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Annual Holiday Art Scholarship Sale to be Held
NOV. 17, 2007--Art can be an investment as well as a gift that keeps on giving--consider this when you're buying for the person who has everything.
To help you find that perfect, unique gift for the person who is hard to buy for, the UWRF art department is hosting its annual Scholarship Sale in Gallery 101 of the Kleinpell Fine Arts building from Nov. 29 to Dec. 14.
The array of works available for purchase includes intricately wrought ornaments, glassworks, ceramics, paintings, fibers, jewelry, printmaking, photography and mixed media. Participating artists range from students, faculty, alumni and local artisans, all eager to contribute to the UWRF art department scholarship fund through their art.
The sale benefits a scholarship fund for continuing students as well as the Art Society, a student organization. Participating artists retain 65 to 70 percent of the proceeds, and the balance goes to the scholarship fund. Organizers say it is great place to find holiday gifts, as every purchase supports local artists and gives back to benefit deserving students.
Gallery 101 is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m.
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AEON Co (M) Bhd is optimistic about the growth of its local retail business as it keeps up with and adapts to changing consumer trends and caters to a wide variety of consumer demands.
Managing director Nur Qamarina Chew Abdullah said consumer demand had changed in line with the increase of disposable income, and that it was important to understand these trends in order to use it to the retailers' advantage.
"As retailers, we are always positive of our prospects as long as we adapt to the changes in consumer lifestyle and demand.
"We have seen various trends emerging from these changes and different segments
of the market present different opportunities for us," she said.
She added that Aeon was always looking for business opportunities in its markets and aspired to be bigger and better every year.
For this year, plans are already afoot to set up a shopping centre in Kulai, Johor, in the second half of the year.
While coy about definitive plans for the shopping centre, Nur Qamarina said capital expenditure for the new mall depended on the investment model and could range from RM15mil to RM300mil.
She added that Aeon Malaysia would continue to look into future plans to bring in other aspects of Aeon Group's business into the country.
Currently, Aeon mainly carries out its retail and financial services businesses in Malaysia.
"We will see where the synergies are and maybe bring in other Aeon businesses such as wellness and healthcare into Malaysia," Nur Qamarina said.
In the last two years, the Aeon Group has focused on its Asian expansion.
Aeon Group vice-president and chief executive officer for Asean business Oyama Nagahisa said the Asian retail market was expected to expand enormously
to over RM16.78tril (JPY¥500tril) within the next 10 years.
"It is no exaggeration to say that the future development of the Aeon Group depends on its growth in the Asian market," Nagahisa said that after the group held a welcome ceremony for Aeon's new employees.
He said that in Malaysia, the group would be expanding its business scope by developing shopping centres in the suburbs in line with motorisation and the rapid expansion of the moderate-income group.
He added that Aeon intended to be the top retail centre in every state that it was present in.
"To function in the regional industry, we need to localise our retail business.
"We need to achieve growth hand-in-hand with the local community. We need to win the local trust in order to succeed," Nagahisa said.
Aeon recently held a welcoming ceremonies for some 300 new employees in its regional markets.
The ceremonies were held in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and Cambodia simultaneously and Nagahisa reminded the new employees of the group's unchanging 'Customer First' philosophy.
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CEMETERY STORIES: A REBEL MISSIONARY IN SOUTH AFRICA,Cherif Keita Film
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Thur, Feb 7, 7 pm, SPECIAL FILM SHOWING: Weitz Center Cinema, CEMETERY STORIES: A REBEL MISSIONARY IN SOUTH AFRICA by Chérif Keita, Dominic Fucci, ed. Official selection 2009 Pan African (Ouagadougou), Durban Intl, & Real Life Documentaries Accra (Ghana) Film Festivals, 2010 Rwanda Intl Film Festival & 2010 Cinema Africa of Tokyo, Japan. Co-sponsors: Intl Film Series & the Carleton Humanities Center Perspectives in Public Humanities Series. Contact Cherif Keita.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced on Thursday assistance of Rs.1,000 crore to Sikkim to meet the requirements of relief and rehabilitation in the wake of the earthquake that ravaged the Himalayan State on September 18 claiming 60 lives (official estimates provided earlier have since been revised) and causing injuries to hundreds and leaving behind a devastating trail of destruction.
Dr. Singh, who made an aerial recce of north Sikkim, the worst-hit region, during a brief visit to the State, assured the Sikkim government of "every possible assistance to manage effectively the task of reconstruction, rehabilitation and re-development" even as he expressed the confidence that the people of Sikkim would be able to meet "the challenges of this great tragedy".
The Prime Minister also advised the Sikkim government to learn from its experience by using proper building technology and building by-laws so as to be better prepared in the event of recurrences of earthquakes. An experts team on earthquake-resistant technology is to be sent by the Centre to assist the State in rebuilding its infrastructure, according to a press release issued by the Chief Minister's Office in Gangtok and made available to The Hindu here.
Dr. Singh also urged Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling to make Sikkim a model State in earthquake mitigation to show the way the way to other earthquake-prone States in the country.
Mr. Chamling, who had earlier estimated that the damages caused by the calamity were worth about Rs.1 lakh crore, submitted to the Prime Minister a memorandum of relief under national calamity.
The Prime Minister, while speaking to journalists in Gangtok, laid particular emphasis on the reconstruction of the sacred monasteries and national monuments that had suffered extensive damages as well as on rebuilding of the schools, houses, and roads.
Dr. Singh visited the injured at the STNM Hospital in the State's capital and conveyed his best wishes to them for an early recovery.
He also had a meeting with Mr. Chamling, ministers of the State Cabinet, representatives of the Army and the National Disaster Response Force. A Power Point presentation was made by the ministers on the destruction and damage caused by the earthquake.
"The government and the people of India are fully behind the people and the government of Sikkim", he said, adding that all possible help would be extended in the rebuilding of lives of those affected by the disaster.
"I feel highly impressed by the manner in which all segments of our government, the Air Force, the Border Roads Organisation and members of the State government have joined hands to provide rescue, relief and rehabilitation measures," he said.


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It has taken a bit longer than we all had hoped, but last week, NVIDIA gathered members of press together to dive deep into its upcoming Fermi architecture, where it divulged all the features that are set to give AMD a run for its money. In addition, the company also discussed PhysX, GPU Compute, developer relations and a lot more.
During an editor's day held by NVIDIA last week, the company delved deep into almost everything a gamer, or game developer, could care about. This includes of course discussion of the company's upcoming GF100 graphics chip, based on the Fermi architecture, along with many updates on the state of PhysX, and even some talk on the development side of things, with APEX and Nexus.
This article will be split into a couple of different sections, with the first tackling what most of you will care most about, GF100. After we're done exhausting what's new there, we'll continue onto a look at everything else NVIDIA discussed during this all-day event.
Before we get too far into the article, let's make sure we're all on the same line regarding what GF100, as the codename, is. There has been some confusion around GF100, given that for the previous generation of NVIDIA cards, both the codename and board names were equal to GT200. For the upcoming Fermi cards, that's not exactly the case. The GF in GF100 stands for "Graphics Fermi", and the actual card models themselves will likely follow previous schemes, eg: GTX 380.
The reason NVIDIA felt the need to "reset" the codename numbers, so to speak, is because Fermi is an entirely new architecture with a renewed set of goals, rather than a simple evolution of a previous architecture. I'm sure that as we'll go further, future generations of Fermi will continue the naming scheme, eg: GF200, GF300, et cetera. But, NVIDIA stated that "GF100″ isn't entirely final, so it may possibly change before its launch.
When NVIDIA first unveiled Fermi this past fall, it became clear that the company saw a future in the typical graphics card being used for much more than simply generating graphics. Instead, the GPU looks to become an integral role for things like GPGPU (general purpose GPU) computing and also physics computation, PhysX and otherwise. As we saw with the initial Fermi information, we could see that NVIDIA was banking big on the architecture's compute performance, and with as much R&D and money the company is pouring into things, we can hope the company's focus is rightfully-set.
With GF100, NVIDIA had a couple of goals it set out to achieve. First, and most obvious, is that the GPU should be the highest performing to date, with even substantial gains over ATI's current-gen HD 5000 series. Second, the geometric realism needs to be top-rate, and that also leads into the third goal, which is image quality. Finally, not only should Fermi excel for GPGPU, but also GPU compute for gaming, which can take many different forms, but most notably, physics.
In the first meaty slide we were shown, we were re-introduced to Fermi's block diagram, which was first shown at the company's GTC conference last fall. Here, though, we were given a bit more information on things, including the specific number of components per chip, and also a first-look at a couple of new components, including the PolyMorph and Raster engine units. For the sake of easier explanation, I recommend looking at the full-view version of the diagram below:
For the graphics processor that the above diagram represents, the chip is split up into four main clusters, or GPC's (Graphics Processing Clusters), with each of these clusters split up into four SM's (Streaming Multiprocessors), for a total of sixteen across the entire chip. All GF100 chips will follow this similar layout, but each model will of course be altered depending on its goals (a mid-range offering may only contain two GPC's, for example).
Because the basic Fermi block diagram has been around for a while, I'm not going to focus on every aspect of the architecture, but rather focus on what was newly unveiled during the editor's day. Most notably, these were the PolyMorph and Raster engines, both of which contribute to geometric realism. But what exactly is geometric realism, and why should so much of Fermi be focused on improving it?
When NVIDIA began talking about geometric realism, it brought up what's seen in film, where we never expect to see issues with things like lighting, shading, clipping and so forth. Rather, it's perfect. But to accomplish something like this, you need major PC horsepower… there's a reason these large movie studios run hundreds, if not thousands, of computers for the sole purpose of rendering. To emphasize the issue, consider the fact that for the typical PC game, the average polygons per frame is between one – two million. For a feature film? Hundreds of millions.
Needless to say, it's not realistic to expect the same level of geometric realism in a PC game, regardless of how powerful our computers are. But here's another interesting fact. While pixel shaders have had an increasing focus from GPU generation to the next, there's been almost no love to the triangle generator. Compared to the GeForce FX (2003), the shading horsepower has increased by 150x, while the geometric processing has increased by only 3x. That about speaks for itself.


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Elderly inmates given tribute on Father's Day
BAGUIO CITY—At 84, Mariano Molina is both the oldest and newest inmate of the Baguio City Jail, serving a term of more than two years for a grave coercion conviction in February.
But on Sunday, Molina stood tall alongside eight other inmates, aged between 60 and 80, who were given tribute for Father's Day by fellow inmates belonging to the Non-Affiliated Organization (NAO) at the prison compound. Members of NAO are inmates not aligned with gang members who comprise a good number of the jail population.
George de la Cruz, NAO leader, said the tribute was meant to uplift the spirits of the elderly inmates who have not seen their families for some time now.
"Only two of them get to be visited by their families, while the rest don't get any visits at all. We put up this program to respond to their needs," De la Cruz said.
It was NAO's first Father's Day event, which honored all inmate fathers, but with a special segment for elderly inmates called "Love Offering for the Elderly Fathers."
"Our gifts to them were pledges, from sponsors and religious groups, for toiletries, food, towels, shirts and coffee. Because their families are not around to visit them, we are finding ways to support their needs. We are their family here," De la Cruz said.
The inmates prepared song and dance numbers for their older colleagues.
"They are already old and they are eligible for parole. We wish that the justice system will grant them their freedom because they are suffering here in prison. Let them live their remaining years free," De la Cruz said.
Molina has turned to prayers while spending time in prison.
A resident of Barangay (village) Sto. Rosario Valley here, Molina was convicted by the Municipal Trial Court here on Feb. 27 for harassing a relative. He was sentenced to spend time in jail until June 27, 2015.
Molina professed innocence and has appealed to be released as soon as possible so he could see his wife and eight children.
"I'm a father who loves his children. I feel sad that I have to be in prison in my old age. Fathers are supposed to be with their families," Molina said.
"My prayer on this Father's Day is that my children and my wife will visit me … I'm counting the days until I get out of here," he said. Desiree Caluza, Inquirer Northern Luzon
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text: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:35:19PM -0500, Don Zickus wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:53:26AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433121 > > > > DKMS would like to have the opportunity to run it's > > auto-rebuilder/installer after a new kernel RPM has been installed, > > without having to wait for a system restart to run it. Likewise, when > > a kernel RPM is removed, it would like to be able to run to remove > > modules managed by it. > > > > Debian kernels intentionally run scripts located in > > /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ following new kernel package installation, > > /etc/kernel/prerm.d/ before kernel package removal. DKMS drops a > > script into these directories, to perform the appropriate actions. > > > > I want Fedora and RHEL kernels to do likewise. Patch attached. > > This patch implements the same interface as that used for Debian and > > Ubuntu kernels. The scripts are invoked with $1 = kernel version, and > > $2 = path to vmlinuz file. (DKMS doesn't need $2, but I'm keeping the > > interface the same to match so people can reuse their scriptlets.) > > I argued against this idea in RHEL because I believe blindly running > random scripts in a directory is an unsafe thing to do (despite its best > intentions it can still be abused). > > Also from a support perspective, it becomes more complicated to support > kernel installs when random user scripts can cause unknown behaviour. This has been the argument against DKMS for 5 years now. However, in those 5 years, how many support calls has Red Hat taken where a DKMS-ified driver turned out to be the problem? Where it wasn't obvious what was happening? 'dkms status' is even part of sysreport, and has been for at least 3 years. I'd accept a change to new-kernel-package rpmposttrans() that invokes the DKMS script directly, as opposed to looping through a plug-in directory, if that makes people feel any better. I suspect it doesn't though. Waiting on a higher-level tool to assist the support guys ask for 'dkms status' info may be appropriate for RHEL, but not for Fedora. -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux


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Other sad facts I learned from 'Six Weeks': Artillery as the top killer, the hordes of shellshock cases decades later
- By Thomas E. RicksThomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. He can be reached at email@example.com.
–By 1917, so many young British officers had been killed that "most company commanders were not more than twenty" years old.
–Despite the images of waves of soldiers being scythed down by machine gun fire, artillery and mortar shells inflicted the majority (60 percent) of wounds in the British infantry in World War I. Bullets caused 35 percent. (I didn't see numbers on gas casualties.)
–In 1938, some twenty years after the end of World War I, there were still 120,000 former British soldiers receiving pensions or awards for "shellshock" or other psychiatric disabilities — that is, what he now call severe PTSD.
–Finally, I read aloud to my wife this passage by a Royal Fusiliers officer about dealing with a panicky soldier as they sheltered in a shell hole during a German artillery barrage during the battle of Passchendaele:
I tried to reason with the boy, but the more I talked top him the more distraught he became, until he was almost screaming. 'I can't stay here! Let me go! I want my Mum!' So I switched my tactics, called him a coward, threatened him with court martial and slapped his face as hard as I could, several times. It had an extraordinary effect. There was absolute silence in the shell-hole and then the corporal, who was a much older man, said, 'I think I can manage him now, sir.' Well, he took that boy in his arms, just as if he was a small child, and when I crawled back a little later to see if all was well, they were both lying there asleep and the corporal still had his arms round the boy . . . .
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John Arquilla earned his degrees in international relations from Rosary College (BA 1975) and Stanford University (MA 1989, PhD 1991). He has been teaching in the special operations program at the United States Naval Postgraduate School since 1993. He also serves as chairman of the Defense Analysis department.
Dr. Arquilla's teaching interests revolve around the history of irregular warfare, terrorism, and the implications of the information age for society and security.
His books include: Dubious Battles: Aggression, Defeat and the International System (1992); From Troy to Entebbe: Special Operations in Ancient & Modern Times (1996), which was a featured alternate of the Military Book Club; In Athena's Camp (1997); Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime and Militancy (2001), named a notable book of the year by the American Library Association; The Reagan Imprint: Ideas in American Foreign Policy from the Collapse of Communism to the War on Terror (2006); Worst Enemy: The Reluctant Transformation of the American Military (2008), which is about defense reform; Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits: How Masters of Irregular Warfare Have Shaped Our World (2011); and Afghan Endgames: Strategy and Policy Choices for America's Longest War (2012).
Dr. Arquilla is also the author of more than one hundred articles dealing with a wide range of topics in military and security affairs. His work has appeared in the leading academic journals and in general publications like The New York Times, Forbes, Foreign Policy Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Wired and The New Republic. He is best known for his concept of "netwar" (i.e., the distinct manner in which those organized into networks fight). His vision of "swarm tactics" was selected by The New York Times as one of the "big ideas" of 2001; and in recent years Foreign Policy Magazine has listed him among the world's "top 100 thinkers."
In terms of policy experience, Dr. Arquilla worked as a consultant to General Norman Schwarzkopf during Operation Desert Storm, as part of a group of RAND analysts assigned to him. During the Kosovo War, he assisted deputy secretary of defense John Hamre on a range of issues in international information strategy. Since the onset of the war on terror, Dr. Arquilla has focused on assisting special operations forces and other units on practical "field problems." Most recently, he worked for the White House as a member of a small, nonpartisan team of outsiders asked to articulate new directions for American defense policy.| Rational Security |


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India retained the Red Bull Campus Cricket T20 International World Finals with a win over Pakistan in the title clash at the R Premadasa Stadium on Saturday.
DAV College of Chandigarh repeated last year's champions Rizvi College's (Mumbai) feat by defeating Karachi University (KU) by 49 runs.
Left-arm spinner Gurinder Singh was the star of the final, scalping four for 20 following his brilliant cameo of 39.
After DAV posted 170/8 in 20 overs, Gurinder and seamer Rattan Singh (3/16) worked in tandem to bowl out KU for 121. KU opener Ammar Hasan was the only notable scorer with 58.
Gurinder had a stupendous success with both the bat and ball in the tournament. Player of the
tournament Gurinder scored a century and an unbeaten 60 besides taking 16 wickets from six matches. That won him played of the tournament.
Batting first, DAV College were heading for a collapse. The Chandigarh team were two for three at one stage. However, skipper Kunal Mahajan played the rescue act with a quickfire 73, guiding his side to a respectable score. His knock came from just 36 deliveries with the help of seven sixes and five fours.
Mahajan stitched together an 87- run partnership with Gurinder, helping the team past 100 run mark first and then past 150. The in-form Gurinder could not carry on, falling 11 short of another
half-century as he was dismissed by A Mirza. Mahajan kept the scoreboard running with his
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Brief scores: DAV College, Chandigarh 170/8 (K Mahajan 73, G Singh 39) bt Karachi University 121 all out (A Hasan 58; G Singh 4/20, R Singh 3/16) by 49 runs


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If you are a movie buff, and are not exactly in a mood to party with friends this weekend, here is one excuse you can give. Book your seats and get ready for an Indian and International short films bonanza.
The first Maharashtra Short Film Festival has been organised by a city-based group, Marathi Chitrapat Parivar. Since its inception in 2011, the group has been organising Pune Short Film Festival annually, along with other events and competitions. This festival will see some interesting line-ups from across the world, especially from the UK, Germany, Spain and Australia. The group had received around 270 short films, of which they have selected 50 films for screening and competing at the festival, including eight short films by Pune-based filmmakers. The main criteria for selection was that each film will have a duration of not more than 30 minutes, and must have all English subtitles for foreign language movies.
Yogesh Baraskar, founder and director, Marathi Chitrapat Parivar says, "We don't have any theme for the festival. But most of the films we received were based on child-related issues such as child labour."
Different genres of films have been included in this festival such as documentary, experimental, narrative, fiction and animation. Two best films, two best directors, and other creative and technical sections will be awarded at the fest. Marathi Chitrapat Parivar also plans to have their first Goa Short Film Festival, which is slated for October this year.
Where: National Film Archive of India, Law College Road
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The escalating political and economic crisis in Turkey, sparked by bribery and corruption investigations that have forced three cabinet ministers to step down, threatens to undermine the nation's ambitious bid to become a global logistics hub.
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Civil unrest in parts of India is causing rail freight traffic chaos in the country's busiest northern corridor linking hinterland points around Delhi and major gateway ports on the west coast, including the largest port of Nhava Sheva.
22 May 2015
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang this week visited Brazil and other South American countries and offered to spend billions of dollars on major infrastructure projects, including in the ports and railroad sectors.
21 May 2015
German locomotive drivers on Thursday called off their latest strike —the ninth in 10 months – and agreed to refer their dispute with Deutsche Bahn, the state-owned railway company, to arbitration.
11 May 2015
The German rail freight network is struggling to return to normal as train drivers return to work after a near one week strike that severely disrupted industrial supply chains in Europe's largest economy.
11 May 2015
Indian Railways is beefing up its cold chain portfolio by building a network of temperature-controlled warehouse and dist
07 May 2015
German train drivers will continue their strike until Sunday after their union today rejected a proposal from Deutsche Bahn, the state-owned railway, for an independent mediator to help resolve their dispute.
07 May 2015
A week-long strike by German locomotive drivers that is scheduled to run until Sunday could be called off earlier as their union considers calls for an independent mediator to settle the dispute with Deutsche Bahn, the state-owned railway company.
04 May 2015
German locomotive drivers began near week-long strike Monday afternoon that threatens to clog container yards at the country's leading ports and cause massive disruption to industrial supply chains across Europe's largest economy.
01 May 2015
Europe's largest inland port to grow as ultra-large container ships arrive at north European ports.
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Strong growth across multiple segments, especially intermodal, helped India's Gateway Distriparks Ltd. deliver impressive results in fiscal year 2014-15, which ended March 31.


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Protector or adversary? Advanced Persistent Threat? How you view and understand the role of the National Security Agency (NSA) matters when it comes to protecting your data.
In this article, we examine the potential threat the NSA poses to your organization and your customers. The PRISM controversy revealed the NSA as a potential adversary – and there are additional covert surveillance programs to be aware of: TAO, Muscular, XKeyscore, Dishfire and Bullrun.
You'll learn how you are better placed to be protected against unknown, possibly more sinister attackers when you protect your organization against the NSA programs. This informative report gives you the steps to consider when assessing and protecting your data from covert intrusions.
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The cats and kittens love this. Plenty of room to climb, sit, play. I have seen the cats play on this and they really love it.
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The more cat furniture you can put up for your cat, the better, gives cats more places to explore for less boredom.
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cats love to play and climb and it gives them exercise and stimulation. and it is very entertaining to watch them.
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The study, conducted by the Kenya Medical Research Institute, looked at female sex workers (FSW) and men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Kenyan cities of Mombasa and Nairobi. Seventy-two participants between ages 18 and 46 were enrolled, and 51 were assessed following a four-month randomized, placebo-controlled, blinded trial that compared daily and intermittent dosage of PrEP.
Published in the medical journal AIDS and Behavior, the study found that adherence was significantly higher – 84 percent – among those who took the daily dose compared to participants in the groups that took the drugs intermittently before sex, 68 percent of whom adhered to the PrEP course, and those on a fixed intermittent dose, 26 percent of whom adhered.
The investigators found that side-effects "were experienced early in the study but diminished over time".
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"Given the severity of the epidemic [among] key populations – including men who have sex with men, men who have sex with men sex workers and female sex workers – and… the scarcity of services, the results of the PrEP study present a promising means of protecting sero-negative [HIV-negative] MSM and FSW from acquiring HIV from partners of either sex," Elisabeth Vanderelst, lead researcher for the study, told IRIN/PlusNews in an email.
"High-risk populations are in dire need of strategies – other than condoms – that prevent HIV transmission, especially sex workers," she added.
According to the 2009 report Kenya: HIV Prevention Response and Modes of Transmission Analysis, commercial sex workers and their clients together contribute 14 percent of all new HIV infections, while MSM and prisoners account for 15.2 percent.
According to a 2012 survey by the National AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections Control Programme, the World Bank, Kenya Prisons and Canada's University of Manitoba, there are an estimated 200,000 commercial sex workers in Kenya, 15,000 of whom are men.
Participants also helped researchers improve PrEP administration. "Suggestions for tablet improvement were made by study participants, and an important one [was] taken forward by the pharmaceutical industry, i.e., the development of a so-called 'slow release' jab to replace the Truvada [a type of ARV] tablet," Vanderelst said.
The study also found a high prevalence of social issues related to being perceived as HIV-positive, such as stigma, gossip and problems in relationships.
Alcohol use around the time of sex was found to have an effect on adherence to the ARVs after sex; 47 percent of participants reported drinking alcohol before sex. Movement from place to place and transactional sex work also affected PrEP adherence.
The authors recommended "culturally appropriate and consistent counselling" to address these issues and ensure PrEP effectiveness.
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In July, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) issued guidance to governments on the use of PrEP, calling for a cautious and gradual roll-out.
Evidence for the effectiveness of PrEP comes from clinical trials on the daily use of ARVs for HIV prevention among high-risk HIV-negative people. A 2010 study, Iniciativa Profilaxis Preexposicion (iPrEX), among MSM and transgender people found that a daily dose of Truvada – a combination of emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate – reduced HIV infection risk by about 42 percent.
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Sep 16, 2013, 9:50 AM EDT
A great story by Travis Sawchik at Triblive.com about the Pirates. Specifically, how they got better. More specifically, how it was largely a function of improving the defense. Not by merely getting good defensive players, but through strategy, research and hard work:
The Pirates experimented with a comprehensive defensive philosophy the past several seasons, but this was different.
• Position players had to change. They had to shift from areas of the field where they had been stationed their entire careers and trust the pitching staff's ability to locate pitches.
• Pitchers had to change. The staff had to rely on a new primary pitch and trust the radical defensive alignments behind them.
• Old-school coaches had to change. Coaches trained in 20th century baseball orthodoxy had to trust 21st century concepts.
The club's improvement would not come through adding Gold Glove-caliber fielders or pricey free agent pitchers but rather improving the sum of its defensive parts.
The plan has been a success.
Go read the article and check out the plan. It's a great explanatory piece in and of itself and it's a great example of how defense likely will never be reduced to a single or even a couple of overarching stats. So many moving parts. Watching the moving is pretty fantastic.
- apkyletexas - Sep 16, 2013 at 10:07 AM
From worst to first in defensive efficiency. +12.8 Defensive WAR. That's an insane stat.
- apkyletexas - Sep 16, 2013 at 10:37 AM
The article does not give enough credit to the fielders, however. Neil Walker and Clint Barmes are elite level infielders who don't get the notice they deserve.
- apkyletexas - Sep 16, 2013 at 10:40 AM
Even better stat – they've gone from -25 runs saved last year to +55 this year, with no additions to the infield.
- pitpenguinsrulez - Sep 16, 2013 at 11:01 AM
And to think 5-10 years ago that con artist Kevin McClatchy and Dave Littlefield basically sold off or traded any of what little good guys we had and got junk Single A players in exchange.
- NatsLady - Sep 16, 2013 at 11:28 AM
Very interesting article. As Steve McCatty would say, strikeouts are bullsh**. If you have good D, get the ball on the ground. Wonder when fangraphs will catch up! Y'know, quit basing WAR so much on FIP. Fielders are IMPORTANT, and if you have them–use them.
- dlf9 - Sep 16, 2013 at 11:57 AM
NatsLady ~ I think you are mistaken about FIP. The statistic's proponents don't argue that fielders aren't important. And never have argued that the difference between one team's fielders and another aren't relevant. Voros and those who followed have just argued that there is little consistency of difference between two pitchers results on balls in play *before the same fielders.* That is, over the long run, we would expect nearly the same BABIP for Jeff Locke as for Gerrit Cole.
- paperlions - Sep 16, 2013 at 1:44 PM
Missing the point entirely. The point of FIP is exactly that fielders are important and that ERA does not belong to a pitcher but to the pitcher AND his fielders. FIP (and other FIP-type metrics) try to partition out the contribution of the pitcher to run prevention from the contribution of the fielders.
- davidpom50 - Sep 16, 2013 at 5:14 PM
ERA was also originally an attempt to partition out the contribution of the pitcher to run prevention from the contributions of the fielders – that's why it eliminates "unearned" runs, caused by fielders making errors. FIP (and SIERA and xFIP) are just far more advanced ways of doing it. In 10 years, I'm guessing we'll have even better methods, utilizing PitchFX and HitFX.
- slizzyslizz - Sep 16, 2013 at 1:48 PM
I know I'm late to comment but Andrew Friedman had been employing those tactics for a couple years now…I'm surprised more teams don't focus on that, especially ones with more flexible budgets.
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With me today is Carsten Boess, Insulet's Chief Financial Officer. Thanks for joining us to discuss our results from the first quarter of '08, another strong quarter for Insulet. We will be making forward-looking statements about various aspects of our business, so please refer to our 10-K for a full discussion of our risk factors.
I am very proud to say that we've hit a number of commercial milestones this quarter. We added approximately 1,200 new customers, another record quarter for new customer growth and we broke in through a major milestone for our installed customer base by surpassing the 5,000-customer mark.
Since the time that we were designing and developing the OmniPod system, we were always confident that the products customer friendly form factor would be immensely appealing to people with diabetes. We were sure that if we could deliver insulin pump therapy without the disadvantages of conventional pumps, we could overcome the obstacles preventing so many people from choosing the best possible treatment for Type 1 diabetes. The tough part, we knew, was going to be building the manufacturing capacity to meet the markets interest level in such an innovative product.
I'm proud to say that we've continued to make impressive advances on the production front and reached the manufacturing output of 95,000 Pods per month at the end of April and we're on track to reduce our per unit production costs and break through positive gross margins sometime during Q3 and achieve positive quarterly gross margins for the full fourth quarter of this year.
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We recently introduced a non-inserting PDK which expands the reach of our trial program, as patients no longer need to go through a doctor to experience the product. Potential customers can order the non-inserting PDK directly through our website.
Since we've achieved national sales coverage, we've been able to increase our direct to consumer marketing. In January we began running direct to consumer magazine and Internet banner advertising featuring the length of the PDK order page. We've also been running ads on Delight, a television program targeting the diabetes community.
These activities have driven an increase in excess of 50% in traffic to our website. In addition a few weeks ago we dropped our first direct mailing marketing piece to people with Type 1 diabetes. We've also continued to engage in a variety of local marketing events that enable potential customers to learn about and experience the OmniPod system. We're very encouraged by the early results from all of these marketing programs.
We continue to invest in demonstrating the clinical differentiation of the OmniPod system relative to other insulin delivery options. We're focused on expanding the market for our product, including the use of OmniPod in the hospital setting and applications outside the diabetes market.
We believe there are a number of potential applications as a result of the OmniPod's cost model in the control that it allows hospital staff. We are supporting the first clinical trials of the OmniPod in a hospital setting, which recently enrolled its first patient.
As an example of the strong and varied interest in OmniPod, it was specifically selected to be used in a preclinical study presented by Micromet, Inc. at the American Association of Cancer Research meeting in April exploring different routes of administration of its BiTE antibody for the treatment of cancer. The data demonstrated good bioavailability and predictable serum levels of BiTE antibodies delivered through the Omni Pod system and the study's authors specifically noted OmniPod's potential to improve the quality of life for patients receiving cancer treatment.
In addition, we expect to announce an agreement for our first non-diabetes drug delivery application later this year. While we always knew OmniPod would emerge as platform technology for innovation, other leaders in the diabetes space are recognizing this too.
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breaking out of typical playing ?
i have been playing for about 5 years now and i have always felt stuck with my playing , its not just my fingers that are stuck in the same box my brain also seems stuck because when i try to improvise and try to "hear" what i want a lick to sound like its always the same stuff repeating over and over
learning new songs doesnt seem to be helping me that much either i feel like instead of reaching a new level my playing seems to "mutate" rather than improving , is it a lack of theory ?
(i tried my best to explain my situation hope it doesnt sound weird xD)
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It might be a lack of theory but I would suggest you should also listen to more new music. Really go out of your way to find something completely different to what you normally listen to: if you're a metal guy, go find some jazz; if you're a blues guy go listen to some chamber music; if you're a rocker go listen to some bluegrass.
Hell, go listen to anything and everything anyway, no matter what you say your favourite is. There is no such thing as listening to too much music.
Another thing you might want to consider if you don't do it already is really listening to some other instruments: things like piano, saxophone, flute or whatever else really have a completely different approach to playing than guitar so take a really good listen to what they do as well.
Finally... I'm not sure what you mean by "mutate rather than improving", could you explain that a little more?
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West Coast Rail Yathri Develoment Committee President G. Hanumanth Kamath sought to know why the authorities had not shown interest in the long pending demand to widen road linking the Mangalore Junction though much of the land to be acquired was vacant. Only a couple of houses may have to be demolished for its widening.
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Railway authorities agreed to include Kannada instead of Malayalam in the three-language name plates on the Matsagandha Express between Mangalore and Mumbai. Sudarshan Puttur, President of Kukke Subramanaya-Mangalore Rail Commuters' Forum, Puttur, said passenger trains lacked cleanliness and electrical maintenance. The drains by tracks in Mangalore Central and Mangalore Junction stations remained unclean.
Earlier Bangalore City Corporation officials promised to submit estimation of the cost for the road under bridge at the level crossing at Bajal-Padil Road near Mangalore Junction station by Tuesday. The meeting decided to get an early survey to decide the nature of bridge to be constructed at Mahakalipadpu near Jeppu.
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Jeff Hornacek wants the Suns to score over 103 points per game
In a wide-ranging interview with new Phoenix coach Jeff Hornaceck, Suns blog Bright Side of the Sun got the new main man in the desert to actually say how many points per game he wants the team to target next year.
Here's where I really tried to pin Jeff down. My lead in was that last season there were five teams (Denver, Houston, OKC, SA and Miami) that scored at least 102.9 points per game. Given that, I asked for a one word response on whether the Suns scoring average for the 2013-14 season would be higher or lower than 102.9 points per game...
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"What did we average last year? (It was 95.2 by the way) Over 102.9, we would hope we can get there. If we can get there I think that's a good start for us in our first year. So, hopefully, I would say yes."
You heard it here first, folks. I think that absolutely qualifies as "higher." Maybe that also qualifies as Hornacek's first official prediction as coach of the Phoenix Suns.
via Phoenix Suns head coach Jeff Hornacek talks about the team's offense. - Bright Side Of The Sun.
That's a pretty insane jump, even using a flawed metric like points per game. Scoring over 102.9 for a team with limited talent like the rebuilding Suns is going to be hard enough, but they also can't do much better in the easiest way to do it.
The Suns were ninth in pace last year, meaning they averaged the ninth most possessions per game. They also had the 29th worst offensive efficiency (points per 100 possessions) in the league, far worse than their 21st-ranked points-per-game mark. The Nets, for example, finished 17th in points per game at 96.9, but eighth in offensive efficiency at 108.2.
It's not just about how fast you play, because the Suns play pretty fast. You have to make those shots, and to do that, you need efficient scorers, something the Suns are drastically short on. They drafted project Alex Len, added offensively inconsistent (but hyper-athletic) Eric Bledsoe and aging Carong Butler in trade, and sent out Luis Scola. In Scola and Jared Dudley, the Suns sent out two of their more efficient scorers.
Unless Goran Dragic or Bledsoe makes some sort of massive evolution into elite playmakers that turn guys like the Morris twins or Micheal Beasley into efficient scorers, or Alex Len is really Godzilla in disguise, hitting that mark is going to be tough sledding. But the only way to even approach that mark is to up the pace. The only team of the five BSotS mentiond without a top-ten pace last season was Miami. And I'm pretty sure LeBron James isn't walking through that door for Phoenix.
If nothing else, the interview reveals Hornacek's commitment to offense. He says it starts with defense, the same way George Karl says the same. But if nothing else, expect to see some different sets for Phoenix next season, even if they're forced to keep things mostly simple or a young and developing roster.
Moving past that 102.9 per game mark, regardless of efficiency, would certainly bolster how fun the Suns are, even as they focus on the future in what is likely a tank season.