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Science dealing with collection, preparation, and standardization of drugs. Pharmacists, who must earn a qualifying degree, prepare and dispense prescribed medications. They formerly mixed and measured drug products from raw materials according to doctors' prescriptions, and they are still responsible for formulating, storing, and providing correct dosages of medicines, now usually produced by pharmaceutical companies as premeasured tablets or capsules. They also advise patients on the use of both prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Laws regulating the pharmaceutical industry are based on the national pharmacopoeia, which outlines the purity and dosages of numerous medicinal products.
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"What happened with Brittney Chambers is a fine example of the fact that we have got to expand our efforts to get ahold of the Ecstasy phenomenon," says Dennis Follett, a public-information officer with the Denver field office of the Drug Enforcement Administration, one of 22 regional offices nationwide. "We know that the drug is spreading from these club and rave circles into a more recreational drug, but the fact remains that these events, to our experience, provide an environment for a high level of drug activity," Follett says. "And we simply cannot allow that to continue."
Drugs aren't the only reason law-enforcement officials don't like raves. The parties tax resources. They're weird and unwieldy. They pop up without notice and attract unsavory elements. And this past year, a handful of poorly planned but well-publicized events didn't do anything to improve the image of raves. Last March, Liquid Soul Productions -- then affiliated with coloradorave.com, a Web site that's a main source of local event information -- threw a rave in the gymnasium of Colorado Springs's Rampart High School and sullied not only the space, but also that city's feelings toward rave promoters; a month later, a farmland rave in Elbert County drained the sheriff's overtime budget when unprepared deputies were suddenly required to direct traffic and help addled teens; and in July, a teenage mother from Wyoming disappeared after attending a rave in Vail.
But the biggest blow to raves came this past August, when local, national and international law-enforcement officials and representatives of narcotics agencies, including two agents from the DEA's Denver field office, converged on Washington, D.C., for the DEA's National Ecstasy & Club Drugs Conference. Speaker after speaker - among them Richard Fiano, DEA chief of operations, and then-drug czar General Barry McCaffrey -- described a startling increase in the nationwide consumption of MDMA, also known as Ecstasy, which is now on the DEA's list of dangerous drugs alongside such standbys as heroin and cocaine. According to Fiano, Ecstasy use was up 56 percent among twelfth-graders; in 1999, 1.5 million people between the ages of 18 and 25 had tried the drug.
"The DEA has really isolated Ecstasy as public enemy number one," says Campbell. "Still, all of the evidence suggests that Ecstasy deaths are really uncommon. Fewer than meth, cocaine -- even alcohol. There's this Ecstasy hysteria building up, and so much of it is focused on raves. It's disproportionate to what's actually happening. Every single kid in high school knows what Ecstasy is, and not that many of them have anything to do with raves."
But at the DEA conference, Ecstasy's use was inextricably linked to raves. "All-night dance parties" -- the mass media's preferred description of raves -- have become the primary outlet for widespread distribution and consumption of the drug, agency officials said. In an instructional video, the DEA did its best to simulate a rave environment: Lights flashed in time with an amphetamine-fueled beat while a stern voice described the dangers of MDMA and its chemical kin. "Taking club drugs," the narrator cautioned, was "dancing with darkness."
By the end of the conference, the DEA had made its position very clear: A unified attack on Ecstasy use in the U.S. was not only necessary, it was to be considered among the country's highest priorities. Nationwide, the connection between raves and drugs had already prompted some legislation; as early as 1997, cities such as Gainesville and Orlando in Florida, Riverside, California, and Charlotte, North Carolina, had begun drafting anti-rave laws aimed at stopping all-night parties and the drug activity that accompanied them. The Denver DEA office had initiated its own rave awareness campaign a year before the conference; according to Tom Ward, assistant special agent in charge, by the middle of 1999 his office had come to regard raves as the primary source of personal Ecstasy use and had helped to alert other state agencies to the dangers.
"Because of their role in the distribution and use of certain drugs," Ward says, "local law enforcement is very interested in monitoring raves. In the Denver metro area -- I'm talking about the six surrounding counties -- there is a high police presence, and they are watching out for these types of events, in part because of our ongoing efforts to educate them on the growing issue of club drugs."
Not surprisingly, around this same time, it got pretty hard to throw a good party in metro Denver.
"It is nearly impossible to hold an event in the city these days," says Rushing, "The process of finding an unlicensed venue and bringing it up to code is exhaustive. After you figured out zoning, licensing, permits, police, fire department, building inspections, insurance, it would take a year to turn a warehouse into a place where you could hold a party. Unless you own your own club, your only option right now is to rent different venues and shut down at 2 a.m."
"Denver simply does not want them to happen," says Heath. "Raves have gotten such a bad name that even if you are a professional company putting on professional events, they look for any little loophole to shut you down or prevent you from even planning an event."


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The School of Architecture is a state-of-the-art example of sustainable design. It's a spacious, adaptive re-use of Marywood's former gymnasium. It features:
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I use a special scoop to get rice out of the rice cooker or pot. You can just use a spoon, but if you make a lot of rice this scoop is easier and more convenient. In Korean it's called a "ju guk," and it's not very expensive, maybe $1.
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See the look on our faces? Yep. This week's menu for Nauru reflects fun, easy breezy island fare - all you need is one bite to feel the joy. The only thing we're missing is the ocean breeze. I can't decide if the best part is making fries on a grill, the simplicity of fresh pan-fried fish, or drinking iced coffee out of plastic bottles. What!? What. Seriously. Stay tuned for more explanation on that. What sounds good to you? Grilled Island Fries [Recipe] This week the Nauruan love of all … [Read more...]
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THE SCENE Slowly, slowly I fold the momos, turning them into little moons. I am relaxed. My fingers work, awkwardly at first, but gradually pick up a gentle, gliding smoothness as my muscles memorize the steps. Folding these dumplings feels like meditation. Whenever I try to rush the process, everything collapses and the folding becomes a source of frustration instead of peace. So I keep my movements measured and slow. I keep a towel under my elbows, to catch stray bits of filling. I … [Read more...]
Recipe: Dhal Baht | Vegan Spiced Yellow Split Peas
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Recipe: Crystal Crunch "Fudge" (Besan Burfi) w/ poll
No matter where you live in this great, glorious world, you know someone with a mega sweet tooth. Someone who can't get enough of the sugary, fingerlickin' foods. This person can't be trusted with a cookie jar and - I'm here to tell you right now - they most certainly can't be trusted alone with a platter of Besan Burfi. And, really, can you blame them? Besan Burfi, popular throughout Nepal and India, tastes a little like sugar cookie dough... a little like a dreamy pistachio flower ... and … [Read more...]
Recipe: Vegetarian Momos
Today let's stove top travel to Nepal, sit in the afternoon sunshine, and make our own little mountain ranges, good enough to eat. Momos are carefully folded dumplings, each crease like a ridge in the most glorious of mountains, Mount Everest. (Did you know Nepal has 8/1o of the world's tallest mountains?) This is a recipe for quiet days. Contemplative days. Days when you want to be more, learn more... and find out what you're made of. With each fold you evolve. Listening becomes easier. Being … [Read more...]
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As you fly into Nepal, the first thing you might see is Mount Everest, rising up through the clouds like the spirit of the earth stretching in greeting to the sky. Once in town you'll find monkeys eating with the pigeons and ambling through the cobblestone streets, baby following mother. A bus, loaded up with people (even on the very roof top) might zip by on your left, British-style. Curiously, this is the only country in the world that has a zig-zag looking flag, as opposed to a rectangle. … [Read more...]


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Sun, Aug 29, 10 at 18:49
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- Posted by brianswimmy (My Page) on Sun, Aug 29, 10 at 19:33
looks like a nepenthes ventricosa, how did you grow it, what light bulbs did you use? |
I just bought for $20 a couple hours ago. It was in their greenhouse, filtered sun. I hope it'll survive in my house. i put it in the bathroom for now where there is five 15w 6500k spiral CFL. And the himidity it needs... it'll just have to get it from the showers I take I guess. |
- Posted by brianswimmy (My Page) on Mon, Aug 30, 10 at 0:12
um your gonna need more humidity than that, these things like 70% humidity |
Have you thought about terrariums? |
I was told by several sources not to do terrarium as it is actually bad for them since there is a lack of air and it will cause fungus and mold problems. I will get a small humidifer... |
- Posted by petiolaris Neutral (My Page) on Mon, Aug 30, 10 at 11:32
It's either a ventricosa or a ventrata. Either way, it's an easier plant within the genus. I had mine at a bathroom window sill and it did fine there, even sending up a flower. |
There's nothing wrong with using a terrarium that isn't sealed. The problem is acclimating them to lower humidity when they outgrow the terrarium. Not saying it can't be done but it's hard on the plants and they will normally lose all the pitchers which may happen to your plant if you don't get the humidity up soon. |
- Posted by laceymae053 (My Page) on Sun, Sep 5, 10 at 21:45
I am pretty sure that is a nepenthes alata, or at least that is what mine is labeled. I bought one exactly like that in March when I was visiting San Francisco - same style pot and everything. I didn't have the right conditions set up when I brought it home so it lost all of its pitchers. It's now in a 90 gal fish tank with some sundews and starting to produce pitchers again. I'm still trying to get the environment dialed in, but I think they're doing ok. |
- Posted by petiolaris Neutral (My Page) on Mon, Sep 6, 10 at 14:37
Just so ya all know, N. ventricosa x N. alata is a very common cultivar, called N. ventrata. |
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Forum post of the Day: Tank shortage {WoW}
Mar 7th 2008 12:17AM It's hard to look for a tank, because people always want to dish out damage. I find that kind of selfish in a way. Look, my main is a rogue, and it's hard to find a group when a freaking warrior can do what you do, and a paladin can DPS, heal, AND tank! What can rogues do? DPS, and thats it. Maybe I shouldnt have rolled a rogue, but warriors and pallys can tank FOR A REASON. We need more tanks, and if you can find it in your heart to Tank or heal, please do.
I also kind of find it selfish when priests are shadow, and not healing but damn I QQ too much. lol
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Pardon our internet hiccups, Larry does a remote show from the luxury of room 824 of the Sheraton Monarch hotel in Springfield, MA.
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This week, Larry's beloved macintosh apples get him the hairy eyeball from onlookers who think he's littering when he's actually recycling, or composting, or sharing the core with squirrels. Listen, don't YOU judge, too!
Quote of the week: "We're gonna get cabinets made of meat."
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3-4 teams like him as an outside linebacker Brad Biggs
Blaine Sumner brought the spotlight on Colorado School of Mines two weeks ago when he put up a whopping 52 reps on the bench press at 225 pounds during his pro day.
But the player that might be getting more interest from the NFL at this juncture is Marc Schiechl, an outside linebacker or defensive end depending on what team is looking at him.
Schiechl, the defensive player of the game in the Cactus Bowl, the Division II all-star game, has official visits lined up with the Green Bay Packers and Jacksonville Jaguars. He is the Division II all-time leader in sacks with 46 and finished fourth all-time in tackles for loss 70 ½.
At 6-2, 252 pounds, 3-4 teams are looking at him as an outside linebacker. He's also getting attention from 4-3 teams too. Schiechl had a private workout Thursday for the Oakland Raiders and San Francisco 49ers. He has one scheduled for Monday with the Indianapolis Colts.
Schiechl performed well at the school's pro day too. He ran the 40-yard dash in 4.65 seconds and put up 38 reps on the bench. His vertical jump was 35 inches and he had a broad jump of 10 feet, 5 inches. For a player that was not invited to the Scouting Combine, he's gaining interest.
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Sounds like a perfect Ted Thompson special. Too bad he's no longer under the radar.
so - um - can you really trust the reps at those pro days? Maybe the weights are fakes.
Like in the movies.
I know the Packers have shown interest in him
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We live in dark days. End times, even.
I, for one, am willing to embrace our new pigeon overlords, for the death from above that they're bringing with glee at Broncos games is a sign that one day the vengeful shoe they wear will be removed and placed on our foot, and while those posh pigeons are watching their pigeon football, we'll be up in the rafters crapping on them.
This is the future we must welcome: crapping on pigeons. It's unfortunate, yet somehow agreeable because what's lower than that is Griffining, or Tebowing, or Bradying, or Jaguaring. I would rather defecate from a rooftop than be caught doing any of those viral stances which signifying a far more horrific apocalypse.
However, while that scenario is both disgusting (definitely), and impossible (maybe?), here's another definite sign of the end of days which was forecasted by the Mayans. When the Eagles wide receivers no longer exist, our impending doom is near.
Jeremy Maclin missed his second straight practice today because of a hip pointer. While that sucks and has the potential to crank the suck knob right off if Maclin can't be even a limited participant in practice tomorrow, it gets worse. Today DeSean Jackson joined Maclin in the training room after suffering an apparent hamstring injury yesterday during practice, which was serious enough that he was holding a bag of ice on it, as Jeff McLane from the Philadelphia Inquirer observed.
The primary and most damaging impact of these injuries is clearly the potential loss of two receivers who are both quality WR2′s. It's difficult to get a proper gauge, but right now it appears that Maclin's injury is the more serious of the two, although he may only have a slight edge in that contest. The Eagles signed Mardy Gilyard on Tuesday, which shows their level of concern even though Andy Reid expressed mild confidence after practice regarding Maclin and Jackson, saying they were both doing a lot better despite their lack of participation. Friday's practice will then be key, says obvious guy. Maclin had seven catches for 96 yards and a touchdown in the Eagles' Week 1 win over Cleveland, while Jackson finished with four for 77 yards.
So what are your options here for a safety net if you own either of them, with Maclin looking like he could be headed for game-time decision purgatory? Anyone else who doesn't play for the Eagles. Anyone else at all.
Normally, picking up Riley Cooper would be a reasonable option for deep leaguers, but we're not living in normal times in the land of the Eagle. Cooper is out too with a broken collarbone, meaning if one or both of Jackson/Maclin can't go, Gilyard, Jason Avant, and Damaris Johnson would be the only completely healthy receivers on Philly's roster, the latter of which is an undrafted rookie who has one career reception for 10 yards.
At this point in the week you've probably already been beaten to the trendy wideout pickups on the waiver wire and in the general free agent pool, a list led by Stephen Hill and Alshon Jeffery. But Panthers receiver Brandon LaFell is still available in 78.6 percent of ESPN leagues and 72 percent of Yahoo leagues. He had three receptions for 68 yards (21.7 yards per reception) and a touchdown in Week 1, and he could be set for a significantly increased role in a great matchup against New Orleans with Steve Smith still favoring his knee after being pulled from practice for the second straight day today.
It won't be just Maclin or Jackson owners who suffer if either sits out. With the Eagles' passing game a lesser worry, LeSean McCoy — who already had a poor matchup on the ground against the Ravens — could face more eight-man fronts, while the already struggling Michael Vick could either lose a reliable target or two, or at best he'll be throwing to receivers who are playing at far less than full health.
Injuries and wide receivers. Best friends in Week 2.
Look out, here comes more hurt…
- Ryan Mathews practiced in full pads today, the first time he's done so since breaking his collarbone during the Chargers' first preseason game in early August. He was absent yesterday and participated in only a limited capacity last week. The original diagnosis called for a four-to-six week absence, making missing three games the worst case scenario, and Mathews is now calling himself day-to-day. Full pads on a Thursday is a strong indication that he hasn't experienced a setback, and he's building towards a Week 2 return. Stay tuned, and monitor this situation closely. [Chargers.com]
- UPDATE: Mathews may have had pads on, but he was still a limited participant. What's most encouraging, though, is that he's been cleared for contact. [Michael Gehlken]
- One more Chargers item, as Antonio Gates has a sore rib and wasn't able to practice today. [Michael Gehlken]
- Turns out there's rest for the wicked after all. Calvin Johnson's foot is fine, and he really was just resting yesterday. [Lions.com]
- When the coach is making up new injury statuses to describe the state of a players' injury, that's bad. Pierre Garcon was "very limited" today, and his availability depends on his pain tolerance as he recovers from a foot injury that's similar to turf toe. [Rich Campbell on Twitter]
- Denarius Moore "looks like a lock" to start his first game of the season. [Contra Costa Times]
- Jonathan Stewart returned to practice today after missing the Panthers' season opener with an ankle injury. Head coach Ron Rivera said he was a little apprehensive at first, but Stewart still took his full and normal reps. [Panthers.com]
- Despite being cleared for contact, Austin Collie still didn't practice today. Keyboards don't have confusion fonts. One day, one day. [Adam Caplan on Twitter]


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Early in your senior year, you should solicit letters of recommendation from people you know you well. For current college students, faculty members are typically the best sources. You should choose faculty who know you and your academic abilities well enough to write a strong letter of recommendation. You should provide each recommender with the following:
- a current résumé
- your most recent transcript
- a copy of the LSAC letter of recommendation form with the waiver signed
- an addressed, stamped envelope
- the date you would like the letter to arrive at the LSAC
Out of courtesy, you should give your recommenders plenty of time to write and send your letters. Many law schools require at least two letters of recommendation.
Personal Statement
Early in your senior year you should have a personal statement completed. This is an important subjective component of your application and should be given serious attention. Unless the law school specifies otherwise, this is not an essay about why you want to go to law school. Law schools want to know you better as a person and potential student. Using quotes from movies, television shows, or books is generally not advisable. Given the limits placed on these essays, law schools want to hear from you in your own words. For additional information on personal statements please consult the following: Lafayette Pre-Professional Advising
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The Question Archives - Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
Committed: Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect of Metropolis?
In too many superhero books, architecture can be pretty low on the importance level for a lot of comic book creators. Naturally it depends a lot on the interests of the specific writer or artist, and once in a while, the environment looms large and becomes an intrinsic part of the story. More than context, a well-crafted architecture can become another character in the story, lending substance and weight to the superheroes world.
Comics You Should Own – The Question #1-6: "Devil's in the Details"
I included the name of the story to indicate that this is NOT the Denny O'Neil/Denys Cowans series from the 1980s, but the mini-series that came out in 2005. Now you know!
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Sunday Brunch: 10/3/10
Finally, it returns…! Beneath the fold, I discuss recent episodes of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and survey this wretched hive of scum and villainy we call the comics internet.
QUESTION OF THE WEEK(S): What would EC Comics look like, feel like, read like today, if the company never closed its doors?
She Has No Head! – Superhero Fashion Week Edition
It was fashion week in New York City this past week and that, plus my love of Dean Trippe's wonderful superhero re-design website Project Rooftop had me thinking about the great hits and misses of superheroine fashion. So in honor of Fashion Week and Brian's month of Top Fives I thought I'd do a nice light post about some of my favorite female superhero costumes…really just an excuse to post a lot of fantastic images.
I kept the list to five…but then added about a million honorable mentions…because, well, because I'm a terrible editor…the secret is out. Oooh, and if you think I could keep my big mouth shut about a few costumes I think are in desperate need of an update…you'd be wrong…they're at the bottom (where they belong). Bwahahaha!
Onto the list!
Comics You Should Own Archive
Here are links to all the Comics You Should Own essays I have written so far. Plus, I've added some explanation. Enjoy!
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What I bought – 12 May 2010
You go all your life thinking of your parents as these crushing protective monsters with infinite power over you, and then there's a day when you turn round, catching them unexpectedly, and they're just weak, nervous people trying to get by with each other. (Hanif Kureishi, from The Buddha of Suburbia)
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You may notice immediate results with some of them – like the Multi-Active Accelerator, EGF Serum Capsules or the DNA Serum for example. However, those are most likely moisture retention or skin softness. For some (you've probably read about them in my blog), results including lifted skin and lines/wrinkles diminished is a reality after a short period of time. But for the most part, these products do not work so fast – and that's expected. Your skin didn't get the way it is overnight so it's not going to look 10 years younger overnight. DNA Serum extends cell life – you will age slower.
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The Justice, Culture and Community course is an interdisciplinary exploration of the theory, development and practice of social justice in local, Canadian and North American contexts.
Through lectures, small seminar discussions, community and academic guest speakers and service-learning placements you and your classmates will explore difficult questions about equity and justice as we encounter them in our everyday lives.
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Students in this stream explore social justice issues relating to media and its impact on cultural consciousness and the formation of social identity. Topics discussed include censorship, cyber bullying, journalistic integrity, media conglomeration, celebrity culture, freedom of accessibility to information, social networks, and "the right to know."
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Students in this stream explore the relationship between selfhood and community with particular attention given to the conflicting and interconnecting political and religious ideas of peace, justice and equity. Social justice issues to be explored include the historical, philosophical, literary and religious frameworks of societal thought in premodern and contemporary cultures.
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I'm not going to settle for ordinary love. I want my love to be one of a kind. I want to wake up every morning next to the person I love, and tell them how lucky I am. I want to walk down the streets holding hands, and have strangers know how much we love each other. I want to be with someone, who sees my worse, but encourages me to be my best. I want to be able to laugh with the person I love, but have a conversation where we share our deepest thoughts. I want a love that's so special…It lasts a lifetime.Unknown
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Interview with Phil Ring, TT Games
Phil Ring, Producer at TT Games talks to us about LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean.
Middle East Gamers was invited to a press event at the newly opened Zabeel Saray Hotel at Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, where TT Games along with distribution partners Pluto Games were showcasing the upcoming LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean video game. The event started off with a quick look at the game and we were impressed by what we saw.
The game includes content from the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movie and also the upcoming fourth movie. In the game, you play LEGO versions of various characters as you run, jump and solve puzzles as you make your way through various levels. Even though it's a LEGO game, it's a lot of fun and if you're a fan of the game, you'll enjoy re-living moments from the movie as well as the quirky sense of humor that's a part of the game.
Having looked through a few stages and puzzles in the game, we sat down with Phil Ring, Producer at TT Games to talk to him about the game.


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Posts Tagged 'Akhil Sharma'
What We're Loving: Gremlin Jokes, Spiritual Paths, Sundae Ire
January 17, 2014 | by The Paris Review
It's been almost fifteen years since Akhil Sharma published his first novel, An Obedient Father. This terrible, improbably funny book—about a single mother forced to share an apartment with the father who raped her as a child—won Sharma a PEN/Hemingway prize, a Whiting Award, and praise from the likes of Jonathan Franzen and Joyce Carol Oates. (I remember because it was the first novel I had the honor of editing.) Now Sharma is back with Family Life, the tale of an Indian American boy coming of age in the shadow of a family disaster. It too is terrible and improbably funny, and is excerpted in this week's New Yorker. With acid, deceptively artless prose and a faultless ear for dialogue, Sharma strips his characters bare from page one and dares us to love them in their nakedness. I cannot think of a more honest or unsparing novelist in our generation. —Lorin Stein
Michael Hofmann is the only translator whose work I would read no matter what he decided to English—if only I could keep up with him! In the excellent new issue of Asymptote, he tells a story about interviewing Wolfgang Koeppen in 1992, four years before the German novelist's death. ("With my English reticence and youth, I met Koeppen halfway: in other words, we were both barely out of our shells.") He also writes of the Joseph Mitchell–like silence that Koeppen fell into after the publication of Death in Rome (1954) and lauds the still-untranslated last book, Youth (1976)—giving us reason to hope he might be at work on an English version. The final remarks on Koeppen's sentences—continually "sidestepping into freedom," "scrupulously managed, supple, cadenced, sumptuously lexical, expressive prose"—double as a description of Hofmann's own writing. —Robyn Creswell
Poetry's January issue contains a thirty-page feature on Jane Freilicher: her artwork and her close friendships with a number of poets, among them Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, and James Schuyler. The section is adapted from Tibor de Nagy Gallery's wonderful exhibition, last summer, "Jane Freilicher: Painter Among Poets" (it's currently on view at the Poetry Foundation, in Chicago). I remembered having glimpsed the show's catalogue in Lorin's office. I liberated it, and I'm not sure I'll give it back. It's like having a scrapbook made by the people whose work you most admire, and it shows that they had as good a time in one another's company as you'd imagined. "Some little gremlins seemed to have popped loose in my idea factory and I think they may have been sent over from Koch's brassiere factory," writes Freilicher to O'Hara. And in what may be my favorite letter in the whole book, from Jane to Frank on a poem of his: "it just don't seem to have that real low-down smelly sexy everyday Olympian quality your admirers depend upon." —Nicole Rudick Read More »
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Staff Picks: Trollope, Švankmajer, and Trevor
January 7, 2011 | by The Paris Review
Over the break I read what is now my very favorite Trollope novel, and the one I was saddest to finish: Framley Parsonage. I'm coming down off it with DeLillo's Running Dog, Henry Petroski's history of the bookshelf, and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. —Lorin Stein
I watched Jan Švankmajer's Little Otik and Alice in one night; both films are hilarious and nightmarish. Švankmajer is best known for his use of stop-motion and his exaggerated and bizarre sound editing, which reminds me a bit of David Lynch. I love the dialogue of his characters, especially that of the young girl in Little Otik, Alžbětka, who is perfectly vulgar. —Natalie Jacoby
I have been enjoying William Trevor's Selected Stories for that moment of calm at the end of each day. I'm about a quarter way through the enormous book, but my favorite story is still the first, "The Piano Tuner's Wives." It begins: "Violet married the piano tuner when he was a young man. Belle married him when he was old. There was a little more to it than that, because in choosing Violet to be his wife the piano tuner had rejected Belle, which was something everyone remembered when the second wedding was announced." —Thessaly La Force


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Welcome back to This Week In DVD, and happy Valentine's Day you sexy sons of bitches! In honor of the holiday I've themed this week's pitches to the idea of love. As in if you love the environment you should buy a copy of the re-issued The Lorax. Or if you love your adopted Asian daughter you should check out Woody Allen: A Documentary. You get the picture. Speaking of love, if you happen to be currently unattached (or maybe your better half is just out of town) FSR has partnered with an intriguing new dating service. How About We matches people by the date itself instead of shared personality traits or surface-level preferences. I know, it's a weird thing for a movie site to do, but sometimes you just want to go watch The Vow with someone who won't judge. As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Take Shelter Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) is a husband and father who fears he may be slowly falling victim to schizophrenia. The alternative is that a storm of end-times proportions is heading his family's way, and he's not sure which outcome is ideal. Writer/director Jeff Nichols' film is a successful slowburn of a drama that rewards viewers who stay with Curtis throughout his troubles. The film explores the onset of possible mental illness as a parallel to the hardships of a down economy and daily stresses, and in addition to a powerhouse performance from […]
Culture Warrior: September to Remember
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on September 27, 2011 | Comments (1)The month of September is typically regarded as one of the least exciting and least eventful in the calendar year. It's something of an interval month, a strange in-between phase sandwiched in the middle of summer Hollywood blockbusters and the "quality" flicks and holiday programming of the fall. In strictly monetary terms, it's the most underperforming month of the year, and has even been beaten by the desolate burial ground that is January in terms of event-style opening weekends. But this may ultimately be a good thing. In fact, if future Septembers continue to exhibit the same patterns as this month, the time of the year in which schools go back in session and you can no longer wear all-white may prove to be one of the most interesting and exciting months on the wide-release calendar.
Box Office: 'The Lion King's Box Office Reign Continues 17 Years Later
Box Office By Jeremy Kirk on September 18, 2011 | Comments (3)I may have spoken a little too soon about the Circle of Life in this week's Reject Report. The Circle of Life isn't complete until a 17-year-old film, The Lion King in this case, gets re-released in 3D on over 2,300 screens and subsequently takes the box office by storm. That's right. More than 17 years after its initial run, which pulled in $825.7m worldwide, The Lion King has Hakuna Matata'ed in the #1 spot yet again. It didn't match the $34.2m opening weekend numbers it made the first weekend of July in 1994, but it came reasonably close. Close enough to let Disney as well as anyone who even had an inkling of an idea to re-release an older film in 3D know that that might be the way to go. Just five weekend ago article were being written about the possible demise of 3D. With films like Conan the Barbarian and Fright Night not living up to expectations, it seemed the novelty of seeing films that literally come at you may have been at its frayed end. Of course, you can't give 3D all the credit for The Lion King stacking up against the competition. The film is a classic, regarded by many as one of Disney's best, and the children of 1994 who fell in the love with the film are now taking their own kids to watch it. Even without the 3D element it's a formula for success, one made even more potent with the added […]
The Reject Report Straps On Its Driving Gloves
Box Office By Jeremy Kirk on September 16, 2011 | Be the First To CommentI thought about opening this Reject Report with a play on the lyrics to "Circle of the Life." A certain Disney classic is getting its re-release in 3-D this weekend, and you know how we love playing around with lyrics here at the Reject Report. But then we witnessed Ryan Gosling wearing leather driving gloves. Never mind the white bomber jacket complete with scorpion embroidered on the back. Those gloves are what we focused on. Then, after about 45 minutes of staring, we remembered we have a job to do. There's box office analyses that need to be…um…analyzed, and four new wide releases to split the box office dollars between them. Two R-rated thrillers, that Disney classic that's getting a re-release on over 2300 screens, and a rom-com starring Sarah Jessica Parker. Over/under on how many words I give that movie.
Box Office: 'Contagion' Gives No Cure For a Sick Box Office
Box Office By Jeremy Kirk on September 12, 2011 | Comments (1)America had a fever…and the only cure…was more fever. Not cowbell this time. Steven Soderbergh's Contagion hit audience wallets hard this weekend bringing the director his biggest opening outside of films starring Julia Roberts. Maybe there is something to that American darling. Contagion was pretty well on par with analysis, knocked The Help off of its three-week pedestal, and ended up taking the #1 spot with a feverish vengeance. Okay, enough quips about sickness. Well maybe one or two more. As far as disaster movies go, the $60m star-studded film was pretty middle of the road, fitting in as far as opening weekends go between Poseidon's $22.1m and Knowing's $24.6m. Of course, looking at that reported budget, you can tell the film will be just fine in the long run. Most of the disaster films that have much bigger openings are Summer blockbusters, most of them involving some sort of alien being blowing up national monuments. But Soderbergh proved that even with a whimper you can create an effective end-of-the-world scenario and still rake in some decent cash.
Review: 'The Debt' Wins With Explosive Existential Thrills
Movie Reviews By Robert Levin on September 8, 2011 | Be the First To CommentThe Debt is a painstakingly old-fashioned drama that's far more interested in the nuances of human behavior than exploitation or pyrotechnics. At the same time, in telling the parallel stories of Mossad agents hunting a Nazi doctor in East Berlin circa 1966 and those same agents dealing with the consequences of that mission 30 years later, John Madden's film evokes the existential themes that lie at the heart of Israel's creation. To straddle both those worlds within the constraints of a tightly-wound thriller is a considerable accomplishment. And this eloquent remake of a 2007 Israeli picture with the same name harkens back to the old-fashioned aesthetics of genre movies that mean something, films that are unafraid of drawing out big ideas between familiar lines. The film stars Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson and Ciarán Hinds as the older version of agents Rachel Singer, Stephan Gold and David Peretz, who discover that the book has not been written on their mission of 30+ years ago with the finality they thought it had. Jessica Chastain, Martin Csokas and Sam Worthington play their younger selves, tracking the sadistic Doktor Bernhardt (Jesper Christensen) astride the Iron Curtain.
Kevin Carr's Weekly Report Card: September 2, 2011
Features By Kevin Carr on September 2, 2011 | Be the First To CommentThis week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr readies for a Labor Day vacation at a lake house surrounded by bloodthirsty sharks. Once dinner is over for the little beasties, he goes undercover in 1960s-era East Berlin to help a bunch of emotionally brittle Mossad agents to kidnap a Nazi war criminal. Unfortunately, all they uncover is dozens of hours of video recordings from a lost NASA moon landing. So Kevin decides to edit all of this footage together into a feature film and hock it to the Weinsteins, convincing them that it really happened… or did it?
The Reject Report 18: One Small Step for Box Office Predictions
Box Office By Jeremy Kirk on September 1, 2011 | Comments (1)The 17 before it came, touched down, collected some sweet rocks, looked at some Transformers, and went home. But this 18th Reject Report, it'll show you things you never even dreamed could be in existence. Like a 3-D movie about partying teens who get taken out by a pack of fresh-water sharks…and IT'S PG-13! Or how about a found footage thriller about a Moon landing that goes horribly awry? Or how about a film starring Helen Mirren? Actually that last one we could dream of. In fact, we do often. She kicks some ass in this movie, right? Sweet! All that and more can be found in this 18th Reject Report – actually it's more like the 112th, 113th. I don't know. I didn't actually go back and count them – so strap in, throw on your 3-D glasses – or don't. We don't care either way – and try not to think of Helen Mirren. I know. It's difficult.
Interview: John Madden Talks Depressed Spies, a Questionable War Criminal, and The Moral Uncertainty of 'The Debt'
Features By Jack Giroux on August 31, 2011 | Be the First To CommentWhy are spies so sad and mopey now? Where are the cool, suave, and untouchable secret agents? Lately, nowhere to be found on the big screen. Director John Madden certainly is not bringing back the era of smooth heroes with his latest film, The Debt. The director's small, claustrophobic remake focuses on lost individuals who display more heartache and moral uncertainty than your typical heroics. Madden did not make a film about a secret mission gone awry, but a film about regret and the power of lies. A few years ago director Matthew Vaughn was attached to helm the thriller, and if he ended up behind the camera, The Debt would be a very different film. Instead of going for a stylish and poppy feel, the Shakespeare in Love filmmaker went with something far more claustrophobic and full of moral uncertainty. As a result, Madden made something many, many notches above Kill Shot in the quality department. Here is what director John Madden had to say about his three damaged Mossad agents, taking a serious matter seriously, and the power of regret:
The Debt Trailer: Sam Worthington Hunts Nazis, Helen Mirren Finishes the Job
Movie News By Neil Miller on July 21, 2010 | Comments (5)The first trailer for The Debt has hit the web. This movie, which appears to have snuck up on many of us, is the latest from Shakespeare in Love director John Madden. It's a trip into the world of Isreali agents hunting down Nazi war criminals, and it's filled with an interesting cast. The likes of Sam Worthington and Jessica Chastain are flanked by some serious talent: Helen Mirren, Ciaran Hinds and Tom Wilkinson. The trailer doesn't give us much to work with beyond evoking the general look and feel of Steven Spielberg's Munich, but it does deliver a sense of energy. And it does have a bit of energy. It's worth noting that this film is based on a story by Kick-Ass creative duo Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman. The official synopsis and new trailer are yours to play with after the jump.
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New Folger edition of The Winter's Tale
Art supplies: butcher paper, newspapers, magazines, glue, tape, scissors, etc.
Day 1 1. Tap into previous discussions about why Leontes' behavior could have changed so dramatically and quickly. What leads him to modify his behavior sixteen years later?
2. Pass out copies of the diagram in "The Optike Glass of Humours" and copies of the table in the handout, both below. Discuss as a class the qualities of the four humours. Have the class refer to The Winter's Tale 2.3.39-46 where Paulina believes she can "purge [Leontes] of that humour" with her news of the baby Perdita's birth. With the aid of the charts, discuss possible meanings of this line.
3. Divide the class into four groups and assign each group one of the four complexions or humours. (You could also create smaller groups and have more than one group assigned to each humour.) Give each group art supplies and instruct them to create a pictorial representation or collage of the elements that fall under their assigned humour.
Day 2 1. Give students time to finish their collages from the day before and then display them around the class accompanied by the appropriate "oohs and ahs".
2. Take a moment to have the students identify themselves in the various collages. How accurate are the collages in explaining what students understand of their own predispositions? Discuss the limitations of the humour system.
3. As a class, have students identify Leontes' humour in Acts 1 and 2. If, as Paulina suggests, his jealous madness is a result of an imbalance in one of the humours, which one would it be? Ask students to search out instances that reflect this quality in Leontes. Then, look back at 3.2. At what point is Leontes finally purged of his humour?
4. Have students look back at Leontes in Act 5 and find moments that suggest that he has moved from his original complexion into another humour. Refer back to the original diagram of the humours. Have students speculate as to why Leontes might have moved from one humour to another.
5. Now, have the students return to their humour groups and ask them to investigate the following questions: What are the two remaining humours on which the class has not commented? Which characters in the play might represent these humours? Why is the play called The Winter's Tale? Which humour is associated with winter? Which character finally brings renewal, hope, and balance to the play? With which humour might this character be associated and why?
Day 3 1. Ask students to share their findings from the previous day with the class. How has the play achieved balance in the end? Can the philosophy of humours adequately explain what has happened in the play?
2. Compare the Elizabethan way of explaining human behavior with modern theories. You can have students do this by completing one of the following assignments. a)Create your own personality chart. Develop your own set of categories and describe any factors that might influence certain dispositions. b) Write a reflection detailing your thoughts regarding human behavior and comparing them to the system of humours. Can either system completely explain the variety of human experience? Share student responses.
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Inauguration of C. L. Max Nikias
In a momentous celebration that drew 7,500 members of the Trojan Family and local community, C. L. Max Nikias was inaugurated as USC's 11th president on Oct. 15. The former USC executive vice president and provost became president in early August. Nikias succeeded Steven B. Sample, who had led USC since 1991.
The inauguration ceremony's theme revolved around a quotation from Virgil's Aeneid, which is inscribed on a plaque at the base of Tommy Trojan — "Here are provided seats of meditative joy, where shall rise again the destined reign of Troy."
Over the course of his career as a researcher, educator and university administrator, Nikias has earned accolades for his leadership, innovation and fundraising, as well as his ability to build partnerships among varied constituencies.
Nikias is credited with accelerating the university's recent academic momentum, recruiting new leadership, strengthening the academic medical enterprise, helping attract a series of major donations to the institution, creating innovative cross-disciplinary programs, enhancing USC's globalization efforts, and increasing support for undergraduate and graduate students.
Nikias's selection by the Board of Trustees followed an international search process ending in approximately 75 candidates and seven finalists, all of whom were sitting presidents or provosts at major universities.
A visionary of the highest order, Nikias has said: "My vision is to propel USC to reach what I call 'undisputed elite status.' When you've reached undisputed elite status, there is no argument, there is no doubt, and yes, there is no question you belong in the pantheon of American elite universities."
Read President C. L. Max Nikias's full inauguration address at usc.edu/president.
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Japan's Ai Miyazato shot a final-round, Even-par 72 to win the Safeway Classic presented by Coca-Cola at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club's Ghost Creek course outside Portland Sunday, her LPGA-best fifth victory of the year. Miyazato, No. 2 in the Rolex Rankings to start the week, held off No. 1 Cristie Kerr and Na Yeon Choi to win by two shots at 11-under 205. With this finish, Miyazato is projected to be the new No. 1 in the Rolex Rankings come Monday, dropping Kerr to No. 2.
Miyazato and Kerr traded blows for much of the back nine before Kerr, playing in the group ahead of Miyazato, dunked her approach shot on the closing 431-yard par-4 in the water just right of the green and the back-right pin. She dropped and got up and down for a bogey, but when Miyazato parred, she closed the door.
"I had a perfect club. I just didn't hit it." Kerr said. "I thought I played great. Hitting it in the water at the last hole was not indicative of my week. I had a chance. I forced her, put pressure on her so she didn't run away from the field. Unfortunately, the last five holes, I wasn't able to get a couple birdies to be able to pull ahead."
Ai won this battle, but the war's far from over: The race to No. 1 in the Rolex Rankings will remain hot for the foreseeable future. The top-four players entering the week all finished in the top-six at the Safeway Classic presented by Coca-Cola, ensuring more fireworks next week at the CN Canadian Women's Open.
"I think it's going to be back and forth again, because all the top-five players are just playing so good this year." Said Miyazato, her usual humility intact. "I don't really feel like I'm that far above everyone else, so that's why I think that the rankings will still keep on changing."


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David Byler Amish Hog Farm is located in an Amish community in Ethridge, TN. David and his family raise pigs the only way they know how: the old fashioned way. The pigs are raised both on pasture and in the woods. They forage for many different kinds of nuts and tubers in their pasture and are given free range to roam about the farm and play like pigs should. David Byler and his family also grow corn to supplement the pig feed, which helps to fatten them up and make them extra delicious. David Byler raises these pigs from birth, keeping them happy and healthy by letting them live like pigs on his storybook Amish Farm.


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Shrimp Saganaki
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Shrimp top a delicious sauté of fennel, scallions, and feta in this version of saganaki. A saganaki is a shallow, two-handled skillet that is one of the most traditional cooking vessels in Greece. Saganaki is also the fried cheese, made in the pan, that is one of Greece's most famous appetizers.
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Calories | 239 |
Total Fat | 9g |
Saturated Fat | 4g |
Cholesterol | 227mg |
Sodium | 631mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 8g |
Dietary Fiber | -- |
Sugars | -- |
Protein | 26g |
Calcium | 0 |
Serves: 4
Total Time: 30 min
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- 12 jumbo shrimp, (6-8 per pound), peeled and deveined, tails left on (see Tips & Techniques)
- 2 tablespoon(s) lemon juice, divided
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt
- 1 tablespoon(s) extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 medium bulb fennel, cored and finely chopped
- 5 scallions, thinly sliced
- 1 small chile pepper, such as jalapeño or serrano, seeded and minced
- 1/2 cup(s) Chardonnay, preferably Greek
- 1/2 cup(s) crumbled feta cheese, preferably Greek
- Freshly ground pepper, to taste
- Toss shrimp with 1 tablespoon lemon juice in a medium bowl and sprinkle with salt.
- Heat oil in a large skillet (or "saganaki" pan) over medium heat. Add fennel, scallions, and chile pepper and cook, stirring, until soft and beginning to brown, 3 to 5 minutes. Pour in wine. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Place the shrimp on top of the fennel mixture, cover, and cook until the shrimp are pink and just cooked through, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from the heat.
- Transfer the shrimp to a plate. Add the remaining 1 tablespoon lemon juice, feta, and pepper to the pan and stir until the cheese begins to melt, about 1 minute. Serve the shrimp atop the fennel mixture.
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Shrimp is usually sold by the number needed to make 1 pound. For example, "6-8 count" means there will be 6 to 8 shrimp in a pound. Shrimp that size are usually labeled "jumbo." Prawns will also work well in this recipe.
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Let's try to be a little more helpful and polite. To the cook from Birmingham, put all of the milk in the dish as described in the first part of the recipe. The "remaining ingredients" that you later add to the milk are the rum, the vanilla, and the salt.
i'm confused. how much milk goes into the dish and how much is saved for the sauce?


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I have bags of seeds laying all around my garage. A year or two ago, I ordered Heuchera seeds and planted a few but none germinated. I decided to try again this year with the Heuchera, and am looking for the seeds amongst all of these others. Do these look like Heuchera seeds to you? If not, what would they look like? Thanks! |
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Looks like onion seeds to me. |
The picture is to fuzzy to make the shape of the seed. Heucheras usually have tiny, petunia-like seeds, as far as I know. |
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Kind of like onions, but too fuzzy to tell for sure. To me they look more like Yucca filamentosa seeds. |
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Heuchera seeds are more like brown-black dust: way smaller than petunia seeds. Just sprinkle a few atop the potting mix -- avoid the temptation to use too many. And don't sprinkle any potting mix over the seeds, because they need light to germinate. But do cover the pots with clear plastic so the mix doesn't dry up. Once the seeds have sprouted, remove the cover. Mist the top or water them from below as needed. |
I agree that it is hard to tell, with the photo out of focus... but they look like morning glory seeds. |
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"Innovations in Financing and Service Delivery: Making Malaria Treatment Available" will provide a forum to critically review and discuss the emerging evidence on novel ways to finance and deliver access to the treatment of malaria as well as ways to strengthen the quality of fever case management in both the public and private sectors.
The event aims to:
Four areas are proposed:
The event aims to increase the impact of robust evaluations on policy making by reaching a critical target audience, which includes:
"Making Malaria Treatment Available: Innovations in Financing and Service Delivery" will start at 4pm on Thursday, December 8th and continue through 5pm on Friday, December 9th.
Thursday, December 8 (4:00 pm – 5:30 pm) – Opening Plenary and Welcome ReceptionOn the evening preceding the one-day research conference, a welcome reception will be held in downtown Washington, DC. This will follow an opening plenary session featuring:
Friday, December 9 (9:00 am-5:15 pm) – Research Conference and Policy PanelFriday will feature an opening lecture by Ramanan Laxminarayan (CDDEP) and presentations on the first year of the AMFm on financing expanded access to ACTs in the public and private sectors.Researchers will present recently completed and ongoing analytical work to an audience of technical and operational specialists. Assessments by ACTwatch, and work carried out with the support of MIEP (DIME/SIEF), AMFm, CDDEP, and CHAI, and other partners will be discussed.
The conference will conclude with a policy panel to discuss the implications of key results on malaria treatment policies. This discussion will be open to the public.
Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks: Justin Yifu Lin, Sr. Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank
A lecture by Professor Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Laureate in Economics and Emeritus Professor, Stanford University, California: "Seven years after 'Saving Lives, Buying Time' - New Challenges for Financing Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment"Abstract | Presentation
A Question and Answer Session following the lecture, co-moderated by Maryse Pierre-Louise (Lead Health, Nutrition and Population Specialist) and Jed Friedman (Senior Economist, Development Economics Research Group)Abstract | Presentation
VENUE: The World Bank Main Complex, Room MC 2-800
The research conference will consist of four thematic panels (three on research, one on policy). Research panels will consist of three to five study-specific presentations, each of which will last a maximum of twenty minutes, and will be followed by a 10-minute Q&A. The policy panel will discuss the implications of key results for malaria treatment policies and identify the priority knowledge gaps that need to be investigated.
Moderator: Peter Lanjouw, Research Manager, World Bank
Moderator: Jan Van Erps, Roll Back Malaria Partnership
Moderator: Daniel Kress, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The panel will provide an opportunity to agree on a short list of current policy priorities and operational challenges that would benefit from further evaluation and to discuss which existing policies should be recommended for scale-up.
Moderator: Arianna Legovini, Head of the Development Impact Evaluation Initiative, World Bank
Panelists:Muhammad Pate, Minister of State, Federal Ministry of Health, NigeriaBonface Fundafunda, Manager, Drug Supply Budget Line, Zambian Ministry of HealthWillis Akhwale, Head, Department of Disease and Prevention Control, Republic of KenyaOlusoji Adeyi, Director, AMFm, The Global FundDavid Schellenberg, Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineMichael Lynch, MD, MPH, Global Malaria Program, World Health Organization
Brief closing remarks"What have we learned? Key takeaways from Innovations in Financing and Service Delivery: Making Malaria Treatment Available" Arianna Legovini, DIME


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It's been a bad couple of weeks for Ken Livingstone as he has come under constant fire over his tax arrangements and got involved in a row in a lift with his mayoral rival Boris Johnson. Today however, things have got worse for the Labour candidate, as a new Evening Standard poll found him six points behind Boris with Londoners, and the astonishing revelation from Ladbrokes that they have not taken a single bet on Livingstone over the past week.
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Film review: Expelled: No intelligence allowed
12 April 2008Amanda Gefter
From issue 2651 of New Scientist magazine, 12 April 2008, page 46
THE highly controversial documentary Expelled: No intelligence allowed, is full of surprises, not least of which are endless clips of Nazis from the second world war.
Nazis? What have Nazis to do with a film about the "conflict" between evolution and intelligent design? Everything, apparently. The film-makers' logic is that by teaching evolution, the US public school system is telling children that there is no God, morality or free will. And this can lead to only one thing: Holocaust.
But fear not, Ben Stein is here. Those who love 1980s teen cult films will remember him as the monotone economics teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Stein was also a game-show host and speech-writer for Richard Nixon. Even more oddly, Stein, a Jew, is now a shining star among evangelical Christians who argue that intelligent design (ID) is a scientific theory. Maybe the film-makers thought they would get away with problematic references to the Holocaust if the narrator was Jewish.
Expelled is pure propaganda, its style reminiscent of a sub-standard Michael Moore flick complete with voice-over narration and lots of aimless wandering around. Its selling point is that academic freedom in the US is threatened by a vast conspiracy of atheist scientists, hypnotised by what Stein labels in the film the "Darwinian gospel". Supporters of ID are fired from their institutions or denied tenure, the film argues, while journalists who report on ID are silenced or shunned. This is an old trick. By claiming their views are suppressed, proponents of ID hope to be protected from criticism. When someone argues that ID is bogus, all they need do is yell: "See? Suppression!"
But why worry about such a silly movie, which makes absurd claims about threats to academic freedom? Could it really affect the public perception of evolution or ID? Just possibly - and here's how.
For starters, the film will open on 1000 screens in the US, a lot for a niche documentary. Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 opened on 870 screens, while Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth opened on just four. Then there's the Stein effect. Most Americans know Stein from his Bueller days, not as a creationist. There's a good chance many who have not given the ID issue much thought will be drawn in unsuspectingly.
But perhaps the biggest way in which the movie seeks to manipulate - and one to which we are all vulnerable - is by appealing to raw emotion. Consider Stein's interview with biologist Richard Dawkins. Dawkins is shown in the make-up chair, a move calculated to demean since surely everyone else, including Stein, is powder-puffed off-camera. The interview itself, accompanied by foreboding music, is shot in a low-lit room using sinister camera angles.
"The film manipulates by appealing to raw emotion"
Later, Stein wanders through the Dachau concentration camp, face in hands, bemoaning the nightmare he claims Darwin wrought. At the end, Stein walks alongside the Berlin wall: cue footage of people tearing it down plus triumphal music. Even the wary might feel the urge to start cheering.
For the converted, a DVD for "teachers, parents and faith leaders" accompanies the film. Included is a weblink to the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, leading champion and financial backer of the ID movement. One of Expelled's producers, Mark Mathis, insists there are no ties to the institute, but is coy about where the $3.5 million of funds for the film came from. Interestingly, the institute has teamed up with Motive Marketing, marketers of Expelled, to promote a bill they have named the Academic Freedom Statute on Evolution. If passed, it would protect teachers from any negative consequences of expressing anti-evolution views in the classroom.
This seems to be the next step in sneaking ID into schools after the Kitzmiller vs Dover case saw the compulsory teaching of ID ruled unconstitutional in 2005. Last month, a press conference held by the Discovery Institute to promote the proposed bill included a screening of Expelled.
Ultimately, the Discovery Institute's support may be the film's undoing. The institute has argued long and hard that ID is not about religion, yet in the film the connections are explicit. If challenged on this, the institute may have to distance itself from the film, discrediting Expelled in the process.
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In concert: Ted Leo at 9:30 club
By Dave McKenna
Early in Ted Leo and the Pharmacists' Thursday show at 9:30, guitarist James Canty told the house stage crew that "the spotlight" was "kind of freaking us out." Canty was talking literally: The light show in place was too busy. But, in figurative terms, Canty spoke the indie rocker's ethos. Bandleader Ted Leo has been not quite getting the spotlight for a couple decades. Most of his former peers on the D.C. rock scene moved on to other careers long ago. But for a sweaty 90 minutes in front of a sold-out audience, Leo showed he's not close to giving up.
Leo turns 40 this year. He's been getting attention for his peppy pop rock since coming to D.C. in the early 1990s with Chisel, a band he had formed with fellow students at Notre Dame. At the time, this town was at its pop rockiest, with several guitar- and Mount Pleasant-based bands (Velocity Girl, Tuscadero and Chisel) getting brushes with national stardom by adding scads of melody to the edgy "harDCore" sound that had ruled the roost here.
But college radio playlists can only keep bands together for so long. After Chisel's demise and his own departure to Boston, Leo put the Pharmacists together in 1999, and he's the only Rx'er that has stuck with the group throughout its run through four record labels and five bass players.
(New favorites, local touches and more picture, after the jump.)
The 930 set included much of the band's latest release (for perennial college radio material provider Matador Records), "The Brutalist Bricks," and most of those tunes had similar ingredients: bassist Marty "Violence" Key and drummer Chris Wilson kept the low-end thumping to stay up with barrages of downstroked and trebly chords from Canty's and Leo's guitars.
Wilson was pounding his kit so hard he went through drumsticks the way Lady Gaga goes through outfits. There's little place for midrange tones or single-note leads in Leo's songbook, but it's a wonderful sound -- think early Who records and anything by the Jam.
As a vocalist, Leo is also an Anglophile. These days his singing recalls nobody so much as Joe Jackson: "Gimme the Wire" and "Bottled in Cork" were "I'm the Man"-era Jackson, "Ativan Eyes" and "One Polaroid a Day" was Jackson after he turned down the guitars and anger. The great "A Bottle of Buckie" had Celtic flourishes. And Leo delivered "Bleeding Powers," a song for the young and restless that Leo said he wrote right after leaving Mount Pleasant for Boston, while alone onstage and pounding on his overdriven guitar, a la Billy Bragg. "Little Dawn" opened with a U2-like assemblage of echoed guitars and melodic bass lines.
The show also had plenty of local touches. Leo observed that while he was only a temporary Washingtonian -- his bio lists him as an Indiana native, and he currently lives in New Jersey -- he'll always be identified with the Nation's Capital. "I'm not really from here," Leo said. "But it's a really nice homecoming." And the current Pharmacists' lineup includes James Canty, a native with personal (Nation of Ulysses) and family (brother Brendan Canty was in Fugazi) ties to area cool kids' bands. Canty brought his mother to the show.
No song in the set will break the Top 40 or cause a brighter spotlight to shine on Leo. But the hopping spree Leo went on during the encore of "Stove By a Whale" -- he leapt right out of his guitar strap at one point -- made plain the wisdom in his decision to not quit the stage. Whether in a sold-out club at 40 or in a Mount Pleasant basement as a relative youngster, life can't get much better than playing rock and roll and hopping around.
David Malitz
April 9, 2010; 12:30 PM ET
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The show opens with a group number which I'm almost positive has been choreographed by Christopher Scott (I was right) and I am immediately relieved because I assumed that with the elimination of the results show the group numbers would be eliminated as well. Anyway, The costumes makeup and hair are just rockin'. I love the use of the spinny chairs as props and I really feel like everyone is in complete unison and just kind of rocking it. Wow. I'm really excited to get to know these dancers. They just completely hold my interest. They all look as if they've been a company forever. I can't imagine what it's going to be like to lose any of them. Why, GOD, WHY!
Now we have our intro to the top 20 dancers and its clear that the opening number was pre taped because everyone is in different hair and makeup and costumes. I guess I'm ok with that. Our judges tonight are Nigel, Mary and Kenny Ortega (he of Dirty Dancing and the High School Musical series). Right off the bat they explain how things are going to go down next week – America will vote for individuals and the bottom three guys and bottom three girls will be announced next week and 2 of each will be sent home by the judges. Apparently there will also be some discussion with the choreographers about the dancers, which I think could be interesting if we get to see any of that. They better not kick off 2 dancers each every week. That would be a depressingly short show. I'm hoping the double elimination is just to make up for the lack of episode last week. Shall we get on with it?
Witney (why no "H" Witney?) & Chehon, Samba, choreographed by Louis Van Amstel, performed to "Jump" by The Cube Guys & Lucinana: Chehon is a little stiff. Witney is awesome at this, as she should be considering that this is her thing. I wish they had chosen a different hairstyle for Chehon. There's something a little stop and go about the choreography that's not really sitting well with me. They are trying to connect, you can see them trying to connect, but there's definitely something missing here. They gave it the good old college try, but the two of them together just didn't work. Yes, Witney was great, but I think she wasn't quite there for Chehon to bring him into it a little more and that would have been nice to see. I pretty much don't care what the judges say, but find it hilarious that Kenny clearly didn't know Chehon's name so chose to call him "mister" during his critique.
Good god. I can't even handle this season. There is barely a weak link. Plus, no results show means I have to wait another whole week for another episode. Unfortunately, I think that Nick and Amber's Viennese Waltz is going to land them in the bottom three because it didn't quite have the same allure as a lot of the other dances. I'd also put Janaya and Brandon in the bottom but I don't want them to go home at all. I think it's possible that Daniel and Alexa will end up in the bottom as well which would be really sucky. I don't want anyone to go home. LET THEM ALL STAY. Let's just pick the final winners at the end of 10 weeks of awesome dancing. That's my vote. UGH. Two people going home next week is stupid. Can't they just keep a double elimination for further down the line when they can seen who's not improving and have more evidence of the dancers' abilities? I HATE (but really love) this show!