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11. Hush
A deaf writer who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window.
A new drug promises out-of-body experiences, but users are coming back changed forever, and an otherworldly invasion of Earth is underway.
13. Hellraiser
Sexual deviant Frank (Sean Chapman) inadvertently opens a portal to hell when he tinkers with a box he bought while abroad. The act unleashes gruesome beings called Cenobites, who tear Frank's body apart. When Frank's brother (Andrew Robinson) and his wife, Julia (Clare Higgins), move into Frank's old house, they accidentally bring what is left of Frank back to life. Frank then convinces Julia, his one-time lover, to lure men back to the house so he can use their blood to reconstruct himself.
Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his house and find collection of VHS tapes. Viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be dark motives behind the student's disappearance.
15. The Invitation
While attending a dinner party at his former house, a man (Logan Marshall-Green) starts to believe that his ex-wife (Tammy Blanchard) and her new husband (Michiel Huisman) have sinister plans for the guests.
16. Baskin
A squad of unsuspecting cops goes through a trapdoor to Hell when they stumble upon a Black Mass in an abandoned building.
17. Stephen King's Children of the Corn
As physician Burt Stanton (Peter Horton) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Linda Hamilton), drive across the Midwest to his new job, their trip comes to a sudden halt when they encounter the body of a murdered boy in the road. In trying to contact the authorities, Burt and Vicky wander into a small town populated only by children, followers of sinister young preacher Isaac Chroner (John Franklin). Soon the couple is fleeing the youthful fanatics, who want to sacrifice them to their demonic deity.
18. Under the Shadow
After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.
19. It Follows
After carefree teenager Jay (Maika Monroe) sleeps with her new boyfriend, Hugh (Jake Weary), for the first time, she learns that she is the latest recipient of a fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. Death, Jay learns, will creep inexorably toward her as either a friend or a stranger. Jay's friends don't believe her seemingly paranoid ravings, until they too begin to see the phantom assassins and band together to help her flee or defend herself.

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China and France Joint Presidential Statement on Climate Change (Beijing, 2 November 2015)
1. On the occasion of President François Hollande's state visit to China, the Presidents of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of France reaffirm their strong conviction that climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, which calls for all countries working together for the common good in the context of sustainable development.
2. Recalling the Durban mandate to adopt a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change applicable to all Parties, President Xi Jinping and President François Hollande strengthen their resolve to work together and with leaders of all other countries to reach an ambitious and legally binding Paris agreement on the basis of equity and reflecting the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, in light of different national circumstances, mindful of the below 2°C global temperature goal.
3. China and France emphasize that the Paris agreement must send out a clear signal for the world to transition to green and low-carbon, climate-resilient and sustainable development.
4. With this in mind, they stress the importance of shifting the global economy onto a low carbon path in the course of this century, at a rhythm consistent with strong economic growth and equitable social development, and the below 2°C global temperature goal. They also recognize the importance of progressively transitioning towards clean energy systems, taking into account different natural resources endowments and social preferences. They also underscore the importance of formulating 2050 national low-carbon development strategies.
5. The two sides reaffirm the need for developed countries continuing to take the lead, by undertaking ambitious economy-wide absolute quantified emission reduction targets; and the importance of developing countries to enhance their diversified mitigation actions over time, in the context of sustainable development, including by progressively moving towards economy-wide quantifiable emission reduction or limitation targets, depending on their national circumstances, enabled by incentive and support as appropriate.
6. China and France underscore the importance of demonstrating through the Paris agreement the equal political importance of climate change mitigation and adaptation. The two sides stress the need for the Paris agreement to contribute to effectively strengthening adaptation capacities. They underline the importance of formulating and implementing national adaptation plans, mainstreaming climate change considerations in national planning and activities of economic and social development and taking diversified adaptation actions and projects. Both sides stress the urgency of enhancing international support towards adaptation planning and actions in developing countries, mindful of the needs of those that are particularly vulnerable.
7. China and France reaffirm the critical importance of defining a clear and credible pathway towards achieving the goal of mobilizing by developed countries of USD 100 billion of climate finance per year by 2020, coming from a wide variety of sources, public and private, bilateral and multilateral, and including alternative sources of finance, to support transparent mitigation and adaptation actions in developing countries and enhance their capacity-building. They welcome the new commitments of developed countries and multilateral financial institutions at the recent IMF/World Bank meeting in Lima at which the OECD-CPI report was presented. They call on developed countries that have not yet done so to increase their support for climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries.
8. The two sides emphasize the importance of developed countries continuing, in the post-2020 period, to provide and mobilize enhanced finance, technology and capacity-building support to developing countries for ambitious mitigation and adaptation actions and, especially in terms of adaptation, to developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. Complementary support by other countries willing to do so should be encouraged and recognized.
9. China and France emphasize the essential role of technology innovation to meet the interrelated challenges of climate change mitigation and adaptation, growth and development, energy access and energy security. Both sides support a further strengthening of the existing technology mechanism, with a view to cooperating on technology development and transfer, including through joint research and development, demonstration and other related activities.
10. China and France underline the need to include in the Paris agreement an enhanced transparency system to build mutual trust and confidence and promote effective implementation including through reporting and review of action and support. It should provide flexibility to those developing countries that need it in light of their
11. Both sides also agree that the Paris agreement shall include provisions for Parties to formulate, communicate, implement and regularly update their nationally determined contributions. They support taking stock every five years and in a comprehensive manner of overall progress made towards reaching the agreed long-term goals. The results of this stocktake will inform Parties in regularly enhancing their actions in a nationally determined manner.
12. China and France emphasize the importance of adopting a working program in Paris on accelerating the pre-2020 implementation in terms of mitigation, adaptation
and means of implementation, and convening a facilitative dialogue in 2017/2018 to take stock of any progress made and explore the possibility of further enhancing pre-2020 action and support.
13. China and France recall their bilateral partnership on climate change established by the Joint Declaration on Climate Change of 2007 and agree to enhance their coordination and cooperation on climate change. The two sides will strengthen their exchanges in particular on lowcarbon infrastructure, carbon capture and storage
technologies, renewable energy, energy efficiency, lowcarbon transportation, low-carbon urbanization, circular economy, adaptation and carbon market. China and France emphasize the importance of carbon pricing which can take different forms and consider in this respect that the development of a national carbon market in China is an important milestone and a strong and encouraging signal.
14. Their cooperation will include exchange of best practices, technology research and development, investment in low-carbon projects and solutions, and joint investment on third markets. Both sides also intend to make available their respective 2050 national low-carbon development strategies as early as possible in the next 5 years.
15. China and France recognize the importance of green financing and low-carbon investment and will make efforts to encourage financial flows to resource efficient and low-carbon projects. Both sides also recognize the need for cooperation on green financing and low-carbon investment. Both sides stress the critical role to be played by national and multilateral development banks in this regard, in particular to further leverage public and private investments.
16. France and China underscore the critical role of cities, regions, provinces and businesses in addressing climate change and encourage actions by non-state actors in promoting the long-term transition to a low-carbon, climate resilient and sustainable society.
17. Building on the bilateral Consultation Mechanism created in 2010, the two sides agree to launch the China France Working Group on Green and Low-Carbon
Economy, with a view to enhancing their bilateral dialogue and practical cooperation on climate and energy related issues.
18. China and France recognize the importance of mobilizing climate finance to support low-carbon, climate-resilient development in developing countries, particularly the least developed countries, small island developing states and African countries. France reiterates its commitment to increase its annual support from €3 billion today to more than €5 billion by 2020. China reiterates its announcement to make available ¥20 billion for setting up the China South-South Climate Cooperation Fund to support other developing countries to combat climate change.
19. Both sides commit to a substantial increase of their respective public investments in low-carbon energy technology research, development and demonstration (RD&D) by 2020, and agree to further explore opportunities for jointly developing cooperative projects in areas of mutual interest.
20. China and France will work constructively and cooperatively together and along with all Parties to the Convention to support developing countries to transition to green and low-carbon development and build climate resilience, including through tripartite cooperation. The two sides will explore the possibility to develop cooperation in third countries on renewable energy, energy efficiency, and disaster prevention and reduction, particularly in developing countries. They appreciate and support the efforts by African countries and other developing countries to accelerate the development of renewable energy and enhance climate resilience, including the implementation of the Initiative for Renewable Energy in Africa and the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems initiative.
21. China and France will also strengthen their dialogue and cooperation on climate change related issues in other multilateral fora. The two sides recognize the role of the G20 in mobilizing the necessary political support for a successful Paris outcome and its effective implementation and promoting green financing, energy efficiency, carbon market mechanisms and phasing out of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.


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You should create backup files of your non-global zone configurations. You can use the backups to recreate the zones later, if necessary. Create the copy of the zone's configuration after you have logged in to the zone for the first time and have responded to the sysidtool questions. This procedure uses a zone named my-zone and a backup file named my-zone.config to illustrate the process.
Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.
To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
Print the configuration for the zone my-zone to a file named my-zone.config.
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Equity futures are higher overnight, breaking what was probably wave 1's channel to the upside. I left the /ES panel, on the right, in the 30 minute timeframe so that you can see the downchannel and the break upwards:
The dollar was sucked right back down to the 76 level, and bonds went down too. Gold jumped to a new record just under $1,100 an ounce, touching $1,096. Interesting that gold has made a substantial move yet the dollar remains at 76, the same place it was back in September. Today oil is higher too, just over $80 a barrel and inline with the moves in the dollar.
MBA Purchase Applications, the report that no longer provides anything but worthless weekly percentage moves, FELL yet again (4th week in a row) although this week by 1.8%, not as much as last week's 5.2% drop. Refi's did jump upward, so read how Econoday spins it:
Rock bottom rates continue to drive a rush for refinancing. MBA's refinance index jumped 14.5 percent as the average 30-year mortgage fell 7 basis points in the Oct. 30 week to 4.97 percent. The average 15-year mortgage fell 20 basis points to 4.33 percent. Refinancings are making up 66 percent of all mortgage applications. An increase in refinancing, and relief for debt strapped homeowners, is a major objective for policy makers. The purchase index, which measures applications for home purchases, slipped 1.8 percent, unfortunately pointing to weakness for sales of new and existing homes.
I'd show you a chart, but it would be meaningless without the underlying data which is no longer reported.
The Challenger Layoff Announcemnts fell in October:
Challenger's count of layoff announcements is a positive for Friday's employment report. The October count fell to 55,679 vs. 66,404 in September for the lowest total since March last year. A look at October 2008, when 112,884 layoffs were announced, offers a handle on how much improvement there has been.
That is nearly a return to its previous levels of announced layoffs. While I don't compile the data, anecdotally I have noticed in the past couple weeks that the number of announced mass layoffs seems to have increased… we'll see next month, this report is better than previous reports.
The ADP Payroll Count is showing improvement too. The Jobless Report comes out on Friday and the consensus is for a loss of only 175,000. I think that may be low, and I know its low compared to reality.
ADP's payroll count fell a less severe 203,000 in October compared to the 227,000 drop in September (September revised upward from a 254,000 drop). The results point to expected improvement in Friday's employment report.
The Non-Manufacturing ISM is released at 10 Eastern, the Petroleum report at 10:30 Eastern, and, of course, the FOMC announcement at 2:15 Eastern, 11:15 Pacific.
What do I expect from the FOMC? I expect that they will keep interest rates at zero in an attempt to create more of the same – never ending growth. Everyone will hang on Bernanke's words and the market will zoom in response – at least initially. He is, however, still between the old rock and hard place in that with "better" economic reports at some point he's going to have to let rates come back up, right? And he's going to have pull the trillions in support, right? That will be a lot like pulling life support from a dying man. There is simply no way that our debt saturated economy can handle significantly higher rates although that's exactly the appropriate thing to do. Higher rates would force those who cannot service their debts into default so that the debts could be cleared – that same process WILL HAPPEN to the U.S. government, the printing press cannot save us from their delusions.
Just remember that the first move is usually a head fake following the FOMC announcement.
The action in the markets yesterday was bizarre. There was something happening besides India buying a bunch of gold, there was also trouble somewhere in Europe or there was a forced deleveraging of some kind to produce the disconnected action in the dollar, Euro, equities, and gold. Usually when something like that happens, it is a precursor to some future event – we'll see on that too.
I just read a snippet I thought was interesting, evidently Mexico is now less expensive for manufacturing than China according to a new study that includes shipping and all costs to point of arrival in the U.S., "Manufacturing in Mexico costs around 68%; in India around 73%; in China, near 86% and in Brazil close to 91%, compared to costs in the United States."
Meanwhile, if you remember, in 2005 the banking industry managed to change the personal bankruptcy laws to make it nearly impossible for ordinary citizens to discharge their unsecured debts as they saw the coming defaults in credit cards and bankruptcies were rising precipitously. Of course the unintended consequence of their doing so is that people realized that walking away from their secured debt, their home, was one of their only options, thus the banks shot themselves in the foot, yet fail to acknowledge their mistake. Personally, I thought that one of Obama's first moves would be to reverse those laws, that would have allowed debt to be defaulted and cleared from the system. No, can't have that, that would be a "moral hazard." Those laws cut the number of personal bankruptcies by more than half.
Now, even with the constricting laws, we have exceeded the prior highs in personal bankruptcies (ht Point):
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- More Americans filed bankruptcy in October than in any month since changes to U.S. bankruptcy laws in 2005 as unemployment and falling home prices prevented consumers from paying their debts.
The number of individuals filing bankruptcy rose 25 percent to about 131,200 from a year earlier, according to data compiled from court records by Oklahoma City-based Jupiter ESources LLC. The 1.2 million bankruptcies filed through October have already surpassed last year's total of 1.1 million.
Defaults are also setting records in the Commercial space and bankruptcies are, of course, soaring.
Technically, my best guess is that wave 2 up has begun, I base that on the broken down channel. McHugh now thinks there's one more down wave in wave 1 based on the sideways action yesterday. Either way, wave 2 should be under way soon. Wave 2's are meant to sucker people into believing that a new downtrend has not really begun and they usually retrace more deeply than wave 4's that tend to be sideways formations. A 61.8% retrace is typical for wave 2's, although they can retrace less or any amount up to 100%. If we were to make a new high, then it would mean that wave B had not really finished, but I consider that highly unlikely at this juncture with broken rising wedges in all the indices.
The P&F charts have now triggered new bearish targets for most of the indices as they see the broken uptrends as well – the exception is the S&P which has yet triggered a new target.
The 38.2% retrace is at 1,053, and the 50% retrace is right on the 1,061 pivot… a very likely spot to land, but the 61.8% is up at 1,070.
I would expect relative calm before the announcement and then we will find out this afternoon if there's another leg down or if we have begun wave 2 up. Don't forget that there's a Fibonacci turn AND a Bradley turn date on the 9th of November, next Monday (always plus or minus). It should be an important turn, so it will be interesting to see the action in the next couple of weeks.
No matter what happens, if you're prepared, you won't fear the reaper, LOL!
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2001: A Business Odyssey
This story appears in the December 1996 issue of Business Start-Ups magazine. Subscribe »
What's the hottest trend to hit this year and beyond? To figure it out, put yourself, for a moment, in the mind of the typical consumer:
The millennium is almost over, and you haven't accomplished a thing. You slave away 60 hours a week only to face downsizing. Your health is flagging, but your doctor seems oblivious. You suspect there is more to life than your mortgage and your car payment, but you can hardly find the brain power to contemplate dinner, let alone the major mysteries of the cosmos. You don't want a new attitude or a new perspective. You need the deluxe package.
You need a whole new age.
You and an estimated 44 million Americans like you. Sociologist Paul H. Ray, in a study co-sponsored by research firms the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and the Sausalito, California-based Institute of Noetic Sciences, identified roughly 24 percent of the population as "cultural creatives"--folks who embrace globalism, alternative health care, spirituality, social consciousness and ecological sustainability.
While cultural creatives don't represent a majority of the population, they are a sizable market. Moreover, their values are rippling through society at large. Where New Age was once ridiculed as the refuge of pyramid-loving, crystal-worshipping kooks, it's now as mainstream as seeing an acupuncturist or buying a yoga video.
Have you read your horoscope lately? Tuned in to "The X-Files"? Gotten a whiff of aromatherapy? If so, you're not alone. As a culture, we may be a long way from enlightenment. But even if we don't achieve nirvana in 1997, it looks like our minds will continue the long, slow opening process--and unimagined markets will open along with them.
Age-Old Questions
The forces behind the growth of the New Age movement are no passing fancies. Some say we've got a heavy case of millennial fever. Not only are major astrological and psychic changes reputedly underway, but so is the kind of cultural soul-searching that usually occurs during millennial shifts.
"There's a perception that the institutions of the Industrial Age are no longer equipped to deal with reality," says Gerald Celente, director of The Trends Research Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, and author of Trends 2000 (Warner). "People have lost faith in the political system, the legal system, the health-care system--and they're looking for answers, often outside the scope of reason."
Which is not to say people are being unreasonable. Rather, this is a time for innovation and spiritual introspection. "I think people are looking forward to great change" in virtually all facets of their lives, says Celente.
Demographically speaking, the time is right for renewal. "A lot of people don't get to a point of self-examination until they face a major life crisis," says Joan Duncan Oliver, editor of the bimonthly magazine New Age Journal. "The baby boomers have reached the age when they might be facing health problems, or questioning the value of their work, or even losing their jobs. These crises are often the initiation into a more examined life."
The confluence of millennial and demographic trends creates the right environment for change. New insights, new revelations, new approaches to old problems, revolutionary products and services--they couldn't be born at a better time.
Well, Well, Well
Cosmic thinking is great, but what's going to sell? No one has a crystal ball, of course, but several categories show promise. Under the general heading of New Age, Oliver reports Hinduism and Islam are in. Dwight Lucky, editor of Bellingham, Washington-based trade magazine New Age Retailer, says Buddhism is also continuing to experience a boom. And according to Candace Apple, owner of the Phoenix & Dragon Bookstore in Atlanta, "Feng Shui [the ancient Chinese art of environmental energy flow] is the hottest thing out there."
More generally, look for books, products and services that focus on wellness. Alternative medicines and self-care items will continue to thrive. "Health, fitness and nutrition are going to be key. People are going to be doing more to take care of themselves," says Celente. "But they're going to want more than the esoteric thought; they're going to want to bring these changes into practice."
Perhaps that bodes well for Lenox, Massachusetts, entrepreneur Gregory Dix, creator of the Get a Life store and catalog. Dix's product mix includes folding meditation benches, aromatherapy diffusers, ayurvedically balanced skin-care products, and books and videos that promote everything from yoga to artistic creativity. "The [store and catalog] are for people who are trying to figure out what's missing in life and who don't know what it is or how to find it," says Dix.
Is the mainstream ready for all this positive energy? Apple knows it is. One indicator: sales. Her Phoenix & Dragon bookstore recently expanded to 5,500 square feet, and Apple hopes to gross $1 million next year.
Anecdotal evidence is also compelling. "A lot of people used to come in feeling a little embarrassed about being in a New Age bookstore," Apple says. Today, however, there's no such stigma. In fact, Apple worries that the New Age is becoming old hat. "It's getting harder than ever to get well-known [New Age] authors to come in for book signings and events," she says. "They're all going to Barnes & Noble."
Sign Language
Concepts don't have to be new to make waves in the current market. Though it's thousands of years old--and its popular roots date back to the 1960s--astrology is enjoying another wave of interest. According to a poll by public opinion market research firm Roper Starch Worldwide Inc., belief in astrology rose by 7 percent between 1988 and 1994, when 25 percent of respondents claimed to believe in the ancient art.
That's not news to Del Norwood, owner of Access Abilities Inc., an astrological consulting firm in Chicago. Even without aggressive marketing, she says, "The phones are constantly ringing." Norwood teaches classes and holds in-person consultations, but more than half her business is conducted by phone. She interprets natal charts, advises clients on favorable dates to start businesses or get married, and uses astrology to provide insights on key decisions. At $125 for a typical 90-minute consultation, Norwood's services are not for the skeptic. But fortunately, believers abound.
It also seems that, under the right circumstances, even skeptics can be won over. Arch Crawford combines rigorous technical analysis with astrological cycles to predict financial markets. The results? His $250-a-year newsletter, Crawford Perspectives, is among the top performers nationwide. Maybe that's why 1,000 issues go out monthly--to plenty of Wall Street types who don't believe in astrology but do believe in results. Crawford also maintains two telephone hotlines, which draw between 100 and several hundred calls a day.
"To beat out the other guys on Wall Street, you don't need a huge statistical advantage, just a slight edge," says Crawford. "A lot of big traders [subscribe to] my letter because they're interested in information that is off the main line."
Robert W. Cooper of research organization American Federation of Astrologers Inc. in Tempe, Arizona, says Crawford is part of a larger industry trend. "Astrologers used to be general practitioners," says Cooper, "but now we're seeing successful astrologers specializing in fields like finance and medicine."
Situation Paranormal
The astrology boomlet is consistent with Celente's belief that our society is searching for guidance. "People are seeking out anybody they believe can help them see what's happening and explain it," Celente says. In their quest for understanding, some are exploring new territory--as in psychic phenomena, past life regression and other paranormal events.
Are we entering the age of gullibility? Just the opposite, says Celente. "[Scientists] recently found the Sphinx is 8,000 years older than previously thought. It predates the Sahara Desert," he says. "This is why people are looking at paranormal events today. They may not be paranormal at all: They may just be [inexplicable] by our current understanding."
Indeed, many think paranormality is a point of view. "The paranormal is a part of life," says Marilyn McGuire, president and executive director of the New Age Publishing and Retailing Alliance in Eastsound, Washington. "Some people may have gone off the deep end [with fraudulent commercial enterprises], but paranormal things--things we can't explain rationally--happen every day."
For Bettye Binder, president of The Association for Past-Life Research & Therapies Inc., it's just this commonality that makes psychic phenomena believable. "There are a lot of people who have had a closet interest in past lives or out-of-body experiences, but they've been afraid to talk about it," Binder says. Recent media attention is drawing that interest out into the open.
Assuming you're sincere, making a living in the psychic world often takes creativity. Rancho Palos Verdes, California, entrepreneur Shelley Lessin Stockwell is an author, publisher, speaker, hypnotherapist, psychic channeler, wedding minister and spiritual tour guide. Stockwell's enterprise is eclectic but successful. Her Creativity Unlimited Press, for example, sells 10 books and 14 audiocassettes through five national distributors.
According to Stockwell, exploring psychic territory is not "out there"; it's everywhere. "Everyone is interested," she says. "Sometimes when I go to parties, I deliberately avoid telling people what I do because then the entire evening is spent discussing psychic phenomena. People used to be afraid, but now [most aren't]."
Hits And Myths
Fear may, in fact, be a critical factor in understanding where this market has been--and where it's going. Fear--of the unknown, of the inexplicable, and of the weird--once sidelined this market. Now, fear seems to be giving way to curiosity, and the market is not only growing but lightening up.
Take, for example, the use of tarot cards to "read" the present, past and future. You could spend hours explaining their mystical workings. But Apple, who does tarot card readings, exclaims jokingly, "I don't know how it works!" She reports, however, that the cards frequently offer uncanny insights.
Is it scientific? Provable? It doesn't have to be. It's interesting. Maybe it's even magical--and, if nothing else, it's entertaining.
Just look at the multitude of upcoming entertainment choices that will take us back to our mythological past. Over the next year or so, we'll revisit Homer's Odyssey (via an NBC miniseries), Hercules (in both syndicated TV and Disney movie versions), and King Arthur's Camelot (in TV shows and an animated film).
Additionally, New Age Retailer's Lucky reports dawning interest in a "goddess movement." Also hot: Native American animal totems.
The common theme here might be escapism. Losing yourself in the contemplation of an ancient myth or mystical charm is a great way to forget about the daily commute, schoolyard bullies or income taxes.
Yet, as Apple points out, there may also be a spiritual component. "People are fascinated by the connectedness--that stories from other times still have meaning to us today," she says. "It's evidence that we may share a collective unconscious that unites us all."
New And Improved
As always, tapping into that collective spirit is the key challenge for entrepreneurs. The new age represents a vital opportunity for almost any business, whether directly (through book publishing or spiritual consulting) or indirectly, by adapting your business to principles of social conscience and spiritual balance.
Don't limit your thinking to traditional stereotypes about New Age. "You can't expect everyone in this market to be wearing Birkenstock sandals and hanging out at a health-food store," says Oliver.
Unconventional marriages of, say, New Age concepts with technology can work brilliantly. For example, New York City-based educational software publisher Enteractive Inc. launched two interactive CD-ROM titles: Enchanted Tarot and The Alchemist. Computerized tarot? "What we saw was a high correlation between this market and computer use," says Randy Hujar of Enteractive. "Here was a market that was untapped and available." Though Enteractive declines to release sales, they report being "pleased" with the numbers so far.
The lesson here: This is a market of affluent, knowledgeable consumers with plenty of unmet needs. A new millennium shimmers on the horizon. An entire segment of society is looking ahead to a new age--and looking around for the products and services they'll need to help them reach it. Could you be the one to fill that need?
For More Information
Need a road map for your journey into the new age? Here are some starting points:
- New Age Journal, published bimonthly, covers everything that's new in the New Age movement from a consumer's (not a business's) perspective. Special half-price subscriptions ($12) for Entrepreneur readers. Call (800) 755-1178, or write to 42 Pleasant St., Watertown, MA 02172.
- New Age Retailer magazine, published seven times a year, reviews books, music and sideline items and offers how-tos on running a New Age business. Call (800) 4NEW-AGE, or write to Continuity Publishing Inc., 1300 N. State St., #105, Bellingham, WA 98225.
- The New Age Publishing and Retailing Alliance, the trade association for New Age publishers and bookstores, publishes its own journal and also sponsors a trade show. Call (360) 376-2702, or write to P.O. Box 9, Eastsound Sq., Eastsound, WA 98245-0009.
- The Trends Journal and Trends Research Institute. Though not specifically geared toward the New Age market, The Trends Journal provides relevant insights for virtually all entrepreneurs looking toward the new millennium. Call (914) 876-6700, or write to P.O. Box 660, Rhinebeck, NY 12572.
- American Federation of Astrologers. For referrals to educational programs or for information on certification, call (602) 838-1751, or write to P.O. Box 22040, Tempe, AZ 85285.
- Association for Past-Life Research & Therapies Inc. is a professional organization for past-life therapists. It promotes research and industry standards and provides a communication network for members. Call (909) 784-1570, or write to P.O. Box 20151, Riverside, CA 92516.
Contact Sources
Access Abilities Inc., P.O. Box 30081, Chicago, IL 60630, (312) 725-8300;
The Association for Past-Life Research & Therapies Inc., (909) 784-1570, fax: (909) 784-8440;
Crawford Perspectives, 1382 Third Ave., #403, New York, NY 10021-0403, (212) 535-6202;
Creativity Unlimited Press, (310) 377-7908;
Enteractive Inc., (212) 221-6559, http://www.enteractive.com;
Get a Life, (800) 967-7279, email@example.com;
Institute of Noetic Sciences, 475 Gate Five Rd., #300, Sausalito, CA 94965, (415) 331-5650;
Phoenix & Dragon Bookstore, 5531 Roswell Rd., Atlanta, GA 30342, (404) 255-5207;
Roper Starch Worldwide Inc., (212) 599-0700.


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Tobacco companies are staving off the decline of smoking with a stream of exciting new products (which are popular with children).
A Jefferies note on Philip Morris talks of "high hopes for Next Generation Products (NPGs)."
NPGs include progress toward "a reduced harm alternative," but primarily they involve gimmicks.
Examples of conventional cigarette innovation. We were particularly impressed by two of PM's new innovations for conventional cigarettes. The L&M U-spin cigarette has a unique filter that allows smokers to choose the amount of ambient air that dilutes the smoke, thereby changing the strength of the flavor. Parliament in Russia sold for a very limited amount of time (only about 3-4 weeks) in a specially designed pack that used a so-called "Fresnel lens" printing technique to achieve a unique visual effect and make the product stand out on the shelf. We believe that both products are good examples for PM's innovativeness that can drive growth in the future.
And that's just the beginning:
NGP details. PM plans to start introducing within the next five years three different kinds of Next Generation Products, that are currently only called Platforms 1, 2 and 3.
Platform 1 heats tobacco instead of burning it using an external heat source. In that sense, it is similar to the Heatbar, which Philip Morris tested about 5 years ago but which did not gain any meaningful user acceptance. The new product is much smaller, better designed and less "awkward" looking. Executives who used it at the analyst day seemed to be very satisfied by it and claimed to have switched completely from regular cigarettes. The product requires specially designed cigarettes that are much shorter and more densely packed than regular cigarettes
Platform 2 also heats tobacco but uses an internal heat source that a smoker would light with a regular lighter. Similar to Reynolds American's (RAI, $43.33, hold) Eclipse cigarette, it does not burn down and except for not having to flick off the ash, the user experience is very similar to regular cigarettes.
Platform 3 creates a nicotine aerosol and is the furthest from commercialization. It does not use any heating or burning.


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Glass ceiling: It's about to self-destruct
Forget the glass ceiling. It's about to become irrelevant– not because women are finally going to get to the top of Fortune 500 companies in forces of more than two companies at a time. That may happen, but no one's holding their breath.
The glass ceiling is going to become irrelevant because the women who are coming into the workforce now see what's above that glass, and they are not interested.
Recently I got a peek into the world above the glass ceiling when I read an interview with Jeff Immelt, chief executive of GE. Immelt said that he has been working 100-hour weeks for the last 20 years. He also said that he married a co-worker and they have an 18-year-old daughter.
It's unclear to me why anyone would aspire to this life. If I were his daughter, I think I'd feel neglected. And if I were his wife, I think I'd feel like a single parent with great alimony. If this is life above the glass ceiling, I think it's absurd.
By definition, the glass ceiling exists only if someone is below it, longingly looking up. But soon there won't be anyone looking up. Broad disenchantment with corporate life is spreading among young workers. A new definition of success that includes taking part in the unglorified daily tasks of raising kids does not accommodate dreams of crashing glass ceilings.
So it's no surprise that five years after earning an MBA, 40 percent of women are working from home. Often the press writes about this statistic like it's a travesty, but I think it's great. It's an achievement that these women have decided they can find success on their own terms instead of having to fit themselves through paths that were established for men decades ago.
The disenchantment with corporate life is not limited to women: 80 percent of men aged 20 to 39 said that a flexible job to accommodate kids takes a higher priority than doing challenging work or earning a high salary. And this trend is growing: Study after study shows that one of the defining traits of generation Y (people as old as age 26) is that they are determined to not give up their personal life in order to get ahead at work.
Instead of aligning yourself with people who are giving up everything in their personal life to "get to the top," be one of the people who is redefining success. You can decide what is success for you. Don't be sucked into the idea of success as defined by the men who constructed the glass ceiling. After all, their lives included little room for passionate interests outside of work, only ceremonious parenting, and a wife who managed everything about their personal life.
That vision of success sounds quaint and outdated, but look, Jeff Immelt is still living that life. And so are the majority of his peers (although it's hard to believe many others are living it to the extreme he is).
Maybe, in 10 years, no one will be left to march up the stairs to the glass ceiling. Maybe it will be like the tree falling in the forest: No one will see it, so it will be as good as non-existent.
People used to think that the revolution would happen above the glass ceiling, as more women pushed their way to the top. In fact, though, the revolution is happening below the glass ceiling, where people are reestablishing their priorities. Kids and ambition can co-exist beneath the glass ceiling. Plenty of ambitious people have grand, remarkable achievements without giving up a vibrant personal life. Why would anyone aim for anything else?


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Pop Culture Web Publisher BuzzMedia Lays Off 20 Percent of Staff, Restructures
BuzzMedia, the pop-culture Web publisher that got a new CEO late last year, is undergoing another overhaul. The company is cutting 20 percent of its workforce, but plans on replacing many of the outgoing employees with new hires.
People familiar with CEO Steve Hansen's plans say he intends to lay off about 50 of the company's 240 employees, and will end up hiring another 25 people in the coming months.
The company also plans on shifting its focus away from its blog advertising network business, and to concentrate on a core group of music and pop-culture sites it owns, including Celebuzz, Idolator, and Spin, the magazine it bought last year and turned into a digital-only property.
Earlier this year, the company raised a new $15 million round from existing investors, including Redpoint Ventures and Focus Ventures.
Hansen, a digital veteran whose resume includes GeoCities and Yahoo, was hired as BuzzMedia's president last summer; he was elevated to the top job amid chatter that the company had missed sales targets. In a letter to the staff he has distributed this morning, Hansen describes the firings and hirings as a "rebalancing of existing skill sets and the addition of new ones … There is a lot that is right at Buzz, but much that still needs to change."
Some of the changes may not come as a surprise to BuzzMedia's staff; other Web publishers say they've been seeing BuzzMedia resumes circulate in the last few months.
Here's the full memo:
Note to The Company
When first joining BuzzMedia, I told you that while successful, the company needed to evolve in order to achieve it's true potential. Today we will be making a number of difficult, yet necessary organizational changes across all departments and levels of the company in order to achieve that goal.
Transformation sometimes requires making very hard decisions. Make no mistake about it, today will be difficult for all of us but our success is dependent upon greater focus on our audience, evolving our portfolio of brands, all supported by powerful technology and data. We need to align the organization around those objectives and today is a first step, albeit a very hard one.
Proper organizational alignment requires a rebalancing of existing skill sets and the addition of new ones that focus on those key areas that will help us keep pace and grow stronger within our industry. Embarking on that path necessitates a number of painful personnel reductions that will directly or indirectly impact all of us. The fact that so many friends and colleagues will be effected by what is happening today is not a referendum on them as contributors. On the contrary, today we will be saying goodbye to a group of people that have shown great passion, commitment and sacrifice for BuzzMedia. We owe these individuals a debt of gratitude for they were an important part of what Buzz is today and I'd like to thank them all.
These changes are not made lightly. Over the past several months I've met with many of you to better understand how the company works. I've taken great pains to personally review structure, process, priorities and people. There is a lot that is right at Buzz, but much that still needs to change. Success in our world will come down to having the right people focused on the right tasks and providing them with the resources they need to succeed.
While difficult in the short term, the changes being made today will make us a healthier company in the long run.
In 2013 we really need to focus on doing three things very well:
• Drive higher level of audience and audience engagement on our owned and operated sites
• Provide better solutions for our advertising partners and users
• Create a technology/publishing/knowledge platform that will support all of our sites
Successfully achieving these goals will allow us to legitimately lay claim to being a market leader in the digital publishing world. That is my goal for 2013. The world that we live in is getting more competitive by the day and doing a much better job for our audience, advertisers and editors is essential.
Although today is a difficult but necessary step in the evolution of our company. we make these changes from a position of market leadership, strong financial support and historical revenue momentum. And because we move forward from this position of strength, we can use these challenging times to become even better.
I think at a time like this it's particularly important to reaffirm to you my commitment to transparency, accountability and high standards — both internally, with our partners and throughout our industry. Our reputation and how we treat each other is just as important to me as our financial success. I want each and every one of us to be proud of what we're builing here — and how we're doing it.
Affected employees will be notified mid-day today. I have also scheduled a company wide call for Friday at 10:30AM PST. Please feel free to reach out to me directly if you have questions.
From everyone on the executive team, I wish you all the best moving forward.


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"Stalker apps" on Facebook—apps that claim to show you who's been looking at your profile—are not real. We're telling you that up front because it's not quite obvious to the people who use Facebook, including many Ars readers (we know because we see the posts you guys make there).
Yes, it's incredibly tempting to believe that you will be able to see each time your high school sweetheart cruises your photos, or anytime your crazy housemate does a relationship status check on you without them ever knowing that you're watching them back. But alas, it is impossible.
The apps that have made their way around the social network lately have been a mixture of phishing scams and twists of the truth. We've decided it was time to explain why you shouldn't believe anyone who claims you can surreptitiously find out who's been Facebook stalking you
How this madness got started
For those of you who remember MySpace (what, you mean it still exists?), you probably remember when all this started. Back in the mid-2000s, word started spreading that MySpace users could embed some code into parts of their profiles that would allow them to get reports on which other MySpace users were checking them out and when.
Because MySpace allowed its users to put practically any kind of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, iFrames, and other code on their profile pages, this was really easy to do without other users knowing anything was amiss—and it worked. And trust me, the reports were boring. Wow, my friend Jody showed up on my profile for 5 minutes before making a post saying we should go out soon? Fascinating stuff.
That tool and its numerous spinoffs eventually broke as time went on, while others sprung up in their place. That's around the time that malware and spam started getting big on MySpace and Facebook started becoming more popular. People started migrating away to the "cleaner" social network with stricter privacy controls and less visual vomit.
It turns out that those users may have wanted stricter limitations on how others could modify their profiles, but they still wanted to be able to see who has been looking at their own profiles. Enter the era of the Facebook stalker apps.
Facebook's stalker trackers
With the introduction of Facebook apps—Web widgets that can be embedded into various parts of your profile—some of that aforementioned visual vomit returned, but in a more respectable-looking way. As we've learned, not all Facebook apps do good things. Over the past couple years, a plethora of apps have popped up claiming to provide users with info about who's looking at their photos, who's perusing their wall posts, and in general, who's "stalking" them. All of these are bogus.
In fact, it's not even possible for a Facebook app to gather that kind of data under Facebook's current terms. "Facebook does not provide applications or groups with the technical means to allow people to track profile views or see statistics on how often a particular piece of content has been viewed and by whom," Facebook wrote in response to a question about whether stalker apps really exist. "If an application claims to provide this functionality, please report the application."
So what, exactly, do these apps that claim to track your stalkers do? The recent swath of stalker apps (some of which don't even exist anymore at the time of publication, so it's hard to pin them down) tended to do one of two things: either their explicit goal was to gain access to your profile information in order to sell it or hijack your account, or they technically didn't show you your "stalkers."
A recent app called Stalker Checker, for example, ended up showing you the users who were the most active on your Facebook account. So, if you had a friend who was constantly commenting on your wall posts and leaving "Likes" all over your images, he or she would show up on the Stalker Checker. If you had an ex-boyfriend who was visiting your page every day without leaving a trace, however, he would not show up on the Stalker Checker.
Other spinoffs work with the same concept—trying to pinpoint who shows the most activity on your profile—but sometimes they simply list friends of yours randomly just to have something to show. Of course, this is not exactly the most effective tool if it can only tell you about your "stalkers" based on who's making themselves the most conspicuous to you. And because Facebook won't give developers a way to see that info otherwise, trying to install an app that claims to see your stalkers is an exercise in futility.
An unfriend tracker, however...
A slight spinoff from the stalker apps is the concept of the "unfriend tracker"—the idea that you'll be able to see immediately when someone on Facebook has decided that you're no longer e-friends. You can't get an unfriend tracker through Facebook's collection of apps, but you can install a script on your favorite browser (usually using Greasemonkey, GreaseKit, SIMBL, or NinjaKit) in order to monitor those changes on your profile.
Let us just tell you up front though: it's not worth the trouble. Do you really want to exist in a world where you are dependent upon browser script to tell you that a "friend" of yours has severed your relationship via Facebook? Take some personal advice from us to you: the mental anguish that comes with analyzing how or why such a thing could happen isn't valuable at all. If your "friend" doesn't have the decency to tell you directly why you're no longer friends, don't waste valuable brain (or computer) cycles trying to figure it out.
Don't do it
Considering how much information the normal Facebook apps can legitimately collect from your profile, it's wise to avoid apps that don't do what they claim (after all, if you can't trust a developer to market the app to you honestly, you can't trust him or her to use your data properly either). Don't fall for apps that pretend to tell you who's looking at your profile—they're not real!—and give into temptation with the unfriend scripts either. You're better off without them.


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Oswalt eager to help Rockies contend in NL West
DENVER -- Right-hander Roy Oswalt believes the Rockies will catch fire and contend for a playoff spot, and he hopes he can be a part of it.
An MRI confirmed that he has a left hamstring strain, which he suffered on July 7. Oswalt said he feels much better than the first four to five days after the injury, and he's been throwing on flat ground to keep the arm in shape. He didn't speculate on when he would be able to return, since he has not dealt with a hamstring injury before.
"We're in position coming into the break, we're not out of it by any means," Oswalt said. "The biggest thing is just being consistent, and run off eight out of 10, 10 out of 12."
Oswalt (0-4, 7.64 ERA since joining the team on June 20) demonstrated good movement and velocity on his fastball, but the secondary pitches weren't sharp. He also said he will return with a better plan.
"Going back and looking at tape, I've got to mix it up a little bit more, inside and out," he said. "I pitched a lot away the first two or three games and got hurt a few times away. I need to change eyesight a little bit, away and inside."
Oswalt, 35, signed a Minor League deal with the Rockies in early May and didn't appear in the Majors until June 20. He had a similar year last year, when he signed late, struggled and didn't feel he fit in with the Rangers (4-3, 5.80 ERA in 17 games, nine starts).
Both years he did not have a Spring Training or the early part of a season to work through struggles. Oswalt said showing up in the middle of the year is not by design.
"It would have been great if I'd had a job offer coming into Spring Training -- I had some bullpen offers," he said. "Everyone asks, 'Does this guy not want to play?' I can't make myself get on somebody's team. They've got to offer. You can't show up at somebody's Spring Training and say, 'I'm playing for you.'"
Oswalt said he is comfortable with the Rockies. The 100-pitch limit the club has for starters is not a problem for him, since he believes in staying in the strike zone. He hopes to be able to show the Rockies what he can do, not only to help this year, but to possibly entice the club to invite him back next year.
"I'm hoping to get back and have some starts, be effective," Oswalt said. "I feel like I can be. I haven't hit that groove yet where I can roll off 10, 12 wins in a row. I'm trying to get back in the sync of things. I'm going to pound the strike zone. I don't walk a lot of guys."


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Advancing Drug Development with Digital Health: 4 Key Ways to Integrate Patient-Generated Data into Trial
Digital health is not only changing the way patient data is collected in healthcare, but it is also disrupting the way the pharmaceutical industry gathers data from clinical trial participants. Download this eBook to learn 4 key ways pharmaceutical companies can leverage patient-generated data to implement a digital health strategy.
Reduced Risk and Faster Time to Market with Sigma Quality Hard Capsules
Over the past several decades, as the FDA has introduced a number of rapid tracks for drug approval, pharmaceutical companies looking to take advantage of those pathways have increasingly chosen hard capsules over other dosage forms. Download today!
Tracking Trends in Consumer Health Dose Formulation
Consumer preferences are helping to drive developments in the shapes, forms and dosages of prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs. At the same time, the need to drive down healthcare costs and increase efficacy—coupled with a favorable regulatory climate—is driving development of novel delivery technologies. Download today!
How Digital Technology is Revolutionizing Animal Health
Digital technologies are being developed to foster communication between veterinarians and the owners of the animals they serve. These new tools are designed not just for pet owners, but for farmers, too, and they promise to streamline healthcare in an industry that has long been fragmented and paper-based. Download today!
Addressing Development Challenges from Early Development Phase
Although many challenges arise once drugs are on the market, adherence has emerged as a major focus of scientists and developers. This eBook discusses topics including: tackling patient compliance, top-to-bottom drug design, making clinical trials more high-tech and more. Download today!
Navigating the Logistics of Global Clinical Trials
Over the past several decades, the number of clinical trials conducted outside of the United States has risen dramatically, as sponsors look to conduct trials in countries where they will likely be able to recruit patients more easily, with potentially less red tape and lower costs. Download today!
Executive Summary | How to Prepare Your Supply Chain for Emerging Markets' Novel Challenges
Biopharma firms have moved quickly into emerging markets over the past 20 years. They have added manufacturing and clinical trial sites to their networks, while also gaining access to a new population of consumers. Yet such gains have come at a cost. Download today.
Healthcare Companies Capitalize on the New Mobile Health Climate
Toward the end of 2010, the agenda for a new one-day meeting called "Mobile Pharma" promised to "answer the age old question 'Is this finally the year of mobile?'" A few months later, Ernst & Young published a report that seemed to answer that question with a resounding "yes." Download this eBook to learn more!
Bringing a Small Molecule to Clinic: A Guide for Start-Up Development Programs
It's time to transition your molecule discovery to a commercial drug launch. This guide is your roadmap for arriving at your desired destination quickly and without making costly mistakes along the way. Download now.
Ending Stagnation: How Collaboration Tools are Enabling a New Era of R&D
Biopharma R&D, from drug discovery through to late-phase clinical trials, suffers from two fundamental, near industry-threatening problems: It is too slow and too expensive. Something has to change. Fortunately for the industry, tools and tactics that can shave time and money from drug development already exist. Download this eBook to learn more.
Biosimilars: Getting Cheaper Biologics to the Market
On March 6, 2015, 5 years after the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 was signed into law, the FDA finally approved a biosimilar drug. Although the approval capped the FDA's years-long process to establish a pathway for biosimilars, experts question whether much has actually changed for the prospects of getting biosimilars to market in the U.S. Download this eBook to learn more.
Biopharma's Balancing Act: Information Access vs. Security and Compliance
Over the past few years a series of events have crystallized fears about data security into solid intel on real and significant threats against biopharma businesses. And yet, with biopharma globalizing and disaggregating, companies cannot afford to shut off from the world. This is the dilemma faced by biopharma CIOs in 2015. Download today!
What Do Customers Need in Oral Dose Development
Oral dose development is the goal of many drug developers. The translation of a drug-design concept to the delivered oral dose can be complicated, and understanding the needs of drug company clients, as well as patients and doctors, is a vital part of the process. Download this eBook to learn more.
New Technologies for Complex Oral Formulation and Drug Delivery Challenges
As the knowledge of the basic biology behind disease increases, and as drugs become more advanced, delivery challenges increase for oral and other formulations. Because of this, delivery solutions need to become more sophisticated and more effective. Download this eBook to learn more.
Targeting cancer treatments: A progress report
Throughout the history of cancer drug development, researchers have tried to make treatments more specific, reducing the side effects and increasing the efficacy. The next step in this process is the move towards therapies that are not only tailored to each individual, but that also target tumors and nothing else. Download this FierceBiotech eBook to learn more.
Analyzing Real-World Data for Lifecycle Management
Life used to be simpler for pharma commercialization teams. Once a drug won regulatory approval, the path to sales was relatively clear. Now a drug must prove to payers its value over existing treatments and continue to do so throughout its lifecycle. Download this FierceBiotech Special Report to learn more.
Special Report | The Changing Landscape of Phase IV Research
Industry spending on post-authorization studies belies the rapid changes occurring in Phase IV research, driven by an the demand for evidence of safety and effectiveness. Download this Special Report to learn how Phase IV research continues to transform.
Animal Health Leaders Embrace Biotech R&D
The presence of biotechs in the animal health industry is growing. Companies working in this industry are using biologic processes to develop large-molecule drugs and vaccines for both livestock and pets, and to improve techniques for research, development, and manufacturing. Download this eBook to learn more about the role biotechs play in the burgeoning animal health industry.
Cross-Contamination in Drug Manufacturing: The Regulatory Trends
Cross-contamination among production lines is an important issue in drug manufacturing, because it can put both patients and workers at risk of adverse health effects. As the global therapeutics markets grow and drugs become increasingly more potent, authorities in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere are tightening regulations to increase safety and control exposure. Download this eBook to learn more.
Optimizing Formulation Development: New HPMC Capsules Offer Expanded Options for Pharmaceutical Formulations
The evolution of technology in pharmaceutical and medical sciences has extended the range of polymers that are being developed to meet the demand for quality in capsule manufacturing. While they were initially targeted to the producers of vitamins and minerals, these plant-based capsules are now becoming an important option for pharmaceutical manufacturers. Download this eBook to learn more today!
Executive Summary | Veeva 2014 Paperless TMF Survey: An Industry Benchmark
FierceMarkets and Veeva Systems recently conducted a survey of more than 250 Trial Master File (TMF) owners to explore the impact of growing eTMF adoption as well as the drivers, benefits, and barriers to going paperless. The survey examines the success factors for fully electronic trials and gives an industry-wide view of where organizations fall on the spectrum of paper-based to paperless TMFs. Download this free Executive Summary today!
Next-Generation Orphan Drug Delivery
According to the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), a disease is rare if it affects fewer than 200,000 Americans. There have been around 6,800 rare diseases defined so far, affecting around 30 million people in the US alone. Big Pharma used to ignore this segment of the market, but now developing orphan drugs to treat these rare diseases is an industry priority. Download this eBook today!
eBrief | Work Smarter: How Data and Informatics are Reshaping Post-Approval for Pharma
With all of pharma's key markets rethinking reimbursement, the onus is on companies to find ways to deliver the evidence payers want. The rise of new sources of real-world data and the informatics capabilities to derive insights from the figures gives pharma a way to meet these demands. But to make the most of the information, the industry must re-think its practices. Download this eBrief today!
The Future of Animal Health
The current market for animal drugs and vaccines (not just dogs and cats) is worth $22 billion a year and growing. Add in the huge and growing market for livestock treatments and it's no surprise pharmaceutical companies are angling to find the ideal position in animal health. This FiercePharma eBook will survey the landscape in animal health and the potential growth opportunities for investors and life sciences entrepreneurs. Download this eBook today!
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The quest to make thinner cell phones and other mobile devices continues each day, but Samsung and LG.Philips may be moving closer to that goal with their new active-matrix OLEDs (AMOLED). Both companies announced new AMOLED displays today, with Samsung touting its 2.2-inch display as the "world's thinnest" at 0.52mm thickness—about the same thickness as a credit card. However, LG.Philips' 4-inch display is in fact thinner, at a mere 0.15mm. That, and it's flexible.
Both wafer-thin displays can show a resolution of 320x240, although Samsung's outdoes LG.Philips' in the number of colors it can display, at 262 million compared to LG.Philips' 16.7 million. Another difference is that while LG.Philips' display has only been announced by the company, Samsung's is apparently already ready for mass production in various mobile devices.
However, LG.Philips' AMOLED—developed in conjunction with the Universal Display Corporation—is by far the more interesting of the two. The company claims that the display is "barely thicker than a human hair" and that it's the first AMOLED display that uses amorphous silicon technology. This allows the display to bend and roll without causing damage—a concept that has had some geeks drooling over ever since UDC first announced the display.
"This display capitalizes on the strengths of OLED technology and its image quality is really something to behold," said LG.Philips VP Hyunhe Ha in a statement. "Although we are still in the initial stages with this technology, we expect to make some exciting advances in the near future. LG.Philips LCD is focused on customer-centered technology development to introduce products that customers want."
A flexible display could allow manufacturers to create cell phones, PDAs, or even laptops with larger displays without necessarily increasing the size of the devices themselves, since they could then be rolled or folded up and stuck into a pocket. The question will be whether these displays will be affordable to integrate into our everyday electronics once they begin to be mass-produced.


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Chiwetel Ejiofor was nominated for Best Actor Oscar today. Cate Blanchett was nominated for Best Actress Oscar today. Here they are, posing together, at the AACTA Awards on the weekend. Will they be doing the same on March 2nd with their trophies in hand?
Oh I hope so.
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Classes in the district are canceled only in case of emergency or extremely bad weather. Any decision to close schools in extremely bad weather will be announced using Pattonville's automated phone calling system. Announcements will also be made on local television stations, including:
- KTVI Channel 2
- KMOV Channel 4
- KSDK Channel 5
Announcements begin at approximately 5:30 a.m. School closings will also be announced on the district's website (www.psdr3.org) and on the following district social media accounts:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PSDR3
Twitter: @PattonvilleSD or http://twitter.com/PattonvilleSD
If you are a parents/guardian and did not receive a phone call on a day when school is closed due to weather, please contact your child's school office to ensure the district has the correct contact information on file for your family.
Other emergencies
Pattonville will use a number of ways to provide important information to Pattonville families about other emergencies or major school events. Depending on the situation, Pattonville may use e-mail, an automated telephone calling system, the district website, U.S. mail or the local media to keep families informed of important information. For this reason, it's important that all parents provide their school office with their most current phone numbers (home, work or cell phone). In addition, if parents wish to be notified via email of important information or updates, they should provide their email information to the school on the school enrollment forms. Pattonville will use the contact information it has on file in it's student information system when communicating with parents.