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infection from dry blood (DRIED BLOOD, 2009)
Dear Dr Bob, You are certainly a great inspiration to the hiv world. For someone who is infected but is very active in helping others and always maitains a positive attitude, this is just amazing!! I have a question, suppose dried blood from an hiv positive person gains access to ones bloodstream, is there a risk of the dead virus reractivating and doing its damage? Thank you very much and god bless.
Thanks for your kind comments!
Your concerns about HIV transmission via dried blood are unwarranted. This question comes up fairly frequently. See below.
Stay well.
Dr. Bob
Blood In Bed Mar 25, 2009 Dear Dr,
I know questions of dried blood have been asked time and time again, and sometimes all one needs is reassurance, which is probably what I need. I just came back from the doctor and noticed blood on the sheets of the bed i was laying on. I'm guessing it was dry. If it was HIV infected the possibility of myself becoming infected is pretty much zero?
Also, and this might be an odd thing, but if HIV blood was on food, cooking the food would kill it instantly?
As said many times, and this isn't superficial flattery to get an answer, but this site and having you able to ask questions to obviously helps so many people. You are doing a wonderful thing.
Response from Dr. Frascino
Your assumptions are all 100% correct!
Questions about dried blood have indeed been asked many times. It's nearly becoming a QTND (question that never dies). It certainly has an ATNC (answer that never changes): No risk!
"The possibility of myself becoming infected is pretty much zero?" Yep! In fact, you can even leave off the "pretty much!"
"Cooking would kill HIV?" Yep! Right again! (If this were "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," you'd be rich by now.)
"Sometimes all one needs is reassurance." I agree and sincerely hope you are now reassured!
Be well.
Dr. Bob
HIV Dried blood Feb 8, 2009 Is it possible to get hiv from dried blood which had been dried for days. Because I accidently pinch my self with nail clippers and i saw some dried blood on it.
Response from Dr. Frascino
The short answer is no. The longer answer is nope!
Dr. Bob
please answer this, i can't find a clear answer anywhere Nov 1, 2006 A couple of weeks ago I was walking down the street and this guy had a McDonald's bag. He dumped the fries out of the little fry bag and then threw it on the ground. Litter annoys me, so I picked it up and crumpled it into my hand. There wasn't a garbage can until a few blocks later, so then I threw it away. 10 minutes later I got back to my apartment, washed my hands with some sanitizer but may have not done a thorough job, and was watching TV and noticed there was some dried blood on my finger. I'm not sure if it was from self-consciously picking at a bug bite I had or if it could've been on the guy's fry bag that I picked up. I am worried that the dried blood may have gotten into a cut I had on my finger. I also had a cut on my lip. I am worried because all I have read is that dried blood "after several hours" is not infectious, but what if it dried within like 15 minutes and then got into a cut?
Response from Dr. Frascino
Dude, it was McDonald's fries ?. The red blotch on your fingers was probably ketchup. Even if it were dried blood, your HIV risk would be completely nonexistent.
Stop trying to supersize a risk that doesn't even exist!
Stay well.
Dr. Bob
Dr Bob, please do your magic regarding a "Dental Scare" Sep 18, 2008 Dear Dr Bob, I have been reading your various answers on this site for some time and I must congratulate you your answers are not only factual, but also give a human touch to what is otherwise a very stressful and worrying time for many people. Not many people are able to do this just from writing, and I take my hat off to you and all the staff at TheBody.com we will be lost without your help and support through these most difficult of times. Now normally, I would not be asking questions like this, but there is a niggling doubt in my head that I just cant seem to get rid of, and hence ask for your expert opinion as to my risks I have been very stressed by this recently, even though my wife tells me not to worry. Last week, I went to the dentist and had some root canal treatment. The dentist kept adjusting the light that shines in my mouth with his gloved hand while operating on me. I noticed that there may have been some blood on the lamp handle, and that he was touching this and then proceeding to finish his work. I know for sure that that last patient was seen about 14 hours earlier. Assuming the last patient did have HIV, and the glove did touch the contaminated light handle and was then used on me, what are my risks? Im hoping that within 14 hours any small amount of blood that may have been transfered onto the lamp would have dried, so is it true to consider that dry blood = dead HIV virus? In other words, even if this dry blood did get into the blood stream, it would not cause HIV infection. Your help and support is very much appreciated, and be assured that your help will go far beyond my humble self. Many thanks. Naz
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hello Naz,
Relax! Your HIV-acquisition risk is zero. That's right: zip, nada, zilch, null, bupkis! HIV does not survive very long outside the body. Your assumptions that dried blood equals dead HIV virus and that even if the dried blood did get into your blood stream it wouldn't cause an HIV infection are correct!
Be well. Stay well. Stop worrying!
Dr. Bob
Moved On Mar 10, 2008 Dear Dr. Bob, Just Quick one. You May Not Remember me, (Mr.Unusual Transmission) Had a Serious Scare Exactly 1 Year ago. I Stopped Testing at 7 Months. With Your Kind Replies. The Chronic Fatigue Has now totally Gone, after 4 Months, & Lymph glands Gone Dwn After 3 Months too. I have One Shotty Cervical Gland, which I think is Now Permanant. It Caused me ON/OFF discomfort for Nearly 6 months, YES 6! Noone Ever Found out the Exact Cause. I had also Went Deaf, but a Later Ossiculoplasy Helped, it was Unrelated to the Viral illness. I Don't Think about HIV Anymore, except to Donate/Raise Awareness. Thanks for Being There, I ain't Forgotten You! I Had a Great Idea For People Here, Have a Clearout, Sell Your Unwanted Stuff om Ebay & Help the Fight! I did, Now You Have nearly $200 Wingin its way To Ya!
Au Revoir & Thanx
Response from Dr. Frascino
Wow, has a year flown by so quickly? Yes, I remember you and I'm indeed delighted you have "moved on"! BRAVO! Thanks for your donation to the Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation (www.concertedeffort.org). Your compassion and generosity will touch many lives, turning hopelessness into hope. On behalf of those lives, please accept my heartfelt thanks.
I'll reprint your story below.
Be well. Stay well.
Dr. Bob
Failed Suicide/Negative or Positive? If U Answer One, Answer Me PLEASE! Aug 17, 2007
14th April
Sexual Exposure to Very Suspect Blood in UAE (Dr's Tell Me Low to Non-Existant Risk) Because it Was Dried out, But I Believe Because It Was In Contact with Urethral Membrane for Several Hours, and foreskin. Next Day I Saw Blood on Penis.
23 March
Felt Malaise, Mild Flu Like Symptoms, Mainly Very Dry Cough, Keeping Me up.
26 March
Felt Symptoms Going Except Cough, Tonsils Quite Red, Cough Still There, Given Pholcodine
5 April
Had to Go to a Funeral, Very Upset and Stressed and Obviously Stressed Regarding Blood Exposure.
8 April
Sore Throat and Cough Back, Given Amoxicillin for a Week. No Difference.
14 April
Felt ill, Temperature, Malaise, but Cough Going Slowly.
24 April
Tonsils Still Enlarged, Dry Cough Recoccuring, But Feeling a Bit Better.
3 May, Cough Nearly Gone, Tonsils Red and Inflamed, but Not Infected bacterially.
11th May Went to Rome, Italy, Great Time, Felt Fine Except for Low Mood (Relationship Issues) and Dry Throat.
14th May Got Coryza Symptoms, in Italy, Runny Nose, Sneezing, So Didnt Worry, Until Sharp Pain in Collar Bone Lymph Nodes. Tonsils Up again, Cough Back, Pharyngitis.
16th May Given Penicillin in UK for 1 week.
22nd May More Pain in Glands in Collar, HIV Anxiety and Depression Setting in. Tonsils Stil Look Red, but Cough Going.
25th May Transient Oral Purple Spots, Like pinprick Bleeds on Buccal Mucosa. Suffer Acute Fatigue, But Guessing due to Anxiety.
1st June Nearly Collapse with Fatigue at Work, Depression, Malaise, Cervical Gland Gets Very Big, NEVER had Gland Swollen Before This. Anxiety Increases, Go to See HIV specialist
2nd June Specialist Does Rapid Test, 11 Week Test, Negative, Say i'm Just Worrying for Nothing, Agree With Gland Swelling, Suggests Haemophilus, Given Doxycycline, Anti-inflamatories, Felt Better except for Hurting Nodes.
13th June Not Feeling Better, On/Off Node Pain, Oral spots Worrying Me, Read theBody, Worry About Window Periods. Go to Another HIV Specialist. Rapid Test at 13 weeks, Negative and DNA PCR, Negative, 3 days Later. Felt Safe. Dr Assures Me, 3 month Trumps Symptoms. I'm Being Irrational and Obsessive, I Really Want to Agree.
18th June Decide to Agree with Dr's, but Feel Terrible, go To GP to Look for Other Causes, Does ESR/CBC/WBC/Mono/Haemophilus Swab All Negative and OK. Gland Hurts again. Oral Blood Spot goes, Dry Mouth, Been 100 Days Now, Felt Fed up, Go to Canada for Relaxation.
24 June, 4 More Purple Spots in Mouth, Go to Dentist, He Said if it its Transient, Don't Worry See Dr!
27th June I'm Trying Best to Agree with 4 Dr's Including yourself, I'm Irrational, It's 3.5months, Do UK equivalent of Orasure, Negative. Guessing Hey All the Dr's are Right!!!!!!!
4th July 2 Patches of Tiny Whit Spots Appear in Cheeks, Tonsils STILL red, Mouth Ulcer, EXTREME fatigue and Gums Start Discolouring, NOT linear Red Band, but More Like Black/Brown. Lose Hearing in One Ear!!!!!!! But No High Temperature, Rhinitis etc, Just Gland Pain, Oral Legions/ Sheer Fatigue and Bad Gums.
4 Weeks of HELL ........Extreme Fatigue, Depression, Drank Far too Much Alcohol, Because Obviously This is It. Another gland Swells up in Armpit and Neck Ones too, Coinciding With Fatigue. I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY. Another Oral Ulcer and Spot Appears.
23rd July Feelings of Neuropathy Mild Morning Sweat and Nausea, But I'm Guessing Anxiety Rather Than HIV. See Small Spots on Trunk, but they Dont Look like ARS, Plus Timings Wrong. All the Dr's Can't Be Wrong.
1st August Due to Depression/Symptoms etc and Everyone Thinking I'm Nuts, Decide Suicide is the only Option. Sorry, But It Was Extremely Calculated. Have a Car Accident. By Sheer Miracle I survive 150mph Crash, with only a small Spinal Fracture. Im Walking Within 4 days. I am Ashamed to have Survived, Had to Tell Close Relatives, The Main Reason, I Must Have HIV, and I May Infect Someone I was in Love with in the Future, Loneliness if Indeed I am Positive, and after 4 weeks of DEBILITATING fatigue, sleeping 15 Hours a day, It Was an Option For Me. Honestly Didnt Want to Be a Burden, Family Think I was Selfish, But they Dont Understand, This was not a Cry for Help, I thought I was Doing the Honorable Thing. Obviously, I Know You Feelings on the Subject, If you Do Reply, Well Yep You Would'nt be There to Reply.
8th August Family Take me to Original Hiv Specialist, Because They Are Worried i'll do Something Silly, He Refused Because He Said the White Patches and Glands are due to Some Other Virus, Refused to Test, and Stuck By Original 3 month Result. I really Trust and Respect this guy, So I feel Lost. Iv Never Been Ill, Now It Cant All Be Coincidence? He Even Said, do I hear Voices? OMG, Well I cant blame him, after What I did, But I'm Definately not Schizo, I Just want an Answer.
10th August Did a Oral Swab, 5 Months 1 week, Came back NEGATIVE, What......HELLO, I just Staked my Effin Life on the Fact I am Positive. Gums still Brown/Red, Tried Chlorhexidine, Get Black Hairy Tongue, Typical.
13th August Back to Hospital, Due to Continued Fatigue, Sleeping in day and all night, and Review. They Did usual ESR/lymph/wbc/Heam, etc All Normal. Now I Know HIV Cant Show on these. But Gp Says It Would Have, So They Wont Do PCR/CD4, At least It would Make me Happier, But they Want to Give Me Antidepressants, Said its Non-Specific Virus, So I WILL NEVER GET AN ANSWER!! But I already Feel Fatigue, I dont Want to be Drugged up, Plus, I Don't Feel Depressed. Since the Accident, the Depression and Fatigue has Got Better. I am Worried I may be in Clinical Latency, I dont want PCP/AIDS in 3-5 years Time, Thats Why I want to Know.
They Are Refering me to Another Dr, Next Week. To See if they Can Find the Cause. I am Confused...By 5 months Something Should Show up. Ok its Not 6 months. I KNOW symptoms arnt reliable, Test trump... But Paranoia Has Set in, Re: Tests, Strains...
ALL the Dr's Agree, It's Viral, My Family Think I'm Stupid for Thinking of HIV, What do I do.
15th August It's Coming up to 6 months Anyway, I Have another Pain under chin, Go to Dentist to Rule Out Infection, ANUG... Ask Re: Gum Problem. My GP Sent Me There. Dentist Says Nothing, Probably Viral or Stress, .......He said It was Probably Brown Before, I didnt notice!! Lol .Said See a Dr !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELLO, I Saw my Gums Go Brown Acutely while I was In Bed for a Month. White spots NORMAL, What? Not in Me. Can you See Why I would Want to Kill Myself Now? I'm starting to Believe I'm Crazy.
So, I Waiting to See this Acute, General Dr, I can Guess What He's Going to Find.......Nothing..Probably Pass the buck, Usual I'll Never Know, Gazillions of Viruses, blah blah, I would Except this Fact If it wasnt for the Sequence of Events, and Previously Very Active/ Fit 29 yrs old.
I Can't See the Point of HIV Testing, If its Negative at 5 months 1 week, 6 months Wont Make a Difference. I Should Be Woo-Hooing Apparently.
If Youve Read My Totally Honest Story, Can see why I'm Distressed. My Fatigue is Declining, Oral Symptoms Still there, ulcers gone, and tonsils shrunk after 4 months. Still Got Pain in One node in Neck, ON/OFF. My Family Want to Take me to another HIV specialist if the Acute Dr Cant Find Anything, But to Be honest I don't Even Want to go. I am FED UP. I'm Wasting Money I dont Have, May aswell Donate it. I'm Not Getting Any Answers from the Medics. I'm Starting to Think I'd Rather Continue Feeling ill and Keep My Mouth Shut instead of being Ostracised by Doctors who Give Conflicting Information. If I get more ill in the Future, Noone Can Say I Didnt Try my Best.
Now, Dr.Bob Since You Have HIV, Are Surviving, Well and an Expert. What do You Suggest. I Know you Cant Diagnose over the Internet. the Dr'd Cant Diagnose me in PERSON!!! Your gonna Say I Need Couselling for My Unwarranted and Irrational Fears, and Get Help for a Disease I cant Possibly Have. I just Just Want ONE person in the World to Understand and Believe WHY Iv been Anxious.
Response from Dr. Frascino
Your sad story is not unlike many I've seen over the years. (Some are in the archives of this forum. Have a look!) You had a nonexistent HIV exposure followed by nonspecific "symptoms." This led to anxiety and depression, which produced additional symptoms. You took countless and totally unwarranted HIV tests and saw multiple doctors, dentists and HIV specialists. The tests were negative and the multiple physicians could find no physical cause for your ailments. Your psychiatric illness is so severe you attempted suicide, feeling you were "doing the honorable thing." (Please note suicide is anything but honorable.) Your "symptoms" persist, as does your perseveration on a disease that you do not have. (Overwhelming evidence exists to support your not having HIV.)
My advice is simple:
HIV is not your problem. Stop testing.
You need the help of a psychiatrist. Your symptoms are psychosomatic.
I would suggest you bring a copy of this post and my response to your first visit and show it to the psychiatrist. It will help focus your therapy.
I do "understand and believe why you have been anxious." I also understand and know you don't have HIV. Your problem is psychiatric, not virologic.
Dr. Bob
Thankyou Aug 18, 2007
Re: Failed Suicide/Question. No Need to Post/Just Read.
Ok, Dr Frascino, Well, Its What I wanted to Hear (You may not think so) Despite the Malaise and Ongoing Symptoms. I Will Take Your Word For it, Even Though My Body Dosent Seem to.
I Worry Because More Persistant little painless White Spots Have Appeared Tonight and My Neck Gland Pain Has Woken Me up. >3 months Now. So was hard to believe it's a garden variety virus with the timing.
I appreciate your Kind/To the Point, Reply, Time is Precious. But Note,
- I DO Have Painful Lymph Glands- You Can even SEE Neck One, It's Big, >1cm, It Kills. Little White Spots That Keep Coming Up In My Mouth..1 month now. Psychosomatic? Honestly Don't See How, Hope So.
(Everything Else Can Be Related to Stress, Even the Gum Colour/Salt Craving-/Stress/ACTH/Cortisol) YES, I Know all That, I'm Not a Layman.
Exposure Wasnt Non-Existant, There Was a LOT of Blood, Not a Speck, Thats why I was Worried.(I Mean Fully Covered Both Sides of Pillow) Looked Intentional, not Like a Nose Bleed/Menstration etc. It Had Been Hidden Under a Made 2nd Bed. It Was Suspicious. Masturbation Means Urethral Contact. I Didn't Realise Till Next Day, I was Drunk and It Was Dark. I'm Guessing If I Had Said Hiv Blood Covered Sex Toy, or Unprotected Sex with a HIV+ Man, My Symptoms Wouldn't Be Taken So Lightly by Anyone? This is Not a Typical I Touched a Public Toilet Seat Situation Iv Read So Many Times Here, That's why I was Troubled. I know HIV is Very Very Difficult to Catch (I Do Have a Medical Based Degree)
I Know It Wasnt 'Honourable' It Wasnt Attempted. It is a Sad But TRUE Story, I Only Hope 1 Milion% you are Correct. Selfish- YES. I Had Other Reasons. Thats for the Psychiatrist, I wanted a Medical Analysis HIV opinion Regarding Profound Fatigue, White Spots/Purple Blotches/ Lymph Gland Swellings and Timings. I am NOT A HIV EXPERT LIKE YOU. Just doing My Best to Discover Why I'm Getting Ill. I'm Thinking About Others. Take For Example, My Accident, Just Realised, My Blood Went Everywhere, Future Wife/Kids Would They Get it..etc. So you See I'm Not Really a Selfish Bastard. I Hope The 12 People who Saved My Life, who Came in Contact with the Blood Don't Get Non-Specific Viral Illness' . Re: Accident, It's a Private Matter, Not Something I'm Advertising. You Seem Like a Honest Soul, So I Wanted to Give The Full Details, to Give a Clear Picture How Seriously I Take this. I Hope the STUPID thing I did Didn't Cloud your Clinical Judgement/Assesment.
- I WILL Take Your Advice, Forget About HIV, No Matter What Symptoms I Get From Now on. I will Let the Dr's Diagnose Me from Now On and Agree With Whatever They say, I am not even going to Mention HIV. YOU ARE THE EXPERT. I Now Feel I have Made Every Attempt to Make Sure. Obviously of Course I DONT WANT HIV, who Would? I Have MUCH Better Things to Do. I want to Get Married, Have Kids, Enjoy Music, See the World. YES I'd Rather most definately Be Seen by a Psychiatrist Than a HIV Specialist.
Thanks for Taking The Time to Respond. I DO Appreciate it. If I Do ever, Find Out the Cause, I will Write Back, But No Offense, I don't Really Want to Come Back Here. I'm Off to Take Some Painkillers for My Neck Gland and Off to Bed, Its Bloody 6am. Hopefully Your Karma and Mine Will Make Me Well Soon.
Take Care.
Response from Dr. Frascino
You're welcome. My assessment and advice about your risk, symptoms, suicide attempt and what you need to do to ultimately get well remains completely unchanged. By the way, the lymphadenopathy (swollen lymph glands) associated with HIV/AIDS are generally painless.
Good luck.
Dr. Bob
Don't Hate!!!!!Sep 5, 2007
A Sensible Question This time? Re: Unusual transmission/Failed attempt.. Can you Help me again? I Feel Guilty About Posting, I have Visted Your Foundation Website and $100 Makes Me Feel Better about Asking for 2 minutes of your time and thought. I Re-read thebody archives First btw. Dont Hate me!!!! Btw the Goatee Looks Good.
Okay, Im calm, Im trying to Follow the Advice. But I Need Help on No2 1. HIV is not your problem. Stop testing. 2. You need the help of a psychiatrist. Your symptoms are psychosomatic. I would suggest you bring a copy of this post and my response to your first visit and show it to the psychiatrist. It will help focus your therapy. 3) I do "understand and believe why you have been anxious." I also understand and know you don't have HIV. Your problem is psychiatric, not virologic.
Dear Dr Frascino, Im Feeling Much Much Better, Im Not Sleeping 15 hours a day anymore!!!!! ( I was Bedridden for 6 weeks) Fog/Fatigue has Dissipated after 2 months FINALLY, Spontaneously. I dont have CFS, Maybe Post Viral Fatigue. PROBLEM: Still have persistant Gland discomfort especially in Posterior cervical node. (3 months now) Bilateral, but only swollen on Left side. Axilla, Idiopathic Painless Dotty Patches in cheeks (>2 months), Anti-fungals no Use. Low Level Malaise/fatigue. I am concerned, because noticible lymphadenopathy occured at week 9 of exposure. I unfortunately had a Rape Incident Previously exactly 6 months Prior to this Exposure. That was Real. That time my nodes WERE psychosomatic I have been WW before, But This Time they were most definately Real. Thats how I know the difference. Dx was Acute Viral Infection of Tonsils 2 weeks after exposure. Trying to be rational, but cant get round the idea these nodes are psychosomatic. The First Nodes to Swell I noticed were bilateral clavicular nodes at Week 9. ?? NOT THE NECK, as youd expect from tonsils?? I Put it down to a cold, I felt Fine except for Pharyngitis/mild viral tonsillitis. I only Went for a Hiv test at around Week 11 after the Posterior Cervical node swelled up Hugely at Week 11. From then on, Well you know (Unusual Transmission Post-Failed suicide..). Stress Increased Exponentially (Memories of the Previous Incident, all the tests etc..) From then on I have been suffering a progressive mild lymphadenopathy. The next was the other side of the neck, Armpit at Week 14, Now Jaw and elbow at 23 weeks. Whats going on?? They Hurt/swell for 1-2 days then stop hurting. Cervical Node is the most noticable and Most Annoying, If I press it it dosent even hurt, The Size was half a marble (Biggest at 11 weeks). Decreased but Still there (double pea size). Intermittant Pain. I dont understand why it dosent go away. It is only on Left side. After Reading and Re-reading your Post, I Did a Quick Search for other causes, CMV/EBV in that Blood or Maybe Some Other Virus/Reactivation by Stress -Adenovirus -EBV -CMV -Coxsackie Herpes Type 6/AB/7etc. Parovirus B19......... Etc There are too many Causes, Symptoms are Non-specific. I Can see where your coming from now re: symptoms.
I am Worried, Because Before this Incident, Iv Never had Gland problems Ever, Even after Flu, Iv Never Had Glandular Fever I can Remember. During the Worst 6 Weeks, I thought I was seroconverting I have Lost Nearly all Hearing in my Left Ear, Another Quick Typing: revealed: There have been several reports that suggest that sensorineural hearing loss occurs in 21 to 49% of HIV-infected patients. The type of hearing loss in HIV patients tends to be high frequency hearing loss. This type of hearing loss does not interfere with speech recognition. HIV infection of the brain or auditory nerve may be a contrbutor to this type of hearing loss. Im Sure Im Being Paranoid, thought Viraemia. But I have Experienced other CNS symptoms, Pins/needles, mild sweats but Im putting it down to Stress and anxiety. My doctors cant find any sign of ear infection, so Im Guessing Sensorineural? Back to ENT. Looks Like ill get a Hearing aid.
So...Apart from these Painless Little dots in my Mouth, 2 Ulcers, Glands on/off pain in Neck and Armpit, and Deafness. Im Staring to feel Much Better, and its not because of the Hiv Testing. So Im Confused. Then I re-read your Post AGAIN. lymphadenopathy is generally Painless.
When will sero conversion end? Dec 12, 2003 I am a 37 year old healthy male who has been recently diagnosed HIV+ and went through the acute illness about 2 months ago, I feel fine now except for pain and swelling in lymph nodes that will not disappear.
Jul 7, 2007 Hello, I tested positive in January 2007, but I am working overseas, and it has been difficult getting information to help me make sense of my labs and make a plan for what to do next. I went for my test in early January, but there was a three-week delay in getting the results. A couple of weeks later, I started having symptoms resembling seroconversion illness--mild night sweats, significant fatigue, and swollen glands, but no fever. I felt pretty sick for almost two months. After that, the fatigue eased, but I still had occassional night sweats and mild swollen glands until May--four months after I first felt sick.
I feel Exactly Like These people, Like Im going into Some sort of clinical latency. I have now developed chest pain only on deep inspiration, but I dont think its related. No Cough. Is it Possible Iv been Exposed but not infected? All the Tests at 11, 13, 23 weeks. Prove No detectable Antibodies. I concur I MUST be Negative.
My One Question: 1) I want to let this go but the Lymph gland swellings without Flu/No other Dx, just seems Ominous after Blood Exposure. Coincidence?????? Im Sure Just Believing I had Hiv cant make this happen. Im Not Prodding them constantly or anything either like most of the Posts iv read. No family history of cancer (29y/o) Iv Perused the archives, there are Many similar stories, but Most With imagined/without real lymphadenopathy. ALL my symptoms are Fairly non-specific. I can accept Stress as the cause, 12 months of it. I think had some sort of a addisonian crisis when I was bedridden, Just Guessing (Low BP/dizziness/Dizziness/Salt craving/Brown gum discolour?) chicken or the egg. Around the same time I went Deaf/Ulcers/Extreme Fatigue/oral legions appeared at weeks 14-20. These Nodes Worry me, especially the way its progressed from (tonsil)- clavicular-cervical-axilla- (now maybe inner elbow). Any Ideas, Suggestions Welcome Regarding Glands????? They remind me of HIV
My Gp Hasnt got a Clue, They Just Keep Referring me, (Fat folder syndrome)Im seeing Then tomorrow if they can Find CMV/EBV, they Didnt know about IgM/IgG!! Which is Why Im sending this Message, You are a Inspiration, thanks
Response from Dr. Frascino
I certainly don't hate you! In fact I feel sorry for you. I'm sure it's not easy living life with such constant fears and anxieties.
Regarding your difficulty with my suggestion No. 2, please let me point out that the critical component is the first sentence: "You need the help of a psychiatrist." Your current post just convinced me all the more that this advice is critical to your ultimate recovery. At this point you are perseverating on "persistent gland discomfort . . . noticeable lymphadenopathy . . ." despite the fact you apparently realize that there are numerous potential causes for such a common symptom. I cannot diagnose the cause of this or any other symptom you may have or develop over the Internet. What I can do with great certainty is tell you two things:
It's not HIV. HIV is not your problem. No way. No how.
You need the help of a psychiatrist to overcome your problem. "Fat folder syndrome" is often a clue that psychiatric evaluation and treatment are warranted.
Since your GP "hasn't got a clue" and none of your evaluations has elucidated a cause for your nonspecific complaints to date, what do you have to lose? I once again urge you to get the help you need and stop chasing a disease you cannot possibly have.
Good luck.
Dr. Bob
Unusual transmission pt2 Jun 4, 2007
Update: Dear Dr. Bob, Had the Rapid Test Core Duo Using Blood from Arm at Day 80. I just could Not Wait 4-9 more days. The Stress would Have Killed Me. My enlarged tonsils (5 weeks) and now 2 swollen Lymph nodes in my neck, Scared the Hell outta Me. (I have Been Prescibed Doxycycline for Infection after my 3 colds.) I Just want to say to anyone, I was so Convinced I had Contracted Hiv, Even Planned What I was Going to Do etc. I Couldnt Believe it..Ppl Please Dont Spend Hours trying to Diagnose Symptoms, Statistics etc. Get a test. However This Incident Has Changed My Life. I Didnt get a Answer in Time, But I wish to Donate Anyway. Feel Free to Post My Unusual Experience if You think It'll Help Anyone. Thanks!!!
Response from Dr. Frascino
Remember "symptoms" do not equal HIV disease! In fact symptoms are notoriously unreliable in predicting who is and is not infected! Thanks for your donation (www.concertedeffort.org).
Be well. Stay well.
Dr. Bob
Unusual Transmission pt4, Return of the Jedi Jun 21, 2007
Dear Dr. Bob, Update:
I Find Your Site Very Reassuring,...@92 days Okay, DNA PCR Was Negative, (I know, expensive/Wasteful (maybe) but I seem to be Experiencing "symptoms" So I thought Hey I'm -ve for Antibodies, 3 months til 6 months is up, lets look for Viruses!) Idiot? Dunno. Like Everyone else Here, I Guess I'm Just Worried About Giving Hiv to Anyone Else, I couldn't live with the Thought I'd wreck Someones Life. I wish the Person Who left their Blood Lying Around Thought of That!!!
London: They Used Abbott Determine 1/2 Point of Care Test..15 later, Negative at 13 Weeks.
Feel Bit Better for 1 day,(still waiting for pcr result at that time) But 3 Day after, I Have Had another Purple Spot in Throat,(purpura/petechiae whatever) WTF!!!! Why Me, I'm Thinking. lasting 1 day, and Some Stubborn Whitish Spots at Back of throat and Purple sore Behind Wisdom tooth STILL there. Tonsils Clear, but Still Large (over 7 weeks now) despite anti-inflammatories/Ibuprofen). Cervical/collar Nodes gave me a little pain again, feel drowsy + very Weak and weird.
Okay, After 3 months, I am Starting to Believe MAYBE I Dont Have Hiv. I can Be OCD, It's Usually Been a help in My Life Actual. So Start thinking About Virus Mutations/Damaged Hiv Virus take longer/Gene Therapy/Immunology undetectable Viruses, titres, Statistics, Who wouldnt? etc Blah Blah.. I Don't actually Care Anymore, I reckon Anxiety + PTSD + OCD + Continual Viral tonsillitis is Causing My Problem, It Has to Be? N'est-ce pas?
The Gp's/Dr's in the UK are Useless, All Gave me Conflicting Info, I know More About Hiv from thebody now than they Do, It's becoming a Joke!! May aswell Join Your Team!
Anyway, So, I Had Contact With (Abeit Dried) BLOOD, on Penal Mucosal Membrane >4 hours.....Since then 3 very mild colds" Iv Had Swollen Nodes, recurring Pharyngitis, 2 Purple spots in Mouth, Negative Mono test, Extreme Fatigue, Constantly enlarged tonsils....(all Medically Confirmed, Not Me talking) Still Negative. To Worried Wells, I think Anxiety + Travel (Recirculated air on planes)/New cold strains/exhaustion + alcohol on Holiday/indiscretion = Reason Why many people Seem to Get ARS Symptoms While Being Negative? My theory anyway. (Hopefully!)
Anxiety Increases Compulsive Disorder/Depression/fatigue. I know all that, (Health Worker/Mensa Member), And Even I Couldnt Believe The Negative Results at 3 months. I'm Supposed to be a Scientist. Iv Never Prayed More. Dan Brown, Eat yer heart Our. Obviously Someone switched Samples, Faulty Kits, Unknown Antigens/Weak Hiv Strain, Slow Converter blah blah blah...lol (Can I laugh?) Wow, I am going to Become a Detective.
I Am Negative, Everyone Tells Me, But I Feel SOOOO Terrible. Still got a Couple of those Cheapy Mirates Test Left, May Aswell Use em', What the Hell Made in China/Non-Fda Approved, if it's Negative i'll Believe it, for about 2 days. If it Positive, well More Tests Because it's Non Approved!! My Arm looks Like a Drug Addicted Sex Workers Now Without The High's and the Sex!! My Sense of Humour is the Only Thing Keeping Me Going.
Dear Dr Bob, If You Collate my Posts together it may help the archives ppl. And If you get time pls Pass me on Some Kind Words, I Need em!! thanks!
UK -Worried, Well(allegedly), But Not quite,..Definately Maybe? x
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Collate your posts to help the archive people??? No, I don't think a stream of consciousness of irrational ranting, parts one through four, would be all that helpful. If the readers of this forum want to hear nonsensical ramblings, they can listen to Dubya's explanation for vetoing stem-cell legislation again or listen to the GOP presidential candidates explain that evolution and global warming don't exist, but that Noah's Arc is fact.
Dude, what can I tell you that I haven't already said? You are negative. HIV is not your problem. No way. No how. Stop testing. Stop chasing a disease you could not possibly have. You need a psychiatrist to help you confront your unwarranted and irrational HIV fears.
Good luck.
Dr. Bob
WOO-HOO -THANKS!!!!- WOO-HOO Oct 9, 2007
Just Final Thanks. Remember Me??? Unusual Transmission/Failed Suicide/Don't Hate?
My Symptoms Were Virologic....NOT HIV, BUT Hepatitis B. My HbsAg Was Positive. I Was 1000% Convinced I Had Hiv From My Lymphadenopathy. You Were Right. Thanks for Helping a Total Stranger Out the Last 6 Months. Helped me Get over My Irrational HIV Fears, and Find The Real Cause. I am 100% Feeling Better, Especially Now I Know I Wasnt Just Imagining All My Symptoms. I Will Never Forget It. To Make a Change......I'm Sending YOU GOOD KARMA!!!!!!!
Response from Dr. Frascino
Congratulations! (I won't say "told ya so!") I hope you'll use your experience to "pay it forward." By that I mean help move the entire agenda of HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention forward. That means personally talking to your friends, relatives and acquaintances and also politically by voting Republicans out of office, insisting on science-based sex education in our schools, etc.
Stay well.
Dr. Bob


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Michael married Ellen about 1822 in Georgia. Ellen was born in 1802 in Bulloch County, Georgia. She died on 19 Apr 1884 in Madison County, Kentucky.
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Jane Caldwell was born in 1824 in Bulloch County, Georgia. She died in 1872 in Georgia.
David Caldwell was born about 1827 in Georgia. He died in 1893 in Georgia.
Mary Caldwell was born in 1830 in Georgia. She died in 1862 in Lincoln County, Georgia.
Virginia Betty Caldwell was born in 1832 in Bulloch County, Georgia. She died about 1888 in Georgia.
Phillip S. Caldwell was born in 1836 in Georgia. He died in 1903 in Mississippi.
Martin Caldwell was born circa 1838 in Kentucky. He died in 1894 in Georgia.
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The "growduino" smart garden project will, um, grow to include more sensors and controls, but watering on a schedule seems like a good starting point since I'll be leaving the rig alone for 17 days starting Friday.The program's main parameters are pump period (time between pumps) and pump duration.Still need to transplant the subjects (heirloom tomato and Artemisia pontica) and add medium, mount the pump, rewire the pump power with ground and a fuse (ahem), install drip lines, mount the electronic bits, and figure out nutriuent and timing parameters for tasty, healthy results.Sensing plans: soil/medium moisture, interior and exterior temperature and humidity, nutrient level, nutrient pH, sunlight intensity, sunlight direction, solar panel output, battery charge, CO2 level, what else?Control plans: shade raising & lowering, vent fan, camera, data logging to web site, battery charging, garden and/or reflector and/or solar panel aiming (sun-dependent), CO2 scrubbing (greenhouse gases for greenhouses!), what else?
/** Trigger a relay*/int gPin = 3; // green LEDint bPin = 4; // blue LED or red LED? red looks better int pumpPin = 2; // relay unsigned long time;unsigned long lastPumpTime;int pumpPeriodHours = 6; // hours between pumpsint pumpPeriodSec; // seconds between pumpsint pumpDurationSec = 10; // seconds the pump is runningint statusPeriod = 5000; // ms time between status blinks-- to let you know it's aliveint statusBlink = 200; // ms duration of status blinkvoid setup(){ pinMode(pumpPin, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(pumpPin, LOW); pinMode(gPin, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(gPin, LOW); pinMode(bPin, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(bPin, LOW); pumpPeriodSec = pumpPeriodHours * 60 * 60; // seconds between pump starts //pumpPeriodSec = 30; // for setting short periods when testing}void loop(){ lastPumpTime = millis(); // Activate the pump and status LED digitalWrite(pumpPin, HIGH); digitalWrite(bPin, HIGH); delay((pumpDurationSec*1000)); digitalWrite(pumpPin, LOW); digitalWrite(bPin, LOW); // Wait for the delay period, blinking periodically time = millis(); while ( ((time-lastPumpTime)/1000) < pumpPeriodSec ) { delay(statusPeriod-statusBlink); digitalWrite(gPin, HIGH); delay(statusBlink); digitalWrite(gPin, LOW); time = millis(); } }


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Welcome to our Wednesday selection of some of the best bags and bag bargains on eBay! This week, vintage Chanel caught our eye, as well as some nice offerings from Prada and Chloé. Happy shopping.
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La Toya Jackson has assured fans her father Joe is "recovering" and feeling "a lot better" after suffering a mild stroke.
The Jackson family patriarch and former manager of the Jackson 5 was reportedly admitted to a Las Vegas hospital after falling ill on Thursday morning.
He is expected to be sent home on Friday, and La Toya has taken to her Twitter.com page to clear up speculation about her father's health.
She writes, "Thank you all so very much for your concerns in regard to my father! He is recovering and is doing a lot better! Thank you for the well wishes and prayers for my father! It's much appreciated! Staying positive!"


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The most prevalent software architecture style is still "The Big Ball of Mud." Restructure101 for .Net from Headway Software is a superb weapon in our continuing battle against architecture entropy. Restructure101 parses an application and outputs a graphical dependency map of the components, classes and methods, in a format called Levelized Structure Maps (LSM). The LSMs provide a layered, drill-down/up structure that immediately reveals cyclic dependencies which Restructure101 presents as tangles.
An interesting user interface element is the Complexity Chart. The vertical axis shows the percentage of tangles in your code, and the horizontal axis shows the percentage of how "Fat" your code is. Fatness measures dependencies between methods within a class, or between classes within a namespace, as well as sheer bloat within your methods based on a Cyclomatic Complexity threshold you can configure. As you manipulate your code on the graphical layout, Restructure101 immediate updates the Complexity Chart, showing how fatness decreases as tangles increase, and vice versa.
You can create and manage any number of Sandboxes, which allow you to play and save "what if" structural refactorings of your code. When you have a Sandbox that reflects the structure you want, you can import this new structure into Visual Studio with Headway Software's Visual Studio add-in, which plugs into the VS build system and checks for structure violations whenever you compile your project source files. Each Sandbox is independent from others, and the Sandboxes can be stored in the Restructure101 repository until you delete them.
My evaluation included throwing at Restructure101 a product I am writing in C#/.Net. I was aware of several areas of architectural debt that I had allowed to build up. As an agile practitioner, I try to stay on top of my refactoring and keeping my code clean and understandable. When I pointed Restructure101 to my code, I was impressed with the speed of the UI rendering, and I meandered through the configuration settings to experiment with what Restructure101 could show me. I was also impressed with the variety of ways I could view my code structure: not only did Restructure101 show me the structural problems I already knew about, it showed me several I had no idea existed. My nUnit tests ran clean, my Builds were clean, but my internal dependency structure was not. I am happy to say that the next day my LSM looked much better after dragging my classes and methods around inside the Restructure101 LSM until my tangles were gone, and my fatness was significantly lighter! A couple hours of refactoring in Visual Studio and my code was in much better shape.
The speed of Restructure101's parsing is due to its optimization of data in local projects. Local projects store only the settings (e.g., class path/data file/granularity) required to load and view the code, so the structure of your code is re-created each time you open a project. But Structure101's repository lets you store persistent representations of your code's structure if you wish. Using the repository allows you to perform structural differencing to see changes between different project snapshots over time a very nice feature.
Although I evaluated ReStructure101 for .Net, Headway Software also offers Restructure101 for Java. Both retail for $900 per individual license, which is locked to a specific machine ID. Special pricing is available for academic or non-commercial personal use, and Structure101 is free for open source projects.
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House passes debt ceiling bill
The House overwhelmingly passed a bill Wednesday afternoon to allow the federal government to keep borrowing money until the middle of May, as Republicans attempt to defuse the debt ceiling as political issue.
The legislation, which was unveiled last week at a House Republican retreat in Virginia, passed on a 285-144 vote.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday the Senate will pass the House bill without changes, noting that the legislation is "clean," meaning it contains no spending cuts. Republicans spent 2011 insisting on matching the debt ceiling with trillions of dollars in spending reductions.
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The White House has said it would not block the legislation from becoming law.
"The president believes that we need to, as a country, do the responsible thing and without drama or delay, pay our bills, meet our commitments," White House spokesman Jay Carney said after the vote. "It is certainly important to recognize that the bill that passed the House today, the position that House Republicans took beginning late last week, represents a fundamental change from a strategy they pursued up until that point…. We are glad to see that that strategy is not being pursued anymore, so this is a welcome development."
This all means that the nation's debt limit, once the most potent of political weapons, is off the table until May 18. Republicans hope that this focuses Washington's attention on replacing the automatic spending cuts that hit the Defense department in March, government spending which expires at the end of March and prescriptions for entitlement reform.
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This week may bring the largest snowstorm of the winter to Addison County, but it will pale in comparison to the storms of last year - and to the forecasts many made last fall of a snowy winter. As winter nears its end, it is a good time to look back at these winter forecasts and see how they fared against actual conditions.
In this political era in which the leading Republicans of the land stumble over themselves to reject the wisdom of separating church in state in a political context; in which cutting taxes to corporations is the panacea for all that ails us; in which cow-towing to the fanatical wing of the party is the only path to the nomination; it is instructive and nostalgic, perhaps, to want to revisit President Abraham Lincoln's speech on slavery made in the Cooper Union, New York City on Feb. 27, 1860 – 152 years ago.
WATERBURY — Vermont State Police issued a statement today saying they are revising their search and rescue policy.
The move comes after VSP received public criticism for their slow response last month to the report of a hiker missing in the Green Mountains — 19-year-old Levi Duclos — who subsequently died on the trail.
As expected, the Vergennes Union High School boys' basketball team and both Middlebury Union hockey teams learned on Monday from the Vermont Principals' Association they would host first-round playoff games.
The 18-2 Commodore boys earned the top seed for the Division II playoffs and will host No. 16 Lamoille (6-14) on Tuesday at 7 p.m. A win on Tuesday means VUHS will host a Friday quarterfinal at 7 p.m. against either No. 8 Fair Haven (10-10) or No. 9 Bellows Falls (11-9). The Commodores have not faced any of those three teams this season.
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College men's basketball team will make its fifth consecutive NCAA Division III tournament appearance when the Panthers host a regional tournament Friday and Saturday in Pepin Gym.
The 24-3 Panthers will take on Morrisville State (19-8) on Friday at 7:30 p.m., preceded by a game between Albertus Magnus (27-1) and St. Joseph's of Long Island (21-4) at 5:30 p.m.. The winners meet on Saturday night at 7 p.m. in the regional final.
VERGENNES — A variety of incidents kept Vergennes police busy between Feb. 13 and 19, including family problems, an untimely death that police said was of natural causes, and traffic stops that included one drunk-driving citation.
In that seven-day span, Vergennes police:
• On Feb. 13 checked the welfare of a driver at a Monkton Road bank drive-through window who was reported to be acting erratically; police determined he was OK.
• On Feb. 13 accepted pain medication and drug paraphernalia for disposal.
BRISTOL — It's been almost five months since two men with baseball bats barged into Bristol's Living Well assisted care home, stealing roughly 270 doses of narcotics. But the incident still haunts 20-year-old Stepfanie Williams, who was on staff as a caregiver that September night.
Earlier this month, Williams met with Living Well staff, Bristol police and other concerned parties in Bristol's Holley Hall to discuss the incident and to explore what authorities call a growing drug problem in Addison County.
MIDDLEBURY — Local lawmakers continue to be concerned about the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant owner's ongoing legal fight to remain open and to remain part of the state's long-term energy future.
Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell on Feb. 17 announced that he will appeal a federal district court judge's ruling that gave new hope to Entergy Nuclear's quest to keep its Vernon-based power plant open.
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Matt Reeves, director of Cloverfield and the U.S. remake of Let The Right One In, is in final talks to direct the new Twilight Zone movie. And he could be making it as soon as next summer. But it won't be what you might be expecting from a film adaptation of Rod Serling's television series.
Here's how Deadline describes the new Twilight Zone, as written by Jason Rothenberg:
Though the last Twilight Zone film was an anthology with different directors, this one is a big science fiction action movie with a single freestanding story that is linked to the original series mainly in that it shares that familiarly eerie feel.
I have to admit, I'm having a hard time picturing a "big science fiction action movie with a single freestanding story" capturing the feeling of the original show.
The Deadline article also reveals that Reeves is signed up to direct a few other movies as well:
- This Dark Endeavor, a "revisionist take" on the Frankenstein story, based on the novel by Kenneth Oppel
- The Passage, an adaptation of Justin Cronin's apocalyptic vampire novel
- 8 O'Clock in the Morning, an adaptation of the short story by Ray Nelson about a man who wakes up and realizes that aliens are all over the place, and they control our society. (In other words: They Live.)


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Some events take place at The UCL Art Museum and The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.
Travellers' Toilets
May 11 & 12, 2013
Time: 1pm - 5pm
Location: Malet Place, London, WC1E 7JE
Visit our two pedagogical portaloos to explore UCL research on toilets, travel writing, cultural difference – and where to go, in London and around Europe.
Read the graffiti and add your own, pick up an anthology of travellers' toilet papers, share your own travel experiences, contribute to a discussion of cross-cultural lavatorial awareness, make a 'boghouse miscellany' for private perusal at home, or chat up the attendants.
This will really be something else for the weekend.
The project includes translation and editorial contributions from Alex Drace-Francis, University of Amsterdam.
Saturday May 11th
1pm-2pm: Travellers' anxieties: Where to go? (Art Museum)
Sunday May 12th
3pm-5pm: Cosmopolitan Loos: what travellers (and others) need to know (Room 110, Roberts Building)
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Release Date: August 31, 2012
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SACRAMENTO – Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to Louisiana residents and business owners as a result of President Obama's major disaster declaration for Individual Assistance, U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Karen G. Mills announced.
The declaration covers the Louisiana parishes of Jefferson, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. John the Baptist and St. Tammany as a result of Hurricane Isaac that began on August 26.
"The U. S. Small Business Administration is strongly committed to providing Louisianans with the most effective and customer-focused response possible and with access to federal disaster loans to help residents and businesses affected by Hurricane Isaac said Mills. "Getting our businesses and communities up and running after a disaster is our highest priority at SBA."
Disaster loans up to $200,000 are available to homeowners to repair or replace damaged or destroyed real estate. Homeowners and renters are eligible for up to $40,000 to repair or replace damaged or destroyed personal property.
Businesses of any size and private, nonprofit organizations may borrow up to $2 million to repair or replace damaged or destroyed real estate, machinery and equipment, inventory, and other business assets. SBA can also lend additional funds to homeowners and business owners to help with the cost of making improvements that protect, prevent or minimize the same type of disaster damage from occurring in the future.
For small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture, and most private, nonprofit organizations of any size, SBA offers Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs) to help meet working capital needs caused by the disaster. EIDL assistance is available regardless of whether the business suffered any property damage.
Interest rates can be as low as 1.688 percent for homeowners and renters, 4 percent for businesses, and 3 percent for private, non‑profit organizations, with terms up to 30 years. Loan amounts and terms are set by SBA and are based on each applicant's financial condition.
To be considered for all forms of disaster assistance, victims must first call the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) at (800) 621-FEMA (3362). As soon as Federal–State Disaster Recovery Centers are opened throughout the affected area, SBA will provide one-on-one assistance to disaster loan applicants. Additional information and details on the location of disaster recovery centers is available by calling the SBA Customer Service Center at (800) 659‑2955.
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Richard Norman "Doc" Hastings (born February 7, 1941) is the U.S. Representative for Washington's 4th congressional district, serving since 1995. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district includes most of the central part of the state, including Yakima, Wenatchee, and the Tri-Cities.
Doc Hastings was born in Spokane, Washington. He served in the United States Army Reserve from 1964 to 1969. He studied business administration at Columbia Basin College and Central Washington College but never finished either. Hastings was named Columbia Basin Alumni of the Year in 2001. He returned to Central Washington as commencement speaker in 2008.
Before being elected to Congress, Hastings ran his family-owned small business, Columbia Basin Paper and Supply. He was an active member of the Pasco Chamber of Commerce, the Pasco/Kennewick Rotary Club, the Pasco Downtown Development Association, and the Pasco Jaycees. He also served on the Board of Directors of Yakima Federal Savings.


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Fitbit (www.fitbit.com), an online service that helps consumers stay in shape with exercising and more, has announced publicly on Twitter that the company has no immediate plans to support Windows Phone. The service is currently available for both iOS and Android through two apps, as well as Windows 8 / RT with Fitbit now listed on the Windows Store.
@pinnassog No current plans for a Windows Phone 8 app with syncing capabilities, however the Windows 8 tablet app is live!— Fitbit Support (@FitbitSupport) January 4, 2013
This is a let down for those who wish to use the service and own a Windows Phone. We're confused why Fitbit has decided to release a Windows app without a companion app for Microsoft's mobile platform - it would make more sense for it to be the other way around. For Windows Phone to be left out of the party like this, we're not particularly impressed.
The good news is Windows Phone already has options for consumers who wish to keep fit, including the likes of runtastic and MyWalk. So not all hope is lost, but Fitbit is a nice, fully featured service which we'd like to see offered to Windows Phone owners.
Source: Twitter (Fitbit Support); thanks, Caleb, for the heads up!
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Liverpool announced last October that plans for a new stadium on Stanley Park had been scrapped in favour of refurbishing the club's historic home into a 60,000-capacity stadium, costing approximately £154m. Henry insists "good progress" has been made by Liverpool city council in purchasing the few remaining privately owned properties around Anfield, although a planning application will be submitted only once those deals are complete.
Tom Werner, the Liverpool chairman, held further talks with council officials during a visit to Merseyside last week and the club hope a breakthrough is close in the long-running, controversial stadium saga. FSG's predecessors, Hicks and Gillett, prolonged the delay during their near-ruinous tenure by scrapping stadium designs and then failing to secure funding for their preferred project. But Henry insists the finances are in place for FSG to redevelop Anfield, believed to be via the club's own banking facilities, and there will be no detrimental effect on Brendan Rodgers's transfer budget once work begins.
Henry said: "They [Hicks and Gillett] were talking about going out and borrowing an enormous amount of money for an enormous facility. That's not what we are doing here. One of their problems is that they weren't able to get financing.
"When this [project] happens, that won't be the problem. We just need certainty with regard to these properties. The number of properties is being reduced. The city council is doing everything they can and that's all we can ask. Not just the city council but Your Housing [a social housing developer] and everyone associated with this are all on the same page. The regeneration as well; we're all on the same page."
No plans have been unveiled for the refurbished Anfield, although it is understood to involve a new main stand and Anfield Road end being built behind the existing structures to minimise the impact on revenue. Asked if the work would have an effect on team rebuilding, Henry responded: "No, because it will pay for itself. It's actually a positive. It's one of the reasons we are doing it. It still provides excess cash. This is the direction that makes financial sense for the club in the long term." Liverpool initially hoped to apply for planning permission this spring but a handful of home owners have not agreed a deal with the city council and Your Housing.
"That's why we are where we are," confirmed Henry. Compulsory purchase orders remain an option, should the impasse continue, but legal disputes would add to the stadium delay and FSG want a resolution soon.
"We are making good progress," added Henry. "We have a lot of different groups working very well together and having everybody on the same page is the key to a big project like this happening and pretty much everyone is on the same page. The obstacles are not completely out of the way but we seem to be moving in that direction. The obstacles are being overcome. We don't have all the houses but we are making progress."
Liverpool's principal owner insisted he could not place a timeframe on a planning application for Anfield. He said: "We've always said you have to have certainty with regards to the properties because of the height of the stands and all the issues regarding that. That has been the biggest issue. We need certainty on that.
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There are at least four pro-sovereignty parties registered for the Sept. 4 election. Aside from the PQ, Quebec solidaire is the most established.
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Hey guys! So it's been exactly a month and one day since my last post! Which means, it's been way too long! My trip abroad was absolutely amazing! I'll share some delightful dessert photos from it at the end of the post. I came back from my trip tired and happy. But, a few days into my groggy stupor of jet-lag, I started jonesing for some baked goodness. I found some coconut milk in our fridge and thought, it must be a sign!
Now, I must admit, due to my jet-lagged stupor, I did cut some corners with the recipe which made not so pretty consequences with the frosting. As you can see form the photo, the frosting was a little drippy, haha! They still tasted yummy, especially the cupcakes themselves, but, I'd advise you not cut corners and follow the recipe to the "T". So what I didn't do was reduce the coconut milk. It takes a good a few hours and I just didn't want to wait. Lesson learned! Haha! But, you're supposed to reduce the coconut milk for the cupcakes, as well and they turned out just delectable. So you can take that for what it is 🙂
So first, reduce your coconut milk! [Directions at the bottom]
Now once your coconut milk is reduced and chilled AND then brought back to rom temp [hah!]. Preheat your oven to 350! Beat the butter till smooth then add the sugar and beat unti light and fluffy.
Then mix 2 eggs one at a time. Once that us incorporated mix in seeds from vanilla bean or pure vanilla extract. Mix in the last egg!
Mix all the remaining dry ingredients together. Then alternating, beat in half the dry ingredients and half the coconut milk till it's all gone. Pour into your prepared cupcake pans.
Bake for 25-30 minutes or until the tops of the cupcakes spring back when touched. The batter makes a lovely light cake.
My cupcakes look deflated because I didn't test them before I took them out. The recipe says 20 minutes, but mine definitely needed an added 5-7 minutes to poof up. My second batch looked much cuter. 🙂
Make your frosting with your reduced coconut milk. If you dont reduce it, like me, the frosting is too liquidy and will look curdled and be a little drippy. Haha, all the things you don't want in frosting! It still tastes yummy, but half the fun in cupcakes is the aesthetics. Anyway here's my less than pleasing to the eye frosting:
I placed it in a piping bag and piped on the frosting.
I then decided to dabble on some sprinkles to try and avert the eye from the oddly oozing frosting haha!
All in all they were quite tasty! They just looked a tad…off. Heh, lesson learned: never cut corners in the science of baking [unless it's proven successful!]. I'd recommend to just reduce your coconut milk before using and you'll have tasty AND cute cupcakes.
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- 2 13-to 14-ounce cans unsweetened coconut milk [this is for both the cupcakes and the frostin]
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 1/3 cups sugar
- 3 large eggs
- Seeds scraped from 1 split vanilla bean or 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
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Bring coconut milk to boil in large deep saucepan over medium-high heat (coconut milk will boil up high in pan, so be careful!). Reduce heat to mediumlow; boil until reduced to 1 1/2 cups, stirring occasionally, 25 to 30 minutes. Remove from heat; cool completely. Transfer to small bowl. Cover; chill (coconut milk will settle slightly as it cools). For those of you who are lazy, like me, DO THIS AHEAD OF TIME: Can be made 2 days ahead. Keep chilled. Bring out of fridge when you're ready to use and make sure it's at room temp.
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- 1/8 teaspoon salt
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Alright, so I promised to show some delectable Turkish and Italian dessert photos from my recent trip. Here you are!
Let's start with Turkey:
We walked through the streets of Istanbul and saw shops and restaurants with gorgeous vitrines full of yummy delights! Here there are different puddings.
Then we saw this delicious looking profiterole concoction.
This was a delicious honey cake I did try later and it was amazing!
On the right is a type of solidified rice pudding that was my mom's favorite by far. I wasn't too fond of the graininess in the texture, but it was fun to try!
We, obviously, came across a myriad of baklava:
We also came across and ate a ton of Turkish Delights!
We never got the chance to try these, but they looked very interesting. Tehy were balls of halva rolled into different kinds of nuts.
Then on the last night in Turkey, I got this amazing honey drenched cake with clotted cream dolloped in top. I still have longing dreams about this amazing dessert.
My mom chose a different version of her favorite broiled rice pudding with a scoop of Turkish vanilla ice cream.
Now, on to Italy!
While in Rome, I had my first Italian Cannoli! Delish!
Of course, we had our fair share of gelato!
Had one of the tastiest Tiramisu's in my life ata little restaurant in front of the Trevi Fountain called, Il Chianti.
We washed it down with some espresso.
And then, our veri friendly waiter brought us some after dessert delights of chocolate dipped almond slivers.
On a different evening, after stuffing myself with too much pasta, I needed a light dessert and was surprised with a very fresh and sweet bowl of fragola [strawberries] topped with a mascarpone cream. Mmmmmm
Then, while in Florence, near the Duomo, I saw these cute little guys called: Baba. Baba in Farsi means Dad and my dad didn't come with us on the trip and I missed him a lot so I thought it was a sign that I should buy one. It was delicious. It was a little sponge cake soaked in honey and alcohol. Yum!
Another Florentine treat I had was Cantucci di Prato. It's delicious anise flavored biscotti that you dip in sweet wine. Here were some Cantucci in a vitrine. I, unfortunately, didn't take a photo of the one I ate.
A different night in Florence, my Aunt and I had panna cotta. Mine was topped with chocolate and hers with fruit.
My mom, on the other hand, had an interesting take on tiramisu. It was Tiramisu with fruit in it and the lady fingers were soaked in Grand Marnier instead of Espresso.
All in all, it was a fantastic trip. And now, I'm back to continue my love of baking and sharing it with you guys!
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