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May 23
This anchorage is the Hotel California. Had planned to leave two days ago, but with one thing and another... and couldn't miss pot luck on the beach tonight. Anyway, tomorrow for sure. May give Taipivai ("Typee") a pass to head directly to Taiohae for internet, laundry, propane, gasoline, fresh produce, bread and restaurant with petit dejeuner. Will be first professionally prepared breakfast in over a month. Cour de franc Pacifique (CFP, about 92 to the dollar) are burning a hole in the one pocket that doesn't already have one.
Idea of damaging coral causes a cringe, but with bottom here 95% covered with the stuff, idea of not getting an anchor back seems more urgent. Dived on it yesterday to find chain lying across tops and pointy end of hook not even stuck in tiny plot of sand where it rested. No obvious damage to any coral. See why all-chain road is de rigueur in the Pacific.
Well, time to go party. It's a hard life. Share dish will be brown rice with shredded, canned chicken. Delicious unless you have ever, in your life, used salt, then a tad bland. Would be more for me, but usually prefer what people who know how to, have cooked. Fact that OPF (other people's food) always tastes better surely not a commentary on personal culinary prowess... probably.
May 22
Again proceeded to Jackster, now armed with new version of Airmail application, to slay the dragon preventing contact with Sailmail shore stations. Tweaked a few parameters; checked that every cable was connected properly and each bit was intercommunicating properly and voila! No connection. Dragon 2, Jackster 0. Bugger! Obviously there's some PFM (ask a friend) at work here. Good news is that assistance record is intact. Consistency, the hobgoblin of great minds... something like that.
Due desire to dive on anchor, fearing ensnarlment (real word or not?) by ubiquitous coral, first took scuba to manta locale. Spotted two spotted eagle rays (how else to see this species?) playing on the surface (budding romance?) then found one at thirty feet and shortly thereafter the large manta. Way cool. Marginal video. Anticipating next island group with great visiblity.
Expect to bail Anaho tomorrow for Taipivai or the big village, then, in a week or less, off to next adventure. After convergence zone type weather, seven day GRIB shows good wind for four day reach into the atolls of Tuomotu, called "The Dangerous Archipelago" because the only things taller than a few feet are the sparsely distributed palms. They hide, then pounce. Pucker significantly ameliorated, but not eliminated, by advent of radar and GPS. Marquesas, all volcanic island; Tuamotus, all reef; Societies, volcanos surrounded by reef. No uniformity here, but, after all, a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Oops.
May 21
Problem with goofing off is that it's seductive. The first hit feels good, so you do it again and then again. You tell yourself that you can stop anytime, but find that projects lose their urgency. After breakfast a little nap of the dog feels good. A few hours go by and it's too late to get into defrosting the freezer or cleaning the deck so you read another chapter. Eyelids get heavy. You wake to discover that there's just time to grab a bite before heading over to a neighboring boat for drinks. You are ravaged by guilt, but tell yourself you deserve a little break and, after all, can stop anytime. But then, while licking peanut butter dinner off the spoon it hits you. You've hit bottom. You need help. Slackers Anonymous!
The vision was so frightening that I actually did defrost, clean, repair some holes in the hatch fiberglass and reorganize storage. After rationalizing the ability to handle it, lay down with a book for balance of day until time for crunchy Peter Pan and partying. I'm a functional slacker.
Bristol Roses braved first real wind in a few days with accompanying waves to make it here this afternoon. This may be our last sight of them until Australia (they're trying to catch up with World ARC and get home by October), but have thought same at every goodbye since Grenada, so remain skeptical.
May 20
Will never again utter a disparaging word concerning manta ray's sense of personal responsibility. One showed up on schedule, about three feet tip to tip and then another at perhaps four. Unfortunately, murky video missed barrel roll by smaller guy. This time missed two sharks, so another sortie in works for tomorrow, although they are notoriously unreliable. Promises of fame mean nothing to them.
Aussie buds are working around from Taiohae (Tah-ee-oh-HAY-ee), Gotham of the Marquesas (maybe 8000 residents on all five inhabited islands), so plan to stay in Anaho for their arrival tomorrow afternoon. No hardship as this is best anchorage in entire group, although wind sucks as it doesn't blow enough for generator. Finally, an excuse to goof off. And to answer the question on the tip of your tongue (look if you don't believe me), yes, all afternoon. Several little projects are planned for morning to patch guilt riddled psyche.
OK, enough of this twaddle. Further torpidity (real word) beckons.
May 19
Although visibility is not the best, snorkeling here is amazing. Never seen such densely packed coral. Comes up six to ten feet off the bottom right under the keel. Spooky. Only occasionally is the underlying sand visible. Retrieving the CQR (it's the anchor, Cal, a play on word 'secure') could be a real challenge. There are also a plethora of winsome fish, turtles and rays. Jacksters saw a manta by Matoohotu Point after my pass. Have scheduled a reappearance for photo tomorrow morning although they are not very reliable. Brown cow-nose rays are the only ones even remotely conscientious about keeping appointments. Probably a sociological problem.
Next bay east is redolent of coastal South Carolina, especially the smell. Lots of sand, surf and even the short grass and crawling vines bring back memories of ill spent youthful summers around Myrtle Beach. Any reminiscence is quickly shattered, of course, by a quick look around at the volcanic skyline that accompanies an even more entertaining present.
Cleaned the boot stripe and prop, so the old girl runs well and looks good from a distance. Try not to let anyone aboard until after dark. Cockpit's OK, but poop deck still looks a bit shaggy awaiting future effort. Speaking of travail, this is the South Pacific (as far as you know) for crying out loud, so when do the feckless days of depraved indolence begin? Would use Paul Gauguin as my exemplar, but don't have a penchant for thirteen year old girls and can't paint.
May 18
It's not far, but you can't get there from here, almost. Hatiheu village, with an uncomfortably rolly bay, is across a ridge, an hour and some of steep climbing each way, from this lovely, smooth anchorage. Lunch at an outdoor eatery there was a reasonably priced Marquesan specialty, chow mein... OK, the price wasn't that reasonable, either, but it was quite good and provided the energy to climb back home. Not wanting to return empty handed, bought large grapefruit instead of sought after (and lighter), unavailable-until-tomorrow, bread and lettuce.
Was so revved up after jaunt, cleaned boat's topsides. No wait, that's not right, actually collapsed into a pile of quivering protoplasm for two hours. Then, driven by guilt, did that other thing. Boat had begun to look like a garbage scow with rust and drainage stains streaking her hull. She has now returned to her former sleek, pristine beauty. Close enough. Tomorrow may see cleaning of aft deck where gas, oil and fish guts have wreaked havoc and/or foredeck where rusty, befouled chain has merely played at it.
Snorkeling heads agenda le matin for the best early light with a relatively easy trek across to bay east l'apres-midi after breaking lunch, or, possibly, for it.
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May 20, 2009 at 16:00 PM EDT
Citi Trends Announces Record First Quarter Results
Citi Trends, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTRN) today reported record first quarter sales and earnings.
Financial Highlights – First quarter ended May 2, 2009
Total sales in the first quarter ended May 2, 2009 increased 18.3% to $143.1 million compared with $121.0 million in the first quarter ended May 3, 2008. Comparable store sales increased 7.4% in the first quarter. Net income was $7.9 million compared with $5.2 million in last year's first quarter. Earnings per diluted share increased to $0.54 in the first quarter of 2009 compared with $0.36 in the first quarter of 2008.
Earnings in the first quarter of 2009 benefited from the 7.4% increase in comparable store sales, together with a higher gross margin that was a result of lower freight costs as a percentage of sales, continued efforts to reduce inventory shrinkage, a slightly higher initial merchandise mark-up, and lower markdowns due to tight inventory control.
The Company opened 8 stores and relocated or expanded 4 others in the first quarter of 2009, reaching a total store count of 365 at the end of the quarter.
Fiscal 2009 Outlook
The Company is raising its 2009 earnings estimate to approximately $1.33 per diluted share which includes an anticipated 2009 comparable store sales increase of approximately 3%. For the year, the Company expects to increase selling square footage by at least 15%. The effective tax rate for 2009 is estimated to be in a range of 34% to 35%. The earnings estimate includes the first quarter impact of an unrealized loss of $728,000, or $0.03 per diluted share, related to the valuation of the Company's investments in auction rate securities. In addition, the estimate reflects a negative impact of $0.03 per diluted share associated with the adoption of FASB Staff Position EITF 03-6-1 as it relates to the allocation of earnings per share to nonvested shares of restricted stock.
The Company reminds investors of the complexity of accurately assessing future results given the difficulty in predicting fashion trends, consumer preferences and general economic conditions and the impact of other business variables. See "Forward-Looking Statements" below for more information regarding these uncertainties.
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Citi Trends will host a conference call today at 5:00 p.m. ET. The number to call for the live interactive teleconference is (212) 231-2900. A replay of the conference call will be available until May 27, 2009, by dialing (402) 977-9140 and entering the passcode, 21422427#. The live broadcast of Citi Trends' quarterly conference call will be available online at the Company's website, www.cititrends.com, as well as http://ir.cititrends.com/events.cfm, beginning today at 5:00 p.m. ET. The online replay will follow shortly after the call and continue through May 27, 2009.
During the conference call, the Company may discuss and answer questions concerning business and financial developments and trends. The Company's responses to questions, as well as other matters discussed during the conference call, may contain or constitute information that has not been disclosed previously.
About Citi Trends
Citi Trends, Inc. is a value-priced retailer of urban fashion apparel and accessories for the entire family. The Company currently operates 365 stores located in 22 states in the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions and the state of Texas. Citi Trends' website address is www.cititrends.com. CTRN-E
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All statements other than historical facts contained in this news release, including statements regarding our future financial results and position, business policy and plans and objectives of management for future operations, are forward-looking statements that are subject to material risks and uncertainties. The words "believe," "may," "could," "plans," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "expect" and similar expressions, as they relate to Citi Trends, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Statements with respect to earnings guidance are forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are subject to the finalization of the Company's quarterly financial and accounting procedures, are not guarantees of future performance or results and are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified. Actual results or developments may differ materially from those included in the forward-looking statements, as a result of various factors which are discussed in Citi Trends, Inc. filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, uncertainties relating to economic conditions, growth risks, consumer spending patterns, competition within the industry, competition in our markets and the ability to anticipate and respond to fashion trends. Except as required by applicable law, including the securities laws of the United States and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Citi Trends does not undertake to publicly update any forward-looking statements in this news release or with respect to matters described herein, whether as a result of any new information, future events or otherwise.
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Area vet finds therapy in sculptures
Casting. Carving. Hammering. Modeling.
As his tools strike the brass, metal on metal, area multimedia sculptor Bill Stronach loses track of time and place. It's a welcome relief for Stronach, permanently disabled, due to malaria complications and post-traumatic stress disorder from serving in Vietnam.
"Once you kill people, it changes you," he said. "You can't say it doesn't."
Stronach, who has retired to a secure gated community at the base of the mountain near Lenoir ("It's so quiet out here. This is what I need."), spends his days in his basement studio, working through a difficult life with the twist of a torch.
He spends his evenings with his family, wife Susan and his two dogs. His children, Natalie and William, have both grown up, leaving the security of the log cabin for college at UNC-Charlotte and N.C. State, respectively.
It's a time when others his age are settling into the relaxation of retirement, quiet golf games and long fishing trips. For Stronach, it's his chance for therapy, for a cure. And it's been a long time coming.
"I didn't start out crazy," he joked.
And despite what he'll tell you, he's not crazy now. It's evident in the careful way he presents himself, even though there's clearly something troubling in his past.
Stronach grew up in Anaheim, Calif. His father worked in parks and recreation, alongside the legendary Walt Disney himself.
"Every time we'd go to Disneyland, his personal secretary would be our guide, and I thought I was somebody," he said.
It was in Anaheim that his love of art began to shine through.
"Everything was abstract in our house," he said.
In the '60s, Stronach's family moved back to the place of his father's birth, Avery County, and Stronach was set, never straying far from the mountains of North Carolina. Never, that is, until a misstep while attending Lees-McRae College for a business degree.
"I was within two weeks of graduation ... and we had a frat party, and I got thrown out, which put me a semester behind my class, and I got drafted," he said.
Two years of Army infantry reconnaissance followed, including 13 months in combat, and his world changed forever.
"People hated you back then," Susan Stronach said. "It's not like you came home welcomed."
It's hard for her husband to talk about and, until recently, the war and what followed simply wasn't discussed. After all, in those days, there was no formal therapy.
"Post-traumatic stress disorder didn't exist until 1982," Stronach said. "They didn't recognize it. It was nothing ... but you send a man 18-years-old into combat, and he comes back a whole different person.
And he has advice for new members of the club no soldier wants to join: PTSD victims.
"You're OK ... it's natural," he said forcefully.
Watching the news today, he sees parallels, what he calls "kids" going to war, and repeatedly he offers himself as a resource. After all, he's been there. And people who haven't? Well, they just can't understand.
"I've got ghosts ... I hate war. You ask any veteran," he said. "I'm glad that what I went through had an effect on me, or else I'd be plastic ... but there's no way in the world you can kill somebody 10 feet away and look at him eyeball to eyeball and you're not going to carry it with you ... that's something people don't realize ... you don't get away with it. If you take a life, it doesn't go away."
War, he'll tell you, takes the soldier out of "what life is supposed to be like," a place with rules and morality, and shoots them (literally) into hell.
"How do you prepare a kid in 10 weeks basic training for that?" he asks, "We're stupid. We're the worst students of history in the world. That's why you study history, so you don't repeat yourself ... we haven't learned our lessons. War always boils down to one guy in a hole there, facing another guy in a hole there. I don't care what kind of bombs and other things you've got."
And, if you return, the hell doesn't stop.
That's why Stronach carves.
"It's my therapy," he said. "If I never sold another piece in my life, I'd be down there working."
The war is never far from his mind.
At the entrance to his studio is a glass cabinet, host to war memorabilia, medals, photographs. Next to the door hangs an Army green pack, adorned with machine gun rounds. It's the same equipment he walked with through the jungle all those decades ago, and it has its place. Stronach compares it to the yin to his artwork's yang, one can't exist without the other.
"It's a tribute to all my friends," he said. "It's part of me."
Since Vietnam, Stronach (who did end up graduating with a degree in industrial arts) has done everything from own a jewelry store in Boone to operating a trout farm to being the color lab director at a furniture design company (and some interesting stories in-between). The mountains have helped him keep his sanity. "They're quiet," he said.
But his artwork is what keeps him from the brink, through PTSD, his wife's cancer (she's been cancer-free for six years) and all of life's smaller turmoils.
"I'd go out there and carve," he said. "I'd go out there and didn't have anything on my mind, I just wanted to carve away. It's a culmination of my feelings and emotions through that period of my life. Sometimes I start up with a definite figure in my mind. Sometimes it's a seed. Sometimes it ends up being a semblance. You start putting pieces together."
While he sticks to the abstract, he does it through endless media.
"I've got multiple personalities, which means I'm a metalsmith. I can cast. If a hammer makes me mad enough, I can melt it down with a plasma cutter," he joked.
Standing with his plasma cutter, there's nothing he can't control.
"It's the coolest thing," he said. "I can cut anything. I can cut your car up in 20 minutes."
And his "therapy" has dazzled art critics across the region. His pieces are on permanent display at the Wilson's Creek Visitor's Center, downtown in Lenoir, at the Broyhill Civic Center (a winning piece from Caldwell Visual Arts Competition) and other places throughout the High Country.
Through it all, he maintains a close relationship with the soldiers he served alongside, active in veterans' reunions and support groups. He makes it a point to speak out about his therapy. He hopes his honesty will help returning soldiers deal with their own demons.
His advice to veterans? Find your own therapy. While it may not be sculpture, there's something out there that can help you reconnect. "Find it," he said.
Stronach's work will be on display alongside paintings by Pavel "Paul" Nikitchenko at Art and Artifacts (159 Sunset Drive) in Blowing Rock. The show, sponsored by Art and Artifacts and Blowing Rock Gallery of Homes and Land is called "Two Points of View" and is part of the monthly Sunset Stroll on Sunset Drive celebration, held the evening prior to Art in the Park. The opening reception is from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
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For Immediate Release
City Council Budget Workshops Begin May 1
The Springfield City Council will use its Tuesday, May 1, lunch meeting to hold the first of several workshops to discuss the Fiscal Year 2013 Proposed Annual Budget. (The fiscal year runs July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013.) The meeting begins at noon in the 4th floor conference room of the Busch Municipal Building.
Two more Council workshops are scheduled for noon on May 1, 8 and 15. Additional workshops will be scheduled if needed.
The full budget document is available online at www.springfieldmo.gov. The proposed budget is put forth by the City Manager with extensive input from City staff. The workshops allow City Council time to discuss and consider the budget in detail and put forth any suggested changes. Council must approve a final budget before the new fiscal year begins on July 1.
The proposed budget is summarized in the City Manager's budget message to Council members at the beginning of the document. In it, City Manager Greg Burris said sales tax revenue, the City's primary source of revenue, is expected to increase 7% for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012. While some of the increase is made up of growth in sales, it also includes one-time payments and increases due to Department of Revenue improvements in processing payments.Monitoring the top 100 taxpayers has given the City information to factor into the 2013 budget, an estimated real growth of 4%.
Use Tax revenue is projected to increase 3.5% over the amount received in FY 2011. Revenue from fees and fines, and payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) from City Utilities fell short of budget and are budgeted to remain flat next year.
Highlights of the proposed budget include:
- All front line positions in the Police and Fire Department fully funded. When the Pension Sales Tax was proposed to voters in 2009, the City promised to restore funding to the Police and Fire Departments. Additionally, City Council set the full front-line staffing of these two public safety departments as a priority once the economic recovery would allow it to occur. FY 2012 was the second year this funding was restored. Police and Fire departments have been authorized to operate at full front-line strength during the entire fiscal year.
- Required benefit increases and prior commitments, including 13 firefighters – funded the past two years by a SAFER grant to be paid 100% from general fund in FY 2012, and 20 police officers funded by a COPS grant, which will transition to the General Fund over the next two and a half years. The budget also accommodates setting aside 20% of the amount needed to fund prior service credit for Police and Fire employees who moved to LAGERS when the City's self-funded pension plan was closed.
- The Health Department will receive additional funding for the animal control program addressing this high-priority need in the community.
- Capital equipment replacement:
Over the last several years, while struggling to balance the annual budget in a period of declining revenues, the replacement of capital equipment was deferred. In the general fund budget, funding is provided for critical equipment such asreplacement of core switches and storage for the City's computer network. Available monies from the Level Property Tax Fund will be used to replace patrol vehicles, many of which were purchased 8-10 years ago.
- Funding to some non-profit organizations:
This funding was mostly eliminated four years ago as revenues declined. The restored funding is mainly limited to funding for Community Partnership of the Ozarks to establish an Affordable Housing Office. This office will be comprised of local government, non-profits and public and private organizations. Funding is also provided for several neighborhood clean-up programs.
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In the 1990′s a group of female, Chinese, distance runners broke world records in their events by considerable margins. The apparent ease of their wins attracted a great deal of suspicion in regard to possible illegal drug use, but what emerged was not a steroid or erythropoietin (EPO) tainted athletic performance rather a rediscovery of an ancient Chinese remedy centred around Cordyceps Sinensis. Cordyceps are very rare and unique fungi, also known in China as Dong Chong Xia Cao ("Summer Grass, Winter Worm"), it has been highly regarded and effectively utilised in Traditional Chinese Medicine for well over 2000 years. It grows in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, at an altitude of about 3,500 metres and can only be harvested in relatively small quantities. Its positive effect on increasing stamina was first observed by Tibetan shepherds, when their flock of yaks had consumed the fungi whilst eating the summer grasses and then proceeded to mate more vigorously than previously observed. In the wild it has a symbiotic relationship with a particular variety of caterpillars, which consume it and then become one with it on a cellular level.
What actually are fungi?
Fungi are a division of eukaryotic organisms, which grow in irregular masses, and are without roots, stems, or leaves; they are also devoid of chlorophyll or other pigments capable of producing photosynthesis. Fungi contain ergo sterol instead of cholesterol in their plasma membranes. They reproduce sexually or asexually (spore formation), and may obtain nutrition from other living organisms as parasites or from dead organic matter as saprobes. Fungi have a well-defined cell wall composed of polysaccharides and chitin; they can be moulds, yeasts, or dimorphic.
Cordyceps Sinensis is now being safely grown and processed to be available in capsule form, this process does not involve caterpillars. Its use in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) centres on its properties as a liver tonic and it stimulates the system encouraging greater stamina. Cordyceps has powerful active ingredients, which can help restore the normal functioning of the body, stimulate immune response, increases energy, vitality, and longevity. Recent research has shown that Cordyceps can improve peak performances during sports, and also has muscle-building capability. In TCM, Cordyceps has been used to help regulate blood pressure, strengthen the cardiovascular system, and improve sexual energy. Clinical tests performed at the Hunan Medical University have shown that Cordyceps significantly contributed to increased levels of libido in the test subjects. Further clinical studies, primarily with elderly patients with fatigue, showed that Cordyceps-treated patients reported improvements in their wellbeing, ability to tolerate cold temperatures, memory retention and cognitive capacity. According to the biochemical analysis of Cordyceps species it is noted that they contain interesting properties like Cordycepin, which has been used to create the pharmacological drug Ciclosporin – which is helpful in suppressing the body's immune system during organ transplants. In 1950′s the chemical constituent of Cordyceps were determined by and a crystalline substance was isolated and named Cordyceps acid. This acid was later identified to be D-mannitol and further studies were performed to identify the constituents of the fungus. The chemical substances isolated were; 'amino acids, steric acid, D-mannitol, mycose, ergo sterol, uracil, adrenine, adenosince, palmitic acid, cholesterol palmitate and 5α-8α-epidioxy-5α-ergosta-6, 22-dien-3β-ol'.
My own personal experience in taking a Cordyceps supplement was that it immediately acted on my liver and stimulated similar sensations to when I was on a liver cleansing program. I did then begin to feel greater levels of stamina in my day to day life and it encouraged me to be more aware of parts of my diet which were not in tune with a liver cleansing program. I would recommend a juice fast and/or a raw vegetable diet for a few days before beginning taking Cordyceps, to maximise its efficacy. It is also recommend, by TCM consultants engaged by the manufacturers, taking the supplement first thing upon awakening and last thing before retiring to sleep – two capsules a day drunk with plenty of warm water for the kidneys. Whether you are feeling run down and needing a potent natural lift or perhaps you actually are preparing for a marathon, Cordyceps could be the answer for you.
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GAVI set out to do things differently in two ways. First, buy-in: It forced developing countries to cofinance vaccination programs, even at the nominal amount of 20 cents a dose. And second, accountability: It required clear record-keeping to ensure the vaccines were getting to children and to establish a sustainable delivery system. This clarity—a well-financed effort with partners on the ground—created a lasting market for big pharma that wouldn't cost them their shirts. To further goose competition, increase supply and bring down prices, GAVI encouraged drugmakers from developing nations like China and India to bid on contracts.
The payback has been dramatic. Over the past seven years the price for the standard five-germ inoculation (including diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough) has dropped 40%. The cost of a hepatitis B shot to prevent liver cancer has plunged 68% over a similar period, allowing millions of kids to be vaccinated. GlaxoSmithKline's Rotarix, to prevent rotavirus, a leading cause of diarrhea and death, has gone from $102 a dose to $2.50, and Indian upstarts like Bharat Biotech are bidding to drive that cost down to as low as $1.
With newer, more-expensive offerings, like Pfizer's Prevnar for pneumonia, the biggest-grossing vaccine in the world, GAVI has gone a step further. By promising to buy a certain number of doses, it guarantees the pharma company massively efficient volume. In exchange GAVI sets a ceiling for what it will pay long term—Prevnar, for example, goes for $114 in the U.S. but will cost no more than $3.50. Gates and his peers subsidize losses during the ramp-up. The math can be staggering: To deliver pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines to 250 million children, GAVI raised more than $3 billion from various governments, including the U.K., Norway and the U.S., and Gates kicked in the final $1 billion to make it all work. The results have been equally massive: 3.4 million lives saved from hepatitis B, which causes liver cancer, 1.2 million lives from measles, 560,000 from the Hib bacteria, 474,000 from whooping cough, 140,000 from yellow fever and 30,000 from polio. In the past year the new initiatives have prevented another 8,000 deaths from pneumonia and 1,000 from diarrhea.
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"I've met mothers who walked eight hours to get their child a vaccine and hoped that it's there on that day," Melinda says. On a trip in January to a rural clinic in Kenya she saw four children with pneumonia sharing a single oxygen tube. "They were just sucking breath," she recalls. But across the clinic the Gates Foundation work showcased a different future: Children lined up to get the new vaccine that would dramatically reduce the risk they would ever get pneumonia.
Gates currently has two of history's greatest scourges in his sights: malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that infects 250 million a year, killing 800,000 of them; and polio. For the former he spent $200 million to rescue a vaccine that was in development at Glaxo but had no chance of ever being profitable—a recent study indicated that it will cut the infection rate in half. He's dedicated to stamping out polio entirely, which would make it only the second disease ever to be extinguished from the face of the Earth, after smallpox.
Now that this model has been established, Gates' role has evolved. To make this system work, he needs to play global health care ambassador. Given his throw weight, heads of state have to take his call, as evidenced by his quick trip to Chad—a photo op vaccinating kids puts a leader on public notice and enforces some accountability for delivering medical care in the future. "I wouldn't say I'm convincing [them]—I'm reminding them," says Gates. He then imagines how the leaders are anticipating his visit, in what sounds like a parody of his own voice. "Aw, this guy, he's going to come talk about vaccination, vaccination, vaccination and how are you doing on polio. And, by the way, you're one of the few countries left that still has polio, and you've got low vaccination rates!"
"Bill Gates is changing the world again through another cheap technology–vaccines."
Actually this effort by the foundation his father runs is atypical if it is reducing the cost of vaccines. For decades the illegal and monopolistic practices of Gates' company killed companies like Lotus and discouraged innovation while keeping the cost of computer software artificially high. The Microsoft OS and Office applications still cost more than the computers on which they run.
Not surprising that Gates is following in the footsteps of other robber barons like John D. Rockefeller, Leland Stanford, and Andrew Carnegie in wishing to burnish his image for posterity. Unfortunately what would help the most would be to change back the patent and copyright laws that allow big Pharma to control the vaccines, even those developed with public funding, for decades. But to fix that might jeopardize Microsoft so it is not even on the table.
You have it wrong. Bill Gates and Microsoft made computers cheap and available to everyone. It would have taken many more years to achive the success of computing and the internet without Microsoft. Apple has kept its prices far higher and is far more agressive at stamping out competion than Mircosoft ever was. Microsoft's competion paid politicians to trump up charges of a monopoly while up to that time Microsolf did not donate to poloticians nor have lobbist in Washington DC.
Sour grapes. The world would be a better place in general if cock-eyed ideas of how to efficiently deliver a better life for the most people were not constantly promoted by the likes of you.
illegal and monopolistic?
the market was wide open for competition
( THAT should ease your pain :)
Microsoft then telling vendors , use us or else, ( assumeing its true) IS NOT THE SAME AS AN OBAMA SAYING"OR ELSE"
Which the Leftist punk is doing as he destroys America
While Gates made millioniars and provided jobs etc
"the illegal and monopolistic practices of Gates' company killed companies like Lotus"
Oh puh-lease. Lotus wrecked itself by paying astronomical salaries to its executives, something like 50 times what Gates was paid, who made his money from company shares not taken from company revenue. Borland was much the same, the company funding vanity projects for the CEO.
"The Microsoft OS and Office applications still cost more than the computers on which they run."
They're only now at this level of cost because a) Microsoft brought down the cost of packaged software from the astronomical rates that Lotus et al charged in both real and numerical terms, and b) because industrial scaling makes hardware cheaper far faster than it makes human costs cheaper. Would you prefer that Microsoft paid workers like Apple's Chinese factory employees? Would you prefer to pay the individual license costs of all the technologies that Microsoft gets bulk rates for when embedded in Windows and Office?
lyonheart is correct. Gates and his company, Microsoft, have done nothing more than release crappy products at high prices. Microsoft has yet to release something "innovative," and has on many occasions rejected and destroyed competition in the software market. Prime examples include the actions towards Lotus, the theft of Mosiac(internet explorer), the theft of the windows GUI from the Apple Machintosh project, and the release of MS-DOS. When purchasing a new machine, $250 of that cost goes to Microsoft for the standard operating system installed. Another $150 goes to Microsoft with the purchase of Microsoft office. $400 spent of two software applications is outright theft when you consider that most basic machines cost bwtween$250-500. And on top of that, Microsoft essentially sells beta software to unsuspecting users, which creates security flaws and application errors. Gates entering the Pharma business is nothing more than an act to receive positive PR.41justice, as far as Apple is concerned, look at the market share. Apple competes as a hardware company and a software company. They have low market shares, and therefor price their products(which has better hardware and better software) at competitive prices to stay afloat in the industry. In the 1990′s, Apple competed with lower end machines, finding no success in the market, and almost went out of business. The Apple II was the first aforradable, successful, and powerful machine released to the market. Apple is in many ways a much more socially acceptable company then Microsoft.
Microsoft deceived IBM first by selling them a product they did not have. Microsoft solved this problem by purchasing MS-DOS for the Seattle Computer Company. Microsoft then further deceived IBM by working on OS/2 while planning the release of Windows.
Gates didn't "OUTSMART" IBM. He was able to pick their pocket because they didn't think he would dare go against them.
"Bill Gates and Microsoft made computers cheap and available to everyone."
A few facts:
Almost all of the profit in a basic PC goes to Microsoft for their overpriced operating system Windows. If there had been decent competition in operating systems, Microsoft would have given Windows away in the hopes that would get the person to buy their other software, e.g. Office, Powerpoint etc..
Bill Gates made the PC cheaper and available to everyone, and you can get a decent PC for $500, even less if it's a desktop.
Apple sells you computers with old hardware for much more, and they're a hero.
OK then.
Great story!!
To me, Bill Gates is a genius and, like a genius, he changed the world with his revolutionary way of think and make bussiness… and I have a good job thanks to Microsoft's sotware… I just can say: Thanks Bill Gates.
(I'm not a native English speaker, so please forgive for my mistakes)
My greatest concern for our lives as human beings is our ability to say practically anything and do even so brilliantly. The human mind has an almost infinite capacity for arguing the position it favours for one reason or the other.
In no sentence can the word, "monopolistic" be used to suggest something positive as you do in the statement, "You're ignoring how the same tactics that seemed monopolistic with Microsoft can result in cheaper products here". How can you connect the practice (monopoly) with the result of cheaper drugs?
I know that Bill is only living in a world he did not create and operating in a business environment with rules of engagement not of his making. Still, with his 56Billion, he can do more to really change the world.
I sincerely apologize but it's mentality such as yours which keeps people enslaved under dictators in several places all over the world.
You don't get it. Bill didn't do you any favour. If you have a job, it's because there is a need and you can fill it. Does Bill do the job for you? Are you saying if he never existed, and you did, you wouldn't have a job. Certainly not. You would, just not the one you do connected in some way to Microsoft.
We need to have a more accurate sense of what we are, so that we can do our bit to make the world a truly classless one.


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She's New York's most visible Ping-Pong propagandist, but it's Oscar week, so Susan Sarandon is spreading the word in L.A. The SPiN NYC investor was holding court at the Mondrian, where the club—which, by the way, is looking to open an L.A. branch—was hosting a party with Herbalife. "Ping-Pong has a very, very wide demographic. And it's the only sport where little girls can beat grown men," the actress offered. As for helping focus frazzled brains, she said, "It's even supposedly better than crossword puzzles."Trendy, supposedly therapeutic—it goes without saying that the game's got a celebrity following. Josh Brolin lurked near the tables on the Mondrian's pool patio, while an Entourage crew scouted the setup space for a future episode. Later on, Jamie Foxx came by to show off some of the skills that have made him the rumored king of Ping-Pong's big-name enthusiasts—a crowd that also includes George Clooney, Sean Penn, and Ed Norton.The game has a foothold here—less clear is whether Tinseltown is ready for the harsh realities of competitive Ping-Pong. As Sarandon pointed out, "It's not like basketball or football, where you know immediately that you suck. You really can delusionally think that you're pretty good—and then suddenly, you get killed."
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George Candea
Associate Professor of Computer Science
School of Computer & Communication Sciences
Room INN-330, Station 14
1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- Principles of Computer Systems (MS/PhD)
- Software Engineering (Undergraduate)
- Software Development Project (Undergraduate)
Selected Publications
Complete list available at publications page.
- Chair of program committees: HotOS 2015, DSN 2013 (DCCS)
- Member of program committees: SOSP (2013, 2011), OSDI (2014, 2010), ASPLOS (2010), EUROSYS (2012, 2011, 2009), USENIX (2011, 2009, 2007), CIDR (2013), SOCC (2012), DSN (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008), HotOS (2013, 2009, 2007).
- Vice-chair of ACM SIGOPS (2011-2015)
George Candea heads the Dependable Systems Lab, where he focuses on practical ways of achieving reliability and security in complex software systems. His main focus is on real-world large-scale systems, with hundreds of threads and millions of lines of code written by hundreds of programmers—going from a small program to a large system introduces fundamental challenges that cannot be addressed with the techniques that work at small scale. In the past, George was Chief Technology Officer and then Chief Scientist of Aster Data (now Teradata Aster), a Silicon Valley big-data company he co-founded in 2005; previously, he held positions at Oracle, Microsoft Research, and IBM Research. George is a recipient of the first Eurosys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award (2014), an ERC StG award (2011), and the M.I.T. TR35 Young Innovators award (2005). He received his PhD (2005) in computer science from Stanford University and his B.S. (1997) and M.Eng. (1998) in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- #1 worldwide in Nobel prizes per capita
- #1 worldwide in patents per capita
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- Some statistics for the Lausanne area (cca. 2010-2011) [more info]
- 127,821 residents, of which 40% are foreign nationals, and 64% are between 20-64 years old
- housing vacancy rate is 0.17%
- surface area is 43% settled, 40% forests and copses, 17% agricultural


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DuPage County Sheriff's detectives are seeking the public's assistance in their investigation into finding a man who went missing in unincorporated West Chicago six years ago, Sheriff John Zaruba said in a statement Thursday.
John Spira, 51, was last seen at about 7 p.m. February 23, 2007 at Universal Cable Construction in Unincorporated West Chicago, a business he co-owns with David Stubben, according to a news release from the sheriff's office.
Spira and Stubben were the last two employees at Universal Cable Construction that evening. Spira and a friend planned to meet at a restaurant in Oak Brook at 8:30 p.m., but Spira never showed and no one heard from him.
Seven months after John's disappearance, the Universal Cable Construction building burned down, according to the release.
Spira is 5-foot-8 and weighs about 160 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes. He was last seen wearing a black turtle neck sweater, blue jeans, black shoes and an olive green flight jacket, according to the release.
Spira's case is an open and active investigation. To provide information, call the DuPage County Sheriff's Office at (630) 407-2141.


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While Election Day isn't until Nov. 6, voters in Greendale — and the rest of Wisconsin — can begin casting their ballots Monday.
In-person absentee voting, more commonly referred to as "early voting," begins Monday and continues through Friday, Nov. 2. Greendale residents can cast their ballot between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on November 2 at Village Hall, 6500 Northway.
The Clerks office has set up in the Village Hall Board Room with voting booths and tables for new voter registrations, name and address changes, as well as, absentee voting.
Greendale has historically always had a high voter turn out in any election, said Greendale Clerk Treasurer Kathy Kasza. She also said absentee voting has always increased in the Presidential Elections over the other elections held.
Kasza said some of it is due to certain voters only eligible to vote in Federal elections, such as permanent overseas voters who are US Citizens. There are also more military voters, because there seems to be more accessibility for them to vote and they usually don't have information regarding local elections. Kasza accredits higher absentee voting to the media providing increased awareness or voters just who vote only in the Presidential Election.
In the 2008 Presidential Election Greendale had over 2,500 absentee ballots returned. There are usually 300-500 absentee votes for most elections.
"This election, like the 2008 election, I am anticipating the same number of absentee voters, if not more," Kasza said.
The percentage of early voters increased from 16 percent in 2000 to 33 percent in 2008, according to CBS News, which said the number could go as high as 40 percent this year.
Residents can register in advance of the election at Village Hall until Nov. 2. Voters can also register at the polls on Election Day, though that may mean waiting in line.
Registered Greendale voters can download the absentee ballot application form from the State of WI-Government Accountability Board site: https://myvote.WI.gov and bring it with them to save time filling out the form before they receive a ballot. All pre-completed forms will need to be signed in-person at Village Hall.
To register to vote, residents should bring a document showing proof of residence — such as a utility bill or bank statement showing complete name and current address — as well as a Wisconsin driver's license or state-issued ID. If someone does not have an ID, they can provide the last four digits of their Social Security number.
State courts and lawmakers have gone back and forth on voter ID over the last several months, but for this election, an ID is not required to vote at the polls.
To vote in Greendale, people must be U.S. citizens, 18 years old on or before Election Day, and reside in Greedale for at least 28 days prior to Election Day.
Residents may register to vote, view voter information or change information through the Government Accountability Board website.
For more information on voting in Greendale and a rundown of what's on the ballot, check out Patch's Greendale Election Guide.


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Green Shoots On The Cards As Going Out Is Back In Fashion
NORWICH, ENGLAND, June 20, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Spending on going out climbed by 25% in the first quarter of 2009 as credit card customers splashed out, new analysis* from Virgin Money Credit Card shows.
The figures suggest a return in confidence on the High Street although the spending was boosted by the late Easter, Virgin Money says.
Spending in bars, cinemas, restaurants and theatres climbed to GBP20 million in the first three months of 2009 compared with GBP16 million in the same period last year, spending data from the UK's fastest-growing credit card with more than a million customers shows.
The biggest jump came in March 2009 when spending was more than 55% up compared with the same month in 2008 providing further evidence of a revival on the High Street.
And the rising trend in putting entertainment on the plastic was confirmed by figures for April which showed around GBP6.7 million spent in bars, restaurants, cinemas and theatres - a 26% rise on April 2008.
Grant Bather, spokesman at Virgin Money, said: "Analysis of our customers' spending shows that they are more willing to spend on entertainment and leisure which is a sign of a return of confidence.
"Previously we have seen a slowdown in spending on leisure as people tightened their belts and were less willing to spend unless it was on essentials.
"The effect of the late Easter this year may have boosted spending as people have gone out over the long weekend but this is an indication of some green roots if not quite green shoots.
"The spending is responsible as there are no signs of people getting into debt and customers should be careful to spend what they can afford and to have a plan for repaying any debt."
The Virgin credit card offers 0.0% per annum on card purchases for three months from the date of account opening and 16 months 0.0% per annum on balance transfers to new customers (plus a handling fee of 2.98%). The typical rate is 16.6% APR variable.
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The Virgin Credit Card is promoted by Virgin Money Limited and issued by MBNA Europe Bank Limited, Registered Office: Stansfield House, Chester Business Park, Chester CH4 9QQ. Registered in England number 2783251. Credit is available, subject to status, only to UK residents aged 18 or over. As the Virgin Credit Card is issued by MBNA you can't transfer a balance from another credit card issued by them. We will monitor or record some phone calls. MBNA is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
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M & A wrap: Dream team hired to save T-Mobile deal
AT&T, Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile USA have amassed an army of former senior government antitrust officials to try to save their $39 billion deal to combine wireless businesses.
"While Hewlett-Packard directors deliberate over the potential dismissal of the tech giant's chief executive, Léo Apotheker, the board is expected to also consider what will become of his two biggest initiatives: a big acquisition and a potential spinoff of its PC business," the NYT reports.
United Technologies has reached a $16.5 billion cash deal to acquire aircraft components maker Goodrich. The deal comes as blue-chip United Tech looks to cash in on the upswing in plane orders and production as declining global spending on defense pressures its military business. The WSJ gets analysts' reaction to the deal.
China's Sany Heavy Industry has postponed its up to $3.3 billion Hong Kong share offering due to tumbling global markets, three sources with direct knowledge of the decision said.
"LivingSocial is considering postponing an initial public offering in favor of collecting about $200 million in a fund-raising round that would value the online coupon company at about $6 billion," the NYT reports.


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