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A DIABETIC grandmother in hospital for a minor operation died because nurses forgot to give her insulin injections. Gillian Astbury, 66, received the appalling treatment at a hospital, where up to 1,200 patients have died in suspicious circumstances in four years. A police investigation into Gillians care left three nurses facing possible manslaughter charges, which were later dropped. Two have been sacked. The third has been suspended and faces being struck off.
HIS whiskers had gone grey, his long hair wispy. But old hippy Pete Perry still had that twinkle in his eye. as his daughters best friend discovered. The moment Nikki Heydon met him, she remembers, she went weak at the knees. So did Pete. And it wasnt his rheumatism. To the amazement of friends, and worried looks from relatives, they fell in love across an age gap of 37 years. Pete was 72 and wore his best white kaftan when they married. Nikki was 35 and instantly became a step-greatgrandmother. “No one seriously thought we would ever get married,” she says. “Now theyre thrilled for us. I never saw Pete as an old age pensioner. Hes a lovely, genuine, caring man. Thats what matters. Age was never an issue.” Nikki says it was a fairytale wedding as her dad, nine years younger than the groom, walked her down the aisle.

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By Jan Biles An author says a Kansas physicians use of goat gland transplants to cure male impotence in the 1920s-40s may have been questionable, but the strategies the doctor used to sell himself and his products were brilliant and still used today by the nations leading marketers. Chip Kessler, an ex-radio and television sportscaster from Tennessee, and Dan Kennedy, who has authored more than 12 books on business and marketing and appeared alongside former President George H.W. Bush and former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell at speaking engagements, have teamed up to write “Making Them Believe: The 21 Principles and Lost Secrets of Dr. J.R. Brinkley-Style Marketing.” J.R. Brinkley, who first rose to national prominence while living in Milford, amassed a fortune before he was stripped of his license to practice in the Kansas.
(VMworld) – As VMworld kicks off today, a new survey of over 300 enterprise IT managers shows that management of the ever-growing virtual infrastructure is a key concern as organizations virtualize an increasing percentage of their production environment. The survey, conducted by Reflex Systems , found that issues such as capacity planning, performance and troubleshooting are consuming significant resources as enterprises continue to further leverage virtualization.

Virtualization Continuing to Take Hold in Production Systems
53% of the respondents noted that at least half of their business critical applications will be virtualized by the end of this year. This translates into a 17% increase from current utilization, showing the rapid rate of virtualization adoption by the enterprise. Beyond adoption of just the virtual infrastructure (hypervisors), respondents listed their top two areas of investment over the next six months as virtual storage and virtual management tools. They further cited performance, security and auditing/reporting as the major reasons for looking for virtual management tools, in addition to those tools provided by the hypervisor vendors.

Virtualization Management Consuming Significant Resources
While enterprises are clearly seeing the benefits of leveraging virtualization, IT shops are also staggering under the burden of managing an increasing number of virtual machines across a growing number of applications. Enterprises most frequently cited capacity planning, performance and troubleshooting in the virtual environment as the top three tasks consuming the most significant resources as they continue to further leverage virtualization and begin to have to deal with virtualization sprawl.

As a result, 35% ranked network visibility, including flow traffic, monitoring and usage, as the number one capability they are looking for in their virtualization management solutions. Access control and audit of users actions within the systems also ranked highly as features users believed would help them manage their growing virtual infrastructure.

“Virtualization promises to simplify and reduce costs, but the reality is that the virtual computing paradigm requires a new set of skills and technologies to manage it,” said Pete Privateer, CEO of Reflex Systems. “While organizations continue to rapidly adopt virtualization to reduce costs and improve performance, they should consider implementing management tools as early as possible in the lifecycle of their virtualization deployments, to help them maximize the cost and time saving benefits they can achieve throughout their environment.”

Unlike traditional multi-product enterprise solutions, onQ is a simple, turnkey appliance that pre-integrates a number of sophisticated technologies — such as replication, deduplication, snapshots continual virtualization — into a single box. onQ automatically maintains and manages up-to-date virtual machine clones on a bare metal hypervisor to give companies high performance instant recovery in the event of a failure without requiring any additional hardware or software. onQ goes beyond off-site and on-line backup and makes complete business continuity easy and affordable — without the complexity, cost, or lengthy deployment projects required of traditional enterprise solutions.

“To provide an equivalent solution to what QuorumLabs has packaged into a single appliance requires a high level of engineering and an extended migration and integration project,” said Bob Boyer, chief marketing officer, Transcend United. “For small and mid-sized companies who need business continuity, this has been a barrier to deploying virtualization-based solutions since they dont have the in-house expertise or the time. Its a lot to tackle. Thats where onQ fits in: an easy to implement, easy to maintain and easy to test appliance.”

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By Mary Foster CHALMETTE, La. — Hundreds of mourners dropped notes, cards and letters — many of them stained with tears — into a steel-gray casket Saturday in a symbolic burial of Hurricane Katrina. One letter written by a child in red crayon said, “Go away from us.” Another note remembered one of the 1,800 victims of Katrina, “R.I.P. Gloria, I will always love you.” The casket, along with some of the anger, grief and frustration, was later interred under an appropriately dark sky as rain pounded umbrellas. “I asked for no more suffering, for everything to come back to where it was,” Walter Gifford, 47, said of his note. He rebuilt his home and moved back to the area near New Orleans. “I ask for the sadness for so many to end.”
M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The eight strong shortlist for the EUR100,000 annual International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, which is run by Dublins public libraries, has been chosen from an initial longlist of 156 novels which were nominated by 163 libraries from around the world. The recipient of the IMPAC prize, which is managed by Dublin City Libraries on behalf of Dublin City Council and is sponsored by international management productivity company IMPAC, will be decided by a judging panel of five members, chaired by Hon. Eugene R Sullivan.

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Economic theory provides different methods to assess the economic impact of a health condition, as is cancer. The Cost of Illness (COI), developed by Rice (3-6), is the most widely accepted conceptual framework for cost estimates. COI estimates involve three components: direct costs, morbidity costs and mortality costs. Within this framework, several studies with different approaches have been conducted to determine the economic burden of different diseases (7-17). These studies have concluded that the component with the greatest impact lies in the productivity cost, even more than the costs for medical treatment of patients. For example, the National Institutes of Health(18) estimated the cost of illness for different causes of death in United States (US) for 2007. This study estimated the overall cost of cancer at $219.2 billion, of which, $89 billion correspond to direct costs of health expenditure, $18.2 billion in morbidity costs and $112.0 billion in mortality costs (representing more than 52% of total costs). Others studies of the economic burden of cancer in California (14-15) have concluded that the premature mortality cost of breast cancer is 80% of the total costs of the disease. Also, mortality costs of gynecological cancers like ovarian and cervical cancer represent more than 65% of total cost of these cancers. This pattern has also been observed in the state of Texas and in Sweden, Canada, and Spain (10-11, 17, 19-20). Other studies (20-25) have focused on estimating the productivity cost due to cancer mortality. Although these studies show some discrepancies in their methodology, data sources, and the inclusion of indirect costs components, such variations are not necessarily a weakness. Different arenas of application require different approaches and schemes (e.g., economic burden estimates vs. cost-effectiveness analysis) (4-5, 26). From a societal perspective, estimates of the value of labor productivity loss due to premature mortality are important in determining the economic burden of disease. Previous studies in PR have used the COI approach to estimate the cost of AIDS, schizophrenia and traffic accidents (7, 27-28). For example, cumulative total cost of AIDS in PR from period of 19821989 was estimated to be $ 525.2 million (27). Despite the importance of evaluating the economic impact of cancer in PR, there are no previous studies that have used the COI approach to investigate this issue. In fact, this economic component has been overlooked in cancer investigations in PR. Although the value of a persons life transcends its economic value as a productive unit, cost studies present another dimension of a health problem, providing valuable information for society and for policymakers to decide how to allocate scarce resources more optimally (27). Consequently, the aim of this study is to estimate the labor-market productivity loss in PR, as a result of premature mortality, due to overall cancer and by cause-specific cancers in 2004.
More than 100 HPV types have been identified with more than 30 being sexually transmitted (7). Anogenital HPV types have been classified into low-risk types (non-oncogenic), which are associated with anogenital warts (condyloma acuminata), oral and conjunctival papillomas, recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (in infants and young children), and mild dysplasia (8). High-risk types (oncogenic) are associated with high-grade dysplasia and various cancers. Current estimates of the attributable fraction, the proportion of cancer cases preventable by the elimination of HPV, are very high (9): 100% for cervical, 90% for anal, 40% for vulvar and vaginal, 50% for cancer of the penis, and between 33 and 72% of oropharyngeal cancers (10). Although there has been increasing interest in understanding the burden of HPV infection and related comorbidities in men (11), studies in this group are still quite limited (12), particularly among Hispanics. Research and surveillance data have indicated that Hispanics have been disproportionately affected by HIV/ AIDS (13), Other STIs (14) and may engage disproportionately in high-risk sexual behaviors (15). In addition, a higher incidence of cervical cancer is observed in Puerto Rico and Hispanic women in the US compared with non-Hispanic whites (Figure 1). These factors could reflect a potential higher prevalence of HPV infection in these populations, as well as disparities in screening rates in these groups (16) suggesting that Hispanic and Puerto Rican men might also be at higher risk for HPV infection and related health outcomes. This high incidence might also lead to a significant economic burden. In Puerto Rico for example, it was estimated that the economic impact of HPV related cancers in 2004 was approximately 7.5% (close to 5 million dollars) of the total cancer costs (17). Even though HPV infection is highly prevalent in sexually active men, (18), most research studies have focused only in women. Studies in men are of particular relevance because, as with other STIs, men play a key role in the transmission dynamics to both male and female sexual partners. It is also clear that HPV infection in men is a serious clinical issue, given the association of HPV infection with a variety of cancers in men, including anal cancer and a subset of penile and oral cancers (19). With the world-wide introduction of two new prophylactic vaccines (bivalent vaccine protecting against HPV 16 and 18, and the quadrivalent vaccine protecting against HPV 16, 18, 6 and 11) against oncogenic HPVs causing cervical cancer in women (20), and the recent FDA approval of the quadrivalent vaccine to prevent genital warts also in men, there is an urgency to determine the burden of HPV in Hispanic populations before vaccination programs are implemented on a widespread basis. Knowledge of the burden of the disease and its related morbidities prior to implementation of these programs will allow a better assessment and understanding of the short-term and long-term effectiveness of this primary prevention strategy for cervical neoplasia and genital warts. In addition, it will permit exploring the prevalence of type-specific HPVs in these populations, not currently included in the HPV vaccines available in the market.

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MSEs outperforming Fortune 1000s; surprising adoption trends among
other highlights

NEW YORK — TheInfoPro,
an independent research and advisory company for the IT industry, today
released its latest storage study which yields some encouraging news for
the industry and indicates which companies stand to emerge strongest
from the recession. According to the study, total storage spending among
Fortune 1000 customers reports modest growth with 35 percent of
organizations expecting to boost appropriations in 2011 and 39 percent
anticipating stable spending.

Generally, midsize enterprises (MSEs) are performing slightly better
than the Fortune 1000, with only 13 percent of storage budgets facing
cuts in 2011, down from 27 percent in 2010. Meanwhile, 26 percent of
Fortune 1000 customers are facing budget cuts, a drop of only four
percent compared to this year.

EMC seems poised for a strong 2011, especially among the Fortune 1000,
with five of its products listed on TheInfoPro’s ‘most exciting product’
list. IBM and Hewlett-Packard (HP) on the other hand, seem somewhat
vulnerable, despite their strong brand advantages. Oracle’s woes
continue – the tech giant was rated as the second most vulnerable vendor
for a second consecutive round of the study.

“The HP and Dell bidding war over 3PAR is dominating the media’s
attention right now, and rightfully so,” said Ivan Ruzic, CEO of
TheInfoPro. “But the acquisition merely underscores what is shaping out
to be a strong year for the industry as a whole as well as for
innovative storage vendors like EMC, NetApp and others who have retained
customer loyalty through their ability to adapt to the changing
landscape and still offer an exciting product.”

SIR ALEX FERGUSON will spend the next 48 hours deciding whether to give Owen Hargreavess Manchester United career a shock reprieve. England midfielder Hargreaves is still struggling to beat a chronic knee problem that has curtailed his match action to 90 seconds since September 2008. But with Hargreaves now back at the Reds Carrington training base, Ferguson has given him a massive boost by contemplating naming him in his 25-man squad for the first half of the season. The news will give Hargreaves, 29, a lift as he fights to cope with the pain in his knees. He is aware exclusion means he will be unable to play football until a new squad is named in January. Ferguson said: “I have plenty of room to manoeuvre with only one issue – whether I can afford to allot one of the 25 places to Owen Hargreaves as he continues to battle for fitness.”
Niagara Acquisition Inc. (”Niagara”), a corporation owned by KingSett Capital Inc. (”KingSett”) and certain clients managed by Alberta Investment Management Corporation (”AIMCo”), has agreed to acquire all of the outstanding equity interests in ING Summit Industrial Fund LP (”Summit”) from Realty Holding LP and Realty Holding II LP in a private acquisition. The transaction value is approximately CDN$2 billion, including assumed debt. Niagara has also agreed to acquire ING Real Estate Canada LP, the manager of Summit.

This news release is being issued under the early warning provisions of Canadian provincial securities legislation.

Summit is Canadas largest owner of light industrial property. It owns a portfolio of over 400 properties containing approximately 32 million square feet of gross leasable space and 751 net developable acres of land in major metropolitan areas across Canada.

KingSett is Canadas leading private equity real estate investment business co-investing with pension funds and high net worth individuals.

AIMCo is one of Canadas largest institutional investors. It manages about $70 billion of Alberta public sector pension and endowment assets, including a real estate portfolio valued in excess of $5 billion.

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On March 2 of 2007, with the implementation of Law 66, Puerto Rico became a smoke-free island by completely banning indoor smoking in public places such as bars, pubs, casinos, hotels, work places with more than one employee, and cars with any passenger under the age of 13 . According to the literature, the immediate impact of smoke-free workplace policies has been to dramatically reduce the exposition to SHS for customers and workers (10-17). Many studies have used the level of respirable particulate matter ([PM.sub.2.5]) as the main indicator of exposure to SHS because it has been demonstrated that smoking is one of the main sources of indoor levels of [PM.sub.2.5] (10). For example, bars in the state of New York experienced an average reduction of 84% in their [PM.sub.2.5] levels after the Clean Indoor Air Act was implemented in July of 2003 (11). In the case of Austin, Texas, bars experienced a reduction from 71% to 99% in their [PM.sub.2.5] levels after a smoking ban was implemented (12). In another study (13), Irish-theme pubs around the globe located in countries or cities with smoke-free legislation were compared with similar pubs in places without smoke-free ordinances. In this case, the results showed an average 91% reduction in [PM.sub.2.5] levels. In March of 2006, a smoking ban was implemented in Scotland, which substantially covered enclosed places including pubs. Evidence shows that, as a result, Scottish pubs experienced an average of 86% reduction in [PM.sub.2.5] levels (14). In Italy, a year after the implementation of an all smoke-free workplace policy in January of 2005, there was an average of 68% reduction in [PM.sub.2.5] levels across bars, restaurants, game rooms, and pubs (15). The main claim of this study is that the smoke-free workplace policy implemented in March of 2007 was effective in reducing the exposure to SHS in restaurants, pubs, and discos in the metropolitan area of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The specific research objectives of the study were three. First, to measure and compare the restaurants, pubs, and discos in the metropolitan area of San Juan at baseline (before the smoke-free workplace policy was implemented) in terms of the levels of respirable particulate matter (PM), the number of smokers, the number of customers, and establishment area. Second, to measure the change in levels of PM, the number of smokers, and the number of customers before and after March 2007. And third, to measure the effect of the smoke-free workplace policy on the level of PM controlling for the number of customers and establishment area.
The main goal of the Training Program is to increase the number of Hispanic students knowledgeable and committed to careers in cancer research and cancer medicine. The specific objectives are to prepare Hispanic students to pursue careers in cancer research, cancer medicine, and population sciences and to establish a Career Development Program for clinical and basic scientist faculty at the Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Puerto Rico (UPRCCC). The Training Program includes a series of didactic and research experiences, and enrichment activities that include on-campus cancer research at the UPR campuses during the academic year, and summer research and year-round rotations to MDACC. These experiences are complemented and supported by a structured Mentoring Program for students and junior investigators. The mentors are well recognized senior Faculty, mostly from MDACC. Training Opportunities Various research programs are available in UPR and MDACC, all sponsored by the U54 Training Program. In the UPR there is Research Assistantships Stipends Program for Undergraduate and Graduate Students. Students have the opportunity of working in cancer research projects under the guidance of Faculty in mid to senior stages of their academic careers. Most of these scientists are re-gearing their careers to Cancer Research. The students are also required to attend Seminars and Workshops offered through the academic year, mostly offered by visiting world-renowned scientists.
Economic theory provides different methods to assess the economic impact of a health condition, as is cancer. The Cost of Illness (COI), developed by Rice (3-6), is the most widely accepted conceptual framework for cost estimates. COI estimates involve three components: direct costs, morbidity costs and mortality costs. Within this framework, several studies with different approaches have been conducted to determine the economic burden of different diseases (7-17). These studies have concluded that the component with the greatest impact lies in the productivity cost, even more than the costs for medical treatment of patients. For example, the National Institutes of Health(18) estimated the cost of illness for different causes of death in United States (US) for 2007. This study estimated the overall cost of cancer at $219.2 billion, of which, $89 billion correspond to direct costs of health expenditure, $18.2 billion in morbidity costs and $112.0 billion in mortality costs (representing more than 52% of total costs). Others studies of the economic burden of cancer in California (14-15) have concluded that the premature mortality cost of breast cancer is 80% of the total costs of the disease. Also, mortality costs of gynecological cancers like ovarian and cervical cancer represent more than 65% of total cost of these cancers. This pattern has also been observed in the state of Texas and in Sweden, Canada, and Spain (10-11, 17, 19-20). Other studies (20-25) have focused on estimating the productivity cost due to cancer mortality. Although these studies show some discrepancies in their methodology, data sources, and the inclusion of indirect costs components, such variations are not necessarily a weakness. Different arenas of application require different approaches and schemes (e.g., economic burden estimates vs. cost-effectiveness analysis) (4-5, 26). From a societal perspective, estimates of the value of labor productivity loss due to premature mortality are important in determining the economic burden of disease. Previous studies in PR have used the COI approach to estimate the cost of AIDS, schizophrenia and traffic accidents (7, 27-28). For example, cumulative total cost of AIDS in PR from period of 19821989 was estimated to be $ 525.2 million (27). Despite the importance of evaluating the economic impact of cancer in PR, there are no previous studies that have used the COI approach to investigate this issue. In fact, this economic component has been overlooked in cancer investigations in PR. Although the value of a persons life transcends its economic value as a productive unit, cost studies present another dimension of a health problem, providing valuable information for society and for policymakers to decide how to allocate scarce resources more optimally (27). Consequently, the aim of this study is to estimate the labor-market productivity loss in PR, as a result of premature mortality, due to overall cancer and by cause-specific cancers in 2004.

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Niagara Acquisition Inc. (”Niagara”), a corporation owned by KingSett Capital Inc. (”KingSett”) and certain clients managed by Alberta Investment Management Corporation (”AIMCo”), has agreed to acquire all of the outstanding equity interests in ING Summit Industrial Fund LP (”Summit”) from Realty Holding LP and Realty Holding II LP in a private acquisition. The transaction value is approximately CDN$2 billion, including assumed debt. Niagara has also agreed to acquire ING Real Estate Canada LP, the manager of Summit.

This news release is being issued under the early warning provisions of Canadian provincial securities legislation.

Summit is Canadas largest owner of light industrial property. It owns a portfolio of over 400 properties containing approximately 32 million square feet of gross leasable space and 751 net developable acres of land in major metropolitan areas across Canada.

KingSett is Canadas leading private equity real estate investment business co-investing with pension funds and high net worth individuals.

AIMCo is one of Canadas largest institutional investors. It manages about $70 billion of Alberta public sector pension and endowment assets, including a real estate portfolio valued in excess of $5 billion.

MSEs outperforming Fortune 1000s; surprising adoption trends among
other highlights

NEW YORK — TheInfoPro,
an independent research and advisory company for the IT industry, today
released its latest storage study which yields some encouraging news for
the industry and indicates which companies stand to emerge strongest
from the recession. According to the study, total storage spending among
Fortune 1000 customers reports modest growth with 35 percent of
organizations expecting to boost appropriations in 2011 and 39 percent
anticipating stable spending.

Generally, midsize enterprises (MSEs) are performing slightly better
than the Fortune 1000, with only 13 percent of storage budgets facing
cuts in 2011, down from 27 percent in 2010. Meanwhile, 26 percent of
Fortune 1000 customers are facing budget cuts, a drop of only four
percent compared to this year.

EMC seems poised for a strong 2011, especially among the Fortune 1000,
with five of its products listed on TheInfoPro’s ‘most exciting product’
list. IBM and Hewlett-Packard (HP) on the other hand, seem somewhat
vulnerable, despite their strong brand advantages. Oracle’s woes
continue – the tech giant was rated as the second most vulnerable vendor
for a second consecutive round of the study.

“The HP and Dell bidding war over 3PAR is dominating the media’s
attention right now, and rightfully so,” said Ivan Ruzic, CEO of
TheInfoPro. “But the acquisition merely underscores what is shaping out
to be a strong year for the industry as a whole as well as for
innovative storage vendors like EMC, NetApp and others who have retained
customer loyalty through their ability to adapt to the changing
landscape and still offer an exciting product.”

BREAKING news everyone: yet another British politician has been outed as gay – just days after a similar outing in America. You would think times havent changed since the days when gay men were forced to hide their sexuality for fear they would be attacked in the street simply for holding hands. But then, you look at Ireland, and for once our politicians offer up a shining light – with renowned gay Senator David Norris the favourite to take over from Mary McAleese as the President.

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SHES 52 tomorrow, but dont expect them to be popping champagne corks on the set of Madonnas new film. I hear the birthday girl has had more than a few problems during filming of her second directorial effort W.E., the story of how King Edward VIII gave up his throne for American divorcee Wallis Simpson. According to on-set sources, the shoot is “in crisis” with staff quitting, budgets spiralling and morale sinking faster than Madges face fillers. There is talk of the queen of pop flying off the handle after a priceless bracelet which was to be used in a scene was lost. Another row was triggered over the type of champagne glasses chosen by the props department, with Madonna, right, booming: “Whose fault is this?” The wannabe Martin Scorcese has also clashed with location scouts over venues picked for filming and other decisions not made by her. My man tells me: “Madonna knows what she wants. The problem is, she is such a perfectionist she doesnt always know how to treat people to get the best out of them.
SHES 52 tomorrow, but dont expect them to be popping champagne corks on the set of Madonnas new film. I hear the birthday girl has had more than a few problems during filming of her second directorial effort W.E., the story of how King Edward VIII gave up his throne for American divorcee Wallis Simpson. According to on-set sources, the shoot is “in crisis” with staff quitting, budgets spiralling and morale sinking faster than Madges face fillers. There is talk of the queen of pop flying off the handle after a priceless bracelet which was to be used in a scene was lost. Another row was triggered over the type of champagne glasses chosen by the props department, with Madonna, right, booming: “Whose fault is this?” The wannabe Martin Scorcese has also clashed with location scouts over venues picked for filming and other decisions not made by her. My man tells me: “Madonna knows what she wants. The problem is, she is such a perfectionist she doesnt always know how to treat people to get the best out of them.
SHES 52 tomorrow, but dont expect them to be popping champagne corks on the set of Madonnas new film. I hear the birthday girl has had more than a few problems during filming of her second directorial effort W.E., the story of how King Edward VIII gave up his throne for American divorcee Wallis Simpson. According to on-set sources, the shoot is “in crisis” with staff quitting, budgets spiralling and morale sinking faster than Madges face fillers. There is talk of the queen of pop flying off the handle after a priceless bracelet which was to be used in a scene was lost. Another row was triggered over the type of champagne glasses chosen by the props department, with Madonna, right, booming: “Whose fault is this?” The wannabe Martin Scorcese has also clashed with location scouts over venues picked for filming and other decisions not made by her. My man tells me: “Madonna knows what she wants. The problem is, she is such a perfectionist she doesnt always know how to treat people to get the best out of them.

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BLACKPOOL 2 LUKE VARNEY celebrated his dream move to Blackpool with a cracking debut goal – but the game left injured Fulham duo Bobby Zamora and keeper David Stockdale doubtful for England call-ups.
BLACKPOOL 2 LUKE VARNEY celebrated his dream move to Blackpool with a cracking debut goal – but the game left injured Fulham duo Bobby Zamora and keeper David Stockdale doubtful for England call-ups.
In the 115-degree heat and 80 percent humidity of Qatar, between 12-hour shifts doing communications support for 8,000 special operators in U.S. Central Command, Carson Bird worked to stay in shape, keeping in mind a picture he made in first grade. “We were asked what we wanted to be when we grow up – I drew a picture of me playing football and wrote I want to be a professional football player,” Bird, who played defensive back for Air Force from 2004-2007, said in an e-mail. “I dont think I could have spelled it more wrong but (Mom) framed it anyway.” When his six-month tour is over and he returns to the United States in October, Bird plans to chase that dream. Pending Air Forces approval, he wants to work out for NFL teams shortly after his return. He said he has received some feedback from some interested NFL teams, and hopes to get a workout when he is in his best football shape. He hopes to sharpen his skills in some competitive flag football leagues in Las Vegas. Even if a tryout doesnt happen this fall, he hopes to participate in a pro day workout for NFL scouts in March. “Ive stayed extremely active,” Bird wrote. “Ive always had the itch so Ive kept myself in the gym nonstop.”

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A PENSIONER could have been killed when a drunken yob threw a flowerpot on to his head from a block of flats, a court heard. Granddad Frank Allen was walking across a car park when he was clobbered by the pot, thrown from a balcony by Lee Bell. He was in hospital for 10 days and needed 32 stitches in his head. The ex-Merchant Navy man, 65, is now afraid to go out at night.
AN immigrant worker was left with just pounds 15 after working a 72-hour week, a court heard. Kazimieras Lemezis, 59, was so desperate for food he stole pounds 131 worth of groceries from Tesco. But magistrates let him walk free after hearing he had been living on bread and potatoes after falling into the clutches of an illegal gangmaster. Lemezis, from Lituania, worked 12 hours a day for six days a week on farms around Wisbech, Cambs. But the gangmaster kept nearly all his wages for transport and housing.
FORMER Sugababe Keisha Buchanan was looking beyond amazing when I bumped into her last week. Theres a brand new weave and an amazing figure with a new sense of confidence after being ousted from the band. The teeny star tells me its down to being happy following her departure. “Ive been wo r k i n g out and Im not going home every night and eating a Chinese takeaway,” she revealed. “I wasnt being healthy before I left the band. I was eating because I was so miserable. Im happy now and Im looking after myself.”

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Webs Most Comprehensive People Search Site Enters New Vertical LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ — MyLife.com, Inc., the webs single best source for people search, today announced the launch of QuickMatch Singles, a service designed to connect users with like-minded singles based on compatibility. QuickMatch Singles marks MyLife.coms second expansion into vertical people search categories that already included classmates/school search but will in the future encompass service providers like doctors, plumbers, etc., ancestors, colleagues and professional connections. The move marks the onset of MyLifes growth into highly specific categories of search that leverages the companys proprietary technology and database of unique people information, making them the people search category leader. QuickMatch Singles harnesses the rich data of MyLife.com and its extensive consumer reach of more than 30 million registered members to offer a comprehensive new tool in singles search. Users answer 7 simple questions on what piques their interest and automatically matched with other people based on their answers. Because of sophisticated search features that are powered by MyLife.com, users will be connected to the most compatible partners in the database. MyLife.com is currently the most comprehensive database on unique individuals, with more than 205 million U.S. profiles, 1.2 billion total worldwide records, 30 million registered members and nearly 1 million paid subscribers. It is the only website that provides users with information on who is searching for them and other important activity related to their own profile. MyLife.com will utilize this valuable information to create future search offerings in additional verticals, giving unparalleled value to those looking to connect for a variety of reasons. “We decided to offer a unique approach to singles search with QuickMatch, one of the most popular reasons people seek out others online, because we saw that millions of people were using MyLife.com as a way to seek out potential partners. We also have more than 1 million members that have listed themselves as being interested in dating,” said Jeffrey Tinsley, CEO of MyLife.com. “Expanding into the singles vertical is just the tip of the iceberg for MyLife.coms growth strategy. We have the most aggregated data that enables us to leverage our value into additional services for the 300 million people searches that we handle each month.”
Glenn “Pete” There were smiles in heaven and tears on earth when our kind, gentle, and loving father, grandfather, and great-grandfather passed away surrounded by loving family and friends on August 8, 2010.

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SCOTTISH ministers have been told to “get a grip” of data control as new details emerged of equipment lost or stolen from the public sector. Police, councils and the NHS recorded scores of missing items, including computers, phones, BlackBerries and USB data sticks. The details were obtained by the LibDems, who previously called for a review of data protection. The Scottish Government said while it takes security seriously, public services are responsible for storing their own information. In one incident, Strathclyde Police said an unencrypted USB stick containing investigation files had gone missing.
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ALISO VIEJO, Calif. — Quest Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSFT)
announced today that it filed suit against Centrify Corp. and Likewise
Software, Inc. In its Complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Salt
Lake City, Utah, Quest Software alleges that Centrify DirectControl and
Likewise Enterprise infringe U.S. Patent No. 7,617,501. The ’501 Patent
teaches the extension of Windows Group Policy in heterogeneous computing
environments to Unix, Linux, Mac, and other non-Windows computer
systems. Jackson Shaw, Quest’s Senior Director of Product Management for
Quest’s Identity Management Solutions, offered these comments on the
lawsuit: “Vintela changed the industry when it introduced its
award-winning Vintela Group Policy product in 2004. Since acquiring
Vintela in 2005, Quest has invested heavily in Vintela’s products to
ensure they remain the market-leading tools for extending Windows Group
Policy to heterogeneous computing environments. Centrify and Likewise
copied and benefited directly from the patented features that helped
make Quest’s product for Group Policy the industry standard.” Quest’s
Complaint seeks damages and injunctive relief prohibiting Centrify and
Likewise Software from continuing to infringe Quest’s patent.

Quest, Quest Software and the Quest logo are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Quest Software in the United States and certain other
countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property
of their respective owners.

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MILLIONS of parents will be spending the bank holiday weekend getting their kids ready to go back to school. But the cost of kitting them out for their studies can cause a serious dent in the family finances. Research from insurance and investment group LV= shows parents will spend pounds 709m on back- to-school basics – an average of pounds 122 per child. The cost rises to pounds 139 for secondary school children, compared to pounds 96 for infants. Here are our top tips for cutting new term bills. TAKE advantage of back-toschool promotions wherever possible. Asda, for example, are offering cut-price uniforms, with school trousers from just pounds 4, and pintuck shirts starting at pounds 2. The supermarket also sells stationery sets for pounds 2 and laminated ringbinders at just 50p. You can pick up a 36-pack of HB pencils for pounds 1 and a pocket calculator for 50p.
THE Governor of the European Central Bank has warned Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan that more cuts are needed before the Irish economy recovers.
Rep. Carl Wimmer and his Patrick Henry Caucus are proposing that the state reject the $101 million one-time federal stimulus funding, which would save an estimated 1,400 to 1,800 teaching and other school employee jobs, so Utah schools will be less beholden to and dependent upon the federal government, as it should be. But if they were really serious about state control and financing public education, they would also propose a plan to save those jobs with state money. Two years ago, when the residents of the state put the kibosh on vouchers, the Legislature replaced our graduated tax system with a single-rate tax system, which benefited the wealthy more than the voucher system would have, and which is taking an estimated $150 million to $200 million directly out of public- school funding each year. Rep. Wimmer would make me a believer if he and his cronies would reverse the single-rate tax and give that money back to the states public education fund.

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MAZDA has released some pictures of the updated Mazda2 ahead of its Paris Motorshow debut. The 2 will now come with an automatic option; upgraded interior, upgraded exterior styling and an updated suspension to improve ride comfort.
SO sorry to see The X Factor “in crisis” yet again. Pulling in its biggest audiences of all time. Trust me, the Dark Lord isnt losing any sleep. His carefully staged pantomime is exactly where he wants it. all over the front pages. The talking point of the nation. “Youre fantastically nuts,” Simon told Shirlena. No, Simon. she was clinically nuts. As was glaringly obvious to everyone except you and your production team. She was also useless. And now shes gone. Sob. Meanwhile, massive mistake to improve the voices of the wannabes through the magic of the Auto-Tune editing machine. But are we absolutely sure it was working? Crying “fix” is all part of the pageant. Anything to keep the publicity pot boiling.
By Jan Biles A group of volunteers is helping to restore a historic farmstead in Wabaunsee County. The Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards recently put down gravel and made other improvements to the road leading to Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie, a 50-acre hilltop park about three miles south of Wamego, said Michael Stubbs, a founding member of the Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards. The volunteers also worked with Wabaunsee Township and local construction companies to replace culverts and build up the roadbed. The cost of the project was about $6,500, which will be raised by the volunteers.

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MANCHESTER City bad boy Mario Balotelli had a close escape yesterday when he wrote off his powerful sports car. The EUR34million Italian strikers Audi R8 collided with a BMW as he drove to the clubs Carrington training ground. The 20-year-old player, notorious for his run-ins with former boss Jose Mourinho at Inter Milan, admitted to onlookers he had only had the EUR130,000 car a day after getting it shipped over from Italy. Witnesses said there was an almighty bang and Balotellis powerful Audi span out of control. An eyewitness said: “There was loads of smoke and the car was just spinning around and around. I cant believe that no one was seriously hurt.
THE SOLE survivor of the horror smash that killed four teenagers was recovering in hospital last night. Darragh Jones, 16, from Farranfore was rushed to hospital after the car he was in crashed on a bend at Carrigeen, Co Kerry, hitting a tree and going over a ditch into a field on Wednesday. He was taken to Kerry General Hospital where he is in a stable condition. A hospital spokeswoman said: “Darragh is quite comfortable at the moment. “He is in a stable condition.” His family have been keeping a bedside vigil at his hospital bed since the accident that killed four of his pals.

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MORRIS PLAINS, N.J. — Weichert, Realtors recently received the Interactive Media Awards (IMA)
Outstanding Achievement Award for its website, Weichert.com. One of the
nation’s most visited real estate sites, Weichert.com was determined to
have excelled in all areas of the competition and represents a high
standard of planning, execution and overall professionalism.

“We are honored to have our website acknowledged with such a prestigious
award,” said James M. Weichert, president and founder of Weichert,
Realtors. “This recognition is a testament to the dedication of our
Internet and marketing departments who work tirelessly behind the scenes
to make Weichert.com a convenient and comprehensive source for buyers
and sellers online.”

The Outstanding Achievement award is the second highest honor bestowed
by IMA. Weichert received the award in the real estate category, which
included 63 total entries. Weichert.com received a score of 465 out of a
total possible score of 500 points.

Re-launched in early 2010, Weichert.com underwent several enhancements
to provide a simpler, more personalized experience for consumers
searching for a home online. Now, it also allows visitors to share
listings and other information on Facebook, Twitter and a host of other
social media, networking and bookmarking sites.

“We continually make adjustments and improvements to our site to ensure
that we are providing a top-notch experience for visitors. That is why
it is so rewarding to see Weichert.com recognized as a leading real
estate Web site,” said Mike Montsko, president of Weichert Lead Network,
the Internet marketing arm for Weichert, Realtors.

SHOCKED pals of Michaela Davis huddled together in trembling groups yesterday as they struggled to come to terms with the pretty youngsters death. They stood at the entrance to her Village estate in Clonsilla which was exactly at the point where the Garda tape sealed off the scene. The young teens watched as Garda vehicles passed up and down the road and officers hurried around the corner to where the body was discovered in undergrowth. One sobbed: “I just cant believe it. I saw her walking by my house yesterday. Its so hard to believe she is gone, just like that.” Pals said the pretty 12-yearold was short for her age but was much more mature. She was looking forward to returning to starting secondary school tomorrow. Her friends also revealed how she had worn her new uniform for the first time last Friday at Luttrelstown Community College when she picked up her timetable for the coming year.
SHOCKED pals of Michaela Davis huddled together in trembling groups yesterday as they struggled to come to terms with the pretty youngsters death. They stood at the entrance to her Village estate in Clonsilla which was exactly at the point where the Garda tape sealed off the scene. The young teens watched as Garda vehicles passed up and down the road and officers hurried around the corner to where the body was discovered in undergrowth. One sobbed: “I just cant believe it. I saw her walking by my house yesterday. Its so hard to believe she is gone, just like that.” Pals said the pretty 12-yearold was short for her age but was much more mature. She was looking forward to returning to starting secondary school tomorrow. Her friends also revealed how she had worn her new uniform for the first time last Friday at Luttrelstown Community College when she picked up her timetable for the coming year.

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THE Tracey Collins-trained Rock Jock goes in search of Group 2 glory in the six furlong Goldene Peitsche at Baden-Baden in Germany this afternoon.
In the 115-degree heat and 80 percent humidity of Qatar, between 12-hour shifts doing communications support for 8,000 special operators in U.S. Central Command, Carson Bird worked to stay in shape, keeping in mind a picture he made in first grade. “We were asked what we wanted to be when we grow up – I drew a picture of me playing football and wrote I want to be a professional football player,” Bird, who played defensive back for Air Force from 2004-2007, said in an e-mail. “I dont think I could have spelled it more wrong but (Mom) framed it anyway.” When his six-month tour is over and he returns to the United States in October, Bird plans to chase that dream. Pending Air Forces approval, he wants to work out for NFL teams shortly after his return. He said he has received some feedback from some interested NFL teams, and hopes to get a workout when he is in his best football shape. He hopes to sharpen his skills in some competitive flag football leagues in Las Vegas. Even if a tryout doesnt happen this fall, he hopes to participate in a pro day workout for NFL scouts in March. “Ive stayed extremely active,” Bird wrote. “Ive always had the itch so Ive kept myself in the gym nonstop.”
MENS SOCCER: The Griffins season opener is on Thursday against second-ranked The Masters College at 5 p.m. Then on Friday Westminster welcomes 10th-ranked Benedictine College to Dumke for a 5 p.m. kickoff. Both games will be streamed live on Griffins TV at WestminsterGriffins.com. Westminster enters the week after going 10-7-2 in 2009 and advancing to the semi-finals of the Unaffiliated Conference Tournament. They were 6-1-1 in games played on Dumke Field last season and have won three straight. They return 18 players from last seasons team. Dennis Sellis returns in 2010 after leading the team with eight goals and 21 points last season. Sellis attempted a team-best 52 shots as a sophomore and put 31 of those attempts on frame. Matt Jimenez also returns after a five goal season in 2009. Other key returners include Kaden Anselmo, Nikolai Dziezyc, Spencer Luczak, and Bobby Ward.

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VRX Worldwide Inc. (TSX VENTURE: VRW) announced today that that its wholly owned subsidiary, VRX Studios Inc . (”VRX Studios”) has been provided with a $300,000 Revolving Demand Credit from TD Bank Financial Group (”TD Bank”).

“Receiving a credit facility from one of Canadas chartered banks is a significant milestone for VRX,” says Kevin Leong, Chief Financial Officer of VRX Studios. “This new facility will help us weather seasonal fluctuations and provide us some financial flexibility in the future.”

The borrowings under the credit facility are subject to a borrowing base calculation. All sums advanced through this facility shall bear interest at the Bank Prime Rate plus one and one half percent (1.5%) per year from the date each advance is made until paid back in full. The Agreement is secured by a first charge on the Companys present and after acquired property. The revolving credit facility requires maintenance of minimum tangible net worth and other certain customary covenants such as limitations on, among other things, additional debt, liens, investments, acquisitions and capital expenditures, future dividends and asset sales.

GOO GOO DOLLS celebrate the release of their brand new Warner Bros. Records studio album, SOMETHING FOR THE REST OF US , by performing a special show for an edition of Coffee House Live for SIRIUS XM listeners, on Aug 31, at 3:00 PM PT on The Coffee House, SIRIUS channel 30 and XM channel 51. The Coffee House Live special will feature the band performing songs from their newest album as well as chart-topping hits from their illustrious and acclaimed tenure as one of Americas most enduring and endearing forces in rock. The performance will be broadcast live from the legendary club, The Troubadour, in Los Angeles, CA in front of a live audience of SIRIUS XM listeners.

Coffee House Live features intimate performances by top singer-songwriters and iconic artists. Recent performances have included Indigo Girls, Jack Johnson, David Gray, Jewel and John Mayer. The weekly show airs Thursdays at 12:00 pm ET and rebroadcasts at 12:00 am ET.

Starting the day before, on Aug 30, both AOL Music and MSN Music will feature full streams of the complete SOMETHING FOR THE REST OF US album for one week only.

Then on Sep 1, GOO GOO DOLLS will perform their new single “Home,” live on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Tune in to NBC stations at 11:35PM PT/ET, 10:35PM CT.

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THE LAST EXORCISM 15, 87mins, opens Friday, September 3 A preacher (Patrick Fabian) planning an expose on exorcism finds there is more than meets the eye when he exorcises 16-year-old Nell (Ashley Bell). Horror chills with dark laughs. CHERRY TREE LANE 18, 77mins, opens Friday, September 3 Tense Brit horror-drama as a couple find their home invaded by three thugs searching for their teenage son.
THE LAST EXORCISM 15, 87mins, opens Friday, September 3 A preacher (Patrick Fabian) planning an expose on exorcism finds there is more than meets the eye when he exorcises 16-year-old Nell (Ashley Bell). Horror chills with dark laughs. CHERRY TREE LANE 18, 77mins, opens Friday, September 3 Tense Brit horror-drama as a couple find their home invaded by three thugs searching for their teenage son.

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Women in Kenya remain disadvantaged, with opportunities for educational, social, and economic advancement inferior to those of men. Women are underrepresented in modern sector wage employment, political and judicial decision making, and all major public service appointments. Numerous social, economic, and cultural barriers limit womens participation in these areas. But womens underrepresentation in education is a primary factor. The benefits of womens education to women and to society in general are immense. In the workplace, education increases skills needed for job entry, improves chances of vertical mobility, and enhances overall labor market productivity. It also has positive consequences at home, including improved health, increased child survival rates, reduced fertility rates, lower infant mortality rates, and better protection against HIV and AIDS (Tembon and Fort 2008). Education of women and girls is therefore not only a moral and human rights issue, but also an economic and development issue. Given the significant benefits of womens education, equity in education is essential to improving circumstances for all Kenyans. As the leading provider of education, the government should acknowledge that compensatory mechanisms may be required to level the playing field for disadvantaged girls, and it should adopt an approach that uses these mechanisms. Making education equitable means adopting policies and initiatives that support equal provisions across genders. Female Education in Kenya Education in Kenya has four basic levels: preschool (ages 4-6), primary (ages 7-14), secondary (ages 15-18), and tertiary. Since attaining political independence from Great Britain in 1963, the Kenyan government has emphasized educations importance to economic development. It has also increased the number of schools at all levels, from about six thousand primary and 150 secondary schools in 1963 to almost twenty thousand primary and four thousand secondary schools in 2004. As a result, the student population has increased substantially, with over 700 percent growth at the primary level and almost 3,000 percent growth at the secondary level (Ministry of Education 2007). But this total expansion in education hides disparities by gender and region.
In August 2004, the Law #230, approved by the Government of Puerto Rico in a three party resolution, created the University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center (UPRCCC), a public corporation affiliated to the University of Puerto Rico. This law established that this Center will be the organism responsible for executing the public policy related to the prevention, education, and research, as well as the clinical and treatment services related to cancer in Puerto Rico. The dual mission of the UPRCCC is: (1) To deliver the best research-driven cancer care through programs that integrate patient care, research, prevention, and education, and (2) To eradicate cancer in Puerto Rico using a multidisciplinary approach of basic, clinical, and population research. Thus, the UPRCCC is fundamental for the development of cancer control, research, and training efforts in Puerto Rico. More recently, in 2008, with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Puerto Rico published its first official Cancer Control Plan, a structured guide with measurable outcomes aimed at reducing the cancer burden in our population. All of the previously mentioned initiatives will continue to be key to the progress in cancer control and research in Puerto Rico and thus, to the quality of the preventive and treatment services that we will offer to our patients. The increase in the cancer burden in Puerto Rico has been accompanied by a substantial increase in the volume of published research and federal funds to academic institutions in Puerto Rico for cancer research. Despite this advancement, areas that need our continued support and development in the years to come include: 1) continued surveillance of cancer occurrence in Puerto Rico through the Puerto Rico Central Cancer Registry, 2) development of transdisciplinary and translational cancer research that encompass all areas of the cancer control continuum (prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship), 3) outreach efforts that bring scientific knowledge to the development of targeted cancer control strategies for the community, 4) development of sound cancer-related public policy, and 5) continued training of the next generation of cancer researchers and health professionals. Our ability to collaborate in multidisciplinary local and international teams will be essential to our success. The forthcoming issue of the Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal provides an informative summary of various research studies that are currently being conducted in Puerto Rico. The 17 articles in this issue describe diverse research areas in the cancer field including disease burden, disease prevention, correlates of cancer occurrence, diagnostic technologies and clinical management. In addition, an overview of cancer training efforts in the island is discussed. Our future as a healthy nation will require a concerted effort between government, academia and industry that lead the research, training, and public policy efforts that will ultimately result in improved cancer prevention and control outcomes for the people of Puerto Rico. We hope you find in this edition of the journal a well-rounded overview of cancer research in Puerto Rico.
Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of
information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that
Susan Driscoll, President CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health, Professional
Education
has been invited to deliver a speech at the 2010 Beijing International
Publishing Forum, organized by the Chinese General Administration of Press
and
Publication, on Sunday, August 29, 2010, in Beijing, China.

The Beijing International Publishing Forum is the most important high level
event that provides a valuable opportunity and a platform for Chinese and
foreign publishers to have a dialogue to exchange experiences and learn
from
each other. Held in conjunction with the2010 Beijing International Book
Fair,
this years theme is “Global Publishing Cooperation and Chinas Market
Opportunities.”

In the area of Science and Education Books Publishing, Ms Driscoll
addressed the
impact of availability and the power technology is having on what
publishers are
offering and the potential in medical publishing. Lippincott Williams and
Wilkins, the medical book imprint of Wolters Kluwer Health, has been
publishing
books for over 200 years, and, in fact, is the oldest book publisher in the
United States. Wolters Kluwer Health publishes both education and reference
books for doctors, nurses, and other health professionals.

Ms. Driscoll spoke about the transformation of Wolters Kluwer Health as a
traditional publisher of books to a future where books are quickly becoming
unbound, providing immediate access to content and integrated into the
learnflow
or workflow of the health student or professional.

On Monday, August 30, Wolters Kluwer officially opened its participation in
the
Beijing International Book Fair at 9:00 am on its stand with the launch of
the
latest, innovative products from Wolters Kluwer China. Throughout the Fair,
Wolters Kluwer will demonstrate the latest productivity solutions, tools,
and
products for professionals in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, tax,
accounting,
legal, and regulatory markets worldwide from brands such asAspen
Publishers,
CCH, Kluwer Law International and Lippincott Williams Wilkins.

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On March 2 of 2007, with the implementation of Law 66, Puerto Rico became a smoke-free island by completely banning indoor smoking in public places such as bars, pubs, casinos, hotels, work places with more than one employee, and cars with any passenger under the age of 13 . According to the literature, the immediate impact of smoke-free workplace policies has been to dramatically reduce the exposition to SHS for customers and workers (10-17). Many studies have used the level of respirable particulate matter ([PM.sub.2.5]) as the main indicator of exposure to SHS because it has been demonstrated that smoking is one of the main sources of indoor levels of [PM.sub.2.5] (10). For example, bars in the state of New York experienced an average reduction of 84% in their [PM.sub.2.5] levels after the Clean Indoor Air Act was implemented in July of 2003 (11). In the case of Austin, Texas, bars experienced a reduction from 71% to 99% in their [PM.sub.2.5] levels after a smoking ban was implemented (12). In another study (13), Irish-theme pubs around the globe located in countries or cities with smoke-free legislation were compared with similar pubs in places without smoke-free ordinances. In this case, the results showed an average 91% reduction in [PM.sub.2.5] levels. In March of 2006, a smoking ban was implemented in Scotland, which substantially covered enclosed places including pubs. Evidence shows that, as a result, Scottish pubs experienced an average of 86% reduction in [PM.sub.2.5] levels (14). In Italy, a year after the implementation of an all smoke-free workplace policy in January of 2005, there was an average of 68% reduction in [PM.sub.2.5] levels across bars, restaurants, game rooms, and pubs (15). The main claim of this study is that the smoke-free workplace policy implemented in March of 2007 was effective in reducing the exposure to SHS in restaurants, pubs, and discos in the metropolitan area of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The specific research objectives of the study were three. First, to measure and compare the restaurants, pubs, and discos in the metropolitan area of San Juan at baseline (before the smoke-free workplace policy was implemented) in terms of the levels of respirable particulate matter (PM), the number of smokers, the number of customers, and establishment area. Second, to measure the change in levels of PM, the number of smokers, and the number of customers before and after March 2007. And third, to measure the effect of the smoke-free workplace policy on the level of PM controlling for the number of customers and establishment area.
Approximately 5.5 million workers are exposed to drugs and hazardous materials in Puerto Rico and in the United States (1-2). In 2005, Puerto Rico generated 22.6 million pounds of solid waste including biomedical waste and carcinogens (3-4). Some companies that manage this type of waste face ethical and financial dilemmas and, on occasion, choose to inappropriately dispose of hazardous waste. The cost of disposing a pound of hazardous waste is approximately $2.00 when it is incinerated by a company that has an incinerator certified by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); but it would only cost $0.35 in a non-certified facility (5). In 2007, a company in Puerto Rico inappropriately disposed of some biomedical waste and polluted an area of Caguas. To remedy the situation, the Environmental Quality Board hired Western Medical to appropriately dispose of this waste at a cost of approximately $3.2 million (6). This situation stresses the importance of properly disposing toxic waste. The objective of this paper is to review the regulations and evidence-based recommendations for the appropriate disposal of antineoplastic medications and to update the reader on this important issue. Regulations and recommendations

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LEEDS and Millwall lead the race for Bolton starlet Danny Ward on loan – although no decision will be made until after the Bank Holiday. The winger, 18, spent time on loan at Swindon last season and Yorkshire-born Ward could be interested in a spell at Leeds – although they have just signed Cardiffs Ross McCormack.
THE search for a missing kayaker was called off after he was found safe and well yesterday after going missing on Friday night.
I HOPE people learn from newlyweds Carrie-Anne and Michael Dudbridges mistake in failing to take out holiday medical insurance. They are probably not the first to think the European Health Insurance Card covers everything.

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Economic theory provides different methods to assess the economic impact of a health condition, as is cancer. The Cost of Illness (COI), developed by Rice (3-6), is the most widely accepted conceptual framework for cost estimates. COI estimates involve three components: direct costs, morbidity costs and mortality costs. Within this framework, several studies with different approaches have been conducted to determine the economic burden of different diseases (7-17). These studies have concluded that the component with the greatest impact lies in the productivity cost, even more than the costs for medical treatment of patients. For example, the National Institutes of Health(18) estimated the cost of illness for different causes of death in United States (US) for 2007. This study estimated the overall cost of cancer at $219.2 billion, of which, $89 billion correspond to direct costs of health expenditure, $18.2 billion in morbidity costs and $112.0 billion in mortality costs (representing more than 52% of total costs). Others studies of the economic burden of cancer in California (14-15) have concluded that the premature mortality cost of breast cancer is 80% of the total costs of the disease. Also, mortality costs of gynecological cancers like ovarian and cervical cancer represent more than 65% of total cost of these cancers. This pattern has also been observed in the state of Texas and in Sweden, Canada, and Spain (10-11, 17, 19-20). Other studies (20-25) have focused on estimating the productivity cost due to cancer mortality. Although these studies show some discrepancies in their methodology, data sources, and the inclusion of indirect costs components, such variations are not necessarily a weakness. Different arenas of application require different approaches and schemes (e.g., economic burden estimates vs. cost-effectiveness analysis) (4-5, 26). From a societal perspective, estimates of the value of labor productivity loss due to premature mortality are important in determining the economic burden of disease. Previous studies in PR have used the COI approach to estimate the cost of AIDS, schizophrenia and traffic accidents (7, 27-28). For example, cumulative total cost of AIDS in PR from period of 19821989 was estimated to be $ 525.2 million (27). Despite the importance of evaluating the economic impact of cancer in PR, there are no previous studies that have used the COI approach to investigate this issue. In fact, this economic component has been overlooked in cancer investigations in PR. Although the value of a persons life transcends its economic value as a productive unit, cost studies present another dimension of a health problem, providing valuable information for society and for policymakers to decide how to allocate scarce resources more optimally (27). Consequently, the aim of this study is to estimate the labor-market productivity loss in PR, as a result of premature mortality, due to overall cancer and by cause-specific cancers in 2004.
Approximately 5.5 million workers are exposed to drugs and hazardous materials in Puerto Rico and in the United States (1-2). In 2005, Puerto Rico generated 22.6 million pounds of solid waste including biomedical waste and carcinogens (3-4). Some companies that manage this type of waste face ethical and financial dilemmas and, on occasion, choose to inappropriately dispose of hazardous waste. The cost of disposing a pound of hazardous waste is approximately $2.00 when it is incinerated by a company that has an incinerator certified by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); but it would only cost $0.35 in a non-certified facility (5). In 2007, a company in Puerto Rico inappropriately disposed of some biomedical waste and polluted an area of Caguas. To remedy the situation, the Environmental Quality Board hired Western Medical to appropriately dispose of this waste at a cost of approximately $3.2 million (6). This situation stresses the importance of properly disposing toxic waste. The objective of this paper is to review the regulations and evidence-based recommendations for the appropriate disposal of antineoplastic medications and to update the reader on this important issue. Regulations and recommendations

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BRIAN ODriscoll has revealed it took just 15 days before his new bride turned into a rugby widow. The Ireland superstar got hitched in the summer after a gruelling tour to New Zealand and Australia and was looking forward to a four week break from anything to do with rugby. He travelled to the quiet east African state of Tanzania on honeymoon with new wife Amy, but just after two weeks had passed, the Leinster star got itchy feet and I do became I must. “I was saying after the summer tour that I needed a holiday and a break,” said ODriscoll. “At the time I thought how will four weeks be enough?, but after just over two weeks into it, I started missing exercise and was kind of looking forward to it again!
Claude Elmo Middleton 1917 ~ 2010

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MENS SOCCER: The Griffins season opener is on Thursday against second-ranked The Masters College at 5 p.m. Then on Friday Westminster welcomes 10th-ranked Benedictine College to Dumke for a 5 p.m. kickoff. Both games will be streamed live on Griffins TV at WestminsterGriffins.com. Westminster enters the week after going 10-7-2 in 2009 and advancing to the semi-finals of the Unaffiliated Conference Tournament. They were 6-1-1 in games played on Dumke Field last season and have won three straight. They return 18 players from last seasons team. Dennis Sellis returns in 2010 after leading the team with eight goals and 21 points last season. Sellis attempted a team-best 52 shots as a sophomore and put 31 of those attempts on frame. Matt Jimenez also returns after a five goal season in 2009. Other key returners include Kaden Anselmo, Nikolai Dziezyc, Spencer Luczak, and Bobby Ward.
Megola Inc. (OTCBB: MGON), announced today that it has received an order for its Hartindo Anti-Fire™ product, AF21, from EcoBlu Products, Inc. (OTCBB: ECOB).

Dimensional (framing) lumber, and engineered wood products (EWP) such as floor joists, laminated wood beams, roof trusses, rim board and structural panels will represent $18 billion in economic activity when the housing market fully recovers. Even in todays depressed market, the industry will still post numbers exceeding $11 billion.

The wood chemicals market enjoyed $2 billion in revenues in 2007. Once the market recovers, its expected that revenues will return or exceed those numbers. By introducing EcoBlu coatings and coated products into southern California and Northeast Texas, the Company hopes to grab market share in two large geographic markets expected to recover more quickly.

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BLACKPOOL 2 LUKE VARNEY celebrated his dream move to Blackpool with a cracking debut goal – but the game left injured Fulham duo Bobby Zamora and keeper David Stockdale doubtful for England call-ups.

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The Very Last Of The Summer Wine (8.00pm) In which several old men build a rocketpropelled bathtub on wheels with hilarious consequences. Oh, that was last week. Its the end for, surely, the longest-running comedy series ever! CHOICE Mountain Gorilla (8pm) Fascinating look at the gorilla community, narrated by Patrick Stewart (now theres a voice made for documentaries) sees silverback leader Titus try to care for a vulnerable orphan. CHOICE Martin Clunes – Horsepower (8.00pm) Doc Martin star and animal lover Clunes examines the changing role of horses over the years. He also has a punt and looks at police horses in Old Trafford -home of Mane-chester United. CHOICE Alan Carr: Chatty Man (10.00pm) The hair, the teeth, the sexual innuendo – and thats just Alan Carrs guests this week, with Jedward, Whoopi Goldberg and Sex and the Citys Kim Cattrall on the sofa. McFly provide the music.
SO sorry to see The X Factor “in crisis” yet again. Pulling in its biggest audiences of all time. Trust me, the Dark Lord isnt losing any sleep. His carefully staged pantomime is exactly where he wants it. all over the front pages. The talking point of the nation. “Youre fantastically nuts,” Simon told Shirlena. No, Simon. she was clinically nuts. As was glaringly obvious to everyone except you and your production team. She was also useless. And now shes gone. Sob. Meanwhile, massive mistake to improve the voices of the wannabes through the magic of the Auto-Tune editing machine. But are we absolutely sure it was working? Crying “fix” is all part of the pageant. Anything to keep the publicity pot boiling.

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UP to 100 pit-bull terriers and their owners will gather today in Dublin in a bid to reassure the public they arent dangerous dogs. The Irish Pit Bull Terrier Association will hand out leaflets to educate people about the breed which has often linked to vicious attacks on children. IPTA chair Lillian Colgan said: “Pit-bulls have received bad very press in the past but Ive had them since I was a child and I have never been bitten. “But it is often the case they are owned by people for the wrong reasons.”
EXCLUSIVE By VINCENT MOSS HUNDREDS of new playgrounds will be axed in the latest round of Government spending cuts announced this week. Education Secretary Michael Gove will rip up plans for more than 400 playgrounds to save at least pounds 20million. The only schemes to go ahead are those where work has started or contracts have been signed, according to leaked details from the Department for Education. The move comes after ministers froze grants to more than 130 councils for up to 1,300 playgrounds earlier this year. It follows Mr Goves bungled announcement about which school building projects would be cancelled. Shadow children and education secretary Ed Balls said last night: “Its a blow for hundreds of communities which have seen new school buildings cancelled. Michael Gove must come clean to parents and publish an accurate list of all the play areas he is cancelling.

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TEST cricket never fails to amaze me. When England collapsed to 102-7 just 40 overs into the game it would have taken a brave man to suggest that England would go on to win at Lords. Yet here we are this morning with England on the brink of a quite remarkable victory. Whoever says Test cricket is dull needs to take another look. We have been royally entertained with some outstanding batting and bowling which has been a wonderful advertisement for the game. The world-recordbreaking eighth-wicket partnership of 332 between Jonathan Trott and Stuart Broad was not only of the highest class but has enabled England to secure the series win. Pakistan thoroughly deserved their success at the Brit Oval last week and arrived at the home of cricket full of confidence.
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IMAGINE British Telecom allowed people to call you up and spew religious hatred down the phone. Imagine all your pals received the same phone calls. No-one would blame you for switching to O2, even if the service was nowhere near as good. In the age of social networking, the methods have moved away from crank calling, but the impact has proved much more severe. Muslims all around the world are furious with Facebook after a string of anti-Islamic pages and campaigns. The notorious Draw Muhammad Day cast the first stone, daring artists all over the world to depict Muhammad – a cardinal sin in Islam – as a protest against the Danish cartoon controversy. Another page started up recently advertising Burn A Quran Day, which is set to take place on September 11 outside a Florida church. More than 6000 people have already pledged their support for this inflammatory and divisive day of hate. In contrast, a rival campaign called Burn A Bible Day boasts barely 50 supporters. These antagonistic pages are only the tip of an ugly and Islamophobic attitude surging through Facebook and other social networking sites. Unsurprisingly, Muslims are starting to vote with their mouses and click somewhere else. Pakistan actually shut off access to Facebook after the first Draw Muhammad Day, though it was only a temporary solution. More than 2.5 million Muslims using Facebook threatened to leave the site after it took down four popular Islamic pages, claiming they were being used to send spam – the sort of junk mail that plagues the internet. Now several Muslim-only social networking sites have started up. The first was a site called MillatFacebook which aimed to “unite Over 1.57 billion Muslims and peaceful people from other religions”. Although 333,000 people signed up in the first few weeks, it has been dogged with problems, mostly because it is very clunky and badly designed. Last week The Muslim Brotherhood, an international Islamist group, started its own Facebook clone – which is likely to be far less benign. The Brotherhood is in opposition in Egypt and cannot get on the TV, so its interest in a social networking site is clear. Yet its links to violent groups have been asserted over and over. If angry young Muslims leave Facebook and sign up here, the risk of cyber-indoctrination seems far greater. All the social networking Islamophobes complain a strain of Islamic supremacism is attacking the Western world, bent on putting up mosques near Ground Zero and killing critical blasphemous filmmakers in a mission to stifle any opposition to Sharia law. Of course, this is true of a tiny small minority within the Muslim world. By offending moderates and driving them into online ghettos, what chance is there of reaching some sort of cultural detente? The internet cherishes freedom of expression, but this should not come at the cost of driving yet another wedge between communities.

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INTRODUCTION Reactive oxygen species (ROS) include superoxide anion, hydrogen peroxide and derivative hydroxyl radical and hydroxide, and lipid peroxides and derivatives peroxyl radicals (Nappi and Vass, 1998). Under normal circumstances, abundant antioxidant enzymes (e.g., superoxide dismutases and glutathione peroxidases) metabolize these highly reactive derivatives of normal oxidative metabolism. If ROS were not removed in a timely manner by an antioxidant system, an imbalance between free radical generation and removal would lead to oxidative stress. Mammalian cells may encounter oxidative stresses that cause destruction of macromolecules and abnormal function (Jang et al., 2008). The flux of ROS increasing in the vasculature will lead to the initiation and promotion of various human pathological conditions (Loscalzo, 2004; Yang, 2006). Diquat is a moderately toxic chemical that utilizes molecular oxygen to produce superoxide anion radical and subsequently hydrogen peroxide. Diquat does not bind covalently with biological molecules but stimulates cellular production of ROS by undergoing cyclic reduction-oxidation processes (Spalding et al., 1989). The oral half lethal dose (LD50) for diquat in rats is 120 mg/kg. Studies on wild-type mice found that intraperitoneal injection, at one-tenth of LD50, could induce oxidation stress and couldnt kill the animal (Fu et al., 1999). Liang et al. (2007) used the model of diquat (50 mg/kg BW) to study the effect of glutathione peroxidase 4 on against oxidative stress in mice. Our group has established a model for oxidative stress of weaned pigs via administration of diquat at the dose of 12 mg/kg BW. The activities of antioxidant enzymes were decreased for all the diquat-treated pigs (Yuan et al., 2007). Arginine is a basic amino acid and serves as an essential precursor for the synthesis of biologically important molecules such as protein, ornithine, proline, polyamines, creatinine, nitric oxide and agmatine (Wu and Morris, 1998). Although most mammals synthesize arginine (except for cats and ferrets), it is a nutritionally essential amino acid for young mammals and adults during times of stress and illness (Wu et al., 1997). Many researchers have studied arginine transport and metabolism in a wide variety of catabolic states, including sepsis, burn injury, acidosis, and cancer and these studies have shown that arginine transport activity was increased (Pacitti et al., 1992; Inoue and Souba, 1993; Inoue et al., 1994; Rafferty et al., 1994; Pan et al., 2001; Pan et al., 2004). Arginine levels in plasma were markedly reduced in patients with sepsis and pig model of sepsis (Luiking et al., 2004). Thus regulation of arginine homoeostasis, which depends on dietary arginine intake, whole-body protein turnover, arginine synthesis and catabolism, is of considerable nutritional and physiological significance. It is now know that arginine plays important roles in many diverse processes, including vasodilation, diseases and stresses. However, little is known about the alterations of arginine metabolism during oxidative stress in pigs. A better knowledge of these alterations may help in proposing a new nutritional strategy to alleviate such stress. In the present study, we will evaluate the effect of diquat-induced oxidative stress on arginine metabolism in piglets through examining the transporter, enzymes and metabolites of anabolism and catabolism of arginine.
INTRODUCTION Weaning is the most critical stage in pig production. Pigs at weaning are suddenly removed from the sow into a new environment where they have to change from suckling to eating dry feed from a hopper and drinking water from a drinker. Additionally at the same time they are mixed with pigs from other litters and fighting to establish new hierarchies occurs. As a result piglets go through a period of anorexia that compromises the functionality and integrity of the intestinal mucosa (van Beers-Schreurs et al., 1998). Once this period of starvation is over, the hungry piglet eats more feed than its gastrointestinal tract can cope with. The mucosa has lost its integrity and has not yet adapted to producing enzymes for digesting feed of vegetable origin (Miller et al., 1986). All this may increase the amount of undigested feed in the gut and increase the animals susceptibility to pathological disorders. These problems have been traditionally controlled with the use of antibiotics at subtherapeutical doses as growth promoters. However the use of antimicrobial growth promoters has been banned in the European Union due to concerns about the development of antimicrobial resistance that could be transferred to human pathogenic bacteria. However as observed the Danish antibiotic use monitoring programme (DANMAP, 2004), since their ban antimicrobial growth promoters have increasingly been replaced by prescribed therapeutic antibiotics. Veterinary prescription of antibiotics in Denmark has increased continously from 48 tonnes in 1996 to 112.5 tonnes in 2004. In the case of pigs in particular, it increased by 10% between 2003 and 2004. Thus several products, including spray dried animal plasma (SDAP), have been postulated as alternatives. The effect of SDAP on piglet performance has been previously reviewed (Coffey and Cromwell, 2001; van Dijk et al., 2001a). The objective of this paper is to review the evidence available to support the use of spray dried animal plasma as an alternative to antibiotics in weaning pigs. At weaning, the supply of the beneficial factors provided by sows milk to the piglet is suddenly stopped. Among these epidermal growth factor, polyamines, insulin and insulin like growth factor have been reported to contribute to the development of the intestinal tract (Pluske et al., 1997). Sows milk also contains protective antibodies, the main immunoglobulin in milk being IgA (Husband and Bennell, 1980). After the first days of age, the IgA and other milk immunoglobulins are not absorbed at the intestinal level; they provide continuous defence throughout the intestinal lumen against infectious organisms to which the sow is resistant (Svendsen and Larsen, 1977). This protection is essential while the piglets own IgA production has not completely developed; this does not occur until 6-8 weeks of age (Svendsen and Brown, 1973). Therefore piglets weaned at 3-4 weeks of age lose the protection from maternal antibodies and cannot efficiently fight infections. It has been estimated that by 3 to 4 weeks of age the piglet receives approximately 1.6 g of IgA/d (Svendsen and Brown, 1973). Ideally the piglet should be offered sows milk for the first days post-weaning. Unfortunately this is not possible, but an attempt to use ingredients with similar characteristics is feasible. The sows mammary epithelium transforms precursors from blood or interstitial fluid into milk constituents by different processes. Among these transcytosis is of special interest; by this mechanism, intact proteins, immumoglobulins, hormones and growth factors can cross the mammary epithelium and be secreted intact in the milk (Hunziker and Kraehenbuhl, 1998; Monks and Neville, 2004). Many of the components in sows milk may also be present in SDPP, and therefore SDPP may be a good substitute for sows milk.

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Women in Kenya remain disadvantaged, with opportunities for educational, social, and economic advancement inferior to those of men. Women are underrepresented in modern sector wage employment, political and judicial decision making, and all major public service appointments. Numerous social, economic, and cultural barriers limit womens participation in these areas. But womens underrepresentation in education is a primary factor. The benefits of womens education to women and to society in general are immense. In the workplace, education increases skills needed for job entry, improves chances of vertical mobility, and enhances overall labor market productivity. It also has positive consequences at home, including improved health, increased child survival rates, reduced fertility rates, lower infant mortality rates, and better protection against HIV and AIDS (Tembon and Fort 2008). Education of women and girls is therefore not only a moral and human rights issue, but also an economic and development issue. Given the significant benefits of womens education, equity in education is essential to improving circumstances for all Kenyans. As the leading provider of education, the government should acknowledge that compensatory mechanisms may be required to level the playing field for disadvantaged girls, and it should adopt an approach that uses these mechanisms. Making education equitable means adopting policies and initiatives that support equal provisions across genders. Female Education in Kenya Education in Kenya has four basic levels: preschool (ages 4-6), primary (ages 7-14), secondary (ages 15-18), and tertiary. Since attaining political independence from Great Britain in 1963, the Kenyan government has emphasized educations importance to economic development. It has also increased the number of schools at all levels, from about six thousand primary and 150 secondary schools in 1963 to almost twenty thousand primary and four thousand secondary schools in 2004. As a result, the student population has increased substantially, with over 700 percent growth at the primary level and almost 3,000 percent growth at the secondary level (Ministry of Education 2007). But this total expansion in education hides disparities by gender and region.
Epidemiological studies in the United States (US), Europe, Australia, and Africa have documented standardized incidence ratios (SIR) of AIDS related and non-AIDS related cancers using data from linked Cancer and AIDS registries (4-13). In a population-based registry linkage in New York State, Gallagher et al. (10) reported significant SIR for KS, NHL, invasive cervical cancer, and several non-AIDS related cancers affecting the tongue, mouth, rectum, anus, trachea, bronchus, and lung. In Italy, Dal Maso, Serraino and Franceschi (7) reported a SIR of 302 (95% CI, 253-357) for NHL in AIDS patients. In a linkage of AIDS and cancer registries from 11 US regions, Engels et al. (4) reported important declines in KS and NHL after the introduction of HAART in people with AIDS, no change in cervical cancer, and increased risk of non-AIDS related cancers, particularly Hodgkin lymphoma, anus, liver, and lung cancer. An AIDS-Cancer linkage was also conducted in Africa, where the incidence of all AIDS related cancers and some non-AIDS related cancers (Hodgkin lymphoma, conjunctiva, kidney, thyroid, and uterus) were found to be higher among people with AIDS (9). In a more recent prospective cohort study, Patel et al. (5) also reported a reduction in AIDS related malignancies except for cervical cancer, and a significant increase risk of non-AIDS related malignancies in a cohort of adults living with HIV compared to the general population in the US. The most important types of non-AIDS related malignancies were: anal, vaginal, Hodgkin lymphoma, liver, lung, melanoma, oropharyngeal, leukemia, colorectal and renal. These results suggest that the incidence of non-AIDS related cancers has increased more than the incidence of AIDS related cancers, and that the influence of HAART in the development and prognosis of various cancers is still not clear. Biological, environmental and behavioral risk factors must also be explored to better define the long-term cancer risk in people living with HIV/AIDS (14). Puerto Rico (PR) is one of the top ten US States and territories with the highest cumulative number of AIDS cases, and Puerto Ricans are the second largest group of Hispanics in the US with higher cancer mortality rates (15-16). However, little information is available regarding AIDS related and non-AIDS related malignancies among Hispanics with HIV/ AIDS in the US or PR. In one retrospective cohort study in Southern California, Levine et al. (17) reported that from 1982 to 1998 the prevalence of AIDS-related lymphoma decreased significantly in whites but increased in Hispanics. In another study, Fordyce et al. (18) conducted a population-based AIDS-Cancer linkage analysis of women from New York City diagnosed with AIDS between 1981 and 1994, and reported that 47% of all cancer cases were among African Americans, 36% among Hispanics, and 16% among non-Hispanic whites. Mayor et al. (19) conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 3,576 HIV/AIDS patients attending an outpatient clinic in PR from 1992 to 2005. Of these patients, 171 (4.8%) were diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives: 51.5% AIDS related and 48.5% non-AIDS related cancers. Because no population-based studies have been conducted in PR, the risk of AIDS related and non-AIDS related cancers in PR compared to the general population is still unknown. The purpose of this study was to estimate the risk of AIDS related and non-AIDS related cancers among Hispanics with AIDS in PR using the Puerto Rico Central Cancer Registry and the Puerto Rico AIDS Surveillance Program Registry. Both are population-based registries that receive support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We hypothesized that the risk of all AIDS related cancers and the risk of many non-AIDS related cancers will be higher in the AIDS group compared with the general population in PR. The results of this study will provide the basis for future epidemiological studies to characterize the natural history of specific cancers in HIV infection and other important biological, environmental, and behavioral risk factors.

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Women in Kenya remain disadvantaged, with opportunities for educational, social, and economic advancement inferior to those of men. Women are underrepresented in modern sector wage employment, political and judicial decision making, and all major public service appointments. Numerous social, economic, and cultural barriers limit womens participation in these areas. But womens underrepresentation in education is a primary factor. The benefits of womens education to women and to society in general are immense. In the workplace, education increases skills needed for job entry, improves chances of vertical mobility, and enhances overall labor market productivity. It also has positive consequences at home, including improved health, increased child survival rates, reduced fertility rates, lower infant mortality rates, and better protection against HIV and AIDS (Tembon and Fort 2008). Education of women and girls is therefore not only a moral and human rights issue, but also an economic and development issue. Given the significant benefits of womens education, equity in education is essential to improving circumstances for all Kenyans. As the leading provider of education, the government should acknowledge that compensatory mechanisms may be required to level the playing field for disadvantaged girls, and it should adopt an approach that uses these mechanisms. Making education equitable means adopting policies and initiatives that support equal provisions across genders. Female Education in Kenya Education in Kenya has four basic levels: preschool (ages 4-6), primary (ages 7-14), secondary (ages 15-18), and tertiary. Since attaining political independence from Great Britain in 1963, the Kenyan government has emphasized educations importance to economic development. It has also increased the number of schools at all levels, from about six thousand primary and 150 secondary schools in 1963 to almost twenty thousand primary and four thousand secondary schools in 2004. As a result, the student population has increased substantially, with over 700 percent growth at the primary level and almost 3,000 percent growth at the secondary level (Ministry of Education 2007). But this total expansion in education hides disparities by gender and region.
Epidemiological studies in the United States (US), Europe, Australia, and Africa have documented standardized incidence ratios (SIR) of AIDS related and non-AIDS related cancers using data from linked Cancer and AIDS registries (4-13). In a population-based registry linkage in New York State, Gallagher et al. (10) reported significant SIR for KS, NHL, invasive cervical cancer, and several non-AIDS related cancers affecting the tongue, mouth, rectum, anus, trachea, bronchus, and lung. In Italy, Dal Maso, Serraino and Franceschi (7) reported a SIR of 302 (95% CI, 253-357) for NHL in AIDS patients. In a linkage of AIDS and cancer registries from 11 US regions, Engels et al. (4) reported important declines in KS and NHL after the introduction of HAART in people with AIDS, no change in cervical cancer, and increased risk of non-AIDS related cancers, particularly Hodgkin lymphoma, anus, liver, and lung cancer. An AIDS-Cancer linkage was also conducted in Africa, where the incidence of all AIDS related cancers and some non-AIDS related cancers (Hodgkin lymphoma, conjunctiva, kidney, thyroid, and uterus) were found to be higher among people with AIDS (9). In a more recent prospective cohort study, Patel et al. (5) also reported a reduction in AIDS related malignancies except for cervical cancer, and a significant increase risk of non-AIDS related malignancies in a cohort of adults living with HIV compared to the general population in the US. The most important types of non-AIDS related malignancies were: anal, vaginal, Hodgkin lymphoma, liver, lung, melanoma, oropharyngeal, leukemia, colorectal and renal. These results suggest that the incidence of non-AIDS related cancers has increased more than the incidence of AIDS related cancers, and that the influence of HAART in the development and prognosis of various cancers is still not clear. Biological, environmental and behavioral risk factors must also be explored to better define the long-term cancer risk in people living with HIV/AIDS (14). Puerto Rico (PR) is one of the top ten US States and territories with the highest cumulative number of AIDS cases, and Puerto Ricans are the second largest group of Hispanics in the US with higher cancer mortality rates (15-16). However, little information is available regarding AIDS related and non-AIDS related malignancies among Hispanics with HIV/ AIDS in the US or PR. In one retrospective cohort study in Southern California, Levine et al. (17) reported that from 1982 to 1998 the prevalence of AIDS-related lymphoma decreased significantly in whites but increased in Hispanics. In another study, Fordyce et al. (18) conducted a population-based AIDS-Cancer linkage analysis of women from New York City diagnosed with AIDS between 1981 and 1994, and reported that 47% of all cancer cases were among African Americans, 36% among Hispanics, and 16% among non-Hispanic whites. Mayor et al. (19) conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 3,576 HIV/AIDS patients attending an outpatient clinic in PR from 1992 to 2005. Of these patients, 171 (4.8%) were diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives: 51.5% AIDS related and 48.5% non-AIDS related cancers. Because no population-based studies have been conducted in PR, the risk of AIDS related and non-AIDS related cancers in PR compared to the general population is still unknown. The purpose of this study was to estimate the risk of AIDS related and non-AIDS related cancers among Hispanics with AIDS in PR using the Puerto Rico Central Cancer Registry and the Puerto Rico AIDS Surveillance Program Registry. Both are population-based registries that receive support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We hypothesized that the risk of all AIDS related cancers and the risk of many non-AIDS related cancers will be higher in the AIDS group compared with the general population in PR. The results of this study will provide the basis for future epidemiological studies to characterize the natural history of specific cancers in HIV infection and other important biological, environmental, and behavioral risk factors.
INTRODUCTION The essentiality of copper for poultry and livestock is well documented (Davis and Mertz, 1987). Cu is an essential mineral which serves as co-factor in many enzyme systems in the body. Cu-sulfate (CuS[O.sub.4]5[H.sub.2]O) is the most commonly used dietary Cu supplement. Copper in the form of Cu-sulfate improves growth rate and feed efficiency in broilers (Choi and Paik, 1989; Baker et al., 1991) and in pigs (Roof and Mahan, 1982; Edmonds et al., 1985; Cromwell et al., 1989) at supernormal level (125 to 250 mg/kg). Growth promoting effect of dietary Cu has been attributed to its antimicrobial action (Fuller at el., 1960; Bunch et al., 1961; Burnell et al., 1988). Improved availability of Cu from organic Cu complexes compared with the commonly used Cu salts recently has been suggested. Chelates, complexes or proteinates are the organic form of Cu and are usually considered for use in animal diet as alternatives to inorganic Cu source. More bioavailability of Cu is probably due to better absorption, which enhances its efficiency (Downs et al., 2000; Yu et al., 2000; Guo et al., 2001). Baker and Ammerman (1995) reported that relative bioavailability estimate of organic Cu sources ranged from 88% to 147% of the response to cupric sulfate in poultry, Swine, sheep and cattle. Improvements in the digestibility of proteins (Braude, 1965; Castell and Bowland, 1968) and retention of nitrogen (Braude, 1965) have been reported in young pigs fed diet containing added Cu. Studies by Dove and Haydon (1992) and Dove (1995) have indicated that addition of 250 mg Cu/kg improved digestibility and utilization of the fat of weaned pigs, but results have limited and inconclusive for chickens when Cu added to the feed fortified with oil. To increase the energy level in the finisher diet and to obtain higher weight of a broiler chicken, oil and fat are used because of its high energy content. Soybean oil which stimulates growth rate, when included in poultry diet (Nitsan et al., 1997) is most commonly used oil source in Indian condition. Unsaturated vegetable fats (like soybean oil) are more energetic than saturated animal fat. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to investigate the influence of level of dietary inorganic and organic forms of Cu and energy level on performance and nutrient utilization of broiler chicken.

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INTRODUCTION Fat deposition of pigs is of economic importance because of market incentives for lean pork production and decreased feeding costs. It is crucial to investigate and characterize new candidate genes and QTL relevant to pig fat deposit traits. To date, several quantitative trait loci (QTL) significantly affecting 10th-rib, average backfat thickness and other production traits have been mapped on SSC7 (Wang et al., 1998; Nagamine et al., 2003). Peroxisomal [[DELTA].sup.3],[[DELTA].sup.2]-enoyl-CoA isomerase (PECI) was located near the boundary of the quantitative trait loci (QTL) region. [[DELTA].sup.3],[[DELTA].sup.2]-enoyl-CoA isomerase (Ecilp) is unique because its activity is necessary for [beta]-oxidation of all unsaturated fatty acids (Geisbrecht et al., 1999). The series of enzyme-catalyzed reactions required for degradation of fatty acids are evolutionarily conserved and accomplished primarily through the p-oxidation pathway. In peroxisomes, ECI was predicted to be a dominant enzyme for 3-cis 3[right arrow]2-trans and 3-trans 3[right arrow]2-trans isomerizations of long-chain intermediates (Zhang et al., 2002). Fatty acid [beta]-oxidation in mammals is considerably more complicated, primarily due to the existence of overlapping but distinct fatty acid poxidation pathways. Mammalian peroxisomes contain at least three fatty acyl-CoA oxidases, both L-specific and D-specific 2-enoyl-CoA hydratase/3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase multifunctional proteins, and at least two thiolases, all of which are encoded by different genes (Palosaari et al., 1990a, 1991; Geisbrecht et al., 1998; Gurvitz et al., 1998; Geisbrecht et al., 1999; Partanen et al., 2004). When the ECI was completely excised in the mouse, it extensively perturbed the metabolism of unsaturated fatty acids, especially for short interval starvation and the fatty acid pattern of complex phospholipids was strongly altered (Palosaari et al., 1990b; Janssen et al., 2002). The PECI gene can be encoded by ECI1 and it is required for growth of saccharomyces cerevisiae on unsaturated fatty acids (Gurvitz et al., 1998). It can be concluded that the PECI gene may play an important role during the metabolic processing of unsaturated fatty acids. Deposition of fat by animals in their bodies is associated with the metabolism of fatty acids, and more research would contribute to understanding of porcine fat deposition. Genomic DNA was isolated from blood of mature Tongcheng pigs (Hubei province, China) by phenol/chloroform extraction. RNA was extracted from muscle tissue of adult Tongcheng pigs and adult Swedish Landrace with TRIzol reagent kit (Life Technologies, Grand Island, NE, USA). RACE (the rapid amplification of cDNA ends) was performed according to the instructions of the SMARTTM RACE cDNA Amplification Kit (Clontech Inc, Palo Alto, CA, USA). The PCR products of RACE were purified with the Wizard PCR Preps DNA Purification System (Promega, Madison, WI, USA). ORF were found by the program SeqMan (DNA star, Madison, WI, USA) and the amino acid sequences were deduced with Primer5.0 (Primer Premier5.0, Premier, Canada). Using the pGEM T-easy vector, DNase I (RNase-free) and M-MLV reverse transcriptase from TaKaRa Dalian (Dalian, China), primers were synthesized (Table 1) and PCR products were sequenced by AuGCT Biotechnology (Bejing, China).
INTRODUCTION Pork is a popular meat consumed by non-muslim Singaporeans with about 87,000 tonnes being consumed per year (Kanagalingam, 2005). Currently, Singapore imports its pork from several countries, but Australian and Indonesian pork is consumed most widely due to its ready availability at supermarkets and wet markets. Fresh pork is obtained from pigs raised in Indonesia but slaughtered at Singapore abattoirs, while chilled pork is mainly imported from Australia and is widely known as “Air Pork”. Singaporean consumers are aware of the origin of pork from packaging labels. Results of a recent survey showed that Singapore consumers associate non-Indonesian pork with the presence of an unpleasant mutton-like off-flavour (Leong et al., 2008). One possible cause of off-flavours in pork is by the oxidation of lipids, leading to the formation of aldehydes and short-chain fatty acids (Reindl and Stan, 1982; Devol, et al., 1988). The rate and extent of lipid oxidation depends on a number of factors, the most important being the level of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in muscle (Allen and Foegeding, 1981). Pork contains high levels of unsaturated fatty acids relative to ruminant meat (Enser et al., 1996) and is more susceptible to oxidative deterioration of lipids and myoglobin. Feeding of PUFAs to pigs can improve the nutritional quality of pork, but may also increase the susceptibility to oxidation (Sheard et al., 2000; Kouba et al., 2003; Morel et al., 2006). There have been many reports of PUFA-rich feeds leading to increased lipid oxidation and thus off-flavour in pork (Houben and Krol, 1980; Warnants et al., 1998; Roman et al., 1995; Overland et al., 1996; Leskanich et al., 1997; Wood et al., 2003). There have also been examples of off-flavours in pork arising from the direct transfer of aroma components from feed to meat, including several reports on how feeding of fish oil and high fat fish meal to finisher pigs has caused “fishy” and other off-flavours in pork products (Kjos et al., 1999; Lauridsen et al., 1999; Maw et al., 2001; Jaturasitha et al., 2002). The current paper compares sensory assessments of the flavour of pork from the legs of pigs finished in New Zealand on three diets (Morel et al., 2008) using Singaporean panelists. The objective was to determine the extent to which dietary feed treatments received by the New Zealand pigs influenced the sensory properties of pork using trained and untrained Singaporean panels. Results of sensory analyses of pork from the loins of the same New Zealand pigs using New Zealand panelists were reported by Janz et al. (2008).

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The Dickens Societys sixteenth annual symposium, business meeting and dinner will be held at Saint Anselm College on the 21st through 23rd of July, 2011. Delegates will have the choice of on-campus housing or hotel accommodation in downtown Manchester with a shuttle to and from the College. The award, either one stipend of $500 (or two of $300 if warranted), will be made annually to help defray costs of attending the Dickens symposium in order to deliver a paper on any aspect of Dickenss life or work. Candidates should submit proposals via e-mail to the convenor of the symposium; those eligible are students (graduate and undergraduate) and non-tenured faculty, but not individuals connected with the host institution. Registration fees will also be waived.
The Dickens Societys sixteenth annual symposium, business meeting and dinner will be held at Saint Anselm College on the 21st through 23rd of July, 2011. Delegates will have the choice of on-campus housing or hotel accommodation in downtown Manchester with a shuttle to and from the College. The award, either one stipend of $500 (or two of $300 if warranted), will be made annually to help defray costs of attending the Dickens symposium in order to deliver a paper on any aspect of Dickenss life or work. Candidates should submit proposals via e-mail to the convenor of the symposium; those eligible are students (graduate and undergraduate) and non-tenured faculty, but not individuals connected with the host institution. Registration fees will also be waived.

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The Dickens Societys sixteenth annual symposium, business meeting and dinner will be held at Saint Anselm College on the 21st through 23rd of July, 2011. Delegates will have the choice of on-campus housing or hotel accommodation in downtown Manchester with a shuttle to and from the College. The award, either one stipend of $500 (or two of $300 if warranted), will be made annually to help defray costs of attending the Dickens symposium in order to deliver a paper on any aspect of Dickenss life or work. Candidates should submit proposals via e-mail to the convenor of the symposium; those eligible are students (graduate and undergraduate) and non-tenured faculty, but not individuals connected with the host institution. Registration fees will also be waived.
The Dickens Societys sixteenth annual symposium, business meeting and dinner will be held at Saint Anselm College on the 21st through 23rd of July, 2011. Delegates will have the choice of on-campus housing or hotel accommodation in downtown Manchester with a shuttle to and from the College. The award, either one stipend of $500 (or two of $300 if warranted), will be made annually to help defray costs of attending the Dickens symposium in order to deliver a paper on any aspect of Dickenss life or work. Candidates should submit proposals via e-mail to the convenor of the symposium; those eligible are students (graduate and undergraduate) and non-tenured faculty, but not individuals connected with the host institution. Registration fees will also be waived.

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Abbreviations The guidelines for application of diagnostic imaging, and MRI in particular, to breast cancer patient evaluation and management continue to evolve, and some are articulated by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN; 1). Currently, the breast cancer patient populations who might benefit most from pre-operative MRI include genetically-defined high-risk patients, those with dense breasts as determined by mammography, those with a lobular invasive cancer, a multi-centric tumor or a previously-diagnosed bilateral tumor, those with significant distinctions in size between mammography and ultrasound (US) findings, or those for whom partial breast irradiation or other breast conserving therapy is being considered (2-5). Despite this extensive experience, considerable controversies exist as to the true benefits of the application of MRI to treatment management. A retrospective review of patients with newly diagnosed breast carcinoma who had MRIs prior to surgery noted 381 lesions in 361 patients with pathologic confirmation of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), invasive carcinoma, or mixed DCIS and invasive carcinoma (6). Of these lesions, 16.8% were DCIS, 26.5% were invasive carcinoma, and 56.7% were mixed. An MRI lesion correctly identified the histopathologically-defined cancer in 85.9% of DCIS cases, and to an even higher extent in invasive (97.0%) or mixed (98.1%) cases. DCIS often appears as non-mass clumped enhancement on MRI, with ductal or segmental distribution (7).
Abbreviations The guidelines for application of diagnostic imaging, and MRI in particular, to breast cancer patient evaluation and management continue to evolve, and some are articulated by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN; 1). Currently, the breast cancer patient populations who might benefit most from pre-operative MRI include genetically-defined high-risk patients, those with dense breasts as determined by mammography, those with a lobular invasive cancer, a multi-centric tumor or a previously-diagnosed bilateral tumor, those with significant distinctions in size between mammography and ultrasound (US) findings, or those for whom partial breast irradiation or other breast conserving therapy is being considered (2-5). Despite this extensive experience, considerable controversies exist as to the true benefits of the application of MRI to treatment management. A retrospective review of patients with newly diagnosed breast carcinoma who had MRIs prior to surgery noted 381 lesions in 361 patients with pathologic confirmation of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), invasive carcinoma, or mixed DCIS and invasive carcinoma (6). Of these lesions, 16.8% were DCIS, 26.5% were invasive carcinoma, and 56.7% were mixed. An MRI lesion correctly identified the histopathologically-defined cancer in 85.9% of DCIS cases, and to an even higher extent in invasive (97.0%) or mixed (98.1%) cases. DCIS often appears as non-mass clumped enhancement on MRI, with ductal or segmental distribution (7).

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INTRODUCTION Fat deposition of pigs is of economic importance because of market incentives for lean pork production and decreased feeding costs. It is crucial to investigate and characterize new candidate genes and QTL relevant to pig fat deposit traits. To date, several quantitative trait loci (QTL) significantly affecting 10th-rib, average backfat thickness and other production traits have been mapped on SSC7 (Wang et al., 1998; Nagamine et al., 2003). Peroxisomal [[DELTA].sup.3],[[DELTA].sup.2]-enoyl-CoA isomerase (PECI) was located near the boundary of the quantitative trait loci (QTL) region. [[DELTA].sup.3],[[DELTA].sup.2]-enoyl-CoA isomerase (Ecilp) is unique because its activity is necessary for [beta]-oxidation of all unsaturated fatty acids (Geisbrecht et al., 1999). The series of enzyme-catalyzed reactions required for degradation of fatty acids are evolutionarily conserved and accomplished primarily through the p-oxidation pathway. In peroxisomes, ECI was predicted to be a dominant enzyme for 3-cis 3[right arrow]2-trans and 3-trans 3[right arrow]2-trans isomerizations of long-chain intermediates (Zhang et al., 2002). Fatty acid [beta]-oxidation in mammals is considerably more complicated, primarily due to the existence of overlapping but distinct fatty acid poxidation pathways. Mammalian peroxisomes contain at least three fatty acyl-CoA oxidases, both L-specific and D-specific 2-enoyl-CoA hydratase/3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase multifunctional proteins, and at least two thiolases, all of which are encoded by different genes (Palosaari et al., 1990a, 1991; Geisbrecht et al., 1998; Gurvitz et al., 1998; Geisbrecht et al., 1999; Partanen et al., 2004). When the ECI was completely excised in the mouse, it extensively perturbed the metabolism of unsaturated fatty acids, especially for short interval starvation and the fatty acid pattern of complex phospholipids was strongly altered (Palosaari et al., 1990b; Janssen et al., 2002). The PECI gene can be encoded by ECI1 and it is required for growth of saccharomyces cerevisiae on unsaturated fatty acids (Gurvitz et al., 1998). It can be concluded that the PECI gene may play an important role during the metabolic processing of unsaturated fatty acids. Deposition of fat by animals in their bodies is associated with the metabolism of fatty acids, and more research would contribute to understanding of porcine fat deposition. Genomic DNA was isolated from blood of mature Tongcheng pigs (Hubei province, China) by phenol/chloroform extraction. RNA was extracted from muscle tissue of adult Tongcheng pigs and adult Swedish Landrace with TRIzol reagent kit (Life Technologies, Grand Island, NE, USA). RACE (the rapid amplification of cDNA ends) was performed according to the instructions of the SMARTTM RACE cDNA Amplification Kit (Clontech Inc, Palo Alto, CA, USA). The PCR products of RACE were purified with the Wizard PCR Preps DNA Purification System (Promega, Madison, WI, USA). ORF were found by the program SeqMan (DNA star, Madison, WI, USA) and the amino acid sequences were deduced with Primer5.0 (Primer Premier5.0, Premier, Canada). Using the pGEM T-easy vector, DNase I (RNase-free) and M-MLV reverse transcriptase from TaKaRa Dalian (Dalian, China), primers were synthesized (Table 1) and PCR products were sequenced by AuGCT Biotechnology (Bejing, China).
Women in Kenya remain disadvantaged, with opportunities for educational, social, and economic advancement inferior to those of men. Women are underrepresented in modern sector wage employment, political and judicial decision making, and all major public service appointments. Numerous social, economic, and cultural barriers limit womens participation in these areas. But womens underrepresentation in education is a primary factor. The benefits of womens education to women and to society in general are immense. In the workplace, education increases skills needed for job entry, improves chances of vertical mobility, and enhances overall labor market productivity. It also has positive consequences at home, including improved health, increased child survival rates, reduced fertility rates, lower infant mortality rates, and better protection against HIV and AIDS (Tembon and Fort 2008). Education of women and girls is therefore not only a moral and human rights issue, but also an economic and development issue. Given the significant benefits of womens education, equity in education is essential to improving circumstances for all Kenyans. As the leading provider of education, the government should acknowledge that compensatory mechanisms may be required to level the playing field for disadvantaged girls, and it should adopt an approach that uses these mechanisms. Making education equitable means adopting policies and initiatives that support equal provisions across genders. Female Education in Kenya Education in Kenya has four basic levels: preschool (ages 4-6), primary (ages 7-14), secondary (ages 15-18), and tertiary. Since attaining political independence from Great Britain in 1963, the Kenyan government has emphasized educations importance to economic development. It has also increased the number of schools at all levels, from about six thousand primary and 150 secondary schools in 1963 to almost twenty thousand primary and four thousand secondary schools in 2004. As a result, the student population has increased substantially, with over 700 percent growth at the primary level and almost 3,000 percent growth at the secondary level (Ministry of Education 2007). But this total expansion in education hides disparities by gender and region.

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SANTA MONICA, Calif. — This months new vehicle sales (including fleet sales) are expected to
be 1,028,200 units, a 17.7 percent decrease from August 2009 and a 1.4
percent decrease from July 2010, according to Edmunds.com, the premier
online resource for automotive information.

Edmunds.com analysts predict that Augusts Seasonally Adjusted
Annualized Rate (SAAR) will be 11.8 million, up from 11.5 in July 2010.

August 2010 had 25 selling days, one less than last August 2009. When
adjusted for this difference, sales decreased 14.4 percent from August
2009. (The chart below sets forth other unadjusted and adjusted
comparisons.)
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IRVING, Texas — EFG Technologies, a division of EFG Companies and a leading provider of
CRM solutions for retail automotive dealers, announced today it has been
re-certified by GM OneSource to collect, administer and optimally manage
eLeads, keeping the pipeline full for its dealerships that subscribe to
SalesEDGE.

SalesEDGE CRM’s certification ensures a mutually beneficial relationship
between GM and its dealerships by properly handling the disposition of
incoming leads, resulting in increased sales. In addition to sales
leads, SalesEDGE also processes leads for service, parts, accessories,
certified pre-owned vehicles and fleet and commercial vehicles, as well
as leads originating on eBay.

“Our integration with GM dealerships on SalesEDGE allows them to better
manage the sales process by equally distributing eLeads among teams
according to the lead type,” explains Chuck McGraw, president of EFG
Technologies. “Our seamless technology means a faster and more accurate
response from dealers to the potential consumer that, in this extremely
competitive marketplace, can go a long way in building a positive
consumer buying experience.”

Added McGraw, “GM and successful dealers understand that in today’s
business climate, every point of contact with a consumer is crucial to
fostering a positive car-buying experience and ultimately creating a
“customer for life.” SalesEDGE truly enables the dealer to succeed
through every step of the customer lifecycle from the initial online
inquiry to the first oil change with the service department to the next
vehicle purchase three to five years later.”

SalesEDGE is a Web-based performance management tool that provides
dealers with a comprehensive technology solution for managing prospects
and customers through the complete sales and service lifecycle. Key
capabilities include lead management, customer relationship management,
loyalty campaign management and dealer process enhancement.

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By Jan Biles A group of volunteers is helping to restore a historic farmstead in Wabaunsee County. The Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards recently put down gravel and made other improvements to the road leading to Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie, a 50-acre hilltop park about three miles south of Wamego, said Michael Stubbs, a founding member of the Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards. The volunteers also worked with Wabaunsee Township and local construction companies to replace culverts and build up the roadbed. The cost of the project was about $6,500, which will be raised by the volunteers.
FRANK LAMPARD and John Terry are out of Englands Euro 2012 qualifier against Bulgaria at Wembley on Friday night. Boss Fabio Capello could also be without Peter Crouch, Jermain Defoe, Bobby Zamora and David Stockdale. Chelsea midfielder Lampard will undergo an operation this week to combat a long-term hernia injury. Lampard missed a penalty as Chelsea beat Stoke 2-0 yesterday and Blues manager Carlo Ancelotti said: “He was in pain last week, but had treatment and felt it was OK to play today. It has not improved, and he has to have surgery. “This is something Frank had an operation on 10 years ago.
INTRODUCTION The essentiality of copper for poultry and livestock is well documented (Davis and Mertz, 1987). Cu is an essential mineral which serves as co-factor in many enzyme systems in the body. Cu-sulfate (CuS[O.sub.4]5[H.sub.2]O) is the most commonly used dietary Cu supplement. Copper in the form of Cu-sulfate improves growth rate and feed efficiency in broilers (Choi and Paik, 1989; Baker et al., 1991) and in pigs (Roof and Mahan, 1982; Edmonds et al., 1985; Cromwell et al., 1989) at supernormal level (125 to 250 mg/kg). Growth promoting effect of dietary Cu has been attributed to its antimicrobial action (Fuller at el., 1960; Bunch et al., 1961; Burnell et al., 1988). Improved availability of Cu from organic Cu complexes compared with the commonly used Cu salts recently has been suggested. Chelates, complexes or proteinates are the organic form of Cu and are usually considered for use in animal diet as alternatives to inorganic Cu source. More bioavailability of Cu is probably due to better absorption, which enhances its efficiency (Downs et al., 2000; Yu et al., 2000; Guo et al., 2001). Baker and Ammerman (1995) reported that relative bioavailability estimate of organic Cu sources ranged from 88% to 147% of the response to cupric sulfate in poultry, Swine, sheep and cattle. Improvements in the digestibility of proteins (Braude, 1965; Castell and Bowland, 1968) and retention of nitrogen (Braude, 1965) have been reported in young pigs fed diet containing added Cu. Studies by Dove and Haydon (1992) and Dove (1995) have indicated that addition of 250 mg Cu/kg improved digestibility and utilization of the fat of weaned pigs, but results have limited and inconclusive for chickens when Cu added to the feed fortified with oil. To increase the energy level in the finisher diet and to obtain higher weight of a broiler chicken, oil and fat are used because of its high energy content. Soybean oil which stimulates growth rate, when included in poultry diet (Nitsan et al., 1997) is most commonly used oil source in Indian condition. Unsaturated vegetable fats (like soybean oil) are more energetic than saturated animal fat. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to investigate the influence of level of dietary inorganic and organic forms of Cu and energy level on performance and nutrient utilization of broiler chicken.

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On March 2 of 2007, with the implementation of Law 66, Puerto Rico became a smoke-free island by completely banning indoor smoking in public places such as bars, pubs, casinos, hotels, work places with more than one employee, and cars with any passenger under the age of 13 . According to the literature, the immediate impact of smoke-free workplace policies has been to dramatically reduce the exposition to SHS for customers and workers (10-17). Many studies have used the level of respirable particulate matter ([PM.sub.2.5]) as the main indicator of exposure to SHS because it has been demonstrated that smoking is one of the main sources of indoor levels of [PM.sub.2.5] (10). For example, bars in the state of New York experienced an average reduction of 84% in their [PM.sub.2.5] levels after the Clean Indoor Air Act was implemented in July of 2003 (11). In the case of Austin, Texas, bars experienced a reduction from 71% to 99% in their [PM.sub.2.5] levels after a smoking ban was implemented (12). In another study (13), Irish-theme pubs around the globe located in countries or cities with smoke-free legislation were compared with similar pubs in places without smoke-free ordinances. In this case, the results showed an average 91% reduction in [PM.sub.2.5] levels. In March of 2006, a smoking ban was implemented in Scotland, which substantially covered enclosed places including pubs. Evidence shows that, as a result, Scottish pubs experienced an average of 86% reduction in [PM.sub.2.5] levels (14). In Italy, a year after the implementation of an all smoke-free workplace policy in January of 2005, there was an average of 68% reduction in [PM.sub.2.5] levels across bars, restaurants, game rooms, and pubs (15). The main claim of this study is that the smoke-free workplace policy implemented in March of 2007 was effective in reducing the exposure to SHS in restaurants, pubs, and discos in the metropolitan area of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The specific research objectives of the study were three. First, to measure and compare the restaurants, pubs, and discos in the metropolitan area of San Juan at baseline (before the smoke-free workplace policy was implemented) in terms of the levels of respirable particulate matter (PM), the number of smokers, the number of customers, and establishment area. Second, to measure the change in levels of PM, the number of smokers, and the number of customers before and after March 2007. And third, to measure the effect of the smoke-free workplace policy on the level of PM controlling for the number of customers and establishment area.
In August 2004, the Law #230, approved by the Government of Puerto Rico in a three party resolution, created the University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center (UPRCCC), a public corporation affiliated to the University of Puerto Rico. This law established that this Center will be the organism responsible for executing the public policy related to the prevention, education, and research, as well as the clinical and treatment services related to cancer in Puerto Rico. The dual mission of the UPRCCC is: (1) To deliver the best research-driven cancer care through programs that integrate patient care, research, prevention, and education, and (2) To eradicate cancer in Puerto Rico using a multidisciplinary approach of basic, clinical, and population research. Thus, the UPRCCC is fundamental for the development of cancer control, research, and training efforts in Puerto Rico. More recently, in 2008, with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Puerto Rico published its first official Cancer Control Plan, a structured guide with measurable outcomes aimed at reducing the cancer burden in our population. All of the previously mentioned initiatives will continue to be key to the progress in cancer control and research in Puerto Rico and thus, to the quality of the preventive and treatment services that we will offer to our patients. The increase in the cancer burden in Puerto Rico has been accompanied by a substantial increase in the volume of published research and federal funds to academic institutions in Puerto Rico for cancer research. Despite this advancement, areas that need our continued support and development in the years to come include: 1) continued surveillance of cancer occurrence in Puerto Rico through the Puerto Rico Central Cancer Registry, 2) development of transdisciplinary and translational cancer research that encompass all areas of the cancer control continuum (prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship), 3) outreach efforts that bring scientific knowledge to the development of targeted cancer control strategies for the community, 4) development of sound cancer-related public policy, and 5) continued training of the next generation of cancer researchers and health professionals. Our ability to collaborate in multidisciplinary local and international teams will be essential to our success. The forthcoming issue of the Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal provides an informative summary of various research studies that are currently being conducted in Puerto Rico. The 17 articles in this issue describe diverse research areas in the cancer field including disease burden, disease prevention, correlates of cancer occurrence, diagnostic technologies and clinical management. In addition, an overview of cancer training efforts in the island is discussed. Our future as a healthy nation will require a concerted effort between government, academia and industry that lead the research, training, and public policy efforts that will ultimately result in improved cancer prevention and control outcomes for the people of Puerto Rico. We hope you find in this edition of the journal a well-rounded overview of cancer research in Puerto Rico.
More than 100 HPV types have been identified with more than 30 being sexually transmitted (7). Anogenital HPV types have been classified into low-risk types (non-oncogenic), which are associated with anogenital warts (condyloma acuminata), oral and conjunctival papillomas, recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (in infants and young children), and mild dysplasia (8). High-risk types (oncogenic) are associated with high-grade dysplasia and various cancers. Current estimates of the attributable fraction, the proportion of cancer cases preventable by the elimination of HPV, are very high (9): 100% for cervical, 90% for anal, 40% for vulvar and vaginal, 50% for cancer of the penis, and between 33 and 72% of oropharyngeal cancers (10). Although there has been increasing interest in understanding the burden of HPV infection and related comorbidities in men (11), studies in this group are still quite limited (12), particularly among Hispanics. Research and surveillance data have indicated that Hispanics have been disproportionately affected by HIV/ AIDS (13), Other STIs (14) and may engage disproportionately in high-risk sexual behaviors (15). In addition, a higher incidence of cervical cancer is observed in Puerto Rico and Hispanic women in the US compared with non-Hispanic whites (Figure 1). These factors could reflect a potential higher prevalence of HPV infection in these populations, as well as disparities in screening rates in these groups (16) suggesting that Hispanic and Puerto Rican men might also be at higher risk for HPV infection and related health outcomes. This high incidence might also lead to a significant economic burden. In Puerto Rico for example, it was estimated that the economic impact of HPV related cancers in 2004 was approximately 7.5% (close to 5 million dollars) of the total cancer costs (17). Even though HPV infection is highly prevalent in sexually active men, (18), most research studies have focused only in women. Studies in men are of particular relevance because, as with other STIs, men play a key role in the transmission dynamics to both male and female sexual partners. It is also clear that HPV infection in men is a serious clinical issue, given the association of HPV infection with a variety of cancers in men, including anal cancer and a subset of penile and oral cancers (19). With the world-wide introduction of two new prophylactic vaccines (bivalent vaccine protecting against HPV 16 and 18, and the quadrivalent vaccine protecting against HPV 16, 18, 6 and 11) against oncogenic HPVs causing cervical cancer in women (20), and the recent FDA approval of the quadrivalent vaccine to prevent genital warts also in men, there is an urgency to determine the burden of HPV in Hispanic populations before vaccination programs are implemented on a widespread basis. Knowledge of the burden of the disease and its related morbidities prior to implementation of these programs will allow a better assessment and understanding of the short-term and long-term effectiveness of this primary prevention strategy for cervical neoplasia and genital warts. In addition, it will permit exploring the prevalence of type-specific HPVs in these populations, not currently included in the HPV vaccines available in the market.

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TEST cricket never fails to amaze me. When England collapsed to 102-7 just 40 overs into the game it would have taken a brave man to suggest that England would go on to win at Lords. Yet here we are this morning with England on the brink of a quite remarkable victory. Whoever says Test cricket is dull needs to take another look. We have been royally entertained with some outstanding batting and bowling which has been a wonderful advertisement for the game. The world-recordbreaking eighth-wicket partnership of 332 between Jonathan Trott and Stuart Broad was not only of the highest class but has enabled England to secure the series win. Pakistan thoroughly deserved their success at the Brit Oval last week and arrived at the home of cricket full of confidence.
Conference Call Scheduled to Update Shareholders on Recent
Achievements and Upcoming Events

WINTER PARK, Fla. — Guard Dog, Inc. (Pink Sheets: GRDO). James Watson, CEO and President of
Guard Dog Inc., will be hosting a conference call at 2:30 p.m. EDT on
September 1, 2010.

This is another in a continuing series of conference calls used to
inform the Investment community on the progress and growth of Guard Dog
Inc. The primary purpose of this call will be to update shareholders on
the progress of Government Contracts, New Product development, Affiliate
Marketing, upcoming Television and Radio advertisement, the next stages
of the Investor Awareness Campaign and the introduction of Guard Dog’s
new Chief Operating Officer.

Detailed ‘listen-in’ directions will be posted on the Guard Dog Inc.
Investor Relations page by 4:00 p.m. EDT on August 31, 2010.
Shareholders are encouraged to call Investor Relations before 1:30 p.m.
EDT on September 1, 2010 to register any questions that you may want
answered during the call.

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CODY, Wyo. — If youre planning a vacation in Yellowstone, consider side trips to a trio of unusual destinations in Wyoming on your way to and from the park: Devils Tower, Cody and Thermopolis. Devils Tower: This natural stone formation is a national monument, managed by the National Park Service. Its located in northeast Wyoming, not far from the South Dakota border, about 80 miles from the Black Hills town of Deadwood. Its an awesome sight, rising 867 feet from its base or 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River, “upthrust against the gray sky as if in the birth of time the core of the earth had broken through its crust,” as Native American writer N. Scott Momaday put it. The towers top appears flat from a distance, but the National Park Service describes it as being slightly domed, about the size of a football field. But Devils Towers most distinctive features are what appear to be long vertical stripes covering the sides. These are actually parallel columns of rock that fractured as the molten magma that formed the tower cooled eons ago. More than 20 tribes consider the tower a sacred site, and many Native American stories describe the lines in the rock as claw marks from a bear. Its not unusual to see bundles of colored cloth or other religious offerings in the park around the tower.
FARMINGTON — Ever since the Utah Open became more of a real Utah event a decade ago, the annual golf tournament has usually been won by Utah golfers. Last year was an exception when Nathan Lashley of Scottsdale, Ariz., won the tournament by three shots over Doug Garwood, thanks to a final-round 63. Lashleys back to defend his title this year, but hes among the relatively few out-of-state golfers in an event that used to be dominated by non-Utahns. The tournament, sponsored by Siegfried and Jensen, begins this morning at Oakridge Country Club and revamped its format in 2001 to include any club professional in the state who wanted to compete. This year, 126 of the 162 golfers are Utahns, mostly club professionals, along with several top amateurs.
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Chief Investment Officer of Leading Independent Wealth Management
Firm Can Provide Expert Opinion on US/Global Impact of Federal Reserve
Chairman’s Speech

Economist Jason Thomas, PhD and Chief Investment officer of Aspiriant,
the leading independent wealth management firm in the US, is available
to provide expert commentary on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s
speech scheduled for today.

Among the many topics Dr. Thomas can discuss are:

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Niagara Acquisition Inc. (”Niagara”), a corporation owned by KingSett Capital Inc. (”KingSett”) and certain clients managed by Alberta Investment Management Corporation (”AIMCo”), has agreed to acquire all of the outstanding equity interests in ING Summit Industrial Fund LP (”Summit”) from Realty Holding LP and Realty Holding II LP in a private acquisition. The transaction value is approximately CDN$2 billion, including assumed debt. Niagara has also agreed to acquire ING Real Estate Canada LP, the manager of Summit.

This news release is being issued under the early warning provisions of Canadian provincial securities legislation.

Summit is Canadas largest owner of light industrial property. It owns a portfolio of over 400 properties containing approximately 32 million square feet of gross leasable space and 751 net developable acres of land in major metropolitan areas across Canada.

KingSett is Canadas leading private equity real estate investment business co-investing with pension funds and high net worth individuals.

AIMCo is one of Canadas largest institutional investors. It manages about $70 billion of Alberta public sector pension and endowment assets, including a real estate portfolio valued in excess of $5 billion.

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Foreclosure. Reduced hours. Downsizing. Unemployment. In one month, I was given reduced hours at work, my mother lost her benefits, and a former bishop of mine became unemployed. This current economic calamity is taking no prisoners. We all are squeezed by the downturn. When faced by trials, we sometimes ask, “What did I do to deserve this?” In some cases, this may be appropriate. After all, we all need improvement. But sometimes the answer is that we did nothing. Dr. Truman G. Madsen pointed out that when we ask this question we “assume suffering is always a form of Divine punishment. It is not. (We) are convinced by Jobs friends instead of by Job” (see “Eternal Man” by Truman G. Madsen, p. 55).
Foreclosure. Reduced hours. Downsizing. Unemployment. In one month, I was given reduced hours at work, my mother lost her benefits, and a former bishop of mine became unemployed. This current economic calamity is taking no prisoners. We all are squeezed by the downturn. When faced by trials, we sometimes ask, “What did I do to deserve this?” In some cases, this may be appropriate. After all, we all need improvement. But sometimes the answer is that we did nothing. Dr. Truman G. Madsen pointed out that when we ask this question we “assume suffering is always a form of Divine punishment. It is not. (We) are convinced by Jobs friends instead of by Job” (see “Eternal Man” by Truman G. Madsen, p. 55).

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During the second half of the last century, the incidence of cancer in PR increased dramatically; however, rates seem to have begun to stabilize in more recent years (8-9). Previous studies in the 1970s and 1980s showed a lower incidence of total cancer in persons residing in PR as compared with the general population in the United States (US) (8) and to Puerto Ricans (10) living in the continental US. Recent studies show similar patterns for selected cancer types (11-14). However, the incidence from infection related cancers such as stomach, liver and cervical is higher in PR than in the US (12). Also, contrary to the US, these cancer types also rank among the leading cancer sites in incidence and mortality (8, 11, 15-16). The PR Central Cancer Registry (PRCCR) is the fourth oldest population based cancer registry in the world (8, 17) and collects information on cancer in PR since 1951. The PRCCR is part of the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As with any other surveillance system, the PRCCR is responsible for generating data on cancer burden for the Puerto Rican population, as the collection, analysis and dissemination of health information are important components of public health surveillance systems (18). Given that the last official report of the PRCCR regarding cancer burden in PR was published in 1991 (9), this special article describes the incidence and mortality data for cancer in PR for the period of 1987 to 2004. In addition, we assess differences in cancer incidence and mortality by sex, municipality and health region. This information is important to identify changes in cancer occurrence in PR and to guide the development of future interventions aimed at diminishing the burden of the disease in our population.
The main goal of the Training Program is to increase the number of Hispanic students knowledgeable and committed to careers in cancer research and cancer medicine. The specific objectives are to prepare Hispanic students to pursue careers in cancer research, cancer medicine, and population sciences and to establish a Career Development Program for clinical and basic scientist faculty at the Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Puerto Rico (UPRCCC). The Training Program includes a series of didactic and research experiences, and enrichment activities that include on-campus cancer research at the UPR campuses during the academic year, and summer research and year-round rotations to MDACC. These experiences are complemented and supported by a structured Mentoring Program for students and junior investigators. The mentors are well recognized senior Faculty, mostly from MDACC. Training Opportunities Various research programs are available in UPR and MDACC, all sponsored by the U54 Training Program. In the UPR there is Research Assistantships Stipends Program for Undergraduate and Graduate Students. Students have the opportunity of working in cancer research projects under the guidance of Faculty in mid to senior stages of their academic careers. Most of these scientists are re-gearing their careers to Cancer Research. The students are also required to attend Seminars and Workshops offered through the academic year, mostly offered by visiting world-renowned scientists.
During the second half of the last century, the incidence of cancer in PR increased dramatically; however, rates seem to have begun to stabilize in more recent years (8-9). Previous studies in the 1970s and 1980s showed a lower incidence of total cancer in persons residing in PR as compared with the general population in the United States (US) (8) and to Puerto Ricans (10) living in the continental US. Recent studies show similar patterns for selected cancer types (11-14). However, the incidence from infection related cancers such as stomach, liver and cervical is higher in PR than in the US (12). Also, contrary to the US, these cancer types also rank among the leading cancer sites in incidence and mortality (8, 11, 15-16). The PR Central Cancer Registry (PRCCR) is the fourth oldest population based cancer registry in the world (8, 17) and collects information on cancer in PR since 1951. The PRCCR is part of the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As with any other surveillance system, the PRCCR is responsible for generating data on cancer burden for the Puerto Rican population, as the collection, analysis and dissemination of health information are important components of public health surveillance systems (18). Given that the last official report of the PRCCR regarding cancer burden in PR was published in 1991 (9), this special article describes the incidence and mortality data for cancer in PR for the period of 1987 to 2004. In addition, we assess differences in cancer incidence and mortality by sex, municipality and health region. This information is important to identify changes in cancer occurrence in PR and to guide the development of future interventions aimed at diminishing the burden of the disease in our population.

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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

WLS, a leading provider of cellular platforms to top tier global phone
makers, will operate as a standalone business serving its existing
customers. WLS will also contribute to Intel’s strategy to make
connected computing ubiquitous from smartphones to laptops to embedded
computing.

“The global demand for wireless solutions continues to grow at an
extraordinary rate,” said Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO. “The
acquisition of Infineon’s WLS business strengthens the second pillar of
our computing strategy — Internet connectivity — and enables us to
offer a portfolio of products that covers the full range of wireless
options from Wi-Fi and 3G to WiMAX and LTE. As more devices compute and
connect to the Internet, we are committed to positioning Intel to take
advantage of the growth potential in every computing segment, from
laptops to handhelds and beyond.”

“The sale of WLS is a strategic decision to enhance Infineon’s value. We
can now fully concentrate our resources towards strong growth in our
core segments Automotive (ATV), Industrial Multimarket (IMM) and Chip
Card Security (CCS). This creates a great perspective for all Infineon
customers, employees and shareholders,” said Peter Bauer, CEO of
Infineon Technologies AG. “We all stand to benefit enormously from this
deal. Thanks to the outstanding effort of the employees and the
management during the last years, WLS is excellently positioned to grow
further with the new owner who is ideally suited for this business.”

INTRODUCTION Fat deposition of pigs is of economic importance because of market incentives for lean pork production and decreased feeding costs. It is crucial to investigate and characterize new candidate genes and QTL relevant to pig fat deposit traits. To date, several quantitative trait loci (QTL) significantly affecting 10th-rib, average backfat thickness and other production traits have been mapped on SSC7 (Wang et al., 1998; Nagamine et al., 2003). Peroxisomal [[DELTA].sup.3],[[DELTA].sup.2]-enoyl-CoA isomerase (PECI) was located near the boundary of the quantitative trait loci (QTL) region. [[DELTA].sup.3],[[DELTA].sup.2]-enoyl-CoA isomerase (Ecilp) is unique because its activity is necessary for [beta]-oxidation of all unsaturated fatty acids (Geisbrecht et al., 1999). The series of enzyme-catalyzed reactions required for degradation of fatty acids are evolutionarily conserved and accomplished primarily through the p-oxidation pathway. In peroxisomes, ECI was predicted to be a dominant enzyme for 3-cis 3[right arrow]2-trans and 3-trans 3[right arrow]2-trans isomerizations of long-chain intermediates (Zhang et al., 2002). Fatty acid [beta]-oxidation in mammals is considerably more complicated, primarily due to the existence of overlapping but distinct fatty acid poxidation pathways. Mammalian peroxisomes contain at least three fatty acyl-CoA oxidases, both L-specific and D-specific 2-enoyl-CoA hydratase/3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase multifunctional proteins, and at least two thiolases, all of which are encoded by different genes (Palosaari et al., 1990a, 1991; Geisbrecht et al., 1998; Gurvitz et al., 1998; Geisbrecht et al., 1999; Partanen et al., 2004). When the ECI was completely excised in the mouse, it extensively perturbed the metabolism of unsaturated fatty acids, especially for short interval starvation and the fatty acid pattern of complex phospholipids was strongly altered (Palosaari et al., 1990b; Janssen et al., 2002). The PECI gene can be encoded by ECI1 and it is required for growth of saccharomyces cerevisiae on unsaturated fatty acids (Gurvitz et al., 1998). It can be concluded that the PECI gene may play an important role during the metabolic processing of unsaturated fatty acids. Deposition of fat by animals in their bodies is associated with the metabolism of fatty acids, and more research would contribute to understanding of porcine fat deposition. Genomic DNA was isolated from blood of mature Tongcheng pigs (Hubei province, China) by phenol/chloroform extraction. RNA was extracted from muscle tissue of adult Tongcheng pigs and adult Swedish Landrace with TRIzol reagent kit (Life Technologies, Grand Island, NE, USA). RACE (the rapid amplification of cDNA ends) was performed according to the instructions of the SMARTTM RACE cDNA Amplification Kit (Clontech Inc, Palo Alto, CA, USA). The PCR products of RACE were purified with the Wizard PCR Preps DNA Purification System (Promega, Madison, WI, USA). ORF were found by the program SeqMan (DNA star, Madison, WI, USA) and the amino acid sequences were deduced with Primer5.0 (Primer Premier5.0, Premier, Canada). Using the pGEM T-easy vector, DNase I (RNase-free) and M-MLV reverse transcriptase from TaKaRa Dalian (Dalian, China), primers were synthesized (Table 1) and PCR products were sequenced by AuGCT Biotechnology (Bejing, China).

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ROSELLE, Ill. — Del Medical, Inc. (”Del Medical” or “the Company”) today
announced they were recently awarded a Mexican tender from IMSS
(Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social) for over twenty complete Del
Medical DR radiographic rooms valued in excess of $2 million. Each 50kw,
floor-mounted tube stand system is equipped with Del’s popular EV650
elevating, four-way, float top table and bundled with a DelWorks Medical
DR package. Each package includes a 14” x 17” portable flat panel DR
detector with DelWorks acquisition and processing software.

“Del Medical is honored to have been awarded this tender,” says Toufic
Lorenzo, President and CEO of Del Medical. “We are committed to
upholding and strengthening Del’s reputation as a leading global
supplier of both general radiographic equipment and digital imaging
solutions”.

You know how annoying it is when you get a song stuck in your head and you cant get it out? Well, Pine Creek gymnastics coach Amber Curry has it happen to her “all the time,” but she doesnt mind because it is part of the job, even though she sometimes hears songs from routines in her sleep. Girls who participate in the floor exercise portion of gymnastics must pick music with no lyrics that is 90 seconds long. This means the song is heard repeatedly throughout the season. Palmer Ridge coach Monica Bicknell said that some girls take two songs and cut them together to come up with the sound they want.

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Dayforce’s On-Demand Solution Offers Companies an Immediate
Improvement in Operational Efficiency

“Bridgescale Partners’ investment is further validation of Dayforce’s
position as the industry leader in Workforce Management,” said David
Ossip, CEO and President of Dayforce. “Our solution gives every decision
maker in an organization the insight to understand corporate goals, the
confidence to measurably improve business performance, and the power to
make their company more profitable.”

“Dayforce has the first solution that I have seen that delivers the
potential for full enterprise user adoption – the ‘holy grail’ for
getting value from a SaaS product. With Dayforce, workforce management
moves from something I have to do to something that I want to do – and
this makes the offering truly disruptive,” said Howard Gwin, Partner of
Bridgescale and former EVP, Worldwide Operations at PeopleSoft.
“Additionally, as a three-time repeat successful entrepreneur, David
Ossip’s exceptional track record of building and leading high-growth
companies was a strong factor in our investment decision,” Gwin added.

INTRODUCTION The essentiality of copper for poultry and livestock is well documented (Davis and Mertz, 1987). Cu is an essential mineral which serves as co-factor in many enzyme systems in the body. Cu-sulfate (CuS[O.sub.4]5[H.sub.2]O) is the most commonly used dietary Cu supplement. Copper in the form of Cu-sulfate improves growth rate and feed efficiency in broilers (Choi and Paik, 1989; Baker et al., 1991) and in pigs (Roof and Mahan, 1982; Edmonds et al., 1985; Cromwell et al., 1989) at supernormal level (125 to 250 mg/kg). Growth promoting effect of dietary Cu has been attributed to its antimicrobial action (Fuller at el., 1960; Bunch et al., 1961; Burnell et al., 1988). Improved availability of Cu from organic Cu complexes compared with the commonly used Cu salts recently has been suggested. Chelates, complexes or proteinates are the organic form of Cu and are usually considered for use in animal diet as alternatives to inorganic Cu source. More bioavailability of Cu is probably due to better absorption, which enhances its efficiency (Downs et al., 2000; Yu et al., 2000; Guo et al., 2001). Baker and Ammerman (1995) reported that relative bioavailability estimate of organic Cu sources ranged from 88% to 147% of the response to cupric sulfate in poultry, Swine, sheep and cattle. Improvements in the digestibility of proteins (Braude, 1965; Castell and Bowland, 1968) and retention of nitrogen (Braude, 1965) have been reported in young pigs fed diet containing added Cu. Studies by Dove and Haydon (1992) and Dove (1995) have indicated that addition of 250 mg Cu/kg improved digestibility and utilization of the fat of weaned pigs, but results have limited and inconclusive for chickens when Cu added to the feed fortified with oil. To increase the energy level in the finisher diet and to obtain higher weight of a broiler chicken, oil and fat are used because of its high energy content. Soybean oil which stimulates growth rate, when included in poultry diet (Nitsan et al., 1997) is most commonly used oil source in Indian condition. Unsaturated vegetable fats (like soybean oil) are more energetic than saturated animal fat. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to investigate the influence of level of dietary inorganic and organic forms of Cu and energy level on performance and nutrient utilization of broiler chicken.

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Ellen Grace Ellen Grace Fellows “Loving Wife and Mother” Passed away July 5, 2010 due to complications from Frontotemporal Dementia. Born December 2, 1937 to Henry and Alice Spilker in Salt Lake City, Utah. Married Richard Steven Fellows January 27, 1955. Later sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Ellen loved camping, fishing, and oil painting. She served faithfully in many church callings, including a full time mission in Hayfork California with her husband. She also served in the Jordan River Temple. Her greatest joys came from serving others and spending time with her family. She is proud to be the grandmother of 16 grandchildren and 10 1/ 2 great-grandchildren. She loved all holidays, especially Christmas. Survived by her husband Richard, children Steven (Christine) Fellows, Madeline (Ray) Enniss, Roger (Holley) Fellows, Cindy (Max) Hardman, Russell (Rebecca) Fellows, siblings Elva Caldwell, Melvin (Christa) Spilker, Donald (Rene) Spilker, Raymond (Janet) Spilker and Frank (Kathy) Spilker.
Costco Wholesale Corporation (”Costco” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: COST) today reported net sales of $7.33 billion for the month of June, the five weeks ended July 4, 2010, an increase of seven percent from $6.87 billion in the same five-week period last year. This years five-week period included 33 days in the U.S. (closed Memorial Day and Independence Day) versus 34 days last year (closed Independence Day; Memorial Day was in the May reporting period). The Memorial Day holiday shift negatively impacted this years total and comparable sales by approximately two percent (two to three percent in the U.S.).

For the forty-four weeks ended July 4, 2010, the Company reported net sales of $64.50 billion, an increase of nine percent from $59.02 billion during the similar period last year.

Comparable sales for the periods ended July 4, 2010, were as follows:

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EAST LANSING, Mich. NAPA, Calif. — American Physicians Capital Inc. (APCapital) (NASDAQ:ACAP), a major
provider of health care liability insurance, and The Doctors Company,
the largest national insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability,
today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement
pursuant to which The Doctors Company will acquire APCapital for $41.50
per share in cash, or an aggregate purchase price of approximately $386
million. The $41.50 per share in cash purchase price represents a
premium of approximately 31 percent over the $31.76 per share closing
price of ACAP on July 7, 2010, the last trading day prior to today’s
announcement.

R. Kevin Clinton, President and CEO of APCapital said, “This transaction
delivers significant value to our shareholders. Additionally, our
insureds will benefit as they become members of one of the largest and
most respected professional liability companies in the nation. I would
like to recognize our employees, agents, and medical society partners
for their dedication and commitment to APCapital. They are the driving
force behind the success of our company.”

“We are extremely pleased to announce this partnership between two
physician-founded companies and we look forward to delivering enhanced
value to our member insureds through the financial strength of a
combined organization with a relentless commitment to protecting,
defending, and rewarding the practice of good medicine,” said Richard E.
Anderson, MD, FACP, chairman and CEO of The Doctors Company. “Members
will benefit from our partnership and will continue to receive
aggressive claims defense, unmatched legislative and patient safety
advocacy, outstanding service, and industry leading member benefits.”

With this merger, The Doctors Company further expands its position as
the largest national insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability
to nearly 55,000 member insureds.

The Board of Directors of APCapital has approved the proposed
transaction and has resolved to recommend that its shareholders approve
the merger. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter
of 2010 and is subject to customary closing conditions, including the
receipt of regulatory approvals, and approval by a majority of
APCapital’s shareholders.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Bioject Medical Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: BJCT), a leading developer of
needle-free injection therapy systems, today announced that Bioject’s
needle-free injection delivery technology was used to successfully
demonstrate that intradermal administration of fractional doses of
inactivated poliovirus vaccine given to infants is safe and effective
(using seroconversion as an indication of effectiveness), and is
preferred by both health care administrators and parents over typical
full-dose needle and syringe. The study results, published in the June
24, 2010, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM
Vol. 362 No. 25), also demonstrated a significant cost savings
in use of the fractional-dose intradermal injection as compared with a
full-dose vaccination course of treatment using an auto-disable needle
and syringe.

The study was conducted in Oman and supported by the Ministry of Health
of Oman, the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) and the
World Health Organization (WHO) as part of the Global Polio Eradication
Initiative (GPEI). The randomized clinical trial of over 400 infants, of
whom 373 fulfilled the entry criteria, were selected to receive either
fractional-dose inactivated poliovirus vaccine (one-fifth of the full
dose) or a full-dose of the same vaccine over a three course treatment
during the first six months of age. The intradermal fractional-dose was
given with Bioject’s Biojector®2000 (B2000) needle-free injection
delivery device and the full-dose was delivered with an auto-disable
syringe and needle. The study was designed to assess the safety and
efficacy of, and preference for, the needle-free intradermal
fractional-dose and the potential to use a needle-free intradermal
fractional-dose vaccine option with infants in order to prevent polio
infection. The results of the study demonstrate that needle-free
intradermal administration of fractional doses of the polio vaccine was
safe, effective and lower cost than a similar course treatment with full
dose needle-syringe option. In addition, both health caregivers and
parents expressed a preference for the needle-free option because “the
baby does not cry.”

The study was one of the research and development initiatives stemming
from the GPEI’s goal to develop affordable injectable polio vaccine
options for the post-eradication era. GPEI is spearheaded by national
governments, WHO, Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) and UNICEF.

“We are pleased to have participated in this significant clinical trial
and to learn about the positive results with intradermal fractional-dose
injection of inactivated polio vaccine using Bioject’s intradermal
delivery technology,” said Dr. Richard Stout, Bioject’s Executive Vice
President and Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Stout added, “Based on the
findings, as reported in the NEJM, we now have evidence that
demonstrates potential cost savings when using intradermal needle-free
injection delivery technology as compared with typical full-dose
injections. In addition, we along with the parents of the treated
infants are delighted to hear that the babies did not cry, leading to a
significant preference for Bioject’s needle-free injection devices. We
look forward to working with other organizations around the world who
are interested in leveraging the benefits of our needle-free intradermal
injection delivery technology for their vaccine portfolios,” commented
Dr. Stout.

Bioject Medical Technologies Inc., based in Portland, Oregon, is
an innovative developer and manufacturer of needle-free injection
therapy systems (NFITS). NFITS provide an empowering technology and work
by forcing medication at high speed through a tiny orifice held against
the skin. This creates a fine stream of high-pressure fluid penetrating
the skin and depositing medication in the tissue beneath. The Company is
focused on developing mutually beneficial agreements with leading
pharmaceutical, biotechnology and veterinary companies.

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Positions Merck to Capitalize on Opportunities for Global Growth

WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. — Merck Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK), known outside the U.S. and Canada as MSD,
today provided further detail on integration plans for the companys
research and development, manufacturing and other business operations as
part of a global restructuring program announced following the November
2009 merger of Merck and Schering-Plough. The consolidation plans
support Mercks strategic direction as a customer focused, innovative
and diversified global health care company, and position the company to
invest in key areas for future growth, including emerging markets,
biologics, vaccines and consumer care.

Merck today announced plans to phase out operations at eight research
sites and eight manufacturing sites, as well as to continue to
consolidate office facilities worldwide, as part of the global merger
restructuring program that began last December. The goal of the
restructuring is to create a flexible RD organization that cultivates
scientific innovation, facilitates external collaboration and drives
pipeline progress and a reliable, more fully utilized and cost efficient
worldwide manufacturing supply chain to support Mercks broader product
portfolio.

Merck continues to expect its total workforce to be reduced by
approximately 15 percent across all areas of the combined company
worldwide as part of the initial phases of its merger restructuring
program. The company said it will continue to hire new employees in
strategic growth areas of the business as necessary.

“Today’s announcement is another important step as we successfully
integrate our global operations on schedule and move forward with
Mercks strategic priorities,” said Richard T. Clark, chairman and chief
executive officer of Merck. “These changes are crucial to drive future
growth and realize the promise of being a global health care leader for
the long term. While we believe these actions are necessary to support
Mercks competitive advantage, they required difficult decisions that
will impact some of our colleagues, their families and local
communities. We will implement our restructuring plans with the utmost
care and respect for the hard-working and talented employees of Merck,”
he said.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Bioject Medical Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: BJCT), a leading developer of
needle-free injection therapy systems, today announced that Bioject’s
needle-free injection delivery technology was used to successfully
demonstrate that intradermal administration of fractional doses of
inactivated poliovirus vaccine given to infants is safe and effective
(using seroconversion as an indication of effectiveness), and is
preferred by both health care administrators and parents over typical
full-dose needle and syringe. The study results, published in the June
24, 2010, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM
Vol. 362 No. 25), also demonstrated a significant cost savings
in use of the fractional-dose intradermal injection as compared with a
full-dose vaccination course of treatment using an auto-disable needle
and syringe.

The study was conducted in Oman and supported by the Ministry of Health
of Oman, the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) and the
World Health Organization (WHO) as part of the Global Polio Eradication
Initiative (GPEI). The randomized clinical trial of over 400 infants, of
whom 373 fulfilled the entry criteria, were selected to receive either
fractional-dose inactivated poliovirus vaccine (one-fifth of the full
dose) or a full-dose of the same vaccine over a three course treatment
during the first six months of age. The intradermal fractional-dose was
given with Bioject’s Biojector®2000 (B2000) needle-free injection
delivery device and the full-dose was delivered with an auto-disable
syringe and needle. The study was designed to assess the safety and
efficacy of, and preference for, the needle-free intradermal
fractional-dose and the potential to use a needle-free intradermal
fractional-dose vaccine option with infants in order to prevent polio
infection. The results of the study demonstrate that needle-free
intradermal administration of fractional doses of the polio vaccine was
safe, effective and lower cost than a similar course treatment with full
dose needle-syringe option. In addition, both health caregivers and
parents expressed a preference for the needle-free option because “the
baby does not cry.”

The study was one of the research and development initiatives stemming
from the GPEI’s goal to develop affordable injectable polio vaccine
options for the post-eradication era. GPEI is spearheaded by national
governments, WHO, Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) and UNICEF.

“We are pleased to have participated in this significant clinical trial
and to learn about the positive results with intradermal fractional-dose
injection of inactivated polio vaccine using Bioject’s intradermal
delivery technology,” said Dr. Richard Stout, Bioject’s Executive Vice
President and Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Stout added, “Based on the
findings, as reported in the NEJM, we now have evidence that
demonstrates potential cost savings when using intradermal needle-free
injection delivery technology as compared with typical full-dose
injections. In addition, we along with the parents of the treated
infants are delighted to hear that the babies did not cry, leading to a
significant preference for Bioject’s needle-free injection devices. We
look forward to working with other organizations around the world who
are interested in leveraging the benefits of our needle-free intradermal
injection delivery technology for their vaccine portfolios,” commented
Dr. Stout.

Bioject Medical Technologies Inc., based in Portland, Oregon, is
an innovative developer and manufacturer of needle-free injection
therapy systems (NFITS). NFITS provide an empowering technology and work
by forcing medication at high speed through a tiny orifice held against
the skin. This creates a fine stream of high-pressure fluid penetrating
the skin and depositing medication in the tissue beneath. The Company is
focused on developing mutually beneficial agreements with leading
pharmaceutical, biotechnology and veterinary companies.

Funds Earmarked to “.Encourage Cutting Edge and Innovative
Biomedical Exploration”

RUTHERFORD, Calif. — The International Mental Health Research Organization (IMHRO) today
announced a collaboration with the Johnson Johnson Corporate Office of
Science and Technology (COSAT). Under the terms of this collaboration,
COSAT will provide a $250,000 grant towards the funding of IMHROs
Rising Star Awards. COSATs grant will be matched by IMHRO to establish
the COSAT-IMHRO Rising Star Awards Program, which, in 2010, will fund
two Rising Star Awards.

The objective of the COSAT-IMHRO Rising Star Awards Program is to
advance the understanding of underlying disease mechanisms in bipolar
disorder, schizophrenia and major depression with the great potential to
benefit patients and the healthcare system. The IMHRO Rising Star Awards
support cutting edge research programs throughout the world on the study
of psychiatric brain disorders, and are distributed annually at the
Staglin Family Music Festival For Mental Health, held this year in
September in Rutherford, Napa Valley, California.

“Our approach at IMHRO is to fund the best science as determined by our
independent scientific advisory board,” stated Garen Staglin, co-founder
of IMHRO, and proprietor of Staglin Family Vineyard. “This collaboration
will fund research of key scientists and will bring us closer than ever
to helping find the causes and cures for mental illness.”

The COSAT-IMHRO Rising Star Awards Program is intended to advance the
translation of discoveries from basic science research into therapies
for major psychiatric diseases. Understanding the mechanism of action
and the role in the brain of genes that are altered in psychiatric
disease supplies the first clue as to how these disorders arise. This
grant program fosters the next steps toward discovering therapies
through research into approaches that re-normalize or compensate for the
alterations that have already been discovered.

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