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International Day of Peace
Invocation Vigil
Sunday, September 21 2014
Register for the Vigil
Please add the radiations of your mind and heart to a Global Vigil of Invocation, Meditation and Prayer in support of International Day of Peace, 2014.
- Every year the United Nations calls upon individual people of goodwill and groups to observe this important International Day with activities dedicated to the creation of a culture of peace, and to a day of global cease-fire and non-violence. Read more on Peace Day website and the UN Peace Day site.
- To support this Day on a spiritual level, there will this year be a wide variety of initiatives for silence, meditation and prayer. The UN continues its important focus, inviting the people of the world to observe a minute of silence at 12 noon local time, setting up a wave of silence beginning in New Zealand and flowing around the world to end in Samoa almost 48 hours later. A range of movements are collaborating again this yearwith the vision of co-creating the Largest Globally-Synchronized Meditation and Prayer for Peace in human history : Be the Peace. This includes events around the world as well as three global attunements at 00:00 AM MIDNIGHT and 12:00 PM NOON GMT on the 21st and 00:00 AM MIDNIGHT GMT on the 22nd.
- As a contribution to the global focus the UN Days & Years Meditation Initiative and Intuition in Service have, since 2002, co-ordinated an international Vigil for the 24 hours of September 21st in all time zones - with the object of joining with people of goodwill around the world to help create an atmosphere of mind and heart that is conducive to the emergence of a culture of peace and goodwill. Full details on how to participate are here.
A Pulse of Invocative Energy
The 24 hours of September 21st are divided into 15 minute periods in every time zone on the planet. Every 15 minutes, in every time zone, groups and individuals from around the world will use an Invocation for Peace and for the values needed to create cultures of peace. Will you or your group commit yourself to spend specific 15 minute periods in prayer or meditation for a culture of peace and goodwill - beginning and ending the period with a sounding of the Great Invocation, or the Peace Invocation 'May Peace Prevail on Earth', or an invocation or prayer for world peace of your choice? Imagine the rhythmic pulse of invocation flowing from around the globe every 15 minutes.
Why Register?
Registering means that you make a conscious, planned comitment to take part in the Vigil at specific times of your choosing. By registering you let others who will be meditating at the same time know that you are linking with them. More ...
Registering is easy
Wherever you are in the world you can register to participate for as many 15 minute slots as you wish. You may wish to sign up for different periods [for example: 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM (09:00 - 10:00) 12 noon - 1:00 PM (12:00 - 13:00); 5:00 PM - 6:30PM (17:00 - 18:30); 7:00 - 7:15 PM (19:00 - 19:15)]. Remember your aim is to use the Invocation of your choice every 15 minutes. More ...
How to participate:
1. Register in advance on line - see here for full instructions and in case you have any technical difficulties.
2. Begin precisely on the quarter hour for the times you have registered by using the Great Invocation, 'May Peace Prevail on Earth' or another invocation or world prayer.
3. Link in thought with the others who are linking at the same precise time as you and then with everyone in the world who will be acting for peace on this special day.
4.Reflect on humanity's need for light, love and spiritual purpose... and recognise that each person has a role to play in creating cultures of peace and goodwill.
5.Visualise the lighted, loving energies that can create the mental and emotional understanding and atmosphere within which right relations and peace can flourish in ourselves, our communities, our nations, and our world
6.Use the Great Invocation, 'May Peace Prevail on Earth' or another world prayer of your choice precisely on the quarter hour. As you do this think of the rhythmic pulse of invocation flooding the mental environment of the planet.
Registration or Technical Difficulties?
If you have any technical problems registering or viewing the list of participants PLEASE FIRST CHECK HERE.


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A Trace in the Sand
by Ruth Malan
Architects Architecting Architecture
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I finally got my observation hive back up and running last week. This morning, I went to check on the girls and watched the queen lay a few eggs. Right before I closed the outside doors though, I noticed a little black movement at the botttom of a plastic frame. There was a little black beetle, then I noticed a few more. They were in the 1/8 space that the plastic frames use as apart of the engineered spacing at the bottom. The beetles would duck back everytime a bee walked by, then come back out and check their surroundings.
I've noticed for years the wax moth larva would get in the side spaces that were about 3/8" and build a cocoon that the bees couldn't pull out, but this was the first time I noticed the beetles using those same odd plastic spaces.
My bees never liked the plastic frames much. I used them because they were cheap and done, but over and over they've caused issues. The weight throws my extractor off, as well as catching in it. The bees take plastic foundation in a wood frame twice as fast. They warp if they get left in the sun, or because they just want to. This beetle issue is the last straw.
I was moving to foundationless anyway, it just happened that there was a lot of larva on this old plastic comb that I used to start the observation hive.


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ExoPlayer is an open source project that is not part of the Android framework and is distributed separately from the Android SDK. ExoPlayer's standard audio and video components are built on Android's MediaCodec API, which was released in Android 4.1 (API level 16). Because ExoPlayer is a library, you can easily take advantage of new features as they become available by updating your app.
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- ExoPlayer demo app—The official repository contains a demo app that showcases many advanced capabilities of the library.
- Codelab—Demonstrates how to build an Activity that plays media using ExoPlayer.
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Electronics Production | November 28, 2006
Ericsson to lay off 400
Telecom equipment maker Ericsson AB will cut up to 400 administrative and sales jobs in Stockholm, Sweden.
Ericsson said it expects between 300 and 400 workers to accept a voluntary redundancy offer that includes either a severance package or a job with staffing company Manpower Inc. as a consultant, Ericsson spokeswoman Ase Lindskog said. Ericsson, the world's largest maker of mobile phone networks, employs more than 56,000 people globally, with over 20,000 workers in Sweden.
Dymax Corp. expanding into North Carolina Global chemical manufacturer Dymax Corporation has pledged to create dozens of new jobs at a new production site in Gaston County, Commerce Secretary Anthony Copeland has announced.
Philips, U.S. Gov team up to combat COVID-19 The Netherlands-based Royal Philips and the U.S. Government have announced they will collaborate to produce hospital ventilators at Philips' U.S. manufacturing locations.
Datwyler adjusts its capacity at Mobility plants Datwyler says it is doing everything possible to protect the health of its employees, combat the spread of the coronavirus, and prevent interruptions to business operations. Adding to that the company is adjusting the capacity, cost structures and capital expenditure at its Mobility business unit.
EMA Design Automation partners with Dassault Systèmes EMA Design Automation says it has entered into a partnership with Dassault Systèmes. The companies will work towards the joint mission of connecting teams across a common data model for unified product development and collaboration.
Zollner Elektronik secures Nadcap Accreditation once again Zollner Elektronik AG has once again been successful in achieving renewed accreditation in accordance with the AC7120 international audit program of the National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (Nadcap).
tbp does its part to speed up delivery of respiratory equipment Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the Netherlands, tbp electronics has accelerated the supply of crucial components to clients in the medical sector.
OJ Electronics affected by Malaysian lockdown Danish OJ Electronics, a designer and developer of electronic controls for underfloor heating and HVAC controls and power, says that it has – until now – managed to keep its production and supply chain activities up running, without any significant impact on deliveries.
Medtronic plans to make ventilators together with Foxconn Within four to six weeks, the medtech company is expecting to be producing ventilators together with the Taiwanese EMS-giant at its plant in Wisconsin.
U.S. chipmaking industry seeks to slow export rule changes Nine semi-conductor industry groups urged U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross slow the momentum to finalizing recently proposed rules that would further limit U.S. exports of semiconductors and other technology to China.
Flex Ltd. sets goal of 30,000 ventilators a month Silicon Valley-based Flex Ltd. has started mass assembly of critically needed ventilators to meet surging demand for the machines across the United States in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Elvia PCB supports the fight against COVID-19 with PCBs European PCB manufacturer, Elvia PCB Group, has been working non-stop since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company is part of a project to manufacture thousands of ventilators by mid-May.
Neways Electronics Neunkirchen introduces short-time work Neways Electronics Neunkirchen (NEN) in Germany, is responding to the consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak and will be introducing short-time work from April 1st, 2020.
European semiconductor sales up 2.4% in February 2020 The European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA) says that European sales of semiconductors reached USD 3.323 billion in February 2020, an increase of 2.4% compared to the January 2020 total of USD 3.247 billion.
Hisense Gorenje extends production shutdown Hisense Gorenje says that it is extending its production shutdown at all its factories in Europe for another week.
Plexus starts production of ventilators in Scotland EMS provider Plexus is participating in the UK government's efforts to expedite the manufacturing of ventilators in aide of the fight against COVID-19.
NCAB appoints Peter Kruk as new CEO Following the announcement late last year that Hans Ståhl planned to retire in 2020, the board of NCAB Group has now found his successor. Peter Kruk will be taking over as the new CEO of the PCB supplier.
Comtech Telecomm Corp. issues business update New York-based Comtech Telecommunications Corp. has issued a statement on the withdrawal of its business outlook for its fiscal year ending July 31, 2020, as well as an update on its proposed purchase of the Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.
Xerox provides HP acquisition update Xerox has issued a statement regarding its earlier proposal to buy HP Inc.
As Samsung Display exits the LCD market a major reshuffle is expected According to the latest investigations by the WitsView research division of TrendForce, the oversupply of TV panels in 2019 resulted in a major price drop. As such, panel manufacturers hoped to utilise their excess capacity in 2020 through increasing their production of monitor panels, with Samsung Display (SDC) having the most extensive plans.
Swedish PCB manufacturer updates machine park PCB manufacturer MMAB's factory in the south of Sweden recently got a new drilling area with updated machines.
Ventec races to build up regional inventories to fight COVID-19 The electronics industry is playing a major role in supporting increased requirements for critical medical devices during the current COVID-19 pandemic. And with that an increase in demand of the building blocks is to be expected.
Elmatica sees a spike in demand - responds with growth in staff Growing demand, new customers and an increase in business within knowledge intensive industries, has reinforced the need for another Country Manager in Poland, a new Technical Manager and an additional resource in the Customer Service Department.
Co-operation negotiations completed at Etteplan Etteplan initiated co-operation negotiations on March 18th 2020 due to temporary changes in customer demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the negotiations have come to a complete.
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As much as the news cycle would want to move on and declare "victory" in Libya there is still very much a war going on there.
Gaddafi loyalists continue to put up a fight in the few areas they still control, people are still dying, and the rebels continue to show they can create a weapon out of pretty much anything they get their hands on. Both CNN and MSNBC have story packages with the most recent updates from this conflict running right now though, so kudos to them. [CNN, MSNBC]
You can keep up with Jack Loftus, the author of this post, on Twitter and Facebook.


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Nancy Pelosi will continue to represent San Francisco in Congress for at least another two years. Less certain is how long she'll hang onto the title of House Minority Leader.
Since Tuesday's election, in which Democrats failed to retake the House of Representatives, Pelosi has been "uncharacteristically quiet," according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
U.S. & World
She will finish her term, but it's unlikely the Democrats will win any seats in the 2014 midterm elections, the newspaper reported.
Last year, the Minority Leader's daughter, Alexandra, told media that she "would retire right now, if the donors she has didn't want her to stay too badly," the newspaper reported.
But Pelosi has a "shocking level of energy" for someone who is 72, according to the newspaper. And Democrats still view her as the "heart and soul of the Congressional caucus and the Democratic Party," retiring Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey said.
It's up to Pelosi -- and she isn't saying what she'll do.
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"How are you?"
Think about how many times you've been asked the question. Think about how many times you've answered it.
How often do you mean it?
We're all guilty of arbitrarily asking it. It's unconsciously polite; but with an undertone rooted in rudeness, given the lack of real concern in the question. I'm sure there are many times it is genuine, but if we went with ratios; the empty would far outweigh the heartfelt. Even typing this, I feel like it's a social norm we're all aware of and I'm having a Captain Obvious moment in calling attention to this. Why should it matter if it's a status quo after all?
Status quo doesn't necessarily mean "correct". I've always been a firm believer in that.
That question is SO important. I can't believe "Whip cream or no whip cream on that mocha?" ranks as a question that inspires more feeling than "How are you?". That question is an invitation to open the door on the concerns and the feelings of another person. In turn, it also allows the recipient of the question to feel like their state of being MATTERS. Make no mistake, the world can be designed to make you feel like a credit score and a census number. Real emotion is the kind of commodity to be cherished when presented.
Is this practice so accepted because we fear what lies in the hearts of others we share streets, subways, workplaces, and other places with? Or do we fear being shunned and judged if our true concerns ever came to the light? After all, it seems like a layer of cold nature seems to be looked at as more desirable than a warm heart.
Can I challenge you to change that?
The exercise I propose is that the next time someone asks you how you're doing, find your comfort zone and tell them. Alternately, if you ask that question to someone and their answer is the expected "fine", politely find a way to NOT accept that answer. For all we know, they may really be. If so, there's always supporting facts as to why; which you shall find out as a practicing DIFBer (best I can do until I find a better name for our fans) in the field :).
It's really an amazing thing what a little sincerity does for any situation. I'm just asking that you find that out for yourself. The potential to make someone's day can start with something that small if you LET it. Even the process is simple!
When Asking
1. Approach person.
2. Introduce yourself cordially.
3. Ask "how are you?". Sincerity is key.
5. React accordingly.
SIMPLE! How astounding is that? And you can start at anytime, any given moment. Do It For Brittany is based so much on the ability to be open about what one is feeling. Be it sending an email to us (firstname.lastname@example.com), checking out our Twitter @doitforbrittany, or using our Outcry section; all of these methods are based in the fundamental nature of what I'm discussing right now. "How are you" may be more powerful than "I love you" just based on the fact that EVERYBODY feels a certain way at any given time.
We live in times where nobody says what they mean and what they mean remains bottled up. Lets take back that question so it stops being an empty trio of words and an invitation for true feeling to shine through.
You'll notice I'm stressing the FEELING of this all. Because if you learn to start saying a throwaway conversation piece with the respect it deserves; you may start doing the same about other things. Showing the confidence to not only ask, but also answer with poise and truth are traits of a strong soul.
See the pattern?
Until next time: loving yourself leads to loving each other.
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Items to avoid Reasons to avoid
Alcoholic beverages Can cause intoxication, coma, and death.
Baby food Can contain onion powder, which can be toxic to dogs. (Please see onion below.) Can also result in nutritional deficiencies, if fed in large amounts.
Bones from fish, poultry, or other meat source Can cause obstruction or eslaceration of the digestive system.
Cat food Generally too high in protein and fats.
Chocolate, coffee, tea, and other caffeine Contain caffeine, theobromine, or theophylline, which can be toxic and affect the heart and nervous systems. Cocoa powder and cooking chocolate are the most toxic forms of chocolate. A 10-kilogram dog can be seriously affected if it eats a quarter of a 250gm packet of cocoa powder or half of a 250gm block of cooking chocolate. These forms of chocolate contain ten times more theobromine than milk chocolate. Thus, a chocolate mud cake could be a real health risk for a small dog. Even licking a substantial part of the chocolate icing from a cake can make a dog unwell.
Citrus oil extracts Can cause vomiting.
Fat trimmings Can cause pancreatitis.
Grapes and raisins Contain an unknown toxin, which can damage the kidneys.
Hops Unknown compound causes panting, increased heart rate, elevated temperature, seizures, and death.
Human vitamin supplements containing iron Can damage the lining of the digestive system and be toxic to the other organs including the liver and kidneys.
Large amounts of liver Can cause Vitamin A toxicity, which affects muscles and bones.
Macadamia nuts Contain an unknown toxin, which can affect the digestive and nervous systems and muscle.
Marijuana Can depress the nervous system, cause vomiting, and changes in the heart rate.
Milk and other dairy products Some adult dogs and cats do not have sufficient amounts of the enzyme lactase, which breaks down the lactose in milk. This can result in diarrhea. Lactose-free milk products are available for pets.
Moldy or spoiled food, garbage Can contain multiple toxins causing vomiting and diarrhea and can also affect other organs.
Mushrooms Can contain toxins, which may affect multiple systems in the body, cause shock, and result in death.
Onions and garlic (raw, cooked, or powder) Contain sulfoxides and disulfides, which can damage red blood cells and cause anemia. Cats are more susceptible than dogs. Garlic is less toxic than onions.
Persimmons Seeds can cause intestinal obstruction and enteritis.
Pits from peaches and plums Can cause obstruction of the digestive tract.
Potato, rhubarb, and tomato leaves; potato and tomato stems Contain oxalates, which can affect the digestive, nervous, and urinary systems. This is more of a problem in livestock.
Raw eggs Contain an enzyme called avidin, which decreases the absorption of biotin (a B vitamin). This can lead to skin and hair coat problems. Raw eggs may also contain Salmonella.
Raw fish Can result in a thiamine (a B vitamin) deficiency leading to loss of appetite, seizures, and in severe cases, death. More common if raw fish is fed regularly.
Salt If eaten in large quantities it may lead to electrolyte imbalances.
String Can become trapped in the digestive system; called a "string foreign body."
Sugary foods Can lead to obesity, dental problems, and possibly diabetes mellitus.
Table scraps (in large amounts) Table scraps are not nutritionally balanced. They should never be more than 10% of the diet. Fat should be trimmed from meat; bones should not be fed.
Tobacco Contains nicotine, which affects the digestive and nervous systems. Can result in rapid heart beat, collapse, coma, and death.
Yeast dough Can expand and produce gas in the digestive system, causing pain and possible rupture of the stomach or intestines.
White chocolate: 200 ounces per pound of body weight. It takes 250 pounds of white chocolate to cause signs of poisoning in a 20-pound dog, 125 pounds for a 10-pound dog.
Milk chocolate: 1 ounce per pound of body weight. Approximately one pound of milk chocolate is poisonous to a 20-pound dog; one-half pound for a 10-pound dog. The average chocolate bar contains 2 to 3 ounces of milk chocolate. It would take 2-3 candy bars to poison a 10 pound dog. Semi-sweet chocolate has a similar toxic level.
Sweet cocoa: 0.3 ounces per pound of body weight. One-third of a pound of sweet cocoa is toxic to a 20-pound dog; 1/6 pound for a 10-pound dog.
Baking chocolate: 0.1 ounce per pound body weight. Two one-ounce squares of bakers' chocolate is toxic to a 20-pound dog; one ounce for a 10-pound dog.


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Clinical Trials
A Study of Ritonavir (an Anti-HIV Drug) in HIV-Positive Infants and Children
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Information provided by (Responsible Party)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
First received: November 2, 1999
Last updated: October 28, 2014
Last Verified: October 2014
History of Changes
The study examines the safety and effectiveness of ritonavir (an anti-HIV drug), alone and in
combination with other anti-HIV drugs, in HIV-positive children under 2 years of age. This
study will also determine the most effective doses of ritonavir for future pediatric HIV
Infants infected with HIV by their mothers experience faster disease progression than adults or older children. Treatment with anti-HIV drugs administered at an early age may slow disease progression in infant populations.
HIV Infections
Drug : Ritonavir
Drug : Lamivudine
Drug : Zidovudine
Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase I/II Study of Ritonavir Therapy in HIV-1 Infected Infants and Children
Further study details as provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2004
Detailed Description:
As a group, vertically infected children experience more rapid disease progression than
children infected at an older age or adults. The early administration of potent
antiretroviral regimens might significantly impact the course of vertical HIV-1 infection.
Infants and children are stratified by age, representative of the developmental differences related to drug metabolism (Group I: at least 6 months - 2 years, Group II: 3-6 months, Group IIIA: 1 month - 10 weeks, IIIB: 1 month - less than 3 months). Within each age group there will be two possible dosage cohorts. All age groups will be enrolled simultaneously into dosage Cohort I, at the initial drug dosage. Progression to Cohort II (at a higher or lower drug dosage) will be decided according to safety, tolerance or viral load in Cohort I. All therapy for Group I/II, whether in Cohort I or II, will be introduced as follows: single dose of ritonavir on Day 0, ritonavir monotherapy through Day 7 AM and combination therapy from Day 7 PM through Week 104. All therapy for Group IIIA & IIIB, whether in Cohort I or II, will be introduced as follows: single dose of ritonavir on Day 0 AM and transition to combination therapy Day 0 PM through Week 104. NOTE: Progression to combination therapy for Group IIIA infants is dependent upon the results of the single-dose ritonavir pharmacokinetics (PK). If the patient is no longer at least presumed to be HIV-infected, he/she will be discontinued from the study. Replacement infants, who will not receive the single dose of ritonavir, will be acquired from Group IIIB infants; new infants that are either presumed HIV infected or have already been shown to be HIV-infected. Clinical evaluations are conducted and blood and urine samples collected regularly during the treatment period in order to quantify HIV-1 levels and determine body chemistries. Pharmacokinetic studies require additional blood sampling up to Week 16. [AS PER AMENDMENT 6/30/98: Pharmacokinetics data from Cohort I showed that the proposed Cohort II starting dose was too low. The dose for Cohort II is now increased. All subjects in Groups I, II, and III will begin combination therapy on Day 0 at the increased dose.] [AS PER AMENDMENT 3/13/00: The study has been extended for an additional 104 weeks, provided the patient's viral load is undetectable (below 400 copies/ml) at the end of the initial study period. While on the treatment extension, patients must continue their current schedule for study drug administration and completion of study visits.]
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|1 Month to 2 Years
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria
Children may be eligible for this study if they:
- Are HIV-positive. (Infants under 3 months old presumed to be HIV-positive are eligible to participate in the single-dose phase of the study.)
- Are between the ages of 4 weeks and 2 years (consent of parent or guardian required).
- Have an opportunistic (AIDS-related) infection within 2 months of study entry.
- Are allergic to 3TC and/or ZDV.
- Have received anti-HIV drugs for 6 to 12 weeks.
- Have any infections requiring treatment.
- Are experiencing wasting (significant weight loss).
- Have any malignancies (cancer).
- Have certain immune diseases, are being fed through a tube, or have HIV-related
Exclusion Criteria
Children will not be eligible for this study if they:
Contacts and LocationsChoosing 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, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00000952
Locations Show More
|United States, California
|Long Beach Memorial Med. Ctr., Miller Children's Hosp.
|Long Beach, California, United States, 90806
|UCSD Maternal, Child, and Adolescent HIV CRS
|San Diego, California, United States, 92103
|United States, District of Columbia
|Howard Univ. Washington DC NICHD CRS
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20060
|United States, Louisiana
|Tulane/LSU Maternal/Child CRS
|New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 70112
|United States, Massachusetts
|HMS - Children's Hosp. Boston, Div. of Infectious Diseases
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
|United States, New York
|NYU Med. Ctr., Dept. of Medicine
|New York, New York, United States, 10016
|Nyu Ny Nichd Crs
|New York, New York, United States, 10016
|Columbia IMPAACT CRS
|New York, New York, United States, 10032
|Incarnation Children's Ctr.
|New York, New York, United States, 10032
|Harlem Hosp. Ctr. NY NICHD CRS
|New York, New York, United States, 10037
|United States, Pennsylvania
|The Children's Hosp. of Philadelphia IMPAACT CRS
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
|United States, Tennessee
|St. Jude/UTHSC CRS
|Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 38105
Sponsors and CollaboratorsNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
|Study Chair:
|Ram Yogev
|Study Chair:
|Ellen Chadwick
More Information
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00000952 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|November 2, 1999
|Last Updated:
|October 28, 2014
Keywords provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Drug Therapy, Combination
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Anti-HIV Agents
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on March 27, 2020
This information is provided by ClinicalTrials.gov.


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Founded as a baseball concessionaire in 1915, Delaware North is now a multibillion-dollar hospitality organization in over 200 locations with over 60,000 employees worldwide. After years of creating social accounts to represent the various venues, Delaware North was faced with social sprawling that lacked strategy or business purpose.
The CMO of Delaware North, Todd Merry, wanted to:
- Secure the brand online
- Establish process and measure business impact
- Empower employees to engage with best practices
- Eliminate confusion and redundancy
Download this case study to discover the steps Delaware North took to unify its social presence. Within months the company saw increased collaboration, trust, and confidence, improved customer service, and a greater focus on ROI and brand presence.
Sharing departmental goals and being ever focused on how every effort ties back to the organization is key.


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DetailsFPGA development board designed for XILINX Spartan-3E series, features the XC3S500E onboard, and integrates various standard interfaces, pretty easy for peripheral expansions.
Open3S500E is an FPGA development board that consists of the mother board DVK600 and the FPGA core board Core3S500E.
Open3S500E supports further expansion with various optional accessory boards for specific application. The modular and open design makes it the ideal for starting application development with XILINX Spartan-3E series FPGA devices.
What's on the mother board
- FPGA CPLD core board connector: for easily connecting core boards which integrate an FPGA CPLD chip onboard
- 8I/Os_1 interface, for connecting accessory boards/modules
- 8I/Os_2 interface, for connecting accessory boards/modules
- 16I/Os_1 interface, for connecting accessory boards/modules
- 16I/Os_2 interface, for connecting accessory boards/modules
- 32I/Os_1 interface, for connecting accessory boards/modules
- 32I/Os_2 interface, for connecting accessory boards/modules
- 32I/Os_3 interface, for connecting accessory boards/modules
All the I/O interfaces above:
- capable of being simulated as USART, I2C, SPI, PS/2, etc.
- capable of driving devices such as FRAM, FLASH, USB, Ethernet, etc.
- SDRAM interface
- for connecting SDRAM accessory board
- also works as FPGA CPLD pins expansion connectors
- LCD interface, for connecting LCD22, LCD12864, LCD1602
- ONE-WIRE interface: easily connects to ONE-WIRE devices (TO-92 package), such as temperature sensor (DS18B20), electronic registration number (DS2401), etc.
- 5V DC jack
- Joystick: five positions
- Buzzer
- Potentiometer: for LCD22 backlight adjustment, or LCD12864, LCD1602 contrast adjustment
- Power switch
- Buzzer jumper
- ONE-WIRE jumper
- Joystick jumper
For jumpers 17-19:
- short the jumper to connect to I/Os used in example code
- open the jumper to connect to other custom pins via jumper wires
The DVK600 supports a wide range of different core boards, therefore, some of the interfaces may be Not-Connected and useless while connecting to certain core board. For instance, while connecting to Core3S500E/CoreEP2C8, the '⑧ 32I/Os_3' is Not-Connected.
What's on the Core3S500E
- XC3S500E:the XILINX Spartan-3E FPGA device which features:
- Operating Frequency: 50MHz
- Operating Voltage: 1.15V~3.3V
- Package: QFP208
- I/Os: 116
- LEs: 500K
- RAM: 360kb
- DCMs: 4
- Debugging/Programming: supports JTAG
- AMS1117-3.3, 3.3V voltage regulator
- AMS1117-2.5, 2.5V voltage regulator
- AMS1117-1.2, 1.2V voltage regulator
- XCF04S, onboard serial FLASH memory, for storing code
- Power indicator
- LEDs
- FPGA initialization indicator
- Reset button
- nCONFIG button: for re-configuring the FPGA chip, the equivalent of power reseting
- 50M active crystal oscillator
- JTAG interface: for debugging/programming
- FPGA pins expander, VCC, GND and all the I/O ports are accessible on expansion connectors for further expansion
Note: The Open3S500E does NOT integrate any programming/debugging function, a programmer/debugger is required.
The Open3S500E FPGA development board comes with various examples codes for the supported peripherals, which give you a quick start to develop your own application.
Peripheral Description Interface Verilog VHDL AT24CXX EEPROM I2C Y Y FM24CXX FRAM I2C Y Y AT45DBXX DATAFLASH SPI Y PCF8563 RTC I2C Y PCF8591 4xAD, 1xDA I2C Y DS18B20 Temperature sensor 1-WIRE Y SP3232 Serial communication UART Y Y SP3485 Serial communication UART Y Y PL2303 USB TO UART UART Y Y CY7C68013A USB DEVICE I/Os Y Buzzer Sound device 1I/O (PWM) Y Y PS/2 keyboard Input device PS/2 Y Y Single buttons Input device ---- Y Y 4x4 keypad Input device 8I/Os Y Y Joystick Input device 5I/Os Y Y LED Display device ---- Y Y 8 SEG LED Display device 13I/Os Y Y VGA monitor Display device VGA Y Y Character LCD Display device 11I/Os Y Y Graphic LCD Display device 11I/Os Y Y
Debugging/Programming Interface
The Open3S500E FPGA development board integrates JTAG interface for programming/debugging.
Development Resources
- Related software (Xilinx ISE 12 - supports Winxp/Win7, doesn't support Win8)
- Demo code (Verilog, VHDL)
- Schematic (PDF)
- FPGA development documentations
- Package Content
Weight: 0.333 kg
Quick Overview
Package Contains
The "Standard Package" and "Accessory Boards Package" below are included.
Standard Package
- Open3S500E development board x 1
- 4-pin wire x 2
- 2-pin wire x 2
- USB power cable x 1
Accessory Boards Package
- VGA PS2 Board x 1
- PL2303 USB UART Board (mini) x 1
- AT45DBXX DataFlash Board x 1
- FM24CLXX FRAM Board x 1
- CY7C68013A USB Board (mini) x 1
- PCF8563 RTC Board x 1
- PCF8591 AD DA Board x 1
- DS18B20 x 1
- LCD1602 (3.3V Blue Backlight) x 1
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(CNN) -- With a flick of the wrist, James Johnson uses an elongated cotton swab along the inside of his 102-year old mother's cheek.
Mineola Johnson, 102, is the matriarch of the Rand family's African-American descendants.
He's taken the first step in his search for answers to an existential question that plagues a majority of black Americans: Where did my ancestors come from?
For the Johnsons -- cousins of the Rand family, who are featured in "CNN Presents: Black in America" -- the answer arrives in the form of a certificate from African Ancestry Inc., a Maryland-based company that specializes in ancestral DNA testing for black Americans.
For this story, producers for the groundbreaking CNN documentary series facilitated the DNA sampling of matriarch Mineola Johnson to find out more about the Rand family's African roots.
Rand family members say William Harrison "Hal" Rand (1822-1909), a white farmer and slave owner whose great-grandfather emigrated to America from Kent, England, married Sarah Ann "Sallie" Mullens (1820-1893), and fathered the children of Ann Albrooks Rand, a black woman (1836-1907).
Not much is known about Ann Albrooks Rand, but family members speculate that she was a domestic servant, based on U.S. Census data from 1870. See photos of the Rand family members »
Census records indicate that Ann and her children lived near their white half-brothers and -sisters fathered by William H. Rand.
It's a story shared by many African-Americans whose ancestors made the middle passage and were sold into slavery. Slave women often bore children by their white masters, some by force and others as a consequence of a romantic relationship. See the results of the test, along with a Rand family tree »
The "middle passage" refers to the middle leg of a three-part ship voyage during slave-trading times, around 1600 to 1800, when Africans destined for slavery arrived in the Americas as human cargo. They were traded for goods that would then be shipped to Europe, the last leg of the journey.
To find out more about Ann Rand and her African roots, a DNA sample was taken from her closest living relative, great-granddaughter Mineola Johnson.
The results were prepared by Rick Kittles, Ph.D., CEO and founder of African Ancestry Inc., and presented on video during a recent family gathering in Marshall, Texas.
More than a dozen members of the Johnson family and their Rand cousins met at a local church where the pastor is also kin.
The families sat in silence, their eyes fixed on the television screen. Many were anxious and unsure what to expect from the analysis.
Then, from the television monitor, Kittles read the results. Watch Kittles explain the results of the DNA tests »
"The person who took the test, Ms. Mineola Johnson, we isolated the DNA from her swab and were able to determine an identical match among the Mende people from Sierra Leone," Kittles said.
Jaws dropped, and others nodded in acknowledgment. There was a sense of relief; they had a name of a people and a place that was part of their past.
"I feel more enlightened," said Rubystein McGhee, a retired teacher and the family genealogist, who is also a cousin of the Johnsons'. "I knew about Africa but didn't know where we came from."
For the Johnsons and the Rands, it's a profound moment: discovering an ancestral past that has been an enigma.
"It was shocking ... [an] amazing experience that is hard to express," said James Johnson, Mineola's 75-year-old son. "We know where we are, to know the depth of what we know today is truly a historical moment in my life and my whole family's life."
Johnson's results were fairly typical, according to Kittles, who estimates that one-third of his clients can trace their roots to the same region. Kittles believes that it's because what is now Sierra Leone was a common route for the slave trade.
Johnson's DNA sequence was a 99.7 percent match to the Mende people, and Kittles says his database is so large that most clients have a direct match.
"Once we get the sequence -- what we called the DNA profiles from the African-American that is being tested -- we compare that profile to profiles in the database," Kittles explained. "We run through all of those thousands of lineages and look for matches, and most of the time, we find an identical match."
Kittles claims to have a database of more than 25,000 lineages from more than 384 African ethnic groups.
African Ancestry sells two types of DNA kits: one that traces the paternal roots and another that traces the maternal side. Both sell for $349 and are available on the company's Web site. For about $600, clients can test both matrilineal and patrilineal roots.
Kittles estimates that his company has sold 13,000 DNA kits.
However, some experts warn families to read the results from these types of DNA tests with a grain of salt.
"Just like with any science, there are always some limitations. You can't answer all questions, because you can't take one simple test to say everything about a person's DNA," Kittles admitted.
"It's important to understand that these markers we're looking at only tell us about one or two lineages out of the hundreds of lineages we have of people who have contributed to our DNA," he said.
Though it's extensive, Kittles says, African Ancestry's database is not complete and reflects only about 45 percent of the continent of Africa.
Perry Payne, Ph.D., an assistant research professor at George Washington University, says that results from DNA testing such as this can reveal only a fraction of one's African ancestry. But for African-Americans like himself, that fraction "is better than nothing."
Mineola Johnson's DNA type is "a fairly common type found in sub-Saharan Africa," according to Bert Ely, a molecular geneticist and professor at the University of South Carolina. Ely is also a principal investigator for the African-American Roots Project, a nonprofit group that studies the genealogy of black Americans.
After analyzing Johnson's DNA results, Ely speculated that at least 20 groups scattered throughout Africa, including Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Mali and Sierra Leone, share mitochondrial DNA.
Mitochondrial DNA passes unchanged from mother to child, making it useful to trace maternal lineage. Although both sons and daughters inherit mtDNA from their mothers, only daughters can pass mitochondrial DNA to their children.
"What our research has shown ... for about half of the mitochondrial DNA that is researched today, they have exact matches, 100 percent, to other mitochondrial DNA found in several, even more than 20 groups because of there's been a mixing of people within Africa," Ely said.
For example, Ely points to historical evidence that shows massive migrations among people living in Africa. The Mende people were no exception. They didn't always live in Sierra Leone and at some point merged with other ethnic groups.
"This is the prime example of how you can have a match that hits lots of different ethnic groups in lots of different places," Ely said.
Even though DNA testing for African-Americans seems promising, experts say the results could be misleading.
"Sampling today's Mende as opposed to the Mende people that existed during the time of the slave trade is completely different," Ely said. "They are talking about a probability. The most likely thing isn't necessarily the one that happened."
Genealogy is one of the most-searched subjects on the Internet. About 78 percent of Americans are interested in learning more about their roots, according to a February 2007 study by Ancestry.com.
That interest is not lost on African-Americans, descendants of slaves who were robbed of their African past. But why is the interest in the history of black Americans so much more acute?
"Because we have this brick wall we hit when we trace our family history," Kittles said. "This is a tool that allows us to cross the Atlantic and place ourselves somewhere on the shores of Africa."
For Rubystein McGhee, who has kept track of the family's American roots, knowing something about their African heritage is better than nothing.
"It's so wonderful to know something about Ann Albrooks Rand," McGhee said. "This puts some more meaning to our heritage."
CNN's Jack Lyons and Brian Rokus contributed to this report
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 166 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
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Once an idea is approved and agreements signed, Appubator will fund the development and marketing of the application and both parties will share in the App's success.
Our focus is on consumer & small-business applications (media, gaming, e-commerce, and information services).
Appoubator is based in the Raleigh/Durham Triangle of North Carolina.
We're targeting smartphone users (18-49, male or female) who enjoy using computers and mobile technologies but may not be overly technical or business-savvy.
The logo should project the following attributes:
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Biblical Counseling is a topical index for Christian living. It lists more than 200 topics describing difficult situations that every one of us, believers and nonbelievers alike, may face in life at one time or another.
Each topic is listed alphabetically, that contains Pastor Chucks commentary with illustrations to explain clearly and simply what God has to say. Next we added a list of Scripture references that pertain to each topic, categorizing them as:
Gods Perspective: How God views a situation; His commandments for or against it.
Gods Promises: What God will do for someone who chooses to obey His Word.
How to Make a Change: How a person can live in a way that pleases God.
Biblical Examples: Events and characters in the Bible that portray the topic.
Prayers Found in the Bible: Actual prayers as an example or pattern to emulate.
When people came to Pastor Chuck distraught and heartbroken, seeking his counsel for their personal dilemma, he simply replied, The best thing I can do is give you Gods Word rather than my own thoughts or opinions.
When you need guidance, when mans counsel has left you confused and discouraged, go to the Word of God because God has already given you His counsel.
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Just when you all were sick of us writing about rich people spending money and driving fast, comes a story from Utah about a cracked-up Enzo owned by
Steve Richard Losee of Provo. Larry Miller organizes the Fast Pass rally in the land of the greatest snow on earth to raise money for families of Utah Highway Patrol officers killed in the line of duty. In exchange, troopers shut down sections of the state's roads for the participants — who've dropped a $5,000 entry fee — to open their cars up.
Somewhere on State Route 257, Losee lost control of the Enzo at around 100mph and tore the poor car to shreds. Losee was airlifted to Utah Valley Medical Center in Provo with a number of fractures. Stefan Eriksson was unavailable for comment. [Thanks to Scott for the tip.]
Provo driver crashes his $1.3M Ferrari during road rally [Salt Lake Tribune via KSL.com]
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In accordance with the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA), each postsecondary institution in the United States that participates in Title IV student aid programs must post a net price calculator on its Web site that uses institutional data to provide estimated net price information to current and prospective students and their families based on a student's individual circumstances.
The calculated awards are based on the median amounts of grant and scholarship aid awarded to, and accepted by, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking students by EFC (expected family contribution). Actual student federal grants range from $0-$5,775 using 2015-2016 financial aid data.
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Meet Experts On Developmental Disabilities
Waisman Center highlights Grandparents Network.
Understanding how developmental disabilities occur, what causes them and how to deal with them, can be a daunting challenge. Even parents of children with developmental disabilities can struggle to understand the impact this has on their lives and the life of their child, to say nothing of extended family.
The Waisman Center on the UW Madison Campus is one of the world's leading research centers on these special disabilities, and thanks in large part to Judith Ward the Center is having a special first annual Waisman Center Day with the Experts. The highlight is the Grandparents Network, a new program focused on grandparents of children and adults with disabilities. The idea is to help grandparents enhance the unique resources they offer to help others dealing with developmental disabilities. There will be plenty of Waisman Center experts on hand and the whole thing just makes such great sense to us we're happy to share it with you. You need to register at the Waisman Center website. We urge you to do so.


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In addition to standard design FNL flanged housings, variants are also available. Variants include housings with centring recesses and grease escape holes.
Centring recesses
FNL flanged housings can be supplied with a machined recess, which can be used to centre the housing on a shoulder. With this arrangement, the attachment bolts are not subjected to shear forces. The shoulder can be provided either by machining the wall or by attaching a guide ring to the wall.
FNL housings with a machined recess can be supplied on request and are identified by the designation suffix P, e.g. FNL 511 BP. Dimensions for the recess and the shoulder or guide ring are listed in table 1.
Grease escape hole
FNL flanged housings can be supplied with a grease escape hole in the cover (fig. 1). This housing variant can be supplied on request and is identified by the designation suffix V, e.g. FNL 511 AV.


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Mathematics is one of the oldest and most important sciences. Whenever and wherever humans apply their mind to analyzing and modeling, they are doing mathematics. The importance of mathematics is reflected in a multitude of publications. To cope with them, the first abstract journal in mathematics, "Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik" (JFM) was founded in 1868, followed by "Zentralblatt für Mathematik" (zbMATH) in 1932.
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The Mathematics Portal EMIS offers a central access point to all of FIZ Karlsruhe's mathematics databases. Also available are a web search engine for mathematics and special pages dealing with selected topics from applied mathematics and the history and didactics of mathematics, and ELibM, the world's biggest open access digital library in mathematics.
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"Geek Out" returns to Bovine Metropolis with Star Trek, Avengers, Saved by the Bell
Last fall's "Geek Out in the Teacher's Lounge" series went so well for Denver improv mainstay Bovine Metropolis Theater that the company is bringing it back on Saturdays throughout January and February.
Simply titled "Geek Out," the show welcomes a different expert each week to talk about topics as nerd-friendly as "Lord of The Rings," the Avengers, "Doctor Who" and "Star Trek."
Between the trivia and lecturing, Bovine's instructors will improvise a show on the subject — one that we hope benefits from the fine, nerdy details they will have just absorbed. Check out the details and full list of programming below.


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Hubble Captures Saturn's Double Light Show (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In January and March 2009, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took advantage of a rare opportunity to record Saturn when its rings were edge-on, resulting in a unique movie featuring the nearly symmetrical light show at both of the giant planet's poles.
It takes Saturn almost thirty years to orbit the Sun, with the opportunity to image both of its poles occurring only twice during that time. The light shows, called aurorae, are produced when electrically charged particles race along the planet's magnetic field and into the upper atmosphere where they excite atmospheric gases, causing them to glow. Saturn's aurorae resemble the same phenomena that take place at the Earth's poles.
The 2009 Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys data used in this movie have allowed astronomers to monitor the behavior of Saturn's poles in the same shot over a sustained period of time and to analyze the planet's northern and southern lights simultaneously.
The northern auroral oval appears to be slightly smaller and more intense than the southern one, implying that Saturn's magnetic field is not equally distributed across the planet; it is slightly uneven and stronger in the north than the south.
Besides the double aurora show, a number of Saturn's moons, or satellites, are seen passing the disk of their parent planet.
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Emily Badger
Emily Badger is a former staff writer at CityLab. Her work has previously appeared in Pacific Standard, GOOD, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Times. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
There's an old map that I love inside the Library of Congress, upstairs through the Great Hall and a short walk into the marble-tiled gallery where the story of the creation of the United States unfolds. I carry a facsimile of it in my mind and a surreptitious snapshot of it on my cell phone. It is vast, about 5 feet by 7 feet, and it takes up most of a temporary display wall next to a small reproduction of a letter from Virginia surveyor and frontier soldier George Mercer letting George Washington know that yes, he definitely would like to join that English scouting group hoping to exploit Indian lands west of the Ohio River.
My map – "a map of the British and French dominions in North America, with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements" – is inscribed in the lower right-hand corner, inside an elaborate inset of palm fronds, plump angels and supplicating natives, by the Earl of Halifax's most obliged and very humble servant, John Mitchell. His world dates to 1755.
The United States doesn't yet exist. We haven't yet decided what we're going to call the Great Lakes, or whether we want to honor the Indians who named them first. Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia all theoretically extend inland more than a thousand miles in hand-colored stripes of fading pink, green, and yellow. To the north, the pink patch that is New York expands greedily all the way to Nova Scotia. Opposite the Atlantic Ocean, the map ends abruptly at the 107th meridian west, beyond which Mitchell runs out of things to say.
I love this map for one miniscule reference that speaks to a modern geographic rift John Mitchell never saw coming in the 18th century. Just below the Great Falls on the Virginia shore of the "Potowmack" River, in something like 4-point type, he notes the existence of a port town sizable enough in 1755 to warrant mentioning to the Earl of Halifax: "Alexandria."
Across the river, the District of Columbia does not yet exist. There is nothing there worth mentioning. And this is Exhibit A, the place where I begin my argument. See, Alexandria was here first, in the pre-Revolutionary age of the Iroquois and the unknown West. Clearly, it can't be a suburb.
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Growing up, this was the most vicious epithet I could imagine hurling at anyone: the s-word. Suburbanite. I was raised in a walk-up three-flat on the South Side of Chicago just off 51st Street, in a neighborhood of both historic Frank Lloyd Wright homes and middle-income housing that I believed gave me a unique view on the universe. We never went to the suburbs and I knew hardly anyone who lived there. Such people were The Other.
I have always enjoyed cherry-picking for outsiders what I think are the most evocative details about growing up in this place. I rode the bus by myself more often than I ever did my bike. We had periodic weapons inspections at the neighborhood high school. My mother never gave me a curfew. But we had a routine where I was to call in the middle of the night any time I drove home alone so that she could climb out of bed, shuffle to the front window, and watch me park and walk into our building, lest anyone snatch me in the intervening 20 feet.
All of these details, I think, reflect well on me. And now that I'm trying to finger where I got this idea, it occurs to me I knew no one as a kid – my mother, my friends, their parents – who didn't share it. The city was innately virtuous because it had different kinds of people and more museums and a Chinatown. And if you were not willing to go through the occasional weapons inspection to win access to all of that, then clearly your priorities were wrong.
Correspondingly, I learned growing up that these are the things that did not reflect well on a person: Not knowing how to use public transit. Not knowing how to parallel park. Having a front yard. Knowing where the mall is located and what takes place inside of one. Knowing no one who has ever been mugged. Living in a home that looks identical to your neighbor's. Looking, yourself, just like all your neighbors.
I never thought to articulate exactly what this awful sin was that living in suburbia said about someone (that such people are insular? homogenous? uninteresting? have too much money?). But I was sure the suburbs could permanently mar the very personality and character of everyone who lived there. And in all my fretting about this distant place, I nursed a silent, quaking fear that the worst fate that could befall an urban kid as a grownup would be to move there.
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Today, the Alexandria of John Mitchell's map is the Alexandria where I live. By 1755, the town had already been surveyed and the land parcels auctioned off in a neat street grid about one mile by a mile-and-a-half abutting the Potomac River. The whole of the port city was then the neighborhood that is today called Old Town, and my apartment sits right at its center. On another map, an 1845 town plan in the neighborhood's history museum, I can see that even the alley that runs alongside my building was practically an original.
In other maps of this era, Washington is itself a modest town of cross-hatching streets, cut from the original L'Enfant Plan, with Alexandria – a distinctly separate place – sitting downriver about five miles. When I look at these old maps, it seems vaguely offensive to me in retrospect that a town would 1) sprout up several miles away at a later moment in history, 2) sprawl in the direction of its older, more historic neighbor, and then 3) declare all the people who live there to be peripheral hangers-on.
There is an accidental quality to the birth of large cities, to the reasons why they take root and grow, or don't. Maybe at some point the railway came through or a hurricane did not. Maybe the first settlers ran out of breath on what turned out to be the prime real estate on the river. Here, for unpredictable reasons – because George Washington wanted it so, because a series of random events then ensued – the District of Columbia became the "city" and Alexandria its sidekick. This has happened throughout the country. Why did San Francisco become the boomtown and Oakland its appendage? Why does Dallas now come before Fort Worth, Minneapolis before St. Paul?
Today, the Potomac looms in Washington like some kind of supernatural psychological barrier. When I turn up in the District for a meeting or a dinner out, people profusely thank me for my trouble in having traveled "all the way across the river," as if I've just decamped from a day's voyage on my covered wagon. They appear uncomprehending when I explain that the metro system travels to my doorstep, too. This is the strange spatial logic of the city, and it's shaped differently in every place, between Jersey City and New York, Tampa and St. Petersburg.
The original southern boundary of the District of Columbia in fact was located off the southern tip of Old Town on the river, where a crumbling sandstone pillar still marks the spot today. Surveyors laying out the future capital in 1791 started at Jones Point and traced the District's original 100 square-mile diamond north from here. Not only did Alexandria exist first, it provided the bearing point from which Washington came into being. Old Town was part of the District for its first five decades, until 1846, when the good people of Alexandria (or at least the wealthy white men living here at the time) voted to part ways with the capital.
This is my Argument No. 2: Alexandria can't be a suburb because it was included inside Washington's first contiguous diamond, and we only later left because we wanted to. So there.
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Admittedly, much of my logic here flows from a defensive place in my heart where I suspect that I have reneged on a nonnegotiable childhood prohibition. It also strikes me, though, that where I live can't possibly be a suburb, because it has none of the fingerprints of the place I believe most people (including my younger self) imagine when they use that word. Old Town is no post-1950s auto-oriented subdivision. No one has a driveway. There are no strip malls. The buildings all look different. Many of them are 200 years old and built in brick. No one builds in brick anymore (unless forced to by historic preservation rules?), especially not in the suburbs. I can walk to my grocery store, my coffee shop, my favorite Lebanese restaurant and my dry cleaner's. There are gravestones in the neighborhood older than most incorporated towns.
Generally, when people talk about suburbia, I believe they are talking about a kind of place that contradicts this picture, not a geographic place outside some arbitrary (and shifting) municipal boundary.
But as I have been drilling deeper into the distinction, I realize I don't know exactly what defines a "suburb" as such. Is it a matter of geography? Authenticity? History? Density? Diversity? Housing stock? Land-use patterns? Auto dependence?
Old Town originated "smart growth" 250 years ago. It is a deeply authentic place, in both its rich history and its sense of self. We have no Applebees, and I suspect my neighbors would take up arms, or at least flyers, if one ever approached us. Geographically, we are not far from the urban center on which we supposedly feed. On a nice day, I can jog there. I am as close here to downtown Washington as my childhood home was to the Chicago Loop. The distance from my door to the Lincoln Memorial is well less than one tip of Manhattan to the other.
And so proximity can't be the thing. Or homogeneity: we don't have that, either, in building stock or population. But in all the criteria I've devised to judge this place, to peg it on some urban-suburban continuum and justify my home here, the question still nags at me. Do I really live in the suburbs? So many people seem to think I do.
Part of me now suspects that what I was really failing to articulate as a bratty kid was this: to live in the city is to take a kind of risk, while to live in suburbia is to avoid it. Cities are amazing places because, in exchange for all their downsides – crime, noise, congestion, metal detectors – there is always the possibility of stumbling upon a bar or a person or an idea that doesn't exist in less cacophonous places. But you have to accept that risk. Alexandria, I secretly suspect, has never asked this of me.
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2 lbs 93% lean ground beef
3/4 cup beet ketchup
1 egg, beaten
1 cup fresh bread crumbs*
1 small onion, grated
2 cloves garlic, grated**
sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
Preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl, mix together the beef, egg, bread crumbs, onion, garlic and 3 tablespoons of the beet ketchup. Form into a loaf. Place in a loaf pan (or, preferably, a meatloaf pan). Brush the top with the remaining beet ketchup. Bake for 50 minutes or until fully cooked. Wait a few minutes before slicing.
*I just pulsed a couple of wedges of leftover schiacciata all'olio in the Vita Mix until it formed crumbs.
**Since I used my Vita Mix for the bread crumbs, I went ahead and used it to chop up the onions and garlic to a grated texture.


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Marriage makes a difference to your brain – and the safety of your world.
We live in a co-habiting world. Many of us do not even bother to walk down the aisle anymore. So my neuroscientist colleague Jim Coan's recent finding that our brains make a real distinction between formal marriage and living together in terms of how we deal with danger and threat is totally fascinating. (more…)


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Mizzou Track Gets First Taste of SEC Road Competition
LEXINGTON, KY -- The Tigers continued their exciting start to the SEC-debut season Friday at day one of the Rod McCravy Memorial Meet. Highlighted by the field events crew, the day started with senior Kelcy Vanarsdall, who led the Tigers into the meet with a fifth-place finish in the pentathlon.
The 60m hurdles started the five-event competition, and Vanarsdall finished with a 9.48, her best season-starting mark for the competition. She went on to come in at 1.48m (4-10.25) in the high jump, 11.90m (39-0.5) in the shot put, 4.76 (15-7.5) in the long jump, and ended her day with an indoor PR of 2:19.14 in the 800m run. She earned a total of 3,395 points throughout the day, her second-best career mark.
Next up was the women's weight throw, where sophomore Kearsten Peoples put herself up on the Top Ten All-Time board for the second time this season, finishing seventh with a top throw of 18.71m (61-4.5). Fellow senior, Jacob Bullinger, also threw his way into another Top Ten spot, nudging into the #10 slot with a mark of 19.63m (64-4.75) to finish second.
Freshman high jumper Karter Moran left with a new best mark, topping his 1.92m (6-3.5) jump from last Friday after finishing the competition at 1.97m (6-5.5). Sophomore Mitch Hatten finished fourth in the high jump, tying his PR of 2.02m (6-7.5) from last Friday.
Senior Malcolm Pennix and freshman Tony Carodine were also back in action for the long jump, earning a pair of first place finishes for the Invitational and Open competitions. Pennix, who started the season with a Missouri Invitational meet record performance of 7.78m (25-6.25), claimed another win today in the Invitational competition with a best mark of 7.49m (24-6.75). Freshman Tony Carodine, who finished behind Pennix at the Missouri Invitational with a jump of 7.05m (23-1.5), took a win in the Open competition today, marking in at 6.82m (22-4.5).
The day ended with the men's 5,000m run, where junior Hayden Legg and senior Phil Bascio battled close competition to finish second and ninth, respectively. Legg crossed in 14:42.5, just shy of his 14:42.32 PR, and Bascio finished in 15:17.86.
The Tigers will resume competition Saturday morning, with the 3,000m run starting the day for the black and gold at 10:30 a.m.


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There's something bothering Kobe Bryant, and it goes beyond the skepticism on whether he could return from a fractured left knee, let alone play at an elite level again.
Bryant also sounded disturbed on the notion that his fractured left knee related to the left Achilles tendon he shattered that sidelined him for the past eight months.
"Because it's Christmas, I'll refrain from being a smart (aleck)," Bryant said before the Lakers' 101-95 loss Wednesday to the Miami Heat at Staples Center. "I don't think one had anything to do with the other. We evaluated it pretty extensively. The fact of the matter is any of us can get hurt at any moment. The key for us as an athlete is to block that fear out."
The Lakers estimate Bryant will remain sidelined for five more weeks after fracturing his left knee in the Lakers' win last week against Memphis. During that game Bryant's knee collided with the knee of Memphis guard Tony Allen in the third quarter. Bryant said Allen "has defended me the best individually since I've been in the league" for the past 18 seasons.
Bryant still played in the game and only saw Lakers team doctor Steve Lombardo the following day for precautionary measures.
"I was expecting a bone bruise," Bryant said. "I actually thought Lombardo was joking when he told me. He said it was not funny. He said it was quite serious."
Therefore, Bryant essentially played on one foot for the second half of the Lakers' win against Memphis, in which he scored team-leading 21 points on 9-of-18 shooting and also had four assists and four turnovers in 33 minutes.
"I didn't know it was fractured," Bryant said. "I don't think any of us did. It's one of those things where you don't know. You go out there and play. The knee is stiff and it's painful, but it was now one of those things I've played with in the past."
Getting defensive
Nick Young's defensive responsibilities this season have ascended into uncharted territory.
Hustling on defense. Taking charges. And defending … LeBron James?
Yup, it happened. Young guarded James, who posted a modest 19 points on 7-of-14 shooting. Save for James throwing down a fast-break dunk, Young drew a positive review.
"He'll come at you. He's not daunted by anything," Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni said of Young. "I think he did OK, as well as anybody. LeBron didn't come in and kill us. That's good. Normally he does."
Young relished the chance.
"I wasn't about to say, 'Nah, coach. I'm scared,' " said Young, who also scored a team-leading 20 points on 7-of-18 shooting. "I just went in and did my job and tried to do the best I could."
Rough return
The Lakers received a stocking stuffer, with Jordan Farmar returning to the lineup after missing the past 10 games because of a strained left hamstring. But Farmar struggled, scoring three points on 1-of-7 shooting, with two assists and four turnovers in 32 minutes.
"If I could have done that and I would have contributed offensively, I think we would have been right there playing for the win at the end of the game," Farmar said. "I'm bummed that it didn't work out the way I would have liked, but I understand what's at stake or what happened out here. I hadn't played basketball for quite a while, so it's just a matter of time before I get back into my rhythm."
D'Antoni called the performance "rusty," but anticipated Farmar will round into form within the next week.
"He got through the game without getting hurt," D'Antoni said. "That's the most important thing."


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EC backed project aims to recover Spanish dairy whey for functional formulations
The initiative – known as VALORLACT – aims to prevent cheese producing dairies in the Basque region from treating whey as a waste material, where currently 25 million litres are discarded as waste every year.
In doing so, the project will protect environmental issues from the disposal of the waste and help small and medium sized dairy's to build healthier profits by transforming the whey into ingredients for food and biofuel production.
Due to run until 2015, the VALORLACT initiative also represents "a new business opportunity for the cheese-making sector and for foodstuff production."
The team behind the project noted that if the disposal of whey is not properly managed then it can easily become an environmental contaminant.
"That is why AZTI-Tecnalia experts, in collaboration with the other organisations involved, are going to design a plan of action which aims to recycle over 80% of the whey produced by cheese-making dairies in the Basque Country."
The plant will use new technologies to transform whey into new, high-value, ingredients that are geared towards human and animal consumption. The project leaders added that they will focus in particular on helping small and medium-sized producers "for whom this will be an opportunity to diversify their offer and, consequently, to be more competitive."
The project may also represent an opportunity for the food industry to access a low-cost, raw material that will also enhance the nutritional quality of the of food and beverage products.
"The project will include technical, economic and environmental feasibility studies, including lifecycle assessment, resulting in a detailed, assessed, demonstrated, validated and agreed procedure to valorise whey generated in the Basque Country."
The project expects to contribute to improvements in the overall environmental performance of the dairy sector, said the project leaders, who added that the project aims to:
- Put into operation a pilot whey treatment plant with a capacity of 250 litres/hr;
- Build a pilot plant to extract biogas from lactose with a capacity of 1,500 litres/day;
- Enable the collection and valorisation of more than 80% of whey generated in the area - equivalent to more than 18 million litres per year (18,000 tonnes per year) of whey;
- Produce and validate 5 tonnes of animal feed and at least 100 kg (350 units) of food products;
- Generate 6,400 m3 of biogas – offering a reduction of 56 000 kg of CO2-equivalent emissions;
- Define and agree a system for ongoing revalorisation of whey in the Basque Country;
- Define the conditions and technology necessary for implementation of the system in other regions.


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VNL Named Technology Pioneer 2010 by World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers 2010 Geneva, Switzerland: The World Economic Forum announced today the 2010 Technology Pioneers. VNL was named as one of only 26 companies world wide to receive this prestigious award. The selection showcases the most innovative start-ups that will have a critical impact on the future of business and society. Rajiv Mehrotra, Founder, Chairman & CEO of VNL will join the World Economic Forum community during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010 in January at Davos.
Technology Pioneers are nominated by Forum members and partners, technology experts, venture capital firms, technology incubators, entrepreneurs, innovators, current Technology Pioneers and alumni and the Selection Advisory Committee, an external group of technology experts in specific fields. Short-listed nominees are evaluated by an external selection advisory committee comprised of technology experts within the specific fields.
Rajiv Mehrotra said:
"VNL's solar powered WorldGSM telecom equipment is already changing the lives of people in a very substantial way. Villagers are making their first phone calls. We are showing the telecom industry that there is another way to reach rural networks profitably. I am proud of the work VNL has done to re-engineer GSM for rural populations. While there are more challenges to face, this validation proves that we are on the right track to make history."
- For more information on the Technology Pioneer Awards or the World Economic Forum, click here: http://www.weforum.org/techpioneers
- To become a fan of VNL on Facebook, click here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/VNL-Microtelecom-For-The-Next-Billion-Mobile-Users/
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- To follow VNL on Twitter, click here: http://twitter.com/VNL_India
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Feb 15-18, 2010: Mobile World Congress 2010, Fira de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
VNL (www.vnl.in) is substantially changing the way operators will build networks in the future. As the innovator of zero opex networks and the pioneer of microtelecom, their simple to install solar powered cellular base stations help mobile operators maximize their profit margins by reaching rural markets profitably. The management team includes telecom industry veterans with vast experience in bringing products and services to entirely new markets. Its Founder, Chairman & CEO, Rajiv Mehrotra, started the Shyam Group of companies and established some of the earliest GSM, CDMA and fixed networks in India serving millions of people today.
For more information, visit the company website at www.vnl.in or contact VNL's PR representative Bridget Fishleigh (+44 7946 342 903, email@example.com or Skype: bridgetfishleigh).


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Convergent Wealth Advisors recruited an ex-Goldman Sachs (GS) wealth advisor on Thursday to help it recruit more clients and partner advisors.
The boutique firm, which caters to ultrahigh-net-worth clients and has some $11 billion in assets, also says it wants to double the level of assets it manages over the next five years by bringing in more partners and clients.
Charles Winn joins the group in New York, where he will support the group's business development and client relations. The 20-year industry veteran will split his time between New York and Los Angeles.
"There's nobody else like Charlie, who is joining us at the senior level," said Convergent President and COO Douglas Wolford, in an interview with ThinkAdvisor. "He will work with us [to attract] other advisors and professionals with certain specialties to join the firm."
The boutique wealth business is a "different model" in the industry, Wolford explains. "We are required to be and strive to be as conflict-free as we possibly can, and we are not selling any of our [branded] services or products. We are seated on the same side of the table as the client. It's a big plus."
"I was drawn to Convergent by the quality of its management, size, entrepreneurial spirit, extreme client focus and vision," said Winn in an interview. "It's a perfect fit."
Most Convergent clients have between $1 million and $1 billion of investable assets. The average level they place with the RIA firm is about $25 million.
"In the wealth world, the secret sauce is knowing as much of the clients' interests and background as you can," Wolford says.
If a client is an executive in the telecommunications field, then they want to work with and advisor who knows that industry or has worked in it, he adds, which is how Convergent plans to grow its business.
It's using new growth initiative, called Catapult, to bring in advisors and other professionals with expertise in biomedicine, health, telecommunications, software and other industries.
"Specialists always beat generalists at the end of the day," Wolford said, "and that's the direction we are headed."
Clients in the ultrahigh-net-worth category, he adds, are looking to work with advisors who can add value that impacts more than just their portfolio.
"The key to working with the wealthy is bringing life experience and history to relationships that go beyond an advisor's professional background," Wolford said. "The value add for ultrahigh-net-worth clients in investments is almost marginal compared to the relationship itself and adding value through broader services."
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