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An Overview of Tesamorelin
November 11, 2010
Brand Name: Egrifta
Tesamorelin, also known as TH9507, is a type of medicine called a growth hormone-releasing factor (GHRF). GHRF causes growth hormone to be created and spread in the body, which helps control metabolism, body shape, and use of energy.
Indications and Usage
Tesamorelin was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on November 10, 2010 for the treatment of lipodystrophy in HIV-infected individuals. Lipodystrophy is a condition that causes changes in placement of body fat, including wasting and fat accumulation, and changes in metabolism. Individuals with lipodystrophy may develop excess fat most notably around the liver, stomach, and other abdominal organs (visceral body fat).
Dosage Form/Administration
Always take this medicine as your doctor instructs.
Dosage Forms and Strengths
Tesamorelin is given as a daily shot (injection).
What storage conditions are needed for this medicine?
Keep this medication in the container it came in, tightly closed, and out of reach of children. Throw away any medication that is outdated or no longer needed. Talk to your pharmacist about the proper disposal of your medication.
In case of emergency/overdose
In case of overdose, call your local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222. If the victim has collapsed or is not breathing, call local emergency services at 911.
What other information should I know?
Do not let anyone else take your medication. Ask your pharmacist any questions you have about refilling your prescription.
It is important for you to keep a written list of all of the prescription and nonprescription (over-the-counter) medicines you are taking, as well as any products such as vitamins, minerals, or other dietary supplements. You should bring this list with you each time you visit a doctor or if you are admitted to a hospital. It is also important information to carry with you in case of emergencies.
Recommended Daily Dose
Tesamorelin has been studied in clinical trials as a once-daily 2-mg injection.
What should I do if I forget a dose?
Take the missed dose as soon as you remember it. However, if it is almost time for the next dose, skip the missed dose and continue your regular dosing schedule. Do not take more than one dose of tesamorelin in 1 day and do not take a double dose to make up for a missed dose.
Before taking tesamorelin,
Possible Side Effects
Tesamorelin may cause side effects.
The following life-threatening or serious side effects have been reported. Contact your doctor immediately if you experience:
Tesamorelin may cause other side effects. Call your doctor if you have any unusual problems while taking this medication.
If you experience a serious side effect, you or your doctor may send a report to the U.S. FDA's MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program online at www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch or by phone at 1-800-332-1088.
Drug Interactions
Unless your doctor tells you otherwise, continue your normal diet.
Clinical Trials
Click here to search ClinicalTrials.gov for trials that use Tesamorelin.
A Closer Look at Egrifta, a Newly Approved Treatment for HIV-Associated Belly Fat Gain (Lipohypertrophy)
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City redevelopment for Cityvision Magazine | Seattle editorial photographer
Had an assignment last month to photograph two stories on city redevelopment projects for Cityvision Magazine. The first shoot was a last-minute one on Auburn, Washington's efforts to redevelop unused commercial spaces into art galleries. A sweet idea, especially when you have art like Julia Haack's to fill the rooms. They looked great from the street, too. Wish we could have had more sunshine to really make the art pop but alas, it was a gusty overcast day. You can tell the wind is blowing if you look at her hair, but all things considered, I was happy with the way the shoot went down. And we did it in under the time allotted which is always great!
I was very pleased with tearsheets that came from these shoots! This was one of my first full-page magazine portraits, so that's pretty special. The second shoot was way north in Mount Vernon, Wash., to photograph Mayor Jill Boudreau and Public Works Director Esco Bell. The city is redeveloping the promenade into a cool multiuse commercial space and making the waterfront a more attractive place for the community to hang out. I liked the view of the bridge and Skagit River — not everyday you get to have those in an environmental portrait.
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All items > Knives > Out The Front Knives > Paragon (OTF) > Paragon Estiletto
- Overall Length:12.75"
- Blade Length:5.25"
- Blade Thickness:0.12"
- Blade Material:CPM-S30V
- Blade Style:Dagger
- Blade Grind:Flat
- Finish:Black
- Edge Type:Plain
- Handle Length:7.50"
- Handle Thickness:0.55"
- Handle Material:Aluminum
- Color:Gray
- Weight:5.80 oz.
- User:Right Hand
- Pocket Clip:Tip-Down
- Knife Type:Single-Action OTF Automatic
- Opener:Push Button
- Brand:Paragon
- Model:Estiletto
- Model Number:PARA-EST-SP-SG-D
- Country of Origin:USA
- Best Use:Tactical
- Product Type:Knife
This Estilleto knife features a black DLC finished S30V steel dagger style blade with plain edges and a sniper grey coated aluminum handle.
The Paragon Estilleto is based on the ATKO single action out-the-front design but it's been super-sized. Just push the button and the knife fires out the front of the handle. To retract the blade just press the button in and use the retracing lever to pull the blade back in. The Estilleto has a pocket clip for easy tip-down carry and a safety to ensure the knife is not fired by mistake. Made in the USA and new in box.


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Resort Wear #4 Shorts Burda 05-2012-121
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These are great. I really like the asymmetric waist on these. Your zip finishing is ace too, of course!ReplyDelete
After seeing your pants the other day I've been contemplating this pattern and I think I'll make them as shorts. I really like the relaxed feel and the length you have made them is perfect. I'm impressed with your zip finish. No matter how many of these I do, they still aren't great.ReplyDelete
I like these shorts! Very nice job with these.ReplyDelete
Really cute and comfy looking. Have a great time on your holiday!ReplyDelete
Sue, you've done an amazing job on this collection... I am just waiting for my desktop computer to come home from the computer emergency room to print out the blue linen tunic pattern... I can't wait to make it in some very similar color linen.ReplyDelete
those shorts are very cool, like the detail.ReplyDelete
Very nice - love the look with the top (Sunshine top I guess?)!ReplyDelete
Sue, you've been sewing so much lately. I love these shorts and the pants you made form the same pattern earlier.ReplyDelete
I'd be proud of that zipper finish too! Well done.ReplyDelete
Perfect shorts and looking forward to seeing your Sunshine top.ReplyDelete
Love that cool, asymmetric fly detail. Great shorts!ReplyDelete


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The concept of general density of states (DOS) in devices is, by definition, spatially invariant. However, in the case of inhomogeneous materials or in quantum confined structures, the density of states can be resolved in space. This is known as local density of states, or LDOS.
The LDOS definition becomes particularly important in confined devices where quantum reflection causes spatial variation in the density of states. LDOS for a nanowire MOSFET is shown in this image. As the gate bias is increased, the confined energy levels are pushed down. The variation in density of states near the source is due to reflection from the potential barrier, and can also be seen.
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©1996 Timothy A. Smith
Franþois Couperin 1668-1733
Also known as "le Grand" to distinguish him from his larger family of musicians, Franþois Couperin became organist of Saint-Gervais in the year of Bach's birth and advanced to the royal chapel of Louis XIV in 1693, eight years later. In 1701 Couperin was promoted to chamber musician and music master to the royal family. While Couperin did compose
and other sacred music for voices, he bequeathed a superior repertory for the harpsichord; his
PiÞces de clavecin
(1713-30) and
L'art de toucher le clavecin
(1717) are monuments of harpsichord literature and technique. In 1802 Bach's first biographer,
, wrote: "Bach knew Couperin's works and valued them . . . because one can learn from them a neat and graceful keyboard technique."
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"Sell everything" or "buy now" or "head for gold" makes great headlines, but isn't great strategy for individual investors.
The reason isn't that the market observers are reading fluctuations and trends differently than individuals, using specific technical analysis or analyzing contrarily the fundamentals. Nor is it that the experts are always wrong, no matter how popular that sentiment might be.
The issue is that money managers run money, while individual investors run their own lives.
The experts you see, hear and read about live by the rules of an investment mandate and die if they can't keep up with the competition, while investors live with their decisions and modify their strategies because they can't afford to fall.
Thus, whenever you hear a market forecast and recommendation on what to do next, it pays to consider the differences between you and the guy making the recommendation.
Here are the key points to keep in mind:
You don't have to invest in accordance with a prospectus or a mandate. Money managers are expected to follow a mandate; a large-cap growth manager can't suddenly start buying small stocks in a fund, for example, and may not even be able to sell out and go to cash. An international manager can't buy domestic stocks — and a domestic manager can't load up on emerging or frontier markets — even if they believe some other part of the world is the best place to invest.
In short, you have options and solutions that work for individual investors with long-time horizons, but that don't jibe with newsletter editors, stock jockeys and pundits.
You don't have to impress anybody. Plenty of pundits and money managers work out of the public eye. The ones who are making the forecasts that sway you are gunning to make a name for themselves, or an impact.
In short, they have a reason for making a forecast, and while it might be as simple as "Someone asked for my opinion," that's more random than meaningful.
Don't be the investor who blows up a portfolio because a journalist somewhere found a colorful guy to quote on deadline on a day when the market was swinging wildly.
Their mistakes are forgotten or ignored by the time yours show up. Plenty of experts have had their minutes or months of fame, thanks to a heady prediction or savvy forecast. But when the financial media is busy responding to a 24-hour news cycle, today's prediction or recommendation will soon be forgotten.
Just think back to the Brexit vote, when a bunch of economists and market observers said things would get ugly fast in Europe. Instead, the market took a knee-jerk quick slide down — just enough for some of those pundits to claim they were right — before jumping off to new highs.
Those experts are making new predictions, but any investor who followed them and got conservative and nervous at just the wrong time is only now starting to feel the pain of a bad call.
They are worried about days; you are worried about years. Money managers make their money based on what is happening now. If they can't do right by their clients this week, month, quarter or year, they will start losing those clients fast.
Institutional investors have a notoriously short fuse; when you worry about your big clients bailing out on you because you are not keeping pace with some other guy, it encourages riskier behavior where managers take chances to set themselves apart from the competition.
Days are long for money managers, the problem for individuals is that years are short, and making short-term moves tends to derail long-term strategies.
They're managing other people's money. In an ideal world, market strategists and fund managers would have their interests — and their money — aligned with yours.
But when they make statements to the media about strategy and tactics, they're not giving away the details of their personal portfolio.
In May, I chatted with Russell Napier, author of "Anatomy of the Bear: Lessons from Wall Street's Four Great Bottoms," who was predicting a fifth bottom to come, in fairly short order. While noting parallels between the current market and 1929 — though he was not calling for an event of that magnitude — Napier made it clear that he wasn't abandoning equities despite his dark visions of the future.
He always keeps a portion of his portfolio in equities, he explained, "because I could be wrong." (See related column here)
Most forecasts don't come with that sort of disclaimer, but individual investors almost always should hold back from extreme actions, because the potential for a bad call by the expert is so high.
You are managing your money. That means your sense of loss is greater and more personal, and it means your risk tolerance may not be aligned with the guy who is saying "buy emerging markets now" or "lock in your profits on U.S. equities."
They key thing to remember is that the experts' conviction that they are making the correct call is irrelevant compared to your faith that their observation, advice or action is the right thing to do in order to protect and grow your portfolio.
No matter how unwavering their beliefs are about what they think investors should do or what's going to happen next in the market, you are the one living with the outcome. So trust, but verify, and diversify too — even if that means going against your beliefs to an extent, the way Napier did — because if the people whose judgment you rely on is wrong, you're the one who will pay the price.


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TALLADEGA — Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s initial reaction to another runner-up finish is a smile and the feeling that second's not so bad.
TALLADEGA — Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s initial reaction to another runner-up finish is a smile and the feeling that second's not so bad.
The what-ifs don't really play through his mind until later, when he ponders everything he might have done differently to finish that one tantalizing spot higher.
Earnhardt had to settle for his fourth second-place finish this year Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway when Jamie McMurray captured the victory in a race finished under caution after a last-lap crash.
"I'm not going to complain too much because I'm driving some of the best cars in the garage, and got some of the best engines," Earnhardt said. "Being at a place like that, it really means a lot.
"It's frustrating because the worst part about it really is you go home and you'll spend months thinking about what you could have done to not be second. That's the worst part about it. Actually, the process of it happening and doing it isn't that bad. I'm kind of happy with being competitive, and it was a good result — until you'll go back and think of the million things you could have tried different."
If the fan favorite had a final maneuver to get him past McMurray, he never got to make it.
The result was another close call. Earnhardt has won a personal-best five times at Talladega, including a string of four straight that ended in the spring of 2003. He won again the following year but now his drought at the huge tri-oval has reached 18 races.
Having led laps at 25 of his 28 career starts at Talladega is small comfort. So are the four second-place finishes.
Earnhardt figures his No. 88 Chevrolet has been strong enough to win recent races. He's been second in two of the last five races with four top-10s.
"Man, I'm going to tell you, looking at our runs since Chicago, this is the best my car's been all year," he said. "I've had some of the best cars the last five races that I've had all season. They say they're not doing anything different, but they sure are running really good.
"I think we're right around the corner from winning one of these races, and we're just going to keep trying."
This time he felt his car was strong enough to hang around up front, a strategy he's watched Matt Kenseth successfully pull off in restrictor plate races. Earnhardt led 36 laps, second only to new points leader Jimmie Johnson's 47.
He's tried running in the back of the pack and hoping to avoid the seemingly inevitable trouble with drivers squeezing three- and four-wide across the track, only to find himself stuck. And maybe eventually wrecked.
"We always end up packed up behind that mess and then we find our way into the last-lap wreck," Earnhardt said. "The car was pretty good in practice and I felt like if I could get up there in front, that seems to be working for Matt. He's been doing really well this year on plate tracks, and he's always toward the front and never has to worry about working his way toward the front on that last pit stop. We were good enough today to do that.
"In the past, I've tried to do it and made the wrong move and found myself in back any way. I was really strong today."


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Victor Nickerson knocked down two go-ahead free throws with 1:16 left and Charlotte held on to beat Massachusetts 66-65 on Saturday.
A free throw by Willie Clayton pushed the 49ers lead to three points with 33 seconds remaining. Massachusetts cut the deficit to one point with 15 seconds left on Chaz Williams' layup.
The Minutemen had an opportunity to pull ahead after two missed free throws by Nickerson, but they could not come away with the victory after a turnover by Williams with 4 seconds to play.
Nickerson scored 12 points and Ivan Benkovic added 10 for Charlotte (17-4, 5-2 Atlantic 10 Conference), which won despite shooting 39.7 percent from the floor (23 of 58).
Terrell Vinson scored 23 points for Massachusetts, which shot 49 percent from the floor (25 of 51). But the Minutemen had 19 turnovers and shot 37.5 percent from the free throw line (6 of 16).


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A former Catholic schoolgirl, Alastair Anders has been writing erotica ever since he was in plaid skirts and knee socks. His short fiction is also forthcoming in the Sci-Fi issue of SALACIOUS, a queer feminist sex magazine. Alastair lives in Brooklyn with his girlfriend, and he is working on an erotic graphic novel.


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Honeymoon over for inconsistent Jets, fans in Winnipeg
The honeymoon is over for the Winnipeg Jets and their fans.
Tickets, once hard to come by, are now readily available. Those who do attend have booed their 16-18-5 team for inconsistent play that has the club sitting near the bottom of its new, tough Central Division.
Armchair general managers call for roster changes to the transplanted ex-Atlanta Thrashers team, while well-liked coach Claude Noel has had his job security questioned.
Players are fed up, too.
"It's what you do out on the ice. You can blow smoke as much as you want in the media," right-winger Blake Wheeler told reporters after the Jets lost a sixth straight game at home Dec. 14.
"We've been blowing smoke for three years — everyone, myself. Everyone that's stood in front of a microphone for the last three years, we've said the same (expletive)."
When the Jets were resurrected in 2011, fans enthusiastically embraced the return of the NHL after a 15-year absence. Thirteen thousand season tickets with a minimum three-year commitment were snapped up, and unlucky fans paid $50 to join a wait list.
The team was loudly cheered by 15,000 grateful admirers at home games and even received a standing ovation when the inaugural season ended with an overtime loss and no playoff berth.
After last season's NHL lockout ended, fans were just happy to head back to the rink, and their adoration continued despite another campaign without postseason action.
But in this third season, cracks are starting to show.
When the home winless streak finally ended with a 5-2 victory over Florida on Dec. 20, there was relief, but no fist pumping as the team headed out on the road for what wound up as losses to Vancouver and Edmonton before a three-day Christmas holiday.
Before boarding the plane for the road trip, Wheeler was asked if he senses the marriage with fans is hitting rocky times.
"I think the expectations have risen every year," he said. "We took a step last year, and we just missed the playoffs. I think a lot of us felt we were a playoff team. And now, I think this is the best group we've had since we've been here, so I think the expectations have risen pretty linearly since we've been here.
"(The scrutiny) comes with the territory. It's a market that cares about the product on the ice, and they're very passionate. They're very enthusiastic when you're winning and very enthusiastic when you're losing — it's just a different kind."
Defenseman Zach Bogosian got a different view of fans when he recently missed 15 games with a groin injury. Did he feel the difference while sitting in the press box?
"It's a touchy subject," Bogosian said. "They're usually pretty loud, but sometimes if the team is not playing as well as we should, some people get unhappy."
Noel has known for a while that fans' expectations are growing.
"After the first year, we had that sense that they would like more performance and the honeymoon is over," he said. "We don't sit here and take our fan base for granted. They expect us to work, and they should, and perform."


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Updates to Kingdom LawTuesday, April 9th, 2013
Whoops, I have gotten a bit lax in posting. At 12th Night, changes to Kingdom Law, which include this office, were read into the record. The policy is pretty brief and straightforward: essentially, my role is to be a resource and an educator on all things relating to outside media.
I want to thank the many branches who contact me regularly with questions and updates. Remember, if you do get media coverage after an event, please send it on to me so I can keep the Society clipping files filled with the great deeds of An Tir.


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Hudson Technologies, Inc., a distributor and reclaimer of refrigerants as well as a provider of proprietary on-site decontamination services for large comfort and process cooling systems, has opened a new 60,000-square-foot warehouse and reclamation facility in Champaign, Ill.
The new facility complements Hudson's existing 50,000-square-foot facility and will increase the company's production capacity and processing efficiency for the reclamation of refrigerants.
Kevin J. Zugibe, chair and chief executive officer of Hudson Technologies commented, "Hudson is an established leader in the reclamation industry and to maintain and strengthen that leadership position, we needed to increase our reclamation capacity in preparation for what is estimated to be a nearly four-fold increase in the reclamation of HCFC refrigerants. The upcoming EPA phase out of HCFCs, now less than seven months away, will reduce the supply of new HCFC refrigerants by more than 60 percent from current levels. As a result, the EPA has estimated that as of January 1, 2010, the demand for HCFC refrigerants needed to service existing equipment will exceed the available supply of new HCFC refrigerants by approximately 20 percent. This 20 percent supply gap is expected to be filled by reclaimed and recycled refrigerant."


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- Overall Length:4.25"
- Blade Length:1.75"
- Blade Thickness:0.13"
- Blade Material:8Cr13MoV
- Hardness:58-59 RC
- Blade Style:Drop Point
- Blade Grind:Hollow
- Finish:Satin
- Edge Type:Plain
- Handle Length:2.50"
- Handle Material:Aluminum
- Color:Pink
- Frame/Liner:Stainless Steel
- Weight:1.90 oz.
- User:Right Hand
- Pocket Clip:Tip-Up
- Knife Type:Manual
- Opener:Thumb Hole
- Lock Type:Frame Lock
- Brand:CRKT
- Model:Shrimp
- Model Number:1183
- Designer:Gerry McGinnis
- Country of Origin:China
- Best Use:Everyday Carry
- Product Type:Knife
The category of "key chain knives" has been around for a long time. In most cases, these are little pen knives, with thin blades and slip joint pocket knife frames. Gerry McGinnis had a radically innovative idea, which is why this knife is in our catalog. He calls it the Shrimp.
The revolutionary idea is this: make a small knife with premium quality materials and big knife build. The Shrimp is not a toy, but a real sport and work knife. The only difference is that it has a 1.75" blade and a 2.5" handle.
Take the blade, for example. It is made of premium 8Cr13MoV stainless steel in a high satin finish. Although short, it is fully featured, with a modified drop point shape with recurve. It is high hollow ground and has a slight swedge on the top edge. It is opened by a large CNC-milled nail notch. There are aggressive friction grooves on the spine for the thumb. But most impressively, the blade is a full 0.125" (3.2 mm) thick, a width common on much larger folders.
The Shrimp has a frame-lock build, eliminating the need for separate liners. The right side frame is 3Cr13 stainless steel on all models. The left frame is 6061anodized aluminum on the colored models, and stainless steel on the bead-blast model 1181. The left frame is skeletonized to save weight. To aid grip, there are two finger choils and the frame has a rounded contour.
The combination of thick blade, solid frame lock and large blade pivot means that this is one shrimp that doesn't wiggle! But there's more to the story. Just like our larger knives, the Shrimp has a removable stainless steel pocket clip in bead-blast finish. Torx® fasteners are used throughout. There are Teflon® bushings at the blade pivot. And there's a small key chain loop that folds out of the frame. And finally, we've added a back spacer of moonglow plastic that glows in the dark, so you can quickly find your Shrimp at night.
The Shrimp has been value-priced so anyone can afford one as a key chain knife, a money clip knife, a first knife, or a gift knife. And please remember, the name Shrimp is not intended as an insult, but as a term of endearment for a tough little guy.


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What Is HIV?
August 2, 2015
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What Is HIV?
HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.
Your immune system is your body's defense system. While many viruses can be controlled by the immune system, HIV targets and infects the same immune system cells that are supposed to protect us from germs and illnesses. These cells are a type of white blood cell called CD4 cells (sometimes called T-cells).
Without medication to control the virus, in most cases, HIV takes over CD4 cells and turns them into factories that produce thousands of copies of the virus. As the virus makes copies, it damages or kills the CD4 cells, weakening the immune system. This is how HIV causes AIDS.
What Is AIDS?
AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. AIDS is the most advanced stage of HIV infection.
HIV causes AIDS by attacking CD4 cells, which the immune system uses to protect the body from disease. When the immune system loses too many CD4 cells, you are less able to fight off infection and can develop serious, often deadly, infections. These are called opportunistic infections (OIs).
When someone dies of AIDS, it is usually OIs or other long-term effects of HIV that cause death. AIDS refers to the weakened state of the body's immune system that can no longer stop OIs.
What Is the Difference Between HIV and AIDS?
The definition of AIDS was established before there was effective treatment for HIV. It indicated that a person was at higher risk for illness or death. It is no longer as relevant because effective treatment means people can stay healthier with low CD4 counts, and someone could have received the AIDS diagnosis years ago even though they are not at higher risk of illness. You do not have AIDS as soon as you are infected with HIV. You can live with HIV (be HIV+) for many years with no signs of disease, or only mild-to-moderate symptoms. People living with HIV and taking HIV drugs as prescribed have a very low risk of progressing to AIDS. But without treatment, HIV will eventually wear down the immune system in most people to the point that they have low numbers of CD4 cells and develop OIs.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identifies someone as having AIDS if she or he is living with HIV and has one or both of these conditions:
People with AIDS can rebuild their immune system with the help of HIV drugs and live a long healthy life. Even if your CD4 cell count goes back above 200 or an OI is successfully treated, you will still have a diagnosis of AIDS. This does not necessarily mean you are sick or will get sick in the future. It is just the way the public health system counts the number of people who have had advanced HIV disease.
How Do I Know if I Have HIV?
Most people cannot tell that they have been exposed or infected. Initial symptoms of HIV infection may show up within two to four weeks of exposure to HIV, and can include:
Some people do not notice the symptoms because they are mild, or people think they have a cold or the flu. After the 'flu-like' symptoms that often accompany initial infection, people living with HIV can go years without showing any symptoms. The only way to know for sure if you are infected is to take an HIV test.
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20 Things You Didn't Know About Thanksgiving
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Thanksgiving is incomplete without equal parts gratitude, history and food coma.
Certain legends have morphed into fiction and the origins of the meal itself can become as opaque as a tasty bowl of mashed potatoes. If you've ever wondered how Thanksgiving came to be or who established its date, you're in luck. We've rounded up some perfect tidbits to slip into Thanksgiving dinner conversation.
Check out the slideshow above for 20 things you didn't know about Thanksgiving.
How 'Top Chef' Winner Richard Blais Lost 60 Pounds
A Day in the Life of the World's Busiest Airport
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Jeffery needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 102 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
Touchstone Roped Series (TRS)
We own 5 indoor rock climbing gyms in the San Francisco Bay Area. We run a series of climbing competitions that are free to our members. These competitions are held on a Friday night, once a month and once at each of the five locations. In January we will start the fourth season of the Touchstone Roped Series, also know as the TRS. We currently are finishing up our 5th season of Touchstone Bouldering Series, the TBS.
Here is the website for the 2008 season:
Here are photos from many of our past comps.
These t-shirts will be given out free to participants. We give out about a thousand of these. Participants range from age 7 to 70, both male and female. They are (obviously) rock climbers so they are athletic and very fitness minded.
We are looking for a t-shirt with a logo on the front and a larger design on the back. The logo on the front will be used on the website and the design on the back may also be used on the competition program. In the past we have loved designs that incorporated each individual gym logo. You can find .ai files of each of our 5 gym logos and the corporate logo here:
The dates for the comps are still being finalized, but they should be:
January 22: Sacramento Pipeworks
Feb 19th: Great Western Power Co. (G.W.P.C.): Oakland
March 19: Berkeley Ironworks
April 16: Diablo Rock Gym: Concord
May 14: Mission Cliffs: San Francisco
Designs must be no more than 3 colors, as they will be printed on t-shirts, and must be in print file format - .ai
Here are some ideas of what we've done in the past:


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MIAMI — Florida's high school graduation rate is among the lowest in the nation.
A report released Monday at the Building a GradNation Summit in Washington found Florida's 75 percent graduation rate is about five percentage points lower than the nationwide average.
Across the U.S., about 80 percent of high school students graduate, a new milestone.
The report was based on U.S. Department of Education statistics from 2012. Researchers say the nationwide progress means the national graduation rate could reach 90 percent by 2020.
Florida is tied with four others states for having the fifth lowest graduation rate. Six other states have graduation rates that are even lower.
While toward the bottom of the chart, Florida has been making progress. About 60 percent of students graduated in 2006, 15 points lower.


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Longtime football coach Tom Porter dies
January 24, 2013
Professor Emeritus of Physical Education Tom Porter '51, a highly regarded coach who led the St. Olaf football team for more than three decades, died January 24 at the age of 83.
Porter, a member of the St. Olaf Athletics Hall of Fame, was the head football coach from 1958 to 1990. During that time, he led the Oles to eight conference championships and the school's only trip to the NCAA playoffs.
He co-authored a book, The Greatest Game: Football at St. Olaf College 1893-2003, with Bob Phelps, and the fieldhouse adjacent to Manitou Field was named Tom Porter Hall in his honor.
Aside from his football duties, Porter coached baseball, track, and hockey during his tenure at St. Olaf. Read more about his career and impact on the campus community at St. Olaf Athletics.
A celebration of Porter's life will be held Tuesday, January 29, at 2 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church in Northfield. Visitation will be Monday, January 28, from 3 to 7 p.m. in the Black and Gold Ballroom in Buntrock Commons at St. Olaf. Visitation will continue at the church on Tuesday one hour prior to the service.
Read Porter's obituary.


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"EGO" Xcode Theme for Xcode 4 + EGOv2Shaun, Feb 4
Almost two years ago now, we posted our Xcode theme, "EGO". It's been significantly more popular than I ever thought, we've seen a lot tweets about, we've seen it in screen casts, and it even made an appearance in the product launch video for robotcat's Outside app. There's no real metric for these things, but it seems to be one of the more popular third party Xcode things (we're number one in Google!).
So, with the GM release of Xcode 4, we've gone ahead and ported our original EGO theme to the new Xcode 4 file format.
We're also posting a alternative version of EGO, EGOv2. It's based on EGO but has some key differences: New background color, new comment colors, themed console, and other minor tweaks and slight HSB adjustments. Here's a comparison:
Original EGO Theme
New EGOv2 Theme
To install the themes, run the following blocks of code in Terminal:
Original EGO
mkdir -p ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemes; cd ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemes; curl -O http://developers.enormego.com/assets/egotheme/EGO.dvtcolortheme
New EGOv2
mkdir -p ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemes; cd ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemes; curl -O http://developers.enormego.com/assets/egotheme/EGOv2.dvtcolortheme
Now just restart Xcode, go to Preferences > Fonts & Colors, and select "EGO" or "EGOv2" from the color theme drop down.
Note: Both themes now use Menlo Bold 13pt. This might not be for everyone, but I've found it much easier on the eyes and the bold seems to render nicer than regular, to me. Feel free to change!


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Hodgson wary of Pirlo threat to England
England manager Roy Hodgson is worried about the impact midfielder Andrea Pirlo could have when his side face Italy at the FIFA World Cup.
Even at 34, Pirlo is enjoying a strong campaign with Serie A leaders Juventus, who look set for a third straight league title.
The playmaker may play a key role in Italy's Group D opener against England in Manaus on June 14.
"We have respect for everyone but if I have to give a name, I say Pirlo," Hodgson told Mediaset.
"In the last 10 years, he has made Italy play. I had him three months at Inter and he has had an incredible career."
Playing in the Amazon is one of many challenges facing teams in Brazil, with the hot and humid conditions expected to favour the South American sides.
But Hodgson believes there is no advantage for any team, hoping his players will be prepared for the conditions.
"We will do like any other team that will play in Manaus, which has a special climate," he said.
"We are doing everything possible to prepare the players in order to deal with these conditions.
"It's not the best situation for us but neither for Italy. I don't think right now this even represents an advantage for any South American side."


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The 48" Weston Vertical Propane Smoker (Stainless Steel Door) comes with porcelain water bowl, smoking box, chrome-plated cooking racks, and sausage hooks. Make your own smoked sausage, jerky, charcuterie products, roasts, fish and more! Propane fueled, for outdoor use.
- Fully adjustable propane fuel delivery system
- 9,000 BTU/hour
- Features door clamps to keep the cabinet sealed tightly
- Over 8 1/2 square feet of smoking space from six racks
- Can be used virtually anywhere in the great outdoors - no electrical power source needed!
- Stainless steel door
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- 3 adjustable dampers help maintain the internal temperature and smoke quality
- External temperature gauge accurately displays the internal temperature of the smoker
- Heavy duty carrying handles
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- Large porcelain-coated water pan
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- 48" unit comes with six chrome-plated 14 ½" x 14 ½" cooking racks
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"Back in 2009, brothers-in-law Michael Caspar and Jason Berry purchased Pragotrade, USA, a company that manufactured and distributed food processing products. Now Weston® Products, we're on the Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Companies list.
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Virgo's Shadow and Gifts
With August's solar journey, the sign of Leo and its planetary ruler, the Sun, are reflected in the gravity of our individual ego-structures and in the powerful radiance of self-expression. When we act, there are effects in the ripples of creation around us.
In Virgo, the earthy sign after Leo, the effects of our self-expression are observable in a way that we can more objectively see. We then define things. We categorize things. We assess things. We analyze ourselves and others. We compare and contrast. We conceptualize perfection and measure ourselves and others against our personal standard. Quite often this looks like judgment. And in this process, the mind easily goes down the path of idolizing or slandering. Let's not kid ourselves. It can look ugly—whether it is aimed at others or ourselves, and whether we express it or hold it inside to knock around in our minds.
Taken to a higher level of expression, with Virgo we have the possibility of self-improvement. We can cultivate objective observation and the self-discipline that allows us to develop and evolve ourselves. With Virgo, we can remove the rose-colored glasses of ego-fantasy about ourselves and others. We begin to refine the personality and the identity, when we tune into the Virgo vibration and recognize our own flaws. In less judgmental language, we begin to recognize ways that we get in our own way and undermine ourselves.
If we understand that this process of action, awareness and refinement is in play for everyone else as well, we begin to develop compassion and acceptance for others' flaws. We begin allowing them their own processes, and their own speeds of self-development and refinement. We come to accept them all as they are, because we understand that everyone is on their own personal journey of "ripening." With Virgo, the ultimate endpoint is purity of intent and action, and a sense of purpose to our existence which helps us keep up with life's realities, however mundane they may sometimes seem. We begin to move beyond judgment and apply the wisdom of acceptance that can see the Divine gift of hukam (Spirit's Will), accepting that what is manifesting for each of us is what we need for our own growth and evolution, and that it is all divinely arranged.
In this age of Kali Yug, our psyches are so tied to the density of ego identifications. Fear is high, and we unconsciously respond to that fear with comparison, complaint, and competition. We get into the game of "attack and defend." If we loosen the reins and let the fearful ego-mind take over, we go down a heavy road fast, and our identities get way out of whack. Only self-awareness and purposeful self-control of the mind will keep us centered and rerouting our orientation to our True Identity. Let us not "bear false witness" about anyone's identity. We must keep remembering, remembering, remembering Who We all Are, and be vigilant to stop thinking anything less about any of us.
JapJi – 35th Pauri
In my August 2013 article, I wrote about the 34th Pauri of the Sikh prayer called JapJi. In that Pauri, Guru Nanak speaks of the purpose and process of evolving our self-identity. He says, "The Earth was established as a place where Spirit could evolve into a conscious awareness of Itself, protected." And the process is that "there are actions upon actions and we reflect on what we do." 1
The next step of JapJi, the 35th Pauri, speaks to the heart of the Virgo vibration. Again, I reference a beautiful translation by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa 1:
In the Realm of Dharma,
Of Spiritual Law,
We come to understand
How to awaken ourselves
To ourselves.
In the Realm of Wisdom,
We speak
Of how everything
Gets accomplished.
There are so many
Winds, waters and fires.
So many
Creative forces.
So many
That the Creator
Is crafting,
Clothing the Spirit
In Form and Color.
So many actions
Done in so many
Lands and places.
So many places
That are not even
Known to us.
All for learning
What You want us
To learn.
So many Heavens,
Moons and Suns.
So many Galaxies
With so many peoples.
So many joined
In Union with Thee.
So many wise ones
And masters.
So many
Robed goddesses.
So many gods
And demons.
So many persons of Honor.
So many jewels of Spiritual instruction
In so many Oceans of Existences.
So many ways
Of thinking about things.
So many words
That come from Thee.
So many rulers
Of Spiritual Nobility.
So many
Living attuned to Thee,
So many of Your servants.
Nanak, even Your limits are beyond limits.
The words and vibration of this Pauri penetrate into the heart of Virgo vibration.
"We come to understand how to awaken ourselves to ourselves. In the Realm of Wisdom, we speak of how everything gets accomplished." Virgo has the capacity to discern what needs improvement, determine how to go about self-mastery and skill development, and apply the self-discipline to do it. In the 35th Pauri, these faculties are called forth in us.
This Pauri then unfolds, evoking a sense of wonder at the vastness and variety of forms and learning throughout all of Creation. It has an expansive, mind-opening effect that pokes at Virgo's shadow side of perfectionism, and stimulates one of Virgo's greatest gifts: humility. There is even a vibe of praise for how amazing all of Creation is. Subtly, this Pauri can stimulate a healthy Virgo realization that whatever our ego is attached to, whatever it thinks is known and true, there is way more than that. It encourages humility and the realization that each of us can only deal with our own roles and responsibilities and path in this life. It is up to each of us to tend to our own part in the overall scheme of things. Again, we are at once both humbled to "get over ourselves, our pride and our egotism," while being spurred to move beyond ourselves and make our lives count for something meaningful… to find something that is our contribution to the whole. Virgo paves the way for ego-transcendence… making the ego-structure healthy and functional in hopefully a productive, non-destructive way.
Through the stimulus of Virgo energy, we begin to expand our awareness beyond our own self-referential, egocentric filters. We gradually forego our subjective perceptions and ideas. We begin to develop the conscious choice of objective observation and interpretation. We cultivate the appetite for self-discipline, in thinking and in action. We begin to see that there are myriad ways of looking at things, and we expand our paradigm to accept the perfection in diversity. We understand that though we may not relate to another's ways and choices, they are part of that person's divinely designed path to evolution. We grow to understand that there is not one cookie-cutter path of life that everyone should follow. And in this acceptance, we understand that we are free from the tyranny of what others think our path should be. This freedom gives us self-possession to find our own path/work, and the reality-check that since we are the only ones who can walk our path, we'd better get on with it. That regular awareness enables Virgo self-discipline.
If we integrate the evolutionary growth Virgo calls for, we move beyond our egocentrism in a way that prepares us for building healthy relationships with others around us, because we can see beyond our own noses and navels, beyond our own righteous ideas that we otherwise project onto others. We cease expecting that others should go into orbit around us, buying into and conforming to our beliefs and desires, expectations and needs. We understand that each soul is a Sun, drawing what it needs into orbit around itself… which means that we are all Suns in charge of our own sphere of life, and should not be dominated or dictated to or "shoulded upon" by anyone else. With Virgo, we face the steady pressure to overcome the limitations of ego-identification, and we pave the way for the further development with the signs that follow.
Self-Sensitivity on Virgo Themes
In our year of Jupiter traversing the sign of Cancer (June 2013 into July of 2014), we are developing self-sensitivity—the ability to tune into what we are creating and magnetizing with our vibration, born of our thoughts and emotions and our dominant paradigm. With the vibrations of Virgo stimulating us this month, I invite you to practice this Virgo discernment: Observe your energy, your feeling tone…
The first approach builds negative ego that blocks awareness of God within. The second reinforces your own connection to God within, and transcends the urge to ignore God within others.
I wish you happy, long experiences of internal objectivity and acceptance. Have a blessed month!
What You Can Do
In the vast body of Kundalini Yoga meditations, there are so, so many that are helpful for different facets of things. Here are several suggestions to consider for this month:
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1 JapJi Sahib: The Song of the Soul by Guru Nanak, Translated by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa. Espanola, NM, 2005.
2 Kundalini Research Institute, The Aquarian Teacher. Espanola, NM: 2003.
3 Yogi Bhajan, PhD. The Mind: Its Projections and Multiple Facets. Espanola, NM: 1998.
4 Kundalini Research Institute. Praana, Praanee, Praanayam. Espanola, NM: 2006.
5 Sundar Gutka, Singh Sahib Sant Singh Khalsa. Tucson, AZ.
© Himat Kaur Khalsa, EvolveWithAstrology.com
Dharam Khand Kaa Ayho Dharam
Gi-ann Khand Kaa Aakhaho Karam
Kaytay Pavan Paanee Vaisantar
Kaytay Kaan Mahays
Kaytay Barmay Ghaarat Gharee-a-eh
Roop Rang Kay Vays
Kaytee-aa Karam Bhoomee Mayr Kaytay
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Kaytay Mandal Days
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Kaytay Dayvee Vays
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Washington, D.C. -- The International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC) today announced the publication of a new set of evidence-based guidelines meant to optimize entry into and retention in HIV care and adherence to HIV treatment. The "Guidelines for Improving Entry into and Retention in Care and Antiretroviral Adherence for Persons with HIV" were developed by an expert IAPAC Panel and e-published today by the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The guidelines include recommendations in several key areas, including: entry into and retention in care; monitoring adherence to HIV care and antiretroviral therapy (ART); interventions to improve ART adherence including those involving choice of ART regimens; adherence tools for patients; education and counseling; and health system and service delivery interventions. The needs of special populations (such as pregnant women, individuals with mental health and substance use disorders, homeless and marginally housed individuals, incarcerated individuals, and children and adolescents) are also addressed in the guidelines, as are recommendations for future research in these areas.
"Over the last 15 years, we have made astounding progress in HIV treatment, resulting in longer and healthier lives for people living with HIV. Yet many people are unable to optimally benefit from these advances because of delayed diagnosis and multiple challenges to entering and staying in medical care," said Melanie A. Thompson, MD, co-chair of the IAPAC Panel. "Once receiving potent treatment for HIV, many struggle to take their drugs consistently. Unfortunately, missed doses and drug holidays lead to resistant virus and, often, to treatment failure. Ultimately, both individual and public health depend on helping patients to successfully negotiate all of the steps of this treatment cascade."
In addition, a review of 84 observational studies -- or 33,199 adults on ART -- revealed that only 62 percent achieved adherence of at least 90 percent of prescribed ART doses.3 Adherence to ART has been shown to be an important predictor of achieving adequate suppression of HIV replication, which is required to minimize resistance to HIV treatments, slow disease progression, delay AIDS-related death, and decrease the transmission of HIV to others.
"These guidelines are the foundation of an evolving blueprint that practitioners and health systems can use as a resource to improve entry into and retention in HIV care as well as adherence to HIV treatments," said Thompson, who is also Principal Investigator of the AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta. The Panel co-chair is Jean B. Nachega, MD, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University/Stellenbosch University, Baltimore, MD, USA, and Cape Town, South Africa, respectively.
"IAPAC is proud of the work advanced by our Panel in developing these pioneering guidelines, which we hope will help strengthen the three pillars of HIV treatment success -- entry into and retention in care, as well as ART adherence," said José M. Zuniga, PhD, MPH, IAPAC's President. "We have known for some time that much more attention is required to optimize the way in which HIV-positive patients are linked to and retained on HIV treatment so that they derive the full benefit of existing care, treatment, and support. These guidelines are an important step in that direction."
Zuniga further identified some immediate steps IAPAC is taking to implement the guidelines' recommendations. In the next several months, IAPAC will launch a multidisciplinary continuing education-accredited online activity to educate physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and psychologists about the guidelines' recommendations. Peer educator and patient-oriented activities to increase health and HIV literacy, and to facilitate guidelines-recommended behavioral interventions are also planned.
Guidelines development was jointly sponsored by IAPAC and the US National Institutes of Health's Office of AIDS Research.
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Quote Sheet: Sunil Gulati, April Heinrichs and Jill Ellis Discuss New Positions
U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati
On the announcement of April Heinrichs and Jill Ellis being named to full-time positions with U.S. Soccer:
"Obviously, I'm very pleased that April and Jill have joined our efforts on a full time basis. As the press release outlines, they'll be responsible in leading the overall technical program and technical development on the women's side of the game. April is the technical director and Jill working with her as the development director. It's possible that in the short to medium term they'll also be involved in coaching one of our age group youth competition teams, in particular the U-17 and U-20 teams. Those decisions will be made shortly and with their input and involvement but that's something certainly that we're considering depending on time constraints and so on. These appointments aren't a direct reaction to any particular results of the last year or anything else whether it was our Under-17 or Under-20's or the Women's National Team not qualifying directly for the World Cup, but really just a recommitment to the Women's National Team and girls' player development side. It's an ongoing challenge and that's what these appointments have everything to do with. I think we have two highly skilled, highly experienced, certainly motivated from talking to them, individuals, and we're looking forward to having them get to work and helping us continue to develop girls and women's players in the best possible ways. The last comment I will make is Pia Sundhage obviously continues to coach our national team, the technical side of April's role isn't directly related to the Women's National Team or player selection or games or anything like that. There's kind of a dotted line, as is the norm in most countries around the world. While there is certainly coordination between the two, it's not a direct reporting role in either case. Pia is enthusiastic about these appointments so that is a huge plus and we certainly wouldn't have made them without her agreement and support, but it's not a direct reporting relationship."
On how Women's Professional Soccer is involved in the development process of U.S. Women's soccer:
"We've had some discussions with WPS. I think in the short term, because April is just coming on board, obviously the women's league is very much focused on the six teams, on the first team play and over time hopefully they can become more involved in some of the developmental programs. But in the short term, it's very much focused on first team play for those teams."
On how these appointments play into a possible U.S. Development Academy for girls:
"It's something we've looked at obviously and people have asked a lot about once we had the program on the boys' side. It's something we've discussed internally and with Jill and April and something I think they'll take the lead on now and looking to see if that's the best fit. We're still evaluating the results on the boys' side and the needs on the girls' side may or may not be the same. It may or may not be the best way forward, whether it's how we set it up, whether it's how many teams, all of those things. It's something to look at but at this point it's not something we've confirmed were going to do."
On how long the positions have been contemplated:
"In some ways, years, in the sense that we always wanted to try the right fit for a technical director, and more formally for several months in talking to candidates and talking to people. Part of it is that we now have new cycles of U-17 and U-20 competitions so we need to get teams on the field starting this January, but we've had people we've formally been talking with several candidates for several months."
On how much interaction and overlap there will be between the new positions:
"In a sense, I can't do that because part of what we're doing is bringing people on to lead the program and some of that will take place as they get involved and engaged in the job. It's not as if we have a structure of 20 slots and we can define what these two will be doing. These are new positions, as I mentioned earlier, they may well be involved in coaching one of the teams but we're going to leave that to April's discretion, working with Jill on putting all of the pieces on this chess board together in the best possible way going forward. There will be a lot of overlapping because they're going to be working together. If they end up coaching teams then there's obviously some overlap as players move from one to the other, but we're trying to look for a coordinated approach to player development, whether it's on the boys' side or the girls' side and April and Jill are going to be heading that effort up on the girls' side, so there will be a lot of overlap."
U.S. Soccer Technical Director for Women's National Teams April Heinrichs
On being named Technical Director for Women's National Teams:
"It's exciting for me and I know for Jill to jump into these new positions. It demonstrates a great commitment by U.S. Soccer on the future development of the women's game. I'm particularly looking forward to identifying the best and the brightest coaches, assistant coaches and staff members that we can find to be involved in our youth national team program and then start spending some time speaking with coaches and administrators in the soccer community and hearing what they have to say and extrapolating some of their great ideas and start to put some ideas together and collaborate with Jillian on her appointment and her vision for the program and put a 20 year vision plan in place and get to work. Thank you Sunil for entrusting myself with this role and I look forward to getting started."
On the perception that the world has caught up and, in some cases, overtaken the U.S. Women's soccer program over the last decade:
"In a lot of respects the U.S. sports teams, all of our women's sports teams, had a 50-yard head start in a 100-yard dash. Over the last 10, maybe 15 years, those other countries have spent time, energy and now their resources across all of our sports, including soccer. These countries have caught up and it's a matter of us now saying, 'Okay, where do we need to go now?' and I think that's what today's announcement is about. What do we need to do to develop players to be prepared to play at the international level because we're putting them on the international field at even younger and younger ages. It's important to be competitive at every age group and develop the technical skills so that they can implement the tactics and we can put more and more complete players on the field in all positions."
On her relationship with U.S. WNT head coach Pia Sundhage:
"First of all, I think she's the best coach we've ever had. She has a great way with players. She runs great training sessions. She really manages her emotions extremely well and I've been a big fan of the way she has gone about her soccer coaching here in America. Our paths have crossed all the way back into the late 1980s, when we were playing against each other. Then we lived in Italy, she played on one team and I played on another team, back probably when the video was black and white. Then we were both coaching youth national teams, her for Sweden and myself for the U.S. and we came across each other a couple tournaments. Then, when she came to America as the assistant coach of the Philadelphia WUSA team, I was the national team coach, so we would talk on occasion about players that she was coaching, her learning curve in America and some of the players that she thought highly of and so that's why she was a great selection for me when I was looking for a scout in 2004. I have tremendous respect and admiration. I love her personality, she has a big personality. She is exactly what America needed when we hired her."
On whether there is anyone part of Sundhage's coaching ability that stands out:
"She keeps it slow. She was a central midfielder so she uses her brain more than her speed. I couldn't say that I've even closely watched her coach the U.S. team in the last four or five years. I don't know if I've even been to one or two sessions, but I was around in Beijing when they were preparing for the final. She just was a great leader, with confidence and I think going into the game against Brazil in the final, there was the usual relaxed mode at the training center in Beijing but she was particularly relaxed and confident, she knew she had the U.S. team on her side of the bench. I think that's one of the most amazing victories, the one in 2008, and she led that team into the gold medal game and to the gold medal. I can't say that I would have any criticism."
On how much interaction and overlap there will be between the new positions:
"One of the things that I liked when the structure was presented to me is that it was presented to me as a team. We've got Jill, myself, Jim Moorhouse, U.S. Soccer all working together along with the soccer community, ECNL, ODP, US Youth, all working together to assemble some new initiatives and initiatives that have been great for many years, to polish them up and continue to develop players. One of the most attractive things about the way that they articulated the structure is that we'll work together as a team, collaboratively."
On the American philosophy to player development and where it is heading:
"In the press release, the word 'philosophy' is a good place to start right now, for all of us to get together on the phone at U.S. Soccer to start shaping what the philosophy is and where we're going to go, to assemble it and then over a time, as much as we're enthusiastic and excited to hit the ground running tomorrow, I do a little bit of assessment to see where we are and then establish that philosophy and then start putting in initiatives and putting in layer after layer after layer in place so that we can positively impact the game."
On the current structure of the U.S. Women's National Team program:
"I think clearly we have a structure in place that is a massive pipeline, a massive pyramid. We have the Women's National Team program at the top of the pyramid, we have the women's professional league right under that and then our youth national teams and their structure. We have under that some of our club initiatives and the university system and then the grassroots program. So we have a structure, each of those layers of the pyramid have a philosophy in place. It would take me days to even articulate what those philosophies are. But I think even with the national team program, we've had structure that's been layered on and on and on over the last eight to 10 years, we've added a U-15 team, we've added a U-14 team. Now as we create a philosophy for this new era, we work with Pia and Jill and myself and Jim Moorhouse at U.S. Soccer, peak over to what the men are doing, peak over to what some of the other countries are doing and I think we really need to articulate what that new philosophy will be so that if it's coming from us we can articulate it and start to spread that word. We can get more and more people involved and more and more people invested in it.
U.S. Soccer Development Director for Women's National Teams Jill Ellis
On being named Development Director for U.S. Women's National Teams:
"I'm truly honored to take this position. It's a great opportunity, I recognize that. It's on the cutting edge of moving this game and the women's game which I care so passionately about, forward. Like April, I'm looking forward to working with the soccer community and forging relationships and really getting an encompassing feeling of where we want to take this game and our continuing development of our game as we move forward into a new era. I'm just thrilled to be a part of it and looking forward to hitting the ground running."
On how the new philosophies will incorporate the technical aspects of the game into the current system which focuses on the physical aspects:
"We certainly have a lot of technical players in our midst, but now marrying that with a style of play that highlights that is going to be the challenge. As April has alluded to, it's establishing a philosophy of how we want to play and how we want to develop players, it's not simply identification. It really is development. We have tremendous athletes in this country and that begs the question, 'Why can't we have tremendous athletes that are tremendous technical players?' That is ultimately what you're trying to establish in developing players. I think there's a place for everybody. I certainly have, in my college years and my selection of players for the national team, have picked players that play the game and understand the game and there has to be a certain variety of the types of players on the field and we can't have everyone being a piano player, there has to be some piano carriers out there and I think that's our challenge and our charge is to try and find those players, find a style of play that really marries our strengths as a country. We have athletes and we have technical players but I think ultimately we realize that we do need to further our development, technically, and that's going to be a big push for us."
On the decision to leave her position as head women's soccer coach at UCLA and her replacement B.J. Snow:
"Obviously, it was a difficult decision because this has been my home, but honestly the excitement in my discussions with Sunil and Dan and Jim has superseded what I have here. I feel like I've established the program here and I'm definitely ready for a new challenge and there's no greater entity than to go and work for your federation and spearhead this opportunity. For me, I'm definitely ready for a new challenge, I'm excited. I've got a lot of fond memories and friends here but I'm really, really excited about the future opportunities and I believe I'm ready for this. I'm ready to do something different. Today's announcement about the hiring of B.J. obviously makes me happy. He's a tremendous guy, tremendous coach and obviously there's a seamless transition so I'm thrilled for our department and for our players."


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Kyrgios pulls off incredible Wimbledon win
Australian teenager Nick Kyrgios has staged the performance of his life, mounting an incredible comeback to upset French 13th seed Richard Gasquet in a Wimbledon classic.
Kyrgios, at 19 the youngest man in the draw, came from two sets down and saved nine match points over four successive games in the final set before clinching victory 3-6 6-7 (7-4) 6-4 7-5 10-8.
"It was an unbelievable match out there," Kyrgios said.
"It's definitely the biggest win of my career.
"I'm so proud of how I hung in and fought it out."
Kyrgios became the first Australian into the third round, with Lleyton Hewitt behind 7-5 4-4 against Polish 15th seed Jerzy Janowicz when their second round encounter was suspended until Friday due to rain.
No player has saved nine match points and gone on to win a grand slam match in a decade, while it hasn't happened at Wimbledon since 1966.
With nerves of steel - aided by a little luck and a vocal group of Australian supporters - Kyrgios answered every question asked of him in a high-quality final set with a string of aces and ferocious winners.
"I was just thinking about going through my routine (on the match points)," said Kyrgios, who blasted 21 aces.
"Just coming up with something, going after it, playing aggressive."
In reaching the third round of a grand slam for the first time, Kyrgios enhanced his reputation as one of the most exciting prospects in world tennis.
A beaten Gasquet joined a chorus of those tipping Kyrgios for big things.
"In the future he can be top five, he can win a grand slam of course," the Frenchman said.
Kyrgios, in his main draw debut at Wimbledon, will next face unseeded Czech Jiri Vesely, who upset French 24th seed Gael Monfils in five sets.
Ranked 144th in the world, Kyrgios earned a wildcard entry to the grass court grand slam after winning a Challenger event in Nottingham earlier this month.
After battling past unseeded Frenchman Stephane Robert in the first round he was given an outside chance against world No.14 Gasquet, runner-up at Eastbourne last week.
However he didn't find any real rhythm until the Frenchman had comfortably built a two-set lead.
Kyrgios kept his composure and gave himself hope by clinching a crucial break and serving out the third set.
Both men served well in the fourth set before Kyrgios found himself two points from defeat, at 0-30 trailing 5-4 before digging his way out of trouble.
He then broke in the next game with massive backhand winner before going on to level the match.
The final set was on serve until Kyrgios looked set to concede the match softly when he was behind 0-40 on serve at 5-4 down.
He rattled off a series of great serves to save three straight match points and it proved a sign of things to come.
Two games later, Kyrgios fended off another three match points, including one in which he had been called for a double fault, only for a Hawkeye challenge to pay off by a matter of millimetres.
The pattern continued for several games and the Australian's refusal to give in finally took its toll when Gasquet surrendered serve to love.
Finally given his chance, Kyrgios didn't waste it, holding to love to seal a potentially career-defining victory.
"It's a massive stepping stone for me to finally reach the third round of a grand slam," said Kyrgios, who hit 86 winners and 44 unforced errors.
"Especially to come back from two-sets-to-love down.
"It can be a building bridge for more things to come."
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A new Beta version of the Kuler web app is available now. And the good news is that it includes the top three features requested by our users.
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Extract color themes from an image
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Just click the camera icon in the upper right corner of the Create page and choose a photo from your library.
Color wheel available in two sizes
You now have the flexibility to use a large or small color wheel as required. With a click, you can make the wheel larger when you need it and smaller when you don't.
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To enable you to see more of each color and the play and interaction between them, the borders around individual colors in a theme have been reduced.
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In Victoria, Australia anyone 18-years-old and under are banned from tanning salons. Owners must display health warnings or face fines up to $1 million. Since the law in Victoria came into effect in 2008, the "number of outlets offering the service has plummeted by 67% from 436 to 143 salons." Now the New South Wales government is announcing plans for a total ban on tanning salons by the end of 2014. With businesses closing and losing customers they are unloading their used tanning beds onto online shopping websites like Craigslist, Ebay and Amazon. This sets up a dangerous scenario where people can buy their own personal tanning bed with a click of a button and could lead to more cases of skin cancer as people tan without supervision.
"Some of these beds are worth $15,000 to $20,000 and I've seen some online being sold for $500 or less. This is very powerful equipment and these commercial machines can do some damage if you don't follow the rules. You're going to get idiots who will use them all day and burn themselves silly," Mr. Konemann (former head of the Australian Solarium Association) says.
Let's estimate how many tanning beds are going out into the public market. If 293 salons have closed and each of those salons carried at least 10 tanning beds (maximum)–that would be 2930 tanning beds available for sell and private in-home use! I searched Ebay and ironically enough through the search terms "Health and Beauty" I found tanning beds. There was even a seller starting the bidding at $50, with the most expensive being around $6000. Amazon and Craigslist had similar findings. I can't seem to shake the amount of used tanning beds that are being sold to people for private use. With even more to be available as tanning salons go out-of-business…
What are we going to do with thousands of tanning beds?? Is it the governments responsibility?
Professor of public health at the University of Sydney Simon Chapman says, "It would be a public service for (state) governments to just buy them at that low market price and destroy them. Another option would be to outlaw the selling of them."
Not only are there used tanning beds for sale online, but there are many websites that sell brand new ones too. Just like tanning salons these online retailers provide a lot of misinformation. I found the selling points sleazy, deceptive and astonishing. There was one sentence in particular that said, "If anything goes wrong with your new tanning bed you can rely on our customer service department to resolve any issue." I wonder if they can resolve skin cancer, melanoma or the loss of a loved one as a result of tanning bed use? I doubt it.
Some other ridiculous sugar-coated (BS) points made by an online tanning bed retailer:
- "Tanning is a natural biochemical process that actually helps to protect our bodies from harmful amounts of UV light. The FDA simply wants to make sure the tanning process doesn't cause problems it is designed to prevent."
- "Tanning is a natural biochemical process that actually helps protect our skin from damaging ultraviolet rays from the sun. Indoor tanning is a controlled environment and therefore much better than lying out in the sun."
- "In your skin, you have specialized cells called melanocytes. When exposed to UVB, these pigment cells absorb the light. As the light is absorbed, it stimulates these cells to emit a substance called melanin. This melanin is a clear oily substance that seeps to the surface of the skin. Once at the surface of the skin, this melanin helps block the UVB light, and keeps it from penetrating as well. That's why, at the beginning of summer, you can get sunburn by working outside for just a half an hour, and by the end of the summer you can stay out all day. A lot of melanin has moved to the surface of your skin to protect it."
- "UVA light is at the weakest end of the UV spectrum. UVA is not a penetrating type of light. However, it does cause a chemical reaction in the melanin which completes the UV protection. When melanin is exposed to UVA it oxidizes. When melanin oxidizes it turns brown. So, what we see as a tan is really melanin on the surface of the skin that has been oxidized by UVA."
Just to clarify the above bullets are sugar-coated misinformation used to sell tanning beds. Tanning is a natural biochemical process that is a result of skin damage. A tan is caused when there is injury to the skin's DNA from over exposure to UV rays. The skin darkens in an attempt to prevent further DNA damage. Another correction is that UVA is definitely a penetrating ray. It penetrates deeper than UVB rays (that cause reddening and sunburn) and is the dominate tanning ray that causes premature skin aging and wrinkling. The only truth spoken about tanning beds is that they emit more UVA rays which could be the reason why frequent tanning bed users are more likely to be diagnosed with squamous and basal cell carcinoma.
We know that UV rays are the primary environmental etiologic risk factor for skin cancer. That is the truth!
Join the discussion on our Facebook page. I would love to hear what you think about the surplus of unwanted tanning beds. Should the governement control the sell of them. Should we destroy them? Do you think they could end up in landfills, and if so what would be the effect of that?


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Iran continues to insist its secretive nuclear program is peaceful in nature, and Western leaders remain eager to at least partially take Tehran at its word in order to avoid a military conflict. But an interview with the wife of a slain Iranian nuclear scientist further suggested that the international community is sticking its head in the sand, to the detriment of Israel.
Speaking to Iran's Fars News Agency, Fatemeh Bolouri Kashani, the wife of recently assassinated nuclear scientist, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan Behdast, said her husband's "ultimate goal was the annihilation of Israel."
Roshan was a director and lead chemist at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, one of the most important facilities in Iran's nuclear program, and perhaps the most important if Iran is planning building atomic bombs.
Iranian officials and media have accused Israel's Mossad spy agency of being behind the car bomb that killed Roshan as he drove to work last month. Israeli President Shimon Peres denied that his nation was involved.
On Wednesday, Israeli army chief Gen. Benny Gantz reiterated that a nuclear-armed Iran poses an unacceptable existential threat to the Jewish state. And Balouri Kashani's revelation of what her husband was working toward is only the latest vindication of the Israeli assessment.
A document recently published by the chief strategist of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Alireza Forghani, argued that "in the name of Allah, Iran must attack Israel by 2014. All our troubles are due to Israel!"
Khamenei and especially Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have repeatedly referred to Israel as a cancer that must be removed from the Middle East.
Despite this evidence to the contrary, Israel's critics continue to accuse the Jewish state of manipulating the situation for the sake of starting what they call another pointless war.
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Netflix has been aggressively pushing to obtain rights to high-quality content to accompany its original programming. Last week it acquired NBC drama "The Blacklist" for $2 million per episode. And, similar to the "Gotham" deal, Netflix will air the "Breaking Bad" prequel "Better Call Saul" when it finishes its run on AMC.
"Gotham" delves into the origin stories of Batman and other characters from the DC comic book series such as Commissioner Gordon, Catwoman, the Riddler and the Penguin. The cast features Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, Jada Pinkett Smith and Sean Pertwee.
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