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Tanfield Lands First Contracts for Edison Electric Van
23 April 2007
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Tanfield has officially launched its Edison electric van and has secured its first contracts for initial orders of the Edison with Sainsbury's, TNT, CEVA Logistics and Scottish & Southern Energy.
J Sainsbury Plc, a leading UK retailer, has ordered an initial eight Edison electric vans for its Sainsbury's Online home shopping delivery fleet. Sainsbury's aims to switch 20% of its urban delivery fleet to electric vehicles by September 2008 and its entire urban home shopping fleet by 2010.
The order follows a year-long trial by Sainsbury's of the Faraday zero emission electric vehicle, a larger van based on a different chassis and also produced by Tanfield's trading division, Smith Electric Vehicles. Sainsbury's Online deployed the Faraday in home shopping delivery applications in Central London.
The Edison electric van utilizes a Ford Transit Body shell, housing Tanfield's electric vehicle technology and an Enova 90 kW electric drive. (Earlier post.) The Edison has a restricted top speed of 50 mph and a range of up to 150 miles on one battery charge, while still providing up to 1,500kg of payload. It is the only zero emission vehicle with a GVW of under 3.5t to offer these performance capabilities.
Tanfield has signed a supply agreement with Ford that will see Smith Electric Vehicles convert an initial 100 Ford Transit Body shells to battery-powered Edison vans.
Tanfield has received further confirmed orders for Edison from parcel and logistics companies TNT Express and CEVA Logistics (formerly TNT Logistics), who have both already deployed Tanfield's Newton 7.5t electric vehicle.
Scottish & Southern Energy, one of the UK's largest energy companies, has also ordered the Edison for use in its fleet of 6,000 commercial vehicles.
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God news. Perhaps even of historical importance. Tanfield/Smith is probably the first company ever to sell a 100% electric van that is approved for highway driving and is not some sort of prototype. This is real and it sells without a subsidy.
It is also very interesting that they use a Sodium Nickel Chloride (Zebra) battery rather than a lithium battery. Such a battery is also used in the Think minicar (also highway capable) that will go on sale later this year in Norway. I never thought these batteries would be used because of their high operating temperature. The key advantage again appears to be the low price of these batteries.
I see that Sainsbury's (the UK supermarket group), as well as taking their first few Edison vans, have committed to replacing their entire urban home delivery fleet with battery powered vehicles within less than 3 years. The majority of trials prior to now, by Sainsbury's and others, have been within London, where special cost benefits apply (eg, free parking for zero-emission vehicles, and exemption from congestion charges). Sainsbury's have presumably concluded that electric vehicles are commercially viable nationwide - even in areas where no concessions apply. I know they have been trialling the (bigger) Smith Faraday electric vehicle since July last year - and their apparently favourable conclusion will surely prompt some serious attention from other fleet owners.
I believe DHL are at the Smith stand at the CV Show tomorrow - so maybe there is further news to come.
"..does make you wonder why Ford themselves are not manufacturing a similar product.."
(andrichchrose, above)
My guess is that the big makers (be it Ford, Nissan, whoever) will indeed step into the market, once the likes of Smith EV have proven it has real appeal, and when there is clearly sufficient demand for big makers to participate on a scale that gives them some pricing advantage. For the moment I would guess they are happy to maintain a watching brief while these niche makers carry the burden of product development. My guess is that SmithEV probably have the field more or less to themselves for maybe 18 months or so. At present their only direct competitor is UK-based Modec EV, who have one vehicle range at present, which competes with Smith's mid-size faraday model. The Smith range now covers everything from below 3.5 tons, to 12 tons.
This is looking like a real breakthrough year for the all-electric van/truck market, with fleet purchases just starting to take over from the various single-vehicle trials.
Fiat just sells the enginless bodies to the two or three companies
that are putting it all together , Fiat plays no part in the sales and
marketing of these vehicles, other than to make sure they are not
marketed . The three companies are Ecolori spa , ATEA spa and
Mes dea in switzerland , try find a website , its all very wierd!
What are the main reasons why major car manufacturers spend $ billions to increase the performance of ICE vehicles by 10% and not a dollar to produce pure Electric or PHEVs.
Something is not right somewhere.....
If more cities would advantage clean vehicles like London, more electric city delivery vehicles, electric/PHEV taxis, mini-buses, private electric cars etc would hit the the streets.
One could even go further and progressively tax and/or ban (over a 10-15 year period) high pollution vehicles from city streets. This would help polluted cities like LA, Mexico, Tokyo, Calcutta, New Delhi, Beijing, Shanghai, Paris, Sao Paulo, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, etc.
If that's the case, let WalMart, CostCo, SamClub, Sears, Canadian Tires, etc sell EVs + replacement (or rented) batteries and progressively do away with current ICE car dealership-maintenance setup.
Rented standardized (plug-in) battery packs could become a good business proposition. People could rent the pack they require or can best afford and progress with time and/or their fortune. Battery packs from $2K to $20K could suit most requirement and pocket-book, specially if rented. Price would come dowm quickly enough with mass production and worldwide competition.
tripp ,
I think you are right , theres a piece in "who killed " where the saturn
dealer is asked what sort of maintainance the EV1 required on a regular basis
towhich he replies " we just change the tyres around and make sure the sceenwash
bottle is full " ! I suppose the dealers are not going to get fat on that sort
of business !
I think the rented battery pack approach is one which does deserve wider consideration. In the UK, the second biggest maker of electric vans this year will be Modec EV - and they offset the initial purchase price by selling their vans with a "Batteries Not Included" tag. Buyers will instead rent a battery pack from Modec at about £450 ($225) per month.
A battery-swap facility (a bit like the system used when trading in empty camping-gas bottles for full ones) would also do away with the near for a lengthy (or overnight) recharging stops. The driver could just swap a depleted pack for a fresh one. Though with batteries currently accounting for half the cost of the vehicle, I don't envisage drivers being too keen to hand in one pack and trusting that the replacement isn't cracked or faulty.
battery rental is also a way for governments , here in europe
that is, to levy some sort of tax on road use of EV´s I noticed
that Think will be renting the battery for their car ,that is if I understood
the norwiegen correctly .
In the future you will see batterys with embedded computers to
store all the information relating to status of the battery , cycles
charged, kwh in , kwh out ,etc making it nice and easy to slap some
nice big tax on it . I would also think that car companies are looking
for ways to block batterys once a certain number of cycles is achived,
making replacement a necessity, to create money for their impoverished
At $225 per month for the battery pack and assuming driving 1000 miles a month, that comes to $22.5 cents per mile. Even if the electricity were free, that would still be more per mile than one would be paying for gas even with 20 mpg and gas prices over $5.00. However, that would make more economic sense in Europe and G.B. , especially in London with all the concessions for electric.
With my Prius, I'm paying about 6 cents per mile for gas and I drive way less than 1000 miles per month, so this has a long way to go be economical.
The Norwegen Think minicar also rent its Zebra battery. The car costs USD 33.300 (NKR 199.000) and the mandatory service contract on the battery cost USD 203 a month (NKR 1218 incl. VAT). This appears to be the preferred business model for all real highway capable BEVs. The net present value of an indefinite annuity of 203*12 at 15% discont rate is USD 16240. This is about the actual price of the Think car's 25 kWh battery. That is USD 650 per kWh. For comparison the Phonix car uses a USD 70000, 35 kWh Altair lithium battery or USD 2000 per kWh. And the KillaCycle uses a USD 12000, 7,5 kwh A123 lithium battery or USD 1600 per kWh.
Sure this Zebra battery looks like a much more successful business model than the lithium batteries at the present prices.
Harvey D. you were right about the idea for renting the battery that is what they do it. However, you are way of with a 2K estimate for the low end of a suitable BEV battery. It starts at 15K for this small Think car. The lack of suitable and affordable batteries is the most important explanation that BEV have taken a long time to develop. The second most important reason is cheap gasoline. The US complains about $3 gallon. We Europeans pay $6 gallon and we don't complain. The conspiracy theory about EVs is pure speculation and wishful thinking.
the Fiat highway capable BEV costs about 25000 euro here
in Italy / switzerland , this price includes the price of a Zebra
battery . I think it makes the Think car look very expensive by
comparision ,they will be lucky if they sell any at all at this price
The fact that they claim that the 203 dollars a month
is a service charge is nonsense , one thing a zebra cell does not
need is service , some cars have been running here and in switzerland
for two years now and covered some 30000 kms with no loss of
performance from the battery !
Andricose they say "NKR 1218 a month for leasing/service of the battery" on the Think website. It is of cause a leasing fee but service also sounds good perhaps since consumers may worry if this battery works. I am not Norwegian but Danish and I am almost sure that the USD 33.300 includes a huge special tax on cars. In Denmark we pay 160% in taxes on new cars and the same could be true in Norway. E.g. if Fiat charges USD 10000 for a car in Denmark we pay 10000+16000 = 26000 for the car. I am sure the Think car is competitively priced in Norway. In fact they show that the $203 monthly leasing fee is about equal to what an average driver will save in annual car taxes, gasoline, and when combined with a Oslo city ring charge (EVs do not pay to enter the capital of Norway). Plus Norwegens are lucky and blessed with more oil and natural gas income per capita than any other country in the world (several times bigger than the Saudis). They are loaded and they pay very low income taxes.
Beijing 2008 electric garbage trucks will use $3.3K USD battery packs. A similar but smaller $2k USD pack could be the low starting point for mini city EVs with limited autonomy.
Larger higher performance EVs with more autonomy would use the larger $20k USD pack.
Dont forget that batteries price varies considerably with the technology used and the manufacturing country. Secondly, the price will drop quickly with mass production and worldwide competition.
For example, I paid $59 for second (850 mili-Amps) Li-Ion customized camera battery 4 years ago but bought 2 replacement (superior 1250 mili-Amps each) for $5.75 each last month. That is a 10X (+) price drop in 4 years only. One of the main difference was that the originals were made in Japan and the latest replacement were made in China. The 50% (verified with 250+ photos vs 125 with the original batteries) increase in energy storage was free. If you consider the extra energy storage capacity, the price drop was over 15X.
If you apply the same historical data to automotive Li-Ion battery packs, you can expect 10X to 15X price drops in comparable time frame. The very high price currently paid for first generation EV automotive battery packs will drop rapidly once the Chinese factories start rolling.
Found an old story at GCC about DaimlerChrysler Confirms Launch of smart EV http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/07/daimlerchrysler.html#more. Very interestingly they also outfit their smart fortwo minicar with the Zebra Sodium Nickel Chloride battery. They are leasing the hole system car + battery for US$682 a month for trial customers of their prototype car. This is very expensive assuming an indefinite annuity at 15% discount rate it translates to a net present value of (682*12)/0,15= USD 54560. The comparable price of the Think car is 33.300 +16240 = 49540. As previously mentioned that price probably include a 15000 Norwegen car tax so the out of factory cost for the Smart car is 49540 – 15000 = USD 34540. I do not think the Daimler Chrysler price include any car tax of importance so the Think is much cheaper than the Daimler Chrysler offer.
You know, had Think or Daimler Chrysler used lithium batteries we would need to add at least $15000 on top of the price of these cars. In that case the lease for the Think cars battery would be $400 which is about $200 short per month of being competitively priced in Norway. It may work in London though because EVs is excepted for extremely high fees for parking and entrance to the London city ring.
Still the US automakers need to "get of their buts" as Arnold told them recently. Maybe they are not impressed about what Arnold tells them but I am sure that today's news this morning at BBC that Toyota has sold more cars than GM in the first quarter of 2007 is going to wake them up big time spilling coffee all over while reading the headline: Toyota is now the world's biggest car producer second to none. When Toyota start selling their next generating Pirus with lithium battery which is supposed to cost 50% of their current NiMh battery pack price I predict the next big shock wave is going to be the exploding sales figures for this Pirus. Good luck Detroit you will need it!
Harvey I share you hope that battery prices will drop importantly as they start to get into volume production. The Beijing 2008 electric garbage trucks story I saw here at GCC and I don't believe it for a minute. It is a media trick to promote China at the Olympics. Battery packs are globally priced like crude oil. If there is a difference in price at the consumer level it is due mostly to taxes. Prices are always set foremost at how much you can get for it and secondly at how much the cost to produce. China has a 10 to 30% cost advantage for the time being. However, time will erase that when the currency is adjusted and their salaries increases.
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got windows 7 a month ago..using a lenovo laptop..recently,my screen started jumping during booting n a while after booting..jumping in the sense..horizontal lines...peace...lines..peace..the lines persist only for seconds..then a few seconds of normal display..n so on...but after a few minutes,after booting...the display returns back to normal..then,this jumping problem only comes during the next boot.the screen jumps even after the laptop wakes from sleep..
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Are you using the latest video driver?
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yes..i let windows check for updates n it claimed i'm using the updated ones..this problem started 3 days previously...during one or two boots this problem seemed to have vanished.. but it persists...what must i do now??anyone knowledgable here???
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It sounds to me that you are using the video driver that was originally installed by Windows. You should install the latest NVIDIA/ATI driver instead.
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how do i know which version or wtever to install....search it on the web???
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I don't know anything about your specific laptop, but this IBM page seems to cover the video driver, as well as many others:
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this s weird..coz the damn problem absolutly dissapeared for about 3 days..but today,there it pops up again..thank u for the website...but there were only video drivers for vista and xp...
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I still have a hunch that the problem is video driver related. You might be able to use a Vista driver from the link that I posted, but I would post a question on nvnews.net first, because that forum is for Nvidia users. I know that there are some laptop driver downloads available from third parties, but I'm not familiar enough to point you to them. You will find someone on that forum that is.
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ah well..i just restarted my system and right now too..the screen is jumping...will reinstalling the OS help??..why is it that the problem persists for sometime and then dissapear??? shall i try reinstalling the driver or somthing?
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Some typical sedge meadow and prairie plants that have been observed at the site include prairie phlox, golden Alexander, lead plant, white camass, wood lily, prairie blazing star, silver scurf-pea, rattlesnake master and the normal complement of grass species. Fragrant false indigo (Amorpha nana), a state threatened plant, has also been discovered at the site.
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Butterfly species like the monarch and the wood nymph have been spotted at Mori Prairie, along with the redwinged blackbird and the common yellowthroat.
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From the town of Fostoria (between Milford and Spencer on US Hwy 71), go west 8 miles on County Road B14 to a gravel road. The preserve is north of B14 and east of the gravel road.
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"Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you."
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26And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land. 27And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us. 28And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. 29Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. 30And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it. 31But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country. 32As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.
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I have voted for council member Mike Naggar for many years and am proudly voting for him again this November to serve on our City Council in Temecula.
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RAVIKUMAR R. PATEL1, Dr. JAYVADAN K. PATEL2
1 Research Scholar, Jodhpur National University, Jodhpur
2 Principal and Professor, Nootan Pharmacy College, Visnagar, Mehsana, Gujarat.
Now a day most of the pharmaceutical scientists are involved in developing an ideal drug delivery system with an objective of not only curing the disease but also to achieve patient compliance. Approximately 50 % of the drug delivery system available in market is oral drug delivery system. Conventional oral dosage forms provide a specific drug concentration in systemic circulation without offering any control over drug delivery. Over the past three decades, the pursuit and exploration of devices designed to be retained in the upper part of gastrointestinal tract has advanced consistently in terms of technology and diversity, encompassing a variety of systems and devices such as floating systems.
Hydrochlorothiazide is a thiazide diuretic commonly prescribed for treatment of hypertension, congestive heart failure and edema. It is mostly absorbed from the duodenum and the first part of the jejunum1. Bioavailability of hydrochlorothiazide was enhanced when given with food through delaying of gastric emptying in both cases. Bioavailability was lower from SR formulation such as pellets compared to an IR tablet, because the SR formulation passed the drug absorption sites before from completed the drug release. These studies support the absorption window theory for hydrochlorothiazide and therefore a higher bioavailability of the drug in a GRD can be expected if there is a prolonged gastric residence time1. The above information supports the theory that hydrochlorothiazide has an absorption window, which makes it a good candidate for intragastric floating drug delivery system.
Gastro retentive systems extend significantly the period of time over which the drugs may be released. Thus not only prolong dosing interval but also increase patient compliance beyond the level of existing controlled release dosage forms. Most of the old age population in India suffers from hypertension, heart diseases, and angina pectoris. Antihypertensive agents and calcium channel blockers are mainly used to treat those geriatric patients. These cardiovascular drugs suffer from low bioavailability problems, short half life due to extensive first pass metabolism therefore short duration of action; this makes discomfort to old age people. Recent development in novel drug delivery system, a new approach Gastro retention is solution to these problems of cardiovascular drugs. Floating microspheres have a bulk density less than gastric fluid and so remain buoyant in the stomach for a prolonged period of time. While the system floats over gastric contents, the drug is released slowly at the desired rate from the system, therefore improving bioavailability of drug and better control over the fluctuations in plasma drug concentration. Thus it not only reduces dosing frequency but also reduces side effects like gastric irritation and major problem like dose dumping thereby greatly increasing patient compliance.
The gastroretentive drug delivery system can be retained in the stomach and assists in improving the oral sustained delivery of the drugs that have and absorption window in a particular region of the GI tract, these systems help in continuous releasing the drug before it reaches the absorption window, thus ensuring optimal bioavailability. Several approaches are currently used to prolong gastric retention time .These include floating drug delivery system, swelling and expanding systems, polymeric bioadhesive system, high –density and other delayed gastric-emptying devices2. The principal of buoyant preparation offers a simple and practical approach to achieve increased gastric residence time for dosage from and sustained drug release3. The present investigation describes the formulation development of an intragastric floating drug delivery system of Hydrochlorothiazide.
The objective of the present study is to develop suitable gastroretentive floating microspheres of Hydrochlorothiazide and to study release kinetics of drug with a view to reduce the dose frequency and to achieve a controlled drug release via gastric retention with improved bioavailability.
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Microspheres can be defined as solid, approximately spherical particles ranging in size from 1 to 1000 micrometer. The Microspheres are characteristically free flowing powders consisting of proteins or synthetic polymers, which are biodegradable in nature. Solid biodegradable microspheres incorporating a drug dispersed or dissolved throughout particle matrix have the potential for controlled release of drugs4. Microspheres are small in size and therefore have large surface to volume ratios. The concept of incorporating microscopic quantities of materials within microspheres dates back to the 1930s and to the work of Bungerberg de joing and co-workers on the entrapment of substances within coacervates. The potential uses of microspheres in the pharmaceutical have been considered since the 1960's and have a number of applications. The use of microspheres in pharmaceuticals have a number of advantages Viz., Taste and odor masking, conversion of oils and other liquids to solids for ease of handling, protection of drugs against environment (moisture, heat, light and oxidation), separation of incompatible materials, to improve flow of powders, production of sustained release, controlled release and targeted medications. The most important physico-chemical characteristics that may be controlled in microspheres manufacture are; particle size and distribution, polymer molecular weight, ratio of drug to polymer, total mass of drug and polymer.5, 6
A number of different substances both biodegradable as well as non-biodegradable have been investigated for the preparation of microspheres; these materials include polymers of natural origin or synthetic origin and also modified natural substances. A range of microspheres prepared using both hydrophilic and hydrophobic polymers. Hydrophilic polymers includes gelatin, agar, egg albumin, starch, chitosan, cellulose derivatives; HPMC, DEAE cellulose. Hydrophobic polymers include ethyl cellulose, polylactic acid, PMMA, acrylic acid esters etc7. The number of polymers and range of formulation variables available to control the rate of drug release from controlled release devices are broad. Selection among these variables is based upon the desired release rate and duration, physical and chemical properties of the drug and the intended site of administration. In general polymers are selected from one of several classes as follows:
Non-Biodegradable Hydrophobic Polymers:
These materials are inert in the environment of use, are eliminated or extracted intact from the site of administration, and serve essentially as a rate limiting barrier to the transport and release of drug from the device. Common examples of such materials include polyethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), Polydimethyl siloxane (PDS), Polyether urethane (PEU), Ethyl cellulose (EC), Cellulose acetate (CA), Polyethylene (PE) and Polyvinyl chloride (PVC), Acrycoat, Eudragit S etc.8, 9
Hydrogels: These polymers swell but do not dissolve when brought in contact with water. They are obtained from natural or synthetic sources. As with the hydrophobic polymers, hydrogels are inert, removed intact from the site of administration, and function by forming a rate limiting barrier to the transport and release of drugs. Common examples include polyhydroxy ethyl methyl acrylate (PHEMA), cross-linked poly vinyl alcohol (PVA), cross linked poly vinyl pyrrolidone (PVP), poly acryl amide etc.10
Soluble polymers:These are moderate molecular weight (less than 75,000 Daltons) uncross linked polymers that dissolve in water. The rate of dissolution decreases with increasing molecular weight. These materials can be used alone or in combination with hydrophobic polymers to provide devices that slowly erode over time. Examples include polyethylene glycol (PEG), uncross linked poly vinyl alcohol or poly vinyl pyrrolidone, hydroxyl propyl methyl cellulose (Methocel) and copolymers of metha acrylic acid and acrylic acid methyl ester (Eudragit L) etc.
Biodegradable polymers:These materials also slowly disappear from the site of administration; however it occurs in response to a chemical reaction such as hydrolysis. Examples of biodegradable polymers include polylactic acid (PLA), poly glycolic acid (PGA), Polycaprolactone (PCL) and several generic classes such as the poly anhydrides and poly orthoesters.11
The range of techniques for the preparation of microspheres offers a variety of opportunities to control aspects of drug administration. Microspheres can be prepared by:
Single Emulsion Technique, Double Emulsion Technique, Polymerization technique, Phase Separation coacervation technique, Spray Drying and Spray Congealing, Solvent Extraction12
Floating microspheres are gastro-retentive drug delivery systems based on non-effervescentapproach. Floating microspheres are in strict sense, spherical empty particles without core. These microspheres are also termed as "Microballoons" due to its characteristic internal hollow structure and excellent floatability in vitro.
Gastro-retentive floating microspheres are low-density systems that have sufficient buoyancy to float over gastric contents and remain in stomach for prolonged period. As the system floats over gastric contents, the drug is released slowly at desired rate resulting in increased gastric retention with reduced fluctuations in plasma drug concentration 13.
Advantages of Floating Microspheres:
• Improves patient compliance by decreasing dosing frequency.
• Bioavailability enhances despite first pass effect because fluctuations in plasma drug concentration is avoided, a desirable plasma drug concentration is maintained by continuous drug release.
• Better therapeutic effect of short half-life drugs can be achieved.
• Gastric retention time is increased because of buoyancy.
• Drug releases in controlled manner for prolonged period.
• Site-specific drug delivery to stomach can be achieved.
• Enhanced absorption of drugs which solubilizes only in stomach.
• Superior to single unit floating dosage forms as such microspheres releases drug uniformly and there is no risk of dose dumping. 12
• Avoidance of gastric irritation, because of sustained release effect, floatability and uniform release of drug through multiparticulate system.
• The flow characteristics and packability of the resultant microballoons are much improved when compared with the raw crystals of the drug.
• Drug targeting to stomach can be attractive for several other reasons 14
For the weakly basic drugs with poor solubility in the basic environment, the floating systems may avoid any chance of solubility to become the rate-limiting step in the release by restricting the drug to the stomach.
Any solute released in the stomach will empty along with the fluids such that the whole surface of the small intestine is available for absorption. This is particularly useful when an absorption window exists in the proximal small intestine15.
The positioned gastric release is useful for all substances intended to produce a lasting local action onto the gastroduodenal wall.
Limitations of floating Microspheres
• The major disadvantage of floating systems is requirement of sufficiently high levels of fluids in the stomach for the drug delivery16.
• The dosage form should be administered with a minimum of glass full of water8.
• Floating system is not feasible for those drugs that have solubility or stability problems in gastric fluids.
• Single unit floating capsules or tablets are associated with an "all or none concept," but this can be overcome by formulating multiple unit systems like floating microspheres or microballoons17.
• Drugs that irritate the mucosa, those that have multiple absorption sites in the gastrointestinal tract, and those that are not stable at gastric pH are not suitable candidates to be formulated as floating dosage forms.13
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The chance of making history by winning a third consecutive road race crown at cycling's world championships this week has been keeping Paolo Bettini dreaming all summer.
But at the men's road race on September 28, the energetic little rider known as the 'Cricket' will need to outmuscle, and outfox, at least three potential rival teams aiming to bring home the coveted rainbow jersey.
And one rider in particular, Oscar Freire, who has arguably more reason than the Italian to push his legs that extra mile.
The annual world championships are the only time during the cycling calendar, barring the Olympics, that the peloton's trade teams make way for national colours.
And when it comes to collective national strength,
But as
First, he lost his Olympic title to Spaniard Samuel Sanchez in
How those incidents influence Bettini's bid remains to be seen, but he has shown recently - with two stage wins at the Tour of Spain - that the legs are turning nicely.
Bettini brushed off Quick Step's increased pay snub last week by saying: "I don't have any trouble sleeping at night. Cycling has given a lot to me and I have given a lot to cycling."
But the shadow of Freire, one of only four men - the others being Italian Alfredo Binda and Belgians Eddy Merckx and Rik Van Steenbergen - to have won the rainbow jersey three times, is looming.
While Bettini would become the first to win three in succession, Freire can go one better and become the first ever cyclist to win four rainbow jerseys.
Although rich with the talents of 2007 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador and all-rounder Alejandro Valverde, a look at the course has prompted the Spanish team to designate Freire as their leader.
The profile of the 17.35km circuit that will be raced 15 times by the men and eight by the women compare to a medium mountain stage on the Tour de France.
The Montello climb comes at the start and is 1.15 km long with an average gradient of 6.5 percent. The Ronchi climb is placed with 4 km to go and is 3.130 km at an average gradient of 4.5.
However a long, mainly flat stretch of road leading to the finish line at the
Freire claimed the last two of his world titles, in 2001 and 2004, from winning bunch sprints, his maiden triumph in 1999 in
"Freire is always dangerous: I've been saying for the past two years he could win here," said Bettini who also admitted that Valverde, Luxembourg's Kim Kirchen and even Schumacher - a bronze medal winner last year - could be rivals.
The six-day competition starts with the under-23 men's time trial on Tuesday and finishes with the blue riband event of the men's 260.25km road race Sunday.
On Wednesday, Nicole Cooke will have the strongest British team for years at her disposal as she aims to add a maiden world crown from the 138.8 km road race, after years of close runs, to her newly-acquired Olympic title.


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It's a sick crime against the defenseless that's hitting a nerve with animal lovers.
Three teenagers are in custody, suspected of stomping on a 32-year-old man's beloved little dog to death.
The attack happened on February 11, at around 1:30 p.m. in the area of South Winchester Boulevard and Colonial Way in San Jose.
Preliminary investigations reveal two 15-year-olds and a 16-year-old attacked the man, thinking he was a rival gang member and then stomped on his little 4-pound mini Yorkshire named "Shadow."
Animal Care and Services said the dog may have been protecting its owner and was attacked in the process.
Two of the suspects were already in police custody on unrelated charges, and a third was booked into Santa Clara Juvenile Hall.
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Data principles and protocols structure the ways different actors in the data ecosystem interact with one another. They can build trust across sectors and data communities, and enable smoother interaction and more useful insights by providing a basis for improved interoperability. In short, principles and standards are part of the structural enabling environment for a functioning market and ecosystem for sustainable development data.
The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data is producing a comprehensive inventory of:
- Existing principles, standards, protocols and agreements that underpin the current data ecosystem, highlighting gaps that existing principles have filled as well as the gaps that remain.
- Emerging practice in contracts and in other relationships that can provide a basis for extracting common principles for the emerging data ecosystem.
The inventory will allow us to examine the evolution of principles and protocols and the difference they are making. It will also point to gaps and challenges, and allow us to work toward the next generation of principles and protocols for sharing privately held and other kind of data.


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The Hilltops region is one of Australia's most exciting wine regions. Situated around the towns of Young, Boorowa and Harden, the Hilltops is fast gaining recognition as a consistent producer of ultra-premium wine.
This region has a continental climate, with cool winters and rain falling predominantly in the winter, autumn and spring months. The summer's hot dry days but cool nights provide ideal ripening conditions, distinguishing the Hilltops from many other renowned viticultural regions in Australia.
In recent times the Hilltops has become recognised as one of Australia's leading Shiraz regions. Consequently it has attracted the attention of leading wineries from other regions, including Clonakilla, Chalkers Crossing, Eden Road and Hungerford Hill, who are all producing high quality wines in the area.
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Abu 'Abdi 'r-Rahman 'Abdu 'llah, son of 'Umar the celebrated Khalifah, was one of the most eminent of the "Companions" of Muhammad. He embraced Islam with his father when he was only eight years old. For a period of sixty years he occupied the leading position as a traditionist, and al-Bukhari, the collector of traditions says the most authentic are those given on the authority of Ibn 'Umar. He died at Makkah A.H. 73 (A.D. 692), aged 84 years.
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ROYAL OAK — Lads in plaid and bonnie lasses will gather downtown Thursday to mark the ninth annual Tartan Day.
Listen for bagpipers and watch for hairy-legged men in kilts at Lily's Seafood, 410 S. Washington Ave., starting at 5 p.m.
Owner Bob Morton will host another celebration of Scotland's declaration of independence from feudal English control some 693 years ago.
We all know how that ended, with Scotland now part of the United Kingdom. Even so, the diplomatic assertion is cause for celebration for those of Scottish descent and fans of single malts, Celtic music and traditional foods.
The Tartan Day lineup includes music from Tartanious Flynn, bagpipers, made-from-scratch dishes like cock-a-leekie soup, pork pies, oatmeal crusted lamb chops, orange-glazed salmon with sweet pea stuffed cabbage, and of course, haggis.
"We're going all out this year to really bring the true taste and feel of Scotland to Royal Oak," Morton said.
As part of the festivities, Scotsman Franklin Dohanyos will recite the famous Robert Burns' poem, "Ode to a Haggis" at about 5:45 p.m. The pudding contains sheep's pluck (heart, liver and lungs) minced with onion, oatmeal, and spices and is simmered for three hours in a sausage casing or animal's stomach.
"We use the stomach. It's prepared the traditional way here," Lily's manager Eve Keller said.
Lily's is named after Morton's grandmother, Lily Strange, a Scottish immigrant.
National Tartan Day is officially April 6. The occasion is marked by parties and gatherings, not only to recall Scotland's independence, but to celebrate Scottish heritage.
"We want to fill the place to the rafters. We've got quite an evening planned at Lily's," said Dohanyos, executive director of the Scottish American Society of Michigan. "The Scots have a long, proud history in Michigan and we are carrying on that tradition."
Lily's is open until midnight on Thursday but the kitchen closes at 10 p.m.
The SASM will host Michigan's 10th annual Tartan Day Ceilidh (pronounced kay-lee) at Monaghan's Knights of Columbus, 19801 Farmington Road in Livonia from 5:30-10 p.m. Saturday.
This year's event features the Alma College Pipe Band, Michigan Scottish Pipe Band, Raggle Taggle Band, Highland Dancers, and a full meal, including Ackroyd's Scotch pies and bridies (meat pastries).
Tickets are $25 each for adults and $15 for kids under 10. They must be purchased in advance at www.scotsofmichigan. This is Michigan's "official" Tartan Day Ceilidh as decreed by the governor's office in 2010. Funds raised will go to a fine arts scholarship for a student at Alma College.


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However, Kristen's win has been overshadowed by the first runner-up's controversial interview response. Miss California USA Carrie Prejean was asked by celebrity blogger Perez Hilton her views on gay marriage. Hilton asked the beauty queen, "Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?"
Prejean stumbled with her response:
We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite. And you know what, I think in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that's how I was raised.
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I've watched New Orleans twice and have in the queue again, wish I could Watch Instantly. It's bad movie, completely enthralling. Louis is the key and for the usual reasons. He does what he does impeccably. He is stalwart through the whole darn mess, the plot changes, the race lines. The movie was supposed to be the story of jazz AND the life of Louis Armstrong. That went by-the-by when the movie's brainchild, Orson Welles, let go of the rights in the early 40s. By 1947, McCarthyism was vocal enough to have a hand in the new version as well. Laurence Bergreen blames the plot shift to "the preposterous opera" on this.1 The point is the film is another example of Louis taking it all in, letting go of what he can't change, and making a chocolate cake out of what's left.
Netflix's blurb for New Orleans starts out: As owner of a Bourbon Street gambling club, Nick Duquesne (Arturo De Cordova) sits at the center of the New Orleans jazz scene. His scruffy charm -- and the city's beguiling music -- is too much for a new girl in town (Dorothy Patrick). Note that when you listen to Billie Holliday sing "Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans" with Louis playing his cornet (movie takes place in 1917, he played cornet not trumpet then) with his band.2 This is the story that counts but it all but disappears early on, soon after the moving street scene when everyone leaves Storyville.
Songs include Louis and band playing "New Orleans Stomp," "Buddy Bolden's Blues," "West End Blues," "Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble," and "Basin Street Blues." There's a fine duet, Louis with Billie Holiday in "The Blues Are Brewin'." Biilie Holliday is crucial in this movie. And there's plenty written by her and others on her role that begins with her as a maid who morphs to jazz singer.
The film centers on the white story; it's largely Miralee Smith's (Patrick's) struggle to turn herself into a jazz singer instead of the classical career her mother destined for her. More than once Miralee chirps her version of Holiday's blues. Marjorie Lord as the mother is pretty great right from the first scene when she's trying to dodge her gambling debt to De Cordova.
By 1947 jazz had shifted. Louis had heard it all, not just the Tomism but how dated he was. Angry sometimes, by then he'd resolved that bebop wasn't a fad, jazz had several directions and his was but one. But he wasn't sore anymore, he knew well his commanding place and had set about building a new house with the same tool box.
1 Laurence Bergreen, Louis Armstrong: An Extraordinary Life, 1997, 428-429.
2 trombone-Kid Ory, clarinet-Barney Bigard, guitar-Bud Scott, bass-"Red" Callender, drums-Zutty Singleton and piano-Charlie Beal and Meade "Lux" Lewis. Also Mutt Carey on cornet.
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Before you dive into your research, it's useful to make a list of keywords that you will use as search terms. This can help you define your focus, and it will be a useful tool once you start searching, especially if your first search attempts don't find much that's useful.
Pull out key concepts
Once you have your topic, write it out as a short sentence or question and look at the different components that make up your statement. For example, the research statement "Is memory loss related to aging?" has two main concepts:
- memory loss
- aging
Start compiling a list of the key words that you will use as you search for your topic. List the words in groups by category. For example, the topic "Is memory loss related to aging?" might have key words that fall into two general categories:
- memory loss or amnesia or Alzheimer's
- aging or aged or elderly, seniors
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Alleged leaker Bradley Manning finally scheduled for court
After being held in custody for over 17 months, former Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning will finally see the inside of a court as his Article 32 pretrial hearing is scheduled for December 16 at Fort Meade, Maryland.
The hearing is expected to last five days. Manning stands accused of multiple charges of computer fraud, theft of public property or records, transmitting defense information (thus violating the Espionage Act) and causing the stolen information to be published online.
He is also facing one charge of aiding the enemy - a charge that can end up in a capital punishment. But, according to Wired, the government has previously stated that it will not be asking for that. If Manning gets convicted of all the charges laid against him, though, he could end up in prison for life.


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Something Wicked This Way Comes
There's nothing like a game that is so twisted and fucked up that you can't help but admire it. It's ability to make you shudder and feel ill at ease is truly something special. I've selected a few games with character and setting designs that are truly morbid. If you can think of some others we'll add it to this list.


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This idea was hatched back in June. Beers and schwarma with John Powers and William Powhida. We were all excited about the new Alien "prequel" Prometheus and talked about it at length. But after seeing, we saw it as a missed opportunity to say the least. Using the script as a guide, John and Bill added and subtracted parts to create a new fan fiction of the movie. I agreed to an illustration showcasing the changes. What started as one turned into many. The idea of aliens causing the dinosaur apocalypse event was very enticing to me and I had a blast working in widescreen so it just evolved from there. Below if the new opening of the our movie, with a bit more spectacle and specificity, and did I mention dinosaurs!
[Open with scenes of the primal Universe, the big bang, stars are born, and planets form. Zoom down to see huge volcanoes, storming seas, life emerges]
Titles: Yucatán Peninsula, 65 million years ago
[The shot pulls back through a lush rain forest densely populated by huge feathered dinosaurs.]
[Pulling upwards and zooming out until we see the earth as seen from space.]
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Ontario's police watchdog says there are no grounds to charge two Toronto police officers whose use of force during an arrest this spring left a man with bruises and a concussion.
The Special Investigations Unit says the officers had the lawful authority to use force in arresting James Ross Kennedy on March 24 because he became aggressive "for no apparently legitimate reason."
The SIU says the confrontation stemmed from Kennedy's mistaken belief that the plainclothes officers at his door "were either members of the Jehovah's witnesses or drug dealers."
The agency says a statement from one of the officers maintains the pair identified themselves as police and one of them showed his badge.
The SIU says the officers moved to arrest Kennedy after he grabbed one of their sweatshirts. But the 26-year-old resisted and all three fell to the ground.
The officers had knocked on Kennedy's door while looking for a potential witness to a homicide, but the person they sought didn't live there.
The SIU is an arm's-length agency called in to investigate whenever someone is killed or seriously hurt while interacting with police.


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Hi Kriesi
I get this message when I attempt to do a create network of wordpress sites:-
"Because your install is in a directory, the sites in your WordPress network must use sub-directories"
"Warning! The main site in a sub-directory install will need to use a modified permalink structure, potentially breaking existing links."
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Would it be easy to fix?
Would it mess up things with woo-commerce if the permalink structure was modified?
I'm aiming on using Propulsion on the first then another one of your themes (not ecommerce) on the second site.
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Burgundy Tie-Front Cold Shoulder Top
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LAKE ELSINORE ---- Four people who became stranded on a 3,200-foot peak in the Cleveland National Forest were airlifted to safety Friday.
The lost hikers called 911 around 2 p.m. saying they were unable to make their way down from Sitton Peak, a few miles west of Lake Elsinore, because a member of their party suffered a broken ankle, and they were in rugged terrain, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.
A helicopter crew was dispatched to the location and found the hikers about five miles from the trailhead, a Fire Department spokeswoman said.
She said the foursome was hoisted individually into the aircraft and flown to safety.
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Dorothy Williams Farnworth peacefully completed her mortal journey on July 30, 2008, surrounded by her loving family.
On the cold wintry day of December 20, 1924, she entered this world as the second daughter of Vern LeRoy Williams, Sr. and Lyle Elizabeth Robertson Williams. She received her education in Orem graduating from Lincoln High School in 1943. She married H. Earl Farnworth on May 16, 1945, in the Salt Lake Temple. She was an active life-long member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She served in many callings throughout her life and will be especially remembered for her endless acts of selfless compassionate service to her family, friends and neighbors.
Dorothy is survived by her eternal companion, Earl; her two daughters, Karen (Donald L.) Noel, Longview, Washington; Marsha (Bill) Webster, Murray, Utah; 9 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her sisters Darrell Williams, Arva Williams Eggleston Hulschof and a grandson Darwin Todd Webster.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the LDS Humanitarian Fund in Dorothy's name.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, August 4, 2008, at the Orem 6th Ward Chapel, 365 South 900 East, Orem, Utah. Family and friends may call Sunday evening from 6-8 p.m. at the Walker Sanderson Funeral Home, 646 East 800 North, Orem and Monday morning from 9:30-10:45 a.m. prior to the services at the church. Interment will be held at the Orem City Cemetery.


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Toshiba to launch 'Cell TV' in 2009
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MAKUHARI, Japan The Cell processor chip, originally developed for Sony's PlayStation 3 game console, will power "Cell TV," Toshiba Corp.'s next-generation, flat-panel TV scheduled for launch in the fall of 2009.
Toshiba this week showed off the company's prototype Cell TV at CEATEC Japan here.
The demonstration was similar to what Toshiba offered during the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year. But the Japanese company was much more forthright in pitching specific advantages of "Cell TV" in real-world applications.
|Toshiba's Cell TV simultaneously displays on its screen 48 video streams stored in a hard-disk drive unit.
The next-generation TV should be able to display and play back video content -- coming from various sources -- not only in high resolution but also in an easy-to-view manner, said Yoshihiro Nishida, senior specialist at Toshiba's core technology center.
During its demonstration, Toshiba's Cell TV showed off on its screen 48 video streams stored in a hard-disk drive unit.
The same Cell TV could also time-slice a single video program in 48 segments and play them back on the same screen at the same time. "This lets viewers choose a specific video segment they want to see," said Nishida.
The Cell processor can also decode eight live broadcast streams simultaneously, Nishida added, when the Cell TV features eight TV tuners.
"Channel changes get much faster on Cell TV, because live video streams are already decoded simultaneously," said Nishida, "just like in the good old days of analog TV."
Today, one of the drawbacks of digital TV is that it takes at least one or two seconds to accomplish a channel change, he explained.
When asked who else will be using Cell processor for similar TVs, Nishida declined to comment.


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At "Supercard of Honor VII" Jay Briscoe made his dreams come true, and to be honest that of ROH officials as well, when he brought an end to the nearly one year World Title reign of Kevin Steen. It was the culmination of eleven years of hard work and dedication to Ring of Honor and it paid off on one of our biggest stages.
The newly crowned champion will make the first defense of his newly won World Championship on May 4th when ROH returns to Toronto & The Ted Reeve Arena for "Border Wars 2013" on iPPV! His opponent, based on Match Maker Nigel McGuinness' proclamation on the 3/16/13 episode of ROH TV, will be the former World Television Champion Adam Cole!
"I declared Adam Cole a contender because he held that Television Title with honor." said McGuinness "Adam carried it with integrity and continued the prestigious lineage that was established the day Eddie Edwards was crowned the first champion and continued with Christopher Daniels, El Generico, and the other men who have been champion. Adam showed he had the tools when he challenged Davey Richards last year in Dayton, and just like Jay Briscoe, has stood up for Ring of Honor throughout these issues with SCUM. I can think of no better way to ring in a new dawn for ROH than by presenting the first SCUM free World Title match in a year featuring these two athletes!"
Jay Briscoe will certainly head into "Border Wars 2013" on an incredible high with "You deserve it" chants still ringing in his ears but Adam Cole may be coming in on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. At "Supercard of Honor VII" Cole was the first man to pin Matt Hardy since the "Self Proclaimed Icon" returned to ROH competition late last year, but it did not parlay into reclaiming the TV Title from Matt Taven. As a matter of fact, Cole has come up on the losing end at all three of the last iPPV events ("FB 2012" to Hardy, "11th Anniversary" to Taven, & "SoH VII" to Taven).
That is a simple fact that must weigh heavily on his mind as "Border Wars 2013" creeps closer, but it is one that Cole must move past if he hopes to have any chance of dethroning Jay Briscoe in Toronto.
It's Briscoe vs. Cole for the ROH World Title and it will go down live on iPPV on May 4th! Great seats are also available right HERE in the ROH Store for both this event as well as our first international TV Taping the following day! And don't forget about the participation of Pro Wrestling NOAH's Naomichi Marufuji and GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion Taiji Ishimori!


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Movies that suck (and some that don't): what's playing this week on Sundance Channel
Who said you can't have dessert first? Start your holiday indulgence early with this week's episode of Love Lust, Chocolate edition. Then get ready for the Friday season premiere of Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys with a jam-packed week of your favorite episodes from season one. And if you just can't get enough, check out all the sneak peeks and behind-the-scenes looks at season two in Nashville, including a full episode available to watch with your friends online.
On Thursday night, EYES WIDE SHUT sets the mood when Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman get creepy sexy. Then Sundance takes things a bit further and celebrates vampire sex appeal on Friday night with Love Lust & Vampires, followed by the original vampire killing hottie, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (with Luke Perry, remember him? That kid was gonna be a star!) And hey, if they ever get around to making that once talked about BUFFY reboot, Buffy original Kristy Swanson says she's up for the job - any job, actually.
Michael Musto muses on the staying power of the young actors in the TWILIGHT series, and on Saturday night be sure watch TOTAL ECLIPSE. No, it's a not a TWILIGHT spin-off, but 90s Leonardo DiCaprio was always more my taste than Robert Pattinson anyway. Leo plays 19th-century bad boy teen poet, Arthur Rimbaud (think lots of blousy shirts and sultry looks), who sends some of his poems to the famous writer, Paul Verlaine (played by David Thewlis, who won Best Actor at Cannes for the role in 1995). Verlaine is so impressed he invites Rimbaud to come stay at his house, but when he arrives he's shocked to discover that Rimbaud is a crude and obnoxious sixteen-year-old kid. Still, he falls in love with him (in reality, Rimabud was nowhere near as cute as Leo, but hey, love is blind and Verlaine was no looker either), but it's not a great match. Things don't usually go well when you abandon your wife and kid for a hot teenage poet, whom you become so possessive of that you shoot him in a jealous rage. Luckily, Verlaine only hit Rimbaud's left wrist, and he was a righty anyway. Hindsight's a bitch, eh Paul?


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May 25, 2016
The Marfa Experience with Clayton Austin
In April I traveled to Marfa Texas to speak at the Clayton Austin workshop. I'd never met Clayton before this, but man, alive, this guy is one talented photographer, over all nice guy, and an AMAZING teacher. If you EVER have the chance to attend his workshops, DO IT. Rumor has it he has one at the end of this month May 31st in Washington DC.
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Albuquerque teen falls 45 feet from ski lift
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SANTA FE, N.M. - A teenager who fell 45 feet from a New Mexico ski lift says he was falling straight toward a big rock and was sure he would die.
Seventeen-year-old Jacob Gutierrez, of Albuquerque, told the Santa Fe New Mexican ( http://bit.ly/ZwYveV) he was throwing a snowball at a friend in the chair in front of him when he slipped off.
He caught himself on the armrest, ditched his snowboard and tried to hang on. Gutierrez says he could see the lift shack at the end before he fell but ran out of strength.
Gutierrez injured his liver and lungs, had a hairline skull fracture and a gash on his forehead. He spent three days in intensive care.
A YouTube video of the Feb. 2 fall at Ski Santa Fe has gone viral.
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Completely revised and updated for Logic Pro 9 and Logic Express 9, this Apple-certified guide shows you how to record, produce, and polish music files with Apple's professional audio software. Veteran music producer David Nahmani's step-by-step, instructions teach you everything from basic music creation to advanced production techniques using Logic's software synthesizers, samplers, and digital signal processors. Using the book's DVD files and either Logic… (more)
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Time is running out on early-bird pricing for this year's Pagosa Folk 'N Bluegrass festival.
The event takes place June 7-9, and festival-goers have through Sunday, March 31, to pick up discounted tickets online or by phone.
This year's lineup features headliners Band of Heathens, The Duhks and The Iguanas, also joined by Della Mae, the Black Lillies, Matt Flinner Trio, the Warren Hood Band, the Defibulators, The Haunted Windchimes, Taarka, Paper Bird, Corn Yeti, The New Shoots Trio, Expedition Quintet and this week's featured bands: Front Country and Finnders & Youngberg.
This year will be Finnders & Youngberg's third straight appearance at Folk 'N Bluegrass and the third year they've been instructors for the Pagosa Bluegrass Jam Camp, which takes place on the hill just prior to the festival. This year's dates are June 4-6.
Colorado's Finnders & Youngberg proudly swim in the deep currents of American music — classic bluegrass, tried-and-true honky tonk, country swing and skillfully spun folk tales. While their sound evokes timelessness, it is a decidedly contemporary, well-traveled 21st century sensibility that informs their songwriting. Their tunes draw on the bumps, bruises and laugh lines earned when we find ourselves in the "bogs" of back roads, dive bars, and long, lonesome nights.
Musicians with a palpable sense of place, the members of Finnders & Youngberg (FY5) have all laid strong foundations as veterans of the vibrant Colorado Front Range acoustic music scene. Two-time MerleFest songwriting competition winner in both the gospel and bluegrass categories, Iowa native Mike Finders possesses an arresting and emotive stage presence. His finely-honed storytelling forms the bulk of the band's cannon as the principal songwriter and guitarist for the band.
Erin Youngberg ("E") provides a muscle-y bass and beautiful, worldwise vocals, while her husband Aaron Youngberg ("AA") plays a mean banjo and seductive pedal steel. Both were founding members of the Hit & Run Bluegrass Band, which won the RockyGrass band competition in 2002 and Telluride in 2003. AA also is proud owner and chief engineer at Swingfingers Recording Studio in Fort Collins, while E has performed and recorded with Uncle Earl.
The group is rounded out by Rich Zimmerman on mandolin and Ryan Drickey on fiddle. Zimmerman was a founder of the innovative acoustic Boulder band Slipstream. Meanwhile Drickey's chameleonic fiddling has earned him a RockyGrass fiddle competition win and marked him as a much sought after session player.
Onstage, the members of FY5 possess an undeniable chemistry and an energy that flows with might. Marked by an intimacy with the audience, their performances feature precision picking, soaring harmonies and joyful, energetic choreography centered around an old-school single microphone setup. The emotional richness of their music resonates throughout their stage show. Heartbreakers slip in between anthemic glass raisers. Driving tales of working men and women shimmy alongside wryly humorous numbers. Quick-witted stage banter keeps folks laughing. Tightly wound instrumental breakdowns keep dancers on their toes.
Finnders & Youngberg will play on the main stage on Friday, June 7 at 5 p.m.
Newcomer to the Pagosa festival scene, Front Country is the band that will be teaching the younger students at this year's Pagosa Bluegrass Camp for Kids. After their RockyGrass band competition win in 2012, Front Country is ready for a busy year, with appearances at RockyGrass, Pagosa Folk n' Bluegrass, and the CBA Father's Day Fest already booked for the summer. The band released its first EP "This is Front Country" in February at the Great American Music Hall in their hometown of San Francisco.
Formed in 2011 as a collective of the Bay Area's finest young acoustic talent, Adam Roszkiewicz, Jacob Groopman, Jordan Klein, Leif Karlstrom, Melody Walker and Zach Sharpe joined forces to play a monthly gig with friends in San Francisco's Mission District. They quickly found a musical rapport that was open to challenging arrangements, unique covers and original songwriting. Their repertoire rapidly expanded, and in January of 2012, Front Country decided to take on a Bay Area bluegrass tradition and compete in the prestigious RockyGrass band competition later that summer. On July 29, 2012 Front Country became the second Northern California band in three years to win the title, earning a spot to perform on that festival's main stage this July.
Front Country's main stage set at Pagosa Folk 'N Bluegrass is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 9.
Pagosa Folk 'N Bluegrass is supported in part by a grant from Colorado Creative Industries. Tickets and additional information are available online at www.folkwest.com or by calling 731-5582.
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Renee Zellweger appears in this weekend's Leatherheads which means you can expect to hear lots of comments about her scrunchy face as she makes the press rounds. It doesn't look like she's going anywhere anytime soon either. The actress has been working steadily for longer than anyone who starred in a Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel deserves.
Zellweger owes a lot of her career's success to the character of Bridget Jones, a character the actress told Stuff she'd like to revisit again. "If it worked into my life and if it was worthwhile and was interesting I would do it."Zellweger wisely added, "It rather depends on there being another book, of course." That's right. Let the book come first. None of this Jack Ryan bull for Bridget Jones.
The actress even has an idea about where she'd like to see the character go: "I would love her to go to Los Angeles and have a baby. The hilarity in that would be boundless!" Um… sure. Now I'm definitely glad Zellweger wants there to be another book before another movie is made.


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