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Show Me A Sign Thru eyes of uncertainty, I want to beleive that... God loves, me! My faith is broken. Doubt fills my mind... I pray if God hears me, He will show me a sign. I have drifted away... Into a sea of pain. Knowing not if I will return again. I have fallen off that special boat. Into the darkness all alone. When all I want is to find my way home. Into the heart from which I have strayed, Giving me strength to chase the doubt away. Bring me back into the fold. So I may speak your praises... As I grow old. by KarenJeanMarie
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Staring down death at the obit desk
Mount Vernon—Dale Edwards Irwin, 36, of Denver, Colo., formerly of Mount Vernon, Iowa, died Tuesday, May 22, 2007, in Montbello, Colo. Services: 1 p.m. Monday at First Presbyterian Church, Mount Vernon, with the Rev. Paul Mark Davids officiating. Burial: Mount Vernon Cemetery. Visitation: 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Morgan Funeral Home, Mechanicsville, Iowa. Survivors include his parents, Edward and Paige Eldridge of Mount Vernon, and two sisters, Allison Painter of Cedar Rapids and Wilma Eldridge of Iowa City.
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It's 11:00 p.m. in the newsroom of the regional newspaper where I work. I've been here since 5:00, collecting death notices, faxed, phoned, and e-mailed in, mainly from funeral homes, and entering them into the ancient computer system. The next day's paper was put to bed at 9:00, but I'm still awake, updating service notices and entering tomorrow's batch of obits.
The police scanner squeals and spits out a report of gunshots fired in the vicinity of Third Avenue—only a couple blocks away from our building. The late-shift newswriter—a dirty-blond twentysomething named Sam—moseys up to the main desk—my desk—where the scanner sits three feet away.
"What was that report?" he asks.
"Gunshots, Third Avenue," I tell him.
Even close to midnight, the newsroom is cacophonous. Someone has turned the police scanner all the way up because someone has turned the two televisions all the way up. Phones ring incessantly. The calls bounce from the empty desks of one editor to another until they finally forward through Sam's cell phone, which rings to the tune of Michael Jackson's "Beat It."
"You'd probably be able to hear the scanner if you put your phone on vibrate," I yell at him over the top of it all.
"Michael's the only thing that keeps me on point this late," he says. "Michael and cigarettes. Let's go."
I follow Sam out of the newsroom and down the stairwell to the loading dock. Though the butts have all been swept up, the concrete structure still reeks of them. I can't imagine what the newsroom must have smelled like in the '70s.
"Anything tonight?" Sam asks and passes me a Marlboro Light.
I take a drag of my cigarette and say, "Dale Irwin, 36, originally of Mount Vernon, jumped to his death from a hot air balloon outside of Denver."
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We are collecting the best ways to die. That sounds cynical, but it doesn't feel that way. No one wants to rot away from cancer or keel over from heart failure. Those benign-sounding sisters, brief illness and long illness, are the most perverse because of what they aren't saying, especially in this conservative corner of the Midwest. Drug addiction, mental illness, AIDS. We respect the death notices that tell the truth, even if we don't usually publish them.
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A month after reaching a legal settlement that cleared the way for the controversial $2 billion PortMiami expansion plan, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection has issued a permit that will allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to dredge and deepen in and around Government Cut by up to 50 feet.
The project will be put out for bids this summer, with construction expected to begin in early 2013.
Port expansion advocates argue the deeper depth will allow PortMiami to be more competitive by accommodating larger vessels that are expected to make use of the new and wider Panama Canal when that project is completed some time next year.
Dredgers will follow protocols set by the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, which means all hard coral colonies greater than 25 centimeters and up to 1,300 hard coral colonies between 10 and 25 centimeters will be relocated, 16.6 acres of new sea grass beds will be created, and more than nine acres of artificial reef will be built.
Last month, environmentalists who had spent two years arguing that blasting and digging in the port's main channel would leave Biscayne Bay scarred, agreed to drop an administrative challenge after Miami-Dade County said it would spend $2.3 million on restoration and to monitor the project.


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Your Oscars Cheat Sheet
Ace your betting pool with our handy guide to all the big races—film clips, major reviews, the odds from Vegas, and more. Then, share your winning ballot so you can rub it in later.
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Django has been unchained. The people have sung. Ben Affleck cut his Argo hair. The long slog to Oscar night ends on Sunday, culminating in one grand question: Who's going to win?
To help you size up the competition, we've compiled a cheat sheet to the big six categories. Here you'll find handy information about the other awards the nominees have racked up thus far—Golden Globes, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Directors Guild (DGA), and Critics Choice. Plus, video clips of key performances, reviews from the major critics, and the latest odds from the bookies in Vegas.
Take a look at The Daily Beast's exhaustive coverage of this year's Oscar contenders, and fill out your ballot in all of the 24 categories. Then, share it with friends through email, Facebook, or Twitter, or print it out to bring to your Oscar night viewing party. Finally, pour a glass of champagne and enjoy Hollywood's biggest night. Happy picking!
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Oscar Guests's Bizarre Swag Bag
Windex? Lint rollers? Maple syrup? Kevin Fallon peeks inside the curious gift bag going home with this year's Oscar nominees.
This year's Oscar losers shouldn't be too upset when Anne Hathaway and Daniel Day-Lewis waltz off with the coveted trophies. Turns out every one's a winner: They're all going home with copies of Leeza Gibbons's memoir.
Prop Oscars are seen backstage during rehearsals for the 85th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, on Feb. 20, 2013. The Academy Awards will be held Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. (Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)
Yes, the former talk show host and QVC maven's new book, Take 2: Your Guide to Happy Endings and New Beginnings, is among the increasingly strange contents that stock this year's Oscar swag bag.
Presumptuously titled the "Everyone Wins at the Oscars Nominee Gift Bag," the freebies going home with all of this year's nominees is valued at a whopping $45,000. Included are the glamorous luxuries one would presume Hollywood's A-list would covet: $10,000 trips to Australia, skincare products worth hundreds of dollars each, $625 private training sessions, and gourmet chocolates.
The Perfect Oscar Speech
Take note, Anne Hathaway! Lessons on delivering the most flawless acceptance speech from Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, George Clooney, and other stars.
If you win an Academy Award, for the love of Meryl Streep, cry. And be witty. And thank your mom. And bow down to lord and savior Harvey Weinstein. But please just remember to cry.
Clockwise from top left: Gwyneth Paltrow, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, and Halle Berry. (Getty (4))
By this point, at the tail end of the seemingly interminable awards season, the likes of Anne Hathaway, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Ben Affleck have likely logged hours each giving acceptance speeches as they steamrolled the precursor awards shows. Jennifer Lawrence has charmed America on a handful of occasions with her thank-yous. But has anyone thus far given a truly great acceptance speech?
As the stars prepare for Oscars Sunday, we've perused the greatest hits
of Oscar speeches past and come up with this, an instructional video
for giving the Academy Award acceptance speech of viewers' dreams.
Who Will Win on Oscar Night?
Will 'Argo' win the Best Picture Oscar, or will 'Silver Linings Playbook' rally to take the night's top prize? And what about the other categories? Ramin Setoodeh and Marlow Stern make their picks, and break down what's in store for viewers at the Academy Awards, airing on ABC at 7 p.m. ET Sunday.
Best Picture
Ramin: This turned out to be such a hard year for predicting the Oscars! The winner was supposed to be Argo, until it was Silver Linings Playbook, until it was Les Miserables, until it was Zero Dark Thirty, until it was Lincoln. But after the guild awards were announced, the momentum swung back to Argo, which I am grateful for, because even if it's not the best movie of the year, it's one of the best, and so much better than the C-SPAN presentation that was Lincoln. If I could choose, I would have voted Les Miserables, the epic and excessive (in the best way) movie musical. I still remember the night in late November that we both saw it at Lincoln Center, and we thought it had the Best Picture Oscar in the bag. Oh well. We dreamed a dream. I'll still be cheering when Affleck takes the podium.
Who should win: Les Miserables
Who will win: Argo
Silver Linings Playbook's Genesis
Executive producer Michelle Raimo Kouyate and co-executive producer Renee Witt explain why they had to get the film made.
Stories about Little Movies That Could usually center on coincidences involving celebrities and financing—serendipitous, right-place, right time stuff. While our film couldn't have taken off—or gotten started—without Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, David O. Russell, Harvey Weinstein, or the late Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella, the real steam for its genesis came from long-gone, unfamous people in our own lives. People whose stories we could never forget, because they forever changed our own.
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Both of us had experienced the loneliness and frustration depicted in the film firsthand. Renee grew up the child of a paranoid schizophrenic, believing she had the world's only mentally-ill mom, feeling ashamed by it, and dreaming of her mom's silver lining. She optioned Silver Linings Playbook (the novel) during her very first week working at the Weinstein Company, with the hope it might help audiences see that mental illness is just that—an illness—comprising but one part of a person's whole, rather than defining them.
The Silver Linings Playbook novel hit Michelle like "a ton of bricks thrown at [her] chest." Five years earlier, her husband had died at the age of 33, and like Tiffany, Jennifer Lawrence's character in the movie, Michelle couldn't seem to identify herself as anything but her dead husband's wife. She was crippled by severe survivor's guilt, stuck in a pitch-black mindset with no idea of how to find her way out. By the time she came across the novel, Michelle had found her silver lining in the form of other people—her family, her friends, her community, her therapist, and most importantly, her now-husband and son—and she wanted other struggling people to see that this sort of transformation was possible. The characters in Silver Linings Playbook proved it.
No Country for Old People
The Oscar-nominated documentary, set to air on HBO on March 11, captures the fears of the residents of a Florida retirement community. A psychiatrist for the elderly says it should be required viewing for anyone who cares for the aged.
I just finished proctoring the geriatric psychiatry station of the comprehensive examination that second-year students take at the Harvard Medical School. Serendipitously, I also viewed Sari Gilman's Academy Award–nominated Kings Point, a 30-minute documentary covering 10 years in the life of an age-restricted community in Florida, that's set to premiere on HBO on March 11. While the doctors-to-be all did well in interviewing and diagnosing a "standardized" geriatric patient, it occurred to me how their interactions could have been enhanced by viewing Gilman's film.
Kings Point takes the viewer into the lives of five aging-in-place residents who are extremely insightful into their own circumstance. They accept with equanimity the true horror of aging alone, sundered from family and community. They all bought the Florida dream and left New York City for what they believed to be the Promised Land. The promise of home ownership, eternal sunshine, and companionship with like-minded people lured them into a desperate trap. For as they aged and developed infirmities, as their spouses died off, they were left alone and frightened. As one of the elders noted, "Nobody gets too close here; they are afraid." And Kings Point elucidates these fears all too clearly and poignantly. They desire connection but are so afraid of loss that they shy away from closeness and commitment, two essential aspects of our human nature.
The result is isolation and a focus on simple self-preservation. As Gert, one of the elders, notes, "I'm taking care of myself." The cinematographers—Daniel Gold, Gabriel Miller, and Toby Oppenheimer—manage to capture both the surface beauty of the setting with its pink houses, lush lawns, bubbling brooks, and tall palm trees and contrast it with a glimpse into the residents' sense of living in a prison they cannot escape from. Filming through windows with protective bars on them, down long, empty, and sterile corridors—all reinforce the loneliness and despair of the individuals living there.
Oscar's 85-Year-Old Darling
Her startling turn in Michael Haneke's end-of-life drama has made the French screen icon the dark horse for Best Actress. She talks about her very long road to the Academy Awards.
She's a sleeper star on a breathtaking hot streak. And on February 24, Emmanuelle Riva, Oscar's oldest Best Actress nominee ever, will celebrate her 86th birthday on the red carpet in Hollywood. Yet another dance with serendipity—and, perhaps, a handsome gold statuette—for the French actress, who has collected a mantelpiece worth of hardware for her masterful turn in Austrian director Michael Haneke's staggering Amour.
Emmanuelle Riva in 'Amour,' (Sony)
The French-language end-of-life drama stars Riva and fellow French screen legend Jean-Louis Trintignant as Anne and Georges, retired Parisian music teachers in their 80s struggling with Anne's sudden spiral into paralysis and dementia. It is the story of love at its zenith, without glamour; pure, intimate, spare, sans melodrama. The couple's daughter, Eva (Isabelle Huppert), a musician in London, provides stark contrast, effusively anguished on her whirlwind visits. When Eva sheds the film's only tears, they seem an indulgence, out of step. "Your concern serves no purpose to me," Georges, caregiver for her mother, tells Eva. The film has been called Haneke's warmest and most humane. Although, for the man who brought us The Piano Teacher, Funny Games, and The White Ribbon, that alone doesn't say much.
"The title is Amour [Love]. It is nothing else. And it's true that that is an extremely appropriate title," Riva tells The Daily Beast, speaking in French from her home in Paris.
Who Will Win Best Director?
Most of the big Oscar races this year are predictable—except best director. With Ben Affleck out of the running, Ramin Setoodeh looks into who will take home the prize.
With only two weeks left until the Oscars—mark your calendars for Feb. 24—most of the winners are so locked up, this article doesn't need a spoiler warning. Argo will grab the Best Picture award. The acting trophies will go to Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook), Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln), and Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables). And the best-director statuette belongs to Ben Affleck.
Nominated directors (clockwise from top left) David O. Russell, Benh Zeitlin, Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, and Michael Haneke. (Getty)
Oh, wait. Even though Affleck won the Golden Globe, the Critics' Choice Award, and the Directors Guild Award for making Argo, he's not in the running for a directing Oscar. There are plenty of Internet conspiracy theories about his snub, but blame likely goes to the snooty auteurs who vote for the nominees in the category. They look down on actors who want to direct.
If Affleck were nominated, he'd surely win. But since he's been sidelined, the best-director Oscar race will be one of the few wild cards of the night. "I think it's between Ang Lee [Life of Pi], Steven Spielberg [Lincoln], and David O. Russell [Silver Linings Playbook]," says an Academy voter who would only speak anonymously about handicapping the Oscar race. The other nominees are the underdogs Michael Haneke (Amour) and Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild).
Oscar's Military Rape Documentary
'The Invisible War' casts a harsh light on the sexual-assault epidemic in the military. The film's director, Kirby Dick, on how it is changing the military and culture at large.
Much of the attention this Oscar season has gone to the rich and unpredictable Best Picture category, but the most interesting race may actually be happening down the ballot between a murderer's row of politically charged documentaries. Five Broken Cameras, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi's look at Palestinians coping with the arrival of militant Israeli settlers in their West Bank community, faces off with The Gatekeepers, Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky, and Estelle Fialon's unprecedented examination of Israeli security agency Shin Bet. David France's searing chronicle of AIDS activism, How to Survive a Plague, is in the mix, as is Kirby Dick's present-day cri de coeur against sexual assault in the military, The Invisible War. In this company, the much-loved music biopic Searching for Sugarman, a hit at last year's Sundance Film Festival is practically a ray of sunshine.
Jessica Hinves, of Hampton, Virginia, was enlisted in the U.S. Air Force from 2001 to 2011 as a senior airman working as a tactical aircraft maintainer. After reporting her rape, Jessica Hinves was diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder and discharged from the military. During the investigation into the assault, her perpetrator was awarded Airman of the Year. (The Invisible War)
"They're all excellent films," Dick said, considering the films that are going up against his searing condemnation of the sexual-assault epidemic in the military for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards on February 24. "It was an amazing year this year for documentaries. But this is the film that—if it does get an Academy Award—it will motivate Congress, it will motivate the [Defense Department], it will motivate the military to make even more changes. There will be a direct result from this winning the award and the reduction of rape. That will happen."
It's a bold claim for Dick to make. But he might actually have a point.
Oscar Nominees' Embarrassing Roles
Their performances have been lauded as this year's best, but some of the 2013 Oscar nominees have a few silly skeletons in their closets. From Anne Hathaway's ghetto-fabulous rich girl to Jennifer Lawrence's bonkers high school mascot, see their most cringeworthy roles.
Anne Hathaway: Havoc (2005)
Oscar Nomination: Best Supporting Actress, Les Misérables
Despite her penchant for painfully awkward awards speeches and her cult of haters, Anne Hathaway is a virtual lock to win the best-supporting-actress Oscar for her poignant turn as doomed prostitute Fantine in Les Misérables. Her weepy, hyperventilating rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" is arguably one of the finest "Oscar moments" of the year, after all. But before she dazzled in Les Miz, Hathaway starred in the so-bad-it's-hilarious misfire Havoc. Directed by Oscar winner Barbara Kopple from a screenplay by Oscar winner Stephen Gaghan (Traffic), the film chronicles the travails of two rich white girls from Beverly Hills (Hathaway and Bijou Phillips) who act black and eventually get mixed up with menacing Latino gang members in East L.A. The film, which also stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and features a brief appearance by Channing Tatum—in his first film role—sees Hathaway rapping along to Tupac and Jay-Z, smoking crack, and throwing haymakers. You will laugh your ass off.
Hugh Jackman: Movie 43 (2013)
Oscar Nomination: Best Actor, Les Misérables
Cry Me an Oscar
The hot new awards campaigning trick? Tears. From Robert De Niro to Anne Hathaway, Kevin Fallon looks at the nominees who are blubbering their way to a (possible) Oscar.
The Oscar campaign trial features a host of tried and true tactics nominees use to goose their chances of scoring the golden statue. There's the endless stream of Q&A sessions with gawking journalists, the cozying up to powerful producers and voters, and the talk-show circuit so dizzying that it becomes impossible to tell your Fallon from your Kimmel.
This year, however, there seems to be one campaigning trick trumping them all: tears. From typically stone-faced Robert De Niro's blubbering to Katie Couric to Anne Hathaway getting verklempt over Catwoman, here's a look at what's become the Oscar Campaign Trail of Tears.
Robert De Niro
10 Oscar Shockers!
The Oscar nominations honoring the best in cinema were announced early this morning. Marlow Stern on all the huge surprises (Joaquin Phoenix!) and snubs (No Ben Affleck?) among this year's awards nominees. Plus, see all the nominees here.
Early this morning, the event's host, Seth MacFarlane, and actress Emma Stone announced the nominees for the 85th Academy Awards—the preeminent awards ceremony honoring the finest achievements of the year in film.
And, as in most years, there were quite a few surprises—and snubs.
1. SURPRISE: Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Django Unhinged
Quentin Tarantino's new film about American slavery comes complete with a line of action figures. Karu F. Daniels on the controversy they've stirred.
Academy Award-winner Quentin Tarantino is laughing all the way to the bank this week. The controversial film auteur and his longtime studio chief-partner Harvey Weinstein took a gamble on transforming the atrocities of American slavery into comedic, action-packed entertainment. And the new movie, Django Unchained, which opened Christmas day, bested the glitzy Les Miserables at the box office with numbers indicating that the flick could do as well as, or maybe even better than Tarantino's top-grossers Inglourious Basterds ($120 million) and Pulp Fiction ($107 million).
Django Unchained dolls (Courtesy of NECA)
And to build on the Django momentum, there's an entire product line to compliment the Jamie Foxx-fronted spaghetti western/slave revolt/action drama/fantasy tale.
Last fall, the National Entertainment Collectibles Association, Inc. (NECA), in tandem with the Weinstein Company, announced a full line of consumer products based on characters from the movie. First up are pose-able eight-inch action figures with tailored clothing, weaponry, and accessories in the likeness of characters played by Foxx, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Leonardo DiCaprio, James Remar and Christoph Waltz. The dolls are currently on sale via Amazon.com.
The Daily Beast's Oscar Nominees!
While the event won't air until Feb. 24, voting for the 85th Academy Awards nominations ends today. Here are The Daily Beast's picks for the movies, performances, and filmmakers that deserve your Oscar consideration.
*Beasts of the Southern Wild
Due to the Academy's bizarre weighted voting system, there can be anywhere from five to nine nominees for the Best Picture Oscar (we think), so a plethora of films will be nominated. Les Misérables tugs at the heartstrings, Amour offers one of the more realistic depictions of on-screen love in recent memory, Silver Linings Playbook is a refreshingly coarse take on the screwball comedy, and Zero Dark Thirty provides a visceral, expertly crafted account of the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden. But it's Benh Zeitlin's little film—and protagonist—that could, Beasts of the Southern Wild, that deserves the Best Picture Oscar.
This stunning debut tells the tale of Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis), a ponderous 6-year-old girl who lives with her tough-love father, Wink (Dwight Henry), in "the Bathtub"—a Katrina-ravaged community in the southernmost reaches of the Louisiana bayou. A terrible storm melts the polar ice caps, unleashing a group of prehistoric creatures called Aurochs. Amid the chaos and her father's diminishing health, Hushpuppy goes off in search of her long-lost mother. The film, made on a budget of less than $2 million—raised via a string of nonprofits—and shot on grainy, beautiful 16mm, was the most original and engrossing cinematic vision presented this year. "In a million years, when kids go to school, they gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub," says Hushpuppy. Indeed.
Silver Linings Playbook
Les Misérables
Zero Dark Thirty
The Master
The Dark Knight Rises
Django Unchained
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*Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
While Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild was the most original film of the year, and Michael Haneke and Paul Thomas Anderson showed why they're considered two of the most technically masterful craftsmen around in Amour and The Master, respectively, no filmmaker exhibited as thrilling a combination of craft, complexity, and vitality as Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty. That she could methodically capture the behind-the-scenes action that went down during the decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden, as well as splicing in kinetic action sequences, in less than three hours—and present it in such cohesive fashion—is a staggering achievement. Bureaucracy and tradecraft have never been this engaging. Bigelow deserves to be the first woman to take home not one, but two Best Director Oscars. The times they are a-changin' ... and it's about goddam time.
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
Michael Haneke, Amour
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Courtesy of The Weinstein Company
Seth MacFarlane's Worst Oscar Jokes
Whether you found him hilarious or lame, it's undeniable that the Academy Awards host gave a provocative performance. Watch MacFarlane's most controversial comments, as he ripped on everything from Clooney's pedophilia to Lincoln's assassination.
They Forgot Who?
10 Oscar Shockers!
All the surprises and snubs from this morning's Academy Award nominations honoring the best in cinema.
Full List
And the Nominees Are ...
For Your Consideration
The Year's Best Foreign Film
Marlow Stern talks to Michael Haneke about his heartrending 'Amour'—which deserves an Oscar nod.
For Your Consideration
Ben Affleck's Oscar Lock
The actor-director dishes on his riveting CIA thriller, a virtual Oscar-nomination lock.
Reality Check
'Shahs of Sunset' Grade 'Argo'
Not a History Lesson
What 'Argo' Gets Wrong
Crisis Revisited
Love and Hate in Tehran
Reality Check
'Argo' Blurs the Truth
Flick Picks: Argo
It's Hollywood to the rescue in actor/director Ben Affleck's new film, 'Argo,' based on the true story of when the U.S. staged a movie shoot to rescue hostages from Iran. Ramin Setoodeh and Rolling Stone's Peter Travers dissect the film.
For Your Consideration
Beasts of the Southern Wild
A Post-Katrina Fairy Tale
Sundance darling 'Beasts of the Southern Wild,' out June 27, is one of the year's best, says Marlow Stern.
For Your Consideration
Django Unchained
Game Changer
Django's Damsel in Distress
'Django' Fallout
Was Spike Lee Out of Line?
Too Far?
Django Unhinged
Flick Picks: Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino is at it again, directing another star-studded cast in a monumental slave story meets spaghetti western. But is it his best work? Ramin Setoodeh and Peter Travers debate.
For Your Consideration
Les Miserables
'Les Misérables' Is a Triumph
Marlow Stern on why the film adaptation of the celebrated musical is the frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar.
Misreading History
'Les Miz's' Bad History Lesson
One Day More
The Best 'Les Miz' Flash Mobs
Cheat Sheet
French Revolution for Dummies
'Les Miserables'
Eddie Redmayne's Star-Making Turn
Flick Picks: Les Miserables
Does 'Les Miz' justify all the Oscar buzz? Ramin Setoodeh and Peter Travers review the epic big screen adaptation of the celebrated musical.
For Your Consideration
Life of Pi
'Life of Pi': Book vs. Film
Was Ang Lee's film adaptation of 'Life of Pi' true to the novel? Mike Munoz explores the differences.
Oscar Hopeful
Life of Pi: This Year's 'Slumdog?'
My Favorite Mistake
Ang Lee
For Your Consideration
'Lincoln' Fact Check
Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer, a consultant on the movie, says in the end it's not the details that matter.
Sally Field's Take
Was Mrs. Lincoln Bipolar?
Hero Summit
Obama Reviews 'Lincoln'
Come On
Where Are the Black People?
Is 'Lincoln' Great?
For Your Consideration
Silver Linings Playbook
Jennifer Lawrence on Katniss and Vaginas
The actress tells Ramin Setoodeh about 'Silver Linings Playbook' and how 'Hunger Games' changed her life.
'Silver Linings'
Chris Tucker's Comeback Tour
Under the Mistletoe
2012's Most Memorable Kisses
For Your Consideration
Zero Dark Thirty
The 'Zero Dark Thirty' Backlash
Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar-bait film is being falsely accused of promoting torture, says Marlow Stern.
Bin Laden Film
'Zero Dark Thirty' Revealed!
It's That Opening
Is Zero Dark Thirty Propaganda?
Spies Like Them
Is This the Real Carrie Mathison?
Bin Laden's Walking Dead?
Flick Picks: Zero Dark Thirty
We missed you, Kathryn Bigelow! In this edition of Flick Picks, Ramin Setoodeh and Rolling Stone's Peter Travers review her not-quite-a-follow-up to The Hurt Locker.


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What does this future visitor see? Strange extrusions reaching gallantly toward the heavens, a veritable forest of them. Some, he concludes, were embellished, some plain. Some were brick, some limestone, others glass. Many have an unusual ziggurat shape, stepping back at mysterious intervals; others are slabs. Some are moderate, others taller, still others aspire to be the tallest of them all. Most are divided into floors of equal height, and these floors are further divided into cubicles of unequal size. Many people congregated in these buildings. Here they transacted business, here they sought shelter from the elements, here they lived and they died.


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Anuradha Raghunathan, 10.01.10, 07:30 PM EDTForbes Asia Magazine dated October 11, 2010
Flush with cash from selling a chunk of his pharma business, Ajay Piramal faces a nice challenge: what to do with nearly $4 billion.
Ajay G. Piramal, Chairman of Piramal Healthcare, is sitting pretty. Last month he sold part of his pharmaceutical company to U.S.-headquartered Abbott Labs ( ABT - news - people ) for $3.72 billion. Now he's looking to build a second corporate empire with all the cash. He's planning forays into new ventures, and his remaining businesses in pharma, drug discovery and glass are ripe for expansion. With a net worth of $1.75 billion--up from $1.06 billion a year ago--the tycoon is No. 37 on this year's list of India's richest people.
But Piramal faces a challenge: how, exactly, to deploy the Abbott windfall. He's taking a three-pronged approach: declaring a special dividend for shareholders; strengthening the existing businesses; and investing in new areas. A core group of 10 to 12 staffers is studying different possibilities. "There's a lot of pressure to come up with a plan, but I am unaffected," he says. "My role is to ensure the long-term interests of my shareholders. I am not talking of a six-month horizon here. I don't want to be pushed."
The pressure comes from analysts because the business that he sold--the domestic formulations unit, which manufactures and sells branded products in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka--was the cash cow. It contributed more than half of the company's $817 million in revenue in the year ended Mar. 31. Piramal also sold the group's diagnostics business to Super Religare Labs--run by billionaire brothers Malvinder and Shivinder Singh (No. 16)--for $129 million in July.
Does this mean the 55-year-old Piramal is going to sell other parts of the business as well? Not at all, says Nandini Piramal, his 30-year-old daughter, who is an executive director and in charge of supply chain and quality; she accompanied her father throughout the Abbott negotiations. "We sold the diagnostics business because we didn't think it could grow into a $450 million to $550 million [a year in revenue] business. We have kept the businesses that have the potential to grow to that size, like over-the-counter drugs, custom manufacturing and critical care. We will look at organic and inorganic growth in those areas."
But the domestic-formulations business was already generating revenue in that range, so that deal was a tough call. Piramal could have kept it and continued to build it himself. "The debate was going on all the time in our minds: Should we continue or not?" he says. "There was really no pressure on us to sell and that became a strength." Approached by Abbott, he proposed a rich price and got virtually what he asked for. He received $2.12 billion up front and will get the remaining $1.6 billion in four equal installments over the next four years.
For now the Piramals are keen on replacing lost revenue. Of the businesses that are left, contract research and manufacturing is the biggest, notching $218 million in revenue in fiscal 2010. It's not a leader in its segment, but observers say Piramal could boost revenue rather quickly through acquisitions.
The over-the-counter-drug portfolio, though small--sales of $28 million in fiscal 2010--also holds potential. It boasts leading brands such as analgesic Saridon, skin-care lotion Lacto Calamine and emergency contraceptive iPill, which it bought from Cipla for $21 million. "We are looking to acquire both products and businesses in o-t-c [over-the-counter]," says Nandini.
Another focus is drug discovery, which is handled by a separate company, Piramal Life Sciences. It has 14 molecules in different phases of development for treatments for a gamut of conditions from cancer to diabetes to infectious diseases.
While he's actively scouting for pharma acquisitions, Piramal is also looking at unrelated areas. With lots of money and lots of opportunities in areas as diverse as insurance and education, he can wait on the sidelines looking for the right deal. "Piramal may no longer be a pure pharma player; it may become more of a diversified conglomerate," says Rohita Sharma, senior vice president for life sciences at Enam Securities, a Mumbai financial services firm. "Piramal has had a good track record of acquisitions, which is a source of comfort."
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An undocumented Mexican immigrant who faces deportation will be in the gallery Tuesday night when U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress.
Gabino Sanchez, a resident of Ridgeland, South Carolina, is attending as a guest of Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), a leader in the push for comprehensive immigration reform.
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Gabino Sanchez was 15 when he entered the United States, Gutierrez's office said in a statement.
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Although it is believed that there was an earlier building on the site, the present Guildhall, or Town Hall as it is known today, was built in 1544 during the reign of King Henry VIII.
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This beautiful ancient 45-hectare woodland has spectacular displays of wildflower including many species of orchid.
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Situated near Canterbury Castle and the only standing pre-Norman conquest church inside the city walls.
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The perfect way to explore some of the well known historic sites of Canterbury, plus some of the hidden gems - available in 8 languages. Enjoy an audio tour & travel at your own pace. 20 attractions and local city landmarks are featured.
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St Peter's Church has been a place of prayer and worship for over 900 years and its charm and peace are in marked contrast to the busy street.
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Sinner or Divinity? Bodhinatha's Publisher's Desk
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads his editorial from the Oct/Nov/Dec 2012 edition of Hinduism Today magazine. While some faiths view man as sinful by nature, Hinduism holds that our inmost self is the divine and taintless soul, or atma.
August 2012 News Video
Our August 2012 news video covers events in July 2012, including: Iraivan Temple construction progress, grounds projects, visits from a Chinmaya Mission brahmachari and a swami from the Bihar School of Yoga, a new member of the Ganapati Kulam and Self & Samadhi, a souvenir book for the eleventh anniversary of Gurudeva's mahasamadhi.
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Bodhinatha's Latest Upadesha: "Detachment from Experiences; Importance of Daily Vigil" (May 5, 2013)
All experiences are good experiences, necessary to get us here. Awareness of aspects of ourselves that are constantly changing is a liberating perception, breaking our chains to mundane areas, detaching from instinctive and intellectual to go into superconscious. The greatest challenge facing youth today is the lack of relating to the devotional side of Hinduism. Daily practice, daily vigil, moves us forward spiritually. Commentary on Merging with Siva, The Master Course, Lesson 21.
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DVD Extra: 'The Quiet Man' finally gets some TLC; McLaglen obscurities
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That DVD of "The Quiet Man'' was indeed a "horror,'' as Mr. Ford put -- an eyesore that made a garish mockery of Winton Hoch and Archie Stout's gorgeous Technicolor cinematography in a poor transfer that has appeared for many years on TV. Now cinephiles can rejoice this title has finally received the respect it deserves from the boutique label, which licensed "The Quiet Man'' among 150 other Republic library titles from Paramount. Olive has gone back to the original Techicolor negatives for new 4K scans. It might not be the kind of million-dollar, high-end transfers that the major studios are doing on their crown jewels, but it still looks awfully fine, sharp with bright, rich colors and a sheen of nitrate grain that presents a film-like experience at home. (The screen grabs are from Gary Tooze, who analyzes the transfer in detail at his invaluable DVD Beaver site).
Shot mostly on location in Ireland, "The Quiet Man'' was a passion project for Irish-American Ford, who spent nearly a decade trying to set it up at one of the major studios, which passed even with major stars as John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara attached. At Wayne's suggestion, Ford approached Republic Pictures, the B-movie factory where Wayne had long been the top attraction. That studio's tight-fisted owner, Herbert Yates, finally agreed provided that Wayne and his stars indenify him by first shooting a modestly budgeted western -- "Rio Grande,'' no small artistic accomplishment in itself, and the expected box-office bonanza (it was previously released by Olive, along with several films from "Three Mesquiteers'' B-western series featuring Wayne).
To the surprise of all concerned, "The Quiet Man,'' was an even bigger hit than "Rio Grande'' and quickly became one of Ford's most most beloved films (as well as a television staple for nearly 60 years). Ford became the only winner of four Best Director Oscars (a record still unbeaten) and the film received five other nominations, including Best Picture.
Surprisingly, neither Wayne nor O'Hara were nominated for two of the greatest romantic performances in the history of American film (Wayne had mysteriously received a nod three years earlier for Republic's "The Sands of Iwo Jima,'' while O'Hara was never nominated at all). Wayne was never better than as Sean Thornton, an American boxer who returns to his childhood home in a picturesque childhood village after accidentally killing a man.
O'Hara, never more lovely or feistier, is ideally cast as the colleen he becomes instantly smitten with -- their first kiss so iconic that it turns up in the famous frog dissection class scene in "E.T.'' Her character insists on a proper Irish courtship, including the services of an eccentric chaperone played by Barry Fitzgerald, a former member of Dublin's Abbey Players who shared top billing with the two stars thanks to his Best Supporting Actor for "Going My Way.''
Morover, O'Hara requires her husban to collect a dowry from her pugnacious older brother played by Victor McLaglen (who Ford had directed to a Best Actor Oscar for "The Informer.'') McLaglen refuses, and O'Hara (who doesn't know Sean's backstory) brands a coward when he refuses to engage in fisticuffs with the brother to defend her honor.
Frank S. Nugent's Oscar-nominated adaptation of a short story by Maurice Walsh -- minus all but the slightest vestiges to a deleted IRA subplot -- is swooningly romantic and features some of Ford's most memorable set pieces including a horse race and an epic brawl between Wayne and the hulking McLaglen (in which the latter, who was in poor health, is clearly doubled in some shots).
Ford has assembled most of his stock company for the occasion, including Ward Bond as the blustering parish priest, as well as he wry Arthur Shields (Fitzgerald's real-life brother) as a protestant minister, a boxing fan who alone knows Sean's tragic history; plus the great Mildred Natwick as a wealthy widow who McLaglen has no idea how to woo.
"The Quiet Man'' wouldn't work, though, without Wayne and O'Hara combustable chemistry, which they reprised in five more films. The story is basically "The Taming of the Shrew'' in Irish drag -- complete with a scene where Wayne drags the reluctant O'Hara through fields that plays as very politically incorrect today, but is totally true to their characters.
It was Ford's last film with McLaglen, whose history goes back to the silent era when both were working for the old Fox Film Corporation. McLaglen worked on and off for Fox into the 1940s, and several of his lesser-known films have turned up recently on DVD via the Fox Cinema Archives manufacture-on-demand service.
Tay Garnett's "Professional Soldier'' (1936), based on a Damon Runyon story, stars McLaglen as an tough American soldier-of-fortune who's hired by political rebels in a mythical kingdom to kidnap the young ruler (child star Freddie Bartholomew). By the time he learns the rebels plan to kill Barthlomew, McLaglen has bonded with his young captive and becomes a one-man army to restore Freddie to the throne -- mowing down hundreds of soldiers with a machine gun. Though aimed squarely at the family trade, it shares a light-hearted approach to mass killings with another Fox adventure of the era, Ford's "Four Men and a Prayer.'' Frank S. Nugent, the New York Times movie critic who would go on to write "The Quiet Man,'' called McLaglen and Bartholomew "the most amazing co-starring team in screen history.''
McLaglen turned bad guy for what was basically a glorified supporting role for the following year's "This is My Affair.'' He plays singer Barbara Stanwyck's brother, who along with Brian Donlevy heads a notorious band of Midwestern bank robbers in 1902. Neither the guys nor Stanwyck are aware that the small-time crook (Robert Taylor, Stanwyck's real-life husband) they've taken into their organization is actually a sailor who's been personally recruited as a top-secret agent by President McKinley (Frank Conroy). Unfortunately, McKinley is assassinated shortly after Taylor is arrested and awaiting execution -- but can Stanwyck convince Teddy Roosevelt (Sidney Blacker) of his innocence in time? Comedy specialist William Seiter tautly directs this elaborated produced historical fiction credited to screenwriter Lamarr Trotti.
The pugnacious Sergeant Quirt in Howard Hawks' silent "What Price Glory'' (1926) was a signature role that McLaglen reprised opposite Edmund Lowe's Captain Flagg in several official and unofficial sequels. McLaglen basically dusted off the characterization opposite Donlevy for the rarest film of the FCA releases, "Battle of Broadway'' (1938). George Marshall's raucous comedy was oddly inspired by a 1937 American Legion convention in New York City, which climaxed with a near-riot in Times Square dubbed the "Battle of Broadway'' in the press. Amazingly, the Legion permitted McLaglen and Donlevy to play legionnaires, as well as allowing the use of some (non-incriminating) newsreel footage of a parade during the convention. The two of them brawl amusingly over nightclub singer Gypsy Rose Lee -- the famous stripper who the Production Code Authority would only permit onscreen if she was billed under her real name, Louise Hovick (though her character's last name is Lee).
McLaglen was back in support as a axis agent in Henry Hathaway's very entertaining "China Girl'' (1942), another Fox Cinema Archive rediscovery -- a flag-waving World War II adventure with a tongue-in-chief script by producer Ben Hecht. George Montgomery plays an apolitical newsreel photographer who's roused into action after meeting a beautiful Eurasian (a rather impassive Gene Tierney in the title role_. The acting honors are stolen by second female lead Lynn Bari, a Fox stalwart was also in "Battle of Broadway'' and shared co-star billing with Edward G. Robinson in "Tampico'' (1944), another FCA release in which McLaglen appears. I haven't caught up with either this or "The Foxes of Harrow'' (1947), whose supporting cast includes the prolific McLaglen.
Fox Cinema Archives has been using off-the-shelf transfers, most of them shown on the Fox Movie Channel. The quality varies tremendously from title to title. "China Girl'' is sharp and bright, looking like it might have been prepped for an abandoned retail release, while "Battle of Broadway'' (which as far as I can tell hasn't been on TV since 1966) is an ancient-looking transfer so dark that I had to turn the contrast all the way up to even make out Hattie McDaniels' face. The others are somewhere in the middle, so caveat emptor.
Today's Warner Archive Collection releases include a 1939 Dead End Kids double feature: German expressionist E.A. Dupont and Lewis Seiler's "Hell's Kitchen'' (the kids' second or third reworking of "The Mayor of Hell'' with Ronald Reagan) and "On Dress Parade.'' Also a couple of late Robert Taylor vehicles, Richard Thorpe's "Tip on a Dead Jockey'' (1957) and "Return of the Gunfighter'' (1967). And decades-spanning reissues of these OOP titles: William Keighley's "The Green Pastures,'' Clarence Brown's "Angels in the Outfield'' (1951), Jack Smight's "The Illustrated Man'' (1968), Richard Lester's "The Ritz'' (1976), Robert Towne's "Personal Best'' (1980), Nancy Savoca's "Dogfight'' (1991); and Oliver Parker's "Othello'' (1995) starring Laurence Fishburne in the title role opposite Kenneth Branagh -- as well as seasons two and three of "The Bill Engvall Show,'' starring a newcomer named Jennifer Lawrence.
WAC is also taking pre-orders for next Tuesday's DVD debut -- finally! -- of Howard Hawks' "The Dawn Patrol'' (1930) starring Richard Barthlemess and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known on TV for decades (even on TCM recently) as "Flight Commander'' in deference to Edmund Goulding's more famous remake with Errol Flynn. Also on sale for Jan. 29 is the 9-title "Wheeler-Woolsey RKO Comedy Collection,'' featuring funnymen Bert and Bob in "Half Shot at Sunrise,'' "Hook Line and Sinker,'' "Cracked Nuts,'' "Caught Plastered,'' "Hold 'Em Jail,'' "Hips, Hips Hooray,'' "Mummy's Boys'' and "High Flyers.''
Sam Wood's delightful "The Devil and Miss Jones'' (1941) starring Jean Arthur and Charles Coburn,will also be making its belated DVD debut (as well as appearing on Blu-ray) on March 29 from Olive Films. Other rare titles from Paramount's Republic library announced by Olive for that date include: Edgar G. Ulmer's "Ruthless'' (1948) with Zachary Scott and Diana Lynn; John Ford's elusive "The Sun Shines Bright'' (1953), a remake of his own "Judge Priest'' with Charles Winninger in Will Rogers' old role; Sam Fuller's "China Gate'' (1957) starring Gene Barry and Nat "King'' Cole; and a pair from 1954, John Auer's "Hell's Half Acre'' with Wendell Corey and Leslie Martinson's "The Atomic Kid'' starring Mickey Rooney.


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)--AIRTAG, the leading provider of Mobile Shopping Solutions, announces the launch of AIRPASS, a fully customizable white label mobile wallet for retailers, banks and mobile network operators. AIRPASS enables providers to distribute their own self-branded virtual wallet with NFC payment capabilities. Ready for distribution on 22+ smartphones including Android, Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10, AIRPASS enables a maximal number of end users to benefit from each brand's mobile wallet offering.Unique features to AIRPASS that separate it from other mobile wallets are native designs for each smartphone platform to deliver a state of the art user experience, as well as the ability for use as an Open Wallet; cards aggregator, or Widget Wallet; or widgets aggregator, giving providers more choice of utility based on business needs.
"We have been listening closely to the current market needs in the Mobile Shopping eco-system as the traditional shopping experience continues to revolutionize. There are going to be not one, but many mobile wallets that succeed if they can deliver value added services to end-users. Each brand needs to start building their own identity in the wallet experience, not simply to get a piece of the payment pie, rather to retain and build loyal customers," said CEO & Co-founder of AIRTAG, Jérémie Leroyer.
AIRPASS is a result of AIRTAG's extensive experience working with 35+ retailers, totaling 1,500 live in-store solutions, reaching more than three million individual users. AIRPASS includes the ability to easily tack on mobile commerce features which include loyalty cards, pre-paid cards, couponing and fast/advanced ordering and payment systems, to bring more value to the wallet experience for end users. To help brands that are issuing AIRPASS better understand how customers are behaving in their apps to improve the user experience, AIRPASS includes a tracking tool and mobile analytics so that service offerings can be extended and modified. The system also offers security protection by pincode, offline pin management and remote wallet locking.
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The Real Cost
Of TB.
Annual Report 2011
around the world.
That's 1.4 million men, women and children every year. TB is an unrivaled infectious disease killer, second only to HIV. The ripple effects are staggering. Ten million children have been orphaned as a result of TB.
hardest-hit countries
an estimated
TB most often strikes working-age adults, knocking down breadwinners and hampering national economies. Low- and middle-income countries bear the brunt of the economic burden, trapping families and communities in a cycle of poverty and disease.
treatment is rising
Infectious multi-drug resistant strains of TB have spread to 80 countries. The cost of drugs to treat each case is 50 to 200 times higher for drug-susceptible TB, with total costs estimated at $12,462 per patient in the highest burden countries and $250,000 per patient in the United States.
way to stop the epidemic.
The world can't afford the true cost of TB. One day, new vaccines to prevent tuberculosis will save health systems billions of dollars and help eliminate TB.
TB Will be
No More.
On the Path to New TB Vaccines
1 Complete clinical trials of current candidates
We work with our clinical trial partners and funding supporters to maintain momentum in the clinic. We ensure that clinical trials are run with efficiency and excellence in order to get the best data possible.
2 Build a robust and diverse pipeline
TB is complex and may require more than one vaccine to address geographic variations in the strains, stages of the disease, and populations. We continually invest in next-generation candidates, applying lessons learned and fostering novel partnerships and approaches.
3 Refine candidate selection and advancement
In collaboration with partners, we evolve and standardize processes to focus on the most promising investigational vaccines. By using scientific approaches including challenge models, systems biology and innovative vaccine designs we accelerate advancement and cut costs.
4 Strengthen and diversify funding base
We mobilize resources across public and private entities to sustain the growing costs of TB vaccine R&D efforts as we advance toward the finish line. Only by expanding our network of support and forging new partnerships can we address the immense scientific challenges and global need.
It is my great pleasure to share with you our latest annual report.Read the
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Dear Colleagues,
It is my great pleasure to share with you our latest annual report. 2011 represented a year of rapid change to strengthen Aeras as a highly efficient, best-in-class product development partnership dedicated to accelerating the advancement of new-generation TB vaccines. To achieve our goals, we have changed the way we do business across all fronts—in the way we partner, advance our pipeline, and in the way we prioritize our efforts to ensure that new TB vaccines will be available to address a disease that impacts nearly a third of the world's population.
Pivotal to these efforts was our focus on building a world-class leadership team with significant public and private sector experience, and securing new funding that would enable us to accelerate the development of the global pipeline. Implementing these changes has enabled us to enhance collaborations with the U.S. National Institutes of Health , the China National Biotec Group , and the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) , among others. In addition, our focus on partnerships has resulted in a deepening commitment to the advancement of TB vaccine R&D among an expanding and increasingly diverse community of researchers.
A global effort: working with partners around the world to develop new vaccines
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Through our enhanced partnership with the TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI) we continued to refine the vaccine development process to implement a more systematic, transparent and cost-effective approach to jointly determine whether to advance each vaccine candidate to the next phase. This process enables us to evaluate results at each phase in order to focus our limited funding and trial site capacity on the most promising candidates.
Our new stage-gating criterion builds off a decade of advances in knowledge stemming from the laboratory and the field. Since 2005 alone, more than 15 vaccines have been tested in over 50 clinical trials, facilitating the development of a robust pipeline of preclinical and clinical candidates, achieving progress in developing new biomarkers, and developing capacity for vaccine production and clinical trials in the US, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Today, Aeras is supporting the development of six vaccine candidates in clinical trials, including the two most clinically advanced preventive TB vaccine candidates in the world. Three Phase IIb 'proof-of-concept' clinical trials of two candidates are underway, representing a critical milestone before progressing to final stages of development. In addition, two new candidates have entered the pipeline .
Current vaccine pipeline
Looking forward, we see new challenges ahead as current candidates move into larger, more expensive clinical trials, and lessons that can only be learned in the clinic are applied to the design of next-generation vaccine candidates. Thanks to a generous grant of up to $220 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , Aeras has secured a portion of the financial support needed to sustain the development of the global TB vaccine pipeline. These critical resources also serve as a global call to action. To get to the goal we will need support from donor governments, high disease burden countries such as South Africa, India and China as well as pharmaceutical and biologic manufacturers to advance candidates through the various development phases to ultimate licensure.
I would like to thank our donors and partners for working with us to make historic progress in the quest for new TB vaccines. While vaccines are costly and complex to develop, history has shown that they are also the most cost-effective way to save lives, prevent disease and ultimately save health systems billions of dollars.
Our journey this past year demonstrates that progress toward TB elimination requires global collaboration grounded in persistence, guided by discipline and sparked by innovation. Galvanized by our success to date, we know that only by working together will we achieve our goal to deliver new TB vaccines to the world in order to turn the tide on one of the most devastating and deadly infectious diseases.
James E. Connolly President and CEO
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Steve Stockman, an incoming congressman from Texas, said Wednesday he will vote against re-electing Speaker John A. Boehner to lead the House, saying the chamber's top Republican has "signed out country on to a fiscal suicide pact." Published January 2 2013
President Obama urged House Republicans Wednesday to approve $60 billion in disaster relief for victims of Superstorm Sandy, a piece of unfinished business after the fiscal cliff legislation was approved Tuesday. Published January 2 2013
For Rep. Danny K. Davis, Illinois Democrat, the "fiscal cliff" fight came down to one thing: the unemployment checks the government will still be able to send to thousands of his constituents. Published January 2 2013
After listening to Vice President Joseph R. Biden address the House Democratic caucus for more than an hour Tuesday on the finer points of the fiscal cliff deal, retiring Rep. Norm Dicks suggested that President Obama's notoriously loquacious No. 2 may have spent a little too much time bending members' ears. Published January 1 2013
Rep. Steven C. LaTourette, Ohio Republican, suggested Tuesday that Republican senators who voted for the plan to avert the so-called fiscal cliff of tax hikes and spending cuts early Tuesday morning might have had a bit too much holiday cheer in them. Published January 1 2013
The "fiscal cliff" deal that was designed to save money actually includes $330.3 billion in new spending over the next decade, according to the official estimate the Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday afternoon. Published January 1 2013
Tucked inside the "fiscal cliff" deal is a provision repealing the CLASS Act, a giant unfunded mandate that was part of President Obama's health care law. Published January 1 2013
The tax deal the White House and Senate Republicans struck Monday night runs to 157 pages, and as of the time senators voted at 2 a.m. Tuesday morning, there was no final official score available on how much the bill would cost. Published January 1 2013
It could be considered the first vote of the 2016 presidential primary, and Sen. Marco Rubio defied most of his party by voting against the "fiscal cliff" deal GOP leader Sen. Mitch McConnell and Vice President Joseph R. Biden struck. Published January 1 2013


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Headlined by wrestler Matt Brown's (West Valley City, Utah) first-team laurels, a trio of Nittany Lions earned 2013 Capital One Academic All-America® At-Large selections from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
The Big Ten Conference formally announced the establishment of men's and women's lacrosse as conference sports on Monday morning. The official announcement, which took place at Johns Hopkins University, adds lacrosse with corresponding championships for the 2015 spring season.
Sophomore attacker Maggie McCormick (Eldersburg, Md.) garnered her second All-America laurel of the season after being named to the WomensLax.com All-America team, the organization announced Friday.
Former Penn State women's lacrosse standout and four-time All-American Michele DeJuliis has been elected to the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, US Lacrosse announced Wednesday.
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