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Landmark HIV treatment-as-prevention study shows additional health benefits, cost-effectiveness
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WHAT: Further analyses of the landmark NIH-funded treatment-as-prevention study (HPTN 052) have found that providing antiretroviral treatment to HIV-infected individuals earlier, when their immune systems are healthier, delays AIDS-related health events, such as chronic herpes simplex virus and tuberculosis, as well as death. Additionally, researchers found that earlier HIV treatment is also cost-effective because it increases survival, prevents costly opportunistic infections and averts transmission of the virus to uninfected individuals.
The two analyses were presented at the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington, D.C. The health benefits talk was presented by Beatriz Grinsztejn, M.D., HPTN site investigator for the Instituto de Pesquisa Clinica Evandro Chagas in Brazil. The cost-effectiveness talk was given by Kenneth A. Freedberg, M.D., MSc, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Program in Epidemiology and Outcomes Research at the Harvard Medical School's Division of AIDS.
Initial results from the HPTN 052 study, announced in 2011, demonstrated that earlier use of antiretrovirals by HIV-infected heterosexuals partnered with uninfected individuals (serodiscordant couples) reduced HIV transmission by 96 percent. In two years of follow-up analysis of 1,761 HIV-infected study participants, researchers compared those who delayed antiretroviral treatment until their CD4+ T-cell counts were an average of 230 cells/ per cubic millimeter (mm) with those who began antiretroviral treatment sooner (an average CD4 level of 440 cells/ mm). The delayed group experienced a shorter time to a primary clinical event, including AIDS-defining disease and all types of tuberculosis. In total, there were 91 primary clinical events in the delayed treatment group versus 71 in the immediate group. This included 71 cases of AIDS-defining disease in the delayed treatment group versus 49 in the immediate group, and 34 cases of tuberculosis in the delayed group versus 17 in the immediate group. The trial provides evidence that earlier antiretroviral treatment among the HIV-infected provides significant health benefits.
In a separate modeling analysis designed to predict the clinical impact, costs and cost-effectiveness of the earlier antiretroviral treatment strategy, researchers compared the delayed treatment (CD4 counts of less than 250 cells/mm) versus earlier treatment (350-550 cells/ mm) data in South Africa and India. The two countries were selected to show how regional economic differences may or may not affect the conclusions. The researchers designated earlier treatment to be "very cost effective" if its cost-effectiveness ratio was less than one times per capita gross domestic product (GDP). Earlier treatment was deemed "cost effective" if its cost-effectiveness ratio was less than three times per capita GDP. The GDP was set at $8,100 for South Africa and $1,400 for India.
Using this model, they found that in both South Africa and India early ART increases patient survival, prevents costly opportunistic infectionspartially offsetting the costs of treatmentaverts HIV transmission, and is cost-effective within a five-year span and very cost-effective over a lifetime.
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The HPTN 052 study and its follow-up analyses were funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. They were conducted by the NIH-funded HIV Prevention Trials Network.
WHO: NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., and Carl W. Dieffenbach, Ph.D., director of NIAID's Division of AIDS, are available to comment.
CONTACT: To schedule interviews, please contact Kathy Stover, (301) 402-1663, niaidnews@niaid.nih.gov.
NIAID conducts and supports researchat NIH, throughout the United States, and worldwideto study the causes of infectious and immune-mediated diseases, and to develop better means of preventing, diagnosing and treating these illnesses. News releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available on the NIAID Web site at http://www.niaid.nih.gov.
About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov/.
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Public release date: 27-Jul-2012[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Kathy Stover
niaidnews@niaid.nih.gov
301-402-1663
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
WHAT: Further analyses of the landmark NIH-funded treatment-as-prevention study (HPTN 052) have found that providing antiretroviral treatment to HIV-infected individuals earlier, when their immune systems are healthier, delays AIDS-related health events, such as chronic herpes simplex virus and tuberculosis, as well as death. Additionally, researchers found that earlier HIV treatment is also cost-effective because it increases survival, prevents costly opportunistic infections and averts transmission of the virus to uninfected individuals.
The two analyses were presented at the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington, D.C. The health benefits talk was presented by Beatriz Grinsztejn, M.D., HPTN site investigator for the Instituto de Pesquisa Clinica Evandro Chagas in Brazil. The cost-effectiveness talk was given by Kenneth A. Freedberg, M.D., MSc, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Program in Epidemiology and Outcomes Research at the Harvard Medical School's Division of AIDS.
Initial results from the HPTN 052 study, announced in 2011, demonstrated that earlier use of antiretrovirals by HIV-infected heterosexuals partnered with uninfected individuals (serodiscordant couples) reduced HIV transmission by 96 percent. In two years of follow-up analysis of 1,761 HIV-infected study participants, researchers compared those who delayed antiretroviral treatment until their CD4+ T-cell counts were an average of 230 cells/ per cubic millimeter (mm) with those who began antiretroviral treatment sooner (an average CD4 level of 440 cells/ mm). The delayed group experienced a shorter time to a primary clinical event, including AIDS-defining disease and all types of tuberculosis. In total, there were 91 primary clinical events in the delayed treatment group versus 71 in the immediate group. This included 71 cases of AIDS-defining disease in the delayed treatment group versus 49 in the immediate group, and 34 cases of tuberculosis in the delayed group versus 17 in the immediate group. The trial provides evidence that earlier antiretroviral treatment among the HIV-infected provides significant health benefits.
In a separate modeling analysis designed to predict the clinical impact, costs and cost-effectiveness of the earlier antiretroviral treatment strategy, researchers compared the delayed treatment (CD4 counts of less than 250 cells/mm) versus earlier treatment (350-550 cells/ mm) data in South Africa and India. The two countries were selected to show how regional economic differences may or may not affect the conclusions. The researchers designated earlier treatment to be "very cost effective" if its cost-effectiveness ratio was less than one times per capita gross domestic product (GDP). Earlier treatment was deemed "cost effective" if its cost-effectiveness ratio was less than three times per capita GDP. The GDP was set at $8,100 for South Africa and $1,400 for India.
Using this model, they found that in both South Africa and India early ART increases patient survival, prevents costly opportunistic infectionspartially offsetting the costs of treatmentaverts HIV transmission, and is cost-effective within a five-year span and very cost-effective over a lifetime.
###
The HPTN 052 study and its follow-up analyses were funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. They were conducted by the NIH-funded HIV Prevention Trials Network.
WHO: NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., and Carl W. Dieffenbach, Ph.D., director of NIAID's Division of AIDS, are available to comment.
CONTACT: To schedule interviews, please contact Kathy Stover, (301) 402-1663, niaidnews@niaid.nih.gov.
NIAID conducts and supports researchat NIH, throughout the United States, and worldwideto study the causes of infectious and immune-mediated diseases, and to develop better means of preventing, diagnosing and treating these illnesses. News releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available on the NIAID Web site at http://www.niaid.nih.gov.
About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov/.
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Hollywood director and screenwriter who won an Oscar for Dog Day Afternoon
In Sunset Boulevard, William Holden's character remarks: "Audiences don't know somebody sits down and writes a picture. They think the actors make it up as they go along." Given the difficulties in quantifying their contributions, screenwriters seldom get the recognition they deserve. Frank Pierson, who has died aged 87, wrote the screenplays for 10 films but his reputation rests on Cat Ballou (1965), Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Dog Day Afternoon (1975), all of which gained him Academy Award nominations, with the last of them winning the Oscar for best original screenplay.
Yet most of the plaudits for Dog Day Afternoon went to Sidney Lumet, the director, and Al Pacino, the star. Pierson, whose work had as much to do with structure and character as dialogue, shaped the script from a Life magazine article about a bungled bank robbery that took place on a hot summer's day in New York in 1972. At first, Pierson found it difficult to write about the man played by Pacino: "It took me several months before I was able to conceive of him, because until you have a character whose motivations you understand, there's no way of writing him consistently."
Much of the film's anti-establishment tone (including the repetition of the countercultural war cry "Attica!", in reference to the 1971 Attica prison riots) and its intensity (it takes place over a single afternoon and evening), derives from the script, as does the humour and complexity of Pacino's character (he attempts the robbery to pay for his gay lover's sex change operation).
Pierson was born in Chappaqua, New York, the son of Harold Pierson, an entrepreneur, and Louise Randall Pierson, a proto-feminist writer, portrayed by Rosalind Russell in the 1945 film Roughly Speaking, which was based on her autobiography. Pierson served in the army during the second world war, then went to Harvard, where he received a degree in cultural anthropology. Following a spell as entertainment correspondent for Time magazine, he moved to Hollywood, where he wrote 11 episodes (1959-61) of the television horse opera Have Gun ? Will Travel. He was soon given a chance to write a movie script. The screenplay of Cat Ballou, written with the more experienced Walter Newman, kept the structure of Roy Chanslor's novel, The Ballad of Cat Ballou, from which the movie was loosely adapted.
Directed by Elliot Silverstein, Cat Ballou was an amusing spoof western starring Jane Fonda, with Lee Marvin in a double role as a murderous hired gun and his twin brother, a grizzled alcoholic old gunfighter who, when informed that his eyes are bloodshot, replies: "You ought to see 'em from my side." Marvin, allowed to exploit his hitherto untapped comic gifts, won the Oscar for best actor. The film started a mode for comic westerns, a genre that had been moribund since the days of Bob Hope.
Pierson was then brought in by Silverstein to doctor the script of The Happening (1967), about a gangster (played by Anthony Quinn) who is kidnapped by hippy beach bums. In the same year, he was co-credited as writer on Cool Hand Luke, with Donn Pearce, who wrote the original novel.
One of the key American films of the period, directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Paul Newman in the title role, Cool Hand Luke was a violent but less dark and more irreverent chaingang movie than most. Particularly memorable was the contest in which Luke eats 50 hardboiled eggs on a bet, and the brutal boxing match between the hero and his nemesis, fellow convict Dragline (George Kennedy), which seems to interpret Luke's masochism as his invincible spirit. Dragline is no one-dimensional brute, and comes to admire his adversary. "That's my darlin' Luke," he says. "He grin like a baby, but he bites like a gator." Another line, delivered to Luke by the prison captain (Strother Martin), proved resonant: "What we've got here is ? failure to communicate." Spoken first by a redneck, it has a humorous effect. Newman repeats the line at the film's climax.
Pierson then directed his first feature, The Looking Glass War (1969), based on John le Carr?'s cold war spy novel. His screenplay, in keeping with the demands of a young audience, changed the novel's hero, a retired, ageing Polish spy, into a young Polish hustler (played by 28-year-old Christopher Jones, a counterculture star at the time), eager to defect to the west so he can live in London with his pregnant girlfriend (Susan George). The ably directed film benefited greatly from a sterling British cast including Ralph Richardson and Anthony Hopkins.
Pierson's first collaboration with Lumet was The Anderson Tapes (1971), an intriguing heist movie starring Sean Connery, and arguably the first film to cover the subject of surveillance devices. After the triumph of Dog Day Afternoon, Pierson had the misfortune to be involved with Barbra Streisand and her producer boyfriend Jon Peters on A Star Is Born (1976), the second remake of the 1937 William Wellman movie, with a contemporary soundtrack. This collaboration, on which Pierson was director and fifth screenwriter, was detailed in an article in the Village Voice entitled My Battles with Barbra and Jon, one of the most revelatory behind-the-scenes accounts of film-making. Unfortunately, his battles, mainly with the temperamental star, resulted in a defeat, as the film turned out to be a vanity project, though Streisand was impressive belting out the tunes.
Pierson's third and last film as director was King of the Gypsies (1978), which offered a fascinating glimpse into an exotic folklore. Because he was busy serving as president of the Writers Guild of America (1981-83) and working as a television producer, it was 11 years before he returned to screenwriting with Norman Jewison's In Country (1989), a rather sentimental, meandering tale starring Bruce Willis as a disturbed Vietnam veteran. Pierson managed to maintain the tension in his script for Alan J Pakula's Presumed Innocent (1990), an engrossing thriller based on Scott Turow's bestseller and featuring Harrison Ford.
Pierson, who was president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 2001 to 2005, ended his career on a high as consulting producer on the television series Mad Men.
His first two marriages, to Polly Stokes and Dori Derfner, ended in divorce. He is survived by Helene, whom he married in 1990, and his children, Michael and Eve, from his first marriage.
? Frank Romer Pierson, screenwriter, producer and director, born 12 May 1925; died 22 July 2012
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Did shooting suspect send plans to doctor?
AURORA, Colo. (Reuters) - The man accused of Friday's movie theater massacre in Colorado mailed a notebook "full of details about how he was going to kill people" to a University of Colorado psychiatrist before the attack, FoxNews.com reported on Wednesday.
The package allegedly from the suspected shooter, 24-year-old James Eagan Holmes, remained unopened in a mailroom for as long as a week before its discovery Monday, FoxNews.com reported, citing a law enforcement source.
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Reuters could not immediately verify the report but was seeking to do so. Messages left with police in Aurora and other law enforcement officials involved in the case were not immediately returned.
The FoxNews.com report said Police and FBI agents were called to the University of Colorado Anschutz medical campus in Aurora on Monday morning after the psychiatrist, who is also a professor at the school, reported receiving a package believed to be from the suspect.
?Although that package turned out to be from someone else and harmless, a search of the Campus Services' mailroom turned up another package sent to the psychiatrist with Holmes' name in the return address, the source told FoxNews.com.
After obtaining a search warrant, police took the package away and discovered its contents.
FoxNews.com quoted its source saying: "Inside the package was a notebook full of details about how he was going to kill people. There were drawings of what he was going to do in it - drawings and illustrations of the massacre."
Police say Holmes, wearing body armor, a gas mask and toting three firearms, opened fire on a crowded midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" in the Denver suburb of Aurora, killing 12 people and wounding 58 others.
Holmes, who was arrested immediately after the attack outside the theater, made his first appearance in court on Monday. Authorities plan to formally charge him on July 30.
?(Reporting by Dan Burns; Editing by Vicki Allen)
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
SAY WHAT?! LINKIN PARK TO ROCK THE STAGE IN SOUTH AFRICA THIS NOVEMBER
News just came in that rock band, Linkin Park will be in South Africa this Spring, November.
Seems like a lot of artists have taken quite a liking to South Africa, John Legend, Lady Gaga, Soulja Boy, Kanye West?and now Linkin Park.
The American rock band will be performing at two stadium shows: Johannesburg, The Soccer City Complex,FNB?Stadium,?on the 7th of November, followed by a performance at the Cape Town stadium on the 10th of November.
All courtesy of Big Concerts in association with Lucozade, M-Net and 5FM.
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Monday, July 23, 2012
Santo, Larkin inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
Vicki Santo, widow of star Chicago Cubs third baseman and team broadcaster Ron Santo, delivers a speech during his National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum induction ceremony, Sunday, July 22, 2012, in Cooperstown, N.Y. (AP Photo/Tim Roske)
Vicki Santo, widow of star Chicago Cubs third baseman and team broadcaster Ron Santo, delivers a speech during his National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum induction ceremony, Sunday, July 22, 2012, in Cooperstown, N.Y. (AP Photo/Tim Roske)
National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Barry Larkin speaks at an inductee press conference at the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown, N.Y., Saturday, July 21, 2012. Larkin will be inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame on Sunday. (AP photos/Heather Ainsworth)
2012 National Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee, Ron Santo's children from left, Ron Santo; Jr., Jeff Santo and Linda Santo speak at an inductee press conference as part of the National Baseball Hall of Fame ceremonies in Cooperstown, N.Y., Saturday, July 21, 2012. (AP photos/Heather Ainsworth)
Bob Elliot, second from left, accepts the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for meritous contributions to baseball writing, and is flanked by from left, National Baseball Hall of Fame President, Jeff Idelson, Baseball Writers' Association of America Vice President Susan Slusser and Baseball Hall of Fame Chairman, Jane Forbes Clark, as part of the Baseball Hall of Fame Induction ceremonies at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, N.Y., Saturday, July 21, 2012. (AP photos/Heather Ainsworth)
From left, Tim McCarver, National Baseball Hall of Famer Joe Morgan and National Baseball Hall of Fame President, Jeff Idelson, participate in the 2012 Ford C. Frick and J.G. Taylor Spink Award Ceremony at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, N.Y., Saturday, July 21, 2012. McCarver accepted the Ford C. Frick award for excellence in baseball broadcasting as part of the Baseball Hall of Fame Induction ceremonies. (AP photos/Heather Ainsworth)
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) ? On a day that Vicki Santo wished had come sooner, sadness that it hadn't never showed as she spoke of the greatness of her late husband.
"Words cannot express my sorrow that Ron Santo didn't live to see this day, that he's not here to give this speech," she said Sunday as her husband, a star third baseman with the Chicago Cubs and later a beloved broadcaster for the team, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum along with former Cincinnati Reds star Barry Larkin. "Believe me when I tell you I'd rather have Ron up here than me, but rest assured that he's laughing at my expense to see me squirm a little bit.
"This is not a sad day, not at all. This is a very happy day," Vicki Santo said. "It's an incredible day for an incredible man, a man who lived an extraordinary life to its fullest. Indeed, he had a wonderful life."
From Bill Mazeroski's amazingly short, tear-filled acceptance speech to Phil Rizzuto's rambling recollection of his life on and off the diamond, baseball's highest honor always seems to produce a special impression on those directly involved.
This day was no different.
"This is unbelievable ? un-stinking believable!" the normally reserved Larkin said as he took the podium for his induction speech after fighting back tears watching his teenage daughter, Cymber, sing the national anthem.
Ron Santo didn't live to experience the day he always dreamed of. Plagued by health problems, he died Dec. 3, 2010, at the age of 70. His long battle with diabetes cost him both legs below the knees, but he ultimately died of complications from bladder cancer.
A member of the Chicago Cubs organization for the better part of five decades as a player (1960-74) and broadcaster (1990-2010), Santo was selected by the Veterans Committee in December, exactly one year after his death.
Vicki Santo said she cried a lot while practicing her speech. Her poise was remarkable when it counted most.
"It just feels right, a perfect ending to a remarkable journey," she said. "I'm certain that Ronnie is celebrating right now."
So, too were his beloved Cubs. They paid a tribute of their own to Santo, clicking their heels as they jumped over the third-base line to start the bottom of the first inning at St. Louis.
In 15 major league seasons, all but one with the Cubs, Santo evolved into one of the top third basemen in major league history while hiding his illness for a decade because he thought somebody might take baseball from him if they found out.
Even though he monitored his condition in warm-ups before games and never told his teammates about his daily injections, Santo excelled, compiling a .277 batting average, 2,254 hits, 1,331 RBIs and 365 doubles in 2,243 games. He also was a tireless fundraiser for juvenile diabetes, raising more than $65 million before his death.
"He fought the good fight, and though he's no longer here we need to find a cure for juvenile diabetes," Vicki Santo said. "He felt he had been put here for that reason. He believed in his journey. He believed in his cause. We can't let him down."
Santo fought more serious medical problems after he retired as a player. He underwent surgery on his eyes, heart and bladder after doctors discovered cancer. He also had surgery more than a dozen times on his legs before they were amputated below the knees ? the right one in 2001 and the left a year later.
As a broadcaster, Santo was known for unabashedly rooting for the Cubs, a trait that endeared him to fans who never saw him play.
"I want you to know that he loved you so much, and he would be grateful that you came here to share this with him," Vicki Santo said to a sea of fans clad in blue and red. "Ron Santo believed it's not what happens to you in life that people may judge, but how you handle what happens to you in your life."
Plenty of good things happened in Larkin's life, and he delivered a litany of thank-yous to the people who helped him along his journey. None were more important than his mom, Shirley, and father, Robert, who were seated in the first row.
"If we were going to do something, we were going to do it right," Larkin said. "Growing up, you challenged me. That was so instrumental."
Born and raised in Cincinnati, Larkin was a two-sport star at Moeller High School and thought he might become a pro football player after accepting a scholarship to play at Michigan for Bo Schembechler. That changed in a hurry.
"He (Schembechler) redshirted me my freshman year and told me that he was going to allow me just to play baseball," Larkin said. "Occasionally, I'd call him while I was playing in the big leagues and told him that was the best decision he made as a football coach. He didn't like that too much."
Drafted fourth by the Reds in 1985, despite playing just 41 games his first year Larkin finished seventh in the National League Rookie of the Year voting in 1986.
Two years later, Larkin was an All-Star with a .296 average, 91 runs scored, 32 doubles and 40 stolen bases. And with a host of older players to guide him ? Eric Davis, Ron Oester, Buddy Bell, player-manager Pete Rose, a Cincinnati native, slugger Tony Perez, and even star shortstop Dave Concepcion, the man he would replace ? Larkin's major league career quickly took off.
"I played with some monumental figures in the game," said Larkin, who was introduced to baseball by his dad at the age of 5. "They helped me through some very rough times as a player."
After giving special thanks in Spanish to the Latin players that also helped mold him, Larkin heaped special praise on Rose and Concepcion.
"I wouldn't be in the big leagues if it weren't for Pete," Larkin said, eliciting stirring applause from the fans, two of whom were holding a placard inscribed with "Cincinnati's hometown heroes, Larkin and Rose."
"And Dave Concepcion, understanding that I was gunning for his job, understanding that I was from Cincinnati, he spent countless hours with me preparing me for the game," Larkin said. "I idolized Davey Concepcion as a kid. Thank you, my idol. My inclusion in the Hall of Fame is the ultimate validation. I want to thank you all for helping me along the way."
Larkin, who played his entire 19-year career with the Reds, retired after the 2004 season with a .295 career average, 2,340 hits, 1,329 runs scored and 379 stolen bases.
Two inductees were honored Saturday in a ceremony at Doubleday Field. Former catcher Tim McCarver received the Ford C. Frick Award for his contributions in broadcasting, while Bob Elliott of the Toronto Sun was given the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for sports writing.
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Sunday, July 22, 2012
Got an appointment with Vladimir Putin? Better bring a book.
It doesn't matter if you're a business leader, a prime minister, royalty, or even the pope: Russian President Vladimir Putin keeps everyone waiting, sometimes for hours.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a meeting with Russian top military in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Wednesday, July 18.
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EnlargeAt the Crimean resort of Yalta last Thursday the president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, waited in sweltering heat for his honored guest, Russian President Vladimir Putin, to show up for a scheduled summit to thrash out the two nations' differences over the price of natural gas.
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And he waited, along with all his officials, for four hours after the meeting was supposed to begin. Eventually, Mr. Putin showed up, and someone explained to the Ukrainians that he'd stopped to "drink a glass" with a group of Russian bikers known as the "Night Wolves" on his way to the summit.
That incident might be put down to a quirk of Russian-Ukrainian relations, which are quite strained these days over the price of gas and other issues.
But since coming to power 12 years ago, Putin has developed a consistent reputation for keeping everybody waiting, sometimes for hours, including Russians of every social station, foreign leaders, global corporate executives, the queen of England, and even, once, the pope.
The now-three term Russian leader's habitual lateness has seldom been made an issue of and goes widely unreported. Supporters say it's really his only personal vice, while critics argue that the Russian media ? which often covered Putin's episodes of tardiness during his long-ago first term of office ? has since clammed up about it out of fear of offending the Kremlin.
We only happen to know about the incident in Crimea last week because a few outraged Ukrainian officials have chosen to make an issue of it.
"Rather than rush to a meeting, a stop was made to drink a glass with bikers.? In my opinion, it is a diplomatic slap in the face or just plain rudeness. This is a manifestation of abnormal relations," former Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ogryzko told a press conference in Kiev last Friday.
"President Putin exceeded the limits of a delay. He went to meet with motorheads and their friends, showing his priorities," in Ukraine, Emergency Situations Minister Viktor Baloga wrote on his Facebook page, according to AFP.
Friday, July 20, 2012
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
Different Types Of Snowboards And Snowboard Sizing
A snowboard is the main tool you have while riding down the snowy mountain. It provides riders the ability to slide smoothly on the snow. A snowboard is made of a plank of wood, metal, fiberglass, or plastic. People who use this equipment are called snowboarders.
It is important to know that each snowboarder may require an entirely different type of snowboard, depending on their riding style. Therefore, you should have ample knowledge of the following types of snowboards when planning to ride one.
Freestyle
This is the most popular type of snowboard. Freestyle snowboards are lighter, fatter, easier, more flexible, and shorter. The tip and tail of these boards are alike because they consist of twin tips. Twin shapes enable snowboarders to ride both ways.
Freestyle boards are the best option for beginners. This is because they have low height and weight. These boards are specifically designed to boost their confidence level while snowboarding.
Freeride
Freeride boards are longer as compared to park and freestyle boards. In addition, they are directional rather than having twin-tips. Snowboarders use this type of board when they can ride in any type of snow such as, soft or hard snow. They can either use it in park riding or back-country riding.
All-Mountain
All-mountain snowboards enable riders to perform well on mountains. These snowboards are directional, which means that they are downhill. However, they can also have twin tips through which the riders can change their direction. It entirely depends on the riders' choice. If they want to experience a thrilling ride, then all-mountain boards serve the purpose extremely well.
With specific snowboard sizing, about 90% of beginners prefer to ride on all-mountain boards because of their flexibility. These snowboarders are at their learning stage of which landscape they like to snowboard in.
Racing/Alpine
The shape of an alpine snowboard differs from that of other snowboards. It has a narrow, long, directional, and rigid shape. Professional snowboarders especially use this type of snowboard because it is specifically designed to ride in races. Therefore, alpine snowboards are best for those who want to ride on tidy and well-maintained slopes.
It depends how a snowboarder wants to use it. For instance, Europeans use soft boots to ride on alpine snowboards. Similarly, some prefer to use hard plastic boots while snowboarding with alpine boards.
Splitboard
A splitboard is specifically designed to snowboard in a backcountry style. The main characteristic of a splitboard is that it is divided into half. You can say that it is cut into two pieces, each piece for each foot. Riders can climb easily on backcountry slopes that are untracked. When the riding area is smooth, you can reattach the two parts together and continue riding downhill.
Adventurous snowboarders who are equipped with sufficient skills, confidence, and knowledge to discover new slopes use splitboards. The snowboard sizing depends on their ability to ride. If you are one of those adventure lovers who like to snowboard, you will also require split kit and climbing skins with those splitboards.
Copyright (c) 2012 Jay Charles
Source: http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Different-Types-Of-Snowboards-And-Snowboard-Sizing/4046549
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Opinionated Girl: Workin' on mah fit-ness!
?"Somebody who's got what you've got is out doing what you're not."?That's just one of the quotes featured on our new homemade fitness inspiration posters for our home gym/office. I have a gym membership to Ladies Health and Fitness, the best gym in town for women that I've been to, and John and I also work out at home. Our home gym consists just of yoga mats and our bodies because body weight exercises are amazing to train your entire body instead of machines that train one section at a time. I weight lift and use the gym treadmill but I love doing these routines at home during the day to help me focus on my goals and remind myself how amazing the human body really is.
I read an article in the August 2012 edition of Glamour entitled, "Health Controversy: Is "Fitspo" bad for you?" that really sparked my interest. I have very often found myself perusing the Pinterest fitness boards to gain inspiration or encourage myself when I'm dragging my feet before a workout. Usually it reminds me what I'm working toward and gives me a kick in the seat of the pants to GET. MOVING.
But that's "fitspiration," which is the new craze following the banning of "thinspiration." I feel that "thinspiration" is irrevocably harmful to people because it damages self-esteem and promotes eating disorders heavily as a form of weight loss. I further feel that "fitspiration" can walk a fine line in the same. People who become obsessed with body image and working out can suffer but I don't think that it's all bad just based on it being fitness inspiration.
Just like anything else, forgetting about the principles of moderation can lead you into the danger zone. If you're educated and informed, I think that you should keep the dangerous possibilities in mind and learn self-control and self-discipline. By the logic that fitness inspiration is damaging by leading to eating disorders, we can also say that calorie counting to lose weight is also a precursor to anorexia.
For me, if it's helping me get fit and get control over my hypermobility under control, then I'm all for it. And by "all for it," I mean I want to look at it everyday to help me kick my own ass into submission.
DIY FITNESS INSPIRATION BOARDS
You'll need poster board (your choice, mine are 14x22), markers, glue stick, and magazine images.?
I took my favorite body weight routines and my husband's favorite body weight routines and wrote them in the centers so that we have a point of reference when we're running through them. I added designs in marker around to give a good background because I didn't have a lot of images. I used my husband's old Men's Health issues and my own Glamour issues to create this hodgepodge of inspiring fitness images, which I glued directly over the marker designs. It's really that easy!?
These are the workouts that John prefers to run through, though I sometimes can convince him to work out with me. I added the basic kettlebell workouts from Men's Health that he wanted because he's been talking about a kettlebell for ages and this might give him the push to get one... actually knowing what to do with it!
These are the two routines that I prefer to go through, mostly because it's less repetition (and less burpees) than what John likes to go through. The jumps in the burpees hurt my knee and ankle joints and stress the tops of my feet. (I know, it's so weird, but it's true!) I added Lea Michele for me because she is my idea of natural beauty and I respect her admirable talent. I also added a shot of Gwyneth Paltrow jogging with a quote from her reminding women that she works hard for her body because it's her job to do that and that she didn't just "inherit" it or have "good genes."
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT FITSPIRATION??
Source: http://one-girl-vs-world.blogspot.com/2012/07/workin-on-mah-fit-ness.html
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
?Do Business Schools Incubate Criminals?? ? naked capitalism
Luigi Zinglaes, who teaches at the University of Chicago?s business school, had an op-ed in Bloomberg provocatively titled ?Do Business Schools Incubate Criminals?? He argues that business schools are ?partly to blame? for the decline in ethical standards in the business world, and urges that ethics not be taught as a separate course by lightweight profs, but integrated into all courses.
This piece is so backwards I don?t quite know where to begin. It?s telling that it blames former McKinsey partner, now convicted insider traders Rajat Gupta?s and Anil Kumar?s crimes on the failure get ethical training in business school. I?m not making this up: ?Where did Gupta, Kumar and others get the idea that this kind of behavior might be OK? Most business schools do offer ethics classes? but contends they are unserious. No other possible explanation is explored. Gee, they both went to the Indian Institute of Technology. Why isn?t their education at a more formative stage under scrutiny as well?
Mind you, I?m not saying business schools deserve a free pass. Far from it. But business schools are a combination of finishing school and employment agency. They live in, and my sense is they are lagging indicators of broad cultural shifts in norms. In case Zingales has missed it, American elites are openly corrupt. You can see it with the revolving doors between regulators and top industry jobs, the way CEOs and top politicians tell astonishing lies whenever they are in trouble,the weird combination of precision on inconsequential details versus the carefully coached combinations of misleading but not untruthful answers and ?I don?t recall? when you sure as hell know they do remember, the way the press is so thick with propaganda that it takes an Enigma machine to pull out any real messages. So with those role models, why should we expect business school graduates to be paragons of virtue? The are aspiring Masters of the Universe. They are smart enough to see what the real game is, and the message conveyed by the business press and who rises to the top in large organizations today is far more powerful than any lecture, no matter how well or frequently delivered.
Admittedly, it is hard to parse out the role of self-selection versus education versus social norms. The people who go to business school are ambitious, want to make a lot of money but not big risk-takers (despite the macho talk). They?ve almost certainly taken economics as undergraduates; most probably majored in it. Lab experiments have established that economists are more selfish than non-economists; the question remains whether selfish people go into economics or whether economics training makes people greedier. And, ironically, some papers that try to argue that economics education is not to blame come off as being so autistic that they come close to proving the critics? case (they simply won?t consider fairly well documented finding, for instance, that altruism lights up the pleasure centers of the brain).
The focus on business schools conveniently turns reader attention from the way social values have been reengineered through a wide array of channels: advertising, films, lectures at work, even ceremonies and celebrations. The efforts to portray patriotism as being aligned with commerce goes back to before 1910. The more recent full bore push to depict markets as virtuous, and by implication, superior to other forms of association and organization, and to weaken communities (particular labor organizations) goes back to the 1970s. The more people see themselves as atomized, the less cooperation makes sense. As people internalize these values, it becomes more and more likely that they?ll be willing to act in a ruthless, even criminal manner, if they can get away with it. And those pressures become intensified if you have high income disparity and high levels of unemployment. The difference between winning and losing is large. In societies like Australia, if you lose a fancy post, you won?t lose your friends. I can tell you from personal experience the reverse is true in the US. You?d be astonished at how many people drop you, either because you are no longer of any use to them, or they like to go out to places where dinner costs $100 and that?s no longer in your budget, and they aren?t keen about slumming to accommodate you.
Mathbabe gave a vivid depiction:
Most of the quants at D.E. Shaw were immigrant men. In fact I was the only woman quant when I joined, and there were quite a few quants, maybe 50, and I was also one of the only Americans. What nearly all these men had in common was a kind of constant, nervous hunger, almost like a daily fear that they wouldn?t have enough to eat?
But here?s the thing, that fear was real to him. It was that earnest, heartfelt anxiety that convinced me that I was really different from these guys. The difference was that, firstly, they were acting as if a famine was imminent, and they?d need to scrounge up food or starve to death, and secondly, that only their nuclear family was worth saving. This is where I really lost them. I mean, I get the idea of acts of desperation to survive, but I don?t get how you choose who to save and who to let die. However, it was this kind of us-against-them mentality that prevailed and informed the approach to making money.
Once you understand the mentality, it?s easier to understand the ?dumb money? phrase. It simply means, we are smarter than those idiots, let?s use our intelligence to anticipate dumb peoples? trades and take their money. It is our right as intelligent, imminently starving people to do this.
Now you might say this is a a special case, these aren?t American, they are furriners. But you are missing the bigger point. Why did DE Shaw seem to prefer immigrant quants? This is a hedge fund that paid Larry Summers millions to do squat. It?s pretty certain they weren?t hiring immigrant mathematicians because they were cheap.
A lot of employers in finance and business look for ?hunger? and the version mathbabe described, the desperate fear, is particularly attractive. So to be competitive, job seekers have to at least credibly feign that sort of predatory aggression. And to keep their job, they have to operate in that manner. So the flaw of Zingales? argument is that the students are responding to the character attributes sought in many of the most prestigious employers. And given how much it costs to go to school these days, business school students and many college students can?t afford not to be mercenary.
The larger manifestations of this hungry behavior in the midst of abundance are undermining the foundations of commerce and the rule of law. Every week we see new evidence of rampant fraud, as well as continuing unwillingness of banks and other large companies to sacrifice a little bit of profit to do the right thing (Exhibit Number One is the refusal of mortgage servicers to do principal mods). As trust weakens, the cost of commerce rises: more time on due diligence, more extensive and elaborate negotiations and contracts, more litigation. And the resulting uncertainty will deter some customers from using certain services and products (this is not theoretical; quite a few readers have said they would not buy a house using a mortgages because servicers can abuse them and it?s well nigh impossible to get recourse).
Animals in social species seem to have a hard wired sense of fairness. While members often use ruses and deception, others will punish cheaters, even when it involves effort and risk with no apparent gain. So as depressing as current conditions are, many may assume that rather than have our culture continue to progress along Ferengist lines, the pendulum will swing the other way, just as the McCarthy era was followed by the 1960s. But extreme stress conditions can produce a complete breakdown in social structures. A warning from Joseph Tainter?s Collapse:
The Ik are a people of northern Uganda who live at what must surely be the extreme of deprivation and disaster. A largely hunting and gathering people who have in recent times practiced some crop planting, the Ik are not classifiable as a complex society in the sense of Chapter 2. They are, nonetheless, a morbidly fascinating case of collapse in which a former, low level of social complexity has essentially disappeared. Due to drought and disruption by national boundaries of the traditional cycle of movement, the Ik live in such a food- and water-scarce environment that there is absolutely no advantage to reciprocity and social sharing. The Ik, in consequence, display almost nothing of what could be considered societal organization. They are so highly fragmented that most activities, especially subsistence, are pursued individually. Each Ik will spend days or weeks on his or her own, searching for food and water. Sharing is virtually nonexistent. Two siblings or other kin can live side-by-side, one dying of starvation and the other well nourished, without the latter giving the slightest assistance to the other. The family as a social unit has become dysfunctional. Even conjugal pairs don?t form a cooperative unit except for a few specific purposes. Their motivation for marriage or cohabitation is that one person can?t build a house alone. The members of a conjugal pair forage alone, and do not share food. Indeed, their foraging is so independent that if both members happen to be at their residence together it is by accident.
Each conjugal compound is stockaded against the others. Several compounds together form a village, but this is a largely meaningless occurrence. Villages have no political functions or organization, not even a central meeting place.
Children are minimally cared for by their mothers until age three, and then are put out to fend for themselves. This separation is absolute. By age three they are expected to find their own food and shelter, and those that survive do provide for themselves. Children band into age-sets for protection, since adults will steal a child?s food whenever possible. No food sharing occurs within an age-set. Groups of children will forage in agricultural fields, which scares off birds and baboons. This is often given as the reason for having children.
Although little is known about how the Ik got to their present situation, there are some indications of former organizational patterns. They possess clan names, although today these have no structural significance. They live in villages, but these no longer have any political meaning. The traditional authority structure of family, lineage, and clan leaders has been progressively weakened. It appears that a former level of organization has simply been abandoned by the Ik as unprofitable and unsuitable in their present distress (Turnbull 1978)?
Faced with such an array of imposing problems, and constantly bombarded with media attention to these and other dilemmas, people are naturally concerned. For reasons that are more or less rational, a respectable segment of the population of Western industrial societies fears that one or several of these factors will bring a breakdown and a new dark age. Only a veneer of complexity lies between us and the primordial chaos, it is thought, the Hobbesian war-of-all-against-all. A considerable level of political activity results from such fears, and both national priorities and international policies are to a significant degree influenced by this popular concern. Some people store food or dig fallout shelters, in expectation of the failure of a political process to resolve the situation. Others go to greater lengths, stockpiling weapons and conducting paramilitary training, even engaging in military games, in anticipation of the day when the ghost of Hobbes emerges, when we are all reduced to the conditions of the Ik.
The irony, of course, is that while the misery of the Ik is a rare outcome, the fear of it reduces cooperation and thus makes that type of result more likely.
Source: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/07/do-business-schools-incubate-criminals.html
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Police: Gunman in Ala. bar shooting turned self in
In this Tuesday, July 17, 2012 image captured from video and provided by the Tuscaloosa Police Department, a gunman walks near a Tuscaloosa, Ala., bar. Tuscaloosa police say 17 people were wounded when a gunman opened fire outside a crowded bar in downtown Tuscaloosa. (AP Photo/Tuscaloosa Police Department)
In this Tuesday, July 17, 2012 image captured from video and provided by the Tuscaloosa Police Department, a gunman walks near a Tuscaloosa, Ala., bar. Tuscaloosa police say 17 people were wounded when a gunman opened fire outside a crowded bar in downtown Tuscaloosa. (AP Photo/Tuscaloosa Police Department)
Tuscaloosa Police responded to the scene of a shooting early Tuesday morning July 17, 2012 in downtown Tuscaloosa, Ala., after a gunman who opened fire outside a crowded bar, wounding 17 people. Police were still searching for a suspect. (AP Photo/Tuscaloosa News, Robert Sutton)
Tuscaloosa Police are on the scene of a shooting Tuesday morning July 17, 2012 in downtown Tuscaloosa, Ala. after a gunman who opened fire outside a crowded bar, wounding 17 people. Police were still searching for a suspect. (AP Photo/Tuscaloosa News, Robert Sutton)
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) ? A gunman who fired into a crowded bar and wounded nearly a dozen people turned himself in Tuesday, several hours after the rampage rattled the nearby University of Alabama campus, police said.
The man went to a business about 45 miles north of the shooting in Tuscaloosa and told employees he was the suspect, Police Chief Steve Anderson said. The workers called police and he was taken into custody.
The police chief would not identify the man. Anderson said he still doesn't know what the motive is, but authorities were investigating whether it involved a dispute between rival motorcycle gangs.
Police also said they believed the rampage was connected to an earlier shooting at a home a couple of miles away from the bar. One person was injured in that shooting.
"We feel certain that we will be able to connect the dots with this individual," Anderson said.
The gunman stood outside of the Copper Top bar for a few moments around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday and targeted someone inside before firing through a window, police said. Customers immediately ran or crawled away, and the gunman opened fire again with a military-style assault weapon.
Witnesses at the bar described a bloody and chaotic scene, with glass and debris flying around the nightclub.
Rachel Studdard was sitting on a patio with a group of friends, enjoying 50-cent draft beer when the shooting started.
"We heard firecracker sounds. All of a sudden somebody was like, 'Is that gunfire?'" said Studdard, who recently graduated a two-year college and plans to attend the university in the fall. "They shot in one area and then they started shooting directly where we were."
A bullet hit Studdard's toe, and debris hit her in the side and in the leg. Her foot throbbed Tuesday, she said, and she was using crutches to walk. She still had dried blood on her leg.
The shots fired so quickly it sounded like automatic gunfire, she said.
"There were sparks coming off the ground and then I felt a sting and I knew I'd been hit," she said.
The police chief said 11 people were hit by gunfire and 17 people were taking to the hospital. Most of the injured were hit by bullet fragments or debris, said Brad Fisher, a spokesman at DCH Regional Medical Center.
Two people were in intensive care, one in critical condition and the other in serious condition, Fisher said. Three people were in fair condition and the others were treated and released.
At least three of the injured were university students.
Outside the bar Tuesday, pools of blood were still visible and a trail of bloody footprints could be seen on the sidewalk for about two blocks leading away from the nightclub.
Elizabeth Walters was inside the Copper Top when the shooting started.
"It sounded like it would never end," Walters said. "There was a lull and then it started up again."
After the shooting ended, the music in the bar continued to play for several minutes until someone turned it off.
The gunman walked away, down the same street he walked up to get to the bar, Anderson said.
It appeared he shot through the glass of the front double French doors and a side door. The front doors were covered by a black material and two windows were missing from the wooden frames.
Surveillance video showed the man carrying a gun and walking along a sidewalk.
At the home of the earlier shooting, yellow police tape surrounded the single-level, brown ranch-style house. The front window was broken out and three police cars were parked outside. A motorcycle was parked in the garage.
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Yahoo's 2Q results point to hurdles facing new CEO
FILE - In this May 20, 2012 file photo, a Yahoo sign stands outside the company's offices in Santa Clara, Calif. Yahoo?s restless shareholders let interim CEO Ross Levinsohn know that they won?t give him much time to turn the company around if he gets the job on a permanent basis at Yahoo?s annual shareholders meeting Thursday. July 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
FILE - In this May 20, 2012 file photo, a Yahoo sign stands outside the company's offices in Santa Clara, Calif. Yahoo?s restless shareholders let interim CEO Ross Levinsohn know that they won?t give him much time to turn the company around if he gets the job on a permanent basis at Yahoo?s annual shareholders meeting Thursday. July 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Just a few hours after Yahoo ushered in Marissa Mayer as its new CEO Tuesday, the struggling Internet company's second-quarter earnings tempered some of the excitement surrounding her hiring.
The results provided a sobering reminder that Mayer is entering a situation dramatically different from what she left behind at Google, where she helped build the Internet's dominant search and advertising service during her 13-year tenure.
Instead of pulling the levers on Google's finely tuned moneymaking machine, she will now be running a financial laggard seemingly unable to devise an effective turnaround strategy.
Mayer, 37, becomes the fifth CEO in the past five years to try to salvage Yahoo.
Investors hoping to hear about Mayer's plans for Yahoo were disappointed Tuesday. She skipped the company's earnings call so she could spend more time meeting with her new management team. Yahoo didn't even provide a forecast on how it might fare in the current quarter.
"We believe it's best to give our new CEO time to get acclimated to Yahoo before providing any future guidance," said the company's chief financial officer, Tim Morse, who ran the conference call.
The second-quarter numbers largely fell in line with the ho-hum performance that investors had anticipated.
Yahoo shares shed three cents to $15.57 in Tuesday's extended trading.
As has been the case for the past year, Yahoo's Internet search partnership with Microsoft Corp. delivered disappointing returns. And the company's Internet ad prices in Europe decreased slightly as government debt woes in several countries on the continent undermined the economy.
Yahoo muddled through its latest quarter under two different CEOs, Scott Thompson and Ross Levinsohn. After Thompson stepped aside in mid-May amid an uproar over misleading information on his biography, Levinsohn began filling in as interim CEO.
Mayer's hiring marked the second time in less than a year that Yahoo has passed over Levinsohn as a candidate to become full-time CEO. He was also interested in the job after Yahoo fired Carol Bartz last September.
Some analysts are now worried Levinsohn will leave Yahoo, hurting the company's efforts to forge partnerships with other media outlets as it battles Internet search leader Google Inc. and online social networking leader Facebook Inc. for the attention of Web surfers and the marketing budgets of advertisers.
If they work together, Levinsohn and Mayer could complement each other's strengths. Levinsohn is seen as a media maven while Mayer specializes in product development and design.
"Our new CEO brings strong tech background, but we also have exceptional and deepening media expertise here as well, so we've got to combine them," Morse told analysts Tuesday. "It's a powerful combination when we get it right." Morse didn't mention Levinsohn in his remarks.
Yahoo earned $227 million for the three months ending in June. That was down 4 percent from net income of $237 million a year ago.
Earnings per share for the quarter remained level at 18 cents. The company spent $456 million buying back its stock, reducing its outstanding shares from last quarter.
Analysts polled by FactSet had projected earnings of 20 cents per share.
The numbers for the latest quarter were dragged down by a $136 million charge for employee layoffs and other cost-cutting measures. The company, which is based in Sunnyvale, Calif., trimmed 1,500 people from its payroll to end June with 12,500 employees.
Revenue for the period dipped 1 percent from last year to $1.22 billion.
After taking out ad commissions, Yahoo's net revenue totaled $1.08 billion. That figure fell about $16 million shy of analyst estimates.
Yahoo's biggest gains in the quarter flowed from its stakes in Yahoo Japan and China's Alibaba Group Ltd. Yahoo's earnings from those holdings and other investment totaled $180 million, a 65 percent increase from last year.
Yahoo has already agreed to sell half its 40 percent stake in Alibaba for about $7 billion. Morse said that deal is still on schedule to be completed late this year.
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