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Virginia Gov. McAuliffe Restores voting rights for 206K Ex-Violent & Nonviolent Felons with a Pen to Boost Democrat Votes for Hillary Clinton
Democrat Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed an executive order Friday restoring the voting rights of 206,000 ex-felons. Sorry to be so cynical that a democrat would pull such a pandering move during a presidential year. Imagine that, Democrats pandering to the rapist and child sex offender. SICK!!! Really, passing this BS off as a way of rectifying Virginia's "long and sad history" of suppressing African-American voting power. Maybe its Gov. Terry McAuliffe who is the felon who needs to be imprisoned.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed an executive order Friday restoring the voting rights of 206,000 ex-felons, a sweeping action the governor said was aimed largely at rectifying Virginia's "long and sad history" of suppressing African-American voting power.
The move, coming in a presidential election year, outraged Republicans who accused McAuliffe of abusing his power to help longtime ally Hillary Clinton win a battleground state by putting more likely Democratic voters on the books.
The governor's order applies to all violent and nonviolent felons who had finished their sentence and supervised release as of Friday, even those who have not applied for a restoration of rights. Previous Virginia governors have restored rights on an individual basis, but none has done it for an entire category of offenders with one pen stroke.
Posted April 24, 2016 by Scared Monkeys
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Quinnipiac University Poll: Hillary Clinton Trails Top Republicans (Bush, Rubio & Walker) in Battleground States of Iowa, Colorado & Virginia
As reported at CNN, a recent Quinnipiac University poll of swing state shows the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton is trailing former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in each of the states of Colorado, Iowa and Virginia. This is an amazing turn of events from the all but crowned Democrat 2016 presidential nominee. Hillary is doing terribly in these polls as to being honest and trust worthy. At least some people in America are finally paying attention as Hillary Clinton might be one of the most insincere, most un-trustworthy presidential candidates ever. Between her lack of answers and stonewalling on Benghazi as Secretary of State, her less than transparent private email account and private server she used to conduct business as Secretary of State and then destroying said emails and her over-all unwillingness to make herself available to the media and the people as a presidential candidate. Could the gig finally be up for Hillary? It's not like one would think her poll numbers could get better? She has 100% name recognition, but her lack of honesty may just be her undoing. But as Hillary would say of her lack of transparency and honest, "what difference does it make". Hopefully it will make a huge difference with the voters.
Hillary Clinton trails three top Republican presidential candidates in head-to-head matchups in Colorado, Iowa and Virginia, a new survey shows.
The latest Quinnipiac University swing state polling released Wednesday shows the Democratic frontrunner trailing former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in each of those states.
The biggest loser, the polls found, is Donald Trump, who has surged to the front of a crowded Republican primary field nationally but is viewed unfavorably, by almost a 2-to-1 margin, by voters in those states.
The results offered more indications that Clinton has a problem: Voters say they don't trust her.
In Colorado, only 34% of voters said they see Clinton as honest and trustworthy while 62% said they don't. In Iowa, the numbers were 33% to 59% — a drop from 45% to 47% in April. And in Virginia, Clinton did best, at 39% saying they trust her to 55% saying they don't.
In Colorado, Clinton trails Rubio 38%-46%, Bush 36%-41% and Walker 38%-47%. In Iowa, she trails Rubio 36%-44%, Bush 36%-42% and Walker 37%-45%. And in Virginia, Clinton has the narrowest margins between her and her Republican opponents, where she lags behind Rubio 41%-43%, Bush 39%-42% and Walker 40%-43%.
If the people of the United States ever want to have a prayer of trying to save their country and get it back on course they will never vote for Hillary.
Posted July 23, 2015 by Scared Monkeys
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VIRGINIA SENATE ELECTION 2014: Ed Gillespie (R) – Incumbent Mark Warner (D) .. Too Close to Call
WOW … Going into tonight election, Democrat incumbent Mark Warner had a 10 point lead in the polls over Republican challenger Ed Gillespie. And a couple of weeks ago Warner was up by 20. Now on election night the race is too close to call. If this is a sign of things to come for Democrats, Obama and his minions are going to have a long, long nihgt. No one had Virginia even remotely in play.
Posted November 4, 2014 by Scared Monkeys
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) Predicted Mitt Romney will win Virginia
This morning on NBC's "Meet the Press," House Majority Leader Eric Cantor stated that Mitt Romney would win Virginia by a larger margin than many of the polls are predicting. Cantor went on to say that Obama has provided no answers to end the near 8% unemployment and if Americans are happy with meager job growth, high unemployment and more of the same, Barack is their man.
"… do think the point is Mitt Romney has demonstrated the ability of building jobs, of making it so that we can have more investment, more economic activity, in America. he has a demonstrated track record and has provided an actual plan, whereas all you're getting from the president in these closing days of his campaign is more negativity, more attacks, and i just think that, again, Americans are looking to see how they can make their lives work again. Barack Obama is not providing any answers, and if you like the way things are now with nearly 8% unemployment, that's what you're going to get if you re-elect the president."
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From The Hill:
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) predicted Mitt Romney will win in Virginia on Tuesday — and win by a bigger margin than deadlocked polls have shown.
Cantor also said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that former Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) will beat former Gov. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) in the state's Senate race, which has seen Allen trailing in the polls.
"On the ground in Virginia there's a lot of enthusiasm for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan," Cantor said. "We're going to win this state, and I think we're going to win a lot bigger [than polls have shown]."
It is probably safe to say, which ever presidential candidate wins Virginia will most likely provide coattails for the Senate race between former Sen. George Allen (R-VA) and former Gov. Tim Kaine (D-VA).
UPDATE I: Hmm, this is interesting, people walked out on Obama after Clinton had talked in Virginia. Looks like many Democrats with Clinton was getting a third term, rather than an Obama second one.
Posted November 4, 2012 by Scared Monkeys
2012 Elections, Barack Obama, Battle Ground States - Swing States, Mitt Romney - Paul Ryan 2012, Presidential Election, Virginia | 4 comments
George Will Predicts Romney Landslide 321-217 on ABC's 'This Week" … Similar to Barone's Landslide Prediction
Most pundits are calling the 2012 Presidential race too close to call as the RCP averages of polls have it a dead tie.
However, that did not stop conservative columnist on ABC's "This Week' to predict a Mitt Romney electoral landslide. Will predicted a 321-217 electoral victory for Romney. What I do find interesting is that a couple of people have gone out on a limb and said that Romney will get over 300 electoral votes; however, no one is really saying that Obama will do such. What we are seeing from Will and Barone is that if the undecided's break for the challenger Mitt Romney, battleground states could fall like dominoes for Romney.
On this weekend's broadcast of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" on ABC, Will revealed his prediction and added a bonus surprise by saying traditional Democratic state Minnesota would go for Romney as well.
"I'm projecting Minnesota to go for Romney," Will said. "It's the only state that's voted democratic in nine consecutive elections, but this year, there's marriage amendment on the ballot that will bring out the evangelicals and I think could make the difference."
Add Will's landslide prediction to that of numbers cruncher extraordinaire Michael Barone. His prediction of a landslide is based
on fundamentals, a majority of Americans are against Obama's policies. and a sluggish economy where job growth and recovery has been far too slow. Barone is predicting a Romney 315, Obama 223 landslide. Barone stated that it sounds high for Romney, but he could lose Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and still win the election.
Which candidate will get the electoral votes of the target states? I'll go out on a limb and predict them, in ascending order of 2008 Obama percentages — fully aware that I'm likely to get some wrong.
Indiana (11 ). Uncontested. Romney.
North Carolina (15). Obama has abandoned this target. Romney.
Florida (29). The biggest target state has trended Romney since the Denver debate. I don't see any segment of the electorate favoring Obama more than in 2008, and I see some (South Florida Jews) favoring him less. Romney.
Ohio (18). The anti-Romney auto bailout ads have Obama running well enough among blue-collar voters for him to lead most polls. But many polls anticipate a more Democratic electorate than in 2008. Early voting tells another story, and so does the registration decline in Cleveland's Cuyahoga County. In 2004, intensity among rural, small -town and evangelical voters, undetected by political reporters who don't mix in such circles, produced a narrow Bush victory. I see that happening again. Romney.
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Obama in Trouble …Obama Campaign Walking Away From Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado
Is Barack Obama giving up and reading the Romney handwriting on the wall in Florida, North Carolina, Virginia and Colorado? As stated at Hot Air, one has to look way down in the article to find this gem of info that is the most significant part of the entire piece.
What also became clear after the dust began to settle from the rumble on Long Island was the electoral map has narrowed and Obama's team, while conceding nothing publicly, is circling the wagons around Ohio, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada. Plouffe said that Obama remains strong in all four states, but he would not discuss the specifics of internal polling or voter-contact analytics, saying only that Obama has "significant leads" in all four places.
It is uncharacteristic of Team Obama to concede any terrain, but Plouffe offered no such assurances about Obama's position in North Carolina, Virginia, or Florida. Romney advisers have seen big gains in all three states and now consider wins likely, although not guaranteed, in all three. They are similarly upbeat about prospects in Colorado but not confident enough to predict victory. That Plouffe left Colorado off his list of states where Obama's leading and can withstand a Romney surge might be telling…
Romney, according to RCP, has 191 electoral votes. If you add Florida (29), North Carolina (15), and Virginia (13), that brings his total to 248 electoral votes. Add Colorado (9) –which neither campaign is prepared to claim or concede–and Romney's total rises to 257 electoral votes. If Romney wins Ohio (18) in addition to these states, he would have 275 electoral votes. If Romney loses Ohio, he would need to win Iowa, Nevada, and New Hampshire to reach 273 electoral votes.
As Hot Air stated, is Team Obama doing electoral triage? Has Romney's surge in so many battleground states and in states that were supposed to be lean Obama that it is stretching Obama's resources? Is Obama's vulnerability in so many states coming back to haunt him? It would appear that Obama may be redrawing his fire line.
It's not that Romney has insurmountable leads in FL, VA, and NC, it's that Team O has to decide how to allocate what's left of its campaign treasury down the stretch and there are better bets for them than those three states. Triage, in other words. Mitt's up 4.7 points on average in North Carolina, which would be tough for O to make up, and 2.5 points in Florida, which might be doable but would be hugely expensive in terms of reserving enough ad time to make a dent. I'm a little surprised to see Virginia included — O actually leads there by eight-tenths of a point, although Romney's (narrowly) won the last three polls, so maybe Obama's campaign figures it's not worth resisting that momentum in a state they don't really need.
Posted October 18, 2012 by Scared Monkeys
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Rasmussen Now Has Romney Ahead in Virginia 49% to 47%
Don't look now but another battleground state is trending to Mitt Romney.
According to the most recent Rasmussen poll, GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney leads President Barack Obama 49% to 47% in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This is yet another example of a state that Obama won comfortably in 2008, 53% – 47%, but is now trailing in 2012.
Mitt Romney now has a two-point lead in Virginia.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Virginia Voters shows Romney with 49% of the vote, while President Obama earns 47% support. One percent (1%) likes another candidate in the race, and three percent (3%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The RCP poll has Obama with a slim 0.4% lead over Romney. However, this is including a highly suspect NY Times/Quinnipiac poll that has Obama with an outlier +5 and no description in the poll of what the sampling was. When you dismiss this poll, Romney is actually slightly ahead in the averaging of polls.
Posted October 14, 2012 by Scared Monkeys
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Obamanomics & Job Recovery … Unemployment rates rose in 44 U.S. states in July Including 9 Battleground States
Just more evidence that the Obama jobs recovery and Obamanomics has been an epic failure.
Not only did the national US unemployment rise from 8.2% to 8.3% in July, but also the unemployment rates rose in 44 US states. That includes the increase in the unemployment rates in 9 battleground states like Nevada, that saw the rate rise to 12% in July from 11.6% and in Michigan, where the rate increased to 9% from 8.5%. Other battleground states that saw increases in the unemployment rates were Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Wisconsin and New Hampshire.
Unemployment rates rose in 44 U.S. states in July, the most states to show a monthly increase in more than three years and a reflection of weak hiring nationwide.
The Labor Department said Friday that unemployment rates fell in only two states and were unchanged in four.
Unemployment rates rose in nine states that are considered battlegrounds in the presidential election. That trend, if it continued, could pose a threat to President Barack Obama's re-election bid in less than three months.
Nationwide, hiring improved in July after three months of tepid job gains. But the national unemployment rate ticked up to 8.3 percent from 8.2 percent. Monthly job gains have averaged 150,000 this year. That's barely enough to accommodate population growth. As a result, the unemployment rate is the same as when the year began.
What is Obama's answer, more stimulus money for infrastructure projects. Obama code for giving jobs to union workers. Even though Obama said in the past when his previous stimulus plan was a failure, there were no shovel ready jobs then or now. At best these are temporary jobs, not permanent.
More bad news for Obama and Democrats, Americans prefer the GOP to Democrats in trusting them to fix the economy.
Brian in a Blue State
Posted August 18, 2012 by Scared Monkeys
2012 Elections, Barack Obama, Battle Ground States - Swing States, Economy, Epic Fail, Florida, Jobs, Michigan, New Hamsphire, Obamanation, Obamanomics, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Presidential Election, Unemployment, Virginia | 2 comments
Lunatic Fringe: VP Joe Biden Tells Supporters that Republicans Would "put y'all back in chains," During a Campaign Speech in Danville, VA … A New Low for Obama/Biden
Just when you thought that Obama-Biden couldn't get any more low rent … HEY AMERICA, HOW'S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY THING WORKING OUT FOR YOU?
OBAMA-BIDEN has hit a new low and that is saying something for these two. At a campaign even in Danville, VA Vice President Joe Biden told supporters that Republicans would "put y'all back in chains." Huh? And yes, the hideous comment was racial and meant to evoke putting blacks back in chains. This is what passes as a campaign? Could the Obama-Biden campaign get any more ugly? Politics is supposed to be a contact sport, but this is a new low in American politics. However, what else would one expect from a President and his Chicago style politics who cannot run on his record?
Vice President Joe Biden told supporters that Republicans would "put y'all back in chains," during a campaign speech Tuesday in Danville, Va.
VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: They've said it. Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the—he said in the first 100 days, he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules–unchain Wall Street. They're going to put y'all back in chains. He's said he's going to do nothing about stopping the practice of outsourcing…
Biden was introduced at the campaign event by Center for American Progress Action Fund president Tom Perriello, who called Biden "the conscience of our nation's capital."
The conscience of our nation's capital? No wonder Washington, DC politicians have such a low approval rating. I think Perriello got the words conscience and brain dead confused.
The Romney campaign reacted to Biden's vile and inappropriate words calling them "not acceptable". However, in an interview with Andrea Mitchell, Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter the campaign has "no problem with those comments." How low rent and in the gutter is the Obama campaign going to go? Actually, they have called Romney a killer and not some one who is going to put Americans back in chains. Just curious, what happened to Obama's message of civility?
"The comments made by the vice president of the United States are not acceptable in our political discourse and demonstrate yet again that the Obama campaign will say and do anything to win this election."
What a contrast we are witness to with Obama's stooge VP Biden and the GOP pick Rep. Paul Ryan. Biden acts like the village idiot and Ryan comes across as a sincere, honest, serious VP candidate with a plan to prevent America from going over the fiscal cliff. Voters need to answer a question, everyone speculated as to who Mitt Romney was going to pick as his VP candidate and whether that person would be ready to lead America being only a heart beat away from the Presidency. Maybe that same question needs to be posed regarding Joe Biden. Who thinks this loose cannon is capable of being President?
Posted August 14, 2012 by Scared Monkeys
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The Obama Job Recovery: Unemployment Rises in 27 States Including 6 Battle Ground States in June
When all is said and done, unemployment will eventually sink Obama's reelection in 2012 …
As much as President Barack Obama wants to avoid the primary issue of the 2012 elections, there is no way he can hide the fact that the economy has stalled and going backwards. The Obama job recovery has been a failure and has hit the skids at the worst possible time for Obama's reelection bid. In June 27 states saw their unemployment rate rise. Worse yet for Obama, unemployment rates rose in six of ten battleground states. According to the Department of Labor, the jobless rate climbed a 10th of a percentage point last month in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire and Virginia.
Unemployment rates rose in 27 states last month, the most in almost a year.
The Labor Department said Friday that unemployment rates fell in 11 states and Washington, D.C. — the fewest declines since August. Rates were unchanged in 12 states.
Nationwide, employers added only 80,000 jobs last month, third straight month of weak job growth. The national unemployment rate stayed at 8.2%.
Some of the states that saw a decline:
- Nevada recorded the highest unemployment rate, at 11.6%, same as the previous month.
- It was followed by Rhode Island at 10.9% and California at 10.7%
- North Dakota had the lowest unemployment rate at 2.9%, followed by Nebraska at 3.8%
- Several states reported big increases in unemployment. Rates rose 0.4 percentage points in Alabama and New Jersey, to 7.8% and 9.6%, respectively.
- Still others lost jobs. Wisconsin shed 13,200, the most of any state. It was followed by Tennessee, where employers cut 12,100 jobs.
What else could one expect but poor economic jobs numbers when you have a President who failed to meet with his much touted Jobs Council in the last six months, yet has time for fundraiser and golf? Retail sales fell in June for the third straight month as well.
Posted July 21, 2012 by Scared Monkeys
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Psychiatric Evaluation Pushes Back Murder Trial
McCoppin, Robert, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Byline: Robert McCoppin Daily Herald Legal Affairs Writer
A man accused of raping and strangling a woman in Naperville will undergo psychiatric examination to see if he was insane at the time of the attack.
The request by Richard G. Hess Jr. probably will cause a six-month delay in his trial for the murder of Nicole Kornely, DuPage County's top prosecutor said.
"It's unfair to the victim, it's unfair to the victim's family, to delay the case after two years, on the eve of trial," State's Attorney Joseph Birkett said.
Yet Birkett said the defendant's rights must be protected. Circuit Judge George Bakalis granted the request Monday after defense attorney Brian Telander said an insanity defense should be explored.
Police said Hess climbed onto Kornely's balcony in December 1995 from his apartment above hers, at 1517 W. Jefferson Ave., and got in through her unlocked sliding door.
On videotape, Hess said he entered Kornely's apartment, forced her to have sex, bit her and then strangled her with a piece of clothing.
His trial had been scheduled for Sept. 15.
Hess previously had rejected prosecutors' offers of prison time in exchange for a guilty plea, saying he wanted to die if convicted.
In June, prosecutors announced they would seek the death penalty.
But facing the confession and DNA testing that makes him a match for the rapist, Hess since has decided to go along with an effort to avoid the death penalty. …

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Nearly 1,000 lives are cut short in California every year at the hands of an impaired driver. In an effort to save lives and reduce the number of people who suffer injuries in alcohol-related collisions, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) is engaged in a grant-funded effort called "Impaired Driving Enforcement and Apprehension (IDEA) II."
"Our goal with this aggressive education and enforcement campaign is to deter drivers from making the poor decision to drink and drive,"said CHP Commissioner Joe Farrow. "And those who fail to heed this warning will be removed from the roadway and arrested."
California has seen a reduction in the number of alcohol-involved collisions year after year. According to the CHP's Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System, in 2009 there were 1,146 people killed in alcohol-involved collisions. The following year, in 2010, there were 972 people killed, which represents a 15% decrease. Preliminary data for 2011 shows that encouraging downward trend is continuing.
"The majority of motorists make the responsible decision and refrain from driving under the influence," added Commissioner Farrow. "Please choose to put the lives of your family and other motorists first this holiday season."
The IDEA 11 grant enables the CHP to conduct sobriety and driver license checkpoints, driving under the influence (DUI) task force operations, and deployment of proactive DUI enforcement patrol operations statewide. In addition, the CHP will educate drivers by holding local traffic safety presentations throughout California and implementing a statewide paid media campaign.
Anti-DUI efforts stemming from the yearlong grant continue through Sept. 30, 2013.
Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.


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Yezi TeaEdit Company
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Recent Tasting Notes
Brewing this in my gaiwan the initial scent after a quick rinse surprised me. It smelled so much like banana. I mean like Now & Later banana, but in a very subtle way. The first tasting had a little of the same banana but was more reminiscent of dried papaya. It has an acidic quality that brings a brightness to the cup, and reminds me almost of the smell of a hair salon. All of this comes together nicely for a mellow, bright, sweet fragrant light tea. It is perfect for the finishing touch on a long day, which is exactly how I am using it now.
Flavors: banana, Fruity, Honey, Tropical
I am happy, why you might ask? Because SNOW! Yes it is gently snowing out right now, and it plans on snowing on Thursday as well, and this pleases me. To celebrate this snow I had Ben help me with a tea picture taking session, though I only really lasted for one steep since I am small, Southern and freeze easily. Ah, I do love the frigid snow and fantasize about the rugged north, but I will have to enjoy it from my pile of blankets on the other side of a window.
It's Yancha time! Today I am taking a look at Yezi Tea's Shui Xian Da Hong Pao Oolong Tea, and the name of this tea confuses me. I am not sure if it is a blend of varietals (Shui Xian and Da Hong Pao) or a Shui Xian made to be a Da Hong Pao, I dunno, and frankly I am getting tired of trying to navigate the convoluted naming conventions of teas. Don't worry, my passion for tea and knowledge is not at all diminished, I just sometimes like to pay attention to the tea and have its stories be secondary. The aroma of the leaves is sweet, nice notes of cocoa, raisins, and dried cherries with char, dried wood, and a distant note of smoke. It balances sweetness and char really well I think, one does not overwhelm the other.
Into ye'ol Yancha pot the leaves go for a hot and short steep, and the aroma of the wet leaves is very rich and sweet, notes of raisins and cocoa mix with autumn leaf pile and char, the char notes do not overwhelm, this tea errs more on the sweet side. The liquid is very pale of color for a Yancha, but the aroma is intense, strong notes of cocoa, raisins, and rich honey, with underlying notes of dried cherry, loam, and char. The char notes are very mild and the sweetness shines.
The first steep is pleasantly smooth and sweet, well it starts smooth in the mouth and a touch creamy with sweet notes of cocoa and dried fruit, it them moves to a slight dryness with tobacco and orchid notes. At the finish is straight up sweet chocolate that lingers for quite a while, though there was a definite lack of char this steep, and only a slight hint of mineral.
The aroma of the second steep has a bit ore char, and some smoke as well, with notes of cocoa, raisins, baked squash, and sweet cream. There is also a ghost of orchid, but it smells more like an orchid tossed on a bonfire rather than a bouquet. Wow, the second steep is super sweet and creamy, very smooth in the mouth and thick too! Notes of chocolate and char with autumn leaf pile at the first remind me of s'mores, in fact blending with the sweet burnt sugar notes and baked yeasty notes, it kinda is like liquid s'more. The finish has a sweet and gentle note of orchid and dry autumn leaves, with a cocoa shell note that lingers for quite a while.
Third steeping time, wow, the aroma did a turn around on me, no longer notes of chocolate and char, it is all sweet creamy honeysuckle and orchids. The taste is a delicate and sweet blend of honey, molasses, honeysuckles, cream, chocolate, and loam. The finish and aftertaste is really where this tea is at, it is exactly like burnt marshmallows, complete with a touch of campfire! This is a delicious tea, usually I like my Yancha with enough char that you might mistake it for actual steeped bonfire (I think because my first Yancha was Shui Hsien by Sea Dyke, super cheap but super good, so it is iconic in my mind) but changing things up with a lighter Yancha is fun, plus it broadens my spectrum of tastes which is always a plus. So whatever this tea is, be it a DHP or a Shui Xian, who cares, it tastes really good!
For blog and photos: http://ramblingbutterflythoughts.blogspot.com/2016/01/yezi-tea-shui-xian-da-hong-pao-oolong.html
This is one of the most enjoyable oolongs I have had in a while. In fact I enjoyed it so much it sparked about an hour of browsing various other medium roasted type oolongs that I am now considering buying. I had been on a streak of trying oolongs that I didn't really care for but this one has effectively ended it. It has a peach/apricot like fragrance that was released as soon as I put into my heated gaiwan. The flavor was deep and complex and for lack of a better word, juicy. I was planning on writing this while I drank it but it stole all of my attention. I got about 7 great steeps out of this.
Flavors: Apricot, Butter, Floral, Peach
From a Yezi sample. Yezi's color coding system suggests this is a higher oxidation oolong, but the leaves are quite green in appearance. This is a good tea. After the first 15 second steep, I got notes of peach, apricot and butter. On the second 40 second steep, I picked up on the slight vegetal and grassy flavors that others mentioned, though it really is very subtle. That's good because I dislike highly vegetal tea. It smells slightly floral, and it's not roasted. In terms of taste, it is more similar in flavor to a darker Oriental Beauty style oolong than a green tea, which is good. I guess that probably suggests they're telling the truth about the oxidation level. I like it a lot, but I find Yezi generally to be a bit overpriced for everyday drinkers.
Lasted for 3 gongfu steeps, but I pushed it to 4 with disappointing results.
Flavors: Apricot, Butter, Floral, Grass, Peach, Sweet, Vegetal
This link suggests pouchong tea is actually processed a bit differently from oolong tea and that it's not technically an oolong:
The inhalation of the steam off this tea is transportive to me. Gives new meaning to "high tea" … Has me wondering if the nose can actually taste, because it seems that way with this … pure, natural sweetness of meadow and orchid. I intend to try it before meditation some time soon.
The first steep was far too long due to a distraction yet still produced a delicious cup. Sweet, soft floral, just perfect. This is one of very few teas that I would move into a weekly rotation. Going to keep an eye on Yezi to see if they announce a sale. Meanwhile, if anyone is up for a trade, pm me ;)
I have never had a pearled/loose leaf Jasmine tea until I drank this tonight. That infrequency will soon change. This was an exquisite introduction to this style of tea and now has me on the Jasmine pearl bandwagon.
The scent upon opening the bag was heavenly. I was a bit concerned with the smell being overpowering in the taste but this was not an issue. The jasmine flavor is very delicate and balanced while the scent remains strong on the nose. I brewed this gong fu and was able to get 8 very consistently wonderful steeps. The flavor is never perfume driven. What else to say about this? I believe I mentioned the word heavenly and that is what I keep coming back to. I keep sticking my nose in empty vessels that this tea has recently vacated, bringing the lid of my gaiwan to nostrils in hopes of capturing the scent to access whenever I would wish.
I really want to order a large bag of this tea. It is now on my list to do so.
Flavors: Jasmine, Sweet
I'm really digging this little sample, So yummy.
Complex tasting notes, i NEED more of this one because I'd love to spend some quality time with it and get to know it better.
i'll not rate it or put notes on it just yet, but I will very soon, i think i love it.
Bi Luo Chun is quite a delicate tea and I've often seen it recommended to be brewed with a top-putting method, that is placing the tea leaves into the vessel after you've already filled it with water. Perhaps this was my mistake, as I didn't do that, but instead I tried to pour the water as gently around the edges of my gaiwan as possible so as not to damage these delicate curly green leaves. My first couple infusions of this tea were a bit on the bitter side, but my third infusion was really harmonious with notes of dew and honeysuckle interspersed with fresh grassy green flavor. There's a good lingering sweetness, and the feeling this tea leaves in the mouth is very stimulating, a definite hui gan is there. The sensation that lingers in my mouth after drinking this is amazing, a clean, minty kind of tingle and sweet flavor.
I don't feel the bitterness in this tea is an indication of poor quality. Rather it is simply not a very forgiving tea, and takes some skill to brew. Subsequent infusions of this tea were very sweet, mild, and full of flavor. Despite the clean, stimulating feeling on the sides and roof of the mouth, there's a bit of drying sensation on the tongue.
Flavor-wise, this is one of the best green teas I've had. Getting the texture and mouthfeel to be as gentle as the flavors seems a bit of a challenge for me. Maybe if I had more than a sample amount to experiment with I could try using a lower temperature, a top-putting method, or less leaf. For now, I'll just say this is an interesting green tea that is well worth trying.
EDIT: I tried what little I had left of this sample in a really small gaiwan and used a top-putting method, and it definitely made a much smoother first few infusions. The tea takes some finesse to brew properly, but if you can get it right, it's rewarding. :)
Flavors: Grass, Honeysuckle, Sweet
Out of the bag this tea smells intensely of dark chocolate and malt. After the initial infusion in a small gongfu pot, the leaves have a cocoa scent with notes of hay and floral.
This first infusion has a really full dark-chocolate like taste with a lingering bitterness just like the chocolate. There are notes of floral as well, but the dark chocolate and malt tastes are the dominant ones. There are some woody notes as well. In terms of sweetness this is one of the less sweet red teas I've tried. It is bold.
The second infusion liquor smells like camphor, chocolate, and flowers. The taste is still quite bold with all three elements taking up part of the flavor as well. There's a bit of apricot too. Further infusions yielded increasingly mild and clean tasting brews. Overall this tea has a bit of a kick to it, which is probably great for those who like their black tea to have bite. On the other hand, I like my black teas to have that little bit of zing but with some creamy or sweet undertones to help anchor it and make a more rounded infusion. This tea lacked those subtler qualities for me, and I found that doing a lighter brew to tone it down seemed to significantly decrease the flavor rather than just making it seem lighter. It seemed hard to avoid the tannic contributions in this tea without missing the flavors altogether. The quality of the tea was good but it falls outside the preferences of my palate. I might recommend it for people who like dark chocolate.
Flavors: Apricot, Dark Chocolate, Floral, Malt, Wood
This was a sample with my Yezi order. The oolongs I have had from Yezi have all been so nice and complex. I made it through have a session last night with this tea. It was silky and buttery, yet very light and floral. I will have to add more after tonight, but it was a very enjoyable tea. I would recommend this tea too someone who likes floral light oolongs.
Thanks so much for the awesome tea package, Stephanie! More teas to try! That will never end. :D I had to dive into this sample. I could tell even from the fragrance that there wasn't as much jasmine as I love and prefer. Those Teavivre jasmine teas are tough to top in that department. I used the entire sample – 1 3/4 teaspoons. It didn't seem to be overleafed at all. But the flavor is lovely and sweet — candy! I guess enough jasmine to drown out the light green flavor. But then the second steep! Just perfect. Much more jasmine, hints of the amazing green tea flavor peeking through while not being bitter. It tasted like it would be a perfect green tea even without the jasmine. I should have went for a third steep but it was late.
Steep #1 // 1 3/4 teaspoons // 30 minutes after boiling // 2 minute steep
Steep #2 // 22 min a.b. // 2-3 min steep
Thanks to KiwiDelight for this! I think it's a sipdown, but perhaps there's another small package somewhere? I am feeling a little disorganized since I thought I sipped down Canal Street Carnival and then found a whole other bag of it.
This tea has a lovely cocoa scent. The dominant flavor is malt with a hint of cocoa. It's a great fall/winter/cozy tea. I got about 4-5 steeps out of the leaf, gong fu style using boiling water per website instructions. And it didn't make my stomach hurt like many black teas do! Huzzah!
Flavors: Cocoa, Malt
I so enjoy unflavored black teas that taste like chocolate, and this is one.
The brewing fragrance is lovely – richly chocolate and enticing. The flavor bears this out, hitting a melody of harmonizing notes. Wouldn't dub it an especially complex tea, but it is interesting. The flavor profile makes me think it should have a richer mouthfeel than it does, but that's ok because it's still very enjoyable.
I will probably rate this higher in the future, knowing to expect a lighter body.
Recommended for anyone looking for a naturally chocolate black.
- anyone looking to swap some of this, lmk since i would like to try more before buying :)
Flavors: Chocolate
Brewed with a glass gongfu tea pot . Steeping times: 45, 30, 45, 60, 90.
The dry leaf initially smells buttery and flowery, and when my nose becomes used to the aroma, sweet barn hay (maybe because the sample is almost a year old….). The wet leaf has classic dong ding aroma notes: roasted, much more floral, and chlorophyll-filled.
The liquor is slightly green gold, pale, clear. Full-body. Creamy texture. The first infusion is sweet and floral, an embodiment of mid-spring with a calming effect. Roasted vegetables are dominant in the second, and in the third – the peak of the session – they tone down, and a sugarcane sweetness appears, along with a honeysuckle note. Strawberry aftertaste. After a two and half hour break, I resumed the session. The fourth infusion is light and floral, and the fifth is roughly the same, although a little tangy.
I didn't want to ingest anymore caffeine for the day, so I cold-brewed the rest for fourteen hours. Not…recommended. The leaf didn't yield much. Not complex at all.
This dong ding didn't give me a wow factor, but it was still lovely to drink, especially on a not-too-warm, sunny spring Sunday.
Oh god, I have had this sample literally forever. I was very good about my other, non-pu-erh samples from Yezi, but I could never bring myself to take the time and make this one.
Part of the problem is that pu-erh is kind of scary, and I've never really had one that I've liked yet. I chose this sample to stretch myself and try a new, higher quality pu-erh than I've had before.
Dry, the leaf smells sweet and slightly of hay. It's very reminiscent of midwestern autumns.
I am using an approx. 75 mL gaiwan and about 1.5 g of tea, per the website's suggestion. Water is near a full boil. I will also be following the website's suggested steeping times.
Rinse: super fishy smelling. Wet leaf: Now smells like wet hay. It's very strong, I can feel it at the back of my throat. There's a sweet undercurrent similar to the soft innards of homemade bread.
30 sec: Auugh, I splashed myself with some of the hot tea! After cooling my poor scalded finger, I come back to a cup cool enough to drink. The upfront taste and smell is all hay. I am stuck on hay today, apparently. However, there is this incredibly chocolatey aftertaste that hits maybe 10 seconds after I swallow and lasts for quite a while afterwards. Wet leaf now smells of new shoe leather and wet autumn leaves.
40 sec: Not much development from the first steeping. It feels pretty thin, but the flavors are very similar to the first steep, down to the chocolate aftertaste hitting after I swallow. Wet leaf smells crazy like hay again.
1 min: I have lost the chocolate aftertaste.
I have probably steeped this a total of about 5 times now and the flavor hasn't really changed. Overall, this is fine. A lot better than the pu-erh that I have had previously. It's made pu-erh a little less scary. However, I don't think I would drink it again; it just doesn't do much for me. I will hold off on rating this tea, because as I said, I am not a pu-erh drinker. I would not want to affect its rating because of that.
Brewed in a glass test tube steeper. Steeping times: 20 seconds, 30, 45, 60, 120.
Complex aroma, changing as the leaves air. Dry leaf: malt, bread, sweet potatoes. After staying for thirty seconds in the heated steeper, still dry, pure fudge. Wet leaf: chocolate fudge cake, returning to sweet potatoes.
Amber-colored liquor, on the lighter side for a Chinese black tea. Clear, with the exception of fuzzies. Full-bodied.
The first infusion yields notes of sweet potatoes and malt. Quite light in flavor and thinly textured, though – the leaves would have needed to steep more. The ball gets rolling in the second infusion – thicker texture, with chocolately flavors – but the third infusion is the high point of the session. There was even more chocolate, followed by smoky sugar, then grains, and, lastly, sweet potatoes cooked on fire. All at once, though easy to pick out separately.
After a two-hour break, the fourth infusion tasted of sweet potatoes. The final was very smokey (not any kind in particular).


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Erin Jones-Wesley pitched in all three of LBSU's regional games last season
May 13, 2012
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Big West Conference softball champion Long Beach State will open NCAA Tournament play on Friday at 3:30 p.m. in the Tempe Regional at Arizona State where the 49ers will meet Syracuse in the opening game.
The 49ers enter the double elimination regional with a 28-23 record, while Syracuse is 40-14. No. 3 Arizona State and LIU-Brooklyn will meet in the other game on Friday. LBSU faced LIU-Brooklyn earlier this season in Cathedral City, Calif., losing to the Blackbirds 5-2.
Long Beach State holds a 3-0 advantage over Syracuse in the all-time series. The 49ers last faced the Orange on March 8, 2009, when LBSU picked up a 3-0 win in Long Beach. Long Beach State also has a 12-3 win over SU on Feb. 10, 2007 and a 15-2 victory on March 11, 2006.
The 49ers have faced Arizona State (46-7) 29 times since 1982 with the Sun Devils holding a 17-11-1 lead in the series. It's the second straight season Long Beach State will travel to Tempe for the NCAA Regional, with ASU, the eventual national champion, handing LBSU a 8-0 defeat in the winner's bracket game on day two of the regional. LIU-Brooklyn (25-33) and Long Beach State have played twice, including this year's game, with LBSU winning the first matchup 5-1 on Feb. 27, 2010.
Long Beach State will be making its 21st appearance in an NCAA Regional Tournament, and the fourth in the Kim Sowder era. In addition to last year's Tempe Regional, where LBSU went 1-2, the 49ers appeared in the Los Angeles Regional at UCLA in 2009 where they finished 1-2 and at the Iowa Regional in 2008 where LBSU finished 1-2.
The 49ers last won a regional tournament in 1993 when they finished 3-1 at the California Regional and advanced to the College World Series with a 2-1 win over the Golden Bears. LBSU is 24-34 all-time in NCAA Regional Tournaments.
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The Greater Boston chapter of the Society for Physician Entrepreneurs
(SoPE) announced today that it will host "Healthcare IT" on Tuesday,
March 18, 2014, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Merck Research
Laboratories, 33 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston. The event is
complimentary, but pre-registration is necessary. Light food and
beverages will be available.
Act I: A Physician's Personal Journey as An EntrepreneurJulien
Pham, MD, Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder, RubiconMD (www.rubiconmd.com), will
be kicking off the meeting with a presentation on his activities as a
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Charming Flat near the Vatican
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The District Boccea is a residential area of Rome, which is developed to the west of the Vatican City along the Via Aurelia.
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It's a strategic point of the city thanks to the metro station line "Cornelia" (300 mt) through which you can reach in just 4 minutes, the Vatican City and the heart of Rome (Piazza del Popolo, the Spanish Steps and Trevi Founatin).
The apartment consists of a large living room, a beautiful bedroom with a lovely balcony, a large bathroom equipped with shower bath, a new kitchen in a modern style.
The apartment is also equipped with all the comforts for an unforgettable stay in Rome: central heating, air conditioning, wi-fi internet connection, tea and coffee maker, toaster, washing machine and fully equipped kitchen with pots and pans.
In addition, city maps, tourist information and advice on any type of service in the capital.
The Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic and the Catholic University of Sacro Cuore are about 3 km away and easily reached by car or taxi in 3 minutes or by public transport (300 m) in about 10 minutes.
Also in the area (800 mt) there is "IDI" Italian Dermatological Institute and the conference center "Ergife."
Please contact us a few days in advance, to comunicate your arrival time.
Check-out before 11.00 AM unless otherwise agreed
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Appartamento spazioso, pulito e situato vicino al centro, alla metropolitana e molto tranquillo . I proprietari molto disponibili .
Pěkný, čistý apartmán v blízkosti metra. Velmi dobrá dostupnost do centra Říma a ke všem památkám. Velice dobře vybavený apartmán i vybavená kuchyň. Kousek od apartmánu je skvělá pizzerie. Absolutní spokojenost!
Appartement bien organisé et sympathique. Petits reproches: manque un micro ondes et très peu de vaisselle.
We stayed in Rome for four nights and we couldn't be happier for chosing Simone and Francesca apparment. You need to have the adress clear in your mind because it is in a very small street, but once you arrive all become better, the appartment is clean, nice, and with everthing that you could need.
It is very well conected with Vatican and City centre by bus and by metro.
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We really recommend it, thank you for all Simone and Francesca!!
We had a great time in the appartment. Rome is a beautiful city and the appartment is located near public transport, so easily attainable.
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There is a nice restaurant just around the corner, so after a long day you can still go out and have a nice meal without having to travel all the way back.
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Great place for the money - apartment is very nice and clean, furniture looks fairly new. Generally, apartment appearance is very close to what you can see on the photos - considering my experience it was big surprise. The AC is a bit noisy, but it helps to survive the mid day heat after hours of sightseeing in full sun ;) - there is a very decent restaurant just a few meters away, and some markets around Cornelia station. We had just a few days stay but there is everything you need for longer vacations, like for example washing machine - 100% recommend.
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El apartamento amplio y con todas las comodidades,aunque se echa en falta un microondas para calentar la leche etc.Un detalle que dejaran aceite,sal,vinagre,agua etc para que puedas cocinar y asi no tener que comprarlo tu.Alrededor tienes super y tiendas donde poder comprar comida.Restaurante tambien a buen precio para los que llegais tarde del aeropuerto.El metro esta a 10 minutos andando.Lo que no me gusto es que se me cobrara un suplemeto de 20 euros por llegar mas tarde de las 20:00.
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Goldacre is right - greater honesty is needed
One of the most trenchant critics of pseudo-science in healthcare, the neuro-psychologist Dr Ben Goldacre, has turned his guns on the pharmaceutical industry.
I am only part way through 'Bad Pharma' (Fourth Estate, London), but I do know Ben and have heard him speak several times. The current theme emerged a couple of years ago, when he supported a debate at The Oxford Union on this topic. I have to say that, after 38 years working with big pharma, the whole issue causes me considerable pain. Let me outline why.
On the opening page there is the following statement: "Industry-funded trials are more likely to produce a positive, flattering result than independently-funded trials."
This establishes the theme for the book; drug companies distort and even hide research data, and thus mislead regulators, doctors and patients. But I am not writing a book review here, and in any case I am quite familiar with some of the abuses that Ben sets out. If there are any surprises, they would include the vast scale of book-cooking that seems to go on.
A casual reader could get the impression that there is really nothing that drug companies say about their products that we can believe. That would jar with those of us who work in drug development, and who know the huge grinding effort that goes into getting the data right.
But the fact is inescapable that the process does go wrong, sometimes deliberately so, because Bad Pharma is well enough referenced to back up the overall message.
A painful necessity
That such a book could be written is a tragedy. I spend most of my spare time in voluntary work supporting evidence-based medicine, for example with the charity HealthWatch. The many opponents of real medicine are having a field day, claiming that drugs do far more harm than good, and citing Goldacre in support.
Some of you might have seen a new magazine on the newsagent's shelves, called 'What Doctors Don't Tell You'. It says nothing good about real medicines, and is full of false claims for 'alternatives'. The editor dismisses previous books by Goldacre on the fantasies of homeopathy, chiropractic etc., and delights in his broadside against big pharma (and ignores his praise of pharma's major contributions to public health).
Industry response
So what do we as an industry think about all this? Presumably the ABPI speaks for the UK research-based companies, and in a press statement devotes 63 words to addressing what the book actually says, finishing with: "...the examples he refers to are long documented and historical, and the companies concerned have long addressed these issues."
It continues with 557 words on how the industry is heavily regulated, how difficult and expensive drug development is, how it is meeting unmet medical need etc etc. I and many of my colleagues do not see that as a balanced and constructive response.
Indeed, the clip reproduced above is demonstrably untrue. Publication bias continues, studies are still disappearing from public view, and there are still big gaps in safety data. I feel badly let down by such complacency.
Sell, sell, sell....
It would be rather facile to say that everything is fine in R&D, and the problems only start when the data get to the marketers. I am reminded of something I heard from one of my competitors, in the early days of my first business.
The gist of it was that the content of one's offering was much less important than how hard it was sold. That seems to be a message that has struck home, with global sales and marketing spend about twice that of R&D.
Nevertheless, I am realistic enough to know that no matter how good the product, it simply won't get used unless someone is paid to sell it. Companies will do whatever they can to sell their products, so I don't think we can ever legislate to stop them from spending their own money on that.
What we can do though is to ensure that what the sales reps say is decent, legal, honest and truthful. Perhaps the messages will become much simpler for having to rely only on solid data, and will cost less to deliver.
Unnecessary trials
Meanwhile, everything clearly is not fine in R&D. Clinical trials absorb the major part of resources for that, and for decades have been governed by various flavours of Good Clinical Practice. But it has dawned on me that it's perfectly possible to have 100% compliance with GCP, yet still do bad science and mislead the consumer.
For example, does it add to our knowledge to carry out a placebo-controlled trial when there is an effective treatment already available? Yet that is what I have found myself doing, because that's the study that the regulator wanted. Surely what we want to know about a new drug is that it offers an advance in patient care, not that it is better than doing nothing.
Inappropriate trials
Even with active-controlled trials, there are ways of doing bad science. It is unlikely that the study drug and the active comparator will have identical response profiles. So there is scope to make your drug look better, by carefully selecting the time point which you can designate the primary response parameter. Don't laugh, I have seen this done.
The regulator (a different one) bought it hook, line and sinker. For such trials as these, millions were spent on gruelling GCP compliance, necessitating many thousands of air miles, and rooms full of paper files. Surely I am not alone in questioning the sense of all this?
A broken model
It is becoming more widely appreciated that the current GCP model is not sustainable. The concept of the data trail, which emerged from the original FDA GCP guideline of 1977, is firmly rooted in paper-based systems. Any clinical research associate knows that there is no guarantee that all data in the study database will have originated in the patient's medical records.
When errors and omissions occur, we all know that gaps in the medical records are commonly filled in from data in the case report form, just to keep the auditor happy. People repeatedly fly into remote countries to monitor sites that only recruit one patient, or none at all. Hence we can easily be looking at £50,000 to £100,000 per patient to get the study done.
It is very widely accepted that because of this lack of realism, and many other problems that I have highlighted previously, GCP and the current drug development process are not meeting the expectations of a more sophisticated and challenging consumer base.
Ben Goldacre and his ilk have got wise to what is going on, and with Bad Pharma already among the best sellers his arguments, even if flawed in places, are falling on receptive ears.
Some commentators are asking whether the focus of R&D should not be on new products, as driven by pharma, but on quantified health gains. Thus, the placebo-controlled trial that I mentioned above would be worthless, as it could not demonstrate a health gain over the status quo. R&D would then have to proceed as more of a partnership between industry and healthcare stakeholders.
A new paradigm
How could this work? I can think of two main branches to follow. Firstly, clinical trials need to be far more relevant to clinical practice. Many medical journals are now demanding that authors provide a structured synopsis of their paper, including a clear statement of what we now know from their findings, that we didn't know before, and how it will change clinical practice. This needs to be brought forward into the original proposal for doing the trial, including a firm commitment to publication.
Yes, a protocol has objectives, but they are very commonly more esoteric. Secondly, we need Good Scientific Practice as an integral part of GCP. This falls squarely into the laps of the ethics committees and the regulators, both of whom have been strangely silent so far about Bad Pharma.
To enable these things to happen, the crushing burden of GCP drudgery needs to be relieved, so that resources become available to do better science that matters to more people. That doesn't mean lowering standards, it means raising them by refocusing.
We need to put the effort into where it will have the most benefit, and that means a risk based approach to trial management. Should we keep monitoring those unproductive investigators? I don't think so, we should put them on hold and go where we have the most data.
It may well be that the regulators are alert to some of this. Last year the FDA published draft guidance on a risk-based approach to trial monitoring. There is increased emphasis on using intelligence about the study to govern what is to be monitored.
Such intelligence would be managed centrally, implying the need for advanced systems to analyse the study progress data feed in real time, and to inform managers of future potential problems.
We are in this together
Goldacre has shown us where our science is not good. Ethics committees and regulators now have no excuse for not spotting protocols that pulled the wool over their eyes before. One ethics committee member I know suggests rejecting submissions from investigators with a track record of failure to publish (as does Goldacre).
The legislators have the opportunity to include essential checks and balances to ensure that good science is done, and that patients are better protected by increased emphasis on where the biggest risks are, and much less on wasteful backwaters.
I am doubtful that either industry or regulators will drive this process alone, and it will need far more creative collaboration than I can recall ever happening before.
Les Rose is a freelance clinical research consultant and medical writer.
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As someone outside the industry, but who teaches, writes and has an interest in the general area, I did have an opportunity to ritually club Big Pharma in a textbook and recent chapter in a longer text, but I felt it necessary to be more balanced, as without their products, I would not have survived the 1980's. So I felt your piece was very reasoned, constructive and it should receive wider publicity. For every loathsome practice discovered under some slimy rock, there has been a drug advance that would look little short of miraculous to medicine as recently as the '80s and 90's.
> Like the car industry,Big Pharma has its faults, but unless you try to build one yourself, so to speak, it is hard to appreciate the virtues and easy to attack the problems, real though they are. The system can be improved from the regulatory, financial, commercial and R&D standpoints if the will is there to do it. This can sometimes happen if constructive and informed views such as yours receive some coverage
I really enjoyed reading this article.
As a concerned consumer of pharmaceutical products and a rank newcomer to the issues being addressed by books like Bad Pharma, I think it's important that pharmaceutical companies take seriously and respond thoughtfully to the criticisms being raised by these kinds of books. It is easy for debates to polarize into rhetorical rock throwing contests, but when we outsiders see that sort of thing, it tends to discredit both sides and leave us scratching our heads and ready to flip a coin or "go with our guts".
The above article strikes me as thoughtful and fair and although I'm still scratching my head, I get the feeling that if I stick with it long enough, pay attention to the reasonable debates, and do my homework as a consumer, then in the end I just might be able to make some good decisions.
PS: I would love to see a review of the book Tarnished Gold: The Sickness of Evidence Based Medicine by Steve Hickey and Hilary Roberts.
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