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HIV Vaccines and Your Immune System
May 2004
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The goal of HIV vaccines is to teach the immune system new and hopefully better ways to win the battle against the virus. There are different types of immune responses, those we were born with (innate immunity) and those we learn (acquired immunity). HIV vaccines exploit the side of the immune system that is learned (acquired) by providing information to cells in new ways in hopes of enhancing their learning and making them more effective fighters.
A Little Background
Typically the first line of defense against nearly every new infection or disease is our innate immune responses. It includes cells called dendritic cells (DCs) and natural killer cells (NK cells). These types of cells are out surveying the body looking for things that don't belong and trying to get rid of them. While extremely important in the big picture of keeping us healthy, they are not specifically targeted to any particular disease of infection. They're a bit like general surveillance or a neighborhood watch, looking for suspicious activity but not a specific perpetrator.
Our learned or acquired immune system is slower to respond at first, but it is highly specific in its activity and can respond fiercely and briskly once it has learned a task It includes specialized CD4+ T cells, CD8+ T cells (also called antigen-specific CD8+ cells) and B cells. Unlike the innate immune response, these specialized cells will walk right past a group of neighborhood thugs (e.g. the flu virus, the fungal infection, etc.) to find a specific wrong-doer (e.g. HIV). If they're HIV-specific cells, they will seek out and destroy HIV infected cells or if they are HIV-specific antibodies, they will seek out HIV floating in the blood.
HIV-specific cells learn by seeing. Other immune cells show CD4+ cells bits and particles of HIV that they have found while surveying the immune system for trouble. Once these other cells find a CD4+ cell that can learn about HIV (a naïve cell), the CD4+ cell communicates with other cells and provides instructions on how to respond. Depending on how HIV is shown or presented to the CD4+ cell, the cell will send out different chemical messages to activate a response. One type of response is antibody (also called humoral) responses, which are generated by B cells. Generally these battle virus that is free floating in the blood (outside of cells). Another type of response is cellular responses, which are largely carried out by CD8+ cells. These destroy HIV infected cells (eliminates virus that is inside of cells). HIV is clearly both inside of cells as well as in the blood, floating between cells en route to infecting other cells. Both humoral and cellular responses are believed to be important in controlling HIV replication, though some scientific debate remains about which, if any, is more important.
Vaccines and How They Work
The process of recognizing a new critter (i.e. an antigen, e.g. HIV) and responding takes awhile. Also, if the way the particle of HIV was presented to the CD4+ cell wasn't done right, the entire process of antigen presentation, recognition and response could be crippled or ineffectual. Once a robust and effective response has been learned, however, the immune system marshals full force against the critter to specifically contain and hopefully control or eliminate it entirely (if possible).
In general, once a specific (HIV or other) immune response has been mounted, that response becomes part of our immunologic memory. If our body confronts that specific critter again the learned (memory) responses swiftly kick into high gear and theoretically contain it before it causes a problem. This immunologic memory is stored in what are called memory T-cells.
To illustrate, consider the flu vaccine. Before flu season comes around many people get a flu shot (vaccine). This usually is a severely weakened form of the flu virus, or a man-made flu virus particle that cannot cause disease. The weakened or man-made particle is mixed in with something that helps to stimulate our cells to respond. Sometimes this response causes a mild fever, swollen joints or stiffness, which are common signs that the immune system is doing something. What's happening here is that the immune system is being taught how to recognize and respond to the flu virus. Naïve cells are developing an immunologic memory for something they haven't seen before. When flu season comes around having been vaccinated doesn't prevent you from becoming infected with the flu virus. Rather, it arms your immune system to respond specifically and swiftly such that the virus is controlled thus avoiding symptoms of disease (the flu). Once an immune response has been learned, it can be a swift and potent first line of defense against disease.
What Is a Preventive Vaccine?
The goal of HIV preventive vaccines is to give people who are not infected with HIV some form of HIV-specific memory responses that can act swiftly and effectively in controlling HIV if and when a person encounters the virus. Ideally, a preventive vaccine might prevent the establishment of HIV infection altogether, although vaccines seldom achieve this goal. Instead, they prime the immune system to act quickly enough to prevent the infection from becoming serious or dangerous. Whether an effective HIV preventive vaccine will be able to block the establishment of HIV infection altogether or merely alter the course of HIV disease in those who become infected is unknown. The flu vaccine does not block infection with the flu virus, per se, but it does stop the development of the disease. It is possible that the best we can hope for in an HIV preventive vaccine would be something that prevented or seriously slowed HIV disease progression in people who do become exposed and infected with HIV. To be completely effective in blocking infection, an HIV vaccine would have to make a very broad range of antibodies against HIV to block free floating virus from infecting cells and would create a strong cellular immune response against the virus in case any cells became infected. Currently there are no proven effective HIV preventive vaccines. If or when a vaccine is one day proven to have some benefit, it's highly likely that it will work best if combined with other proven HIV prevention efforts (e.g. safer sex practices, safe needle using practices, etc.)
What Is a Therapeutic Vaccine?
The goal of HIV therapeutic vaccines is to offer continuing education to the immune system in hopes of shoring up a more potent and effective response against the virus. Whether or not it is possible to teach the immune system to better fight HIV remains to be seen. Some scientists believe that if continued production of HIV itself in the body does not provoke an immune response sufficient to control the infection, no therapeutic vaccine is likely to do so either. Still, researchers are exploring various strategies to improve HIV presentation and immune recognition and responses. Therapeutic vaccination is only one area of research aimed at trying to do this. Other experimental strategies include gene therapy, cell therapy, structured treatment interruption approaches (also called autoimmunization), passive immune therapy and cytokine therapy. Currently there are no proven effective HIV therapeutic vaccines. Many HIV preventive vaccine approaches are also being (and have been) tested to see if they have benefits in people living with HIV.
Therapeutic HIV Vaccines: Things to Consider
Many HIV vaccines have already been tested in people living with HIV infection without achieving any compelling results. Studies conducted by the AIDS Clinical Trials Group, a federally sponsored network for conducting studies of experimental therapies for HIV, compared several HIV therapeutic vaccines candidates, including products developed by Genentech, Chiron Corporation, MicroGenSys and others. These studies showed that some products were more effective than others in inducing immune responses but it was wholly unclear if the responses had any impact in controlling HIV replication.
In the early 1990s, Genentech moved forward with a large study of its therapeutic vaccine candidate, rgp160. Results from this study suggested that the vaccine made no impact on HIV disease progression and there was some indication that people who received the vaccine did slightly worse than those who received the placebo. Genentech stopped the study and abandoned efforts in this arena. (Note: The Genentech vaccine was later sold to VaxGen, who modified it and is researching it as a preventive vaccine called AIDSVax).
Results of a large study of Immune Response Corp.'s (IRC) vaccine, the HIV-1 Immunogen (also known as Remune or the Salk HIV Vaccine) suggested that the product had little to no impact on CD4+ cell counts or viral load. Unfortunately the study was not large enough to detect differences in the rate of HIV disease progression among those receiving the vaccine compared to the placebo, but laboratory results on validated markers of HIV disease progression (e.g. viral load and CD4+ cell count) were not compelling. Pfizer Corporation, which was the principal investor in IRC, has also abandoned further development efforts of this product.
Many therapeutic HIV vaccine products have been shown to elicit HIV antibody responses and some have been shown to induce HIV-specific cellular responses in animal, test tube and human studies. Studies currently enrolling and reports from complete and ongoing research will often highlight results from previous studies highlighting the products immunogenicity. Immunogenicity is the degree to which the vaccine induces immune responses. Whether or not these responses will have any impact on HIV disease is unknown. The reason for believing that they might is that human long-term non-progressors generally have very high levels of these responses. Long-term non-progressors are people who remain healthy for a long period without treatment despite HIV infection. Both the Genentech and the IRC vaccines were shown to induce at least transient and modest levels of HIV-specific immune responses but neither of these products demonstrated measurable benefits in people living with HIV. Whether larger and more lasting responses will make a difference remains to be seen. Ongoing studies should soon begin to provide answers to this question as some new vaccines, such as that from Merck, produce dramatically higher and longer lasting levels of these responses than any previous vaccine. If vaccines like this fail to produce meaningful results, it may suggest that this is dead end in research.
Some HIV vaccines have been shown to prevent HIV infection in animal studies, including the Genentech vaccine referred to above. The new DNA vaccine being developed by Merck did not prevent HIV infection, but it did appear to alter the course of the disease in animals that were subsequently infected with an aggressive animal virus similar to HIV. Prior vaccination did not wholly prevent the animals from developing disease, but it appeared to significantly slow disease progression. A few other vaccine products have shown similar results in animal studies. Humans do not react the same way to vaccines as animals. While results from animal studies may provide encouragement to vaccine developers to move forward into human studies, they may tell us very little about how the product will (or won't) work in humans. Also, not all animal models are the samethe types of animals used in a study are presumed to give better or worse information about what the human experience might be like. The kind of virus used to infect the animals in the studies might also make a difference in terms of the applicability of the information to the human setting.
One aspect of the excitement over animal study results of the Merck DNA vaccine may have to do with the kind of animal used in the studies. The animals used are known to develop a very aggressive form of AIDS following infection. That the product slowed disease in the animals was encouraging. Animals used in other studies do not develop disease following infection with HIV, so some researchers have been less enthused about results of studies where infection was blocked in those models. Of greater interest in the Merck studies is a compilation of new data showing that when the vaccine is used with the right adjuvant (a booster), it produces the strongest cellular immune responses yet seen. Still, researchers are not willing to predict whether it will work well enough to prevent infection altogether.
The way companies and researchers report therapeutic vaccine study results can be a little misleading and generally this is not intentional or deliberate. The only way, truly, to report on initial findings or small studies of candidate vaccines is to discuss the immunogenicity of the product and any safety concerns. Immunogenecity refers to the vaccines ability to elicit an immune response. Generally speaking, when you hear or read that a vaccine product or a treatment strategy enhances HIV-specific immunity (either cellular or antibody) it's wise to remember that at the current time we've no idea if that is functional immunity or what level of this type of immunity is needed to make a clinical difference. In other words, whether the way the vaccine impacts these specific responses will result in any improved control of HIV infection/disease. If the way that a particular approach or strategy increases HIV-specific immunity in humans correlates with containment of HIV replication, improvement in symptoms or decreased risk of disease progression, that would be meaningful and encouraging.
When Considering Therapeutic HIV Vaccine Human Study Results, Look for the Following
Was the study controlled (did some people receive vaccine and others receive placebo)? This will help you to sort out if any observed increases in CD4+ cell count or decreases in HIV levels were associated with the vaccine or merely the use of anti-HIV therapy. If the study was not controlled it may not be possible to sort out other factors that might be influencing the outcome.
Did the report include information on both HIV-specific immune responses as well as viral load? Again, if the study was not controlled it is not really possible to say decreases in viral load were due to the vaccine product being researched. It's possible for the vaccine to be immunogenic (e.g. inducing HIV-specific immune responses) while anti-HIV therapy could be the factor controlling HIV replication.
Both preventive and therapeutic HIV vaccines are experimental. None have proven to be effective in preventing HIV infection or disease progression in humans. Several candidate vaccines are garnering interest from researchers and activists alike, including the Merck DNA vaccine and the GlaxoSmithKline HIV vaccine. Excitement for these particular products are due to the fact that they are moving forward into human studies and preliminary research suggests that they do something slightly different or novel compared to previous approaches that have been tested. Whether or not these products will prove useful in either the preventive or therapeutic arena remains to be seen and is wholly unknown.
Generally speaking, therapeutic vaccines are believed to be relatively safe. A likely scenario is that the vaccines will be given periodically, likely monthly, and side effects might predictably primarily be pain, redness and/or swelling at the site of injection and perhaps fever, fatigue and/or joint pain and stiffnessas one might expect with any vaccine. In some HIV vaccine studies, more serious injection site reactions have been observed (in a few rare cases of serious reactions there have been ulcerations at the injection site). It's quite likely/possible that people with some autoimmune diseases (e.g. lupus, arthritis, etc.) will be excluded from initial studiesas stimulating the immune system with vaccination has shown to worsen some of these conditions. It's even possible that stimulating the immune system with an HIV vaccine could worsen HIV disease progression. Results of previous studies of therapeutic vaccines don't suggest this is a major serious concern, but it is possible.
Undoubtedly, especially initially, new therapeutic HIV vaccines will be researched in conjunction with anti-HIV therapy. Some proposed study designs includes the use of therapeutic vaccine or placebo in a structured anti-HIV therapy interruption model. The hope is that the HIV-specific immune responses induced by the vaccine will suppress HIV rebound following therapy discontinuation longer than what might be observed among people not receiving the vaccine. If you're considering participating in such a study it's important to understand the potential risks of structured treatment interruption.
When HIV mutates and becomes resistant to the effects of drugs, this is called HIV drug resistance. When HIV mutates and becomes resistant to the effects of the immune system this is called immune or viral escape. At least one previous study suggests that the virus can mutate around the immune response. Theoretically, it's possible that HIV can become resistant to new, functional and potent HIV-specific immune responses. How much this will present a problem for therapeutic or preventative vaccines remains to be seen.
Finally, the potential of HIV preventive and therapeutic vaccines are great. Despite years of research, however, this remains a field of study in its infancy. Many small studies have built the foundation for recent advances and researchers, activists and people living with HIV alike await the results of small studies of new vaccine approaches, such as the Merck DNA vaccine, to see where the next steps in this important area might lead.
The Bottom Line
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In leau of the Harlem Globetrotter's performance in Hickory on Sunday, Anthony "Buckets" Blakes discusses a variety of topics, including his early memories of watching the Globetrotters, his favorite players and his experiences with the team.
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Q: Growing up as a kid, were the Globetrotters something you ever got a chance to see or watch?
A: I got the opportunity to see the Globetrotters when I was 5 years old. It was a lot of fun. My dad had to refresh my memory a little bit when we first talked about it. I have two older brothers and he took all three of us. It was amazing. I remember my older brothers and I all had on overalls. My parents used to dress us the same, so that they could find us. We all had on overalls and hats. We were excited to see Fred 'Curly' Neal and those guys do something unique and special with the basketball.
Q: I know you played basketball at the University of Wyoming, but how did you end up with the team?
A: I played professionally. I got drafted into the CBA. I got drafted into the NBA Developmental-League. I played for the Asheville Altitude in its inaugural season. It was a great place to play. I played in Europe after that. A couple of days after I got back from Europe, I got a call from the Globetrotters asking me if I wanted to try out for the team. I got that opportunity and I'm here in my ninth season now.
Q: How was the process of getting into the Globetrotters? Is it a thorough process just like trying out for any other team?
A: It was a very thorough process. What separates us from other teams is there is an extensive background check because we have a reputation to uphold. The Globetrotters have been around since 1926 and brought so much goodwill to the world. They are looking for great basketball players and great athletes, but also great people.
Q: What is the biggest highlight or highlights of your career as a Harlem Globetrotter?
A: You talk about point guards and guys making great assists on the court. The greatest assist that I've ever made was having the opportunity to help two foster kids in California find a home. That has probably been the highlight for me. Those kids were great students and great people. They had an opportunity to be blessed with a family. Seven years ago, myself and one of my teammates were actually instrumental in those kids finding a home. That was the greatest for me.
Q: Something fans will see on Thursday is the 4-point shot. How did the shot come about?
A: The 4-point shot was created by the Globetrotters' organization itself. I think everybody had a little hand in it. It just came out of thin air for the most part. We are always thinking of new ways to be innovative, creative and keeping our crowds coming back. This 4-point shot has been working out very well for us.
Q: I think I saw online that you made the first-ever 4-point shot over water?
A: Myself and Big Easy (Lofton) made the first 4-point shot from boat to boat on the Hudson River. That was big for us. Getting the opportunity not only to make that shot, but we were surrounded by kids from New York school kids out there, as well as a bunch of media.
Q: People understand the entertainment aspect of the Globetrotters, but what are just a few of the things the Globetrotters do out in the community?
A: We have three community outreach programs. We have one called the 'Smile Patrol.' We visit about 150 children's hospitals every season. Our whole goal is to get as many smiles from the kids we visit, despite what they are in there for. We have our SPIN program. SPIN is an acronym that stands for some playtime is necessary. We visit YMCAs, Boys' and Girls' Clubs and rec centers. We talk to the kids briefly about the importance of staying in shape, and we put them through a few drills. We do that just to keep kids physically active, and try to fight childhood obesity. Then we have our CHEER program. CHEER stands for cooperation, healthy mind and body, effort, enthusiasm and responsibility. Those are the character traits that we've showed to kids at over 200 schools this season.
Q: How many games do you play a year? Do you play during a certain time span then take a break?
A: We have well over 300 games this year. We have a North American Tour that starts the day after Christmas and ends mid-April. We have a European tour, where we go to Europe and tour for several weeks, maybe a month-and-a-half. Then, we have a South American tour. Then we go on an Asian tour that goes through Asia, China and Japan. Unfortunately, I don't know if we are going to get to go to Japan because of the disaster and tragedy going on there. We have a military tour, where we play for the troops. That is usually our season kick-off. That is in late-November to mid-December. Then we have a Middle Eastern tour. We are definitely the 'World Famous Harlem Globetrotters.' I've been in over 60 countries since I've been on the team.
Q: Do you have a message for the fans that will see you in Hickory or who have a chance to see you at a show in the Carolinas?
A: My message to them would be that they can come watch a basketball game that is like no other. Not only that, but it is entertainment that involves the whole family, from 4-year-olds to 84-year-olds to everyone in between. For those two hours, we guarantee them that they won't be thinking about anything else except for the Globetrotter game. Just to give people peace, joy and happiness for at least two hours each day is what the Globetrotters are all about. The fans will also get a chance to meet us after the game. We sign autographs 30 minutes before we go into the locker room.


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I always thought it was OK to invite more people to the evening part - UK here - considering especially the size of many churches that are used for weddings. Like someone said earlier, its OK to add but not subtract people? I've seen some promote the idea of COGS - ceremony only guests - and am really put off by that, I think I read someone ask - what are the cogs going to do afterwards, go to a different bar on their own?
Personally I do find the ceremony meaningful so inmost cases I would not be thrilled to be invited to the reception but not the ceremony.However the original question is asking whether it is OK to invite group A to the ceremony and dinner and dancing while group B get invited to the ceremony and dancing or maybe just dancing, emphasis on leaving them out of dinner.
All the celebrations were a few towns away, so I don't know where they thought we were going to go in the intervening time.
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Sniffer dogs can get tired, but fibre-optic sniffer robots don't have the same problem. And they are just as good at detecting cocaine, says Tong Sun, a professor of sensor engineering at City University London.
Prof Sun and her team won a £140k grant on Tuesday to work on the coke-detecting robots that they foresee will reduce the number of sniffer dogs needed in places like airports. This is on top of a previous award of £550,000 for both the drug-detecting sensor project and project working on a sensor that can smell your fear... Sun won previous funding for work on sensors that detect the alarm pheromones released by humans when they are scared.
"Sniffer dogs are used in such situations, but they have a high cost of upkeep, can get tired and confused, and cannot act as evidence in court," said the grant-awarding body the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which is funding the university team's collaboration with the Home Office Scientific Development Branch and sensor-maker Smiths Detection.
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The City team's breakthrough was to use the molecularly imprinting polymer (MIP) technique coupled with fluorescence signalling. The result is a portable, fibre-optic sensor that is sensitive but selective, producing fewer false alarms. The purpose of the new grant is to bring the sniffer tech to market. Professor Sun's team plan to have a prototype within a year that can be used for checking hard-to-reach places like shipping containers and cars.
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Vick and McCoy are both in Phase 4 of the post-concussion process.
Eagles coach Andy Reid announced on Monday that rookie quarterback Nick Foles will remain the starter for the rest of the season.
Rookie running back Bryce Brown will make his third straight start in place of McCoy. The Kansas State product has carried the ball 75 times for 488 yards and four touchdowns in 12 games this season.
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- 1 can (6 ounces) unsweetened pineapple juice
- 1 teaspoon coconut extract
- 1 package (3.4 ounces) instant vanilla pudding mix
- 14 freezer pop molds or14 paper cups (3 ounces each) and wooden pop sticks
- In a blender, combine milk, pineapple, pineapple juice and extract; cover and process until smooth. Pour into a bowl; whisk in pudding mix for 2 minutes.
- Pour 1/4 cup into each mold or paper cups. Top molds with holders. If using cups, top with foil and insert sticks through foil. Freeze until firm. Yield: 14 servings.
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Hi all,
I've decided to try and learn some Python using a library book called "Beginning Python" by Peter Norton et al from Wrox Press (c) 2005.
The book advises that a package called PythonCard should be installed. I have downloaded the zip file, PythonCard-0.8.2.zip,
The archive's top level Readme.txt file states:-
"Place the "PythonCard" directory in your python directory or another directory on your PYTHONPATH. By default, the Windows installer and distutils installer will place PythonCard in your Python22\Lib\site-packages directory; the actual path will be different depending on your OS and version of Python."
I have placed the zip file into /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages.
The Readme.txt file further states :-
"If you're running on a Unix/Linux system, you must unzip the release distribution with the -a option to convert the CR/LF line endings of each file to LF."
Using a terminal and after cd'ing into .../site-packages I unzipped the file into that directory using "unzip -a PythonCard-0.8.2.zip".
Lastly, the Readme.txt file also states :-
"PythonCard requires Python 2.3 or later and wxPython 2.5.2.x or later. wxPython is available at http://www.wxpython.org/"
Looking into .../site-packages I found that there was already a folder called "wx-2.9.4-gtk2" which already contained wxPython 188.8.131.52.
On p.3 whilst "speaking" of codeEditor the book states:-
"Once it is installed on your system with PythonCard, on Linux or Unix-based systems, you can just type codeEditor in a terminal or shell window and it will start."
Well, no it doesn't. When I tried the system responded with :-
"If 'codeEditor' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this:
cnf codeEditor"
After a bit of investigation I tried :-
python /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PythonCard-0.8.2/components/codeeditor.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PythonCard-0.8.2/components/codeeditor.py", line 15, in <module>
from PythonCard import configuration, event, STCStyleEditor, widget
ImportError: No module named PythonCard
You can clearly see the result of that.
Has anyone managed to get this to work ?
Thanks in advance for any help that you can give with this.


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Prince is worth every penny for Tigers
By Mike Bauman | MLB.com Columnist | Archive 01/24/12 7:00 PM EST
In the end, after all the speculation and conjecture, Prince Fielder signed with a team in the right league for a price that was fair-market value.
A truly large amount of money was involved. But given the inflationary nature of this particular market, it was all that much larger than expected.
Fielder has agreed to sign with the Detroit Tigers for a nine-year, $214 million contract. The Tigers needed run-production replacement after Victor Martinez suffered a torn ACL in his left knee. Fielder's track record says that he can provide that.
If Fielder plays first -- and there is no other option for him, other than designated hitter -- Miguel Cabrera can be the Tigers' DH or move back to third base. Either way, it's an imposing combination in the middle of the Detroit order.
There will be much written about Fielder's father, Cecil, and his many years in a Detroit uniform, but that is not why this deal works for the younger Fielder. The father and son have gone through a long period of estrangement.
The deal works for Fielder in part because it is with an American League team. He is 27, but at some point in his career, designated hitter will be the role that bests suits him. That notion might be correct even as we speak, but at least with the Tigers the option will remain.
And the deal compensates Fielder roughly in the way the market says a top-shelf slugger/first baseman should be paid.
Who are the true comparables for Fielder? What does the market dictate for his services? It is hard to find the perfect fit, although he is often compared to Ryan Howard of the Phillies. But Howard is 32. Their career OPS are virtually identical, although Fielder is a much better bet to reach base via a walk, and is much less likely to strike out.
Howard received a $125 million, five-year deal from the Phillies. That turned out to be a short contract for a slugging first baseman, but it leads all the first-baseman/sluggers in per-year payment, or what is known in the trade as average annual value. So whatever the relative merits of Howard and Fielder, this contract is not particularly representative.
Can we fairly compare Fielder with Adrian Gonzalez, who gets an average of $22 million per year over seven years, or Mark Teixeira, who receives an average of $22.5 million over eight years? Again, Fielder is younger, but both Gonzalez and Teixeira are outstanding defensive players. Fielder's defensive work cannot compare with their performances in that area.
Yet, Fielder will receive from the Tigers an average annual salary of $23.78 million. This contract beats Gonzalez and Teixeira both in length and in average annual value. In fact, it checks in just behind the gold standard for slugger/first basemen, awarded to Albert Pujols by the Angels. That was for $240 million over 10 years.
There has been a serious bout of conventional wisdom going around lately, with people saying that Fielder, a genuine, proven run-producing force, remained unsigned at this late offseason date because he and his agent, Scott Boras, were asking for too much money and too many years in a new contract.
That was a little too pat, a little too easy, and in the end, not quite accurate enough. It could be argued that asking for too much money and too many years is part and parcel of what Boras does for a living. The thing that separates him from the pack is that he has so often been successful at obtaining these lavish and long contracts for his clients.
On Fielder's side of the argument, the people who told the Milwaukee Brewers not to draft him in the first place because nobody with his body type could sustain a high level of play were completely wrong, at least so far. Fielder has been extraordinarily durable to this point. And his relentless effort makes him not only a favorite among his teammates, but a leader of men. He was certainly a leader of Brewers, and he played an absolutely central role in the Milwaukee club winning its first division title in 29 years.
In the end, Fielder may have been the beneficiary of Martinez's misfortune, but this deal goes deeper than that. Fielder is a prolific run producer and he comes to this free-agent moment at age 27. His long-term outlook made more sense for an American League club that could eventually find at least a part-time home for him at the DH.
What all the existing numbers for roughly comparable players suggested was a contract for more than five years, less than 10; more than $20 million per year, but less than $25 million per year.
That's where the Prince Fielder contract saga ended, with Detroit, with $214 million over nine years. Fielder was in the high end of the possible range in both salary and length of contract. That reflects both the Tigers' need to replace Martinez's production, and the continuing success of Boras in finding every available nickel and then some for his clients.
At least five of the wealthiest teams in baseball were not involved in the bidding because they were all set for the foreseeable future with expensive slugger/first basemen of their own. Several other clubs had genuine interest in Fielder, but viewed this kind of contract as inflationary and/or exorbitant.
But in the end, Fielder was worth what Boras could convince one team to pay. This turned out to be the Detroit Tigers and $214 million. It is by any reasonable standards, an extraordinary amount of money. Yet it is not, in this instance, a shocking amount of money.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – This weekend the No. 1 Yale women's sailing team will head to Cambridge, Mass., for its last regular season regatta of the fall. Racing will take place on the Charles River in MIT's fleet of FJs and the winners will have their names engraved on the Stu Nelson Trophy.
The last time the Bulldogs raced at MIT was on the first weekend of the season when they won the Toni Deutsch regatta. All of the same sailors from that event will be returning to race for the Bulldogs again this weekend.
Senior skipper Claire Dennis and sophomore crew Kate Gaumond will reunite to represent the Bulldogs in one of the two divisions this weekend. Dennis has spent several weekends racing single rather than double-handed events this season, but she has yet to finish outside of the top two when sailing with Gaumond. At the Toni Deutsch regatta, the two of them won B division by a commanding 18 points.
After racing in a coed regatta last weekend, senior skipper Emily Billing and junior crew Amanda Salvesen will also return to women's competition for the Bulldogs this weekend. The challenging conditions at Dartmouth got the best of Billing and Salvesen last weekend, but the two of them have finished in the top three at every other regatta that they have sailed this season.
After this weekend, there will be only two regattas left in the fall season—the qualifier for the Women's Atlantic Coast Championship and the Atlantic Coast Championship itself. With the end-of-season championships coming up, Dennis was asked to comment on how the season has gone for the Bulldogs thus far.
"The season has been going well," she said. "We have performed well in a number of different conditions, venues and boats which demonstrates our depth." She also added that having team members with "different strengths… will benefit [Yale] at the fall championships."
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CHICAGO -- IHRA Top Fuel champion Clay Millican has been nominated for the second consecutive year for the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association (AARWBA) Auto Racing All-American Team. Also this week, the 35-year-old Top Fuel sophomore was honored as the Professional Driver of the Year in the 3rd annual CompetitionPlus.com Awards.
Millican clinched the IHRA Top Fuel championship after a record-setting six consecutive national event victories behind the wheel of the Werner Enterprises Top Fuel Dragster. The incredible streak broke a 26-year-old IHRA record held by "Big Daddy" Don Garlits and tied Scott Kalitta's NHRA record of 19 consecutive round wins set in 1994. Millican's crew chief, Mike Kloeber, led the Lehman Racing team to a phenomenal 22-4 won/loss record (84% winning percentage) during the 10 races on the IHRA schedule that featured Top Fuel. Millican grabbed the No. 1 qualifying position seven times, set low ET of the event seven times, ran top speed of the event five times and set both ends of the IHRA Top Fuel World Record (4.631-seconds/320.13-mph). During the 2001 season Millican and the Werner Enterprises dragster ran quicker (4.601-seconds) and faster (323.58-mph) than anyone in IHRA history.
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Thanksgiving is the family feasting day that for children launches the anticipation of opening presents Christmas morning, for adults the shopping frenzy and having something for each child to unwrap under the tree. It can be a challenging time when families find themselves with economic crisis of one kind or another. And like the men and women who we depend upon to meet our national security challenges, it's fitting that the Toys for Tots program has become the heart signature of the U.S. Marine Corps. Several years ago Sgt. Boyd Jorgenson brought the Toys for Tots program to the Peninsula and partnered with the Salvation Army for local distribution of toys. Earlier this year Jorgenson moved to Anchorage and U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Joshua Rehm stepped up to coordinate the program for the Peninsula along with Johna Beech of the Kenai Chamber and Visitor Center and Envoy Craig Fanning of the Salvation Army.
"Toys for Tots is a wonderful program that I have been a part of throughout my career with the Marine Corp. It was established in 1947 by Gen. Bill Hendrickson who got the idea from his wife and got together with other reservists in the area of Los Angeles and distributed over 5,000 toys that first year. The programs great success led the Marine Corp to adopt it as a nationwide program the following year, and I was grateful and thankful to be able to continue it here on the Peninsula," Sgt. Rehm told the Dispatch. According to Sgt. Rehm the Toys for Tots is looking for help with two things, "Our drop off campaign is now if full swing so we are asking folds to drop off a new still packaged toy, not gift wrapped, for any age child including teen agers and the other way to help is a cash donation so we can shop locally for toys to be distributed here on the Peninsula in cooperation with the Salvation Army. Our shopping spree lets us fill in the age gaps that sometimes are left out at the drop boxes," he said.
Saturday, December 1st at Brown Bears hockey game at the Soldotna Sports Center a special raffle will be held to benefit the local Toys for Tots campaign. Sgt. Rehm will drive a Humvee out on the ice and anyone buying a stuffed bear will have a chance to toss it into the gun turret of the Humvee with prizes for those making a lucky toss and all proceeds going for the Toys for Tots shopping spree. Deadline for bringing new toys to the drop off locations is December 15th. "There is a greater need this year than in the past with the sluggish economy, fish closures and many out of work so I encourage you to take time out of your shopping day to pick up a new toy and take it to a drop off location and we'll do the rest to be sure you make this a happy holiday for those struggling," said Sgt. Rehm. Drop off locations include all three Spenard Builders Locations in Kenai, Soldotna and Homer, Hey Good Lookin' on the Spur Hwy, Midas Muffler, both locations of FNBA, Soldotna Chamber of Commerce, HEA, Hobbies Crafts & Games, Kenai Visitor Center, CPH, KPC, Peninsula Clarion, Stanley Ford, Stanley Chrysler, Computer Renaissance, Lynden Transport, K-Beach Elementary and Jumpin' Junction. Cash donations may be made at the Kenai Visitor Center for more information call Johna Beech at 283-7989. Applications for assistance may be made at the Salvation Army family service office next to the Kenai Thrift Store on the Spur Hwy.


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PM implicated In TVNZ land sale offer to SkyCity, says Winston Peters
Press Release – New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says the National Government must have instigated backroom deals to offer TVNZ land on Hobson St to SkyCity to build its convention centre.
Winston Peters says secret deals by Mr Key, his officials, or other Government Ministers must have occurred because the TVNZ board had no knowledge of the proposal at the time SkyCity first announced its intention to buy the Hobson St site, nor would it act without political approval.
"A sale of this magnitude had to be authorised in principle at the top level. If it wasn't the TVNZ board then that only leaves Mr Key's Government."
Mr Peters says the Auditor General's report glossed over Mr Key's role in TVNZ's intention to sell its Hobson St site, which is adjacent to the SkyCity Casino.
"It was in the interests of many involved in the pokies for convention centre deal to do their dealings verbally and eliminate the chance that written records would implicate them.
"The Auditor General's report agreed with this point when it stated: 'We did not see any evidence of formal discussions or decisions on the evaluation process and criteria, or mapping out of the basic options for what might happen next, or advice to Ministers on how the process would be managed and their involvement in it. We do not regard this as adequate for a project of this potential scale, complexity, and risk'.
"If that's not bad enough, part of the SkyCity deal is their requesting taxpayer funds to pay for future promotions. How sleazy is that?
"This accurately sums up Mr Key's modus operandi of secret meddling so his big business mates can make sacks full of dollars," says Mr Peters.
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Ísafjörður [2] is the biggest town of the Westfjords of Iceland.
Get in
There are mostly three ways to drive into Ísafjörður. The first is from the ringroad in Hrutafjörður, and goes up north on the eastern part of the peninsula through road number 61. That way gives you the oportunity to stop in Holmavik among other places on the way.
The second way to get to Ísafjörður by car is by road 60 from the ringroad, 608 over the moor of Thorskafjardarheidi and then 61 through the many fjords on the way. In the summer, that is the shortest way from Reykjavik, but it is currently not accessible during wintertime.
Thirdly, you can take the ferry Baldur from Stykkisholmur via the small towns on the western part of the peninsula. That way gives you a chance to see for example the great waterfall Dynjandi.
There are regular busses that go from June 1st to 31st August from Akureyri and Reykjavik. Information on that can be found on West Tours' homepage [3]
Additionally, there are two daily flights from Reykjavik with Air Iceland. The fare is relatively cheap if you just want to go from A to B.
Get around
The town is small, but the distances from the town to adjacent towns is further than walking distance. Thus, you would want to study the bus system that can take you all over, bring a bike or have a car. There is a bike rental in town for the active ones that don't want to walk around.
The Island Vigur is one of the most popular tourist destination near Ísafjörður.[4]
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and probably foolish questions.
I am on the live cd (3.1) I have spent the last month or so reading up on the forum and the wiki so as not to appear ....ummm you get the drift. This is a very exciting and visually arresting distro, I cant imagine the work that doing something like this entails but my hat is off to you Devs. OUTSTANDING!!!!
that being said before I install I wondered?
I finally got my res to where I like it on the cd, when I install will it install with those settings?
I am either blind or clueless because from everything I have read I seem to be the only person using a generic usb 5 button mouse that I would like to have set to make the side buttons go back and forward a page
Are there any uncompatible dvd burners out there cause I have a Panasonic DVD burner in a Sony destop that flat out doesnt work
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Racers enjoy the thrill of hidden illegal street racing scene | News
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- There's a group of people in Jacksonville who are doing something illegal but say they can't stop because it is so exhilarating.
"It's a rush. It actually is really exciting. Just the thrill of doing something that's technically not legal."
That's what "John" told us about his illegal street racing in Jacksonville. He asked First Coast News to conceal his identity.
He explained the thrill of the race.
"You want to have that perfect moment, where it's just like, launch it, you're just all out."
John has been racing for about five years.
"We'll all travel out there to that one spot and see what is going on."
He wouldn't tell us where these secret areas are, but he told us they are often on public streets or in large parking lots around town. He said there are a number of different spots.
"Maybe a handful, maybe like five different," he said.
Racers often refer to these strips as the "secret spot." We get a rare glimpse into what happens in these secret spots from some You Tube videos.
These races usually draw a large crowd, and sometimes take a turn for the worse.
"We've actually seen a girl get hit, crossing the road," John said.
He said the girl was watching races on a public road, when a driver not connected to the race passed through and hit her. That type of danger is why he said one of the most important things about racing is to keep an eye out for the cops.
"Yeah, usually the first sign of a cop everyone gets in their cars and they just book it and get out of there."
"It's hard to catch them because we have to see them doing it," Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Melissa Bujeda said.
Bujeda said because of that, and racers constantly changing locations, catching them in the act is a challenge. Finding the deadly results of street racing is not.
"A couple of years ago on the Southside, a mother died picking up her kids. She wasn't part of the racing, the racers hit her and she was the one who died," she said.
But if police do catch racers in action, Bujeda said they will arrest them on the spot. Possible penalties that racer John said adds to the adrenaline rush of an already exhilarating ride.
"There's no track that I know of here in Jacksonville where everybody can safely take their cars so for it being exciting, for it being illegal, it's just the excitement and the thrill of it, just breaking the rules."
Cops said they are using technology to try and catch racers. They are checking out social networking sites, trying to figure out where the next race might be.


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Far Cry 3 will be exploring some interesting theses with the use of drugs and some nudity, but it appears those anxious to explore the game's new direction will have to wait. Ubisoft has announced the game has been delayed to December 4th. It will come out on November 29 in Europe.
"We're taking more time to create the best possible gameplay experience," said Dan Hay, producer at Ubisoft, in the release announcing the delay. "Far Cry 3 is a huge offering and we want every element of this insane, action-packed adventure to be of the highest possible quality for the players."
The game had originally been planned for release in September. Andrew got a look at the game at E3, and the trailer below offers a pretty good glimpse just how crazy the game is shaping up to be.
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For the fourth time in four years, Genoa-Kingston was forced to adjust to a new coach with Kyle Henkel at the helm this season.
The Cogs had a rough start adjusting to a new system, but they've made progress. The Cogs are now playing opponents close, like they did in their 40-37 overtime loss Tuesday to Rockford Christian.
"I thought we played well throughout the whole game," Henkel said. "We're finally starting to compete in more games than we did at the start of the year. It's kind of a breath of fresh air for us."
The next step for G-K is to learn to close out those tight games.
"We just had mental mistakes down the stretch because of the way our season started," Henkel said. "We weren't used to being in close games, so we're still learning how to handle ourselves in those situations."
Aase returns strong: Sycamore freshman Kayley Aase was out for three months with an ankle injury, but the 6-footer scored 12 points in her first game back Friday for the Spartans against Morris.
"It was tough coming back in after three months, but it got better," Aase said. "For being off that long, I feel like I did pretty well."
Aase will combine with fellow freshman forward Taiya Hopkins, who has succeeded on varsity in Aase's stead, to make the Spartans a tough team inside for years to come.
"She's a nice target for us inside and she knows how to finish," Sycamore coach Brett Goff said. "She gets rebounds for us, which we desperately need at times because we're so undersized."
VIEWS: Barbs to benefit from tough nonconference schedule
Former DeKalb coach Ben Bates knew he had to schedule tough nonconference games if he wanted his team to be a state contender.
DeKalb is in a different class than their NI Big 12 foes, both literally and figuratively.
As coach of the only Class 4A team in the conference, Bates scheduled games against some of the best teams in the state, including defending Class 4A champion Whitney Young and defending Class 3A champion Montini.
"We're a 4A school in a 3A conference, so we have to play as many 4A teams as we can," current coach Chris Davenport said. "That's important. It's nothing against any team in our conference."
Both games were losses, but it doesn't matter.
Davenport and the Barbs clearly see themselves as a state contender. They aspire to make it back to the super-sectional, and maybe even make it further.
DeKalb is the best team in the area. A few years down the road, they may have a tough competitor in Sycamore, but right now, they reign supreme in DeKalb County and the NI Big 12.
But the Barbs aspire to be one of the best teams in Illinois. The only way they'll get there is by testing themselves against the best.
Win or lose, Davenport will have no regrets about his team's schedule this year.
Anthony Zilis is a contributor to the Daily Chronicle. He can be reached via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Bria Foley, Genoa-Kingston, junior, guard
Foley missed the entire 2011-12 season after tearing her ACL, and she wasn't cleared to play until the end of the summer.
The junior has been slowly working her way back into form, and she's become a big part of a G-K team that is slowly becoming competitive. Foley led the Cogs with 11 points in Tuesday's 40-37 overtime loss to Rockford Christian.
Rochelle at Sycamore, 7 p.m., Tuesday
Sycamore can show just how much they've improved this season after losing to Rochelle early in conference play.
Indian Creek, Hiawatha and Hinckley-Big Rock at the Little Ten Conference Tournament, Monday through Friday at Serena
All three schools will head to the annual midseason conference tournament.
1. DeKalb (16-3, 5-0 Northern Illinois Big 12 East)
The Barbs beat Rochelle on Friday before losing to defending Class 3A champs Montini in overtime Saturday.
2. Kaneland (11-6, 3-3 NI Big 12 East)
Kaneland had a big win Wednesday in overtime against Rochelle in NI Big 12 action.
3. Sycamore (6-7, 1-3 NI Big 12 East)
The Spartans won their first conference game with a decisive win Friday over Morris.
4. Hinckley-Big Rock (10-10, 5-2 Little Ten Conference)
The Royals kept up their strong LTC run with a win Monday against LaMoille.
5. Hiawatha (7-12, 1-4 LTC)
The Hawks lost to Harvard, 39-32, on Tuesday.
6. Indian Creek (9-10, 3-3 LTC)
The Timberwolves had a big win Tuesday over Mooseheart.
7. Genoa-Kingston (2-16, 0-3 Big Northern Conference East)
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You are allowing yourself to be taken advantage of. No one else is doing it for you.
Either suck it up and be generous for whatever reason seems to validate your own needs or look in your pants, find your balls and let the exes know that the gravy train ends when they betray you and you kick them out of your bed.


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come on Brass Monkey, knock him in
come on Brass Monkey, knock him in
Man I feel sorry for the Mets catcher
Shocked Ludwick has hit RA in his career seems like a guy he would have next to shot hitting since he likes it low and to hit a knuckleball the old saying is if its high let it fly and if its low let it go.
You've been beating the drum of how badly Walt screwed up in not doing Ondrusek for Victorino straight up. Yet you still don't seem to acknowledge that it ended up taking a lot more value than one Ondrusek to get Vic to LA.
Think they were just going to give Walt the good guy discount because he's nice?
Reds are up 3-1 on a Cy Young candidate. Can we just enjoy that, maybe?
atleast we didn't trade for Wandy. Pirates fans are going crazy on twitter right now
anybody think we make a august deal???
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|Nut Protein Bread
November, 2002
Makes 16 slices / A protein-rich, grain-free bread that can be eaten as is, used to make sandwiches, or enjoyed with dips, spreads, or nut butters.
1-1/2 cups raw almonds or hazelnuts, or 2 cups raw pecans
7 eggs, separated
1 teaspoon unrefined sea salt
1 teaspoon dried basil leaves (optional)
1/2 teaspoon each garlic powder and parsley flakes, or 2 teaspoons
caraway seeds (optional)
1. Preheat oven to 325°. Lightly grease an 11" x 18" baking sheet with a 1-inch edge (jelly roll pan). Grind nuts, 1/2 cup at a time, in a food processor until fine. Using an electric mixer, beat egg whites until stiff. In a separate bowl, beat together ground nuts, egg yolks, and seasonings.
2. Stir 1/4 of the beaten egg whites into the egg yolk mixture until well blended. Fold remaining egg whites into egg yolk mixture. Pour into pan and spread. Bake 20 minutes or until brown. Allow to cool, then cut into bread-sized pieces. To store, place in an airtight container and layer with parchment paper to prevent bread slices from sticking together. Cover and refrigerate or freeze.
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By Tiernan Ray
BP's (BP) chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg spoke with Bloomberg Television's Ryan Chilcote this morning following the Q2 earnings presentation in which the company said CEO Tony Hayward was stepping down and that the firm was looking to sell $30 billion in assets to cover all expected future costs of the Gulf of Mexico spill.
The entire feed of the Bloomberg interview can be seen on YouTube here.
Svanberg told Chilcote that BP's $32 billion estimate for the total ultimate cost of the spill was the best guess BP could come up with, while acknowledging that it's impossible to know the final cost for sure. "[N]obody will know exactly which fishermen will come in with a claim," noted Svanberg.
The asset sale which would be perhaps 10% of a total portfolio of $250 billion in assets, was regrettable, he stated,but it also offered the company the opportunity to "re-set" BP's portfolio.
And on ultimate liability? Drum roll…BP will not be the only guilty party, said Svanberg: "[I]f we were found grossly negligent, it would be higher fines, but we are of the belief that we are not. We will not be found gross negligent and we will not be the sole responsible party."
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Tesla To Build a Rapid-Charging Station Between LA and SF 215
thecarchik writes "Earlier this year at the official launch of the 2012 Model S Sedan, Musk said that Tesla was planning on installing ultra-rapid charging stations along major arterial freeways such as the I-5 between Canada and Mexico, but declined to give specifics. But in an official Tesla earnings call last week, Musk let slip where the first of these ultra-rapid charging stations would be: somewhere between San Francisco and Los Angeles. However, even by the shortest route, the distance between the two cities is nearly 400 miles, meaning that an equidistant SuperCharger would be no use to owners of Model S sedans with smaller 160 or 230-mile battery packs."


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By Megan Cossey - WeNews correspondent
BANGKOK, Thailand (WOMENSENEWS) Thailand's Bangkok-based Foundation for Women is planning to enlist a new World Health Organization report in its effort to block a proposed bill on domestic violence from becoming law.
The WHO report--the first major study on violence against women conducted by the United Nations' public health arm--provides data that a startling number of women have suffered physical or sexual abuse from their intimate partners and describes the long-term public health consequences.
The study canvassed 24,000 women from randomly selected households in 10 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America and found, across the board, that women from Japan to Namibia are at the greatest risk of encountering violence in their own homes, at the hands of their husbands and male partners.
"While the home should be a safe place, women are more at risk at home than on the streets," said the report's author, Dr. Henrica Jansen.
Jansen's team chose the 10 countries for the report because they already have active, established women's groups to which interviewers could refer subjects if they reported abuse. The countries also all had governments that are unusually open to reform.
"WHO is now taking the issue of violence against women very seriously," said Dr. William L. Aldis, the organization's representative from Thailand. He called violence against women "an endemic problem" and a public health problem in every society in the world.
Hoping Grim Numbers Will Help
In Thailand, 41 percent of women in Bangkok and 47 percent in its rural areas have experienced either physical or sexual abuse by an intimate partner. Of those women, two-thirds said their children witnessed the abuse and half of them considered suicide, according to the WHO study, made public in the U.S. Thanksgiving Day.
The study's release came one day before the kick-off of the U.N.'s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, an international campaign used as a springboard for various activities across the world. The campaign began Nov. 25 with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and concludes on Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day.
In most of the countries polled by the WHO study, two interview sites were set up, one urban and the other rural. Within each country women generally fared better in urban areas but results varied widely among countries. While 13 percent of women in Japan have ever suffered physical violence from a male partner, for instance, that figure leaped to 61 percent in rural Peru.
Ethiopia topped the list of countries where women complained of domestic sexual abuse. There, 59 percent of women reported that they were forced into unwanted sexual acts by their husbands or partners out of fear or force. In Japan and Serbia and Montenegro that number dropped to 6 percent. Almost a third of Ethiopian women reported being raped within the past 12 months.
In Thailand, Usa Leardsrisuntad, coordinator of the Bangkok-based Foundation for Women, hopes that the grim numbers in the report will persuade policy makers and university academics--perhaps her most important allies, she says--to rethink the implications of a bill that codifies domestic violence as a crime but assigns a relatively light, six-month sentence.
Weak Laws Could Be Changed
Under the country's criminal law, physical abuse against a relation or stranger that does not result in serious injury would normally be punishable by up to two years.
The bill, which has been approved by Thailand's cabinet, could go before Parliament for a vote at any time in the future. It also emphasizes conserving "the good relationship of a family" over a woman's health and makes no provision for social services, Leardsrisuntad said.
Under the bill, Thai women can call for a protection order against their spouses, but they are expected to stay in the family home instead of being given the option of an emergency shelter.
Leardsrisuntad heads to New York this winter to make her organization's case before the United Nations' Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. In January, the Thai government will attend a special session before the United Nations to report on its progress in eliminating discrimination since it signed on to the convention. In addition to the country's official report, the U.N. will permit Leardsrisuntad and her group to give its own assessment.
A Crucial First Study
Leardsrisuntad said the study is the first for Thailand and a crucial one.
Awareness of the issue is still growing in Thailand, which had no emergency shelters for battered women until the foundation opened its first in 1985. At the time, the foundation faced widespread criticism, even from many of its nongovernmental partners, who considered shelters a Western idea that did not belong in the culture of Thailand where the importance of family cohesion and resolution is emphasized, Leardsrisuntad said. Today Thailand has shelters in nine of its provinces, although most are centered in Bangkok, according to the WHO report.
"The National Office of Statistics never thinks of this issue," Leardsrisuntad told Women's eNews with a bitter smile. "They will think of people with car accidents or violence in public spaces but not at home."
Domestic violence around the world should be seen in the context of public health, WHO's Jansen argued, because the high incidence of domestic sex assault is particularly alarming amid the world's raging AIDS epidemic.
Also, violence by intimate partners radically increases the likelihood that women will attempt suicide. Abused women are three times more likely to have suicidal thoughts and, on average, four times more likely to attempt suicide.
"This report . . . provides clear evidence that shows how this 'minor' social problem is in reality a major public health crisis," Jansen said.
Before the study, the only reliable data on violence against women came from research conducted in the United States, Canada and in Europe.
"We have reason to hope that the findings are credible and will be used," Thailand's Aldis added.
Megan Cossey is a journalist living in Bangkok, Thailand.
For more information:
World Health Organization - "WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence - against Women": - http://www.who.int/gender/violence/who_multicountry_study/en/index.html
Foundation For Women - (English/Thai): - http://www.womenthai.org/eng/index.htm
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Call for Papers: APA 2014 (Chicago, 2-5 January 2014)
Greeks and Achaemenids: War, Diplomacy, Trade, and Culture
John O. Hyland, Christopher Newport University
John W. I. Lee, University of California at Santa Barbara
In the absence of Persian narrative sources, Classicists long relied on Greek texts to construct their visions of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, often focusing on the Greek-Persian Wars of the early fifth century. Against this Hellenocentric perspective, much scholarship since the 1980s has explicitly sought to avoid over-privileging Greek accounts of Achaemenid institutions, behavior, and culture, and to provide a more balanced perspective on Greek-Persian interactions. More recently, however, some have expressed concern that the significance of Persia's military encounters with the Greek city-states might be excessively downplayed, or that Achaemenid scholars have gone too far in their reassessment of the Greek evidence (see for example the warning of Briant 2010 against simplistic "rehabilitation" of Darius III, or the analysis of Achaemenid scholarship in Harrison 2011).
As scholars continue to examine the relationship between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greeks, and to discuss how best to situate the Greek evidence alongside source material from other regions of the Achaemenid world, there is increasing recognition that Achaemenids and Greeks shared an entwined history, shaped not only by war but also by extensive diplomacy, trade, and cultural exchange. Studying these interactions offers opportunities for multidisciplinary cooperation amongst scholars working in diverse fields using diverse sources and methodologies.
This panel aims to encourage new discussions and scholarly cooperation by focusing on military, diplomatic, economic, and cultural interactions amongst Persians, Greeks and others on the western frontiers of the empire (including Anatolia, Egypt, the Levant, and Thrace). The organizers seek papers that assess the relationships between the Greek sources and the non-Greek Achaemenid sources, that present new evidence for Greek-Achaemenid interactions, and that offer new interpretations that will open new lines of communication across traditional departmental and field boundaries.
Topics may include (but are not limited to) Persian and Greek perspectives on military conflict, imperialism, resistance and collaboration; the development of Achaemenid foreign policy in light of the empire's interactions with the Greeks; embassies and the mechanics of Greco-Persian treaty negotiations; the role of eastern Greeks and native Anatolians in the empire; and cultural encounters or exchanges between Persians and Greeks. The organizers especially welcome papers that address trade and economic interaction amongst Greeks, Persians, and others in the Achaemenid world.
This panel will include four papers of 20-minute length. Anonymous abstracts no more than one-page in length in PDF format may be sent as attachments to firstname.lastname@example.com. Please provide the title of this panel, full contact information, and any audio-visual equipment requirements in the body of your e-mail. Abstracts must be received by February 1, 2013.
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In 1924 George Mallory and his team attempted to climb Mount Everest. They were last spotted only 800 feet from the summit, before they disappeared completely. It is unknown whether Mallory died before he made it to the top. If he and his team reached the summit, they would have been the first people to have climbed Everest. Mallory's body was never found, until climber Conrad Anker discovered it frozen and intact 75 years later.
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| This is a record of a unsuccessful nomination to become Staff.
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User:Blaff 60 has been nominated to become a Moderator. This was a self-nomination. Gboyers talk 21:55, December 12, 2009 (UTC)
- Blaff 60, please reply with whether you accept or decline this nomination, and why. If you accept, please answer the questions below.
I accept the nomination, first, i didn't know i was nominated bcoz there are many suggestions in the nomination talk page. Good luck to me.
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What do you think is the hardest thing for new editors to get the hang of (whether a technical skill, a policy or just the way we do things here); how would you spot they were having difficulty; and how would you help them? Maybe explain what was the hardest thing you've had to learn whilst being here? Gboyers talk 16:50, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
- When I got here, I have problems in links and making tables or templates. I see problems of new editors like: putting a link with wrong spelling, wrong input of codes in tables and infoboxes and other grammatical problems. --Blaff 60 12:51, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
- By telling how to do this and that but if they do, they would. If they ask a question to me or others on some system of editing here, I'm happy to help them.--Blaff 60 13:26, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
Becoming staff isn't a reward for good edits, it's a job and a responsibility. How do you feel you could help us, and why should we promote you to become a Moderator? Gboyers talk 16:50, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
- Gladly, I would love to help someone who has problems in editing and I'll change it right away for the wiki and for the readers, to avoid any confusions for them. Well, anything cannot be that hard for the users to change except for ones who vandalized a page and the users will revert the page again. If I would become a staff, I would add new infos, news and updates on the wiki, creat articles and move pages to make them right. I could research more info about GTA but it can be searched through playing as i have all GTA iii era except for IV. I like to contribute more in this wiki as the wiki are read by readers throughout.--Blaff 60 12:51, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
Are there any little tasks, jobs or vendettas you perform around the wiki that you are particularly proud of? Gboyers talk 16:50, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah. I have one, the GTA SA Vehicle template and the Gang Template, as well the TBOGT template and the Beta (vehicles and missions) articles.--Blaff 60 12:51, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
Could you give one example of what you think is one of the best pages on this wiki, and a brief explanation of why you chose that. It should probably be an informational article, but you could use a list or category or similar if you explain why. Gboyers talk 16:50, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
- One of the best pages I think is: the Diamonds page. Because it has most of the description depicted in the storyline and those were great. the description fitted the page, as it contains the origins and the aftermath.--Blaff 60 12:51, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
Do you have any questions about the wiki, its staff or the role of a Moderator, or any final comments before we make our decision? Gboyers talk 16:50, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
- Nah, I have no question. I know a little about the roles and jobs of ev'ry staff. it'll be ok if i became a staff, i would send pictures and make template and pictures. So i'm gonna say "good luck" to me and thank you Gboyers and staffs.--Blaff 60 12:51, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
Your answers above don't really say how being staff would be different for you. How would the status or tools help you be more effective on this wiki? Gboyers talk 16:50, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
By these, it can improve pages, making it more descriptive, not messy. It also be useful by protecting talk pages from spammers or vandals and reverting edits quickly without hesitation. Patrolling too is, I always look or read some pages and fond of editing corrections and adding infos.--Blaff 60 17:26, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn says House Speaker Michael Madigan's pension-reform plan deserves a Senate vote.
The Democratic governor said the proposal is comprehensive.
Illinois has nearly $100 billion in pension debt because of years of state underfunding.
Senate President John Cullerton has a different idea he plans to call for a vote Thursday afternoon. Public employee unions back that proposal.
The House approved the Madigan bill last week. It would require employees to pay 2 percent more toward retirement benefits. It would reduce annual cost-of-living increases for retirees and raise the retirement age for workers under 45.
Cullerton's proposal would offer employees a choice between health insurance or cost-of-living increases. He says it would survive a court challenge.
The Cullerton bill is SB2404. The Madigan bill is SB1.
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Weaknesses of Indonesian Economic
Chamber of Indonesia Commerce and Industry (Kadin) declared Indonesian economy that is actually very promising for both domestic and foreign investors. However, there are still weaknesses seeing by Kadin of the economy that need to be addressed. Vice Chairman of Kadin Indonesia, Novian Anindya Bakrie said, promising Indonesian economy is evidenced by incoming investment, private consumption, and vibrant business world.
"But there are still some weaknesses that Indonesia's economic structure needs to be addressed now," said Anindya at Menara Kadin Jakarta, Wednesday (06/03/2013).
Anindya see Indonesia's economic weakness is in the trade deficit. Currently due to larger imports than exports then it makes more Indonesian trade balance to be deficit. Moreover, the largest import of oil and gas.
On the other hand, Anindya also highlights subsidy of oil (BBM) to the people who actually are not even on target. Current budget fuel subsidy enjoyed by the rich instead.
"As the impact, the deficit and the high pressure gas imports that led to the weakening of the rupiah," he added.
Again, the actual budget for infrastructure even neglected. He rated in the last few months that there is no improvement of government policy so that a problem cannot be resolved. Though foreign investors intending to invest in Indonesia as it will look up the bureaucratic infrastructure. If not good, then foreign investors will pull out of Indonesia.


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The Support Staff Council sponsors numerous activities and events which help to benefit the campus and Warrensburg community. The SSC regularly holds events which allow staff members the opportunity to come together at the annual holiday party, community coffee, Support Staff Breakfast and many more events. At each of these events the Support Staff collect monetary and tangible donations for the Food Center, homeless shelters and other worthy organizations which benefit the community.


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For a VETTE Magazine project car to be true to the name, it has to perform-and no piece of the puzzle is more critical to performance than the powerplant. If you've been following our project, then you know that we've been modifying every aspect of Project C3 Triple-Ex, from the steering and suspension to the brakes and transmission. More recently, we upgraded the interior with replacement panels, race-inspired seating, four-point harnesses, and full Auto Meter instrumentation. Now that the car is finally ready, the culmination of our project is to build an appropriate engine.
Last month we told you of our plans, brought on in part by Editor Heath's challenge to build a first-generation small-block Chevy engine that could out-power the formidable late-model LS7. While the LS engine does have some design advantages over the old small-block, the SBC is backed by a wealth of racing technology developed over the past 50-odd years. We're confident that these tips and tricks will enable us to exceed the LS7s power rating with a small-block of identical 427ci displacement.
While the temptation of an LS swap was certainly attractive, building an SBC for our project vehicle proved the better option for several reasons. Since our '71 is already equipped with a warmed-over 350, installing an architecturally similar engine will be simpler than adapting the engine bay for a late-model replacement. The expenses will be lower as well, as we won't need custom motor mounts, headers, or flywheel and bellhousing adapters to make the engine fit. Additionally, far fewer fuel-system modifications will be required for a carbureted small-block, as compared with a fuel-injected LS powerplant. With these factors in mind, we laid out a plan for our engine.
In last month's issue we highlighted the parts we'll be using for this build, including a Dart aluminum block, Dart Pro1 CNC cylinder heads, and a lightweight forged rotating assembly utilizing parts from Mahle and Summit Racing Equipment. We'll be duplicating the LS7 in terms of both bore and stroke, for an identical displacement. And thanks to its all-aluminum construction, our SBC should weigh roughly the same as well. But to actually out-power the LS7, we'll need to employ some engine-building tricks, many of which will be accomplished during the machining phase of the build.
This month we'll visit our local machine shop, Auto Performance Engines in Auburndale, Florida, and follow along as owner Kevin Willis and his staff perform the necessary operations. The machining process isn't fully understood by many enthusiasts, but this phase is critical to an engine's durability as well as its output. Inaccurate machine work can lead to disappointing power numbers, as rings have trouble sealing to cylinders that aren't perfectly round and true. In fact there are a number of machining operations that can make or break an engine, and we'll show you all of them in this article.
We often hear that one machine shop charges significantly more than another for "the same work." But while the operations performed might be the same, the quality of the work isn't. It takes time to perform machine work accurately and correctly, and tooling must be replaced regularly to maintain this standard of accuracy. If we compare two identical engines-one with poorly performed machine work, and the other with accurately performed work-they may make similar power initially. After some street use or a few trips to the track, however, the "budget" engine will often make itself apparent by running slower lap or elapsed times, making less power on a dynamometer, burning oil, or, worse yet, scattering its internals through the oil pan or block.
You may be asking yourself why all this machine work is necessary if we're using new parts. We'll show you. While this engine can basically be bolted together, the cylinders need to be honed to their final size based on the diameter of the piston. We'll first measure the pistons, then hone the cylinders for precise piston-to-cylinder clearance. Also, because the Dart aluminum block is customarily used with dry-sump oiling, we'll need to machine some drain holes, so the oil can find its way back to the pan. For maximum quench area in the combustion chamber, we'll mill the deck of the block so that the piston is truly at the top of the cylinder at top dead center. We'll also cut deeper valve pockets in our Mahle forged pistons, then angle-mill the Dart heads. This will allow us to achieve a compression ratio of just over 11:1 with plenty of piston-to-valve clearance-even if we use our Jesel beltdrive to advance or retard camshaft timing.
Knowing how critical the machining process is, and the complicated nature of what we wanted to achieve, we elected to use what we believe to be the best high-performance machine shop in central Florida, Auto Performance Engines. While the shop is not the least expensive in our area, owner Kevin Willis knows his stuff, replaces tooling regularly, and isn't scared to tell us if something isn't correct. Follow along now as APE performs the necessary steps to get our engine pieces ready for final assembly. And be sure to tune in to a future issue, as we put our LS7-killer small-block together, bolt it to the dyno, and see if we've achieved our goal of exceeding the LS7's 505hp rating.