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Taco Pizza
note* If making your own dough, keep in mind that it needs an overnight rest in the fridge before being ready to use.
Taco Pizza
8 ounces of pizza dough, store bought or homemade, recipe follows
1/2 lb. lean ground beef
1/2 packet of taco seasoning (I used 2 TBSP of Penzey's taco seasoning)
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup of your favorite salsa
3/4 cup shredded cheese (I used queso quesadilla cheese but you could use Monterey Jack or mozzarella)
See crust directions below if making your own dough.
Brown ground beef and drain. Add taco seasoning and water. Simmer on medium low heat for 5-10 minutes. Remove from heat. Set aside.
Shredded lettuce
Grape tomatoes, halved
Onions, diced
Shredded cheddar cheese
Sour cream
The crust: (This makes one pound of pizza dough, enough for one large 12-14 inch pizza, or two 8-10 inch pizzas)
1 cup white whole wheat flour
1 cup unbleached bread flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 1/2 tsp vital wheat gluten
1 TBSP pizza dough flavor (optional, but delicious)
2 tsp instant yeast
1 TBSP olive oil
3/4 cup warm water (90-100 degrees)
In the bowl of your stand mixer, combine the flours, salt, sugar, wheat gluten, pizza dough flavor and instant yeast. Whisk together. Add the olive oil and the water. Using dough hook, mix and knead dough for 8-10 minutes, adding more water or flour as needed, until dough is smooth and elastic. Spray a large bowl with cooking spray and transfer dough to bowl, rolling it around to completely coat with oil. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let proof at room temperature until doubled, about one hour. Gently punch dough down to degas, knead again for a few minutes and return to bowl. Cover bowl again with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
The next day, remove dough from fridge about an hour and a half before you want to bake the pizza. Spray some cooking spray on your counter top and transfer dough. Cover dough with plastic wrap that has been sprayed with cooking spray. Let rest while you make your sauce and put the rest of your pizza ingredients together.
About thirty minutes before baking the pizza, place pizza stone on the middle rack of your oven and preheat oven to 500 degrees.
After dough has rested for an hour, spray a piece of parchment paper with cooking spray. Place dough on parchment paper and starting from the middle of the dough ball, gently spread the dough out into a 12" circle. It the dough resists, just let it rest a few minutes longer before working with it again.
Transfer the crust along with the parchment paper to the baking stone in the oven. I use a pizza peel to do this. Bake for five minutes then remove the crust and parchment paper from the stone.
Top pizza crust with salsa, taco meat and cheese. Return pizza to oven and bake for another 5-7 minutes or until crust is browned and cheese is bubbly. Remove pizza from oven and top with shredded lettuce, onions, tomatoes and cheddar cheese. Garnish with sour cream if desired.
11 comments:
- Susan @ SGCC said...
My daughter ordered me one of these for my birthday a few months ago. It didn't look nearly as good as yours, though. What a delicious idea!
- June 28, 2010 at 5:22 PM
- Haden News said...
I love the idea of a Taco Pizza -- yum yum, I will be trying this.
- June 28, 2010 at 6:40 PM
- Moogie said...
Mags... this is a winner. Everything you do is perfect. Are you a Stepford Wife?
- June 28, 2010 at 9:13 PM
- Sue Sparks said...
What a great idea...two great dishes merged into one! Delicious!
- June 28, 2010 at 10:01 PM
- Grumpy and HoneyB said...
mmm, I'd happily eat this for breakfast! lol. YUM!
- June 29, 2010 at 7:36 AM
- All Our Fingers in the Pie said...
What a great idea! That is a summer hit. I think my co-irkers would like this.
- June 29, 2010 at 8:06 AM
- Kat said...
That looks delicious!
- June 29, 2010 at 8:07 AM
- stephchows said...
that dough looks amazingly good!
- June 29, 2010 at 9:10 AM
- Ms. Meanie said...
Such a good idea. I know my BF would LOVE this. I think his favorite foods are pizza and tacos so this would be the ultimate for him. Thanks for the inspiration Mags!
- June 29, 2010 at 4:59 PM
- Leslie said...
What a neat idea! I need to step away from the pesto and sun-dried tomatoes and give this one a try!
- June 29, 2010 at 10:36 PM
- Brenda Craig said...
I am going to try this with my Texas Brew Salsa...should be yummy...thanks so much email@example.com
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SAN JOSE -- Patrick Marleau cooled off, but only a little. The Sharks? They stayed red hot.
For the first time this season, Marleau failed to score two goals. But he did notch one as San Jose beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-1 on Sunday in a fight-filled contest that had a touch of nastiness before the first puck dropped.
With the victory, the Sharks improved to 5-0 for the season, making them one of only four NHL teams without a loss.
Marleau, who tied an NHL record from 1917 by opening the season with four multiple-goal games, admitted to being a little disappointed to see that personal streak end.
"Yeah, it would have been nice to keep it going," he said. "Definitely."
But nobody -- Marleau included -- was complaining about a decisive victory over a Vancouver team that has developed into one of San Jose's biggest rivals since the Canucks eliminated the Sharks in the 2011 Western Conference finals.
All of San Jose's goals came from its top line with Joe Pavelski picking up two and Joe Thornton adding the other.
Forward Alex Burrows scored the lone Vancouver goal while Sharks goalie Antti Niemi earned his fourth victory, making 23 saves.
It was Burrows who was in the middle of things at the opening faceoff, as he and Logan Couture waited for the puck to drop.
"He dug his head into my face so I lifted his helmet up, and he sucker punched me," Couture said. "Then Clowe came in."
The Sharks started a game 4-on-4 for the first time in franchise history as both Clowe and Burrows ended up in the penalty box for unsportsmanlike conduct. It was the first of eight infractions totaling 35 minutes for the Sharks left wing whose night ended with a game misconduct 27 seconds before the end of the second period.
San Jose grabbed a 1-0 lead in the opening minute when Thornton took advantage of a Canucks misplay and beat goalie Cory Schneider. That grew to 2-0 at 3:26 thanks to a giveaway by Vancouver defenseman Alexander Edler that Pavelski buried.
"I think he was trying to get a little air on it and it kind of stayed down and I was able to get it," Pavelski said of the intercepted pass.
Ultimately, the game became a battle of special teams with San Jose coming out ahead. Both of the Sharks' final goals came on San Jose's league-leading power play while the team's revamped penalty kill went a perfect 7-for-7.
The teams traded goals in the second period, and both pucks entered each net off a Shark's skate.
The Canucks made it 2-1 at 11:05 when a rebound of a shot by Burrows caromed back into the net off defenseman Dan Boyle's foot.
Vancouver then kept the pressure on until forward Maxim Lapierre went to the penalty box for interference. The Sharks controlled the puck for almost the full two minutes before a shot by Boyle went into the net off Marleau's foot at 14:27.
The emotional outburst that ended Clowe's night came when referee Dave Jackson called a high-sticking penalty on Clowe at 19:33. He objected, continuing to bang his stick around while in the penalty box before earning a game misconduct.
That left the Sharks short-handed for four minutes, bridging the second and third periods. But the Canucks only got one shot off during that stretch.
"A real gritty effort," Sharks coach Todd McLellan said. "It was a real chippy game. I thought we kept our cool, we stood our ground and turned the frustration the other way and worked in our favor."
But he declined to talk about Clowe's performance.
"Obviously we're not happy about the penalties and that's all I'm going to say about it. I owe Ryane Clowe my conversation, I don't owe any of you guys my conversation with Ryane," McLellan said, before adding, "he's going to continue to be a very important player for our hockey club."
The Sharks got their second power-play goal at 8:14 of the third period when Thornton set up Pavelski for a 33-foot wrist shot that finished the scoring.
Tempers flared again in the third when Douglas Murray got the better of Vancouver left wing Aaron Volpatti, and Andrew Desjardins tangled with Canucks defenseman Kevin Bieksa.
"At the time I thought it was a good hit. Saw it a couple times last night, and I still thought that," Stuart said Sunday morning.
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In preps action Tuesday night, Eagle Valley boys basketball beat Summit County, 42-29, over the pass.
Ho-hum. Really, the Devils should beat the Tigers. The Devils are the defending co-Slope champions, while Rife is all that is keeping Summit out of the cellar of the league.
But, dot, dot, dot (As Mel Brooks said often in "History of the World, Part I").
From Saturday's action ... Summit 66, Delta 53. And from Tuesday's games, Delta 59, Palisade 56.
So to review, the Devils and Battle Mountain both have beaten Summit, which beat Delta, which beat Palisade, which beat the Huskies by one point. (Eagle Valley hasn't played Palisade yet, but took its only league loss at Delta - by 21 points - before the break.)
Last week, I wrote that the 4A Slope was wide open for the taking. but Summit beating Delta? If I saw that coming, I'm a Dodgers fan and rooting for the Ravens in the Super Bowl.
If you didn't believe me before, people (dot, dot, dot).
• So upon further review, good win, Devils. And we can say this for both the Devils and Huskies for the rest of the year, any 4A Slope win is a good one. Games may not be pretty like Eagle Valley's win at Steamboat or Battle Mountain's loss to said Sailors - both by one point, but it doesn't matter. Pardon me for saying this - I hate the Raiders - but just win, baby.
• Eagle Valley, first off, good win at The Boat last week. This is one of Freud's Rules of the Slope - any win in any sport is a good one up there. (OK, maybe not football, but soccer and basketball always.) In basketball, the Sailors play defense like no one's business and give fits to every team by slowing things down to a crawl (This hurts both the Devils and the Huskies, who like to run.)
• Type in "Buzzer Beater! EVHS" into YouTube, and you can see Ayren Hart's game-winner against the Sailors. In the future, Ayren has to call, "bank" on shots like that. What's funny here is that Devils girls basketball coach Sam Bartlett seems more excited than boys coach Jim Bair.
• Thanks to that win and our now-good friends at Summit, Eagle Valley controls its destiny in the Slope. That path starts with Glenwood next week, and beating the Demons for a third time. That's tough, guys. And it's the beginning of a lot of rematches - Palisade excepted. You guys know how much you want a second shot at Delta? That's how everyone you've beaten in the league feels about you.
• And, by the way, Eagle Valley, you're rooting for Battle Mountain Saturday. The Huskies are at Delta. I know it's difficult. "Go Huskies ... Go Huskies." Try it. Politics and high school sports make for strange bedfellows.
• OK, Battle Mountain, you are so close. Coach Tom Padilla hit the nail on the head when he said his team was six points from being 6-1 instead of 3-4 in the Slope. It's the small things which become big things, like free-throw shooting. Missed free throws were an issue even before technical-foul-a-palooza began.
• The Huskies do have talent. I was sitting next to half of the Eagle Valley team during the Battle Mountain-Steamboat game. The Devils said, "LyBarger's talking over this game," in the fourth quarter. They were right about Joe. Jack Kamby, you have turned into a basketball player. You clearly worked during the offseason. Well done. John Roulon, you've got game.
• And everyone carry Jimmy O'Rourke to class, so his back can get better. But don't throw out your backs doing so. And, yes, nice game, Cody Brown.
• Battle Mountain, win a close one and the wins will come in bunches.
• Oh, yes, let's hear it for Eagle Valley girls basketball. The ladies are 9-3 overall and 6-1 in the Slope. Bartlett's crew is winning the tight ball games, and this is contagious. (All the more reason the Huskies boys need to get their first.) More close games are doubtless ahead, ladies, but you've been there and done that. And five of your last seven are at home.
• So, Vail Christian boys basketball playing anyone Friday? It's time for Hayden, the team that has owned the Saints since they moved into this league. First off, everyone make sure they have a nose guard. (Old-school Vail Christian joke. Sorry.) Second, defense and rebounding and rebounding and defense. You're getting there on this front with only 50 points allowed twice, and one of those was against Shining Mountain, the No. 1 team in 1A.
Know going in that you won't get a favorable call. It just doesn't happen on the road, especially there. Don't get in a running game with them. You did that last year, and it didn't work. The Tigers are good, and wear the 2A Slope's best uniforms, but they're ripe. Defense, defense, defense.
• The Lady Saints are also at Hayden Friday and home for Soroco Saturday. It is time to get well, Vail Christian. The Saints have played a heck of a nonconference schedule and this is when it pays off.
• Hats off to Vail Mountain basketball, which is on the board after a 52-42 win at DeBeque. William Sterett had 18 points, while Mitch Saalfeld knocked down 14.
• Sport I miss a lot: Hockey. It was nice to be back at a Battle Mountain hockey game. First off, I'm still so hacked at the NHL that I forgot how much I do love the sport. I also missed Dobson.
As for the Huskies, tape-to-tape passes, guys. Dump-and-chase into the opponent's end isn't going to work when the other team's bigger. On the positive side of ledger, the penalty kill's looking good - 17-for-17 in the last three games. (Try not to go to the sin bin that much, though.) Oliver Elvenger would be another one. Kudos to the man behind the mask.
• Interesting wrestling moment before we go: Battle Mountain's Heivan Garcia is a first-year wrestler as a senior and got Eagle Valley's Ty LaFramboise in Tuesday's dual. Not surprisingly, LaFramboise won quite efficiently. What was interesting was to hear Garcia's reaction. "He was so quick. Didn't see it coming."
Heivan, now you know what soccer goalies around the state feel like when you ripped into a shot every fall.
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NEW ORLEANS — Fifteen new West Nile virus cases and one death from the virus have been reported in the past week, according to the state Department of Health and Hospitals.
In addition, one patient's illness changed from flu-like West Nile fever to a dangerous "neuroinvasive" infection affecting the brain or spinal cord.
"Not only do we continue to find more cases — this week, we have three parishes reporting their first human cases of West Nile for the year," DHH Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein said in a news release. "Clearly, this virus remains a threat, and it's important to protect your health and avoid mosquito bites even as the weather gets colder and drier."
The parishes with their first human cases of West Nile this year were Assumption, St. Landry and Winn.
Including the case that became more serious, the six new neuroinvasive cases included two each in Orleans and Rapides parishes, and one each in Jefferson and Tangipahoa parishes. Ten new fever cases include two each in East Baton Rouge, Rapides and Winn parishes, and one each in Assumption, Catahoula, Ouachita and St. Landry parishes.
They bring the total this year to 371 cases, including 152 of neuroinvasive disease, and 16 deaths, all within two weeks of disease onset.
West Nile virus has been present in Louisiana since 2002, when 328 people got sick and 24 died. A total of 204 cases were infections affecting the brain or spinal cord.
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Studying alone and studying in a group both have their advantages and disadvantages. But what are the pros and cons of each?
The biggest downside to studying alone is that, well, you're alone. A huge advantage of studying in a group is there are people around to push you through bouts of boredom or lack of inspiration when writing essays. Groups can also help you through particularly long nights of studying. If I know I have to study for more than 3 hours on one paper or test, I usually prefer to study in a group. That way, I am able to ask those my classmates for help if I need it.
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SACRAMENTO -- A judge's decision this week to block the state's access to billions of dollars in bonds it needs to build a bullet train also threatens the only other pot of money California has to finance the project -- $3.3 billion from Uncle Sam.
Just a few days ago, the state's High-Speed Rail Authority believed it had $8.6 billion in state bond proceeds and $3.3 billion in federal money to begin construction this spring on the rail line's first stretch of track in the Central Valley.
But now the authority's ability to spend any of those crucial funds to push the controversial bullet train project forward is highly uncertain.
"The rulings raise so many questions about whether this project still makes financial sense," said Joe Nation, a public finance professor at Stanford University who called it a "moment of truth" for California.
"This could turn into a real nightmare," he added.
Even before Monday's stunning rulings by Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Michael Kenny, the project had been mocked as a "train to nowhere" because the state had only enough funding to build about 120 miles of track, from the Fresno-Madera area to the northern outskirts of Bakersfield.
The $8.6 billion in voter-approved state bonds and the $3.3 billion in federal funds represent less than one-fifth of the money needed for the $68.4 billion project. But because of Monday's rulings and the possibility that federal funding could be pulled back, the money "in hand" could ultimately become pocket change.
The state has already spent more than $700 million on engineering and planning costs from bonds approved by California voters in 2008. But according to an agreement the state signed with the Federal Railroad Administration, the federal government can yank the $3.3 billion it has committed to the project and even force the state to repay $397 million in federal money spent on planning, engineering and administrative costs.
The federal funding hasn't been nixed yet, but it could be for a number of reasons outlined in the agreement. They include a failure of the state to produce matching funds -- something that would be impossible to do if Kenny's rulings prevent the state from issuing bonds.
The grant agreement includes these provisions to protect federal taxpayers from investing in projects that encounter unexpected challenges such as this week's court rulings, said Kevin Thompson, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Lisa Marie Alley, a spokeswoman for the state rail authority, said the group's federal funding is not at risk and that the authority is "using federal funding right now for the project." But she could not explain how the group would comply with the judge's orders or continue to fulfill the obligations of the federal grant agreement.
Dan Richard, the authority's board chairman, has said simply that the group is charting its next steps. Authority spokesman Bob Magnuson said Richard was with family on the East Coast and unavailable for comment because of the Thanksgiving holiday.
But San Francisco attorney Michael Brady -- who represents Kings County and two of its residents in the lawsuit that sparked Monday's controversial rulings -- called the latest mix of legal and federal mandates "a crisis point" for the authority.
"A reasonable manager of federal money would look at the judge's rulings, realize it's virtually impossible for the authority to comply and say, 'We can't allow our money to be spent down a rat hole,'" Brady said.
Some Bay Area officials are also worried about whether the judge's rulings will scuttle plans to electrify Caltrain's tracks from San Jose to San Francisco.
Since the bullet train is supposed to share its Peninsula tracks with Caltrain, the Legislature allocated $705 million of bond proceeds to upgrade the tracks to get rid of Caltrain's diesel engines. But that funding is now also threatened.
To comply with the rulings, the authority must identify a source for $25 billion in additional funds needed to complete the 520-mile rail line, which is supposed to shuttle riders from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 2 hours and 40 minutes.
So how will the authority get the money?
To date, no private investors have expressed interest in funding the largest public works project in the state's history. And it's unlikely the state or federal government would be willing to foot even larger bills, Nation, of Stanford, and other public finance experts say.
While financial support for high-speed rail remains in limbo, political support from the state's top Democrats remains strong.
Evan Westrup, a spokesman for Gov. Jerry Brown, called talk of the project's demise "wild, hasty speculation," and state Senate and Assembly leaders remain committed to the project.
"Any project of this magnitude is a magnet for legal hurdles," said Steven Maviglio, a spokesman for Assembly Speaker John Perez. "The speaker believes the project should and will continue to move forward."
Nick Cronenwett, a spokesman for Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, said his boss still strongly supports the bullet train because it will spur high-wage job creation, economic development and enhance the environment.
"California high-speed rail still has a long way to go," Cronenwett said. "And this is one chapter in that story."
But in an interview this week with Bloomberg News, California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a longtime supporter of the bullet train, said the state is "losing public opinion" about the viability of the project. He said state officials "need to make a strong case now" that the project is good for California's future.
Months before Monday's rulings, a poll conducted by the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles Times found 55 percent of voters want another chance to vote on high-speed rail. And if they got that chance, 59 percent of voters said they would vote it down this time, the poll said.
State Sen. Andy Vidak, R-Hanford, has pledged to introduce legislation in January that would put the project back on the ballot.
Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian had been a staunch proponent of the high-speed rail project while serving in the Legislature. Looming, unanswered questions about how the state would pay for the train, however, ultimately led Simitian to vote against the train.
"High-speed rail is a vision I shared," he said, "but I was not asked to vote on a concept. I was asked to vote on a plan that I believe is flawed."
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— Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, held a commencement ceremony on Jan. 26 for over 900 students who completed associates degrees, specialized diplomas and certificates during the past six months.
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EDWARDS - Sixth? Really?
Sixth with a 15-0 record? Sixth with one loss in its last 27 games?
Battle Mountain soccer is over the not-so-good news of Sunday. The Huskies had hoped for a top-four seed and the accompanying three home games. Instead it's No. 6 and a date with No. 27 Greeley Central Thursday at 3 p.m. in the first round of the state playoffs in Edwards.
Huskies coach David Cope started Tuesday's practice with a talk about the No. 6, saying that it will help his squad.
"It was hard that we were a ranked a little lower than we expected," Huskies senior Broby Leeds said. "But I agree we can learn a lot from playing harder games earlier on. It will help us go further."
Left unsaid is that the No. 6 ranking also might serve as motivation for Battle Mountain. (Get out the Aretha Franklin, people.) Also left unsaid is a possible third-round meeting at No. 3 Evergreen, the team which has eliminated Battle Mountain the last three years.
"In any competition, it's easy to extrapolate forward at what could be," Cope said. "But we're firmly focused on Greeley Central."
Meet the Wildcats
Greeley Central finished 7-7-1 overall and was 4-4 in the Northern League, likely the best 4A conference in the state. The Northern champion is Broomfield, ranked No. 2 in the state. Niwot is No. 7 in the state and was in second place in the North.
Two of the Wildcats' league losses are to Broomfield (2-1) and Niwot (1-0), so they can clearly hold their own with the big boys. Also of note is a 3-2 loss early in the season to Sand Creek (ranked No. 8).
Greeley Central doesn't have an explosive offense nor does it need one. The Wildcats scored 24 times in 2012 and only allowed 22.
"We know they had a really close game against Broomfield who are the No. 2 seed," Cope said. "We know they've been in a lot of close games. We know that they are a lot better than their record is. Our mission is to prove that we are as good as our record is."
Battle Mountain's first job is to seal up the defense. The unit has not been performing poorly - it's actually been stellar with only eight goals allowed in 15 games. Center back Will Nolan is done for the year, and that requires some moving.
Look for Roberto Diaz to move back from midfield to join Erick Briones, Brandon Osario and Gunnar Wilson.
"I think we'll be fine," Cope said. "This team is always built to replace players. We have a lot of players that are versatile and can play different positions. So I think the exciting thing is a player like Kevin Gillie gets a start (at midfield) and that's great. We still have our solid crew with Briones, Brandon, Diaz and Gunnar. Those guys have been exceptionally solid with Christian."
Goalie Christian Espinoza leads the unit with a miserly 0.35 goals-against average.
As western Colorado has discovered, Battle Mountain is fast and can score in a hurry. The Huskies plan to use the turf and width of their home pitch to maximum advantage - the Wildcats play on grass at District 6 Stadium in Greeley.
In the age of the Internet, scouting is easier, so the Wildcats know to keep their eye on Battle Mountain's Joe LyBarger (21 goals and 11 assists).
Cope isn't concerned.
"Yes, what's going to jump out at teams is the number of goals he's scored," he said. "You've got to remember he has a ton of assists. So when he draws attention, he opens the field for other players. I think we also saw at (the second) Summit (County game) that Joe was willing to do a defensive job for us. Joe's not a special player just because of goal scoring."
And he's not the only goal-scorer for the Huskies.
Diaz, Heivan Garcia, David Suarez and Wilson all have five or more goals.
Battle Mountain also has the edge in playoff experience. The Huskies have played in six postseason games, including three last year, while Greeley Central is playoff newcomer.
"Mostly we have to forget our past and play for our future," Garcia said. "We know we have a better team than we did last year. But being in the playoffs before, we know we have to get every tackle and possess the ball as we do."
Just for kicks
Battle Mountain had some fun in practice Tuesday playing with a black-gold scrimmage, playing 9-on-13 at one point on a shortened field. We assume the gold team was in the storied 5-5-2 formation. ... LyBarger hit the cross bar during that drill, prompting Cope to say, "My advice is to aim lower." That's 20 years of coaching experience. ... The winner of Thursday's game faces the winner of Longmont at Pueblo Centennial. ... Palmer Rigde (13-1-1), the champion of the Pikes Peak League, is the No. 1 seed. Broomfield (11-1-3) is No. 2 and hosts No. 31 Summit. Evergreen (11-1-3) got No. 3 as the Jeffco champ. No. 4 Mullen is 7-5-3, but is the defending state champ and plays in the 5A/4A Centennial League. No. 5 Ponderosa (9-4-2) is playing its first 4A season after being a 5A school in the last CHSAA cycle. ... Steamboat Springs (9-6) did not get one of the eight at-large berths to the tournament.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation released a new piece of information Monday afternoon in the Alexis Murphy case.
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Playing in domed stadiums has posed one of the few problems for the 49ers this season. On Sunday, they get another chance to show that they are built for any and all conditions.
The 49ers are 1-2 in games played indoors, with losses against the Minnesota Vikings and St. Louis Rams and a victory over the New Orleans Saints.
"There are definitely things we're working on to try and improve to be a better team in that regard," Harbaugh said. "So hopefully we can be better this time than we were the last and learn from what mistakes we did make."
The Georgia Dome isn't regarded as one of the tougher indoor facilities to play. Even so, the 49ers are pumping in crowd noise during practice as a means of helping the players get accustomed to what awaits.
"Domes are always loud," said free safety Dashon Goldson, who recalled playing at the Georgia Dome once before as an NFL player. "The atmosphere is a little compact. This is going to be a challenge for us."
The Falcons committed a league-low 55 penalties for a league-low 415 yards during the regular season. The 49ers were penalized the seventh-most (109) for the fifth-most yards (960).
"A generalization would be is, it's a well-coach, disciplined football team," Harbaugh said.
To that end, he said, there's a built-in response:
"We have to understand that the next game's the most important game on the schedule, and doesn't affect if people are saying good things about you, what you need to do. Our advice has always been, if people are saying nice things about you, kick 'em on the shins and get back to work."
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AUSTIN (March 14, 2013)—Two-term State. Rep. Naomi Gonzalez, D-El Paso, was in the Travis County Jail Thursday afternoon, charged with driving while intoxicated after an early-morning accident near downtown Austin.
Her bond was set at $5,000, according to online jail records.
Gonzalez, 34, was arrested after the BMW she was driving rear-ended another car, which in turn struck a bicyclist at around 2 a.m. Thursday, Austin police spokesman Jermaine Kilgore said.
Gonzalez and the bicyclist, whose name wasn't released, were taken to a hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, Kilgore said.
Aides at her Capitol office declined immediate comment.
Gonzalez was first elected to the Texas House in 2010.
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I'm not exactly thrilled about McCain taking the Republican nomination, either. Huckabee still has a shot, but his policies don't seem well defined if even existent and I'm not sure what he's got going for him other than a good personality and some Baptist fire.
Obama makes good speeches. Inspiring speeches. I don't agree with all his policies, but with all his campaign's focus on hope he manages to generate some. I'd like to have hope. I'd like to believe Obama can bring the change America needs.
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OXFORD, Miss. (AP) -- The University of Mississippi doesn't want to see any cowbells at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium during the Egg Bowl on Saturday.
The school sent out a statement saying that cowbells are "strictly prohibited" from the stadium during the annual football game between Ole Miss and Mississippi State, citing the Southeastern Conference's artificial noisemaker policy.
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Roger loses Basel final
A scattering of errors in the final tie break of the final set cost our champ the Basel Open Final 4-6,7-6,6-7 against the No 2 del Potro today. This was an exciting match that swayed back and forth and was completely absorbing with some very high quality tennis.
Roger, who won the event in five of the past six years, was seeking his 77th career title to tie John McEnroe at fourth on the Open Era list. Del Potro ended a six-match losing streak against our top-ranked champ, which also included a five-set defeat at the French Open."You deserved it," Roger told his opponent on court. "You had a couple of tough losses against me this year and I'm really happy for you." Del Potro's victory in 2 hours, 44 minutes compared to his 4-hour, 26-minute defeat at the Olympics -the longest three-set match in history - when Roger won the decider 19-17 on Centre Court, Wimbledon.As he did at Roland Garros and the Olympics, Del Potro took the first set, breaking Roger's serve in the fifth game after a 21 shot rally.Our champ struggled briefly with his ground strokes, netting two forehands and a backhand to give Del Potro the lead.The second-seeded Del Potro relied on solid serving and unleashed blistering forehands when needed. He took his first set point chance when Roger sent a backhand wide. Both players wasted their only break chances in the second set, which hinged on a tense service game at 5-5 by Roger. Facing break point, Roger struck a brilliant forehand crosscourt winner then saw Del Potro slip up by netting a sliced backhand on the next point.Roger controlled the tiebreaker and punched the air when he levelled the match, as Del Potro let a backhand drift wide.Roger held three break points at 1-1 in the deciding set, but Del Potro saved them all before firing an ace to win the game.A wild forehand from our champ let another break chance slip in the seventh game, which Del Potro clinched with another ace. Roger was electrifying at 5-6 down and struck three straight aces to force another tie-breaker.Roger then netted a topspin forehand giving del Potro his first match-point chance on another wayward forehand from the top-seeded Roger. In spite of the result not going Roger's way, it was a match that was full of quality & entertaining tennis from both men.
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You'll be able to leave your backpack at home and throw the adidas Originals Sling Backpack over your shoulder when you head out to the gym or the fields. This lightweight bag delivers big storage in a sleek, streamlined style. The padded single ergonomic strap provides a plush, comfortable carry, while the quick-access loft pocket is lined with soft tricot so you can safely stow your valuables.
Blindly rooting around a bag looking for something wastes precious time that could be spent on the field, so adidas designed the main compartments to open wide for hassle-free packing and retrieving. Multiple pockets provide plenty of storage space to keep your daily essentials close at hand, and durable denier construction promises lasting use no matter how much you stuff into this pack.
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NAPA -- The way Sio Moore sees it, all the events of his life formed a path to what appears to be his inevitable destiny as a starting rookie linebacker for the Raiders.
There was the civil war in Liberia that caused his family to flee the country in 1990, the year Moore was born, and settle in West Haven, Conn.
Or the time when he dodged a bullet at age 14 when he was hanging with the wrong crowd, a moment that helped Moore determine perhaps he was better off living with his older sister in Apex, N.C.
Last January, Moore learned he'd been added to the Senior Bowl after his senior year at Connecticut and would be assigned to the North team coached by the Raiders.
Moore can't help but connect the dots that led him to a practice field behind the Napa Marriott, counting his blessings.
"There are so many times my life could have changed," Moore said Monday after practice. "I was supposed to be in the situation I'm in, and the way things have fallen, I couldn't be more happy. It's put me in the hungriest position I could possibly be in.
"That's exactly what his team is. It's hungry, and we're willing to work, and that's me."
Moore, who missed practice the previous day with an undisclosed minor injury, admitted to feeling a little behind. He was beaten for a touchdown pass by tight end Richard Gordon from quarterback Matt Flynn, Moore a shade late in recognizing the play.
"Any time you miss time as a rookie, it slows things down," Raiders coach Dennis Allen said. "But I've been impressed with the way he's gone about his business. He's going to be a good player for us."
There is no mistaking the Raiders are expecting Moore, taken in the third round and No. 66 overall, to be a key part of their defense. He has lined up as a starter since the moment he arrived.
At 6-foot-1, 240 pounds, Moore has good explosion, is an excellent tackler, and the Raiders believe he can help their pass rush with situational blitzing, a potential successor to departed free agent Philip Wheeler.
Moore is enthusiastic and confident enough to repeat his claim of being the best linebacker in the 2013 draft. Much of his time is spent attempting to memorize everything he hears from veterans such as safety Charles Woodson and defensive end Andre Carter.
"They've given us some really good speeches as we go into team meetings," Moore said. "Some of the stuff raises the hair on your skin because you can see that passion. Dedication just oozes out of those guys. ... You want to look back and say you had a storybook career like one of those guys."
When he first stepped onto the field at Napa, Moore asked for a member of the support staff to pass him the ball.
"I looked at it, and the NFL shield was on it. I'm like, man, I've always looked at this stuff as a little kid, and now I'm here at practice," Moore said. "It's kind of surreal, but you don't have time for surreal moments and wide eyes. You sit there with your jaw dropped and someone's going to end up running past you."
"I don't anticipate him being out real long," Allen said.
Allen did say he expected Hayden would continue to play as an outside corner rather than the slot and that he expected him to see time in the preseason.
"They said they were going to do it, and they did it," Gaither said. "It makes me feel better about myself that they decided to bring me back."
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|ARS Grape Research
ARS scientists are engaged in grape and grape products research at many locationsthrough the United States. This follows a tradition of research within the USDA since at least 1867— the year the USDA first reported variety observations for juice,wine, and table grapes.
In recent years, ARS has collaborated with the grape industry more closely in prioritizing needs and coordinating responses to the problems facing growers and producers of grape products.
As a result of this partnership, ARS has sponsored a series of workshops [July 2005 in St. Louis, Missouri; July 2007 in Kennewick, Washington; and October 2010 in Charlottesville, Virginia] to share ARS research results and progress of grape-related projects, and to provide a forum for the grape industry to identify and prioritize knowledge and technological gaps amenable to scientific research. These meetings offered important opportunities to network, develop research teams where appropriate, obtain feedback from customers and stakeholders, and initiate plans for future research.
The links below will take you to posters, presentations, and other documents that were used to inform the participants at each of the meetings listed above:
ARS Grape Research Workshop, October 2010, Charlottesville, Virginia
ARS Grape and Wine Industry Workshop, July 2007, Kennewick, Washington
In addtion, ARS scientists have also briefed industry representatives on ARS research at board meetings of the National Grape & Wine Initiative. Here are links to those briefings:
October 2010: Developing Sustainable Vineyard Water Management Strategies for Limited and Impaired Water Supplies—James Ayars and Andrew McElrone
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Six years after California put in place the nation's most expansive network of marine reserves -- a controversial experiment aimed at bringing back crashing populations of fish and other ocean species by creating dozens of "no-fishing zones" along the coast -- the effort appears to be working.
In the first major study of its kind, scientists have found that populations and sizes of several key species of fish, along with starfish, urchins, crabs and other sea life, have increased more in the protected areas established in 2007 between San Mateo and Santa Barbara counties than in unprotected ocean areas nearby.
Researchers cautioned that years of additional study are needed, noting that in some areas there was little or no difference. But overall, they said, the trends are encouraging -- a key finding because California's marine protected areas are being closely watched by other states and countries as a possible solution to improving the health of the world's oceans.
"So far, so good," said Mark Carr, a professor of marine biology at UC Santa Cruz.
The 29 zones ban fishing over roughly 94 square miles and limit it in 110 additional square miles -- a combined area more than four times as large as San Francisco -- between Pigeon Point, south of Half Moon Bay, and Point Conception, near Lompoc.
The areas make up about 18 percent of state waters out to three miles. Most fishermen opposed them, turning out in large numbers at public meetings to voice concerns. But scientists and policy makers who predicted they would act as nurseries for more and larger fish appear to be vindicated.
"It is fair for people to feel encouraged and optimistic," said Fred Keeley, a former Monterey Bay state assemblyman who co-authored the 1999 law that required the zones to be set up. "It is a more holistic, ecosystem-wide strategy to protect species. Species don't exist in vacuums. They exist in ecosystems."
The report, written by prominent California marine scientists, was released Wednesday to coincide with a three-day conference of marine biologists, fishermen and policy makers in Monterey called the "State of the Coast Symposium." Open to the public, the event is hosted by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, California Ocean Science Trust and others.
The idea behind marine reserves, which are supported by organizations such as the Monterey Bay Aquarium, is to create national forests of the ocean. Rather than simply having the government set catch limits and seasons for salmon, Dungeness crab, rockfish and other species, as has been the policy for decades, the concept is to draw boundaries where little or no fishing is allowed so fish, plants, crabs, starfish and other species can recover over decades, then seed larger areas of the ocean with their young.
After the state Fish and Game Commission held hearings and approved the rules for the Central Coast in 2007, it wrote similar rules for the rest of California's 1,100-mile coastline. The most recent ones, which took effect in December, extend from Mendocino to the Oregon border.
Fishing groups say they are still uncomfortable with the reserves.
"There have been economic losses to fishermen," said Zeke Grader, executive director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations in San Francisco. "A lot of these were unnecessary. They could have been done more carefully."
Grader said that while many fishermen have moved to different waters, some -- particularly those who focus on smaller fisheries like spot prawns -- have gone out of business because of the fishing limits.
The new study showed a 70 percent decline in the number of commercial fishermen off California's central coast from 1992 to 2011.
Some of that drop is attributed to specific crashes in fish populations, including the sharp decline in salmon that led federal and state officials to prohibit all salmon fishing off California in 2008 and 2009. Despite that 70 percent decline, however, the total amount of fish commercially caught in the area has increased by roughly 50 percent since 1992, a trend driven by increases in the catch of squid and several other species.
California's central coast is one of the world's most spectacular ocean areas. Famed for its kelp forests, rocky tide pools, sea otters, great white sharks and plunging marine canyons, the area is home to 26 species of marine mammals, 94 species of seabirds, four species of sea turtles and 340 types of fish.
Researchers who worked on this week's report spent years scuba diving, taking video from unmanned and manned submarines, walking miles of tide pool areas, and using high-tech imaging devices to make detailed images of the ocean bottom. They also worked with volunteer groups.
Scientists who participated came from UC Santa Cruz, Moss Landing Marine Labs, Cal Poly, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, CSU Monterey Bay, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
Among their findings:
"You are no longer taking the biggest individuals out of the population," Carr said. "However, a lot of the species that are being fished grow slowly, so the changes take a while to detect."
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PHOENIX -- Picture Billy Beane and Bob Melvin as two kids partnered in a high school chemistry course.
Their class time is given over to experimentation. Sometimes there will be explosions, sometimes noxious fumes, sometimes eerie smoke. The hope is that, in the end, the two mix the right chemicals, find the right formula, get all A's and wind up winning a prize at the science fair.
Last year, the A's general manager and manager did just that, taking a young Oakland roster, making it over in stride and coming away with the American League West title. When the team gathered together in full Sunday, Melvin went back to that theme.
``We had so much competition here last year,'' Melvin said after talking things over with his squad. ``This year there may not be as much competition for the 25-man roster, but we still have a lot of experimenting, seeing where pieces fit and seeing what we've got.
``What I told them in the meeting was that we have to understand that nothing is given to us based on past experience. You have to experiment to find what works. And if you are not moving forward, you're moving backward.''
Thanks to a series of good drafts, the A's have one of the deepest rosters in the Major Leagues. As such, they have probably one too many big league-ready outfielders, one or two too many infielders, an extra starting pitcher or two and so many relievers that some are guaranteed disappointment when the roster is finalized is six weeks.
``The key is to find the right formula,'' Melvin the chemist said. He was referring specifically to the crowded outfield -- Yoenis Cespedes, Coco Crisp, Josh Reddick, Chris Young and Seth Smith -- but he could have been talking about any position other than catcher where, barring injury, Derek Norris and John Jaso are the guys.
Melvin said that while his team is still young, the players are much more experienced, thanks in part to facing the Detroit Tigers in the playoffs. Although it was a loss in five games, the postseason experience had some value.
``Each postseason game adds a week of experience (to each player),'' Melvin said. ``What I pointed out is that we need to reflect about what made us good. We discussed what we need to be better this year.''
Cespedes, who is embarking on his first full spring training after having his contract hold him up until March last year, said the club has to be the same as last year, loose and relaxed.
``I had no idea it was going to be like that,'' Cespedes said through interpreter Ariel Prieto. ``What we did last year, we have to be the same this year. We have to do the same to keep the team happy.''


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PARKERSBURG - Costs at Camden Clark Medical Center have remained low due to state regulations keeping costs under control while a number of factors play into costs charged at Marietta Memorial Hospital, which officials have said have been kept below projected growth.
In recent weeks a number of media reports have shown a wide range of costs for the same procedure at different hospitals in the same geographic area across the country.
Allen Butcher, chief financial officer at Camden Clark Medical Center, said the West Virginia Health Care Authority has been in place for more than 20 years and set rates for medical procedures throughout the state.
"That is its primary mission and they have been trying to keep the cost of health care down through rate-setting," Butcher said. "West Virginia has some of the lowest medical costs in the nation."
Like most businesses, the Memorial Health System, which owns Marietta Memorial Hospital, sets its prices based on a variety of factors, including cost of supplies, labor, facility costs, population need and reimbursement from insurance companies and the government, said Jennifer Offenberger, director of marketing and public relations for the Memorial Health System.
"As a not-for-profit community-based hospital we seek to provide the best value for the care we deliver," she said. "Even though the CPI Index for health care has grown to 7-8 percent, we've been able to keep our pricing lower than that growth."
An example of how Marietta Memorial keeps pricing low is its partnership with other hospitals in a network that can do group purchasing and negotiate with vendors as a larger entity, Offenberger said.
"The Memorial Health System fully supports the move toward improving transparency in the health care system and educating consumers about how to make the best choices for themselves and their families," she said. "A list of prices for some of our most common procedures such as a typical visit to the emergency room, can be found on our website. Not all hospitals are that transparent."
Costs matter for patients, Butcher said.
For those covered by Medicare and Medicaid, the programs have the authority and the ability to set the rate they are going to pay, he said
"Camden Clark is the receiver of the reimbursement," Butcher said. "We can't really sit across the the table and negotiate like we would with a Highmark, Cigna or an Aetna."
When it comes to the commercial carriers, in many instances, insurance companies pay a percentage of the charges, he said.
"That becomes what is the allowed amount," he said. If a hospital has high charges, it trickles down to the patients.
Butcher said it helps to have a number of procedures to be offered locally.
"That keeps tax dollars in the state and helps keep our costs down," he said. "At Camden Clark, we think it is important to let people know we have low charges. We are the low-cost provider in the market. We are really transparent about that."
Information available through the West Virginia Health Care Authority can show the cost of different procedures at hospitals throughout the state. "West Virginia and its leadership has been focused on making this information available to folks," Butcher said.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has a website, data.cms.gov, that shows and compares costs of procedures for Medicare and Medicaid patients at hospitals across the country through its Inpatient Prospective Payment System.
According to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System, an acute myocardial infraction (heart attack) with major complications/comorbidities where the patient was discharged alive, Camden Clark had 63 total discharges last year with $27,480.78 in average covered charges and $9,581.86 in average total payments.
An acute myocardial infraction with just complications/comorbidities where the patient was discharged alive, Camden Clark had 50 total discharges last year with $17,981.78 in average covered charges and $6,485.54 in average payments. An acute myocardial infraction without any complications/comorbidities where the patient was discharged alive, Camden Clark had 37 discharges last year with $19,468.00 in average covered charges and $4,621 in average total payments.
According to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System, an acute myocardial infraction with major complications/comorbidities where the patient was discharged alive, Marietta Memorial Hospital had 38 discharges last year with $25,321.95 in average covered charges and $8,028.87 in average total payments. An acute myocardial infraction with complications/comorbidities where the patient was discharged alive, Marietta Memorial had 22 total discharges last year with $22,502.68 in average covered charges and $5,955.50 in average total payments. An acute myocardial infraction without complications/comorbidities where the patient was discharged alive, MMH had 15 total discharges last year with $20,532.27 in average covered charges and $4,408.13 in average total payments.
Offenberger said the health care payment system in the United States is incredibly complex, and officials with Marietta Memorial agree improvements can be made.
"While a hospital bills all patients and insurers the same charge for a particular service, government and private insurers are able to negotiate and pay lower rates," she said. "For government insurers, like Medicare and Medicaid, hospitals must accept payment rates that are often lower than what it costs a hospital to provide care.
"It's difficult to understand CMS' concern over costs when they pay a fixed price, regardless of the cost to deliver the care. For our health system, we receive approximately 25 to 30 cents of each dollar of cost from Medicare and Medicaid alone. This causes challenges when prices are set."
Butcher said people can compare Camden Clark's prices to anyone in the region and there will be times when another hospital may have a lower price on a certain procedure, but he said people have the option to look around and see what works best for them.
For people with different types of coverage, the center offers discounts and payment options.
"We have sliding fee discount scales," Butcher said. "It offers a discount from 25 percent up to 100 percent if you qualify for charity care.
"A family of four with a household income of $80,000 could be eligible for a 25 percent discount. We try to give a lot of options."
Offenberger said they also have a discount policy based on a patient's insurance and on their income.
"For those who don't have insurance, for example, we automatically offer 40 percent off the cost of their care," she said. "We review our policies frequently and work to provide financial counseling support to help people understand their bill, their opportunities for payment plans, free care and discounts as well as their options for receiving free or low-cost health insurance through government-funded programs. We train our staff to work with patients every step of the way."
Tim Brunicardi, director of marketing and public affairs for Camden Clark, said the perception is that hospitals are charging whatever they want.
"The bottom line is media reports are making it look like hospitals are arbitrarily charging large amounts and consumers are put at a disadvantage," he said. "Here locally, that is not the case. It is regulated here and that should give confidence to the people here in the Mid-Ohio Valley that we are not in that situation.
"Our prices are the lowest in the market and they are fair."
Offenberger said hospitals are there to care for patients.
"We believe hospitals have the responsibility to safely and efficiently provide care to everyone who walks through our doors and we need to be properly compensated for the services so we can continue our mission of caring for the community," she said.


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Municipal Finance
Barclays Center
The Barclays Center will be a state-of-the-art landmark arena which will serve as the centerpiece of the Atlantic Yards project, a major mixed-use development project in downtown Brooklyn. When it opens, the stadium is expected host more than 200 events a year, including home games for the NBA's Nets, who plan on relocating to Brooklyn in 2012.
To help finance a portion of the construction, the Brooklyn Arena Local Development Corporation enlisted Goldman Sachs to help develop a structure and market a $511 million revenue bond transaction.
In order to obtain tax-exemption, the bonds needed to be issued by December 31, 2009, but the developer had yet to receive vacant possession of the land required to begin construction. Goldman Sachs proposed an innovative escrow structure that permitted the bonds to be issued on December 23, 2009. The bond proceeds were then placed into escrow until vacant possession was received a few months later, at which time the bond proceeds were used to fund construction. Through an extensive marketing effort, Goldman Sachs attracted interest from a large and diverse group of investors
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The top high school choir students from Jackson, Josephine and Klamath counties will perform a free concert at Southern Oregon University at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13.
The SOU High School Honor Choir concert will be directed by Paul French, Fredna Grimland and Chris Bingham. It will conclude a weekend of classes where students learn voice technique, diction and sight singing.
SOU ensembles, including the choral Men's Glee group, the Women's Choir, and SOU Chamber Choir, will also perform.
The show is one hour long and is open to the public.
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Even With Sanctions, U.S. Sales to Russia Hit New High
So much for those sanctions.
U.S. efforts to penalize Russia for its actions in Ukraine appear to have done little to stem exports of U.S. goods to the country.
The U.S. announced targeted sanctions against several Russian companies and individuals in March, but U.S. trade data published Thursday shows exports to the country were the highest on record at $1.2 billion in May.
The sanctions, organized with Europe and other major industrialized nations over Moscow's alleged actions to destabilize its former client state, sparked investor flight out of Russia, led the ruble to tumble and pushed the economy into a recession. Russian markets have since recovered somewhat, but investors have been wary of an escalation in the sanctions battle.
Demand for U.S. products apparently hasn't been hit, however, and in fact jumped 21% from the previous month.
The data also showed signs that demand is picking up in two of America's largest export markets, Europe and China, where weak growth has hobbled the U.S. and global recoveries. Exports to the European Union were up nearly 4%, driven by a surge in buying from the U.K., the Netherlands, Spain and Ireland.
Sales to China, where economists fear growth could continue to decelerate, were up more than 2% to $9.2 billion.
Maninder Sibia, an economist at the Contingent Macro Advisors, said export growth is now 4.4% above its year-ago level. It "had been slowing for the past 3 years because of weakening growth in global economic activity, but is now increasing modestly," he said.


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EU approves Signifor from Novartis
26.04.2012 - Novartis has gained EU marketing approval for the first targeted therapy to treat Cushing's disease, a rare endocrine disorder.
Basel – Swiss pharma major Novartis has got the green light from the European Commission to market Signifor (pasiretoid) as treatment for Cushing disease, a debilitating endocrine disorder caused by the over-expression of cortisol. Data from a Phase III trial on 162 patients with the disease showed that subcutaneous injection of the somatostatin analogue twice daily normalised the level of cortisol in the urine ("urinary-free cortisol, UFC") by 47,9% after six months of treatment (N Engl J Med. 2012 Mar 8;366(10):914-24). Clinical symptoms such as high blood pressure, high BMI and cholesterol levels and overweight in the two dosage groups (2 x 600µg and 2x 900 µg) significantly improved after administration of the orphan drug. About 250,000 people in the EU suffer from the disease. In two thirds of them, the disorder is caused by so-called pituitary tumours that release the corticoid hormone ACTH which then triggers cholesterol over-expression. Signifor is approved for adult patients with inoperable pituitary tumours. It reduces ACTH levels by targeting the somatostatin receptor 5 with 40-fold higher affinity as any other somatostatin analogue. In January 2012 the European Medicines Agency in London had recommended approval of Signifor as first-in-class treatment for Cushing's disease.http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/news/news/2012-02/eu-approves-signifor-from-novartis.html