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How to Make PrEP Work for Women in the U.S.?
October 15, 2013
If women account for at least 25 percent of adults living with HIV in the U.S., then understanding the implications for women of our newest and most talked-about HIV prevention tool -- pre-exposure prophylaxis, better known as PrEP -- ought to be a priority for community groups and government health agencies alike. While the lack of stated prevention goals specific to women remains a conspicuous blind spot in the U.S. National HIV/AIDS Strategy, a cadre of U.S.-based women's health advocates has assembled to begin to fill that gap as it relates to women and PrEP, mobilize resources to plan for and educate around the introduction of this tool, and recommend actions federal agencies and other stakeholders can take to support this work.
TheBody.com gathered several members of the working group to discuss what's being done to chart a safe path for PrEP use by women in the U.S.; potential barriers to PrEP access, including inadequate education for providers; visions for the future of HIV prevention for women in the U.S.; what information and resources are needed in order to achieve those visions; and why the story of the female condom is a cautionary tale for the introduction of PrEP for women in the U.S.
Joining this conversation are Dazon Dixon Diallo, founder and president of SisterLove, Inc., an HIV/AIDS and reproductive justice organization that has served women in Atlanta, Ga., for more than two decades; Anna Forbes, a Washington, D.C.-based consultant and longtime expert on women's HIV care, treatment and prevention; and Zil Goldstein, a family nurse practitioner in New York City and clinical director of Persist Health Project, a peer-led project linking people with experience in the sex trade to affirming health services. Sarah Elspeth Patterson, Executive Director of Persist, also contributes perspectives to this discussion.
Olivia Ford: Talk a little bit about how and why the Working Group on U.S. Women and PrEP was convened. Who all is involved? What questions do you ultimately want to see answered through your work, in the short and the long term?
Dazon Dixon Diallo: There are many people who are on the Working Group; the three key leadership folks of the group -- myself, Anna Forbes and Manju Chatani -- all have long histories (or herstories) engaging in extending women's HIV prevention options, starting with the microbicides conversation, and then post-CAPRISA study results, blending that microbicides conversation with an expanded focus on biomedical prevention options, by way of pre-exposure prophylaxis and other things that are in the pipeline.
We stepped up our interest when Gilead Pharmaceuticals submitted their investigational new drug application to get the FDA's approval to expand the use of Truvada [tenofovir/FTC] and approve it as an HIV prevention strategy for at-high-risk U.S. adults, right? Men and women. But, even more specifically, what did this application for approval mean for women (especially if it was going to be fast-tracked); and not only that, but where were the women's voices in expressing where we stand on some of these issues? And if we don't have a stance, what are our questions? What do we need to know, so that we can take a position and advocate on behalf of insuring that women are kept safe -- whether that meant approval, or non-approval, of PrEP?
So we looked to see who was holding the conversation. It wasn't happening, so we started a conversation just around: What are we saying as women who are engaged in these issues, for and on behalf of women living in the U.S.? That started in March of 2012. And over the course of the year and a half since, we did a whole lot of work around identifying just those questions, those issues, and what positions we were taking.
Anna Forbes: Certainly, the core of what we've done so far is the development of the position statement. It was, not surprisingly, a long and laborious process because, as you can see from the list of endorsers at the end of the statement, we have people from a wide range of disciplines and with a wide range of interests around this issue. But we felt that it was really important that we start by developing a very solid platform that articulated what we feel as though we know; what we need to know that we don't know; what research we were calling for; and specifically what actions we were calling for from the federal government, with regard to PrEP. Because, as Dazon said, we felt as though there hadn't been any consistent voice for women. And, of course, the level of attention to women around PrEP was very much affected by the fact that in both the FEM-PrEP trial and the VOICE PrEP trial, PrEP was shown to have no effectiveness among women. It seems very likely now, although we don't have the hard evidence yet, that that had to do with the very low level of adherence.
So we were concerned about what happened now that the FDA has approved Truvada for sale as PrEP in the United States. What happens as it begins to be promoted? What happens as women begin to use it? How do we ensure that women have the information that they need? And what is going to be required, in terms of research, in terms of training providers, in terms of public media and social media campaigns to educate people about PrEP, so that they know what they can expect and what they shouldn't expect it to be able to do as a prevention tool?
So we developed that platform, that position statement. We presented it publicly last March at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), the day that the VOICE trial results were released. In it, we called for a meeting with the Office on National AIDS Policy, the CDC, and the Department of Health and Human Services, to discuss the position statement, and to discuss our concerns. We were very pleased to get the meeting before the date that we suggested as the deadline date for it. So we met with them last April, on April 4.
We proposed [some] things that are outlined in the position statement, including the convening of a coordinating committee to look at these issues in some depth, and collaboratively made up of civil society people, government people, researchers, etc., to really come up with some concrete plans for how to do this as well as it can be done.
We are still waiting for a response from the feds as to whether this coordinating committee that we've requested is going to be set up. We received news in July that our request has been heard and that they will be getting back to us soon regarding whether, when and how that's happening. But we're continuing to push forward with that. And we're continuing to push forward with educating constituencies as broadly as we can about some of these issues and what they mean for women.
We have three webinars coming up later this year. And we're doing outreach in collaboration with other networks, including the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance, AVAC (AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition) and the National Women's Health Network, to try to invite people in those organizations, and interested in those organizations, to hear what we are concerned about with regard to PrEP, and where we see the need for action to make it be something that can be as effective for women as possible.
Olivia Ford: Zil, are there additional questions that you, in terms of your involvement with the Working Group, would want to see answered, especially in the long term?
Zil Goldstein: Well, I think that there's a long history of misogyny in biomedical research. I'm really happy to be involved with a group that's working to address that, specifically with PrEP.
I'm relatively comfortable using Truvada in the long term, given all the work that I've been doing in HIV. It will be interesting to see how women are using it differently. I'm not trying to make any bio-centric statements here, but women's lives just tend to be different from men's lives, because of the way that we've constructed our gender roles in the United States. I look forward to seeing how folks use it differently; seeing what follow-up rates are; seeing what women's concerns are, specifically around PrEP; and also figuring out, as Anna and Dazon have said, how to do the education piece with folks who are prescribing and using PrEP. Because it's not a pill that you can take and then be immune to HIV; it is just another tool in the prevention toolkit.
When I've prescribed it, I've seen a lot of disinhibition with my patients, in terms of condom use. So that's a big question in my mind: How are we going to get across to people who are taking PrEP that it's not a magic bullet?
I also question where to use PrEP in my own practice: There are people who need it, who don't want it. There are people who want it, who don't need it. And then there are people who are incredibly motivated and will do everything they can to avoid seroconversion -- including using condoms, or not changing their behaviors with regards to condom use, once they're on it. And then there are people who are just like, "I can take this, so I don't have to worry." So I have questions in my own mind. I've been sort of holding off on using it until we can suss out the answers to all of these questions, in terms of how to encourage more people who are using PrEP to act like they're in the third category, the I'm-going-to-do-everything-I-can-do-to-keep-from-seroconverting category.
Anna Forbes: I think one degree of difference we see between women and men in regard to the disinhibition is that for women it's not just the feeling of, "I'm taking this pill so I don't have to insist on condoms"; there's also, as we've always known, in heterosexual relationships, the pressure on women by the male partner not to require condom use. I worked for many years around advocacy for microbicides, as did Dazon. The whole heart and soul of that effort was to give women an alternative when men were saying, "Look, I'm not going to use a condom. You do whatever you want, but I'm not using a condom."
I'm very concerned about women going on PrEP because they feel as though doing that will mean that they no longer have to have the condom argument with their partner. The Working Group, through an informal survey, has been trying to elicit information specifically from women who are or have been drug users, women who are or have been sex workers, and transgender women, about PrEP. One of the issues that has emerged from it has been sex workers, in particular, saying, "We're concerned that women doing sex work may feel that, since they're using PrEP, they don't have to require condom use," which means they can make more money; or that women working in settings in which they have a boss or a supervisor may be fearful that a massage parlor owner, for example, might say to their employees, "You're not going to use condoms anymore because we'll make a bunch more money if we don't use condoms. You all are going to go on PrEP, and then you'll be safe."
Obviously, we know that if people do that, they are actually enhancing their risk. And the pressure on women around those kinds of situations, I think, frankly, is probably greater than the pressure on men in most cases.
Dazon Dixon Diallo: The other layer that's been a part of our questioning and listing of concerns is: In the post-approval era, what do we actually know, in terms of these questions, in terms of the outcomes from the studies that were looking specifically at women? How are we acknowledging what we know and don't know? And then, how are we building that into the practical application and the rollout?
Where are the guidelines specifically, for example, for sexual reproductive health providers, for family planning sites, where women are most likely to receive the services? How is it being incorporated into women-specific HIV prevention strategies -- not just overall prevention strategies, but gender-based, gender-related, gender-concerned, or gender-centered prevention strategies? How are we identifying those guidelines, and how are we imparting that information into the community? And where's the community's involvement in making sure that you're held accountable to those guidelines?
More than that is, what is the current role of industry, which right now is one pharmaceutical company that's overall responsible for the drug -- and what's the federal responsibility, since they've approved this drug -- of assuring that community providers, educators and consumers are all adequately informed and aware not only of what's available, but what the concerns and the questions are?
So, those are some of the questions we've raised, in addition to saying: What is your plan for funding ongoing research around these issues for women in the U.S.? Since women in the U.S. weren't included in the studies themselves about the drugs as PrEP, how are you going to invest in understanding how this is going to play out for U.S. women? So, in demonstration projects, implementation pilots, including and integrating funding that's gender-specific in these high-impact combination prevention grants that are going to health departments.
Zil Goldstein: I totally agree. I just want to add: Where is the moment that PrEP becomes something that's empowering to women? I hate using that buzzword, but I do a lot of work with folks around condom negotiation, and it can actually be something where it's like, "You are going to learn that you, as a person, have value; it's worth it to you to value yourself enough to do this." Does that make sense?
Dazon Dixon Diallo: Yes. The word that I've been using, Zil -- because I agree with that empowerment question -- is: What about this gives women agency?
Zil Goldstein: Yes!
Anna Forbes: Right.
Dazon Dixon Diallo: How are we creating what's needed for this to be one of those tools? Actually, there was a great question that was raised at some debate I was on, around PrEP versus treatment-as-prevention. One of the main questions, posed by Linda-Gail Bekker, from the Desmond Tutu HIV Center in Cape Town, South Africa, was: If we don't pay attention to PrEP as a tool for women -- or actually look at how using biomedical tools like treatment and prevention and PrEP affect women -- will it be like "the new condom"? In other words, is it again a situation where, regardless of the tool itself being marketed or provided to women, they're still going to have to involve someone else to make that decision and use that tool?
[When] we get to the point where a woman does not have to have that conversation with anyone, does not have to look for that permission or that explicit acceptance from someone else to protect herself, that's when we'll know that it's a successful tool for women.
Olivia Ford: Is there any additional information you'd like to share that you've gathered from women informally, through discussions or focus groups -- or in your own practice, Zil -- around their perceptions of PrEP, and of their own level of risk for HIV?
Sarah Patterson: As we've spoken to community members about their concerns regarding the use of PrEP, they've expressed the need for health care providers to be considerate of their individual experiences and needs surrounding sexual health, in order to ensure they felt comfortable discussing PrEP as an option with them.
Zil Goldstein: One thing we've run into at Persist -- and there's a little bit of research to support this -- is that most of the time the highest risk behaviors among sex workers and, particularly, women sex workers, are in their personal lives, rather than their professional lives. It's sort of like a shortcut to intimacy, and a shortcut to separating one's professional and personal sex life. That's been interesting; a woman may say, "I don't need PrEP. I always use condoms with my clients." But then we start talking and it's like, "Well, do you really know that your boyfriend is not messing around?"
The other thing that we've run into is just cost effectiveness: Condoms are cheap; PrEP is expensive.
Sarah Patterson: As with many aspects of accessing health care as a person in the sex trade, community members wanted to know about the cost of PrEP and how they might be able to afford it. Many people assume, because someone trades sex, they have access to a substantial income, but the financial circumstances of those we serve are extremely varied, and rarely do people have significant funds to invest in their health care.
Zil Goldstein: People would rather use condoms than pay out of pocket for PrEP (because so few of the people that we're working with have health insurance). There's this other side, where women can't have agency around this without being able to afford it. It's part of a bigger question about how we structure health care in the United States.
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Here is a group picture of my PVC 1/8 Max Factory Haruhi figures plus my Nendroid Petite figures of Churuya-san and Nagato (Haruhi-chan version) displayed in front of my Haruhi novel and manga collection.
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From this lovable batch I have Ryoko (really LOVE this figure!) and Haruhi. Mikuru and Yuki are on my list, thought I already have lovable Yuki from Alter. Check out my Yuki photos (since you like her, and sorry for advertising!)^^
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Yes, the Alter Nagato is very pretty. If it wasn't for the whole trying to limit myself on multiple figures per character I'd have that one, Alter's swimsuit figure, and probably 4 or 5 more figures of Nagato that I've really liked. XD
And thanks for the link. I've been been so busy uploading figures and my own pictures that I haven't had much time to look around at the stuff that's already on the site. ^_^"
And thanks for the link. I've been been so busy uploading figures and my own pictures that I haven't had much time to look around at the stuff that's already on the site. ^_^"
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Ohh.. Completed models from one series look cool :)
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Talking about this Max Factory series my love list is...
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WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) - Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer voted against a judicial nominee because of the color of that person's skin.
I am not kidding or making it up.
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Schumer is calling for more diversity among federal court judges. I am on board with that.
The federal judges who are nominated should be representative of that diversity. Of course, they also have to be well-qualified.
The problem is that Chuck Schumer went too far. Honestly, I don't think he believes what he said. There is no reason that Judge Quattlebaum, who was confirmed over Schumer's objection, should not be on the federal district court in South Carolina.
The judge was president of the South Carolina State Bar. He's extremely qualified.
In slamming this nomination, Chuck Schumer was just playing politics and trying to please the far left wing of the Democrat Party. That's dangerous. Taking any political extreme ends up in hate and violence.
Senator Schumer and his colleagues should call on the Trump administration to nominate more well-qualified judges of diverse races and backgrounds. What they definitely should not do is oppose the confirmation of a well qualified judge just because he is a white man.
Here is the bottom line: judging someone on the color of their skin is racism, no matter what the color is. We as a country should progress by celebrating people of all backgrounds and not putting anyone down because of their race.


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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2013, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
In a ceremony emphasizing his intent to work with the community's diverse population, Ben McAdams took the oath of office as Salt Lake County's new mayor Monday at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center.
The 38-year-old Democrat rode to the 9 a.m. inauguration ceremony on the "Ben Bus," accompanied by many of the valley's Republican mayors who took seats on the bus in his election campaign ads, signifying their support for McAdams and his pledge to work with people of all political persuasions, young and old, from all parts of the county.
The hourlong program in the county-owned theater extended that theme of unity.
Ten-year-old Liliena Pupu'a sang the national anthem. Imam Muhammed Mehtar of the Islamic Society of Greater Salt Lake read the invocation, closing in Arabic. Andrew Valdez, a judge in Utah's 3rd District Juvenile Court, administered the oath to McAdams as his wife, Julie, and their four children stood close by. The gay-oriented Salt Lake Men's Choir performed "America the Beautiful." And the event concluded with a benediction by D. Todd Christofferson, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
"I will listen to all stakeholders," McAdams said, pledging to run an efficient, open and ethical government as did his predecessor, two-term Democratic Mayor Peter Corroon.
He said he is ready to begin delivering on campaign promises to be a fiscal conservative, to provide safe streets and parks, to prepare for rapid responses to emergencies and to do all of this "with the lowest possible tax bill." As the county's rapidly growing population swells from its current 1 million-plus residents, McAdams promised to provide leadership on dealing with limited water supplies, traffic congestion, air pollution and creating well-paying jobs for upcoming generations.
Also reciting oaths were three County Council members who were re-elected in November at-large Democrat Jim Bradley, District 2 Republican Michael Jensen and District 6 Republican Max Burdick. They were joined by Democrat Sam Granato, a newcomer who won the District 4 seat vacated by his party colleague, Jani Iwamoto.
Granato's colleagues welcomed him with humor. "What Sam has going for him is that he brings all these great sandwiches," Burdick said of the delicatessen owner from Millcreek.
The councilmen echoed McAdams in praising Corroon for his steady-handed leadership during the past eight years, then expressed excitement about working with the new mayor. "Ben, you have big shoes to fill," advised Jensen, "but I think you're up to it."
Corroon offered his successor a few tips about flourishing in the job: Be humble. Get out into the community to show people you care. Treat employees well. Don't drive off from functions without the staff members you brought with you. And invite your wife to events, even if you don't think she wants to come.
"I made that mistake once," Corroon quipped.
Turning serious, he added, "Do the right thing for the right reasons" and "go forth now and do good work."
McAdams said he was ready to do just that, bringing together diverse groups to prepare for the growth certain to come to the county just like the pioneers who took risks in settling the Salt Lake Valley, put down roots and made their mark in history.
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Corroon moves on
After two terms as Salt Lake County's mayor, Peter Corroon is returning to the world of real estate. Less than an hour after serving as master of ceremonies at the inauguration ceremony for his successor, Ben McAdams, Corroon started work Monday for The Ninigret Group L.C.


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Last month, we saw an incredible use of 3D printing where doctors replaced 75 percent of a man's skull. Now, one University of Notre Dame grad student is one-upping the this accomplishment by recreating the entire skeleton of a living mouse.
Evan Doney, an engineering student at the University of Notre Dame, says that he's come up with a process to 3D-print entire skeletons from CT scans. Beyond talk, Evan, along with colleagues from Matthew Leevy's biological imaging facility, have already replicated a complete rat skeleton, as well as a rabbit skull.
Evan worked out a system of freeware programs that convert the CT scans into a 3D-printable file. The students say that on top of 3D printing creating high-resolution replicas, these models could also be made in multiple colors to highlight problem areas like tumors.
Evan and Matthew say that these replicas could be extremely useful to help surgeons to better understand the anatomy of the human patient or animal before even making their first incision. At the same time, this technique could help dramatically reduce the costs for anatomically correct skeletal replicas.
If you want to know more about how you turn CT scans into 3D prints you can read the open-access paper for yourself.


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A day for deep-fried thanks
Groton — At this point, it's down to a science.
By 9:30 a.m. Thanksgiving morning, more than 50 turkeys — about 470 meals — have been delivered to police and fire personnel stretching from Stonington to Old Lyme. The other 80 turkeys are getting their turn in one of nine hot oil baths. The men frying the turkeys use a whiteboard to mark when the bird goes in, and after three minutes per pound in the boiling oil, they take them out.
For these submarine veterans, making enough food to feed nearly 1,000 is old hat. Begun in 2001 and inspired by the attacks of Sept. 11 that year, the annual feast feeds police, firefighters and military personnel who continue to man their posts — even as millions of other Americans sit down with family.
Those who have the day off from work but have nowhere to go are invited for a 1 p.m. lunch at the Sub Vets clubhouse, at 40 School St.
"We're two hours ahead of schedule this year," said John Carcioppolo, the clubhouse commander and one of 150 active volunteers in the Thanksgiving feast. "I don't think we'll run out of food, that's for sure."
Meal runs to the Naval Submarine Base, where sailors remain on the USS Pittsburgh, Hartford and North Dakota, are complete. So, too, is the run to the New London Police Department, where 15 meals are dropped off, and to a family in Gales Ferry that can't leave the house.
"We had 250 meals in 2001 and we said, 'Man, that's a lot,'" Carcioppolo said, shaking his head and chuckling at the event's 300 percent increase in 11 years.
By 10:30 a.m. at the clubhouse, the Coors Light is flowing. Others sit with Bloody Mary cocktails, taking a deserved break from a process that began Tuesday and reached the home stretch at 6 a.m. Thursday, when the first turkey hit the oil. The table settings are in place, with alternating red, yellow and brown placemats underneath plates and silverware. By 1 p.m., the clubhouse hall will be packed with another 500 people who meet old friends and new over a meal of turkey, cranberry sauce, potatoes, squash, dessert and rolls.
"We try to make them feel at home when they're far away from home," said Stanley Mathis, the committee chair of the Thanksgiving event. "And we hope they come back and pay in kind."
Uncooked, leftover turkeys will go to St. David's Episcopal Church in Gales Ferry, Carcioppolo said, and the New London Community Meal Center. Cash donations go to the Sub Base's "Caring and Sharing" program, which gives money to needy families for Christmas.
"It never goes to waste," Carcioppolo says of the day's bounty.
In the upstairs hall, where a projector screen shows the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and will later show football, the tables are covered in notes from schoolchildren, who have sent colorful pictures and drawings to the veterans and active-duty servicemen.
"Dear Veterns, thank you for all you have done for are country," reads one from CJ and Jordan at West Side Middle School in Groton.
At the City of Groton Police Department, Officer Pete Miller bit into a roll as he worked the dispatch center. Sure, he knew becoming a police officer might entail working holidays, but that was never a deterrent in taking the job.
"We're tied up here, not home with our families, so they hook us up," an appreciative Miller said. "It helps us get through the day. We can't order out, we're here; they basically save us."
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Oracle Business Analyst 5-Ops in Morrisville, North Carolina
Provides programs to improve operational efficiency, consistency, and compliance in support of the organization*s financial and tactical business objectives. Provides business practices and processes. Develops, communicates, and trains the organization on business practices and processes.
Serve as a liaison with other divisions such as Finance, Contracts, HR, Legal, Shared Services, Accounts Receivable, Purchasing, and Risk Management in an effort to ensure accurate and timely transaction processing. Collect, input, verify, correct, and analyze data to measure key performance indicator actual versus business objectives. Provide updates to management regarding budget to actual, informing them of deviations and opportunities. Provide management with economic impact and compliance issues surrounding key business decisions and/or deals. Communicate Oracle Business Practices to the organization and monitor process and approvals for full compliance. Drive implementation of new processes and procedures.
Acknowledged authority within the Corporation. Acts as a leader of large-scale company initiatives. Viewed by peers as a leader and top contributor and by line management as a key business partner. Ability to collect, organize, and display data in spreadsheet format. Follow-through skills necessary to get information from internal and third parties and have data errors/omissions corrected. For this, relationship management skills strongly desired. Strong written and verbal communication skills . Ability to partner across functions. 10 plus years relevant work experience.
Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Definitions of anger
n. - Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc. 2
n. - A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury. 2
v. t. - To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame. 2
v. t. - To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke. 2
The word "anger" uses 5 letters: A E G N R.
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The Orthodontist and Pediatric Dentists at Weideman Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics can treat all of your Childrens' dental needs including Early Childhood Dental Care, Cavity Prevention and Orthodontics.
Weideman Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics has had the privilege of serving the children of Sacramento and surrounding communities in northern California for over thirty years. Weideman Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics in Citrus Heights is conveniently located near Elverta CA.
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Pediatric Dentistry has never been better. Pediatric Dental Treatment is important for beautiful smiles and healthy teeth. The doctors at Weideman Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics provide complete Pediatric care including:
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Breast cancer has some commonly known risks. Some are within your control, like smoking, and some are just about who you are like the biggest risk: being a woman.
Regardless, you can lower your breast cancer risk by eating healthy, exercising and limiting alcohol. Plus, with regular screenings, you can diagnose breast cancer in its early stages, when it's easier to fight.
Even with a healthy lifestyle, you may have risks factors of which you were unaware. Here are five breast cancer risk factors you might not know about:
Pregnancy and breast-feeding
Several aspects of pregnancy, including breast-feeding, are related to a lower risk of breast cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute:
- Early age at first full-term pregnancy — For example, a woman who gives birth before age 20 has about half the risk of a woman who gives birth after 30.
- Increasing number of births — The risk declines with each child.
- Preeclampsia — Women who have had preeclampsia may have a decreased risk.
- Breast-feeding duration — Breast-feeding for at least a year is associated with a decreased risk.
Lowering your breast cancer risk is important, but your decisions about children and breast-feeding will encompass many other considerations.
"The decision to have a child is very personal, complicated and requires commitment and support," breastcancer.org says. " If having children earlier rather than later is an option for you, you may want to do that. Still, this is a highly individual decision affected by many factors besides breast cancer risk."
White women are more likely to develop breast cancer than women of other races, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, black women are more likely to die from breast cancer.
One expert points out that biology, physical activity and sedentary behavior play a role, and she is conducting research to understand the disparity in breast cancer death rates by studying the relationships between activity level and biological makeup and comparing those connections in white and black women.
First period and last period
The younger a girl is when she has her first period — called menarche — the higher risk she has for breast cancer later in life, according to research in the Lancet Oncology medical journal. There is also a slightly higher risk of breast cancer in women who have menopause later than other women.
"Since the effect on breast cancer risk of one year younger at menarche is significantly greater than that of one year older at menopause, these findings suggest that the effects of each may not be acting merely by lengthening the total duration of women's reproductive years," the researchers write.
Hormone replacement therapy
After menopause, this therapy helps women's bodies minimize hot flashes and mood swings. However, a study of 1 million women found that HRT increases breast cancer risk, particularly in women who use combined HRT, taking oestrogen and progestogen, instead of just oestrogen, according to Cancer Research UK.
"But it's important to remember that the increased cancer risk with HRT is small compared to many other risk factors, like smoking or being overweight HRT is only responsible for a very small proportion of cancer cases," the organization says on its website.
If you had radiation to your chest or face before age 30, for example, to treat Hodgkin disease or acne, you have a higher risk of developing breast cancer later in life, according to breastcancer.org. The risk is highest if you had the radiation during adolescence when your breasts were developing.
Emerging risks
Researchers are discovering previously unknown issues that increase breast cancer risk, according to breastcancer.org:
- Low levels of vitamin D
- Light exposure at night — women who work at night or live in areas with high external light have a higher risk of breast cancer
- Diethylstilbestrol exposure — pregnant women and their children who were exposed to DES from the 1940s to the 1960s to prevent miscarriage have a slightly higher risk of breast cancer
- Exposure to chemicals in cosmetics, food, lawns and gardens, plastic, sunscreen, water and grilled meat
Recognizing these risk factors doesn't necessarily mean changing how you live or the decisions you make, but it can help you be more aware and vigilant in monitoring your breast health.
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Morning Read: How the Market Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Taper
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Market check: A mediocre 169,000 new jobs created in August, downward revisions to July's number, months of Federal Reserve "taper" worry .... bonds rise! My colleague Michael Aneiro reports the yield on the 10-year Treasury bond is down to 2.88% after a closely watched August jobs report this morning undershot expectations. It seems to have caused people to get more comfortable owning rate-sensitive stuff again, Mike writes, as the yield had crested as high as 3% overnight. Or it could simply be the weakening of yet another "fear" trade. What's certain is bond investors will eventually have to shake out their fear of the Fed's bond-buying curtailment. They'll either sell even more of their bonds or just live with it. This morning's trading sure looks like "live with it": There's strong demand for iShares Trust Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund (TLT), which is ahead by 1.1% to $103.63 in premarket trading. In stocks, meanwhile, investors seem to think this bland-to-crummy report suits their interests just fine. Futures on the Dow and S&P are ahead by half a percentage point, volatility gauges are on the decline, and there's even a modest bid for the dividend-oriented SPDR Select Sector Utilities Fund (XLU), one of this year's focal points for interest-rate worrywarts. This ETF is rising by 0.7% in premarket trading; its YTD gain is a little over 5%, or about third of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF's (SPY). The price of gold is on the rise, gaining 0.8% to $1,384, and European stock indexes are advancing.
Fund watch: So-called "fundamental" bond ETFs screen for the healthiest-looking companies, and they've seen only modest success grabbing investors' attention. That's in spite of a few years of sovereign-debt worry in Europe, the ongoing fiscal debates in the U.S. and a growing awareness that the amount of debt a given company or government has issued ... may not be the best reason to overweight the debt in your portfolio. Carolyn Cui of the Wall Street Journal looks at the phenomenon this week, finding the only fund drawing much interest is the $653 million PowerShares Fundamental High Yield Corporate Bond (PHB). Others are out there, like State Street's SPDR Barclays Issuer Scored Corporate Bond (CBND). One reason investors haven't bitten: Not much performance to chase. PHB has risen 0.3% for the year and CBND is down 3.9%. From Cui: "Lower-rated bonds have outperformed safer bonds this year, as investors are willing to take on more risk. "That's the primary reason for our underperformance of late," says Joe Becker, senior income product strategist at Invesco PowerShares."
In the news: Morningstar points to institutional investors as the key movers behind last month's record ETF outflows.
In case you missed it: Amid fears of higher interest rates, the market is not just penalizing high-dividend stocks. It's also turbocharging "growth" stocks, and the funds tracking them.


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Jalic Inc needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 35 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
Wildcrafting.net will be an expansion of wilderness-survival.net/forage/ It will be a system whereby people can come and find locations and information on foraging for wild edibles.
I want a logo on a white background.
The name of the site is "Wildcrafting.net"
The tagline is "Forage for Free Food"
This site will be an expansion of wilderness-surival.net, so I'd like to use similar colors such as found on that site, especially the forums of http://www.wilderness-survival.net/forums/
I could see doing a artistic style logo, or a "character" style logo
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About Gatewood Green
How is it stealing? Aereo is providing a technical service to solve a technical problem.
The problem: my antenna can only reach so far. (better antennas require more money)
The solution: place an antenna closer for you and transmit the result to you. (probably cheaper than the antenna I'd have to buy)
Anytime someone provides a solution to your problem, they are free to charge for that service. If I take your accusation to it's logical conclusion, Ford, GM and Chrysler should be suing taxi services for cheating them out of being able to sell more cars.
The TV station does not charge the viewer cash for the content. The charge is to watch the commercials. The Aereo viewer has the same signal and technical obligations and gets no additional access to content than having living close enough or having a high enough/nice enough antenna to receive via a local TV antenna would provide.
Additionally, Large networks like HBO which charge cash (not commercials) for viewing their content get paid by cable companies to be carried. Smaller networks (CBS likely being under that category) pay the cable company to carry them.
So explain to me under what law, explicit or common, that Aereo is to be prosecuted (civil or criminal). Saying something is illegal does not make it so. Provide some documentation or at least logical explanation.
Actually DPI is not necessarily akin to a privacy violation. Think of it this way. It could be no different than having a private conversation in a public place that gets overheard. You chose to speak out in a place where others *can* hear you and they have every right and in some cases legal responsibility (say you are talking about killing somebody or robbing a bank, etc...) to report what you say.
It has already been shown in court that choosing to communicate in a public place invalidates your expectation of privacy. One should not expect communications on the Internet (a public place!) to have anymore expectation of privacy.
Now the computer in your house and the server at the company you are shopping at have an expectation to privacy, but if you communicate in the open, the expectation is potentially lost.
*YOU* have the ability to regain that expectation however. *YOU* have the ability to say I will only communicate using a secured channel (say using SSL). At that point you have potentially made the effort to reinstate your expectation of privacy. The only "access" to the contents of the conversation are at the endpoints where the expectation to privacy likely already exists. Do not expect privacy of a post on a public forum.
DPI is a natural evolution not much different than sampling water in a pipe for quality or validating tickets (and checking bags and purses) at the entrance to a concert venue. It is like the cop that sits on the corner with a radar gun as you drive by. All are forms of legal "deep" inspection making sure that everyone follows the rules.
You may not like it, but the idea is a reality of life and you have choice to attempt to counter such inspection using means and tools like SSL, IPSEC, coded communications, etc... Think of SSL like a sealed opaque wrapper around that beer bottle you are smuggling into the concert. Think of SSL as going into the store and purchasing a product at a private room cash register.
Put in proper context, we can better decide how to react than suggest improperly that DPI is evil (it can be and it can also be useful even to you) or think that we have lost all ability to control who sees what and when.
Actually it turns out he lied on his account paperwork.
I think most banks would take action (or at least reserve the right to do so) if you lied to then during the account opening process. It is not clear (reported) if he cannot use any Swiss bank or just that specific one.
And lets face it right now Assange is a hot potato. This could be a convenient excuse to get their name out of the limelight. In the grand scheme of things we all tend to act in our overall best self interest. Why should this bank be any different. But can anyone prove that the bank would not have taken the same action against any other customer if it had been brought to their attention that they may have lied in the account opening process.
I like a good conspiracy tale as much as anyone but let's put Occam's Razor to use here. This is the fault of Assange to not cross his 't's and dot his 'i's.
As for Amazon and PayPal, let's be serious. They are going to do what makes them money. Assange does not make them a lot if any money. US government contracts (or regulation or lack thereof) make crap loads of money. What do you think they are going to do? They do not require prompting from a government monkey, they are going to be rather proactive about it. "Let's see if I get put in an either/or situation do I want a few pennies and a warm fuzzy or do I want millions of dollars?" You be the judge.
As an aside I find it entertaining that he wants the US (specifically Obama and Clinton currently) to be investigated for possible crimes immediately and thoroughly, yet he seems to feel different about investigating possible crimes (in Sweden) he might have committed.
Many, if not all, of *his* current problems are his own doing. Wikileaks does not require a face to accomplish its stated goal, he simply wants to be a face. and he has got his dream. He is the center of global attention. "Look at me now bitch! Defy me I dare you."
When you open lay down the gauntlet, do not be amazed if a swipe to two comes you way. If he were really noble in the cause he would have either quietly done the work and/or accepted that certain fights for (people's) freedom require major sacrifice including possibly your own freedom. But then altruism does not appear to be his strength.
Lastly always remember you can vote with your feet and dollars. If you think Amazon and PayPal are wrong, I invite you to boycott their services. Not for a day, not for a week, but until they reinstate cancel accounts and apologize for previous actions, but few here would do that.
The same goes for Sweden, Switzerland, France, England and Australia. Do not go there, do not spend your money there. If you think the US is wrong in any actions or statements made, then vote with your feet. Leave.
But remember, Palin (and her off with his head type remarks) is NOT the US government but merely one private citizen. If our president or his designated proxies calls for that, then get concerned.
It seems like you feel legally compelled to work. Actually you are volunteering. Within the US, we are all volunteers to our jobs in that we are free to walk off the job at (almost*) any time.
*Due to legal safety constraints, some people can't just walk off at any time, but must wait until relieved (end of shift) to avoid lawsuit and possible prosecution for negligence. Although if they are not concerned about the safety of others and/or possible prosecution...
Some people are unable to see it that way as they think that without that specific paycheck (or amount of pay) they cannot live. This is not entirely true. You could choose to give up some or even a lot of luxury for another job that may pay less or even to become a hermit or homeless and live off the land and/or handouts.
Having served in the military I did waive (voluntarily, I was not forced to enlist) certain rights during my time in service. And as stated above it was less about patriotism, and more about the job, pay, benefits, training and opportunity the military provided to a kid fresh out of high school who had (by ignorant choice) squandered his chance to go to college for free and who chose NOT to become a gas station attendant. Actually I wanted to attend the academy, but I squandered that away along with 'regular' college.
The military is one job you cannot just walk off of even at the end of a shift. You will perform or you will pay the penalty (up to the possibility of execution in very rare but possible circumstances). Along with other rights you give up during your time of service (eg gov't employment).
And quite frankly given the current state of the economy, there is no need for conscription because the military is flush with *volunteers* who like the steady paycheck, training, great benefits and opportunity as opposed to sitting around the house unemployed or pumping gas for minimum wage at the local corner store.
Right now the military is so flush with recruits that you must have a high school diploma and be fairly darn physically fit and pass certain basic academic tests or they will not take you. They can afford to be choosy.
And for the record *I* don't need you to work for my life to be fine so your slavery suggestion does not serve my needs or desires. So what's left to petition? I will continue to voluntarily work for my paycheck and you can slave away for yours if it so suits your fancy.
Swipe the "micro" remainder from every transaction.
Random rumblings to various postings above...
A smart store owner could make an extra profit off this. Put together a simple spreadsheet that takes into account all applicable taxes for a given area and then use it to set all of your regular one-item (things that tend to sell by themselves such as cigarettes, sodas, beer, etc...) sales prices come up to 3 cents over the next nickel (after taxes of course). Then in those cases you can reap the rewards of the 2 cent rounding error and make a tidy profit over lots of transactions. We a consumers accept .02% or less interest in a bank savings account, why is a 1 or 2% gain in a business suddenly not desirable? You could also do the same for common two and three item sales.
Another point is that by removing the penny, the nickel becomes the new penny. Remove the nickel (make dimes the bottom coin) and you get the pinball ripoff effect. Ever notice that modern pinball machines' (and score based video games) smallest unit of score is 1000? You could easily chop off the last three zeros and reflect the same relative score. In this case, dimes become the new penny and dollars becomes the new dime. You lost a zero. And through a cruel psychological joke you will have participated in overt inflation. For what it is worth, pinball machines add the three zeros as the exact reverse psychological joke to get you to put in more quarters. Your score looks bigger, you get more excited...
Lastly, humans do not naturally think in metric. Humans see measurements as visual relatives (ratio or fractions as earlier suggested, ever look at "standard" scale measurements?) and see quantity in logarithmic scale (ratios again) when they do not have linear scale beat into their heads at an early age.
Interesting delve into that phenomena:
That a meter is larger (more) that a centimeter is obvious, that 1.01 meter is larger than 1.00 meter on visual inspection, not so much (same would be true of a yard and an inch and 37 inches vs. 36 inches). This is also why a person may tend not to care about that penny. It seems so insignificant compared to our perceived base unit of a dollar. In reality your base unit is the smallest non-divisible denomination you have available. The English use to really subdivide and in the really old ages cutting a "coin" in pieces was a common way to make really small transactions. Quarter anyone? Try cutting a small coin into fifth or tenths. And when you do not make much money, that penny seems so much more useful (valuable). I know a few people on fixed small incomes that scrounge the couch regularly for any change including pennies to buy that next pack of cigarettes.
What linear base you use is irrelevant. What is visually and even mentally easy is the logarithmic difference. Even notice that earthquakes and sound are measured in log scale? Why do you think that is? Hint: small linear differences have no significant difference in effect.
As for the US switching to metric, nobody things of traveling in feet or meters. They think in miles and kilometers (useful base units of large scale). I doubt you tell the guy asking for directions that the store is 1500 meters down the road. Rather you tell him that its 1.5 km away. Nor would we say or that something is 2640 feet down the road, we say 1/2 mile. And really (for you non-US types), when was the last time you told somebody about your last big trip in megameters? So much for metric making common life easier. Metric is no better or worse for the common man, all that matters is that when two people communicate that agree in the "size" of the base unit.
It is much like arguing which is better English, German or Italian. All three languages accomplish the same task equally, but two people communicating have to speak a common (base) language.
If you are following the law you shouldn't have anything to hide.
If you are doing what you should to be a physically fit normal human being you shouldn't worry about being exposed and compared to others.
Everyone else deserves to be thrown in jail (threat to those of us who follow the law) or laughed at (go get a gym membership and eat healthy and save the rest of us some medical tax and insurance dollars).
Most databases (Oracle, MSSQL, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc...) are crap-tastic in this manner *given the data set*. Imagine if you will the amount of data being gathered that reflects who signed in, when, when they signed out and what IP(s) they had at the time across hundreds of thousands of customers.
Database indexing algorithms quite frankly suck for massive amounts of somewhat random data coming in at a high volume, the DB servers probably scream under the I/O load doing full table scans on the queries. I would not be amazed if a single query took eight hours. Staffing up doesn't help since the bottleneck is likely the DB queries themselves.
Not only is the data set not given to compact indexing, but likely the tables and indexes were poorly thought out at the time the DB was throw together. The creator of the DB probably did not take into account the shear volume of the copyright requests that are currently coming in for what was originally design for a handful of law enforcement requests.
You say there was nothing like this being discussed, yet in the paragraph: "No one had yet figured a way to reliably send computer data across a cellular phone network"
It does not matter is the idea was far fetched, that it was considered by people at all means that yes, it was obvious. By '95 modems were fairly common and if one could do it on a land line, one could do it on a cell line if at a (at that time far) slower bit rate to compensate for the line quality.
Today's side channel communication on cell networks is a far cry different from what was done yesterday, but speaking as someone who sold both computers and cell phones in the early to mid 90's (anyone remember bag phones?), the idea was coming. Even movies of the day hinted at it. Consider also that caller ID is a data stream to the cell phone from the cell company.
HAMs had been transferring two-way data over wireless before then as had many commercial interests. All that was being waiting on was a convenient sized package. Finally, remember that "3G" or 3rd generation defined in the IMT-2000 specification is actually set of standards *approved* by the ITU in 1999. The writing was on the wall far before then.
Food for thought.
The big studios tend to release in theme sets every so often. We go through Armageddon from asteroids period, then everyone is releasing space opera flicks, then they all jump on the romantic bandwagon. Movies with both loose and tight theme association come out all the time as 'regular' competition. Yes a rare moment when studios are competing as oppose to suing or legislating. Heaven forbid one company made a blockbuster because you just know that at least one other studio will try and ride the wave.
I think the issue here is a stall tactic whereby one studio is trying to hold the other back long enough to get their version of the theme out to theaters alone instead of having direct competition for viewers. Given two movies of the same type at the same time the viewer-ship will likely split. Whereas if they come out staggered, the first movie will likely get the 'full' audience for this type of movie and the second release will get a residual audience (those who like the theme type and are not already tired from the first movie release).
Non-Profit != no competition.
The Red Cross pays an awful lot to advertise because they compete for every charity dollar they get. Many charities publish their dollar efficiency (percentage of overhead versus actual charity work) as a means to help the public (for who's attention the charity competes) decide where to put their charity dollars.
As someone who has interest in a non-profit (rehab) hospital who serves the public without regards to payment ability, we compete for patients. More importantly due to gov't regulations on Medicaid/Medicare payouts, we compete for a very specific ratio of patients (Medicare versus non-Medicare).
In addition to advertising/competing both for patients and for (charity) dollars, we also compete for quality doctors, nurses, therapists, etc... So your core hypothesis is blown.
Well given that it is established that the gas pedal is not linked physically to the (gas) flow regulators and that the brake pedal is not physically, or hydraulicly, linked to the brakes, what makes you think the gear shift is physically linked to the transmission? Or that the key is a physical (break-the-line) off switch?
Food for thought.
No code, no game, No graphics, no game. No console or computer, no game. No controller, no game. Let's see, that is five major components of which the code and console were probably far more expensive to produce. The music was already produced (labor paid for). Although in many cases the music has to be edited and remixed (by the game company) for the game to allow for game play use.
So remind me how much value the music is by itself?
That said...
Truth is "value" is what next idiot on the street is willing to pay. I like listening to the Beetles, but not $60+ much. I'd consider the game for $10. The console, controllers and original RB games cost enough. The additional investment in the Beetles' version game just does not seem to be to myself worth the payoff. Bad ROI.
In response to Michial Thompson, but generically applicable to the topic at hand...
So, you succeeded in crowd sourcing the software but failed in crowd sourcing the support? That how I read your rant.
I too got my start with Linux solving a problem, and I too went to the Internet for help. Today I make my living building and developing Linux solutions.
Just because you crowdsource does not mean you will succeed. Like anything else, a effective group needs a good leader. You got lucky because the first crowd (software development group) had a good leader, or the software you think is good would not be present. The second crowd (support) did not have an effective leader.
You can either find a leader or be the leader of the crowd. You chose to be the leader of the second crowd and did not work effectively as that leader. You could have failed to do the proper work of a leader such as finding the proper crowd or properly defining the problem or the desired goal. Maybe you failed to provide the correct crowd the proper data to define the problem.
Any group or crowd is only as effective as its leader(s) allow(s) or facilitate(s) it to be.
As an aside (rant of my own) I find it mildly entertaining how that if I provide a free product, you think I should provide my service free and on your terms. Maybe I do not want you as a customer of my free product.
I have refused to provide (monetary cost) services to some potential customers because my cost (headache, time) will out weigh the costs they pay me, even at my commercial rate of $120/hr. Other customers I have helped at no monetary cost, what you think of as free. The cost to me (time), was worth the benefit. I profited in knowing I helped a good person or cause.
When I write software I put in a certain amount of time (fixed cost). The more times that product is sold or provided to another person, the more that fixed cost per person approaches zero. There is no significant marginal costs in giving you a copy of what I already wrote.
Support has little fixed cost. Support is almost entirely marginal. The marginal costs may drop as I improve FAQs, add knowledge bases, educate more people, improve the product, but at the end of the day support costs time over and over and over again. You want my support, the next guy who uses the software wants my support and so on and so forth.
While in seeking (positive) exposure for my software I am willing to provide some regular support, I have expectations (costs to you, even if not in terms of money). You expect the software to work, and if it does not I expect you to be useful in helping us (you and I) solve the problem. If you complain but do not provide me what I need to solve your issue, than I do most of the work and you get most of the benefit.
I am more willing to give you (free of monetary cost) support if you give me value (data to help make the product better for everyone) in return. However there are customers not worth having and not worth trying to make happy. I learned long ago that it is Ok to fire a customer (whether charging money or not). I do not need every customer that exists, only enough to provide adequate profit and benefits I desire (money, recognition, reputation, good feelings, thanks, etc...).
My time has great value even if I do not charge you money for such.
All of that said, you can also crowdsource the Internet and get help with my or any other product. But then the pressure is on you to be an effective leader, or find one, to make an effective group/crowd to provide your support.
Secondary rant, for most Linux related (and/or open source) developers, it is not their goal for world+dog to use Linux or their product. It is more about being part of a community (crowd!) to solve a problem and/or fulfill a need in such a way that *everyone* in the community/crowd benefits.
If you want the full benefit of the community's work, then become *part* of the community do not leech off of it.
/second rant
I know that in my jewelry store, we purchase jewelry from people, and it if turns up stolen, the police and the victims certainly don't hold us responsible! The person who stole the items is responsible. If that is true for real goods, how could it be less true for intellectual property?
Simply because if your jewelery is stolen, you no longer have it to use yourself. If I have a copy of your floor plan, you *still* have it yourself and can still use it even though I have a copy of it. Now if I used (what I have reasonable reason to believe is) a legitimate floor plan supplier, how am I supposed to know (s)he did not obtain your plans legitimately. How do I know my supplier did not create the plans themselves?
Nothing silly here at all. The 'source' of the plans the builder used should be on the hook for whatever the plans would have cost plus punitive damages as appropriate. Now if you can prove the builder did not obtain the plans *in good faith* legitimately, then (s)he is on the hook for same (addressing the shell company proposal in another comment).
To answer Pete Austin...
No, a specific law against texting while driving is no more easier to prosecute than distracted driving. The cops believes you were texting and can subpoena your phone records to prove timing for the distracted law, how does the an extra law covering texting distracted driving help here? Most (all?) states have distracted driving laws already in place and use those laws. Additionally distracted driving laws (usually part of the state's reckless driving statute) do not require an accident to take place in order to be enforced.
Based on reading the blog announcement, I would pose the idea that they are not about to adapt any other company/organization's distribution. Given the stated goals/means of:
I would venture to say that they are going to build their own ground up operating system. Most distributions are built for very specific business or hardware purposes or are generic in design for a multitude of uses. None of which that I have yet to see in over ten years of running openly available Linux distributions is "browser only", locked down, extremely tight setup.
Given their goals, I would start from scratch. It is not all that hard to do if you understand the basic inner workings of an operating system. Most distributions are too generic for their needs and have way too many extra features not required. Basic security principles imply that extra features provide more vectors for attack.
Addressing others' comments in this discussion...
The discussion here focuses way too much on the Chrome browser and way too little on the concept being presented (by Google). This whole effort by them is moving back to the old style centralized computing model. Make the clients simple (and easy to maintain). Do the hard work on large central systems (mainframes in the old days, today, server farms).
Google's idea would work whether you use Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or (insert favorite browser here that any company wants to write/port to run on x86 and ARM). There is a large contingent of users out there who need simple computing. Look up stuff on the web, check email and maybe basic 'office' applications; all of which is available in your favorite browser right now.
Even as a developer (I build and maintain embedded operating systems among other things), I use simple appliances when I can. The browser on my phone is the most used application; even more than phone calls. Leaving out time at work, I use a browser for about 80 to 90 percent of what I do on a computer and use my phone more then I pull out the laptop. It boils down to simplicity and speed, to get the task done. I want it easy and I want it now. Take away the workplace and gamers and I bet the previous sentence describes the FAR majority of remaining computer users.
Yes there is also a large group of users who want and/or need more, and there will still be many companies (Microsoft, RedHat, Novel, [insert favorite OS vendor here]) to fulfill those wants and needs. Even Google itself will continue to develop and promote their own somewhat generic (serve multiple purposes) operating system (Android) which is built atop a Linux kernel and many other open source projects.
But for the rest of us, Google already supplies most of the applications we need, now they are going to try and supply the simplest (easy to use and maintain) platform to run those applications upon.
Many localities/states have a law (or exception in the red light law) specifically for being stuck at a red-light that does not change and no cross traffic is present. Check you local and/or state laws.
So it sounds to me that your system fails to check for and handle hardware failure. Keep in mind that even using RAID6 is no guarantee. I have personally had multiple drives fail in the same RAID array (Dell PowerEgde equipment for what it is worth). My saving grace was that the data on the RAID was backed up nightly to (at that time) tape. The short time of data lost (that since the night backup), was considered acceptable given the costs of dual hot systems at that time.
Working for a company that produces packaged equipment, I have seen a few RAID card (not drives) failures. In some of those cases, the card scribbled all over the drive data in its final death throws, making the data unrecoverable with another card of the same type and configuration
Given the recent Seagate firmware situation that bricked drives (any one remember the IBM deathstar drives from about 5 or 6 years ago?) and potential for issues in the RAID card firmware, all beside the possibility that the hardware itself could fail, I would think that Carbonite would have contingency plans in place that include internal duplicity of core systems and storage and spare (even if cold standby) complete system replacements on the ready.
I guess as an experienced IT manager, an engineer and a business person, I cannot for the life of me figure out how you lost more than a few hours of data (worst case). Given the nature of your business, I am not sure why you would even lose any data short of a full on nature disaster taking out an entire facility (off-site backups to minimize the total loss anyone?).
Granted for the cost of your service, a user should clearly understand what they are paying for and be willing to understand that more reliable backups will cost more. Anyone who cares about their backup, WILL understand the full backup chain; they would know exactly where their data is and how it is managed at all times. But I still have a difficult time reconciling the nature of your business with the type of failure that occurred. You lost data in the exact situation for which your propose to protect your customers.
What, in a shed in the back yard? I doubt somebody buying a 500GB external drive to do their own personal backups even has an offsite location where they can set it up.
There is nothing to set up. Use two 500GB USB drives in rotation, one is always in a bank safety deposit box. Off site location issue solved. Fairly inexpensive; cost of two drives plus rental of the box.
Quoting Harold: Their results are basically on popularity, which is another way of saying "whoever shouts the loudest is right".
Not quite right. It is more a matter of whoever gets the most *other* people shouting the loudest wins. Link backs count for most of your popularity and link backs from other people/sites with more link backs to themselves count even higher. It is a highly simplistic overview, but let's at least give something of a correct structure when using that explanation as an example.
And please give examples of your search terms exactly as you gave them to google so we can determine if your assessment of torrent site rankings is accurate. I can write searches that will forces those sites to the top of my results, but I doubt (based on my own experience) that they would occur there often on more simplistic searches.


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