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A Study of Oral Rucaparib in Patients With a Solid Tumor (Phase I) or With gBRCA Mutation Ovarian Cancer (Phase II)
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The purpose of the first part of the study is to evaluate the safety of different doses and dosing regimens of oral rucaparib administered daily to patients with solid tumors.
The purpose of the second part of the study is to determine the safety and clinical activity of the RP2D of oral rucaparib administered daily to patients with a germline BRCA mutation and platinum-sensitive relapsed ovarian cancer.
Ovarian Cancer
Fallopian Tube Cancer
Peritoneal Cancer
Drug: Rucaparib
Phase 1
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase I/II, Open-Label, Safety, Pharmacokinetic, and Preliminary Efficacy Study of Oral Rucaparib in Patients With gBRCA Mutation Ovarian Cancer or Other Solid Tumor
- Incidence of Grade 3 or 4 adverse events and clinical lab abnormalities defined as DLTs (Part 1) [ Time Frame: Cycle 1 Days 1, 8, 15 and 22 ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- PK Profile for Single Dose and at Steady State [ Time Frame: Days 1 and 15 of Cycle 1 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]AUC - area under curve from time zero to time t or infinity; Cmax - max concentration; Tmax - time to max concentration; t1/2 - elimination half-life; kel - elimination rate constant; Vss/F - volume of distribution at steady state after nonintravenous administration; Cl/F - total plasma clearance
- Overall Response Rate per RECIST version 1.1 (Part 2) [ Time Frame: Every 2 - 3 cycles of treatment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- PK profile (fasted and fed) (Part 1 only) [ Time Frame: Day -7 and Day 1 of Cycle 1 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]AUC and Cmax
- Change from baseline in QT/QTc interval (ECG) (Part 1 only) [ Time Frame: Every week (Cycle 1); q3wks (Cycles 2+) ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Incidence of AEs, clinical laboratory abnormalities, and ECG abnormalities [ Time Frame: Every 1-2 weeks (Cycle 1); q3wks (Cycles 2+) ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Duration of response per RECIST version 1.1 (Part 2 only) [ Time Frame: Every 2-3 cycles of treatment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Response per RECIST version 1.1 (Part 1 only) [ Time Frame: Every 2-3 cycles of treatment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|November 2011
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|March 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: Oral Rucaparib monotherapy
Drug: Rucaparib
Oral tablets administered daily with 8 oz (240 mL) of water on an empty stomach or with food; 21-day cycles of treatment. In Part 1, the initial dose level is 40 mg/day (once a day); doses and dosing frequency(e.g. twice a day or three times a day) will be adjusted until Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) and the Recommended Phase 2 Dose (RP2D) are established. Patients enrolled in Part 2 will receive the RP2D for continuous 21-day treatment cycles until disease progression.
Other Name: CO-338; PF 01367338, AG 14699
Detailed Description:
Rucaparib (CO-338; formerly known as PF 01367338 and AG 14699) is an orally available, small molecule inhibitor of poly-adenosine diphosphate [ADP] ribose polymerase (PARP) being developed for treatment of ovarian cancer associated with homologous recombination [HR] DNA repair deficiency (HRD). The safety and efficacy of rucaparib has been evaluated in several Phase 1 and Phase 2 studies.
An oral formulation is the focus of current development efforts. Rucaparib is currently being investigated as monotherapy in patients with cancer associated with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. For this study, it is anticipated that rucaparib will promote cell death in the BRCA-deficient tumor cells of ovarian cancer patients with evidence of a germline mutation, thereby limiting tumor progression and providing therapeutic benefit.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- All cohorts (Dose Escalation and R2PD expansion): Adequate bone marrow, hepatic (liver), renal, and cardiac function.
- All cohorts: Locally recurrent or metastatic solid tumor (includes lymphoma) that has progressed on standard treatment.
- R2PD Expansion cohort only: Documented deleterious gBRCA mutation.
- High-grade epithelial (serous or endometrioid), fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal ovarian cancer associated with a gBRCA mutation that has relapsed >6 mos following prior platinum-based prior treatment and is measurable. Two to four prior treatment regimens permitted.
- Female
Exclusion Criteria:
History of prior malignancy except:
- Curatively treated non-melanoma skin cancer
- Breast cancer treated curatively >3 years ago, or other solid tumors treated curatively >5 years ago without evidence of recurrence
- Synchronous endometrial cancer (Stage IA) with ovarian cancer
- Prior treatment with any PARP inhibitor, including rucaparib. Patients who received prior iniparib are eligible.
- Untreated or symptomatic central nervous system metastases.
- Impaired cardiac function or clinically significant cardiac disease.
- Prior gastrectomy or upper bowel removal or any gastrointestinal disorder that would interfere with the absorption of rucaparib.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01482715
|Contact: Clovis Oncology Clinical Trial Information
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|United States, Florida
|Sarah Cannon Research Institute
|Sarasota, Florida, United States, 34232
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|United States, Massachusetts
|Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
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|United States, Michigan
|Karmanos Cancer Institute
|Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48201
|Contact: Kelly Schneider firstname.lastname@example.com
|United States, Pennsylvania
|University of Pennsylvania
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
|Contact: Susan Domchek email@example.com
|United States, Tennessee
|Sarah Cannon Research Institute
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37203
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|United States, Washington
|University of Washington
|Not yet recruiting
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98109
|Canada, Ontario
|Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
|Not yet recruiting
|Toronto, Ontario, Canada, MSG 2M9
|Sheba Medical Center
|Ramat Gan, Israel, 52621
|Contact: Hilla Ben Ami email@example.com
|Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
|Tel Aviv, Israel, 632394
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|Hospital Vall d'Hebron
|Barcelona, Spain, 8035
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|United Kingdom
|Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
|London, England, United Kingdom, SE1 9RT
|Contact: Anna M Borinaga email@example.com
|Sarah Cannon Research Institute UK
|London, England, United Kingdom, W1G 6AD
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|Newcastle University
|Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom, UK NE7
|Contact: Ruth Plummer firstname.lastname@example.com
|University College London Cancer Institute
|London, United Kingdom, WC1E 6BT
|Contact: Rebecca Kristeleit email@example.com
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|Clovis Oncology, Inc.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01482715 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|November 22, 2011
|Last Updated:
|March 11, 2015
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
United Kingdom: Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
Canada: Health Canada
Israel: Ministry of Health
Spain: Ministry of Health
Keywords provided by Clovis Oncology, Inc.:
gBRCA ovarian cancer
platinum sensitive
PARP Inhibitor
platinum sensitive ovarian cancer
platinum sensitive gBRCA ovarian cancer
gynecological cancer
relapsed disease
homologous recombination deficiency
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Ovarian Neoplasms
Adnexal Diseases
Endocrine Gland Neoplasms
Endocrine System Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Gonadal Disorders
Neoplasms by Site
Ovarian Diseases
Urogenital Neoplasms
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on July 01, 2015


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Regarded as one of the leading portraitists and watercolorists of the Gilded Age, the expatriate John Singer Sargent was also a consummate draftsman. He drew prolifically and precociously from a young age, as evidenced by this sketchbook, which he used while traveling in Germany in 1871–72, at age fifteen. Sargent filled many of the pages with his exercises in copying classical statuary from the famous plaster cast collection of Dresden's Albertinum museum. The sketches show a variety of approaches, from broad, linear strokes to refined tonal modeling.
- Artist: John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925
- Medium: Graphite, charcoal, watercolor and white chalk on paper
- Dates: 1871-1872
- Dimensions: Sketchbook: 9 3/16 x 11 7/8 x 1/2 in. (23.3 x 30.2 x 1.3 cm) Loose sheet - with watercolor of volcano: 3 5/8 x 4 7/8 in. (9.2 x 12.4 cm) (show scale)
- Markings: Bound sticker affixed to inside front cover, upper left: red sticker printed with, "SCHREIB-MAL & ZEICHNEN / MATERIALIEN / ADRIAN BRUGGER / 2. THEATINER STRASSE, 2 / MUNCHEN" Watermark on pages 1, 10, and 16: "DE CANSON FRERES / VIDALON-LES-ANNONAY"
- Signature: Signed on page 1, across top in graphite: "John Sargent 1871." and "John Sargent- / [Mu]nich"
- Inscriptions: [see Description]
- Collections:American Art
- Museum Location: This item is not on view
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- Accession Number: 1996.231
- Credit Line: Gift of Bronson Binger
- Rights Statement: No known copyright restrictions
- Caption: John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925). Sketchbook, 1871-1872. Graphite, charcoal, watercolor and white chalk on paper, Sketchbook: 9 3/16 x 11 7/8 x 1/2 in. (23.3 x 30.2 x 1.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Bronson Binger, 1996.231
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- Catalogue Description: Sketchbook of 16 extant pages of different colored papers (white, tan, blue-gray) bound between cloth-covered cardboard covers; drawings of various subjects, including Rembrandt portraits, classical statuary, pyramids, various animals (deer, camel and horse with cart), a street scene (theatrical subject?) and architectural details; one loose sheet with watercolor painting of volcano tucked inside back cover. All drawings in graphite unless otherwise noted. Front cover inscribed in graphite (very faint) "Munich / Dresden / 1871-2" p. 1: sketch of Rembrandt portrait and other schematic faces, signed across top "John Sargent 1871." and "John Sargent- / [Mu]nich" and inscribed below portrait "Rembrandt" p. 2: sketch of Rembrandt portrait (bearded man with cane), inscribed below image "Rembrandt. Munich." p. 3: sketches of heads and child with basket p. 4: sketches of deer p. 5: sketches of deer p. 6: (recto) heads of camel; (verso) landscape with pyramids in watercolor over graphite p. 7: very faint sketches of deer p. 8: sculpture bust of satyr, inscribed lower left "Dresden. [WP.?]" p. 9: street scene with man in ruffled collar serenading couple embracing under stairs in charcoal and white chalk p. 10: study of sculpture bust in charcoal with touches of white chalk; [following page excised] p. 11: rough sketch of horse-drawn cart, horses, & pedestrian with satchel p. 12: landscape sketch of rocky cliff p. 13: sketch of door with plant-covered staircase p. 14: sketch of Venus statue p. 15: (recto) sketch of statues: Hercules type and heads; (verso) sketches of statues: Demeter type, gladiator, hands, and others p. 16: (recto) rough sketch of Venus de Milo; (verso) rough sketches of heads Loose sheet tucked inside back cover: volcano in watercolor, inscribed on verso "Kivéeski" Inside back cover inscribed at lower left "PN[S?]N"; has paper pocket and cloth loop holder for drawing instrument
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The Allison Inn and Spa is a Luxurious Green-Roofed Getaway in Oregon Wine Country
The Allison Inn and Spa is nestled in Newburg, Oregon's Willamette Valley, which is quickly becoming a choice destination for wine-lovers. The boutique hotel has 85 deluxe accommodations including 8 suites as well as a terrace, a spa, and a penthouse centralized around a dramatic four-story glass enclosed staircase. It is currently rated as the #1 hotel in Newburg by TripAdvisor, and with its perfectly manicured rose and flower gardens and immaculate rooms, it's easy to see why.
While it's a world-class hotel in its own right, The Allison Inn and Spa has also been recognized as a premier green hotel and boasts a bevy of sustainable considerations and practices. The solar panels on the hotel's roof produce hot water and electricity for a projected 13% energy cost reduction and the green sedum roofs on the meetings and events wings allow slow rainwater runoff and keep the interior of the structure cool. Additionally, you won't find any plastic bottles of water in this resort as the staff provides free, daily in-room delivery of glass bottles filled with fresh drinking water which guests can pour into the provided emerald-green glasses made out of recycled wine bottles by Forest Grove-based Rebootle. Amenities like this not only reduce the hotel's carbon footprint, they also help to educate guests who might not be as environmentally savvy. Instead of simply taking something away like other accommodations might (leaving a card informing people not to throw their towels on the floor if they plan to reuse them), the Allison adds these special touches to show patrons that sustainability doesn't have to equate to "less."
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On episode #6 of the podcast Urban Agriculture, Dickson and Vincent provide an overview of the technologies that allow the practice of indoor farming.
You can find Urban Agriculture #6 at www.urbanag.ws.
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On episode #6 of the podcast Urban Agriculture, Dickson and Vincent provide an overview of the technologies that allow the practice of indoor farming.
You can find Urban Agriculture #6 at www.urbanag.ws.
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On episode #5 of the podcast Urban Agriculture, Dickson and Vincent discuss how the vertical farm concept was developed and where it stands today.
You can find Urban Agriculture #5 at urbanag.ws.
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I was about to give my rehearsal talk at a recent TEDx conference when a rather distinguished looking older woman (another presenter at the same conference) approached me, and with a stern facial expression that one could only interpret as constrained hostility, stared directly into my eyes and confronted me: "Please stop this foolish crusade advocating for vertical farms in cities. A man with your amount of influence and education should know better". She stopped just short of poking her index finger deeply into my chest as she ranted. Having finished her tersely delivered directive, she pivoted smartly in military fashion and walked off into the empty darkened auditorium to await her turn at our practice session. I barely had the opportunity to thank her for being so forthright, candid, and above all fearless about expressing her opinion of urban agriculture, and in specific for my role in propagating enthusiasm for it. Remarkably, I resisted following her to her seat and getting into a heated argument/discussion with her about climate change and the demise of agriculture in general. Instead, I went on about the business at hand and gave my eighteen minutes on the virtues of urban agriculture and the role that vertical farming might play in its development. It occurred to me upon much reflection that what she really might have meant to say was that vertical farming will never be able to replace outdoor farming so why bother trying. In her own talk, she spoke passionately of the population explosion and too many mouths to feed, but did not expound even a little as to what she might want do to alleviate the situation. Her primary concern appeared to be about her newly arrived grandchild and the depressing future it and the next few generations of humans will have to face. Very depressing, really. Her message was not dissimilar from that of Al Gore or James Lovelock as to the state of the planet; lots of depressing data and no apparent solutions on the horizon. In all my experience as a public speaker I do not recall ever having expressed the idea that vertical farming should replace all outdoor farming as the only solution to the ills of the world. Nonetheless, I think that was her take on what I was all about. Suffice it to say that since then I have endeavored to give better reasons for insinuating agriculture into the build environment.
Lets begin the argument in favor of urban agriculture by admitting that cities are the main reason we are in such a bad state of affairs with respect to rapid climate change and its deleterious effects on traditional agriculture. In 2011 for example, the United States lost some 110 billion dollars worth of grain crops due to a protracted drought throughout the American Midwest. Unless a miracle happens, it appears almost certain that the state of California will be the next victim of drought in 2014. This could affect virtually every US citizen, with significantly higher food prices and may even affect food availability, as well. Cities only occupy some 2-3 percent of the Earth's landmass, but emit over seventy percent of the atmospheric carbon dioxide. Nearly fifty percent of us now live in cities. Seven billion people require farmland equivalent in landmass to the size of South America. This calculates out to an astounding 6,890,000 square miles! That means that cities need some 3,440,000 square miles of land to satisfy their daily caloric needs. From 1950s to the present, the Brazilian rainforest has been negatively impacted by encroachment, mainly for the sake of agriculture, sacrificing some 700,000 square miles of hardwood forest for farmland to feed its own growing population. Hm, you might say. Up to this point, the facts I've just presented seem to support the outlook forecasted by the doomer gloomers. But the built environment need not shoulder the entire burden of food production for there to be real hope for straightening out the mess we have made for ourselves. If cities produced just ten percent of the ground crops they currently consume, by employing sustainable indoor vertical farms and greenhouses to do so, then nearly half of the damaged portion of the Brazilian rainforest could theoretically be restored (340,000 square miles worth) and a significant amount of carbon would be sequestered as the result. This calculation is based on the fact that indoor farming is carried out year round and is over ninety percent efficient at producing food crops. By the way, outdoor farming is, at best, only fifty percent successful (insect pests, plant diseases, adverse weather conditions) and can only occur at temperatures that consistently average 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Enabling cities to be productive centers for locally grown vegetables, herbs, and fruits, might be all that is needed to turn the corner to a more sustainable future.
Ultimately, I strongly believe that we should work towards the creation of eco-cities that mimic in every way the functions necessary for sustaining an intact ecosystem, using our creative intellects and cutting-edged technologies to get the job done. Primary productivity is an essential feature of all ecosystems, so why not start with this activity as the basis for creating the eco-city? Today, it is easy to do, witness all the new varieties of vertical farms and rooftop greenhouses going up inside the built environment. Generating just ten percent of our farm production within the world's cities just might be enough needed to slow down our runaway climate regime and give us some much needed time to figure out ways of dealing with rising sea levels, as the climate continues to challenge our quality of life on Planet Earth.
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Big news: a new vertical farm just opened in Bedford Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, the current epicenter of vertical farming in the United States. And it's not just an ordinary vertical farm (if that term can be used at this early stage of this fledgling industry). It's a really big commercial vertical farm, encompassing some 90,000 sq. ft. of growing space inside a two story-tall, windowless, abandoned warehouse. Called Farmed Here, it is designed to occupy the full extent of the indoor space of that facility – 150,000 sq. ft.! It currently produces oodles of tasty leafy greens (basil, arugula, etc.) and one value-added product, a vinaigrette. What's more, Farmed Here will eventually employ some 200 people when it finally reaches its full production potential. With that much room to fill up with edible plants, and no outside sunlight to help it along, the energy budget might intimidate faint of heart entrepreneurs, but Farmed Here's forward-looking CEO, Yolanta Hardej, expects that within just a year from now, her enterprise could be deriving most of its energy needs from composting, generating methane gas. A similar energy scheme will soon be employed by the highly successful vertical farm The Plant, located in the heart of the abandoned stockyards district of Chicago and run by John Edel and colleagues.
One gets the distinct impression, and correctly so, that the "City With Big Shoulders" is about to burst onto the global scene as a major player in urban sustainability, encouraged by a rising number of urban agricultural initiatives. Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel has repeatedly endorsed urban agriculture as an integral part of that city's push for long-term sustainability in several press conferences he has presided over within the past few months. Bloomberg Weekly News in January of 2013 declared that vertical farming would be a sound small business investment for the near future (images.businessweek.com/slideshows/20101105/20-small-businesses-of-the-future#slide20); Yahoo News agrees (http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor/five-careers-future-031453252.html).
A recent workshop I attended in Berlin, organized and sponsored by a branch of the German government exploring the prospects of federal funding for the developmeynt of vertical farms, attests to the fact that some countries (Korea, Japan, China, Germany) are getting wise to the fact that vertical farms may be the answer to many environmental issues, such as a rising atmospheric temperature and an out-of-control climate regime. Meanwhile, back in the U.S. of A., several other new vertical farm initiatives have been announced: "Green Girls" in Memphis, Tennessee, and Green Spirit Farms in New Buffalo, Michigan. Gotham Greens, a commercially successful high-tech 2,000 sq ft. greenhouse operation in Brooklyn, just announced that construction of another facility of theirs has begun (20,000 sq ft), and will be located on top of the new Whole Foods supermarket in the Gowanus section of that same borough of New York City. I can only hope that when that new facility achieves maximum production several years from now, but consumer demand for fresh, local produce still exceeds their capacity to provide for everyone in that neighborhood, then perhaps another floor's worth of greenhouse will be added to Gotham Greens already existing structures, turning them into true vertical farms! This would naturally lead to the emergence of a friendly competition between The Big Apple and The Second City in promoting vertical farming as an integral part of all urban agricultural initiatives. Onward and upward!
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With the advent of the first commercial examples of vertical farms now up and running, the vertical farm industry is now officially a reality. Over the last two years, it has emerged into the light of day from its virtual womb, the internet, and has taken its first deep breaths. Vertical farming is now in the earliest stage of its growth and development, a place comparable to all the other industries that preceded it, beginning with the very first ones that appeared on the scene in Manchester, England at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Like all the others, the vertical farm industry will undoubtedly undergo remarkable evolutionary changes over the next few years, but in a more rapid and streamlined fashion than its immediate predecessor, the high tech greenhouse industry. This is due largely to the advent of sophisticated computer-controlled indoor environments (hydroponic nutrient delivery systems, efficient, spectrum-specific LED grow lights, innovative, energy-saving HVAC systems, etc., and a robust application of automation), and cutting edge manufacturing technologies, witness, over just the last ten years, the rapid advancement of the cell phone, the hybrid car, wind power, and the latest versions of plasma screen TVs. Examples of vertical farms can now be found all over the globe. Here, then, are the newest kids on the block.
The island country of Singapore announced last month that a commercial version of a vertical farm was now in operation (Sky Greens – skygreens.appsfly.com). It is a four-story, transparent structure fitted with A-frame growing systems that produce leafy green vegetables. It uses sunlight as a source of energy, and captured rainwater to drive a clever pulley system to move the plants on the grow racks, ensuring an even distribution of sunlight for all the plants.
U.S.A. – Bedford Park:
Farmed Here (www.farmedhere.com) opened in 2013 as a commercial-level VF that is housed in a 90,000 square foot post-industrial building in Bedford Park, IL. It produces three products; arugula, basil, and sweet basil vinaigrette.
Canada – Vancouver:
Local Garden (www.localgarden.com) is a newly constructed two-story tall, 6,000 sq. ft. transparent building located on a parking garage rooftop in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is outfitted with an innovative growing platform system (Verticrop: www.alterrus.ca/verticrop/the-technology/) that produces micro-green salad ingredients, baby spinach, and baby kales.
Plant factories - aka vertical farms – have been up and running for at least two years, and some have been operational for a lot longer than that. There are some fifty of these indoor vegetable farms spread out over most of the country (e.g., Nuvege –www.nuvege.com; Angel Farms – www.anglefarms.com). Half of them employ sunlight as the sole energy source for growing crops, while an equal number use some variety of LED grow lights. Most of those using grow lights resemble large, windowless warehouses. All of them produce a wide variety of high yield leafy greens. One Japanese online web site estimates that the plant factory industry will grow by over 70 billion yen over the next 5 years, mostly from private investment, and whose progress is largely driven by consumer demand for healthy, radiation-free food in the aftermath of the Fukushima meltdown event.
It is anticipated that over the next year or two, the number of viable commercial vertical farm operations the world over will increase at a rate commiserate with city dweller's demand for safer, reasonably priced, locally grown food. At the same time, severe weather patterns around the world continue to increase in frequency, from extreme droughts to massive floods, and the price of oil remains high. As the result, the availability of food, no matter what the crop, has become more and more problematic, as costs related to production and shipping skyrocket. Thus, it now appears likely that vertical farms of a wide variety will become a common feature of the global urban landscape over the next decade, as a global industrial-level response to our ever-changing climate.
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Several weeks ago, a remarkable meeting was held on the University of Maryland campus in Hyattsville, Maryland sponsored by the National Science Foundation entitled "Challenges in Vertical Farming". It was well-organized by Dr. Sanjiv Singh and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University. In attendance were over seventy people from a wide number of disciplines that converge on the concept of vertical farming – LED grow lighting, robotics, aeroponics and hydroponics, rooftop greenhouse crop production, agricultural economics to name a few. There were several scientists from national space agencies (USA and Germany) in attendance, and many others from various universities (e.g., U. Arizona, Chiba University, Kyoto University, Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University). In addition, there were several commercial controlled environment growers (Gotham Greens and AeroFarms) to offer their take on the practicality of growing crops indoors. The theme of the conference was to identify issues that needed to be addressed before commercially viable vertical farms could be contemplated. Sixteen speakers presented their views on numerous subjects over the course of the day. As the conference progressed, it became obvious that many of the perceived impracticalities of vertical farming were already being addressed, and remarkably some had even been resolved. None of the participants in attendance, nor the 200 or so who had logged on to the live feed streaming online, offered the view that vertical farms were impractical and or unrealistic (a common opinion offered by numerous early critics of the concept). To the contrary, everyone who spoke identified numerous technological solutions to bottleneck issues such as efficiency of LED grow lights. Current LEDs are commercially available at only 28% efficiency, but they need to be around 50-60% efficient when considering the economics of operating an indoor farm. One participant offered that he had attended a conference the week before on LED lighting and a physicist attending that same meeting announced that the theoretical efficiency for LED lights is an astounding 100%! We learned also that at least one large internationally recognized leader in LED lighting technology had already invented an LED system that was 50% efficient, but the company was not yet willing to make it commercially available. If true, this would greatly alter the perception on the part of some skeptics of vertical farming that it's the excessively expensive energy needed by any indoor farm that is standing in the way of commercial development. The second day of the conference was devoted to brainstorming for ideas to address the issues identified the day before. All of the four groups of speakers agreed that efficiency of LED lights needed to be far higher to advance to the commercial stage of the concept. Let's challenge the LED manufacturers to form a consortium and make high efficiency LED grow lighting systems available now! Bring on the urban high rise farming industry!
For a link to the presentations: http://challengesinverticalfarming.org
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Drought is defined as a period of extreme dryness bracketed by two periods of rain. The length of a drought period can last for a week, a month, or even a year. Some droughts have lasted even longer, witness the 1920-1930s in the American Midwest. During a drought, there are just three choices: move, die, or pray. Praying did not bring on the rain in the 1930s, though many a Midwestern dirt farmer got calloused knees from trying, none the less. Actually, some life forms that cannot move (mostly plants) can go into a form of suspended animation. Desert plants are really good at this (surprise, surprise)! Throughout our brief history of living on earth, droughts have been the single most important environmental issue responsible for determining where we can live. In deserts, water is available, but it is extremely limited in quantity. That is why very few cultures have adapted to this harsh environment.
Every ecosystem can be characterized by knowing just two physical parameters: the annual temperature profile and its precipitation regimen. Freshwater is crucial for all terrestrial life forms. That is why it should be valued above all else as nature's premier natural resource.
When we begin to alter our world in ways that alter the distribution of freshwater resources, we are asking for trouble. In the United States, there are over seventy five thousand dams that have created lakes, most of which are used as sources of drinking water and irrigation. In most years, this scheme has allowed farmers the luxury of growing crops that, if no irrigation was possible, they would surely fail. Other farming communities (particularly in the flat, grassy plains states) must rely on underground sources of water for irrigation and drinking water. Regarding surface water, the amount of precipitation that fell in that year will determine the outcome of agriculture in that region. For those agricultural situations that rely only on ground water, annual rainfall does little to help provide enough for extended periods of time. In our Midwest, the Ogallala Reservoir is the primary resource for irrigation water, and its been drawn down to levels that require oil-driven pumps to get enough to allow their crops of wheat and corn to thrive. This year, the price of oil was so high that farmers elected not to irrigate. The result was disastrous.
In early August of this year, as I drove back home from my annual fishing trip out West, I had the "luxury" of surveying the season's crops from Utah to New Jersey, and all the states in between via US routes 70 and 80. The USGS estimates that 2012 will go down in the record books as a very dry year, perhaps even the driest on record. Last year, Texas was devastated by drought, loosing over 5 billion dollars in crops and livestock. This year, it looks like Texas will take another big hit in crops lost to drought. In the case of the American heartland (Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio), I witnessed field after field of what looked like golden wheat that upon closer inspection, turned out to be abandoned cornfields! The soybeans did not look so great, either. No corn or soybeans means no animal feed. President Obama recently declared that the federal government will buy livestock from drought-affected ranchers and set up an inventory of frozen meats to help them get by until the droughts break. What this will mean for the price of food remains to be calculated, but its certain that the consumers in most urban centers will pay a lot more for the basics of what constitutes the American diet; beef, chicken, fish, milk, flour, bread, vegetables and many fruits. A recent estimate of the amount of money this year's drought has already cost the U.S. farmers is between 18-20 billion dollars. Some 40-50 per cent of the entire country has now been declared a disaster zone, so extensive is this year's drought. At least indoor farmer's crops are safe this year, having opted long ago to grow their crops in a more secure, predictable fashion in greenhouses.
Vertical farming promises to expand this approach, so that perhaps in the near future, food prices will not fluctuate with the uncontrollable weather patterns. Dare I remind us all that climate change issues will continue confound and disrupt this already seriously flawed system of outdoor food production. What a different world this would be if we could produce most of what we needed year round in vertical farms located inside cities. I know this sounds a bit preachy, but I think the concept of the vertical farm is the only viable option we have to a long-term solution to the world food crisis. Why, I'll bet we could even work out a way to produce animal feed this way, too. Who knows, maybe some day soon a Texas billionaire will step up to the plate and start that ball rolling!
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I love to cook, and I really enjoy shopping for the evening meal's ingredients and then creating it (and eating it, too). I am also a kitchen voyeur. So, the other night, while aimlessly flipping channels, I landed on a popular show on the Cooking Channel (their motto is "Stay Hungry") called Iron Chef America. Some of you might be familiar with it. I don't usually like contest shows, but the host was Alton Brown, a renowned chef and a damn funny and clever one, too, I might add. So I gave in and became thoroughly engrossed in the often-frenetic culinary machinations of two highly gifted food alchemists. I might also add that one of my favorite films is the adorable "Ratatouille". I will watch it in its entirety when every I happen to see it playing on some cable station.
Two iconic iron chefs were selected, Bobby Flay, one of my favorites, and Rick Bayless, one of my other favorites. In my humble opinion, the only chefs comparable to these guys are Jacques Pepin, my current all-time favorite, and Julia Child, in my view the greatest all-round chef of modern times! Flay and Bayless were charged with using buffalo meat as the secret ingredient in as many Mexican/Southwestern style cuisine dishes as they could assemble in one hour. Of course they had lots of help from their highly competent staff of sous chefs. They both used lots of different ingredients derived from a wide variety of crop plants to augment and compliment the meats being prepared. As the show unraveled, amid Flay shout-outs and Bayless' artful food plating schemes, I began fantasizing that one of the requirements of the contest should be that they had to use only those ingredients that were grown in their own vertical farms attached to their up-scale restaurants in New York and Chicago. In the end, cherubically charming Flay won on a single style point! I had them tied for first.
As I dozed off afterwards, with images of buffaloes jumping one at a time over the fence at the Ted Turner ranch in the Ruby River valley of western Montana, I got to thinking (dreaming) about LED lighting for indoor crops and how much we need to improve the situation before the commercial side of vertical farming becomes a no-brainer with respect to the return on investment side of things. Granted, there are lots of places where energy is never going to be a major factor in deciding whether or not to invest in a vertical farm, for example Iceland, New Zealand, and other parts of the world where geothermal energy is there for the taking. In addition, other areas in which solar energy is begging to be applied to this new agricultural initiative – The Middle East, Australia, the American Southwest – would also be able to employ LEDs as they currently exist and still reap a favorable return on their investment. But for the rest of us, help is needed at the level of improving LED lighting efficiency to encourage more people to get involved in building and operating vertical farms.
So… how would it play out if we could use the Iron Chef America format to showcase the latest in LED lighting, turning it into a lighting "throw-down", in which anyone with an improved LED lighting system for making green plants grow faster and better using less energy than the currently commercially available LEDs could participate. Of course, the time frame would be longer than an hour; weeks to months would be more appropriate, depending upon the crops selected. In addition to the standard leafy green vegetables (kale, spinach, lettuce), root vegetables, vine crops, grains, and bush berries might be a good mix of crops to challenge any lighting scheme/growing system. All crops would be maintained under a standardized hydroponic configuration, save for the lighting. To insure fairness of growing conditions, a grand master/iron chef-like personality with indoor farming experience would be placed in charge. Rules and such would be drawn up by a blue-ribbon committee, and the contest would be well-advertized. High-end celebrity chefs, and green foodie Hollywood stars might decide to back such a venture. The Discovery Channel might pick up the show, calling it: "Let There Be Light". At the end of the show, large cash prizes (millions of dollars; Mr. Buffett, are you listening?) would be awarded in each crop category to the group that showed a significant improvement in the ratio of grams of biomass produced per kilowatt of electricity used. The actual crops could be donated to worthy causes as food donations under the slogan, "Up With Food"!
The companies that could really make a difference here are Phillips, Siemens, and General Electric. They have all invested heavily in LED technologies, and great strides have been made in just over the last few yeas in terms of efficiency and specificity for what the plants need. More work is needed, however. They are all on the verge of setting the vertical farming/indoor agriculture industries free from economic burdens related to energy use. My plea is for them to keep on truckin' and stay hungry, so that the two billion people who go to bed that way each day will eventually have something better to look forward to!
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), has just released its 2011 assessment of the state of the world's agriculture and it is not a pretty picture. In fact, its down right grim:
ROME (AP): December 1, 2011 — The United Nations has completed the first-ever global assessment of the state of the planet's land resources, finding in a report Monday that a quarter of all land is highly degraded and warning the trend must be reversed if the world's growing population is to be fed.
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that farmers will have to produce 70 percent more food by 2050 to meet the needs of the world's expected 9 billion-strong population. That amounts to 1 billion tons more wheat, rice and other cereals and 200 million more tons of beef and other livestock.
But as it is, most available land is already being farmed, and in ways that often decrease its productivity through practices that lead to soil erosion and wasting of water.
That means that to meet the world's future food needs, a major "sustainable intensification" of agricultural productivity on existing farmland will be necessary, the FAO said in "State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture."
Things appear to be getting worse and worse, as year after year, the climate continues to change at an accelerating rate, and adverse weather events continue to increase as the result of that acceleration, despoiling huge tracts of arable land and rendering them unusable for the foreseeable future. How much more of this environmental insult must we endure before the world's agricultural communities stop what they are doing and adopt new methods for growing most of our soil-based crops? Of course, I am referring to vertical farming.
I have been advocating for some years now for all the richest countries to pool a small fraction of their trillions of dollars of resources (ten billion would do the job nicely) and support the establishment of a global urban-based agriculture that takes advantage of the fact that we can easily grow most of what we need inside controlled environment structures. In fact, The Republic of Korea is already ahead of the rest of the world in this regard, having established a vertical farm and nearby seed bank in March of 2011. Successful commercial ventures in Japan (Nuvege), have shown that this method of food production can be highly profitable. A few other vertical farms have been established in other places, but there needs to be a much large investment in this kind of farming if we are to stave off a world food crisis that may already be starting.
In the developed world, trying to save traditional agriculture by allowing large argo-businesses to have their way with the soil has done nothing more than to allow these companies to reap more profits, as food prices increase due to the increase in the price of oil. We need a national policy shift to give a voice to the consumers who continue to demand safe, health food choices that are available year round. This can only be achieved by production schemes that employ high tech greenhouse methods – hydroponics, aeroponics, aquaponics. Locating large-scale indoor farms next to the largest urban centers solves many problems that now plague the current food system – harvesting before the produce is ripe, shipping and handling, food spoilage – at every step of the food chain from farm to table.
Elections are just around the corner, yet I have heard very little about the food crisis and potential solutions from either side of the aisle. What's up with that??? Come on America. Lets face up to the situation and solve this problem. Guaranteed that if we do, then lots of other problems will disappear, as well!
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Robert Shope was a highly respected virologist who discovered, among other things, the causative agent of warts, the Shope papilloma virus. He also worked on parasitic worms, and in particular Metastrongylus, a parasitic lung worm often found in farm-raised swine. Pigs get infected by ingesting the embryonated eggs found in fecally-contaminated soil. Shope demonstrated that these long-lived, environmentally resistant ova were capable of harboring swine influenza virus, serving as its "Trojan Horse". This finding led him to speculate that Metastrongylus might play a role in the transmission of the virus from pig to pig, and perhaps even to people, as well. Swine flu is a life-threatening respiratory infection, so knowing how it is maintained in the environment was an important step in the design of public health programs to limit its spread. The fact that Metastrongylus is found everywhere that pigs are raised is a testament to its simple strategy for transmission. As it turned out, this parasite was not responsible for transmitting swine flu, but Shope's studies did re-enforce the fact that fecal contamination of pig farms was impossible to control.
Shope was feisty and notorious for his tell-it-like-it-is attitude and "to hell with social protocol". His laboratory was located at the prestigious Rockefeller University in New York City on the third floor of Theobald Smith Hall. But despite being recognized as a venerable charter member of that "ivory tower" of science, he was compelled to plainly announce to the world his findings regarding the transmission of his now favorite virus, swine flu. Shope created a rather rude saying in bold, easy-to-read lettering and posted it prominently above the entrance to his lab for all visitors to see (much to the chagrin of university officials leading tours of that famous institution, I might add). It read:
"The Earth Is Covered With A Thin Layer of Shit"
In principle, the World Health Organization agrees with Shope. They state flatly that over half of the world's farms still use untreated animal waste as fertilizer, and most of it is of human origin. Feces are easy to get and cost nothing. It is also a very good fertilizer! But this creates a real problem, because like the pig parasite story, this unsanitary practice results in the transmission of many fecally-transmitted infectious diseases of humans, as well: a wide variety of dysentery-causing microbes, geo-helminths (intestinal worm parasites that include Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, Strongyloides stercoralis, and hookworm), and several life-threatening water-borne parasites, the most serious of which is schistosomiasis. These two groups of fecally-transmitted worms infect some 2 billion individuals, and cause serious illness in millions of children, world-wide. Hookworm, alone, infects some 1 billion people. To acquire hookworms, all one has to do is walk around barefoot on ground that is contaminated with human feces that contain the eggs of these parasites. The simple act of swimming in fecally-contaminated fresh water exposes people to the schistosomes. In both of these cases, the parasite does the rest by penetrating our unbroken skin.
Farming facilitates the spread of these parasites, albeit unbeknownst to the farmer. Other microbial infections of animal origin regularly piggy-back on fresh produce, causing outbreaks of serious diseases such as listeriosis, salmonella, and E. coli strain 0157. The prevention of all of these health risks is to isolate our crops from outside sources of fecal contamination. Indoor controlled environment agriculture is the answer. The more we become victimized by preventable outbreaks of food-borne or water-borne illnesses, the easier it is to convince the public as to the value of creating another way of raising food.
Less developed countries are the most affected by these parasites. Eliminate these parasites and the world would be quite a different place. Literacy rates would go up, infant mortality rates would plummet, and the economic picture would go from grim to self-sustainable. Eventually, birth rates would also drop, and people would now be able to afford so-called "luxury" items like TVs, homes, and cars.
The vertical farm movement is now well underway, and with it the emergence of a new era in food safety and security, whose mantra is avoidance rather than treatment of easily preventable infectious diseases. Millions of lives and billions of health care dollars will be saved when finally everyone can enjoy fresh vegetables and fruits grown under controlled conditions designed specifically to prevent the spread of these insidious microbial infections. Talk about a good return on investment!
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The Role of Stress Echocardiography for the Evaluation of Patients with Coronary Artery Disease
Date of Online Release: November 20, 2008 Date of Original Presentation: March 25, 2008 Lecture Series: Clinical Echocardiography Lecture Series Credits: .75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
This presentation discusses the role of stress echocardiography in the evaluation of coronary artery disease, including the basis, indications, and limitations of stress echocardiography. Multiple cases are presented.
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Target Audience The intended audience for this continuing medical education activity includes cardiologists, physicians, and cardiovascular surgeons with an interest in the latest diagnostic recommendations for coronary artery disease.
Method of Instruction / Participation This enduring material comprises slide sets with text and audio derived from a live clinical echocardiography presentation with post activity assessment and evaluation.
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Arunima Misra, MD Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas
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The Texas Heart Institute designates this educational activity for a maximum of .75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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Delivering the 1000mph Bloodhound wheel…
…in a 510bhp, 155mph Range Rover Sport
Posted: 13 Dec 2013
As courier vans go, it sure beats a battered Vauxhall Vivaro with a copy of the Daily Star tucked up against the windscreen. Waiting in the Fuchs loadbay is a box-fresh Range Rover Sport - the 510bhp supercharged V8 version, naturally - in which TopGear Rapid Courier Services Ltd will transport the very first cheese-like wheel for the 1000mph Bloodhound SSC from Germany to Scotland. A car big enough to accommodate a metre-diameter lump of aluminium, a car quick enough to keep pace with the absurd turnaround times of the Bloodhound project. The fastest delivery van in the world transporting the fastest wheel in the world. And 11 hours to make Glasgow. Best get a wiggle on.
But first to secure the cheese in the RRS's boot. Last night, at about 10pm, I received a text message from an unknown number. It read: a couple of 500kg ratchet straps, some chocks and a LOT of bubblewrap... This wasn't - I established in the course of a mildly embarrassing text exchange - the kinkiest booty-call SMS in history, but rather a missive from a worried Bloodhound engineer making sure I'd considered the realities of securing 220kg of slippery metal on a flat bootfloor. Clearly, I hadn't.
A rapid shopping spree later, as a forklift drops the cheese into the back of the RRS, we ratchet and chock and bubblewrap the aluminium to within an inch of its short life, cranking down the straps until there's not a hint of slack. "That," I declare with the conviction of a man who doesn't really understand physics, "is going nowhere but Glasgow."
As are we. Out of the loadbay, down the ramp and, as we draw to a halt at Fuchs's main security gates, decelerating to a gentle standstill from perhaps 10mph, a hideous graunching noise emanates from the Sport's boot, the sound of a thousand tendons ripping in unison. Handbrake on, jump out, open the tailgate... and I discover the sheer weight of the cheese has, in the space of 300 yards, stretched each half-tonne ratchet strap by at least nine inches. It's a sobering moment: had our first braking manoeuvre been from any real-road speed, that massive lump of metal would have shifted a lot further and a lot faster. Possibly through us.
"I remember someone telling me," says photographer Wycherley, "that a box of tissues on a parcel shelf is as deadly as a brick if you have a crash at 30mph." I sagely absorb this information. "So a 220kg lump of metal launching forward in a 150mph autobahn shunt..." The sentence tails off. We stand, looking at the wheel, nodding slowly for a while, and then dash back into Fuchs to find several more straps.
Half an hour later, cheese now secured like Frankenstein's creature on the operating table, we finally swing out of Fuchs, and, a few minutes later, onto a gloriously empty stretch of derestricted autobahn. Couple of paddle-clicks down, hard on the throttle and, sheesh, for a big SUV with a big lump of metal in the back, this thing doesn't half shift. In fact, it's the quickest-accelerating Range Rover in history, getting from 0-62mph in just five seconds dead-on. Progress doesn't let up: past the ton, and the RRS bellows towards its 155mph maximum in a maelstrom of very British noise. It's a bombastic soundtrack: not so metal-tipped as the similarly engined V8 Jaguar F-Type, but bassy, broad and brutal enough to have you waving in apology to other drivers as you spear past.
Though we've done our best to ballast it with wheel-cheese, the RRS has been on a hardcore diet regime. It shares the new Range Rover's all-aluminium chassis, technology that cost JLR billions and shaves some 400kg from the weight of its predecessor. OK, so the last-gen RRS was an inexcusable fatty, but 400kg is class-leading stuff: the lightest of the new Sports will sneak in under two tonnes.
Settling into an easy lope at 130mph - one very expensive lump of aluminium neatly ensconced within another - and Europe suddenly looks rather smaller. "At this rate, we'll be in Glasgow for tea and haggis!" I exclaim with the confidence of someone who doesn't really understand 'fate'. Immediately, we hit a gigantic traffic jam. A gigantic traffic jam that, according to the Sport's nav, stretches to somewhere in the middle of Belgium. Wycherley politely asks that I stop making such confident proclamations.
We swing off the motorway and find ourselves - as one so often does in Germany - in a stunning slice of bosky, rolling countryside that'd be jammed to the seams with caravans and tour buses were it in the UK. Here, it's deliciously deserted.
Half an hour of dedicated, selfless research reveals the Sport to be as not-slow in the corners as it is on the 'bahn. In the old car, you always felt you were fighting the car's mass, but not now. In Dynamic mode, which hunkers the RRS down on its springs and instantly makes potholes six inches deeper, there's not a whisper of roll or suggestion of understeer. It doesn't so much disguise its sheer size as smother it under a smorgasbord of tractiontastic technology. There's lots of clever stuff here: subtle braking of the inside wheel, centre and rear differentials, and an adaptive dynamic system that monitors and responds to its sensor readings 500 times per second, which is almost a tenth of what The Stig can manage. But the cleverest bit of all is that you don't feel all the cleverness doing its stuff, only relentless traction and a frenzied desire to deposit all 510bhp into the road.
This is, in truth, an odd sort of powertrain for a big, leathery SUV. Around 5,000rpm, just as you expect the engine to start running out of puff, the supercharger wakes up and launches the serene RRS into headbanging mosh-pit territory. Though lightly disconcerting, it's undeniably effective and a stellar match for JLR's favourite eight-speed ZF auto, which is calibrated less aggressively here than in the same-engined F-Type. In cars packing 500bhp - not least that V8 F-Type - you tend to run out of cojones before you run out of power, but the RRS just lets you push ever harder, right until you have all four wheels squealing angrily and realise it might be tricky to phone the German AA if you're a) jammed upside down in a woodland ditch and b) have a quarter-tonne lump of aluminium in your head.
Our dedicated, selfless research reveals more. Light the RRS may be, but it's not small. Though 18cm shorter than the gargantuan Audi Q7, the RRS is 5cm taller and - crucially - almost 10cm wider. And 5cm wider than an Aventador. Each time a car approaches at pace from the opposite direction on these tight roads, I find myself taking involuntary gasps of breath.
Shortcut successful, wing mirrors still attached, we join an empty autobahn and crank the RRS up to a loping 130mph cruise. Minutes tumble from the satnav's arrival time. Short of a Bentley Flying Spur or a small private aircraft, I can't think of much that covers big distances with such little fuss. Even north of 200kph, even on the 22in wheels of our test car, there's nary a whisper of road or wind noise, nothing to interrupt the Europop pummelling through the RRS's 1,700-watt speakers in accordance with TG's Big Book Of Road Trip Laws ("Commandment XXII: Thou Must Listeneth to None but the Worsteth Local Radio Station").
Holland, Belgium and northern France: the RRS chews 'em up and spits 'em out like wads of tobacco. This is too easy. "We'll be there with time to spare!" I exclaim with the confidence of a man refusing to grasp the whole 'fate' thing.
Into Calais, and, as we head through customs at the Channel Tunnel, it occurs to me that I have no idea what I'll say to the customs officers if we're stopped. "Anything in the boot? Erm, nothing much. Oh, apart from that 220kg lump of metal for... where are you taking me? And why are you wearing that glove?" But they wave us through, onto the train, where we find with relief that the cheese hasn't escaped its moorings. An 11-year-old lad in the car behind us - who turns out to know rather more about Bloodhound that we do - almost implodes with excitement when he finds we're smuggling the nascent wheel for Britain's next land-speed-record car into the country ("And did you know it's driven by a REAL FIGHTER PILOT?").
And then flat, grey England, and yet another fuel stop. 20mpg? You'd be lucky. With mild surprise, I realise we've been going for seven hours. Doesn't feel it. The RRS is a very easy place to spend time, with big comfy seats and cooling/heating gadgetry violent enough to burn your palms and freeze your buttocks simultaneously. There are flaws, however. Around Peterborough, I spend a frustrated half an hour searching for a range readout, only to discover it tucked down by the speedo and rev-counter, entirely obscured from view by the lip at the bottom of the instrument panel. OK, I've got the seat as low as it'll go, but I'm not that short. Wycherley, mocking me for being a dwarf, slips behind the wheel at the next caffeine-stop and can't see the readout either. It's official: the RRS is heightist.
And then, somewhere outside of Leeds, everything just... stops. Not the Range Rover, the traffic. Ten minutes, 20, an hour, we sit stationary in the air-conditioned cool, and as our ETA spirals past midnight, it seems we are not going to deliver this cheese on time. And then Castle Precision will miss their deadline and the project will be compromised and when Bloodhound's wheels disintegrate at 1,000mph, destroying the world's most advanced car, the team will turn to each other, nod and say, "Well, that was TopGear's fault."
"We're not going to make it," I declare solemnly to co-pilot Wycherley. At which point, inevitably, the traffic vanishes and we clear the Pennines and spirit north on the M6, through the Lake District, into Scotland and, finally, through the roller-hatch of Castle Precision's spotless warehouse, the grubby, insect-flecked RRS looking shameful against the factory's surgical blue and white. We make it with eight minutes to spare. "Could've stopped for a quick coffee," grins Wycherley sympathetically.
The cheese is forklifted from the boot, the Sport almost visibly rising on its springs, and our precious cargo vanishes into a vast, shiny contraption to be machined into wheel form. And I am left to contemplate our very fast, very large, curiously compelling delivery van.
There are plenty of SUVs that'll seat seven at a push and cross continents at a decent lick. But the quicker versions - Merc's ML63, for example - always feel like cooking 4x4s with sportiness injected as an afterthought. The RRS, however, seems engineered as a truly fast SUV from the start. Probably because it was. Only the Cayenne can really match the Rangey for entertaining driving, but the Porsche will only seat five and - most crucially - can't compete with the RRS for light-footed, long-distance cruising.
Even so, do you really need a seven-seat SUV capable of 155mph and 0-62mph in five seconds, one with over half a metre of axle articulation, one that'll wade through nearly a metre of water? Well, no. The entry RRS diesel - with its 258bhp V6 - would be more than enough for most of us. In truth, a fast estate - a BMW 535d, a Jag XF Sportbrake - offers more space, pace and farm-track-negotiating ability than most of us will ever need.
But, then again, we don't need a land-speed-record car that'll do 1,000mph. But, if it's possible, why not? Both Bloodhound and the RRS are mightily impressive demonstrations of the engineering ingenuity of our modest little isle. To Britain: achieving the improbable with a lot of horsepower and even more tea!
Words: Sam Philip
Pictures: John Wycherley
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On Monday, the initial appearance of a Mississippi State University student arrested Saturday for allegedly stabbing another student was continued to Thursday.
William Daniel Prince, 25, of 109 Locksley Way, Polo's Apartments, Starkville, made his first appearance in court, but his attorney moved for his initial proceedings — including a possible reduction of bond — be continued because he and his client had not had sufficient time to discuss the case. Prince will appear before a judge Thursday at 2 p.m.
Prince's bond had previously been set at $500,000.
Starkville police officers arrested Prince Saturday and charged him with aggravated assault after allegedly stabbing Joseph Ryan Davis, 21, of Ocean Springs, outside of Rock Bottom Bar and Grill late Friday.
Bart Lucius, Rock Bottom manager, said three customers — including Prince — were removed from the bar at approximately 11:45 p.m.
"I had that awkward feeling something could happen," Lucius said. "We try to make sure if there's a chance anything happens, we look after our customers."
Lucius said the three individuals walked to the street from the bar, turned around and confronted a security guard. Seeing the three-on-one situation, Lucius said Davis jumped from the front of the bar down to the sidewalk area to help the security guard. Punches were thrown by both Davis and Prince, he said.
In Lucius' statement to law enforcement, he said Prince "pulled out a knife and began stabbing Joey in the abdomen."
Lucius said he could not describe the knife used in the stabbing, but said witnesses described it as a larger knife that "definitely wasn't a pocket knife."
SPD Chief David Lindley said the weapon had not been recovered as of Monday afternoon.
"All we know for sure is that it was a knife. We've made extensive searches trying to locate the weapon from the path he walked and even in dumpsters," Lindley said. "In a crowd like that, so many people have different perspectives. Five people could see the incident and give you different accounts."
After the stabbing, Davis was moved to Rock Bottom's back deck and treated by customers with medical backgrounds until first responders arrived.
"Joey's a fun-loving guy who loves to joke around and be funny," Lucius said. "Even after the incident, he was making jokes trying to keep others calm. He had that calm sense. I think ultimately he knew he was going to be fine. His actions were very heroic. He didn't have to get involved; he was looking after the security of the guard and everyone else."
Following the incident, Prince fled the scene and was arrested approximately two hours later. Lindley said it is unknown if Prince received a ride after the incident.
"We know he was on foot for a good bit of time," Lindley said.
Davis was transported to Baptist Regional Medical Center in Columbus for surgery following the incident. Lucius said he spoke with Davis following surgery and throughout the weekend. He was in good spirits, Lucius said.
"He was already joking," Lucius said. "We have a very close group of friends. It's almost like the size of the bar makes everyone close."
Rock Bottom closed for business following the incident to ensure customers' safety and allow for a police investigation, Lucius said. The bar reopened the following night with an extra security guard.
"(The incident) seems completely beyond reason. Negative things happen at businesses all of the time, but we have never had anything of this magnitude," Lucius said. "At this point, my concern isn't for the business — it's for my friend and his recovery. I think people realize safety is always our main concern. "
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well you have to think, X11 was never designed to be used how it is today. it's severely limiting Linux's potential.
I would love to be using Ubuntu on my PC at work but it's impossible to get two video cards to work nicely extending the desktop with the current display server. If my recent adventure taught me anything, it's that Linux/Ubunutu needs a ton of work still to be taken seriously.
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I will admit that I'm not too fluent in how Linux works under the hood, but in my situation I have found that Ubuntu's display server, while it may be more robust than in the past, has limited my ability to manually get a multi-display, multi-videocard setup to work. Way back when I was actually able to manually edit some config file for XOrg have it all work. My only point is that I am a bit disappointed that I'm completely out of luck here until perhaps this display server is done. One can only hope.
well you have to think, X11 was never designed to be used how it is today. it's severely limiting Linux's potential.
since Wayland development is going so slow this could be just what the linux world needs
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I don't get why Canonical are choosing to do this. Why didn't they just contribute to the Wayland project?
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirSpec << Go here, scroll down to the "Why not Wayland/Weston?" section. One reason (according to that link) is that the Wayland protocol has similar issues as X w.r.t to input handling since input handling in Wayland and X is done basically the same way.
I don't get why Canonical are choosing to do this. Why didn't they just contribute to the Wayland project?
There's a difference between fragmenting for no reason (like in the case of the 100 million different desktop environments) and fragmenting for for valid reasons which it seems are in play with this.
Because it's linux, and fragmenting is better than cooperating for a common goal.
this s seriously the main downfall of linux, and what keeps tripping it whenever it starts to get a good run.


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Friday, March 19, 2010
Guess what today is?
365 days and 2,190 posts later, here I am. Still passing along deals and enjoying it so much more than I ever imagined!
My husband and I were thinking about what life was like a year ago. He had just been laid off and we were both stressed out, to say the least. You can read the whole story here if you'd like. We'd always been pretty frugal and I'd used coupons for years, so in an effort to distract myself from the emotional struggle that losing our main source of income presented, I decided to start a blog.
And Utah Deal Diva was born.
The only reason it's still going strong is of course, because of all of you. I really appreciate the fact that so many of you take time out of your lives to visit my site each day. So here's a huge, heartfelt--Thank you. {Check back Monday for a more elaborate expression of my gratitude!}
To celebrate tonight, we're taking the family out to dinner! {Don't worry, we have a coupon!}
To have a little fun online though, I thought I'd open up a Q&A session to you all. If you have any questions for me- whether they're related to saving money or not, leave a comment and I'll update this post throughout the weekend, as the questions roll in.
Again-- thank you. And Happy Birthday Utah Deal Diva!
Q: Do you ever splurge? And if so, what do you splurge on?
A: Hmmm...this is tough. I bought 2 shirts and 2 skirts at the mall about a month ago. All were on sale, but no coupons. I felt like that was a splurge. But my mom told me to buy stuff for myself at least a few times a year, so my justification is, "my mom told me to do it."
Splurging is a lot different now than when I was in college. It's now researched and carefully planned. Not sure if that counts as splurging or not!
Q: How much time do you spend on the computer each day?!
A: It really varies. I'd say anywhere from 1-6 hours each day. However, that time is really broken up- 30 minutes in the morning, 1.5 hours while my 2 youngest kids nap, 1 hour after every one has gone to sleep, etc. Sometimes time really gets away from me- I'll sit down to answer a few emails and before long, it's been 2 hours! I try to limit it to about 15-20 hours a week doing UDD stuff.
It could easily be a full time job! I decided several months ago though to just do what I could, and not worry about keeping up with all the other millions of blogs out there.
Q: Does this blog support your family? Has financial success been an added bonus of having such a popular blog?
A: When I first started blogging, I understood it had the potential to make our family some extra money, which it does. We took a nice pay cut when my husband got his new job, so it is nice to have the added income, but it's far from providing for our family! Early on, I decided to focus on good content for this site, as opposed to heavy monetizing. I do offer deals that I get compensated for, but I do my best to make sure they're legitimate, relevant offers that I feel would be a good fit for my readers.
Overall though, I'd say blogging has brought in a decent part-time income.
Q: Have you ever calculated how much you spend on ink and paper printing out coupons? I've had to buy ink so much lately because I'm printing coupons. How do you buy your ink? I assume you do refills. Where and how much?
A: I buy all my ink online. Read this article, it will give you some ideas as to what I do to save money. I do some serious heavy printing on a regular basis. I print off all the supplies and handouts for the free coupon classes I teach, which really adds up! Altogether though, I spend $50 every 4 months on several ink cartridges for my Canon printer. I use about one $2 ream of paper every other month. It averages out to about $14 each month, which I'd say 50% of that is for coupon printing. I normally print only the coupons that are really high value or the ones I realistically intend to use. In my Smith's trip this week, I redeemed over $40 in manufacturers coupons, $24 of that were printable coupons. So yes, I think it's cost effective!
Q: What are your favorite couponing websites to visit?
A: Isn't it obvious?! ;) Here are a few I really like: Money Saving Mom, Common Sense with Money, and if I ever want to see the 10 latest and greatest deals on the web, I visit Hip2Save because chances are, she's posted them all in the last hour! That girl is an animal! ;)
Q: How do you file/store your coupons?
A: I've had several methods over the years. You can see my current method for storing and organizing here. I suggest people begin couponing using the Clipless Method simply because with so many coupons available each week, it's difficult for newbies to decide which ones to clip! Then, once you clip them, you have to somehow organize them! So I recommend not clipping any for at least a few months, until you get better at knowing which ones will likely create a great deal.
My binder is pretty different than most other couponers who have been doing this for a while. First of all, it's only 1.5"! I cut about 30%-40% of coupons total. I don't believe in cutting each and every coupon. I have them all in my file at home, if I ever want to access some I didn't clip. As far as finding great deals at the store and not having my coupon on hand? If I didn't clip it, I probably didn't need the item in the first place!
29 comments:
- Amy said...
Happy, Happy Birthday Utah Deal Diva!!! I love you! Jessica,I attended a couponing class of yours 5 or 6 months ago and it has changed my life. THANK YOU for helping me learn to control my budget!! I used to have no control. I really owe ya.
- March 19, 2010 at 4:56 PM
- Catherine said...
Happy Birthday. I love your blog and appreciate the time and effort you put into it.
- March 19, 2010 at 5:04 PM
- vickiemariko said...
Utah Deal Diva changed my life! I have always been frugal with my money, but you changed my entire outlook, especially when it comes to couponing. Thank You Thank You!! My question for you is... Do you ever splurge? And if so, what do you spluge on?
- March 19, 2010 at 5:14 PM
- The Smith Family said...
Happy Birthday! I LOVE LOVE LOVE your site and check it about a million times a day! I hope you know how appreciated you are! Here's my question...how much time do you spend on the computer each day?!?!?!?! Thanks! Janelle
- March 19, 2010 at 5:23 PM
- Kori said...
Wow! I can't believe you have only been doing this for a year, I never would have guessed! A very happy birthday!!! I just read the story of why you started your blog - your situation sounds almost identical to what we went through. I didn't learn about couponing until after my husband secured a new job, but the lessons we learned during the unemployment and everything I've learned since then about coupons have made us so much better prepared for the future. Thank you for helping us find those great deals! I SO appreciate it!!!
- March 19, 2010 at 5:28 PM
- Heather said...
Congratulations! I've learned so much from you, Jessica! You are great!
- March 19, 2010 at 5:44 PM
- The Simple Country Chick said...
Thank you for taking all the time to post all these amazing freebies and deals. I really appreciate it and look forward to it. Happy Birthday Utah Deal Diva and again Thank You!
- March 19, 2010 at 6:16 PM
- Anonymous said...
That's funny! Today is my Birthday too!
I didn't realize that UDD had the same birthday as me :) I'm 40 today.
Happy Birthday to both of us! LOL!
Sure appreciate all of the great posts and advice this past year.
Kim in Cali
- March 19, 2010 at 7:34 PM
- Candice (Mot) said...
Happy Birthday!
My question is, have you ever calculated how much you spend on ink and paper printing out coupons?? I've had to buy ink so much lately because I'm printing coupons.
How do you buy your ink? I assume you do refills. Where and how much?
- March 19, 2010 at 8:07 PM
- Katie said...
Happy 1st Birthday!! I too am one of the many that check your blog several times a day and can't thank you enough for the wonderful work you do to bring such great deals to our attention. You have helped us save money in so many ways. Thank you for all your hard work and Happy Birthday again!!
- March 19, 2010 at 8:29 PM
- Lacey said...
You just mentioned that this website could be a full time job. My question is: Does this blog support your family? Has financial success been an added bonus of having such a popular blog?
Love you UDD!
- March 19, 2010 at 8:33 PM
- Kristen said...
Congrats on your "Blogiversary!" I attended your class last fall and it has been a 180 for me in the way I shop! I used to grab anything off the shelf without even thinking twice! (And then wonder why I had no money!) And guess what I did today? Got cleaning supplies for .14 cents a bottle with a sale/coupon/rebate! GO ME!
Thanks for all you do!
- March 19, 2010 at 9:28 PM
- Stephers said...
Happy happy birthday UDD! I just got some free pasta today and read this blog all the time. THANK YOU for all the time you put in!
- March 19, 2010 at 9:32 PM
- Chel said...
Thanks for all your hard work! I love this blog!
- March 19, 2010 at 10:02 PM
- Colleen said...
I loved reading your story, very inspiring! I would have thought you'd been doing this for years! I love all the things on your blog along with the "deals" like the bread recipe and the food storage! I love visiting your site everyday! I look forward to what pops up next! Thanks for all you do, I hope you keep doing it a long time... I'll be doing it along with you!
- March 19, 2010 at 10:08 PM
- Konie said...
I love your blog! I am glad to hear that you research the info you post, I have worried a little about it and now I won't. (My Smith's savings was 73% today and I got 71 items for about $0.65 a peice!) My question is - How far north will you travel to teach classes? Thanks and Happy Birthday:)
- March 19, 2010 at 10:50 PM
- Anonymous said...
Here's a question. What are your favorite couponing websites to visit? Is that how you find out about all of your great coupons and deals?
- March 20, 2010 at 12:10 AM
- Nikki said...
Thank you for all your hard work! I love your blog!! My deep, heartfelt thanks goes to YOU!!!
- March 20, 2010 at 2:39 AM
- Jill said...
Happy Birthday! I appreciate your hard work posting great deals for all of us in Utah. My question: How do you file/store your coupons? If you do the clipless method and store the weekly ads in a file box, clipping only according to ads, don't you just want to kick yourself when you see a deal and don't have the coupon with you?
- March 20, 2010 at 12:16 PM
- Megan said...
Happy Birthday! I am amazed at your talent to blog, be an awesome mommy, coupon, grocery shop, do all that yummy cooking and baking, teach coupon classes, etc... Wow!! You are so inspiring!! Thank You Thank You for putting yourself out there for us all.
- March 20, 2010 at 8:16 PM
- Melissa said...
Love your blog!!! You've saved me a ton of money, when I haven't had a lot! THANK YOU!
- March 20, 2010 at 8:30 PM
- Heidi Gail Richhart said...
Happy Birthday Utah Deal Diva!! also is there a Ben and Jerry's here in Utah anywhere?
- March 20, 2010 at 11:31 PM
- Anonymous said...
I have always clipped coupons, but have not ventured into the printable ones. I am really thinking of starting..what printer do you use and what printer ink supply do you use so you do not go broke while printing all the internet coupons.
Also: I live in a small town...do all groceries take internet coupons?
I love your site and your new haircut is adorable!!!
- March 21, 2010 at 10:03 AM
- Sonya said...
Happy Birthday and Thank you for all you do! Right now I'm doing the "clipless" method and my question is how long should I keep the fliers before tossing them out. My box is getting pretty stuffed.
- March 21, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- Anonymous said...
I am a follower
first choice is Sams club
2nd choice is Smiths
3rd choice is Disney
- March 23, 2010 at 9:44 PM
- Anonymous said...
I love this website. Thanks for everything you do especially matching up the coupons and the ads and the sales.
1st choice Sams Club
2nd Smiths
3rd Disney
- March 23, 2010 at 9:46 PM
- Heather said...
Just became a follower. What a great website. I'm excited to learn how to be a wise consumer.
- March 24, 2010 at 10:44 AM
- Anonymous said...
I also wanted to know what your printer ink budget is, as I feel like I'm spending a lot more for ink now. 1. Smiths 2. Amazon 3. McDonalds. I've enjoyed your website for a few months now.
- March 24, 2010 at 1:03 PM
- Anonymous said...
best deals around! Thanks
- March 25, 2010 at 8:53 AM


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Just not for us...and now for another episode of "Who's Side Is Obama On Anyway?"
Now, with a seven-year offshore drilling ban in effect off of both coasts, on Alaska's continental shelf and in much of the Gulf of Mexico — and a de facto moratorium covering the rest — Obama tells the Brazilians:
"We want to help you with the technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely. And when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers."
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This is outrageous. I don't mean to be vulger, but did that statement come with a blue dress and kneepads?
And who the hell is we? The Kenyan voices in his head?
What ever happened to...
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Is there a reason we can't be our own best customers? How do the thousands of jobless victims of Obama's drilling moratorium feel about this? Does Obama want them to be customers of Brazil? WITH WHAT INCOME will they pay for it?
I know this seems like the 20 questions post, but that's all I've got. Logical thought is like a discarded fashion accessory with this president and I don't know how else to analyze this double standard.
It's a very good thing Obama was out of the country when he said this otherwise DC would've had a tsunami of its own...in taxpayer vomit.