Q7. How many people are living with HIV and AIDS?
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Q9. Where can I find updated statistics on HIV/AIDS?
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Q13. How is HIV spread during injection drug use?
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Q21. Can a woman who has HIV pass the virus to her baby?
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Q30. Can I get HIV from body piercing, ear piercing, or tattoo needles?
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Q17. How is HIV spread during oral sex?
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Hyderabad, Sept 29:
Infor, the US-based business application software solutions company, has opened Infor Dynamic Science Labs, an internal organisation. The lab would help the firm infuse machine-learning and big data analytics into its applications.
The lab is headed by Ziad Nejmeldeen, a software veteran with a PhD from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Based in Cambridge (the US), the team work with scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and economists.
Applications will go beyond collecting, reporting, and distributing information, they anticipate problems and respond with solutions, an Infor statement said here on Monday.
Infor has a development centre in Hyderabad.
We currently have two applications that deliver science-powered smart data its revenue management system that optimises 350,000 hotel rooms a day and its talent science application that has conducted behavioral assessments for 11 per cent of the US workforce, it said.
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A Surf City doctor's license was indefinitely suspended and he was been fined $5,000 by the N.C. Medical Board.
The medical board found that Dr. Timothy Han, who had offices in Wilmington and Jacksonville, self-prescribed and self-administered testosterone, tested positive for anabolic steroids and suffered from opiate abuse. The board, in a ruling issued Sept. 23, also found that Han's care of patients did not conform to "standards of prevailing and acceptable medical practice in North Carolina."
Han on Monday denied the accusations. He said the medical board has an agenda. Han said he believes if he had signed a consent order from the medical board, he could have salvaged his career after disciplinary action. But he said signing the order would have been committing perjury, because the accusations aren't valid.
"They want me to perjure myself to make them happy so they can meet their goals," Han said.
According to the medical board's report, the criminal investigation began when Han was arrested on Christmas Day 2012 after allegedly throwing a water bottle at his spouse. Han admitted that he threw an empty disposable plastic water bottle in anger. The charges were later dismissed, but an active police investigation is looking into Han's possible involvement with illegally distributing drugs, according to the medical board.
Surf City police searched Han's two homes and two travel bags. Police uncovered three handguns, vials of various medications, spring-loaded knives and $22,000 in cash, the medical board's report says. Police also found documents indicating Han ordered steroids from Moldova and had them shipped to his medical practice addresses.
No further charges have been filed against Han, and his property has not been returned, he said.
Han said he went into withdrawal while he was incarcerated. He suffered from severe restless legs syndrome, he said, and did not sleep during the two days he was locked up.
Han said he was under pain management when he was sent to jail, but he said he didn't abuse opiates. He said he took pain medication strictly as prescribed.
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BRUSSELS, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen bid farewell to NATO members and NATO staff as he prepares to step down Tuesday.
At a ceremony in Brussels on Friday to mark the end of his five-year term, Fogh Rasmussen acknowledged the soldiers who comprise NATO forces as "the backbone of our Alliance" and laid a wreath in honor of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice at the NATO Memorial to the Fallen. He thanked member states and staff for their contributions during what he described as "the busiest and most challenging years for NATO."
"We have reinforced the Alliance to make it fitter, faster and more flexible," noted the outgoing secretary general.
During his tenure, Fogh Rasmussen oversaw the completion of the NATO-led ISAF mission following handover of security responsibility to Afghan security forces. In 2012, he endorsed the Smart Defense initiative to stream line collaboration and maximize limited resources, and supported the Connected Forces Initiative to increase joint and combined military training and exercises among Alliance states.
In 2014, Fogh Rasmussen advocated for more robust collective defense in the face of Russian aggression toward Ukraine and the rise of Islamic extremism in the Middle East. And in September, at the Wales Summit, NATO members adopted a Readiness Action Plan to improve the Alliance's responsiveness to threats and enhance international cooperation.
Fogh Rasmussen will be succeed by former Norwegian Prime Minister Jen Stoltenberg, who assumes the position of NATO secretary general on Wednesday.
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SARAJEVO: NATO's potential expansion to the former Yugoslav republics of Bosnia, Macedonia and Montenegro could be seen as a "provocation", Russia's foreign minister was quoted as saying in a newspaper interview published on Monday.
Moscow has opposed any NATO extension to former communist areas of eastern and southeastern Europe, part of a competition for geo-strategic influence since the end of the Cold War that sits at the heart of the current conflict in ex-Soviet Ukraine.
Montenegro, Macedonia and Bosnia share an ambition to join the Western military alliance, following in the footsteps of Albania and ex-Yugoslav Croatia, which became members in 2009. Asked about the integration of the three into NATO, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the Bosnian daily Dnevni Avaz: "With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.
"This is, in a way, an irresponsible policy that undermines the determination to build a system of equal and shared security in Europe, equal for everyone regardless of whether a country is a member of this or that bloc." Russia has energy interests in the Balkans and historical ties with the Slavs of the region, many of them Orthodox Christian like the Russians.
But Moscow's influence has waned as the countries of the former Yugoslavia seek to join the European mainstream with membership of the EU and NATO.
The tiny Adriatic republic of Montenegro appears closest to NATO accession.
Bosnia's bid is hostage to ethnic bickering that has slowed reforms, while Macedonia remains blocked by a long-running dispute with neighbouring Greece over the name of the landlocked country.
Only Serbia, perhaps Russia's closest ally in the region, is not actively pursuing membership of NATO given political sensitivities lingering since the alliance's 1999 air war against then-strongman Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to halt a wave of atrocities against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
Lavrov confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin would visit Serbia in mid-October to mark the 70th anniversary of Belgrade's liberation from Nazi occupation by Yugoslav Partisan fighters and the Soviet army.
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National Security Agency is building its private cloud on commodity hardware, opens source software
The National Security Agency (NSA) had a problem familiar to any enterprise IT manager executive: it was running out of space for hundreds of disparate relational databases that contain everything from back-office information to intelligence on foreign interests. And it needed to consolidate those databases to make it easier for NSA analysts to do their job.
The NSA's initial approach was to scale up capacity. But halfway through the process, the staff realized that simply increasing the scope of the network was not going to work. So, CIO Lonny Anderson convinced General Keith Alexander, who was then Director of the NSA and Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, to approve a move to the cloud.
Today, as the private cloud project continues to be rolled out, the agency is seeing the benefits. Tasks that took analysts days now take as little as minutes, costs have been reduced, and the management and protection of information has taken a huge step forward.
To learn about this effort, which dates back to 2009, Network World was invited to interview Anderson at NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Md. He explained that the goal was to create an environment sufficiently large to handle the data repositories and to ensure that analysts would have the user-facing experience of one-stop-shopping that the cloud can provide.
He also pointed out that the NSA effort is part of a larger migration of U.S. intelligence agencies to the cloud. In 2011, sequestration forced the Department of Defense to absorb ``huge budget cuts,'' says Anderson.
The agencies ``decided to economize by sharing IT services and thereby avoid a drastic slash," says Anderson. The NSA, CIA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) divvied up the responsibilities, with NSA and CIA handling the cloud infrastructure; NGA and DIA taking on the desktop; and NRO focusing on network requirements and engineering services.
In addition to saving on cost, putting all intelligence community data in the same bucket is enhancing the speed, depth and efficacy of their work.
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Anderson describes the private cloud as "an integrated set of open source and government developed services on commercial hardware that meets the specific operational and security needs of NSA and Intelligence Community (IC) m IC DS1mission partners. NSA is part of an Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) effort to migrate to a community cloud that brings together NSA's cloud services with commercial cloud services at the classified level."
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National Security Agency is building its private cloud on commodity hardware, open source software
The National Security Agency (NSA) had a problem familiar to any enterprise IT manager executive: it was running out of space for hundreds of disparate relational databases that contain everything from back-office information to intelligence on foreign interests. And it needed to consolidate those databases to make it easier for NSA analysts to do their job.
The NSA's initial approach was to scale up capacity. But halfway through the process, the staff realized that simply increasing the scope of the network was not going to work. So, CIO Lonny Anderson convinced General Keith Alexander, who was then Director of the NSA and Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, to approve a move to the cloud.
Today, as the private cloud project continues to be rolled out, the agency is seeing the benefits. Tasks that took analysts days now take as little as minutes, costs have been reduced, and the management and protection of information has taken a huge step forward.
To learn about this effort, which dates back to 2009, Network World was invited to interview Anderson at NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Md. He explained that the goal was to create an environment sufficiently large to handle the data repositories and to ensure that analysts would have the user-facing experience of one-stop-shopping that the cloud can provide.
He also pointed out that the NSA effort is part of a larger migration of U.S. intelligence agencies to the cloud. In 2011, sequestration forced the Department of Defense to absorb ``huge budget cuts,'' says Anderson.
The agencies ``decided to economize by sharing IT services and thereby avoid a drastic slash," says Anderson. The NSA, CIA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) divvied up the responsibilities, with NSA and CIA handling the cloud infrastructure; NGA and DIA taking on the desktop; and NRO focusing on network requirements and engineering services.
In addition to saving on cost, putting all intelligence community data in the same bucket is enhancing the speed, depth and efficacy of their work.
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Joey Gallo Takes The Fifth Amendment
Crazy Joe Gallo comes right from central casting here, as your stereotypical mobster. Taking the Fifth Amendment.
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The first argued case in the new Supreme Court term will be Heien v. North Carolina, a Fourth Amendment case about whether a reasonable mistake of law can create cause for a Fourth Amendment search or seizure. I think the defendant has the better argument that the answer is no. In this post, Ill explain the case and why I think the defense should prevail.
I. The Facts, and A Brief History of Brake-Light Law
The facts of the case are simple. A North Carolina police officer stopped a car for having a broken right rear brake light. The stop led to a consent search, and the search led to the discovery of drugs in the car. So far it sounds like a pretty routine Fourth Amendment traffic stop case. But heres the twist: If you look closely at thetext of North Carolinas traffic laws, its at best unclear whetheritprohibits driving with one broken brake light.
A little bit of history is helpful here. Decades ago, it was common for cars to come equipped with only one brake light. The early brake lights often had STOP written on them,and unsurprisinglythey were known as stop lamps. At the time, it was common for the traffic laws to require cars to have only one stop lamp.
Thats antiquated now, of course. But a lot of state laws still have a residual form of this. In particular, many state laws require one working stop lamp for antique cars but two such stop lampsfor more modern cars. To get a flavor of this common practice, see the laws of Florida, California, Texas, New York, Michigan, Tennessee, the District of Columbia, or Ohio.
North Carolinas traffic law is different. The key statutory provision requires that modern cars have a stop lamp but has no such requirement for pre-1956 cars.Heres the language:
No person shall sell or operate on the highways of the State any motor vehicle, motorcycle or motor-driven cycle, manufactured after December 31, 1955, unless it shall be equipped with a stop lamp on the rear of the vehicle. The stop lamp shall display a red or amber light visible from a distance of not less than 100 feet to the rear in normal sunlight, and shall be actuated upon application of the service (foot) brake. The stop lamp may be incorporated into a unit with one or more other rear lamps.
Violation of this law is a misdemeanor criminal offense, see N.C.G.S.A. 20-176.
Why require only one stop lamp for more modern cars and none for older cars? I have no idea. Its hard to know what the legislature was thinking. A few other states in the southern U.S. have traffic codes that also require only one stop lamp, perhaps just as a historical relic. See Alabamas code, for example, which dates back to 1927. Georgia, West Virginia, and South Carolina have similar language but add the additional requirement that all original equipment has to be working properly, which as a practical matter requires multiple working brake lights. See, e.g., Georgia 40-8-26; W. Va. Code Ann. 17C-15-18(a)(1); State v. Jihad, 553 S.E.2d 249 (S.C 2001) (interpreting South Carolinas brake light law). North Carolinas law appears to be somewhat unique. It has a provision that the originally-equipped tail lights have to be working (that is, the red lights that go on when the front headlights or parking lights are on), but it does not appear to apply that same standard to brake lights.
Ok, back to the case. At trial, Heien argued that the North Carolina traffic law did not prohibit driving with one broken brake light so long as the other brake light was working. After all, with one brake light out and the other working, the car did have a functioning stop lamp. The North Carolina Court of Appeals agreed with Heiens reading of North Carolinas law. Under its decision, driving with one broken brake light is perfectly legal in North Carolina.
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Vikram Khanna: Science Vs Fiction in Public Health Policy
VIKRAM KHANNA speaks at the Second Amendment Foundation #39;s gun rights policy conference in Chicago, Illinois, on Sept. 28, 2014.
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Kevin Cox knows his clientele and knows how much they care about their Second Amendment rights. Cox, the owner of Bergerons Cajun & Creole in Louisiana, offersa 10 percent discount for all customers who carry their weapons into his restaurant.
With establishments like Chipotle and Panera telling their customers to leave their guns at home, Cox believes that his policy will keep his customers happy.
I keep hearing so much about people banning guns. Targets banning guns and these people are banning guns, Cox told local WAFB.
Dont they realize that thats where people with guns are going to go? I want to take the opposite approach. How can I make my place safer?
Cox believes that his new policy will help deter crime, once word gets out that his customers are carrying.
You feel safer because I mean somebody walks in and wants to rob the place, theyre going to think twice when they see its not a gun-free place.
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By using their literacy skills, we hope the students will learn appreciate The First Amendment.
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Frederick Douglas Dixon discusses the "negro question".
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