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Basic Facts About HIV/AIDS
What is HIV?
HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. It is the virus that causes AIDS. A member of a group of viruses called retroviruses, HIV infects human cells and uses the energy and nutrients provided by those cells to grow and reproduce.
What is AIDS?
AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. It is a disease in which the body's immune system breaks down and is unable to fight off infections, known as "opportunistic infections," and other illnesses that take advantage of a weakened immune system.
When a person is infected with HIV, the virus enters the body and lives and multiplies primarily in the white blood cells. These are immune cells that normally protect us from disease. The hallmark of HIV infection is the progressive loss of a specific type of immune cell called T-helper, or CD4, cells. As the virus grows, it damages or kills these and other cells, weakening the immune system and leaving the person vulnerable to various opportunistic infections and other illnesses ranging from pneumonia to cancer. A person can receive a clinical diagnosis of AIDS, as defined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), if he or she has tested positive for HIV and meets one or both of theses conditions:
How quickly do people infected with HIV develop AIDS?
In some people, the T-cell decline and opportunistic infections that signal AIDS develop soon after infection with HIV. But most people do not develop symptoms for 10 to 12 years, and a few remain symptom-free for much longer. As with most diseases, early medical care can help prolong a person's life.
How many people are affected by HIV/AIDS?
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) estimates that there are now 40 million people living with HIV or AIDS worldwide. Most of them do not know they carry HIV and may be spreading the virus to others. In the U.S., approximately one million people have HIV or AIDS, and 40,000 Americans become newly infected with HIV each year. According to the CDC, it is estimated that a quarter of all people with HIV in the U.S. do not know they are carrying the virus.
Since the beginning of the epidemic, AIDS has killed more than 25 million people worldwide, including more than 500,000 Americans. AIDS has replaced malaria and tuberculosis as the world's deadliest infectious disease among adults and is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide. Fifteen million children have been orphaned by the epidemic.
How is HIV transmitted?
A person who has HIV carries the virus in certain body fluids, including blood, semen, vaginal secretions, and breast milk. The virus can be transmitted only if such HIV-infected fluids enter the bloodstream of another person. This kind of direct entry can occur (1) through the linings of the vagina, rectum, mouth, and the opening at the tip of the penis; (2) through intravenous injection with a syringe; or (3) through a break in the skin, such as a cut or sore. Usually, HIV is transmitted through:
How is HIV not transmitted?
HIV is not an easy virus to pass from one person to another. It is not transmitted through food or air (for instance, by coughing or sneezing). There has never been a case where a person was infected by a household member, relative, co-worker, or friend through casual or everyday contact such as sharing eating utensils or bathroom facilities, or through hugging or kissing. (Most scientists agree that while HIV transmission through deep or prolonged "French" kissing may be possible, it would be extremely unlikely.) Here in the U.S., screening the blood supply for HIV has virtually eliminated the risk of infection through blood transfusions (and you cannot get HIV from giving blood at a blood bank or other established blood collection center). Sweat, tears, vomit, feces, and urine do contain HIV, but have not been reported to transmit the disease (apart from two cases involving transmission from fecal matter via cut skin). Mosquitoes, fleas, and other insects do not transmit HIV.
How can I reduce my risk of becoming infected with HIV through sexual contact?If you are sexually active, protect yourself against HIV by practicing safer sex. Whenever you have sex, use a condom or "dental dam" (a square of latex recommended for use during oral-genital and oral-anal sex). When used properly and consistently, condoms are extremely effective. But remember:
Are there other ways to avoid getting HIV through sex?
The male condom is the only widely available barrier against sexual transmission of HIV. Female condoms are fairly unpopular in the U.S. and still relatively expensive, but they are gaining acceptance in some developing countries. Efforts are also under way to develop topical creams or gels called "microbicides," which could be applied prior to sexual intercourse to kill HIV and prevent other STIs that facilitate HIV infection.
Is there a link between HIV and other sexually transmitted infections?
Having a sexually transmitted infection (STI) can increase your risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV. This is true whether you have open sores or breaks in the skin (as with syphilis, herpes, and chancroid) or not (as with chlamydia and gonorrhea). Where there are breaks in the skin, HIV can enter and exit the bloodstream more easily. But even when there are no breaks in the skin, STIs can cause biological changes, such as swelling of tissue, that may make HIV transmission more likely. Studies show that HIV-positive individuals who are infected with another STI are three to five times more likely to contract or transmit the virus through sexual contact.
How can I avoid acquiring HIV from a contaminated syringe?
If you are injecting drugs of any type, including steroids, do not share syringes or other injection equipment with anyone else. (Disinfecting previously used needles and syringes with bleach can reduce the risk of HIV transmission). If you are planning to have any part of your body pierced or to get a tattoo, be sure to see a qualified professional who uses sterile equipment. Detailed HIV prevention information for drug users who continue to inject is available from the CDC's National Prevention Information Network at 1-800-458-5321 or online at www.cdc.gov/idu.
Are some people at greater risk of HIV infection than others?
HIV does not discriminate. It is not who you are, but what you do that determines whether you can become infected with HIV. In the U.S., roughly half of all new HIV infections are related directly or indirectly to injection drug use, i.e., using HIV-contaminated needles or having sexual contact with an HIV-infected drug user. With 40,000 Americans contracting HIV each year, there are clearly many people who are still engaging in high-risk behaviors, and infection rates remain alarmingly high among young people, women, African Americans, and Hispanics.
Are women especially vulnerable to HIV?
Women are at least twice as likely to contract HIV through vaginal sex with infected males than vice versa. This biological vulnerability is worsened by social and cultural factors that often undermine women's ability to avoid sex with partners who are HIV-infected or to insist on condom use. In the U.S., the proportion of HIV/AIDS cases among women more than tripled from 8 percent in 1985 to 27% in 2004. African American and Hispanic women, who represent less than one-quarter of U.S. women, account for 80% of new HIV infections among American women each year.
Are young people at significant risk of HIV infection?
At least half of the 40,000 Americans newly infected with HIV each year are under the age of 25. Roughly two young Americans become infected with HIV every hour of every day, and many of the people now living with HIV in the U.S. became infected when they were teenagers. Statistics show that by the 12th grade, about 60 percent of American youth are sexually active, and two-thirds of STIs affect people under age 25. Many young people also use drugs and alcohol, which can increase the likelihood that they will engage in high-risk sexual behavior.
Are there treatments for HIV/AIDS?
For many years, there were no effective treatments for AIDS. Today, a number of drugs are available to treat HIV infection and AIDS. Some of these are designed to treat the opportunistic infections and illnesses that affect people with HIV/AIDS.
In addition, several types of drugs seek to prevent HIV itself from reproducing and destroying the body's immune system:
Many HIV patients take these drugs in combination-a regimen known as highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). When taken as directed, anti-HIV treatment can reduce the amount of HIV in the bloodstream to very low levels and sometimes enables the body's immune cells to rebound to normal levels.
Several drugs can be taken to help prevent a number of opportunistic infections including Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, toxoplasmosis, cryptococcus and cytomegalovirus infection. Once opportunistic infections occur, the same drugs can be used at higher doses to treat these infections, and chemotherapy drugs are available to treat the cancers that commonly occur in AIDS.
Researchers are continuing to develop new drugs that act at critical steps in the virus's life cycle. Efforts are under way to identify new targets for anti-HIV medications and to discover ways of restoring the ability of damaged immune systems to defend against HIV and the many illnesses that affect people with HIV. Ultimately, advances in rebuilding the immune systems of HIV patients will benefit people with a number of serious illnesses, including cancer, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, and immune deficiencies associated with aging and premature birth.
Is there a cure for AIDS?
There is still no cure for AIDS. And while new drugs are helping some people who have HIV live longer, healthier lives, there are many problems associated with them:
In the U.S., the number of AIDS-related deaths has decreased dramatically because of widely available, potent treatments. But more than 95 percent of all people with HIV/AIDS live in the developing world, and many have little or no access to treatment.
Is there a vaccine to prevent HIV infection?
Despite continued intensive research, experts believe it will be at least a decade before we have a safe, effective, and affordable AIDS vaccine. And even after a vaccine is developed, it will take many years before the millions of people at risk of HIV infection worldwide can be immunized. Until then, other HIV prevention methods, such as practicing safer sex and using sterile syringes, will remain critical.
Can you tell whether someone has HIV or AIDS?
You cannot tell by looking at someone whether he or she is infected with HIV or has AIDS. An infected person can appear completely healthy. But anyone infected with HIV can infect other people, even if they have no symptoms.
How do I know if I'm infected?
Immediately after infection, some people may develop mild, temporary flu-like symptoms or persistently swollen glands. Even if you look and feel healthy, you may be infected. The only way to know your HIV status for sure is to be tested for HIV antibodies-proteins the body produces in an effort to fight off infection. This usually requires a blood sample. If a person's blood has HIV antibodies, that means the person is infected.
Should I get tested?
If you think you might have been exposed to HIV, you should get tested as soon as possible. Here's why:
How can I get tested?
Most people are tested by private physicians, at local health department facilities, or in hospitals. In addition, many states offer anonymous HIV testing. It is important to seek testing at a place that also provides counseling about HIV and AIDS. Counselors can answer questions about high-risk behavior and suggest ways you can protect yourself and others in the future. They can also help you understand the meaning of the test results and refer you to local AIDS-related resources.
Though less readily available, there is also a viral load test that can reveal the presence of HIV in the blood within three to five days of initial exposure, as well as highly accurate saliva tests that are nearly equivalent to blood tests in determining HIV antibody status. In some clinics you can get a test called OraQuick® that gives a preliminary result in 20 minutes. You can also purchase a kit that allows you to collect your own blood sample, send it to a lab for testing, and receive the results anonymously. Only the Home Access® brand kit is approved by the Food and Drug Administration. It can be found at most drugstores.
Keep in mind that while most blood tests are able to detect HIV infection within four weeks of initial exposure, it can sometimes take as long as three to six months for HIV antibodies to reach detectable levels. The CDC currently recommends testing six months after the last possible exposure to HIV.
The CDC's National AIDS Hotline can answer questions about HIV testing and refer you to testing sites in your area. Operators are available toll-free, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, at:
Where can I get more information about HIV and AIDS?There are many valuable sources of HIV/AIDS information in our Links Section.
How can I help fight HIV/AIDS?
Everyone can play a role in confronting the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Here are just a few suggestions for how you can make a difference:
This article was provided by amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. Visit amfAR's website to find out more about their activities and publications.


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MORAGA — Nearly two dozen residents were evacuated from an assisted living facility in Moraga Thursday night as firefighters extinguished a blaze sparked by a laundry dryer, a fire battalion chief said.
Fire crews were called around 9:25 p.m. to reports of a fire at the Aegis Senior Living facility at 950 Country Club Drive, Moraga-Orinda Fire Battalion Chief Sean Perkins said.
Crews arriving at the scene saw thick smoke coming from a first-floor corridor of the facility and found a large commercial laundry dryer in flames, according to the battalion chief.
An automated sprinkler system helped contain the blaze, and firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the fire.
Meanwhile, 20 residents at the facility were evacuated to ambulances and to an Aegis bus where they stayed warm as crews worked to rid the building of smoke. Once the building was deemed safe to re-enter, Aegis staff members helped residents get back inside.
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Cutting the Cord Part 1: The Assessment
The Skinny about Cutting the Cord
Missed any installments of our Cutting the Cord Series? Catch up on them here:
- Cutting the Cord Part 1: The Assessment
- Cutting the Cord Part 2: Building your HTPC – The Hardware
- Cutting the Cord Part 3: Building your HTPC – OS Install and Tuning
- Cutting the Cord Part 4: Building your HTPC – Installing and Configuring Windows Media Center
- Cutting the Cord Part 5: Wrap up - Media Center Add-ons and Options
There was a time in the not too long past that having a Cable or Satellite TV subscription was just a given. Like water, phone or electricity, if you wanted to watch anything other than a few local networks or crazy UHF stations you had to pay your local cable /satellite conglomerate a tidy little sum to pump the channels into your TV.
That's where I was back in January of 2010. Staring at a $150 bill for Time Warner Cable with the "Basic Package + HD" and a pair of TiVo's I began to wonder if I was just wasting money since 80% of our regular viewing consisted of a dozen or so shows scattered across only four or five channels. Within a month, and after some deliberation, we decided we'd try to 'cut the cord' and since that time I've happily saved nearly $5,000 that would have been lining the pockets of some Time Warner/TiVo executives. Ponder that for a moment, $5,000 spent on television. Even after I factor out the cost of hardware I needed to buy and setup, that's enough money to buy a new big screen TV every year and then some.
Regardless of what big cable and satellite companies say, between 2008 and 2011, 2.65 million households dropped cable/satellite subscriptions. A recent survey found that 9 percent of the people surveyed had cancelled their cable subscriptions in the last year and Time Warner Cable alone has had 10 straight quarters of Pay for TV customer losses.
This multipart series on PC Perspective will walk you through the process of becoming a "Cord Cutter" yourself. Starting with some thoughts on whether or not cutting the cable is right for you we'll walk you through everything from start to finish.
- Cutting the Cord Part 1: The Assessment
- Cutting the Cord Part 2: Building your HTPC – The Hardware
- Cutting the Cord Part 3: Building your HTPC – OS Install and Tuning
- Cutting the Cord Part 4: Building your HTPC – Installing and Configuring Windows Media Center
- Cutting the Cord Part 5: Wrap up - Media Center Add-ons and Options
I'll also include a few little personal tidbits from My Experiences in my quest to cut the cord and stay that way for the last few years.
To Cut, or Not to Cut, That is the Question…
While dropping your cable or satellite subscription can save you some serious money, it's not for everyone. Television is a central part of the entertainment for many households, and you need to look at it from all angles before you call your provider and tell them you want out. Cutting the cord may require some concessions and serious changes to the way you get your television content. While you might not mind some inconvenience, your significant other or children may have a meltdown if they can't get their regular fix of Honey Boo Boo or Yo Gabba Gabba the moment it's aired.
Regardless, with some consideration and pre-work you can determine if cutting the cord is right for you and make the transition nice and smooth if you decide to kick your cable or satellite provider to the curb.
If you're willing to take that chance, read on to see if Cord Cutting is for you!
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Awesome beginning to a truly important scenario in my opinion.
My Experience: I haven't had cable for over a decade or longer if I really think about it. I am probably not the norm but once I was without it for long enough, I didn't miss it a bit. the only thing I have now is Netflix, Amazon Prime streaming (great added value to Prime which I am going to have anyway), and my server with all of my movies. I couldn't imagine going back to $150 monthly bills for so called entertainment when everything I need comes over my $65 a month 27/5 fiber internet connection and Netflix for $17.47 (streaming plus one dvd at a time). And when there isn't anything I really am in the mood for on those, I go outside. Crazy, I know.
We cut the cord 2-1/2 years ago and have saved $2500. I put 2 antennas in our attic (1 pointed towards Boston which is about 45 miles south of us and 1 pointed 45 miles NW toward Manchester, NH mainly for local news/weather). We get about 25 channels. Now we have 3 TVs with HTPCs connected (main HTPC in living room connected to plasma, 2 mini-HTPCs on the HDTVs in the 2 bedrooms for streaming over the home network) and my wife and I have tuner cards in our desktops. Between OTA, downloaded content on our NAS, PlayOn (and some scripts purchased to use with it) we can watch just about anything EXCEPT sports not on OTA. If you are a sports junkie, OTA is not for you. We have an Amazon Prime account as well.
Also the signal gathering capabilities of tuners whether in your TV, tuner card, digital converter box can vary. Each of our 3 TVs (Samsung, Toshiba, Viore) will get 1 or 2 stations that the other TVs don't get or as strong.
A couple sites worth mentioning-- www.TVFool.com (similar to Antenna.web) and www.dtvusaforum.com/forum/ for great info and help to cut the cord.
All 3 of our HTPCs use AMD APU based systems- an A10-5700 in the living room, A6-3500 in our bedroom and an A4-3400 in the spare bedroom. All have 8Gb ram/64Gb SSDs/Win7x64.A10 system has a Blu-Ray drive in it.
I was wondering what type of antennas did you put into your attic? I am in a similar location as you are. Roughly 50 miles to Boston and 26 miles to Manchester, NH.
I am thinking of cutting the cord and am in the beginning stages of planing this out. Making an HTPC (or buying one) and using it with our two tv's. We have an AppleTV and Roku and also use Amazon Prime.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Pete
Cable television is basically paying them to shove ads down our throats. I love using Netflix and youtube. (I also spend some of the spare time playing all of the Steam games residing on my hard drive.)
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Thanks for the feedback! I've added TVFool to the article as another great place to get antenna and local signal info.
You didn't mention Crackle.com - good free (legal) internet site
Crackle is garbage, the same commercial played 10 times in a 1/2hr show is a rip.
You need an adblocker ya dummy
I use Netflix/Amazon Prime, with direct DSL (no phone service, just internet).
No cable TV, No home Phone, or other useless crap I don't need/want.
Just my Internet.
Direct DSL (through AT&T) was 25.00/mo for a year then 48.00/mo after that.(top package) Still a good deal.
Just a tip to anyone reading - do not consider DSL if you do any sort of online gaming, or if you have multiple people wanting to stream content in the house.
The bandwidth is absolutely terrible.
I've never hand any problems with gaming on DSL, you don't need massive bandwidth to game. 6Mb (roughly 640KB down and 128KB up real world on my connection) is plenty, The Ping is the critical part. Depending on server location/game I average 40ms. Which is solid.
BUT as to the multi-people usage, yes DSL would blow if you had to share, I live alone so it's not a problem.
I used to game just fine on my 768Kbps DSL line and my ping was substantially better than it is now with my cable modem.
Great primer for potential cord cutters! Looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
- Ryan, Otherwaystowatch.TV
hmmmmmmm, all this talk about cutting the cord and not one mention of "Torrent"..... hmmmmmmmm,
Oh right, there it is
Thanks so much for doing this series. I hope I will be able to cut the cord by the time it is completed.
You can also watch episodes from the channel's own website, such as adultswim.com and comedy central.
Who needs proprietary networks when the Internet can provide all sorts of entertainment. It is getting to the point where computer illiterates can easily access TV media over the Internet and that's bad for Cable
Hehe, it looks like you guys took the advice I had quite awhile back and did an article on dropping cable/satellite. I "cut the cord" back in April of 2011, but I recently signed back up with Directv. Why you ask? They had a deal I couldn't refuse. My bill is only about $10 a month higher than what I was paying just for Tivo standalone service. In 2 years though I'm sure they'll raise my prices again and that's when I'll once again be dropping them.
Yep, I cut the cord almost fifteen years ago. I didn't grow up watching cable and only had it for a couple of years, as an adult. I wasn't impressed. Yes, some of the best television that has ever existed is on these days, but it's not worth $200/mo for it.
So, after a couple of years, I dropped it. Netflix and torrents make up for most of it. I don't use Hulu, because I'm not going to pay $10/mo for a crappy selection of crappy shows from a few crappy networks (and not even get the full archive of the shows!) and then be slammed with as many ads as I'd get from live television, at the same time.
I spend $8/mo for Netflix, $5/mo for MOG (for my music), $115/mo for my 22mbps/10mbps internet connection (business account, so no 250gb limitations -- I tend to do 1-2tb of data a month, easily). Between Netflix and podcasts, I don't really even have time for any other entertainment.
" Yes, some of the best television that has ever existed is on these days,"
Where? I look through the guide and see talent shows, police/detective/csi shows that will be cancelled by the end of the season, comedies that aren't funny, reality trash, and on and on.
I've been thinking about cutting the cord but the options in Canada are not as great as in the USA. Canadian Netflix is nowhere near as good as the USA offering, Hulu isn't available etc. I don't even think you can get OTA HD unless you are near the USA border. If you are into sports then you need to see what the streaming offerings are (which are better for NFL in Canada than in USA). The more casual shows like the HGTV and Food ones don't seem available anywhere, so it looks like I'm stuck with cable. I use enough bandwidth without cutting cable, I'd need a super expensive internet package if I did (glad to see that added on as a point at the end). It's just not worth it for me so I've got basic cable and just added all the HD channels to make it as cheap as I can. I'm sure I'll revisit the decision annually. We watch a lot of TV, so I can justify the expense. If there were better options AND our TV consumption dropped, I'd likely be cutting the cord.
klatch, I just recently cut the cord this month and so far couldn't be happier. I live in Whitby, ON (Canada) and can pick up Fox, CBS, ABC (?), The CW, CityTV, CTV, TVO, Global, occasionally ION, and a slew of others - this is without a pre-amp.
Our bill was approaching $170/mo for Rogers VIP + movies with one PVR. That's over $2000 for what I estimate to be about 6 hrs of TV/week...and I recently received notice that prices were going up a few dollars for each package. This got me thinking. I personally don't watch a lot of TV and the shows that my wife and I watch to chill out (Elementary, Nikita, Supernatural, Vampire Diaries, etc) are all available in HD OTA. My wife can also get Glee, X Factor, etc so that's covered too. I'm not into sports as I'm more into doing than watching (road cycling addict.)
There are a few shows that we're losing like Dexter and The Walking Dead, but the latter is available directly from AMCTV.com, iTunes (ugh - too expensive), or torrent.
CTV, HGTV, Discovery Canada, can all be viewed online. For example, HGTV:
As for Netflix, if you have a Canadian account, you can use a service like Unblock-us.com to access Netflix US content! Unblock-us.com is $4.99/mo CDN and simply requires you to point to their DNS servers which, I assume, send your requests to one or more proxy servers in the US. No need for VPN and the associated overhead (and cost.) Unblock-us also gives you access to free Hulu content (The Simpsons, etc.)
So yeah, the overall experience isn't as completely integrated and smooth as cable, but saving $2000/yr - ~$144/yr for Netflix/Unblock-Us seems worth it to me, especially if you aren't glued to the TV more than an hour or two a day.
I built a PVR for $600 (core components), though spent another $500 on an additional Hauppauge 2250 ATSC tuner + 2nd SSD for recorded content (240gb, we delete TV content immediately after watching.) This HTPC also runs VMWare WS9 and hosts the domain controller and TFS servers for my work lab environment. The PVR cost will pay for itself in a year.
I'm sorry but a SSD for recording television content is a waste of money.
I'm sorry but did you miss the part where I said I also use it for VMs? :)
SSDs are also silent while most fast mechanical drives, capable of recording 4 shows at the same time, are not. Plus mechanical drives suck more power, generate more heat, and take up more space. If I want to store television shows, I'll use my 1TB NAS drive (QNAP TS-239Pro) and schedule a time to copy them...or setup up a iSCSI target and write over the 1Gbps LAN connection I've dedicated for VM traffic; my NAS drive has two ethernet ports, one of which is setup on separate network.
Using Cable over here, and feel screwed with all the Ads, almost every 10 mins. Too expensive:(
Considering "Cutting the cord" for good, really!
Congratulations on cutting your bills (cord) and good job on your article!
In my area I receive NBC,CBS,ABC,FOX,RTV,ThisTV,MeTV,TheCoolTV and 6 different PBS feeds, FREE, as well as another 12 channels.
As mentioned above, I also suggest visiting the DTVUSAForum.
I cut the cord 3 1/2 years ago. I've use OTA TV, internet streaming, and DVDs. Let's face it, the only content you can't get (legally) either OTA, over the internet, or on packaged media (DVD or Blue Ray)is ESPN and the regional sports networks. I really can't see that being worth the money for pay-TV.
Cord-cutter here in Toronto. About 20+ channels. Don't use Netflix and really don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.
Another great resource for cord-cutters looking to go the antenna route is Digitalhome. Don't be scared by the .ca, lots of Americans on there and great sub-forums for specific regions of North America:
After installing XBMC, I will never go back to cable, not a chance!
After installing XBMC, getting it setup, and configuring my remote I will never go back to cable. not only is it cheaper, but I get more content and have the ability to share it throughout my home. Plus I can stream Huli, Netflix, MLB, Pandora and other great stuff.
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West Ham defender Guy Demel confirms he has retired from international football
West Ham defender Guy Demel has confirmed that he has retired from international football with the Ivory Coast.
By Pete O'Rourke - Follow me: @skysportspeteo
Last Updated: 13/12/12 2:59pm
Sky Sports revealed earlier this month that Demel was poised to quit the international scene to focus on his club commitments with West Ham.
The full-back made 35 appearances for Ivory Coast and was a member of the squad for the 2006 and 2010 World Cup finals.
Demel believes the time is right to quit international football so that he can give his all to Sam Allardyce's side.
"I have decided to quit international football and it was not an easy decision for me," Demel told Sky Sports.
"I have enjoyed playing for my country and going to the 2006 and 2010 World Cup and my country means a great deal to me.
"I wish Ivory Coast success in the future and I hope they do well at the Africa Cup of Nations.
"However, I am now 31 and it feel it is the right to quit so that I can concentrate on West Ham.
"Last season I was injured a lot and I want to prepare and make sure I perform for West Ham in the Premier League."


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Chronic HIV Infection and Aging in NeuroAIDS (CHAIN) (CHAIN)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01186042
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 20, 2010
Last Update Posted : September 11, 2017
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Aging
|Other: Observational
Advances in the treatment of chronic HIV disease over the last 20 years have resulted in dramatic declines in morbidity and mortality. However, emerging data suggest that chronically infected patients may be aging prematurely, and/or experience increased incidence of age-related conditions. These phenomena are poorly understood. The overall goal of the CHAIN project is to support the expansion of innovative research on the effects of chronic HIV infection, co-morbidities, and aging on the central nervous system (CNS). We propose the initiation of a clinical portion to better understand the nature of the aging process in HIV-infected patients, with an emphasis on brain disease. This is a pilot, feasibility study to inform the design of a larger, prospective cohort study.
We plan to enroll 20 older HIV-infected patients (more than 50 years old) and 20 younger controls (20-40 years old), matched for gender and race/ethnicity. Participants will undergo a series of tests, at one comprehensive assessment. Demographic and medical history data will be abstracted from the medical record. Each participant will undergo a medical history and physical examination, and a battery of tests designed to evaluate neuropsychological function, activity, sleep patterns, frailty, emotional well-being and sexual health. These will consist of self-administered questionnaires and neuropsychological tests, as detailed in the Methods section. Innovative measures will be included such as an activity monitor worn by participants, and a Wii balance board to assess standing balance. Participants will be asked to keep a diary and wear the activity monitoring device for one month. Plasma and serum samples will be collected on one occasion for future testing of potential biomarkers.
|Study Type :
|Actual Enrollment :
|21 participants
|Observational Model:
|Time Perspective:
|Official Title:
|Chronic HIV Infection and Aging in NeuroAIDS (CHAIN)
|Study Start Date :
|August 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 17, 2014
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 17, 2014
Aging in HIV
20-40 years of age or older than 50
Other: Observational
No intervention
- Evaluate the feasibility of enrolling older HIV-infected patients and younger controls into a prospective, observational study. [ Time Frame: One month ]Evaluate the feasibility of enrolling older HIV-infected patients and youger controls into a prospective, observational study.
- Selection of the optimal test battery to measure the areas of interest [ Time Frame: One month ]
Secondary objective includes:
Selection of the optimal test battery to measure the areas of interest;
- Participant acceptance of the measures involved [ Time Frame: One month ]
Secondary objective includes:
Participant acceptance of the measures involved;
- Preliminary data collection to inform the size and design of a larger, follow-up study. [ Time Frame: One month ]
Secondary objective includes:
Preliminary data collection to inform the size and design of a larger, follow-up study.
Biospecimen Retention: Samples Without DNA
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosed with HIV infection.
- 20-40 years of age or older than 50.
- If taking antiretroviral therapy, on stable therapy for the past 12 weeks and not anticipated to require a change in therapy during the following 6 weeks.
- If not taking antiretroviral therapy, not anticipated to initiate therapy in the next 6 weeks.
- Ability to provide written informed consent.
- Ability to complete the questionnaires in English.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Completion of treatment for any intercurrent acute infection less than four weeks before study entry. Maintenance or prophylactic therapy is permitted for opportunistic infections.
- Any active psychiatric illness including schizophrenia, severe depression, or severe bipolar affective disorder that, in the opinion of the investigator, could confound performance of or the analysis of the test results.
- Active drug or alcohol abuse that, in the investigator's opinion, could compromise compliance with study procedures or confound the analysis of the test results.
- Major neurologic disease such as multiple sclerosis or stroke, active brain infection (except for HIV-1), brain neoplasm, or space-occupying brain lesion.
- Current delirium or intoxication.
- Pregnancy.
- Any other condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, is a contraindication to participation.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01186042
|United States, Nebraska
|University of Nebraska Medical Center
|Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68198
|Principal Investigator:
|Susan Swindells, MBBS
|University of Nebraska
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Susan Swindells, MBBS, Principal Investigator, University of Nebraska
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01186042 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
P30MH062261 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|August 20, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|September 11, 2017
|Last Verified:
|September 2017
Keywords provided by Susan Swindells, MBBS, University of Nebraska:
Neuropsychological function
Sleep patterns
Emotional well-being
Sexual health
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
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Chris Lawrence and Scott Jackson turned in a repeat performance Sunday night in the rematch with the South Carolina, both turning in -2 efforts as the Stingrays defeated the Sea Wolves behind Michael Dubuc's 4 goals. Lawrence also tangled with the Stingrays' Viktor Dovgan.
Mississippi 3 @ South Carolina 6
D Scott Jackson: 0-0-0; -2; 9 PIM; 2 SOG
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Martha Stewart officially destroys tailgating
[ED:BISB - Changed title to avoid gender war, which the women would win because they have better attention spans and the ability to turn any argument into a slightly different argument that they can win]
Edit: I suppose I should clarify, becuase we have some excellent women on this board. Women that read Martha Stewart Magazine and save Good Housekeeping's for years so that they don't forget that "cute christmas wrap idea" have officially ruined tailgating. The rest of you may go about your business.
Link taken from EDSBS. http://westport.patch.com/blog_posts/the-backyard-family-tailgater-throw-a-true-southern-tailgater-for-the-whole-family
No, dammit. No, no, no, no, no. A tailgate is not a time to go all Martha Stewart. It is not a time to plan a fall afternoon of "activities". There are three activities at a tailgate. Eat, Drink and watch/listen to football while waiting for the game to start.
DAMMIT, Women! This is why we can't have nice things!
This, this is what you are envisioning.
This is not a tailgate. It is a fall dinner party. Schedule it for any day but Saturday, and we men will happily attend, make polite chatter, and then recuse ourselves to the basement/den to wath baseball or preseason NBA games while you do your prattling.
Beer, chips, meat, chairs and football. LEAVE IT THE HELL ALONE, DAMN YOU!
Guy who had his last football Saturday ruined by a group of women who complained he wasn't "participating". I had my beer and my eyes on the TV. That is how you participate in a damned tailgate! Not by doing the friggin christmas name-draw!
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The New York Times joins the growing chorus of left-wing commentators who want to see Hillary Clinton bow out of the presidential campaign. Parroting Keith Olbermann and other stalwarts of the infantile left, the Times, which endorsed Clinton, writes:
It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election. . . .On the eve of this crucial primary, Mrs. Clinton became the first Democratic candidate to wave the bloody shirt of 9/11. A Clinton television ad torn right from Karl Roves playbook evoked the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, the Cuban missile crisis, the cold war and the 9/11 attacks, complete with video of Osama bin Laden.
The Times thinks that by raising the issue of who can best deal with bin Laden and other threats to America, Clinton "undercuts the rationale for her candidacy that led this page and others to support her: that she is more qualified, right now, to be president than Mr. Obama." In the Times' view, to ask the question is somehow to answer it in Obama's favor.
Perhaps recognizing the absurdity of this proposition, the Times throws in an assertion that Clinton has "not engag[ed] Mr. Obama on the substance of issues like terrorism." It provides no evidence to support this claim and, indeed, promptly contradicts it by citing her hard-line stated position on Iran. The Times remains incapable of distinguishing between taking a position it doesn't like and failing to engage the issue.
In reality, it would be irrational for Clinton to follow the Times' advice and step down. Currently, she is consistently and handily defeating Obama in key primaries. Moreover, as I understand it, she is fewer than 150 delegates behind him, with many hundreds of delegates still free to support her.
The Times understands this, so it concludes by urging these delegates, the super-delegates, to do what voters consistently have eschewed — settle the race by declaring en masse for Obama.
But this action would not be terribly rational either. First, as John Podhoretz says, "it behooves [superdelegates] to have this go on as long as possible, because that is how they are going to get the most goodies." Second, the superdelegates are mostly folks who will be running for office once or more during the next four plus years. The identity (and popularity) of the 2008 nominee has the potential to affect their electoral success at least until the 2012 election.
Right now, Obama is losing heavily to Clinton in many congressional districts. It is only his ability to carry roughly 90 percent of the black vote that is keeping him afloat. But that vote won't be enough to elect very many of the super-delegates who remain unwilling to throw-in once-and-for-all with Obama. Most of them need the vote of non-upscale white Democrats and independents, with whom Obama has failed to demonstrate much popularity.
To be sure, the fact that Obama can't win the vote of non-upscale white Democrats and independents in a race against Clinton doesn't mean he can't win those votes in the fall, much less that he will undermine the chances of other Democrats to do so. But it provides reason for doubt. The rational move for super-delegates is to obtain as much relevant evidence as possible with which to resolve these doubts one way or the other.
That means letting the primary season continue to the bitter end. However, it probably does not mean letting the race go all the way until August. For that to happen, Clinton may have to rely on Podhoretz's "goodie" rationale, combined with inertia. I'm not sure that's enough.


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A former editor of mine sometimes referred to what he called a "Hey, Martha" story.
That was his term for a story with an offbeat or amusing twist. In other words, if an old couple were rocking on their front porch while the husband read the paper, he might push his glasses up from the tip of his nose and say, "Hey, Martha? You ought to check out this article..."
I love "Hey, Martha" stories too, but after so many years, I can get blase about them. When you've gotten your 11th phone call about a great-grandmother turning 100 or a man running cross-country to fight muscular dystrophy, the thrill starts to wear off.
The other day, though, my colleague Lauren Williams wrote a story that truly took me for a loop. To call this a "Hey, Martha" story is an understatement. This one is about a woman trying to arrange her own "Hey, Martha" story — provided that Martha is a guest at her funeral.
Here's the opening of Lauren's piece:
"A funeral may be an unlikely place to find inspiration.
"But for Anne McCasland, it was an event that became her starting point in a quest to gather unique experiences that, one day, her grandchildren can tell as stories at her own memorial service.
"'I don't want a boring funeral,' McCasland said. 'I want them each to have a good grandma story. It's going to be a party, so it's gotta be good.'
"The Costa Mesa resident is calling them her 'eulogy stories.' She's planning one for each grandchild."
True to her word, McCasland climbed Half Dome in Yosemite with her grandson on her 70th birthday. Recently, when her granddaughter headed off to begin her freshman year at Louisiana State University, McCasland vowed to ride her bike along the Santa Ana River Trail until she equaled the distance between Costa Mesa and Baton Rouge.
Comedian Stan Laurel, of Laurel and Hardy fame, allegedly said before his death, "If anyone has a long face at my funeral, I'll never speak to him again."
But until I read Lauren's story, I had never heard of a member of the living taking such pains to dictate her own memorial service.
Would I try to dictate mine? It sounds tempting. If I could sit in the front row in disembodied form, I'd love to listen to recollections of the amazing columns I wrote, the profound advice I gave to reporters, the impossibly clever jokes I told at the office Secret Santa parties.
The thing is, though, funerals — or at least wakes — have their irreverent and unexpected side as well. So I have no doubt that those in attendance, in between tales of my illustrious side, would regale the audience with memories of my horrible Woody Allen impression, my habit of checking my email every two minutes and my inability to throw a baseball within five feet of its intended target.
In short, I want a funeral as rocking as McCasland's. But unlike her, I'll let the guests improvise it. My only goal is to give them enough material to work with.
Huntington Beach Independent City Editor MICHAEL MILLER can be reached at (714) 966-4617 or at email@example.com.


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Elmo wore a tie -- and Rosita broke out the pearls -- for their trip to the White House Wednesday.
They were there to meet with First Lady Michelle Obama and announce a new marketing program to promote fresh fruits and vegetables with Sesame Street and Muppet characters, designed to counter the marketing of less-healthy foods to young people.
Research has shown that most kids, when offered an apple or a cookie, pick the cookie, Obama said at the event. "I might do the same," she said.
But when researchers put an Elmo sticker on the apple, the number of kids eating the apple doubled. "The power of Elmo was enough to get kids excited about eating a healthy snack," Obama said.
"Just imagine what will happen when we take our kids to the grocery store and they see Sesame Street [and] Muppets all over the produce aisle," she said. "Just imagine what its going to be like, moms and dads, when our kids are begging us to buy fruits and vegetables instead of cookies, candies and chips. It can happen!"
Elmo and Rosita chatted with the First Lady about eating fruits and vegetables (Obama said she likes sweet potatoes, and recommended veggie pizza) and then joined students from the District's Harriet Tubman Elementary and Bancroft Elementary, among other schools, to pick fresh vegetables in the White House garden.
Those vegetables were then served in a meal -- with Elmo and Rosita joining the kids to "eat."
The new marketing program is a joint effort among Sesame Workshop, the Produce Marketing Association and the Partnership for a Healthier America.


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Registration of a MyFRITZ! account cannot be completed. The "Confirm MyFRITZ! Registration" button in the email from MyFRITZ! does not react when you click it. The MyFRITZ! account cannot be activated.
Note:All instructions on configuration and settings given in this guide refer to the latest FRITZ!OS for the FRITZ!Box.
Simply proceed as described below. After each measure, check whether the problem persists.
1 Repeating the MyFRITZ! registration procedure
The registration link in the email from MyFRITZ! is only valid for a maximum of 48 hours. After that, all information regarding non-registered MyFRITZ! accounts is deleted for security reasons.
If you call up the registration link after it has expired, the MyFRITZ! account cannot be activated. In this case, set up a new MyFRITZ! account with the same email address:
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The MyFRITZ! website does not react when you click the "Confirm MyFRITZ! Registration" button if the MyFRITZ! account has already been activated. In this case, set up the MyFRITZ! account as an existing MyFRITZ! account in the FRITZ!Box:
- Click "Internet" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
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Faculty Handbook
Guidelines and Policies for Computer Use
Information Technology & Innovation offers computing services on various computer systems at no charge to all members of the University community (i.e., faculty, students, and staff). The following delineates the current policies on software ownership, software copying, and gaining access to the computer facilities as well as a set of guidelines and responsibilities for the users of these resources.
The general principles underlying these policies and guidelines are that the computing facilities are a resource made available to the WCSU community for educational and research purposes. Users must assume responsibility for trying to minimize costs and be responsible in their use of these facilities.
The guidelines are not intended to be an exhaustive list of rules. Rather, these guidelines establish the spirit in which the facilities should be used.
WCSU Computer Policy
I. General Policies
A. Software Ownership
(This section represents policy adopted in February, 1985 along with January, 1987 revisions by the board of Governors for Higher Education.)
- Software Conversion. It shall be the policy of the state system of higher education that the end product of any work done by a student from any of the state's public colleges or universities to convert, modify or update state-owned software shall be owned by the state.
- Software Creation (state-owned). If a student from any college or university, receives monetary remuneration from the state for creating software, including source code and/or documentation, it shall belong to the state.
- Software Creation (student-owned and state-licensed). Software belongs to the student but shall be licensed gratis to the state for use/or modification under the following conditions:
a. The state, at the inception of the project, informs the student in writing of the state's intention to use the software; and/or
b. The student uses state computer resources to create software.
The State shall not have any other rights to such software.
4. Software Creation (student-owned). Any software developed by a student, unless it is covered under policy statements 1, 2, or 3 above, or is produced under the provisions of a grant or an agreement with an outside funding agent, is owned by the student.
5. Software Copying. Each constituent unit in the state system of higher education shall have policies in place regarding the use and copying of software and/or documentation to protect against lawsuits by vendors.
B. Software Copying.
II. General Guidelines
A. The computer facilities are available for academic university work only. No commercial work is allowed.
B. A user's programs and data should be treated as his/her private property. Users must not attempt to access or make use of any other user's programs or data without the permission of the user concerned.
C. The granting of access to Western's computer systems presupposes that the user is knowledgeable in the use of the existing computer facilities. Users should realize that the Computer Center Staff is limited in the amount of time they can spend assisting them with extensive problems.
D. Printer output represents very real, measurable costs to the Computer Center. Users should be careful to avoid wasting these resources.
E. Responsibility for a computer account belongs to the person to whom the account was issued (the account owner). No account owner shall furnish any other person(s) with the password to their account. Unless otherwise authorized by the Executive Officer for Information Technology, only the person to whom an account was issued should be using the account.
F. Any computer user who knowingly or continually violates the policies governing the use of accounts, equipment and resources will have his/her account withdrawn and such misuse may result in disciplinary and/or legal action.
III. Account Policies & Guidelines.
A. Policies.
- For classification purposes, there shall be two types of accounts available to members of the WCSU community.
a. Student Accounts.
Students must request accounts from the Computer Center. Requests must be made in person.
b. A Faculty Account.
Faculty members must request accounts from the Computer Center. Requests must be submitted, in writing, to the Director of Information Technology or Technology Service Manager. Applications must be filed a week in advance. A written response will be forwarded to the applicant.
B. Guidelines.
- Users have the right to expect that their work will remain secure and private. The Computer Center cannot readily determine if the use of an account by another individual is appropriate, so users should only use their own accounts. Account owners can assist in assuring privacy of their work by using a password that is not obviously a nickname or initials.
- The Computer Center reserves the right to access users' data and programs for appropriate management purposes (e.g., making back up copies and to ensure system integrity).
IV. Microcomputer Policies & Guidelines
(see also General Policies and Guidelines)
A. Policies
- Any person that has been issued a valid WCSU identification card is authorized to use the WCSU computer facilities.


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April 5, 2009
Mary Pinchot Meyer
In the two years leading up to the assassination of President Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer visited JFK about 30 times in the White House. Within a year of the assassination, the former mistress would be gunned down execution style on a Georgetown towpath.
by Don Fulsom
Less than a year after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, his favorite Washington mistress—Mary Pinchot Meyer—was shot dead, execution-style, just a short distance from her home in the safest part of D.C.'s safest neighborhood.
Meyer was a stunning blonde and a free-spirited Georgetown artist. A pre-hippie hippie, she was a smart Vassar grad, a former reporter for United Press, a socialist/pacifist, and a sexual adventurer who also experimented with mind-altering drugs.
The CIA had been able to keep close tabs on Mary's nearly two-year affair with President Kennedy—partly because the spy agency, it was later revealed, had been bugging her home and telephones ever since her late-'50s divorce from Cord Meyer, a top CIA official.
According to Nina Burleigh, author of A Very Private Woman, the bugs were ordered by CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton, a strange-looking, heavy-drinking Cold Warrior whose specialties were illegal break-ins (other spooks called him "the Locksmith") and searching for Soviet moles within the agency. Angleton had socialized with the Meyers while they were married and continued to be friendly with both. (Burleigh's information about the bugging came from an interview she did with Joan Bross, the wife of John Bross, a high-ranking CIA official.)
Why did Angleton bug Mary? Did he think she was a potential Soviet spy? Or that she would spill agency secrets Cord might have let slip during a booze bender or marital pillow talk? Was Angleton spying on Mary at the instigation of her ex-hubby? Or was Angleton snooping into the love life of a gal on which he himself had a secret crush, as legendary Washington journalist Ben Bradlee later theorized?
In Brothers, David Talbot concludes that Angleton's surveillance "might have been prompted by a disturbing mix of illicit motives. But what is important here is what he found out about the relationship between Kennedy and Mary Meyer, in addition to its erotic details. Angleton would later tell reporters that the lovers experimented with drugs, smoking marijuana and dabbling with LSD. According to the spy, Meyer and Kennedy took one low dose of the hallucinogen, after which, he noted with a cringe-inducing delicacy, 'they made love.'
C&O Canal towpath
As the CIA undoubtedly knew, Mary followed her daily custom on October 12, 1964: She took a break from her latest art project and strolled along in the picturesque C&O canal towpath. It was sunny and warm. Meyer was wearing a fluffy light blue angora sweater, pedal pushers and sneakers.
Amid Mary's screams for help, someone fired two .38 caliber bullets at her at point-blank range. Author Leo Damore suggested Mary Meyer's death bore the marks of a professional hit, saying: "Two shots were fired within eight seconds—one behind her ear so that it traversed her brain, and one behind her shoulder blade so it severed her aorta."
After a lengthy investigation, Damore concluded the CIA might have killed Mary because it did not want her to disclose her relationship with Kennedy. He pointed out to the New York Post that soon after Meyer's murder, the CIA's Angleton and Mary's brother-in-law, newsman Ben Bradlee, were in Meyer's home searching for her diary—which included accounts of her trysts with the President. The dairy was eventually found by Bradlee's wife in Mary's studio, and then turned over to Angleton—who allegedly destroyed it.
Damore, who was writing a book about Mary Pinchot Meyer, said: "She had access to the highest levels. She was involved in illegal drug activity. What do you think it would do to the beatification of Kennedy if this woman said, 'It wasn't Camelot, and it was Caligula's court?'" His book was never published. Leo Damore committed suicide in 1995.
The first person at the scene of Mary's murder was Lance Morrow, a cub reporter for the Washington Star who later observed that the victim "lay on her side, as if sleeping … I saw a neat and almost bloodless bullet hole in her head. She looked entirely peaceful, vaguely patrician. She had an air of Georgetown." Morrow recalled the crime in "Woman Interrupted," in the Dec. 2008 issue of Smithsonian.
Police said this was the first homicide on that stretch of the canal—from Key Bridge to Fletcher's Boat House—in 10 years.
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A 25-year-old laborer—Raymond Crump—was quickly charged with Mary's slaying. But after a jury deliberated for 11 hours, Crump was acquitted for lack of evidence. The gun that fired the fatal bullets was never found, even though the canal was emptied and scuba divers searched the Potomac River—which flows along the other side of the towpath. Paraffin tests showed no evidence Crump had fired a weapon. And there was no apparent motive.
Mary's purse and wallet were found at her home. An electric fan was still on, drying her most recent canvas. No one else was ever charged with her murder.
If Crump was indeed innocent, and the CIA did have Mary Meyer rubbed out, author Leo Damore's suggested reason—that the agency wanted to protect the murdered President from scandal—just might have a fatal flaw: The CIA despised JFK and would have been pleased to expose any of the President's scores of extramarital peccadilloes. Or at least saved such information for blackmail purposes.
After the CIA botched the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, JFK fired CIA Director Allen Dulles and pledged to "splinter" the intelligence agency "into a thousand pieces."
Could a more viable theory than Damore's be that the nation's top spooks wanted to guarantee the continued cover-up of CIA-Mafia plots to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro? Might Mary have been privy to such secrets? Might she have also had some idea of who was behind her paramour's slaying in the streets of Dallas on November 22, 1963?
James Jesus Angleton, for one, could have greatly feared the disclosure of any CIA link with the assassination. He had been the chief liaison between the CIA and the Warren Commission. In The Ends of Power, President Richard Nixon's chief of staff Bob Haldeman revealed: "The CIA literally erased any connection between President Kennedy's assassination and the CIA …In fact … (James Jesus) Angleton … called Bill Sullivan of the FBI and rehearsed the questions and answers they would give to the Warren Commission investigators."
On his deathbed in 2001, Mary's ex-husband, former CIA bigwig Cord Meyer, speculated on who committed Mary's murder. He is said to have hissed: "The same sons of bitches that killed John F. Kennedy" according to writer C. David Heymann.
Vice President Nixon, who masterminded the CIA-Mafia plots against Castro in the Eisenhower years, was in Dallas on the day of the JFK slaying. A former CIA contract agent, Morita Lorenz, later testified under oath that she saw CIA agent E. Howard Hunt and CIA asset Frank Sturgis in Dallas on assassination eve. CIA agent Bernard Barker is reported to have been there as well. Hunt, Sturgis and Barker went on, of course, to become secret Nixon agents during the Watergate era. Coincidences? Or key parts in a conspiracy puzzle?
Almost as intriguing as Mary Pinchot Meyer's mysterious murder, and her affair with President Kennedy, is the fact that she will go down as a historical footnote as the person who got the President stoned on acid and pot.
Meyer visited the White House—through a secret entrance and elevator—about 30 times between January, 1962 and November, 1963. Most of the visits occurred while First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy was out of town.
A former top editor at the Washington Post and Mary Meyer confidant, James Truitt, was a main source for the eventual details on the JFK-Meyer relationship. In 1976, he sold his story to the National Enquirer.
Among Truitt's revelations: That on the night of September 27, 1962, Mary and Jack were in the presidential bedroom when Mary pulled out a surprise for Kennedy—a snuffbox filled with six marijuana joints. After they'd smoked three, JFK told Mary, "No more. Suppose the Russians did something now? She said he also told her, 'this isn't like cocaine. I'll get you some of that.'"
President Kennedy was no stranger to legal drugs either. He took methadone and codeine for pain, Ritalin as a stimulant, Librium for anxiety and barbiturates to sleep. Hydrocortisone, testosterone, and regular injections of Procaine also permitted Kennedy to carry out his duties despite agonizing pain from a long list of longtime ailments, particularly back pain.
The historian who disclosed JFK's illnesses and drug dependence—biographer Robert Dalleck—observed that JFK proved to be an effective and inspiring leader whose health problems did not noticeably affect his performance in office.
Neither, apparently, did his affair with Mary Pinchot Meyer.
Sources others than those named include: Encyclopedia of the JFK Assassination; and Washington Post accounts of the Meyer murder and Crump trial.
Photo Credit: C&O Canal towpath by D.B. King.