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Continuous, Remote Patient Monitoring Poised to Advance as M2M Technologies Emerge
By Neil de Crescenzo
June 5, 2013 | Guest Commentary | The life sciences industry has been focused on improving clinical trial productivity in recent years, realizing significant data management efficiency gains over the last decade largely due to the widespread adoption of remote data capture technologies. However, we still have substantial opportunities to further reduce the cost and improve the speed and quality of data collected during clinical trials. The rapid emergence of machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies can transform how we collect clinical trial data and dramatically improve its accuracy and immediacy.
The M2M model uses wired or wireless connectivity to exchange information between web-connected devices without the need for human intervention. In a clinical trial setting, these new technologies open the exciting possibility of continuous, remote patient monitoring, which will not only further accelerate data collection but will vastly improve the quality of patient information collected.
Improve Visibility into Protocol Adherence and Safety
M2M technologies offer new potential for validating and improving protocol adherence—an area that continues to challenge clinical trial sponsors and managers. Continuous monitoring, made possible through M2M technologies, can enable researchers to confirm treatment adherence with near absolute certainty, which we cannot do today. As a result, study sponsors and managers could more accurately determine efficacy as they can filter out non-adhering patients. There is also a link to improved safety as trial sponsors could quickly identify potential adverse events or side effects, such as changes to heart rate or rhythm, blood pressure, or sleeping patterns, after taking a medication or therapy.
In addition, continuous monitoring can facilitate subject recruitment and, ultimately, shorten the length of a trial. If a participant is not adhering, trial managers could drop them quickly, yielding earlier insight into how many subjects will be required to complete the trial. Continuous monitoring can also help to improve participant retention as recording critical data and adherence will be more convenient. Further, the ability to automatically upload data to the clinical data management system would eliminate manual input into an electronic case report form—driving new levels of study efficiency.
New Technologies Can Impact Medication Adherence
Medication adherence remains a significant opportunity for the industry. According to Prescriptions for a Healthy America, nearly two-thirds of patients (64%) who take medication do not properly adhere to prescription regimens. One-third of chronically ill patients failed to do so at least once in the last month. And poor adherence has real impacts on patient health. Nearly nine out of 10 patients who adhere to their prescription medications describe their health as "good" or "excellent," while only 65% of patients with poor adherence report the same. According to the Wall Street Journal, the New England Healthcare Institute estimates that some $290 billion in costs is wasted each year on unnecessary hospital and doctor visits by people who failed to comply with their medication schedule.
M2M technologies are beginning to show their powerful potential for improving adherence in clinical trials and for post-marketing surveillance. For example, Proteus Digital Health provides an FDA-approved ingestible sensor that works together with a wearable sensor to capture precise information about medication ingestion, dose timing, physiologic responses and other behaviors, sending the digital health information to a patient's smartphone.
The ingestible sensor sends a signal containing a unique identifier allowing recording of the time the patient took a pill. A wearable sensor worn on the skin captures continuous readings of the patient's heart rate, temperature, activity and rest patterns. The solution can collect more than 5,000 data points per minute.
Oracle recently announced an exclusive agreement to work with Proteus to provide clinical investigators worldwide with the ability to measure medication ingestion and responses for patients enrolled in clinical trials. The two companies are expected to integrate Proteus' sensor technology with Oracle's cloud-based clinical trial management solutions. Combined, this technology will enable pharmas to measure adherence and response in trial settings and to identify a dosing regimen for recommended use. This is one of the most difficult tasks in pharmaceutical development and has significant therapeutic, safety and economic consequences.
Prepare Today for Tomorrow
The industry is just beginning its M2M journey. While some hurdles remain, such as regulatory frameworks and standards adoption, the future is promising for applying these technologies to enable continuous remote monitoring that improves clinical trial data quality and immediacy.
Life sciences organizations can begin to build a foundation for adoption in the short term. Many of the core technologies—including data repositories, analytics and integration technologies—are already in place at health sciences organizations today, and we can learn a lot from other industries that are progressing rapidly using M2M technologies.
One of the greatest challenges that organizations face is the ability to access, receive, store, and manage the exponential increase in data that M2M devices will capture and transmit to their data centers or an infrastructure like the Oracle Health Sciences Cloud. Even more important is the ability to quickly and effectively analyze and act on this information.
This is an exciting time to be part of the health sciences industry, as we see discovery progressing at an unprecedented pace. M2M technologies are poised to sustain and even strengthen this momentum as they begin to drive new levels of insight, productivity and efficiency into the clinical development process and into the more effective utilization of these treatments to improve patients' health.
Neil de Crescenzo is Senior Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Health Sciences.
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Additionally, Google has been working hard to maintain privacy and ensure that users' concerns about this sensitive matter are addressed.
Why are personal results good? Google's answer is that they are more relevant because they are providing you results based on the information and the people you choose to connect to in the first place.
What does this mean for your practice?
Overall this means that it is a good idea for your practice to set up a Google+ account, widen your circles and get active posting content such as articles and photos. The more people you reach, the more chances you will have to show up on people's personalized searches. Further, this is yet one more indication that Google is moving deeper into incorporating their social platform Google+ into search results which means that like it or not, you will probably benefit from having a SEO friendly G+ profile (see article below for more information about how to achieve an optimized G+ page).
One important note: make sure that you properly label anything you post so Google will recognize it in a search for those terms. For example, if you post and share a photo of your practice, make sure you name the file with a proper title, including a keyword or two that might be searched for. If you don't identify your photos, your efforts are lost.
For more information, here is the original blog post by Google introducing the product (along with a video tutorial).
Here is a somewhat lengthy report from Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land about his first impressions of Search Plus Your World.
Lastly, here what Mashable's Lance Ulanoff had to say about the new feature.
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Actiq is indicated only for the management of breakthrough cancer pain in patients with malignancies who are already receiving and who are tolerant to opioid therapy for their underlying persistent cancer pain. Patients considered opioid tolerant are those who are taking at least 60 mg morphine/day, 50 mcg transdermal fentanyl/hour, or an equianalgesic dose of another opioid for a week or longer.
Because life-threatening hypoventilation could occur at any dose in patients not taking chronic opiates, Actiq is contraindicated in the management of acute or postoperative pain. This product must not be used in opioid non-tolerant patients.
Actiq is intended to be used only in the care of cancer patients and only by oncologists and pain specialists who are knowledgeable of and skilled in the use of Schedule II opioids to treat cancer pain.
Actiq should be individually titrated to a dose that provides adequate analgesia and minimizes side effects. If signs of excessive opioid effects appear before the unit is consumed, the dosage unit should be removed from the patient's mouth immediately, disposed of properly, and subsequent doses should be decreased (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
Patients and their caregivers must be instructed that Actiq contains a medicine in an amount that can be fatal to a child. Patients and their caregivers must be instructed to keep all units out of the reach of children and to discard opened units properly in a secured container.
Actiq should be individually titrated to a dose that provides adequate analgesia and minimizes side effects (see Dose Titration).
As with all opioids, the safety of patients using such products is dependent on health care professionals prescribing them in strict conformity with their approved labeling with respect to patient selection, dosing, and proper conditions for use.
Physicians and dispensing pharmacists must specifically question patients and caregivers about the presence of children in the home on a full time or visiting basis and counsel accordingly regarding the dangers to children of inadvertent exposure to Actiq.
The blister package should be opened with scissors immediately prior to product use. The patient should place the Actiq unit in his or her mouth between the cheek and lower gum, occasionally moving the drug matrix from one side to the other using the handle. The Actiq unit should be sucked, not chewed. A unit dose of Actiq, if chewed and swallowed, might result in lower peak concentrations and lower bioavailability than when consumed as directed.
The Actiq unit should be consumed over a 15-minute period. Longer or shorter consumption times may produce less efficacy than reported in Actiq clinical trials. If signs of excessive opioid effects appear before the unit is consumed, the drug matrix should be removed from the patient's mouth immediately and future doses should be decreased.
Patients and caregivers must be instructed that Actiq contains medicine in an amount that could be fatal to a child. While all units should be disposed of immediately after use, partially used units represent a special risk and must be disposed of as soon as they are consumed and/or no longer needed. Patients and caregivers should be advised to dispose of any units remaining from a prescription as soon as they are no longer needed (see Disposal Instructions).
Starting Dose: The initial dose of Actiq to treat episodes of breakthrough cancer pain should be 200 mcg. Patients should be prescribed an initial titration supply of six 200 mcg Actiq units, thus limiting the number of units in the home during titration. Patients should use up all units before increasing to a higher dose.
From this initial dose, patients should be closely followed and the dosage level changed until the patient reaches a dose that provides adequate analgesia using a single Actiq dosage unit per breakthrough cancer pain episode.
Patients should record their use of Actiq over several episodes of breakthrough cancer pain and review their experience with their physicians to determine if a dosage adjustment is warranted.
Redosing Within a Single Episode: Until the appropriate dose is reached, patients may find it necessary to use an additional Actiq unit during a single episode. Redosing may start 15 minutes
the previous unit has been completed (30 minutes after the start of the previous unit). While patients are in the titration phase and consuming units which individually may be subtherapeutic, no more than two units should be taken for each individual breakthrough cancer pain episode.
Increasing the Dose: If treatment of several consecutive breakthrough cancer pain episodes requires more than one Actiq per episode, an increase in dose to the next higher available strength should be considered. At each new dose of Actiq during titration, it is recommended that six units of the titration dose be prescribed. Each new dose of Actiq used in the titration period should be evaluated over several episodes of breakthrough cancer pain (generally 1-2 days) to determine whether it provides adequate efficacy with acceptable side effects. The incidence of side effects is likely to be greater during this initial titration period compared to later, after the effective dose is determined.
Daily Limit: Once a successful dose has been found (i.e., an average episode is treated with a single unit), patients should limit consumption to four or fewer units per day. If consumption increases above four units/day, the dose of the long-acting opioid used for persistent cancer pain should be re-evaluated.
Experience in a long-term study of Actiq used in the treatment of breakthrough cancer pain suggests that dosage adjustment of both Actiq and the maintenance (around-the-clock) opioid analgesic may be required in some patients to continue to provide adequate relief of breakthrough cancer pain.
Generally, the Actiq dose should be increased when patients require more than one dosage unit per breakthrough cancer pain episode for several consecutive episodes. When titrating to an appropriate dose, small quantities (six units) should be prescribed at each titration step. Physicians should consider increasing the around-the-clock opioid dose used for persistent cancer pain in patients experiencing more than four breakthrough cancer pain episodes daily.
For patients requiring discontinuation of opioids, a gradual downward titration is recommended because it is not known at what dose level the opioid may be discontinued without producing the signs and symptoms of abrupt withdrawal.
Actiq is supplied in individually sealed child-resistant blister packages. The amount of fentanyl contained in Actiq can be fatal to a child. Patients and their caregivers must be instructed to keep Actiq out of the reach of children (see BOX WARNING, WARNINGS, PRECAUTIONS, and PATIENT LEAFLET).
Store at 20°-25°C with excursions permitted between 15° and 30°C (59° to 86°F) until ready to use. (See USP Controlled Room Temperature.)
Actiq should be protected from freezing and moisture. Do not use if the blister package has been opened.
Patients must be advised to dispose of any units remaining from a prescription as soon as they are no longer needed. While all units should be disposed of immediately after use, partially consumed units represent a special risk because they are no longer protected by the child-resistant blister package, yet may contain enough medicine to be fatal to a child (see Information for Patients).
A temporary storage bottle is provided as part of the Actiq Welcome Kit (see Information for Patients and Their Caregivers). This container is to be used by patients or their caregivers in the event that a partially consumed unit cannot be disposed of promptly. Instructions for usage of this container are included in the patient leaflet.
Patients and members of their household must be advised to dispose of any units remaining from a prescription as soon as they are no longer needed. Instructions are included in Information for Patients and Their Caregivers and in the patient leaflet. If additional assistance is required, referral to the Actiq 800# (1-800-896-5855) should be made.
Actiq is supplied in six dosage strengths. Each unit is individually wrapped in a child-resistant, protective blister package. These blister packages are packed 30 per shelf carton for use when patients have been titrated to the appropriate dose.
Patients should be prescribed an initial titration supply of six 200 mcg Actiq units. At each new dose of Actiq during titration, it is recommended that only six units of the next higher dose be prescribed.
Each dosage unit has a white to off-white color. The dosage strength of each unit is marked on the solid drug matrix, the handle tag, the blister package and the carton. See blister package and carton for product information.
Note: Colors are a secondary aid in product identification. Please be sure to confirm the printed dosage before dispensing.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- University of New Mexico's Chantale Riddle has been named Mountain West Volleyball Player of the Week for matches played from Oct. 21-27, as announced by the Conference office on Monday morning. It's the first weekly honor for Riddle this season and the second of her career.
The redshirt junior led the Lobos to a 2-0 record last week, first a sweep at Big 12 opponent TexasTech on Oct. 23 before returning to the Johnson Center and sweeping Nevada on Oct. 26.
"Chantale is very deserving of this honor," head coach Jeff Nelson said. "She had a complete week and played well in all facets of the game. Her blocking numbers were huge and she had a lot of kills and scored a lot of points. She also provided consistency for us and gave us kills at times when we needed them.
"We saw her take some better swings out of the back row this week, and really, play the big-time ball she's capable of playing."
In nine sets played, the right-side hitter recorded 25 kills, 17 digs and 10 blocks, and committed just two attack errors for a spectacular .397 hitting percentage.
Riddle led all players in kills and points in both of the Lobos' matches, recording 17 points and 14 kills at Texas Tech and 14 points and 11 kills against the Wolf Pack. She also tallied her fifth double-double of the season against the Red Raiders with 14 kills and 13 digs.
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This is the second Player of the Week honor for UNM as redshirt sophomore Hannah Johnson earned MW weekly honors on Oct. 7.
The Lobos are No. 2 in the Mountain West standings with a 17-4 overall and 7-3 MW record. UNM is one of four MW teams with a 7-3 record in league contests.
New Mexico is on the road for a pair of conference matches this week, stopping first at UNLV on Oct. 31 (8 p.m. MT/7 p.m. PT) before playing at San Diego State on Nov. 2 (1 p.m. MT/12 p.m. PT).


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A new owner, new chef, fresh coat of paint and a few old favourites make everyone a winner at this Darlinghurst haunt.
The waiter insists that they have actually installed more lightening, but new owner Mike Manassen's makeover of the Victoria Room has left this place decidedly moody. And I don't mean cigarette haze and dank carpets; this is a modern take on classic styling with a healthy lick of navy paint that points it in the direction of Daniel Craig's Tom Ford suit.
To old fans of this Darlinghurst mainstay, the layout will be familiar at the very least; the bar looks more or less in tact and (minus the notable lack of white linen) there is a strong sense of continuity to the floor. But my god if it doesn't feel a whole lot sexier— the Victoria Room has evolved from the definitive in comfortable feminine drinking to a date spot for those looking to impress.
Open up the drinks menu and breath a sigh of relief — the breadth and detail of the Victoria Room's cocktail list continues to make skipping a pre-dinner drink borderline rude, or at the very least misguided. Bar manager Luke Hanzlicek doesn't shy away from the theatrical side with the Beetnik cocktail (Bookers Bourbon, Punt e Mes, house-made beetroot and raspberry shrub) smoked in a vintage decanter at the table, and the-tiki-treat-for-a-new-era the Space Monkey (Angostura 1919, Banana liqueur, yellow Chartreuse, falernum, pineapple and lime juice) gets a friendly table-side blowtorching (both coming in at $21 a pop).
The wine list is similarly set to impress, with the perfect aperitif/oyster match in the 2012 La Zona Aneis ($61 a bottle). If you are sticking to the glass, try out the 2010 Bantry Grove Chardonnay from Orange ($12.50/glass).
In keeping with this fresh wave of pheromones, the oysters are a must-have. Head chef Samuel Cheetham serves up Sydney Rocks or Pacific ($4 each) — depending on what is best on the day — with a Campari granita that you will be spooning up once the oysters are finished and then telling your friends about. Follow that up with a charcuterie board ($24) boasting salumi, wagyu bresaola, jamon and prosciutto di Parma before you move into the mains proper. Or try out the mahi-mahi and scallop ceviche for further proof that a well ripened avocado takes any dish to the next level ($19). It is tapas style dining in as much as you are best off sharing, but don't imagine that you will be staring down two meatballs with a $35 price tag — no one is leaving the Victoria Room hungry.
Cheetham took over from long term chef Joe Gambacorta a few months ago, and his mains should assuage any of your metathesiophobic tendencies. On the waiter's suggestion, slow roasted pork belly with sweet mustard glaze ($28) came accompanied by roast potatoes with smoked sour cream, preserved lemon and shallots ($14) and roasted cauliflower, charred peppers, almonds and white anchovies ($14).
Honestly, I trust that the rest of the menu is equally delicious, but I'm not sure that I could go past ordering this trio again. The potatoes had me wax lyrical — until the cauliflower arrived and opening my mouth for anything other than a freshly stacked-up fork seemed impossible — and having to forgo the last pieces of pork to leave room for dessert was enough to warrant an apology to our waiter. It was that good. Wash it down with a bottle of 'the Cabernets' ($59) from wine legend A. Retief, a blend of cabernet sauvignon, petit verdot and malbec, and you could even impress yourself.
On the other side of all that, we were scanning the dessert list for something light, fresh and fruity. Enter semi-frozen mango and yoghurt, passionfruit, liquorice and sumac ($17). The burgundy and tartness of the Middle Eastern spice balanced out the dessert in taste and appearance, rounding out the evening with aplomb. If you find yourself in the mood for a little more decadence, lash out and order a couple of glasses of the 2008 Cookoothama Botrytis Semillon for $13 a glass to accompany your dessert.
All in all, head to the Victoria Room for some old-world charm without that second-hand smell.
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Sun Burn IV: UT, RGP, Port lead Toledo into solar's futureWritten by John P. McCartney | | firstname.lastname@example.com
Lloyd A. Jacobs, the 16th president of the University of Toledo, embraces the university's role as a community leader. Since his appointment, Jacobs said his role as a solar research, development and manufacturing advocate has not wavered. However, he said the U.S. is a much different country than when he took office in July 2006.
"The economic recession and slow recovery have created trends in the solar industry that extend far beyond our region to all corners of the globe," Jacobs said. "Northwest Ohio and the University of Toledo are certainly not immune to economic pressures, poor solar investments and flawed policy by the federal government and a discontinuation of many of the subsidies and research programs a young industry needs to build a foundation."
Despite those trends, Jacobs said UT's commitment to photovoltaics (PV) is as strong as ever, and the university will continue to invest in technologies that "will be an increasingly important part of this nation's and this planet's energy portfolio.
"It is UT's commitment to solar despite the ebbs and flows of society that has placed us among the best institutions in the nation in the research and advancement of solar technology. We invested in solar when the price of gas was high in the late 1970s and early 1980s. We invested in solar when gas was cheap in the early 1990s. And we will continue that commitment through the rough period the solar industry is currently experiencing."
Jacobs said that because the past three years have been as tumultuous or higher education as they have been for all Americans, he made personal appearance decisions that he acknowledged some may have interpreted as a waning of support for solar energy research and development (R&D).
"With a weak economy comes fewer resources," he said. "It is certainly possible that I have delegated some of the media opportunities or solar-related meetings to faculty and administrators, but that speaks to the strength of UT's solar team, not a lack of my or the institution's commitment. UT continues to lead and be actively engaged in solar research, commercialization and public-private partnerships."
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Jacobs refutes the suggestion that solar energy R&D has taken a back seat to the University of Toledo and Medical University of Ohio merger and UT's resulting commitment to medical research.
The assumption "presupposes that medical research and solar research are mutually exclusive in some way. No such zero-sum framework exists," he said. "All federal grants across all federal agencies have become much harder to obtain as federal budget cuts have occurred since 2008."
Since the 2006 merger, Jacobs said he hears from some UT main campus employees that he is too focused on the Health Science Campus (HSC) and University of Toledo Medical Center (UTMC) matters. At the same time, Jacobs said he hears from HSC and UTMC employees that he's left them behind and only focuses on the main campus.
"I am always working to ensure this university rises as one entity and welcome any thoughts on ways I can improve that," he said. "But it strikes me as worth considering that the belief that I am ignoring one part of this campus over another may also speak to some degree to the interests of the person who holds that belief."
Jacobs also rejected the suggestion that UT's commitment to solar has wavered in the past four years, pointing to, among other things, collaborations, plans for future activities, faculty and invited guests as evidence that the university's support of alternative energy is unquestionable.
Jacobs said UT played a large role in attracting Isofoton North America to Northwest Ohio. He pointed to UT's plans to host a booth for the fifth straight year at the upcoming World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
In addition, two new solar researchers began work at UT in 2011. Yanfa Yan joined UT-PIV staff after 12 years as a thin-film solar cell scientist at the National Center for Photovoltaics. Nikolas Podraza, who received his doctorate from UT in 2008, returned to the university after three years at Penn State University's Materials Research Institute.
And in July 2010, Sultan Al Jaber, managing director and CEO of Masdar, Abu Dhabi's renewable energy initiative, visited UT, addressed UT-PVIC's alternative energy researchers and received an honorary UT degree.
"UT is committed to solar, and we will maximize our opportunities to advance the solar field whether the industry is in rough patches or is ascendant," Jacobs said. "This technology will be a key part of our future energy portfolio and UT will continue to lead in its development."
Academic leadership
After a career at UT as a distinguished professor of public policy and economic development and the university's 15th president from 2001-06, Dan M. Johnson returned to the university to serve as its director of global initiatives.
Johnson has been a leading voice in the past decade in support of Toledo's solar energy R&D and manufacturing.
Johnson said he believes Northwest Ohio's leadership in photovoltaics at UT and the glass industry make this region the perfect location to develop the solar industry.
"We had a head start on the industry in many ways," Johnson said. "Toledo had the key players involved early on. The University of Toledo researchers — a very active and respected team of researcher — were early leaders of the solar industry in the region.
"We also had the active participation of our local economic development organizations and professionals. They played their roles and, in my view, played them quite well despite major changes in their own organizations and leadership. Local government officials did what they could, largely adding their moral support and talking up Toledo's budding solar industry. Add to that the significant infusions of venture capital, grants and loans. And, finally, there were the individual entrepreneurs and investors. All the ingredients were in place."
Johnson said that researchers, mayors, economic development organizations and investors alone "cannot make a budding industry successful. The key players are the industry leaders themselves. In the end, the responsibility for success is theirs.
"They must know how to use the resources at hand. Gone are the days in this highly competitive market when the individual industry can do this alone. It really requires a team effort and a willingness to collaborate, form networks, share information and work together. We seem unable to take that last step in making things happen.
American solar companies have no control over China's dumping of solar panels on the world market or the nuances of global demand for solar panels, Johnson said.
"But, in my view, we have stopped short of doing all we can to take full advantage of the existing resources," he said. "This requires working together. Competing? Yes. But also collaborating, sharing information and asking for help. This takes a special kind of leadership. One scholar called it 'the silent cry for leadership.'"
Johnson used the Olympic Games, specifically the track and field events, as a timely example of how American solar companies need to approach their businesses.
"The solar industry is sort of like the relay races where the first three runners of our team are leading the pack and the last runner drops the baton," he said. "We can't drop the baton and expect to win."
Research & development
As the scientific co-director of UT's Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization (UT-PVIC), Robert Collins said he is just as concerned as his fellow researchers with recent press coverage that focuses on just one solar manufacturing company. He believes the coverage hurts all 50 companies with which UT-PVIC works. He suggested local broadcast and print media coverage of Willard & Kelsey creates collateral damage. It leads people to conclude that if one company is struggling like reports say Willard & Kelsey is, then all companies must be struggling in the same way, he said.
"We know that the broad solar industry is struggling, but I think each of the PV companies in Northwest Ohio is poised to survive this," Collins said. "But still, we all have to work together to make sure that happens. 'Working together' means the companies, along with [UT-PVIC] staff and faculty experts, must apply their expertise and work toward the same goal."
Collins said UT's interdisciplinary team approach to problem-solving will serve UT-PVIC in its research and development over the next 10 years.
"Second-generation photovoltaics is our expertise, but we need to collaborate with those who are doing first-generation and third-generation PV," he said. "There needs to be a lot of collaboration among disciplines to solve problems for the future. That was the idea behind PVIC, to get groups of faculty members working together in research and development in photovoltaics."
Collins said UT-PVIC's goals for the future include collaborating with existing companies, using the Wright Center's reputation and body of work as a "gravitational field" to attract new companies, and conducting the research that generates the advances in thin film technology that ultimately lead to new companies.
'How do we do that?'
For UT-PVIC faculty, Collins said the questions become "How do we do that?" and "How do we map our job responsibilities with what PVIC would like to do?"
"And that's actually easy to do because our No. 1 goal is teaching," Collins said. "We would like to provide Ohio with people with expertise in photovoltaics. We want the people who come to Ohio for their education and the people who grew up in Ohio to actually stay in Ohio long-term and work in the photovoltaics industry here."
Collins said that although he has had some out-of-state Ph.D. graduates stay in Ohio, "That's really what we have to be better at. I believe we're good at it, but I also believe we need to be better in our training of students to work in Ohio industry and academia to keep Ohio strong."
In addition to increased manpower, Collins said researchers must continue to conduct advanced research to develop technologies that can be patented or used to establish companies like Xunlight and Xunlight 26.
"In the area of new technology, Mike Heben and Randy Ellingson (UT-PVIC faculty) are really good at integrating nanotechnology concepts into what will become third-generation photovoltaics, enhancing what existing second-generation companies like First Solar do," Collins said.
He said research can also be focused on problem-solving for companies, like developing online monitoring equipment that can be added to a production line. Collins likened his team's current research to a grocery store bar-code scanner that identifies a product passed over an optical scanner.
"The same type of thing can be done on productions lines," Collins said. "Before you end up actually making a module, [the production line scanner] allows you to predict whether the material is any good and whether you should shut down the line when you're having problems. It's a way of improving yield."
Collins said UT-PVIC is "well along that path" of providing manpower, developing problem-solving technologies and generating new technologies for startups.
A promising new area of research is in advanced materials, Collins said, and Yan, a recent addition to the faculty, is exploring "all types of materials technology, not just the conventional ones that thin-film people currently use.
"He has some of the really advanced, novel ideas in the field. Since he's an expert in thin-film, second-generation photovoltaics, his real goal is to put a good semiconductor on a bad substrate."
Randy J. Ellingson
As an advocate for research that will transition today's PV technology to "even more ideal photovoltaics materials and technologies," Ellingson is convinced that if researchers can advance the knowledge and technology to the right level, solar manufacturing companies "will jump on that" to improve their production line processes.
"My sense is that a company like First Solar is focusing on understanding its own material and its own technology, and that it's not able to spend the kind of resources it would like to on other technologies," Ellingson said. "Other technologies are up to other companies, or universities, or national lab researchers, and there has been a huge growth in interest in photovoltaics in university research programs."
Ellingson, a UT-PVIC and School for Solar and Advanced Renewable Energy faculty member and associate professor of physics, came to UT in August 2008 from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Ellingson said he believes UT-PVIC's research during the next 10 years will motivate universities without UT's credentials to begin research that will further the use of photovoltaics technology in the solar manufacturing industry.
"The University of Toledo has a lot of depth and breadth in photovoltaics research," Ellingson said. "Other universities have many instances where faculty members who have been working in some other material science area will say, 'I'm working in photovoltaics also.'
"Many of them do very good research. It's an example of funding focus drawing more researchers to the field, which is part of the intent when the people who decide how funding is allocated for research decide to focus on clean energy materials and technology. Their hope is that the best researchers will come to work on that."
Richard B. Stansley Jr.
In his role as chairman of UT's Innovative Enterprises (UT-IE), Stansley Jr. is adamant that UT-PVIC must commit itself in the next 10 years to conduct research into more than just its specialty, thin-film PV technology.
He said UT-PVIC needs to explore all the different roles first-generation (crystalline silicon), second- generation (thin-film photovoltaics) and third- generation (nanotechnology photovoltaics) technologies play in solar product manufacturing.
Since crystalline silicon technology works best in direct sunlight and is significantly impacted by heat, Stansley said its use in the American Southwest supports UT's partnership with Isofoton NA and its first-generation technology.
Thin-film PV technology operates better in diffuse light.
"Our [technology] will produce power from dawn to dusk while crystalline silicon is probably at its best in a four-hour window," he said.
Development: RGP
Dean Monske, president and CEO of Regional Growth Partnership (RGP), said that his agency will continue to target what the State of Ohio has identified as Northwest Ohio's major cluster industries: alternative energy, automotive, advanced manufacturing and materials, bioscience, and transportation and integrated logistics.
"Please understand that no one industry takes precedence over the others," Monske said. "These industries were identified because of existing strength and capacity, as well as potential for future growth."
Monske said that when the RGP meets with site consultants and other location decision-makers, his staff "touts many advantages of doing business in Northwest Ohio, including geographic location, transportation assets, a trained and educated workforce, a great number of institutions for higher education, local and state tax climates and quality of life assets."
When prospective alternative energy businesses make inquires into Toledo, Monske said the RGP promotes assets including "pioneering research and development; core capacity in solar panel manufacturing; solar-related components like panel installation and inverters; and venture capital and business assistance for technology startups."
Monske said RGP's consistent sales message, regardless of what industry it targets, is unique to Northwest Ohio.
"We are close to many customers, no matter the industry, and we possess all modes of transportation to quickly reach customers," he said.
Development: Port Authority
Developing solar energy projects has been, and will continue to be, more and more challenging for the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority primarily because of Ohio's Renewable and Advanced Energy Portfolio Standard, said Paul Toth, the agency's president and CEO.
"The issue right now is that the utilities are doing everything they can to fight having to subsidize solar," Toth said. "It's become a huge challenge for those of us trying to implement solar. We can't get any type of commitment from either the state or the utilities to be able to go out and finance these installations."
The renewable portfolio standard requires energy providers to annually buy renewable energy credits.
"The utilities have been fighting that, and frankly, there's queasiness around those of us that have looked at financing and trying to promote the solar industry in NW Ohio;" Toth said. "At any time, the State of Ohio could say, 'You know what? We're just getting rid of this.' And every one of those renewable energy credit contracts that are written say, 'If the state gets rid of the renewable portfolio standard, this contract is null and void.' They no longer basically owe us any money."As a result, Toth said, utility companies always negotiate very short-term contracts, a practice he acknowledged as smart business.
"Frankly, the [solar] industry can survive with that. It's the uncertainty as to whether Gov. [John] Kasich or the General Assembly could wake up tomorrow and just simply get rid of the renewable portfolio standard. That's kind of the difficult part of being able to go out and finance solar projects," Toth said.
Despite the political uncertainty, Toth said the Port Authority has developed and financed projects like the one-megawatt solar project at Collins Park for the City of Toledo and the financing risk for the General Motors Powertrain project.
In addition, Toth said the Port Authority has conceptualized a $15 million five-megawatt solar project at the Toledo Executive Airport in Wood County, "going as far as getting the interconnection study done with Toledo Edison and having several large development partners work with us."
The airport project would tie into Toledo Edison's system, Toth said.
"The challenge is getting the renewable energy credits on any kind of a long-term commitment, or even a short-term commitment, knowing that the renewable portfolio standard is going to be there for a long period of time," he said.
"The queasiness with investing $15 million is just producing electricity and selling it does not pay for the [development and construction] costs, even though the price of panels has come down over the years.
"We can't generate enough revenue to pay off that debt just by producing electricity at five cents a kilowatt hour. We need that renewable energy credit to pay the debt service, and the uneasiness of knowing whether it's going to be there long-term is why these types of projects haven't happened," Toth said.
UT's incubator
Universities have long been driven by the faculty's interest in the subject matter they study, Stansley said.
"That's been true up until 20 years ago, when universities began to see a shift that addresses how industry interfaced with the university," Stansley said. "And that's where UT's Clean and Alternative Energy Incubator (UT-CAEI) comes in. It acts as a portal to UT, a place where companies can access the resources of the university."
Stansley describes the Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization as a piece of UT-CAEI that conducts applied research. "We talk about relevance now," he said. "We do applied research, which is very different than basic or academic research. We work on real-world problems."
UT-CAEI's singular focus is building new business enterprises, Stansley said.
When a project moves into the prototype phase, a function that involves Rocket Ventures, Stansley said UT-CAEI can support that business enterprise in four ways: financial access to loans and grants; academic expertise in the business' field; establishment of a physical location in the Greater Toledo area; and access to established production processes to save a business startup costs.
Stansley said UT-CAEI, a nonprofit organization, works on "institutional entrepreneurial activity. In the world of Dr. Jacobs, entrepreneurialism is very important because it allows you to be a very nimble organization." Stansley pointed to UT-PVIC and the Interprofessional Immersive Simulation Center as two of UT-CAEI's projects with an entrepreneurial twist.
"Dr. Jacobs' commitment, and the university's commitment, to solar research and development are as strong as it has ever been. What's happened is the glamour of PV, the shine of PV, has dulled. It's like the automobile. When the automobile was first introduced, everybody made headlines all over the place. It was going to replace the horse and buggy.
"It was 30 years later before the automobile even had an impact on it. There are comparative cycles in every industry. One time, [there were] 68 car companies in Detroit, Mich. How many are there today? Three significant car companies headquartered out of the Detroit area.
"PV is the same way. There are lots of producers, people building it all over. There's consolidation of the marketplace. It's going to consolidate based on technology, based on cost, based on capital of investment required. That's what you're going to see happen.
"In thin-film technology, Northwest Ohio companies are the lowest cost producers of photovoltaics anywhere in the world. I don't care who, what, where and when. The costs we have, the technologies we have, are low cost. I am confident of that."
Coming together
"I can't help what happens in China with their subsidies. I can't control that. Our government has stepped in to make a difference. I don't think it's enough because it's not reflective of what it takes to level that playing back to what it should be. But it is a help," Stansley said.
"You'll see things start to play out. It's tough right now, but the market for PV is increasing, double digits, probably one of the only industries where we see market increases like that.
"Employment opportunities in the PV area continue to increase. And they're not necessarily low-paying jobs.
"We worry about creating jobs. And this is very important. Wealth and prosperity are the drivers of jobs. When you start to build things, you create wealth and prosperity.
"People laugh at me and they say, 'Well, what happened to Solyndra? Xunlight's in the paper. Willard & Kelsey isn't doing well.'
"These companies were undercapitalized to begin with. It's the story of Northwest Ohio. We have a trait of undercapitalizing our opportunity, and then going out looking for money.
"We have to get our arms around it and use it as an example where we really need to step to the plate and try to help companies. I don't know how to do it, but I think we're doing our part in trying to build these companies from the embryonic stage, from the concept. But we can't do it all. And there's no single organization in the community that can do it all. What we find is ourselves coming together to figure it out."
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After the jump here is a mass of conference tournament schedule-and-result data as assembled by the AP. The Bolded-Italic teams are automatic qualifiers. The teams in blue appear to be bubble teams. [Read More]
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Here's the twenty-third projection of the year, following results of Thursday 3-11. Bolded teams are teams whose spot in the field is secure. Doesn't seem like there are many at-large bids left, especially since I think Florida, Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech, though unbolded below, are extremely likely to get in. That seems to leave […] [Read More]
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Here's the twenty-second projection of the year, following results of Wednesday 3-10: 1 Kansas, Syracuse, Kentucky, Duke2 West Virginia, Purdue, New Mexico, Kansas State3 Ohio State, Villanova, Temple, Pittsburgh4 Baylor, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Maryland5 Georgetown, Butler, Texas A&M, Tennessee6 Vanderbilt, BYU, Xavier, Richmond7 Texas, Oklahoma State, Clemson, Wake Forest8 Gonzaga, Northern Iowa, California, Marquette9 Missouri, […] [Read More]
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Here's the twenty-first projection of the year, following results of Tuesday 3-9: 1 Kansas, Syracuse, Kentucky, Duke2 West Virginia, Purdue, New Mexico, Kansas State3 Ohio State, Villanova, Temple, Pittsburgh4 Baylor, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Maryland5 Georgetown, Butler, Texas A&M, Tennessee6 Vanderbilt, BYU, Xavier, Richmond7 Texas, Gonzaga, Oklahoma State, Clemson8 Missouri, Northern Iowa, Wake Forest, Louisville9 California, […] [Read More]
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Tito Ortiz: Felt like Jon Jones stabbed me in the back
In a recent interview with Ariel Helwani, Jon Jones was asked what it felt like when UFC President Dana White blasted him for declining a last minute fight with Dan Henderson, after which UFC 151 cancelled.
"I do everything they ask me to do," said Jones. "I really do, and you know, it really hurt man, it hurt to be on the different spectrum, to be compared to Tito Ortiz. I don't complain about money, I don't complain about anything, I do what I'm told."
Ortiz took offense at the comment, initially via Twitter.
"@JonnyBones I'm disappointed in u," tweeted Tito. "When no one else had your back I did. The only reason u make the money u do is because I fought & spoke out no other fighters would. The next time u are riding in your Bentley remember who fought for the fighters. If not u maybe riding in a truck. #noonehadtheballtostandthereground."
Ortiz expanded upon the remarks in an appearance on MMAWeekly Radio (see entire interview at bottom).
"The situation happened with 151. He was supposed to fight Chael. Well, actually he was supposed to fight Dan Henderson. He gets hurt the week before the fight, then they say you're going to fight Chael and he said no way and caught a bunch of flack from it.
"All of the fighters said he isn't a true fighter and nobody has ever done this before and, it's crazy, I thought it was crazy. And I stood up for the kid.
"I like Jon Jones. I think he's a great champion. I think he's a great guy. I've hung out with him in Vegas and I really took a liking to the kid because he's, I think he's the next best great thing.
"Then, all of a sudden, I heard an interview from him saying, 'People need to stop comparing me to Tito Ortiz because I don't talk about money.' And, I took it very heartfelt, that was like a stab to my back. I stood up for you when no one else did, I stood up for you and you turn around and say something like that?
"You have to understand, when you drive around in your Bentley, or, I don't know if he even has it anymore since he wrecked it into a tree, but when you're driving around in your Bentley, you have to understand, I'm the person who put my life on the line and my career and my image and my name on the line to take everything I did to battle for the type of contracts that you have, for the money that you're making.
"If it wasn't for the things I've battled for and I took all the bad image because of it, you'd be driving around in a Toyota right now. Fighters need to understand and respect guys on my level that I took a lot of flack to negotiate and battle for what I believed in. It wasn't a factor of talking about money, it was a factor of what I believed I was worth. That's been my whole career.
"I was going out and I was doing the main press. I was going out and doing the reality shows and doing the wrestling stuff and always being a person outside of the box of not just being a fighter and I was believing what I was worth and I was trying to raise the bar for all fighters and I think I've done that.
"And for him to say the things he's saying that, 'I'm not like Tito Ortiz because I don't talk about money.' Don't disrespect me like that man, I've had your back when no one else did. That's all I said and I was just disappointed. I was very, very disappointed with Jon.
"Maybe he is just young, maybe he is just 22 or 23-years old and he doesn't know, maybe the stardom is getting to his head. Like I said, I took a liking to Jon Jones, but I was just disappointed in that interview I read. That's all I got to say about that."
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9/8/12 2:11 AM by TheMentalisT
booo fuckin hoo.
9/8/12 1:51 AM by Seraldo Babalu
"Greatest Light Heavyweight Of the Night"?He said that about me bro.
9/7/12 2:02 PM by Johnny Ringo
Regardless of what your take on Tito is as a fighter or person, there is no denying the instrumental role he played in not only the UFC but keeping MMA alive altogether. He introduced Dana an the Frietitas to this sport, then stood up to them (right or wrong) and he shaped the very landscape of MMA and fighter negotiations with promoters. And he was the first truly electrifying mega star in U.S. MMA. Tito should always be respected for what he's done for the sport and JBJ being compared to Tito in anyway should be taken graciously and with respect. But instead JBJ does what he always does when his mouth opens... Spews dumb shit.
9/7/12 1:52 PM by Jons Forsberg
9/7/12 12:41 PM by KingofBJJ
Jesus. These fighters are so freaking petty. It is like listening to middle school girls bitch at each other over nothing.
9/7/12 11:54 AM by John Harris
Love Tito or hate him, he's done a lot for the sport. I was a pioneer on so many levels. Respect.
9/7/12 11:12 AM by KingOfFighters
He does but, Randy also fought for fighters salaries, and fought vs zuffa for bigger paydays, even brought a fighters union into discussion
9/7/12 11:03 AM by Dougie
Tito did everything!
9/7/12 10:47 AM by nomad1974
Didnt Tito fight Cote on short notice, like less than a week? Or am i "misremembering"?Also is it just me or does this entire Jon Jones saga reek of a heel turn?
9/7/12 10:14 AM by Kneeblock
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed this and LOL at that html. My gut tells me Jones just needs a brief media blackout while he reassesses his career, but on the other hand, every interview, tweet and reference is just adding to the anticipation of his next fight. He's either an idiot or a genius.


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By Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. CardenAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2009 Donna Engeman always had faith in her military community and its support. But in May 2006, the military support system she knew and loved temporarily faded away when she lost her husband to a roadside bomb in Iraq.
Engeman was a dedicated Army spouse for 23 years and loved the camaraderie that even spouses enjoyed.
"The Army, especially, tells us that when our loved ones go into the Army, we're part of the Army too," she said of Army spouses. "We don't sign on the line, but it's our career, too."
When her children were sick, they were cared for by the best doctors the military could offer. And when her husband deployed on several occasions during his nearly three decades of service, someone always was nearby who understood what her family was going through, she said.
The death of her husband, Army Chief Warrant Officer John Engeman, and a lack of immediate support from his unit and the Army left her feeling alone and abandoned, she said, making her transition from Army wife to widow more difficult than she ever could have imagined. "One of the things you feel right away is a sense of alienation," she said. "You not only lose a loved one; for many of us, we lost a way of life. You've lost the Army culture, and there's a real sense that our [Army] family abandoned us."
The sense of abandonment Engeman felt is something the Army and the other military branches have been working to fix for nearly eight years. Since military families began sacrificing their loved ones after the 9/11 attacks, the Defense Department and a host of other organizations have worked tirelessly to establish a culture of support for those like her, and they've come a long way, she said.
"One of the key components in our Army [survivor outreach program] is that we stress to the survivors that they are part of the Army family, and they can be apart of it as long as they want," said Engeman, now a survivor outreach and services advisor for the Army. "For as long as they want us around, we're going to be there to support them."
Engeman's transition from Army wife to widow was unique, because her husband was assigned as a National Guard liaison in West Virginia. He split his work between there and Fort Bragg, N.C., where he helped to train part-time soldiers for deployments. When he was killed, there was no family support group, and the National Guard public affairs and casualty assistance officers assigned to her case weren't familiar with how to care for her. No clear-cut process of support was in place for her and her family, she said.
"It was so overwhelming with all the paperwork," she said. "You're just stunned. You're still trying to wrap your head around the fact that he's dead, and the fact that I'd just talked to him two days ago and now he's gone.
"There was no coordination for families, and it was a mix of Army reservists, Guardsman and active-duty support," she continued. "There were a lot of communication issues, and no one really knew who was taking care of whom."
Engeman and the Army have worked hard to learn from the mistakes made then and the additional stress caused to her and others, she said. The Army has even gone so far as to establish a servicewide program called Survivor Outreach Services, which began in April. The program is made up of special coordinators at each Army installation to pick up where casualty assistance officers leave off, she said.
"John was always all about people and helping soldiers," she said of her husband. "That's what the Army is -- taking care of people. I think we just overlooked what the care and support is that we give to our survivors. We can do better; we can do a lot better.
"The Army never promised me anything; they promised him," she added. "They promised that warfighter if he gives the ultimate sacrifice, his family is going to be taken care of, and I want to hold them to that. Chief would want to know that his soldiers and their families are taken care of."
Each military service depends on well-trained casualty assistance officers to notify the families of fallen servicemembers. Their focus is to help the families understand their entitlements and provide them with accurate and compassionate services.
Although each of the military branches has its own approach and system, all work to provide the necessary information survivors need to obtain government benefits as well as local community services. Casualty assistance officers are available to the survivors through funeral arrangements and the initial entitlements and benefits process.
Military survivors learn their financial benefits and their access to military facilities and what services they're entitled to receive, such as post commissaries and exchanges, tuition assistance programs and health care services. Casualty assistance and survivor outreach specialists provide survivors with information for Department of Veterans Affairs bereavement counselors and other VA benefits as well.
Survivors also learn about local support groups and other helpful organizations outside of the military that survivors may not know about, such as the American Gold Star Mothers and the Tragedy Assistant Program for Survivors, also known as TAPS.
The Gold Star Mothers, TAPS and other private outreach organizations have local chapters all across the United States to help survivors grieve. Such groups are equally committed to reminding survivors that they're not forgotten in the military community, Engeman said.
Nearly three years have passed since Engeman became a widow. The support systems and programs aren't perfect, but they're making a difference with renewed commitments from the Pentagon, VA, individual units as well as civilian organizations, she said.
"Losing a loved one is probably the most devastating thing you'll ever have to go through in life, but you can rebuild and you can go forward," Engeman said. "My hope is that five years, eight years down the road, when a survivor is unfortunately talking about their experiences, they'll mention how they had great support from a great casualty assistance officer. I think we can do that."


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College Park employees and retirees, who live in the city, will continue benefiting from a credit that gives them a break on their utility bills.Mayor Jack Longino and the city council decided to keep the credit for the 2011-2012 fiscal year. The credit covers a portion, or all, of an individual's utility bills, which include water, sewer, storm water, garbage collection and electric, said College Park Spokesman Gerald Walker. "It is wonderful," said Walker. "It is certainly a sense of pride that the city can provide its employees, who live inside city limits, with this benefit." Regular, full-time employees, and retirees, get up to $200 per month in savings with the credit. For regular, part-time employees, the credit is up to $100 per month, said Longino. He explained that both a full-time worker and a retiree can save up to about $2,400 annually with this credit. "It is an initiative to try to get employees to live with us," said the mayor. It would be complimentary for employees to be residents of the city since they "are getting their money from citizens of College Park," he said. College Park resident, Terri Allen, said it is nice that the city is making the utility credit available to employees, which makes living in College Park more attractive. "I think employees should get it, because I think they deserve to get something," she said. Councilman Joe Carn said tough decisions had to be made for the budget, but the city still wants to assist its employees in some way. The balancing decisions included cutting raises and Christmas bonuses. "We are trying to shrink the staff .. . but trying to help the staff that remains," said Councilman Ambrose Clay, during a recent council meeting. "I think this council has done a good job with the budget this year," added Longino. Longino said the city has been providing this utility credit for about 12 years. It is voted on every fiscal year, to give the mayor and council a chance to discontinue, it if necessary, he said. Spokesman Walker added that utility services for College Park residents derive from the city's Power Department and Public Works Department. Longino explained that employees required to live in the city include councilmembers, department heads and himself. The rest of the city's staff can live wherever they please. The mayor and council, however, can't benefit from this credit, he added. "I am glad we are able to do that for employees of the city," said Longino. "It is a great benefit to them."
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By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 1, 2007 More than 90 nations around the world that have joined the United States in fighting terrorism and stemming its spread are helping build a more peaceful future for generations to come, President Bush said today in Tampa, Fla.
"We appreciate your countries' contributions to this enormous challenge in the 21st century," Bush said in an address to the U.S. Central Command Coalition Conference at MacDill Air Force Base.
"CENTCOM's Coalition Village is a welcome reminder that in the fight against radicals and extremists and murders of the innocent, we stand as one," he said.
Together, he said, the countries represented in the village have helped liberate millions of people and kept millions more safe.
Bush compared the fight against terrorism to the Cold War, when the United States and its allies held firmly against communism, even when victory seemed elusive. "Once again it is vital that allies, despite occasional disagreements, hold firm against vicious and determined enemies," he said.
The president praised countries that have stepped up to the plate to work together in the face of this threat. "An era of new threats requires new forms of engagement, new strategies and new tactics," he said. "So we've reinvigorated historic alliances such as NATO and formed new and dynamic coalitions to address the dangers of our time."
These alliances are paying off in countering terrorism, he said. The United States and its allies have shared intelligence that has helped thwart many attacks. They uncovered and stopped terrorist conspiracies targeting embassies in Yemen and Singapore and ships in the Straits of Hormuz and Gibraltar. They stopped a Southeast Asian terrorist cell grooming operatives. They stopped an al Qaeda cell seeking to develop anthrax. British authorities disrupted a plot to blow up U.S.-bound aircraft flying over the Atlantic.
In addition, coalition forces working together have captured or killed key terror network leaders, the president said. Philippine forces killed top leaders of an al Qaeda affiliate. Spanish police captured fugitives wanted in connection with the Madrid train bombings. Terror cells have been broken up in Britain, Canada, Denmark, Italy, France, Indonesia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Turkey.
Bush warned against settling for these victories. "We must stay on the offense," he said. "We must defeat the enemy overseas so we don't have to face them in our countries."
The president cited initiatives the United States and its allies have undertaken to foil terrorist efforts, including:
-- Shutting down funding channels and freezing assets to make it difficult to finance attacks;
-- Imposing measures to identify terrorist financers and prevent them from using the international system to fund their efforts;
-- Training local forces to conduct counterterrorism activities in their own regions;
-- Taking steps to stop terrorists from obtaining weapons of mass destruction;
-- Working to stop shipments of WMD materials through the Proliferation Security Initiative; and
-- Confronting adversaries who threaten international security around the world, including in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bush cited the coalition's success in freeing Afghanistan from Taliban and al Qaeda oppression and helping it build a new democracy in the Middle East.
"Just as America and our allies are standing together in Afghanistan, a determined coalition is committed to winning the fight in Iraq," he said.
Leaving Iraq too soon would have lasting repercussions in the region and world, he said. Radicals and extremists would be emboldened, better able to attract new recruits, and left to believe that they could strike free nations anywhere.
"Failure in Iraq should be unacceptable to the civilized world," he said. "The risks are enormous."
Bush praised the coalition of more than 30 countries supporting operations in Iraq. Seventeen NATO nations have contributed forces or been part of the NATO training mission to help the Iraqis. In addition, Georgia recently agreed to contribute 2,000 troops.
By helping ensure a free Iraq and by working to ensure its long-term stability, these countries are laying the foundation for a peaceful future, he said.
Achieving that goal won't be easy, he said, just as it wasn't easy for past generations to fight oppression.
"These are difficult times. These are tough times," the president said. "These are times that test the resolve of free people. These are times that require hard work and courage and faith in the ability of liberty to yield the peace we want."


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Photograph - Australian Squadron at Hobson's Bay, Williamstown, Victoria, circa 1890 Reg. No: MM 109756
- Summary:
- Monochrome photograph of several steam and sailing ships from the Australian Squadron of the British Navy moored at Hobson's Bay, Williamstown, taken by the studio of Nettleton & Arnest circa 1890.
This photograph is part of a collection of 47 photographs of Melbourne taken in the late nineteenth century by the commercial photographic studio of Nettleton and Arnest. The collection features significant Melbourne buildings and streets including Parliament House, the Treasury Buildings, St Patrick's Cathedral, the Royal Exhibition Building and Melbourne University Colleges. Few people feature in the photographs, which are predominantly focused upon architecture. The collection is significant as it provides a visual record of Melbourne's early development, and also reveals the work of an important local photography studio.
Charles Nettleton was a prolific outdoor photographer who worked over a period of forty years in Australia, after moving to Melbourne from the United Kingdom in 1854. In 1867, he was appointed official Royal photographer in Australia and he also worked as the official police photographer for over 25 years in the 1860s - 1880s. His photographs were exhibited at international exhibitions in Dublin in 1865, Paris in 1867 and Sydney in 1879. Nettleton retired in 1890, as new dry plate photographic technology made the wet place process he employed redundant. His photographs are held by major institutions around Australia.
John Mond Arnest's history and association with the firm of Nettleton and Arnest is more obscure. Arnest emigrated from America to Melbourne in the 1880's and was employed by the large photographic firm of William Nutting Tuttle and Co in Elizabeth Street. He operated a photographic studio in Hamilton, before settling in Colac where he lived and worked as a photographer until his death in 1920.
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- Monochrome albumen photograph
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- Several steam and sailing ships moored at a wharf at Hobson's Bay, Williamstown, as part of the Australian Squadron of the British Navy. A number of other ships and boats are visible in the background sailing on Port Philip Bay.
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- Source: Museum Victoria
|151 mm (Height), 203 mm (Width)
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|Handwritten in grey pencil on the back of photograph: '4'
Printed handwritten text in white on photograph: 'AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON, HOBSONS'
|Photograph: Monochrome
|Place & Date Depicted:
|Williamstown, Victoria, Australia, circa 1890
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attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Considering that U.S. embassy operations are currently
suspended in Somalia, and the United States is not engaged in a military
conflict with Somalia outside of performing support obligations to the Africa
Union through NATO, under
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four years of negotiating, the European Union and Canada agreed to terms on a
free trade deal on October 18, 2013. In
2012 the European Commission estimated that nearly 116 billion U.S. dollars of
trade in goods and services was conducted between the two parties. As a result, the European Union is Canada's
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and its member states is pending, as is federal and provincial approval in
the Canada-EU Trade Agreement (CETA) is approved, 99 percent of tariffs between
the European Union and Canada will be removed. For example, "the 10 per cent EU tariff on
passenger vehicles will be eliminated, as will tariffs on auto
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