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In honor of Fact Tank's 1st birthday, a data quiz just for you
A year ago today, the Pew Research Center launched Fact Tank, our very own data blog. Why? Because even though Pew Research publishes lots of reports, we still have a lot of data that are relevant to the things people are talking about in the news, online and with their friends, and we wanted to be a part of those conversations.
But "data" as a blog theme is tricky to get a handle on. After all, pretty much anything these days can be data, from your Facebook "likes" and Twitter comments to your fitness logs and flight delays. We wondered if people who love data about politics would visit a blog that also examined global affairs, U.S. demographics, religion, technology, journalism, economics and scores of other subjects through the prism of facts and figures. In other words, was there a big audience out there who loves data as much as we do?
Twelve months later, we're happy to say the answer is yes. That's you. Thanks for reading and engaging with us about data — our own and that of others. To mark the occasion and challenge our loyal readers, we've worked up a data quiz to see how much you know about the facts shaping our world, drawn from the 900 or so posts we've done since we launched. Warning: It won't be easy. But you will feel smarter afterward. Take the quiz and share your score on Twitter with @FactTank.
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Sara Kehaulani Goo is a senior digital editor at Pew Research Center.
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Your question number 8 reads, "What percentage of American adults own a cell phone?"
The subject of the sentence, "percentage," is singular. Therefore the verb, "own," should agree with it: "What percentage of American adults owns a cell phone?"
You have made the verb agree with the prepositional object, which is ungrammatical.
It's a useless fight. Due to the school systems throughout America, the basic grammar that was taught in the 50's and 60's is gone from the twitter screens. Our beautiful American version of the English language has been trashed along with the moral fiber of our past generations.
It's not 50's and 60's. It's '50s and '60s. The apostrophe replaces the 19 in 1950s and 1960s. There are arguments about the second apostrophe. Some publications use it, but I don't. That point has not yet been decided.
"Drew DeSilver is a Senior Writer at the Pew Research Center.
Sara Goo is Senior Digital Editor at the Pew Research Center."
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Fagen fuels future growth with fleet of 3 Citations
Minnesota company's XLS and 2 CJs expand biofuel, clean energy business.
CitationJet and XLS inside the company hangar at GDB, protected from the harsh Minnesota winters. Fagen also operates a Baron 58 and Bonanza A36 for local flying.
Not only does the company construct ethanol plants-it also has an engineering division to work closely with prospective clients. He explains, "Fagen Engineering is a national full service engineering firm offering complete civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical/ instrumentation design services.
We are ranked by Engineering New Record as the 13th largest design-build firm in the US. Our engineering experience covers biofuels-including ethanol and biodiesel-agricultural processing, food processing, power, grain handling, cogeneration, water treatment, wind turbines and many other heavy industrial projects.
We have been involved in the design of over 75 ethanol plants covering 17 states. Project experience includes green field sites, plant expansions, and plant modifications." If the energy crisis of this past summer did nothing else, it should have served as the latest in a series of wake-up calls to the US to start looking in earnest for alternatives to traditional fossil fuels.
Change has been taking place, but slowly. One thing noticeable on the drive from Minneapolis to Granite Falls is the number of gas stations offering E85 fuel-a mixture of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline.
While this may be common in this region, it is extremely uncommon in other parts of the US. In Brazil, Fagen notes, all cars are E85-capable. Every car that races in the Indianapolis 500 is fueled by 100% ethanol.
Go to an air show where Greg Poe is flying and you will see an airplane fueled by pure ethanol. (Reportedly, it took all of 3 1/2 hours to convert Poe's aircraft from avgas to ethanol.) According to Ron Fagen, it would cost the auto industry less than $20 additional per vehicle to ship a car that is E85 capable.
It costs relatively little to modify an auto engine, and Fagen considers that the obstacle standing in the way of more ethanol is a political one over the allocation of corn. Fagen dismisses the concern voiced by a segment of the industry that corn used for ethanol would take away from corn used for food for humans and livestock.
This, he claims, is absolutely untrue. For starters, the corn that is usable for ethanol is not the same corn used by Green Giant. This corn is used to feed livestock. Fagen explains, "All we want is the starch from the corn.
Once we process it, we're left with protein, which is used to enrich grain for livestock feed. Cows don't really care whether they get their protein from ears of corn or from grain enriched with protein as a byproduct of ethanol production. "We see it as a win-win situation," he continues.
"The world is long on starch and short on protein. Most of the farmers belong to cooperatives, in which they get paid for both the starch used in ethanol and protein used in feedstock.
This keeps them off of government assistance, which we estimate has saved the federal government some $8 billion." Fagen concedes that, if the US were to push to require all cars to run on E85 or pure ethanol right now, there would simply not be enough output capacity to handle the demand.
Mileage using E85 is less than 87-octane gasoline, but one can argue that the cost of ethanol is significantly less than gasoline. Either way, says Fagen, the government could be doing far more to encourage the development of alternatives to fossil fuels.
Warbirds 'R Us
Ron Fagen's second avowed passion is restoring and flying warbirds. From his childhood, he remembers his father's stories of how Lockheed P38s saved his life while he was pinned down on a beach in Normandy.
Ron Fagen developed a love affair with WWII aircraft. His first flirtation occurred in 1977, when he went to Central and South America in search of North American P51s being surplussed from the military in those regions.
He grins as he notes, "Fortunately, I didn't find any in decent shape, which likely saved my life, since I probably would have killed myself trying to fly one back!" It wasn't until nearly 17 years later that he finally realized his dream by buying a Mustang that had been used for racing, and restored it to its original specifications-after being properly trained to fly it.
Since then, he has purchased a P38 (one of only a handful still flyable), and a pair of Curtiss P40s (one flyable, the other in pieces). Fagen has over 10,000 hours in his logbook, and is rated in the P38, P40 and P51.
One of the company hangars at GDB is used for restoring warbirds-a venture Ron Fagen hopes to turn into a money-making proposition.
Looking ahead
Ron Fagen's company is increasingly involved with construction projects and exporting technology overseas, so at some point Ator sees adding an airplane with greater range than the XLS.
Already, he has taken the XLS to Europe in support of possible projects in Croatia, and the company has shown interest in projects in Argentina. In considering equipment options, Ator notes that longer-range aircraft each have their different strengths.
When the time comes, he says, the flight department will work closely with Ron, Aaron and Evan Fagen to identify the most suitable aircraft to meet their needs. At present, says Ator, the Citation Sovereign appears to be the front-runner.
He gives several reasons: "For shorter flights we can still operate it out of GDB, and for longer flights the 7220-ft runway at MML will be plenty long." Also, he notes, Cessna support is a known factor. "We could get a plane that would reach Europe from MML," he continues, "but how often would we really use it at its full capability, and at what cost?
The Sovereign will reach Europe or Argentina with a single stop, and once over there will get us around on shorter hops economically. Having said all of this, we're not quite ready to add any aircraft for the time being."
Meanwhile, Ron Fagen says that he is comfortable with the current size of the company. The door is always open to new opportunities, however, the greatest of which appears to be China. Says Fagen, "China represents almost unlimited potential, along with almost unlimited risks.
We're certainly interested in the possibilities there, but will proceed with extreme caution before making any large investment in resources into a politically and economically volatile market. So, for now, an aircraft that can take us to Asia is not even on our radar."
Meanwhile, the importance that Fagen attaches to corporate aircraft can be summed up by his statement, "I started this multimillion-dollar business with 1 pickup truck and a crew of 4. Without corporate aircraft, we would probably be up to 4 pickup trucks and a crew of 25!
Our use of corporate aircraft has been one of the most important reasons we've been able to grow as we have."
Jay Selman has been a contributing writer for Pro Pilot for 27 years.His aviation articles have also appeared in magazines and newspapers around the world. He currently works as a customer service supervisor for a major airline in Charlotte NC.
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BBC world affairs editor John Simpson examines if the West can ever reduce the international trade in illegal drugs.
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The following comments reflect the balance of opinion we have received so far:
Decriminalisation of recreational drugs would allow governments to moderate production and distribution, eliminate the criminal element associated with the drug trade AND provide enormous revenue for the government through taxation.Thom James, Auckland, New Zealand
All drugs should be legal and properly controlled by the authorities in the same way as alcohol. I find it extraordinarily incompetent of governments worldwide that they all fail to take a lesson from what happened as a result of Prohibition in the 1930s in the USA. Just as now, it resulted in criminal gangs reaping enormous profits, consolidating their power and having the money to diversify into every part of society. Another aspect of the 'war on drugs', particularly in the US, is that a lot of people are making a lot of money from it in the form of prison-building and job security (police, customs and the people selling coca eradication tools). Hugo Vanneck, Tokyo, Japan
I really enjoyed the article. I am attending USC grad school for Social Work and we are currently studying marco-policy issues and this happens to be a big one. I recently presented an article on Swiss drug policy and its four tiered approach to dealing with such an issue, and I think we here in America could learn a thing or two about reality from such bastions of sensibility. Unfortunately American legislatures and many voters have put the carriage before the horse on the issue of morality and reality. People are dying exponentially due to our ignorant and stubborn view of what drug addiction is and the socio-economics that govern its expansive growth.Alexis Remillad, Santa Ana, CA, USA
At last someone with common sense. I have never used drugs but have seen their effect on society and people, having spent some time in Spain's jails. 90% of people are in for drug related abuses etc. Is there really NOTHING European and US countries can do to stop the rot?Mark, Spain
The "War on Drugs" is a business. Large sums of money flow to arms contractors for equipment and the DEA is a hungry monster. Since this "War on Drugs" began, the incarceration rate, particularly of blacks, has skyrocketed. Has drug use declined? No. Are the streets safer? No. This is a plan that is obviously not working. Time to rethink?Dave, St. Paul, USA
The idea of governments buying up the crops has been around for quite a while. While it may appear logical, one probable outcome would be to increase the street price of drugs due to their scarcity. This is turn would create the demand for more acreage to be devoted to such crops for illegal use, so we are back to where we started from.Scott Masteller, Fleetwood, PA, USA
I respect John Simpson, but he's missed the point he actually makes himself. Economic forces always prevail. The problem is at home, we are allowing drug dealers to make a profit on our streets. And that's so easy to fix. Reclassify addicts as sick people, which they certainly become when they don't get their drug. Then supply them on the NHS, charging them the usual prescription charge. Ensure that they can only take it at a "clinic". The drug dealers' profit would disappear, the government would collect revenue, and drug users would be freed from the need to steal our belongings to pay for their "hit". Now isn't that simpler? I think so.Chris Graff, Liverpool, UK
Above and beyond the facts detailed in your article, there is this business of enforcement. The "little" guys get jail terms, the "big" boys have their hands slapped. If that! So much time, effort and energy went into ensuring that tobacco would be eradiated from the work place, restaurants, bars and sundry. If only bits and pieces of that time, effort and energy went into 'fighting' drugs, the approach wouldn't be such an abysmal failure. Until and unless enforcement is taken seriously, efforts to control the drug trade will continue to languish by the wayside.Mmark Schoenberg, St Johns, Canada
This sounds like an excellent idea, and it may indeed provide a solution to the shortage of painkillers. Unfortunately the end result is likely to be a bidding war between the drug dealers and the pharmaceutical industry. The poppy growers will have to supply two groups of customers, which will require an increase in production. I would agree with the article's assertion that "not an awful lot of logic has been applied".Grahame Rhodes, St Louis, USA
This sounds like a sensible plan, but why do we have to dismiss the idea of ending European (and North American) agricultural subsidies so quickly? They don't seem to benefit consumers, animals, the environment, developing countries, or even good farmers. Is there a good reason to keep them?Mikey McLean, Leicester, UK
Why don't world leaders just make the stuff legal. That way the bottom would fall out of the black marketDorothy Patton, San Jose, Costa Rica
I like Senlis Council's idea and I'd say let's do it. But it would be interesting to see how governments compete with drugs middle-men. I predict there would be an immediate impact on the street price of drugs. The other likely impact, however, might be an increase in the cost of already high opiate-derived painkillers. That could come as deterrent to this effort.Mehdi, Toronto, Canada
I think all drugs, good and bad should be legalised and made available to all at the right price. Taxes should be collected as with tobacco and alcohol. Then there would be more money in government coffers to educate the populace about the pros and cons of all the available drugs. Let the people then make their own minds up! This is very brief, but the less control of a product the easier it is to manage.Eduardt Mordt, Harare, Zimbabwe
Neither the US nor the EU can grow coffee, mangos or bananas and other things, so to say that the locals can only grow coca is absurd. Also, if western concerns buy the opiates for medical uses, the growers will simply increase their production to supply both the legal and illegal trades. It is not a zero-sum game. I agree that new thinking is needed, though - perhaps in the area of legalisation and regulation. Outright prohibition has been an abysmal failure.David Marchetti, Jackson, MS, USA
The point of subsidised agricultural produce of USA and Europe is very relevant. It is also financing terrorism to a good extent. USA and Europe will have to change their way of life and thinking. The agricultural subsidy is indirectly financing drugs and terrorism.Avinash Chaudhary, Pune, India
He is right to say the "war on drugs" has utterly failed, and indeed the term "war on terror" has the same hollow connotations. Go to any city and town in the UK, scratch the surface and they are awash in all communities at all levels.... Farmers in producer countries need alternative ways to make a living but that in itself will not eradicate drugs and their production. As long as the trade is illegal the profits are massive and unrestricted and thus the cycle of a criminal drug trade goes on. We need to massively re think our approach to illegal drugs in the West, including considering the regulation of them by legitimate channels.Tom, UK
I agree with John Simpson. What's more I would go further and say why not buy up the whole year's harvest? Whatever remains after the pain-killers have been produced could be distributed to registered addicts. It would be free of charge (through the NHS) and consequently the drug-barons and their gangs will have been sidestepped! Rodney Burton, London, UK
The proposal seems to make good sense as a start. But do we not also need to address the demand issues - mostly (but not limited to) in richer countries? Small countries of the Caribbean are facing increasing problems of drug use - and their plight tends to get lost in the discussions about Colombia, Afghanistan etc.John Steward, St. James, Barbados
I think as far as the US is concerned the best solution would be to put more effort into actually stopping the drugs from ever getting into the country. Law enforcement expends an incredible amount of manpower and time tracking down the drugs after they get here and arresting those involved. If that energy was diverted into stopping the drugs from ever getting into the country it would do a lot more good. No supply, no market.Parsons, Birmingham, AL
Even if we were not to use the produce for morphine or codeine, we should buy as much as we possibly can directly from the farmers. It would be a tiny fraction of the European street price, and would wipe out supply. After all, we haven't had much luck dealing with demand or supply on our own streetsDavid Morrison, Dublin, Ireland
Why don't they just legalise it? The damage that drug money laundering operations are doing to efficient businesses with whom they compete must now be significant. If the whole drug business has to compete with other forms of agriculture drug prices will drop and money laundering will cease. Russell Clark, Harare, Zimbabwe
It is very important that like other illegal commodities, we recognise the underlying reasons for why farmers grow narcotics in the first place. To simply throw police/military activities and money at the problem is to ignore the socio-economic reasoning behind what they do and why. Dumping by the US and EU is one factor amongst many others that must be addressed before any kind of dent on the "War on Drugs" can be made. People facing poverty and starvation are going to do what they must in order to feed their families. Viable alternatives for them must be created. In addition, farmers growing drugs are only a symptom. The use and addiction to illegal drugs needs to become a greater focus for those wishing to stop it.Angus Grant, Toronto, Canada
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Date of Defense 2012-03-22 Availability unrestricted AbstractAn intervention to improve adoption of dust control technology is designed, implemented and evaluated using three theoretical frameworks: the Health Belief Model (HBM), Diffusion of Innovation, and the Technology Acceptance Model. A quasi-experimental design (pretest-posttest, with control group) was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention. An integrated conceptual model, employing key constructs from these frameworks, was developed to predict and describe "adoption readiness". Adoption readiness combines the attitudes and perceptions about a technology with the capacity to implement the technology. The primary hypothesis was that the key construct scores of the three theoretical models would improve post-intervention, particularly, "adoption readiness". Workers in the drywall finishing industry have been found to be at risk of developing respiratory disease and disability. Studies have shown that drywall finish workers have been subject to overexposure to dust concentrations that contain respiratory heath hazardous particles including silica, talc, mica, and calcite. Prevention through Design (PtD) solutions, which are effective at reducing dust levels, do exist for these operations. Some of these PtD solutions include using vacuum sanders, wet sanding methods, pole sanding and using low dust joint compound in lieu of using personal protective equipment (PPE) as a primary form of exposure protection. Previous studies have determined barriers to adoption of current PtD solutions for dust exposure reduction. Usability, productivity, quality of finish and cost were all identified as barriers to adoption. An intervention directed at those involved in the drywall industry is needed to increase the usage of engineered dust control.
This dissertation project developed, implemented, and evaluated three interventions to address the barriers to adoption through education and marketing strategies. Development of the interventions included strategies to improve industry usage of dust control technologies. The interventions targeted workers, small companies, and large companies involved in drywall finishing.
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Sponsored by the International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA), the Fall Protection Showcase increased the concrete industry's awareness of proper practices and procedures, and the products available to achieve safe worksites.
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This is a semi-authorized FAQ of Greg L. (his full name has been omitted to prevent Google stalkers from finding this page). This is basically a transcript of an IM conversation we had in April 2007. As he correctly pointed out, this should really be an AQ, 'cause a lot of these questions weren't actually asked frequently.
Who are you, and what do you do?
I'm a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at MIT, focusing on User Interface research.
When do you usually go to bed?
4 or 5am. Mainly because I've been exercising lately.
Doing aerobics to music (which is embarrasing), so I do it at 4am.
Don't you disturb your neighbors then?
No, I don't do it in my room. I go down to the dance room in the basement ... which is why I want to make sure other people aren't going to pop in ;)
Did you just wink at me?
How do you play the music in the basement?
Their boombox has a cable that plugs into my laptop :)
So you have aerobics music on your laptop?
No, I subscribe to a service where I can stream it over the Internet.
Topic change. Does P = NP?
lol, I think P does not equal NP
Which text editor do you prefer?
Scintilla Text Editor (aka Scite)
emacs or vi?
I don't know either emacs or vi
Richard Stallman or Bill Joy?
I don't know who bill joy is.. I've been in an elevator with richard stallman, but I didn't think to ask him anything
Bram Moolenaar or Bram Stroker?
I don't know either Bram. Incidentally, I know very few famous people.
Moolenaar wrote the vim text editor, Stroker wrote Dracula.
Dracula? The story? Or is there a text editor called Dracula?
If you could name your firstborn perl, python, ruby, or lua, which would it be?
If it's a girl, lua... (lua is the best language ever, so far)
If it's a boy, lua... (same reason)
Isn't that kind of a girly name?
Um.. I think it's not so girly that a guy couldn't make people associated it with manlyness if he was manly enough. Not that I would expect my son to do that... but he could.
Because he has free will?
lol, have we talked about free will?
Yes, that's probably too long for an FAQ.
hehe, well, you may include that I don't believe free will exists
Can I also make up stuff about you?
lol, sure
Were you the inspiration for the 90's TV show Dharma and Greg?
yes, how did you know?
Why did you walk in on me while I was using that porta-potty last year?
'cause I really had to go, and none of the other ones were free.
Why did you eat that kayaker? You know that's a crime in some states.
I was hungry.
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Agency Response Letter GRAS Notice No. GRN 000264
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CFSAN/Office of Food Additive Safety
December 23, 2008
Peter Schutz
George Weston Foods, Ltd.
1 Braidwood Street
Enfield, NSW, 2136
Re: GRAS Notice No. GRN 000264
Dear Mr. Schutz:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responding to the notice, dated September 26, 2008, that you submitted in accordance with the agency's proposed regulation, proposed 21 CFR 170.36 (62 FR 18938; April 17, 1997; Substances Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS); the GRAS proposal). FDA received the notice on October 3, 2008, filed it on October 8, 2008, and designated it as GRAS Notice No. GRN 000264.
The subject of the notice is sweet lupin flour. The notice informs FDA of the view of George Weston Foods, Ltd. that sweet lupin flour is GRAS, through scientific procedures, for use as an ingredient in baked goods and baking mixes and grain products and pastas at a maximum level of 25 per cent.
In a letter dated December 10, 2008, you withdrew your notice. Given your letter, we ceased to evaluate your GRAS notice, effective December 16, 2008, the date that we received your letter.
In accordance with proposed 21 CFR 170.36(f), a copy of the text of this letter responding to GRN 000264, as well as a copy of the information in this notice that conforms to the information in the GRAS exemption claim (proposed 21 CFR 170.36(c)(1)), is available for public review and copying via the FDA home page at http://www.fda.gov. To view or obtain an electronic copy of the text of the letter, follow the hyperlinks from the "Food" topic to the "Food Ingredients and Packaging" section to the "Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS)" page where the GRAS Inventory is listed.
Antonia Mattia, Ph.D.
Division of Biotechnology and GRAS Notice Review
Office of Food Additive Safety
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
cc: Dr. John Hicks, Jr. DVM, MPH
Risk Management Division
Office of Policy and Program Development
Food Safety and Inspection Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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pretty, but the shirt color leaves the entire thing wishing it had some pop. That being said, the design is whimsical and beautiful. Keep it up!
i like this one!!
nice lookin t! and tha placement works well :)
Nice Design, i love vikings too!!
Otro voto para esta genial polera =P…+1
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Te vote perro, Good Luck!
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Good Luck with this incredible design. =P
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Nice illo!
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Publicly Funded HIV Counseling and Testing -- United States, 1990
A critical component of CDC's national human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-prevention program is support for HIV counseling and testing (CT) services. Sixty-five HIV-prevention programs are in health departments in 50 states, the District of Columbia, six cities, and eight territories.* Each calendar quarter, the programs report to CDC aggregate or client record data about the number of
During 1990, the 65 programs performed 1,366,537 HIV-antibody tests; 51,170 (3.7%) were positive (Table 1). Of these, freestanding HIV CT sites (sites that provide HIV CT services exclusively) and sexually transmitted diseases (STD) clinics together accounted for 832,985 (61.0%) of reported tests and 32,851 (64.2%) of positive test results. Family planning and prenatal/obstetric clinics accounted for 14.4% of reported tests and 3.2% of positive tests; drug-treatment centers and prisons accounted for 9.2% of reported tests and 13.6% of positive tests. Risk Category
Of 1,283,222 reported tests for which information on self-reported risk category was available, the percentage of seropositive tests was highest for homosexual/bisexual male injecting drug users*** (IDUs) (19.5%), homosexual/bisexual males (14.7%), heterosexual IDUs (10.7%), and persons with hemophilia (8.9%) (Table 2). These four categories accounted for 18.1% of tests and 60.7% of positive results from persons who reported their risk category.
Persons categorized as "heterosexuals with reported risk" (including heterosexuals whose sex partners are at risk for or are infected with HIV and heterosexuals with multiple sex partners) represent 536,455 (41.8%) of tests and 10,010 (20.2%) of all positive results. Persons who reported "other" than established risks for HIV infection or "no acknowledged risk" (heterosexuals who indicated no history of risk behavior or no partner(s) at risk for or infected with HIV) accounted for 489,672 (38.2%) tests. Combined, these predominantly heterosexual persons--heterosexuals with reported risk and others with no acknowledged risk--had a seropositivity rate of 1.8%, yet accounted for 38.1% of reported positive results. Demographic Categories
Of 1,309,385 tests for which demographic information was given, race/ethnicity was specified for 1,280,294 (97.8%). Whites, blacks, and Hispanics accounted for 49.5%, 35.3%, and 11.3%, respectively, of HIV tests performed, compared with their representation in the U.S. population of 78.4%, 11.8%, and 7.8%, respectively (1). The racial/ethnic distribution of those tested was similar to that of new reports of persons with AIDS in 1990, of whom 51.5% were white, 30.4% were black, and 17.6% were Hispanic (2) (Table 3). Blacks, whites, and Hispanics accounted for 41.7%, 35.9%, and 18.5%, respectively, of total positive tests (Table 3). Seropositivity was highest among Hispanics (6.0%), followed by blacks (4.4%) and whites (2.7%). Males accounted for 666,250 (50.9%) of the 1,309,385 tests and 37,668 (77.6%) of the 48,566 positive results. Seropositivity in males and females was 5.5% and 1.7%, respectively. Of persons for whom age was known, persons aged 20-29 years accounted for 43.0% of tests and 36.5% of positive results, and persons aged 30-39 years accounted for 27.8% of tests and 41.8% of positive results. Seropositivity rates for persons aged 20-29 and 30-39 years were 3.1% and 5.5%, respectively. For adolescents aged 13-19 years, 173,826 tests were performed; of these, 1090 (0.6%) were positive. Posttest Counseling
Client record data, representing a 43% subset of the aggregate CT data and providing greater detail about persons receiving CT, indicate that posttest counseling was completed for at least 72.5% of persons with HIV-antibody-positive test results and 55.7% of those with negative test results (3). Overall, at least 56.4% of persons in the client record database received posttest counseling; however, the proportion of persons was higher for freestanding test sites (81.6%) than for STD clinics (33.9%). Reported by: HIV-prevention programs of state and local health depts. Program Development, Technical Support Section, Program Operations Br, Div of STD/HIV Prevention, and Office of the Director, National Center for Prevention Svcs, CDC.
Editorial Note
Editorial Note: Knowledge of HIV-infection status and appropriate counseling can assist persons in initiating changes in behavior that will reduce the risk for infecting others or for becoming infected (4,5). Early intervention, including medical evaluation, antiviral therapy, and pharmacologic prophylaxis, can enhance and prolong the years of productive life for HIV-positive persons. A substantial proportion of persons infected with HIV have been diagnosed and have received services at publicly funded CT programs (6). However, a large proportion of the estimated 1 million HIV-infected persons in the United States remain unaware of their infection (7).
Because the data in this report reflect characteristics only of persons tested at public clinics, the findings are not representative of all persons tested in the United States. Most of these data were collected in service delivery settings where attendance is largely voluntary; therefore, data regarding risk factors may be less reliable than those obtained in population-based surveys or epidemiologic investigations. In addition to the tests reported here, a large number of persons not reported here are tested for HIV antibody in hospitals, outpatient medical facilities, physicians' offices, blood-donation centers, military facilities, and other settings.
Because testing of some clients is repeated, neither the total number of persons tested nor the total number who are HIV-antibody-positive in publicly funded settings are known. However, based on monitoring in four publicly funded programs, an estimated 12%-30% (mean: 23%) of HIV-antibody tests and 3%-18% (mean: 13%) of positive tests represented persons tested previously (CDC, unpublished data). By using these rates to adjust cumulatively reported CT data, an estimated 3,250,000 persons have been tested since 1985 through publicly funded programs, and an estimated 185,000 of these persons have been seropositive. Studies are under way to determine the most effective strategy for ensuring that those persons who test positive but do not return for their test results will be notified of their status.
One possible explanation for the difference in the return rate for freestanding sites and STD clinics is that persons attend freestanding sites specifically to obtain an HIV antibody test, whereas those who attend STD clinics primarily for clinical care of an STD may be offered HIV CT as a component of that clinical care.
National HIV prevention and intervention efforts are dependent on self-perceptions of risk and subsequent risk-reduction efforts in response to that risk. To ensure that persons with undetected HIV infection receive appropriate CT, public health priorities should focus on increasing the number of persons, especially those engaging in risk behaviors, who are tested and the number who receive the full range of recommended CT, referral, and partner-notification services. HIV CT services should continue to expand to settings such as tuberculosis, STD, and drug-treatment clinics (Table 1). Public health programs should attempt to maximize the proportion of persons at risk who 1) are offered and receive pretest counseling, including risk assessment; 2) accept and receive HIV-antibody testing; 3) return for HIV-antibody test results; 4) are offered and receive posttest counseling; 5) if infected, participate in partner notification; and 6) if infected, are referred to and receive further medical and prevention services.
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"As long as you grow boldly and confidently, things will go well for you. As Movember CEO Adam Garone says: 'Wear the mustache, don't let the mustache wear you.'"
Own the Creep Factor
"Just own it. In fact, I actually grow a type of mustache I call a 'face-creeper,' which means it covers a lot of real estate and I sort of look like James Hetfield from Metallica. This leaves my options open for the end-of-the-month party, when I can shape it into a horseshoe or chevron or whatever I need for my costume."
Be Sensitive to your Significant Other
"You do need to be sensitive. Although usually once it grows out a bit, it's soft and smooth rather than prickly, meaning it's ready to offer mustache rides. Related point: if your girl isn't on board with you growing a mustache to fight cancer and support men's health, she's probably not worth sticking with."
Let it Ride
"When your 'stache starts growing on you, it starts growing on you, you know? Mine usually extends a week or two into December. You can actually keep raising funds through December 7th and going that route is probably a little truer to the cause. If you wait to trim at the end it leaves you with a big canvas to carve out something special come Movember party time."
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As far as horror comics go, LOCKE & KEY by Joe Hill was incredibly popular amongst fans of horror and indie comics, so it was no real surprise to us when we heard that the series was picked up by a network to be turned into a television series. The news came well over a year ago but never came into fruition even after making it to the pilot stage at Fox. In fact, oddly enough, the show's pilot was even screened at Comic-Con in 2011 (garnering a relatively positive response from audiences) but things still were not meant to be. However, this might not be the last we've heard of LOCKE & KEY.
According to Latino Review, LOCKE & KEY might be an upcoming film trilogy. According to film producer Robert Orci (Spider-Man 2, Fringe) LOCKE & KEY is going to the big screen. When asked whether this is a film trilogy Orci is currently attached to, the movie producer revealed on Twitter that yes it is "true." This is great news for horror fans as well as fans of the series and those who were looking forward to seeing LOCKE & KEY adapted, but is making a movie the right move?
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Phillies 5, Dodgers 3: Jason Werth stole home in the seventh inning and tied a team record with four steals in one game, but since he's not Dustin Pedroia, no one will probably make a big deal out of it. In other out-of-the-spotlight news, the AP game story's "game notes" said that "Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt was at the game." There had to have been at least five guys who played in this game plus Joe Torre, plus at least two or three local news anchors in attendance who are more famous and relevant than she is right now.
Rockies 12, Astros 1: Brad Hawpe was 4-4 with 5 RBI. No word if character actor Pat Hingle was at the game.
Blue Jays 5, Yankees 1: Matsui injured, Teixeira 0-4, Burnett gives up five runs, Roy Halladay dominant. Is there anything that didn't go according to script in this one?
Pirates 7, Cardinals 1: Pujols got his, but beyond that, bubkes for the Cards. Zach Duke was 5-14 last season. He's now 4-3.
Mets 4, Braves 3: They say that revenge is a dish best served cold. In winning on an extra-innings bases loaded walk last night, I can only assume that the accounts are now even for Game 6 of the 1999 NLCS.
White Sox 7, Indians 4: Back when Thome was with the Indians, a friend of mine from Cleveland used to yell "Thome is my homey!" whenever the big guy would hit a home run. I haven't talked to that dude from Cleveland for a few years, but I bet he didn't yell it as Thome hit two against the Tribe last night. In other news, the dreaded vote of confidence from Mark Shapiro! I can only assume that Wedge will be collecting unemployment this time next week.
Cubs 6, Padres 2: At this rate, Jake Peavy (6 IP, 6 H, 3 ER) is going to be the hottest 90 ERA+ pitcher available at the trading deadline since Andy Ashby!
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KEN STRICKLAND: What things do you think are most misunderstood by the public about being a senator or how Congress works?
BAYH: Let me start with the good. The vast majority of people here are honest, hardworking, decent, publicly-minded people. And I think the public would be very pleasantly surprised if they had a chance to get to know these people as individuals the way I've gotten to know them. So that's number one.
You're not in it for the money. They're in it for the right reasons. Now, they have differences of opinions - my take on the institution is you've got a lot of wonderful people trapped in a system that's too often dysfunctional. So I think they'd be pleasantly surprised by the caliber of the people here.
I do think they'd be surprised by the way the caucus system works. I think most people elect us expecting us to come here and be fairly independent and to study the issues, [to] decide what's right and to vote accordingly.
But when you get here, the pressure by the two caucuses to kind of go along with the "team" is pretty constant. And it's gotten more so over the years, where any deviancy from party orthodoxy is viewed as an act of betrayal or a lack of moral fiber or something like that. So you not only have the internal pressure from your colleagues, but then you've got the external pressure from the blogosphere and the cable networks and all of that.
And then just the constant political calculations - largely because of the need to raise vast sums of money. Back in my father's day there was a saying that when you were in the Senate you legislated for four years and you campaigned for two. Now you campaign for six, because if your race is going to cost you $20 or $25 million, you can't raise that amount of money in two years.
And so if you're constantly raising funds, then political calculations are more often on people's minds and then that has contributed to just a lack of productivity. And I think that would surprise people.
KEN STRICKLAND: What do you find to be the hardest part of working in the Senate?
BAYH: I'm a former governor and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in session I was running the state. So with that in my background, you can make a real contribution here, but it tends to be in the areas of your expertise, but in areas not in your expertise it tends to be more at the margins and less frequent.
I find that you can make a bigger contribution, more often than not, as an executive than [as] a legislator. If you are the executive you're probably going to have more of an impact than if you're one of a hundred members of the Senate, certainly one of 435 members of the House.
So I think it's the executive in me that found it to be a little frustrating, the legislative body. And plus, I'm moderate on things, particularly economic and financial issues. And it's hard being a moderate these days. You tend to get fired [at] by both sides.
And the irony of that is I think most of the American people would like their government officials to be more moderate and more independent at a time the system is working against both of those attributes.
KEN STRICKLAND: What piece of legislation did you work on that made you the most proud?
BAYH: I've always cared about education and I worked with Senator Schumer on making several thousand dollars of college tuition tax deductible. That will help a lot of your middle class families make college more affordable.
I worked on things to make sure that our military, our soldiers got the equipment they needed in Afghanistan and Iraq, that will literally save lives.
Got some things done to cut property taxes for people who don't itemize - which may not sound like a big deal, but for middle class families, senior citizens in particular, that can make a big difference.
So I can kind of go down a long list, but I've always had a soft spot in my heart for education and for our soldiers.
KEN STRICKLAND: Who are the senators from the other side of the aisle with whom you enjoy working the most? Who do you consider a "worthy opponent" in debate?
BAYH: I like a lot of my Republican colleagues, starting with my friend from Indiana, Senator Lugar. We've had an excellent relationship. And if more of the senators around here could have the kind of relationship we do, I think the place would be better off.
There's one of these surveys that came out recently and they compared the voting records of different members and he and I had the voting record most alike of any two senators from the same state, but of different parties. We have similar world views in many ways. And temperamentally we're very similar - and hopefully collegial people.
I have a very good relationship with Judd Gregg. He cares about fiscal issues, so do I. Our wives have gotten to know each other. He's a really good guy. Bob Corker I like. Scott Brown I've gotten to know some and I like him. John McCain and I have a good friendship and a great relationship. So there are quite a few.
I should mention Lamar Alexander. He was Secretary of Education with first President Bush, and I'd been a governor. George Voinovich, he and I were governors together all eight years. I'm particularly close to people who have been governors.
Things are very rarely changed through debate on the floor. It's members who are either highly respected because of their intellect and integrity and therefore their opinion carries great weight; or members who are known for just being tenacious and advocates.
I think Dick Lugar is in that category as someone who's widely respected and when he speaks people tend to listen. John McCain. Members sometimes they don't want to get into it with John because they know he's very forceful and can be a little intimidating sometimes.
KEN STRICKLAND: During your time as a senator, who do you consider to be the most effective or politically savvy legislator?
BAYH: Before he passed, Ted Kennedy would have been one of those people. Teddy was a very effective speaker, really did his homework, had excellent staff. And because of his long tenure, knew the ins and outs of this place and the legislative history of issues. So I think - particularly among Democrats - when Teddy spoke he carried a lot of authority.
There was a caricature in some people's minds, the Republicans, about Ted being a left wing ideologue. He was a progressive, to be sure. [But] he had a big pragmatic streak, too, and he really wanted to get legislation done. And if it involved compromise, well, he had arrived at a point in his life where he'd rather get half a loaf than none.
So he was a very effective legislator. And Senator Byrd, before he physically began to decline was a very effective legislator, as well.
Phil Gramm was so smart. I mean, obviously he had strong ideological underpinnings, but he was a pretty effective guy standing on the floor and speaking because he's just very smart about things and carried a lot of weight among Republicans because of that.
I remember [Sens. Kennedy and Gramm, during the impeachment.] They worked out the deal. It passed 100-0. And you couldn't have more polar opposites in terms of ideological point of view. But they knew the country was in a tough spot and it had to be worked out, so they did.
KEN STRICKLAND: You have one day of your Senate life to live over again and change a professional choice that you made, maybe a vote. Which one is it and why?
BAYH: We now know there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. We didn't know that at the time. As a matter of fact, there was a strong belief that their weapons of mass destruction, and it was a reasonable belief shared by the intelligence services of every other country. The question [was] what to do about them.
Now that we know there were no weapons there I think many of us would have taken a different position on the decision to invade Iraq. So that's number one.
I am very concerned about the fiscal condition of the country. And although very often I'm the only member of my party voting against budgets or appropriations bills or things of that nature, I wish that maybe I did it a little more vociferous[ly].
It's hard sometimes to be the skunk at the garden party, but sometimes you have to do that, even if it offends your friends and cuts against the grain of your group.
KEN STRICKLAND: What is the state of your political party?
BAYH: It's momentarily very strong. It's not common for a party to control the White House and both Houses of Congress. But I think that the election this November is going to be a very difficult one for the Democratic Party. I think the Republicans are going to score big gains. And it's largely because we've lost the independents, and that's largely over deficit and debt.
And so there's a natural tendency for any group, when they're riding high, to overreach and I think the most progressive elements in the Democratic Party have and are about to be rebuked by the public.
And the irony of that is the cause that gets hurt the most when the liberals overreach is the liberal agenda, because they play into the hands of the conservative Republicans. And it's an unfortunate fact, but it is a fact. The last election, the base of the Republican Party is just bigger than the base of the Democratic Party by about 10 percent.
The only way progressive Democrats have a role in governing in this country is if they make common cause moderates - otherwise, numerically, it's just not going to work out. They have not embraced that perspective.
KEN STRICKLAND: Pundits, experts, even some members of Congress say this period is the most partisan they've ever seen. Do you agree?
BAYH: It's possible that this is a very partisan time, and yet it's not the most partisan time. In my lifetime - I kind of grew up around politics - I remember seeing machine gun nests on top of government buildings here in Washington to protect them from demonstrators and that sort of thing. We had demonstrations of a million people - and potentially violent. And people got arrested. They filled up RFK Stadium.
So back in the Vietnam time the country was just deeply divided. I think the racial divisions were worse, the generational divide was worse, the left versus right. God forbid, I remember in 1968 thinking what was happening in the country. We had political assassinations: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy. We had the anti-war demonstrators shot at Kent State University. Thank God we don't have that level of violence today.
So just even in my time things have been worse.
KEN STRICKLAND: What is it like to be a moderate in the Senate? And what role do they play in politics?
BAYH: The moderates are the key to getting anything done, because most of the time in the Senate you need 60 votes. We're in a rare moment now where the Democratic Party has close to 60 votes. But usually it's far short of that and so you have to get four or five or six members of the other party to agree to get anything done.
Which leads to one of two situations: You either get nothing done, which prevails much too often; or you get some genuine compromise. And that tends to happen when you have an emergency of some kind or the costs of inaction are just so apparent that people understand they've got to do it.
The irony is I think the majority of Americans would like pragmatists, problem-solvers, people who aren't excessively partisan or ideological - you might call people like that moderates. But the political process is not electing so many of those people, and there are reasons for that.
In the House of Representatives it's because of the gerrymandering, most of the races there are decided in the party primaries and so you tend to get people who reflect the bases of the two parties because they don't want to be challenged in the primary.
It may be an oxymoron, the notion of passionate moderates, but that's really what we need. The people who are more independent, more moderate, who say "enough of these extremes, we're going to take the country back and vote with the major party that seems to be more willing to compromise and to do the right thing."
It's hard on a interpersonal basis to stand up in these caucuses with 58 of your colleagues and express a point of view that 49 of them think is not right. That's hard to consistently do that. But it's necessary for them to hear it. I suspect that most of the time they don't really care what you think, but if they need your vote then they've got to give you something.
It's hard to express your point of view and then, one after the other, hear people say, "Well, that's not right," or "That's wrong."
And then politically it's also somewhat dangerous because you get attacked from both the left and the right. We're just at a difficult period now for that. But we've seen difficult periods before.
Source: http://bayh.senate.gov/news/speeches/release/?id=eadd8e4e-573d-419d-92e8-789e82260c66


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More efficient communication: Horizontal and Vertical Corporate Networking
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