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Broadcom's Little 802.11ac + Bluetooth Card, for Mac?
At this point, it's quite likely that Apple will introduce if not ship new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. Further, it's similarly certain that they will be equipped with 802.11ac (a.k.a. gigabit wifi) networking.
That said, CustoMac (a.k.a. Hackintosh) website tonymacx86 got a tip from a contributor who spotted a new and interesting Broadcom part on a Chinese forum/rumor site.
TheLostSwede recently spotted what could possibly be Apple's next option for WLAN+Bluetooth connectivity. The images below show a Broadcom BCM94360CD PCI-E mini custom combo WLAN+Bluetooth card. More importantly, it looks like it supports IEEE 802.11ac; the next standard in wireless computer networking as well as a NGFF standard which is meant to improve area and Z-height, Layout, Interface support, and Flexibility. These standards help to reduce cost and design complexity.
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I spent many years trying different calendars and organizers and this Monthly Tabs version worked best for me EXCEPT that transferring information between my personal calendar and the family calendar lends to mistakes because traditional...Read complete review
I spent many years trying different calendars and organizers and this Monthly Tabs version worked best for me EXCEPT that transferring information between my personal calendar and the family calendar lends to mistakes because traditional calendars are all Sunday First. Levenger finally came out with a Sunday First version of the agenda, but then I have to add my own Post-It tabs and there are extra pages, taking up too much extra space. PLEASE start making the monthly tabs with pull-out calendar in a Sunday First version so I can stop having to customize something on my own.
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I hadn't used the calendar for this year, so I was really excited for December to roll around so I could begin entering things for the next year! All told, I really like...Read complete review
I hadn't used the calendar for this year, so I was really excited for December to roll around so I could begin entering things for the next year! All told, I really like the tabs, the pullout calendar, and the layout. The paper, however, is NOT the same quality as the normal Circa paper. The pages are stiffer, which I would expect, but they peel incredibly easily. I've had these sheets roll up under a pencil eraser and peel/bubble whenever I reposition washi tape, which I use to highlight dates, vacations, etc. I waited so long to use this calendar and now the first two months are already smudged, peeled, and messed up. Disappointing!
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This planner is just what I was looking for .....I have the Junior size and there is plenty of room to write in a compact size. I will probably get the regular monthly paged planner in the future, since I don't really need the pull out two year calendar. But love this in the meantime!!!
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I ordered this (when it was on sale!) for use in my 2016 vertical planner. Unfortunately, it does not seamlessly mesh with my planner, but I've used this monthly tab and pull out calendar previously. The monthly tabs are great by itself and the planning sheet is good too; especially if you like the monthly format.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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When I saw this on the semi-annual sale, I bought it even though I had already purchased a monthly planner elsewhere. I'm really glad I did! I like this much better than the other planner which I immediately returned.I like being able to see the whole month at a time, and there is plenty of space to write.Now my Circa Sliver notebook is the only notebook I need to carry. It serves as my planner, address book, to do list, shopping list, etc.Thanks, Levenger!
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I am Levenger/Circa fan and have been for about 3 years now. My daughter, an architect student, already had calendar pages she purchased elsewhere, but when this went on sale I bought it just for the pull-out calendar. It is absolutely vital for planning. When I pull mine out in front of customers, even the most grumpy customer remarks that they wish they had one! My daughter loved it.
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Love this product! This is my 5th year purchasing this calendar.
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I love Levenger products and am quite a Circa fan. I travel a great deal for work and love how organized I can stay with my Circa notebook, calendar, etc. The one improvement that could be made is to offer a tabbed monthly calendar in which each week begins with Sunday. I bought the untabbed ones and added my own.
I love this calendar
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I love all Levenge products. I can't wait to start using my 2016 system.
I count on this year after year
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This is an easy to use, concise planner with the added bonus of the 2 year pullout. Using this along side some of the other circa products keeps me on task and allows for solid organization of ideas and tasks.
Perfect size and thickness
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Perfect thickness to use with smaller rings and still have room for reference and note pages.When my wife saw it she made me order a set for her.
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Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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August can be a challenging month for gardeners in the Juniata Valley. The heat and humidity make it tough to do a lot of outside chores, many spring vegetable plants are winding down their production and weeds seem to grow over night. However, August is a great time to plant for late fall harvest.
Vegetables that will do well if planted in early August are peas, lettuce, spinach, beets, cabbage, kohlrabi and kale. I know this looks like a list I recommended during spring, but they are all cool season vegetables and if you get them in the ground in August, they will quickly germinated and will grow well as our cooler autumn season approaches.
You will need to plant the seeds deeper than in the spring since the moisture level of the soil is lower. Also, you will need to do a really good job of mulching and watering to insure that your young seedlings will have enough moisture to grow well. Once the plants are growing well you will want to give them an application of nitrogen for a needed boost in growth. This fall crop will not be a good as your spring planting but you should be able to get a decent harvest prior to our first frost.
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Now is also the time you need to keep a close eye on your garden plants inspecting them regularly for insects. Squash vine borers, Japanese beetles and slugs can quickly devastate your plants. Make sure you routinely clean old dying and decaying leaves from your garden plants. Old leaves make a great place for insects to hide and a great harboring site for plant diseases.
Powdery mildew is a major problem this time of year on roses, phlox and lilacs. Powdery mildew is a white dusty or talcum like powder found on their leaves. It is a fungal disease that causes minimal damage to the plants but does look unsightly. Hot humid days and nights are major factors in this fungal development. When watering, avoid applying the water to the leaves of these plants, only direct the water around the base and root areas. It also will help if you pull back the mulch from the base of these plants and thin out any old branches or canes to help in air circulation. If you do not mind using a chemical you can apply a fungicide, this will help keep the disease from spreading but will not totally get rid of the problem.
Plants that can be divided and transplanted later in the month are irises and daylilies. When transplanting, divide the clumps after they have bloomed. Make sure you leave at least three to five buds per plant. Check the root areas for signs of rot or borer damage and discard those pieces. Once you have prepared them, following division, you can replant making sure you leave 18 to 24 inches between the plants. Remember the rhizomes of the iris should only have a light covering of soil on them and make sure you replant the daylilies at the same depth as they were growing before the division. Once in the ground give them a good drink of water and if it is extremely hot, water on a regular basis this will help with their root development prior to their winter hibernation.
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Public Opinion Snapshot: Focus on Jobs, Don't Mess with Medicare and Social Security
In anticipation of President Barack Obama's speech to Congress on the job situation this coming Thursday, pundits are heatedly debating whether the president should go big or small in his recommendations for action. Given Friday's dreadful jobs report—no net new jobs created—and the stated priorities of the American public, it would seem like going big is in order.
Right after the debt ceiling deal last month, the public was asked whether creating jobs or cutting spending should be our nation's highest priority now. By an overwhelming 62 percent to 29 percent margin, the public prioritized job creation. Sounds like a cue for serious action rather than small-bore proposals that won't have much of an effect on the problem. (see chart)
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The road plan, along with the state budget, was passed April 15 during the final day of the 2016 General Assembly.
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What years ago seemed like an idea that might never become reality is 12 weeks from opening to the public.
Construction on the first phase of the Ark Encounter is rapidly progressing and ticket sales are going well ahead of the Williamstown tourist attraction's July 7 opening.
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While Grant County grew and changed, there was someone living in Maysville, Ky. who still called it home.
Mason County Family and Consumer Science (FCS) Agent Rachael Price had been keeping an eye on Grant County Extension Services and when she learned that FCS Agent Patty Poor was changing positions, she was eager to apply for the job.
"Grant County has always been home to me and it always will be," Price said. "So it was always in the back of my mind."
With adoption rates up and intake down, the Grant County Animal Shelter was recently honored as the best in the state.
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The military-backed Egyptian government ignited more tension Thursday with by releasing ousted President Hosni Mubarak from prison.
The Muslim Brotherhood sees the act as further proof that the military is trying to restore Mubarak's old regime.
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Perhaps to ease fears, the government has not let Mubarak go free, but instead flew the 85-year-old to a military hospital where he'll be held under house arrest.
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Recent assessments of the global agricultural economy suggest a significant slowdown in the rate of growth in crop yields, raising the specter of heightened supply-side constraints and rising prices at a time when growing population, income, and energy needs are driving up agricultural demand. The March 26, 2010, issue of Science magazine points to evidence that the growth rate in yields for major cereal grains and soybeans fell by half between 1961-1990 and 1990-2007.
While yield growth for some crops may have indeed slowed, it is not evident that growth in overall agricultural productivity also has slowed. Assessments of changes in global agricultural productivity, to date, have been hampered by conceptual and empirical problems. Partial measures like crop yield trends typically are limited to one or a few commodities and consider output relative to only one input—in this case, cropland. This limitation ignores the potential for new technology or efficiency improvements to raise productivity by saving other resources or shifting resources to produce more highly valued outputs. Partial measures also confuse the immediate causes of productivity change by failing to distinguish between the effects of more intensive use of existing technology and the effects of adopting new technology.
Assessing total factor productivity (TFP)—the amount of output per unit of total factors, or inputs, used for production—for the entire global agricultural sector provides a more comprehensive picture of changes in resource requirements to produce outputs (see box, "Measuring the Growth Rate in Agricultural Total Factor Productivity").
A 1-percent increase in TFP, for example, means that 1 percent fewer agricultural resources are required to produce a given bundle of crop and livestock outputs. Put another way: if prices remain unchanged, then the average cost of production falls by 1 percent. Previous estimates of TFP change in agriculture have generally been limited to individual countries, however, and have not been applied to the global agricultural economy because information on input use and production costs has been incomplete.
To overcome this gap, ERS developed a model to assess productivity change in the global agricultural economy. The model brings together the results of more than a dozen country- and region-specific studies on agricultural productivity, makes reasoned extrapolations for the rest of the world, and aggregates these results using a consistent framework.
While the ERS model does not compare levels of agricultural TFP across countries, it does provide a measure of the growth in agricultural TFP over time for each country, global region, and the world. The results suggest that, rather than the rate of global productivity growth slowing, TFP has accelerated and accounts for an increasing share of the growth in global agricultural output. TFP growth has eased resource constraints facing agriculture, and continued improvement in TFP will be critical in the coming decades if agricultural supply is to keep up with growth in global demand for agricultural commodities.
Agricultural growth can arise from a number of sources: changes in real (adjusted for inflation) prices (or the "terms of trade" effect), increased agricultural land, and greater yields. Higher real prices or improved terms of trade increase the value of the same quantity of output, while area and yield growth result in a larger quantity of output (real output growth).
Yield growth itself can occur either from intensifying the use of existing technology (for example, using more fertilizer or labor per acre) or from greater efficiency in overall input use (getting more output from a given level of inputs). Greater efficiency in overall input use is known as growth in total factor (input) productivity. This growth is often a result of adopting new technology or farming practices. In a multiple-output sector like agriculture, TFP will also increase if resources are shifted from producing lower valued outputs to higher valued outputs.
Breaking down agricultural growth in this way is intuitive and has some direct relevance for policy, as the two sources of yield growth arise from very different processes. Cropland expansion and input intensification are strongly influenced by resource endowments and relative prices. Increases in rural population or crop prices can induce cropland conversion and more intensive use of existing resources. But in many regions of the world, the ability to bring new cropland into production is severely limited or comes at increasing environmental cost, and in the short run at least, the ability to raise yields through intensification is largely confined to existing technology. Changes in TFP, on the other hand, are caused by changes in technology and efficiency in allocating inputs. The rate of TFP growth will be influenced more by long-term investments in agricultural research, extension, and rural schooling. Market liberalization and increased commercialization can also be sources of TFP growth if they cause producers to shift resources to grow more high-value commodities.
Global agricultural output grew about 2.2 percent annually in 1961-2007, with an exceptionally high growth rate of 2.8 percent per year in the 1960s, followed by average annual growth of 2.0 to 2.3 percent for each decade since the 1970s. Increases in fertilizer use were a leading source of agricultural output growth in the 1960s and 1970s, when Green Revolution cereal crop varieties, which were highly responsive to fertilizer, became widely available in developing countries. Fertilizer use also expanded considerably in the Soviet Union during these decades when fertilizer was heavily subsidized.
The longrun pattern shows that global growth in agricultural production inputs gradually slowed, while the rate of increase in TFP accelerated to maintain real output growth at just over 2 percent per year. Resource expansion in global agriculture was exceptionally low during the 1990s due to the rapid withdrawal of resources from agriculture in the countries of the former Soviet bloc. But many of the inputs used in these countries were apparently not efficiently applied, as their withdrawal significantly increased the average productivity of the resources remaining in agriculture, shown by the high TFP growth rate in the 1990s. By 2000, agricultural resources in the former Soviet Union had stabilized and the rate of global input growth recovered as compared with the rate in the 1990s, but was still markedly lower that input growth in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
While the world agricultural TFP growth rate has risen, productivity performance across countries and regions has hardly been uniform. The ERS analysis reveals three general patterns in global productivity growth:
While the ERS analysis found no evidence of a general slowdown in global agricultural total factor productivity through 2007, there was a slowdown in the growth of resources employed in agriculture. The results have important implications for the appropriate supply-side policy response to increased real agricultural prices in the global economy since 2005. The principal policy lever to increase TFP growth is to boost spending on agricultural research, but the time lags between research investment and productivity growth are long.
The slowdown in the rate of growth in agricultural resources was partly a consequence of declining or low real (inflation-adjusted) agricultural commodity prices between 1981 and 2005. That situation encouraged producers to find better opportunities for their capital and labor outside of agriculture. It is also partly a consequence of the institutional changes in the countries of the former Soviet bloc that precipitated a massive exit of resources from agriculture in the 1990s. The substantially higher real agricultural prices observed since 2005 and renewed agricultural growth in the former Soviet countries should positively affect the rate of global agricultural investment and resource growth. As long as TFP growth continues at its recent pace, the rate of real output growth in global agriculture should increase in the short run.
Despite this generally optimistic conclusion, agricultural productivity growth clearly has been uneven. The evidence suggests that TFP growth may in fact be slowing in developed countries while accelerating in some developing countries. Nonetheless, many developing countries have been unable to achieve or sustain productivity growth in agriculture and, as a consequence, suffer from low levels of rural welfare and food security. While this inability to achieve or sustain productivity growth has not contributed to a slowdown in global TFP growth because the developing countries' growth rates were never high to begin with, it has led to agriculture performing below its potential and has kept these countries poor. The largest group of countries in this low-growth category is in Sub-Saharan Africa, but the category also includes countries in West Asia and the Caribbean. Strengthening research, extension, and rural education in these countries, as well as maintaining these capacities in more advanced countries, is a requisite for enhancing long-term agricultural productivity growth.
The first step in measuring longrun changes in TFP is to determine the growth rate of overall agricultural output and input quantities. TFP growth is then measured as the difference between the two. For example, if output grows by 2 percent per year while input use increases by only 1.5 percent per year, then TFP grows by the difference, or 0.5 percent per year. In this case, TFP reflects the fewer resources required per unit of output produced.
Sometimes TFP can be raised by substituting cheaper inputs for more expensive ones or by reducing waste in input application, processes that are often enabled by adopting new technology. For this reason, economists often associate changes in TFP as an indicator of the pace of technological change in an economy or a sector.
To measure agricultural output, ERS researchers used the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' (FAO) output index, which values the annual production of 185 crop and livestock commodities since 1961 at a fixed set of average global prices expressed in constant 2000 U.S. dollars. Using a consistent set of prices to value production regardless of where the production occurs ensures that increased output in one location has the same effect on global production as an increase in another location.
FAO publishes data on five major inputs used in agriculture: land (permanent pastures, cropland, and irrigated land), labor (male and female), head of livestock, number of tractors in use, and quantity of inorganic fertilizers applied. The ERS measure of agricultural input growth aggregates inputs across these five categories, making some adjustments for changes in input quality across countries and over time.
Agricultural land is a highly heterogeneous category, so, to account for quality differences, ERS researchers developed a weighting scheme for adding up different land types. To measure changes in agricultural land, greater weight was given to an additional acre of irrigated land than to rain-fed cropland and, similarly, to rain-fed cropland than to pastureland. Livestock capital is measured in terms of "cattle equivalents," where the stock numbers of different species are adjusted by their relative size and then added up.
With growth rates estimated for the five inputs, an aggregate growth rate is derived by taking the weighted average of the five growth rates, weighting each by its cost share. Cost shares for each input category are derived from other studies that have estimated agricultural cost shares for specific countries or regions. The regions for which ERS has direct estimates of input cost shares include the U.S., China, India, Brazil, Indonesia, the former Soviet Union, Sub-Saharan Africa, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom, and South Africa. These countries account for more than two-thirds of global agricultural output.
For other countries, cost shares were assigned based on their similarity to the countries for which such estimates exist. For example, input cost shares for other countries in South Asia are assumed to be similar to those observed for India, and cost shares for countries in South America are assumed to be similar to those for Brazil.
Although assigning cost shares to some countries based on data from other countries may seem arbitrary, an argument in favor is the considerable degree of congruence among the cost shares reported in country case studies. In all countries for which ERS has such data, costs shares are relatively high for land, labor, and livestock, and low for machinery and fertilizer, with the latter two inputs accounting for a somewhat larger share of total costs in industrialized countries than in developing countries. Moreover, the TFP growth rates predicted from the ERS model closely matched TFP growth rates reported in country case studies. Nonetheless, data limitations remain a considerable impediment to measuring global productivity change, and such measures would benefit from more complete and accurate country-specific information on agricultural resource use and input costs.
With cost shares of land, labor, livestock, farm machinery, and fertilizers assigned, the growth rate in overall input use over time for a country can be estimated. The difference between a country's growth in quantities of output and growth in quantities of input is that country's growth in TFP. An advantage of this approach is that it measures productivity change in a theoretically sound and empirically consistent and comparable way across countries, groups of countries, and the world.
"Is a Slowdown in Agricultural Productivity Growth Contributing to the Rise in Commodity Prices?", by Keith O. Fuglie, ERS, 2008, Agricultural Economics 39 (supplement):431-41, 2008
"Total Factor Productivity in the Global Agricultural Economy From 1961 To 2006: Evidence From FAO Data,", by Julian Alston and Bruce Babcock, ERS, 2010, The Shifting Patterns of Agricultural Production and Productivity Worldwide, Midwest Agribusiness Trade and Research Information Center, 2010, pp. 63-95.
Is U.S. Agricultural Productivity Growth Slowing?, by Sun Ling Wang, ERS, September 2010, Productivity growth, a major determinant of economic expansion, is vital for promoting an improved standard of living. Increasing U.S. agricultural productivity can reduce commodity prices for U.S. consumers and free land, labor, capital, and other inputs for use elsewhere in the economy.
ERS Data on Agricultural Productivity in the United States, by Eldon Ball, ERS, September 2010, Overview
It is widely agreed that increased productivity is the main contributor to economic growth in U.S. agriculture. This data set provides estimates of productivity growth in the U.S. farm sector for the 1948-2008 period, and estimates of the growth and relative levels of productivity across the States for the period 1960-2004. Note that this data series has been revised (see the complete documentation for details, or go to the data tables).
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Steve Masiello will return to Manhattan, but first he has to go back to Kentucky — sort of.
Manhattan announced on Monday that Masiello, who the school had placed on leave when it came out that Masiello had never completed his degree while playing for the Wildcats in the 1990s, will return to lead the Jaspers, but he must complete his undergraduate degree first.
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"After an extensive review of the situation and extenuating circumstances, we determined that Mr. Masiello executed poor judgment but did not intentionally misrepresent himself in applying to the College," Brennan O'Donnell, Manhattan's president, said in a statement.
O'Donnell went on to say that Masiello, who participated in graduation ceremonies at Kentucky, went on to enroll in summer courses with the intention of finishing his degree but never did follow through with completing it.
Manhattan said that associate head coach Matt Grady will take over as the interim head coach until Masiello returns. Though an exact timetable wasn't laid out, O'Donnell said he expects Masiello to complete his degree this summer, meaning he should be back in charge of the Jaspers by the beginning of next season.
The disparity between Masiello's resume — which said he had completed his degree — and the reality was unearthed when South Florida did a background check on Masiello after it had decided to hire Masiello as its coach. That check determined that Masiello never did finish his degree, leading the Bulls to pull their offer.
Masiello's status with Manhattan had been up in the air until Monday's announcement.
"I am extremely grateful and humbled by the opportunity to continue as the head men's basketball coach at Manhattan College," Masiello said. "I made a mistake that could have cost me my job at an institution I love. Details matter.
"Manhattan College has shown me a great deal of compassion and trust during this process, and I will do everything in my power to uphold that trust."
It's a bit of an awkward situation an all around: A 36-year-old coach is being forced to complete his college degree, and though Manhattan is taking him back, Masiello clearly has his eyes set on moving up in the coaching ranks, meaning he could be pursuing other jobs again the year after this ordeal. But he's back for now at least.
Masiello led Manhattan to the NCAA Tournament this season in his third year at the helm of the team, where the Jaspers nearly upset Louisville in the round of 64. Masiello was facing off against his former mentor in that game — the Cardinals' Rick Pitino was Masiello's coach at Kentucky in Masiello's freshman year of 1996-97, and Masiello was later an assistant under Pitino at Louisville before taking the Manhattan job.


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Andrew Hutchinson – Ben Lovejoy
As noted, the Penguins defense is in shambles. Tough start for Hutch who looks lost. Maple Leafs are everywhere. They cash in too. Shot from the point. No one around Colton Orr who deflects it past MAF. 1-0
That was the Pens' first shot of the game.
Penguins take over the rest of the period. The third line, which seems to get unlimited shifts, finally does something. Talbot sees an HBO camera man shooting. He goes to the net after Phaneuf makes another mistake.
The second starts with a scramble in front of MAF. Three people jumped off of a bridge in fear before realizing the puck stayed out.
Gogo and Lovejoy get their chances the other way, but miss the net.
Malkin and Letestu work hard and generate something. Apparently we missed the press release that said only Geno could shoot at the Leafs' net. Tangradi jams at the puck, but Gustavsson keeps it out. Somehow Tangradi gets a penalty for something. No idea. A scrum follows. Luke Schenn whines about something and tries to act like a big boy.
He fails.
Leafs powerplay. Almost immediately someone named Clarke MacArthur scores. He has three goals in three games. Somewhere we're sure someone in the media is predicting 82 on the season for him.
So fun to watch other teams powerplays work. Not.
The play goes back the other way and there's another scrum around the Leafs' net. Cooke gets a penalty, two minutes for being Matt Cooke. Toronto powerplay.
The Leafs don't immediately score this time, which is nice. Kaberle inexplicably throws the puck to Gustavsson who, for reasons we'll never understand, covers it for a faceoff in the Leafs' zone.
Adams with a big time clear as the penalty nears its end.
Engelland steps up in place of Godard and goes toe-to-toe with "one of the league's top heavyweights" Colton Orr. He drops him with a punch straight to the face. He just ruined his face there. What a fight.
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The fight temporarily energizes the Pens who immediately go on the attack. Malkin skates around the entire Leafs' franchise, but no dice. Phaneuf and Lovejoy collide. The puck goes the other way. Crosby sets up Dupuis, but Jonas makes a very nice save.
The puck bounces over Letang's stick and Mike Brown almost gets a breakaway, but Paul Martin saves the day with a solid defensive effort. It doesn't matter because MacArthur scores again.
Marc-Andre Fleury starts to look around the arena for irrational snipers with twitchy fingers. Dan Bylsma starts thinking about the game that led to him getting this job. Arena beer sales immediately increase.
Malkin skates by and makes Dion Phaneuf look like Dion Phaneuf, leaving him behind. The Leafs take it back and the crowd decides this is a good time to heckle Fleury.
Crosby and Malkin get on the ice together and immediately get a couple scoring chances. They don't score though and the bridges in Pittsburgh are getting dangerously full.
Malkin's pulled down on a breakaway and there's a penalty shot. Geno is 0-3 on penalty shots in his career. A "Geno" chant breaks out.
Malkin goes in slowly……. and misses. Had the top left corner of the net. He break his stick on the bench.
Terrible camera work by FSN on the penalty shot.
The Leafs ice the puck with 1:34 left in the first. Malkin is frustrated. Cooke with a huge hit. Everyone on the Leafs forgets that Sidney Crosby is Sidney Crosby and they let him walk in alone. Scores.
Malkin with a good chance as the period dies down. MacArthur tries for the hat trick, but no.
Period Recap: The Pens are more talented, but the Leafs want it more right now. Engelland is a beast. Luke Schenn smells.
Third period. Down by a goal. It doesn't get much bigger than this, unless it's one of the other 78 games this year or a playoff game.
Crosby and Malkin are together again.
Armstrong steals the puck, but gets denied by a good play by Lovejoy. Solid game for Lovejoy. The teams trade the puck back-and-forth for a while.
Kennedy gets a good chance and the Pens put on a bit of pressure. Nothing happens as some Leaf blocks a shot and the zone is cleared. The Pens get it back and pass it around for a while. Job job job. Tangradi is on with Letestu and Dupuis now. They generate some energy and a "Lets Go Pens" chant starts up. Had no idea Dupes was playing this season.
Leafs superstar Clarke MacArthur throws the puck over the glass and gets a penalty.
Someone should really step up and sponsor the Penguins powerplays.
Geno gets a good chance, then Crosby gets one. The Leafs clear the zone. Mike Brown knocks down Kunitz and the Leafs clear again. The Pens go offside.
Fire Mike Yeo.
Fleury hasn't seen a shot since some time in the second period, which is obviously his fault.
Dupuis sets up Adams in front, but Gustavsson has it. Goligoski loses it and the Leafs finally get a shot. Crosby breaks in with Tangradi, sets him up, but Tangradi can't handle the puck. Kevin Stevens buries it.
Just sayin'.
Father Time is standing at the American Eagle Entrance as Letang is called for tripping. Crosby gets a good chance shorthanded and the Pens kill it.
Letang misses the net. Again.
The Pens have a couple huge chances with less than two minutes left and a Leaf with a broken stick. Sid goes in 1-on-4, but he can't beat Gustavsson. The Pens call a timeout as Fleury's pulled. The Leafs clear it. Malkin almost sneaks it by Gustavsson. Letestu wins a huge faceoff. No dice. Game.
Period Recap: Trade Staal.
Orpik, Michalek, Comrie and Staal out, but it still hurts.


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February 21, 2014 - Robert Collias
Here is the start of my story from Thursday's paper — finals start tonight with 5:30 p.m. introductions at the Lahaina Civic Center:
Molokai High School has not won a Maui Interscholastic League team wrestling title since 1992, when the boys squad accomplished the feat.
Friday night at the Lahaina Civic Center, the Farmers will go after the school's first MIL girls team crown in the home of four-time defending champion Lahainaluna.
"We are very excited to possibly make history for Molokai High School," said senior 125-pounder Rizpah Torres-Umi, a team captain who can become the first four-time league champion for the Farmers.
"We have been working so hard, I have been working with the girls individually, getting them mentally and physically prepared. We know we are capable of doing it and we are more than ready to make history for our school."
Torres-Umi is one of two seniors on the roster, along with the other captain, 105-pounder Karley Kaulili.
"It would mean so much for our island, our school, our team, everybody," Kaulili said. "It's a big opportunity."
The Lunas are led by defending state champions Carly Jaramillo and Lalelei Mataafa.
"The Lunas are a tough team, they have taken the tournament for as long as we can remember," said Torres-Umi, who plans to continue her wrestling career at Wayland Baptist University in Texas. "They are definitely the team to beat. We have been working on our skills individually and team-wise. We just have to mentally prepare ourselves - we know we can do it."
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The summary below is from the full report titled "Digestive Endoscopy Is Not a Major Risk Factor for Transmitting Hepatitis C Virus." It is in the 7 June 2005 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine (volume 142, pages 903-909). The authors are A. Ciancio, P. Manzini, F. Castagno, S. D'Antico, P. Reynaudo, L. Coucourde, G. Ciccone, M. Del Piano, M. Ballarè, S. Peyre, R. Rizzi, C. Barletti, M. Bruno, S. Caronna, P. Carucci, W. De Bernardi Venon, C. De Angelis, A. Morgando, A. Musso, A. Repici, M. Rizzetto, and G. Saracco.
Endoscopy is a method of examining the inside of a patient's digestive tract. It involves inserting a flexible, illuminated tube (an endoscope) through the mouth or anus, allowing the doctor to examine, biopsy, and sometimes treat diseases of the digestive tract. Endoscopy often produces a small amount of bleeding, particularly if biopsies are performed.
Hepatitis C is a common, serious, and persistent viral infection of the liver. The virus is carried in the bloodstream and can be transmitted to another person by contact with the infected blood. For this and other reasons, endoscopes must be thoroughly cleaned between uses in order to prevent transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) from one patient to another. There are standard, well-accepted procedures for performing this cleaning process. Even so, many doctors worry that contact with an endoscope that has previously been used on an HCV-infected patient may pose a significant risk.
To assess the risk posed by endoscopy with regard to transmission of HCV.
The authors studied 9188 patients who were not infected with HCV at the beginning of the study and who underwent endoscopy. Of these patients, approximately 62% had biopsies and presumably bled. To assess the relative risk, the authors compared patients who had endoscopy with 51, 645 initially uninfected blood donors who had not undergone endoscopy.
All patients who had had endoscopy at 3 hospitals over a 3-year period were evaluated. While only those who were not infected at the time of endoscopy were included in the study, 912 patients with known HCV infection underwent endoscopy using the same endoscopes on the same days as the uninfected patients. About one quarter of the biopsies were performed with reusable forceps, while in three quarters the forceps were disposable and were used only once. The instruments were washed and disinfected in the recommended manner between each use. Six months after endoscopy was performed, 92% of the patients were retested to see whether they had become infected with HCV. Seventy-five percent of the initially uninfected blood donors were also retested an average of 2.5 years after donation.
None of the initially uninfected patients who underwent endoscopy had acquired HCV infection at the time of follow-up. It made no difference whether biopsies were performed or whether disposable or reusable forceps had been used. On the other hand, 4 of the initially uninfected blood donors (none of whom had undergone endoscopy) did become infected by the time of follow-up.
Approximately 8% of the patients who underwent endoscopy did not have follow-up testing to see whether they had become infected.
When proper cleaning techniques are used, there is no indication that endoscopy carries a significant risk for transmitting HCV, even when instruments have previously been used on infected patients.
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"UML and XSD are a much closer match in terms of their respective feature sets, which is one reason why UML tools are more commonly seen when modelling for XML implementations..." I wonder if you could elaborate on this more, as I don't understand (theoretically) why UML would be a better notation for mapping into XSD than E-R. As far as I know, there is a standard for E-R (or RDB) mapping to XML (i.e., SQL/XML), just as a standard for UML mapping to XML (i.e., XMI). So, why would UML be a much closer match than E-R. Please excuse my ignorance... Am I comparing apple with orange? Thanks, Scott Tsao Information Architect - Associate Technical Fellow The Boeing Company ________________________________ From: Jack Lindsey [mailto:tuquenukem@h...] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:20 PM To: BANBURY David; xmlschema-dev@w... Subject: RE: XSD to ER Diagram David: I hope you don't mind if I say I find this scenario a little perverse. If your community of interest considers an E-R model an effective means of communication (as pointed out it can only represent a subset of XSD) why not publish your data requirements in the form of an E-R data model and then generate the XML schema from it? Some participants might find the common E-R model a useful basis for producing a RELAX-NG schema or an SQL database design or other physical implementations. In other words, why implement and then model? Why not model first and then implement, in as many media as participants desire? Embarcadero probably has the most to offer in this arena. It allows you to specify your own set of standardized XSD data types, for instance. Umodel is for UML, not E-R, although UML modelling tools can be used to represent E-R models if you have the discipline to restrict your use of UML features. UML and XSD are a much closer match in terms of their respective feature sets, which is one reason why UML tools are more commonly seen when modelling for XML implementations. But once again, it is usually the UML that is used to automatically generate the XML schema, not the other way around. As for ERwin XML, the last time I saw it, it was their own format (not XMI or anything) for exporting and importing an ERwin E-R model, complete with graphical positioning information. For instance, we used it to export a data model and run it against the names in a data dictionary so we could generate a French version from the English version (naturally we had to spread the entity boxes out a bit afterwards because the French names were longer - perhaps we should have gone in the reverse direction ;-) Cheers Jack Lindsey http://www.dss-snd.gc.ca/publication/en/chap/chap00403.html <http://www.dss-snd.gc.ca/publication/en/chap/chap00403.html> ________________________________ > Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:36:32 +1000 > From: David_BANBURY@r... > To: xmlschema-dev@w... > Subject: XSD to ER Diagram > > > Please excuse me if this query does not directly concern specific XSD > issues but I hope it is related closely enough to XSD development to be > worthy of the group's learned opinion. > > We are using XSD to define an XML file format for data interchange. As > such the schema is not directly related to a specific system or > database. The schema relies heavily on key-keyref relationships to > describe the relational structure of the data model. It has proven very > useful throughout development to present the schema as an > Entity-Relationship Diagram but deriving an ER Diagram directly from the > XSD has been problematic. > > Are there any tools available which will automatically generate an ER > Diagram from XSD? > > Thanks for any information you can provide. > > Regards, > David Banbury > > Traffic Systems Branch > Roads & Traffic Authority of NSW > Australia > > Tel: +61 2 8396 1417 > Fax: +61 2 8396 1600 > > Before printing, please consider the environment. > > IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment to it are intended only to be read or used by the named addressee. It is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistaken transmission to you. The RTA is not responsible for any unauthorised alterations to this e-mail or attachment to it. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of the RTA. If you receive this e-mail in error, please immediately delete it from your system and notify the sender. You must not disclose, copy or use any part of this e-mail if you are not the intended recipient. > ________________________________
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MORRISTOWN — A teenager charged with lying to police about the bullying of a Morristown High School freshman who later killed himself was among three young Morristown men indicted today on a weapons charge.
Michael Conway, 19, along with Marcus Liles, 20, and J'Money Wright-Baxter, 18, were indicted by a Morris County grand jury on a single count of possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.
The three are accused in an Aug. 4 incident in which an imitation weapon was allegedly pointed at an unnamed victim in Morristown.
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- 1 cup Pictsweet frozen Chopped Onions
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 cups Pictsweet frozen Super Sweet Yellow and White Corn
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- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
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He was born in Bellwood, son of the late Clarence and Violet (Bricker) Montgomery. He married Donna Myers.
Surviving are his wife; two daughters: Wendy (Charley) Lynn and Lisa Ann Montgomery (Bobby De Francesco), both of Bellwood; a grandson, Chuckie Lynn of Bellwood; two sisters: June Trostle in South Carolina and Betty Weiser of Bellwood; and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by three brothers: Bob, Ralph and Harold.
Mr. Montgomery was a 1955 graduate of Bellwood-Antis High School. He worked at Sermac Industrial Cleaning and also worked in construction and as a roofer.
Carol enjoyed hunting, fishing and watching football on television. He also enjoyed archery and had many trophies.
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4:20 AM… I had been awake since 3:45. My husband was snoring so loud it woke me up. I tried to kick him and push him onto his side, but, he wouldn't budge. So, while he continued to snore, I went downstairs to lay on the couch. At 4:20AM, I heard little feet pitter pattering upstairs. I knew it was the sound of my 4-year-old. I ran upstairs to find him next to our bed crying, saying, "My brain hurts."
Sure enough, he was burning up. I picked him up and carried him downstairs. I layed him on the couch, got some childrens tylenol and covered him up. "snug like a bug in a rug." Before I went to sit with him, I got a facecloth and ran it under cold water to put on his head. My mother used to do that when I was little. I don't know if it works or not as far as relieving headache and fever. It was something immediate though, until the medecine kicked in. A way of letting him know that I was there and acknowledged the fact that he was feeling miserable. It was something that comforted him. Again, I don't know if the cool facecloth works for the physical ailment, but, I know it helps on the emotional front.
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When the sun came up, he was ready for church. Recited his memorized bible verse when he entered his classroom and had an awesome morning. As exhausted as I felt getting through my morning, I wouldn't have traded it. Not for anything in the world.
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Michael Noonan and Pat Rabbitte showed Eamonn Coghlan how politics works, writes Gene Kerrigan
Published 18/05/2014 | 02:30
Michael Noonan said something truly stupid last week and Pat Rabbitte said something really clever. And athletics legend Eamonn Coghlan – well, Eamonn – how do we put this without being cruel? Eamonn, in his own way, did us a service. While the behaviour of both Noonan and Rabbitte diminished us, Eamonn's behaviour – oh, God – is there any way of discussing Eamonn's behaviour without abandoning all sense of sympathy for a fellow human?
Let's put it this way – Eamonn's behaviour added to the collective awareness of our political realities. How's that for tact and compassion?
All three are politicians. Noonan isn't stupid and Rabbitte isn't as clever as he thinks he is. But they're in election mode. Which means they say whatever they think will benefit their party.
Noonan and Rabbitte could do this kind of thing in their sleep. Coghlan is relatively fresh. He's Enda Kenny's man in the Seanad and he's running for Fine Gael in the Dublin West by-election.
Running a no-name FG hack wasn't on – not for a Government that thinks it's patriotic to take medical cards away from people with cancer. The hope was that running a sports celebrity might take the raw edge off voters' awareness of Fine Gael politics.
TV3 had a debate for Dublin West candidates, hosted by Vincent Browne. Normally, I'd unhook my optic nerves with a rusty spoon rather than watch one of these things. But, Eamonn – well, it was an education. The whole thing is on TV3's website (the party starts 16 minutes in) or you can look up Eamonn on YouTube.
"I suppose you have to be a little bit mad", said Eamonn, when Browne asked him why he wants to be a TD.
While others listed the Government's cruelties, Eamonn smiled indulgently.
"This is the rhetoric we're hearing morning, noon and night," said Eamonn. The Government is making "tough decisions", he said, which is one way of describing taking a medical card away from a person with multiple sclerosis.
And, suddenly, Eamonn began doing an imitation of a constituent. Yes, he did. Gravelly voice, thrusting finger and all.
Abruptly, Eamonn is on his feet, snarling, and he's the constituent pointing his finger at Eamonn. "Get outa here, I don't want you in here!"
Eamonn sits down, holds up his hands. "Sorr-ee", he says in a reasonable voice.
"You want my vote!" he snarls, thrusting his face forward, pointing, and we realise he's his constituent again.
"I go, 'Sorr-ee'", says reasonable Eamonn to his invisible constituent. And this went on. For. Some. Time. We stared, transfixed, watching a man act out his illusions about himself and the political culture in which he seeks to prosper.
Oh, go watch it yourself. Penance for your sins. The point of this performance seemed to be that Eamonn wants to come over as a different kind of politician, a courageous chap who doesn't pander to his constituents. Or, maybe not. By this stage, I was behind the sofa with my hands over my ears.
Eamonn, poor lamb, was merely, in his amateurish way, trying to find the right button to push.
For, as Eamonn twigged, the task of the modern politician is to find the right buttons to push – the ones that will arouse the voters' emotions. Politicians pay close attention to political manoeuvres. As do media hacks.
Most people, though, are too busy with their work and their families to go too deeply into the issues. So, politicians habitually seek to find the phrase, the angle that triggers a positive reaction in the voter.
"Turned the corner", "exit the bailout", "help young people onto the property ladder", "seismic shift" – these are some of the buttons pushed in the past. They convey progress, achievement – stick with us and we'll see you through.
The fact that such phrases conceal and mislead – that's in the small print. And – as yer man said – there's a lot done, more to do.
So Eamonn was confidently pressing what he thought were the right buttons, but he sounded like a chap telling a bar room anecdote to cronies who reflect back at him his view of himself. So, I says to him, I says . . .
Last week, Michael Noonan and Pat Rabbitte gave a masterclass in how to push the voters' buttons.
Noonan was asked about a scheduled twist in the Universal Social Charge which will take another €100m out of our pockets. And give €123m to those on salaries of over €100,000. Noonan said he's looking into it and may intervene.
Then, aiming at the electorate, he pushed a button. Fine Gael isn't into "tax and spend", he pronounced. It's a hoary old right-wing button guaranteed to arouse the passions of the FG base. Those other guys, the mad lefties, they're all tax and spend. Tax and spend, tax and spend.
Not we sensible people. They take money out of your pocket and waste it. Not us.
It's a stupid remark because tax and spend is what governments do. It's exactly what they do. It's all they do. They do nothing else.
That's what politics is about these days – first and last and all the way through the middle. Who and how you tax and where you spend and on what. The rest is window dressing.
But that's complicated. Hard to argue about. And the fact that much of the taxing and spending of Irish governments has involved paying off debts owed by private bankers to private bondholders – that's not something anyone needs to talk about.
Okay, so Philippe Legrain, former economic adviser to Manuel Barroso, President of the EU Commission, wants to talk about it.
"It was outrageous of Germany, the European Commission and, above all, the ECB to threaten to force Ireland out of the euro if it did not follow through with that foolish guarantee, lumbering Irish people, who have already suffered enough from collapsing house prices and a sinking economy, with a €64bn bill to bail out bust banks.
"I understand why the Irish Government did what it did," said Legrain, "but they could have stood up for themselves."
Ah, now, Philippe, we're not allowed to whinge. Be manly, take your screwing, don't complain, that's the Irish way. Let's not cry into the water under the bridge. Be positive. Stay the course, or some mad lefties will appear from somewhere and tax and spend, tax and spend.
Michael's was a hoary ploy, but there's mileage in it yet.
Last week, stirring up the troops for the election, Pat Rabbitte pushed a button he's pushed before. Acting like a Labour dissident, instead of a minister in the cruellest government in the history of the State, he denounced the Government's "drift" and demanded tax cuts.
Knowing that Fine Gael is preparing tax cuts as a sweetener for the next election, Rabbitte elbowed past them and pushed that button first. Any Fine Gael moves to cut taxes can now be spun as a response to Pat's demands.
That's how you do it, Eamonn. The old buttons work best.
While Eamonn, in his amateurism, showed us the pathetic sight of a would-be TD frantically trying to hoist himself onto a bandwagon, Michael and Pat displayed the practised ease of old pros. Playing the voters like a fiddle.
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Among the fundamental questions that need to be addressed regarding the treatment of patients with HIV infection are the strategy questions of when to start therapy, what therapy to start, and when to change therapy. The current inability to eradicate HIV, which has led to a need for long-term therapeutic strategies, and the increased recognition of long-term drug toxicities have made these questions compelling. Unfortunately, the answers remain unclear.
Over the past 7 years, in the absence of definitive evidence, several professional societies and governmental entities have provided guidelines for the initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART). These organizations have suggested guidelines that deal with a wide range of issues—from the treatment of all patients with viral loads greater than 10 000 copies/mL (1) to the more recent recommendation to definitely begin therapy only in patients with CD4+ T-cell counts less than 0.200 × 109 cells/L. Guidelines for the best approach to patients with CD4+ T-cell counts between 0.200 and 0.350 × 109 cells/L remain uncertain (2). As stated in the most recent edition of the guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (3), "While randomized clinical trials provide strong evidence for treating patients with <200 CD4+ T cells/mm3, the optimal time to initiate antiretroviral therapy among asymptomatic patients with CD4+ T-cell counts > 200 cells/mm3 is not known." Unfortunately, this swing in the pendulum of expert opinion from early, aggressive therapy to a more cautious approach was not concluded from data derived from randomized trials with clinical outcomes. It was due to the influence of data from observational studies, case reports, and short-term trials that showed unexpected toxicities associated with treatment and little evidence that earlier intervention had any impact on progression to AIDS (4–9).
The study by Palella and colleagues in this issue (10) attempts to swing the pendulum back toward earlier intervention. This analysis of data from 1994 to 2002 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention–sponsored HIV Outpatient Study (HOPS) observational cohort divided patients into groups based on CD4+ T-cell count (0.201 to 0.350 × 109 cells/L, 0.351 to 0.500 × 109 cells/L, and 0.501 to 0.750 × 109 cells/L). The investigators compared mortality rates of patients who began ART in their initial CD4+ T-cell group with those of patients who deferred therapy until their CD4+ T-cell count declined to a lower group. For patients with initial CD4+ T-cell counts between 0.201 and 0.350 × 109 cells/L, initiating therapy at this time rather than waiting until CD4+ T-cell counts declined to less than 0.201 × 109 cells/L was associated with reduced mortality (15.4 vs. 56.4 deaths/1000 person-years, respectively; P < 0.001).
The work of Palella and colleagues is unique compared with other recent reports on this topic (4–7) because the authors compared survival for participants who began ART in a specific CD4+ group with that of participants in the same group who deferred treatment until their CD4+ T-cell counts declined to a lower CD4+ group. In contrast, other studies typically classified participants by CD4+ T-cell count at the time of initiation of treatment and thus compared risk for AIDS or death on the basis of CD4+ group at the time of initiation of therapy. By "starting the clock" at the same time for those who initiated and those who deferred therapy, Palella and colleagues overcame one of the problems of using observational data to decide when to start ART. However, like the other reports, these comparisons may be subject to confounding. Although Palella and colleagues adjusted for many potentially confounding variables (age, sex, race, insurance status, viral load at time of first ART, receipt of highly active antiretroviral therapy [HAART], and CD4+ T-cell count at time of first observation within each subgroup), the decision to start treatment probably involved several additional factors related to prognosis.
As the authors point out, another important limitation relates to statistical power. Overall, a total of only 53 end points (deaths) occurred during the follow-up period. Even for the subgroup that formed the basis for their main conclusion, the 399 participants in the 0.201 to 0.350 × 109 cells/L subgroup, the distribution of the 33 end points, once adjusted for known confounding variables, did not achieve statistical significance (hazard ratio, 0.57; P = 0.16). To directly address the question of whether to defer therapy in patients with CD4+ T-cell counts greater than 0.200 × 109 cells/L would require a randomized trial of considerable size. For example, a study of treatment-naive patients with CD4+ T-cell counts greater than 0.250 × 109 cells/L, randomly assigned to immediate or deferred therapy, would require 650 events to show a 20% difference in mortality between groups with 80% power. At a rate of progression of 1% per year, 65 000 patient-years of follow-up or a study of 6500 patients for 10 years would be required. While studies of this size exist in other areas (11–12), they are the exception in HIV research.
We applaud Palella and colleagues' novel approach to observational data; however, because of potential confounding factors and limited power, their data are unlikely to change current recommendations about when to initiate therapy. These data do, however, generate new uncertainty in this area and may motivate the design and conduct of trials that will contribute to this important debate. As one views the global epidemic of HIV infection and the vast numbers of untreated patients, one also sees opportunities to perform studies that involve large sample sizes and that require long-term follow-up. The questions regarding treatment strategy are equally pressing and important for developed and developing countries. In developing countries, these questions can be addressed in a way that is consistent with the ethical principles of clinical research (13–14) and that helps to develop the infrastructure required for delivery of state-of-the art care to patients with HIV infection. Our enthusiasm to test the newest class of drugs, such as entry or integrase inhibitors, must be balanced by a need to define better strategies for the use of existing drugs.
H. Clifford Lane, MD
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; National Institutes of Health; Bethesda, MD 20892
James D. Neaton, PhD
University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN 55414
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