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AboutExperience the gallery in a completely new way in a newly commissioned project by radical architect Claude Parent (b. 1923). Parent's radical intervention transforms the Wolfson Gallery with slanted floors and ramps, providing the audience with an exciting opportunity to experience the museum anew as a gathering space in which to view a variety of work from Tate's collection. This unconventional remodelling of the gallery space will provide a unique setting to view the artworks on display, including pieces by Gustav Metzger, Francis Picabia and Gillian Wise, among others, chosen to complement Parent's passion for challenging conformity. A prominent figure of the 1960s & 1970s French avant-garde, Parent's installation follows the rules of Fonction Oblique, an architectural principle he founded together with writer Paul Virilio. Liverpool Biennial 2014: The UK Biennial of Contemporary Art Saturday 5 July Sunday 26 October International art that unfolds across Liverpool's spaces, places and galleries. The 8th Liverpool Biennial Exhibition, A Needle Walks into a Haystack, is curated by Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Huberman. It takes place across the city at venues including public spaces and galleries such as the Bluecoat, FACT and Tate Liverpool. Also featured are the John Moore's Painting Prize, Bloomberg New Contemporaries and shows at Open Eye Gallery and the Exhibition Research Centre. In addition, there will be work by artists and curators throughout the city. For more information on the biennial programme of events please visit www.biennial.com
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. Tiger Woods was voted PGA Tour player of the year for the 11th time on the strength of his five big wins and return to No. 1 in the world.
It was the third time Woods won the Jack Nicklaus Award despite not winning a major. He made up for that with two World Golf Championships and The Players Championship among his five wins. No one else won more than twice this year, and Woods won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average and the PGA Tour money title.
"It's been an incredible year to have won five times, two of those World Golf Championships and one Players," Woods said on a conference call Friday. "It's been just a fantastic year all around. It's also an incredible feeling to be voted by your peers, and to have that type of respect is something that's very humbling."
The PGA Tour does not release the percentage of votes won or even who finished second.
Jordan Spieth was voted rookie of the year in a race that likely was no contest. The 20-year-old Texan began the year with no status on any tour. He won the John Deere Classic, lost in a playoff at another event, reached the Tour Championship, was chosen for the Presidents Cup team and wound up 10th on the money list with nearly $4 million.
He will be the youngest American - and first PGA Tour rookie - to play in the Presidents Cup next week in Ohio.
"I don't know if it's a `pinch me' moment yet," Spieth said. "I think my mind is still really on next week."
Woods was on the ballot with British Open champion Phil Mickelson, Masters champion Adam Scott, FedEx Cup champion Henrik Stenson and Matt Kuchar. Mickelson also won the Phoenix Open and was runner-up in the U.S. Open for the sixth time. Along with his first major, Scott won The Barclays. If either of them had won the Tour Championship, three wins and a major might have won some votes over five big wins and no majors.
Mickelson, with more wins (42) and majors (five) than any player except for Woods dating to the Tom Watson generation, has never been PGA Tour player of the year, No. 1 in the world ranking or won a PGA Tour money title.
The Jack Nicklaus Award began in 1990. In 24 years, Woods has won it 11 times and only two other players have won it twice - Fred Couples (1991, 1992) and Nick Price (1993, 1994). It was the fourth time in the last five years that the winner did not capture a major.
Woods nearly made it a clean sweep of all the awards. Steve Stricker narrowly beat him out for the Byron Nelson Award with a 65 on the final day at East Lake in the Tour Championship. That award is for lowest scoring average, though it is not as prestigious as the Vardon Trophy from the PGA of America. The Vardon Trophy dates to 1937 and requires 60 rounds (instead of 50 for the PGA Tour's version of the award) with no incomplete rounds.


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Top 10 women players of all time at this point- where would you place Serena
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Sampras's slam record is not a phony mark tainted by a serious asterix. Graf's slam mark and Court's slam mark both are so it is not the same. 19 or 20 slams would be the true mark anyway considering the phony knife or Australian Nationals based marks of Graf and Court. To say Serena is goat with 16 slams would be like saying Fed at 12 slams is ahead of Sampras, and most Federer fanboys said Federer at 12 slams was way ahead of Sampras anyway (including you I am sure).
Anyway Federer's 16 slams should not be regarded as the true mark. Laver, Gonzales, Rosewall, all won more combined amateur and pro slams than that, and all would have won more than 16 had it been Open tennis then.
Anyway prime to prime everyone knows Serena would rip Graf, Evert, or Court a new one. Only peak Navratilova would maybe be able to hang with Serena on grass and hard courts.
Who cares what you think though, your opinion doesnt matter. Many experts and fans are already calling Serena the best ever, and if she were to reach 20 (heck even maybe if she doesnt) virtually everyone will call her the best ever. Your refusal to accept that means nothing.
Saying Serena is the GOAT now is as ridiculous as *******s saying he was better than Sampras when he had 9-12 slams.
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Zoom into Markarian 739, a nearby galaxy hosting two monster black holes. Using NASA's Swift and Chandra, astronomers have shown that both black holes are producing energy as gas falls into them. The object is only the second-known binary active galactic nucleus within half-a-billion light-years. credit: NASA
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If aliens were to land in Glasgow they would receive a "warm and peaceful" welcome from the local council.
However, Glasgow City Council believe it is unlikely any extraterrestrial lifeform would chose the city as their first point of contact on earth.
The local authority laid out its plans in response to a Freedom of Information request from a member of the public.
They had been asked: "As mankind continues to advance and head out into the stars we are undoubtedly going to attract the attention of whatever lifeforms are out there. I'm curious to know what provisions have been put in place for our inevitable encounter."
The response, from Dr Kenneth Meechan, admitted the council had not laid out concrete plans for alien contact.
He said: "The legal framework regarding making contact with extraterrestrial lifeforms is not entirely clear."
Dr Meechan went on to say it was unlikely Glasgow would be the aliens first point of contact, whether it be over radio or in person.
As reported in the Herald, he said: "The general consensus in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence community is that contact is most likely to be made through radio communication, since faster-than-light travel remains in the realms of fiction and it would take an improbably long time to travel between the stars at sub-light speed.
"The council does not own or control any radio telescopes, so we do not expect to pick up any signals from space. One of our secondary schools has a large aerial of unknown providence, but if this is capable of acting as a radio telescope, we are not presently using it.
"If, contrary to this expectation, first contact is through a landing on earth, we note that Glasgow covers around 0.008% of the world's population and 0.00003% of the total surface of the earth 0.00012% of the land area. On a purely statistical basis, we therefore consider it unlikely that aliens, should they land on earth in the next five years, will initially land in Glasgow."
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Bombardier is quickly becoming known as an airframer that is committed to providing in-flight connectivity on its business and commercial aircraft, and is even eyeing connectivity for the Q400 turboprop. The Canadian company has partnered with ViaSat and EMS Aviation to offer a Ku-band satellite-supported high-speed Internet option on Global 5000 and Global 6000 aircraft. […]
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Bombardier is studying whether it can ramp up production of its Q400 turboprop. At present, the barrier to increasing production has nothing to do with demand and nearly everything do with supply. That's because Bombardier is in the midst of a rather significant undertaking – transferring Q400 fuselage work from Japan to China and […]
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Concepción has erupted at least 25 times in the past 125 years, but eruptions are not the only hazard for the 5,000 or so people who lives in small towns at lower elevations. Loose rock and ash from previous eruptions makes the volcano's steep slopes unstable and prone to give way during heavy rains. These flows of muddy debris are known as lahars. Among the most serious lahars that have occurred at Concepción in recent years were those that occurred during the passage of Hurricane Mitch through the area in 1998. (Much more serious lahars occurred at Nicaragua's Casita Volcano during Hurricane Mitch.) The gullies that can funnel debris quickly downslope into populated areas are obvious in the image.


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Passings | Scott Simmons writes a lengthy appreciation of Roger Slifer, who died March 30. [Flashback Universe]
Publishing | Archaia founder Mark Smylie will leave the company he founded in 2002 to focus on his writing career. Creator of Artesia and author of the 2014 novel The Barrow, sold the company in 2008 to Kunoichi Inc., but remained as an acting principal. BOOM! Studios then purchased Archaia in 2013, transforming it into an imprint of the publisher. [press release]
Conventions | Filmmaker John Waters says the organizers of Shock Pop Comic Con, which took place in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on the weekend of Feb. 14, owe him $6,250 — and they have told him they don't intend to pay. Waters said the con seemed legit, if lightly attended, and they paid the first half of his fee up front. "I didn't think that they were gonna – in a very short time – send a letter from a lawyer that basically was just like, 'Don't bother even trying,'" he said. But that's what they did: The letter said the company that organized the event "had to close their doors and had no assets within which to satisfy its debts." Freelance talent manager Shade Rupe said the con had "an incredible lineup," but it was poorly organized; he got stuck with the limo bill for one of the people he represents, actor Danny Trejo. [Broward/Palm Beach New Times]
Passings | Bermuda-based cartoonist Peter Woolcock died Wednesday after being struck by a car as he was walking to the office of The Royal Gazette to deliver his weekly cartoon. He was 88. Born and raised on a farm in Argentina, Woolcock served on a British tank crew in World War II (during which time he also kept a sketchbook) and worked as a cartoonist and illustrator for almost 60 years, first for children's magazines in the United Kingdom and then, after moving in 1981 to Bermuda, as an editorial cartoonist. Both his editors and the politicians he depicted have kind things to say in this lengthy obituary, which notes that his final cartoon was about San Diego losing the bid to host the America's Cup. [The Royal Gazette]
Creators | Candorville cartoonist Darrin Bell talks about the political cartoons he drew in response to the non-indictments of the police officers in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases, as well as his own experiences as a black man who got "the talk" when he was 6 or 7 years old and will some day have to give it to his own son. [Comic Riffs]
Museums | The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has added comics to its permanent collection for the first time. Abigail and William Gerdts donated 176 comics, including Zap Comix and Arcade: The Comics Revue. Judith Brodie, curator of modern prints and drawings, cited the influence of comics on artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein: "They were all drawing their inspiration from cartoons and comic books. It seems totally logical that we'd want a representation of those." [The Washington Post]
Passings | Greek cartoonist Ilias Skoulas died passed away Thursday at age 87. Skoulas began his career as an editorial cartoonist at the age of 32, and his work was published in numerous Greek newspapers and magazines, as well as 13 books. [Greek Reporter]
Creators | In a new profile of Naif Al-Mutawa, the creator of the Islamic superhero comic The 99 addresses the death threats made against him by ISIS and the fatwa issued against the animated adaptation in Saudi Arabia, and reveals he recently met with Kuwaiti police "to answer the charges of being a heretic." Mutawa also blames pressure from "a handful of conservative bloggers" in the United States for The Hub not following through with plans to air the animated series. He said that after President Obama praised his work in 2010, attacks on him escalated in the United States, where he was painted as a jihadist "intent on radicalizing young kids to make them suicide bombers. And here [in the Gulf] I became an apostate Zionist. My mother told me growing up, be careful who your friends are because you end up inheriting their enemies. And that's what happened: I don't know President Obama. I'm very honored he called me out. But the hate became magnified after that." [Al-Monitor]
Conventions | Ahead of New York Comic Con, George Gene Gustines shares producer Michael Uslan's program from a 1964 comics gathering in New York City; it actually was released after the show, and includes some thoughts on how things could be improved, mainly by shifting the focus from buying and selling comics to bringing in creators so the fans could meet them personally. Nonetheless, Steve Ditko was there, and the list of registered participants included George R.R. Martin. [The New York Times]
Creators | Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa talks about taking Sabrina the Teenage Witch to the dark side in her new series, a Riverdale horror story in the same vein as Afterlife With Archie. In this case, rather than zombies, Aguirre-Sacasa is drawing inspiration from the 1960s film Rosemary's Baby. [Hero Complex]
Welcome to Best of 7, where we talk about "The best in comics from the last seven days" — which could be anything from an exciting piece of news to a cool publisher's announcement to an awesome comic that came out.
This week is pretty packed, as we have news, reviews, a con recap and a whole year's worth of announcements from one publisher. So buckle your seat belts and hold on tight as we aim our DeLorean at the last seven days …
Last week, when I was packing my bags to go to the Angoulême International Comics Festival, I kept having to explain to people — even comics people — what it was.
Now that I'm back, it's not a problem any more.
This year's selection of Bill Watterson as the winner of the Grand Prix d'Angoulême, and the president of next year's festival, has put Angoulême on the map for more U.S. readers — or at least, it has sent the cartoonist's fans scurrying to the map to see where it is.
What follows is a series of first impressions from my first trip to Angoulême; check out Publishers Weekly (which provided me with a press badge) for more solid coverage, and of course no one can capture an event like Heidi MacDonald.
There are a lot of reasons to go to Angoulême — the international array of creators and publishers who are there, the opportunity to get the hottest new BDs and of course, French food, scenery and wine all spring to mind — but to me, the most impressive thing about it was that I was in a place where comics really mattered. Comics aren't a niche product in France; they are available everywhere, they are widely read, and they are taken seriously. In my previous sojourns in France, long before I was a comics journalist, I was accustomed to seeing a rack of hardcover, full-color comics at the grocery store, train station, and bookstore.
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Retailing | Fans of the Fall River, Massachusetts, retailer StillPoint Comics, Cards & Games kicked in $5,000 in a GoFundMe campaign to keep the store in business. The shop, which opened in 1997, had to close for 10 days last month after its power was shut off. [The Herald News]
Publishing | Following confirmation last month of a Space Mountain graphic novel series, Heidi MacDonald talks with executives from Disney Publishing Worldwide about the expansion of the new Disney Comics imprint. [Publishers Weekly]
Events | Sean Kleefeld reports on Day 1 of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Grand Opening Festival of Cartoon Art in Columbus, Ohio. [Kleefeld on Comics]
Conventions | Brian Howe looks at the rivalry between Comic Book City Con, which debuted two weekends ago in Greensboro, North Carolina, and NC Comicon, which returns Saturday in Durham. The latter, which is now co-owned by artist Tommy Lee Edwards, drew 4,000 attendees last year (its first at the Durham Convention Center), and this year doubled its exhibit space and ramped up its programming. The conflict, which manifested in a flier for Comic Book City Con that one party considers playful but the other calls "bullying," seems to be rooted in the proximity of the dates and a perceived lack of communication. However, it's not simply a rivalry between nearby conventions; it's one between retailers: Durham's Ultimate Comics organizes NC Comicon, while Greensboro's Acme Comics operates Comic Book City Con. [Indy Week]
His work might have a rushed, "dashed-off" look to it at times, but don't kid yourself: Frank Santoro puts a lot of time and consideration into his comics. In fact, it's safe to say he puts more thought into the overall structure and design of his pages than a lot of his contemporaries, as anyone who has read his "Layout Workbook" series of posts on TCJ.com can attest.
Santoro's latest comic, the stand-alone graphic novel Pompeii, deals quite overtly with issues of art and craft, as it follows the story of aspiring ancient Roman artist Marcus who's slaving away as an assistant to the more established painter Flavius (who has his own problems). Marcus is at something of a crossroads, frustrated by his slow progress under Flavius' tutelage, but unwilling to move back home or reconsider his options, despite the pleadings of his girlfriend, Lucia. As you might expect given the book's title, things come to a head quite violently with the eruption of a nearby volcano.
Overall Pompeii is a fast-paced but moving, almost tender at times, work, that begins almost as a sex farce but quickly turns into a more considered and elegiac consideration of careers, youth, love and the purpose of art and artistry in our lives.
I talked with Santoro recently about his new book and its conception.
Digital comics | The Chernin Group, headed by former News Corp Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin, has acquired a controlling stake in Crunchyroll, the streaming anime site that just launched a digital comics service. [All Things D]
Digital comics | Rob McMonigal takes a look at Believed Behavior, a website where subscribers can read comics by five different creators for $8 (there's a free component as well) and then get them in print form. [Panel Patter]
Manga | Dark Horse announced Tuesday that there are 750,000 copies of the various volumes of Berserk in print; that number is about to increase, as the publisher is about to release new printings of the volumes that are low in stock, which is pretty much all of them. Volume 37 is due out later this month. [Anime News Network]
Digital comics | Viz Media announced Wednesday it has brought its entire library to iBooks. Viz manga are already available on Kindle, Nook, Kobo and its own app, so this pretty much completes the set. [ICv2]
Crime | Manga creator Takaaki Kubo was arrested Tuesday on charges of threatening a city councilor in the town of Amagasaki. Kubo, whose series Bakune Young was published in North America in the early 2000s by Viz Media, was arrested after police traced a threatening e-mail message to his home computer. [Anime News Network]
Creators | Art Spiegelman has been the subject of four retrospectives so far this year, the latest at the Jewish Museum in New York. Charles McGrath talks to him about what he calls "The Great Retrospection," as well as his tobacco addiction and, oh yeah, comics. [The New York Times]
Batwoman Vol. 3: World's Finest (DC Comics): It's difficult to talk about this comic without also discussing the announced departure of its creative team which, like several others that have worked on DC's New 52, left amid quite public complaints of editorial interference.
As an auteur-driven book starring a relatively new character that's barely been drawn by anyone other than artist and co-writer J.H. Williams III, the whole affair strikes me as strange, as Williams seems to be at least as big a factor in the book's continued existence as the word "Bat" in its title. And it's stranger still he and co-writer W. Haden Blackman are only now reaching the breaking point, as from a reader's perspective, DC appeared to have pretty much left them alone to do their own thing; like Grant Morrison's Batman Incorporated and the Geoff Johns-written portions of Green Lantern, this book seems set in its own universe and is sort of impossible to integrate into the New 52 if one thinks about it for too long (with "too long" being "about 45 seconds").
Regularly cited as one of the best of DC's current crop of comics, Batwoman is definitely the company's best-looking, and most intricately, even baroquely designed and illustrated. As for the word half of the story equation, I found Batwoman — and this volume in particular — to be extremely strange, even weird, more than I found it to be good.
A bit of a firestorm erupted in the comments section of Frank Santoro's most recent Riff Raff column at The Comics Journal. Closing with six pictures from the most recent issue of the self-published series Fukitor #9 by Jason Karns, Santoro praised the book for its use of colors on two different types of paper within the same issue, calling it "one of the most interesting print jobs out there." Indeed, the art is visceral and eye-catching, judging by the photos of Santoro holding the comic.
The sticky part is that three of the images are from a "Special Forces Attack Squad" story that contains what could be considered as racially insensitive. Santoro also described Karns' work as being "almost 'too real' to be part of the contemporary comics conversation." He also said, "Just about everything compared to his work seems 'pretentious.' Karns is not trying to do a throwback style or appropriate 'bad comics' in order to make some sort of art comic. This is the real deal. This shit is SERIOUS!"
I'm not sure what most of that description even means. In what way is his work "too real"? Karns certainly isn't doing journalism comics a la Joe Sacco. Santoro later admitted he could've done a better job of presenting Karns' work, and the ensuing comments to his column appear to have caused him to reassess his appreciation, at least as it pertains to the subject matter. Right off the bat, the first commenter asked whether Fukitor is racist. Karns himself quickly showed up with a strange response that's boils down to, "They're just cartoons." It reads as though he's claiming the comic book form is somehow incapable of depicting racist imagery, which is pretty easily disputed by any cursory survey of World War II-era comics. Karns goes on to dig a rather big hole for himself.


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Glass House Mountains National Park Things to Do
Mount Tibrogargan, named by Captain Cook during his epic voyage along Australia's east coast, is one of the many volcanic plugs left by volcanic activity millions of years ago. Around the Mountain is a variety of wildlife including rare and threatened plants.There is a well graded track to three lookouts overlooking Mts Tunbubulla (The Twins),...more
This was originally known as the Glasshouse Mountains tourist drive.Take the Landsborough exit near the Caloundra turnoff on the Bruce Highway to reach the scenic drive and then head back south or vice - versa.Continuing south, you will come across the popular 'AUSTRALIA ZOO' located on the left hand side. Beerwah is a thriving small country town...more
Mt Tunbubudla, also known as the Twins (west twin 294m, east twin 338m), is composed of something called "alkali rhyolite." Most of the mountain is covered in dry sclerophyll forest with some areas of exposed rock. The rare Bronze-barked Tea Tree, is found here in the Glasshouse Mountains. You will see the "Twins" from many different sides on your...more
This mountain is also known as [crooked neck], take a look at the photo. Follow the brown signs to the lookout of the high, funny shaped mountain. The road is narrow, one laned bitumen. Views once again are fabulous, and it is worth doing this short detour. I did not do the walk, as I managed to get some very nice photo's on the way there.Remember,...more
This turnoff is only a few hundred metres from the Mt. Beerburrum turn-off. The road is sealed all the way to the lookout. We passed by a couple of Cafes with great views of the Glass house mountains. There were some roadside stalls that were selling fruit & vegetables, and roasted macadamia nuts. The lookout was extremely busy. The car park was...more
We headed to Mt.Beerwah next, another of the Glass house Mountains. The road was dirt, and in very bad condition, had plenty of big potholes! There were some very good views of Mt. Coonowrin, worth a photo stop. If you haven't seen Custard trees growing, well, you will see orchards of them on this road, and also Macadamian nuts.Mt. Beerwah, has a...more
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The Area is famous for its Fruit they grow here.
On the picture you can see an Ananas-plantage in the front (and the Glasshouse-Mountains in the back).
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Parrots in Paradise......I picked up the brochure at the information centre, and put it on our must visit list. I wanted to see the performing Parrots, hoping that would be like I had seen years ago.
What I didn't realize, is that it is not like other places where you just turn up and pay the entrance fee, YOU HAVE TO BOOK IF YOU WANT TO COME HERE!
All it said on the brochure was Group Bookings were essential, and to check the website for more information, which wasn't much use when you haven't a computer to check the website.
So, we didn't get to see them, that was a shame!..........
Just be aware TO BOOK and to CHECK THE WEBSITE.
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A lovely scenic drive from the Glass house mountains is through Peachester to Maleny.
Peachester is a small town located on the Mountain,has fertile mountain land and roadside stalls selling fruit and vegetables that are grown here. The town is very small, but there is a nice, small well kept park, with picnic table & chairs and Toilets with a mural painted on them. We stopped here for our lunch break.
The road is good, sealed two lanes wide, winding its way up the mountainside. You will pass a huge private race-course, enjoy more incredible views of all the glass house mountains, and pass through nice rainforest.
Take the turn signposted to Maleny. This road follows the ridge, the views are far reaching to mountains and wonderful valleys with cattle roaming the hills, a very scenic road.
Coming out at Maleny, it was time for us to stop, browse the Art & craft shops in the main street, and to buy an icecream. We went to the small park by the creek to eat this, Toilets are situated here.
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Favorite thing: If you are interested in seeing pineapples growing, then head to the sunshine coast and the Glasshouse mountains area. Here, you will find paddocks full of Pineapples, from freshly planted to having pineapples on the bushes being ready for harvesting., You may see a Pineapple harvester, we did.
You will also see, huge plantations of Macadamian nut trees, this nut is very popular, you can even buy madamian nut icecream.
Custard Apples are grown in the Glasshouse Mountains. In April, some of them had green custard apples hanging from their branches. Roadside stalls were selling bags of ripe custard apples for $2, [a bargain]Related to:
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New mom Tamar Braxton is about to become an author! The "Love And War" singer is releasing a relationship book.
Who knew Tamar and hubby Vincent Herbert had another baby? Tamar announced in a recent radio interview that the pair teamed up for a book about love advice.
"We just finished it. It will be out on Black Friday, and it's also called Love And War" Tamar told 97.9 The Box Houston. "The reason why it's called that is it's a relationship book with Vince and I."
Fans shouldn't expect the standard wisdom one might come to expect from most relationship books. The couple will be taking you through their individual journeys to "I do." As she explained, "It's not a traditional love relationship book. I tell my story, Vince tells his story. Then we come together and tell our story. You get a lot from it."
But if she had any advice for the cast of "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta," she might tell them not to try it with her! Tamar's had some words with both K.Michelle and Joseline, and during her chat she shut them down. Starting off with K.Michelle, she questioned the singer, "Like seriously, why you mad? She just has a problem in general. She's been bullying me and just acting like a fool, and we're just going to pray for her."
Tamar also brushed off Joseline's assumptions that she either wants to the be the self-proclaimed Puerto Rican Princess. Joseline also implied that Tamar is jealous of her because she wants to be on "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta" too. "I don't want to be a cast member, I actually own my show. Sorry, boo," Tamar corrected. "[Have] a good seat…with a seat belt on."
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Recipe Inspirations World Flavors collection makes it easy and fun to explore global cuisines in your own home. Each packet includes pre-measured, all-natural, salt-free McCormick spices and herbs and a collectible recipe card. Make a flavorful crust for mild tilapia with crisp panko bread crumbs, fresh spinach and fragrant Mediterranean herbs like marjoram, basil and oregano.
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1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup butter, melted
1 1/2 cups chopped fresh spinach leaves
3/4 cup panko (Japanese) bread crumbs
1/3 cup finely chopped red bell pepper
3 tablespoons shredded Parmesan cheese
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In what appears to be a setback for Hollywood and the recording industry, the government said that it sees problems with the methodology used in studies those sectors have long relied on to support claims that piracy was destructive to their businesses. The accountability office even noted the existence of data that shows piracy may benefit consumers in some cases.
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French President Francoise Hollande and the country's First Lady Valérie Trierweiler, have ended their longtime affair following allegations he cheated on her with actress Juliet Gayet.
"I have ended the life in common that I have shared with Valérie Trierweiler," Hollande said in a statement released Saturday.
The love triangle has been making front-page news around the world since a French magazine alleged the affair between Hollande and Gayet earlier this month.
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Trierweiler checked herself into a hospital, citing "exhaustion" after the allegations — which Hollande never denied — went public.
She returned to France's presidential palace just outside of Paris in the village of Versailles earlier this week. Conveniently, it seems, Gayet, lived just minutes away.
Trietweiler is believed to have left the the palace she shared with Hollande just before he released his statement.
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PJ Jonas, Founder of Goat Milk Stuff, Wins 2013 StartupNation Leading Moms in Business Competition Sponsored by Staples
Goat Milk Stuff's natural soaps, lotions made on Jonas family´s Indiana farm.
Scottsburg, Indiana (PRWEB) May 21, 2013
PJ Jonas, founder of Goat Milk Stuff, won the StartupNation 2013 Leading Moms in Business Competition, sponsored by office products leader Staples®. The announcement was made by her family-run company that makes and markets natural goat milk soaps and more online at http://www.GoatMilkStuff.com.
PJ Jonas, a mom of eight, was the #1 winner based on the criteria of revenue growth, innovation, creativity, and the growth potential of Goat Milk Stuff. The competition by StartupNation.com, a leading business advice, resources and networking site for entrepreneurs, is sponsored by Staples, a leading business in office products.
"My family is elated that I won the prestigious competition. I especially thank StartupNation.com and Staples for encouraging moms to excel as entrepreneurs and for recognizing Goat Milk Stuff as an example of the American entrepreneurial spirit," said PJ Jonas.
In winning the Fifth Annual StartupNation competition, PJ Jonas is being awarded $10,000 by Staples, along with a $1,000 credit Staples gift card for office productivity improvements. She also receives consultation sessions with Business Interiors by Staples and StartupNation co-founders Jeff and Rich Sloan.
PJ Jonas said, "I especially congratulate the hundreds of women in the competition as each is an inspirational entrepreneur. The dedication and hard work it takes for a mom to build a business and raise children cannot be overstated."
In the Fifth Annual StartupNation competition, online at http://www.startupnation.com/leading-moms-in-business, the Top 10 businesses were selected by a popular vote from more than 300 contestants. PJ Jonas was then chosen #1 from that elite group by a panel of expert judges.
She added, "We are pleased customers enjoy the moisturizing effects of our natural Goat Milk Stuff soaps and other products, and are especially proud when customers tell us about how our soaps help their dry skin and related skin conditions from eczema to psoriasis."
Goat Milk Stuff products are made on the family´s Indiana farm by PJ and her husband Jim. Their eight children, ages 5 to 16, assist in age-appropriate ways from milking goats and shipping orders to answering emails and serving customers in the family store. The Jonas children are also homeschooled by PJ, a former engineer, and Jim, a former science teacher.
PJ started using milk from her farm´s dairy goats to make natural soaps for her children because she wanted to avoid the chemical ingredients she saw listed in most commercial soaps. Two years later, in 2008, during a family budget shortfall she sold the soap at a local fair to raise extra money. What began as a hobby grew to a thriving business when she founded Goat Milk Stuff so that others could benefit from her soaps. From starting on a 3-acre Indiana goat farm, Goat Milk Stuff has expanded as a successful business to the family´s 36-acre farm, complete with a new house, large soap making area, retail store and new barn for the growing herd of goats.
In the StartupNation competition, the public voted to choose the Top 10 candidates from a field of more than 335 women entrepreneur contestants. PJ Jonas was then selected as winner from among the Top 10 by a distinguished panel of experts. Judges included Jeff Sloan, co-founder of StartupNation; Carolyn Wall, President of NarrowStep, North America and previously publisher of New York and Newsweek magazines, Executive Vice President of Murdock Magazines and General Manager of Fox 5 TV in NYC; and Kimberly Jarvis, President of C. Jarvis Insurance Agency, specializing in equine, liability and farm & ranch insurance; and Aliza Sherman and Danielle Smith, famed co-authors of "Mom, Incorporated."
StartupNation (http://www.StartupNation.com) has over 130,000 members, more than 3 million annual users, and provides over 200,000 pages of business advice, resources and networking for entrepreneurs.
The Jonas business maintains an active social media presence with a growing following on Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/GoatMilkStuff, YouTube at YouTube.com/GoatMilkStuff and on Twitter at Twitter.com/GoatMilkStuff.
Online at http://www.GoatMilkStuff.com, the Scottsburg, Indiana company makes and markets all-natural Goat Milk Stuff products including goat milk soaps, lip balms, lotions, bath bombs, laundry soap, soy candles and more. For media contact Brian Dobson at DobsonPR.com or BD (at) DobsonPR.com.
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Although the 18-piece Georgia Big Band generally has plenty of holiday performance dates on its schedule, this year's dance card includes only one engagement - on Saturday, Dec. 15 at the Rockdale Auditorium in Olde Town Conyers.But there's a good reason for that. "I do just about all of the band's bookings, but since I'm still in the military, I was deployed for three months to the desert," said trombonist and band director John Cornacchione. "The time I was overseas is usually the time I'm booking jobs for us, but this year, I was in a hot, sandy place and by the time I got back home, it was too late." A resident of the town of Kathleen in middle Georgia, Cornacchione has more than 25 years of Air Force service and was dispatched to the Middle East this summer to coordinate the touring schedules of three bands, including the Air Force Reserve Command Band (from Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins) and a pair of Air National Guard bands from Illinois and Texas, that entertained U.S. troops in eight different countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait. "I was with the Reserve Command Band for 60 days straight, hitting as many locations as possible," the Maryland native said. Even though the ensemble - whose members hail from Kathleen, Macon, Dublin, Perry, Warner Robins, Forsyth and Fort Valley - won't play but one Christmas gig this year, it should be a performance to remember as Cornacchione said the band has been holding extra rehearsals for its east metro performance, which is hosted by the Conyers Rockdale Council for the Arts. "We've been hitting it pretty hard to get the music ready," he said. "Some of the music is pretty tough stuff. But this is a professional band with a lot of top-quality players. We've come a long way." In addition to playing many Christmas favorites, last year's performance in Conyers highlighted the work of Glenn Miller. Cornacchione said that this year's concert would again be played out in two sections, with the first half showcasing a bevy of big-band standards and the second half focusing on the tunes of the season. Tunes in the first set will include "Sweet Georgia Brown" (as performed by Louie Bellson), "Every Day I Have the Blues" (Count Basie), "St. Louie Blues" and "Mack the Knife" (Louis Armstrong), "Satin Doll" (Duke Ellington) and "Woodchopper's Ball" (Woody Herman). Second-set selections, all receiving the big-band treatment, include "Jolly Old St. Nick," "Feliz Navidad," "The Little Drummer Boy," "Home for the Holidays," "Noel," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and a "Nutcracker" medley originally arranged by the Les Brown's Band of Renown in the 1940s. The edition of the band visiting Conyers will include five saxophones, four trumpets, four trombones, a pianist, drummer and bassist, and male and female vocalists. Originally established in 1988 as the Dublin Jazz Band, the group eventually changed its name to reflect its more regional membership. Cornacchione - who said several other players in the band have recently returned from overseas duty - joined in 1998 and said the ensemble averages nine or 10 dates a year. "We do a lot of ballroom dancing events," he said. "Nine concerts doesn't sound like a lot but for a big band located in middle Georgia, that's actually pretty good. We rehearse at the Perry Arts Center, which used to be an old armory. In exchange for letting us practice there, we play a concert there every year." Due to his military obligations, Cornacchione was unable to perform in last year's "Glenn Miller Christmas" concert. But he said he received plenty of feedback, all of it positive, on the show. "I was told it was one of our best performances," he said. "The hall was great and the reception we got was great, the best we've ever had. People really like a Christmas concert played big-band style." Chris Starrs is a freelance writer based in Athens, Ga. If you have a feature story idea, contact Karen Rohr at email@example.com. SideBar: If You Go What: The Georgia Big Band performs a "Swinging Christmas Concert," presented by the Conyers Rockdale Council for the Arts When: 8 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 15 Where: Rockdale Auditorium, 903 S. Main St. in Olde Town Conyers Cost: Tickets are $10 and can be purchased by calling 770-922-3143 or by visiting www.conyersarts.org.
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On March 1, the SEC issued a long-awaited request for data from the public and other interested parties about whether to align the standards of conduct for broker-dealers and investment advisers. The agency's data request focuses largely on the benefits and costs of the current standards, as well as alternative approaches.
"Studies have shown that few investors realize that the standard of care they receive depends on the type of investment professional they use. And often investors do not know which type of financial professional they are relying on," said SEC Chairman Elisse B. Walter. "This request for information will help us in our ongoing consideration of alternative standards of conduct for certain broker-dealers and investment advisers, as well as potential harmonization of other aspects of regulation in this area."
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BOISE -- Two are in the hospital and another is dead after two seperate motorcycle crashes Saturday afternoon.
The first crash happened shortly before 2 PM this afternoon on Highway 71 at milepost 28 near Cambridge. Jackie Whitlach was driving her motorcycle when she went off the right shoulder and crashed. She was transported to St. Alphonsus by air, where she died from injuries relating to the crash. Whitlach was not wearing a helmet.
The second crash happened in Bannock County about three hours later. Nicholas Iasonides was driving on Portneuf Road when he also drove off the right shoulder and lost control. Iasonides and his passenger, Melissa Iasonides were both thrown from the motorcycle and injured. They were taken to Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello. Neither were wearing helmets.
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Nightly Restart Adventuring Class Ability Changes March / 08 / 2007
Game Update #1 is now live!
This update is larger than most patches and is a great opportunity to read the patch notes as weve added quite a few things!
Please Read: With Game Update #1 Customer Support now has an upgraded petition system to better assist players. As a result of the changes made to the petition system all open petitions have been closed. If you still have an issue that you need assistance with please re-petition the issue when you log into the game.
For more information about Game Update #1 please visit the Game Updates Page and read the patch notes below!
The following ability changes have gone live with todays daily restarts:
- All Classes
- Some attacks remain direct attacks. These are intended to be lower in damage, but have alternate uses and should be less expensive overall. These debuff, buff and are not intended to be used to be a main source of damage.
- Players can now learn new abilities by observing their enemies.
- Cleric
- Your finishing moves now all cost 10 endurance
- Maul of the Gods and Maul of Divinity now use a percentage of weapon damage instead of being direct attacks.
- Dread Knight |
- Increased the damage of Dark Bastion, Incite, Inflame, Shield of Fear, and Scourge.
- Scythe of Doom now drains for 100% of the damage it deals
- Increased the damage of Falling Petal, White Lotus Strike, Soul Cutter and LaoJin Burst
- Monk
- Counter attacks are now cost free
- Many finishing attacks were more costly than intended. Endurance costs have been lowered.
- Many attacks have been converted over to use weapon damage directly, either flat or percent based. This will increase over all damage and give better returns when upgrading weapons and increasing strength. Affected attacks are:
- Ashen Hand
- Crescent Kick
- Dragon's Rage
- Sundering Dragon Claw
- Fists of Transcendence
- Legendary Fists
- Flying Kick
- Kick of the Heavens
- Thousand Fists
- Three Finger Strike
- Thundering Fists
- Deadly Adder Hand
- Celestial Kick of the Master
- Withering Palm
- Stinging Backfist
- Steal the Wind
- Quivering Palm
- Paladin
- Stroke of Conviction now progresses differently to provide a more steady progression of hate. The new levels are: 20, 28, 36, 44, 50
- Maul of Valus has been added to trainers starting at level 18. This is a new line of finishing attacks that follows Hammer of Valus.
- Stroke of Fervor has been added to trainers starting at level 30. This is a new line of finishing attacks that follows Stroke of Conviction.
- Holy Strike and Blade of Vol Anari now deal their additional effects to fiendish races as well. Ulvari hunters rejoice!
- Ranger
- Increased the damage of Fleetblade
- Shaman
- Claw of Winter is now a standard attack that uses weapon damage.
- Warrior
- Increased the damage of Smash
- Increased the damage and hate portion of Overwhelm
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Gov't Mule has announced the second leg of the Winter By A Thread Tour, beginning in February, 2010 at the House of Blues in Cleveland, OH and wrapping up at another HOB location in Houston, TX. Complete tour dates below.
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11/21/09 Sat The Forum London, GB
12/09/09 Wed Horizon Records Greenville, SC
12/12/09 Sat Asheville Civic Center Asheville, NC
12/30/09 Wed Beacon Theatre New York, NY
12/31/09 Thu Beacon Theatre New York, NY
01/15/10 Fri Grand Lido Negril Negril, JM
01/16/10 Sat Grand Lido Negril Negril, JM
01/17/10 Sun Grand Lido Negril Negril, JM
01/18/10 Mon Grand Lido Negril Negril, JM
01/19/10 Tue Grand Lido Negril Negril, JM
01/20/10 Wed Revolution Live Fort Lauderdale, FL
01/21/10 Thu The Ritz Tampa, FL
01/22/10 Fri House of Blues Orlando, FL
01/23/10 Sat Saenger Theatre Mobile, AL
01/26/10 Tue The Music Farm Charleston, SC
01/27/10 Wed Lyric Theatre Oxford, MS
01/29/10 Fri Taft Theatre Cincinnati, OH
01/30/10 Sat Orbit Room Grand Rapids, MI
02/02/10 Tue House Of Blues Cleveland, OH
02/03/10 Wed The Rave/Eagles Ballroom Milwaukee, WI
02/04/10 Thu Canopy Club Urbana, IL
02/05/10 Fri House of Blues Chicago, IL
02/06/10 Sat The Pageant St. Louis, MO
02/09/10 Tue Capitol Theatre Davenport, IA
02/10/10 Wed Liberty Hall Lawrence, KS
02/12/10 Fri Gothic Theatre Englewood, CO
02/13/10 Sat The Fillmore Auditorium Denver, CO
02/14/10 Sun Belly Up Aspen, CO
02/17/10 Wed Flytrap Event Center Tulsa, OK
02/18/10 Thu House Of Blues Dallas, TX
02/19/10 Fri Stubb's BBQ Austin, TX
02/20/10 Sat House of Blues Houston, TX
Warren Haynes' Christmas Jam Tickets On Sale Now
Tickets are available now through Ticketmaster and The Civic Center Box Office for the Christmas Jam taking place on Saturday December 12.
This year's lineup features Counting Crows, Ani DiFranco, Gov't Mule, moe. & Stax Legend William Bell, w/ Special Guests Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, Adam Deitch, DJ Logic, Audley Freed, Jackie Greene, Col. Bruce Hampton, Robert Kearns, Kevn Kinney, Eric Krasno & George Porter Jr.
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Tips For Making Sense Of The Research Results Presented At This Year's ASH Annual Meeting
Published: Dec 8, 2012 6:17 am
Today marks the first day of presentations and poster sessions at the 2012 American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting.
The meeting, which is being held in Atlanta this year, will provide the multiple myeloma community with a veritable deluge of new research about existing myeloma treatments as well as therapies that are still under development.
As was the case with previous ASH annual meetings, The Myeloma Beacon will be covering this year's meeting in detail. Beacon readers can expect regular updates as the meeting proceeds, and additional, in-depth articles on specific topics once the meeting has ended.
In other words: There are going to be a lot of study results to interpret and make sense of.
That leads to some obvious questions, such as: How exactly should the results be interpreted? What is important, and what is not important? What should Beacon readers be focusing on when they are reviewing all the results coming out of the meeting?
To help with these sorts of questions, the Beacon editorial and writing team has put together a "cheat sheet" of sorts – a list of the key things Beacon readers should be looking for when they review research results presented at ASH (or, for that matter, any scientific meeting, or in journal articles).
The tips that follow focus primarily on interpreting results for studies that explore how effective and safe a particular myeloma therapy is. Some of the tips, however, also are applicable to interpreting results from other kinds of studies – for example, studies focused on how often certain side effects occur during the treatment of multiple myeloma.
The tips are listed as a series of questions readers generally will want to answer as they review the results of a study. The questions concern the following topics: the patient population of the study, the nature of the treatment being investigated, the effectiveness of the treatment, the safety of the treatment, and the type of study that was carried out.
What is the patient population covered by the research?
The patient population is perhaps the most fundamental issue to be aware of when reviewing the results of just about any study involving multiple myeloma patients.
It is so critical because just about any myeloma treatment will show higher levels of effectiveness – reflected in higher response rates and longer survival – in studies involving newly diagnosed patients than in patients who have been previously treated.
Thus, the first thing to determine about a study is whether or not it involves only newly diagnosed patients, only relapsed or refractory (treatment-resistant) myeloma patients, or a mix.
If a study involves only relapsed and/or refractory patients, a key statistic to look for is the median number of previous treatments that patients in the study have received.
Generally for studies involving relapsed/refractory patients, the median number of previous therapies will be either two or three (for studies that limit enrollment to patients with one to three, or perhaps four, lines of previous therapy), or it will be five or greater for treatments being tested on patients with few – if any – other treatment options.
The other aspect of the patient population to consider is what previous treatments the patients may have received. Here, the key is whether or not the patients have received treatment with a drug similar to – or the same as – a drug included in the treatment regimen being tested during the study.
Response rates will be higher for a treatment regimen being tested on a patient population which, by design, has excluded patients who have never been treated with a similar (or the same) treatment in the past.
For example, if a treatment regimen includes Revlimid (lenalidomide), then it is important to know if patients in the study were previously treated with Revlimid or with drugs in the same class as Revlimid, such as thalidomide (Thalomid) or pomalidomide.
The same holds for Kyprolis (carfilzomib), Velcade (bortezomib), and ixazomib (MLN9708), which are in the same class of drugs.
How many drugs were in the treatment regimen that was tested, and how long were the patients treated with the regimen?
Generally, the more drugs that are included in a treatment regimen, the greater the response there will be among the patients treated with the regimen.
Thus, when looking at clinical trial results, it is important to note whether the drug that is the focus of the study was administered by itself, or in combination with a steroid such as dexamethasone (Decadron) or prednisone, or in combination with a steroid and another anti-myeloma agent.
The acid text for a potential new drug, for example, is whether it generates a meaningful response on its own, or with just a steroid.
Similarly, a high response rate for a new drug is not as impressive if the response rate was seen when the drug was combined with a steroid and an existing myeloma treatment, such as Revlimid or Velcade.
Length of treatment matters as well. Response rates usually will be higher in patients who receive a treatment regimen for an extended period of time – for example, six months or a year – versus patients given the same regimen for a shorter period of time.
How effective is the treatment?
This, of course, is probably the most critical question to ask when looking at the results of a research study.
Response Rates
Typically, the effectiveness of a treatment will be measured by various response rates, such as how many patients achieved a complete response or how many had a partial response.
A useful way to make response rate comparisons across different studies is to focus on the overall response rate reported for a treatment, which usually is defined as the percentage of patients who achieved a partial, very good partial, or complete response.
The higher the overall response rate, the more effective the treatment.
In newly diagnosed patients, three-drug combinations are achieving overall response rates of 90 to 100 percent.
In patients with two or three previous lines of therapy, three-drug combinations have achieved an overall response rate of 80 to 85 percent.
In heavily pretreated myeloma patients with five previous lines of therapy, overall response rates have been observed in the 20 to 30 percent range for drugs administered alone or in combination with a steroid.
Because overall response rates among newly diagnosed patients are now regularly in the 90 to 100 percent range, it is becoming common in studies with newly diagnosed patients to look at not just the overall response rate, but also measures of the depth of response.
The depth of response is usually captured by the share of patients achieving either a complete response or a stringent complete response.
Among newly diagnosed patients treated with three-drug combinations, those two rates have reached 90 and 60 percent, respectively
Of course, the most important measure of a myeloma treatment's effectiveness is not its response rate. It is the treatment's impact on how long the patients live.
In the medical literature, the length of time that a patient lives after starting treatment with a specific therapy is known as the patient's "overall survival."
If a study reports a treatment's impact on overall survival, that is a particularly important statistic to pay attention to.
Overall survival may be reported as the percent of patients in the study who lived a certain period of time -- such as one year, two years, or five years. Or it may be reported as the median amount of time patients in the study lived after initiation of treatment.
Not all studies involving myeloma patients report overall survival statistics. This is because it can be challenging to track patients long enough to measure the impact of a treatment on overall survival.
As a result, studies often report a treatment's impact on what is called "progression-free survival." The progression-free survival for an individual patient is the length of time between (a) the start of the treatment being investigated in a study, and (b) the point at which the patient's myeloma stops responding to the treatment and begins to progress again.
In studies involving myeloma patients who have had several previous therapies, progression-free survival is generally viewed as a good indicator of the impact a treatment will have on overall survival. In such patients, a treatment that improves progression-free survival is also likely to improve overall survival. So the progression-free survival statistics for such studies are worth paying attention to.
This is not necessarily the case for studies involving myeloma patients with few (or no) previous therapies. In those studies, treatments that improve progression-free survival do not always improve overall survival. As a result, the progression-free survival statistics for such studies should be viewed with more caution.
How safe is the treatment?
Studies investigating a specific myeloma treatment generally report a long list of side effects that were observed among the study patients. The list usually includes how frequently each of the most common side effects was seen in the study patients.
To capture the most important aspect of these results, it can be useful to look for how many patients experienced particularly severe side effects – side effects which, in the medical literature, are classified as "Grade 3" or higher.
If a large share of patients in a study experience such side effects, that can be a sign that the treatment may not be well suited to use outside of the clinical trial environment.
All side effects, however, are not created equal.
For example, myeloma specialists often are not as concerned about side effects involving lower blood cell counts, since such side effects usually can be controlled by reducing or temporarily halting the dosing of the treatment being investigated.
In contrast, side effects of a more permanent nature – such as damage to the heart, kidney, or liver – are typically of greater concern to physicians.
Are the research results from a prospective – or retrospective – study?
Most of the key research reported at ASH will be from studies that have been carried out "prospectively." Prospective studies are ones where the research is designed in advance, patients are recruited for a study based on specific criteria, and the treatment investigated during the study is administered according to very specific rules.
Retrospective studies, in contrast, are studies where treatment results are collected "after the fact." Researchers determine a subject they are interested in exploring, look through existing patient data to identify those who have been treated in ways that will shed light on the question the researchers want to explore, and the patient data are then collated and analyzed to see what can be learned.
Physicians typically have greater faith in results from prospective studies because they usually give a more unbiased view of a treatment's efficacy and safety.
A retrospective study examining a specific myeloma therapy, for example, will find it difficult to control for the fact that many patients in the study received the therapy precisely because their physicians thought it would be the best one for them.
As a result, the retrospective study will tend to report results more favorable to the treatment than a properly designed prospective study.
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Myeloma presentations from later today as well as each of the remaining days of the ASH 2012 meeting will be summarized in ASH daily updates to be published at The Beacon the next few days. Additional coverage of key research results from the meeting will continue throughout the rest of the week in individual, topic-specific news articles. For all Beacon articles related to this year's ASH meeting, see The Beacon's full ASH 2012 coverage.
Related Articles:
- Lorvotuzumab Mertansine Combination Effective In Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma Patients (ASH 2012)
- The Myeloma Beacon To Report The Latest Research From The Upcoming American Society Of Hematology Annual Meeting (ASH 2012)
- Tabalumab Plus Velcade Shows Therapeutic Benefit In Previously Treated Multiple Myeloma Patients (ASH 2012)
- ASH 2012 Multiple Myeloma Update – Day Three: Late Morning Oral Session
- Circularly Permuted TRAIL May Be Effective For Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma (ASH 2012)


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The EU pavilion at the world expo in Shanghai marks the first time the EU has presented itself to a large Chinese audience.
It's the first time the EU has been represented at a world fair outside Europe: for 6 months (starting 1 May), the bloc will have its own pavilion in Shanghai - at the specific invitation of China, its second biggest trade partner.
The pavilion - in the expo's European area, along with most of the national pavilions of EU member countries - will be shared with Belgium, the country taking over the EU's 6-month rotating presidency this summer.
Over 70 million visitors are expected at the Expo, in China's best-known industrial and financial centre. One early, high-profile visitor to the Belgo-European pavilion was José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission.
Under the theme "intelligent Europe", the EU wants to showcase its achievements - such as the Erasmus student exchange programme and the single currency - not just to the Chinese but also to visitors from across the world. Other highlights of the pavilion's 3D animated presentation include environmental protection, European history and tourist attractions like the Acropolis and Eiffel tower.
European culture will also be to the fore: a festival of science, various concerts and plays, even football, with UEFA president Michel Platini one of the pavilion's sponsors. As part of a special themed week, a team of European football stars will play a match against a Chinese all-star line-up.