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Creamy Blue (Bleu) Cheese Dressing
Total Time
Prep 10 mins
Cook 0 mins
This recipe (adapted from the Joy of Cooking) is one of my favorite blue cheese dressing recipes.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1⁄2 cup sour cream
- 1⁄4 cup finely chopped fresh parsley
- 1 -2 tablespoon fresh lemon juice (OR red wine vinegar)
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 6 dashes Worcestershire sauce
- salt
- fresh ground pepper
- 2 -3 dashes Tabasco sauce
- 4 ounces blue cheese
- Process all ingredients except blue cheese in food processor until smooth.
- Empty ingredients into bowl and mix in blue cheese. (You can also process the blue cheese in the food processor, but I like my dressing chunky.).
- Taste and adjust seasonings.
- Cover and refrigerate.
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By enjoying hot apple cider by a campfire, browsing a silent auction, sharing a meal with friends and dancing to music by a local band, those who attend the second annual Blue Jean Ball will be assisting Fairmont State University students.
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Ryan wrote
> As a follow-up to my question about reblooming MDBs, (this may seem
>like a stupid question to ask but...) what other developments are there to
>be made in that field (i.e. color, form, hardiness, diploid-to-tetraploid,
This is a great question, one close to my own heart. First of all, this is
wide open field. There are not many hybridizers of MDBs, and most of them
don't have planned breeding programs, but just take advantage of
opportunities as they appear.
Virtually all the MDBs are tetraploids, but several different kinds of
tetraploids are present. Understanding this is the key to planning a
successful breeding program.
First, there are MDBs that are pure Iris pumila. This diminutive species is
in the background of most MDBs, SDBs, and IBs today. It is unbranched,
typically 3 to 4 inches tall, and very early blooming. There aren't too
many pure pumilas available on the market now. With effort, I've been able
to build a collection of less than a dozen. These are 32-chromosomes
tetraploids. I use the notation PPPP to represent their four sets of pumila
chromosomes. These are generally fertile, especially amongst themselves,
although I find the vagaries of early spring weather often foil my attempts
to hybridize on them, and they are so small that their tiny pods don't hold
the massive quantities of seed you may be used to with TBs. Pumilas require
lots of winter cold to survive and bloom well. Examples: Baby Tiger, Daring
Eyes, Buzz Bee.
Next, there are the MDBs that have the same chromosome breakdown as the
SDBs: two sets of pumila chromosomes and two sets of tall bearded
chromosomes, PPTT, for a total count of 40. Most of these are "unplanned"
products of SDB breeding, which just happen to be small enough to fall in
the MDB class. MDB pinks and plicatas are essentially all in this category.
They are the most adaptable MDBs for warm climates and tend to bloom late
in the MDB season. These are also quite fertile, and obviously breed easily
with the SDBs. The problem, of course, is that since these are basically
small SDBs, they tend to produce seedlings that are too large for the MDB
class. Examples: Ditto, Fairy Lore, Knick-Knack.
Finally, there are MDBs that come from SDB x pumila crosses. They end up
with three sets of pumila chromosomes and one set of TB chromosomes: PPPT,
or 36 chromosomes altogether. They are less fertile than the other two
types, but in many ways they combine the best of both parent types: lots of
different color patterns, reasonable performance in various climates, and
reliably small size. They would be ideal for a breeding program, were it
not for their limited fertility. Examples: Crocus, Zipper, Alpine Lake.
[Knowing which MDBs are in which category usually requires some pedigree
research. I have a fairly complete list of 32-chromosome pumilas, and I'm
working on a list of 40-chromosome MDBs. They may end up on my web site
some day.]
I think the future of the class lies with the 40-chromosome group. Unlike
the 36-chromosome group, they have enough fertility to make long-term
breeding plans possible. Unlike I. pumila, they have the added advantage of
color patterns from the TBs and growability in mild climates. The challenge
is to develop a line that produces reliably small plants, rather than 75%
or more SDB-sized seedlings. Ben Hager worked on this for many years, with
significant (but slow) progress. Ben believes (and I agree) that the key to
keeping the 40-chromosome group small is using I.aphylla-based medians,
rather than TBs, in their breeding. In other words, instead of starting
with typical SDBs (which are bred from TB x pumila crosses), use tet MTB x
pumila crosses to start the line. Even doing this (Libation is an example),
Hager found most seedlings are too large for the MDB class.
I think there is now more potential than ever in this line, because the tet
MTBs that have been derived from I. aphylla are improving in quality and
becoming daintier. (The Craigs have already introduced two 48-chromosome
SDBs from these lines.) Using the newest, smallest tetraploid medians with
I. pumila should improve the chances of establishing a line of reliably
small 40-chromosome MDBs. I've made crosses to this end, but am still
waiting to see if they lead to anything good.
So here's the short version:
What needs to be done? Develop MDBs with
- more different color patterns
- more modern form (eliminate tucking and increase width)
- better adaptability to both mild and cold climates
- consistent small size and daintiness
- reliable fertility for line breeding
How to do it?
- start with the current 40-chromosome MDBs (mostly from Ben Hager, but
there are others too)
- get some I. pumila MDBs and cross them with the smallest, newest
48-chromosome medians, such as the tet MTBs
- line breed the Hager MDBs (and possibly some of the daintiest SDBs) with
the pumila/median hybrids, always selecting for small size and modern form
Persisting in the plan for three or four generations should produce a good,
working line of 40-chromosome MDBs, distinct from Hager's but crossable
with it. Such outcrosses can then be made judiciously to enhance vigor and
bring in new desirable characteristics.
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Nuts. Very good for you, according to a brand new study, which found that eating them regularly reduces the risk of a heart attack by as much as 11%, probably thanks to their high proportion of monounsaturated fatty acids. This applies to most kinds of nuts, including walnuts, cashews, brazil nuts and peanuts, even though peanuts are not, strictly speaking, nuts. Of course the beneficial effect is mitigated if your daily portion of peanuts comes encased in a Snickers bar.
Wine. Also good, says professor Alan Crozier of Glasgow University, claiming that two or three glasses of red wine a day will protect arteries. Three glasses is, of course, also the upper recommended safe daily limit for women, while two glasses is still, for many of us, nothing like enough. "High alcohol intakes have been linked to a number of cancers," says Lisa Miles of the British Nutrition Foundation.
Chocolate. This contains flavonoids, which may lower the risk of heart attacks by thinning the blood. However, says Miles, "any potential benefits should be considered carefully as chocolate, and products containing it, often contain relatively high amounts of fat and sugar". And it rots your teeth. Still, a little chocolate from time to time can't hurt you. Unless you're a dog.
Margarine. Long sold as a healthy, if unworthy, butter substitute, margarine can contain trans fatty acids produced by the hydrogenation of vegetable oils. And trans fatty acids, as everybody knows, are the newest hate-fat. Apparently it's not such a big deal in this case, however. "Efforts have been made in the UK to reduce or even remove trans fatty acids from margarine and spreads," says Miles.
Eggs. Once hailed for their mineral and protein content, and then vilified for their cholesterol content. Now, it seems, we're back where we started: "Although eggs contain cholesterol it is now known that cholesterol from our diet has little influence on blood cholesterol concentrations in healthy individuals," says Miles. So there you have it: eat as many eggs as you like, just don't eat them raw.
Fried Coke. There is little hard nutritional information on Fried Coke, only recently unveiled at the Texas state fair. It consists of Coca-Cola-flavoured, deep-fried batter, covered in Coke syrup, sugar and whipped cream. It sounds as if someone invented the most unhealthy snack imaginable, and then accidentally tipped his drink into it. But let's not be judgmental: it may turn out to be a cure for something.
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Dill Stroganoff
|Ground beef
|1 Pound
|Parmesan cheese
|1 , grated
|1 Cup (16 tbs), chopped
|1 Cup (16 tbs), sliced (fresh)
|1 Clove (5 gm), minced
|Snipped parsley
|2 Tablespoon
|Dried dill weed
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Beef broth
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Sour cream
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Whole wheat flour
|1 Tablespoon
|Cooked rice
|4⁄5 Cup (12.8 tbs)
In a large skillet, cook beef, onion, mushrooms, and garlic until meat is browned and vegetables are tender.
Drain off fat.
Stir in parsley, dill weed, salt, a dash of pepper, beef broth, and catsup.
Cover, and simmer 10 minutes.
Blend together the sour cream and flour; stir into beef mixture.
Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly.
Serve over hot cooked rice.
Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size
Calories 389 Calories from Fat 260
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 29 g44.9%
Saturated Fat 12.6 g63%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 76.4 mg25.5%
Sodium 575.2 mg24%
Total Carbohydrates 16 g5.5%
Dietary Fiber 1.3 g5.1%
Sugars 5.1 g
Protein 18 g35.5%
Vitamin A 15.6% Vitamin C 18.8%
Calcium 12.6% Iron 11.1%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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When bug 545955 landed it had completely broken the mac build. We found this to be due to the inclusion of textbox.css into extraCustomizeItems.xul, which NeilAway pointed out may be a bad thing as that's designed to be included in xbl files anyway (unless he was talking about the content version).
In any case, removing it fixed the mac issues, but broke the icons and text on the global search bar on Windows and Linux (i.e. broke = not displayed). As this seemed the better of two evils, we've left the textbox.css removed from the file for now and this bug is for fixing up the search icon and text.
Created attachment 440736 [details]
screenshot of Linux behaviour
Yeah, I added that to get the search icon to show up. The autocomplete widget lacks such niceties, and I wanted to keep search.xml as simple as possible, so I added the button back in extraCustomizeItems.xml instead of in the XBL content for search.xml. My assumption was that accordingly the styling had to come from the document since it would not be part of the anonymous sub-content, but maybe the XBL CSS will affect the children? We also can move stuff back into search.xml...
I pushed a bustage-fix for this, testing the patch on all 3 platforms first:
Can you attach the patch also to this bug, so that other people can review it, and include the necessary changes also in their themes?
Created attachment 442008 [details] [diff] [review]
Use gtk-find for gnomestripe
Same as bug 525971.
Comment on attachment 442008 [details] [diff] [review]
Use gtk-find for gnomestripe
Thx for the patch. r=mkmelin
(Would have been better to put the patch in a follow-up bug though)
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Thank you for reviewing and a comment.
I'll do so next time I found a bug which is a follow-up one.
Could you add "checkin-needed" to keywords?
I have no permission to check in.
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> (In reply to comment #6)
> Thank you for reviewing and a comment.
> I'll do so next time I found a bug which is a follow-up one.
> Could you add "checkin-needed" to keywords?
> I have no permission to check in.
No, we're going to need to move this to a follow-up bug. As this bug is already marked fixed for beta 2 and we've already shipped that. Otherwise we're not going to be easily able to track this getting fixed.
As you didn't know about that, I'll file a follow-up bug and transfer the patch there in a few mins.
I'll file new bug for comment #5 shortly.
(In reply to comment #9)
File as bug 563647.
I think this method is gone in comm-central (See Bug Bug 547224).
I got this error.
-- Exception object --
+ message (string) 'this._updateVisibleText is not a function'
+ fileName (string) 'chrome://messenger/content/search.xml'
+ lineNumber (number) 140
+ stack (string) '()@chrome://messenger/content/search.xml:140
+ name (string) 'TypeError'
-- Stack Trace --
(In reply to comment #11)
> _updateVisibleText()?
> I think this method is gone in comm-central (See Bug Bug 547224).
Yes, this is gone from mozilla-central and so affects comm-central but not comm-1.9.2. Please file a new bug for it if it does not already exist.


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According to 10 TV in Columbus, Ohio State senior running back Carlos Hyde won't face charges for a bar assault that happened almost two weeks ago.
BREAKING UPDATE: Columbus Police Say Ohio State's Hyde Will Not Face Charges - http://t.co/6k6k3diBi7— 10TV.com (@10TV) July 30, 2013
Doug Lesmerises of the Plain Dealer reports the victim does not want to press charges. Because she chose not to press charges, the case has been closed.
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text: By Jim StoutMaxPreps.com CHATHAM, Mass. --- John Schiffner will be the first to tell you: Managers don't win games in the fabled Cape Cod Baseball League. Players and recruiters do. But Schiffner, the long-time coach at Plainfield High School in eastern Connecticut, has won another compelling contest over the years in becoming the most successful manager in Cape Cod baseball history - that of being a high school coach while simultaneously commanding the respect of the nation's college elite. With the Chatham A's 10-1 win over Bourne last Thursday, Schiffner became the winningest manager in Cape history, gaining his 335th career victory in 15 seasons and surpassing the 334 wins of former Wareham Gateman skipper Don Reed. The next night, win No. 336 for Schiffner clinched a tie for yet another playoff berth for the venerable Chatham franchise, one that employed Schiffner for eight years as an assistant coach before turning over to him the managerial position in 1993. How good has Chatham been historically? One of the managing legends Schiffner recently passed in his quest for win 335 was his former boss with the A's, Ed Lyons, who won 331 career games and from whom Schiffner learned much of his craft at this level. Being one of the most successful high school coaches in Connecticut history hasn't hurt Schiffner, either. Two seasons ago, he became one of a half dozen coaches in state annals to top the 400-win plateau for his career, which now spans 29 seasons and 420 wins at Plainfield. "I'd been an assistant (at Chatham) before becoming a manager, so the credibility aspect of it wasn't really a factor," said Schiffner, who last week signed a new three-year contact with Chatham, one that will carry him through the 2010 season. "The kids in this league here want to be coached, but they want to play, too, so you let them play and they're going to respect you more for that. You coach when you have to coach. And if you know baseball, they're going to listen because they want to get better. My high school record was very good, too, so guys basically just said `hey, the guy knows what he's talking about.' It's not a hard game to coach." Keeping the game fun and simple and adhering to tradition have been the keys to success for Schiffner, who teaches history at Plainfield when he's not living it. So, too, has the task of keeping egos out of the way. Not only does Schiffner strive to make players the focal point of his CCBL flagship franchise, he prides his managing on the development of aspiring coaches and the designation of authority, similar to the way Lyons did when Schiffner was breaking into the business in the 1980s. "The thing I've always said is, people come to these games on Cape to see the kids play, not to watch me coach or manage," Schiffner said. "I always try to keep that in perspective. You also have to remember that being here, you have to have good contacts and be able to recruit. I didn't win 335 games because I'm a great coach. I won 335 games because I've had great players. "I've been blessed with 20 or so assistant coaches over the years that have been fabulous," he added. "Between the players and the assistants, no way I would have won 335 games without them. The coaches have made our kids better. And it gives them the opportunity to improve themselves in the coaching world and move on in the college or professional ranks. That's a thrill for me. I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. Then you get calls from college coaches saying, `hey, my kid improved this summer...he's so much better, what did you do?' I tell them, `I turned him over to my assistants.'" Over the course of the 2006 professional season, Schiffner had 38 former Chatham A's players in Major League baseball. All-star second baseman Brian Roberts of the Orioles was among those 38, as was Red Sox' third baseman Mike Lowell and Chatham's most recent ascendant to MLB, lefty pitching star and No. 6 overall pick in 2005, Andrew Miller of the Tigers. The Kansas Royals at one juncture had five ex A's on their roster in 2006. As much as he enjoys seeing his former players move up, Schiffner revels in the overall environment of the Cape League, both amid the players and managers. He also enjoyed the first-time thrill last season of a former Plainfield High player of his, Josh Terletzky, of Southern Connecticut State, making the Chatham roster. "Just watching the level of talent here has been fabulous," he said. "And coaching against some of these guys in this league has been special, guys like Scott Pickler, Billy Mosiello, Brad Kelly, Don Reed. Just to see guys like Nomar Garciaparra, Jason Veritek, Todd Helton, Brian Roberts and some of the others as college players is an experience like no other." Though Schiffner has spent his life working in baseball, there's been a hint of hockey influence in his career and life as well. While playing baseball as undergraduate at Providence College in the mid 1970s, he came in contact with a baseball assistant by the name of Lou Lamoriello, who was also the architect of the school's hockey dynasty at the time. Because Providence baseball and hockey players sometimes roomed and hung out together, Schiffner's college roommate turned out to be a hockey star, Ron Wilson. One of his best friends was another PC hockey player, Brian Burke. The rest is both hockey history and a lifetime worth of friendships. Lamoriello, once a baseball manager himself in the Cape League, has won three Stanley Cups as president and general manager of the New Jersey Devils. Wilson is coach of the San Jose Sharks and has also coached the Washington Capitals and Anaheim Ducks. Burke won his first Stanley Cup this past season as the GM at Anaheim. "I have a great deal of respect for Lou and the way he runs things and gets things done," Schiffner said. "He's always been way out front with everything he's accomplished, even back at Providence. Ronnie and Brian have been good friends for a long time now. They'll still call during the summer to see how we're doing and say, `hey, I have friend who's going to be on the Cape. Can you get him an A's hat or a shirt or something?'" Schiffner and Wilson also share in another little-known connection. Both were subjects in movies about their respective franchises, Wilson in Mighty Ducks and Schiffner in Summer Catch, the latter involving a romance between a girl visiting Chatham for the summer and an A's player. Brian Dennehy played Schiffner in the movie. "Ronnie still likes to kid me about which movie was better," Schiffner said. One thing can never be argued, though. The Cape Cod Baseball League has been made immeasurably better by the long-time presence of a high school history teacher and coach from Connecticut. "One of my only rules is, don't embarrass the game of baseball," Schiffner said. "Don't do something silly. Don't embarrass baseball, yourself or your team by throwing a helmet or a bat or acting up on the field or not hustling or getting thrown out of games a lot. That's when I will get angry. Just go out and play and play hard. This is a wonderful opportunity these players have to play this game at this level. I don't want them to screw it up." Under Schiffner, they seldom do. Jim Stout is the MaxPreps.com Regional Media Manager for the Northeast. He may be reached at 203-563-2297 or at email@example.com.


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A piece
of the Master of Heaven,
And in His image.
Her pale, parchment skin
And her smile, drawn up
meekly at the corners –
The picture of beauty,
In nature's eyes, in human eyes,
Though not in her own.
Perhaps she saw behind it.
What lies beneath skin and smile and bone?
Soul, spirit, mind, hatred
(In fact, not all of these lie)
Birth, bearing, life, death,
And paper, paper, paper—
Can lies be erased
With no tears to the page?
Perchance. But they stay
If not realized,
If not made to leave.
Like an old photograph,
Under the ink, she was only paper.
Which easily weakens under revolted tears.
Tears worn on perfect eyes
Turn to tears worn and torn through the page;
A masterpiece shredded, a sodden image,
Her smile lost,
Below the crusted salt, the bleeding dyes;
The bleeding dies
The picture fades
The page is blank
And old scraps are now buried.
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Increased Payments for Acute Care Hospitals
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Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
In the final rule for the FY 2012 IPPS, CMS finalized many of the policies for the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, which calls for payment reductions for certain hospitals that have excess readmissions for certain selected conditions for discharges on or after October 1, 2012. These conditions are acute myocardial infarction (or heart attack), heart failure, and pneumonia.
The proposed rule for FY 2013 addresses issues under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program that were not addressed in the FY 2012 final rule. The proposed rule sets forth a methodology and the payment adjustment factors that CMS would use to account for excess readmissions for these three conditions. Under the proposed rule, CMS would provide confidential reports to hospitals regarding their readmissions, and hospitals would have 30 days to review these reports and submit corrections.
Inclusion of Labor and Delivery Days in Disproportionate Share Hospital and Indirect Medical Education Adjustments
CMS proposes a change to the counting of beds for both the Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) and Indirect Medical Education (IME) adjustments. Over the years, CMS' position on whether labor and delivery days and beds should be counted for the DSH and IME adjustments has shifted. Under the proposed rule, CMS would include all labor and delivery beds and patient days in the count of available beds for both the DSH and IME calculations. This change could potentially enable some hospitals to meet the threshold for DSH payments, but could have the effect of decreasing IME payments for certain hospitals, because it would reduce the resident-to-bed ratio that determines the IME adjustment.
Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program
The proposed rule would reduce the number of quality measures under the hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program from 72 to 59. Although 17 measures would be removed, four measures would be added for the following: perinatal care; readmissions, including overall readmissions and readmissions relating to hip and knee replacement procedures; the use of surgery checklists designed to reduce errors; and a new survey measure to assess the quality of patient care transitions.
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The Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program, established by the Affordable Care Act, provides for value-based incentive payments to be made to hospitals that meet certain performance standards. Under the proposed rule, CMS would add several additional measures to VBP Program. One of these measures, the Medicare spending per beneficiary by the hospital, would affect payments beginning in FY 2015. This measure would include all Part A and Part B payments from three days prior to an inpatient hospital admission through 30 days post discharge, with certain exclusion. The proposed measure would be risk-adjusted to reflect the beneficiary's age and severity of illness.
The proposed rule also would have a new outcome measure for central-line-associated bloodstream infections. This measure is intended to reward hospitals for avoiding certain kinds of life-threatening blood infections that can develop during inpatient hospital stays.
The proposed rule also would implement an appeals process for certain VBP determinations. Under the proposed procedures, a hospital would have to submit a proposed corrections request and receive an adverse determination on that request before it could pursue an appeal. CMS explains that by requiring corrections requests it hopes to resolve many issues short of the hospital taking a formal appeal.
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Twenty-two priority countries have been identified by the WHO that account for 90% of pregnant women living with HIV. Nigeria is one of only 4 countries among the 22 with an HIV testing rate for pregnant women of less than 20%. Despite expansions of HIV prevention programs in Nigeria, only 14% of pregnant women were tested for HIV;while 9% of pregnant women living with HIV received WHO recommended antiretroviral (ARV) therapy;and only 11% of HIV-exposed infants received ARV prophylaxis for prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) resulting in an estimated 75,000 HIV-infected infants in 2010. Currently, most pregnant women must access a healthcare facility (HF) to be screened and receive available PMTCT interventions. This clinic-based approach is challenging when only 35% of pregnant women deliver in a HF and only 2.9% of HF have an established PMTCT program. Finding new approaches to translate evidence-based PMTCT programs to community-based setting is necessary if we are to realize the PEPFAR goal of 80% HIV screening rate among pregnant women by 2015. Nigeria is ranked #1 among 53 nations surveyed by Pew Center in church attendance. The availability of at least one faith-based institution in each community presents a unique opportunity to evaluate the effect of a congregation-based approach to HIV testing among pregnant women, and their male partners as well as completion of PMTCT interventions among HIV-infected pregnant women. Thus we propose a cluster randomized trial to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of a congregation-based Healthy Beginning Initiative delivered by lay health advisors (Intervention Group;IG), versus a clinic-based approach (Control Group;CG) on the HIV testing rate and PMTCT completion among 2700 pregnant women. Forty churches in South-east Nigeria will be randomly assigned (1:1) to either the IG or the CG. The Healthy Beginning Initiative combines a family educational game show and an integrated on-site laboratory testing delivered in the context of a baby shower. Monthly prayer sessions for pregnant women will be used for recruitment and baby receptions following infant baptisms will be used for follow up after delivery. The primary outcome is the difference in HIV testing rate between both groups. The secondary outcomes are the difference in HIV testing rate among male partners and PMTCT completion rate among HIV-infected pregnant women for both groups. Pregnant women will complete an investigator-administered questionnaire to collect information on HIV testing and PMTCT completion. Self-reported data will be confirmed with on-site testing data and HF. This proposal is a collaboration among Partners for Prevention, Education, Training, Treatment and Research (PeTR-Global Solutions)/AIDSRelief (our PEPFAR-funded partner in Nigeria who will be responsible for training, HIV testing, linkage to treatment and local oversight of the project); New York University School of Medicine (program evaluation and shares oversight with PI), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno (provide overall oversight, data management and evaluation of program effectiveness).
Interventions targeted at increasing the rate of HIV testing among pregnant women and their male partners are urgently needed to address the epidemic of mother-to-child HIV transmission and its associated morbidity, mortality and societal costs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using a cluster randomized trial design among 2700 pregnant women followed in 40 churches in Nigeria, the goal of the proposed study is to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of a congregation-based versus clinic-based approach on HIV testing and PMTCT completion rates. Findings from this study will provide policy makers and funding agencies needed information on effective, sustainable community-based approaches to increase HIV testing among pregnant women and their male partners.
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Ceres: Sorry it has taken me so long to answer...I've just been lurking
the past couple of weeks mostly, trying to get caught up in the rest of
my life. WOW!!! I took a look at that website and was I ever
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Congratulations! Can't wait to see what you do on a national level...go
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For Melody and anyone who might be interested, I submitted a quilt entry
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fortune to win Best
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A/N: Just a oneshot/drabble I thought of while reading over some Draco/Ron pieces. Nothing too bad in this one, except slash and AU.
It was hard enough being trapped at the office on Christmas Eve. And now Draco had to deal with a Weasley. Sure, the animosity had supposedly faded. It had been nearly a decade since Voldemort fell. Draco had cut many ties with his family. He was a respectable member of the community. He was also two steps away from being a drunk, what with his highly addictive personality. Anything Draco liked, Draco ran with it. Sex, alcohol, and most recently, smoking. It calmed whatever nerves he had left.
And currently all Draco's nerves were strained. Ronald Weasley was babbling away with Harry Potter. It was almost like a Hogwarts flashback. Draco had to extinguish the urge to go over and snip some insult about Potter's lack of parents or Weasley's lack of everything. But those were the glory days. Draco sighed miserably. This wasn't even his department. He had no use for magical law. He was merely here to pick up a folder for his supervisor. Draco, technically, was also a supervisor. He still had connections despite his estranged family. Finally, Ron stopped his insistent chatter and came back to his desk.
"You'll be wanting those documents on Herbert Edgely's case, right?"
Merlin he was an idiot. Draco tapped his expensive dragon hide shoe loudly against the floor. "Yes, Weasley."
He must of said it with an attitude because the redheaded man's eyes narrowed. Oops.
"You are in my office Malfoy. I suggest you show some respect," his left eyebrow slowly cocked on his forehead.
Draco stared at him blankly. Weasley wasn't the scrawny little git he had been when they were in school. His arm muscles bulged in his white tight shirt sleeves. They seemed to be almost pulsating. His hair was still long but in a more groomed kind of way. Ron finally looked like a man. Draco's spine tingled slightly. He couldn't stop picturing how they might look together. They being Ron's arms and Draco's own slender hips. It was a shame he had such a feminine physique. But that was actually much revered by Draco's many partners.
"Hmm…respect. Are you going to force me to show you respect?" Draco almost purred. It was pathetic. He was forcing himself to hit on someone he knew was straight. Not to mention, a Weasley.
Ron looked completely confused. Internally, Draco sighed. The man was still a total brick. However, the idea of being made to do anything by him was still completely arousing. Even the redhead's pants looked snug around his massive thighs and obvious crotch bulge. Draco could almost picture himself stroking it before pulling the redhead's zipper down between his teeth. If only Ron knew the insane pleasure the blond could certainly bring him. Bet that bucktoothed know it all couldn't give him that.
"What?" Ron's head tipped slightly sideways.
It was almost cute. "Nothing, Weasley."
"Watch how you speak my name,"
"I'd love to say your name."
Ron blinked a few times. "Are you…?"
"Am I what…?" Draco gave the Auror a seductive look. Then he snatched the file out of his hands.
When Draco first began to smoke, he taught himself. Inhaling was always easy. Exhaling was the tricky bit. If you did it too fast, you started to choke and gag on the smoke. Suddenly the blond found out that method also implied while being so close to the burly redhead. He had to remember to breathe. It was certainly difficult, when the entire time all Draco could think about was shutting the door, clearing the desk, and yanking down his trousers. That would get Weasley's attention. Draco was conceited by nature and knew that he currently had an arse no one could resist. And if Ron was bothered by the fact that there was also some cock involved, then he could just fucking close his eyes.
Ron shook his head. Some of his hair brushed the crease of Draco's elbow.
Inhale, exhale.
"The files are all here?" Draco murmured.
The young Auror started to stretch. His torso moved beautifully under his tight white button down shirt.
Inhale, exhale. Don't think about getting fucked by someone you were born to despise.
"Yeah. Every last pointless detail. Don't know why Needlemen wants it."
Draco concentrated on digging his fingernails into the palm of his hand. "Private business."
Ron had finished stretching. Now he was unbuttoning his shirt. Just the first three buttons. Gods, did the man know the effect he was having on Draco? The blond almost winced as he breathed deeply. With all his strength, he managed to turn around and leave Ron's office without doing something he would later regret (yeah right). The redhead watched Draco exit and began to smirk. He wasn't as dumb as people thought. There were little movements one could do to drive someone over the edge. Ron pulled his jacket back on and leaned back in his chair. He was always so pleased to push Draco's buttons. They were insanely easy buttons to press, after all.
"Breathe, Draco." Ron spoke out loud, even though there was no one around to hear him.


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Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer follows the inner lives of characters confronted by unforeseen circumstances. Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, believes he understands the trajectory of his life, with the usual markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and, after surgery, prescribed treatment that will leave him radioactive-and for a period a danger to others-he begins to question, as Auden wrote, "what Authority gives / existence its surprise." As Paul recuperates in the garden of his childhood home, he enters an unthinkable existence and another kind of illumination-a process that will irrevocably change not only his life but the lives of his wife and parents. BACKCOVER: "More profound, more searching, more accomplished than what she was writing earlier in her long and distinguished career."
-Los Angeles Times
"Nadine Gordimer's work is endowed with an emotional genius so palpable one experiences it like a finger pressing steadily upon the prose."
-The Village Voice
"A timely novel and a provocative one: a novel to enjoy and ponder, as its characters all do, the dizzying complications inherent in human choice."
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"I will always be grateful for the presence in the world of Nadine Gordimer, who has delivered in literature a South Africa most of us could not have known without her."
-Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe
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The starting point is a very unusual, extreme situation: Paul, an otherwise healthy, active ecologist in his mid-thirties is diagnosed with thyroid cancer. He undergoes treatment, which, although effective, renders him radioactive and therefore potentially dangerous for those close to him. He decides to separate himself from his wife, Berenice, and his son, Nicky, and to stay in his parents' home, in maximum possible isolation. The forced solitude prompts Paul to think about his relations with people, to re-evaluate his marriage and to feel even more rooted in the world around him (although, paradoxically, also more alienated from it.
Paul's experience deeply affects his closest family - his parents, Lyndsay, a lawyer, and Adrian, a businessman with longings towards archeology, look into their past, and make unexpected decisions about their future. Berenice feels the change in Paul and the shift in their feelings to each other.
Paul's cancer experience changes not only his own life; it transforms the people around him. They seem at the same time more separate, distinct individual entities, and more connected to the network that is the world. As if their senses became sharper, more refined. Gordimer writes with clarity, analytically, looking a the characters from all angles; the novel has an omniscient narrator, and the universal becomes very personal. Despite the clear logic, the novel is not a breeze to read. It was a slow journey through the meandering words and I have to admit that sometimes I thought I'd give up. Luckily, always some breakthrough in the plot happened in these moments of doubt and this way I made it to the end. The multiplicity of weighty subjects (all kinds of interpersonal relations; post-Apartheid South Africa; nuclear energy and its impact on civilization, nature and medicine- to name a few; incidentally, nuclear fission is what becomes a kind of a bracket connecting everything here) together with complex, rich prose, made me pause often - there was just too much to think about and it was not possible to finish this novel at one sitting. But it was worth the effort.
I liked the dual meaning of the title: the colloquial exclamation encouraging to do something with your life; and the understanding of life; the first possible to accomplish with a little effort, the second - not at all.
Revolving around parents Adrian and Lyndsey, the book focuses upon their grown son's (Paul) thyroid cancer experience and what happens afterward. Sprinkled in the first half of the novel is Paul's wife, Benni, and some awkward narratives about Paul's sisters, who we really never get to know or understand with any clarity, let alone depth.
Paul is the Prince, and his survival of cancer is about his and the parent's perspective of his or their own "getting of a life." And then, the author ponders about life and what it means, etc. And, their remonstrance about the same.
Paul's parents are relatively successful, and admirable. His mother is not only a great lawyer, but one who inherits and prevails for the causes of what Americans would call "truth, justice and the American way." She is the advocate for minorities' causes. And she wins. But, what does this success mean? "Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold." Depressing enough?
While most believe that life is a gift to be cherished and thoroughly enjoyed, Gordimer explains that it is "[N]ot an epiphany, life moves more slowly and inexorably than any belief in that."
This novel can dampen the spirits beneath the brightest blue skies. I do not know if the author's remorse is caused by decades of witnessing and living within Apartheid, or if other causes -- including chemical imbalance -- delivers this writer to darker regions than most people experience in their worst moments. Although not attempting to be a noir novel, the author's perspective is without doubt just that. And, the delivery of family biography -- which is what this is -- in the dark tone of this author can be about as pleasant as a Swedish film festival. The art is there -- but excitation and hilarity are not.
Gordimer, a Nobel laureate, is one of those authors with her own style, own meter, own everything. She can be described as a herky jerky writer. The quotations are dashes. Words are often inverted at times to pick up the African dialect. In short, this is not the easiest reading. But, it is good writing.
Hence, I deliver a warning to the reader that this author should not be necessarily read when all else is happy and good. And, maybe when all else is not good and happy, this should not be read as there may be many tissues and sobs in store which are neither wanted nor sought.
Nadine Gordimer tackles large-scale themes of conservation and survival, death and compromise, through the vehicle of a privileged, white South African family navigating several crises. The first is the necessity of Paul Bannerman, a thirty-something ecologist, to be physically isolated due to radiation treatments for an aggressive form of thyroid cancer. His parents, Lyndsay and Adrian, take him in for several weeks, while his wife Benni and their son Nickie must settle for distant waves from outside the garden fence. During this unnatural time, Paul drifts back out to the garden of his childhood, and contemplates the tension between his own career as a conservationist and his wife's executive position at an advertising agency for firms that would pollute and degrade the very environments he fights to protect. Small wonder that when he returns home, old patterns fray and everyone treads lightly.
Although they do not fight, Paul bluntly rejects Benni's suggestion that they try to conceive another child, and the reader wonders whether or not the marriage can survive. But part two of the novel switches focus to the relationship of Paul's parents. It begins with 59-year-old Lyndsay's reminiscences of the affair she had while in her 40s. The affair lasted for four years, at the end of which she informed her husband Adrian that it had been, and that it was, over. At first jarring, this revelation gives meaning to later developments as Paul's retired father Adrian pursues his avocation of archeology in Mexico.
As usual with Gordimer, her symbols sparkle, functioning on many levels. A trip to a wildlife preserve to view a breeding pair of Black Eagles becomes a meditation on both beauty and the cruel realities of survival. "The first egg laid hatches and is followed about a week later by a second. The two chicks, known as Cain and Abel. The first-born, Cain has already grown when Abel comes out of his shell. Cain and Abel fight and generally Abel is killed by Cain and thrown from the nest." Later Paul thinks of this in relation to the dams he opposes, recognizing that the dams could end poverty for thousands of people. "And if Abel has to be thrown from the nest by Cain; isn't that for a greater survival. The eagle allows this to happen, its all-powerful wings cannot prevail against it."
Gordimer eschews quotation marks entirely, and question marks mostly, using dashes to set off dialogue. Careful reading is required at times to distinguish between the characters' internal thoughts and their spoken dialogue. She also is not hampered by conventional grammar. Sentences with no predicate clause abound, and reading this book is often like trying to listen to four conversations at once, about four different topics. This is how we think, and the technique serves to pull us closer in to the character's point of view, if we take the time to follow the threads.
The Kirkus review of this book refers to the "exfoliation" of the plot, and after I rolled my eyes, I looked up the word and found it an apt description. The plot really does come off in layers, and the reader must simply sign on for the ride and let the multiple meanings come through.
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Special Earth Day Feature. In the valleys of Appalachia, a battle is being fought over a mountain. It is a battle with severe consequences that affect every American, regardless of their social status, economic background or where they live. It is a battle that has taken many lives and continues to do so the longer it is waged. It is a battle over protecting our health and environment from the destructive power of Big Coal.
Nearing completion, China's massive Three Gorges Dam is altering the landscape and the lives of people living along the fabled Yangtze River. Countless ancient villages and historic locales will be submerged, and 2 million people will lose their homes and livelihoods. The Yu family desperately seeks a reprieve by sending their 16-year-old daughter to work in the cruise ship industry that has sprung up to give tourists a last glimpse of the legendary river valley.
In 2001, an irreverent, young, Harvard-educated Catholic priest arrived at Saint Patrick Parish in the former mill town of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Father Paul O'Brien soon discovered that trying to foster an inclusive community amidst the ethnic tensions of this working-class, multicultural parish would be no mean feat. Older parishioners were resentful of a new generation of immigrants; more idealistic parishioners were trying to reach out to those in need but facing cultural entanglements that grew more complicated with the passage of time.
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In the fourth IDG student profile, we meet fifth-year PhD student Deepak Lamba-Nieves as he reflects on his time at DUSP, his plans for the future and what it means to study international development within a city planning context.
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The School of Architecture + Planning at MIT announces a major new research initiative called the Center for Advanced Urbanism that will tackle planning, design, construction and retrofitting of urban environments for the 21st century.
To tap into creative design solutions and explore ways to spur development in a new downtown "Arena, Arts and Entertainment District," DUSP alum Jeff Fugate (SM/MCP, 2007), President and COO of the Lexington (KY) Downtown Development Authority, organized an international competition to design a new downtown park.
At a recent ceremony of at the Royal Overseas League in London, Professor Eran Ben-Joseph's book ReThinking a Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking was nominated for a National Urban Design Award as one of six top books in urban design from 2012.
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Five cities. Five taxicabs. A multitude of strangers in the night. Jim Jarmusch assembled an extraordinary international cast of actors (including Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Beatrice Dalle, and Roberto Benigni) for this hilarious quintet of tales of urban displacement and existential angst, spanning time zones, continents, and languages. Jarmusch's lovingly askew view of humanity from the passenger seat makes for one of his most charming and beloved films. 128 minutes.
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