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PharmaPoint: Dry Eye Syndrome - Spain Drug Forecast and Market Analysis to 2022
GlobalData has released its new Country report, "PharmaPoint: Dry Eye Syndrome - Spain Drug Forecast and Market Analysis to 2022". Dry eye syndrome (DES), or keratoconjunctivitis sicca, is a multifactorial disease of the eye caused by dryness, decreased tear production, or increased tear film evaporation. DES, which is often referred to simply as dry eye, is the most prevalent form of ocular discomfort and irritation. The most common symptoms of DES are ocular irritation and discomfort, foreign body sensation, fatigue, and visual disturbances, which interfere with daily activities. In the elderly population, it is the most common reason for seeking eye care, and this is expected to increase exponentially with an aging demographic.
The DES market in Spain is projected to grow substantially during the forecast period. During the forecast period, the primary growth drivers of the DES market in Spain will be the launch of the EU's first prescription product for DES, as well as a rapidly increasing population of DES patients.
- Overview of the DES including epidemiology, etiology, symptoms, diagnosis, pathology and treatment guidelines as well as an overview on the competitive landscape.
- Detailed information on the key drugs in Spain including product description, safety and efficacy profiles as well as a SWOT analysis.
- Sales forecast for the top drugs in Spain from 2012-2022.
- Analysis of the impact of key events as well the drivers and restraints affecting Spain DES market.
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- Obtain sales forecast for drugs from 2012-2022 in Spain. SHOW LESS READ MORE >
1.1 List of Tables
1.2 List of Figures
2 Introduction
2.1 Catalyst
2.2 Related Reports
3 Disease Overview
3.1 Etiology and Pathophysiology
3.1.1 Etiology
3.1.2 Pathophysiology
3.1.3 Classification
3.1.4 Prognosis
3.1.5 Quality of Life
3.2 Symptoms
4 Disease Management
4.1 Overview
4.1.1 Diagnosis Overview
4.1.2 Treatment Guidelines
4.1.3 Treatment Overview
4.2 Spain
4.2.1 Diagnosis
4.2.2 Clinical Practice
5 Competitive Assessment
5.1 Overview
5.2 Strategic Competitor Assessment
5.3 Product Profiles – Major Brands
5.3.1 Restasis (cyclosporine 0.05% ophthalmic emulsion)
5.3.2 Additional Therapies
6 Opportunity and Unmet Need
6.1 Overview
6.2 Diagnostic tests are not specific enough to identify subgroups of patients
6.3 Frequent dosing and side effects limit compliance
6.4 Lack of physician and patient awareness
6.5 Trial design may be a factor in so few drugs being approved
6.6 Unmet Needs Gap Analysis
6.7 Comprehensive method for measuring dry eye signs and severity levels
6.8 Increase treatment rates among milder forms of the disease
7 Pipeline Assessment
7.1 Overview
7.2 Promising drugs in clinical development
7.2.1 Lifitegrast
7.2.3 Cyclokat
8 Market Outlook
8.1 Spain
8.1.1 Forecast
8.1.2 Key Events
8.1.3 Drivers and Barriers
9 Appendix
9.1 Bibliography
9.2 Abbreviations
9.3 Methodology
9.4 Forecasting Methodology
9.4.1 Diagnosed DES patients
9.4.2 Percent Drug-treated Patients
9.4.3 Drugs Included in Each Therapeutic Class
9.4.4 Launch and Patent Expiry Dates
9.4.5 General Pricing Assumptions
9.4.6 Individual Drug Assumptions
9.4.7 Generic Erosion
9.5 Physicians and Specialists Included in this Study
9.6 About the Authors
9.6.1 Author
9.6.2 Global Head of Healthcare
9.7 About Us
9.8 Contact Us
9.9 Disclaimer
1.1 List of Tables
Table 1: Symptoms of Dry Eye Syndrome
Table 2: Treatment Guidelines for Dry Eye Syndrome
Table 3: Commonly Prescribed Drugs for Dry Eye Syndrome by Class in the Global Markets, 2012
Table 4: Leading Treatments for Dry Eye Syndrome, 2012
Table 5: Product Profile – Restasis
Table 6: Restasis SWOT Analysis, 2012
Table 7: Summary of Minor Drug Classes, 2012
Table 8: Overall Unmet Needs – Current Level of Attainment
Table 9: Clinical Unmet Needs – Gap Analysis, 2012
Table 10: Dry Eye Syndrome – Phase Pipeline, 2012
Table 11: Comparison of Therapeutic Classes in Development for Dry Eye Syndrome, 2012
Table 12: Product Profile – Lifitegrast
Table 13: Lifitegrast SWOT Analysis, 2012
Table 14: Product Profile – CF101
Table 15: CF101 SWOT Analysis, 2012
Table 16: Product Profile – Cyclokat
Table 17: Cyclokat SWOT Analysis, 2012
Table 18: Sales Forecasts ($m) for Dry Eye Syndrome in Spain, 2012–2022
Table 19: Key Events Impacting Sales for Dry Eye Syndrome in Spain, 2012–2022
Table 20: Spain, Dry Eye Syndrome Market – Drivers and Barriers, 2012–2022
Table 21: Key Launch Dates
Table 22: Key Patent Expiries
1.2 List of Figures
Figure 1: Dry Eye Syndrome – Disease Etiology
Figure 2: Tear Film in Normal Eye and Dry Eye
Figure 3: Sequence of Diagnostic Tests Used to Diagnose Dry Eye Syndrome
Figure 4: Delphi Panel Treatment Recommendations for Dysfunctional Tear Syndrome Without Lid Margin Disease, 2006
Figure 5: Delphi Panel Treatment Recommendations for Dysfunctional Tear Syndrome With Lid Margin Disease and Abnormal Tear Distribution, 2006
Figure 6: Treatment Recommendations for Dry Eye Syndrome from the Management and Therapy Subcommittee, Dry Eye Workshop, 2007
Figure 7: American Academy of Ophthalmology Preferred Practice Pattern for Dry Eye, 2011
Figure 8: Competitive Assessment of Late-Stage Pipeline Agents in Dry Eye Syndrome, 2012–2022
Figure 9: Sales for Dry Eye Syndrome in Spain by Drug Class, 2012–2022

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Information for Bachelor's Degree Recipients
Commencement Weekend Schedule
Print Schedule of Events
Friday, May 15, 2009
Baccalaureate Mass [no tickets needed]
5:00 pm
The Cathedral of St. Paul, 38 High Street (at the corner of High Street and Chatham Street) downtown Worcester.
The Cathedral is handicapped accessible. Parking is at a premium, although there are parking lots and garages in the vicinity. Please allow yourself ample time to find parking.
This religious celebration is open to all seniors, their families and their guests. There is no limit to the number of people who may attend.
Dinner on Your Own
A list of hotels and restaurants in the Worcester area are available online at: http://www.socialweb.net/Clients/Worcester/restaurants.lasso
Soirée [tickets needed]
8:00 pm - Midnight [doors open at 8:00 pm; entertainment at 9:00 pm]
Plourde Recreation Center Gym, Assumption College
The Baccalaureate
Soirée will feature a live performance by Stardust, known throughout the United States as Boston's "Super Band." Their set will span music from the 1940's to modern day.
A variety of desserts and coffee will be served and a cash beer and wine bar will be available.
This is a ticketed event. Tickets are available for purchase by students, family and friends. The cost is $25 per person. Click here for the order form.
There is no limit on the number of tickets that can be purchased.
Questions about the Baccalaureate Mass and/or Baccalaureate Soirée? Contact Lili Zannotti, office of student activities at 508-767-7403.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Commencement Exercises [no tickets needed]
There is no limit to the number of people who may attend Commencement Exercises.
Special note: Commencement exercises at WPI (also located along on Salisbury Street) are scheduled for the same day. To lessen traffic delays, please plan to arrive by 8:30 a.m.
Dessert Reception [no tickets needed]
Immediately following Commencement Exercises
Plourde Recreation Center
A reception for graduates, families and friends
For more information, please contact Linda Rosenlund, director of special events at 508-767-7026 or email@example.com.
Academic Regalia (cap and gown)
If you are a candidate for graduation, and have been financially and academically cleared to graduate, you may pick up your cap and gown at the Assumption College Bookstore the week prior to commencement. If you have questions regarding your academic regalia, please contact the Assumption College Bookstore at 508-767-7249.
For your convenience, please download this form.
Announcements / Invitations
The announcements are not tickets, but a formal written announcement of your impending graduation that you can share with family and friends. Each student from the Class of 2008 will receive five (5) official Assumption College Commencement Announcements. They will be delivered via student mailboxes in mid-April.
Tickets are not needed for Commencement Exercises.
Commencement Photography
Assumption College has contracted with Commencement Photos, Inc., to take close-up photos of each individual student as you receive your diploma. There will be two different photography shots taken of each student during the ceremony; one as they receive their diploma (action shot) and one as they exit the stage with diploma in hand (posed shot).
Parents, family, and friends will be allowed to take pictures only from designated spots along the sides of the tent. See tent diagram below.
Commencement Photos, Inc., will contact each student at his/her home address regarding the ordering and purchasing of the photos.
Questions? Contact Commencement Photos directly at 978-851-5924 or e-mail email@example.com.
Commencement Video
Assumption College has contracted Collins Video Services of Fitchburg to videotape the Commencement Exercises. The company will contact each student at his/her home address regarding placing an order for the video. It will also be possible to order a copy of the video on the day of Commencement.
Questions? Contact Arthur Collins at 978-697-3527.
Print the Video Order Form Here >>
Moving Out of Residence Halls
Students are expected to move out of their campus housing by 6:00 pm on the evening of Commencement Day, May 16, 2009. All trash must be removed, and all carpeting, floors, appliances, and fixtures should be cleaned to the best of your ability. On Commencement Day students need to return room/apartment keys to their Resident Director (RD) from Noon until 3:00 pm, and required to fill out an "Exit Inventory Waiver." If you have any additional questions, please contact Residential Life at ext. 7505.
Diagram of Tent
Frequently Asked Questions
These pages will help answer some of the more frequently asked questions.
Other Useful Information
Throughout the year, Seniors will receive the most up-to-date, detailed information about Commencement via class mailings and e-mail messages. In early Fall all parents should have received a general postcard informing them of the date of Commencement and directing them to this website.
In late March, parents of all graduating seniors will receive a Commencement mailing. This mailing will include the following information:
General Commencement Brochure (Coming Soon)
Bookstore information and order forms for Assumption College products and gifts
Video Order form to place an order for a video copy of the Commencement Exercises (PDF) (Coming Soon)
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While it's not being said that Clint Eastwood made President Obama's day, the chief executive does own up to being "a huge fan" of the actor-filmmaker – who last week delivered a long and much-discussed prime-time presentation on stage at the Republican National Convention that was critical of the current administration.
"He is a great actor, and an even better director," the President told USA Today in an interview aboard Air Force One. "I think the last few movies that he's made have been terrific."
The newspaper then asked point blank if Obama took offense at what Eastwood did – speaking to an empty chair that was meant to represent Obama's sitting there and responding to the screen legend's pointed questions.
"One thing about being president or running for president," replied Obama, "if you're easily offended, you should probably choose another profession."
Soon after Eastwood's televised appearance at the RNC in Tampa, Obama's campaign staff took to its Twitter account to fire back at Eastwood and his empty chair symbol. The message, accompanied by a photo of the presidential chair with Obama sitting in it: "This seat's taken."
The Democratic National Convention kicks off this week in Charlotte, N.C.
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As his one and only season at Rutgers draws to a close, punter Nick Marsh says he got everything out of the unique opportunity that he was looking for – and would recommend other players who have the option of being fifth-year graduate transfers to do the same.
Marsh was at Utah from 2009-2012, redshirting as a freshman. He took advantage of an NCAA rule that allows a player with a year of eligibility remaining who has graduated to play immediately at another school as a graduate student for one year.
Cornerback Lew Toler did the same for Rutgers this year, suffering a season-ending broken arm on Oct. 10 at Louisville.
"I got to play and I got to be on the field a lot more than I was prior to this, and that's what I wanted," said Marsh. "I wanted to show that I could do things that people prior to me coming here didn't think I could do.
"I didn't have the amazing season I expected , but I feel like I helped the team and I feel like I helped them improve (in punting and on kickoffs) from the year before."
Marsh punted just 23 times his final three seasons, kicking off 38 times during that span for the Utes.
At Rutgers – which was desperate for a punter – he has averaged 40.6 yards for 59 punts and has 12 touchbacks from 54 kickoffs.
"At the end of the day it was definitely the right decision and I would say to anyone who is thinking about doing what I did to go for it because playing is fantastic," Marsh said. "I could have easily stopped (kicking). I'm happy I didn't. Hopefully, I've given myself a chance to play at the next level."
Rutgers coach Kyle Flood offered an optimistic update on running back Paul James (left leg injury) and center Betim Bujari (ankle). James, the team's leading rusher, sat out the second half of last week's UConn game. Bujari has missed three straight games because of his injury.
"He looked good today," Flood said of James. "I wouldn't say he's quite ready to go. I think if we played today he would not play. But he was able to do some things, he's able to run some plays. He's not full speed just yet but it's just Wednesday so I feel good that he's working his way toward playing in the game."
Flood said Bujari is "a lot closer to being 100 percent than he was last week."
"He's taking some reps at guard and taken some reps at center and he'll be able to do both for us Saturday night," Flood said.


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And you should head over to Comedy Central's Indecision Forever blog for a complete video history of the Stewart/O'Reilly debate on Common.


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Bend firefighters were called out to a large pile of smoldering yard debris in Deschutes River Woods south of town Monday morning and said it's likely to put up a lot of smoke for days, until it's fully out.
Firefighters responded just after 6 a.m. to the reported fire in a cinder pit at the south end of Cinder Butte Road, said Deputy Fire Marshal Dan Derlacki. Crews found the fire putting out plenty of smoke from a pile of about 2,000 cubic yards of yard debris.
Firefighters helped workers on the site operated by High Desert Mulching contain the fire to the pile to ensure it can't escape, Derlacki said, adding that the cause of the fire was undetermined and "there are no immediate threats to homes or property" from it.
"The workers at this site called 911 as soon as they noticed the fire," Derlacki wrote in a news release. "This allowed crews plenty of time to arrive and ensure the fire was not going to spread from the pile to the nearby open forest land."
"We are in extreme fire danger right now," he noted, "and even the smallest fire can grow out of control very fast. If you see a fire, call 911 as soon as possible."
Derlacki said the workers likely will spend several days making sure the fire is completely out, and he warned it "will produce a great deal of smoke" in the meantime, likely visible from Highway 97, as well as by residents of Deschutes River Woods and Bend.
The Oregon Department of Forestry and U.S. Forest Service also were notified, and crews will be checking regularly on the process of extinguishing the blaze, the fire official said.
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Orlando Sentinel "The Orlando Magic spent significant portions of their scrimmage time on Thursday and Friday experimenting by playing big men Bismack Biyombo and Nikola Vucevic simultaneously on the same team. The combination is an intriguing one. Biyombo and Vucevic could complement each other. On..." October 01
Orlando Sentinel "The biggest acquisition of the Orlando Magic's 2016 offseason indicated on Monday that he has no plans to go elsewhere when he becomes an unrestricted free agent in 2017. "I'm looking to stay here to play forever — for [as] many, many years as possible," Serge Ibaka said during the Magic's..." September 30
USA Today "In an ongoing effort to make NBA replay reviews more efficient and less time-consuming, more in-game reviews are expected to be made this season by the league's staff at the high-tech replay center in Secaucus, N.J. Last season, 72% of reviews were determined by the replay center, and during..." September 29
USA Today "As NBA teams hold their annual media days before training camps tip off, players and coaches across the league are speaking out in the wake of the national anthem protests that have swept the sports world in recent weeks. Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry: "I respect everybody's..." September 27
New York Post "As NBA training camps open Tuesday, one of the league's most important players has already been placed on disability. Drexel Hamilton analyst Tony Wible downgraded Disney stock on Monday in response to "a massive increase in NBA costs" for ESPN. Disney's deal to televise NBA games, with its..." September 27
Orlando Sentinel "The biggest acquisition of the Orlando Magic's 2016 offseason indicated on Monday that he has no plans to go elsewhere when he becomes an unrestricted free agent in 2017. "I'm looking to stay here to play forever — for [as] many, many years as possible," Serge Ibaka said during the Magic's..." September 27
Orlando Sentinel "The Orlando Magic and their general manager, Rob Hennigan, face a critical season. The franchise has not posted a winning record or reached the playoffs since it traded Dwight Howard four years ago. The team also has endured significant turnover with its head coaches. Jacque Vaughn was fired..." September 24
Pro Basketball Talk "The NBA and union are discussing how to handle expected national-anthem protests, a movement started by 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the Star Spangled Banner in objection to police brutality against blacks. Unlike the NFL, the NBA has an explicit rule for the anthem:..." September 22
Complex "At the 2016 ESPY Awards, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade, and LeBron James took the stage at the start of the show to call for change in their respective communities in light of the police brutality and violence that has plagued many different parts of the country. "We all feel..." September 22
ESPN "The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association have worked together over the past several days to create a plan for handling potential protests by players during the national anthem, sources told ESPN.com. NBA commissioner Adam Silver and union executive director Michele Roberts on..." September 22
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Orlando Sentinel "The Orlando Magic's Jodie Meeks appears to be progressing in his recovery from a mid-July surgery to stabilize the fifth metatarsal in his right foot. Meeks probably will be available to play at some point in November, a team official told the Orlando Sentinel. Meeks' exact return date will..." September 20
Sporting News "Someone finally thought to ask the obvious question about Colin Kaepernick and other football players using the games as protest platforms: why only football? Isn't there another major American sport going on right now where players can follow his lead? The Orioles' Adam Jones answered it,..." September 13
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Today's Fastbreak "ESPN sports business reporter Darren Rovell tweeted on Thursday that the NBA's revenue for next season is projected to hit the $8 billion mark. The league reportedly earned $5.2 billion during the 2014-2015 season, which was a record at that time. In February, Forbes estimated that the New York..." September 08
Pro Basketball Talk "Two seasons ago, Ben Gordon was coming off the bench for the Orlando Magic in his 11th NBA season, but his skills had been in decline, and the team didn't pick up the option on the second year of his deal. Last season he got an invite to the Golden State Warriors camp, but he was the first guy cut..." September 08
Real GM Basketball "Shaquille O'Neal will enter the Hall of Fame this week as one of the most dominant big men in basketball history. "I only played 30 percent of my real game," O'Neal told The Vertical. "I had a great career, but I didn't get a chance to showcase what I can really do. That's because the double-..." September 07
Pro Basketball Talk "One of the most surprising developments of the summer came when Evan Fournier, coming off an excellent year with the Magic, was left off the French national team that went to Rio to compete in the Olympics. Fournier himself doesn't have a good answer for why he wasn't included, according to an..." August 30
Larry Brown Sports "The prevailing narrative surrounding Serge Ibaka this summer seems to be one of a disgruntled big man who was bothered by a marginalized role and wanted out of Oklahoma City, either via trade or via free agency next summer. But Ibaka insists that this wasn't the case. In a feature for Sports..." August 30
TMZ "The O'Neal reign in the NBA ain't even close to being over -- with Shaq telling TMZ Sports BOTH of his sons are bound for the league. You've heard about 16-year-old Shareef O'Neal for a while ... he's one of the top high school players in the country. But Shaq says his other son -- 13-year-old..." August 30
Complex "Keith Appling, who spent time with the Orlando Magic during the 2015-16 NBA season, has been arrested yet again on gun charges in Michigan. The former Michigan State guard has now been arrested three times in 2016 for illegally possessing firearms. According to The Detroit News, Appling was..." August 29
Larry Brown Sports "Ah, the great debate in every sport. If given the choice between a Hall of Fame career and a pile of championships, which would you want your legacy to be? Brandon Jennings's answer? The rings. That's why he'd rather have Robert Horry's resume than Reggie Miller's." August 29
Pro Basketball Talk "The release of NBA 2K17, the latest edition of the popular 2K video-game series, is less than a month away. Players are starting to get their likenesses in the game, as well as their player ratings, and tweet them out. Magic forward Evan Fournier wasn't too happy with the way his came out." August 27
USA Today "They weren't the Dream Team, or even the Redeem Team – not even close. But by the time Team USA's 96-66 win against Serbia was complete on Sunday and the mission for the third consecutive gold medal was complete, only one thing mattered more than all the comparisons that always inevitably come:..." August 21
Real GM Basketball "The NBA has decided to hold the 2017 All-Star Game in New Orleans. An official announcement is expected by the end of Friday. The All-Star Game was previously scheduled to take place in Charlotte but the NBA decided to relocate it due to a state law in North Carolina that limits..." August 19
Uproxx "The U.S. men's Olympic basketball team isn't exactly dominating in Rio de Janiero so far. Sure, it finished the group stage 5-0, but the team had some close calls, including three-point wins over France and Serbia. With the knockout round set to start on Wednesday, the Americans have some..." August 17
SB Nation "When Jerry Colangelo took over USA Basketball in 2005, he had both immediate and long-term goals. He wanted to wash the taste of bronze out of America's mouth and he wanted to build a sustainable program. On most accounts, he has succeeded. While the United States slipped in the 2006 FIBA World..." August 16
The Score "The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) is pushing for the inclusion of three-on-three basketball in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, FIBA secretary-general Patrick Baumann told USA Today's Jeff Zillgitt on Thursday. The request is under consideration by the International Olympic..." August 11
The Comeback "New NBA commissioner Adam Silver has been outspoken in his support for legalized gambling across the United States, and that fight has received an unlikely ally – Silver's predecessor, David Stern. At the Global Gaming Expo, held in Las Vegas near the end of September, Stern will be a featured..." August 11
The Score "The Orlando Magic will don some unique threads during the 2016-17 NBA season after unveiling their new "Stars" alternate uniforms Tuesday morning. The jerseys, which will only be worn for select games, feature the Magic logo squarely in the middle, the player's number on the right shoulder, and..." August 09
Bloomberg "I'm going to abuse my privilege here to lodge a complaint, which is that basketball is a great flow sport, but NBA games stop too much. If it were me, I'd try to take most of the timeouts away from coaches. I know you have to have them for commercials and for rest, but if they were just programmed..." August 06
EuroHoops.net "Free agent Croatian forward Damjan Rudez has a deal for a next season contract with the Orlando Magic. According to Eurohoops sources the two sides agreed to terms and the official announcement is expected soon." August 04
The Score "Last season marked the first year Ben Gordon wasn't playing in the NBA since being drafted in 2004. He's set to suit up for Great Britain to help it qualify for Eurobasket 2017, and hopes the exposure will get him back in the big leagues. "I would definitely love to get back in the league after..." August 03
Yahoo! Sports "This July, Kevin Durant decided to join the Golden State Warriors. (Y'know, in case you missed it.) That was one of many, many transactions during a month in which NBA teams flush with cash thanks to a salary cap sent skyrocketing by the league's $24 billion broadcast rights deal spent to such a..." August 02
Larry Brown Sports "The Toronto Raptors must want revenge on the Orlando Magic for stealing Bismack Biyombo away this offseason. According to a report by Doug Smith of the Toronto Star, the Raptors are planning to pursue three-time All-Defensive First Team big man Serge Ibaka next summer with a run at Ibaka said..." August 02
USA Today "Jalen Rose stopped by the Summer of Jeep event in Chicago along with 25 students from the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy. The school began in 2011, and has now graduated 170 students, all who were accepted into college, trade school or the military. He brought the group to Chicago to see Team USA..." August 01
The Score "Aaron Gordon was a starter for the Orlando Magic for much of the latter half of the 2015-16 campaign. However, with the arrival of Serge Ibaka from the Oklahoma City Thunder this offseason, the power forward position is no longer his to have. That doesn't mean he's going to be demoted to the..." July 27
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Real GM Basketball "Victor Oladipo was traded by the Orlando Magic to the Oklahoma City Thunder this offseason just as he became eligible for an extension from his rookie deal." July 26
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CBS Sports "Wilcox (hand) will be traded to the Magic in exchange for Devyn Marble and a 2020 second-round pick, Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel reports. The Magic will also receive a sum of cash in the deal. Since entering the league as the 28th selection in the 2014 draft, Wilcox has been quiet,..." July 15
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Orlando Pinstriped Post "Devyn Marble's time with the Orlando Magic is coming to an end. With a Friday deadline to guarantee his contract for the 2016/17 season, the Magic are expected to waive the third-year swing man, according to the Orlando Sentinel's Josh Robbins. Marble, 23, appeared in 44 games for the Magic,..." July 14
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NBC's newest star Martha Stewart appeared on the network's Today show Thursday morning for her first TV appearance since her release from prison and subsequent house arrest.
But the domestic diva's initial late-night talk show will not be with NBC Tonight star Jay Leno: It will be with his contentious CBS rival, David Letterman.
Stewart's due to trade quips with Dave on Monday, Sept. 19 – two days before the debut of The Apprentice: Martha Stewart and a week after her daily syndicated lifestyle show Martha makes its bow.
The trade paper Hollywood Reporter calls the CBS booking "a surprise," given that Stewart is ostensibly plugging her new role as the host of a new version of NBC's The Apprentice and that Martha is being distributed by NBC Universal's syndication.
None of the involved parties had comment on the planned appearances, though the Reporter notes that Martha has been something of a Late Show with David Letterman fixture, having made some 23 appearances there in various interviews, comedy pieces and demonstrations since the show's 1993 premiere.
Her last appearance on Late Show was on May 17, 2002.
On Today, host Matt Lauer compared Stewart to a phoenix rising. "And I didn't burn," she interjected. Asked what it was like to lose her ankle electronic monitoring device, she said that it came off shortly after midnight, so that rather than "celebrate," she was "really tired and just ready to go to sleep."
Meanwhile, in other Apprentice news, Bill Rancic, the April 2004 first season winner, has announced he will cease working for the mogul once his contract expires next March.
"That will probably be it for me," Rancic, a former Internet entrepreneur who helped oversee a new Chicago skyscraper for Trump, said late Wednesday during a global leadership forum in Malaysia. "I'm going to go out and start another business of my own. That's in my blood."
Martha Snubs Leno for Letterman
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MANSFIELD - Sew and So, a new alteration shop that also offers sewing classes and more, opened here last month.
Proprietor Cyndi Compton said she always has enjoyed sewing and after her job at the university was phased out due to lack of funding, she decided to take the plunge and do something she has always wanted to do - open her own business.
She says her grandmother taught her to sew, and she loved making clothes for her sisters.
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Cyndi Compton, owner of Sew and So alterations, Mansfield works on an alteration at her sewing machine at her shop on East Wellsboro Street, Mansfield.
"One time we choreographed a little dance routine to the theme from 'SWAT' and I made all the costumes," she said. "I was about 11."
The motto of her shop is "where creativity begins," something she expresses in her custom clothing, repurposed clothing and costume services.
Compton also will replace zippers in pants and skirts, shirts, sweaters and both adults and children's jackets and coats, put in or take out pockets, taper legs on pants, shorten pants with linings or hem pants.
Fact Box
Sew and So
1 E. Wellsboro St.,
Tuesday to Saturday - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Also by appt.
Other services include repairing belt loops on pants, taking in at the waist with a single or double seam, replacing elastic, repairing rips in seams, adding patches and shortening sleeves on jackets with buttons.
She also alters prom or bridesmaids dresses by taking in seams and hemming.
Sew and So also offers crafts, fabrics and notions.
Her retail side includes vintage and new fabrics, Coats and Clark threads, notions, yarn, handmade lapghans, dresses, leggings and earrings.
Prom gowns have recently been added to her offerings.
She says business is great since she opened March 8, and her mother Carol helps her out in exchange for "coffee and cookies."
The shop, at 1 E. Wellsboro St., is open Tuesday through Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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This may open a whole new career for Larry King: dipping instead of dishing. The suspendered CNN interviewer, 74, gets a lesson in how to dance from Janet Jackson, 41, on his show Thursday night. She shakes; he quakes. (For a glimpse of their fancy footwork, click here.)
"Okay Janet, show me a trick," says King as he readies for his lesson."I don't know what I am doing," he adds as Ms. Jackson giggles and patiently shows him a few moves while her new music video is screened behind them.
"What is this called?" he asks about one rigorous step. "The Dance of the Video," she says. He also wonders if this is how Gene Kelly got started. You be the judge.
Janet Jackson Teaches Larry King Dance Moves
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November 14, 2012, 10:11 AM
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November 14, 2012, 10:12 AM
PSA is currently one of the best values you can get in an AR.
November 14, 2012, 10:13 AM
However, that one looks used. I would look to see what they are selling for from PSA directly, is the guy trying to break even on something he bought and now wants to unload?
November 14, 2012, 10:16 AM
I agree on the quality for the dollar. I paid $750 for mine new. If this is a new gun then that price is reasonable all things considered.
November 14, 2012, 10:47 AM
Read the listing carefully. It's not a Palmetto State Armory lower, but rather a "Palmetto State Armory Premium Classic Lower Build Kit" and a "Surplus Ammo and Arms Stripped Lower Receiver"... which run about $70. The upper is a complete Palmetto State Armory assembly.
November 14, 2012, 10:51 AM
So between the two?
November 14, 2012, 10:59 AM
That listing makes no sense. Is a Bushmaster or a Windham Weaponry? If it's a current Bushmaster... pass. If it's a WW, it looks like a "MPC" with the handle removed. I got no idea what a "WW-15" is, unless it's an earlier model.
There are Walmarts selling brand new WW rifles for $800 (or rather were, last week)... so that deal is no deal either.
November 14, 2012, 11:00 AM
You can never go wrong with PSA. Go for it.
November 14, 2012, 11:46 AM
I love my PSA 20" upper!
November 14, 2012, 11:51 AM
From what I have found the WW-15 is a model number. Every model has that.
I sent the link to Matt @ WW and from he could see, he verified that is was in fact a complete WW AR15.
Now finding out the exact model, I need the serial number and from there I can find out the age. But Matt said that rifle is just a year old, if not new but he needed the SN for sure.
November 14, 2012, 12:02 PM
The PSA rifle is about $100 to much. Would not pay that much for an untested WW rifle. Wait till next friday and check the PSA site.
November 14, 2012, 02:19 PM
PSA carbine
November 14, 2012, 02:22 PM
Oh yeah. If the new ones are coming from PSA for $719, I wouldn't expect to sell a used one (REGARDLESS OF CONDITION) for more than $550-600. They guy is stuck with it, trying to break even. You don't break even when you sell used guns.
November 14, 2012, 03:00 PM
719... I would just buy the new one from psa directly
November 14, 2012, 03:16 PM
Oh yeah. If the new ones are coming from PSA for $719, I wouldn't expect to sell a used one (REGARDLESS OF CONDITION) for more than $550-600. They guy is stuck with it, trying to break even. You don't break even when you sell used guns.
not to mention that the buyer would have to assemble the one the seller in the OP is selling. Depending on how well stocked a person is, they may have to spend a few dollars on tools as well.
November 14, 2012, 03:18 PM
Depends on what your purpose of use is for this rifle. If it's just to plink and range toy it'll be ok. If you want to use it for competition or will put some serious rounds down range then spend a a little more and get something that will be more suitable. IMO.
November 14, 2012, 05:20 PM
Just buy straight from PSA, then you'll have more confidence in the purchase and save money. For the same price that guy wants you could get this little package (http://palmettostatearmory.com/index.php/firearms/rifles/palmetto-state-armory/psa-pa-15-qms-tac-pack.html)direct.
November 14, 2012, 05:44 PM
If my recent experience is any indicator, you might wait over a month for PSA to ship it to you, but even so I don't think it is worth paying $100 extra just to have something immediately.
That isn't the PSA model I'd want anyway... carbine length gas isn't the best on a 16" barrel. Mid-length gas would be greatly preferred. THe M-4 profile barrel is really pointless too, and just has extra weight on the muzzle end. Light or pencil profile would be preferred.
November 14, 2012, 06:53 PM
Does the real m4 have a carbine length gas system?
November 14, 2012, 07:17 PM
Does the real m4 have a carbine length gas system?
November 14, 2012, 07:28 PM
That looks like a kit the seller put together for cheap. Surplus arms lower= 70$, PSA lower parts kit= 40$ on sale, PSA M4 Upper=309$, Cheap stock and buffer tube kit=50$. Plus or minus around 30$.
November 14, 2012, 08:06 PM
Ok, I'll start a new thread, thanks for the inspiration! :)
November 14, 2012, 11:19 PM
The BCG in that PSA link is $145 from them right now. I know cause I just ordered one a few weeks back. :D PSA is awesome, btw.
November 15, 2012, 12:23 AM
Does the real m4 have a carbine length gas system?
The real M4 also has a 14.5" barrel
November 15, 2012, 12:58 AM
PJ, thats a decent deal especially if you consider you won't have to wait for PSA's long wait times.
If you are buying in person I'd ask for $700 and see if the seller bites. Otherwise, $740 OTD is a decent buy IMO.
November 15, 2012, 12:02 PM
LOVE my PSA. I bought all my parts through various sales they had and assembled it myself. Over 1000 rounds through it without a malfunction!
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How About Never – Is Never Good for You?:
My Life in Cartoons
By Bob Mankoff
Henry Holt
285 pages, $32.50
By Jeff Simon
Now we know. In this book is the definitive answer to one of the world's great origin mysteries – almost up there with the implicit question in Jonathan Swift's immortal speculation "He was a bold man who first ate an oyster."
We'll never know who that first man (it might have been a woman, of course) was who first ate an oyster but we know from this book the answer to a question almost as remarkable for our species: the name of the first magazine editor ever to realize the cartoons of Roz Chast were funny.
His name is Lee Lorenz. He is a cartoonist himself and he preceded Bob Mankoff as the longtime cartoon editor of The New Yorker, which, on a weekly basis, is the zenith of the cartoonist's rare and glorious and seemingly endangered art.
Chast is one of many cartoonists whom the obviously collegial and generous self-styled "cartoonologist" Mankoff got to contribute to his memoir of life as a cartoonist and editor and inventor of the Cartoon Bank where you'll find every New Yorker cartoon since the magazine's founding as well as a huge online data bank of cartoons by great cartoonists that were never published.
The utterly extraordinary Chast created a magnificently strange and neurotic melding of Saul Steinberg, Paul Klee and your 8-year-old daughter which seemed to usher in a Brave New World of cartoon conceptualism. She is very much in season at the moment. In May, Bloomsbury will publish something very different than we're used to from her – a graphic memoir of her parents' final years called "Can't We Talk About Something Pleasant?"
Here, though, in Mankoff's book is the day in April 1978 when Chast – who "didn't think anyone would like" her cartoons "because they were very personal and peculiar" – somehow won the understanding of Lee Lorenz, cartoonist and obviously something of an editorial genius. His title then was "art editor." Without knowing who, if anyone, would like them Chast dropped off a packet of 50 or 60 cartoons at the New Yorker thinking nothing could possibly come of it. When she came back the next week, "there was a note inside (the returned packet) I couldn't read." Decoded by a staffer, it said "Please see me, Lee.… He told me they were buying a cartoon. I was pretty flabbergasted. It was, in many ways, the most peculiar and personal of the lot: 'Little Things.' "
To look at that cartoon and understand what a quantum leap it seems in American humor – even New Yorker cartoon humor – is, I think, to understand that Lorenz's audacity, in its way, far exceeded Chast's own. To a cartoon staff that already included George Booth, George Price, James Stevenson, Sam Gross, William Hamilton, Ed Koren and the legendary Charles Addams, Lorenz added Chast, Jack Ziegler, Mankoff, Michael Maslin, Mick Stevens, Danny Shanahan, Glen Baxter and Bruce Eric Kaplan.
He was a small miracle of taste in his art.
If Mankoff – his successor and the writer of this completely irresistible and revelatory book about the New Yorker cartoonists' life and art – doesn't seem quite the conductor of radical change in content that Lorenz was, he is brilliant in his own way and, in the creation of the Internet Cartoon Bank, brought an apparently waning art form into the 21st century.
His book is a reader's delight, telling the story of his own life and art (no, he didn't really need to explain to us that Seurat was a pointillist, much less be apologetic about doing so) and of the process of cartoon selection at his magazine, the last outpost of one of the most lovable (and sophisticated) American arts.
To all those whose love of The New Yorker's cartoons is life-long, Mankoff's book tells us most of what we've long wanted to know, including the not-really-secret fact over the years that there was, in the '70s a radical change in conception of what New Yorker cartoonists did. Where they are now suppliers of picture and caption both and have been since Lorenz's time, in the "classic" era of New Yorker cartooning, it was a commonplace that captions were supplied by others (e.g. E.B. White's famous line to Carl Rose's drawing, "I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it."). An old friend and former News reporter, in fact, long ago told me the story of selling a cartoon idea about Muzak to the great Charles Addams – an indication that it was far from the only one even if Addams' macabre sensibility and talent were clearly original, unique and hilarious.
But in that, and in so many things, Mankoff is enormously revealing in very specific ways. This is a practioner's portrait of cartooning as one trade and cartoon-editing as another. In the latter, then, it is a thoroughly essential book in the library shelf of what might be called "New Yorker Studies" – the shelf that began in earnest with Brendan Gill's "Here at the New Yorker," and reached all manner of dramatic and indiscreet plateaus in Renata Adler's "Gone" and Daniel Menaker's recent "My Mistake."
Mankoff is a curious mixture of discretion and brashness, but then you might expect that from a guy both mildly spoiled and misunderstood in early life – a misfit who went to New York City's High School of Art and Music, but then in his senior year got on its basketball team, a guy who, at Syracuse University in the '60s "devoted myself to the aesthetics of my hair" and evaded Vietnam by going to psychology graduate school.
He's mostly an entertaining, instructive and companionable presence. The book's only moment of dubious disingenuousness is his confession of wanting to take Lorenz's job but being saved from stealing it outright by Lorenz's decision to retire. His later defense of the always-assailable Tina Brown in her New Yorker editorship seems both candid and – at least in part – admirable. (Bashing Tina Brown is a bit like thoughtlessly blowtorching Oprah Winfrey.)
His list of cartoon talents brought to The New Yorker isn't as distinguished as Lorenz's. And there are weeks now when the cartoon choices made by him in consort with editor David Remnick seem less than inspired.
Undeniable, though, is that the two of them have not only kept a singular art form alive but prominent and, amazingly, creatively ambitious and growing.
Bob Mankoff, it seems, is a cartoonist down to his chromosomes. It's both this book's greatest virtue and its greatest flaw.
If only we could know what he REALLY thinks about colleagues and forebears. That, no doubt, awaits his own retirement years.
In that case, never would not be at all good for me.
Jeff Simon is The News' Arts and Books Editor.


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Though my husband has ancestors who fought as Confederate soldiers, my ancestor's contribution to The Cause came through his Wichmann Tailor Shop business on the northwest corner of Meeting and Queen streets.
There he made uniforms for the Confederacy, with many tailors working for him in the three-story building opposite the Mills House. Among the many uniforms the soldiers came to be fitted for was one for Robert E. Lee.
The tailor's name was Albert Wichmann. His son, Albert, was an artist. His other son, G. Theodore Wichmann, was a musician who went on to teach generations of Charlestonians violin and other instruments at Charleston High School on Rutledge Avenue. He later became the founder and first conductor of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra.
Albert Wichmann's nephew, my grandfather, came to join the family in 1888 as a teenager, from Germany, asking what war had just come through when he arrived. Two years after the earthquake, Charleston looked war-ravaged, a familiar sight to him coming from Europe to escape being used as cannon fodder.
My grandfather, August Fredrick Wichmann, in his 60s when my father was born, always told my father, Fred Wichmann, who has always told me that the United States Custom House on East Bay and Concord "was built with Confederate blood money." As a child, when riding with my father, we would stop to watch the banana boats send in the bananas by the Custom House. This was evidently a familiar saying among Charlestonians.
Just as the British built a show of strength and power on the eve of the War for American Independence that backfired on them, the Old Exchange Building at the foot of Broad, so too the United States government built a monumental building showing the powerful presence, resources and permanence of the Federal Government. The sight of the out-of-scale U.S. Custom House was a sore reminder of the wasteful spending of their hard-earned dollars, more and more of which was going to taxes, causing a downturn in the economy in the South before The War where the majority of the wealth, cultural life and education had been centered. The saying that "the U.S. Custom House was built with Confederate Blood Money" meant the Southerners worked to pay the taxes with blood, sweat and tears before and after the War.
Despite the Confederate States having been a separate country and government with our own president and Congress for four years, when we went back into the Union, the Union said we owed them for four years of back taxes. It was during this Reconstruction Period that the U.S. Custom House was completed ... with Confederate Blood Money. It also irked Charlestonians that the Federal Government had chosen a Northern architect who had never even been to Charleston, who designed it more on the scale of Washington, D.C.
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Medical Anthropology increases our understanding of health-related beliefs and behaviors of all kinds, from the precise products of science to the silent rituals of culturally scripted healing. Anthropological research on social and cultural processes in the arena of health have both theoretical and practical utility addressing many of the central quandaries of the human condition: from social suffering and institutional inequality to chronic pain, warfare, and everyday violence. The Medical Anthropology PhD program has a three-pronged mission — to conduct original critical research that builds the knowledge base of medical anthropology; to train new generations of medical anthropologists for careers in research and education; and to prepare medical and other health professional students for the complexities of clinical practice and for effective scientific engagement in an increasingly diverse and internationally linked world.
The Medical Anthropology PhD program is the oldest such program in the country. The joint nature of the program provides students access to both a premier medical research university and a premier arts and sciences university (UC Berkeley). The result is a unique immersion in anthropological theory and cutting-edge medicine.
On the UC San Francisco campus, the program has ten faculty from UCSF's Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine. On the UC Berkeley side, the program has eight faculty from the Anthropology Department.
The program has a research emphasis on social inequality, differential access to care, race, violence and the biomedical economy.
career outcomes
Graduates from this program typically enter either academic research and teaching positions or governmental and nongovernmental health organizations. See detailed career outcomes data.
The Medical Anthropology program office at UCSF is located at the Laurel Heights campus. Visit the program website for more information.
The joint Medical Anthropology program is offered by the UCSF Graduate Division and UC Berkeley
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delivered by faculty members in the UCSF School Medicine and the UC Berkeley Anthropology Department


text: Explore Japan Where to go When to go Getting there Getting around Accommodation Food and drink The media Festivals Sports and outdoor activities Culture and etiquette Shopping Travel essentials Share Tokyo's wholesale districts can be fun to poke around. Best known to visitors are the fish and fresh produce market Tsukiji and the "Kitchenware Town" Kappabashi. Other ones to search out include the area around Edo-dōri, north of Asakusabashi Station, which specializes in traditional Japanese dolls. Further north along Edo-dōri, the area called Kuramae is "Toy Town", where shops sell fireworks, fancy goods and decorations, as well as cheap plastic toys. Bakurochō and Yokoyamachō are the textile districts where you'll also find shops selling cheap clothes. Read More


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Guinea pigs enjoy "toys" like cardboard tubes or paper bags that are stuffed with timothy hay.
Q: What kind of toys/ things should I get my guinea pig to play with? I am not able to get another guinea pig, so he is in his cage most of the day and does not have a lot of toys. I need advice on how to minimize his loneliness.
A: In order to prevent your single guinea pig from becoming lonely, offer him an assortment of toys that will provide optimal stimulation. Toys, such as brown paper bags and toilet paper tubes, are great fun for guinea pigs — especially if these items are stuffed with timothy hay.
Guinea pigs also enjoy the occasional brown cardboard box. The least amount of ink on the box is preferred. If you have a child who loves to color, he or she can use nontoxic crayons to create quite a house for the furry tenant from the box.
Pet retailers often offer toys for guinea pigs, and you can also purchase some of the toys made for birds. Guinea pigs are very oral creatures. Possibly this is due to the fact that they cannot see in front of their noses. Anything that comes around that area is fair game for a sniff, lick or gentle nibble. Bird toys are held to a higher standard of manufacturing due to the destructive nature of birds. Stick to the hard plastic toys, and avoid toys made from hide, string or latex to broaden your guinea pig's in-cage experience while you are otherwise occupied. Mirrors, bells and hammocks hung low add great distraction. Beds are also fun to jump in and out of, flip over or otherwise nap in.
Changing out toys and having variety is the key to life for guinea pigs. Just like people, they enjoy changes in some areas and this includes toys.
See more guinea pig Q&As, click here>>See guinea pig health Q&As, click here>>See Shannon Cauthen's author bio, click here>>
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Context Pertussis is often overlooked as a cause of chronic cough, especially in adolescents and adults. Several symptoms are classically thought to be suggestive of pertussis, but the diagnostic value of each of them is uncertain.
Objective To systematically review the evidence regarding the diagnostic value of 3 classically described symptoms of pertussis: paroxysmal cough, posttussive emesis, and inspiratory whoop.
Data Sources, Study Selection, and Data Extraction We searched MEDLINE (January 1966–April 2010), EMBASE (January 1969 to April 2010), and the bibliographies of pertinent articles to identify relevant English-language studies. Articles were selected that included children older than 5 years, adolescents, or adults and confirmed the diagnosis of pertussis among patients with cough illness (of any duration) with an a priori–defined accepted reference standard. Two authors independently extracted data from articles that met selection criteria and resolved any discrepancies by consensus.
Data Synthesis Five prospective studies met inclusion criteria; 3 were used in the analysis. Presence of posttussive emesis (summary likelihood ratio [LR], 1.8; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.4-2.2) or inspiratory whoop (summary LR, 1.9; 95% CI, 1.4-2.6) increases the likelihood of pertussis. Absence of paroxysmal cough (summary LR, 0.52; 95% CI, 0.27-1.0) or posttussive emesis (summary LR, 0.58; 95% CI, 0.44-0.77) reduced the likelihood. Absence of inspiratory whoop was less useful (summary LR, 0.78; 95% CI, 0.66-0.93). No studies evaluated combinations of findings.
Conclusions In a nonoutbreak setting, data to determine the diagnostic usefulness of symptoms classically associated with pertussis are limited and of relatively weak quality. The presence or absence of posttussive emesis or inspiratory whoop modestly change the likelihood of pertussis; therefore, clinicians must use their overall clinical impression to decide about additional testing or empirical treatment.
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Could anyone suggest what an internal temp. and oven temp. should be for a 1 1/2 meatloaf? I keep thinking 1/2 a chub of pork sausage is in it.
A trick I learned from a gyro meatloaf recipe is to puree onions in a food processor and then squeeze out the excess moisture with paper towels. That would probably work with the rest of your veggies if you wanted to go that route. Also, to make the dense gyro texture (if that's what you want--you can shave it thinly and then fry crispy in a pan, mmm) run the meat/onion mixture through the food processor until it's tacky, and then press it into a loaf pan as tightly as you can.
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Ryan James Campbell, 38, from Richmond, and Doug McCarty, 59, also from the Richmond area, were taken into custody on multiple charges, including possession of stolen property.
According to a report by the RPDPS, a traffic officer at approximately 1:29 a.m. on Golf Course Drive West at Labath Avenue attempted to make a traffic stop on a white dually boom truck that was moving with its lights off. The driver, identified as Campbell, slowed his vehicle, yelled to the officer that he had an emergency to go to and headed toward Stony Point Road at 55 mph.
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The California Highway Patrol and Sonoma County Sheriff's soon joined the chase, and speeds on the highway reached 80 mph as the suspect weaved in between semi-trucks. CHP officers placed a spike strip out at the Highway 116/Lakeville Highway junction and successfully deflated four of the six tires on the truck.
The suspect vehicle then exited the highway at Petaluma Boulevard South. With the vehicle still rolling, the driver and passenger jumped out of the truck and started to run. The passenger was immediately taken into custody. The driver ran approximately 100 yards up a steep embankment but was quickly apprehended.
Campbell had a no-bail warrant out of Napa County and the vehicle was determined to be stolen. Campbell was booked into Sonoma County Jail for his warrant and being suspected of possession of stolen property, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and evading police. McCarty was booked into the county jail for possession of stolen property and evading police.


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Millcreek Township supervisors won't pursue a claim in court that the Millcreek Township Water Authority Board violated the Sunshine Act with one of its votes.
Supervisor Richard Figaski said Tuesday at the weekly supervisors meeting that no action will be taken because if any violation occurred, the board voted a second time in public to correct it.
The board voted March 26 to hire the advertising firm of Engel O'Neill for a media campaign designed to avoid a sale of the Water Authority's assets to Erie Water Works. The sale, however, seems to be inevitable, with the two required votes likely, from Figaski and Supervisor John Groh.
Figaski has said he believes the board's vote was taken privately, but David Sterrett, executive director of the Millcreek water and sewer authorities, said the board voted publicly that day to hire the firm. However, the board took another public vote May 8 to reaffirm its March 26 vote.
Sterrett said any alleged violation has been "put to rest."
Figaski said, "But if you didn't do anything wrong, why are you going back and doing it again?''
Sterrett said that Figaski made an allegation at a public supervisors meeting that "we did something wrong. We defended it. And we said we did nothing wrong."
Sterrett said the authority provided Figaski with a copy of its meeting minutes and provided Millcreek Solicitor Evan Adair with a copy of the audio recording from the March 26 meeting. "However, in order to put it to rest, we restated the vote at another public meeting, and Mr. Figaski has now closed that matter effective (Tuesday) morning," Sterrett said.
Figaski and Groh had voted May 6 to authorize Adair to review allegations that the Millcreek authority violated the law and, if so, to file action in court. Supervisor Brian McGrath opposed the motion.
The Sunshine Act bans public agencies from taking action outside a public meeting and allows for criminal and civil sanctions in cases of violations.
Figaski and Groh have since voted to appoint Figaski to fill a vacancy on the seven-member Millcreek Township Water Authority Board.
The board has spent about $10,000 on the advertising campaign, Sterrett said. That included a fee of about $5,900 from Moore Research Services Inc., of Erie, to conduct focus group research on related water issues with 20 Millcreek residents.
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