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The Cardassian system was an inhabited planetary system located in the Cardassian sector. This sector was a region of space in the Alpha Quadrant.
The system consisted of a primary and at least five planets. Cardassia Prime (Cardassia II) was the inhabited homeworld of the Cardassians, a warp-capable species. This planet was also the capital of the Cardassian Union. (DS9: "Explorers") The system also included Cardassia I, and the planets Cardassia III, Cardassia IV, and Cardassia V that were colonized by the Cardassians. (DS9: "The Homecoming", "Shadowplay", "Prophet Motive")
In 2375, the location of Cardassia was labeled on a tactical map that was displayed in the wardroom of Deep Space 9. Cardassia was located approximately five light years from the Bajoran system, thirty light years from Starbase 375, and fifty-five light years from Ferenginar. (DS9: "When It Rains...", okudagram)
Later that year, the Dominion began their withdrawal to Cardassia Prime during the waning days of the Dominion War. The Allied Forces planned a risky and costly military operation to end the war by penetrating the system and engaging the Dominion forces stationed in orbit over Cardassia Prime. (DS9: "The Dogs of War")
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"Tactical Display 7624N" was reproduced in legible detail in Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 49).
According to this same book (pp. 36, 42-43), the primary in the system was named Cardassia. Cardassia was a K class star with an absolute magnitude of -1.1, which was a hundred times brighter than Sol. There were a total of eight planets in the system, four of which were inhabited, and two asteroid belts. The system was visited by a Bajoran solar-sail vessel in 1571. Distance between Bajor and Cardassia was 5.25 light years.
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According to the RPG book Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Narrator's Toolkit, the Cardassian sun was a bright red dwarf (M2 V type), the first two planets were class F, Cardassia Prime was the third planet in the system, Cardassia VI and VII were class J gas giants and Cardassia VIII was class G.


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FDA Approves Monovisc, a New Single Injection Treatment for Pain Due to Osteoarthritis of the Knee
BEDFORD, Mass., Feb. 25, 2014 --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Anika Therapeutics, Inc. today announced it has received marketing approval for Monovisc from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Monovisc is a single injection supplement to synovial fluid of the osteoarthritic joint, used to treat pain and improve joint mobility in patients suffering from osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. Monovisc is the first FDA approved single injection product with HA from a non-animal source. It is comprised of a sterile, clear, biocompatible, resorbable, viscoelastic fluid composed of partially cross-linked sodium hyaluronate (NaHA) in phosphate buffered saline.
Monovisc will be marketed in the U.S. by DePuy Synthes, Mitek Sports Medicine (Mitek), a leading orthopedic sports medicine company. Under the license agreement with Mitek, Anika will receive a milestone payment of $5 million upon first commercial sale of Monovisc in the market. The agreement also calls for potential additional payments contingent on achieving certain performance and sales threshold milestones, in addition to product transfer and royalty fees. Anika has marketed Monovisc internationally since 2008. The product is currently sold in a variety of territories, including Canada, the U.K. and several countries in the Middle East, Europe and Asia.
"The U.S. market for viscosupplementation therapy is experiencing double digit growth annually. With FDA approval of Monovisc, we can be better positioned with our single and multi-injection products to meet the varying needs of physicians and patients," said Charles H. Sherwood, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer "We are moving forward rapidly with Mitek Sports Medicine to capitalize on the strengths of our viscosupplementation portfolio. Commercial introduction for Monovisc in the U.S. is planned to take place in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons to be held in New Orleans, March 11 to 15, 2014."
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Monovisc is indicated for the treatment of pain in OA of the knee in patients who have failed to respond adequately to conservative non-pharmacologic therapy and to simple analgesics (e.g. acetaminophen). It is a sterile, non-pyrogenic, viscoelastic solution of hyaluronan contained in a single-use syringe. Monovisc consists of high molecular weight, ultra-pure natural hyaluronan, a complex sugar of the glycosaminoglycan family. The hyaluronan is derived from bacterial cells and is cross-linked with a proprietary cross-linker. Monovisc was designed to deliver a comparable HA dose to Anika's three-injection viscosupplement, ORTHOVISC, in the convenience of a single 4 mL intra-articular injection.
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The FDA approval of Monovisc is based on safety and effectiveness data from a randomized, controlled, double-blind multi-center pivotal U.S. clinical study encompassing a total of 369 patients at 31 centers in the US and Canada suffering from OA of the knee. The objective of the study was to assess the safety and effectiveness of Monovisc for the treatment of joint pain. Patients were randomized to either Monovisc or control (saline injection) and were evaluated for improvement in pain as measured by the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) at follow-up assessments out to 26 weeks. The primary effectiveness analysis compared the proportion of Monovisc patients achieving a greater improvement from baseline in WOMAC pain score versus control through 12 weeks. The safety analysis showed Monovisc had an extremely low rate of adverse events. There were no serious adverse events associated with Monovisc.
About Osteoarthritis of the Knee
Greater than 5% of the world's population is afflicted by osteoarthritis of the knee, making it the most common joint disease. Most commonly affecting middle-aged and older people, OA can range from very mild to very severe. Risk factors include being overweight, joint injury, muscle weakness, having other forms of arthritis and heredity. Approximately 10 million Americans currently suffer from OA of the knee and that number is expected to increase.
OA of the knee is characterized by the breakdown of cartilage, the part of the joint that cushions the ends of bones, causing bones to rub against each other, resulting in pain and loss of movement. Degradation changes in the synovial fluid contained in the joint may also play a role in OA. Synovial fluid, which mostly consists of hyaluronan, lubricates the joint and is needed to facilitate movement of the joint.
Standard treatment modalities that seek to relieve pain, improve mobility and increase range of motion include analgesics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAIDS), viscosupplementation and intra-articular steroids. Should these approaches become insufficient or fail, some patients may become surgical candidates. Viscosupplementation represents an effective, safe, convenient, and non-surgical therapeutic alternative or adjunct to physical therapy, medication or surgery.
* DePuy Synthes Mitek Sports Medicine is a division of DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.
About Anika Therapeutics, Inc.
Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., Anika Therapeutics, Inc. develops, manufactures and commercializes therapeutic products for tissue protection, healing, and repair. These products are based on hyaluronic acid (HA), a naturally occurring, biocompatible polymer found throughout the body. Anika's products range from orthopedic/joint health solutions led by ORTHOVISC®, a treatment for pain due to osteoarthritis of the knee; to surgical aids in the anti-adhesion and ophthalmic fields. The company also offers aesthetic dermal fillers for the correction of facial wrinkles. Anika's Italian subsidiary, Anika Therapeutics S.r.l., provides complementary HA products in orthopedic/joint health and anti-adhesion, as well as therapeutics in areas such as advanced wound treatment and ear, nose and throat care. Its regenerative tissue technology advances Anika's vision to offer therapeutic products that go beyond pain relief to protect and restore damaged tissue.
The statements made in this press release which are not statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements include, but are not limited to, those relating to (i) the company and its partner's ability to commercialize Monovisc in the U.S., (ii) our ability to capitalize on the strengths of our viscosupplementation portfolio, (iii) our ongoing initiatives to improve performance across the business, (iv) our efforts and ability to strengthen and expand our international Orthobiologics distribution network, (v) the company's plans to continue to drive efficiencies in operations and manufacturing, (vi) the prospects for the company's product pipeline, including regenerative product development, (vii) bringing Cingal to market, and (viii) expectations for future growth and profitability improvement in the quarters ahead. These statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of the company's management and are subject to significant risks, uncertainties and other factors. The company's actual results could differ materially from any anticipated future results, performance or achievements described in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors including (i) the company's ability to successfully commence and/or complete clinical trials of its products on a timely basis or at all, obtain pre-clinical or clinical data to support domestic and international pre-market approval applications or 510(k) application, or timely file and receive FDA or other regulatory approvals or clearances of its products, or that such approvals will not be obtained in a timely manner or without the need for additional clinical trials, other testing or regulatory submissions, as applicable; (ii) the company's research and product development efforts and their relative success, including whether the company has any meaningful sales of any new products resulting from such efforts; (iii) the cost effectiveness and efficiency of our clinical studies, manufacturing operations and production planning; (iv) the strength of the economies in which the company operates or will be operating, as well as the political stability of any of those geographic areas; (v) future determinations by the company to allocate resources to products and in directions not presently contemplated; (vi) the company's ability to provide an adequate and timely supply of its products to its customers, (vii) our ability to successfully manage Anika S.r.l.'s business, and (viii) the company's ability to achieve its stated growth targets. Certain other factors that might cause the company's actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include those set forth under the headings "Business," "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012, as well as those described in the company's other press releases and SEC filings.
Source: Anika Therapeutics, Inc.
Posted: February 2014
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All colors of Ellen got changed. I got some inspirations on the internet from Siobhan, Lois and Melissa, but ended up doing my own thing. Ellen is charted for DMC but I replaced all with Gentle Art, added the red and mixed some up differently. All by all I'm pleased with the result.
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The Credit Card Act of 2009, which generally limits late fees, comes with a provision that allows the CFPB to annually adjust caps on permissible late fees in step with a consumer price index. If the consumer price index doesn't change enough to move the fees up or down by a full dollar, the fees remain the same. But if the index rises or falls enough, it triggers an increase or decrease. This year, it was the former.
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Post-Storm Update ... and message to Greta Koehl
Second, I would like to thank Greta Koehl at Greta's Genealogy Bog for mentioning my website in her Follow Friday post! A message to Greta: When I tried to go to your blog to post a comment expressing my appreciation, I got a big warning that said your blog contained content from another site known to distribute malware, and that I might get a virus from your blog!
Erring on the side of caution, I decided to post a message to you here instead. I'm not sure if you have recently added some "margin goodies" (that stuff everyone has in the margins of their blogs) that have this content or not, but I thought you should know. I've never gotten this warning before, on your site or anyone else's. I hesitated to post a link to your blog, but then thought ... maybe I'm the only one having a problem. If no one else gets a warning (using Google Chrome), please let me know. Maybe it's me.
Also, Greta, In response to your other comment about Weebly ... my website is done with Weebly (see my original post here). I went ahead and bought the domain. It was only $68 for 2 years to own the domain. I also upgraded to the pro version, which was another $48 for 2 years. It's a lot of money to plop down all at one time, but bonuses at work tend to enable my genealogy addiction quite nicely. I don't really know about posting linked genealogy information yet, but I intend to find out. I know that RootsMagic 4 will create a website, but I'm not exactly sure what to do with it after I create it. I'm hoping for a webinar ... (hint hint)
My main purpose for my website was for use as a genealogy toolbox, but now that I see what some other folks are doing, I have big plans for my website. Hopefully, I'll be able to tackle them all before my domain expires! LOL
Since I'm playing catch-up, I thought I would share something good that happened this week. I received my genealogy contact cards in the mail. Here's what they look like:
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- Greta Koehl said...
Thank you for posting this, Jenny! I was wondering why there had been no comments recently! I have removed the blog in question from my blogroll (and I had noticed when my blog page was loading that there would be a long period of hesitation when it hit that blog). I hope that this has fixed the problem and will put up a post to let people know. Perhaps you or someone who reads this could try posting a comment to see whether everything is fixed. Also, thanks for the information on Weebly. Right now I am doing the Genealogy Toolbox part, but I would also like to post my families there if it works - I may check with some people at the NGS conference to find out how best to approach this. If Weebly works for that, I will probably buy the domain and possibly go the pro route as you have. Also - spiffy card! I got my husband to get a set of cheapo cards made for me at Kinkos that I can take to conventions - it's fun to exchange cards! Again, thanks for pointing out the problem!
- April 30, 2011 at 7:33 PM
- Nancy said...
I'm so sorry about the problems created for you by the storms. It's good to know that you're okay. Lovely contact cards. Thanks for all the information and linnks.
- April 30, 2011 at 10:17 PM
- Unknown said...
@Greta, all is well with your blog now. I posted my comment there :)
@Nancy, thank you for your concern. We were fortunate and only lost power for a few days. Others VERY nearby were not quite as fortunate and lost their homes and families. Record numbers of tornadoes (somewhere around 150, I've heard) in AL, GA, TN, and KY. We were definitely very fortunate.
- April 30, 2011 at 10:26 PM
- RootsMagic said...
A webinar on creating and uploading a website with RootsMagic is in the works.
- May 1, 2011 at 10:35 AM
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@RootsMagic, woohoo! Thanks :)
- May 1, 2011 at 10:40 AM


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Meet Charlie. Charlie is a wonderful cat who recently found himself in need a new forever home when his owner moved in to assisted living and could only take one of her cats. Charlie is doing well in his new environment at the Adoption Center however, is confused and would really love to go home and sit on someone's lap again. Charlie is approximately 7 years old. He has a very sweet "squeak" rather than a meow. Adoption applications available at friendsplymouthpound.org.


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text: Usain Bolt is fast. Like, really fast. He's pretty much the fastest dude that ever was fast. And while that's impressive in its own right, could it be that he's actually faster than gravity, one of the fundamental forces that rules the very nature of the universe in which we live? Well, that's sort of a weird question to try and answer, but that hasn't stopped MinutePhysics from poking at it. The answer is SPOILER ALERT "maybe, sort of" but I'll let the master explain the details. Suffice it to say you don't ever want to be running from Usain Bolt. [YouTube]


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Have you ever received a "phantom" text message? If you've been convinced your phone is vibrating or ringing in your pocket when it turns out to be nothing, the answer is yes. And you're not alone. According to the Pew internet research center, 67% of American adults in a national survey experienced the same thing.
The same report also found that almost 37% of those surveyed said that they "couldn't live without" their smartphones, depicting a world in 2013 where ubiquitous computing is increasingly taken for granted – and where our bodies are every bit as involved as our minds.
In my case, phantom messages sometimes arrive when I don't actually have my phone. I usually keep it in my left trouser pocket and, even when it isn't there, I sometimes feel a silent-message-style buzzing in my thigh muscles, as if a message has been sent directly into my skin. It's a disconcerting feeling, and suggests an unwelcome degree of physical conditioning, not least because of the invariable accompanying rush of blood at the thought of someone or something wanting my attention.
Text messages may seem a trivial business, but one thinker who's increasingly concerned by the dynamic of how we interact with machines is the author and computer scientist Jaron Lanier. In a December interview with the Smithsonian magazine, Lanier railed eloquently against the social consequences of a culture conditioned to respond instantly to services like texts and social media.
"Look what we're setting up here in the world today," he says. "We have economic fear combined with everybody joined together on these instant twitchy social networks which are designed to create mass action. What does it sound like to you? It sounds to me like the prequel to potential social catastrophe."
'Advertising fodder'
Lanier's view may sound extreme, but it chimes with other thinking. Take the words of behavioural economics Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, for example. In his 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow, he writes "the often-used phrase 'pay attention' is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities." High quality human attention is a scarce resource; and whenever it is in short supply, the universal human tendency is to fall back on what Kahneman calls "heuristics": snap judgements based on assumptions and shortcuts, not to mention more visceral impulses and appetites.
Much of the time, these heuristics are vital to successful living, allowing us to function on a daily basis while conserving our higher faculties – the "slow" thinking of the book's title. When it comes to challenges more complex than recognizing a friend or selecting a favourite food, however, our rapid-response systems for decision-making are alarmingly prone to error: riven with bias and prejudice, and ripe for manipulation. Even something as simple as the amount of time since we last ate can have a profound effect on our decision-making.
In Lanier's terms, this is precisely what many of the constantly-connected patterns of online living push us towards: a metaphorical dismembering, in which we become little more than clicks and eyeballs. We risk, his interviewer Ron Rosenbaum says, "outsourcing ourselves into insignificant advertising-fodder", twitching from one stock response to another, and possibly into more vicious forms of stock action than mere trolling-by-tweet.
When I sense a phantom message buzzing in my leg, I find it hard not to think of Lanier's warning against how technology is eroding our better natures – or, at least, of the time and attention it takes to treat each other as more than a means to constant diversion and aggregation. I'm also, however, conscious of the ways in which these very systems might help us push back.
Think ahead
A New York Times article that discussed the Pew research findings, for example, lists some of the solutions being tried by those on the sharp end. Technology company Atos reportedly plans to phase out all forms of email between employees by the end of 2013, preferring to rely on more efficient and less demanding methods of communication. Similarly, German car company Daimler now offers the option of deleting employees' email during their vacations to avoid the electronic logjam usually waiting for hapless workers upon their return.
These are small steps, but they tie in with another, central observation of Kahneman's: that, faced by an attention-sapping situation and the escalating possibility of poor judgement, the best thing you can do is "recognize that you are in a cognitive minefield, slow down, and ask for reinforcement."
Lanier's is a critique above what he has elsewhere called the "antihuman" perversity of many technologies: of how exploitative and reductive habits can ensnare us, via tasty digital carrots and daunting sticks. Endless sharing and clicks on "like" are, after all, far easier than taking the time to work out what we actually feel - let alone express it - while personal identity can become little more than a perpetual present of status updates, drop-down-menu preferences and instant interactions.
Against this, in Kahneman's formulation, we must ask what kind of "reinforcements" we can best build into the organisations and routines within which we work – and which systems we have already built that do more than augment our capacities for prejudice and error.
It's a tricky proposition. But it's also one whose time has surely come. To borrow a final phrase from Kahneman, "cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain." For me, at least, the reception of phantom smartphone messages in my upper thigh feels like my body trying to tell me something. 2013 is a year for making the very best of my high-quality attention, and asking what it means to help others do the same. It's time to stop twitching.
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After having nearly a foot of snow dumped on the east coast last week, the mercury inched closer to spring this weekend with temperatures reaching as high as 70 degrees in Washington D.C.
The beautiful weather not only melted away the last remnants of last week's winter blast, but it allowed people to put the shovel away and break out the spring clothes.
Philadelphia will see a high of 66 today and 64 tomorrow, but it won't end there as Wednesday is expected to hit a high of 60. New York will reach 60 today and 55 tomorrow. New Yorkers better take full advantage of the great weather because the rest of the week the temperatures will sink back into the 40's.
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Washington D.C. got the highest temperatures on the east coast reaching 72 today and 73 Sunday. President Barack Obama was taking advantage of the weather, heading to Camp David for the weekend. Connecticut hit 64 today and 57 tomorrow with a chance of rain. No one would know that just last week there were snow plows roaring down the streets spreading salt. Today, those snow plows were replaced by ice cream trucks.
The west coast, as always, had magnificent temperatures. San Diego was steady at 64 this weekend and the rest of the week will have temperatures bouncing around the mid 60's. Los Angeles wins the award for best weather as they will see temperatures hit the high 60's this weekend and low 70's and sunny for the rest of the week.


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Dr Ben Goldacre vs the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
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In Helen Lewis' review of Ben Goldacre's Bad Pharma, she quoted his damning indictment of the pharmaceutical industry:
"Drugs are tested by the people who manufacture them, in poorly designed trials, on hoplessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques that are flawed by design, in such a way that they exaggerate the benefits of treatments," he writes. "When trials throw up results that companies don't like, they are perfectly entitled to hide them from doctors and patients . . . academic papers, which everyone thinks of as objective, are often covertly planned and written by people who work directly for the companies, without disclosure."
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry's CEO, Stephen Whitehead, got in touch to give his response to Goldacre's accusations; his letter is printed below. Ben Goldacre provided a reply to Whitehead's letter, which is also reproduced.
Letter from the ABPI
The points raised in Helen Lewis' review of Ben Goldacre's book Bad Pharma (Lies, damn lies and drug trials) do not present an accurate picture of the pharmaceutical industry in the UK as it is today.
Mr Goldacre, as a healthcare professional, no doubt understands the industry but seems to be stuck in a bygone era where pharmaceutical companies wine and dine doctors in exchange for signing on the dotted line. Similarly, references to companies (GSK, Lilly, Pfizer) being fined are all examples from the US and simply not relevant to the UK market.
Let us not forget that the pharmaceutical industry has been responsible for the development of 90 per cent of medicines in the world and through incremental innovation, has helped the management of many illnesses (some previously terminal) to improve no end.
Goldacre claims that "drugs are tested… using techniques that are flawed by design…" when in fact medicines are tested against the most effective comparator where possible unless there is no current standard of care. In these instances placebo studies must be undertaken.
The undertaking of clinical trials is tightly regulated in the UK by the MHRA and the EMA across Europe, who scrutinise clinical trial data relating to the quality, efficacy and safety of new medicines - everything is done to ensure that ineffective treatments do not reach patients.
Contrary to Goldacre's musings, we do not seek to "hide" trial data – it is already best practice within industry to publish all data, positive and negative. We recognise that there still work to be done in ensuring the publication of negative trial data within journals, and in ensuring greater transparency all round within the industry, but we are working collaboratively with the wider healthcare sector to achieve this and will continue to do so to bring about improved outcomes in patient care.
Stephen Whitehead
CEO of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Reply from Ben Goldacre
Dear New Statesman,
I see that Stephen Whitehead, from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, has written in response to your review of my book Bad Pharma. He makes a series of false claims, on important matters of patient safety.
He says that the $3bn criminal fine levied against GSK in the US is irrelevant to the UK. This is untrue. As I explain in the book: GSK is a UK company. The US court gave examples of media stories generated by GSK to promote drugs illegally: these came from the Sun, the Guardian, the Times, and the Mail, which are all UK newspapers. GSK staff named in the US ruling continued to work at GSK, two now head major European drug companies. Richard Sykes was the chair of GSK during the period covered by the criminal fraud findings: he is now chair of Imperial College NHS Trust, and also chair of the Royal Institution.
It is, therefore, bizarre to claim that GSK's acts of criminal and civil fraud are not relevant to the UK market. Hidden trial data and illegal promotion of drugs is an international problem, and these fines very clearly relate to activity in the UK.
Mr Whitehead goes on to make further false claims about how new drugs are tested, saying: "medicines are tested against the most effective comparator where possible unless there is no current standard of care."
This, again, is very simply untrue. As I explain in the book, a 2011 study looked at all drugs approved by the FDA between 2000 and 2010, and found that a third had been tested only against placebo, even when there was a currently available effective treatment, which they could and should have been compared against. As a result of this practice, doctors and patients are deprived of valuable information. The study was published in JAMA, one of the top three medical journals in the world, and can be read for free online.
I could go on. There are serious ongoing problems in the pharmaceutical industry, which rushed journalists have sadly neglected. Doctors and patients need the results of all clinical trials, to make informed decisions about the risks and benefits of treatments. Companies continue to withhold this information, with the complicity of medicines regulators and NICE, as I document in my book. This is a global scandal that puts patients at risk.
There are many people working in the pharmaceutical industry with high moral standards, who recognise that this kind of ongoing unethical activity must be urgently addressed, and who are keen to engage constructively with doctors and academics. The industry as a whole may wish to consider whether the outright denials and demonstrably false claims of Stephen Whitehead are going to serve them well.
Dr Ben Goldacre


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This is a pretty cool RC toy from Japan. Bandai has announced the Sky Armor, a remote-controlled robot that can fly around using not one but two propellers. The robot stands 17cm tall and weighs 21g. One battery charge (30 minutes) is enough to play with it for 4 minutes.
The Sky Armor will hit Japanese stores in the next days (price: $45). Contact specialized stores Japan Trend Shop, Geek Stuff 4 U or Rinkya to get one shipped outside Japan since it's unlikely the robot will ever be sold outside this country.
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Our Princess (with kitty paw) and Monkey (with winter hat) sure had a good time tonight. Can't wait until next year!
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Neal Tovsen's autocross career spans over 20 years, always paired with his wife and three-time National Champion, Katie Lacey. He's attended the Solo National Championships for the past 16 years, winning 12 trophies across GS, BS, STX, CSP, SM, and XP. He has developed and campaigned numerous cars, including a supercharged 1977 VW Scirocco for SM, a 1993 BMW 325is for STX, and a 2004 Mazda RX-8 for BS. He recently built his second CSP Miata, to which he acknowledges, "Nobody has ever accused me of making rational decisions about cars." A driving coach/instructor for over 15 years, Neal also teams up with Shane Donahue to produce the ConeCoach Podcast.
JH: So, in 2009 you walked away from a "real" full-time job to start your own business. What is it that you do, and what inspired you to do that?
NT: My Company is called Go Plaid, which is a simultaneous homage to the fact that I always wear plaid, which one of my clients would always give me a hard time for, and the movie Spaceballs. And what we do is provide custom software product development for startups and small companies. Primarily in the spaces of financial technology and "internet of things." We are currently working with folks in Health Care and Clean Energy, as well as mobile apps for creative people. The reason I did it was to see if I could. I just felt like I wanted to control my own destiny. At the time, I didn't know a lot of the things about myself that I do now. And I wanted to go push my boundaries.
JH: You have a podcast called ConeCoach. What is it, and when did it start?
NT: ConeCoach started off as a blog, is now a podcast, and is focused on the techniques and practice for going faster as an autocrosser, both physically and mentally. The physical side is the technical stuff, like suspension tuning and car setup. The mental side is how to approach an event and how to go faster as a driver. As for when it started, gosh, I'm not entirely sure! Hmmm, I think it may have been the end of 2014, actually. Like I mentioned before, it started of as a blog I was doing. But after a bit of time, I sort of fell of the wagon for a bit, so to speak. I got tied up in other things and the blog ended up getting a little stagnant. It was the combination of Kinch Reindl, who had been prodding me to keep it going, and Shane Donahue, who pitched the idea of turning it into a podcast, that got it up and running again. I had actually never really thought of doing a podcast before. But Shane had a bunch of experience with that sort of thing, and thought it would be really cool. So, we thought, "let's give it a try!" We've had a ton of fun doing them. So the transition to doing a podcast, that was all Shane. He really made that happen.
JH: What was the inspiration for it?
NT: The primary thing about ConeCoach that hasn't really changed is that I wanted to create a place where you could go super deep on how to get faster. Kinch's podcast had a lot of good information coming out of the interviews, in that regard, but it wasn't really the focus of what he was doing. It just wasn't quite on target for what I wanted. And then you had Grassroots Motorsports, and SoloMatters, and SportsCar that were doing technical articles, that to fit in the format, just weren't deep enough for me. They were great information, but I wanted to go deeper. So, we started doing the podcast with that in mind. We just wanted to geek out on all the details. Things like how to move your hands on the steering wheel -- and spend a half hour just on that subject and really dive down on it. For SportsCar to do that, it would fill up half of the issue, which, obviously they can't do.
JH: So, speaking of Kinch, and stealing one of his typical questions, what is the one autocross car you would most like to drive, if given the chance?
NT: There are three things I think about when asked a question like that. First, what is the freaking coolest car you could jump into? And hands down, that is Ron Ver Mulm's Camaro. There are other awesome machines out there, but that is the one that always comes to mind. Second, what is the car that would be the most amazing autocross car? In my opinion, that would be an A Mod or B Mod. If I could go buy, or build, a car that would rip up the course the fastest, the answer is, fairly obviously, one of those two types of cars. And third, where is the competition? And that is why I ended up going into CSP. It was kind of the sweet spot of a car that was really cool,a tool that was really sharp, and a talent pool that was really deep. When was it? I think it was in 2015, there were more National Champions entered in CSP than trophies to be handed out for the class. There ended up being a few National Champions that year that left without a trophy! That kind of competition, along with the build and car is what drew me to CSP.
JH: Knowing Minnesota doesn't have the longest autocross season, is there any other way that you have found to satiate your appetite, so to speak, for competition besides autocross? And does it have a relationship to, or help with, your autocrossing?
NT: I haven't done it for awhile, but I used to do a fair bit of RC racing. And it is 100 percent relatable to autocross. There are really two things RC's do for an autocrosser. The first is, depending on where you race, that they do switch up the track. It isn't permanent, so you do have to be able to learn the new layout quickly. But more importantly, you plop this 16-ounce car down on the track, do a bunch of laps, then pick it right back up, take it back to a table, and make some major change to the suspension in 2-3 minutes, like springs or alignment, and have it make a huge difference on the car's handling. So, it can really help you learn chassis setup. The second is the mental aspect. These cars are doing 30 mph on the backstretch of a track smaller than a basketball court. The whole lap could take, like, 12 seconds. And you're just standing up there, controlling it with your fingers. This is way different than most motorsports, where you are shifting, and steering and dealing with g-forces. So with RC cars, you don't really have a physical outlet for the red mist we all occasionally deal with. Which means you need to be able to put your head in a place that you can deal with the red mist in a way that literally has no physical way to let itself out. If you twitch while driving an RC car, it could literally go flying off the track. Or at least run right into a wall. So, you have to get your head in to a space that you can manage your energy level, anxiety level and the red mist, and not have it affect your run. Which is something that is really important at all levels of motorsports.


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Rob Horning in The New Inquiry:
Hype already presumes that no one completely buys into it; the passive dope who just responds to hype with naive enthusiasm is obviously a straw man, the creation of which is hype's chief achievement. Hype creates this stooge that makes us feel smart in being jaded about hype. Advertising generally works by trying to make audiences feel smart and insecure at the same time; it flatters us but makes us know that the flattery is conditional. Hype says: yeah, you are probably smarter than to fall unreservedly for this obviously overhyped thing, but still you better know about it so you know just why you haven't fallen for it. As Powers notes, Through our engagement with hype "we are at once too savvy and not savvy enough."
Rob's talking about the private sector here, but is there any better way to describe avid campaign trail watchers than, "at once too savvy and not savvy enough?" It's amazing, for example, just how closely Rob's account of the life of a hyped product maps onto the arc of the "Obama ate a dog" meme. That meme doubtless enjoyed such a long time in the sun because the people who first hyped it wanted everyone else to buy it — but the savvy onlookers who mocked its insignificance and wove increasingly elaborate dog-eating puns surely extended the meme's lifespan. In their hurry to show how smart they were for not falling for such a dumb story, they hyped it up some more.
But in that case, what's actually being hyped? I would argue that what's actually being sold — unbeknownst to the people doing most of the selling — is not one particular campaign meme, but a general assertion about the value of that genus of campaign memes. When Democratic pundit X tweets, "This Obama eats a dog story is really stupid and trivial" as if that's news, they're reinforcing the implicit assumption that it could have ever been anything but stupid and trivial. The dog-eating story is trivial, but Romney putting the dog kennel on top of the car is significant. George W. Bush clearing brush is trivial, but Hillary Clinton in sunglasses is an important reminder of how cool she is. And so it goes. When you hype a particular team, you're also hyping the whole sport.


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My wife and I went to see Brave last night.
One of our reasons for going is because we really like Disney/Pixar films, have seen all of them, and own most of the DVD's.
The film itself was great.
The animation was brilliant, fantastic, marvelous - and whatever other adjectives I can think of.
The story was very good - and Billy Connolly's character was a scream. I had a great laugh through it all.
The story also had a good moral about choices and their consequences. A good talking point with children, and also about child/parent relations.
But, the other reason we went to see it was because we were thinking of taking the Sunday School kids to it during the upcoming school holidays (break for mums, an outing for the kids).
The PG rating should have given me my first warning.
For there was also witchcraft, spells, and "wisps", typical of many Disney movies (Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, The Little Mermaid, etc.)
There were scenes of violence which were quite "scary", and problably inappropriate for children (well, for my Sunday School children when I am responsible for them. If their parents choose to take them, then that is their choice).
Part way through the film, I leaned over and said to my wife, "we can't bring the kids to this". We probably won't be buying the DVD of this one, either.


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Fletcher leaves GOP before San Diego mayoral vote
California Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher said he's leaving the Republican Party to become an independent barely two months before voters in the nation's eighth-largest city decide whether to elect him mayor.
The move may enliven an already contested race that features a crowded Republican field in a city where Democrats hold a clear advantage in voter registration. Fletcher has lagged in recent polls that show a large number of undecided voters.
Fletcher, 35, has broken ranks with Republicans several times since joining the Assembly in 2009 and said he struggled with his party affiliation during his two terms in Sacramento.
"In all candor, I probably should have done it sooner," he told The Associated Press Tuesday. "I've been a member of this party for almost 20 years. We have a system that is set up and designed for two parties and it's a difficult move, but it's what I believe in my heart is right."
Fletcher backed Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown's failed attempt to end a tax break for companies based out of state and was the only Assembly Republican to back a bill to require that gay history be taught in public schools. The Iraq combat veteran gave a passionate speech on the Assembly floor last year to argue that the military should end its policy of prohibiting gays from openly serving.
Fletcher, who is married to a former aide to President George W. Bush, said he has differed with Republicans over environmental issues.
"The broader issue has just been a reluctance on the part of the Republican Party to be willing to advance good ideas. If it's a good idea, it's a good idea. It doesn't matter which party is going to get the credit for it," he said.
For all his differences, he said he never considered becoming a Democrat.
"Today's political environment and political culture doesn't appear to be geared toward getting people to solve problems. It's geared toward dysfunction," he said.
Fletcher's move will likely have little impact in the state capitol, where Democrats hold a 52-28 majority in the Assembly. Fletcher leaves the Assembly in January when his term expires. He may be best known for authoring "Chelsea's Law," which stiffened punishments for child predators and was named for a 17-year-old girl who was raped and killed by a registered sex offender.
Fletcher leaves the party less than three weeks after the San Diego County Republican Party endorsed Councilman Carl DeMaio for mayor, snubbing Fletcher for a former businessman who has endeared himself to party stalwarts with his focus on cutting city pensions.
A Center for Education Policy and Law/U-T San Diego poll published Saturday shows DeMaio leading with 24 percent, followed by U.S. Rep. Bob Filner with 20 percent and Fletcher and District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis with 10 percent each. The poll showed 35 percent were undecided.
If no one wins a majority in the June 5 nonpartisan primary, the top two finishers advance to a November runoff.
Filner benefits by being the lone widely known Democrat. San Diego has had Republican mayors since 1992, but Democrats enjoy a 12-point advantage in voter registration.
Fletcher raised $964,000 for his campaign through March 17, second only to DeMaio's $1.26 million. DeMaio has contributed more than $500,000 of his own money to his campaign.


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The Obama administration said it would veto a bill that would cut the Department of Housing and Urban Development budget by $3.9 billion from last year.
The bill, which passed a House appropriations committee this week, would provide $51.6 billion in HUD discretionary spending, a $1.9 billion reduction from what the administration requested in February.
"This bill will help support a vibrant and safe transportation infrastructure, while making the difficult but necessary cuts needed to get our budgets back into balance," said Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., chairman of the House Appropriations committee.
The White House said it strongly objected to specific cuts to services like housing counseling for distressed homeowners. HUD requested more than $55 million in counseling funds for next year, but the appropriations committee approved $45 million.
Last year, the House provided no money for housing counseling but ended up restoring some of the $88 million HUD requested before the year was out.
"These funds provide much needed counseling assistance to families facing foreclosure and others that are struggling to find or maintain adequate housing," the White House said in a statement.
The Obama administration also claimed the cuts would result in 30,000 families losing their assistance for services like rental housing. In the budget proposal, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan admitted some reform was needed to rental housing programs.
"These tough choices include reforms to HUD rental assistance programs that save more than $500 million in 2013 without reducing the number of families served," Donovan wrote. "For example, the budget aligns policy across rental assistance programs and reduces costs by increasing the minimum rent to $75 per month for all HUD-assisted households."
Spending disputes will likely build to another budget impasse this year. Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke warned this week what the results of a "fiscal cliff" crisis would have on the overall economy.
"We heard anecdotal evidence about some firms that might be government contractors who weren't sure if those contracts were going to be in place in January, and they would make employment decisions because of that," Bernanke told reporters Wednesday. "That uncertainty is there. It might be an issue."


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