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Saved for denims: Once threatened, store space revived in steel
Threatened with demolition by various developers including current owner Keith Woodard (who once proposed a nine-story tower featuring an unusual automobile elevator), the row of buildings facing the Jefferson Theater on the Downtown Mall has received new life in recent days– particularly with the March 17 opening of the jean theory: store.
"I've heard people say it looks like it belongs in Georgetown or that it looks French," says denim store owner Laura Van Camp. "If you stand out front, you can hear people oohing and ahhing."
Steel sculptor John Rubino credits plans produced by Gregory Brezinski of the Yorktown-based ARCI firm for providing a historically sympathetic design that includes white marble at the base and Rubino's steel above.
Brezinski, born and raised in Charlottesville before moving away to Tidewater, has returned for several high-profile hometown projects, including the office space renovation of the former C&O depot on East Water Street as well as the design of Monticello High School.
The new home for jean theory:, which sells new-and-used clothes at 111 East Main Street, presented a challenge since none of the archival photos detailed exactly how the storefront looked.
"I'm a firm believer that if you can't honestly replicate it, then don't do it," says Brezinski. "We wanted to do something with a period look that at the same time would tell people it was new."
The blue jean shop joins a dress shop called Verdigris and lingerie store derriere de soie in the row of structures that now seems safe from demolition.Read more on: jean theory: storekeith woodard
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Awful name. Just name it "Jean Theory" and be done with it. No need for the lowercase/colon nonsense.
Shawn. Open your own store and name it what you want. Or just be quiet.
jimi hendrix: You're right. I had forgotten that criticism had been outlawed. I fully apologize and humbly request not to be sent back to the reeducation camp. Criticizing Dave Norris one time was one time too many. I should have learned my lesson.
Gee, this is great for our nuanced city. I also see replication of architecture and oohing-aahing in another "world class city" : Las Vegas. Vegas also has Nordstrom's, Versace and lots of other upscale stores.
Here, there is some fixation on things European equating to sophistication. You know, let's have a vino outside in the square. More off-the-charts pretension from a little town. "Belongs in Georgetown" or "looks French?" Sacre bleu!
Now, I am off to buy $300 pillow cases and an $88 garter belt from some French-named stores in this silly little ville.
R.I.P.: John Banner
Nice job. I would have preferred a much taller building in that block though with an automobile elevator.
They did a wonderful job with the building. Kudos to Keith Woodard.
Charlottesvlle pretentious? Mon Dieu! Hate to break it to our fair city, but only Georgetown is Georgetown. Charlottesville needs to work on being Charlottesville. And it needs to figure out just what that is.
The Downtown Mall is fast becoming a wonderful place not to shop. When blue or other colored jeans start selling for $100 a pair, it is time to consider if we have lost our collective minds. And selling used jeans, not for me don't have any interest in putting my body in pants that someone else may have worn commando.
Any developer who leaves store fronts empty for years while he tries to figure out how to milk the space for the maximum possible personal gain doesn't deserve any kudos. He should be forced to shop only on the Downtown Mall as fair punishment.
And is this whole matter really news or does it belong on Scout or one of the other self anointed arbiters of taste?
Shawn, I don't like the way you spell your name. I prefer "Sean."


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Polaris Industries Inc. (NYSE: PII) appointed Kevin Farr to the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Farr is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Mattel, Inc. Prior to his time at Mattel, Mr. Farr worked for 10 years as a senior manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers International.
Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) announced that Dennis Wolf, chief financial officer and executive vice president, will be leaving after a period of transition to pursue an opportunity at a private company.
DataStax announced that Silicon Valley veteran Dennis Wolf will join the company as chief financial officer. Wolf has held numerous executive positions with public and private companies including CFO, COO, and CEO. His most recent experience is as chief financial officer and executive vice president at Fusion-io. Prior to that, he was the CFO at MySQL. Wolf held financial roles at Apple and Sun Microsystems earlier in his career. He currently serves as a director and chair of the audit committee of Codexis Inc., and has been a director and chair of the audit committee for other publicly and privately held companies including Quantum Corporation, BigBand Networks, Inc., Registry Magic, Inc., Avanex Corporation, Komag, Inc., Exponential Interactive, and Vitria Technology, Inc.
Coupons.com Incorporated announced the appointment of Mir Aamir as the company's chief financial officer and chief operating officer. Richard Hornstein, the company's current chief financial officer and general counsel. Mr. Hornstein will continue in the role of general counsel and chief legal officer, a role he has held for the past two and a half years. Mr. Aamir joins Coupons.com from Safeway, Inc., where he, most recently, was president of customer loyalty and digital technologies. Previously at Safeway, he was senior vice president of marketing strategy, financial planning & analysis (FP&A), pricing and shopper card. Before that, he held the position of group vice president, FP&A and strategy, for all of Safeway's U.S. business units. Prior to Safeway, Mr. Aamir was at A.T. Kearney, Inc., where he was officer and vice president for the strategy and management consulting firm's consumer and retail practice. Before that, Mr. Aamir held various positions at Procter & Gamble and Citicorp in Asia.
Noranda Aluminum Holding Corporation (NYSE: NOR) announced the appointment of Dale W. Boyles as its new Chief Financial Officer, effective November 5, 2013. Prior to joining Noranda, Mr. Boyles was Operating CFO for Hanesbrands, Inc. from October 2011 to June 2012. Mr. Boyles also served as Interim CFO for HBI during 2011 and as Vice President, Controller & Chief Accounting Officer for HBI from 2006 to May 2011. From 1997 through 2006, Mr. Boyles served in various capacities for KPMG LLP including most recently as Audit Partner, Consumer & Industrial Markets.
Square 1 Bank announced that Bonnie Kennedy has joined the Bank's Venture Capital Services team as senior vice president. Kennedy joins Square 1 Bank from Trident Capital, a venture capital and growth equity firm, where she was managing director and chief financial officer. Earlier in her career, Kennedy spent over 20 years with Ernst & Young, including 10 as principal in the firm's San Francisco office.
Simbol Materials appointed Takashi Sunada as Simbol Materials Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Sunada's career includes twenty-four years with Itochu Corporation, where he was most recently responsible for project development and management of project investments for the Chemicals Division.
Summit Materials announced the appointment of Brian J. Harris, as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Harris joins Summit after serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Bausch & Lomb Holdings Incorporated, a leading global eye health company, since 2009. Mr. Harris previously held positions of increasing responsibility with Tomkins plc, including President of the $2 billion worldwide power transmission business for Gates Corporation, and Senior Vice President for Strategic Business Development and Business Administration, Chief Financial Officer, and Secretary of Gates Corporation. With the appointment of Mr. Harris, John R. Murphy has stepped down as Interim Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Murphy will continue to serve as a director and chairman of the audit committee of the board of directors of the Company's indirect parent company.
ShapeUp Inc. announced the appointment of Ann Brady as chief financial officer. She has held leadership roles at companies including Health Payment Review, ATG, uTest, FirstBest and Apperian throughout her career. Prior to joining ShapeUp, Brady founded New England Business Solutions Group, a consulting firm specializing in C-level expertise for start-up and emerging growth companies.
TESSCO (NASDAQ: TESS) announced that Aric Spitulnik has been elected to position of Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Spitulnik was employed as an accounting professional for several public accounting firms before joining TESSCO in 2000. Mr. Spitulnik was appointed controller in 2005 and a vice president in 2006. In 2012, he assumed the role of principal accounting officer and was appointed corporate secretary.
Unifi, Inc. (NYSE: UFI) announced that it has appointed James M. Otterberg as the Company's Chief Financial Officer and also elected him as a Vice President. Mr. Otterberg, who has been the Company's Chief Accounting Officer since October 2011 and had been serving as interim Chief Financial Officer since August 12, 2013. Mr. Otterberg has been employed by the Company's subsidiary, Unifi Manufacturing, Inc., since 2011 as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, and previously from October 1999 to December 2003 as Director – Joint Ventures and Alliances and Corporate Financial Analyst. He also held various financial positions for Polymer Group, Inc. from 2004 to 2011, including Vice President – Finance U.S. from February 2008 through May 2011.
Oclaro, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCLR) announced that Pete Mangan has been appointed as chief financial officer (CFO), effective November 11, 2013. Mangan, currently vice president, corporate finance for Oclaro, will succeed Jerry Turin, who previously announced plans to resign on November 8, 2013 to pursue other opportunities. Mr. Mangan joined Oclaro in May 2012 as vice president of corporate finance. Mr. Mangan brings Oclaro nearly 30 years of experience in a wide range of finance positions with leading companies including AMD, Trident Microsystems, FormFactor, Spansion, Asyst Technologies, and Sun Microsystems. Mangan served as CFO at Trident Microsystems from 1996 to 1998 and again from 2008 to 2012.
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Annie's, Inc. (NYSE: BNNY) announced the appointment of Zahir Ibrahim as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, effective November 13, 2013. Mr. Ibrahim was most recently Vice President Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at Molson Coors Brewing Company. In addition to his most recent position with Molson Coors, Mr. Ibrahim previously served as a divisional chief financial officer for two global businesses. Kelly Kennedy will resign as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, effective November 12, 2013, to spend more time with her family. Ms. Kennedy intends to remain with the Company through fiscal 2014 to lead special projects and assist with a smooth transition.
Wayfair.com announced the appointment of Michael Fleisher as Chief Financial Officer. With Fleisher's appointment, former CFO Nicholas Malone has been named Chief Administrative Officer. Prior to joining Wayfair.com, Fleisher served as Warner Music Group's Vice Chairman, Strategy and Operations. Fleisher joined WMG in 2005 as its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Before WMG, Fleisher served as Chairman and CEO of Gartner, Inc. Fleisher's previous business experience includes roles at Bain Capital and Bain & Company.
BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BDSI) announced the appointment of Ernest R. De Paolantonio as Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary. James A. McNulty, BDSI's current Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary, will remain with BDSI in the new role of Senior Vice President—Finance and Treasurer. Over the past five years, Mr. De Paolantonio served as the Chief Financial Officer of CorePharma. In addition, he previously served in finance and controller positions in roles of increasing responsibility at Colombia Laboratories. Additionally, he served in various financial and controller positions at Taro Pharmaceuticals, Watson Pharmaceuticals and Danbury Pharmaceutical. Mr. De Paolantonio began his career in finance at GlaxoSmithKline, where he spent over 17 years.
Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) announced that chief financial officer Ita Brennan will resign effective February 28, 2014 to pursue another opportunity at a technology start-up. Ms. Brennan has served as Infinera's CFO since June 2010. She joined Infinera in 2006 and served in various roles within the company's finance group, prior to her promotion to CFO. Ms. Brennan will continue to direct Infinera's finance activities as CFO until her departure date.
Quture International, Inc. (OTC: QUTR) announced agreement with Alejandro Guardiola to become its Chief Financial Officer immediately following filing of the Company's 10-K. In the interim, Mr. Guardiola is serving as the primary financial advisor to Quture working with the Company's auditors in all aspects filing.
Single Touch Systems, Inc. (OTC: SITO) announced the appointment of Kurt Streams as the Company's new Chief Financial Officer. Former CFO John Quinn has resigned from Single Touch to become the Regional Managing Partner based in the New York City office at ParenteBeard, LLC, where Mr. Quinn had previously served as a Principal. Most recently, Mr. Streams was Partner at GBM LLC. Previously, he was Principal at RBSM LLP. Mr. Streams has served as CFO of three companies including IGIA, Inc. Prior, he was CFO at The Deal, LLC. He also served as CFO of Norland Medical. He began his career at Deloitte & Touche.
Europ Assistance USA (EA USA) and CSA Travel Protection (CSA), both owned by Europ Assistance Group, announced its new CFO, Donald Vetal Jr. Prior to EA USA and CSA, Vetal most recently served as CFO and group vice president of FrontierMEDEX Group. He was also president, and before that CFO, of CPM Holdings, and held fiscal leadership roles at Ocwen Financial Corporation, LifeDesign and US Assist, Inc. and Rowan Capital.
Enhanced Recovery Company, LLC announced the appointment of Michael Harrison as the Company's Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mike was previously CFO of Convergent Resources Holdings in Atlanta, where he partnered with a private equity firm to acquire and integrate the Convergent family of companies. Prior to Convergent Resources Holdings, Mike was vice president of finance with two divisions of West Corporation and a senior audit manager at Deloitte & Touche.
SilkRoad announced the appointment of Merri Bonino as Chief Financial Officer. Bonino succeeds Michael Cullinane, who served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since May 2008 until his retirement on September 30, 2013.
MGIC Investment Corporation (NYSE: MTG) announced that J. Michael Lauer, who has been the Company's Chief Financial Officer since 1989, is retiring February 28, 2014. Timothy J. Mattke, the Company's Controller since 2009, will become Chief Financial Officer effective upon Mr. Lauer's retirement. Mr. Mattke has been with the Company for over seven years. Prior to his becoming Controller, he was Assistant Controller of Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation ("MGIC"), since August 2007 and prior to that was a manager in MGIC's accounting department. Before joining MGIC, Mr. Mattke was an audit manager and an auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Coast Bancorp (OTC: CTBP) announced it has selected Paul Cable to serve as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of both Coast Bancorp and its wholly owned subsidiary, Coast National Bank. Mr. Cable most recently served as Finance Executive with Regents Bank. His professional history includes more than 20 years of experience as Chief Financial Officer with various sizes of community banks in Southern California. Mr. Cable will succeed former Chief Financial Officer Karan Pohl who resigned in May 2013.
Fulton Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: FULT) announced that Patrick S. Barrett will join the company as Senior Executive Vice President and member of Fulton Financial's senior management team, effective November 4, 2013. Upon the retirement of the Corporation's current Chief Financial Officer, Charles J. Nugent, at the end of 2013 as previously announced, Barrett will become the Chief Financial Officer. Barrett comes to Fulton from SunTrust Banks, Inc., where he served most recently as the Chief Financial Officer of SunTrust Bank's Wholesale Bank. Prior to joining SunTrust in 2010, Barrett worked with JPMorgan Chase & Co. where he held a number of senior finance/managing director roles in Asia. His last role with JPMorgan was Deputy Head/Managing Director of Investor Relations in New York. Before joining JPMorgan Chase & Co. in 2003, Barrett spent ten years with Deloitte & Touche.
Clinkle Corporation announced that Barry McCarthy has joined the company as chief operating officer. Prior to Clinkle, McCarthy spent 12 years, from 1999 to 2010, as chief financial officer of Netflix, Inc. He has also served on the boards of several private companies and as an executive advisor to Technology Crossover Ventures. Prior to Netflix, McCarthy held several positions at First Boston, where he worked with venture capital–backed and LBO investments.
Brickstream announced that John E. Kahn has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of the company. With Mr. Kahn's appointment, Brickstream's previous CFO, Paul Williams, becomes Chief Accounting Officer.
Good Technology announced that Ron Fior has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Ron joins Good from Callidus Cloud, a Pleasanton, CA -based enterprise software company, where he was CFO. Prior to Callidus, Ron held various leadership positions, including CFO for Ingenuity Systems, CFO and vice president of finance and operations at Remedy Corporation and vice president and Group CFO at International Thompson Publishing Group.
Profire Energy, Inc. (OTC: PFIE) announced that Ronald R. Spoehel, the former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has joined its Board of Directors. Mr. Spoehel served as NASA CFO from 2007 to 2009. Prior to his time at NASA, Mr. Spoehel spent ten years in investment banking, including five years as Vice President of Bank of America primarily focused on energy and technology sectors. He has also served as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Director of various technology and energy companies, including ManTech, ICx Technologies, and others. He has also served on the U.S. Air Force Audit Committee, as well as the Advisory Council for the Wharton and Engineering Schools at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves as Managing Partner of Windrock Capital LLC.


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The teaching profession has changed dramatically over the past 50 years. As part of its annual National Teacher Day celebration, taking place this year on Tuesday, May 3, the National Education Association (NEA) is highlighting key trends in the teaching profession.
"Each year on National Teacher Day we thank the nation's hardworking public school educators and take time out to reflect on the future of the teaching profession," said NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. "This year, we're highlighting 50 years of NEA research on the nation's public school teachers, including survey research from the Status of the Public School Teacher collected and analyzed since 1961."
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National Teacher Day has been celebrated since 1953 when Eleanor Roosevelt first proposed that Congress set aside a day to acknowledge the work of educators. Since 1985, NEA has celebrated National Teacher Day on the Tuesday of the first full week of May.
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The First United Nations Global Road Safety Week, jointly by organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Regional Commissions, took place from 23-29 April 2007. Targeted at young people, including young drivers, the Week started off with a World Youth Assembly on 23-24 April at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Over 400 young people from over 100 countries attended the two-day event, which culminated in the adoption of a Youth Declaration for Road Safety.
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Kaletra-isentress Treatment Evaluation (KITE)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00700115
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : June 18, 2008
Results First Posted : October 22, 2013
Last Update Posted : December 12, 2014
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This study will examine the effectiveness and safety of raltegravir (isentress) when used together with lopinavir/ritonavir (kaletra) for the treatment of HIV-infection. Isentress is a recently, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved, HIV medication that has strong effects against the HIV virus. Isentress has been shown in other studies to be safe and well tolerated by HIV patients. Combining this drug with kaletra might enable us to construct a HIV regimen that does not include the more toxic drugs of the nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor class.
Eligible volunteers will undergo the following as part of the study procedure:
- Sign the study consent form and the HIPAA Authorization Form.
- Two-third of subjects, the intervention group (selected by random chance) will have their HIV drug treatment changed to kaletra + isentress.
- The other one-third will continue their usual HIV medications (this will be the control group).
- Make 9 study related visits to the Ponce clinic during the 48 weeks study period. During these visits, medical information will be collected, and blood tests will be performed.
- Perform Dexa-scan on two separate occasions at Emory University Hospital Radiology.
Information collected will be used to assess the effectiveness of this treatment in keeping the HIV virus suppressed, how well these two drugs together is tolerated by HIV-infected patients, and the blood levels of these two drugs when given together.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Drug: Kaletra + Isentress Drug: Pre-study antiretroviral regimen
|Phase 4
RATIONALE: Virologic failure and adverse effects associated with current highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) warrant continuing search for novel combination therapeutic options. Raltegravir's (RAL) was recently shown to be a potent antiretroviral (ARV) agent with a favorable safety profile. If future reports continue to show positive data on this first-in-class integrase inhibitor, there may be a paradigm shift in the currently recommended first line HAART to regimens that will include integrase inhibitors.
Combining RAL with a drug that has a high genetic barrier to resistance, such as lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) may offer a number of advantages. Both agents are potent and should produce durable virologic suppression. Because their combination is reverse transcriptase inhibitor (RTI) class sparing, its tolerability might be superior. In addition, RAL is not metabolized by the cytochrome P-450 enzymes, therefore, a compatible pharmacokinetic profile is expected with this combination. Pairing LPV/r with RAL in early ARV regimens as is proposed in this application may provide a HAART regimen that is highly efficacious and durable, with less resistance and adverse drug events.
DESIGN: This is single center, open label, randomized, controlled, study designed to assess the tolerability, pharmacokinetic compatibility, and the durability of virologic suppression of the RTI sparing combination therapy of LPV/r + RAL. HIV-infected subjects who are virologically suppressed (HIV-RNA PCR < 50 copies/ml) on current HAART regimen will be randomized in a 2:1 fashion to be switched to a regimen consisting of LPV/r + RAL, intervention arm A (n=40), or to be continued on their pre-study HAART regimen, control arm B (n=20). The primary endpoint will be proportion of subjects with sustained virologic suppression (HIV-1 RNA PCR < 50 copies/ml) through week 48. The immunoreconstitution, toxicity profile, and pharmacokinetic profile of the RAL and LPV/r in this novel combination therapy will be evaluated.
DURATION: 48 weeks after the enrollment of the last participant. Enrollment is expected to take about 10 months.
SAMPLE SIZE: 60 subjects.
POPULATION: HIV-infected individuals (male and female), Age > 18 years, who are virologically suppressed (HIV-RNA PCR < 50 copies/ml) on their current HAART regimen for > 6 months.
REGIMEN: For Arm A= LPV/r 400/100 mg (2 tablets) twice daily + RAL 400 mg (1 tablet) twice daily taken by mouth. For Arm B=Pre-study HAART regimen.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|60 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Pilot Study to Assess the Safety, Efficacy, and PK Profile of a Switch in Antiretroviral Therapy to a RTI Sparing Combination of LPV/r and RAL in Virologically Suppressed HIV-infected Patients
|Study Start Date :
|June 2008
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|January 2011
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|January 2011
Experimental: Kaletra + Isentress
Kaletra + Isentress
Drug: Kaletra + Isentress
Kaletra 400/100 mg + Isentress 400 mg BID
Other Names:
Active Comparator: Standard HAART
Pre-study Antiretroviral regimen
Drug: Pre-study antiretroviral regimen
Standard doses of pre-study antiretroviral regimen
Other Name: HAART
- Plasma Viral Loads (HIV-1 RNA PCR) [ Time Frame: baseline to week 48 ]Percentage subjects with undetectable Plasma viral loads
- To Compare Plasma Triglyceride Levels at 48 Weeks Between LPV/r + RAL and Standard HAART Treated Subjects [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
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-infected individuals receiving HAART regimen (if on PI-based regimen, must be 1st PI-containing HAART).
- They must have been on and tolerating current HAART regimen for > 6-months.
- Plasma HIV-1 viral load < 50 copies/ml at study entry.
- Men and women age > 18 years (sex is defined as sex at birth).
Laboratory values obtained within 30 days prior to study entry:
- Hemoglobin > 9.4 g/dl
- Creatinine < 2 mg/dl
- AST (SGOT) < 2 x ULN
- ALT (SGPT) < 2 x ULN
- Ability and willingness of subject or legal guardian/representative to give written informed consent.
- No CD4 T-cell counts requirement
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects with a history of previous intolerance to or virological failure to LPV/r
- Concomitant drugs (including alternative therapies) that may affect PI or RAL plasma concentrations (inducers or inhibitors of the CYP 3A4 or UDP-glucuronosyltransferase iso-enzymes).
- A known history of noncompliance with medications or a known history of noncompliance with scheduled physician and clinic visits.
- Investigational ARV drug.
- Pregnancy/Breast feeding.
- HBV-coinfected patients receiving nucleoside analogue for both HIV and HBV suppression.
- Active drug or alcohol use or dependence which, in the Investigator's opinion, may interfere with adherence to study requirements or endanger subject's health while on the study.
- Serious illness requiring systemic treatment and/or hospitalization within 30 days prior to the screening visit.
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): NCT00700115
|United States, Georgia
|Grady Infectious Diseases Program (Ponce Clinic)
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30308
|Principal Investigator:
|Igho Ofotokun, MD, MSc
|Emory University
|Responsible Party:
|Ighovwerha Ofotokun, Associate Professor of Medicine, Emory University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
KITE-6876 ( Other Identifier: Other )
|First Posted:
|June 18, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|October 22, 2013
|Last Update Posted:
|December 12, 2014
|Last Verified:
|November 2014
HIV/AIDS patients on HAART
Treatment Experienced
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Raltegravir Potassium
Anti-Retroviral Agents
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
HIV Integrase Inhibitors
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They've published books, linked to and even interviewed each other, but now authors Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi are collectively wondering whether anyone is paying attention to their most recent books, and just what is the most under-appreciated genre of literature: Young Adult or Regular Science Fiction?
Doctorow started the conversation by telling fans that the reason they're not finding his new book, Little Brother is because they're looking in the wrong place:
My editor, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, rang me yesterday to talk about a weird little phenomenon: people who were going to stores looking for my newest, Little Brother, were walking away unfulfilled because they were looking in the science fiction section, not the young adult section.
But that's okay, he decides, because it's kind of cool that no-one is paying attention to the YA section:
Living in a space that no one watches too closely is one of the secret ways that people get to do excellent stuff. Science fiction's status for decades as a pariah genre meant that writers could do things with literary style, theme, and political content that their mainstream counterparts could never get away with (games, comics, early hip-hop, mashups, and many of the other back laneways of popular culture have also enjoyed this status). These days, a lot of the coolest stuff in the universe is happening in the kids' section of your bookstore (and yes, I'm aware of the irony of calling attention to a field that has prospered because it wasn't receiving too much attention to blossom).
Scalzi, however, disagrees. Not that there's a lot of awesome stuff happening in YA SF, but that no-one's paying attention:
I have a friend with access to BookScan, which tracks book sales through stores and retail outlets, who at my request checked the aggregate bestseller list sales of adult fantasy and science fiction against the sale of YA fantasy and SF. Without mentioning specific numbers or titles, my friend says that last week, the top 50 YA SF/F bestsellers outsold the top 100 adult SF/F bestsellers (adult SF and F are separate lists) by two to one. So 50 YA titles are selling twice as much as 100 adult SF/F titles. The bestselling YA fantasy book last week (not a Harry Potter book) outsold the bestselling adult fantasy book by nearly four to one; the bestselling YA science fiction title sold three copies for every two copies of the chart-topping adult SF title. And as a final kick in the teeth, YA SF/F is amply represented at top of the general bestselling charts of YA book sales, whereas adult SF/F struggles to get onto the general bestselling adult fiction charts at all.
It's interesting that YA SF is great because you get to do a lot of cool stuff because it seems as if no-one's paying attention, and yet more people are paying attention to YA SF than "grown-up" SF.
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the recent mk upload states
"All double flawless run with Scorpion. Played with Twin Galaxies settings on very hard. 60 fps gameplay unlike WolfMAME .114 and lower emulators which run the MK series at 53 fps gameplay."
mk is meant to run at roughly 55fps, not 60fps (or 53fps) If a version is running at 60 then technically that version isn't emulating it correctly. while in this case 60fps is likely more of a hindrance than a help it could also be throwing off some internal calcs, including but not limited to the AI not behaving as it should as the main cpu has less time to process each frame. It should probably be studied carefully.
Again I still think you should really encourage uploads with latest version, or maybe no more than 3-4 versions behind. Replays recorded with old versions could have all sorts of forgotten / already fixes issues that go unnoticed.
Discussion about MARP's regulation play
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Thanks for letting me know about the running speed. The speed changed from 53 Hz to 55 Hz starting on MAME .115. The sound and game play seems to be better and more accurate to original hardware as well. I thought the speed increase was more than just 2 Hz. But I guess I was wrong.
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Reading UV Map Values
So what does it take to read the values from a UV Map? We need an API object called a Mesh Map Accessor to select our UV map, a Polygon Accessor to select polygons and read UV values from them, and a Storage Buffer Object to store those values in. When we use the term "select" with reference to the API, what we really mean is that we're choosing a specific thing to look at more closely. When we select a polygon, for instance, we aren't actually changing the currently selected polygons in modo. Instead, we're just telling the Python API to focus on a specific polygon so that we can then get some information about it. This is a very important principal to understand if you're new to working with the API or scripting systems.
Even though we're reading UV positions of individual vertices, we need to check the UV map by looking at polygons and then the vertices that belong to them. This is because UV vertices can be discontinuous and single vertex can have multiple UV map coordinates. By looking at each polygon and then at each of the vertices that make it up, we can be sure we aren't accidently skipping over these extra UV values.
Localizing a Mesh Object
Before you can interact with a Mesh through the Python API, you need to localize it as a mesh object. There's a lot of ways you can do this, but one of the quickest for this purpose is to create a LayerScan Object which returns the primary layer. We create layerscan items through the Layer Service:
layerService = lx.service.Layer() #Get the Layer Service # Call the ScanAllocate Method from the layer service to create a layerscan object # ScanAllocate requires a mode so we pass the symbol for Layerscan_primary to tell # it that we want to deal with the primary mesh layer. You can find symbols # for things like this by typing dir(lx.symbol) into the python interpreter in modo layerScanObject = layerService.ScanAllocate(lx.symbol.f_LAYERSSCAN_PRIMARY) # Finally we call the MeshBase method to get our Mesh Object (lx.object.Mesh) # The MeshBase method could return multiple meshes, so we give it an argument of 0 # to indicate we want to first mesh out of any that it might return localizedMesh = layerScanObject.MeshBase(0)
Now we have a localized Mesh object that we can work with. If you search the mesh object for what methods we can call on it, you'll see there are ways to access polygons, edges, points, maps, and lots of other attributes.
Accessing Map Values
The data from vertex maps such as UV coordinates can only be read into Storage Buffers. That means that before we can start reading vertex map values, we need to create a new storage object. The size and type of storage buffer can be set after we create it, or at the same time we create it by feeding the type and size in as arguments. The type determines what kind of data the buffer will store, and the size determines how many of those values the buffer can hold. Since we know that UV map coordinates will have 2 values (a U and V component) and these values are floats, we can create the appropriate storage object in a single line of python:
storageBuffer = lx.object.storage('f',2)
The 'f' string indicates a float type, while the 2 indicates that our buffer will store two values at a time.
The next step is to create a Polygon Accessor to access polygons and a Mesh Map Accessor to access our UV map. This is easy with a localized Mesh Object (remember we called it localizedMesh):
polyAccessor = localizedMesh.PolygonAccessor() mapAccessor = localizedMesh.MeshMapAccessor()
Getting Familiar with the API
So now we have everything we need to start reading values. We just need to call the appropriate methods on our objects. So how do we know what we methods we need and what each method requires to work correctly? This is where you really need to dig in to the Persistent Interpreter. Let's look at the Polygon Accessor object we've created and see what kind of polygon attributes we can access.
So we can see that there's lots of different methods available for the Polygon Accessor Object, and if we want to find out how to use one, we just need to check its docs. To check the docs for the the Polygon Accessor's Normal() method, for instance, we'd type:
and get
vector normal = Normal()
The info from the docs is organized so that the information you get from a method is on the right, and the method you're checking is on the left. In this example, you can see "vector normal" is what you get back. The format of this is "data-type *space* what-the-data-is". So you get the polygon normal returned as a vector data type (a vector is a 3 element tuple which usually represents X,Y,Z or R,G,B). The right side of the equation you can see the method we asked about (Normal) with any required arguments inside of it. Since the right side is "Normal()" with no arguments, we can see that the normal method doesn't take any arguments. Instead, Normal (like a lot of other methods) requires you to select a polygon first (remember that select means to focus the API on, not to actually change the polygons that are selected in modo). Let's go through a few more methods just to point out some other data types:
polyAccessor.Closest.__doc__ (boolean,vector hitPos,vector hitNorm,float hitDist) = Closest(float maxDis,vector Pos)
So... when you call Closest() method, you are required to give 2 arguments. The first is a float which represents the max Distance to look for a polygon. The 2nd is a vector that represents the X,Y,Z position of the point that you want to search for polygons from. This is admittedly not spelled out very explicitly, so you often need to make certain inferences. Most of the returned info is understandable. We get a vector to indicate the hit position, a vector indicating the hit normal, a float indicating the hit distance. But what's the boolean? Usually, if a method returns a boolean and it's not obvious why, the boolean is a true/false statement as to whether the method succeeded or not. In this case, it indicates whether the Closest() method was actually able to find a polygon within the distance given to it in the arguments.
Down to Business
What about the method we actually want to use? We'll be using the MapValue() Method. So a quick look at the docs for it gives us:
boolean = MapValue(id map,id point,float[] value)
So the MapValue method only returns a boolean for whether it succeeds or fails, not any values. That's because the values themselves are stored in the storage object we created a while ago. When you see a [] next to a data type in the requirements for a method, it means the method takes a storage object of that data type. So the "float[] value" in the requirements just means we need to feed the method a storage object. We also need an ID for the map we're reading, and an ID for the point we want to check. An ID (not to be confused with Index) is an integer which represents a specific element or item internally in modo. We can get vertex indices by selecting a polygon (using the SelectByIndex() method) and then running theVertexByIndex() method. The UV map ID we can get by selecting our UV map in the mapAccessor we created, and then running the ID() method.
First off, let's select the UV map we want to read. We'll assume that we know the name of the UV map we want to read. In our Mesh Map Accessor object, there's a method to select vertex maps based on their Types and Names. The symbol we need to indicate a UV map type is found in dir(lx.symbol). Once the map is selected we can use the ID() method to return its ID.
mapAccessor.SelectByName(lx.symbol.i_VMAP_TEXTUREUV,"Texture") mapID = mapAccessor.ID()
Now we need to get the point ID from our polygon accessor. We need to know how many vertices our current polygon has, and then get the Vertex ID from each one. First we select a polygon by Index, then use the VertexCount() method to see how many vertices it has. Then we can get the vertex ID from each one using the VertexByIndex() method and feed these into the MapValue() method to store the UV values in our storage object.
uvValues = [] # Make a list to store our UV values polyAccessor.SelectByIndex(0) # Select the polygon whose index is 0 nVerts = polyAccessor.VertexCount() # Store the number of verts that poly has as a variable for eachVert in range(nVerts): # For every one of the verts belonging to this polygon vertID = polyAccessor.VertexByIndex() # Get the verts Index if polyAccessor.MapValue(mapID, vertID, storageBuffer) == True: ## If the MapValue() method succeeds, the UV value should be stored in our storage object. ## If it doesn't succeed, it means there isn't actually a UV value for the vert we were looking at values = storageBuffer.get() # We use the get() method on storage objects to return its contents uvValues.append(values)
A Step Back
So let's put it all together to see where we're at. If we simplify some of the comments and the method searching, our code looks basically like this:
## Localize our mesh ## layerService = lx.service.Layer() layerScanObject = layerService.ScanAllocate(lx.symbol.f_LAYERSSCAN_PRIMARY) localizedMesh = layerScanObject.MeshBase(0) ## Create a Storage Object and Accessors ## storageBuffer = lx.object.storage('f',2) polyAccessor = localizedMesh.PolygonAccessor() mapAccessor = localizedMesh.MeshMapAccessor() ## Get Map ID ## mapAccessor.SelectByName(lx.symbol.i_VMAP_TEXTUREUV,"Texture") mapID = mapAccessor.ID() ## Select a polygon and read its vertex UV values into a list of tuples ## uvValues = [] polyAccessor.SelectByIndex(0) nVerts = polyAccessor.VertexCount() for eachVert in range(nVerts): vertID = polyAccessor.VertexByIndex() if polyAccessor.MapValue(mapID, vertID, storageBuffer) == True: values = storageBuffer.get() uvValues.append(values)
There's almost no chance that you'd just want to read the UV values for the vertices of a specific polygon, and nothing else. So if we wanted to, we could check how many polygons are in our mesh, then wrap up the bottom of our code with a 'for i in range(number_of_polygons)' loop. Then we could look at all the UV values for all the verts (even discontinuous ones) in our mesh. There's even a nice PolygonCount() method on our localized mesh that will tell us how many polygons we have. But that isn't the best way to handle this. For situations like this, when you're going to be looping through ever vertex in your mesh, or every vertex map in your scene, or anything where you're going to be doing the same thing over and over, you can use what's called a Visitor to do the looping work for you.
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Jessica Simpson Slams Natalie Portman Over Virginity Comments
By Peyton Blakemore
December 5, 2018
Don't come for Jessica Simpson unless you're ready for a public (and dare I say embarrassing) clap back!
The 38-year-old fashion designer had some choice words for Natalie Portman after the 37-year-old Oscar-winning actress shamed her for wearing a bikini while claiming to be a virgin on a magazine cover nearly 20 years ago. "I remember being a teenager, and there was Jessica Simpson on the cover of a magazine saying 'I'm a virgin' while wearing a bikini, and I was confused," Natalie said in an interview with USA Today, published on Tuesday (December 4). "Like, I don't know what this is trying to tell me as a woman, as a girl."
Jessica, who waited to have sex until she was married to her first husband Nick Lachey in 2002, responded to the actress' comments on Twitter Wednesday (December 5). "@Natalieportman- I was disappointed this morning when I read that I 'confused' you by wearing a bikini in a published photo taken of me when I was still a virgin in 1999. As public figures, we both know our image is not totally in our control at all times, and that the industry we work in often tries to define us and box us in," she wrote. "However, I was taught to be myself and honor the different ways all women express themselves, which is why I believed then- and I believe now- that being sexy in a bikini and being proud of my body are not synonymous with having sex."
"I have always embraced being a role model to all women to let them know that they can look however they want, wear whatever they want and have sex or not have sex with whomever they want," Jessica continued. "The power lies within us as individuals. I have made it my practice to not shame other women for their choices. In this era of Time's Up and all the great work you have done for women, I encourage you to do the same."
Natalie has yet to respond to Jessica's remarks.
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More Contemporary Connections (Keats and Contemporary Poetry)
Submitted by Eric Eisner on
Deidre's great post on "contemporaneity" sets things up nicely for me to introduce the class I'm teaching this semester, a new grad seminar on "Keats and Contemporary [as in contemporary to us] Poetry." In my department, we have an excellent creative writing MFA program alongside our MA programs in Literature and in the Teaching of Writing and Literature (we don't have a doctoral program in literature). I designed this course in part to get a mix of poetry MFA students and MA students into my seminar—I'll confess that I even focus-grouped the topic with the creative writing faculty to find out what would most attract practicing poets to the course (for what it's worth, the word was that Keats, Blake and Wordsworth would be the likeliest draws). I've loved it in the past when MFA students have shown up in my grad seminars—they're amazingly perceptive readers and they help shape the conversation in provocative ways—but it's been hard sometimes to get the MA and the MFA students into classes together, as the MFA students tend to fill up their schedules with courses taught by the creative writers. This seminar starts out from the observation that contemporary poets turn with perhaps surprising frequency back to Romantic poets, and perhaps in special ways (not more or less but maybe different) to Keats (territory explored by Jeffrey Robinson in his wonderful book, and a point recently exemplified by Stanley Plumly's "personal biography" of Keats, among many other instances). We've been spending the first half of the semester reading widely in Keats (the poetry and the letters), and we're gradually moving on to consider modern and contemporary poetry that in some way addresses, reworks, reimagines, recalls or challenges "Keats" (the poet or the poems). So far, the course has been a real joy to teach.
It's only recently struck me that in a way this seminar could be an answer to a question I was asked in a job interview when I was first on the market some years ago. This was a job (I didn't get) at a very good and fairly arty liberal arts college, and the interviewer described the undergraduates there as quite interested in contemporary poetry but rather reluctant to try anything older. How, he wanted to know, would I get them into my Romanticism courses? My flustered answer at the time had to do with the on-going relevance of key Romantic concerns (e.g., modern ideas of selfhood, democracy, community, the ecological imagination—I forget which I talked about, but you get the drift) and the modernity of the Romantic movement as a self-consciously experimental avant-garde. After the interview, I began to suspect I had misread the question (are there really undergraduates adventurous enough to take in contemporary poetry but still skittish about Romanticism?); it dawned on me that I had been asked to justify Romanticism not to the undergraduates, but to the interviewer himself (who worked on contemporary literature). In my next interview, I tried a different tactic, and had ready a whole speech about the excitement of the historical moment in itself ("Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive," etc.) that I delivered to nice effect when I got a different version of the "why teach Romanticism at all?" question. But what I realize now is that the interviewer's question about Romanticism's contemporary interest is one that contemporary poets, at least, do not in fact need to ask. For the most part, that is, their question is not whether they have a relationship to Romanticism—it goes without saying they do—but rather, just what the relation is.
I've been thinking about all this as I teach Keats and contemporary poetry to a group of bright, curious students, some of whom are themselves "contemporary poets" and some of whom have precious little experience with contemporary poetry. Over the semester, I'll be posting reports on how all this going, including how we adjust to the varying expectations and expertise different groups of students bring to the course. For now, just a few observations on the difference it makes teaching Keats in this context— "Keats for poets" in more than one sense. If in my undergraduate Romanticism courses I do often try to sell Romantic poetry by using both the contemporary relevance and historical difference arguments I mentioned above, here, because these are grad students and because Romanticism and the contemporary is in fact the topic of the seminar, I've been holding back on the sales pitch to let the students themselves arrive at a position on Romanticism's "contemporaneity." So far, that's been working well. We've had some great comparative discussions of poems, such as James Schuyler's marvelous "Verge" paired with "To Autumn," or Rachel Hadas's "Sappho, Keats" paired with the "Nightingale" ode it riffs on. Both the MFA and MA students have been making telling connections not just between Keats's poetry and contemporary poetics but also between Keats's experience as a poet making a career for himself and that of the contemporary poets we're studying. The poets in the class—who are very alive to matters of form, meter, and style—have also nudged the discussions in the direction of Keats's technique and his habits of composition in rewarding ways. In this regard, the MFA students can be both much less reverential and, at the same time, much more awed by Keats than my undergraduate English majors: the MFA students have a "how did he do that?" response to Keats's various fluencies that feels to me a lot like a young basketball player watching film of some NBA legend pulling off spectacular shots or incredible mid-air moves. And when we were talking about Keats and coterie production, both the MFA and the MA students had fun doing some timed sonnets on set subjects, though they reported it a very challenging exercise—and a couple of the sonnets I got from the MFA students were simply jaw-droppingly good: poems I thought I should be teaching rather than grading. If I can get permission I'll try to post some here.
I'm wondering about the experiences of others who have taught courses stressing connections (and disjunctions) between Romanticism and contemporary writing—the ideas Roger, Crystal, and Deidre have already tossed out are intriguing. What's worked and what hasn't worked? If anyone's taught a "Keats & Contemporary Poetry" course in particular, I'd love to compare notes!


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Economic Colonialism
Posted 6 years ago on Dec. 12, 2013, 4:11 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt (1) from Plainfield, NJ
"More and more Zambians in the markets—teachers, nurses and civil servants who, having lost their jobs, turned to selling secondhand clothes. How, Bloemen wondered, did all of these Africans end up selling used clothing?" And where did all the T-shirts, jackets, hats and skirts come from? She decided to follow the trail of the secondhand clothes.
"Many Zambians feel that the stringent economic policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are to blame for their country's insurmountable debt. Sophi Phiri, a corporate investment banker, says: "We don't have a political colonialism in Zambia, we have an economic colonialism. "If they [the World Bank] can control the shots that far then are we an independent state?"
"What hope do Africa's creditors have of ever recouping their loans if Africa's workforce is hungry and sick and uneducated?" Bloemen asks. "If we continue to bend the economic lives of poorer nations to suit our purposes and only make things worse in the process, whom will be left to make good on the debt? Do we want to live in a world where one sixth of the population has no chance to even see their children grow up healthy?" The end of the film, having followed the T-shirts on their travels, leaves Bloemen with more questions than ever before." -- 2001


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Mayor's Office
Mayor Chris Beutler announced today that the City will discontinue use of the FirstCall notification system for snow removal parking bans. The City implemented the system Sunday, January 9, and the company failed to follow its procedure for discontinuing calls after 10 p.m., resulting in overnight calls to many residents. FirstCall took full responsibility for the calls and apologized to the community Monday, Jan. 10.
"Our intention in using the FirstCall system was to enhance service to the public and to reduce the need to ticket or tow cars," Mayor Beutler said. "But many people we heard from said the calls were bothersome rather than useful, even if they did come at a regular hour. The City is always re-evaluating procedures to see if we can do things better. When we hear from the public, we do listen and respond. FirstCall is an excellent service, but in the future, we will use it only for emergency situations."
Mayor Beutler encouraged the public to sign up to receive parking bans information through e-mail, text message or RSS feed. Links are available on the City website (lincoln.ne.gov) by clicking on "snow operations." Residents can sign up to receive notice through Twitter at twitter.com/lincolnsnow. You do not need a Twitter account to receive SMS alerts - text "follow lincolnsnow" to 40404 (standard text messaging rates apply).
The FirstCall system uses a database of listed land line phone numbers and registered cell phones. FirstCall has 53,946 numbers in its system for the Lincoln area. On January 10, the company estimated that about 90 percent of those calls were completed in 90 minutes Sunday. Further evaluation shows 78 percent of the calls — 42,184 — were completed in that time frame.
Those with land lines can opt out of the system, but Lancaster County Emergency Management Director Doug Ahlberg said that is not advisable. Those who opt out would not receive calls about severe weather, hazardous material incidents or other life-threatening emergencies. Calls can be targeted by zip code.
Those wanting to receive emergency information on their cell phones can register online at alertregistration.com/lancaster/. Those wanting more information can call Emergency Management at 441-7441. The toll-free number for FirstCall is 800-653-9232.
The City issued 1,831 tickets this week for violations of the parking ban last week. "The City does not want to ticket or tow any cars, but we have a responsibility to clear the snow as efficiently and effectively as we can," Beutler said. "When we have a snowstorm, residents need to stay informed on snow operations and take steps to get their cars off the streets."
Beutler thanked the local news media for their help in sharing information on snow operations and parking bans. Information also is posted on the City website (lincoln.ne.gov) and government access cable channels 5 and 10.
Greg MacLean, Director of the City Public Works and Utilities Department, said the City also will change the timeline for switching residential parking bans from the even to odd sides of the street to make it more convenient for residents to move their cars.
MacLean said a new procedure that worked well was the parking ban implemented for the first time in the eight new snow removal districts. In these districts, parking can be banned on both sides of the street during overnight hours for crews to haul snow out of the area. After successful operations from 2 to 7 a.m. Jan. 12 and 13, the ban for Jan. 14 was cancelled. These districts include streets in Downtown; University Place; Havelock; Bethany; College View; 11th and "G"; 17th and Washington; and 25th and Sumner. Maps can be found at lincoln.ne.gov.
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Oakland County School Closings for Dec. 27
Kids probably woke up this morning to see the snow -- and were a little disappointed considering they already have school off for holiday break. But In Oakland County, there are still school closings for colleges, preschools and day cares.
School closings are: Clawson Early Childcare, Creative Employment Rochester Hills, For Kids Sake Montessori, Freedom Work Oakland County, Little Lambs at CCC, Michigan College of Beauty-Troy and Michigan College of Beauty-Waterford.


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© 2010 by Joshua Cogan
I grew up outside Cleveland, Ohio, and the cassata is the cake of my childhood. This regional specialty is a great example of how recipes take on local styles over time. Some food historians believe the cassata has its roots in fourteenth-century Arab culture. In Sicily, the long-ago homeland of the immigrants who first brought it to America, the cassata often contains candied citrus fruits, citrus liqueurs, and a glazing of chocolate or almond marzipan.
The version of the cassata cake that I grew up with was quite different: a strawberry-and-whipped-cream-clad yellow sponge cake with a ricotta cheese filling. My childhood memory of the cake is that there were always leftovers that—thankfully—lasted for days. Flavorful and moist, that final piece of cake just fell apart in your mouth.
- Yield
- One 9-inch layer cake
- For the Citrus-Ricotta Filling
- 2 ounces (1/4 cup) all-purpose flour
- 1 cup milk
- 8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter
- 8 ounces (1 cup) superfine granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon citrus oil (pure orange or lemon oil)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup ricotta cheese
- For the Cake
- 9 ounces (1 3/4 cups) all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 6 eggs, separated
- 16 ounces (2 cups) superfine granulated sugar, divided
- 8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter
- For Assembling
- 1 pint fresh strawberries, washed, hulled, and sliced
- 4 cups whipped cream
- 1. To make the filling, quickly whisk together 4 tablespoons of the milk with the flour. The slurry will be somewhat thick, so whisk thoroughly to make it smooth. Press out any lumps with a flexible spatula, if necessary.
- 2. Whisk in the rest of the milk and transfer the mixture to a 2-quart heavy-bottom saucepan. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, whisking constantly. Once bubbles that burp steam form, remove the pot from the heat and continue to stir for another 30 seconds.
- 3. Cover the milk mixture with plastic wrap pressed directly against the surface. Cool for 15 to 30 minutes.
- 4. Meanwhile, combine the butter, sugar, citrus oil, and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and beat on high speed for up to 5 minutes.
- 5. Add the milk mixture and continue to beat on high speed until the filling is smooth, another 5 minutes. Beat in the ricotta cheese 1 tablespoon at a time.
- 6. Preheat the oven to 335°F and place the rack in the middle position. Line the bottoms of three 9-by-2- inch round pans with parchment.
- 7. Measure the flour, cornstarch, baking powder, and salt into one bowl, and the milk and vanilla into a separate bowl. Whisk each to combine.
- 8. In the standing mixer fitted with the wire whip attachment, beat the egg whites on high speed to a stiff peak. Drizzle in 1 cup of the sugar while the mixer is running. Scoop the meringue into a large bowl and set aside.
- 9. Lightly wipe the mixer bowl and replace the wire whip with the paddle attachment. Cream the butter with the remaining 1 cup of sugar on low speed.
- 10. Add the egg yolks one at a time. Scrape the sides of the bowl all the way to the bottom using a flexible spatula and mix on low speed until the ingredients are thoroughly combined.
- 11. Alternately add the dry and wet ingredients about a quarter at a time without pausing between additions.
- 12. Stop the mixer and gently fold the meringue into the batter with a flexible spatula. Pour the mixture evenly into the prepared pans and bake for 27 to 30 minutes, or until the cake bounces back when lightly pressed and a wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.
- 13. Cool the cakes for 2 minutes, then run an offset spatula around the edges and invert the cakes onto a flat surface. They will be very fragile, so handle them with care.
- 14. Assemble the extravagant cake by adding about 1 cup each of the fresh strawberries and the ricotta filling between the layers. Cover the outside of the cake with the whipped cream. Add more fresh strawberries around the edge of the cake if you like.
From United Cakes of America: Recipes Celebrating Every State by Warren Brown. Copyright © 2010 by Warren Brown; photographs © 2010 by Joshua Cogan. Published in 2010 by Stewart, Tabori & Chang, an imprint of ABRAMS.