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Near Hamilton in Butler County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
Gen. Anthony Wayne
Five Mile Spring
— On the Trail, North of Fort Hamilton —
Photographed By Rev. Ronald Irick, September 13, 2016
1. Gen. Anthony Wayne Marker
Gen. Anthony Wayne and his men camped here at Five Mile Spring September 1793 . This historical marker was erected in 1941 by Daughters of the American Revolution. It is Near Hamilton in Butler County Ohio
Gen. Anthony Wayne and his men camped here at Five Mile Spring September 1793
Erected 1941 by Daughters of the American Revolution.
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Wars, US Indian. In addition, it is included in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) series list.
Location. 39° 28.251′ N, 84° 32.763′ W. Marker is near Hamilton, Ohio, in Butler County. Marker is at the intersection of Hamilton Eaton Road Anthony Wayne Trail (U.S. 127) and Spring Road (County Route 286), on the right when traveling north on Hamilton Eaton Road Anthony Wayne Trail. Marker is in a front yard, as the highway crosses Mutton Run. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 3221 Hamilton Eaton Road, Hamilton OH 45011, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 5 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Seven Mile Academy Bell (approx. 0.7 miles away); Busenbark / Dr. Charles F. Richter (approx. 3.2 miles away); The Miami Canal (approx. 4.2 miles away); Champion Hamilton Mill (approx.
Full view of marker
4.3 miles away); Hamilton Civil War Memorial (approx. 4.6 miles away); The Village of Trenton / The Elk Creek Baptist Church and Cemetery (approx. 4.7 miles away); Founder's Park (approx. 4.7 miles away); Lane Public Library / Clark Lane (approx. 4.7 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Hamilton.
Additional keywords. Daughters of the American Revolution Gen. Anthony Wayne
Marker can be seen at a distance. The tree line is "Mutton Run". "Spring Road" intersects at the left, beyond the bridge. The spring is at the far right, in the trees.
Photographed By Tom Bosse, August 20, 2018
DAR logo on the marker. Again, hats off to these Ladies, who have marked much of our history.
Credits. This page was last revised on September 14, 2018. It was originally submitted on September 14, 2016, by Rev. Ronald Irick of West Liberty, Ohio. This page has been viewed 405 times since then and 4 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on September 14, 2016, by Rev. Ronald Irick of West Liberty, Ohio. 4. submitted on August 21, 2018, by Tom Bosse of Jefferson City, Tennessee. 5. submitted on September 14, 2016, by Rev. Ronald Irick of West Liberty, Ohio. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.

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Merger control is considered to be one of the most important pillars of competition law and policy worldwide. The main purpose behind merger control is to ensure that mergers do not create adverse conditions for competition in the relevant market. For a long period of time, this important aspect of competition law was not made effective in India. However, after much debate and deliberation, the merger control provisions under the (Indian) Competition Act, 2002 ("Act") and the allied Competition Commission of India (Procedure in regard to the transaction of business relating to combinations) Regulations, 2011 (the "Combination Regulations") which set out the scheme for implementing the merger control provisions under the Act, came into effect from June 1, 2011. The merger control regime has been in force for nine months. The CCI, on 23 February 2012, has amended the Combination Regulations, by way of the Competition Commission of India (Procedure in regard to the transaction of business relating to combinations) Amendment Regulations, 2012 (the "Amendment Regulations") to inter alia make them consistent with the SEBI Takeover Regulations amongst other key changes which include substantial increase in filing fees, limited exemption to intra group re-organizations by way of merger and amalgamations and changes to the notification forms.
Parties Test – In order to determine as to whether the thresholds (provided in the table below) are breached, in case of an acquisition, the combined value of the acquirer (on a standalone basis) and target enterprise (including its subsidiaries, units, or divisions) is to be considered. However, in case of a merger or amalgamation, the asset/turnover figures for the enterprise remaining after the merger or enterprise created pursuant to an amalgamation has to be taken into consideration. Further, if as a part of a series of steps in a proposed transaction, particular assets of an enterprise (i.e., a business or a division) are moved to another separate enterprise which is then acquired by a third party, the entire assets and turnover of the selling enterprise (from which these assets and turnover were hived off) would be attributed to the second separate enterprise when calculating the assets and turnover for the purpose of Section 5.
Form II: Parties to the Combination also have the option of filing Form II, which is a long form. While Form I is a very simple form and requires basic details of the parties to the Combination and the transaction, Form II is fairly extensive and requires minute details regarding the proposed Combination, including details such as analysis, reports, surveys, ownership details of the parties and groups, details of all the products of the parties, end use, etc. Form II is to be "preferably" filed in the following instances: (i) where the parties to the Combination are competitors and have a combined market share in the relevant market of more than 15%; and (ii) where the parties to the Combination share a vertical relationship, and the combined or individual market share of the parties in either the upstream or the downstream market is greater than 25%. In cases where the parties have filed Form I and the CCI is of the opinion that Form II should have been filed, it can direct the parties to re-file the notice in Form II. Further, the time taken by the parties to the Combination in having incorrectly filed Form I will not be taken into account. Therefore, it becomes significant for the parties (from the point of view of time and acquisition financing cost) to accurately determine the appropriate form in which the filing has to be made with the CCI. The filing fee for a Form II filing has increased from Rs. 1,000,000 (approximately USD 20,000) to Rs. 4,000,000 (approximately USD 40,000), by way of the Amendment Regulations.
A copy of such documents or board approval, as the case may be, is now required to be submitted as a part of a Form filing. In case the documents have not been executed but the intention to acquire is communicated to the Central Government/State Government or any statutory authority, the date of such communication will be the date of execution of the other document. Under Section 20(1) of the Act, the CCI has the power to initiate a suo moto inquiry into a Combination which was not notified to it, for up to one year from the date the Combination has taken effect.
In the Reliance/Bharti AXA case (C-2011/07/01), the proposed agreement for acquisition by Reliance Industries Limited ("RIL") and Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Limited ("RIIL") of a 74% stake in each of the joint venture companies between the Bharti entities and AXA contemplated an 'option' by which AXA would acquire up to 24% shareholding in the two joint ventures companies from RIL and RIIL as and when FDI Regulations permit such holding by AXA. The CCI order in relation to this merger approval suggests that in case of 'option to acquire', the determination from a competition perspective can only be made at the point when the transaction happens, for e.g. at the time the option is exercised and the "acquisition" takes place. Therefore, filing should, and can, be made only at the conversion stage (not at the time of grant). However, in this case, AXA's option to acquire further shares was not an integral part of RIL's and RIIL's acquisition. Therefore, in a clearly inter-connected transaction the position may be different.
In the Walt Disney/UTV case, it was stated that the acquisition of shares by an enterprise holding 50% or more shares in another enterprise resulting in transfer from joint control to sole control is notifiable under Section 6(2) of the Act and is excluded from exemption under Regulation 4, read with Item 2 of Schedule I of the Combination Regulations. This was also the case in the Tata Power Company/Tata BP Solar case (C-2012/01/26).
An intra-group reorganization does not affect the competitive landscape and should not come under the purview of competition law. Also, the Combination Regulations exempt an intra-group reorganization by way of an acquisition. The availability of Intra-group exemption in case of internal re-organization by way of mergers and amalgamations was always a debatable topic considering the absence of the express wordings under Item 8 of Schedule I of the Combination Regulations in this regard. However, this debate was put to rest by the CCI in the Alstom Holdings/Alstom Projects case where an internal reorganization by way of a scheme of amalgamation was cleared by the CCI on merits. As a result of this ruling, 14 other intra-group reorganizations were notified to the CCI and cleared, to date, even though there is no distinction between an acquisition, merger or amalgamation as a mode of corporate reorganization. However, the Amendment Regulations have now brought in a partial exemption for intra-group reorganizations by way of merger or amalgamation.
Since June 1, 2011, the CCI has approved twenty eight merger filings at a swift pace, which has given Indian industry the much needed comfort that the CCI merger clearance process will not be unnecessarily long drawn. However, these are early days and the next few months are likely to see several merger filings which would be the true test of the CCI's responsiveness. Also, the notifying parties are presently facing several interpretational issues from a merger filing standpoint due to ambiguities in the Act and the Combination Regulations. It is expected that the grey areas under the Act and the Combination Regulations in relation to merger control provisions would be addressed either through express clarifications or through the jurisprudence emerging from the orders of the CCI. Irrespective of that, merger control is here to stay in India and will have significant implications on inorganic growth through M&As, particularly India-centric M&A transactions, both within India and offshore.
Ashish Jejurkar is a Partner and Nisha Kaur Uberoi is a Principal Associate at Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co. Ashish specializes in M&A, General Corporate and Securities law and Nisha specializes in Competition Law. They can be contacted at ashish.jejurkar@amarchand.com and nishakaur.uberoi@amarchand.com.


How are Group Savings and Borrowing Chit funds regulated in India?
Chit funds are a regulated financial entity under the Chit Fund Act, 1982 and then by resident state level local acts. To run a legal chit fund business, one must register the company with the local Registrar of Chits and comply with all the local and central regulations. There are stringent rules that chit companies must adhere to and several rights that every subscriber/investor has.
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The industry is regulated under the Chit Fund Act, 1982 (enacted by Ministry of Finance), a Central Act that is administered by state governments under their local chit fund regulations.
A Registrar of Chits is appointed by the state government as the Regulator of the chit funds. Anyone operating a chit fund must register the chit company with the state Registrar and provide all particulars about the chit company. Even after registration, the Registrar has the authority to refuse the approval of a new chit group/scheme that the chit company wants to start, if they don't comply with the official requirements. For a Chit Fund company (one that manages, conducts, or supervises chits as defined under Section 2(b) of the Chit Fund Act), it is mandatory to have the word 'Chit' in its legally registered name, which is scrutinized by the ROC and regulators before approval is granted.
• Minimum Capital requirements as reserve funds. These are used for assuring the safety of every customer's investment and for clawbacks in case of issues.
· Every subscriber is entitled to participate in the auction.
· To receive the chit amount after they win the bid, before the next auction. This is subject to the furnishing of the pre-requisite in accordance with the chit agreement.
· To inspect the chit record and registers at the premises of the chit fund company after payment of requisite fee, as mentioned in the chit agreement.
· To seek arbitration in case of any dispute with the chit fund company regarding the chit in the office of the Registrar.
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KyePot's mission is to empower the masses to safely invest in this asset class. Now with our mobile app, you can see our partner chit fund company's verified required legal approvals and documents – including the certificate of incorporation, the regulatory capital FD proof, the registered chit agreements, PSOs, CCs, and more.
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Science vs. stigma: the continued criminalization of HIV
At least 30 [US] states have statutes that specifically forbid people infected with HIV from potentially exposing others to the virus. Several more states prosecute under broader communicable disease laws — and all persist despite decades of scientific knowledge putting the virulence of HIV well below a menagerie of other common pathogens....Those convicted of HIV-related offenses can...face decades of life behind bars [or be required] to register as sex offenders — a punishment sometimes worse than prison time.
Undark
India, South Africa to begin collaborative research on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis
The Department of Biotechnology in collaboration with Department of Science & Technology and South African Medical Research Council will soon embark on a collaborative research programme on HIV, TB and TB/HIV. The programme would be under the framework of bilateral Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement between the Governments of India and South Africa. The thrust of the programme would be on development of preventive HIV vaccines.
Ingredients South Asia
From HIV to immunity
Years of research have revealed clues that may lead to HIV's undoing. Scientists are learning from the immune systems of rare people...who naturally make antibodies that can stifle many variants of the virus. Researchers had initially assumed these antibodies would target the virus's protein. But many actually recognize the sugars on its surface. Berman and his team hope to use that insight against HIV.
Saving the lives of Romanian children with HIV
Dr Paul Marinescu has chosen to meet me in a room...as lively as its incumbent's life. This grey-haired man with a gentle voice acts as father to 18 – two his own children and 16 HIV-positive orphans he took in when nobody wanted them. Official statistics show that during Romania's communist rule more than 10,000 children were infected with HIV. What happened is described as an epidemiological accident. What followed is something of a miracle – around 65 per cent of the children are still alive today.
Health Medicine Network
Uganda makes further significant gain in HIV fight
A new report shows that Uganda made "significant progress" in the fight against HIV in the past 12 months, suggesting a possibility for the country to meet the new UN target and end AIDS by 2030.
Infant antibodies could increase HIV vaccine creation
A study in Kenya that has found that novel antibodies evolve quickly with limited mutation and could accelerate HIV/AIDS vaccines development....The study results focusing on the infant with novel antibodies, published in the journal Cell on 30 June, suggest that an HIV vaccine development could be improved by mimicking infection and immune response in infants.
SciDev
Planned Parenthood in Massachusetts to offer pill to reduce HIV-infection risk
An FDA-approved prescription medication used to reduce the risk of HIV-infection in adults who have tested negative but are at high risk for contracting the virus that causes AIDS will be available as of Sept. 1 at all health centers operated by the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts.
MassLive
Why would AIDS activists oppose a ballot measure to lower drug prices?
On first glance, Prop 61 would seem like a great deal for Californians....San Francisco's Project Inform, an HIV advocacy group, suggests that it's unclear whether the ballot would save the state any money. And even if it did, there's no guarantee that this would translate to savings for the employers and consumers. To complicate the issue for HIV advocates, there is the prominent role being played by the Los Angeles–based AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
Postpartum HIV treatment reduces key maternal illnesses
HIV-infected women who remained on antiretroviral therapy throughout the postpartum period reduced their risk of clinical stage 2 or 3 HIV disease events by 53%, compared with those who stopped treatment postpartum in the PROMISE 1077HS trial, Judith Currier, MD, reported at the 21st International AIDS Conference.
ID Practioner
Single dose bacterial vaginosis treatment performs well in phase III trial
Women with bacterial vaginosis could soon have an effective oral, single-dose treatment option, if results of a phase III study result in approval by the Food and Drug Administration....If the drug is approved, it would likely mean better adherence when compared with current standards of treatment, according to Sharon Hillier, PhD, director of reproductive infectious disease research at the Magee-Women's Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh.
The Anti-Prostitution Oath and foreign aid for HIV/AIDS
Foreign NGOs that receive funds from the United States for HIV prevention must sign an anti-prostitution pledge — a statement of unequivocal opposition to prostitution — even though that policy was overturned for domestic organizations by the Supreme Court....Is the anti-prostitution pledge doing more harm than good for H.I.V. prevention? Read the discussion.
Forget Apple. It's time to collect from tax-dodging Gilead, tax group urges US Treasury
EU antitrust regulators this week cracked down on Apple, ordering the American tech giant to fork over about $14.5 billion in taxes--plus interest--to the Irish government....Gilead Sciences might be in line for a similar European crackdown....Americans for Tax Fairness penned a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and Commissioner John Koskinen, drawing attention to alleged tax-avoidance moves by the drugmaker.
HIV prevention runs into trouble in South Africa
In sub-Saharan Africa...about 5,000 young women and teenage girls acquire HIV each week.... Researchers had hoped to break the cycle by giving young women HIV drugs before they are infected,...preexposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. However,...results were discouraging....In the face of this unexpected setback, scientists are now trying to develop new, less invasive products as well as giving more forethought into the social circumstances surrounding PrEP use.
The woman who discovered India's first HIV cases
Thirty years ago, India discovered the dreaded HIV virus had reached its shores when blood samples from six sex workers tested positive. It was largely due to the efforts of one young scientist - but until now, her pioneering work has been all but forgotten. When it was first suggested she screen people for HIV/Aids, Sellappan Nirmala balked....The idea came from her professor and mentor, Suniti Solomon.
The tenuous tale of contraceptive hormones and HIV risk
Some studies have suggested that some specific types of hormonal contraception may increase women's vulnerability to HIV. Unfortunately, determining if this any particular form of hormonal contraception causes a higher risk for HIV infection is extremely difficult to determine.
Pop Sci
Kenya to adopt bloodless male circumcision
Kenya will soon introduce a new non-surgical male circumcision method to help curb the spread of HIV. The Health ministry's National Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infection head, Martin Sirengo, said PrePex, a non-surgical, bloodless, fast and easier medical circumcision procedure, had been piloted in the country since 2015.
HIV Australia: Positive outcomes from Victoria trials may pressurise Federal Government to subsidise PrEP drugs
People at Victoria at a risk of HI have signed up for a new HIV trial hoping that positive outcomes may force the Federal Government to subsidise the drug as preventative measure. According to News.com.au, the Victorian government is hopeful that the study would decrease new HIV infections across the state by up to 30 percent. The total cost of the study...has been estimated to be $1.4 million.
HIV infection linked with death from cervical cancer
A study of 348 women with invasive cervical cancer in Botswana, a nation with robust and wide-reaching HIV prevention and ART programs, showed that women who had HIV infections had a twofold greater risk for death within 3 years than women without HIV, reported Scott Dryden-Peterson, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in Boston, and his colleagues.
A decade on, vaccine has halved cervical cancer rate
The world's first cancer vaccine was administered in Australia exactly 10 years ago. Since then, the human papilloma virus vaccine has been rolled out across 130 countries and halved the number of new cervical cancers. The HPV vaccine also protects against cancers in the throat and mouth in both men and women. Prof Ian Frazer said the vaccine could eradicate cancers caused by HPV within 40 years.
New Jersey health agencies offer birth control-like anti-HIV pill
A tiny pill taken once a day is helping prevent people from contracting HIV, a disease that 30 years ago was almost a death sentence....After success with pilot sites, the state expanded a permanent program in July that now includes 17 counselors....PrEP is more than a daily pill to take to avoid HIV infection, said Eveliz Robles, PrEP counselor at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center. The program requires participants to attend risk-reduction and client-assisted counseling, testing and doctor's visits.
Press of Atlantic City
Telling JJ: A year after learning she has HIV, an 11-year-old has a breakthrough
A little girl finally learns to take the pills she needs to control the HIV with which she was born.
Austin Pride's grand marshal a leader in HIV prevention research, treatment
PrEP is being hailed as a game-changer in the fight against HIV. "People who are at risk can take this medication daily and prevent getting HIV," said Dr. Cynthia Brinson of Central Texas Clinical Research...."Austin Pride organizers have honored Dr. Brinson, who is straight, as this year's parade grand marshal in observance of her work....Dr. Brinson is leading a march for a community - on multiple fronts.
Time Warner Cable News
Expanding HIV research to the transgender community
The transgender community includes a plethora of patients who can benefit from HIV/AIDS research. However, clinical trials rarely include transgender participants....This issue is important for pharmacists because they're well placed to encourage all patients to enroll in clinical trials if they qualify. It's the focus of an article that appeared in the August 2016 Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
Pharmacy Times
HIV increases risk of age-related diseases
"What we are now realising is that HIV as a disease is really a disease of inflammation", [says] Alan Landay, chair of immunology and microbiology, Rush University Medical Center of Chicago...[who] calls this new concept "inflammaging", the "accelerated immune senescence or the cells getting old before their time".....To manage HIV healthcare in developing countries, Landay urges simple, easy approaches to treatment such as blocking systematic inflammation by aspirin...[and] nutrition.
How did Rhode Island win acceptance of HPV vaccine?
Rhode Island health officials sparked a firestorm last year by requiring that students get the HPV vaccine before entering 7th grade. The mandate was in effect for only the last few months of 2015....Still, Rhode Island health officials said they believe the requirement contributed to the surge in adolescent vaccinations — and Massachusetts officials are watching...as they seek to improve their own record.
Teen boys' HPV-vaccination rate hits almost 50 percent, CDC says
The rate of HPV vaccination among teen boys in the United States surged in 2015, suggesting that more parents and physicians are embracing the message that it's as important for boys to be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus as it is for girls...."The rate is increasing faster for them than it ever has for girls," said Erich Sturgis,...cancer surgeon at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
National AIDS Trust launch crowdfunder to fight NHS England PrEP trial
Setting out the case for PrEP, the NAT wrote on the crowdfunding site, "PrEP could be the beginning of the end for HIV – a condition more than 6,000 people a year are diagnosed with in the UK.
The District's HIV clinic was failing--This 'old, straight white guy' managed to save it
When Don Blanchon lingers too long in the lobby of this sleek, bright clinic..., patients will collar him....Sometimes, a patient will ask him exactly how he expects them to pay for their medication....He tells them that they'll have to make hard choices. Just like Whitman-Walker.
D.A. Henderson, former dean of Bloomberg School of Public Health, credited with eradicating smallpox, dies
Dr. Henderson, who earned a degree from the Hopkins School of Public Health in 1960, returned to become [its] dean in 1977....He once told The Baltimore Sun he thought such schools were "dinosaurs" where researchers had great ideas but seldom got their hands dirty. During his tenure, the school's budget and enrollment grew,...even as federal resources shrank. Working with Johns Hopkins Hospital leaders, he directed resources to AIDS research and pushed for hands-on training.
Increased adolescent HIV testing with a hybrid mobile strategy in Uganda and Kenya
The SEARCH hybrid strategy [enumerated 116,326 adolescents in 32 communities of Uganda and Kenya and] tested 88% of stable adolescents for HIV, a substantial increase over the 28% reporting prior testing. The majority (57%) of HIV-infected adolescents were new diagnoses. Mobile HIV testing for adults should be leveraged to reach adolescents for HIV treatment and prevention.
Cost considerations in the current antiretroviral era
Of five commonly prescribed regimens for treatment-naïve HIV patients in one clinic (2007–2012), emtricitabine and tenofovir with efavirenz and raltegravir were the only consistently cost-effective options; the rilpivirine-based regimen was valuable in limited scenarios. Further data on the comparative effectiveness of efavirenz and rilpivirine are needed before they are abandoned.
Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV infection and new sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men
We conducted a meta-analysis to summarize rates of sexually transmitted infections among MSM on PrEPfor HIV versus MSM not using PrEP. Incidence rate ratios showed that MSM using PrEP were 25.3 times more likely to acquire a Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection, 11.2 times more likely to acquire a Chlamydia trachomatis infection, and 44.6 times more likely to acquire a syphilis infection versus MSM not using PrEP.
From AIDS to opioids -- how to combat an epidemic
The United States is facing a vast epidemic of opioid-related deaths....The rising death toll has been rivaled in modern history only by that at the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s. Although these epidemics differ in nature, the large-scale, highly coordinated response to AIDS that was eventually mounted may be instructive for combating the opioid epidemic.
Pharmacology supports on-demand PrEP
Molina and colleagues reported the results of the placebo-controlled IPERGAY trial [which] evaluated an on-demand PrEP regimen in France and Canada....The intent-to-treat efficacy was 86%....Although only a single study, this strong data has led to the regimen's endorsement in France and Canada. Here, we highlight pharmacological evidence that supports the high efficacy of this regimen even for infrequent HIV exposures.
Association of age, baseline kidney function, and medication exposure with declines in creatinine clearance on pre-exposure prophylaxis: an observational cohort study
As part of the iPrEx OLE study, [participants] who were HIV negative and had participated in three previous PrEP trials...were enrolled into an open-label PrEP study....During a median of 72 weeks, mean...declines were greater for those who started PrEP at older ages. Our data suggest that the frequency of safety monitoring for PrEP might need to be different between age groups and that pharmacological measures can monitor for toxic effects as well as adherence.
The world may soon run out of drugs to treat gonorrhea
It's another sign that an era of untreatable bacterial infections is inching closer. Today, the WHO released new guidelines for treating gonorrhea that reflect the sobering reality that this sexually transmitted disease is becoming ever more difficult to treat....And for the first time, the agency makes suggestions on what to do when none of the standard drugs work.... WHO also revised guidelines for treating chlamydia and syphilis, two other important sexually transmitted infections.
Gaps remain in Russia's response to HIV/AIDS
Russia has drafted its first national HIV/AIDS policy in a decade, but it falls far short of what is needed....The head of Russia's Federal AIDS Centre, Vadim Pokrovksy, [predicts that] if action isn't taken to curb the current annual growth rate of 10–12%, there will be 2 million people diagnosed as HIV positive by 2020,...an epidemic. The Russian Government isn't quite so emphatic, with the health minister's adviser, Lyalya Gabbasova, engaging in a game of semantics.
Effects of a multicomponent intervention to streamline initiation of antiretroviral therapy in Africa: a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial
Between April 11, 2013, and Feb 2, 2015, 12,024 eligible patients visited one of the 20 participating clinics. A multicomponent intervention targeting health-care worker behaviour increased the probability of ART initiation 14 days after eligibility. This intervention consists of widely accessible components and has been tested in a real-world setting, and is therefore well positioned for use at scale.
Why do marital partners of people living with HIV not test for HIV? A qualitative study in Lusaka, Zambia
The overarching barrier to uptake of HIV testing was study participants' perception of their physical health, reinforced by uptake of herbal remedies and conventional non-HIV medication to mitigate perceived HIV-related symptoms....Perceived inability to sustain uptake of life-long treatment – influenced by a negative attitude towards treatment – further undermined uptake. Self-stigma, manifested through fear of blame and need to maintain moral credibility in marital relationships, also undermined uptake.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected patients accept finger stick blood collection for point-of-care CD4 testing
Four hundred and ninety-nine patients were included (299 from South Africa and 200 from Belgium). The majority of the patients preferred the finger stick to the venipuncture....The main reason for choosing a finger stick was continued bleeding after venipuncture. The most cited objection to finger stick was pain/soreness.
HIV screening rates among Medicaid enrollees diagnosed with other sexually transmitted infections
This study showed that HIV screening prevalence among persons diagnosed with an STI are lower than expected based on the CDC's recommendations [and represent] "missed opportunities" for HIV screening in at-risk populations. Measures and incentives to increase HIV screening among all STI-diagnosed persons are vital to the timely identification of HIV infection, linkage to HIV care, and mitigating further HIV transmission.
Easy, faster, and not bloody: providers' perceptions on PrePex™ in South Africa
PrePex™ devices are being evaluated in several countries for scale-up of medical male circumcision (MMC) as an HIV prevention intervention....Health care providers perceived the PrePex MMC device to be simple and adaptable for existing MMC programs.
JANAC
Editorial: How to encourage trial reporting
Reporting of data from clinical trials comes slowly or not at all. Impending regulations in the US promise to improve the situation, but full compliance will require better incentives from institutions and a greater understanding that reporting data does not jeopardize the publication of results.
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Women, science and leadership, a conversation with Ilaria Capua
Scientific research institution
Scientific research policy
It's a question that has concerned Western society since the women's liberation movement: is it really possible to be successful both at work and at home? When applied to women in the field of science, the question takes on various dimensions. We talked with Ilaria Capua, the Director of the Division of Comparative Biomedical Sciences at the Istituto Zooprofilattico delle Venezie, and Member of the Italian Parliament, about this challenge, the importance teaching women leadership skills and what the world learned from the Ebola outbreak.
Germany: world champions also for funding research
Surpassed only by the United States, China and Japan for R&D allocated funds, Germany has decided to raise the biddings and has pledged around 31.6 million dollar in the next 6 years to support specials research and higher education programmes. Germany, which celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, is the most populous nation in Europe and the most important economy of the Old Continent, with 100 billion dollars spent every year in research and development.
ERC: a showcase of excellence
di Michele Bellone
The European Research Council (ERC) is a key element in the EU's research funding programme. "Our main aim is to push researchers to be ambitious," told us Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, president of the ERC.
The winning season of the Italian research in technology
di Giacomo Destro
The Italian technology and start-ups are having an interesting season.
Innovation needs education
di Giulia Annovi
Seventeen Italian universities have been included in the global universities performance table. The list, created by Times Higher Education, has been drawn up after a careful evaluation of university core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
Paving the way for the incoming challenges
How is managed the process to set up the calls of proposal in Horizon 2020? A good example of its functioning has been given by the stakeholders consultation, ended in June 2014. The consultation is the first step towards the definition of 2016-17 working program for the Societal Challenge 5, the one dealing with environmental issues.
Grants for Italian SMEs within Eurostars-2
di Cristina Da Rold
Good news for the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that aim to bring their own scientific research at an international level.
Why the US Navy has chosen CNR
Technology and applied sciences
The US Navy has been funding for many years a collaboration with CNR scientific research in the field of marine industry. On July 23, at the Marine Technology Research Institute (INSEAN) in Rome, the Admiral Matthew L. Klunder of the US Navy delegation has visited the Italian Institute in order to further strengthen this scientific collaboration.
To understand the reasons behind such cooperation, we have talked with Emilio Campana, the INSEAN director.
Horizon 2020 and Climate: which Work Program for Europe
Global Problems
Waste. Water. Green Economy. Those are the main focuses of the recent Horizon 2020 Work Programme that has been adopted on December 10th 2013 and definitively updated last July 22nd with the parts that relate to 2015.
Global warming and heating cities: a challenge for Europe
di Lori Berti
Climate change today is a reality. It involves lot of problems, the toughest ones being the loss of biodiversity, the rise of sea levels and the increase of temperatures. But there are also other less known phenomena connected with the global warming. One of them is the urban heat island, which is induced by materials composing the urban environment and involves numerous cities across Europe. Cement retains heat, sewer systems carry water away quickly, impeding the cooling, and heat is trapped between surfaces because of the so-called canyon effect.
The Bioeconomy strategy in Horizon 2020
What the economic crisis has clearly shown is that Europe cannot afford its economic growth with low R&D manufacturing products. Science and enterprises must merge into hi-tech outcomes to become markets leaders. The European Union is pushing a lot on the bioeconomy sector, namely businesses based on biotechnology. But what is exactly bioeconomy? Is it so important nowadays in Europe? And what is the situation in Italy?
What is a bioeconomy
Italy and African Countries scientific cooperation
A specific call of Horizon 2020 promotes cooperation between Europe and Africa for scientific research, funding project for €80 billion between 2014 and 2020: €24.5 billion for strengthening research in science, €22.6 billion for strengthening industrial leadership in innovation and €31 billion addressed to societal challenges, like global warming, sustainable transport, food or renewal energy.
EU funding for robotics research
Nowadays, over two-thirds of European workers in manufacturing are employed in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This is a considerable percentage that UE must consider in its decision concerning funding for Research and Development. One of the most significant aim of SMEs is to offer a valid answer to changing production needs that are developing more and more quickly in our contemporary society, and robotics represents in this sense one of the major challenges.
Western Balkans get ready for Horizon 2020
Although the scientific performance of the Western Balkan countries (WBC) has improved in recent years, the lack of human resources, research funding and facilities, as well as a weak regulatory regime, are the main obstacles to an improvement of the situation. At the same time, in 2012 the Western Balkans have required 38 patents in the United States, compared to an average of 25 patents for universities and leading research institutes in the U.S.
Scientific research: Italy calls Europe
Rebuilding Italian research
The condition of Italian research is far from being positive. From some perspectives, it may be described as dramatic. The lack of financial resources, aggravated by the indiscriminate cuts that public research continues to suffer, is not the only issue of the Italian research system, which clearly needs a strong intervention in order to save it from the decline it is running towards. But how and where to intervene?
Science and innovation in Italy: some figures to understand
di Sergio Cima
Despite Italy investing so little in research, Italian researches are holding on, at least if we consider the number of cited publications at international level. What is critical, however, is the following step: from research to industrial applications, as shown from patents, start-ups and other indicators statistics. Yet, it is the combination of research, innovation, industrial dynamism and capability of winning new markets that can really "re-start" our Country, recovering employment and withstanding the more and more intense international competition.
Italy and France together for agro-industrial development
Agroindustrial is one of the sector that most contributes to the positive imagine of the "made in Italy". Together with the metalworking and textile-manufacturer, it is one of the principal sectors in terms of turnover - exceeding 180 billion of euro, 12% of the national GDP – amount of companies and occupation, with almost two million people employed.
Bioscience in Europe, which role for Italy?
di Vittorio Sgaramella
Adriano Buzzati Traverso will be remembered as scientist, professor and, above all, as manager of a research with no boundaries: during his frequent journeys abroad - on this or the other side of the Atlantic - he rapidly realized that bioscientific research in Italy had to get rid of any provincialism, empowering the exchanges with more advanced countries. Establishing the International Laboratory of Genetics and Biop
Pencils, ships and Nobel prizes
di Elena Baldi
What can be simpler than a pencil? What dark secrets are hidden in the traces it leaves behind? Why should we begin to start studying graphite, which is the heart of the pencil? Why should scientists studying the physics of matter waste their time on something so common and ordinary? And yet physics is becoming increasingly interested in pencils. There are those who are using graphite and adhesive tape to try to find new material and those who are trying to understand how to use a pencil to get something that might end up in the display screen of a smart phone.
Betting on research: here is Obama's Brain Activity Map
di Gaetano Di Chiara
Who said that research does not pay? That this is not the case is demonstrated by the Human Genome Project, launched by the U.S. in 1999 at a cost of slightly less than $ 4 billion in 10 years but that, to date, has yielded $ 796 billions in business activities and has created 310,000 new jobs.
Also academia needs industry
di Roberta Villa
Researchers working at universities or in independent research centers cannot by themselves change the fate of the sick. They can identify crucial mechanisms underlying a disease and find out how to correct them; they can test their intuitions in vitro and in animal models, they can even perform the first stage of a clinical trial, if they find the appropriate funding, but, especially when it comes to innovative therapies, they will never be able to bring the treatments to all those who need them.
Getting under the skin of Science: sharing data in research
di Giovanni Destro Bisol
''If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants''. It is nearly impossible to describe the essential role of sharing results and ideas for research progress better than Isaac Newton. Three centuries later, the importance of sharing knowledge is made even more compelling by the increased rapidity with which data are produced and the enormous possibilities for their dissemination created by Internet.
The tunnel of Italian research
di Ele Ferrannini
The recent call for applications for the next PRIN (and FIRB) Italian research programmes, whose expiration is forthcoming, encourages a ruefully ethnographic reflection. Let me explain.
Korea in the knowledge economy
According to current news Korea is a country involved in a military confrontation around the 48th parallel, which is just as dangerous as it is anachronistic, the last of the Cold War conflicts. For sixty years South Korea has formally been in a state of war with the other Korea, North Korea. However throughout all these years, Seoul has also accepted and won another challenge, that of entering the knowledge economy as an absolute leader.
Pakistan universities after deluge
di Pervez Hoodbhoy
Upset by drastic budget cuts imposed by the finance ministry, the vice-chancellors of 71 public sector universities are threatening to resign en-bloc. They rightly say that development projects are grounded, bills unpaid, and some buildings only half-constructed. Paying teacher salaries is also at risk. But a cash-strapped government retorts that its number-one priority is dealing with the flood devastation. It says it cannot afford the inflated budgets of previous years.
Africa: renaissance will stem from science
di Mohamed Hassan
Neither a silent revolution, nor a stormy one. What Africa needs is a scientific revolution that trains a new generation of scientists towards the resolution of its most urgent problems. More than 40 % per cent of Africans (out of 922 million people) have no access to safe drinking water, let alone electricity; 70% of them live on less than US$2 a day and millions are plagued by Aids, malaria or other infectious diseases.


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US Announces "Blue Dot Network" To Compete With China's Belt And Road
On November 4th, the US announced it's take on the a "standard for global #infrastructure development," the Blue Dot Network.
Essentially, the strong antagonism against China's Belt and Road Initiative is starting to make sense, as the US quite obviously has it's own version of the project that it wanted to pitch.
High standards deliver high impact!
Unveiled today, #BlueDotNetwork will set the standard for global #infrastructure development. ?
How the U.S. is collaborating with partners like @dfat to foster free, open, & prosperous societies: https://t.co/SZMJF0LRNQ #IndoPacificBizForum pic.twitter.com/RqFqwdKztp
— OPIC.gov (@opicgov) November 4, 2019
It is a joint project of the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), and Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). It is a global "sustainable infrastructure development in the Indo-Pacific region and around the world," according to the OPIC press release.
The project was announced at the Indo-Pacific Business Forum in Bangkok, Thailand. It was outlined by OPIC's David Bohigian, along with U.S. Department of State Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Keith Krach, DFAT Deputy Secretary Richard Maude, and JBIC Governor Tadashi Maeda.
They had the following to say:
"The development of critical infrastructure—when it is led by the private sector and supported on terms that are transparent, sustainable, and socially and environmentally responsible—is foundational to widespread economic empowerment," said Bohigian. "Through Blue Dot Network, the United States is proud to join key partners to fully unlock the power of quality infrastructure to foster unprecedented opportunity, progress, and stability."
"This endorsement of Blue Dot Network not only creates a solid foundation for infrastructure global trust standards but reinforces the need for the establishment of umbrella global trust standards in other sectors, including digital, mining, financial services, and research," said Krach. "Such global trust standards, which are based on respect for transparency and accountability, sovereignty of property and resources, local labor and human rights, rule of law, the environment, and sound governance practices in procurement and financing, have been driven not just by private sector companies and civil society but also by governments around the world."
"Australia is committed to promoting high-quality infrastructure, inclusive approaches, and facilitating private sector investment in the Indo-Pacific region," said Maude. "I'm pleased that this commitment is shared by East Asia Summit Leaders, and we look forward to working closely with our regional partners to develop Blue Dot Network to take action on this commitment."
"Blue Dot Network is an initiative that leads to the promotion of quality infrastructure investment committed by G20 countries," said Maeda. "As JBIC has a long history of infrastructure finance all over the world, JBIC is pleased to share such experience and contribute to further development of Blue Dot Network."
The Blue Dot Network would specifically support the goals of the East Asia Summit Leaders, and "build upon common principles of project excellence agreed to as part of the G20 Buenos Aires Call to Action, G20 Osaka Summit Principles for Promoting Quality Infrastructure Investment, discussions around the G7 Charlevoix Commitment, and the Equator Principles."
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had the following to say, during his speech at the Indo-Pacific Development Mission:
"It is a multilateral approach to fostering sustainable economic growth by promoting excellence in infrastructure development and supporting alternatives to predatory lending."
He separately told the Financial Times ahead of the launch: "Each blue dot is meant to be a dot on the map that will be a safe place for companies to operate if they are interested in sustainable infrastructure projects…The point is to show seriousness about the sustainability of projects."
And, indeed, the US is quite interested in the region.
Since the beginning of the Trump Administration, U.S. government agencies have invested more than $2.9 billion to support the economic pillar of the Indo-Pacific strategy. This investment will further be supported by the U.S. Development Finance Corporation (DFC), created by the Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development (BUILD) Act of 2018. There are further plans for Indo-Pacific economic engagement with $60 billion in development finance to leverage greater private sector investment in emerging markets.
Two-way trade between the U.S. and the Indo-Pacific Region increased by almost 6% in 2018 to almost $2 trillion.
The cumulative stock of foreign direct investment between the United States and the Indo-Pacific increased by 5.9 percent in 2018, to $1.6 trillion. The United States is the largest source of FDI in the Indo-Pacific Region, with a total investment at the end of last year valued at nearly $866 billion.
China's foreign direct investment in the region was $504 billion in 2017, of which $381 billion went to Hong Kong, and only $123 billion to the rest of the region.
According to FDI Markets, the number of U.S.-announced greenfield projects in the Indo-Pacific Region rose by 23 percent last year, to 1,022. ASEAN is the number-one U.S. investment destination in the Indo-Pacific for American companies. With a cumulative $271 billion invested, there is $29 billion more U.S. FDI in ASEAN than in China and Japan combined.
And the US' increased focus on the Indo-Pacific region was underlined by Trump even back in November 2017:
"We have been friends, partners, and allies in the Indo-Pacific for a long, long time, and we will be friends, partners, and allies for a long time to come."
In regard to the Blue Dot Network, there is little concrete information and numbers as of yet, but there are grand promises, which the US hopes would be able to compete with China's Belt and Road. It is gaining more support throughout even beyond the Indo-Pacific region, since it is truly a "global infrastructure," at least in China's claims for it.
Rather, at least, instead of empty antagonism against the Belt and Road now the US has a (potential) alternative it can offer.
US-China Trade War: "Phase One" Deal Reached, But Key Issues are Far From Solved
klove and light
bluedot Network……fabulous…….. so more ENRON and & Co….lololol…way to go moronic degenerated on genocide founded Evil america…lol………after the hateful 8 …came the happey 10…lol
hvaiallverden
Yeah, take Pakistan, when the issue was to start ordinary comerse, dual deals where China and/or other actores as the Asean region of nations is going into the Belt and Road initiative the UssA started their counter attacks by unleashing their Patsys like the Al-CIAedas everywhere, take Africa to, even worse, create the problem of terrorism etc and come up with an solution as they claim it is, while large multinational corps feeds the rotten corrupt regimes with uh….. observers, and MICs have charte blanch to sel/do whatever they can of Militray crapp to this respective nations, and again, large corps have usually their own merc army, weird how little that is written about, like Dutch shell, etc, own armys, of uh…. security reasons of course, and that, is what, deals, right.
This, is why Africa never had any chanse to do anything, because of the western imperialism, feeding the corruption, keeping the native in chains, and uses the marked to chruch Agrican agriculture by dumping exsess production from our farms, the Fat mountain etc to grains to undermine the Africans, all this have been ongoing for decades, and its never writen about nor shown on the Tube.
And poverty in Africa comes directly from this skeems, from wars by proxies to food suply, poverty is been imposed upon Africa for several generations, and somehow, despite me been hailed as an Neo-nazi aka nationalist, I am alone in this when it comes to say what is our mayore problem, even as we speak.
I would never ever trust the AmeriCunts for an split second, never, thats an dead shure way of destroying your nation if you are dumb enough to do anything or have any deal what so ever with the Imperial banana republic, because it will always come thru been infront of the barrels of an cannon, impisses never change.
If I was an African I would start to clean up my house first, kick out the multinational Corps, nationalise the recourses and start to do something about your own people, and why do you think the crushed Libya, Mali etc, because of their atempts to go independence, the UssA will never alow you to do that, never have, never will, and focus on those that can help you into growing your own nation, thru infratsucture, helping industy to be viable and sustainable and save the economy, and all the debt they have forced down your throuths can be just cut out, I know this sounds brutal but the fact is, the west is going down, the monetary policys is crashing our nations, and just kick em out, refuse to pay the debt unless they do something for the people, not throwing something into the nation for the benefit of the elite as everywhere else.
if you dont do this, Africa, I am afraid the path forward will be pushed into the future and the present system of corruption will never be gone.
Hang em all.
AM Hants
Why does Washington DC always come late to the party, once somebody else has come up with the template and then demand they walk off with the prize goal?
I wonder how they will play it all out? Will it be using the US tax payer funded NGO, the NED to lay down the seeds and if so how? No doubt with the Soros Open Society Foundation, working in parallel.
How do the NED get their regime change script running? Well, here is a statement from the NED, with how they wish to act out regime change, over in Serbia, hoping the Serbs have forgotten the Kosovo War? Forgotten that Slobodan Milošević spent 11 years in a cell in The Hague, where he died. Only, years later, just after the UN apologised for failing to notice the genocide of 800,000 citizens of Rwanda (after the oil and diamond indudtry was up and running), the UN exonerated Slobodan Milošević of all charges laid against him. When was the Kosovo War and who was involved? How many were slaughtered and for what? How many working for NATO and nations supporting NATO, then run by a failed UK MP, with freaky friends, end up running private military companies, funded by the average tax payer, without their knowledge, as the White Helmets and James Le Mesurier so comes to mind. Who were the freaky friends of the Head of NATO during the Kosovo War? Let's start with Thomas Hamilton. Does anybody remember the Dunblane School Massacre, and do believe Andy Murray the tennis player, was a pupil of the school at the time it happened. Why did the Head of NATO provide a glowing reference for his gun licence?). Why was the Head of NATO such good friends with the boy scout leader who took out the children at the Dunblane School and why?
Anyway, how does the NED create a regime change script, with the Soros Open Society running a parallel scheme? Funny, when you look at the Board of Directors of the NED, why do you find so many Ambassadors sitting on the Board, along with NGO groupies Anne Applebaum and Victoria Nuland? All funded by the average tax payer, to take us into war.
Reply to AM Hants
The NED Statement on Serbia – Emporer's Clothes
'…NED help to Serbia:
I am pleased to appear this morning to address this important issue. I represent the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a private, nonprofit organization created in 1983 to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts. With its annual congressional appropriation, NED makes hundreds of grants each year to support prodemocracy groups in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. Many NED-funded programs have been conducted by the Endowment's four core institutes: the International Republican Institute (IRI), the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), and the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (ACILS). A substantial portion of the work has been carried out by scores of other organizations abroad (some with partners in the U.S.) working in such areas as independent media, human rights, civic education, rule of law, and conflict resolution.
NED has been assisting democracy building programs in the former Yugoslavia since 1988, and in Serbia, Montenegro, and Kosovo since the disintegration of the Yugoslav Federation. During the wars of Yugoslav succession and the U.N. embargo, NED was one of the few Western organizations, along with the Soros Foundation and some European foundations, to make grants in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), and to work with local NGOs and independent media throughout the country. The NED concentrates its funding in the following areas:
1) Independent media
2) Non-governmental organizations
a) Human rights organizations
b) Youth participation in politics and youth leadership
c) Think tanks
d) NGO development and networking
3) Trade Unions
4) Promoting Economic Reform
CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE
Western assistance organizations should give increased attention to following areas of work:
'…Funding must also be directed at developing the leadership skills of NGO activists.
Alternative educational institutions; student organizations
The university law has resulted in an assault on academic freedom in Serbia. Western funders must be prepared to support alternative educational institutions, like the newly formed Alternative Academic Network, which are being organized by oppositional professors who have been removed from their positions by the authorities…'
http://emperors-clothes.com…
The fstatement above was discussed in
'How the U.S. has Created a Corrupt Opposition in Serbia' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/engl.htm
http://www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
Good luck with that. The US already has a $1 trillion/year government deficit. And China can undercut their prices at will. If the US government gets involved with private money investments it will just harm those investments.
smertzakrov
an anemic pretense…expected from an empire near collapse
Jim Bim
Join the sinking Pax America……..or be obliterated by it.
Simon Ndiritu
The US is as late as always
newshole
Like Belt & Road but with bonus bombs and civilian killing sanctions.


Support toddlers in their first steps with this monochrome wooden doll's pram. Holding onto the handle will boost the confidence of new walkers and using it to take a favourite doll or teddy about will foster nurturing skills too. Pop in a lovely fair trade dolly from Babipur, keep them cosy with the soft bedding included and watch little ones play mummies and daddies.
Young children will love taking a doll or teddy out for a little stroll in this stylish wooden pram. The frame is partially painted in grey and white with plenty of natural wood on display to create a fab monochrome design. This wooden toy pram has soft bedding inside which is machine washable so teddies can get extra comfy and snug. The soft cotton hood can be moved just like a real pram to keep the sun out of little doll's eyes and the rubber wheels give the pram plenty of grip and will protect your flooring. This toy pram will make a lovely gift for your child and will be great for helping little children find their balance and practice walking.
This toy measures 57cm x 34cm x 56cm.


text:
package githubutils

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"sync"

	"github.com/haya14busa/go-actions-toolkit/core"

	"github.com/reviewdog/reviewdog"
	"github.com/reviewdog/reviewdog/proto/rdf"
)

const MaxLoggingAnnotationsPerStep = 10

var _ reviewdog.CommentService = &GitHubActionLogWriter{}

// GitHubActionLogWriter reports results via logging command to create
// annotations.
// https://help.github.com/en/actions/automating-your-workflow-with-github-actions/development-tools-for-github-actions#example-5
type GitHubActionLogWriter struct {
	level     string
	reportNum int
}

// NewGitHubActionLogWriter returns new GitHubActionLogWriter.
func NewGitHubActionLogWriter(level string) *GitHubActionLogWriter {
	return &GitHubActionLogWriter{level: level}
}

func (lw *GitHubActionLogWriter) Post(_ context.Context, c *reviewdog.Comment) error {
	lw.reportNum++
	if lw.reportNum == MaxLoggingAnnotationsPerStep {
		WarnTooManyAnnotationOnce()
	}
	ReportAsGitHubActionsLog(c.ToolName, lw.level, c.Result.Diagnostic)
	return nil
}

// Flush checks overall error at last.
func (lw *GitHubActionLogWriter) Flush(_ context.Context) error {
	if lw.reportNum > 9 {
		return fmt.Errorf("GitHubActionLogWriter: reported too many annotation (N=%d)", lw.reportNum)
	}
	return nil
}

// ReportAsGitHubActionsLog reports results via logging command to create
// annotations.
// https://help.github.com/en/actions/automating-your-workflow-with-github-actions/development-tools-for-github-actions#example-5
func ReportAsGitHubActionsLog(toolName, defaultLevel string, d *rdf.Diagnostic) {
	mes := fmt.Sprintf("[%s] reported by reviewdog 🐶\n%s\n\nRaw Output:\n%s",
		toolName, d.GetMessage(), d.GetOriginalOutput())
	loc := d.GetLocation()
	start := loc.GetRange().GetStart()
	opt := &core.LogOption{
		File: d.GetLocation().GetPath(),
		Line: int(start.GetLine()),
		Col:  int(start.GetColumn()),
	}

	level := defaultLevel
	switch d.Severity {
	case rdf.Severity_ERROR:
		level = "error"
	case rdf.Severity_INFO, rdf.Severity_WARNING:
		level = "warning"
	}

	switch level {
	// no info command with location data.
	case "warning", "info":
		core.Warning(mes, opt)
	case "error", "":
		core.Error(mes, opt)
	default:
		core.Error(fmt.Sprintf("Unknown level: %s", level), nil)
		core.Error(mes, opt)
	}
}

func WarnTooManyAnnotationOnce() {
	warnTooManyAnnotationOnce.Do(warnTooManyAnnotation)
}

var warnTooManyAnnotationOnce sync.Once

func warnTooManyAnnotation() {
	core.Error(`reviewdog: Too many results (annotations) in diff.
You may miss some annotations due to GitHub limitation for annotation created by logging command.
Please check GitHub Actions log console to see all results.

Limitation:
- 10 warning annotations and 10 error annotations per step
- 50 annotations per job (sum of annotations from all the steps)
- 50 annotations per run (separate from the job annotations, these annotations aren't created by users)

Source: https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Actions/Maximum-number-of-annotations-that-can-be-created-using-GitHub/m-p/39085`, nil)
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Five is launching time-shifted versions of its digital channels Five Life and Five US later this year. Five Life+1 and Five US+1 will be available on satellite from early autumn.
The RTL-owned broadcaster launched its digital channels in October 2006, the last of the terrestrial operators to do so.
Five Life is a female-skewed channel offering drama, entertainment and factual programmes including Australian soap Home and Away. Five US screens American films and series, including the CSI crime franchise, House and Dirt.
Last week Channel 4 announced it would be the first broadcaster to launch a time-shifted digital version of a terrestrial channel. It launches next month.
Ofcom figures show that digital television penetration has reached 80%.
Coca-Cola's CEO James Quincey said "blurring category lines" is allowing the company to innovate in different areas.
Organic sales of grooming products were down 1% in its third quarter results, marking another tough period for the category, but the world's largest advertiser believes all is still to play for.
We arm marketers with all the numbers they need to tackle the week ahead.


June 11, 2018 By This post may contain affiliate links.
Enjoy the most decadently rich, smooth and creamy, caramel flavored cheesecake after any meal. These Mini Dulce de Leche Cheesecakes topped with whipped cream, caramel sauce, and toffee bits, make a wonderful dessert or party treat.
I can't wait for you to try these Mini Dulce de Leche Cheesecakes. They are so amazingly good. With each bite you'll enjoy lusciously creamy cheesecake with a lovely caramel flavor blended with a crunchy graham cracker crust, delicate whipped cream, sweet caramel sauce, and bits of toffee.
These desserts, baked in muffin tins, are just the right size to serve after a meal or at a party. They are super easy to make, can be frozen for up to a month, and can be served plain or dressed up.
Have you ever tried Dulce de Leche? It is caramelized sweetened condensed milk. It's thick, yet soft, deep golden brown, with a delicate caramel flavor. You can find cans or jars of Dulce de Leche either in the baking aisle near the cans of sweetened condensed milk or in the international food aisle near the Hispanic foods in your grocery store or you can order it from Amazon (ad).
If you prefer, you can caramelize your own sweetened condensed milk to make homemade Dulce de Leche.
Pour one can of sweetened condensed milk into an 8 or 9 inch glass baking dish.
Cover tightly with aluminum foil and set in a larger baking dish or roasting pan.
Fill the larger dish with water so that the water comes about half way up the sides of the smaller dish.
I have a roasting pan that has a removable flat rack with handles. I set the rack in my roasting pan, set the baking dish on top, then poured the water around the baking dish.
The handles and rack make it easy to remove the hot, wet, baking dish.
Bake for 60-90 minutes until thick and golden caramel-colored.
After 60 minutes, very carefully, remove the baking dish, uncover, and stir.
If it's not thick and golden brown in color, cover with a new piece of foil and return it to the oven for 10 more minutes.
Repeat this process until the caramelized sweetened condensed milk is thick and golden brown.
NOTE: You may need to add additional hot water if the water level gets below the top edge of the sweetened condensed milk.
If your oven mitts or hot pad get wet, be sure to use a dry pair when removing the pan the next time.
Pour the Dulce de Leche into a small mixing bowl.
Fill the bottom pan with an inch of water.
Pour one can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk into the top pan.
Bring to a boil then lower heat to low.
Heat for 60-90 minutes, stirring the sweetened condensed milk occasionally, until thick and golden caramel colored.
Remove from heat, pour into a mixing bowl, and beat until smooth.
Pour one can sweetened condensed milk into a medium saucepan.
Stir constantly for about an hour until thickened and golden brown.
Yep, that's a lot of stirring!!!
Pour one can of sweetened condensed milk into a large microwave-safe bowl.
Heat on medium (50%) power, for 2 minutes, then remove and stir.
Heat for 2 more minutes, then remove and stir.
Heat on medium-low (30%) power for 8-18 minutes, stirring ever 2 minutes, until thick and golden caramel-colored. The amount of time will depend on the wattage of your microwave.
For these caramel cheesecakes you'll need 1/2 cup of Dulce de Leche plus more to drizzle over top. Store any remaining Dulce de Leche in an airtight container in the refrigerator. It will keep for up to a month.
Dulce de Leche sauce is available in squeeze bottles in the grocery store. It is quite thin and has a deeper, more bitter, caramel flavor. You can use it to drizzle over the tops of your mini cheesecakes or you can simply heat some of the thicker Dulce de Leche in the microwave for a few seconds.
You can find items needed to make these small caramel desserts on amazon (commission earned for sales).
Rich and creamy caramel flavored cheesecakes made with a blend of Dulce de Leche and cream cheese are baked in muffin tins and can be topped with whipped cream, caramel or dulce de leche sauce, and bits of toffee.
Preheat your oven to 350 Fahrenheit.
Stir together the graham cracker crumbs, brown sugar, and melted butter.
Press about 2 tablespoons of the crumbs into 12 paper-lined muffin cups.
Beat cream cheese on medium speed, scraping down the bowl, as needed, until smooth.
Add sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
Mix in the Dulce de Leche then add the vanilla and egg and beat until creamy.
Stir in the sour cream.
Equally divide cheesecake filling among the 12 muffin cups, spooning about 2 tablespoons of filling into each.
Bake on the middle rack in the oven for 14-16 minutes until the cheesecakes no longer look wet, but the center still jiggles.
Remove and set on a cooling rack.
Allow to cool for about 45 minutes then refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
Before serving, pop the cheesecakes into the freezer for 15 minutes (this will help the wrappers peel off easier).
Remove and immediately peel away the paper liners.
Set on a serving dish or individual dessert plates and serve plain or topped with a dollop of whipped cream, and drizzle of warmed Dulce de Leche, and a sprinkle of toffee bits.
To make the Dulce de Leche thin enough to drizzle over top of your cheesecakes, heat in the microwave, on 50% power for 5 second bursts of power, stirring after each, until thin and smooth.
Drizzle over cheesecakes while still warm and thin. It will thicken as it cools.
If you like these Mini Dulce de Leche Cheesecakes you might also like these other dessert recipes.
I know about a thousand people who would love these, starting with ME!