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The Complete Book of Numbers
Chapter 28 and Chapter 29
Holiday time—what a bloodbath! These chapters specify all the animal sacrifices required for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot. The Tabernacle was practically an abattoir. Goriest of all is Sukkot, which calls for: seven goats, 14 rams, 70 bulls, and 98 lambs. It's supposed to be a jolly harvest festival, but it sounds more like one of those all-you-can-eat Brazilian barbecues.
Chapter 30
In the last entry I described the Lord's decision to allow daughters without brothers to inherit property as a landmark in women's rights. Several readers rebuked me, arguing that this was a pretty meager recognition for women. Maybe they're right, given that Numbers is already treating women as nonpeople again. The subject is contract law. The chapter asks: When do you have to keep a promise? Any time a man makes a promise, he must keep it. But if an unmarried woman makes a promise, her father can override it, and if a married woman makes a promise, the husband can veto it. The law is not completely infantilizing: The father and husband get only one brief opportunity to veto the female promise. If they don't object quickly, the promise stands. And promises made by widows and divorcees have the same force as any man's.
Chapter 31
Here is most hideous war crime in a Bible filled with them. As with the story of Dinah, it is sexual misbehavior that spurs the ugliest, evilest biblical vengeance. At the start of the chapter, God tells Moses he must complete one more task before he dies: taking vengeance against the Midianites. Why? For the fairly piddling crime described in Chapter 25. God was threatening punishment for Israelites who'd been whoring with Moabite women. At that very moment, an Israelite walked by the Tent of Meeting with his Midianite girlfriend. Phineas speared the couple to death. God, delighted by Phineas' zealotry, stops the plague he had sent against the Israelites as punishment for their lechery. Even so, 24,000 Israelites die. For reasons I can't understand, God and Moses hold the entire Midianite nation responsible for this mess, and they want payback. If you ask me—and Moses didn't--the Bible is willfully ignoring the obvious point. It was the Moabite women, not the Midianite women, who did the dreadful whoring that provoked God's rage and the plague. Going after the Midianites to punish a Moabite crime is as nonsensical as the United States invading Iraq to teach al-Qaida a lesson. (Oh, wait. We did that.)
Moses dispatches his army, which quickly kills the five Midianite kings and slaughters all the Midianite men. (This is not the war crime, but rather everyday policy.) The Israelites capture all the Midianite women and children and march them back to camp. Moses is furious that the Midianite women have been spared. (This chapter also fails to mention that Moses himself is married to a Midianite woman!) Moses orders his troops to execute all the Midianite boys and all the Midianite females except for the virgins. Isn't this a kind of sick, grotesquely disproportionate atrocity? It's collective punishment of a most repellent sort—and all to take revenge for the one bad date between an Israelite and a Midianite girl! Numbers informs us, with its usual fondness for precision, that 32,000 virgin females survive the mass execution (and were then enslaved, incidentally). By my rough estimate, this means the Israelites killed more than 60,000 captive, defenseless women and boys.
Let's pause for a second to consider Moses' rage, which I find almost incomprehensible. For most of the last three books, Moses has been restraining God. The Lord loses his temper with His disobedient people, and Moses persuades Him to show mercy. But God is on the sidelines during the Midianite slaughter: It is Moses who's bloodthirsty. Where does his new anger come from? Is it the fury of a frustrated old man who's been barred from his Promised Land? Is it the homicidal megalomania that descends on so many dictators who hold power too long?
What is particularly poignant is that Moses himself seems to know that this massacre of innocents is wrong. He orders his death squads to stay outside of camp after they finish their butchery. They need a week away from the Tabernacle to purify themselves. The Bible never mentions such a quarantine for Israelite soldiers after other battles. But, as Moses recognizes, these killings are not war, they are murder, and they defile his people.
Chapter 32
The Midianite massacre isn't the only incident of Moses spinning out of control. This chapter, too, suggests he is getting a little paranoid as his final days approach. Here Gad and Reuben—both successful herding tribes—ask Moses if they can make their home in the good rangeland east of the Jordan and not settle in the Promised Land with everyone else. Moses explodes at them, accusing them of sabotaging the settlement of the new land, undermining the army, demoralizing their fellow Israelites, and turning their back on God.
Moses' indignation comes from nowhere and seems entirely undeserved. Gad and Reuben immediately mollify him—they promise to be the "shock troops" that will lead the army. Only when Canaan is conquered, they vow, will they return east of the Jordan to their settlements. Moses grudgingly agrees, but threatens divine vengeance if they don't fight hard. Again, it's hard not to feel that the brilliant and humane prophet who has dominated the Torah is slipping away, and that he has suddenly become an old, angry, vindictive tyrant.
Chapter 33
This chapter lists every place the Israelites have camped during their 40 years in the wilderness. It's dull as dishwater to read, but it serves a fascinating purpose. At the end of the list, God issues his orders to the Israelites: Cross into Canaan, smash the idols, dispossess all the inhabitants, and take, settle, and tame the land for themselves. Had the chapter skipped the travelogue and begun with God's fearsome instructions, it would seem brutal. The 40-year-itinerary—the weary, heartbreaking journey—serves as a reminder to the Israelites of their suffering, and, more importantly, as a justification for conquest. Why is it all right to sack and destroy another civilization? Why is it fair to seize land and settle it? Because of what the Israelites endured, that's why. The 40-year accounting explains Israel. It says: You've earned it.
Chapter 34
Moses describes the boundaries of the land they're about to conquer, and as I read it, it's a close match to Israel today, with a couple of major exceptions. It counts all of what's now the West Bank and Gaza Strip as Israelite territory—which may be one reason that some observant Jews are so reluctant to surrender those lands to the Palestinians.
Chapter 35
The Bible has told us about all kinds of laws and punishments but hasn't explained how those laws would be enforced, until now. This chapter lays out rules for "cities of refuge," where you can hide if you've killed someone. Anyone can seek asylum in these six designated cities while they await judgment of the "assembly" as to whether they're guilty of murder or manslaughter. If convicted of manslaughter, he is allowed to stay in the city of refuge and is eventually absolved and freed to go home after the high priest anoints him. If he's found guilty of murder—which has to be intentional—then the "blood-avenger," a family member of the victim, is entitled to kill him.
This criminal justice system is a curious and perhaps unstable mix of personal vengeance and government power. The state creates laws, safe havens, and institutions of justice—an assembly that issues a verdict—but the state doesn't punish. It leaves the sentence in the hands of the victim's family. It's an admirable arrangement in some respects, because it aspires to fair justice. (For example, the chapter also specifies that you can't be convicted of murder without the testimony of two witnesses—more rigorous than our own justice system). Even so, I doubt it worked. I just read a great book, Blood and Roses, which is partly about how a medieval England's very similar justice system failed: Powerful people were able to get away with terrible crimes because no one would dare to carry out the sentences against them. I assume the Israelite system suffered from the same flaw. It's only when the state acquires a monopoly on violence that the responsibility for punishment can pass from victim to government.
Chapter 36
The last chapter in Numbers, and my favorite character, Noa, appears for a brief coda. She and her sisters won the right to inherit property back in Chapter 27. But now Moses narrows the ruling. Some of Noa's tribal elders are worried that if she and her sisters marry outside their tribe of Manasseh, their land will pass out of the tribe's control. This wouldn't be fair, the elders tell Moses. He agrees—land may not pass from one tribe to another. So Moses orders Noa and her sisters to marry men from their own tribe. I don't know what my tribe is (Washingtonians? Journalists?), but to my own daughter Noa I make this promise: You can marry whomever you want, sweetie.
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The ability to get and give feedback is a practice that can propel your organization to reach new heights. However, there are many ineffective methods that leaders implement when trying to get and give feedback.
Here are a couple for you to consider. It's kind of funny that they both have to do with food – sugar and sandwiches!
I'll share with you the ineffective method of sugar coating first. Many times, leaders with their big hearts say to themselves: "Oh, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings so I won't be as blunt as I should be" or "Today is not a good day to share that information because of the way she will react." It's important to understand that although your intent is good when you sugar coat feedback – - it is a dangerous style of communication, especially if there are behavioral issues that NEED to be addressed. When you sugar coat things, the employee gets the impression that everything is wonderful and dandy. And in the back of your mind you're thinking, "Oh, my gosh! I wish they would change this. I wish they would do this differently. Why can't they stop this?"
There are also potential legal issues that you have to be careful of. Imagine a situation where you have an employee who really needs to make behavioral changes. You provide them with feedback. You don't quite want to tell it to them like it is, so you sugar coat it. That's documented. Then later on, things get worse and worse and worse. You keep sugar coating until one day you just fire the person. There have been law suits filed against employers where there's not proper documentation in place to show that this employee was exhibiting poor behaviors and then given the opportunity to make constructive change happen. So be very careful with the nature of your conversations and how you're giving that feedback. Think twice before you sugar coat things. Also remember, when you sugar coat, you're also cheating your employees out of the opportunity to make constructive change happen.
Now let's move on to sandwiches. The other thing I'd like to caution you about when looking at giving feedback is the Sandwich Technique. Do you know what this is? The Sandwich Technique is a method of communication. You start off on a positive note, put the constructive stuff (negative feedback) in the middle and then finish on a positive note. On one of our audio programs at the Leadership Connection, Dr. Aubrey Daniels joined us. The issue was titled Positively Reinforcing Staff. He shared how the Sandwich Technique can really leave people feeling confused. They may walk away not really knowing if your message was positive or negative and unclear about the change you're recommending. This means when the Sandwich Technique is used to provide feedback, the message that we need the person to hear isn't heard.
Ease up on sugar and sandwiches and not only will you lose weight, you'll also take a load off of your mind through communicating directly and giving your staff the feedback that they need to hear to make constructive change happen.


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Nathaniel Mackey doesn't want anyone to feel intimidated by poetry. Especially young people.
Nathaniel Mackey doesn't want anyone to feel intimidated by poetry. Especially young people.
"A lot of students just have a fear of poetry," said Mackey, a National Book Award winner for his poetic expressions. "They don't give it a chance. They freeze up. You just try to get them to relax and experience it before trying to give it some meaning."
Mackey should know.
The multi-faceted writer has been teaching poetry to college students for 34 years. He demonstrates his poetry - which he relates to the rhythms, rhymes and beats of music - tonight as University of the Pacific's Black History Month program concludes at the Wendell Phillips Center.
He also spoke to an African-American music class at Pacific on Wednesday.
Mackey has parlayed the free-form creativity of writing, the precise calculations of mathematics and a deep appreciation for music into a hybrid as a respected chronicler of the African-American experience.
Tonight, he'll "have a conversation" and read from his works: poetry, prose, essays, editing, literary criticism and books on literary theory.
Erudite and voluble, Mackey sprinkles his conversation with linguistic riffs: "quotidian," "esoteric," "epistolary" and "recondite."
"Memorizing and reciting are actually good things," said Mackey, 65, during a telephone conversation from Durham, N.C., where he's an English professor at Duke University. "Poetry's something that's spoken and heard. That kind of minimizes the anxiety of 'What does it mean?' or 'How do you interpret it.' "
Mackey said the cultural absorption of slam poetry and rap/hip-hop lyrics has helped dissolve some barriers.
"They've got their ear buds going all the time," said Mackey, who taught at University of California, Santa Cruz, for 30 years. "They're starved for it. There's such a mystique about it (poetry) that it can be disassociated" from what young people are listening to every day.
"Slam and hip-hop tap back into the age-old story of poetry. It's meant to be heard. There's a definitive continuity. Not just my generation, but the slam generation. It goes back to the actual roots of poetry. The whole lineage of poetry. There's an ancient reason they call them 'lyrics.' It goes back to 'lyre' in Greek."
Poetry shouldn't be chiseled into some definitive interpretation.
"I guess I was born with a high tolerance for ambiguity," Mackey said of his creative equations. "I'm almost like a Mobius strip. What they've heard, having read my books, is stimulus-catalyst provocation."
In mathematical terms, "you might want to say 'X' is usually three. Under certain circumstances, though, 'X' equals five."
It all adds up to a multi-faceted career.
In addition to his 2006 National Book Award - for "Splay Anthem," a poetry collection - Mackey was awarded a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship. He's chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and has been editor and publisher of Hambone, a literary magazine, since 1982.
He's published eight books of poetry and is working on the fifth volume of "From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate," which he began in 2008.
"I'm approaching the half-way mark," he said. "I'm not working on a strong plot, really. It continues in the vein of chronicling the thinkings, doings and playings of a musician. The epistolary 'N.'
"I'm not a novelist. It's a poet writing prose as kind of a side genre. When it came to me, I didn't know what it was. I never would have guessed I was a novelist. It's poetic prose that took off and got a life of its own."
Mackey's life began in Miami. His family moved to Rodeo in the early 1950s, and then Santa Ana.
His mother, Sadie, raised four children. His dad, Alexander Obadiah, worked as a longshoreman and butcher.
When he was a child, Mackey "fiddled around with little stories" that "excited" an older sister. "They were about dinosaurs, disasters, volcanoes, earthquakes," Mackey said. "I'd take a pencil and scribble some stuff and say it was writing."
Math, science, engineering and astronomy - "I made it as far a calculus in high school" -were his first interests. After graduating from Santa Ana Valley High School. Mackey found his poetic voice while studying at Princeton University.
He spent time in New York's Greenwich Village, absorbing the rhythms and ethos of Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Amiri Baraka.
Mackey earned a master's degree in English at Princeton and his doctorate at Stanford. He taught eighth-grade algebra for a year in Pasadena before joining the University of Wisconsin faculty and beginning his tenure at UC Santa Cruz.
To Mackey, being proficient in math and creative writing isn't counter-intuitive. William Carlos Williams' "Pictures From Breugel" is an example.
"The two are very closely related," Mackey said. The way Williams' poems are arranged "creates an almost hieroglyphical effect, not unlike a differential equation. It's a recondite realm. A disclosure of something you didn't yet know. It's very related to the creative, imaginative part."
Just don't stress out about what it all means.
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Drew Stubbs' RBI fielder's choice groundout in the top of the ninth inning helped the Cleveland Indians slip past the Baltimore Orioles, 4-3, Wednesday in the third installment of a four-game set at Camden Yards.
The Indians entered the ninth trailing 3-2 after Baltimore had a two-run rally of its own in the eighth. Jim Johnson (2-6) took the hill for the hosts and issued a leadoff walk, then a double to Jason Giambi. Carlos Santana was intentionally walked to load the bases, but Cleveland twice grounded out to second. Lonnie Chisenhall's chopper tied the game at 3-3 and Stubbs just beat out a double play attempt to allow the go-ahead run to score.
"I leave a ball up to Giambi on the next pitch after the four-pitch walk," Johnson said. "Now you've got second and third and you have to walk the next guy. So you have bases loaded and nobody out. It doesn't get much worse. At that point, I'm trying to limit the damage, I'm trying to worry about each individual pitch. I came real close to keeping it tied. But obviously I dug myself my own hole."
Jason Kipnis hit a two-run homer, while Joe Smith (4-0) earned the win despite giving up both Baltimore runs in the bottom of the eighth. Vinnie Pestano retired the side in the ninth to secure his fifth save of the season.
"This was one of those games where it would've been a killer loss, but it ends up being a great win," Indians manager Terry Francona said.
Chris Davis, Manny Machado and Nick Markakis all drove in a run for the Orioles, who have dropped five of six.
Davis' sacrifice fly in the seventh off Cleveland starter Scott Kazmir cut Baltimore's deficit to 2-1, and the O's carried over their momentum into the eighth versus Smith.
Pinch-hitter Chris Dickerson walked to put runners on first and second with one out and Alexi Casilla followed with a single to load the bases. Markakis hit a fielder's choice groundout to second that proved to be too high for a double play and allowed J.J. Hardy to cross home and tie the game at 2-2.
Machado then ripped a line-drive single off the left-field wall to break the tie and put the O's ahead 3-2.
Kazmir was superb and looked to be in line for the win for most of the game. He carried a no-hit bid through six innings, but earned a tough no-decision after allowing one unearned run and one hit with four strikeouts over seven frames.
Jason Hammel pitched well for Baltimore, too, yielding two runs on four hits to go along with five strikeouts in seven innings.
It was an old-fashioned pitchers' duel early on, as neither team recorded a hit through the first three innings.
In the fourth, though, Cleveland broke through as Hammel plunked Asdrubal Cabrera with one out. The righty then served up a 3-2 offering over the middle of the plate to Kipnis, who drove the ball into the bullpen in left- center to give the visitors a 2-0 lead.
Kazmir continued to baffle the Orioles' hitters and amassed just 63 pitches and a walk through six frames.
Machado ended Kazmir's no-hit bid by smacking a double down the left-field line to open the seventh.
After Adam Jones popped out, Machado advanced to third on Kazmir's errant pickoff attempt. Davis followed and cut the deficit to 2-1 with a sac fly.
Game Notes
Prior to the game, Cleveland reinstated Cabrera from the 15-day disabled list following a three-week absence caused by a strained right quadriceps. The team designated veteran infielder John McDonald for assignment to make room for the move ... Giambi hit his 400th career double.


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Your shopping options depend on the type of digital piano you've decided to buy and the region you live in. In North America, different categories of instruments are available through different types of outlets. Furniture-style models, particularly the higher-end models manufactured by the largest suppliers, are available only through traditional bricks-and-mortar piano or full-line music retailers. The lower-priced furniture-style, slab, or stage models, and some of the less widely distributed brands, are available from a cross section of traditional bricks-and-mortar music retailers, club and warehouse chains such as Costco, consumer-electronics chains such as Best Buy, and online retailers.
Perhaps the biggest difference between shopping for digital and acoustic pianos is that you usually want to make sure you get the specific acoustic piano you played on the showroom floor. But once you've decided on a model of digital piano, it doesn't matter if you get the one you actually tried or not. Every unit made of the same model will be identical to all other units.
Negotiating the price of a digital piano at a bricks-and-mortar retailer is no different from negotiating the price of an acoustic piano, which is discussed in "Piano Buying Basics" [in Acoustic & Digital Piano Buyer]. However, many of the simpler furniture-style digitals and nearly all portable or stage-piano models that are sold through a variety of local and online stores are virtually always sold at the same price, wherever you shop. This is due to a pricing model called minimum advertised price, or MAP, used for many categories of products. A manufacturer's or distributor's MAP is the lowest price at which a dealer is allowed to advertise an item. Since prices are easily compared and all retailers want an even chance to win your business, everyone advertises at the MAP. And since the MAP is typically lower than the price at which the dealer might have preferred to sell the item, the price almost never drops below the MAP. Therefore, MAP has become the standard pricing for all non-piano-dealer models of digital piano.
You should find out how warranty service is handled for the instrument you've selected—not only the terms related to coverage for parts and labor, but where the service is performed. Like acoustic pianos, most digital models available only through piano dealers have a warranty specifying in-home service; that is, the technician comes to you. Models sold outside of traditional piano stores must be brought to the technician's shop for warranty service. Ask your salesperson where the closest authorized service technician is located, or check the manufacturer's website.
In the chart of digital piano specifications in Acoustic & Digital Piano Buyer, you'll notice that it's not unusual for different models from the same manufacturer to have different warranty terms. It would be tempting to attribute this to differences in quality, but most often it's based on differences in anticipated use (home vs. commercial), and on marketing decisions for a given product segment. Unlike some warranties for acoustic pianos, I'm not aware of any digital piano warranty that is transferable to a subsequent owner.
There are many decisions to be made when selecting a piano, digital or acoustic. But in the end, there is no substitute for playing and listening for yourself. The best anyone else can do is tell you what he or she would buy. But unless that person's requirements exactly match your own, all you'll end up with is a piano that's perfect for someone else.
Go out and try everything you can get your hands on—and enjoy the process!
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The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, which is known as an entertainment museum and witnesses more than famous 2,000 five-pointed stars and human celebrities such as Mariah Carey, Tim McGraw, etc.
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The ArcLight Hollywood is a 14-screen multiplex located at 6360 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California, in the United States of America and is considered to be the modernist cinemas of the world with many advanced facilities.
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Sunset Boulevard, one of the world's most famous streets, was introduced as a route between two divergent worlds. The Boulevard also links the gritty, urban streets of downtown Hollywood to the lush, green, residential avenues of Beverly Hills. Furthermore, the name Sunset Boulevard has played a part of Hollywood legend, the inspiration for countless songs, movies & TV shows.
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The RMS Girls' 7th Grade Basketball team stormed to a big first quarter lead and never looked back in defeating Portsmouth Middle School, on Jan. 14. Congratulations girls!
The RMS Girls' 7th Grade Basketball Team was pushed to the brink Tuesday against Somersworth Middle School, but came away with a 28-25 win. Solid team defense at the end of the game was the difference. Great job!
The RMS Girls' 7th Grade Basketball team was up to the task again Jan. 27, as they defeated a pesky Henry Wilson School of Farmington squad 24-23. Team defense and a much more controlled offense led the way for the Lady Timberwolves.
Meanwhile the Girls' 8th Grade lost to Portsmouth on Monday. Tuesday the team lost to Somersworth. Both games had a slow start with RMS down but we came out in the fourth quarter hard and fast and fell short by about 10 points in each game.
The RMS 8th Grade Boys' Basketball team suffered its first defeat of the season Jan. 14 against a much bigger and very talented Portsmouth Middle School team by a score of 49-42. The Mighty Timberwolves led by 6 points at halftime, but were not able to hang on in the 2nd half, and watched Portsmouth rally time and time again to steal away the victory. Costly turnovers, some rebounding mistakes, and some uncharacteristic missed shots really hurt the RMS team. The team hustled all over the floor, worked their tails off, and showed tremendous effort, but the Portsmouth squad was just better. The 8th Grade boys' record now stands at 9-1, not too shabby, but they are committed to improving. Keep up the good work, men! From Coach Emerson.
The Wresting Team participated in recent matches. Coach Clement reported that at the Jan. 19 tournament, several members had fine performances. Travis Brown received his first career win using a cradle for a pin. Victoria McClelland made large improvements and came close to a first win. Aiyana Allen looked very strong out on the mat as she handled her opponent. Evan St. Yves made a good appearance as well. Jayleigh DiTucci got a win and put together impressive technique. James English tried out last minute moves to find some success and learn some valuable techniques for Thursday. Jon Speltz made it into finals to place 2nd in a close match. He will be looking to take this kid later in the year. Last week, the team went over situation wrestling to be prepared for our home quad-meet this Thursday, Jan. 24, 5 p.m. at Spaulding High School.
The team hosted a meet Jan. 17 at Spaulding. The team had quite a few wins. Aiyana Allen received her first career win using a half nelson for a pin. Jayleigh Ditucci wrestled up in weight and won her match. Jon Speltz had a quick win in his match.
Eighth grade students met after school on Jan. 8, in a battle to decide the top three geography bee contenders for the grade! It was a clean sweep for Team Dartmouth who produced the top three winners: Spencer Wiles, Jeremy Lang and Devin DiBernardo! The school wide bee was held on Tuesday, Jan. 15. Results will be in next week's paper.
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Kindergarten children learned about secondary colors this week. We made purple from red and blue, orange from yellow and red, and green from yellow and blue. We learned about the sound of short vowel O and practiced measuring with our feet this week.
Mr. Cooper's first grade class: Last week in art we made snowmen. On Tuesday in gym class there was a huge parachute. On Wednesday we played 20 questions. On Thursday in science we talked about dinosaurs. Individuals are different people. Written by Ethan.
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There is no school on Friday, Jan. 25 due to the floating Teacher Workshop Day.
Please make sure your child has their snow gear when they come to school. We will go outside (even if it is snowing) as long as the temperature is 20 degrees or above. We have had a number of students coming to the office asking for coats or snow pants and we just don't have enough extra.
Report cards will go home on Monday, Jan. 28.
The school wide spelling bee to determine Chamberlain's representative to the regional competition is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 29 in the library from 9-10 a.m. Students in grades 3-5 participated in classroom bees to determine a representative for the school-wide event. Good luck spellers!
School Street School
On Jan. 10 School Street School was visited by Channel 9 meteorologist Kevin Skarupa. He held a wonderful weather presentation for the whole school talking about how to predict the weather and the weather wall at the TV station. A fun fact that he shared was that a rainbow is actually a circle in shape, not a half circle! As third grade ends a unit on weather we took the time to go outside and put our knowledge to the test by using our "cloud viewers" to observe different types of clouds.
Maple Street Magnet School
Visit us on Friday afternoons and you will see students scatter to different areas of the school for classes in guitar, yoga lessons, kitchen chemistry, Spain, and other enticing subjects. According to Hannah, "Fridays are the best. I get to go to sculpture. I love it."
Learning about the phases of the moon is delicious when you use oreos as children found out in science class. In virtual zoo class, Sadie explained how she chose to research the fennec fox. Mrs. Cantrell used the smooth board to demonstrate ukulele chords to her group of musicians. Griffin wanted to know, "Can the queen go anywhere?" in chess class. Kaleb and Konner made snowmen out of model magic, hoping next week the snow will be better for outside practice. In friendship class, Fin pointed out the bulletin board with a garden of friends and Ariyanna demonstrated skills of kindness toward Max. Madison and her friends danced to Head Shoulders Knees and Toes Zumba style, while Matthew practiced the mouse position in yoga. Eleno worked on dragon wings in 3-D art.
These activities are part of students' personal learning plans, exposing them to a variety of engaging activities taught by faculty and guest teachers.
Mikel echoed her fellow students' sentiments when she pronounced, "I wish every day was Friday."
Nute High School and Library
By Reggie Pennell
This year at Nute High School and Library, we are welcoming a new member to our family. Ms. Dooda has joined the Nute family as a social studies teacher, who teaches geography, civics,and world history. Her students think that she is "fabulous" and "perfect." Ms. Dooda is a fun, easy-going teacher who enjoys being a cheerleading coach at Spaulding High school.
Ms. Dooda likes working at Nute because "it's small, and the faculty, especially Mr. Contorchick, has been very helpful." She says that the faculty and students have welcomed her with open arms and that her favorite class to teach is civics.
Having gone to the University of Southern New Hampshire and then to UNH, she is now married and lives in Rochester. During the summertime, she likes outdoor activities such as hiking and camping. During the winter, she likes skiing.
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I learned a valuable lesson in human nature when I first started running dog teams in Canada 35 years ago. You could yell "Gee," and the lead dog would turn to the right. You could yell "Haw," and the lead dog would turn to the left. You could yell "Whoa," and the lead dog would stop.
I learned a valuable lesson in human nature when I first started running dog teams in Canada 35 years ago. You could yell "Gee," and the lead dog would turn to the right. You could yell "Haw," and the lead dog would turn to the left. You could yell "Whoa," and the lead dog would stop.
But if you kept yelling all the time, the lead dog would ignore you completely. Constantly yammer, and the dogs became deaf.
Humans are the same. The plight of teachers in North Carolina has received a lot of attention in the press lately, and I fear another column on the issue will fall on deaf ears. But I feel compelled to do it. It's too important an issue.
The N.C. General Assembly has decided to end tenure for teachers. Just what is tenure?
Numerous online sources define teacher tenure as follows: "Teacher tenure provides job security for teachers who have successfully completed a probationary period. The purpose is to protect outstanding teachers from being fired for non-educational issues including personal beliefs, personality conflicts with administrators or school board members, etc."
Sounds reasonable to me. If I were a teacher, I surely wouldn't want to be fired because I worshipped the sun god Ra or believed in evolution.
"When I talk to teachers," said Rep. Chuck McGrady, "the area of least concern is tenure. It's not a high priority for teachers."
I believe it should be a high priority, but I can understand why McGrady would get that message. North Carolina is close to the bottom of the barrel in teacher pay for the nation. Teachers have more pressing problems than tenure, like feeding their families.
I won't mention any names, but I know some teachers have second jobs to make ends meet, and others forgo having children because they can't afford to raise them. There's irony in that. They educate our children, but we compensate them so poorly for it that they can't afford their own children. An untenable position.
In an excellent article on teacher tenure in the Times-News last Sunday, reporter Nancy Tanker quoted a teacher as saying, "I'm not afraid to not have tenure protection because I'm in a wonderful school with a really great principal, and I work really hard to have an impact on the students I work with … ."
I would say to that teacher that one thing constant in life is change. That principal may retire, being replaced by a non-sun god worshipper who doesn't like you, worships the moon like the rest of the school board, and works on the Sabbath. Where would she be then?
Some lawmakers see the end of tenure as a means to get rid of teachers who don't belong in the classroom.
In Tanker's story, Sen. Tom Apodaca said that "two to three years ago, we had 95,000 teachers (in North Carolina) and 13 were terminated for cause. You can't tell me the rest of those 95,000 were excellent teachers."
Well, if that rationale is valid, let's look at the Senate. You can't tell me all 50 are excellent senators. How do we get rid of senators who don't belong in the Senate? Gerrymandering has pretty much taken the voters out of the loop.
There are 120 representatives in the House. You can't tell me they are all excellent representatives.
How many senators and representatives in the country? Apply the same logic. You can't tell me …
In fact, partisanship being what it is right now, I think many of the politicians in this country simply follow the lead dog that can only hear "Gee" or "Haw" (politically, right or left), not both. Certainly not "Whoa!" Who is watching these people to determine if they are outstanding enough to keep their jobs? They certainly have the potential to wreak more havoc on our lives, the state and the country than a teacher who is not outstanding.
Back to the definition of tenure: The purpose is to protect outstanding teachers from being fired for non-educational issues including personal beliefs, personality conflicts with administrators or school board members, etc.
No teacher, outstanding or not, should be fired for non-educational issues. Period.
Getting rid of tenure for teachers is just another way the powers that be in this state demonstrate that they do not value teachers. They say they do, but they don't.
But there is hope.
"When we come into our short session in May, we will likely address teacher compensation," said McGrady. "There's broad bipartisan support for it. How much and in what form, I can't say."
If you value teachers, dear reader, and are not yet deaf from all the yammering, call your representative and senator and tell them so.
Bruce Benson is a Canadian writer and journalist who makes Hendersonville his home. Reach him at email@example.com.


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Green jersey battle lifts off
Christian Prudhomme has described the fact that Mark Cavendish has won 15 stages over the last three years without ever taking the points title as "an anomaly". It's one that partly explains the overhaul of the intermediate sprints, which have been reduced from three to one, albeit one with a significant haul of points on offer. Will the sprinters' teams now try to control some stages from beginning to end? That's certainly the concern of some team directors. An onshore breeze might complicate the finish but this will surely go to either Cav or his green jersey rivals.
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Bernhard Eisel says...
"Heavy Brittany roads and crosswinds… We're not like the GC team guys who can ride themselves in over the first week, we have to pull straight away. It's actually less pressurised because you're not waiting for it to happen – you're making it happen…"
Matt White says...
"The first of very few days for the pure sprinters to shine. Racing in Brittany is no picnic though with Cav and Farrar to go head-to-head."


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Swedish chocolatier, Fika Choklad NYC is there again...
Plenty of strawberries to dip...
Loads of books on chocolate and pastry...
So jealous! Look at all that yumminess, will ya...wow. Bet the air was perfumed as well.ReplyDelete
It seems as though the Chocolate show was just last month! Have you ever had a German candy bar (nothing special and sold like our Hershey bars everywhere) by Milka - the flavor that is milk chocolate with ground hazelnuts in it (no big pieces of nut, but a very subtle paste of hazelnut throughout the chocolate)? It's not available in KC but a German friend helped me get some eons ago. Amazing!ReplyDelete
Oh my! Can I come over to your place and help you eat all that chocolate??! Pleasepleaseplease??ReplyDelete
oh dear me, so THIS is where heaven on earth has been hiding!!ReplyDelete
Love the label of the worker-owned chocolatier! Fabulous... You do have the life!! Thanks for sharing...so much fun. The little kids...so adorable.ReplyDelete
Haven't been to the NY Chocolate Show
for years. I think the last one we attended was when we ran into you, PB.
Before you were PB?
Thanks for this deeeeliscious visit.
Carol, you got me hooked on the Paris Salon du Chocolat - looks like I need to come to NYC. This looks fabulous! Christophe Roussel is there, too? 2012 eat more chocolate! Great post, as ever.ReplyDelete
I think they sell Milka in my supermarket Jeanette..
i will check for you.
I didn't know.
I tried the Vosges too and didn't fall for it.
This one was just a creamy dark chocolate on narrow strips of bacon - crunchy with a bit of smokiness + salt.
Not something you'd want everyday but fun and not too weird.
Thanks for the report. I was there, too, and was very pleased to see Grenada Chocolate Company... they have good quality cocoa.
Did you try the Antidote Chocolate from Ecuador. Best flavour: Almond and Fennel seed.. excellent cocoa, too. And very attractive packaging
Payard was great, I agree...Did you try Des Lis? Thin, thin couverture, great fruit fillings.
We should meetup next time.
You have good tastebuds!
I have some Antidote
but it's hot :(
not my cup of tea
I bought the Grenada cocoa and so far...hmmm don't like it :(
Will retrieve from garbage now & try again :)


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Good news though, glaucoma is preventable! Be sure to schedule a regular eye examination once every 2 years if you're under 40, and annually if older. 60+ is the highest-risk group for this disease. Healthy vision is an important concern for all ages.
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The group appointed to study the best way to use the courtroom facilities at the Craven County Judicial Center at Clarks recommends the county move forward with video conference first appearances for inmates.
The group appointed to study the best way to use the courtroom facilities at the Craven County Judicial Center at Clarks recommends the county move forward with video conference first appearances for inmates.
But the report from the group appointed by Craven County Board of Commissioners Chairman Scott Dacey and led by former area District Attorney David McFadyen recommends: �That no existing court operations be transferred to the facility at Clarks at this time.�
�Craven County should move forward with the installation of a video conferencing system for the purpose of holding first appearances� for jail inmates of Judicial Center, the study group report recommends.
The study group includes representatives of the legal profession including lawyers, judges, law enforcement and the district attorney�s office. Dacey said Monday he will put the group�s report and its recommendations on the agenda for discussion at the board�s Oct. 7 meeting.
The report said, �We recommend that video conferencing be established for criminal District Court, criminal District Probation Court and criminal Superior Court� as a way to �substantially reduce the cost of transporting� inmates and increasing security.
�Craven County Board of Commissioners should obtain the necessary authorization for the use of the Judicial Center courtroom in Clarks,� the group concluded.
But such use would only be authorized by the chief District Court judge, now Judge Walter Mills, or senior resident Superior Court judge, presently Judge Ben Alford.
�The courtroom could be used as an auxiliary courtroom facility,� the group recommended, for things such as administrative hearings, special Superior Court hearings or hearing of groups such as the North Carolina Industrial Commission.
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Wild try to get back on track in Columbus
The Minnesota Wild were one of the NHL's hottest teams at the end of last month, but they'll aim for their first victory in April when they visit the Columbus Blue Jackets for Sunday's clash at Nationwide Arena.
Minnesota went 11-4-0 overall in March and closed the month with wins in seven of eight games. However, the Wild have lost all three of their games in April in regulation and have fallen four points behind Vancouver for the Northwest Division lead.
The Wild are still sitting sixth out of eight playoff spots in the West, but they are only two points clear of the eighth-seeded St. Louis Blues. Columbus is three points behind the Blues in a tie for 10th place.
Minnesota has scored a total of three goals during its current slide and the club was shut out Thursday in Los Angeles, as the Kings notched a 3-0 win at the Staples Center.
Niklas Backstrom started between the pipes for Minnesota, but allowed the only two shots he faced to find the back of the net before being removed in favor of Darcy Kuemper, who stopped 11-of-12 shots in relief.
"They got some early breaks and then it ended up costing us," Minnesota defenseman Ryan Suter stated. "We played well after that, but we have to learn from this."
Forward Jason Pominville made his Wild debut on Thursday after coming over in a trade with Buffalo at Wednesday's deadline. Pominville, who had 10 goals and 25 assists in 37 games with the Sabres this season, failed to reach the scoresheet in nearly 19 minutes of ice time against the Kings.
The Wild also played their last game without winger Dany Heatley, who sustained a wrist injury in Wednesday's loss to San Jose and is expected to miss a few weeks of action. Heatley is third on the team with 11 goals this season.
Thursday's setback was Minnesota's third straight on the road and the club is just 8-10-1 away from St. Paul this season.
Columbus, which is trying to make the playoffs for just the second time in franchise history, had won three straight before losing Friday's game in St. Louis. David Backes scored the game-winning goal late in the second period to help the Blues secure the 3-1 win at Scottrade Center.
Artem Anisimov provided the lone offense for the Blue Jackets, while Sergei Bobrovsky stopped only 16 pucks in the setback.
"It was a tough game on the corners," said Columbus center Ryan Johansen. "It was a battle tonight. It's too bad we couldn't converge on a couple more of our chances."
Former Wild star Marian Gaborik recorded an assist in his second game with Columbus since being traded from the New York Rangers. Gaborik played his first eight NHL seasons with Minnesota and is still the club's all-time leader in goals (219) and points (437). He has one goal and one assist in his first two games with the Blue Jackets.
Columbus has won four straight on home ice and is 11-4-5 in the Buckeye State this season.
The Wild won the first meeting of the season with the Blue Jackets, posting a 3-2 regulation victory in Minnesota on Jan. 29. The Wild have claimed three of four in this series overall, but Columbus has won four of the last six encounters at Nationwide Arena.


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The Office of Admission will host Adult Registration Rally on Tuesday, December 3. This event is for adult students interested in enrolling in undergraduate programs for the spring semester. Admission, financial aid and advising representatives will be available to assist students through the admission and registration process.
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Kit Redman, 63
Kit Redman, 63, passed away Thursday, March 22, 2012 at his home.He was born in Fort Wayne to Paul and Kathlene Redman.He was a graduate of Columbia City Joint High School.He was captain of the football team and received a football scholarship to Lakeland College in Sheboygan, Wisc. where he earned his bachelor's degree.Later, he married the love of his life, Carmen, and he embarked upon his 33-year career as a chemical salesman with Univar, Inc.He loved college football (Go Dawgs!) and anything to do with the outdoors. He and his family spent many years visiting their cabin in Ellijay, Ga. He is survived by his loving wife of 33 years, Carmen Redman of Savannah, Ga.; son, Aaron Redman of Athens, Ga.; daughter, Monica Redman of New York; three brothers, Mike Redman of Columbia City, Dr. Kirby Redman of Minocqua, Wisc. and Brian Redman of St. Louis.The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Fox & Weeks Funeral Directors, Hodgson Chapel. Interment will be private.The family has requested that remembrances be made to the Alzheimer's Association of Savannah, 201 Television Circle, Savannah, GA 31406 or American Diabetes Association, 5105 Paulsen St., Suite 236-C, Savannah, GA 31405Please sign our guest book on line at www.foxandweeks.com


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Second-line Therapy Antiretroviral in Patients Who Failed Non-nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor (NNRTI) - Based Regimens
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00627055
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : February 29, 2008
Last Update Posted : February 7, 2011
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To evaluate the efficacy and safety at 48 weeks between LPV/r monotherapy and 2 NRTIs + LPV/r therapy in patients failing a standard NNRTI-based treatment regimen. Also, to evaluate the short-term 24-week efficacy and safety of Lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) monotherapy and 2 NRTIs+LPV/r therapy in patients failing a standard NNRTI-based treatment regimen as an interim analyses when 50% of the patients in each arm have reached 24 weeks after randomization. Last, to define risk factors for monotherapy failure in HIV-treated individuals
Hypothesis. The rate of virologic suppression is not inferior in the monotherapy arm.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Drug: LPV/r Drug: LPV/r + TDF/FTC or TDF/3TC
|Phase 4
With at least 80,000 HIV-1 infected individuals throughout Thailand currently on generically produced fixed dose combination of d4T/3TC/NVP or GPOvir as a first line national recommendation therapy, we will inevitably face with resistance problem in a large number of patients near future. Therefore a comprehensive investigation into the best second line regimen for these individuals is needed. Given the situation in Thailand where economic burden is a major challenge, the second line regimen will have to offer the greatest possible efficacy, and cost-effectiveness.
Second-line therapies necessitate treatment with combinations of drugs including protease inhibitors[3]. Such high drug concentrations can be achieved by combining protease inhibitors (such as indinavir, saquinavir, amprenavir and lopinavir) with ritonavir (RTV), known to boost the other protease plasma levels through potent inhibition of the cytochrome P450. Low dose RTV (100mg bid) significantly improves pharmacokinetics (AUC and plasma half life) of most protease inhibitors with the exception of nelfinavir. However, these combinations are more expensive, particularly if NRTIs are continued. In addition to increasing cost, continuing NRTIs may not add to the antiviral effect (if resistance is present) and may prolong the toxicity observed during the previous regimen.
Mono boosted PI therapy trials in HIV adults, as maintenance therapy after suppressed viral load, have been shown to be effective and safe [4-6]. This strategy not only decreases number of pill per dose but also saves ARV cost and might improve patient's adherence.
Lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) is widely used protease inhibitor because of its high efficacy and high genetic barrier. As maintenance monotherapy after HIV-1 viral suppression, LPV/r has shown efficacy in 4 adult trials with 81-94% virological suppression[4, 7]. In the OK study[4], the virological failure cases had significantly higher missed doses (p = 0.008). Viral re-suppression after reintroduction of 2NRTIs was achieved in the LPV/r monotherapy arm. A pilot study of switch to LPV/r monotherapy from NNRTI-based therapy was reported with 92% participants on treatment at week 48 having HIV RNA <75 copies/mL[8].
In the OK04 study[9], 196 patients were randomized to eitherLPV/r monotherapy or LPV/r plus 2NRTIs. The percentage of viral suppression to < 50 copies/ml, at week 96 was 77% in the LPV/r monotherapy arm and 78% in the LPV/r plus 2NRTIs arm.
In the MONARK study, LPV/r monotherapy was used in 138 naïve adults and the percentage of viral suppression at week 48 was 71% compared to 75% in the LPV/r plus AZT and 3TC arm[10] (p = 0.69). Two patients in LPV/r monotherapy developed PI mutations but both were able to resuppress HIV-RNA when NRTIs were added. Neither patient displayed phenotypic resistance to LPV/r.
Therefore, we propose this comprehensive study to guide us in identifying the best second line regimen in order to prepare for the large scale antiretroviral resistance problem in Thailand.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|200 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|The HIV Second-line Therapy AntiRetroviral Study in Patients Who Failed NNRTI-based Regimens
|Study Start Date :
|May 2008
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|November 2010
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|November 2010
Experimental: 1
LPV/r monotherapy
Drug: LPV/r
LPV/r dosing = 400mg/100mg orally q12h for 48 weeks
Active Comparator: 2
LPV/r + 2NRTIs (TDF/FTC or TDF/3TC)
Drug: LPV/r + TDF/FTC or TDF/3TC
TDF/FTC (Truvada) 1 pill orally q 24 hr or TDF 300mg orally q 24 hr/3TC 300mg orally q 24 hr (or 3TC 150mg orally q 12 hr) for 48 weeks
- To evaluate the 48-week efficacy and safety between 2 NRTIs plus lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) and LPV/r monotherapy in patients failing a standard NNRTI-based treatment regimen [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- To evaluate the short-term 24-week efficacy and safety of LPV/r monotherapy and interim analyses when 50% of the patients in each arm have reached 24 weeks after randomization 2. To define risk factors for monotherapy failure in HIV-treated individuals [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age ≥ 18 years.
- HIV seropositive.
- Have had NNRTI-based HAART in the past for at least 6 months
- Naïve to protease inhibitors (PIs)
- Plasma HIVRNA ≥ 1000 copies/ml
- Signed written informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Active AIDS-defining disease or active opportunistic infection
- Previously treated with PIs
- Pregnancy (negative pregnancy test for women of childbearing potential at screening).
- Documented chronic hepatitis B (HbsAg positive)
- Creatinine clearance < 60 c.c. per min by Cockroft-Gault formula formula
- Use of medication that interfere with the action of LPV/r
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): NCT00627055
|Chulalongkorn University
|Bangkok, Thailand, 10330
|Hivnat, Trcarc
|Bangkok, Thailand, 10330
|Siriraj Hospital
|Bangkok, Thailand, 10700
|Ramathibodi Hospital
|Bangkok, Thailand
|Taksin Hospital
|Bangkok, Thailand
|Sanpatong Hospital
|Chiang Mai, Thailand
|Chiang Rai Regional Hospital
|Chiang Rai, Thailand
|Chonburi Hospital
|Chonburi, Thailand
|Khon Kaen University
|Khon Kaen, Thailand, 40002
|Bamrasnaradura Institute
|Nonthaburi, Thailand, 11000
|Principal Investigator:
|Kiat Ruxrungtham, MD
|HIV-NAT, The Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre (TRCARC), and Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
|Principal Investigator:
|Bernard Hirschel, MD
|Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland
Additional Information:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Prof. Kiat Ruxrungtham, HIV-NAT, The Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre (TRCARC), and Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00627055 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|February 29, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|February 7, 2011
|Last Verified:
|February 2011
Keywords provided by The HIV Netherlands Australia Thailand Research Collaboration:
Second line antiretroviral therapy
HIV genotypic resistance
Kaletra monotherapy
48-week efficacy and safety between 2 NRTIs plus lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) and LPV/r monotherapy in patients failing a standard NNRTI-based treatment regimen
treatment experienced
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents


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After more than 50 years of educating students, ITT Technical Institute has discontinued operations at our resident campuses.
At this time, we expect that online students in the July 2016 academic term will be able to complete the term which is scheduled to end on October 16, 2016.
We want to thank all our students and staff who were with us over those years and wish all of you the best in your future.
This site contains key contact information for ITT Technical Institute graduates and former students. For students who did not graduate, ITT Technical Institute has agreements with several partner schools that will provide an opportunity for you to complete your program of study.


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Pharma is already one of the highest yielding sectors.
On average, large cap pharmaceutical firms yield roughly 4 percent, which is 2 percent higher than stocks in the S&P 500 .
For WisdomTree Large Cap Dividend Index , on an aggregate basis, pharma represents the second biggest contributor of any industry, around $26 billion, according to Jeremy Schwartz, Director of Research at WisdomTree Asset Management.
Thanks to several rounds of cost cutting and new product launches, cash balances across the pharma sector are increasing — because of this JPMorgan analyst Chris Schott says we should see more cash being returned to shareholders via dividend.
The big question of course: Which firm is most likely to make a boost to their dividend?
Schott of JP Morgan is betting on Pfizer to increase its dividend 10 percent by December. Pfizer in the last 5 years has increased its dividend three times — 10, 11, and 12.5 percent.
In addition, JPMorgan is expecting Merck to make a 5 percent dividend boost by year-end. It estimates Merck will generate roughly $45 billion, or 40 percent of its current market cap, in post-dividend free cash flow through 2017, and anticipates much of this capital to be returned to shareholders over time.
Share buyback activity is also projected to increase. In 2011 share repurchase activity across the sector reached its highest level in four years, representing 2-3 percent of the pharma sector's market cap.
Bottom line: Cost cutting, stronger pipelines and new drug launches in place could mean more cash for drug firms, and potentially more cash returned to shareholders.
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NowGamer: The gap between current-gen consoles like PS3 and Xbox 360 and PC is now equivalent to a different generation of gaming, a major game developer has said.
The gap between 7 year old hardware and constantly evolving hardware continues ... Wow groundbreaking .
That doesn't mean we have already seen what is coming.
PC had the power, but now machines with PC power will have the help of the most talented developers, which, we all know, stay very away from the piracy king.
pc has been a full gen ahead of ps3/360 since 2007
pc is already a full gen ahead of ps4/nextbox right now because they waited so damn long
pc gamers are already playing in 2560x1600p
never happening on ps4/nextbox
As if it matters. We all know that pc's have the power and can produce some really good looking games. But the downside to that is rampant piracy and the cost. No one cares about your 2560x1600 resolution, you play games on a 25 inch screen.... what's the point?


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I mean seriously, look at that beauty. I had one of these babies on day one four years ago and I still haven't used a phone that I enjoyed as much as this thing. I still compare every phone to the G1. I got mine custom laser engraved when I was at CES that year, awesome stuff. I fucking LOVED having a physical keyboard, and that trackball is still awesome.
So, what if we saw a real update to the G1 today? Am I crazy to think that I wouldn't be the only person lining up to get one, if it were done right? The obvious upgrades would be a nice flashy big screen, with the latest CPU/GPU and all that noise. It would obviously have to be a Nexus device.
The physical keyboard with the screen that slides up would have to be one of the defining features of the device. I would be sad to see them go, but understand that the physical buttons would be gone and replaced with the pseudo-on-screen touch buttons that are standard for all the new phones. Though, I think it would be really cool to see the track ball come back. I also think it would be a good upgrade to have the whole top layer slide up instead of leaving the chin with the physical buttons behind. And it would absolutely need to have a full 5-row keyboard, none of that 4-row shit from the G2, gross. I would also love to see a multi-colored LED notification, I am a big fan of those.
So, who else here had a G1 back in the day? Did you guys love it as much as I did? What would be some must-have features that a true successor to the G1 would need to have?


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Joaquin Phoenix navigates technology in search for love
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The subtle trick that opens "Her" gently prepares you for the complex emotional terrain ahead. Joaquin Phoenix thoughtfully reflects to a loved one, in a tone of utter sincerity, about the meaning of their long relationship. Within successive beats, however, we learn of the relationship's 50-year duration, then that his perspective is female, and then we see a computer producing what he intones into handwritten form. A voice answers a nearby phone -- "beautifulhandwrittenletters.com -- please hold" -- and the camera pans out to several others in a softly-lit office, intoning similarly personal letters.
With this, writer-director Spike Jones deftly signals that the film resides in a world of the not-too-distant future, in which the lines between genuine personal interaction and mechanized communication have further blurred the indicia of intimacy beyond the present world of "sexting" and Twitter and status updates.
What he also conveys is that the film is a safe context for exploring the most existential of questions. What makes communication authentic? Whose voice is speaking when words of appreciation and longing are expressed, in any context? How much must one risk in order to achieve real intimacy?
Phoenix's latter-day Cyrano de Bergerac, the melancholy Theodore Twombly, doesn't display in real life the effusiveness he lavishes on behalf of people he has never met. He lives alone in a future Los Angeles in which quiet trains seem to have overtaken cars and everyone is wearing button-up shirts and high-waisted pants and is murmuring to his or her voice-activated personal device.
Having sunk into isolation since separating from his wife (who we see often in flashbacks), it appears that Theodore's human contact largely consists of anonymous (and creepy) phone sex encounters. Finally, intrigued by a soft-focus advertisement for the world's "first artificially intelligent operating system," Theodore decides to give it a whirl; the ad proclaims, "It's not just an OS -- it's a consciousness" which functions by intuition.
And so it does. After answering a few unrevealing questions, Theodore meets Samantha, his new OS (lusciously voiced by Scarlett Johanson). She chooses her name in a nanosecond after perusing thousands of prospects, then proceeds to deftly organize Theodore's emails (pausing to laugh at his jokes sprinkled throughout) and peruse his hard drive, with his permission, for other ways to assist him. It's an amusing start to a relationship that soon grows warm and intimate.
Samantha quickly adopts a rather gendered role -- she is a quick study, after all. She cheerfully manages Theodore's responsibilities, encourages him to date, improves his performance in his favorite electronic game, and asserts no emotional needs of her own. It helps that Theodore doesn't have his guard up in the way he likely would with an actual woman (to whom he would be unlikely to offer immediate access to his hard drive).
Somehow this manages not to seem creepy. Director Jones creates a very plausible future world whose links to the present are comfortably clear but that is alien enough to bring mundane relationship struggles into bold relief. Theodore goes on a date with a real woman, at Samantha's urging, and the artificiality and dissembling characteristic of dating is painfully apparent and familiar. In comparison, it makes sense when he responds gratefully to Samantha's attention and when she, eager to learn everything about what it means to be human, seeks out something that feels more like intimacy than what Theodore's experiences with human women have recently offered him.


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Win a trip to Washington DC, and help prepare healthy food for 30,000 Public School students. Work with a team of mentors. Test your skills. Meet young people. Cook at a Nordic embassy. Be an intern at one of the top restaurants in Washington.
These were the first lines of the ad that marked the beginning of the competition Nordic Food in DC Schools. Among the participants from all the Nordic countries, the following winners were selected:
Maggi Jirayut Andrésson, 22, IcelandMagnus Westling, 21, SwedenHannah Nilsson, 20, SwedenEvelina Bravenius, 18, SwedenKristine Ildjarnstad, 18, Sweden
Back home again, Magnus Westling described his adventure like this:
I study Culinary Arts and Ecology at Örebro University in Sweden and work as a chef at Wij Trädgårdar in the summer. At the time when I saw the competition on Twitter I was really eager to get more experience in food-related activities. In this particular competition I also had the opportunity to share my own knowledge and experience from the University.
In Washington, us Nordic young chefs both worked in kitchens and got to talk to the passionate people demanding better food in schools. We experienced a whole spectrum of complications when the interest is to serve good, tasty and healthy food for the school kids. This certain experience was really important because we now know the contrasts between how different systems can be and this in turn enables us to keep up the good and develop the bad.
The far greatest experience was to meet all the great people involved in this, it was a huge experience and I'm so thankful to be a part of it. Thank you!
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The contest was a part of the cooperation between the Nordic Embassies in the US and Nordic Innovation, which teaches North Americans about healthy, Nordic food.
Melita Ringvold Hasle, at that time working as Communications Manager at Nordic Innovation and being responsible for the project, says that it is about showing Nordic traditions and the value of a healthy diet to American children and youth.
- The branding of Nordic food culture abroad mainly revolves around gourmet experiences. We wanted to do something completely new that is addressed to an entirely different audience. As most of the Nordic countries have a tradition for serving food in schools, we meant it was a good idea to focus on these school meals.
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What are animal signs? A cow gives signals all the time about her welfare and health. She does this by behaviour, attitude, body language and body condition. You can use these cow signs to optimize your results. Start by looking carefully, searching for causes, and translating the answers into positive action to benefit your cows and ultimately your dairy business. Train yourself to observe, evaluate, and find solutions.
A cow should have a temperature of 38 to 39°C. Cold ears might indicate milk fever or blood circulation problems.
Heel erosion or skinned heels are mainly caused by problems with bedding or bedding materials, incorrectly adjusted barn equipment and/or hoof infection.
A cow should ruminate for seven to ten hours per day, ruminating 40 to 70 times on a cud. Taking less time indicates inadequate rations.
The rumen should be filled with feed. The left side of the stomach should protrude. If you press your fist into the rumen it should contract firmly about 10 to 12 times within five minutes.
A healthy cow looks alert and powerful, with a glossy skin and a full stomach.
A swollen neck is mainly caused by a feed fence being too low or incorrectly adjusted barn equipment.
Healthy cows stand straight and still while eating. Tipping or walking with lame gait are signs of poor hoof health, from bad rations, poor floors or lack of hoof treatment.
To assess udder health, look carefully at the teats after milking. Good teats are flexible and naturally coloured. Poor udder health can be caused by hygiene problems, poor milking equipment installation or inadequate feed rations.
Should not be too thick or thin and should never have undigested particles in it.
Normal breathing ranges from 10 to 30 breaths a minute for a cow. Faster breathing indicates heat stress or pain and fever.
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We R29-ers abide by a strict "work hard, play hard" mentality. And, sometimes, when the going gets tough, the tough need to party (and party we did!). This Friday we took over Parisian club turned Chinatown haunt, Le Baron, to throw a full-on Refinery-style bash.
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GREENSBORO—The North Carolina Writers' Network 2015 Spring Conference will be held Saturday, April 18, in the MHRA Building and the Curry Auditorium on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Registration is now open.
This year's faculty includes a multi-platinum songwriter, a 2014 inductee of the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, an NEA grant recipient, and several longtime, distinguished instructors of creative writing. By creating a friendly, safe, but focused learning environment, Spring Conference offers attendees not only the chance to improve one's writing but to learn how to successfully create a writing life—and flourish.
"You come to these conferences to learn how to comport yourself," says Keith Flynn, founder and managing editor of the Asheville Poetry Review. "To develop the professionalism and humility that will allow you to make the connections and relationships necessary to build a vibrant literary career."
Jaki Shelton Green, of Mebane, will give the Keynote Address. Green was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2014, was the 2009 Piedmont Laureate, and in 2003 received the NC Award for Literature. Author of several poetry collections, she will also lead the poetry workshop "Conversations in the Lines."
Joseph Mills, author of five poetry collections, will lead the Poetry Master Class, "Changing Stories." Award-winning author Valerie Nieman, who teaches in the creative writing program at NC A&T State University, will lead the Fiction Master Class, "A Matter of Interpretation." The Creative Nonfiction Master Class, "Creating Presence," will be taught by Eric G. Wilson, author of four books including the forthcoming Keep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life (FSG, 2015).
Additional offerings include a poetry workshop with Rachel Richardson; fiction workshops with New York Times bestselling author Charlie Lovett and Jacob Paul; creative nonfiction with Marianne Gingher and Tom Maxwell (formerly of the Squirrel Nut Zippers); writing for children with award-winning author Eleanora E. Tate; and two workshops focused on the publishing industry: "Don't Forget the Small Stuff: Building Your Career" with Press 53 publisher Kevin Morgan Watson and "The Art of Branding for Authors" with Faun Finley.
The Network also will offer a brand-new program this year: "Slush Pile Live!"
Throughout the day, attendees are encouraged to drop off either 300 words of prose or one page of poetry at the registration table. The author's name should not appear on the manuscript. At 5:00 pm, a panel of editors will listen as the submissions are read out loud, and raise their hand when they hear something that would make them stop reading if the piece were being submitted to their publication. The editors will discuss what they did and did not like about the sample, offering constructive feedback on the manuscript itself and the submission process. All anonymous—all live!
"If you've never worked or volunteered for a publisher or literary magazine before, the submission process can seem kind of mysterious," says NCWN Executive Director Ed Southern. "'Slush Pile Live!' will give attendees a peak into what goes through an editor's mind as they read their way through a stack of unsolicited submissions, with the added bonus of giving feedback to anonymously submitted manuscripts in a non-threatening way."
In addition to new programming, familiar features will remain, including faculty readings, an open mic for conference participants, an exhibit hall packed with publishers and literary organizations, and "Lunch with an Author," where conference-goers can spend less time waiting in line and more time talking with the author of their choice. Spaces in "Lunch with an Author" are limited and are first-come, first-served. Pre-registration and an additional fee are also required for this offering.
The NCWN 2015 Spring Conference is sponsored in part by 88.5 WFDD Public Radio and UNCG's Creative Writing Program. Free parking for Spring Conference registrants will be available in the Oakland Avenue Parking Deck, across Forest Street from the MHRA Building (behind Yum Yum Better Ice Cream and Old Town Draught House).
The nonprofit North Carolina Writers' Network is the state's oldest and largest literary arts services organization devoted to writers at all stages of development. For additional information, and to register, visit www.ncwriters.org.
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GREENSBORO—The Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition is now open for submissions.
The Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition accepts one-poem submissions. The contest awards the winner $200 and publication in storySouth. The deadline is Sunday, March 1.
William Wright will serve as the final judge. The winner of the 2012 Porter Fleming Prize for Poetry, he is the author of four full-length poetry collections, including the forthcoming Tree Heresies (Mercer University Press). His chapbook Sleep Paralysis (Stepping Stones Press, 2012) won the South Carolina Initiative Prize. His work has appeared in various literary journals including Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, and The Southern Poetry Review.
Wright is the founding editor of Town Creek Poetry and series editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology. He currently serves as a contributing editor for Shenandoah and has reviewed poetry and interviewed poets for Oxford American. In February, Wright will serve as a visiting writer at Eastern Washington University in Spokane, Washington, and the Writer-In-Residence at the University of Tennessee in the spring of 2016.
A sample of his poetry can be read, for free, in Issue 38: 2014 of storySouth.
Davidson poet Alan Michael Parker won the 2014 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition for his poem, "Lights Out in a Chinese Restaurant." Maureen Sherbondy of Raleigh was named First Runner Up; Melissa Hassard, of the Triad, and Kathryn Kirkpatrick of Vilas, were given honorable mentions.
This competition is administered by Terry L. Kennedy, Associate Director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
storySouth is an online literary journal dedicated to showcasing the best poetry (and fiction and creative nonfiction) that writers from the "new south" have to offer. Facilitated by the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at UNCG, storySouth aims to prove that "the internet is not just a medium of flash and style; that excellent writing can attract attention without programming gimmicks and hard-to-read fonts." storySouth believes the American South today is a "mix of traditional and new, regional and international." Published poets include Cathy Smith Bowers, Al Maginnes, Dannye Romine Powell, and Elizabeth Swann.
This competition honors the work and legacy of the poet and critic Randall Jarrell, who taught at what is now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for nearly eighteen years. He was a 1996 inductee of the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame who left behind nine books of poetry, four books of literary criticism, four children's books, five anthologies, a bestselling academic novel, a translation of Goethe's Faust, Part I, and a translation of Chekhov's The Three Sisters, produced on Broadway by The Actors' Studio.
Here are the complete guidelines to the Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition:
- The competition is open to any writer who is a legal resident of North Carolina or a member of the North Carolina Writers' Network.
- The postmark deadline is March 1.
- Entries can be submitted one of two ways:
- Send one printed copy through the U.S. Postal Service (see guidelines and address below), along with a check for the appropriate fee, made payable to the North Carolina Writers' Network.
- Submit an electronic copy online at http://ncwriters.submittable.com, and pay by VISA or MasterCard.
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Ex-coach thought he was dating Zumba prostitute
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ALFRED, Maine (AP) — The first man to go trial on charges that he patronized a Maine prostitute who worked out of her Zumba dance studio says he thought he was engaged in a romance.
Former Kennebunk High School hockey coach Donald Hill has pleaded not guilty to a single misdemeanor charge.
A judge ruled Thursday that the woman, Alexis Wright, doesn't have to answer prosecutors' questions in Hill's trial.
Prosecutors wanted Wright to testify but Wright declined under oath to answer questions about him.
Wright is serving a 10-month sentence for prostitution and other charges. Hill is the first alleged client to go to trial. So far, 68 people have been charged with paying for sex. At least 58 others have pleaded guilty.


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When it comes to women and tennis shoes, there is sometimes a lack of color and style in the tennis industry. The excitement we have in, let's say, high heels doesn't transfer over to the design of tennis shoes. There's so much more hype on next season's men's shoes than women's. It's been known that men have more passion when it comes to sneakers, but women have an overall shoe addiction. So why has the excitement stopped when it comes to women's tennis shoes?
With the launch of new women's shoes, white and grey shoes sell the best. In theory, it's a style that will match any tennis outfit. Personally, I wish my feet could step into something colorful! For those who want a stylish and exciting look, the following shoes will not only bring pizazz to your tennis wardrobe, but also offer comfort and stability for the high performance wear!
With spring here and summer along the way, Nike adds violet to its Zoom Breathe 2K10 line. With the colorful the cage, you get the support needed in aggressive movement as well as a style that Nike executed beautifully.
Another Nike shoe that I loved to play in was the Air Max Mirabella III. The green apple and vibrant blue version is from last season so it's now on sale. This is for the player with a medium width foot looking for a full package of comfort, support, and of course a joyful pop of color! (Click here for TW's review.)
adidas joins the season's trend of pastels with its Fresh Pink Barricade adilibria. The tonal design gives it an added texture. If the pink seems too feminine, players can find a bolder look with the purple metallic version or tone it down to a white with intense green stripes. Barricades have a reputation for being one of the best high performance shoes out there, and they live up to it! (Click here for TW's review.)
Asics designed a shoe with a Flexion Fit upper in a cage-like design. The bold black with hot pink underlay makes the Gel Resolution 3 a shoe for the aggressive player who wants to match her game with her look. Our site says we currently do no have them in stock, but we'll be getting another shipment in two months. This shoe is too good not to mention its stability and comfort. (Click here for video review.)
If you want a more subtle transition into the color world, there are plenty of white shoes that offer hints of color. Make sure to check our website to find a shoe that will fit your style, or you may find yourself stepping into something different!
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd Oct 2009 17:41 UTC
"If the last two months should be interpreted as Microsoft suggests, with Bing's gradual ascent in usage share against Google as a sign of Bing's inevitably catching up, then a similar interpretation of September's numbers from live analytics firm StatCounter should be taken as a sign of Bing's ultimate demise. A sampling of five billion or more US page views from Web sites accessed by StatCounter in September reveals that, of the world's top three search services, Google's usage share has climbed back just above 80%, and is flirting with last November's peak of 81.14% -- meaning Google is back to serving four out of five US-based general queries. Bing's usage share in the US descended by 1.13% to 8.51% for the month of September, while Yahoo's dove 1.1% to 9.4%. Google's share among the top three has now climbed above where it stood in May (78.72%), when Microsoft changed the name of Windows Live Search."
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I think you are reading to much into my position. By stating 'THIS is not self' does not mean that I am SURE that somewhere somehow there MUST be a self. Like I said, it is a subtle distinction between viewing/perceiving something as not self and taking a stand as to whether there is a self or no self.Zom wrote:No.
For example, there can be a view like: "There is a self, though THIS is not self, THAT is not self, everything is not self ect.".
See what I mean?
This is what I call "self-based position". No matter what your experience is, you are still SURE that somewhere somehow there MUST be my self.
It is on this self-based position such Right View like "There is no self" turns into Wrong View like "There is no self FOR ME" (look for details in MN 2).