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"I realized there are so many women out there that have great ideas — and they're super smart — but they just don't have the time to go to business school," said Burns.
"A lot of my girlfriends at the time were starting side businesses. We were all in our late 20s and early 30s, and we all started having the same questions," she said.
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From that point on, Burns made it her goal to ensure that no other woman felt lost when it came to potentially making one of the best decisions of her life.
After getting laid off from her job — while still in the whirlwind of developing her new business — Burns had auditioned for the popular game show "Wheel of Fortune" with her younger brother.
The brother-sister duo was asked to appear on the show in February 2010 during Family Week, winning about $12,000. Using her portion of the winnings, Burns seeded Chic CEO's website and design campaign, launching her business into the stratosphere of web-based advisory businesses.
"There are a lot of great resources out there that provide information, but there's not really one place that speaks to women like we do," she said. "We provide everything women need to get started in business."
The first step?
"Just get started," she said. "We don't all have to know all the answers to get started. We'll figure it out along the way. Your business is always changing just like you are. You can't make it perfect from the start."
Burns makes it her goal to provide a little fundamental assistance, with the aim of allowing any woman to get started on any range of businesses from wedding planning to tax preparation and everything in between.
Chic CEO gets down to the basics by providing step-by-step information, downloadable templates, a "3-Day Chic Start," and myriad other easy-to-use resources for women entrepreneurs to kick-start their business.
"There is a fundamental ABC, 123 to starting a business that for some reason is really hard to find on the Internet, and we just think that's ridiculous. Our goal is just to provide value for women to start their own business," Burns said.
"We honestly believe that no woman should ever feel stupid in starting their own business. They should have all the information they need to be successful," she said.
Once that business is finally realized, Chic CEO won't leave its clients high and dry. It also provides a support network of entrepreneurial women who have started or are in the process of starting their own businesses with monthly networking mixers in conjunction with 6 Degrees San Diego.
"Those mixers are really important for women to make connections and trade ideas in a really relaxing, non-intimidating environment," Burns said.
Chic CEO hosted its biggest mixer of the year this summer to share business ideas, garner advice from other women and have a good time over complimentary drinks and appetizers with like-minded professionals.
"I got laid off twice, and working for somebody else — having my livelihood in someone else's hands — scares me a lot more than being an entrepreneur," said Burns, urging women to take that first, intimidating step.
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Virtues of the high life. How to build a tree house on a budget using low-cost materials and sensible building tips.
Gus Guenther has risen above frantic rush hour traffic, busy schedules and frenzied deadlines.
From where he lives, at the end of a dirt road in a small community in South-Central Alaska, Guenther watches the birds perch on his balcony, and the spruce trees blow in the morning breeze, all from inside his one-room tree house abode.
The place is not big, about 12 feet by 16 feet, nor is it luxurious: there's one propane lamp, a wood stove and a propane stove on which to cook, but it is simple, cost-efficient and allows Guenther all the time he wants to pursue more important matters, like mushing his 14 dogs across the snow-packed Caribou Hills that surround his wooded home.
"Why wait until you're 65 to retire when you can live this way all your life?" asks Guenther, who lives off the money he makes as a fisherman in the summers, and runs his dogs in the winter. Because he has no debt, the 28-year-old single man lives with virtually zero expenses, other than the basics, like food for him and his dogs, propane, and gas for his truck. "That's when I feel like I'm getting away with something . . . and I feel guilty," he says. "I can't figure out why other people don't do it."
In the six years the Pennsylvania native has spent in Alaska, Guenther has accumulated a lifetime of frontier experiences. Soon after moving to Alaska, he knew the state was much too beautiful and exciting to allow himself to be confined to the regular daily routine of a 9 to 5 job. Before long he was jobless and penniless, but free to explore all Alaska has to offer.
"I didn't really go out with the intention of living like this," Guenther confesses. "It was just something that kind of came about. When I had the job, I thought I could never live without it, because I was so used to it, but I was afraid of quitting because I didn't think I could survive up here without a job."
But Guenther did survive, working summers as a deckhand on a commercial salmon boat, a job that required long hours toiling with fish-laden nets in dangerous conditions.
Meanwhile, he had winters off to pursue other Alaskan traditions, like sled dog racing. With his commercial fishing money in his pocket, he rented a small cabin, borrowed a team of dogs and hit the trails, learning as he went.
He soon found that building a tree house was not nearly as complicated as it seemed and learned how to build a tree house on a budget. With a little experience and guidance from an expert tree house builder, Guenther was able to build his elevated home in less than three weeks. During a weekend trip to visit friends in Alaska, Seattle-area home and tree house builder Peter Nelson met Guenther, and the two started talking about Nelson's work. By the end of the trip, Nelson offered to build a tree house for Guenther.
The match was perfect. Nelson, who had already published one book on tree houses and was in the process of writing a second, needed fodder for his new book and Guenther, who was tired of living on borrowed land in cabins that weren't his, needed a home.
With a little more than a month to prepare, Nelson flew to Washington state, gathered up all of his equipment, and then flew on back to Alaska. Meanwhile, Guenther searched for an appropriate piece of land, pored through advertisement circulars for marked down construction items, and secured enough wood to build the tree house.
Then he called on friends, neighbors and those handy with a hammer to help raise perhaps the first sky high home ever built in Alaska.
Choosing a site was the most important step in the process. Nelson and Guenther had to find healthy trees that weren't too young or too old. Finding four trees spaced evenly apart was also a challenge.
"We got kind of lucky to find the four that we did," Guenther recalls. Not only did Guenther want trees strong enough to support his home, but they had to be positioned near his dog yard, and close enough to his parking area, both near the front of his four acre wooded property. Also, since Guenther hauls in his water, he didn't want to have to carry it all the way to the back of his land.
The project required less than 1,000 board feet of wood, most of which came from a local sawmill. He used 70 sheets of plywood, which cost $700, and framing lumber ranging from 2 by 12s to 2 by 4s. He also needed four, 3/4 by 14-inch galvanized lag bolts with washers (about $7 apiece) to anchor the base of the house to the supporting trees.
"You might think more bolts are better, but they're not," Guenther says, recalling the many lessons he learned from Nelson during the building process. "You only want to put one in each tree, because one bolt won't kill the tree. The bolt goes way into the tree, then the tree grows around the bolt."
If too many bolts pierce the tree, Guenther explains, the risk of disease and of killing the tree rises. To safely insert each bolt, Nelson brought with him an industrial size drill and an enormous ratchet to secure each piece of metal into its living host.
The most efficient way to build a tree house, says Nelson, who has spent the past 10 years building tree houses as part of his business, PJ Playhouse Inc., is to construct the walls first then hoist them up to the tree. But since Guenther's house is only 8 feet off the ground, they built each wall—from the framing to the sheeting to the outdoor siding—on the completed tree house floor and lifted them from there.
"The most important thing in Gus's case was that we were using 2 by 4 construction using green wood and that's very heavy," Nelson recalls. "Secondly, his ground was uneven and there wasn't any set place for a building surface, which is a handy thing when you're building walls,"
Once the walls of the cabin were up, it was time for the most dangerous part of the project: the roof.
"We made all the trusses ourselves and we lifted them up and nailed them into place and sheeted up the roof," Guenther says. "The roof was kind of hairy because we had to use harnesses and we were tied up there. I did a lot of the roof work."
Not only did Nelson want this tree house to be structurally sound, but he also wanted to create a warm, appealing atmosphere. To accent the house, he added green shingles and railings crafted by hand using three-foot lengths of spruce and birch branches. French doors—the one extravagance for which Guenther paid $400—open out to the dog yard. From there, Guenther can stand and watch his canine family bask in the Alaskan sunshine.
"It's great: there are so many little facets to it, from the [French] doors to the tongue and groove on the inside. It changes your whole outlook and attitude when it looks that good, and I know because I've lived in some honest-to-God shacks."
All told, Guenther and Nelson went through one 50-pound box each of 16 penny and 8 penny nails, and another box of finish nails. The four bolts secure the house together.
Although he chooses to live off the grid and without generator-assisted power, Guenther admits that a generator-powered drill, nail gun, and various saws simplified matters. Now that the project is complete though, his generator sits idle in a shed on his property.
"Everything that it would run I don't use anyway; Guenther says. "I don't have a TV and I've already got lights. The only thing I've ever used it for is building."
Normally, a tree house like Guenther's would cost about $20,000, Nelson said, but with some ingenuity and labor costs eliminated, Guenther shaved the price down to just $2,500, relying on one simple virtue. "You just have to have patience," Guenther says. "Patience in getting things is the key."
For starters, Nelson traded his labor for Guenther's involvement in the book. Next, most of the supplies were either free or discounted.
The wood was a trade with a local sawyer who agreed to mill the wood in exchange for some of the trees on Guenther's property. The windows were salvaged from an old job Nelson had completed in Seattle years before. And the cedar siding and pine tongue and groove interior walls were all bought at a discount.
"I bought nothing at full price," Guenther says. "It was in the fall, after the building season, and they were clearing stuff out." Once the house was finished, Guenther continued his frugal ways. He picked up an old, small, but reliable wood stove for $150, after hearing about it on a local radio trade-in program. It may not be very fancy, Guenther says of his work, but it's all he really needs.
"I'm never going to be rich, but I don't need to be," Guenther says, leaning back in his leather castaway chair (salvaged from a dumpster). He seems quite content to simply read the morning paper and drink an extra cup of coffee. "For an incredible price, the house is finished. And it doesn't have bare plywood and tarpaper. It looks nice, and it's functional."
But Why a Business Building Tree Houses?
"My interest is in the architecture of small buildings," Nelson says. "I like their feel. I don't like big spaces, it seems wasteful. You don't need all that room. I also like a lot of windows and what could be prettier than looking out onto leaves?"
"One of the great things about tree houses is that you can scrounge for them," Nelson says. Scrap lumber and salvaged windows are standard fare in his projects. Also, the headache of building a foundation is eliminated, which saves time and money. Of course, insulation is a major concern in the absence of a temperature-stabilizing foundation and basement, particularly in northern locations like Guenther's. Installing electricity and running water can be easily accomplished with a little ingenuity.
"Tree houses can be much more elaborate than Gus's," Nelson says," and you can make them a whole lot bigger, too. But if you want to build a bigger one, build it in a few pods." The weight is less stressful on the supporting trees, and it creates a more visually appealing look, he explains.
Some people choose to perform what is called a "downward live-load pressure test"(or "stress test") to see how much weight their supporting trees can withstand, Nelson says. "But I would avoid that," he says. The most important thing is to make sure to select a sheltered location and the right trees, with healthy roots and no disease.
Nelson, who is married and has three children, doesn't live in a tree house. High spaces and small children don't mix well on a daily basis. But his office, located next to his house, is perched a lofty 12 feet high in a tree, and his children have their own tree playhouse in the back yard.
There are two types of tree houses and people who like them, Nelson says: "the tree house fanatics, who like to be 60 feet in the air, and those that say, 'Just get me up a little ways.'" Nelson says if you're like him and fall into the former category, you should be sure to consider the direction and intensity of winds in the area where you want to build your tree house. "When you get that high, you feel like you're on water," he says. "I've even been seasick in my tree house before."
Peter Nelson's book, Home Tree Home: The Principles of Tree house Construction and Other Tall Tales, (Penguin Press, 1997) is available through MOTHER'S Bookshelf for $17.95.


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Perennial, shrub, tree, generally fleshy
Stem cylindric, spheric, or flat; surface smooth, tubercled, or ribbed (fluted); nodal areoles bear flowers, generally bear spines from center ("central spines") and margin ("radial spines") (Opuntia areoles bear small, barbed, deciduous bristles sometimes called glochids, generally also bear spines)
Leaf generally 0
Flower generally solitary, bisexual, sessile, ± radial; perianth parts generally many, grading from scale-like to petal-like; stamens many; ovary appearing inferior, ± submerged in stem, so generally with areoles on surface, style 1, stigma lobes generally many
Fruit generally fleshy, generally indehiscent, spiny, scaly, or smooth
Seeds many
Genera in family: 93 genera, ± 2000 species: especially Am deserts; many cultivated
Etymology: (Greek: thorny plant)
Reference: [Benson 1982 Cacti of US & Can; Hunt & Taylor eds 1990 Bradleya 8:85107]
Shrubs, trees; roots fibrous
Stem generally erect, < 12 m; segments flat to cylindric, generally firmly attached; tubercles generally elongate along stem; ribs sometimes present; spines 0many, sometimes flat, tip smooth or barbed, epidermis persistent or separating as a papery sheath; small, barbed deciduous bristles generally many
Leaf small, conic, fleshy, deciduous, obvious on young stems and ovaries
Fruit juicy, fleshy or dry; wall thick, bearing areoles
Seed dark brown, encased in a bony, whitish aril
Species in genus: 200 species: Am; O. ficus-indica cultivated for food, others for ornamental
Etymology: (Possibly from Papago Indian name ("opun") for this food plant; or named for a spiny plant of Opus, Greece)
Spines smaller, fewer in shade forms; when yellow, blacken with age.
Hybridization common within subgenera.
Stem clumped, ascending to erect, 740 cm; segments flat, generally erect, 521 cm, generally puberulent; spines generally 0(8); bristles many
Flower: inner perianth ± 4 cm, pink-magenta; filaments deep magenta-red; style white or pink, stigma white
Fruit 24 cm, becoming dry, green and purple becoming tan, generally puberulent; areoles 2476
Seed 6.59 mm, ± spheric
Ecology: Desert, chaparral, pinyon/juniper woodland
Elevation: 1202200 m.
Bioregional distribution: s Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi Mountain Area, se San Joaquin Valley, San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains (and adjacent South Coast), e Peninsular Ranges, s East of Sierra Nevada, Desert
Distribution outside California: to Utah, Arizona, Mexico
See the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Stem: segment 920 cm, 57.5 cm wide, flat, generally obovate; spines 28, 726 mm, spreading, generally straight, yellow
Flower: spines 06, < 11 mm, pale yellow
Chromosomes: 2n=22,33
Ecology: Arid plains
Elevation: 120150 m.
Bioregional distribution: Tehachapi Mountain Area, se San Joaquin Valley (Kern Co.)
Synonyms: O. treleasei J.M. Coult
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The Dodge Truck ads from the last post certainly were a hit with TI readers. Thanks to several commenters, we now know that Charles Wysocki was the artist responsible for the beautiful illustrations in that series.
Harry Borgman very kindly sent the ad below from the 1956 Detroit Art Directors Annual, illustrated by Wysocki, for McNamara Brothers, the art studio where Harry and Chuck Wysocki once worked.
Yesterday, while flipping through the 1959 issue of the Saturday Evening Post where I found the Wysocki Dodge Truck ad at the top of this post, I had a "six degrees of illustration separation" moment.
Beside Chuck Wysoki's ad, there were several other illustrated car ads in that issue. The one below was, unfortunately, not signed.
But here's one by Ben Jaroslaw, who was Bernie Fuchs' illustrative partner when they both worked at The Art Group, a rival studio to McNamara Brothers. No doubt Harry Borgman, Chuck Wysocki, Ben Jaroslaw, Bernie Fuchs and many of the artists at both studios all socialized together - or at least knew of each other as close professional acquaintances.
No doubt all of those artists marvelled at the work of Art Fitzpatrick and Van Kaufman - also known as "AF/VK" - who were then turning out a spectacular series of Pontiac ads at a furious pace. The AF/VK ad below appeared in that same October 1959 issue of the SEP as the other auto ads above.
But as far as I know, Art Fitzpatrick and Van Kaufman weren't part of the Detroit automotive art scene. AF/VK were, I believe, New York-based illustrators represented earlier that decade by Seymour Thompson Associates. Thompson had represented several other successful illustrators - including one whose work also appeared in that very same issue of the Saturday Evening Post...
... James R. Bingham.


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ST. PAUL (AP) - After surging in the 1980s, Minnesota's recycling rate has stagnated for most of the last two decades. But green advocates think they have something to boost it: food scraps.
They predict organics recycling will sweep Minnesota the same way that recycling of aluminum, glass and paper has.
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Genesis 32:4 - 36:43
This translation was taken from the JPS Tanakh
4 Jacob sent messengers ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom, 5 and instructed them as follows, "Thus shall you say, 'To my lord Esau, thus says your servant Jacob: I stayed with Laban and remained until now; 6 I have acquired cattle, asses, sheep, and male and female slaves; and I send this message to my lord in the hope of gaining your favor.'" 7 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau; he himself is coming to meet you, and there are four hundred men with him." 8 Jacob was greatly frightened; in his anxiety, he divided the people with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps, 9 thinking, "If Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it, the other camp may yet escape."
10 Then Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who said to me, 'Return to your native land and I will deal bountifully with you'! 11 I am unworthy of all the kindness that You have so steadfastly shown Your servant: with my staff alone I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. 12 Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; else, I fear, he may come and strike me down, mothers and children alike. 13 Yet You have said, 'I will deal bountifully with you and make your offspring as the sands of the sea, which are too numerous to count.'"
14 After spending the night there, he selected from what was at hand these presents for his brother Esau: 15 200 she-goats and 20 he-goats; 200 ewes and 20 rams; 16 30 milch camels with their colts; 40 cows and 10 bulls; 20 she-asses and 10 he-asses. 17 These he put in the charge of his servants, drove by drove, and he told his servants, "Go on ahead, and keep a distance between droves." 18 He instructed the one in front as follows, "When my brother Esau meets you and asks you, 'Whose man are you? Where are you going? And whose [animals] are these ahead of you?' 19 you shall answer, 'Your servant Jacob's; they are a gift sent to my lord Esau; and [Jacob] himself is right behind us.'" 20 He gave similar instructions to the second one, and the third, and all the others who followed the droves, namely, "Thus and so shall you say to Esau when you reach him. 21 And you shall add, 'And your servant Jacob himself is right behind us.'" For he reasoned, "If I propitiate him with presents in advance, and then face him, perhaps he will show me favor." 22 And so the gift went on ahead, while he remained in camp that night.
23 That same night he arose, and taking his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven children, he crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 24 After taking them across the stream, he sent across all his possessions. 25 Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the break of dawn. 26 When he saw that he had not prevailed against him, he wrenched Jacob's hip at its socket, so that the socket of his hip was strained as he wrestled with him. 27 Then he said, "Let me go, for dawn is breaking." But he answered, "I will not let you go, unless you bless me." 28 Said the other, "What is your name?" He replied, "Jacob." 29 Said he, "Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with beings divine and human, and have prevailed." 30 Jacob asked, "Pray tell me your name." But he said, "You must not ask my name!" And he took leave of him there. 31 So Jacob named the place Peniel, meaning, "I have seen a divine being face to face, yet my life has been preserved." 32 The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping on his hip. 33 That is why the children of Israel to this day do not eat the thigh muscle that is on the socket of the hip, since Jacob's hip socket was wrenched at the thigh muscle.
Chapter 33
Looking up, Jacob saw Esau coming, accompanied by four hundred men. He divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maids, 2 putting the maids and their children first, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last. 3 He himself went on ahead and bowed low to the ground seven times until he was near his brother. 4 Esau ran to greet him. He embraced him and, falling on his neck, he kissed him; and they wept. 5 Looking about, he saw the women and the children. "Who," he asked, "are these with you?" He answered, "The children with whom God has favored your servant." 6 Then the maids, with their children, came forward and bowed low; 7 next Leah, with her children, came forward and bowed low; and last, Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed low; 8 And he asked, "What do you mean by all this company which I have met?" He answered, "To gain my lord's favor." 9 Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let what you have remain yours." 10 But Jacob said, "No, I pray you; if you would do me this favor, accept from me this gift; for to see your face is like seeing the face of God, and you have received me favorably. 11 Please accept my present which has been brought to you, for God has favored me and I have plenty." And when he urged him, he accepted.
12 And [Esau] said, "Let us start on our journey, and I will proceed at your pace." 13 But he said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds, which are nursing, are a care to me; if they are driven hard a single day, all the flocks will die. 14 Let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I travel slowly, at the pace of the cattle before me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir."
15 Then Esau said, "Let me assign to you some of the men who are with me." But he said, "Oh no, my lord is too kind to me!" 16 So Esau started back that day on his way to Seir. 17 But Jacob journeyed on to Succoth, and built a house for himself and made stalls for his cattle; that is why the place was called Succoth.
18 Jacob arrived safe in the city of Shechem which is in the land of Canaan having come thus from Paddan-aram and he encamped before the city. 19 The parcel of land where he pitched his tent he purchased from the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred kesitahs. 20 He set up an altar there, and called it El-elohe-yisrael.
Chapter 34
Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land. 2 Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, chief of the country, saw her, and took her and lay with her by force. 3 Being strongly drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob, and in love with the maiden, he spoke to the maiden tenderly. 4 So Shechem said to his father Hamor, "Get me this girl as a wife." 5 Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah; but since his sons were in the field with his cattle, Jacob kept silent until they came home. 6 Then Shechem's father Hamor came out to Jacob to speak to him. 7 Meanwhile Jacob's sons, having heard the news, came in from the field. The men were distressed and very angry, because he had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter a thing not to be done.
8 And Hamor spoke with them, saying, "My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him in marriage. 9 Intermarry with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves: 10 You will dwell among us, and the land will be open before you; settle, move about, and acquire holdings in it." 11 Then Shechem said to her father and brothers, "Do me this favor, and I will pay whatever you tell me. 12 Ask of me a bride-price ever so high, as well as gifts, and I will pay what you tell me; only give me the maiden for a wife."
13 Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor speaking with guile because he had defiled their sister Dinah 14 and said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for that is a disgrace among us. 15 Only on this condition will we agree with you; that you will become like us in that every male among you is circumcised. 16 Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to ourselves; and we will dwell among you and become as one kindred. 17 But if you will not listen to us and become circumcised, we will take our daughter and go."
18 Their words pleased Hamor and Hamor's son Shechem. 19 And the youth lost no time in doing the thing, for he wanted Jacob's daughter. Now he was the most respected in his father's house. 20 So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the public place of their town and spoke to their fellow townsmen, saying, 21 "These people are our friends; let them settle in the land and move about in it, for the land is large enough for them; we will take their daughters to ourselves as wives and give our daughters to them. 22 But only on this condition will the men agree with us to dwell among us and be as one kindred: that all our males become circumcised as they are circumcised. 23 Their cattle and substance and all their beasts will be ours, if we only agree to their terms, so that they will settle among us." 24 All who went out of the gate of his town heeded Hamor and his son Shechem, and all males, all those who went out of the gate of his town, were circumcised.
25 On the third day, when they were in pain, Simeon and Levi, two of Jacob's sons, brothers of Dinah, took each his sword, came upon the city unmolested, and slew all the males. 26 They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword, took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away. 27 The other sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the town, because their sister had been defiled. 28 They seized their flocks and herds and asses, all that was inside the town and outside; 29 all their wealth, all their children, and their wives, all that was in the houses, they took as captives and booty. 30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me, making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my men are few in number, so that if they unite against me and attack me, I and my house will be destroyed." 31 But they answered, "Should our sister be treated like a whore?"
Chapter 35
1 God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and remain there; and build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau." 2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Rid yourselves of the alien gods in your midst, purify yourselves, and change your clothes. 3 Come, let us go up to Bethel, and I will build an altar there to the God who answered me when I was in distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone." 4 They gave to Jacob all the alien gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the terebinth that was near Shechem. 5 As they set out, a terror from God fell on the cities round about, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
6 Thus Jacob came to Luz that is, Bethel in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. 7 There he built an altar and named the site El-bethel, for it was there that God had revealed Himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
8 Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and was buried under the oak
below Bethel; so it was named Allon-bacuth. 9 God appeared again to
Jacob on his arrival from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him. 10 God
said to him,
"You whose name is Jacob,Thus He named him Israel.
You shall be called Jacob no more,
But Israel shall be your name."
11 And God said to him,
"I am El Shaddai.13 God parted from him at the spot where He had spoken to him; 14 and Jacob set up a pillar at the site where He had spoken to him, a pillar of stone, and he offered a libation on it and poured oil upon it. 15 Jacob gave the site, where God had spoken to him, the name of Bethel.
Be fertile and increase;
A nation, yea an assembly of nations,
Shall descend from you.
Kings shall issue from your loins.
12 The land that I assigned to Abraham and Isaac
I assign to you;
And to your offspring to come
Will I assign the land."
16 They set out from Bethel; but when they were still some distance short of Ephrath, Rachel was in childbirth, and she had hard labor. 17 When her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, "Have no fear, for it is another boy for you." 18 But as she breathed her last for she was dying she named him Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin. Thus Rachel died. She was buried on the road to Ephrath now Bethlehem. 20 Over her grave Jacob set up a pillar; it is the pillar at Rachel's grave to this day. 21 Israel journeyed on, and pitched his tent beyond Migdal-eder.
22 While Israel stayed in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine; and Israel found out.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve in number. 23 The sons of Leah: Reuben Jacob's first-born Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. 24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. 25 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan and Naphtali. 26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba now Hebron where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned. 28 Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old 29 when he breathed his last and died. He was gathered to his kin in ripe old age; and he was buried by his sons Esau and Jacob.
Chapter 36 1 This is the line of Esau that is, Edom.
2 Esau took his wives from among the Canaanite women Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah daughter of Zibeon the Hivite 3 and also Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth. 4 Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; Basemath bore Reuel; 5 and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. Those were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
6 Esau took his wives, his sons and daughters, and all the members of his household, his cattle and all his livestock, and all the property that he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to another land because of his brother Jacob. 7 For their possessions were too many for them to dwell together, and the land where they sojourned could not support them because of their livestock. 8 So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir Esau being Edom. 9 This, then, is the line of Esau, the ancestor of the Edomites, in the hill country of Seir.
10 These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Esau's wife Adah; Reuel, the son of Esau's wife Basemath. 11 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. 12 Timna was a concubine of Esau's son Eliphaz; she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. Those were the descendants of Esau's wife Adah. 13 And these were the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. Those were the descendants of Esau's wife Basemath. 14 And these were the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah, daughter of Anah daughter of Zibeon: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
15 These are the clans of the children of Esau. The descendants of Esau's first-born Eliphaz: the clans Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz, 16 Korah, Gatam, and Amalek; these are the clans of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. Those are the descendants of Adah. 17 And these are the descendants of Esau's son Reuel: the clans Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah; these are the clans of Reuel in the land of Edom. Those are the descendants of Esau's wife Basemath. 18 And these are the descendants of Esau's wife Oholibamah: the clans Jeush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the clans of Esau's wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah. 19 Those were the sons of Esau that is, Edom and those are their clans.
20 These were the sons of Seir the Horite, who were settled in the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, 21 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. Those are the clans of the Horites, the descendants of Seir, in the land of Edom.
22 The sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna. 23 The sons of Shobal were these: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. 24 The sons of Zibeon were these: Aiah and Anah that was the Anah who discovered the hot springs in the wilderness while pasturing the asses of his father Zibeon. 25 The children of Anah were these: Dishon and Anah's daughter Oholibamah. 26 The sons of Dishon were these: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. 27 The sons of Ezer were these: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. 28 And the sons of Dishan were these: Uz and Aran.
29 These are the clans of the Horites: the clans Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, 30 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. Those are the clans of the Horites, clan by clan, in the land of Seir.
31 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites. 32 Bela son of Beor reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhabah. 33 When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah, from Bozrah, succeeded him as king. 34 When Jobab died, Husham of the land of the Temanites succeeded him as king. 35 When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated the Midianites in the country of Moab, succeeded him as king; the name of his city was Avith. 36 When Hadad died, Samlah of Masrekah succeeded him as king. 37 When Samlah died, Saul of Rehoboth-on-the-river succeeded him as king. 38 When Saul died, Baal-hanan son of Achbor succeeded him as king. 39 And when Baal-hanan son of Achbor died, Hadar succeeded him as king; the name of his city was Pau, and his wife's name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred daughter of Me-zahab.
40 These are the names of the clans of Esau, each with its families and locality, name by name: the clans Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, 41 Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, 42 Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, 43 Magdiel, and Iram. Those are the clans of Edom that is, of Esau, father of the Edomites by their settlements in the land which they hold.
Used by permission of the Jewish Publication Society. Copyright ©1962, 1992
Third Edition by the Jewish Publication Society.
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2012 VolunteerMatch Client Summit Insights: Keynote Recap
Carol Cone (@CarolCone), also known as "the mother of cause marketing," is the Global Chair of Edelman Business + Social Purpose and served as the keynote speaker at the 2012 VolunteerMatch Client Summit.
Carol spoke of how corporate purpose is now necessary in a society where consumers are more mindful of the products they consume. But how do you execute a good strategy to promote a cause or purpose? Here are a couple of her take-home points.
Engaging Employees is Essential for Future Growth
Organizations with high employee engagement had a 3.9 times higher earnings per share growth than organizations with low employee engagement, according to a Gallup study. Engaged employees put in 57% more effort and were 87% less likely to leave the organization compared to disengaged employees.
Employee engagement is essential to running a successful business. Engaged employees mean happy employees. Happy employees mean a more productive company. Employees are the center of your brand and will be the center of your cause marketing campaign.
Volunteerism today isn't a nice to do, it's a need to do. The closer it's tied to the business strategy the better. @carolcone #vmcs12
— Lauren (@lakeeler) May 17, 2012
Adapt to the demands of the "Citizen Consumer"
Carol made the point to use the term "Citizen Consumers" to refer to consumers. Consumers are more aware than ever due to technology such as social media. A full 86% of global consumers believe that businesses need to make social issues just as important as making profits. Consumers demand transparency from organizations in order to support them.
Social purpose is also still a significant purchase trigger. Take two products with exactly the same price and function and the consumer will be more likely to choose the product that promotes a cause.
Make sure that your company has an active profile on social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, for starters), and that your social media efforts reflect your social responsibility efforts.
It's critical for companies to make consumers aware of their efforts (need 360 degree communications) @carolcone #vmcs12
— Megan Strand (@meganstrand) May 17, 2012
Storytelling is Key
The last point that Carol mentioned in her keynote was that storytelling is a necessary factor in communicating the company's efforts to the public and increasing brand value. With social media, organizations have many more opportunities and tools to tell your story.
In order to tell a good story, you need a focus. "Don't play and spray" with your causes.
Pick an issue first, and then choose your partners from there. Once you have a central focus, you can shape your narrative from there.
Remember, don't use business jargon. Make your company's narrative accessible. Don't aim at just informing the public of your accomplishments with the fancy percentages and numbers of the business world. Aim for touching the human heart and telling a compelling story.
@carolcone: companies need to pick the issue first, not the social partner. When picking partners, look for one that isn't obvious #vmcs12
— Ellen Eileen Sojka (@EllenEileen) May 17, 2012
The bottom line? Corporate social responsibility and cause marketing aren't just nice things to have for your company. They're fundamental changes you need to make in order to not only increase your brand value, but to survive in a transitioning world becoming dominated by social media, technology, and an increased demand for transparency.
Further Reading:
Corporate Social Responsibility: Customers Buy It, Employees Sell it (RealizedWorth)
Sustainability, Purpose, Citizenship, CSR, Shared Value: Don't Get Stuck on the Name… Continue the Journey! (Huffington Post)
CauseTalk Radio: Carol Cone, "Mother of Cause Marketing," Talks Power of Purpose (Selfish Giving)


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Two Easter Bunnies Mating During Newscast, Makes the News Anchors Very Uncomfortable
In the spirit of Easter Knoxville, Tennessee TV station WBIR Fox 43 decided to add a couple of Easter bunnies to their Good Friday newscast. What happens next has the main news anchor reacting so nervously, that all he wants to do is move on to something else and have the offending cute little bunny removed off the set. Check it out, it's hilarious.


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Our priority is to ensure that the small population of tiger sub-species left in the wild is able to survive and flourish without the constant threat of poaching and habitat destruction. This is a massive undertaking, and your support is vital to the success of our mission. Learn more about adopting a tiger.
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Help us safeguard the world's precious wildlife and its habitat by making a donation to the non-profit organisation Wildlife Warriors Worldwide Ltd. Your commitment will aid in raising awareness and funds to protect the natural environment and threatened or endangered species. Learn more about becoming a Wildlife Warrior.
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Our big cat handlers have identified some easy but important ways that you can help promote the survival of tigers and other wildlife.
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- Invest your money wisely. Many of today's financial institutes invest in unethical programs, both against the environment and human rights, using your money to do so.
- Buy fair trade products – make sure that the product you are buying is not supporting the abuse of people in developing countries. Poverty and environmental degradation often do hand in hand.


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Since I've been neglecting this blog while work is slowly wearing me down (and Fallout 3 has so much of my attention), please, feel free to consider this a "blank post" so you all can rant to your hearts content.
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A research directed by Keith Curry Lance, reveals correlations between library-related factors (library budgets,technology presence, collection size, and staffing size) and higher student achievement,notably in test performance in reading. Also of special note, Stephen Krashen's rigorousscientific analysis reveals that student access to and extensive use of resources in printand information-rich environments is correlated with reading achievement. Vocabulary,grammar, comprehension, and motivation show powerful improvements when studentsare allowed to choose their reading material.
Some state's poor academic performance can be related to its print-poor environment and a perilous pattern of spending which ranks their school libraries at the bottom of the nation.
A comparison of the ratio of library media teachers to students ranks California school
libraries as last among the states. While some states mandate the presence of library
media professionals at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, some do not.
While some states staff their high schools with a library director plus one library media
teacher for each of the disciplines being taught at school, some do not.
When professional library staff collaborates with teachers, when students have access to
quality and diversity of reading and information resources, and when voluntary reading of self-selectedmaterials is encouraged, achievement is higher despite students' socioeconomic status. Where school libraries are strong, their students, staff, and community become proficient readers who can skillfully access, evaluate, and use information. Our students deserve no less.
Lance, K.C., Rodney, M.J., & Hamilton-Pennell, C. (2000). How school librarians help kids achieve standards: The second
Colorado study. San Jose, CA: Hi Willow Research and Publishing.
Lance, K.C., Rodney, M.J., & Hamilton-Pennell, C. (2000). Measuring up to standards: The impact of school library programs
and information literacy in Pennsylvania schools. Retrieved April 4, 2004, from http://www.statelibrary.state.pa.us/
Lance, K.C., & Rodney, M.J. (with P. Petersen & C. Sitter). (2002). Information empowered, The school librarian as an agent
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INDEPENDENCE, Kan. — Last week Cessna delivered the first production TTx aircraft to customers following a ceremony at the Cessna facility in Independence, Kan.
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There are many considerations and much preparation to do, when a company decides that it is ready to upgrade their SQL Server to the latest version, as there may be several changes, feature deprecations, and new or improved features that can be leveraged. It's not always as simple as backup and restore, since there are so many new components, especially when going from SQL 2000 to SQL 2008. Even though Microsoft ended mainstream and general support for SQL Server 2000, way back, you'll find there are many companies that are just coming around to the realization that they must upgrade, especially as hardware get decommissioned, and technology moves forward.
Now, that even SQL Server 2005 has been surpassed, the ultimate decision is to skip over 2005 completely, and go directly to 2008. This was exactly the case with a client of mine over the summer, where they knew they were no longer supported on SQL Server 2000, and it was time to provision new hardware.
The environment was a 32-bit SQL Server 2000 cluster, and they had purchased the latest and greatest 64-bit OS, Server and SAN technology, and needed to plan to move their existing 2000 instance, over to the new 64-bit SQL Server 2008 cluster. They had Log Shipping, Replication, DTS packages, SSRS, SSAS, and a whole host of new security and configuration options to consider. With all this planning, preparation, and deployment, they needed extensive project planning and best practice recommendations on where to start and how to go about it.
Luckily, I was able to find an excellent resource for all this, which made the planning and implementation phases all the more streamlined. I hit the "Upgrading to 2008" jackpot, when I looked up this presentation, and learned the "why, what, how and when" to upgrade. The session and materials used gave a comprehensive end-to-end guide on the basics of planning the upgrade to the advanced, on strategies, methodologies, pitfalls, myths, issues and troubleshooting and all the available references. These best practices and recommendations are still very much valid, and is why I am bringing you this checklist today.
Sometime back this year, SQL MVP and friend Satya Jayanty (aka @SQLMaster) travelled Europe and the US, to bring his knowledge and experience to SQLBits and TechEd, "best practices and notes from the field", with respect to upgrading your SQL Server 2000 or SQL 2005 server to the latest SQL Server 2008/R2. Satya has authored several articles, is a forum moderator on SQL-Server-Performance.com, and maintains his own website and blog at http://sqlserver-qa.net/default.aspx.
I spoke with Satya to compliment him on this awesome presentation, and told him we need to disseminate this information to more and more folks with similar upgrade considerations. Therefore, I have compiled this checklist based on his presentation, and have his blessing to share this information with you and the greater SQL community at-large.
This paper is intended to be a SQL Server 2008 upgrade overview. The checklist here will cover the essential phases and steps involved in upgrading SQL Server 2000/2005 to SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 by using best practices and available resources. We will cover the upgrade cycle, including the preparation tasks, upgrade tasks, and post-upgrade tasks. This list will also cover upgrading instances involved in mirroring, log shipping, reporting server, and replication; feature-specific considerations; and recommended tools for a successful upgrade. Please review the sections accordingly.
If you want to catch the entire presentation, you can go to this link and see Satya present first-hand: Upgrading to SQL 2005/2008. (I'm sure there is a later version from TechEd 2010 which focuses on 2008 only, and will post back if I find it)
Upgrade Planning (Checklist)
ü Preparing to Upgrade
o Review upgrade documentation and resources
o Identify upgrade requirements
§ SQL Server editions/features
§ Hardware considerations
§ Application compatibility
o Decide on upgrade strategy: In-place upgrade vs. side-by-side
o Establish plan to upgrade high-availability servers
o Establish backup and rollback plans
ü Pre-Upgrade
o Check environment
§ Run SQL Server 2008 R2 Upgrade Advisor
§ Ensure environment is clean
· Check database consistency
· Consider shrink DB
· Consider rebuild indexes
§ Run SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)
o Back up your environment
§ System and user databases including DTS/SSIS packages
§ Your system
ü The Upgrade
o Document every step
o Check server, storage, and network health
o Perform the upgrade
o Back up databases when upgrade completes
ü Go/No-go (Checkpoint)
o Review the logs to ensure everything is successful
o Troubleshoot if there is an upgrade failure
o Determine whether you need to roll back
o Determine application acceptance (sanity test)
ü Post-Upgrade Tasks
o Determine application acceptance (end-to-end)
o Integrate the new instance into the new environment
o Decommission and uninstall after a side-by-side or new hardware install
o Apply latest security updates
o Review security settings
o Revisit Upgrade Advisor recommendations
o Run the SQL Server 2008 R2 BPA
o Side-by-Side (Migration) Upgrade
ü Install new instance of SQL Server without affecting existing instance
o Can be same or different server
ü Database objects are manually copied to new instance
o Copy Database Wizard
o Detach -> Copy -> Attach
ü Upgrade Planning
ü Upgrade Strategies and Considerations
o Stand-alone Upgrade
o Cluster Upgrade
o Database Mirroring
o Log Shipping
o Feature-Specific Information
ü Memory Configuration
o Min/Max Settings
ü Upgrade Tools
ü Upgrade Resources
ü Upgrading Log Shipping
o Upgrade from 2000 to 2008 is not supported
o Upgrade Log Shipping Monitor server instance – Log Shipping itself is not affected
o Secondary server must be upgraded first
o Instance is upgraded first but DB remains 2000/2005
o Logs are accumulated during upgrade and applied when done
ü Typical upgrade options:
o Less downtime – upgrade secondary, failover, upgrade primary, establish Log Shipping, failback, establish Log Shipping
o Less effort – upgrade secondary, allow catch-up, upgrade primary
ü Upgrading Replication
o Mixed versions are supported, but: Upgrading Data Transformation Services (DTS) and Integration Services (SSIS)Distributor version must always be equal or newer than Publisher
o Subscribers for transactional replication can be within 2 versions newer/older of Publisher
o Subscribers for merge replication must be equal or older than Publisher
o Verify features supported by editions before upgrade
o Typical upgrade flow: Distributor, Publisher, Subscriber
ü Upgrading Analysis Services
o Upgrade 2005 to 2008 – Either an in-place or side-by-side upgrade
o Upgrade 2000 to 2008 – Analysis Services Migration Wizard is recommended
ü Upgrading Reporting Services
o Single server, RS db within same instance
o Database engine and Reporting Services components will all be upgraded
o Remote Installation or different instance of RS db
o RS component can be upgrade without upgrading the database engine
o The RS db schema will be updated
ü Upgrading Data Transformation Services (DTS) and Integration Services (SSIS)
ü DTS is depreciated
o SQL Server 2005/2008 still includes DTS functionality, but future version may not
ü DTS upgrade options:
o Migration DTS packages to SSIS
§ DTS Migration Wizard (DTSMigrationWizard.exe)
§ 3rd party tools available, such as www.dtsxchange.com
o Continue to run DTS packages using the DTS runtime
§ No design/runtime support on 64-bit or 32-bit on IA64
o Incorporate DTS package into SSIS packages
o SSIS use the SSIS package upgrade Wizard
ü SQL Server 2008 R2 Upgrade Advisor
o Available at the following locations:
o The SQL Server Installation Center
o On the source media in the [Servers\redist\Upgrade Advisor] folder
o Through the SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature Pack at
o http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ceb4346f-657f-4d28-83f5-aae0c5c83d52
ü SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Assistant
o Used for Application Compatibility Testing (ACT) along with Upgrade Advisor
o Allows testing of actual T-SQL execution
o Can detect changes in execution method, path, and results – Upgrade Advisor does not
o Leverages Profiler/Trace capability
o Collaborative development between SQL Server development team, DPE, and Scalability Experts
o Free download from www.scalabilityexperts.com/ssua
ü SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practice Analyzer
o Based on Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer 2.0
o Must be manually installed first
o Work against SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2
o Replaces prior version
o About 130 rules (50 new rules)
o Regular updates
o Product Support (CSS) KB articles provide the details
ü Upgrade Resources:
o Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade site
§ http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/upgrade.aspx
o MSDN technical resources
§ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb677622.aspx
ü SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference
o http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=66d3e6f5-6902-4fdd-af75-9975aea5bea7&displaylang=en
o SQL Server Community: blogs, Channel 9, newsgroups, videos, and webcasts
o http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb671050.aspx
o http://blogs.msdn.com/b/petersad/
o http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/Bloggers.aspx
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Living Longer May Lead to More Drug Interactions
March/April 2014
People with HIV are living longer than ever before with improved antiretroviral (ARV) therapies. As patients age, however, other health conditions become more common, such as heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis, kidney disease, and non-AIDS related cancers. These medical conditions may result from aging in general, long-term side effects of ARVs, risk factors that are more common in HIV-positive patients, or the virus itself.
With older age, the number of medications patients require tends to increase. They may also be taking vitamins, supplements, and complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) in addition to their prescription medications. As the number of medications grows, the potential for drug-drug interactions increases.
First Things First
To better understand drug interactions, it's helpful to know something about the chemical reactions that may cause them. Several ARVs may be more likely to cause drug interactions because of their effects on CYP (pronounced "sip") enzymes.
Cytochrome P450 (CYP450) enzymes are a family of enzymes which work to break down medications in the liver.
Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) are moderate inducers of CYP3A4 enzymes, which means they can speed up how quickly the liver breaks down drugs such as protease inhibitors (PIs) or other drugs that are broken down by this pathway. The concern is that if ARV drug levels become too low, this may lead to viral breakthrough (detectable viral load), development of ARV resistance, or less than ideal disease management.
Conversely, PIs are strong CYP450 inhibitors and can slow down the metabolism of other drugs resulting in increased drug concentrations. This in turn may lead to a greater chance of side effects.
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I only tasted few years back when my neighbor Marathi friend offered me a small packet of chivda for Diwali.She was kind enough to give a brief recipe over the stove. As I am neither sweet or snack person and I almost forgot it. I was flipping the Samsung cookbook of Tarla Dalal - Indian microwave cooking, I saw the recipe of poha chivda which was hard to resist. I was little skeptical how the poha flakes will crisp in microwave. As usual, if I decide to give a test run first, I halve the recipe. In case of disaster or failure, large amount of food will not go inedible. I tried with a cup of poha. I couldn't believe the outcome, they turn out perfect! Another easy, healthy way to prepare this Microwave poha chivda!
Microwave Poha Chivda
Yield: About 1 cup
Microwave cooking time: 4 minutes
Utensil needed:
Microwave safe bowl + Microwave safe plate
Thin Beaten rice (poha): 1 cup
Oil: 1 tsp
Green chilli: 1 small -minced
Peanuts: 2 tsp of peanuts
Roasted Chana dhal (dhalia)/ pottu kadallai: 2 tsp
Turmeric: less than 1/4 tsp
Mustard seeds: 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves: few leaves
Salt: 1/4 tsp (U can increase according ur taste)
Sugar: 1/2 tsp (I omitted)
Note: Most of the time, thin poha packet have a powdery flakes. Better to sieve in colander and remove the powder.
In microwave safe plate, spread a cup of poha into thin layer (If you double or triple the recipe - Roast few batches at the time), keep for one minute in microwave, taking out and stiring every 30 seconds.
Microwave Method
Microwave Method
Take a microwave safe bowl , large enough to hold the poha.
Add the oil and mustard seeds, keep a minute in microwave.
Take out , add the turmeric, green chilli, roasted chana dhal, peanuts and curry leaves- keep another minute.
Take out add , salt, sugar (If u wish) and the poha and mix thoroughly and microwave a minute.
Spread in paper napkin and cool it completely before storing in air tight container.
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3) Turmeric is largely used in Indian cooking. This white poha got the golden hue due to turmeric! Think Spice: Think turmeric event originated by Sunita
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