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Dow punches through all-time high: US stocks are back! American people? Not so much
Since the bleakest hours of early 2009, the stock market has clawed, scampered and inched higher—with some notable slips. Now that venerable equity market metric—the Dow Jones Industrial Average—has summited 14,164.53, its all-time highest close last seen way back on Oct. 9, 2007.
Terrific! A rising stock market helps Americans rebuild the wealth destroyed by a banking crisis, market meltdown and recession that clobbered their retirement accounts and gutted home values. Ascending stocks also bode well for consumer spending, as there is the well-documented "wealth effect" that helps people feel better about opening their wallets. (Of course, no-one knows whether stocks are setting up base camp for a fresh ascent, or are going to reach a ledge and then jump off the cliff. Also, it's worth noting that the S&P 500 stock index, a broader gauge of US equities, still has a little ways to go before matching its all-time high close of 1565.15, also set on Oct. 9, 2007.)
Even so, let's just put the snark on hold for a second and appreciate the view from the peak. (This is a snapshot from not long after the open.)
OK, but here's the thing. The stock market alone hasn't repaired the damage done to American household finances in recent years. In many ways Americans are still sucking wind after the gut punch they suffered in 2008. Here's a look.
Household incomes
These haven't gone anywhere but down since the recession hit. Real median US household income—that's "real," as in "adjusted for inflation"—was $50,054 in 2011, the most recent data available from the US Census Bureau. That's 8% lower than the 2007 peak of $54,489.
Things likely aren't getting much better
Yes, it's true that those 2011 data are pretty old. But if consumer expectations are any reflection on income levels, it doesn't look like the pay has gotten anywhere back to normal pre-crisis levels.
House prices still low
House prices have been perking up lately. But they're still about 25% below their 2007 peak, when the median price for an existing home in the US hit $230,300.
Labor's shrinking share of the pie
And while the US economy has gotten back on track, workers' pay has been a progressively shrinking piece of total GDP since the recession hit. That's what this chart shows. What's more, what now feels like the peak of 2007 was actually rather a low hillock, if you look back over the previous few decades.
But household net worth is climbing
Now, things aren't completely terrible. The rebound in stocks has helped American households repair their balance sheets (non-profit organizations are included in these numbers) since they were at their lowest during the worst of the recession in the first quarter of 2009. At that point, some $16 trillion in American household wealth had been vaporized. Continued increases in housing prices will help Americans improve their finances.
And debt payments are devouring a smaller share of spare cash
And there are some areas where Americans are better off than they were before the crisis. For example, their debt payments as a share of disposable income have come way down from unsustainable peaks. (We went a bit farther back with this chart, to give you some perspective.) It's important to note that this hasn't been a painless process either. A lot of the reduction comes from traumatic and damaging mortgage defaults. But some of it is also folks taking advantage of the Federal Reserve's low interest rate policy to refinance existing debt loads.
At any rate, we just thought it was worth pointing out that while the stock market may be back on top, the American people still have a long climb ahead of them.
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Seventeen times, I have cycled 575 miles (from San Francisco to Los Angeles ) in a bike ride event that began as California AIDS Ride and is now titled AIDS/Lifecycle . And seventeen times, I have completed the ride knowing I did the right thing.
In June 2015, for my 18th Year, I will participate in AIDS/Lifecycle .
I am committed to cycling (perhaps for you) from S.F. to L.A., 545 miles, in seven days. Also, I am committed to raising well beyond the $3,000 (per cyclist) fundraising minimum. Through a relationship with you individually or with your company, I can continue to assist those whom are confronted with the challenges of HIV/ AIDS.
San Francisco's AIDS Ride has many intangible benefits you can be proud of — like the advertising that helps increase awareness about AIDS; like the way the approx. 2, 500 cyclist & 400 crew members get people talking about HIV / AIDS as they go out and seek sponsorship; or like the way the bicycle ride teaches people that we can work together to solve our problems.
These are the things that make this event so remarkably magical. These are important reasons to give as well. And these are only some of things you can count on the AIDS/Lifecycle Event to deliver.
As I ride those 575 miles, I will:
- Express your shared interest in "humanity.
- Take every "Kodak moment" to capture your support in action & provide you with a marketing/advertising edge which most companies would enjoy.
And to top it off, I could be wearing your company logo. Just imagine . .. your company logo amongst a stream of 2,500 cyclists riding 545 miles down the California Coast line.
I will gladly accept sponsorships of every level.
- You write the check; AIDS Awareness, AIDS Education, AIDS Prevention and AIDS Health Services continue. [501(c)3 non-profit tax id number is available]
- You send me your brand of cycling gear . .. I'll look "fly" all the way to L.A. – you'll get publicity
- And if you have a better idea . . I'm all ears ( email me ).
AIDS/Lifecycle 2015 | Sponsor Online: http://www.tofighthiv.org/goto/tonyeason
AIDS/LifeCycle 2015 Downloadable Sponsorship Form : http://ynottony.com/ynot/wp-content/uploads/document1.pdf
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- Weight: 165lbs.
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- Shorts: Medium
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- Helmet: Large
- Shoes Size: US 11.5 /or/ EU 46
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- AIDS/Lifecycle – Packing
- AIDS Ride – Fund Raising
- AIDS/Lifecycle Opening Ceremonies
- AIDSLifecycle – Training
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ADAMS, JOHN, merchant, member of the Nova Scotia Council; b. 1672 or 1673, son of John and Avis Adams of Boston; d. sometime after 1745.
A petty merchant in Boston, John Adams joined the New England regiment raised by Sir Charles Hobby* and was present at the capture of Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.) in 1710. Shortly thereafter he returned to civilian life and, settling in Annapolis Royal, began an extensive trade, probably in manufactured goods, with the Acadians and Indians of Nova Scotia. He also acted as a real estate agent and contractor in Annapolis Royal. Adams' 20-year service on the governing council of that colony began on 28 April 1720 and the records show few who served as faithfully or as long. In 1725 he was appointed a notary public and deputy collector of customs for Annapolis Royal, and in March 1727 he was commissioned a justice of the peace. As deputy collector of customs, he was often involved in heated arguments with other traders such as William Winniett, and it appears that he occasionally used this advantageous position to obstruct the activities of his competitors.
By the mid 1720s Adams' eyesight had begun to fail and he was almost completely blind by 1730. He became less active in community affairs and his trading seems to have declined. In several unsuccessful petitions to the king for a pension, he blamed his misfortune on over-exposure to the sun, "without hatt or wigg," during an Indian attack on Annapolis Royal in 1724. Adams remained an active councillor in spite of his infirmity, however, and in 1731 joined with other senior councillors, including Paul Mascarene, in opposing the appointment of Alexander Cosby as president of the council.
Adams' desire for advancement was temporarily satisfied in December 1739, when the sudden death of Lieutenant Governor Lawrence Armstrong* and the absence of Major Mascarene elevated Adams to the position of president of the council and thus head of the civil government. Adams complained, however, that "now [that] Providence had put into my hands a Morsel of Bread Major Mascarene was come in all haste from Boston to take it from me." In a stormy meeting of council on 22 March 1740, both Mascarene and Adams claimed the right of presiding. After the councillors declared unanimously in favour of Mascarene, Adams retired to Boston in late August or early September 1740. In his unsuccessful petitions for redress, Adams pointed out that Mascarene had absented himself from the colony for years at a time, but Mascarene was able to account satisfactorily for these long absences and had managed to stay just within the rules governing council membership.
Adams seems to have spent the remainder of his life in Boston, poorly rewarded for his 20 years of service and greatly embittered by the supposed injustice done him.
BM, Sloane mss, 3607, pp.174–77. Mass., Archives, State papers, XVII, 776–79. PAC, MG 11, Nova Scotia A, 11, pp.108–9; 20, pp.94–97; 21, pp.1–3; 24, pp.228–29, 232–33; 25, pp.3–8, 9–13, 65–70, 175–78; Nova Scotia B, 2, pp.172–75. PANS, RG 1, 7, pp.213–16; 11, p.160; 14, p.203; 20, pp.9–10. Nova Scotia Archives, I; II; III; IV. New Eng. Hist. and Geneal. Register, XXXII (1878), 132–33. Brebner, New England's outpost; "Paul Mascarene of Annapolis Royal," Dal. Rev., VIII (1928–29), 501–16. Murdoch, History of Nova-Scotia.
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Jack Colback admits he is happy to play out of position in order to help Sunderland through their current injury crisis.
Phil Bardsley and Wes Brown are ruled out through injury and Craig Gardner is serving a suspension, leaving Sunderland manager Paolo Di Canio with no recognised right-back.
Midfielder Colback therefore played in the position for the final 40 minutes of the 3-0 derby win over Newcastle and started there for Saturday's 1-0 victory over Everton but he insists he does not mind showing his versatility.
"There are other players who've played out of position and it's something you have to do and deal with as a player," Colback told the Sunderland Echo.
"If you're asked to do it, you've got to do your job. Playing left-back has helped me get my bearings as a defender and it wasn't too difficult to switch over.
"But I never even played at right-back as a kid. I used to stay well away from the defence then, I used to be able to score goals as a kid! It was an experience, but we won so it's one I'll remember.
"(Steven) Pienaar and (Leighton) Baines are a good combination down the left for Everton, they create chances.
"But we worked on that during the week and all knew our jobs and knew what we were doing. It seemed to work well."
Colback believes the back-to-back victories, which have seen Sunderland climb to 14th in the table, six points above the relegation zone, have boosted confidence in the camp for the final games of the Premier League season.
"It was important to get a win against Everton and not slacken off," added Colback.
"We can go into Villa and Stoke now with a bit less pressure on us, although obviously, we know we need to keep focused. If we can get a win next week, then we can maybe relax a bit more.
"The win against Newcastle has just bred confidence throughout the whole club - the players, staff and fans.
"The place was buzzing against Everton and it transmitted onto the pitch. Sessy (Stephane Sessegnon) scored a great goal and we managed to hang on. It was another great result for us."


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Board Present, Pat Howard, is shown with headphones on (hear no evil). Rich Halket, Vice President, is shown with a gag over his mouth (speak no evil), and Director, Georgean Vonheeter-Leopold is shown with darkened sun glasses (see no evil).
Pat Howard sees evil in Around Dublin and called John Zukoski a liar on the Around Dublin Facebook page. Howard demanded an apology to Staff for calling them "pigs." That story, actually written by Jimmy Huang, featured a photo of pigs at a trough with the headline "Dublin Water Agency to Pay Top Brass Over Quarter Million in Bonuses Through Rate Increases."
On the one hand it's valuable that the Around Dublin blog reports on what is happening at DSRSD, which most residents do not pay any attention to (more on that below), but by sensationalizing the Board's decisions with hostile imagery and name calling Huang and Zukoski incite hostility instead of explaining how the District works in order to improve it.
I lost my bid for DSRSD last year, but the District has implemented or is considering several of my suggestions. I campaigned on subsidizing water rates for low income residents, which was passed last year. I asked about videotaping Board meetings, which will be discussed at a meeting on December 14th. I also asked for the meeting packages to be put online. In August 2011, the District started posting complete meeting packages on DSRSD's website.
In addition to regular Board meetings, subcommittee meeting packages are also online now. That's where Jimmy Huang saw what he called a threat to Free Speech in the Finance Committee's item on protesting fee increases.
"The Board welcomes input from the community at any time, including during the public hearing on the proposed charges, but only written protests will be counted as formal protests.
A valid written protest must identify the affected property by assessor's parcel number or by street address, including the original signature of the record property owner or tenant-customer, and may not be altered by anyone other than the signatory."
These rules appear to stifle public input on proposed rate increases. Maybe so, but public input isn't the same as a legal "Protest" according to Proposition 218.
Here's what Proposition 218 requires the District to do before it can increase water and/or sewer fees:
* Identify the parcels upon which a fee or charge is proposed for imposition.
* Calculate the amount of the fee proposed to be imposed on each parcel.
* Provide written notice by mail to the "record owner of each identified parcel."
* Conduct a public hearing on the proposed fee not less than 45 days after the mailing.
* Consider "all protests against the proposed fee or charge."
* If written protests against the fee are presented by a "majority of owners of the identified parcels," the fee cannot be imposed.
According to these rules, formal protests are like votes against the increase. There's also some ambiguity about whether a "record owner" is the landlord or a tenant. In the unlikely event that the District received protest letters from the majority of "record owners," the number of valid protests must be accurately counted. So the Finance Committee is preparing a procedure to keep track of all "valid protests." Here's the proposed procedure on Item 3-D:
The Secretary of the District shall determine the validity of all written protests. The Secretary shall not accept as valid any written protest if the Secretary determines that any of the following conditions exist:
o The protest does not properly identify by assessor's parcel number or by street address a property served by the District.
o The protest does not bear the original signature of the record owner or tenant-customer of the parcel identified on the protest.
O The protest does not clearly state its intent to be a protest to the proposed charges or does not apply to a specific charge.
o The protest was not received before the close of the public hearing on the proposed charges.
O A request to withdraw the protest is received prior to the close of the public hearing on the proposed charges.
While this process makes it more difficult to submit a protest, it doesn't stifle free speech or objections to the fee increase. Instead it puts the responsibility for "voting" against it with a "valid protest letter," on the property owner or tenant.
The Finance Committee cannot approve this policy at their meeting on December 12th. After the Committee approves the item, the package will go to the full Board of Directors to vote on the Resolution at their next agendized meeting.
In a related meeting on December 14th, the External Affairs Committee will consider providing video or audio of Board meetings. You might wonder how this is related, but most residents in the District, whether property owners or renters, are fairly oblivious to DSRSD and their water and sewer rates.
The District surveyed 52 customers in person at Farmer's Markets and 23 filled out web surveys. Here are the results of this very small sample. Fifty-four percent of both groups said they would NEVER watch a video of a board meeting. Forty-six percent of the in-person group said they would watch a few times a year. The web group split in half again with 26% saying they would watch a few times and 26% saying they would watch all the time (I know these numbers don't add up but that's what is in the report).
Most replies from both groups said the minutes are sufficient and it isn't worth spending the money ($100,000) to upgrade the Boardroom for audio and video and pay to have meetings taped and broadcast.
The minutes were not very helpful until the District put the meeting packages online, but now there's something to relate the minutes to.


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John wrote the other day about Nick Espinosa's mom. She was behind on her mortgage, finally was able to get the money together, but Citibank said "no" - they refused to accept her mortgage payment, and instead were going to sell her house tomorrow. That is, until Nick and a lot of his friends stepped up and saved the day.
Nick Espinosa is an organizer with Occupy Homes MN, where he's helped people facing foreclosure and eviction fight off the bank and keep their homes for the last eight-plus months. Nick is also well-known in activist circles for being the creator of the Glitter Bomb as a tactic in support of LGBT rights. In short, he's a great activist who's putting his full being into helping others.
Unfortunately while Nick had been helping other families in his community, his mother, Colleen McKee Espinosa, received a foreclosure notice.
After briefly falling behind on her payments, Colleen had repeatedly asked Citibank to let her become current on her mortgage, but they wouldn't let her pay. Instead the bank moved to take the home, with a Sheriff's Sale set for Wednesday, June 13th.
Thanks to organizing by Nick and other Occupy Homes MN activists, OccupyOurHomes.org (which I help run), and countless supporters around the country, Citibank has come to the table and found a solution for Colleen and Nick, stopping the sale.
An official with CitiMortgage's Executive Response Unit contacted the Espinosa family with news that Citibank had approved a loan modification that would keep the family in their home and reduce their payments by one-third on a 7.5 year payment plan. The dramatic news came less than 24 hours before the house was to be sold at auction on Wednesday, June 13.This is a tremendous victory for Nick and Colleen and their community, as well as the entire Occupy Our Homes movement. But how did it happen and what should we take away from it?
"I'm so relieved that my family's home of 16 years will not be on the auction block tomorrow," said Colleen McKee Espinosa, a nurse and single mother who received widespread support after she pledged not to leave her home without a good faith negotiation. "We are grateful that Citibank has decided to accept my payments, and we look forward to signing the final paperwork."
"I am deeply grateful to everyone from across the country who stood with our family as we fought our foreclosure," said Nick Espinosa, Colleen's son, and an organizer with Occupy Homes MN. "I'm inspired by the outpouring of community support, and it renews my commitment to stand with other families who are struggling to stay in their homes."
Colleen's choice to fight back was critical to victory. She decided to share her story and talk to her neighbors, Occupiers, and community organizers about how she could put pressure on Citibank to make a deal. Banks aren't showing themselves willing to magically reduce homeowners' principal out of the goodness of their hearts (let alone for the financial benefit of their investors). But homeowners who are standing up and saying that they are not ashamed to be fighting back are finding that they are can get solutions from the banks.
The banks want homeowners to be ashamed about being in foreclosure. They want us to keep our mouths shut, except to open wide while we take the bitter medicine of losing our homes. But Colleen's story shows, as is so often the case, it's not the homeowners fault for being in foreclosure.
When the bank refuses to take your money, it's obvious that it's not your fault.
When the bank defrauds you and sells you something other than what you were told you were getting, it's not your fault.
When the business you work for goes under and you lose your job in an economy that Wall Street broke, it's not your fault for coming to foreclosure.
When your government job is eliminated as part of austerity pushed by financial elites to, again, try to repair the economy that they broke, it's not your fault when you get a foreclosure notice. Banks demand that homeowners feel shame for situations created entirely from bank behavior.
As McKee Espinosa says, "If anyone should be ashamed, it's the banks for tearing apart our communities after we bailed them out with our tax dollars. When we stand together we can win, and I believe thousands more will."
People like Colleen are showing us all that when homeowners fight back against the banks, they can win. While servicers aren't rushing to make deals to keep families in their homes and keep chasing profits through foreclosures, when communities organize to help a family stay in their home, the banks are coming to the negotiating table.
The banks have destroyed so much of our economy. Over 7 millions homes have been foreclosed on and at least that many more are likely to happen over the next three to four years. A new study by the Federal Reserve (pdf link) says that median net worth fell 38.8% between 2007-2010, largely driven by a losses in housing.
Policy makers, regulators, and politicians have failed to either pursue legal accountability for bank crimes relating to the housing crisis, or put in place programs to aid homeowners in crisis. In the absence of meaningful law enforcement and aid solutions, it is up to communities to rally together to fight off foreclosures, as Minneapolis rallied around Colleen and Nick.
Community pressure around brave homeowners like Colleen is producing solutions that are keeping families in their homes. It is forcing banks to behave with a shred of decency and humility. Indeed, it is the hope of the Occupy Our Homes movement that by forcing banks to change what their doing with foreclosures one case at a time, we can build up enough pressure to force banks to change their foreclosure mitigation policies nationally, so all homeowners can benefit.
This is going to be a long fight, but Colleen and Nick are proof that homeowners can beat big Wall Street banks, if they stand up and organize in their communities and wield their power for change. Find out more at OccupyOurHomes.org or OccupyHomesMN.org.


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Enriched woodwind syllabus aims to 'inspire curiosity of learners'
A new, enriched woodwind syllabus designed to inspire the curiosity of learners and spark interest in music from all corners of the world and by people of all backgrounds is launched by ABRSM this week.
The eclectic syllabus, which features 18 new commissions and work by dozens of composers new to ABRSM, aims to bring even greater richness to the music available to learners and includes pieces by everyone from Vivaldi and Leonard Bernstein to Hans Zimmer and Errollyn Wallen.
Althea Talbot-Howard, who has contributed several of her own works as well as arrangements of Chevalier de Saint-Georges' unpublished harp and flute sonata, said: "Part of widening the syllabus is about stretching ourselves to find out more about the past. It's also about remembering that we don't have to be constrained by a narrow, traditional curriculum.
"We can go exploring for quality in other places – whether it's with new faces, or with old faces that for whatever reason have been overlooked. As we do so, we can create a bridge to draw new people - including Black audiences - into classical music."
Althea's contributions are among more than 70 syllabus pieces written or arranged by composers from traditionally under-represented ethnic backgrounds and reflect ABRSM's commitment to sharing the work of a greater range of musicians. They are also among around 220 pieces featured in the syllabus by women composers.
ABRSM Chief Executive Chris Cobb said: "We want to encourage progression by inspiring the curiosity of learners and sparking their interest in great music by people from all kinds of backgrounds.
"Our new woodwind syllabus is designed to do just that and to celebrate the best work, old and new, from the four corners of the globe."
The syllabus, which takes effect from 1st January 2022, covers flute, clarinet, saxophones, oboe, bassoon and recorders. It also features work by John Williams, William Grant Still, Lloyd Coleman, Dave Gale, Rachel Broadbent, Gillian Whitehead and Charlotte Bray.
Chris Cobb added: "We are committed to promoting a far greater diversity in what we do and, above all, to bringing an even greater richness to the music available to learners around the world.
"Publication of the new woodwind syllabus, and our recently launched mentor scheme giving opportunities to young composers from a wide variety of backgrounds to write for music education, are the start of our journey towards achieving this."


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I'm sure many of you have already read or heard about Gwyneth Paltrow's new cookbook, My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness or if you are in Australia, Notes From my Kitchen Table: Delicious Recipes for Healthy, Happy Living. If you haven't I really think you should have a look at it-it's fabulous! In the book she shares personal stories about her relationship with her father and how he inspired her to cook. She also shares stories about her own family life and tips on what to include in your pantry. I haven't been able to put it down and when I find a good cookbook I read it at every opportunity I have!
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I was particularly impressed by her mother's recipe for Blueberry Muffins. In the book Paltrow says,
Now, I really wanted to make these muffins as soon as I saw the recipe but I discovered that I had used all of our frozen blueberries! I did have some frozen cranberries,though, and since the flavours are meant to be a balance of tart and sweet I though it might just work...
1/2 cup/125g unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly
2 eggs (preferably organic)
1/2 cup/125ml milk (I used 2%)
2 cups/225g unbleached all-purpose flour
3/4 cup/175g plus 1 tsp sugar, divided
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 cups/300g fresh blueberries (or cranberries!)
Heat oven to 375°F or 190°C. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners. Whisk butter, eggs and milk in a bowl. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in another bowl. Stir wet ingredients into dry ingredients; fold in berries. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups; sprinkle with remaining 1 tsp sugar. Bake until muffins are golden brown and a skewer comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Best eaten warm!
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Proteomics now seeks a commercialisation partner to enter the RUO, LDT or IVD markets
Drug discovery company Proteomics International has completed an important milestone towards the development of a companion diagnostic (CDx) test with the validation of several of its protein biomarkers.
The research team authenticated the panel of biomarkers after taking 508 highly curated disease and control samples. Seven biomarkers were validated at high stringency using the company's proprietary mass spectrometry approach.
The mass spectrometry data was then cross-validated using immunoassays in collaboration with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and Merck Millipore. A further five biomarkers were validated at high stringency and these are available for out-licensing. The validation was supported by a grant from Commercialisation Australia.
Proteomics International managing director Richard Lipscombe said there was excellent correlation between the new mass spectrometry platform and the traditional gold standard test, essential because antibody assays are more readily accepted by the FDA. "By doing it as a diagnostic and showing that the whole approach works, we set the foundations to create tests for other medical conditions," Dr Lipscombe said.
The next stage of development is to create a test that can determine whether patients will get diabetic kidney disease before they develop the condition. "The Holy Grail is to predict who's going to get sick and who isn't and that's something that will come out of our study later in 2014." Dr Lipscombe said. "But in the short term we want a diagnostic test that is going to provide doctors with a more accurate, robust test."
The International Diabetes Foundation estimates that there are 382 million people living with diabetes and expect the number to rise significantly. Based on current statistics 10 to 15 per cent of all people with diabetes will die from kidney disease.


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West prods Pakistan on antiterror fight – with aid
The US is finalizing a $15 billion aid package, Sen. John Kerry told Indian newspapers Monday.
| NEW DELHI; and ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN
When British Prime Minister Gordon Brown stated unequivocally Sunday that Pakistani militants were behind the Nov. 26 attacks in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, standing beside him, conspicuously did not concur.
Nearly three weeks after the Mumbai rampage began, the world appears increasingly convinced of the link between Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani militant group, and Mumbai.
Pakistan, however, is not. It has not seen India's evidence, Mr. Zardari said. With India leading the calls for a crackdown, historic insecurities also come into play, says Laila Bushra, a Pakistani sociologist: "No one … wants to be seen bowing to Indian pressure."
A stalemate is looming. In hopes of breaking it, the United States and Britain are readying as much as $16 billion in aid, hoping money will push the financially troubled nation toward greater action. "Aid can be an effective lever to do this," says M.J. Gohel, a South Asia analyst at the Asia Pacific Foundation in London.
The goals reach beyond the current crisis. The US and Britain want Pakistan to dismantle the entire militant infrastructure it assembled in the 1980s, but which now threatens the state and the world. On his visit, Mr. Brown traced three-quarters of terrorist plots in Britain to Pakistan.
Pakistan is already taking action, with two major offensives against militants along its Afghan border. The money would support this effort and expand it. Brown pledged $9 million for improving security and for education to "break the chain of terrorism that links the mountains of Afghanistan to the streets of Britain."
The US is preparing to finalize a $15 billion aid package for Pakistan, Sen. John Kerry (D) of Massachusetts told reporters during a visit to New Delhi Monday. But unlike the Bush administration's policy of virtually writing $11 billion in blank checks to Pakistan since 9/11, Senator Kerry suggested that there would now be conditions – such as bringing Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, under civilian control. He said the ISI formed Lashkar-e-Taiba, though he didn't say that links still exist today.
"This is where pressure has to be brought," says Mr. Gohel. "It is critically important to strengthen the hand of the civilian government by aid with strings attached."
Though Pakistan raided camps associated with Lashkar-e-Taiba and detained several suspects last week, that momentum appears to have dissipated.
Within Pakistan, any debate about the country's need to take account for terrorist attacks allegedly launched from its soil has been drowned out by sensational accusations against India.
Public anger intensified this weekend after local media reported and the Pentagon confirmed that at least one Indian warplane flew two miles into Pakistani airspace toward Lahore, Pakistan's second largest city.
Both governments have sought to downplay the incident. India publicly denied that it happened; Pakistan said it received assurances that the incursion was a mistake. To many Pakistanis it was seen as further proof that India is trying to bait Pakistan.
"One hundred percent of people fear that an actual war with India is possible," says Taimour Afaq, a manager at a multinational company in Lahore.
The growing chorus of nations pointing their finger at Pakistan has created a siege mentality – that India is leading an international conspiracy to scapegoat Pakistan. It is a relic of Pakistani history: Three wars with India – one of which led to the independence of Pakistan's eastern portion (now Bangladesh) – have left an abiding fear that India's primary foreign-policy goal is to dismember Pakistan.
"The perpetual insecurity of the Pakistani state, and the sense of power India has in the region" dictate the dynamic, says Ms. Bushra, a doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
"It's difficult for Pakistan to differentiate between expression of Indian nationalist sentiment and sheer aggression," says Rasul Baksh Rais, a political scientist at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
In this context, financial aid is seen as perhaps the best way to pressure Pakistan to enact changes it might otherwise be reluctant to make. The challenge will be making the aid effective, says Gerald Price, a South Asia expert at Chatham House, a security think tank in London.
"Improving education in the tribal areas would be a great thing to do," he says. But with Al Qaeda sure to fight any intrusion, he adds: "How are you going to do it?"


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Professor Sue Buckley receives Education Award from National Down Syndrome Congress
Sue Buckley with NDSC President Marilyn Tolbert and Executive Director David Tolleson
DSE's Director of Science and Research, Professor Sue Buckley OBE, has been presented with the National Down Syndrome Congress' Education Award for her work improving education for children with Down syndrome.
Professor Sue Buckley OBE was presented with the National Down Syndrome Congress' Education Award "for improving the lives of children with Down syndrome by developing innovative research-based education techniques."
The award was presented at the Opening Plenary Session of the National Down Syndrome Congress' 44th Annual Convention in Orlando, Florida, USA.
Presenting the award, NDSC's President, Marilyn Tolbert, recognized Sue's distinguished career serving people with Down syndrome and their families worldwide through research and support services, including the earliest research showing children with Down syndrome could learn to read and - more recently - the first randomized controlled trial of an educational intervention designed for children with Down syndrome.
Sue was an invited keynote speaker at the NDSC Convention and Educators' Conference, and an invited speaker at the meeting of the Down Syndrome Medical Interest Group preceding the convention.
Accepting the award, Sue spoke of the importance of expanding educational research at a time of limited funding and alternative research priorities - noting how it was one of only a few areas of scientific research with a track record of delivering sustained benefits for young people with Down syndrome today.
Sue also called renewed efforts to campaign for genuine full inclusion in all aspects of life for people with Down syndrome - insisting it is a fundamental human right to be accepted and supported as a fully participating member of our communities, and calling for action to tackle the wide variation in educational provision and services seen across the US.Sue Buckley is also a previous recipient of the National Down Syndrome Congress' Theodore D Tjossen Research Award (2005). Sue was awarded an OBE for her services to special needs education in the Queen's 2004 Birthday Honours List.


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The original message in this thread suggests that there is a type Single-Flonum and that it is making Neil wrangle his code to be careful about it. Robby On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote: > TR doesn't support them anyways because there are only typed f64 > vectors and not typed f32 vectors. > > Jay > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Robby Findler > <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: >> As far as I can tell, if this pollutes TR programs in any interesting >> way, then it would be a cause for concern. >> >> Robby >> >> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:21 PM, John Clements >> <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote: >>> >>> On Sep 12, 2012, at 1:03 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Neil Toronto <neil.toronto at gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Compatibility with C code? Why not have the FFI convert them? >>>>> >>>>> Save space? I can see that. It won't help much if they're sent to math >>>>> library functions, though. Those will convert them to flonums and usually >>>>> box the converted values. >>>> >>>> I think these are big deals with respect to libraries that you deliver >>>> large float matrices to where you want to efficiently store a big >>>> f32vector rather than an f64vector. Examples of this include OpenGL >>>> where vector coordinates, colors, etc are typically floats and not >>>> doubles. >>> >>> Jay's concern is the same as mine; there are situations (getting rarer) where a huge c-style array of f32s is the only way to interact with a library. For instance, in the extremely popular "JACK" library (Golly, I wish it worked on windows…), "all audio data is represented as 32-bit floating point values" (from their web page). >>> >>> I haven't followed the conversation closely enough to understand the ramifications of the proposed change, though; my guess is that the ffi can still address such arrays, it's just that computing with these values will require coercion. I could be okay with that; based on my understanding of the IEEE floating-point spec, such a translation could be pretty fast; 32bit -> 64bit looks like it would just be adding zeros, and 32bit to 64bit would require checking for exponent overflow; either way, this sounds like something that might be done on-chip by modern processors, and in fact might *already* be taking place in floating point 32-bit operations. (Anyone know whether Intel chips internally represent 32-bit floats as 64-bit ones?) >>> >>> John >>> >>> >>> _________________________ >>> Racket Developers list: >>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev >>> > > > > -- > Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu> > Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University > http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay > > "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
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Hedge fund manager and Nintendo share holder Seth Fischer has urged Nintendo to move into the smartphone market.
The Oasis Management founder said in a letter to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, as republished by The Wall Street Journal, that the platform holder is "well placed to make an immediate entry into mobile".
He added: "We believe Nintendo can create very profitable games based on in-game revenue models with the right development team. Just think of paying 99 cents just to get Mario to jump a little higher.
"The same people who spent hours playing Super Mario, Donkey Kong, and Legend of Zelda as children are now a demographic whose engagement on the smartphone is valued by the market at well over $100bn."
Iwata famously pledged in January that solving the company's recent woes is not as simple as enabling Mario to move on a smartphone".


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Software that Learns by Watching
Overworked and much in demand, IT support staff can't be in two places at once. But software designed to watch and learn as they carry out common tasks could soon help–by automatically performing the same jobs across different computers.
The new software system, called KarDo, was developed by researchers at MIT. It can automatically configure an e-mail account, install a virus scanner, or set up access to a virtual private network, says MIT's Dina Katabi, an associate professor at MIT.
Crucially, the software just needs to watch an administrator perform this task once before being able to carry out the same job on computers running different software. Businesses spend billions of dollars each year on simple and repetitive IT tasks, according to reports from the analyst groups Forrester and Gartner. KarDo could reduce these costs by as much as 20 percent, Katabi says.
In some respects, KarDo resembles software that can be used to record macros–a set sequence of user actions on a computer. But KarDo attempts to learn the goal of each action in the sequence so it can be applied more generally later, says MIT post-graduate Hariharan Rahul, who codeveloped the system.
When IT staff want KarDo to learn a new task, they press a "start" button beforehand and a "stop" button afterwards. During a "learning phase," KarDo will attempt to map each of the actions performed in the graphical user interface, such as clicking on particular icons or buttons, with system-level actions, such as starting or closing a program, or opening a Web page. This allows a task to be applied across machines running different software, says Katabi. "I can go to my desktop, click on the Internet Explorer icon, go to a website, and then click on a particular link to download a file," she says. The same actions could then be applied by KarDo on a machine running a different Web browser like FireFox or Chrome. KarDo compares actions performed during the learning phase with a database of other tasks.
KarDo is able to reliably infer how to reproduce each of the subtasks after watching it being performed just once, says Rahul. For example, after watching an e-mail account being set up using Microsoft Outlook, it can do the same on other computers running different e-mail software. KarDo has been tested on hundreds of combinations of real tasks by IT staff at MIT and was found to get tasks right 82 percent of the time. When KarDo doesn't perform a task correctly, the results aren't serious, Katabi says.
The ultimate goal is for KarDo to intervene completely automatically, although this has not yet been tested. The idea is that when a user sends a request to the IT department , KarDo would perform the task automatically.
This sort of "programming by demonstration" is not a new idea, says Stephen Muggleton, an expert in machine learning at Imperial College London. But the approach has remained very much a research curiosity, he says. "An obvious concern from a user point of view will be the accuracy of the learned model," says Muggleton. Normally it takes relatively large amounts of data to generate error-free machine learning models, he notes.
"There's a great deal of promise in learning procedures and plans by watching," says Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. However, in general, this is very challenging to pull off. It is usually hard to do anything useful without constraining the nature of the task, says Horvitz.
KarDo was announced last week as the winner of the Web/IT track of MIT's $100K Entrepreneur Competition.
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IBM Research Names Mathematics Fellowship for Herman GoldstineApril 2, 2005
IBM Research recently announced that it will honor Herman H. Goldstine by renaming a major postdoctoral fellowship for the mathematician.
The Herman Goldstine Fellowship provides scientists an opportunity to advance their scholarship as resident members of the Mathematical Sciences Department at the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. Recipients of this fellowship, which can last for one to two years, conduct research in pure and applied mathematics, as well as theoretical and exploratory computer science. Past and present activities of fellowship holders include work on sequential and parallel algorithms, cryptography, numerical analysis, differential equations, logic design, computer music, dynamic systems, and approximation theory. "The Mathematical Sciences Department still benefits from the strong leadership and direction Herman Goldstine established," said William Pulleyblank, current director of mathematical sciences at IBM Research.
Although his early research was in the area of calculus of variations, during WWII Goldstine joined John von Neumann in the groundbreaking ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) project, an early innovation that paved the way for the modern computing industry. He joined IBM in 1958, where he established the Mathematical Sciences Department and served as its first director.
In recognition of his contributions to IBM and to science, Goldstine was appointed an IBM Fellow in 1967, a position he retained until he retired in 1973. Most recently he served as the executive director of the American Philosophical Society.
Goldstine has received numerous awards�including the National Medal of Science, the Harry Goode Award, the IEEE Pioneer Award, and memberships in the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Science, and the American Philosophical Society�for his impact on science and technology.
More information on the fellowship and on other activities at IBM Research can be found at http://www.ibm.com/research/.


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Parking sideways across three parking spaces in your Ford Expedition may make you feel like a real man, but what happens when a couple of Reddit users decide to legally park in the two open spaces on either side of you? Revenge as sweet as a Bloomin' Onion.
Here are the details from Mcbanjo:
We saw him, he was probably in his early 30's. He freaked out and was on his phone for a good 10 minutes pacing around the area. He actually called the restaurant to let them know he was parked in. Both vehicles are legally parked, and the parking lot was pretty much full when he pulled in.
The redditor who posted the image wanted to make sure people know he wasn't at the Outback Steakhouse but at the restaurant across the street from the Outback Steakhouse.
(H/T SuperCharger.Heaven!)


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The Secret Beyond Matter
Prophet Solomon (pbuh)
Prophet Solomons (pbuh) Mighty Kingdom
Those who believe and do mix up their faith with any wrongdoing,they are the ones who are safe;it is they who are guided .(Qur'an,6:82)
"I have turned my face to Him Who brought the heavens and Earth into being, a pure natural believer.I am not one of the idoleters."(Qur'an,6:79)
This verse indicates that Prophet Solomon (pbuh) had power over the religious jinns who submitted to God as well as over the unbelieving jinns. Not only did he render the demons and those whom they possessed, as well as unbelievers, harmless, but he also gave them various duties and made them serve Islam.
In this verse, God may be indicating that evil-intentioned individuals must be prevented from harming those who want to live according to Islam's morality. Making them serve God both prevents any possible damage and serves Islam.
This verse may imply that those individuals who oppress others and commit evil and malicious acts must be strictly controlled and prevented from mixing with others and stirring up strife.
In this verse, God may be hinting about the kind of punishment criminals will face in the End Times. In other words, they will be prevented from endangering society and will be made to benefit humanity.
The phrase yoked together in chains may be alluding to a security system similar to an electronic cuff or shackle that will be used in the End Times. Such chains will prevent criminals from escaping and harming themselves and others.
These verses show that Prophet Solomon (pbuh) inspected his army regularly so that he could notice and correct any problem immediately in order to preserve discipline. As the verse suggests, being absent without permission or notice was a very serious breach of discipline.
This is how Prophet Solomon (pbuh) addressed the messengers who brought him gifts from the Queen of Saba. He stated that he would not accept her gifts under any circumstances, thereby manifesting his determination that she should submit to him.
In addition, we can understand that no other army could defeat his army. As we will see later on, when the rulers of Saba heard of this, they realized that submission was their only option.
Electronic Shackle
Today, the United States and other countries sometimes use an electronic shackling system to punish criminals. These people, placed under house arrest instead of sent to prison, must attach a shackle to their ankle so that they can be monitored at all times. Usually, these criminals can move freely within a range of 80 kilometers (50 miles). If they attempt to go beyond this limit, members of the security forces go on the alert and the police are called immediately. In this way, these criminals can live their lives within certain limits and not commit more crimes.


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Study Finds Working Couples Face Greater Violence Odds
Nov. 30, 2012
SHSU Media Contact: Beth Kuhles
Intimate partner violence is two times more likely to occur in two income households, compared to those where only one partner works, a recent study at Sam Houston State University found.
"Differences in Education/Employment Status and Intimate Partner Victimization," conducted by assistant professor of criminal justice Cortney A. Franklin and Tasha A. Menaker and supported by the Crime Victims' Institute, looked at the impact of education levels and employment status differences among heterosexual partners on intimate partner victimization.
"When both male and females were employed, the odds of victimization were more than two times higher than when the male was the only breadwinner in the partnership, lending support to the idea that female employment may challenge male authority and power in a relationship, " said Franklin and Menaker.
The study was based on telephone interviews with 303 women who identified themselves as either currently or recently in a serious romantic relationship. The Fourth Annual Texas Crime Victimization Survey revealed that a total of 67 percent of these women, who ranged in age from 18 to 81, reported some form of physical or psychological victimization by their partner during the preceding two-year period. These actions included having something thrown at them; being pushed, grabbed or shoved; slapped, hit, kicked or bitten; or threatened with a gun or knife.
The study found that more than 60 percent of women in heterosexual working couples reported victimization, while only 30 percent of women reported victimization in cases when only the male partner was employed.
"When women are home-bound through their role as domestic workers, they lack connections to co-workers and the social capital that is produced through those connections, in addition to wages, job prestige, resources, and thus, power. In turn, they must rely solely on their male partner for financial sustenance and can benefit from the distinction that his employment brings the couple," the study said. "Those women who work outside the home have access to these tangible and intangible assets, which may devalue or, in some cases, even undermine the contributions and provisions supplied by male-only employment."
The study also explored other factors that may contribute to intimate partner violence, including witnessing violence by a parent during childhood, accepting the use of violence in adult relationships, and experiencing relationship distress, such as problems generated by money, chores, social activities or sexual relations. Relationship distress and witnessing intimate partner violence during childhood increased the odds of victimization.
Finally, the study found that Hispanic women were significantly less likely than white females to report intimate partner violence and that older women of all races/ethnicities were less likely to be victimized than younger women.
As a result, Franklin and Menaker recommended that clinicians who treat victims of intimate partner violence develop specific strategies to address these risk factors and cultural differences. The study also suggested that clinicians should target youth who have witnessed violence during childhood, with additional programming for better methods of conflict resolution among adults in intimate relationships.
The full study is scheduled to be published in the journal Violence Against Women.
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Author Affiliations: Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm (Dr Jernberg); Department of Cardiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg (Dr Johanson); and Uppsala Clinical Research Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala (Dr Held and Messrs Svennblad and Lindbäck and Dr Wallentin), Sweden.
Context Only limited information is available on the speed of implementation of new evidence-based and guideline-recommended treatments and its association with survival in real life health care of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
Objective To describe the adoption of new treatments and the related chances of short- and long-term survival in consecutive patients with STEMI in a single country over a 12-year period.
Design, Setting, and Participants The Register of Information and Knowledge about Swedish Heart Intensive Care Admission (RIKS-HIA) records baseline characteristics, treatments, and outcome of consecutive patients with acute coronary syndrome admitted to almost all hospitals in Sweden. This study includes 61 238 patients with a first-time diagnosis of STEMI between 1996 and 2007.
Main Outcome Measures Estimated and crude proportions of patients treated with different medications and invasive procedures and mortality over time.
Results Of evidence-based treatments, reperfusion increased from 66% (95%, confidence interval [CI], 52%-79%) to 79% (95% CI, 69%-89%; P < .001), primary percutaneous coronary intervention from 12% (95% CI, 11%-14%) to 61% (95% CI, 45%-77%; P < .001), and revascularization from 10% (96% CI, 6%-14%) to 84% (95% CI, 73%-95%; P < .001). The use of aspirin, clopidogrel, β-blockers, statins, and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors all increased: clopidogrel from 0% to 82% (95% CI, 69%-95%; P < .001), statins from 23% (95% CI, 12%-33%) to 83% (95% CI, 75%-91%; P < .001), and ACE inhibitor or angiotensin II receptor blockers from 39% (95% CI, 26%-52%) to 69% (95% CI, 58%-70%; P < .001). The estimated in-hospital, 30-day and 1-year mortality decreased from 12.5% (95% CI, 4.3%-20.6%) to 7.2% (95% CI, 1.7%-12.6%; P < .001); from 15.0% (95% CI, 6.2%-23.7%) to 8.6% (95% CI, 2.7%-14.5%; P < .001); and from 21.0% (95% CI, 11.0%-30.9%) to 13.3% (95% CI, 6.0%-20.4%; P < .001), respectively. After adjustment, there was still a consistent trend with lower standardized mortality over the years. The 12-year survival analyses showed that the decrease of mortality was sustained over time.
Conclusion In a Swedish registry of patients with STEMI, between 1996 and 2007, there was an increase in the prevalence of evidence-based treatments. During this same time, there was a decrease in 30-day and 1-year mortality that was sustained during long-term follow-up.
Although recent population-based studies indicate a reduction in incidence, ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is still a major health issue worldwide.1 In a recent study describing the current situation in 30 European countries, the annual incidence for hospital admissions for STEMI varied between 44 and 142 cases per 100 000 inhabitants, which is in keeping with recent data from North America.2,3
Over the last 15 years a series of large-scale prospective randomized trials have documented the efficacy and safety of several new treatments available for patients with acute MI. Early reperfusion by mechanical or pharmacological means and adjunctive antithrombotic treatment have been proven to lower mortality.4,5 There is also trial-based evidence that dual antiplatelet therapy, β-blockers, statins, and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors reduce morbidity and mortality in this population.6-10 Over the years, several generations of international and national guidelines have been presented to support the implementation of these evidence-based treatments in clinical practice.11,12 National and international registries have been introduced to monitor and improve the adherence to current guidelines by continuously providing information on given therapies and outcome.13-15
However, only limited information is available on the speed of implementation of these new treatment strategies and its association with long-term survival in real-life health care. The national Register of Information and Knowledge about Swedish Heart Intensive Care Admission (RIKS-HIA) has over the last 15 years recorded baseline characteristics, treatments, and short- and long-term outcomes in consecutive patients admitted to coronary care units in almost all hospitals throughout the country. The aim of the present study was therefore to describe the adoption of new treatments and the related chances of short- and long-term survival in consecutive patients with STEMI in a single country over a 12-year period.
The RIKS-HIA database was established as a national quality register in 1995 and includes today all Swedish hospitals (n = 72) that include care for acute cardiac diseases. The registry enrolls consecutive patients admitted to a coronary care unit because of symptoms suggestive of an acute coronary syndrome. Information is collected prospectively for more than 100 variables including baseline characteristics, electrocardiographic (ECG) findings, examinations, interventions, and complications in hospital and discharge medication and diagnoses. The whole process has been described elsewhere and the full protocol is available at http://www.ucr.uu.se/rikshia.13,16 The variables in RIKS-HIA comply with the international Cardiology Audit and Registration Data Standards (CARDS).17 This study includes all patients in the registry with a first-time diagnosis of MI who presented between 1996 and 2007 with persistent ST-segment elevation detected by ECG at admission.
During the years 1996-2001, the criteria for the diagnosis of acute MI were based on the World Health Organization criteria from 199418 combining symptoms, ECG changes, or both with the increase of an biochemical marker (mainly creatine kinase [CK]-MB) exceeding double the upper reference level as the biochemical criterion. The ECG was evaluated for the presence or development of Q-waves, ST-changes, T-wave inversions, or bundle-branch block. From late 2001, the criteria for the diagnosis of MI were adopted according to the European Society of Cardiology/American College of Cardiologists/American Heart Association consensus document, using troponin T or troponin I or eventually 2 CK-MB levels exceeding the 99th percentile in a healthy population together with either typical symptoms or ECG-changes.19,20 Severe bleeding was defined as a fatal or a cerebral bleeding, or a bleeding requiring surgery or blood transfusion.
Mortality data were obtained by merging the RIKS-HIA database with the National Death Registry, which includes information of the vital status of all Swedish citizens through December 31, 2008. Previous history of stroke, renal failure, chronic pulmonary disease, dementia, cancer, MI, heart failure, and peripheral vascular disease were also obtained by merging with the National Patient Registry, which includes diagnoses for all patients hospitalized in Sweden from 1987 and forward.
To ensure the validity of the information entered into the database a single specially trained monitor visited participating hospitals and compared information in the patient records, including ECG, with the information entered into the RIKS-HIA database involving 30 to 40 randomly chosen patients for each hospital. Data quality has been monitored in 5446 random records from all participating hospitals comprising 299 530 measurements, demonstrating a 95% overall agreement between the registered information and patient records. All patients for whom data were entered into the RIKS-HIA database were informed about their participation in the registry (patients could request to be excluded) and the long-term follow-up. The registry and the merging with other registries was approved by the National Board of Health and Welfare. The Ethics Committee of Uppsala University Hospital approved the study.
If not stated otherwise, data are reported as estimated proportions and medians along with 95% confidence interval (CIs) from random effect models with hospital as random effect and year of hospitalization as fixed effect modeled through a generalized additive models function.21 The reported P values correspond to a linear trend. Developments of estimated proportions of patients treated with different medications and invasive procedures and mortality over time were evaluated by comparing cohorts of patients admitted over 2-year periods both for the whole country and for individual centers. Variations between hospitals are expressed as interquartile range (IQR) and standard deviation with percentage points as unit.
Comparisons of the mortality were also performed by adjusting for differences in baseline characteristics significantly influencing survival and calculating the standardized mortality according to the baseline characteristics in 2007. For each period, standardized mortality was calculated according to a risk score constituted by baseline information based on the 2007-year cohort. Thus, standardized rates can be interpreted as the expected number of deaths that would have occurred if the distribution of baseline and treatment characteristics were the same for all years as in 2007.
Variables in the model were age; sex, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and smoking; history of MI, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure, peripheral artery disease, and cancer within 3 years; and medication on admission (aspirin, clopidogrel, β-blockers, statins, other lipid-lowering therapy, warfarin, ACE inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers [ARBs], and calcium blockers).
To exclude the possibility that a healthier population at hospitals joining the registry late might have led to lower mortality over time, observed and standardized mortality were also calculated for hospitals participating from the start of the study. Long-term survival was presented as a Kaplan-Meier plot for the each 2-year patient cohorts. All analyses were performed with R statistical program version 18.104.22.168
During the 12 years, 61 237 patients with STEMI in the registry database fulfilled the inclusion criteria. There was initially an increase in number of sites participating in the registration from 47 sites providing 7152 patients in the first period 1996-1997 to a fairly stable number of 70 to 75 sites with approximately 11 000 patients in the 2-year periods from 1998. Over the observation period, the median age decreased from 71 to 69 years. The proportion of women did not vary (34%-35%; Table 1). Hypertension increased from 29% to 39% as did smoking from 27% to 30%, whereas the prevalence of diabetes mellitus remained stable. A history of previous MI decreased from 19% to 10% and a history of heart failure from 6% to 4%.
Of evidence-based in-hospital treatments known to influence outcomes, reperfusion treatment (ie, thrombolysis or primary PCI) showed an increase from 66% to 79%, primary PCI from 12% to 61%, any revascularization (ie, PCI or bypass surgery) within 14 days from 10% to 84% and average use of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors from 0% to 55% (Table 1). However, large variations existed between hospitals regarding the speed of implementation of new treatments (Figure 1). For reperfusion treatment and primary PCI, the variation did not change over time. For in-hospital coronary angiography, the variation increased to peak in 2002 (IQR range, 45%; SD, 28%) and then decreased thereafter with the smallest variation at the end of the study (IQR, 5.5%; SD, 4.7%). The crude median (25th-75th percentile) time from symptom onset to PCI increased from 185 minutes (120-295 minutes) in 1996-1997 to 216 minutes (137-370 minutes) in 2000-2001 and then decreased to 203 minutes (131-351 minutes) in 2006-2007. Likewise, the crude median (25th-75th percentile) time from onset of symptoms to thrombolysis continuously decreased from 188 minutes (120-315 minutes) in 1996-1997 to 150 minutes (90-276 minutes) in 2006-2007.
The estimated use of aspirin, clopidogrel, β-blockers, statins, and ACE inhibitors or ARBs all continuously increased over the study period, clopidogrel from 0% to 82% (95% CI, 69%-95%; P < .001), statins from 23% (95% CI, 12%-33%) to 83% (95% CI, 75%-91%; P < .001), and ACE inhibitor or ARB from 39% (95% CI, 26%-52%) to 69% (95% CI, 58%-70%; P < .001). Also concerning the implementation of these medications, there was a variation between hospitals (Figure 2). For clopidogrel the variation increased to peak in 2002 (IQR, 40%; SD, 23%) and then decreased thereafter with the smallest variation at the end of the study (IQR, 3.4%; SD, 4.4%). The variation decreased from an IQR (SD) of 9.4% (9.0%) in 1996 to 3.7% (3.7%) in 2007 for aspirin, and from an 10.4% (8.7%) in 1996 to 7.0% (4.4%) in 2007 for β-blockers. For ACE-inhibitors and statins the variation remained around the same level throughout the study period.
Over the 12 years, in-hospital complications continuously decreased (Table 1). The estimated proportion of patients experiencing a new MI during hospitalization decreased from 4% at the start of the study period to 1% at the end. Advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation was performed for 8% in 1996-1997 and in 6% in 2006-2007. Atrioventricular block occurred in 6% and a new atrial fibrillation in 11% in 1996-1997 compared with 3% and 5%, respectively in 2006-2007. The only complication that increased was severe bleedings, which occurred in 1% at the beginning of the study period and in 2% at the end. Patients hospitalized in the latter part of the study period had a shorter hospital stay than those hospitalized early.
From 1996 to 2007 the estimated in-hospital, 30-day and 1-year mortality decreased from 12.5% (95% CI, 4.3%-20.6%) to 7.2% (95% CI, 1.7%-12.6%; P < .001), from 15.0% (95% CI, 6.2%-23.7%) to 8.6% (95% CI, 2.7%-14.5%; P < .001), and from 21.0% (95% CI, 11.0%-30.9%) to 13.3% (95% CI, 6.0%-20.4%; P < .001), respectively. After adjustment for differences in baseline characteristics, a significant reduction in mortality remained with lower standardized mortality over the years (Table 2). A similar pattern was seen in a sensitivity analysis that included only hospitals participating from the start of the study (eTable). Most of the mortality reduction was seen in-hospital (5.3%) and within the first 30 days (6.4%). However, the long-term mortality was decreasing. Among patients surviving 30 days, the 1 year mortality was reduced by 1.3%. The absolute reduction in mortality was greater in elderly individuals. The crude 1-year mortality decreased from 38% to 27% in patients older than 74 years, from 17% to 9% in patients between 65 and 74 years, and from 7% to 4% in those younger than 65 years. The 12-year survival analyses also showed that the decrease in mortality was sustained over time (Figure 3). Based on the survival curves, it could be estimated that the patients admitted in 1996-1997 reached the same cumulative risk as the patients admitted in 2006-2007, 2.7 years earlier.
Few previous studies have characterized recent trends in patient characteristics, treatment, and outcome in the STEMI population. The first finding of this study, in a nearly complete nationwide cohort of patients with STEMI, is that the adoption of evidence-based and guideline-recommended treatments was gradual. The initial large variation in treatments between hospitals gradually decreased with an increase in equality of care over time. The second finding is that this increase in adherence to treatment guidelines is associated with a gradual lowering of both short- and long-term mortality, which could not be explained by changes in baseline characteristics. From 1996 to 2007, the 30-day mortality has been more than halved with an absolute reduction of almost 8%. The improvements in survival tended to be greater in the latter part of this 12-year period. The third finding is that the 12-year complete follow-up showed that the reduction in mortality is sustained over time. Because the separation between the survival curves tended to increase over time, the improvement of outcome can be expressed as an average gain of at least 2.7 years of life in patients with STEMI in 2007 compared with 12 years earlier. These findings were supported by the reduction of the risk of reinfarction, serious arrhythmias, or cardiac arrest during hospitalization, which is in line with other studies.23 These changes were associated with only a small increase in severe bleedings as expected by the increased use of interventions and the intensified antithrombotic treatment.
The hospitalization rate for acute MI has slowly declined over the last 15 years.24 During the same period the proportion of MIs that are STEMIs has decreased, from 47% in 1999 to 23% in 2008 in northern California and from 45% in 1995 to 27% in 2008 in Sweden.1,13 There have been substantial advances in the treatment of STEMI with the development of more effective thrombolytic agents, the introduction of primary PCI, and improvements in medication by more effective platelet inhibition, β-blockade, ACE-inhibition, and lipid lowering.11,12
To improve quality of care and ensure adherence to guidelines, registries on the quality of care representative of the health care systems throughout various countries, such as the Myocardial Ischemia National Audit Project (MINAP) in the United Kingdom, the Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network (ACTION) Registry in the United States, and the RIKS-HIA system in Sweden, have been developed.13-15 Today, RIKS-HIA includes all Swedish hospitals (n = 72) admitting patients for care of acute cardiac diseases. The registry therefore provides information on all patients admitted for acute MI in the entire country, their individual baseline characteristics, the use of evidence-based treatments, and the short- and long-term outcome. Simultaneously, all users have continuous access to online interactive reports monitoring the processes of care and outcomes, enabling direct comparisons over time and with other hospitals.13 National-, regional-, and county-based reports are publicly presented annually. The RIKS-HIA database has thereby stimulated hospitals to improve performance and organize regional systems of care for timely primary PCI, including activation of catheterization laboratories by prehospital electrocardiograms sent from the emergency medical systems.
Although causality cannot be proven, the decrease of in-hospital complications and early mortality likely reflects at least in part the more widespread use of therapies proven in trials to lower the risk of complications and mortality. These improved treatment patterns during this period may play a larger role than changes in patients' baseline characteristics. During the observation period the proportion of patients with previous MI decreased, indicating that the population might have included fewer high-risk patients at the end of the study. This trend has been seen in other studies and may be explained by improved primary and secondary prevention strategies.25,26 However, after adjustment for baseline characteristics, there was a consistent reduction in short- and long-term mortality. Thus, based on our adjusted statistical analyses, the reduced mortality of patients hospitalized for STEMI seems mainly related to the gradually improved treatment strategies.
Our study demonstrates a large variation in the implementation of new treatments between different hospitals. These large variations, especially regarding coronary angiography during the hospital stay and subsequent dual antiplatelet therapy, were greatest during the start-up of the new treatment modalities, likely reflecting differential rates of adoption of new treatments and decreased gradually over time, which also explains the increase in the proportion of patients reaching the treatment target goals at the end of the study period. However, the large variation in use of ACE inhibitors or ARBs was sustained over time indicating a continuous uncertainty around the indications for these treatments early after STEMI. On the other hand, aspirin, β-blockers, and statins were prescribed with a high degree of agreement throughout the entire study period, although the use of statin treatment was increased over time while the use of the other agents remained stable at a high level. Variations in treatment and deviations from guideline recommendations have negative effects on mortality and morbidity.27,28 The gradual reduction in variability leading to a high level of guideline adherence might therefore be a key reason for the reduction in mortality. Therefore, identification of undue variations in the processes of care and highlighting areas of need for quality improvement programs are important tasks for the quality registries in health care.13-15,29
This study's strengths are that it includes consecutive patients with STEMI covering all patients admitted to hospitals in a nationwide registry over a 12-year period and also provides complete continuing long-term follow-up of 100% of the patients. The study also reflects the full variation day to day in acute coronary care for all incoming patients by including unselected hospitals and regions. The results can therefore be considered representative for the development and results of European acute coronary care of STEMI patients if supported by a continuous quality development program. All data have been prospectively collected, and the validity of the information entered into the database has been tested with 95% agreement between the registered information and patient records.
This study also has limitations. It is an observational study and despite adjustments in the statistical models no causality can be proven concerning the effect of changes of the overall or specific treatment strategies. When analyzing time trends in observational studies, there is always a possibility that other external factors change over time and thereby confound the results. The number of participating hospitals increased from 47 at the start of the study to 75 at the end but remained fairly stable over the last 10 years. A healthier population at hospitals joining the registry late might have resulted in lower mortality over time. However, sensitivity analyses including only hospitals participating from the start did not change the main results. These registry data include only patients entering the hospital, including the in-hospital course, medications at discharge, and follow-up. Accordingly patients deceased before reaching the hospital or not admitted to specialized facilities for acute cardiac care were not included. Patients' dying before reaching the hospital or changes in routines for admission to coronary care units might accordingly have influenced the outcome in the hospitalized patients.
In conclusion, registry-supported implementation of new treatment strategies over 12 years in STEMI patients in Sweden were associated with an increased use of evidence-based treatments, better adherence to treatment guidelines, and reduced variation across hospitals. These gradual changes in practice were associated with a large and sustained reduction in mortality.
Corresponding Author: Tomas Jernberg, MD, PhD, Department of Cardiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Institution of Medicine (H7), Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, 141 86 Stockholm, Sweden (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Author Contributions: Drs Jernberg and Svennblad had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
Study concept and design: Jernberg, Svennblad, Lindbäck, Wallentin.
Acquisition of data: Jernberg, Johanson, Held, Wallentin.
Analysis and interpretation of data: Jernberg, Johanson, Held, Svennblad, Wallentin.
Drafting of the manuscript: Jernberg.
Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Johanson, Held, Svennblad, Lindbäck, Wallentin.
Statistical analysis: Jernberg, Svennblad, Lindbäck, Wallentin.
Obtained funding: Jernberg, Wallentin.
Administrative, technical, or material support: Jernberg, Johanson, Held, Wallentin.
Study supervision: Jernberg, Wallentin.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: All authors have completed and submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest, and none were reported.
Funding/Support: This study was supported by the Swedish Heart Lung Foundation. Financial support for the registry is provided by the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions.
Role of the Sponsor: Neither the Swedish Heart Lung Foundation nor the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions participated in the design and conduct of the study, in the collection analysis and interpretation of the data, or in the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.
Additional Contributions: This study would not have been possible without the staff of all hospitals participating in RIKS-HIA in Sweden, who enter data on all coronary care unit patients into the registry over the Internet 24 hours a day every day of the year.


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