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Jeffrey Donald Jacobson 67, passed away August 6, 2010 at a local hospital. He was born June 21, 1943 in St. Augustine, FL to Lois (Kinney) and Donald Jacobson. Jeff was married to Erica (Ricki) Trybala on June 14, 1975 in Colorado Springs, who survives. He retired in 2004 after over 30 years with U.S.
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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.
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.
One important task when analyzing microarray data is that of determining which genes changed their expressions significantly from one state to another, for example, from tissues in a cancerous state to tissues in a healthy state. In general, the procedure in which such a task is undertaken is known as gene filtering and has been extensively explored due to its potential for recognizing a reduced number of genes, which recognition can offer a shortcut to illness diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment (4-5, 7-21). Gene filtering has been explored through a variety of techniques based on normal distribution, such as the 2 sample t-test (17), ANOVA (22), and the Welch t-test (19), among others. Some authors stress the fact that gene expression data do not follow a normal distribution (18, 21, 23), proposing the use of nonparametric statistical tests such as the Mann-Whitney (MW) test (18), also known as the Wilcoxon test. Genes selected through a filtering procedure can be used for many purposes. Of particular interest to this study was defining a classifier to determine whether a given tissue belongs to a particular category (i.e. cancer or healthy) through measuring the relative expressions of the selected genes. Thus, the interest was on developing a cancer diagnosis that is based on classification. As a precedent, our research group has previously proposed a strategy (based on the Wilcoxon test) to carry out gene filtering and tissue classification (24-25), aiming first for simplicity rather than performance. In this study, using this initial strategy as a baseline, classification performance was targeted through the development of two new methods. The first method employed the Wilcoxon test for gene filtering and classification; however, this revised method introduced a gene-set selection step right after filtering to enhance classification performance. The second method capitalized on this new structure, and used the Nemenyi-Damico-Wolfe (NDW) multiple comparison nonparametric test as a distinctive enhancement strategy. For brevity, the descriptions of the Wilcoxon and the NDW tests have been omitted here but can be readily perused in a textbook on nonparametric statistical methods, such as that of Hollander and Wolfe (26). The structure of this paper is as follows: In the next section, microarray databases are described in general, along with the details of the proposed methods. The computational setting is then discussed in the ensuing section, followed by an assessment of the classification performance of the proposed methods vs. that of the baseline approach. Finally, conclusions are drawn and future plans are described.
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IT was a flagship policy SNP ministers were determined to push through. Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskills promise to recruit 1000 extra police officers was designed to shore up his partys credentials on law and order. However, new budget forecasts on police funding mean that the policy to make Scotlands streets safer is now coming to an end. The Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, says the Nationalist Government is planning a 9% reduction in police funding next year. The SPF says this pound(s)88 million cut is likely to be part of a 24% decrease over four years. Next years cut alone is the equivalent of shedding 2800 police officer posts – enough to wipe out MacAskills gains three times over. The 24% decrease, which the SPF was made aware of through the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (Acpos), is much worse than the 16% cut which was previously planned for in private.
By Jayson Jenks The plan is there, somewhere, tucked inside Joe Daileys mind. He has always stored a plan, always had objectives and goals he needed to meet. In college, Dailey wanted to captain a team, start at quarterback and meet his wife. In coaching, he wants to master the tactful and competitive art of recruiting while at Kansas. Yet for a man who knew specifically what he wanted from college, who knew he would become a coach someday, who knew he was gaining valuable information while playing, he still stumbled upon a rarity of a playing career to reach this point.
WALTER Smith last night insisted that he “would be as well chucking it” if Rangers are forced to sell Kenny Miller or any other player before the transfer window closes at midnight on Tuesday. The Ibrox club have spent around pound(s)5.5 million in transfer fees this summer to recruit Nikica Jelavic, James Beattie and Vladimir Weiss, but Smith feels that Jelavics ineligibility for the Champions League means the onus should be on Rangers to bolster their squad rather than let anyone leave. Miller – who is entering the last year of his contract at Ibrox, is thought to be interesting Barclays Premier League side Newcastle – and it remains unclear how vulnerable Rangers would be to a late bid for any of their players. “We are not in the position where we need to sell,” Smith said. “We are putting ourselves into the situation where, if that was imposed on us, we would be as well chucking it, if you know what I mean. It is not going to be imposed on us, it is not going to happen. “The transfer window brings around that sort of question, but we have been sitting since the end of May and we have no enquiries for anyone who is playing in our team. The enquiries that we have had, the players have left us so hopefully we will get no enquiries and things will settle down.”
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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.
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.
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!
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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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One important task when analyzing microarray data is that of determining which genes changed their expressions significantly from one state to another, for example, from tissues in a cancerous state to tissues in a healthy state. In general, the procedure in which such a task is undertaken is known as gene filtering and has been extensively explored due to its potential for recognizing a reduced number of genes, which recognition can offer a shortcut to illness diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment (4-5, 7-21). Gene filtering has been explored through a variety of techniques based on normal distribution, such as the 2 sample t-test (17), ANOVA (22), and the Welch t-test (19), among others. Some authors stress the fact that gene expression data do not follow a normal distribution (18, 21, 23), proposing the use of nonparametric statistical tests such as the Mann-Whitney (MW) test (18), also known as the Wilcoxon test. Genes selected through a filtering procedure can be used for many purposes. Of particular interest to this study was defining a classifier to determine whether a given tissue belongs to a particular category (i.e. cancer or healthy) through measuring the relative expressions of the selected genes. Thus, the interest was on developing a cancer diagnosis that is based on classification. As a precedent, our research group has previously proposed a strategy (based on the Wilcoxon test) to carry out gene filtering and tissue classification (24-25), aiming first for simplicity rather than performance. In this study, using this initial strategy as a baseline, classification performance was targeted through the development of two new methods. The first method employed the Wilcoxon test for gene filtering and classification; however, this revised method introduced a gene-set selection step right after filtering to enhance classification performance. The second method capitalized on this new structure, and used the Nemenyi-Damico-Wolfe (NDW) multiple comparison nonparametric test as a distinctive enhancement strategy. For brevity, the descriptions of the Wilcoxon and the NDW tests have been omitted here but can be readily perused in a textbook on nonparametric statistical methods, such as that of Hollander and Wolfe (26). The structure of this paper is as follows: In the next section, microarray databases are described in general, along with the details of the proposed methods. The computational setting is then discussed in the ensuing section, followed by an assessment of the classification performance of the proposed methods vs. that of the baseline approach. Finally, conclusions are drawn and future plans are described.
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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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.
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.
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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!
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.
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County, Wyoming, that the Buyer has completed its due diligence on the
contracted properties. The Buyer reports that, because the title defects
identified are minor, it intends to proceed with a closing of the
transaction on Tuesday, September 7th, the day following
Labor Day, a bank holiday in the U.S. While the final settlement amount
has yet to be agreed upon, based on its most recent discussions with
representatives of the Buyer, Samson believes that its previous guidance
on the transaction with respect to the range of funds to be received by
Samson at closing remains accurate. Further advice concerning the final
amount paid to Samson will be announced when the parties agree upon a
final reconciliation at or before closing.
Fracture stimulation operations commenced today on the Gary #1-24H (37%
working interest) and the first of twenty stages has been pumped. The
stimulation will be a slick water frac fluid with a plan to place
150,000 lb of proppant per stage.
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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.
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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The Malaysia Food and Drink Report provides industry professionals and
strategists, corporate analysts, food and drink associations, government
departments and regulatory bodies with independent forecasts and
competitive intelligence on Malaysias food and drink industry.
BMI View: Malaysias food and drink industry continues to recover from
the slowdown experienced in 2009 with many of the countrys leading
industry players posting robust growth in interim financials. Even
allowing for this recovery, however, Malaysia continues to linger within
the bottom half of our Asia Pacific Food Drink Risk/Reward Ratings,
with neither existing consumption levels nor growth prospects exciting
enough to mark the country out among many of its higher growth regional
emerging market peers.
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This profile is the essential source for top-level energy industry data
and information. The report provides an overview of each of the key
sub-segments of the energy industry in New Zealand. It details the
market structure, regulatory environment, infrastructure and provides
historical and forecasted statistics relating to the supply/demand
balance for each of the key sub-segments. It also provides information
relating to the natural gas assets (gas fields, LNG terminals, pipelines
and underground gas storage terminals) in New Zealand.
The report also analyses the fiscal regime relevant to the natural gas
assets in New Zealand and compares the investment environment in New
Zealand with other countries in the region. The profiles of the major
companies operating in the natural gas sector in New Zealand together
with the latest news and deals are also included in the report.
Scope:
Supported by the governments agricultural machinery subsidy policy,
Chinas agricultural machinery industry has developed rapidly in recent
years.
1. The total number of agricultural machinery keeps growing
The total power of Chinas agricultural machinery was 525.7 million kW
in 2000, 684.0 million kW in 2005, 821.9 million kW in 2008, and 875.0
million kW in 2009. In the meantime, the ownership of large and
medium-sized tractors increased from 975,000 sets in 2000 to 5.019
million sets in 2009, while the ownership of combine harvesters rose
from 235,000 sets to 847,000 sets, at a CAGR of 20.2% and 15.3%
respectively.
2. The structure of agricultural machinery has been optimized
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Instant expert A FINE Leeds Pottery horse dating back to around 1825 is up for auction next month. It is one of just a handful produced as advertising wares for shop windows and is a museum piece of some note. ANYTHING to do with horses is always highly collectable. The Leeds horse (pictured below) is 43cm tall and was originally made for veterinary surgeons, saddlers and druggists. It was used as a sign that the business traded in products for horses.
Come on, Hollywood. A $10 million opening weekend is nothing to celebrate. You certainly wouldnt know that, though, if you read all the glowing press releases about last weekends new horror-comedy, “Piranha,” better known as “Piranha 3-D.” (Despite the misleading advertising, the film is playing in either 2-D or 3-D, depending on the location.) Anyway, officials from Dimension Film crowed about the $10 million haul and the No. 6 slot where the movie finished in the weekend Top 10. In fact, they already announced that a sequel is in the works. Dont believe the hype, though. This is simply more movie business “spin,” as its known. Other studios were putting similar spins on the performances of a glut of new movie releases. Almost all of them bombed at the box office last weekend.
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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Clarence (”Clancy”) Edward Aschbrenner, age 61, passed away on August 19, 2010, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was born December 9th, 1948, at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, to Major Reuben and Mrs. Norma Aschbrenner. As the son of an Air Force pilot, Clancy was raised across the United States as well as Canada, Germany, and Austria.
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.
Clarence (”Clancy”) Edward Aschbrenner, age 61, passed away on August 19, 2010, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was born December 9th, 1948, at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, to Major Reuben and Mrs. Norma Aschbrenner. As the son of an Air Force pilot, Clancy was raised across the United States as well as Canada, Germany, and Austria.
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The recent struggles in the European agricultural markets are negatively impacting the health of the Farm Products industry. This combined with the growing negative consumer sentiment that high-fructose corn syrup causes obesity, has caused major issues industry wide. However, while many people are switching to regular sugar, demand for high-fructose corn syrup in the U.S. and Mexico remains high due to an increase in soda sales.
Consumers Asked, Sara Lee Listened: Sara Lee Soft Smooth
Removes High Fructose Corn Syrup
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. — Sara Lee North American Fresh Bakery is reformulating the recipes of its
two most popular breads – Sara Lee Soft Smooth Made with
Whole Grain White bread and Sara Lee Soft Smooth 100% Whole
Wheat bread. The High Fructose Corn Syrup in both breads also has been
removed and includes sugar only. In addition, Sara Lee Soft Smooth 100%
Whole Wheat now includes vitamin D and is considered an excellent source
of calcium.
“Sara Lee Soft Smooth breads are among the best selling
breads in the United States and our core audience, parents with
children, has indicated that they want product options without High
Fructose Corn Syrup,” said Jeff Dryfhout, director, Sara Lee North
American Fresh Bakery. “With this new recipe Sara Lee Soft Smooth
bread is responding to the needs of our consumers while continuing to
provide great-tasting breads with the mild taste and soft texture
families love.”
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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.
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.
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Pro-Pointer, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: PPII), through its wholly owned subsidiary Coenzyme-A Technologies, Inc., is very pleased to announce its latest proprietary development, the Coenzyme-A “MODULATOR MATRIX V,” a proprietary nutraceutical formula that especially addresses the symptoms of Perimenopausal and menopausal women. Research shows that hormonal changes and chemical imbalances in perimenopausal and menopausal women contribute to higher levels of cholesterol, increased fat storage, stress, acne, anxiety, lack of energy, and depression.
Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death in men and women. For women their incidence rapidly increases during the Perimenopausal and Menopausal periods, which is directly related to increased levels of cholesterol and triglycerides.
The human body has a natural tendency to store away any excess calorie intake in its fat depot; this natural tendency increases in Perimenopausal and Menopausal women. Coenzyme-A is the key that unlocks this fat depot and is the agent that converts the stored fat into energy through lipid metabolism, which reduces cholesterol and triglycerides by increasing fat utilization.
Current studies also show that the metabolic enzyme (Coenzyme-A) plays a major role in the bodys ability to cope with stress, anxiety, and depression and further strengthen the immune system. In combating stress and anxiety, the body secretes hormones as a means to adapt to the ever increasing stress levels. These hormones are derivatives of cholesterol and an increased demand for them by the human body will prioritize and draw on the remaining available Coenzyme-A pool.
The world nutraceutical market, which is expected to top $15 billion this year, has enjoyed double-digit growth over the last few years and is expected to continue. Growth is believed to be driven by new product introduction and health consciousness within the aging population. The U.S. female baby boomers which are expected to reach well over 50 million by 2012 drive the U.S. market in the sense that they are the generation which is most likely to demand control over the course of their medical care and well being .
OSLO — Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has signed a three-year application outsourcing
(AO) contract with Norsk Hydro ASA, one of the worlds leading
integrated aluminum companies. The agreement covers support and
maintenance of two of Hydros SAP systems globally.
The agreement is designed to improve the efficiency and
cost-effectiveness of Hydro’s SAP-based business processes through an
industrialized approach that offers higher quality and innovation. The
services will be provided to Hydro users in multiple countries by
Accenture’s Global Delivery Network, using centers in Germany and
India. The delivery of the outsourced services is scheduled to begin in
October 2010.
“The agreement established today with Accenture is based on a standard
service customized to Hydro’s needs. When selecting our supplier we have
focused particularly on innovation, industry competency, flexibility,
global presence and a mature industrialized delivery and operations
approach that is cost competitive,” says Stig Heggelund, CIO, Hydro.
“This contract extends our long term collaboration with Norsk Hydro and
offers a new level of operational efficiency that helps Hydro succeed in
competitive international markets,” said Olav Skjaeveland, executive
director in Accenture’s Nordic Chemicals and Natural Resources Group.
“This is an excellent opportunity for Hydro to leverage our
market-leading AO capability.”
Accenture has worked with Hydro since the late 1980s, in the areas of
Consulting and Technology Services.
Byline: HELEN RAE WOMEN who use skinlightening creams are being reminded to check the contents of the product before applying it to their skin. Skin-lightening creams are sometimes used by Asian or black women as a means of making their skin fairer or to treat acne and are readily available from many stores, though some illegal versions can be bought on the internet or on the black market. These creams are generally marketed towards women of different ethnic communities who use them to reduce dark areas or to make their skin fairer. Sometimes pregnant women use the cream to reduce the black line – the linea nigra – that appears beneath their belly button during pregnancy. Such products are not illegal in Britain but are strictly regulated and therefore must have the name and address of the manufacturer and EU importer on the back as well as list of ingredients written in English either on its packaging or on a leaflet inside its box.
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Asked to size up Powers Boulevards retail potential a decade ago, developer Fred Veitch put it this way: “It will be the next Academy Boulevard – better done,” said Veitch, of Colorado Springs real estate company Norwood Development Group, which has since built several shopping areas along Powers. Until the late 1990s, Academy was Colorado Springs dominant retail corridor – with popular shopping centers and restaurants up and down the north-south highway, which stretches from one end of town to the other. Academy remains a busy retail destination, especially north of Woodmen Road. But its been displaced by Powers, which has several newer and better designed shopping centers, easier access to retail areas and some stores not found on Academy. But has Powers popularity come at Academys expense?
ROCKINGHAM, N.C. — North Carolina based Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc., a MarkNet
Alliance member, was recently the first auction company to ever conduct
a multi-parcel auction on location with live internet bidding available
through an interactive map.
The team at Iron Horse Auction broke new ground on their August 20th
auction offering a winery/vineyard onsite and to online bidders using
the open forum method of accelerated bidding using proprietary software
developed at MarkNet Alliance.
“Our company has strived to stay ahead to the curve on technology in
order to better serve our clients,” said Tom McInnis, one of the owners
at Iron Horse. “This new proprietary marketing tool will allow the
maximum participation for every property that we offer for sale. It will
prove to be the best method by which to attain maximum value for any
type of real estate offering.”
In the past there has not been a way to effectively offer property using
the multi-parcel method of selling to onsite and online bidders
simultaneously. Until this auction in order to use this method you would
have to rely on bidders traveling to the auction site. Now you can have
bidders at the site and international investors online bidding on the
property all in real time.
“Iron Horse Auction Company owners Tom McInnis and Bill Lilly along with
their team are masters of the trade. They did a tremendous job and made
auction history in the process,” said Chris Pracht, Director at MarkNet
Alliance.
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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).
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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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.”
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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.
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.
One important task when analyzing microarray data is that of determining which genes changed their expressions significantly from one state to another, for example, from tissues in a cancerous state to tissues in a healthy state. In general, the procedure in which such a task is undertaken is known as gene filtering and has been extensively explored due to its potential for recognizing a reduced number of genes, which recognition can offer a shortcut to illness diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment (4-5, 7-21). Gene filtering has been explored through a variety of techniques based on normal distribution, such as the 2 sample t-test (17), ANOVA (22), and the Welch t-test (19), among others. Some authors stress the fact that gene expression data do not follow a normal distribution (18, 21, 23), proposing the use of nonparametric statistical tests such as the Mann-Whitney (MW) test (18), also known as the Wilcoxon test. Genes selected through a filtering procedure can be used for many purposes. Of particular interest to this study was defining a classifier to determine whether a given tissue belongs to a particular category (i.e. cancer or healthy) through measuring the relative expressions of the selected genes. Thus, the interest was on developing a cancer diagnosis that is based on classification. As a precedent, our research group has previously proposed a strategy (based on the Wilcoxon test) to carry out gene filtering and tissue classification (24-25), aiming first for simplicity rather than performance. In this study, using this initial strategy as a baseline, classification performance was targeted through the development of two new methods. The first method employed the Wilcoxon test for gene filtering and classification; however, this revised method introduced a gene-set selection step right after filtering to enhance classification performance. The second method capitalized on this new structure, and used the Nemenyi-Damico-Wolfe (NDW) multiple comparison nonparametric test as a distinctive enhancement strategy. For brevity, the descriptions of the Wilcoxon and the NDW tests have been omitted here but can be readily perused in a textbook on nonparametric statistical methods, such as that of Hollander and Wolfe (26). The structure of this paper is as follows: In the next section, microarray databases are described in general, along with the details of the proposed methods. The computational setting is then discussed in the ensuing section, followed by an assessment of the classification performance of the proposed methods vs. that of the baseline approach. Finally, conclusions are drawn and future plans are described.
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NEVER mind footballs blue moon rising over Manchester, the Cardiff Blues are finally going to shine down over Welsh rugby. The Blues are my tip for the title as the Magners League campaign prepares for kick-off next week with a new 12-team format. If I was still a betting man Id stick a few quid on the Blues to win the tournament for the first time. Id also have an outside flutter on the Scarlets who have been given long odds, but who I reckon will reach the play-offs by finishing in the top four. The Ospreys are likely to join then – along with either Leinster or Munster – while the introduction of the two Italian sides will add spice to the tournament if not fresh title challengers. But my hunch is for the Blues to deliver a longoverdue championship after so many years of disappointment and under- achievement in this tournament.
THEY won the inaugural SNCL Premier Division in 2000 and Grange were last night confirmed as the team of the decade, lifting the title for the sixth and final time. Victory over Forfarshire at Forthill was enough to stave off the threat of Watsonians, who blew their chances against Dunfermline Knights at McKane Park. It has been a thrilling finale to the final season of league cricket in its present format – 16 teams will contest a diluted Premiership next season. While Grange are among a number of clubs with reservations about the new order, for the moment they will rightly savour their latest triumph. Pushed all the way by an emergent Watsonians outfit, Sanjay Patels side wobbled briefly when they lost to Clydesdale three weeks ago. It was their good fortune that outgoing champions Aberdeenshire chose that same day to hit form and dent the challenge of Watsonians.
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Brian Brawdy, renowned survivalist and creator of The Brian Brawdy Show , which will launch in Fall 2010, has partnered with Lance Travel Trailers and Solutions From Science to create an off the grid mobile residence and production studio.
Brawdy cites his inspiration as an incident that occurred in Tampa, Florida. He was relaxing and enjoying a margarita while watching ships come and go in the harbor, when he noticed a yacht with both a solar panel and a wind turbine mounted to the structure. This innovation sparked Brawdys imagination and he realized he wanted to do something similar with an RV.
He designed the brackets and poles to secure the wind turbines on his Lance 2285 Travel Trailer, and then chose Solutions From Science to help him design the rest of the setup. The trailer uses 5 solar panels and 2 wind turbines to generate all the electricity that Brawdy needs. While this is impressive enough for a standard RV, Brawdy has transformed his trailer into a mobile production facility where he creates, edits and broadcasts his show, all powered by the natural energies of the sun and wind.
The heart of the system is the PowerHub 1800 Plus from Solutions From Science . The hub connects directly to the solar panels and turbines, and controls all of the electricity generated by these devices. Some of the energy is directed for immediate needs, while the remainder is stored in 4 100-amp hour batteries. Interestingly, the PowerHub 1800 Plus can actually be removed from the truck/trailer assembly and used as a portable power unit for severe situations.
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WHEN your hair starts to grow back after alopecia it can have a couple of undesired effects. Just ask Gail Porter. The star told me over coffee at the GMTV studios this week: “My hair grew back and then my eyelashes. But Id completely forgotten about the rest of my body until I took my daughter Honey swimming and realised I had Julia Roberts armpits and God knows what else going on.” The star is currently planning her 40th birthday celebrations for early next year.
Variety Opens Call for Submissions for Special Pitch Session of New
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LOS ANGELES — Variety today announces it is seeking applications from companies
with innovative media products and technologies to participate in its
inaugural Film Marketing Summit, to be held October 5-6 at the Universal
Hilton in Los Angeles.
The two-day event will bring together the top theatrical marketers from
the major and independent studios to explore the dynamic world of
feature film promotion. A special session on October 6th
will focus on marketing innovation and give selected companies the
opportunity to present their offering during a live-pitch session: Media
Innovation that can Change the Game for Marketers. The session will
be moderated by Gordon Paddison, of global marketing firm Stradella
Road, who is serving as program director for the conference.
Selection criteria will focus on the applicant’s ability to offer
innovative approaches to film marketing and deliver measurable positive
impact in the coming year. Participants will be selected across a range
of technology and media arenas, including television, mobile, Internet,
and convergent platforms. Products and services presented must be live
in the marketplace before the end of this year to be eligible.
The session format will offer participants five minutes to pitch their
solutions before a panel of studio media executives, who will follow up
with rapid-fire questions to establish credibility and relevance to
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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).
WALTER SMITH is seeking a massive improvement on last seasons disastrous C h a m p i o n s L e a g u e campaign. Rangers finished bottom of their section after failing to win, home or away, against Seville, Stuttgart and Unirea. But while on paper Manchester United, Valencia and Bursaspor are even stronger, t h e I b r ox boss believes his players can step up. Smith (right) said: “Our Champions League performances from last season werent good enough, especially in our home games. “Manchester Uniteds pedigree is already set. Valencia have had a good few changes in their team for the first time in the last three seasons. They have lost four of their main players but have brought in another six or seven Spanish players. “They will be changed from the last two or three seasons where they have had fantastic consistency to finish third behind Barcelona and Real Madrid. “And Bursapor? Well, if you were drawn against Fenerbahce or Galatasaray you would say you wo u l d h ave a struggle. It would be a good game and Bursaspor have won the League and they beat Fenerbahce in the first game of the season.
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YOULL get pumped up about our great money-saving offer this bank holiday! Weve teamed up with Shell to give you and every Sunday Mirror reader pounds 2 off a 20-litre tank fill or more on their brilliant new fuels – Shell FuelSave Unleaded and Shell FuelSave Diesel. The new fuels, which have replaced Shells regular Unleaded and Diesel, have been designed by Shell scientists to help save you up to one litre per tank at no extra cost*. SIMPLY cut out the voucher (left) and hand to the cashier at a till point at any participating Shell Service Station in Great Britain before midnight Saturday September 4, 2010. Youll receive your pounds 2 discount when you buy 20 litres or more of Shell FuelSave Unleaded or Diesel. See voucher for full terms. If you have any issues redeeming this promotion please contact customer services on 0207 293 2220 (Mon-Fri: 9am-5pm, Sat/Sun: 9am-3pm. *Based on a minimum tank size and fill up of 50 litres. Comparison between a standard gasoline and that same standard gasoline containing our instantaneous fuel economy formula; urban cycle comparison between a standard diesel and that same standard diesel containing our instantaneous fuel economy formula. Actual savings may vary according to vehicle, driving conditions and driving style.
YOULL get pumped up about our great money-saving offer this bank holiday! Weve teamed up with Shell to give you and every Sunday Mirror reader pounds 2 off a 20-litre tank fill or more on their brilliant new fuels – Shell FuelSave Unleaded and Shell FuelSave Diesel. The new fuels, which have replaced Shells regular Unleaded and Diesel, have been designed by Shell scientists to help save you up to one litre per tank at no extra cost*. SIMPLY cut out the voucher (left) and hand to the cashier at a till point at any participating Shell Service Station in Great Britain before midnight Saturday September 4, 2010. Youll receive your pounds 2 discount when you buy 20 litres or more of Shell FuelSave Unleaded or Diesel. See voucher for full terms. If you have any issues redeeming this promotion please contact customer services on 0207 293 2220 (Mon-Fri: 9am-5pm, Sat/Sun: 9am-3pm. *Based on a minimum tank size and fill up of 50 litres. Comparison between a standard gasoline and that same standard gasoline containing our instantaneous fuel economy formula; urban cycle comparison between a standard diesel and that same standard diesel containing our instantaneous fuel economy formula. Actual savings may vary according to vehicle, driving conditions and driving style.
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Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: BGM)(FRANKFURT: IWUB) (the “Company”) announces that it has closed its private placement secured debt financing (the “Offering”) which was previously announced on July 23, 2010, July 26, 2010 and August 9, 2010, and for which DD Securities Company acted as lead agent together with MGI Securities Inc. as co-agent and other agents as part of the selling group (collectively, the “Agents”).
The Company raised a total of Cdn$5,535,000 from the issuance of $5,535,000 of senior secured convertible notes (the “Notes”) and 6,509,160 common share purchase warrants (the “Warrants”) of which $4,500,000 was issued on a brokered basis and the balance was raised directly by the Company. Management was of the opinion that it was unnecessary to incur any further debt than necessary.
The Notes are for a two year term and bear interest at an annual rate of 10% per year, payable quarterly. The Notes are convertible at the option of the holder (the “Noteholder”) into common shares of the Company (the “Shares”), at any time after 18 months from the date of issuance for a conversion price of $0.85 per Share. In the event of a change of control of the Company, the Noteholders will have the option to have their Notes redeemed by the Company. The Notes may be redeemed for cash at the option of the Company at any time after 6 months from the date of issuance, without penalty or premium. So long as any Notes remain outstanding, the Company may not undertake any further debt financings without prior approval of 66 2/3% of the Noteholders outstanding at that time.
The Notes were issued pursuant to a trust indenture among the Company, its wholly-owned subsidiary, 0847423 B.C. Ltd, and Computershare Trust Company of Canada. The Company has granted a charge against the QR Mining Lease, subject to permitted obligations and liabilities, to secure its obligations under the Notes. Commencing February 2011, the Company will use 25% of its Free Cash Flow on a monthly basis to redeem the Notes on a pro rata basis, thereby reducing the outstanding obligations of the Company to the Noteholders.
The Warrants are exercisable for a period of 2 years from the date of issuance at a price of $0.85 per share. If, after four months and one day after closing, the volume weighted average trading price of the Companys shares, for a period of 20 consecutive trading days exceeds $2.00, the Company may within five days after such event, provide notice to the warrant holders of the early expiry and thereafter, the Warrant will expire 30 days from such notice.
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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Finacity Corporation (”Finacity”) announced
today that, together with Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (”NORD/LB”),
it has facilitated a successful size increase to $55 million of a European
trade receivables securitization for CHC Helicopter.
Finacity Corporation (”Finacity”) announced
today that, together with Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (”NORD/LB”),
it has facilitated the successful closing of a European trade receivables
securitization for JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (”JohnsonDiversey”). The funding
agreement will provide JohnsonDiversey cash proceeds of up to EUR 50
million through the ongoing purchase of receivables from French, Spanish
and United Kingdom subsidiaries. NORD/LBs commercial paper conduit,
Hannover Funding Company LLC, will fund the transaction. NORD/LBs Asset
Backed Finance Group structured the transaction for Hannover Funding, and
Finacity provided analytical and structuring support and serves as ongoing
Administrator.
“NORD/LB is delighted to have partnered with Finacity to provide
JohnsonDiversey with increased liquidity from this transaction,” said Omar
Bolli, head of securitization at NORD/LB.
“Finacity is very pleased to implement a European receivable securitization
for JohnsonDiversey,” said Adrian Katz, Finacitys chief executive officer.
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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.
DENVER — Samson Oil Gas Limited (ASX:SSN) (NYSE AMEX:SSN):
Samson Oil Gas Limited (ASX:SSN) (NYSE AMEX:SSN) has been advised by
the Buyer of its Denver-Julesburg Basin acreage interests in Goshen
County, Wyoming, that the Buyer has completed its due diligence on the
contracted properties. The Buyer reports that, because the title defects
identified are minor, it intends to proceed with a closing of the
transaction on Tuesday, September 7th, the day following
Labor Day, a bank holiday in the U.S. While the final settlement amount
has yet to be agreed upon, based on its most recent discussions with
representatives of the Buyer, Samson believes that its previous guidance
on the transaction with respect to the range of funds to be received by
Samson at closing remains accurate. Further advice concerning the final
amount paid to Samson will be announced when the parties agree upon a
final reconciliation at or before closing.
Fracture stimulation operations commenced today on the Gary #1-24H (37%
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TWO million Britons rushed to the beach yesterday after the sun finally came out for the last Bank Holiday of 2010. Hottest was Bournemouth in Dorset, where the thermometer hit 21C. and all 3,000 deckchairs were rented out in minutes.
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ALEADING Scottish property developer employed “evil scheming” to gain access to historic land to build a lucrative private housing estate, according to documents seen by the Sunday Herald. The Lomond Group secretly planned to bounce Fife Council into ordering the demolition of a 300-year-old wall in the conservation village of Falkland, so farmland behind it could be opened up for a development likely to reap a multi-million pound profit. The companys behaviour has been condemned as “bullying” and “despicable” by residents, who described the destruction of the wall as “an act of vandalism”. Lomond said the wall had to come down because it was unsafe. A 20-metre stretch of sandstone wall was knocked down by a Lomond mechanical digger on April 7. Residents have argued the company manipulated the council to try and further its development plans. Their suspicions have now been reinforced by two company documents.
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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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.”
IRELANDS top wedding planner and Brides Of Franc star Peter Kelly has compiled his top recessionbusting wedding tips here for you. Hosting your wedding outside of traditional busy wedding times of the year can be the most important budgeting decision that you make at the outset. Most wedding suppliers will offer big reductions for traditional “off-peak” times of the year as well as midweek dates. With the Summer weather being less and less dependable brides should consider a Winter or Spring ceremony. Early December and early January can have all of the benefits of Christmas in terms of atmosphere and dcor while saving on the overall event. Your decision on the timing will also be reflected in the cost of your honeymoon so take your time over the decision. Give yourself plenty of time to shop around for everything from venues, suppliers to the smaller details such as accessories, to ensure that you get the very best value for your money and dont run out of time. Replace favours with a centrepiece that can be given as a gift to guests at the end of the evening. This will save you time and money as your centrepiece and favours will act as one. Try choosing a potted flower or plant that matches nicely with your wedding theme.
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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.
IT is the storm before the storm. In theory, Chancellor George Osborne will identify the targets for 25-40% cuts in departmental spending this October. Holyrood Finance Sectretary John Swinney is set to wield the Scottish axe in November. But already Scotland is in a state of fiscal shock. Central Scotland Police has announced that 23% of its officers are to be axed. Strathclyde Police is cutting 25% of its support staff and 200 officers. Security at the Commonwealth Games in 2014 could be in danger, we are told, because of a lack of police personnel. As we report today, the Scottish Police Federation expects there will be a 9% cut in police funding over the next financial year. This amounts to pound(s)88 million – the equivalent of 2800 police officer posts. As a result, it predicts that violent crime will rocket, and there will be insufficient personnel to respond to emergencies. Could we be contemplating a Scotland in which 999 calls go unanswered? Throughout the public sector the story is the same, with councils and quangos vying to get their cuts in first. The newly elected leader of Glasgow City Council, Gordon Matheson, has forecast reductions in school transport, increased charges for sports facilities and an end to free personal care for the elderly. There is talk of merging some of Scotlands 32 councils, privatising water, curtailing rural transport. There is a clamour for the freeze on council tax to be ended. If that happens it will complete the triple-whammy of poorer services, higher charges and higher taxes. Schools, say Labour, are already in chaos with 90% of newly qualified teachers without a permanent job, while the Curriculum for Excellence is faltering because of a shortage of teachers and classroom assistants. Universities are retrenching. Social house- building is at a standstill. The Edinburgh Festival may look in rude health, but its organisers are warning about a funding crisis next year. Meanwhile, Glasgows prestigious arts institutions are contemplating uncertain futures. As for our health services, although the NHS is supposed to be ring-fenced, the British Medical Association is calling for the Government to start thinking about spending cuts now to avoid “slash and burn” later.
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Instant expert A FINE Leeds Pottery horse dating back to around 1825 is up for auction next month. It is one of just a handful produced as advertising wares for shop windows and is a museum piece of some note. ANYTHING to do with horses is always highly collectable. The Leeds horse (pictured below) is 43cm tall and was originally made for veterinary surgeons, saddlers and druggists. It was used as a sign that the business traded in products for horses.
A day after unleashing advertisements that portray his opponent as an extremist, Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet called for cleaner campaigns and the end of partisan bickering. During a campaign stop in Colorado Springs on Friday, Bennet said todays children deserve a brighter future removed from political polarization. “We need to construct a politics thats worthy of them,” he said. Of the ad slamming Republican Senate hopeful Ken Buck that started airing a few hours earlier, Bennet said the truth is not an attack, and Buck threw the first punch. “Unfortunately, thats the kind of campaign he started,” Bennet said of Buck.
The FusionStorm Foundation has partnered with SiliconView for an unprecedented advertising blitz to stimulate ticket sales in the last days before the Dream Sail Raffle drawing. The Dream Sail Raffle was set up to assist Ocean Voyages Institute and Project Kaisei with their ocean clean up initiative. The project aims to clean up plastics that are harmful to the worlds ocean and its marine life.
John G. Varel, CEO of FusionStorm and Co Founder of The FusionStorm Foundation, stated, “We are grateful to have a partner such as SiliconView, who understands the importance of raising awareness about the state of our oceans and the damaging effect of plastics. The SiliconView board is the brightest, biggest and the best to communicate our message to millions and the fact that SiliconView has partnered to extend an unprecedented number of advertising spots confirm this.”
Adam Kates, General Manager of SiliconView, stated, “We are very pleased to partner with the FusionStorm Foundation to promote this important fundraiser in support of cleaner and healthier oceans.”
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G4G Resources Ltd. (”G4G”, “the Company”) (TSX VENTURE: GXG) is pleased to provide an update on the Guatemala Iron Sands project which was announced on May 10, 2010.
With the aim of identifying prospective exploration areas within the Off-Shore Reconnaissance License, the Company conducted sampling within an area starting near the Port of San Jose, Guatemala, and extending approximately sixty-eight kilometres to the west. Auger sampling was conducted on the shore line at approximately one kilometre spacing, together with a series of ocean-floor grab samples also spaced at approximately one kilometre and approximately one kilometre parallel to the shore line. All samples were subjected to XRF analysis by ACME and ALS Chemex Laboratories of Vancouver, B.C.
Basil Botha, President and CEO stated, “The auger and ocean floor sample results provide management with a great deal of confidence in the potential of the iron sands in Guatemala. More importantly, the assays highlight several potential target areas for exploration along the 250km shoreline. The reported iron content (Fe2O3) of the titanomagnetite iron sands is similar to other successful iron sands projects and is very encouraging.”
The table below summarizes composite samples taken from a number of sample areas along the shore line and off-shore. The average grade for 28 auger samples on the shore line is 18.06% Fe2O3 and the average grade for 64 ocean floor grab samples is 6.62% Fe2O3.
Binswanger has been named exclusive agent by Pacolet Milliken Enterprises for the marketing of a single-story, 165,252 sq. ft. industrial building situated on over 29 acres — with additional acreage available — all located on US Highway 278 just east of Saluda, South Carolina.
This former textile manufacturing facility features 6″ reinforced concrete floors; concrete panel walls, 22 to 32 clear ceiling heights, a fire protection sprinkler system throughout, thirteen 8 x 10 dock high doors, one drive-in door, and two 2-ton bridge cranes. The building also includes approximately 5,760 sq. ft. of office space and provides paved parking for 200 cars.
The site offers good proximity to Interstate 20 and Interstate 26, and is approximately 40 miles from the Columbia Metropolitan Airport.
Binswanger is aggressively marketing the property to a wide variety of manufacturers as well as prospects in the wholesale trade industries.
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Readers who followed the serial publication of Bleak House (March 1852–September 1853) were met with a scene both grotesque and mysterious in the tenth installment of December 1852. At that point in the novel, Guppy and Jobling are shocked to find their rooms infected by some horrible substance: “A thick yellow liquor defiles them, which is offensive to the touch and sight and more offensive to the smell. A stagnant, sickening oil, with some natural repulsion in it that makes them both shudder.” Upon venturing downstairs to Mr. Krooks quarters, they find no sign of the man, “but there is a smouldering suffocating vapour in the room, and a dark greasy coating on the walls and ceiling.” Even more remarkable: “Here is a small burnt patch of flooring; here is the tinder from a little bundle of burnt paper, but not so light as usual, seeming to be steeped in something; and here is–is it the cinder of a small charred and broken log of wood sprinkled with white ashes, or is it coal? O Horror, he IS here!” The dreadful scene leads to only one conclusion: Mr. Krook is dead from “Spontaneous Combustion, and none other of all the deaths that can be died” (403; ch. 32). This episode of spontaneous combustion met immediately with criticism from scientist, philosopher, and literary critic George Henry Lewes. (1) Lewes protested the impossibility of such a manner of death in an article published in The Leader, sparking a public debate with Dickens, detailed in Gordon Haights 1968 article, “Dickens and Lewes on Spontaneous Combustion.” (2) Since then, other critics have joined the fray. Rarely has the significance of spontaneous combustion been in question–critics generally agree that the episode symbolizes Krooks association with the all-consuming Court of Chancery. More often at issue is whether the symbolism of Krooks death relies upon the credibility of spontaneous combustion, as Dickenss defensive response to Lewes seems to suggest. Dickens writes to Lewes that he must have “assumed that I knew nothing at all about the question–had no kind of sense of my responsibility–and had taken no trouble to discriminate between truth and falsehood.” On the contrary, Dickens continues, “I looked into a number of books with great care, expressly to learn what the truth was” (Letters 7: 2829). Critics have argued that Dickenss mistaken belief in the possibility of spontaneous combustion does not affect its metaphorical importance (Levine 133; Denman 140). Some have offered scientific evidence contemporary with the novel in order to justify Dickenss defense of spontaneous combustion (Wilkinson 23247; Gaskell 2635). Others have suggested that plausibility actually does matter, arguing that a grasp of the full import of Krooks death requires a suspension of disbelief (Blount 211). More recently, Daniel Hack has asserted that the symbolism of Krooks death is most meaningful when read as a contestation of science as the supreme authority of truth (146). In response to Hacks point that spontaneous combustion undermines the authority of science (even as the public debate with Lewes apparently adheres to its standards of proof ), I will be arguing, rather, that Dickens subordinates empirical science to other forms of cognition. While it may seem that the debate about spontaneous combustion has been exhausted–that Dickens was simply obstinate or misinformed or both–I suggest that the question of spontaneous combustion in Bleak House is symptomatic of a larger contemporary debate that moves beyond the pages of fiction. Examining Krooks explosive death in the context of a Victorian discourse about creativity, art, science and morality, allows us to understand better what was at stake for Dickens in his exchange with Lewes, and why he had to insist science was on his side in order to make his case for the imagination. The necessity of employing both head and heart is central to Bleak House, which attempts to negotiate the symbiosis of heart and mind while answering to the objective clarity of facts that science demands in its explanations. It is my contention that Dickens clearly privileges imagination as a mode of cognition, but also recognizes the necessity of its belated confirmation by way of empirical evidence. Krooks death by spontaneous combustion is just one example of the way this debate is articulated in Bleak House. In the narrative, Dickens enters a nineteenth-century discourse that explores the tension between what we intuitively feel and what we can empirically prove. While Dickens repeatedly insists that intuition and imagination are better and sharper methods of understanding, he acknowledges that power lies with those who can prove their case empirically. For Dickens, the world of material facts must correspond with the world of intuitive understanding because the latter is what connects people to one another and gives facts their meaning and significance.
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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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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.”
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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.
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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This decrease in return counts also reflects the expected recessionary period in the U.S. economy and its implications for tax return volumes. Historically, recessionary periods are correlated with increases in unemployment and corresponding decreases in taxable income. This reduction in income can be expected to reduce overall individual tax return filings, as the projections indicate. After CY 2010, grand total return filings are projected to grow at a more common average annual rate of 1.1 percent and are expected to reach 253.6 million returns by 2016. The average rate of growth is derived mainly by projected trends for the major return categories that comprise grand total filings, including individual income tax returns and business tax returns like employment tax returns, corporation tax returns, partnership returns, and estate tax returns. In addition, projections for total electronic returns continue to show a steady increase over the forecast horizon. This growth of electronic filing furthers IRSs strategic goal to improve taxpayer service. For example, according to the most recent forecast, total individual electronic returns are estimated to be 66 percent of all individual income tax returns filed in 2009 and are projected to constitute 79 percent of all returns in 2016. Trend in Grand Total Returns
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.
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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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National Broadband Network: Australia is among the leading countries
whose government is actively investigating the social and economic
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quality broadband infrastructure include tele-health, e-education,
e-business, digital media, e-government, smart meters etc. In countries
where the national telco is lagging behind we see that local governments
have no choice other than to take a leadership role, as they have done
with similar infrastructure over the last 100 years.
The decision from the Australian government to launch a $43 billion
national FttH broadband network is a clear indication that they believe
broadband is essential infrastructure. It fulfils a national purpose as
its trans-sector multiplier effect delivers massive social and economic
benefits in healthcare, education, energy and the environment. A digital
economy requires an open broadband infrastructure, and for that to work
it can only be built by a utility (NBN Co). While there certainly are
questions regarding the business model and the investment plan, there is
widespread support for the visionary plan.
BOSTON PARIS — KIKA™
Clinical Solutions continues to drive EDC technology innovation with
Veracity™ 3.10, the latest release of its market-leading, advanced EDC
platform. KIKA is the leading provider of advanced
EDC solutions for Clinical
Asset Management™ for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical
device markets.
Veracity™ is a highly configurable, collaborative platform for all
clinical trial stakeholders. Its Web services architecture enables
customers to integrate Veracity™ seamlessly into their clinical IT
systems. It enables all clinical trial stakeholders to collect, monitor,
adjudicate, analyze and manage all clinical study data (CRF, medical
images, lab data, etc) in real time, and store them into a CDISC-ready
database. Veracity is supported by an ISO-certified quality environment.
It enables regulatory compliance including 21 CFR Part 11.
KIKA CEO Linda Beneze said, “Our customers and partners report that
Veracity™ 3.10 improves their ability to collect, control and maximize
their most important clinical trial asset – their data.”
Veracity™ 3.10 delivers several features and improvements, including:
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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.
MERCEDES-BENZ has set tongues wagging and pulses racing as it unveiled the new CLS this week.
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.
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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.
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COLEEN Rooney has left the hubby and kid at home and headed off for some rest and relaxation in Ibiza. The WAG left eightmonth-old son Kai in the care of footballer husband Wayne, 24, and went off on a girlie holiday. She flew out to Ibiza from Manchester on Friday morning and is now thought to be staying at a private villa with four friends near the islands clubbing capital of San Antonio. A source said: “Coleen was telling everyone she was determined to let her hair down for a few days. “She loves being a new mum. But like every young woman Coleen also enjoys relaxing with her mates.”
TWO million Britons rushed to the beach yesterday after the sun finally came out for the last Bank Holiday of 2010. Hottest was Bournemouth in Dorset, where the thermometer hit 21C. and all 3,000 deckchairs were rented out in minutes.
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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.
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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One important task when analyzing microarray data is that of determining which genes changed their expressions significantly from one state to another, for example, from tissues in a cancerous state to tissues in a healthy state. In general, the procedure in which such a task is undertaken is known as gene filtering and has been extensively explored due to its potential for recognizing a reduced number of genes, which recognition can offer a shortcut to illness diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment (4-5, 7-21). Gene filtering has been explored through a variety of techniques based on normal distribution, such as the 2 sample t-test (17), ANOVA (22), and the Welch t-test (19), among others. Some authors stress the fact that gene expression data do not follow a normal distribution (18, 21, 23), proposing the use of nonparametric statistical tests such as the Mann-Whitney (MW) test (18), also known as the Wilcoxon test. Genes selected through a filtering procedure can be used for many purposes. Of particular interest to this study was defining a classifier to determine whether a given tissue belongs to a particular category (i.e. cancer or healthy) through measuring the relative expressions of the selected genes. Thus, the interest was on developing a cancer diagnosis that is based on classification. As a precedent, our research group has previously proposed a strategy (based on the Wilcoxon test) to carry out gene filtering and tissue classification (24-25), aiming first for simplicity rather than performance. In this study, using this initial strategy as a baseline, classification performance was targeted through the development of two new methods. The first method employed the Wilcoxon test for gene filtering and classification; however, this revised method introduced a gene-set selection step right after filtering to enhance classification performance. The second method capitalized on this new structure, and used the Nemenyi-Damico-Wolfe (NDW) multiple comparison nonparametric test as a distinctive enhancement strategy. For brevity, the descriptions of the Wilcoxon and the NDW tests have been omitted here but can be readily perused in a textbook on nonparametric statistical methods, such as that of Hollander and Wolfe (26). The structure of this paper is as follows: In the next section, microarray databases are described in general, along with the details of the proposed methods. The computational setting is then discussed in the ensuing section, followed by an assessment of the classification performance of the proposed methods vs. that of the baseline approach. Finally, conclusions are drawn and future plans are described.
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.
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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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.
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.
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The Malaysia Food and Drink Report provides industry professionals and
strategists, corporate analysts, food and drink associations, government
departments and regulatory bodies with independent forecasts and
competitive intelligence on Malaysias food and drink industry.
BMI View: Malaysias food and drink industry continues to recover from
the slowdown experienced in 2009 with many of the countrys leading
industry players posting robust growth in interim financials. Even
allowing for this recovery, however, Malaysia continues to linger within
the bottom half of our Asia Pacific Food Drink Risk/Reward Ratings,
with neither existing consumption levels nor growth prospects exciting
enough to mark the country out among many of its higher growth regional
emerging market peers.
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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).
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WEST HAVEN, Conn. — NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC.OB)
(the “Company”), reports that its anti-Herpes drug candidates
demonstrated significant efficacy in the recently completed cell culture
studies. The studies were performed in the laboratory of Dr. Ken
Rosenthal at Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and
Pharmacy.
Several of the anti-Herpes nanoviricides® demonstrated a dose-dependent
maximal inhibition of Herpes virus infectivity in a cell culture model.
Almost complete inhibition of the virus production was observed at
clinically usable concentrations. These studies employed the H129 strain
of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1). H129 is an encephalitic strain
that closely resembles a clinical isolate; it is known to be more
virulent than classic HSV-1 laboratory strains. The H129 strain will be
used in subsequent animal testing of nanoviricides.
This anti-HSV program is designed for the development of an effective
anti-herpes nanoviricide drug for the treatment of cold sores or genital
herpes simplex virus infections. The Company plans to develop this drug
as a skin cream or ointment formulation for external application.
The nanoviricides® mechanism of action is believed to mimic a natural
host cell receptor by which the virus binds and infects cells; binding
of a nanoviricide nanomicelle to the virus renders it non-infectious. A
nanoviricide would thus stop the spread of the viral infection to new
uninfected cells. This mechanism is different from that of currently
available anti-Herpes drugs and therefore is expected to be
complementary to that of the current drugs.
“These results extend the earlier results of our anti-Herpes
nanoviricides® testing in different HSV-1 cell culture models at other
laboratories,” said Randall Barton, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of the
Company, adding, “These studies will enable the selection of optimal
anti-Herpes nanoviricides® for evaluation in animal models of Herpes
virus infections.”
WILBRAHAM, Mass. — Harsha V. Agadi has been named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Friendly Ice Cream Corporation (“Friendly’s”), effective immediately.
With 24 years of foodservice industry experience, Agadi is known for his
success with Atlanta-based Church’s Chicken, where during his five years
as president and CEO he grew system sales to exceed $1 billion.
Following the 2009 sale of the company, Agadi continues to serve as a
shareholder and board member.
“Harsha has an outstanding track record of helping classic American
brands reach their full potential through tightly focused concept
evolution and strategic growth,” said Chris Metz, managing director of
Sun Capital Partners, Inc. “We are confident that his insight, skills
and experience will take this beloved brand to the next level.”
Incumbent President and CEO Ned R. Lidvall has left the company to
pursue other interests. Lidvall joined Friendly’s in 2008 following his
tenure as president and CEO of Rock Bottom Restaurants, Inc., a
privately owned company based in Boulder, Colorado.
After earning a bachelor’s degree from the University of Bombay, Agadi
moved to the U.S. in 1984, where he earned an MBA at Duke University’s
Fuqua School of Business. He began his foodservice career focused on
pizza, with positions at Pizza Hut, Domino’s and Little Caesar’s. In
2004, he led the purchase of Church’s Chicken, where he was named
president and CEO. The chain sold in 2009.
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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.
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.”
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.
August 31, 2010
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RICHMOND, Va. — Hellerman Baretz Communications (HBC) announces that Mike C. Gray has
joined the firm as a Senior Account Executive. Gray has counseled law
firms across the country including a national intellectual property
boutique and an international AmLaw 100 firm. Most recently, he served
as the Communications Business Development Specialist at Williams
Mullen, where he managed all of the firm’s public relations efforts as
well as the business development function of the financial services and
real estate sections.
Gray has developed and implemented many successful and robust PR-fueled
business development campaigns, almost all of which have included
attaining top tier rankings for firms and partners in national trade
publications, and coordinating successful new business proposals after
invitations had been received.
“Mike’s impressive experience and success at a variety of leading law
firms makes him an exceptional addition to our HBC team,” said John
Hellerman, co-founder of HBC. “Mike understands the power of actively
using PR-generated content to help create more new business
opportunities. Our clients engage us to do exactly that, and they will
benefit from his expertise.”
“Rather than producing mere publicity, HBC’s mission to partner with
clients to produce meaningful business development results is what
inspired me to join,” Gray said.
Gray is a graduate of the University of Richmond where he majored in
English and American Studies. He holds leadership positions with
numerous organizations in the Richmond area including: Co-chair of the
public relations and marketing committee for the Greater Richmond
Chamber of Commerce’s HYPE (Helping Young Professionals Engage) program,
Chair of the communications technology committee for the Legal
Marketing Association Virginias Chapter, and Development Chair for the
Tredegar Society, a young professionals organization that supports the
American Civil War Center.
AuraSource, Inc. (OTCBB: ARAO), a developer of clean energy technology, today announced that its AuraFuel joint venture, China Qinzhou Kaiyuyuan New Energy Co., Ltd. (”Kaiyuyuan New Energy”), received approval notice from the China Environmental Protection Administration (”China EPA”).
Environmental impacts of any industrial project are regulated by the environmental protection law, and China has adopted some of the worlds highest EPA standards for new projects. AuraSources China project team has been working with the China Ministry of Environment Protection Nanjing Institute (”EPNI”) on the environmental assessment of this project since December 2009. The environmental assessment review of the AuraFuel processing plant began in April 2010. The approval process is not one taken lightly by the government and only companies most fit to abide by the governments strict standards and policies are granted approval. With this approval comes great responsibility for the Company and its executives, as often times they are held personally liable if the guidelines are not adhered to.
The approval allows for the commencement of geological drilling and further designing of the AuraFuel plant. China EPAs approval allows Kaiyuyuan New Energy to proceed with construction of a facility that, among many functions, will have the capacity to process up to one million tons of oil shale per year.
AuraSources CEO Philip Liu said, “We are very pleased with the China EPA approval. We have been working very hard with CCECC to obtain the China EPAs approval of the AuraFuel plant. EPNI has been instrumental in moving this forward in a professional and efficient manner. AuraSource and its joint venture partners are making environmental considerations the chief priority in designing and building our AuraFuel plants. This environmental focus will allow us to expand in other markets.”
Sherman Kent Fitzgerald Sherman Kent Fitzgerald, 59, passed away July 6, 2010 in Riverton, Utah. He was born August 29, 1950 in Draper, Utah to Sherman Sandberg and LaVonne Palmquist Fitzgerald. Graduated from Jordan High School. Decorated Veteran, proudly served two tours of duty in Vietnam. Married June Rose Tetrick. Partner in family business – K.D.K. Dairy. Worked in law enforcement at Deseret Chemical Depot. Survived by sons, Mack Kent and Sherman Sam; granddaughter, Kenzie (Sam); parents, LaVonne and Sherman; brothers, Darwin and Kevin; sisters, Karen and Karleen.