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Argentine court threat to IMF deal
The Argentine government has warned that it cannot afford to uphold a court ruling, which orders it to reverse salary and pension cuts introduced last year.
Late on Thursday, Argentina's supreme court ruled that the cuts introduced last year were unconstitutional.
Former economy minister Domingo Cavallo cut salaries and pensions in an effort to lower government spending and to appease the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
On Friday, the government said it would respect the decision but cabinet chief Alfredo Atanasof warned that it did not have "the resources to face these costs". The salary cut saved the government some $2.25bn (£1.48bn) a year, but sparked widespread protests.
"The cut in salaries is neither reasonable nor fair," the Supreme Court ruling said.
The news is unlikely to help Argentina in its protracted discussions with the IMF to secure fresh lending.
The debt-strapped country hopes to win billions of dollars of aid from the international lender, which wants Argentina to first reform its financial management.
Poverty trap
The ruling involves just one civil servant, but several other cases are now expected to follow.
The news of the court decision is likely be welcomed by the millions of Argentines who have been plunged into poverty.
More than half of all people in Argentina are now living below the poverty line, the National Institute of Statistics and Census said earlier this week.
Poverty is defined as a family of four with a monthly income below $167.
Cash plea
Last week, Argentina submitted a fresh request for financial aid from the IMF.
The IMF cut off most financial support to Argentina late last year after it defaulted on its $140bn of debt.
The Fund has also so far resisted calls for further loans, until Argentina pushes through reforms to control its spending.
"The decision over the 13% cut shows a degree of volatility" in Argentina, Merrill Lynch analyst Pablo Goldberg said.
He added: "This is clearly the product of a fight between different powers in Argentina and it makes it quite complicated to think what kind of programme you can give to a country in this ongoing state of debate."
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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.Are you aware of domestic violence?Of course you know it exists. Turn on Lifetime for five minutes and you'll figure that one out. But do we really understand what domestic violence looks like?When you think of an abusive relationship, you may think of physical violence, bruises, and yelling. But the fact is, in most cases, by the time these obvious symptoms appear, the abuse has probably been going on for while.The roots of domestic violence … [Read more...]
The subtle signs of relationship abuse
Thoughts and feelings
The following is an exchange between Sarah the Thinker and Sarah the Feeler. Feeler parts are in parenthesis because I often attempt to skip over them as though they don't matter as much. (But they do)I haven't seen much of my abusive ex-boyfriend since we broke up. He didn't stalk me or beg me to come back to him. He got over me faster than I got over him and he moved on and forgot I existed. So I shouldn't be afraid of him.(But I am)I saw him for the first time since the big breakup … [Read more...]
Thought zombies
I started writing a blog post yesterday and I didn't actually finish it.I published it anyway for some reason, and the result can be found here. I think I managed to put some semi-decent finishing touches on it and at least come to some sort of conclusion.I think.I didn't actually proof-read it. I just hit the shiny, blue "publish" button and tried to forget. But I had really had a lot more to say.Somewhere in the middle of writing, a tsunami of memories crashed over my brain and I just … [Read more...]
Remote-control Sarah
I smelled, and I knew it.I hadn't showered in days.I didn't dare.He'd yell at me for disobeying. He'd call me names. He'd accuse me of trying to get other men. I showered when he said I could shower. I wore makeup when he said I could wear make up. I brushed my hair when he said I could brush my hair. I wore the outfits that he assigned to me everyday. And I shaved my legs when he said I could.If said "jump," I didn't dare waste time asking "how high?". It would never be high enough … [Read more...]
Tension redeemed: Pacifism
War, war, what is it good for?...I don't really know.I'm opening up my series on tension and doubt (read the intro here) with the subject of pacifism. I consider myself a pacifist, but I can't answer all the questions people ask me when they find out that I am a supporter of non-violence.So, here's what I know:Jesus said, "Love your enemies."Killing a person isn't very loving.Violence almost always leads to more violence. Paul told us to "overcome evil with good."Until … [Read more...]
Join the chorus!
Over the past couple of weeks I've written several blog posts about relationship abuse. You can read about them here, here, here, here, and here.I've done my best to be a voice. And one voice is better than silence. But a chorus of voices? That's what really makes a difference!(Like THIS!)If you would like to tell your story or speak out against abuse, then join the chorus!I invite you to write a guest post for this blog and send it to me at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can remain anonymous … [Read more...]
Crippling lies and "tennis shoes" of truth
I recall vividly the first time I tried to leave my abusive relationship with my first boyfriend.We were driving home from church and I broke up with him in the car. He became angry, threatening to drive the car off the road and kill us both. So I did the logical thing and climbed out of the car at the next stop light.I started to run away. I was sure I could out-run him and somehow find my way home once I had lost him...But I was wearing high heeled shoes.That made things difficult. I … [Read more...]
Words bruise
As I've discussed in several of my posts lately, my first boyfriend was abusive.He didn't hit me very often (in fact, I only remember him hitting me once). He didn't need to. He could bench press 300 lbs, so I was just a rag doll to him. He pushed me around, threw me into things, or picked me up and shook me when he was angry. If I tried to run away, he would grab my arm so tightly that it would leave bruises in the shape of his hand.Those things hurt. They hurt badly. And the bruises were … [Read more...]
Love by leaving
How do you love a boyfriend that abuses you? How do you treat an abusive girlfriend like Jesus would treat her? How do you forgive a person without letting him/her hurt you again?Ever since I broke up with my abusive first boyfriend five years ago, I've been searching for answers to this question.If I had treated him better...If I had stayed with him longer...If I hadn't responded with violence at the end (our break up involved me punching him in the face out of … [Read more...]
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text: Project Description The design of the compact 200 square foot kitchen anchors the open living space of this home in Sonoma, CA with a dramatic tempered glass backsplash in vibrant colors drawn from the surrounding vineyard landscape. Beneath the clear glass is a single billboard size image of local Sonoma grasses taken by one of the architect's designers. Up close the image appears a colorful, but abstract, blur of blues and greens but as one moves further away the image comes into clearer focus as a piece of artwork and literal extension of the landscape beyond. The backsplash and adjacent windows create one continuous panorama of green from outside to inside. Because the kitchen is such an integrated part of the public space of the 1,900 square foot home, storage has been designed to ensure that nothing need be left on the Soapstone counters. The coffee machine and toaster –both appliances that are loaded from above– sit under counter on a roll out shelf for easy operation. Similarly, the microwave is tucked away as an appliance easily operated from a lower position. Both the refrigerator and the pantry have been banished from the kitchen visually, but in fact are hidden just around the corner still within arm's reach of the countertops. Functional open floating shelves are reserved for clear glass items and colorful ones that integrate well with the backsplash photograph. The prep sink faucet is an adjustable pot filler and operates with foot control pedals from a medical surgery suite –perfect for kitchen prep with busy hands. The Douglas Fir breakfast table nests under the kitchen island counter as additional work space but also easily slides across to join with the two identical tables that serve the dining room. This not only unifies the aesthetics of the dining room and kitchen but seamlessly expands the table into a 15' banquet area, leaving more open floor area in the kitchen during the most busy party prep time. So many kitchens seem either banished from the public life of the house or suffocated by their functional demands. Here, we battle back with a design fluidly integrated with the public life of the home with every functional need met but in unexpected ways. ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬The result is a kitchen design that blurs the thresholds between spaces just as the home overall blurs the threshold between outside and in.


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Two men charged in car break-ins
Two men were arraigned Monday on charges they broke into vehicles Friday morning in Greensburg and took laptop computers and other items, city police said.
Patrick Rosenberry, 20, of Scottdale and Joshua B. Lucas, 21, of Latrobe were arraigned on conspiracy, theft from motor vehicle and receiving stolen property charges before district judges Helen Kistler and James Falcon, according to court records.
Police used the help of a confidential informant to find the stolen items in a Hawksworth Garden apartment in Greensburg, Capt. Chad Zucco said Monday.
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LOS ANGELES -- For the first time since the days of Pete Carroll, the USC Trojans will be conducting a walk-through at an opposing stadium this week.
Lane Kiffin has eschewed them since his arrival in January 2010, but he's holding one at MetLife Stadium on Friday, the day before the Trojans will take on Syracuse at 12:30 p.m. PT. Quarterback Matt Barkley said he was looking forward to getting acclimated in advance to the NFL atmosphere at the stadium where the New York Jets and Giants play their respective home games.
As for USC's Coliseum, the Trojans are indeed prohibiting opposing teams from using it for day-before-game walk-throughs, as the Los Angeles Times reported last week, but they're not doing it because Kiffin wanted to get an advantage on opponents.
They're doing it because the new turf company hired by the school this year recommended it, school spokesperson Tim Tessalone said Tuesday. In previous seasons, the Coliseum grass was often awful by mid-season and horrific by the end of the year, and USC's hoping to up those standards some by staying off the field as much as possible.
It's the same reason USC held its final scrimmage of fall camp on Howard Jones Field, the normal practice field, instead of at the Coliseum. It's also why USC practiced on Dedeaux Field for a week-plus in camp while the practice field was being re-done.
And the Trojans might be back on Dedeaux Field at some point this season, too -- to keep the Howard Jones Field fresher than in past years.
But they're still not going to allow any other teams on it more than they need to be.


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Apartment LaFavorita - sleeps max 14
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Even cheaper than staying in a hostel and yet you will feel so much more comfortable. A home from home apartment in Edinburgh which in my opinion beats any faceless hotel. The real advantage here is that your group of guests can all be together.
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Hurricane Fly can become a legend at Festival
HURRICANE FLY is becoming the kind of horse they write songs about and any disciples of National Hunt with real romance in their hearts will hope to see the cantankerous old champion go to Cheltenham in March as Champion Hurdle favourite.
For that to happen, he must again see off those brazen, young home pretenders, Our Conor and Jezki, in another Leopardstown shootout tomorrow. The English have declined an invitation to take a swing, keen – presumably – not to have their noses bloodied this side of the Festival.
They're waiting for 'The Fly' to grow old. But that's just not happening.
With two to jump in the Ryanair Hurdle at Christmas, this column considered him a beaten horse until the realisation began to slowly dawn that we were merely witnessing another masterclass in the sublime horsemanship of Ruby Walsh.
And you have to suspect that therein lies the essential problem for all those now looking for his scalp. Firstly, you have a remarkable 10-year-old gelding which looks, implausibly, to be improving. Secondly, he happens to have Ruby in the stirrups.
It must feel like giving Usain Bolt a 10-yard start.
Right now, Tuesday, March 11 is brewing as the Festival's day of days, the Champion Hurdle as its marquee race. If 'The Fly' comes up that hill at the front they may start commissioning the statue.
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February 2, 2013
Bears football team adds opponent
The University of Northern Colorado football team has added a 12th opponent to its already busy 2013 football schedule.
The Bears will open the season Aug. 31 with a game against NAIA Langston University (Okla.) at Nottingham Field, according to a release on the Langston University website.
Langston plays in the NAIA Central States Football League and finished 5-1 in league play last season, 6-4 overall.
The addition of Langston means the Bears will play back-to-back home games to open the season. UNC is already scheduled to play Division II Colorado State-Pueblo on Sept. 7 at Nottingham.
The Bears will take to the road for the first time in 2013 when they take on Wyoming in Laramie. The Bears will open the Big Sky Conference season at home against Southern Utah on Sept. 28.
UNC finished 4-4 in conference, 5-6 overall last season, their best record since joining the conference in 2006.
Valley hosting 40th annual Vikings Invitational
Valley High School is inviting past wrestlers and coaches along with wrestling fans from throughout the area to celebrate the Vikings' tradition while watching some highly competitive matches during the 40th annual Vikings Invitational wrestling tournament this Saturday.
The double-elimination tournament begins at 9 a.m., and the finals start at 6 p.m. The gym opens at 6:30 a.m. Action will take place in the east and west gyms in Gilcrest.
The field will feature 16 teams: Valley, Grand Valley, Palisade, Longmont, Highland, Eaton, Sterling, Middle Park, Wiggins, Lyons, Platte Valley, Mullen, Lutheran, University, Ridge View Academy and Englewood.
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DiDiomete called up from Eagles
The Colorado Eagles announced on Thursday that forward Devin DiDiomete has been called up to the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League.
After joining the Eagles midway through the season, DiDiomete played in nine games, recording seven points (4-3-7) and 45 penalty minutes.
In 2011-12, DiDiomete played in Chicago but for the Express of the ECHL. That season, he led the league in penalty minutes with 281.
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IN RETURN @ The Toby
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In Return is a comedy about Thompson, a hopeless romantic who's never had a lasting relationship. He's offbeat, overly honest and is uncomfortable being himself. Until he meets Lola, a beautiful young woman who enjoys his offbeat and quirky sensibility. The two connect immediately and for the first time, Thompson has found a meaningful relationship. However, Lola hasn't told Thompson her biggest secret - she lives on the streets. Thompson lets his inner self soar and proves that true love can exist. In the end, Thompson discovers that as long as you stay true to yourself others will see your inner beauty.
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(dodgy Dave Tale) Walter Mathau In Stratford - Poem by JoJo Bean
So a new Tale
for Dodgy Dave here
A face of a star
A clone it appears
I'm not sure but some say it true
I had my own idea and mind map
and surprise, surprise
It's very close to this chap
They say he resembles
the late great Walter Mathau
But I bet by far
He's more handsomer somehow
(It's the size of his heart that makes us say WOW!)
For all of you who traveled to see him
How blessed you are to meet this man
The one behind the Dodgy Dave Tales
Now your more that just a poetry fan
Comments about (dodgy Dave Tale) Walter Mathau In Stratford by JoJo Bean
Meggie Gultiano (1/16/2009 4:45:00 AM)
lol..i am excited to see this man, lil sis..where is he now? (Report) Reply
David Harris (6/7/2007 3:08:00 PM)
JoAnn, now this one took me by surprise. Brilliant of course. What else can I say, your trying to make me a legend in my own lifetime and your succeeding. lol.
Dodgy Dave aka a lot of other names. (Report) Reply
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Thanks for sending me this little beauty, JoJo. I think Dodgy Dave could be on to a winner if he joined the Famous Lookalikes! A great poem about this funny and entertaining man / poet / writer / etc. Top marks, JoJo.
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Much of the research evidence relating to the physical learning environment of schools is inconclusive, contradictory or incomplete. Nevertheless, within this confusing area, research from a number of disciplines, using a range of methodologies, points to the negative impact of noise on students' learning. In this paper, drawing on our systematic review of learning environments we review the weight of evidence in relation to noise, considering what implications the results of these studies have for the design and use of learning spaces in schools. We make four key points. Firstly that noise over a given level does appear to have a negative impact on learning. Secondly that beneath these levels noise may or may not be problematic, depending on the social, cultural and pedagogical expectations of the students and teachers. Thirdly we argue that when noise is deemed to be a difficulty, this finding cannot simply be translated into design prescriptions. The reasons for this indeterminacy include differing understandings of the routes through which noise produces learning deficits, as well as relationships between noise and other elements of the environment, particularly the impacts of physical solutions to noise problems. Finally, we suggest that solutions to noise problems will not be produced by viewing noise in isolation, or even as part of the physical environment, but through participatory approaches to understanding and adapting the structure, organisation and use of learning spaces in schools.
The learning environment provided by a school should be understood as resulting from a complex, dynamic relationship between the various physical elements and the attitudes and actions of the different users who constitute the school community. Therefore, although the identification of problems with the physical setting may be aided by a narrow focus, any attempts to improve the environment and facilitate better learning will require a wider perspective.
This reasoning underpinned our systematic review of research evidence relating to the physical learning environment [
Understanding the relationship between the physical school environment and the educational activities that take place there is not a new problem. Potentially relevant information comes from a wide range of sources including current experiences and historical examples [
Within the variety of research there is a subsection which considers elements of the built environment in relative isolation. These studies tend to assess the impact of different levels of a quantifiable aspect, such as noise, daylight or air pollutants on measurable outcomes relating to health, psychological functioning or learning. Yet even such apparently well-controlled research still produces results which are often inconclusive and sometimes contradictory [see
Much of the quite extensive research evidence relating to the issue of noise in education has been produced by studies of the sort mentioned above, focussed on relating noise levels to particular outcomes. Notably, the results, using both experimental and observational methodologies, are remarkably consistent. The findings show that noisy conditions have direct negative effects on learning, particularly language and reading development, as well as causing indirect problems to learners through distracting or annoying them. Laboratory based cognitive psychology experiments have shown that noise affects performance on memory tasks [
Of particular concern for education is the reliable finding, which fits with the laboratory results, that chronic noise exposure impairs cognitive functioning [see
Recent research, however, into the problem of noise in the school environment has tended to centre on the potentially more widespread problem of students struggling to learn because of noise generated within the school itself. In their surveys of external and internal noise in urban primary schools, Shield and Dockrell comment that 'during lessons it was normally not possible to hear external noises' [
Possibly problematic noise comes from several sources, as demonstrated by studies where measurements of classroom noise levels were made [
Potentially linking both external and classroom noise directly with cognitive processing deficits, there have been some experimental studies which have investigated how well children perform various learning tasks when exposed to recorded real world noises played at a range of levels. Dockrell and Shield [
Hygge [
Thus, these sorts of experiments demonstrate not only that children generally have more difficulty performing cognitive tasks when it is noisy, but also suggest that noise tends to undermine long term learning, corroborating the findings of the observational studies of chronic environmental noise. Yet, in both the experimental studies discussed above there were complications in the patterns of results which leave uncertainties about precisely how noise interferes with particular cognitive processes relevant to learning.
Other research has been conducted that takes a somewhat wider view of noise, sometimes also attempting to understand the mechanisms for the effects reviewed above. As Hygge and Knez point out, there is "theoretical and practical value in knowing how the physical parameters of the indoor environment may combine or interact" [
An important interaction with absolute noise levels are the attempts that teachers and learners make to accommodate or compensate for noisy surroundings. Early research observed that teachers pausing during bursts of external noise leads effectively to a reduction in teaching time, sometimes estimating this loss to be as high as 11% of teaching time [
Much work does not differentiate between individuals in their reactions to noise or between different sorts of noises. Where individual differences are investigated, there is a body of evidence that some individuals might be more sensitive to noise than others [
These apparent contradictions may be explained by research findings that factors such as predictability, control and judged necessity influence how annoying people find particular noises [
Within mainstream education literature there appears to be more awareness of noise generated within schools, rather than externally, and the impact is usually considered through investigations of perceptions of this noise and any annoyance or sense of distraction. For example, Flutter has spent more than a decade involved in projects where students are consulted about their learning and has found that a central concern is with excessive noise: 'Noise and distracting behaviour were the most frequently mentioned problems and many students said they would like a calmer and quieter environment' [
As stated at the beginning of this section, the research evidence relating to noise is remarkable for its broad consistencies. Noise interferes with learning, through direct effects on information processing, and via indirect effects on teachers, learners and communication in the classroom. The variety of these routes suggest why noise is a serious problem for schools but also why the causal mechanisms proposed, principally interference with speech intelligibility, distraction and annoyance are each unlikely to provide complete explanations of how noise interferes with learning. It is clear that high background noise levels and poor acoustics decrease speech intelligibility but educational activities are not all equally dependent on understanding speech, as will be discussed in more detail below. Although noises may (sometimes) annoy people, or cause distractions that could impair learning, neither of these causal links seems completely necessary for problems with learning, and are likely to be only part of the problem, or perhaps are only significant in some cases.
The range of noise sources and the various ways in which noise can impair learning, which the research base, and the differing interpretations of its findings, illuminate are indicative of a serious problem for schools. Yet the nature of this research also suggests the difficulty of enacting solutions to these noise problems. Firstly, it is clear that different solutions will be required depending on the main source of the noise. Concerns about external environmental noises affecting health, wellbeing and learning in school have implications for the location and design of the school structure. This issue is discussed, for example, in the World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines, where recommendations for planning bodies and architects are laid out [
Of distinct importance in identifying solutions to noise problems is the recognition that in educational settings, as in other real world situations, noise is not the isolated factor which it sometimes appears to be in the context of experimental and observational studies focused on noise. This means that proposed solutions for improving acoustic elements of the school environment might have detrimental effects on other aspects, while changes made to the physical setting to enhance other factors might worsen noise problems. A particular tension is evident between noise and air quality. Some suggested acoustics improvements, such as carpets [
Other interactions of noise with various environmental factors, and the potential for solutions to conflict, are evident from considering studies in these separately researched areas. User satisfaction with buildings has been found to be linked to the control of temperature [
Adding another level of complexity to the competing demands of the physical environment is the fact that inhabitants of a setting are not passive recipients, and their actions will interact with aspects of the surroundings, sometimes in unpredictable or complicated ways. This has already been suggested by descriptions above of teachers pausing during occasions of external noise and suggestions from some noise experiments that potentially distracting noise may sometimes enhance performance as people make more effort to concentrate. Other instances of changed behaviour due to noise might be more predictable, but are no less problematic. The WHO guidelines describe the 'vicious circle' that occurs when inadequate acoustics force speakers to raise their voices, resulting in more noise and so yet louder voices [
These examples indicate the potential for more extended modifications to behaviour to have pronounced effects on the learning environment, and indeed there is some research evidence of this occurring. In the 1960s and 1970s when many new schools in the US and UK were built around open plan principles, some investigations of teaching practices in these new settings found that teachers were being more, rather than less, conservative in their methods. Fears of disturbing other classes made them less likely to encourage active, and so more noisy, independent learning than were teachers in traditional cellular classrooms [
It is worth remembering, however, in connection with organising and managing a school community to control noise that such institutional management necessitates value judgments being made about different sorts of noise. Also, in this context, it is worth noting the considerable disagreement within the noise literature about the importance of conscious noise annoyance and the range of factors which appear to affect individual judgments [e.g., see
It is clear that a range of approaches to noise problems in school are required. Appropriate solutions will depend partly on the nature of the noise, with differing solutions being needed for different sorts of noise. The impact of external noise on health and happiness, as well on learning, has distinct implications for the planning and architecture of schools (as acknowledged for example by the WHO guidelines). Noise leaking between rooms suggests improved sound insulation while high levels of background noise in classrooms indicate a need for quieter models of heating and other equipment. Yet it is also clear that solutions to noise in school will differ according to differing emphases on causal factors and differing understandings of the nature of the problem.
Models of noise nuisance which centre on noise impacting on cognitive processes, such as attention or language, and those which prioritise noise annoyance or impacts on mood, may suggest different mechanisms but they have in common an individualised view of learning and, indeed, existing. A more collaborative perspective is evident in noise research and related building guidelines that focus on speech intelligibility. In the context of learning in school, this seems a more appropriate and realistic outlook, but also appears to rely on a transmission model of learning which many educationalists and developmental psychologists would consider simplistic and outdated. This viewpoint is evident, for example, in the WHO's stated assumption that 'In schools, teaching is based to a very large extent on oral communication' [
The research base suggests that quantitative measurement of noise levels allied with physical design solutions may be appropriate for the solution of big, primarily external, noise problems, such as those due to roads, flight paths and, perhaps, noisy school equipment. Once such problems are solved, or if they are not actually problems for a particular school, however, the recurring difficulty for a school community is knowing how to understand and relate to noise more generally. This will be important for the schools where problems with acoustics are acknowledged (as in many of the UK schools awaiting BSF rebuilding work), but the research findings of noise directly impacting on some cognitive processes also indicates that consideration should be given even in schools where noise is not recognised as a particular problem. However, the understanding developed in this article makes clear that investigations into noise need to go beyond the measurement of noise levels. We would urge that high levels of noise be addressed to protect learners from damage but, in the mid-range, we counsel for a development from a purely quantitative idea of acceptable/unacceptable levels of noise towards a more nuanced understanding of the context in which noise is generated and the kinds of learning activity taking place. Although measuring noise levels might form part of preliminary work and the published guidelines may be useful in interpreting the findings, the wider arguments of some of these publications (the WHO document is particularly good in this respect) need to be considered and understood in the context of the culture and values of the educational system and of the particular school. The centrality of individual and institutional judgments, both to developing understanding of noise in a particular setting and to the sorts of solutions which will be appropriate to any problems, implies that a participatory approach taken at the school level will be most successful.
We have previously developed arguments for the necessity of participatory approaches to altering or improving the learning environment provided by a school [
The second conclusion about break times, and more generally about collaborative change in school, is that for attempts to succeed they must involve the whole school community. The authors note that the phase 'whole school approach' is over-used but they emphasise that there is a central 'need to involve all in a meaningful dialogue about change' [
Finally, in connection with making changes to school break times, it was concluded that it is important to understand that any process of change is not straightforward. Similar conclusions can be drawn from a recent international review of whole school change [
These three broad themes to successful negotiation of change in the school environment all show the necessity of genuine collaboration, as well as providing some suggestion of how to succeed. Evidence and experience, as reviewed in this paper, indicates the appropriateness of such an approach in the case of noise in schools and see also [
The authors would like to thank the reviewers and the Guest Editor for their help and expertise in expanding the scope of this review.
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Newsbusters' attempts to explain away Fox News parent News Corp's $1 million contribution to the GOP would be funny if they weren't so pathetic.
Earlier this week, Tim Graham offered the utterly inane defense that "Democrats are having a fit over the RGA donation, even if the overall donation levels are about even." By "overall donation levels are about even," Graham was referring to the fact that, according to the Washington Post, prior to the $1 million contribution, "the News Corp./Fox political action committee had given 54 percent of its donations to Democrats and 46 percent to Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics … News Corp. also gave $45,000 each to GOP and Democratic campaign committees on Capitol Hill."
Now, that 54/46 split obscures the dollar amounts in question, which is roughly $78,000 to Democrats and $66,500 to Republicans. Add in the $45,000 each to the GOP and Democratic campaign committees and we're talking about $123,000 to Democrats and $111,500 to Republicans -- which is, indeed, "about even." But wait! We can't just ignore that $1 million contribution in assessing "overall donation levels." It is, after all, an actual contribution of actual money that can be spent on actual political activities. When you add it to the mix, Fox has given the GOP about $1.1 million, and Democrats about $123,000 -- that's nearly ten times as much to the GOP. And yet Graham claimed that "overall donation levels are about even"! That's just incredibly false. In doing so, he conveniently omitted any mention of the actual dollar amounts referred to by the 54/46 split, which would have given away his little ruse. That's just incredibly dishonest.
Now here's Newsbuster Noel Sheppard:
Comedian Jon Stewart on Wednesday bashed Fox News for parent company News Corporation's $1 million donation to the Republican Governors Association.
Unfortunately, Stewart failed to inform his viewers that Viacom, the parent company of Comedy Central, has so far given disproportionately to Democrats this year.
according to Open Secrets, Viacom's Political Action Committee has so far this year contributed 62 percent of its money to Democrats and only 38 percent to Republicans
In 2008, this ratio was 58 percent Democrats, 42 percent Republicans
Sheppard stopped there, not telling readers what the numbers were for 2006, or 2004, or 2002, or 2000, or 1998. Call me a cynic, but I suspect that's because Viacom gave more than 60 percent of its PAC contributions to Republicans in 2006 and 2004, and a majority to Republicans in 2002 and 1998 (Viacom's PAC contributions were split between the parties 50/50 in 2000.)
See, PAC contributions tend to flow to the party in power, as corporate PACs tend to give money to incumbents. Given that, Viacom's contribution pattern isn't particularly noteworthy. Not to mention the fact that Sheppard has a problem of scale that he isn't addressing: According to the data Sheppard cited, Viacom's PAC has given a total of $176,700 to politicians of both parties this year, so that 62/38 split in favor of the Democrats results in about a $42,000 advantage. Now, remember, Fox/News Corp have given about one million dollars more to the GOP than the Dems this cycle. So responding by pointing to the $42,000 advantage Democrats have in Viacom contributions is pretty silly. Maybe that's why Sheppard used percentages rather than raw numbers? Nah, he wouldn't be that dishonest … would he?
Sheppard then repeats Graham's absurd argument:
Beyond this, as NewsBusters reported hours before Stewart made his comments, prior to this $1 million donation, News Corp. had actually given 54 percent of its donations to Democrats and 46 percent to Republicans.
Yes, it's true: if you don't count News Corp's $1 million contribution to the GOP, it has given Democrats slightly more than it has given Republicans! And if you don't count everything Noel Sheppard has ever written, he rarely makes a fool of himself in public.
UPDATE: Graham has appended a correction to his post, acknowledging: "Adding $1 million to the GOP side shows a more dramatic tilt to the GOP than my faulty original assumption."
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I'm prefer that the reader has seen at least one episode of the actual show.
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|It was funny. Not " XD, OMFG! I can'T FUXZING BELIEVEZ THIS FUNNY SIEET!" Funny, but it was funny. I smiled, and chuckeled once or twice, but that's it. It was all a bit too mean spirited and angry. It would have been better with more irony or with a more " OH MY GO! THIS SHOW KICKS ASS!" kind of tone, just cause it's hilarious that anyone would find such a crap show funny. Anyway, the humour needs work.
|It's defiantely a good idea, I like how you decided to do an article about a kids show. But...it wasn't pulled off ot the best that it could be, but its close, it needs some work. Maybe it could be expanded with some more stuff, like plot summarys of some of the episodes, they cold be fake, they could be real, but you know, they should be funny.
|Prose and formatting:
|Could be a little more but together, divde tihngs inot sections, put things in bold. it's mostly just formatting though, your punctuation and grammar are good, I liked how you weren't afraid to do stuff in big capitol letters, you know, it shows some creative bollocks. You spell/type better than I do anyway.
|Ok, so, the only reason I'm giving a zero for image acore is because, simply put, there ARE not pictures. Ya, Haha, well, I watched ther opening of the show and there were so many wierd things in it, that I'm sure yuo should be able ot ocme up with somthing. Maybe a few pics from google images with some funny captions, I'm sure that would help.
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Nissan Grabs Top Five On Daytona Return With Muscle Milk
Nissan returned to the high banks of Daytona International Speedway with a fifth place finish for official partner team Muscle Milk Pickett Racing in the opening round of the new TUDOR United SportsCar Championship today - the Rolex 24 at Daytona.
The trio of Klaus Graf, Lucas Luhr and Alex Brundle were the first Le Mans-style prototype to cross the line as the new championship kicked off with the P2-style cars from the former American Le Mans Series competing against the Daytona Prototypes from the former GRAND-AM championship.
Both Nissan-powered entries finished inside the top 10 with the Oak Racing entry of Olivier Pla, Roman Rusinov, Gustavo Yacaman and Oliver Webb grabbing 8th place at the finish of the 24 hour enduro.
The two Nissan entries could have finished even higher had bad luck not struck throughout the Florida endurance racing classic. Klaus Graf suffered a flat tire just after the team's opening pit stop and had to return for an additional stop. The incident pushed the No.6 Nissan-powered ORECA chassis two laps off the race lead.
A penalty for a pit lane speeding infringement later in the race also cost the team after they had clawed their way back onto the lead lap. The Oak Racing entry ran as high as third place before suffering an alternator issue.
Both teams battled a straight line speed disadvantage compared to the Daytona Prototype entries that were generally a second lap faster thanks to the full-throttle high banked sections of the circuit.
Today's race was won by the Action Express Racing Daytona Prototype entry of Joao Barbosa, Christian Fittipaldi and Sebastien Bourdais.
The next step for the Muscle Milk squad will be the 12 Hours of Sebring staged on March 12-15. The team will also take part in the annual Sebring winter test on February 20-21.
As part of the Nismo Global Driver Exchange, a racer from Nissanâs squad of international drivers will also compete for Muscle Milk Pickett Racing at both the Sebring and Road Atlanta endurance races.
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"Our congratulations go to our partner team Muscle Milk Pickett Racing and also the guys at Oak Racing on a great result at Daytona today.
"We knew coming into this weekend that fighting for the overall victory was going to be a huge challenge but to come away with a top five finish and have both Nissan-powered cars in the top ten is a great result.
"Doing battle against the Daytona Prototypes was going to be big fight here in Daytona as they have such a big straight line speed advantage and so much of this track is at full throttle.
"In race conditions we were really around a second off the pace but the straight line speed situation was what made things an even bigger challenge because the Daytona Prototypes could get through traffic far more easily than any of the Le Mans style P2 cars.
"Everyone in a P2 car had to be very brave under brakes in going through traffic.
"I'm expecting the situation to be far more even when we are at Sebring and by the time we get to Long Beach - then the P2 style cars should be locking down the front of the grid and be charging away for the win in the race.
"There are going to be tracks where Daytona Prototypes will be dominant and others where the P2 cars will be dominant and really that is the way it should be as we bring both championships together.
"I think the debut of the championship has been great and I am very impressed and thankful to all the guys at Muscle Milk Pickett Racing on a job very well done."
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"I'm really happy with the result. I've said since the beginning, if we can get a top five it would be a very good day. The way the TUDOR Championship is you won't be able to win all the races, it's not going to happen. So Lucas and I spoke about it and how we need to get the results and just collect points. In a 24-hour race, the way the points structure is, you get the same points for every race and this is a big deal and we go away from here with good points.
"I'm very happy with the partnership with ORECA and Nissan. In a very short period of time, we built a reliable car and the Muscle Milk boys prepared the car very well. There was a lot going on this weekend and you can't have everything 100% right with such a short preparation time but Daryl (Fox) our crew chief told us that him and the guys always prepare the car 100% and that's what they did.
"For me, I'm happy, we pushed like hell, like always, maybe we pushed a little too hard but it doesn't matter we had a good result."
DRIVER â MUSCLE MILK PICKETT RACING
"I have to say that I'm very proud of our guys. It's a brand new package, brand new car, it was the first 24-hour race for this team and to finish it, it was a good thing.
"On the other hand, I think we still have a lot of work to do and also the sanctioning body needs to work on the balance of performance, I hope they are going to change that. You can't fight when you are 12 miles per hour slower than the other guys.
"However, you can't just see it negatively, you have to also see the brightside. The car ran mostly trouble free and we finished only three laps down to the leaders after 24 hours, that's impressive.
"Thanks to the boys for the preparation of the car and let's keep pushing!"
DRIVER â MUSCLE MILK PICKETT RACING
"Coming in fifth in the Rolex 24 at Daytona is pretty good. We finished first of the P2 cars which I think, to be honest, was a realistic aim coming into the weekend.
"It's been a real pleasure working with Muscle Milk Pickett Racing. I've learned from the professionalism on this team. They have some great guys and I've taken a lot from the experience, so thanks to them and specifically to Greg and Penny Pickett and Nissan for giving me the opportunity to come and race here.
"It's been great and to get to the end of the race with no major glitches and to take fifth place was not too bad at all.
"It terms of balance of performance we were knocked back heavily but the ORECA chassis was fantasic through the infield. We got a little bit back that way but it certainly made it hard work.
"All night we had to hussle through the traffic whereas the Daytona Prototypes could just cruise around the outside of the banking and take cars that way.
"It wasn't the easiest 24 hours I've ever done, but we had good performance from the car and the Nissan engine ran with perfect reliability so that is all we can ask really."
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Gay folks often talk about our pets as if they were our children. In many ways, they are, at a minimum, members of our families. A lot of LGBT are used to "making" family — a word we have co-opted to mean who we choose to form a bond with instead of those we are born to. No pets are "born" to humans, so of course they are all adopted. And all are "made" members of our family.
Banjo left this life too soon. At 12, he still should have had a few years left in him. But I adopted him from the SPCA to give him a life rather than having him destroyed. He had a good life, and I miss him every day … even as I have three dogs remaining to keep me company.
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10 Days of Cookbooks | Momofuku Milk Bar
Thu Sep 15 2011
Gobs of new cookbooks have sent Team Eat Out away from restaurants and back into the kitchen. This is the first in a ten-day series of blog posts, each of which chronicles a standout fall cookbook release.
Let it never be said that food goes to waste in the Time Out Chicago office. Half of your kid's birthday cake with seafoam-green frosting? Leave it in the break room, and it'll be gone by lunchtime. Dunkin Donuts? There is no shame in that. And by no shame I mean, last week David took one from the break room and placed it on my desk to ensure they wouldn't all be gone before I stumbled into the office. I've never seen a baked good sit uneaten here. Never, until I brought in the confection pictured below.
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That's the Candy Bar Pie from Christina Tosi's cookbook, Momofuku Milk Bar, a collection of recipes from the NYC bakery whose treats combine nostalgia (cereal milk–flavored ice cream), stoner snack foods (crack pie) and high-level technique. That last part brings me to the approach of this cookbook, which, like the Momofuku book it follows, is basically to transcribe the recipes used at the restaurant and let home cooks give it their best shots. And I promise, I did give the Candy Bar Pie my best shot. The recipe—which even Tosi describes "a little bit of a bitch"—calls for three other recipes: Salty Caramel, Chocolate Crust and Peanut Butter Nougat. Here's where things started to spiral. That Peanut Butter Nougat recipe calls for another recipe: Peanut Brittle. And the Chocolate Crust recipe calls for a Chocolate Crumb recipe. That's five recipes. To make one pie.
I started with the Chocolate Crumb, little cakelike crumbles versatile enough to become pie crusts or used as bonuses baked into cookies (as in the blueberry & cream cookies) and cakes (the pistachio layer cake). Using melted butter, the "crumb" comes together enough so that it's easily pressed into a tin and, there you have it, Chocolate Crust. On to the Peanut Brittle: Make caramel, coat the nuts in it, let it dry, then grind it in a food processor to the size of rice. Recipe Four—almost there!—Salty Caramel: This is when things really went down the tubes. You see, the recipe calls for one gelatin sheet, but since I couldn't find any gelatin sheets at the grocery store, I took the suggested powdered-gelatin substition, and I carefully read the "Techniques" section at the front of the book, which extolled me not to fuck up blooming the gelatin. (Okay, it actually says, "Get it right, or do it twice"). But when I whisked the gelatin—which I thought I had properly "bloomed"—into the caramel (for the record, that's the second caramel in this recipe), and when the caramel did not thicken, I knew I did not "get it right." And yet I did not "do it twice." Instead, I poured the caramel into the Chocolate Crust anyway, hoping that an overnight chill in the fridge would allow it to set. I brought it to work the next day and stuck it in the freezer, sure that—if nothing else—the freezer would get this thing to hold together. But there is no happy ending to the tale of the Candy Bar Pie that couldn't, a mess of a thing that spewed thin brown liquid at any who attempted to taste it and whose destiny was to be the only food product ever discarded into the large trash bin in the TOC break room.
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Momofuku Milk Bar by Christina Tosi (Clarkson Potter, $35) comes out October 25, 2011. For nine more cookbooks to look forward to this fall, see the Fall Cookbook Preview.


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How much does it cost to just get a simple vaginal exam at the SHC? I have gotten 1 pap smear before and they told me that I had Bacterial Vaginosis. I was put on antibiotics for it, but that didn't work. I still have discharge constantly coming from my vagina that's usually clear but may have a SLIGHT tint of yellow at times. There is often so much discharge that I have to wear panty liners everyday, all day. Is it normal to have a ton of discharge? The discharge itself doesn't smell bad, but by the end of the day I will notice a sour smell coming from my whole vaginal area, even on the insides of the labia. Is that smell just caused by sweat and normal body odors? I know that it is not a yeast infection because my discharge is not clumpy or anything. I've noticed that it tends to smell worse when I wear clothing that is not very breathable, such as denim jeans.
There is no cost for an evaluation in the Health Center for vaginitis unless testing is sent to the hospital lab for sexually transmitted infections. In your case, since treatment for bacterial vaginosis did not help, it may be necessary to do cultures which can cost up to $70 (on your student account).
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Haruhi: "Now Teaching English to Students"
The newly revised edition of English textbook "World Trek English Communication I" (intended to teach English to Japanese students) will feature renowned KyoAni heroine Haruhi Suzumiya, bound to be regarded as an effective motivator for young anime fans whilst confusing those unfamiliar with the fictional girl.
- Chen-04 commented on March 27, 2017 05:16
Doesn't really change anything. You can learn any language you wish in 6 months (with an hour per day investment) if you do it right and using language books is doing it wrong.... More
- Anonymous commented on March 26, 2017 01:39
It's for beginners. Not meant to make you a master at the language.... More


text: Just installed the updated Beta and am kicking the tires. Wow, super fast on my abuse box. Noticably faster overall. Nice guys. Noticed one odd thing. Went to the System Settings (Administrator) icon, went to type in the root PW but used a wrong one on purpose to ensure it was working. The password input field shrank to 1/2 or 1/3 it's size after it kicked back "incorrect password, please try again". If you type in another wrong password, it will resize back to normal and not revert back to a shrunken field version if you continue to input a wrong password. Can anyone else confirm this as well? Arthur


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The largest unmet medical need in the developed world is the need for safe and effective drugs to help treat obesity. There hasn't been a new one approved by the overly cautious FDA in 13 years and Big Pharma has been hesitant to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to come up with new treatment options as a result. After last week's resounding 20-2 positive vote by an Advisory Committee to approve Vivus' (NASDAQ:VVUS) Qnexa, is the FDA finally getting the message? Let's hope so.
Biotechs that can deliver new tools for medical professionals to treat the obesity epidemic stand to make billions if they can get their product to market. A third of our population is obese and 2/3rds are overweight. According to the 2011 Center for Disease Control's Diabetes Fact Sheet, there are over 20 million Type II Diabetics in the U.S. and another 80M pre-diabetics - that's 100M Americans that could benefit from obesity drugs. The benefits to the pre-diabetic and diabetic population will be a key growth driver for sales of these drugs. It doesn't take a large market penetration to equate to a blockbuster when you have this many patients to go after.
It could be several months after Qnexa is approved by the FDA before patients could get access to it. The FDA is going to ask for Phase IV studies to document cardiovascular risk, which could delay launch by several months. There is going to be a significant REMS in place to prevent pregnant women from being exposed to the drug which comes with a 200-500% increased risk for Oral Cleft birth defects. The REMS will also limit distribution of Qnexa through only mail-order pharmacies. You will not be able to walk into your neighborhood Wal-Mart and walk out with a bottle of Qnexa. Although Qnexa will likely still be a blockbuster, it could take some time to ramp up given the restrictions that will be placed upon it.
While we await the FDA's final approval of Qnexa on April 17th, eyes will begin to shift to Arena's (NASDAQ:ARNA) Lorcaserin and the Advisory Committee on May 10th. Will Arena's Advisory Committee go as well as Qnexa's or will the modest efficacy of Lorcaserin combined with perceived risk keep it from reaching the market? Arena must clearly show that there are absolutely no significant risks and there are tremendous benefits. A big key for Arena's success will be focusing on its completer statistics for efficacy, the impressive benefit for diabetics and underscore the safety of the novel drug.
Completer Weight Loss Response: 2/3rds of patients lose at least 5% of their body weight and 1/3 lose at least 10%. Average weight loss for completers is 8%.
You are 2X more likely to lose 5% of your weight and 3-4X more likely to lose 10% of your weight on Lorcaserin than diet and exercise alone.
Improvements in all co-morbidity factors including: Waist circumference, cholesterol, blood pressure, heart rate, HbA1c (.9 reduction,) and Fasting Glucose (-27 reduction.)
I believe that Arena has fully addressed the cancer risk with its latest studies and no longer believe this will be an issue. Lorcaserin will have at least a 24X safety margin and that will be enough for the FDA in my opinion. A patient would have to take a full bottle of pills every day for months to have any sort of increased risk of developing cancer. An increased cardiovascular risk is also unfounded and in fact, this didn't even appear as one of the items to address in the company's first complete response letter. The rates of CV events were less than one would expect from the general population.
According to the Briefing Documents for Vivus' Qnexa, a subanalysis of the patients who had diabetes showed that patients on the recommended mid-dose of the drug could expect a .4 drop in their HbA1c levels, a key metric for diabetes medications. In Arena's BLOOM-DM study for Lorcaserin for a diabetic population, HbA1c was reduced by an impressive .9, more than double Qnexa's. This level of reduction is in line with many diabetic-specific therapies and should be viewed favorably by the endocrinologists represented on the Advisory Committee, and by the FDA.
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With Lorcaserin's low-risk profile and benefit for diabetics and pre-diabetics, you could see the drug become a first line therapy for many, before or with Metformin. Every 1% of market penetration to this target market equals 1M patients.
In 2010, Arena signed a partnership with Eisai for the U.S.-rights to distribute Lorcaserin. That agreement is laced with incentives and provides a robust revenue stream by paying Arena 31.5-36.5% of Net Sales to Eisai. In addition to the tiered payments for manufacturing the drug, Eisai will pay Arena purchase price adjustments of up to $1.2B with Lorcaserin sales between $250M-$1B. Pricing hasn't been announced but it is expected to be about $6 a day or $3 a pill - similar to other weight loss therapies.
Using these metrics, for every 1M patients who take Lorcaserin, it is $2.19B in annual sales. Let's be conservative and say Eisai's net is 60% of gross which would be $1.3B. I won't break-down each tiered payment to Arena but just use the mean of 34% which would be $442M to Arena for every 1M patients who take the drug. Lorcaserin is a small molecule drug and therefore cheap to produce, Arena's margins could top 90%. So with 100M Americans to go after, a market penetration of 2-5% seems reasonable, if not conservative.
A potential LorPhen craze after approval. Qnexa's main weight-loss component is 15mg of Phentermine, a 60-year old generic for weight loss. Phentermine works by releasing chemicals in your brain to make you feel less hungry. Phentermine is very effective but it can only be taken for up to 12 weeks at a time and after stopping treatment, patients quickly regain the weight. Even with those limitations, Phentermine is still the most widely prescribed drug for weight loss, around 6M prescriptions a year. Phentermine most famously was the key component in the PhenFen craze of 1996 and 1997. At its peak, there were 17M prescriptions written for the combination before it was determined that the Fen component of the drug cocktail, Fenfluramine, caused heart valvulopathy. Fenfluramine was a non-selective and potent agonist of 5-HT receptors. It affected both the 2c receptor found in the brain that causes satiety and more importantly the 5b receptor in the heart that causes valvulopathy.
Although it hasn't been tested in humans, you can hypothesize that if Phentermine were to be taken in combination with Lorcaserin, a highly selective agonist to the 5-HT2c receptor in the brain and not affect the 2b in the heart, then you would see PhenFen-like results of average weight-loss north of 10%. That weight loss would be as good if not better than Qnexa high-dose, without the nasty side effects from the Topiramate component of Qnexa and without the distribution restrictions.
Outside of weight loss, you could also see Lorcaserin prescribed "off-label" for other compulsive disorders such as smoking. In fact, a recent study was published in Nature that demonstrated Lorcaserin as being highly effective for smoking cessation in a pre-clinical study.
With a current stock price under $2, I'm in the minority as to the prospects for Lorcaserin. Arena is valued like it has little chance of approval or if it is approved, then it will have minimal market success. I believe the analysts are wrong. The benefits for Type II diabetics will propel Lorcaserin to a blockbuster and the LorPhen combination will happen resulting in many millions of patients taking the drug. Arena will be filing for European marketing authorization on March 2nd, putting the company on pace to receive a decision by the end of 2012. Given the upcoming Advisory Committee meeting, PDUFA of June 27th and potential EU decision later this year, Arena is an attractive speculative buy. Let's hope the FDA listens to the medical community's plea for new options to treat obesity and approves both Qnexa and Lorcaserin.
Disclosure: I am long ARNA.


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A SERIAL offender who hit her neighbour over the head with a hammer following an argument over the illicit sale of prescribed drugs has been jailed for a year.
Tara Cofield, 43, grabbed the weapon from the kitchen of her home in Bell Farm, York, where she attacked Gemma Bradford – leaving her victim with a gash to the left side of her head, York Crown Court heard on Monday.
Alan Mitcheson, prosecuting, said the attack in May this year followed an argument on the street outside her home earlier that day. He said Miss Bradford was seen arguing with Cofield for breaking a pre-arranged deal to sell her the prescribed drug methadone.
The court heard how there were suggestions Cofield had sold the drug to someone else. Mr Mitcheson said the argument spilled inside Cofield's flat where she then attacked Miss Bradford with the hammer, before kicking her out into the street.
Police and ambulance were called and Cofield told officers at the scene: "I am not a bad person – I just had a bad moment."
Miss Bradford's head injury needed treatment at York Hospital. She also suffered bruising to her hands and upper arms.
Cofield was later arrested and charged. She pleaded guilty to a charge of wounding at an earlier hearing. At the sentencing hearing, the court heard how Cofield had 24 previous convictions for 84 offences.
Mitigating, Kate Batty, said: "This is a defendant who certainly in that split second lost her temper. She is absolutely someone who has had a temper problem in her life."
Sentencing Cofield, who moved to Halifax following the attack, the Recorder of York, Judge Stephen Ashurst told her: "When a hammer is used to cause injury then I would be failing in my public duty if I did not mark what you did with a prison sentence."


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Once again, Senate Republicans are digging through the Senate rule book to find a novel way to obstruct the passage of critical legislation. This time it comes at the expense of our veterans.
Republican Senator Tom Coburn has thrown up a roadblock on the Veterans' Caregiver and Omnibus Health Benefits Bill by using an informal, but legal practice of putting a bill on hold. Coburn wants the opportunity to offer amendments to pay for the new benefits that the bill creates, including improved and increased health care services for our veterans and caregivers.
Unfortunately, Coburn is no newcomer to stopping and stalling legislation. In fact, the Senator from Oklahoma has been known to proudly wear the nickname 'Dr. No.' As Ryan Grim reported back in December 2007, "A typical bill moving through the Senate has a number of institutional hurdles to clear: subcommittee, committee, leadership and Coburn. It's that last one that you won't find in a textbook."
These delay tactics — witnessed this week on the unemployment extension bill — are preventing the Senate from passing legislation that will provide caregivers of veterans with health care, counseling, support and a stipend. This legislation also expands services in rural areas. It ensures that veterans who are catastrophically disabled or who need emergency care in rural areas are appropriately charged for services.
In response to Coburn's actions, VoteVets is circulating a petition against Coburn, asking him to release his hold on the bill. VetVoice's Richard Allen writes, "There is no legitimate excuse Tom Coburn can make for holding up legislation to help veterans and wounded warriors in need of care. He is simply playing politics with our nation's heroes."
Senator Mark Begich made a direct plea to Coburn on the Senate floor this morning, saying: "I call on my colleague to remove this hold and I ask [him] to remember as Veterans Day approaches, that whose who have served this country deserve better. They have earned it."


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* Canadian dollar at C$1.2575 or 79.52 U.S. cents * Bond prices mixed across the maturity curve OTTAWA, July 2 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar touched a 2-1/2-month low against the greenback on Thursday before clawing back some gains as the currency continued to be dogged by uncertainty over the Greek crisis and reduced expectations for the Canadian economy. * Investors remained on watch about Greece's fate a day after the country's prime minister urged Greeks to reject an international bailout deal in a referendum this weekend. Greece defaulted on its debt to the International Monetary Fund earlier this week. * The loonie has shed about 2 percent since last Friday, initially weighed down by concerns over Greece, with the drop then exacerbated by disappointing Canadian economic data and by a decline in oil prices. * Economists say figures that showed a decline in Canadian economic growth at the start of the second quarter increase the odds that the Bank of Canada will cut interest rates again by the end of the year after opting for a quarter-point cut in January. Although markets are still pricing in about a 64 percent chance that the bank will hold its benchmark rate at 0.75 percent in its next policy announcement later this month, that is down from about a 70 percent likelihood at the start of the week. * At 9:14 a.m. EDT (1314 GMT), the Canadian dollar was trading at C$1.2575 to the greenback, or 79.52 U.S. cents, modestly stronger than the previous session's close of C$1.2589, or 79.43 U.S. cents, according to Reuters data. Canadian markets were closed on Wednesday for Canada Day. * Thursday's level was weaker than the Bank of Canada's official Tuesday close of C$1.2490, or 80.06 U.S. cents. Although many traders were away from their desks on Wednesday, the loonie shed 0.7 percent as the currency fell alongside the price of oil, a major Canadian export. * The currency's strongest level of the early Thursday session was C$1.2559, while its weakest level was C$1.2632, its lowest level since April 13. * Investors were taking in economic data from south of the border that showed the U.S. economy added 223,000 jobs in June, slightly fewer than economists' expectations for a gain of 230,000. Canada's June job report will be released next Friday. * Canadian government bond prices were mixed across the maturity curve, with the two-year price up 4 Canadian cents to yield 0.461 percent and the benchmark 10-year falling 15 Canadian cents to yield 1.702 percent. * The Canada-U.S. two-year bond spread was -18.5 basis points, while the 10-year spread was -67.4 basis points. (Reporting by Leah Schnurr; Editing by Peter Galloway)


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Most of the talk in Democratic circles on Thursday, after it became known that President Obama had chosen William M. Daley as his chief of staff, was of going back to the 1990s. The consensus was that Mr. Obama, who once held himself out as the clear alternative to the political expedience of the Clinton years, had, in the end, chosen the path of Clintonian centrism over a return to more boldly progressive ideals.
If the conventional wisdom was right, though, then it was only half right, and it missed the larger significance of Mr. Obama's decision. The president is, in fact, reaching back to the Clinton era, but that shift has less to do with ideology than with a theory of presidential power and how to use it.
Since the November elections, Mr. Obama has found himself buffeted by critics on both sides of his party's longstanding ideological divide. Liberals have argued that the defeat was brought on by a lack of populist conviction and have pleaded with the White House to get tough with conservatives and corporations. Democrats in the Clinton mold, meanwhile, have pointed to the elections as proof that the administration and its allies in Congress lurched too far left, and they have urged a more bipartisan approach.
...if anything, this week's appointments would seem to represent a continuation of the ideological course Mr. Obama has been following since before he took the oath of office, rather than any substantive shift in his worldview.
But in filling two of the most critical roles in his administration, Mr. Obama did look to the example of the Clinton years in a more consequential way. He signaled that he is ready to take the campaign for his legislative priorities directly to the American people, as Bill Clinton often did, rather than confining it to the 535 Americans who do their business on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue.
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