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Scott Gottlieb, MD - American Medical Association
This text contains Dr. Gottlieb's prepared remarks. It should be used with the understanding that some material may have been added or deleted during actual delivery.
Speech before the
American Medical Association
Remarks by
Scott Gottlieb, MD
Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs
Food and Drug Administration
June 12, 2006
Thank you for the invitation to speak here today and to participate in this meeting. I first started attending the AMA's annual meeting here in Chicago when I was a medical student, working as an editor for a student-focused section of JAMA. I have had a profound affection for this organization and especially for its flagship medical journal ever since – and for the special role that all medical journals play in helping to establish medical consensus and promulgating best medical practices. But some of the challenges that the premier medical journals have faced recently when engaging on topics of drug safety and the effective use of new medical products and navigating between the policy and clinical aspects of this issue are of a piece of the broader ones that we all are facing as practicing physicians, when it comes to these same issues. Not just as individual physicians but also as physician led organizations that Americans rely on for clinical leadership and for information to guide their personal decisions.
Clearly there is a renewed focus on issues of drug safety. One of the questions that the public has is whether or not the FDA is doing enough to find out about new safety issues that marketed drugs might have, and whether we are communicating these things quickly enough. Those are fair concerns, and we have been doing a lot at FDA to address them. People are rightly concerned when it takes many years to find out that a marketed drug had a rare but serious side effect. While we are never going to be able to uncover all of the very rare side effects that drugs might have before we approve them, we need to be doing all we can to make sure we uncover them as soon as possible and that we communicate these findings as clearly and as effectively as we can. This takes resources and it takes new ideas and approaches to post-market vigilance, and along with the career staff at FDA, under the leadership of the directors of our medical centers, we have taken a lot of steps recently to meet this challenge.
But there is a second question that I am equally concerned with, and it has to do with how we confront situations where we already know that a drug has a certain side effect at the time of approval, or shortly after. Especially in cases where we know there are some common sense precautions physicians and patients can take to mitigate, or even nearly eliminate the chances of someone suffering these side effects. Yet patients continue to succumb to it anyway, whether it is a cardiac rhythm problem or a liver toxicity problem that is potentiated by a drug-drug interaction or by some pre-diagnosed comorbidity, or something more closely linked to the manner in which a drug is administered.
This challenge cuts directly to issues related to the practice of medicine, and sometimes tugs at where the boundary is between our role at FDA and the role of practicing doctors. I am worried that this boundary has become increasingly blurry to an outside view, and we at FDA are being increasingly asked by some groups and by political bodies to occasionally step across it, when drug safety issues arise and where our role in influencing how a drug is prescribed can be reasonably assumed to cut down on that risk. I am talking in particular about the increasing number of risk management plans that are becoming part of new drug approvals. These plans attempt to mitigate a certain risk by directly influencing or controlling how a drug is used. Now I think if you look at the places where we have implemented these plans, I think you would agree we have been balanced and careful to respect practice issues. These plans also allow us to often put drugs on the market or keep drugs on the market that otherwise we would not feel comfortable with. But I worry about the future.
My concern is that even though we do not have the legal authority to impose these plans on drug sponsors, they are nonetheless becoming an increasingly prominent condition of certain approvals as we negotiate final labeling over newly approved drugs. It is fair to say, I believe, that these plans are sometimes a less-than-optimal response to more systemic systems problems in the delivery of medical care. But that does not change the final calculus, that there are some real needs that these plans address but also some real challenges we face if these plans continue to become a common feature of drug approvals. In particular, there is a cumulative burden they impose that could encroach on medical practice decisions that doctors make and on patient discretion. This could be especially true when it comes to patients who already have a hard time getting access to specialty care or to the most innovative safe and effective medicines. Patients for example who may receive care in urban settings where busy clinics may not have the time and resources to comply with these plans, or patients who do not have access to specialists who are the favored prescribers under some of these plans, or access to pharmacies able to subsidize all of the requirements. We are especially sensitive to these kinds of concerns when working on the design of these plans.
The good news is I think there are some steps we can take working together to make sure that the laudable medical safety goals that these risk management plans aim to achieve can be accomplished without FDA being directly involved every time. But addressing these healthcare systems problems is going to require a lot more involvement and collaboration of organized medical bodies as well as individual physicians in our work than we have enjoyed in the past.
Now clearly FDA has a big part of the responsibility when it comes to trying to create more opportunities for our agency to collaborate with physicians to achieve our shared public health goals. Part of the fault for any shortcomings in the history of this relationship rests with us, and the fact that we have not always done as much as we can to create opportunities for collaboration with organized medical groups. We are working very hard to change that. In fact, Terry Toigo, FDA's Acting Associate Commissioner for External Relations who is here today, is heading up a team inside FDA that is working to establish an office that will have as its primary goal to enable more regular collaboration and communications around clinical issues with medical organizations like the AMA and the specialty medical groups. But we are also going to need your help, and I would like to spend the balance of my time today talking about these challenges in a little more detail. The steps we are taking at FDA to try and confront them. And then the places where I think we are going to need to work together if we are going to make sure that the boundary between our work and yours remains bright and rigorous, and that it is drawn in a way that maximizes the opportunities for patients to make personal and effective medical decisions. I also want to explain how we believe the new physician label is a significant piece of this effort.
I mentioned at the outset that I believe that the challenges faced by medical journals like JAMA are symbolic of some of these larger issues and of the steps we must take to deal with them. The journals have an essential role to play in promulgating practice standards that help the profession self-regulate itself around best medical practices. Yet the journals have increasingly taken on policy and even political issues. Now social conscience was a prominent feature of the section I worked on when I was a student editor at JAMA, and I know it has always been a defining characteristic of the great medical journals. But more recently the political commentary seems to sometimes be shriller and seems to come at the expense of the journals' essential role in shaping clinical practice, or just at the risk of compromising its impact.
I think all of these challenges cut to a much broader and difficult issue of professional autonomy, and what institutions physicians ought to lean on and what efforts their organizational units ought to take to address the same drug safety concerns that are increasingly being addressed by regulatory agencies like mine, not just the policy questions – and we do appreciate the input at FDA – but also directly influencing the clinical goals as well. The medical journals should be one such institution. Medical societies serve this role as well. A lot of these drug safety questions are difficult for us to address directly at FDA, because they deal with personal prescribing decisions. The more we promulgate plans that attempt to guide or even control these decisions, the more we encroach on professional autonomy, and the responsibilities doctors have as a profession to address these kinds of practice issues through their own vehicles so that they can continue to personalize care to their patients individual preferences.
The notion that doctors are part of a profession, replete with vehicles for self-regulation and the imposition of appropriate standards of conduct and practice requires that they have institutions in place to develop, promulgate and sometimes enforce those standards. Principle among these is the medical journals, which grew out as organs of the established, independent medical professional societies for the explicit purpose of sharing and popularizing knowledge about best practices. The specific driver for much of my concern, and the growth of arrangements like the risk management plans, has been the real or perceived diminishing of some public confidence in the medical institutions like the journals and the professional groups, as well as the FDA, in the wake of a series of health and medical problems. These problems, I am concerned, have created an opportunity if not a mandate by some to ask the government to significantly change the relationship between the state and medical profession, despite the fact that medical practice decisions and the regulation of medicine was a role always afforded to the states, and despite the fact that Federal agencies like mine lack clear authorities to step in to these medical practice issues. We nonetheless are being pushed and prodded to do just that, and this is not a mandate that we take lightly, or comfortably.
For one thing, this conflicts with the notion that medicine should enjoy a degree of self-governance when it comes to enforcing standards. This notion is a key to a definition of professional autonomy. Perhaps Paul Starr captured this concept most effectively when he referred to medicine as a "sovereign" profession. The contract between professions and society is relatively simple, Starr said. Professions are granted a monopoly over the use of a body of knowledge on the understanding that they will guarantee competence, provide altruistic service, and conduct their affairs with morality and integrity. We would all agree that doctors aspire to do just that and the self regulation, on which professional independence in medicine depend, is something I know no doctor takes for granted. But traditionally the province of state authorities, the regulation of medical professionals is already becoming a national concern. This is, in part, the result of sympathetic critics who increasingly reflect a wider public perception that doctors seem reluctant to assure their own competence and protect patients from poor practice. These critics argue that the medical establishment is failing to make self regulation demonstrably effective and responsive. Now I do not agree with these observations but we cannot deny that these beliefs exist. To address these challenges, we need to work together. If you agree with the premise that government is increasingly influencing ordinary clinical decisions previously left to doctors and patients, and I hear regularly from doctors who do, then I believe FDA has been both a part of the problem and can be part of the solution.
The ability for medical organizations to self regulate their clinical standards is only as robust as the information they have on which to base those standards, and the partnerships they have to help embrace and promulgate them. It is on these latter two opportunities, where I believe FDA can play an important, collaborative role, and I believe some of the steps we have already taken can provide valuable tools to help us meet these challenges. This is especially true when it comes to risk communication and the way that we inform the public and physicians of what we are learning about new medical products. Whether it is improving our dialogue and our collaboration with physician groups, more carefully crafting the messages we deliver to consumers, or improving the predictability and consistency of our labeling and our other reporting vehicles, we are working hard to improve and expand the tools and practices through which we communicate bottom-line medical information.
It is clear to all of us, that the social sciences of disseminating risk information, and of measuring how consumers respond to and use this information, are sciences that are being rapidly developed and expanded. If you look inside many corporations today, you will find people expert in risk communications whose primary job it is to craft information tools that can be more effectively used by consumers. This was not always the case. Such experts did not always exist.
At FDA, the task of measuring consumer perception and peoples' reaction to information, and using this scientific information to more finely tune the way we speak, is also becoming a more important part of our work. This is true not only in how we communicate safety information about drugs, but in many parts of our work. It is true, for example, in how we measure consumer response to drug advertising to ensure that there is fair balance. It is true in how we craft a public health advisory warning of a problem with a medical device. It is true in how we measure how people respond to the health information included on food labels – so that we can provide appropriate guidance that makes sure we take opportunities to promote information that motivates people to adopt healthy diets.
As the amount and complexity of information that we provide continues to mount -- a result not only of our desire to speak more openly but also the increasingly complexity of medicine and science itself -- we know that we also need to continue to improve how we approach the social sciences of risk communication and the social sciences of measuring consumer perceptions to information. To these ends, we have recently taken a number of steps to improve our approach to risk communication and other social sciences. I want to take a moment to mention just a few of them.
We recently had a two-day workshop on risk communication, to gather information and research on how we can incorporate some of these new tools and approaches into our work. We appointed a new Associate Director for Safety Policy and Communication in our drug center and we are currently developing a comprehensive plan to modernize our approach to the social sciences across FDA. I hope this latter effort will eventually be similar in scope to the successful approach we took under our critical path initiative to modernize the scientific tools of drug development. Another big part of this effort is the new physician label format which was discussed by Bob Temple. The changes, which were made -- with a lot of input from medical organizations such as the AMA as well as individual clinicians -- are aimed at improving patient safety by making it easier for healthcare professionals to locate, read, and use prescribing information, thereby increasing the extent to which healthcare professionals rely on it.
FDA made these changes because, in recent years, there has been an increase in the length, detail, and complexity of the prescribing information, making it more difficult to find the right information at the right time. In the new format, which will be phased in gradually, some prescribing information will be located in newly created or different sections or subsections. Also, some individual sections in the old format have been combined in the new format and some new information that was not mandatory under the old requirements is now required. Under the new rules, for example, there will be introductory information called "Highlights of Prescribing Information." This new section will be added to the beginning of the prescribing information. The Highlights will provide a concise summary of information most important to prescribers and will refer them to the appropriate section or sections in the Full Prescribing Information where additional, more detailed information is located. They will typically be half a page in length and will include, among other things, a list of all substantive changes made to the following sections of the FPI within the past year, the Boxed Warning if one exists, as well as the Indication and Usage, Dosage and Administration, Contraindications, and Warnings and Precautions. The corresponding new or revised text in the FPI will also be identified by a vertical line in the left margin. This will help clinicians quickly identify new information that has been added to the prescribing information. The date of FDA approval of the original drug will also be prominently listed to allow for easy identification of new products.
Additionally, much of the information contained in the body of the FPI will be reorganized and reordered to make it easier to find and use. Frequently used sections, such as the Indications and Usage, and Dosage and Administration sections, have been moved to the front of the prescribing information. By creating a Patient Counseling Information section, information that healthcare professionals can use when counseling patients has been made more prominent. If the drug also has FDA-approved patient information, it will be reprinted in or accompany the prescribing information. Sections containing risk information are also now all located together. For example, risk information that had been listed separately in either the Warnings section or in the Precautions section is combined into a new Warnings and Precautions section. In addition, new sections have been created that address specific safety issues, for example Drug Interactions and Use in Specific Populations. Certain graphical features including minimum font type size and standardized bolding are now also required, so that the prescribing information is easier to read.
The new label format is not just an end in itself but an important piece of a broader initiative to make reliable prescribing information more easily available through electronic formats. For example, for the first time, all of the information in the physician label will now have unique electronic identifiers associated with it so it can be more easily archived, searched and retrieved. In addition, starting last November, healthcare professionals, patients, and other consumers have been able to access high-quality, up-to-date information on medications via the Internet free of charge through the Daily Med system, which receives, distributes and displays medication information that has been developed by Federal agencies. This is a monumental change in the way medical information is made available that would not be possible without the leadership and hard work of the professional staff at FDA's Drug Center and especially my colleagues Dr. Janet Woodcock and Dr. Steven Galson. We also recently required drug makers to start submitting label changes electronically in a standard format that, after verification by the FDA, will make updating labels with new information seamless, and automatic. Imagine a world where the most relevant information in the product labels, for example new updates or the most common side effects or the prescribing information, can be easily pulled off the web or better yet, pushed to you on your PDA. You can be instantly updated each time new safety warnings are added or new information about a common drug's benefits. Doctors could receive special alerts only for the drugs they are most likely to prescribe.
Now I do not believe our challenges stops with just providing good information. I also believe we need to leverage our relationships with medical groups like yours to collaborate on the development of new tools and programs that help this information get integrated into practice efforts, whether its jointly sponsored CME focused on drug safety issues or opportunities to opine in your journals or present at your regular medical gatherings. These voluntary collaborations make a lot of sense, and in some cases they may be a lot more effective than schemes that simply try to limit certain prescribing behavior and create a lot of red tape and paperwork. They also help preserve the most important medical decision of all, the one that a patient makes in consultation with her doctor.
We need to make sure we remain guided by a framework where all of our roles are clearly defined, the boundaries of our work respected, and the public health aims we pursue done in close collaboration. FDA will continue to work aggressively and rigorously to develop the best information possible about a drug and its side effects, and promulgate reliable and up-to-date labeling advice on how to prescribe new products in a way that maximizes their benefits and minimizes their risks. Doctors will continue to be relied upon to make evidence-based decisions guided by their continuing knowledge of evolving information and most importantly the personal preferences of their well-informed patients.
Our being here today I hope is another step on the way to working more closely with you. The work that Terry and her team are doing in constituting a true health professionals office inside FDA, that can provide a coordinating role to this activity, is another step. The work we have done recently to design drug safety update pages to be included in the medical journals is one more. And there are other ideas we are working through, many in partnership with medical groups.
So I hope this marks a beginning in a closer relationship that has one bottom line in mind: How can we work together to make sure that doctors and patients have the opportunity to maximize the value of new medical products, in a way that preserves the ability for people to make individualized choices free from restrictive burdens but also in a way that encourages best practices. We look forward to pursuing these goals, and to working with many of you on them.


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Drivetime Friday 30 August 2013
Audrey Carville presents an information packed evening news magazine with all the stories of the day
Professor Anthony Roche from UCD assesses Seamus Heaney's influence on Ireland and Irish literature.
The former president pays tribute to the late poet
From Niall MacMonagle, Olivia O'Leary, Pat Moylan and Colin Davidson
with John O'Connor
Barry Lenihan reports from the launch of the Democracy Matters campaign
Frances Shanahan reports. Plus reaction from Tourism Minister Michael Ring.
RTE's Europe Editor Tony Connelly in Beirut
Jeffrey Martini is a Middle East analyst at the RAND Corporation focusing on political reform in the Arab world.
John Cooke brings us this three part series looking at homelessness, and moving those in hotels to hubs.
Exclusive reports from Drivetime's John Cooke who to some of the 160 Syrian Refugees adjusting to life in County Roscommon.
Presenter: Mary Wilson

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I found some lovely interiors that have clean lines and are quite organized to inspire you today. Or perhaps I'm hoping to become inspired by them after spending 6 hours organizing the front four rooms of our apartment and it feels like the mess has only just begun! These gorgeous photographs are from the portfolio of photographer Emily Anderson, who specializes in weddings, and is based in New York City and will travel the world for her clients. I invite you to visit her site and see her many photos for yourself.
We have a floor-through unit in the city, it is around 2,300 square feet, with four rooms in the front, two in the middle along with two bathrooms and two small rooms for storage (one is my laundry closet), and three rooms in the back but that's not all, there are also two wintergartens (three season porches you would call them in the states) and a balcony. I haven't lived in a place this large since I was with my parents so I don't know what to do exactly with all of this space yet but I'm sure I'll get my groove on and figure it all out soon enough. I'm an expert at organizing small spaces and 1 bedroom apartments but I feel a bit like a goldfish in the ocean in here and I'm not sure exactly where to begin because there are so many rooms and options for storing things. But so far, so good — I am doing well and making progress. My new sofa arrived today after waiting for three months. Now I have to hunt for a sofa table. The sofa is a lovely color, it's grey-brown and a very modern with slim metal legs — I'm happy with it. My husband and I selected it together, which was important to me that we make design decisions together in this space just as we did before in our New Hampshire home.
My white IKEA sofa is now in my sitting room, but I will retire it altogether when I find another to replace it because it was never meant to be with us for long and it isn't good for my back. It was only used in our vacation apartment three months per year. I'm ready to let it go, it's been good to us for three years but I'm ready to let someone else love it now. :)
What about you? Are you decorating or organizing your home lately? Are you seeing any changes in your color choices? I'm still a big fan of white, but I'm getting bored with my home looking like everyone else's that I see these days so I want to be different and try some new ideas. I am feeling creative and ready to take on some new looks for my home while still being true to myself. And you? Where do you stand with your interiors lately? I believe that we evolve, and as we evolve, we have to allow our homes to evolve with us. Sure, you aren't going to toss all of your furniture for a complete redux but you can work in some new pieces to reflect who you are today and that is often a good thing.
Remember to check out Emily Anderson's site and I nearly forgot to tell you… she authors a lovely blog that you may enjoy browsing, too.
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What are the good and bad character traits of Brutus and Cassius in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?
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Brutus is a good leader, he is truthful, he is respected by other members of the senate and the public, and he is a man of conscience. He is a skilled orator, though not as skilled as Antony. He has what's best for his country in mind. He takes a while to make decisions, which is indicated in the play by his inability to sleep well with the decision to kill Caesar or not weighing heavily on him. He is a good husband and treats his wife as an equal most of the time.
However, he is gullible. He allows himself to be mislead by planted letters written by other conspirators. He does not confide in his wife while he is trying to make his decision. He does not pay attention to the other harbingers of evil doing--the weather, for instance. He misjudges Mark Antony and seals his fate by allowing Antony to speak to the Roman people regarding Caesar.
There are not as many positive qualities for Cassius. Even Caesar is leery of him when he says, "he has a lean and hungry look". Cassius is ambitious to a fault. He does not want Caesar to rule Rome, but rather wants to be part of the ruling party. He manipulates the honorable Brutus to take their side so that the conspirators will look better in the eyes of the public after the deed is done.
Cassius does have good judgement of character, and he proves this by choosing Brutus as a recruit for their task. He also is partially correct about Caesar's ambition. He does also prove to be loyal to Brutus on the battlefield.


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Linus Likes SteamOS
Linus has been in the news a lot lately, this time he seems upbeat about SteamOS possibly helping desktop Linux succeed, according to PC World.
There's so much Linux love in the air that it prompted Linus Torvalds, overlord of the Linux Kernel, to tentatively suggest that Valve's announcements could encourage Linux adoption on desktop PCs. Screech! Not again, I hear you say?
Yes, we've heard the claim for years that the Linux (or GNU/Linux depending on your persuasion) desktop revolution is just around the corner. And yes, this could be just another high hope in a long history of high hopes, but Torvalds reinforced some important arguments about a Steam-powered rise for Linux.
"I think [the Steam announcements are] an opportunity to maybe really help the desktop," Torvalds said recently during LinuxCon + CloudOpen Europe in Edinburgh, Scotland. That's not exactly a ringing endorsement for a Linux revolution but, if anyone is familiar with endless promises of Linux-based desktops becoming popular, it's Torvalds.More at PC World
I hope Linus is right about SteamOS. It will be fantastic if it spurs a higher adoption rate of Linux on people's desktop computers. Along with the games may come exposure to other Linux applications, and that would be a great thing for the Linux community. Many people who don't use Linux aren't aware of the great applications available for it.
I have definitely noticed a lot more excitement out there about SteamOS than anything else over the last few years. It really seems to have caught people's attention since it comes from Valve, and the company has enormous credibility around the world.
The Death of SolusOS
The SolusOS distribution has breathed its last breath. This is sad news, I did a review of it a while back and it was off to a very good start.
It is with a heavy heart that I must announce the closure of SolusOS. Simply put, there is no longer enough manpower to fulfil the vision. What began as a Debian derivative evolved into an independent distribution, without the large development team required to back such an effort.
I wish to extend my thanks to the SolusOS community for all their support throughout the lifetime of SolusOS, since its conception as a small Debian respin all the way through to today. I also wish to extend my thanks to DediServe for their continued support throughout our life.More at SolusOSHat Tip: Softpedia
I'm glad that the SolusOS developer will continue to be a part of the FOSS community. And who knows, perhaps someone else will continue to develop the distro at some point.
Ubuntu Studio 13.10 Review
If you use desktop Linux for multimedia content then you'll want to check out this review of Ubuntu Studio 13.10.
I was very impressed with Ubuntu Studio 13.10, I think it's one of the best Ubuntu spins I've ever seen. The developers set out to create a distro that focuses on multimedia like a laser beam, and they've entirely succeeded in their efforts. Ubuntu Studio 13.10 is the distribution for anyone who needs to create or manage multimedia content.More at Desktop Linux Reviews
What's your take on all this? Tell me in the comments below.
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Here are your Apple Rumors and AAPL news items for today.
Weighing in on the Lumia 900: So far, reviews of Nokia's (NYSE:NOK) Lumia 900 smartphone, available from AT&T (NYSE:T) and intended as a competitor to the iPhone and high-end Android phones, have been ranging from lukewarm to modestly positive. Running on Micrsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone 7 operating system, the device generally has avoided pans and raves. Among the high-visibility reviews, by writers such as Walter Mossberg (All Things D), David Pogue (New York Times), and Joshua Topolsky (The Verge), the take seems to be that the striking and sturdy Lumia 900 is a decent effort that is hobbled by things like small operating-system deficiencies, a somewhat short battery life, and a relatively small app library (about 70,000, versus hundreds of thousands each for Android and iOS). It is long on looks, case quality, and screen size; nicely responsive to AT&T's the 4G LTE wireless network; capable of clear, crisp phone calls, although not so great when the Web browser struggles with page displays. In other words, for $100 (with a two-year contract), you get beautiful hardware, but an OS that still needs work and, as 9to5 Mac points out, needs to function better than iOS and Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android if it's going to make a splash in the market.
More Regional Carriers Get the iPhone. Even though iPhone sales tend to be associated with monolith national carriers like AT&T, Verizon (NYSE:VZ), and Sprint (NYSE:S), the phone does find its way onto the shelves of regional carriers. Case in point: AppleInsider notes that the company has five new small-carrier partners who will begin selling the iPhone on April 20: nTelos, which serves portions of the mid-Atlantic region, as well as Kentucky and Ohio; Alaska Communications and GCI, both operating in Alaska; Appalachian Wireless, in Kentucky; and Cellcom, which operates in parts of Michigan and Wisconsin. Yes, Deutsche Telekom's (PINK:DTEGY) T-Mobile is still iPhone-less, although, as GigaOm points out, that's in part due to the fact that the iPhone is not designed to support the carrier's HSPA + wireless frequencies beyond 2G performance levels. The rollout of high-speed LTE technology on the big-carrier networks, including T-Mobile, could change that, though Apple may still have to customize its devices for each network.
Kutcher Immersing Himself in the Steve Jobs Character, Says Producer. For all the attention and snark surrounding the decision to cast Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in an upcoming biopic, the principal backer of the project claims Kutcher is taking the role seriously. "Jobs" producer Mark Hulme, whose Five Star Feature Films is the movie's sole investor, told media site The Daily that Kutcher has cleared his schedule — beyond his obligations as a principal in the "Two and a Half Men" sitcom — to meet with people who knew Jobs and to immerse himself in research to channel "the voice." In the works before Jobs' death in October, and before publication of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's biography, the movie is expected to focus on Jobs' career from his days with Steve Wozniak to his return to Apple after his ousting. It's also expected to be released around Thanksgiving — before another film about Jobs, from Sony (NYSE:SNE), appears in theaters.


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At long last, Bi-Rite Creamery chocolate bars are back and better than ever! After a months-long collaboration with German-born, Oakland-based chocolatier Michael Mischer, we are proud to introduce these new and improved additions to our chocolate shelves. Thanks to Michael for all your hard work and patience!
We've reformulated a tried & true favorite and developed exciting new flavors. We streamlined their look and, in keeping with the Creamery's retro character, changed their shape to reflect a more "classic" candy bar shape and feel. The quality ingredients that we sourced under the masterful care of Michael have resulted in what is a superior tasting bar. We love these new bars and hope you will too.
Which one will be your favorite?
- Rocky Road: fluffy marshmallows, crunchy California almonds and dark milk chocolate
- Salted Caramel: the Creamery's #1 ice cream flavor is the inspiration for this bar; silky-smooth salty-sweet caramel in perfectly-paired dark chocolate
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A review of how special masters in the Lake View school funding case addressed public school facilities was a springboard Monday for another round of criticism of the masters report, which has declared school funding inadequate.
Legislators panned the masters take on facilities just like the governor, and many legislators have criticized other sections of the 83-page masters report in the past.
Rep. Will Bond, D-Jacksonville, said legislative education reforms have been excellent, though some programs may need tweaking.
Earlier this year, lawmakers appropriated $120 million for facilities needs, to be distributed based on an index giving less state facilities aid to wealthy schools.
After a presentation about the masters facilities findings, Rep. Jodie Mahony, D-El Dorado, asked: Are they crazy?
I dont think you want me to answer that question, responded Sarah Israel of the Bureau of Legislative Research.
Sen. David Bisbee, R-Rogers, said the report seems to indicate the special masters prefer all schools be operated by the state since the report called for more state funding of facilities needs.
Special masters Bradley Jesson of Fort Smith and David New-bern of Little Rock said the state did not allocate enough money for building improvements earlier this year and were relying too heavily on local contributions for building projects.
Bisbee said during Mondays Academic Facilities Oversight Com-mittee meeting that he thought the special masters were pushing for a statewide property-tax rate and statewide management of school districts.
Bisbee said he be-lieved the special masters didnt seem to have a good grasp of issues surrounding the legis-latures implementation of facility-funding laws this year.
The report echoed the pleadings of the school districts that renewed the suit, he added.
Other legislators joined in the criticism, prompting Committee Chairman Sen. Shane Broadway, D-Bryant, to compare the session to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
Its like an AA meeting, it feels like you can get it off your chest here, he said.
The masters faulted the state for having too lengthy of a planning process when it comes to addressing facilities and for failing to include facility needs in calculating the wealth index.
The report slammed state-mandated sanctions for having poor facilities, which could lead to consolidation if districts failed to keep buildings to appropriate standards.
Jesson and Newbern largely rebuked the General Assembly for failing to meet its constitutional requirement to adequately fund public education.
Specifically, the report concluded that legislators should have given a cost-of-living increase to a $5,400 per-student funding amount. Several school districts, led by Rogers, sought court action.
The state Supreme Court received the report on Oct. 3 and solicited briefs in re-sponse to the report that were due Monday.
If anything, a longtime consolidation foe said the latest round of school-finance litigation has warmed him to the idea of unified school districts.
Sen. Jimmy Jeffress, D-Crossett, said school leaders who sued the state seeking more money may receive an unintended consequence from lawmakers.
A Republican colleague, Sen. Ruth Whitaker of Cedarville, said she will propose consolidating school districts into one district per county to improve efficiency.
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Plant standout running back/defensive end James Wilder Jr.'s spectacular postseason put the talented Plant junior on the national stage.
On Monday, Wilder received his second national honor. He was named to the MaxPreps 2002 High School Football All-American Team.
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What makes people happy? Does government play a role in the happiness of its people? These are interesting questions that Allison Pingley, assistant professor of political science, will examine with a group of students next summer in her Culture and Politics in Europe class as they take a Baltic cruise.
With the theme of "Happiness in Politics," the study abroad program will visit London, England; Copenhagen, Denmark; Warnemuende (Berlin), Germany; Tallinn, Estonia; St. Petersburg, Russia; Helsinki, Finland; and Stockholm, Sweden from June 8-22, 2013. The group will explore these diverse Northern European countries to see what makes people happy, and will examine various cultures and compare/contrast with America and its people. Students can earn three hours of upper-level political science credit by going on the trip. Even though there is a political slant, the trip is open to and would be of interest to all majors.
The cost of the trip is $3,600 ($3,450 if paid in full by Feb. 1) and includes roundtrip airfare, a nine-day Baltic cruise (including all meals), four nights in a hotel (three nights in London, one night in Copenhagen), and ground transportation in Europe. Financial aid can be used for the trip, and there are scholarship opportunities available.
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SUNRIVER, Ore. (AP) Bernhard Langer (FSY) has a chance to join rare company on the Champions Tour.
The Jeld-Wen Tradition begins Thursday in central Oregon and Langer is going after his third consecutive Champions' major at the Tradition, the tour's fourth of five majors this year.
Earlier this summer, Langer won the Senior British Open and U.S. Senior Open on consecutive weeks.
Gary Player (FSY) is the only player in Champions Tour history to win three consecutive majors. He won the final two of 1987 (Players, U.S. Senior Open), and the first major of 1988 (Senior PGA).
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A victory at Sunriver's Crosswater Club would have Langer joining Jack Nicklaus (FSY) as the only player to win three majors in a single season. In 1991, Nicklaus won the Senior PGA, Senior Open and Tradition.
"I'm coming in here obviously trying to win and play as well as I can. I'm not coming in to break records," Langer said.
Perhaps the Champions Tour record book isn't incentive, but this may be: a berth on Europe's Ryder Cup team. Europe captain Colin Montgomerie (FSY) recently said he was considering the 53-year-old Langer as one of his captain's picks.
"If he gives me a call and he think I'm the one he wants on the team to strengthen the team, then I will most likely be ready to go and be excited about it," said Langer, whose last Ryder Cup competition was 2002. "If he feels he has three guys that are better than me, I'll accept that, too."
Langer, who tied for 17th and seventh in his previous two Tradition appearances at Crosswater, wasn't certain about the state of his game. Langer said he spent most of last week resting, recovering from an illness.
A field of 68, including 39 of this season's top 40 money-winners, will challenge Langer for the Tradition's first prize of $392,000. The only prominent player missing is Fred Couples (FSY), ranked second behind Langer in the Champions Tour's Charles Schwab Cup standings. Couples opted to play in this week's PGA Tour event, the Wyndham Championship.
"Bernhard has done very well, but to me, there's quite a large group of players out here who are capable," said Tom Lehman (FSY), who won the Champions' other major, the Senior PGA Championship. "Bernhard has won three (actually, four) times, but has probably played 14 or 15 tournaments, so he's not winning everything."
The Tradition field includes defending champion Mike Reid (FSY), and three players who have been prominent in three previous Traditions at Crosswater in Tom Watson, Fred Funk (FSY) and Loren Roberts (FSY).
Funk won the 2008 tournament and finished eighth and 11th in the other two. Watson and Roberts finished among the top seven during the past three Traditions.
Crosswater Club is the longest course on the Champions Tour at 7,533 yards, but the past two winners, Reid and Funk, are nowhere near the longest hitters on tour.
"I didn't think it played long last year," Lehman said of Crosswater. "There's a nice blend of holes you can really attack, and some holes where you'd better be careful."
Earlier in August, Jeld-Wen announced it was ending an eight-year sponsorship of the Tradition. The tour is expected to announce its plans for the Tradition's future following the tournament.
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With offerings of shopping, entertainment and food, customers can find treasures of all kinds when the Walnut Creek Amish Flea Market opens for the season today (March 28.)
Located in the heart of Amish Country, the flea market offers more than 55,000 square feet of shopping Thursday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday, March 28 marks the first day of the 2013 season. The event will be celebrated with shopping, drawings, food and live music.
Here, there is something special for everyone, said General Manager Januery Tango, who owns the flea market with her mother, Betty Zimmerman.
Especially in 2013, as the flea market has continued to grow to offer new attractions.
"It's been a wonderful journey. We've grown and learned a lot," said owner Betty Zimmerman. The family has experienced a whirlwind of growth, building onto the complex three times in only five years of operations.
"This is our fifth season, and now we are at 50,000 square feet all under one roof," said Tango.
The flea market facility is all one level, air conditioned and handicapped accessible. New features include concessions, a sightseeing deck and many more vendors.
"We started out with the red, blue and green buildings. The following year we built on the purple building, and then last year we built on the gold building," she said. "We had to expand our eatery because we outgrew that. Everything in the gold building is new for this year."
The flea market now offers approximately 270 vending spots, all filled with a variety of wares from an ever-growing list of vendors.
These vendors sell everything from fresh produce, jams and jellies and natural soaps to polyresin statues, handcrafted sterling silver jewelry and corn hole boards.
"We try not to duplicate anything. We also try to get stuff for men and women. We want a wide variety that we know is going to work for the customer and for the vendor," said Tango.
Braided rugs, candles, antiques, chainsaw carvings, power tools, spices, Amishmade furniture, designer purses, floral arrangements, sunglasses, air plants, chocolates, artwork the list goes on and on.
From 2011 to 2012, the flea market saw a 7 percent increase of customers and a 20 percent increase in tour bus attendance, said Tango.
Due to popular demand, many additions have been completed since the flea market opened in 2009. The newest additions include a deli, bakery, bulk food store, creamery, open-pit barbecue and a hot and cold buffet.
In addition to Lillian's Sweet Cafe, there are many new food offerings for 2013. At Ken's Concessions, customers can get sandwiches, including the iconic trail bologna and swiss sandwich, as well as cheeseburgers, sides, soups and more. Each week on Thursday and Friday, Ken's will be serving lunch plates such as roast beef, mashed potatoes, vegetable and slaw or turkey, dressing, noodles and corn.
Also new is the Amish Country Bakery serving varieties like monkey bread and cinnamon rolls, as well as cookies, bars, cakes, pies and fry pies.
The Bulk Food Deli will also be expanding for 2013 with an even larger selection of Walnut Creek Cheese products, including produce, beef jerky, cheese, Trail bologna, jams, jellies, candies and jarred goods. Tommy's Jerky & Smokie Outlet and a larger sunroom eatery were also added.
The flea market has not only expanded, but also offers entertainment and services for everyone who comes to the market.
"We have live entertainment every weekend and special events throughout the season," said Tango. These range from live music and Elvis impersonators to "An Artistic Experience at the Market" featuring local artisan's work, kids day and give-aways, all held throughout the market or on the outdoor sightseeing deck, which overlooks a view of the surrounding valley.
"You can sit up there and eat and when it's nice outside, we'll put the entertainment up there," said Tango.
Special entertainment will be held each Saturday throughout the season, beginning on March 30 with the String-A-Longs.
Weekly demonstrations include chainsaw carving, quilting and sewing.
With so much to offer, it's an experience like no other, said Tango.
Surrounded by Amish Country, the view, the friendly atmosphere and the family focus all contribute to this phenomenon. And it's not just shopping.
The flea market offers a playground for children, beautiful landscaping, live music and demonstrations. two 8-seater club car shuttles provide free transportation to and from the parking lot and the flea market's front door.
"They run all day long everyday," said Tango.
The flea market also offers parking for tour buses.
A small petting zoo featuring peacocks, roosters, pheasants and -- coming this year -- alpacas, keeps children occupied, while sports lovers can check out the big screen television constantly tuned to athletic events.
"We are very family-oriented," said Tango.
Before opening the Amish Flea Market, the family gained 15 years of prior flea market experience "so we have an idea of what people are looking for," she said.
The flea market staff is also like family, as each member either has a business at the market or is a past vendor.
"We like the family atmosphere, everyone is very friendly," said Tango, noting that vendors are local and from out-of-state. "They come from as close as 15 minutes away to as far as two hours away."
The Walnut Creek Amish Flea Market is located at 1900 State Route 39, Sugarcreek. For more information, call 330-852-0181.
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Qualitative: Description with your own point of view: Description with numbers, exact.
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Difference between qualitative and quantitative?
Qualitative and quantitative data are both 2 important types of data. Qualitative data is data based on observation and description. An easy way to remember this, Qualitative …---> QUALity. Examples of qualitative data are when you record colors, smells, textures, etc... Quantitative data is based on numerical values. An easy way to remember this, Quantitative ---> QUANTity. An example of quantitative data are any type of numerical values.
What is the differences between quantitative and qualitative?
quantitative refers to "quantity" and can be quantified or measured. while qualitative referes to "quality" and cannot be quanitifed. When u say X product "passes" a test that… is qualitative data, while when u say the amount of X present is "10mg/ml" that is quantitative data.
What are the differences between qualitative and quantitative research methods?
Answering "What are the differences between qualitative and quantitative research methods?" v There are differences between the two research methods: Quantitative Research …and Qualitative Research. Quantitative research uses deductive process as the study approach, investigates phenomena that lend themselves to precise measurement and quantification, often involving a rigorous and controlled design; it's more on objective and reductionist, most closely allied with the positivist tradition. Qualitative research, on the other hand, which is most often associated with naturalistic inquiry with inductive study approach, investigates phenomena through the collection of rich narrative materials using a flexible research design, broad, subjective and holistic. The researchers' expectations in quantitative research are to test and verify hypothesis and theories, and predict physical or human events; role of the person being studied is the subject, its behavior as a means to the end. While in qualitative data - researchers' expectations are to discover information, to describe human experiences, to develop concepts and theories, and to explain and interpret human behavior or events; person being studied is an active participant and its behavior is both means and end. In addition, Data being collected in qualitative research reflects the perceptions of persons being studied in form of "words" for individual interpretation, and is collected throughout the study through unstructured interviews and observations in settings natural to person being studied with no manipulation of the environment by the researcher. On the contrary, quantitative data is independent on perceptions of person being studied in form of "numbers" for statistical analysis, and is collected in designated time frame through structured interviews, questionnaires, observations, scales, or physiologic instruments with controlled environment and researchers manipulates the environment to control for variables. Lastly, quantitative findings are generalized, accept or reject theoretical propositions with numerical accounts of data that are highly reliable. While qualitative findings are unique, dynamic, understands phenomena and new theory with written descriptions of findings that are highly valid.
Difference between qualitative or quantitative?
quantitative data can be measured, such as lenght, weight, and volume qualitative is data colected using the five senses such as, color, taste, and smell
What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative?
Quantitative is to do with numbers and counting, e.g. 5%, 10%, 15%. Qualitative is to do with descriptive qualities, e.g. Blue Eyes,Hazel Eyes, bigger, smaller, first, last, e…tc..
What is the difference between research questions of qualitative and quantitative methodologies?
here's a website with a side by side comparison each arguing its case: http://wilderdom.com/research/QualitativeVersusQuantitativeResearch.html and basically quantitat…ive research is the empirical data (times/dates/data) everything that can be scientifically measured or recorded. qualitative on the other hand is more about your personal observations during the research. an example would be difference in colour between a couple patches of ground pr texture of a item. more to deal with the five senses.
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They both require you to research in order to find out the information that you want. You can use primary and secondary sources for both.
What are some similarities and differences between quantitative and qualitative research?
They are both very good forms of research the main difference is the method in which the research is carried. In quantitative research there are more statistics involved. Ever…ything is more mathematical in a sense, you're focused on the quantity. In qualitative research there is a focused on the quality of the work the questioning as to why things happen.
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Quantitative is based on measurements and numbers :)
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Quantitative is data based such as numbers and figures or facts. Qualitative is based on the things you notice using your senses.
Difference between qualitative and quantitative research?
The appended link outlines the several differences. In brief: Qualitative data is produced by answering "soft" questions like: * Was it expensive, * Were you …really tired, * Did everyone have a good time, * Do you like Heavy Metal bands. Qualitative research would then be determing what people "like", how they "feel", are they "happy" Quantitative data and research poses "definite" or "hard"questions like: * How many grams of sugar did you use, * On a scale of 1 to 10 how much pain are you in * What colour was the solution, * What was the increase in vapour pressure. Quantitative research would then be determining the average weight of teenagers, the cost of new cars in Calgary, or the miles walked by 40 year old postmen on December 12th
How are qualitative and quantitative research different?
Both have a concern to find the best data about a situation or group, even if that data is different, something i call the 'thirt for knowledge' similarity.
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What is the difference between the quantitative and qualitative?
The former deals with quantity, and the latter deals with quality. For example, suppose you have a dozen poor-quality apples and your brother has two high-quality apples. A qu…antitative view would say that you were better off than he, and a qualitative view would say that he was better off than you.
What is the difference between quantitative and qualitative research?
This questions references the two primary approaches to academic methodology. Qualitative research is highly descriptive, whereas quantitative methods rely on statistics, …measurements, and mathematical calculations.
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Qualitative research is done as an exploratory measure. When someone wants to know more about a problem, such as who is effected or what needs to be learned/measured, they… do qualitative research.Quantitative research is done once the problem and the questions have been better established. Quantitative research relies heavily on numbers and other measurable data in order to uncover existing patterns.
What Is the Difference Between a Quantitative and a Qualitative Research Paper?
Quantitative looks at data with a numeric value (quantity) so a statistic can be determined (37% does not like the flavour. 72% prefer bottle shape B). Usually conducted with …a questionnaire with set values from which an option can be chosen (a, b or c). Qualitative looks at motivation, feelings and perceptions - (why do you not like the flavour? why do you prefer this bottle shape, to that one) Data is usually gathered from focus groups or interviews, structured around open ended questions (not leading a person to respond in a certain way) and questions can adapt according to the answers received.
What are some similarities and differences between quantitative and qualitative research designs?
Quantitative research entails collecting and generating numerical data while qualitative research entails the generation of non-numerical data. Survey, questionnaires and … measurements using various tools are common in quantitative research. Qualitative research often relies on verbal and theoretical data rather than measurements. Both research designs are used in the analysis and interpretation of a research topic.


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When world leaders wrap up their G-20 talks in Seoul on Friday, the European and American contingent will have less than a week to sleep in their own beds before they head off again to another round of summitting, back-to-back NATO and EU-US gatherings in Lisbon next week.
Although there is lots of substance on the agenda – Afghanistan, missile defence, global economic stagnation – the atmospherics of the events will also be closely watched, particularly since President Barack Obama skipped out on May's EU-US summit, causing much hand-wringing in Brussels and other European capitals.
U.S. officials are acutely aware of the narrative developing on this side of the ocean since the cancelled Madrid summit: that Mr Obama, despite coming into office amidst a surge of European popularity, is now seen as neglecting his transatlantic allies and showering attention instead on leaders elsewhere in the world. This week, those U.S. officials are fanning out to combat that narrative. Read more


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Insulation Lining provides a white sateen on the outside to improve streetside appearance, the flannel on the inside of the lining adds more insulation. The two layers in one lining make your shades easier to dress and add heft to lighter-weight fabrics. Insulation lining is available in white or ivory.
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Loop Control Loop Control replaces traditional dangling lift cords - which can pose a danger of entanglement for small children and pets - with an innovative closed loop mechanism that lets you easily and evenly raise, lower and precisely position your shades, while giving your windows a sleek, uncluttered look.
Top Down Bottom Up This lift system allows you to raise your shades from the bottom (how a standard shade operates) or lower them from the top. Top Down is a great feature when you want to let in the natrual light but keep your privcay by leaving the bottom of the shade closed. Top Down Bottom Up is available on Flat Roman, Classic Roman and Reverse Classic shades.
Cordless Lift Cordless lift system allows you to raise your shade without having to use any cord mechanism at all. Shades are easily raised by using a wooden tassel that is placed in the center of the back of the shade above the hem. Cordless lift is kid and pet friendly by eliminating the lift cords from your shade. Cordless lift is available on Flat Roman, Classic Roman and Reverse Classic shades.
NEW! Motivia Motorization Raise and lower shades with the touch of a button - Motivia is the most affordable and user-friendly motorization available. Shades without lift cords are the safest option for homes with children and pets, and Motivia motorization is simple and easy to install and use. Available with wand or remote control options.
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Motivia Remote Raise and lower an entire room of window treatments with a single remote. Individual shades are outfitted with battery-powered motors. One remote will operate up to 5 shades. Order the remote on the first shade. Select Motivia Remote without remote control for up to 4 more shades. If you want additional remotes, simply order them on the individual shades.
Battery Pack Wire The 10" wire will have the battery pack clipped to the headrail of the shade. The 48" battery wire allows you to mount the battery wand lower in the window, to make changing batteries easier. Perfect for very tall windows, or for situations where it's otherwise awkward to get to the top of the shade. You may mount the wand in the window frame as much as 4 feet below the top of the shade with this option.
Motivia Motorization Channel Each channel on our 5-channel Motivia remote controls an individual shade, or a group of shades. Simply select the channel you'd like to assign your shade to, and we'll pre-program the remote accordingly. To have a group of shades work from the same channel, select the same channel number while customizing your additional shades.
If you change your mind later, it's easy to re-assign channels. Simple instructions will arrive with your shade.
Fabric Shades ordered with Cordless Lift and as outside mount will come standard with a valance and side returns. The side return will cover the headrail sides and be fabric wrapped to provide a seamless look. When ordering inside mounted shades you can choose to have no valance.
Extension Brackets project your shades away from the mounting surface, allowing them to clear obstacles such as door handles, window operating cranks and molding. Extension Brackets add 1" to your shade's clearance. Extension brackets may only be used for outside mount shade installations, and may not be combined with Loop Control upgrade.
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'Brother' Lou's Favorite Song [VIDEO]
There are a few times that someone will call the "Cryin', Lovin' or Leavin' Show and want to dedicate a song to me. This is very nice, and I appreciate the gesture, but, I do the show for you – our listener. Now on the other side of the coin, between when I'm talking to someone on the phone, in person or on my Facebook pages (either the Lou Roberts page or the (Bro.) Lou Roberts fan page). Yes, that was what we call a shameless plug, although you can "friend" me and "like" the fan page. I get asked many times what my favorite song is. I have several favorite singers or bands, but I'll narrow that down by giving you just a few. They are Bachman – Turner Overdrive, Tommy James and the Shondells, The Beatles and Dean Martin. I think Richie Phillips will join me with The Beatles stuff.
No, they're not country, but I like them and someone asked. Hey, I'm an old Rock and Roll guy, at heart. Plus, most of us have a wide variety of musical likes and influences.
Now let's get to country music. They are my favorite. It's Brooks and Dunn. My favorite song from them is "You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl."
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It's just a fun song and it does rock, which proves that country does rock. Watching the video reminds me of a couple of times that I saw them in concert, complete with Ronnie Dunn playing the cowbell. Just a funny little side note – When Brooks and Dunn released their first song "Brand New Man," I didn't know who they were, so on the air, I said "Coming up, I'm going to play a new song by Garth Brooks and Holly Dunn." In 1989, there was no internet to look these things up. You have to love "live radio." Now here's something that just freaked me out – as I went to give you Holly Dunn's website link, I saw this picture:
I wonder if they heard me do that on the air?
So, what's your favorite song?


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By Rod Mcguirk, Associated Press Writer
CANBERRA, Australia Air safety investigators are exploring whether interference from a U.S.-Australian naval transmitter or even a passenger's laptop caused a Qantas jetliner to nose-dive twice over the Australian coast last month, an official said Friday.
Initial investigations of the midair emergency that left 13 seriously injured indicated the Oct. 7 malfunction on the Airbus A330-300 was caused by a fault in a computer unit that uses sensors to detect the angle of the plane.
While that theory is still considered the most likely, investigators are looking into whether the fault could lie with electromagnetic interference from a low-frequency naval submarine communications transmitter on the Australian northwest coast at Exmouth, near where the plane made its emergency landing.
The Naval Communications Station, Harold E. Holt, was built by the U.S. Navy in the 1960s. It provides very low frequency radio transmissions to the U.S. and Australian navies across the western Pacific and eastern Indian oceans.
Another possible source of the interference is portable electronic devices, such as cell phones, Australian Transport Safety Bureau director Kerryn Macaulay said. She said even those considered safe to operate during flights, such as laptop computers, are being investigated.
"Possible external sources of electromagnetic interference are being explored and assessed," she said.
But even as investigators consider that theory, the plane's three computer units -- called air data inertial reference units, or ADIRUs -- will be examined next week at manufacturer Northrop Grumman Corp.'s factory in the United States, the bureau said in a preliminary investigation report.
The electromagnetic interference "is unlikely, especially if the problem is clearly identified during the ADIRU and the system testing," Macaulay said.
Qantas said in a statement its own investigations found the likely cause of the emergency was a "manufacturer fault" in the computer unit.
The Defense Department said it agreed with the preliminary report that the transmitter was unlikely to be the cause.
The transmitter "emits very low frequency transmissions and from a significant distance from the aircraft flying overhead," the department said in a statement.
"This indicates that it is unlikely to have caused sufficient currents in the system to have caused problems with the A330 systems," it added.
Brian Anderson, an Australian National University electrical engineering professor, said he would need to know how much power the transmitter used to determine whether it might be to blame.
"Because radio waves have got to travel such long distances and get under the water to reach the submarines, they've got to be pretty damn powerful," Anderson said. "It would be fairly easy to conduct experiments to rule that in as a possibility or exclude it."
He said laptops and cell phones were an unlikely cause because aircraft computers were proofed against such radiation.
The plane was flying at 37,000 feet (11,300 meters) en route from Singapore to the western Australian city of Perth when a computer unit began transmitting wildly incorrect data to a main flight computer. The plane nose-dived 650 feet (200 meters) in 20 seconds before the crew brought it back to the original cruising level. The sharp drop was quickly followed by a second of about 400 feet (120 meters) in 16 seconds.
The aircrew made a mayday call to air traffic controllers after learning the extent of injuries on board, including broken bones, and detoured to the Learmonth air strip, near Exmouth. In all, 44 passengers and crew were injured.
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This is interesting, and would be more interesting if there were a measure of how much diverting corn into ethanol (25% of the corn crop in 2007 produced 2.65% of the US total demand for gasoline in 2006) had an effect on prices of food. Northey is right. Corn ethanol has to be a transitory technology. But the US will need to find ways to get ethanol from the field to the pump. Where is the infrastructure going to come from, who's going to build the pipelines. And at the end of the day how much real difference will it make if there is no corresponding increase in fuel efficiency?
Ethanol is a stepping stone
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larry hagedon 4 September, 2008 at 8:56 pm #
The thing we need to remember is that American farmers do not have a shortage of food production. We can and do produce more food, aninmal feed, pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals and fuels than the marketplace can consume.
Our capacity to increase production of all commodities is enormous. It is limited by the markets, not by our ability to continue to increase production.
We market all the corn based foods the world markets will allow us to market. The markets are saturated and everything is in surplus, there is no shortage.
Threfore it is a specious argument that people are going hungry or the prices are going up because we made the food into fuel. There is plenty of both to go around and no reason to bid prices up.
People that are hungry are hungry because of politics, war and the high cost of oil, not because of bio-fuels.
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A Doll In The Kitchen
If cooking's your thing, you better have the tools to get the job done right. Sure, regular ole measuring cups can ensure you mix up correct amounts of flour and sugar, but will they make you smile when you pull open your kitchen cabinet? Because these Russian Doll measuring cups will.


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Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate Download Patch
F.R.E.E. D.O.W.N.L.O.A.D. L.I.N.K. by AlneraWeighton; this october update works with the newest version of the game. Error fixes, tested as of today 08 October 2016. Easy to get it via both mobile and desktop. Thank you for watching!
Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate Download Patch
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ContemplateBeer (153) Louisville, Kentucky | January 3, 2015
Overview: Mellow Mushroom in Bowling Green is located close to WKU in the downtown area of the city. It's about a fifteen minute drive into town from the Corvette Museum (which is how I ended up here in the first place). Anyway, this MM has the classic rock/psychedelia vibe of other MMs, but also has some more personal touches (such as some of the featured artwork). I didn't give service the "beer Jeopardy" treatment, so I can't speak on their knowledge, but I will say that my server (Cecily) seemed to do her job with care, humor and attentiveness. I was pretty surprised by the selection here; better than I have seen at any other KY MM, and I'd wager the best tap selection in Bowling Green (I called around, and theirs was the best I found). About one page of taps, and one of bottles/cans updated weekly. Food is the typical tasty but decadent MM fare. Value on beers and food is fair. PROS: Excellent service; surprising selection. CONS: The parking lot is painted blue, which makes it look like one big handicapped zone; would like if MM offered half pints but that's not a location-specific qualm. OVERALL: Would happily come back; definitely a place to visit in Bowling Green. Parking lot is available, but may quickly fill during peak times. Since you're in a college zone, I'd imagine that the tow trucks might be out in force if you park somewhere questionable during the week.
Bassikpoet (4) Chicago, Illinois | April 15, 2013
Great place. The pizza is eclectic, the ambiance psychedelic and the beer all-encompassing. The beer menu spans four pages, with one being a rotating draught and bottle selection. I highly recommend the thai dye pizza.


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Editor's Note: Meet Chow Bella's new wine columnists, two men who likely need no introduction (and certainly no more wine, after the video you're about to watch) -- Pavle Milic and Brian Reeder.
Milic and Reeder, swirling and spitting.
Milic, who owns Scottsdale's Restaurant FnB, AZ Wine Merchants, Bodega and Baratin, and Reeder, who is the former wine director at the Montelucia Resort and owns AZ Wine Merchants with Milic, are wine snobs -- in all the right ways.
Each week on Chow Bella, Reeder will be discussing everything from wine terminology to the best wine regions; from current events in the world of wine to how you can build a cellar on a budget.
And in an ongoing series, Milic will share his adventures as he fulfills a lifelong dream (or tries to, anyway) of making his own wine.
For today, we invite you to open a bottle of your favorite school night wine, sit back and hit play to learn what these two are really all about. Try to keep the wine from squirting out your nose. Cheers.
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It Happened to Me: I Made a Photo Book in Less Than 15 Minutes
Scrolling through your camera roll is cool and all, but leafing through the pages of a photo book is just more magical.
We'd make a photo book for every occasion, but who has the time?
Turns out, if you've got 15 minutes, you do!
Photojojo-er and all around great gal Laurel just got back from a trip to Thailand and put together a photo book of her adventures in less than 15 minutes.
And, she's here to tell you just how she did it.