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The Second Week of Bowl Season, 2014
Some people have no sense of values or common decency and they're worried about this week's Christmas celebrations. I assume you're reading this because you know what's really important in life: watching and gambling on college football. I hope you are better at both than I am. If you are betting based on my expectations […]Continue reading...
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Resurrecting the Four Tops in San Diego
I don't want to give the impression that I like what the Padres are doing from a baseball standpoint but the PR of it is pretty nice for San Diego baseball fans who are only looking at star power. Still, it's been a while since the Padres had any star power at all at the […]Continue reading...
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Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods As Bridesmaids, Part I
So, I got to thinking more about the Tiger Woods-Jack Nicklaus comparisons after last weeks post and despite the Greg Norman tease I think this makes a better read. Even most casual golf fans know Woods has dedicated his life to surpassing the record 18 professional Majors won by Nicklaus. Not as many know that […]Continue reading...
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The First Week Of Bowl Season, 2014
It's the most wonderful time, it's the hap-happiest time, it's the most bowliest time of the year! I'm going to have a post each Monday for the next 3 weeks, breaking down the bowl games with my much vaunted expertise at picking college football games. My picks are in relation to the spread, not necessarily […]Continue reading...
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The Wind Down, 12/14/2014
College football's regular season is over and we've got a reigning Heisman Trophy winner for 2014. Marcus Mariota basically pulled off the single-player equivalent of a team going wire-to-wire #1. We've still got doubters out there who feel like he's a system product but that's sort of irrelevant right now. Bowl Season is starting and […]Continue reading...
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Here it is, the second annual Heismanic National Virtual Trophy Award© presentation! It took me a long time and a lot of hours of watching a lot of terrible football and some great football but I've finally come to my conclusion. First, though, let me point out that if I were somehow raising money through […]Continue reading...
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The Future of the PGA Tour in a Post Tiger World
Eldrick Tont Woods made his vaunted return to (sort of) competitive golf at the Hero World Challenge last week and as you likely heard it didn't go well finishing dead last in a truncated 18 man field. The picture above is somewhat misleading as by all accounts he didn't hit the ball that poorly. (I […]Continue reading...
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Jon Lester and the danger of Cubs fan expectations
If you follow any Cubs fans or writers you may have the impression this morning that they won the 2015 World Series last night. They made what looks like a great free agent signing, giving Jon Lester $155M for 6 years and not losing a draft pick in the process. For a team with the […]Continue reading...
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Magic Johnson hopes the Lakers lose every game
For whatever reason, I'm not seeing any attribution as far as who Magic was talking to or what event he was at but it seems like a Newsday reporter got this great quote from Magic Johnson today: "I hope the Lakers lose every game, because if you're going to lose, lose." I'm sure this will […]Continue reading...
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One sad trade rumor from MLB
Source: The Rangers have expressed strong interest in the Nats starters. Nats asked for 2B Rougned Odor. Rangers said they won't trade him. — Adam Kilgore (@AdamKilgoreWP) December 9, 2014 Baseball fans deserve better than this. Doug Fister being traded for Rougned Odor is something that shouldn't be an IRL possibility but it is and […]Continue reading...
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The college football regular season is effectively over (technically there is one more game. Go Middies.) I'll get to the final rankings some time this week. I want to put some more thought into it than I normally bother with because, hey, there's time to do some thinking. My gut reaction is that the right […]Continue reading...
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College Football Championship Week: All of the footballs are in the air for gamblin' and a watchin'
The end of the CFB season is always a little bittersweet. I like the pageantry of awards and trophy giving and bowl games and all that **** but having only NFL games to watch is sort of an empty feeling. This week's games are all on TV so you can finally get that long-awaited look […]Continue reading...
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I made it. Here we are on day 5, so I actually did go through this whole week the way I meant to. One link dump per day. I can't make this too long but I think these are some decent things to look into. Maybe look past what I'm posting here. Learn some things […]Continue reading...
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HEISMANIC Week 15, 2015
This is going to be a fairly short post because I'm at work and there isn't a lot of season left for me to make up my mind. So the list is culled a bit. What is at stake here is nothing less than the second annual THE HEISMANIC NATIONAL VIRTUAL TROPHY AWARD and probably […]Continue reading...
Silly Season, the Fifth Major, and Other Observations: A Notes Column!
Since we last met pre-Thanksgiving I had the idea that since golf is mostly on ice this time of year what better post than looking back at the rise and fall of golf's Silly Season. A quick Google search found that I was not so clever as that has been written ad nauseam over the […]Continue reading...
I thought about not doing this tonight. I feel asleep once already. I woke up and am going ahead with it. I also had a plan to be brief. Then I opened up a bunch of tabs. Some of these might be repeats but if you didn't read them the first time you won't know […]Continue reading...
The College Football Playoff Rankings Review, Week 15, 2014: What do we know and when do we know it
Here it is, the penultimate rankings before the first playoffs. For the stupid, that means next week is the final rankings before the playoffs. It's all over now except for the complaining and that never has to end. For instance, Miami got jobbed in 2000 and there's no way FSU should have gotten the chance […]Continue reading...
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This will be the shortest batch of links I've ever thrown out there. I wavered between just putting up a CFB playoff rankings post now and letting that stand as a link dump. Clearly the devil won this argument because here are several things that aren't college football. Good night and good morning. Get in […]Continue reading...
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Kiffichigan: Done Deal
There is a large pyre being erected right now in Ann Arbor and Brady Hoke is being melted down for fuel to dig up enough gold to pay for the red hot coaching commodity on college football: Alabama's offensive coordinator. After producing much talk of burgers, such as the 55-burger last week against Auburn or […]Continue reading...
Drowning in a sea of detritus: adidas announces the 2015 NBA All-Star uniforms!
For the past week I've been walking and driving around thinking about what a mountain of junk we've made for ourselves in this country (and the world over, to a lesser extent.) All the stuff, all the cookie cutter stores, all the suburbs and exurbs and "revitalized urban" hubs, all the crappy clothes, all the […]Continue reading...
The Wind Down, 12/1/2014
I thought about doing nothing but sports rumors and coaching rumors and Brady Hoke theories in this space tonight but I don't have the stomach for it all. Jon Lester will end up back in Boston and Brady Hoke is sure to be reaffirmed as the coach of Michigan tomorrow. Good night and good morning. […]Continue reading...
Welcome to December and a happy rent day to you. I don't know how many renter/commenters we have here, come to think of it. I'll see if I can actually make it through all five days with at least this post every day. I've got a whole bunch of links I think you might have […]Continue reading...
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Gamblin & Watchin': All the football on TV for 11/29/14
It's rivalry weekend and beloved SMU, Colorado State, and Marshall all already played (and all lost) so the footballs that we can all feel bad about are mostly over with. 'Tis a shame and I hope you made some money on those games this year. Now, what we're really here to talk about is holiday […]Continue reading...
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Have a gambleriffic Turkey Day! What to watch, Thanksgiving 2014
This is the kind of post that would have featured ladies in bikinis in years past because it's just a TV listing with odds listed and I'm advising you on how I would bet. I don't really do the whole ladies in bikinis posts because if I'm looking for that I'm looking for porn and […]Continue reading...
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relating to or characterized by catabolism
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Countryside Golf Course's 18-hole layout rolls across 6,366 yards of the Iowa countryside, but it's the first 574 yards that immediately catch golfers' attention. The course challenges players from the moment they stake their tree slivers into the soil of the first tee box, where they look out onto the course's hardest-rated hole: a 574-yard par 5 that doglegs to the right towards a green guarded by sand and water on either side. The difficult opener sets the tone for the rest of the course, where water comes into play on seven holes—six on the front nine—and all but one hole features at least one greenside bunker.
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Definitions for co-opˈkoʊ ɒp
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co-opˈkoʊ ɒp(n.)
a cooperative enterprise, building, or apartment.
Category: Common Vocabulary
Idioms for co-op:
go co-op,(of an apartment building) to convert to a cooperative.
Category: Idiom
Origin of co-op:
1860–65; by shortening
coopkup, kʊp(n.)
an enclosure or cage in which poultry or small animals are penned.
a confined space.
Category: Status (usage)
Ref: prison.
(v.t.)to place in or as if in a coop (often fol. by up).
Idioms for coop:
fly the coop,to escape.
Category: Idiom, Informal
Origin of coop:
1250–1300; ME coupe basket, perh. < Scand; cf. Norw kaup wooden can; akin to OE cȳpa basket
Princeton's WordNet
cooperative, co-op(noun)
a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners
chicken coop, coop, hencoop, henhouse(noun)
a farm building for housing poultry
cage, coop(noun)
an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
A unit of a housing co-operative; a purchased apartment where the apartment owners collectively are responsible for maintenance of common areas and upkeep.
Any co-operative, including housing, retail, utility, agricultural, banking or worker cooperatives.
Any of very many shops belonging to the Cooperative Retail Society
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I once wrote a column called "Hanky Panky"(May 26, 2011) about the art of "flagging" and it caused quite a stanky. Flagging is when you put a bandana in your pocket to indicate your kink according to the bandana's color. An example I gave was flagging a red bandana to show an interest in "bloodsports" (incorporating non-lethal cutting into your sex life). A reader threw a little fit about it, somehow confusing me with a vampire. But I wasn't recommending that you go under the knife. There are more mellow, manageable fetishes to try out, but first, what's a "fetish" anyway? Well, it's hard to find quality information about fetishes that doesn't included superlatives like "sickest" and lots of judgement. Until now.
A fetish isn't just something you sexually enjoy (or we'd all have orgasm fetishes) but it's more specifically an object or act required for sexual satisfaction. You don't actually have a shoe fetish because your closet is stacked with Louboutins. You might, however, if your partner must be stepping on your groin with them in order for you to orgasm.
Some say fetishists are born so, others say they had some traumatic childhood shit go down that ingrained a problematic love of stilettos. Some fetishists feel that their "kinks" are changeable, and others say they're as much a defining part of their identity as being gay or straight. In my book, the only "bad" fetishes are non-consensual.
The majority of fetishes fall into BDSM dynamics, revolving around dominant/submissive roles and/or some kind of strong physical sensation, whether that be corporeal confinement (ie. wearing a rubber bodysuit) or pain-as-pleasure (i.e., spanking). Others focus on specific materials (i.e., latex), body parts (i.e., feet) or objects (i.e., stilettos). Luckily, the most common are easy to try at home!
"Voyeurism" and "exhibitionism" are, respectively, the enjoyment of watching others get it on or showing your sexy stuff off. Make a sex tape, for instance, spy on your partner masturbating from the closet (with permission) or get some friendly neighbors and bigger windows. Don't jerk off on public transportation.
"Watersports" have nothing to do with jet-skis and everything to do with urinating on each other—easy.
"Plushophilia" encompasses both "furries" (those who dress up as animals) and the "plushies" who love them. We're not talking cat-ear headbands, we're talking mascots. Go Wildcats!
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- 1.25 cup(s) all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon(s) sugar
- Salt
- 1/2 cup(s) (1 stick) light corn-oil spread
- 2 can(s) (29-ounces each) pear halves
- 4 can(s) (16-ounces each) pear halves, (as substitute for larger cans)
- 3 tablespoon(s) packed brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoon(s) apple jelly
- In bowl, stir flour, sugar, and 1/4 teaspoon salt. With pastry blender or two knives used scissor-fashion, cut in light corn-oil spread until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Sprinkle 3 to 4 tablespoons cold water, 1 tablespoon at a time, into flour mixture, mixing lightly with a fork after each addition, until dough is just moist enough to hold together. Shape dough into a ball; wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate 45 minutes or until well chilled.
- Meanwhile, prepare filling: Drain pear halves; reserve 5 of the largest pear halves for top of pie. Spoon remaining pears into 3-quart saucepan; with potato masher or fork, mash pears with brown sugar, cinnamon, and 1/4 teaspoon salt until almost smooth.
- Over medium-high heat, heat mashed pear mixture to boiling; reduce heat to medium. Continue cooking pear mixture until all liquid from pears has evaporated and mixture is very thick, stirring frequently, about 25 minutes. Cool pear mixture until lukewarm.
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. On floured surface, with floured rolling pin, roll dough into a round about 1 inch larger all around than 10-inch tart pan with removable bottom. Line pan with dough round, pressing onto bottom and up side of pan; trim edge even with top of pan. Reserve trimmings.
- With fork, prick bottom and side of dough in tart pan in many places. Line dough with foil. Bake crust 15 minutes. Remove foil; prick again; bake 15 minutes longer or until golden (if crust puffs up during baking, gently press it to pan with spoon).
- Meanwhile, reroll trimmings and cut into several leaf-shape pieces. Bake leaves on small cookie sheet on another rack during last 10 minutes of tart shell baking time. Cool tart shell in pan and pastry leaves on wire rack.
- Pour cooled pear mixture into tart shell. Cut reserved pear halves into thin slices; arrange sliced pears on pear mixture to cover entire top of tart. In small saucepan over low heat, heat apple jelly until melted. Brush pears with melted apple jelly. Garnish tart with pastry leaves.
- Each serving: About 215 calories, 6 g fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 170 mg sodium. Calories from fat: 25%.
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Strawberry Cheesecake Quick Bread By Ally's Sweet & Savory Eat 04/28/14 07:00 Hello! I'm still here! I have a confession. When I'm bored, I bake. Some people take naps. Some read. Some do things they probably aren't supposed to. I just bake. I find it relaxing and ending result is usually something pretty darn delicious. Enter in... Add to my recipe book
Strawberry Swirled Cheesecake Shortbread Bars By Ally's Sweet & Savory Eat 06/25/13 15:27 Before I dive into these bars today {and don't you just want to dive right in?}, lets take care of some business. If you follow my blog through Google Reader, we all need to remember that Google is shutting down that awesome piece of goodness {can you tell... Add to my recipe book
Strawberry Glazed Scones By Ally's Sweet & Savory Eat 04/02/13 02:45 I want to apologize for being out of commission the past few days. We had great intentions of a fun-filled Easter weekend but the flu bug had other ideas. I will not gore you with the details, but lets just say me and the two kids got it. It wasn't pretty.... Add to my recipe book
Brown Butter Strawberry Krispies By Ally's Sweet & Savory Eat 02/14/13 15:27 Happy Valentine's Day! It would only be fitting for me to give your something pink today. And delicious, I might add. So, I'm curious how many of you actually celebrate Valentine's Day? Do you love it, hate it or just kinda like it? Give me your thoughts.... Add to my recipe book
Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting By Ally's Sweet & Savory Eat 09/10/12 15:05 *Don't forget to enter my Giveaway, it ends Wednesday! Oh boy, do I have a good recipe for you today. In fact, I've got about 5 backed-up from the weekend that you'll be seeing in the coming weeks. Two of them being a dessert. I saw this recipe over on... Add to my recipe book
Drunken Strawberry Doughnuts By Ally's Sweet & Savory Eat 08/06/12 17:18 This weekend was a whirlwind, with our annual Koch Olympics in my hometown (think family reunion, but add in tons of games and drinking with it). It was good to see family and enjoy the beautiful weather we had. It was a nice, much-needed break from the... Add to my recipe book
Healthy & Quick Strawberry Banana Muffins By Ally's Sweet & Savory Eat 06/30/12 01:09 I know my posts have contained a LOT of strawberries lately. I can't help it. Although, strawberry pickin' is done around here, I am still loving using them in recipes. And of course eating them fresh, straight from fridge to mouth. These muffins are so... Add to my recipe book
Strawberry Pickin' = Jam Makin' By Ally's Sweet & Savory Eat 05/25/12 22:08 Photo SourceWith the less-than-stellar-dumps-of-snow we didn't seem to get this winter, along with the mild spring, our strawberries here in Iowa are ready! A few weeks earlier than usual, but that doesn't bother me. Every year I make strawberry freezer... Add to my recipe book
Strawberry Slab Pie By Ally's Sweet & Savory Eat 04/23/12 15:56 Oh lordy, look at these. By far one of the best desserts I've made this year. A couple of weeks ago, strawberries were on sale (still not quite here in season in Iowa), but I got them nonetheless. The little man just finished the last few for breakfast... Add to my recipe book


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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is a unique institution, pursuing a mandate shared with a complex web of national and regional groups, each able to place a distinctive imprint around the delicate task of certifying the safety and efficacy of new drugs. In return, EMA has made a virtue of necessity. It filled the regulatory space opened by the relentless progress of science and new information technologies to gradually expand its remit in a way that has maintained consensus among stakeholders.
In fact, EMA has escaped the toxic politics that the US FDA is now mired in by securing a reputation for such predictability that it attracts scant attention from headline-seeking media and the political classes, even as the issues that surround drug approvals become more prominent and controversial.
Yes, there is bureaucratic merit to being boring, as reflected in EMA's record of having achieved its prime commitment to meet legislated review deadlines for new drug applications in every one of its 15 years of operation. Much of the credit is attributed to the Agency's outgoing Executive Director, Thomas Lönngren of Sweden, whose five-year term — his second and final, as required by statute — expires on 31 December. An advantage for Lönngren has been that, unlike the FDA, the Agency is autonomous.
It does not report directly to the EU Commission or the European Parliament but to a Management Board composed of a cross-section of institutions ranging from the member states to the EU agencies and even patient representatives. In that regard, the European process remains in many ways an insider game — you know which stakeholders count and how to target them. With Lönngren now poised to move on — to a post advising governments, professionals, and the industry on the drug regulatory process — Pharm Exec sat down with him in London last month to review his record, sift through the next wave of regulation, and highlight what's not [vital] on the industry's own reform agenda — but should be.
William Looney: Your decade as Executive Director might best be characterized as an era of institution building. Has what you've achieved helped preserve Europe's position as the world's largest market for medicines?
Thomas Lönngren: The Agency is a relative newcomer to medicines regulation, having begun operations only in January 1995 — some seven decades after the creation of FDA in 1930. So we have had a short learning curve. We are also an institution unique to Europe, with a mandate to coordinate scientific assets from the 27 EU member states and three European Economic Areas (EEA) countries for the evaluation, supervision, and pharmacovigilance of medicinal products for human and veterinary use.
What this means in practice is that we are an institution built around partnership, with our principal contacts being the national registration authorities with whom we administer a single, centralized EU-wide marketing authorization for new medicines granted through the European Commission.
This task is a delicate one, as we must balance the need for process coordination with a complex web of policy interactions. Partnering well requires political wisdom; the metric for success is being accountable to the European institutions and the member states through good science, strong evidence, independent professional judgment, and — most importantly — a high level of transparency and communication. The "incentive to consult" avoids the hubris that sometimes accompanies the exercise of power in the public trust. It gives us a rich portfolio of expertise to draw on.
We are constantly exposed to different perspectives and are expected to explain and justify our actions to the same competent authorities in each of the member states, which is a guard against complacency and the bureaucratic mindset. This is one of the benefits of our approach, as it fosters a capacity for continuous innovation in the way we regulate. We have to be networked — it's wired into our DNA. The fact that national authorities still have a role in issuing a marketing licence makes us nimble and doubly aware of how we impact public health.
This was also a period of significant expansion where the Agency was expected to take on new responsibilities. Which of these were most important in defining what the Agency is today?
When I became Executive Director in January 2001, we had about 150 employees; today we are at more than 850. The Agency administers a network of more than 5,400 experts distributed among 44 drug-licensing authorities in 30 countries. We manage six scientific committees responsible for our centralized authorization procedure, which is now mandatory
for all new technologies, including biologics, with a seventh committee — on pharmacovigilance — in preparation. On top of that there are 35 expert working parties that supervise the development of clinical guidelines and support the preparation of dossiers. What happened here was the political leadership in Brussels recognized that completion of the internal market required a stronger European basis for regulating the safety and efficacy of medicines.
Directives were introduced in 2001 to clarify and expand our mandate in the human and the veterinary medicines area, with new scientific evaluation committees established in critical areas of unmet health needs, such as orphan drugs. Then in 2004, we had the "big bang" — the entry into our network of 10 new EU member states, followed by two more in 2007. This brought significant challenges in coping with more players at the table while maintaining the commitment to efficient dossier management and timely appraisals.
We also saw the introduction of risk and surveillance management planning and the conditional approval track, where companies can gain expedited decisions on products for diseases that are severe and life-threatening and do not have substitutes on the market. Next, we had to respond to pressure to help speed the development of pediatric medicines, resulting in the creation of yet another scientific review committee. Because of the policy sensitivities and the complexity of the science, it was probably the most complicated set of rules anyone has ever had to introduce in Europe.
The Commission Regulation of 2004 also defined a role for the Agency in tracking the pace of scientific discovery to ensure our standards are relevant and supportive to what industry is seeking to deliver for patients. It resulted in legislation to create a Committee on Advanced Therapies to facilitate introduction of novel technologies, such as gene or cell therapies or tissue engineering. This is a real innovation for Europe, as no other national regulatory body has such a group dedicated to fostering timely introductions of the new medicines of the future. One of our key objectives at the Agency — in addition to certifying safety and efficacy — is to stimulate innovation and promote the availability of new medicines. Good regulation can facilitate that; the Advanced Therapy Committee is an example I am quite proud of.
Now that it's largely complete, where would you say were the successes and the gaps of the first 'road map'?
We achieved progress in three key areas, each of which was based on a close assessment of the environment for drug approval. One was the review of all our policies to benchmark whether they added to or detracted from the capacity of industry to conduct R&D, so that European patients would gain the clinical benefit from new therapies.
The second was to rigorously test our commitment to the highest level of safety, including ways to encourage the rational use of medicines to reduce the incidence of adverse events and to secure better rates of compliance.
Third, we re-examined the entire organization structure to see how to improve the flow of information, to communicate with external constituencies more effectively, and to make transparency the basis for everything we do. The one area where there is still a gap is transparency. Progress has been made but it is clearly a moving target. Compared to other agencies, we are ahead. But my sense is that here in Europe, our stakeholders are expecting more.
For example, a better definition is needed to classify what is commercially sensitive information. The European Ombudsman believes that the Agency should widen access to documents, and in the last few weeks we have moved further in that direction, making a pledge to allow disclosure of all documents — including adverse event reports — within 15 days of a request, subject to the conditions of data protection.
Another challenge is making sense of the enormous amount of data we generate on a daily basis. That data has to be transformed into useful information. It's not easy; you cannot just go to the bottom of the pile and say, "This will be public and this will stay confidential." Hence one of our objectives for the 2015 road map is to build the internal capabilities to leverage the volume of information productively.
What are the key priorities of the 2015 road map?
Final action on this awaits the decision of the Management Board, which meets this month and is slated to endorse both the road map and an accompanying "Vision to Reality" white paper. I would summarize the priorities to 2015 as follows:
1) maintain our core mission in approving new products through the European Regulatory Network;
2) fill gaps in the development of medicines for urgent health needs, such as antibiotics and the diseases of aging, and work with industry to address high attrition rates for many therapies;
3) adapt regulatory capacity to manage the growth of personalized medicine, through such means as setting standards for the qualification of biomarkers in cancer;
4) improve the scope of legislation covering veterinary medicines and finding better ways to create synergies with our work in the human field; and 5) create a stronger preparation/alert platform to manage public health crises as well as control the distribution of counterfeit drugs. There is a lot of continuation here, which is good, as we are building on success.
What do you think are the most important trends that will influence the actions of regulators, particularly in the relationship with the R&D industry?
Globalization represents a real game change for the regulator. The perception has been that there is a fixed geographic limit to our mandate. But over the last decade we have discovered that the products we regulate are researched in numerous sites, involving parties with different levels of skill or expertise; are subjected to clinical trials among increasingly diverse patient populations, in dozens of different countries; and are manufactured outside our territory, based on active ingredients formulated increasingly in China and India. The fundamental question is, can we trust that all this critical work done outside our "span of control" is safe, reliable, and in conformity to our rules?
Now that your tenure as Executive Director is ending, do you have any advice for the pharmaceutical industry going forward?
Drug companies need to do a better job at linking their prospects to the treatment and prevention of disease — not just today but especially for the future. Association with the development of advanced therapies like tissue replacement and modification of the immune system through vaccines is vital. Industry leaders also have to face the question of the limited resources available for health: Are we as a society spending these resources in the right way?
This in turn requires the possibility of acknowledging that pharmaceutical interventions are often overvalued. The best tool to solve a health challenge could be something other than a drug. Process innovation is not recognized by the industry as a source of growth. Horizontal prevention strategies, designing devices along with drugs to facilitate improved diagnoses and raise the patient response rate — these are ripe for new approaches. The current business model has to yield to something more holistic.
What advice might you have for your successor?
A firm commitment to transparency is critical to success in this position. Transparency is fundamental to trust. Trust is what fosters confidence in our networked authorization system and helps ensure that when there are problems, you have the political leverage to do what is right for public health. This is particularly important given EMA's expanded remit in supervising the pharmacovigilance process.
The next Executive Director will also have to keep pace with progress in science and technology. New areas of regulation are opening up; more needs to be done to clarify standards, as we are doing now for biosimilar antibody drugs, where we are specifying approaches to postauthorization follow-up studies to better ensure patient safety.
The full version of this interview is available in December's Pharm Exec.


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We joined our Holland America tour group and departed Anchorage for Denali on the McKinley Explorer, a train with domed observation cars. The train travels at a leisurely 25-30 mph allowing plenty of time for scenery and wildlife spotting.
Denali peak (Mount McKinley) is the highest point in North America at 20,345 feet, but most tourists never see the summit. It is usually wreathed in clouds. Everyone tells us that the mountain "makes its own weather", usually cloudy.
Private vehicles are no longer allowed into the park's single gravel road. The only way to get into Denali is to take a tour conducted by Forest Service guides or to purchase tickets to the shuttle busses that circulate up and down the park road. The bumpy ride to the end of the road at Wonder Lake is a 12 hour round trip, so we had to be satisfied with going only half that distance, to Toklat River.
The animals in Denali have become accustomed to the forest service busses, they ignore the busses and go about their business, Almost immediately, we saw a moose cow and her calf grazing by the road. Later, we saw a family of Dall Sheep grazing on the side of the road and were able to watch them closely for some time.
We also saw an owl's nest with a parent and two large fluffy chicks, a family of brown (grizzly) bears from a distance and a large number of arctic hares and birds. The cold weather and a brief hail storm did not deter us.
Both of our mornings in Denali, we walked to the Black Bear Coffee House for breakfast. The first morning, the young staff had declared "dress like a pirate day" and were having a blast talking like imaginary pirates. We shared a favorite Stan Rogers shanty, "Barrett's Privateers" from our iPod and enjoyed a spirited pirate's jig.
Alaska is huge. One of the disadvantages of choosing an organized tour is that we spent a lot of time on motorcoaches getting from one point to another. We spent a full day on the road between Anchorage and Fairbanks, arriving just in time to get settled find some dinner. Strangely, we found some excellent Thai food at Thai House near our hotel. Unfortunatly, as with any arranged tour, we were forced to forego something we were looking forward to, visiting the Art Department at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. This fine art program may be the northern most in North America, as it is somewhat south of town and therefore very near the latitude of the Art School in Dawson City Yukon (more on this later). We were informed the galleries at the University are definitely worth the taxi fare, but we simply did not have the time.
In the morning we departed for a lesson on gold rush history at Gold Dredge #8. The dredge operated from 1929 through the 1950s extracting gold from creek and river beds. The heaps of gravel left over from the industrial mining operations still carry small flakes of gold that cannot be economically extracted, so tourists like ourselves can get an quick lesson in the technique of panning for gold. It is more work than you might expect to extract a few flakes of gold using nothing more that a giant pie-tin and water. We gained a real respect for the work-ethic of prospectors and miners. Pooling our gold after a half-hour of labor, we had 7.7 grains of gold worth about $20.


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EUREKA, Nev. (AP) - Conservationists are trying to put the brakes on plans to mine millions of pounds of the metallic element molybdenum from an open pit mine in north-central Nevada.
The Reno-based Great Basin Resource Watch has asked the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to rescind the final environmental impact statement it issued earlier this month when it approved the final record of decision for the Mt. Hope project in Eureka County.
Officials for the mining company Eureka Moly LLC says the mine 23 miles northwest of Eureka contains 1.3 billion bounds of the element used as an alloy agent to strengthen steel, including the manufacturing of solar cells, engines, airplanes and military equipment.
The critics say its waste materials can be highly toxic and that the BLM's environmental review was insufficient.
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WAKE FOREST, NC, September 17, 2012 — One man, one woman: One Vote. That is the way it is and the way it should be, whether anyone likes it or not. Should I decide to vote for a Communist, Libertarian, Marijuana Rights Advocate, Democrat, Republican, Neo-Nazi, or whatever, that choice is mine to make. Anyone who says that I will or will not vote for a candidate simply because I fit in some category, is not only presumptuous — his words are asinine.
"Asinine" means "extremely or utterly foolish; of or relating to, or resembling an ass." Personally, I prefer the latter definition, but I digress.
Having been raised in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, La., I am a product of inner-city, urban America. My parents were hard working and did not allow me or my siblings to use our humble beginnings as an excuse for underperformance, laziness, dishonesty, or any other character deficiencies.
There were times when our household income was strained. Yet despite the financial hardship, my parents refused to accept public assistance income, opting instead for second jobs or exploring alternate methods to maximize thrift and economy. We were taught the Ten Commandments, and they emphasized one in particular: The Fourth Commandment says: "Six days thou shalt do thy work, and shalt rest on the seventh."
Today, there are those who believe in resting on the seventh day, but have no intention of working the other six. My parents also taught us the words of the Apostle Paul who wrote: "If a man does not work, neither shall he eat." These are value-driven principles that are personal convictions, not preferences.
It is for this reason that I, as a black man, do not support President Obama and the Democratic Party. Obama and the Democrats believe that government should look out for the people, and ensure their needs are met from cradle to grave. Their values are not mine. To me, limited government that allows constituents to have equal opportunity for success, versus attempting to guarantee equal outcomes, is the model that best mirrors my faith.
When a political party promises to give me everything that I need to live, I have to ask myself: "Where will the government get the money to pay for all of this?" The answer is: a) Assess more and heavier taxes on the people, or b) print more money.
Remember Margaret Thatcher's aphorism: "The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
When President Obama says, "You didn't build that…" he explicitly and implicitly declares that we owe our success and the fruit of our labor to others, and to the government. Wow, Mr. President — I never realized that my graduation with honors, my ability to write a book, and the recognition I earned as an excellent teacher/instructor were NOT my doing. Is it necessary for me to refer anyone back to the first part of this article to explain what I think of such a statement?
From January 2001 through January 2009, our nation saw an unprecedented period of 52 straight months of economic growth. At the end of that period, unemployment was less than 5% and gas cost less than $2.00 per gallon. Anyone want to take a wild guess as to the name of the U.S. President for those years? And more interesting is the fact that the Democrats took full control of both chambers of Congress from January 2007 through January 2009. New U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) joined his Democratic counterparts in January 2005. During this time, he did not vote against any legislation that (today) has proved to have been destructive and damaging to the U.S. economy. Yet, President Obama blames President Bush for "driving our economy into the ditch."
Any bill destructive to the U.S. economy has to pass through Congress. If then-Senator Obama allowed destructive and damaging legislation to come forth without voting in opposition to it, he shares responsibility for the outcome.
Fast-forward to President Obama's inauguration. For the next two years, the Democrats had complete control of two branches of our government, legislative and executive. The Republicans did not have the votes to stop anything the Democrats wanted to do. If the Democrats dominated the government in the first two years of his administration and things still got worse, Obama cannot blame the Republicans. In fact, he said in early 2009:
"You know, a year from now, I think people are going to see that we're starting to make some progress, but there is still going to be some pain out there. If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition."
Many will be asking the question in November, "Am I better off today than I was four years ago?" When I ask myself this question, I consider a myriad of issues to reach a conclusion. No matter how the media tries to spin these past nearly four years under this president, I have to borrow another timely quote to determine if four more years is the way to go:
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Albert Einstein)
When we go through the process of choosing who will lead this country in the next four years, we should not have the temerity of assuming that black voters (or any other voting group) are a monolithic group. Each of us has to vote his or her values, and values don't come with skin color, gender, or sexual orientation.
What President Obama has today that he did not have as a candidate is a record of accomplishment and failure. When the informed voter evaluates him through the lens of achievement, he has no one to thank or blame but himself. And when we evaluate him, we do it as individuals, not as colors of skin.
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