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Bulk email industry standards and best practices
The key mission of Yahoo Mail is to deliver messages that people want to receive and filter out the messages they don't. The easiest way to make sure your messages are delivered is to avoid looking like a spammer.
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Heard around the West
A passenger on a flight from Los Angeles to Oakland apparently felt too important to obey repeated requests to hang up his cell phone so the plane could take off. Everyone else had acknowledged the usual announcement to turn off cell phones, except for this man, who was deep in conversation, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. After repeated requests for compliance were ignored, a flight attendant warned that the taxiing plane might have to turn back. That caused the other passengers to grumble but had no effect on the guy on the cell phone. Finally, an attendant stood over the man and said, "Sir, I'm going to count to three: One, two, three!" "Just five more seconds!" he insisted. "No, sir! You need to hang up now!" This finally got through, and the passenger — who turned out to be Jerry Brown, mayor of Oakland and the Democratic candidate for state attorney general — turned off his cell phone. We're guessing that Brown's behavior on the plane cost him more than one vote.
Boy Scouts in the West head for the hills during the summer and toast marshmallows over campfires stoked by juniper and pine logs, writes Marcia Hensley, who lives in Farson, Wyo. Apparently, Boy Scouts in the Far East enjoy similar outdoor activities, but with a few striking differences. Hensley's daughter, Robyn, a Hong Kong resident, saw teenaged Scouts gather on a basketball court near a high-rise, hunkering down around a square of aluminum foil as if it were a campfire. The Scouts laid charcoal briquettes on top of the foil, lit them, and then broke out what looked like refrigerator biscuit dough. Then they wrapped the dough around sticks and cooked up their urban treats, just like marshmallows.
The giant Madagascar hissing cockroach, dolled up with crystals glued to its hard shell, is "this season's creepiest fashion accessory," says the New York Post. The 3-inch-long insect, which really does hiss, has become mobile jewelry selling for $80, thanks to Salt Lake City-based designer Jared Gold. He tethers the bug to a silver chain, which allows the roach — looking "like an especially teeny Paris Hilton pet" — to explore its owner's shoulder or arm. An animal-rights spokesman was not amused: "For a person who doesn't mind a small animal excreting on them throughout the day and doesn't have an ounce of compassion for these small, defenseless animals, this could be just the gift," said Michael McGraw of PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Columnist Sari Anne Tuschman, writing in the Aspen Daily News, says women go through things that men will never understand — such as shopping for a bra with one's mother in a specialty store, where the grandmotherly saleswoman knows what works and brooks absolutely no nonsense. Tuschman was at first flummoxed to find the saleswoman crammed into the dressing room with her, "and before I knew it, her hands were all over me. … 'Get your girls in there!' she said loudly like some sort of bra cheerleader. 'Get your girls in there!' And she was getting them in there, pushing and pulling until 'they' were in there just right. When she was done and her hands were finally off me, I realized it was the most action I'd had in some time." And Tuschman had been fitted just right — something a man could never fathom. That encouraged her to buy several more expensive and correctly fitted bras for "the girls." "You have no idea what it costs to lift and separate," she confides.
Some residents of rural northeastern Utah have "asked nicely" that rancher Kalon Downing remove the word "testicle" from the name of the annual Black Gold Cattle Company Testicle Festival. But Downing, who started the festival in 2001 as a charity to benefit children with medical problems, won't budge: "It does too much good and it's fun," he told the Seattle Times. Besides Western music, rodeos and roast beef dinners, the raunchy festival features as delicacies the testicles from neutered calves and bulls that have been put out to pasture — although this year the testicles came from bulls slaughtered by a Salt Lake City meatpacker. Served up breaded and fried, Rocky Mountain Oysters are a Western tradition, though one that some newcomers will gladly skip. Downing also sells T-shirts, vests and hats. This year, they featured a picture of a bull, Rocky Mountain Oysters on a stick, and the words: "What's in your sac lunch?"
Betsy Marston ([email protected]) is editor of Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News in Paonia, Colorado. Tips of Western oddities are always appreciated and often shared in the column, Heard around the West.

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MANHATTAN, Kan. -- It may surprisemany that a state forestry agency has served Kansans for more than 125 years, or thatthere are 5.2 million acres of forestland, agroforests and trees in the statethat provide important environmental benefits.
"However, it is probably the economicbenefits of the forest industry that are most often overlooked by Kansans,"according to Bob Atchison, rural forestry coordinator with the Kansas ForestService. A recent analysis by Tom Treiman, natural resourceeconomist with the Missouri Department of Conservation, showed thatthe Kansas forest products industry contributed $1.5 billion annually to thestate's economy. The industry supports more than 6,700 jobs at apayroll of about $360 million and is responsible for more than $43million in taxes that help to run our state and country and another $69 millionin federal taxes. "These numbers include not only the directeffect of jobs in the primary wood processing industry, such as logging andsawmill operations, but also the indirect and 'induced' effects in thesecondary wood products industry, such as cabinet shops, pallet manufacturing and soon," Atchison said. "This is especially true since loggers, saw milloperators, and carpenters, after all, buy groceries and gas just like the rest ofus." Sources of Treiman's data come from the U.S.Bureau of Economic Analysis, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S.Department of Agriculture, the Minnesota IMPLAN Group and the Kansas ForestService at Kansas State University. "And that $1.5 billion doesn't even includethe value of a day spent walking in Kansas's woods with your family trying to spota migrating warbler or next season's big buck," Atchison said. More information is available at the Kansas ForestService website at www.kansasforests.org.


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As our regular readers might recall, we didn't especially enjoy Red Hot Chili Peppers' appearance Sunday night during the otherwise-delightful Super Bowl halftime show by Bruno Mars.
Did our distaste for the band's rendition of "Give It Away" have anything to do with the fact that Flea appeared to be playing a bass that wasn't plugged in, as a number of keen-eyed observers pointed out following the performance? It did not.
Before it's a concert, the Super Bowl halftime show is -- like the football game that surrounds it -- a full-tilt TV spectacle, one far more dependent on energy and charisma and visual style than on whether actual instruments are being actually played before our eyes and ears.
A great live vocal performance, such as the one Mars gave at the end of his gig in "Just the Way You Are," is nothing to be dismissed, especially if the singer is also busy providing energy and charisma and visual style. But it's not crucial to a halftime's success.
And yet!
Enough people have made noise about the Chili Peppers' miming -- though not nearly so many, we'll point out, as scrutinized Beyoncé's Super Bowl performance in the wake of her lip-synching "scandal" at President Obama's second inaugaration last year -- that Flea was moved Tuesday to weigh in on the matter with a statement on the band's website.
The takeaway? The Chili Peppers (or three-fourths of them) weren't playing their instruments at the Super Bowl.
But Flea has his reasons for doing so, and they're ones that strike us as pretty reasonable. In fact, he writes, "I would do it all the same way again."
Read on below for Flea's full statement:
The Red Hot Chili Peppers stance on any sort of miming has been that we will absolutely not do it. The last time we did it (or tried to) was in the late 80's, we were thrown off of 'The Top Of the Pops' television program in the U.K. during rehearsals because we refused to mime properly, I played bass with my shoe, John played guitar atop Anthony's shoulders, and we basically had a wrestling match onstage, making a mockery of the idea that it was a real live performance.
We mimed on one or two weird MTV shows before that and it always was a drag. We take our music playing seriously, it is a sacred thing for us, and anyone who has ever seen us in concert (like the night before the Super Bowl at the Barclays Center), knows that we play from our heart, we improvise spontaneously, take musical risks, and sweat blood at every show. We have been on the road for 31 years doing it.
So, when this Super Bowl gig concept came up, there was a lot of confusion amongst us as whether or not we should do it, but we eventually decided, it was a surreal-like, once in a life time crazy thing to do and we would just have fun and do it. We had given this a lot of thought before agreeing to do it, and besides many a long conversation amongst ourselves, I spoke with many musician friends for whom I have the utmost respect, and they all said they would do it if asked, that it was a wild trippy thing to do, what the hell. Plus, we the RHCP all love football too and that played a big part in our decision. We decided that, with Anthony singing live, that we could still bring the spirit and freedom of what we do into the performance, and of course we played every note in the recording specially for the gig. I met and spoke with Bruno, who was a beautiful dude, a real talented musician, and we worked out something that seemed like it would be fun.
We recorded a track for the day, just banged one out from our hearts that was very like in spirit to the versions we have been playing live the last few years with our beloved Josh on guitar.
For the actual performance, Josh, Chad, and I were playing along with the pre recorded track so there was no need to plug in our guitars, so we did not. Could we have plugged them in and avoided bumming people out who have expressed disappointment that the instrumental track was pre recorded? Of course easily we could have and this would be a non-issue. We thought it better to not pretend. It seemed like the realest thing to do in the circumstance. It was like making a music video in front of a gazillion people, except with live vocals, and only one chance to rock it. Our only thought was to bring the spirit of who we are to the people.
I am grateful to the NFL for having us. And I am grateful to Bruno, who is a super talented young man for inviting us to be a part of his gig. I would do it all the same way again.
We, as a band, aspire to grow as musicians and songwriters, and to continue to play our guts out live onstage for anyone who wants to get their brains blown out.


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Some people run the bleeding edge of technologies - updating the day that something is updated. In production, this isn't as appropriate.
Researching about if the current (Java 7) version is ready for production produces a significant amount of old material that might not be correct anymore (at the time of this writing Java 7 has been out for a year and a half which seems plenty long).
What considerations do I need to make to determine if it is appropriate to upgrade the production environment to a later version of Java?


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Skip to comments.Obama to Celebrate July 4 with Naturalization Ceremony at White House
Posted on 07/03/2012 11:31:08 AM PDT by DFG
President Obama will celebrate July 4 tomorrow at the White House with a naturalization ceremony, the White House announced today. The president will be joined by Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano.
"On July 4, President Obama will deliver remarks at a naturalization ceremony for active duty service members in the East Room. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas will present the countries of the candidates for naturalization and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will deliver the oath of allegiance," a White House press release reads.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
He's taking the oath?
About time.
Indeed, is he officiating or participating?
Where are all these foreigners that he is going to naturalize from?
Are these foreigners being required to donate to and vote for Obama in order to be naturalized?
Exactly how many of these foreigners will there be at this ceremony?
She needs to TAKE IT.
He is going to naturalize himself?
How fitting:
The top two traitors in American History soiling the White House and disgracing the country on Independance Day.
Allegiance to who? Oboma? The United Nations?
Is this Bizarro World or what! Two of the biggest stains on the Constitution swearing in new citizens on Indpendence day. Both should be in Leavenworth where they belong. Stains!
Will Robert's children be there?
This ceremony brings to mind so many things that are wrong with legitimatizing illegal immigration:
1) Illegal immigrants are not required to learn our history
2) Illegal immigrants are not required to learn how our political process works
3) Illegal immigrants are not required to take an oath of allegiance
4) Illegal immigrants are not required to learn our language
And I'm sure there are many more of these that those who propose allowing amnesty to illegal immigrants - no matter what their age - do not wish to discuss.
I'm wondering if those who are being sworn in think it's a big waste of time, since illegals don't have to meet the same requirements as they do.
I'm wondering if our President feels like a hypocrit?
And, is it true that Janet Napolitana will be crossing her fingers on the one hand behind her back, with a wink and a nod as she administers the oath?
I thought he was supposed to be in France for fundraising.
That was bogus.
Baraq isn't going to miss a photo op with the troops on July 4.
He's got the rest of the week for golf.
I have a cynical attitude to this... these active duty servicemen and woman should be given citizenship, but it's the good cover for a bad POS-otus, who with the other hand, wants to move citizenship for illegals...
I feel the same way, although these folks have earned it. I do get choked up and teary when I see footage of these ceremonies. It should be a day of pride and honor for those new citizens and for all Americans.
If any other President was officiating, I would tune in and watch every rerun I could...but not this guy.
How absolutely bizarre that Obama could preside over a legitimate ceremony that he so recently made a mockery.
What idiot would still take the time and effort to go through a naturalization to be a US Citizen?
What would be the point? Why buy the cow when the milk is free?
Naturalization is not what's celebrated on July 4th. Totally inappropriate like everything about this poser.
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What a sweetheart. I wish we could come to Ethan's party Dev. We REALLY do. I wish I could hug and kiss that sweetie. Tell everyone we said hi.
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After the 2007-2008 bank recapitalization by governments, which means taxpayers' money, Europe changed the rules. The new rules require that private investors be "bailed in" before the bank is "bailed out."
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Check out the interview I did with Kitesurf365
Really solid podcast regardless and I'm glad that they are doing this. Definitely answered a lot of questions I had.
Great to see a new kite specific podcast!
Thanks mate, Im glad you are enjoying them....if you have any ideas or leads let me know.CaptainArgh wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 9:23 pmGreat to see a new kite specific podcast!
I haven't listened to one (or knew there was one) since Ryan Riccitelli did dozens of them for The Kiteboarder years ago. The sound quality of his were usually complete shit, to the point that you couldn't even listen to the phone interviews, but the guests he had were great.
Ryan did a superb job getting the lead designers for all the companies online, along with pros and others influential in the industry. Made for very interesting conversations. If you can get access to similar folks, it'd be great to start to hear high quality discussions with today's leaders of our sport. There are always designers out there who want to talk about their latest innovations and influences.
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At the invitation of Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Minister of External Relations and International Cooperation Alain Aimé Nyamitwe of the Republic of Burundi will pay an official visit to China from March 13 to 19.
This will be his first official visit to China, during which, Foreign Minister Wang Yi will hold talks with him for in-depth discussions on the bilateral relationship as well as international and regional issues of common interest, and sign an agreement on establishing a consultation mechanism between the two foreign ministries.
China and Burundi have long been friendly with each other. Over the years, we have grown political mutual trust and achieved fruitful results in cooperation in infrastructure building, health care, education, culture and other fields. It is believed that the visit by Foreign Minister Nyamitwe will further consolidate our traditional friendship, deepen bilateral cooperation, push for bigger progress in the relationship and bring more benefits to the two peoples.
Q: The ROK constitutional court upheld the impeachment of President Park Geun-Hye. What is China's comment on that? The Chinese side once expressed dissatisfaction over some of the policies adopted by Park Geun-Hye during her term of office, such as the deployment of THAAD and the signing of a military intelligence sharing agreement with Japan. The ROK is going to elect a new president. What is China's expectation for that?
A: We have noted the latest developments. We will not comment on the impeachment as it belongs to the domestic affairs of the ROK. As a neighbor, we hope that the ROK can maintain political stability.
Speaking of former President Park Geun-Hye, we said before that during her term of office, she has done a lot to advance the bilateral relationship, and we speak positively about this. And as you just mentioned, it was also during her tenure that the ROK government consented to the deployment of THAAD in the country, which has affected the bilateral relationship and been met with our opposition.
As for the issue of THAAD, China's position is fairly clear and firm. It remains unchanged.
Q: The Philippine Defense Secretary said that Chinese ships had been spotted in waters near Benham Rise. The Philippine side is highly concerned about that as Benham Rise is UN-recognized territory of the Philippines. Do you have any comment on that?
A: Another journalist asked the same question yesterday. We checked on that and would like to make the following response:
First, in 2012, the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf approved the submission made by the Philippines in 2009 in respect of the limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles in the Benham Rise region, enabling the Philippines to carry out exploration and development of natural resources in this region. But it does not mean that the Philippines can take it as its own territory.
Second, according to international law including UNCLOS, a coastal state's rights over the continental shelf do not affect the legal status of the superjacent waters or of the air space above those waters, nor do they affect foreign ships' navigation freedom in the coastal state's EEZ and on the high seas, or their innocent passage through the coastal state's territorial sea as supported by international law.
Third, according to the competent authorities, Chinese vessels for marine research did sail across relevant waters to the northeast of Luzon, the Philippines last year, exercising navigation freedoms and the right to innocent passage only, without conducting any other activities or operations. The remarks by some individuals from the Philippines are not consistent with the facts.
Fourth, actually, in response to the Philippines' concerns about activities by Chinese marine research vessels, foreign ministries of the two countries have had a friendly exchange of views last January to sort out the facts and properly address the issue.
Fifth, working together, China and the Philippines have properly resolved their differences, added momentum to the development of the bilateral relationship, and driven forward practical cooperation across the board. It serves the common interests of the two countries and peoples, and meets the aspiration shared by peace-loving countries of the region and beyond. It is hoped that individuals of the Philippines will stop playing up the false information and do more to promote mutual trust.
Q: According to Pakistani media reports, the Chinese government invited five senior Taliban officials over in February. Can you confirm that? What has been discussed by the two sides?
A: I am not aware of that. The Chinese side supports the "Afghan-led and Afghan-owned" peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan, and encourages Afghanistan's national unity government and the Taliban to engage in peace talks at an early date, in a bid to realize national reconciliation and restore peace and stability in Afghanistan as soon as possible. The Chinese side is in contact with all parties related to the Afghan issue, and is ready to continue to play a positive and constructive role.
Q: Cruise ships that had been taking Chinese tourists to call at various ports in the ROK will be visiting Japan instead. Is this not an example of China taking discriminatory measures to punish ROK companies because of THAAD? Are these measures intentionally against the ROK?
A: I am not aware of the specifics you mentioned. Similar questions keep coming up these days. I prefer not to repeat China' s position on the issue of THAAD, as you are all clear about that.
What I want to say is that over the past 25 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, China and the ROK, as each other's important neighbors, have worked hard and secured visible progress in the bilateral relationship. Nowadays, China is the largest trading partner, the largest source of international students, and the largest destination of outbound investment and trips of the ROK. The ROK has also become one of China's most important partners for trade, investment and cultural exchanges. All these hard-won results are worth cherishing.
We are saddened to see that the China-ROK relationship is in difficulty. The crux, as you all know, is that the ROK insists on coordinating with the US in the deployment of THAAD in disregard of China's concerns. We once again ask the ROK to keep in mind the overall interests of the two peoples and bilateral cooperation, take seriously China's concerns, heed the public's appeals, cease the deployment and remove the obstacles for the sound development of China-ROK relations.
Q: Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said yesterday that China dropped its plan for land reclamation on Huangyan Dao only after persuasion by the US. Can you confirm that? What is China's response to that?
A: The Chinese side has made its position clear on many occasions. Since the issue was revisited by some individual from the Philippines, I would like to say a few more words.
It is China's sovereignty to decide what to do or not to do on Huangyan Dao. Without a doubt, China will properly handle the relevant issue.
China-Philippines relations are developing in a sound momentum, with rapid progress in cooperation across the board. Acting on the two leaders' consensus of enhancing good-neighborliness, properly addressing differences, and pursuing common growth, the two countries are strengthening political mutual trust and deepening mutually beneficial cooperation. It is hoped that individuals in the Philippines will stop groundless speculation and make more efforts to promote mutual trust and bilateral relations.
Q: The China Secretariat for Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) was officially set up today. Can you give us more details on that? A successful LMC leaders' meeting was held in Sanya in March last year, setting in motion the LMC mechanism. What progress has been made so far?
A: The LMC China Secretariat was officially set up this morning. It has the functions of planning, coordination, implementation and publicity. Its establishment will help mobilize all parties to be more deeply involved in LMC.
LMC is a new type of subregional cooperation mechanism planned, built and shared by China and Mekong countries. Having achieved robust progress in institutional building and practical cooperation, it is now in the stage of comprehensive implementation with great vitality and enormous potential for development. Over half of the 45 "early harvest" programs approved by the first leaders' meeting are either being implemented or already implemented. Preparations for the three cooperation centers in water resources, environment and law enforcement and security are making smooth progress, and a lot of other projects and proposals are advancing steadily. Since the LMC special fund was put into use, six countries have filed their applications. Both Laos and China have established LMC secretariats. All these show that LMC is not only in motion but is progressing rapidly.
China will work together with Mekong countries to enhance the complementarity of our strategies, deepen practical cooperation, press ahead with LMC, jointly build the LMC corridor, make LMC an important platform for the Belt and Road initiative, contribute more to the development of Mekong countries and their people's wellbeing, and give a boost to the building of the ASEAN community.
Q: Foreign Minister Wang Yi reiterated days ago at the press conference the approach of pursuing in parallel tracks denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the replacement of the armistice with a peace agreement. He also suggested that the DPRK suspend its missile and nuclear activities in exchange for a halt of the large scale US-ROK exercises. It seems that the US and the ROK are not very positive about that. What is your comment on that? Do you still think that relevant proposals are workable?
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The Korean Peninsula issue is complex. There is a severe trust deficit among relevant parties. Only a solution that accommodates all parties' concerns can thoroughly and effectively resolve this issue. The suspension-for-suspension proposal and the parallel-track approach put forward by China accommodate various parties' most pressing concerns, reflect the reality of the issue, grasp the crux of the problem and are in line with relevant Security Council resolutions, and are thus impartial, reasonable and workable.
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Coconut-Crusted Chicken with Mango Salsa
1/2 pound frozen mango, thawed and chopped (about 1 1/2 cups) (I used 1 large fresh mango)
1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper
1/3 cup chopped red onion
2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
Salt and pepper
1 egg
1/2 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
Four 6-ounce skinless, boneless chicken breasts
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a shallow bowl, beat the egg with 1 teaspoon water and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Place the coconut in another shallow bowl. Dip the chicken in the egg, then in the coconut. Press to coat.
In large, ovenproof skillet, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the chicken and cook, turning once, until golden, about 3 minutes. Transfer the skillet to the oven and bake until cooked through, about 12 minutes. Serve the chicken with the mango salsa.
Labels: chicken, gluten-free, salsa
6 comments:
- Mags @ the Other Side of 50 said...
Great recipe and GORGEOUS photo!
- September 28, 2010 at 8:05 PM
- Krystal said...
that sounds so great!
- September 28, 2010 at 8:25 PM
- Natalie said...
you had me at the title of this one! this sounds (and looks) so delicious!
- September 29, 2010 at 2:19 PM
- Emily Taylor said...
What temp did you set the oven to when you baked it?
- February 5, 2011 at 9:49 PM
- Marci said...
Critical error! The oven is at 350 degrees...I fixed the post (and thanks for drawing my attention to it!).
- February 5, 2011 at 9:57 PM
- rusted sun said...
I just went through your blog and planned out my meals for the next two weeks. Thanks for keeping up such a great blog!
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Vegan Jumbo Lump Jack Fruit "Crab" Cakes with Spanish Garlic "Mayonnaise" and Warm Saffron Nage
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While many factors contribute to the success or failure of antiretroviral therapy for HIV, among the most important are factors that influence adherence to a treatment regimen, such as duration of therapy, dosing frequency, pill burden, side effects, and patient behaviors. Inconsistent adherence or nonadherence to antiretroviral therapy can result in suboptimal drug exposure. Suboptimal drug exposure can, in turn, impact short- and long-term patient outcomes by increasing the likelihood of drug resistant HIV mutants and subsequent virologic and clinical failure. It is therefore essential to design treatment regimens that promote long-term adherence to potent antiretroviral therapy. This study will evaluate the relative contribution of reduced-frequency dosing and directly observed therapy on the magnitude and durability of virologic suppression in patients treated with potent antiretroviral therapy.
Patients will be randomly assigned to one of three study arms. Arms A, B, and C receive the same daily dosage of lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r), emtricitabine (FTC), and stavudine extended release (d4T XR) or tenofovir DF (TDF). In Arm A, drugs are self-administered for 48 weeks; LPV/r is taken twice daily and FTC and d4T XR or TDF once daily. In Arm B, all drugs are self-administered once daily for 48 weeks. In Arm C, drugs are taken once a day under directly observed therapy during Weeks 0-24, and then by self-administration during Weeks 25-48. Adherence to the regimen is measured using an electronic drug monitoring system. Viral load, CD4 and CD8 T cell responses, population pharmacokinetics, and quality of life indicators are measured throughout the study. The tolerability and safety of the treatment regimens are also monitored.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|402 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Phase II, Open Label Study to Compare Twice Daily and Once Daily Potent Antiretroviral Therapy and to Compare Self-Administered Therapy and Therapy Administered Under Direct Observation
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|January 2006
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:
|13 Years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria
- HIV infection
- Age 13 years or older and have written consent of guardian if under 18
- Weigh at least 88 pounds
- Viral load of 2000 copies/ml or more within 90 days before study entry
- Have not taken anti-HIV drugs for more than 7 days
- Agree to use acceptable methods of contraception during the study and for 1 month after stopping the study drugs
Exclusion Criteria
- Pregnant or breastfeeding
- In jail
- Sensitive or allergic to any part of the study drugs
- Treated with acute systemic therapy for a serious infection or other serious medical illness within 7 days prior to study entry, unless the participant has completed 7 days of therapy and is clinically stable
- Recent serious illness, including pancreatitis or peripheral neuropathy
- Alcohol or illicit drug abuse
- Taken any of the following within 14 days before study entry: investigational drugs, anti-HIV vaccines, drugs that may cause pancreatitis or peripheral neuropathy, or drugs that are associated with CYP3A
- Treated for cancer (not including minimal Kaposi's sarcoma) within 30 days before study entry
- History of mental illness that might interfere with the study
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): NCT00036452
|Study Chair:
|Donna Mildvan, MD
|Beth Israel Medical Center
|Study Chair:
|Charles Flexner, MD
|Johns Hopkins University Hospital
Other Publications:
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
10073 ( Registry Identifier: DAIDS ES )
|First Posted:
|May 13, 2002 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|May 21, 2012
|Last Verified:
|May 2012
Drug Administration Schedule
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Self Care
Viral Load
Directly Observed Therapy
Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate
Treatment Naive
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors


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HD Supply launches proprietary brands
HD Supply has launched two new proprietary brands covering kitchen and bath fixtures, ceiling fans, heavy-duty tools and hardware.
The new "Seasons" brand of kitchen fixtures, bath fixtures and ceiling fans, is geared toward the consumer and residential market. Seasons products are positioned in the "better" qualitytier, according to the prodealer, with a "best" quality brand under the "Seasons Gold" name.
Tools and hardware under the "Brigade" line will be primarily for contractors and professionals and sold through HD Supply's White Cap and Facilities and Maintenance divisions. The line also will feature a higher-tier product group under the name "Brigade 5-Star."
"The launch of these new proprietary brands is a cornerstone to HD Supply's long-term growth and value creation story," said Arleen Quiñones, HD Supply's vp-marketing and communications, in a statement. She said the products fill a "product assortment gap" identified by the company.
The whole-sale distributor said it's implemeted a number of quality control initiatives with its overseas suppliers, including audits to "confirm business practices are socially and environmentally responsible."
In related HD Supply news, the company has opened a 20,000-square-foot warehouse to serve as the regional hub for Creative Touch Interiors (CTI), a division that caters to production builders. The Atlanta facility will serve the Southeast market, en compassing Birmingham, Ala., and Macon, Ga.
In addition to entering the Atlanta market, CTI recently expanded into Texas and the Southwest and is evaluating future investments in the Pacific Northwest and Midwest regions. The company intends to establish a national foot-print that will offer builders and their customers customized finish products, including flooring, cabinets, countertops and window coverings.
CTI operates more than 90 design centers and six counter-top fabrication facilities. It is part of HD Supply, a wholesale distribution company that once belonged to Home Depot but was sold last year to a group of private investors.
Earlier this year, HD Supply divested its stable of lumberyards, striking a deal with Pro Build Holdings. The deal, terms of which were not disclosed , included a collection of 39 lumberyards, seven truss plants, 10 engineered wood production facilities and a construction services division, all located in Florid a and Georgia.
The remainder of HD Supply is still owned by three private equity groups, who bought the division from Home Depot last summer for $8.5 billion (Home Depot still holds a 12 percent stake in HD Supply). The LBM side of the business, now spun off to Pro Build, was built upon three major acquisitions: Williams Bros. Lumber outside Atlanta; Cox Lumber in St. Petersburg, Fla.; and Forest Products Building Materials in Sarasota, Fla.


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(Phoenix, Ariz. – Feb. 7, 2006) The Arizona Attorney General's Office today announced the filing of a fair housing lawsuit against the owner of a mobile home park in Flagstaff who allegedly refused to lease space to a couple because of their national origin.
In 2005, a Latino couple received a donated mobile home located in the Greenlaw Mobile Home Park. The Attorney General's lawsuit alleges that Greenlaw's employees made the couple submit four applications to lease space within the park, and all four were rejected because Greenlaw claimed the applications were incomplete. The couple submitted a fifth application, which was accepted and then denied.
According to the lawsuit, Greenlaw refused the application because one of its managing agents believed one applicant provided a Social Security number that did not belong to him. After denying the application, Greenlaw's managing agent threatened to call "immigration" if the applicants did not stop complaining about Greenlaw's decision. Refusing to rent to an individual or requiring different terms and conditions of rental because of national origin is prohibited under the Arizona Fair Housing Act. Greenlaw denies that it violated the Act.
The lawsuit alleges that the company and its employees violated the Act by discouraging the couple from submitting a lease application in the first instance and then subjecting the couple to differential treatment during and after the application process. The lawsuit contends that Greenlaw's conduct was motivated by the couple's national origin.
The Arizona Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in housing based on a person's disability, race, color, religion, sex, familial status or national origin. Any person who believes that his or her civil rights have been violated should call the Arizona Attorney General's Office Division of Civil Rights toll free statewide at 1-877-491-5742.


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text: Returning from a week in the South of France, I realize how much I love boats, and how much I miss the days growing up on the water. So this thread is dedicated to all things floating. To kick it off, perhaps one of my all time favorites - introducing The Maltese Falcon, at berth in Monaco last week: At 88 meters (289 feet), the ship has fifteen square sails (five per mast), stored inside the mast; they can fully unfurl into tracks along the yards in six minutes. The three carbon fiber masts are free-standing and able to rotate. The yacht is easily controlled and has been seen to sail off her anchor and away from berths within harbors. The yacht's sophisticated computer detects parameters such as wind speed automatically and displays key data. An operator must always activate the controls, yet it is possible for a single person to pilot the yacht. The Maltese Falcon has two 1,800 horsepower (1,300 kW) Deutz engines running at 1,800 rpm with a top speed of 20 kn (23 mph; 37 km/h) with minimal wave-making and virtually no vibration or noise and with a smooth and non-turbulent wake. (from Wikipedia)


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Writing and Alienation
Last week, I went to a meeting. It was the founding meeting for a new, Sudbury-based chapter of a national organization for self-employed writers who do paid non-fiction writing, I think with a particular focus on those who do (or want to do) freelance work for magazines and newspapers but also people who do (or want to do) contract writing for governments and businesses. The people were pleasant, the advice seemed sound, and the organization itself is probably pretty useful to anyone who makes their living that way. However, it was only a few minutes into the meeting when I began to feel this intense, visceral discomfort that lasted well past the event's end. Deep down in my bones, in my gut, to the tips of my toes, I did not want to be there. And I wasn't sure why.
I have been pondering this feeling ever since. Certainly one possible source of explanation for it might have something to do with the many ways in which writing can at moments be a pretty fraught enterprise for lots of people, me included. Even in its less personal forms, writing is like taking a little piece of your core self, putting it on display, and yelling out, "Judge me! Judge me!" Most of us had experiences as children or in high school in which we were shamed in connection with our writing.
Given that, there might be some value in exploring individualized, psychologizing, life-history explanations for my reaction to the meeting. It did, for instance, stir up faint echoes of the anxiety I felt when I first started to think of myself as a writer but was unable to admit that to anyone – it felt presumptuous to claim the label, and I had little I could point to and say, "See, I'm legit!" But that was fifteen years ago, and I have lots of writing work of lots of different kinds under my belt, and I've been pretty comfortable identifying as a writer for a pretty long time. The event also twigged in a small way my sensitivity to the powerful cultural norm in which the only work that is considered "real" work is work that is done for a wage. And I suppose it also stirred up memories of the difficult, earlier moment when I seriously considered exactly the sort of freelancing that this organization is about as the primary focus of my writing life, and ended up rejecting it. (I have, both before that decision and after, earned money in various ways through my writing, including ways that amounted to freelancing of one sort or another, and I would be quite happy to have opportunities to do so again tomorrow, but those are specific instances in the context of a different and broader logic rather than a central, guiding goal in my decision-making around writing.)
All of those things are present, but neither on their own nor summed together do they account for more than a fraction of what I was feeling during the meeting. No, I think the answer lies elsewhere, and it took me several days to pin down exactly where.
I think that I was reacting to a phenomenon that some writers have, following Marx, called "alienation" – where that word is meant not in a general and colloquial sense, but rather in a specific technical sense which links a particular kind of embodied experience to particular forms of social organization.
According to David McNally (in a book I reviewed here), we experience alienation when we are compelled to engage in a significant proportion of the practices that fill our everyday lives under logics that take them beyond our control, squash our creativity, and employ us as do-ers of specific, externally imposed tasks rather than whole people.
What is produced, how it is produced, according to what techniques and under what circumstances is determined by the logic of capitalist accumulation. Rather than an affirmation of our humanity, of our existence as creative beings making our lives together, labour under capitalism becomes drudgery, a detested, mind-numbing loss of life. (115)
He goes on to identify elements of this logic: the control that others have over whatever it is that we produce; our lack of control over the work process; the ways in which the work process estranges and divides us from other people; and the ways in which we "are estranged from [our] human capacity for creative self-development as members of a co-operative community" (ibid). And not only is this a localized feature of labour processes, but the logics of capital shape relations and practices far beyond that, such that many "spheres of life become yet more areas in which we are estranged from others and from ourselves" (117).
John Holloway (in a book I reviewed here) puts it like this:
Labour (alienated labour) is what we reject: it is an activity that we do not control, an activity that produces the master, that produces capital. (Alienated) labour is the enemy: we do not want to labour. But in the background there is another possibility (potential, dream?): to engage in free, conscious activity, conscious life-activity. (89)
My reaction to the meeting, then, was a reaction to a particular way of organizing a writing life. I have, through a combination of luck, privilege, and work, built myself a writing life that is relatively (though far from completely) unalienated. I have developed particular practices of relating self, world, and words, which feel affirming, which flow from and reflect me, which simultaneously enact and grow my "human capacity for creative self-development." These are not totally practices that I control, that refuse to produce the master, that refuse to produce capital – we live in the world in which we live and there is no escape that is not collective – but that allow me some control and some scope to work within-and-against the production of the master, the production of capital. I can, to a significant degree though with particular costs and consequences, write things that I want to write in ways that I want to write them. All of which may sound very abstract and even quite peculiar, but it was the spectre of going down a path that would mean losing that space and being swept back into writing under much more alienated conditions that created that intense negative feeling inside of me at that meeting. (I think a reaction to alienated writing labour, though in that case through the imposed logic of the classroom rather than the logic of the market, was also a big part of my sense of needing to 'detox' after my recently completed year in graduate school.)
Now, some caveats: This is not saying that people who engage in the kind of freelance writing practices that this organization facilitates are somehow "doing it wrong" or are "bad." Far from it – it is more evidence that their success in navigating such conditions are worthy of respect and worth learning from. There are many strategies for writers to navigate and resist alienation, and while some may be better suited to specific circumstances than others, I'm not sure that any are "better" in an absolute sense. There are always tradeoffs, and we all must navigate the particular circumstances in which we exist. I recognize that the particular strategies that I have developed and trade-offs that I have made are highly dependent on a significant degree of material privilege. And I recognize that my path is not some expression of purity, but simply one approach to non-stop struggle, negotiation, and compromise. My recently released books are a good example of such negotiation and compromise in my writing life: I wrote them as a single book, but split that one into the two that have been published in response to the publisher asserting quite convincingly that market logic required it. It meant giving up some things about the project, but it seemed a more than reasonable trade-off. And part of my current activities involve promoting the books, which is another layer of obedience to market logics – in the tongue-in-cheek, self-directed words of an English author of lefty books in a recent blog post, "See, this is what happens when you become a member of the petty bourgeois intelligentsia - non-stop hawking of your own wares, all relations subordinated to the cash nexus, all sentimental bonds drowned in the icy waters of egoistic calculation. No, but seriously."
And of course there are other people who are quite successful at creating and defending space to engage in (relatively) unalienated writing in other ways. Some deliberately engage in both alienated and less-alienated writing and keep firm boundaries between them, for instance by writing articles about things they don't care about for money while also working on a novel. Others might just do for-pay non-fiction freelancing, but have a dynamic relationship to alienation, such that they are clear that some pieces are just for money but others include much more self. I've always admired the ability of screenwriter and director Joss Whedon to combine in his career writing that I would identify from the outside as being relatively alienated with writing that is relatively unalienated even while carving out a highly successful career at the heart of entertainment capitalism – Hollywood – through both doing smaller and independent projects as well as having a (relatively) sound instinct for when to bow down to the demands of capital in the form of network execs and when to push and put pieces of self in even the biggest budget productions he has worked on (i.e. The Avengers). (Though I agree that his approach requires not just cunning and effort but also significant privilege in order for it to succeed.) And another approach – one I have used plenty in the past – is to work waged jobs that have nothing to do with writing to reduce the power of market compulsion over my writing choices, and then write what I want in the rest of my time.
The point I want to make here is not that a particular strategy of resisting alienation when it comes to writing work is better or worse, or even that the decision not to resist it at an individual level is necessarily a problem. But I think the experience of alienation as part of writing work is one we all need to think about, however we relate to it. And my reason for saying that goes back to a point I made earlier: most of us have most of our early writing experience in the context of elementary and high school. That may not be writing done directly under the logic of the market, but much of the time – there are always exceptions with great teachers – it is similarly alienated in that the goals of the writing are imposed, as are many of the processes and practices, and the product is primarily used as part of evaluating the one who produced it. I think that such early experiences sediment into us very deeply. They are traumas, damages, hurts that we continue to struggle against as adults, that are continually woken in us during our present-day struggles with alienation in the context of our writing. We all want to find new and better ways to deal with those kinds of material and emotional barriers to doing the writing we want to be doing, and I think viewing both those early experiences and our current struggles through the lens of "alienation," as one among others, gives us a powerful conceptual tool in figuring out how to move forward.
[Scott Neigh is a parent, activist, and writer based in Sudbury, Ontario. This post originally appeared on his personal blog. He has written two books as part of a larger project examining Canadian history through the stories of activists, one focused on gender and sexuality struggles and the other on resisting the state.]


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05.07.2017 - Royal Philatelic Society elects first overseas President
(RJ West) At the Annual General Meeting held on 22 June, The Royal Philatelic Society elected Patrick Maselis as President. Patrick is the Society's first 'overseas' President, his election recognising the fact of the membership of over 2,250 of the Society, more than half reside outside the United Kingdom.
Patrick, born and living in Belgium, is a fourth generation philatelist, his collecting interests including the Medallion issue of Belgium, Belgium Congo and Ruanda-Urundi, and the postal history of Lake Enclave, New Zealand and New York. He is the Chief Executive Officer of the Maselis Group, active worldwide in cereals and breakfast cereals.
Richard Stock, elected two years ago as a Vice-President, is joined by Peter Cockburn also elected at this year's AGM. Other Officers are Peter Cockburn as Honorary Secretary, Nigel Gooch as Honorary Treasurer, and Ben Palmer as Honorary Librarian.
The members of Council are David Alford, Mark Bailey, Dieter Michelson, James Podger, Mike J. Y. Roberts, Birthe King, John Davies, Bill Hedley, Christopher Hitchen and Colin Hoffman.


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