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I recently heard from 3 Alcorn researchers responding to a message I left years ago on either an Alcorn site or a Cass Co. Illinois site. What fun this is! Two were related to me by marriage and not my bio cousins (an Alcorn cousin of mine was the second husband of the woman they descended from). I didn't know about this marriage so I was delighted to hear from them. Last year I submitted some Alcorn/Englis photos to the Cass Co., Illinois Historial & Genealogical Society site and they can be viewed there.
For anyone researching in Cass Co., Illinois this is a great site (besides the fact you can see the photos I contributed!).
My Alcorn bio cousin who recently contacted me has been too busy (two teen age kids plus a full time job) to go through her old pictures and documents. But she plans to and we will talk more then. I'm sure she will have lots to share. I'm so happy to have her email so we can talk later.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5170?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Matei Zaharia updated HADOOP-5170: ---------------------------------- Status: Open (was: Patch Available) > Set max map/reduce tasks on a per-job basis, either per-node or cluster-wide > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-5170 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5170 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: mapred > Reporter: Jonathan Gray > Assignee: Matei Zaharia > Attachments: tasklimits-v2.patch, tasklimits-v3.patch, tasklimits.patch > > > There are a number of use cases for being able to do this. The focus of this jira should be on finding what would be the simplest to implement that would satisfy the most use cases. > This could be implemented as either a per-node maximum or a cluster-wide maximum. It seems that for most uses, the former is preferable however either would fulfill the requirements of this jira. > Some of the reasons for allowing this feature (mine and from others on list): > - I have some very large CPU-bound jobs. I am forced to keep the max map/node limit at 2 or 3 (on a 4 core node) so that I do not starve the Datanode and Regionserver. I have other jobs that are network latency bound and would like to be able to run high numbers of them concurrently on each node. Though I can thread some jobs, there are some use cases that are difficult to thread (scanning from hbase) and there's significant complexity added to the job rather than letting hadoop handle the concurrency. > - Poor assignment of tasks to nodes creates some situations where you have multiple reducers on a single node but other nodes that received none. A limit of 1 reducer per node for that job would prevent that from happening. (only works with per-node limit) > - Poor mans MR job virtualization. Since we can limit a jobs resources, this gives much more control in allocating and dividing up resources of a large cluster. (makes most sense w/ cluster-wide limit) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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In the 12 weeks ending October 2010, according to Symphony IRI, thin crust pizza was the most popular type of frozen pizza. Responding to consumer demand for more choices, Westport, Conn.-based Newman's Own Inc. introduces three new additions to the popular and successful Newman's Own Thin & Crispy Crust frozen pizza line. They include White, Roasted Vegetable, and Sausage, bringing the total to eight varieties -- Four Cheese: Supreme; Margherita; Uncured Pepperoni; Roasted Garlic & Chicken; White; Roasted Vegetable and Italian Sausage.
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Markets Slide on Fed Taper Fears
Stocks headed for their biggest drop in eight weeks as bond prices tumbled after stronger-than-expected economic data raised investor anxiety about a pullback next month in central-bank support for financial markets. Russell Investment chief strategist Stephen Wood joins The News Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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Gun Rights Rally Draws Crowd in Pierre
PIERRE - About 80 people gathered at South Dakota's state Capitol in Pierre on Saturday to show their support for gun rights.
Many of the people carried signs supporting the Second Amendment at the event that took place inside the Capitol Rotunda.
Ed Assman, of Pierre, helped organize the rally. He is a Vietnam War veteran and former law enforcement officer. He says the people attending the event believe that "an armed populace is not a dangerous thing." Assman says he is "100 percent" opposed to the idea of restricting the availability of assault weapons.
Assman says 99 percent of gun owners are law-abiding citizens.
The rally in Pierre was one of several around the country organized by gun rights advocates at state capitols.
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Spoiler alert: If you haven't seen the Season 2 finale of "Falling Skies," stop reading.
Jessy Schram's character Karen broke out some new Spidey powers in the Season 2 finale of TNT's "Falling Skies," but the actress reveals a dirty little secret about Karen scurrying up that wall in "A More Perfect Union."
"That was my very beautiful stunt woman," Schram said by phone last week from Hawaii, where she's now filming "Last Resort." "I remember that they were going to put me in a harness and bring me up half the wall and do a little bit of that. And time got really short and I needed to fly out, so they were like, 'All right, Jessy, now turn around and jump like you're going to go up the wall.'
"And so I'm doing all these little [jumps], feeling really funny doing it in front of the whole crew. And then all of a sudden she just sort of passes me going up that wall. And there are little steel flakes falling everywhere, and she just disappears into the darkness. We all just had our mouths open staring up at her. I'm like, 'So my little jump there probably isn't going to be believable?'
"Yeah, so I will admit that those superpowers were done by my beautiful stuntwoman. ... That spider-power was all her."
But the 26-year-old did inhabit Karen throughout the second season, seeing the character, which had been pretty much a side role until the Season 1 finale, grow into an antagonist at the center of many of Season 2's most pivotal moments. Schram said she was honored to have the opportunity to step up this season.
"They sprinkled Karen through the first season where they kind of needed her, and now they're bringing her in to kind of drive the story to a whole different place that you didn't expect," she said. "Especially in the finale, that's something where I was reading the script going like, 'Do I really need to do that? This is not how I--what?'"
In the finale, Karen and the aliens took members of the 2nd Mass hostage, then she kissed Hal Mason (Drew Roy), depositing another alien bug in his mouth that appears to have taken charge of Hal. That's just one of the cliffhangers to be resolved next season, which was to begin filming in Vancouver this week.
"I think they set it up in a way where it can go in so many directions," Schram said. "I don't know what's going to happen yet, so I'm excited to see. But there's no way that that [alien bug] can't play a part in Season 3."
Schram, who doesn't know exactly how much Karen will appear in Season 3, talked about her approach to the character this season.
When we first met Karen, she was sweet and Hal's girlfriend. Then she's harnessed by the aliens and becomes downright mean.
[Laughs.] Yeah. You know, everyone has their own definition of what mean is, or what evil is. That was the most interesting part with Karen; we would read the scripts and somebody would be like, "Oh my God she's so evil." Evil is a really bad direction because it's so open [to interpretation]. It's how it makes you feel. Reading through [the scripts] I'm like, "OK, well, in reality if I can side with the alien Karen here for a second, she's really not evil. She just very passionate and faithful to what she's doing." You can take every spin on it, but she definitely has a twist, and her mind is unlike ours.
She's just good at her job, right?
She's damn good at her job. [Laughs.] I would say so. And she's got a little extra adrenaline in her.
She has messed with practically everyone in the 2nd Mass.
Oh yeah, like everyone. Even Tom's character, even Weaver's character; she brings this unsettling feeling and makes everyone question things and go against themselves and each other, and ultimately her.
Did you know after the first season that they were going to make Karen such a pivotal person in Season 2?
Absolutely not, no. I had no idea. Like I said, it was something that I feel lucky every time I get a phone call, "Hey, are you available next week, because we have these ideas for Karen?" So I was very much in the dark about it ... I knew Karen would be involved in some kind of way now that she's a voice for the aliens, I just didn't know how and in what direction it would go. Every time I get a script I have the reaction I think a lot of the viewers have. I'm like, "I don't know if I like that. I don't know if I like Karen."
Have you been playing Karen as if she still has memories of when she was not harnessed?
That's a very interesting question. It depends at which point. I think she has an awareness [of her past], but her feelings have changed. When she's talking to Hal in the scenes when he first finds her [in "Homecoming," Ep. 6 of the season], she's aware of Tom and Hal and what they mean to her, but at the same time she has a higher purpose now. So she has these feelings but they're not as intense or they're not as available to her as they would be to everyone else. ... There are definitely moments, like on the rooftop when she looks at Hal and she's about to leave him and she does remember that feeling and those moments, but she can't turn back now.
I was thinking specifically of the finale when she kisses Hal. She drops that the little insect thingy into his mouth. It just made me wonder, "OK, is she picking him because she's already kissed him as her human self?"
She has these memories and these connections, but they're just not how we would normally feel them. ... Hal was her first love, and that is her family. So there's the recognition of knowing, "OK, these people were my base." And with Hal, I think she definitely picks him for a personal connection. There's that familiarity; he was her love even though it's not at the forefront of her mind or her being anymore.
We have not seen the last of Karen, have we?
No, I don't believe we have. ... I think it's safe to say that Karen, when we leave off, she's still very much alive. But I think that's pretty much all I can and want to say.
Schram and I talked more about "Last Resort," "Once Upon a Time" and her early days in Chicago. I'll have that interview later this fall.


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Three Rivers president leaves 'building blocks' for the future
Norwich — Three Rivers Community College President Grace Jones said Monday that she will retire June 30, two months short of her 12th anniversary.
The school has seen great changes under the leadership of Jones, who announced her retirement to Philip Austin, president of the Board of Regents of Higher Education, colleagues and close supporters on Friday. She publicly announced it Monday but left open the possibility that she would remain on during an interim basis until a successor is named.
As she approaches her 75th birthday in April, Jones said most college presidents serve an average of 12 years, a tenure that makes sense because of the need for a new generation of expertise and ideas.
Jones said she plans to stay in southeastern Connecticut and remain involved in civic organizations.
Leaders of organizations Jones has supported called her an influential and inspiring leader, a tireless worker and a dedicated advocate for education and public service. Over the years, Jones has won numerous civic awards, ranging from the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut's Citizen of the Year last May and Woman of the Year by the Business and Professional Women's Organization to "Altruist of the Year" from the Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence.
"I think I've done what I needed to do," Jones said Monday afternoon, from her favorite couch in her well-lit, homey office. "I'm leaving at a time when I can leave a few building blocks for future construction."
Jones meant that both literally and figuratively for the future of the 5,000-student college. Today, she will meet with the architects planning a proposed $10 million new auditorium she hopes will be funded by the state Bond Commission in 2014.
"It will go right there," she said pointing out the window to the right side of the college's main building at 574 New London Turnpike.
Jones said her decision to retire was not influenced by recent political battles over the restructuring of the community college governance nor by the budget crunch that could leave the college with a financial deficit for the first time this year. Mid-year budget cuts announced in December have cost Three Rivers $1.4 million, plus $38,000 in financial aid already approved for students. Jones said she would not take that money from the students but would absorb the loss in the budget.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy restructured the state's higher education oversight by eliminating the Board of Trustees for Community Colleges and placing the colleges under the control of the Board of Regents of Higher Education. Last fall, controversy erupted when the 12 community college presidents were initially offered a buyout in what critics said was a move to dismantle the community college system.
After the presidents met with higher education administrators, the buyouts, termed "expedited separations," were rescinded.
The Rev. David Cannon of Preston, a longtime member of the former board and a member of the search committee that selected Jones, objected strongly to the restructuring. He fears the community college system is being dismantled. Cannon said Jones has sailed Three Rivers through the storm in an exemplary fashion.
"The whole situation is in such disarray, and her college is very stable," Cannon said. "She's been a great leader. You lose very experienced people and you have a vacancy that may be hard to fill."
Jones called the buyout episode "disheartening." She was away when the controversy erupted and did not attend the meeting with other college presidents that led to the rescinding of the buyout plan.
"That doesn't get to the middle of my thinking at all," Jones said of her decision to retire. "I'm ready to not continue even this, what I consider very noble work. I've done what I can here. I'm leaving enough ingredients for someone else to make the cake."
Jones has led Three Rivers through times of controversy, excitement, tremendous growth — 43 percent in the past five years — as well as concern. Last August, the college added the new Three Rivers Middle College High School, a regional magnet school for students studying engineering, science and technology.
Jones was named president of Three Rivers in August 2001 after previously serving as president of the College of Eastern Utah. She succeeded Booker T. DeVaughn upon his retirement.
Jones became immersed in the controversy over where to locate the expanded and consolidated Three Rivers campus even before she left Utah. She read stories about Norwich's push for a downtown waterfront campus and Preston's desire to have the college placed at the former Norwich Hospital. The board of trustees was still considering either of the two existing Norwich campuses, and Sprague chimed in to offer the burned-out former Baltic Mill site.
Jones sent communications to her future staff to stay out of the fray, essentially saying, "You don't have a dog in this fight," and urging them to concentrate on student services and programs.
"I told them, 'You can give me a tree house as long as we had the right square footage,'" Jones recalled.
The consolidation siting didn't settle down for another two years, when state officials finally chose the New London Turnpike campus for what eventually totaled an $88 million consolidation and expansion. The auditorium — a main ingredient left behind at the former Mohegan campus where Norwich Regional Technical High School moved — will nearly complete the construction.
Jones still hopes to build a new middle college school building behind the main parking lot.
Tony Sheridan, president of the Eastern Chamber, said Jones did a great job making Three Rivers part of the entire region, rather than a Norwich college. She served as chairwoman of the chamber board for a time and remains a board member. Sheridan called Three Rivers one of the most technologically advanced community colleges in New England, a major boon to business and industry in the region.
"She is a wonderful woman to work with," Sheridan said. "During her tenure as chair, she helped me negotiate some difficult decisions. A sheer pleasure working with her."
Beverly Goulet, Norwich director of Human Services, praised Jones for opening the Three Rivers campus to nonprofits and her Norwich Youth Services division for educational programs and events, exposing people to the opportunities available at the college.
"Many people who could not afford a four-year college have been able to get a two-year degree and go on to four-year college, or get jobs in the region," Goulet said. "That is so important."
Cannon said Jones' efforts to build up the Three Rivers Foundation have become paramount in these times of budget cuts. He said the poor economy could be contributing to a 2.4 percent drop in current second semester enrollment.
Jones said when she arrived, the now 40-year-old foundation was content to run annual fundraisers for scholarships. Jones asked leaders if they had considered external appeals to businesses and community leaders for major contributions. Foundation officials hesitated, since Three Rivers was a public college with public funding.
But the current $38 million budget receives only $11 million in direct state funding. Jones convinced the group to embark on a major capital campaign.
The fund was quickly embraced by major corporations, alumni and supporters and raised $4.2 million for scholarships, workforce development, nursing and allied health and the "unrestricted" category.
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When I was a kid I really wanted a 4x4. I saved up my money from working all summer long and found a rusty, dilapidated CJ-5 that I could afford. I drug it home, wrenched on it, and got it running. When other kids spent their money on whatever other kids were spending their money on, I was repairing my Jeep. I read a manual about all the various components, rolled around under it in the dirt trying to figure out how it worked, and can still remember the night I finally got it started. At midnight, while my parents and brother were asleep in the house, I was revving that 304 with side pipes as loud as I could and whoopin' and hollerin' with delight.
Cheap Truck Challenge is based on that same premise. You, the reader who is still in high school and is dying to do more than just read about four-wheeling every month, this is for you. This year's goal is simple: Buy a 4x4 for under $2,013 and fix it up for less than another $2,013. Finally after spending and wrenching as little as possible, go see what it will do. How does it perform? Will it climb hills, go rockcrawling, haul all your camping gear, mud bog, and jump? Will it make it to school every day and to that job mowing, bagging, flipping, or sweeping that you do every weekend in order to pay for said 4x4?
We the staff of 4WOR spent our dollars on a few financially diminutive 4x4s to show you that four-wheeling can be fun on a budget. Then we headed out to the Arizona desert for a ridiculously fun weekend of low-buck wheeling to prove that point.
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She's got the look. She's also got the walk, the talk and the wardrobe.
When Michelle Williams pouts and flounces and oozes her way across the screen in "My Week With Marilyn," giving herself unreservedly to the role of a tormented yet still-alluring Marilyn Monroe at a pivotal moment in 1956, you're filled with admiration.
What you're not filled with, however, is the conviction that this is actually Monroe.
Williams, a performer of uncommon skill and dedication to her craft, is not to blame, any more than the great Meryl Streep is responsible for the fact that "The Iron Lady" is unlikely to convince people that they have suddenly been ushered into the presence of Great Britain's first female prime minister.
The fault lies not in our movie stars, but in ourselves — in, that is, the profoundly complex and endlessly shifting nature of human beings. To capture the richly dynamic essence of any individual requires the only medium that's up to the challenge: novels.
Sitting in the dark at a recent showing of "My Week With Marilyn," I was struck by the inadequacy of film as a way of conveying the boundless mystery of a real-life personality.
A movie can do many things well: It can dish up terrific, gravity-defying action scenes. It can create worlds that never existed and make them uncannily plausible. It can act as a sort of prosthesis for the imagination, supplying spectacular colors and highfalutin visual hocus-pocus.
But what it can't do — even when it tries its best — is get to the essence of a single human soul's journey across time.
For that, you need a novel. You need the slow, methodical unfolding of a story. You need the gradual accretion of events — happy ones, tragic ones, mistakes and triumphs and accidents and turning points. A novel can deliver, one by one, the people who move in and out of any life. It can spurn the superficial. It doesn't have to take anything at face value.
You need, if you're wondering about Monroe, "Blonde" (2000), the gloomy but luminous novel by Joyce Carol Oates. Or "Lincoln" (1984) by Gore Vidal, if Abraham Lincoln intrigues you. Or "Charlotte & Emily" (2010) by Jude Morgan, if your curiosity runs to the famous scribbling sisters who turned out "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" in between bouts of melancholy.
Those are three of my favorite novels based on the lives of real people.
Film does what it can, just as nonfiction biography does what it can. "My Week With Marilyn" is based on two memoirs by Colin Clark.
But it takes fiction — the recapitulation of a life based on an author's sustained meditation on what it all must have felt like — to provide that ineffable access, to get at the truth of another human life that is not one's own.
Here is the scene in "Blonde" when Monroe faces a command performance at a Hollywood premiere, prior to which "a half-dozen expert hands laid into the Blond Actress as chicken pluckers might lay into poultry carcasses. Her hair was shampooed and given a permanent and its shadowy roots bleached with peroxide so powerful they had to turn a fan on the Blond Actress to save her from asphyxiation and her hair was then rinsed another time and set on enormous pink plastic rollers and a roaring dryer lowered onto her head like a machine designed to administer electric shock. Her face and throat were steamed, chilled, and creamed. Her body was bathed and oiled, its unsightly hairs removed; she was powdered, perfumed, painted, and set to dry. Her fingernails and toenails were painted a brilliant crimson to match her neon mouth."
At the heart of the novel, of course, is not a movie premiere or a makeup kit, not painted fingernails or salivating audiences, but a little girl with an absent father and a mentally ill mother. Nothing in "My Week With Marilyn," nothing any actress on any screen could ever do, no much how much she resembles Monroe or channels her lacerating insecurities, can match the moment in "Blonde" when she muses, "Your body is fragile and breakable, like a doll; your body is a doll; your body is for others to admire and to pet; your body is to be used by others, not by you; your body is a luscious fruit for others to bite into and to savor."
There are some wonderful films based on the lives of people such as "Madame Curie" (1943), starring Greer Garson as the pioneering scientist, and "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939), featuring Henry Fonda as the politico from Illinois. Perhaps not coincidentally, many of the best seem to be based on the lives of people for whom we have no video record. We can't compare Fonda's portrayal to an appearance by Lincoln on "Fox News Sunday."
But to know Lincoln, heart and soul, to get behind the speeches and the noble poses, you must go to Vidal's novel. His Lincoln is more ambitious, calculating and tentative than the standard picture — but no less heroic, because it means he knows the political stakes when he dares to propose, as the Civil War winds down, that black men be granted the right to vote:
"Then, candle in his left hand, speech in his right hand, glasses on his nose, Lincoln stepped out onto the ledge. The crowd cheered. As the tall, thin figure stood silhouetted against the glow of the transparencies across the park, (John) Hay suddenly saw Lincoln as a sort of human lightning conductor, absorbing all the fire from heaven for all of them."
And while it may sound like piling on — but in a good way — behold Vidal's striking portraits of President Theodore Roosevelt and newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst in "Empire" (1987), part of the author's audacious but utterly convincing fictional chronicle of the United States, a wildly colorful story that easily roars ahead of any film about our nation's leaders, both beloved and notorious.
Roosevelt says, "True history comes long after us. That's when it will be decided whether or not we measured up, and our greatness — or lack thereof — will be defined," whereupon Hearst quickly responds, "True history … is the final fiction. I thought even you knew that."
JULIA KELLER is the Chicago Tribune's cultural critic. She won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.


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A-list American actor Robert De Niro on Wednesday spoke at the annual President's Conference in Jerusalem. A veteran of many "tough guy" movie roles, De Niro said he had a lot of admiration for the aggressive "tough guy" Israeli character.
"Israelis are warm, they're energetic people. Forthright. Very smart. I always like smart people. They're nice people, you know. Aggressive, and I respect that aggressiveness because you need it in their situation," he said.
De Niro is one of only many international celebrities and political figures attending the "Tomorrow" presidential conference, an annual gathering started by Israeli President Shimon Peres several years ago.
On Thursday, the last day of the conference, the podium was dominated by the CEOs of the world's technology and communications giants, who all unanimously crowned Israel as the most innovative hi-tech nation on earth.
The star-studded turn-out at the conference was seen locally as a major defeat for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which aims to put pressure on Israel to surrender to Arab demands by getting a-listers like De Niro to shun the Jewish state.
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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.101 no.2 Cape Town Fev. 2011
A lower body mass index is associated with cardiomyopathy in people with HIV infection: evidence from a case comparison study
C E LemmerI; M BadriII; M VisserIV; B M MayosiIII
IBTech (Clin Tech) Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town
IIPhD Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town
IIIDPhil, FCP (SA) Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town
IVBNutr, MPhil (Epidemiology) Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, W Cape
The cause of cardiomyopathy in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains largely unknown, although a number of predisposing factors have been identified. Malnutrition has been postulated to be a contributory factor, but the association of anthropometric measures of nutritional status with HIV-associated cardiomyopathy has not been established.
METHOD: We investigated the association between anthropometric measures of nutritional status and cardiomyopathy in HIV-positive individuals in a cross-sectional case comparison study.
RESULTS: Seventeen cases of HIV-associated cardiomyopathy and a comparison group of 18 HIV-positive individuals without cardiomyopathy were studied. There was no significant difference between the two groups in age, gender, CD4 cell count, HIV RNA viral load or World Health Organization (WHO) clinical stage of HIV disease. Patients with HIV-associated cardiomyopathy had evidence of undernutrition compared with HIV-infected people without cardiomyopathy, as evidenced by a significantly lower body mass index (BMI) (20.9 kg/m2 v. 27.0 kg/m2, p=0.02), mid-upper arm circumference (26.2 cm v. 27.3 cm, p=0.02), and bone-free arm muscle area (26.7 cm2 v. 32.8 cm2, p=0.02). However, in a multivariate stepwise logistic regression model, a lower BMI was the only independent anthropometric risk factor for cardiomyopathy (odds ratio 0.76, 95% confidence interval 0.64 - 0.97, p=0.02).
CONCLUSION: A lower BMI is associated with cardiomyopathy in people who are living with HIV.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is, with advancing immunosuppression, a risk factor for the development of heart failure due to dilated cardiomyopathy.1 In Africa, cross-sectional echocardiographic studies of HIV-infected individuals suggest a prevalence of cardiomyopathy varying from 9% in ambulant persons to 57% in hospitalised patients.2 Patients with HIV infection and dilated cardiomyopathy have a much worse prognosis than HIV-positive individuals with normal cardiac function. The negative prognostic impact of cardiac dysfunction in people living with HIV is reflected by a median survival to AIDS-related death of 101 days in patients with cardiomyopathy compared with 472 days in patients with a normal heart by echocardiography at a similar stage of infection without antiretroviral treatment.3
The cause of cardiomyopathy in black African patients infected with HIV remains largely unknown, although several predisposing factors have been identified.1,4 These include low socio-economic status, longer duration of HIV infection, lower CD4 cell count, higher viral load, low plasma selenium level, and advanced stage of HIV disease.5 Malnutrition has been postulated to be a contributory factor in the development of cardiomyopathy in HIV-infected individuals, but to the best of our knowledge the association of nutritional status with HIV-associated cardiomyopathy has not been established in appropriately designed studies.5
We conducted a cross-sectional study among HIV-infected adults to determine whether there is an association between nutritional status, measured by simple anthropometric criteria that can be applied in routine clinical practice, and HIV-related cardiomyopathy. This investigation of the relationship between nutritional status and cardiomyopathy in HIV-positive patients may be relevant in the development of new therapeutic strategies, including restoration of adequate myocyte nutrition as a goal in the treatment of patients suffering from HIV-related heart failure.
This was a cross-sectional study of 17 HIV-positive patients with cardiomyopathy and a comparison group of 18 HIV-positive individuals with no cardiomyopathy. The study was approved by the University of Cape Town (UCT) Health Sciences Faculty Human Research Ethics Committee (REC REF 016/2002), and all participants gave written informed consent.
Selection of participants
HIV-positive patients with and without cardiomyopathy were recruited from HIV clinics at Groote Schuur, New Somerset and G F Jooste Hospitals in Cape Town. Clinic attendees over the age of 18 years were invited to attend the Cardiac Clinic at Groote Schuur Hospital for clinical evaluation and examination by two-dimensional guided M-mode echocardiography to identify those with cardiomyopathy. The two groups were matched for ethnicity as part of a study of genetic risk factors for cardiomyopathy in people with HIV infection.6 One experienced echocardiographer carried out all the echocardiographic examinations, using a calibrated ultrasound machine with a 2.5 MHz transducer with subjects in the left lateral position. The echocardiographic examinations were read by one cardiologist (BMM).
Patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (a fractional shortening of <25% and left ventricular internal dimension >112% of predicted, according to Henry's formula) or patients with left ventricular dysfunction (a fractional shortening of <25% and normal ventricular dimensions) were included in the study.7 Patients with valvular heart disease, hypertension, ischaemic, pericardial or congenital heart disease, diabetes or alcoholic cardiomyopathy and women who fulfilled the criteria for peripartum cardiomyopathy were excluded. Treatment with antiretroviral agents that have been implicated in cardiomyopathy8 was also grounds for exclusion.
Normal heart function was confirmed by echocardiography in all individuals in the comparison group.
Laboratory tests
CD4 cell counts were obtained by lymphocyte immunophenotyping using a flow cytometer in the Immunology Laboratory at Groote Schuur Hospital. The HIV viral load was measured by a quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay of viral genomic RNA using the Nasba kit in the Division of Virology at the University of Cape Town.
Assessment of nutritional status
The following anthropometric measurements were taken by the same observer: body weight (on an electronic scale to the nearest 0.2 kg), height (on a portable stadiometer to the nearest 1 mm, patient without shoes, feet parallel), mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) (measured to the nearest 1 mm on the left arm using a standardised measuring tape - normal range is >232 mm for women and >243 mm for men), and triceps skinfold thickness (TSF) (to the nearest 0.2 mm using a Harpender caliper). Body mass index (BMI) (weight/height2, normal range 18.5 -24.9) and bone-free arm muscle area (BF-AMA) (MUAC-(3.14×TSF)) were calculated.9,10
Statistical methods
Categorical variables were compared using the χ2 test and continuous variables using the non-parametric Mann-Whitney test. The multivariate stepwise logistic regression model was used to identify independent anthropometric risk factors for cardiomyopathy. All tests were double-sided, and a p-value of <0.05 was considered significant.
The clinical characteristics and nutritional status of the 17 patients with HIV-associated cardiomyopathy and the 18 HIV-infected individuals without cardiomyopathy are presented in Table I. There was no significant difference between the two groups with respect to age, gender, CD4 cell count, HIV viral load or World Health Organization clinical stage of HIV disease.
Although most participants presented with anthropometric parameters within the normal range, HIV-positive patients with cardiomyopathy had significantly lower values compared with HIV-positive patients without cardiomyopathy: BMI 20.9 kg/m2 v. 27.0 kg/m2, p=0.02; MUAC 26.2 cm v. 27.3 cm, p=0.02; and BF-AMA 26.7 cm2 v. 32.8 cm2, p=0.02. However, in a multivariate stepwise logistic regression model, a lower BMI was the only independent anthropometric risk factor for cardiomyopathy (odds ratio 0.76, 95% confidence interval 0.64 -0.97, p=0.02) (Table II).
We showed that a lower BMI is associated with cardiomyopathy in people living with HIV. HIV infection profoundly affects nutritional status because it is associated with poor appetite, impaired nutrient absorption, increased basal metabolic rate and opportunistic infections.11 Under-nutrition in HIV patients is manifested by weight loss, loss of lean body mass and micronutrient deficiencies. We compared two groups of HIV-infected individuals who were well matched for the stage of HIV disease. The lower BMI is therefore likely to be independent of HIV infection, and linked to the cardiac disease.
Cardiac function is both affected by nutrition and can affect nutritional status. In a malnourished state, relative cardiac sparing occurs - this is especially apparent in chronic disease.11 Cardiac sparing occurs to preserve left ventricular function - even in patients with severe protein energy malnutrition, ventricular mass decreases but the ratio of ventricular mass to body weight remains constant. Heart disease can also have an adverse effect on nutritional status. Chronic heart dysfunction can result in cardiac cachexia, an inappropriate use of lean body mass instead of body fat that results in muscle wasting.
The major limitation of this study is that it cannot determine whether the lower BMI in HIV-associated cardiomyopathy is part of the causal pathway of cardiomyopathy or an effect of the cardiac dysfunction. Furthermore, the potential role of micronutrient deficiency in the pathogenesis of the cardiomyopathy was not investigated. When attempting to determine nutritional determinants of cardiomyopathy, it is important to measure micronutrient levels of substances such as selenium, which are implicated in ventricular function.12 Although selenium deficiency in healthy humans is uncommon, studies have documented a decline in selenium levels in the general HIV-infected population, possibly owing to the trapping of selenium by a selenoprotein encoded by the proviral genome.13,14 Low levels of selenium increase the ability of the Coxsackie virus to cause cardiac damage and ventricular dysfunction.12
The role of selenium in the pathogenesis of HIV-associated cardiomyopathy has been investigated.5,14,15 Chariot et al. investigated the involvement of antioxidant deficiencies in the occurrence of cardiac involvement in HIV-infected patients.16 Selenium status was significantly lower in the patients compared with the controls. Selenium supplementation resulted in echocardiographic improvement. There was an improvement of cardiac function after selenium supplementation in case reports involving paediatric AIDS patients.15 Finally, low selenium levels have been shown to be a significant factor in the development of HIV-associated cardiomyopathy in black African patients.5
This study extends the observations of micronutrient deficiency in HIV-associated cardiomyopathy to include lower BMI, a simple clinical measure of nutritional status that can be applied in resource-poor circumstances of sub-Saharan Africa, which is the epicentre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the world. Although micronutrient measures were not performed in this study, our results are consistent with the observation that micronutrient deficiency is predictive of cardiomyopathy in people who are living with HIV infection. These preliminary findings, taken together with the small trials of selenium supplementation in HIV-associated cardiomyopathy, have important implications for the development of new therapies in this field. The time has come to consider the role of nutritional interventions in HIV-associated cardiomyopathy, including the restoration of adequate myocyte nutrition as a goal in treating patients suffering from HIV-related heart failure.
This paper is dedicated to the memory of the late Mr Peter Kaye, the echocardiographer who worked pro bono on this project. The expert assistance and contributions of Sister Maitele Tshifularo, Ms Lebogang Montewa, Dr Innocent Monya-Tambi, Ms Terry del Fabbro and Professor Gary Maartens are acknowledged with gratitude. The study was funded in part by the Medical Research Council and the National Research Foundation.
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4. Ansari AA, Sundstrom JB. Pathogenesis of AIDS-related dilated cardiomyopathy. AIDS Rev 2001;3:36-43. [ Links ]
5. Twagirumukiza M, Nkeramihigo E, Seminega B, Gasakure E, Boccara F, Barbaro G. Prevalence of dilated cardiomyopathy in HIV-infected African patients not receiving HAART: a multicenter, observational, prospective, cohort study in Rwanda. Curr HIV Res 2007;5:129-137. [ Links ]
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Accepted 10 November 2011.
Corresponding author: B M Mayosi (firstname.lastname@example.com)


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It's come up in another thread that quite a few of us don't like the NSFW posts here, for a variety of reasons. Some are religious, others (like me) think they're off-putting to some people, some just think they're boring, and there are probably lots of other reasons too.
People keep posting this kind of content, so it's obvious some of us like it. Would anyone like to explain what it is you like about it - by which I mean about it being here, not what it is you like about pictures of nekkid wimmins - and if/why you feel Oppo would be worse without it?
Let's have the other side of the argument too, from those who feel getting rid of it or (voluntarily?) limiting it would improve Oppo.
Since we're all remarkably reasonable here given it's the internet, I'm sure we can come up with some solution acceptable to everyone.
I won't rule out keeping the status quo, because I don't think anyone here wants to impose their views on everyone else, so much as reach an agreement we're all happy with that makes Oppo the best place it can be.
One possibility that occurs to me is to have a separate NSFW kinja blog, but maybe some people feel that wouldn't work so well for them.
Another thing we might try is to have a voluntary moratorium on NSFW posts for a few days and see if anyone feels like Oppo has lost anything.


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The Taste of Country March Bandness Finals will feature the two longest-serving bands in the competition. Alabama and the Charlie Daniels Band were playing country music before some of the 14 other groups in this bracket-style contest were born, and their longtime fans haven't forgotten. Both used social media to drum up support during semi-final matchups, and both cruised to comfortable wins.
The Charlie Daniels Band was trailing the Zac Brown Band midweek last week, but they kept calm and trusted fans to keep voting. In the end, the group of legends took 57 percent of the vote. Alabama led from start to finish, easing to a 63 to 37 percent victory over March Bandness Cinderella Diamond Rio. We're one week away from determining country music's all-time greatest band.
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