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HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, belongs to a class of viruses that insert a copy of themselves into the genomes of the cells they infect. As long as some infected cells are alive, it is impossible to completely eliminate the virus. As a result, medical research has focused on two areas: vaccines that can prevent infection in the first place, and antiviral medications that keep the infection in check once it's established. Despite incredible successes in the development of antivirals, they'd still be needed for the rest of an infected individual's life, as a lapse could allow the virus to return from cells in which it had established a long-term infection.
Recently, however, came a report that early treatment with antivirals has allowed one individual to keep an HIV infection limited for extended periods of time without treatment. Now, a report in PLOS pathogens suggests that this case may not be as exceptional as we might have thought. In a small population of people treated immediately after infection, about 15 percent managed to keep the virus in check after they discontinued other treatments.
There have been a number of individuals who show a more complicated infection, one in which they never progress to full-blown AIDS. Many of these have a mutation in a gene that the virus uses to latch on to and enter cells. Bone marrow transplants using cells from people with this mutation have now been used in procedures that seem to have eliminated the virus from at least three individuals. Bone marrow transplants are drastic and carry risks (these patients needed them for other reasons), so this doesn't represent a general cure, but it did suggest that the virus might not necessarily get established widely in the body.
There has also been some evidence that, in other individuals, the immune system can keep the virus in check. These people don't carry the mutation described above, yet their infections still don't generally progress to AIDS. Instead, they seemed to have a specific combination of genes that help the immune system recognize foreign antigens; presumably, these enable the immune system to mount an aggressive attack whenever the virus emerges from any cells it's hiding in.
Unfortunately, both of these groups combined only account for less than one percent of the total population of infected individuals. But they do suggest that the immune system isn't always helpless in the face of an HIV infection.
The new results reinforce that sense. Through a variety of studies, the authors (based in France) have identified fourteen individuals who started antiviral treatment less than two months after first infection. Most of them continued that therapy for two years or more (the median duration was three years), but then discontinued it. Unlike the majority of their peers, however, the virus didn't return when the treatment was stopped, and none of the fourteen had the genetic variants associated with resisting HIV described above.
In contrast to the previously identified classes of individuals who controlled HIV infections, the fourteen patients described in this paper don't have a robust response to infected cells. Instead, the early antiviral treatment seemed to keep the reservoir of infected cells small; relatively few of the inactive immune cells appear to have been infected under these conditions. Under those circumstances, it appears that enough functional immune cells can form to keep the HIV infection from reaching a dangerous level, even though it's probably not eliminated entirely. As the authors note, lowering the virus' infection rate will also limit its ability to evolve to adapt to its host, which may also keep the virus in check.
How common is this? The authors estimate that as many as 15 percent of the infected population could respond this way if they're given early and aggressive treatment with antiviral medication. That's not a huge number, but it would be a substantial dent in the public health burden involved in lifelong treatments. Of course, doing so requires people to recognize when they've been infected, something that isn't always obvious.
The results also give us hope that there may be ways to help the immune system keep the virus in check, by limiting the number of cells that carry a copy of the virus in their genomes. The unfortunate thing is that it doesn't necessarily tell us how to get back to that state once the virus is established in a large number of cells.
PLOS Pathogens, 2013. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003211 (About DOIs).


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October 7, 2010American Suzuki Motor Corp. is proud to congratulate all of the racers who took the powerful GSX-R lineup of motorcycles to the top of the AMA Pro Road Racing circuit in 2010, including Martin Cardenas who earned the Daytona SportBike Championship aboard his GSX-R600. Suzuki had a great 2010 and took home the Manufacturer's Cup in both the AMA American SuperBike class with the strength and the power of the GSX-R1000 on the racetrack, as well as in the Daytona SportBike class with the championship-winning GSX-R600.
Martin Cardenas and his M4 Monster Energy Suzuki GSX-R600 took the championship at the series finale at Barber Motorsports Park in Leeds, Alabama, in the hotly contested Daytona SportBike class. His win in the second race of the doubleheader gave him enough points to edge out Danny Eslick and his Geico Powersports RMR Suzuki GSX-R600, who finished second in the class. Cardenas won a total of nine races in 2010 and was a consistent threat to others' championship hopes in the series. Eslick took his Suzuki to three wins during the season and was on the podium far more often than not in the highly competitive class. The GSX-R600 was a venerable threat on the track to all other competitors, and overall the machine won nine races and was on the podium a total of 25 times.
In the SuperBike class, Tommy Hayden took his Rockstar Energy Suzuki GSX-R1000 to second place overall in the championship, and with the strength of his season along with teammate Blake Young, they earned Suzuki the Manufacturer Championship in the series. Hayden took his first SuperBike-class win in 2010 and finished the year with five total wins. Young and his GSX-R1000 also won their first races of their career with a double victory at Road Atlanta, and a wild win in the rain during the final race of the season at Barber. John Hopkins, after recovering from an injury, finished off his 2010 season strong with three podium finishes aboard his M4 Monster Energy Suzuki GSX-R1000, finishing as high as second in the final race. Jake Zemke of the National Guard Jordan Suzuki team took first place in both races at Daytona. His GSX-R1000 worked flawlessly throughout both 44-mile, 15-lap races. The GSX-R1000 was victorious a total of 10 times in the SuperBike series and finished on the podium an impressive 26 times in all.
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"Tim Cook reportedly sent an urgent memo yesterday addressing alleged violations of health and safety at factories of suppliers, following negative stories in NYT and elsewhere," Rocco Pendola writes for Seeking Alpha. "Cook says Apple is 'attacking problems aggressively' and that the company is leading the industry by planning to open up to the Fair Labor Association for inspection of suppliers' facilities."
"This sort of response is not very Jobsian. Neither are all of the feel-good memos addressing the 'team' and actions such as encouraging members to make charitable donations that Apple would proudly match," Pendola writes. "That's very San Francisco of Cook. And that runs in stark contrast to Jobs, who, while born in San Francisco, ended up being, according to Lashinsky's account, the farthest thing from a 'do-good liberal,' at least in the financial and business matters we think we know about via the media."
"Let me be clear about a few things. As a human, I prefer the Cook style over the Jobs style any day of the week. I've learned from experience that you'll lead a better life doing things the Cook way," Pendola writes. "That said, I think Jobs would hammer Cook for what he's doing. At some point, Cook is going to write a memo or do the right thing one too many times out of concern for Apple's 'values."' One of these moves could end up harming the business and hurting the stock. Simply put, Jobs probably stayed much further away from this sort of thing than Cook does not because he was a bad guy with no 'values,' but because he did not want to wake sleeping dogs or tiptoe around land mines."
Pendola writes, "I'm not saying Cook's way of being provides a reason to sell or not buy Apple stock. I am, however, pointing to an area of legitimate concern. People close to the situation seem to think that the worst in Jobs is what brought out the best in Apple. If that was indeed the magic, it's about to be gone."
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MacDailyNews Take: Tim Cook is not going to "harm the business" because he believes in doing the right thing and communicating it with employees (and everyone else). If anything, he'll only enhance the business.
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Based upon Sir James M. Barrie's 1904 play about the boy who refuses to grow up, the film begins in the London nursery of Wendy, John, and Michael Darling, where three children are visited by Peter Pan. With the help of his tiny friend, the fairy Tinkerbell, Peter takes the three children on a magical flight to Never Land.
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In the nursery of the Darling home, a dog is the nurse, or nanny. Perhaps that is one reason there is so much joy there. Nurse Nana bathes the three children and gives them their suppers and in all ways watches over them. One night, Mrs. Darling, on Nana's night off, sits with the children as they sleep. Drowsing, she is awakened by a slight draft from the window, and, looking around, she sees a strange boy in the room. She screams, and Nana, who has just returned home, lunges for the intruder, but the boy leaps out the window, leaving only his shadow behind. He had been accompanied also by a ball of light, but it too has escaped. Mrs. Darling rolls up the boy's shadow and puts it in a drawer, thinking that the boy will come back for it sometime soon and thus may be caught.
When Mr. Darling is told of the incident he considers it a little silly; at present he is more concerned with finding a different nurse for the children. Believing that the dog, Nana, is getting too much authority in the household, Mr. Darling drags her out of the house and locks her up.
Mr. and Mrs. Darling go out the following night, leaving only a maid to look in on the children occasionally. After the lights are out and the children are asleep, the intruder returns. The boy, whose name is Peter Pan, is accompanied by Tinker Bell, a fairy who appears as a ball of light. Peter finds his shadow after searching in all the drawers in the nursery, but in his excitement he shuts Tinker Bell in one of the drawers.
As Peter tries to get his shadow to stick to him again, he makes enough noise to awaken Wendy, the daughter of the household. Peter tells Wendy that he ran away the day he was born because he heard his parents talking about all the things he would do when he was a man; he went to live with the fairies so that he would never have to grow up. Suddenly he remembers Tinker Bell, and he looks for her until he finds her in one of the nursery dressers. Tinker Bell, a ball of light no bigger than a fist, is so small that Wendy can hardly see her. She is not a very polite fairy—she calls Wendy horrible names.
Peter tells Wendy, the only girl of the three Darling children and instantly his favorite, that he and Tinker Bell live in Neverland with the lost boys, boys who had fallen out of their baby carriages and were never found again. He had come to Wendy's house to listen to her mother tell stories to the others. Peter, begging Wendy and her brothers to go back to Neverland with him, promises to teach them to fly. The idea is too much for the children to resist. After a little practice they all fly out the window, barely escaping their parents and Nana, who has broken her chain to warn Mr. and Mrs. Darling of the danger to the children.
In Neverland, the Indians, with their chief and their princess, help to protect the lost boys against a group of mean pirates led by Captain Hook, who has a hook where one of his hands used to be. It is Hook's greatest desire to capture Peter Pan, for Peter is the one who tore off Hook's arm and fed it to a crocodile. The crocodile so liked the taste of the arm that he now follows Hook everywhere, waiting for a chance to eat the rest of him. The crocodile has, unhappily, also swallowed a clock, and its ticking warns Hook whenever the crocodile approaches.
To this strange land Wendy and her brothers fly with Peter Pan. The lost boys, seeing Wendy first in the sky when they arrive, think that she is a giant bird, and one of them shoots her with a bow and arrow. The jealous Tinker Bell had suggested the deed. Peter arrives and, after finding that Wendy is only stunned, banishes Tinker Bell for a week to punish her for provoking the attack. He then tells the others that he has brought Wendy to them. They promptly build her a house and ask her to be their mother. Wendy thinks that taking care of so many children is a great responsibility, but she quickly assumes her duties by telling them stories and putting them to bed.
Jealous, the pirates plan to steal Wendy and make her their mother; they intend to force the other children to walk the plank. Peter overhears them plotting, however, and he saves the children and Wendy. He himself escapes by sailing out to sea in a bird's nest.
Wendy and her brothers begin to worry about their parents, and they decide that they should return home. The lost boys, delighted at the thought of having a real grown-up mother, eagerly accept Wendy's invitation to come live with her and her brothers and parents. Peter refuses to go, because he wants always to be a little boy and have fun. He lets the others go, however, and asks Tinker Bell to show them the way.
The pirates have learned of the children's journey, and as Tinker Bell and the children begin to fly from Neverland, Hook and his men seize them. When Peter finds out that Hook has captured all his friends, he vows to get revenge on the pirate once and for all.
On the pirate ship, the children are being prepared to walk the plank. They are all paraded before Wendy, who is tied to the mast. Unknown to the pirates, however, Peter is also on board, and by using tricks and false voices he leads first one pirate and then another to his death. These strange happenings are too much for Hook. When he knocks the seat out from under Peter and the boy remains in place, calmly sitting on air, the pirate throws himself overboard, into the waiting jaws of the patient crocodile.
Meanwhile, at the Darling home, Mrs. Darling and Nana wait, with little hope, for the children to return. They have left the nursery window open constantly, so that their loved ones might enter easily should they ever come home, but Peter and Tinker Bell fly ahead of the others and close the window so that Wendy and the others will think they are not wanted. Peter, however, does not know how to get out of a room through the door, and thus he is forced to fly out the window again, leaving it open behind him. Wendy and her brothers fly in and slip into their beds, and Mrs. Darling and Nana are overcome with joy when they find the children safe again.
The Darlings adopt the lost boys, who have great fun romping with Mr. Darling. Peter returns and tries to get Wendy to fly away with him, but she refuses to leave her parents again. She does go once each year to clean his house for him, but each time they meet she sees him a little less clearly. Once or twice she tries to get him to see her as something more than a mother, but Peter does not know what she means. Then comes the day when Wendy can no longer fly without a broomstick to help her. Peter, watching her, sadly wishes he could understand all that she says. He picks up his pipes and plays softly, perhaps too softly to awaken humans in a grown-up world.


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Welcome to Payhembury Church of England Primary School. We are a unique rural village school which is nestled on the edge of the Blackdown hills. We are in partnership with Awliscombe Church of England School and together we make the FORT federation.
FORT stands for Fostering friendship, One vision, Readiness to learn and Trusting in God. Our schools are only a few miles apart.
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Crafted from varying finishes of leather, suede and calf hair, the color palette ranges from a more subdued black, navy and wine group to metallic patent ice blue and silver leather. The designer, who launched his namesake women's collection eight years ago, said he infused similar motifs like colored zigzags into this collection, as well as microdot nail heads and cap toes. "It's keeping the same spirit. The smoking slipper is based on the women's version of the shoe. It's quite similar but without the glitter, and has a thicker sole rather than a little heel," Kirkwood added. The line will hit the designer's namesake boutiques in London and New York in July.


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Last week I was diagnosed with having a blighted ovum. (You can read all about that HERE.) Today I went in to have it removed. If you want to read about it, continue on. If it makes you squeemish, no worries. Just skip this post. Or just ignore the text and scroll through to see some really charming pictures* of me in my glamorous hospital garb. Your choice. :)
*I promise there are no awkward pictures of body parts you wouldn't normally see on my blog. I'm just as covered up in all the other pictures as I am in this picture. Promise.
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12:00 am -- No more food or liquid. Period. The end. So much for practically taking a water bottle to bed with me like I usually do. Or, ya know, eating breakfast.
7:00 am -- Wake up and get everything ready that we need to take with us. Toys, blankets, diapers, and snacks for Olivia. Photo ID, insurance card, purse, and HP for me.
8:30 am -- Olivia and I go to my good friend Lacey's house, get all of us loaded up in the car (Lacey, her little girl, Olivia, and me). Drop the girls off at the babysitter's house.
8:45 am -- Go back home real quick to change pants and shoes. It was pouring rain and my pants and shoes were soaked just getting in and out of the car at the babysitter's. Dry pants? Check. Rain boots? Check.
9:15 am -- Check in at the outpatient surgery center. Fill out paper work. Every person possible asks who's driving me home. Every person possible asks when the last time was I ate or drank something.
The entire time -- SO THIRSTY
9:30 am -- Nurse calls me back. Notices my name is Kathleen. Asks if I'm a Kathy or a Kathrine. I'm a Katie. My mom is Kathleen, but she's a Kathy. Nurse's name is Kathy too.
9:32 am -- Okay I'm kind of just
9:40 am -- They let Lacey come back. We take pictures. The nurses keep giving us funny looks because we're laughing so much. You know, talking about awkward things like the worst haircuts we've ever had and why. Oh, perpetual third grade head lice and roller brushes. Hahahahaha.
Here I am pretending to be conked out and really sickly. If you look at the picture just right it kind of looks like I put my hair into some cute little braid with a big bow on the end. Either that's true or it's the bow from my rockin' hospital gown. One or the other.
Also, try not to be too jealous of my totally gorgeous hair net. I'm kind of a vision in a hair net. I told Lacey not to be jealous, too, but she couldn't help it.
10:00 am -- The older, crankier anesthesiologist comes to check up on me. Asks how breakfast was. "Non-existent," I say. "Right answer," he replies. Goes over my entire medical history. Is the fifth person to ask me what happens if I take septra. Is the fifth person to think I'm crazy for not knowing what happens if I take septra. (I'm just allergic to it, okay? Back off.)
Cranky anesthesiologist tells me they'll give me some "soothing" drugs through my IV. Then an oxygen mask. Then they'll stick a plastic tube thing down my throat and give me the rest of the anesthesia through that. Then they'll take it out before I ever know, but I'll probably have a sore throat for a few days and that's why.
Note: He was totally right about the sore throat. It's not bad. But it's there. Ol' Cranky knows his stuff.
Then Cranky asks me if I have any questions. I ask him if there's any way I'm gonna get a glass of water any time soon. He says no.
10:05 am -- Young, happy-go-lucky anesthesiologist with the same last name as Cranky comes and asks if anyone from anesthesia has come to check on me yet. I say yes. He asks if it was the old cranky guy. I say yes. He asks if Cranky was mean to me. I tell him he wouldn't let me have water. Young guy laughs and leaves.
Side note: I'm pretty sure he's Cranky's son, but not totally sure.
10:15 am -- Woman anesthesiologist comes, says hardly anything, tells me she's going to start me on my anesthesia. She plugs a little vial of liquid relaxation into my IV. I feel it instantly. My vision gets blurryish. I can't really focus on anything. Going, going, gone.
After surgery -- (No idea what time it is.) Wake up to this lovely lady. Except I'm way too tired to even open my eyes yet.
Me in my post-surgery burrito state. The photo has a pinkish hue because I'm under a heat lamp too, to keep me warm. I was perfectly cozy. The nurse and Lacey were commenting (and not very discreetly, either) about how hot it was in there. Whatevs. My surgery, my heat lamp. Back off.
Kind of I was pretending to be funny by making this face. But kind of I was still too tired to open my eyes yet.
Waking up --
Nurse: It's okay, Katie. You can wake up now.
Me: No! Just put me back to sleep!
I was absolutely crazy and loopy when they started waking me up. Apparently I was making everybody hold my hand (the nurse, the doctor, Lacey). And I vaguely remember sobbing uncontrollably. Other than when I was saying really depressing things, the nurse (and Lacey) thought I was really funny. They didn't even really try to stifle their laughter. But, then, neither would I.
Whilst doing a really awkward loud cry (you know, the kind you only do when you're really, uncontrollably upset)...
Me: I never want to be pregnant again and I hate babies!
Nurse (to Lacey): Does she really hate babies?
Lacey (to Nurse): No.
Me: I only like toddlers!
Lacey: Okay, next time you have a baby you can drop it off at my house and I'll bring it back when it's a toddler.
Me: Okay.
Nurse: (Asks me something about kids)
Lacey: (Tells her about Olivia.)
Me: It's "Lala."
Nurse: That's cute.
Then Lacey found pictures of Olivia on the camera and showed them to the nurse. Even though it was a really terrible picture the nurse said she was really cute. I think they were all a little worried about me after I was crying so loud. Hahaha. After this the nurse pulled out her phone and showed me pictures of her dog. I think I said something really charming like, "I don't like dogs, but your dog is cute."
My filter was kind of off.
...Heh heh :)
That's okay. The nurse and I were BFF anyway. As you can see.
12:30 pm -- BFF nurse goes to lunch. I finally get up and get dressed. Sheila (the IV hero) comes back to take care of me. She takes me for a ride in a wheelchair. Kind of my dream come true. First stop: bathroom. Second stop: Lacey's car.
On the way home we stopped by the pharmacy to get my prescriptions. We also stopped by the babysitter's house and picked up Lacey's little girl. Olivia got to stay and play until Daddy came home. :)
Status at this point: tired, but still feelin' good.
3:15 pm -- Lacey gives me my first dose of all my different medications. I really couldn't tell you what I'm on right now. I have no idea. All I know is that my regular pain killer pills are laced with something. Which is cool. I like saying, "Yeah, it's laced with something." Makes me feel hard core.
6: 48 pm -- This is right now while I'm writing this. I'm only supposed to take my pain killers every 4 to 6 hours. I'm not really in pain, but I am starting to be able to feel things in my abdomen (I guess it's probably my uterus, really). I'll be ready for the next round of pain killers when I can take them in about a half hour.
All in all -- Today was anything but traumatic. I hope, if this is something you're going to be experiencing soon, you'll notice that never in here did I say, "Gah! This is so painful! Worst experience of my life!" or anything of the sort. It wasn't bad at all.
Truly, the worst part was having to be poked three different times for my IV. Which had nothing to do with the surgery and everything to do with plain old bad luck. And the fact that, let's face it, I was probably dehydrated since I hadn't had anything to drink since midnight.
Or maybe the worst part was having to wake up. I would have been perfectly happy to just keep sleeping there in those cozy blankets under the heat lamp all day long. :)
Other stuff -- There are a couple things about today that I haven't mentioned yet, so I'll go over them now.
1. Bleeding -- Since waking up from surgery, I've had some bleeding. It's not bad. It's kind of like a light to moderate period. Nothing intense. Basically I've just had a regular pad and it's been fine. They said I'd have bleeding/spotting for the next few days. No biggie.
2. It does not hurt to walk -- Just in case you're curious (I was), it doesn't hurt to walk. Even now while I'm feeling some pressure (not even really cramping, which they said I'd probably have, it's just a general pressure in my uterus region), I can still get up and walk around just fine. This is a major plus because I've had to go to the bathroom a lot. Probably because my body's trying to make up for lost time on all the liquids I missed out on this morning.
3. I'm kind of pale -- I'm looking a little on the pale side right now. So if you're going in to have this procedure done, I wouldn't plan on having family pictures taken later that day. Unless it's Adam's Family pictures. In which case you'd probably look pretty awesome.
4. I already feel a lot better -- I already feel SO much better. While I am (currently at this moment) starting to feel some wacky stuff going on in my abdomen/uterus, it is 100% better than what I had been going through all week previous to this. I am so, so glad I decided to go ahead and have the pregnancy removed right away instead of waiting. I'm not saying this is what will be right for everybody, but it was a good choice for me.
5. I'm already more normal about food -- I still don't have a big appetite (yet), but it's already a lot more normal than it had been before the pregnancy was removed. It is such a blessing to not have every single piece of food offered to me sound really disgusting.
6. Sex -- No sex for 4 weeks. Doctor's orders.
7. My arm hurts -- My right arm hurts a little where they put the IV in. Or, more likely, it hurts where nurse Kathy tried to put the IV in. They told me right after it happened that it was already bruising. This is probably the most pain I'm experiencing anywhere on my body. And, by the way, I mean that as a good thing. Because it doesn't really hurt much at all.
8. Babies -- I really do not hate babies. Although it is true that I enjoy toddlers more. Babies are cute and cuddly, but toddlers are cute and fun. :)
Still, in all seriousness, if you're pregnant, just recently had a baby, or just like babies in general, I'm not one of those baby haters that will get all upset if you talk about it in front of me. I am totally okay with babies.
(Although I do understand why a lot of women who have miscarriages are sensitive about pregnancy and babies for a long time. It's a real sadness for some people and I don't mean to make light of that. I really don't.)
However, I am not above admitting that I do still feel a twinge of lingering sadness whenever I remember that "Oh yeah, I'm not having a baby in August," and "Oh yeah, we're not going to be picking out a name for the baby. There is no baby."
Still, that lingering sadness does not = me being a baby hater. (Though I think Lacey and the nurse would tell you otherwise. Haha.)
The end
Anyway, that's how today went. I'm home, back on the ol' couch resting up, and feeling pretty good. Now it's time for my 7:00 pm dose of pain meds. Bring it on.
Edited to add: You can read HERE about how I'm feeling the morning after surgery.


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A lightweight bout between Anthony Njokuani (14-5 MMA, 1-1 UFC) and fellow slugger Paul Taylor (11-6-1 MMA, 4-5 UFC) is in the works for UFC 138.
Sources close to the event today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that at least one fighter has agreed to the matchup.
UFC 138 takes place Nov. 5 at the 16,000-seat LG Arena at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England.
The night's main card airs on Spike TV (via same-day delay), and Njokuani vs, Taylor is expected to be part of the broadcast.
After a rough 1-3 skid, Njokuani got back in the win column and picked up his first UFC victory with a unanimous-decision win over Andre Winner at UFC 132. Njokuani, a former WEC fighter who once won three consecutive "Knockout of the Night" awards, thoroughly dominated the fight thanks to a brutal first-round assault. Prior to the victory, Njokuani's previous seven wins came via knockout.
Taylor, who fights in his home country for the seventh time under the UFC banner, also recently ended his own skid (2-5) with a second-round knockout of Gabe Ruediger at UFC 126. The former welterweight, who recently was pulled from UFC on Versus 5 due to a foot injury, now looks for back-to-back wins for the first time since joining the UFC more than four years ago.
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Mobile, Product Managers, and the changing 'landscape' for journalism and broadcasting are all 'so hot right now', and topics we discuss a fair bit at Econ towers.
Chris Ramsbottom is a Mobile Product Manager at BSkyB, so I thought I'd ask him some questions, and get some views straight from the horse's mouth.
'Product Manager is a job title becoming vogue. At Econsultancy we hear lots of people talking about T-shaped people, or even Pi-shaped people. Could you give us an idea of what skills are needed to be a Product Manager in digital, and at Sky?'
For me, the key to becoming a successful Product Manager is being able to wear many different hats, and be able to switch between them pretty quickly.
On an average day, I can go from a planning session with developers where we'll talk about APIs and required infrastructure changes, to a meeting with our Finance Teams to discuss budgets for next fiscal year, through to a presentation I need to give to senior managers in our Sales and Marketing teams.
You need to be comfortable talking in detail about the technical aspects, the commercials and – most importantly – the customer benefits, not just today, but in line with the longer term business strategy. The real key is being able to adjust the information you provide to best suit the audience, and being able to judge the level at which the people you're speaking to need to hear things.
For instance, the senior stakeholders I deal with don't necessarily need to hear the exact technicalities of how we will produce something, in the same way that my development team don't need to know the explicit details of our marketing spend.
How do you see the world of mobile and digital in general from a careers point of view? Did your education (MSc eBusiness and Innovation) adequately prepare you for industry, and do you think defined career paths or even 'desire lines' have opened up in digital?
I think that the digital industry, and mobile in particular, is only just getting started – it's an incredibly exciting area to be working in at the moment. Even those people and organisations that may tend to be more resistant to change are quickly realising the benefits that the internet and connected devices have to offer.
As a result, universities are beginning to offer courses which teach many of the key skills needed to succeed in such a fast-paced industry, and businesses are now offering much more visible structures and career paths for those that wish to progress. This is something that we perhaps didn't have, say, five years ago.
From a careers point of view, I must get 2-3 LinkedIn messages a day pertaining to recruitment and jobs in the industry. Considering the wider economic situation at present, I doubt that is quite the same across other industries in the UK.
Sky Go (watch TV, live on the move and On Demand) was released last year. Have you noticed any interesting trends in consumer behaviour, who is watching what on their mobile handsets, and when?
Sky Go is now used by such a huge number of our customers, and we are seeing people use smart phones and tablets to act as a second screen when in the same room as the TV.
We know that watching TV is predominantly a social experience, enjoyed with other members of the household, and one noticeable tendency we are seeing is that if people don't want to watch what's on the main screen, but want to stay in the same room, they'll grab their tablet or smartphone and watch something else.
Sky Go offers you that flexibility, and you can watch Sky's great content when you're on the move through a wifi or 3G connection.
We're doing away with the old adage of '(s)he who has the remote, has the power!'
Obviously sports fans flock to Sky Go because of our fantastic offering in this area, so we see more people logging in at weekend and during mid-week football matches.
The highest level of traffic we have seen to date was during the weekend of this year's Ryder Cup, when 700,000 excited fans followed live action of Europe's fantastic win! We're now seeing 2.8m unique users accessing Sky Go every quarter.
Mobile seems to be the channel that ties together many of Sky's offerings. Do you see mobile as sort of 'grouting' in the broadcasting mix, or is it a stand-alone, self-justifying medium?
It's now quite dynamic. We're beginning to see mobile devices 'accompany' other products and services. That could mean controlling your set top box from your iPad as you sit on your sofa – as we have done with a recent upgrade to the popular Sky+ app or utilising our Cloud Wifi app – free of charge to Sky Broadband Unlimited customers, to choose from a total of 15,000 Wifi hotspots on high streets across the country.
The excitement and positive feedback we had around our first 'Companion' experience for this season's Formula 1 coverage has been fantastic and great to be a part of.
Of course, mobile can stand alone, too – if you look at our Sky News and Sky Sports apps, they are fantastic for getting breaking news or football scores whilst you're out and about.
But if you look at the bigger picture of how consumers are engaging with mobile, it is an incredibly effective way of helping provide our customers with even more value – whether it's accompanying their viewing through their Sky+HD set top box, or watching on the move via Sky Go.
Social media and mobile are almost inextricably linked. The success/infamy of Twitter and the English Premier League makes this seem like a valuable platform for Sky. To what extent does Sky engage on Twitter? Is it seen as a broadcasting platform or a place to interact with consumers?
Social media is very much seen as a means and a way of interacting with customers. I think of it as using social media to be proactive as well as reactive. Our Sky News and Sky Sports News businesses have been built on providing the latest breaking news as soon as it happens, and social media (specifically Twitter) is a fantastic tool to help achieve this.
We can use social media to engage with existing users but also attract new people to our content. For example, our Sky Bet organisation actively encourages people to tweet in their requests for betting odds – the more obscure request, the better!
We now also have a substantial social media team based within one of our contact centres that not only engage with customers through our own support forums, but also monitor the likes of Twitter and Facebook for ways in which we can help respond to any queries, for example, answering a question about a customer's Sky+ service.
You've worked on app development. Can you tell us a little about the structure of teams at Sky?
We work within an agile (scrum) framework, with a Mobile Product Manager responsible for one particular part of the business, such as News, Sports, or Movies for example.
We then typically have a number of development teams working on different products on different platforms, but all the teams are co-located in London so there's a lot of knowledge sharing that goes on between them.
The Product Managers will research, define and then drive the product strategy, working with user experience experts and designers within our Sky Creative department to help create wireframes, story cards and acceptance criteria.
Everything we propose is based on anticipated customer need, so we do a lot of user testing, usability studies and market research before and during development.
The development teams then have a solid basis to begin work from, – we research, design, develop, device test and then launch to market – but scrum allows us to be flexible in the functionality we decide to prioritise, meaning we can respond much quicker to change in the external environment, which, working in mobile, is the only thing that can be guaranteed.
Lastly, anything new, or any teasers about what's coming up at Sky in mobile?
As a company that invests well over £2bn in content every year, we're continually looking for new and exciting ways to help customers discover things to watch. Mobile has a key part to play in that, and this is what we're already doing with the Sky+ app, which now allows customers to review the content they have stored on their planner.
Achieving landmarks such as the world's first in-app, split-screen video experience on the Sky Sports for iPad app also shows that innovation is an 'always-on' for us. Fundamentally, at the heart of everything we do is ensuring we provide products and services that our customers love to use, so that they continue to see Sky as a valued part of their day to day lives.


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Your breast milk is important to your baby at any age. Giving your premature baby your breast milk benefits their health as well as yours.
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Your breast milk is important to your baby at any age. Giving your premature baby your breast milk benefits their health as well as yours.
Breast milk:
- helps protect your baby from infections, particularly of their gut – premature babies are more likely to get infections
- contains hormones, nutrients and growth factors that help your baby to grow and develop
- is easier for your baby to digest than formula milk, because it's human milk specially designed by your body for your baby
See other benefits of breastfeeding.
If your baby is very small or sick, they may not be able to breastfeed from your breast at first. But, you can start regularly collecting your breast milk (called expressing) as soon as possible after your baby's born. This will help get your milk supply going and the milk you express can be frozen so you can give it to your baby later. Then you can start breastfeeding from the breast once you and your baby are ready.
Even if you were not planning to breastfeed, you could express your breast milk for a while to help boost your baby's immune system in the early weeks after birth.
Spending lots of time close together with your baby can help boost your breast milk supply and establish breastfeeding.
Skin-to-skin contact with your premature baby
If your baby is well enough, you'll usually be encouraged to spend time holding them against your skin as soon as possible. This is sometimes called kangaroo care.
Your baby will usually be dressed just in a nappy, hat and socks and then placed inside your top, under a blanket, or in a soft sling so they can be held securely against your skin. If it's cold outside you can also put them in a sleeveless vest with an open neck.
This skin-to-skin contact helps you feel close to your baby. Your partner can enjoy this kind of contact as well.
For your premature baby, skin-to-skin contact:
- reduces stress and/or pain
- promotes healthy weight gain
- helps to establish breastfeeding
- helps them sleep better
- helps to regulate and support their heart rate and breathing
For mums, skin-to-skin contact:
- helps reduce your chance of developing postnatal depression
- increases your confidence as a new parent
- can help make breastfeeding easier and increase the amount of milk you make
For dads and partners, holding your baby skin to skin:
- helps you bond with your baby – babies can hear both parents' voices in the womb and will be calmed by the sound of your voice as well as their mum's
- helps you feel more confident as a parent
Expressing milk if your baby is premature
It's recommended you express often, ideally at least 8 times a day to begin with – including at least once at night – to keep your milk supply up.
In the early days, it's often easier to express your milk by hand. Your midwife or a breastfeeding supporter can show you how.
You'll probably only express a few drops to begin with but, if you hand express often, this will increase. Even if you are only expressing a small amount it will still help your baby.
In the early days you can collect your breast milk in a small, sterile cup and store it in a syringe.
Once you are producing more milk, you could try using a breast pump. If your baby is in a neonatal unit, the hospital will usually be able to lend you an electric breast pump for expressing your milk. If they cannot lend you one, you can hire one.
Read more about breastfeeding help and support to find out about hiring a pump, or phone the National Breastfeeding Helpline on 0300 100 0212.
The staff, your midwife or a breastfeeding supporter can give you advice about how to increase your milk supply. They can also show you how to encourage your milk to flow and how to use a breast pump.
Always ask for help early if you have any worries or questions.
Tube feeding your baby
Babies do not normally learn to co-ordinate the sucking, swallowing and breathing needed for feeding until about 34 to 36 weeks of pregnancy.
If your baby is born before this time, they may need to have breast milk via a feeding tube to begin with. This goes through their nose or mouth into their stomach. The staff in the neonatal unit can show you how to feed your baby this way.
Babies who are very premature or sick may need to be fed via an intravenous (IV) line to begin with. A fluid containing nutrients is fed straight into your baby's vein.
Visit the Bliss website to read more about tube feeding.
Using donor breast milk
Some hospitals can provide donated breast milk for your baby to have until your own supply is established.
See the United Kingdom Association for Milk Banking (UKAMB) website for more about donor breast milk.
If donor breast milk is not available, your baby can have formula milk until you're producing enough breast milk.
It's recommended you do not buy donor milk over the internet. This is because the source cannot be confirmed and you cannot be sure whether the donor or the milk has been screened for infections.
Moving on to breastfeeding your premature baby
While holding your baby, you may notice them try to move towards your breast. Gradually, as they develop and get stronger, they will be able to breastfeed directly.
The first time you try it, the hospital staff may ask you to express first, then put your baby to your breast. This is so your baby is not overwhelmed when your milk lets down.
At first, your baby may only lick the breast, then next time take a few sucks until they gradually become happy and confident feeders.
You can combine tube feeding with breastfeeding until your baby is getting everything they need from the breast only.
Using a lactation aid (supplementer)
You could also consider using a lactation aid. This is a way of supplementing your baby's breastfeeds with either expressed breast milk or formula.
A tiny tube is taped next to your nipple so your baby can get milk via the tube as well as from your breast while attached to your breast. This helps to support your baby as they get used to attaching to the breast.
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When I use the polygon area measurement tool to determine the area of a simple square which is 1ft on each side the output is
Point: 44740/59904
Point: 44748/59904
Point: 44760/59904
Point: 44760/59892
Point: 44748/59892
Area: 268632
Circumference: 89532
Yet when I place dimensions on the drawing about the same square they are exactly 1 Ft (as expected) . What gives with the units given for the area and circumference? Seems like the answer (for area) should be 144 since the base unit is the 'inch'. Thanks in advance.
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The end is near for Neely Spence, but so, too, is the beginning of what could be another exciting chapter of the heralded NCAA Division II star's running career.
On Saturday in Lock Haven, Pa., Spence will lead her Shippensburg University team into the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference cross country meet for the fourth and final time, kicking off the stretch run of her final collegiate season. She and the Raiders are both three-time defending champions, and, with a good race, fourth straight individual and team titles could be in the works.
Early the next morning Spence will hop on a plane bound for Guadalajara, Mexico, where she'll get a taste of what might lie ahead when she lines up on the track for Team USA in the 5,000m run at the Pan American Games on Oct. 27. [Editor's note: Spence placed eighth in the Pan Am Games 5,000m race.]
After that, she'll return for the Nov. 5 NCAA regional meet in Slippery Rock, Pa., followed by the final DII national cross country championships of her career on Nov. 19 in Spokane, Wash.
"I'm really savoring these last few cross country meets," says Spence, who is nonetheless excited about competing in the Pan Am Games, even though she's not as speed-sharpened as she might be if she was in track season. "I love running cross country and it's hard for me to believe my college career is almost over."
Shippensburg was fourth at nationals last year and, with teammates Katie Spratford, Jamie McCollum, Emma Shank, Sarah Strayer and Patty Reis also running well this fall, there's hope the Raiders, currently ranked No. 9, can finish in the top five again. While there are plenty of good runners at the DII level, Spence is the heavy favorite to win her second consecutive individual title. She ran away with the title last year by more than 15 seconds and appears to be even more fit this fall.
Spence has won two of her three races, taking the individual title at Shippensburg's low-key alumni meet and then winning the DII Challenge on Sept. 17 in Kutztown, Pa. She also finished second (behind Villanova's Bogdana Mimic) at the Paul Short Invitational on Sept. 30, a meet that included several of this year's top Division I runners.
"I went back and reviewed all my training logs from college, and each year there had been a steady progression with my times getting faster, the recovery getting shorter, and the workouts getting longer," says Spence, who on many occasions this fall has been doing workouts with runners on the Shippensburg men's team. "This is exciting, and exactly what I wanted out of my collegiate career."
Spence's gradual progression has been part of the master plan of her coach and father, Steve Spence, who, of course, was an accomplished runner in his day. Believe it or not, Neely seriously considered going to school elsewhere, giving the University of Colorado, among others, a long look before ultimately deciding to stay local and go to Shippensburg. But it wasn't her father's running history or his vast knowledge of training she would have missed the most, she says, but his shared vision of her goals.
"I trusted my dad's training and I felt like he knew me even better than I knew myself as a runner," she says. "I felt that he ultimately could make me the best runner I could be. He knew my goals and he knew how to get me there."
The elder Spence, the bronze medalist in the marathon at the 1991 world championships and the 12th-place finisher in the 1992 Olympics, has long believed his daughter could excel at the 10,000m and perhaps the marathon, but he's made it a point to bring her along slowly. She has yet to run a 10K and only this year has surpassed 70 miles a week in training.
While his daughter had loads of talent in the form of a big aerobic engine, the elder Spence knew he had to improve her form — and, as a result, her strength — if she was going to maximize her potential as a distance runner. Early on, they found she wasn't even strong enough to do a lot form drills with consistency, so in January she started working with a strength coach to add a bit more muscle mass on her otherwise lean frame. The ultimate goal of the plyometrics, weight workouts and other exercises is to improve her form, durability, efficiency and speed.
"I've been doing a mini body builder strength program," Neely says. "What we're trying to do is make it so I can close a race fast, even off of a fast pace. It's so I can call on those fast-twitch muscles that I've seemed to have lost along the way or maybe never even had."
Ultimately, Neely's final year in college is leading up to next summer's U.S. Olympic track trials. Neither Steve or Neely figured 2012 would present a viable opportunity for her to compete for a possible Olympic berth — and they're still realistic about her chances — but she progressed faster than either expected last spring.
She lowered her 5,000m PR from 16:13 to an NCAA DII-record 15:33.83 before winning her third straight NCAA title in that event in June. She ran even faster at the U.S. track and field championships later that month in Eugene, finishing seventh in 15:27.72 against some of America's top runners.
"She obviously gets better as the distance gets longer," says Steve, who's in his 14th year as Shippensburg's head cross country coach. "Similar to me, she has decent speed, but when it comes down to closing speed at 5K, it might not be there for her. But 10K would be more aerobic and a much better distance for her."
For the second consecutive year, Neely spent most of her summer in Boulder, Colo., just as Steve did during part of his pro career. But because her season extended into late June, she and her dad figured it would be best to take two full weeks off and then ease back into training. Running only a couple of days a week, she didn't log many miles at high altitude, but she did take time to meet with Sara Slattery, Jenny Simpson and other current and former elite runners to prepare her for what lies ahead after college.
"I remember being young and people asking what I was going to be when I grow up, and I would say, 'a runner.' They'd say, 'that's not a job' but i knew it was because that's what my dad did," she says. "And this year, it could become a reality for me."
Steve Spence, who won two NCAA individual track titles when he ran for Shippensburg in the mid-1980s, has been tickled at his daughter's progression. He served as Neely's primary coach when she ran for Shippensburg Area Senior High School, guiding her to several state championships and the 2-mile title at the 2008 Nike Outdoor Nationals.
"It's been very gratifying to see her following in my footsteps to some extent, but at the same time far surpassing anything I ever did in college," he says. "I thought I had a pretty good college career, but after she finished her first year she had already surpassed everything that I had done.
"It probably could have worked somewhere else just as well or maybe even better. We're just happy that what we've chosen to do and what she chose to do has worked for her."
Neely loves being coached by her father, but she admits it can create some tenuous situations. For example, she says, there were three straight workouts on the track last spring where she wound up in tears.
"It was the father-daughter relationship thing. With anyone else, I would have been frustrated, but with him, I had the emotions attached to it, too," says Neely, whose mother, Kirsten Harteis, was also an accomplished runner. "He's definitely harder on me than he would be on other athletes. On the fourth workout, his goal was to have me not cry, and we did it, and he was so excited."
Spence is by no means the only good runner at the Division II level. Western State's Lauren Kleppin, third last year at the NCAA meet, is fit and racing well this fall, having won the 6K race at the Oct. 1 Cowboy Jamboree. Grand Valley State's Monica Kinney has really come on this fall, as has Alaska-Anchorage's Ruth Keino. But none of them have a 5,000m track PR anywhere close to Spence's, nor the expert guidance from a former world-class runner.
By next summer, the father-daughter coaching set-up could change if Neely joins a post-collegiate training group as a professional runner. But that's still a long way off, and for now, she's savoring every moment of it.
"It wouldn't work for everyone, but it works really well for us, and I wouldn't want it any other way," she says. "It's been awesome. Having his knowledge is very beneficial to me. My full and complete trust in him is something I wouldn't have with anyone else."


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Now that we have put the Barry Bonds/ Babe Ruth blah, blah, blah to sleep, I think it's time that we sat back and wagered a few bucks on our favorite MLB team. Parity is here and every one of the six divisions is up for grabs this year and handicapping these teams, takes patience and talent.
Let's start with the glamour division and of course I am referring to the American League East where the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox have been trading punches since the opening week of April and George's boys are now sitting in the penthouse.
Lurking down in the lobby are the Toronto Blue Jays who have fought off injuries to their starting pitching staff, with superb hitting and are 32-25 and are just three games back. Toronto has made it clear from the get go, that they will spend money during the season in order to contend.
In the AL Central my 9-1 betting bonanza and that would be the 2005 Chicago White Sox are scuffling a bit after a torrid start and presently trail the Motown Detroit Tigers. The Tigers began the first 50 games under Jim Leyland in spectacular fashion, but injuries are beginning to hit them, with the latest being to Pudge Rodriguez.
At 28-29 the Cleveland Indians will make a move at some point and placing a few bucks on them, could provide you with a nice return on your dollar. The AL West with Texas, Oakland, Seattle and Los Angeles is a crapshoot, with only 5.5 games separating the VIP section and the cheap seats. The first place Rangers incidentally are the only team in the West with a winning mark in games played within the division and against the powerful AL East and you cannot ignore that vital gambling statistic.
The New York Mets like their neighbors the Yankees like to throw the money around and they sit atop the NL East presently, but the Phillies and Braves can almost reach out and touch them. With 14 straight division titles, I certainly would think about a wagering a few bucks on them to win once again.
The Cardinals are suddenly trying to ward off the Cincinnati Reds who are getting healthy and pounding the ball. The Cardinals meanwhile have all kids of injury issues with Pujols and ace Chris Carpenter does not look stable.
Just like their counterparts in the AL West, the NL West Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Padres, Giants and Rockies are in a fierce battle for supremacy. Just six games separate the top and bottom, with Arizona leading the pack. The Dodgers are getting superb play out of Garciaparra and if their veterans can stay healthy, watch out!
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