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Monday February 24, 2020; 05:41 pm EST
Maryland Day offers so much, it takes a full weekend to celebrate it all
Maryland Day is our version of Columbus Day.
On March 25, 1634, voyagers from the ships the Ark and the Dove celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving for surviving their long voyage, coming to land safely on a Potomac River island and negotiating a peace accord with the Piscataway Indians.
Those were smart Indians; they suggested the colonists go elsewhere. Thus St. Mary's City, not St. Clement's Island, became the seat of the Lord Baltimore's new colony.
There's been a lot of history since then. Nowadays, it takes a three-day weekend to commemorate Maryland's 378 years. Celebrations of many chapters of that history, ancient and modern, have been laid on at both early landing spots and throughout the Four Rivers Heritage Area of Anne Arundel County.
"Following the example of Open Doors Heritage Days in Europe and America, Maryland Day opens our tourism season with a collaborative event in a heritage area anchored in the state capital — and with the original landing and first state capital in driving distance — that's easily and inexpensively visited," says Carol Benson, executive director of Four Rivers: The Heritage Area of Annapolis.
With spring in the air, the Maryland Day weekend is a swell time for historic day tripping. Restaurants, businesses and neighborhoods have joined forces with historic destinations to multiply the fun to be had.
Each experience costs only $1 (with rare exceptions), and some are free. Space is often limited, and some events require reservations, so plan ahead and arrive early.
–Sandra Olivetti Martin, Bay Weekly Editor
Crossroads of the Community Exhibit
Anne Arundel County's working courthouse has seen 188 years of history. See The Crossroads of the Community and meet its makers to catch up on some of the dramas of those years. If you like the shows CSI or Law and Order, this exhibit is for you.
Friday, March 23, 9:30am-4pm
7 Church Circle, Annapolis; www.fourriversheritage.org
Kids Create Chesapeake Bay Lighthouses
Taking inspiration from real Chesapeake Bay lighthouses, kids use cereal boxes, cellophane scraps and other recyclables to make a lighthouse model. Daisy Girl Scouts can earn the Clover Petal. Brownies and Juniors can earn a Lighthouse Badge.
Reservations appreciated.
Friday, March 23, 10:30-11:30am
25 Silopanna Rd., Annapolis, 410-990-1993; www.theccm.org
Behind-the Scenes Tour
The nation's oldest working statehouse teems with history. Today, there's a special treat in addition to self-guided tours of the grand building and its original working chambers, including the Old Senate Chamber, where George Washington resigned his commission as commander in chief in 1783.
Today's highlight is silver service from the USS Maryland, newly returned to its home in the State House. Each of Maryland's 23 counties and Baltimore City are represented in this remarkable silver service made by the celebrated firm of Samuel Kirk and Sons and paid for in 1906 with a $5,000 donation from Maryland schoolchildren.
Curators of the state's art collection describe its significance (1pm and 2pm) and answer questions about this unique 46-piece service and its new permanent installation in the State House Caucus Room.
Photo ID required.
Friday, March 23, 1-3pm
100 State Circle, Annapolis, 410-974-3400;
Board the Stanley Norman Skipjack at Annapolis City Dock
Come aboard the Stanley Norman, a 110-year-old skipjack run by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, to discover the history of one of Maryland's most important industries, oystering. You will learn about skipjacks, oysters, and how it all relates to the health of the Chesapeake.
Friday, March 23, 3:30-5:30pm
410-268-8816; www.cbf.org
Mold reef balls to create an instant underwater community inviting to oysters. Reef balls are punctured concrete spheres with holes that provide valuable marine habitat. Dress to work outdoors, including gloves and boots. Bring lunch and water. 30 workers per session.
Friday, March 23, 9am-2pm
Saturday, March 24, 9am-noon
4800 Atwell Rd., Shady Side; 410-268-8816; www.cbf.org; rsvp [email protected]
Tea Party and Period Music
All kinds of interesting stories of Maryland history live in the brick walls of this three-story Georgian mansion built between 1769 and 1774.
The architectural gem was commissioned by Declaration of Independence signer Samuel Chase, who staffer Carol Kelly describes as the "perfect American story: young, ambitious, political and reaching beyond his means." Chase later became a Supreme Court justice, yet he never lived in the house. Wealthy plantation owner Edward Lloyd bought and finished it.
In the 1890s, its last private owner willed it to a board of trustees to maintain as a home for elderly women, who, she wrote "needed relief from the vicissitudes of life." Six to eight independent ladies of all means live in the historic house to this day.
Both days' events show off the three rooms open to the public, including the foyer with its magnificent cantilevered staircase and Palladian window. No high heels or strollers.
On Friday, join the ladies for a historic repast of tea, finger sandwiches, and sweets and savories served by costumed colonials in the beautiful dining room of an eighteenth-century mansion. Seating for 25 at 2:30 or 4:30pm; rsvp.
On Saturday, the Weems Creek Jammers play music typical of English country dances and their colonial equivalents, as well as Virginia reels and French quadrilles.
Friday, March 23, 2:30 and 4:30pm and Saturday,
March 24, every half-hour 2-5pm for 25 visitors at a time
22 Maryland Ave., Annapolis, 443-994-1830 (Carol Kelly)
Neighborhood Commemoration
The business and residential neighborhood you know as West Annapolis was formerly known as Norwood's Beale Plantation. John Norwood, the first sheriff of Providence (later Anne Arundel County) patented the land in 1658 as a good site for growing tobacco.
Friday, March 23: bb bistro serves colonial cuisine.
A walking tour of West Annapolis meets in the McCrone Parking lot on Annapolis Street at 10:30am.
Saturday, March 24, rsvp: [email protected]
Three Days of Events Celebrating Bates, Its Community, History and People
The Wiley H. Bates Heritage Park, home of The Wiley H. Bates Legacy Center and Memorial, is a $27 million complex dedicated to preserving and presenting the history of Wiley H. Bates High School, the only high school for African Americans in Anne Arundel County from 1932 to 1966.
At Friday's open house, 11am-1pm, explore the history and people of the Bates Legacy Center and see the documentary Bringing Back Bates.
Local youths sing, dance and recite poetry Saturday at 2pm.
Hear a local gospel choir Sunday at 3:30pm. rsvp 443-510-7092 or [email protected].
1101 Smithville St., Annapolis; 410-263-1860; www.whbateslegacycenter.org
Maryland Art and Wine Reception
Historic Reynolds Tavern has been an Annapolis landmark since 1737. For the three-day Maryland Day holiday, Chef Antonello creates lunch and dinner specials celebrating Maryland's bounty.
Friday, meet J.E. Nicklason, who has made the people and places, water- and landscapes of Chesapeake Country the subjects of his art and camera. Learn how he sees his subjects while sampling wine from Maryland's Boordy Vineyards.
Friday 5:30-7:30pm
7 Church Circle, Annapolis; 410-295-9555; www.reynoldstavern.org
Osprey Hunt
Bring your binoculars and join Chesapeake Bay Foundation staffers on a hunt for osprey, a major success in protecting natural resources. Osprey have just returned from their winter grounds in Central and South America and are setting up nests around the property. Open to the first 20 birdwatchers.
Saturday, March 24, 8-9am
rsvp Adam Wickline: 443-482-2034; [email protected]
Merrill Center; 6 Herndon Ave., Annapolis; 410-268-8816; www.cbf.org
Archaeology in Annapolis
See, touch and learn about the lives and culture of past Annapolitans. Student archaeologists with the University of Maryland's Archaeology in Annapolis Summer Field School show and explain historic artifacts and images from recent excavations from Fleet, Cornhill, Pinkney, and East streets. You'll learn — based on food remains and tableware — how various communities and ethnic groups, including whites, African American and Filipinos, have lived in the city for over 300 years.
Saturday, March 24, 10am-noon
City Hall: 160 Duke of Gloucester St., Annapolis; www.bsos.umd.edu/anth/aia; rsvp: [email protected] or 410-263-7941 (Shari Pippen)
Tour & Living History
Hogshead has been long known as the Barracks, for that's the purpose it served for 18th-century frontiersmen, for whom the Wild West was practically next door. Visit to hear stories of how they lived from their impersonators and lay your hands and imaginations on their tools.
Saturday, March 24, noon-4pm
43 Pinkney St., Annapolis; 410-267-7619; www.annapolis.org
Tour & Living History Performance
The home of William Paca, signer of the Declaration of Independence and Revolutionary-era Governor of Maryland, has been restored from former uses — including as the Carvel Hall Hotel — as one of the most elegant landmarks in Annapolis. Tour the garden, first floor and newly decorated dining room.
Throughout the day, historic interpreters of the award-winning Project Run-A-Way enact the stories of runaway slaves.
Saturday, March 24, 10am-5pm
186 Prince George St., Annapolis; 410-267-7619; www.annapolis.org
Honor Native Americans in the Colony's Recreated 17th-century Capital
In our oldest city, costumed interpreters in recreated 17th-century settings tell the stories of Maryland's first years, when St. Mary's was the colony's capital. You'll see archaeological sites under excavation across the landscape plus the reconstructed State House of 1676; Smith's Ordinary; the Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation, a working colonial farm, a replica of the square-rigged Dove and the Woodland Indian Hamlet. Hands-on activities at most sites.
This year's celebration focuses on the region's indigenous people, who helped the early English settlers. This year the state officially recognized the Piscataway Indian Nation and the Piscataway Conoy Tribe.
Anthropologist and Indian affairs advocate Rebecca Seib speaks at 1pm in a program that concludes with the Ceremony of the Flags, featuring fourth-graders parading the colors of Maryland jurisdictions.
Saturday, March 24, 10am-4pm
Visitor Center: 18751 Hogaboom Ln., St. Mary's City; 240-895-4990; www.stmaryscity.org
Mapping Maryland
Kids and their parents explore Maryland through our oldest maps with a guide who explains how maps and bird's-eye views were made and used. You'll see the world through Capt. John Smith's eyes and travel through Anne Arundel County in 1860 and Annapolis in 1878. Reproductions of the Maryland maps are 20 percent off.
Saturday, March 24, 11am-3pm
3141 Solomons Island Rd., Edgewater; 410-956-7278; www.marylandframing.com
PartnershipKnowledge Break
Take a break from history and visit one of Annapolis's many pocket parks. Learn about Annapolis MainStreets, the Girl Scouts — who celebrate their centennial this year — and their Maryland Heritage Badge.
Saturday, March 24, Noon-4pm
Pocket Park at 122 Main St., Annapolis
Hike in Nature and History
Hike with Center guides to the beautiful and historical Contee Farm, learning as you walk about the land, its culture and the research of Smithsonian scientists at the Center.
rsvp: Open to the first 18 hikers ages 8 and older.
Saturday, March 24, 1:30-3pm
647 Contees Wharf Rd., Edgewater; 443-482-2388; www.serc.si.edu
Quilting Bee
The needle-smart volunteers of Annapolis Tapestries invite you to make history, joining them and more than 300 stitchers from the U.S. and around the world in creating a community legacy.
No experience necessary, as volunteers will guide you in adding your stitches to original tapestry canvases. You'll sign your name in the Stitchers Log, which will become part of the permanent exhibit of the Annapolis Tapestries Project.
Expert stitchers work on one of the 18th century tapestry panels and demonstrate needlepoint techniques.
Saturday, March 24, 10am-4pm
Sunday, March 25, 11am-4pm
Historic Annapolis Museum, 99 Main St., Annapolis; [email protected]; www.annapolistapestries.wordpress.com
Exhibits and Living History
Get a first look at two new exhibits.
Sewing Through Time uses found history to document the necessity, pastime and industry of sewing.
Also brand new: Views of Annapolis.
All day, civilian and military interpreters describe early Annapolis life.
Saturday, March 24, and Sunday, March 25, 10am-5pm
99 Main St.; 410-267-6656; www.annapolis.org
Visit a Historic Town, Reconstructed from Archaeological Clues
History lives at London Town, where you can visit William Brown's house and the Lord Mayor's Tenement to see colonial-style hearth cooking and colonial-era British Marine drills. The newest exhibit, Discover London Town, interprets the site's history from 13,000 years ago to today.
Make your reservations for Spirits of the Past: A Colonial-Era Drink Tasting: 5pm, $30 rsvp.
Sunday, March 25, 10am-4:30pm
839 Londontown Rd.; Edgewater; 410-222-1919; www.historiclondontown.org
Open House for All Ages
Charles Carroll House was home of the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. Re-enactors from Capital City Colonials lead tours and historic scavenger hunts.
Sit for a silhouette portrait by Baltimore historical artisan Lauren Muney: $15 for one likeness; $25 for two.
Saturday, March 24, and Sunday, March 25, Noon-4pm
107 Duke of Gloucester St., Annapolis; 410-269-1737; www.charlescarrollhouse.org
Quilting and Oral History of Rosenwald Schools
If you studied at a Rosenwald school, bring photos to share, recount your experiences and add stitches to documentary story quilts on six of Anne Arundel's 23 Rosenwald schools. Otherwise, come to learn.
Rosenwald schools were built by African American communities throughout the southern United States with partial funding from a special fund started in 1917 by Julius Rosenwald, head of Sears Roebuck & Co.
Saturday, March 24, 1-3pm, Annapolis
84 Franklin St., Annapolis; 410-216-6180; bdmuseum.com
Sunday, March 25, 1:30-3:30pm
Galesville Community Center, 916 W. Benning Rd. and Mount Zion United Methodist Church, 41 Ark Rd., Lothian
Who Were These Characters?
McNasby's Oyster Company, Annapolis' last oyster shucking house, lives on as the Annapolis Maritime Museum. Annapolis historian and author Jane McWilliams talks about the Calverts, George Washington and Annapolis' Declaration of Independence signers. Girl Scouts can attend on the way to earning their Maryland Heritage Patch.
Sunday, March 25, 2pm
Second St. at Back Creek, Eastport; 410 295-0104; www.amaritime.org
Meet the Colonists, Tour a Lighthouse
The St. Clement's Island Museum tells the story of Maryland's first colonists from England to the new world. See them as depicted by local artist George McWilliams, who used contemporary locals as models for his 1999 mural.
At Piney Point Lighthouse, Museum and Historic Park you can not only visit a historic Maryland lighthouse but also learn about local boats, from skipjacks to submarines.
Join citizens and officials in a commemorative ceremony to honor the founding of Maryland at the spot. From 2 to 3pm, local historian and author Dr. Ralph Eshelman talks on the colonists who made the crossing and gave thanks on this day in 1634.
Sunday, March 25, 10am-5pm
Colton's Point, St. Mary's County; 301-769-2222; www.co.saint-marys.md.us/recreate/museums.asp
Nautical Activities for Families
Kids and families try on a sailor's life, learning to tie nautical knots, construct a paper John Paul Jones hat and make linoleum rubbings to take home. Guided walking tours of the Academy are also available for a fee.
Sunday, March 25, Noon-3pm
Armel-Leftwich Visitor Center (Enter at Gate 1, King George St.); 410-293-8687; www.usna.edu/NAFPRODV/VC
Gone But Not Forgotten Walking Tour
Join Squire Richard (aka former mayor Richard Hillman) in exploring sites reflecting three and a half centuries of change in the historic district and on the grounds of the Naval Academy. The hour-long tour ends at Mills Fine Wine and Spirits just in time to taste St. Michaels wines and Nutterz snacks.
Sunday, March 25, immediately after the noon flag-raising ceremony at Susan G. Campbell Park, Annapolis City Dock
Maryland Wine Poured and Snacks Served
As one of the oldest family-owned businesses in Annapolis, Mills Fine Wine and Spirits has been making Maryland history for 60 years. Visit today and taste St. Michaels wine and Nutterz snacks.
St. Michaels Winery of Talbot County pours a selection of its award-winning dry white and red wines and its delightful, easy-sipping Gollywobbler sweet wines, complemented by B More Nutz of Baltimore with its Nutterz in crab, bacon cheddar, mild chili and many other delicious flavors.
Sunday, March 25, 1pm until it's all drunk
87 Main St., Annapolis; 410-263-2888; www.millswine.com
Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, located in the former Annapolis High School, shows how it lives up to its name with performances of dance by Ballet Theatre of Maryland, theater by the Annapolis Shakespeare Company, and song by the Annapolis Chorale. Plus Hawaiian and belly dancing, art shows, demonstrations and hands-on projects for all ages.
Sunday, March 25, 1-4pm
801 Chase St., Annapolis; 410-280-5640; www.mdhallarts.org
Colonial Kids Dress-up
The aspiration of young men has made lasting marks on Annapolis. Tobacco planter Matthias Hammond was only 25 and newly elected to the House of Delegates in 1774 when he commissioned this stately brick Georgian main house with half-hexagonal wings on either side.
Today, kids five to 12 enter the mansion to dress up in 18th century colonial garb and learn the niceties of colonial etiquette, including how to make a bow or curtsy. Souvenir postcards and coloring book reward for genteel manners.
Sunday, March 25, 1-4 pm
19 Maryland Ave., Annapolis; 410-263-4683;
Watermen in Maryland History
In 47 years of combined experience working the waters of Chesapeake Bay, Bill and Sue Cheatham have pulled up more than fish, crabs and oysters. In Bringing Our Bay's Past to the Surface, the husband and wife show and tell about the artifacts they've discovered and the tools they've used. Hear them at 1, 2 or 3pm.
You'll also tour the 19th century home of museum namesake Captain Salem Avery with docents, who'll describe the Avery family and the Shady Side peninsula in the 1860s.
Sunday, March 25, 1-4pm
1418 East West Shady Dr., Shady Side; 410-867-4486; www.captainaverymuseum.org
Living Historic Village
On the grounds of Herrington Harbour North Marina, cast-off buildings have been assembled and reconstructed in a historic village.
Herrington Harbour owner Steuart Chaney saved the first building, the Nutwell School, in honor of his great-aunt, who taught there, commuting weekly by horseback. Soon buildings were finding him, in such numbers that they became a village.
"All the buildings were going to be destroyed because of development," Chaney said. "I wanted to save them. They tell the story of the past."
The Deale Area Historical Society reanimates the village. Today, hard-working housewives, farmers, watermen and students carry out the jobs that would have been daily chores in the early 1900s. They churn butter, crank the ice cream freezer, make a needlework sample and tie mariner's knots. Join them, writing on slates and competing in a spelling bee, learning to grow tobacco, attending a Beneficial Society meeting and discovering if you descend from a member of the War of 1812 militia.
Refreshments served by Herrington on the Bay Catering.
Sunday, March 25, 1-5pm
Historic Village Museum at Herrington Harbour North Marina, 389 Rt. 256, Tracys Landing;. www.dahs.us
18th Century Shipbuilding Illuminated
The village of Galesville treasures its past. The Galesville Heritage Museum preserves and illuminates those treasures in the home of schoolteacher Carrie Weedon. Visit today, and you'll learn about the Stephen Steward Shipyard, the scene of Anne Arundel County's only Revolutionary War battle. The shipyard and home were burned by British raiders on March 31, 1781. But the larger story of 18th century shipbuilding on the West River is being reconstructed, in large part from artifacts found at the shipyard site.
At 1:30 and 3:30pm, Dean Hall, current owner of the property, tells the story of how the shipyard was rediscovered in the last 20 years. You'll glimpse what life was like at the shipyard, where blacksmiths, shipwrights, tenant farmers and other laborers worked. Meet a living history performer portraying Stephen Steward and watch the video How Ships Were Borne, learning how ships were built and launched.
Sunday, March 25, 1-5pm
988 Main St., Galesville; www.galesvilleheritagesociety.org
Colonial Book Talk and Display
Back Creek Books is a storehouse of Maryland history, buying and selling quality used and out-of-print books, with an emphasis on Marylandiana, Americana, Military and Naval History and Nautical material. Local historian Paul Koch talks about colonial Maryland books, maps and documents and shows samples of his collection. Owner Rockford Toews serves wine and light refreshments.
Sunday, March 25, 2-5pm
45 West St., Annapolis, 410-626-1363; www.backcreekbooks.com
Historic Music
Woods Tea Company, an acoustic trio, adds witty banter to traditional and vintage tunes and invites sing-alongs and trials of a dozen instruments at 2pm at the Visitor Center auditorium. $15 admission benefits the museum's tall ship, Maryland Dove.
Ping, a new vocal group of the St. Mary's College of Maryland Chamber Singers, makes its debut performance of 17th century songs. Transportation will be provided for those needing assistance.
Sunday, March 25, 5pm in the Brick Chapel
18751 Hogaboom Ln., St. Mary's City; 240-895-4990; www.stmaryscity.org


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How often in media stories about MTF trans people using public accommodations for women do we see the same basic narrative: trans people have always felt these feelings for a long time, their feelings are not sexual or fetishistic, this isn't a way to let sick or twisted men into women's spaces. Indeed, for most trans people, this is undoubtedly the case, but the problem lies in saying that there are no trans-identified people intent on using women's spaces for fetishistic purposes.
You can see the result of this thinking in media coverage the current Planet Fitness case. The "trans woman" at the center of the Planet Fitness situation, "Carlotta Sklodowska," is a male-identified fetishist who adopted a creepy, racist pseudo-Eastern European woman accent on his Facebook and liked posting objectifying, ultra-sexualized comments on fitness photos of women. Women are portrayed as crazy harpies for daring to warn other women about someone who is a serious creep. Even though several actual transgender people, including Zoey Tur, specifically said that this person was a fetishistic crossdresser and not trans (and therefore shouldn't have been protected by transgender protection policies or laws), those trans people have been told to shut up by prominent activists and have had their roles as media spokespeople called into question.
But is the distinction between a trans-identifying person and a fetishist always so clear? When women are being told worldwide that we must accept XY-chromosomed, fully fertile people with penises in our changing rooms, we need to know whether the narrative of "this isn't sexual, I just need to pee" is really all there is to it.
We here at Transgender Reality decided to investigate.
In this post, one transgender-identified male asks how he can stop having erections every time he dresses like a woman in public. The overwhelming response by the community?
Dress as a woman more, and it'll probably get better. So this is one thing women can expect to be dealing with in the months and years to come: men dressing as women and entering women's spaces deliberately to "desensitize" themselves to their sexual feelings. Is this a service women should be required to provide to men–validation of their "woman-ness" even as they stand there with their erections simply from wearing "female clothes"? Is the accommodation of these men through their desensitization process something all women and girls should be subjected to?
For that matter, how long is the average desensitization period? Women need to know these things, since we are now supposed to accept the "trans woman" experience as female. If this is so normal, talk more about it, trans activists. How many weeks, months, years will you be getting erections when you put on a bra or enter a changing room?
In case you wonder whether this is common, here are a few links to sort you out. In each link, the comments talk about just how common this is. No one says "this is vile, you're not a real trans person, get out." So in case you had any illusions about the trans community policing its own, and making sure that only people who just feel very sad about not having the opposite sex's body get to use opposite sex facilities, rather than allowing fetishists as well, think again.
Whether you're too turned on by women's pajamas to even fall asleep:
Or believe that all women's vaginas are for is to be "fucked hard" on a "regular basis":
Or obsessively look at women's pelvic areas to see if you can determine what kind of underwear they're wearing, all while feeling jealousy and resentment (bonus: this man's wife was 3 months pregnant with their first child at the time when he wrote this!):
Or you wake up in the middle of the night to pee, see your reflection and get hard:
Note how this person acknowledges that he has a fetish, and feels like he's being "a girl" for the wrong reasons. What advice does he receive? That his happiness is the only thing that matters, even when he admits getting "so turned on he's scared":
Being constantly turned on by "wearing pretty girl clothes" is great! And apparently the purpose of pronouns is sexual gratification:
Keep doing what you're doing, but keep your penis!
Or how about this guy, who wonders if watching "sissy porn" made him think he was transgender:
Or how about this person, who wants to be "pinned down and raped", "forced to suck cock", and "get caged and turned into a sexy little fuck-cow", and who states that his fetishes are all "directly related to me becoming a girl".
No worries though, the commenters assure him, most women have these fantasies, it's totally common!
These are the people women are supposed to be okay with sharing bathrooms and dressing rooms with, and if someone complains they must be a horrible transphobe. Disclaimer: nobody is saying that all, or even most, trans people are this way. But some definitely are, by their own admission. And we're apparently not allowed to point this out, without being called TERFs, transphobic, or bigots. And women are apparently not allowed to be skeptical about sharing private spaces with people who get so turned on they're "scared" by any kind of "female" items or settings, even by female pronouns.

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Daily Slice: Savory & Sweet Escape, North Truro, Massachusetts
A different slice profiled each day.
Snaking down Route 6 on the Cape, there is the ever-present danger that traffic will slow to a crawl. Luckily there are all manner of food shacks, ice cream stands, and souvenir shops that offer reprieve from the traffic. If it's a slice you're after, then Savory & Sweet Escape in North Truro (just south of Provincetown) will make for a supremely satisfying pit stop.
Most of the pizza on the Cape is of the Greek pan pizza variety; a style that is ubiquitous throughout the state of Massachusetts. The thin crust pizzas at Savory & Sweet Escape offer a vacation from the thick crust pies and come by the slice ($2.50) or whole.
Their crust is a little too thin; however, not in an extremely crackery way, but in the sense that there is no rise to the bones of slice. Maybe it's that the slice gets over-fired in the Woodstone oven they use. (These seem to be pretty popular these days. They vaguely emulate a wood-fired stone hearth style oven but are run on gas. You don't get the smokiness of real wood, nor do they get as hot as real wood.) The upside is the undercarriage which is sturdy and crisp from tip to end.
The tomato sauce really makes up for any lost ground in the crust department. Bright and pleasantly acidic, the fresh sauce marries well with the salty and slightly tangy cheese. The crowning components of the slice (by which I mean the sauce and cheese) make this thin crust slice worth braving the Cape traffic.
Savory & Sweet Escape
316 Route 6, North Truro, MA 02666 (map); 508-487-2225
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Item Description
Charles Robinson, Washington, D.C. to William Hutchinson
Author: Robinson, Charles
Date: December 31, 1858
Robinson speculated about the prospects for financing and building a railroad in the Kansas River valley. He contended that government land grants would be necessary for the successful construction and operation of a railroad. Robinson also defended himself against charges that he was not working hard enough to convince the U.S. Congress to support a railroad in the Kansas River valley.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: William Hutchinson Collection, # 400, Box 1, Folder 3
Item Number: 100189 Number of images: 4
Keywords: Hutchinson, William, 1823-1904; Railroad land grants; Railroads; Railroads finance; Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894
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'Behind the Headlines'? Despite the Headlines!
STRATFOR—a group I hadn't heard of before—provides, in their words, "geopolitical intelligence — independent, non‐ideological and non‐partisan analysis and perspective that is unavailable anywhere else in the world." They also say they provide the "intelligence behind the headlines."
Well, I was struck—delighted, really—to see them outright contradict the headlines in a report of theirs that mercilessly skewers H1N1 (swine) flu fears:
It has been five months since the A(H1N1) influenza virus — aka the swine flu — climbed to the top of the global media heap, and with the start of the Northern Hemisphere's annual flu season just around the corner, the topic is worth revisiting.
If you take only one fact away from this analysis, take this: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) believes that hospitalization rates and mortality rates for A(H1N1) are similar to or lower than they are for more traditional influenza strains. And if you take two facts away, consider this as well: Influenza data are incomplete at best and rarely cross‐comparable, so any assertions of the likelihood of mass deaths are little more than scaremongering bereft of any real analysis or, more important, any actual evidence.
One would expect "intelligence" reporting firms to have the same incentives as politicians and other media: drum up fear to drum up business. But there is value in providing actual facts and sound strategies for responding to world events. As a non‐expert, I'm not able to evaluate the substance of the STRATFOR report or its conclusions, but I give it credibility as a statement against interest.
After the early ineptitude shown by the Obama Administration, I was beginning to think that the steady drumbeat of news about preparation for flu season was appropriate societal girding for what could be a notable disease outbreak. I am more inclined now to believe that we are flushing more money down the drain because of fears the administration generated.
Overreaction harms the country, and it is the responsibility of governments—if they take a role—to quell impulses toward overreaction when incidents of national significance occur.


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"NOVIFAST: A fast algorithm for accurate and precise VFA MRI T1 mapping", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 37, issue 11, pp. 2414 - 2427, 2018. Download paper (3.3 MB)
"NOVIFAST: A fast non-linear least squares method for accurate and precise estimation of T1 from SPGR signals", 24th Annual Meeting of the ISMRM, Singapore, 2016.


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John Cook won the Montreal Championship for his third Champions Tour title of the year, closing with a 6-under 66 on Sunday for a tournament-record 21-under 195 total.
Cook, the runner-up last year at Fontainebleau Golf Club, beat Taiwan's Chien-soon Lu (70) by three strokes. Joey Sindelar (68) was third at 17 under, and Bill Glasson (64), Corey Pavin (67) and Dan Forsman (68) were another stroke back. Canadian Rod Spittle broke the course record with a 62 to finish at 15 under.
"I thought 20 would have a good chance," Cook said. "I got off to a great start and that kind of let me then relax a little bit and go ahead and free swing it because 20 was my number that I thought was going to be close, have a chance, maybe a playoff, so all day I was thinking that. Once I got to 20, I wanted to get to 21."
Cook also won the season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship in Hawaii in January and topped Jay Don Blake in a playoff in the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am in Florida in April. Cook has eight victories on the 50-and-over tour after winning 11 times on the PGA Tour.
"To win coming from behind and win from being ahead, it's two different animals, really," Cook said. "Mr. Lu did a nice job and he kind of got things going on the back side there and made some beautiful birdies coming down the stretch. He just battled all day and he wasn't giving up."
Spittle, from Niagara Falls, Ontario, began the round in a tie for 49th.
"I expect to win sometimes this year and this is just a great boost of confidence," Spittle said.
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Today's history lesson is about Burrell School in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Summit Road. It opened in 1877. However, the building you see today is not the original. It burned in a grass fire in 1899 and was rebuilt.
It looks like it closed around 1954 and was sold. Dave and Anne Moulton bought it in 1973 and opened the current Burrell School Vineyards and Winery. They have whimsical names for their wines: Teacher's Pet Chardonnay, Schoolyard Petite Sirah, Detention Red Zinfandel, etc.
As I returned on Schulties Road, the long suffering dirt road does see maintenance. County work crews shored up two sags in the road with substantial lumber construction.
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Straight-as-an-arrow police sergeant Dave Bannion has no truck with the corruption that surrounds him, until he finally has to team up with kept woman Debby Marsh (Gloria Grahame) to solve a crime and extract revenge.
The Big Heat, 1953
Police sergeant Glenn Ford is tough as nails, but has a heart of gold. Gloria Grahame is a kept woman, but has a heart of gold. Everyone else is a crook and a louse, except for the woman who works at the auto repair shop, and you can tell she's a good egg because she walks with a cane.
The plot of The Big Heat is a straight line from the first scene to the end, with a single I-can't-believe-they-did-that moment in the middle that's telegraphed so thoroughly the they should save their money and put a first class stamp on it.
Still, even on an off day Fritz Lang can create eye candy out of nothing but lighting and camera angles. If you want to see Gloria Grahame when she has some real material to work with, go straight to In a Lonely Place. As for the other principal, he's quite good here, but has there ever been a truly great Glenn Ford movie?


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About a week ago, we broke some news about an intriguing new app for iOS and Android called SoundWave that does something no other app has succeeded in doing, with Apple's approval anyway: It can tell what you're listening to in Apple's Music app, and then share that activity with other people.
The upshot of this system, which can also track what you're listening to in Rdio and Spotify, is basically an evolved version of scrobbling (see Last.fm and Facebook) that focuses on mobile. In a welcome break from the silo-ization of music, it works across iOS/Android and across iTunes/Rdio/Spotify.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak loves SoundWave (free on iOS or Android) because he can share what he's listening to without altering his listening habits, and he's not the only heavyhitter who believes in SoundWave; Mark Cuban is an investor.
We have written extensively (and exclusively) about why Woz likes SoundWave, and we even uncovered some of how it works, so we won't get into that again here.
Instead, we'll focus just on the hands-on stuff, now that the beta we'd been playing around with has appeared in the Android and iTunes stores. Apple featured the app today, which isn't too surprising considering that senior VP Eddie Cue was impressed enough to alert the US and UK iTunes staff to the app's existence, as we reported earlier.
In our hands-on testing, everything worked just about perfectly. We were able to see our friends, see what they were listening to in the
Feed: As advertised, you can follow what any other user is listening to in SoundWave — even "Woz" himself (user name: "Woz Woz.") Steve Wozniak's most recent play was "You're Beautiful (Acoustic) by James Blunt. His most-played song is "Superman (It's Not Easy)" by Five For Fighting. See, it's easy.
The feed updates rather quickly; you'll see whatever you're listening to appear in your feed not long after playing it — and while the Music app songs must be played back on your device to be shared, SoundWave (for iOS) sees your Rdio and Spotify activity through Facebook, so it'll show up in. To give yourself some privacy, you can activate a 60min "guilty pleasure"mode. Unlike the similar feature in Spotify and other apps, this one toggles back to public sharing after an hour.
Discovery: Here, we found one of the only issues with this app: Because it scrobbles from people's activity in Apple's Music app, Rdio, and Spotify, but then full-track playback via SoundCloud and YouTube, SoundWave occasionally plays the wrong song, or fails to play a song due to, say, the content owner not allowing the YouTube video to be embedded elsewhere. It would be nice if the tracks would play back in Rdio and Spotify (and if the right track always played).
Maps: You can draw a little circle and listen to everything within it. Neat! It worked every time.
Filters: Taking a play — or actually, just terminology — from Instagram's playbook, SoundWave lets you tweak what appears in your feed to your liking with a Filter. By default, your feed lets you know when someone you follow plays, rates, likes, or shares a song. You can turn any of those off.
Explore: This is the first day SoundWave has been public, so the charts aren't representative of how this thing will turn out, but still, it's interesting to note that among the early user base, the Justin Biebers and One Directions of the world are getting downvoted, while Daft Punk, Bastille, and Icona Pop have the most Likes.
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Pipeline Perspectives: Twins have best prospect duo
Top-ranked Buxton, right-hander Meyer most promising position player-pitcher pairing
There's a good amount of subjectivity regarding baseball prospects. With the evaluation of talent being in the eye of the beholder, finding consensus is often difficult. Even Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo of MLBPipeline.com don't always see eye to eye. They discuss their viewpoints regularly in a feature called Pipeline Perspectives. Submit a topic for them to debate.
Following last week's unveiling of the Top 100 Prospects list, we're starting to look ahead to MLBPipeline.com's Team Top 20 Prospects rankings, expected to be revealed in March.
We took a look at each team's young talent in our breakdown of the Top 100, in terms of which teams have the most prospects on the list. But over the next few weeks, we're going to spice that up a bit. This week's challenge: Which organization has the best hitting-pitching prospect tandem in baseball?
While Jim Callis makes the argument> that the answer to that question is the Astros, who have the duo of shortstop Carlos Correa and right-hander Mark Appel, I will advocate for the Minnesota Twins' pairing of center fielder Byron Buxton and right-hander Alex Meyer.
Explaining why isn't such a difficult when you can begin with the No. 1-ranked prospect in baseball. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn't believe Buxton is just that. The No. 2 pick in the 2012 First-Year Player Draft has been much better than advertised so far in his pro career, hitting at not just one but two levels, putting him on a fast track to Minnesota.
I don't have to go into too much detail about Buxton's tools, because we've done that many times over. Let's just say that he does everything extremely well. And as good as Correa, the No. 1 pick in the 2012 Draft, was in his first full season, Buxton accomplished much more.
Buxton should start this season with Double-A New Britain, and seeing him in Minnesota sometime this year certainly isn't impossible. Even if that doesn't happen, a Major League debut in 2015, at age 21, would put him far ahead of the projections that were made when the Georgia high school standout was drafted.
Moving to the mound, we have Meyer. Yes, in a head-to-head matchup with Appel, the 2013 No. 1 overall pick, gets the edge -- we did, after all, have Appel ranked No. 17 to Meyer's 28 in the Top 100. But is there really that much separating the two? Appel's advantage is his higher ceiling, but I do like Meyer's as well.
Appel's overall future grade is 65; Meyer's is 60. The differentiation is in their changeups and their command. Appel has a slight edge with his offspeed stuff and a bigger one with his control. But that's it. If those are the things that would give the Astros pick the "win," I'm not sure I buy it.
Meyer has come a long way from his days at the University of Kentucky, when he couldn't find the strike zone. In his pro career, he's walked 3.3 per nine while striking out 10.4. That's a pretty good ratio, especially considering that some worried if Meyer would ever throw enough strikes. With an upper-90s sinking fastball and an above-average slider coming from a 6-foot-9 frame, he has nasty stuff, and his changeup should be a Major League-average pitch. If all else fails, Meyer could dominate out of the bullpen (while Appel will almost certainly start, which is why he's got the edge in the rankings), but all signs point to him getting every opportunity to be a starter.
But this isn't a one-on-one argument. We're looking at the tandem. It's a close call -- and truthfully, if I were a general manager, I'd be happy to have either duo -- but Buxton's "better than everyone" standing combined with Meyer's still considerable upside gives this set of Twins the upper hand.


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Dynamo advance to MLS Cup
Boniek Garcia scored in the 33rd minute for the Dynamo, which will play at the Los Angeles Galaxy or Seattle Sounders in the final on Dec. 1. The Galaxy, who beat Houston 1-0 in last year's final, held a 3-0 lead over the Sounders going into Sunday night's second leg at Seattle in their home-and-home, total-goals series.
"It's a path we have to take, so if we have to be road warriors the whole time, then that's what's in front of us," Houston goalie Tally Hall said. "We have a job to do, it doesn't matter if it's a friendly or hostile environment."
Branko Boskovic scored in the 83rd minute for D.C., which has not won the MLS Cup since 2004.
Houston, which won consecutive MLS Cup titles in 2006 and 2007, qualified for the 2013-14 CONCACAF Champions League. But the Dynamo may miss Ricardo Clark for the MLS final -- the midfielder reinjured a groin and left in the 66th minute.
After putting 10 men behind the ball for most of the first half, Houston went ahead after Brad Davis picked up a long ball, evaded Marcelo Saragosa and Dejan Jakovic in a run to the endline and with his left foot cut the ball back to Garcia, who from the top of the 6-yard box put the ball into the roof of the net.
"I just wanted to get the ball back across to give him a chance and Boniek finished it," Davis said.
Down three goals in the aggregate, United coach Ben Olsen inserted Lewis Neal for Saragosa at the start of the second half, sent in Hamdi Salihi for Lionard Pajoy in the 57th and five minutes later put in Dwayne De Rosario for Emiliano Dudar.
De Rosario, the 2011 MLS MVP, had missed 10 games since injuring a knee while playing for Canada in a World Cup qualifier on Sept. 11.
United, in the playoffs for the first time since 2007, failed to score more than one goal in any of its last five games. D.C. was missing suspended right back Andy Najar and injured attacker Chris Pontius.
"Winning MLS Cup is an uphill battle for any team, so coming in as a wild card is perhaps a steeper climb than most teams have that reach the cup final, but the bigger the hill, the harder we climb," said Hall.


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Portrait of Zofia Jachimecka. Teodor Axentowicz has created numerous portraits of pastels and paintings on Poland and Ukrainian subjects, in which they depicted folk life, rituals and customs. Teodor Axentowicz portrait mostly young and fragile, attractive women, most of which are created in the technique of pastels. He painted many realistic genre scenes in the Polish countryside. His style strongly influenced by impressionism, symbolism and Art Nouveau style.
Teodor Axentowicz
Title: Portrait of Zofia Jachimecka
Polski: Portret Zofii Jachimeckiej
Date circa 1913
Medium pastel on paper
Dimensions 117.5 × 73.5 cm (46.3 × 28.9 in)
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Teodor Axentowicz
May 13, 1859 – Aug 26, 1938
Teodor Axentowicz was a Polish-Armenian painter and university professor. He was a portraist,also dealt with illustrative graphics and poster design while worked as an illustrator in magazines and made copies of paintings by former masters, among others. Axentowicz was famous for his portraits and subtle scenes of Hutsul life, set in the Carpathians. He was also the rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
Between 1879 and 1882 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. From there he moved to Paris, where he was a student of Carolus-Duran and continued his education until 1895. During that time he started a long-time cooperation with various journals and started his career as a copyist, duplicating the works of Tizian and Botticelli for Le Monde illustré. He also made numerous travels to London and Rome, where he prepared a set of portraits, one of the first in his career.
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In the years 1890-1899 he made many trips to London and Rome, where he painted portraits of women and the Polish aristocracy. In 1894 he started collaboration with Wojciech Kossak and Jan Styka during the preparation of the Racławice Panorama, one of the largest panoramic paintings in the history of Polish art. The following year he moved to Kraków, where he became a professor at the local Academy of Fine Arts. He was also active in the local society and cooperated with various societies devoted to propagation of arts and crafts. In 1897 he founded an artistic conservatory for women and soon afterwards became one of the founders of the Sztuka society.
In 1904 at the St. Louis World's Fair, Axentowicz received a Special Commemorative Award in recognition of distinguished service in connection with various national sections of the Department of Art. In 1910 he became the rector of the Academy and since 1928 was also an honorary member of the Zachęta Society. While in Paris, he received the prestigious title of Officier d'Académie Ordre des Palmes Académiques and Member of Académie des Beaux-Arts.
He was awarded many gold metals at both national and international exhibitions. Throughout his life he had numerous exhibitions, both in Poland and abroad. In addition to Society of Polish Artists "Sztuka", he was also a member of Hagenbund and a founding member of the Vienna Secession.


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Tests of French as a foreign language
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These are tests of general language proficiency used by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. They are made up of mandatory and optional components.
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The TCF is administered in 629 approved centers in 129 countries.
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When the Cowboys put up a strong goal-line stand in the second quarter of tonight's NFL season-opener against the Giants, Dallas defensive coordinator Rob Ryan had some excitedly profane things to say. He also, it appears, had some taunting to do toward the Giants' sideline. (That or he's urging someone to buy a rare Billy Ripken baseball card at auction.) We're big fans of Rob in these parts, so we thought we'd give his special moment a place in the sun. [NBC]
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Date: 1812 - 1862
Remarks: The younger son of the famous naturalist, John James Audubon, he often assisted his father in delineating birds and mammals. He was a frequent exhibitor at the National Academy of Design, beginning in about 1840. His ambition was to become a portrait painter, according to his daughter, Maria R. Audubon. In a brief memoir to her father she writes: "So passed the years...until 1834 when the Audubon family all went to England and Scotland where both young men [John Woodhouse Audubon and his brother, Victor] painted very steadily, making copies of many of the celebrated pictures within reach...At this time John confined himself almost wholly to copying portraits...and, when in Edinburgh, giving great attention to the beautiful work of Sir Henry Raeburn."


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As improved MTCT prevention interventions reduce the number of HIV-infected infants in the antepartum and peripartum periods, interventions to improve HIV-free survival among HIV-uninfected infants are needed. Morbidity and mortality are increased among HIV-uninfected infants born to HIV-infected mothers, and reduced infant survival among HIV-exposed infants may lead to as many deaths as HIV infection itself. In Botswana, the use of formula feeding or shorter breastfeeding may worsen the problem of early infant mortality among HIV-exposed infants.
The study will enroll pregnant or postpartum HIV-1-infected women, and their HIV-uninfected infants in Botswana. At 2-4 weeks of age, live HIV-uninfected infants will be randomized to receive either double-blinded cotrimoxazole (CTX) or placebo from 2-4 weeks through 15 months. In addition, breastfeeding (BF) infants will be randomized to BF until either 6 or 12 months of age. Children will be followed prospectively until 18 months of age. The primary endpoint will be survival at 18 months comparing all infants in the CTX vs. placebo arms, and by randomized duration of BF among those BF at randomization. Secondary endpoints will evaluate survival and morbidity/mortality at 12 and 15 months; HIV-free survival to 18 months; and the safety of CTX prophylaxis. Secondary observational objectives include comparing MTCT and mortality by initial feeding method (formula feeding or any BF > 1 month), and an analysis of maternal characteristics as predictors for initial feeding choice and HIV-free survival. All women and infants will receive standard antenatal and peripartum prophylaxis from the Botswana government for MTCT prevention (PMTCT), and will choose a feeding method with counseling. Breastfeeding infants will receive infant nevirapine (NVP) prophylaxis or will be protected from MTCT by the use of maternal HAART.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|3724 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Factorial Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Randomized Study of Cotrimoxazole Prophylaxis and Longer Breastfeeding Duration to Improve Survival Among HIV-Exposed Infants in Botswana
|Study Start Date :
|May 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|March 2015
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|October 2018
|Active Comparator: infant cotrimoxazole
Drug: cotrimoxazole prophylaxis
100mg/20mg per day (or 2.5 mL of syrup from a 200mg/40mg per 5mL suspension) from 1-6 months, followed by 200mg/40mg per day (or 5 mL of syrup from a 200mg/40mg per 5 mL suspension) from 6 to 12 months
Other Name: Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Combination
|Placebo Comparator: infant placebo
Drug: cotrimoxazole placebo
100mg/20mg per day (or 2.5 mL of syrup from a 200mg/40mg per 5mL suspension) from 1-6 months, followed by 200mg/40mg per day (or 5 mL of syrup from a 200mg/40mg per 5 mL suspension) from 6 to 12 months
|Active Comparator: exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months
Behavioral: exclusive breastfeeding until 6 months of age
Breastfeeding for 6 months, followed by formula feeding for 6 month. Breastfeeding infants will be prophylaxed with maternal highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) (if available) or with infant nevirapine.
|Active Comparator: exclusive breastfeeding for 12 months
Behavioral: breastfeeding for 12 months
Breastfeeding infants will be prophylaxed with maternal HAART (if available) or with infant nevirapine.
- Survival [ Time Frame: 18 months of age ]The primary outcome measure is survival at 18 months comparing all infants in the CTX vs. placebo arms, and by randomized duration of breastfeeding among those breastfeeding at randomization.
- HIV-free Survival [ Time Frame: 18 months of age ]Secondary outcome measures will evaluate HIV-free survival between 4 weeks and 18 months among infants randomized to either 6 months or 12 months of breastfeeding.
- Safety of CTX prophylaxis [ Time Frame: 18 months ]Secondary outcome measures will evaluate the safety of CTX prophylaxis through 18 months
- Morbidity and mortality [ Time Frame: 18 months of age ]Secondary outcome measures will evaluate morbidity and mortality to 18 months.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV-infected women, > 26 weeks gestation and < 34 days postpartum.
- Women must be ¬> 18 years of age and willing/able to sign informed consent.
- Women and infants must be able to follow up regularly at a study clinic through 18 months postpartum.
- For Feeding Randomization Only: Women must be willing to breastfeed for up to 12 months, and to stop at 6 months, depending upon their feeding assignment.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Antepartum women: Known infant anomalies resulting in a high probability that the infant will not survive to 18 months.
- Postpartum women: Known HIV-infected infant, or infant medical condition making survival to 18 months unlikely.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01229761
|Princess Marina Hospital
|Gaborone, Botswana
|Athlone Hospital
|Lobatse, Botswana
|Scottish Livingstone Hospital
|Molepolole, Botswana
|Principal Investigator:
|Shahin Lockman, MD, MS
|Harvard School of Public Health
|Principal Investigator:
|Roger L Shapiro, MD, MPH
|Harvard School of Public Health
Documents provided by Roger Shapiro, Harvard School of Public Health:
Additional Information:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Roger Shapiro, Principal Investigator, Harvard School of Public Health
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R01HD061265 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|October 28, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|September 9, 2019
|Last Verified:
|September 2019
Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Combination
Breast Feeding
Infant Mortality
Infectious disease transmission, vertical
adverse drug event
Leukocyte Disorders
Hematologic Diseases
Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination
Anti-Infective Agents, Urinary
Anti-Infective Agents
Renal Agents
Antiprotozoal Agents
Antiparasitic Agents
Folic Acid Antagonists
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Dyskinesia Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C8 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
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President Obama presented the Commander-in-Chief's trophy to the U.S. Naval Academy football team Friday during a ceremony in the White House.
Every year, the U.S. service academies play in a triangle series against each other and the winner of that series is presented the Commander-in-Chief trophy.
"You beat Air Force, you beat Army, and lugged this 170-pound trophy back to Annapolis," Obama said.
They have won 19 of their last 21 games against the other service academies. This was the Naval Academy's 8th visit to the White House in 10 years. "Michelle and I were thinking about just leaving the key under the rug," Obama joked.
Navy finished the season 8-5, earning a 9th bowl bid in 10 years.
"But at Navy, obviously it's not just about the wins. It's about how you win. This year, your team motto was INAM, which is short for 'It's Not About Me.' And that ethic of teamwork and discipline and unselfishness was led by your captains, Bo Snelson and Brye French, and it ran through your entire season," Obama said. "All season long you kept your priorities in line, your mission in focus."


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... always lower through a bomber bit of the belay.
On page 113 of ANAM 2012 there is a report. The leader could have lowered the second in a controlled manner and avoided the accident. I recently experienced the same problem(no accident in my case). What is the correct technique for lowering a second off the reverso? munter hitch on the brake strand?
That kind of stuff is why I just stick with using my standard ATC.
OK, I've had a chance to read the incident and there was a lot of issues to take up regarding it but I will stick to the OP/title question.How do you lower a second from a reverso in a controlled manner?Option 1) Don't. Conduct a load transfer to a Munter-hitch, backed up with a prussik on the brake strand. Lower smoothly and happily for hundreds and hundreds of feet. Learning load transfers from the internet/books is quite hard IMO, and is best done hands on with someone who is efficient with it.Option 2) Convert your Reverso in auto-locking mode to a non-auto-locking re-directed plate. With some trepidation I'll describe the basic process here, starting with a loaded Reverso. Learning Load Transfers might actually be easier. I'll also agree with what Jeff said, practice in a CONTROLLED setting, and I'll add botching this will get someone killed. That being said;1) Add a prussik backup to your brake strand attached to your belay loop.2) Using a cordelette tie a prussik on the loaded rope, and create a quick "block & tackle tied of with a Mariner's" to relieve some of tension on the locking Reverso.3) Unlock, and open, the rope biner of the Reverso, and clip it into the master point, without letting the climbing rope come out of it*3a) Relock the "rope" carabiner that is now also attached to the master point.4) Unclip the "anchor" carabiner from the reverso, so it is not longer in auto-locking mode, remove that locker if desired.5) Run the brake strand up through a locking carabiner anywhere higher in the anchor, preferable "the bench" or a bomber piece.6) Remove the Mariner block and tackle, and lower, with a prussik back-up still in place on the brake strand.*While this might seem like a potential catastropic error the climber is still held by 2 prussiks at this point, so it is considered redundant.While this works incredibly smooth when well practiced you can run into issues. Transfering weight from one device to another, i.e. ATC to Gri-Gri, or ATC to Munter, is a very valuable skill for any climber who spends time on multi-pitch trad. If the lead climber can not be lowered to the ground right after a lead fall that resulted in injury, the 2nd must either have the skills to get them down, or wait for help from other parties/rescue.Self-sufficiency is the best option, as rescue may be hours away. If you multi-picth a lot, sport or trad, you should find someone to teach you these concepts:1) Belay Escapes2) Ascending a Loaded Rope3) Counter-Balance Rappelling4) Load transfers5) Belayed loweringThese should not be considered "guide" techniques, or just techniques that rescue personnel should use, but techniques that ANY multi-pitch climber, even someone who doesn't lead, should have a firm understanding of. Climbing is damn fun, so it's hard to dedicate effort/time to this worse case scenarios. We hope to never use them. But should you be locking off a rope as your partner whips high above, and doesn't respond to your calls, "Are you ok?", wouldn't it be nice to know what to do?
Quote from: JBrochu on September 09, 2012, 07:47:49 PMThat kind of stuff is why I just stick with using my standard ATC.While it is totally doable to escape a belay it involves a lot more work. What if your partner just needs a little help over a crux? Creating a 3:1 is a snap if belaying off the anchor on a plate style device?All that aside... it's just more comfortable to belay off the anchor IMO...
Quote from: DMan on September 09, 2012, 08:08:33 PMQuote from: JBrochu on September 09, 2012, 07:47:49 PMThat kind of stuff is why I just stick with using my standard ATC.While it is totally doable to escape a belay it involves a lot more work. What if your partner just needs a little help over a crux? Creating a 3:1 is a snap if belaying off the anchor on a plate style device?All that aside... it's just more comfortable to belay off the anchor IMO...Every single person I climb with these days climbs harder than me so nobody ever needs help if I led the pitch. Plenty of people have helped me over a tough crux, they just yard on the rope and it's usually enough.I've never had to escape the belay in real life but I do practice it occasionally, and I take a self rescue course every couple of years just in case.
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(The Root) — A ham-handed attempt by a super PAC to shake things up in the Democratic primary in New York's 13th congressional district has raised charges of "conspiracy" and outside meddling from supporters of longtime incumbent Charles Rangel.
The funding group, Campaign for Primary Accountability, says that it intends to throw its weight — and money — behind Rangel's main challenger, state Sen. Adriano Espaillat. Principal donors to the PAC — which says its focus is on ousting entrenched congressional incumbents, regardless of political party or ideological bent, who seldom get challenged in primary elections — are conservative Republicans, including a bevy of Texas businessmen and financiers.
A spokesman for Espaillat, a liberal Democrat who has served in the New York State Senate for 14 years, said that his candidate had no prior knowledge of the group's involvement in the campaign. "Senator Espaillat's campaign has no information about this or any other PAC's decision to target Congressman Rangel for defeat," said Ibrahim Khan. The primary is scheduled for June 26.
Rangel's campaign manager, Moises Perez, says that the super PAC is a front for "Texas right-wingers" who have a vendetta against the congressman. Rangel, who has represented Harlem and much of upper Manhattan in Congress for 41 years, has been outspoken in support of liberal causes, such as increased aid to veterans, economic programs to assist beleaguered cities and the Obama health care program.
Super PAC spokesman Curtis Ellis describes it as "the equalizer," seeking to balance the scales in primary elections where longtime incumbents like Rangel often receive little or no opposition from members of their own parties. "We're working to increase participation by voters, to inform them of how important it is to vote in a primary," Ellis says. "The incumbents have all the advantages in the primary, with access to lobbyists, corporate donations and money from PACs."
He adds that Rangel, having been in office for so long, has the additional advantage of widespread "name recognition."
"Everybody over the age of 12 has heard the name of Charles Rangel," Ellis says.
Rangel, 81, faces a more difficult challenge than usual in this year's primary, after being censured for ethics violations last year and consequently losing the chairmanship of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. He is running in a remapped district with a larger Hispanic population than was previously the case. Espaillat, whose family is from the Dominican Republic, is seeking to capitalize on the demographic shift.
Also running are Harlem activists Craig Schley and Joyce Johnson, as well as former Democratic National Committee official Clyde Williams.
It is widely assumed that the 21-term congressman will retire after one final term, serving as a kind of victory lap for Rangel (though much the same was said in 2010). He has had recent health problems, including a back condition for which he was hospitalized in March. He missed some 100 House votes because of his three-month absence this year.
The Campaign for Primary Accountability lists three successes this year in primaries in other states, as well as a few notable failures. Funds from the super PAC have contributed so far to the defeat of Pennsylvania Democrat Tim Holden, Ohio Republican Jean Schmidt and Illinois Republican Don Manzullo. The group was unsuccessful in an effort to defeat Alabama Republican Spencer Bachus, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
The criteria for the super PAC's involvement, Ellis says, are that the contests must be in districts dominated by one party, the incumbents must be long-term officeholders and there must be a credible challenger.
While the choice of candidates whom the super PAC has targeted appears to support its claim of being "nonpartisan," its Republican targets are often opposed by more conservative or Tea Party-backed adversaries. Ohio's Schmidt, for example, faced attacks based on her votes to raise the national debt ceiling.
"This is standard operating procedure now," says Rangel-campaign chairman Perez. "Pick out a moderate Republican to run against and then claim to be nonpartisan."
The super PAC has raised about $2.5 million so far. Twenty-eight of its 51 donors listed at OpenSecrets.org, including avowed political conservatives, are from Texas. For example, Houston construction mogul Leo Linbeck III has been a vocal opponent of national health care reform, and Midland oil-and-gas investor Tim Dunn is the chairman of a high-profile anti-tax group. Linbeck contributed $1.1 million, and Dunn chipped in $350,000.
Two wealthy Wisconsin conservatives have also contributed. J. Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade, gave $500,000, while Eric O'Keefe, another opponent of national health care reform, contributed $100,000.
Ricketts, whose family owns the Chicago Cubs, was recently identified in the New York Times as the prime backer of a proposed ad campaign to link the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the fiery Chicago preacher who advocates "black liberation theology," with President Obama. Ricketts proposed to finance $10 million worth of attack ads but backed down when the plan became public.
The super PAC's Ellis says that it will probably spend a six-figure amount in support of Espaillat, with expenditures going for direct mail or online ads. "New York media is very expensive," he said.
The Rangel campaign apparently intends to use the super PAC as a campaign issue. Perez says that voters have already taken offense that the super PAC's initiative is in their district. "People are highly offended by an outside group coming in with outside money to try to change the outcome in their district," he says.
Rangel himself challenged Espaillat to reject the assistance of the super PAC, saying that he and Espaillat could agree to reject any super PAC aid, as Sen. Scott Brown from Massachusetts and his current Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren, have done this year.
"I know my opponent cannot afford to accept these 30 pieces of silver," Rangel said at a campaign event last week. The Espaillat campaign could not be reached for a response to Rangel's challenge.
Edmund Newton, a former staff writer with the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and the New York Post, is a freelance writer in the Washington, D.C., area and a frequent contributor to The Root.


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The next two weeks are expected to be busy ones in the state Capitol.
For starters, Democrats and Gov. Jerry Brown continue to haggle over the incomplete budget sent by lawmakers to the governor's desk Friday. Brown has until June 27 to sign or veto the spending plan. He can also eliminate some spending unilaterally with his line-item veto authority.
Brown's chief objections to the Democrats' budget remain their plan to suspend work requirements and job training programs for welfare recipients, and the budget's use of $250 million in property tax revenues to balance the state's books that Brown wants to go to counties.
Democrats are also planning to take up funding for the state's high-speed rail project, which has been a priority for Brown. Lawmakers must decide whether they want to go along with Brown's wishes and authorize the sale of about $2.7 billion in voter-approved bonds to fund the next phase of the project.
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CFCA has five communications centers in El Salvador, Guatemala, Kenya, India and Colombia.
Although we call them centers, which sound like a big operation, they actually consist of one or a few local staff members. They help us find and feature stories from our sponsored children and aging friends.
We'd like to introduce you to each communications center liaison, starting with Harry in Colombia.
CFCA has changed the life of many families. This is how CFCA changed my life as well as my family's.
My name is Harrison Garcia, and I am 27 years old. I am the CFCA communication center liaison in Bogota, Colombia.
The story of my family at CFCA started when my sister Carolina, now 35, got sponsored in our little school 27 years ago.
The benefits that she received through CFCA at that time were a great help to my family as my mother was a single mother with three children.
When I was 10, I got sponsored, too, and it was a great experience for me to share letters with my sponsors during three years.
I graduated from the sponsorship program as my family's economic situation improved.
My sister, Carolina, studied to be an English teacher and started to work with CFCA.
Carolina helped CFCA translate letters from sponsors and sponsored friends, and I wanted to learn English, too, to be able to have a job like hers.
We both decided to work with CFCA to bring back all the support and love that our sponsors and staff brought to us when we were younger and in need.
I studied English in La Gran Colombia University and started to work with CFCA translating letters, too.
Today Carolina is the mail specialist in our Bogota project.
"The constant communication between my sponsors and me was the best as I knew that in the U.S. was a family who wanted to help me and my family and they loved me despite the distance," Carolina says.
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In today's hard-working edition of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Kadin regales us with his epic quest to purchase an imported copy of Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and challenges you to top his tale.
What's the most work you've gone through to obtain a game? I'm going to date myself here but we're all friends right? Good.
Back in late 1991, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past was released in Japan. At the time, I was a huge Zelda nut. Anything having to do with that series I wanted to play. Now it's true that there weren't many versions out yet but that doesn't mean I wasn't obsessed.
I'll mention now that I live in Sacramento, CA. In early 1992, there was a company that imported games from Japan and they were based in Los Angeles. I can't remember the name but I used to talk with them at great lengths about various import titles. I got to know one of the guys that worked there quite well and he told me about how they just got the game in. What? He had it and I didn't? WTF? Yeah I know I don't speak or read Japanese but I could give a shit… I wanted that game!!!
I somehow got it in my head that while I could talk this guy into selling this import to me and shipping it (it was their last copy), that it would take too long. I seriously had NO patience back then and honestly that hasn't changed much today. In the matter of a few minutes I made the decision to take the next day off and drive down there to pick up this game. I planned to drive down that Friday afternoon and return the next day… in less than 24hrs. I had to work on Sunday of course…
At the time I was dating a really cool girl. We jumped into my Camaro about an hour later and headed down to LA. We only packed a few things to get us by for the overnight. I have a cousin that lives in Lancaster which is maybe 2/3 of the way to our destination. Everything was going great about 2 hours in when suddenly I blew my back left tire. Luckily I had one of them crappy doughnut spares and somehow my girlfriend ended up putting it on. I don't know how that latter part played out but now I remember part of the reason why we're no longer together… but I digress. Anyhow, you know how they tell you you're not supposed to drive over like 45-50mph on those things? Yeah right. It was 70mph the entire rest of the way there. I'd worry about the tire later – Zelda was within my reach!
So we eventually get there, stay the night with my cousin and I proceed to pick up the game early the next morning. Not even an hour into our trip back, my girlfriend and I get into probably the worst fight we'd ever had. In the car. Just us. Nothing but open land for a good 4-5 hours to go. I think she was complaining about not giving her enough time or something like that, I don't know, I wasn't really paying much attention…
We got home and worked out our issues. Honestly I think I said whatever I needed to say to simply get to the end result: makeup time. Then followed of course with the TRUE owner of my heart: Zelda.
To summarize: roughly 750 miles driven in less than 24hrs and I lost a tire, eventually my girlfriend and $100 for a game I couldn't understand. Oh and the game ended up coming out 2 months later here in the states which I bought and then never played my import again.
Anyone want to top that? This story still gets brought up to this day by my best friend – usually to each new girl I'm dating. Good times.
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The Caps, proud holders of a one-in-a-row winning streak, take on the Tampa Bay Lighting in what promises to be a hard-fought contest played before a crowd of dozens at
But today, we're going to lift the tent flap on the prognosticator's craft and let you, dear reader, get a peek at what goes into these gamely – if not gamey – prognostications…
First, we consult the ancient oracle, the fortune cookie…let's see what we have…
-- crack --
"Please someone at work by remaining calm and impartial"
Hmm…sounds to me like something a referee might benefit from. And it's a good thing, too.
OK…so what does our fortune teller have to say…let's ask the wise oracle about what the Caps might do tonight…
Will the Caps score at least one goal?
Will the caps score at least two goals?
"…without a doubt"
Will the Caps score at least three goals?
"…it is best to wait and see"
Hmm…Will the Caps score at least four goals?
"…the outlook is good"
OK…will the Caps score at least five goals?
"…be careful, signs are ominous."
Let's leave it at that…next on our journey of the occult prognosticatorial arts is a tarot reading…hmm, what question shall we ask…
Can the Caps reverse their recent fortunes by putting together a winning streak?
The middle card of the three fates says…"Reversal of a difficult situation. Gradual improvement. Encouraging news."
Hey, this is what's coming up…honest! Let's try one for one of the players…from the I Ching…
Will Alex Ovechkin score a hat trick?
"Like the notes that come down from a bird on the wing, to descend is better than to ascend. There will, in this way, be great good fortune."
So, if he comes flying down the wing, descending on the hapless Lightning goalie…well, you can take it from there, folks.
The fact is, even with the Caps winning on Thursday, they are in 15th place in the Eastern Conference. There isn't a 16th place available. That being the case, tonight's opponent might be just the tonic to put together a "streak." Both teams have struggled recently (both are 3-6-1 in their last ten games), but for very different reasons.
For the Lighting there are, of course, the big three of Vincent Lecavalier, Martin St. Louis, and Brad Richards. $19.9 million of cap space had better be producing, but for these three, it's something of a mixed bag. In the last ten games, they are a combined 11-24-35, which isn't awful…in fact, it's pretty good. But they are also a combined -20, which…yeah, is awful.
But to this "big three" might be added Vaclav Prospal. He leads the Lightning in goals, with ten (and is 3-6-9 in his last ten games), and unlike his vastly higher-paid counterparts (Prospal is earning $1.9 million this year), he's on the plus side of the ledger in his last ten at +1.
If there has been a surprise, if not a change in pattern, it is Shane O'Brien. He has four goals in the last ten games (a pair of two-goal efforts) to tie for second highest on the team in this stretch. But the defenseman is also a -7 over those same ten games.
Goaltending, which has been and is likely to remain an issue with the Lightning this year, has improved in the last two games as Johan Holmqvist has given up only a single marker after three rather ghastly games in which he allowed 14 goals on 78 shots (.821 save percentage). One wonders which Holmqvist will show up tonight, assuming (as we do) that he will get the nod.
The Caps aren't even in sight of the edge of the woods, let alone out of them. But a 4-1 win in
So, we'll return to our prognosti-tools one last time and consult the magic 8-ball…
Caps 4 – Lightning 2


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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Candy Corn Krispies
14 comments:
- Jill said...
Oh. My. Gosh. I love these! So cute! Definitely gonna have to make these. :)
- October 25, 2009 at 3:37 PM
- Jana and Brett said...
mmm yumm-O! Love the white chocolate part especially! :0)
- October 25, 2009 at 5:57 PM
- Rachelle said...
I am not a Halloween fan, but these rice krispie treats might just make me into one!
And thanks for the great step-by-step!
- October 25, 2009 at 10:41 PM
- Evans Family said...
These are so cute! How many candy corns did it make? I am definitely going to have to try these...we LOVE Rice Krispie treats. Love your blog, you are so creative I miss living close to you!
- October 29, 2009 at 1:40 PM
- Creative Stirrings said...
Good question Evans family. I think it made ~20 candy corns. This would all depend on how big you cut each traingle in each row. The end pieces were not always perfectly shaped. However, it did not stop anyone from eating them!
- November 8, 2009 at 5:58 PM
- Unknown said...
These are soooo cute!!!
- November 18, 2009 at 11:20 AM
- Amanda said...
Just stopping by to let you know that I have featured your project on Fun Family Crafts today! You can see it here
If you have other kid friendly crafts, I'd love it if you would submit them :) If you would like to display a featured button on your site, you can grab one from the right side bar of your post above.
- September 22, 2011 at 12:22 PM
- Stephani said...
I'm planning a Candy Corn Post for October, would you mind if I used one picture and linked back to your page? I would love to include this great idea. Thanks!
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- September 24, 2011 at 11:25 PM
So cute! I'm going to make these for our co-op Harvest party. I "pinned" you on Pinterest. Thanks for sharing!
- October 2, 2011 at 3:24 PM
- Stephani said...
Featuring your awesome idea on my blog today! Feel free to check it out!
Thanks for such a great idea!
- October 5, 2011 at 8:01 AM
This is fantastic! Thanks so much for the recipe. We are sending them to my son in a Fall care package at college.
- September 6, 2012 at 8:53 PM
- Lindsay Artsy-Fartsy Mama said...
These look so yummy! What a fun idea!
I featured your candy corn krispies on my blog today, come on over and check it out:
- September 9, 2012 at 9:44 PM
Love this! I'm trying this right now, but instead of making part of the treat white, I'm layering yellow/orange/yellow so that all the bases are yellow and I'm dipping the tips in the white chocolate. Found you through pinterest!
- October 20, 2012 at 11:20 AM
- Aaron, Angie, Hailey, Lexi, and Jacob said...
Just made some of these tonight with my 7 yr old for her Halloween party in school tomorrow. Currently, the two batches are cooling in the fridge so I can cut them. We made one regular batch with the white, yellow, & orange and one batch with white, orange, & brown (cocoa krispies).
- October 30, 2012 at 8:40 PM