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I should probably be talking about asparagus or something, right? Well, this girl, she can't live on lovely, local, seasonal produce alone. I'll be checking in with all of you on your local journey on early on in the week, but today is for me to show you what else is going on in my kitchen. Today, we're talking brownies, as in, "can't stop eating them" brownies.
If you bake well, or heck, even if you're a disastrous baker, friends come out of the woodwork. I mean, even a fallen cake is tasty, how could any combination of butter, sugar, and chocolate not be tasty? Most of my baking creations go to my friends at work. Several who peek over at my desk from day-to-day to see what I've brought in. This usually immediately follows a discussion with my husband at home where he tells me, "Do NOT bring any of that in, it's mine." Usually, I ignore him, there's a good reason though. Keep reading.
I made that mistake with these brownies. I believed him. I didn't bring any to work. Oh, how that was a mistake. You see, if that pan sits on my counter for a couple of days, this is what happens. I get up in the morning, make my coffee, I see that pan, covered with little foil, gleaming on the kitchen island. While I mindlessly start sipping coffee in my lack-of-sleep induced haze, my fingers start stretching. They tiptoe across the wooden cutting board, towards that pan, pick up the knife that's always nearby, and cut the smallest of squares. Brownies with coffee, hell's yeah.
But it doesn't end there.
Mid-morning comes, sun streaming through my kitchen windows beautifully, hitting than pan of brownies, making the foil shimmer like diamonds. I'm maybe working on a blog post, chatting with you all on Twitter, playing with pugs, or thinking (stress, "thinking" here) about cleaning the house. I see the sparkle, my fingers start stretching again. Suddenly, in my walk from the kitchen to the living room to stop a pug from eating paperwork left on the table (yes, they eat paper), I stop and cut off a tiny square.
You see a pattern here, right?
By the time I'm thinking of packing up a tiny square for dessert after my dinner at work, I'm horrified. I look down at that seemingly innocent baking pan, and a big chunk is missing. That's because the scene I described for you above, it keeps happening all morning.
So that is why, dear co-workers, you always get treats. Your producer has zero willpower. Love, Kimmy.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies
Makes: 16 brownies
Adapted from: Ghiradelli
4 oz Semi-Sweet Baking Chocolate (1 bar)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, cut into pieces
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons flour
1/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Peanut Butter Topping:
1/2 cup peanut butter (I used all-natural and local Teddie's. If using a commercial version, use sugar to taste)
2 teaspoons sugar
1/8 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Grease an 8x8 baking pan and set aside. In a double-boiler (or a heat-safe bowl placed over a saucepan of simmering water), melt chocolate bar and butter over low heat, consistently stirring, until smooth. Take pan off the heat and set aside to cool to room temperature. Once cooled, stir in brown sugar and vanilla. Next, add your eggs and stir until combined. Now, in another bowl, sift (yes I mean it, sift it) together flour, baking powder, and salt. Fold the flour mixture into the chocolate mixture. Finally, stir in your chocolate chips. Pour batter into the prepared pan and set aside.
In another bowl, combine your peanut butter, sugar and vanilla and stir until well-mixed. Now, taste the mixture. You can add more sugar if it's not sweet enough for you. Now, take the peanut butter mixture and pour it out on top of your brownie batter. Using a spatula, spread and swirl the peanut butter topping across the brownie batter.
Pop that pan in the oven, and bake about 25 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool on a wire baking rack before cutting.
North Shore Bloggers Consortium Weekend Picks 5/13-5/15
North Berwick Farmers' Market, Opening Day
Friday, May 13th, at North Berwick Town Hall Parking Lot, 21 Main Street North Berwick, Maine
Now, OK, I know this is outside the North Shore, but I'm always happy to give any farmers' market some love on opening day. I mean, this farmers' market has lobster, granola, honey, greens, duck eggs, the whole nine yards. Check them out, it sounds lovely. If you want more information, click here.
Vintage Baseball
Saturday, May 14th, at Spencer-Little Farm (5 Little's Lane Newbury, Mass)
11am -4pm / Free Admission
Watch the Essex Base Ball Club take on the Brooklyn Atlantics in this throwback game of baseball. It's played just like it was in the 1860's. You can bring a blanket, sample some Ipswich Ale and watch it unfold on a lovely spring afternoon.
Bouquets in Bloom, An Evening of Wine Tasting
Saturday, May 14th, at Newburyport City Hall, 60 Pleasant Street, Newburyport, MA
6pm-9:30pm / Tickets: $35 at the door, $30 in advance (for ticket info, click here)
Enjoy an evening of tasting different wines from all over. Various nibbles will be on hand from local chefs and Cabot Cheddar. There will be a live auction and plenty of yummy stuff to talk over. The proceeds from the evening are going to Yankee Homecoming, Newburyport's week-long summer celebration.
Check out what Seth of Lynn Happens has found for you here.
North Shore Dish spices things up with their weekend picks here North Shore Dish
Choices from all over New England at The Two Palaverers.
The wonderful Jane Ward has some great ideas, over at Food and Fiction.


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Saved at the salvage yard
Our son had some trouble with his car, and his mechanic advised him that a used part would make the repair a lot cheaper. He couldn't take off time from his job, so I volunteered to get the part. I inquired by telephone at some salvage yards and finally found a compatible vehicle at Arrow Salvage at Nortonville, Kentucky.
"We don't take parts off cars without a deposit," the man on the phone told me. So I drove up there to make a down payment.
Nortonville is a small town in southern Hopkins County, about 45 miles from where I live in Christian County. Arrow Salvage is a few miles west of Nortonville on a small highway that winds through the hills to Dawson Springs.
I was a little worried about finding the salvage yard, but it had a huge sign painted on the side of an old semi trailer. Then I wasn't sure whether the sign really meant I should turn on the extremely wide road with a coal mine sign and a half-closed gate. But yes, that was the right road, and it led to the discontinued coal mine which is the site of Arrow Salvage.
Apparently when the coal mine ceased operation, the big crane and some other equipment were left in place. Arrow Salvage recycles cars, steel, aluminum, copper, and brass (according to their sign on the highway) so maybe they'll eventually pull down that machinery and recycle it.
Inside the little office, the boss was on the phone with someone who wanted parts for a car. A black and white kitten was playing around the legs of his desk. As I waited, my shoelaces caught the kitten's eye, and he attacked them vigorously. To divert his attention, I scooped him up and tried to pet him. He didn't have any patience for that, so I picked up a flyswatter and convinced him that he should play with it instead of my feet.
The boss finally terminated his phone call. "Sorry about that," he said. "Sometimes they have to tell you their life story." As he was writing the receipt for my deposit, I told him I liked his kitten.
Then one day, an elderly lady came to the salvage yard, and she tried to make friends with the kitten. He was feeling frisky, and he nipped her finger with his sharp little teeth, as kittens are prone to do. The lady bled a little, but the boss thought it was a minor injury. "You know how old folks bleed real easy," he told me, and I agreed that we do.
But the lady didn't take her injury so lightly. She went home and called the Health Department, and some workers drove out to the salvage yard to investigate. It made the man mad because the little kitten was innocent. He had only been playing, and he wasn't sick. They wanted to know if it was his cat. He told them, "No, but by gosh, it's going to be."
So the kitten went to the vet where it was observed for a period of time. At the end of its quarantine, the vet pronounced it healthy and gave it the vaccinations it needed, and the man paid the bill and brought his kitten back home to the salvage yard.
As I drove home, I pondered how the kitten had won the friendship of a busy man who runs a metal salvage business and doesn't take parts off cars without a deposit.
The next day, I drove back to the salvage yard to pick up the part. The sun was shining brightly, and the air was pleasantly cool. The boss and another worker had a pickup truck and trailer parked beside the office, and they were working on the truck. The kitten wasn't in the office when I paid the remaining balance for the part, so I asked about him. "He's out there in the trailer, and he's feeling real frisky this morning," the boss said.
"Feeling real frisky" meant that the kitten was climbing the slats of the trailer and reaching out to snag anything that came within range. I managed to get a couple of wild-eyed photos of him. They don't do him justice. He really is a beautiful little creature -- sleek and lithe and overflowing with the joy of life.

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Re: st: ANOVAs and Probability Weights
Steve Samuels <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: ANOVAs and Probability Weights
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:50:08 -0500
Sorry, I see part of my answer was garbled when I pasted from my text editor. Here's a cleaner version.
To sum up what you've said so far: all schools in sets 1 and 2 nationally were invited to participate. There was no sampling of schools (since all were invited), but teachers were sampled from the combined rosters of the participating schools. Set 3 is the result of a multistage sample.
To partly answer your questions: regression coefficients are indeed legit as descriptions of finite populations: they are estimates of the coefficients that would be obtained if you did regression on every teacher in the population. If you wish to use the estimates to test hypotheses or form conclusions about causal impact, then they are estimates for a hypothetical set of repetitions of the finite population--a "super" population.
You are interested in results for a subset of schools. In the survey literature, such subsets are called "domains" (as in Lohr, 2009, ref below) or "subpopulations" (as in Stata). Stata adds the subpop() option to survey commands to handle subpopulations. This requires that the data set contain information about schools _not_ in the subpopulation. See: http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-11/msg00810.html. The requirement to use the -subpop- option will apply only to your set 3 analysis, as it is the only set in which schools were sampled.
If the weights in any of the three sets were post-stratified to reflect national totals (e.g. teacher gender and age distributions), then those weights might be wrong for the subpopulation. In that case, you would need to re-weight.
This is a difficult analysis, and before you go further, I suggest that you become familiar with fundamental survey concepts. I recommend that you read Sharon Lohr's Sampling: Design & Analysis (2009). Section 11.4, for example, might help to answer your very good question about "which population". The Stata Survey Manual has good Stata examples. So does the book by Heeringa, S., West, B. T., & Berglund, P. A. (2010): Applied survey data analysis.
On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, email@example.com wrote:
Thank you for your response, Steve! I walked through the syntax you sent me-very helpful.
Now I have a few more questions, but first a few details...In my study there are three distinct sets of schools from which teacher rosters are obtained and, subsequently, teachers are randomly selected for participation.
The first two sets of schools are from the same sector/ master file and differ only by school type; there is no real "strata" per se as all member schools in this group are invited to participate in the survey, although there is some non-response. This group (in its entirety) is representative at the national level only. I have manually coded these schools by type utilizing external data.
The 3rd type of school comes from a much larger file which is representative at the US national, regional and state levels. There are strata identified for this sector.
When I run svy: regress, I do get a population estimate but I am unsure of the actual population which is being represented. Is the number generated legit since there are differences on the stratification? Another constraint I brought into the analysis was a school level criteria of 75% F/Reduced lunch eligibility for inclusion in the Public group...Again, I am unsure of how this is impacted (or impacts) the weighting procedures and the resulting target population.
Any insights would be appreciated.
ANOVA is equivalent to multiple regression on group indicators.
So -svyset- the data with the design information (clusters, strata, weights), and use -svy: reg-.
Note that hypothesis tests are not appropriate if you are interested in describing the particular finite population where the survey was done. For references, see: http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-09/msg01121.html.
Instead, you can assess differences in means with confidence intervals. In the descriptive setting, get minimal standard errors by specifying the finite population correction, if non-negligible, in the -svyset- statement.
sysuse auto, clear
recode rep78 1/2=3
rename turn psu
svyset psu [pw = weight], strata(foreign)
svy: mean mpg, over(rep78)
// no covariates:
xi: svy: reg mpg i.rep78 // F test
testparm _Irep78* //same
test _Irep78_4 _Irep78_5 , mtest(sidak)
// with covariates:
xi: svy: reg mpg i.rep78 length
On Feb 12, 2012, at 8:58 PM, email@example.com wrote:
Greetings Stata Aficionados!
I would like to do some group means tests with a survey data set which includes final and replicate weights.
Could someone please direct me as to how I might perform "weighted" ANOVAs with such a data set using Stata 10.
Kind regards,
Don Stryker
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Clinical Trials
Antiviral Activity of Peg-IFN-Alpha-2A in Chronic HIV-1 Infection
The Wistar Institute
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Hoffmann-La Roche
Information provided by (Responsible Party)
Luis Montaner, The Wistar Institute
First received: January 4, 2008
Last updated: January 28, 2015
Last Verified: January 2015
History of Changes
The objective of the study is to compare two different doses of Peg-INF-α-2A (90 or 180 ug/wk) for their ability to maintain viral control when initiated 5 weeks before ART (antiretroviral therapy) interruption in HIV positive, ART-suppressed subjects (viral load <50 copies/ml) as determined by observing the percentages of viral load measurements <400 copies/ml between the two arms over a 24-week period, corresponding to the Pegasys monotherapy period (exclusive of dual ART/Pegasys 5-week period). Primary analysis will be an "intent to treat" analysis and will address the hypothesis that two different doses of Peg-INF-α-2A (90 and 180 ug/week) will be similarly effective at inhibiting viral replication.
HIV Infections
Drug : Pegylated Interferon-alpha 2a, 180 mcg/week sc
Drug : Pegylated Interferon-alpha 2a, 90 mcg/week sc
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Antiviral Activity of Peg-IFN-Alpha-2A in Chronic HIV-1 Infection
Further study details as provided by Luis Montaner, The Wistar Institute:
Primary Outcome Measures
HIV Viral Load < 400 Copies/ml
[ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]
% of individuals maintaining viral suppression (VL < 400 copies/ml) as compared to the anticipated rate of viral suppression in individuals interrupting ART without interferon (9%)
- HIV Viral Load < 48 Copies/ml
[ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]
% of individuals maintaining VL < 48 copies/ml while on pegylated interferon alpha-2a treatment without ART
- HIV Viral Load < 400 Copies/ml
[ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
% of individuals maintaining viral suppression (VL < 400 copies/ml) as compared to the anticipated rate of viral suppression in individuals interrupting ART without interferon (9%)
|Study Start Date:
|January 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator:
Pegasys 180 mcg/week
ART replacement treatment with Pegylated Interferon-alpha 2a, 180 mcg/week sc
Pegylated Interferon-alpha 2a, 180 mcg/week sc
Pegylated Interferon-alpha 2a, 90 mcg/week sc for 24 weeks, 5 weeks in combination with ART, then 7 weeks without ART to primary endpoint (VL < 400 c/ml at 12 weeks) and further 12 weeks without ART (24 weeks) to secondary endpoints
Other Name: Pegasys
Active Comparator:
Pegasys 90 mcg/week
ART replacement treatment with Pegylated Interferon-alpha 2a, 90 mcg/week sc
Pegylated Interferon-alpha 2a, 90 mcg/week sc
Pegylated Interferon-alpha 2a, 90 mcg/week sc for 24 weeks, 5 weeks in combination with ART, then 7 weeks without ART to primary endpoint (VL < 400 c/ml at 12 weeks) and further 12 weeks without ART (24 weeks) to secondary endpoints
Other Name: Pegasys
Detailed Description:
The high toxicity of current Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) regimens has driven a number of
studies investigating therapeutic approaches aimed at reducing drug exposure while
maintaining the beneficial effects of immune reconstitution. Preliminary observations in
HCV/HIV co-infected individuals already support an antiviral effect by Pegylated
Interferon-Alpha-2A (Peg-IFN-Alpha-2A:Pegasys®) on HIV-1 replication; however, the ability of
Peg-IFN-Alpha-2A (as a single agent) to maintain long-term suppression of HIV-1 replication
in patients who interrupt ART after having achieved immune reconstitution remains
undetermined. The rationale for addressing two doses of Peg-IFN-Alpha-2A (180 and 90 ug/week)
is based on the antiviral activity reported with both doses and the lower incidence of
adverse events associated with doses lower than that approved for HCV therapy (90 versus
The long-range goal of this proposal is to determine if Peg-IFN-Alpha-2A monotherapy can sustain HIV-1 suppression in the absence of ART in infected individuals. Our short-range goal is to determine the safety, viral suppressive potential and immune correlates of Peg-IFN-Alpha-2A administered upon the cessation of suppressive ART.
Based on the current literature and our preliminary studies, we hypothesize that weekly doses of 90 or 180 ug/wk of Peg-IFN-Alpha-2A administered to pharmacologically-suppressed HIV-infected individuals in the course of antiretroviral therapy (ART) discontinuation will result in equivalent frequency of viral control, with the lower dose resulting in measurably lower rate and intensity of therapy-related adverse events (AE).
We propose to compare two different doses of Peg-IFN-Alpha-2A (90 or 180 ug/wk) as a simplification step to ART, for their ability to maintain viral load suppression when initiated 5 weeks before ART interruption in HIV-infected, ART-suppressed patients (VL<50 copies/ml). Briefly, control will be determined by the the percentages of viral load measurements <400 copies/ml between the two arms over a period of 24 weeks, corresponding to the Pegasys monotherapy period (exclusive of dual ART/Pegasys 5-week period). A threshold of 400 is used based on the known potential for blipping on ART between 50 and 400 copies/ml with no clinical consequence to sustained suppression thereafter (JAMA 2005, 293:817-829). Primary analysis will be an "intent to treat" analysis and will address the hypothesis that two different doses of Peg-IFN-Alpha-2A (90 and 180 ug/week) will be similarly effective at inhibiting viral replication.
- of the research are:
- To prospectively evaluate dose-dependent, treatment-associated toxicity, safety and tolerability of 29 weekly doses of Peg-IFN-Alpha-2A at 180 ug or 90 ug/week (in association with ART for the initial 5 weeks, followed by 24 weeks of Peg-IFN-Alpha-2A in the absence of ART).
- To determine innate immunity outcomes correlated to Peg-IFN-Alpha-2A dose and antiviral activity by monitoring Natural Killer (NK) and Dendritic cell (DC) subsets changes and the ability to maintain innate immune function (DC secretory responses, NK antiviral cytotoxic responses)
- To determine adaptive immunity outcomes correlated to Peg-IFN-Alpha-2A dose and
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male or female, age ≥ 18 but <65 years
- Able and willing to provide informed consent.
- HIV-1 infection documented by any licensed enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test kit and confirmed by Western Blot at any time prior to or at study entry. HIV-1 culture, HIV-1 antigen, plasma HIV-1 RNA, or a second antibody test by a method other than ELISA is acceptable as an alternative confirmatory test
- HIV RNA < 75 copies/ml on a regimen of a) 2 Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (NRTIs) and 1 non-nucleoside RTI (NNRTI) OR b) 2 NRTIs and Protease Inhibitor (PI) for at least 24 weeks OR c) 3 NRTIs
- HIV RNA < 75 copies/ml at screening
- > 6 months ≥ 400 CD4+ T cells/mm3 (CD4 nadir ≥ 200 cells)
- Female subjects with childbearing potential: negative pregnancy test (Beta human horionic gonadotropin (HCG)). Must agree to use appropriate contraceptive methods (barrier devices such as diaphragms or condoms + spermicidal or intrauterine device (IUD) or oral contraceptives) while on study.
- Karnofsky performance scale score of 80% or better
- Willing to adhere to the treatment and schedule approved by the study investigators in conjunction with the patient's primary provider.
- Willing to abstain from immunomodulatory drugs during the study period, with the exception of the study drug (Pegasys®).
- Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-2 score < 2, OR PHQ-9 score< 10, OR PHQ-9 score 10-14 AND medical provider's favorable opinion. In either case, score for PHQ-9 question # 9 (suicidal ideation) must be 0.
- Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) within normal range, unless accompanied by thyroid profile consistent with normal thyroid function
- A negative cardiac stress test if >45yrs men/>55yrs women years of age or if below these years of age but with two added risk factors for coronary artery disease [smoking, hypertension (BP >140/90 or on antihypertensive medications), low Hight density lipoprotein (HDL)-associated cholesterol (<40 mg/dL), family history of premature Coronary heart disease (CHD) (<55 yrs males/<65 females)] or a Framingham score > 15% (men) or 10% (women))
Exclusion Criteria:
- Currently pregnant or breast feeding.
- CD4 cell count < 400 or recorded CD4 nadir < 200 cells/mm3
- History of immunomodulatory therapy for over 2 weeks during the 6 months prior to enrollment, including, but not limited to: IFN-Alpha or Beta (recombinant or pegylated), systemic corticosteroids; systemic cancer chemotherapy/irradiation; cyclosporin; tacrolimus (FK-506); OKT-3; any Interleukin, including IL-2; cyclophosphamide; methotrexate; IVIG (gamma globulin); G/M-CSF; hydroxyurea; thalidomide; pentoxifylline; thymopentin; thymosin; dithiocarbonate; polyribonucleoside.
- Significant co-existing medical conditions including: Anemia (Hgb <9.1 men, <8.9 women), Neutropenia (ANC < 1000), Thrombocytopenia (platelet count <50K), Liver disease (AST/ALT > 5x, Total Bilirubin > 1.5x upper limits of normal, or Total Bilirubin >3x upper limit of the norm (ULN) if receiving indinavir), Renal disease (creatinine > 2x upper normal limits), or other conditions, such as active drug/alcohol abuse or dependence which would interfere with study compliance.
- Any history of heart attacks, myocardial infarction or coronary arterial disease (MI/CAD). .
- Prior history of major depression or other severe psychiatric disorder/condition requiring treatment and/or hospitalization
- PHQ-9 score >14, OR PHQ-9 score > 10 - 14 and lack of medical provider's favorable opinion, or score for PHQ-9 answer # 9 (suicidal ideation) > 0.
- Evidence of chronic active Hepatitis B infection (Surface Antigen HBsAg) or Hepatitis C plymerase chain reaction (PCR) positivity at screening (cleared of HCV at entry >6 months).
- Past evidence of medical conditions associated with chronic liver disease including genetic hemochromatosis, autoimmune hepatitis, alcoholic liver disease, toxin exposures etc.
- History of neutropenia or other hematological abnormalities
- Type I diabetes mellitus, or type II diabetes mellitus that is not controlled with oral agents and/or insulin.
- Ongoing treatment with Isoniazide, Pyrazinamide, Rifabutin, Rifampicin, Diadenosine Ganciclovir, Valganciclovir, Oxymetholone, Thalidomide or Theophylline.
- History of autoimmune processes including Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, severe psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, myositis, hepatitis etc.
- History of major organ transplantation with an existing functional graft.
- Active coronary artery disease within 24 weeks prior to study
- Hemoglobinopathies such as sickle cell anemia or Thalassemia major.
- Hypersensitivity to Pegasys®or any of its components.
Contacts and LocationsChoosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision.Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below.For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00594880
Locations Show More
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Drexel University College of Medicine
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19102
|Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
|Penn-Presbyterian Medical Center
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
|The Wistar Institute
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
|Jonathan Lax Immune Disorders Clinic
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19107
Sponsors and CollaboratorsThe Wistar Institute
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Hoffmann-La Roche
|Study Chair:
|Luis Montaner, DVM, PhD
|The Wistar Institute
|Principal Investigator:
|Jay Kostman, MD
|Penn-Presbyterian Medical Center
|Principal Investigator:
|Pablo Tebas, MD
|University of Pennsylvania
|Principal Investigator:
|Jeffrey Jacobson, MD
|Drexel University College of Medicine
|Principal Investigator:
|Karam Mounzer, MD
|Jonathan Lax Immune Disorders Clinic- Philadelphia FIGHT
More Information
|Responsible Party:
|Luis Montaner, Protocol Chair / Prinicipal Investigator, The Wistar Institute
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00594880 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|January 4, 2008
|Last Updated:
|January 28, 2015
Keywords provided by Luis Montaner, The Wistar Institute:HIV
Viral Suppression
ART cessation
Immune function
Innate Immunity
Immune-based therapy
Treatment interruption
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Communicable Diseases
Interferon alpha-2
Peginterferon alfa-2a
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on May 29, 2020
This information is provided by ClinicalTrials.gov.


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On sale now!
Thank Newton for orbital mechanics. This week, well take a look at the masterpiece that started all with Magnificent Principia by Colin Pask out from Prometheus Books. Sir Isaac published his Philosphiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica on July 5th, 1687. And although every high school physics student is (or hopefully, should be) familiar with the three laws of motion that it advanced, few have ever actually read the original work. [Read more...]


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Untouchables: Lifestyles Of The Rich And Powerful
[Policing Wall Street]
In this article I wish to describe the protection New York State accorded to a confessed serial rapist and stock manipulator by the Manhattan District Attorney.
In 1993, as readers of my column now know, I met with FBI Special Agent Joseph Yastremski, when the agency was investigating serious alleged crimes and corruption on Wall Street. I informed Yastremski that my primary reason for going to the FBI about criminal activity at
the American Stock Exchange was that a Board Member, Robert VanCaneghan had allegedly raped some of his female employees.
I also described the involvement of Louis Miceli and VanCaneghan, members of the Board of the American Stock Exchange, in the Mafia stock fraud, PNF. I told Yastremski that Al Avasso, a convicted felon and front man for the Italian Mafia, had boasted that he had bribed the senior executive in charge of compliance at the AMEX.
Avasso had masterminded another stockfraud, Greyhound Electronics. Avasso had earned $25 million in this stock fraud-and did not pay taxes on these illegally earned millions. As described in my previous articles, Heinz Grein, who had laundered billions for Ferdinand Marcos, also laundered Avasso's money into a Luxembourg bank.
Avasso had approached Miceli and VanCaneghan with the stock fraud, PNF. Avasso told them that he had earned more than $25 million in the Greyhound Electronics stock fraud. Avasso said that they could earn more than $100 million if PNF were to be listed on the Amex- provided that Miceli and VanCaneghan were the specialists in PNF and assisted Avasso in this fraud.
I also informed Yastremski that VanCaneghan and other members of the Board of the AMEX had boasted that Robert Morgenthau,
then District Attorney of New York County, would never prosecute VanCaneghan. It was not that VanCaneghan was a friend of Morgenthau. No--Alan Greenberg , CEO of Bear Stearns, and Jim Cayne, future CEO of Bear Stearns, were friends of Morgenthau.
Manfredonia, a former trader, was tossed from Wall Street after he became a whistleblower.
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May 14, 2013
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Cardboard Beer Coaster Promotional Items For Any Business
Promotional coasters are frequently seen in taverns, cafes, and restaurants. They may promote an eatery, or a beverage, or just be interesting, such as a beer coaster that says Cheers in several languages. They have the dual purpose of being useful, and capable of carrying a message or image.
Playing on the Idea with Promotional Products
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Our houses are full of them: a dozen refrigerator magnets, a drawer full of key rings, some wall clocks, not a few umbrellas, pens and more ball pens, couple of hats, scores of coffee mugs and tumblers, and not to be missed calendars here and there. For the hoard of useful promotional products, thanks to a local paint store and the neighborhood auto parts shop, but also to the luxurious downtown hotel for special gift of complete bath set.
Imprinted promotional items are so common these days that every one owns at least one or two of them - from pens imprinted with a popular brand of pharmaceutical product to key chains handed over by a large airline company. Indeed, well-known organizations and small-businesses alike know the value of rewarding their customers or clients with promotional items, stuffs customers appreciate for their usefulness and trendy designs.


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While Dunn hasn't hit 40 home runs since 2008, he's played half his games in a pitcher's park with Washington. Nationals' Park hurt left-handers when it came to home runs, according to StatCorner's park factors (94=below average, 100=average). Dunn still hit 20 home runs at home in 2010 and 19 in 2009, though, both of which were not lower than his road totals.
But U.S. Cellular Field is a hitter's haven, as StatCorner rates its home run park factor for left-handed hitters at 122. That bodes extremely well for Dunn's chances to get back to a 40-home run mark.
… Essentially, the White Sox are betting that Dunn can maintain his peak production into his early 30s while switching leagues and potentially transitioning to being a bat-only player. If he sees some age related decline, struggles in the American League, or doesn't adjust well to life as a sometimes-DH, he'll have a hard time justifying this contract.
However, Dunn has been a remarkably consistent offensive performer, and he's going to the American League version of heaven for flyball hitters. While it's probably a bit more money than I would have paid, it's pretty easy to see Dunn being successful in Chicago for at least the first half of this deal. It's probably a bit of an overpay, but it's one that has a decent chance of working out.
It's the right move for the White Sox to make. Whether it's correlated to questions about his conditioning, Jenks has proven to be injury-prone over the last few seasons. And he's due for a raise off his $7.5 million 2010 salary. There aren't many closers that are worth ~$9 million. Jenks isn't one of them.
But here's why letting Jenks go is dangerous: All his advanced numbers point in the direction of a rebound year in terms of results. …
As for Jenks, he now becomes one of the most interesting free agents available. With no free agent compensation required, teams will only part with money in order to sign him. The disagreement between Jenks' earned run average (4.44) and peripheral-based run average metrics (2.59 FIP) might lead to a discount rate as well. This is a guy coming off a season with a career-low xFIP (2.62) who also had the worst strand rate (65.4%) and batting average on balls in play against (.368) of his six-year career.
Those last two are vital to his inflated ERA. It's common baseball sense: the fewer runners you strand, the more runners you allow to score and the larger your ERA grows. How BABIP plays into an increased ERA is no philosophical issue either, as more hits have a tendency to mean more baserunners and more run-scoring opportunities. Given how the rest of Jenks' career has played out, it seems safe – if not concrete – to say 2010's hit and strand rates will become apparitions rather than telltale embodiment of Jenks' abilities. …
UPDATE: Brett Ballantini @ CSN:
… Jenks has lost confidence in his deathly yakker, and must regain it to become an elite closer again. He threw it just 7.4% of the time in 2010, the lowest of his career—and often replacing it is his most hittable pitch, the slider.
And it's not as if Jenks has lost his stuff, with a sweet K rate (10.42 K/9, second best of his career). His Fielder Independent Pitching (FIP, essentially an ERA-type figure taking fielders out of the equation) was as good as any in his career, at just 2.52. And his ground ball-to-fly ball ratio, which must be high to ensure success in a microwave like U.S. Cellular Field, was a career-best 2.80, indicating that Jenks, for all his woes, is keeping the ball down and mastering the ability to pitch in his tricky home park.
So a strong case can be made that Jenks is due for a strong, if not stellar, bounce-back season. Sabermeister Bill James envisions (not entirely because of but largely due to better luck, a BABIP trimmed to .307) a 32-save season and a 3.12 ERA.


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When I first started imagining this ice cream bar, I had originally planned to make a coconut popsicle with maybe some chunks of tropical fruit like pineapple and mango. That idea then transformed into one for a coconut ice cream bar, which I was hopeful would turn out creamy and luscious even without using an ice cream maker.
And then, since I've been ignoring chocolate a little this summer with all the beautiful stone fruits and berries stealing the attention, I thought I might dip the ice cream bars in chocolate.
What I didn't even realize was that I was mentally creating something that would end up tasting just like a Mounds candy bar, in ice cream form.
I loved that this recipe didn't require a bit of cooking, is easily made without an ice cream maker, and only takes a few minutes to assemble, with most of the time spent just letting everything hang out in the freezer while you wait impatiently for it to be ready to eat.
When you bite through the hard, dark chocolate shell (which is - did you guess yet? - a recipe for homemade "Magic Shell"!) to reveal the creamy coconut ice cream inside, you might even think you're eating a frozen Mounds bar!
The jingling tune that the ice cream truck played, letting us know it was coming down our street, always sent my brother, sister and I running to my mom, begging for ice cream. I don't actually remember ever getting to buy any from him, although I'm sure there was a time or two, but I think if he had been selling these Mounds ice cream bars, my mom would have had a hard time saying no.
"Mounds" Ice Cream Bars (chocolate-covered coconut ice cream bars)
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ice cream:
- 1 can (13.66) full-fat coconut milk
- 1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
- 1 cup sweetened shredded coconut
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon coconut extract
- 1 cup dark, bittersweet chocolate, chopped, or chocolate chips (70% cacao)
- 3 tablespoons coconut oil
In a blender, combine the coconut milk, sweetened condensed milk, shredded coconut, vanilla and coconut extracts. Blend for 1 minute. Pour into popsicle molds (I have the "Jelly Belly" brand, and this was enough to fill 10 molds).
Place molds in the freezer and freeze for 1 hour. After an hour, insert popsicle sticks, then freeze until firm, at least 4 hours.
To make the chocolate coating, place the chocolate and coconut oil in a microwavable bowl; the oil will be solid at room temperature. Microwave on high for 30 seconds. Stir, then microwave for 30 more seconds. Stir until smooth and liquidy. Let sit at room temperature for 15 minutes.
Cook's note: I used dark, bittersweet chocolate for the chocolate coating since it's not only what I prefer, but is more reminiscent of a Mounds candy bar. For a more traditional Magic Shell chocolate to pour over ice cream, use semi-sweet or milk chocolate instead.
Carefully unmold the ice cream bars from their popsicle molds; if they get too soft, place on a baking sheet and stick them back in the freezer for a few minutes.
To coat the ice cream with the chocolate, I tried dipping them, but found that didn't work well. The easiest way to coat them was to hold the ice cream bars by the stick over the bowl of chocolate coating, and spoon the chocolate over the ice cream, letting the excess run off. You will have to work quickly; this chocolate coating is the equivalent of "Magic Shell" and will harden as soon as it touches the ice cream.
After letting the excess chocolate run off, place the ice cream bars on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Repeat with remaining ice cream bars and chocolate. Freeze for one hour before serving. Store any leftover ice cream bars in a tupperware container in the freezer.
If you have leftover Magic Shell, store in a glass jar at room temperature, rewarming gently before using if it solidifies.
Yields 10 ice cream bars.
Recipe from Curly Girl Kitchen


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Oxford Furnace ( Campbell )
Virginia : Flag of State
Please find in what follows the full listing of the places related to the town of Oxford Furnace. Places are ordered by kind:Cemetery - Church - Dam - Populated Place - Stream.
Besides Oxford Furnace in the County of ( Campbell ) there are the following places of kind Populated Place . These are reported in what follows in alphabetical order:
Altavista - Bedford Springs - Beechwood Hills - Belmont Acres - Beverly Heights - Bocock - Brookneal - Browntown - Brush Tavern - City Farm - Closeburn Manor - Concord - Deacon (historical) - Deer Creek - Diamond Hill - East Brook - Evington - Fairfields - Federal Hill Estates - Forest Hill - Gladys - Green Hill - Green Meadows - Happy Valley - Hat Creek - Hillsman Corner - Hodges - Holly Hills South - Holts Crossing - Kelly - Kingston - Lakewood - Landmark - Lanes Well Fork - Lawyers - Leesville - Lo Roy Acres - Locust Gardens Mobile Home Park - Long Island - Long Mountain Estates - Lynch Station - Marysville - Melrose - Mitchell Mill - Moseley Heights - Mount Athos (historical) - Mount Zion - Naruna - New London - Nottingham Forest - Oak Grove - Penn Forest - Perrows - Powhatan - Rainbow Forest - Russellwood - Rustburg - Sandy Acres - Seminole Ridge - Seminole Ridge - Seneca - Sherwill - Sherwood Forest - Six Mile - Sleepy Hollow - Spring Mills - Sugar Hill - Sunny Banks - Taber - Tanglewood - Thomas Terrace - Three Forks - Timberlake - Tulip Tree Acres - Valley View Heights - Vista Acres - Westward Park - Whetstone Hills - Wildwood - Windcrest Manor - Winfall - Woodlawn - Yellow Branch .
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- English translation : Thus always to tyrants (Latin)
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Friday Quiz: Feedback Loops, Positive and Negative
February 20, 2009
What is the difference between positive and negative feedback loops?
A: "Positive feedback, sometimes referred to as "cumulative causation", is a feedback loop system in which the system responds to perturbation in the same direction as the perturbation.
In contrast, a system that responds to the perturbation in the opposite direction is called a negative feedback system. These concepts were first recognized as broadly applicable by Norbert Wiener in his 1948 work on cybernetics.
The effect of a positive feedback loop is not necessarily "positive" in the sense of being desirable. The name refers to the nature of change rather than the desirability of the outcome. The negative feedback loop tends to slow down a process, while the positive feedback loop tends to speed it up.
A system in equilibrium in which there is positive feedback to any change in its current state is said to be in an unstable equilibrium, whereas it is possible for one with negative feedback to be in a stable equilibrium.
The end result of a positive feedback is often amplifying and "explosive", i.e. a small perturbation results in big changes. This feedback, in turn, will drive the system further away from its original set point, thus amplifying the original perturbation signal, and eventually become explosive because the amplification often grows exponentially (with the first order positive feedback), or even hyperbolically (with the second order positive feedback).
A simple and practical example of negative feedback is a thermostat. When the temperature in a heated room reaches a certain upper limit the room heating is switched off so that the temperature begins to fall. When the temperature drops to a lower limit, the heating is switched on again. Provided the limits are close to each other, a steady room temperature is maintained. The same applies to a cooling system, such as an air conditioner, a refrigerator, or a freezer.
Some biological systems exhibit negative feedback such as the baroreflex in blood pressure regulation and erythropoiesis. Many biological process (e.g., in the human anatomy) use negative feedback. Examples of this are numerous, from the regulating of body temperature, to the regulating of blood glucose levels."
A kind and astute reader corrected my confusion on positive and negative feedback a few years ago. In essence, the question posed by the global financial meltdown could be phrased: which feedback loops will dominate the process? If positive feedback loops predominate, then we get the doomsday runaway-train/nuclear fission analogy in which the entire global financial system implodes and life becomes nasty, brutish and short for millions, if not billions.
Alternatively, if negative feedback loops predominate, then the downtrends currently in place will be slowly modified until a new equilibrium is established.
It seems many see only positive feedback loops in play, but I see numerous negative feedback loops in play as well. For instance, as gasoline prices rose and the economy stumbled, gasoline use fell dramatically in the U.S. This is a negative feedback loop. The government throwing trillions of borrowed dollars at "the problem" is also a negative feedback loop. Citizens demanding an end to the bank bailouts (see link in right sidebar) is also a negative feedback loop.
Panic tends to be a positive feedback, reasoned action based on practical gleanings from history tend to be a negative feedback loop.
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The rise in core city populations isn't only happening in large metros.
Back in June, Brookings Institution demographer William Frey dug into a new set of Census figures and determined that in America's 51 largest metro areas, on average, the core cities had suddenly started growing slightly faster than their suburbs. Frey's analysis focused on larger metros, but as it turns out, much the same story had been happening in smaller metros such as Clarksville, Tennessee, or Lexington, Kentucky. A new study released Monday by Smart Growth America, the national community-development advocacy organization, expanded on Frey's work to examine the population growth rates in the center cities of small U.S. metros (those with under one million people) between 2010 to 2011.
The top 10, below (table from the report):
"The fact that cities in small metro areas are growing suggests that there's a trend toward city living in smaller metros too," says Bill Fulton, vice president of policy and research for Smart Growth America.
These growth rates, however, are still smaller than those of large metros. The Washington, D.C. metro area, for instance, saw a 2.43 percent growth rate in the primary city and a 1.54 percent growth rate in its suburbs during the 2010 to 2011 period, according to Brookings.
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Christian Tutundjian de Vartavan Collection
- Vartavan MSS
- Collection
Notes, reports and negatives and photographs of botanical specimens from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Correspondence.
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Christian Tutundjian de Vartavan Collection
Notes, reports and negatives and photographs of botanical specimens from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Correspondence.
Vartavan, Christian Tutundjian de
Gerald Avery Wainwright Photographs Collection
Photographs of Egyptian sites and museum objects.
Wainwright, Gerald Avery
John Gardner Wilkinson Collection
Journal 1841-1842 and some correspondence.
Wilkinson, (Sir) John Gardner
Alexandra Helen Wilkinson Collection
Complete papers, including notes, drafts and photographs on ancient Egyptian gardens and cultivation, and some on jewellery.
Wilkinson, Alexandra (Alix) Helen
François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette Collection
Catalogue of objects found in the Serapeum at Saqqara in 1850-2 and now in the Musée du Louvre. Copied by Mrs M. M. Emery.
Mariette, (Pasha) François Auguste Ferdinand
Donald Benjamin Harden Collection
Transcripts of diaries kept during his stay as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow at the University of Michigan 1926-8, and albums of photographs taken during trips to Italy, Tunisia and Egypt 1923-9.
Harden, Donald Benjamin
Frederick William Green Collection
Original painting of the 'Painted Tomb' (or Tomb 100) at Hierakonpolis.
Green, Frederick William
Charles Gabriel Seligman Collection
Drawings of Meroitic subjects.
Seligman, Charles Gabriel
Frederick Leslie Kennet Photographs Collection
Approximately 50 black and white photographs and two colour negatives of objects in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Kenett, Frederick Leslie
Georg Christian Julius Möller Collection
Copies, transcriptions, facsimiles, drawings and some photographs of mummy labels in Demotic, Greek or bilingual, presented as loose sheets in folders arranged by cities/museums/collections, housed in five slip-cover boxes. They were collected by Möller from printed sources and from several collections he visited on research journeys. One folder in box V is by W. Spiegelberg (1893).
Möller, Georg Christian Julius
John de Monins Johnson Negatives Collection
313 black-and-white glass negatives made during the excavation of Antinoë (modern el-Sheikh Ibâda, opposite el-Ashmûnein, in Middle Egypt) in 1913-14 by John de Monins Johnson for the Graeco-Roman branch of the Egypt Exploration Society. The negatives are not accompanied by any supporting written records or descriptions of the photographed objects.
Johnson, John de Monins
Griffith Institute Maps Collection
Maps from various sources.
Wildrid Joseph Dilley Collection
1) Photograph album entitled 'Abusir. Summer 1923', also including other older photographs (1918 to 1923).
2) Photograph album of family portraits [non egyptological].
3) Copy of the Arabic publication Arab Architecture in Egypt: The Principal Structural Characteristics of the Style Classified; by Wilfrid Joseph Dilley (...); with plates prepared by F. Chatterton (...); translated by Mahmoud Ahmed (...); Cairo: National Printing Press, 1923; including 2 manuscript English translations of Arabic title page [non egyptological] [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/869282469].
4) Additional folder with photographs, 2 postcards and a small group of family papers.
Dilley, Wilfrid Joseph
Victoria and Albert Museum Paintings Collection
Negatives and prints of paintings of Egypt in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Searight collection) by several artists, including Francis Arundale, Frederick Cathewood, Vivant Denon, L. M. A. Linant de Bellefonds, Prisse d'Avennes, etc.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Complete papers.
Gilula, Mordechai
Stephen Ranulph Kingdon Glanville Collection
Various papers and correspondence connected with the obituary written by Dr I.E.S. Edwards and published in JEA 42 (1956), 99-101. Includes a portrait and a distribution list of Glanville's papers.
Glanville, Stephen Ranulph Kingdon
Peter Le Page Renouf Collection
Renouf, (Sir) Peter Le Page
Myrtle Florence Broome Collection
415 letters written by Miss Broome to her parents whilst working at Abydos between 1927 and 1937.
Broome, Myrtle Florence
Chicago, Oriental Institute Photographs Collection
Black and white photographs of TT55, Qurna (Temple of Sethos I), Deir el-Shelwît (Temple of Isis), and Luxor Temple. Photographs taken by the University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Epigraphic Survey, Luxor, Egypt. See https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/epigraphic-survey.
Chicago, Oriental Institute
Warren Royal Dawson Collection
Diary with brief retrospective entries dated 6th January 1920 to 13th January 1939.
Notebook containing Dawson's list of his own publications, 1903 to 1936.
Dawson, Warren Royal
Three A4 folders containing an unpublished annotated typescript of a monograph on the constellations of the Babylonian and Egyptian sphere and their modifications by the Greeks of the Achaean period.
Eisler, Robert
Plans, tracings, and photographs made in TT 55, 92, and 97.
Emery, Walter Bryan
Charles Gabriel Gleyre Drawings Collection
34 black and white photographs of Gleyre's drawings.
Gleyre, (Marc) Charles Gabriel
Oliver Robert Gurney Collection
Correspondence and notes relating to the geography of the Hittite Empire, Babylonian music, decipherment, and various other topics.
Gurney, Oliver Robert
Two portfolios with 45 loose sheets of mounted drawings and watercolours.
Horeau, Hector
George Alexander Hoskins Collection
3 albums containing watercolours and sketches.
Hoskins, George Alexander
Theodora Eyton-Jones Lantern Slides Collection
Consists of at least two sets of slides which have been combined. Made by a tourist(s), probably between 1910 and 1930. Views include Alexandria, Karnak, Luxor, Ramesseum, objects in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, and scenes of daily life.
Eyton-Jones, Theodora
Margaret Alice Murray Collection
Notes collected on Hierakonpolis (The Hierakonpolis finds). Consists of handwritten notes made by M. A. Murray, typescript, and additional notes in a different hand.
Murray, Margaret Alice
Two albums containing approximately 460 black and white photographs taken by various members of the IFAO team during excavations at Deir el-Medîna during the 1920s and 30s. Photographs interspersed with some notes and drawings.
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When left untreated, addiction can ruin a person's life. It often starts small, but it gradually progresses until it starts causing issues in an individual's personal and/or professional life. For those in need of help, we have a network of treatment options available. The community can count on our addiction specialists to find the Newport drug detox program that's right for them.
Newport Inpatient Drug Rehab
With inpatient drug rehab, the patient lives at the addiction treatment center for a set time, usually 30 days or longer. This option tends to be the most intensive, although it also requires the patients to spend time away from their daily lives. A benefit of this is that it keeps them away from the triggers and temptations that led them to drug use in the first place.
For detoxing, Newport inpatient drug detox centers provide patients with a controlled environment where members of staff are available to help them as they progress through the withdrawal process. Whether he or she is detoxing from cocaine, prescription drugs, marijuana, heroin or another drug, the staff at Newport inpatient drug detox centers has extensive experience in dealing with the withdrawal symptoms.
Patients at these types of drug rehab facilities will typically share rooms, although there are also private rooms available at most facilities. Since the patient stays on-site, they'll be in a supportive environment where they can have quick access to counselors and medical staff whenever they need them.
Newport Intensive Outpatient Addiction Treatment
Intensive outpatient addiction treatment involves an individual coming to the facility for treatment. This provides more flexibility so they can continue to fulfill their regular responsibilities, such as going to work or taking care of their children. Treatment frequency depends on a person's specific needs. In the early stages, the patient will likely come in every day. This is especially true for an outpatient Newport drug detox program. As the patient improves, the treatment frequency may be lower.
There are advantages and disadvantages to the intensive process of outpatient addiction treatment. For some people, an outpatient program can be a convenient option. However, they won't be out of the environment where they started their addiction. It requires a collective effort on the patient's part to attend treatment consistently and to avoid temptations in their daily lives. Our addiction specialists can connect people from all over, including people living in Jamestown, Middletown and Narragansett, with outpatient programs in Newport.
Newport Addiction Treatment Programs
Among both inpatient and outpatient treatment centers, there are quite a few programs and techniques used to treat addiction. A detox program involves quitting drugs and often experiencing withdrawal symptoms under close medical supervision. The staff may use medications to mitigate the withdrawal symptoms. These medications are sometimes still used as the patient progresses through the program until they're no longer necessary.
Another method, known as cognitive behavior therapy, involves identifying thoughts and emotions that are causing the patient to use drugs and changing their thoughts to more positive ones. In group therapy, a group of patients talk to a counselor together. This is great for providing patients with the support of their peers. Treatment programs also typically set up one-on-one time for patients with a counselor.
Many addiction treatment programs will use a combination of techniques to get the best results for their patients. Our addiction specialists will talk to individuals about the types of treatment programs that they've previously gone through. This helps them assess what kind of results the individual has gotten and determine which treatment program may be best for them.


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- The Deer Harbor Inn on the sunny side of Beautiful Orcas Island is the ideal vacation getaway. Built on a knoll overlooking the tranquil Harbor and majestic Mountains on the Olympic Peninsula, the Deer Harbor Inn remains as one of San Juan Island's mostHistoric Resorts.
- Built in 1915, the Deer Harbor Inn Restaurant is the gathering place for locals and travelers afar. More recently, two Orchard Cottages, the Cottage on the Bluff, Harbor View Suite, the Pond Cottage and Norton Harbor View House have been added to complement the guest rooms.
- There is no reason to leave your best friend behind, the Cottages and Vacation Rental Houses are all pet friendly! Pets are not allowed in the log cabin lodge.
- All our Accommodations have access to a hot tub and cable tv. The cottages have fireplaces, coffee pots, microwaves, refrigerators .
- The Log Cabin Lodge guest rooms all have private bathrooms, handmade log furniture,small fridge,coffee maker ,cable tv, electric fireplaces and are decorated with country decor.They share an outdoor Jacuzzi Hot Tub under the gazebo.
- Orcas Island offers many Activities, whether you love to watch the abundant wildlife, shop the local goods, are an outdoor enthusiast, a connoisseur of fine food and wine or just want to relax be rejuvenated with a therapeutic massage in the Ataraxia Spa Cabin, the Deer Harbor Inn and Restaurant is the destination in a relaxed and unpretentious atmosphere.
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Is American League passing Red Sox by?
Prince Fielder has gone to Detroit while Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson have landed in Anaheim, all as the Red Sox have been hanging out at the local book swap. That is not meant to be a criticism of Boston's strategy this winter so much as it is a commentary on the new landscape of the American League.
It's a good thing baseball is adding another playoff team this year, folks, because the Red Sox might have missed the postseason again otherwise.
They still might.
Amid the Patriots' march to yet another Super Bowl, some time has passed since we talked baseball. And now, just a few short days after the Red Sox traded their starting shortstop to free up payroll, the Detroit Tigers have secured first baseman Prince Fielder to a whopping nine-year, $214 million dollar contract, giving Detroit - at least in the short term - perhaps the most formidable middle-of-the-order tandem in all of major league baseball.
Make no mistake: what the Tigers have now in Fielder and Miguel Cabrera is pretty darn near what the Red Sox had from 2003 to 2008, when Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz anchored the Boston lineup. During those six seasons, the Red Sox went to four American League Championship Series and won two world titles. They were the best team in the game. Ramirez was traded in the middle of the 2008 season, and the Sox haven't won a playoff game in the three full years without him.
Two years ago, the Sox were selling us the idea of run prevention. Now they're trading away their starting shortstop a month before spring training, all so they can save a few million bucks that amount to, what, one or two percent of their payroll?
Meanwhile, the Angels (Pujols and Wilson), Tigers (Fielder), Texas Rangers (Yu Darvish, Joe Nathan) and even New York Yankees (Michael Pineda, Hiroki Kuroda) have made more significant acquisitions than the Red Sox have. Even if you believe that the Red Sox are a better team than the dysfunctional club that went 7-20 en route to a 90-72 finish - and they are - you must admit that the field just got a whole lot tougher. The Red Sox are still a heavyweight - we think - but the 2012 American League now projects to be a Battle Royale like no other in recent memory.
And lest anyone forget, the Tampa Bay Rays, who beat out the Sox last fall for what was then the fourth and final playoff spot, have better pitching than you do.
Let's examine what has happened since the historic September collapse that had us all examining the clubhouse culture at Fenway Park. Josh Beckett has stayed. John Lackey has been lost for the season. Terry Francona has been fired and Jonathan Papelbon was allowed to depart via free agency. The Sox picked up Mark Melancon and Andrew Bailey in a couple of low-cost trades, but the Sox have been chief among those telling us over the last several years that the performance of relievers is difficult to forecast.
Then came the departure of Scutaro, one of the few Sox players who actually played his tail off down the stretch, demonstrating the kind of grit that so few of his teammates did.
Of course, there is still time for the Sox to make changes and acquisitions, be they today or in July. But here's the problem: if the Sox are serious about staying at or near the luxury tax amount of $178 million, what difference does it make? In retrospect, the Sox went into last season with very little payroll flexibility. Now they're doing the same thing. They have had a collection of players who have shown an inability to stay healthy in recent years - Beckett and Kevin Youkilis chief among them - and they seemingly have no interest in further extending themselves financially to build better depth.
In retrospect, the Sox never had any intention of making any acquisition bigger than Bobby Valentine, upon whom there is now a great deal of pressure, particularly at the start of the season. They're locked into Beckett ($17 million per), Lackey ($16.5 million) and Carl Crawford ($20.3 million), the last of whom just had wrist surgery. And we haven't even mentioned Daisuke Matsuzaka ($8.7 million average).
As we all know, the Red Sox have too much talent to have gone 7-20 in September and missed the playoffs. Maybe, as a result, the Sox will play 2012 as if they have something to prove. And maybe Valentine, too, will have a profound impact. But in the wake of a disastrous finish during which the players shamed the uniform - let's not forget this - the Sox look like they've made nothing more than subtle tweaks while spinning their wheels, all as the other primary contenders in the American League have significantly stepped up their games.
In a vacuum, the Red Sox really may be no worse off than they were a year ago at this time, when many of us dubbed them world beaters.
But in the bigger picture, it sure feels like the rest of the league is passing them by.
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Someone posted a question on Facebook today that actually startled me. She wrote, "what do the individual state societies offer?" For me the benefits seemed obvious - connect with researchers who are in the area that your ancestors lived, and access "local" databases and information. Well not only that, but joining a distant society broke one of my long-standing brick walls, so the concept is near and dear to my heart.
To answer the question, "What do the individual state societies offer"? (and here I would include county societies as well, I'd like to start with the obvious - they offer information specific to their locale. Many larger societies take pride in their websites, and their collection of online databases, often compiled by volunteers from within their own group, indexing local records. I've seen not only cemetery lists and indexes, but vital records of all kinds - marriage and divorce records, obituaries, biographies - even on very small county-level society websites!
A few societies also offer access to well-known premium databases with membership. Even if you don't care to join a society, take the time to peruse the websites of those societies at both the state and county levels of where your ancestors lived. Many offer free databases, and/or links to other websites of interest for research in that area.
Most all society memberships include a newsletter or magazine, ranging from bi-monthly to semi-annual publications. One great reason to join a distant society where you will most likely never attend a single meeting, is to be able to post queries in their publications. Many societies also offer discounts on publications they have for sale. Other benefits of society membership might include access to online webinars, powerpoint presentations, or lecture notes from past meetings. Most websites offer surname databases, which often link to other researchers working on those names.
Some memberships include discounted research rates. One society offered members research in their facilities by a volunteer genealogist for as little as $5/hour. But by far the best deal going, if you have Massachusetts ancestors in the Berkshire county area, is a $12 individual membership in the Berkshire Family History Association. Your membership includes two hours of research by a volunteer, in the Berkshire Athanaeum, the area library and archives. It was by taking advantage of this offer that I broke my brick wall on my distant grandfather, David Stevens. The researcher photocopied every resources that mentioned my ancestor, and one was a will listing him, along with several others that I knew for sure to be his siblings, as heirs to Eliphalet Stevens of Pittsfield.
Sadly, many genealogical society websites begin with pleas for members to show interest so they can continue as a society. The extreme opposite of those sites, was the one society that stated if you didn't attend at least 5 meetings in a year, you would be dropped from active membership.
While I've only addressed US genealogy societies in this post, however I am certain that the same is true of other countries.
Finally, I'd just like to share a few special deals, in addition to many of the above-mentioned benefits of genealogical society membership offers that I found by perusing the web:
West Valley Genealogical Society Ind. $35, Couple $60
- Access to Footnote & World Vital records in library and in home
Southern California Genealogical Society From $35/year
- From-home use of Access NewspaperARCHIVE
- 24-hour access to archived sessions of the Jamboree Extension Webinar Series
Berkshire Family History Association Ind. $12, Fam. $14, Student $5
- Two hours of research time by a genealogist in the Berkshire Athanaeum. (photocopy charges extra).
Middlesex Genealogical Society Ind. $25, Fam. $30
- A membership card which gives you access to vital records at town and city record offices in Connecticut. (Many of the Connecticut societies offer this)
Indiana Genealogical Society Ind. $30, Joint $35
- Access to 696 databases, representing all 92 Indiana counties
NY Genealogical & Biographical Society Ind. $60 - 1 yr, $100 - 2 yr
- So many proprietary databases, its an absolute must for research New York ancestors
Ohio Genealogical Society Ind. $35, Joint $40
- Home access to World Vital Records
New England Historical & Genealogical Society Ind. $79.95
- A kajillion New England databases. Worth every penny if you have New England ancestors.
These are just a few of the additional benefits of membership that these societies offer. Spend some time checking out their websites. You just might break your own brick wall.
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What do not-so-local genealogical societies have to offer? PLENTY!
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- Shannon Thomas said...
My husband and I joined our local society and we have spent loads of time there. They are constantly adding records to their searchable online databases. They also have tons of information there. I love going there; all of the volunteers are always so helpful and very eager to help out.
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Blankets [is a] lovely memoir of childhood and first love.Washington Post
Blankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creative voice. Craig Thompson's poignant graphic memoir plays out against the backdrop of a Midwestern winterscape: finely-hewn linework draws together a portrait of small town life, a rigorously fundamentalist Christian childhood, and a lonely, emotionally mixed-up adolescence.
Under an engulfing blanket of snow, Craig and Raina fall in love at winter church camp, revealing to one another their struggles with faith and their dreams of escape. Over time though, their personal demons resurface and their relationship falls apart. It's a universal story, and Thompson's vibrant brushstrokes and unique page designs make the familiar heartbreaking all over again.
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[Blankets is a] massive coming-of-age wintertime tale. Craig Thompson casts himself in this memoir of sorts as one of two Wisconsin brothers who are stifled by religious parents and bullied by classmates, and he finds solace and a heartwarming love when he meets a teen girl named Raina at a religious camp.USA Today
Blankets has the thematic sophistication, emotional sweep and beauty of (visual) language that mark the best novels… Part teen romance novel, part coming-of-age novel, part faith-in-crisis novel and all comix, Blankets is a great American novel.Time
Blankets magically recreates the high emotional stakes of adolescence. Thompson has set new bars for the medium not just in length, but breadth.Time, Best Comics of 2003
Craig Thompson's Blankets is a human story told with beautiful, flowing linework, and is usually the first graphic novel that I'll give to someone new.The Atlantic
Blankets is a classic in every genre it touches.Stephen Chbosky
The snowy Midwest, peopled by overweight parents, hairy youths, and lovingly depicted younger siblings… is energetically realized in Thompson's expressive lines and inking.School Library Journal
[Thompson's] acclaimed debut, Blankets, chronicled his harsh upbringing in a fundamentalist Christian home.Rolling Stone
Blankets is Craig Thompson's lyrical bildungsroman told in graphic-novel form. Maligned and mistreated by his religious family and community, a self-loathing Thompson grapples with faith and love only to discover that loss is everywhere. The expert drawings and absorbing narrative depict the inherent sadness in growing up, but the real resonance is found in the marriage of text and image.Paste Magazine, 20 Best Books of the Decade
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The story is shocking and vivid, a tale as gripping as any you'll read. Thompson's spiritual journey and difficult relationship with his family is matched only by his depitction of his teenaged love and heartbreak with Raina, a girl he meets at Winter Bible Camp. It's the truest and most heartfelt description of pure youthful love as I've found."BoingBoing
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Raison d'exit: What drove Regan and Baron from UVA?
There are all sorts of reasons to leave a school. I transferred from a college in North Carolina to a school in Virginia after one year, not just because North Carolina is inferior to Virginia, but because I wanted to be on the fencing and lacrosse teams, and my first school had neither. So why did I waste time and money going to a school that was totally wrong for me? I had a good friend there, why else?
Around this time last year, UVA was the luckiest school in America, at least according to Jim Hart, coach of the Albany City Rocks, an Amateur Athletic Union basketball team. Hart threw 15 years' worth of standout players to the curb (including this year's NCAA tournament boy-wonder Jimmer Fredette) when he claimed that among all his former mentees, Will Regan was the greatest basketball player in the history of the world, ever. So, obviously, when Regan decided to bring his unparalleled ability to Charlottesville, UVA become the luckiest school in America, period.
"He's going to surprise the hell out of everyone," Hart said in The Daily-Progress last June. And Will Regan sure did surprise the you-know-what out of everyone, perhaps himself most of all (though Jim Hart was probably pretty surprised too).
During his inaugural year at UVA, Regan– who chose Virginia because it was "a team and not a bunch of individuals"– played in only 20 games and averaged 6.6 minutes, 1.3 points and 0.9 rebounds. So when the 2010-2011 season proved a massive disappointment, Regan quickly decided that his first season with the team that was so perfect for him would also be his last.
Will Regan is the fifth of Coach Tony Bennett's players to bolt, and even though only two were Bennett's own recruits, one must wonder what the heck is going on at John Paul Jones Arena.
Five of 12 is almost 42 percent, which to all of us non-mathematicians is pretty close to half of the entire men's roster. What must Bennett have done to so thoroughly convince budding superstars Will Regan and Billy Baron to leave their comfortable homes, their rightfully doting fathers, and hordes of adoring local fans for the distant University of Virginia? And what must Bennett have done to drive them away just as successfully?
When he came to Charlottesville, point guard Billy Baron didn't just leave Rhode Island the state, he left Rhode Island the university, specifically Rhode Island the basketball team, and more specifically, Rhode Island the basketball coach. Billy Baron's father, Jim, is men's basketball coach at Rhode Island, and Billy left him too.
Playing for his father was something Baron "had always wanted to do," and yet Tony Bennett was able to convince him to give it up. Can you imagine the silver words that had to have dripped from Bennett's tongue to pull off that coup?
Then can you imagine the reality that forced both Regan and Baron to pack it in and give up scholarships, academic credits, teammates and friends? Being homesick is hard, and it's no rarity for high school stars to crash and burn once they hit college. But neither Regan nor Baron is the type to flame out so early. Their respective work ethic and talents are legendary, earning them scholarship offers as early as eighth grade. Regan is a notably unselfish player, adapting his play to fit the team, while Baron is selfish in the best sense, honing his skills to ultimately earn his father's team a spot in the NCAA tournament.
They wanted to be here, and now they don't. Why?
Only a handful of people know the reason. Neither Regan nor Baron has a bad word to say about Bennett, but he wanted them, he recruited them, he coached them– and now they're gone. It's becoming pretty apparent something's off in UVA men's basketball, and Tony Bennett is the lowest common denominator.
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