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Gasoline poisoning
This article discusses the harmful effects from swallowing gasoline or breathing in its fumes.
This is for information only and not for use in the treatment or management of an actual poison exposure. If you have an exposure, you should call your local emergency number (such as 911) or the National Poison Control Center at 1-800-222-1222.
Poisonous Ingredient
The poisonous ingredients in gasoline are chemicals called hydrocarbons, which are substances that contain only hydrogen and carbon. Examples are benzene and methane.
Where Found
Note: This list may not be all-inclusive.
- Airways and lungs
- Breathing difficulty
- Throat swelling
- Eyes, ears, nose, and throat
- Pain
- Vision loss
- Gastrointestinal
- Abdominal pain
- Blood stools
- Burns of the esophagus (food pipe)
- Vomiting, possibly with blood
- Heart and blood
- Collapse
- Low blood pressure -- develops rapidly
- Nervous system
- Convulsions
- Depression
- Dizziness
- Drowsiness
- Feeling of being drunk (euphoria)
- Headache
- Loss of alertness
- Staggering
- Seizures
- Weakness
- Skin
- Burns
- Irritation
Home Care
Seek immediate medical help. Do NOT make a person throw up unless told to do so by poison control or a health care professional.
If the chemical is on the skin or in the eyes, flush with lots of water for at least 15 minutes.
If the chemical was swallowed, immediately give the person water or milk, unless instructed otherwise by a health care provider. Do NOT give water or milk if the patient is unconscious (has a decreased level of alertness).
If the person breathed in the poison, immediately move him or her to fresh air.
Before Calling Emergency
Determine the following information:
- The patient's age, weight, and condition
- The time the gasoline was swallowed
- The amount swallowed
Poison Control
The National Poison Control Center (1-800-222-1222) can be called from anywhere in the United States. This national hotline number will let you talk to experts in poisoning. They will give you further instructions.
This is a free and confidential service. All local poison control centers in the United States use this national number. You should call if you have any questions about poisoning or poison prevention. It does NOT need to be an emergency. You can call for any reason, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Take the container with you to the hospital, if possible.
See: Poison control center - emergency number
What to Expect at the Emergency Room
The health care provider will measure and monitor the patient's vital signs, including temperature, pulse, breathing rate, and blood pressure. Symptoms will be treated as appropriate. The patient may receive:
- Breathing tube
- Bronchoscopy -- camera down the throat to see burns in the airways and lungs
- Endoscopy -- camera through the mouth to see burns in the esophagus and stomach
- Fluids through a vein (IV)
- Oxygen
- Surgical removal of burned skin (skin debridement)
- Tube through the mouth into the stomach to wash out the stomach (gastric lavage)
- Washing of the skin (irrigation) -- perhaps every few hours for several days
Outlook (Prognosis)
How well a patient does depends on the amount of poison swallowed and how quickly treatment was received. The faster a patient gets medical help, the better the chance for recovery.
Swallowing gasoline may cause damage to the linings of the mouth, throat, esophagus (food pipe), stomach, and intestines. If gasoline gets into the lungs (aspiration), serious and possibly permanent lung damage can occur.
The harsh taste of gasoline makes it unlikely that large quantities will be swallowed. However, several cases of poisoning have occurred in persons trying to suck (siphon) gas from an automobile tank using a garden hose or other tube. This practice is extremely dangerous and not advised.
Dueñas-Laita A. Freon and other inhalants. In: Shannon MW, Borron SW, Burns MJ, eds. Haddad and Winchester's Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose. 4th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 95.
Mirkin DB. Benzene and related aromatic hydrocarbons. In: Shannon MW, Borron SW, Burns MJ, eds. Haddad and Winchester's Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose. 4th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 94.
Review Date: 2/28/2012
Reviewed By: Eric Perez, MD, St. Luke's / Roosevelt Hospital Center, NY, NY, and Pegasus Emergency Group (Meadowlands and Hunterdon Medical Centers), NJ. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.


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Cedar Mountain Mike Noel is famous for his low opinion of the federal government in general and its environmental programs in particular. The Republican state lawmaker from Kanab has called the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency unconstitutional and has enthusiastically joined the push to "take back" millions of acres of public lands controlled by the Interior Department. But in his full-time job as executive director of the Kane County Water Conservancy District, Noel is tireless in his efforts to tap funds flowing to the state from the very federal agencies that he has so frequently attacked. He has boasted, for instance, about raising $25 million from the U.S. Agriculture Department to help his district build water projects on southern Utah's Cedar Mountain in the past decade. He also has helped secure federal funding for archaeology and construction at another water-district project, the Jackson Flats Reservoir. The latest example » Noel has been the point man for building a new water system at a rustic, summertime-only subdivision on the dramatic cliffs above Zion National Park. Zion View Mountain Estates has been a poor man's vacation community, mostly for Las Vegans who were happy to own a patch of paradise without utilities or winter access but with lots of peace and privacy. This year, Noel has changed that by landing nearly $10 million in public funding to pay for an ambitious project to bring water to the hodgepodge of cabins, trailers and tent lots. And, someday, if the district's plans pan out, hundreds more homes could be built in the forests above the pink cliffs. The effort has prompted some to question whom exactly the project is intended to benefit real estate speculators or vacation homeowners in a pinch? And is it right for Noel to leverage his clout as a legislator to do it? Noel did not respond to about a half-dozen recent requests for comment. Last fall, though, he insisted he was looking out for the people he represents. "I'm trying to solve problems and fix it for people doesn't get me anything," said Noel, who earned $95,627 in salary and benefits from the district last year, according to utahsright.com. "I just said, 'Let's not take this piece of valuable property with 700 lots on it and turn it into zero assets for the people of Kane County.' " Cedar Mountain vacation properties including what Noel calls some "beautiful multimillion-dollar homes" at Zion View account for more than half of Kane County's tax revenue, Noel explained. Leaving their owners with dry cabins and lots they can't sell, can't insure and can't mortgage would lower property values and shift a heavier tax load to full-time county residents. "I truly believe," Noel persisted, "this will be an extreme burden on the whole county." 'I don't want a town' » The Zion View community has been at odds every time the water question has surfaced in the past three years. In the latest round, the water district sounded confident it would collect the additional commitments to ensure the minimum 250 water hookups needed to make the project financially feasible. Some Zion View owners are grateful for the project and Noel's advocacy of it. Their water-hauling-and-tanks system was condemned last summer by the Utah Division of Drinking Water, which carries out federal safe-drinking-water laws. And now the water district has promised to put in the water system, plus a power and phone backbone, to the subdivision 7 miles from State Route 14 and 4.2 miles up a dusty dirt road in the Dixie National Forest. "We're excited about it," said lot owner Chuck Eddy, who runs the current water system for the Zion View Mutual Water Co. "Economically, this is the best thing to do, to go with the water conservancy [district]." Water company Chairman Dick Murn said having Noel's district take over the water system is the best way to provide safe drinking water. He asked the district for help three years ago when contaminants showed up in water tests and a state crackdown seemed certain. "From a regulatory standpoint," said Murn, a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation employee from Boulder City, Nev., "we're on a clothesline and hanging out to dry fast." But critics often use words such as "coercion" when talking about the takeover. Property owner Ken Hall and others say no fancy water system is needed after all, they bought "dry" lots. "All of the sudden, they want to make it a town," said Hall, who filed an unsuccessful lawsuit over the water company's finances. "I don't want a town. I want to keep it rural, rustic." Under the conservancy district's current plan, lot owners would pay $9,500 for a hookup, hand over their water shares (or pay an additional $2,500) and commit to $25 a month for water service that they'll use only seasonally because the area is generally inaccessible October through May. Most owners are expected to finance their initial fee through the water district at 6 percent over 10 years, for a monthly bill of about $110. That wouldn't include the cost of the actual water, which would run $2 per 1,000 gallons. No one is being forced to sign up, the district notes, but those who don't will almost certainly have to pay more in the future. "In other words, they can shove it down your throat," said Hall, who owns four lots. "Government's out of control when they can do that to you." Hall and fellow resisters have failed to halt the project. The district already has cleared trees and widened roads, some of which wriggle through musky conifer forests like deer trails. And, though the district doesn't own the project until water starts flowing, it's close to getting special-use permits from the Forest Service for a 350,000-gallon storage tank and 20 miles of underground pipe. Work could begin by month's end. Public money » Noel's biggest accomplishment on the project's behalf is securing promises of $9.9 million in public money for it. Noel pressed two state panels in person and behind the scenes to land a sweet package: a $7 million, 30-year, zero-interest loan from the Permanent Community Impact Fund Board and a $2.9 million, 30-year, 4.71 percent loan from the Utah Drinking Water Board. Both boards routinely juggle countless applications from communities in need. And both struggled at least initially with Noel's request for Zion View. In September, Noel went before the impact board seeking half the $7 million in grants and half in loans. Members chafed when they learned the area is a summer playground mostly for Las Vegans because, under the board's guidelines, second-home projects don't qualify for grants. Also weighing against it were board guidelines saying its money from loan repayments and federal mining-severance taxes is to be used to help communities cope with the wear and tear of mining on federal lands. But the mining that takes place in Kane County is on private lands, so it's not a good candidate for funds. In addition, board guidelines spell out a $5 million cap on project funding, though its director calls it a "soft cap" that can be waived in flush times, as has been the case in recent years. On the agenda for the July meeting, for instance, was a $20 million road improvement project in Uintah County and a $17 million request for a new Carbon County courthouse. Making the pitch » Noel's September appearance before the impact board was somewhat unusual. According to board minutes, he was one of only four lawmakers attending such a meeting in the past 2½ years and the only one to personally make a funding presentation. At first, board members bristled at his request, quizzing Noel on why less-expensive options weren't being considered, such as updating the existing water source or digging a new well. "You can drill a lot of wells with $11 million," said board member Michael Milovich, a Carbon County commissioner, referring to the project's estimated cost last fall. Noel dismissed those options as impractical. The board settled, at the time, on a 30-year loan at 2.5 percent interest, less than the cost at market rates. The sole "no" vote came from Steve Simpson, a lawyer, businessman and sometime developer who heads the Bluff Special Service District. He said the county should have had the developer build in the cost of utilities at the outset. "It looked like these people had paid relatively low prices" for dry lots, said Simpson, "and now Representative Noel was looking for a subsidy for something those people should have paid for long ago." As the board prepared to finalize the funding package in October, two fellow Sagebrush rebels on the impact board stepped up to try to help Noel get even better terms. Uintah County Commissioner Mike McKee and San Juan County Commissioner Bruce Adams proposed loaning the district $6 million interest-free and $1 million at 1 percent interest. McKee told how Noel had called him and other board members to explain it would be "very difficult to make that [original package] work." But only the two commissioners liked that idea, so the board stuck with the original funding offer. It didn't last, though. With a letter from Noel tucked in their February meeting packets, impact-board members took up Zion View once more. The new terms proposed were the best yet: a loan of $7 million for 30 years, interest-free. There was no discussion about the change in the public meeting aside from Chairman Gordon Walker's comment that "as we looked at it, we realized that it might be [to] our advantage financially if we made the change." He didn't elaborate. The board approved the new terms, with Simpson again casting the lone no vote. Noel that Thursday morning was already late for a Capitol Hill meeting of the legislative spending panel for environmental programs on which he sits, and he got up to leave. "Representative Noel," said Walker, "may I say we appreciate the work you are doing at the Legislature." Contacted later, Walker told The Salt Lake Tribune that there was "absolutely not" any favoritism shown toward Noel. He said the reason for recasting the Zion View loan was that it helped in "balancing" the board's funding portfolio, which he described as a kind of bookkeeping strategy. A second front » The drinking-water board also wrestled with Zion View. Its members engineers, water-system managers and elected officials are like those on the impact board in that they continually struggle with more requests than money. Zion View was one in a crowd of applicants with roughly $200 million in requests that were seeking part of the $25 million available for projects. Noel worked with drinking-water staff for months behind the scenes, as project proponents typically do, before making a formal request in January for a $2.9 million loan. That was less than a third of the original loan-grant package the district wanted. Still, the board saw red flags. The board's estimate was that the project's overall cost amounted to $44,000 per connection for 250 lots, or $26,750 per connection if all 411 lots opted for meters. Then there was the board policy adopted last summer limiting funding for second-home projects and a Legislature-imposed condition barring state money for projects primarily benefiting out-of-staters. Eagle Mountain Mayor Heather Jackson, a member of the drinking-water panel, didn't like committing Utah money to a project that wouldn't aid Utahns who needed water year-round. "Obviously, we want to help out the communities in need and not speculative areas," she said later in a interview. Noel asserted that many lot owners had Utah roots. "Most of them were Utah residents at one time," he told the board. "But there were no jobs in southern Utah, so they went to Las Vegas. Now there's no jobs there, so they want to move back." Ironically, a big selling point for the funding was the board's own notice of violation last summer. Zion View's water-hauling system had to be shut down because it no longer meets state safety standards. "What you're really funding is a public water system," Noel said after a board member questioned the project. "We can try to make it so [Zion View] gets off this hit list and becomes a public system and protects the property values and the assessed valuation." In effect, the water district had already done that 10 times over on Cedar Mountain, where it had taken over faulty water systems serving 2,000 lots during the past decade. In March, the board voted 5-4 in favor of funding the project from EPA grant monies at 4.71 percent, 1 percent lower than market rates, for 30 years. Last week, the Division of Drinking Water closed the loan for just over half the original amount, $1.5 million. Tage I. Flint, a member of the state panel and general manager of the Weber County Water Conservancy District, said he voted "no" because he thought the interest rate should have been lower. "Even with second-home subdivisions, they need the help," he said. "And they're the state's No. 1 violator." Hatch Act complaint » Ultimately, the Kane County Water Conservancy District envisions up to 700 connections in the area of Strawberry Ridge, including Zion View, the mostly primitive Skyhaven Mountain Retreat subdivision and 200 acres of undeveloped school-trust lands in the county. But if the Alliance for a Better Utah has anything to say about it, Noel won't be leading the effort. In December, the progressive-leaning group filed a federal Hatch Act complaint against Noel over his dual roles as a state legislator and top executive for the Kane County Water Conservancy District. Noel has said his status as an independent contractor with the water district will thwart the complaint, now under review by the U.S. Office of General Counsel. Regardless of the case's outcome, Bill Allison, editorial director for the nonpartisan, nonprofit good-government group, the Sunlight Foundation, sees a clear conflict of interest here. "He's sitting in both chairs and wearing both hats," Allison said. "There are all kinds of ways this can be problematic." firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @judyfutah -
The money behind Zion View subdivisionThe original $18.7 million project proposed last year by the Kane County Water Conservancy District for the Zion View Mountain Estates subdivision has been whittled in half.Now estimated to cost $9.3 million, the project would pipe water to the subdivision from another water district project about four miles away in Strawberry Valley north of Zion National Park.Under the plan circulated by the water district this spring (at the time the estimated cost was $11.1 million), lot owners would pay $9,500, surrender water shares worth about $2,500 apiece and pony up $25 a month for service. Each 1,000 gallons of water delivered would cost $2 for the first 15,000 gallons. In addition, the district said, those who opt to finance the connection fee over 10 years, would pay an additional $85 a month.That plan differs dramatically from one the Utah Division of Drinking Water envisioned when it approved a loan of $2.9 million at 4.71 percent interest for the project, which would supplement $1.1 million in upfront lot-owner funds and a $7 million no-interest loan to the district. The drinking-water division planned on 294 hookups pitching in $147 monthly to cover operations and loan repayments.Add up all the fees, plus the interest payments from those who opt for district financing, and the project financing plan is around $2 million shy of covering total project costs. How would the district make up the difference? Randy Brown, who handles the district's books, said any shortfalls would be made up with fees paid by future hookups the district estimates the line could serve up to 700 in three subdivisions around Strawberry Point and, if necessary, increased rates and taxes on Cedar Mountain.Judy Fahys

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Appalachia, West Virginia Mission Trips
Appalachia is a 205,000-mile-square region that follows the spine of the Appalachian Mountains from southern New York to northern Mississippi. The region covers 399 counties in 13 states, including all of West Virginia according to the Appalachian Regional Commission. The culture has been greatly influenced by geographic isolation. Years ago, pioneering-spirited Europeans followed in the footsteps of Native Americans to forge homes in remote hollows and build their communities along remote streams and rivers. Although the region's original settlers represent the Dutch, Irish, English, and some French, the largest groups in number and influence were the Germans and the Scot-Irish.
Today, this area is often stereotyped because of its heritage: dialects, specific rural lifestyle, subsistence agriculture, family feuds, industrial work, exploitation of labor and a severe lack of resources. Many people do not realize that Appalachia includes thriving cities such as Pittsburgh and Birmingham and is contiguous to Atlanta, Cincinnati, and other major cities.
On the other hand, of the nearly 400 counties in the Appalachian region, significantly more than half are rural. Nearly 25 percent are considered distressed by the Appalachian Regional Commission.
Most of the people who live in Appalachia are descended from strong, independent, and hard-working individuals. In the past 30 years, their communities have experienced a painful break as industries that once produced numerous jobs are gone. In many cases, no new industries have replaced them.
World Vision's goal in Appalachia is to help level the economic and social playing field in this under-resourced region, to see neighbors helping neighbors, and to experience lives and communities being transformed. We come alongside communities that are hard at work. The focus of World Vision is to bring a hand-up and the message that God means for all of us to live a full and abundant life.
To teach the spiritual discipline of servanthood and to apply the principles of Christ-centered community transformation by serving in mission work in the north-central West Virginia region.
World Vision
Barbour County, Flemington, Grafton, Wallace, Pickens, Selbyville, Norton, and Coalton, West Virginia, and Morgan County, Ohio.
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Dipa H. Hart
Director of Internships; Adjunct Professor of Educational Ministries and Leadership
BS, University of Texas Austin, 1999; ThM, Dallas Theological Seminary, 2004
Dipa Hart currently serves as the Director of Internships at DTS. Since 2005, she has engaged students during their field education experiences. She has also served as a hospital chaplain, DTS's SF Women's Director, treasurer of Association of Women Ministry Professions (AWMP), co-chaired the Evangelical Association of Theological Field Educators (ATFE) and remains active in ATFE and AWMP. In addition to her role at the seminary, she is currently pursuing a PhD in Organizational Leadership. Her academic interests include ecclesial leadership studies, Christian spirituality, and intercultural engagement. She and her husband have one son.
Rejecting the Passionate Pursuit of Perfection 03/21/2007 Bridging the Generational Gap through Mentoring 01/01/2007
- "Preparing for Ministry: A Practical Guide to Theological Field Education" in Field Education and Cultural Awareness Kregel Academic & Professional: 2008
- Hart, Dipa H., "Partnering for Formation in Ministry: A Descriptive Survey of On-Site Field Education Mentoring." Reflective Practice: Formation & Supervision in Ministry 29 (2009).
Academic Interests
- Ecclesial Leadership
- Organizational Leadership
- Christian Spirituality
- Intercultural Engagement: churches transitioning to serve ethnically diverse communities
- Pastoral Care


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It shouldn't have happened in the first place, but now the Jets are knee-deep in a quarterback mess of their own creation. Ten days after inking Mark Sanchez to a three-year contract extension, the New York Jets did the unthinkable; they traded for one of the most polarizing athletes of the past decade, Tim Tebow. The national media flooded Jets training camp in the quiet college town of Cortland, New York, chronicling and capturing Tebow's every movement; a scene akin to the Hollywood paparazzi.
A quarterback controversy was evident from the get-go as speculation ran rampant that Tebow would ultimately replace an embattled Sanchez unless the Jets franchise signal-caller could turn his team's fortunes around.
After a scintillating start to the season that saw Sanchez and company hang up 48 points in the home opener, the Jets quickly spiraled out of control. Gang Green saw Santonio Holmes and Darrelle Revis go down to season-ending injuries and with Dustin Keller missing the majority of the season, Sanchez had very few viable weapons at his disposable. With an inconsistent running game, an improving yet flawed offensive line and virtually no playmaking ability at the wide receiver position, New York started to plummet down the NFL's offensive rankings.
Sanchez's confidence in his teammates began to wane and No. 6 continued to force the issue, which resulted in ugly turnovers and miscues all over the field. The Jets became the laughing stock of the league when Sanchez collided with the backside of offensive lineman Brandon Moore in the second-quarter of a humiliating 49-19 loss on Thanksgiving Night to the archrival New England Patriots.
All the while, Tebow waited patiently for his turn, deflecting questions about his lack of playing time and offering praise and support to his teammates in need. Unfortunately Tebow's time never came, as Rex Ryan handed second year player Greg McElroy the keys to the offense in the second half of a 7-6 comeback win over the Arizona Cardinals.
Miraculously, after much deliberation Ryan awarded Sanchez with the starting job and seemingly one final chance to prove his worth in a Week 15 match-up with the Tennessee Titans. Somehow the Jets were still in playoff contention and a win could propel them right into the thick of the AFC playoff picture.
The Jets trip to the Music City ended on a sour note as Sanchez committed five turnovers and Gang Green squandered two opportunities to score the game-winning touchdown deep in Titans' territory. New York was officially eliminated from playoff contention and with the loss Sanchez was officially removed from the starting role.
Once again Ryan would pass over Tebow and turn to McElroy to start the final two games of the season, begging the question, why bring Tebow to the Big Apple in the first place?
Former general manager Mike Tannenbaum admitted this past week that he was the impetus for the Tebow move. With Tannenbaum out, it remains to be seen whether Tebow will follow in suit.
Following a disappointing 2012 campaign, the Jets are aleady overhauling their coaching staff, front office and depth chart. While Tebow's future outlook with Gang Green appears dim, there exists a remote possibility that he could be back with the organization next season. Newly hired offensive coordinator Marty Morningweg may carve out a role for Tebow, one that Tony Sparano never seemed willing or capable of creating.
As the Jets prepare for an offseason makeover, solving their quarterback dilemma remains at the top of the team's priority list.


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Frank Gaffney attacked Kerry to defend Rumsfeld
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After Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told a soldier who complained about the military's insufficient supply of vehicle armor that "you have to go to war with the Army you have," Center for Security Policy president and conservative columnist Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. attempted to provide cover for Rumsfeld by attacking Senator John Kerry. In back-to-back December 8 appearances on MSNBC's Hardball and FOX News' The O'Reilly Factor, Gaffney attacked Kerry for voting against the $87 billion defense supplemental appropriations bill for 2004, which included funding for military vehicle armor.
But the $87 billion defense bill passed. Media Matters for America has previously noted that while Kerry did vote against one version of the bill, President Bush threatened to veto another version six days after that.
From MSNBC's Hardball:
GAFFNEY: You will remember, a couple of months ago, it was very much in the heart of the debate. Was the $87 billion supposed to be spent for this purpose? John Kerry said no. We need this kind of money. We need to up-armor these troops. And we need to give them the full support of the American people.
From FOX News' The O'Reilly Factor:
GAFFNEY: I'd like to say that we ought to be producing more of this and an awful lot of other equipment that the military needs today. And it's heartening to have a lot of people say, look, spend the money you need to put this equipment in their hands. We should be doing it. And it wasn't so long ago that we were debating a bill that you may remember John Kerry was opposed to, that was going to put armor on these forces' vehicles, and you know, body armor and so on.
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We've spent the past few weeks at Gnip working on an infrastructure that allows us to expand shortened URLs as they come through the Twitter Firehose. Here's an overview of our architecture:
Note that I've removed redundant machines used for failover to simplify things a bit. Each rectangular node represents a Java process running on a separate EC2 instance.
Connector: A lightweight client that consumes the full Twitter Firehose via Streaming HTTP. On the way in each Tweet is wrapped in an internal (JSON) messaging format that allows us to insert arbitrary metadata for each Tweet. The messages are fanned out to n number of Deliverators and Enricherators.
Enricherator: Ingests the full Twitter Firehose from Connector via Streaming HTTP. Inspects each Tweet and plucks out any URLs that exist in the 'entities' payload. Compares these URLs to a list of known URL shorteners (t.co, bit.ly, etc..) and if there are any matches, ships those URLs over to Bosserator via Google Protocol Buffers (GPB) RPC to be expanded.
Also, as Enricherator receives each Tweet, the Tweet is inserted into a queue. The queue contains Tweets that are waiting to be decorated with an expanded URL. If a response comes back from Bosserator for a given Tweet, Enricherator adds the expanded URL metadata for that Tweet. After a predetermined number of seconds the Tweet removed from the queue and shipped off to Deliverator regardless of whether or not it has been decorated.
Bosserator: Holds onto and actively manages a queue of expand URL tasks from Enricherator. Exposes this task queue via GPB RPC to Fetchors. Listens for decorated responses from Fetchors, ships them over to Enricherator as they are received.
Fetchor: When Fetchor has available resources, it will ask Bosserator for n number of tasks via GPB RPC. For each task, Fetchor will issue a HTTP HEAD request against the shortened URL. Fetchor's HTTP client will follow up to 10 redirects before returning a response. When a response is received, the expanded URL inserted into the relevant task and is shipped back over to Bosserator, who then immediately ships it to Enricherator.
Deliverator: Ingests the full firehose (in realtime) from Connector and an enriched firehose (delayed) from Enricherator via Streaming HTTP. Deliverator then determines what kind of stream that the client is asking for (User Mention Stream, Link Stream, etc..), what format they want it delivered in (original or JSON Activity Streams), and inserts any enrichments that have been enabled for that stream. Then the stream is made available to your Gnip Data Collector via Streaming HTTP.
If you would like to beta test the expand URLs feature, please contact us at email@example.com. Be sure to sign up for our newsletter at http://gnip.com/newsletter to hear about new features that we have coming in the pipeline. Feel free to leave comments and suggestions about how we can make URL expanding more useful to the problem you're trying to solve.


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^^ it happens man takes time to learn how to keep em just right if you get carried away the smallest bit shit get outta hand. See I still do it too after almost 3 years. And saul he writes naked and or resq
^^ it happens man takes time to learn how to keep em just right if you get carried away the smallest bit shit get outta hand. See I still do it too after almost 3 years. And saul he writes naked and or resq
^yeh it seems like throwies and tags are more muscles tissue memory then burners and other drawings, like for thowies and tags its usualy do fast, think later type thing lol, i have to do it like 1000+ times over lol
perfectly normal it is muscle memory once you learn your letters then you just slap em on paper and make small tweaks as you go ...
Only Fuck Fat Bitches Crew !!
yeh i really need to practice throwies alot more and shit, i feel that i tryed doing small tweaks before i should have with all throwies, tags and burners...still do too much prob lol. gotta know were my limit is and shit...somewere below 0 lol. but i wana start doing some of the monthly toss battles and handstyle battles but i either miss it or cant get anything nice going for it, im gonna start trying to get in on them more now though
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I think he does em 1000 times because your never satisified with the end product which is a good thing if your critical on your own stuff more than others its helps in the long run.
Only Fuck Fat Bitches Crew !!
^yeh for sure, like one of the most over used terms that is basicaly spot on, practice makes perfect lol
I hate R's with a passion. Crits?
^^Stalin that looks good, just make the bottom part of your R slightly more pointy like the bottom of your H and other letters but not too much...looks good man keep it up
Crities for my titties?
clean it up, your highlights cut into your outline and your 3d/shadow is off and inaccurate, also try and make the curves in your letters more consistent, lose that arrow in the C and dont put your tag inside the throw, hope that helps
I am not a graffiti artist, I do not condone or participate in illegal graffiti, I simply collect, document, and display the work of anonymous artists, I am not accountable for any vandalism under the names represented in any of my posts, it was not me.
@ skina - i like that, its a cool style
@ mild - i like the silver outline, gotta work on those letter sizes for the s'aight though
@ saul - all your throws have some funk to them, i like how consistent everything usually is
@ brosef - looks alright, that R isnt too bad, try a capital R and do something different than a face in the P
@ zik - i dont like how your C is never outlined on the left side
@ aiko - thats more of a simple than a throwie, and that M is trying to be so gothic/dark/brooding it hurts
@ sinn - not that into pointed bottoms but its got some flavor, work on your outline at the points you can see its all sorts of haggard
screwing around last night, thanks for all who did a GIFO throw, helped me out heaps
Here's a couple styles, fo da Mildstyles...
@not mike giant, if your gonna do a throwie on top of other sketches it helps to fill it in with a color, cuz that ^^^ is hard to read
aiko the V looks kinda weird, i thought it was a trippy N before lol
notmikegiant you should add color to that or do another one with color and drop shadow or somshit
looking spiffy natalie portman, i like your graff more then your acting to be honest
that naked looks dope saul gud, really dig that Q in resq
weekly battle crits appreciated ... Im diggin it myself or is that too arrogant ?
Only Fuck Fat Bitches Crew !!
im enjoying it aswell!
^ that throw is tight. The K is sick, I don't like how the U is so compresses against the k tho, between the D and E looks odd.
Saul good. The resq is cool but the naked is meh. The K is very meh.
Aiko sorry but that's weak. I wouldn't have put a gap in only the A like you did. You gota sketch a lot more and talk less.


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I was wondering, what is the difference between end of support for Windows XP and end of support for Windows 2000. Maybe my mind is forgetting but I do not remember there was so much hype to get off a platform like XP when support ended for windows 2000? Just curious if you know why? I do not know.
Jeff, it's all about the numbers. At the time support for Windows 2000 ended, usage of Windows 2000 was estimated to be at less that one-half of one percent of all Windows users. Usage for Windows XP was counted at nearly 40% of all Windows systems in use as recently as 2012. Windows XP was a very popular platform and many people were in no hurry to change.
Millions of more systems will be at risk when XP support ends.
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John Bolton Kicks Off The 2016 Fox Primary Early
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Prior to the 2012 election, Fox News was the target of widespread criticism for employing no fewer than five people who were considering seeking the Republican nomination for president. One of those five, Fox contributor John Bolton, is reportedly already getting the ball rolling on the 2016 edition of the Fox News primary.
In an article at National Review Online, Robert Costa explained that possible 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul's (R-KY) "views on foreign policy" are concerning "Republican hawks." According to Costa, "several leading conservative power brokers" are turning to Bolton as a more aggressive foreign policy alternative to Paul and are urging the former U.S. ambassador to the UN to throw his hat in the ring for 2016.
Per Costa, the former Bush administration U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations is giving the idea "serious consideration." He is reportedly planning tours of early primary states and meetings with party leaders in order to "make the case for a muscular foreign policy." Bolton will also reportedly be launching "a few related groups that will help elevate his argument and his national profile."
Any possible Bolton run will be also aided by his role at Fox, which has long served as a launching pad for various Republican candidates to explore campaigns for office. In 2010, former Fox contributor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum pointed to his job at Fox as having "been big" for helping "folks remember who I am ... It's a great platform, being able to talk about the current issues of the day."
Bolton is a regular fixture on the network, where he is brought on to rail against the Obama administration's handling of foreign policy issues and call for the use of military force to respond to international problems.
In 2010, while Bolton was making noise about possibly running for president in 2012, the network hosted him for 5 hours and 46 minutes of airtime, which Media Matters calculated was equivalent to more than $3.7 million in free advertising.
In the three months prior to his September 2011 announcement on Fox that had decided against running, Bolton made more than 60 appearances on the network, totaling well over 4 hours of airtime.
The network has already shown it is eager to promote the 2016 presidential ambitions of its employees. After host Mike Huckabee was asked whether he was considering a presidential run during a Newsmax TV interview and responded that he was "not ruling it out," Fox Nation highlighted the story under the headline, "Huckabee Hints At 2016 Run."
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WATCH: Victoria's Secret models twerking backstage at fashion show
The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Angels may have strutted down the runway in lingerie, but there was plenty of behind-the-scenes sexiness as well.
Cara Delevingne posted a video on Tuesday showing her fellow models Doutzen Kroes andJoan Smalls twerking backstage.
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Microsoft will end support for Windows XP on 8th April 2014, in effect discontinuing all security updates.
An unsupported version of Windows will no longer receive software updates from Windows Update. These include security updates that can help protect your PC from harmful viruses, spyware, and other malicious software, which can steal your personal information.
Windows 8 is 20 times more secure than Windows XP, and is the smarter choice for enterprises. Delaying migration isn't worth the security vulnerabilities and costs.
This which reduces IT involvement by eliminating the task of loading encryption software.
Native support for two-factor authentication with virtual smart cards ensures that user access to devices is more secure than ever.
Built around touch technology and tiled applications, the OS takes the PC experience to a new level of customization, consumption, and creation. Created specifically for the new Windows 8 OS, Lenovo has combined the best hardware and software features to create the Lenovo Enhanced Experience 8.
There's no comparison, Windows 8 devices take advantage of today's technology for smarter, faster and more secure performance.
One major advantage touch screens have over other input methods is ease of use. While the usual combination of keyboard and mouse is familiar to most users, the practice of reaching out and touching icons on a screen comes intuitively even to those without a computer background.A touch-screen interface can reduce training time for employees and empower customers to look up information or place orders themselves using self-service kiosks.
Touch screens also increase the speed of tasks and allow users to select icons directly, without worrying about translating horizontal mouse movement to a vertical screen.
By combining the data entry method with the display, you reduce the overall size of the computer or device. This advantage is most obvious when it comes to portable devices, where smartphones and tablet PCs have long since eliminated attached, microscopic keyboards in favor of a fully touch-based interface.Even with full-sized PCs, using a touch screen can allow you to set up systems in areas where space is at a premium, and reduce the number of components exposed to the user.
Lenovo's latest touch-enabled devices, which have been developed through partnerships with both Microsoft and Intel, are created smaller and lighter for better mobility - with the implicit understanding that they will be used as business tools. They have accessories to turn these business tools into productivity tools. Why? Because Lenovo understands that the office environment is changing, and today's business professionals are mobile. Our products are built so workers can take the office on the road, increasing your business reach and bottom line.
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Warmest of greetings to you from Uganda, East Africa! My greetings today come from Jinja where I am currently serving with a missions team from our church. In addition to our ministry here, I've had the privilege of connecting with Multnomah alumni and have been encouraged to see the work God is doing in and through their lives in building His church around the world. Read the rest of this entry »
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Friday, July 22 2011 - Other Important News
Did the FBI Bury Oklahoma City Bombing Evidence?
One lawyer's relentless quest for information reveals fresh hints of a coverup.
In 2007, Mother Jones was the first national media outlet to tell the full story of Jesse Trentadue and his quest for the truth, which began four months after the attack on Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, killed 168 people. It was then that Trentadue, a Salt Lake City lawyer, learned that his brother, a construction worker and one-time bank robber, had died in a federal prison in Oklahoma City. [Photo: Timothy McVeigh is escorted from the courthouse in Perry, Oklahoma. Bob Owen/Zuma]
Prison officials said the prisoner had hanged himself. But Kenney Trentadue, who had never revealed any suicidal inclination, was shipped home for burial with bruises all over his body and lacerations on his face and throat--suggesting something more sinister. Even Oklahoma City's chief medical examiner would later say, publicly, that it was "very likely he was murdered." But the most compelling evidence in the case was altered or turned up missing. Jesse Trentadue was never able to prove what had actually happened to his brother--though he did win a $1.1 million civil suit for "emotional distress" to his family, based on the way the government had handled the aftermath of Kenney's death.
Trentadue had all but given up, when, in the spring of 2003, he got a call
from a small-town newspaper reporter in Oklahoma named J.D. Cash. Cash told
him that Kenney very much resembled the police sketch of John Doe No. 2, whom
the FBI initially believed to be a second bomber in the Oklahoma City attack.
Cash also pointed out that both Kenney and John Doe No. 2 resembled Richard
Lee Guthrie, a notorious figure on the racist far right. In 1994 and 1995, Guthrie
and his gang, which called itself the Aryan Republican Army (ARA), had carried
out 22 bank robberies across the Midwest, netting some $250,000 to support their
white-supremacist movement.
Might federal officials have believed that Kenney Trentadue was in fact Richard Lee Guthrie, and that Guthrie was John Doe No. 2? Could he have been beaten to death in an interrogation gone bad? That theory provided what Jesse believed might be a missing motive for his brother's murder, and he set about learning all he could about the federal investigations of the bombing and the Aryan Republican Army.
By 2003, however, the Oklahoma City case was closed. Timothy McVeigh was declared the lone bomber and executed for his crime; Terry Nichols, named as his sole accomplice, was serving a life sentence in a federal supermax in Florence, Colorado. Federal officials denied--and the judge in the McVeigh trial rebuffed--any attempts to show that McVeigh and Nichols hadn't acted alone. Stonewalled at every turn, Trentadue remained determined to satisfy his curiosity. His primary tool would be the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
An initial batch of documents, received through a FOIA request, showed that the FBI was investigating a link between the bombers and Guthrie's ARA. The connection involved a remote religious compound called Elohim City in eastern Oklahoma's Ozark Mountains, a kind of sanctuary for far-right extremists from the Klan and the Aryan Nations to the then-burgeoning militia movement that inspired McVeigh.
The documents revealed that federal law enforcement had informants close to Elohim City. As I wrote in my original story, they also showed
After the story ran, Trentadue continued his quest for information. He tried to depose Terry Nichols, along with a federal inmate named David Paul Hammer, who said he had talked with McVeigh at length while they were on death row together. A federal district court judge in Utah gave Trentadue the go-ahead, but his decision was reversed by the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals. Trentadue also learned from the CIA that it had a spy satellite over Oklahoma at the time of the bombing, but the agency withheld details from him due to national security concerns.
Trentadue placed one FOIA after another, always getting the runaround from the FBI. Finally, after three years, he persuaded Clark Waddoups, another Utah-based federal judge, to order the FBI to respond by June 30, 2011. Trentadue was particularly interested in 20 or more video surveillance tapes from cameras located on the Murrah building--cameras that might have shown, among other things, whether McVeigh was alone when he parked a truckload of explosives beneath the building and then fled from his truck.
The FBI suggested that the Murrah building's cameras were never hooked up, based on a claim by an elevator repairman.
Earlier, the FBI had produced a document suggesting that the videotapes didn't exist, based on an investigatory report "in which an individual personally involved in clearing the Murrah building after the bombing with apparent familiarity with its surveillance systems, stated that it was 'a shame ... that the surveillance cameras were never hooked up again after they put in a new security system approximately two years ago.'" The person in question was an elevator repairman who had done some work in the Murrah building and had gone there shortly after the blast.
But Trentadue argued that the cameras were indeed operational at the time of the bombing, citing two affidavits he'd obtained. The first one came from Don Browning, an Oklahoma City police officer (now retired) who shortly after the blast had "observed men wearing jackets with 'FBI' printed on the back removing the surveillance video cameras from the exterior of the Murrah Federal Building. I thought this was part of the FBI's evidence gathering or 'chain of custody' procedures since those exterior cameras would have shown and recorded delivery of the bomb in a Ryder truck that morning as well as the person or persons who exited that truck."
The second affidavit came from Joe Bradford Cooley, an employee for a subcontractor bidding on running the surveillance system. Cooley said he made frequent inspections of the system, including cameras and monitors, and that everything was running correctly up to the time the bomb went off. In addition, a Secret Service timeline of that day refers to one observer who said, "Security video shows Ryder truck pulling up to the federal building and then pausing (7 to 10 seconds) before resuming into a slot in front of the building."
Now, in a sworn declaration to the court, David M. Hardy, a section chief in the FBI's Records Management Division, said that he was "unaware of the existence or likely location of additional tapes ... and do not know of anyone who would know where additional tapes would be located."
FBI agent Ricardo Ojeda said the bureau kept "zero files" on important cases--"containing information the FBI would not generally want disclosed to the defense."
The judge ordered the FBI to search its records manually, but the bureau resisted, arguing that the courts had previously relieved it of doing manual searches, and that "a manual search of the first 14 day worth of records in the OKBOMB case file would be extremely burdensome ... Hardy estimates that this material consists of approximately 450,000 pages and would take one employee over 1 1/2 years to search. Mr. Hardy indicates that such an undertaking would be unprecedented and could negatively impact his office's ability to carry out other obligations."
Trentadue is questioning whether the bureau in fact has several sets of files--the main case file and others. In an affidavit from an earlier case, FBI agent Ricardo Ojeda, who was assigned to investigate the bombing, said the bureau kept what it called "zero files" on important cases. These, Ojeda said, were "reports containing information the FBI would not generally want disclosed to the defense and which were kept separate from a specific case file. These files were kept internally within the bureau and typically were not turned over to the prosecution or the defense." When the FBI assigned numbers to its files, Ojeda said, "a zero after that number would mean that the report should go into the 'zero' file."
The FBI has long sought to hide certain files, according to a recent investigation by the Center for Public Integrity. In the '70s there were "June" files, which in the 1990s became the "zero" files. In 1996, the zero files were upgraded to the "I-Drive" files. Trentadue's most recent search unearthed yet another secret set of files dubbed "S-Drive." Judge Waddoups ordered the bureau to say whether the I-Drive and S-Drive data-storage areas had been searched for the videotapes and other documents--and if not, why not. The feds responded that the I-Drive no longer exists, and it has no reason to think the S-Drive would contain anything of value.
Trentadue is now preparing his latest brief, in which he will ask the judge to hold the bureau in contempt of court.
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Scooter Braun speaks on Justin Bieber's new arrest
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Justin Bieber was arrested on Wednesday for thesecond time in less than a week, prompting Scooter Braun to hit back at criticism and rumors on Twitter.
As the singer made his way to a Toronto police station to turn himself in on an assault charge, his manager tweeted out two pleas.
for all those asking @JeremyBieber and @pattiemallette love their son. Stop passing judgement on a situation u dont understand.
— Scooter Braun (@scooterbraun) January 29, 2014
He added a bit later:
i ask people to be kind and hope for the best in people. not assume the worst. thanks
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Silicon Integrated System (SiS) has announced that its SiS672/968/307DV chipset supporting Intel's Atom 230 CPU has been adopted by Lenovo for its IdeaCentre Q100 nettop.
The Q100 features a space-saving design of only 0.5-liters, and adopts DDR2 667 memory up to 1GB.
The PC features the SiS Mirage 3 graphics engine.
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Tyrese denied visitation with his daughter
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(TMZ) - Tyrese and his baby mama got into it last night over their kid ... and this time cops got involved, reports TMZ.
Tyrese went to Norma Gibson's home in North Hollywood Tuesday night to pick up their 6-year-old daughter. Sources tell TMZ Norma did not want to hand the kid over because she was sick.
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Poor Mexico Barbie. She just wants to teach girls "about the culture, traditions and ancestral dress of Mexico," according to her online description. Little did she know her two possessions, a passport and a Chihuahua, would stir up an argument over cultural diversity.
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doru said
but without text review/feedback I will still have no idea what the buyer liked or disliked about my item
This has been discussed at length in this thread
justinfrench said
doru saidThis has been discussed at length in this thread
but without text review/feedback I will still have no idea what the buyer liked or disliked about my item
Yes, but I don't see any clear reply form you about this. Is this planned to be implemented in the future? Stars and text reviews
Here you said:
justinfrench said
sightsignal saidYep, that's been requested a lot. The data we're collecting will help us understand the primary reason for that rating — it may be that the 1-star ratings are misunderstandings, rather than truly relevant.
Anyway, rule of thumb, if someone gives a 1-star rating on something, maybe they should have to state the reason in a written public comment.
My problem is that it doesn't change nothing for me if envato understand the primary reason for a particular rating. Good to know off course but I don't care if I can't see what the buyer will tell about my item.
I want to read a message form the buyer that is about my item and that can help me create better items.
So this is the idea, can you confirm if this review text (amazon style) is planned or not.
Thank You
doru said
Can you confirm if this review text (amazon style) is planned or not.
Here's the relevant part from my post that started this thread:
An often-requested feature is buyers providing a comment when they rate an item, displayed alongside their username — some propose this should be required for all ratings, others just for one and five star ratings. There's a lot of hidden features we might need here too (moderation & dispute resolution, marking reviews as unhelpful, etc).
The underlying goals of these requests are:
These goals are important to us, but we're not starting on the build right now — the data we're collecting and the research we're working on will help us design the details of a system that best meets the community's needs, as well as ours.
- improve transparency for everyone
- provide authors with insights to help improve their items
- provide relevant ratings to buyers to help their purchasing decisions
I used the word "comment" in the opening paragraph, which was probably unclear given we already have comments. I meant a text-based reason for their rating. Does that help?
justinfrench said
Does that help?
You think stars review + text comments is a nice idea but you are not sure how much the buyers or authors are actually interested in this feature so you want to get some info first to understand if investing development time in creating this system actually have a positive return.
I understand this, resources need to be invested wisely.
It happens quite often that customers buy more than one License of the same Item. Some time ago, one of these customers told me that he wasn't able to rate the Item again. Is like he may rate the Item, but not his purchases.
Can now, or after the upcoming update, those customer rate their purchases? Instead of a one time rate per Item (not License)?
justinfrench said
SurStudio saidI probably didn't phrase this very well — I didn't say that the majority of authors had spoken, I said that the majority in this thread seemed to be in support of a decision we've made. This gives me confidence in our decision, but it didn't drive it.
Counting ThemeForest and CodeCanyon authors, we're over 4,000. If we count all the marketplaces, we are over 20,000. How come 64, or even 100 (counting other threads) can decide about this? I accept the will of the majority, but I don't think 64 people represent that.
I understand your point. However, that support might be a fallacy. It's pretty simple to write things like: -I like this idea! -I really want this! -Deploy deploy deploy!
Instead of taking the time to think and to state the weak points of the new system.
If you want to know if you're going in the right direction, you might want to follow not my comments/ideas, but a consolidated methodology, such as Popper's falsifiability theory.
In short, if you want to know if something is right, then don't listen too much to those who agree by just saying "yes, I like, it's right, go go". But try to find people who point out weak points and give logical explanations. Only after your idea have had sorted out a number of serious attempts to refute it, you can think that you're going in the right direction, or your confidence is now well supported.
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When is this going live guys? I can't wait!
+1 – me neither!
samberson said+2 from me
Enabled said+1 – me neither!
When is this going live guys? I can't wait!
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samberson said+2 from me
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ADAP Watch: AIDS Drug Wait List Hits 6,595
Posted by kristin , November 21, 2011
As of November 17, 2011 the wait list to receive lifesaving AIDS medication through the nation's AIDS Drug Assistance Programs had hit 6,595 people across 12 states.
The number of people waiting to receive medication through state-run AIDS drug programs has increased more than 5,000 percent since August 2009, according to the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors. The federal government has reacted with little urgency, however, allotting just $25 million in additional dollars to the program for FY 2012.
To help readers keep tabs on the growing ADAP crisis, we are now posting the ADAP Watch—the document that tracks increasing cuts to the program—each week, and including it in our Friday morning newsletter.
About the nation's expanding AIDS drug access crisis
AIDS Drug Assistance Programs are the state and federally funded programs that provide medication to low and middle-income people living with HIV. HIV/AIDS drugs can cost tens of thousands of dollars a year, so ADAP is a critical lifeline.
In the last two years, increasing numbers of people have tried to enroll in these programs, due in large part to increasing unemployment. However, states have less money to give to their ADAPs.
Many states have blocked ADAP enrollment and instituted wait lists. Other states have changed their ADAP eligibility requirements, cutting untold numbers from their programs and leaving many without a way to pay for medication. Lastly, some states have limited the drugs they cover. The crisis is particularly acute in Florida and across the South.
The majority of the people served by ADAPs are black and Hispanic. Many AIDS groups, including Housing Works, have launched protest after protest demanding state and federal government take action. Obama's proposed $105 million increase in federal funding for 2012 falls short of the $126 million requested by AIDS advocates to tackle the crisis.
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On the eve of NFL free agency, trades involving top receivers Anquan Boldin and Percy Harvin grabbed the headlines.
In an odd twist Monday, Boldin went from the Ravens to the San Francisco 49ers, the team he helped Baltimore beat 34-31 in last month's Super Bowl.
Harvin, who expressed his discontent in Minnesota, was sent to Seattle, where he will join former Vikings teammate Sidney Rice.
San Francisco acquired the 32-year-old Boldin for a sixth-round draft pick. Boldin, a star in Baltimore's run to the Super Bowl title last season, must pass a physical to complete the deal.
Boldin had six catches for 104 yards and a touchdown in the Super Bowl victory. He had said he'd consider retirement rather than leave Baltimore. But going to the NFC champions might change his mind.
The 24-year-old Harvin, Minnesota's moody and multi-talented receiver, will join the Seahawks for a package of draft picks that includes Seattle's first-round selection next month, No. 25 overall. He also must pass a physical.
Around the league
Broncos • Denver released versatile but vexing linebacker D.J. Williams. The Broncos released the nine-year veteran Monday on the eve of free agency, freeing up his $6 million salary in 2013 for other needs. The Broncos also have asked Pro Bowl defensive end Elvis Dumervil to take a pay cut. If not, he'll be traded or released before Saturday when his $12 million salary for 2013 becomes guaranteed.
Jets • New York signed quarterback David Garrard to back up and provide a challenge to starter Mark Sanchez. Garrard started 76 games in nine seasons with Jacksonville, but has not played in the NFL since 2010.
Cardinals • Arizona released running back Beanie Wells after four injury-plagued seasons. A first-round pick in 2009, Wells showed flashes of the brilliance he had at Ohio State, but has only played one full season his rookie year.


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Twenty inches of rain pummeled the town of Sherando. Winds as high as 107 mph snapped 6,000 power poles, darkening the homes of 1.8 million people. A floodgate at the Midtown Tunnel connecting Portsmouth and Norfolk washed out just as workers raced to close it. They barely escaped. Forty minutes later it was completely waterchoked. It stayed closed for a month.


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Debbie Deaton sent me a photo hoping I could confirm the
identity of this family. She thinks this portrait depicts the Deaton family: Franklin
Deaton, his wife, Mahalia Mae Archer Deaton, and their children. Standing next to Mahalia is her son and Franklin's
step-son, Harley. The other boy is Arthur Lee Deaton, Debbie's husband's
grandfather. The girl is supposedly Zelda.
The clothing in this picture is the first thing I looked at,
but it doesn't tell the whole story. The full sleeves on the women's dresses suggest
a time frame of the mid 1890s. That's the easy part. I know I've said it before,
but costume is only one clue. In this
picture's case, the family history and genealogy can solve the
Debbie knows little about the individuals in this
picture. They lived in Oklahoma,
and Mahalia was supposedly a full-blood Cherokee Indian. Franklin
worked as a Sheriff. He died delivering a tax bill; as he got to the door, the
man shot Franklin
I searched GenealogyBank for newspaper stories relating
to Franklin, but
didn't have any luck. Then I tried the Oklahoma Historical Society Web site, where you can search citations for Oklahoma
newspaper articles. Unfortunately, Franklin
didn't appear in the index.
I decided
to search the Federal Census using HeritageQuest Online (I have access with my
Boston Public Library card—see if your public library system provides access
to HeritageQuest). I didn't find Franklin, but there was a
1900 census record for Mahalia (below).
living with an Archer family. Her relationship to the head of the
household is "step daughter;" Mahalia's children are "step grandchildren." Both Arthur and Zildy (Zelda) appear, but no
Harley. The census states Mahala's race as "Ind." and she reported having given birth to three children.
That led me to some possibilities:
There are a lot of unanswered questions about the Deaton
family and this picture, but it's a
solvable problem. I'd continue to look for a death notice or news
story about Franklin's
death, which appears to have occurred about 1900. I also
suggest Debbie look at her family tree for other families with children
the right ages for this image. Other research that can help includes the Dawes Rolls of Five Civilized Tribe enrollments.
I have to admit all the questions around this picture make my head hurt. If you have
a suggestion for these Oklahoma
research woes, please post a comment.
This week's mystery photo comes all the way from New Zealand. Don't you just love the way the Internet
brings us all closer together!
Janet Drinnan wrote of the picture below "We think it may be our great-great-grandmother, who was born in Buchanan, Stirlingshire, Scotland, in 1810. Her
daughter Elizabeth, who emigrated to New Zealand in 1862, had it. It is not Elizabeth, as
we have several photos of her in New Zealand—she was born in 1840
when her mother was 30 years old. Elizabeth's
mother, who was born in 1810, died of cancer in 1865 at 55 years old."
Unfortunately, I have bad news for Janet: This woman isn't her great-great- grandmother (born 1810).
The woman in this photo lived long after 1865. The design of
her dress dates the picture to circa 1900 to 1905. Notice her scalloped collar with jet
beaded trim, and the pleated inset in the bodice. She has three-quarter-length
sleeves. Lower sleeves extend to the wrist, with pleats and
a beaded wristband. It's a gorgeous dress,
probably made from black silk. The woman wears a chiffon rose pinned to her bodice and a similar hair bow. (Hair bows were worn
by younger women in this period, while older women usually chose plain hairstyles.) The bow, dress and setting provide elegance to this portrait.
Clothing styles were different in the 1860s. Women then wore
wide skirts and full sleeves with small collars. Jet beaded trim was also commonly used in the 1880s,
but the other clothing details point to the 1900 to 1905 time frame.
Now that I've destroyed a family oral tradition of who's
depicted, let's see if I can help determine who this really is:
Once Janet considers these
questions she should be able to list a few suspects.


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After a top-to-bottom, $9.2 million restoration, the 1930, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe–designed Tugendhat House in Brno, Czech Republic, has joined the list of modern homes—ranging from Gerrit Rietveld's 1924 Schröder House in Utrecht, the Netherlands, to Le Corbusier's 1930 Villa Savoye in Poissy, France, to Philip Johnson's 1949 Glass House in New Canaan, Conn.—that now look exactly the way they may have appeared when the owners first moved in. Take a guided tour through any of these museums (the only way to see them), and you can get a full sense of the architects' intentions. You might even understand why these houses were so influential in the development and spread of Modernism. The price for this achievement is the fact that what you see, certainly in the case of the Tugendhat House, is to a large extent a re-creation. You wander through rooms filled with replacement wall coverings, glass windows, wood and stone walls, and furniture while wearing protective slippers. No longer living places, these houses are now monuments that contradict the purpose that led them to be built in the first place.
The Tugendhat House was a home for less than eight years. Commissioned by Fritz and Grete Tugendhat—scions of two Jewish textile manufacturing families—for a hillside that was part of her parents' estate, the house accommodated the couple, their three small children, and their particular enthusiasms (there was a darkroom for Fritz) and needs (the house sported an advanced central air conditioning plant because Grete had asthma). When Germany invaded in 1938, the Tugendhats left for Switzerland and eventually Venezuela. The building was taken over by the Gestapo, who did not use it kindly. Worse, according to historical reports, was the Russian cavalry regiment that bivouacked there with their horses after the war. The house then became a rehabilitation center for children with spine defects before the City of Brno took it over in 1980 and authorized a restoration that, though it stabilized the structure and repaired water damage, also altered much of the original design. Finally, the Czech government found the funds (mainly through grants from the European Union) to complete a thorough and scientifically grounded restoration to UNESCO standards, overseen by Marek and Vítek Tichý of design firm Omnia Projekt in Brno.
Omnia had to strip the house almost to its foundations, which they then reinforced and sealed. They repaired or replaced almost every bit of mechanical equipment, as well as the roof, ceiling, walls, and floor surfaces, and even the sewage line. They ripped out the 1985 renovation–era terrazzo tiles and replaced them with ones that match the originals, of which there were still pieces in the house (you can buy fragments of them as souvenirs in the on-site gift shop). They replaced the glass, including the enormous, 3-meter-by-6-meter (9.8-foot-by-19.6-foot) floor-to-ceiling pane fronting the living room, which moves down into the lower floor at the flip of a switch. Every light fixture as well as every light switch now matches photographs of the original. The same is true of the levers and handles for the clerestories in the bathrooms. Finally, Omnia commissioned or bought reproduction furniture, including a blue version of the MR20 and a green Barcelona chair, whose colors it based on original records (the Brno chairs, designed for the house, are in plain white).
The results are startling, though not always in ways that are appealing. After you have reacquainted yourself with the spatial development of the main floor—which is essentially a spiral that uncoils from the back drawing room area, through the conservatory, past the onyx living room wall and the floor-to-ceiling glass wall that opens the house up to the view over the garden and Brno, and then into the dining table sheltered by the Macassar curve—what stands out are exactly those details. The fetishistic attention to the cross-shaped columns will be familiar to anyone who has studied modernist architecture, though it is breathtaking to watch these cruciform lines march through the open spaces, changing in material from bronze to chrome and finally to white paint in the kitchen. What jumps out are all the end points of the mechanical and structural systems that make this open space possible, and then the extension of those systems into metal, wood, and fabric furniture that cradle the body. The house appears as a technological web that wove together the activities of everyday life as they flowed in freedom through conditioned space. This was a version of Modernism that humanized and idealized technology, and as such became a utopian statement on how human ingenuity can liberate us.
Except that now you experience merely the remnants of that life and of that dream. You have to imagine how you might live in here, and how the accoutrements of daily existence would fit into that abstract web. You have to listen to the tour guide as he tries to re-create a lost world, or gaze at it in the photographs laid out in the visitors center in the basement, where you wind up after your proscribed hour in the house, passing, of course, the gift store on your way out to reality. Local architectural historian Ladislav Zikmund-Lender, who has worked at several museum houses and now for the Czech preservation agency, put it this way: "The Tugendhat looks like new, because most of the materials and furniture are new copies. The architects want it to look like the Tugendhats have just left the house—with flower arrangements on the new furniture even. But the wardrobes are empty, there are no personal things. The personal experience is irreplaceable. Personally, for me the experience of the space and Mies van der Rohe's concept was much more ravishing before the renovation."
So should the Tugendhat House have remained a ruin? Certainly not. Should it have a different use, perhaps a cultural one that would let it transform into another form of architecture, with a different message and furnishings, as well as a new life? Perhaps. Certainly it is valuable to see what van der Rohe and collaborator Lilly Reich believed architecture could do. But we have to realize that what we are seeing is only a collection of remains woven together into a picture-perfect facsimile.
Project Credits
Project Villa Tugendhat Restoration, Brno, Czech Republic
Client City of Brno; Fritz and Grete Tugendhat (original client)
Original Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Restoration Architect Omnia Projekt/Archatt—Marek Tichý, Vítek Tichý (chief design engineer)
Restoration Project Coordinator Iveta Cerná (Tugendhat House director)
Restoration Site Manager Michal Malásek
Original Construction Artur and Moric Eisler
Original Furniture Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Original Interior Design Lilly Reich
Original Interior Furnishings Sergius Ruegenberg
Original Garden Architect Markéta Roderová-Müllerová
Restoration Garden Architect Premysl Krejcirík
Original Sculpture Wilhelm Lehmbruck
Size 2,600 square meters (27,986 square feet)
Restoration Cost 179.2 million CZK ($9.2 million)


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Imported from mountainous northwestern Ireland, this is the lady's capelet of 100% merino wool that keeps the shoulders warm on chilly days. Naturally water-repellant and protective against the coastal winds of County Donegal's stark terrain, the capelet drapes over the shoulders and bust for a cozy layer of warmth that can be worn on its own or tucked inside a coat. The five buttons and wing collar seal out drafts and cover the neck against chills, while the capelet design allows for ventilation and easy arm movement, making it more suitable than a shawl for hiking and other outdoor activities. The traditional Aran knitting pattern incorporates the half-diamond stitch that represents winding cliffside paths. Oatmeal. Women's sizes. (7 oz.)
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By Shawn
from Medicine Hat, Canada
This was purchased as a gift for a friend. As she is very petite, I was concerned that a Medium size would be too large. My fears were groundless. The medium fits perfectly on a small framed lady. Anyone over 115 lbs. and 5'4" might want to go with the size Large. The warmth, quality and craftsmanship of this product is exceptional.
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By Do the Man
from Bloomington, IN
This was one of the Christmas gifts to my girl friend. I selected it because we did a week-long trip to Ireland in September. She bought a sweater there, so I though she would be pleased with the Irish capelet--and she was, mightily.
Neat idea
By Winter Weary Mary
from Staten Island, New York
A clever idea, this capelet is just that little bit of extra warmth over your indoor clothes around the house on a chilly day or use it under a coat or jacket on a cold windy day outdoors.
If you are on the fence, get it!
By susie jayne
from chicago, il
Keeps you warm especially if you have one layer on and you get a chill!!!! Love this!! It does run small got a large and I'm small and it fits.
Soft and warm, could be a little larger
By Parvati
from Severance, Colorado
Great for lounging around the house, or sitting at a desk.
great for mountain winter temps
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from Northern California
This product is made of quality wool direct from Ireland. The "collar" can be rolled down like a turtleneck. If it feels itchy, you can wear something underneath, like blouse w/ collar or turtleneck. You can either pull it over your head or unbutton to take on and off--easy! I am large in size and this was a size large capelet--fits fine (I unbutton the bottom button). I have not washed it yet, but obviously it will require a cold water wash and rinse, and flat air dry. Works great for me as I have severe osteoarthritis in my shoulders and some in my neck, and cold makes the joints hurt a lot. The wool capelet extends far enough over shoulders and covers neck so that it keeps them much warmer. I can wear it under a coat, too. Can't say it's flattering, but who cares when it helps to keep you warm and reduces pain levels!
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This was purchased as a gift for a November birthday. Will not be forwarded for another month.
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I've got a fresh image of BT5R3-GNOME-32-VM running in VMWare Player 5.0.0 build-812388 on a 32-bit Windows XP SP3 machine.
It's preloaded with VMWare tools (and I've tested and found copy/paste and all that working), I've enabled video acceleration in the virtual machine in VMWare Player, but when start X and go to System->Preferences->Appearance->Visual Effects they're all grayed out as if I'm missing a video driver.
Is there a fix for this?