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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WOMENSENEWS) — Regardless of their age, marital status, education or early prenatal care, African American women are more likely to bear premature and low-birth-weight infants, those under 6 pounds, whose survival odds are below the U.S. norm.
Nationwide, black women are three to four times more likely to die giving birth than either white or Latina women. Their infants' mortality risk is doubled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The disparity has persisted even as infant mortality rates for the nation as a whole have fallen.
In the face of such statistics, Eleanor Hinton Hoytt says the standard definition of maternal health-pregnancy through the first six months after delivery-doesn't suffice.
"Prenatal care alone doesn't solve the problem," said Hoytt. "It's the life course of women in our communities that is making us give birth prematurely to sick babies. The gap (between black and white women) persists because we haven't done enough. We need to reframe the policy issues. We need to address maternal health first, then talk about infant mortality."
Hoytt is president of the Black Women's Health Imperative, a network of activists, community organizations and researchers which last weekend marked it 25th anniversary with a conference in Washington.
Historically, researchers have explored infant mortality-versus maternal mortality-because more infants than mothers die during delivery.
Out of 4.1 million births in 2004, 540 mothers died, compared to nearly 28,000 infant deaths. Black infants died at the rate of 13.7 per thousand; white infants, at the rate of 5.7 per thousand, and Latino infants at 5.6 per thousand.
Doctors usually blame the mothers for the deaths of their infants, citing teen pregnancy, smoking and other drugs, lack of education, poverty-and most recently-genes.
But now-on the heels of research finding health woes pervading all strata of black American society-a growing body of researchers is looking beyond socio-economic factors to explain the higher twinned rates of infant and maternal mortality among African Americans.
Crop of New Findings
Over the last 10 years, the National Institutes of Health's Office of Research on Women's Health, led by its first full-time director, Vivian Pinn, an African American appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1991, has encouraged a body of research indicating that the roots of black maternal ill health run deep. Among the findings:
Black immigrant women have fewer low-birth-weight babies than native-born black women.
Pregnant African American women are most likely to develop hypertension and diabetes. They are also most likely to retain weight gained during pregnancy.
The problems get worse as the mothers get older, indicating a cumulative effect of stress. (Women of Color Health Data Book, 2005).
At the forefront of those seeking psychosocial explanations is Fleda Mask Jackson, a research methodologist at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, who presented at the weekend conference.
Jackson, along with colleagues Carol Hogue and Mona Phillips, published the Jackson-Hogue-Phillips Contextualized Stress Measure in 2005. The 71-question peer-reviewed survey is designed to help doctors assess the pregnant mother's concerns about the racial experiences of children; racial and gendered discrimination in the workplace; and the mother's history of emotional, physical and sexual abuse.
"Patients who answer it give their health care provider context for assessing stressors before, during and after pregnancy," Jackson said in an e-mail.
Tribute to Byllye Avery
Jackson traces her determination to find wider social explanations to Byllye Avery, who stresses the intergenerational aspects of black women's health. In 1981 Avery first founded the Black Women's Health Imperative as an offshoot of the National Women's Health Network in Washington. In 1989, Avery won a MacArthur "genius" award for leadership in health care for women and was named a Women's eNews 21 Leader for the 21st Century 2004.
Moving the Message Ahead
Eleanor Hinton Hoytt, president of the Black Women's Health Imperative, said she wanted women to leave the 25th reunion meeting on June 19-21 recharged and renewed, inspired to begin organizing more women on the ground, to walk more often and eat better. "We all have the same issues," said Hoytt. "By walking together, we bond together as black women and with friends and neighbors. By bonding, we help rebuild our communities." On the final day of the two-and-a-half-day conference about 250 women gathered for a 5-kilometer power walk around the Washington Monument Mall. They came from cities such as Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle and Gainesville, Fla. They represented organizations such as Mocha Moms, for African American stay-at-home mothers, the Center for Black Women's Wellness in Atlanta, as well as public health and health care workers. "It makes me feel good that other black women are concerned about our health," said Teresa James, a bible school teacher from Montgomery, Ala. "I'm going to take the message home. Eat better, walk, exercise and take care of my spiritual self. I like that the message was about the whole person." |
"She pushed me to quantify the impact of being black in America," said Jackson.
"We as black women have a different perspective," Avery has said. "When white women got together, really most of the things they wanted to talk about were reproductive health issues. But when black women got together, and we started talking about health, we started talking about things that had to do with psychological well-being, that placed an emphasis on our ethnicity, our culture, our subculture, the way we were reared, the things that go on in our life and how that affects our health."
Last fall, in a report on nutrition, stress and black maternal health for the Washington-based Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Jackson recommended more employment, and better housing, education and safety in black communities as one way to deal with the stressors on black women.
But she also emphasized one simple idea: Mothers, especially black mothers, need someone to talk to, a chance to blow off steam and to commiserate with those who understand what it means to be dismissed or disrespected because of the color of their skin.
With 50 percent of African American women in their childbearing years now overweight,
Shiriki Kumanyika, another conference participant, also emphasized the value of nutrition and exercise. She said that overeating during pregnancy, then failing to lose the weight afterward, is a huge problem because of the illnesses that accompany obesity among mothers: diabetes, hypertension and reproductive system cancers.
Overweight black women are twice as susceptible to these diseases as their white counterparts. Taken together, these diseases help reduce black women's life expectancy to 76 years, compared to 81 years for white women. Furthermore, overweight black mothers tend to have overweight children.
'Obesigenic' Environments
"Most black women live in what I call 'obesigenic' environments," said Kumanyika, a founder of the African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network and a professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania's medical school. By that she means neighborhoods filled with fast food chains and lacking parks or stores that sell fresh produce.
Annelle Primm, director of minority and national affairs for the American Psychiatric Association in Arlington, Va., gave a conference talk called "Black and Feeling Blue" touching on a reluctance among blacks to recognize depression as an illness in its own right. About 1 in 10 women experience depression at some point during or after pregnancy, but black women are less likely to be diagnosed and treated, Primm said.
"We talk about 'feelin' evil'," Primm told the audience, "but much of the time when we're feelin' evil we're masking feelings: feeling guilty; blaming ourselves for things those in our family have done, or for our inability to do anything about things they have done; feeling hopeless, helpless and worthless."
Primm said depression often accompanies the other big three illnesses that strike black mothers: diabetes, hypertension and obesity.
Another conference participant, Rev. Renita Weems, a noted Methodist theologian, reiterated that improving maternal health begins with social connections. Women, she said, need to feel they belong to a community before they can raise whole children.
"We need to take care of women before pregnancy," she said. "A woman has to believe she's got a right to live. She's got to believe she's got a reason to live before she will go to the doctor."
June Cross is a documentary filmmaker and an associate professor of journalism at Columbia University.
This series is supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Women's eNews welcomes your comments. E-mail us at [email protected].


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Happy Weekend!
A quick snap of my Birthday flowers before they fade. A beautiful gift from my family...flowers & a spa package. All in all a much better birthday than last years funeral & a move. I'm ready to spend the weekend relaxing with my family and celebrating another blessed year.
How about you, how will you spend your weekend?
{peace, love & hugs}

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I know the syntax, rules applied to abstract class and I want know usage of an abstract class
Abstract class can not be instantiated directly but can be extended by other class
What is the advantage of doing so?
How it is different from an Interface?
I know that one class can implement multiple interfaces but can only extend one abstract class. Is that only difference between an interface and an abstract class?
I am aware about usage of an Interface. I have learned that from Event delegation model of AWT in Java.
In which situations I should declare class as an abstract class? What is benefits of that?


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Yuval Levin
On June 22, the Congressional Budget Office released its annual "Long-Term Budget Outlook." To call the document grim would be a grave understatement. It describes a massive wave of debt that threatens very soon to drown us—and that, thanks to the weak economy and the continuing growth of spending, is coming at us very fast.
In last year's outlook, which was alarming enough, the CBO projected that our national debt would be 91 percent of GDP in 2021. The agency now says debt will be 101 percent of GDP in 2021—that is, a decade from now our debt will be larger than our economy, and still growing quickly. By 2030, CBO projects debt will top 150 percent of the economy, and by 2037 it will be 200 percent and growing. At that point, the federal government would be spending almost a tenth of the nation's GDP on interest payments alone, up from 1 percent today.
No nation could prosper under such a massive burden of debt. The CBO is notoriously understated in drawing conclusions from the figures it provides, but last week's report brims with barely restrained panic. Alarming as the raw figures are, the report notes, its projections "do not include the harmful effects that rising debt would have on economic growth and interest rates. If those effects were taken into account, projected debt would increase even faster." "Rising debt," moreover, "would increasingly restrict policymakers' ability to use tax and spending policies to respond to unexpected challenges, such as economic downturns or financial crises."
And a crisis is exactly what we should expect. "Growing federal debt," the report states, "also would increase the probability of a sudden fiscal crisis, during which investors would lose confidence in the government's ability to manage its budget and the government would thereby lose its ability to borrow at affordable rates." In the poker-faced bureaucratic parlance of the CBO, this kind of talk is tantamount to shouting fire.
To be sure, all of this will happen only if we fail to change course. It will be a choice made knowingly by leaders who were warned well in advance about the consequences. Congressional Republicans have offered a detailed alternative to this dire scenario: The budget they passed in April would curtail spending and reform entitlement programs to reduce the debt dramatically and enable economic growth.
But rather than propose an alternative of their own, or take the Republican budget as an invitation to negotiate, Democrats have demagogued the Republican plan—scaring seniors about a Medicare reform that would not even affect them, for instance—and have otherwise offered nothing.
The Democratic Senate has not proposed a budget in either of the last two years. In February, President Obama offered a budget that would actuallyincrease the deficit. Then in a speech in April he essentially retracted it, and offered in its place a vague and incoherent series of policy goals that left Democrats with no particular agenda. On June 23, at a hearing of the Budget Committee, CBO director Douglas Elmendorf was asked what his agency made of the proposals in that presidential address. "We don't estimate speeches," he said. "We need much more specificity than was provided in that speech."
Republicans have no way to force the Democrats to be more specific and to take the crisis seriously. But they are doing their best to use the fight over raising the government's debt ceiling—a fight the Democrats cannot avoid—to compel some responsible action.
Until last week, that fight had been focused on negotiations led by Vice President Biden. Those talks certainly revealed something about the Democrats' priorities: In the midst of a spending-driven debt explosion and a weak economy, Democrats in Washington want to raise taxes. But the negotiations also revealed the continuing unwillingness of the president to make specific proposals about how to reduce spending, reform entitlements, and bring the debt under control. On June 23, House majority leader Eric Cantor (who had represented House Republicans at the negotiations) decided he'd had enough, and left the talks in order to force the issue to a higher level and compel the president to get specific.
Even some congressional Democrats seem frustrated by the White House's absenteeism. Asked if the breakup of the Biden talks would mean that a bipartisan group of senators negotiating a deal of their own would take center stage in the budget debate, Senate majority leader Harry Reid said, "My honest feeling is that we are beyond gangs of five and gangs of sixes." Instead, the president would have to get directly involved. "It's in the hands of the speaker and the president and, sadly, probably me," Reid said.
"Sadly" is right, but Reid and Obama are the leaders the Democrats have, and it is high time they faced up to the nation's foremost domestic challenge. Republicans were right to force the budget debate to the top, and now President Obama must decide if he is finally ready to get serious.
The country is facing a fiscal disaster greatly exacerbated by the policies of the Obama administration and congressional Democrats, but so far the president has refused to acknowledge the problem or act to alleviate it. He has been struggling to avoid making tough choices, hoping instead to paper over our troubles with words and so distract voters from the need for action. The public, however, is more serious than the president supposes. If he fails to show leadership and take meaningful action to reduce our debt, he will find that voters do not estimate by speeches. They reach their judgments by looking at results.


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Women have lower career expectations than men, anticipating smaller paycheques and longer waits for promotions, according to a new study involving a University of Guelph researcher.
When comparing career expectations of Canadian female and male university students, Prof. Sean Lyons discovered that women predict their starting salaries to be 14 per cent less than what the men forecast. This gap in wage expectations widens over their careers with women anticipating their earnings to be 18 per cent less than men after five years on the job.
As for their first promotion, the study found women expect to wait close to two months longer than men for their first step up the corporate ladder.
"It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg-situation," said the business professor, who worked on the study with Carleton University professor Linda Schweitzer and Dalhousie University professor Ed Ng. "Women know that they currently aren't earning as much as men so they enter the workforce with that expectation. Because they don't expect to earn as much, they likely aren't as aggressive when it comes to negotiating salaries or pay raises and will accept lower-paying jobs than men, which perpetuates the existing inequalities."
The study, to be published in the journal Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, involved surveying more than 23,000 Canadian university students about salary and promotion expectations as well as career priorities.
The reality is there is a gap in salary with university-educated women earning only 68 per cent of the salaries of equally qualified men, according to a 2008 Canadian Labour Force Survey.
"This study shows that women aren't blissfully ignorant and know the gender gap exists," said Lyons.
However, the researchers were surprised by the results considering the students are part of the "millenninal" generation characterized as more egalitarian.
Lyons said the disparity in career expectations between genders partly reflects inflated expectations of young men.
"Overall we found the male students' expectations are way too high. These results may indicate that women are just more realistic about their salary expectations."
Gender gaps in salary expectation and career advancement were widest among students planning to enter male-dominated fields such as science and engineering and narrowest for those preparing for female-dominated or neutral fields such as arts and science.
Another factor influencing women's lower career expectations could be the gender differences in career priorities, Lyons said. The study found that women were more likely to choose balancing their personal life with their careers and contributing to society as top career priorities. Whereas men preferred priorities associated with higher salaries, such as career advancement and building a sound financial base.
"It may be that women expect to trade off higher salaries for preferences in lifestyle."
Women's lower expectations might also reflect their seeking career information from other working women, added Lyons.
"If these students are asking their mothers or other older women for their experiences, they will be getting a reflection of the historical inequality."
Despite differing expectations, the study found women and men have the exact same levels of self confidence and self-efficacy.
"Our study shows women don't feel inferior to men and view themselves as every bit as capable as their male counterparts."
Current strategies to improve workforce equality aim to increase the number of women in male-dominated fields. However, Lyons said post-secondary students need to be receiving accurate salary information before they begin working.
"Professors and career counselors should make it a priority to provide students with accurate information regarding actual salaries and expected promotion rates for university graduates in their field," he said. "Awareness is essential to empowering these young women to think differently about the way they value themselves relative to their male colleagues."


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Of course, most bottom feeders don't even use predictive dialers anymore; they just use robocalls. Those are easy and fun to deal with.
At home do you answer calls that you don't recognize? My family doesn't. I will search the caller ID number, if it shows up on a list of websites known to be telemarketers I block the call.
If I don't know the number and I pick it up (perhaps because I don't know if someone I expect to call is calling), I don't say anything.
I just pick it up, and wait.
If I hear silence on the other end (no background noise at all), I hang up.
Heh. You got to the news before I did.
[ http://tinyurl.com/zwgfg55 ]
I am delighted. In fact, I am quasi-ecstatic. Facebook spent $150 millions in an attempt to assimilate millions of sub-Saharan Africans into its borg, and the satellite got blown up on the pad. I'm happy those poor Africans are saved from Facebook for a little longer. I'm happy Zuck is out $150 million, and I'm happy that he's unhappy.
Couldn't have happened to a more deserving ... well, let's not go *that* far :)
The video at [ http://tinyurl.com/hcpy3gy ] is a bit longer. I'm looking at all the smoke coming out of the vehicle before the explosion. I don't know enough about rocketry to identify it but it looks to me as if something may have been on fire inside the launch vehicle prior to the explosion.
$150 million... I think Zuck the **** makes that each day selling people's private into and internet viewing habits. I am sorry it happened to SpaceX
The "smoke" in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BgJEXQkjNQ I think is normal gasses, steam being released.
Will "Die in a car fire" be replaced by "May your 150 million dollar satellite get destroyed in a launch pad explosion"?
so I can't call you guys? because you can't identify my number (caller id doesn't seem to work for calls from Israel to most people)
I don't know a lot of people who actually like talking on the phone anyway.
An online chat is preferred. For people who are worth it, an in-person visit is even better.
So yeah, the facebook rocket explosion was awesome. The only thing that could have made it better would be for it to have crashed into a facebook data center before exploding.
I just got a call from "Microsoft" (you know, the folks in India who tell you that your computer has a virus and helpfully walk you through the fix, which is actually enrollment in their botnet).
I had the guy convinced ... honestly ... that I couldn't start the computer right now because it's powered by a generator turned by a hamster in a wheel, and the hamster is sleeping. He's going to call back tomorrow.
Evidently these people are absolutely bottom of the barrel. They aren't afraid to curse at you and threaten you. I like messing with douchebags on the phone, but unless you're really dedicated you can only go so far with these guys, because they do have your phone number.
"Hi [IG],
Sorry I missed you. When can we schedule a time to have a call about [our product]? I see that you've visited our web site several times."
Ok, douchebag. Even if I had visited your web site, which I haven't, you wouldn't be able to know my real name and email address unless I actually signed up for something. Do these douchenozzles really think they can fool me into thinking I visited their web site, started an inquiry with them, and then forgot about it?
Even worse are the ones who use my first name in the subject line. But at least those can be deleted without reading because there is an almost 100% chance that if I see my name in the subject line, it's some douchecanoe who bought a mailing list.
I was recently at a client's office, when they received a call from a company that specialized in optimizing mobile phone contracts. The client passed me the phone and the guy on the other end introduced himself, stating he worked with all major mobile phone contractors in germany. He explicitly named 3 or 4, which I found odd, because they are rivals, usually.
He then continued that he would like to talk with us about the our phone contracts and that he sees a lot of potential for improving, saving costs, etc. He did that in a way that really gave me the feeling he knew about the company itself and the various contracts they have, like he was officially from some phone company. When I asked "which contract specifically" he said he wasn't allowed to disclose that for privacy reasons. That was when my spidy sense began tingling... He later sent an email where he stated that he needed the last three bills of every phone contract, the business certificate and some legal document that would show him who the owners of the business are. That was when I was absolutely certain that he is an asshole, instead of an official representative of anything.
We did not enter any business with them, I then searched the web for the reputation of the company and they seem to be a bunch of assholes that claim to improve service but actually worsen the situation. They charm you into signing a permission that they are allowed to change/create new phone contracts in your name and then they run amok. Like you end up with X new contracts that should replace your X old contracts and they forget to cancel your old ones.
I was a bit baffled as to how good the guy on the phone was, I am certain that they have a hit quote of over 50%, because he really seemed to already be in charge for the contracts. This particular client would have easily fallen for them, if I hadn't firewalled the scumbags.
When I review an audio message for someone matching my first name, when most people know me by my nickname, I know it's most likely a bottom feeder.
That's actually why I use my first name on most correspondence, etc, and use my nickname when talking with people. Since so many mechanical things require a name, and I use a name like 'Joseph' instead of 'fleeb' (note: not my usual nickname, as most of you know), then it provides extra screening for me.
You'd be surprised how well that works.
Just got a message in my corporate e-mail recently from a guy asking Joseph if he could forward to 'Pam' or somesuch in accounts payable about a bill that he created so he could stiff my company for services he never gave us.


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The Westboro Baptist Church, an American sect known for promoting the Christian God's stance on homosexuality (it would appear he frowns upon it), has announced (PDF) it will picket the funerals of Dutch persons "killed at [the] Amsterdam plane crash." No divine inspiration there, I am afraid. Yahweh forgot to tell the church there were no Dutch nationals among the dead. But these statements appear par for the course for the devout, as the church has also announced Turks will get the same treatment (PDF).
Meanwhile the radio this morning reported (RTV-NH, no written story available, yet) that at least two so-called American 'ambulance chasers', lawyers who try to represent accident victims, have been harassing the victims of the Turkish Airlines plane crash.
There's a phrase the Dutch use for the extravagances we associate with the USA: 'Amerikaanse toestanden' (American situations). And the reason we apply that label is because we want no truck with them. Rare though is the time the Americans actually try and export their 'situations.'
Photo of a citizen, a comb-over and a card by flickr.com user k763, some rights reserved.


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Even if your company's website is perfectly fine and you are getting traffic and have a high page ranking, you may want to test the waters and see if you can improve your website's statistics. The best way to do this is to do A/B testing. A/B testing lets you know if a different version of your website is better at drawing visitors than your current one. With classic A/B testing a company would send out two different versions of pamphlets to their direct mailing list. Half would get the old version and half would get a new version. This way the company could see which one brought in the most sales and generated the most interest. A/B testing these days holds true to the same principle, just with websites. This can be a super marketing tool, if done right. And, like with most things, there is a right and a wrong way to do it.
Don't test too many variations at once
If you test too many different version of your company website, it will be very hard to narrow down which one did the best. The more versions of your website that you test, the larger you need your sample audience to be. And if you have way too many websites to test, you may not be able to get a sample size large enough to do your testing. It's best to stick to two or three sites at a time so that you have more control and an easier time of testing.
Do know what you are testing for
Are you interested in increasing your sale or just getting more people to your website? Or maybe you want to know which version will entice the most page clicks per visit. Know what you are testing for before you start will make the process and the data analysis a lot easier.
Don't change too many elements of the website
If you change the header, font, background color, add graphics and the new website gets some more hits it will be very hard to know exactly what element attracted the additional attention. This can become a huge issue if you are testing more than one new site and you are reusing some of the elements. If you are looking at completely overhauling your website this may not be totally bad. But if you just wanted to make one or two improvements this approach will make it next to impossible to know which ones to change.
Test all the sites at the same time
Simultaneous testing is the key to A/B testing. If you direct everyone to the original site on Tuesday morning and then direct everyone to the new site on Wednesday night, even if the new site gets twice as many hits, the data will be inconclusive and unusable. Why? If more people are apt to surf the web on a Wednesday night rather than a Tuesday morning, it would only make sense that the new site would get more hits. For a true test you need to randomly direct visitors to one of the sites you are testing at teh same time.
Have a large enough sample size
If your sample size is too small, any data collected will be insignificant and unusable. Ideally you want to have as many people visiting your site as possible. The larger the sample size, the better your results and the more concrete the data collected will be. If you find that you aren't getting a large enough sample of visitors, you will need to either run the A/B test for a longer period of time or test fewer sites.


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This is my first experiment with a new technic called HDTR, for "High Dynamic Time Range". The goal is to show the flow of the time in one frame. In the left side of the picture the time of shooting was 17h30, in the right side, 18h30. I shot this picture from a place called Le Signal in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Thanks to Martin Krzywinski for his algorithm on images blending.


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Reyataz treats HIV infection. Take with food. Do not miss any doses as missing doses can make it more difficult to treat HIV.
Reyataz Overview
Reyataz is a prescription medication used in combination with other medications to treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Reyataz belongs to a group of medications called protease inhibitors which work by stopping the virus from replicating.
This medication comes in capsule form and is taken once daily, with food.
Reyataz is also available as an oral powder and is taken with food or liquid.
Common side effects of Reyataz include nausea, stomach pain, and headaches.
How was your experience with Reyataz?
Reyataz Cautionary Labels
Uses of Reyataz
Reyataz is a prescription medicine used with other anti-HIV medicines to treat people 6 years of age and older who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
This medication may be prescribed for other uses. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
For more information on this medication choose from the list of selections below.
Reyataz Drug Class
Reyataz is part of the drug class:
Side Effects of Reyataz
The following side effects have been reported with Reyataz:
- nausea
- yellowing of the skin or eyes
- rash
- headache
- stomach pain
- vomiting
- insomnia
- numbness
- tingling, or burning of hands or feet
- dizziness
- myalgia
- diarrhea
- depression
- fever
- muscle pain
This is not a complete list of Reyataz side effects. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
Reyataz Interactions
Do not take Reyataz if you take the following medicines (not all brands may be listed; tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take). Reyataz may cause serious, life-threatening side effects or death when used with these medicines.
- Ergot medicines: dihydroergotamine, ergonovine, ergotamine, and methylergonovine such as Cafergot, Migranal, D.H.E. 45, ergotrate maleate, Methergine, and others (used for migraine headaches)
- Orap (pimozide, used for Tourette's disorder)
- Propulsid (cisapride, used for certain stomach problems)
- Triazolam, also known as Halcion (used for insomnia)
- Midazolam, also known as Versed (used for sedation), when taken by mouth
Do not take the following medicines with Reyataz because of possible serious side effects:
- Camptosar (irinotecan, used for cancer)
- Crixivan (indinavir, used for HIV infection). Both Reyataz and Crixivan sometimes cause increased levels of bilirubin in the blood
- Cholesterol-lowering medicines Mevacor (lovastatin) or Zocor (simvastatin)
- Uroxatral (alfuzosin, used to treat benign enlargement of the prostate)
- Revatio (sildenafil, used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension)
Do not take the following medicines with Reyataz because they may lower the amount of Reyataz in your blood. This may lead to an increased HIV viral load. Resistance to Reyataz or cross-resistance to other HIV medicines may develop:
- Rifampin (also known as Rimactane, Rifadin, Rifater, or Rifamate, used for tuberculosis)
- St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum), an herbal product sold as a dietary supplement, or products containing St. John's wort
- Viramune (nevirapine, used for HIV infection)
- Nevirapine
The following medicines are not recommended with Reyataz:
- Serevent Diskus (salmeterol) and Advair (salmeterol with fluticasone), used to treat asthma, emphysema/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease also known as COPD
Do not take the following medicine if you are taking Reyataz and Norvir together:
- Vfend (voriconazole)
The following medicines may require your healthcare provider to monitor your therapy more closely (for some medicines a change in the dose or dose schedule may be needed):
- Cialis (tadalafil), Levitra (vardenafil), or Viagra (sildenafil), used to treat erectile dysfunction. Reyataz may increase the chances of serious side effects that can happen with Cialis, Levitra, or Viagra. Do not use Cialis, Levitra, or Viagra while you are taking Reyataz unless your healthcare provider tells you it is okay.
- Adcirca (tadalafil) or Tracleer (bosentan), used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension
- Lipitor (atorvastatin) or Crestor (rosuvastatin). There is an increased chance of serious side effects if you take Reyataz with this cholesterol-lowering medicine.
- Medicines for abnormal heart rhythm: Cordarone (amiodarone), lidocaine, quinidine (also known as Cardioquin, Quinidex, and others)
- Mycobutin (rifabutin, an antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis)
- Buprenex, Subutex, Suboxone (buprenorphine or buprenorphine/naloxone, used to treat pain and addiction to narcotic painkillers)
- Vascor (bepridil, used for chest pain).
- Coumadin (warfarin)
- Tricyclic antidepressants such as Elavil (amitriptyline), Norpramin (desipramine), Sinequan (doxepin), Surmontil (trimipramine), Tofranil (imipramine), or Vivactil (protriptyline)
- Medicines to prevent organ transplant rejection: Sandimmune or Neoral (cyclosporin), Rapamune (sirolimus), or Prograf (tacrolimus)
- The antidepressant trazodone ( Desyrel and others)
- Fluticasone propionate (Flonase, Flovent), given by nose or inhaled to treat allergic symptoms or asthma. Your doctor may choose not to keep you on fluticasone, especially if you are also taking Norvir.
- Colchicine (Colcrys), used to prevent or treat gout or treat familial Mediterranean fever
The following medicines may require a change in the dose or dose schedule of either Reyataz or the other medicine:
- Invirase (saquinavir)
- Norvir (ritonavir)
- Sustiva (efavirenz)
- Antacids or buffered medicines
- Videx (didanosine)
- Viread (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate)
- Mycobutin (rifabutin)
- Calcium channel blockers such as Cardizem or Tiazac (diltiazem), Covera-HS or Isoptin SR (verapamil) and others
- BIAXIN (clarithromycin)
- Medicines for indigestion, heartburn, or ulcers such as Axid (nizatidine), Pepcid AC (famotidine), Tagamet (cimetidine), or Zantac (ranitidine)
Reyataz Precautions
- Angioedema (a severe allergic reaction) may occur. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have signs or symptoms of Reyataz, which include the following:
- swelling of face, eyes, lips, tongue, larynx and extremities
- difficulty in swallowing or breathing
- hoarseness (having difficulty making sounds when trying to speak)
- Severe rash: Rash may develop in association with other symptoms which could be serious and potentially cause death.
If you develop a rash with any of the following symptoms stop using Reyataz and call your healthcare provider right away:
- shortness of breath
- general ill feeling or "flu-like" symptoms
- fever
- muscle or joint aches
- conjunctivitis (red or inflamed eyes, like "pink eye")
- blisters
- mouth sores
- swelling of your face
- A change in the way your heart beats (heart rhythm change) may occur. Call your healthcare provider right away if you get dizzy or lightheaded. These could be symptoms of a heart problem.
- Diabetes and high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) sometimes happen in patients taking protease inhibitor medicines like Reyataz. Some patients had diabetes before taking protease inhibitors while others did not. Some patients may need changes in their diabetes medicine. If you have liver disease including hepatitis B or C, your liver disease may get worse when you take anti-HIV medicines like Reyataz.
- Kidney stones have been reported in patients taking Reyataz. If you develop signs or symptoms of kidney stones (pain in your side, blood in your urine, pain when you urinate) tell your healthcare provider promptly.
- Some patients with hemophilia have increased bleeding problems with protease inhibitors like Reyataz.
- Changes in body fat. These changes may include an increased amount of fat in the upper back and neck ("buffalo hump"), breast, and around the trunk. Loss of fat from the legs, arms, and face may also happen. The cause and long-term health effects of these conditions are not known at this time.
- Immune reconstitution syndrome. In some patients with advanced HIV infection (AIDS) and a history of opportunistic infection, signs and symptoms of inflammation from previous infections may occur soon after anti-HIV treatment, including Reyataz, is started.
- Gallbladder disorders (which may include gallstones and gallbladder inflammation) have been reported in patients taking Reyataz.
- Changes in amylase and lipase.
- Decrease in neutrophils.
- Increase in bilirubin.
Do not take Reyataz if you:
- are taking certain medicines (see Drug Interactions). Serious life-threatening side effects or death may happen. Before you take Reyataz, tell your healthcare provider about all medicines you are taking or planning to take. These include other prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.
- are allergic to Reyataz or to any of its ingredients. The active ingredient is Reyataz. Tell your healthcare provider if you think you have had an allergic reaction to any of these ingredients.
- if you have phenylketonuria. Phenylalanine can be harmful to patients with phenylketonuria (PKU). Reyataz oral powder contains phenylalanine (a component of aspartame).
Do not give Reyataz to:
- pediatric patients below the age of 3 months. Reyataz is not recommended for use in pediatric patients below the age of 3 months due to the risk of kernicterus (a bilirubin-induced brain dysfunction).
Reyataz Food Interactions
Grapefruit and grapefruit juice may interact with Reyataz and lead to potentially dangerous effects. Discuss the use of grapefruit products with your doctor.
Inform MD
Tell your healthcare provider:
- If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. Reyataz use during pregnancy has not been associated with an increase in birth defects. Pregnant women have experienced serious side effects when taking Reyataz with other HIV medicines called nucleoside analogues. You and your healthcare provider will need to decide if Reyataz is right for you. If you use Reyataz while you are pregnant, talk to your healthcare provider about the Antiretroviral Pregnancy Registry.
- After your baby is born, tell your healthcare provider if your baby's skin or the white part of his/her eyes turns yellow.
- If you are breastfeeding. You should not breastfeed if you are HIV-positive because of the chance of passing HIV to your baby. Also, it is not known if Reyataz can pass into your breast milk and if it can harm your baby. If you are a woman who has or will have a baby, talk with your healthcare provider about the best way to feed your baby.
- If you have liver problems or are infected with the hepatitis B or C virus.
- If you have end stage kidney disease managed with hemodialysis.
- If you have diabetes.
- If you have hemophilia.
- About all the medicines you take including prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Keep a list of your medicines with you to show your healthcare provider. For more information, Some medicines can cause serious side effects if taken with Reyataz.
Reyataz and Pregnancy
Tell your healthcare provider if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if Reyataz will harm your unborn baby.
Reyataz is not recommended for treatment-experienced pregnant patients during the second and third trimester taking Reyataz with both tenofovir and H2-receptor antagonists (H2RA).
Reyataz and Lactation
Tell your healthcare provider if you are breastfeeding. You should not breastfeed if you are HIV-positive because of the chance of passing HIV to your baby. Also, it is not known if Reyataz can pass into your breast milk and if it can harm your baby. If you are a woman who has or will have a baby, talk with your healthcare provider about the best way to feed your baby.
Reyataz Usage
- Take Reyataz once every day exactly as instructed by your healthcare provider. Your healthcare provider will prescribe the amount of Reyataz that is right for you.
- Take Reyataz at the same time each day.
- If you are taking antacids or didanosine (Videx or Videx EC), take Reyataz 2 hours before or 1 hour after these medicines.
- If you are taking medicines for indigestion, heartburn, or ulcers such as Axid (nizatidine), Pepcid AC (famotidine), Tagamet (cimetidine), Zantac (ranitidine), AcipHex (rabeprazole), Nexium (esomeprazole), Prevacid (lansoprazole), Prilosec (omeprazole), or Protonix (pantoprazole), talk to your healthcare provider.
- Do not change your dose or stop taking Reyataz without first talking with your healthcare provider. It is important to stay under a healthcare provider's care while taking Reyataz.
- When your supply of Reyataz starts to run low, get more from your healthcare provider or pharmacy. It is important not to run out of Reyataz. The amount of HIV in your blood may increase if the medicine is stopped for even a short time.
- If you miss a dose of Reyataz, take it as soon as possible and then take your next scheduled dose at its regular time. If, however, it is within 6 hours of your next dose, do not take the missed dose. Wait and take the next dose at the regular time. Do not double the next dose. It is important that you do not miss any doses of Reyataz or your other anti-HIV medicines.
- If you take more than the prescribed dose of Reyataz, call your healthcare provider or poison control center right away.
- Always take Reyataz with food (a meal or snack) to help it work better. Swallow the capsules whole. Do not open the capsules.
Oral powder:
- It is preferable to mix Reyataz oral powder with food such as applesauce or yogurt. Mixing Reyataz oral powder with a beverage (milk, infant formula, or water) may be used for infants who can drink from a cup. For young infants (less than 6 months) who cannot eat solid food or drink from a cup, Reyataz oral powder should be mixed with infant formula and given using an oral dosing syringe. Administration of Reyataz and infant formula using an infant bottle is not recommended because full dose may not be delivered.
- Determine the number of packets (4 or 5 packets) that are needed.
- Prior to mixing, tap the packet to settle the powder. Use a clean pair of scissors to cut each packet along the dotted line.
Mixing with food: Using a spoon, mix the recommended number of Reyataz oral powder packets with a minimum of one tablespoon of food (such as applesauce or yogurt). Feed the mixture to the infant or young child. Add an additional one tablespoon of food to the small container, mix, and feed the child the residual mixture.
Mixing with a beverage such as milk or water in a small drinking cup: Using a spoon, mix the recommended number of Reyataz oral powder packets with a minimum of 30 mL of the beverage. Have the child drink the mixture. Add an additional 15 mL more of beverage to the drinking cup, mix, and have the child drink the residual mixture. If water is used, food should also be taken at the same time.
Mixing with liquid infant formula using an oral dosing syringe and a small medicine cup: Using a spoon, mix the recommended number of Reyataz oral powder packets with 10 mL of prepared liquid infant formula. Draw up the full amount of the mixture into an oral syringe and administer into either right or left inner cheek of infant. Pour another 10 mL of formula into the medicine cup to rinse off remaining Reyataz oral powder in cup. Draw up residual mixture into the syringe and administer into either right or left inner cheek of infant.
- Administer ritonavir immediately following Reyataz powder administration.
- Administer the entire dosage of Reyataz oral powder (mixed in the food or beverage) within one hour of preparation (may leave the mixture at room temperature during this one hour period). Ensure that the patient eats or drinks all the food or beverage that contains the powder. Additional food may be given after consumption of the entire mixture.
Reyataz Dosage
Take Reyataz exactly as prescribed by your doctor. Follow the directions on your prescription label carefully. Your doctor will determine the best dose for you. The dosage of Reyataz must be individualized.
The recommended oral dosage of Reyataz depends on the treatment history of the patient and the use of other coadministered drugs. When coadministered with H2-receptor antagonists or proton-pump inhibitors, dose separation may be required.
When coadministered with didanosine buffered or enteric-coated formulations, Reyataz should be given (with food) 2 hours before or 1 hour after didanosine.
Adults: the recommended daily dose range is 300 mg to 400 mg.
Patients with end stage renal disease may require a lower dose of Reyataz.
Children (patients 6 to less than 18 years of age): The recommended daily dose range is 150 mg to 400 mg.
Recommended Dosage of Reyataz Oral Powder in pediatric patients (at least 3 months of age and weighing at least 10 kg and less than 25 kg) is:
- 10 kg to less than 15 kg= 200 mg (4 packets)
- 15 kg to less than 25 kg= 250 mg (5 packets)
- Each packet contains 50 mg of Reyataz
Reyataz Overdose
If you take more than the prescribed dose of Reyataz, call your healthcare provider or your local Poison Control Center right away.
Other Requirements
- Store Reyataz capsules at room temperature, 59° to 86° F (15° to 30° C). Do not store this medicine in a damp place such as a bathroom medicine cabinet or near the kitchen sink.
- Keep your medicine in a tightly closed container.
- Keep all medicines out of the reach of children and pets at all times. Do not keep medicine that is out of date or that you no longer need. Dispose of unused medicines through community take-back disposal programs when available or place Reyataz in an unrecognizable, closed container in the household trash.


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Martin Psinas has submitted a new tutorial he's written up (complete with sample code) showing how to watermark an image with ImageMagick.
In my most recent venture with PHPMaster I was asked to write an article about watermarking images with PHP using ImageMagick. Virtually no documentation exists on the PHP API, although there are plenty of command-line examples from the official ImageMagick website. I spent a solid day and a half attempting to convert command-line code into PHP before (due to miscommunication) the topic was covered by someone else and my work was no longer needed. Although disappointed, it gave me something to blog about! Yay.
His script is pretty straight forward - it loads a sample image, sets up some watermark text and applies it with a "gravity" setting of "southwest" and adds it to the image (annotateImage). The output is pushed back out as a JPEG image. Also included is a slightly more complex example showing how to give the watermark an embossed look and a "text all over the image" look to prevent use of any part of the image, not just one section.


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Honda ABS & VSA Dash Lights Stay On? – Easy Fault Reset Procedure.
Are one or both of the ABS and/or VSA dash lights on your Honda as shown below staying on all the time? Have you recently had a dead or weak battery and couldn't start the car? Read on, this may be just the solution you are looking for to clear those fault codes and save you having to go to a dealer and pay a labor charge.
A couple of times our 2013 Honda Odyssey battery has become discharged enough so the car won't start (low voltage), usually due to our umbilical cable having some sort of issue while towing it behind our motorhome and not charging the battery. However, even after boosting the battery (we carry a portable booster just for such occasions) and getting the vehicle started, the ABS and VSA dash lights remain illuminated indicating a fault. In this instance, clearly the "fault" is some anomaly caused by the low battery voltage. The procedure below has worked for us to clear/reset the "fault" generated by the low battery voltage condition. This procedure probably applies to many models and model years of Honda vehicles.
Of course one repair option is to take the vehicle to a dealer to clear/reset the fault, but that is going to cost $50-$100 or more based on various reports I have seen. After fooling around with advice from various sources and checking fuses and disconnecting the battery negative cable for several hours with no success, I found the following procedure which worked perfectly:
Honda ABS / VSA Fault Reset Procedure:
- Short pins 4 and 9 on the OBD connector located under the dash on the driver side. I used a paper clip, but any stiff (solid) light gauge wire will do. Click on the photo below right to expand and you can see the pin numbers marked in the plastic.
- Now put your foot on the brake pedal and hold it down lightly while turning on the ignition switch to position "II" (all the dash lights come on, but don't start it).
- The ABS indicator will come on, but then should go off, at this point release the brake pedal (some have found better success by releasing the pedal quickly after the light comes on).
- The ABS light should come on again, press the brake pedal again and hold down lightly.
- The ABS light should go off again, release the brake pedal (some have found better success by releasing the pedal quickly after the light goes off).
- After a few seconds watch for the ABS light to blink twice and go off, if it does you have successfully cleared the fault codes.
- Turn the ignition switch off, remove the key and disconnect the jumper wire from the OBD connector.
- If the ABS light comes back on again after step #7, do the entire procedure again, it may take a few tries to get the fault codes to clear.
Please note that if the ABS/VSA code has illuminated for some more serious reason than a discharged battery (such as a bad sensor or failed hardware) this procedure is probably not going to work and you will likely need to visit a dealer.
Push Button Start:
A reader posted the following comment (thanks!):
Worked great on a 2014 Accord EX-L with Push-Button start. If it wasn't already noted, Begin with the original instructions of inserting the jumper. Do not step on the brake, but press the start button once to get to accessory (or 'I'). Now follow the original steps by stepping on the brake and pressing the start button again, this will get you to 'II' but will not start the engine.
Power Sliding Doors Won't Open!
Another annoying side effect of the VSA/ABS lights being illuminated (besides the fact that the important safety features of anti-lock braking and stability assist are disabled), is the two power sliding rear doors on the Odyssey will not open with the engine running. This is because the doors are programmed not to open if the car is in motion, but without the ABS working the computer can't determine if the car is moving or not, so by default it disables those doors. If you turn the power door slide switch to OFF (see photo right), it is possible to manually open the door while the engine is running even with the ABS/VSA light illuminated. Note that the door will still close electrically with the engine running as long as the slide switch is ON. Also, the doors will close and open normally with full power control as long as the engine is off.


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Surgery and other invasive procedures come with risks. These risks were discussed with you by your attending physician when obtaining your informed consent. Our medical and nursing professionals are trained to respond to emergencies, such as respiratory or cardiac insufficiency or arrest.
- Certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) is required for anesthesia providers and nursing professionals in our ASC's post-anesthesia care unit,
- The same professionals are required to hold Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification in ASCs where pediatric patients (newborn to age 18) are served.
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- All unexpected patient care events are reported to our Medical Advisory Committee for quality of care evaluation. Our goal for quality achievement is to assess our performance, plan for improvement, and provide opportunities for shared learning across our organization to prevent these events in the future.
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The elements of the Emergency Preparedness Plan include:
- Risk Assessment and Planning – CMS requires an "all-hazards" integrated approach to prepare for a wide range of potential threats, focusing on those most likely to occur at our location.
- Policies and Procedures – ASCs must develop policies and procedures which account for all occupants (patients, physicians, and personnel) during an emergency. The plan must address how to conduct patient transfers for individuals who need more specialized care during an emergency or identify when the best course of action is to provide shelter until the emergency has stabilized or is resolved.
- Communication Plan – The communication plan coordinates all aspects of internal and external communication during an emergency, including the management of patient care and/or request for aid with agencies offering additional assistance.
- Training and Testing – The most effective way to test preparedness for any emergency is to practice. Staff training is essential to optimize safety and minimize loss of human life or business assets. A minimum of two emergency preparedness drills are required annually – one community-based and another facility-based or tabletop exercise.
In accordance with the Emergency Preparedness Rule set forth by CMS and the standards of care set forth by the Lafayette Surgery Center's mission, vision, and values, Lafayette Surgery Center is prepared to respond to a wide-range of emergencies that may occur at our ASC. Our hope is our staff does not have to use this extensive training when providing care to you or your loved ones. In the event an emergency does occur, our team will do everything in our power to ensure the safety of our patients.


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CUSHING, Okla. — A federal appeals court Wednesday said a lower court was correct when it refused to temporarily stop construction of what is intended to be the southern end of the Keystone XL pipeline and carry oil from Oklahoma to refineries along the Gulf Coast.
The Sierra Club, Clean Energy Future of Oklahoma and the East Texas Sub Regional Planning Commission had sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, saying the project posed significant environmental hazards and shouldn't have been approved. The groups sought an order that would have stopped work on the pipeline while the lawsuit was being heard, but a district court denied that request last year.
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The Keystone pipeline was designed to carry tar sands oil from Canada across Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Concerns were raised in Nebraska by plans to route the line through the fragile Sandhills region.
Because the Keystone XL pipeline will cross the Canada-U.S. border, federal approval is required. President Barack Obama visited Cushing in 2012 and urged construction of the pipeline's 485-mile southern portion from Cushing to Port Arthur, Texas.
Judge William J. Martinez said in a dissent that the lower court didn't adequately assess whether the Sierra Club and the others could win their lawsuit against the regulators and that he would have sent the case back for more proceedings.
He said the groups could perhaps win their argument that environmental assessments were insufficient. He said the pipeline will cross water five times each mile — a total of 2,227 times — and that the lower court didn't consider the full impact of building the pipeline.
The construction right of way, 85 feet wide, will be cleared of trees, vegetation and topsoil while some wetlands are filled in, Martinez wrote.


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Write an efficient function that takes stockPrices and returns the best profit I could have made from one purchase and one sale of one share of Apple stock yesterday.
For example:
No "shorting"—you need to buy before you can sell. Also, you can't buy and sell in the same time step—at least 1 minute has to pass.
You can't just take the difference between the highest price and the lowest price, because the highest price might come before the lowest price. And you have to buy before you can sell.
What if the price goes down all day? In that case, the best profit will be negative.
You can do this in time and space!
To start, try writing an example value for stockPrices and finding the maximum profit "by hand." What's your process for figuring out the maximum profit?
The brute force approach would be to try every pair of times (treating the earlier time as the buy time and the later time as the sell time) and see which one is higher.
But that will take time, since we have two nested loops—for every time, we're going through every other time. Also, it's not correct: we won't ever report a negative profit! Can we do better?
Well, we're doing a lot of extra work. We're looking at every pair twice. We know we have to buy before we sell, so in our inner for loop we could just look at every price after the price in our outer for loop.
That could look like this:
What's our runtime now?
Well, our outer for loop goes through all the times and prices, but our inner for loop goes through one fewer price each time. So our total number of steps is the sum n + (n - 1) + (n - 2) ... + 2 + 1, which is still time.
We can do better!
If we're going to do better than , we're probably going to do it in either or . comes up in sorting and searching algorithms where we're recursively cutting the array in half. It's not obvious that we can save time by cutting the array in half here. Let's first see how well we can do by looping through the array only once.
Since we're trying to loop through the array once, let's use a greedy approach, where we keep a running maxProfit until we reach the end. We'll start our maxProfit at $0. As we're iterating, how do we know if we've found a new maxProfit?
At each iteration, our maxProfit is either:
How do we know when we have case (2)?
The max profit we can get by selling at the currentPrice is simply the difference between the currentPrice and the minPrice from earlier in the day. If this difference is greater than the current maxProfit, we have a new maxProfit.
So for every price, we'll need to:
Here's one possible solution:
We're finding the max profit with one pass and constant space!
Are we done? Let's think about some edge cases. What if the price stays the same? What if the price goes down all day?
If the price doesn't change, the max possible profit is 0. Our function will correctly return that. So we're good.
But if the value goes down all day, we're in trouble. Our function would return 0, but there's no way we could break even if the price always goes down.
How can we handle this?
Well, what are our options? Leaving our function as it is and just returning zero is not a reasonable option—we wouldn't know if our best profit was negative or actually zero, so we'd be losing information. Two reasonable options could be:
In this case, it's probably best to go with option (1). The advantages of returning a negative profit are:
How can we adjust our function to return a negative profit if we can only lose money? Initializing maxProfit to 0 won't work...
Well, we started our minPrice at the first price, so let's start our maxProfit at the first profit we could get—if we buy at the first time and sell at the second time.
But we have the potential for reading undefined values here, if stockPrices has fewer than 2 prices.
We do want to throw an exception in that case, since profit requires buying and selling, which we can't do with less than 2 prices. So, let's explicitly check for this case and handle it:
Ok, does that work?
No! maxProfit is still always 0. What's happening?
If the price always goes down, minPrice is always set to the currentPrice. So currentPrice - minPrice comes out to 0, which of course will always be greater than a negative profit.
When we're calculating the maxProfit, we need to make sure we never have a case where we try both buying and selling stocks at the currentPrice.
To make sure we're always buying at an earlier price, never the currentPrice, let's switch the order around so we calculate maxProfit before we update minPrice.
We'll also need to pay special attention to time 0. Make sure we don't try to buy and sell at time 0.
We'll greedily walk through the array to track the max profit and lowest price so far.
For every price, we check if:
To start, we initialize:
We decided to return a negative profit if the price decreases all day and we can't make any money. We could have thrown an exception instead, but returning the negative profit is cleaner, makes our function less opinionated, and ensures we don't lose information.
time and space. We only loop through the array once.
This one's a good example of the greedy approach in action. Greedy approaches are great because they're fast (usually just one pass through the input). But they don't work for every problem.
How do you know if a problem will lend itself to a greedy approach? Best bet is to try it out and see if it works. Trying out a greedy approach should be one of the first ways you try to break down a new question.
To try it on a new problem, start by asking yourself:
"Suppose we could come up with the answer in one pass through the input, by simply updating the 'best answer so far' as we went. What additional values would we need to keep updated as we looked at each item in our input, in order to be able to update the 'best answer so far' in constant time?"
In this case:
The "best answer so far" is, of course, the max profit that we can get based on the prices we've seen so far.
The "additional value" is the minimum price we've seen so far. If we keep that updated, we can use it to calculate the new max profit so far in constant time. The max profit is the larger of:
Try applying this greedy methodology to future questions.
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STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Producers of Mississippi's four major row crops have managed heavy spring rains followed by extended windows of muggy but mostly dry June conditions with mixed results.
These weather extremes have had different effects on corn, cotton, soybean and rice crops across the state, depending on the crop and the planting time.
Brian Williams, assistant professor of agricultural economics for the Mississippi State University Extension Service, said corn acreage appears to have been hurt the worst by the fluctuation, while soybeans have thrived. According to the USDA Mississippi acreage report for June, planted cotton and rice acres are down from this time last year, while corn and soybean acreage is up from 2014.
"Corn acres are currently estimated to be 200,000 acres lower than the March estimate," Williams said. "Soybeans have benefited the most, with just over a 50,000-acre increase over the March U.S. Department of Agriculture estimate. While planting delays have prevented some corn acres from being planted, many of those acres have been switched to soybeans, which are more tolerant of late planting dates."
The market for major commodities is down from a year ago. Soybeans are trading for $10.32 a bushel, compared with $14.54 at this time in 2014. Cotton is selling for 65 cents a pound, down 13 cents from last year. Rice futures are $9.96 per hundredweight; last year, futures were $14.84 per hundredweight.
"All four commodities have seen prices come up over the last week or so," Williams added.
As of June 28, corn silking was 78 percent complete, and 95 percent of the planted crop ranged from fair to excellent condition. Extension corn specialist Erick Larson said spring rains restricted corn planting to a brief time around the first of April in the Delta and delayed most planting in east Mississippi until early May.
High temperatures and drought were primary concerns for corn producers in June. The statewide average air temperature last month was 81.9 degrees -- more than 2 degrees above normal. Nighttime temperatures were also considerably higher than normal, particularly from June 18-24.
"For the most part, we've got a fair amount of irrigation systems to make up for the shortfall of rain," Larson said. "However, warmer nighttime temperatures than normal during June puts drag on the plant in terms of maintenance and respiration rates and reduces yield potential."
Recent rains in most parts of the state lowered temperatures slightly from those observed during much of June.
"This is a critical time for yield determination," Larson said. "Most of the early-planted Delta crop is several weeks past tasseling, while the May-planted corn is recently tasseling. All our corn is progressing through reproductive development."
All of Mississippi's 181,000 acres of rice have emerged, but this acreage is down 10,000 acres from 2014. It is also 30,000 acres less than the amount farmers reported in March that they intended to plant. Of the 2015 rice crop, 98 percent is in fair, good or excellent condition.
Extension rice specialist Bobby Golden said producers had a shortened planting window in both April and May because of the early-season rainfall, which was much heavier than precipitation in an average year.
"Other than having a shortened planting window, we haven't observed too many negative effects from rain," Golden said. "We had to delay a few herbicide applications, but we've also kept herbicides alive longer than before. The better part of our rice is under flood now, and it helped fields that caught some of the rainfall during the last days of June. We didn't have nearly as many issues with rainfall influencing nitrogen fertilization this year."
Trent Irby, Extension soybean specialist, said some areas of the state still have soybean acreage that has not yet been planted. The planted soybean area in Mississippi at the end of June was an estimated 2.35 million acres, up 130,000 acres from a year ago and up 50,000 from March planting projections.
At the end of June, 97 percent of Mississippi's soybean crop had been planted, with 95 percent of that ranging from fair to excellent condition.
"We really have three distinct ages of our soybean crop," Irby said. "Our earliest planted acres have reached the point where pods are filling, while the rest of the crop is still in vegetative or flowering stages. Now we just need to stay on top of irrigation and catch some timely rain to keep it growing."
Cotton is 100 percent emerged, but USDA estimates indicate that planted acres are down 115,000 acres from a year ago; the planted area is 40,000 acres short of the amount farmers reported they planned to plant in March. Before early planting, market demand was not sufficient enough to warrant increased acreage, said Extension cotton specialist Darrin Dodds.
While excessive rainfall hindered planting early in the season, producers in several areas of the state have gone for more than three weeks with little to no rainfall. Dodds said he has received several requests for advice on whether a second application of residual herbicide was necessary to prevent weeds from growing and compromising yield after the extended dry period.
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