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Prof. K.K. Aggarwal obtained his Engineering Degree from Punjab University and Masters Degree from Kurukshetra University securing First position in both. Later, he did his PhD in Reliability Evaluation and Optimization also from Kurukshetra University. In 1975, he rose to the level of Professor at an age of 27½ years, probably the youngest person in the world to have achieved this level. He has been the Chairman of the Department of Electronics, Communications & Computer Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra for a long time and worked as Dean (Academic) for that institution. He was also Director, "Centre for Excellence for Manpower Development" established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development at that Institute. Prof. Aggarwal was Pro Vice-Chancellor, Guru Jambheshwar University (Technical University of Haryana), Hisar for a period of three years, and then in 1998 appointed as Founder Vice Chancellor of G. G. S. Indraprastha University, Delhi. He continued on this position upto 30th November, 2008.
He has been President of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) for the period 2002-2004. During this period, this Institution witnessed an unprecedented growth and made a remarkable impact on the society in general & IT professionals in particular. He also served as Sectional President (IT & CS Section) in the Indian Science Congress Association. He had been elected as President, Computer Society of India for the period 2007-2008 and re-elected for the year 2008-09. Prof. Aggarwal had also been elected as Vice President of South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC) for 2008-2009 and now it's President for the year 2009-10.
Prof. Aggarwal has extensively worked in various fields of Electronics and Computer Engineering. He has published about 300 papers in the reputed journals - more than 130 of these in international journals. He has been invited to deliver lectures in several Universities in India and abroad, such as University of Berkley, USA; University of Cincinatti, USA; Florida State University, USA; University of Birmingham, UK; Technical University of Germany, etc.
Prof. Aggarwal did not confine his contribution to the academic field alone and instead made a very strong impact in the industrial world. He delivered lectures in several industrial organisations and conducted programmes for many important industrial houses such as Tata Consultancy Services, BHEL, TVS Electronics, DCM Data Systems, Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Electronics Corporation of India, BEL, ISRO, Defence Research Labs., etc. He has been widely consulted by the industry, most-notable being his contribution towards the Reliability Analysis for PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle). He delivered a talk on Reliable Automotive Electronics in Ford Motors, Detroit, USA and also conducted a full day program for Information Management Resources, Florida, USA.
Prof. Aggarwal has written number of books and many of his articles have appeared in several books published by IEEE of USA. A couple of years ago, he authored a book on Reliability Engineering which is published by Kluwer Academic, Netherland/USA/ UK. His latest book on Software Engineering published in 2001 has already seen several reprints.
Prof. Aggarwal was honoured by the Reliability Society of IEEE, USA for his services as Guest Editor for the special issue on "State of Reliability Effort of the Indian Sub-Continent". He was declared as the Man of Decade, Man of the Century and finally Man of the Millennium by American Bibliographical Institute, USA and was conferred L.C. Verman Award by the Institute of Electronics and Tele-Communication Engineers. He was also awarded Life Time Achievement Medal by the India International Friendship Society. International Biographical Centre, England has published his biography in "The First Five Hundred - at the new millennium" published in July 2000. The Broadcast Engineering Society of India honoured him by conferring Honorary Fellowship on him in February, 2001 and the Computer Society of India Conferred the Fellowship on him in 2003. All India Conference of Intellectuals conferred Delhi Ratan on him. Prof. Aggarwal has been conferred "Rajkumar Varshney Award" in Systems theory for the year 2006 by the Systems Society of India for recognition of his excellent contributions towards Reliability Analysis of Engineering Systems. Prof. Aggarwal has been conferred "The Sir Thomas Ward Memorial Award" for his paper entitled, "Optimizing Handover Performance in Microcellular Systems" by The Institution of Engineers.


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Kai Ryssdal: Almost everything you do, short of taking a long, lonely walk in the woods or something, leaves little bits of electronic data behind. Every time you search the Internet, you punch something into your mobile phone or you write on someone's Facebook wall, there's a giant industry right behind you sucking up all that data and using it to figure out how to sell you something. Toothpaste to life insurance. The data mining business, as it's known, is growing 10 percent a year, and as you might have guessed, the amount of data we produce is booming.
So today and tomorrow on the program, Marketplace's Stacey Vanek Smith is going to explore the $100 billion data-mining industry, and what, exactly, it knows about us.
Stacey Vanek Smith: I'm grocery shopping at Albertsons, and, when I check out, I hand over my member ID card.
Vanek Smith to cashier: Can I give you my card?
I get a discount on my groceries, and Albertsons gets information on everything I just bought. Along with my receipt, the computer spits out a coupon for a dollar off Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches, which I buy all the time. And Us Weekly, which, well, I'm just trying to stay well-informed.
Vanek Smith: Thank you.
Those smart coupons are just the tip of the $100 billion data mining industry. Every time you search for something online, swipe your credit card or pull up directions on your cell phone, that action creates a little module of data about you. Data compilers collect that information and sell it -- usually millions of records at a time to marketers who use it to target consumers.
Robert Grossman heads the National Center for Data Mining.
Robert Grossman: This allows better targeting with less effort that can be more widely used by more companies and hopefully increase their margins.
Collecting data is just the beginning, then someone needs to make sense of it. Someone like data analyst Peter Harvey, CEO of Intellidyn. A travel company, which was looking to sell high-end vacation packages to Asia, recently came to Harvey with data on millions of potential customers.
Peter Harvey: We pass 5,000 data elements across them and figure out which of them are most likely to travel.
The attributes of the Asian traveler?
Sound Montage: Wedding march, farmers, soldiers shouting, man singing "when I'm 64"
Turns out, if you're married, a farmer, ex-military and over 65, you want to go to Asia! Harvey says data mining can double or triple the response to an ad. And companies will be able to hone in on potential customers even more precisely as data gets more individualized. Sites like Google, Facebook and Foursquare track what you're buying, what you're looking to buy and where you are.
Andreas Weigend teaches data mining at Stanford.
Andreas Weigend: Traditionally, companies knew transaction data. They knew how many latte macchiatos were sold at this location. They didn't really know who they were sold to.
And now?
Weigend: The company could very well know who the person is based, for instance on his mobile phone's ID, and could have the coffee ready before the customer even orders it.
Virtually every large companies mines its data -- it's how Amazon and Netflix come up with those recommendations that entice you to buy another book, another movie. It's how iTunes knows that if you like this song...
"Slow Life" by Grizzly Bear (with Victoria Legrand)
It should try to sell you this song?
"Gold digger" by Kanye West
Intellidyn's Peter Harvey says our data is pushing advertising to a whole new level.
Peter Harvey: Marketing will move from static to dynamic. And then within dynamic, it will be the rate of change in how fast you can do it.
More like how fast you can make sense of it. Demand is booming for analysts who build the computer models that can synthesize all this data for marketers. Eventually, most of the ads you see will be tailored to you. Which sounds great, but what about our privacy? Andreas Weigend says we lost that the minute we logged on.
Weigend: Maybe privacy was just a blip in history. It started when people moved to cities, where they had places to hide, and it ended with the Internet, when basically, there was no place to hide left.
My privacy in exchange for a dollar off ice cream sandwiches... Well, I guess it's a fair trade.
In Los Angeles, I'm Stacey Vanek Smith for Marketplace.
Kai Ryssdal: Tomorrow, Stacey makes that trade. She takes us on a tour of getting her own data mined. It's a good one; you're going to want to listen.
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BOSTON – September 23, 2008 – Joslin Diabetes Center today announced the introduction of the Joslin Professional Education Consortium (JPEC), a unique, comprehensive, Web-based resource and community for primary care physicians (PCPs) focused on treating diabetes and its complications. JPEC offers free, 24/7 social networking among peers and colleagues and access to support and education to improve patient care for diabetes and is designed to supplement continuing medical education (CME) activities.
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Yes, indeed. Moses saw God's backside, Adam and Eve heard his footsteps, and others heard his voice, but as time went on, God was less and less manifest in any physical way. The physical Christ is most always distinguished from Christ as God. This helps to explain such things as Christ saying that no man knows the time when the world will end: it was his human character that failed to know. A similar explanation is offered for his saying that none is good but God.
RE: "as time went on, God was less and less manifest in any physical way."
The Hidden Face of God, by Richard Elliot Friedman, addresses this phenomena.
Shit? Then there's a god. What god, that's to be determined.
I think that if science proved "God's" existence, then really we didn't discover a God at all. Science can only prove things that have natural explanations and if something "like" a God were to be discovered it would humble that being down to a mere force of nature, etc.
That's exactly right! Science cannot discover God. In the Hindu tradition, God is never an object of its own knowledge. Alan Watts uses the analogy that you cannot bite your own teeth or touch the tip of your finger with the tip of your finger. It's described as being an ultimate state of consciousness in which there's no room for an observer to observe anything, which is how science works from the perspective of any scientist.
"Scientists are stumped at 'why'... one of these days one of them will have this flash and realise all is consciousness ... the flash will happen when the mind is exhausted." - Ramesh Balsekar
So, I always lean towards what Sam Harris always espouses which is ignosticism which aims to define God before questions like this one are asked, because in eastern religion, this question would not make any sense.
Quite right. Only a material manifestation could be discovered by science and that would leave as inaccessible the spiritual nature.
So God would exist, but that doesn't mean I'm going to worship him. My knee(s) will not be bowing.
If there were such a being we wouldn't recognize it. It would have to have the power it takes to create a universe 13.7 billion light years across. Now how would we relate to that?
We exist on a rather small planet with a thin atmosphere orbiting a smallish medium sized star which is one of over 100 billion stars in our galaxy which is one of billions of galaxies, many bigger than ours. What are the chances of there being another planet such as ours? Millions, if not billions.
In this little star system we live in we have a probe that has been moving at over 38,000 miles an hour since 1977 and has not yet made it all the way into interstellar space. In all that time it has traveled a little over 1/2 a light DAY and when it does enter interstellar space it will travel for over 1,000 years before it passes another star at a distance of 1/2 a light year.
What would science discover that would point to the existence of a god or supreme being?
Science would solve M-Theory at the same time as they'd discover that the 11-dimensional hyperspace of M-theory is accessible through a phenomenon in consciousness that everyone has the potential for. We'd discover that all God was was a concept taken from an experience of what M-Theory calls "11-dimensional hyperspace," and that it occurs as a colossal transformation of consciousness. That which Richard M. Bucke called "Cosmic Consciousness," what Romain Rolland called the "oceanic feeling" was this effect in consciousness that has had many names throughout history and religion, such as the Shekhina in Judaism, the Beatific vision in Christianity, samadhi or Brahman in Hinduism, satori in Zen Buddhism, "ego death" among entheogenic enthusiasts, etc. We'd up-date the Perennial Philosophy to reflect that.
So, God, in this model wouldn't have a form at all or would be a being of any sort. It would be a kind of pure potentiality which contains all possibilities that interconnects us all. And while Brahman may be the experience of it that doesn't require a concept, because it's an experience within consciousness, M-Theory is how we intellectually think about it when it form it into a concept, but both the 11-dimensional hyperspace of M-Theory and the Brahman of Hinduism point to the very same thing.
Of course science tests all its conclusions so there would have to be tests for omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence to make sure that science had discovered the one true God and not some powerful, clever, and apparently ubiquitous demigod. Such tests would seem to be impossible. The candidate beings might be powerful, but could you ever be sure that any one of them was omnipotent? Similarly for omniscience—you could give him or her a thorough testing and still not be sure that he or she knew everything.
Wouldn't omnipotence, by definition, include the ability to fudge a test of omnipotence?
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CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy says the protests of the NATO Summit resulted in 45 people being arrested and four officers suffering injuries - one from a stab wound in the leg.
McCarthy talked about the arrests and injuries at a press briefing Sunday night, hours after officers and protesters clashed near McCormick Place, the site of the summit.
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But when they are bad, they are very, very bad, and we all pay the price. Trees are lost, forests are disrupted and millions of dollars are spent to deal with the problem.
According to a comprehensive study published in the December issue of BioScience, without better efforts to stop the transport of exotic forest insects into the United States and to control the devastating species that are already here, our forests, woodlands and urban trees are at serious risk, with economic losses projected to range in the billions of dollars.
Deborah McCullough, Michigan State University (MSU) professor of forest entomology, was involved in the study that included researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of Central Florida (UCF) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service. They identified the number of non-native forest insect species that became established in the U.S. between 1860 and 2006. The scientists also looked at the extent and type of damage caused by different groups of pests. They also examined whether the kinds of pests coming into the country had changed over time. The comprehensive information compiled by the researchers should help state and federal regulators to strengthen regulations designed to exclude potentially damaging pests from entering the U.S. and to develop better methods to detect and manage the exotic forest insects that are already here.
"We found that more than 455 non-native species of tree-feeding insects and at least 16 pathogens that affect trees are now established in the continental United States," McCullough says. "This isn't a new thing – exotic forest pests go back to the 1800s, and at least one of them was here before 1700."
McCullough notes that only about 14 percent of the 455 insect pests cause substantial economic or ecological damage.
"That may not seem like much, but it's still pretty scary," she says. "Some of these pests can be devastating when they become established in a new habitat."
In past decades, most of the invasive forest insects in the U.S. were from Europe. Increases in global trade and travel, however, have provided more opportunities for forest insects from Asia and other world regions to enter the U.S.
Invasive pests entering U.S. from Asia
Several insects including the Asian longhorned beetle, gypsy moth and hemlock woolly adelgid are on that list. The emerald ash borer (EAB), one of the more recent species to invade the U.S., has already killed tens of millions of ash trees in Michigan and other states in the upper Midwest. McCullough, who has studied EAB since its discovery in 2002, says it is becoming the most costly forest insect to ever invade North America.
"Our analysis showed a new high-impact invasive forest insect is discovered about every two and a half years," she says. "Some of those species are leaf eaters while others feed on sap. The third group of non-native insects is the wood-borers, which includes species like EAB that feed and develop beneath the bark. Since 1980, more than fifty percent of the new forest insects discovered in the US have been borers. The dramatic increase in new borers is a big concern. Several species of borers can kill their host trees, and because most of their life cycle is spent below the bark, they can be difficult to find and manage."
The jump in the number of non-native borers since 1980 is likely a result of the widespread increase in containerized shipping. Wood-boring insects can be transported in wood pallets, wood crating and dunnage (unprocessed timbers) used to protect and support cargo in containers. Other exotic forest pests arrive on live plants imported for planting or propagation, while other insects simply hitchhike on imported cargo.
"Global trade has had tremendous benefits for Americans," says the study's lead author, Juliann Aukema from the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara. "Unfortunately, it also provides a means for the introduction of destructive insects and other organisms that threaten native ecosystems and the services they provide."
"The people and companies importing the commodities that are bringing in the borers and other forest insects are not the ones paying the costs for the destruction," McCullough notes. "It's the municipalities, homeowners and regulatory agencies who foot the bill."
The research was supported by the Nature Conservancy and the National Center for Ecological Analysis, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. The research team also included Andrew Liebhold, a research entomologist with the USDA Forest Service; Betsy Von Holle, an ecology professor at the University of Central Florida; and pathologists Kerry Briton and Susan J. Frankel with the USDA Forest Service.


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Live Sundays ran six furlongs in 1:10.95 while defeating Starboardlights by a half-length in the allowance dash for 3-year-olds and up. King Kelly finished third.
A 6-year-old gelding trained by Victor Trujillo, Live Sundays notched his eighth victory in 28 career starts and banked $22,464. Owned by Stan and Frances Hodge, Live Sundays has $345,566 in career earnings.
Live Sundays was the 8-5 favorite in a field of six and paid $5.20.
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"Traffic Becomes a Big Band"
Rolling Stone, July 8, 1971
Spring, and all the bands in England began to get restless
The first meaningful noises came from Derek and the Dominoes who were recording their second album when they hit a split. Jim Gordon apparently had a few disagreements with Clapton, and the boisterous Bobby Whitlock put in a few words himself. Jim Gordon went to play drums with Traffic; Whitlock returned to Los Angeles to finish a solo album with an expected cast of thousands (including the Los Angeles Philharmonic). Carl Radle, who had played with Leon Russell during his English tour, has joined Leon more or less permanently again, just in time to get into sessions that Russell and Bob Dylan were holding in New York. Word was that Dylan had entered the studios without a song, so the bunch of them started jamming. When they got to something that sounded like something, Dylan stopped and wrote a few words. "Of course," says Radle, "they were all masterpieces." Meanwhile Clapton has gone into semi-retirement until his basement studios are finished. The album he produced for Buddy Guy and Junior Wells is also in a state of limbo since Eric, although happy when making it, is now unhappy with the tapes. The matter is now up to Atlantic Records and the bluesmen's managers. The original Dominoes had recorded five tracks before the break and then Clapton recorded four more with Steve Winwood and Jim Keltner.
"Eric asked me to do a set of sessions with him," says Winwood, "but the time just wasn't right, you know? We're just getting this band [Traffic] together like this and I can't miss it."
Traffic is now the latest group to break out into Big Band status. Ric Grech has long been added as a bassist, and with Jim Gordon replacing Capaldi on drums, the latter moves up to fulltime singer. Chris Wood remains, but the most startling addition is Rebop, a Ghanian congoist who was once sideman to Dizzy Gillespie, among others. Winwood met Rebop through Wynder K. Frog two years ago in a dingy Hungarian nightclub. And now Rebop fits. Also getting in on the action is Dave Mason, signed up for a brief tour before he joins Ginger Baker. Traffic is now a more substantial band. Gone are the sneaky little figures and fugues that the threesome would get into and it has a different "swing." It seems stronger, steadier.
At their Croydon debut, Capaldi hadn't yet entirely come to grips with the role of singer. "I'm just growing as a singer-songwriter," says the band's lyricist. Still, it was interesting to see Mason and Winwood battling each other on guitars or Winwood playing his five different instruments (piano, organ, bass, acoustic and electric guitar) in the first five numbers. Traffic encored with a rousing 20-minute version of Winwood's old Spencer Davis hit, "Gimme Some Lovin'." Traffic, a rock band.
The studio half of their next album has already been recorded, with the rest to be from this tour. Winwood is also having a studio built in his country cottage. "I'll do these gigs," he says, "but after that I'm just stopping. It's been a long, long time since I've had nothing to do in the summertime. You know, nuh-thing. Like, really let your collar down, man."
Dave Mason, on the other hand, began to miss his water by playing with Traffic again and is rip-ready to begin touring. "Personally, I think we ought to do a bunch more concerts, go to America, do some recording, then tour here. People in America have never seen Traffic buzzing like last night. It's nice to get people involved like that. But it's Stevie's band, so it's up to him. Every time I've seen them for the last couple of years. I've asked them if they'd like to reform the original group, but their personalities were never receptive. This time he said yeah."
Mason, as is his wont, has a lot of things going at once, "I've got to do an American tour this September and want to do a solo album now. Jim Gordon said he'd do the tour with me but now he's with Traffic. So I might do it with Ginger. It's all these different types of music in different places. Like, I've played with Ginger three time now, and it sounds good. When you're playing and you get into a guitar thing, you find him there following you, then find him there following you, then find yourself playing his drum patter, and the vice versa. It's incredible. Ginger's, you know, the last person in the world I would have thought of, but we did get some good things. I tell you, what I'd really like to find a good bass player and keyboard man. Yeah, put that in, make it a free advertisement. 'Rhythm section urgently needed.'"
Traffic's album, parts of which are very free, some very rehearsed, should be out by September to coincide with their American tour for October-November. (Fairport Covention will also be on the tour with them.) And Eric Clapton, according to representative, would like to play as little as possible in public and just use selected people on his sessions. Steve reports that Eric is handling bass himself, Rosetta Hightower reports that Eric was just dying to play on her session the other day. To complete the news of the original trio: Jack Bruce has just recorded a new solo album, this time with Chris Spedding and John Marshall of Nucleus. It will be called Harmony Row, after a nearby street to Jack's old Glasgow home. And, you know, they're all so far from home.
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April 24, 2014
Upon graduation, college graduates embark on a bright new world, hopeful to gain employment.
As a result, the ideal is to find a city that offers job prospects, affordability and a culture of similarly-aged twenty something's.
The task isn't always so easy but today's college graduates do have plenty of great options.
According to Apartments.com, the following cities rank as the top ten best spots for new and recent graduates to start a new career.
The site compiled the list rankings by considering several factors.
The first factor taken into account was affordability. The ranking favors cities where average rent for a one-bedroom apartment is less than 25 percent of gross median income.
The next factor considered was career opportunities. Cities had to have an unemployment rate above seven percent and, of course, thriving job industries on site helped boost any city's status on the list.
Finally, each city's age demographics became a factor of consideration. If a city has a higher concentration of people within the age demographic of 25-29, more weight was given to the city's ranking on the list.
If you're a recent or soon-to-be college grad, look no further – the results may help point you in the right direction.
Check out the following top ten cities for soon-to-be or recent college graduates:
10. Dallas, Texas
Average rent for a one-bedroom apartment: $1,178
What else you should know:
They say everything's bigger in Texas and, apparently, that holds true for the job market as well. The unemployment rate is just 4.3% here, compared to the national average of 6.7%.
Jobs are readily available in the following fields: banking, commerce, telecommunications, energy, healthcare and transportation.
Two of the city's largest local companies include AT&T and Exxon Mobil.
9. Las Vegas, Nevada
Average rent for a one-bedroom apartment: $897
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You may be surprised to find Sin City on the list, however, Vegas went through a building boom before the Great Recession and now has a plethora of affordable apartments available to those looking to seize upon the great opportunities.
As you likely imagined, gaming, retail, restaurant and hospitality industries dominant this town, though other jobs are available as well. And, with housing at these prices, you may want to try your luck and see what's out there.
8. Indianapolis, Indiana
Average rent for a one-bedroom apartment: $946
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Affordable, Midwestern and plenty of job opportunities, especially in the fields of education, health care, finance and tourism – that's Indianapolis in a nutshell!
If you want to be surrounded by recent grads, Indy may be the spot for you. 11.1% of residents are ages 25-29, which means you'll find a lot of your peers here.
7. Fort Worth, Texas
Average rent for a one-bedroom apartment: $864
What else you should know:
Fort Worth isn't only the fifth largest city in Texas, it's also home to several multi-national corporations which is exactly which it's a great place for college graduates to start a new career.
The city's economy is strong and local industries include high-tech, defense and health care.
6. Cincinnati, Ohio
Average rent for a one-bedroom apartment: $707
What else you should know:
Cincinnati claims the lowest average monthly rent on this list, making it the most affordable option for recent college graduates.
Plus, major companies such as Procter & Gamble, Kroger and Macy's, call Cincinnati home, providing job opportunities galore to professionals in the area.
5. Columbus, Ohio
Average rent for a one-bedroom apartment: $732
What else you should know:
Named an up-and-coming tech city within the Midwest, Columbus offers plenty of job opportunities within a diverse array of fields: education, government, insurance, fashion, energy, medical research, just to list a few.
Additionally, the city has an active singles' scene as well as a high percentage of same-sex households (males only – 7%; females only 14.9%).
4. Austin, Texas
Average rent for a one-bedroom apartment: $1,188
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Austin boasts an extremely impressive unemployment rate at 3.3 percent. Technology and business professionals will do well here, since Austin is known as a center for these fields. However, Austin is now emerging as an important city within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields as well.
3. Phoenix, Arizona
Average rent for a one-bedroom apartment: $842
What else you should know:
Starting out in Phoenix sounds grand – especially since rent is reasonable and there are plenty of job options available (especially in fields like real estates, finance, manufacturing and health care).
Plus, compared to other residents within the cities on this top ten list, the residents living in Phoenix have the highest median income ($81,349) so starting out in the desert sun doesn't look like you'll be sweating over the bills all too often.
2. Charlotte, North Carolina
Average rent for a one-bedroom apartment: $953
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If you're in the financial sector, you likely know that Charlotte is the second largest banking center within the United States, which means there are abundant jobs in the finance and banking fields.
But, did you know that there are plenty of job opportunities within industrial technology companies and steel production as well?
On top of having plenty of job options, the city has a high density of young twenty-something's, 11.1% of residents are between the ages of 25 and 29 years old.
1. Denver, Colorado
Average rent for a one-bedroom apartment: $1,248
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Denver is ranked number one for a trifecta combination of job opportunities, a low unemployment rate, high density of twenty-something's despite having the highest rent on the list.
Recent graduates seeking job opportunities flock looking for jobs within the fields of manufacturing, engineering, telecommunications, multi-housing, energy, government and the culinary arts, among many others.
It's even easier to find a job in one of the above industries when the unemployment rate in your city is 4.3%, compared to the national average of 6.7% because it indicates that the local job market is healthy.
Denver boasts a booming singles culture. In fact, one out of eight of Denver's residents fall into the 25 to 29 age demographic.
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Pac-12 Morning Five: 12.21.11 EditionPosted by AMurawa on December 21st, 2011
- Three games in the conference last night, none all that interesting, although I suppose it is worth noting these days when the Pac-12 gets through a weeknight without sustaining any more losses. Arizona faced the toughest competition when they hosted Oakland and their talented and prolific senior point guard Reggie Hamilton, but the 'Cats survived as they "held" him to 31 often spectacular points. Solomon Hill played just about as well as he's ever played, scoring 23 points, grabbing 11 rebounds, handing out three assists and refusing to let the Wildcats lose. Elsewhere, freshman Norman Powell had a career-high 19 points as UCLA won its fourth straight and stuck its head over .500 for the first time this year by knocking off UC Irvine by 29. And Oregon used a 19-3 run in the middle of the second half to break open a tie-game against North Carolina Central and escape despite a sluggish performance.
- Arizona State junior center Ruslan Pateev was suspended for one game by the NCAA on Tuesday following an altercation (jump to the 30 second mark here) during the Sun Devils' game Monday night in which he took a swing and connected to the back of the head of Southern Mississippi's Torye Pelham following a little scuffle under the basket. Pateev was ejected from that game after being given a Flagrant 2 foul, and if he receives another foul of that degree this season he will be suspended the remainder of the year.
- Washington head coach Lorenzo Romar is trying to right the ship in Seattle and think he has narrowed down the Huskies' problems to three areas: 1) defense, 2) ball movement, and, the big one, 3) chemistry. Thing one and thing two can be fixed either through effort or game-planning, but with a ton of scorers who like to have the ball in their hands coupled with a play-making point guard like Abdul Gaddy who needs to have the ball in his hands to be effective, there have been some problems figuring out everybody's roles. And with Tony Wroten now taking a larger part of the offense, and often doing so by creating for himself off the dribble, guys like Terrence Ross and C.J. Wilcox have seen their shot attempts diminish. Ross and Wilcox both averaged over 13 field goal attempts per game in the first eight games, but since Wroten entered the starting lineup, Ross has averaged just eight while Wilcox has averaged 10. Wroten, meanwhile, has taken 38 shots from the field in those two games, and although he did so very effectively (scoring 50 points on those shots), a bigger concern is his ability to create for his teammates, having dished out just four assists in 68 minutes.
- Across the state, Washington State is back to full strength for the first time this season, as senior captain Abe Lodwick played for the first time, while Faisal Aden and Mychal Ladd returned from injuries in the Cougars' last game against Western Oregon. In their absence, senior Charlie Enquist stepped up with by far the best stretch of his career, while freshmen DaVonte Lacy and Dexter Kernich-Drew saw dramatic increases in their playing time. Given the fact that the Cougs have now won their last five after starting the season 2-4, head coach Ken Bone has a chemistry test of his own coming up in the future. The players who helped WSU win those five straight have earned the right to continue getting minutes, while the returnees are certainly among the most talented Cougs. It will be interesting to see how those precious minutes get divided up in Pullman over the coming weeks. WSU has just one remaining non-conference game before they host the Oregon schools to open conference play, a week from tomorrow.
- Lastly, Lost Lettermen asks the question, is the West Coast Conference better than the Pac-12? Jim Weber says yes, if only for one season, pointing to Gonzaga, Saint Mary's and BYU as the standard bearers. Anthony Olivieri takes the negative (rightly), pointing out that Cal and Stanford appear to be as good as the top of the WCC, while a team like Washington (and I would include Arizona) still has plenty of upside. And as bad as the bottom of the Pac-12 is this season, remember that Utah just beat Portland last night, and Portland (who has struggled through an absolutely brutal non-conference schedule) isn't anywhere near the worst team in the WCC. Certainly the Zags, Gaels and Cougars are all solid programs, but even with the Pac-12 at its nadir, it is still better than the WCC. If you don't just believe me, ask Ken Pomeroy, Jeff Sagarin and the RPI.


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Benitez won't discuss Lampard future
Chelsea interim manager Rafael Benitez would not be drawn on the future of Frank Lampard, only revealing the midfielder remains focused on the task at hand.
The 34-year-old has been the subject of rife speculation in recent days and weeks, with his contract at Stamford Bridge due to expire in the summer. Lampard's agent Steve Kutner has claimed the midfielder will not be offered a new contract by the west Londoners under any circumstance, while reports suggest Manchester United are plotting a deal.
Such a move would devastate Chelsea's fan base and was not something Benitez was willing to even comprehend. "I think it's too early to talk about teams and the future," the Spaniard said. "Frank is under contract and playing for us. That's it. You know my idea. He's doing well, working very hard and I will try to bring the best from him."
Benitez continued: "My position is exactly the same and if he can carry on scoring goals, I will be really pleased. And if Frank can carry on scoring goals and we can win games, I'll be even happier."
Meanwhile, Wednesday's Capital One Cup semi-final with Swansea will come too soon for Chelsea captain John Terry. Terry will be joined on the sidelines by Petr Cech, while Victor Moses and John Obi Mikel are also unavailable for the first leg at Stamford Bridge.
"We want to win all the games," Benitez said. "In any club it is important but especially when you are challenging and fighting for trophies. We know it is the semi-final and we will try to be in the final. We have a lot of respect for Swansea because it is a good team and they are doing well, but this will be an interesting game for the fans."
The cup clash kicks off a period of eight games in 25 days for Chelsea, which will test Benitez's squad to the maximum. Reports of January reinforcements are rife, with Metalist Kharkiv's Taison supposedly close to a move to Stamford Bridge.
"You know and we know we will see a lot of names in the newspapers," Benitez said. "Sometimes it is because it's true, sometimes it's the agents, sometimes it's because they don't have anything to talk about. It is normal in the transfer market but for us we just concentrate on football and playing Swansea."
There has also been talk that Chelsea are planning a summer move for Everton's Marouane Fellaini - another link Benitez was coy about.
"I am really pleased with my squad, with my players, they are doing well and hopefully we can improve them," he said. "I will not talk about the market, sorry. I know it is January but we do our business between us. If we have to do something, we'll do it. I have to respect and trust my players. That's what I will do."


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Average new home prices in China's 70 major cities rose 4.9 percent in April from a year earlier, according to Reuters calculations based on official data published on Saturday, marking the fourth straight month of year-on-year increase.
In month-on-month terms, prices rose 1 percent in April, easing from March's gain of 1.2 percent, it said.
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Rising home prices have reignited concerns about property inflation and have forced the government to launch a fresh round of measures in March to try to cool them.
The National Bureau of Statistics said new home prices in Beijing rose 10.3 percent in April from a year earlier, compared with March's year-on-year increase of 8.6 percent. Shanghai's prices were up 8.5 percent in April from a year ago, versus 6.4 percent annual growth in March.
Reuters started its weighted China home price index in January 2011 when the NBS stopped providing nationwide data, only giving home price changes in each of 70 major cities.
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It was definitely a work hard, play hard kind of day: executives from ShoreTel and M5 greeted analysts, press and partners to talk up ShoreTel's cloud strategy before everyone headed to the club -- and the bar -- to see a host of M5 bands made up of employees from its New York, Rochester and Chicago offices.
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Lewis P. Church 4/21/2005 4:57:21 AMCongratulations Clark, a very nice image. #1273968
Piotr M. Organa 4/21/2005 7:29:48 AMCongratulations and good luck! #1275126
Robert Mann 4/21/2005 8:30:59 PMGreat find, Clark! Love the composition, colors and POV. Many congrats on your finalist selection and good luck! RoB #1278762
Jim Kinnunen 4/21/2005 9:02:24 PMCongrats, Clark:-) #1278859
Evy Johansen 4/21/2005 10:47:36 PMBig congratulations on your well deserved WIN, Clark! #1279010
Gianna Stadelmyer 4/21/2005 11:46:08 PMCongratulations on your win AND for getting this published in PhotoGraphic magazine for the interiors gallery. (I just saw it in there yesterday while reading this month's issue.) Terrific image! Great work:-) #1279172
Lewis P. Church 4/22/2005 4:31:25 AMI was happy to see that you won, I really like the image alot. Congrats! #1279751
Jim Kinnunen 4/22/2005 7:43:12 AMGreat win, Clark!! #1280638
Clark Crenshaw 4/22/2005 8:27:10 AMThanks for all your comments. When I took this image people were constantly walking in front of me because it was right at the entrance to a sandwich shop. One guy stopped and watched me for a minute and then asked "What are you taking a picture of?" I wish I had gotten his name and address. I pointed the place out later to my wife and she didn't see the possibilities either. Sometimes you just have to go with your vision. Others will understand it when you get the film back. #1280787
Piotr M. Organa 4/22/2005 11:55:51 AMI like the story and the photo!
Brenda Sides 4/23/2005 8:36:52 PMLove the colors and lines, Clark! CONGRATS:) #1285258
Leonard Pierce 4/24/2005 4:31:32 PMCongratulations on your Second Place win!!! #1287740
Jeff Wignall 5/1/2005 10:39:29 PMThis is a great photo Clark, just beautifully designed and the colors are incredible. I've have had friends who live in San Miguel and loved it. Did you find it to be a friendly place to visit? Where else in Mexico would you find such great colors on a building? Great shot. jeff #1310121
Daniella Puente 8/24/2008 7:02:07 PMNow that you mentioned it has changed! especially in colors but the stair still be a great element for composition and you captured it very well both times... #6361692
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
I don't know about that, since in Canon there's no indication about the limitation of one-off ability besides it's activation (I look at you Houki )
On the other hand, in my verse there's strict limitation. For example, Reiryaku Byakuya has 1 minute overheating time, and 5 minute cool-down. And during it's activation Ichika is susceptible to physical attack.
Kenran Butou can only works once each 10 minute, and only used to refill one unit. Houki can turn her own barrier and using her floating shield drones to absorb energy attack, but like above she's vulnerable to physical strike.
In case of Azure breaker, the new ability allows Cecilia to see everything around, except one blind spot in the back of head. Allowing her to shoot any target in any position using Full burst and Flexible. The catch is that as usual the unit has to be immobilized, leaving her open for attack. (no points for whoever guessed what's the inspiration)
|2012-01-27, 08:47
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@zero: You may want to reword the concept zero. IS already have the ability to "see" all around, even in that blindspot behind the neck/head. It's just that the human mind isn't naturally able to handle that kind of scope since people only have eyes that see the front :|
|2012-01-27, 08:50
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Location: Inside your head
@ Demi
Once again, my fanon has different take on it. For an I.S. pilot to see behind, she has to ditch her front side, to see upward, the pilot has tho ditch downward view.
Why I did this? because frankly Rin has no reason to panic as Ichika circled her and suddenly attack from behind, if she was ready and able to spot him all along via 360 degrees vision, she wouldn't be panic.
Because Impact cannon can shoot at all direction, all she need is to shoot backward.
Why? Because as canon states whatever delivered by the I.S. must be processed by human brain first. This is the true reason of Synchronization testing. The one with higher rank means it's easier to process the information for them.
@ Eras
For the Nth time I said I.S. outfit is able to hold light bullets.
|2012-01-27, 08:53
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@zero: That's what I meant. They already have access to upgraded byakugan vision but the human mind is only able to process/focus on a limited angle of vision. This means if you're looking forward, then you can't see the back because you're focusing on the front image, everything else becomes peripheral which is mostly ignored by the human mind.
In this case, it just means your version of Cecilia isn't really gaining the vision, just the focus to make full use of it. That's what I meant about rewording.
|2012-01-27, 08:56
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@ Demi
Yeah thanks, my mind is messed up right now. So my answer might actually redundant or missed the point completely.
@ Eras
22 LR, 9mm, 38 special, 7.62mm Makarov, there's more but they're old and rarely used.
|2012-01-27, 08:57
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@tyranid: .45 still counts as small arms. 30mm grenade launchers and above are arguably listed as big guns along with rocket launcher and bazookas. Ofcourse energy weapons is a whole 'nother can of worms. Also Sabots are probably something you might want to avoid, despite being shotgun rounds...
@zero: what would be insane is if she gains the vision of the BT units and she can actually manage all that information
|2012-01-27, 09:01
|Link #19670
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Alternative interpretation of Canon:
Note that Yamada-sensei only specifically said it can withstand light caliber bullets.
I think because lacks of backing plates, there's limited amount of force can be held before it can cause injury inside. Rifle, Armor-piercing, and magnum bullets might actually pierce them somehow.
Otherwise, I.S. outfit are plain magic fabric.
|2012-01-27, 09:06
|Link #19672
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Location: Inside your head
@ Eras
In real life, kevlar does NOT protect you from knife.
But since this is fiction, we can safely say they can hold a knife outside (though the wearers still receive partial amount of the impact damage). I use this idea as well in Sacred Twins.
@ Demi
I might have to put some other limitation, I don't want Cecilia to channel Jesus Mc. Beamspam.
|2012-01-27, 09:08
|Link #19673
That one guy
Join Date: Nov 2011
Useless gun information: (for those more knowledgable please correct)
Most large bullets can't pierce armor because they are flat or ball tipped. They have a ton of stopping power and can blow through flesh but that's mostly the gun working. Certain bullets are nasty(specifically the soft tips) because they flatten on impact and enlarge the wound.
Armor piercing rounds are usually for rifles which are smaller or are particularly sharp tipped. They have less stopping power but more piercing power. So the impact may not make someone fall but the resulting wound will.
The stopping power would mean if you have armor, it may not go through but it feels like being punched by a boxer. I think
|2012-01-27, 09:16
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I stand corrected about Demi's explanation about bullets, again the lack of backing plate is absolutely dangerous because a flexible fabric has not enough rigidity to hold the kinetic energy outside, at least by theory.
And Eras, there's some unprotected spaces between Ichika's upper arm and elbow. Ichika's metal vest also doesn't cover the upper stomach, leaving I.S. outfit to do the job.
|2012-01-27, 09:20
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|2012-01-27, 09:24
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Location: Inside your head
@ box
Well, Uzi are loaded with 9mm Para after all. On the other hand, the rapidity will cause a lot of bruise.
@ Eras
yes, they will. Remember Autumn vs Tatenashi, Tatenashi use mist, but the effect is largely the same.
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You asked, she answered.
Over a seven-day period, fans of WWE Hall of Fame inductee Trish Stratus were invited to ask their questions to the Toronto native.
And the response was phenomenal.
Between SLAM! Wrestling and TrishStratus.com, over 100 questions flooded email boxes and Facebook pages. Everything from her in-ring career to her success in yoga was hit on.
We've narrowed the immense field down to 10 of our favourite questions. Here now is your Q&A with Trish Stratus.
John Wayne Landry - Do you miss the hands-on approach of professional wrestling, as in offering your input? Trish:
I've always been hands on with everything I do. I love that I was able to be hands on with my approach to wrestling and I wouldn't have had it any other way. Thankfully now, with my company and brand, I'm able to be very hands on. That's the approach I've taken with building my brand for the last four years.
Tabercil Whom - What lady wrestlers would you have liked to work with, past or present, EXCLUDING those with the WWE? Trish:
From the TNA girls, Angelina Love. I think she's awesome in the ring and I think the fans would like to see Angelina Love vs. Trish Stratus. (I may be partial because I'm Canadian.) Maybe it could be Angelina vs. Nattie vs. Trish? Maybe have Sherri Martel manage me? I would've loved to have her manage a heel Trish. We could've done some awesome stuff together. If I could've been in the mix in the '80s, being with Wendi Richter in a tag team and managed by Cyndi Lauper would've been cool. It would've been like Rock and Hogan!
Stephen Feldstein: Do you see yourself doing any more movies and possibly getting involved with television shows? Trish:
I've done a lot of reality shows between Armed and Famous, Second City's Next Comedy Legend and eventually Stratusphere. I've had the chance to be Trish on TV and I've had plenty of guest spots. I had a couple opportunities come up but I had to turn them down. I did get the bug after my movie Bounty Hunters. I like producing moments is what it comes down to. As with wrestling, you're producing moments and that's what I love to do.
Brian Westcott - How on earth did you survive the brutal hardcore match you had against Victoria at Survivor Series 2002? Trish:
Good question! After watching it again recently I had the same question! I forgot how brutal it was. It was where we were at the time. It got to the point where we had to go (hardcore). It becomes part of the deal -- you know when you're going in that you're going to be more bruised and battered than normal. Watching it back, I cringed at every moment, but I'm very proud to have had the moment with Victoria.
Steve Long - When you consider the talent of the women's division when you were in the WWE, with yourself, Lita, Molly, Victoria, Jazz, Mickie James, Gail Kim, etc. They seem more intent on hiring models and try and pass them off as wrestlers instead of finding actual wrestlers. Is it hard to see what the Women's Division has become since you left? Trish:
I still have hopes for the Women's Division. A lot of people are down on it, and to be honest there is a comparison. Go back to the era where each woman could work in the ring and be unique -- we were all keen to it. Remember that I was gone, then Amy [Lita] was gone then Mickie was gone, so you were really starting from scratch. I do think there hasn't been a proper rebuilding time; if you look at the current division, you have Kaitlyn, AJ's fantastic -- she's a firecracker, you've got Tamina, Nattie... you've got Layla who gets it. If you look at the division, it has the talent. I think we're at a good point where you can build the next golden era.
Justin Medeiros - If WWE ever offered, would you work behind the scenes as a creative member/trainee for the current and up-coming Diva's to improve the division? Trish:
I would love that opportunity. You saw that on Tough Enough, we were finding the next WWE superstar and Diva, and they had to bring in a woman. There's just some stuff that we know and it was a little hit and miss out there, and it's different than what works and doesn't work for the men. I'd love the opportunity to work with some of the up-and-coming Divas. We had Fit Finlay -- he just got it. I'm really keen to work on creative and that would be an amazing opportunity.
Eric - What was your reaction after learning that the WWE had retired the Women's Championship to unify it with the Diva's Championship? Trish:
A lot of people figured I'd be disappointed, but to be honest I thought it was fitting. It retired an era. I think what the women were doing at that time was a bit different than what we were doing. We represented different things at that time. The Diva's Championship ushered in a new era, and it's still new. I think potentially it could be built to great things, and hey, at the end of the day, it's the one thing on my bucket list I haven't accomplished, so who knows? Having a new division I haven't competed in yet...
Vik - How did you pick your entrance music and what was the best part of being a heel in 2004? Trish:
I was a huge fan of Li'l Kim and when we were talking about my song, we wanted something cool, something in hip-hop. We had to decide first if we were going to go with a male or female musician, and Li'l Kim was at the top of my list. Did I think we could get her? No... then I got the news. She wrote the music, I got the chance to read the lyrics, and I thought the song was very cool. I actually get asked very often whether the giggle at the top is me or Li'l Kim... what do you think?
Kyle Desjardin - Is there any wrestling moves you would have loved to have been able to try that you never got to? Trish:
I actually can do an amazing moonsault but no one got to see it. There was definitely that thing of a heel stealing a babyface's finisher, but back in the day, me and Fit were really keen on making sure that 'that move is her move' and 'that move is her move.' Everyone's got their repertoire and moveset. When I left, everyone was pulling out each other's moves. There's this urge to go out and do cool stuff every night, but you have to resist it and define yourself as a wrestler, and that means defining your moveset.
Arthur - Just had an idea that I simply had to ask: I've always wanted to see you and The Rock star in a movie together think it would be so awesome is there any chance that that might happen?Trish:
As far as I know it hasn't been presented to him, and it hasn't been presented to me. We had the chance to team up in a main event match against Kurt Angle and Vince McMahon and I think as a team we did great work. We had great on-screen chemistry and I think that would translate really well. We could do some action/comedy, and I think that would be a lot of fun. He's a good friend of mine and he'd be a pleasure to work with again.


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AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) was first recognized in North America in the early 1980s. It is caused by a virus known as HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). HIV infection has become a worldwide epidemic. As of 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) stated there were 35 million people currently infected with the virus.
HIV is more common among certain populations at risk, such as people who inject illicit drugs, and bisexual and gay men. HIV infections are also increasing among women, Aboriginal peoples, and African and Caribbean communities.
The virus can be found in the blood, semen, vaginal fluid, and breast milk of infected people. HIV is also found in saliva, sweat, and tears, though not in high enough amounts to transmit the virus to another person. There are no known cases of anyone catching HIV through sneezing, shaking hands, or from toilet seats or mosquito bites.
The two most common ways to be infected with HIV in North America are through unprotected sex and sharing needles. HIV may be transmitted through unprotected heterosexual or homosexual, vaginal, anal, or oral sex. Although the risk of infection is lower with oral sex, it is still important to use protection during oral sex, such as a dental dam (a piece of latex to cover the vagina during oral sex) or a condom. HIV can also be passed on through perinatal infection, where mothers who have HIV are at risk of giving the disease to the baby during birth. The risk of perinatal infection is declining with new treatments. Breast-feeding by an infected mother can also transmit HIV.
Once HIV enters the bloodstream, it takes over cells vital to the immune response, known as CD4+ lymphocytes. The virus then inserts its own genes into the cell, turning it into a miniature factory that produces more copies of the virus. Slowly, the amount of virus in the blood goes up and the number of healthy CD4+ cells goes down. The destruction of CD4+ cells interferes with the body's ability to fight off infections and other diseases.
Symptoms of HIV infection appear 2 to 12 weeks after exposure. At this point the virus begins rapidly taking over immune cells in the blood. The symptoms of this phase are flu-like and include:
When the symptoms begin to appear, the person with HIV is very infectious. The symptoms usually go away within a week to a month, and the person will feel fine again. However, the symptoms may return from time to time. The symptoms of HIV are similar to symptoms of other diseases. The only way to know for sure whether you are HIV-positive is to be tested. After infection with HIV, it can take 3 months for antibodies to the virus to be detectable in the blood. On average, it takes about 22 days to develop antibodies. This is called seroconversion. After seroconversion occurs, the virus can be detected using a blood test.
After the initial symptoms go away, the body's immune system tries to control the virus. The immune system can keep the virus at bay for a while, but it can't completely get rid of it. Many people will feel fine for years before their immune system weakens and they develop AIDS. Without treatment, about half of HIV-positive people develop AIDS within 10 years of infection. Some people develop AIDS within a few years of infection. A few, called long-term non-progressors, do not develop AIDS until much later. Many factors affect the timeframe to develop AIDS, including medications and the person's general health and lifestyle.
AIDS is a term applied to advanced HIV disease. AIDS is defined as having HIV and an opportunistic infection (an infection by a microorganism that ordinarily does not cause disease unless the immune system is weakened) normally associated with AIDS. These infections can be bacterial, fungal, viral, or parasitic. Examples of opportunistic infections include toxoplasmosis, pneumocystis pneumonia, cryptococcal meningitis, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), cryptosporidium, cytomegalovirus, and Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). With the use of better medications to treat HIV, the risk of opportunistic infections has dropped over the years; however, people with AIDS will usually need to take medications (such as antibiotics) to prevent opportunistic infections.
People who have AIDS are also more likely to develop cancer, especially cancers of the immune system (lymphomas). Another cancer common for people with AIDS is Kaposi's sarcoma, a type of cancer that causes bluish red nodules on the legs and that spreads to the lymph system. Women with AIDS are prone to developing cancers of the cervix. Gay men with HIV have higher rates of infection by HPV, a virus linked to anal cancer, and precancerous HPV strains.
Children with AIDS tend to get common childhood infections like conjunctivitis, otitis media, and tonsillitis, but they experience symptoms much worse than the infection usually causes.
Excessive weight loss or "wasting syndrome" is a problem for approximately 20% of people who have HIV infection. It is associated with an unexplained loss of 10% or more of normal body weight, plus chronic diarrhea (30 days or more) or chronic weakness with fever (30 days or more).
Most people with AIDS die from the diseases that AIDS makes them more susceptible to. The virus occasionally infects the brain, causing dementia that gets worse over time.


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The culinary mall on the northeast corner of Rosecrans Avenue and Redondo Beach Boulevard is a sort of ethnic Disneyland for those who can't make up their minds. The culinary options include Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean and, of all things, a Marie Callender's. There are destinations for ramen, for hot pots, for sushi, for dumplings and noodles done every which way — and thanks to the recently opened Bowl Thai, for a well-turned selection of Siamese dishes.
Bowl Thai describes itself as "A Simple Kitchen," and I guess the term fits for this is a simple menu, boiled down to a sort of Bangkok Greatest Hits List. It is, like most of the restaurants in this mall, a relatively plain establishment. What you pay for here is what's on the plate, not what's on the walls. The décor is minimal enough that the cuisine served here could be just about anything. But the ubiquitous metal array of various Thai condiments is a sure tip-off. That, and the menu of dishes that most of us have come to know and love well over the years.
There's a bit of a conflict in my family when it comes to the Thai noodle dish of choice. I've always loved pad thai, with its thinner rice noodles tossed with shrimp, tofu, bean sprouts, chopped red onions, thinly-sliced scallions, egg and crushed peanuts. I like it for the texture, for the variant tastes found in every bite, for the admirable way the noodles carry whatever spicy sauce or vinegar I opt to douse the plate with.
My daughter, by contrast, is a serious partisan for pad see ew, a cousin dish to pad thai. In the case of pad see ew, the noodles are flat and wide — kind of like chow fun noodles — tossed with simpler ingredients like scrambled egg, Chinese broccoli and darkly pungent soy sauce. There's a choice of proteins — chicken, beef, pork or shrimp — but as rule, she goes for the chicken. If we're getting chicken satay, an appetizer staple at many Thai restaurants, she goes with the beef. She eats her pad her way, and I eat mine my way.
There are more noodle options, of course, as downhome Thai cooking is strongly based around the joys of noodles. And Bowl Thai is, first and foremost, downhome Thai cooking. I mean, what else would you expect from, "A Simple Kitchen"?
There's pad see mow, where the flat rice noodles are tossed with egg, mint leaves, chili and lettuce. Kai kau, made with chicken, squid and scallions. Pad woon sen, which moves us into the world of spooky, translucent glass noodles with carrots, mushrooms and your protein of choice. Lad nah, flat noodles with broccoli and soy gravy.
Then, bringing us back to the early days of Thai-Chinese restaurants, our old friend chow mein. It's good to see it back on a menu, and well prepared to boot.
There is, of course, quite a bit more. The above mentioned satay comes with chicken, beef or chicken and beef, which is much appreciated. When I asked for additional peanut sauce, they brought additional peanut sauce. I always need more of the stuff. A vat would be just about enough.
There are four curries, done in three colors — snappy green curry, sweetish yellow curry, biting red curry — and a sweet red curry made with pineapple. I don't much like sweet savory dishes. But it was better than expected. Not surprisingly, the pineapple reappeared in the ever-present pineapple rice, with its cashew nuts, raisins and strong flavor of curry.
If you want noodles with your noodles, there's a trio of hearty noodle soups. I like the tom yum soup, made with skinny noodles, pork, fishballs, fishcakes, dried shrimp and, of course, peanuts.
There are a quartet of dishes served over rice and a quintet of fried rice dishes; Thai-Chinese cooking really is back here, for those with a nostalgic bent.
Do note the line at the bottom of the one-sheet menu that reads, "Please no substitutions. Our dishes are designed to capture the original Thai flavors." Or at least, the original flavors as they were first tasted here in America.
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Interesting that it has a retailers label on 'Cascade England' I have seen that two times before both on Holmegaard Gull vases (I know the label for 1960s 70s items) – not saying that it is Holmegaard but it feels imported from Scandinavia.Adam P
I have a recollection that "Cascade Glass" was a trade mark used ( with a black and silver label of a fountain cascading down by one of our pressware comeptitors now defunct. So it may be Waterstone Glass of Wath upon Wear near Rotherham, Wodd Bros, or Trent Valley.I have not seen a catalogue for ages, and I left my archives on defunct British Glass to the Broadfield House Museum in Kingswinford, near Stourbridge. A call to Roger Dodsworth the curator ( and author of "British Glass between the Wars" may solve the mystery!The blue looks like Waterstone who made mainly bottles and ashtrays and a few things like eye baths in that blue. (See Eyebath website for Woods as well!)Sorry not a definite solution but a lead perhaps...Fancy giving away my archives in July and deciding in September to start collecting British Domestic Glass! Doah! What a plonker!
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Alabama's Javier Arenas is aiming to show he's a good cornerback, too.
Arenas has been known mostly as a return man the past two seasons who occasionally saw action in the secondary, too. He has now likely moved into a starting role at corner for the 24th-ranked Crimson Tide.
The 5-foot-9 Arenas said that status comes as no surprise to him since he always considered himself a defensive back first and a return man second.
Alabama's previous recruiting staff recruited him primarily as a special teamer. Arenas ranked seventh nationally in punt return average last season, including a 61-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter against LSU.
He was also solid returning kicks.
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