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Browser Wars: the best 10 Android browsers go toe-to-toe
0. phoneArena 10 Oct 2013, 10:32 posted on
benchmarking overall browser performance is a tricky affair. There's always the fear that one or all (in which case its fine) of the browsers you may want to test are going to game the benchmark one way or another....
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78. Chris.P (Posts: 560; Member since: 27 Jun 2013)
Am I missing something, or is there actually Safari for Android?
28. fistigons (Posts: 330; Member since: 11 Feb 2012)
I use Opera Mini on my iPad and S3, but it does crash fail to load pages a lot. I usually have to close out of the app completely. I'm not sure if there's something in the setting to change to prevent this. I think I'm going to try UC browser and maybe give dolphin another try. Thanks for the tests PA and showing me I have options.
29. mohann (Posts: 10; Member since: 10 Apr 2013)
where is next browser? it is best of all !!!
31. bigstrudel (Posts: 518; Member since: 20 Aug 2012)
Tried them all many times. Dolphin delivers smooth scrolling, good load times and convenient favorites area that slides in from the edges for faster navigation. Any browser that takes 3 or 4 steps to get to favorites needs a redesign.
41. Googler (Posts: 813; Member since: 10 Jun 2013)
That's my biggest complaint with Firefox, bookmarks need help. I still use it the most though, mainly because I like the tab experience, especially on tablets.
32. Miracles (Posts: 560; Member since: 31 Aug 2013)
Sounds a little too good to be true. Doesn't seem legit.
33. Chris_Bakke (Posts: 235; Member since: 23 Jan 2013)
Anyone else disappointed when they searched for Puffin on the Play Store only to find out that there is a paid version? Why would you limit the usability of your browser? People are going to get turned off by the limiting features. I would never pay for a browser, ever. I will happily stick with Chrome until something else just comes and blows me away.
52. boosook (Posts: 1436; Member since: 19 Nov 2012)
Maybe because even software developers do have to pay the bills?
36. _Bone_ (Posts: 2154; Member since: 29 Oct 2012)
Puffin results are way out of line. I use Dolphin BTW, on the N4 it's the perfect balance between smoothness, snappiness and functionality. Chrome would be so good if it didn't lag.
67. bigstrudel (Posts: 518; Member since: 20 Aug 2012)
When you run Browsermark on Dolphin it shows up as Safari browser on the results.
Explains the smoothness.
38. livyatan (Posts: 867; Member since: 19 Jun 2013)
Omg THANK YOU for this article!
A true desktop performance on a phone is finally there!
40. Dorothy69 (banned) (Posts: 498; Member since: 21 May 2013)
It's been "there" for awhile now - blows everything out of the water.
42. livyatan (Posts: 867; Member since: 19 Jun 2013)
..just to add that I am enjoying super smooth performance (especially scrolling-wise) with my Note 3 and Dolphin with Jetpack.
But this PUFFIN browser simply means a revolution for everyone wanting to use tablets or their phones connected to external screens, for a complete desktop grade tasks.
43. Tsepz_GP (Posts: 987; Member since: 12 Apr 2012)
Personally, Opera Mini is the best for me, it's by far the most consistently fast, fluid and efficient all-in-one.
I use Opera Mini the most along with Chrome Beta. :)
76. bohdan4ik13 (Posts: 103; Member since: 10 Feb 2012)
Yup, Opera Mini is my choice when I need to load pages very fast.
44. Bedz81 (Posts: 83; Member since: 30 Dec 2012)
I don't use Opera for my mobile but on my PC, its my preferred choice next to Chrome, Dolphin is my mobile choice next to Chrome but i may have to try out this Puffin....see what it's saying
45. ZeroCide (Posts: 773; Member since: 09 Jan 2013)
Puffin FTW! LOL!
47. noim1 (Posts: 297; Member since: 15 May 2012)
I am a Dolphin & UC browser user !!! but i will definitely give Puffin a swing !!
48. Stuntman (Posts: 836; Member since: 01 Aug 2011)
I'm definitely going to try out Puffin. I currently use Chrome on my SGS3. On my Transformer TF101, I started to use Opera Mini because I need the speed boost. I'll see if Puffin is any good.
49. matrix_neo (Posts: 334; Member since: 03 Nov 2011)
I prefer dolphin. Since I owned an android device, dolphin is my default browser. It's fast, easy to use and bookmarking is so easy. I tried puffin also but it can't load a single page even I have a good internet connection. I have also UC browser, Maxthon, Boat and Next browser but still going back to Dolphin in everyday use.
51. N-fanboy (Posts: 543; Member since: 12 Jan 2013)
I prefer to use opera most of the timd because its the only decent browser that works on a 2G network. I also like UC but that thing is messy and inconsistant.
53. Meleagru (Posts: 92; Member since: 03 Dec 2012)
Naked browser is better, just because of features. Puffin has a big security hole, rerouting your traffic through its servers. I'd rather lose half a second in speed and gain 100% in privacy.
56. scsa852k (Posts: 329; Member since: 16 Oct 2012)
I've tried most of those browsers.
Dolphin, Maxthon, Firefox, UC, Opera, Boat.
But I kept coming back to Chrome.
I never heard of Puffin. I should give it a try.
61. Yaldabaoth (Posts: 42; Member since: 06 Jun 2012)
So... Puffin is taking the throne that Skyfire abdicated years ago? I'd probably still be using Skyfire on my Touch Pro 2 if the service was still up.
62. harigrg33 (Posts: 181; Member since: 20 May 2013)
i can't find puffin in play store...
64. Shatter (Posts: 2036; Member since: 29 May 2013)
apps/details?id=com.cloudmosa. puffinFree&hl=en
72. harigrg33 (Posts: 181; Member since: 20 May 2013)
This app is not available in ur country wat the f
69. antmiu2 (Posts: 312; Member since: 19 Jun 2011)
They forgot the best minimalistic browser... Naked Browser has an 4.7 score in the play store!
70. julz17ronald (Posts: 48; Member since: 26 Apr 2013)
I usually use Firefox and it's really good. I will try Puffin this time.
75. GrmanR (Posts: 41; Member since: 09 Apr 2013)
Can I sync Puffin with Chrome on my desktop? That's the only feature that keeps me using Chrome
79. Chris.P (Posts: 560; Member since: 27 Jun 2013)
I glanced the option in the Settings.
80. giri.1131 (Posts: 22; Member since: 21 Feb 2012)
Just downloaded puffin after this article . . its ridiculously fast and looks really cool with handy features. .
sad news though the flash feature is limited in the free edition :(
82. imnotascammer (Posts: 160; Member since: 22 Aug 2012)
Puffin is insanely fast indeed! Main complain is that, it kinda lags? Well, Chrome does lag too.
84. arslanalikhan (Posts: 10; Member since: 18 Feb 2013)
when puffin and google keyboard available in uae :@:@:@:@ on my s4
85. DontHateOnS60 (Posts: 867; Member since: 20 Apr 2009)
Where's the UI part of the article?
That's what I was looking for...
86. Chris.P (Posts: 560; Member since: 27 Jun 2013)
Stay tuned for part 2 :)
87. Ronny666 (Posts: 120; Member since: 08 Jun 2013)
Tried Puffin after reading the article and it's really fast. Still the UI is not very smooth. Best part is I can view sites banned in my country. :) I'd have this as my alternate browser for Flash sites.
88. sckortyman (Posts: 23; Member since: 19 Sep 2013)
Am I the only one here who cares about scrolling speed, and clean design far more than load times and benchmarks? Tried puffin. It was complete crap. Favorite browser on low end phones is still the stock browser. Clean and extremely smooth. Chrome is my favorite on high end devices that have enough horsepower. Love the UI of chrome.
89. aanar (Posts: 3; Member since: 12 Oct 2013)
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i use opera because it has word wrap capability...
91. crazyfists (Posts: 5; Member since: 05 Dec 2012)
the best browser is n0t present...try NEXT BROWSER and ull see the difference.
95. Tech_Junkie1996 (Posts: 43; Member since: 29 Aug 2013)
Why is Puffin so unknown? It was the only browser on the list that I didn't recognize and it blew the competition out of the water! I installed it and can't believe how fast it is. Full webpages loaded in a second, on Sprint's 3G! I've never been able to load anything with Sprint, and with such speed! I hate to say this but Puffin just stole a Chrome lover.
97. noteseries (Posts: 80; Member since: 29 Oct 2013)
opera mobile and chrome is the best
98. Palladium (Posts: 21; Member since: 09 Nov 2013)
I don't care about synthetics, and from my own experience Dolphin destroys AOSP, Firefox and Chrome in terms of scrolling smoothness and usability. The unobstructive full screen mode in Dolphin alone makes it light years ahead.
100. alxndrs (Posts: 1; Member since: 19 Dec 2013)
Thanks to this article my generation old phone and tablets when it comes to browsing has been "updated", meaning Puffin performs as advertised. Now my Nook HD and HD+ is as fast as my iPad and don't even use it anymore. The developers should market this more as it is the best browser out of all tested, I've used them all.
101. FYoung (Posts: 42; Member since: 08 Oct 2013)
Does anybody have a solution for syncing bookmarks between Puffin on Android and a desktop?
108. ileviaggi (Posts: 1; Member since: 15 Dec 2015)
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I have loved hats my whole life but lived overseas in a place where I couldn't come by them often. When I moved to the States, the collection began and my favorite hats always seemed to come from antique stores.
I learned to sew as a child on an antique Singer sewing machine with a treadle. I didn't realize how rare and valuable an experience I was having in both using this amazing machine and in being taught to sew by my mother. Sadly, I have met very few people who have had this kind of opportunity in their youth.
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Historical Traveler Reviews Hilton Garden Inn Portsmouth Downtown
Agree with Rhode Island Tripadvisor comment
We were at the Hilton Garden Inn around the sametime as the Rhode Island Tripadvisor Member in the previous comment. We ran into the same lack of details and over all "Whatever" attitude.
We brought our complaint up to the General Manager who basically blew us off and walked away. When we went to check out we overheard her talking negatively about another guest and the way she was dressed. The unfortunately thing was the guest they were talking about was a special needs individual with a sever developmental issue.
I found the staff to have no tact dealing with guests.
Pricey and in need of some improvement
My husband and I stayed here this past weekend, and I have to say that we were less than impressed overall. Given the fact that the room we stayed in was $250 per night, you would think that the management would have their acts together a bit more.
We arrived prior to check in time (3pm), and our room was not ready yet, which was fine. We asked to check our luggage in. When we returned approximately 4 hrs later to check in and retrieve our luggage, we were quite surprised to find my husband's bag sitting out in the open on the floor, plainly forgotten, next to the main desk. When he asked the woman who happened to be helping us why his bag was left out lying where it was, her only explanation was that he must have just dropped it off moments ago, and that's why it was still there! No apologies or further explanations were given.
The room, although nicely appointed was not up to par as far as cleanliness. There was dirt splattered on the bathroom door, the toilet was not clean by any means, nor was the interior of the shower. The cleaning lady left behind dirty glassware that was used the evening before, and there were crumbs all over the chair in the main area of the room.
On the morning of departure, we encountered another situation which left us shaking our heads in dismay. We bought a great deal of items during our stay, and attempted to obtain either a luggage cart or the assistance of a bellman, since we were on the 4th floor. We needed to get going, and there was virtually no one to help. When my husband inquired at the front desk about bellman/luggage cart, he was greeted with a blank stare and a rather vague answer along the lines of: "gee, several other people are also looking for luggage carts now, too." "Gee, I don't really know where the bellman is..." . We gave up and carried all the items down on our own. The blas� attitude both with this encounter, and the one with my husband's luggage at check-in left me entirely fed up.
For $250 dollars a night, folks, I would think the Hilton Garden Inn could do a whole lot better both with training, proper customer service, and better cleaning overall.
To be fair, the majority of people that we dealt with were nice and went out of their way with us, however, given these other circumstances, I cannot recommend staying here, unless either the hotel starts taking themselves and their customer's needs more seriously; or you don't mind dropping a decent amount of money for lackluster service and accommodations.
Can you hear me now?
I spent a week in Portsmouth on business. Our in house travel agent made me reservations at the New Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Portsmouth. Every looked good on line and I read the Trip Advisor references before I went. I felt pretty comfortable with the choice that had been made.
I arrived in the early afternoon around 1:00pm and asked to check in. I knew I was early and was hoping a room would be ready. It took 30 minutes for the front desk girls to locate the director of housekeeping. I said, "I can come back later but could I check my luggage?" They didn't know if they could do that. They needed to talk to the assistant GM but she wasn't in. Then they wanted to find the GM but could find her. I finally just said I will be back around 3pm and I put my luggage in my car.
After a bite to eat and a walk around the Old Port I came back to the hotel. It was now about 3:30pm. I found out the room wasn't ready but they had the number to the room. They said they cold check me in but I could go to the room for another 20 minutes. I was find with that and said just give me the key and I will wait in the lobby.
I finally got to my room. Very clean, very fresh, still had that new carpet smell... but again, the property is new. Well the newness wore off pretty quick. I went out to dinner and when I got back I was exhausted. I called down for a 5:00am wake up call because I wanted to work out before I left for the office. I had a really good night sleep but then found out why.... It was now 7:30am and the phone never rang. I had to rush to get ready and get out the door.
I called the hotel when I got to the office and asked to speak to the GM. I was told she wasn't in and they said they would take a message. I said I would call back. I called around 11:00am and was told again the GM and the assistant GM were not in, but they could take a message. I called one more time around 2:00pm to speak to the GM. I was told she is on the phone, I said I would like to be put on hold. 10 minutes later the front desk girl came back on the line and said, "Shawn had an appointment and she couldn't take your call. Would you like to leave a message?" I said no and asked when should would return. The girl said Shawn would be back around 3:30 or 4:00. I decided to leave the office early so I could catch the GM before she left. At this point I has also left a message saying what the problem was and I needed to talk to her.
I got the hotel at 4:00pm and found out the Gm had left for the day. I was told she left around 2:00pm because her daughter was back from college and they were going shopping. Ok, even if they were doing that why would a employee even share that information? That is like having your kid tell your boss on the phone that you are in the bathroom and can't take the call.
Arrived on Tuesday and left on Friday. I left two messages to talk to the gm but never got a call. The finally straw was when the front desk girl left the receiver on the desk not on hold and told the GM I needed to speak to her.... Her reaction was, "I don't need to talk to people with problems."
The next time I am staying in Portsmouth I will stay across the street at the Sheraton. At least there you will get a wake up call.
Great Stay annd Great location
This hotel is in a nice location within walking distance to everything.It is a new hotel, so the rooms are really nice. The bed is so comfortable.It has some foam and air system where you can adjust the softness on either side of the bed. Bathroom has a large walk in shower, no tub. There is free internet wireless available in the room, and a business center as well.Complimentary coffee is put out at 6 am. There is a nice fitness center, and a pool with a hot tub. Breakfast was excellent. Usually we don't like hotel buffets, but at this one, you could order omlets, any kind of eggs,waffles,or pancakes. There was a large assortment of fruits and pastries, as well as the usual bacon,homefries,oatmeal,cold cereals, juices and coffee.For $9.95, I think it was a good deal. All the hotel employees we encountered went out of their way to be helpful. The only negative here is you have to valet park for $8/day. Street parking has meters, and there is a parking garage that would end up costing more. I would definitely return to this hotel.
Great Location
This hotel is in a great location in Portsmouth, which is a great little city. you can walk to everything (don't try to drive around town) and there are plenty of restaurants and shops within blocks of the hotel.
The Hotel breakfast is great. For just under $10 you can eat at the buffet (all you can eat) and the food is excellent. They will even do custom orders as part of the buffet at no extra cost. they always have lots of fresh fruit available too and a good variety.
The beds are like sleeping on a cloud. Rooms are a good size but with two queen size beds can be a little tight on width.
The staff was very accommodating, very nice, and professional.
The indoor pool is a little small but very nice and warm. They have a hot tub too, which is actually hot.
The gym is pretty good for a hotel gym but if you are into walking Portsmouth is your town.
The only problems I saw were with construction (they made many mistakes such as cracked tub, cracked counter top, unfinished molding around the base of walls, and even placed an outlet in a spot where the cabinet covered half of it)
the other problem was housekeeping. It was inconsistant. they didn't vaccume the room before I arrived so I had to walk on food crumbs from the last guest. they failed to empty trash cans some times, didn't replace empty tissue boxes, etc. Small stuff but something they need to (and can easily) fix.
Even with a few small problems, the hotel is new and should improve, I would absolutely stay here again.
Perfect experience all around!
This hotel just opened about a month ago, but already they are pros. My husband, son and I decided to go on an impromptu overnighter to Portsmouth and we were so thrilled that we booked this hotel. The location cannot be beat. Park the car and walk to EVERYTHING. The hotel is brand new and is in pristine condition. The room was very large and immaculate. We spent most of our time down at the pool with my son. It is small, but very nice, with a hot tub as well. We ate breakfast at the hotel and it was terrific. It was buffett style, but they will also make things to your tastes. It was delicious and hot, with TONS of different foods - not your typical boring buffett. I really cannot say enough about this hotel. We are already planning another trip back in a couple of months. Just three exits north and you are in Kittery, with all the outlets. It is really ideal! Kudos to this hotel and their staff...we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and we will be back!
Wonderful new hotel
We checked into the Hilton after having one night at an unsatisfactory hotel in Portsmouth. We had parked at the downtown parking garage, and saw the Hlton across the street. It was only ten dollars more a night then the bad place we were staying so we had no qualms about changing.
This Hilton is brand spanking new and opened on June 6, 2006. It's within a block of the Harbour and the vibrant downtown area of Portsmouth. There is a small lap pool on the ground floor, a small bar and restaurant on the first floor and a small but very nice internet area also on the first floor. Right before we checked out I was able to do a mapquest for directions and print them out in five minutes.
The room was standard size. The beds were very nice and had fluffy down comforters. The tv was a large set and had free hbo.
The staff was very nice and each one from the front desk person to the housekeeping staff said hello and gave us a smile whenever they saw us. In the morning I went down for coffee (complimentary) and there was no coffee in the big dispenser. A staff member saw me and immediately offerend to go to the kitchen and get me a cup. She said they were brewing more for the dispenser but didn't want me to wait for it.
The location was excellent. We had not made reservations but were able to check in early and used the hotel as our base while we explored the city on foot. There is no on-site parking, it's by valet only and costs a mandatory $8. a day. Still a deal in this city where the next best thing is the parking garage at 75 cents an hour. All in all, I can easily recommend the Hilton Garden Inn for anyone.
Sparklingly New
Great value. Sparklingly new and spacious little Hilton hotel right in heart of quaint old Portsmouth, with terrific fitness center, pool, and jacuzzi. Staff are very courteous and very helpful. A real value for the money.
Fantastic hotel and location
new, clean, great service, comfortable beds and large, comfortable room size.
highly recommend.
perfect location for walking thru the town and easy highway access for travel.
Great new hotel
We had a wedding in new hampshire and got a room at this brand new hilton for the weekend. it literally opened just days before we arrived, and almost all guests of the wedding were staying there. we were pleasantly surprised when we first arrived at the sophistication of the hotel and competency of the brand new staff. i was under the impression that hilton's "garden inn" was a smaller version of the hilton, like holiday inn express or courtyard by marriott, but it was so much nicer. the bed had a huge duvet, an all marble shower with an incredible shower head. everything we asked for was recieved with such enthusiasm from the staff. we did have a bad experience at the restaraunt one night, the food was slow and it was obvious neither server knew what they were doing, but when i went to the front desk and asked to speak with a mgr, he was very responsive, apologized and did not make excuses even though they were brand new, he went over and took care of everything. the interior of the hotel was impeccable, very upscale. the rooms can be pricey, going in upwards of $300 per night certain times of the year, but if i were staying in potrsmouth, i would definitely stay there.
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I feel hand of history upon my shoulder -- a hell of a soundbite
Published 23/01/2011 | 05:00
Tensions among chief negotiators reach breaking point leading up to the Good Friday Agreement, in this extract from Alastair Campbell's Diaries Volume Two
Monday, July 21 1997
Ireland was leading the news in the morning because of the Trimble meeting. . . TB was becoming more and more preoccupied with Northern Ireland. He felt that if Trimble showed more strength, he could blow out Paisley.
The problem was that the Irish government probably did tell Sinn Fein there would be no need for actual decommissioning, and we were saying the opposite to the Unionists. . . The problem was that Trimble was not really in charge of the show, and you sensed he was constantly worrying what they were thinking.
He had a naturally red face which turned redder and redder as the meeting wore on. He had a mildly priggish smile which got more priggish the more nervous he got. Jeffrey Donaldson [UUP MP] was the quietest but he spoke with considerable force. Taylor was quite languid. Maginnis was the ranter today. But he too could be subtle while being tough.
When we were discussing the decommissioning line, he said very nicely, but menacingly, 'I'm very worried that if we take that approach, it will be very damaging to you personally, David' . . . Donaldson said it was always the Unionists being asked to help out, and there was nothing to show for it. He said he had lost members of his family to the IRA.
'We understand these people. They will go back to violence any time they feel like it.'
Thursday, December 11
Adams and his team arrived 15 minutes early, and he did a little number in the street, where the media numbers were huge. This was a big moment, potentially historic in the progress it could lead to.
They came inside and we kept them waiting while we went over what TB was due to say. Mo and Paul Murphy were both there and Mo was pretty fed up, feeling she was getting shit from all sides. They were hovering around the lifts and were summoned down to the Cabinet Room . . .
I found McGuinness more impressive than Adams, who did the big statesman bit, and talked in grand historical sweeps, but McGuinness just made a point and battered it, and forced you to take it on board. Martin Ferris [Sinn Fein negotiator] was the most coldeyed of the lot. He really did emanate a sense of menace. Mo slipped me a note saying he had a very bad history.
Of the women, I could not work out whether they really mattered, or whether they just took them round with them to look a bit less hard. They were tough as boots all three of them . . . Ferris was the one who just stared. Mo got pissed off, volubly, when they said she wasn't doing enough . . .
Mo mentioned an escaped prisoner. Adams said: 'Good luck to him.' Mo snapped back 'That is not a very helpful comment.'
But there were flashes of humour. Mo slipped me a note saying she found GA sexier than MMcG.
On the way out GA took TB to one side, and clearly wanted to be able to brief they had had a one-on-one session. All he said was: 'Merry Christmas.' I said we needed to agree a briefing line. He said why don't we say we've agreed to withdrawal of all troops by February and a united Ireland by spring? Fine, I said, I like a good clear line.
TB roared with laughter. They were clearly trying to hang around and, added to their early arrival, exaggerate the length of the talks . . .
The three women went to the loo, and our security people were getting antsy at how long they were in there, while Jonathan and I chatted to GA and McG re holidays and Christmas and kids and stuff. Vera Doyle [Irish messenger at Number 10] was on duty and came over to chat to them, and within seconds McG was charm itself, checking out where she came from and where she went on holiday. Vera was clearly a fan, but said to them as they left 'Now you two just behave, and help out our man here.' . . .
TB said later McG might have had a point when he said the 'securocrats' did not really want to bring about a settlement . . .
Tuesday, April 7, 1998
Mitchell finally tabled his paper around midnight . . . On the plane (to Belfast) we went through the paper in some detail . . . TB was a bit fed up with it because he and Bertie had not actually negotiated all this, but Mitchell insisted it was all in there . . . I drafted a few lines, but he pretty much did his own thing. This is not a time for sound bites but I feel the hand of history upon my shoulder. Hell of a sound bite.
Wednesday, April 8
I got a message to go and see TB before I was even up. He was in the bath, and said he was worried. I knew he was worried anyway because he was playing the fool the whole time, putting on a thick Irish accent, pretending he was a newsreader announcing that Cherie was going to become a Protestant and he was going to speak with an Irish accent as part of a deal to secure peace in NI.
Bertie's mum had died and he was coming up for breakfast before then going back for the funeral . . . Paddy Teahon said Trimble was asking for the Holy Trinity to be replaced by the Almighty God in the Irish Constitution. Even Bertie managed a laugh.
Bertie said if he was exposed to either of them (Unionist leaders) too much today, he would be worried he would end up thumping them . . .
We left by helicopter for Stormont . . . The most important (meetings) were with the UUs, and they were also the most difficult. Trimble was trying hard, but he just had too many people at him. He would say something, and then find the others translating it into something harder. Then Trimble would nod his agreement to the revised version. TB was getting frustrated and angry as the day wore on.
[Jeffrey] Donaldson was being difficult, said it was all a charade being run by the Anglo-Irish secretariat. We were also a bit stuck without Bertie but he came back around 6.30, looking even more knackered than before. I felt really sorry for him. It was obvious the way he talked about her that he was close to his mother, and she was barely buried and he was back taking a whole load of grief from the UUs. They talked to him, and about him, with something close to contempt, and it was terrific the way he took it. TB was now getting very irritable and the surroundings were beginning to drive us all a bit crazy . . .
John Taylor suddenly signalled they were ready to do a deal. Bertie started, speaking very quietly, said it would be a great tragedy if we could not reach a deal now. Joe Lennon scribbled me a note saying DT had too many enemies for this to work, but the mood was fine.
It was when Taylor suddenly piped up -- 'There is room for manoeuvre here' -- that we thought there was a sign of change. Bertie had said before he would walk out if he started up on his usual record. He said he couldn't be arsed listening to it all again.
But this time Taylor was significantly different. It was the first time he had ever been anything remotely approaching positive . . . After the main trilateral, we had a long session with Adams and McGuinness and later with Adams alone. They were both very charming in their own way, also very clever, and always making points at various levels. I liked McG better of the two.
Whatever he had done in the past, there was a directness to him that I liked and he was driven by a genuine sense of grievance about the way people were forced to live. I guess Adams is too, but he also strikes me as more interested in his own place in the firmament, more a politician than a people's person.
TB said if we don't break it down tonight, we are in trouble, and suggested we get DT back in. He was getting tired too. 'I'll go fucking spare if he brings in Maginnis and the rest again.'
DT was a bit more hopeful. TB said we should not leave the building until we have Strand 2 tied up and agreed. But we did, about 1am, exhausted and not there yet. On the helicopter back to Hillsborough, TB just looked out of the window, his face tired and angry, occasionally shaking his head.
Thursday, April 9
Bertie was in OK mood considering and we had a load of small talk re Burnley and Man U. TB had been worried last night that BA was actually depressed but he seemed a lot better today. The plan on arrival was just for some nice clear pictures of TB and Bertie, with a few words, but David Andrews [Irish foreign minister] bounded in and buggered it up, interrupting the doorstep. TB did a couple of answers then cut it short and was livid when we got up to the office.
I said DA ballsing it up wasn't worth bothering with. There would be a lot worse to come during the day.
1.05pm TB ranting and raving because he wanted to see BA, who was locked in discussions in the SDLP office. There is not one clever person outside this fucking room . . .
When the Irish came in, I suggested to TB that he 'turn off the charm tap' and he start to get a bit heavier. The problem was they wanted clear Westminster legislation to set up implementation bodies; otherwise, said Paddy Teahon, it would be just like Sunningdale . . .
Bertie said on the one hand they are expected to change their Constitution -- to give up the claim to the North effectively -- and yet there is no 'on the other hand' of equal clarity . . . By prior arrangement, TB asked me what the reaction would be if we didn't do a deal. I said Bertie would be crucified.
'They think the other lot are mad anyway, but they think you guys are sane so it would be you that gets crucified if we fall apart over this.'
Teahon laughed his head off, but Bertie nodded quietly, and got the point.
Friday, April 10
3.37 TB spoke to Clinton. 'Where are we?' asked Bill. TB said we had been going non-stop for three days. We were close to a deal, and had been for some time. The problem is that every time we get close to a bottom line, a new one comes up . . .
Bill asked if TB wanted him to call. TB suggested he call Bertie and emphasise the big changes they have won here . . . Bill said there is nothing more important to me right now than this. Call me whenever, even if it means waking me up.
4.18 Bill had made some calls and said it was time to move for it.
4.30 Another Clinton call: 'Hell, I'd rather be on holiday with Kenneth Starr than hanging out with these guys.'
5.35 We agreed BC should call Adams, and we briefed he should set out how difficult the prisoners issue was, unless they signed up to the whole deal. Bill got the point straight away and was on the phone to him immediately. It felt, finally, like it was falling into place.
8.10 If you had to pin me down and ask me to explain how it suddenly came together, I couldn't, but by 8.10 I was in the press tent briefing that basically we had a done deal, that it was huge, historic, ginormous, all that stuff. I felt really quite emotional and had to hold myself together.
The whole thing nearly came unstuck over a fuck-up over the wretched implementation bodies, because by mistake the Irish-language promotion (Trimble's staff's fault) and export promotion (our fault) were back in the fucking list . . . TB said at one point 'We are dealing with the Afrikaner mentality. They're tired, they're scared and they're panicking.'
Monday Aug 17
Another extraordinary conference call with TB and Mo. The police chiefs [Flanagan and Byrne] want to leave, the justice minister wants to leave and they cannot renegotiate because Bertie is in a meeting in Dublin. TB was pretty firm with her.
He said 'I'm very sorry, Mo, but I am going to have to press you and you are going to have to press them because the statement (she prepared with the police chiefs) is not adequate' . . . We then had the ludicrous situation of TB having to ask Mo for her fax number, and her shouting out 'Anyone out there who knows the fax number?' and then saying the officials had disappeared. It was the Mo manner that was fine when things didn't matter, but deeply irritating when they did. She sounded more and more exasperated.
'I'll say whatever you want, Tony,' she said, at which point TB exploded at her: 'It is not a case of saying what I want. It is a case of doing the right thing and then explaining it to the public, who may have cause to be concerned about recent events.'
She then lost the plot completely. 'You cannot do this to me. I'm sick of the long distance control. You are making it impossible for me. I can't do it any more.' 'Well, you're going to have to,' he said. 'Just calm down, Mo, we have to do this properly.' Ronnie Flanagan came on the line and was like a voice of reason and sanity.
He did not sound like a man trying to charge out of the door. TB took him through some of the changes and he sounded fine. But Mo was getting near hysterical.
TB said to her 'if you went out and read that statement as you read it to us earlier, you will be dead. I mean dead, totally out of the game. Nobody would take you seriously.' She said 'I'd rather be dead than carrying on like this. I don't care any more.' TB said 'Yes you do, and that is why we do the extra bit to get it right.'
Tuesday, August 25
On the flight back, (from Toulouse) . . . TB felt Bill C was in some genuine trouble but the only option for us was to stand by him. I asked CB if she would stand by TB if he got involved with a Monica Lewinsky. She said probably, but she would make his life hell.
TB said he was confident she would kick him straight out, and Fiona would do the same to me. CB was also complaining again that they were in real debt and it was ludicrous the things they had to spend money on without any official help . . .
Thursday, September 3
Bill Clinton was very friendly with all of us, but Hillary was pretty icy, and the more he tried to bring her in, the more rigid and fixed the smile became. She was clearly finding the whole Monica thing hard to bear and he was clearly still being punished . . .
Bill had a little catnap in the holding room, and looked pretty shattered when he woke up. Hillary looked tired too and there was nothing between them when they were together. He did his best, and chatted to her and what have you, but she was having none of it. Icy does not do it justice. This was the deep freeze but he was bearing it well . . .
We were briefed by one of Clinton's people on the walkabout and he referred to how we were meeting 'some of the fathers' of Omagh. Hillary cut in, 'And mothers,' cutting the guy right down . . .
TB said to me later he felt Bill was very down, but hiding it well, and also feeling very damaged. A role in the peace process meant a lot to him, for lots of different reasons. We flew to Armagh over some stunning scenery.
There was a big crowd waiting for them and the US team had told Bill he had been a bit down in his earlier speech and this was the one to get pumped up for. He did, and got the best reception yet.
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SURE, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE wrote three dozen plays and 154 sonnets, but what has he done for us lately? Everybody thought the Bard's literary well had long since run dry. Now, however, thanks to Donald Foster and the wonders of computer analysis, Shakespeare's résumé boasts something new—a 578-line poem with the catchy title A Funerall Elegye in Memory of the Late Vertuous Maister William Peeter.
Foster, an English professor at Vassar College, doesn't think the poem is top-drawer Will—he calls it rather dull—but Shakespeare scholars are agog, partly because it may shed new light on the life—and sexual orientation—of the playwright, who was married to Anne Hathaway.
Foster, 45, found the elegy in 1983 in a copy of a 21-page Elizabethan-era pamphlet acquired by Oxford University's Bodleian Library. Soon he heard Avon calling. "I came across what seemed to be echoes of Shakespeare's plays," he says, a notion buttressed by the fact that the initials W.S. appear twice on the pamphlet.
Realizing other academics would be skeptical, Foster told no one except his wife, Gwen, 42, of his suspicions. Using a computer program that he had previously developed, he matched words and phrases in the poem to those in known works of Shakespeare. He disclosed his findings—along with the work of four other experts—at an academic conference in Chicago last month. The evidence convinced many scholars that the poem was, indeed, part of the Shakespeare canon. Some think the Elegye, written to commemorate an Oxford student killed in a brawl, is further proof that the Bard might have been bisexual, long suspected because so many of his sonnets are thought to have been addressed to a young man. "There is enough innuendo in the poem to raise questions about the nature of the relationship between Shakespeare and William Peeter," says Foster, though scholars may never know for certain whether, romantically speaking, Shakespeare went both thisaway and Hathaway.
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Mom (And Science) Knows Best: Having a Set Bedtime Is Good for Kids' BrainsJoslyn Gray
Having a set bedtime isn't just about keeping parents sane, and making it easier to drag your kids out of bed in the morning: It's actually good for kids' brains, say scientists at the University College London. And as anyone who has watched Mary Poppins or "Supernanny" knows, you can trust British people when it comes to advice about kids.
The study, which confirms what literally every schoolteacher already knew, was published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Medicine. Researchers looked at the sleep habits of over 11,000 British children at the ages of three, five, and seven.
Scientists found that three-year-olds who didn't have a regular bedtime had lower cognitive scores than children who had a set bedtime every night. The scores were lower for both girls and boys across the board: in reading, math, and spatial skills.
Here's where things get a little wonky: the researchers found that at age seven, girls without a set bedtime had "significantly" lower scores in reading, math, and spatial skills. The same wasn't found of boys.
This difference is really surprising, because my daughters and my son are equally deranged when they're sleep-deprived.
Researchers did find that a cumulative effect was apparent in both boys and girls: kids who hadn't had a regular bedtime at multiple ages: say, age three and five, or age five and seven, had lower scores.
Irregular bedtimes were most common at the age of 3, when around one in five children went to bed at varying times because three-year-olds are cray-cray. By the age of 7, more than half the children went to bed regularly between 7.30 and 8.30 pm. Children whose bedtimes were irregular or who went to bed after 9 pm came from more socially disadvantaged backgrounds, the findings showed.
The study authors said that irregular bedtimes could disrupt natural body rhythms and cause sleep deprivation, undermining the plasticity of the brain and the ability to acquire and retain information.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics also says that keeping a consistent bedtime makes bedtime easier overall, because it helps your child know what to expect.
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I remember the home that I grew up in with many fond memories. We moved into our suburban home, in Canada, when I was only 4 years old. We lived in the same house until after I left home for university.
I didn't realize that I still had an emotional attachment to that home, until I went back for a visit recently, with my own family.
On a recent visit, I took my family back to my old house. Some things had changed on the outside -- the garden wasn't as beautiful, the shutters were painted a different color, but above all, the house still looked the same.
We walked around my childhood neighborhood and I pointed out all of the special places. We walked to the local park, where my sisters and I spent many happy hours playing, before being called home for dinner. It was also where I fell off the monkey-bars and had the wind knocked out of me. I showed my son our favorite hide-and-seek hiding place, where no one could find us. We drove along our old paper route, where we used to deliver papers.
I stared up at the window of my old room, and tried to remember that little girl who looked out the window to see what was doing on the street. On cold winter mornings, I first checked for a snow-covered window which meant closed schools for a snow day, and a fun day at home with our mother. It was a place of many firsts: I lost my first tooth, started grade one, learned to ride a bicycle and jump rope, and went on my first date with a boy.
The most important landmark of all was our tree in the front yard. When I was little, I named our tree Sarah, and the name caught on in the family, and lasted until we moved. She was then just a small twig of a tree, barely able to support her own branches. It was under her leaves that we took our first-day-of-school photos every year. When I returned for a visit, Sarah the twig had transformed into a beautiful tree, now shading half the front lawn. I almost didn't recognize it. It reminded me of how many years have passed, and how much I've grown since living there.
And, yet, as much as things have changed, they have stayed almost exactly the same. It was wonderful to remember happy times from the past, and to share them with my husband and son. I was able to talk to them about my childhood, and show them where I came from.
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- I would love to be able to go back to my childhood HOME(S) but like many of us, we moved so many times that it is almost impossible to do that. The main place that I do remember is my grandparent's home and that is where I was able to go back to and reminisce over the years. We lived in 14 different school districts while I attended schools, and that was hard.
My husband and I do go back to my grandparent's home as we have settled in the same area that they came from. I have done genealogy research because of that. We have been married almost 49 years now and it is still fun to remember the old country stores and roads around here. Too bad that the younger generation does not have an interest in where their grandparents lived. Like I mentioned there are many different locations that I could show mine from all over the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Probably many of the readers are in a similar situation wishing their family took more interest.
- My childhood home is in a neighbourhood that has undergone demographic replacement of the founders' posterity. Carjackings, liquor store robberies, and drive-by shootings. While the neighbourhood is no more diverse, it is very different and I can purchase a home for less than a new Honda.
- I grew up near a pond and as a result had a Tom Sawyer like youth with many adventures on the water and in the swamp and woods.
My children and two of my grandchildren have been able to visit there but they didn't have the same early life. Now the property belongs to my brother who isn't very welcoming since he likes his privacy.
My house has been razed and my brother built a new home in its place.
- Adele, don't loose hope about the younger generations not being interested in the Family Tree info....They will be very interested once they have children of their own or experience the lose of dear family seniors. Currently they have plenty of "now" to handle. Eventually they'll realize they would like to pass on this precious ancestry information to their own children!.
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The flight lands in Oregon, 9,500 miles from Tanzania. Dilan Ellegala fills his lungs. No smell of wood smoke here. He just spent the past six months volunteering in a small hospital deep in the sun-baked African bush. Now, in the summer of 2006, it's back to work in the lush green city of Portland, to a new job as director of neurotrauma at Oregon Health and Science University.
Read the first story of the series
A Doctor's Quest: Teaching brain surgery in the bush, published 7/25/10
A challenge? That's a sure bet to fire the neurons of a brain surgeon, and Ellegala is eager to start this plum job. He'll disarm those deadly aneurysms, treat those emergency head wounds and share his skills with medical students at a top research university. He's in his mid-30s, on the star track, riding an elevator toward higher positions, higher pay, grants, recognition.
Not so fast; a rift formed inside his mind during those six months in Tanzania. On one side: dreams of becoming a distinguished neurosurgeon, dreams that fueled him through five years of medical school, eight years of residency, a prestigious but brutal fellowship in cerebrovascular medicine at Harvard.
On the other: memories of the Tanzanian village of Haydom, high on a plateau overlooking fields of maize and sunflowers and acacia trees, the taste of fried potatoes and eggs at wood clapboard stands along the village's red-dirt road, a medical technician named Emmanuel Mayegga, the man he trained to do brain surgery.
Yes, even in Oregon, he can almost smell the cook fires, the metallic scent of blood mingling with sweat in the hospital's wards; he can see the children with grotesquely large heads suffering with hydrocephalus, glazed eyes gazing downward from the pain and pressure, the men and women with tumors and head wounds, people who are alive because he taught Mayegga the skills to heal them.
Neuroscience is all about movement and connections, left hemisphere to right, brain to nervous system. Yes, now that he's back in the United States, he's convinced that his work with Mayegga should move forward, that he should find others to train and train them to share their skills with even more people, generating a critical mass of expertise that transforms the troubled country he just left behind.
Medical mission side effects
No, the paradigm isn't working for Tanzania and many other developing countries, he thinks. More than $2 billion in foreign aid, nearly $400 million from the United States, pours into Tanzania every year, much of it for public health programs. Despite this aid, average life expectancy hovers at 52 years, and one in 10 children dies by age 5. Even with this foreign infusion, Tanzania has just 20 doctors for every million inhabitants, one of the worst doctor-patient ratios in Africa. (The United States has 2,600 physicians for every million residents.) Ellegala could fill a page with numbing statistics about malaria, tuberculosis, diarrhea -- numbers that make you throw up your hands. What can one person do?
Go on vacation, that's one answer. That's what Ellegala did in Haydom for six months -- take a break after a grueling fellowship to test his skills in a place of infinite need. That's what a lot of doctors and nurses do; every year, thousands of health care workers from the United States and Europe fly to Africa, treating everything from cleft palates to tuberculosis. Many go for just a few weeks during their vacations and fit in a safari or beach trip. All told, more than 500 groups around the world run upward of 6,000 short-term medical missions a year. These missions have saved countless lives.
But Ellegala kept thinking of a question as he walked through the wards in Haydom's hospital, rooms filled with patients suffering from head wounds, tumors, water on the brain -- easily treatable injuries and diseases if you have the skills: What happens to these people when we leave? And this question led to a diagnosis: Sure, short-term medical missions save lives and make doctors who do them feel good, but they don't cure the real disease, the country's ailing health care system. No, they ultimately make things worse by perpetuating a culture of dependence, a tumor that crowds out the growth of a more sustainable and effective system.
Leave it to a surgeon to come up with a radical treatment. Ellegala decides it's better to focus on training locals, even if it means teaching procedures to non-physicians. Yes, he can already hear the old guard howling: You can't teach brain surgery to amateurs! There's a reason we train brain surgeons for more than a decade! But it's easy to say those things from your comfortable offices in the United States, a nation with 3,500 neurosurgeons. Tanzania has only three brain surgeons, and thousands of people are dying because they don't have access to these specialists. So, back in Oregon, Ellegala forms a nonprofit, Physicians Training Partnerships, to teach Tanzanians brain surgery. He'll start with neurosurgery, because that's what he knows, then move to other specialties. He'll train Tanzanian doctors when possible, but also people like Mayegga, ambitious health care workers who have a few years of medical training under their belts.
He's not exactly breaking new ground here. You can go back a couple of thousand years to ancient China for the proverb: Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish, feed him for a lifetime. Or you can follow Brian Mullaney to Vietnam in the 1990s. Mullaney is a board member of Operation Smile on a mission to fix cleft deformities, pondering whether this send-in-the-cavalry model makes sense. His teams, flown in from America along with 10,000 pounds of gear, can do 100 surgeries in a few weeks, but 400 children typically show up. So he returns to the United States with an idea, cue the Chinese proverb: train local doctors instead of flying doctors in from across the ocean. His fellow board members shake their heads; the kids need help now; there's no time to teach; The group's head surgeon shakes his head. Let the locals do these procedures, and children probably will end up dying.
Nonsense, Mullaney thinks, and forms a new nonprofit, Smile Train, to "teach a man to fish … empower local doctors in developing countries." In the next 10 years, Smile Train provides free training to 60,000 medical professionals in more than 140 countries, reduces the cost-per-surgery by 90 percent, serves dollar-per-dollar 10 times as many children as traditional mission groups. Mullaney's dream: Teach so many doctors that it puts Smile Train out of business.
What's this, an organization with an exit strategy? Yes, that's the way to do it, Ellegala thinks. But he knows this is a challenge to the status quo, to the missionary industrial complex that has deep roots in Africa and reasons to stay put. "Medical services provided are merely a means to share the gospel with the patients and their families," one group says on its Web site. Another says it plans to "take the gospel through medical care to every rural area in Africa." But is it ethical to provide care in exchange for opportunities to convert, especially in a place where people have few alternatives for health care? A New Zealand researcher, Sharon McLennan, studies missions in Honduras and learns how one group bluntly defines its medical work as "bait."
A tough decision
No, better to teach people how to fish, not use them as bait, Ellegala thinks. With his nonprofit up and running, he spends the early part of 2007 recruiting doctors and medical students from across the country for another training mission to Haydom. Meantime, he follows Mayegga's progress, documenting how he repairs skull fractures, inserts shunts to reduce pressure inside the brain, removes brain lesions and does biopsies.
Here's where Ellegala's Brain Train could fly off the tracks: How are Mayegga's patients faring? If they die or have high complication rates, Ellegala's experiment fails. No, worse, it means people may have suffered needlessly, all because of an American doctor's well-meaning but flawed desire to help.
Ellegala knows he needs hard data, information good enough to present to medical journals. As his return trip to Tanzania nears, two graduate students track Mayegga's patients and compare them to ones Ellegala treated during his first stay in Haydom. They tally how many have died and e-mail a summary to Ellegala.
He looks at the totals. Not good: Mayegga's patients are dying at a slightly higher rate than he expected. Maybe you can't properly teach brain surgery to clinicians? He makes a mental note to find out why the patients are dying.
About the same time, his department chair in Oregon asks to see him.
"You can't go to Tanzania," he tells Ellegala. "I need you making money for the department."
Ellegala says he is using his vacation time.
"No, you can't do that."
They talk a few more minutes; Ellegala fumes, the left side of his brain, the logical side, says that maybe his boss is right, that he needs to stay on his steady and lucrative career path in the United States. But don't bet against the right side, the creative side, the side that processes the big picture, especially when it belongs to a guy who's comfortable enough with risk to open skulls for a living.
"It usually takes three dates before a couple finds out if they're compatible," Ellegala tells his boss, who looks a little confused. "I think this is our third date."
Score one for the right side. Ellegala resigns on the spot, the department chairman staring at him in stunned disbelief.
With no job lined up in the United States, a career he worked so hard to build in limbo, and a feeling that, yes, passion is better fuel than security, Ellegala leaves Oregon and flies back to Tanzania.
Every year, Smile Train does more than 120,000 surgeries to fix cleft palates. Brian Mullaney is the group's co-founder.
Q: How did you form Smile Train?
A: I was on the board of directors with Operation Smile in Vietnam when I had this epiphany. You know when we showed up, we would do 100 to 125 operations, but we'd have to turn away 300.
Q: That must have been tough.
A: It was heartbreaking. The hardest part wasn't seeing the kids getting their surgeries; it was turning kids away. You'd have a mother walk for a week with her kid on her back, and then you'd have to tell her you wouldn't be back for a year.
Q: You split from Operation Smile, and formed Smile Train?
A: Yeah, it was just such an obvious idea -- teach a man to fish -- but it was controversial at first. The head surgeon with Operation Smile said all these children were going to die. A lot of people look at the world in the old Colonial way. But training local surgeons is the only way to solve the problem.
Q: Your website says that you do surgeries at a tenth of the cost of traditional missions and do 10 times as many surgeries.
A: I remember the first surgeon we trained in China. He did 2,000 surgeries, and it would have taken us years to do that many the old way. We'll do 120,000 surgeries this year, and Operation Smile will do 9,000. It's very expensive to fly in 10,000 pounds of equipment, set up an operating room and fly in cosmetic surgeons from Cleveland and Georgia. We do our surgeries for about $250, and have done them for as little as $140. Others do it for $800 to $1,000 or much more.
Q: How do you keep track of quality?
A: We have digital charts for every patient. We've operated on 600,000 children, so we can look at photos, see how long the operation took. With the Internet and digital patient charts, we can run a business that we couldn't run 10 years ago.
Q: Think your model could work for brain surgery?
A: Brain surgery is a helluva lot more difficult than clefts, but the basic concept is brilliant, and the same principles apply, namely empowering people by training them. There are brilliant surgeons out there in these developing countries, and with a little bit of help, they can do great work.
Q: You've said that someday you'd like to put yourself out of business. You don't typically hear that from people who run organizations.
A: That's what we said when we started this 11 years ago. Look, I'm a business guy, not a charity guy. We picked clefts because we wanted to have an impact and they're easy to fix. We need a whole new approach to Africa and places like Haiti, where the World Bank and charities are giving out fish and building up a dependency.
Q: So when will you go out of business?
A: Last year, we did more cleft surgeries in China and India than the number of babies born with it. So we're beginning to reduce the backlog. In four or five years, I think we'll take care of the backlog and then it's a matter of keeping up with newborns, which is a fraction of the number of the backlogs. So, yes, I'd love to have a going out of business party.
The series
SUNDAY: A Doctor's Quest: Teaching brain surgery in the bushTODAY: Do short-term medical missions make sense? Ellegala says no while facing an uncertain future.TUESDAY: Ellegala creates a nonprofit to teach brain surgery in Africa, and finds love in the process.WEDNESDAY: Ellegala and MUSC team up to create an international model for health care training in developing countries.
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Aveo Oncology and partner Astellas Pharma Europe reported positive data from the pivotal Phase III study Viro-1, comparing the once-daily oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor candidate tivozanib with sorafenib in 517 patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Astellas says it plans to submit a marketing authorization application for tivozanib to the European authorities during the second half of 2012.
Tivo-1 enrolled patients with advanced clear cell RCC, who had undergone prior nephrectomy and had not previously been treated using a targeted therapy. The trial data showed that tivozanib therapy resulted in a median progression free survival of 12.7 months among previously treatment-naive metastatic RCC patients, compared with a median PFS of 9.1 months for patients treated using sorafenib. About 70% of the trial population fell into this category, and tivozanib is the first drug to generate more than one year median PFS in this patient subpopulation, Aveo and Astellas claim.
Among patients who had previously been treated with systemic therapy, including cytokines, tivozanib therapy led to a median PFS of 11.9 months, compared with a median PFS of 9.1 months for sorafenib therapy. The objective response rate for tivozanib was 33%, compared with 23% for sorafenib.
Tivozanib is Aveo's lead product candidate, designed to selectively inhibit all three vascular endothelial growth factor receptors. In February 2011 the firm inked a worldwide deal, excluding Asia, to develop and commercialize the drug for the treatment of a broad range of cancers. Under terms of the deal Aveo is responsible for heading commercialization of tivozanib in North America, and Astellas will lead commercialization in the EU.
The firms are separately conducting clinical trials with tivozanib either as a single agent targeted therapy or in combination with other targeted therapies or chemotherapy in patients with RCC, breast, colorectal, and other cancers. The development program includes Baton (Biomarker Assessment of Tivozanib in Oncology), a series of clinical trials evaluating tivozanib biomarkers in solid tumors, as a means to identify patients most likely to respond to therapy.
In December 2011 Aveo started enrolling patients into an open-label, multicenter, randomized Phase II clinical trial, Baton-CRC, evaluating tivozanib in combination with modified FOLFOX6 (mFOLFOX6) compared to bevacizumab in combination with mFOLFOX6 as first-line therapy in patients with advanced metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC). Baton-RCC, a Phase II exploratory biomarker study in patients with advanced RCC, was started earlier in 2011.
Aveo's second lead clinical candidate is ficlatuzumab (formerly AV-299), the most advanced antibody discovered using the firm's Human Response Platform. Ficlatuzumab is a hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) inhibitor designed to block the HGF/c-Met pathway. Earlier this month the firm reported preliminary data from an exploratory Phase II study comparing gefitinib monotherapy with gefitinib plus ficlatuzumab in previously untreated Asian patients with non-small cell lung cancer. This population has a high prevalence of EGFR sensitizing mutations (SM+).
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Dirk Hoag at On the Forecheck released his fifth annual "Super Schedule" in which he tracks the mileage of each team's schedule and the Rangers will be traveling the second fewest this year by logging just 12,048 miles. The Minnesota Wild will traverse North America the most with 31,345 miles, while the Devils will log the fewest with just 11,659.
Hoag also notes that the Rangers will have the fewest back-to-backs this season with just six. The Red Wings and Blackhawks are tied for the most with 12.
…because of the entirely in-conference schedule, there's nothing the NHL could do close the gap between the least and most traveled teams to make it more fair. Can't change where teams play. However, if I'm the Red Wings and Blackhawks, I'm irate that my team has double the amount of back-to-backs as the Rangers. Got to figure arena availability had a lot to do with this discrepancy.
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Clean air advocates filed a lawsuit Wednesday over pollution from Xcel Energy's Sherco plant in Becker, Minnesota's largest power plant.
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The Amarillo Sox suffered their seventh loss in nine games Sunday, a 3-1 defeat at the hands of the Lincoln Saltdogs at Haymarket Park in Lincoln, Neb.
The Sox (29-31) remained in second place in the American Association South Division Standings, a game ahead of Shreveport Bossier (28-32), which dropped its fourth consecutive contest.
Grand Prairie (40-19) leads the division. Amarillo is 111/2 games out of the lead.
Sox starter Matt Elliott (6-3) gave up all three runs to Lincoln (28-32) off six hits and four walks.
Lincoln pitchers Jino Gonzalez, winner Nick Schreiber (6-0), Santo Luis and P.J. Zocchi stifled Amarillo's potent lineup, holding the Sox to three hits, all singles.
Fehlandt Lentini, Cyle Hankerd and Alex Chavez each had a hit apiece for Amarillo. Chavez drove in designated hitter Tim Alberts, who drew a walk, in the fifth.
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