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Neuropathy: Facts and Fiction
By Dave R.
May 3, 2013
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This article originally appeared on PositiveLite.com, Canada's Online HIV Magazine.
Neuropathy is one of those diseases that affects millions of people (20 million in the USA alone) and between 30% and 40% of people living with HIV and yet if you ask 100 people on the street what it is, the vast majority of them won't have a clue what you're talking about. This article is based on some of the commonest questions from people new to the disease and is meant to establish some facts and clear up some misunderstandings, especially in relation to people with HIV.
'What is neuropathy?'
Simply put, neuropathy is damage to the nervous system. The nerves have been attacked or compromised for one reason or another. Very often the protective layers surrounding the nerves themselves or the nerve cells have been destroyed or eroded and this leads to what you could term 'short circuits' in the nervous system. This means that signals that normally travel between the brain, spine and the organs and limbs to enable normal function, are disrupted, causing both erroneous instructions and sometimes strange and painful symptoms. Neuropathy is categorised as a disease of the nerves, so it's not just a random happening caused by an unexpected accident (except in those cases where physical injury is the obvious cause).
'I've seen lots of sites on the internet about neuropathy caused by diabetes, or as a result of chemotherapy: is my HIV-related neuropathy the same, or totally different?'
That's true, you'll see many more sites about diabetes-related neuropathy than anything else because diabetes is the commonest cause, especially in the Western world. There are however, over 100 different categories of neuropathy and over 100 different causes but that doesn't mean that the neuropathic symptoms you may be feeling are generally any different to those brought about by other causes. Many things will bring about nerve damage but once you have neuropathy, you're sharing symptoms with about 90% of all other neuropathy patients.
'I don't understand why people with HIV get neuropathy?'
Don't worry, you're not alone. At first it was thought that people who had been on older HIV drugs (d-Drugs, Kivexa, Videx and others) were more likely to suffer nerve damage as a result. That is certainly still true in places like sub-Saharan Africa where older HIV meds are still distributed because they are cheaper. The neuropathy cases there are much higher than in the rest of the world. However because people living with HIV are still getting neuropathy, despite being on modern combinations with no record of causing nerve damage, scientists began to look into why that was and have established that the virus is perfectly capable of attacking the nervous system on its own and without outside help. However, it's important to remember that people with HIV can still be diabetic, or get cancer, or have alcohol problems, or any of the many other contributors to neuropathy. Finding the exact cause of your neuropathy can often be tricky but in the end, the cause is not as important as reducing the effects of the disease on your daily life.
'I saw an advertisement from a local clinic that claims to be able to cure neuropathy for good; is that possible?'
No, unfortunately, nerve damage cannot be cured at the moment. There are cases where nerve damage is caused by injury and if the surgeons are quick enough, they may be able to repair the damage at the site of the break but in almost all other cases, when the nerve damage is established, it is virtually impossible to repair. You can assume then that the clinic is exaggerating at best. These clinics are in the business of making money and unfortunately they have few scruples about promising people the impossible to boost their bank accounts.
However, what clinics, doctors, specialists and neurologists may be able to do is reduce the effects of the symptoms but that is entirely different to achieving a cure.
'I've been told that the numbness, burning, tingling and pain will go away by itself; is this true?'
This is where neuropathy can confound even the experts. Sometimes, if you haven't had the symptoms for very long, they may gradually disappear, possibly due to the body being able to repair the nerve damage itself. However, in these cases, the nerve damage was probably only slight to begin with. In the vast majority of cases, if you have had neuropathic symptoms for more than 6 months to a year, you're more than likely to be stuck with them and there's a good chance that they will be progressive and get worse. At that point, you will need some help to cope with the effects and keep them under control.
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HIV, Neuropathy and More: Avoiding Becoming a Nervous Wreck
Dave R.
English but living since 1986 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. HIV+ since 2004 and a neuropathy patient since 2007. I've seen quite a bit, done quite a bit and bought quite a few t-shirts if you know what I mean; but all that baggage makes me what I am today: a better person I believe, despite it all.
Arriving on TheBody.com, originally, was the end result of getting neuropathy as a side effect of the medication, or the virus, or both. I found it such a vague disease and discovered very little information that wasn't commercially tinged, or scientifically impenetrable, so I decided to create a daily Blog and a website where practical information, hints, tips and experiences for patients could be gathered together in one place.
However, I was also given the chance to write about other aspects of living with HIV and have now contributed more articles about those than about neuropathy. That said, neuropathy remains my 'core subject' although one which unfortunately dominates both my life and that of many other HIV-positive people.
I'm not a doctor or qualified medical expert, just someone with neuropathy and HIV who has spent the last few years researching the illness and trying to create information sources for people who want to know more.
I also have my own personal website and write for PositiveLite.com.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, August 13, 2010
"Thank you, Jack for everything you gave us."
It's been 8 years now since Jack Potter passed away and I still think about him all the time.
I was fortunate to have been able to take his class and get to know him on a personal level. He taught me a new way of seeing and to this day I can still hear his voice telling me, "Get the proportions!"
I attended Jack's class long after I was required to by school curriculum. Jack's influence, approach and mentoring has often served as a guiding light in my work and in my career.
Even my leisure time, personal drawing is heavily influenced by Jack and his classes.
He was a unique individual and one of a kind. Myself, and many others, miss him.
Thank you, Jack for everything you gave us.
* And many thanks to Daniel for sharing his recollections of Jack potter with us, as well as all the fantastic art and photos! ~ L
* Daniel Zalkus is a freelance illustrator, graduate of the School of Visual Arts and loves to wear plaid. To see samples of his artwork please go to www.zalkus.com
* My Jack Potter Flickr set
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Thank you for a week of informationReplyDelete
about Jack Potter an artist who's
work I remember from the 1960s.
I am happy to learn more about him.
I remember looking at and liking these illustrations as I grew up. In a way, some of them are almost camp and conjure images of Norma Desmond. This is the first time I've seen the Streisand portrait, which I like so much.ReplyDelete
Mr. Zalkus' work is a treat; thanks for the posts, Mr. Z.'
These are lovely. Thank you so much for posting these. I could look at them for hours!ReplyDelete
Daniel, I regret not having the chance to study under Jack Potter. I went to Parsons in the early 1980s and studied under Steven Meisel and Steven Stipelman. I think my artistic sensibilities would have been so in line with Potter. He sounds like such a wonderful human being besides. Do you know where his body of work ended up?ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing all you did on him!
When he quit the business he sold many of his originals. I have no idea where they are now.
I know at one point the Illustration House in NYC had one of his Coca-Cola ads. It was great to see it up close.
The Ayres ads seem to be more resolved, more depth and reality to them, which I prefer.. not so flat and primarily design oriented. 'Different strokes for different folks'.ReplyDelete
Daniel, did Jack Potter have any insight or prediction for the future of illustration, knowing that his students would be faced with looking for illustration work in a much different industry than when he started out? Many of my students in the 90s' just assumed that if the school was teaching illustration, there must be a slot in the illustration market, just waiting for them to settle into after graduation. A few of the better illustrators found illustration work so sparse that they applied for teaching jobs at the school they had just graduated from. They were a bit shocked and disappointed that they weren't making a livable income with illustration alone.
Thanks Daniel and Leif.. a very interesting week.
Tom Watson
Jack knew that the business was tough and that many artists wouldn't be able to make a living off of it.
That's why he told the class to "Create art because you love it".
As for the future of illustration I'm not 100% sure what he thought about it. My guess is that he didn't think it was very good. He knew many of his former students didn't go on to have careers in the field.
I know he was also a bit disappointed that the computer had started to take over. The rooms across the hall from his class had all changed into computer centers and the interest in drawing seemed to be dwindling.
I don't think he was afraid of new technology but felt that way because he knew drawing was important for an artist to learn.
What do you think about the business today?
Fantastic photo of Jack...ReplyDelete
- Charlie Allen6:00 PM
I think Sinatra said, 'Life wounds all heels'. The great TV and computer revolution wounded all of us, and future, illustrators....fatally. I've mentioned my surprise when offered an illustration lecture class with 100 students....in the 80's. Obviously young people with totally impractical notions. I grew up with illustrations in magazines, newspapers, books, outdoor posters, and much, more. I knew the market....I knew if you were good enough, there was a viable field out there. Somehow, a lot of 'modern' kids reached maturity with 'pie in the sky' ideas about illustration. As the song went in the 'Music Man', 'You've got to know the territory!'.ReplyDelete
The Potter week was a good one. As Tom said, the Ayres illustrations were sensitive and typical of Potter. Strange, stretched, proportions but no doubt very effective fashion advertising. Thanks again.
Daniel, I've essentially retired from the general illustration market in 2000, so I really don't know what the illustration market is like today. I occasionally do an assignment for an old client, but that's about it.ReplyDelete
In the 1990s', after about three decades of illustration and AD work, I was doing more conceptual drawing and or marker comps for special effects TV commercials and the movie industry.. Star Wars and other special effects movies. There was still a little advertising illustration, but very spotty. The best prospects for me was the computer software companies like Broderbund and Mindscape on the west coast. They needed traditional illustrators that had strong drawing skills and a solid advertising background. Most of the younger ADs at that time, didn't have the prior training or a background that gave them traditional AD or layout skills.. so they had to rely on the computer. Computer generated ideas were too definite and final, so they started using comp illustrations for presenting ideas. They also used me for any finished illustrations as well. That was good for me and other experienced illustrators.
I think it is particularly tough for young illustrators with little or no practical experience, regardless of how promising their portfolio is. The more seasoned you become, the more insight you gain on where and how to contact potential clients. For me, the best way telephone appointments and second was direct mail and telephone follow up. It was slow and tedious, but it eventually payed off. As an illustrator, I never assumed that I could just wait for it to come to me.
Jack Potter was dead center right, when he said 'Create art because you love it'. When times were tough, hat love for art kept me thinking positive, instead of giving up and driving a taxi for a living.
Tom Watson
I've seen RKO Pictures listed as a client of Jacks but never had a chance to ask him about it.ReplyDelete
Anyone out there know what that was?
- Rich11:02 AM
Great week!ReplyDelete
Jack seems to have been what one would call "a born teacher".
His teaching happened to cover the field of illustration - but his principles would happily apply to any school.
"Illustrators are born, not made" - does that apply?
Rich, your comment / question that 'illustrators are born not made', brought to mind a discussion I had with my wife many years ago. At one time, I thought anyone could learn to draw and paint, that really had the interest. She maintained it was a genetic disposition that few have, but most do not.. even though they may love art and love to draw and paint.ReplyDelete
I was teaching part-time at the time, and eventually I came around to agreeing with her. So, I believe your comment is exactly right Rich, and the overwhelming evidence for me, was found in my students. Only a small percentage, while I was a student and then as a teacher, had the natural abilities to absorb the information and apply it. Those that could, sooner or later blossomed into an outstanding artist. The majority progressed to a certain level and remained there, never able to reach the next plateau. Yet, they could be just as enthused and sometimes work even harder than the few with natural talent, but they were limited to their natural abilities, and to be able to apply it to their work. That scenario also made it tough when grading a student's work.
I know fine art painters that drew or painted very little or not at all most of their lives, and in their forties or fifties, they took a few plein-air workshop painting classes, and within a few years of practice, they were doing better paintings than some that have painted most of their lives. They just have it in their genetic makeup.
Therefor, I believe a teacher needs to teach at different levels to reach and benefit all his students.
Tom Watson
Great weeks of inspiration!ReplyDelete
Thanks for posting these on Jack Potter!
Brings back memories of good times, fun "hard workouts" at the drawing gym, and Jack being Jack.
Really dug into it and posted a little drawing with some additional Potter Principles that I could remember from my own experiences in his classes.
I wish like Will R. and Mr. Zalkus I was able to spend additional hours in Potter's gym. Jack was an Original.
Thanks again for the great posts!
- Anonymous1:16 AM
I took his class 2001(?)to 2003. I was just thinking about his classes now so I had to leave a comment. I remember that he'd scare me when he patted meReplyDelete
(rather strongly)on my shoulder when I was in the middle of drawing. He never remembered my name but he loved me when I come in to his classes with his smile and his loud voice... I loved that he remembered how I draw. I still draw and still think of Jack.

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Education about retirement affects how employees use distributions from their defined contribution pension plans. Retirement education substantially increases the probability that participants age 40 and under will save a distribution but decreases the probability that college graduates and women will save one. These important differentials are concealed by estimates of the effect of retirement education on participants generally.
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Wealth Holdings and Portfolio Choices
There are large differences in wealth across racial and ethnic groups, much of which remain unexplained even after controlling for income and demographic factors. This paper studies the issue of whether differences in saving behavior and rates of return on assets are a possible source of the differences in wealth. It uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine the differences in various components of aggregate wealth (including nonhousing equity, housing equity, financial assets, and risky assets) and to inspect differences in portfolio choices by race and ethnicity.
Descriptive tabulations of components of aggregate wealth and portfolio choices shown here point to differences between white and minority households in their saving behavior and choice of assets. These findings suggest that some of the large differences in wealth across racial and ethnic groups that remain unexplained even after controlling for income and demographic factors, may be attributable to the smaller participation in financial markets by minority households.
Participation in Voluntary Individual Savings Accounts: An Analysis of IRAs, 401(k)s, and the TSP
This article compares participation rates in three existing voluntary individual account-type plans—individual retirement accounts (IRAs), 401(k)s, and the federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP)—in an effort to analyze who might participate in a voluntary individual account system.
The Pareto Optimality of Existing Pay-as-You-Go Social Security Programs
In recent years, a number of proposals have been advanced for privatizing all or part of the Social Security program in the United States. These proposals range from the immediate abolition to the gradual phasing-out of Social Security taxes and benefits. This paper evaluates several premises that often underlie privatization proposals—that rates of return in the private sector exceed those implicit in the Social Security program, that privatization would lead to an increase in national saving, and that privatization could somehow improve the lifetime welfare of all affected generations. The paper first considers whether rates of return in the private sector actually exceed those implicit in the Social Security program and discuss the conditions required for privatization to lead to an increase in national saving. The paper then demonstrates theoretically that an existing, well-managed, pay-as-you-go social security program is Pareto optimal in an economy with exogenous factor prices, regardless of the extent to which privately available rates of return exceed those implicit in the pay-as-you-go program; i.e., no privatization scheme can be found that benefits at least one present or future generation without harming at least one other generation, and no scheme can be found that allows the winners from privatization to compensate the losers and still come out ahead. The analysis is extended to incorporate the assumption of endogenous factor prices and the possibility that pay-as-you-go social security programs reduce private saving. The theoretical conclusions are illustrated by using a long-run economic projection model to simulate the aggregate economic and intergenerational redistributive effects of two stylized privatization schemes.
Social Security, Uncertainty Adjustments, and the Consumption Decision
This paper reports on an analysis of the consumption decisions of individuals. A consumption function is developed that can be viewed as an extension of the traditional life cycle-permanent income specification, with consumption determined as an age-specific proportion of current and prospective wealth. Special attention is focused on the degree of substitutability between current and prospective wealth and on the differential effects of the various types of prospective income flows on the consumption decision.
Social Security and Private Saving: An Examination of Feldstein's New Evidence
In a recent article in the Journal of Political Economy (Leimer and Lesnoy 1982), we presented new time series evidence that cast considerable doubt on earlier evidence presented by Martin Feldstein (1974) which implied that social security had a large and statistically significant negative effect on personal saving in the United States. Our results may be summarized as follows: First, the social security wealth variable used by Feldstein was seriously flawed as a result of a computer-programming error. Simply correcting this error substantially changes the estimated effect of social security on saving. Second, the statistical evidence depends upon assumptions which are embedded in the construction of the social security wealth variable. These assumptions relate, first, to how individuals form their expectations about the social security benefits they expect to receive and the social security taxes they expect to pay and, second, to estimates of the number of workers, dependent wives, and surviving widows who will receive benefits. Adopting reasonable assumptions that differ from those used by Feldstein leads to generally weaker estimates of the relationship between social security and saving. Finally, the estimated relationship between social security and saving is acutely sensitive to the period of estimation examined. We concluded that the time series evidence simply does not support the hypothesis that social security has substantially reduced personal saving in the United States.
Promotion of Subsidized Savings in the Federal Republic of Germany
Social Security and Private Saving: New Time Series Evidence with Alternative Specifications
The purpose of this paper is to consider several alternative specifications of the consumer expenditure function.
Social Security and Private Saving: A Reexamination of the Time Series Evidence Using Alternative Social Security Wealth Variables
In an important article in the Journal of Political Economy [1974], Martin Feldstein estimated that the introduction of the social security system had reduced personal saving by 50 percent, with serious consequences for capital formation and output. His conclusion was based on a consumer expenditure function estimated with U.S. time series data and incorporating a social security wealth variable of his construction.
The original intent of this paper was to examine the sensitivity of Feldstein's conclusions to certain assumptions underlying his construction of the social security variable. In particular, we wanted to examine the implication of his assumptions concerning how individuals perceive future benefits and taxes.
Social Security and Private Saving: Another Look
A Re-examination of the Link Between Social Security and Saving
This paper attempts to make two contributions to this research. The first one is expositional. A simple overlapping generation's model is developed and used to reinvestigate the wealth and endowment redistribution effects from the introduction of pay-as-you-go social security. Our second contribution is substantive and extends the analysis of the endowment redistribution effect. Finally, perspective is offered on the relationship between pay-as-you-go social security and private saving.


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Significant update to Mac version of MyBlood
MyBlood v1.0 Alpha 4 is available on the MyBlood site. This version is the last alpha version.
Beta 1 will be available in May 2009, bringing it to a commercial level.
This version brings some important features:
* Better GEDCOM import: Citations, Sources and Repositories are now imported
* Better GEDCOM export: Notes, Media, Sources and Repositories are exported
* Extended Web-Export, now also exporting Chronology, Media, Places... and including a fresh Layout...
* Citations, Sources and Repositories can now be managed.
There are a lot of small improvements from better icons to automatic selections...
An important addition is the Find and Replace feature which allows you to easily modify the database.
This is also the first release that has platform specific features. MyBlood has been made scriptable for Mac users. You can now do a limited a mount of Apple scripting. You can open and save files (including settings) and export web-pages (including specific settings) through scripting. More items will be made available for scripting in the future.
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I didn't directly find a "contact me" buttons, so I'll reply to this article.
a quick mail to inform you of the release of the family tree software MyBlood 1.2
You already posted info about MyBlood i the past, but MyBlood has come a log way since than...
MyBlood (www.myblood-line.com ) is a cross-platform family tree application which is visually rich and easy to learn.
Although we are relatively new, we implemented Google Maps, image tagging and connectivity to Picasa... with extra features to come.
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Roosevelt High School in Sioux Falls Among the Top 5% of Schools in United States [LIST]
U.S. News & World Report is out with its annual rankings of the top public high schools in the nation, and one Sioux Falls school is in elite company.
Roosevelt High School is the Top Ranked Public High School in South Dakota, 948th in the nation, out of more than 21,000 schools ranked. That puts Roosevelt in the top five percent nationally.
According to the report, the school has a student - teacher ratio of 17:1, has a college readiness score of 33.6, has an AP participation level of 45%, and has proficiency rates of 78% in math and 75% in reading.
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Less than a month ago, we wrote a post, entitled, How To Form A China Company (WFOE or JV). Hong Kong Entities. They're Baaaaack. The gist of that post was that my law firm was now favoring the forming of Special Purpose Entities in Hong Kong to hold the soon to be formed Mainland China Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise (WFOE) or Joint Venture (JV). We wrote on how our position on this had changed due to China's having recently become increasingly tough on company formations involving non-Hong Kong companies:
It is relatively easy to prove the existence and organizational structure of a Hong Kong company. The process is straightforward and the Chinese investment authorities understand the documents and readily accept them. This is not true for corporate documents from other countries. The Chinese authorities want documents that are similar to their own. They do not understand foreign company systems, and will often challenge perfectly standard documents from foreign jurisdictions that do not accord with the way they think the world should work. For example, the Chinese authorities will often demand notarized documents. When the notary is from a common law jurisdiction like the United States or England, they will object to the form of the notarization because it does not look like a Chinese or civil law country notarization.
In other cases, we have had Chinese authorities object to United States limited liability company documents because the officers' titles do not match the equivalent terms in Chinese. For example, in most U.S. jurisdictions, a limited liability company (LLC) does not have directors and officers. Instead, the LLC is either member managed or manager managed. We have had Chinese authorities object to both forms of management because they do not understand the U.S. system. Of course, the issues can be even worse when the investor company is based in a system even more different from China, such as the Middle East, Central Europe or Africa.
All of these sorts of problems are solved if the foreign investor sets up a Hong Kong company and specifies the Hong Kong company as the shareholder of the Chinese WFOE or Joint Venture. For this reason, many of our clients will almost automatically plan to form a Hong Kong company as the first step in the China company formation process.
We received a not surprising amount of blowback to that post, both in the form of comments and in the form of a fairly large number of angry emails. As I have written many times previously, virtually whenever we say anything that might lead anyone to believe that doing business in China involves little more than just walking in, we get push back, mostly from those whose incomes depend entirely on a smooth flow of China business. Anyway, we received plenty of communications saying or hinting that absolutely nothing had changed in China and that it was either all in our heads or due to our inability to negotiate China's bureaucracy.
This is the "I told you so" follow-up post.
I just read a Financial Times article, entitled, "China, India and Russia less business friendly," on how "executives around the world" think China has become "less friendly towards business over the past three months," as based on an FT/Economist Global Business Barometers Survey. This survey is conducted every three months of 1,500 global senior executives. According to the survey, of the four largest emerging market economies, only Brazil has eased up on business; China, Russia and India have gotten tougher. "The survey comes amid concerns that growth in Brazil, Russia, India and China – together known as the Brics – is slowing." Brazil was the only one of the four Brics that more consider friendly than unfriendly towards foreign business.
I yearn for the day when China views getting "friendlier" towards foreign business as its best reaction to a slowing economy, rather than getting more "unfriendly."
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Pictured: Laura Gemmell went 16-0 during her rookie
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- Freshman Laura Gemmell completed her rookie season with a perfect 16-0 record, as she won the College Squash Association individual national championship. Gemmell took home the Ramsay Cup, as she finished first in the "A" Division with a 5-0 mark on the weekend.
Gemmell, who dropped only three games all season, faced Trinity's Pamela Hathway in the national final. Gemmell struck first, taking game one. 11-7, but Hathway tied the match, as she picked up an 11-5 victory in the second game. The third game went to overtime, as Hathway edged Gemmell, 15-13, to take a 2-1 lead in the match. Gemmell held her ground in the fourth set, 11-8, to force a fifth and decisive game. With the players trading points in the fifth set, Gemmell and Hathway were tied, 9-9. Gemmell then took command, scoring the next two points to take the game and the match, 3-2.
The Crimson has now claimed 11 Ramsay Cups, as Kyla Griggs '07 was the last player prior to Gemmell the win the trophy, taking it home in 2007.
Senior co-captain Katherine O'Donnell claimed victory in the "B" Division final, as she won the Holleran Cup by defeating Trinity's JoAnn Jee in five games. O'Donnell, who finished her season with a 16-1 overall mark, outplayed Jee in the first two games, 11-7 and 11-9, to open a 2-0 lead. Jee responded in game three with a 11-2 victory and then tied the match, 2-2, by winning game four, 11-4. O'Donnell took command in game five, clinching the match and the Holleran Cup by outscoring Jee, 11-7. Harvard has won two of the eight Holleran trophies, since the award was first presented in 2003.
O'Donnell won her semifinal match against Penn's Anne Madeira.
O'Donnell took the first game, 11-9, but Madeira tied the match
with an 11-3 showing in game two. O'Donnell won game three, 11-9,
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Junior Bethan Williams, who had advanced to the semifinals of the Holleran Cup Division, fell to Jee earlier on Sunday, 11-4, 11-8, 11-6.
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In Uzbekistan, Secretary Clinton held a bilateral meeting with President Islam Karimov and Foreign Minister Elyor Ganiev, and visited the new General Motors Powertrain plant in Tashkent, where she announced a new initiative to promote entrepreneurship. In remarks at the GM Plant in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Secretary Clinton said:
"...Today, I am proud to announce that the State Department and the nonprofit organization CRDF Global are launching the Central Asian Technology Entrepreneurship Program. This program will help train the next generation of entrepreneurs in Uzbekistan and foster a culture of technology-centered development here and throughout the region. Eight entrepreneurs will each be awarded a $20,000 techno prize, and one of the eight will be selected to travel to Silicon Valley, meet with potential investors, and prepare their technology for the marketplace.
"This is a fitting place to launch this prize because Uzbekistan has a proud history of science and innovation. Many noble scientists and scholars were born and worked in this region, even the father of algebra, and your young people are full of talent and energy. Entrepreneurship is a core value for my country, and we want to encourage it here in Uzbekistan. We believe in order to take even a greater advantage of the global marketplace, Uzbekistan needs to continue its reforms in rule of law, democracy, and human rights. And I'd like to congratulate GM Uzbekistan on being named a finalist for the State Department's 2011 Award for Corporate Excellence."
While in Uzbekistan, Secretary Clinton also participated in interviews with with Christiane Amanpour of ABC's This Week, Candy Crowley of CNN's State of the Union, David Gregory of NBC's Meet The Press, and Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday. During the interviews, Secretary Clinton addressed recent events in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Syria, and the Horn of Africa.
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BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) -- A respected Azerbaijani author has been stripped of his pension and national honors for "insulting the dignity" of his country with a novel that describes Azerbaijanis attacking Armenians.
Akram Aylisli's "Stone Dreams," set during the wake of a bitter war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, drew protests after its publication for its sympathetic depiction of Armenians. The Azerbaijani government has long laid all the blame for the war on Armenia.
Late Thursday, President Ilham Aliyev announced his decision to strip the 75-year-old Aylisli of state honors and his pension.
In the novel, which was published in a Russian magazine last year, Aylisli refers to mob violence by Azerbaijanis against helpless Armenians in Baku.
One passage vividly describes the scene of a mob beating up a man they thought was Armenian and another episode suggests that an Azerbaijani man threw an elderly Armenian woman from a balcony.
The Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and some adjacent territory have been under the control of Armenian troops and local ethnic Armenian forces since the end of the six-year war in 1994.
Hair-trigger sensitivity dominates accounts of the period in Azerbaijan, and attempts to question the widely accepted narrative of Armenia's exclusive guilt draw furious reactions.
Aylisli described the novel as a message of peace and said that he didn't expect such a heated response.
"I wanted to show that Azerbaijanis and Armenians aren't enemies," he told The Associated Press. "I never thought it would be so politicized."
He said that he hoped that an author in Armenia would consider writing similar material dwelling on atrocities against Azerbaijanis.
In late January, a youth group representing Nagorno-Karabakh refugees picketed Aylisli's home, holding up signs reading: "Why have you sold yourself out to the Armenians?"
A number of parliamentary deputies have also condemned "Stone Dreams," calling it a justification of Armenian separatism that creates the ideological basis for the illegal occupation of Azerbaijani territory.
In his decree chastising the author, Aliyev said that Aylisli was trying to cast Azerbaijanis in an inhumane light.
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The Institute for the Protection of Media Rights said in a statement that the campaign against Aylisli was politically motivated.
"All this is a serious threat to artistic creativity in this country," it said in a statement.
Commenting on the uproar, Armenian blogger Kevork Oskanian hailed Aylisli for challenging what he described as government-created taboos. He also urged Armenians to more closely study the history of attacks on Azerbaijanis.
"In so doing, intellectuals and artists in both societies could eventually end up redeeming themselves from their sheepish subservience to nationalist narratives since independence," Oskanian said.
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Rapid City Arsonist Gets Jail Time for Probation Violation
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - A man convicted as a teenager of breaking into a Rapid City home and setting it on fire to cover up the crime has been ordered to serve 90 days in jail for violating probation.
Shye Archambault was given a suspended prison sentence in 2009 and put on probation. He admitted to violating probation by drinking alcohol.
Archambault was 16 years old when authorities say he and an accomplice in 2008 broke into a home while drunk to try to find things to pawn and set the home ablaze in an attempt to cover up fingerprints. The fire destroyed the home. Archambault was tried as an adult.
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text: >> I think the term ´node¡ is a loaded term in HPC. This is what comes I think it's just a bit sloppy or at least contextual - I've never heard it used for anything other than "box". a node on a conventional message-passing cluster is clearly one computer, which may contain multiple cores, but has a single memory domain. on an Origin/Altix, people seem to prefer "brick", but sometimes use "node", and is obviously not a single memory domain. MPI programmers usually use "rank" or "processor", and don't get hung up on nodes. > There is an awful lot of software around which refers to "nodes" when in > your nomenclature it means core[1], most of it harks back to when nodes hmm, a contrary example is gromacs - it explicitly talks about nodes but permits threads within a node. ie, an 8-core box could be a single node with 8 threads or 8 nodes, 1th each. incidentally, any gromacs experts comment on scalability of using the thread support? (ie, for four 8c boxes with IB, 32 nodes vs 4 nodes, 8 threads each?) > had one CPU and a CPU had one core. Even the concept of cores > themselves are only six or seven years old, before then a CPU was just a > CPU and you would refer to "a N CPU cluster". and to be on the safe side (wrt forms of simultaneous multi-threading), we should probably try to use "thread" instead. meaning a single hardware execution context.


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text: Does anyone know if one of these exists for the European (230V 50Hz) market? At 16:55 11/03/03 -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote: >On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Bill Broadley wrote: > > > > > Er, I'd like to buy one, is EIP an online store? I tried eip.com and > > it doesn't look like a store front. > > > > How did you order it? > >Oops, silly me. Don't know what I was typing. Let's try EFI, via: > > http://www.efi.org/greenmountain/info001.htm > >so all you have to do is click "add to cart" for $39.95 plus $5 S/H. > >This is a site that seems to specialize in energy saving tools and >methodologies. Looks like a good place, for example, to buy compact >fluorescent lighting. > >They push the kill-a-watt device as a way to find out what nearly >anything electrical you're likely to have in a house (short of your 220V >central air, stove, or drier) draws, so you can choose to economize or >select a suitably efficient model.


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