melaktha, Crystal-Man, ABC Giants, Stridor, Road Ripper, Land Shark
Yes I would like to add him to my collection for sure.
Sure. He looks he would make for a cool figure.
He'd be an easy/cheap character to make. The only real new parts would be his head sculpt and new armor. Everything else could be reused. Maybe they could do like a phasing/half clear Dreadator! Without the exploding crotch of course.
Yes! The episode he was in is one of my favourites.
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I feel that this guy doesn't get a fair shake simply because he was part of NA, but it's clear from his design that he would have fit in perfectly with the vintage toy line as an evil warrior, and I bet that if he had been made back then that he would be hugely popular. It's a shame really.


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Wildlife conservation and preservation is the center of my universe. My work for NWHS and 20+ years of wildlife rescue/sanctuary has always been 100% voluntary. I have actually spent up to half my job income most years, making the sanctuary and NWHS become a reality.
It is the wildlife and wild places that are this Earth's true reality. Humans will never improve on this reality. At best we can only maintain it, or worse, destroy it. Biologists agree that removing too many wild species (or the wrong ones) would bring about the end of the human race. How's that for reality?
The problem is, we don't know how many (or which ones) of the wild species we can remove before we bring about our own demise, yet we play dice with their existence (and consequently our own). Considering the loss of wildlife could mean the end of the human race, what problem is more important? All human problems would seem rather moot, if there were no more humans. Right?
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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO — A man spraying weed killer at a parking lot for San Francisco International Airport last year drowned after falling through rotten plywood and into a water-filled pit, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in San Mateo County Superior Court.
His family discovered 63-year-old Jean Arbelbide's body in a nine-foot-deep hole a couple days after he went to work at the Park SFO lot and never came home, the suit says. The family claims South San Francisco, which owns the property, and the people who run the parking lot didn't warn about or protect the public from the danger.
The attorney for the family says it appears the history of the site on North Access Road, minutes north of the airport, played a role in the death of Arbelbide. The self-employed gardener, who lived in San Bruno, apparently fell into a leftover bit of infrastructure from when the area was used as a ship dock, Alameda-based attorney Thomas Lewellyn said.
"I'm sure it was a very frightening way to go," he added.
South San Francisco City Attorney Steve Mattas said Arbelbide's death was a terrible accident, but the city wasn't responsible. Mattas said the tenant's are liable, under the terms of the lease, for the maintenance of the property. Attempts to reach Robert E. Simms, who the suit says operates the lot, were unsuccessful.
Arbelbide went to work at the lot the morning of March 29, but when he didn't come home his family reported him missing, police said. The family found his car at the lot and then later discovered his body in the pit about two days after he disappeared.
He was still wearing the 30-40 pounds worth of spraying equipment on his back when found, police said. The coroner ruled his death a drowning.
Lewellyn is still researching the case, but he said it appears the pit Arbelbide fell into was part of a structure used to block off the water coming into the docks. Once stopped up, work could be performed on a boat, he added.
Arbelbide, who didn't have any children, was originally from France's Basque country and lived in San Mateo County more than 40 years. He was to be sent home to France for burial, according to his obituary.
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If China's growth is subsidized at all, it's surely subsidized by the amount of goods we buy from them.
But they are a growing competitor with the United States and clearly want to control Asia and the Pacific.
Meanwhile, we have a border problem with Mexico, another country with a lot of impoverished citizens. If we're going to do a lot of trade with a country, Mexico makes a lot more sense than China. Improving their economy could eventually totally eliminate the problem of undocumented "illegal" workers coming across the border for work.
Yet, I hear neither candidate promoting this idea? Why don't they?
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While admittedly, I'm not the economist that you impressively appear to be, but I suspected as much.
I agree, and 'ballooning capitalism' is one of the best terms I've heard. I used to just call it a bubble. Bubbles and balloons both pop. My point wasn't in argument to yours, but that the only way to prevent such problems is for people to educate themselves about it, and tweak the system (by law) to work better. For example, require more transparency in accounting practices, so that the average investor (at least) isn't duped so easily into giving away their money to big-time opportunists. (The failed mortgage market was certainly a factor, but the players in the mortgage business took their profits back to their mansions while Fox News focused on ACORN.)
Another way to put this is that our ignorant population and its electorate have now enabled China to play the game the way they want to--or at least the way their government wants to, as we lose our capital to them.
Unseen, it may have something to do with the volume and quality of produce available from China. China also has some very large and efficient ports with which to ship their produce. As far as I am aware, no where else in the world is able to keep pace with China's production.
On the other hand, you are right... Mexico would be a far better place for American dollars to be going.
Yes, at least trying to keep the capital and profit (and production) nearby or local is a good goal. That's also what I say to people complaining about subsidizing methanol production from American corn. It's kind of a boondoggle, but it's still better than sending that money and power to overseas petrol producers and their rulers.
"On the other hand, you are right... Mexico would be a far better place for American dollars to be going."
Mexico as a manufacturing behemoth won't ever happen. I don't believe they have the abundance of natural resources, namely coal, to keep the factories belching out stack pollution 24/7 like China does. It would be bothersome to have a country such as China, with no regard for environmental impact, next door to us. People in New England can tell you all about the effects of acid rain.
You know, I'm trying to decide if you are serious or not here. You live in a country that is under the pressure of unprecedented debt, losing your first world credit rating, and now hitch hiking for a space program - yet you keep going on as though other nations owe you cheap labour. If the U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of coal, and has all the 'know how' to just whip up some factories - then how about you guys make your own shit and give your own people some jobs?
China also partly funds the Australian economy with all the raw materials they buy off us. It would only add to the shipping costs to have to ship that stuff to Mexico instead (thereby raising the prices of Mexico produced goods).
In god we trust indeed, lol!
Yes the doG has one large bill coming due one day. I sure hope he has deep pockets, we certainly don't have it. :(
Let us pray. LOL


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Memories of last season's meeting with Presbyterian College were anything but sweet for the Lipscomb Lady Bisons soccer team.
While they were not able to avenge last year's 6-0 loss to Presbyterian with a victory Friday night, they did hold on for a 2-0 loss with a depleted roster playing on a soggy field at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex.
"We were out-shot 30-2 by them last season," said second-year Lipscomb coach Jon Ireland. "Last year we didn't have a chance against them."
This time around the Lady Bisons held Presbyterian to 29 shots, 10 shots on goal. The Lady Bisons attempted 12 shots, with seven shots on goal.
It was the first win in four games for Presbyterian.
"Our players have held up well," Ireland said. "Defensively we are a lot more organized in terms of limiting shots. A lot of the shots we are giving up are from far out.
"We have been stressing not giving up quality shots. We have been able to fight until the end."
The Lady Bisons have been without some key players for various reasons. They have lost all three games they have played, but Ireland has been pleased with the effort.
"We played 11 players for 90 minutes," Ireland said. "That is the second time this season we have only played 11. I'm very excited about the progress we have made in three games with the roster we have had."
Alicia Keel gave Presbyterian a 1-0 lead at 27:43 of the first half. Lytle Cannon, who assisted on Keel's goal, scored an unassisted goal at 86:40.
Sarah Brummett, filling in as goaltender in the first three games, stopped seven shots. The team was credited with an additional save.
Sophomore forward Kate Spellman led the Lady Bisons with four shots, including one shot on goal. Freshman midfielder Danielle Bethke and sophomore forward Leah Scruggs each had two shots on goal.
"Kate Spellman played incredibly well," said Ireland. "She was basically our offense in terms of creating everything we had. She has done well in all three games."
Ireland also had praise for Bethke and her freshman teammates - defender April Horner, forward Meghan McGuire and forward Kirsten Heikkinen.
"Those four freshmen have played 90 minutes in all three games," Ireland said. "They have all done very well considering they have been thrown into everything quickly. They really stepped up."
Sunday afternoon at 2 the Lady Bisons will play host to Tennessee-Chattanooga at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex. Ireland expects several players to be back on the field, providing more depth.
"Chattanooga: has their whole team coming back from last season," Ireland said. "They have also added some new and talented players.
"One of the things we have talked about is giving ourselves a chance. In every single game we have given ourselves a chance. We'll go out against Chattanooga and see what happens."


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RALEIGH � Eric Staal�s hat trick was the final touch on an offensive outburst for the Carolina Hurricanes.
The Hurricanes, who managed a total of two goals across their first two games, scored four times in a span of barely more than 13 minutes of the second period in a 6-3 victory against the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday night at PNC Arena.
Jeff Skinner scored two goals as the Hurricanes won for the first time this season. Staal�s empty-net goal with 1:28 left gave him his third goal.
The Sabres (2-1), who were attempting to start a season with a 3-0 record for the fifth time in franchise history, received two goals from Jason Pominville.
Carolina goalie Cam Ward stopped 30 shots.
Skinner scored 62 seconds into the second period, giving the Hurricanes (1-2) a lead for the first time this season. About three minutes later, the Hurricanes went end-to-end with defenseman Justin Faulk scoring in transition for a shorthanded tally.
After Pominville�s redirect of Christian Ehrhoff�s blast tied the score, Skinner and Eric Staal scored in a nine-second span and Carolina had its two-goal edge back.
It had been six-plus years since the Hurricanes notched two goals within nine seconds.


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Bachelor's degree from Oral Roberts University; Graduate studies at Regent University and the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver.
Professional background:
Since joining Colorado Public Radio in 2006, Jim has held positions in on-air fundraising, membership and development. He was named senior vice president of development in January 2015.
Jim's career in radio spans more than three decades. He's held a variety of positions at stations with diverse formats including, news/talk, religious, top 40 and public radio stations. His first job in radio was at WOLC in Princess Anne, Maryland in 1979. Throughout the 1980's and early 1990's, Jim worked at KWON, KRMG, KXOJ, and also spent a year as a national news host for StandardNews in Virginia Beach before returning to WOLC as general manager in 1993.
Jim first ventured into public radio as associate general manager at Boise State Radio in 2001. He spent five years there before moving to Colorado to serve as CPR's on-air fundraising manager. Jim was promoted to membership director in 2007 and currently oversees the membership and underwriting departments, and supports CPR's philanthropic giving initiatives.


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HIV infection cure? Was told on CNN. What do you think? Mommy of three. (BERLIN PATIENT, 2010) (TIMOTHY BROWN, THE BERLIN PATIENT, 2010)
Hello my beloved Dr. Bob. I hope you are feeling wonderfully. I am writing because I came upon this article today on CNN's news page. I think I know you enough to figure out what you think about it, but truly want to hear all you have to say about it. I send you now as always, much love from your sister,
HIV infection cure? Sorry. Forgot to attach article. Mommy of three. (Submitted Dec 15, 2010)
Researchers report possible HIV infection cure; others cite dangersBy Tom Watkins, CNN December 14, 2010 10:46 p.m. EST
Demonstrators march in Vienna, Austria, as part of the 18th International AIDS Conference on July 20, 2010.STORY HIGHLIGHTS A Berlin man has been off anti-AIDS medication for 3-1/2 years But the stem-cell transplant credited for ridding him of HIV is costly, dangerous "This is probably a cure, but it comes at a bit of a price," says one AIDS doctor (CNN) -- Researchers in Germany are reporting that they may have cured a man of HIV infection. If true, that would represent a scientific advance, but not necessarily a treatment advance, said researchers familiar with the work.
In the study, published last week online in the journal Blood, researchers at Charite-University Medicine Berlin treated an HIV-infected man who also had acute myeloid leukemia -- a cancer of the immune system -- by wiping out his own immune system with high-dose chemotherapy and radiation and giving him a stem-cell transplant. Stem cells are immature cells that can mature into blood cells.
At the time of the transplant, which occurred in February 2007, he stopped taking anti-HIV medications.
Thirteen months later, after a relapse of the leukemia, he underwent a second round of treatment followed by another stem-cell transplant from the same donor.
The donor's stem cells contained a rare, inherited gene mutation that made them naturally resistant to infection with HIV, according to the authors, led by Kristina Allers, who hypothesized that HIV would nevertheless rebound over time. But that has not happened.
After three-and-a-half years off of anti-HIV drugs, the patient shows no sign of either leukemia or HIV replication and his immune system has been restored to normal health, the researchers reported, concluding, "our results strongly suggest that cure of HIV has been achieved in this patient."
But AIDS researchers predicted the report will have little impact on practice.
"This probably is a cure, but it comes at a bit of a price," said Dr. Michael Saag, professor of medicine and director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham AIDS Center.
"For him to receive the donor cells, his body had to have all of his immune system wiped out" and then receive a bone marrow transplant, Saag noted. "The Catch-22 here is that the best candidates for a cure, ideally, are people who are healthy" and don't have leukemia.
The treatment associated with wiping out the immune system "is very hazardous," he said in a telephone interview.
"Even if somebody doesn't die from a transplant, there are complications that make it very unpleasant for people to live with," he said, citing graft-versus-host disease, where the infused donor cells attack the body. In a number of cases, the transplant proves fatal.
The study is a proof of the concept "that our understanding of HIV biology is correct, and that if you eliminate -- not just in theory but in practice -- all of the cells in the body that are producing HIV and replace them with uninfected cells, you have a cure," Saag said.
But remaining infected with HIV is not always associated with the same grim outcome that was the norm prior to the mid-1990s, when more effective anti-HIV drugs were developed, he said.
"We can keep people alive for a normal life span," he said. "That means a 25-year-old diagnosed today with HIV has a reasonably good chance of living to 80, 85, 90."
Further limiting the treatment's potential appeal is the fact that it could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for each patient who gets it, he said.
"It's not going to be applicable unless they develop leukemia or lymphoma and need a bone-marrow transplant,"Saag said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, called it impractical. "It's hard enough to get a good compatible match for a transplant like this," he said in a statement. "But you also have to find (a) compatible donor that has this genetic defect, and this defect is only found in 1% of the Caucasian population and 0% of the black population. This is very rare."
But HIV itself is not. According to the World Health Organization, 33.4 million people worldwide have the virus that causes AIDS.
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Happy Healthy Holidays to you and yours.
Dr. Bob
Doctors in Berlin claim to have found a "cure" for HIV (BERLIN PATIENT, 2010) (TIMOTHY BROWN, THE BERLIN PATIENT, 2010) Dec 18, 2010
Hi Dr. Bob.
I was on the internet and ran across this article:http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1577949/ I was wondering what you think about its potential and whether you think it holds up scientifically. I'm currently in medical school and am amazed by HIV. This also makes me hopeful because I exposed myself to HIV through unprotected heterosexual vaginal sex (I'm the guy) and am getting tested today. I have a very bad feeling but this has made me hopeful that even if I am infected a cure may be found in my lifetime.
Take care and hope you are in good health!!
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We have been following the story of "The Berlin Patient" for a number of years. Due to a recent publication in the medical journal "Blood," the story has resurfaced with great fanfare. So it's time for an update on not only what happened, but also on what it all means. You asked if I thought the story "holds up scientifically." Yes, it does, but most people don't understand the whole story or it's potential relevance. Consequently, let me recap briefly.
Timothy Brown is an American with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who was treated at the Charite-University Medicine Berlin in 2007. Mr. Brown developed leukemia after having been diagnosed HIV positive. Talk about bad luck! But his luck then changed big time! The treatment for AML involves chemotherapy, radiation therapy and stem-cell transplants. In essence the doctors needed to completely wipe out Mr. Brown's existing immune system and attempt to reconstitute it from scratch using donor stem cells. This is a very dangerous procedure with a significant morbidity and mortality rate. It's also incredibly expensive -- hundreds of thousands of dollars! (And that's if all goes well).
So how does this relate to an HIV "cure"? Glad you asked. This part gets a bit confusing, so pay attention. HIV needs certain receptors on cells in order to gain access to and infect immune cells. The most common type of receptor is termed "CCR5." If a cell doesn't have a CCR5 receptor, HIV viruses that require this receptor are essentially locked out. Put another way, the person lacking CCR5 receptor is immune to HIV virus requiring CCR5 to gain access and infect immune cells. A very small portion of the general population is lucky enough to have a mutation of the CCR5 gene that they inherited from both their parents (homozygous). Timothy Brown received a stem-cell donation from a donor who had the mutation and luckily his stem-cell transplant was eventually successful. (He had a relapse of his leukemia 13 months after the initial treatment and required a second round of treatment including another stem-cell transplant from the same donor.) As his new immune system grew, it too had the CCR5 mutation. Consequently, HIV-requiring CCR5 couldn't enter or infect new cells. Mr. Brown has now been off antiretroviral drugs for 3.5 years and shows no sign of HIV. It's an amazing story. But before you decide to fly to Berlin and ask for the same treatment, it's important to realize the following:
Not all HIV viruses require CCR5 to infect cells. Some viruses use an entirely different receptor (CXCR4).
Wiping out your immune system is extremely dangerous carries a significant risk that you could wind up dead as a doornail. It only makes sense when you have a disease like acute myeloid leukemia, which is already killing you quite rapidly.
Most folks do not have several hundred thousand dollars lying around, unless they're among the top 1% of Americans who will benefit from extending the Bush tax breaks for gazillionaires.
Finding someone with the delta 32 mutation that blocks CCR5 viruses from entering cells is extremely difficult. According to Tony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, only 1% of Caucasians and 0% of blacks have the mutation. Plus, you would need to find not only a donor with the mutation, but also a donor that was a "match" for you (immunologically compatible).
The bottom line is that this treatment will never be ready for prime time. It may, however, open new doors into research toward a cure that could. As always, we'll keep you posted as this story continues to evolve.
Dr. Bob
Possibility of a Cure? Dec 31, 2008
Greetings Dr. Bob!
I am a long time reader and I so much enjoy your creative literary style as much as the wealth of information that you provide. Through your efforts, I personally graduated from being a worried well to an informed and confident person. I did wish to ask a question, and I know that you have undoubtedly been inundated with emails (as usual) with this topic especially. I read about the discovery buy the German Oncologist back in November, that some have called a cure for AIDS. I was overwhelmed with joy to hear this extremely promising news. From what I read in all the reports (if you can believe them all) have indicated that proper scientific methods were observed throughout this process.
I understand that this does not constitute a cure; however, it does appear to be very promising.
I would love to hear your wisdom and insight into this particular issue, and I would like to understand what we know about this particular genetic resistance to HIV?
Warmest Regards, Tom
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hi Tom,
I've discussed both the delta 32 mutation (genetic mutation that leads to some degree of HIV immunity) and the recent bone marrow transplantation "cure" multiple times in this forum. Check the archives! I'll reprint below a sample of what can be found in the archives.
Happy Holidays.
Dr. Bob
Dr Bob,check this out!!! Nov 14, 2008
a german doctor cured hiv positive american living in berlin http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7726118.stm
Response from Dr. Frascino
This really is a fascinating and highly unusual case. Hopefully it will lead to a resurgence of interest in gene therapy and other efforts aimed at a cure. The particular treatment the Berlin patient underwent would be appropriate for only very few highly selected individuals. The procedure also carries significant risks, including a 30% chance of death. Plus, there may well be unanticipated short- and long-term consequences from the treatment.
I'll print some additional information below. I'll also continue to follow this story as it evolves and report back any promising findings.
Be well.
Dr. Bob
NOVEMBER 7, 2008 A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS A Bone Marrow Transplant to Treat a Leukemia Patient Also Gives Him Virus-Resistant Cells; Many Thanks, Sample 61By MARK SCHOOFSArticle Comments more in Health (See Corrections & Amplifications item below.) The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on the far edges of AIDS research might someday cure the disease. The patient, a 42-year-old American living in Berlin, is still recovering from his leukemia therapy, but he appears to have won his battle with AIDS. Doctors have not been able to detect the virus in his blood for more than 600 days, despite his having ceased all conventional AIDS medication. Normally when a patient stops taking AIDS drugs, the virus stampedes through the body within weeks, or days.
Sixten Koerper Dr. Gero Hütter isn't an AIDS specialist, but he 'functionally cured' a patient, who shows no sign of the disease. "I was very surprised," said the doctor, Gero Hütter. The breakthrough appears to be that Dr. Hütter, a soft-spoken hematologist who isn't an AIDS specialist, deliberately replaced the patient's bone marrow cells with those from a donor who has a naturally occurring genetic mutation that renders his cells immune to almost all strains of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The development suggests a potential new therapeutic avenue and comes as the search for a cure has adopted new urgency. Many fear that current AIDS drugs aren't sustainable. Known as antiretrovirals, the medications prevent the virus from replicating but must be taken every day for life and are expensive for poor countries where the disease runs rampant. Last year, AIDS killed two million people; 2.7 million more contracted the virus, so treatment costs will keep ballooning. While cautioning that the Berlin case could be a fluke, David Baltimore, who won a Nobel prize for his research on tumor viruses, deemed it "a very good sign" and a virtual "proof of principle" for gene-therapy approaches. Dr. Baltimore and his colleague, University of California at Los Angeles researcher Irvin Chen, have developed a gene therapy strategy against HIV that works in a similar way to the Berlin case. Drs. Baltimore and Chen have formed a private company to develop the therapy. Back in 1996, when "cocktails" of antiretroviral drugs were proved effective, some researchers proposed that all cells harboring HIV might eventually die off, leading to eradication of HIV from the body -- in short, a cure. Those hopes foundered on the discovery that HIV, which integrates itself into a patient's own DNA, hides in so-called "sanctuary cells," where it lies dormant yet remains capable of reigniting an infection. But that same year, researchers discovered that some gay men astonishingly remained uninfected despite engaging in very risky sex with as many as hundreds of partners. These men had inherited a mutation from both their parents that made them virtually immune to HIV. The mutation prevents a molecule called CCR5 from appearing on the surface of cells. CCR5 acts as a kind of door for the virus. Since most HIV strains must bind to CCR5 to enter cells, the mutation bars the virus from entering. A new AIDS drug, Selzentry, made by Pfizer Inc., doesn't attack HIV itself but works by blocking CCR5. About 1% of Europeans, and even more in northern Europe, inherit the CCR5 mutation from both parents. People of African, Asian and South American descent almost never carry it. Dr. Hütter, 39, remembered this research when his American leukemia patient failed first-line chemotherapy in 2006. He was treating the patient at Berlin's Charité Medical University, the same institution where German physician Robert Koch performed some of his groundbreaking research on infectious diseases in the 19th century. Dr. Hütter scoured research on CCR5 and consulted with his superiors. Finally, he recommended standard second-line treatment: a bone marrow transplant -- but from a donor who had inherited the CCR5 mutation from both parents. Bone marrow is where immune-system cells are generated, so transplanting mutant bone-marrow cells would render the patient immune to HIV into perpetuity, at least in theory. There were a total of 80 compatible blood donors living in Germany. Luckily, on the 61st sample he tested, Dr. Hütter's colleague Daniel Nowak found one with the mutation from both parents. To prepare for the transplant, Dr. Hütter first administered a standard regimen of powerful drugs and radiation to kill the patient's own bone marrow cells and many immune-system cells. This procedure, lethal to many cells that harbor HIV, may have helped the treatment succeed. The transplant specialists ordered the patient to stop taking his AIDS drugs when they transfused the donor cells, because they feared the powerful drugs might undermine the cells' ability to survive in their new host. They planned to resume the drugs once HIV re-emerged in the blood. But it never did. Nearly two years later, standard tests haven't detected virus in his blood, or in the brain and rectal tissues where it often hides. The case was presented to scientists earlier this year at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. In September, the nonprofit Foundation for AIDS Research, or amFAR, convened a small scientific meeting on the case. Most researchers there believed some HIV still lurks in the patient but that it can't ignite a raging infection, most likely because its target cells are invulnerable mutants. The scientists agreed that the patient is "functionally cured." Caveats are legion. If enough time passes, the extraordinarily protean HIV might evolve to overcome the mutant cells' invulnerability. Blocking CCR5 might have side effects: A study suggests that people with the mutation are more likely to die from West Nile virus. Most worrisome: The transplant treatment itself, given only to late-stage cancer patients, kills up to 30% of patients. While scientists are drawing up research protocols to try this approach on other leukemia and lymphoma patients, they know it will never be widely used to treat AIDS because of the mortality risk. There is a potentially safer alternative: Re-engineering a patient's own cells through gene therapy. Due to some disastrous failures, gene therapy now "has a bad name," says Dr. Baltimore. In 1999, an 18-year-old patient died in a gene therapy trial. Even one of gene therapy's greatest successes -- curing children of the inherited "bubble boy" disease -- came at the high price of causing some patients to develop leukemia. Gene therapy also faces daunting technical challenges. For example, the therapeutic genes are carried to cells by re-engineered viruses, and they must be made perfectly safe. Also, most gene therapy currently works by removing cells, genetically modifying them out of the body, then transfusing them back in -- a complicated procedure that would prove too expensive for the developing world. Dr. Baltimore and others are working on therapeutic viruses they could inject into a patient as easily as a flu vaccine. But, he says, "we're a long way from that." Expecting that gene therapy will eventually play a major role in medicine, several research groups are testing different approaches for AIDS. At City of Hope cancer center in Duarte, Calif., John Rossi and colleagues actually use HIV itself, genetically engineered to be harmless, to deliver to patients' white blood cells three genes: one that inactivates CCR5 and two others that disable HIV. He has already completed the procedure on four patients and may perform it on another. One big hurdle: doctors can't yet genetically modify all target cells. In theory, HIV would kill off the susceptible ones and, a victim of its own grim success, be left only with the genetically engineered cells that it can't infect. But so far that's just theory. All Dr. Rossi's patients remain on standard AIDS drugs, so it isn't yet known what would happen if they stopped taking them. In 1989, Dr. Rossi had a case eerily similar to the one in Berlin. A 41-year-old patient with AIDS and lymphoma underwent radiation and drug therapy to ablate his bone marrow and received new cells from a donor. It is not known if those cells had the protective CCR5 mutation, because its relation to HIV hadn't been discovered yet. But after the transplant, HIV disappeared from the patient's blood. The patient died of his cancer 47 days after the procedure. Autopsy tests from eight organs and the tumor revealed no HIV. Write to Mark Schoofs at firstname.lastname@example.com Corrections & Amplifications The Foundation for AIDS Research, which uses the acronym amFAR, is the name of the nonprofit group cited in this article. The name of the group was incorrectly given as the American Foundation for AIDS Research.
bone marrow transplant??? Nov 14, 2008
Hi Doctor,
My boyfriend just showed me this article http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-11-12-aids-cure_N.htm Is this possible true? what do you think about it?
Response from Dr. Frascino
The elusive search for an HIV/AIDS cure has been replete with disappointments over the past 27 years. However, the holy grail of viral eradication ("cure") must remain our ultimate goal. The case report of a 42-year-old American living in Berlin who appears to have had a "functional cure" of his HIV by undergoing a bone marrow transplant for his leukemia may well point the way to new avenues of research aimed at a cure. However, it's worth noting that in 2007 there was a case report of an HIV-positive French man who underwent bone marrow transplantation to treat leukemia and subsequently had an undetectable HIV plasma viral load. His HIV unfortunately rebounded when he briefly stopped taking his HIV meds after the transplant. The young man died when his body rejected the transplanted bone marrow one of the several serious risks associated with bone marrow transplantation. My take on all this is very cautious optimism: I'm hopeful that gene therapy will eventually become a safe and effective therapy.
Dr. Bob
Had unprotected sex with a guy who has ccr5 delta 32 (DELTA 32) Oct 13, 2008
Last night I had unprotected sex with a guy who claims that he has ccr5 delta 32 and got a negative HIV test recently. I'm worried about it as his ex is positive. My question is do people who have ccr5 delta32 carry HIV? Is the risk of me getting HIV low? Shall I take pep or go to get a test? Thanks a lot!!
Response from Dr. Frascino
Even if a guy strapped a lie detector on his Mr. Happy, I wouldn't believe claims that unsafe sex is not risky, because your partner states he's "delta 32." I'll reprint below some information from the archives pertaining to delta 32.
Your HIV-acquisition risk should be considered the same as that of anyone else who elected to have unprotected sex. PEP would only be recommended if your partner was confirmed to be HIV positive (or strongly suspected of being HIV positive) and if you had a significant exposure. I can't tell from your question what type of "unprotected sex" you had with Delta-Dude, but I doubt PEP would be warranted. Testing, however, at the three-month mark is warranted. I urge you to reconsider your decision to place yourself at risk for STDs, including HIV, by barebacking.
Be safe. Be well.
Dr. Bob
No HIV in 8 years (DELTA 32) Nov 1, 2007
To Whom It May Concern:
Thank you for your time in reading this. I am writing to ask a question. A good friend of mine is a homosexual male. I have personal knowledge that my friend has had receptive anal sex with over 1,500 men over the past 8 years. My friend frequents hot spots in local parks and public restrooms, and finds sexual partners on the internet. According to my friend (and I find this information credible), over 90% of his sexual encounters were unprotected and most of these men have ejaculated into his rectum. Some of the men who have ejaculated in my friends rectum are HIV positive.
Notwithstanding the fact that my friend has had unprotected sex with this many men, a recent HIV test was negative.
Having had unprotected anal sex this many times and with some known HIV-positive men, why hasnt my friend become HIV positive? Is there anyone, perhaps a research institute, who would be interested in a blood sample of my friend for further analysis? It seems like somebody would be collecting this type of data.
Thank you so much in advance for your response,
Concerned with finding a cure as fast as possible
Response from Dr. Frascino
Thanks for your post and interest in helping to find a cure as fast as possible.
If your story about your friend is indeed accurate, he is one lucky boy. He's also a boy with significant psychological issues who is courting disaster with his self-destructive and irresponsible behavior. I'm quite amazed he found 1,350 guys (90% of 1,500) willing to have unprotected anal sex with him. Is he a closeted Republican Congressman or clueless rightwing religious zealot perchance? Oh, never mind. Is it possible he could have avoided infection, despite his activities at the hot spots? Yes, it is. Not every HIV exposure leads to HIV infection. Thankfully! Your friend might even have some genetic predisposition against HIV infection. (See below.) The bottom line, however, is that he's putting his bottom at risk with every unprotected poke he gets and sooner or later he's going to lose the STD/HIV sexual Russian roulette game big time. My advice is that you try to convince your good friend he needs help. We don't need his blood, but he definitely needs counseling and a change in behavior ASAP.
Dr. Bob
HIV+ Resistant Sep 12, 2007
Dear Bob,
Six month after he left me, My boyfriend send me a letter to tell me he had been tested positive and had developped aids. We had been together for two and a half years. We had unprotected sex many times, almost daly. He thinks he was infected throughout our relationship. I received loads from him in my mouth as much as in my ass. I got tested when I received his letter and was diagnosed negative. I got tested every year since then and still negative. It has been five years now and I have had other relationship with many partners. Is it possible that I am immune against the virus. That my body is protected against it. Is there a test we can take to see if our immune system can fight the virus on its own. If so where can I take such a test. I live near Montreal in Quebec, Canada. Thanks for your time. Cheers, Eric
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hello Eric,
Are you immune to HIV? No, most likely not. What you are is damn lucky! I urge you not to push your luck by assuming you are immune. That's playing sexual Russian roulette and ultimately you will lose.
I will reprint below some information from the archives concerning the Delta 32 mutation. This is an evolving story. Even with the mutation you would not be immune to all types of HIV.
Stay safe. Stay well.
Dr. Bob
delta 32 Mar 17, 2007
Dr. Bob ...
I think I may have heard everything now! So, I'm on Craigslist just 'poking' around and I see this guy who wants to have sex - but, he only does it bb. Now, here is where it gets wacky! He's HIV Negative and says, "I just got tested in January, but, I just do that so guys will know the right answer. I don't worry about HIV ... I'm delta 32."
What does that mean? I went to a link, that he provided, and it talked about smallpox, and the plague.
What gives? Is this guy a bit crazy or is he really "safe?"
Can you shed some light, my friend?? :)
Thanks!! Oh and P.S., I thought I found Prince Charming ... But, it wasn't him! I'm still looking! You have any cute friends in Orange County?
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hey QS,
So you were poking around Craigslist looking for some poking?
Delta 32 is a bit complex to explain, but I'll give it a shot. First, some background. HIV can only infect certain cells that have specific "receptors" on their surface that allow HIV to enter. HIV attaches to CD4 receptors. However, CD4 alone isn't enough for viral entry. Another protein called CCR5 is also needed. CCR5 is called a co-receptor. Some folks have a mutation in the CCR5 gene called CCR5-delta 32 mutation. This mutation changes the configuration of the CCR5 protein such that HIV cannot bind to it. Genes, of course, are inherited. If you inherit a CCR5-delta 32 gene mutation from both parents, your chances of becoming HIV infected are dramatically reduced. This occurs in about 1-3% of Caucasians. If you inherit one CCR5-delta 32 mutation (from just one parent), it will confer some protection against acquiring HIV and may make HIV disease less severe if you do become infected. Current estimates are that 10-25% of Caucasians may have a single CCR5-delta 32 mutation.
So should Craigslist Delta-32 Boy "not worry" about HIV? Absofrickinlutely NOT! It is downright dangerous to assume you are safe if you have the CCR5-delta 32 mutation. It is not a guarantee of HIV immunity. HIV is much too smart for that. Some strains of HIV use proteins other than CCR5 as co-receptors to enter CD4 cells.
As for the bubonic plague (Black Death) and smallpox link, it appears that the CCR5-delta 32 mutation may have arisen to protect folks in Europe from these illnesses. The mutation affords protection from these ailments and could have arisen via an evolutionary process. (Yes, right-wing religious wing-nuts, evolution does indeed exist!)
So if you happen to hook up with Delta-32 Boy, you might want to give him a science lesson along with his poke.
Finally, hotties in Orange County? Sure, I know some Prince Charmings in that zip code, but unfortunately none are currently single. So I guess you'll just have to continue kissing those toads until your prince arrives.
Good luck.
Dr. Bob


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Insulation from public pressure leads to more accurate suicide reporting by death investigators
Medical examiners and appointed coroners are less likely to under-report suicides than are elected coroners, that's according to a new study from Temple University. Many of us view suicide as an intensely private and personal act and commonly seek to explain it by focusing on the mental and emotional health of the individual. However, because suicides tend to cluster in specific populations and places, sociologists are very interested in how social contexts can affect a person's propensity to commit suicide.
In order to examine those social contexts, however, researchers must rely on official death reporting. "Mortality statistics are crucial because they tell us not just about how people die, but how they lived. To understand the social determinants of health and well-being at the community level, we need to be confident that area-level mortality statistics are relatively unbiased," said Temple sociologist Joshua Klugman, the study's lead author.
So Klugman, along with his Temple sociology colleagues Gretchen Condran and Matt Wray, set out to answer the question: Does the type of office responsible for reporting on deaths impact the suicide rates, potentially biasing estimates of the social causes of suicide, such as income or divorce rates?
Specifically, in a study presented next week at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Las Vegas, Klugman analyzed reported suicide rates in counties with elected coroners, appointed coroners and appointed medical examiners.
Klugman found that elected coroners have slightly lower official suicide rates than medical examiners (all of whom are appointed) and appointed coroners.
"Contrary to arguments that medical examiners' greater scientific training makes them more likely to underreport suicides, we conclude that medical examiners and appointed coroners demonstrate less suicide under-reporting due to their insulation from public pressure," said Klugman.
Source: Temple University
Other sources
- Insulation from public pressure leads to more accurate suicide reporting by death investigatorsfrom Science DailyFri, 19 Aug 2011, 19:30:15 UTC
- Insulation from public pressure leads to more accurate suicide reporting by death investigatorsfrom PhysorgFri, 19 Aug 2011, 19:00:44 UTC


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HUMBLE, Texas - A teenager has been accused of forcing a 10-year-old boy to smoke synthetic marijuana on school property, according to authorities.
Humble Independent School District police said the incident happened at Maplebrook Elementary School, 7935 Farmingham, on Sunday.
Authorities said Christopher Stoneking, 18, approached his 10-year-old neighbor to smoke Kush, a synthetic marijuana. Stoneking is accused of holding the boy to the ground and saying he wouldn't let him up until he smoked the Kush.
A 10-year-old witness told investigators Stoneking threatened to hit him if he tried to stop him. That's when Stoneking lit a pipe, put it into the victim's mouth and forced him to smoke, authorities said.
A second witness told police he followed the group and saw Stoneking force the boy to smoke. The witness said he ran to a nearby Dollar General to get help as the boys ran to a church near the school. Meanwhile, Stoneking fled the scene.
The victim told investigators he stumbled and fell after smoking from the pipe. He described the sensation as weird and like his body was burning.
Stoneking has been charged with endangering a child and injury to a child under 15. He is being held without bond.
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In this first letter, Mr. Eaton is writing to General Oliver Otis Howard, the first Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. He had previously written a letter to the General, expressing his concerns, and the General had written him back. What follows is Mr. Eaton's response.
Franklin County N.C. Aug 1865
Genl O O Howard
My Dear Sir
Your very kind letter 22 xxxx, was recd a few days past. And I hope you will pardon me for trespassing again with an other letter. The only excuse I can make General, is thae hope of getting something done for the poor colored widow & Orphans, many of wom must be left to starve unless you can be enlisted in their behalf. General you are the only hope they have on earth. It is generally believed they are committed to your care, and let me entreat you to try and get something done for them. Unfortunately a great many of the colored women have large families of children without a husband and a great many will be totally unable to feed and cloth themselves & children when they are given up by their former owners, which the former owners will be compelled to do, at the end of the present year. Nearly all the men will set up for themselves and leave the women & children to shift for themselves and many of them were formerly owned by widows......
and Orphans, who have no home. The negros are xxx hired, and the 1st day of Jany (January) coming will find them homeless & friendless, unless the government will ___ forward to their relief. You say in your letter General that Franklin County will have to take care of its own paupers. General if every white (probably citizen) in this county, was taxed to his full capacity ___ could not take proper care, of the pauper negros that will be turned on the county the frist (sp) Jany next But General I do not propose to make this altogether a county institution, the reason why I ask to have it under th especial care of the general goverment (sp) is that when ever the agent for freedmen for the state, finds a fit subject for his special patronage he may have a place to send him to where they can have proper care taken of them, and if we can get one such institution started in the South it will beget many others of like character. In the present crippled state of this country I fear it would be a hopeless job to raise money to establish an institution of any kind much less for such a one as I propose. Many persons think it best to keep the colored rase (sp) in
as much ignorance as posible. I beg leave to differ with them. I wold to God that every man woman & child in these United States were well educated, and piously instructed, and properly point the way to the Lamb of God, and how can that be done, unless Gods more enlightened children, will help to lift these poor people from the darkness that now surrounds them; I have written to Col Whittlesey* and invited him to visit me that I may lay my plan before him: I think it the cheapest plan that can be adopted to do any good. The land that I propose to get for the purpose belongs to 5 persons but all lying in one compact body, and if laid off and adjusted with skill, would accommodate a great many negroes, andif provisions are laid in at the begining of winter may be done to advantage If Col Whittlesey allows the negroes to remanin in and about Town the wood for them would cost quite as much as the home for them, here they can furnish their own wood, and by proper encouragement a great many may be enduced to support themselves. With one years start the place
*Col Whittlesey was the Commissioner for the State of North Carolina Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
can be made to support itself. General would it be asking too much of you, to request you to speak to the highest powers that be, in behalf of this home for Negroes, in the name of God I beg that something be done for them. I hope General you will pardon my earnest entreeties for them, being here among them and knowing thir true situation I can not help being interested in their behalf seeing too as I do every day how unconcious they are of ther true Situation, for unless something is done many must perish the coming winter from cold. "let us not turn them away homelss necked hungry and cold" but do what we can for them. God prosper my petition for them is the earnest prayer of
Your Humble Servant
W A Eaton
P.S. There is one thing that we must not loose sight of, heretofore the Negro was taxed as property, now that is lost to state county and the general government, and I am sure they will not be able in their present situation to pay even a pole(poll) Tax -
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A poetic reflection on Karen Bloomquist's lecture
By Tammy Barthels, M.Div. Middler
Guide me O God
In speaking the truth.
What is truth?
That our world is fractured, hurt and broken?
That we have turned inward with our hurt, anger and misperceptions?
What will bring healing?
Stepping out and embracing each other?
Can we allow ourselves to be transformed by others
who are different than ourselves?
We each have unique, God given gifts to offer.
Can we recognize the face of God in each other
and allow ourselves to be transformed?
Rather than building walls to protect ourselves because of our fear,
can we reach out to pick each other up, rather than pushing each other down?
Let us remember who we are from the inside out.
Let us form solidarity with those who are left out.
Let us see, remember and connect with each other,
through our faith, making steps to change the face of our world
Reuniting in hope.


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I'm not exactly sure what it says about modern humanity, but I'm genuinely surprised that there's no record of a person eating a car. Logically, this shouldn't even be a question worth asking, but most people I talk to are pretty sure someone's done it. But I don't think that's the case, which means a huge opportunity for you.
The idea that a person has actually eaten a car is so commonly accepted that I had to figure out why that is. And that why is actually a who, and that who is a Frenchman named Michael Lotito. This is the guy that most people are pretty sure they saw eat a car on That's Incredible or something like that back in the '80s. And they almost did.
Lotito should have eaten a car, by any laws of the universe that make sense. Lotito, also known as Monsieur Mangetout (Mr. Eats Anything) did eat an awful lot of normally inedible (and wheeled) things: a bicycle, a shopping cart, a television, about 1200 feet of steel chain, and, his crowning achievement, a Cessna 150 airplane.
He ate these things by having them chopped up into swallow-able pieces, and then consuming them with lots of water and mineral oil. Supposedly, he had no issues passing these bits through his body, but so far my quest to find stool samples to confirm this has turned up empty.
Still, the big news here is that he leapt from bicycles right to aircraft, completely skipping motorized ground transport. I have no idea why he chose to do it this way, possibly preferring the inherently lighter structure of an aircraft? Or maybe the flavor?
In doing other research, I did find a 2000 short film called The Man Who Ate A Car, but it seems to be a work of fiction. Beyond that, every other reference ends up back at Monsieur Mangetout, and he does not seem to have had a taste for the automobile.
Which means there's a huge opportunity waiting here for some lucky, hungry go-getter.
Lotito died at the age of 57 in 2007 of they say "natural causes," though it's hard to not think a lifetime of eating like the Iron Giant didn't have any effect. Even so, the man paved the way for anyone who really wants to eat massive inedibles, and if he can do it, so can you.
So, if you're unemployed or just unsatisfied with how things are going, and really want to make motoring history, this seems like a great chance. Let's face it, designing the next Stratos or 911 is probably not going to happen for you in the next few years, even if you have the training, and most racers only get to the big times if they start winning karting trophies in utero. Eating a car is a solid plan.
So, if you decide to take this on, what car would you want to eat? Personally, I think I'd go for something vintage, since they tend to be lighter and likely have less really harmful materials and chemicals in them. Because you know, when eating a car, safety first. I think I'd pick something without too much glass, too, because, I don't know, somehow eating a lot of glass seems worse than eating steel.
My pick would be a Topolino. Small, light, not too much glass, old enough to be pretty uncomplicated, and best of all, Italian. Who doesn't love Italian? If anyone's going to make a tasty car, it's got to be them.
What wine do you serve with car? Red? I want to say red.
(DISCLAIMER: Obviously, we are not encouraging you to eat a car but asking you to engage in the hypothetical exercise of picking out which car would be most edible. Seriously, I can't believe I'm even typing this.)


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Digital and Social
Virtual Event Key Learnings – Part Two
A couple of post back I mentioned that the team was currently working post event debriefs and metric analysis for the Cisco Live and Networkers Virtual hybrid event that took place on 30 June and 1 July 2009. We just wrapped the debrief meetings and post event final reporting, yeah! A lot of great findings resulted from these efforts so…I though I would share:
- The top five key learnings
- High level reporting for all you data junkies
- Current enhancements under way for Cisco Live and Networkers Virtual
Top Five Key Learnings
- Reporting: The nature of most virtual event reporting is around hits, views, downloads and exchanges. Useful information to be sure but to really measure the effectiveness of the peer networking tool another layer of data is needed to understand the effectiveness of the hits, views, downloads and exchanges. For example knowing that X attendee ran Y number of profile matches and has Z number of buddies does not help measure the effectiveness of the profile match tool of the buddy exchange can not be tracked back to source.
- Monitoring: Not talking 'big brother' monitoring here…more there are many ways to communicate within a virtual event and right now not as many ways to know where the most relevant conversation is taking place. I will take 'technical help' as an example, if I am a virtual staffer and am there to answer WAP questions but the request for WAP information or assistance is being generated via a blog, blog comment, group discussion, or group chat in another part of the virtual show and I have no way of knowing or being notified then we have a 'Houston we have a problem' moment. There should be some mechanism for me to get a notification based on my expertise keywords that my help is needed by X attendee with a quick way to reach them.
- Support: I touched on this last time but now that we have dived into the analysis I have more to share. Be prepared for any and all questions once you open the hybrid event. The virtual support team got questions about what to wear to the customer appreciation party, how to troubleshoot an attendees Linksys router, how to take surveys for the sessions held at San Francisco 2009 (see immersion key learnings below for more on this), and where attendees should go to pick up their CCIE ribbon. Oh and they also got some questions about the virtual experience as well 😉
- Immersion: Again I touched on this last time but as you can see with the support recap above, it is not just the event experiences needing increased immersion but also the support, the length of time for the hybrid event, the back channel between on site and virtual attendees, and the perks of the live event all need further immersion. More, more, more immersion in all facets of the hybrid event. Our survey results show that attendees overwhelmingly wanted all three main days of the on site experience virtualized. We have a lot of comments on integrating Twitter feeds into the live webcast console directly to allow for back channel discussions between on site and virtual attendees. Of course virtual attendees also want the show bag, the hat, and the free certification exam!
- Usability: Less is more which is easier said than done at a virtual event. Attendees do not want to sift through search to find relevant content. Content recommendations based on a couple of keywords in their profile are not adequate and recommendations needed to be based on not just the profile keywords but also on overall user behavior and history. The user interface should quickly allow attendees to navigate the environment. I know these seem like simple and no brainer points but believe me they are not simple, all though yes no brainer.
Metric Highlights
- 4,432 virtual only registrants
- 6,659 unique virtual only and hyrbid attendee logins
- 4.16 overall score
- 40* sessions webcasts available live and on-demand during hybrid event
- 7,073 sessions webcast views
- 340 session catalog PDF listings
- 17,988 session catalog PDF views
- 11 External Sponsor and Cisco Business Unit Booths
- 3,956 booth content views
Attendee quotes
- "Cisco Live Virtual is a great way to interact with other Cisco users and Cisco employees in a way that is not available otherwise online."
- "Sorry you couldn't go to Networkers, did you know you could log on to Cisco Live Virtual? It's totally cool, check it out!"
- "Great way to participate, attend training, have Q&A sessions and network with other industry experts when you cannot travel."
- "I would suggest that it is a tremendous benefit as an addition to attending the event live."
*There are now 200+ sessions available for on-demand viewing in Cisco Live and Networkers Virtual.Upcoming Enhancements to Cisco Live and Networkers Virtual
- 3D Environment Re-Vamp: We did not spend that much time on the gloss of Cisco Live and Networkers Virtual as we were rapidly preparing for a two day live hybrid experience. However we heard you about the 3D being kind of 2D and are working to polish the virtual environment design up a bit. No construction under way signs but check in often at the Cisco Live and Networkers Virtual Blog Center to get behind the glimpse views of the new design elements.
- MyStuff Overhaul: OK so MyStuff does not resonate with you all and you would prefer MyEventBag or MyBriefcase…reading you loud and clear. Expect a change soon. Also, the 100MB file size cap for the MyStuff all files zip download is being removed. So after 20 September you will be able to download all technical session PDFs in one fell swoop!
- Ratings: Currently only lists 10 technical sessions in alphabetical order so therefore one can not review the majority of the ratings. After 20 September you will be able to see them all.
- New Content: Networkers Brisbane is coming and a live keynote featuring Martin De Beer, Senior Vice President of Cisco's Emerging Technologies Group, will be broadcast on 29 September. The Cisco Live and Networkers auditorium will feature details on the broadcast time soon. Also, more technical sessions will be recorded at Networkers Brisbane 2009 and added to the Cisco Live and Networkers VirtualSession Catalog in mid-late October 2009.
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First, we share a brain on the purpose of our research. We both believe that it's the stories of our entire family (not just the direct lines) that help us understand who we are, more than names, dates, and places. We both have some very interesting ancestors. Don't be jealous - I'm sure there are some pretty cool people in your tree too :)
Second, we both have the same problem with the Genea-Crap (if you are unfamiliar, see Kerry's blog post at Clue Wagon).
Third, we're both cat lovers. I think that's important. If for no other reason than an empathetic standpoint concerning researchus interruptus (that's Latin for "the cat is on my keyboard").
The purpose of the Team is to come up with goals that are reachable within the week (baby steps), and share them with each other so we are accountable to someone. Without that accountability, I will never stay on track. Next week, we will share our progress, brainstorm any problem areas, and make new goals for the following week. I wrote down my goals and Laura's goals on my notepad. That's when I realized that if I put one more piece of paper on my desk, it might collapse. So I wrote them down on the whiteboard next to my desk:
Now it's a constant reminder.
I learned from Laura that the key is to make small, attainable goals - and then actually work toward them!
My goals for this week are:
1. Set a schedule for blogging, researching, and transferring data from FTM to RM4. With a full-time job and other stuff (life, etc.), without a schedule I'm doomed.
2. Organize the pile o' Genea-Crap on my desk (remember the whole collapsing thing? This is why):
Fortunately, I had managed to get all of it in one consolidated pile already.
3. Blog at least once this week - so here it is (I'm no Charlie Sheen, but I'd say that's winning!). Check.
4. Call the Family History Library that is 10 minutes from my house and find out when they're open.
Ultimately, we are going to make so much progress that everyone else in the genea-community will be totally jealous and wish they had gotten in on the ground floor of this venture.
So I'm gonna go get started!