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In late 2010, the National Wildlife Federation was awarded a generous grant from the McGraw-Hill Companies to develop and conduct a pilot textbook recycling and research project which would benefit McGraw-Hill's sustainability commitment, NewPage Corporation's desire to increase recovered fiber in the U.S., and National Wildlife Federation's (NWF) environmental education and sustainability programs, Eco- Schools USA and Campus Ecology.
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu wrote:Ajaan Maha Boowa makes the point that when the defilements are named in the books they come in nice, neat lists, but when they come up in your mind they don't follow the lists. They don't come in the proper order. They come all pell-mell, so you have to be ready to deal with them pell-mell, whatever the order they come in. As in that question the king of Thailand once asked Luang Puu Dune: "Which defilement do you have to deal with first?" Luang Puu's answer was, "Whichever one arises first." Sometimes there are going to be subtle ones and sometimes blatant ones. They don't line up neatly.
So, again, it's good to have names for the defilements to get a sense of what you might be dealing with, but be prepared for the fact that a lot of what's going to happen in your mind won't quite be the way it's described in the books. Ajaan Lee once commented that the ways of the mind are so many that no book on earth could possibly cover them all. But fortunately there are certain basic patterns you learn from, and you try applying them. Then when you've run through your list of skills and patterns, and you find that things are still not working, you've got to use your ingenuity and try new approaches.
From: What's Not on the Map by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Thanissaro Bhikkhu wrote:What's striking about the Buddha's standard for wisdom is how direct and down to earth it is. This might come as a surprise, for most of us don't think of Buddhist wisdom as so commonsensical and straightforward. Instead, the phrase "Buddhist wisdom" conjures up teachings more abstract and paradoxical, flying in the face of common sense — emptiness being a prime example. Emptiness, we're told, means that nothing has any inherent existence. In other words, on an ultimate level, things aren't what we conventionally think of as "things." They're processes that are in no way separate from all the other processes on which they depend. This is a philosophically sophisticated idea that's fascinating to ponder, but it doesn't provide much obvious help in getting you up early on a cold morning to meditate nor in convincing you to give up a destructive addiction.
For example, if you're addicted to alcohol, it's not because you feel that the alcohol has any inherent existence. It's because, in your calculation, the immediate pleasure derived from the alcohol outweighs the long-term damage it's doing to your life. This is a general principle: attachment and addiction are not metaphysical problems. They're tactical ones. We're attached to things and actions, not because of what we think they are, but because of what we think they can do for our happiness. If we keep overestimating the pleasure and underestimating the pain they bring, we stay attached to them regardless of what, in an ultimate sense, we understand them to be.
From: The Integrity of Emptiness by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Thanissaro Bhikkhu wrote:Sometimes you hear that the Buddha's teaching on not-self is a teaching on non-ego. This is actually a misunderstanding and it has two unfortunate consequences. The first is that, for those who like the idea of non-ego, it becomes an excuse for self-hatred and for the practice of spiritual bypassing. An example of spiritual bypassing is this: Suppose you have troubles in your life and you don't want to engage in the difficult business of trying to become more mature in dealing with others or negotiating the conflicting desires in your own mind. Instead, you simply go and meditate, you do prostrations, you do chanting, and you hope that those practices will magically make the problems in your life go away. This is called spiritual bypassing — an unskillful way of clinging to habits and practices. As you can imagine, it's not very healthy — and not very effective. People often come back from meditation retreats and they still have the same problems they had before.
From: The Ego on the Path by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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Mauer takes grounders, no timetable for return
MINNEAPOLIS -- Joe Mauer was back on the field Saturday afternoon, but in a limited capacity.
The injured first baseman (strained right oblique) took some grounders on his knees before Saturday's game against Tampa Bay. He's been out since the Twins placed him on the disabled list on July 2.
"I'm sure it's going to be very light," manager Ron Gardenhire said. "He just wanted to get on his feet and move around today."
Gardenhire said that Mauer is not yet ready to swing the bat.
"I talked to him yesterday before the game," Gardenhire said. "He said there's certain things he does right now -- coughing and sneezing and stuff like that -- where he definitely feels it. So he's obviously not ready to take swings or any of that stuff. But he's taking a few ground balls."
Mauer's injury came at a particularly unfortunate time. Trying to make a last-second All-Star push, the veteran was batting .362 during a 12-game hitting streak that pushed his career-low .258 average to a more respectable .271.
There is currently no official timetable for his return.
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Cardiologists, wellness experts and other health care professionals will talk about preventing heart disease, a leading cause of death in western Contra Costa. There will be presentations on heart health and emergency heart care, plus cooking demonstrations.
"By providing education and awareness about preventing the disease, we can reduce significant social and financial costs to Western Contra Costa, including health care, medication and lost productivity expenses," Eric Zell, chairman of the West Contra Costa Healthcare District board, said in a news release.
The term "heart disease" encompasses a number of conditions, including coronary heart disease, which can cause heart attacks, angina, heart failure and arrhythmias.
Heart Smart is free and open to the public and will include refreshments and giveaways. The event will run from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday at Doctors Medical Center's Outpatient Center, in the Towne Center shopping center, Suite 100A, in San Pablo.
Doctors Medical Center is a community hospital that operates the largest emergency department in western Contra Costa County and treats more than 40,000 emergency department patients each year, according to the news release.
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One of 'those nights' for DJ and the bench... Hopefully they pull it together.
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One of 'those nights' for DJ and the bench... Hopefully they pull it together.
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Any ideas how to stop Martin?It doesn't help when Young fouls him right before he gets the ball and knowing that they are in the bonus already.He has burnt us so far.
DJ's +/- at the half is almost always double his minutes. So far that trend is continuing, -6 in 3 minutes.
I may of shorted him a few points he torches guys like Green and guys who cant play off ball defense.
EDIT: Damn now Martin is killing us with the pass damn at least Young is on him now still wont help much IMO
Blame DJ all you want but he is actually giving the ball to guys that are turning the ball over.
Kobe Green, Free Green!!!
Sam Young keeps giving up easy points(free throes) for Martin since he was introduced to the game.
Great move, DJ. I'll give you that. If you can score tonight, please do it
Yep DJ needs to be more aggressive that is his game.
The shot clock buzzer isn't like the game clock buzzer, guys. You still need to rebound.
DJ for MVP?
Tyler Hansbrough just blocked Kevin Durant.
Not after his latest "play"
We haven't fouled Thabeet enough yet.
This Kevin Martin ********...
I guess you're not allowed to play defense anymore
Impossible Is Nothing
Kmart is going for 40.
Eh, I don't like that foul call
Tough to guard KMart when you're not allowed to block his shot.
Chris Martin isnt just a stand alone shooter he has always got to the FT Line at a great clip. He has always been a good scorer not just a shooter.
Why is west on the bench so long? Is Vogel waiting for the lead to grow to 10?
Impossible Is Nothing
I think that KMart is receiving some of those Harden calls.
I don't want to focus on the officiating, though.
ok its grown to 10, maybe west comes back in now
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A recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission has disclosed that Steadfast Capital Management, a hedge fund run by Robert Pitts, owns nearly 30 million shares of YY Inc. (YY). The Chinese social networking software company went public in late November at a price of $10.50 and is currently trading close to $14. YY users form and interact with online groups on PCs and smartphones, and YY provides entertainment-based communities for performing artists and gamers. The current market capitalization is less than $800 million, but it has traded at least 200,000 shares each trading day since going public and so the daily dollar volume is well over $2 million for now.
This was the first Chinese initial public offering in the U.S. in about eight months, as a number of factors -- including poorer economic numbers in the country as well as ongoing concerns about accounting practices -- have led to the market souring on Chinese companies. YY boasts an impressive collection of investors, including Tiger Global Management, Disney (DIS) and Steadfast. Of course, being Chinese is only half of being a Chinese social networking company, and investors are well aware that companies such as Facebook (FB) and Zynga (ZNGA) have seen declining stock prices this year. That seems to have also affected YY's valuation: a fundraising round about two years ago valued YY at about $1 billion and the current market cap is a good bit lower than that.
In the first half of 2012, YY had about $3 million in earnings, so the company is dependent on rapid growth to justify its current valuation. The Chinese gaming community is a common investment thesis. Three different publicly traded companies have at least some focus on online gaming in China, though it's possible that these businesses are lighter on the social networking side than YY is. Shanda Games (GAME), Perfect World (PWRD) and Changyou.com (CYOU) all trade at around 4x to 5x times trailing earnings. Clearly, the negative attitude towards China is affecting these companies. Their market caps are in roughly the same neighborhood as YY's despite being profitable (though earnings growth has been negative at the first two peers).
Alternatively, we can look at Chinese social networking company Renren (RENN), which went public in early 2011. Renren is expected to be unprofitable this year and next year, and it looks to us like most of its valuation comes from its reported cash position. It seems that markets aren't giving Renren much credit for its social networking business, so even if YY is stronger in that area than the gaming companies we've discussed, we're skeptical that the stock should get much credit.
It seems to us that even if YY continues growing rapidly (revenue doubled in 2011 compared to the previous year), the company would probably have to have around $20 million in trailing earnings for an $800 million market cap before we'd look at it relative to its peers. Even then it would likely trade at a massive premium on a price-to-earnings basis, and would have to justify its valuation by showing a sustainable growth trajectory.
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Perhaps the biggest shocker on election night wasn't the fact that the Drudge Report's mojo for Mitt Romney failed to materialize in the popular vote.
From checking in on Drudge daily for the past month, I was sure that his collection of headlines pointed to an ultimately decisive Romney win. Not even remotely true. The Politico Election site has all the unvarnished details about presidential and Congressional contests.
If I was surprised Mitt didn't have a stronger showing, I was even more shocked that left-leaning California voters defeated Prop. 37, a ballot measure that would have called for labeling of biotech food at retail.
A great debate on Prop 37 can be found at the Fresh Produce Industry Discussion Group.
The topic has generated a lot of passion leading up to the vote, and the recriminations after the election are just as juicy.
Why did prop 37 lose?
From the Cornucopia Institute:
Sacramento, CA -- After a deluge of allegedly misleading advertisements paid for in large part by pesticide and biotechnology corporations, California voters defeated Proposition 37, which would have given them the right–to-know whether the foods they buy at the grocery store contain genetically engineered ingredients (GMOs).
TK: As much as Monsanto is again the "bad guy," It is interesting that some organic purists are knocking the resolve of Whole Foods to join the fight.
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Meanwhile, some corporations that should have stepped up to the plate gave token contributions at the eleventh hour. Whole Foods, a corporation with net sales as high as Monsanto's—both have approximately $11 billion in annual sales—contributed a mere $25,000, just two business days before the election, Cornucopia noted in its research. On the other hand, Monsanto contributed $8,113,000 to the "No on 37" campaign effort.
"Had we seen the same level of enthusiasm for consumers' right-to-know from Whole Foods as we saw against the right-to-know from Monsanto, the playing field would have been more level, and the misleading information spewed by giant corporate agribusinesses would quite possibly not have prevailed on election day," said Kastel. "Meaningful participation from Whole Foods could have been a game changer."
TK: Farm lobbyists were pleased with the level of opposition to Prop 37 from the editorial boards of major California newspapers. The majority of voters were not convinced the law was worth the lawsuits that might engulf small businesses if labeling of biotech food was required.
Check out The Packer's initial coverage of the election on food safety regulation here.
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A rookie who has had a great career in Europe. He is a good shooter, an excellent passer and a very crafty player in general. Good pick up by the Hawks.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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A rookie who has had a great career in Europe. He is a good shooter, an excellent passer and a very crafty player in general. Good pick up by the Hawks.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
Rec league quality play from the Pacers. Just pathetic.
"We've got to be very clear about this. We don't want our players hanging around with murderers," said Larry Bird, Pacers president.
Yuk...yuk...yuk..yuk...****ing yuk...
I don't care if this is 4 games in 5 nights. George got plenty of rest last night. There is no excuse for playing this poorly.
Can't get any worse than that. We're a team of guys who get on themselves when we play poorly as a team.
Like I said, I am confident we come out with a vengeance.
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So now they unleash Danny, right?
3 assists from our starting 5, pathetic .
Some people here have already given up. That's what you called pathetic. Not the team that is actually trying to win.
Pacers + Colts + Seahawks = Game mode on!
We are missing this guy so bad
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A sudden line-up switch a short while before the game is hard to adjust. If you gave the Pacers a few weeks to adjust to the lineup, they'd be fine, but for tonight it's most likely going to suck.
"It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."
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George, it's all George fault? Seriously?
Danny have 2p, Hibbert 0p, West...?
Yeah, it's bad...not as bad as JOB era though . Wow, we do miss Lance out there, who can create on his own, when nobody is hitting, and we need his laser passes.
6-31 shooting from the starters. Offense.
We probably lost but good thing it's a long season and we don't have another back-to-back for a while.
On this board it's always PG's fault don't you get it?
That was probably the worst half we've had this season offensively. No movement, missing open shots, nobody being aggresive. Get to the line dammit, make the play to score and force the refs to call a foul on them.
Yay, we don't know what we're doing as a franchise! thanks PG!
I feel like we haven't played good basketball in a few weeks...
Cavs handled it pretty well
Sure they should just keep force feeding him to see what happens....
@WhatTheFFacts: Studies show that sarcasm enhances the ability of the human mind to solve complex problems!
This is an absolutely embarrassing performance. West and Hibbert missing bunnies. West can't hit a shot either way. PG being underwhelming again on offense and getting beat on back door cuts. Quelle surprise! Granger unable to make a shot from distance or close to the basket.
Lance absence should not be cited as a reason. This is a poor effort and they all need a kick in the *** for this performance
Hard to get an assist when you shoot 6 for 31. That is really bad.
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I can still remember the day that Gary Huckabay and I met up in Coronado to talk about the future of Baseball Prospectus, though I don't remember the exact date. There was a lot of tension on the team and not a lot of money to go around, and our default position was just blowing the whole thing up and saying our goodbyes. We ended up selling each other on making a go of a greatly expanded content offering, though, most of which would be available (*gasp*) to subscribers only. We both expected paying for content to be a tough sell to prospective subscribers, so after laying out the content schedule for the long-time contributors already on staff, we looked it over, and it looked qualitatively strong but a little thin.
"Now what?"
"Well ... who's this Under The Knife guy I've been hearing so much about lately?"
It seems like forever ago when we were first introduced to Will's legendary energy, immense enthusiasm, expansive knowledge of human physiology, and formidable network of sources. Will has informed and entertained for over one thousand of his signature Under The Knife columns, he created the very popular (to readers and other sites alike) "traffic light" injury risk rating for his annual Team Health Reports, and he's worn many different hats at Baseball Prospectus behind the scenes in his copious free time. But Will has decided that it's time for him to move on, and his column today will be his last at Baseball Prospectus. Whatever he ends up doing next won't be a secret--@injuryexpert has been known to test Twitter's limits--but one thing's for sure: many people inside the game and out will be watching. Powered by best wishes: thanks for the volume of memories, Will, and may you be happy in your travels.
Under The Knife was one of the more popular columns at Baseball Prospectus, and we were planning to provide it to subscribers for quite a while. Luckily, we've got some very interesting quantitative injury analysis to present on Thursday as part of Reintroducing PECOTA week, and we plan to continue providing cutting-edge injury analysis in 2011.
And if you're an excellent, experienced baseball writer with a following who has proven to be a reliable multiple-times-a-week contributor and wants to work at an outfit that doesn't do TPS reports, we are looking to make your acquaintance.
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Booooooooooooooooooooo! Certainly will miss Will. Good luck to him. I will be interested to see where BP is going from here.
Sep 29, 2010 06:16 AM
Who's picking up the mantle for the playoff injury analysis?
Sep 29, 2010 08:26 AM
Greg Pizzo
Thanks for letting us know, Dave. I go back following Will when he was sending out missives before joining up with BP, so it sad to see him leave this home, but know he will doing great stuff elsewhere. Powered by......
Sep 29, 2010 09:45 AM
Scott Jones
Thanks for giving him a send off here.
Sep 29, 2010 11:00 AM
Talent drain? Seidman, Wyers, Swartz, Normandin, all newer, have talent to burn, and have significantly upgraded BP in their areas. Goldstein, Goldman, Kahrl, Jaffe, et al., more talent. Changed talent? Yes. Drained? No.
Sep 29, 2010 12:32 PM
Scott Jones
I should have been more clear in my comments. I think the new writers are talented, but I think the type of talent is different. There is a type of work I used to enjoy a lot on BP, and it largely is gone.
Sep 29, 2010 18:01 PM
I agree, compared to the start of last year, it's a talent increase. Compared to the start of this year, yes, there hasn't been enough replacements.
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AUSTIN – In advance of a growing Tropical Storm Alex, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department today announced the closure of three state parks in the lower Rio Grande Valley effective today and the deployment of game wardens to South Texas to assist with emergency operations.
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A racing car is designed with singularity of purpose: to complete a set number of laps and within a set of technical rules in the fastest time possible. But, emotionally, it is so much more. Its focused design carries the hopes and fantasies of more than just the driver sat in its snug, spartan cockpit. Racing cars are inspiring, and the Goodwood Festival of Speed exists to celebrate that fact and place thoroughbred racers and slinky sports cars on a pedestal of almost religious worship.
And, just as a cathedral has a tower so as to be seen from a distance, Goodwood has an automotive sculpture to draw followers in, and act as its festival centerpiece.
Each year, Goodwood has a featured marque; a car maker which inspires disciples, maybe because of its style, or success on the track, often both. In 2012, the featured marque is Lotus. It is fitting that this most British of automotive icons is toasted at this most British of garden parties, six decades in and with its foot on the gas.
Artist and designer, Gerry Judah has been commissioned by Group Lotus to create a bold centerpiece that captures the essence of Lotus from its beginnings to the present.
A 3-D infinity loop, 28 metres high, it resembles the grandest, most ambitious slot racing track ever imagined. The winding curves represent Lotus's natural environment; cars that are built for cornering. It's a monocoque structure, an engineering approach pioneered in F1 by Lotus. "The monocoque structure, which is made of steel plates and joined together to create the loop, is meant to highlight the engineering DNA of Lotus," confirms Gerry. "It's a lightweight engineering construction. I think its form shows the Lotus psychology and culture."
The sculpture is a race track, and sat on its tarmac are six very significant Lotus cars. Not scale models: full-size, genuine, actually-been-raced examples from Lotus's longstanding motorsport campaign. There's a green-and-yellow Type 32B, the car in which Jim Clark won the 1965 Tasman Series in Australia and New Zealand. Then there's the red-and-white Type 49, in which Graham Hill raced to the F1 crown in 1968. Next is the JPS-liveried Type 72, in which Emerson Fittipaldi became Formula One's youngest champion in 1972. Then the black-and-gold Type 79, the ultimate ground-effect car now high in the air, and responsible for Mario Andretti's world title in 1978. A bolt of yellow in the shape of the Lotus 99T next, the last Lotus driven by Ayrton Senna. And, finally, we have the current Lotus grand prix car as driven by Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean.
Rich history there, some immortal legends, and some pretty valuable metal and carbon fibre too. Is it safe to lynch them nearly 10 storeys? "Well, we haven't erected it yet," laughs Judah, a little nervously. But he needn't be, because he's been here many times before. "We put the Bluebird up in the air, and a Supermarine plane that had been sat in a museum for 70 years". Judah has now built 15 statues for Goodwood, so he knows what he's doing. "Many years ago Charles March [the owner of Goodwood House and the organizer of the Festival of Speed] was a commercial photographer, and back in the 1980s I used to build sets for him. Having not seen him for about 15 years or so, he called me up in 1997 and asked me to build something for him: a triumphal arch with a Ferrari hanging underneath. Despite terrible rain and winds to endure when we put it up, it was great fun and a few months later he asked if I wanted to do another."
Judah worked closely with Lord March and Lotus to determine the design. "I came up with a couple of concepts and then we had a dialogue. A great piece of art doesn't just come from the artist, it comes from the client too and Lotus' Head of Marketing, Tommaso Volpe, really had that vision."
Cars have always been a passion of Judah's. "I've always admired Lotus since I was a boy. They're such British cars, with that ideology of clever, forward thinking science and engineering. That was something I knew I needed to embrace. It's almost unconscious how I approach sculpture. I don't do brands. None of the sculptures I've done for Goodwood have spoken about the brand, you can get an advertising agency to do that. I do something more intuitive. It is, dare I say it, a spiritual journey in design."
Speaking of spiritual journeys, he says inspiration for his work can be traced to India, where he was born. His mother was from Calcutta, his father from Rangoon, and Gerry was raised in West Bengal till the age of ten when the family emigrated to London. "The landscape, the awesomeness of the huge temples and mosques, the rituals, the architecture… everything had a sense of grandeur. Not necessarily scale, but grandeur of spirit."
Before turning his attention to public sculpture, painting and fine art, Gerry had made a name for himself in theatrical, movie and television set design, establishing a studio on Shaftesbury Avenue after graduating Goldsmiths College and Slade art school. The dramatic elements to his work are clear, and this has been embraced not just by marques such as Porsche, Audi and Jaguar but by Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, The Who and Led Zeppelin to create the most impressive rock shows. And there has been darker subject matter, none more serious and introspective than a large model depicting Auschwitz at the Holocaust Exhibition for the Imperial War Museum.
Working with the Lotus models up on the huge 3-D loop, and with Clive Chapman – the owner of the five classic F1 models - has been important in order to convey Lotus' integrity. "Everything up there is original," says Gerry, "because that's the whole idea of Goodwood. These are the original racers and they project that spirit of not just the Festival of Speed but of the history of motorsport, to which Lotus has been such a significant contributor. We could have stuck the cars up on podiums as you might in a museum, but that wouldn't give the cars the salute they deserve. You need some element of danger and panache, as exhibited when they're racing on the track."
The cars are held in place by their wheels, which sit in specially designed cups and are strapped to them tightly. "We treat each car very delicately," he assured Clive, who Gerry says is "participating in this as a tribute to his father's life's work."
The sculpture comes in 11 major sections, which will be delivered from Littlehampton, where they're fabricated, to Goodwood 22 miles away by individual articulated lorries and a police escort.


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UPDATE: NHL Board of Governors approves sale of New Jersey Devils
The sale of the New Jersey Devils to a group led by Philadelphia 76ers owner Josh Harris could be completed in the next two days, Tom Gulitti of The Record (Woodland Park, N.J.) reported Tuesday night.
Rapid progress on a sale has been made over the past week, and while a deal is not done, no hangups are expected to emerge, according to the report. The NHL's Board of Governors is expected to complete a vote on the transaction by Thursday, according to the report.
Harris' name has gained plenty of steam in recent days as the primary candidate to buy the Devils.
Harris' group will cover the sizable debt that current owner Jeffrey Vanderbeek compiled, and it will need to repay the $30 million that Andrew Barroway loaned the team earlier this summer. It appeared for a while that Barroway would purchase the team, but his exclusive negotiating window with Vanderbeek expired in late July.
Any sale would give the new owner a controlling stake in the Devils, plus the operating rights to the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., the Devils' home, according to the report.
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Power of Pink Roundup and a Winner!
First, I'd like to thank everyone who participated in the Power of Pink Challenge this year. I know breast cancer has touched many of our lives. I'm hoping that this challenge has helped to raise awareness of this disease.
On a related note, I am starting training for the Avon Walk today. A good friend of mine offered to sign up to walk 39.3 miles over two days with me at some time next year. If you remember, Hubby and I were on the crew for the Boston Avon Walk this past year. In 2010, my friend A and I will be walking and our Hubbies will be on the crew. I'm sure I will be talking more about the walk over the next few months. It's going to be an adventure for sure!
But now back to the challenge. Here are the submissions that I got throughout the month.
CB from I heart Cuppycakes made Lemon Angel Food Cupcakes with Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream
Kris from A Baker's Remix made Breast Cancer cakes
Dorothy from Fuzzykoala's Caketastic Adventures made A Pink Pumpkin Spice Cake
Jelli from Jelli Bean Journals made Vanilla Cupcakes with Pink Frosting
Romina from Sweetened with Love made Pink Ribbon Cupcakes and Cookies
Kathleen from Kat's Kitchen Place made Cowgirl Cookies
Erin from Milk & Honey made Chocolate Pinks
Claudia from Highlowaha made Double D's cake pops
Brianne from Sweet Cheeks made Into the Pink Pretzels
Yudith from Blissfully Delicious made Pink Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes
Xiaolu from 6 Bittersweets made Redless Velvet Cupcakes with Pink Frosting
Stefany from Proceed with Caution made Think Pink Cheesecake
And I made chocolate pink M&M cookies
Thanks again everyone for participating in the challenge. And now it's time for the fun part! Choosing the winner. I did it the old-fashioned way this time. I cut up little pieces of paper, wrote names on each piece and threw them in a hat. I had Hubby draw a name out of that hat.
And the winner of this fabulous prize is…
…Kris! Congratulations!!
Please email me your address and I will get your prize out as soon as possible.
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Love all the pink. Everything looks very yummy.
It all looks pink-a-lious! Congrats to the winner!
so many tasty treats here! great job with the walk!
The pumpkin cake is great! You've got some super creative readers!
Wow everyone did such a great job! I wanted to participate and ran out of time. Congrats to the winner:)
What a great roundup! I absolutely adore those Think Pink Cheesecakes. Stinkin' cute.
Great roundup!! So many wonderful ideas! Now I've gotta make me some cupcakes!


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Then the bhikkhu-friends of the Venerable Nanda went about calling him "hireling" and "menial," saying: "The Venerable Nanda is a hireling! The Venerable Nanda is a menial! He is living the holy life for the sake of nymphs! It is said that the Lord has guaranteed that he will obtain five hundred pink-footed nymphs!"
Then the Venerable Nanda was humiliated, ashamed, and dismayed by his friends calling him "hireling" and "menial." Living alone, secluded, diligent, ardent, and resolute, he soon realized even here and now through his own direct knowledge that unequalled goal of the holy life for the sake of which sons of good family rightly go forth from home to the homeless state, and entering into it he abode in it. And he knew: "Finished is birth, lived is the holy life, done is what had to be done, there is no more of this state." And the Venerable Nanda became one of the arahats.
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Get an overview of this hotelAcross from Waikiki Beach with salt water pool
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Centralized Location
Located across from Waikiki Beach, the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani is within a block of the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center, a half-mile from Kapiolani Park and the Honolulu Zoo, and 4 miles from downtown.
Dining options
In addition to daily cultural activities, the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani features an open-air buffet restaurant and poolside bar next to the salt water pool.
Hawaiian Hospitality
Located in two 11-story wings and a 29-story tower, all 1,000 guestrooms at this Honolulu hotel offer Sheraton Sweet Sleeper bedding, compact refrigerators, a coffee/tea maker, in-room safes, and complimentary WiFi.
Guest Highlights
- Good location
- Proximity to shopping
- Beach
- Helpful staff
- Clean guestrooms
- Guestrooms were a little noisy
Sheraton Princess Kaiulani
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Across from beach activities, the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani is within a block of the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center.
Culture lessons and activities are hosted daily at this hotel, including hula lessons, lei making and pineapple tastings. For guests spending the day at Waikiki Beach, complimentary beach chairs and towels are available.
Pikake Terrace offers open-air breakfast and dinner buffets; Splash Bar & Bento offers "bento-style" dining.
Wireless Internet access is available in the hotel lobby. This Honolulu hotel includes a fitness center located on the second floor of the Ainahou Tower.
In the evening guests can enjoy the "Te Moana Nui" dinner show. Experience the best of Polynesia and flavors of the islands with Te Moana Nui - Tales of the Pacific at the Ainahau Showroom. "Te Moana Nui" means the vast ocean. Explore Hawaii's rich traditions with live music and cultural activities, including lei making, kapa and Polynesian tattooing. Dinner and cocktail show packages are available.
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 1000
- Number of floors - 29
- ATM/banking
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Conference space
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-out
- Fitness facilities
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Airport transportation
- Express check-in
- Luggage storage
- Concierge services
- Laundry facilities
- Library
- Multilingual staff
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Year Built 1955
- Conference space size (feet) - 14,451
- Conference space size (meters) - 1
- Pool sun loungers
- Beach towels
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 3
- Outdoor pool
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Pool umbrellas
- Computer station
- Meeting rooms 5
- Number of meeting rooms - 5
- Shopping on site
- Television in common areas
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Refrigerator
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Self parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Balcony
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Designer toiletries
- Shower/tub combination
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Daily housekeeping
- Cable TV service
- Desk
- Television
- Free WiFi
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free newspaper
- Partially open bathroom
- Room service (limited hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Free cribs/infant beds
Where to Eat
Pikake Terrace - Relaxed outdoor dining in a poolside garden setting. Serving à la carte entrées and hearty breakfast and dinner buffets. Poolside al fresco dining.
Splash Bar and Bento - Offering tropical drinks poolside and nightly entertainment under the stars. Appetizer and entree menu for lunch and dinner.
Nearby Things to Do
The Sheraton Princess Kaiulani's oval-shaped outdoor splash pool is near an outdoor stage that hosts complimentary live Hawaiian entertainment nightly. The fitness center is located on the second floor of the Ainahou Tower.
Waikiki Beach offers rentals for water activities such as snorkeling, boogie boarding, catamaran sailing, and canoeing. A surfing school is also nearby.
A half-mile from the hotel, Kapiolani Park is home to tennis courts, sports fields, an archery range, and the Honolulu Zoo.
Ala Wai Golf Course, a mile away, has an 18-hole course, driving range, and pro shop.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Snorkeling nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 80.0 per day.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Resort fee: USD 29.32 per accommodation, per night
- Beach loungers
- Beach towels
- Partner property access
- Nearby fitness center access
- Internet access
- Newspaper
- Phone calls
- In-room safe
- In-room coffee
- In-room bottled water
- Additional inclusions
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: USD 26.00 for adults and USD 13.00 for children (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: USD 16.00 per person (one way)
- Self parking fee: USD 35.00 per day
- Late check-out fee: USD 15.00
- In-room microwave fee: USD 10 per day
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 80.0 per day
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- Sheraton Princess Kaiulani Hawaii/Honolulu
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This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
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Complimentary meals for children 5 and younger
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Fresh-cut products are breathing new life into produce companies across the Midwest as the desire for convenience outpaces demand for organic fruits and vegetables and threatens to eclipse locally grown as consumers' top demand in the heart of America.
Produce suppliers are expanding operations, and retailers are increasing shelf space for peeled and chopped items, according to industry insiders. Schools and other foodservice operators are also more frequently turning to fresh-cut suppliers to do time-consuming prep work as tighter budgets continue to reduce their staffs.
Gene Loffredo, president of Loffredo Fresh Produce, said his company has hired 50 people for its fresh-cut operations in Des Moines, Iowa, in recent months. He said at least 15% of the company's business is in the fresh-cut sector. Demand is growing so much that additional square footage "is in the works" for Loffredo's, he said.
"Sales are up across our entire region from Wisconsin to Wichita," Loffredo said. "We are really seeing increases with our fresh-cut products in convenience stores — especially the single-serving items."
Loffredo also said increased serving sizes as defined by the federal government are also helping his business, which is 50% contracted foodservice customers, including schools.
School customers also are giving a boost to Liberty Fruit Co., Kansas City, Kan. Reade Sievert, vice president of sales at Liberty, said federal funding has helped increase school districts' use of fresh-cut fruits and vegetables.
"They are trying new things, too, like fresh-cut jicama, diakon coins and diced papaya," Sievert said.
Loffredo and Sievert said they believe families' busy schedules are one of the biggest factors contributing to the fresh-cut boon.
Nick Conforti, a co-owner of North Kansas City, Mo.-based C&C Produce and its fresh-cut sister company Cool Creations, agrees that convenience is a big factor, However, he said he has seen fresh-cut sales take off in recent months and he believes that is a reflection of America's recovering economy.
Consequently, Cool Creations added 15,000 square feet to its fresh-cut operation. Conforti said the expansion is in direct response to increased demand, which already had the company operating two shifts of workers.
"I think the other driving force behind our fresh-cut growth is our flavor profile," Conforti said. "It takes the risk out of it for the consumer because they know after they try our brand that they can count on consistency. When they buy a whole melon, for example, they don't know until they cut it if it's really good."
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From the retail side, Mike Orf, assistant vice president of produce operations for Hy-Vee Stores Inc., said consumer demand for fresh-cut is far greater in the chain's eight-state area than demand for organic fresh produce.
Headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, Hy-Vee's 235 stores are mostly controlled by local managers and almost all of the stores have fresh-cut operations in-house.
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Grandal to report to Triple-A on Saturday
BALTIMORE -- It's nearly time for Padres catcher Yasmani Grandal to leave extended spring camp in Arizona and begin his road back to the big leagues.
Grandal was suspended for the Padres' first 50 games in November after he tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone.
Grandal is eligible to come off the restricted list on May 28 when the team is in Seattle, though he can begin a Minor League stint on Saturday, a period that can't exceed more than 10 days.
The Padres have mapped out a plan for him that will see him report to Des Moines on Saturday, where Triple-A Tucson is playing. He will remain with the team during a four-game series in Omaha beginning Monday. The team returns to Tucson on May 24.
"He feels good, everything is solid, offensively and defensively," Padres general manager Josh Byrnes said recently. "We will get him ready to play in those games and evaluate where he is and where our roster is."
Grandal was able to participate in drills and games in Spring Training, and he remained in Arizona when after the team broke camp in late May.
The Padres have two catchers on their roster; Nick Hundley and John Baker. Baker, who got the start against the Orioles on Wednesday, entered the game hitting .115. Baker has Minor League options, meaning that he'll likely be the one optioned to Triple-A Tucson when the Padres deem Grandal fit to return.
Grandal made his Major League debut with the team on June 2 of last season. In his first start against the Rockies on June 30, Grandal hit two home runs.
He later missed 17 games with a strained right oblique muscle. Grandal hit .297 with eight home runs and 36 RBIs in 60 games.
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Bargain-hunter Annabel Ross hits the sales in the retail-therapy mecca of Kuala Lumpur.
From ritzy malls to quirky boutiques to Chinatown knock-offs, there's something for every taste and every budget in Kuala Lumpur.
While Bali and Bangkok have been favourite destinations of shoppers for years, KL is fast catching up as one of Asia's most popular shopping cities.
The famous sales are a major drawcard, particularly in November during the Malaysia Year-End Sale - a 10-week bargain bonanza. From now until January, KL will hum with bag-saddled label-lovers making the most of huge discounts.
Bukit Bintang
The city's most renowned shopping district is nestled within the famous Golden Triangle, KL's commercial and entertainment hub. In an area comprised almost entirely of malls, it can be hard to know where to start.
Luckily help is at hand with Andrea Dennis, who was named one of KL's top fashion bloggers by Topshop last year. Dennis says Pavilion should be at the top of your list. She's right. With more than 500 outlets, this huge retail haven provides a winning mix of luxury boutiques and high-street stores.
Here you'll find high-end designers such as Celine, Salvatore Ferragamo, Burberry and Gucci, as well as popular, more affordable chains such as Topshop and Zara. Opened in 2007, the mall has won a slew of awards since and, in spite of a constant stream of visitors, the place is so clean it sparkles. A must-see and our pick of the KL shopping malls.
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Lot 10 This mall, which has been around since the early '90s, is enjoying something of a renaissance. Swedish retail giant H&M opened its biggest south-east Asia store in Lot 10 in September - a three-floor behemoth brimming with affordable, on-trend fashion.
Fahrenheit 88 A favourite with locals, Fahrenheit 88 is home to mostly inexpensive fashion, such as the Japanese casual wear label Uniqlo. The two-storey shop boasted some of the friendliest staff we encountered in KL and the most wallet-friendly prices. A local hero and chief designer on Project Runway Malaysia, Bernard Chandran, whose designs have caught the eye of Lady Gaga, also has a boutique here filled with his sparkling, avant-garde creations.
Other malls of note
Starhill Gallery Just across the way from Pavilion, the pristine Starhill is stocked almost exclusively with luxury labels including Dior, Fendi, Louis Vuitton, Missoni and Alexander McQueen. Fun for big spenders and window shoppers.
Suria KLCC Located in the Kuala Lumpur city centre at the base of the Petronas Towers, Suria KLCC is comprised of six levels of retail outlets selling clothing, homewares, health and beauty products, electrical goods and more.
Stores are a mixture of high-end and high-street and include Balenciaga, Bally, Mango and Jimmy Choo. You could easily spend a day here (and do a lot of damage on your credit card). We paused for high tea at the nearby Mandarin Oriental Hotel. For AU$25 (NZ$32) for a generous set of sandwiches, scones, cakes and teas, it's a decadent and surprisingly affordable pit stop.
Mid Valley Megamall This mall is about a 20-minute taxi trip from the Petronas Towers but well worth a visit. It houses more than 400 mid-range stores including Converse, Wrangler and Bobbi Brown. The Megamall's more upscale neighbour, the Gardens Mall, is home to designer labels including Karen Millen and BCBG Max Azria.
An affluent residential suburb close to the Mid Valley Megamall, Bangsar is popular with expats. When taking a cab there, Dennis suggests asking to be dropped off at Bangsar Village 2, a small mall. From there you can walk the streets of Jalan Telawi and explore the boutiques.
Cat's Whiskers (7-1, 1st floor, Jalan Telawi 2, Bangsar Baru) stocks cheerful and fashionable dresses, tops, skirts, pants and jewellery, with many pieces costing AU$15 (NZ$19). We stumbled across Replacement next door, a hairdresser/fashion boutique, and stumbled out with a not-so-cheap-but-very-nice net top. Across the road, Mirror Fashion Gallery (20-1, Jalan Telawi 2, Bangsar Baru) also carries a range of quirky, fashion-forward pieces at great prices.
For everything from flats and sandals to heels, platforms, pumps, peeps and wedges, Dennis recommends Shoes Shoes Shoes (31a, 1st floor, Jalan Telawi 3, Bangsar Baru). The shop also sells a range of accessories, jewellery, bags, and belts, made to match the shoes.
A note on taxis
Be wary when hailing a taxi and insist on knowing whether they use the meter, Andrea Dennis says. Some cabs will quote you an exorbitant fare, especially if you're an "obvious" tourist. Try to not catch a cab between 5pm and 7pm. Traffic is at its worst at this time, something we experienced firsthand. A taxi ride from our hotel to the Golden Triangle in the morning took us five minutes. It took us more than 40 minutes to get back to the hotel from town at 6pm.
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Met Police chief Jimmy Cooper said his men should hang their heads in shame after watching them hand in the towel on their Ryman Premier League promotion hopes this week.
The Blues crashed 3-1 at home to Hampton & Richmond Borough to leave their nine-game unbeaten run – stretching back to November 26 – in tatters.
Cooper's men, who had a win-draw-loss record of 9-9-9 prior to Tuesday, are statistically closer to the drop zone than they are the play-
off places that had been the target at the start of the campaign.
A lapse in concentration by the Blues' fragile defence allowed Beavers midfielder Charlie Moone to set up strike partner Dave Tarpey to put his side 2-1 up moments after Hampton's Karle Carder had been sent off.
And the 45-year-old manager, who recently celebrated a decade in charge at Imber Court, reckons his men have to buck their ideas up or watch moments like that drag his team in to the relegation mire.
"I'm not going to name players, but they know who they are," he said.
"We are just not collectively playing well enough at the moment. You could argue that we are in 15th place for a reason.
"Our lack of concentration cost us dearly in the end. We made many mistakes and gifted our opponents with an easy second goal.
"Up to that point we were taking the game, but that goal effectively killed our morale.
"We need to put this defeat behind us and start all over again.
"We need to go into every game knowing that we are capable of beating everyone.
"If we don't, teams will beat us and we could get sucked into a relegation battle."
Detective Sergeant Cooper will be without skipper and team motivator Steve Sutherland for the next two games after the defender picked up a knock in midweek.
And the manager has urged his players to find their inner leadership in the centre-back's absence.
"We are up against teams in a similar position to us and we need everyone to pull together and give their all if we have any chance of winning our next couple of games," he added.


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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkish authorities finished an autopsy Monday on a New York City woman found dead in Istanbul and submitted DNA samples from it to a crime lab for testing, Turkey's state-run media reported.
Sarai Sierra, a 33-year-old mother of two, went missing Jan. 21 while on a solo vacation in Istanbul. Her body was found 12 days later, near the remnants of some ancient city walls. Police said she had suffered a fatal blow to the head.
Police on Monday were still scouring the area where the body was found for clues, with the help of sniffer dogs, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
The Milliyet newspaper said a forensic medicine lab will examine samples from Sierra's fingernails as well as hair and other samples from a blanket found near her body. It said some nail scrapings suggest she may have tried to fight off her attacker.
More than a dozen people were questioned in the case but most of them have been released, Milliyet reported. It said three people were still being held for questioning.
Sierra, whose children are 9 and 11, had left for Istanbul on Jan. 7 to explore her photography hobby. She was to have traveled with a friend, but the friend cancelled.�
Sierra was in regular contact with friends and relatives during the trip and had told them she would visit Galata Bridge, which spans Istanbul's Golden Horn waterway, to take photos.


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Arsenal is now confident of landing 16 million pound Malaga winger Santi Cazorla [5] and will make a bid in the next 48 hours.
Cazorla, who played for Spain twice at Euro 2012, is keen to join the Gunners and would become the club's third signing of the summer.
Lukas Podolski arrived from Cologne [6] for 11 million pounds and Montpellier striker Olivier Giroud joined [7] for 12.8 million pounds.
But before watching his team score two late goals to win their first tour of the Far East 2-1 against a Malaysia XI, Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis told Wenger he could continue to chase more targets over the next two weeks.
Despite insisting otherwise, Wenger still wants Rennes 17 million pound-rated midfielder Yann M'Vila as he is unconvinced over the fitness of injury-jinxed Abou Diaby.
Wenger is also set to pursue 17-year-old striker M'Baye Niang who plays for French club Caen although he has already seen a six million bid rejected, The Sun reports.
Wenger is understood to have been given a boost that, finally, he will be allowed to strengthen a squad which still needs improving if they are to stand any sort of chance of finishing in the top two. (ANI [8])
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Topic: The New Cancer Drugs In Development and On FDA"Fast Tract Approval"
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yesterday i post some basic understanding of what is gene amplification and overexpression. the reason is simple, If you take a look the new research drug development by Pharma(see below) ,all if not the most for cancer researched drugs are base on the gene sequence and positions,like CD20,PD-1,PDL-1,ALK,CDK4 and BDK and P13k etc.
Last but not least below is the link to cancer new drug development now and the next year that most of them,if clinical trials successful, will be approval by FDA on a "FAST TRACT" basis.
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I will pay more attention about those drugs in development that are related to the immune system of our body, and if it works out for us, we will be free at last, at least as to be treated as a chronic disease rather than a deadly one and has no return.
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text: Culture 17 March 2011 Bismarck: a Life Sign up for our weekly email * Otto von Bismarck was the most powerful figure in European politics between Napoleon and Lenin, and did less harm than either of them. Under his leadership, in 1871, German unification was achieved following the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian war. "The war represents the German revolution," Disraeli presciently told the House of Commons the same year, "a greater political event than the French Revolution of last century. The balance of power has been entirely destroyed, and the country which suffers most, and feels the effects of this great change most, is England." Germany would probably have achieved unification in some form even without Bismarck. What Bismarck did was to ensure that the German revolution was contained. Acting in the spirit of Goethe's aphorism that genius lies in limitation, he sought to maintain rather than expand the German empire. After 1871, he tried to create a new equilibrium in Europe through a complex system of alliances that kept the peace for a generation. Had he been Reich chancellor in 1914, war might well have been avoided. But his alliance system was so complex that no one else was skilful enough to operate it. Bismarck's successors - the Kaiser and Hitler - lacked both his diplomatic finesse and his moderation. Between them, they destroyed his legacy. Bismarck sought equilibrium at home as well as abroad, calling upon the masses through universal male suffrage to undermine his liberal opponents. Like Napoleon III, he showed that democracy could be tamed by enlisting the people on the side of the established order. Like Disraeli, he believed that a mass electorate might prove a stronger buttress of the established order than the landed aristocracy had ever been. Bismarck campaigned against both Catholics and socialists, whom he attacked as Reichsfeinde - enemies of the empire. But he stole their social policies, introducing the world's first system of old-age pensions and health insurance. Here, too, he turned the weapons of his opponents against them.As Jonathan Steinberg points out, Bismarck has attracted numerous biographers - Erich Eyck, an old-fashioned German liberal; A J P Taylor, an equally old-fashioned English radical and socialist; an American, Otto Pflanze, who wrote a three-volume biography; and a German scholar, Lothar Gall, who produced a two-volume biography and labelled him a white revolutionary. Does Steinberg have anything to add? Bismarck: a Life is primarily a work of interpretation rather than original research and there is more in it on Bismarck's personality than on his policies; more on his malice, gluttony and hypochondria than on the Reinsurance Treaty or the Gastein Convention. There is some psychoanalytical speculation about the effects on Bismarck of his distant relationship with his cold and unfeeling mother, but this amounts to little more than guesswork. Nevertheless, this is a beautifully written book that provides a stimulating and enjoyable introduction to the history of modern Europe. A historiographical question that Steinberg does not seek to avoid is whether there was an affinity between Bismarck and Hitler - between the 19th century's most successful conservative and the 20th century's most destructive revolutionary. In 1918, Max Weber wrote that Bismarck had "left a nation totally without political education - totally bereft of political will, accustomed to expect that the great man at the top would provide their politics for them". That was the environment that allowed the learned classes in Germany to acquiesce in Hitler's crimes. German conservatives in the early 1930s, in one of the great misjudgements of modern times, believed that Hitler was a second Bismarck who would use mass support to preserve their privileges and make Germany a great power again. Steinberg perceives, therefore, a "linear and direct" link between Bismarck and Hitler. But that surely is an exaggeration. Bismarck's mission was always a limited one: to preserve the empire that was, as he put it, a satiated state. By contrast, Hitler's plans for Lebensraum did not allow for limitation. Of Bismarck's handiwork, little remains. German politics today is dominated by the parties of the Reichsfeinde - the largely Catholic CDU/CSU (Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union) and the SPD, the social democrats, who have governed the federal republic quietly and peacefully for over 60 years. The Bismarckian idea of a Germany that holds the balance between east and west has been superseded by a Germany firmly anchored inside the European Union, an idea for which Bismarck had little time. The word "Europe" was, he said, usually heard from "those politicians who demanded from other powers what they in their own name dare not request". When asked to mediate between Germany and France in 1870 in the name of Europe, Beust, the minister-president of Saxony, replied: "I cannot see Europe any more." Today the stability of Europe depends not on Bismarckian legerdemain, but on the integration that Bismarck disdained. The alternative, a continent of competing nation states, would allow Germany to become once more a pivotal power able to play off the west against the east, a prospect that instilled fear in far-sighted German leaders such as Helmut Schmidt and Helmut Kohl. For both Germans and Europeans, therefore, Bismarck's career serves not as an inspiration, but as a warning. l Vernon Bogdanor is research professor at the Institute of Contemporary History, King's College, London. His next book, "The Coalition and the Constitution", will be published by Hart on 31 March Bismarck: a Life Jonathan SteinbergOxford University Press, 592pp, £25 Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 03 January 2010 issue of the New Statesman, New Issue More


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