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Internal insulation provides better acoustical (noise) control. Flexible duct is very low cost. These products are engineered specifically for use in ducts or as ducts themselves, and are tested in accordance with standards established by Underwriters Laboratories (UL), the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Many insulated duct systems have operated for years without supporting significant mold growth. Keeping them reasonably clean and dry is generally adequate. However, there is substantial debate about whether porous insulation materials (e.g., fiber glass) are more prone to microbial contamination than bare sheet metal ducts. If enough dirt and moisture are permitted to enter the duct system, there may be no significant difference in the rate or extent of microbial growth in internally lined or bare sheet metal ducts. However, treatment of mold contamination on bare sheet metal is much easier. Cleaning and treatment with an EPA-registered biocide are possible. Once fiberglass duct liner is contaminated with mold, cleaning is not sufficient to prevent re-growth and there are no EPA-registered biocides for the treatment of porous duct materials. EPA, NADCA and NAIMA all recommend the replacement of wet or moldy fiber glass duct material.
The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers is a body that covers the essential Service (systems architecture) that allow buildings to operate. It includes the electrotechnical, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, refrigeration and plumbing industries. To train as a building services engineer, the academic requirements are GCSEs (A-C) / Standard Grades (1-3) in Maths and Science, which are important in measurements, planning and theory. Employers will often want a degree in a branch of engineering, such as building environment engineering, electrical engineering or mechanical engineering. To become a full member of CIBSE, and so also to be registered by the Engineering Council UK as a chartered engineer, engineers must also attain an Honours Degree and a master's degree in a relevant engineering subject.
Ground source, or geothermal, heat pumps are similar to ordinary heat pumps, but instead of transferring heat to or from outside air, they rely on the stable, even temperature of the earth to provide heating and air conditioning. Many regions experience seasonal temperature extremes, which would require large-capacity heating and cooling equipment to heat or cool buildings. For example, a conventional heat pump system used to heat a building in Montana's −70 °F (−57 °C) low temperature or cool a building in the highest temperature ever recorded in the US—134 °F (57 °C) in Death Valley, California, in 1913 would require a large amount of energy due to the extreme difference between inside and outside air temperatures. A few feet below the earth's surface, however, the ground remains at a relatively constant temperature. Utilizing this large source of relatively moderate temperature earth, a heating or cooling system's capacity can often be significantly reduced. Although ground temperatures vary according to latitude, at 6 feet (1.8 m) underground, temperatures generally only range from 45 to 75 °F (7 to 24 °C).
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In modern buildings, the design, installation, and control systems of these functions are integrated into one or more HVAC systems. For very small buildings, contractors normally estimate the capacity and type of system needed and then design the system, selecting the appropriate refrigerant and various components needed. For larger buildings, building service designers, mechanical engineers, or building services engineers analyze, design, and specify the HVAC systems. Specialty mechanical contractors then fabricate and commission the systems. Building permits and code-compliance inspections of the installations are normally required for all sizes of building.
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SYLVIA KRISTEL: Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel has died after battling throat and lung cancer, then suffering a stroke, the BBC reported. She was 60.
The former Miss TV Holland and Miss TV Europe is best known for her work in the 1974 erotic French film "Emmanuelle," as well as several sequels. Her other big-screen credits include "Lady Chatterley's Lover," "Mata Hari," "Because of the Cats," "The Concorde: Airport '79" and "Private Lessons."
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DRAKE: Canadian-born recording artist Drake announced via Twitter he has graduated from high school at the age of 25.
The rapper, whose real name is Aubrey Graham, has fulfilled the necessary requirements to earn his high school diploma, E! News said.
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The eight-episode series is to begin production next month and to premiere in 2013.
"For the past 25 years, Bret Michaels has spent at least nine months out of the year in a tour bus that he personally designs from top to bottom," Andy Singer, Travel Channel's general manager, said in a statement Thursday. "We couldn't think of a better front man than Bret for the series. He lives and breathes life on the road and undoubtedly holds the record for most hours logged in a custom coach. Bret jumped at the chance to share his passion for travel and the RV experience through this fascinating, obsessive world of customizing RVs. We wanted him, and he wanted to do this -- it is a great partnership."
"Between touring and traveling, I spend a lot of time on the road and my tricked-out, custom coach is my home away from home," Michaels said. "I crisscross the country and live in my tour bus, and I know how to take an RV from ordinary to extraordinary. I can't wait to put my expertise to use and show people how to make their RVs rock."
JOAQUIN PHOENIX: Hollywood actor Joaquin Phoenix, who is expected to nab an Oscar nomination for his work in "The Master," said he wants no part of the honor.
"I think it's bullshit," Phoenix told Interview magazine about the Academy Award buzz surrounding his performance. "I think it's total, utter bullshit, and I don't want to be a part of it. I don't believe in it. It's a carrot, but it's the worst-tasting carrot I've ever tasted in my whole life. I don't want this carrot. It's totally subjective. Pitting people against each other. ... It's the stupidest thing in the whole world."
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The Kansas City Chiefs will finally put their disastrous 2012 season to bed Sunday afternoon against the Denver Broncos in a matchup of two teams that couldn’t be headed in more different directions.
Peyton Manning and the Broncos have won 10 straight and could lock in home field advantage throughout the playoffs Sunday, while Romeo Crennel and the Chiefs have won just two games all year and will take home the No. 1 overall pick in April’s draft with a loss.
Denver’s offense has been nearly unstoppable, scoring at least 30 points in 10 games so far this season. Kansas City’s putrid offense never scored more than 27 points in a game and only reached 20 points four times.
The Chiefs were able to limit the Broncos to a season-low 17 points the last time these two teams met, but that was at Arrowhead Stadium and Crennel’s team didn’t have a third of the roster on the final injury report.
There’s a good chance Crennel’s fate has already been decided, but it will be interesting to see if he can get his players to rally around him the way they did last year after Todd Haley was fired. Again, he’s likely out either way, but it’s worth watching Sunday afternoon in Denver.
Here are the three players that can help lead the way to an improbably victory against the Broncos.
Offense: Jamaal Charles
Is there anyone else?
Despite playing for the worst offense (and coaching staff) in football, Charles has put together a season worthy of the Chiefs team MVP award. Fresh off a torn ACL, the electric running back has put up 1,456 yards, including an amazing 226 last week against the playoff-bound Indianapolis Colts.
Charles put up 107 yards the first time these two teams met, but the number that is likely most on his mind before he takes the field is 44. That will put him at 1,500 for the season, a number he’s talked about wanting to surpass.
Crennel says the Chiefs will go all out to win and that means a heavy dose of Charles. But if the team was going to do what’s best for the future of the franchise, they would sit him down early with a pat on the back for an amazing effort in lost season.
Defense: Derrick Johnson
Like Charles, there’s no doubt Johnson has been the leader of his unit. The Chiefs defense hasn’t exactly been given a lot of meaningful series to play this season, but the linebacker has never taken his foot off the gas.
Crennel has shown an ability to slow down Manning with his game plans and Johnson will be the conductor on the field. When the Broncos came to Arrowhead, they only managed to turn them over once, a number that will need to likely triple if the Chiefs have a chance to keep things close again.
Johnson has had a knack for coming up with big plays the last few years… can he do it just one more time for his head coach?
Special Teams: Devon Wylie
The terrible offense has gotten most of the attention, but the Chiefs special teams play has been just as bad, if not worse. Both the kick and punt return units have failed to deliver a single game changing play this season and there’s no reason to think that is going to change the final week of the season.
With that being said, it looks like Wylie is going to be the guy trying to change that. He wasn’t able to find any room to work last week against the Colts, averaging just 18 yards on three kick returns and 0.7 yards on three punt returns.
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Top Ten Tuesdays is hosted over at That Artsy Reader Girl. Read up on the rules here and join in on the Top Ten Tuesday fun.Vic James is a wonderful British author who also works for the BBC. I've met her four times this year, and after the first three almost felt like adding, "I promise I'm not stalking you. I am just attending this convention, but hi, again, I love your books." She wrote a book called Gilded Cage, and it turned into a trilogy called Dark Gifts. She describes it as "Downton Abbey meets Game of Thrones in a world where Voledmort won." It's YA. It's fantasy. It's filled with politics. And I love it, and I love her. I'm gushing, I know. [I read Gilded Cage in 2017, but only met Vic James in 2018.]
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Let me talk about some authors that I've discovered this year, and that have quickly left a lasting impression.I made an attempt to choose all women, because women rock, and I've noticed that I read more men than women...
Janny Wurts is an author, I've discovered thanks to a Goodreads group that reads fantasy together. I picked up both Daughter of the Empire and The Curse of the Mistwraith thanks to that group. Are you a fan of Feist's Riftwar Cycle? Then definitely pick up the Daughter of the Empire trilogy that she co-wrote with him. And if you like slow burning, epic high fantasy that spans thousands of years then definitely look at The Wars of Light and Shadow which starts with The Curse of the Mistwraith. Wurts writes beautifully; her prose is a treat. She might be too slow for people looking for action mostly, but if you like slow reveals, Wurts is your author.
R.F. Kuang is young, and there's not a lot to say yet, except for she released her debut this year:The Poppy War. An amazing book. Asian inspired fantasy. One to watch, because she can only get better.
Sherwood Smith wrote the Inda quartet. Amazing books filled with everything fantasy has to offer. A school setting. Pirates. Backstabbing dicks, but also loyal friendships. Relationships. Coming of Age and triumph. I absolutely adored these books.
Robin Hobb is probably a well known name. I read her Liveship Traders Trilogy this year and I thought they were all amazing. Ships that are alive and have their own personality and speak. Great premise. Her Realm of the Elderings series consists of 16 books. Plenty to read if you end up falling in love with her.
Did you discover any new authors this year? Leave me a comment, and I'll make sure to visit your blog. I've finally emerged from cardboard boxes, have finished moving and am hopefully back for good. I'll post about my move and stressful November next Sunday.
Before you leave: Three Crows Magazine has released its first issue that I worked on as an editor. There's a few short stories and interviews with SF authors up, if that's your genre.
Almost all of these are new to me, although I have heard of Jacqueline Carey. I picked up Kushiel's Dart years ago but just couldn't get into it. Might have been a case of the right book at the wrong time. Glad you discovered so many new authors this year!ReplyDelete
I really want to get around to The Poppy War and Gilded Cage in 2019.ReplyDelete
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I'm constantly discovering new authors and it's a wonderful thing. I've always wanted to read Robin Hobb though.ReplyDelete
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
I've heard of Vic James & Jacqueline Carey, but the rest of the authors are all new to me!!ReplyDelete
Here's a link to my Top Ten Tuesday post for this week: https://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2018/12/top-ten-tuesday-top-ten-free-little.html
Oh glad to hear you're all moved! And nice list. I like Robin Hobb a lot, and I've read a little Janny Wurts but not her Wars of Light and Shadow books. However I have the first one, and just as an aside I LOVE her map of Paravia. For some reason it just makes me want to know more about that land. :)ReplyDelete
I still haven't read Vic James' books yet, though I want to!ReplyDelete
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2018/12/11/top-ten-tuesday-189/
I discovered a TON of new authors this year, as I really just discovered how wonderful a tool Goodreads could be and am not just stuck reading books from the same authors who have had movie deals or were recommended to me because I liked authors who had movie deals.ReplyDelete
I just finished The Mad Ship yesterday and I loved it! Can't wait to read Ship of Destiny. Happy to hear you enjoyed the trilogy as well!ReplyDelete
I recently purchased The Poppy War and I am looking forward to reading it! One of my blogging buddies is a big fan of Vic James so I have that duology in my sites. I have had a lot of bloggers recommend Robin Hobb, so I have a dragon book of hers to read this month for my Dragon Daze theme. 👍✨ReplyDelete
I'd say T. Greenwood was my favorite find last year. I loved her Rust and Stardust novel and I now have an ARC of her next book, Keeping Lucy, to read.😊


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He just can't seem to stay out of trouble! Wednesday Alec Baldwin got into another scrape with a reporter from "Inside Edition." Numerous reports say Baldwin rolled a mountain bike over the reporter's foot when she tried to question him outside his apartment and then used the bike to push her aside. This is one day after Baldwin allegedly attacked a pair of photographers in Manhattan.
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"Dumb and Dumber" was a big hit for Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey, and both were set to return for the sequel. But now ETonline.com is reporting Jim Carrey has pulled out of the project due to frustration at the lack of enthusiasm from New Line and Warner Brothers. No word on the future of the film without Carrey.
Now 30, Prince William Gets His Inheritance
Today is Prince William's 30th birthday , which means he will now have access to the inheritance left him by his mother, Princess Diana who died in 1997. So just how much money are we talking about? According to London's "Telegraph," it's probably about $10-million. William's brother Harry won't get his $10-million until he turns 30.


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Holidaymakers at Heathrow airport who were desperate to get their flights ended up walking down the M4, according to witnesses. A key airport tunnel had become blocked on Monday, February 21.
The Oxford Bus Company had taken to Twitter to confirm that a bus had broken down. Heavy delays were caused after the bus broke down in the Heathrow CBS Tunnel.
Heathrow Airport had urged people not to walk down the motorway. One witness stated: “People walking along hard shoulder with suitcases – it’s lethal.”
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The couple added: “It should be automated. Lack of staff, lack of communication. Normally we get the train but we were trying it out. We’ll never take the car again. Nor would we would use Heathrow.
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- Suicide is a leading cause of death among Colorado youth ages 10-24 years old.
- 40% of teens in our state struggle with mental health challenges and less than 50% of these kids will ever receive ANY form of treatment.
- We have seen a 103% increase in mental health visits to Children's Colorado emergency department from January to March 2022 compared with the same period in 2019, before the pandemic began.
- 215% increase in adolescent suicide attempts from 2020-2021. Self-harm or suicide attempts are among the top reasons that patients seek mental health care in our emergency departments.
- 226k kids and teens in Colorado have diagnosable mental health conditions. Only 22% receive professional care.
The statistics are staggering, and the problem is simply too large and too complicated for any one institution to tackle alone. Our hope in making this bold statement is to bring greater attention and resources to bear as we seek to make progress in solving the current mental health crisis in Colorado and across the region.
Children's Colorado is fortunate to have many trusted partners in the community, including donors and supporters like the Climbing for Kids participants who have contributed to our Pediatric Mental Health Institute and other mental health initiatives. With this call to action, we invite others to join us in helping the children and youth who need us!
Climbing for Kids aims to drive awareness and financial support for the care of children and families who require early prevention, ongoing therapy, and access to the medical professionals who can make a difference for kids who need it most...for the kids who have a much larger mountain to climb.
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Rich Fink has so many award certificates and plaques he doesn’t know where to put them.
Fink, commander of Robert Boyd Stewart Post No. 11, received the awards at the American Legion state convention June 22 in Laramie on behalf of the members of Post 11.
Most of the award certificates are for exceeding state membership goals by the rapidly growing post, which has grown from 16 members a few years ago to a current membership of around 40, Fink said.
“The state department sets membership goals, and you have to reach a certain percentage by a certain date,” Fink said. “We made all of the percentages for the whole year and surpassed their goals over and over.”
Post 11 finished the 2018-19 year June 30 with a goal percentage of 133.33 and was awarded a plaque for Centennial Membership Excellence, which reads, “This membership award is presented to posts that have exceeded the membership goal set forth and have the distinction of being a 100 percent membership post during the centennial year of the American Legion.”
The membership award at 133.33 percent was the highest in the state, and Post 11 received a traveling gavel in honor of the achievement.
The post also received a certificate of appreciation from National Commander Brett P. Reistad for reaching the 100 percent membership goal, as well as a variety of certificates of appreciation and certificates of merit, along with two meritorious service certificates for reaching a new membership high for five consecutive years.
But it’s not all about membership, Fink emphasized.
“I believe we’re doing more and having more programs,” Fink said, noting Memorial Day and Veterans Day programs, honor guards for funerals, a veterans breakfast on Veterans Day, Boys State sponsorship, the state oratory contest and the recent flag retirement ceremony.
Post 11 is currently running a fundraising raffle to support the various programs. The top prize is a 6.5 Creedmore flag edition rifled, and other prizes are an engraved Glock 17 9mm pistol and a custom-made knife designed and constructed by Wayne Spragg.
The raffle will end on November 11.
Fink said Post 11 is also taking over the Boy Scout program in Lovell, planning to form a new Troop 11.
“We felt like we wanted to keep the Boy Scouts program going,” he said, noting that other sponsors have dropped the program since the Boy Scouts made a decision to admit girls into troops.
“If girls join, we’re prepared for that,” Fink said. We’ll try to sponsor it and see what happens. Jim Thomas will be the head scoutmaster.”

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Fear and Laughing (and Loathing) in South Africa
Peter-Dirk Uys in his one-man show "Foreign Aids", at La MaMA E.T.C
"Foreign Aids" by Pieter-Dirk Uys
October 23 to November 9
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In "Foreign Aids"--Pieter-Dirk Uys's angry new solo performance at The Club at La MaMa E.T.C.--South Africa's favorite court jester morphs into some sort of rabid attack dog. Wiping the powder off his face, putting aside the frowzy dress and too-high heels, Uys turns around to erupt with scorn and anger. He fulminates against what he believes to be the genocide being perpetrated by South African president Thabo Mbeki and its health minister Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang because of their complacent stance towards AIDS, which is killing millions of his countrymen.
"In South Africa, our war on terror is the war on AIDS," Uys says. "George Bush isn't going to lose any sleep over black people dying. As South Africans, we have to help ourselves."
In newspapers and public forums, Mbeki has been condemned internationally for asserting that HIV does not lead to AIDS and that he personally knew no one who had died of AIDS-related causes. Mbeki has also been slammed for his administration's inadequate HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention programs. "The weapon of mass destruction is in South Africa and being harbored by the South African president and his minister of health-it is HIV/AIDS," Uys cries out, his eyes flaring.
Uys's current one-man outing is lights years away from his last New York City appearance, some seven or eight years ago, when he performed "You ANC Nothing Yet" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In that hilarious show, he gleefully trotted out one of his many onstage alter ego, the very saccharine and very conservative Mrs. Evita Bezuidenhout. Dubbed "the most famous white woman in South Africa" (until she promptly did assume it), Evita is a beloved persona through whom Uys mocks and lampoons the worst aspects of racism, prejudice and discrimination during the height of apartheid. An Afrikaner amalgam of Margaret Thatcher, Miss Piggy and Pauline Hanson, Evita makes a brief appearance at the start of "Foreign Aids," too. But it soon becomes clear that Evita's monologue, in which she disavows any personal stake in South Africa's AIDS crisis (including that of her HIV-positive son), is meant mainly as a transitional phase into Uys's reemergence as a post-apartheid activist. And she never appears again.
"Foreign Aids" might be re-titled "Pieter-Dirk Uys Unplugged." A master of ice-pick-like satire, Uys jabs and stabs at the complex dynamic of fear, hypocrisy, ignorance, neglect and smugness that, he reports, surrounds Africa's AIDS crisis. In the show Uys unloads a searing repertoire of political innuendo, sexual puns, social caricatures, frank talk, current-events references and devious associations. ("Thabo," for those who play Scrabble, might be an anagram for "Botha," Evita quips.) Uys gives us a personal tour of the attitudes, issues and concerns that are permeating in both the white and black South African communities.
And that tour is often in-your-face. Uys hasn't quite given up on performing outrageous characters. Aside from Evita, he quickly assumes the guises of Dr. Thaboo MacBeki (any resemblance to the South African President Thabo Mbeki is entirely intentional), PW Botha and former president Nelson Mandela. Uys even finds time to debut a brand new character, the ex-stripper Bambi Kellerman, Evita's younger sister who believes that "racism is easier to catch than AIDS."
But the heart of "Foreign Aids" lies in between these sundry characters. Uys takes off the funny faces, the eyelashes and colorful costumes, tucking it all away in his two paper bags, so he can tell, in a plain black outfit and without makeup, some sobering stories from the frontline of the crisis. Uys talks about schools that refuse to install condom-dispensing machines because they don't want to encourage sex. He attacks the urban legend that raping a virgin cures the disease. He exposes the absurdities of a government-led program to hand out free condoms that have been dutifully stapled, in the center, to instruction leaflets. He says that for the past several years he has been on the road, driving to impoverish schools and communities to spread the message of safe sex and AIDS awareness. And we hear of unimpressed parents and censorious school officials who express their unhappiness and dismay at Uys's activities.
Uys's AIDS-awareness travels are all done without any government funding or corporate sponsorship. And that huge disconnect--between what is really happening at the grassroots level, and what a negligent government in denial has been trying to keep wrapped up--is the well-spring of much of the poignancy, sharp protest, sly critique, and riotous humor in "Foreign Aids." Uys is an amazing performer, and this is a sidesplitting but devastating show. Though it is very entertaining, there are moments of high, passionate indignation that rise to the rage of a Cassandra.
Pieter-Dirk Uys as Bambi Kellerman--even in drag, he's got real teeth.
In fact, the caustic, truth-telling spirit of "Foreign Aids" is closer to that of Larry Kramer than Barry Humphreys, with whom Uys is often compared. Most American audiences who might want to see the show would have probably heard that Mrs Evita Bezuidenhout is South Africa's answer to Humphreys's Dame Edna Everage. It is an odd, utterly wrong-headed comparison, to which Uys cannily retorts, "But what exactly is the question?"
Nevertheless, Americans are suckers for shows featuring guys camping it up in a dress. One should never underestimate the box-office draw of a drag queen, and the postcards, which feature Uys pursing his lips with a crown and a wig, will certainly draw a certain kind of audience. But what gays and lesbians, and many drag-curious straight folks, will be surprised to encounter in "Foreign Aids" is the sort of drag show that has real teeth.
At times, Uys is so powerful and potent on his own that one feels a sigh of great relief when he actually puts on a dress. For a brief while, the dressing up allows for a comic distancing effect that allows us to get our bearings back. This happens, most happily, when Uys puts on the long red nails and the wig for Bambie Kellermann midway in the show. The widow of a high-ranking Nazi who has worked the sex shows of Europe, Bambie intersperses her comments about her husband's old circle of friends with her own observations on the current viral holocaust. But soon, the comic relief that Bambie engenders dissipates when she speculates, quite flippantly, that the First World's slowness in helping tackle South Africa's problem may be motivated by a subconscious desire to treat AIDS as a cull to get rid of blacks in the Third World.
In "Foreign Aids," Uys will not let us off the hook. And most of all, he will not let up so easily. No wonder the South African government's response to Uys's scathing criticisms has been equally sharp and severe. Early in October, a minister, Essop Pahad, put Uys down as a "house clown." An African National Congress spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama circulated a party response which states that "real life is not satire" and that "the country is not amused by [Uys's] grandiose posturing and attention-seeking comments that do not add any value whatsoever to nation-building. His comments are rather self-serving and belie a malicious agenda that does not have the interests of the nation or the country." The name-calling continues in "Foreign Aids," as Uys refers to President Mbeki as "Comrade Undertaker," adding: "He lies and so condemns his nation to death."
One hopes that Uys will not be turned into a scapegoat in the political mess concerning the AIDS pandemic, for real lives (not reputations) are at stake here. (According to one statistic, about 10 per cent of South Africa's 42 million population is HIV-positive, with 7 million expected to be dying from the disease by 2010.) And "Foreign Aids," at its weakest, feels like a consciousness-raising session. But in a sense, South Africa now finds itself at that same place America found itself in the late 1980s, during the height of the AIDS deaths.
So Uys's decision in "Foreign Aids" to spend less time in drag and more time portraying himself (a white, 57-year-old gay man telling predominantly black schoolchildren about safe sex) is itself a red flag. "Foreign Aids" serves as a bitter comic's warning to the rest of the world of our common enemy--AIDS. "If just one child remembers something that will save his life, that's got to be worth it," Uys say, and he truly believes it in a way that should put Thabo Mbeki and the African National Congress to the deepest shame.
In "Foreign Aids," Pieter-Dirk Uys transcends drag. There was a time, not so long ago, when a man in a dress "did have useful influence on enlightenment in the days when there was a total absence of democracy in South Africa," as the South African government itself has confessed. And today, when there is an absence of compassion and common sense, Uys absolutely has the right to "act up."
Randy Gener, critic-at-large for The New York Theatre Wire, has written and directed his own plays, including "Wait for Me at the Bottom of the Pool" and "Love Seats for Virginia Woolf."
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A recurrence is defined as the return of cancer after a period where no cancer cells are detected in the body. Cancer survivors have shared that even as they return to their normal lives, eat well, exercise well and go for medical follow-ups, the fear of a recurrence often plagues their thoughts.
Fortunately, although you do not have control over certain aspects of your cancer, there are ways that you can cope with the fear of cancer recurrence:
Acknowledge your Fear
Some events may trigger anxieties about your health. Follow-up visits to the doctor, undergoing medical examinations, birthday celebrations, illness in the family, learning that someone you know has had recurrence, or experiencing symptoms similar to ones you had when you discovered cancer, can trigger the fear of recurrence.
It is normal for a cancer survivor to feel fear. Acknowledging this fear allows you to grow in self-awareness and manage your anxiety better. This may keep you vigilant in addressing any medical concerns.
Please note, however, that this fear should not be persistent or impede your day-to-day functioning. If you find yourself overwhelmed, do open up to a trusted friend or contact your CanHOPE counsellor for support.
Talk to People You Trust
Talking can be therapeutic. Through conversations with trusted people, you may gain insights into your psyche, reframe your negative perspectives and learn new coping strategies. Sharing your thoughts and feelings may also help release tensions and build a deeper sense of connectedness.
If you find comfort and inspiration in connecting with other cancer survivors, please be welcome to participate in CanHOPE support programmes.
Engaging in relaxation activities regularly can help you manage the anxiety and fear of recurrence. Do explore various stress relieving exercises and find one that suits your lifestyle and interests. You may find joy in a solitary pursuit such as inline skating, jogging, personal training or swimming, or in a group-based activity such as line-dancing or practicing Taiji.
Be open to explore the myriad of activities that are available near your home or workplace.
When Further Help is Needed
Despite your efforts to cope, there may be times where you find yourself trapped in a negative state or are unable to uplift your spirits. This may be a good time to seek professional assistance such as counselling or group therapy. You may request a referral to a counsellor from your primary doctor, or you may directly request for an appointment by contacting the counsellor.

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How Is Goldenhar Syndrome Diagnosed and Treated?
The Disability Living blog is committed to writing posts that benefit individuals with disabilities. Many people have disabilities that are caused by birth defects. Some of these individuals have been disfigured by their birth defects. This week Disability Living is blogging about such issues. Are you affected by a disfiguring birth defect?
What is Goldenhar syndrome?
“Goldenhar Syndrome is a congenital birth defect which involves deformities of the face. It usually affects one side of the face only.” Goldenhar syndrome is disfiguring and can cause disabilities, as well as social and emotional problems (as is the case with any major illness, disability or birth defect). A few symptoms/traits of this birth defect include:
– Underdeveloped or missing ear
– Chin that is closer to the malformed ear
– Absent eye
– Uneven mouth
– “Benign growths of the eye”
How is Goldenhar syndrome diagnosed?
Goldenhar syndrome must be diagnosed by a physician. When searching for a diagnosis, a doctor will often examine a person’s nervous system to ensure it is in working order. The brain, spine, and facial skeleton will also be examined. The facial skeleton is examined to let a doctor know if a child is able to breathe, swallow, and make normal sounds.
Goldenhar syndrome should be diagnosed early.
With Goldenhar syndrome, an early diagnosis is ideal. This is because the condition may inhibit a child’s normal bodily functions and sometimes requires prompt treatment. Reconstructive surgery is often used to treat this birth defect (to allow a child to perform necessary functions). Some surgeries will need to be done early in a child’s life, and some when a child is older and has developed further. Here are a few common reconstructive surgeries for people with Goldenhar syndrome:
– Lowering of the jaw
– Lengthening of the jaw
– Addition of soft tissue
– Adding bone to build up the cheeks
– Rebuilding of the ear
Raise awareness of Goldenhar syndrome today.
Individuals with Goldenhar syndrome need social support and understanding. You can help them by raising awareness of this disfiguring birth defect. Let others know what you’ve learned about Goldenhar syndrome by referring them to this blog post or other resources.


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Bill Clinton says he was ‘race card’ victim
Former President Clinton’s stumbles on the campaign trail have sometimes put the focus more on himself than on his wife.
On Monday, he accused the Barack Obama campaign of playing “the race card” on him after the South Carolina primary, a charge that drew a rebuke from Obama.
Clinton told a Philadelphia radio station that his comments were “twisted” after he likened Obama’s primary victory in the state to Jesse Jackson’s.
Clinton was asked if he regretted the comparison after a Pennsylvania official said she thought he was marginalizing Obama as “the black candidate.”
“No, I think that they played the race card on me,” he said. “We now know from memos from the campaign and everything that they planned to do it all along.”
Obama scoffed at Clinton’s remarks.
“Hold on a second: So former President Clinton dismissed my victory in South Carolina as being similar to Jesse Jackson, and he’s suggesting that somehow I had something to do with it?” Obama asked reporters at a Pittsburgh diner Monday. “OK, well, you better ask him what he meant by that.”
On Tuesday, the former president brushed off a reporter’s questions about his race comment. “I said what I said,” Clinton said. “You always follow me around and play these little games, and I’m not going to play your games today. This is a day about election day.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that she had no comment on the matter, saying she wanted to focus on “what voters are focused on.”
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Skill Tree Glossary
- Skill Tree
- Technically refers to the skill system as a whole. In casual usage this will also likely be used when referring to skill classes, such as "the Firepower Skill Tree".
- Skill Class
- Classes of Skill Nodes encompassing a specific set of Skills
- For example: The Firepower Skill Class contains weapon-based skill nodes.
- Skill Node
- A single node within a skill class. Most skill nodes are part of a set; you'll need to acquire the full set to receive the full skill benefit for the equipment or ability the Node relates to.
- For example: The Range 1 Skill Node within the Firepower Skill Class. There are ten Range Skill Nodes in total, all within the Firepower Skill Class.
- Locked Skill Node
- A single node within a Skill Tree that you have not yet acquired. All Skill Nodes start as locked by default, and must be unlocked/acquired by purchasing the Node with a Skill Point. Locked Nodes possess an orange lock icon. Once a Skill Node is acquired it is immediately made Active.
- For example: In the Figure 1 the player has not yet acquired the Laser Duration 1 Skill Node within the Firepower class.
- Active (Equipped) and Inactive (Unequipped) Skill Nodes
- When a skill node is Active its benefit is being applied to the 'Mech. When a Skill Node is Inactive its benefit is not being applied to the 'Mech.
Active Nodes are visually highlighted; Inactive Nodes are not. De-activating and re-activating a skill node. You do not need to spend another Skill Point to re-activate a skill node you previously acquired.
- For example: In Figure 1 the player has acquired the Range 1 skill node. That node is currently active. The player has previously acquired the Range 3 skill node, but that node is currently inactive.
- SP (Skill Points)
- Purchased per-'Mech using a combination of C-Bills and XP, Skill Points are used for purchasing skill nodes. Once a skill node has been purchased it is considered 'owned', and can be de-activated or re-activated later at any point without needing to acquire a new skill point.
- Purchasing 1 skill node requires 1 skill point.
- All 'Mechs possess a maximum of 91 active Skill Points.
- Skill Points are only required for the initial purchase of a Node.
- GSP (General Skill Points)
- A general form of skill points. General Skill Points work much the same as regular skill points, but they are not locked to any specific variant.
You can use general skill points to purchase skill nodes for any 'Mech you wish. General skill points can not be purchased; they are only received as part of the refund/transfer process from the old Skill Tree.
- HSP (Historic Skill Points)
- Historic Skill Points carried over from your account prior to the release of this skill tree. Historic skill points are a 'transition' currency to account for skill statuses from the old Skill Tree. The skill status of a 'Mech under the previous system is converted into an associated number of HSP. The player can then assign any amount of HSP to a specific variant or its duplicates for use in the Skill Tree.
- XP ('Mech XP)
- A 'Mech-specific experience type. 'Mech XP can only be used toward the purchase of skill points for the specific 'Mech on which that 'Mech XP is present.
- GXP (General XP)
- A general experience type. GXP can be used toward the purchase of Skill Points for any 'Mech.
- HXP (Historic XP)
- Historic XP carried over from a player's account prior to the release of the new Skill Tree. 'Mech XP from the previous skill system (whether spent or unspent) will be returned to the associated variants as a shared HXP pool. GXP spent on 'Mech Skills from the previous skill system is returned to the associated variants as a shared HXP pool. HXP must be converted into 'Mech XP before it can be used for skill unlocks. There is no cost associated with converting HXP into 'Mech XP.
- Performing a respec refers to the act of un-equipping one or more skill node on a chosen 'Mech for the purpose of 'respecing' it with new Skills.
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A couple of months ago, AT&T and Time Warner CEOs spoke with senators about their proposed $85.4 billion merger. They told the senators that being allowed to control both the content and the delivery system of that content would not adversely affect consumers. Considering that, there is not a single shred of evidence that either AT&T or Time Warner has ever done anything that wasn’t in the interest of consumers. The FCC’s new chairman Ajit Pai has decided that his job doesn’t include doing his job.
As the Wall Street Journal reports, Pai said today that the FCC won’t be reviewing the deal, because by his interpretation, it doesn’t fall into the FCC’s wheelhouse. AT&T has always said that because the deal will involve no transfer of wireless spectrum licenses, the FCC doesn’t need to look at it. Pai seemingly agrees with that view, and therefore the FCC won’t be looking at the deal.
That makes the deal far more likely to be approved. For the FCC to sign off on a deal, the commissioners have to agree that the deal is in the public’s best interest. That’s a far higher bar than approval from the DoJ, which just has to conclude that the merger doesn’t break anti-trust law.
Sen. Al Franken has already been pushing on Time Warner and AT&T executives to actually explain how this merger helps consumers. Chairman Pai is doing what all Republican minions do: deregulate and allow big business to do whatever they want. The good news is that if you are a billionaire you are probably going to make more billions as it looks like one of the regulatory gatekeepers is fine with just leaving the doors wide open.


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BRITISH families face major changes to their spending power and financial security depending on which party wins the General Election.
With the help of experts from money.co.uk , we’ve taken a look at the pledges in each of the major party’s manifesto and the impact they will have on your purse.
Here’s what you need to know:
Home buyers and tenants
Conservatives: The party said they’ll ban letting agent’s fees and reform the process of buying your own home to make it less costly. They also plan to build 1.5million new homes by 2022.
Labour: Under a Labour government, renters would benefit from three-year tenancies and capped rent rises, the party also pledged to get rid of letting agent fees. They’d also scrap the bedroom tax and give more help to first-time buyers by guaranteeing Help to Buy until 2027 whilst suspending the Right to Buy scheme.
These are just some of the promises from Jeremy Corbyn's magic money tree manifesto, which would blow a £300billion hole in Britain’s finances and cost families an extra £3,500 a year.
Lib Dems: The party plans to introduce a rent-to-own model helping first-time buyers. They would ban letting agent fees and cap the amount you can be charged as an upfront deposit. They would end the right to buy scheme and reinstate housing benefit for 18-21 year olds.
Conservatives: The Tories said they’ll write off student loans for new teachers who stay in the profession a certain amount of time.
Labour: Another of the party's wild promises is to scrap tuition fees and restore maintenance grants for new students and write off fees for students starting courses in September.
Lib Dems: The party plans to reintroduce maintenance grants for the poorest students. They would review the student loans system and 16-21 year olds would get two thirds off bus travel.
Conservatives: The party said they’ll introduce 30 hours of free childcare for three- and four-year-olds of working parents. They also plan to replace free school meals with free breakfasts for all children in their first three years of schooling.
Labour: Labour wants to roll out 30 hours of free childcare to all two- to four-year olds and "some" one-year olds. They would provide all primary school children with free school meals funded by charging VAT on private school fees.
Lib Dems: Similar to Labour, the Lib Dems promise to roll out 15 hours of free childcare to two-year-olds during term time. They would also add an extra month’s paid paternity leave to fathers’ entitlements.
Conservatives: The Tories want to introduce an energy price cap and conduct an independent review into energy costs to make sure they’re as low as possible.
Labour: The party wants to introduce an immediate energy price cap which would prevent dual fuel from rising above £1,000 a year. They also want to bring the energy sector back to public ownership and nationalise England’s water companies.
Lib Dem: The party pledges to cut energy bills by improving home insulation and encouraging the use of renewable schemes.
State pension triple lock
Conservatives: The Tories said they will maintain the Triple Lock on state pensions until 2020, and replace it with a double-lock once it expires, under which pensions will keep pace with earnings or inflation – whichever is highest.
Labour: The party said it would guarantee the triple lock on the state pension.
Lib Dem: The Lib Dems also plan to maintain the current triple lock.
Conservatives: Under a Tory government, the state pension age would increase with life expectancy. The Conservatives have proposed to end the universal fuel allowance which would be means tested so only pensioners in fuel poverty will receive the payment of up to £300 each winter.
Labour: The party said it would review the state pension age and improve workplace pensions and promises that the fuel allowance will stay for all pensioners.
Lib Dem: The Lib Dems plan to undertake a review to introduce a single rate tax relief on pensions. They would remove the fuel allowance from pensioners who pay the higher tax rate.
Should you buy your holiday money now or after June 8?
HOLIDAYMAKERS who are worried about the fluctuating pound should buy half their holiday money now and half closer to the time of their trip.
Managing editor of money.co.uk, Martin Lane, said: “Trying to predict what will happen to the exchange rate is a mug’s game.
“You never know which way currency will go so if you have a holiday booked perhaps buying half now and half closer to the time means you won’t feel so bitter if it doesn’t go in your favour.
Ian Strafford-Taylor, CEO of travel money expert FairFX, said: “Any uncertainty surrounding political and economic events and announcements can have a negative impact on the pound and we’ve certainly seen that over the last 10 months.
“When the pound moves in your favour and you’re happy with the rate on offer, it’s often a good idea to buy your travel money to lock-in that rate and protect yourself from any future volatility.”
Conservatives: The Conservatives reiterated the pledge to raise the personal allowance to £12,500 and the higher rate to £50,000 by 2020.
Labour: Under a Labour government people earning more than £80,000 a year would face an income tax hike to 45p, while there will be a new 50 per cent rate on earnings above £123,000.
Lib Dems: The Lib Dems would add a 1p in the pound hike on income tax in order to funnel £6bn more into the NHS and social care. In the longer term the 1p tax increase would be replaced by a dedicated healthcare tax and a possible shake-up of National Insurance Contributions.
Conservatives: Conservatives said they would raise the threshold for paying for social care from £23,000 to £100,000. But, for the first time, the value of a person’ home will also be included in their calculation of assets for home care as well as residential care.
Labour: The party said it would raise the cap, but once again has failed to give a precise figure.
Lib Dems: The party says the threshold for losing carers allowance will be raised from £110 to £150 a week, and the number of hours’ care per week required qualifying for the allowance will be reduced.
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Today’s edition of quick hits.
* Indefensible: “A Russian court extended until at least Aug. 30 the pretrial detention of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter deemed by the U.S. to be wrongfully held, after investigators requested more time before his trial.”
* Jan. 6 sentence: “The Arkansas man who was photographed on Jan. 6, 2021, with his feet on a desk in then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office was sentenced Wednesday to four and a half years in prison. Federal prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence Richard ‘Bigo’ Barnett to more than seven years for his actions before, during and after the riot at the U.S. Capitol.”
* The latest warning from DHS: “The Department of Homeland Security is warning about the potential for violence in the lead-up to the 2024 election cycle that could target the nation’s critical infrastructure, faith-based institutions, government facilities and minority communities, according to a bulletin posted Wednesday.”
* She’s right: “Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first National Youth Poet Laureate, spoke out Tuesday against what she described as a book ban after access to the poem she recited at President Joe Biden’s inauguration was limited at a Florida school.”
* One year later: “As families and loved ones mourn the unimaginable loss of 19 children and two teachers shot dead last year in Uvalde, Texas, President Joe Biden said from a solemn White House memorial that too many schools, too many everyday places have become ‘killing fields.’”
* Soon, every state south of Virginia will have bans like these: “The South Carolina Senate on Tuesday voted to ban abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy following the end of a filibuster by the chamber’s five female senators, who had become the bill’s most outspoken opponents.”
* Target responds to right-wing intimidation tactics: “Mega retailer Target is pulling some of its merchandise that celebrates Pride month after threats to employees, the company said Tuesday.”
* Jimmy Carter is hanging in there: “Three months after entering end-of-life care at home, former President Jimmy Carter remains in good spirits as he visits with family, follows public discussion of his legacy and receives updates on The Carter Center’s humanitarian work around the world, his grandson says. He’s even enjoying regular servings of ice cream.”
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art inspired by the movie Return to Oz
Opening Reception: Feb. 27, 2010 6-10PM
Gallery Meltdown, LA
I actually have not seen this film until now! After I got invited to participate in this show, I went out to rent it right away. I watched it with my roommate and we really enjoyed it (we found it thoroughly amusing that Dorothy was pegged as a loony from the beginning) but anyway!
For this show, I did a portrait of Jack Pumpkinhead.


Gunmen armed with silencers kill man identified by opposition websites as being a Hezbollah official.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Iran’s Fars News agency reported Saturday that unknown gunmen shot and killed a Lebanese man whom opposition websites identified as an operative of the Hezbollah terror group.
Habib Daoud, 58, and his daughter Maryam, 27, were apparently shot and killed by a gunman Friday night while they sat in their car in the area of Tehran.
The shooting took place in the neighborhood near the house of the deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Resistance, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, who was killed in Baghdad in January in the American attack that assassinated top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
Opposition web sites reported that Daoud was a member of Hezbollah, the Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Qabas reported.
According to the Iranian report, one or more gunmen on a motorcycle fired five bullets into the two. Four of the bullets hit their targets, while the fifth bullet hit a passing car.
The neighborhood is known to be home to senior members of Shiite organizations as well as many Lebanese Shiites. It is unclear what Daoud’s role was in the Lebanese terrorist organization and what he was doing in Tehran, although Iranian reports claimed he was a history professor.
The method of assassination, two assassins riding a motorcycle, is known to be used by the Mujahideen Halk organization, a left-wing organization that opposes the regime in Iran and has previously carried out a series of assassinations on Iranian officials and scientists, Israel Hayom reported.
According to foreign sources, the organization operates in cooperation with Israel’s Mossad spy agency and the American intelligence services.
Funded, armed and trained by Iran, leaders of the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon repeat the Iranian official line that their goal is the destruction of Israel. Iran recruited thousands of Hezbollah fighters to go to Syria and help prop up Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad.
Over the years Iran has helped arm Hezbollah with up to 180,000 rockets and missiles that the terror group has threatened to use against Israel. In the past, Hezbollah has made it a policy of firing rockets at Israel civilian targets.


Some thoughts on the Air Force’s mobility fleet…. These observations are my own and do not represent official military policy.
Tonight, in Air Force jets over a black Atlantic, bleary-eyed aviators will sip coffee and monitor instruments on the first leg of an airlift run to Afghanistan or Iraq.
They’ll maneuver their C-17s or C-5s in a precise sky ballet to refuel in mid-air from a KC-135 Stratotanker or a KC-10 Extender. If they don’t refuel in the air, they’ll land in Europe for fuel and crew rest. Then they’ll take off again, bound for the war zone, with cargo compartments full of troops, ammunition, medical supplies, Humvee parts, or anything else needed by American forces.
On the return trips, they’ll bring back vehicles needing overhaul, wounded needed treatment, or soldiers rotating home at the end of their tours. This process goes on every day and night, scores of aircraft aloft at any given moment, in what fliers call the “aluminum overcast.”
With the current surge in the Afghanistan war effort, and with the clock ticking toward a planned July 2011 troop phase-down, airlift becomes ever more important. Roughly every two minutes, an Air Mobility Command aircraft takes to the skies. Strategists call it the air bridge. And, like any kind of infrastructure, parts of that air bridge are aging.
Recently I flew a training mission in which my crew’s C-5 Galaxy took fuel from a Stratotanker. For routine paperwork, I wrote down the tanker’s tail number. It started with 59. That’s the year it was built.
Not all mobility aircraft are that geriatric; some C-17 Globemasters still have that new-car smell, and Globemasters continue to roll off the assembly line. So do C-130Js, the latest version of the time-tested C-130 Hercules. But with some other aircraft, tankers in particular, flight crews and maintainers struggle to complete missions with planes older than anyone on board.
The mechanics do a marvelous job, but hard work and ingenuity can go only so far. As any of them will tell you, there are two kinds of machines: those that have broken down and those that are going to. The older the aircraft, the more likely the failure.
Above the pay grades of crew dogs like me, Air Force leaders are working to outfit the fleet with new tankers. According to a recent article in Air Force magazine, the journal of the Air Force Association, a military study has concluded that the U.S. needs 567 aerial tankers to meet current demands. It has only 474, most from the Eisenhower era.
Aerospace manufacturers are now in a contract competition to determine which company will build a new KC-X tanker. Officials plan to announce the contract award sometime this fall. Despite economic uncertainty and huge federal deficits, upgrading the air bridge is a good long-term investment.
In the meantime, traffic across the air bridge isn’t getting any lighter. Even in Afghanistan’s best-case scenario, with trained and competent Afghan soldiers and police taking over from Coalition forces, the Kabul government will still need equipment and supplies from the U.S. The Air Force’s mobility fleet could remain involved in Afghanistan long after the last shot is fired.
Additionally, in both wartime and peacetime, transport aircraft and tankers help resupply embassies, respond to natural disasters–and prepare for the next war. Tankers also support other kinds of flight operations: fighters go fast, but they can’t go far without refueling.
While you read this, and while Congress considers budget priorities, a flight crew is somewhere above you–perhaps in an aircraft their grandfathers could have flown. They have a long night ahead of them, and it’ll get longer if an emergency interrupts their mission. In Baghdad or Kandahar, a logistics officer awaits cargo, maybe something badly needed by soldiers in the field. The fliers are checking their navigation, watching their fuel consumption, and scanning for warning lights, hoping nothing goes wrong.


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70,000 sq. ft. spread across three stories with a gallery of furniture and a glass enclosed rooftop, the newly rebuilt and reopened RH is quite the place to see! And unsurprisingly, it’s a stunning feat of architecture and design. For us, the furniture is more of a pipe dream than a reality, so we ventured swiftly up to the grand finale of the space: the rooftop restaurant.
Updated May 2021
As imagined, the rooftop restaurant is seriously stunning and resembles a fancy European garden, with a fountain and a chandelier as the centerpieces of the dining room. Around it, there are trees, more than 30 smaller versions of the chandelier, lounge type seating arrangements, and marble tabletops. Although it’s covered, you feel like you’re dining outside with the open doors and floor to ceiling windows.
WINE BAR, PATIO AND FOOD
Enjoy the Wine Bar on the top floor on an uncovered patio overlooking Knox while sipping on an RH Bellini! Food isn’t served on the outdoor patio, and on that note, RH food is pretty pricy! If you do dive into the menu, try the ribeye sandwich and truffle fries or splurge on the Brie and prosciutto cheeseboard or lobster roll! The outdoor patio is first come, first serve while the rest of the restaurant is by reservation through Open Table! So run, don’t walk, to check out the newest trendy spot & Instagrammable haven in Dallas!
Now just called RH (formerly Restoration Hardware), the high-end modern furniture store that has redefined home and design goals, has now done the same for a retail experience! The original one-story RH was torn down a few years ago to make way for a much bigger and grander version, known as the gallery, with a double floating staircase, sparkling chandeliers, and olive trees galore!


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Vedolizumab a “new chapter” for IBD therapy beyond anti-TNF
The α4β7 integrin antibody vedolizumab continues to show efficacy and safety in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in an era beyond tumour necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors, according to a presentation at the annual Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (AIBD) 2018 meeting.
Although TNF inhibitors have been commonly used for treating IBD, these drugs are “far from perfect” in terms of efficacy in IBD, said Professor Brian Feagan from the Western University in Ontario, Canada, noting that the response rates for these agents were only about 30–40 percent. [Gastroenterology 2007;132:52-65]
Also, being a systemic immunosuppressive agent, an Achilles’ heel of the drug is the increase in serious infection risk, he highlighted. “Serious infection is an important limitation [of the drug], and immunization to pneumococcal, influenza, varicella zoster virus, and human papillomavirus is critical.”
The monoclonal antibody vedolizumab binds to α4β7 integrin, leading to inhibition of adhesion and trafficking of lymphocytes in the gut which mediate inflammation.
“Vedolizumab is the first gut-selective agent, and it has an unprecedented safety record,” said Feagan. The combined rates of any infections in UC and CD patients were lower with vedolizumab compared with placebo after adjusting for exposure time (63.5/100 patient-years vs 82.9/100 patient-years). Similar results were seen for upper and lower respiratory tract infections. [Gut 2017;66:839-851] A meta-analysis of real-world study also support the low incidence of any infection and Clostridium difficile infection in patients treated with vedolizumab. [Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2017;46:3-15]
Based on results from the GEMINI studies, vedolizumab has been approved for treating moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD).
In the double-blind GEMINI 1 study which enrolled 895 patients with UC, response rates were 47.1 percent in the vedolizumab group and 25.5 percent in the placebo group at week 6 during the induction phase (p<0.001). The difference in clinical remission rates between groups became more pronounced at week 52 during the maintenance phase, as achieved by >40 percent of patients who continued vedolizumab compared with 15.9 percent of patients who switched to placebo (p<0.001). [N Engl J Med 2013;369:699-710]
Although between-group difference in clinical remission response was statistically significant at week 6 during induction in the GEMINI 2 study involving 1,115 patients with CD, the clinical relevance of just a 7-percentage point difference was unclear (14.5 percent vs 6.8 percent; p=0.02), which according to Feagan, casts doubts on the induction potential. [New Eng J Med 2013;369:711-721]
However, another study showed that a longer induction period for 10 weeks yielded clinically meaningful effect with vedolizumab vs placebo for remission response (21.7 percent vs 11.0 percent; p=0.0008) rather than a <4-percentage point difference at week 6 — indicating that “one needs to look at 10–12 weeks induction for assessing efficacy [rather than just 6 weeks in the case of vedolizumab]”, according to Feagan. [Gastroenterology 2014;147:618-627]
“There are no surprises in real-world experience and it’s supportive of a very appropriate therapeutic index for use in both UC and CD,” Feagan added. The therapeutic benefits of vedolizumab in CD in terms of clinical response, clinical remission, and steroid-free remission were also seen in real-world cohorts across UK, Germany, France, and the US. [Frontline Gastroenterol 2017;8:196-202; Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2016;43:1090-1102; Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2016;14:1593-1601; Inflamm Bowel Dis 2015;21:2879-2885]
“Vedolizumab is an effective induction therapy in both UC and CD, even more so for maintenance,” he said. “The development of vedolizumab and its efficacy and safety in CD and UC is really a new chapter for therapeutics for IBD."