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Hi folks,
I'll offer a quick apology for the lack of content over the last 2-3 months. I've been in transition graduating from my master's program, moving away from NJ, and moving to a new home in Central PA. Also acquiring a real job and being super busying as - finally - being inducted into the adult world. But I digress.
What I have for you today is the very last brikwar that I fought before leaving the Garden State. It is a small-scale skirmish against my friend "Ronald Reagan" who has the custom French Crusader army. This was a good battle because he is finally learning to be a little less munchkiny with his feats and more risk-taking with his maneuvers (though not too much). The battle is pretty lopsided (as you'll see), but that will be owing to poor army-making decisions on my part and on the fact that we are at 150 CP range. Small battles like that can, as I said, become lopsided pretty quickly depending on the dice rolls. At any rate...
Turn Zero/Deployment
I deploy on the "right" side of the field with a small Barbarian force. This consists of 3 Melee Heavies in the front rank, and 3 Halberdeers in the back rank. I've started to experiment and enjoy melee Heavies with the compensating rule. It gives them an extra Size HP standing still (which can be good in attrition wars; not so much when moving...) and allows for dual-wielding heavy weapons while standing still. Not a bad combo. The Halberdeers are to overcome my opponents gosh-darn armor and shield-wall I also field a Beetle Turret with a size 2 repeater, the infamous griffin, and a Shaman Hero.
Reagan's setup is typical. 4 crusader knights and 4 spearmen screen his cavalry and hero while two archers mount a nearby piece of terrain.
Barbarians Turn 1
So on my turn I move forward. Pretty basic. The Shaman tries to use his voodoo powers to summon some vermin swarms. The feat fails, and the vermin turn against the Barbarians!
Crusader Turn 1
Again, basic turn. The infantry move forward and the archers disembark the tower (since they were still out of range.
The crossbowmen take aim at the griffin. They either did 1 point of damage, or none at all.
Barbarians Turn 2
The barbarians continue surging forward (not easy with six infantry with hampered movements...The griffin makes a daring charge at the Crusader Cavalry. BUT, the hero had been saving his feat and launches his lance at the beast as it closes! The resulting damage is enough to bring the beast to only 1 size HP left!!! And as has been typical, the griffin whiffs utterly on damage rolls on the charge. Conflabit!
However, my opponent has been kind enough to start lining his figs up, making arcing fire quite handy on a size 2 machinegun. The repeater fire slays a crossbowman.
Crusader Turn 2
So, yeah, the knights start whacking away at the griffin. Griffin bites the dust! The Shaman survives but is disrupted.
And again, because they are either in tight shieldwall formation or armored, Reagan's infantry slowly pedal forward.
Barbarian Turn 3
This is what I like to see; the Beetle Turret nicely counters the slowness of the heavy infantry. As a result, I am able to get a great line on nearly all of the enemy figs, rolling enough damage to shoot down a heavy swordsman and a spearman. Yay flanking fire!
Crusader Turn 3
But the victory is short-lived, though, as a knight comes barreling down from the left table edge and scewers the driver of the turret. Brutal!
And I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again, infantry charging with spears are probably one of the most cost-effective combat choices in any medieval battle. Reagan's charge in and slaughter 2 Barbarian Heavies. Above, the swordman knights move to intercept my obvious flanking maneuver with the Halberds.
Barbarian Turn 4
The beetle, rather than go toe-to-toe with the knight, attempts to disengage and charge the swordsmen in the rear. Sadly, having been damage by the vermin earlier, reaction attacks from the knight and the horse slay the beetle as it tries to scurry away.
In other news, my flanking halberds successfully dispatch 2 of the spearmen. I didn't like this move, but you see the pickle I'm in. One Barbarian Heavy could not take 3 spearmen alone, and my only hope was to try and take all 3 out before bracing for the impact of the Crusader swordsmen. Sadly, now I'm just exposed for their own flank attack.
The Shaman uses a feat to produce a breath attack from the tiki mask. The attack is treated like a size 2 breath attack with poison damage. The green die shows the horsey is quite poisoned. Also, you can see from the second photo that last turn, a successful Witchdoctor firebomb grenade vaporized one of the knights. The Shaman is doing fine!
Crusaders Turn 4
Well here we go; the crusader swordsmen move in and eviscerate one Halberd. The spearman below also slays the last Barbarian Heavy.
Barbarians Turn 5
And when the Halberds turn to face the Swordsmen, they whiff attacks and one more is slain
So I'm really down-and-out at this point. Barely anyone left alive, so I try one of those desperation feats...the Shaman summons the Spirits of Evil Voodoo to make an attack on all of Reagan's surviving models. However, aside from the feat "succeeding," the majority of his forces survive the ghostly attacks...the only victim is...
A Heavily Armored swordsman...and the ghost was swinging with a handweapon...I swear the dice just like being ironic sometimes...
Crusaders VICTORY
So on his last turn, the Crusaders wipe out the last Halberd. With only the shaman left on the field, I choose to concede.
You see, Ronald had all of these left plush a crossbow that we both forgot about .
Endgame Carnage.
Well boys and girls, that is it for this edition of Rev's Battle Reports. Lucky for me, I've located a hobby store that is about 15 miles away; on my next day off I'm going to travel up there, get a feel for the local gamers, and see if I can talk anyone up for some Brikwars Wargaming. Otherwise, with my new secluded location, I may have to resort to old-fashioned Forum Battles to get my brik-carnage jollies.
~ Rev


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April 9, 2012
Herb garden
We're at it again. Maybe we shouldn't. I mentioned it here a couple of times already, neither one of us has a green thumb. Whichever plant we tried, it died.
And every Springtime we give it another try.
Right now we have lavender and Marguerites or white daisies on the balcony.
And herbs on the kitchen windowsill.
I changed watering strategies. Instead of giving them water a couple of times a week, I now soak every plant in a bucket of water once a week (for now) - until there are no more bubbles emerging from the pot, just as I was told by the seller at the plant store. And I'm feeding my plants coffee grinds, saved throughout the week in a plastic container, something I picked up from a lifestyle magazine on French TV.
So far, so good.
So, lately, we've been enjoying fresh mint on our cucumbers (with just a bit of coarse salt added - divine!), basil on our tomatoes. And I do like a touch of rosemary on a roast. I just try not to think of all the bad stuff in the air and the construction works around the corner in particular, when I'm savoring my insalata caprese.
We still have some space left on our windowsill - I might add cilantro, if I can find any, and maybe some parsley as well.
What's growing in your herb garden. Any tips or tricks?
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I've seen potted cilantro and parsley plants on sale in the Monoprix this past week over on Ternes...cilantro plants don't tend to last a full season but it's worth planting some for the freshness factor. I love growing fresh herbs here too: mint, rosemary, and thyme are doing well for me this year, and I've got seeds out to hopefully add lemon basil, plain basil, some weird sort of oregano that I've never seen before, and camomile (that last one just because the plant itself smells heavenly). Some things that have helped my little garden here: using the potting soil with the little pellets in it that retain moisture longer, and adding a little capful of Algoflash Engrais Universel plant food (it's safe for edible crops as well as flowers, and Leroy Merlin and other stores carry it) once or twice a week to the water. If you don't mind the look, those watering cones that attach to cola bottles work pretty well too--Castorama has them, and they're great for when you're busy or out of town. That, and adding a calendar reminder on my iPhone for which days to water makes my plants much happier.:-)
- April 9, 2012 at 9:37 AM
- Pascale said...
Thanks for the tips! As a matter of fact, I almost bought one of these cones this weekend to test. Maybe I should go back and I'll definitely get cilantro as we really love it!
- April 9, 2012 at 9:45 AM
- Estrella Azul said...
The thing is, no matter what you do, they tend to die anyway in the winter, or if it gets colder in autumn already, so don't take it too personally :)
I have mint and chives.
You should give chives a try, that's very unpretentious and will do okay in the winter if you put it in the basement or something (plus you'll have the seeds anyway just in case it dies.) It loses its taste if you cook it, but adds such a lovely flavor to basically anything from pasta, pizza to chicken soup if you chop it and add it to your dish just before serving.
- April 9, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Ik kocht een Stevia plant en doe de blaadjes in een Moquito (zonder de rum) ttz, een longdrink glas,met één duim Pulco limoensap, dan spuitwater, een paar schijfjes limoen,drie ijsblokjes, een tweetal stevia en een drie à vier blaadjes munt gescheurd. Dan opdrinken met een rietje, echt lekker en verfrissend en no calories!!
- April 9, 2012 at 10:47 AM
- Sue Schlabach said...
Oh herbs. So springy! Cilantro grows easily from seed if you can't find plants. As it gets tall, cut the tops so they don't flower. It will get bushier and you can keep cutting it over and over to enjoy for months. If it flowers it starts to get bitter. Enjoy! We're coming to Paris in a week and can't wait to see spring further along. The grass is just barely getting green and the trees are still bare.
- April 10, 2012 at 3:05 PM
- Dalila said...
Since cilantro tends to bolt and go leggy with warmth, I recommend just planting lots of it over and over. If seeds are not easy to find, just try some coriander seed. It's so awesome when fresh!
- April 10, 2012 at 4:02 PM
- kate said...
I tried an herb garden a few months ago and killed it. I've started again and just planted mint, rosemary, and cilantro. So far it appears to be surviving...but we'll see if I manage to keep it alive...
- April 15, 2012 at 11:43 PM
- cucicucicoo said...
those photographs are just gorgeous! the same things i have on my own balcony, but here looks just so beautiful! on my balcony i have basil, mint, marjoram, thyme, rosemary, sage, chives and terragon. definitely start chives! i use them a lot in salads and just raw instead of onions which often bother my stomach if raw. :) lisa
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Police responded to a report of a disturbance at approximately 6:46 a.m. Sunday at a unit in an apartment building in the 900 block of Olive Road, the Homewood Police Department said in a news release.
Officers were confronted by an occupant of the third-floor unit, and that confrontation "resulted in that occupant being fatally shot by police," according to the news release.
The Cook County Medical Examiner's office identified the man as Brandon Culpepper, 30, who lived in the apartment where he was shot. He was pronounced dead at Ingalls Memorial Hospital at 7:23 a.m.
Illinois State Police are investigating, but a state police spokesman said Sunday afternoon that no other information about the shooting was available.
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Back in driver's seat, Blackhawks look to tighten gripby Brian Hedger
CHICAGO -- It had been three years since the Chicago Blackhawks were in the enviable position of being up two games to none in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The previous time it happened was in the 2010 Stanley Cup Final against the Philadelphia Flyers -- a series in which the Blackhawks captured the championship in six games. After bowing out of the playoffs in the first round the past two seasons, Chicago is again back in the driver's seat of a postseason series.
The Blackhawks lead their best-of-7 Western Conference Quarterfinal against the Minnesota Wild 2-0 heading into Game 3 on Sunday at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. (3 p.m. ET, NBC, CBC, RDS).
"Every game's huge, but to be able to go up 3-0 would definitely give us a huge advantage in this series," Chicago defenseman Duncan Keith said Saturday afternoon prior to the team's short flight to Minnesota. "I don't think the mentality changes. We want to do the same things and focus on the same things we've been focusing on."
Chicago will again be without goalie Ray Emery and center Dave Bolland, each sidelined with a lower-body injury, but the pair skated Saturday and will make the trip.
"We've got a better indication going forward," Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said. "Their health … they'll say they're ready and then we'll gauge it from that. Sometimes you've got to be smart, but we'll see."
Chicago hasn't really missed either in the first two games. Now, the Blackhawks just want to keep the pressure on the Wild and put another one in the win column -- like they did in Game 2, a 5-2 victory Friday night at United Center by launching 48 shots on goal. Chicago can really take control of this series by going up three games to none, which has to be a good feeling compared to what the team went through in the two playoffs since winning the Cup.
Chicago fell behind 3-0 in a first-round series against the rival Vancouver Canucks in 2011, only to tie it 3-3 then lose Game 7 in overtime. The Blackhawks split two first-round road games to start a series against the Phoenix Coyotes last year before dropping the next two in Chicago and ultimately losing the series in Game 6 at United Center.
This season's been different right from the start, with the Blackhawks getting off to an unprecedented 24-game point streak to start the year and racking up 77 points in 48 games to win the Presidents' Trophy.
Now they've captured the first two games of this series against eighth-seeded Minnesota, which held off the Columbus Blue Jackets on the season's last day just to get into the playoffs. The Blackhawks are starting to remind some of the 2010 Stanley Cup championship team, but don't try selling that idea to them yet.
"It's different," right wing Patrick Kane said. "You don't want to get too far ahead of yourself and compare teams. Yeah, we had a great season. Yeah, we had a great start in the playoffs, but we're still a long way from doing what we did in 2010. It's a different year."
Sunday is a golden opportunity to put the Wild -- a team that hadn't been in the postseason since 2008 -- in a virtual vice grip. Should the Blackhawks win Game 3, the Wild face elimination games the rest of the way.
"We're feeling pretty good," Chicago rookie wing Brandon Saad said. "To go up 3-0 would be huge for us. They're going to come out flying and we're going to have to match the intensity. We were much better [Friday] night than we were [in Game 1] and everyone came out to play a lot harder."


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Midway Granted Rights to Lord of the Rings Online Game
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Farmland prices continue to increase. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) (see here) estimates the average 2012 Illinois farmland price at $6,800 per acre, 17% higher than the $5,800 price in 2011. The Chicago Federal Reserve Bank (FED) (see here) estimates price increases at 15% between July 1, 2011, and July 1, 2012, for northern and central Illinois farmland. At the same time farmland prices have increased, cash rents have increased and interest rates have decreased, thereby supporting the increases in farmland prices.
Cash rents and interest rates
As cash rents increase, returns to farmland increase, generally leading to higher farmland prices. USDA estimates the average 2012 cash rent in Illinois at $212 per acre, 16% higher than the $183 per acre rent in 2011. The 2012 increase continues a series of years of large increases in cash rents (see Figure 1). Since 2005, cash rents have increased by 64%.
Decreasing interest rates also support increasing land prices because decreasing interest rates signal lower returns to fixed income assets that are alternatives to farmland, and because lower interest rates lower debt payments on farmland purchases. Interest rates have decreased in 2012. The 10-year Constant Maturity Treasury (CMT) rate so far this year has averaged 1.87%. This 1.87% rate compares to a 2.79% rate for 2011. Interest rates have been on a general downward trend since the mid-1980s (see Figure 2), thereby supporting increases in farmland prices.
Capitalized values compared to farmland prices
A capitalized value represents the discounted cash flows from farmland, taking into consideration cash rents and interest rates (see here for more detail http://www.farmdoc.illinois.edu/manage/newsletters/fefo10_17/fefo10_17.html). For an asset with an infinite life, a widely used capitalized formula has capitalized value equal to the cash rent divided by an interest rate:
Capitalized value = cash rent / CMT 10-year rate.
This formula assumes that cash rents and interest rates remain the same as current values throughout the future.
Capitalized values were significantly below prices during the early 1980s (see Figure 3). In 1980, for example, USDA estimated the average land price at $2,041 and the capitalized value was $933 per acre. The lower capitalized value indicated that farmland prices were above fundamentals suggested by cash rents and interest rates. Subsequently, farmland prices decreased in each year from 1981 to 1987.
Between 1987 through 2010, prices and capitalized values followed each other closely, indicating that farmland prices were closely following changes in farmland returns and interest rates as represented by the capitalization formula. The largest deviation occurred in 2007, when farmland price was $1,100 above the capitalized value. This year was at the end of the period in which there was large interest in developing farmland for commercial purposes and at the beginning of the period of higher farmland returns caused by higher commodity prices.
Since 2009, capitalized values have been above farmland prices, suggesting that fundamentals would support higher farmland prices than currently observed in the market. The difference reached $4,537 per acre in 2012, when the capitalized value of $11,337 per acre and farmland price of $6,800.
Much of the reason for the high 2012 capitalized value is the low interest rate. To illustrate, capitalized values are calculated for differing interest rates using the 2012 cash rent of $212 per acre:
1. A 2.79% rate occurred in 2011. The capitalized value using this 2.79% rate is $7,588 per acre, 32 percent lower than the $11,337 capitalized value using a 1.87% 10-year CMT rate.
2. A 3.21% rate occurred in 2012. The capitalized value using this rate is $6,604 per acre. The $6,604 per acre capitalized value is below the current farmland price of $6,800.
3. The average 10-year CMT rate since 1990 is 5.32%. The capitalized value given a 5.32% rate is $3,984 per acre, 41% lower than the current farmland price of $6,800 per acre.
While farmland prices have increased rapidly in recent years, comparison of farmland prices to capitalized values suggest that farmland prices are supported by current cash rent and interest rate levels. In the future, decreases in farmland returns or increases in interest rates could lead to farmland price decreases. At this point, neither return decreases nor interest rate increases seem eminent. In my opinion, rising interest rates pose the largest risk that could lead to farmland price decreases in the future. Current interest rates are very low and even small interest rate increases cause large declines in capitalized values. Moreover, the last time farmland prices decreased was in the 1980s, when interest rates were rising. It can be argued that rising interest rates had as much impact on farmland price declines during the 1980s as did decreasing farmland returns.
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It is also for this reason that with web marketing budgets we can not go wrong: the returns of promotional campaigns on the Internet and the tools used to complete them can be measured with the utmost precision, and above all constantly, every day. In this way, a web agency (or a professional web communication) has immediate feedback of their work, understand what are the strengths and what are the weak points, optimizing the efficiency of its operations and stabilizes any changes.
Another aspect that can not be underestimated is the fact that thanks to the web marketers and on site monitoring tools you can trace the geographic origin of those who visit a site like this, you also have the opportunity to vary the advertising campaigns depending on the different geographical areas. Among other positive factors that speak for the use of web marketing it is considered the fact that a website is always online and therefore always available: it can be reached at any time and always consulted.
Clearly, therefore, the difference with a spot aired on the radio or on television, but also with an advertisement published in a newspaper or in a magazine, which conversely have little time to capture the audience. It is also for this reason that the web marketing is non-invasive, unlike traditional advertising messages, which – trivially – are not required. The difference between "push" and "pull" is obvious and important, because on television a spot in the middle of a football game or a movie can be considered annoying, intrusive or even irritating, having the opposite effect to that intended , that is, to decrease the effectiveness of the message.
Each estimate web marketing can vary according to the target site and the industry / competition
Obviously, in the evaluation of web marketing prices, account must be taken of the quality of the products contained. For example, when we dedicate ourselves to Seo (acronym for Search Engine Optimization, that is optimized for search engines, and that indicates the set of strategies that are adopted to make sure that a site appears in the first search results users), often it tends to fill the pages of a site with the keywords through which you want to be reached, in the hope that this is sufficient to achieve the desired goal.
There is nothing more wrong, because now Google has become so "nice" to know also recognize the quality of a text. Cram keywords to a page without communication user is about as wrong can be done; must, however, transmit clear information and actually useful to you: and, by doing so, it is essential to refer to the professional and reliable copywriters, they have expertise about the subject they deal with and are able to write respecting standards high quality.
In general, the activities through which the web marketing can be managed today are manifold: in addition to Seo, ie optimization, are also central to banner campaigns, positioning, Sem (ie marketing of the search engines), programs affiliate and pay per click. In general, it can be considered part of the web marketing everything that contributes to the return on investment.
The web marketing prices are variable and it is wise to plan before a positioning strategy
Affiliate marketing, for example, is based on a trade agreement that is concluded between three parties: the affiliation platform, the publisher (also known as merchant) and the franchisee (also known as publishers). The advertiser is the person who undertakes an affiliate plan in order to be able to rely on affiliates to help him advertise their business online; the affiliate, on the other hand, enrolled its portal (or, more generally, their site or their web property) participating in the program and entering the javascript code inside of which will be featured listings; the affiliation platform, finally, is the one that provides the technology and the know-how to carry out any action in the best way, from the exchange of advertising material to the management of payments.
Affiliate marketing is based on the fact that the affiliate carries out promotional activities (or Seo Sem) to increase the traffic to their site, so as to promote both their content that the advertiser's ads. The affiliate programs represent only a "portion" of web marketing because the fees are received only after the affiliate's site is carried out some action, they speak, specifically, the Cost per Order (abbreviated as CPO) and Cost for Action (CPA for short).
Here, then, that the web marketing costs include a large variety of solutions and practices, each of which is targeted to a specific purpose. To make the campaign a success, of course, is essential before drawing up a plan, identifying with anticipation what goals you want to achieve, and therefore, what is the target to which it is intended, that is, the audience segment in which it tip.
A "living" site is synonymous with quality. The refresh rate of a website
If you own a site that sells dentures, clearly, you will have to set your own campaign towards a mainly older audience; if you own an e-commerce of cosmetics, however, you will have to set up your own campaign towards a predominantly female audience; and so on. The web marketing plan, then, must take into account the timing and manner in which you want to create and develop the strategy, always starting from preparing the budget that you are willing to invest.
Finally, it should consider carefully whether the instruments to be used to monitor the results, both the opportunities and possible risks when you might stumble. In this scenario, for example, you can not help but take account of the competition. What is referred to as competitive benchmarking, and that it is in simple words the analysis of competitors, it is essential not only to gather suggestions and ideas, but also to avoid blatant plagiarism and especially to prevent you go to "superimpose" completely a company or a site in the same industry.
The benchmarking is essential for web marketing because it allows you to clearly identify the competitors that have greater visibility on the web, taking into consideration their strengths and their weaknesses, and at the same time to go to act on those thematic areas that the search engines have little visibility.
In conclusion, the web marketing is the price varies based on competition on Google
At the same time, this analysis offers the opportunity to know clearly what are the competitors on the market and at the same time deciding what changes to make in order to improve the ranking (ie increase visibility in search engines). Equally important is dissemination of the body of actions that a user has to perform on the site: whether to sign up for a newsletter or making a purchase, it is essential that he be assisted in every procedure, but above all that he can act and interact in the most simple and intuitive as possible.
That's why the design (or redesign) of a site is an activity developed, which can not ignore the use of qualified professionals and experts in the field, and for the classification, the creation, the organization and the collection of texts, both for the interface design and navigation of the graphical layout. And of course, for the optimization: the titles of web pages to the selection of keywords, from registration on directories optimization of metatags, are numerous aspects of which you must occupy, always keeping in mind that you are targeting – in this context – to two different targets, the spiders of search engines and users.
Each of these targets must be cared for, to make sure that their site obtains the desired results and, above all, keep them in time.


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A Study to Evaluate High Protein Supplementation in HIV-Positive Patients With Stable Weight Loss
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00000925
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 31, 2001
Last Update Posted : July 29, 2013
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The purpose of this study is to determine whether a high-quality protein food supplement will help HIV-positive patients maintain, and possibly gain, muscle mass.
Many HIV-positive patients lose weight that they are then unable to regain. This may be because patients are not eating enough protein or are not eating the right kinds of protein. The protein eaten in foods (such as meat, eggs, or beans) may not be able to make up for the amount of protein lost due to HIV infection. This study gives patients high-quality protein food supplements to help them maintain and/or gain weight.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections HIV Wasting Syndrome
|Drug: Optimune oral nutritional supplement
|Phase 2
In many HIV-infected individuals with prior weight loss, the failure to regain weight and lean tissue is at least in part the consequence of inadequate protein intake or ingestion of a poor-quality protein rather than total caloric intake. Dietary sources of protein are presumably inadequate to meet the high metabolic needs caused by HIV infection. To achieve a target protein intake in the range (1.5 to 2.0 g/kg/day) demonstrated in other catabolic diseases necessary to achieve positive nitrogen balance and to generate substantial anabolic effects, this study will administer a supplement containing high-quality protein.
Two groups of 28 patients each are randomly chosen to receive either an oral nutritional supplement (Optimune) containing increased amounts of high-quality protein (whey), which is rich in cysteine and glutamine, or an isocaloric, identical-tasting supplement without added whey protein or amino acid supplementation. Weight, body composition, anthropometry, dietary intake, and general physical health are assessed at baseline and at Weeks 6 and 12. Plasma cysteine, glutathione, C-reactive protein, and prealbumin, along with urine IL-6, sTNFrII, and IL-1ra, are assessed at baseline and at Week 12.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Enrollment :
|56 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Evaluation of High Protein Supplementation in HIV-1-Positive Subjects With Stable Weight Loss
|Study Start Date :
|May 1999
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|June 2003
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
You may be eligible for this study if you:
- Are HIV-positive.
- Are at least 18 years old.
- Have an HIV level less than 5,000 copies/ml within 30 days of study entry.
- Have lost weight in the past year, but your weight has remained fairly stable in the 2 months prior to enrollment.
- Are expected to live for at least 6 months.
- Are usually able to eat enough to maintain your present weight.
- Are able to complete a 3-day food diary.
Exclusion Criteria
You will not be eligible for this study if you:
- Have gained a significant amount of weight in the past 2 months.
- Have any opportunistic (HIV-associated) infections.
- Are unable to eat enough food for any reason, or are on tube feeding.
- Have nausea, diarrhea, or vomiting in the 14 days prior to study entry.
- Are being treated for diabetes.
- Are receiving chemotherapy or radiation therapy to treat cancer.
- Are pregnant or breast-feeding.
- Are allergic to milk or mangoes.
- Have an implanted defibrillator.
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): NCT00000925
|United States, California
|Univ of Southern California / LA County USC Med Ctr
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 900331079
|UCLA CARE Ctr
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095
|San Francisco Gen Hosp
|San Francisco, California, United States, 941102859
|Stanford Univ Med Ctr
|Stanford, California, United States, 943055107
|United States, Colorado
|Univ of Colorado Health Sciences Ctr
|Denver, Colorado, United States, 80262
|United States, Hawaii
|Queens Med Ctr
|Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96816
|Univ of Hawaii
|Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96816
|United States, Louisiana
|Tulane Univ School of Medicine
|New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 70112
|United States, Maryland
|Johns Hopkins Hosp
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287
|United States, Missouri
|St Louis Regional Hosp / St Louis Regional Med Ctr
|St Louis, Missouri, United States, 63112
|United States, New York
|Chelsea Ctr
|New York, New York, United States, 10021
|Cornell Univ Med Ctr
|New York, New York, United States, 10021
|Univ of Rochester Medical Center
|Rochester, New York, United States, 14642
|United States, Ohio
|Univ of Cincinnati
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 452670405
|Ohio State Univ Hosp Clinic
|Columbus, Ohio, United States, 432101228
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Philadelphia Veterans Administration Med Ctr
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
|United States, South Carolina
|Julio Arroyo
|West Columbia, South Carolina, United States, 29169
|United States, Washington
|Univ of Washington
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98104
|Puerto Rico
|Univ of Puerto Rico
|San Juan, Puerto Rico, 009365067
|Study Chair:
|Kathleen Mulligan, MD
|Study Chair:
|Bruce R. Bistrian, MD
|Study Chair:
|Fred R. Sattler, MD
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00000925 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
11349 ( Registry Identifier: DAIDS-ES )
|First Posted:
|August 31, 2001 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|July 29, 2013
|Last Verified:
|July 2013
Keywords provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
Dietary Proteins
HIV Wasting Syndrome
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Weight Loss
Wasting Syndrome
HIV Wasting Syndrome
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Body Weight Changes
Body Weight
Signs and Symptoms
Metabolic Diseases
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Certain NYC geeks have been repeatedly plying me with sherry off late (thank you Jay and Ross), and as a result I'm finding myself getting more and more into these wines, to the point that I just took delivery of a bunch of bottles from Chambers for drinking at home over the next few months.
This cost $15 (for a half bottle), and it's an astounding value. Lovely salted caramel and smoky aromas lead into a palate full of fresh citrus fruits combined with savoury toasted almond, butterscotch and briny notes; it may not be the most complex Amontillado but the sense of elegance and textural polish here make it remarkably appealing to drink, and it stands up remarkably well to some moderately spiced food. Fantastic.


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I'm on a roll with making activewear lately. I used Jalie 2563 for the sports bra and 2796 for the skirt (I excluded the shorts underneath so I can wear it over shorts or tights). The top is a modified McCall's 6435. The fabrics are supplex (the solid colors) and a nylon/spandex for the stripes.
My blog: Kathy Sews.
I blogged about this and sewing activewear on FabricMart's blog.
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Apr 19, 2013, 02.21 PMby balllisaann
I like the bright colors and diagonal stripes. Yesterday, I saw a gal running around the lake in NEON HOT PINK running pants. You could really see her from a ways away, especially in grey Seattle (great for safety). I barely noticed her running partner in boring black and grey.
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Apple Forces Removal Of Steve Jobs Action Figure
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It's not as if this in practice causes any harm to Apple or Steve Jobs or confusion about their brand. It doesn't put Steve or Apple in any bad light -- in fact, it's a good likeness. And it sold quickly, so there is demand for it.But that would go beyond the standard mentality of "protect, protect, protect."
Steve and Apple are not desperate for any extra publicity, or any extra income. But instead of shutting them down -- what if they struck a deal to pay a royalty on each one, and to sell them in Apple stores -- and then Apple donate its income from this to charity.


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2013-06-05 / Obituaries
Ellin Cromarty, local charity supporter, volunteer dietician at Good Samaritan Hospital, former Board of Director member
Affectionately referred to as "the First Lady of Lindenhurst's Wellwood Avenue," Ellin Cromarty, a local charity supporter, former 18-year volunteer dietician at Good Samaritan Hospital and former member of its Board of Directors, died Tues., May 28, 2013, at Good Samaritan Hospital after a yearlong illness. Her family was at her side.
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Twitter Inc. reports first-quarter results after the market close on Tuesday. Tech reporter Benjamin Pimentel is live-blogging the earnings call from San Francisco.
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Good afternoon. Welcome to our live blog of Twitter's first-quarter report.
Stock rallied 4.6% to close at $42.62 in the regular session. Stand by for results.
- 4:14 pm
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Twitter report is out. Company beat on earnings, and sales surged once again. But monthly active user tally of 255 million is a tad below consensus.
Stock is down more than 7%. More here.
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Twitter reported a total of 255 monthly active users, a gain of 25% year-over-year. That's slightly below the consensus estimate for 257 monthly active users.
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo says in a statement: "We had a very strong first quarter. Revenue growth accelerated on a year over year basis fueled by increased engagement and user growth."
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Wedbush analyst Shyam Patil tells MarketWatch that the company's report showed "good monetization but the key metrics (users and timeline views) were below expectations driven by weakness internationally."
Check out our full report.
Stock off 8%. Call starts in about 20 minutes.
- 4:37 pm
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Despite the disappointing user growth numbers, one thing also stands out: Twitter has strong momentum on the revenue front.
Twitter sales more than doubled to $250.5 million in the first quarter.
- 4:42 pm
- Analyst: Twitter added more users than in Q4
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Topeka Capital's Victor Anthony says, "Financially the business is performing strongly."
"The revenue, advertising growth, and EBITDA numbers were solid, as was the guidance," he told MarketWatch.
"Unfortunately, the Street was demanding more out of Twitter for user growth, which Twitter did not deliver," he added.
But Anthony also notes that Twitter "added more users than they did in the fourth quarter, indicating that the initiatives to drive user growth is taking hold."
- 4:49 pm
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Twitter now has 198 million mobile monthly active users, that's up 31% year-over-year. That also represents 78% of the site's total monthly active users.
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Twitter call starts. Stock down nearly 10%.
- 5:07 pm
- Twitter shares just hit new low
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Costolo starts presentation, touting gains.
Meanwhile, Twitter shares just hit a new low, down 10% at $36.46.
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Costolo said, "We're continuing to execute on the product roadmap I laid out for you on the last call."
"I love the work we've done making the platform more visually engaging for example and you'll start to see more in areas of organizing content for new users and innovating on direct messages to name two other areas."
- 5:10 pm
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Mobile now represents 80% of Twitter's total ad revenue.
- 5:11 pm
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Twitter now has 3,000 employees.
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CFO Mike Gupta says Twitter has no plan to pursue a secondary offering.
- 5:18 pm
- Twitter now 14% below opening price in Nov. '13 IPO
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Some key points on Twitter shares.
It is still up about 50% from its IPO price of $26, but it is down 14% from its IPO opening price of $45.10.
- 5:18 pm
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Q&A starts.
- 5:26 pm
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Question on use case for Twitter.
Costolo: "We think of Twitter as a companion experience to what's happening in your world. I really see that as a consistent use case over time."
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Stock is now down 11%.
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Questions on best private opportunities internationally. Costolo focuses on the steady growth of messaging.
"There are certainly places in the world where the private conversation is culturally looked upon as more valuable and in those markets we'll look to strengthen our core product by making it easier for those folks to move more fluidly between the public conversation and the private conversation within the product," he says.
- 5:50 pm
- Is the emperor not wearing any clothes? Costolo says, 'No'
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Question on NBC executive comment downplaying the significance of Twitter's impact on TV viewing.
NBC Universal head of research Alan Wurtzel had told the Financial Times, "I am saying the emperor wears no clothes."
Costolo responds, "Our Twitter and TV strategy and our investment into that thesis was very much based on data that we saw informing the relationship between Twitter and TV. As that strategy has evolved and we continue to invest in it, there is a host, a continuing emergence of independent third-party rigorous research that validates our believe in that investment thesis that strategy."
- 5:56 pm
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When are Twitter user metrics going re-calibrate, analyst asks.
Costolo responds: "I am really happy with engagement in Q1. It's fantastic across a number of dimensions."
- 5:58 pm
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Costolo says, "We're very focused on strengthening our core products, Twitter and Vine."
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In China, where chrysanthemums have been around since the fifteenth century, horticulturists bred them, creating thousands of hybrids that come in different shapes and sizes and in virtually every color. When making a mum arrangement, make sure you start out with a tight grid using florist tape and remove leaves off of stems that are going to be below the water line. To keep your mums lasting as long as possible make sure to spritz your mums with water daily, change the water in the vase every two to three days and add a few drops of bleach to the water. Mum Varieties - Incurve or football mums have large incurved petals. - Spider mums have fully double flower heads with florets that drape gracefully in full bloom. - Decorative mums have flat tops and short petals. - Pompon mums have small and spherical flower heads. - Single mums have only one row of petals.
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Lundell also offers polyethylene flightings for use in seed handling. The company claims that durability of the flightings is similar to that of steel but the plastic is gentler on the seed.
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HILLSDALE � The Hillsdale County Republican Women will sponsor a forum Wednesday beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Hillsdale County Perennial Park (Senior Services Center located behind the Hillsdale County Intermediate School District at 320 W. Bacon Street).
There are seven Republican Party candidates running in the Aug. 5 Primary Election for the 58th District state representative. Two candidates are from Branch County and five candidates are from Hillsdale County.
"This forum is highly-organized to assure an informed voting base for this important position," a news release from the HCRW said. "Initially, all candidates received questions regarding right to life, traditional marriage and firearm possession. They also received seven questions regarding legislative issues. Their written responses will not be made available to any of the other candidates or the public until the forum."
At the forum, Barb Brady from Branch County will moderate the oral questions. She will be assisted by Sue Walberg, wife of Rep. Tim Walberg.
These questions will not be available for review until the actual forum. To assure neutrality, the forum questions have been developed with expertise from outside the 58th District.
There will be written questions from the audience as well as a meet-and-greet after the forum has been completed. Current Rep. Kenneth Kurtz will give a brief introduction of some of the realities of the responsibilities of the office.
Also in attendance will be Rep. Mike Shirkey, who is running for state senator (the seat currently held by Sen. Bruce Caswell). Campaign materials will be available to the public along with the written responses by these candidates for the 58th District State Representative and the questions asked at the forum.
"Since the absentee ballots will be mailed shortly after this forum, it is important that interested voters from both Hillsdale and Branch counties attend this event," the HCRW release said.
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Disasters and Large-Scale Population Dislocations: International and National Responses
Anthony Oliver-Smith
Large-scale displacement takes place in the context of disaster because the threat or occurrence of hazard onset makes the region of residence of a population uninhabitable, either temporarily or permanently. Contributing to that outcome, the wide array of disaster events is invariably complicated by human institutions and practices that can contribute to large-scale population displacements. Growing trends of socially driven exposure and vulnerability around the world as well as the global intensification and frequency of climate-related hazards have increased both the incidence and the likelihood of large-scale population dislocations in the near future. However, legally binding international and national accords and conventions have not yet been put in place to deal with the serious impacts, and material, health-related, and sociocultural losses and human rights violations that are experienced by the millions of people being swept up in the events and processes of disasters and mass population displacements. Effective policy development is challenged by the increasing complexity of disaster risk and occurrence as well as issues of causation, adequate information, lack of capacity, and legal responsibility. States, international organizations, state and international development and aid agencies must frame, define, and categorize appropriately disaster forced displacement and resettlement to influence effective institutional responses in emergency humanitarian assistance, transitional shelter and care, and durable solutions in managing migration and resettlement if return is not possible. The forms that disaster-associated forced displacements are projected to take and corresponding national responses are explored in the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 in Sri Lanka, a massive disaster in a nation riven by civil conflict; Hurricane Katrina of 2005 in the United States, where the scale and nature of displacement bore little relation to hazard intensity; and the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and nuclear exposure incident exemplifying the emerging trend of complex, concatenating, multihazard disasters that bring about large-scale population displacements.
Integrating Access and Functional Needs in Community Planning for Natural Hazards
Nnenia Campbell
Populations that are rendered socially invisible by their relegation to realms that are excluded—either physically or experientially—from the rest of society tend to similarly be left out of community disaster planning, often with dire consequences. Older adults, persons with disabilities, linguistic minorities, and other socially marginalized groups face amplified risks that translate into disproportionately negative outcomes when disasters strike. Moreover, these disparities are often reproduced in the aftermath of disasters, further reinforcing preexisting inequities. Even well-intentioned approaches to disaster service delivery have historically homogenized and segregated distinct populations under the generic moniker of "special needs," thereby undermining their own effectiveness at serving those in need.
The access and functional needs perspective has been promoted within the emergency management field as a practical and inclusive means of accommodating a range of functional capacities in disaster planning. This framework calls for operationalizing needs into specific mechanisms of functional support that can be applied at each stage of the disaster lifecycle. Additionally, experts have emphasized the need to engage advocacy groups, organizations that routinely serve socially marginalized populations, and persons with activity limitations themselves to identify support needs. Incorporating these diverse entities into the planning process can help to build stronger, more resilient communities.
Real-Time Flash Flood Forecasting
Jonathan J. Gourley and Robert A. Clark III
Flash floods are one of the world's deadliest and costliest weather-related natural hazards. In the United States alone, they account for an average of approximately 80 fatalities per year. Damages to crops and infrastructure are particularly costly. In 2015 alone, flash floods accounted for over $2 billion of losses; this was nearly half the total cost of damage caused by all weather hazards. Flash floods can be either pluvial or fluvial, but their occurrence is primarily driven by intense rainfall. Predicting the specific locations and times of flash floods requires a multidisciplinary approach because the severity of the impact depends on meteorological factors, surface hydrologic preconditions and controls, spatial patterns of sensitive infrastructure, and the dynamics describing how society is using or occupying the infrastructure.
Real-time flash flood forecasting systems rely on the observations and/or forecasts of rainfall, preexisting soil moisture and river-stage states, and geomorphological characteristics of the land surface and subsurface. The design of the forecast systems varies across the world in terms of their forcing, methodology, forecast horizon, and temporal and spatial scales. Their diversity can be attributed at least partially to the availability of observing systems and numerical weather prediction models that provide information at relevant scales regarding the location, timing, and severity of impending flash floods. In the United States, the National Weather Service (NWS) has relied upon the flash flood guidance (FFG) approach for decades. This is an inverse method in which a hydrologic model is run under differing rainfall scenarios until flooding conditions are reached. Forecasters then monitor observations and forecasts of rainfall and issue warnings to the public and local emergency management communities when the rainfall amounts approach or exceed FFG thresholds. This technique has been expanded to other countries throughout the world. Another approach, used in Europe, relies on model forecasts of heavy rainfall, where anomalous conditions are identified through comparison of the forecast cumulative rainfall (in space and time) with a 20-year archive of prior forecasts. Finally, explicit forecasts of flash flooding are generated in real time across the United States based on estimates of rainfall from a national network of weather radar systems.
Human Extinction from Natural Hazard Events
Anders Sandberg
Like any other species, Homo sapiens can potentially go extinct. This risk is an existential risk: a threat to the entire future of the species (and possible descendants). While anthropogenic risks may contribute the most to total extinction risk natural hazard events can plausibly cause extinction.
Historically, end-of-the-world scenarios have been popular topics in most cultures. In the early modern period scientific discoveries of changes in the sky, meteors, past catastrophes, evolution and thermodynamics led to the understanding that Homo sapiens was a species among others and vulnerable to extinction. In the 20th century, anthropogenic risks from nuclear war and environmental degradation made extinction risks more salient and an issue of possible policy. Near the end of the century an interdisciplinary field of existential risk studies emerged.
Human extinction requires a global hazard that either destroys the ecological niche of the species or harms enough individuals to reduce the population below a minimum viable size. Long-run fertility trends are highly uncertain and could potentially lead to overpopulation or demographic collapse, both contributors to extinction risk.
Astronomical extinction risks include damage to the biosphere due to radiation from supernovas or gamma ray bursts, major asteroid or comet impacts, or hypothesized physical phenomena such as stable strange matter or vacuum decay. The most likely extinction pathway would be a disturbance reducing agricultural productivity due to ozone loss, low temperatures, or lack of sunlight over a long period. The return time of extinction-level impacts is reasonably well characterized and on the order of millions of years. Geophysical risks include supervolcanism and climate change that affects global food security. Multiyear periods of low or high temperature can impair agriculture enough to stress or threaten the species. Sufficiently radical environmental changes that lead to direct extinction are unlikely. Pandemics can cause species extinction, although historical human pandemics have merely killed a fraction of the species.
Extinction risks are amplified by systemic effects, where multiple risk factors and events conspire to increase vulnerability and eventual damage. Human activity plays an important role in aggravating and mitigating these effects.
Estimates from natural extinction rates in other species suggest an overall risk to the species from natural events smaller than 0.15% per century, likely orders of magnitude smaller. However, due to the current situation with an unusually numerous and widely dispersed population the actual probability is hard to estimate. The natural extinction risk is also likely dwarfed by the extinction risk from human activities.
Many extinction hazards are at present impossible to prevent or even predict, requiring resilience strategies. Many risks have common pathways that are promising targets for mitigation. Endurance mechanisms against extinction may require creating refuges that can survive the disaster and rebuild. Because of the global public goods and transgenerational nature of extinction risks plus cognitive biases there is a large undersupply of mitigation effort despite strong arguments that it is morally imperative.
Scalar Politics in Flood Risk Management and Community Engagement
Thomas Thaler
Recent extreme hydrological events (e.g., in the United States in 2005 or 2012, Pakistan in 2010, and Thailand in 2011) revealed increasing flood risks due to climate and societal change. Consequently, the roles of multiple stakeholders in flood risk management have transformed significantly. A central aspect here is the question of sharing responsibilities among global, national, regional, and local stakeholders in organizing flood risk management of all kinds. This new policy agenda of sharing responsibilities strives to delegate responsibilities and costs from the central government to local authorities, and from public administration to private citizens. The main reasons for this decentralization are that local authorities can deal more efficiently with public administration tasks concerned with risks and emergency management. Resulting locally based strategies for risk reduction are expected to tighten the feedback loops between complex environmental dynamics and human decision-making processes. However, there are a series of consequences to this rescaling process in flood risk management, regarding the development of new governance structures and institutions, like resilience teams or flood action groups in the United Kingdom. Additionally, downscaling to local-level tasks without additional resources is particularly challenging. This development has tightened further with fiscal and administrative cuts around the world resulting from the global economic crisis of 2007–2008, which tightening eventually causes budget restrictions for flood risk management. Managing local risks easily exceeds the technical and budgetary capacities of municipal institutions, and individual citizens struggle to carry the full responsibility of flood protection. To manage community engagement in flood risk management, emphasis should be given to the development of multi-level governance structures, so that multiple stakeholders share fairly the power, resources, and responsibility in disaster planning. If we fail to do so, some consequences would be: (1), "hollowing out" the government, including the downscaling of the responsibility towards local stakeholders; and (2), inability of the government to deal with the new tasks due to lack of resources transferred to local authorities.
Introduction to Socio-Ecological Resilience
Vincenzo Bollettino, Tilly Alcayna, Philip Dy, and Patrick Vinck
In recent years, the notion of resilience has grown into an important concept for both scholars and practitioners working on disasters. This evolution reflects a growing interest from diverse disciplines in a holistic understanding of complex systems, including how societies interact with their environment. This new lens offers an opportunity to focus on communities' ability to prepare for and adapt to the challenges posed by natural hazards, and the mechanism they have developed to cope and adapt to threats. This is important because repeated stresses and shocks still cause serious damages to communities across the world, despite efforts to better prepare for disasters.
Scholars from a variety of disciplines have developed resilience frameworks both to guide macro-level policy decisions about where to invest in preparedness and to measure which systems perform best in limiting losses from disasters and ensuring rapid recovery. Yet there are competing conceptions of what resilience encompasses and how best to measure it. While there is a significant amount of scholarship produced on resilience, the lack of a shared understanding of its conceptual boundaries and means of measurement make it difficult to demonstrate the results or impact of resilience programs.
If resilience is to emerge as a concept capable of aiding decision-makers in identifying socio-geographical areas of vulnerability and improving preparedness, then scholars and practitioners need to adopt a common lexicon on the different elements of the concept and harmonize understandings of the relationships amongst them and means of measuring them. This article reviews the origins and evolution of resilience as an interdisciplinary, conceptual umbrella term for efforts by different disciplines to tackle complex problems arising from more frequent natural disasters. It concludes that resilience is a useful concept for bridging different academic disciplines focused on this complex problem set, while acknowledging that specific measures of resilience will differ as different units and levels of analysis are employed to measure disparate research questions.
Measuring Flood Discharge
Marian Muste and Ton Hoitink
With a continuous global increase in flood frequency and intensity, there is an immediate need for new science-based solutions for flood mitigation, resilience, and adaptation that can be quickly deployed in any flood-prone area. An integral part of these solutions is the availability of river discharge measurements delivered in real time with high spatiotemporal density and over large-scale areas. Stream stages and the associated discharges are the most perceivable variables of the water cycle and the ones that eventually determine the levels of hazard during floods. Consequently, the availability of discharge records (a.k.a. streamflows) is paramount for flood-risk management because they provide actionable information for organizing the activities before, during, and after floods, and they supply the data for planning and designing floodplain infrastructure. Moreover, the discharge records represent the ground-truth data for developing and continuously improving the accuracy of the hydrologic models used for forecasting streamflows. Acquiring discharge data for streams is critically important not only for flood forecasting and monitoring but also for many other practical uses, such as monitoring water abstractions for supporting decisions in various socioeconomic activities (from agriculture to industry, transportation, and recreation) and for ensuring healthy ecological flows. All these activities require knowledge of past, current, and future flows in rivers and streams.
Given its importance, an ability to measure the flow in channels has preoccupied water users for millennia. Starting with the simplest volumetric methods to estimate flows, the measurement of discharge has evolved through continued innovation to sophisticated methods so that today we can continuously acquire and communicate the data in real time. There is no essential difference between the instruments and methods used to acquire streamflow data during normal conditions versus during floods. The measurements during floods are, however, complex, hazardous, and of limited accuracy compared with those acquired during normal flows. The essential differences in the configuration and operation of the instruments and methods for discharge estimation stem from the type of measurements they acquire—that is, discrete and autonomous measurements (i.e., measurements that can be taken any time any place) and those acquired continuously (i.e., estimates based on indirect methods developed for fixed locations). Regardless of the measurement situation and approach, the main concern of the data providers for flooding (as well as for other areas of water resource management) is the timely delivery of accurate discharge data at flood-prone locations across river basins.
Children, Youth, and Disaster
Alice Fothergill
Children and youth are greatly affected by disasters, and as climate instability leads to more weather-related disasters, the risks to the youngest members of societies will continue to increase. Children are more likely to live in risky places, such as floodplains, coastal areas, and earthquake zones, and more likely to be poor than other groups of people. While children and youth in industrialized countries are experiencing increased risks, the children and youth in developing countries are the most at risk to disasters.
Children and youth are vulnerable before, during, and after a disaster. In a disaster, many children and youth experience simultaneous and ongoing disruptions in their families, schooling, housing, health and access to healthcare, friendships, and other key areas of their lives. Many are at risk to separation from guardians, long-term displacement, injury, illness, and even death. In disaster planning, there is often an assumption that parents will protect their children in a disaster event, and yet children are often separated from their parents when they are at school, childcare centers, home alone, with friends, and at work. Children do not have the resources or independence to prepare for disasters, so they are often reliant on adults to make evacuation decisions, secure shelter, and provide resources. Children also may hide or have trouble articulating their distress to adults after a disaster. In the disaster aftermath, it has been found that children and youth—no matter how personally resilient—cannot fully recover without the necessary resources and social support.
Social location—such as social class, race, gender, neighborhood, resources, and networks—prior to a disaster often determines, at least in part, many of the children's post-disaster outcomes. In other words, age intersects with many other factors. Girls, for example, are at risk to sexual violence and exploitation in some disaster aftermath situations. In addition, a child's experience in a disaster could also be affected by language, type of housing, immigration status, legal status, and disability issues. Those living in poverty have more difficulties preparing for disasters, do not have the resources to evacuate, and live in lower quality housing that is less able to withstand a disaster. Thus, it is crucial to consider the child's environment before and after the disaster, to realize that some children experience cumulative vulnerability, or an accumulation of risk factors, and that disasters may occur on top of other crises, such as drought, epidemics, political instability, violence, or a family crisis such as divorce or death.
Even as children and youth are vulnerable, they also demonstrate important and often unnoticed capacities, skills, and strengths, as they assist themselves and others before and after disaster strikes. Frequently, children are portrayed as helpless, fragile, passive, and powerless. But children and youth are creative social beings and active agents, and they have played important roles in preparedness activities and recovery for their families and communities. Thus, both children's vulnerabilities and capacities in disasters should be a research and policy priority.
Physical Vulnerability in Earthquake Risk Assessment
Abdelghani Meslem and Dominik H. Lang
In the fields of earthquake engineering and seismic risk reduction the term "physical vulnerability" defines the component that translates the relationship between seismic shaking intensity, dynamic structural uake damage and loss assessment discipline in the early 1980s, which aimed at predicting the consequences of earthquake shaking for an individual building or a portfolio of buildings. In general, physical vulnerability has become one of the main key components used as model input data by agencies when developinresponse (physical damage), and cost of repair for a particular class of buildings or infrastructure facilities. The concept of physical vulnerability started with the development of the earthqg prevention and mitigation actions, code provisions, and guidelines. The same may apply to insurance and reinsurance industry in developing catastrophe models (also known as CAT models).
Since the late 1990s, a blossoming of methodologies and procedures can be observed, which range from empirical to basic and more advanced analytical, implemented for modelling and measuring physical vulnerability. These methods use approaches that differ in terms of level of complexity, calculation efforts (in evaluating the seismic demand-to-structural response and damage analysis) and modelling assumptions adopted in the development process. At this stage, one of the challenges that is often encountered is that some of these assumptions may highly affect the reliability and accuracy of the resulted physical vulnerability models in a negative way, hence introducing important uncertainties in estimating and predicting the inherent risk (i.e., estimated damage and losses).
Other challenges that are commonly encountered when developing physical vulnerability models are the paucity of exposure information and the lack of knowledge due to either technical or nontechnical problems, such as inventory data that would allow for accurate building stock modeling, or economic data that would allow for a better conversion from damage to monetary losses. Hence, these physical vulnerability models will carry different types of intrinsic uncertainties of both aleatory and epistemic character. To come up with appropriate predictions on expected damage and losses of an individual asset (e.g., a building) or a class of assets (e.g., a building typology class, a group of buildings), reliable physical vulnerability models have to be generated considering all these peculiarities and the associated intrinsic uncertainties at each stage of the development process.
Readiness for Natural Hazards
Douglas Paton
Humankind has always lived with natural hazards and their consequences. While the frequency and intensity of geological processes may have remained relatively stable, population growth and infrastructure development in areas susceptible to experiencing natural hazards has increased societal risk and the losses experienced from hazard activity. Furthermore, increases in weather-related (e.g., hurricanes, wildfires) hazards emanating from climate change will increase risk in some countries and result in others having to deal with natural hazard risk for the first time.
Faced with growing and enduring risk, disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies will play increasingly important roles in facilitating societal sustainability. This article discusses how readiness or preparedness makes an important contribution to comprehensive DRR. Readiness is defined here in terms of those factors that facilitate people's individual and collective capability to anticipate, cope with, adapt to, and recover from hazard consequences. This article first discusses the need to conceptualize readiness as comprising several functional categories (structural, survival/direct action, psychological, community/capacity building, livelihood and community-agency readiness).
Next, the article discusses how the nature and extent of people's readiness is a function of the interaction between the information available and the personal, family, community and societal factors used to interpret information and support readiness decision-making. The health belief model (HBM), protection motivation theory (PMT), person-relative-to-event (PrE) theory, theory of planned behavior (TPB), critical awareness (CA), protective action decision model (PADM), and community engagement theory (CET) are used to introduce variables that inform people's readiness decision-making. A need to consider readiness as a developmental process is discussed and identifies how the variables introduced in the above theories play different roles at different stages in the development of comprehensive readiness.
Because many societies must learn to coexist with several sources of hazard, an "all-hazards" approach is required to facilitate the capacity of societies and their members to be resilient in the face of the various hazard consequences they may have to contend with. This article discusses research into readiness for the consequences that arise from earthquake, volcanic, flood, hurricane, and tornado hazards. Furthermore, because hazards transcend national and cultural divides, a comprehensive conceptualization of readiness must accommodate a cross-cultural perspective. Issues in the cross-cultural testing of theory is discussed, as is the need for further work into the relationship between readiness and culture-specific beliefs and processes.
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Fitness club owner charged with drugging, assaulting intern
The owner of Alessi Fitness-Kids in Williamsville was arrested Thursday by the State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting a college intern who was working for his business in April 2012.
Donald A. Alessi Jr., 44, of Orchard Park was arraigned on an arrest warrant in Clarence Town Court and released without bail.
Alessi turned himself in with his attorney after being notified he was charged with felony counts of second-degree assault and facilitating a sex offense with a controlled substance. He is accused of giving the intern some GHB (Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate), which state police spokesmen said is commonly used illegally as an intoxicant or as a date rape drug.
Anyone with information about this incident or similar incidents is asked to contact the State Police in Clarence at 759-6831.


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So I went to try out Pizza Napoletana for the first time today at a place in Greenwich, CT. I've heard a bunch about the style and wanted to see what it was all about. I have to say I was unimpressed. I read the website thoroughly and I was expecting something completely different. The site did not match the restaurant. Overall I would give it a 6 out of 10. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. I'm used to eating the occasional charred crust from Wooster street but the crust of one of these pies was black as was the undercrust. The char just dominated the taste overall. Maybe if you like that then it would be fine. I don't care for it all to much. BTW, I timed the pie and it was 1:40 bake time with one turn at around 1:20then out to the plate.
Pizza Napoletana is a style that has been gaining respect and popularity in the U.S. since the nineties. The last few years it has progressed into a movement, a revolution, and war amongst artisinal pizza makers all over the country. ReNapoli's Pizza Napoletana is our contribution to this movement. Our dough method is "in giornata" which means made and used in the same day, so some days we do run out. The recipe consists of Caputo 00 flour, water, fresh beer yeast, and Trapani sea salt. Mixed, cut, balled, and matured during an eight hour fermentation at room temperature in Neopolitan wood dough boxes. Our red and white pies are pillowy soft, simplistic in nature, using far less cheese and toppings then we as Americans are accustomed to. It is blistered or charred by the 900 degree Cirigliano wood burning oven, which gives it great flavor, and a sixty second cook time leaves the integrity, essence and flavor of the ingredients intact. Sweet tasting San Marzano tomatoes are painstackingly stripped of the flavorless stems and seeds and the cheeses used are imported from Campania Italy, and made locally from whole milk curds in the Belmont section of the Bronx.


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"Contrary to the common view, beer has lots of health benefits that make it at least as healthy as wine when it's consumed in small amounts. Moderate consumption can mean as much as three glasses a day, when paired with a healthy diet."
Cut those "extra servings" of carbs out and the beers fit right in.
Hold on. Why is beer the EXTRA calories? Oh, but a McD number 4 twice a day isn't? My beer intake is the given. Everything else is extra.


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ST. LOUIS – The governing body of Illinois high school athletics put two boys basketball coaches on probation and imposed other sanctions for what the group's chief called "an ugly and embarrassing incident" during the state championship game last month.
The Illinois High School Association's action Wednesday followed its investigation of events during and after Harrisburg's victory March 9 over Seton Academy of South Holland in the Class 2A championship, marred by what the IHSA said was questionable conduct by a player and an obscene outburst by one coach.
Some of the questioned conduct followed the first-half ejection of Seton Academy's Mark Weems Jr. after he was whistled for his second technical foul, the last for making contact with an official.
In the tunnel during halftime, IHSA Executive Director Marty Hickman said Weems' coach, Brandon Thomas, "delivered an obscenity-laced tirade in the presence of student-athletes," then initially refused to participate with Harrisburg coach Randy Smithpeters in an effort by tournament officials to quell the situation.
"When [Thomas] eventually appeared, his demeanor made it clear that he would not be a conduit for positive change," Hickman said. "There is no place for that type of behavior in high school athletics, and no outcome of a high school sporting event warrants it."
After the game, Hickman said, Thomas snubbed offers of congratulations from the IHSA's directors and Gov. Pat Quinn, threw the runner-up medal to an assistant, exited the court and had a verbal confrontation with a fan before being restrained by security and police from entering the stands.
Hickman said Smithpeters "crossed the line early in the game with his actions toward the game officials" and should have been issued a first-half technical foul for blatantly stepping out of his coach's box.
"His behavior set a negative tone for the players and fans and contributed to a hostile environment that only grew worse during the first half," Hickman said.
The association banned Smithpeters, the school's assistant principal, from postseason coaching next season, unless he completes a behavioral-training program. Thomas received a two-year postseason ban. Both coaches are on probation for next school year.
"This was an ugly and embarrassing incident," Hickman said in a statement, insisting that both schools and the officials "all share in the blame for the outcome."
"We also recognize that the IHSA needs to be more proactive in dealing with on-court behavior and conveying the expectations for appropriate conduct to the players, coaches and officials participating in our events," Hickman added.
Smithpeters and Thomas did not immediately reply to telephone messages and emailed interview requests left Thursday by The Associated Press.
The loss of Weems, who finished with eight points, gave Harrisburg momentum. Harrisburg, down 23-15 when Weems was tossed, took advantage and made all four technical free throws plus a layup on the inbounds pass to close the gap. They went on to build leads as big as seven points and withstood two Seton Academy runs.
However, Hickman commended Seton Academy senior Kamal Shasi, who despite disappointment about the loss gathered his teammates to line up for the postgame handshake, at times physically pulling dejected teammates off the bench.
The game's officials were assessed unspecified reprimands for failing to enforce the bench conduct rule during the game, Hickman said.
"Officiating is a tough job and a state championship is a big stage," Hickman said. "We understand the officials' train of thought is to try and let the teams play, but all these factors came together and things boiled over in the first half before they were able to rein the game in."


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Bravo set to adapt 'Heathers' as a scripted series
Veronica Sawyer is coming to Bravo!
No, she's not a Real Housewifejust yet, but Bravo has announced that they want you to watch what happens as they delve into scripted television with a series based on the 1988 teen classic, Heathers. The show will take place in the present day, and will have Veronica (the Winona Ryder character from the film) move back to Sherwood with her teenage daughter. The daughter must deal with a new generation of high school drama in the form of the Plastics"Ashleys," the daughters of the surviving Heathers.
The show is being executive produced by Mark Rizzo (The Man Date, Zip) and Jenny Bicks(The Big C, Men In Trees).
But that's not all of Bravo's scripted series news: The network is also development The Apartment, a drama about two siblings who "rent out [their late mother's] beautiful Upper West Side apartment to people who want a private space to have their own extra-marital affairs," according to a press release.


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