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Recovery in manufacturing is dependent on a fall in the dollar but the sector won't return to its previous strength, Reserve Bank of Australia board member
Ms Ridout, previously chief executive of the Australian Industry Group, a lobby group for manufacturing companies, said the sector wouldn't recover quickly and would have to become much more competitive than in the past.
"The death of manufacturing in Australia has been greatly exaggerated. It still employs a million people, but it is caught in a structural shift," she said in a discussion at Citigroup's annual Australia and New Zealand investment conference in Sydney.
"The manufacturing sector won't just bounce back, it will have to claw its way back in a very different world environment ... its business models will be quite different, and we will have to be much more competitive than we have been," Ms Ridout said.
Ms Ridout, who has been a member of the Reserve Bank board since April, said: "For manufacturing to bounce back, you're going to have to see some movement in the dollar."
In her former position as a business lobbyist, Ms Ridout was vocal about the high dollar's detrimental impact on manufacturing. One of the factors that has contributed to the strength of the dollar has been Australia's relatively high official interest rates, which are set by the Reserve Bank, compared with other nations. The dollar has stayed high despite a slump in major commodity export prices.
The dollar was trading at $US1.03 on Tuesday. Car and car part manufacturing has been hit hard by the rise in the dollar, which has made imports cheaper and Australian exports more expensive. The industry contracted an average of 9.4 per cent a year from 2008 to 2013 and will decline 1.4 per cent a year until 2018, according to IBISWorld.
In 2011, Ms Ridout told The Australian intervention in the foreign exchange market by the Reserve Bank, to drive the dollar lower, should be an option. "We are hearing nothing from Treasury and the Reserve Bank about the currency beyond that it is helpful in keeping inflation down," she said then.
At the conference on Tuesday, Ms Ridout toned down her previous views on the value of the dollar.
"The exchange rate previously did a lot of heavy lifting for the board. It kept a cap on inflation, it's a major shock absorber for the Australian economy. The dollar is caught in quite an interesting place," she said.
Low levels of labour productivity were "an issue" for Australian economic growth, she also said.
"Productivity is picking up a bit, but multi-factor productivity, which is really a proxy for innovation, has been very, very soft and no-one can deny that fact," she said.
Ms Ridout argued the mining boom was not over in Australia, despite a slowdown in China.
"We still have a strong export boom and it will go on . . . there's still a good amount of construction work related to mining over the next 18 months, though it is coming off. We are seeing from the suppliers to the mining industry there is less confidence coming through," she said.
China is going through a "garden variety slowdown" with a likely pick-up in the fourth quarter of this year, she said.
"It's very soft in China in property. There are a lot of buildings that are empty ... it's clear policy that they want this thing to be sorted. My view all along has been that the Chinese authorities have been very keen to deal with the asset burn in the property sector in China".
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Today I have signed into law H.R. 1540, the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012." I have signed the Act chiefly because it authorizes funding for the defense of the United States and its interests abroad, crucial services for service members and their families, and vital national security programs that must be renewed. In hundreds of separate sections totaling over 500 pages, the Act also contains critical Administration initiatives to control the spiraling health care costs of the Department of Defense (DoD), to develop counterterrorism initiatives abroad, to build the security capacity of key partners, to modernize the force, and to boost the efficiency and effectiveness of military operations worldwide. [read more at link]


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The Yellow House Farm Conservation Intiative
After more than 2000 years, will these little White Dorking chicks survive the next decade? They went to Britain on the heals of Julius Caesar, living off scraps. They survived the Middle Ages, when sustainable agriculture was the only agriculture and thrift meant survival. They were the first chickens brought over by English settlers to New England, filling an essentail need in the lives of early Americans. They provided tasty and nutritious food for us and our families before peak oil and the invention of industrial chicken product. Will they still be here after peak oil, when all of the industrial and unnatural chickens are dead and gone?
As the interest in raising poultry surges in our area, it comes time to consider more deeply what it means to homestead. In an eggshell, homesteading is about reestablishing relationaship with our local ecology: working with the earth to procure what we need, and enjoying the joys of independence bred of creativity and hard work. It is at once romantic and highly practical. When done right, it is a small victory for evironmental sustainability, making it a gift to self, neighbors, and the whole of planet Earth.
Assuredly, the raising of poultry fits neatly into the plans of a full homestead. Chickens, ducks and geese are excellent additions, when one procures appropriate birds for one's homsteading goals. This is the realm of heritage fowl. Modern hybrids have no place here. Homesteading poultry should be capable of foraging for a large portion of their own food, if given the chance to range. They fill the kitchen with eggs and the freezer with healthy and delicious meats. Moreover, when properly composted, poultry manure is a homesteader's best friend as natural fertilizer to the building of rich soils. There is no need for chemical fertilizers when poultry manure-based compost is on hand. The feathers of ducks and geese are traditionally the stuffing of homemade pillows, quilts, and comforters, being extremely good insulation against the cold winter night's chill. Ducks and geese are excellent producers of eggs and meat, and geese give meat, down and delicious goose grease with little more than a good lawn to graze. No homestead is complete without them.
Relationship is the key to good homesteading; it is now, and it has always been so. Indeed, practically every breed of traditional farm animal is the product of a regional relationship between an area's farmers and their animals. Before the post WWII era brought us a facile illusion of comfort that led individual to compete ruthlessly against individual, country life tended toward deep cooperation in the clear and simple name of survival. Farm cooperated with farm such that all could see a new spring. Because of this, homesteads were able to support each other.
In the keeping of farm animals, this is essential. As years pass, a farmer sees the need to import new blood into the barnyard in order to insure against the dangers on inbreeding. Knowing that one's neighbor is in the same boat, it become logical to exchange breeding fowl, thus renewing the flocks of both farms. In order for this to be truly adventageous, however, it is essential that flock owners breed their birds with like goals of utility. Otherwise, the needed swap can cause more damage than good, another clear need for farmer cooperation. Over time this interaction leads to an outstanding level of uniformity among the fowl and farm animals of a region. Like reproduces like, and a breed is born.
The latter half of the 20th century witnessed the general breakdown of the whole of homesteading and rural life. Breeds fell like flies as homes no longer depended on them for their meat and eggs. In some cases, breeds that dated back through centuries, and even millennia, were reduced to marginalized minor populations, barely holding on. Corporate agribusiness rejected this rich bio-diversity for the marketing uniformity of a few breeds, bred into new and unnatural forms, guarded behind closed doors. Slowly, their grip has become like a vice over traditional rural life and the food supplies of both rural and urban centers.
Still, as a culture, we appear to be beginning to reawaken from this metal nightmare. For some breeds it is and will be too late. Their numbers are so reduced that they shall never rebound and will slip unsung into oblivion. For others, though, there is still time, and we shall be able to reclaim them from the ravages of neglect, if we are only willing to work together for their, and subsequently our, greater good.
To this end, we announce the Yellow House Farm Conservation Intiative, the goal of which will be the establishment of a network of homesteaders and farmers dedicating their efforts to specific breeds. As we do so, we will witness their strengthening and rejuvenation. They will enrich our homesteads with their many products and services. It will connect people of like mind and goal, and slowly refresh, in some small way, the general community.
Upon purchasing hatchlings from Yellow House Farm, customers will be encouraged to join the Society for the Preservation of Poultry Antiquities. The SPPA provides member farmers and homesteaders with the a national Breeders' Directory. Thus, as time passes and there is a need to refresh bloodlines with acquisition of new stock, breeders will be able to consult the SPPA Breeders' Directory to contact other area homesteaders and farmers for a traditional "rooster swap". Moreover, Yellow House Farm will continue its commitment to helping new breeders master the arts of poultry breeding and selection such that each year's hatchlings will mark a new step in the development of heritage breeds whose utility meets and surpasses the echo of yesteryear.
Moreover, membership in the Society for the Preservation of Poultry Antiquities allows for fraternizing between breeders. In our busy schedules, we often need support to make things run smoothly. The SPPA connects breeder to breeder and opens doorways of support and mutual benefit, i.e. we're all in this boat together.
As a community, we shall be able to reclaim our food system from outside suppliers of unsavory menu items. Instead, we shall enjoy excellent food as nature intends it. Consider beginning your breeding program this year. Check out Yellow House Farm School. It's fun and not at all difficult. Indeed, it represents what was for innumerable generations a basic skill of everyday life. Join the Yellow House Farm Conservation Initiative!


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Few will argue with the fact that one of the only ways to eliminate distracted driving is to completely remove the driver from the equation. This is in part what automated, driverless vehicles -- such as the fleet that Google is operating around the country -- promise. The cars are expected to be safer because distracted drivers will no longer be an issue. Google's driverless fleet has racked up
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Driverless vehicles can also allow those who were unable to drive themselves to get around without having to seek assistance. Other than making the roads safer, driverless cars also promise to decrease congestion and delays on the nation's roadways by eliminating accidents.
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on its state roads with one California legislator introducing a bill seeking to clarify that driverless cars are street legal. Google continues to be one of the major driving forces behind driverless vehicles, although there are other companies working in the industry.
Google believes that it has the computer science knowledge and financial strength to bring driverless cars to reality for Americans. "It's amazing to me that we (even) let humans drive cars," Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said a few years ago.
A lot of the technology needed for driverless vehicles is already available, and some vehicles on the streets today have many of the components needed to make this feat possible. Industry Association Auto Alliance represents Toyota, Ford, GM, BMW, and other major automakers. According to Auto Alliance, its members are individually exploring autonomous vehicle technology, and the association says that great strides have been made in the past decade.
Ford and GM, for instance, are working on autonomous braking technology that allows the car to bring itself to a complete stop when radar and other sensors the vehicle use sense an impending accident.
While some state legislators in California are trying to get the vehicles legalized for road use within the state, other states such as Nevada already allow driverless cars to operate on its roads.
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Hurricane Who: Category Three - A Doctor Who Convention in Orlando, Florida
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Friday, November 2, 2012 at 10:00 AM - Sunday, November 4, 2012 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
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London, United Kingdom
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Event Details
Full Weekend and Single Day Tickets for Category Three will be available at the door. Ticket Prices are:
- Full Weekend - Adult: $80
- Full Weekend - Child: $40
- Friday Only - Adult: $40
- Saturday Only - Adult: $50
- Sunday Only - Adult: $40
- Single Day - Child: $20
On-Site Convention Registration* is located in Okeechobee 1 and will be open the following hours:
- Thursday - 7:00pm to 10:00pm
- Friday - 10:00am to 6:00pm
- Saturday - 9:00am to 6:00pm
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Peter Davison - ("The Fifth Doctor" from Doctor Who)
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Caitlin Blackwood - ("Amelia Pond" from Doctor Who)
Anjli Mohindra - ("Rani Chandra" from The Sarah Jane Adventures)
Paul Marc Davis - ("The Trickster" from The Sarah Jane Adventures)
Arlene Tur - ("Dr. Vera Juarez" from Torchwood: Miracle Day)
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Her 10 Best Looks: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Happy birthday, Rosie! The gorgeous English model turns 25 today, and she has plenty of reasons to celebrate. Rosie was a relative unknown until 2008, when she scored her big break by way of the opportunity of a lifetime: Burberry's chief creative director, Christopher Bailey, chose the Victoria's Secret catalogue model to replace Agyness Deyn in the British fashion house's fall/winter ad campaign. It was all uphill from then on, with a British Vogue cover following shortly thereafter. Now Rosie is practically a household name, nearly as ubiquitous a model as her VS Angel counterparts Alessandra Ambrosio or Adriana Lima, and it shouldn't take any more than a look at her to fathom what makes her a star (here's a hint: it's not "Transformers"). Her intimidating beauty and leggy stature is offset by a quiet British modesty and sense of propriety, not to mention a standout dress sense. Rosie doesn't do it all on her own, so let's give credit where credit is due — Cher Coulter, the stylist also behind Kate Bosworth, Elizabeth Olsen, and Sienna Miller, to name a few, is the one responsible for Rosie's elegant, casual, always impeccable look. Yeah, I want Cher to be my stylist, too! Check out my picks for Rosie's ten best red carpet looks (disregarding the fact that this girl looks good in literally anything and everything) in the gallery above.


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by Patrick Hoffman on 02/15/10 at 02:08 PM ET
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Friend of the Blog Nicholas Montemagno of The Rangers Tribune wrote up a terrific Olympic Preview blog. Here is a small sample of what he wrote:
I will start by taking a look at Team USA. General Manager Brian Burke went about creating his team with a bit of a different mindset than the rest of the Countries participating in the games. He went young and talented instead of old and experienced, but the question is if that young talent will be enough to be superior to clubs such as Canada and Russia, who are simply loaded with skill.
The United States will rely heavily on forwards Zach Parise and Patrick Kane to provide a majority of their offense. And in goal, you have Buffalo Sabre Ryan Miller, who knows he will have to be superb in net for the U.S. if they want to go anywhere in this tournament. On defense, you have the Johnson combination (not related) in Jack (Kings) and Eric (Blues).
You also have the grinding fourth line containing the Rangers own Ryan Callahan and Chris Drury, who you can also look to play on the penalty-kill and in situations where the coaching staff in Ron Wilson, John Tortorella, and Scott Gordon will need a 110 percent effort.
The United States will have no choice but to overachieve in this tournament. They will be the underdogs, the rivals, the enemies. Sometimes that can work in your favor, and other times it does not.
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Contracts for teachers and support staff were approved at a special meeting of the Wooster City Schools Board of Education Monday night.
After going into executive session for more than 2 1/2 hours, the board voted to approve the contracts. The board and the Wooster Education Association put the contracts together in four days. The contracts will last for the next three years.
"This is about what we accomplished together," said Superintendent David Estrop. "It merits mention that we expedited this process and are months ahead of our regular schedule. We took only four days to negotiate two master contracts."
Peter Larrousse, president of the WEA commented, "We represent over 500 employees -- all the certified and support staff. These negotiations were very open and honest. Both sides are open and willing and that made it all so easy."
According to Larrousse, part of the reason the contracts were negotiated so quickly is that there were no major issues between the board and the association. "Most all the issues were housekeeping -- clarifying the language of the contracts and the existing rules. One important part of the contract is the provision that the district can add up to five days per year for professional development activities for the staff. This will have no effect on students."
Estrop said, "We started this process early, got it settled and we're ready for school to get under way next year. We didn't use traditional bargaining techniques. Instead we asked each other, 'What problem are you trying to solve?' and we reached by consensus and understanding what we wanted to do."
According to Larrousse, "The only time traditional bargaining was used was in the financial part of the contracts near the end. Still, we only went back and forth twice."
According to Estrop, raises for staff will be 3.1 percent the first year, 3.25 percent the second year and 3.5 percent the third year. "Hopefully this will serve our employees, students, parents and community well," Estrop said.
"Last time negotiations were prolonged, protracted and adversarial," added Larrousse. "This time both sides agreed to approach this with a problem-solving attitude. Previous sessions took a year to settle. This time we took four days. It lets us keep the focus on the kids."


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Evan Wing, of Milton, is a senior at Rice Memorial High School. I started writing poetry in the third grade, moved on to short tories and essays, and wrote my first book during the summer before my freshman year," he says. Evan's book, A Bird in the Sky, was published in December 2010. He is 17.
A Requiem for Titanic
She, once built in the light
Of the grey Belfast sky,
Now rests in the dark,
A dream come to die.
She once carried gentlemen,
Ladies, cardsharps, and priests,
Lawyers, celebrities,
Investors, and thieves.
She now rests deserted,
But visited by
The spirits of memories
Who refuse to die.
She's a shadow now
Of what she had been,
Grave for the innocent,
Tomb for true men.
But true ships never sink
And a true ship is she,
She now sails through longing thoughts
And quiet reverie.
A maze of the bones
Of the ambition of men:
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Chart showing how many tropical cyclones and hurricanes happen in the North Atlantic Ocean during different months of the year. There is a peak in early September, with the season extending from June through November.Return
Chart showing how many tropical cyclones and hurricanes happen in the Eastern Pacific Ocean during different months. This chart shows that the main tropical cyclone season is June through October, with the peak in August.Return
Map showing typhoon locations in the Northwest Pacific Ocean and cyclone locations in the western South Pacific Ocean, North Indian Ocean, and South Indian Ocean. Neither typhoons nor cyclones are present in the area immediately north and south of the equator.Return
Chart showing how many tropical storms and typhoons happen in the Northwest Pacific Ocean during different months. Most occur between July and November with very few storms during January, February, and March.Return
Chart showing how many tropical storms and cyclones happen in the Indian Ocean and Southwest Pacific Ocean during different months. Most storms are between December and April in the South Indian Ocean and Southwest Pacific Ocean. In the North Indian Ocean, most are in May, October, and November.Return
Satellite picture shows the western side of the earth's Northern Hemisphere. Three tropical cyclones can be seen marching across the Atlantic Ocean, forming a line between West Africa and the West Indies.
Illustration shows a loosely organized group of storms. Within each storm, arrows show heat and moisture rising into the atmosphere over the ocean. Big orange arrows show that the group is rotating counterclockwise. The ocean surface temperature is warmer than 26.5° Celsius, and light winds blow from the left at the level of the storm tops.
A satellite picture shows three tropical cyclones. In the upper-left corner, Hurricane Edouard swirls to the north of Puerto Rico. In the center, Tropical Storm Fran, shaped like a comma, rotates over the ocean to the east of Barbados. In the lower-right, Tropical Depression #7 appears as a loose group of storms over the central Atlantic.
A satellite picture shows a hurricane with a well-defined eye. The eye is clear all the way to the surface of the ocean. It is surrounded by a sharp eyewall that is illuminated by sunlight on one side and is in a shadow on the other.
Two satellite pictures show large hurricane-strength storms. In the picture on the left, the clouds are swirling in a clockwise pattern, while in the picture on the right, they are swirling in a counterclockwise pattern.
World map of the oceans shows sea surface temperatures by color. In the equatorial zone, shading is bright red and orange, indicating warm temperatures. In the midlatitudes, shading goes to yellow and green, indicating cooler sea surface temperatures. Cooler seas are found along the North and South American west coasts, and the Southwest African coast. In the higher latitudes, shading goes from blue to purple, indicating much colder sea surfaces.
Two satellite pictures of a hurricane that moved over land. In the picture on the left, the hurricane has just hit the coasts of Florida and Alabama. A large circular blob of blue with red in the middle indicates a very strong storm.
The picture on the right shows the remnants of the same storm 24 hours later. Storm clouds are swirling over north-central Alabama and Mississippi, but the tight spiraling pattern is gone, and the system has become much weaker.
Photo of a damaged McDonald's Restaurant sign. Large pieces are missing from both the main sign section and the golden arches above.
Photo of an overturned mobile home resting against the trunks of several damaged and downed pine trees.
Photo showing a large section of a beach-front hotel that has lost its foundation and totters toward the sea.
Photo showing a residential neighborhood that has been heavily damaged by hurricane-spawned tornados. Some houses are completely demolished, while sections of bare walls remain standing where other houses used to be. Debris litters the yards and streets.
Two photos showing an apartment building before and after it was completely demolished by the storm surge of Hurricane Camille. The before picture shows three buildings with a lawn, trees, and parking lot. The after picture shows only rubble where the building stood and bare trees.
World map showing two midlatitude westerly wind belts (shown in pink). The northern belt blows from west to east across North America, the North Atlantic Ocean, Europe, and Asia. The southern belt blows from west to east across the South Pacific Ocean, Chile, Argentina, the South Atlantic Ocean, South Africa, the South Indian Ocean, Southern Australia, and New Zealand.
The yellow arrows in the picture also show two tropical easterly wind belts blowing from east to west on either side of the equator. The northern tropical easterly belt blows across the Pacific Ocean, Southeast Asia, India, the North Indian Ocean, the Arabian Peninsula, Saharan Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, Southern Mexico, and Central America. The southern belt blows from east to west across Northern Australia, the Indian Ocean, Southern Africa, the South Atlantic Ocean, the middle of South America, and the South Pacific Ocean.
Map of North America and the North Atlantic Ocean. A circular low pressure system, with a red "L" in the middle, covers most of the eastern United States. Arrows on its perimeter circle counterclockwise. A circular high pressure system, with a blue "H" in the middle covers a big area over the western Northern Atlantic Ocean. Arrows on its perimeter circle clockwise.
Map of North America and the North Atlantic Ocean. A low pressure system covers most of the eastern United States. Arrows on its perimeter circle counterclockwise. A high pressure system covers a big area over the western North Atlantic Ocean. Arrows on its perimeter circle clockwise.
There are two hurricanes on this map. Hurricane A is located over Florida, between the low and the high. It is southeast of the low and west-southwest of the high. Hurricane B is located in the central North Atlantic Ocean, halfway between Africa and the Caribbean. It is southeast of the high pressure system.
World map with arrows illustrating typical journeys of tropical cyclones in the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans. A shaded band highlights the tropics, bounded by the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere and the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere.
In the North Atlantic Ocean, yellow arrows show typical hurricane paths, starting in the Central Atlantic or Caribbean Sea, moving toward the west, then bending toward the north or northeast as they strike the United States or move into the North Atlantic Ocean.
In the Eastern Pacific Ocean, yellow arrows show hurricanes typically starting near the west coast of Central America and then moving west or northwest into the Pacific Ocean.
In the North Indian Ocean, red arrows show cyclones starting in the eastern or northern parts of the Indian Ocean, and then moving west and north to strike Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, or the Arabian Peninsula.
In the South Indian Ocean, red arrows show cyclones starting in the eastern or central areas of the South Indian Ocean, then moving west, sometimes striking the east coast of Africa, and then turning toward the south.
In the Northwest Pacific Ocean, green arrows show typhoons starting out anywhere along a band about ten degrees north of the equator, then moving west or north to strike Southeast and East Asia. Some typhoons then turn toward the east and move out into the central North Pacific Ocean.
In the Southwest Pacific Ocean, red arrows show cyclones starting out in a long line to the north of Australia, about 10 degrees south of the equator. Then, they turn toward the east and south, striking the north coast of Australia or turning toward the southwest to move into the central South Pacific Ocean.


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Jack Hughes over at The Tech Teapot posted today that Nagios has been forked. Apparently the lead developer (and sole person with commit access) has been very busy and not committing updates. This caused some self-described protagonists to launch "Icinga".
It's going to be very interesting to see where this goes. I personally hope that Nagios itself picks back up. My Nagios 3 installation is great, and I love it. I've had nothing but good things to say about it. If it doesn't pick back up, I have to wonder how many people will just move to OpenNMS.


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The special charm of Tara—and the reason the role was irresistible to collette—is that these identities are so distinct.
Now collette isn't just playing a mentally ill woman, she's also playing her own shrink.
That said, collette, Donovan, and McDermott are very good, and this could develop into something twisty and taut.
Still, the actors do their best, especially Brosnan and collette.
Now that collette had left La Domaine, who was she a slave to, collette or R?
They asked collette if she would go to mass: she said, 'I will not.'
Item, he also called Marie, wife of Massy, and daughter of the said collette.
collette gave a start as she began to realize vaguely what Craig was driving at.
Kennedy had covered up Leon's face again and collette was crying softly.
There was just a faint movement of the lips, as though as the man came back from another world he would have called, "collette!"


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After spending nearly nine months in jail, Thomas Trantino, the paroled killer of two New Jersey police officers and one of the state's most infamous convicts of recent years, was acquitted Thursday of all charges that he beat his live-in companion last fall. On one minor charge, that Mr. Trantino had falsely imprisoned the woman, the jury was deadlocked and a mistrial was declared.
Mr. Trantino, 66, seemed jubilant after the jury foreman finished reading a string of not guilty verdicts. After the foreman sat down, Mr. Trantino, who appeared pale and drawn, looked at the jurors from his seat at the defense table and mouthed the words ''Thank you.'' Then, with tears glistening in his eyes, he gave his lawyer, William Buckman, a hearty bear hug.
Immediately after the verdict, the presiding judge, Linda G. Baxter of Superior Court, removed the $100,000 bail imposed on Mr. Trantino when he was arrested last Nov. 6. He was not released from jail, however, because of an existing warrant that the New Jersey Parole Board issued when he was arrested. Mr. Buckman said he planned to ask the board to lift the warrant. A spokesman for the board, Edward Bray, said the panel would consider Mr. Buckman's request when he submits it.
Jurors contacted after the verdict declined to comment on how they had reached their decision.
Mr. Trantino has attracted considerable attention in recent years because of his conviction for fatally shooting two police officers in a nightclub in Lodi, N.J., in August 1963. He served 38 years in prison, and the Parole Board rejected nine of his applications between the early 1980's and the late 1990's. In 2001 the New Jersey Supreme Court said the board had bowed to political pressure in refusing to release him and ordered him freed. He was released in early 2002 and began advising ex-convicts and troubled teenagers at a social service agency, which a local Quaker congregation arranged in downtown Camden.
His parole record was unblemished until the woman, Carmen Gonzalez, filed charges against him, accusing him of beating her on five occasions. Mr. Trantino was arrested after a 911 call about a scuffle involving the couple at his downtown Camden office. After the verdict on Thursday, his lawyer, Mr. Buckman, said: ''This is a complete vindication and an indication that the case was threadbare. The result confirmed his belief in the decency of people. It's time for the prosecutor to show good character and put the case to bed.''Continue reading the main story
The Camden County prosecutor, Vincent Sarubbi, and his assistant who tried the case, Sally Smith, both said they respected the jury's decision, which came after about 20 hours of deliberation over four days.
''I think what this says is we're not afraid to try the difficult ones,'' Mr. Sarubbi said.
Both Mr. Sarubbi and Ms. Smith said at a brief news conference that they believed the key issue in the acquittal was the credibility of Ms. Gonzalez, an ex-convict and a heroin addict for much of her adult life. During the trial, defense lawyers criticized her as unreliable and unbelievable, and Mr. Sarubbi and Ms. Smith both suggested they thought jurors did not believe her.
Since Mr. Trantino's arrest in November, she has changed her accounts of the beatings several times. A day after she accused him of beating, kicking and choking her several times over a five-day period in late October and early November, she said in a street-corner news conference near the couple's apartment that the charges were not true. On Dec. 2, she told one of Mr. Trantino's lawyers during a taped telephone call that Mr. Trantino had not assaulted her. Two days later, Ms. Gonzalez testified before a state Family Court judge that her accusations were a lie, brought on by coercive Camden police and her withdrawal from methadone.
But when she testified against Mr. Trantino for two days earlier this month, she reverted to her original story and told the jury that Mr. Trantino had beaten, choked and kicked her.
Mr. Trantino was arrested after he and Ms. Gonzalez grappled during a noisy argument in a stairwell at the social service agency. He told others in the building that he was trying to prevent her from trying to commit suicide by jumping from the building's roof. She contended she was not suicidal and simply wanted to leave the building and charged that Mr. Trantino kept her from doing so.
She also told Camden police of five beatings. Ultimately, Mr. Trantino was indicted and tried on five charges of aggravated assault and one count of criminal restraint. Each charge carries a maximum prison term of five years.
Shortly before jury deliberations began last Thursday, Judge Baxter gave jurors additional optional charges to consider if they acquitted Mr. Trantino of main charges of aggravated assault and criminal restraint. The optional charges were five counts of simple assault and one count of false imprisonment. All six are non-indictable, disorderly persons charges and each carries a maximum term of six months in jail.
Lawyers in the case said recent court rulings in New Jersey require judges in criminal trials to provide jurors secondary charges during deliberation that are less severe than the original, main charges.
The jury found Mr. Trantino not guilty of the five counts of aggravated assault and the five counts of simple assault. It also acquitted him of the criminal restraint charge. On the similar, but less severe, charge of false imprisonment, the jury could not reach a decision, and Judge Baxter declared a mistrial.
She set a hearing for Aug. 16 on whether Mr. Trantino will face a new trial on the imprisonment charge.
Mr. Sarubbi, the prosecutor, said he will make a decision about a new trial in the next few days.Continue reading the main story


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With his 2007 debut, I''ll Stay Me, Luke Bryan unapologetically shared his own brand of traditional Country music with an ever-growing legion of fans. On his sophomore album, Doin'' My Thing, Luke is destined to find an even broader audience. The lead single from the album, ''Do I'', definitely has fans talking.


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I think many readers found an entry to your work with your civil war–era novel Woe to Live On.
Christie manages to win the nomination and the GOP civil war officially begins.
Loveless is an ex-Confederate scientist who hopes to get back at the North for winning the civil war.
Plus, find out who the 47 percent are, and Robert Shrum on the coming GOP civil war.
On the border there is little gratitude for the American intervention in Syria after more than three long years of civil war.
More than you killed and wounded, remember, in the whole civil war.
The civil war when it came brought enough of suffering and horror.
There is an element in this country that already has no use for the soldier of the civil war.
It does not belong to this work to give a history of the civil war.
The cartoonists of the civil war do not seem to have grasped this idea.
"battles among fellow citizens or within a community," from civil in a sense of "occurring among fellow citizens" attested from late 14c. in batayle ciuile "civil battle," etc. The exact phrase civil war is attested from late 15c. (the Latin phrase was bella civicus).
Early use typically was in reference to ancient Rome. Later, in England, to the struggle between Parliament and Charles I (1641-1651); in U.S., to the War of Secession (1861-1865), an application often decried as wholly inaccurate but in use (among other names) in the North during the war and boosted by the use of the term in the popular "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" series published 1884-87 in "Century Magazine."
"The war between the States," which a good many Southerners prefer, is both bookish and inexact. "Civil war" is an utter misnomer. It was used and is still used by courteous people, the same people who are careful to say "Federal" and "Confederate." "War of the rebellion," which begs the very question at issue, has become the official designation of the struggle, but has found no acceptance with the vanquished. To this day no Southerner uses it except by way of quotation .... "The war of secession" is still used a good deal in foreign books, but it has no popular hold. "The war," without any further qualification, served the turn of Thucydides and Aristophanes for the Peloponnesian war. It will serve ours, let it be hoped, for some time to come. [Basil L. Gildersleeve, "The Creed of the Old South," 1915]
The war fought in the United States between northern (Union) and southern (Confederate) states from 1861 to 1865, in which the Confederacy sought to establish itself as a separate nation. The Civil War is also known as the War for Southern Independence and as the War between the States. The war grew out of deep-seated differences between the social structure and economy of North and South, most notably over slavery; generations of political maneuvers had been unable to overcome these differences (see Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850). The secession of the southern states began in late 1860, after Abraham Lincoln was elected president. The Confederacy was formed in early 1861. The fighting began with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter. Most of the battles took place in the South, but one extremely crucial episode, the Battle of Gettysburg, was fought in the North. The war ended with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. (See Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Chancellorsville, Emancipation Proclamation, and Sherman's march to the sea; also see map, next page.)
Note: The Civil War has been the most serious test yet of the ability of the United States to remain one nation.


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New JP Pennant Phase 2 U21 League Champions – NUIM BARNHALL RFC
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NUIM Barnhall captured top spot in the JP Pennant Phase Two Under 21 League with an emphatic 32 point defeat of Suttonians in Parsonstown last Sunday the 4th of March.
All in BARNHALL RFC are very Proud of our U21 Blue Bulls and look forward to there cup run which kicks off this Sunday against Naas.
Please come along and support your Team.
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Hello all, Robert Haas submitted the TRUNCATE permissions patch for the September commit fest: http://email@example.com I had some extra time tonight, so I downloaded, installed and reviewed this patch. Here are my findings: 1. I found the patch style to be consistent with the surrounding code. 2. The patch provides documentation updates and regression test updates. 3. The patch applies (with some fuzz) to the latest GIT tree. Three issues I found with the patch via code reading and verified via testing: 1. File: src/backend/catalog/aclchk.c: Function: pg_class_aclmask(): I believe the ACL_TRUNCATE trigger should be added to this check and mask. /* * Deny anyone permission to update a system catalog unless * pg_authid.rolcatupdate is set. (This is to let superusers protect * themselves from themselves.) Also allow it if allowSystemTableMods. * * As of 7.4 we have some updatable system views; those shouldn't be * protected in this way. Assume the view rules can take care of * themselves. ACL_USAGE is if we ever have system sequences. */ if ((mask & (ACL_INSERT | ACL_UPDATE | ACL_DELETE | ACL_USAGE)) && IsSystemClass(classForm) && classForm->relkind != RELKIND_VIEW && !has_rolcatupdate(roleid) && !allowSystemTableMods) { #ifdef ACLDEBUG elog(DEBUG2, "permission denied for system catalog update"); #endif mask &= ~(ACL_INSERT | ACL_UPDATE | ACL_DELETE | ACL_USAGE); } Here is where it is visible via the psql interface: template1=# select rolname, rolcatupdate from pg_authid; rolname | rolcatupdate ---------+-------------- rbrad | t (1 row) template1=# select has_table_privilege('pg_class', 'delete'); has_table_privilege --------------------- t (1 row) template1=# select has_table_privilege('pg_class', 'truncate'); has_table_privilege --------------------- t (1 row) template1=# update pg_authid set rolcatupdate = false; UPDATE 1 template1=# select has_table_privilege('pg_class', 'delete'); has_table_privilege --------------------- f (1 row) template1=# select has_table_privilege('pg_class', 'truncate'); has_table_privilege --------------------- t (1 row) I do not believe this is a huge issue since truncate is prohibited on the system catalogs by the truncate_check_rel(). template1=# truncate pg_authid; ERROR: permission denied: "pg_authid" is a system catalog 2. The src/test/regress/sql/privileges.sql regression test has tests for the has_table_privilege() function. It looks like all the other permissions are tested in this function, but there is not a test for the TRUNCATE privilege. 3. I believe you missed a documentation update in the ddl.sgml file: There are several different privileges: <literal>SELECT</>, <literal>INSERT</>, <literal>UPDATE</>, <literal>DELETE</>, <literal>REFERENCES</>, <literal>TRIGGER</>, <literal>CREATE</>, <literal>CONNECT</>, <literal>TEMPORARY</>, <literal>EXECUTE</>, and <literal>USAGE</>. I played around with the patch for an hour or so tonight and I did not observer any other unusual behaviors. Hopefully this review is useful. It is my first patch review for a commit-fest. I will update the wiki with a link to this email message for my review. Thanks, - Ryan
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Adultery, cannibalism and fart jokes ... Cooking with Elvis is as bizarre as it is witty, writes Judy Adamson.
Those who pride themselves on Sydney theatre's capacity to take a few risks - especially when compared with our Queensland neighbours - should prepare to repent in a heap of ashes.
In June, Brisbane theatregoers flocked to a Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) production of an in-your-face English comedy called Cooking With Elvis. The play ran for a month, but when Michael Gow, the artistic director of the QTC, tried to take it to Sydney it was a very different matter.
"Most people in Sydney looked at it and said, 'oh, we couldn't possibly put that on', because it's not high art," Gow says. "But it's from Newcastle-on-Tyne, so let's forget the niceties ... I think it would go off in Sydney, but people didn't think it 'quite right'. Their loss. So it takes Brisbane - which is supposed to be full of conservative rednecks - to do it."
He says people need to be reminded that comedy in ancient Greece "was a bunch of men with fake dicks jumping around and singing songs".
"There is that element of the lowlife in theatre. That's partly what those gross-out movies tap into - the adolescent in all of us that laughs at fart and poo jokes. A lot of people think theatre should be lovely and genteel, but once a year you need to have a knees-up."
Cooking With Elvis is set in the home of a working-class family in northern England, two years after Dad, an Elvis impersonator, has become a quadriplegic in a car accident. His wife deals with the tragedy by going on the grog and bringing home young men. Jilly, their 14-year-old daughter, seeks comfort in obsessively creating cordon bleu food.
Mum's latest lover is Stuart, a baker with plenty of brawn who eventually beds Jilly and even helps relieve the erections of the apparently catatonic Dad. But Dad is quite aware of what is going on and shares his feelings with the audience through his Elvis persona - which is all his mind has left him.
Add a dash of coarse language, cannibalism, tortoise-eating and bulimia, and you have a mix which is bizarre but has kept audiences laughing everywhere from the Edinburgh Festival and London's West End to Finland.
Some elements in the play are drawn from the experiences of the Newcastle-born author, Lee Hall - such as the town's obsession with Elvis Presley, and a neighbour whose wife took in lovers after he became a paraplegic.
Yet Hall studied English at Cambridge and has been writer-in-residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company, translating Brecht, among other things. Most people would be happy to label that "high art", and they'd do the same with Hall if he let them. Instead, he channels his knowledge of other theatrical eras and nations into work such as Cooking With Elvis and the screenplay for the film Billy Elliot.
Gow has the highest opinion of Hall's craft and theatrical voice, describing him as "incredibly erudite and well read".
"He knows a hell of a lot about the craft of writing - then he has fun with it and parodies everything. There's scenes [in Cooking With Elvis] that are straight out of French farce, and the finale is ripped off from Greek theatre, where the god comes down and sorts everything out. There's stupid sight gags and verbal comedy in the best English tradition - from the Goons to Fawlty Towers to ... everything - so he's very clever at putting those together into a package and letting that speak for itself.
"People also appreciate that it deals with things like disability and teenage sexuality without being at all an 'issue' play. You don't come out feeling like 'I've failed my children and my family, I must do more'. You just think 'get over it': everyone's bizarre, and the sooner you face that, the better."
"What's abnormal?" Gow adds. "You get behind the front door of anywhere and it's not The Brady Bunch. That's what the play's saying. As Jilly says, 'Life's bloody weird, isn't it?', and I think audiences appreciate that. They stop feeling guilty that their life isn't like the perfect TV show or magazine family. It would be some sort of endless pet food commercial."
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The Colts may have lost to the New York Jets Thursday night in a 13-10 game, but the final score isn't what most will remember about the game. It was a night full of expected turns, twists, and even a few pleasant surprises.
The preseason opener took place in the Meadowlands, where things quickly turned negative for the Colts quickly, as starting center Khaled Holmes was injured on the opening drive. He was seen grabbing his leg, and attempting to get up, before laying down and waiting for medical attention. After examination from the trainers, he was able to limp off field.
Today he underwent an MRI scan, where it was found he sprained his ankle. It has not been said how many games he will miss, but it is likely he will return later in the season.
Holmes' opening was filled by Jonotthan Harrison, who unfortunately snapped the ball too early on only his second down. In a post-game interview, he claimed he was nervous about his first NFL game, and that he would make it a point to make sure it didn't happen again.
Additional bad news is that Holmes was not the only injury of the game. Daniel Adongo, former rugby player and current outside linebacker, also left the game due to a bicep injury. Linemen Ulrick John and Jeris Pendleton received a right ankle and right knee injury, respectively.
Another unexpected moment for the Colts last night came not on the field, but on the internet. Chris Rainey, who was waived from the team on July 28th, made statements from his twitter feed that gave insight into his leaving the team. In one tweet, he expressed frustration on not being with the team, and then in another congratulated Daniel Heron while saying "u was in the hallway with me that nite when we was horsing around with that fire extinguisher. Man up like I did." This is the first time he has shed light on the circumstances which lead to his dismissal from the team, which Coach Pagano has made clear had nothing to do with his performance.
But there was more to Thursday night than drama and injury. Despite being outscored by the Jets, the Colts' offense performed well, with T.Y. Hilton performing admirably. Trent Richardson also made several runs, which could be hints at further development, while running back Dan Herron achieved six catches and seven carries.
On the defensive end, linebacker Henoc Muamba stole the show and showed he meant business by racking up twelve tackles.
It was also a big night for Erik Swoope, who played his first downs of football ever as a tight end. He has called the experience "exhilarating," and "a big learning experience," will surely see more playtime in the next few weeks.
The Colts will continue their training camp in Anderson, Indiana, and prepare for their August 16th game against the New York Giants
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Stocks To Watch For July 16, 2014
Some of the stocks that may grab investor focus today are:
Wall Street expects Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) to report its Q2 earnings at $0.29 per share on revenue of $21.62 billion. Bank of America shares rose 0.44% to $15.88 in after-hours trading.
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced a partnership with International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) in which IBM will sell iPhones and iPads to business clients globally. In addition, IBM will build apps for the iPhone and iPad, an array of cloud services, support for enterprise customers and offerings for device activation, supply and management. Apple shares gained 1.55% to $96.80 in after-hours trading, while IBM shares jumped 2.01% to $192.28 in the after-hours trading session.
U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) is projected to report its Q2 earnings at $0.77 per share on revenue of $4.94 billion. U.S. Bancorp shares climbed 0.58% to close at $43.30 yesterday.
Analysts are expecting eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) to have earned $0.68 per share on revenue of $4.38 billion in the second quarter. eBay shares gained 0.07% to $50.85 in after-hours trading.
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) reported weaker-than-expected second-quarter results. The company announced it will reduce the number of shares being offered in the Alibaba IPO from 208 million shares to 140 million shares. Yahoo shares declined 2.22% to $34.82 in the after-hours trading session.
Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) is estimated to post its Q2 earnings at $0.74 per share on revenue of $3.25 billion. Yum Brands shares declined 0.13% to close at $83.18 yesterday.
Analysts expect Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) to report its Q2 earnings at $0.51 per share on revenue of $5.52 billion. Abbott shares gained 0.07% to $41.20 in after-hours trading.
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Hardware maker CradlePoint has released a new router designed specifically to support M2M services running over LTE networks.
The CradlePoint (Boise, ID, USA) COR IBR600 4G is advertised as being flexible and robust and, therefore, suited to critical enterprise applications requiring always-on, around-the-clock connectivity.
CradlePoint says it is designed to support high-bandwidth applications used across a number of industries, including the energy, retail, finance, security and transport sectors.
It can be deployed as a primary mobile broadband connection or as a back-up for when a wired connection is disrupted, and comes with both mobile broadband and WiFi antennas.
"With the CradlePoint COR networking solution, businesses can connect new locations with 4G speeds in a matter of minutes," said Tony Puopolo, the vice president of international sales at CradlePoint. "If a wired line is later installed, the customer can move the device into a failover mode and virtually guarantee 99.99% uptime with their network."
CradlePoint's older COR IBR600 routers have already been deployed across a number of industries.
Customers include North Kansas City School Buses, which is providing a WiFi service "to recapture lost educational time whilst travelling during school hours", and Avanti Markets, which is using CradlePoint routers as part of a digital kiosks offering.
The new 4G products will be distributed across Europe by Westbase Technology (Caldicot, UK), a specialist distributor of wireless technologies for commercial and M2M applications.
The deal is a further sign of growing momentum in the 4G M2M market.
Although device costs are still much higher than for 2G and 3G equipment – and many applications do not require such high-speed connections – 4G is gaining in M2M importance as organizations prepare for a possible 2G and 3G blackout.
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Bad Hair Day, Don't Let It Ruin Your Day!
So what's a girl to do when she climbs out of bed on a sunny morning, only to greet a less-than-happy 'do that you can't seem to do a darn thing with?
The simple solution is to cover it up – go preppie chic with the back-in-style headbands, or throw that mess up in a butterfly clip, leaving ends kicked out in a spiky, flirty way.
What about when it's more than just misbehaving bed head? Bad perms, blotchy color, and the wrong cut can seem like a total hair catastrophe. Just keep in mind – hair will grow back, it always does. Try to maintain a certain amount of perspective
Okay, that's enough. You may return to your regularly scheduled hair nightmare. But please resist the urge to shave your head completely, or douse your hair in more chemicals!
One home technique you can try to rid yourself of a bad perm, is to saturate your hair with canola oil. No, really. Then wrap hair up with plastic bags and cover the whole thing with a towel and sit tight with a book or a stack of magazines, because you need to leave that oil on your hair for a good hour or so.
After your locks have marinated for a while, jump in the shower and wash the oil out – you may need a gentle shampoo to get it all out. Then cover hair with a good conditioner for chemically treated or colored hair, and let it sit for a minute or so.
Repeat this whole routine for about a week, and you should see those curls loosen up a bit – and feel a little less like a poodle!
If it's a snip-happy stylist who has caused your bad hair day, all is not lost. First off, sleep on your new 'do. Sometimes a cut can be so shocking that you may need a bit for the style to "grow" on you. If the morning light does not shed a happier glow, it's time to take action.
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Are health expenditures and GDP characterized by asymmetric behaviour? Evidence from 11 OECD countries
In this article, we examine whether per-capita health expenditures and per-capita GDP for 11 OECD countries can be characterized by asymmetric behaviour. We achieve this goal by using the nonparametric Triples test suggested by Randles et al. (1980). We examine two forms of asymmetries, namely deepness and steepness. Our main finding is that for 6 out of 11 countries, namely for the USA, the UK, Japan, Spain, Finland and Iceland, either per-capita health expenditures or per-capita GDP are characterized by asymmetric behaviour. This finding to some extent casts doubt on those studies that model the relationship between health and GDP using unit-root and cointegration tests that assume symmetric disturbances.
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Ever been surprised by an authorization request for a new procedure or technology you'd never heard of? Like cardiac stents to treat multiple sclerosis? Or autologous mesenchymal stem cells for yet another orthopedic indication? Or fecal transplantation for Crohn's disease? Ever been surprised by a request for a costly new targeted drug that got FDA approval months sooner than indicated in the formal PDUFA schedule for FDA decisions?
No doubt, you would like to minimize surprises like these. Yet how can your organization keep up with developments of hundreds of new and emerging drugs, devices, and procedures? Doing so requires expansive resources and a large team working daily to pore over hundreds of information feeds — trade journals, clinical literature, proprietary databases, company SEC filings, medical conference abstracts and posters, and other resources — resources that most managed care medical policy and authorization teams don't have. Read on to learn about free new publicly available resources that can help your organization keep up. Enter health care horizon scanning.
Knowing what's coming down the pike this year or next is critical for planning. Health care horizon scanning, an early warning system, is intended to do just that. Horizon scanning is a process to identify and track emerging health care technologies and services in clinical stages of research and development or very early adoption. Its purpose is to identify, filter, and prioritize new and emerging health technologies and services for myriad decision makers. Health plans, health systems, and health policymakers can use the information outputs from horizon scanning to understand possible impacts of new technologies and services on health outcomes, the health care system, care delivery, utilization, and costs. The information is key for strategic planning. The strategic planning may pertain to any of the following:
- Public and private payers' need to know which topics to slate for future medical policy making, including new interventions that may be disruptive or signal marked changes in patient care delivery
- Public and private research entities' need to set priorities for comparative-effectiveness research to compare new technologies to existing technologies
- Public and private hospitals and health systems' need to create well-informed technology (drug, device, procedure) adoption plans and clinical service line plans
- Companies' planning needs for their research and development programs to address unmet health care needs
- Investors' need to research developing technologies and services in which to invest
Is health care horizon scanning new?
No, but in the United States, at the national level, comprehensive health care horizon scanning is a relatively recent endeavor. In December 2010, the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created an infrastructure to support these activities, initially to aid in setting priorities for research agendas. However, many other public and private entities (e.g., governments, payers, health systems, venture capitalists, technology developers) in other countries have engaged in formal and informal health care horizon scanning activities for years or even decades for one or more of the purposes described above.
For example, in Europe, an entity known as EuroScan has 20 government-funded members performing horizon scanning in their respective countries. Other examples include three U.S. agencies — the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — that have conducted limited forms of horizon scanning at various times over the last two decades.
These horizon scanning initiatives have differed markedly according to their intended purpose. For example, CMS utilized information provided by ECRI Institute to identify important new interventions that could affect the over-65 population. FDA's Centers for Devices and Radiological Health has convened expert panels of independent private (e.g., including ECRI Institute) and public sector forecasting experts periodically to gauge expert opinion about the horizon of new medical devices and their potential impact. AHRQ's approach is arguably the broadest of any public sector initiative. This was evidenced during an international expert panel meeting convened by ECRI Institute in June 2011 on behalf of the AHRQ horizon scanning initiative. More than 30 experts from public and private horizon scanning efforts and users of horizon scanning outputs participated to provide feedback to AHRQ about its initiative, as well as to describe their own initiatives. The meeting clarified differences in approaches, clinical areas covered, types of technologies covered, and the time frame of scanning. Each of these entities develops its own criteria for scanning, including different time frames for the horizon (e.g., one year, two years, five years) and subject areas to be covered.
AHRQ adopted a general set of definitions of "new" and "emerging." These definitions had been previously developed by the International Information Network on New and Emerging Health Technologies (EuroScan), the international collaboration of agencies that share information on new and emerging drugs, devices, procedures, programs, and health care settings. The definitions are:
- New technologies: technology in the adoption phase that has been available for clinical use for a short period
- Emerging technologies: technology not yet available for use in the health care system (e.g., pharmaceutical products in Phase II and III trials)
- Established technologies with new indications
- Technologies that are part of a group of developing technologies that may as a whole have an impact
AHRQ also defined 14 clinical priority areas of interest across scores of disease states for which it would scan. In addition to its broader coverage than most other horizon scanning entities, another way the AHRQ system differs from most other horizon scanning programs is its publication of the explicit processes used in its system to provide transparency to users of the information. The Protocol and Operations Manual, first published in 2011, has undergone revision as the system has matured and AHRQ refined some of its areas of interest, including the horizon time frame (from seven+ years, to zero to three years from perceived clinical availability). This manual articulates the processes for the three main activities that constitute horizon scanning activity:
- Identifying technologies/topics of interest
- Monitoring/tracking their development
- Assessing their potential impact
Generally, the AHRQ system places high importance on technologies, interventions, and processes of care that may have potential to address significant unmet health care needs. Unmet need is defined broadly and not limited by the size of the patient population addressed by the intervention.
The team performing the work consists of more than 20 full-time staff members, including master's level medical librarians and analysts with diverse backgrounds (clinical or basic science research, public health, clinical care) who review possible leads for new topics from hundreds of resources, assess whether they meet the inclusion criteria specified in the protocol, and then discuss and decide whether to enter them into the scanning system to monitor.
Topics that are furthest along in development are selected for writing detailed profiles. These profiles are then sent out to experts from a variety of clinical, research, and health systems backgrounds who provide comment and opinions on the potential impacts of the technology or intervention.
AHRQ scanning program currently tracks 480 topics
The horizon scanning team uses the expert comments to determine which topics bubble to the top as having the most and least potential for high impact. This process helps to determine which topics to keep monitoring in the system and which to archive. Additional criteria for archiving topics are provided in the protocol.
AHRQ routinely publishes two main outputs: Status Update Reports and Potential High Impact Reports.
Status Update Reports include a table for each priority area that lists topics being tracked in that area. Each topic listed includes a brief description of the intended patient population, unmet need, intervention/product description, developer, development status, potential comparators, and potential health impacts. The report also includes a section on topics that have been archived from the scanning system and why. The Status Update is published five times a year. Potential High Impact Reports are published twice a year for each priority area. They present an executive summary of an entire priority area, plus detailed profiles of the topics that emerged as having potential for high impact.
Evidence development
While these reports do not analyze the clinical evidence, they do present the current state of evidence development. Comments are sought from five to nine experts for each topic; topics are updated as important new information emerges. The content in the Potential High Impact Reports changes as topics move through the system and as tracking concludes or opinions change.
For managed care, this report, published in early July and January of each year on AHRQ's Effective Health Care Web site, can offer early signals of important new technologies, procedures, and programs.
Since December 2010, more than 16,000 leads have been uploaded into the system and reviewed by analysts, from which about 1,900 topics have been initially identified and moved through the system. The just-published, latest Status Update report contains 480 identified interventions, 435 of which have been monitored for two months to three years, and 45 new topics added since the prior Status Update report in July. The team archived 25 topics from monitoring over the past two months (since the last update report). Three reasons account for the majority of archived topics:
- Expert commenters saw no high-impact potential at this time for the parameters of interest to AHRQ.
- Companies halted development for lack of funding or trials did not meet endpoint.
- Topics that had been tracked met criteria for archiving because they have diffused since tracking started, have shown no movement at all in over two years of tracking, or are two years past approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The latest report shows that four priority areas constitute 70% of the interventions (including programs) being tracked. Cancer-related interventions have accounted for more than 30% of topics in the system since its inception.
Three other priority areas contain the next largest proportions of topics in the system and have since inception: functional limitations and disability (16%), cardiovascular diseases (10%), and infectious diseases (9%).
Areas in which a relative paucity of interventions are in development, given the significant unmet needs and burden of illness in these areas, are dementia/Alzheimer's disease, depression and other mental illnesses, developmental delays (autism spectrum disorder, ADHD), pregnancy and childbirth, and substance abuse, which account for 4% or fewer (in each priority area) of the total topics tracked. One reason appears to be lack of understanding of the basic biology and pathogenesis regarding certain disease states.
In terms of overall categories of interventions, about 70% of topics pertain to a pharmacy and biotechnology (e.g., drug, vaccine, biologic) — and this includes drugs in development as well as novel off-label uses. About 18% of topics pertain to external or internal devices and prostheses. About 4% are technologies intended to screen, diagnose, identify risk, identify blood markers or gene mutations, or monitor a disease state (e.g., test kits, imaging modalities). About 3% of topics are surgeries and procedures.
Articles and websites cited
- Status Update Reports http://1.usa.gov/1fNaHxD
- Potential High Impact Reports http://1.usa.gov/1fNazOH
- Protocol and Operations Manual http://1.usa.gov/1fNbY87
- "A Systematic Review of Methods for Health Care Technology Horizon Scanning" http://1.usa.gov/1fNa6fF