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Special Note
Statements in these posted remarks that relate to future results and events, and other forward-looking statements in these remarks, are based on Western Digital Corporation's current expectations. Actual results in future periods may differ materially from those currently expected or desired because of a number of risks and uncertainties. These risk factors include:
Robert Blair - Investor Relations
I want to mention that we will be making forward-looking statements in our comments and in response to your questions concerning, among others: our participation in the growth, and our role in the future, of digital data; our position in the storage ecosystem; customer response to our product offerings; trends in the global economy and PC market; investments in the enterprise markets; and our financial performance, including our financial results expectations for the March quarter. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including those listed in our 10-Q filed with the SEC on October 29, 2013 and our registration statement on Form S-3 filed with the SEC on October 30, 2013. We undertake no obligation to update our forward-looking statements to reflect new information or events.
In addition, references will be made during this call to non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of the differences between the historical non-GAAP measures we provide during this call to the comparable GAAP financial measures are included in the quarterly fact sheet posted in the Investor Relations section of our website. The forward-looking guidance we provide during this call excludes amortization of intangibles related to the acquisitions of HGST, VeloBit, sTec and Virident, employee termination benefits and other charges and charges related to litigation. Because the amount of these items is not fully known to us at this time, we are unable to provide guidance for, or a reconciliation to, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures. The impact of these excluded items may cause the estimated non-GAAP financial measures to differ materially from the comparable GAAP financial measures.
We ask that participants limit their comments to a single question and one follow-up question. I also want to note that copies of remarks from today's call will be available on the Investor section of Western Digital's website immediately following the conclusion of this call.
Steve Milligan - President & Chief Executive Officer
Good afternoon and thank you for joining us. After my opening remarks, Tim Leyden will provide additional commentary on our December quarter results and our outlook for the March quarter.
We executed well in the December quarter as we continue to participate in the ongoing growth of data in all of our served markets. The industry TAM was slightly higher than anticipated driven by seasonal demand. We saw strength in gaming and branded products.
We exceeded our expectations on revenue, gross margin, and earnings per share in the December quarter, and our cash generation remained strong. The consistency in our financial performance reflects the reduced volatility in our business.
We continue to be very excited about our unique position in the storage ecosystem, enabling a broad-based perspective on the dramatic changes that are underway. We serve very large markets underpinned by strong data growth prospects. It is clear to us that most of the world's data will be stored on hard drives and enterprise class solid state drives in tiered architectures as companies and consumers seek to optimize performance. Strategically, we are well positioned to play a leadership role by innovating and collaborating with our customers to define the future digital data landscape.
Total exabytes shipped and average gigabytes per drive continue to grow, reflecting strong customer response to our enterprise and branded products. These are two growing businesses where we have established leadership positions. Continued success in these markets offers us the opportunity to achieve even better financial results over time as we add more and more value to our solutions. As data becomes more strategic in the enterprise, companies are investing differently in IT infrastructure, looking to achieve optimal total cost of ownership. This is resulting in more fragmented solutions, allowing for more customization and value creation by storage providers. These trends are helping to drive the upward trajectory in our cloud related revenue.
Over the last few months, customers have responded positively to two of our newest products addressing the demand for innovative solutions in the personal, public and private clouds. Specifically,
We have also seen continued customer preference for our portfolio of enterprise-class solid state drives. In the December quarter, our SSD enterprise revenue outpaced the growth rate in the overall SSD enterprise market as we continue to integrate our recently acquired talent and technology into the HGST SSD organization.
We are excited about the year ahead, tempered by the industry's usual seasonality in the first half of the year. We see several potential drivers for a better demand environment including prospects for an improving global economy, a stabilizing PC market, and ongoing investment in both the traditional and capacity enterprise markets.
I will now turn the call over to Tim Leyden.
Tim Leyden - Chief Financial Officer
Thank you, Steve.
Our strong December quarter performance benefited from solid market demand, favorable channel and business mix, and continuing good execution.
The hard drive industry shipped approximately 142 million units during the December quarter, up from the September quarter and the year-ago period, and the TAM came in slightly higher than the guidance we gave on our October call. In our business, we saw strength in gaming, consistent quarter-over-quarter performance in client and enterprise, and the anticipated seasonal pick-up in branded products.
Our distribution and retail channel inventory remains lean.
Our revenue for the December quarter was $4.0 billion, including $155 million from enterprise SSDs. While we expect our enterprise SSD revenue growth rate to continue to exceed that of the industry, the upward trajectory in the December quarter was especially strong given a single source opportunity. Overall, 54 percent of our revenue came from non-PC applications.
We shipped a total of 63.1 million hard drives at an average selling price of $60. The quarter-over-quarter increase in overall ASP was primarily driven by the seasonal uptick in branded products and strength in distribution.
Our gross margin for the quarter was 28.7 percent. Non-GAAP gross margin was 30.1 percent, excluding $40 million of amortization expense for acquired intangible assets as well as $15 million of restructuring charges. We exceeded our implied guidance for non-GAAP gross margin by 30 basis points primarily due to favorable business mix.
R&D and SG&A spending totaled $650 million for the December quarter. SG&A included the following items: $12 million of charges related to certain litigation, $11 million of amortization expense for acquired intangible assets, and $6 million of restructuring and other charges. R&D included $5 million of restructuring charges. As a reminder, the previous period included a flood-related insurance recovery of $65 million dollars.
We accrued interest charges of $13 million in the December quarter relating to the Seagate arbitration matter.
Tax expense for the December quarter was $37 million, or 8 percent of pre-tax income.
Our net income for the December quarter totaled $430 million, or $1.77 per share. On a non-GAAP basis, net income was $532 million, or $2.19 per share.
Turning to the balance sheet:
We generated $727 million in cash from operations and our free cash flow totaled $557 million.
Our CAPEX for the December quarter totaled $170 million or 4 percent of revenue.
As part of our capital allocation program, we repurchased 2.0 million shares for $150 million during the December quarter.
We also declared a dividend in the amount of $0.30 per share.
We exited Q2 with total cash and cash equivalents of $4.7 billion, of which approximately $700 million was in the U.S.
I will now provide our guidance for the March quarter.
We expect:
Overall, we are pleased with our continued strong performance, and we are enthusiastic about our prospects to play an increasingly strategic role in the evolving storage market.
Operator, we are now ready to open the call for questions.
Steve Milligan - President & Chief Executive Officer
Closing Remarks:
Thank you all for joining us and we look forward to updating you as we go forward. Thank you very much.


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Basic information on the types of tables that are there in EBS database which every Apps DBA should be aware of.
Table-types and names used in Oracle Apps:
_ALL are multi-org tables.
_TL are tables corresponding to another table with the same name minus the _TL. These tables provide multiple language support. For each item in the table without _TL there can be many rows in the _TL table, but all with different values in the LANGUAGE column.
_F these are date tracked tables which occur in HR and Payroll. For these there are two date columns EFFECTIVE_START_DATE and EFFECTIVE_END_DATE which together with the PK identifies a row uniquely. The date intervals cannot overlap.
_B these are the BASE tables.
They are very important and the data is stored in the these table with all validations.
It is supposed that these table will always contain the perfect format data.
If anything happens to the BASE table data, then it is a data corruption issue.
_V are views.
_VL are views for multi language tables which combines the row of the base table with the corresponding row of the _TL table where the LANGUAGE = USERENV('LANG').
_S are sequences, used for finding new values for the primary key of a table.
_A are Audit Shadow Tables.
_AVn and _ACn are Audit Shadow Views (when data was changed, and with what values).
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We are bringing back the traditional Spring picnic and bike ride! This event will be held on Saturday, April 14th and will start at Edwin Warner Park. Multiple distances will be offerered: 30/50/80 mile loop rides starting from 6am to 8am depending on distance. All loops return to the park. Aid stations at start/finish. Run inside the park along park roads!
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A new study published in the Journal of Alzeheimer's disease, practice shows that a misplaced humor or bad taste may be a sign Dementia forerunner.
Dr. Camilla Clark, of the University College London, interviewed parents and friends of 48 patients with frontotemporal dementia, dementia manifested by a gradual change in the nature of "good manners" notes The Guardian . Condition: they had to know the last 15 years before the disease develops. Dr. Clark protocol was to assess whether or not cynical or totally absurd jokes could be regarded as symptoms of impending dementia. Of those surveyed, many noted that the sense of humor of their relatives had indeed changed over the years.
Patients were observed trying to watch comedies schoolboy good child, such as those of Mr Bean, and displaced more films like Monty Python. Demented patients were much more likely to prefer the humor of Monty Python as other subjects of the same age in good health, says the English site The Independent.
Changes in behavior observed (sometimes up to nine years before the diagnosis) were manifested, according to the relatives of patients with a heightened cynicism and laughter in tragic circumstances. Dr. Clark even notice that this inappropriate humor sometimes borders on bad taste, "like the man who laughed while his wife was scalded." Another guffawed at the announcement of a natural disaster or the sight of a badly parked car. " I have asthma, and sometimes laughs when I have trouble breathing," further evidence that parent.
This study reinforces the idea that in addition to the memory loss that comes first to mind, there are indeed many other symptoms of dementia that affect the daily lives of sufferers. According to the WHO, 47.5 million people are victims of dementia in the world.


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Friday, August 16, 2013
FSDG Thessaloniki X. Alive!
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Looks beautiful, but I'm worried about frames on this and on Copenhagen. FSDG hasn't the best frames-airports. But maybe now when FlyTampa is a part of Copenhagen, it will be great.
- August 16, 2013 at 9:17 AM
Ive never had issues with FSDG..Djerba in FS2004 when i still used FS2004 was pretty bad on frames but i think an update addressed that...i have their stuff in FSX now and its smooth as melted chocolate.
- August 16, 2013 at 11:18 AM
Well I hope to see everyone from this thread about delayed airports here with the same thoughts, or maybe this isn't as popular a one to rag on ;)
- August 16, 2013 at 12:13 PM
What happened to Evolutionsim was it??? Werent they doing a Dubai scenery that they cancelled and said an alternative project would be announced at some later date and all you saw was percentages in comparison to their development stage bla bla bla!?? Was that all hype then?!
- August 16, 2013 at 12:43 PM
- DAndre Newman said...
I have long since given up on them. I could swear sometimes the percentage actually went backward a couple times. The last I spoke with them, they were working on an airport in Denmark I think but nothing to show....
- August 16, 2013 at 12:50 PM
- Emilios said...
We announced this project just 4 months ago, not in 2011, with an expected release at Q4 2013
- August 16, 2013 at 1:32 PM
- evercllear said...
I think you are all jumping the gun. This team is very reliable and has put out the best work. They always kept us updated on the aerosoft forum with the Thess project and any questions. I only have the uptmost respect for this team.
This isn't Blueprint! This is Sparta!
- August 16, 2013 at 2:08 PM
- DAndre Newman said...
This was my pad I was reading a different post. I will correct this shortly.
- August 16, 2013 at 2:18 PM
- DAndre Newman said...
You are very correct!
- August 16, 2013 at 2:18 PM
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Note: ICD codes in italics represent subcodes within a main code of classification. Abbreviations: AAF = alcohol-attributable fraction.
Conditions for Which Alcohol Is a Component Cause
Disease and injury conditions for which alcohol consumption is a component cause contribute more to the global burden of disease than do alcohol-specific conditions. Overall, the following are the main disease and injury categories impacted by alcohol consumption (listed in the order of their ICD–10 codes):
For all chronic disease categories for which detailed data are available, those data show that women have a higher risk of these conditions than men who have consumed the same amount of alcohol; however, the differences are small at lower levels of drinking (Rehm et al. 2010a). The following sections will look at these disease categories individually.
Individual Disease and Injury Conditions Associated With Alcohol Use
Infectious Diseases
Although infectious diseases were not included in the WHO's comparative risk assessments for alcohol conducted in 2000 (Rehm et al. 2004) and 2004 (Rehm et al. 2009b), evidence has been accumulating that alcohol consumption has a detrimental impact on key infectious diseases (Rehm et al. 2009a, 2010a), such as tuberculosis (Lönnroth et al. 2008; Rehm et al. 2009c), infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (Baliunas et al. 2010; Shuper et al. 2010), and pneumonia (Samokhvalov et al. 2010c). In fact, recent studies (Rehm and Parry 2009; Rehm et al. 2009a) found that the overall impact of alcohol consumption on infectious diseases is substantial, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
One of the pathways through which alcohol increases risk for these diseases is via the immune system, which is adversely affected by alcohol consumption, especially heavy drinking (Rehm et al. 2009c; Romeo et al. 2010). As a result, although risk for infectious diseases does not differ greatly for people drinking less than 40 grams of pure alcohol per day compared with abstainers, this risk increases substantially for those who drink larger amounts or have been diagnosed with an AUD (Lönnroth et al. 2008; Samokhvalov et al. 2010c). In addition, alcohol consumption is associated with poorer outcomes from infectious disease for heavy drinkers by way of social factors. Thus, people with alcohol dependence often are stigmatized and have a higher chance of becoming unemployed and destitute; as a result, they tend to live in more crowded quarters with higher chances for infection and lower chances of recovery (Lönnroth et al. 2009).
The relationship between alcohol consumption and HIV infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is different from that with other infectious diseases. To become infected with HIV, people must exchange body fluids, in most cases either by injecting drugs with a contaminated needle or, more commonly in low-income societies, engaging in unsafe sex. Thus, although significant associations exist between alcohol use, especially heavy drinking, and HIV infection via alcohol's general effects on the immune system (Baliunas et al. 2010; Kalichman et al. 2007; Shuper et al. 2009, 2010), it cannot be excluded that other variables, including personality characteristics, psychiatric disorders, and situational factors may be responsible for both risky drinking and unsafe sex (Shuper et al. 2010). Researchers frequently have pointed out that personality characteristics, such as a propensity for risk-taking, sensation-seeking, and sexual compulsivity, may be involved in the risk of HIV infection. Indeed, a recent consensus meeting determined that there is not yet sufficient evidence to conclude that alcohol has a causal impact on HIV infection (Parry et al. 2009). However, it can be argued that experimental studies in which alcohol consumption led to a greater inclination to engage in unsafe sex indicate that some causal relationship between alcohol and HIV infection exists (e.g., George et al. 2009; Norris et al. 2009).
Recently, the Monograph Working Group of the International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded that there was sufficient evidence for the carcinogenicity of alcohol in animals and classified alcoholic beverages as carcinogenic to humans (Baan et al. 2007). In particular, the group confirmed, or newly established, the causal link between alcohol consumption and cancer of the oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, liver, colorectum, and female breast. For stomach and lung cancer, carcinogenicity was judged as possible but not established. For all sites where alcohol's causal role in cancer is established, there is evidence of a dose-response relationship, with relative risk rising linearly with an increasing volume of alcohol consumption (Corrao et al. 2004).
The molecular and biochemical mechanisms by which chronic alcohol consumption leads to the development of cancers of various organs are not fully understood. It has been suggested that these mechanisms differ by target organ and include variations (i.e., polymorphisms) in genes encoding enzymes responsible for ethanol metabolism (e.g., alcohol dehydrogenase, aldehyde dehydrogenase, and cytochrome P450 2E1), increased estrogen concentrations, and changes in folate metabolism and DNA repair (Boffetta and Hashibe 2006; Seitz and Becker 2007). In addition, the International Agency for Research on Cancer group concluded that acetaldehyde—which is produced when the body breaks down (i.e., metabolizes) beverage alcohol (i.e., ethanol) but also is ingested as a component of alcoholic beverages— itself is carcinogenic. It likely plays an important role in the development of cancers of the digestive tract, especially those of the upper digestive tract (Lachenmeier et al. 2009; Seitz and Becker 2007).
The relationship between alcohol consumption and diabetes is complex. A curvilinear relationship exists between the average volume of alcohol consumption and the inception of diabetes (Baliunas et al. 2009)—that is, lower alcohol consumption levels have a protective effect, whereas higher consumption is associated with an increased risk. The greatest protective effect has been found with a consumption of about two standard drinks (28 grams of pure alcohol) per day, and a net detrimental effect has been found starting at about four standard drinks (50 to 60 grams of pure alcohol) per day.
Neuropsychiatric Disorders
With respect to neuropsychiatric disorders, alcohol consumption has by far the greatest impact on risk for alcohol dependence. However, alcohol also has been associated with basically all mental disorders (e.g., Kessler et al. 1997), although the causality of these associations is not clear. Thus, mental disorders may be caused by AUDs or alcohol use, AUDs may be caused by other mental disorders, or third variables may be causing both AUDs and other mental disorders. This complex relationship makes it difficult to determine the fraction of mental disorders actually caused by alcohol consumption (see Grant et al. 2009).
The relationship between alcohol and epilepsy is much clearer. There is substantial evidence that alcohol consumption can cause unprovoked seizures, and researchers have identified plausible biological pathways that may underlie this relationship (Samokhvalov et al. 2010a). Most of the relevant studies found that a high percentage of heavy alcohol users with epilepsy meet the criteria of alcohol dependence.
Cardiovascular Diseases
The overall effect of alcohol consumption on the global cardiovascular disease burden is detrimental (see table 2). Cardiovascular disease is a general category that includes several specific conditions, and alcohol's impact differs for the different conditions. For example, the effect of alcohol consumption on hypertension is almost entirely detrimental, with a dose-response relationship that shows a linear increase of the relative risk with increasing consumption (Taylor et al. 2009). A similar dose-response relationship exists between alcohol consumption and the incidence of atrial fibrillation4 (Samokhvalov et al. 2010b). On the other hand, for heart disease caused by reduced blood supply to the heart (i.e., ischemic heart disease), the association with alcohol consumption is represented by a J-shaped curve (Corrao et al. 2000), with regular light drinking showing some protective effects. Irregular heavy drinking occasions, however, can nullify any protective effect. In a recent systematic review and meta-analysis comparing the effects of different drinking patterns in people with an overall consumption of less than 60 grams of pure alcohol per day, Roerecke and Rehm (2010) found that consumption of 60 grams of pure alcohol on one occasion at least once a month eliminated any protective effect of alcohol consumption on mortality. The authors concluded that the cardioprotective effect of moderate alcohol consumption disappears when light to moderate drinking is mixed with irregular heavy-drinking occasions. These epidemiological results are consistent with the findings of biological studies that—based on alcohol's effects on blood lipids and blood clotting—also predict beneficial effects of regular moderate drinking but detrimental effects of irregular heavy drinking (Puddey et al. 1999; Rehm et al. 2003).
The effects of alcohol consumption on ischemic stroke5 are similar to those on ischemic heart disease, both in terms of the risk curve and in terms of biological pathways (Patra et al. 2010; Rehm et al. 2010a). On the other hand, alcohol consumption mainly has detrimental effects on the risk for hemorrhagic stroke, which are mediated at least in part by alcohol's impact on hypertension.
Overall, the effects of alcohol consumption on cardiovascular disease are detrimental in all societies with large proportions of heavy-drinking occasions, which is true for most societies globally (Rehm et al. 2003a). This conclusion also is supported by ecological analyses or natural experiments. For example, studies in Lithuania (Chenet et al. 2001) found that cardiovascular deaths increased on weekends, when heavy drinking is more common. Also, when overall consumption was reduced in the former Soviet Union (a country with a high proportion of heavy-drinking occasions) between 1984 and 1994, the death rate from cardiovascular disease declined, indicating that alcohol consumption had an overall detrimental effect on this disease category (Leon et al. 1997).
4 Atrial fibrillation is an abnormal heart rhythm involving the two upper chambers (i.e., atria) of the heart.
Diseases of the Liver and Pancreas
Alcohol consumption has marked and specific effects on the liver and pancreas, as evidenced by the existence of disease categories such as alcoholic liver disease, alcoholic liver cirrhosis, and alcohol-induced acute or chronic pancreatitis. For these disease categories, the dose-response functions for relative risk are close to exponential (Irving et al. 2009; Rehm et al. 2010b), although the risks associated with light to moderate drinking (i.e., up to 24 grams of pure alcohol per day) are not necessarily different from the risks associated with abstention. Thus, the incidence of diseases of the liver and pancreas is associated primarily with heavy drinking.
It is important to note that given the same amount of drinking, the increase in the risk for mortality from these diseases is greater than the increase in risk for morbidity, especially at lower levels of consumption. This finding suggests that continued alcohol consumption, even in low doses, after the onset of liver or pancreas disease, increases the risk of severe consequences.
Table 2 Global Burden of Alcohol-Attributable Disease in Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) (in 1,000s) by Sex and Disease Category for the Year 2004
NOTE: M = men; W = women; T = total.
Unintentional Injuries
The link between alcohol and almost all kinds of unintentional injuries has long been established. It depends on the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and shows an exponential dose-response relationship (Taylor et al. 2010). Alcohol affects psychomotor abilities, with a threshold dose for negative effects generally found at BACs of approximately 0.04 to 0.05 percent (which typically are achieved after consuming two to three drinks in an hour); accordingly, injury resulting from alcohol's disruption of psychomotor function could occur in people with BACs at this level (Eckardt et al. 1998). However, the epidemiological literature shows that even at lower BACs, injury risk is increased compared with no alcohol consumption (Taylor et al. 2010).
The acute effects of alcohol consumption on injury risk are mediated by how regularly the individual drinks. People who drink less frequently are more likely to be injured or to injure others at a given BAC compared with regular drinkers, presumably because of less tolerance (Gmel et al. 2010). This correlation was demonstrated with respect to traffic injuries in a reanalysis (Hurst et al. 1994) of a classic study conducted in Grand Rapids, Michigan (Borkenstein et al. 1974). It also is important to realize that even if the absolute risk for injury may be relatively small for each occasion of moderate drinking (defined as drinking up 36 grams pure alcohol in one sitting), the lifetime risks from such drinking occasions sums up to a considerable risk for those who often drink at such a level (Taylor et al. 2008).
Intentional Injuries
Alcohol consumption is linked not only to unintentional but also to intentional injury. Both average volume of alcohol consumption and the level of drinking before the event have been shown to affect suicide risk (Borges and Loera 2010). There also is a clear link between alcohol consumption and aggression, including, but not limited to, homicides (Rehm et al. 2003b). Several causal pathways have been identified that play a role in this link, including biological pathways acting via alcohol's effect on receptors for the brain signaling molecules (i.e., neurotransmitters) serotonin and γ-aminobutyric acid or via alcohol's effects on cognitive functioning (Rehm et al. 2003b). Cultural factors that are related to both differences in drinking patterns and beliefs and expectations about the effects of alcohol also influence the relationship between drinking and aggression (Bushman and Cooper 1990; Graham 2003; Leonard 2005; Room and Rossow 2001).
Implications of Alcohol-Related Risks for Drinking Guidelines
Overall, the various risks associated with alcohol use at various levels can be combined to derive low-risk drinking guidelines. Such analyses found that overall, any increase in drinking beyond one standard drink on average per day is associated with an increased net risk for morbidity and mortality in highincome countries (Rehm et al. 2009). Moreover, at any given consumption level this risk increase is larger for women than for men. NIAAA has translated the epidemiological findings into lowrisk drinking limits of no more than 14 standard drinks per week for men and 7 standard drinks per week for women (NIAAA 2010). These guidelines also specify that to limit the risk of acute consequences, daily consumption should not exceed four standard drinks for men and three for women (NIAAA 2010).
Overall Global Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Burden of Disease
The most recent systematic overview on the effects of alcohol on global burden of disease was based on data for the year 2004 (Rehm et al. 2009a,b) (see table 2). The analyses found that although AUDs (which constitute the major part of the neuropsychiatric disorders listed in the table) clearly are important contributors to global burden of disease, they only account for less than one-third of the overall impact of alcohol consumption. Almost equally important are the acute effects of alcohol consumption on the risk of both unintentional and intentional injury. In addition, alcohol has a sizable effect on the burden of disease associated with infectious diseases, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and liver cirrhosis. However, alcohol consumption also has beneficial effects on the burden of disease, mainly on diabetes and the ischemic disease subcategory of cardiovascular diseases. Yet these effects are by far outweighed by the detrimental consequences of alcohol consumption.
Effects of Alcohol on People Other Than the Drinker
So far, the discussion has centered on alcohol's effects on health as measured by indicators that primarily are based on the records of hospitals and health systems. Reflecting the information contained in those records, most of the effects considered refer to the health of the drinker. However, this analytic approach omits two large classes of adverse consequences of alcohol: social harm to the drinker and social and health harms to others that result from the drinker's alcohol consumption. According to the Constitution of theWHO (WHO 1946), health is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (p. 100); this definition therefore takes into account not just physical and mental harms but also social harms, both for the drinker and for others.
A few examples of harm to others are included in the analysis of alcohol's contribution to the global burden of disease listed in table 2. These include perinatal conditions attributable to the mother's drinking during pregnancy and injuries, particularly assault injuries. However, the scope of alcohol-related social harm and of harm to others stretches well beyond these items. Thus, a recent study in Australia (Laslett et al. 2010) identified the following harms to others associated with drinking:
These effects were quite prevalent. Thus, the researchers estimated that within 1 year, more than 350 deaths were attributed to drinking by others, and more than 10 million Australians (or 70 percent of all adults) were negatively affected by a stranger's drinking (Laslett et al. 2010).
Social Harm
Drinkers also experience a range of social harms because of their own drinking, including family disruption, problems at the workplace (including unemployment), criminal convictions, and financial problems (Casswell and Thamarangsi 2009; Klingemann and Gmel 2001). Unfortunately, assessment of these problems is much less standardized than assessment of health problems, and many of these harms are not reported continuously. Social-cost studies provide irregular updates of alcohol-attributable consequences in selected countries (for an overview, see Rehm et al. 2009b; Thavorncharoensap et al. 2009). These studies regularly find that health care costs comprise only a small portion of the overall costs associated with alcohol use and that most of the alcohol-associated costs are attributable to productivity losses. In total, the costs associated with alcohol use seem to amount to 1 to 3 percent of the gross domestic product in highincome countries; the alcohol-associated costs in South Korea and Thailand, the only two mid-income countries for which similar studies are available, were at about the same level.
As this review has shown, alcohol use is associated with tremendous costs to the drinker, those around him or her, and society as a whole. These costs result from the increased health risks (both physical and mental) associated with alcohol consumption as well as from the social harms caused by alcohol. To reduce alcohol's impact on the burden of disease as well as on other social, legal, and monetary costs, it therefore is imperative to develop effective interventions that can prevent or delay initiation of drinking among those who do not drink, particularly adolescents, and limit consumption to low-risk drinking levels among those who do consume alcohol. The remaining articles in this journal issue present several such intervention approaches that are being implemented and evaluated in a variety of settings and/or are targeted at different population subgroups. Together with alcohol-related prevention policies, the implementation of specific interventions with proven effectiveness can help reduce the pain and suffering, and the associated costs, resulting from excessive alcohol use.


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East Nasty is partnering with the 'PR Bandits' this summer who are hosting supported long runs on Saturday mornings.
East Nashville Tomato 5K is one of our favorite races of the year. If you've never run it and stayed around for the festival afterwards, you're really missing out! If you haven't signed up yet, do so here – Tomato 5k Registration and Info. Then join us for some pre-race mileage. We have two route options to choose from depending on the total mileage you're looking for.
6am 7 miler – http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/796899283
6:30am 4.5 miler – http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/796889735
Please note that the start time is 6:30 for the shorter run. You'll want to be back around 5 Points shortly after 7 to get staged for the race.
PARKING – All of 5 Points and the surrounding areas are completely shut down for this event. You don't want to find your car missing after the race because you left it parked where the art fair is to take place. I have always had great luck parking on/near 11th St and Lillian. You're within a few blocks of The Yellow House and not far from the race start/finish or 5 Points with an easy exit out of town on Shelby.


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Bizarre Long Island crimes through the years
Long Island's infamous "Amityville Horror" case is far from the only bizarre crime to ever happen here.
Here are reports of some culled from our archives. Do you remember any that should be added to the list? Email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Richard 'Ricky' Kasso Jr. of Northport (pictured here on the day of his arraignment in 1984) was found hanged in his cell at the Suffolk County Jail on July 7, 1984.
Kasso was charged in the murder case of Gary Lauwers, a 17-year-old from East Northport who authorities state was killed in a sacrificial, satanic ritual, committed in the Aztakea Woods of Northport. Kasso allegedly got upset remembering a time that Lauwers had stolen angel dust from him. Although the debt had already been paid, Kasso reportedly cut locks of Lauwers' hair with a four-inch hunting knife, threw them into a nearby fire, and then began hitting him. Lauwers tried to fight back but Kasso stabbed him in his back. As he tried to get away, Kasso instructed then 18-year-old James "Jimmy" Troiano of East Northport (also charged in the case) to hold Lauwers while Kasso continued to stab him more than two dozen times (another person, then-16-year-old Albert Quinones, was also present).
A documentary highlighting the case called "Ricky 6" was later featured on the Discovery Channel.
Quamine Taylor was arrested on April 1, 2012, at the East Hampton home of musician and entrepreneur Sean "Diddy" Combs. On July 5, 2012 he pleaded guilty to criminal trespass, which included drinking the rap mogul's liquor, smoking his cigars and sleeping in his bed. Taylor, who was sentenced to 120 days in jail, had previously been arrested at Combs' residence in June 2001.
Third House in Montauk County Park was the scene of a violent episode during Prohibition.
Research reveals that in April 1925, a New York State trooper was shot and wounded by a bootlegger at Third House while attempting to secure a cache of liquor worth $250,000, about $3.5 million in 2016. With its remote location, sparse population and ocean access, Montauk in the 1920s was a haven for rumrunning and bootlegging as well as a place to drink banned alcoholic beverages.
Research indicates that locals, gangsters, members of law enforcement and public officials were in cahoots to help the flow of illegal alcohol. According to published accounts, the wounded state trooper, William Delmadge of St. James, was not part of a legitimate police raid on Third House but instead was running with a crew trying to hijack the liquor stored on the property. Delmadge also testified he received a bribe of $100 to help protect a separate supply of alcohol being delivered by truck. He was convicted and sentenced to 8 months in Suffolk County jail.
(In the photo from Nov. 27, 2016: Third House, as it appears today, currently used as the headquarters for Montauk County Park.)
On March 6, 1974, 8-year-old John Calzadilla was abducted off a Dix Hills street three blocks from his home as he was returning from Rolling Hills Elementary School. He was released unharmed 30 hours later, after his family paid a $50,000 ransom. According to testimony at their trials, the kidnappers, five New Jersey men, decided to return the boy when they heard the FBI was on the case. They never got the ransom, either. The drop point was a railroad bridge, and the money was taken by two Penn Central railroad workers. The rail workers were caught and most of the money was returned. Two of the kidnappers were the ex brothers-in-law of John's father, Michael, by a previous marriage. The two leaders of the conspiracy, Roberto Martinez and brother Jorge, received a 30- and a 25-year federal prison term, respectively. Norberto Fernandez, 18, got up to 12 years, and Jose Antonio Hernandez, 18, got up to 10 years. Maria Merida, 17, who lured Calzadilla into the car used to abduct him, was the prosecution's star witness and received a 2-year term. Ricardo Tuero, 17, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of juvenile delinquency and received 3 months' probation. The seventh defendant, Wilfredo Alvarez, 18, was acquitted on a kidnapping charge. In this Sept. 2, 1974 photo, John Calzadilla shows one of the souvenirs of his kidnapping, a blown-up set of his fingerprints, comparing his direct print, left, and one found at the scene of his captivity in New Jersey.
In March 1982, Sonnie Bonom of Wantagh was arrested after she and an accomplice, both dressed as clowns, gained access to the apartment of Mary Anne Adams of Freeport. Their intent, said prosecutors, was to kill Adams by injecting her with chemicals and household items such as Pepto-Bismol. At the time Adams was living with Bonom's estranged husband, Neil. A neighbor alerted police to the commotion in the apartment and when officers showed up, the accomplice clown jumped out a first-floor window, never to be seen again. Bonom, however, in full clown regalia, was caught standing in Adams' living room with a dozen balloons floating overhead. Adams, meanwhile, had been handcuffed, gagged, taped like a mummy and beaten about her legs with a hammer. In 1983, Bonom was sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison after being convicted of first-degree burglary. This clipping showing a police photo of Bonom dressed as a clown appeared in Newsday on Feb. 18, 1983.
Samuel Strauss, former owner of the Long Island Pet Cemetery in Middle Island, leaves court on Dec. 5, 1996, after explaining why he did not want to pay a $75,000 fine for a 1992 conviction on 45 counts of mail fraud in a scam where thousands of dead pets were dumped into mass graves despite promises that they would be cremated. In June 1991, the FBI and the Suffolk County district attorney's office raided the pet cemetery and discovered that Strauss, 71, of Boca Raton, Florida, and his son, Alan Strauss, 36, of Dix Hills, had left thousands of cats and dogs to rot behind a fence bordering the property. In addition, the Strausses performed mass cremations of pets after telling the pet owners they would be cremated individually and sent families ashes from the mass cremations. More than a quarter of a million pets were supposed to have been buried or cremated at the cemetery between 1984 and 1991. The Strausses were convicted in 1992 of mail fraud and other charges. Samuel Strauss was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison and Alan Strauss was sentenced to 63 months and fined $25,000.
In May 1996, Jorge Luzunaya, 22, of Patchogue, got into a tight spot when all he really wanted was some cold beer. At about 2 a.m. on May 18, he climbed out the bathroom window of his second-floor apartment and jumped to the roof of an adjacent building that housed two businesses, including a deli. After sliding down the chimney in an effort to get into the deli and take some beer, the would-be burglar got stuck and stayed that way for about five hours until he was rescued the next morning after business owners heard his cries for help. Luzunaya later plead guilty to attempted burglary and was sentenced to 4 months in jail.
In 1998, a South Huntington landlord, Dennis Kuchmak, was arrested after allegedly entering a tenant's apartment and urinating into leftover food containers before placing them back into her refrigerator. Earlier, the tenant had discovered a foul stench in her leftover food and reported it to the health department, which determined that the leftovers contained feces. After the health department cleared the restaurant where it was originally prepared, the tenant set up a camera in her apartment and captured Kuchmak urinating into two containers of her food. Kuchmak pleaded guilty to attempted burglary and was sentenced to 6 months in jail, 5 years' probation and $300 in restitution. In this photo, Kuchmak is led into court after his arrest on March 4, 1998.
In September 1999, the owners of a Jericho home discovered the bodies of Reyna Angelica Marroquin and her full-term fetus inside this sealed drum in the crawl space underneath the house. It was later determined that the previous owner of the home, Howard Elkins, had hidden the drum there for decades while living with his family in the house. When Elkins sold the home and moved with his wife to Florida in 1972, he left the drum in place. Marroquin had worked at the plastics company that Elikins once owned; he committed suicide hours after police questioned him in Florida about the circumstances of her death. In 2000, a DNA test proved that the fetus that Marroquin had carried was fathered by Elkins.
In 2001, brothers Anthony Sainato, 57, of Manhasset, and Vincent Sainato, 59, of Staten Island, were sentenced to prison in U.S. District Court in Central Islip for evading $3.6 million in taxes in a scheme that included pocketing money by writing and cashing checks made out to fictitious individuals. In a bit of low comedy, some of the names that the brothers chose to write checks to were Sue Shee, Clair Voyant, Patty O'Furniture and Ivan Itch. The pair, who owned construction and trucking firms on Long Island and Queens, were ordered to pay back taxes. Anthony was sentenced to 6 years in prison and Vincent was sentenced to 3 years, 4 months.
On March 25, 2001, former dermatologist Michael Klein of Asharoken firebombed a onetime friend's Huntington office building with a Molotov cocktail while wearing a false beard. Klein had lost his medical license in 1998 due to misconduct allegations and had suffered from bipolar disorder. He pleaded guilty to fourth-degree arson and fourth-degree possession of a weapon and received an 18-month sentence.
In November 2002, Michael Herz, 18, Michael Sossi, 17, and Patrick O'Rourke, 19, all of Patchogue, broke open three graves in Cedar Grove Cemetery in Patchogue, removed the skeletons and brought them to a friend's party. Police were tipped off to the crime after Herz talked about it in school, ultimately telling a teacher. After police contacted him on Dec. 13, Herz directed them to a drainage conduit under Sunrise Highway in Patchogue where the bodies were disposed. Sossi pleaded guilty to attempted cemetery desecration, and was sentenced in April to 3 years' probation and a $250 fine. O'Rourke pleaded guilty in June to receiving a stolen body for the skeletal remains that were transported in the trunk of his car, and was sentenced to a $250 fine. Here, Herz leaves the courtroom of Judge Martin J. Kerin in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead on July 23, 2003, after being sentenced to 5 years' probation on counts including cemetery desecration, attempted grand larceny, opening a grave and body stealing.
Anthony Barone of Dix Hills was sentenced to 4 years in prison in December 2005, seven months after beating, drugging and chaining his wife Anastasia in their basement where pet leopards -- one of them shown here -- roamed freely.
William Walsh Jr. strangled his wife, Leah, in their Bethpage home during an argument over his suspected infidelity after his return from a trip to Atlantic City in the wee hours of Oct. 26, 2008. As Leah's body lay in their bedroom, Walsh ran errands to establish an alibi, including doing laundry at a local Laundromat and going to a local McDonald's. Later, Walsh dumped her body in a wooded area of North Hills. Early the next morning, a Monday, he left her car by the side of the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway -- letting air out of a tire before returning to it later to plant her lunch bag in the car and her pocketbook on the shoulder of the road to make it appear as if she had disappeared on her way to work. He subsequently asked the public for help finding his wife, but during a break in an interview with police detectives, he alerted their suspicion by snapping a smiling self-portrait. That Wednesday, her body was found and he was arrested. Walsh is currently serving a term of 18 years to life at Sing Sing prison upstate and is eligible for parole in October 2026. Here, Walsh leaves Nassau County Court in Mineola on May 20, 2010, after pleading guilty to second-degree murder for killing his school teacher wife.
Eric Stetz of Bay Shore pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment after booby-trapping his apartment door with a crutch, an elastic cord and a knife in April 2008. Stetz had been told that a Verizon agent needed access to his apartment. At the time of the visit Stetz was not home, and when the superintendent went to open the door the trap was discovered. Stretz's mother claimed her son had set up the device to protect himself from squatters.
On July 22, 2010, a gunman dressed as Darth Vader robbed a Chase Bank branch on Route 347 in Setauket, making away with an undisclosed amount of cash. The costumed criminal threatened bank customers, throwing one man to the ground, pointing a gun at him and saying, "I'll shoot you in the face. This isn't a joke." The robber has, as far as we know, escaped capture. He joins a list of bank robbers on Long Island who've used unusual disguises to avoid identification, including a Lindenhurst man who in 2007 robbed two banks within three hours dressed as a woman.
In December 2012, Jared Gurman of Williston Park shot and wounded his girlfriend Jessica Gelderman in the back after a heated discussion provoked by the television series, "The Walking Dead." Gurman's lawyer said the .22-caliber semi-automatic rifle discharged accidentally. Gelderman claimed, "I love him more than anything... I just want things to go back to the way they were." Gurman pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted assault and was issued a 3 1/2-year sentence. Here, Gurman is seen leaving court in Mineola after receiving his sentence on Feb. 6, 2014.
Manuel Carranza, a New Cassel man with no formal medical training, ran an illegal dental practice out of his home for 18 months. Carranza operated a cash-only business, used second-hand instruments, and melted gold jewelry into fillings. He had been living illegally in the United States for 11 years before his arrest in April 2012. Seen here are dental tools confiscated by the police from his home. Carranza was sentenced to 6 months in prison.
As part of an attempted insurance scam in July 2012, Raymond Roth of Massapequa faked his own drowning at Jones Beach before driving to his timeshare in Florida. Rescuers searched Jones Beach for more than four days. Roth plead guilty to a conspiracy charge and was sentenced to 2 1/3 to 7 years in prison and ordered to repay the $36,555.37 incurred for the search and rescue efforts. Roth's son Jonathan, who had called police and instigated the search, was given a 1-year sentence for his role in the scam.
On Nov. 13, 1974, six members of the DeFeo family -- Ronald Sr., 43, his wife, Louise, 42, and their children, Dawn, 18, Allison, 13, Mark, 11, and John, 9 -- were found dead in their Amityville home. The DeFeo's oldest child, Ronald Jr., then 23, eventually confessed to the killings. He was given six sentences of 25 years to life -- one for each murder -- which he is serving concurrently in an upstate prison. The events, as well as alleged hauntings reported by the next residents of the so-called "Amityville Horror" house, have inspired several works of fiction, including the famous movie of the same name.
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Published by Anthony Roberts on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 5:34pm
My buddy Jason got me hooked on Dark Horizons, a trailer site for movies. Since apparently I don't get out much (Fact). I'm glad I went there today... I found this...
I definitely want to see this. Kid movie, sure. But Bowser and Eggman sold me on it. They better get a huge part (But I fear they will not... Damn Nintendo and Sega).


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- Male Dobermans are normally between 65 to 71 cm in height.
- Female Dobermans are anywhere between 63 to 65 cm in height.
- They can weigh between 30 – 35 kg.
- They have a comparatively short lifespan, when compared to long-lived dog breeds like German shepherds and Labradors. 10 – 12 years is about the time in which you can enjoy your Doberman's company.
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- The Doberman breed is found in a large number of colors depending on the line and stock from which there were bred.
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20 km eastwards from the City Bus stand and just 2 km from Whitefield, the IT hub of Bangalore, Hoodi is on the Whitefield – ITPL Main Road and the locality's scope for noteworthy infrastructure, residential, and commercial prospects exceed expectations. Here we present an overall look at Real Estate growth potential in Hoodi, Bangalore
Surrounded with prosperous economic hubs of Whitefield, Hoskote, K R Puram, Kundalahalli and Marathalli (Outer Ring Road), it is nicely placed for people working in technology industry and with most large developers like Brigade Group, Prestige Group, Godrej, RMV Developers, and Skylark having quality apartments it is one of the most preferred residential location in Bangalore.
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Hoodi enjoys excellent road connectivity, with all four roads coming via ITPB, Indiranagar, Brookefields, and KR Puram meeting at Hoodi Junction and is at a walkable distance from the affluent ITPL, and is already experiencing the waves of development as a result of this proximity.
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|National Archives and Records Administration: Post Revolutionary War Papers, RG94
|National Archives and Records Administration: Post Revolutionary War Papers, RG94
|August 1, 1798
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|Samuel Hodgdon (primary) Location: Philadelphia
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IT'S Saturday night, the bums are on seats and the crowd are singing in fine form from both sides. The Edinburgh Capitals are in town for a showdown and what a game it was! The scoreline would suggest that the Capitals were the lesser team but that is anything but the truth.
The first period was pretty much all about the Capitals, with a goal from the Edinburgh Capitals Hertl and many many saves by Brian Stewart the scoreline could have been far higher after the end of the first 20. Stewie was making some amazing saves and many in quick succession as they shots kept coming and coming. As the end of the period came to an end the Blaze crowd were being out-sung by the visiting crowd.
Block 8 however, which is where I always sit, was pretty much silent. There was something missing and as hard as I tried to get the block riled up it just simply wasn't happening. Yes, we were thin on the ground, but when the Capitals fans were out-singing us in our own barn, I knew we had to do something about it.
Now I knew I'd spoken to BlazeFan501 on Twitter, but did I have a face to a name? Nope, only when I was outside in the period break and someone called my name did I know that BlazeFan501 was a really great guy called Kev. He was up in the Skylounge with friends for a belated Christmas do but decided that since he couldn't hear the Blaze and could only hear the Caps fans that he'd be coming back down to Block 8 and bringing some friends with him! Suffice to say it was just what we needed!
As the second period began we were back and forth with the Capitals fans. Anything they could sing, we could sing better. The crowd got louder and the Blaze on the ice played harder, shot more and scored to bring us equal. Well, this only made us cheer louder. A beautiful goal by Almeida, assisted by TJ Syner was just what we needed to get back into the game. If I'd been handing out MOTM after the 2nd period, Fullerton would have got it just for keeping his team in the game. That man did just about everything he could as shot after shot came his way.
Goal number two came from fan favourite Liam Stewart and the crowd were on their feet. After such a slow start, we now really had something to sing about! That and we had an invader in the block in the form of one very awesome Capitals fan, who I think… was either Mick… Or Nick. Apologies for not totally hearing it. He was such a great sport and a credit to his team! Got into Block 8, commandeered a drum and was singing for his team with us all desperately trying to drown him out!
Period three and we're starting it 2-1 up, drunken bets with Sophie were made and the game was on! If the Blaze won, this rowdy Caps fan would lose the kilt. It was all in good fun and definitely had some of the members of block 8 cheering louder than normal! Goals 3 and 4 came from captain Jordan Pietrus and Jim Jorgensen. The atmosphere by the end of the game was something I don't think I've ever really witnessed at the Skydome, at least not to this extent anyway.
The Edinburgh Capitals fans are a credit to their club, friendly and fun and singing loudly. They genuinely banter and I don't think I've laughed so much in a while! After being politely escorted off b stewards to put his kilt back on, he shook hands with a lot of the Blaze fans he'd been surrounded by for most of the game! Fair play to you buddy, you're welcome back anytime!
All in all an excellent night at the Skydome! Bring on next weekend against the Sheffield Steelers!


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Career Experience
My engineering and technical consulting career has spanned more than 40 years. Initially in roles as inspector and designer, I soon found my real passion in planning and organization. This led to project coordination and finally full management responsibility of multi discipline project teams. In 1992 I achieved partnership in Reid Crowther and acted as a senior project manager until leaving the industry in 2004. Now as a specialist consultant I provide project management, and technical / business consulting services to my clients.
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