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This training course is perfectly suitable for Solution Architects and Programmers and Network and System Administrators who aspire to build a career in cloud computing.
Intellipaat AWS training course does not require any particular skill. However, having a basic understanding of any programming language will be an added advantage.
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What is Cloud Computing, how AWS is the leader in the cloud domain, various cloud computing products offered by AWS, introduction to AWS S3, EC2, VPC, EBS, ELB, AMI, getting a detailed understanding of the AWS architecture and the AWS Management Console, introduction to AWS EC2, comparing Public IP and Elastic IP, demonstrating how to launch an AWS EC2 instance, what is auto scaling, AWS EC2 best practices and cost involved, understanding various concepts of backup services in AWS.
Hands-on Exercise – Setting up of AWS account, how to launch an EC2 instance, process of hosting a website and launching a Linux Virtual Machine using an AWS EC2 instance.
Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for block level persistent storage volumes with S3 buckets, understanding Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora which are relational databases, Amazon DynamoDB which is a NoSQL database, understanding Amazon Redshift which is a data warehousing product, Amazon ElasticCache which is an in-memory data store, deploying AWS database migration service.
Hands-on Exercise – How to create an Amazon RDS instance, creating a Read Replica instance of RDS, creating Table in master RDS, how to add data to master RDS, adding data to replica RDS, using Aurora to create a PostgreSQL and MySQL instance, within DynamoDB creating a NoSQL table and running queries.
Introduction to AWS storage, AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service), creating an AWS S3 bucket, AWS Storage Gateway, understanding the Command Line Interface (CLI), hosting a static website using Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier storage for long-term data backup and archiving and Amazon Snowball for data import/export.
Hands-on Exercise – How to run an AWS CLI command, deploying the AWS Storage Gateway for connecting cloud-based storage with the on-premise software.
Understanding Fault Tolerance in AWS, in-depth study of Elastic Load Balancing, the types of Load Balancers viz. Classic and Application, AWS Auto Scaling mechanism, understanding AWS Management Console, how to access the Elastic Load Balancing, studying AWS SDK, AWS CLI and Https Query API.
Hands-on Exercise – How to create an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), configuration of auto scaling group and familiarizing with the Management Console.
What is Amazon VPC, VPC as a networking layer for EC2, getting started with VPC, examples, VPC and Subnets, default and non-default VPCs, components of VPC networking, IP addressing, security, VPN connections, accessing the internet, using AWS PrivateLink to access the services and VPC supported platforms.
Hands-on Exercise – Create a Virtual Private Network for an AWS EC2 instance and access it over the internet and via a private network using AWS PrivateLink.
Introduction to various AWS application services, Elastic Beanstalk, Simple Email Services (SES), Simple Notification Service (SNS), AWS Lambda, Elastic OpsWorks and CLI.
Hands-on Exercise – How to run an app using AWS Elastics Beanstalk, deploying SES to send email, enabling and generating notification service, using AWS Lambda to copy object, modeling and provisioning your app with AWS OpsWorks.
Authentication (who can use) and Authorization (level of access), IAM Policies – JSON structure, users, groups and their Roles, IAM HTTPS API, logging IAM events with AWS CloudTrail, monitoring and managing AWS resources using CloudWatch, deploying configuration alerts and notifications with CloudWatch, billing for CloudWatch.
Hands-on Exercise – How to create a JSON document using which the access policy for groups and users in defined, logging IAM events using AWS CloudTrail.
Configuration management and automation of server configuration using OpsWorks, determining how servers are configured, managed and deployed across EC2 instances, creating a virtual machine using Amazon Machine Image (AMI), introduction to the Domain Name Registration service AWS Route 53, how to route internet traffic to resources, checking health of resources automatically, provisioning of infrastructure resources using AWS CloudFormation.
Hands-on Exercise – How to register a domain using Route 53, routing internet traffic to the resources and automatically checking health of resources.
Important guidelines for creating a well architected AWS framework that is resilient and performant, designing of fault-tolerant and high-availability architecture, resilient storage, decoupling mechanism, multi-tier architecture solution, disaster recovery solution, scalable and elastic solutions.
guidance for clearing the exam, most probable interview questions and other helpful tips for clearing the exam and interview.
How to deploy DevOps principles and methodology on the AWS platform, DevOps lifecycle and the important stages in the DevOps methodology, what is AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeDeploy.
Migrating to the AWS cloud, business drivers for migration, various stages of cloud adoption, the actual migration process, migration tools and services in AWS, migrating customers to AWS cloud, track the progress of application migration, types of migration including data migration, application migration and databases migration.
AWS cloud security essentials, penetration testing, security compliance, infrastructure security, mitigating DDOS, Identity and Access Control (IAM), logging and monitoring, automatic audits and compliance, limitations and challenges of native AWS security.
Project 1 : Deploying a Multi-tier website using AWS EC2
Industry : Internet related
Problem Statement : How to scale a website fast using AWS without the upfront cost
Topics : In this AWS project you will launch an EC2 instance without the need to invest in hardware up front, so you can develop and deploy applications faster. You can use Amazon EC2 to launch as many or as few virtual servers as you need, configure security and networking, and manage storage. Amazon EC2 enables you to scale up or down to handle changes in requirements or spikes in popularity, reducing your need to forecast traffic.
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Industry : Internet related
Problem Statement : How to orchestrate a website with lesser time and higher availability along with autoscaling.
Topics : In this AWS project you will deploy a high-availability PHP application with an external Amazon RDS database to Elastic Beanstalk. Running a DB instance external to Elastic Beanstalk decouples the database from the lifecycle of your environment. This lets you connect to the same database from multiple environments, swap one database for another, or perform a blue/green deployment without affecting your database.
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Project 3 :Publishing Amazon SNS messages privately
Industry : Healthcare
Problem Statement : How to secure patient records online and send it privately to the intended party
Topics : In this project you will be working on a hospital project to send reports online and develop a platform so the patients can access the reports via mobile and push notifications. You will publish the report to an Amazon SNS which keeping it secure and private. Your message will be hosted on an EC2 instance within your Amazon VPC. By publishing the messages privately, you can improve the message delivery and receipt through Amazon SNS.
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AWS for Beginners
This course is designed to clear the AWS Certified Solutions Architect exam. The entire course is in line with AWS certification curriculum and helps you get the best jobs in top MNCs.
As part of this training, you will be working on real-time projects and assignments that have immense implications in the real-world industry scenarios, thus helping you fast-track your career effortlessly.
At the end of this training program, there will be a quiz that perfectly reflects the type of questions asked in the certification exam and helps you score better marks.
Intellipaat Course Completion Certificate will be awarded upon the completion of the project work (after expert review) and upon scoring at least 60% marks in the quiz. Intellipaat certification is well recognized in top 80+ MNCs like Ericsson, Cisco, Cognizant, Sony, Mu Sigma, Saint-Gobain, Standard Chartered, TCS, Genpact, Hexaware, etc.
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Though everything is good and well structured, I would like to see more quizzes and assignments. They are sufficient, but I would have rated a full 10 if I would have got more assignmnets. Now, I would rate it 9.
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers are preparing to rock out onstage with Bruno Mars during the Super Bowl halftime show in February (14), according to a U.S. report.
The Californication hitmakers are already scheduled to perform at a pre-Super Bowl event in Brooklyn, New York on 1 February (14), but Mars has reportedly invited them to appear with him at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on 2 February (14), when he entertains the crowds at the American football championship game.
Representatives for the R&B star and the National Football League (NFL) have declined to comment on the reports, but Mars is expected to make the big announcement on Saturday (11Jan14), during the Fox network broadcast of the New Orleans Saints play-off game against the Seattle Seahawks, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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Ex marks the spot for Breaking Bad's Betsy Brandt, who has been cast as the former wife of Hank Rizzoli (Ray Romano) on Parenthood, TVGuide.com has learned.
Brandt, who plays Skyler's sister Marie on the AMC series, is slated to appear on one episode of the NBC family drama. An airdate for her episode has not been set.
Parenthood video: Ray Romano and Lauren Graham on Hank and Sarah's "interesting chemistry"
Fans first learned about Hank's past when his hard-to-please teenage daughter Ruby came to visit. After Sarah (Lauren Graham) won Ruby over by fake-cropping her into a picture with Justin Bieber, she won Hank over as well: He kissed his (newly engaged, we might add) assistant in the most recent episode. How much trouble could his ex stir up?
Parenthood airs Tuesdays at 10/9c on NBC.


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Apache Thrift
|Apache Software Foundation
|Stable release
0.11.0 / 7 December 2017
|Remote procedure call framework
|Apache License 2.0
Thrift is an interface definition language and binary communication protocol[1] used for defining and creating services for numerous languages.[2] It forms a remote procedure call (RPC) framework and was developed at Facebook for "scalable cross-language services development". It combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build cross-platform services which can connect applications written in a variety of languages and frameworks, including ActionScript, C, C++,[3] C#, Cappuccino,[4] Cocoa, Delphi, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, Node.js, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Smalltalk.[5] Although developed at Facebook, it is now an open source project in the Apache Software Foundation. The implementation was described in an April 2007 technical paper released by Facebook, now hosted on Apache.[6][7]
Thrift includes a complete stack for creating clients and servers.[8] The top part is generated code from the Thrift definition. From this file, the services generate client and processor code. In contrast to built-in types, created data structures are sent as result in generated code. The protocol and transport layer are part of the runtime library. With Thrift, it is possible to define a service and change the protocol and transport without recompiling the code. Besides the client part, Thrift includes server infrastructure to tie protocols and transports together, like blocking, non-blocking, and multi-threaded servers. The underlying I/O part of the stack is implemented differently for different languages.
Thrift supports a number of protocols:[8]
- TBinaryProtocol – A straightforward binary format, simple, but not optimized for space efficiency. Faster to process than the text protocol but more difficult to debug.
- TCompactProtocol – More compact binary format; typically more efficient to process as well
- TDebugProtocol – A human-readable text format to aid in debugging.
- TDenseProtocol – Similar to TCompactProtocol, stripping off the meta information from what is transmitted.
- TJSONProtocol – Uses JSON for encoding of data.
- TSimpleJSONProtocol – A write-only protocol that cannot be parsed by Thrift because it drops metadata using JSON. Suitable for parsing by scripting languages.[9]
The supported transports are:
- TFileTransport – This transport writes to a file.
- TFramedTransport – This transport is required when using a non-blocking server. It sends data in frames, where each frame is preceded by length information.
- TMemoryTransport – Uses memory for I/O. The Java implementation uses a simple
- TSocket – Uses blocking socket I/O for transport.
- TZlibTransport – Performs compression using zlib. Used in conjunction with another transport.
Thrift also provides a number of servers, which are
- TNonblockingServer – A multi-threaded server using non-blocking I/O (Java implementation uses NIO channels). TFramedTransport must be used with this server.
- TSimpleServer – A single-threaded server using standard blocking I/O. Useful for testing.
- TThreadPoolServer – A multi-threaded server using standard blocking I/O.
Some stated benefits of Thrift include:
- Cross-language serialization with lower overhead than alternatives such as SOAP due to use of binary format
- A lean and clean library. No framework to code. No XML configuration files.
- The language bindings feel natural. For example, Java uses
ArrayList<String>. C++ uses
- The application-level wire format and the serialization-level wire format are cleanly separated. They can be modified independently.
- The predefined serialization styles include: binary, HTTP-friendly and compact binary.
- Doubles as cross-language file serialization.
- Soft versioning of the protocol. Thrift does not require a centralized and explicit mechanism like major-version/minor-version. Loosely coupled teams can freely evolve RPC calls.
- No build dependencies or non-standard software. No mix of incompatible software licenses.
Creating a Thrift service
Thrift is written in C++, but can create code for a number of languages. To create a Thrift service, one has to write Thrift files that describe it, generate the code in the destination language, write some code to start the server, and call it from the client. Here is a code example of such a description file:
enum PhoneType {
struct Phone {
1: i32 id,
2: string number,
3: PhoneType type
service PhoneSvc {
Phone findById(1: i32 id),
list<Phone> findAll()
Thrift will generate the code out of this descriptive information. For instance, in Java, the
PhoneType will be a simple
enum inside the
Phone class.
See also
- ↑ "Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 4 (Thrift Client)". http://www.sodeso.nl/: Sodeso – Software Development Solutions. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
Thrift is a separate Apache project which is a binary communication protocol
- ↑ Andrew Prunicki. "Apache Thrift: Introduction". http://www.ociweb.com/: Object Computing Inc. – An Open Solutions Company. Retrieved 2011-04-11.
Through a simple and straightforward Interface Definition Language (IDL), Thrift allows [users] to define and create services which are both consumable by and serviceable by numerous languages. Using code generation, Thrift creates a set of files which can then be used for creating clients and/or servers. In addition to interoperability, Thrift can be very efficient through a unique serialization mechanism that is efficient in both time and space.
- ↑ Thrift Requirements, see this issue for Windows support
- ↑ Fred Potter, Using Thrift with Cappuccino Archived 2011-08-12 at the Wayback Machine., parallel48's posterously luscious blog, 10 June 2010.
- ↑ Andrew Prunicki. "Apache Thrift: Code Generation". http://www.ociweb.com/: Object Computing Inc. – An Open Solutions Company. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
Thrift supports many languages too varying degrees. The complete list is below. Be careful before assuming that just because your language has some support that it supports all of Thrift's features. Python for example, only supports TBinaryProtocol. Cocoa, C++, C#, Erlang, Haskell, Java, OCaml, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk
- ↑ Mark Slee, Aditya Agarwal, Marc Kwiatkowski, Thrift: Scalable Cross-Language Services Implementation
- ↑ "LibraryFeatures - Thrift Wiki". Retrieved 2016-04-21.
- 1 2 Andrew Prunicki. "Apache Thrift: Introduction". http://www.ociweb.com/: Object Computing Inc. – An Open Solutions Company. Retrieved 2011-04-11.
The top portion of the stack is generated code from your Thrift definition file. Thrift services result in generated client and processor code. These are represented by the brown boxes in the diagram. The data structures that are sent (other than built-in types) also result in generated code. These result in the red boxes. The protocol and transport are part of the Thrift runtime library. Therefore with Thrift, you can define a service, and are free to change the protocol and transport without re-generating your code. Thrift also includes a server infrastructure to tie the protocols and transports together. There are blocking, non-blocking, single and multi-threaded servers available. The "Underlying I/O" portion of the stack differs based on the language in question. For Java and Python network I/O, the built-in libraries are leveraged by the Thrift library, while the C++ implementation uses its own custom implementation.
- ↑ Skelton, Steven. "Developer Friendly Thrift Request Logging". Retrieved 3 July 2014.


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Call ForwardingCall Forwarding sends your calls to another phone number. The number can be local, long distance, or a mobile phone. You can activate, deactivate, and change your forwarding number at anytime, from your home phone.
Calls forwarded with this service are subject to local or toll charges. If your line is toll restricted, you cannot forward your call to a toll number.
You can make outgoing calls while Call Forwarding is activated.
All calling features are subject to availability and compatibility restrictions.
Your calls will automatically forward to your mailbox if your line is busy or you don't answer your phone. If you would like to temporarily redirect calls to another number, you can use the Call Forwarding feature.
You must activate, deactivate, or change your forwarding number from your home phone.
You can activate Call Forwarding whenever you want your calls to be sent to another phone, including a mobile phone. Once activated, all your calls will be sent to the forwarding number you request. Each time a call is forwarded, you will hear one short reminder tone on your home phone, but you will not be able to answer the call from your home number.
- Lift your telephone's receiver and listen for a dial tone.
Press .
Dial 1172 on rotary or pulse-dialing phones.
When you hear the tone, set or change the Call Forwarding number by dialing the telephone number where you want your calls transferred.
You will hear the number you entered ring. When the number is answered, Call Forwarding is activated.
If the call is not answered or the line is busy, hang up and call the number again within two minutes.
You will hear two short tones telling you that Call Forwarding is activated.
- Hang up the receiver.
- Lift your telephone's receiver and listen for a dial tone.
Press .
Dial 1173 on rotary or pulse-dialing phones.
Listen for two short tones.
Call Forwarding is now off and you will receive your calls at your home number.
Instructions for FiOS Digital Voice Calling Features


text: egendary Boston State College Head Men's Basketball Coach Jim Loscutoff said, "Ed is doing what no other player before him has done for me at State. He takes complete control of the coaching while on the floor. He is like a general out there, he really takes command". That's high praise for Ed Miller, considered one of the greatest point guards in Boston State history. The guard helped the Warriors to a 56-25 three-year record, good for a .691 winning percentage. Miller was the Most Valuable Player as Boston State's Co-Captain in 1970-71, while leading the squad to a 20-7 record and its first-ever New England State College Athletic Conference Championship. He netted 22 points and dished for a pair of assists in the semifinal contest vs. Rhode Island College, en-route to the title and was later named All-New England following the campaign. Miller led that team with 3.5 assists to go with a career-high 16.4 points per game to as the team's second-leading scorer and poured in a career-high 39 points vs. Bentley, earlier in the season. He finished the season with a .752 (124-165) free throw mark and never shot lower than 70% from the line in any season during his career to finish with a career percentage of .753 (216-287). His 175 lifetime assists stood as the highest total of any player in BSC history at the time to go with 762 points in 80 games. Miller finished his career with one season of baseball for Boston State as a shortstop. Following his 1971 graduation from BSC, he compiled a 275-130 (.680) record as a Head High School Varsity Boys Basketball Coach with stints at North Quincy (1972-87) and Marshfield (1987-94), before becoming the Director of Athletics for Marshfield Public Schools from 1992-99. He assumed the same position for Quincy Public Schools from 1999-2006 as well. He has remained a prominent figure in youth basketball circles, serving as a Vice-Chairman for the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Basketball Committee, President of the Suburban League Coaches Association, Atlantic Coast League Athletic Directors and the International Association of Approved Basketball Officials Board 54 Basketball Officials. Miller is being inducted into his third hall of fame with membership as one of the elite for the Massachusetts High School Basketball Coaches and North Quincy High School Athletic Halls of Fame.


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Sometimes, this site writes itself. We certainly weren't prepared for this though…
Here's a heartwarming story. In fact, it warms the heart like a pair of fresh-out-of-the-dryer man-panties warms the loins.
Apparently, tough guy Jason Giambi of the Yank-Offs has quite an interesting ritual that he uses to help himself bust out of batting slumps. He wears a gold thong under his uniform. Seriously. And not only that, but he lends the thing out to his teammates when he feels they could use a little "help" at the plate.
Johnny Damon admits to wearing it.
So does the immortal "Captain" Derek Jeter.
Jorge Posada says that, while he hasn't himself donned the magic undies, that "a lot of players have worn it." And hes not sure if it gets washed between uses/players or not.
What. The. Hell?
Uh….ballplayers are a strange bunch…..umm…yeah…
That's all I got, man. The Yankees wear thongs. My lowly attempts at satire can't even begin to compete with that reality. Thanks, Jason Giambi, for rendering all attempts at witty or clever put downs obsolete.
Hey! Here's somethin': Did you realize that Mr. Giambi, he of the .181 average, is the 2ND HIGHEST PAID PLAYER IN BASEBALL IN 2008?!
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- They provide inconsistent and short-lived "flash and crash" energy. Riding a roller coaster of energy - feeling great for a few brief moments, then struggling to get out of an energy rut - is no way to enjoy your workouts or achieve top race results.
- "Ose" simple sugars supply very low and almost always inadequate amounts of calories that the body can accept, assimilate, and utilize for energy. A calorically weak simple sugar concentration of 6-8% is the limit for quick conversion to energy; higher concentrations will be substantially delayed from digesting efficiently, resulting in an increased risk of stomach-related problems such as nausea, bloating, cramping, and diarrhea.
- They increase the potential for overhydration and its host of associated problems. When you try to fulfill your body's optimal calorie requirements by consuming increased quantities of energy gels that contain simple sugars, you have to drink copious amounts of fluids to adequately digest them.
Bottom line: Using "ose" sugars to fuel your body is similar to lighting a piece of paper on fire. You get a fast heat, but it's a v-e-r-y limited amount. It burns out quickly, and you have to continually feed the fire. That's just flat-out inefficient and wrong. Check the labels on energy gels for "ose" sugar, and avoid it - you don't want or need that garbage in your body!
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- More calories available for energy production.Complex carbohydrates match body fluid osmolality parameters (280-303 mOsm) at a more concentrated 15-18% solution, whereas the limit for effective digestion of simple sugars is a meager 6-8% solution. Therefore, complex carbohydrates will exit the GI tract at the same efficient rate as normal body fluids, providing substantially more calories (up to three times more) than simple-sugar mixtures will.
- They have a high Glycemic Index (GI) rating.Maltodextrin, the complex carbohydrate used in Hammer Gel, has a GI value of 100, which is equal to glucose (100) and higher than sucrose (58-65) and fructose (12-25). This means that maltodextrin raises blood sugar levels as effectively as glucose, and faster than other simple sugars. During and immediately following exercise, a high-GI carbohydrate - one that elevates blood sugar levels rapidly - offers a most-desirable and beneficial effect.
- They provide a more consistent, longer-lasting energy during exercise. Hammer Gel, a complex carbohydrate fuel, doesn't cause the rapid and precipitous drop - that unpleasant and undesirable "peak and valley" effect - that is common with simple sugars.
Bottom line: Using the same "heat/energy" analogy, complex carbohydrates are similar to putting a nice pile of wood on the fire; they burn longer and more evenly, with the declination in "heat" (energy levels) being much more gradual. Thats EXACTLY how you want your fuel to work in your body.
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In the recent submission by Walmart as to why Burbank residents want a Walmart here ("Op-Ed: here's why Burbank residents want Walmart," Feb. 19), there were two statements that one should question.
One is that that the average full-time worker receives $12.69 an hour. Aren't most Walmart employees part-time workers? There is also a difference between a median and an average. Mentioned was "average," which indicates that management/executive salaries are also factored in the equation.
As for invoking Sam Walton's name, when he was alive, "Made in the U.S.A." was Walmart's theme. People should see the documentary "Walmart: The high cost of low price."
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Longitudinal Study of Ocular Complications of AIDS (LSOCA) (LSOCA)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00000168
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : September 24, 1999
Last Update Posted : June 12, 2015
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To monitor trends over time, in the incidence of CMV retinitis and other ocular complications of AIDS
To determine the effect of highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART)-induced immune status on the risk of developing CMV retinitis and other ocular complications of AIDS
To determine the characteristics (clinical, virologic, hematologic, and biochemical) of a population at high risk for CMV retinitis and other ocular complications of AIDS
To evaluate the effects of treatments for CMV retinitis and other ocular complications on visual function, quality of life, and survival.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Cytomegalovirus Retinitis
Ocular abnormalities in patients with AIDS were first reported in 1982. The most common finding is a non-infectious "HIV retinopathy", characterized by cotton wool spots, intraretinal hemorrhages, and/or microaneurysms. These changes occur in approximately 50 percent of patients with AIDS. HIV retinopathy alone is not typically associated with clinical loss of vision, but functional deficits in patients with AIDS without other ocular complications may be due to this phenomenon.
CMV retinitis has had the most clinical importance of all the associated complications of AIDS. It is commonly seen in late stage AIDS, and even when treated has the potential to cause substantial loss of vision. CMV retinitis is also the most costly AIDS-related opportunistic infection; the mean monthly cost of treatment has been estimated at $7,825. The incidence of CMV retinitis has varied with changes in the therapeutic and prophylactic strategies for AIDS and its complications. It has been on the decline in recent years related to the increased use of highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART).
Other ocular complications of AIDS such as ocular toxoplasmosis, herpes zoster retinitis, and pneumocystis choroidopathy occur less frequently than CMV retinitis and HIV retinopathy. Their frequency has also changed over the course of the AIDS epidemic.
Because the epidemiology of AIDS is rapidly evolving, with HIV becoming more like a chronic disease, new information is needed on the incidence and course of ocular complications. We have little information about the effect of HAART therapy over time on changes in immune status and the risk of ocular complications of AIDS. More information is also needed to determine who is at risk for developing ocular complications of AIDS, and how treatment is affecting their visual function, quality of life, and survival.
The Longitudinal Study of Ocular Complications of AIDS (LSOCA) is prospective observational study of patients with AIDS. Patients with a prior diagnosis of AIDS according to the 1993 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) criteria with or without ocular complications will be enrolled over a 4 year period. Approximately 2,000 patients will be enrolled in the study. Enrollment of patients with CMV retinitis at baseline will be between 300 and 600 patients. Followup visits for patients without ocular complications will be scheduled every 6 months. Followup visits for patients with ocular complications at baseline or diagnosed during followup will be every 3 months. Followup data will include eye examinations, fundus photographs, visual function testing, medical history, hematology and serum chemistry, and collection of plasma and blood cells for banking. Analysis of banked specimens will include HIV RNA levels and CMV DNA levels.
|Study Type :
|Actual Enrollment :
|2392 participants
|Observational Model:
|Time Perspective:
|Official Title:
|Studies of Ocular Complications of AIDS (SOCA)
|Study Start Date :
|August 1998
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|August 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|August 2013
- incidence of CMV retinitis, other ocular complications, mortality. [ Time Frame: Until one year after the enrollment of the last patient. ]
- incidence of sequelae of AIDS-related eye disease (e.g., retinal detachments), incidence of complications of therapy, and long-term outcomes of ocular complications (e.g., visual function, quality of life). [ Time Frame: Until one year after the enrollment of the last patient. ]
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|13 Years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
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|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion criteria:
- A diagnosis of AIDS according to the 1993 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) definition (with or without clinical symptoms of CMV retinitis or other ocular complications of AIDS)
- Age 13 years or older
- Signed consent statement
- Patients with newly diagnosed (within 45 days of enrollment) Ocular Opportunistic Infections (OOIs)
- Patients without a newly diagnosed Ocular Opportunistic Infection (OOI) diagnosed with AIDS after 1 Jan 2001
Exclusion criteria:
- none.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00000168
|United States, California
|University of California, Irvine
|Irvine, California, United States, 92697-4375
|Shiley Eye Center, 0946
|La Jolla, California, United States, 92093-0946
|University of Southern California
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033
|Jules Stein Eye Institute
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095-7003
|Francis I. Proctor Foundation
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94143
|United States, Florida
|Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
|Miami, Florida, United States, 33136
|University of South Florida
|Tampa, Florida, United States, 33612-4799
|United States, Georgia
|Emory Eye Clinic
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30322
|United States, Illinois
|Northwestern University
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
|United States, Indiana
|Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Indiana, Indianapolis
|Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46202-2879
|United States, Louisiana
|LSU Eye Center
|New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 70112
|United States, Maryland
|The Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287-9217
|United States, New Jersey
|UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School
|Newark, New Jersey, United States, 07103-2499
|United States, New York
|Department of Ophthalmology
|New York, New York, United States, 10016
|Department of Ophthalmology
|New York, New York, United States, 10021
|United States, North Carolina
|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
|Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599-7040
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
|United States, Texas
|University of Texas Medical Branch
|Galveston, Texas, United States, 77555-0835
|Cullen Eye Institute
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|Study Chair:
|Doug A Jabs, MD
|Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Curtis Meinert, Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00000168 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
5U10EY008057 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|September 24, 1999 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|June 12, 2015
|Last Verified:
|June 2015
HIV Infections
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Cytomegalovirus Retinitis
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Slow Virus Diseases
Retinal Diseases
Eye Diseases
Cytomegalovirus Infections
Herpesviridae Infections
DNA Virus Infections
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Dexter: Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter Look Back on 8 Seasons of Kills and Thrills
Sep 19, 2013 7:35 PM EDT
After eight seasons, over 100 kills and more blood than we can imagine, Dexter will sign off for good on Sunday. From the beginning, Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) was a serial killer incapable of having emotions or a true human connection. But over… Read more


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Second segment of episode 17 that contains the Behind the Scenes segment that describes the technology and goals for food on space missions. The Food Tech in Long Space Trip...
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Keywords: NASA Destination Tomorrow; Jennifer Pulley; Food Systems; Feeding Astronauts; Dr. Michelle Perchonok; Episode 17; DT17;
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NASA Destination Tomorrow video containing three segments as described below. NASA Destination Tomorrow Future Space Food Concerns segment desribes the problems with long duration space travel such as bone loss,...
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NASA Why? Files segment explaining how the NOAA predicts hurricane severity and travel patterns.
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NASA Connect Video containing five segments as described below. NASA Connect segment exploring solar flares and how NASA scientists study these events. The video explains the goal of the HESSI...
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NASA Why? Files video containing the following eleven segments. NASA Why? Files segment describing some of the major volcanic events throughout history. NASA Why? Files segment describing the effects of...
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Have you heard of the awesome iTunes app Brushstroke by Code Organa yet? It transforms your images into gorgeous paintings with just one touch. We're super excited to announce that CanvasPop and Brushstroke have now teamed up to transform those paintings into physical canvas prints.
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Calendar Girls - The Musical at The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton - Wed 16th Jan 2019
- Duration: 1 Days
- Product code: P2QD0L
Calendar Girls the Musical, by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth, is the award winning production based on the true story of the calendar girls – a group of ordinary ladies who achieved something extraordinary. Come along and see this marvellous musical comedy which received fantastic 5 star reviews in London's West End. The Times described Calendar Girls the Musical as "pure
gold". Don't miss your chance to see this glorious production with a brand new all-star cast, straight from the West End. Starring Fern Britton, Lorraine Bruce, Anna-Jane Casey, Sara Crowe, Ruth Madoc, Rebecca Storm and Denise Welch.
'YOU'LL CRY WITH LAUGHTER' Daily Mail – 'IT'S GORGEOUS...IT'S A BEAUT' TheTelegraph.
Seats in stalls - 2.00pm show.
Dropping off point – Mayflower Theatre
Arrival time – 12.30pm approx. Departing - 5.15pm
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FBI Admits That Obeying The Constitution Just Takes Too Much Time
from the oh-the-horrors deptWhile much of the news coverage of FBI Director Robert Mueller's Congressional hearing this week focused on his admission that the FBI has used drones domestically, there were some other points raised, including his "defense" of the broad surveillance techniques that appears to amount to the idea that it just takes too long to obey the Constitution and go through the proper procedures before getting information:
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mr. Mueller addressed a proposal to require telephone companies to retain calling logs for five years — the period the N.S.A. is keeping them — for investigators to consult, rather than allowing the government to collect and store them all. He cautioned that it would take time to subpoena the companies for numbers of interest and get the answers back.Well, shucks. Having some amount of oversight, someone in a position to make sure that the data requested is legit would just take too long? It seems like Mueller maybe has been watching too many episodes of 24. First off, it does not take an "awful" long time. Law enforcement has regularly been able to go through legal processes to get a wiretap or subpoena other information very, very rapidly, especially when they make it clear it's an emergency situation. But the fact is, it's unlikely that most of these searches are such a timely emergency that they need the data now, and can't wait an hour or so until an employee at the telco can retrieve it for them.
"The point being that it will take an awful long time," Mr. Mueller said.
Mueller later made some outrageous claims about how long it would take the telcos to respond to a request for information following the standard procedures in an emergency.
"In this particular area, where you're trying to prevent terrorist attacks, what you want is that information as to whether or not that number in Yemen is in contact with somebody in the United States almost instantaneously so you can prevent that attack," he said. "You cannot wait three months, six months, a year to get that information, be able to collate it and put it together. Those are the concerns I have about an alternative way of handling this."He didn't explain it because it wouldn't take that long -- especially with the telcos who generally have a cozy relationship with law enforcement and a "how high?" response to the "jump!" command from the government.
Mr. Mueller did not explain why it would take so long for telephone companies to respond to a subpoena for calling data linked to a particular number, especially in a national security investigation.
Yes, I'm sure it's more convenient for the government to not have to wait an hour or so to get this info. And it's more convenient not to have to wait for a telco employee to make sure the request is legit and to retrieve the info, but we don't get rid of our Constitutional protections because of convenience for the surveillance state. The whole point of the rights of the public against such intrusions is that we, as a country, have made a conscious choice that surveillance over the population is not supposed to be convenient. It's supposed to involve careful checks and balances to avoid abuse. It's a shame that so many in our own government don't seem to recognize this basic point.
Mueller also admitted that the goal is to collect as much data as possible to "connect the dots."
"What concerns me is you never know which dot is going to be key," he said. "What you want is as many dots as you can. If you close down a program like this, you are removing dots from the playing field," he said. "Now, you know, it may make that decision that it's not worth it. But let there be no mistake about it. There will be fewer dots out there to connect" in trying to prevent the next terrorist attack.Again, this is an anti-Constitutional argument. It's an argument that says any violation of privacy and civil liberties is okay if something collected might possibly be useful later. But that's not how we're supposed to do things in the US. We're only supposed to allow law enforcement to collect the dots if there's evidence that the dots show some law being broken. Furthermore, we've already seen that having lots of dots actually makes it harder to connect the dots. Since Mueller is one of the folks who has claimed that today's system might have prevented 9/11, he ought to know that the 9/11 Commission never said that an absence of dots was the problem leading to the attack, but rather the failure of existing agencies to actually do anything with the dots/evidence they had. Collecting more dots doesn't make you any more likely to connect them. In fact, it's much more likely to send you on a wild goose chase -- including some that will potentially infringe upon the rights of innocent people.
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U.S. Construction Shifts Into Second Tier
Real-Estate Recovery Is Spreading Beyond a Handful of Cities
Construction projects in cities across the country that stalled during the economic downturn now are getting the green light, an indication that the real-estate recovery is spreading beyond a handful of urban areas.
The construction of office buildings, hotels and apartment buildings picked up in New York, San Francisco and Boston several years ago. Now activity is spreading to Atlanta, Chicago, Las Vegas and a number of other cities that are finally seeing a pickup in employment, economists say....


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Malaria prevention saves children's lives
Malaria continues to be a major disease worldwide, but while funding projects are working hard to improve malaria prevention it is difficult to measure how effective these interventions are. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Malaria Journal has used a Lives Saved Tool (LiST) model to show that the increase in funding for the prevention of malaria has prevented 850,000 child deaths in the decade between 2001 and 2010 across Africa.
According to the WHO, malaria caused an estimated 655 000 deaths in 2010, mostly among African children. They estimate that a child dies every minute due to malaria in Africa. Deaths which are unnecessary, because malaria is both preventable and curable. In addition to diagnosis and treatment of sick children, simple solutions to prevent the diseases like insecticide treated mosquito nets (ITN) and malaria prevention during pregnancy, (IPTp), have all been shown to reduce the number of deaths due to malaria. Initiatives like Roll Back Malaria, set up in 1998, aim to reduce child mortality due to malaria by two thirds, by 2015, using large scale implementation of these simple solutions.
Researchers from USA at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins, the WHO and the Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA), used the LiST model to investigate the impact of malaria prevention in the decade between 2001 and 2010 across 43 countries in sub-Saharan Africa where malaria is endemic. The team, led by Dr Thomas Eisele, based their model on UN estimates of malaria deaths over the year 2000 and future population growth, the effectiveness of ITNs and IPTp in preventing child deaths, and the number of households using ITN to protect their children.
The LiST model conservatively estimates that malaria prevention has saved 850,000 children's lives over the past decade. 99% of these were saved by using ITN alone. Dr Thomas Eisele commented, "Malaria continues to cause a tremendous amount of child deaths throughout Africa. If 100% of the children at risk of malaria had insecticide mosquito nets we estimate as many as 2.77 million additional children's lives could be saved by 2015."
These figures are believed to be the lower estimate of deaths prevented by anti-malaria initiatives since they do not include the impact of better access to treatment with anti-malarials. However, the threat of malaria remains and both prevention and treatment plans need to be sustained for these improvements to be maintained.
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With this slick, one-woman musical, irrepressible comedienne Penny Ashton has produced a loving and amusing Austen parody. Directed by Ben Crowder and dressed in extravagant pink trimmed with turquoise by Elizabeth Whiting, Ashton energetically pulls more faces than Jennifer Lawrence on Oscar night, capably characterising nine individuals, including a young lady with a fabuwous upper class lisp, and a snob with a cat's bum mouth.
Her script includes mild innuendo, all the favourite P&P conventions and some clever lines such as "hurtling towards spinsterhood like the Prince Regent toward some cake".
Droll references abound, to "etiquette mistress Kimberline Kardashian", the great poet "William Joel" who wrote "Pianoforte Man" and so on, while Ashton's setting of Bon Jovi lyrics to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony leaves Moulin Rouge in the dust for effective anachronism. "Musical Maestro" Robbie Ellis offers an appealing soundtrack.
It's slightly too long, and the stage is slightly too large, and it's a truth universally acknowledged that Jane-mania officially jumped the shark with Pride and Prejudice finger puppets but, in the hands of Misses Ashton and Austen, this is an "attractive ball" of a show.
What: Promise & Promiscuity
Where and when: Tapac, Western Springs, to March 3
Green-mohawked Australian carny Captain Ruin (aka Mitch Jones) is very charming and mildly gross: he twirls his moustache, dances the Charleston and pees into a bucket. "If I've got a screw loose, it's up to me to fix it," he says and proceeds to stick a screwdriver up his nose.
His tricks involving a straitjacket, handcuffs and eggs are entertaining if basic, but this is more than a stunt act: the Captain strips off his evening dress to reveal his tattoos, and gives us lyrical snippets of personal, anarchist and hand-cuff history. For a "prisoner" who talks about the consequences of anger being "bruises and then a courtroom" because "anger in individuals is treated as a disease", Captain Ruin has a surprisingly low key, disarmingly affable, stylish and chatty persona.
Some of the Australian political references are obscure, and the unsatisfying ending peters out with a whimper, but the Captain is promising and original, and left us wanting more.
What: One Night Stand
Where and when: Basement Theatre, to March 2


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Saturday, May 9, 2009
One of the original winners didn't respond to this post so I had to draw a new winner for my TutorMatch.com giveaway.
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I love Dawn's blog and I'm glad she was chosen as a winner! Dawn, I'm going to email you also but you have 48 hours to respond so I can send everyone's info on to the sponsor.
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How do you get more young people to attend theater productions and begin to build the next generation of theater audiences? It's a problem that theater companies are well aware of, but don't quite know how to solve.
Company One Theatre is tackling it by staging hip, creative shows that are likely to have a strong appeal to the younger generation, from young teenagers on up. Their current production-"Astro Boy and the God of Comics"-is just such a show. It's the story of Osamu Tezuka, the Japanese manga (cartoon) artist and his creation "Astro Boy," which began as a cartoon series and eventually developed into an animated television series.
Written and directed by Natsu Onoda Power, "Astro Boy and the God of Comics" uses actors, still projections, video, live action drawing, and puppets, often in very clever ways. This combination of media should appeal to the younger crowd. So, too, should the intense, frenetic energy of the show.
When Power was a 12-year-old growing up in Japan, she asked to be able to visit Tezuka's studio as an elementary school graduation present. She took a bag of comics she and her brother had drawn along with a container of sugar cookies she had baked. She had no idea she would meet the master himself, but when she did she showed him their comics but forgot to give him the cookies. He encouraged her to keep drawing, but she began to develop other interests, without totally losing sight of drawing. In fact, she has developed a form of theater that involves actors drawing live on the stage, as they do in this show. It is one of the more charming elements of the evening. "Astro Boy and the God of Comics" feels very much like a passionate tribute to him by a devoted fan.
The show is structured as 12 scenes that are performed in reverse chronological order with their titles appearing on a screen before each scene. It starts with Astro Boy's final, selfless act of flying to the sun with atomic bombs to stop its harmful radiation and thus save mankind. Don't expect the science of this to make sense. The scenes then work backwards to the creation of Astro Boy. From there they take us into Tezuka's life as an artist and work backwards to the horrors of World War II, as he experienced them as a young teenager in Japan, and which contributed to the creation of Astro Boy as a peaceful comic book solution to mankind's troubles.
Before the scenes begin, there's an introduction with artists creating a title screen, as if we're watching an animated film. Dressed in industrial uniforms, they sketch on a projection screen, following the lines of space ships. But when the projected space ships disappear, we realize they've actually been drawing Astro Boy flying through the air with rockets shooting out where his feet should be. Just when you wonder if they haven't defaced the projection screen, they tear off a sheet of paper, as if the screen were a giant pad. It's a magical opening.
After the initial episode about the dangers mankind faces from radiation, the stories become a little chaotic and hard to follow unless you're already steeped in Astro Boy. But what comes through is loads of energy and incredible robotic movements as the ensemble members play robots that help people in need and create the robot Astro Boy as if they were a car manufacturing plant. The creative projections and live drawing on stage continue throughout the show.
The last six episodes focus on Tezuka himself. We learn he never took his signature beret off in public, often slept in his studio, returned home only briefly during the week, and worked his assistants as hard as he worked himself.
Gianella Flores plays Astro Boy, bringing a peppy, winning appeal to him. Clark Young plays Tezuka and his fictional counterpart, Boynton, with a charming sophistication.
The show swept the youngish, enthusiastic, opening-night audience off their feet. But to someone well versed in theater, this show seems rather one-dimensional, lacking the emotional give-and-take that, at its best, makes theater feel so rich. To be sure, this show is very clever and its many elements are amazingly well coordinated, but that takes us only so far. It's 80 minutes long, yet without more specific shape and depth, it actually can feel too long at times as we count down through the scenes. The initial charm of its frenetic energy wears off after a while, unless you, too, have energy to burn.
Even so, one can't help but feel grateful that the show invariably will bring young and new faces into the theater, and that certainly is needed.
'Astro Boy and the God of Comics'
WHEN: Through Aug. 16
WHERE: Boston Center for the Arts, Plaza Theatre, 539 Tremont St., Boston
TICKETS:�$20 to $38
INFO: 617-292-7110; www.companyone.org
THEATER: 'Astro Boy' should draw new theatergoers
How do you get more young people to attend theater productions and begin to build the next generation of theater audiences? It's a problem that theater companies are well aware of, but don't quite know how to solve.


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Class in Latin America: The Expanding Middle
Class in Latin America: The Expanding Middle
JAMMED onto a spit of land that juts into the azure Atlantic near the centre of Recife, in Brazil's north-east, Brasília Teimosa was until a couple of decades ago a favela of wooden fishermen's huts. Now its streets are lined with brick houses, some of three stories and clad in decorative tiles but others jerry-built. It has seafood restaurants, shops and a couple of bank branches, but also piles of uncollected rubbish. Many marketing types and economists would hail its residents as members of Brazil's burgeoning "new middle class", who have become avid consumers.
That is not how Francisco Pinheiro, a community leader who was born in Brasília Teimosa, sees it. "Economically, it's much better off than it was," he says. "But a middle-class person is someone who lives in Boa Viagem"—a smart beachfront residential suburb close by—"with a car, an apartment and an income of 3,000 reais ($1,500) a month." In Brasília Teimosa, he adds, the majority earn less than two minimum wages ($613)—often shared among a family of four or more.
As it happens, Mr Pinheiro's finely-tuned sense of social class fits neatly with the definitions deployed by the World Bank in a ground-breaking new study. Having crunched the numbers from household surveys across the region, it reckons that Latin America's middle class expanded by 50%, from 103m to 152m, between 2003 and 2009. That represents extraordinarily rapid social progress. But it means that only 30% of the region's population is middle class (see chart). A larger group has left poverty, but only just, as have many of those in Brasília Teimosa.
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Now that the weather is turning cooler here in Chicago, I have been motivated to make a few new things to keep me warm. Last year, Anna Maria Horner posted a tutorial for a Figure 8 scarf. I decided to go ahead and buy one of her kits and make one for myself. The reason I bought the kit was that you need 18" x 72" of two types of fabric. So, unless you want to make 2 of the same scarf (which isn't a bad idea for gift giving), you will have left over fabric if you don't buy a kit.
I had never sewn with velveteen before - it's quite beautiful and I think it would make a fabulous winter skirt. Because I was sewing voile to the velveteen, I took Jeni's advice and used lots of pins and my walking foot. This worked perfectly and I didn't have any shifting or stretching as I worked.
So, after I finished and tried it on I decided I probably would prefer this scarf to be a bit less bulky for my body frame. (Although I haven't altered it yet and I am still wearing it). I think if I had it to do again, I might try 13" x 72" for each side.
I wanted to make another scarf with some Nani Iro double gauze as well. But that fabric is kind of pricey and I didn't want to buy a lot of extra to get the 18" x 72" for each side, so I followed Jeni's alterations to make a thinner, longer scarf, that would be wrapped 3 times around my next. Her method only uses 2 half yards of fabric so is a bit more affordable if you don't have a kit to buy.
Here is a side by side comparison of the finished scarves. You can see the first one I made is much wider, a bit shorter. The longer one is thinner and also more lightweight due to using double gauze fabric on both sides. I will say that I do feel a bit like I'm going to accidentally strangle myself when I'm wrapping that one three times around my neck. But as you can see, it is just as full as the following the original pattern.
Both of these scarves cost about $25 to make and I think something handmade like this would make great Christmas gifts. My favorite fabrics overall were voile and double gauze. I may now make some lightweight scarves like I found on Flickr here, here and here.


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U.N. helicopter shot down in South Sudan
UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations said South Sudan's armed forces shot down a U.N. helicopter on Friday, killing all four Russian crew members on board, an attack South Sudan's military spokesman blamed rebel fighters.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stood by the U.N.'s account in a statement, strongly condemning the shooting down "of a clearly marked U.N. helicopter by the Sudan People's Liberation Army" and calling on South Sudan's government to conduct an immediate investigation and prosecute those responsible.
Ban sent condolences to the families of the four crew members, whose names were not released, and to the Russian government.
The U.N. Security Council "strongly deplored" the shooting down of the helicopter by the SPLA which it said "jeopardized" the operations of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan and was "a grave violation" of the status of forces agreement between the United Nation and South Sudan. The council called for a swift investigation by South Sudan and the U.N. mission and urged South Sudan "to hold those responsible for the accident accountable and take all necessary measures to avoid such tragic accidents in the future."
Earlier, U.N. deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey said the helicopter from the U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan was on a reconnaissance mission when it was shot down. The mission, known as UNMISS, said the helicopter was not carrying any passengers.
"In subsequent communications between the mission and the South Sudanese Armed Forces, the SPLA told the mission that it has shot down the helicopter in the Likuangole area in Jonglei state," del Buey said.
Pibor County in Jonglei State, where the helicopter was shot down, has been the scene of recent clashes between rebel militia fighters led by David Yauyau and South Sudanese forces.
A former member of the South Sudanese Army, Yauyau launched his rebellion after failing to win a parliamentary seat in the Sudanese general elections in April 2010. South Sudan accuses Sudan of arming Yauyau.
South Sudan military spokesman Kella Kueth denied that his military shot down the U.N. helicopter and told AP: "It was the forces of Yauyau. Yauyau's forces are working with Khartoum for the downfall of South Sudan."
Earlier, SPLA spokesman Philip Aguer told AP that "the helicopter crashed somewhere between the SPLA base and the Yauyau base in the Pibor area."
He said he didn't know what caused the crash.
"I think the government of South Sudan and UNMISS need to investigate this jointly," Aguer said.
South Sudan Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin, asked about the U.N. statement on SPLA responsibility, said: "That is New York, but UNMISS and us here on the ground are very clear that the cause of the crash is not known and needs to be investigated."
A U.N. official aware of the incident, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said UNMISS reported that SPLA fighters shot down the Russian-built Mi-8 helicopter.
It was painted white -- the traditional color for U.N. aircraft -- and the U.N. had shared its flight plans with South Sudan's military, the official said.
Kieran Dwyer, spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping department, told AP: "It's extremely concerning that a U.N. helicopter appears to have been shot down by the host country's army, and the investigation has to get to the bottom of it."
Del Buey said the U.N. mission is carrying out an investigation.
South Sudan became the world's newest country in July 2011, the culmination of a six-year peace process which began with the signing of a peace agreement with Sudan in 2005 that ended more than two decades of civil war.
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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese officials on Thursday castigated a Tibetan monastery at the center of a wave of self-immolations, saying it has been inciting the fiery protests. They also indicated that authorities will not relax controls over the region.
Wu Zegang, the governor of Aba prefecture in southwest China, said Thursday the local Kirti monastery was collaborating with exiled Tibetans, including spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, to organize locals to set themselves on fire.
Wu said authorities believe that the monastery's senior clerics persuaded others to self-immolate by saying that they would be heroes and freedom fighters and organizing monks to send money and goods to the protesters' families. Wu did not offer any concrete evidence to substantiate his claim.
More than 100 self-immolations have been reported in Tibetan areas of Sichuan, Qinghai and Gansu since 2009, with many of the protesters calling for the return of the Dalai Lama, who is beloved by many Tibetans. The protests intensified in recent months as China's Communist Party leadership has been undergoing a transition.
Authorities have responded with even harder measures — criminalizing the suicides and handing down prison sentences to those they accuse of instigating the burnings. The measures have been criticized by many Western countries and human rights groups and the Dalai Lama and exiled Tibetans have said it is Beijing's repressive controls that drive the protests.
Kirti's monks have been at the forefront of unrest since Tibetan communities across western China rose up in a rebellion in 2008 that was quashed by a massive and continuing show of force. The monastery is often sealed off by tight security in times of high tension.
Wu was addressing officials and reporters at a meeting of the Sichuan provincial delegation as part of annual legislative sessions in Beijing.
Another provincial official, Zhang Dongsheng, a Tibetan whose hometown in Ganzi prefecture has also been the site of self-immolation protests, said "foreign forces" were using the self-immolations as a way to attack the ruling Communist Party.
Zhang said authorities would not ease their grip over the region's monasteries and people.
"Our struggle against the Dalai Lama is long-term and intense," Zhang said. "We cannot relax at any moment."


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Student Denied Lunch So Mom Pays Off All Overdue Accounts
(Dowagiac, MI) A Dowagiac student said he was humiliated when school officials took away his lunch because there wasn't enough money in his account.
After his mom heard what happened, she took matters into her own hands.
"It was really embarrassing, especially in front of the whole class," said Dominic Gant, a junior at Dowagiac Union High School.
Friday, Dominic was served his normal cafeteria lunch, but just as soon as he was served, his lunch was taken away.
Dominic had an outstanding balance of less than $5 in his lunch account.
His high school, like many other schools, has a policy that denies a hot lunch, and sometimes any lunch, to students who can't pay.
"I was appalled that he was denied lunch and his lunch was taken out of his hands over $5," said Amanda Keown, Dominic's mom.
She was so upset her son was sent home hungry, she immediately contacted the school.
They told her the balance doesn't matter, even if it's a small amount.
"She asked me 'where is the cutoff? Where do you draw the line with the charges? When do you say no more?' And I said 'there shouldn't be a line,'" says Keown.
She didn't want to see another student be sent home hungry, so she spent $200 to pay off every student's outstanding balance in the entire high school.
"I realize I didn't have to do that but I don't want another kid going through what my son went through," said Keown.


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Hi Elgar, Great suggestion! FWIW, I do subscribe to the HCLS Google Calendar (there is one, and it's linked on the wiki), but it only added to the confusion (because it wasn't correct or utilized fully, as you outline below). Kind regards, Joanne On Apr 19, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Elgar Pichler wrote: > I personally am a fan of Google Calendar, and all the problems described in this thread could be solved with it. Why not > Task and HCLS chairs should set up the proper recurring events on Google Calendar. > Explicitly set the time zone for those events. > Then explicitly invite "public-semweb-lifesci hcls" <firstname.lastname@example.com> to each recurring event. > Add reminders for 1d and 1h prior to event (or set those 2 reminders as default for the HCLS calendar overall). > Change the agenda for the single events as needed, or cancel a single event if the meeting is off. > Doing that will insure that > the event/agenda is up to date > time zone differences will be handled automatically > event updates and cancellations will be sent to the <email@example.com> list > reminders will be sent automatically to the <firstname.lastname@example.com> list > (Google) users who poll the HCLS calendar will always get the correct and most up to date events on their calendar, at the correct time slot. > That doesn't take care of the wiki yet, but maybe we could do a Google Calendar display or list of events feed on our wiki pages. (http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1186917#site) > > Cheers, > Elgar > > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 13:24, Michel Dumontier <email@example.com> wrote: > Hi! > Each call has a reserved time slot, but the reminders are the official declaration that a meeting will happen. Task and HCLS chairs should prepare and send out the agenda no later than the day prior (and preferably a week before). > I have to apologize, as I have been traveling extensively in April to far flung places in Canada with poor Internet. I'll be resuming my regular calls as of May 1. > Cheers, > m. > > On 2012-04-19, at 12:05 PM, Joanne Luciano <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > >> Hi Helena, >> >> I'm very appreciative of the reminders +1 >> >> I'd like the wiki to be reliable too. (I think may have I've over-compensated and missed too many meetings in the past - now I'm showing up when it scheduled and there's no call (although Matthias also dialed in.) >> >> Joanne >> >> >> On Apr 19, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Helena Deus wrote: >> >>> I agree with Joanne, the calendar can't entirely be trusted so the most distracted among us will need a reminder from the chairs as to when these hcls telcos happen :) >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Joanne Luciano <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >>> Hi Michele, Scott, >>> >>> I dialed into the the telcon today, 2nd time this happened recently and it was only Matthias and me that were there. No reminder was sent, but we do have a regularly scheduled telcon, so I made sure to catch an early train so I could be back at my desk in time. So, are we having regularly scheduled telcons or are we having telcons only when reminders are sent? (Just so I can plan accordingly) >>> >>> I'm needing to schedule a meeting and need to know if there's going to be a call this coming Tuesday (April 24th). The Wiki isn't clear re: Linked Life Data -- Is "Tuesday at 12pm EST" every Tuesday (in which it would be goo to have the plural (or to be explicit) or is it once a month? >>> Is Maximizing the utility.... -- the un-indentation and bullets are confusing -- I'd fix, but I don't know what's correct. >>> >>> Thanks!!! >>> >>> Joanne >>> >>> I'm also confused as to whether there is a meeting this coming tuesday. I can't tell from the Wiki -- >>> Life Sciences >>> Maximizing the utility of linked life science data, ontologies and services. >>> 2nd Tuesday at 11am EST. Next call May 8, 2012. >>> Linked Life Data: Best practices in creating, publishing, linking, querying and visualizing linked life data. Tuesday at 12pm EST. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Helena F. Deus >>> Post-Doctoral Researcher at DERI/NUIG >>> http://lenadeus.info/ >>> >> >Received on Thursday, 19 April 2012 19:08:56 UTC
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On September 18, 2009 I launched this website with my very first blog post, The News. Nick and I had been dating almost two years and weren't even engaged yet. We were living in a little apartment in Charleston, SC with our lab mix puppy Maggie.
Nick had put in his preferences for where we wanted to live next. San Diego was our first choice and Honolulu, HI was number two. Just in case I'd started working on some of the paperwork to get Maggie into Hawaii (there are very strict guidelines in bringing a pet to the island). We had found out the day before that we would be going to Hawaii. I was in shock. It seemed too good to be true and at the same time really, really scary. It was a huge move.
I loved Charleston while we were there. We were only there for about a year though and Nick and I were young. I didn't make much money and pretty much stressed about money the entire time I was there. I made some friends, who I really cared about and had a blast with. I got to work as background on my first TV show, Army Wives, which paved a way for me to look into working on Hawaii Five-O when I moved to Hawaii. Army Wives itself was an incredible experience- it was entirely more intimate than the network feel of Five-O could ever be. I knew the casting department by name, I worked practically every week, and knew at least a few people on set every time I worked. I still stay in touch with friends from background and crew.
As Nick and I got here and began adjusting to the island, secretly we dreamed of how great we had it while in Charleston. I wish we had taken more time to appreciate it. I wish I hadn't always been so stressed about working and paying student loans. I wish we had maybe been a little more mature and comfortable with each other- it's hard making that big of a jump with someone you have only been dating a few months.
Nick submitted his preferences for where we want to spend the next two years on shore duty and amazingly enough, much to my disbelief, we got our number one choice: We're going back to Charleston, SC!
While it would be exciting to try to travel more while we're still young, there really weren't a lot of exciting options. Charleston though- we are both SO excited to be going back. It's on the same coast as my family in Maryland- only about an 8-10 hour drive away! It's also the same time zone so I can pick up the phone and call my family and friends back home and not have to stop and think about if they're in bed. No more text messages at 3 and 4AM.
No more shipping issues. We already know the area we want to live. We already have friends there and maybe more in the next year!
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McDonald's Young Justice Toy Lineup Is A Few Fries Short Of A Happy Meal
While I was watching the Cartoon Network last weekend, I couldn't help but notice a commercial for the new McDonald's "Young Justice" Happy Meal toys.
I also noticed some aspects of the figure selection that are....problematic.
Let's review the eight featured figures, shall we?
Figures 1-4. Robin, Kid Flash, Aquaman and Superboy. - No problems with these figures by themselves, as all four are members. But you know who else is a member?
|Miss Martian
Think for a moment on the common trait that these two characters have. Now look back at all eight figures and observe what trait they all don't have.
See the problem?
Admittedly, I'm not a huge fan of the Artemis character. I think it's in part because of that idiotic bare midriff costume that she wears despite having absolutely no invulnerability whatsoever. Or maybe the fact that the show created her as a new character from scratch, when there are several existing heroines (Mia Dearden, Cissie Jones-King, Cassandra Cain, a de-aged Donna Troy, Cassie Sandsmark, Anita Fite, even a de-aged Helena Bertinelli) who would have been a better fit for her slot. Even so, she is still a team member and should have been included.
But leaving out Miss Martian? She's been a member since the end of the show's premiere. Look at her powers: Super-strength, flight, mental telepathy, invisibility, telekinesis, shape-shifting. Any of those abilities by itself would be impressive, but she's got them all. And since Superboy's flight, vision and tactile telekinesis powers haven't manifested on the show yet, Megan is technically the most powerful member of the group. Plus, she's got her own shape-shifting spacecraft which serves as the team's primary transportational mode. So the fact that she deserved her own figure goes without saying.
Figures 5-6. Superman and Batman. No problem with these two having figures, other than that Miss M. and Artemis don't. Batman is the group's taskmaster and Superman is part of a running subplot with Superboy.
Figure 7.
|Captain Cold
Really? Captain Cold??? Look, I like Len Snart as much as the next guy, but he was in only one episode (the premiere) for a grand total of 27 seconds. Miss M. had more time than him even in that episode, and there she was revealed in the show's last minute. Oh, and did I mention that she's the most powerful member of the group????
Worse, there's....
Figure 8.
|Black Manta
Wait a minute. Hold the phone!
Fucking BLACK MANTA gets his own figure before Megan, the most powerful member of the group, does??????
Jesus, I'm not a girl and even I'm insulted!
|(Courtesy of Seanbaby.)
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Here's a quickie question. Where and when were you baptized? Is there anything you remember about the day or the moment?
I was baptized when I was about eight years old, at First Southern Baptist Church of Pearl Harbor. I don't remember the pastor's name, but I remember being kinda impressed that he remembered having baptized my mom a couple of months earlier. Wow. That was thirty years ago.