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LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker Merck and German diagnostics firm Qiagen are donating millions of human papillomaviros (HPV) vaccines and 250,000 HPV tests to Rwanda to start a national cervical cancer prevention program.
Merck said Monday it would provide Rwanda with 2 million doses of its Gardasil vaccine over three years.
The shot costs around $130 a dose in the United States and protects against HPV — a sexually transmitted virus that causes almost all cases of cervical cancer.
Genetic-testing specialist Qiagen is providing 250,000 HPV DNA tests for free during the first three years of the program. They will be used to screen women aged 35-45 for HPV, while the vaccines will be offered to all Rwandan girls aged 12-15.
Mark Feinberg, Merck's vice president of medical affairs and policy said that after the first three years, Rwanda was committed to paying for the vaccine at a "dramatically" reduced price to continue the nationwide program.
He declined to specify that price but said the firm wanted to make sure Gardasil would be affordable.
"We do not want the price of the vaccine to be a barrier for these lower income countries to be able to introduce it," he said in an interview.
Qiagen will also make its HPV tests available under a tiered-market pricing structure aimed at making its product affordable in developing countries.
Cervical cancer is the most common cancer among women in Rwanda, with more women dying from the disease than any other cancer, including breast and ovarian cancer.
Prevention strategies are considered crucial, particularly since there are huge infrastructure and cost barriers to cancer treatment in Africa.
Worldwide, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women and was expected to kill 328,000 this year. Merck said current estimates indicated that every year in Rwanda, 986 women were diagnosed with cervical cancer and 678 died from it, and these numbers were expected to nearly double by 2025.
Rwandan Health Minister Dr Richard Sezibera said the vaccination program would bring his country one step closer to being able to protect girls and women from cervical cancer.
"It is our goal to create a comprehensive, coordinated program that includes HPV vaccination, cancer screening with HPV DNA testing and treatment," he said in a statement.
Rival drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline also makes a vaccine against HPV, called Cervarix.
Many wealthy countries have started HPV immunization programs with these shots for girls before they become sexually active, but the vaccines are generally too expensive and inaccessible for most people living in poorer nations.
The global vaccines alliance GAVI, which funds bulk-buy vaccination programs in developing countries where governments cannot afford to buy shots at Western prices, has said it would be keen to fund HPV vaccines in the future. Shortages of international donor funds meant it was focused on providing rotavirus and pneumococcal vaccination campaigns first.
When its HPV vaccination program for girls begins on Monday, Rwanda will become the first GAVI-eligible country to start a nationwide cervical cancer prevention program. The screening of women will start later this year.
Feinberg said Merck and Qiagen were also in talks with several other poorer countries, mainly in Africa, about reaching similar agreements in the future.
Editing by Dan Lalor and Jon Loades-Carter

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Skoda previews new 'five-door coupe'
* Five-door VisionC concept set for Geneva show * Likely to be given production green light * Could be replacement for the Superb...
This is the Skoda VisionC, a motor show special designed to showcase the latest styling tweaks from the Czech manufacturer - and point to a more style-focused model to sit alongside the Octavia hatchback.
Skoda has released few details on the concept, beyond a single sketch. However, the image shows a more dramatic look than the brand's recent offerings, with a more prominent front grille and extremely slim, sharply chiselled headlights.
The early details on the VisionC don't even reveal the car's size, but What Car? understands that it is based on the same set of chassis components as the Octavia. That car - our newly crowned Family Car of the Year - has drawn praise for practicality and value, but criticism for its staid image.
A VisionC production model - in effect a much cheaper rival for Volkswagen's Passat-based CC - would allow Skoda to offer more style at the expense of some practicality. It's likely, for example, that rear headroom and the Octavia's considerable boot space would be reduced.
However, it is also conceivable that the VisionC shows what Skoda is intending to do with its flagship Superb. It's up for renewal in the next 18 months, and the company's management has already acknowledged that the range-topping model will get a wider, lower, more dramatic look than the outgoing generation.
If that's the case, we'd expect the VisionC to be even longer than the Octavia and sit on a lengthened version of the same chassis, allowing it to offer even more rear legroom.


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Monday, July 27, 2009
After the first Americans walked on the moon forty years ago, there were many in this country who believed the whole thing was a hoax. They weren't given a voice on news shows in the national media because not only was their belief ignorant, it was factually untrue.
In the 1970s there were those who believed the world was created as stated in the Old Testament and that evolution was a hoax. But they weren't given time in the national news media to air these beliefs because they were not only ignorant, they were factually untrue.
But then something happened in the 1980s and '90s and '00s. First Ronald Reagan got elected with the help of a Republican base of rightwingers that he had helped create, and functionaries like Lee Atwater and Roger Ailes helped perpetuate and grow.
Then under the Gingrich-led Republican Congress during Clinton's administration, catering to the rightwing of the Republican party wasn't just a strategy but a reality. The rightwing had become the Republican Party, at least in Congress, and any leverage could be used to oust centrists and moderates including questioning their religious beliefs. It became a badge of merit among many Republicans to scorn a lot of scientific fact as "relative" (of course they used the opposite claim against liberals in the area of morality). They deliberately misrepresented—leading to much misunderstanding of—the use of the word "Theory" in "The Theory of Evolution" to imply it hadn't yet been proven, though it had. Just as the "Theory of Gravity" was proven.
And of course under the last administration the capitulation to the rightwing nuts was completed, no matter how ignorant and factually untrue, any rightwing nutty idea had to be catered to for fear of attack from the right and being cutoff from access to the White House (as well as being fired by the mostly rightwing owned media).
Which brings us to the present, where despite the factual reality of Obama's birth in Hawaii, those who question this FACT are not only given time and presence in the national news media, but so is every crack pot laughable red herring raised by the rightwing nuts. As in: Obama's health plan is socialist! The same argument Ronald Reagan made in the 1950s as a spokesman for the then marginalized right. He claimed that the creation of Medicare would lead to not just "socialized medicine" but to the government telling you where you would work and live, etc.
None of that came true of course, but the same arguments are being used and this time given not just a fraction of air time, but supposed "equal time" (although what is meant by that now is every time a centrist or moderate makes a factual point a rightwing nut has to be given "equal time" but not a leftwing perspective.).
If all these rightwingers don't believe in the climate changes that are factually occurring (rising seas, thawing tundra, melting glaciers and ice caps, stronger storms, etc.) fine, let them talk among themselves, but don't give them media time to pretend their perspectives have any scientific validity. (The only scientific argument is over what it means and how much humans are contributing to it, and even there the general consensus is pretty consistent.)
If the rightwingers don't dig socialized medicine, or what they call that (any plan that has the government involved in any way), then if they're veterans, like me, they should refuse any use of veterans benefits or veterans hospitals etc. And if they're on Medicare, they should refuse that too. If they're in Congress, they should refuse the plan used by our "representatives" and instead be faced with the same kinds of choices most working citizens of this country are faced with when it comes to health care as now practiced (and let the right wingnuts not be given media time to claim our system is the "best in the world" since factually, judged by most healthcare or healthy citzenry statistic, we come in way behind most and often all other "industrialized" countries and even many "developing" countries).
[Here's a link to news that doesn't get mainstream media coverage, and here's another related to climate changes.]
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- JIm said...
Global Warming Cr**p
Global Warming- Right on Mike! Cut off debate because it interferes with the socialist government takeover of the energy in this country. The government must know better than markets and many thousands of accomplished and recognized scientists who disagree with the global warming scare of the left. I would list many sources that contradict Obama, Pelosi, Reid Gore climate nonsense, but it would run on for pages and have done it before. You keep reusing the liberal nonsense of stifling speech and debate but never counter the many sources and facts that go against the global warming bulls**t.
Here is a link that lists the latest description of record low temperatures in the US and in the ocean.
- July 27, 2009 at 3:28:00 PM EDT
- JIm said...
Birthers and the racist professor
Obama's "stupidity" remark is a gift. The birther movement and the racist professor raise questions of what Obama is attempting to hide and who he really is. It is all good if it further weakens him. The collapse of his polls suggest that Americans are beginning to see him for the radical socialist that he is. A weakened socialist president is less likely to get his socialist agenda through which is good for the country and for freedom. A discription of a Certificate of Live Birth and a long form birth Certificate and the distinction between the two is available below from the State of Hawaii.
"What is the difference between a certification of live birth and a birth certificate in the state of Hawaii?
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A "Certification of Live Birth" is a short form birth certificate. The information included in the document may differ from state to state. A "Certification of Live Birth" from Hawaii will include the name and sex of the person, date of birth, hour of birth, island of birth, county of birth, mother's maiden name, mother's race, father's name, father's race, date accepted by registrar, a certificate number and seal. The seal may be different depending on the year it was printed.
A Birth Certificate, or "Certificate of Live Birth," is the long form birth certificate and contains more detailed information, including signatures of doctor(s), witnesses, vital statistics (length and weight), etc.
The Hawai'i State Department does not make clear whether the Certification is equal proof of birth of birth but according to the Department of Hawaiian Homelands:
"In order to process your application (to verify that you are a genuine native Hawaiian), DHHL utilizes information that is found only on the original Certificate of Live Birth, which is either black or green. This is a more complete record of your birth than the Certification of Live Birth (a computer-generated printout). Submitting the original Certificate of Live Birth will save you time and money since the computer-generated Certification requires additional verification by DHHL."
So, a long form Certificate (which requires less verification) is irrefutable and is never rejected when applying for jobs, passports, Hawaiian land, etc. and the Certification would require more extensive verification."
- July 27, 2009 at 3:46:00 PM EDT
- JIm said...
Socialized Health Care-Margaret Thatcher said it best about socialism. "Socialism always fails because eventually they always run out of other peoples' money".
Government run health care has a repeated history of failure through cost overruns, rationing and disincentives for more medical workers to enter the workforce. Romney care, the State of Hawaii, Canadian and UK are just some of the failed systems. The House Pelosi/Obama plan is based on these failed attempts.
It would be better to keep the plan that works fine for 80% of the population and tweak it by letting private insurance compete nationally across state lines, provide for portability and a food stamp type program for the truly poor, which amount to less than 27 million people according to the US Census. This is almost one half of the figure that Obama throws around. See census figures below as state on Newsmax today.
" Obama's '47 Million Uninsured' Claim Is False
President Barack Obama claimed during his Wednesday night press conference that there are 47 million Americans without health insurance.
A simple check with the U.S. Census Bureau would have told him otherwise.
Obama said: "This is not just about the 47 million Americans who have no health insurance."
That assertion conflicts with data in the Census Bureau report "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007." The report was issued in August 2008 and contains the most up-to-date official data on the number of uninsured in the U.S.
The report discloses that there were 45.65 million people in the U.S. who did not have health insurance in 2007.
However, it also reveals that there were 9.73 million foreigners — foreign-born non-citizens who were in the country in 2007 — included in that number. So the number of uninsured Americans was actually 35.92 million.
And of those, "there were also 9.1 million people making more than $75,000 per year who did not choose to purchase health insurance," CNSNews stated in a report based on the Census Bureau data.
That brings the number of Americans who lack health insurance presumably for financial reasons down less than 27 million.
The Census Bureau report also shows that the number of people without insurance actually went down in 2007 compared to the previous year — from 47 million to 45.65 million — while the number with insurance rose from 249.8 million to 253.4 million.
The next Census Bureau report disclosing health insurance data, with 2008 numbers, is scheduled to be released in August, and could figure in the healthcare reform debate."
- July 27, 2009 at 3:52:00 PM EDT
- Unknown said...
Jim, can't you admit at the very least, that some day we will run out of oil? So, for only that reason alone we should start looking into alternatives shouldn't we?
- July 27, 2009 at 4:03:00 PM EDT
- JIm said...
That is certainly possible and looking at alternatives is a very reasonable approach. I object to the heavy hand of government forcing the US to change by walling of certain types of energy from development while favoring others. Ethanol is a prime example of government interference gone wild. For political reasons (both Republican and Democrat) enormous amounts of tax payer funds have gone to fund a fuel that pollutes, is expensive to produce, is inefficient compared to oil based gasoline and has led to the disruption of food markets resulting in starvation in third world countries.
We have enormous quantities of so called fossil fuel in the form of natural gas, coal and oil both on and off shore. Drilling techniques have become more environmentally friendly. Nuclear is one of the cleanest and has become very safe. I am a bow hunter and spend time in the wild. I appreciate a clean environment. We obviously need some government involvement to continue to clean things up. But we should be careful how we do it. In a time when the economy is in tough shape, we do not need another job killer that will raise the cost of doing business in this country and do little to clean the environment.
- July 27, 2009 at 4:38:00 PM EDT
- tpw said...
Dear M:
Great post. The idiocy of the right is fascinating to behold, if ultimately depressing. You're right to focus on the media---they bear so much responsibility for feeding the American people all this right-wing garbage. Giving credibility to nonsense. True conservatives realize that fact-denying, science-debunking religious fanaticism, which seems to be the driving force among the republican base, benefits neither them nor the country. It's all part of the evil system of corporate control. Keep Americans stupid, poor, badly informed, with failing schools and terrible healthcare, and they are much easier to control and manipulate than an educated, informed, healthy middle class.
- July 27, 2009 at 9:06:00 PM EDT
- Harryn Studios said...
right on t.p. + m.l.,
just a step in another direction - at what point did the news media get to be soothsayers and prognostication ...
flipped on cnn and today show with my coffee and the headlines were "is the recession over", "are we on the road to recovery", "was m.jackson's death a homocide" - to which lawyers and authorities on the various subjects either couldn't implicate themselves or commit to a decisive comment beyond opinion and speculation ...
also, interestingly enough - when bbc america airs, they always frame their programming by saying "the news america wants to hear" ...
in europe, its just news the way we used to get in the old days - well researched headlines with corroborated facts ...
it occurs to me with recent dialogues about the on-going civil rights offenses in america that there's a part of the civilized world that does treat us as though we can't handle the truth - as though we are ignorant, intolerant, and immature ...
the idea that we can't get our facts straight and our news right in a free society says something ...
and never mind about theories of evolution or gravity - ask the majority or americans where wyoming is or to name the three branches of government ...
an interesting sideline: heard someone say that if they were having a heart attack they'd want treatment in american hospitals but if they wanted to avoid one they'd live under france's preventive care program ...
- July 27, 2009 at 11:22:00 PM EDT
- JIm said...
These are interesting Times for Birthers and Obama. I wonder why he doesn't just release his long form birth certificate. Officials of the state of Hawaii say they have it on file and can release if Obama authorizes it. We would never have gotten to this point if the mainstream press had properly vetted him on his associations, school records, passport thesis etc. The mainstream media seemed more interested in defeating any Republican. The NYT went after McCain on a made up accusation of marital infidelity but they and others let Edwards skate when there were early rumors. Imagine if the Edwards rumors had been revealed before the Iowa primary. We would probably have a President Hillary. I don't know which would be worse.
Soldier's case against Obama to be class-action?
Army major challenged orders based on questions about president's eligibility
Posted: July 27, 2009
10:07 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
A case brought by a military officer whose order to deploy to Afghanistan was revoked now has been refiled in a federal court in Florida, and it raises the specter of a class action claim among members of the military that their orders aren't valid because of Barack Obama's ineligibility to be president.
- July 28, 2009 at 10:35:00 AM EDT
- Harryn Studios said...
thirty + years ago a college prof told me that for every sane and reasonable person you come across, there'll be eight or nine idiots to deal with ...
just doesn't seem to be a shortage of misalligned out there today ...
sottomayer just got confirmed - the "nay" cowards didn't even show up - so if they don't show up for their nay votes - where the hell are they ...
- July 28, 2009 at 12:42:00 PM EDT
- JIm said...
Here is a little education for the "Global Warming Loonies", from a professor from Down Under.
"Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites"
Geologist Ian Plimer takes a contrary view, arguing that man-made climate change is a con trick perpetuated by environmentalists
By Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver SunJuly 28, 2009
Plimer is a geologist, professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, and he may well be Australia's best-known and most notorious academic.
Plimer, you see, is an unremitting critic of "anthropogenic global warming" -- man-made climate change to you and me -- and the current environmental orthodoxy that if we change our polluting ways, global warming can be reversed.
Plimer presents the proposition that anthropogenic global warming is little more than a con trick on the public perpetrated by fundamentalist environmentalists and callously adopted by politicians and government officials who love nothing more than an issue that causes public anxiety.
While environmentalists for the most part draw their conclusions based on climate information gathered in the last few hundred years, geologists, Plimer says, have a time frame stretching back many thousands of millions of years.
The dynamic and changing character of the Earth's climate has always been known by geologists. These changes are cyclical and random, he says. They are not caused or significantly affected by human behaviour.
Polar ice, for example, has been present on the Earth for less than 20 per cent of geological time, Plimer writes. Plus, animal extinctions are an entirely normal part of the
- July 29, 2009 at 10:17:00 AM EDT
- AlamedaTom said...
Yo Lal! There is a new book out that is all over the point you are making in your post: "Idiot America" by Charles Pierce. Check it out.
~ Willy
- July 29, 2009 at 6:20:00 PM EDT
- Lally said...
Thanks man, I'll check it out.
- July 30, 2009 at 10:23:00 AM EDT
- JIm said...
A Global Warming Report from my Cabin at 10500 ft. near St. Mary's Glacier
As I left the cabin for Denver this morning the temperature was 38degrees. That would not be unusual in mid to late September but is not the norm for July. My neighbor expects an early and hard winter because of some of the wildlife behavior he has noticed. I understand it was snowing about five miles away, as the crow flies, at the Continetal Divide. Colorado seems to be having a summerless year.
- July 30, 2009 at 10:40:00 AM EDT


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Most of the questions I get about finding an elusive ancestor are focused on the individual and some fact about an event in his or her life. One of the most common questions involves finding a "birth date" for someone born in the 1800s. Almost always "finding the birth date" is viewed as the key for identifying the individual's parents. I feel this whole line of reasoning is a misconception. It is not uncommon for the exact date of birth to go unrecorded and searching for a date is an exercise in misdirection. It is true that there may be a document, such as a Bible record or church record, that records either the date of birth or christening, but then again, the date may never have been recorded.
Approximating age and thereby estimating the year of birth may be the best that can be accomplished. Many events in a person's life are associated with their age, for example, military service, school attendance, confirmation in a church, marriage, and death. But one of the most common ways of identifying an approximate birth date is through the birth order of the children.
It is always my suggestion to focus on the family, not on the individual, to find an elusive date or to extend the family line. Let me show how I would do this by using a hypothetical situation.
Jones is doing research on his family line. He knows his father's name and birth date, his grandfather's name and an approximate date of birth, but cannot identify his great-grandfather. (You could change the facts here to push this back a generation or so, if it would be easier to understand). Where does he start? By looking for documents that might identify his great-grandfather? No. By looking for more information on his own father and his grandfather's family. The researcher needs a whole lot more information about his immediate family before he attempts to jump back two generations. I find too many researchers who know little or nothing about their own aunts and uncles and who expect to find information about their grandparents. In one instance, one researcher I was working with, could not find his own father. After a year of looking, he talked to one of his aunts and found that he had the wrong name!
Before you launch off into the past, you need a firm foundation in the present. You may need all of your own birth, school, military, marriage, and other records so you can have multiple places to look for records on your own parents. You then do the same thing with your parents' family and so forth.
But always focus on the family, the entire family.
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Focus on the Family Group
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Could not agree with you more, James. Next to keeping track of my sources, conducting research at the family group level has brought down more brick walls for me than any other technique.ReplyDelete
While it's more than information about, there is a good amount of information "about parents" frequently found in the records of their children; the larger the family (more siblings), the more opportunity to learn information, often different information.
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My company purchased an Atrix for app development and would like to use it without a SIM card. Unfortunately, on boot it is not possible to get past the "No SIM card. Emergency calls only" screen. Is it possible to use the Motorola Atrix without a SIM card?
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Besinati's Story: "When I see these changes, it's all worthwhile"
Besinati's Story: "When I see these changes, it's all worthwhile"
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The AIDS pandemic has devastating and debilitating long-term implications, and these effects are most apparent in Africa, where the disease is strangling the continent.
In Malawi is a small, landlocked country where 65 percent of the population lives in poverty. Its population struggles also struggling with one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world. CARE is working to turn things around and change the perception people hold of people living with HIV and AIDS.
Besinati Kabala, 35, is one such person. With education as her tool and the children of future generations as her motivation, Besinati is courageously changing the face of HIV in the minds of people in her community with the help of CARE.
A while back, CARE set up village committees tasked with addressing the community's most pressing needs. Besinati joined the committee in her village, bringing a voice and a face of HIV and AIDS with her.
"Before I was in the group, people living with HIV were discriminated against. I became a member of the committee to represent the voice of other people with HIV," she says. "I took the discrimination as a part of life because most people at that point weren't aware of what HIV was; there was a lot of stigma."
In an act of bravery, Besinati was one of the first women in her village to declare her status to her friends, family and the committee. She explains, "I decided to put myself out in the open and tell my community my status so that the discrimination would cease."
Since then, she has worked hard to bring HIV into the public eye and help people understand what it is like to live as a HIV-positive person.
"A lot of people are dying from HIV-related infections and diseases because they are not taken care of, so I decided to start a support group to assist those people who are affected," she says. "I wasn't afraid to start the group because I wanted to help."
After receiving training from CARE, Besinati started her a HIV support group for people living with the disease in her community. The 37 members of the group meet every Saturday afternoon and, according to Besinati, "We teach each other how to take away our worries and how to best manage our homes with good food and sanitation – like having clean water in our homes – to reduce [opportunistic] infections."
Her hard work is paying off! More people are going for voluntary HIV testing, counseling and treatment. Besinati tells of transformations she's witnessed because people are more willing to seek care, "Those that were bedridden can now walk. When I see these changes, it's all worthwhile. I feel powerful because I'm seeing the changes from my work."
As Besinati gently cradles a small child in her arms, her message is clear. She hopes for a better future for this child – and she's willing to do what it takes to create one.


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ATLANTA — Only 28 percent of the 1.2 million Americans living with HIV have the infection under control, increasing the risk that they will spread the disease to others, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.
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A big part of the problem is that one in five U.S. adults infected with HIV do not know it. People can be infected with the AIDS virus for years without developing symptoms. Of those who are aware, only half receive ongoing medical care and treatment, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its latest report on HIV in America.
"It's now very clear that we have the tools to stop HIV in an individual and to stop the spread of HIV in a community," CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden said in a telephone interview.
"We also know that taking treatment for HIV can prevent people from progressing to AIDS and from developing many of the serious complications of HIV, which unfortunately does remain an incurable infection," Frieden said.
Medications that have been available for 15 years can reduce the amount of virus to low levels. Recent studies have shown that suppressing the virus through treatment reduces the spread of HIV to partners by as much as 96 percent.
CDC's report, released Tuesday ahead of World AIDS day on December 1, focuses on increasing rates of HIV testing and treatment.
It follows new global AIDS priorities set by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton focused on HIV-fighting drugs as a way of preventing new infections that could bring the goal of "an AIDS-free generation" within reach.
The global plan also seeks to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV and expand voluntary male circumcision.
"In this country, we already do a very good job with maternal-child transmission prevention," Frieden told Reuters.
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He said the major area of need in the United States is in "strengthening the cascade" of care by improving access and making sure people continue taking their medication to ensure the virus in their body is kept low enough to prevent the spread of the infection.
"The fact that nearly three quarters of Americans living with HIV still have the virus circulating in their bodies, damaging their brains and immune systems and putting their sexual partner at risk is something we think we can do a lot about," he said.
Testing campaign
To reach groups at the greatest risk, the CDC is launching a new campaign urging regular testing for black gay and bisexual men, a population in which both HIV and syphilis infections continue to rise.
Frieden said studies have shown that black gay and bisexual do not engage in riskier behaviors than other gay men.
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"It's just that the infection has gotten into this community and therefore it's particularly important that people in the community get tested and treated," he said.
The campaign includes advertising in gay and black neighborhoods in six cities where infections in this population are highest: Atlanta, Baltimore, Houston, New York City, Oakland, California and Washington, D.C.
While the number of Americans newly infected with HIV remained stable between 2006 and 2009, infections rose nearly 50 percent among young black gay and bisexual men, according to a CDC report released in August.
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Men who have sex with men -- which includes openly gay and bisexual men and those who do not identify themselves as gay or bisexual -- remain most heavily affected.
While this group represents 2 percent of the overall U.S. population, they accounted for 61 percent of all new HIV infections in 2009.
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BEIJING (AP) — China's government on Wednesday promised to boost domestic consumption as a driver of the economy after growth dipped in the latest quarter.
A cabinet statement also promised to guard against risks from rising local government debt, which is causing growing concern about China's finances.
The statement promised changes in medical, pension and other policies but gave no details. Analysts say higher outlays on social programs are required to free up household incomes for consumer spending if the ruling Communist Party is to achieve its goal of nurturing self-sustaining growth based on domestic consumption instead of trade and investment.
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Clarksville, TN – When I woke up this morning, I had forgotten that the Veteran's Day parade was being held today. You see, I teach beginning digital photography for the Community School of the Arts (CSA) on Saturday mornings, and as I was nearing Austin Peay, I saw that 8th Street and College Streets were blocked and still didn't realize what was going on. I had to detour to get to my class and so did all of my students.
When we got to the classroom we discussed the parade and what a fabulous learning experience it would be for the class. Everyone grabbed their cameras and to the parade we went. All we had to do was walk outside the classroom and we were at the parade with a perfect spot to watch.This would be a teaching tool that had meaning. I have many students with a military connection and this would not only be a photography lesson, but a life lesson too.
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My students were all rapidly taking photos. Standing on the wall and sitting on the ground they got a birds eye view of the celebration going on. This was a great lesson in using a fast shutter speed to stop action and take a photo that was not blurry.
I asked my students how they enjoyed the parade and being able to photograph the event. "The parade was a good showing of the support Clarksville has for the military and the other community members in general," said Tiffany Korn.
Erin Andrews said, "The parade was the perfect opportunity to apply what we are learning in class. The movement of the parade, working around parade observers to get a clean shot, and the sun were all challenges that forced us to manipulate settings and apply what we learned to get the best shot. Taking learning outside the classroom took learning to a whole new level. It's one thing to shoot your weekly assignments and then get feedback when the class meets but to have immediate help and feedback during a shoot was very beneficial."
The pay off was seeing all of the photos that they took. You are getting to experience that with them, as these are all students' photos. I could not be prouder of the job they did. We hope that you will enjoy the photos courtesy of the Community School of the Arts beginning digital photo class.
I am proud of my students and proud of my Veterans. Today we honored you, but we thank you every day!
For more information on the Community School of the Arts and the Beginning Digital Photography class with Lois Jones contact Matthew Burns at: Phone: 931.221.7508 Email: Web: www.apsu.edu/csa
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Lois Jones is the Associate Director of Career Services at Miller-Motte Technical College, photojournalist, and instructor of Beginning Digital Photography for Austin Peay State University's Community School of the Arts.
A graduate of Austin Peay, she worked as a photojournalist, writer and Photo Editor for the University newspaper "The All State," for nine semesters.
During her time at APSU, she competed and won in the Southeast Journalism Conference (SEJC) two times and placed fifth in her first competition and then third in her second. SEJC ranks all the Colleges and Universities journalists and recognizes the top 10 in each field in the entire Southeast region. To be awarded fifth and then third overall for "Best Press Photographer" for the regional Colleges and Universities is truly an honor and speaks to her ability.
She has been working as a freelance photojournalist for over seven years to include The Leaf Chronicle, Clarksville Online, Austin Peay and several other papers. Lois also undertakes independent jobs when requested. Hired for a PR campaign, "Mowers for Military Families" by Lawnboy Lawn Mowers, her photo for the campaign ran in many print venues and was displayed on the Reuters board in the middle of Times Square.
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Over the past two weeks Primark and Burberry have embarked on the Detox programme and now it's time for them to walk the talk. Detox leaders like Mango, H&M and Fast Retailing are showing how it's done and setting the toxic-free trend. Unfortunately, some like adidas and Nike are stuck on the first step, while others like Disney haven't even got off the starting block.
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We need urgent action to stop the build up of these little monsters in the rivers, lakes and seas we all rely upon, posing untold risks to the health of our children and adults everywhere. Achieving zero discharges of hazardous chemicals won't be easy and it won't happen overnight but by following this five-step programme, the fashion industry can help us build the toxic-free future our children deserve.
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Samsung has announced the latest batch of sales figures for its Galaxy S II Android smartphone, and the device remains the company's fastest-growing smartphone yet.
According to Samsung, the Galaxy S2 has officially hit 10 million in sales all of five months after the device's worldwide launch this past April. Sales in South Korea take the lion's share of the total at 3.6 million, with European markets close behind at 3.4 million. Sales of the smartphone in Asia hit a total of 2.3 million.
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Apple has announced that it has finally accumulated over 100,000 apps available to download for iPhone OS devices. This feat was accomplished just 16 months after Apple opened the App Store alongside the launch of iPhone OS 2.0 and the iPhone 3G in Summer 2008.
"The App Store, now with over 100,000 applications available, is clearly a major differentiator for millions of iPhone and iPod touch customers around the world," said Apple SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing, Philip Schiller, in a statement. "The iPhone SDK created the first great platform for mobile applications and our customers are loving all of the amazing apps our developers are creating."
We won't argue that mere quantity makes Apple's App Store better than the me-too stores that have launched for other similar smartphone platforms over the past year. There are plenty of fart apps, soundboards, and apps designed merely to part a fool and his money. But 100,000 does seem like an impressive number—far more than any other platform's app store by an order of magnitude—and highlights Apple's first-mover advantage. Apple is also attempting to address the issue of separating the wheat from the chaff, with features like Genius recommendations, App Store Essentials selections, and sub-category listings.
Though not every developer is striking it rich by developing and selling iPhone apps, there are certainly those that are doing well. "The App Store has forever changed the mobile gaming industry and continues to improve," said Travis Boatman, EA Mobile's vice president of Worldwide Studios, in a statement. "With a global reach of over 50 million iPhone and iPod touch users, the App Store has allowed us to develop high quality EA games that have been a huge success with customers."
The App Store isn't perfect, and developers still have issues dealing with the approval process, but it has come a very long way is a relatively short period of time. The concept of an app store is clearly a hit with consumers and developers alike.


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Over the last 8 games or so Tyler has really shown alot!! Early on in the season with the limited minutes & oppourtunity he was pressing & out of sync trying to fit in, had a bad case of fumbleitis.. But now he's making himself available catching the ball, throwing it down with authority, ha...
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Been gone a couple years, did I miss anything
I like the updated site, hope everybody is good
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- Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:32 pm
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I hate to say it but I doubt Monta will be a Warrior long :x With the way Rowell handled his moped situation, then firing Monta's "Father Figure" Mullin, the addition of Curry & now 1 of his last We Believe comrads Capt. Jack No longer Believing... The writing is on the wall, Monta is ...
- Fri Jul 03, 2009 6:13 pm
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- Topic: Cohan looking to sell..
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I heard this a week ago via Mitch Richmond as he was silently pushed out the organization, also Cohan was Fukn with Mitch & Mullie on Bull Sh*t stuff like getting tickets :evil: Also there is no beef between Mullin & Nellie, that was between Mullie & Cohan & his puppet Bobby & Mu...
- Tue May 12, 2009 5:14 pm
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By Lowell Cohn, Published: Monday, May 11, 2009 at 6:52 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, May 11, 2009 at 6:52 p.m. Does anyone in his right mind think the Warriors will be better now that Chris Mullin is officially gone? The Warriors, for a short while an improved franchise under Mullin, now have regress...
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What has happened to the Warriors? By Monte Poole Bay Area News Group Posted: 03/16/2009 10:41:21 PM PDT Baron Davis, the former prince of Oracle Arena, makes his first appearance tonight as a Los Angeles Clipper in the facility where he once raised the Warriors from the dead. For Warriors fans, the...
- Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:59 am
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- Topic: Mullin's fate is sealed By Tim Kwackami.
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I agree fellas, I'm pissed off about the the Mullin situation.... Robby Rowell is a Prik :!: It was a wrap when Mullin didn't get the early extension But Nellie did & Rowell's EGO took over the operation with Mullin's decisions being overrode & voided ie (Baron),(Monta's punishment),(S Jax E...
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Non-shock Warriors update: Mullin's fate is sealed, Cohan isn't selling, Ellis is under the microscope Posted by Tim Kawakami on March 12th, 2009 at 2:06 pm Can't wait to see dozens of anti-me/pro-Nelson-Rowell-TV announcer commenters blasting me for repeating what they already know, but that is the...
- Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:52 pm
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- Topic: Void of Chris Mullin is a factor in latest turmoil.
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Matt Steinmetz, March 7, 8:57 AM The void of Chris Mullin is a factor in latest turmoil surrounding the Warriors. The headlines haven't been pretty: "Monta unhappy with Warriors" and "Nelson tells Crawford to opt out." And all I keep thinking is: Where is Chris Mullin? First, a quick story or two. T...
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After he showed up to camp M Will was told to get to a certain weight & body fat %.. He then met those requirements set & has since played a total of 54 minutes with 13 ast 4 to's.. The Warriors have desperately needed all year a pg that can pass the rock instead of having S Jax handle all t...
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When it comes to Jackson's minutes, Nelson is between rock and hard place March 1, 9:06 AM by Matt Steinmetz, Golden State Warriors Examiner As you would figure, coach Don Nelson and Stephen Jackson, the Warriors' best player, draw a lot of the criticism for the Warriors' dismal season. Among other ...
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Oh sh*t let me go set my DVR What up CJR..
- Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:35 pm
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Randolph's red glare Playing mad in positive way is rookie's goal. By Marcus Thompson II Posted: 02/22/2009 09:02:01 PM PST Updated: 02/23/2009 06:14:36 AM PST A flip switches when Warriors rookie forward Anthony Randolph hits the court, whether in practice or in the games. Something starts bubbling...
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The point is, a community listens to one another. If i ever post something that offends even 1 person (just 1), i will take it down right away. I don't get why we should all do the same. I think respecting everyone (not just the majority) should be the goal of a community. Doesn't mean that stuff w...
- Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:22 pm
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Rookie's play gets him time on court. Janny Hu, Chronicle Staff Writer Saturday, February 21, 2009 (02-20) 21:17 PST -- Had Anthony Randolph been drafted by a team blatantly rebuilding, like the Thunder, he'd have the carte blanche that Kevin Durant enjoys when it comes to minutes and making plays. ...
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Why Were The Baboons So Sad? Many Theories, No Answers
When the keepers at the Netherlands' Emmen Zoo opened the night enclosure for 112 baboons on July 29, they expected the animals would be, as usual, eager to get inside.
After all, the baboons knew there was food for them in there.
Instead, biologist and zoo press officer Wijbren Landman tells All Things Considered the baboons didn't want to budge. "It took us about an hour to get them inside," he says. That night, the baboons didn't eat.
Over the next week, the baboons continued to behave oddly. They would sit with their backs to the public. They wouldn't make much noise; "it was rather silent, which is not normal for a baboon," says Landman. They were, in a word, looking rather sad. The zoo took to calling them "troubled."
It was about a week before the baboons began acting like themselves again.
So what happened?
It's a mystery, Landman says.
Just as when this sort of thing occurred at the zoo three times before — in 1994, 1997 and 2007 — keepers don't have any clear idea about what caused such melancholy. The most likely explanation seems to be that something was bothering one of the male leaders and others behaved as he did.
"If one of the leaders is shocked by something than most of the colony will obey him and then the whole colony will be shocked," says Landman. "But what really caused one of the leaders to be shocked, well, we didn't find out."
Among the theories:
— Lightning and thunder during storms that came through the area.
— An earthquake that escaped the attention of humans (though we don't see any near the Netherlands on the U.S. Geological Survey's record of temblors for July 31).
— A snake or some other kind of animal entering the baboons' area.
— Aliens. "We didn't see them. Maybe the baboons saw them," Landman says with a laugh.
As you might imagine, there's also no clear answer for why the baboons have seemed to cheer up.
Theories are welcomed in the comments thread.
For much more on baboons, including audio of their sounds, check this package by National Geographic.
We'll add the as-broadcast version of Landman's conversation with NPR's Melissa Block to the top of this post later. Click here to find an NPR member station that broadcasts or streams the show.
To the Netherlands now where something has traumatized a large group of baboons at a zoo. Last week, the normally gregarious troupe of 112 baboons at the Emmen Zoo suddenly stopped eating. They sat motionless and turned their backs on zoo visitors.
Wijbren Landman is a biologist and a spokesman at the Emmen Zoo. He said the first sign that something was wrong came at night when the baboons are supposed to head indoors.
WIJBREN LANDMAN: In our zoo, all the animals are in night enclosures, and the baboons would normally go to that night and closure without any problem. And we open the door, and within 30 seconds, 112 balloons are inside. But that evening, it took us about one hour to get them inside. So there was certainly something strange going on.
BLOCK: And were they vocalizing in any way?
LANDMAN: No. It was rather silent, which is not normal for a baboon. They - it is a very social group, and they are constantly communicating with each other. And, well, they didn't.
BLOCK: And at some point, as we say, they turned their backs on zoo visitors, which I would say might be a completely understandable behavior, but I guess would be a little unusual, right?
LANDMAN: Yes. That is not what they normally do. Normally, let's say, a baboon mother carrying a just-born baby has her back between the baby and the visitors. But they did it all, and that is not normal.
BLOCK: Well, are there any explanations for what caused this trauma or this panic among the baboons?
LANDMAN: Well, we had almost 300 explanations of all different kinds.
BLOCK: What were some of those ideas that you did field?
LANDMAN: Well, we had some suggestions about real bad weather we had on Sunday with extremely many lightnings and thunders. Some suggestions were earthquakes, escaped snakes, big predators. Well, we are near in the city center, so there are no big predators coming here. We even had the reason that there were aliens or unidentified flying objects coming on so - but we didn't see them, so maybe the baboons saw them.
BLOCK: Mm. So nothing that makes sense.
LANDMAN: No. No.
BLOCK: Well, this has happened before, is that right...
LANDMAN: Yes.
BLOCK: ...among the baboon population at the zoo, that they've shown this behavior before.
LANDMAN: Yes, they did this in 1994, in '97, and in 2007.
BLOCK: Well, Mr. Landman, how are the baboons doing now? Are they back to normal?
LANDMAN: Yes. The whole strange behavior took about a week. And at this moment, we don't see any strange behavior anymore. Now, they are strolling around in harem groups, which is normal by baboons. A male with, you know, depending on his social position, he has two to six females around him, and they are grooming each other within a harem. Males fight for their social position. Young baboons are punished for being disobedient. They mate, which is a very important behavior in baboons. So they are back to normal.
BLOCK: Oh, so the mystery remains.
LANDMAN: It's still a mystery, yes.
BLOCK: Well, Mr. Landman, thanks for talking to us about it. And glad to hear the baboons are - seem to be happier now.
LANDMAN: Thank you.
BLOCK: That's Wijbren Landman. He's a biologist and spokesman at the Emmen Zoo in the Netherlands. What's the word for baboon in Dutch, by the way?
LANDMAN: Baviaan.
BLOCK: Baviaan? Baviaan?
LANDMAN: Yeah, baviaan.
BLOCK: Baviaan. I learned a bit of Dutch today.
LANDMAN: It's a good word to know in the (unintelligible). Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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We made a flat pack Neolithic (but would probably work for earlier periods too) house to take to schools and events with us. Absolutely accurate it ain't, but its safe, stable, and easy to shove in the back of the van and should help children visualise a camp when roleplaying life in the past.
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Just seen this post. Excellent idea, there are far too many tents around in all periods and not enough huts (or houses as perhaps they should be called). I have had the same idea but it is even less authentic using reed screening from B & Q and skins. The advantage of screening is that one can roll it up for car transport.
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Dodgy photo of me with reed hut and coracle at Maiden Castle event.
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I've just been thinking on this - as co-ordinator for the recent NZ Medieval Faire and noticing the distinct lack of *houses* at events. I'm now going to explore some of the ideas you've shared and daydream
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The Value of InformationMarch 24th, 2008 — ddelmoli
There has been an interesting and somewhat heated discussion going on about a recent blog post by Dominic Brooks and referenced by Doug Burns about the relative value of data vs. applications. Actually, most of the heat seems to be directed at a comment made by Tim Gorman on several mailing lists in which he states that:
Data, not programs, is the only thing that matters — applications are transient and have no value except to acquire, manipulate, and display data. Data is the only thing with value.
I've deliberately taken the quote out of context — for that is how it's being reacted to, fairly or unfairly on Doug Burns' blog entry.
I'm not actually going to add any fuel to that fire, only offer up some observations. I think I agree with many who are stating that data that lies about, unexploited by any application, is a pretty useless waste of storage. That the true value of data comes from an ability to use it through an application which allows one to analyze, manipulate and visualize information synthesized from the data soup. One reason I'm excited about the new company I'm with is its focus on helping people increase their ability to exploit their data.
To that end, one of my burning interests is in the ease of which the average employee has access to data and the means to create value out of it. This includes data accessibility combined with compliance controls as well as tools and applications which allow the employee to tease ideas out of the data. I wish Excel was a better data manipulation and analysis tool, since it's so ubiquitous. But my real concern is my perception that the language of data access has been kicked into a corner, shunned by end users and application programmers alike. I find the lack of SQL knowledge and use appalling in most of the technologists I've encountered. And that's a real shame — for SQL's ability to make data accessible I find second to none. I have an idea about why SQL ability is failing, and I think it goes back to its original development. The following is from a fascinating interview at McJones titled: The 1995 SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics
Don Chamberlin: So what this language group wanted to do when we first got organized: we had started from this background of SQUARE, but we weren't very satisfied with it for several reasons. First of all, you couldn't type it on a keyboard because it had a lot of funny subscripts in it. So we began saying we'll adapt the SQUARE ideas to a more English keyword approach which is easier to type, because it was based on English structures. We called it Structured English Query Language and used the acronym SEQUEL for it. And we got to working on building a SEQUEL prototype on top of Raymond Lorie's access method called XRM.
At the time, we wanted to find out if this syntax was good for anything or not, so we had a linguist on our staff, for reasons that are kind of obscure. Her name was Phyllis Reisner, and what she liked to do was human-factors experiments. So she went down to San Jose State and recruited a bunch of San Jose State students to teach them the SEQUEL language and see if they could learn it. She did this for several months and wrote a paper about it, and gained recognition in the human-factors community for her work.[30], 31 I'm not sure if the results were very conclusive; it turned out that sure enough if you worked hard enough, you could teach SEQUEL to college students. [laughter] Most of the mistakes they made didn't really have anything to do with syntax. They made lots of mistakes – they wouldn't capitalize correctly, and things like that.
Looking back on it, I don't think the problem we thought we were solving was where we had the most impact. What we thought we were doing was making it possible for non-programmers to interact with databases. We thought that this was going to open up access to data to a whole new class of people who could do things that were never possible before because they didn't know how to program. This was before the days of graphical user interfaces which ultimately did make that sort of a revolution, and we didn't know anything about that, and so I don't think we impacted the world as much as we hoped we were going to in terms of making data accessible to non-programmers. It kind of took Apple to do that. The problem that we didn't think we were working on at all – at least, we didn't pay any attention to it – was how to embed query languages into host languages, or how to make a language that would serve as an interchange medium between different systems – those are the ways in which SQL ultimately turned out to be very successful, rather than as an end-user language for ad hoc users. So I think the problem that we solved wasn't really the problem that we thought we were solving at the time.
Anyway, we were working on this language, and we adapted it from SQUARE and turned it into English and then we started adding a bunch of things to it like GROUP BY that didn't really come out of the SQUARE heritage at all. So you couldn't really say it had much to do with SQUARE before we were done. Ray and I wrote some papers about this language in 1974. We wrote two papers: one on SEQUEL/DML[32] and one on SEQUEL/DDL[33]. We were cooperating very closely on this. The DML paper's authors were Chamberlin and Boyce; the DDL paper's authors were Boyce and Chamberlin, for no special reason; we just sort of split it up. We wanted to go to Stockholm that year because it was the year of the IFIP Congress in Stockholm. I had a ticket to Stockholm because of some work I'd done in Yorktown, so Ray submitted the DDL paper to the IFIP Congress in Stockholm, and the DML paper we submitted to SIGMOD. This is the cover page of the SEQUEL/DML paper. It was 24 pages long. These were twin papers in our original estimation. We wrote them together and thought they were of comparable value and impact. But what happened to them was quite different. The DDL paper got rejected by the IFIP Congress; Ray didn't get to go to Stockholm. I still have that paper in my drawer; it's never been published. The DML paper did get accepted at SIGMOD. Several years later I got a call from a guy named Larry Ellison who'd read that paper; he basically used some of the ideas from that paper to good advantage. [laughter] The latest incarnation of these ideas is longer than 24 pages long; it's the ISO standard for the SQL language, which was just described last week at SIGMOD by Nelson Mattos[34]. It's now about 1600 pages.
It's from this quote that I believe SQL gained its second-class status — it's not for programmers, but it's "too complicated" for end-users who became used to graphically interacting with applications.
Do you have someone on staff who really knows SQL? Who can make the data super easily accessible to application programmers and end-users alike? Who removes the barrier and lowers the hurdle in the way of turning data into value? You're probably gathering more and more relational data every day — and probably shredding your XML and storing your BLOBs there too. I'm not saying that SQL is more important than data or the means to analyze it — I am saying that experts at SQL can make your databases perform better AND make it easier for your application people to focus on delivering that data to the people who want to use it. Don't put it in the limbo land of being not for programmers and not for end-users.
Update: I wanted to give credit to the source of my quote:
Copyright (c) 1995, 1997 by Paul McJones, Roger Bamford, Mike Blasgen, Don Chamberlin, Josephine Cheng, Jean-Jacques Daudenarde, Shel Finkelstein, Jim Gray, Bob Jolls, Bruce Lindsay, Raymond Lorie, Jim Mehl, Roger Miller, C. Mohan, John Nauman, Mike Pong, Tom Price, Franco Putzolu, Mario Schkolnick, Bob Selinger, Pat Selinger, Don Slutz, Irv Traiger, Brad Wade, and Bob Yost. You may copy this document in whole or in part without payment of fee provided that you acknowledge the authors and include this notice.


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