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At the 2013 Missouri Smallflows Conference held January 22-23 in Columbia, MO Janet Murray, R.E.H.S. Environmental Health Supervisor for Randolph County received recognition for her service to MSO over the course of the last 10 years.
Janet has been the President of the Board of Directors for MSO for 6 years, and prior to that was the Board Secretary.
The prestigious award was presented to Janet at the Annual Business Meeting by Dr. Randall J. Miles, University of MO and Mr. Tom Fritts, President of NOWRA (National On-site Wastewater Recycling Association). Both spoke about the commitment and leadership that she has shown during her service to the organization, which included writing the Mission Statement for the group; the implementation of excellent educational programs given by MSO around the State for installers, engineers, service providers, soil evaluators and regulators; putting together the agenda for 6 annual conferences; implementing the Daryel Brock Scholarship fund for the continuing education of children of MSO members; and testifying before the legislature on matters that involved wastewater.
Both Dr. Miles, and Mr. Fritts expressed their opinion that "when something needed to be done for MSO Janet did it" and their personal appreciation for her service to MSO. In accepting the award, Janet commented that receiving the award was "a deep honor" and thanked all of the other wonderful people on the Executive Board that made all of these accomplishments possible. Missouri Smallflows is a non-profit organization that provides continuing education to wastewater professionals throughout the State. It's mission is: To educate installers, regulators, on-site soil morphology evaluators and other professionals involved in the wastewater industry in the latest technologies available; to provide a forum for wastewater professionals to demonstrate proper installation of wastewater systems; and to encourage wastewater professionals to educate homeowners, homeowner associations and the general public on location, operation and maintenance of their on-site sewage treatment system to assure ongoing adequate operation.


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In upper right corner on the steps of Bancroft Hall, First Lady Michelle Obama, left, with U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, center, and Commandant of Midshipmen, Capt. Bob Clark, right, review midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy. First Lady Michelle Obama visited the U.S. Naval Academy and then spoke on support of the Veterans Full Employment Act of 2013 before the bill was signed at the Maryland State House. The law will streamline the credentialing and licensure process for service members, their spouses, veterans to transition into the civilian job market..
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George Leavitt's closely watched powdery mildew control trial this year was a photo finish for first place. However, the finish line needed to be as wide as a football field is long because nearly every commercial and some experimental entrants were bunched up tighter than the cars on the Los Angeles 405 freeway in rush hour traffic.
It was totally unlike last season when just finishing without breaking down was a victory. This year's test at Madera, Calif., grape grower Joe Lilles Carignane's vineyard, infamous for unrelenting powdery mildew, was a stroll around the track.
Leavitt, newly retired University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisor from Madera County, said the differences between standard powdery mildew fungicide treatments in his final powdery mildew trial were like splitting a horse whisker.
Last year's powdery mildew pressure was the heaviest in decades and it separated the thoroughbreds from the Kentucky Derby wannabes in a vineyard considered one of the worst in the state for powdery mildew.
Leavitt has been testing fungicides in the same vineyard on the outskirts of Madera for about 20 years. If a product does well there, it can control the No. 1 disease in grape production anywhere.
This season almost every fungicide treatment worked at lowest label rates and for the advertised 14 to 28 days because disease pressure was inexplicable low. Even organic treatments with soybean oil were nearly acceptable.
The reason organics did not work as well as commercial fungicides season-long was poor spray coverage in the heavy Carignane foliage. However, Leavitt believes fungicides as benign as soybean oil may have a fit in an overall powdery mildew program as a replacement for early season sulfur.
Fewer than 12 of the 36 different treatments were rated less than acceptable. However, disease severity was far less. This year's untreated check, which has not been treated for powdery mildew in almost two decades, had a PM severity rating of about 76 percent. Last year it was near 100 percent PM severity.
"Pressure was not nearly as heavy as last year, and I do not understand why because this year we had more optimum days for mildew than last year, yet mildew was not bad," Leavitt said.
"We also had the largest number of overwintering bud infections from last year to this year that I have ever seen in this trial. We had crews go through the vineyard three times breaking out overwintering bud infections."
Leavitt said these bud infections are a major source for new springtime powdery mildew infections. Carignane clusters are particularly bad in this area, he added.
While conditions were ideal longer this year, the disease came to a screeching half about June 15, when the temperatures quickly soared toward the century mark.
For the first time in about five years, the fungicide Pristine did not finish first. A numbered compound from Valent (V10118) that looked very good in its first year in the trial last season edged out the BASF product by the smallest of margins. Disease severity for the numbered compound was just 0.2; for Pristine it was 0.8: a dead heat in anyone's race book.
Valent representatives at the field day where results of the trial were released, said V10118 not only does not have a name, they did not know the compound's active ingredient. However, it is not a triazole compound. It may be a new mode of action that the Valent representatives said could be available in California in 2008.
Bayer CropScience also had a new numbered compound in the trial, USF 2010, that also performed well.
Not all new entries were numbered. Topguard from Chemnova was among the top performers. It is a sterol inhibitor developed for small grains in the EU. Cheminova acquired it from Syngenta two years ago. It should be registered for grapes in California in two years.
A fungicide named Mettle from an Italian agrichemical company, Isagro, also performed well, but there was no one at the trial to indicate if or when it would be registered for powdery mildew control on grapes. Isagro's Web site does not list any chemicals registered in the United States, although it lists a wide array of products used elsewhere in the world.
A new organic compound, Bionatrol, was in the trial this year. It is a soybean oil product from a company called Doosan. It provided some control versus the untreated check, but Leavitt said spray coverage was lacking due to the heavy foliage in the Carignane vineyard. The best Bionatrol rating was 58.3 severity versus the untreated check of 76.
"Any cluster on the outside of the vine had very good coverage and good control. That was not the case inside the vine. Using this product season long would be a problem," said Leavitt.
However, it is a very inexpensive product and could become a replacement for sulfur to control powdery mildew early and followed by a systemic fungicide.
"There are reasons to keep sulfur, and there are reasons to get rid of sulfur. Products like Bionatrol offer a different mode of action than sulfur early that you could follow with systemic materials," explained Leavitt.
The lack of control due to poor bunch coverage with so-called organic or natural products like Bionatrol is also convincing Leavitt systemic fungicides are moving within bunches by means other than vapor.
"From the fact we see one side of the bunch clean with products like soybean oil shows me systemic materials are moving from action other than vapor. We are not getting 100 percent coverage with systemics, yet we are getting excellent control," he said.
The value of the array of fungicides now available to control powdery mildew versus the decades-old sulfur was evident in this year's trial when 3 to 5 pounds of Microthiol (wettable powder) on a seven day schedule still resulted in a mildew severity rating of 20.5, far more than any of the standard fungicide treatments that all gained control for at least 14 days.
Regardless of how systemics move, they all moved well in 2006 in one of the most susceptible powdery mildew vineyards in California.
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Pacer wrote:Asuming you want to level in the wild get a Razzashi hatchling to level 25 and use that to boost other pets, in valley of the four winds. This pet will never need a stable master as it heals when it kills enemies and it does the highest damage of the hatchlings.
If you have an oozeling, a fluxfire feline and an infinite whelpling you can take out most daily trainers and that is how I level 1-2 pets from lvl 4 to lvl 25 each day. For setups for all trainers you can go here: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1659&start=20#p12354
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South Paws™ Pangasius Corn Bread Sliders with Roasted Red Peppers and Spinach
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Hush puppy coated seafood and corn bread make the perfect appetizer or entrée. It's the trendy upgrade from beef sliders.
5 pc of SouthPaws™ Striped Pangasius Fillets—cooked as per instructions on package
10 ea Corn Bread slider buns
3 ea Red Bell peppers
2 tblsp canola oil
1 lb Baby Spinach—Washed
1 ea garlic clove—minced
2 tblsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
½ ea Lemon
Salt and Pepper to taste
- Coat the red peppers in the canola oil, and roast on char broiler of stove burner open flame until thin skin is blistered and black. They will look burnt, but they are not. Place charred pepper into mixing bowl and cover tight with plastic wrap. Let sit/steam for 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes, remove the peppers from the bowl. Notice that the thin/charred skin peels away from the flesh of the pepper easily. With gloves, peel all the skin away from the flesh as well as the seeds and stem. Reserve cleaned peppers.
- Heat up a large sauté pan. When pan is hot, add extra virgin olive oil and minced garlic. Toast for about 20 seconds, add spinach, season with salt and pepper, and toss. When spinach starts to wilt, take pan off flame, and squeeze the half lemon over the spinach and let sit. The residual heat from the pan will cook the delicate spinach the rest of the way.
- To assemble the sandwich, open the corn bread buns in traditional sandwich form (toast bread if desired). Cut a piece of roasted pepper the same size as the bun and lay it on the bottom half. Then, using tongs, place an equal amount of the cooked spinach on top of the roasted pepper. Cut the portions of South Paws™ Striped Pangasius Fillets in half and place on top of the red pepper and spinach. Place other half of corn bread on top, and secure with toothpick. Serve.


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This painting of the R&B singer looms over the upstairs loft of his Atlanta-area home.
Artist Noriyoshi Kudo created this outdoor fountain sculpture for the singer.
The bust depicts the balladeer before he chopped his locks in '98.
The heiress hung a portrait of herself in her Beverly Hills mansion.
The singer commissioned an artist to paint her portrait on a fighter-jet engine panel.
The actress met an artist in '96 who created this portrait from a Polaroid photo.


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Wyo. Fights Website Offering Life-Experience Degrees
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A Cheyenne-based website that offered degrees in medicine, law and other areas based on life experience is facing legal action from the state of Wyoming.
A complaint filed by the state is asking Right Price Registration LLC to stop operating as an unregistered, degree-granting educational institution and to remove all references to Wyoming from its promotional materials.
The Associated Press reports the website www.degreeinaday.com , registered in the state by Right Price Registration, offered to provide customers a diploma document for associate's degrees to master's degrees for as little as $195. The website wasn't active Thursday.
Repeated calls to Degree in a Day's Cheyenne phone number by the media were unanswered.


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This is week 2 of my participation Amy Johnson Crow's, once a week challenge to blog about one ancestor a week, tell their story, biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem — anything that focuses on that one ancestor. More about the challenge can be found at her Blog, No Story Too Small.
Last week I wrote about Katharina Ruthig Gerth. Today, I am going to chat about her mother, Margret. Her name has been found recorded in records or indexes as: Margaretha Zuikann, Margarita and Margaret. Again, being of German heritage, the spellings are found any number of different ways.
Margret (Margarita) Zinkann was born on Mar 27, 1831 in Germany, her parents were, well, there is a problem, I am not sure.
At one time I had believed her father to be John Zinkan(n) and Eliza Norgang (also found spelled Nahrgang) Zinkan(n). Then, another researcher contacted me and they swore that Margaret's father was one Henry Zinkan(n) and Anna Catherine Nahrgang Zinkan(n). I believe this researcher sent me some kind of proof, except, you guessed it, I do not seem to have a copy of same attached to my data base at this time, which means, it probably is back in SE Michigan in a pile. (Please no lectures, I am not perfect, I get busy with real life, and, I fail to get everything recorded correctly. Yep, imperfect.)
If you search at RootsWeb.com, you can find an entry for Henry and Anna Zinkann that lists Margaret as their daughter. (This same researcher has a child William born 1855 as a son of Margaret and Valentine Ruthig, I have a child William as well, but, born in 1873, SIGH.)
I have no record of Margaret on the 1842 census in Canada. A review of the records available (Upper Canada, probably not the correct area, but, hey, I looked anyway, ya never know what surprise you might get!) at FamilySearch found nothing for Zinkan(n) or Ruthig (Rudig).
Margret married Valentine Ruthig\Rudig, son of Johannes (John) Ruthig and Maria Eva Molder in 1847 in Hamburg, Wilmot Township, Wellington District, Upper Canada. My source for this marriage is Don Walker and Fawne Statford-Devai, compiler, "Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West" (Delhi, Ontario: NorSim Research and Publishing, 1997. I do not have a digital copy of the entry in their compilation attached to my data base. The data I extracted follows:
"Valentine Ruthig and Margaretha Zuikann were married by Rev. Schuler, witnesses to the marriage were Peter Rotherwel and Frederick Krinkze. They were married by the Minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hamburg in 1847."
Here is a screen capture from FamilySearch of their indexing of the 1851 Canadian census:
It is a bit difficult to read, but, you will note there is a Margaret Zinkan listed. Our Margaret is married to Valentine Ruthig by now, and indeed appears with him on the 1851 census:
"Valintine Ruthig, born Germany, age 28; Margaret Zinkan, born Germany, age 22; Mary, age 3, born Canada; John, age 2, born Canada." (From the 1851 census, Easthope Township, Perth County, Ontario, Canada, extracted by Moi.)
Note it says she is Margaret Zinkan, that is because in this area of Ontario, many of the brides were recorded with their maiden names stated. Yes, we do have a gold mine of data here!
So, is the Margaret Zinkan indexed above, the bride of Valentine?
Here is the 1851 census, what do you think? Note: This image has been cropped and edited for use here. The full page is NOT shown. They are down at the bottom of the page.
Let me correct that to, I have never found them on the 1861 census UNTIL now. Many hours after starting this post, as I was about to schedule it, I tried ONE more time. At the Library and Archives of Canada site. I searched ruth* and val* And, lookie see what popped up!
Search Results: Census of 1861 (Canada East, Canada West, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia)
Digitized page of Census of 1861 (Canada East, Canada West, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia) for 4391951_00301
Census Year: 1861
Item Number: 1941430
Surname: Ruthey
Given Name(s): Vallentin
Age: 40
Province: Canada West (Ontario)
District Name: Perth
Sub-District Name: North Easthope
Vallentin RUTHEY. Really? WOW!
Here is a bit of the 1861 census, just a screen capture for now.
The data I extracted from the 1871 census is:
North Easthope, Perth County, Ontario, Canada: Valentine, age 48, born Germany, Lutheran, of German heritage, farmer; Margaret, age 40, born Germany, Lutheran, of German heritage; John, age 18, born Ontario; Elisabeth, age 17, born Ontario; Catherine, age 15, born Ontario; Josephine, age 13, born Ontario; Margaret, age 11, born Ontario; Henery, age 9, born Ontario; Louise, age 7, born Ontario; Annie, age 5, born Ontario; Helen, age 3, born Ontario; Hedwig, 10 months old, born May, born Ontario.
Valantine Ruthig, "Canada Census, 1881"
Name: Valantine Ruthig
Name Note:
Gender: Male
Age: 59y
Birth Year: 1822
Birthplace: Germany
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Farmer
Ethnicity: German
Religion: Lutharian
Head of Household Name: Valantine Ruthig
Born During Last Year:
Event Place: Easthope North, Perth North, Ontario, Canada
District Number: 172
Sub-District: D
Division: 1
Page Number: 10
Household ID: 825827
Family Number: 48
Digital Folder Number: 4467152
Image Number: 00579
GS Film number: 1375907
Affiliate Film Number: C-13271
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Valantine Ruthig M 59y Germany
Margret Ruthig F 50y Germany
Henery S Ruthig M 19y Ontario
Louisa Ruthig F 17y Ontario
Anna C Ruthig F 15y Ontario
Helena C Ruthig F 13y Ontario
Hedwig K Ruthig F 10y Ontario
William H Ruthig M 7y Ontario
Margaret and Valentine had 12 children: Mary, John Henry, Elizabeth, Katherina, Josephine, Margaretha, Heinrich (Henery) Peter Valentine, Louisa, Anna Caroline, Helena Caroline, Hedwig Marie Katherine, and William Heinrich.
This is her death record, please note I have digitally removed other death records on the same page, retaining only that of Margaret. No parent's names are recorded.
My wish list for Margret/Margaret, birth record (any record actually) showing her parent's names (would require more work to determine where in Germany she was born).
A copy of her marriage record.
Look for copies of the 1871 and 1881 census reports in my queue of images and documents that are not linked, or procure same.
Lutheran church records from Ontario. Any newspaper articles, obituaries, marriage notices, anything would also be welcomed with happy dances and little yelps of joy.
And, of course, what researcher would not desire a photo of the ancestor? So, my wish list would include a photo of Margret.
* Additional source data can be obtained by contacting me, see the right hand column for a yahoo email address.
** 52 Ancestors Weeks Button courtesy of Amy Johnson Crow.
*** I use many resources to research, FamilySearch.org is a free site. Ancestry.com is a pay site for which I pay, no discounts, etc. The Library and Archives of Canada site is a free site. None of these sites have asked me to review them, or use them. See my Disclaimers page for further details.


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Working with the UN
As a network of civil society organisations from all over the world, GPPAC seeks to strengthen the link between the work that its members undertake in diverse local, national and regional contexts and global policy processes related to conflict prevention and peacebuilding at the United Nations (UN).
GPPAC, on the one hand, brings local experiences and knowledge to the global level. We facilitated, for example, a capacity building and advocacy visit by a representative delegation of Malian Civil Society to New York in late 2016 to argue for a people-centred and inclusive approach to security processes in Mali.
On the other hand, GPPAC also takes global policy discussions and actions of the UN to the regional and national level and the work of its members. This is often done jointly with Regional Intergovernmental Organisations, national governments and civil society actors. GPPAC, together with its members, for example ensured the linkage of the UN framework for the Great Lakes to the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) civil society fora and enabled exchanges among all parties.
Based on these approaches our work at UN level currently focuses on what is known as the UN Peacebuilding Architecture (e.g. through the "Together for a Better Peace" website and the Prevention Platform – see below), the new "Sustaining Peace" resolution that will guide the work of the UN and its Secretary General on prevention, peacekeeping and peacebuilding the coming years, as well as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Through this work, GPPAC aims to increase access, political space and opportunities for civil society to engage with relevant global and regional stakeholders and provide input into relevant policy processes.
Bringing Local Voices to the International Level
In this video, Pascal Richard -Managing Adviser Policy and Advocacy at GPPAC- explains how GPPAC is bringing local voices to the international level.
The Civil Society – UN Prevention Platform
The Civil Society – UN Prevention Platform was created in 2016 against the backdrop of a renewed focus at the UN on prevention and inclusivity, not least the three reviews of UN's peacebuilding architecture, peace operations and work on women, peace and security of 2015 and the 2016 resolutions on sustaining peace (UNSCR 2282).
To contribute to meaningful inclusion of and partnerships with local actors, the the Civil Society – UN Prevention Platform aims to improve the cooperation and coordination on prevention between UN actors across the system and civil society actors in New York and in the field.
Together for a Better Peace
The Together for a Better Peace project aims to spread knowledge about, support and contribute to the work of the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC). We do this by monitoring the meetings and activities of the PBC and developments in the countries on its agenda and providing meeting summaries and updates on Betterpeace.org.
At the same time, we advocate for the PBC to increase transparency, effectiveness and inclusiveness of its processes and fully live up to its unique role in assisting countries in their peace efforts to prevent the lapse and relapse into conflict.


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Today is the big day!
Your child is now two years old, and just a couple months ago you celebrated his/her second birthday. Your child had a blast. Now, at the ages of 25 and 26, you and your fiance are finally getting married! Your child is going to be the little flower girl/ring bearer. How cute!
What are your theme colors? (roll the dice)
1} light pink & brown
2} brown & green
3} tan & green
4} white & blue
5} black & white & green
6} red & orange & white
7} pale purple & orange
8} lavender & green
The night is a blast. You fall in love with your husband all over again, just like when you first met. Your son/daughter enjoyed dancing to the music, and your parents offered to watch him/her so you two can have a little honeymoon weekend, though you're sure you'll be worrying like crazy even though he/she is in the best possible hands.
After a two-hour drive to a hotel on the beach, you arrive at your honeymoon destination. However, the romance is cut short when your stomach is upset. Thinking it's just a bug, you two decide to go home, though you feel bad about having to take a rain check on the honeymoon. For the next few days you continue to feel pretty bad, so you make an appointment with your doctor. After a brief examination, the doctor tells you that you're fine, and confirms what you had already begun to guess--you're pregnant!
Over the nine months of your pregnancy, your son/daughter cozies up to the idea of having a little brother or sister. When the big day finally comes and you go to the hospital, your now three-year-old son/daughter is practically jumping up and down with excitement as your relatives keep an eye on her. Your husband is by your side--unfortunately, he'll be deployed again just a couple of weeks--as you give birth to a beautiful, healthy baby.
What is the baby's gender? (roll)
1} boy
2} girl
3} boy
4} girl
5} girl
6} boy
7} boy
8} girl
His/her name:
First: http://nameberry.com...y-Names--?all=1
Middle: http://nameberry.com...aby-Names?all=1
Last: Your husband's last name
You and your family couldn't be more happy with your new addition!


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Despite significant advances in the treatment and prevention of HIV, the number of new HIV infections in the United States holds steady at about 50,000.1 Furthermore, 21% of individuals infected with HIV in the United States are not aware of their status, and an estimated 33% of those who know that they are HIV-positive are not engaged in care and treatment for their disease.2 Another 38% of newly diagnosed individuals test positive for HIV so late that they receive an AIDS diagnosis at the same time as, or within a year of testing positive.3 Clearly, novel prevention strategies, ways to engage individuals in care sooner after infection, and methods to maintain them in care and treatment are needed.
One such strategy is the Test, Link to Care, Plus Treat (TLC-Plus) approach. TLC-Plus addresses several aspects of the healthcare system that can be improved to help those with HIV live longer and healthier lives while also reducing transmission of the virus to others. The National HIV/AIDS Strategy places testing, linkage to care, treatment and support services at the center of efforts to improve the health outcomes of HIV-positive individuals and to prevent new infections.4
Key components of TLC-Plus include:
Additionally, TLC-Plus is based on evidence that people who are aware of their HIV-positive status are more likely to take steps to prevent transmission of infection to HIV-negative partners and to take steps to keep the virus under control.5 TLC-Plus often includes prevention-for-positives counseling to reinforce the importance of safer sex strategies to prevent HIV infection of negative partners and STDs among all partners.
Importantly, there are also strong data to support the hypothesis that reducing an individual's viral load through ART lowers his or her potential to transmit HIV, thus providing protective effect for sexual partners. A study of more than 3,000 serodiscordant heterosexual couples in Africa found a significantly lower transmission rate when the HIV-positive partner was receiving treatment than when the HIV-positive partner was not. For those where the infected partner was receiving treatment, there was only 1 seroconversion (a rate of 0.37 per 100 person years) compared with 102 seroconversions among the couples where the partner was not receiving treatment (a rate of 2.24 per 100 person years).6 This represents a 92% reduction in infections.
Recently, HTPN 052 closed more than 3 years early because interim data analysis showed that ARV treatment reduced the risk of HIV transmission from infected partner to uninfected partner by an astonishing 96%. HPTN 052 is a large, international study which randomized 1,736 heterosexual couples in which one partner is HIV-positive either to begin ART immediately, or to wait until treatment was clinically indicated (at a CD4 count of 250 cells/mm3).
The study began enrolling participants in 2005 in Botswana, Brazil, India, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, and recruited couples in which the HIV-positive partner had a CD4 cell count between 350 and 550 cells/mm3. The median CD4 count at the time of joining the study was 436 cells/mm3. In the interim analysis, 39 infections occurred, 27 of which were in couples where the infected partner did not begin treatment immediately, translating to a reduction in transmission of 96% among those who began therapy immediately (p = <0.0001).
Several North American cities such as San Francisco, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. have achieved desirable health outcomes using elements of TLC-Plus, even though such strategies may not have been part of a comprehensive TLC-Plus program. Outcomes include reductions in annual incidence of HIV infections, reductions in community viral load (CVL, the estimated average viral load among all HIV-positive persons in a community), higher CD4 count at time of HIV diagnosis, and/or reductions in the number of AIDS diagnoses within 1 year of HIV diagnosis.
This paper examines successful components of TLC-Plus programs in four jurisdictions and specific strategies used to achieve desired health outcomes, as described by public health officials in each. It is our hope that these strategies may be used to inform the development of TLC-Plus programs across the country. Consideration is also given to funding and to the role of electronic medical records, in Louisiana, in assisting patients who have fallen out of (or never entered into) care.
As communities begin to implement TLC-Plus strategies, HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 065 is assessing the feasibility of community-level testing, linkage to care, plus treatment strategies in the United States. The study will evaluate the feasibility of some TLC-Plus components and the effectiveness (particularly of financial incentives) of others. The study is being conducted in two intervention communities: Washington, D.C., and Bronx, N.Y. and will take place over 36 months (expected completion date summer 2013).
Although TLC-Plus programs are being implemented in several jurisdictions across the country, this paper profiles four: San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Birmingham. Each illustrates strengths in different components of TLC-Plus and exemplifies the successes and challenges of TLC-Plus implementation in diverse settings -- from smaller geographic areas such as San Francisco to larger, more diverse ones such as Los Angeles County and Alabama. Each of these four locations is described briefly here, and details of their TLC-Plus strategies are discussed in the "Components" section below.
San Francisco experienced a decrease in CVL from 2004-2008 as a result of increased rates of HIV testing, ART coverage, and population-level viral suppression that corresponded with a reduction of new HIV infections.8 Data presented at CROI 2011 demonstrated that this trend continued into 2009, the latest year for which data are available.9
Both mean and total CVL decreased from 2004-2008 and were accompanied by decreases in new HIV diagnoses from 798 (in 2004) to 434 (in 2008). During this period, ART uptake among people living with AIDS went from 74% to 90% and virologic suppression was achieved in 78.1% of those with HIV infection in 2008, compared with 46.8% in 2005. The decrease in CVL was highly correlated with the reduction of annual new infections and can be attributed to expanded testing, greater uptake of more potent second- and third-generation ART that had fewer side effects, initiation of therapy at higher CD4 counts based on the accumulating evidence of the efficacy of earlier therapy to patients, and virologic suppression in greater numbers of HIV-infected individuals. Various elements of TLC-Plus worked in tandem not only to reduce new infections but also to achieve improved health outcomes. (See Components of Successful TLC-Plus Programs below.)
In fact, new modeling from San Francisco points to a further reduction of new HIV infections by 59% at 5 years just with the use of universal treatment to all HIV-infected adults already in care in San Francisco. Adding annual HIV testing for all MSM to universal treatment ("test and treat all") yields a decrease of new infections by 76% in 5 years.10
The D.C. Department of Public Health launched a campaign in 2006 to promote routine HIV testing with improved linkage to care at locations throughout the city. Included in the campaign were opt-out testing at medical facilities, testing and treatment in jails, and a widespread social marketing campaign to promote testing. The number of tests rose dramatically (from 20,000 in 2004 to 93,000 in 2009) and resulted in an increase in newly diagnosed HIV cases (from 1,093 in 2004 to 1,280 in 2007) and a decrease in those diagnosed in the advanced stage of the disease (from 66% in 2004 to 57% in 2008). The percentage of people who developed symptomatic AIDS within 1 year after diagnosis decreased from 47% in 2004 to 28% in 2008. Median CD4 count at the time of diagnosis increased by nearly 60%, from 216 cells/mm3 in 2004 to 343 cells/mm3 in 2008.
While expanded testing and linkage to care in Washington, D.C. has not yet resulted in reduced HIV transmission, public health officials in the city suspect that a decrease will eventually happen if the trend of expanded testing and care is maintained.
Alabama, like other rural Southern states, has a hidden epidemic among Blacks and MSM who do not identify as gay or bisexual. There is still significant stigma associated with HIV and lack of knowledge about HIV being a treatable disease. There is also a fair amount of ignorance about HIV not being a "gay" disease.
For the past couple of decades there have been significant education efforts, mostly through communities of churches. Building upon that foundation, public health and other community leaders are working toward universal testing in these communities, particularly through the use of rapid HIV tests. For those who test positive, speedy linkage to care and retention in care is a paramount objective.
The 1917 Clinic in Birmingham serves more than 2,000 patients with HIV, particularly Ryan White clients, from Alabama and surrounding states. The clinic has focused its TLC-Plus efforts on developing partnerships with local HIV testing, clinical, and supportive service providers to integrate HIV testing and linkage services, as well as to coordinate activities around retention and re-engagement for shared patients. As a result, mean CD4 counts at the time of HIV diagnosis are now 310 cells/mm3 as compared with 180 cells/mm3 about 10 years ago.
Los Angeles County (LAC) is home to approximately 10.4 million people, and includes 88 cites and 4,083 square miles. It is one of the most diverse counties in the country with regard to population and geography. The HIV epidemic in LAC is predominantly among MSM, with a smaller proportion IDU and heterosexuals affected compared with jurisdictions in the South and Northeast of the United States. LAC's TLC-Plus strategy includes a focus on scaling up both targeted and routine HIV testing throughout the county, to identify the estimated 13,500 individuals living with HIV in LAC who are unaware that they are infected. LAC has embarked upon a process to increase both the number of publicly funded tests in LAC and to increase positivity rates at testing sites. This includes streamlining HIV testing procedures by using an HIV rapid testing algorithm (RTA) in order to give a presumptive diagnosis at the testing episode.
Linkage to care for both new diagnoses and those who are out of care is another key priority and component of LAC's TLC-Plus strategy. Currently 67% of individuals newly diagnosed with HIV in LAC are linked to care within 12 months. Through a combination of approaches, LAC's goal is to improve linkage to care rates across the county. Publicly funded HIV testing providers are given the goal of 85% linkage to care within 12 months, and this performance measure is included in the pay for performance structure for HIV testing. In addition, LAC is developing protocols to implement ongoing monitoring at the department of public health to identify those who have not linked to care, and deploy an intervention to link these individuals to care. Such interventions include attention from a public health investigator for those who have missed their first HIV care appointment, a youth-based linkage worker to assist newly diagnosed and out-of-care youth, and a peer navigator program to link individuals released from jail to HIV care in the community.
It is estimated that approximately 85% of HIV-infected individuals who are in care in LAC are retained in care, which is defined as 2 or more visits 3 months apart in the past 12 months. However, there is also a significant number of individuals who are out of care all together. It is estimated that, in 2009, approximately 61% of individuals living with HIV/AIDS had one or more HIV care visits, leaving an estimated 39% of individuals who may have been out of care entirely during that year. For those in care, specifically in Ryan White, 72% of patients had a suppressed viral load, and ART coverage rates ranged from 84-92% in 2009-10. The Ryan White system of care serves approximately 19,000 persons living with HIV/AIDS in LAC.
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Romney hits 'Obamacare' in Ohio
TOLEDO, Ohio — Facing falling poll numbers in Ohio, Mitt Romney reconfigured his stump speech here, ratcheting up his attack on President Barack Obama's health care law and returning to his once-abandoned talking points about the Founding Fathers and the debt clock.
Obama "thinks that government can do a better job than you in the way you live your life and Obamacare is point No. 1," Romney said in Westerville. "He wants to put bureaucrats between you and your doctor. He believes that government should tell you what kind of insurance you have to have. He believes government should have a board of people who tell you what kind of care you can receive."
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Instead of simply vowing to repeal the health care overhaul, Romney spoke more about the danger it poses to American freedoms.
"My view is that we fight for freedom in this country," Romney said. "I do not want an intrusive, massive, larger debt spending government that crushes the American dream."
As public polls showed him down by as many as 10 points in the Buckeye State, Romney exhibited a new enthusiasm here, exuding a more positive and boisterous attitude than he normally does on the stump. His advisers have pushed back on the public polls, insisting Ohio isn't a must-win state and that their internal polling — which they won't reveal — shows different numbers.
"If instead I — no, instead when I become president," Romney said here, dramatically correcting himself, which prompted cheers from the crowd. "We're going to get this economy growing again. We're going to do the things that ignite this economy."
In Westerville, he was joined by former pro-golfer Jack Nicklaus, prompting Romney talk about his own lack of athletic ability.
"When I got the job to help organize the Olympic winter games in 2002, I knew that it was a bit ironic for a guy with such little athletic ability as myself to be able to be responsible for the largest athletic event in the world," Romney said. "My boys also saw the irony in it. My oldest son called and said, 'Dad, I saw the paper this morning and I've talked to the brothers. We want you to know there's not a circumstance we could've conceived of that would put you on the front page of the sports section.' But there I was."
After weeks of talking about foreign policy, Romney fell silent on the topic here in Ohio, never mentioning the issue that was partially at the center of his recent campaign woes.
Romney bused across Ohio this week, holding a joint rally with Paul Ryan in a Dayton suburb on Tuesday afternoon and then setting out on his own leg of the tour Wednesday without Ryan.
He held an early-morning rally outside Columbus, a business roundtable in a Cleveland suburb and capped the tour off with a rally in downtown Toledo. Rain moved Romney's events indoors, but he still filled a high school gymnasium in Westerville and addressed a boisterous crowd here in Toledo.
The importance of Ohio to the Romney campaign can't be overstated — no Republican has lost Ohio and won the White House. But a series of recent polls have shown Romney lagging in the state, including a Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News poll published Tuesday morning that found the GOP nominee trailing by 10 percentage points in the Buckeye State. Both Romney and Obama held events in Ohio on Tuesday.


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Lady Gaga's New Versace Ads and Vogue-Approved Braid Inspiration.
Lady Gaga looks a lot like Donatella in her new Versace ads. Coincidence? {The Cut}
Move over electronic cigarette! Scientists in Japan have developed a "digital lollipop" they claim banishes sugar cravings using electric currents. {Allure}
Praise for the smoky eye continues: Vogue's favorite runway versions. {Vogue UK}
Did you miss the American Music Awards? All the beauty looks you need to see are right here. {BellaSugar}
Summer may be over, but the braid is still au courant. {Vogue}
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McPherson volleyball now has just one match left in the 2013 regular season with one more chance to boast a .500 record after their 3-0 loss to Ottawa University on Friday.
McPherson volleyball now has just one match left in the 2013 regular season with one more chance to boast a .500 record after their 3-0 loss to Ottawa University on Friday. Mac came out strong to start the match, going up 10-4 and forcing a quick timeout by the Braves. OU responded to their coach's message with a 10-4 run of their own, tying things at 14 apiece. A back-and-forth battle ensued with Ottawa hitting 20 first at 20-16 but a 7-3 charge by MC tied it again, this time at 23. The Lady Braves would win three of the next four for the 26-24 win. Set two was a tight contest from the start but a 9-3 push late by OU gave them a 20-13 advantage. McPherson closed the gap but it was too little, too late as they lost 25-19. The final game of the match seemed to be an exact opposite of the first as Ottawa took a commanding lead early. But MC was resilient and tightened it back up, pulling within a point midway through the set. The Braves however used their quickness to win the game and match after another 25-19 victory. McPherson's Cortlyne Huppe won the killer of the match award for the Lady Bulldogs as she tallied 11 kills on 26 attempts. She also had one block assist. Sophomore Sophie Simon totaled a second best six kills with zero errors. Rachel Phillips led the way in assists with 31 and also had three kills and one assisted block in the match. Freshmen Taylor Johnson and Emily Warner both hit double figures in digs recording 11 and 14, respectively. Johnson, Phillips and Jacelle Neill all recorded service aces for the Bulldogs. Nicole Gingery led the Braves offensive attack with 15 kills. Gingery also had two aces for the game. Taylor Bridge and Sandra Foster both had 10 kills each. Haley Thompson recorded 16 digs for Ottawa, while Christa Hill had 21 assists. Lindsey Widen added 19 for the Braves. In the regular season finale, the 'Dogs take on the University of Saint Mary today at 12:00 p.m.


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Lynda Salcido appointed as acting county administrator for Mono County
The Mono County Board of Supervisors appointed Lynda Salcido as "Acting County Administrative Officer (CAO)" on Tuesday, Jan. 29.
A long-term county employee, Salcido is also Mono County's director of Public Health, a position she has held for 13 years. She also served as the county's Emergency Medical Services director after former county fire rescue chief Mark Mikulicich retired in 2011.
Salcido will serve as Acting CAO following the last day of employment of the county's current CAO, James Arkens, on Feb. 3, until an "Interim CAO" is recruited and appointed, which may take a few weeks, according to county officials.
Arkens was recently hired as CAO for Sutter County.
"We did a quick search of the county personnel who might be qualified after we found out last week that Lin Koester (Marlin Koester, a former Mono County CAO) turned down our offer to serve as a temporary CAO," said Mono County District 2 Supervisor Fred Stump on Wednesday.
"That put us behind two weeks. Lynda is qualified, she agreed to do it, and, when I spoke to county staff, she had their support."
He said Salcido will not receive an increase in salary.
"We really need someone to sign the checks, to make sure contracts are signed so that critical services, such as social services or requests for road maintenance, don't fall behind," Stump said.
"Her role is extremely limited, compared to what a Interim CAO or a full CAO would have, but we do need to be sure all the work of the county stays on track as we search for both an interim CAO and a permanent CAO."
Stump noted that the county is also seeking a new EMS manager after Salcido reminded the previous board late last year that she could not continue to head the paramedics program indefinitely and still do her public health director job.
Another soon-to-be-empty county job—the risk manager position—will most likely be combined with that of human resource director, he said. Rita Sherman is vacating the position when she retires next week.
The county came under some fire in the past for allowing CAO Arkens to take on the human resource administrator job after some complained the combined job description left employees with no safe place to turn to for.
In terms of next steps in the hiring process for a permanent CAO, Mono County Counsel Marshall Rudolph said, "the board anticipates that the Interim CAO will be recruited from outside the county and will not be a candidate for permanent appointment as CAO. The Interim CAO will serve while the county recruits for a permanent CAO and until the individual ultimately hired as permanent CAO takes office."
This process is estimated to take approximately four months, he said.
The county is also actively seeking a new finance director, with interviews of prospective candidates expected in February, Stump said.


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The Tuscan cuisine and especially the Florentine cuisine is famous throughout the world. In addition to traditional recipes and dishes known everywhere even with their Italian name (e.g. "ribollita"), there are some specialties that many foreigners ignore.
After a day visiting museums and shopping, you can choose a "rustic trattoria" - perhaps sharing the table with other customers – tasting Tuscan specialties.
Typically, the Florentine people never start a meal from the main course but always have a starter first.
Whether eating in a restaurant or at home with friends you will always find the liver "crostini" (thin sliced toasted bread with liver patè) on the table.
What are they? A sauce made with chicken livers, butter, capers, anchovies, onion and broth, which is spread on warm bread and literally devoured.
Alongside the liver "crostini" the Tuscan antipasto also offers different types of sliced salamis and hams. Both "national" (ham, salami) which are the specialties of Florence: finocchiona. A salami sausage similar to salamis (but larger in diameter), which takes its name from the fennel and is served thickly cut.
Pasta lovers can try the pappardelle (similar to spaghetti, it is a thicker pasta made with egg) with boar sauce (a wild animal that is still in the woods of Tuscany) or hare.
It can be seasoned with other classic ingredients: porcini mushrooms, meat sauces, artichokes, sausages, etc.
Other famous Tuscan first course dishes are the soups: pappa al pomodoro, ribollita, carabaccia, black cabbage soup.
These are all variations of a single base (vegetables, bread or tomato) to which gradually added some ingredients to make it more tasty have been gradually added. It must be enjoyed warm with a little extra virgin olive oil and - if you wish - fresh ground black pepper.
The most famous dish is surely the Florentine steak. Thick. cooked undone, this steak is a real institution.
There are butchers that love it so much to the extent that they have written poems, like the famous Dario Cecchini of Panzano in Chianti.
The thing that most surprises people that do not live in Florence, is this undone meat, nearly raw, which impresses many tourists. But a Florentine steak must be ate only slightly cooked. Accompanied by white beans, roasted potatoes or a tender salad.
Florence has not got many great traditions in cakes but "steals" dessert from nearby Prato: cantucci (small almond biscuits) to eat at end of a meal dipped in Vinsanto. Or in the colder seasons, the castagnaccio, takes its name from the nearby mountains , a thin cake, made of chestnut flour and pine nuts.
During Carnival (or after the Epiphany and before Lent) you can find the schiacciata alla fiorentina, a soft sweet like sponge cake which can be filled with cream, cream or chocolate and covered with icing sugar.


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As Occupy Wall Street faced forceful eviction from its Zuccotti Park nerve center early Tuesday morning, the two-month old protest movement faced its first existential question: If occupation fails, is the protest moot?
Inspired in part by the "Arab Spring," the American protest encampments that popped up in dozens of cities from coast to coast have earned support from a wide range of political and popular figures and touched a raw nerve in a country beset by high unemployment and a slide in personal financial health.
But as police in Oakland, Denver, Portland, and now New York evict camp dwellers and hold their ground, a critical moment has arrived that may ultimately test Occupy's political will: Is it ready to mature into a political insurgency with specific and stated goals and a structure that can engage existing institutions and effect change?
"For a social movement to perpetuate itself and [push] change, it must develop … an organizational structure able to wield power, develop specific demands, and fashion them into a coherent programmatic agenda – all without losing the enthusiasm of the base," John Cioffi, a political science professor at the University of California-Riverside, said recently. "This is a transformation that few movements can manage."
Occupy appears to be at such a moment now. To be sure, protesters say they're undeterred even as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered hundreds of police, some of them wearing riot gear, to clear Zuccotti Park early Tuesday, an action met with derision and renewed calls for action from protesters.
"Occupy Wall Street has renewed a sense of hope," an OWS statement released after the raid said. "It has revived a belief in community and awakened a revolutionary spirit too long silenced."
But a number of recent deaths, including a suicide and several drug overdoses, in various camps, added to complaints about noise, drug use, and sanitation problems, have tarnished the movement and affected what some call the "optics" of public perception.
A Siena College poll released Tuesday showed that 66 percent of New York voters don't believe Occupy Wall Street represents 99 percent of people, but it also showed that 57 percent of New Yorkers believe protesters should be able to camp in public parks. The poll also showed that support for the Occupy movement had waned among New Yorkers in the last month, from 49 percent to 45 percent.
Indeed, a build-up of what protesters have mostly insisted are "isolated incidents" swayed even pro-Occupy mayors like Oakland's Jean Quan. After facing heavy pressure from politicians and police unions, Mayor Quan ordered that Frank Ogawa Plaza again be swept free of tents on Monday, even as two of her staff resigned in protest against police tactics. Police in Portland, Ore., Burlington, Vt., and Denver have also evicted protesters from urban camps in the last few days.
"We came to this point because Occupy Oakland, I think, began to take a different path than the original movement," Quan said. "The encampment became a place where we had repeated violence and last week a murder. We had to bring the camp to an end before more people got hurt."
After zigzagging between support and opposition, Mayor Bloomberg sent in police early Tuesday morning, arresting 200 people, sweeping Zuccotti Park clean, and sending the remaining protesters in search of a new park to occupy.
"No right is absolute and with every right comes responsibilities," Bloomberg said in a statement. "The First Amendment gives every New Yorker the right to speak out – but it does not give anyone the right to sleep in a park or otherwise take it over to the exclusion of others – nor does it permit anyone in our society to live outside the law."
Part of the changing dynamic of the camps has been that a growing number of homeless people have become part of the protests, and have brought problems with them into the camps. In fact, a new study by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty found that there's been a 7 percent increase in laws against sleeping in public places since 2009, bolstering Occupy's arguments that the rich are fighting a war of attrition against the poor.
To be sure, the movement has widespread support, and some commentators say the movement is "winning" because it has focused debate on income inequality. And despite the emergence of social problems at some of the camps and the growing crackdowns by even sympathetic mayors, the "occupy" strategy is likely to remain a key part of the Occupy movement, some sociologists say.
"I don't think the camps are absolutely vital to the life of movement, but I do think they're quite important," says Heather Gautney, a sociology professor and expert on social movements at Fordham University, in New York. "This is a movement that's decided not to be an arm of a political party, so the community building that goes on in these camps is crucial and part of what they're trying to create, which is a political community."
At the same time, there's a growing sense both inside and outside the movement that new tactics or "resets" of the camps – which could necessitate the emergence of leaders or protesters focusing more sharply on issues like tuition cost increases, a cause being pushed among occupiers in California – may be necessary.
"There's a growing sense among the occupiers that they need a new strategy, so in some ways breaking up the encampments, which had become kind of static, may force the emergence of new strategies," says T.V. Reed, an American studies professor at Washington State University, in Pullman. "Unlike other past [protest] occupations ... it's not so crucial in this case to have a particular site occupied, and it's certainly not the only tactic for it to be successful."
One emerging story line is embattled protesters retreating to establish camps on college campuses, where there may be more sympathy to their cause, but which could also marginalize the movement as a student protest only. With protesters increasingly rousted and searching for new digs, those who have cheered protesters on are waiting for the Occupy Wall Street movement to evolve to its next stage.
"Now that it's been kicked out of the house, it's time for the 99% movement to grow up," Sally Kohn, a politial strategist, writes for CNN.com.


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DSOGaming writes: "Activision is currently holding a Q4 Conference Call and we are happy to report that the big publisher has listed a Call of Duty game, planned for a 2013 release."
do we really need Call of Duty games to be confirmed anymore I mean it's a given we will see a new game every year until the demand dies.
This just in, Christmas will be celebrated this year. THERE SHALL BE PRESENTS MY CHILDRENS!!
This is getting ridiculous. This is a drug for people now.
The last COD that I actually had fun playing was MW2. I'm done with COD this gen and in the next.
The sun will rise in the East tomorrow, too.
I would only be shocked if they officially announced TWO CODs this year, and only slightly.
New Call of Duty Game Confirmed For 2013 - I'm shocked
"Our guess is that this new COD will be developed by Infinity Ward, given the fact that the previous COD was developed by Treyarch and there is a one-year cycle between the studios that are developing these titles."
Neversoft is actually the developper for the next CoD, not IW nor Treyarch. Please do a proper research next time :
they did release 2 CoDs last year! were you surprised? not so much, right? people will be surprised if and only if they don't release a CoD yearly.
Why is this getting ridiculous? You don't like the game... don't buy it. I never think it's getting ridiculous every time Madden comes out year after year.. or NBA 2K, or MLB The Show.
It's a game with a Yearly release. It's more ridiculous to me that someone is disturbed that the game comes out year after year. Especially if they don't even buy it or play it. Who cares then.
I'm done with COD BO2 sucked nothing new can be created.
Indeed and demand will probably never die people are happy paying for exactly the same game each year with new maps and new weapon skins.
This applies to every sequel to every video game ever.
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No i doesnt. Many sequels lose demand if they keep doing the same thing over and over again. Works for the first two maybe three games, then it goes downhill. This hasnt happend with COD so far.
jimbobwahey: lol then you should play something other than COD.
Call Of Duty will never die.... Never
Both of you are incorrect. There comes a time when everything MUST die. The clock is ticking on Call of Duty.
@TotalHitman - Do you mean to tell me Star Wars and Mickey Mouse will also die?
Don't you know Micky Mouse eats everything including Star wars to stay alive.
Call of Duty will eventually die. But you can't just say it's gonna die.
To say the clock is ticking is something you can say for anything. The truth is, Call of Duty sells. And so long as it sells, there will continue to be Call of Duty.
It's for their shareholders, this is pertinent info at these earnings calls.
ok so now let me confirm a COD for 2014 which will launch around october to november and than there will be another for 2015 and in 2016 but right around tha the series will slow down
even though latest COD made a lot of money it still sold 10_15% less than previous COD so it is slowing down and just like guitar hero franchise Activision will find a way to Kill COD
This one needs to be next gen please.
I think they can still squeeze another one in now...but don't worry, there be yet another one for the next gen too.
Don't be surprised is you see the next one come out for all the different gens at the same time for the next one.
Announcing cod is like saying "football season starts in August." Yeah, no duh.
Yea ru right but anyways no thanks infinity ward I'm never buying anymore COD from u. MW3 was total garbage.
next cod wont sell as much if its on new consoles. xbox and ps4 have like 140+ consoles together and they only sell between 15-18 million copies.
Did we really need 132 comments for this? Especially when nearly all of them are the same.
There's also a funny irony that everybody on N4G seems to hate cod.. Yet the articles are always amongst the hottest. You are basically contributing to the advertising and promoting of the game.
Somewhere bobby kotick is laughing at (nearly) all of you
...I'm not even surprised, to say the least. Let's just throw another over-hyped FPS to an over-saturated market already...
You haters need to stfu. COD is a very good game, its the #1 game on 360 & PS3.
Is it the best military game, no, I dont even play it anymore. I prefer the Ghost Recon...NOT Ghost Recon:Future Soldier (crap). Also, Rainbow Six:Series.
None the less its a very good game and much better than Killzone, SOCOM, & friggin M.A.G.!
Dammnit, I hit agree too fast! For the record though, I am enjoying Black Ops 2, but I don't think it holds a candle to MAG or the old (ps2 era) SOCOM games. Def better than Killzone imo
Cod4 was epic ... I musta spent a year on it ... You are right but cod gets a bit more watered down every year... Bf3 is much better this gen ... So much more to do
Modern warfare 4,5,6,7,8,9,10
and then black ops 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
then space warfare, future warfare, then go back to civil war then WW 1 then finally back to WW2
Agreed. It isn't news when a new FIFA game is announced. COD is in the same category and should be treated as such.
OMG Call of Duty is coming? REALLY? Its releasing with only 6 months of development time!! That's amazing!!!!!
Happens every year. Maybe they will use a new engine this time. Wait a minute that would mean spending more money. Activision is the perfect company to partner with Nintendo. Their engine will never outdate the WiiU hardware.
For a second I read that as "it's a given we will see a new game every year until we die".
and this is news how? we knew one would come out mid summer and probobly one at chrismas also
We knew this already.
Yeah, an absolutely over-milked annual franchise alongside Assassin's Creed .
At least Assassin's Creed TRIES to do something different. Never ever ever ever compare Ubisoft to Activision
I hate your avatar so much. I wish I could rip the other side of his face off, and crush that left cheekbone with a right hook.
so sad....
Must be a big scoop for dsogaming.com.
BREAKING NEWS: CoD confirmed for 2014, 15, and 16. You heard it here first. I'm an elite insider bringing you these confirmations.
Hurry up Respawn Entertainment put this franchise out its misery
Yeah what ever happened to Respawn? Have not seen any games yet from them.
Just working on their new game. Sure to be Next Gen release.
If they make a game like COD, or similar, I hope it's more like Call of Duty 4..
Respawn won't affect CoD in any way, only the minority follow developers. The majority will still follow the name.
Oh God No!!! Just Kill The Franchise Already.
Yeah, let's kill this franchise that millions of people enjoy because of one bitter nerd in the N4G comments section.
LOL!!! Funny you call me a nerd in the comment section but yet your in the comment section posting a comment to. Guess that makes you a bigger one.
I am not trying to be funny or rude, but when my phone was zoomed out, I read jimbobwankley
i predict a new CoD game in 2014.
edit: who in their right mind would disagree to the fact that a) it's not surprising that everyone knew a CoD would come out this year or b) that a new CoD is inevitably going to be released next year as well...
Damn man you should put money on that! You will get rich :p
(-_- ) ...........thats how surprised I am.
I'm not surprised since COD breaks records every year
Also uses same tired engine, sound effects, and animations every year too.
So does every other sequel. You're utterly delusional if you think otherwise.
jimbobwahey, you spent all three of your bubbles defending a game that is clearly taking advantage of casual gamers through some of the greediest processes in the entire gaming industry. Just stop.
Max Payne 2
Max Payne 3
Tell me, jimbobwahey, how's that humble pie taste?
Is it good? I'm sure you'll be eating it a lot.


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John the Baptist preached repentance for the forgiveness of sins as an anticipation of the messiah. Jesus himself was baptized by John, as were many others. Taking this as historical fact, what are we to make of it?
According to some secular historians, Jesus was a disciple of John before beginning his own independent ministry. Though the Gospels assure us that John regarded Jesus as his superior, they also reflect the potential oddity that Jesus was baptized by John. In Matthew's account of Jesus' baptism, John initially resists, telling Jesus, "I need to be baptized by you." In John's Gospel, Jesus' baptism is unmentioned. Jesus simply appears to be in the vicinity when John tells the people: "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world" (1:29). In today's Gospel reading from Luke, though we hear about John and his ministry, Luke does not explicitly indicate that John baptized Jesus; indeed, Luke almost seems to suggest that Herod had imprisoned John prior to Jesus' baptism.
Why would the sinless one need to undergo a baptism of repentance or undergo a preparation for the coming of the messiah when he is the messiah? Luke gives us answers. Immediately after Jesus' baptism and confirmation by the Father—"You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased"—Luke provides Jesus' genealogy, from Joseph all the way back to Adam (3:23-38). Luke locates Jesus in the whole of human history, but now with the possibility for humanity to start anew. Jesus simultaneously both embodies the whole of humanity—in all its pain, sin and brokenness—and facilitates its transformation, making it possible for humanity to be purified by the Holy Spirit. Standing beside sinners, and even taking their place, is central to his mission of love. In this way, he anticipates the cross. It is striking that the next time Jesus mentions baptism he refers to his own crucifixion. "There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!" (Lk 12:50; see Mk 10:38).
Baptism is a complicated ritual. Water itself points in two different directions. On the one hand, water is a symbol of life. In a Middle Eastern milieu, the presence of water represents an oasis of refreshment, and rains are celebrated as great gifts from God. Bathing in water, especially in a ritual setting, is deeply cleansing. Baptism reflects this: our sins are washed away by this symbol of life. In ancient times, water also symbolized chaos and death. Think of the flood in Noah's day or the words of the psalmist: "Deep calls to deep in the roar of your torrents./ All your waves and breakers sweep over me" (42:8).
Paul understands baptism as entering into the very Passion of Christ: "We who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death" (Rom 6:3). Of course, baptism is not death alone, much less death for death's sake. Rather, it is death that brings forth new life. Back to Paul: "Just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life" (Rom 6:4). Our second reading from Titus reflects the dynamic: "He saved us through the bath of rebirth and renewal of the Holy Spirit."
The baptism of Jesus is a death. Embodying us and our broken condition, the Son of God entered into the watery tomb. We follow our Savior into that same tomb in our own baptism; we recall it every time we bless ourselves with holy water; and we ritualize it when we offer ourselves in the Eucharist to the Father along with the original sacrifice of Christ. It is the Cross; it is death.
Jesus' baptism gave life-giving water the power to heal and infuse us with the Holy Spirit. We emerge, as did the Lord, confirmed as beloved children of the Father. We who are children of mortal, sinful Adam are now children of God, co-heirs with Jesus our Lord and brother.
Thank God for the baptism of Jesus.


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The J.M. Smucker Co. has filed a $16 million permit with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement as part of its planned plant expansion at 4789 Cromwell Ave. in Oakhaven.
No contractor or architect was listed on the permit, which is the first in Smucker's plan to invest $41 million to upgrade its peanut butter production lines.
The Economic Development Growth Engine of Memphis and Shelby County in mid-January unanimously granted the Orrville, Ohio-based company an amended payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement for 15 years on personal property and 13 years on real property.
In addition to 42 new positions, which will have an average wage of $52,545, created through the expansion, Smucker will maintain its existing 61 employees.
The approved tax freeze will save Smucker $13 million, but the company will still pay an estimated $16.2 million in taxes to the city and county over the length of the PILOT. The company said 25 percent of the company's planned $21.5 million in discretionary spending will be with women- and minority-owned businesses.
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Arlington-based Wright Medical Group Inc. has closed on its agreement to acquire Solana Surgical LLC of Memphis and has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire OrthoPro LLC of Salt Lake City, the company announced Thursday, Jan. 30.
Under the terms of the Solana acquisition, Wright acquires all of Solana's outstanding equity for about $90 million, consisting of $47.6 million in cash and $42.4 in Wright common stock.
The same basic arrangement applies to OrthoPro for $36 million in cash, with $32.5 million paid at closing and up to $3.5 million more in cash contingent on revenue milestones included in the agreement.
The OrthoPro agreement is expected to close in a year, according to a statement from Wright.
Both companies add to Wright's foot and ankle portfolio, increasing the company's focus on the surgical podiatric market.
Wright Medical executives are expected to provide more details about the acquisitions, as well as what the coming integration will mean for Wright's relocation from Arlington to Memphis, during the company's Feb. 24 earnings conference call.
– Bill Dries
Many visitors to the National Civil Rights Museum consider it hallowed ground.
And while the museum has been undergoing a $27 million renovation, visitors have been allowed access to the second-story balcony where civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and fatally wounded April 4, 1968.
The access ended Sunday, Feb. 2, as the first major renovation in the museum's 22-year history moves into its final stages.
Visitors during the renovation have also been able to see exhibits on the assassination itself in the museum annex on the other side of Mulberry Street.
The fully renovated museum debuts April 5 as the nation marks the 46th anniversary of King's assassination.
Once that opens, access to the balcony will again be limited, and visitors will view it from the window of the exhibit that looks into the Lorraine Motel room in which King stayed in 1968.
Some of the best high school basketball teams from Shelby County will compete at FedExForum for bragging rights in the SCIAA Fever Basketball Tournament Sunday, Feb. 9.
Formerly known as the MIAA City Championships, 2014 will mark the inaugural SCIAA Fever tournament, a winner-take-all style tournament dating back to the 1960s.
Past stars of the MIAA City Championships include Memphis' own Larry Finch, Larry Spicer, John Gunn, James Bradley, Andre Turner, Todd Day, Cedric Henderson, Penny Hardaway and Elliot Perry.
The tournament will consist of three girls games and three boys games. Tipoff will begin at 12:15 p.m. with a 16A girls game and conclude that evening with the 16AAA boys game featuring White Station High School, Tennessee's top-ranked team and the No. 4 team in the nation.
During the marquee match with White Station High School, the SCIAA will present the Court of Legends, a special presentation honoring NBA athletes from Shelby County, including Todd Daye, Elliot Perry, Penny Hardaway and Keith Lee. Tickets, which start at $12 and are valid for all six games, are available through Ticketmaster and the FedExForum box office.
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The Law Offices of David Caywood has renewed its 2,261-square-foot lease in Clark Tower for two more years.
Dede Malmo of MalmoMemphis Real Estate handled negotiations for Caywood.
Brand Cook of Commercial Advisors represented the building owner In-Rel Properties.
A release about the renewal included a quote from Caywood about the transaction: "I run into people all the time who think I've either retired or died, so I thought I'd better renew the lease to assure everyone I'm still practicing law."
– Andy Meek
The Mississippi Senate voted Friday to add "In God We Trust" to the state seal, as requested by Republican Gov. Phil Bryant.
Currently, it has an eagle and the words, "The Great Seal of the State of Mississippi" without a slogan.
Senate Bill 2681 passed the Senate 48-0, with four senators absent. It moves to the House for more work.
The bill is called the "Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act," and it says government may not burden a person's right to practice religion.
Its chief sponsor is Republican Sen. Phillip Gandy, who is minister of Liberty Baptist Church in Waynesboro. Gandy said he has heard no examples of Mississippi government trying to limit religion, but he has talked to some conservative Christians – particularly Pentecostals and Baptists – who are concerned.
"Times are changing, and Christians are afraid of a lot of different things. And some of that is reality, possibly, and some is perception. But we want to do what we can," Gandy told The Associated Press after the bill passed.
Some senators, including Democrat David Jordan of Greenwood, pointed out that the U.S. Constitution already guarantees freedom of religion.
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Wal-Mart said Friday its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year adjusted earnings from continuing operations may come in at or slightly below the low end of its prior forecasts.
The latest comments reflects accounting for some Brazil-related charges and other items. Chief Financial Officer Charles Holley said that these additional items were not anticipated when Wal-Mart previously provided its forecasts.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. also revised its fourth-quarter guidance for a key sales metric. It now expects sales – excluding fuel – at Walmart and Sam's Club locations in the U.S. open at least a year to be slightly below its prior forecasts. The chain previously expected the key sales figure would be relatively flat at its namesake locations in the U.S. and that it would be between flat and 2 percent at Sam's Club.
Sales at stores open at least a year is a closely watched indicator of a retailer's health. It excludes results from stores recently opened or closed that can distort year-to-year comparisons.
Holley said that the sales were hurt by eight winter storms that resulted in some store closings. He added that Sam's Club was hurt by weather throughout the quarter. The performance was also hindered by a bigger-than-expected impact from the federal government's reduction in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits that went into effect on Nov. 1.
Less than a week ago Wal-Mart announced that it was eliminating 2,300 workers at its Sam's Club division.
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Taking the lead once again on the critical issue of delay reductions at the Port Authority's airports, the bistate agency's Board of Commissioners today approved a $376.3 million investment to implement the second phase of its JFK Delay Reduction Program while also reconstructing and widening one of the longest commercial airport runways in the United States - JFK's Runway 13-31, which measures more than 2 ¾ miles in length.
The runway project and newest phase of the airport's ongoing delay reduction program will begin in June and be completed in 2011. The delay reduction program includes projects interrelated to the runway work, such as construction of additional access points on nearby taxiways; new taxiways that will improve aircraft queuing and enable swifter departures; and easier access from taxiways to terminal gates, saving time on the ground for every passenger at JFK.
Through extensive planning with the FAA and the airlines, the Port Authority expects to minimize the impact on airport operations during the 120 days that the runway will be closed for construction in 2010. Airlines are adjusting schedules and operations to mitigate delays, and the airport's three remaining runways will be utilized to their full capabilities during the closure of Runway 13-31.
Chairman Anthony R. Coscia said, "These projects have a single goal: to give every one of our 48 million annual customers at JFK a more efficient, passenger-friendly airport. This robust investment also is creating construction jobs - more than 1,000 workers in the peak period - which is certainly welcome news in the present economy."
Executive Director Chris Ward said, "This is economic stimulus in real time. These investments will create jobs, reduce flight delays and increase our airport's capacity to handle more planes."
The runway reconstruction project includes milling six inches of existing runway asphalt and overlaying with 18 inches of concrete, which has a lifespan of up to five times more than asphalt and will provide an estimated long-term savings of $500 million; widening the runway from 150 to 200 feet to accommodate the world's largest commercial aircraft; widening taxiway intersections and creating greater taxiway access to enable more efficient aircraft movements; installing new runway lighting and electrical infrastructure; and installing new electrical feeder systems and accommodations for future navigational aids.
The magnitude of materials required to complete the job includes enough concrete cement to pave every National Football League field to a two-foot depth, and enough asphalt to equal the weight of six Titanics.
Runway 13-31 measures 14,572 feet long and handles about a third of the airport's annual operations, including more than half of all departures. The airport handled about 440,000 flights in 2008.
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The Haggin Museum, an art and history museum, has been referred to by Sunset magazine as "one of the undersung gems of California."
Visit Stockton's own fairyland for the 'young in age and the young at heart.
'Five Days of Fun'. See when the fair is coming to town!
The San Joaquin County Historical Museum reveals the fascinating history of the region, from the Yokuts and Miwok through Captain Charles Weber (founder of Stockton and first farmer in the area) and the development of modern agriculture.
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Atlanta Braves catcher Brian McCann is expected to be playing at Greensboro�s NewBridge Bank Park through Monday as part of an injury rehabilitation assignment.
If his first stint on this gig with the Rome Braves is any indication, he�s in good form.
McCann smacked two home runs Friday night against the Greensboro Grasshoppers.
He�s expected to be behind the plate and serve as designated hitter during his time in the Class A South Atlantic League as he works his way into playing shape for a return to the big leagues.
McCann has been on the disabled list following surgery on his right shoulder and wrist soreness, according to information from the team.
McCann played for Rom in 2003 and later returned the team on a rehabilitation assignment in 2006. He�s the only former Rome Braves player to have his number retired.
Published reports have pointed to at least a full week of minor-league rehabilitation work for McCann before rejoining the Atlanta club in May.
▪ DIFFERENT KIND OF RELIEF: Durham Bulls manager Charlie Montoyo returned to the team a couple of weeks after departing to be with his 5-year-old son, who was undergoing open-heart surgery in California as part of continuing medical issues.
�(It went) as good as you could get it,� Montoyo said, noting that the five-hour surgery was taxing on the family as it awaited word.
It also brought another level of perspective for Montoyo. He said when he had to deal with a 45-minute travel delay during his travels back from the West Coast, he didn�t feel any stress with that after what he has gone through.
�Didn�t bother me,� he said of the travel snag.
▪ STALLING AT THE START: It has been a rough opening stretch of the season for outfielder Bubba Starling, who made his professional debut with the Burlington Royals last summer.
Playing for the Lexington Legends of the South Atlantic League, Starling batted .160 through 21 games. He had two home runs and six runs batted in.
His 12-for-75 batting included 29 strikeouts.
The Legends are collectively struggling at the plate with a .220 team batting average.
On the plus side is outfielder Terrance Gore, also a 2012 Burlington player, who�s batting .270 with 13 stolen bases in 14 attempts.
▪ ELON ALUM NOTCHES VICTORY: Former Elon University pitcher J.D. Reichenbach, whos in his second season with the Carolina Mudcats of the Class A Carolina League, is off to a solid start.
Reichenbach (1-1) picked up a victory last week with three shutout innings of relief against Potomac. Through 11 innings in six appearances, he has a 1.64 earned run average with six strikeouts and two walks.


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