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Every time a texture is drawn on the screen, the graphics hardware has to prepare the rendering, render the graphics, and clean up after rendering. There is an inherent overhead caused by starting and ending the rendering of a single texture. This can be alleviated by asking the graphics hardware to render an entire group of sprites. In that case, the graphics hardware will perform the preparation and cleanup steps only once for that group of sprites.
It's in that purpose that the CCSpriteBatchNode appears. All the CCSprite added to the CCSpriteBatchNode are drawn in one single OpenGL ES draw call, known as a batch draw. The more CCSprite nodes you can group together, the greater the benefits of using a CCSpriteBatchNode. There are limitations though, all the CCSprite nodes added to a CCSpriteBatchNode will be drawn at the same z-order. To create a CCSpriteBatchNode, you can use the class method:
+ (id)batchNodeWithFile:(NSString*)imageFile;The reason this method takes an image file as an argument is that all the CCSprite nodes added to the CCSpriteBatchNode must use the same texture! This argument is here to check that you are not accidentally adding a CCSprite with a different texture. You gonna tell me: If I can use a CCSpriteBatchNode only to draw several times the same image, it's not so useful. To that I will answer with those two words: Texture Atlas.
Texture Atlas
A texture atlas is plainly an image that contains smaller images. With that simple idea comes a lot of advantages. Indeed, texture atlases help conserve memory and speed up the rendering of sprites. As you may know, textures width and height always have to be a power of two, for example an image with dimensions of 130x520 becomes a texture with dimensions of 256x1024 in memory, wasting a lot of a precious memory. The amount of wasted memory become significant if you have several such images and you load them into individual textures. So an amendment to the previous definition: a texture atlas is an image, already aligned to a power-of-two dimension, that contains multiple images, sparing the waste of memory. You can create a sprite from a texture atlas by using, on the CCSprite class, the method:
+ (id)spriteWithSpriteFrame:(CCSpriteFrame*)spriteFrame;This method takes a CCSpriteFrame as an argument, that you can create with its class method:
+ (id)frameWithTexture:(CCTexture2D*)texture rect:(CGRect)rect;Thanks to a texture atlas, you can add multiple images to a CCSpriteBatchNode. But as you may think, packing images into a texture atlas and noting the rectangular sprite frames would be a monumental task, that's where TexturePacker comes in.
I'll introduce here TexturePacker, a great 2D sprite-packing tool. It's available in both free and paid versions. The free version is sufficient for basic needs, but the paid version, with a reasonably low price, contains advanced features such as optimizing the graphics to save memory, high-resolution data for retina displays, scaling down images for non-retina displays, etc.
In TexturePacker you simply drag and drop your images in the right pane, after doing that your images immediately appear in the center pane, which is a real-time preview of your texture atlas.
As you may see in the above-image, TexturePacker will create an optimal packing rate by trimming the transparent border pixels of each images, and by rotating some images. Doing this will reduce the texture size and speeds up the rendering of the sprites. In case you're wondering about those modifications, once back in your project, Cocos2D will automatically handle the rotation and the shifting of those sprites.
Before saving the texture atlas, you need to configure properly the output settings. First you have to make sure that the data format is set to Cocos2D because TexturePacker can be used with a lot of other game engines, such as Unity3D, OGRE, Corona, AppGameKit and so on. Then you have to locate where to save the plist file, which will contain the name, position, size and orientation of each image. Make sure the file has the -hd suffix, TexturePacker will, as expected by Cocos2D, save the HD texture and will omit the -hd suffix for the SD version (Yes, TexturePacker will automatically create HD and SD versions of the texture atlas by down-scaling your retina images). You can then choose the texture format, a compressed version of the iPhone's native PVR format is recommended. Finally the image format allows you, once again, to optimize the size of the generated texture atlas. For example the RGBA4444 image format is a good compromise between quality, rendering speed and memory usage, it provides 4 bits per color and 4 more bits for the alpha channel. If you don't need any transparency, you may be interested by the RGB565 image format, which uses 5 bits for the red, 6 bits for green, and 5 bits for blue channel. Once the configuration is done, you just have to click the publish button, and TexturePacker will write the HD and SD textures and the accompanying plist files.
Back to the code, in order to show you how to use those plist files generated by TexturePacker, let me introduce you CCSpriteFrameCache. It's a singleton, designed to handle the loading of the sprite frames. First you have to add your file to that cache:
[[CCSpriteFrameCache sharedSpriteFrameCache] addSpriteFramesWithFile:@"atlas.plist"];Then you can load a sprite from your texture atlas with that simple line:
CCSprite* sprite = [CCSprite spriteWithSpriteFrameName:@"mySprite.png"];Yep, that's all! Amazing isn't it ?
In summary, TexturePacker is a excellent tool that, combined to a CCSpriteBatchNode, help you to optimize your app from both memory usage and rendering speed perspectives.


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Les Roberson graduated from Ryerson University in 1972 in nuclear Physics and Electronics. He has worked for Bell Canada, the Saudi Telephone Company as well as BC Telephone / Telus until his retirement in 2012. He moved with his family to British Columbia in 1981.
He has served on various committees, was the Founder and Chair of MacWest Computer Club, has been the past Chair / Board member of the Murrayville Hall Council.
Les was also the Chairperson for the Toastmaster International Region 1 in 1999.
Currently Les is the Co-Chairperson for the Township of Langley Seniors Advisory Committee.
Les has taught courses and seminars for the Langley Continuing Education, Since 1988 and has presented for community and corporate organizations. His interests include computers, classic cars and his grandchildren.
Jim McGregor was born and raised in Langley British Columbia and has retired as the Fire Chief of the Langley City Fire – Rescue Service at the end of a thirty-six year career. During his career he chaired numerous federal and Provincial and Regional fire service committees with respect to training and building codes.
Jim is a published poet and a free-lance columnist for the Langley Times newspaper, producing a weekly column as well as producing feature articles for Senior's magazine. Hi poetry has been described as inspirational and thought provoking and varies in style from short verses to ballads and his words have raised funds for the New York Firefighters 9-11 Fund, Muscular Dystrophy and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.
Currently Jim is the Vice President of the Douglas Park School Society and the Vice Chair of the Board of the Justice Institute of B.C. and currently holds the position of Herald of the Vancouver Commander of the Order of St. John.
Jim is a supporter of many local charities. He shares his spare time as the Coordinator of the Langley Christmas Bureau, and with his three children and two grandchildren.
Marni Campbell is a Certified Management Accountant with extensive experience in both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Her past employment included Controller for the Anglican Church of Canada, in the Diocese of New Westminster. Her expertise and passion is in the not-for-profit sector and her community of Langley. Marni is currently a Treasurer for her local church, and enjoys spending her free time with her husband of 10 years, and 3 young children.
Lee Douglas has lived in Langley for 12 years. After retirement from Canada Post as a letter carrier for 30 years, Lee has volunteered at the Langley Seniors Centre for the past seven months. You will usually find Lee behind her camera at the Special Events taking photos for the Centre.
Lee has a very strong connection to LSRS as her father-in-law, Tom Douglas, was very instrumental in getting the Centre built and her Mother, Pat Toppings, started and still organizes the Mellow Yellow table tennis club after fifteen years.
Lee brings a background in aquatics, recreation and education as she worked in those fields while attending UBC where she earned her degree in physical education. Throughout her teen and adult life, Lee has volunteered and developed aquatic, recreation and education programs specifically designed for seniors.
Lee's skills and experience brings her to volunteer on the Board of Directors at LSRS. Her volunteer work with the Union as an instructor, education and organization officer; her volunteer work as treasurer /secretary on two Strata Councils will be very useful for her duties as a board member.
Lee enjoys photography, crossword puzzles, reading and making her own greeting cards for family and friends.
Keith McDonald has lived in Langley for 38 years with his wife and two children. Both Keith and his wife Sandy are now proud grandparents of four granddaughters.
Keith worked at Air Canada for 30 years travelling extensively throughout the world in the course of his duties. He retired from Air Canada as Manager Airport Operations for Vancouver and Asia. Upon retiring from Air Canada he continued to work at Vancouver International Airport only now for the Vancouver Airport Authority. He worked there for another 12 years and retired as an Airside Duty Manager.
Keith had always wanted to work in the local community and decided he wasn't ready to retire just yet so he started a new career and became a Realtor in Langley where he presently works.
Frank Yang is a Certified Management Accountant with over 5 years of experience in not-for-profit industry focusing on forecasting, budgeting, and developing financial strategies. With his strong accounting background and experiences, he implements accounting procedure systems that mitigate the internal weakness of current operations.
Frank's leadership style of "People, Planet and Profit" aligns with the value of "socialize, learn and enjoy life". He is driven and ambitious and supports his team members to achieve exceptional results. Furthermore, he enjoys personal development and outdoor activities.
Living in Surrey and Langley for over 20 years, Frank always wants to contribute back to the society. He has the confidence to incorporate his knowledge of expertise to make the community an amazing place.
Marilyn Anderson was born in Nr. Ireland & has been living in Canada since 1967. She has resided in Ontario/Alberta & during the past 35 years has made Langley her home, with husband Bill, two children & four grandchildren.
Marilyn has been involved in the Health Care Industry for over 25 years, working various facilities in the White Rock & Ft. Langley areas. She also volunteered her time to work with the mentally & physically disabled adults.
Marilyn then joined the Langley Adult Day Center as Program Co-ordinator. During the initial opening of the Langley Seniors Resource Center, she assumed the position of Program Director of LADC & retained this position over a 15 year period. Marilyn was involved in the development of various Resource Center programs & Fund Raising activities. Her extensive knowledge of the Resource Center programs & facility operations, will compliment her position as a Board Director.
Marilyn retired in 2009, allowing her more time to travel with her husband Bill & to enjoy her grandchildren.
Steve Ferguson was born in Vancouver, raised in Richmond. He went to Douglas College and UBC where he earned his degree in Education. While at College and University, Steve played on the Universities Rugby teams and was involved in student government and university councils. Steve taught for the Delta School District for some 33 years working with Students with behaviour and learning challenges. He helped with student activities in choir, theatre, dances, coaching, and field trips.
Steve was elected to the Langley Township council from 1987-1996 and from 2002-2014, where he worked with 5 mayors and many councilors. (Steve was on Council when the Seniors Centre was built and the Township donated money for its construction). Over his 21 years on the Langley Council Steve chaired the Finance Committee, Environment committee, Economic Development committee, and the Recreation Culture and Parks committee. Steve was appointed to the Metro Vancouver board in 2012 and served on the committee of the whole, Aboriginal, Housing, and Environmental committees.
Steve is married and has 3 children. He enjoys the Arts and Culture as well as Sports and Recreational activities. He has helped coach his children at Soccer, baseball, hockey, Gymnastics, golf and helped out at various school functions. Steve and his wife Denise enjoy camping, travelling, playing the guitar, and volunteering with various groups and organizations in the community.
Norma Byrne is a Certified General Accountant and single mother of 2. She has lived the last 18 years here in Langley. She has worked as an accountant for the last 30 years in many industries including lumber, trucking, and building supplies. She worked her way up from accounts payable clerk to controller, and finally Vice President of Finance. The last 20 years of her career have been as business owner, co – owning 3 businesses. The majority of these businesses being located in Langley.
In 2008 – she sold 2 of the business to a partner and semi-retired. Currently she still owns a business with her son in Prince George.
She decided to get involved with the seniors centre and hoped to use her extensive financial and business experience to help. Believing that all seniors need to be aware of what the community can provide and to help seniors use all the resources available to better the quality of their lives is very important to her.
Hobbies include spending as much time as possible with her 2 grandchildren, photography, reading, walking her dog, and travel.


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May 17, 2012: The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has announced it will hold separate talks with the superior general of the breakaway traditionalist Society of St. Pius X and each of its three other bishops to try and acheive reconciliation. "The text of the response of Bishop Bernard Fellay, received on 17 April, 2012, was examined and some observations, which will be considered in further discussions between the Holy See and the Society of St. Pius X, were formulated," said a statement issued on Wednesday. The statement was published after a quarterly meeting of the Ordinary Session of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The 16-person committee – known as Feria Quarta – met on Wednesday morning to discuss the modifications made by the Superior of the Society of St. Pius X, Bishop Bernard Fellay, to a "doctrinal preamble" prepared last year by the Vatican. The document establishes a framework for agreement on some key issues of Church doctrine, including acceptance of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council. In contrast to Bishop Fellay, the Society's three other bishops seem hostile to the idea of reconciliation with Rome.
Today's Vatican communication said the situations of the three other bishops "will have to be dealt with separately and singularly."


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Cibele: Our Review
2015 has been a crackerjack year for video games. Games like The Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid 5, and Fallout 4 are giving us broader and more immersive experiences than we've ever had as gamers. Games today are graphically impressive and gameplay rich than they have ever been before. However, as games have been improving on both the quality and quantity of gameplay, 2015 has also been a great year for challenging our notion of what a game can be. Games like The Beginner's Guide and Her Story introduced new ideas about what gameplay can be and pushed games in novel, new directions. Cibele, likewise, challenges the notion of what video games are supposed to be by providing a novel and interesting game in which the experience is far more than the sum of its parts.
In Cibele, you play as a teenage girl who spends her time playing a simple RPG with her online friends. The gameplay is fairly basic. You can read through Cibele's online writings and look at her pictures, but once you log in to her RPG, the plot kicks into gear. In the RPG, you move around killing random monsters with your NPC love interest (that is, he's another gamer who also plays the RPG) until the boss monster eventually reveals itself. You can't die and the action is very elementary, letting you devote your attention to the dialogue between your character and her potential love interest. Between the levels, live action cinematics fill in the story and depict the budding relationship between the characters.
In terms of gameplay, Cibele is certainly more novel than exciting, in fact, being boring is part of the game. Each of the levels consists of these very redundant, barebones battles against enemies in very simple levels. You hack and slash while the characters chat, slyly flirting and cautiously teasing one another. It's meant to be boring; it's the kind of mindless game you play while having meaningful conversations. The game reminds me of time spent building roller coasters in Minecraft or replaying another fireteam mission in Destiny while talking about important life events or other weighty topics. Cibele is the first game I know of to present the fact that sometimes we play games to focus on the game, and sometimes we play games while connecting with someone else.
The game would not work at all if not for the impressive acting of the game's designer and writer, Nina Freeman. She totally sells it. The writing works well and sounds genuine (it can be a little creepy how familiar this dialogue sounds). Pardon the familiar praise, but she delivers a bold and authentic performance as the central character of her own autobiographical game. Moreover, her game makes me wonder if this is something games could be, a way of telling our own stories and histories for others to play through. Cibele is a unique experience and a reminder that 2015 has proved to be an impressively innovative year in gaming.
Okay, lets get down to our final score.
The graphics are perfectly suited for the game - the MMORPG you play looks very genuine - and the FMV cutscenes are well done. What gives the game an extra boost is the talented acting of designer Nina Freeman who delivers some top notch voicework.
The gameplay here is almost an afterthought, though it is perfectly suited to the game. You're meant to play while overhearing the flirtatious banter of two young gamers (though if the dialogue wasn't so well-written, the gameplay would get a bit tedious!).
The game is a fun, brief experience that should be played and shared but probably is not one you'll return to terribly frequently. Games like this - simple, intensely personal and well-written experiences - might consider using randomly generated levels to bring gamers back.
The gameplay is fairly mundane and the entire game is pretty brief, but for gamers who like novel experiences, Cibele is a must play title.


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Fresh turmoil for French right as ex-PM contests party vote
Fillon challenges Cope's victory, saying he won leadership election
France's right-wing UMP opposition was thrown into fresh turmoil on Wednesday after ex-prime minister Francois Fillon announced he was contesting the result of a bitterly disputed leadership race.
The move will further dent the image of ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP – still reeling from its loss of the presidency and parliament this year – and raises the spectre of a split on the right that would benefit the ruling Socialists.
The venomous race for the UMP leadership and accusations of voter fraud have hurt the party's image at a time it could be taking advantage of President Francois Hollande's falling popularity over his handling of France's struggling economy.
Fillon, who lost by just 98 votes to Sarkozy's close ally Jean-Francois Cope in Sunday's vote, said the count did not include ballots cast in some of France's overseas territories which would have handed him victory.
Fillon's supporters said if the votes of New Caledonia, Mayotte and Wallis and Futuna were counted, he would have won a total of 88,004 votes against 87,978 for Cope.
Fillon said he conceded the race to Cope on Monday in the spirit of party unity, but was now contesting the results and asking party heavyweight Alain Juppe, Sarkozy's ex-foreign minister, to take over as interim head of the UMP.
"Everybody can see that our party is at an impasse. Its credibility and unity are under threat. I do not want our movement to tear itself apart under the weight of suspicions that are now hanging over this vote," Fillon said in a statement.
He said he was "saddened" by the party's crisis, but insisted he was "simply demanding the truth".
A UMP lawmaker who backed Fillon called the squabble "a terrible spectacle".
"Both of them have lost their credibility. They are no statesmen," the politician said.
Cope, a fiery and famously ambitious right-winger known for flirting with the far-right, rejected any talk of overturning the results and called for the party to unite under his banner.
"There were results, we must now rally and work together," Cope told journalists, adding that if the results were contested his camp was ready to raise concerns about alleged voter fraud in Fillon's favour.
"I am calling once again for Francois Fillon and all of those around him to take the hand I have extended to them. The time has come to build together," Cope said.
The head of the UMP's internal election commission, Patrice Gelard, said it could not overturn its decision but that both candidates could address their concerns to an appeals commission.
Juppe said he needed to think about the request that he become interim leader, but sources close to Fillon said he had already accepted the role.
The UMP's struggle to find a replacement for Sarkozy has heartened its opponents.
On the left, a senior Socialist called the crisis a "tragicomedy" while on the far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen mocked the vote as "pathetic".
"The UMP is definitely no longer a credible opposition to the Socialists, it is far too weakened and may be already dead," Le Pen said at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, where she is a deputy.
Prominent UMP member Bruno Le Maire urged the party to move quickly to end the crisis.
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Both Fillon, a 58-year-old who was Sarkozy's prime minister for five years, and Cope, 48, are fiscal conservatives advocating free-market policies and economic reforms.
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Whoever finally does become UMP leader may not necessarily be the party's candidate for the French presidency in 2017 as Sarkozy – still very popular with the party rank-and-file – has not ruled out a return to politics.
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Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, a four-year-old company led by a Manhattan ophthalmologist, David R. Guyer, has had excellent business vision.
It moved its experimental eye disease drug swiftly through clinical trials, outracing larger competitors. It sold marketing rights to the drug, called Macugen, to Pfizer for $100 million upfront and up to $645 million later. And it staged one of the hottest initial public stock offerings in the biotechnology industry this year.
On Friday, an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration will review Macugen. Doctors and analysts widely expect the meeting to clear the way for approval of the drug to treat age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly and a disease for which treatments are desperately needed.
But is Macugen really that good a drug? At the annual meeting of the American Society of Retina Specialists last week in San Diego, many doctors called it a modest advance at best. Although Macugen can slow the loss of vision, which is important, they said, it does not improve eyesight.
''It doesn't do what we want, and it doesn't do what our patients want,'' said George A. Williams, chairman of ophthalmology at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. ''It doesn't make people see better.''Continue reading the main story
Dr. Williams, who has been a consultant to Eyetech and some of its competitors, called the data on Macugen ''somewhat underwhelming.''
Doubts about how well Macugen will sell account for some of the recent weakness in Eyetech's stock. After going public at $21 in late January, Eyetech's shares zoomed to $49 by June 21. Yesterday shares closed at $35.28, up $2.28.
Another factor in the price decline has been the expiration of lockup periods, allowing insiders to sell. The company had a secondary offering in early June and the early backers and executives sold some of their stock then at $38.50 a share. Another lockup period expires today.
Despite the recent decline, Eyetech, which is based in New York, has a market value of $1.4 billion and remains one of the rare newly public biotechnology companies trading at well above its initial offering price.
The only drug now approved for macular degeneration is Visudyne, developed by QLT of Vancouver, British Columbia, and sold by Novartis. It, too, only slows vision loss. But other drugs are in development.
The drugs are for the less common ''wet'' form of the disease, involving a proliferation of leaky blood vessels in the eye that damage the macula, the central part of the light-sensing retina. While patients generally retain some peripheral vision, they can lose the ability to read, recognize faces, drive and watch television. Some 200,000 new cases of the wet form are diagnosed each year in the Unites States.
In two large trials involving a combined 1,200 patients, only 30 percent of those who were given Macugen suffered a vision loss of three lines or more on an eye chart after one year, compared with 45 percent of those in the control group. Vision improved significantly in 6 percent of Macugen users, compared with 2 percent in the control group. The results were roughly similar to those from Visudyne.
Visudyne, which had worldwide sales last year of $357 million, is approved for only one of three subtypes of macular degeneration. Macugen works for all three subtypes, according to Eyetech. That could mean a bigger market.
''There is a large potential market opportunity for a treatment that addresses all comers,'' Eric J. Ende, a biotechnology analyst at Merrill Lynch, wrote in a report. Dr. Ende, whose firm was an underwriter of Eyetech's initial offering, also wrote that doctors would get paid more for giving Macugen than Visudyne under Medicare rules. He projects that annual sales of Macugen will eventually surpass $1 billion and recommends the stock with a 12-month price target of $53.
Some doctors are also enthusiastic about the new drug. Carmen A. Puliafito of the University of Miami, the lead investigator in the Macugen clinical trials, predicted during a panel discussion at the retina meeting that in three years ''Visudyne will be a very small part of the market.''
Still, in many cases Medicare is now reimbursing for use of Visudyne even for the unapproved subtypes, blunting some of Macugen's potential advantage.
A major concern of doctors, and one that is expected to be a focus of the advisory panel, is that Macugen is administered by direct injection into the eye every six weeks. Some other drugs are also given this way, and the eye can be numbed to eliminate the pain. But injections can cause potentially serious infections, cataracts and retinal detachment.
In the Macugen trials, the combined risk of these problems was 2.5 percent per patient per year. But investigators in the trial said they now knew how to cut the infection rate sharply.
Ronald P. Danis, an ophthalmologist at the University of Wisconsin, said that while the risks of infection from Macugen were acceptable, he might use Visudyne first because it is safer. David W. Parke II, chairman of ophthalmology at the University of Oklahoma, agreed : ''If you do Visudyne, whether it works or not, you sleep well at night.''
Visudyne is usually given two or three times a year by a short intravenous infusion into the arm. The drug is then activated by shining a laser into the eye. The laser does not hurt, but a small percentage of patients experience severe pain during the infusion and some also suffer a sudden loss of vision.
Some doctors and analysts said Eyetech had not yet released enough details for them to judge Macugen. One big question for skeptics is whether the results were statistically significant for each subtype of the disease in each of the two clinical trials, something the F.D.A. might want if it is to approve the drug for all subtypes. That data should be released by the F.D.A. before the panel meeting.
''The company hasn't told us enough to actually know whether it should be recommended for approval,'' said David Maris, analyst at Banc of America Securities. He said the company had repeatedly declined to answer his questions and had even threatened legal action against him after he asked questions at a medical conference.
Douglas H. Altschuler, Eyetech's general counsel, called that latter claim ''an absurd characterization'' of the situation. He said the company could not answer any questions for this article because he had imposed a quiet period pending the advisory panel meeting.
Mr. Maris does not cover Eyetech but recommends the stock of Alcon, and his firm does investment banking for that company. Alcon, which is majority owned by the Swiss food giant Nestlé, has a drug, Retaane, for macular degeneration that could reach the market by late next year.
Its advantage is that it has to be given only twice a year and is squirted around the eye rather than into it. But some doctors at the retina conference said they needed more data to judge its effectiveness.
Genentech has a drug, Lucentis, in late-stage trials, but analysts do not expect it to be on the market before 2006 or 2007. It is injected into the eye every four weeks, more often than Macugen. Miravant Medical Technologies has applied for approval of a light-activated drug, somewhat similar to Visudyne. Other companies are in earlier stages of development.
Macugen binds to and blocks vascular endothelial growth factor, or VEGF, a protein in the body that spurs the formation of blood vessels. Genentech's celebrated new cancer drug, Avastin, also blocks VEGF to starve tumors of their drug supply, and Lucentis is a derivative of Avastin.
Macugen was initially developed by NeXstar Pharmaceuticals, a tiny Colorado company that was acquired by Gilead Sciences to obtain a different drug. Dr. Guyer, an expert on macular degeneration who practiced at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital and then became chairman of ophthalmology at New York University, helped to found Eyetech in 2000 to license the rights to Macugen from Gilead.
Under Dr. Guyer, the chief executive, Eyetech has been a remarkable success so far. The F.D.A. panel will decide whether the drug is equally remarkable.
Correction: July 8, 2006, Saturday An article in Business Day on June 29 about the impending federal approval of the drug Lucentis, which treats macular degeneration in the elderly, omitted attribution for a statement about the motives of the drug's maker, Genentech. Several doctors raised the issue, including Dr. Raj K. Maturi and Dr. Philip J. Rosenfeld, who noted that Genentech was not seeking approval for another of its drugs, Avastin, to treat the condition because that would undermine Lucentis sales. The article also gave an outdated title for Dr. Rosenfeld. He is a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Miami, not an associate professor. And the article misstated the source material for Lucentis. The drug is derived from the same mouse antibody from which Avastin was developed; it was not derived directly from Avastin. (The error on the source material appeared in articles on May 24 and Sept. 27, 2005; on Aug. 26, 2004; and on Nov. 16, 2003.)Continue reading the main story


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SANTA ANA Orange County's Public Administrator and Public Guardian John Williams has continued to expand his already bloated management staff and engage in questionable personnel practices despite warnings from the grand jury earlier this year, a new report alleged Tuesday.
The grand jury took a rare second look at Williams and his agency and found that the problems still existed.
"We couldn't believe it," grand jury foreman James Perez said. "They basically went on to do the same thing in spite of our report. It's chutzpah."
But Williams says the grand jury's allegations are not accurate, the second probe is redundant and it was released prematurely — before the deadline for his office to formally respond to the first barrage of charges against him. Working with the grand jurors was frustrating, he said, because many struggled to understand the complex documents and cases they were investigating.
"It's almost like they wrote their report before they came and visited me," Williams said. "They just didn't want to hear the truth. …It's almost like they don't want to understand."
The grand jury recommends, among other actions, making the public administrator an appointed position under the CEO and splitting the jobs again instead of allowing a single elected official to run his own department. Supervisors – or public petitioners – would have to put that on the ballot for a majority public vote.
The Orange County public administrator/public guardian manages more than $38 million in assets while administering the estates of more than a thousand people each year.
The public administrator is an elected job charged with settling the estates of recently deceased residents who have no known heirs. The public guardian is responsible for overseeing the estate and physical well being of folks who are unable to care for themselves, such as the mentally ill and elderly.
Those roles were combined in 2005 after Williams and then-Treasurer Tax Collector John Moorlach promised county supervisors that merging the departments would save the county $300,000. Williams earns about $145,000 a year for his work overseeing both roles, he says.
Fueled by public complaints of "inappropriate activities" within the department, the grand jury published results of its first probe in May, accusing Williams of doubling salary costs at the agency, engaging in questionable personnel practices and failing to save taxpayer money.
Among the charges: Williams expanded management from seven employees who cost a total of $529,796 a year in 2005 to 10 managers costing more than $1 million by May 2009. The report also accuses Williams of promoting an employee to a top management position within a year of retirement, implying that he was "pension spiking."
After the report was published, Perez says the grand jury received more complaints about the department, which led them to take a second look.
They discovered that Williams had hired another manager, "even though there does not appear to be a suitable organizational reason for taking that action," expanding the cost of management to $1.15 million by June 2009.
Williams defends his management practices, saying the grand jury's report is riddled with inaccuracies. For example, their analysis of management salaries is misleading for several reasons: The 2005 figures don't account for the Health Care Agency staff that was helping manage operations before the public administrator and public guardian were consolidated. Also, the 2005 salary figures only reflect base pay, while the 2009 figures also include benefits.
"They're kind of comparing apples to oranges," Williams says.
Additionally, he says there are nine managers in his department, not 11 as the grand jury report says.
Moorlach said the grand jury's second report seems to be an offshoot of a memo circulated by the county's human resources director.
"I think the grand jury's facts have been corroborated by our human resources dept," Moorlach said. "I'm not having trouble with the grand jury's facts. I think it would be good that we have a good discussion to air it out."
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Neil Sullivan would be more than happy if his departure for Chelsea presents an opportunity for young keeper Robert Burch to gain further experience.
The Scottish international headed to Saturday's opponents just over a week ago after three seasons at White Hart Lane and sees only good things ahead for Robert, who is currently away with England on under-21 international duty.
"Burchy has come on a hell of a lot even this season," said Sully. "You could tell towards the end of last season that he was progressing nicely, getting a good size about him, his confidence was coming, his techniques were good.
"I think he has got a real good chance, I honestly do. He's a good trainer who is willing to listen and learn - good luck to him.
"If me moving on presents him with a chance, I'm sure he'll do well. He's got a good chance of making it."
Sully worked in tandem with Robert on the pre-season trip to La Manga and feels that he has benefited from the added involvement that saw him play in a number of the build-up games.
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Nine hours, back-to-back, live from Robert Johnson.
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Dr Rubinstein, Call Super and DJ Stingray will all join us in Marrakech this September.
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Jackmaster, Joy Orbison, Tijana T and Modeselektor are among the final additions for the September event.
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DJ Sotofett, Magda, Martyn, Jeremy Underground, HAAi's Coconut Beats series and a Phonox birthday party with DJ Sprinkles are all on the South London club's menu for the coming months.
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2007 was a great year for mobile games. SolaRola, Urban Attack, Crazy Window Cleaners, Hexic, PES 2008 and Might and Magic II should all be taking up space on your handset, giving you motion sickness on the bus to work. And there were plenty more when you were done with those.
But 2008 could be even better. I'm only just starting to get in touch with all the publishers, probing them about their 'roadmaps' for the year, but already some real gems are emerging. Mobile companies don't make it easy though - only a couple actually send me new titles through their own volition; most have to be coaxed into providing review code. I suppose it's my fault for only intermittently covering the mobile platform - but I have been doing it for eight years...
Anyway, I have been sent Sushi Mania (handily continuing Aleks' food theme from below), a gorgeous new platformer from Hands-On, which I'll politely say has been 'inspired' by Sonic The Hedgehog - although the developers have seemingly loitered in an alleyway and mugged Yuji Naka as he walked past, nicking every design idea he's ever mustered. That's not a criticism - stealing ideas from Sonic Team is just good sense.
In Sushi Mania, you control a sushi roll as it, well, rolls through a pastel coloured cartoon world collecting gold coins and sushi ingredients while avoiding, leaping on or turbo-rolling enemy creatures - yes, like in Sonic you can double-tap forward or back to go extra fast. Also like Sonic, you must find your own route through the multi-layered environments, often speeding past whole areas of the landscape, catching glittering coins and interesting items out of the corner of your eye as you zoom past, vowing to go back on your next go to find out more.
There are jump pads, there are holes to fall down, there are multiple transporters that take you to new areas. What I really like is the way they've grafted a multi-route progression system onto the level layout, so your success on one mission dictates where you go next. You also get boss battles and mini-games to unlock, and new characters become available sporting different stats for speed, jump height and the like.
There's lots going on, lots to achieve, lots to go back and discover - it's Sonic filtered through standard Nintendo level design mechanics. Graphically, it is also LocoRoco, with cute fatty characters and highly impressionistic use of colour and scenic design. Mobile gamers will also think of SolaRola, Eidos' brilliant platform adventure from the close of last year. But somehow, it retains a sense of identity.
Okay, the controls aren't responsive enough and I was often frustrated in my attempts to pull off the acrobatics needed to get the best items. The side-scrolling, too, is often just a beat too slow. But it's such a lovely, well-thought out game. So full of fun, so packed with clever little touches. Eventually, you learn to work with the minor faults, calming things down, watching the timer at the top of the screen and working out that, yes, you do have time to try that tricky double-jump once more rather than hurling your handset into a wall.
If you've already played the Sonic mobile conversions, or just want a candy cute little platformer for a few hours of retro-tinged fun, download Sushi Mania as soon as you can.
And after this I'm playing Townsmen 5, the latest title in Handy Games' long-running and consistently good strategy series, and maybe In-Fusio's Tower Defence-alike, Tower Wars. After that, N-Gage (finally), touch-screen games, Android games... I think my irregular reports are about to become more frequent. Best get used to it now.


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Maui Hawaii Sept. 20-27, 2011
Seattle to Maui nonstop on Alaska Air..
Rental car from Enterprise.
We stayed in this condo in Kahana.. www.vrbo.com/87172
It was very nice, decorated in bamboo/rattan/cane, and wicker furnishings. I would recommend it. It was clean and had a nice lanai to sit on.
The management was accomidating and everything was as they had depicted the condo to be. Onsite person Terry was very nice and she helped when we had problems with the kitchen light. She is the one that recommended Pacific tattoo.
We loved the area. The beaches were good. We loved Fleming and Honokowai Beach the most.
We didnt care for the beaches at Ka'anapali. We never could find public access with parking in that area. we wanted to go to Black Rock but no place to park. Actually each time we drove by that area we thought the whole area smelled of something bad... sulfur maybe...
All else was A1 !! OMG..... we drove all over the island and saw such incredible sites. The Plantation, Ioa Needle, the bamboo forest, the lava fields....it was sooooo incredible. oh i forget the blow holes ... So many memories.. the guy that jumped out in the road and demanding we buy his pineapple. (well worth the few bucks we gave him... Sweet, juicy and ice cold...) the lady at Turnbull gallery that was so pleasant and told us about the area.... and Curley with Howie the Hawaiian hog. Both, true originals...
Our best decisions of the trip was to keep driving when it said Highway ends here... that is were the real Maui begins... we took it slow and easy and easily made the journeys. (we have driven the Amalfi too) It is impossible to describe the lava fields to anyone that hasnt seen it. Unbelievable. Massive. Unworldly. A MUST SEE.
As is the bamboo forest on the way to Haha. It can be described as the words above. You cant imagine it until you see it with your own eyes.
We didnt go all the way to Hana....didnt plan too.
We also love Makewao, even though bakery was closed. We bought earrings and some veggies from the little outdoor market.
We loved the windsurfers outside of Paia. We loved the Alii Kula lavendar farm and the Holy Ghost Church. We also found the miracle coral church.. Our lady of Fatima...
In Lahaina area we shopped until we dropped and got tattoos at Pacific Tattoo. I highly recommend this clean, well run, safe place where a middle aged woman can go and feel comfortable. The owners Tommy and Lisa have made this shop a winner. (I will post pics of my tattoo) We also went to Jodo mission. The Buddah was really cool with mountains in background. The ceiling inside the church was painted with all different flowers.
Speaking of flowers. We were so amazed at all the flowers everywhere. My new favorite is the Plumeria. I got some perfume and one is on my tattoo. The hisbisus were everywhere. I have lots of pics and will post them on here. The Bougainvillea were in every color....and all the houseplants we have here are outside plants there.
I will write reviews on Planation and Lavender farm, and Surfing Goat Dairy. We thought all 3 were wonderful.
Things we observed and joked about during the trip. We had never seen so many jeeps and convertable mustangs (red and electric turquoise)... so we were contantly saying "guess whats behind us?" We also joked about "look there's kids standing in the middle of the ocean" With those new surf boards with the paddle they are standing, not laying as on a regular surfboard. So they literally seem as they are standing in the middle of the ocean!! They stand there for hours!!!
I found my way to the fabric story. I died and went to heaven. I got 3 different ones. Now I am making pillows, sachets, coin purses and hotpads for christmas gifts. The patterns are so beautiful, bright and makes you smile.
We did the Old Lahaina Luau and was very pleased. The food was not good but the Hula, storytelling and atmosphere made up for it...
we only went to one restaurant. See my review for Pioneer in Lahaina. We shopped at farmers market and at the Times grocery store. We ate at our condo, except for snacks. We LOVED the candied coconut, especially from Curley's. We got shave ice at tom's Mini mart and like it alot. We bought flavored spam and many little jams, honeys, and mustards.
We will return to Maui and i would like to go to other islands too. I love the aloha spirit and there is something magnetic that pulls me to its soul. I dream of plumeria's, coconuts, and sugarcane.
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Sounds fantastic. Thanks for sharing!
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Wonderful! The condo looks really great and Curley with Howie the Hawaiian hog certainly appealed. Would love to see pix of the fabrics as well as the tattoo.
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Thank you for the report
Kahana is a great location, probably the best budget location on the island. The most covenient public parking for Black Rock is the covered public area next to the Sheraton. It has only about 30 spots, but if you pull in and wait you normally get a spot within 15 min
The bad smell you encountered was the sewage plant, but most days you can not smell it at all from the resorts. I do understand mtn side rooms in the Honai Kai can smell it more often though
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