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Blogmas # 5 Stocking Fillers for Him
I thought I would put together a little list of some stocking fillers for the men in your life. These are things that my dad, my brother or my boyfriend would love. I have included a few links so you can see some examples!
Table Top Sports Game: This is the sort of thing that my dad loves and is always something fun to play on Chirstmas Day/Boxing Day. The Works have a Foosball version which is very similar to the one I bought my dad last year! https://www.theworks.co.uk/p/activity-toys/tabletop-football/5052089255906?CAWELAID=720011340002669535&CATARGETID=720011340002488683&cadevice=c&gclid=CjwKCAiA0O7fBRASEiwAYI9QAh9026vRfNaV14RGLa_vXSliEo8ZPG1P9QCWG4V0fyrIGw13MBCrlBoCGcoQAvD_BwE
Christmas Socks: Socks are always a winner and in my family we love to find the craziest Chirstmas patterned ones we can find! Asos have a really great selection this year!
Christmas Hats: Along with the Christmas socks, this is also one that my family love. I have bought them from Primark and Sainsbury's in the past, but H&M have some different ones this year! https://www2.hm.com/en_gb/productpage.0697456001.html?gclid=CjwKCAiA0O7fBRASEiwAYI9QAuvbdE2sj-g2Sde4Ddai7H8RrBTaX32s23WS6A_1SqD5GUfrezYtERoCVZwQAvD_BwE&ef_id=W-xClQAAAPxUNdI4:20181126185933:s&s_kwcid=AL!850!3!296852201991!!!g!309247138059!#modal-1
Magic Tricks/Puzzles: This is one that my boyfriend loves. Most supermarkets have these around christmas in their stocking filler section but Amazon is also a great place to look!


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One of our sponsored children indicated that he would like to have a bike. I am willing to buy him one but want to go about it in the right way. First, should I be concerned that he may get the idea that we can purchase anything he wants going forward? Second, would it be best to buy it anonymously? Third, how do I go about this? If I just send money it may be used for other things. Can I coordinate with the local CI group on this?
I see from another post that sending money may be the best option, and the local CI group will make sure it gets used appropriately. So the only remaining question may be ... how much does an appropriate bike cost in Surabaya?
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Here I am with the Cilantro Chimichurri again, but today we will use it as a marinade on salmon! I almost didn't share this recipe with you guys, but it really saved one of my nights this week, so I figured… why keep this dirty little trick to myself!!?
This Cilantro Chimichurri is perfect for meal planning because it is amazing on everything, from steak to chicken wings! Check'em out!
I had the craziest week and barely any time to think. I had been sick, work has been so busy, bla bla bla… Dinner time sneaks up on me last night and right before I take the easy way out (takeout!! don't judge me!!) I decided to open the fridge for that one final check. Man, that was the right thing to do, because, when I opened the fridge, there it was all shinny and green, a whole week and a half after I prepared it, our old friend, the cilantro chimichurri! Woohoooo!!! I also had some salmon in the freezer, so bingo – dinner problem, solved!
Salmon with Cilantro Chimichurri Steps
All I did was season the salmon a little bit of salt and pepper, similar to what I did with the chicken wings and steak we talked about on the other posts. The difference here is we are going to spread a couple of tablespoons of chimichurri on the salmon and let it marinade for about 15-20 mins… not too long.
While the salmon was marinating I made some brown rice and pre-heated the oven. Then just pop the salmon in the oven for about 20 mins and dinner is done!
PS… How cute are these cilantro blossoms and how elegant they make this super simple dish look? Peeeeeeeeeeeerfect for that mid-week date night, eh! 😉 I grabbed them from our cilantro plant in our herb garden!!
So, make it and share your crazy day or mid-week dinner date story with me by tagging me or using #cookingwithaline
Bom Apetite!!
Salmon with Cilantro Chimichurri
- 2 skinless Salmon fillets
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 1/3 C of cilantro chimichurri
- salt and pepper to taste
- preheat oven to 350F
- season salmon with salt and pepper on both sides
- brush salmon fillets with half of the cilantro chimichurri, reserve the other half for finishing, and let marinate approximately 15-20 mins
- drizzle the olive oil on baking dish and place the fillets
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Gunned Down Under
The cold blooded murder of an Indian store owner and the callous behaviour of the police reveal the gloomy prospects of, and dreadful working conditions faced by, small business owners in New Zealand
— By Rakesh K. Simha in Auckland
Crime Wave
Saturday, June 7: Navtej Singh, 30, is shot dead.
Wednesday, June 11: Yang Yin Ping, 80, is killed in her Manurewa home by an unknown robber.
Friday, June 14: A topless bar in the same suburb as Navtej's store is robbed at gunpoint.
Monday, June 16: Joanne Wang, 39, is crushed to death by a vehicle as she protests over her handbag being stolen.
Wednesday, June 18: A jewellery store in Remuera's Auckland's poshest suburb, is robbed by a man armed with a heavy torch.
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Last night a stunning incident took place at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport when a ground service agent stole a turboprop for almost an hour. The man eventually crashed 30 miles away and thankfully there were no other passengers on board.
The man was 29 years old. The frightening incident shocked local residents as the man flew the aircraft at a low-level even performing loops. The plane eventually crashed and the unfortunately the man was killed.
The audio from the incident reveals a sad conversion with an individual who seemed to be astute, but sadly suicidal. In fact the man sounds to be very courteous to the air traffic controllers.
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text: Yoga Dealing with the inappropriate yoga guy Christine Garvin Mar 26, 2010 Yep, that know-it-all-wanna-be yoga guru is headed in your direction. WITH THE UPSWING in the popularity of yoga, it seems that wherever you go in the world, you're bound to run into this guy: Yep, Inappropriate Yoga Guy strikes again. Ok, ok, I lived in San Francisco, so I've been subjected to more than my fair share. But watch out, they're multiplying. Interested in what the yoga/new-age/cheese-muffins are like just north of San Francisco in Marin (quickly exporting to cities across the globe)? Then check out one of my favorite videos, The Man From Marin. And, good luck with that. Feature photo: tourist_on_earth Community Connection For what might be the perfect yoga retreat, check out Yoga Retreats on Koh Phangan, Thailand. Need to tap into some global yoga possibilities? Read about Matador's own Nancy Harder launch of a yoga and meditation social network. For more articles, check out our Focus Page on Yoga Travel. What did you think of this article? Meh Good Awesome Bookmark Posted In Yoga


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Sleepy, sad, angry, scared…showing and understanding emotions can be sometimes difficult for children. This wooden learning puzzle will playfully teach them a selected group of these situations. The puzzle can played as a memory game, too. Because it teaches the children to speak about what they see, it also promotes the understanding of speech and emotional intelligence. The lovingly painted, finely detailed puzzle has grippable wooden pieces which always depict an emotion in the form of a facial expression and a situation, which have to be matched together. It's also great for fine motor skills - a great toy, especially for kindergarten-aged kids!
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Improvisation and Community Workshop: January 16, 2013
The School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph is pleased to offer a special workshop on "Improvisation and Community" led by Joe Sorbara this Wednesday (January 16, 2013) from 8:30-10:00 in Lower Massey at the University of Guelph. The workshop is open to all University and Guelph community members and there is no admission charge.
Joe Sorbara is one of Canada's finest percussionists with extensive experience in linking musical improvisation with community-facing outcomes. An artist who has recorded with many distinguished jazz musicians on multiple labels, Sorbara is also a committed academic whose theoretical writings on improvisation are starting to make an impact.
This workshop will examine how improvisatory techniques of music-making can be applied to constructive community building practices. The workshop is taking place under the auspices of a graduate course on improvisation theory and practice taught by Daniel Fischlin, a University Research Chair and Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies.
This event is made possible through the generous support of the Visiting Speakers Committee (School of English and Theatre Studies) and the Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice MCRI-funded research project hosted at the University of Guelph.


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04 February 2010 #Dispute Resolution
There are many ways to challenge a Will or its effect on an estate. It may be that, instead of pursuing a claim that the Will is invalid, your claim should be addressed to a professional adviser who drafted the Will or gave tax advice etc (especially if a prior Will would then be effective which did not have acceptable terms or there is no Will at all). Broadly there are the following possible challenges you can consider:
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There could also be claims where the Will remains valid in whole or part:
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HA NOI (VNS) — The ASEAN University Network (AUN) had several achievements in setting up and developing policies, norms and quality processes for university members.
Phung Xuan Nha, principal of the Ha Noi National University, said this at a two-day conference that started yesterday in Ha Noi. The yearly conference for senior managers of the AUN was organised by the Ha Noi National University on the occasion of the ASEAN Year 2015 in Viet Nam.
Representatives from nearly 40 universities of the AUN in Japan, China and South Korea attended the conference.
Nha said the Ha Noi National University, which was a founder-member of the AUN management board, had participated enthusiastically in every activity of the network.
Inspection to check for quality based on AUN norms was one of the university's main areas of work, he said.
This year the Ha Noi National University will conduct quality inspection of the Ha Noi University for Natural Sciences, one of its university members.
"The inspection helped the Ha Noi National University adjust training curriculum and improve teaching and academic quality," Nha said.
The AUN was founded in 1995. — VNS


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An online accounting associate degree might be for you if you are interested in pursuing one of the careers in accounting, but do not necessarily want to put your life on hold.
While an accounting associate degree online is usually a first step toward getting an accounting bachelor degree online, it also can help you in your career on its own.What classes can I expect to take to get an accounting associate degree online?
Though specific classes vary from accounting degree program to program, you can expect to start out with the general classes that many associate degrees include, such as science (environmental, biology, physical science), English Composition, Psychology, Introduction to Government/Politics, and Technical Writing. Many of these classes can be transferred from previous class work or you can take the CLEP test for the subject to save yourself even more time.
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It is important to get your degree from regionally accredited online colleges or universities so that it will be respected by future employers. You also want it to be accepted for transfer credit, should you decide to pursue an accounting bachelor degree online or online master degree in accounting.
Florida Institute of Technology is regionally accredited by Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and offers an accounting associate degree online, accounting bachelor degree online, online master degree in accounting, among others. The associate degree in accounting online at Florida Tech Online can be completed in less than 20 months and is completely online, allowing you to advance in your career and degree without interrupting your life.
Kaplan University is also regionally accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and is 100% online. Kaplan University offers a variety of online accounting degree programs, including an online accounting associate degree. Kaplan University even gives tuition discounts to active U.S. military personnel and veterans.
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Molly Turner is an urban planner who teaches urban innovation at the Berkeley Haas School of Business. She was the first policy person at Airbnb.
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Remember when we had to ask strangers for directions? It's hard to believe the iPhone launched just over 10 years ago. It's not a coincidence that startups like Uber and Waze launched shortly thereafter. In the last decade, smartphones unleashed thousands of apps that have disrupted not only incumbent industries, but also our city streets. They've delivered everything to our doorstep so we never have to go to a store, turned spare rooms into hotel rooms, and pulled some urban-dwellers out of cars and subways and onto scooters. Steve Jobs may not have imagined just how important apps that rely on smartphone technology would become to urban life, but did the people who invested in them?
Billions of dollars have been poured into the startups behind these apps. Didi Chuxing raised $20.6 billion, Uber $22.4 billion, and Lyft $4.9 billion, according to the latest numbers from Crunchbase. Bike-sharing startups Ofo and Mobike raised $2.2 billion and $928 million respectively. And real estate disruptors Airbnb and WeWork raised $4.4 billion and $12 billion, according to Crunchbase. All together, Richard Florida estimated that in just a three-year period ending in July, more than $75 billion was invested in urban tech. That's about 17 percent of global venture-capital investment, more than pharma and biotech combined.
Why are tech investors so interested in disrupting cities? And is all that venture capital good for the people who live there?
These are questions we're tackling in the first episode of Technopolis, the new podcast from CityLab about how technology is disrupting, remaking, and sometimes overrunning our cities.
Throughout the season, we'll be your guides on this techno-urbanist adventure, exploring how tech might solve more problems than it creates. We've worked inside both government and tech, and have also studied them from the outside. These experiences have left us hopeful about the promise of tech innovation, and the power of the private sector to fill cities' deep budgetary gaps on affordable housing, transportation, and infrastructure. But, well, our experiences have also left us with some concerns.
Every week new startups raise millions of dollars and launch without permission on city streets. Can any city keep up with this pace of disruption? Do these innovators (and their investors) understand what urban problems need solving or what the unintended consequences of their interventions might be? And what does it mean for the rest of us who live in cities?
Welcome to Technopolis. Each week this season, we'll be discussing what's happening in Silicon Valley and in city hall, from autonomous vehicles, to battery-powered buildings, automated landlords, and the future of restaurants. We'll get at the heart of what tech is trying to do, why, and what it means for the rest of us.
As co-hosts, we'll share our inside knowledge of what startups and cities are thinking and debate what that all means for our urban future. We'll interview guests who can tell us what it's like to be on the inside of these ventures and policy debates. We hope to ask the questions that nobody is asking, and uncover how all this tech might transform our cities in unexpected ways.
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The coronavirus crisis stands to dramatically reshape cities around the world. But the biggest revolutions in urban space may have begun before the pandemic.
Now more than ever, public transportation is not just about ridership. Buses, trains, and subways make urban civilization possible.
Will COVID-19 change how cities are designed? Michele Acuto of the Connected Cities Lab talks about density, urbanization and pandemic preparation.
What do we know so far about the types of places that are more susceptible to the spread of Covid-19? In the U.S., density is just the beginning of the story.
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Streaming Tank support Focal Point VR at Champions Tennis – 4k 360 live streaming
We were trialling 4k 360 this weekend – but if you don't have a snazzy headset you'll still be able to see a version on YouTube if of interest! Info below…
We are proud to announce our support for Focal Point VR – and alongside Webcast Sport and IMG – streaming the finals of the Champions Tennis from the Royal Albert Hall, London in Virtual Reality. The VR broadcast of the matches is scheduled to start at 11:30am GMT on Sunday 4th December 2016.
Viewers watching the VR stream in the customer Focal Point VR app will be able to select their camera point of view, choosing from an ultra-high definition 6k VR livestream, a courtside stereo VR camera, and a netcord cam.
How to watch the Champions Tennis final in live in VR
Focal Point VR will be running multiple VR streams from the season ending finale to the ATP tour on Sunday 4th December. The streams can be viewed in VR headsets by downloading the Champions Tennis VR cardboard app from the Google Play store (which is being distributed as a closed beta app). For those with Gear VR headsets please use Sideload VR.
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It's official folks, the Pope is in Tampa and he is planning on ordaining Derek Jeter as the patron saint of professional sports. Once Jeter spoke these words on the topic of a contract extension being a distraction"No, because I am not going to discuss a contract for next season after today.''. The Pope immediately … Continue reading


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Our recipe of the week is Smoked Mackerel Sauce. It is not only yummy, but it also doesn't take more than thirty minutes to prepare! It can also be eaten with yam, boiled plantain, potatoes or rice.
For some Nigerian families, egg stew or fish sauce is a favourite breakfast or brunch meal on weekends. Join the bandwagon and make this recipe this weekend. You will love the smoky flavour of the fish and the tasty sauce.
You can also prepare a jug/bowl of Mango and Lemon Iced Tea to go with it!
- 2-3 whole slightly smoked mackerel fish
- 8-10 pieces fresh pepper or scotch bonnet pepper ( quantity to taste )
- 3-4 pieces whole fresh tomatoes
- One and a half medium sized sauce
- 3 cooking spoons vegetable oil (add a little more if the sauce is for boiled yam)
- 2-3 cooking spoons blended pepper/tomato/onion
- seasoning cube to taste
- 1/2 cooking spoon curry leaves or partmenjar
1. Blend the tomato, pepper and one onion coarsely. Set aside
2. Peel the skin from the fish, remove the bones and break into large chunks. (If you prefer your fish in small chunks you can either cut it that way or leave it to crumble up while cooking)
3. Chop the half onion and set aside
4. Heat the oil, fry the onion for one minute and add coarsely ground vegetables. Fry for 5 minutes. Add the blended previously boiled tomato/pepper/onion and fry for 5 minutes.
5. Taste and add seasoning and salt if need be. Your sauce is almost ready when oil starts to float on top of the stew and the tangy tomato taste is off
6. Add the fish and stir carefully or simply shake the pot and lower the heat for the fish to cook for about 3 minutes.
7. Finally, add the curry leaves, cook for 2 minutes and the Mackerel Fish Sauce is done!
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For the first time in recent history, antiretroviral (ARV) research was not the focal point of the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), which took place February 8 to 11 in Montreal. While some delegates walking the halls of the Palais des Congrès grumbled that the lack of new ARV data hinted ominously of a depleted pipeline, the lack of pharmaceutical jockeying provided a little more breathing room for research that might not otherwise have made headlines.
What follows are intriguing highlights from this year's conference, the 16th CROI. For an even more complete list of our coverage—video interviews are still being added—check out our conference page or click on the links below:
Combating Complications
While ARV therapy has tremendously improved the length and quality of HIV-positive people's lives, side effects and a high risk of non-AIDS-related complications remain all too real. In fact, researchers at CROI estimate that half of all premature deaths among people with HIV are not related to AIDS, but instead stem from other medical issues that are becoming increasingly prevalent among those living with the virus. As researchers learn more about these health challenges, they also stumble upon useful clues to prevent and manage them.
Cardio Risk
- Two major studies reported at CROI confirm earlier reports that ongoing use of the protease inhibitor Kaletra (lopinavir/ritonavir)—as well as Lexiva (fosamprenavir), Agenerase (amprenavir) or Crixivan (indinavir)—increases the risk of a heart attack, independent of other factors associated with cardiovascular disease. These studies—plus an Australian clinical trial—also mirror previous reports establishing a link between cardiovascular disease (CVD) and abacavir (found in Ziagen, Epzicom and Trizivir). Conversely, the results of a government-funded AIDS Clinical Trials Group study failed to find a link between abacavir and a higher risk of a heart attack.
- Seeking to unravel the mystery surrounding heart problems in people taking abacavir, researchers have found that HIV-positive men and women on the drug do not have higher levels of blood vessel inflammation—a possible explanation put forth in the past. But according to another study reported at CROI, those on abacavir may have overly reactive blood clotting factors that may lead to heart attacks.
- 16th CROI delegates also heard new evidence that HIV itself can harden the arteries as much as other risk factors, including age, smoking and diabetes, do. According to University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) researcher Carl Grunfeld, MD, highly specific scans of the carotid arteries of people living with HIV found significant blood vessel thickening compared with HIV-negative controls—a finding that has been overlooked by other groups and may help explain the higher risk of CVD in people with the virus, even without other risk factors.
- Results of one study showed that many risk factors that help raise the risk of death are modifiable, suggesting that behavioral changes and proper medical care can extend life. Whether it's CVD or non-AIDS-related cancers, smoking, low body weight, diabetes or high blood pressure—all of which can be controlled—they each doubled, tripled or quadrupled the risk of death. These findings, researcher Colette Smith, MD, of the University College of London Medical School, argued, "reiterate the importance of addressing traditional, non-HIV specific risk factors in order to further reduce death rates in HIV-positive populations."
- Smoking tops the list of modifiable risk factors targeted by many public health efforts—there's no shortage of data linking cigarettes to substantially higher rates of CVD, cancers and lung disease in relatively young HIV-positive people. But it can be a difficult habit for HIV-positive people to break, according to one CROI study. While no more than 10 percent of individuals participating in one of two Rhode Island programs abstained from smoking for six months, higher success rates among Hispanics compared with other racial or ethnic groups were encouraging.
Disturbing Cancer Answers
- From the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Roughly 25 percent of HIV-positive women, with their higher risk of cervical cancer, are not receiving annual Pap smears to screen for abnormalities that can lead to the potentially fatal malignancy. Efforts to step up education and integrated care are very much needed, the CDC presenters argue, to ensure that HIV-positive women are receiving recommended preventive care.
- A California analysis of collected data indicates that HIV-positive people with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL)—a cancer of the immune system—face a significantly higher risk of death than HIV-negative individuals with the same malignancy. While this CROI report was troubling in light of previous studies showing improved survival in recent years, another encouraging report made many delegates sit up and take notice: By measuring certain protein fragments in the blood, it may be possible to screen individuals to determine their risk for the cancer.
Nervous System Symptoms
- Distal sensory polyneuropathy (DSPN, also known as peripheral neuropathy or PN)—nerve damage that can cause tingling and pain in the feet and hands—affects more than half of all people with HIV. While fewer people are now using ARVs considered to be prime DSPN causes, notably Videx (didanosine) and Zerit (stavudine), people living with HIV are now more likely to suffer from other risk factors for the potentially debilitating condition: diabetes and elevated triglyceride levels.
- Rates of AIDS-related dementia remain at an all-time low, but another—albeit, much milder—central nervous system problem appears to be on the rise: HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND). Not surprisingly, aging is a risk factor. One study found at least one symptom of HAND—including problems with remembering, thinking and learning new tasks—in 37 percent of HIV-positive individuals averaging 46 years old, whereas another reported the rate to be in excess of 50 percent in a cohort of HIV-positive individuals averaging 67 years old. An expanding waistline is also associated with HAND, as is a diabetes diagnosis, which increased the risk more than sevenfold.
Treatments to Watch
- Testosterone is present in women as well as men, and a study reported at CROI indicates that long-term testosterone replacement therapy is safe and beneficial for women with low levels of the natural hormone. When the ovaries and adrenal glands are not producing enough testosterone, low-dose replacement therapy—in the form of skin patches applied twice weekly—used for 18 months yielded significant improvements in body composition, bone mineral density and quality of life in a study involving 23 women living with HIV.
- For HIV-positive people with lipoatrophy, Avandia—a member of the "glitazone" drug class approved for the treatment of diabetes—may help reverse fat loss. The encouraging results of a study presented at CROI counter those of several earlier clinical trials, likely because patients in this one were no longer treating their HIV with either zidovudine (found in Retrovir, Combivir and Trizivir) or stavudine (Zerit)—two HIV meds believed to cause lipoatrophy. Unfortunately, the researchers only looked at fat changes in the legs and arms; it is not clear from this study whether Avandia reverses fat loss where many people find it most distressing: in the face.
HIV Treatment News and Views
While not the headlining act, advances—and a few setbacks—in HIV treatment made news at CROI. Three items of note: further evidence to support early HIV treatment, promise from studies of two new boosting agents to replace Norvir (ritonavir) and disappointing yet long-awaited results from two massive studies of the immune-based therapy Proleukin (IL-2).
- Multiple lines of evidence now support initiating ARV therapy earlier than currently recommended. But if guidelines experts are to commit a new recommendation to paper, they will require research consistently illustrating when treatment should be started based on CD4 cell counts. Two CROI presentations confirm that earlier ARV treatment yields lifesaving benefits, but they did not agree on the best time to begin that treatment. One study suggested that starting ARV therapy when CD4s are between 350 and 450 is best, whereas the second concluded that treatment should be initiated with the CD4 count above 500.
- Two pharmaceutical companies have made progress developing novel agents that can be used in place of Norvir (ritonavir) to boost other HIV drugs in the blood stream. Gilead Sciences, testing GS 9350, and Sequoia Pharmaceuticals, testing SPI-452, each presented data from its Phase I studies involving HIV-negative volunteers. Both companies are now planning to move these promising candidates into studies involving people living with HIV.
- It's official: Proleukin (interleukin-2, IL-2), an experimental immune-based therapy that has been studied for more than 15 years in people with HIV, simply doesn't work. When compared with ARV therapy alone, adding Proleukin to ARV treatment did not protect people from dying or developing an opportunistic infection, although it did produce greater increases in CD4 counts. Two possible explanations for the lackluster results: CD4 cells generated using Proleukin may not be sufficiently functional to ward off infections, or the drug may cause some as yet unidentified damage to the immune system that outweighs whatever benefit it provides in CD4 increases.
Attention to Prevention
Biomedical approaches to prevention—developing microbicides and using medicine such as ARV treatment as pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis—continue to show promise.


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Getting your priorities right | Clearleft
A ludicrously useful grab-bag of prioritisation techniques from Chris—so, so handy for workshops and sprint planning.
A ludicrously useful grab-bag of prioritisation techniques from Chris—so, so handy for workshops and sprint planning.
Through planning and architectural design, Le Corbusier hoped to create a scientifically rational and comprehensive solution to urban problems in a way that would both promote democracy and quality of life. For him, the factory production process applied to high-rise buildings with prefabricated and standardized components is the most modern and egalitarian of urban forms.
Something something top-down design systems.
As part of the BBC's ongoing series on deep time, Alexander Rose describes the research he's been doing for the clock of the long now—materials, locations, ideas …all the pieces that have historically combined to allow artifacts to survive.
Krystal compares two styles of writing and applies them to onboarding.
Well, this an interesting format experiment—the latest Black Mirror just dropped, and it's a PDF.
The terrific Hugo-winning short story about inequality, urban planning, and automation, written by Hao Jinfang and translated by Ken Liu (who translated The Three Body Problem series).
Hao Jinfang also wrote this essay about the story:
I've been troubled by inequality for a long time. When I majored in physics as an undergraduate, I once stared at the distribution curve for American household income that showed profound inequality, and tried to fit the data against black-body distribution or Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution. I wanted to know how such a curve came about, and whether it implied some kind of universality: something as natural as particle energy distribution functions, so natural it led to despair.
Procedurally generated medieval town plans. Pick a size and then have some fun with the "warp" option.
I think we often focus on designing or building an element, without researching the other elements it should connect to—without understanding the system it lives in.
Some ideas on the best of use of time in sprint zero of an agile project.
- Understand your context
- Identify risks
- Understand the business process
- Get testing infrastructure
- Understand quality attributes
- Get to know the people
- Prepare an initial product backlog
- Build a walking skeleton/spike
- Build a learning backlog
A useful design strategy exercise from Marty Neumeier.
An initiative by David Brin and the Arthur C. Clarke Center For Human Imagination at UC San Diego. You are confronted with a what-if scenario, and your task is to recall any works of speculative fiction that have covered it.
Accessing more than a hundred years of science fiction thought experiments, TASAT taps into a passionate, global community of writers, scholars, librarians, and fans. We aim to curate a reading list applicable to problems and possibilities of tomorrow.
I keep thinking about this post from Baldur Bjarnason, Over-engineering is under-engineering. It took me a while to get my head around what he was saying, but now that (I think) I understand it, I find it to be very astute.
Let's take a single interface element, say, a dropdown menu. This is the example Laura uses in her article for 24 Ways called Accessibility Through Semantic HTML. You've got two choices, broadly speaking:
select element.
divs and
The advantage of the first choice is that it's lightweight, it works everywhere, and the browser does all the hard work for you.
You don't get complete control. Because the browser is doing the heavy lifting, you can't craft the details of the dropdown to look identical on different browser/OS combinations.
This is the point that Baldur makes: no matter how much you over-engineer your own custom solution, there'll always be something that falls between the cracks. So, ironically, the over-engineered solution—when compared to the simple under-engineered native browser solution—ends up being under-engineered.
Is it worth it? Rian Rietveld asks:
The answer, as ever, is it depends. It depends on your priorities. If your priority is having consistent control over the details, then foregoing native browser functionality in favour of scripting everything yourself aligns with your goals.
But I'm reminded of something that Eric often says:
The web does not value consistency. The web values ubiquity.
Ubiquity; universality; accessibility—however you want to label it, it's what lies at the heart of the World Wide Web. It's the idea that anyone should be able to access a resource, regardless of technical or personal constraints. It's an admirable goal, and what's even more admirable is that the web succeeds in this goal! But sometimes something's gotta give, and that something is control. Rian again:
The days that a website must be pixel perfect and must look the same in every browser are over. There are so many devices these days, that an identical design for all is not doable. Or we must take a huge effort for custom form elements design.
I think Jake's navigation transitions proposal is fascinating. What if there were a browser-native way to get more control over how page navigations happen? I reckon that would cover the justification of 90% of single page apps.
That's a great way of examining these kinds of decisions and questioning how this tension could be resolved. If people are frustrated by the lack of control in browser-native navigations, let's figure out a way to give them more control. If people are frustrated by the lack of styling for
select elements, maybe we should figure out a way of giving them more control over styling.
Hang on though. I feel like I've painted a divisive picture, like you have to make a choice between ubiquity or consistency. But the rather wonderful truth is that, on the web, you can have your cake and eat it. That's what I was getting at with the three-step approach I describe in Resilient Web Design:
- Identify core functionality.
- Make that functionality available using the simplest possible technology.
- Enhance!
Like, say…
select element.
a element with an
href attribute.
The pushback I get from people in the control/consistency camp is that this sounds like more work. It kinda is. But honestly, in my experience, it's not that much more work. Also, and I realise I'm contradicting the part where I said I'm lazy, but that's why it's called work. This is our job. It's not about what we prefer; it's about serving the needs of the people who use what we build.
Anyway, if I were to rephrase my three-step process in terms of under-engineering and over-engineering, it might look something like this:
Ubiquity, then consistency.
Harry cautions against making assumptions about the network when it comes to front-end development:
Yet time and time again I see developers falling into the same old traps—making assumptions or overly-optimistic predictions about the conditions in which their apps will run.
Planning for the worst-case scenario is never a wasted effort:
If you build and structure applications such that they survive adverse conditions, then they will thrive in favourable ones.
Paul pulls no punches in this rousing talk from Patterns Day.
The transcript is on his site.
Paul has published the slides and transcript of his knock-out talk at Patterns Day. This a must-read: superb stuff!
Design systems are an attempt to add a layer of logic and reasoning over a series decisions made by complex, irrational, emotional human beings. As such, they are subject to individual perspectives, biases, and aspirations.
How does the culture in which they are made effect the resulting design?
Paul finishes up his excellent three part series by getting down to the brass tacks of designing and building components on the web …and in cities. His closing provocation has echoes of Heydon's rallying cry.
If you missed the other parts of this series, they are:
Danielle and Mark have been working flat out on Fractal. Here's the roadmap they're working to.
Sally gives a really good introduction to using service workers as a progressive enhancement.
Paul is turning his excellent talk on design systems into a three part series. Here's part one, looking at urban planning from Brasília to London.
We've been doing a lot of soul-searching at Clearleft recently; examining our values; trying to make implicit unspoken assumptions explicit and spoken. That process has unearthed some activities that have been at the heart of our company from the very start—sharing, teaching, and nurturing. After all, Clearleft would never have been formed if it weren't for the generosity of people out there on the web sharing with myself, Andy, and Richard.
One of the values/mottos/watchwords that's emerging is "Share what you learn." I like that a lot. It echoes the original slogan of the World Wide Web project, "Share what you know." It's been a driving force behind our writing, speaking, and events.
In the same spirit, we've been running internship programmes for many years now. John is the latest of a long line of alumni that includes Anna, Emil, and James.
By the way—and this should go without saying, but apparently it still needs to be said—the internships are always, always paid. I know that there are other industries where unpaid internships are the norm. I've even heard otherwise-intelligent people defend those unpaid internships for the experience they offer. But what kind of message does it send to someone about the worth of their work when you withhold payment for it? Our industry is young. Let's not fall foul of the pernicious traps set by older industries that have habitualised exploitation.
In the past couple of years, Andy concocted a new internship scheme:
So this year we decided to try a different approach by scouring the end of year degree shows for hot new talent. We found them not in the interaction courses as we'd expected, but from the worlds of Product Design, Digital Design and Robotics. We assembled a team of three interns , with a range of complementary skills, gave them a space on the mezzanine floor of our new building, and set them a high level brief.
The first such programme resulted in Chüne. The latest Clearleft internship project has just come to an end. The result is Notice.
This time 'round, the three young graduates were Chloe, Chris and Monika. They each have differing but complementary skill sets: Chloe is a user interface designer; Chris is a product designer; Monika is an artist who knows her way around hardware hacking and coding.
Once again, they were set a fairly loose brief. They should come up with something "to enrich the lives of local residents" and it should have a physical and digital component to it.
They got stuck in to researching and brainstorming ideas. At the end of each week, we'd all gather together to get a playback of what they were coming up with. It was at these playbacks that the interns were introduced to a concept that they will no doubt encounter again in their professional lives: seagulling AKA the swoop and poop. For once, it was the Clearlefties who were in the position of being swoop-and-poopers, rather than swoop-and-poopies.
As the midway point of the internship approached, there were some interesting ideas, but no clear "winner" to pursue. Something else was happening around this time too: dConstruct 2015.
The interns pitched in with helping out at the event, and in return, we kidnapped some of the speakers—namely John Willshire and Chris Noessel—to offer them some guidance.
There was also plenty of inspiration to be had from the dConstruct talks themselves. One talk in particular struck a chord: Dan Hill's The City Of Things …especially the bit where he railed against the terrible state of planning application notices:
Most of the time, it ends up down the bottom of the lamppost—soiled and soggy and forgotten. This should be an amazing thing!
Hmm… sounds like something that could enrich the lives of local residents.
Not long after that, Matt Webb came to visit. He encouraged the interns to focus in on just the two ideas that really excited them rather then the 5 or 6 that they were considering. So at the next playback, they presented two potential projects—one about biking and the other about city planning. They put it to a vote and the second project won by a landslide.
That was the genesis of Notice. After that, they pulled out all the stops.
Not content with designing one device, they came up with a range of three devices to match the differing scope of planning applications. They set about making a working prototype of the device intended for the most common applications.
Last week marked the end of the project and the grand unveiling.
They've done a great job. All the details are on the website, including this little note I wrote about the project:
This internship programme was an experiment for Clearleft. We wanted to see what would happen if you put through talented young people in a room together for three months to work on a fairly loose brief. Crucially, we wanted to see work that wasn't directly related to our day-to-day dealings with web design.
We offered feedback and advice, but we received so much more in return. Monika, Chloe, and Chris brought an energy and enthusiasm to the Clearleft office that was invigorating. And the quality of the work they produced together exceeded our wildest expectations.
We hereby declare this experiment a success!
Personally, I think the work they've produced is very strong indeed. It would be a shame for it to end now. Perhaps there's a way that it could be funded for further development. Here's hoping.
As impressed as I am with the work, I'm even more impressed with the people. They're not just talented and hard work—they're a jolly nice bunch to have around.
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Independence Day, observed annually on August 15, is a national holiday in India commemorating the nation's independence from British rule on August 15, 1947.
India attained freedom following an independence movement noted for largely nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience led by the Indian National Congress.
The flagship event in Independence Day celebrations takes place in Delhi, where the Prime Minister hoists the national flag at the Red Fort and delivers from its ramparts a speech. The holiday is observed throughout India with flag-hoisting ceremonies, parades and cultural events. Indians celebrate the day by displaying the national flag on their attire, accessories, homes and vehicles; by listening to patriotic songs, watching patriotic movies; and bonding with family and friends. Books and films feature the independence and partition in their narrative.
Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment, we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity. — Jawaharlal Nehru