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Do you have children who can't remember information or instructions? Who can't learn for tests and examinations? Memory Booster will help them to acquire effective learning strategies and give them practice that will develop their verbal and visual memory skills. Memory Booster teaches flexible memory strategies and takes the child through enjoyable exercises that develop and extend learning skills.
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Culinary SOS: Steak chili and skillet corn bread from Smitty's in Pasadena
Dear SOS: I enjoy reading your column, and it occurred to me that you might be able to answer my request. "It was a dark and stormy night," like many we've recently had, when friends and I happened into Smitty's in Pasadena after the theater. Not being Pasadena locals, we didn't realize our good fortune. It was a perfect night for their signature chili and corn bread specials. Not your ground beef variety, the chili seemed to be prepared with flank steak and the corn bread was the best ever. Any chance you could wheedle their secret for your readers?
Bonnie Cohn
Hermosa Beach
Dear Bonnie: Smitty's was happy to share its recipe for their rich and hearty chili and corn bread, which we've adapted below. Enjoy!
Total time: 2½ hours
Servings: 10 to 12
Note: Adapted from Smitty's Grill in Pasadena.
Steak chili
2/3 cup corn oil
2 onions, chopped
2 tablespoons minced garlic
2 shallots, minced
2 jalapeños, minced
2 tablespoons ancho chile powder
2 tablespoons New Mexico chile powder
1/4 cup dried oregano
3 tablespoons cumin
4 teaspoons salt
1/4 cup tomato paste
2 chipotle chiles (canned in adobo sauce), minced (about 1 tablespoon)
3 (14.5 ounce) cans diced tomatoes
3 cups beef broth
4 pounds flap meat, cut into large dice
In a large, heavy-bottomed pot, heat the oil over medium heat until hot. Stir in the onions, garlic, shallots and jalapeños and sauté until softened, 3 to 5 minutes. Stir in the ancho and New Mexico chile powders, the oregano, cumin and salt, along with the tomato paste, chipotle chiles and tomatoes. Add the beef broth and bring to a boil, stirring occasionally.
Stir in the beef, reduce the heat to a gentle simmer and cook, partially covered, until the meat is tender and the liquid is reduced and thickened, about 2 hours. Stir occasionally, checking to make sure the heat is gentle and the chili does not burn. Taste and adjust the seasoning as desired. This makes about 10 cups (2½ quarts) of chili. While the chili is cooking, make the corn bread.
Each of 12 servings of chili: 403 calories; 36 grams protein; 12 grams carbohydrates; 4 grams fiber; 24 grams fat; 6 grams saturated fat; 95 mg cholesterol; 5 grams sugar; 1,406 mg sodium.
Iron skillet corn bread
2 1/2 cups (10.6 ounces) flour, plus 2/3 cup flour, divided
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 cup creamed corn
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon ricotta cheese
4 eggs
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon cornmeal, plus 2/3 cup cornmeal, divided
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar, plus 2/3 cup sugar, divided
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup fresh corn kernels
1/2 cup (1 stick) plus 3 tablespoons butter, melted
1. Heat the oven to 375 degrees.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together 2½ cups flour and the baking powder.
3. In a large bowl, stir together the creamed corn, ricotta cheese, eggs, vegetable oil, one-half cup plus 1 tablespoon cornmeal, one-half cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar, the salt and corn kernels. Stir in the flour mixture a little at a time until incorporated.
4. Spoon the mixture into a 10½-inch seasoned cast iron skillet or similar-sized greased baking pan.
5. In a medium bowl, whisk together the remaining two-thirds cup each flour, cornmeal and sugar. Stir in the melted butter until combined to form a crumbly mixture. Drizzle the crumble topping over the corn bread base.
6. Bake the corn bread until puffed and lightly browned on top and a cake tester or knife inserted in the center comes out clean, 30 to 45 minutes.
Each of 12 servings of corn bread: 456 calories; 8 grams protein; 61 grams carbohydrates; 2 grams fiber; 20 grams fat; 9 grams saturated fat; 96 mg cholesterol; 22 grams sugar; 369 mg sodium.
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New Jersey Dispatch: Whole Earth Center in Princeton
"No matter how basic—even if it's just an apple, a cabbage, an onion, or a potato—you can be confident that it will be better here than anywhere else."
If you had asked me, I would have told you that health food stores are pretty much a thing of the past. Supermarkets are filled with organic stuff, huge chain drug stores sell supplements at half the price, and many gyms sell those muscle-building drink. So how does a health food store re-invent itself in the twenty-first century?
To find out, I headed over to the Whole Earth Center in Princeton, often reputed to be the best health food store in the state. Here you'll find better organic produce than any chain (and in Princeton they have all the chains, we're talking about a town with Wegmans, Whole Foods, and Trader Joes). Yes, the place has an ivy league intellectual vibe about it. The parking lot is filled with new hybrids featuring bumper stickers for causes that most Jersanians didn't know existed.
The Center is newly enlarged and now has a café and restrooms, this is a welcome addition because you can wind up spending a lot of time here. Between the produce, bulk items, supplements, cosmetics, baked goods, and frozen foods, some people have been known to try and take up residence.
Think of that produce section as an aggregator with the best offerings of local farms all in one place. Meat and dairy are the same.
Whole Earth Center was an early adopter of the local foods movement, sourcing as much fresh produce, cheese, and meat as they can from the area. Come here on a day when it's too rainy and gray to go out to the farms and get yourself some quality food. No matter how basic—even if it's just an apple, a cabbage, an onion, or a potato—you can be confident that it will be better here than anywhere else.
When it comes to the fridge and frozen sections, I always seem to have a chip on my shoulder. I don't know why, but beautiful fresh tofu from Allentown, Pennsylvania, warmed my heart. How is it that our local Asian megamarts don't stock it? Yogurt is also special here for me because the small-producer products they offer have a distinctly different flavor.
From a serious cook's point of view though, the centerpiece of the store is its bulk food section. There are 28 different kinds of nuts. Nutritional yeast, lecithin granules, vital wheat gluten, barley flour, brown rice flour, and whole rye flour just scratch the surface of the grains. Four kinds of seaweed make a sort of footnote between flour and beans, and plastic packages of items like domestic brown teff decorate the tops of bulk grain shelves.
Not satisfied? Walk over to the bulk spices section and pick up some Birdseye chili peppers, astrogalus root, frankincense tears, and milk thistle seed.
Of course, as the fussy guy that I am, I noticed that there was no brown Arborio rice. But that's a tough one; most health food stores in Italy don't even have that.
If you need a break, there's a café and takeout section. Grab a pastry from the bakery department and get a cup of fair trade coffee, or go for a sandwich, salad, or prepared hot dish. That will give you some time to ponder what you can make with all this stuff.
I've been so impressed by the Whole Earth Center that I'm willing to overlook its cooler of organic drinks and wide selection of snack and convenience foods. I'm afraid that when I say that I come here for things I can't find anyplace else, it makes it sound like a last resort—it certainly isn't.
It's the standard by which all other health food stores are judged.
Whole Earth Center
360 Nassau Street, Princeton NJ 08540 (map) 609-924-7429
Note: While Whole Earth Center is technically in Princeton, it's nowhere near the train station and not really near downtown. Don't be fooled.
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I'm hoping to build a deck about 50cm above ground level. It will abutt a new conservatory. I propose to construct a water reservoir underneath. Approximate deck dimensions are 6m x 5m. The deck will be supported by three concrete block dwarf walls in parallel and an end wall creating 2 partions. My thoughts are to line the partitions with butyl pond liner, connect them with a pipe, fit an overflow to drain to a garden pond and fit a submersible pump to access the water. Approximately half the house roof area and the conservatory roof (about 6m x 6m) will drain into the reservoir.The reservoir would be capped with black corrugated impermeable sheeting.
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Equities, as overbought as they are, continued higher last night as news broke that Abu Dhabi has agreed to bail out Dubai and to back their bonds. This sent prices immediately right back to the top of the range, then prices began to fade right back down. Here's the overnight action in the DOW and S&P:
The dollar fell on the news, but has since bounced back up to about even, now back above 76.50. My comment in this regard is that the dollar strength seems to be holding, and that is going to make it tough for equities to continue their path higher. Bonds are flat to a little higher, oil is down slightly at $69, gold is up slightly, now $1,120 an ounce.
Here's what happened with the Dubai bonds according to Bloomberg:
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Abu Dhabi provided $10 billion to help Dubai World, the state-owned holding company, avoid defaulting on a $4.1 billion bond payment that roiled global financial markets during the past month.
Dubai World will use the money to cover debt of real-estate unit Nakheel PJSC that comes due today. The rest of the money will cover Dubai World's interest and operating costs until the company reaches a standstill agreement with its creditors, Dubai's government said in an e-mailed statement.
After the emirate and its state-controlled companies borrowed $80 billion to diversify away from dwindling oil supplies, Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has been forced to seek Abu Dhabi's help three times this year as the global financial crisis dried up credit and triggered a property crash in the city state.
"It comes as a relief for the market, underpinning hopes that the implicit government support for Dubai corporate issuance is intact," said Jason Watts, head of credit trading at National Australia Bank Ltd. in Sydney. "Whilst we are not out of the woods yet, it is definitely a step in the right direction."
The Dubai market jumped 10% on this news. So, it may keep the immediate ripple under control for now, but what has really changed? NOTHING. The world is still saturated with debt, we still have governments coming in to bail out moronic ventures, and all this does is transfer the risk from one party to the next.
The next big news is in regard to Citi Bank. Here's what's happening there:
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc., recipient of the biggest U.S. bank bailout, struck a deal with regulators to repay $20 billion to taxpayers and escape government-imposed pay restrictions.
Citigroup, the only major U.S. lender still dependent on what the government calls "exceptional financial assistance," will raise the funds with a sale of $20.5 billion of equity and debt. The New York-based company also plans to substitute "substantial common stock" for cash compensation, the bank said in a statement today.
Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit has pressed for an exit from the Troubled Asset Relief Program out of concern that TARP pay constraints make Citigroup vulnerable to employee poaching by Wall Street rivals. Bank of America Corp. exited the program last week after paying back $45 billion of rescue funds.
"It's great news," Gary Townsend, chief executive officer of Hill-Townsend Capital LLC, an investment firm in Chevy Chase, Maryland, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. "It's important for Citi to exit these extraordinary agreements with the U.S. Treasury and the government as quickly as possible. It's expensive perhaps, but I think it had to be done."
Stock Sale
The bank will sell $17 billion of common stock, with a so- called over-allotment option of $2.55 billion, and $3.5 billion of "tangible equity units." The U.S. Treasury will sell as much as $5 billion of common stock it holds, with plans to unload the rest of its stake during the next six to 12 months. An additional $1.7 billion of common stock equivalent will be issued next month to employees in lieu of cash they would have otherwise received as pay.
The TARP payments will result in a roughly $5.1 billion loss. Citigroup will also terminate its loss-sharing agreement with the government on $301 billion of its riskiest assets. Canceling about $1.8 billion of trust preferred securities linked to the program will result in a $1.3 billion loss, the company said.
Citigroup fell to $3.86 in New York trading at 8:03 a.m., down from its $3.95 close on Dec. 11. The stock has tumbled 41 percent this year, valuing the lender at about $90 billion.
"It's GREAT news!" LOL, let me translate. Their massive bonuses and paychecks based on nothing aren't big enough, so their top employees are having difficulty affording their house in the Hamptons, their yacht, their second and third beach home, their fleet of Ferraris, AND their corporate jet. Soooo, they need the ability to crank out more paper, diluting current shareholders while getting the Treasury off their backs.
But here's the deal with this deal, it's the same as with the others, especially Bank of America… what they are doing is paying back the tarp and then turning right around and borrowing the same money right back from the Treasury at little to no interest as it's subsidized from the Treasury, and in that way they still have funds from the people without all the strings attached, and the people are none the wiser, all they see is the front page headline – "Citi Repays the TARP!"
And what else happened over the weekend? Nothing much, just more looting of the taxpayers.
Senate passes bill to keep government funded
The $447 billion bill spending bill also features provisions to reinstate auto dealers closed down by General Motors and Chrysler.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Senate on Sunday approved $447 billion in spending for several Cabinet departments and other agencies for the 2010 budget year -- money needed to fund the federal government after the coming week.
On a mostly partisan vote of 57-35, the Senate approved the compromise omnibus spending plan worked out with the House, which passed it last week. The measure now goes to President Barack Obama to be signed into law to succeed the previous funding resolution that expires December 18.
The vote occurred in an unusual Sunday session as the Senate worked for the second consecutive weekend in a push by the Democratic leadership to complete work on a sweeping health care bill and also get the appropriations bill passed.
The omnibus bill, which combines six separate appropriations measures, provides money for for non-defense government agencies including the departments of Transportation, State Department, Veterans Affairs, Commerce and Justice for the fiscal year that started October 1.
A separate defense spending bill is expected to be considered later this week.
The omnibus measure also authorizes about $600 billion in mandatory federal spending on government programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, funding that is set by formula and cannot be altered by Congress.
Republicans denounced the bill as bloated with wasteful spending. On Saturday, the Democratic-controlled Senate cleared a procedural vote needed to end a Republican filibuster and allow for Sunday's vote to take place.
According to the independent, nonpartisan group Taxpayers for Common Sense, the spending bill includes 5,244 earmarks -- or pet projects sought by members of Congress -- that total just under $4 billion.
"I demand the president of the United States keep his word, when he signed another pork-laden bill last March, to veto this bill," Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who lost to Obama in last year's presidential election, said before Sunday's vote.
Among its many provisions, the bill would allow the government to transfer suspected terrorists now held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States to stand trial, and allow guns in checked luggage on Amtrak trains.
It also would provide auto dealers closed down under the General Motors and Chrysler restructuring an opportunity to be reinstated. The bill sets up a binding arbitration process that would let dealers present evidence that could allow them to reopen.
SWEET! Failed auto dealers get bailed out with your money, while 5,244 earmarks go sailing off into the sunset, their $4 BILLION now such chump change that it won't even be mentioned beyond this site by sunup tomorrow.
$447 BILLION, a HALF A TRILLION just to keep SOME government entities going through the fiscal year. You know that they say a stalemate is truly the best thing that can happen in politics, there's proof right there of the type of things that happen when one group is given too much power.
No economic announcements are released today, of course this is FOMC week, they will jawbone us once again on Wednesday while keeping interest rates at ZERO. Friday is quadruple witching with options expiration, I'm sure that all the quants will be spinning their computers in overdrive in order to ensure fat Christmas bonuses for them and so as to not ruin the "mood" of the Great Deception just before the holidays. Boy, are their year end numbers going to look good compared to last year!
But then we can see that the weekly MACD is rolling over, that the markets are extremely overbought, that historic sized divergences are still in place, that the dollar has broken out higher and that the long bond has broken lower. So much debt, so little time and room to push in more. And so the conundrum continues… can true "recovery" really occur once stimulus funds are truly pulled? And if the economy is really as strong as they say, why are short term rates still at zero? What happens when they no longer are? These are questions that I think we're going to get answers for pretty soon.
Meanwhile the expanding megaphone in the DOW and the bullish looking flag in the S&P continue for now with no movement outside of the range. Since we're now back at the top of the range, we either start down once again for the bottom of the range, or we break out higher. If we break higher, the flag target is 1,200 on the S&P, an easy 8 to 10% higher from here, a move that would take us from a 50% retrace to a 61.8% retrace. If that move occurs, then it will be an unprecedented rally in terms of comparisons to past credit collapses where we usually see 50% or slightly more on the retrace. For now, however, the ceiling is holding, I'm still sitting on my hands and if we break higher I know that everyone will be jumping in, but I will still be sitting… patiently. I will not put my personal money at risk unless the technical and psychological indicators align with my fundamental understanding. When they are disconnected, I have learned that patience is my friend.
I spent a good portion of the day yesterday doing some interviews with Steve of Two Beers fame. Portions of that will be out soon. Right now I'm racing to get a basic outline of Freedom's Vision out, but I'm not sure it will be in the condition I would like before I leave on Thursday – I'll be traveling for one week. So, hopefully I'll get it all out before I leave, if not, it will be right after Christmas which might be best anyway. I can tell that people are starting to tune out already, traffic is down at the site and I expect market volume to stay low.
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The ALC Endowment — invested funds from which only the earnings are spent — is critical in meeting the guarantee we make to our students. As a private, non-profit, educational institution, every dollar given is extremely important and very much appreciated. Our endowment only covers 13% of our annual operating expenses. Alice Lloyd College must raise $2.1 million per year, in addition to endowment earnings, to meet the current operational budget. Each year, $1.9 million is required to fulfill the scholarship needs of our Appalachian students.
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MIAMI – The baby whose life was saved along the side of the Dolphin Expressway is doing better, his mother said Monday morning.
Photos of rescuers performing CPR on five-month-old Sebastian de la Cruz have gone viral since the Thursday afternoon scare. His aunt, Pamela Rauseo, is credited with saving his life.
Rauseo and her sister, Paola Vargas, spoke with Robin Roberts in an exclusive interview with ABC News Monday. Vargas is a nurse at Jackson Memorial Hospital, where her son is currently being treated.
Doctors still don't know why Sebastian stopped breathing, but tests are scheduled for Monday to try to find out what happened. The infant was born premature and has suffered from respiratory problems in the past.
"Hopefully today we'll have some answers."
Vargas also had some exciting news Monday, announcing she is pregnant once again.
"Sebastian will be a big brother three days before his first birthday," she said. Vargas is three months pregnant.
"We were in the car and I was driving and when he stopped crying I just really had a really strong feeling that something was off," Rauseo recalled. He appeared to be sleeping but when Rauseo touched him she realized his body had gone limp. "I was so nervous, my fingers couldn't dial 911."
That's when Rauseo got out of the car and began begging for help from passersby, driving along SR 836.
"It was very scary. I get very emotional just thinking about it," Vargas said, her eyes filling with tears. "He was purple, you know ... and me knowing what that means, it's very hard on me."
Compelling photos of the dramatic rescue have gone viral. One of the first people to rush to Rauseo's side was Miami Herald photographer Al Diaz.
Diaz ran through traffic to find help, returning to his car to get his camera when he felt Rauseo had the help she needed.
"Once I got to see those images, it should me how terrifying it really seemed," Rauseo said. "It's one thing to tell someone, its another thing to actually see it."
Members of their family are planning to renew their certification for CPR and have said they have heard from many supporters who are planning to do the same.


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The NRG Face Rest Base is made of a durable yet lightweight plastic and is made to fit the NRG Chi and NRG Karma massage tables. It may also fit other massage table brands with an 8" on center end plate, including EarthLite Brand tables. The NRG Face Rest Base is not sold with a cushion; however the EarthLite Standard Foam Crescent Cushion can be purchased separately to be used with this base.
What do I do if my face rest base will not lock into place?
To securely lock the face rest base, apply pressure with the palm of your hand to the bolt on the left side of the base. While holding the left side tightly, turn the lever until it becomes tight and lock it. When locking it into place, it will feel like it is going to break or like you are forcing it, but it will not break.
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Use a scraper or adhesive remover to remove the old glue. Then use an adhesive to reapply the Velcro strips. You may also replace the existing Velcro with heavy duty Velcro.
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Police: Man drove through fence at Wichita airport
Authorities still trying to determine why man did it
Authorities say they are still trying to determine why a man drove his truck through a fence and onto a taxiway at a Wichita airport.
Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office spokesman Lt. David Mattingly said the 26-year-old man from Marlow, Okla., rammed his truck through a fence at Mid-Continent Airport early Sunday. He then drove onto an airport taxiway and approached a private jet before security personnel stopped him.
Mattingly said the man was talking to himself when he was stopped. A handgun was found in his truck.
The man was jailed on suspicion of criminal trespass and criminal damage to property.
Mattingly said investigators do not believe the event was connected to terrorism.
In December, an avionics technician was charged with trying to carry out a suicide bombing at Mid-Continent.


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Upper Newport Bay | KCET
Upper Newport Bay
Huell visits the Upper Newport Bay to see what is being done to keep this area green for everyone to enjoy.
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Huell takes a hike to the elusive bridge that could have led to somewhere but got beaten out by Mother Nature by way of heavy rain and floods.1
Owner William Gore Sr. and his wife, Lena Gore explain why their honey-baked cobblers are some of the best around town. Warning: Not for the calorie-wary.1
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Huell stops by Langer's Deli on Alvarado Street, which has been slicing up pastrami sandwiches since 1947. He then visits Johnnie's, a Culver City landmark since 1952 famous for its hot dogs, hamburgers, and of course, pastrami.
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Huell Howser visits the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, CA to take a tour of its facilities. Started in 1977, the Musicians Institute is a college focused on educating students interested in music and the music industry.
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Starr Ranch
Huell travels to Orange County to the Starr Ranch Sanctuary. He gets a special tour of the facility and takes a close look at their "Owl Cam." Starr Ranch Sanctuary is a 4,000 acre preserve owned and operated by the National Audubon Society. It is located in the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains in southeastern Orange County, California, approximately 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
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Stan's Corner Doughnut Shop of Westwood, Calif. has been baking the world's most gourmet donuts for almost 40 years. From a cinnamon chocolate cheese danish to a Reese's peanut butter pocket with fresh banana, Stan's offers pastries you won't find anywhere else in the world. Huell spends the morning doing "research" at this Los Angeles landmark.
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Huell visits the iconic Crossroads of the World on Sunset Boulevard. With its beautiful globe-topped tower, Los Angeles' first outdoor shopping mall was originally designed as an international shopping center. Now used as office space, this is one L.A. gem that's still alive and well. As a bonus, Huell spends the last 10 minutes of the show learning about the history of the "landscaped" billboards.
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Glendora Castle
Huell has produced thousands of shows, and there have been many fan favorites. One of the all-time greats has to be the old "Videolog" episode "Rubel's Castle."
Michael Rubel took Huell on a grand tour of his handmade home and charmed us all. Rubel has since passed away, and the castle is now managed by the Glendora Historical Society with the help of Rubel's nephew, Scott. Huell gets a new tour of this iconic location.
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Museum/San Antonio Winery
Huell looks at two little known downtown attractions: the Grier Musser Museum and the San Antonio Winery, the last remaining winery in downtown Los Angeles.
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Vincent Price Art Museum
Huell tours the Vincent Price Art Museum, which opened in May 2011 at East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park. The museum contains 9,000 items, many of which were donated by the late actor. Victoria Price leads the tour of her father's vast collection of fine art and shows why this gallery is one of Los Angeles's best kept secrets. We also look back at Huell's original 1989 'Videolog' interview with Vincent Price himself.
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Panorama Update
Huell starts this update with clips from the original episode, then heads to the new home of the panorama to see what's changed and what you can expect if you choose to visit.
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Hot Peppers
Huell's hot adventure begins in downtown Los Angeles' Grand Central Market, where we discover some of the spiciest peppers and chili sauces around. But you won't find anything hotter than Moe Newaz's backyard variety of ghost peppers and devil's tongue peppers in Santa Clarita. We also learn about the Scoville Heat Scale, developed in 1912 by chemist Wilbur Scoville, which has become the standard for measuring spicy food.
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Doughnut History
Huell visits the Salvation Army for a lesson in donut history, which begins on the battlefields of World War I. Then it's off to Stan's Donuts in Westwood, where Stan cooks up his "peanut butter pockets," a high-calorie confection which has been officially renamed "The Huell".
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Union Station
Huell gets a first rate tour of the historic train station, Union Station, and learns about its history.
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Musso & Frank
In this 1995 flashback episode, Huell visits the oldest restaurant in Hollywood, and talks with longtime employees and patrons about what makes this landmark such a special place. Musso & Frank opened in 1919 and is named after original owners Joseph Musso and Frank Toulet.
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USS Antietam
Huell spends a day with the Commanding Officer and crew of the USS Antietam, a 567 foot Navy Cruiser, while they train off the coast of Southern California.
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Warner Brothers
Huell gets a behind-the-scenes tour of this historic lot, where many Hollywood classics were filmed.
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Snow Show
Huell treks to Mammoth Lakes with the Dept. of Water and Power to look at the immense snow pack and how it relates to Southern California's water supply.
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Huell takes a tour of some of L.A.'s most beautiful fountains. Marlene Gordon of The Next Stage Tours shows Huell five of the most spectacular.
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Huell ran into a very nice lady in a camera store who told him how much she enjoyed riding the Metrolink every day and invited him to come along. Huell and Luis ride from Montclair to L.A. and meet some wonderful people along the way.
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You've seen the giant windmills alongside the road to Palm Springs. Well now you can learn all about them with Huell as he gets a special "Wind Farm Tour" in an electric cart. This is a great place to learn about one of mankind's earliest forms of energy.
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Harley Girls
Put on your leather jacket and strap on your helmet for a two-wheeled adventure that's sure to get your heart racing. Huell goes on a weekend ride with the Harley Girls on their Harley Davidson motorcycles. They later stop for lunch, where Huell meets some other interesting weekend rebels.
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Mt. Hollywood
Huell embarks on an early morning adventure, talking to some of the hundreds of people who hike to the top of Mt. Hollywood every day for their physical and mental well-being.
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Pink's Hot Dogs
Family owned and operated since 1939, this L.A. institution has been serving up some of the best chili cheese hot dogs this side of Coney Island. Huell get the lowdown from Mrs. Pink and a handful of enthusiastic patrons, many whom have been eating at Pink's since their childhood.
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Griffith Steamers
Huell goes to Griffith Park to enjoy a day of riding the rails with the Los Angeles Live Steamers. Founded in 1956 by train enthusiasts for the purpose of educating people in railroad history, the club operates 71/2″ gauge model trains for the general public every Sunday.
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Bullocks Tea Room
Southwestern University School of Law has restored Bullocks Tea Room to its splendor. Huell meets up with some of the people who were in the original program during the closing of the tea room and reminisces about this glorious part of history.
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Santa Barbara Stagecoach
In this one-hour special, Huell retraces the route of the old Stagecoach line in and around Santa Barbara. Join him for a ride through history.
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Tampico Spices
Huell visits Tampico Spice Company and sees how the spices are ground, sifted, and mixed into aromatic blends. He also learns the history of this local institution, which has been run by the Martinez family since 1947.
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Tinita's Salsa
Huell meets a special woman in Lancaster who has not only turned her personal recipes into a line of delicious salsas, but also a successful family business.
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Food with History
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Didgeridoo Festival
Huell attends a celebration of possibly the world's oldest wind instrument -- the Didgeridoo. The Joshua Tree Didgeridoo Festival brings together devotees and beginner alike who make, play and listen to the musical instrument of the North Australian Aborigine.
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Porto's Bakery
Porto's Bakery in Glendale is a family-owned and operated business with roots in Cuba. Join Huell as he samples Cuban sandwiches, guava pastries and decadent cakes.
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Camel Dairy
Huell visits the Oasis Camel Dairy east of San Diego, where he milks a camel, plays with baby camels, and learns about camel milk products.
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Huell's off to Wilmington to visit Ferguson's Marine Specialties, which is owned and operated by Ralph Ferguson and his daughter, Lupe. Once inside, Huell is literally surrounded by beautiful seashells from all over the world.
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Suppose we want to find the root of the equation $f(x)=\phi(x) - d = 0$, where d is a real constant and $f$ is continuously differentiable function.
The problem is well posed if the inverse $\phi^{-1}$ exists, since in that case $\phi^{-1} (d) = x$.
Now most numerical analysis books I read on the topic of solving nonlinear equations (for example this grad level book) open the discussion by introducing the condition number associated with the problem, in this case it happens to be.
$$ \kappa = \frac{1}{f^{\prime}(x)} = \frac{1}{\phi^{\prime}(x)}$$
From this equation we see that the condition number $\kappa$ is large when $\phi^{\prime}(x)$ is close to zero and we are told large $\kappa$ leads to ill conditioned problems.
But so what?? I can't think of an example for which say Newton Raphson or any other root finding shceme fails when the problem is ill conditioned.
I understand the condition number measures the sensitivity of finding roots of $f$ with respect to the input datum, $d$ in this case. But what practical implications does this have?
I can think of plenty of severely ill conditioned problems. But Newton raphson has no problems with them (I know there are situations in which Newton Raphson fails, but these are due to problems intrinsic to the algorithm and are not dependent on the condition number). Does any one know of an example where the condition number for the above problem is large and a root finding scheme fails? If not then whats the point of examining the condition number.
I apologize in advance if this question is not of the level of the forum. I thought since the answer cannot be found in an elementary text, here was a good place to ask.


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CLEVELAND -- General manager Chris Antonetti has a tough choice in deciding who will take Carlos Carrasco's spot in the rotation next week against the Twins, so he has turned to bizarre methods to help him.
"We'll pick it out of a hat," Antonetti joked before Friday's game.
Josh Tomlin and Trevor Bauer are giving Antonetti plenty to think about, stringing together solid starts with Triple-A Columbus.
Tomlin extended his scoreless-innings streak to 20 on Thursday against Durham, throwing a three-hit shutout in which he struck out 10. Tomlin's run dates back to April 18.
Bauer took a tough loss in a spot start against the Padres last month, giving up just one earned run and fanning eight in six innings. But he's won his last three starts with Triple-A Columbus. In 25 2/3 innings, he has struck out 28, holding opposing hitters to a .196 average and posting a 1.40 ERA.
"We obviously have a few good candidates in Columbus that are certainly deserving of it, and we'll work through that decision," Antonetti said.
Antonetti didn't rule out calling up T.J. House. House is 1-1 with a 1.59 ERA in 22 2/3 innings over four starts.
"No one start influences us too much," Antonetti said. "I think we try to look at the body of work, then look beyond that, what are the subjective comments, how are they going about achieving that performance. Josh, Trevor and T.J. have all thrown the ball well."
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I found a brand new reason to hate Microsoft Windows (I have plenty already).
My boss logged into his computer (windows 7 pro) this morning, becuase it rebooted overnight due to some windows updates. the login was completely routine and without incident. He then tried to run a program that accesses network resources. The program threw an error message complaining of not being able to access the resource, and asked for his username and password. keep in mind he's already logged into his computer at this point, using the very username and password for which it's asking him. it's at this point that he called me, and I immediately suspected that his password had expired. I checked to see if there are any notifications to that effect, but there were none. Finally, I decided to log out and log back in, and only then did windows finally complain that his password had expired, and needed to be changed. so the long and the short of it is this: windows will happily let you log in after a reboot, with cached credentials, even if your active directory password has expired, but you must then log off and log back on to get the password change notification, and you cannot access network resources that require an AD logon until you do.


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Nearly lost in the news about the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's approval on Thursday of Google's acquisition of DoubleClick was another action by the agency: the publication of a proposed set of privacy principles governing online behavioral advertising.
The release of the privacy principles is an important and welcome step, said Peter Swire, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, and a law professor at Ohio State University. Although some privacy groups blasted the FTC for approving Google's DoubleClick deal, the acquisition has helped place focus on the entire online advertising industry's privacy practices, Swire said.
"It's good that the FTC is shining a spotlight on this industry," Swire said Friday. "Online advertising is in its second boom. They're trying lots of new techniques; some of those techniques have privacy problems."
The FTC hosted a workshop on behavioral advertising and privacy in November. The agency's proposed privacy principles, a series of "self-regulatory" steps the FTC is recommending for online advertisers, come in part from that workshop.
Among the FTC's proposals:
-- Web sites that collect information for behavioral advertising should provide a "clear, consumer-friendly, and prominent statement" about the reason for collecting that data. Consumers should be able to choose whether they will allow that information to be collected.
-- Any company that collects or stores consumer data for behavioral advertising should provide "reasonable security" and should keep data only as long as necessary to fulfill legitimate business or law enforcement needs.
-- Companies should only collect sensitive data for behavioral advertising if they obtain express consent from the consumer.
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a group focused on online privacy and civil liberties, also praised the FTC for releasing its privacy principles. The principles are a "clear sign that the commission does not believe that the industry's current self-regulation framework is sufficient to protect consumers today," CDT Deputy Director Ari Schwartz said in a statement.
CDT also called on Google to "step up and make a clear, public statement about its plans for proactively protecting consumer privacy." Consumer privacy in the behavioral advertising market remains an industrywide concern that requires the focus of consumers, policymakers and companies, CDT said.
The release of the privacy principles should send a signal to online advertisers, said Leslie Harris, CDT's president. "In releasing these principles, the FTC hasn't closed the door to other options," she said in a statement. "Self-regulation is part of the solution for protecting consumer privacy, but clearly self-regulation hasn't lived up to its promises. ... We'll need a rigorous mix of self-regulation backed by regulatory enforcement."
Other privacy groups criticized the FTC for its ruling allowing Google's acquisition of DoubleClick to move forward. The agency had reason to act on privacy concerns raised by the merger and failed, said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), one of three privacy groups that asked the FTC to block the merger or impose privacy conditions.
The FTC could have established "the necessary safeguards for personal data and competition that could have allowed a global [privacy] framework to emerge," Rotenberg said. "[The FTC's] sole purpose is to protect the public interest. It failed to do so ... in a case that will have far-reaching implications for the Internet economy and the privacy rights of American consumers."
Joseph Turow, a communication professor at the University of Pennsylvania, agreed. The European Union is still investigating the Google-DoubleClick deal, with a decision not due until April, and it is likely that regulators there will take a harder look at privacy issues, he said.
Consumer tracking and privacy should be part of the FTC's antitrust review when it looks at online advertising deals, he said. "You can't talk about the digital advertising market today without talking about competition in targeting Americans," he said.
Google supports the FTC's efforts to create privacy guidelines, David Drummond, the company's senior vice president for corporate development and chief legal officer, said in a blog post. "The FTC's decision publicly affirms what we and numerous independent analysts have been saying for months: Our acquisition does not threaten competition in what is a robust, innovative, and quickly evolving online advertising space," Drummond wrote. "In fact, we firmly believe the transaction will increase competition and bring substantial benefits to consumers, web publishers, and online advertisers."
Critics failed to show specific privacy harms, added Thomas Lenard, president of iGrowthGlobal, a conservative think tank. "I don't see a problem because nobody has demonstrated the acquisition will result in any privacy harm to consumers," he said. "All the allegations are very hypothetical. Privacy advocates assert that Google's and DoubleClick's activities injure consumers, but they don't provide any evidence."
If the FTC had blocked the deal, it would be "penalizing success, and that would send a bad signal to the marketplace," Lenard added. "That would also be bad for consumers."


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Gods and Goddesses
Information about Sumerian Gods and Goddesses is found on the Sumerian King List as well as Sumerian clay tablets and cylinder seals. The Sumerian King List records all the rulers of Earth back over 400,000 years. This huge stretch of time coupled with reigns into the thousands of years has caused most historians to reject its accuracy. However all the early rulers were allegedly gods - demi-gods or immortals.
Gods With Water Buckets
These Gods were called the Nephilim Nefilim, Elohim, the Anunnaki - "Those who from Heaven to Earth came."
In Sumerian Mythology they were a pantheon of good and evil gods and goddesses who came to Earth to create the human race. According to the some resources, these gods came from Nibiru - 'Planet of the Crossing.' The Assyrians and Babylonians called it 'Marduk', after their chief god. Sumerians said one year on planet Nibiru, a sar, was equivalent in time to 3,600 Earth years. Anunnaki lifespans were 120 sars which is 120 x 3,600 or 432,000 years. According to the King List - 120 sars had passed from the time the Anunnaki arrived on Earth to the time of the Flood.
The AnunnakiKing's List are sometimes depicted as humanoid. At other times they are bird-headed with wings. Often they are Reptilian in appearance especially when depicted as warriors. Sometimes they are shown as a combination of several types of entities. All is myth, math, and metaphor, so look for the clues in every set of gods you read about, as they all follow the same patterns that repeat in cycles or loops called Time. The patterns of their battles reflect reality as duality and are found within every pantheon of gods - the same characters playing different roles.
A Sumerian tablet shows Enmeduranki, a prince in Sippar, who was well loved by Anu, Enlil and Ea. Shamash, a priest in the Bright Temple, appointed him then took him to the assembly of the gods. They showed him how to observe oil on water and many other secrets of Anu, Enlil and Ea. Then they gave him the Divine Tablet, the kibdu secret of Heaven and Earth. They taught him how to make calculations with numbers."
The Sumerians never called the Anunnaki, 'gods.' They were called din.gir, a two-syllable word. 'Din' meant 'righteous, pure, bright;' 'gir' was a term used to describe a sharp-edged object. As an epithet for the Anunnaki 'dingir' meant 'righteous ones of the bright pointed objects.'
Sumerian texts break up history into two epochs divided by the Great Deluge - the Biblical Flood. After the waters receded the great Anunnaki who decree the fate decided that the gods were too lofty for mankind. The term used - 'elu' in Akkadian - means exactly that: 'Lofty Ones;' from it comes the Babylonian, Assyrian, Hebrew, and Ugaritic El - the term to which the Greeks gave the connotation 'god'.
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After the sons of God took human wives there were giants in the Earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became the mighty men which were of old, men of renown. The Nefilim were upon the Earth, in those days and thereafter too, when the sons of the gods cohabitated with the daughters of the Adam, and they bore children unto them. They were the mighty ones of Eternity - the people of the shem.' Nefilim stems from the Semitic root NFL, 'to be cast down.'
The Sumerians believed in their gods and saw the intentions of their gods as good and powerful beings who controlled their world. The Sumerians explanation for their hardships and misfortunes were the result of human deeds that displeased the gods - in a word, sin. They believed that when someone displeased the gods, these gods let demons punish the offender with sickness, disease or environmental disasters.
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Experiment Called Humans
The Sumerians experienced infrequent rains that sometimes created disastrous floods, and they believed that these floods were punishments created by a demon god that lived in the depths of the Gulf of Persia. And to explain the misfortunes and suffering of infants, the Sumerians believed that sin was inborn, that never was a child born without sin. Therefore, wrote a Sumerian, when one suffered it was best not to curse the gods but to glorify them, to appeal to them, and to wait patiently for their deliverance.
In giving their gods human characteristics, the Sumerians projected onto their gods the conflicts they found among themselves. Sumerian priests wrote of a dispute between the god of cattle, Lahar, and his sister Ashnan, the goddess of grain. Like some other gods, these gods were vain and wished to be praised. Each of the two sibling gods extolled his and her own achievements and belittled the achievements of the other.
The Sumerians 'saw' another dispute between the minor gods Emesh (summer) and his brother Enten (winter). Each of these brothers had specific duties in creation - like Cain the farmer and Able the herdsmen. The god Enlil put Emesh in charge of producing trees, building houses, temples, cities and other tasks. Enlil put Enten in charge of causing ewes to give birth to lambs, goats to give birth to kids, birds to build nests, fish to lay their eggs and trees to bear fruit. And the brothers quarreled violently as Emesh challenged Enten's claim to be the farmer god.
A dispute existed also between the god Enki and a mother goddess, Ninhursag -- perhaps originally the earth goddess Ki. Ninhursag made eight plants sprout in a divine garden, plants created from three generations of goddesses fathered by Enki.
These goddesses were described as having been born "without pain or travail." Then trouble came as Enki ate the plants that Ninhursag had grown. Ninhursag responded with rage, and she pronounced a curse of death on Enki, and Enki's health began to fail. Eight parts of Enki's body - one for each of the eight plants that he ate - became diseased, one of which was his rib.
The goddess Ninhursag then disappeared so as not let sympathy for Enki change her mind about her sentence of death upon him. But she finally relented and returned to heal Enki. She created eight healing deities - eight more goddesses - one for each of Enki's ailing body parts. The goddess who healed Enki's rib was Nin-ti, a name that in Sumerian meant "lady of the rib," which describes a character who was to appear in a different role in Hebrew writings centuries later, a character to be called Eve.


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Like Aladdin's Genie, the law of attraction grants our every command. • The Creative Process helps you create what you want in three simple steps: ask, believe, and receive. • Asking the Universe for what you want is your opportunity to get clear about what you want. As you get clear in your mind, you have asked. • Bel
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Most people look at their current state of affairs and they say, "This is who I am." That's not who you are. That's who you were. Let's say for instance that you don't have enough money in your bank account, or you don't have the relationship that you want, or your health and fitness aren't up to par. That's not who yo
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Oklahoma Sooners defensive coordinator Mike Stoops did a radio interview today, in which he threw a few backhanded compliments at Heisman trophy winner Johnny Manziel. John Hoover of Tulsa World shared some soundbites on Twitter:
We assume that Stoops is referring to Manziel's previous brush with the law and those semi-compromising photos that recently surfaced, although we're not sure what either of those things have to do with Twitter. Anyway, let's not forget that Manziel and the Aggies hung 43 points on Stoops's defense in this year's Cotton Bowl. So, all there really is to say about this is, "U mad, Mike Stoops?"


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Just 10 days prior to Strikeforce Challengers 19, two of the evening's participants have been forced to withdraw.
Strikeforce officials today announced that headliner Virgil Zwicker (10-2 MMA, 1-1 SF) and preliminary card contestant Jerron Peoples (4-1 MMA, 0-1 SF) have each suffered training injuries and have been scratched from the event.
Replacements are currently being sought for each slot.
Strikeforce Challengers 19 takes place Sept. 23 at The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas.
Zwicker was expected to face light-heavyweight prospect Lorenz Larkin (11-0 MMA, 2-0 SF) in the night's main event. Peoples was to fight Joe Ray (5-2 MMA, 1-1 SF).
Larkin recently moved to 11-0 with a unanimous-decision victory over Gian Villante at Strikeforce Challengers 16, which followed a Strikeforce Challengers 15 TKO victory over Scott Lighty. A former amateur boxer and kung fu practitioner, Larkin now owns eight knockouts in his 11 career wins since his April 2009 pro-MMA debut.
Ray finds himself in a likely must-win situation after dropping a June decision to Nah-Shon Burrell. The loss dropped Ray's record to 1-2 in his past three bouts, though he has yet to be finished in a fight.
For more on Strikeforce Challengers 19, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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MK-0518 Intensification And HDAC Inhibition In Depletion Of Resting CD4+ T Cell HIV Infection
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00614458
Recruitment Status : Terminated (Due to insufficient funds)
First Posted : February 13, 2008
Results First Posted : October 25, 2011
Last Update Posted : October 25, 2011
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Drug: Raltegravir; valproic acid
|Phase 2
The purpose of this research study is to see if HIV that persists despite current antiviral therapy can be targeted by new treatments. Eradicating this hidden, persistent virus (which we will call "latent HIV") may some day allow HIV to be eliminated from an infected person. Recently it has been discovered that a class of medicines, called histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors, may cause the HIV that hides within some of the cells of your body to be expressed ("unmasked"). The HDAC inhibitor we will use in this study to unmask or flush out the latent HIV within your cells is called valproic acid (VPA) and is commonly used to treat seizures and depression under the brand name Depakote. VPA has been safely given to people with HIV for the treatment of seizures or depression.
In our first study, we recruited 4 volunteers with HIV-1 infection taking antiviral therapy in whom there were <50 copies/ml (undetectable) of HIV virus RNA in their blood for over 6 months. In addition to continuing their anti-HIV medications, we started them on Fuzeon, a new injected anti-HIV medication, for one month. We then added VPA to the anti-HIV medications and Fuzeon for 3 months. At the end of the study, we found that latent HIV was significantly decreased. No safety problems with VPA and antiviral medicines were noted. However, having initiated Fuzeon and VPA simultaneously we could not determine with confidence that our findings were due to the effect of VPA alone.
In the next study we added VPA to the therapy of patients taking standard antiretroviral therapy (ART). Eight patients have been studied so far, but only three have yet had a significant decrease in latent HIV. It may be that VPA does not work in everyone, or that stronger HIV therapy is needed in some people to drain latent HIV. And in a different study, no decrease at all was found in the number of infected cells in people taking ART who were prescribed valproate for other reasons.
In this study, we wish to add a different new anti-HIV medicine, which is a pill, Raltegravir (MK-0518). Raltegravir blocks the virus from permanently entering the DNA of your T cells, and so is called an integrase inhibitor. Raltegravir is investigational. This means the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have not yet approved it for sale. We will see if adding Raltegravir and VPA to your current ART can decrease the amount of latent HIV. If adding Raltegravir and VPA to your ART has no effect, you will have reached the end of the study. If adding Raltegravir and VPA decreases latent infection, we will stop VPA but continue Raltegravir to see if this new integrase inhibitor decreases latent infection. This study does not expect to cure your HIV, but only to take the first step towards that far-away goal.
You are asked to join this study because you are infected with the HIV-1 virus; you are 18 years of age; you are able and willing to sign an informed consent.; you are able to have laboratory tests within the study specific criteria; and you have adequate vein access for leukopheresis.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|6 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|10493 - MK-0518 Intensification and HDAC Inhibition in Depletion of Resting CD4+ T Cell HIV Infection
|Study Start Date :
|April 2007
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|September 2008
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|September 2008
Experimental: Raltegravir and VPA to ART
raltegravir 400mg po BID; valproic acid 1000mg - 2000mg daily
Drug: Raltegravir; valproic acid
raltegravir 400mg po BID; valproic acid 1000mg - 2000mg daily
Other Names:
- A Change in the Number of HIV Infected Cells. [ Time Frame: 20 weeks ]A change in infected cells from prior to the initiation of VPA and MK0518 to after 20 weeks of treatment.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV-1 infection
- Men and women age ≥18 years.
- Ability and willingness of subject or legal guardian/representative to give written informed consent.
- Karnofsky performance status >70.
- Willing to adhere to protocol therapy and judged adherent to antiretroviral therapy, and can comply with time requirements for protocol-specified visits and evaluations.
- On potent antiretroviral therapy, defined as at least 2 nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) plus at least 1 protease inhibitor (PI) or non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI), without changes in the 24 weeks immediately prior to entry. Prior changes in or elimination of medications for easier dosing schedule, intolerance, or toxicity are permitted.
- Have no contraindications to valproic acid (VPA) therapy (pregnancy, bleeding disorders, history of pancreatitis, history of hepatitis).
- Have adequate vascular access for leukopheresis
- Plasma HIV-1 RNA never > 50 copies/ml on two consecutive occasions for ≥ 6 months.
- CD4 cell count > 300 cells/µl.
- Screening serum fasting glucose below 120 mg/dl, creatinine no more than 1.5 times the upper limit of the normal range, serum AST, ALT, and total bilirubin less than 2 times the upper limit of the normal range, and fasting triglycerides < 400mg/dl.
- Female study volunteers who are not of reproductive potential or whose male partner(s) has undergone successful vasectomy with documented azoospermia or has documented azoospermia for any other reason, are eligible without requiring the use of contraception.
- All women of reproductive potential must have a negative urine beta-HCG pregnancy test performed at screening, day 0, week 4, week 8, week 12, and every scheduled study visit thereafter.
- All study volunteers must agree not to participate in a conception process and, if participating in sexual activity that could lead to pregnancy, the female study volunteer/male partner must use two reliable methods of contraception simultaneously while receiving the protocol-specified medications and for 6 weeks after stopping the medications. Subjects must use a reliable barrier method of contraception along with another form of contraception. For women receiving ritonavir, estrogen-based contraceptives are not reliable and an alternative method should be used.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Receiving zidovudine (AZT). Due to the inhibition of zidovudine metabolism mediated by Valproic acid (VPA) a theoretical increase risk of zidovudine-induced anemia exists.
- Using drugs known to interact with valproate or raltegravir (MK-0518)
- Pregnant or nursing.
- Anemic (Hemoglobin < 10gm/dl)
- Seropositive for hepatitis C RNA or hepatitis B surface antigen within 90 days prior to entry.
- Have signs or symptoms of hepatic decompensation
- Received blood transfusions or hematopoetic growth factors within 90 days.
- Use of any of the following within 90 days prior to entry: systemic cytotoxic chemotherapy, investigational agents, immunomodulators.
- Active drug or alcohol use or dependence.
- Serious illness requiring systemic treatment or hospitalization until subject either completes therapy or has been clinically stable on therapy, in the opinion of the site investigator, for at least 90 days prior to entry.
- Compulsorily detained (involuntarily incarcerated) for treatment of either a psychiatric illness or a physical illness, e.g., infectious disease.
- Treatment for an active AIDS-defining opportunistic infection within 90 days prior to screening.
For this pilot study of no direct benefit to subjects, non-English speaking patients are excluded. In the future, if this study is expanded to include a larger sample size, this exclusion criterion may be removed.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00614458
|United States, North Carolina
|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
|Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599
|Principal Investigator:
|David M Margolis, MD
|University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
|Responsible Party:
|David Margolis, MD, Principal Investigator, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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|Obsolete Identifiers:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R01AI064074 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
P30AI050410 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
U01AI067854 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|February 13, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|October 25, 2011
|Last Update Posted:
|October 25, 2011
|Last Verified:
|September 2011
latent HIV
resting CD4+ T cell
valproic acid (VPA)
Raltegravir (MK-0518) intensification
HIV replication
treatment experienced
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HIV Infections
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Raltegravir Potassium
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HIV Integrase Inhibitors
Integrase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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Since 1983, Vertical Adventures rock climbing school has been Southern California's rock climbing school leader, setting the standard of professionalism with our low student to instructor ratios, state of the art course curriculums, excellent safety record, and exceptional rock climbing guides.
Vertical Adventures Rock Climbing School was honored to be ranked as the #1 rock climbing school in America by Outside Magazine, in their list of Americas top adventure schools, and our rock climbing school made the list of msnbc.com's "Top Ten Outdoor Adventures."
Our rock climbing school instruction is offered year-round. From September through May our group rock climbing classes and guided rock climbs are held at Joshua Tree National Park, located in the high desert north of Palm Springs. One of America's most popular rock climbing areas, with over 9,000 routes to choose from, Joshua Tree has ideal weather for rock climbing in the fall and spring, and is the best site in the country for rock climbing during the winter season.
Summer temperatures are generally too hot for rock climbing all day long at Joshua Tree National Park, although our Joshua Tree rock climbing program offers half-day private lessons during the summer season to climb in the shade of early morning or late afternoon/evening when temperatures can be surprisingly comfortable. All of our rock climbing classes can be booked as a private lesson or private group class during the summer Joshua Tree rock climbing season.
During the summer season Vertical Adventures' Idyllwild Rock Climbing School offers rock climbing classes at Suicide Rock, and guided climbs of Idyllwild's Tahquitz Rock, which at 1,000 feet high is Southern California's tallest rock formation, and one of the best rocks in the country for traditional, multi-pitch rock climbing. Located in the beautiful pine forest above the town of Idyllwild, in the San Jacinto Mountains, at an elevation of 7000 feet, Tahquitz Rock offers ideal conditions in the summer months for guided rock climbs.
Our rockclimbing classes and guided rock climbs have enabled many to attain goals they never thought possible. To the gym climber who has yet to climb outside: I invite you to experience the joy and exhilaration of outdoor rockclimbing in Southern California. Joshua Tree is the ideal place to learn to safely climb outdoors.
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Sometimes a science fiction or fantasy novel is like a pure rush of storytelling awesome — with just one fatal flaw, that drags the whole thing down. It's so frustrating, and makes you want to be a backseat author. Which good book would become great, if you made just one change to it?
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Palestinian children run around the small streets of Hebron sharing pumpkin seeds and playing games on a simple Saturday afternoon until they are forced to stop and pause - a passing procession of neatly dressed tourists , passes by them, flanked and bordered by armed bodyguards. These are not just any bodyguards, theyare fully equipped Israeli soldiers who seem almost too young for their uniforms and the large, complex automatic guns they carry... who seem almost out of place geared up for battle in the middle of a market. A small car decorated with flowers and ribbons for the bride and groom tries to make its way to a wedding, followed and preceded by enthusiastic family members, but as they turn a corner and face the touring party, the smile and joy vanishes from their faces. Their song becomes dead silence as the soldiers push them back, slowly yet decisively, forcing them to turn around. One can immediately feel the heaviness and discord in the atmosphere between Palestinian civilians going about their daily lives and the uncomfortable, threatening presence of the Israeli army. It is ironic and clear that those providing 'bullet-proof' buses are indeed of the same nation causing the very need for such vehicles in the first place.
Yet all this is of course of no direct consequence to a family on holiday. The life and truth around them is drowned out and forgotten whilst the Rabbi tour-guide passionately explains and demonstrates crucial parts of this old city to his attentive listeners.
The dignity of Palestinian residents in Hebron is already wounded and humiliated enough, but the tour every Saturday adds a punctuated time and place to their suffering.
The dignity of Palestinian residents in Hebron is already wounded and humiliated enough, but the tour every Saturday adds a punctuated time and place to their suffering.
The community of about 200,000 Palestinians in Hebron has, in its midst, the settlements of Avraham Avinu and Beit Romano, homes to around 700 Settlers. After an agreement concluded in 1997 between the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Israel, Hebron was divided in two, and these settlements as well as central parts of the old city fell under Israeli control. As a result, numerous businesses were closed down, and many Palestinian families were forced to leave their homes and move to refugee camps in the areas surrounding the district of the Hebron, thus reducing the once lively,city center to a "ghost town," as described by B'Tselem's 2007 report on the situation. The report includes various resident testimonies and explains Hebron's situation in detail, highlighting that though the international community considers the settlements to be illegal, nothing seems to be done about their existence and constant enlargement. Over the past years, the situation has not changed; last October saw Minister Uri Ariel announcing plans of doubling the Settler homes in Hebron.
All the while, Jewish solidarity movements are encouraged to provide assistance to the settlers in Hebron, who continue to be considered a heroic Jewish stronghold within the city. During last Saturday's tour, members of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) followed the Settlers and soldiers, as they do each week, in order to document any incidents. Representatives of the Programme spoke to the Palestine Monitor about the nature of these tours, explaining that the Israeli authorities' "main aim is to maintain a presence in the old city.". Political tours are thus added to the long list of maintaining a presence-activities, which constantly restrict the rights and freedoms of Palestinian residents, testing their patience and tolerance in such extreme ways that would leave them no other option but to abandon their homes. The International Solidarity Movement quoted Palestinian residents earlier this year saying that Israeli forces and settlers disrupt and invade their lives as inconveniently as possible, in an attempt to drive them away, whilst incidents of violence and harassment never cease to be reported - one such case being that of a Palestinian child who was beaten unconscious by soldiers at a military roadblock in the city last October.
A representative for B'Tselem taking photos of the tour and also a resident in Hebron spoke to the Palestine Monitor, pointing out the division of streets close to the Ibrahimi Mosque - one part is for Palestinians to walk through, the other for Israeli and International citizens. "Palestinians living here need a special permit to cross through this area, otherwise they must make a whole turn to get to the other side... I have seen Israeli police grabbing and beating children, claiming that they have thrown stones or tried to cross the fence. These children are beaten up so badly that they end up having to go to hospital."
Looking up from the ground level tour at hand, one can see the faces of Palestinian children and mothers peering cautiously onto the road from small windows above. Every so often, Israeli soldiers appear on Palestinian rooftops, acting as protective sentinels for the settlers. The fences above the market - installed to protect the Palestinians walking in the street from the rubbish and sewage often poured onto them by the settlers – are a further reminder of the intensity of the situation that residents tolerate day by day.
Not only is the Israeli occupation of the city visible and felt everywhere by the closed shops, the abandoned homes, the absent residents driven out in past years, the subjection to settlers' and soldier's violence - it is further emphasized and enforced by these weekly tours which corrupt the original ancient and lively significance of the city as though it were, along with its inhabitants, only an attraction or object of wonder, an exotic zoo of the living and the stone. The dignity of Palestinian residents in Hebron is already wounded and humiliated enough, but the tour every Saturday adds a punctuated time and place to their suffering. "I am afraid of the soldiers," explained a young teenager who had been on his way to a friend's house but was then blocked by the tour. He lagged behind as he spoke to the Palestine Monitor, "They do not like us, I dare not go any further."
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