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December 2016
Savills Vietnam appointed Head of property management in Hanoi
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From December 2016, Savills Vietnam announced Ms Vu Kieu Hanh's promotion as the Head of Property Management in Hanoi covering Northern and Central Vietnam.
20 December 2016
Myanmar's population is 54.55 million, of which nearly 70% is of working age. From 2010 - 2015, the country's average population growth was 0.81% pa, which is expected to slow and result in a population of 56.24 million in 2020. Yangon is the most populous city with 5.5 million.
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It was a cracker of a weekend for Savills as more than $25 million of residential property sold at auction.
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14 December 2016
The first auction of the day yielded an astonishing result and sold well above the reserve.
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The merry auction season continued on Sunday with five rare land lots within Eton Estate selling for a cumulative total of $10.366 million.
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John Holland, which has won the contract for Melbourne Metro Tunnel, has leased more than 3,000 square metres in Melbourne's CBD and Carlton.
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13 December 2016
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Its too bad that They Come to America will show for only two days at the Back Space Theatre while Friends with Kids gets a whole week.
Dennis Michael Lynch, the films writer, director and producer, has done what few documentarians ever successfully pull off, despite their best intentions. His film is a genuinely unbiased, balanced and in-depth look at one of the most divisive issues in the United States: illegal immigration.
Lynch straddles the fence to show both sides of the immigration issue. Are illegal immigrants the scourge of American workers and taxpayers, driving down wages and siphoning off benefits that should be reserved for U.S. citizens? Or are they no different from the ancestors of almost every American, arriving in the land of opportunity to make a better life for themselves and their families while filling a void in the labor force to boot?
The answer, in the real world and in Lynchs film, is yes to both. And by the end of They Come to America, there is little doubt in any reasonable viewers mind that there will ever be a reasonable solution to the debate.
Unlike many who argue the immigration issue from bar stools and political pulpits, Lynch tells the story from the front lines. He interviewed scores of undocumented workers in several large U.S. cities and also went south of the border to see firsthand the conditions that spur such people to make the harrowing journey north. That part of the project almost cost him his life after a run-in with a Mexican drug gang, but such is the stuff of courageous filmmaking. On this side of the border, Lynch found plenty of law-abiding U.S. citizens who rely on immigrant labor for their own existence.
For every pro Lynch finds a con, and his arguments against illegal immigration are as convincing as those he finds for it. We meet a contractor who blames immigrants exclusively for his unemployment. We hear from government officials how many hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes are lost each year and how many more millions are spent on governmental services for non-U.S. citizens. When it comes to the criminal element,Lynch is unflinching and never tiptoes around the issue of race; not all illegal immigrants come to America with the intention of making an honest living.
The term must-see film is so overused I hesitate to dredge it up again, but They Come to America is worthy of the label. Immigration is an issue that affects every one of us. When both sides are right and both sides are wrong, all that remains is for reasonable people to continue the discussion. Lynch has given us a lot to talk about.


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No. 1 Yale Beats Holy Cross at the Whale
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The 25-day layoff for exams and the holidays did nothing to slow down the Bulldogs' offensive output. The No. 1 Yale men's hockey team, led by Broc Little and Kenny Agostino hat tricks, pumped out a season-high for goals in a 10-3 non-league win over Holy Cross before a packed house at Ingalls Rink.
Agostino, the freshman from Flanders, N.J., entered the game with a goal and three assists and produced three goals and five points (tied Yale freshman record) against the Crusaders. Little, a senior who leads the 12-1 Elis with a dozen goals, had four points and now leads the nation with just under a goal per game. Both helped the Bulldogs extend the nation's longest active win streak to seven.
Denny Kearney and Josh Balch each had a goal and two assists while Brian O'Neill and Mike Matczak also lit the lamp in Yale's last non-league game of the year. The Elis scored five times on Holy Cross goalie Adam Roy (16 saves), four on Thomas Tysowsky (10) and added one against Derek Kump (4) in the third frame.
Senior Yale goalie Ryan Rondeau played the first two periods and stopped 14 of 16 shots to earn his 11th victory of the year. Sophomore Nick Maricic (5 saves) played the final period, his first action of the season.
The Blue, now 5-0 all-time against Holy Cross, outshot the Crusaders 40-22 and converted two of four power plays while blanking the visitors on three man-advantages. Holy Cross (6-10-2) had goals from three different skaters and no player had more than one point.
"The boys got going and had good intensity on the puck," said Kyle Wallack, Yale's associate head coach who was taking over for Keith Allain '80 during his service to the U.S. Junior National Team. "It's hard not to be happy with that performance. We bounced back with a goal every time they scored. I think we have the hardest working team in the country."
Wallack, who came to New Haven after helping Holy Cross reach the NCAAs and upset Minnesota at the 2006 West Regional, was coaching against a guy he knew well. "It's always fun [to face your former team]. He [Holy Cross coach Paul Pearl] is a mentor of mine."
Yale put 21 shots on target in the first and left the ice with a 5-2 lead. Kearney opened the scoring at 5:31 and the home team never looked back.
Two of the prettiest goals of the game came in the opening frame. Agostino, the first Eli rookie to notch a hat trick since Little against Nebraska Omaha on Dec. 28, 2007, took a Jesse Root pass flicked a high wrister top shelf on Roy to make it 2-1 before Little took a long pass from captain Jimmy Martin (2 assists), was pulled down from behind and still flipped the puck over the goalie's shoulder for Yale's fifth tally of the day.
"It was kind of a broken play," said Little of his great play. "Jimmy [Martin] threw it up to me. I just tried to flip it up."
He did more than flip it up. He was being slashed (2 minute penalty) from behind and was on his rear end using his Bauer like a lob wedge to get it over Roy.
The Bulldogs were winning most of the loose pucks and dominating the puck possession time. There was never any doubt that they would wear out a Holy Cross team coming off a pair of one-goal losses at UConn's holiday tournament.
"We pride ourselves on working hard down low and grinding it out," said Agostino, who also had two goals against the Russians on Dec. 29. "Our speed is our strength."
Little added another highlight tally later in the game when he was on his knees with his back facing the goal and still wheeled and fired a shot past the Crusader netminder.
"That's just what Broc does, he scores goals. He is a threat every time he's on the ice," said Wallack, who has led the Elis to two wins in Allain's absence.
The Bulldogs, who last played a game that counted on Dec. 8 against Vermont, used the time off in a positive manner.
"The break was good for the team. It gave us a chance to get re-energized," said Little. "But it's only one game and we have tougher tests coming up.
Yale takes to the road this weekend at Dartmouth (Friday) and Harvard (Saturday)
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I somewhat belatedly read my fellow Palate Press columnist Evan Dawson's article on corkage and then, also somewhat belatedly, The Gray Report post in which W. Blake Gray (also a fellow Palate Press columnist) responded to Dawson. When I realized that I had more to say about the topic than was going to fit tidily into a comment on either piece, I thought that I'd continue the chain by responding here. Please don't think that I'm trying to steal either Evan or Blake's thunder. Everything I've seen tells me that both Evan and Blake are great guys and even better writers, and I couldn't steal their thunder even if I wanted to.
Blake asks the pertinent and (characteristically) punchy question: should a wine list educate or is the wine list just a price list? His question is prompted by realizing that he (an experienced wine writer, no less) doesn't recognize most of the offerings on the wine list Jeremy Parzen has compiled at Sotto, which Dawson used as an example of a particularly thoughtful and interesting list. Since Blake can't order based on familiarity and is given only the most general information about the wine – name, vintage, red or white, "bold" or light, and a very general idea of place (it's an Italian restaurant; most of the wines are also Italian) – he has three options.
a) Be tempted to rudely bury my nose in the wine list rather than attending to my dining companion, should I have one;
b) Take 75 minutes to place my order because it took me that long to read the list and I forgot to look at the menu; and
c) Still order wine based primarily on price.
The fourth option, which Blake didn't mention, is to pull his smart phone out of his pocket and use his favorite wine app to look up tasting notes on the list's mystery wines, but I'm going to give Blake the benefit of the doubt and guess that he's too much the polite diner to unholster a cell phone at table.
Both Evan's and Blake's articles caused me to reflect on how narrow an audience they're really addressing. We're all addressing a narrow audience when we write about wine; most people don't care enough about wine to read about it for fun, and that's especially true of the geeky stuff I prefer. But Evan and Blake are writing to people who, additionally, live in sizable cities with significant fine dining restaurants AND who eat out at such establishments often enough to think about bringing their own bottles from home. I suspect that this does, in fact, describe most of the readership of Palate Press and The Gray Report, but it definitely doesn't describe me. Blake lives in the San Francisco area. 'Nuff said. Evan lives in Rochester, NY where I also once lived and so which I can attest is definitely not San Francisco, but it still has some reasonable restaurants. It unquestionably has restaurants whose wine lists surpass the boundaries of my wine knowledge.
I live in Pullman, Washington, a town the size of which is overstated by its 30,000-somethingish population estimate. Pullman is a small town on the Washington-Idaho border, smack-dab in the middle of wheat- and lentil-farming country, that just happens to have a sizeable university (Washington State) stuck in the middle of it. It is, therefore, a peculiar blend of redneck farm community and partying college town. I love it. I love living in a town where I have a field ten minutes from my door and where I can't go to the grocery store without seeing someone I know, but which has the critical mass necessary for cultural events. And a decent library. But what we don't have are restaurants of the caliber that Evan and Blake assume are the norm. Pullman restaurants are largely designed to feed college students, which means neither fine dining nor notable wine lists. I'd qualify one restaurant in town (the lovely Black Cypress) as "fine dining" – two if I include the nearby Idaho town of Moscow – and its short but satisfactory wine list favors Washington and Oregon enough that I can reliably identify every glass and bottle. I'll guess that at least some other readers can relate. We don't all live in San Francisco or New York or even Rochester.
Back to Blake's question about whether the wine list should educate or can be just a price list. As much as I enjoy the former, I'm honestly okay with the latter, which brings me to my second point about narrow audiences. On the rare occasions when I find myself within range of a good restaurant, I don't have a lot of money to spend there. I know that more expensive bottles generally carry a proportionally lower markup and are therefore a better deal. I often know that some of the more expensive bottles are hard-to-find treasures, and sometimes I know that they're really yummy. But none of that matters when you're a grad student who's functionally living below the poverty level. I DO use the wine list as a price list. I don't make a selection based on price alone – there are usually a few options around the lowest price point and I can rule out bottles that I know I don't like or that are inappropriate for what I'm eating or that are horribly overpriced – but price still ranks as the most important factor in my decision. Hand me Jeremy Parzen's beautiful wine list at Sotto and I'll have no trouble making a decision even though I'm woefully incompetent at Italian wines. I want something red, and I want something bold – because I'm eating a braised oxtail dish, let's say – so I go to that section of the list. The least expensive bottle is something called a syrache, which sounds a lot like syrah and I know that I'm hit-or-miss on liking syrahs, so I move to the second least expensive bottle. This one says "di Sardegna" which I'm pretty sure means "from Sardinia" and I've heard a lot of interesting things about Sardinian wine. Sold.
The worst thing that can now happen is that I don't like the wine which, at a restaurant of Sotto's caliber, is more likely to mean that I simply don't care for it than that it's poorly made. (If the bottle is clearly flawed I would send it back, but I'd also say that I'm more confident than the average consumer about my ability to identify wine faults.) Whether I like it or not I've probably learned something. It's possible that the wine isn't a good representative of it's type and that I've therefore not learned anything that I can generalize beyond this specific wine, but that also seems unlikely in a restaurant like this with Jeremy Parzen running the wine show.
Actually, I'm much more likely to order a beer or stick with water regardless. Obscene markups on restaurant wine lists bother me so much that I rarely drink wine in restaurants even when I'm not the one paying. At less schmancy places with little or no wine on offer I feel fine bringing a modest but interesting bottle of my own. I won't bring a bottle to someplace like Sotto unless the bottle ranks comfortably in price with their own list AND rocks, and since I have no such bottles in my cellar I won't bring one. So I'll drink water or, if the beverage manager has been thoughtful enough to put together an interesting beer list with a few curiosities, I'll order one of those. Beer is usually an obviously better deal and, if I'm lucky, I'll find keg- or cask-only offerings that I couldn't try at home, all for less than the least expensive glass of wine on the menu, and almost universally more interesting.
I would be overjoyed to find a wine list full of things I've never seen before with clear, accurate, and interesting descriptions of its contents. But, if I did find such a list, I would:
a) Ask the sommelier for advice. Blake dismisses this option as impractical because the somm isn't always there and takes a long time to arrive table-side when he or she is. And while some servers are reliable sources of knowledge about the wine list, most are not.
b).Choose a wine based on price.
c) Bring his own bottle from home (which is the original connection with Evan's article on corkage).
So, in the end, perhaps it's better that the wine list act as a price list rather than an educational tool. When I go out to eat, I want to enjoy the meal and, hopefully, the pleasure of good company. I might not do either of those things very well should my attention be caught by an educational wine list. I can learn about wine at home, and that's probably the best place for it.
I know that most people reading Evan's and Blake's articles aren't like me but, if there are any who are, know that you're not alone. To Evan and Blake, thanks for the thought-provoking reads. And I envy you getting to eat in those restaurants.
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International Speedway (NASDAQ:ISCA) reported a weaker profit for the second quarter, although revenue beat expectations on strong attendance at the company's race tracks.
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International Speedway, which owns 13 tracks including Daytona and Talladega, said Thursday admissions stabilized during the latest period. California's Auto Club Speedway achieved its first sellout since 2005, while a move to Mother's Day weekend lifted admissions at Kansas Speedway's Cup event by 15%.
"These results are encouraging signs that NASCAR's Industry Action Plan, and our consumer marketing and capacity management initiatives are working," chief executive Lesa France Kennedy said in a statement.
The Daytona Beach, Fla.-based company logged earnings of $21.5 million, or 46 cents a share, down from $22.4 million, or 48 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Excluding costs tied to renovations at Daytona International Speedway, per-share earnings matched estimates of 50 cents on an adjusted basis.
International Speedway, which also operates Motor Racing Network, expects renovations at Daytona to be completed in 2016.
Revenue improved 6.7% to $190.3 million, topping Wall Street's estimate of $186.3 million. International Speedway said increases in television broadcast rights also drove revenue higher.
Admissions revenue edged lower to $35.7 million, while sales from food, beverages and merchandise raced 79% higher to $22.7 million.
Motorsports revenue checked in at $128.4 million, up 1.9% year-over-year.
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We all know how easy it can be to drive down to the local garden center and pick up a few "six packs" of tomatoes and petunias to start a home garden. But for many gardeners, the benefits of starting their own seedlings far outweigh this convenience. If you do not already, below are five reasons to consider starting your own plants this year.
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The earnings are not subject to FICA but are subject to federal income tax. These earnings also do not have an impact on your eligibility for need-based financial aid, as the FAFSA subtracts federal work-study earnings from adjusted gross income when calculating the expected family contribution. While a full-time job may hurt graduation rates because it takes time away from school, a part-time job can improve academic performance by forcing you to learn time management skills.
Employer tuition assistance is money provided by an employer to help employees and their dependents pay for college. Up to $5,250 of employer tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate education can be excluded from income. The benefits must have been paid for tuition, fees, books, supplies, and equipment. Travel, lodging and meals are not included. Courses involving sports, games or hobbies are not included, unless they are required as part of a degree program or are related to the business of your employer. (Payments above $5,250 may also be tax-free if they represent a working condition fringe benefit. This means that if you had paid for the expenses, you would have been able to deduct them as an employee business expense.)
Employers often require employees to attain a particular grade or to complete a program in order to obtain reimbursement. The employer may also require the employee to continue working for the employer for a period of time after completing the course of study. Often this involves one year of employment after graduation for each year of support.
About half of all employers offer employer tuition assistance to full-time employees and about a quarter to part-time employees. Larger companies are more likely to offer employer tuition assistance. College employees and professional and technical employees are more likely to be offered employer tuition assistance as a benefit. Less than 10% of undergraduate students and about 20% of graduate students receive employer tuition assistance each year. However, employer tuition assistance is much more common among MBA students, with about 40% of MBA students receiving employer tuition assistance.
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Wow! Look at the size of the crowd. I missed this race because of the overheated engine at Bryar. If I remember, team-mate Dave Lawler finished 8th in his camaro?Robert Barg
SMKZ28.....thanks for posting those pics... even though we are in florida, I'm still lurking here ! in particular, like the one of hall in the chaparral camaro & titus in the firebird, catchin' some air.group/7
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Surf City ska/reggae rockers HB Surround Sound say they have one goal - to be bigger than Aerosmith.
With a vivacious stage show and praise from big-name musicians, like Rancid's Tim Armstrong, the quintet is well on its way.
Hailing from Huntington Beach, the guys of HB Surround Sound always knew that music was their calling. After establishing themselves in 1999 after graduating from Marina High School, the band worked diligently to make its way into the music scene.
It opened for the popular Huntington Beach metal band, Avenged Sevenfold, in the early 2000s. Despite playing a different genre of music, HB Surround Sound's music was well received by the crowd.
"That's how cool Avenged Sevenfold is," Jake Bushnell (vocals) said in an interview on Main Street in Huntington Beach. "We sound totally different than them, but they were our friends and decided to put us on their show. We played some reggae stuff but mostly punk and metal kinds of songs. The crowd was like, 'Alright, this is different' and liked it. That was great."
However, after playing together for six years, the band split up to get "normal" jobs and lives. Bushnell remained in the music scene. In 2009, while a tour manager for The Dirty Heads, he missed performing and decided to try to put the band back together.
"I literally, on the [Dirty Heads] tour bus, one day decided, 'I want to do this again,'" Bushnell said. "And so I called the rest of the band and asked if they wanted to play again. They said yes, I told The Dirty Heads that I was going to go back to my band and we just went for it."
Despite dreams of making it big in the music scene, the guys decided to be realistic and remain at their day jobs, which include retail sales and teaching, as well as give themselves a one-year deadline to gain notoriety.
Since its revival, HB Surround Sound has shared the stage with popular acts, such as The Dirty Heads, The Aggrolites and Bad Religion. The group will tour with Sublime with Rome, Pepper and Cypress Hill this summer. Following that, it will embark on a nationwide tour with The Dirty Heads and Matisyahu in the fall.
Blending sounds of ska, reggae, punk and alternative rock, HB Surround Sound has a genre that is all its own. However, Bushnell has been frequently told that his voice resonates that of punk outfit Bad Religion's Greg Gaffin.
He was even told this by Armstrong, whose bands Rancid and The Transplants play a significant role in the modern day punk scene. Armstrong said that HB Surround Sound echoed Bad Religion mixed with Operation Ivy and Rancid.
While some may claim that HB Surround Sound is at a disadvantage by playing non-mainstream music, Doug Cooper (guitar) sees this differently.
"We're being true to ourselves and we kind of stand out from the rest of the bands we play with," Cooper said. "So, it's kind of refreshing."
Cooper noted the group's performance at the Cali Roots festival in May, and said that despite its different sound, the crowd enjoyed HB Surround Sound's music.
"We noticed that there were a lot of really good reggae bands there," Cooper said. "When we played people had to stop and go, '[HB Surround Sound] is different than anything else that's going on, but it's still kind of the same yet totally different.' That hopefully gets us remembered by people. So, I think it works out for us."
What also sets HB Surround Sound apart is its choice of performance clothing, particularly the inclusion of suspenders.
"We want everyone to know that we mean business," Bushnell said. "Most bands are up there in T-shirts and sandals. Have fun. We're wearing boots and suspenders because we have a job to do, and that's our uniform. We're here to give a show that people paid to see. We feel like, if you look like everyone else in the crowd, then what is the crowd paying for? I want other bands to be bummed out when they see us."
HB Surround Sound will perform at the House of Blues in Anaheim on June 30 and at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine on July 28.
For more information and to view a full list of tour dates, visit hbsurroundsound.com.


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Do you remember last summer when I attempted sweet corn ice cream and it was an epic fail? It failed for several reasons. I think I overcooked the custard and I made a huge error stopping the churn to add the thick batter.
When you stop a churn there is no starting it again until the chamber melts because it is literally frozen solid. Last week I was at D'Avolio stocking up on some olive oil and vinegar and store assistant Karen and I brainstormed about fun ways to use their products.
She showed me a recipe online (linked here) http://desertcandy.blogspot.com/2007/08/day-12-olive-oil-ice-cream.html and I decided to redeem myself. The first thing I did was decide on which olive oil flavor to use. The possibilities are endless but I finally choose blood orange extra virgin olive oil because I hoped it would taste like gelato, the single best thing I ate in Italy (and that's saying something).
This recipe calls for whole milk, heavy cream, extra virgin olive oil, sugar, egg yokes and a dash of sea salt. I followed it religiously but can already think of ways to change it up.
I normally like smooth ice cream but bits of orange peel folded in at the end would be great with this oil.
I am going to make lemon next and add the candied lemon peel I made from the peels I used to make lemoncino (clever, no?).
To begin the process you make the custard by heating the milk and tempering the eggs. This method assures you do not have scrambled eggs rather than smooth custard.
This part requires the most concentration and you have to enter the kitchen bubble to stay focused.
There are several secrets I can share with you.
First, you know when the milk is ready to temper the eggs (when you add a little very warm milk to the egg yokes to get them used to the heat) when you stick a clean finger into the milk and it feels very warm but not hot that it hurts.
Next, when you add the tempered yoke mixture into the pan, whisk vigorously.
Last, and this is most challenging for me, use low heat. With low heat you can see the mixture thicken before it boils.
Do not boil it because you change the chemistry and the ice cream will not freeze. You end up with pudding … not the goal. This can take 20 to 25 minutes of constant stirring so patience is truly a virtue.
After the custard is prepared you pour it through a mesh sieve into a bowl that contains the heavy cream.
The custard gets mixed with the cream and the olive oil is whisked in.
That's it.
I put it in the refrigerator to chill overnight and churned it in the morning.
The mixture was thick but realitively easy to get the batter into the vessel without stopping it.
This recipe could be doubled because my ice cream maker can make up to a half gallon and this recipe froze to one quart.
That is a lot of time for one quart but … was it ever worth it!
This is the most delicious ice cream I have ever made.
To give you an idea of how good it is, since writing this column there are four spoons in the sink from tasting.
Give this one a try and let me know how it turns out.
Have a yummy week!


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The Effect of Anti-HIV Therapy on Fat Metabolism in HIV-Positive Patients
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00001102
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 31, 2001
Last Update Posted : April 17, 2014
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The purpose of this study is to see how taking certain anti-HIV drugs affects the way the body metabolizes fat. This study will evaluate patients who are enrolled in CPCRA 058 (the FIRST [Flexible Initial Retrovirus Suppressive Therapies] study) by looking for changes in cholesterol levels, levels of fat in the blood, and body fat distribution. Patients in the FIRST study receive an anti-HIV drug regimen which contains a protease inhibitor (PI), a nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI), or both.
Anti-HIV drug therapy using PIs has become very common treatment for HIV-positive patients. Recently, however, serious side effects involving how the body uses fat are being reported in patients taking PIs. Examples of these side effects are a redistribution of body fat, high cholesterol level, and development of diabetes. However, some of these side effects have also been seen in patients who are not taking PIs. It is important to determine whether or not these side effects are directly related to PI use. In this study, patients on different drug combinations, either with or without a PI, will be compared.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
Close to 3 years into widespread PI use, several toxicities, including metabolic alterations, are being reported increasingly in conjunction with the use of PI-containing regimens. Some of the manifestations of these metabolic alterations include hyper/dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia, insulin resistance and glucose intolerance, lipodystrophy (in face and extremities), and body fat redistribution (e.g., central obesity and buffalo humps). Despite reports of increasing prevalence of metabolic complications among PI users, the question of whether they result from PI therapy has not been answered. Some of these complications, e.g., a decrease in peripheral fat with an increase in visceral fat and buffalo hump, have been observed in HIV-infected individuals who were not receiving PIs. This study compares 3 different antiretroviral regimens used in the FIRST study (CPCRA 058), 1 of which does not contain a PI, and examines metabolic alterations which occur.
This study enrolls patients simultaneously co-enrolling in the FIRST protocol; 120 patients from each of the FIRST study strategy groups. At entry, Months 1 and 4, and then every 4 months, blood is drawn to measure serum glucose, insulin, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglyceride levels. At entry and Months 4, 8, 12, and then every 12 months, body cell mass, and body fat by bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) are assessed. [AS PER AMENDMENT 7/5/01: At Months 4, 8, and 12, then every 4 months through closure of the FIRST protocol] patients are weighed and skinfold measurements and body circumference measurements are done. The skinfold and body circumference measurements will be discontinued after the study has collected a minimum of 2 years of follow-up data on all participants. Statistical evaluations are performed on the data.
|Study Type :
|Enrollment :
|460 participants
|Official Title:
|Metabolic Consequences of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) in HIV-Positive Individuals
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|June 2006
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Patients may be eligible for this study if they:
- Are enrolled in the FIRST study (CPCRA 058).
- Have written informed consent of parent or guardian if under the age of 18.
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): NCT00001102
|United States, California
|Community Consortium / UCSF
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94110
|United States, Colorado
|Denver CPCRA / Denver Public Hlth
|Denver, Colorado, United States, 802044507
|United States, District of Columbia
|Washington Reg AIDS Prog / Dept of Infect Dis
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20422
|United States, Georgia
|AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 303081962
|United States, Illinois
|AIDS Research Alliance - Chicago
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60657
|United States, Louisiana
|Louisiana Comm AIDS Rsch Prog / Tulane Univ Med
|New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 70112
|United States, Michigan
|Wayne State Univ - WSU/DMC / Univ Hlth Ctr
|Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48201
|Henry Ford Hosp
|Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48202
|United States, New Jersey
|Southern New Jersey AIDS Cln Trials / Dept of Med
|Camden, New Jersey, United States, 08103
|North Jersey Community Research Initiative
|Newark, New Jersey, United States, 071032842
|United States, New Mexico
|Partners in Research / New Mexico
|Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, 87131
|United States, New York
|Harlem AIDS Treatment Grp / Harlem Hosp Ctr
|New York, New York, United States, 10037
|United States, Oregon
|The Research and Education Group
|Portland, Oregon, United States, 97210
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Philadelphia FIGHT
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19107
|United States, Virginia
|Richmond AIDS Consortium / Div of Infect Diseases
|Richmond, Virginia, United States, 232980049
|Study Chair:
|Subha Raghavan
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|Responsible Party:
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00001102 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
11616 ( Registry Identifier: DAIDS-ES )
|First Posted:
|August 31, 2001 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|April 17, 2014
|Last Verified:
|April 2014
Keywords provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
Drug Therapy, Combination
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Body Composition
Anti-HIV Agents
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases


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During his nearly 30-year career with Accenture, Mr. Skan has worked with more than 50 financial services clients in 14 countries, including the UK's largest banks. Mr. Skan also wrote for the Accenture Capital Markets Blog. Mr. Skan is leading Accenture's global FinTech Innovation Labs program.
Julian graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Literature from University of Bristol in 1988. He is based in London.


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A winner was selected from 228 designs submitted by 92 freelance designers.
We are looking for a creative designer to design a logo for our upcoming weight loss product called "Acai Berry Trim".
Acai Berry Trim is a revolutionary new weight loss product with the anti-oxidant power of Acai. Acai (ah-saw-e) is one the most potent anti-oxidants available.
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Here are competitors designs so you get an idea of how it should look like.
- Logo must be professional and well-branded. This product is a weightloss and will be carried in stores. 60% female demographic. This logowill be used on the bottle and will be used on the website anddocumentation. Logo MUST include typeface and some type of symbolassociated with it. Typical logo with a symbol. Look at the competitorslisted...
- An animated drawing of the berry or amazon theme with berries would be good.
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text: And Greg Lindahl writes: > An example would be HDFS, the Hadoop Distributed FS. Last time I checked, it strongly encouraged marshaling into text. The libraries didn't have an obvious way to handle binary data, but that was from a somewhat cursory read by someone less than fully interested in Java contortions. Certainly worth checking again. Someone is implementing a ScaLAPACK-like matrix package on Hadoop, so there must be some method... HDFS is guided by a particular usage pattern. I'm not sure how its methods match to non-reduction computations, and I'm also thinking of separate compute and storage nodes. (Although obviously moving computation to the storage can be a huge win.) There also are tons of distributed key/value stores that would be interesting file systems for some applications. There's one based on Tokyo Cabinet that I should try for data analysis, LightCloud from Plurk. But yes, I mostly was asking about POSIX-ish file systems. I suppose I could have asked about pNFS as another layer to add a POSIX-ish feel to the others. (Hm. An HDFS layout?) > A similar situation exists in the node management space, where > existing solutions like CFengine were pretty much ignored by HPC > people. Ha! Cfengine was pretty much ignored by *everyone*, including its author for quite some time. Promising (pun intended) the next great advance and not passing current maintenance to others loses users quickly. Also, cfengine is (or was, when last I used it) designed to be a pull-based system that polls a configuration server. The design was more focused on asynchronous updates, and I think most HPC folks would prefer a push model that updates everyone "at once." Cfengine had a push system, but to me it didn't feel like a good fit with the rest. I'm more shocked that no one has written up using cfengine for managing laptops. It seems a perfect model. With the more open development model, perhaps it'll come back. But its competitors are more "web 2.0 cool." Jason


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Sony needs to get their act together
Since Sony doesn't have a set time when they update the PlayStation Network -- a stark contrast to pretty much all of their competitors -- a lot of us were anxiously waiting for them to eventually update the PSN, and get our hands on the juicy Soul Sacrifice demo.
We waited. And waited. It was almost midnight, Eastern time, and we still had heard nothing. That is, until Sony finally decided to share that it wouldn't be making their PSN update yesterday due to "ongoing PSN maintenance."
For every positive thing Sony does on paper, they have another puzzling misstep. Why is the PSN updated "whenever Sony feels like it" on a weekly basis? Why can't most PSN codes for press be redeemed before the day of a game's release, when Microsoft and Nintendo have their systems setup to download items weeks in advance?
Why did Sony change their store layout from something that actually works, to a slow, muddled, sluggish design that needs to be micro-updated every week in addition to a regularly scheduled firmware update? These are all questions I hope are answered with the PS4.
Sony is making a lot of strides with indies and PS+, but they really need to get their act together with the PSN.
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Best practices for article/event/weblink submission
- What do you mean by "Website Best Practices"?
- Have you noticed any trends that would help in promoting our group's website? What are other people using to promote their site?
What do you mean by "Website Best Practices"?
This section is about ways to facilitate the sharing of information from your website so that your information can appear on our pages with the utmost of ease possible (or, for that matter, any other media site such as ours).
The ideal is to have information easily shared/quoted and copy/pasted to media sites (such as ours) in order to market your site. The transfer of information should be made as easily for both you and the recipient media site and avoid any steps or webpage setups where extra work is necessary from which to get the information. (Note: The real test to this is for you to try to create an article from your webpages to another blank page (for example, a word processor page) to see how many steps are needed to collect information from your pages; then test-try other early music sites to compare.)
Best Practices
- for sections of your site where you would like media organizations such as EarlyMusicNews.org to publish details on its pages, try to have them in a web format where "copy/paste" is possible. Although your website pages may look great with interactive content, such pages will often make copy/paste of text impossible, and, delay any posting of events/materials of your site for marketing purposes on site such as EarlyMusicNews.org. Simply said, sites where the information is easy to "copy/paste" are usually first in line for posting -- if you make it difficult to copy text, then, delays in publishing important details of your events will be slower to make it to media sites such as ours.
- should you like to share information found on your website, adopt a copyright license that favours the sharing of information in a way that still promotes your site. One such license is the "Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) (or later)" -- this license is used by such large groups as the LibreOffice.org – Documents Section, Flickr, the US Whitehouse.gov website, section (some of other sites may be found here). In this case, "attribution" could (for sites such as EarlyMusicNews.org) would be as simple as quoting material on your pages and giving credit back to you in the form of a weblink redirecting the reader back to your site OR by crediting you by name. A redirecting weblink is more favourable as this will expose your site to more visitors and perhaps gain you more concert-audience individuals or increase traffic and "web recognition" of your site.
- if you would like to manage the information on your site in a stricter fashion, have a "Media" section where materials of your group is either copy/paste-able or ready for download with accompanying copyright permissions.
- have an "About" ("About us") section that has a description of your group/organization.
- events should have a clearly indicated date format. The dates should always include not only the day and month but ALSO the year.
- finally, many groups make good use of keeping in touch with their regular ticket holders and media partners (such as EarlyMusicNews.org) by publishing a regular newsletter. The frequency of mailouts varies from group to group: some of the more active groups will mailout as often as twice monthly, but most will mailout a newsletter a few weeks prior to an upcoming event. Newsletters are extremely good communication tools available to music groups. These newsletters could be as simple as a regular email sent to your ticket-holder base and media organizations or as formal as newsletters managed by professional media groups. If you are not publishing a newsletter, you may want to consider looking at this as a possible marketing option.
- Keeping communication lines open: if there is ever any of your group/organization's information posted that you would like removed/corrected, please do approach our site admin or webmaster and request its removal. You will find that in ALL cases, your request will be observed and the material in question will be removed within a reasonable delay of time (usually as soon as the request is received by the admin/webmaster). The email addresses are: firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com
On a personal note, I have found that the majority of individuals/groups/organizations have been more than willing to have their website/webpage content quoted (when used in context) and posted on our pages with redirection to their site. This has added some additional traffic to their site and added more web presence to their effort. The majority view this "sharing of information" good marketing strategy on "getting the word out" of their early music contributions. -- Marc Paré (Editor/Admin)
Have you noticed any trends that would help in promoting our group's website? What are other people using to promote their site?
Trends that have been noticed are (1 feb 2012) (* our recommendations are noted in each section):
- Website -- groups/associations
- the vast majority of sites have a website, however, a small, but growing number of groups/associations are using Facebook as their only "web presence vehicle". The vast amount of websites are mostly static (very few changes to the sites) other than updating of upcoming concert dates or their discography. Most will now have a button leading to secondary interactive vehicles such as Facebook, YouTube, MySpace etc.
- * A website is highly recommended even if you have a Facebook account. Caveat: Facebook reaches 800 million users, HOWEVER, the vast majority of people are NOT on Facebook. Groups using Facebook as their main website will NOT reach those without a Facebook account. At the very least, groups/associations should have a website with corresponding domain name.
- Domain Name
- the vast majority of websites have a domain name corresponding to their own group/association name. For example: "EarlyMusicNew.org" (our official name) is found by surfing by browsing to the "http://www.EarlyMusicNews.org" site; our parent company name is "parEntreprise" and may be found on the web at "http://www.parEntreprise.com". However, a small segment of performance group have not as yet acquired a corresponding domain name, but these are in the minority.
- * A corresponding domain name is highly recommended. It is also suggested that groups/organizations acquire the country code name instead of the .com/.org/.net unless you are anticipating bases in other countries. For example "NotaBeneBaroque", based in Waterloo Ontario Canada, has acquired its corresponding Canadian country domain name and may be found at "http://www.NotaBeneBaroque.ca". Using a corresponding country code domain name give the group additional branding and the general public will associate the site with the originating country base for the group. Should you wish to protect your group/association brand name, you may consider then acquiring the international .com/.net/org version of your domain name.
- Website sound files
- some websites make use of a music player offering excerpts of recorded music -- the music player offers visitors to "stop/pause/play the music. A growing segment is leaving full sound clips of complete movements. It seems the average number of sound files numbers around 5 clips, although, there seems to be growth in sites offering a larger variety of sound files making a visit to their site a better "auditory" experience. Some sites are offering website visitors mp3 sound clips without a player.
- * Highly recommended especially for a group engaged in performance, the mp3 format is still the most preferred format, "vogg orbis" format is available to those who are worried about mp3 licensing issues.
- Facebook site (or alternatives to Facebook)
- the vast majority of groups have a Facebook site. The groups make serious use of Facebook's ease at "feeding" visitor's attention/curiosity with updates. It seems that most groups/organizations will have specific individuals associated with the group/organization maintaining the sites on a regular weekly basis as well as monitoring the comments
- *Highly recommended. Caveat: Facebook reaches 800 million users, HOWEVER, the vast majority of people are NOT on Facebook. Groups using Facebook as their main website will NOT reach those without a Facebook account.
- Photo album site
- the vast majority are posting photos on their site, a growing segment are using their Facebook sites as a photo repository, some are using photo upload sites for ease of use such a Google Picasa Web or FlickR etc.
- * Highly recommended, especially if posted on a website. Visitors seem to appreciate photos greatly! Photos will also add face recognition to the group. Caveat: a Facebook album/photos reaches 800 million users, HOWEVER, the vast majority of people are NOT on Facebook. Groups using Facebook as their main photo repository will NOT reach those without a Facebook account.
- YouTube site (or alternatives to YouTube)
- a fast growing segment of performance groups are using YouTube to promote their group by posting videos of some performances or "pre-performance" events such as rehearsals or individual performances.
- A very small segment are posting complete concerts on their site, however, this is highly unusual as such streams may ultimately slow the site down for other users or, may in fact use up the amount of allocated bandwidth to the site's contracted download/upload agreement. In such cases, hosting services may close the site down temporarily until the site owner agrees to the purchase of further bandwidth.
- * Recommended -- YouTube (or similar) account, especially if you are a performance group OR if you are not offering sound files on your website. NOT RECOMMENDED if the video is of poor quality as the visual message may affect the group negatively.
- a fast growing segment of performance groups are using YouTube to promote their group by posting videos of some performances or "pre-performance" events such as rehearsals or individual performances.
- Electronic Newsletter (E-News)
- larger groups are making effective use of their newsletter mailouts by targeting their ticket/audience user base. Unfortunately, the newsletter option is NOT used by the vast majority of performance groups. In order to use the newsletter option, a group must start collecting email addresses from audience members as well as advertise the newsletter on their website with an option of signing up to the newsletter is also necessary.
- * Highly recommended for ALL groups. Targeted mailouts such as newsletters are very efficient marketing and promotion tools.
- Twitter
- some active groups are using Twitter, whereas the vast majority of sites are NOT making use of the"Twitter" option. (* The Twitter option seems a little excessive for smaller groups where there is not enough interest from group members to "twitter" pertinent information to listeners)
- * NOT RECOMMENDED unless groups are prepared to devote the time spent updating OFTEN.
- Funding Strategies
- most performance groups/associations are making use of some form of funding strategies. Most of these groups have a "Donate" button strategically placed on their websites.
- * Highly recommended. Generally speaking, most of these groups have gained "non-profit" status, making use of tax exemption options.
- most performance groups/associations are making use of some form of funding strategies. Most of these groups have a "Donate" button strategically placed on their websites.
- Corporate Sponsoship
- Most larger associations and some performance groups have garnered some form of corporate sponsorship to help with certain projects.
- * Highly recommended if running a festival/workshop or for associations without corporate sponsorship. In most cases, corporate sponsorship will depend on the group achieving "non-profit" status.


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Stone Cold Steve Austin admits he "has one last match" in him. The big question, will we ever see it?
"I appeared (as a celebrity guest host) on Monday Night RAW to push the movie (Damage)," says Austin.
"WWE has changed. It's a different climate, more of a PG image. They've cleaned it up a bit. For me to go back, I have to watch my Ps and Qs.
"It's another day and age. They've got young superstars to sell. Do I have a match left in me? Absolutely. Do I want to do one more? I don't know.
"I'm very content with leaving well enough alone. I don't want to be 90% of what Stone Cold was."
Austin says he's on the road promoting his movie this weekend, so don't expect to see him at Sunday�s WrestleMania 26.
Austin says he was happy to see Bret Hart return to WWE, if only for a brief run and match against Vince McMahon at 'Mania.
"That's the wrestling business for you. The match with Bret and Vince brings closure to the storyline. I whole-heartedly doubt Bret will ever forget the (Montreal Survivor Series) screwjob. He was one of my favourite guys to get in the ring with. I'm a big Bret Hart fan."
Austin is proud of Damage, the story of John Brickner (Austin), an ex-con forced to make some difficult choices (becoming a bare-knuckles fighter), now out on DVD. At times, it's all too real. Just ask MMA fighter Paul Lazenby, who absorbed a wicked punch, not pulled like it had been so many times in wrestling rings across the world.
"It was a montage-type scene. I threw a left hook and got it a little too deep. With my pinkie finger, I pushed his nose about two inches across the other side of his face. He just looked at me and said, 'Keep going.' So I kept swinging at him. We had a laugh about it, but I felt horrible."
Austin has another film, The Expendables, scheduled for release this fall, where he's part of an outstanding cast of action heroes. Sylvester Stallone, Mickey Rourke, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger all appear.
"There's lots of testosterone, with bullets and explosives flying everywhere," says Austin.
As a wrestling icon, Austin stood at the top of the mountain. He was a huge money-maker who pushed wrestling into popularity levels it had never known.
Austin was front and centre in changing the way fans looked at wrestlers.
"As Stone Cold, I was in the grey area a lot, in a black and white business," says Austin. "Wrestling is good vs. evil and I brought both into one package. I was the anti-hero. I don't think when people thought of me they had warm, fuzzy thoughts. At the end, I wanted to do something else other than pro wrestling. It was the first love of my life. But I had to move down the road. I don't miss it anymore, but when I first got out, I missed it tremendously."
Acting seemed like a natural next step.
"The biggest catalogue of my work is in wrestling. Now, my goal in acting is to be as effective in front of a movie camera as I was in front of a WWE camera. What you see is me. I went to a couple of things with an acting coach. If I could do it all over again, I'd take drama classes back in the day when I was a youngster.
"In anything you do, you set goals to go as high as you can. What I did in my pro wrestling career, when I was white hot, nobody before or since has touched me. I want to be a major part of the movie scene, just like that."
Austin says he loves doing action movies.
"I want to make movies I enjoy," he says. "I've learned that you really don't have a clue about the movie-making process until you've done three or four. It's like my first wrestling match, you just don't get comfortable in your skin. Back in the day, I was a big Charles Bronson fan. I loved Steve McQueen, Sly, Steven Seagal and Arnold movies."


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Recently, Sgt. Rene Sesma resigned from the Army after being notified that if he didn't quit, the Army would fire him for being overweight.
Being fired for not meeting height and weight requirements happens a lot, said Sesma, "But, I was always working at it. If I was lazy and never worked at it, that would be different."
In a job that depends on your fitness level and preparedness, Sesma said that although he was 10 to 15 pounds overweight on the Army's height and weight scale (for 5 feet 8 inches tall, his maximum weight should have been 181 pounds), he still scored well on his biyearly physical fitness assessments (PFA), which consist of a series of sit-ups, push-ups and a two-mile run. Sesma jogs three times a week and coaches baseball teams that two of his five children are on. At the age of 49, he ran his 2-mile test in 15:05.
"It's a challenge among ourselves," he said about losing weight. "I still carry a little weight around my midsection, but I've run all my life."
Just how common is Sesma's case? Tanja Linton, spokesperson for Fort Huachuca Army Post in Sierra Vista, AZ, said a soldier being fired for being overweight is a rare occurrence. Last year, a little over a dozen soldiers were let go at Fort Huachuca for being too heavy.
"No one wants to see a soldier be put out of the Army because of it. There's extensive Command involvement to work with a soldier. A readiness issue is really what it comes down to," she said.
However, according to a report on military weight management by the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which is a nonprofit, federally funded adviser to improve health, in 2002, 54 percent of the almost 1.4 million men and women on active duty in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force were in danger of being assigned to a weight-control program, and some, like Sesma, may be at risk of separation from the service due to their weight. In 1999, more than 4,600 people were discharged for their weight. That number dropped to 1,400 in 2002. However, the report cautions that a large part of this decline was due to a change in the Navy's policy. That change no longer allows discharges for being overweight. Instead, those who fail to meet weight requirements can serve out their current term but cannot re-enlist.
"In the Navy, it's very hard to be put out for being overweight. You have to be in the over standards category for roughly two-and-a-half years to three years, but we're going to tighten that standard down," said Lanny Boswell, a sports medicine researcher and physical training analyst for the Naval Training Service Command in Great Lakes, IL. "Being put out of the military is one of the last resorts."
The 2002 report, Department of Defense Survey of Health-Related Behaviors, showed that while military personnel may be less obese and more fit than the general public, they are still far from meeting the government's Healthy People 2000 objectives. Measured by body mass index (BMI), 23.8 percent of the military under age 20 were overweight, 17.2 percent of those ages 20-25 were overweight, 27.1 percent ages 26-34 were overweight, and 31.4 percent ages 35 and older were deemed overweight.
The objective was for no more than 20 percent of the personnel to be overweight. Only the 20-25 age category met that requirement.
However, Boswell cautioned that research based on BMI may be misleading as many military members may have higher BMIs, but different body compositions than that of a civilian due to the physical nature of the job. Many in the military have high rates of muscle mass, which weighs more than fat, putting their BMI in the overweight category.
"Those numbers tend to get skewed, especially as members have been in the Navy for awhile. They are more fit than the general population," he said. "A 32 [BMI in the Navy] is considerably leaner than a 32 [BMI] that's not in the Navy."
Each branch of the service sets its own weight standards. According to the IOM report, most branches of the service typically have two sets of weight/fat standards. One is for potential recruits, and the other is an equivalent or more difficult set for those already admitted into the service. As in Sesma's case, both are usually a weight-for-height measurement that can be used to calculate BMI. Maximum allowable weights-for-heights vary across services. However in 2002, the Department of Defense (DOD) issued a policy that all branches would be tested based on BMI, and that no service could have a standard more stringent than a BMI of 25 or more liberal than a BMI of 27.5. Sesma's BMI was 29.
The DOD also requires service branches to use a single, validated equation based on abdominal and neck circumference and height for men and a different equation based on abdominal, neck and hip circumference for women to estimate body fat. For men, body fat standards cannot be more strict than 18 percent and not more liberal than 26 percent. For women, the numbers are 26 percent and 36 percent respectively, the report said.
Raw Recruits
Current military personnel aren't the only problem. New recruits come from the general population — a general population that is 64.5 percent overweight or obese (for those 20 years of age and older).
"The young men and women going into the military are bright and smart. However, because of the obesity epidemic, they're not in great physical condition," said Wayne Westcott, fitness director at the South Shore YMCA in Quincy, MA.
The overweight civilian population affects the military in two ways, according to the IOM report. First, it confines the pool of people eligible for recruitment. Perhaps even more worrying is that almost 80 percent of recruits who exceed weight-for-height standards when they enter, end up leaving the military early. That's not good news considering the continuing conflicts abroad and the fact that the military is all volunteer.
Not only are new recruits heavier than the military would like, but many of them also have problems passing their physical fitness tests.
Former Navy Seal and fitness author, Stew Smith, said it's typical to have 50 to 55 percent of military recruits fail their initial fitness test. However, with training (and because the majority of recruits are 18 or 19 years old) most recruits can meet those standards within the first two months.
"The military is a very good cross section [of the population]," Smith said. "I'm just amazed that someone would show up at the Naval Academy — very smart, motivated and never failed anything in their life — but show up the first week and can't pass minimum [fitness] standards."
Helping Hand
So once a recruit or military member is deemed overweight, how does he or she lose that weight? Some resort to over-exercising, under-eating and taking over-the-counter weight-loss drugs that promise fast results. Sesma said all of these methods are common for those battling their weight to meet standards.
A 1997 study showed that among about 700 nurses studied the prevalence of bulimia was 12.5 percent or six times that of the civilian population. Among about 1,400 Navy men studied, half of them across all ranks had an eating disorder. Two to four percent of those studied used diuretics, vomiting, diet pills, laxatives and fasting under normal conditions, but those behaviors increased to a prevalence of 14 or 15 percent during the time of weigh-ins and fitness testings.
Initially, Sesma was sent to a dietician for his weight, but when he turned 40, Sesma's weight became a bigger problem when a blood pressure medication caused water retention — resulting in added pounds. Like many in the service, he tried to lose the weight by jogging more and taking over-the-counter weight loss drugs. His lowest weight was 172 pounds where he felt "terrible," he said.
"People said I was a walking skeleton, and it didn't feel right. [My weight] never got in the way of my job. It never affected my job or anything," he said.
The military is aware of these problems and has programs to help personnel safely lose weight or prevent weight gain. The military also has pamphlets on the dangers of using unsafe weight-loss methods, such as diuretics.
One of the programs, Ship Shape, is a world-wide weight-management program for anyone in the Navy, especially those who exceed or are in danger of exceeding body composition standards. The program has been approved by the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Made up of eight sessions, Ship Shape gives active-duty personnel basic information about nutrition, stress management, exercise and behavior modification techniques to lower and maintain body weight and body fat percentage.
The Navy has studied putting healthier foods in its vending machines, changing offerings on menus at the food court, and identifying healthy choices at the commissary, said Sally Vickers, acting director of Ship Shape and public health educator.
"We're really looking at the entire environment — also, what physical activity facilities are available," she said. "It's a total environmental approach to weight management."
Other branches of the military have similar weight and fitness counseling programs (many are required when minimum standards are not met), and many times individual military fitness facilities will develop their own program targeted to their community.
The DOD is also looking into these issues. Last month the department began working on the 2005 Survey of Health-Related Behaviors among military personnel. The report will look at factors such as nutrition, exercise, weight, cholesterol and tobacco. The government is expected to release results in spring 2006.
"It's a political issue and a national strategic issue, and I think if we don't watch out, it could be a much bigger strategic issue than we thought," Smith said.
Percent of Overweight Active-Duty Personnel
|Marine Corp
|Air Force
|Under 20
|35 or older
Note: Overweight based on BMI
Source: DOD Survey of Health Related Behaviors Among Military Personnel, 2002


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Reed Johnson
Reed Johnson: The backup outfielder hit .302 with a .799 OPS and was the Cubs' best pinch hitter before being dealt to the Braves. He also helped keep the clubhouse from turning into a morgue during a difficult summer. During superhero dress-up day, Johnson and Jeff Baker dressed as Jed Hoyer and Theo Epstein, poking fun at their bosses by walking around with cell phones glued to their ears. "Dude, we are so traded," Baker said to Johnson during a photo-op for the media. Soon enough, they were.
Nuccio DiNuzzo, McClatchy-Tribune
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Adoption. Order. Granted.
That is all :-)
About Me
- mummy in the baking
- This blog is about me and my voyage to becoming a mummy. Ironically called "mummy in the baking" as together with my passion and obsession for all things cake related, I will never be able to have my own "bun in the oven." Years of fertility treatment have taken their toll and I now find myself on a new..eek, i hate this word...journey! The crazy train to adoption. I hope you will join me while I bake my way to becoming a mummy. I want this blog to be a source of information as well as a comforter. I hope it will inspire and help anyone who is considering adoption or who has in fact already bought their ticket for this..here I go again...journey. Cake makes me happy and I hope you will enjoy sharing my love of it. I want it to help lift your spirits and hearts through what can only be described as 'the trials and tribulations of the adoption process.' Along with my desire to be a family, I love my dogs, have an unhealthy love of sausages and chenin blanc, adore my land rover uber-nerd of a husband and continiously dream of balmy summer evenings. Baking in progress…..
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
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text: On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Art Edwards wrote: > My prejudice at this point is that the init scripts on each node are > ordered correctly and that the card does come up during boot. I'm using > a sysco catalyst 4000 switch and I believe it is the switch that has > latency in bringing up a link. At boot time I typically get a message > that the link is down, and then sometime later, the link is up. Yes, it's the switch. It probably has Spanning Tree Protocol turned on. Either turn it off or turn on something like "fast port restart" (I don't have administrative access to such a switch, but all our desktop machines are connected to one). When the NIC comes up or autonegotiation of the link speed is restarted, the port is only partly active (I haven't found a good definition of what partly means) - it takes 1 minute until the port is fully activated. Some time ago Donald modified the start-up sequence of the 3c59x driver to not restart the autonegotiation when teh driver is initialized and that makes our desktop machines with 3Com cards being almost ready to use the network after the driver is loaded, but the machines equipped with tulip-driven NICs are not as lucky... The problem with NFS mounts is that they also have a 1 minute timeout by default and they sometimes work and sometimes don't. A quick fix is to just insert a "sleep 15" (or 60 if you want to be on the safe side) line in the network start-up script after the point where the interfaces are brought up and put all other network related scripts after the NFS client one (NFS blocks until the mount succeeds or times out). -- Bogdan Costescu IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY Telephone: +49 6221 54 8869, Telefax: +49 6221 54 8868 E-mail: Bogdan.Costescu at IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De


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Pinkberry, a global yogurt retailer, announced that it would open a new location on New York City's Upper West Side on March 13, 2013.
The newest Pinkberry is located at 93rd Street and Broadway and makes the 14th store in Manhattan. The new store will also be certified Kosher by National Kosher Supervision.
Pinkberry's handcrafted yogurt bar offers a variety of yogurts crafted to complement its fresh and culinary toppings.
Pinkberry frozen yogurt is made with nonfat RBST milk and nonfat yogurt. Flavors offered include tart and fruity varieties like pomegranate, strawberry, mango, peanut butter, salted caramel, and chocolate hazelnut.
There are more than 15 different flavors that rotate based on the season.
Ron Graves, Pinkberry CEO, says, "We're excited to expand Pinkberry's high-quality, unique yogurt experience in this NYC neighborhood, and we've enjoyed growing the market with 4Sunkids, who are equally passionate about bringing the goodness of yogurt to their community and continue to be focused on exceeding our customer expectations every day."
The new Manhattan location will be one of the first markets to debut Pinkberry's new product line offering new yogurt choices. The brand opens at 93rd and Broadway with a revamped menu.
With a passion to help people discover new ways to enjoy yogurt in their daily routines, Pinkberry assists every customer in pairing yogurts with the perfect toppings, blending them into smoothies or creating parfaits.
Toppings include daily hand-cut fresh fruit, premium granolas and nuts, specialty chocolates and sweets, and finishers like cinnamon honey, organic vanilla agave, and strawberry puree.
Customers can choose from these groupings of toppings to personalize their yogurt experience from a topping bar that is 100 percent free of trans fats, hydrogenated oils, and high fructose corn syrup.
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First, the indoor game.
Then, the outdoor game.
The task for each game will be simple and yet complex. The Kings must neutralize the Ducks' speed and eliminate their skill with physical play and a relentless dedication to their more methodical style. The Ducks must utilize their speed to offset the Kings' suffocating pressure.
It's easier said than done.
Each team has strengths and weaknesses that aren't as true as conventional wisdom suggests. The Kings aren't plow horses, for instance. The Ducks aren't afraid of contact, for example. The Kings have skilled players who can make opponents look bad. The Ducks can rattle a few molars.
The Kings and Ducks meet tonight at the Honda Center and again Saturday at Dodger Stadium with a good deal at stake. The Kings (29-16-6, third in the Pacific Division) have lost three in a row. The Ducks (37-10-5, first overall in the NHL) have lost two of their last three.
Neither game is must-win, although it's obvious each team wants both games. After all, two wins could propel the Kings back into the division race. The Kings are 15 points behind the Ducks, who want to prove they can win against their bruising, battled-tested rivals.
"Obviously, there is no weakness in their game," Ducks right wing Teemu Selanne said of the Kings. "Everything you get, you have to earn it. It's almost like a playoff game. They are probably the best team in the league with playoff experience. It's not very often they're going to have bad moments.
"It's not like they're going to have three bad minutes and give up three goals. They're very solid. Same hand, if they get down by a couple of goals, they just keep coming. … I don't think there's dislike. There's just a challenge to be better. You have to bring your 'A' game if you want to win.
"Very special games."
Said Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau: "Their record may not indicate it points-wise that they're the best team we face, but I firmly believe that they are our toughest opposition. I mean, there are a lot of other great teams, don't get me wrong. But those guys are, to me, the best."
Ducks, Sharks, Kings
The three California teams are first, second and third in the Pacific standings
"California used to be a friendly place to come and play, but it's not like that anymore," Selanne said. "You've got to be ready here. At least one time you've got to have the Ducks and Kings play in the playoffs. It was so close, so close, last year."
The Kings and Ducks have never met in the postseason, but almost did last season. The Kings survived a withering battle with the physical St. Louis Blues in the first round, but the Ducks lost a seven-game test of wills with the Detroit Red Wings.
Penner update
Boudreau said he scratched Dustin Penner for the Ducks' 3-2 loss Tuesday to the Winnipeg Jets so the left wing would have a little extra spring in his step for the games against the Kings, his former team. Penner has 26 points, including 11 goals, in 40 games with the Ducks this season.


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Tucked amidst the picturesque vineyards and mountains of Sonoma County's Alexander Valley, The Geyserville Inn is the quintessential Northern California Wine Country getaway and the only area hotel located in a vineyard. Locally owned and operated by two generations of Christensen family members, our AAA-rated Inn blends all the comfort and elegance of a contemporary boutique hotel with the intimacy, warmth and unhurried ambiance of a rustic bed and breakfast.
Make the scenic eighty-mile drive from San Francisco, CA, and you'll find yourself in the land of lush, rolling hills, surrounded by some of Sonoma's most celebrated wineries - including Geyser Peak, Clos Du Bois, Canyon Road, Silver Oak, Trentadue, Pedroncelli and Ferrari-Carano. Make the 30-minute drive to Calistoga and you'll take in some of the most beautiful scenery in Napa Valley, with Route 128's rolling hills and wineries offering plenty of opportunities for painting and photography.
As a remarkably affordable alternative to the more expensive Healdsburg and Napa Valley Hotels, The Geyserville Inn boasts 38 luxury guestrooms and three king suites with views of the pool or neighboring vineyards. All accommodations have either a balcony or fireplace along with sophisticated furnishings, complimentary wireless Internet access and daily housekeeping.
Located next door to the Inn, our signature dining spot, the award-winning Hoffman House Restaurant, has been reimagined as the Geyserville Grille. This beautifully restored Craftsman-style bungalow showcases authentic California Wine Country culture and cuisine coupled with an extensive selection of local vintages to pair with any dish. Enjoy dining on our patio under the trees, redwood pool deck, or inside at the bar or at one of the tables looking at the neighboring vineyards.
Our welcoming family of staff members is made up of locals and we are available to arrange winery tours, special events and recreational excursions to take advantage of the breathtaking natural beauty of the Dry Creek and Alexander Valleys.


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|Good Morning Amelie doll
The Secret Code Collection by Integrity Toys
I get a wee bit tired of my light box and its white background sometimes. But because I don't have one of them funky cameras, it can be a bit challenging to take clear photos without good lighting. Early this morning, as I was sitting on my couch, enjoying my day off with a cup of coffee, I saw a stream of light peeking through my dark brown curtains. Then it hit me! What better way to start the day than a dollie photo shoot (other than my coffee, that is), in front of that stream of light. So, I took out my Good Morning Amelie doll named Hemera, after the Greek goddess of day. My FR Nippon dolls have been lacking camera time anyway. She's happy that she got camera time. I'm happy that she's not in front of a white background. Good morning, indeed!
Happy Wednesday!