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The NNWP celebrates its Consultants who've created websites about teaching and writing:
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Our Northern Nevada resource website freely shares with the world! Here in Northern Nevada, our local writing project (the NNWP) will continue to sponsor this WritingFix website, which we launched back in 2001. In 2011, our tenth year, we faced massive budget cuts to our program, but we will keep the lessons, resources, and inservice ideas posted here over our ten years of growth. We inspired teachers locally and globally during our peak of popularity, and even though we are not growing like did during the heyday, we are here. On-line. And we are not going away.
If you navigate this website's menu bar (at left, in the light blue area), you will quickly discover pages dedicated to our local inservice classes and their instructors, as well as links to hundreds of complete writing lessons developed during local workshops we ran between 2001 and 2011. Our lessons include thousands of student samples submitted by teachers all over the world who--even though they're not from Northern Nevada--use our posted materials to inspire their students to write.
True enough, WritingFix was built specifically for Northern Nevada teachers, but the world has since discovered what excellent resources our NNWP is sharing here, and we welcome teachers and students from anywhere who are looking for inspiration.
We still meet a lot of teachers who simply do not enjoy teaching writing. WritingFix is about "fixing" all teachers' perception until they realize how important and how wonderful writing instruction can actually be when it's done well and for authentic, real-world reasons.
Please, enjoy and share the philosophies and materials we freely post for teachers all over the world at our website. If you're using any of our materials outside your classroom, be sure to visit our permissions page to be sure you are not violating our copyright, which is in place to protect our teacher contributors and our published students.
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Because of budget cuts, we have been downsizing WritingFix so that it can exist on a smaller server, but WritingFix's webmaster--Corbett Harrison--will keep this program going by posting new lessons based on these books at his own website. Click here to access not only this year's MTotY lessons but also all previous years' lessons. The books we have chosen for 2012-13 are The Boy Who Loved Words (by Roni Schotter) and Vocabulary Unplugged (by Alana MorrisFletcher). Our "Year of Vocabulary" will begin with the posting of September 2012's Writing Lesson of the Month. If you're not yet a member of our Ning, you can join now, and the lesson will be automatically e-mailed to you
With each of our monthly writing lessons posted at our Ning next school year, we will be featuring an idea or quote from one or both of these books.
We hope you'll join us as we continue year five of this program that began here at WritingFix thanks to the Northern Nevada Writing Project.
Holly passionately believes that every child has an inner mathematician and an inner writer inside them, and by publishing this book, she proved that to her students.
You can order Holly's picture book about math (as a book or as an eBook) and receive a 10% discount. Use this link to order, and after adding the book to your cart, enter this code--GL87R--in the coupon box, and update your order to receive the discount.
Our congratulations to Holly, who also coordinated NumberFix here at WritingFix, on her first publication.
Start Common Core Writing is a series of thirteen lessons aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Kindergarten and primary teachers will find these lessons to be user friendly, timeless and fun while meeting requirements for the three important genres in Common Core.
If you loved Jodie's best-selling NNWP guide Start to Write, you are going to need Start Common Core Writing. Visit her website to find out more—click on the link at the left!
We wish our friend Jodie--former Co-Director of the NNWP and National Board Certified teacher--all the luck in the world with her second guide on primary writing instruction!
With his lovely wife, Dena, Corbett is developing a new resource to enhance his first ten minutes of class every day--his students' Sacred Writing Time, a tradition he brought with him from the NNWP's Summer Institute. During SWT, students grab their writer's notebooks and develop a thought or idea for the first ten minutes of class. Using the writing of Ralph Fletcher, students learn to observe the world with a "writer's eyes" so that when Corbett and Dena give them ten minutes to write every day, they have something to write about. Corbett and Dena's Sacred Writing Time Inspirational PowerPoint slides (available for purchase on August 10 this summer) provide a daily prompt to write about for those students who forget to come to class with a solididea for writing. Each slide contains a holiay, a trivial fact, an inspirational quote, and a vocabulary word. Corbett & Dena and developing a daily slide for every school day of the year, from August 15 to June 15. You can access the first seventeen slides in this project by clicking here.
With his fellow middle school (grades 6-8) colleague, Jenny Hoy, Corbett is developing a set of Writer's Notebook/Workshop Menus that provide an additional level of support for students using his Writer's Notebook Bingo Cards. These culturally-themed menus are designed to both spark creativity and to help students thoughtfully pre-write for expository, persuasive, and narrative rough drafts for upcoming writer's workshops. The entire set will be available on August 10, but you can sneak-peek the Italian Menu by clicking here.
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A Mentor Text --here is the definition from Corbett Harrison (one of the NNWP's very own consultants with his own website for teachers!)-- is a published piece of writing whose idea, whose structure, or whose written craft can be used to inspire a student to write something original.
Quite a few of our Northern Nevada teacher workshops focus on lesson design around a specific type of mentor text. Using the lessons posted at WritingFix, it is very easy for us to design an entire inservice workshop where teachers study a number of really good mentor text-inspired writing lessons, then work together to create original lessons around mentor texts from their own classroom bookshelves.
Finding these lessons: With the light-blue menu bar found in the upper left-hand corner of all WritingFix pages, if you hover over "Mentor Text Lessons," you will discover a drop-down menu of the types of mentor texts we've designed workshops around in Northern Nevada.
Comparatively to other regions, Northern Nevada teachers have had a fairly long and generally positive relationship with the writing traits. Since 1980, our NNWP has been offering regular and interactive workshops on the six traits of writing, so when traits became the language of our state writing assessment rubrics a little while back, we took the news better than many states who'd had a different history.
Just about every inservice class currently offered by the NNWP makes some reference to the writing traits. Because it can be such a foundational topic in improving writing instruction, we do offer certain workshops that are very trait focused.
Finding these resources: In the light-blue menu bar found in the upper left-hand corner of all WritingFix pages, if you hover over "The 6 Writing Traits," you will discover a drop-down menu of trait-focused materials we use in our workshops.
Good writing can achieve many different purposes. Our students need exposure to exciting lessons that will help them learn about each genre of writing and apply their new knowledge with original writing that feels important or valuable to them.
Every school year, the NNWP offers local inservice classes that help teacher participants make new connections about the genres of writing. Participants analyze lessons about genre, then they collaborate to create original lessons for their classrooms. At WritingFix, we've developed resource pages to go with each genre of writing. These pages contain lessons and mentor text suggestions specific to the genre. If you can't attend our face-to-face version of the class, these pages offer you an opportunity to analyze the same lessons we use during our classtime.
Finding these resources: On the blue menu bar found in the upper left-hand corner of all WritingFix pages, hover over "Writing Genres" and select one of the genres/modes that interests you.
Writing is not a skill, tool, or curriculum that belongs to the Language Arts teachers. It should not be something that exclusively happens during literacy block. Any teacher, no matter what the content of a lesson, can challenge deeper student thinking by requiring students to write before, during, and/or after the learning occurs.
But you can't simply assign writing to your students and expect your lesson to become better. As part of your lesson, you must teach writing --the skills, the process, and/or the qualities--if your goal is to deepen students' thinking. Our inservice classes on Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) help teachers find ways to teach writing with more content than they currently are. Most of the WAC workshops we offer have a companion page here at WritingFix.
Finding these resources: In the light-blue menu bar found in the upper left-hand corner of all WritingFix pages, if you hover over "Across the Curriculum," you will see our WAC topics, including links to our "sister sites," HistoryFix, NumberFix, and ScienceFix.
We're constantly growing at WritingFix, adding dozens of new lessons, resources, and student samples each semester. If you'd like to know when something new is added to our website, stay in touch with us using one of the following:
Follow WritingFix on Twitter and you'll know when new resources are posted. Click here.
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If you begin your next Amazon shopping trip using this link, WritingFix gets a small percentage from the sale. You don't even have to purchase the item at the link; just use the link as your starting point when filling a shopping cart.
The Northern Nevada Writing Project charges no one to use this website. They never have, never will. At NNWP, we believe lesson and resource exchange is what teachers everywhere should be doing as part of their professional duties.
It costs us to keep this website going. So...If you appreciate these online resources, we do ask that consider visiting the NNWP's Publications Page and purchasing one of their print guides. The proceeds from the sales of their guides fund all growth at the WritingFix website.
Below are our two most popular guides...well worth the investment! Tell Judy you use the WritingFix website if you call to place an order. She loves to hear about it!
Six by Six: thirty-six trait lessons for the primary classroom
Going Deep with 6 Trait Language: a guide for teachers
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In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for making preschool available to every 4-year-old in America, opening a welcome discussion on whether and how to make the investments needed to realize this vision.
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School superintendents across the nation are bracing for the deep cuts of sequestration, the federal policy consequence for continued Congressional inaction. In a report released today by the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), hundreds of districts across the nation provided details describing what the cuts would look like in their district, reporting jobs cut, programs eliminated, and other negative impacts.
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Worry is a failure to understand God's priority, [Luke 12] verses 22 and 23. "He said to His disciples, 'For this reason I say to you, do not be anxious for your life as to what you shall eat nor for your body as to what you shall put on, for life is more than food and the body more than clothing.'"
Now here's the point: God didn't create you just to survive. God didn't create you just to have you eat and wear clothes so that you can make it. God did not create you to fulfill some physical goal, or objective, or purpose or design.
Your life is far more than eating. Your life is far more than clothing. You must understand the divine priority…if you belong to God and you are in His Kingdom, He has a plan and a purpose for your life. That's the reason you live. And as long as God has a plan for your life, He will feed you and clothe you until the plan is complete. So what is there to worry about?
There is really no place for worry and no place for fear, and no place for anxiety if you understand that the priority with God is far more than just surviving, it's far more than making it through the winter, it's far more than getting at least one or two meals a day, far more than that.
God's purpose in giving you life, God's purpose in giving you a body is not material, it's not physical, and it's not earthly, it is immaterial, spiritual and heavenly. We were made for His glory.
We were made to serve His glory, to serve His purpose, to honor Him, to bring attention to Him, to proclaim the gospel, to live out Christ and the power of the Spirit in the world. And as long as that's the divine priority…for us, He will sustain us to the end of His purpose.
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Jury Seated in Cooperstown Murder TrialCOOPERSTOWN, N.D. – A jury was sworn in at 1:30 p.m. in the murder trial of a Cooperstown man accused of shooting and then beheading a North Dakota State University researcher.
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COOPERSTOWN, N.D. – A jury was sworn in at 1:30 p.m. in the murder trial of a Cooperstown man accused of shooting and then beheading a North Dakota State University researcher.
In jury selection that began Monday morning, a pool of 90 candidates was whittled to a panel of eight men, and six women in the Griggs County District Court trial for 31-year-old Daniel Evan Wacht.
Opening arguments were set to begin about 2 p.m.
Wacht, accused of murdering Kurt Johnson sometime between Dec. 31, 2010, and Jan. 5., 2011, was dressed in a red button-up shirt with thin white stripes, black slacks and wearing thin black-rimmed rectangular glasses.
He faces up to life in prison without parole if convicted of killing Johnson, a Cooperstown-based NDSU researcher last seen alive leaving the Oasis Bar with Wacht on New Year's Eve in 2010.
Wacht has admitted giving the 54-year-old Johnson a ride that night but denies killing him.
Johnson's head was found in the basement of Wacht's rental home with what appeared to be a bullet hole in the forehead, court documents state. Johnson's body has not been recovered.
Security is extremely tight at the courthouse, with extra guards from neighboring counties and the North Dakota Highway Patrol stationed inside and outside the courtroom. A sheriff's deputy was ink-stamping the hands of visitors after they passed through the metal detector set up at the only working entrance to the 129-year-old Griggs County Courthouse, which Sheriff Robert Hook said hasn't hosted a murder trial since 1929.
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Fish Fry events
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Cecil Township will hold its annual fish fry 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Ash Wednesday, Feb. 13, and each Friday during lent including Good Friday.
Eat-in or take out. The menu features breaded cod, baked cod, salmon, Maine lobster rolls, crab cakes, scallops, shrimp, and cabbage and noodles.
Call 412-221-9771 event days or 412-221-1560 non-event days.
St. Patrick Church, Canonsburg, lunch 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Fridays in lent, except Good Friday. The menu includes fish sandwich, mac & cheese, stewed tomatoes, fries. Dinner 4-7 p.m. includes fish dinner (broiled or fried), shrimp, Lenten soups, fries, mac & cheese, stewed tomatoes, cole slaw, dessert.
Call 724-745-6560 or fax order to 724-746-1112.
VFW Post 764, McMurray, 11:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Fridays in Lent. Fish, mac & cheese, haluski, shrimp, clam chowder, crab cakes and oysters.
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Trax Farms, Finleyville, features fish sandwiches and dinners until 5 p.m. on Fridays in Lent. Sides include mac & cheese or haluski.
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Ancient Order of Hibernians Division 32 will hold its annual fish fry 4-7:30 p.m. Feb. 15, 22, March 1, 8, 15 and 22 at the Ukrainian-American Citizens Club in Carnegie. New this year is baked cod and potatoes. Irish potato nachos, shrimp bisque, fish sandwiches, fries, mac & cheese and haluska also will be featured.
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True Vine Anglican Church, 700 East Main Street, Monongahela, will hold its fish fry from 11:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. beginning Ash Wednesday, Feb. 13, and continuing every Friday during Lent.
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Why can it be difficult to diagnose appendicitis?
It can be difficult to diagnose appendicitis. The position of the appendix in the abdomen may vary. Most of the time the appendix is in the right lower abdomen, but the appendix, like other parts of the intestine, has a mesentery. This mesentery is a sheet-like membrane that attaches the appendix to other structures within the abdomen. If the mesentery is large, it allows the appendix to move around. In addition, the appendix may be longer than normal. The combination of a large mesentery and a long appendix allows the appendix to dip down into the pelvis (among the pelvic organs in women). It also may allow the appendix to move behind the colon (called a retro-colic appendix). In either case, inflammation of the appendix may appear to be more like the inflammation of other organs, for example, a woman's pelvic organs.
The diagnosis of appendicitis also can be difficult because other inflammatory problems may mimic appendicitis. Therefore, it is common to observe patients with suspected appendicitis for a period of time to see if the problem will resolve on its own or develop characteristics that more strongly suggest appendicitis or, perhaps, another condition.
What other conditions can mimic appendicitis?
The surgeon faced with a patient suspected of having appendicitis always must consider and look for other conditions that can mimic appendicitis. Among the conditions that mimic appendicitis are:
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Stocks turned negative after trading within a tight range for most of the session Wednesday as continued uncertainties with the global economy weighed on investors.
TheDow Jones Industrial Average fell slightly led by Home Depot and Bank of America . Merck and Travelersrose.
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were up slightly. The CBOE Volatility Index, widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, fell to just above 22, after reaching a one-and-a-half month high on Tuesday.
Among key S&P sectors consumer discretionary, energy and materials gained, while financials and telecom fell.
Trading on Wednesday was lackluster after the previous session's selloffas investors awaited more information out of Europe and more clarity on the future direction of U.S. tax and regulatory policy out of Washington.
The European Commission, International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank were sending a team to Ireland Thursday to determine what Ireland would need if were to seek help. The euro rose from a seven-week lowagainst the dollar.
European shares finished higher after declines in the previous session, but concerns over the Irish debt crisis were lingering. Meanwhile, the European Union will deliver its next aid package for Greece on time, said European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn. Austrian Finance Minister Josef Proell had said earlier the aid wouldn't be released until January.
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On Friday Night the Free 3 unit NCAAB Play is on Loyola Md. Game 823 at 7;00 eastern. We cashed big with Loyola earlier in the week and we will back them again here tonight as we note that they have covered 10 of the last 12 in the series with Manhattan and are a solid 28-10 vs losing teams. When they play teams that struggle to score and average 64 or less points per game they are 21-5 straight up, including a perfect 8-0 this season. When installed as a road favorite of 3 or less Loyola has won and covered 8 of 12 times. They have played well the past few years in January winning 19 of the last 24. Manhattan has lost 9 of 10 as a dog this season and have been mediocre as a home dog of 3 or less going 4-9 straight up to and to the spread. When playing winning teams they have dropped 6 of the last 7. Look for Loyola to win and cover. On Friday we have 3 Perfect NBA Power system plays up that all date to 1995. One is a blowout, the other a dog and road warrior sides. They are all very solid and may very well sweep here tonight. NCAAB Sweeps on Thursday. Jump on and start the weekend Big. For the free play take Loyola Md. GC


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U.S. lawmakers have received the first post-election briefings on the deadly September attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Senators are not revealing specific information provided to them by administration officials at the closed-door encounters, but several Republicans say they are far from satisfied with what they have learned so far.
On Congress's first day of work since the elections, State Department and intelligence officials provided classified briefings to members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Emerging from the Foreign Relations Committee briefing, Republican Senator James Risch of Idaho said he wants to know more about the Benghazi attack and the Obama administration's actions before and after the incident.
"There are still questions. We are hearing explanations. But there are a lot of us that want clearer explanations than what we are getting," Rish said.
Lawmakers are duty-bound not to divulge details from classified briefings, and Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois honored that tradition. But he did speak in general terms about what he learned about the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
"We just went through a detailed chronology in terms of what happened on September 11. And there were some genuine acts of heroism that were performed there by Americans trying to save those who were in danger and lost their lives," Durbin said.
Lawmakers are being given access to intelligence reports and classified communications pertaining to events in Libya. National Intelligence Director James Clapper and acting Central Intelligence Agency Director Michael Morell are expected to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee later this week.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida says another top official should testify: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
"I think, ultimately, we need to hear from Secretary Clinton. I am sure she is willing to come in and talk about it. I know she is traveling, but hopefully she will be back soon and we can get some answers from her," Rubio said.
Rubio said he wants to know more about security assessments at the consulate prior to the attack, and why some administration officials insisted in the days after September 11 that available information pointed to a spontaneous demonstration rather than a pre-planned assault.
"I do not think there is any reasonable doubt now that this was not a protest gone violent. This was an attack," said Rubio.
Senator Durbin said there is a reason it has taken weeks for the Obama administration to collect and provide information about the incident.
"It was a chaotic situation [in Benghazi], and it sprung up in a matter of hours. And there was a limited access to even videotapes [of the attack] afterwards. And we are trying to put it all together. But it was a chaotic scene, and we were not able to have people on the ground to inspect that scene for a long period of time," Durbin said.
Complicating matters further is the sudden resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus. Several senators say that if Petraeus has information to share about events in Benghazi, he should testify on Capitol Hill.
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Public Meeting. Meeting for Software Developers on the Common Formats for Patient Safety Data Collection and Event Reporting. April 25, 2014. Rockville, MD. Convened by AHRQ, this meeting is designed as an interactive forum where Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs – formed under the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act) and software developers can provide input on the formats. AHRQ especially requests participation by and input from those entities which have used AHRQ's technical specifications and implemented, or plan to implement, the formats electronically. (Federal Register)
Last year the National Cancer Institute announced the launch of an initiative meant to examine failed clinical trials in search of "exceptional responders": patients who responded well to drugs that the bulk of the trial population didn't.
Now, after sifting through 10 years' worth of clinical trials, NCI's Cancer Diagnosis Program has identified about 100 of these unique patients so far, according to Bloomberg.
Stem-cell researchers at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been left frustrated and confused following the demise of the agency's Center for Regenerative Medicine (CRM). The intramural programme's founding director, stem-cell biologist Mahendra Rao, left the NIH, in Bethesda, Maryland, on 28 March and will join the not-for-profit New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute. The centre's website was taken down on 4 April.
NIH officials say that they are rethinking how they will conduct in-house stem-cell research. James Anderson, director of the NIH's Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, which administered the CRM, says that the CRM will not continue in its current form. "The field is moving so fast that we need to rethink." To that end, the NIH plans to hold a workshop in May to gather stem-cell researchers together and decide what to do with the programme and its remaining budget.
In a joint letter sent April 3rd to the European Commission and the Office of the US Trade Representative, the Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA) and European Generic medicines Association (EGA) recommended that Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiators pursue a strategy of regulatory convergence. The letter focuses on specific ways that trade agreements can remove duplicative processes.
NCPDP (National Council for Prescription Drug Programs), the not‐for‐profit pharmacy standards development organization, announced today the availability of a patient safety white paper that provides specific industry guidance for standardizing the dosing designations and labeling of oral liquid medications. The white paper details patient risks associated with the variety of oral liquid dosing designations, prescribing practices and processing systems which can lead to dispensing and later administration errors that can harm patients ‐ especially pediatric patients who are often prescribed liquid medications.
The 2013 guidelines of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC–AHA) for the treatment of cholesterol expand the indications for statin therapy for the prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys of 2005 to 2010, we estimated the number, and summarized the risk-factor profile, of persons for whom statin therapy would be recommended (i.e., eligible persons) under the new ACC–AHA guidelines, as compared with the guidelines of the Third Adult Treatment Panel (ATP III) of the National Cholesterol Education Program, and extrapolated the results to a population of 115.4 million U.S. adults between the ages of 40 and 75 years.
In the course of one short week, no less than 3 different models have emerged for sharing big data in the pharmaceutical industry.
The highest profile of these ‒ called Project Data Sphere ‒ was announced earlier today with the official opening of an online resource to share clinical trial data for use in cancer research. The number of available data sets available today is fairly small (9), but the list of companies committed to providing data is impressive and includes AstraZeneca, Bayer, Celgene, Janssen Research and Development, Pfizer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Sanofi U.S. The primary objective is to accelerate drug discovery and development. (See information at BioCentury also.)
The second model was voted on last week by the European Parliament in the form of legislation that is likely to take effect by 2016. The overwhelmingly positive vote (547 to 17) is also aimed at clinical trial data transparency, but only targets new trials after the law takes effect.
The call has been made—loud and clear: payers want more comparative evidence research (CER) for coverage decision making. However, the primary source for common research results—the biopharmaceutical industry—has been highly scrutinized by payers as a suitable source. Since it is unlikely that payers themselves will fund large-scale CER research, what can manufacturers do to make their research studies more palatable to payers? Katya Svoboda, MBA, MPH, Partner, Percipient LLC, Somerville, New Jersey, and Nathan White, CPC, director, NucleusX Market Access, Atlanta, Georgia, conducted a survey-based investigation to find out.
Health Canada has released the "DRAFT Guidance for Industry - Submission of Risk Management Plans and Follow-up Commitments" and will accept comments until May 26, 2014.
Health Canada has begun posting summaries of drug safety reviews on its website with the goal of better informing the public about potential harms associated with certain medications. Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose announced the program -- part of the "regulatory transparency and openness framework and action plan" -- Tuesday (4/8) in Ottawa.
"With this initiative, Canada is now a world leader in the posting of drug-safety reviews and post-market access to this information," Ambrose said.
The World Health Organization is still discussing several different options on how to name biosimilars, according to the recently published executive summary of its 57th Consultation on International Nonproprietary Names (INNs) for Pharmaceutical Substances.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) will launch a final round of targeted consultations with key stakeholders on its draft policy on proactive publication of and access to clinical-trial data at the beginning of May. This will give key stakeholders and the Agency the opportunity to address any outstanding issues before the final policy is presented to the EMA's Management Board for endorsement in June 2014.
The European Commission has adopted a delegated act specifying the situations where a post-authorisation efficacy study can be required by medicines regulatory authorities. The act was published on 10 April 2014 in the Official Journal of the European Union (EU) and will enter into force on 30 April 2014.
The aim is to enable regulators to request such studies when there are important questions about the efficacy of the medicine that can only be answered once the product is in general use, or when questions arise in the post-authorisation period.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is inviting expressions of interest in attending its workshop on the clinical investigation of new medicines for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease on 24-25 November 2014.
The Agency is organising this workshop following the public-consultation exercise on its concept paper on the need for revision of the guideline on medicinal products for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. The concept paper was released for public consultation from October 2013 to January 2014. Based on the comments received, the Agency is currently revising the guideline and expects to release a first draft for public consultation within the next few months.
France is going out on a limb with a plan to push the use of cheap copies of biotech drugs, triggering alarm among companies in Europe's second-biggest pharmaceutical market behind Germany.
The government quietly introduced the measure allowing pharmacists to substitute prescribed brand-name biotech drugs with cheaper, similar versions in its 2014 healthcare budget.
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives a bill that would create a mandatory trust fund for biomedical research to increase funding for NIH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Defense Health Program (DHP) and the medical and prosthetics research program at the Department of Veteran Affairs. The bill would set fiscal year funding for these agencies and programs at 105% over the prior fiscal year, with an adjustment for GDP-indexed inflation. The bill, H.R. 4384, was referred to four house committees.
With prescription drug overdose death rates in the United States more than tripling since 1990 and prescription opioid abuse an ever-growing problem, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN) today announced the establishment of the HELP Committee Prescription Drug Abuse Working Group.
The bipartisan staff Working Group will examine the characteristics and challenges of prescription drug abuse; what the federal government, state governments, public health groups, health care providers, law enforcement, and others are doing to address it; and consider ways to further address the issue. Harkin and Alexander have invited all members of the HELP Committee to join and contribute to the Working Group.


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Xilinx Uses the Precision Synthesis Tool from Mentor Graphics in its Advanced FPGA Design Training Courses
WILSONVILLE, Ore., April 4, 2005 -Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that its Precision{reg} Synthesis tool will be integrated into two Xilinx Education Services courses for complex FPGA designs. Xilinx selected the Precision Synthesis tool because the synthesis flow from Mentor Graphics is already tightly integrated into the Xilinx ISE design environment. Precision Synthesis also has the functionality and capabilities needed to explain the complex FPGA design concepts presented at these advanced classes. Expected customer demand, plus the Precision Synthesis tool's ability to provide high quality of results in terms of maximum frequency and area, was motivation to include the tool in the company's advanced FPGA design training classes.
Both of the training courses, entitled Designing for Performance and the Advanced FPGA Implementation, focus on advanced FPGA techniques for challenging design situations. The first class teaches students how to fit their designs into smaller FPGAs or lower speed grades, thus helping them create more efficient designs and reducing their overall system cost. Topics in the second class include ways to manually place logic, as well as creating and editing timing constraints, among others. Students also learn how to take advantage of the clock resources of the Virtex and Spartan families of devices, with their efficient clocking schemes.
"Our classes add tremendous value, since they typically include training on tools that the students regularly use for their high-end designs," said Patrice Anderson, worldwide manager of customer education at Xilinx. "We found this to be the case with Precision Synthesis."
"Advanced classes are becoming mandatory for today's FPGA designers as device sizes and complexities reach ASIC-like levels. While a pushbutton approach may work in some cases, optimizing larger FPGAs to meet design specifications with predictable schedules increasingly calls for innovative techniques and productive flows," said Simon Bloch, general manager of the Design Creation and Synthesis Division at Mentor Graphics. "Mentor Graphics will continue to work with Xilinx to help our mutual customers leverage the advanced capabilities of our tools and fully benefit from the power and flexibility of today's high-end FPGAs."
The Precision Synthesis tool is optimized to quickly and easily deliver superior synthesis results. Tightly integrating both logical (Precision RTL™) and physical (Precision Physical™) optimization techniques, Precision Synthesis empowers customers to start designs right, improve designs quickly, and efficiently meet project requirements. It allows users to cross-probe between multiple views, providing added control during design analysis. By using advanced physical techniques, design iterations and place-and-route runs can be shortened or in some cases eliminated, streamlining the development of next-generation FPGA-based system designs. With intuitive design project management and full-featured incremental timing analysis, the Precision Synthesis tool enables companies to solve next-generation FPGA implementation and timing challenges, resulting in shorter design cycles, improved competitiveness and significantly higher performance. For more details please visit: www.mentor.com/products/fpga_pld/synthesis/
The Precision Synthesis tool is the third Mentor Graphics{reg} tool used by Xilinx in its classes. The other advanced tools include the HyperLynx{reg} tool, for signal integrity issues, and the ModelSim{reg} tool, for simulation and verification, both of which are already actively used in Xilinx training classes. The advanced Xilinx FPGA classes start in April 2005. To learn more about Xilinx training courses, class schedules and enrollment, go to: www.xilinx.com/support/services/education.htm
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of over $700 million and employs approximately 3,850 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777; Silicon Valley headquarters are located at 1001 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, California 95131-2314. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/
Editor's Note: The Xilinx name and logo are trademarks of Xilinx Inc. Mentor Graphics, Precision, HyperLynx and ModelSim are registered trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners.
For more information, please contact:
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Ry Schwark
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FPGA Press Releases
- Mentor Graphics Announces Logic and Physical Synthesis Support for Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs (Mar 8, 2011)
- Mentor Graphics DO-254 Platform Adopted by the Civil Aviation University of China (CAUC) (Sep 13, 2010)
- Mentor Graphics Announces New FPGA Synthesis Innovation in Precision Synthesis 2010a Release (May 20, 2010)
- Mentor Graphics Extends DO-254 Platform Offering with Enhanced HDL Coding Standards (Apr 13, 2010)
- Mentor Graphics ReqTracer Automates Requirements Tracking and Reporting for Broad Range of Electronic Design Projects (Apr 5, 2010)
- The MathWorks and Mentor Graphics Outline Joint Workflow for Model-based Design (Mar 23, 2010)
- Mentor Graphics and Aeroconseil Partner to Support DO-254 in China (Oct 15, 2009)
- Mentor Graphics Launches Precise-IP Vendor-independent IP Platform for FPGA Design (Sep 3, 2009)
- Mentor Graphics Announces Logic and Physical Synthesis Support for Xilinx Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs (Jun 24, 2009)
- Mentor Graphics Precision Synthesis Tool Family Supports Altera's Stratix IV GT and Arria II GX FPGA Devices (Mar 9, 2009)


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The rent goes up every time we move, especially when our new landlord discovers our four children crammed into the small two-bedroom apartment. My family is starting to feel like a traveling circus. Why do we move so much? Every time the landlord tries to raise the rent (about every six months when they find our four additional little occupants) my husband refuses to renew the lease so off we go again. I'm exhausted!
Annie, how can we repair our credit and qualify for our first home loan?
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Dear Bob and Amanda: I hear your frustration and your exhaustion, loud and clear. You are so right about wanting to own rather than rent, especially in this buyer's market. With low home prices and low interest rates, your mortgage payment will likely be much more affordable than what you're used to now. You will enjoy many tax-deductible write-offs, too.
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1. Stop using your credit cards. This is the most common road to high debt and high debt-to-income ratio. Look at it this way: Do you really want to spend the next 10 years paying interest on a long forgotten dinner at your favorite restaurant? Unlike spending real cash, when you charge something, it doesn't seem like spending real money. Well, guess what? It is real money and it sounds like you have the credit report to prove it.
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You can do this. You've already taken the first step by asking for help. It will happen more quickly than you think. Picture it: no more traveling circus. Home sweet home.
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Also, I think I see a table saw in my future. All of the cuts here were made with a handheld circular saw or a hand skill saw, and it shows. (and it makes me sad). But hey, this small one was more meant for fun and learning!
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Marvel at the true icons of Rome, including the Vatican Museums, Saint Peter's Basilica, Colosseum and the pope's summer residence, often enjoying private access to areas off limits to the public.
Upon disembarkation you will be picked up at the cruise port and transferred to the Hotel Boscolo Exedra. Check in is at 2PM, and the rest of the day is yours to settle in at your leisure.
The hotel enjoys a prime location in Rome's celebrated Piazza della Repubblica, providing easy access to an abundance of shops and restaurants.
Due to hotel unavailability, guests booking this program for the following sailing date will stay at the Grand Hotel Plaza located in Via del Corso instead of the Hotel Boscolo Exedra:
Mariner – April 17th, 2014 sailing
Due to hotel unavailability, guests booking this program for the following sailing date will stay at the Hotel Majestic located in Via Veneto instead of the Hotel Boscolo Exedra:
Mariner – June 08, 2014 sailing
Following breakfast at the hotel, you will tour the Vatican Museums and Saint Peter's Basilica. The museums contain some of the world's greatest paintings and sculptures, including works by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Caravaggio. Besides seeing the most well-known exhibits, you will also visit areas usually closed to the general public, including the tomb of Pope Pius XII and the Niccoline Chapel, which features gold that Columbus brought from the New World.
Next, you will drive to the Piazza Navona, a lovely square constructed in the 15th century and lined with cafes and Baroque palaces. Following lunch at one of the restaurants, you will walk to San Crispino's near the famed Trevi Fountain for a cup of what is touted to be the best gelato in Rome.
Your afternoon is devoted to two more icons. First, you will be treated to an inside visit of the Colosseum, an enduring symbol of ancient Rome that once held 55,000 spectators. Afterwards, you will explore the treasures that lie beneath San Clemente Basilica, which include a 4th-century church, a 2nd-century pagan temple and a 1st-century house. The farther down you go, the more ancient the structures, until you reach the foundations which date from the Roman Republic.
In time, you will return to the Hotel Boscolo Exedra for dinner on your own and to spend another relaxing evening.
Following breakfast at the hotel, you will drive southeast from Rome toward Lake Albano, where you will find Castel Gandolfo, the pope's summer residence. During your tour of the castle, you will be granted privileged access to the Vatican Observatory, one of the world's oldest active astronomical observatories and laboratory.
Around midday, you will drive to a nearby farmhouse for a hearty lunch and an olive oil tasting. You will also learn also how to make pasta at the farmhouse. Afterwards, you will return to the hotel and enjoy an afternoon at your leisure.
The evening ends in style with a special Roman farewell dinner served at an extraordinary restaurant in the Via Veneto area near the hotel.
After breakfast and check out you will be transferred to the Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport based on your flight departure time.
Land Program Step by Step: The order of sites visited may vary to avoid congestion. The timings indicated are approximate. They are given here only for general reference purposes and are subject to change.
10:00am Disembark the ship and transfer to your hotel in Rome
Check in time is 2.00pm. Although every effort will be made to have rooms available sooner, this cannot be guaranteed.
Meals are at your leisure
Overnight at the Hotel Boscolo Exedra or similar hotel
From 7:00am Breakfast
8:30am Begin your tour of The Vatican Museums and St. Peter's Basilica
1:30pm Lunch in Piazza Navona
2:30pm Walk to Trevi Fountain and taste the most famous ice cream in Rome, at San Crispino's.
3:30pm Drive to Colosseum
4.00pm Inside visit of the Colosseum
5:00pm Walk to San Clemente Basilica
5:30pm Visit of San Clemente undergrounds.
6:15pm Drive back to your hotel.
Dinner at leisure
8:00am Drive to Castel Gandolfo
10:30am Visit the Vatican Observatory and laboratory
11:30am Walk around Castel Gandolfo
12:00pm Drive to the Farmhouse
12:30pm Lunch in the Farmhouse and oil tasting.
3:30pm Drive back to your hotel
8:30pm Farewell Dinner
8:00am Breakfast
10:00am Check out
Transfer from hotel to the Fiumicino Airport based on your flight schedule.
*For guests with late flights, luggage storage will be available at the hotel.
EXTRA NIGHTS: Should you book any extra nights through the cruise line, you will be transferred to the airport per your departure flight details. Please note that check out time is 10:00am. Any meals other than breakfast as well as any activities are on your own after the program officially ends on the morning of Day 4.
Expected weather:
April — 68° Fahrenheit (20° Celsius)
May/June/September — 78° Fahrenheit (28° Celsius)
July/August — 86° Fahrenheit (30° Celsius)
November — 59° Fahrenheit (15° Celsius)
What to bring:
Dress is generally casual, although when visiting churches your knees and shoulders must be covered. Bring good walking shoes, a hat, weather-appropriate clothing, sunglasses and sunscreen.
Local currency:
The Euro is the local currency, but U.S. dollars and travelers checks are also accepted.
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Hotel address:
Hotel Boscolo Exedra
Piazza della Repubblica, 47 00185 Rome, Italy
Telephone: +39 06 489381
* If a hotel is substituted due to an unforeseen situation, it will be of equal ratings and standards.
Program includes:
• Standard room accommodations for three nights, including breakfasts
• Transfers
• Lunch on Day 2
• Lunch on Day 3
• Farewell dinner on Day 3
• A bottle of water during the tours on Days 2 and 3.
Please note: Guests booking their own flights (independent of the cruise line) are responsible for ensuring that the cruise line has the most current arrival information, so your transfer can be arranged; however, if you book additional hotel nights independently of the cruise line, a departure transfer is not provided.
Program excludes:
• Meals or services not mentioned above
• Gratuities to drivers and guides
• Hotel incidentals
Please note: Land programs that encompass multiple days ashore customarily include extensive and prolonged activity, while those of shorter durations typically have more moderate activity levels. However, each program varies and participants should be prepared to negotiate a mixture of surfaces, which may include inclines, cobblestones, sand, gravel or natural paths. There may also be a need to climb steps or stairs on occasion. Guests who utilize a wheelchair and those with mobility concerns are advised to check with the cruise line in advance to see if any portion of the tour program may not be considered suitable for their individual situation.
Price: $2,199.00 per guest based on double occupancy.
Price: $2,089.00 per guest based on double occupancy.
Free Land Programs and Land Programs from $499 is per person for guests 1 and 2 for one pre- or post-cruise program only.
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- " I loved that you have your own bathrome in the roome and that it was really clean. The location is great because you have only 3 min away tram, bus and subway and you can get really quick to the center. "
- 24 Oct 2013 Urša Slovenia
- " Great hostel for the money but not in the best location possible. The hostel itself is probably the best building in a run down area. The hostel itself is in very good condition and well worth the stay. Its very clean and well run. The receptionist is gorgeous as well, if youre wondering. "
- 07 Oct 2013 Shawn USA
- " it is a nice hostel ,the best one during my trip.it is not far away from the station ,and easy to find by GPS. the room is clean ,but the door of our bathroom is broken ,we can't close it.but other's are perfect i will choose it again if i stay in Wien. "
- 15 Sep 2013 Anonymous China
- " Very good and clean, excellent staff! but not well located, too far from the city center! "
- 02 Sep 2013 ESTEBAN Colombia
- " The acting of hostel's staff was awful, they totally ignore the price I booked and don't want to get the room for this price. Have more time I would find accommodation in another place. "
- 31 Aug 2013 Anonymous Czech Republic
- " very good new hostel,very clean,the best hostel i staid in europe...but..far from the center and 5 min walk to the metro station "
- 25 Aug 2013 Anonymous Romania
- " This place was like a hostel factory....super mechanical and rule-laden, but well run. My only complaint was the lack of a public kitchen. Also, they should have age limits on hostels....didnt they used to be YOUTH hostels? They put a super super creepy and god awful smelling old man in our room on our last night. It was disgusting. "
- 30 Jun 2013 Anonymous USA
- " This hostel was lacking a lot. The rooms were plain and the lockers required a 10 euro deposit to use the key. The internet was terrible and only worked in the common area which was usually overrun with big groups of young kids on school trips. Some of the staff was nice but others just seemed like every question you asked was a hassle. To use the refrigerator you had to ask the staff to unlock the door which always pissed them off. And the microwave was removed on my first night. Bad location "
- 19 Jun 2013 Anonymous USA
- " This was a good hostel. The rooms were very nice and the staff was friendly but it was quite impersonal. Wi-fi didn't work in the rooms, breakfast and parking were a bit expensive, but otherwise it was an enjoyable stay. "
- 06 Jun 2013 Gillian Canada
- " It has a good location near to the metro, and I like especially the cleanliness of Hostel A&T. And you can book a break-fast additionally which is very tasty. "
- 21 May 2013 Marleen Germany


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