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Recommendations for Implementation of Community Consultation and Public Disclosure Under the Food and Drug Administration's "Exception From Informed Consent Requirements for Emergency Research"
A Special Report From the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee and Council on Cardiopulmonary, Perioperative and Critical Care: Endorsed by the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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In addition to the usual requirement of appropriate study design and institutional review board (IRB) approval, research studies performed under the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Department of Health and Human Services regulations regarding "Informed Consent and Waiver of Informed Consent Requirements in Certain Emergency Research" (21 CFR §50.24)1 require community consultation and public disclosure. This special report discusses the general issues related to consent in emergency circumstances and provides a template to help IRBs implement community consultation and public disclosure appropriately. A portion of the material in this special report was presented as testimony by Dr Halperin on October 11, 2006, at the FDA's public hearing on "Draft Guidance for Institutional Review Boards, Clinical Investigators, and Sponsors: Exception From Informed Consent Requirements for Emergency Research."
More than 300 000 Americans die each year due to catastrophic medical and surgical emergencies.2,3 New interventions based on sound research could save lives. These research studies must be done within an ethical framework that traditionally includes obtaining prospective informed consent from the research subject. The ethical framework for the conduct of human research began with the development of the Nuremberg Code4,5 in 1949. This code states that (1) informed consent of volunteers must be obtained without coercion of any form, (2) human experiments should be based on prior animal experiments, (3) the anticipated scientific results should justify the experiment, (4) only qualified scientists should conduct medical research, (5) physical and mental suffering should be avoided, and (6) no expectation of death or disabling injury should be expected from the research study.
The Declaration of Helsinki6 was issued in 1964 and defines rules for clinical research. It repeats the ethical concerns stated in the Nuremberg Code but also gives a provision for enrolling certain patients in clinical research without their consent, by use of either proxy consent or waiver of consent in minimal-risk studies.
The subsequent Belmont Report,7 which was published in 1979, is the cornerstone of ethical principles on which current federal US regulations for the protection of subjects are based. The report conveys the 3 major premises of ethical conduct of studies: respect for persons, beneficence, and justice. The report also provides elements used by IRBs to evaluate the ethical standards for individual research proposals. The ethical principles presented in both the Belmont Report and the Declaration of Helsinki have been expanded and clarified in the most recent guidelines published by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences,8 especially with regard to the provision of guidelines for the application of ethical standards in local circumstances.
A dilemma arises in research studies of interventions for life-threatening emergencies, such as cardiac arrest, neurological emergencies including stroke, and some instances of major trauma. In these circumstances, a potential subject may be eligible for a research study but be unable to give prospective consent owing to impaired consciousness, severe alteration in cognition, or aphasia. Often with such research protocols, the subject must be enrolled immediately so that the potential physiological effects of the experimental intervention can be maximized before the onset of irreversible organ damage.9,10
The FDA defines the "therapeutic window" as "the time period, based on available scientific evidence, during which administration of the test article might reasonably produce a demonstrable clinical effect."11,12 It is this therapeutic window that is limited or effectively nonexistent for research studies of life-threatening emergencies. There generally is not time to seek out a legally authorized patient representative for disclosure and consent. In addition, consent under such emergency circumstances may not meet the standards of informed consent, because there is little time for the investigator to explain the study, and little time for the patient representative to assess the various treatment options available.13 In addition, the emotional state of the patient representative may eliminate the possibility of reflecting objectively on the situation. It is especially difficult to obtain informed consent in pediatric populations, in which it has been shown that "the emotional trauma of the diagnosis decreases a mother's ability to absorb and understand vital information, and the emergent nature of the children's condition and the urgency to begin treatment further compromise informed consent."14
Clinical trials involving research on emergency patients who were unable to give prospective informed consent were traditionally performed in the United States either by the receipt of a waiver of informed consent from the local IRB or by deferred consent.15,16 In 1993, however, the Office for Protection from Research Risks at the National Institutes of Health and the FDA questioned the legality of the deferred consent practice.17 Because of problems with obtaining consent in studies of life-threatening emergencies18,19 and the impact on performing such studies, a coalition conference of acute resuscitation and critical care researchers was held in October 1994. Representatives from more than 20 organizations participated in discussions that explored informed consent in emergency research and produced consensus recommendations.20 In 1996, the FDA and the Department of Health and Human Services published regulations1 for the ethically and legally acceptable conduct of emergency research. Emergency research must operate under exemption from consent, either because of no or minimal risk, or through community exception of consent regulations as outlined by the Office for Human Research Protections and the FDA. These guidelines aim to protect patients from participation in a study they would not consent to if they had decisional capacity. For research that is subject to FDA regulation, exception from consent can be applied to emergency research if explicit criteria are met (Table 1): (1) an investigational device exemption or investigational new drug application is in effect; (2) the research involves human subjects who cannot consent because of their emerging life-threatening medical condition for which available treatments are unproven or unsatisfactory; (3) the intervention must be administered before it is feasible to obtain informed consent from the patient's legally authorized representative; (4) the sponsor has prior written permission from the FDA; (5) an independent data monitoring committee exists; and (6) the relevant IRB has documented that these conditions were met. In addition, the ethical framework for performing such studies mandates that there be an independent assessment of the risks and benefits of the protocol.
For all research that is supported by federal funding (eg, National Institutes of Health), even if the study does not use a drug or device regulated by the FDA, similar criteria are required to determine whether exception to informed consent is warranted for an emergency research study. In addition, for research that is not supported by federal funding or subject to FDA regulation (eg, a trial of a novel method of manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation), IRBs generally apply similar criteria to determine whether exception from consent is warranted for an emergency research study.
Before initiation of the study, community consultation and public disclosure must be provided for each emergency research protocol for which an exception from informed consent is requested.1 In March 2000, the FDA issued a "Draft Guidance" report to help clarify the concepts of community consultation and public disclosure,11 which was updated in 2006.12 These reports state, "[C]ommunity consultation means providing the opportunity for discussions with, and soliciting opinions from the community(ies) in which the study will take place and from which study subjects will be drawn." The 3 primary goals of the community consultation process are (1) to explain the nature of the research, with its attendant risks and benefits; (2) to state that informed consent will not be obtained from individual subjects before study participation; and (3) to explain the process by which potential subjects can refuse to participate in research studies.11,12 The FDA guidance report defines public disclosure as "… dissemination of information about the emergency research sufficient to allow a reasonable assumption that communities are aware that the study will be conducted, and later, that the communities and scientific researchers are aware of the study results."11,12
The regulations indicate that each IRB is to exercise its own discretion in determining appropriate community consultation activities and public disclosure, which allows considerations specific to the local community(ies) to be taken into account. The regulations do not explicitly state the amount or types of community consultation and public disclosure that need to be done to achieve compliance, although the FDA guidance document does give some general considerations.11,12 These requirements for community consultation and public disclosure, although reasonable, sometimes lead to delays in obtaining approval for research studies using the emergency exception process. Each IRB may lack experience in determining what types of consultation and disclosure are necessary. In addition, there is ambiguity in the regulations as to how individual IRBs should implement such community consultation and public disclosure. Shah and Sugarman21 examined emergency research protocols at 36 centers and reported that to satisfy the public disclosure requirement, the majority of these centers used a 1-way disclosure method (press releases, institutional and local newsletters, and radio and television announcements). A minority of the centers reported using 2-way disclosures with the community, including public forums, telephone polls, and written communications.21
Community Consultation and Public Disclosure Template
The purpose of the present document is to provide guidance for implementation of community consultation and public disclosure. A template is presented that (1) provides for quantification of the minimum requirements that an IRB might adopt, (2) gives examples to help IRBs quickly become familiar with the process of implementing and reviewing studies proposed with exception to informed consent, and (3) proposes that trials of interventions approved by the FDA for the indication being studied should require different levels of community consultation and public disclosure than studies of unapproved interventions. The template gives a common interpretation of the requirements and provides a list of actions acceptable for the implementation of community consultation and public disclosure.
The guiding ethical principle for the template is that there is a range of actions that are acceptable to protect subjects' autonomy, dependent on the risk of the study. The risk referred to here is the incremental risk of participation in the proposed study over and above the risks of having sustained a life-threatening emergency and being treated with standard interventions. The higher the risk of the study, the more stringent are the actions that are required to protect subjects' autonomy. Because there is a range of risk associated with different study interventions, different levels of community consultation and public disclosure can be used to appropriately balance subjects' autonomy with the public good. A trial of an approved therapy should not require the same level of community notification and consultation as one in which nonapproved or not-generally-accepted interventions are being introduced for the first time.
We therefore propose that it is ethically acceptable to stratify the intensity of community consultation and public disclosure on the basis of the anticipated incremental risks to subjects of participating in a research study. We acknowledge that any research study may have unanticipated risks, but we base our argument for stratifying community consultation and public disclosure on the reasonable and prudent prediction of subject risk.
Our proposal regarding stratifying community consultation is analogous to how IRBs currently review research protocols and informed consent documents. For example, IRB review of a protocol that studies unlinked serum samples will not require the same considerations as a project involving the use of a novel immunosuppressive agent in kidney transplantation. The study of unlinked serum samples may be considered to have minimal risk and may therefore be eligible for expedited review, whereas the transplantation study requires standard IRB review. Similarly, the informed consent document may be shorter and simpler for the serum sample study than for the transplantation study. Indeed, for the transplantation study, the IRB may suggest, in addition to an extensive consent protocol, the use of supplemental educational material or the involvement of a patient advocate to ensure that subjects fully understand the risks, benefits, and alternatives to participation. Our point is that although all emergency research that is not minimal risk requires some level of public disclosure and community consultation, emergency research studies that have less incremental risk and are not politically and culturally controversial may be performed ethically with lesser degrees of community consultation and public disclosure than would be needed for high-risk or controversial studies.
Stratification of Risk
This template breaks studies into categories of minimal, low, intermediate, and high incremental risk. Any sudden, catastrophic, life-threatening condition places patients at high risk for substantial morbidity and mortality. Instead of paying heed only to the inherent risk of the underlying disease, which is present whether the patient is enrolled in the study or not, we recommend evaluating the incremental risk from participating in the proposed study. That evaluation can then be used to determine the degree of community consultation and public disclosure appropriate for the proposed study.
Certain studies are justifiable without documented consent under minimal risk criteria. Consider the study of a therapy approved by the FDA for the indications being studied that is being compared with another therapy that was approved or did not need approval (eg, manual CPR). The study likely would carry a risk that was comparable to the risk of being treated with either approved therapy. In the absence of a research protocol, physicians could ethically and legally choose to treat patients with a life-threatening condition with either of these interventions. The only additional factors introduced by a research study of these interventions are (1) that the patients are being randomized to 1 of the approved interventions and (2) the loss of privacy and confidentiality during review of the clinical record after the intervention has been applied. Therefore, if the randomization procedure does not introduce any significant delay in applying the approved therapies, such a study is justifiable without documented consent under minimal-risk criteria. The rationale for not having an informed consent document is described in the preamble to the final rule for 21 CFR §50:
"The agency thinks that it may not always be possible to develop a meaningful informed consent document for continued participation in the research, because the relevant information may vary significantly depending upon when it becomes feasible to provide the information to the subject or legally authorized representative. The agency is, therefore, not requiring that such a form be developed. The agency notes, however, that §50.24(a)(6) places the responsibility on the IRB to review and approve 'informed consent procedures and an informed consent document' for use with subjects or their legal representatives, and procedures and information to be used in consultations with family members, in situations where use of such procedures is feasible."1
During the comment period for these regulations, the agency received feedback that the subject should be able to choose to continue to participate fully in a study, to continue the intervention but not have their data included in the research database or results, or to discontinue the intervention and use of the subject's data. This was rejected on the following grounds:
"FDA regulations… require investigators to prepare and maintain adequate case histories recording all observations and other data pertinent to the investigation on each individual treated with the drug or exposed to the device. The agency needs all such data in order to be able to determine the safety and effectiveness of the drug or device. The fact of having been in an investigation cannot be taken back. Also, if a subject were able to control the use (inclusion and exclusion) of his or her data, and particularly if the clinical investigation were not blinded, the bias potential would be immense."1
The factors that can help decide the degree of incremental risk added by a particular study are shown in Table 2. We propose that IRBs use the following criteria to determine incremental risk: (1) FDA labeling status of the investigational therapeutic drug or device, for studies of interventions; (2) an evaluation of whether the study introduces any additional risk of harm over that of simply using the investigational therapeutic drug or device (such as any delays in applying therapy that may be introduced by the randomization process); (3) the degree of invasiveness and need for real-time clinical decisions, for studies of diagnostics; and (4) the potentially sensitive nature of the study from the community's or communities' perspective, including political, cultural, and religious considerations. For a therapeutic intervention, therefore, the study would have minimal, low, intermediate, or high incremental risk based on the FDA labeling status of the therapy and the assessment of whether there was minimal risk associated with being in the study (Table 2, "Intervention" row), unless it were placed in a higher-risk category on the basis of the community's sensitivity (Table 2, bottom row). The same would be true for the study of a diagnostic, in which the type of diagnostic would place it in minimal-, intermediate-, or high-risk categories based on the degree of invasiveness, the need for real-time decision making, and whether the diagnostic is FDA approved (Table 2, "Diagnostic" row), unless it were placed in a higher-risk category by the perceived sensitivity of the community (Table 2, bottom row).
Levels of Community Consultation and Public Disclosure
Once the degree of incremental risk has been determined, we propose that the amount and types of community consultation and public disclosure be guided by Table 3. For minimal-risk studies, no community consultation or public disclosure is required, although minimal community consultation should be strongly considered. For low-incremental-risk studies, minimal community consultation would be needed. For example, review and feedback from an appropriate group, committee, panel, or organization representative of the study community could allow appropriate community consultation without excessive time being needed to wait for public comment from a published advertisement. Alternatively, there could be solicitation through a World Wide Web site or public notices (eg, through the mass media), with a call-in number and/or Web address provided for feedback. For a high-incremental-risk study, however, more community consultation would be required, including an appropriate number of mass media solicitations, community meetings, and contact with prominent community organizations. Specific examples of community consultations and public disclosures are available at http://www.americanheart.org/emergencyexception. We emphasize that the recommendations in Table 3 are simply guidelines, which would include their own appraisal of the risk of the intervention and the risk of being in the study. We also emphasize that involvement of the community should include attempts to consult with targeted, at-risk, or interested populations.
Definition of Community for Pediatric Studies
There is a unique problem in the definition of what constitutes a community for pediatric studies. For many pediatric populations, the community could be defined to include a group of patients with a specific disease, their families, and the appropriate healthcare providers (especially in the in-hospital environment). In these types of situations, rather than a particular geographically based community, consultation with the "community at risk" may be most appropriate. This process should be differentiated, however, from prospective informed consent of all patients at risk, because the latter process may not be feasible due to the potentially large numbers of patients involved.
Definition of Community for Hospital-Based Studies
There is also a unique problem in the definition of what constitutes a community for hospital-based studies. For many hospital populations, the community could be defined to include a group of patients who present to the ambulatory clinic and emergency department of the hospital; their families; visitors; and the appropriate healthcare providers. In these types of situations, in which it is not feasible to obtain consent from every individual who enters the grounds of the hospital, consultation with the "community at risk" may be most appropriate. This process should be differentiated, however, from prospective informed consent of all patients at risk, because the latter process may not be feasible owing to the potentially large numbers of patients involved.
We propose that it is ethically acceptable to stratify the intensity of community consultation and public disclosure on the basis of the anticipated incremental risks to subjects of participating in a research study. We propose, therefore, a template that breaks studies into categories of minimal, low, intermediate, and high incremental risk. Low-incremental-risk studies should require only minimal community consultation and public disclosure, whereas high-incremental-risk studies would require more extensive community consultation and public disclosure. This template should aid IRBs in deciding what types and levels of community consultation and public disclosure are needed for studies of emergency research done under the exception to informed consent process.
Standardization of community consultation and public disclosure is necessary because there has been uncertainty and hesitation by investigators and IRBs in the interpretation of current procedures for implementing research with the exception to informed consent process.22 There are significant variations in local IRBs' interpretations of what is necessary to fulfill the FDA requirements for community consultation and what constitutes the proper venue for the community to provide feedback. These variations make it difficult for the investigator to judge what will be needed for IRB approval at any particular institution, and this often significantly prolongs the approval process, particularly for multicenter studies. IRB membership and experience change over time so that the investigator is faced with an evolving set of criteria that need to be met for initial, as well as continuing, approval.
In 1 large multicenter trial of 24 sites studying public access defibrillation using FDA-approved devices within the approved labeling, it took up to 404 days (median 108 days) and up to 7 submissions (median 2 submissions) to obtain IRB approval using the emergency exception process.22 The types and numbers of activities undertaken at each site to fulfill the community consultation and public disclosure requirements were quite diverse. There were public meetings; press releases; letters; brochures; newsletters; e-mail messages; radio, television, or print advertisements; notices; feature stories; and radio and television appearances. Of more than 1000 comments received, 96% were reported as "positive," and only 1% were reported as "negative."22 No IRB rejected the project for approval on the basis of the negative comments, and the study protocol was not changed in any location on the basis of the comments received.
IRB approval can be even more difficult if the drug or device to be studied has not been approved for sale by the FDA. The issue for the IRB is that they are asked to approve a research study in which a drug or device that has not been approved by the FDA is used on a test subject without their consent, there is likely to be a fatal outcome because of the inherent disease state, and the next of kin will be notified of these details. In many emergency situations, such as cardiac arrest, mortality may exceed 90%. This is precisely why the research is critical. Because of the large numbers of victims of these conditions, even small increases in survival could save many lives. Even if the experimental drug or device would reduce mortality only from 90% to 80%, that would translate into a potential saving of >20 000 lives per year for that single therapy (ie, 10% of the >200 000 cardiac arrest deaths per year). Some IRBs have expressed great reluctance to approve such studies because of fear of liability,23 and at least 1 IRB will not approve any studies using the exception to informed consent process.24
In conclusion, obtaining informed consent from patients or surrogates is difficult in the setting of serious emergency conditions. Current regulations do allow studies to be performed with exception to informed consent, but ambiguities in implementing studies under current regulations can be onerous for IRBs and investigators and may discourage research to evaluate promising interventions for Americans. We propose a template to help guide IRBs in complying with the federal regulations with an appropriate balance between protecting eligible patients and preserving the public good.
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When I was invited to contribute to this volume I hesitated, not seeing myself as a public intellectual. Public intellectuals do their own thinking. As a pollster, I tend to scavenge other people's thinking: asking questions, aggregating the responses, and reporting on what they have said. Nor did I have any great insight to offer about public intellectuals as a class . . .
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San Antonio, Texas – Sitting in a bathtub at a busy San Antonio intersection and holding a sign that reads, "Could You Live in Your Bathtub? Boycott SeaWorld," a PETA member will illustrate the daily suffering of SeaWorld's captive orcas on Thursday. As the damning SeaWorld documentary Blackfish shows, the parks unnaturally confine these majestic animals, who swim up to 100 miles a day in nature, to tiny concrete tanks.
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Father Rayan Atto, pastor of the Chaldean Catholic parish of Mar Qardagh in Erbil, announced this week a new website has been launched in memory of Father Ragheed Ganni, a Chaldean priest who, together with three deacons, was brutally killed in Iraq last June together by Muslim extremists.
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by Kevin Powers
July 9, 2008
If you haven't heard of Tucker Max, you soon will. Some (well, a lot, actually) probably remember him from his personal website TuckerMax.com, which featured the self-described asshole's alcohol-laden, scandalous escapades. A riveting and bawdy read, Max's short stories were turned into a book in 2006 entitled "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell", which became a New York Times Best Seller three years in a row. It seemed inevitable that a movie of such titillating memoirs would follow. Hollywood Reporter brings us news that TV lesser-known Matt Czuchry ("Gilmore Girls", "Friday Night Lights") will play the indecent anthropologist in the Darko Entertainment production. Joining Czuchry as Max's friends are Jesse Bradford (who I only remember from Swimfan and Hackers) and "7th Heaven" alum Geoff Stults.
The plot for the film "follows [a] trip to a friend's bachelor party, where [Max] ensnares the groom in a lie that threatens the wedding, then abandons him to pursue further carnal knowledge. After being banned from the nuptials, Max attempts to get back into his friend's good graces." I get a distinct Wedding Crashers vibe, but that's probably just reflex. There's no word if the film's plot follows actual events of Max's life, but it's safe to say the particulars are certainly "inspired by." I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell is written by Max and first-timer Nils Parker, and directed by novice director, Bob Gosse.
I'm not sure what to think of the project just yet. Reading this kind of material is a much different experience than seeing it on screen. Adaptations like this have a high risk for cliche, such as dropping squarely into the romantic comedy category. Max's adventures are pretty brazen in their saltiness and completely unapologetic. I'll see how my opinion sharpens over time by watching the developments over at the film's official blog. However it turns out, I don't envy Czuchry. As you might have seen from Max's site, the first-time movie lead will have to play a guy that describes himself as follows:
"I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead. But, I do contribute to humanity in one very important way. I share my adventures with the world."
For followers of Max, are you excited to see the movie coming down? For those who've never heard of the guy, does this movie hold any promise?
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Drew Barrymore Net Worth
Drew Barrymore net worth: Drew Barrymore is an American actress, director and producer who has a net worth of $125 million. She was born on February 22, 1975 in Culver City, California as Drew Blyth Barrymore and grew up in one of America's greatest acting families. She is the granddaughter of the legendary John Barrymore and the daughter of actress/model Jade Barrymore. She began her acting career while still a child with a role in the 1980 film, Altered States. The role that would make famous occurred when she appeared in the smash hit movie E.T. the Extraterrestrial. Fame at such a young age was not easy for Drew to handle. Barrymore struggled with drugs and alcohol while still young. She chronicled these experiences in her autobiography, Little Girl Lost. Once she sobered up and straightened out, she made a successful transition to adult roles, and in 1990 started her own production company, Flower Films. Drew Barrymore has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and serves as Ambassador against Hunger for the U.N World Food organization. She recently donated more than $1 million to this organization. Her performances have not gone unnoticed. She has received the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a TV miniseries for her role as Little Edie in Grey Gardens.
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Drew Barrymore Earnings
- Music and Lyrics$15,000,000
- Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle$14,000,000
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind$250,000scale
- Donnie Darko$500,000
- Charlie's Angels$9,000,000
- Ever After: A Cinderella Story$3,000,000
- Mad Love$1,500,000


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Ive been shopping at jefferson market (6th Ave, bet 10 and 11) for over 10 years, but Im becoming less enthusiastic about going there, and am going more and more to garden of eden (14 Street at 5th Ave). Is it just me? Or is JM not as good as it used to be?
JM continues to have good range of meat and poultry. Bread counter is usually very good. Valente, Sullivan Street, and Barbaras bagettes are available (though on at least three recent occasions the bread has been stale, esp Sundays (the prompt for this post)). Im pretty disappointed with the cheese counter. Altho' heaps of cheeses are on display, there are few Id recommend. Cabot cheddar from Vermont is excellent, but the stilton is poor, and the camembert and brie are variable. Fruit and veg sections are limited. Their roast chicken to go is consistently good, though the other prepared foods are not so hot. Even though they moved into this new space a few years ago, it already feels out of date and the shop is badly organized (too many items you need a ladder to reach). The store that used to feel quirky because of its old-fashioned charm now feels dowdy.
In stark contrast, G of E is like a sparkling new button. OK, it should. It is new. But its more than that. The food is nicely presented, looks and is fresh and well taken care of. The range of fruits, veg (esp the mushrooms), chilies and spices, jams, even beers (vintage morgans cider from Ireland available) is amazing. The meat and poultry counter doesnt have the array that JF has, but Ive been pleased with everything so far. And its nice to see a woman butcher. She likes cats too and has photos to prove it (so is my chum for life). G of E has a great selection of bread (tho not Valente).The cheeses are wonderful. I saw some posts here from last year concurring here. I especially like the goat brie. I've tried their prepared food a few times. Good, tho Im not a fan of any stores creations. The only counter Ive not been too happy with is the fish one. Wasnt very happy with their white fish. The staff is really friendly, welcoming and very helpful. All in all, an outing to G of E is shopping made fun.


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Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson remembered as reformer
NEW YORK (FOX 5 NEWS) - The family of Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced Sunday night that he lost a hard-fought battle with cancer. Thompson, 50, was the first African American to be elected Brooklyn DA. In his nearly three years in office, he established a reputation as a reformer whose top priority was protecting the rights of everyone.
Former Brooklyn Bar Association President and FOX Legal Analyst Arthur Aidala said Thompson had already made major accomplishments. He said Thompson will be remembered for choosing to not prosecute low-level marijuana possession cases and also reopening more than 20 tainted convictions.
Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered city flags flown at half-staff in Thompson's honor. The married father of two was born into law enforcement as the son of one of the city's first female police officers. He spent part of his childhood in public housing and went on to John Jay College and NYU School of Law.
A former federal prosecutor, he also successfully litigated major cases in private practice, like representing the housekeeper who accused Dominique Strauss Kahn of rape. As DA, he prosecuted former NYPD officer Peter Liang who was found guilty in the Akai Gurley case. He obtained a guilty verdict, but was criticized for recommending no jail time.
Legal experts said Thompson was fearless in his pursuit of justice. Aidala said the city and his family are facing a huge loss.
Brooklyn Chief Assistant District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said he and his executive team will continue Thompson's legacy of treating each case and individual with equal justice.


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San Antonio, Texas (PressExposure) June 10, 2009 -- On Thursday, June 11 at 10:15 a.m. Ripleyâs Believe It or Not! & Louis Tussaudâs Wax Works of San Antonio will unveil a remarkable life-like wax figure of the President of the United States - Barack Obama.
The wax figure was created by Sonya Vasquez, wax artist for Ripley Entertainment who spent 40 hours a week for four months creating the wax figure.
Obamaâs hair proved to be a time-consuming task. A sewing needle was used to put each strand of actual human hair into the wax figure and his body frame was constructed using real people to shape the molds. The hardest part according to Vasquez, were the eyes. The wax artistâs office walls were virtually covered with pictures of Obama from various perspectives and with different expressions while she worked creating him.
She decided to present a smiling president and she spent many days watching Obama videos while trying to capture his character. The figure sports a jacket similar to the one Obama wore when he took the oath of office. He is standing behind a podium bearing the presidential seal. Vasquez has worked at the Grand Prairie Ripleyâs Believe It or Not! & Palace of Wax making wax figures for 11 years. She has also created Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush wax figures.
Ripleyâs Believe It or Not! & Louis Tussaudâs Waxworks are located across from the Alamo on Alamo Plaza at the corner of Crockett Street.
For high resolution photos of our new president in Wax, go to Ripleyâs Newsroom at http://www.ripleysnewsroom.com.
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Saturday, 30 May 2009
Latest expenses scandal raises a far bigger question
So the latest MPs' expenses scandal to hit the headlines is the case of Labour MP Frank Cook claiming, supposedly, a fiver he made as a church donation as a necessary expense of the job.
To be fair, he says he can't remember the donation, and has apologised. It probably was necessary that he made a donation to the church while attending a service - and it's only a fiver anyway.
On the evidence presented by the BBC, Mr Cook's crime hardly seems comparable with, say, Celia Barlow's £28K home improvements claim or Elliott Morley's phantom mortgage. I guess he's unlikely to be pushed, either by Gord-help-us Brown or his constituents.
But it does, for me at least, raise a much bigger question: that of the strange, historical relationship between the church and the British state.
In short: why does the head of the Church of England still have a constitutional role in signing new laws onto the statute books?
I'm proud to be an atheist. None of the various competing theological explanations for human history or the shape of society and our relationships with other peoples and species have ever convinced me. My parents never tried to use their privilege to embed any particular religious explanation for things into my growing mind.
The world's religions have undoubtedly brought much good, and provided justifications for remarkable charitable acts and social activism over the years. The opposite is also true. Just look at Al-Qaida, for example, or the genocidal policies of the Israeli state.
On balance, I think a scientific, and socially tolerant, attitude provides the best explanation for the way things are - and respecting others' religious views is key to a fair, peaceful society.
But I've never understood how the clear majority of people in this country who aren't followers of the Church of England square the idea that we live in a real democracy with that particular church's role.
I hope when the dust settles on all these expenses scandals we get some real constitutional reform. As Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has said, we need to blast this rotten system apart.
It isn't just about proportional representation, and getting rid of all the frankly stupid dressing up ceremonies - there can be no room in a modern democracy for a constitutional role for a monarch who serves as a great, harmless tourist attraction and head of a minority religion.
God save the Queen. But please don't ask me to endorse the authority of either of them, or pick up the bill.
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A Farewell from Hexkraft and Welcome to Beyond Matter Studio
More than a year ago Hexkraft started it's journey to build a truly immersive and productive VR living space for everyone to enjoy. We made great progress in building out a beautiful but also performant environment and as we implemented the first iteration of "Screenlets" - our own version of free-floating windows screens - it was a big step towards the grand vision we aimed to achieve. However, talking with fellow developers at the Oculus Connect last year made us realize that VR is still in a very early stage and although building the future of VR is extremely exciting, the road ahead is also littered with obstacles and problems that have not been properly solved.
Now, after reaching the big milestone of releasing our first Alpha of Hexkraft Haus we got together to take resumé of the past year and future steps we would need to take to make our vision a tangible reality.
After many meetings and discussions within the team we came to the conclusion that with the current state of VR and technology itself it would not be possible at the moment to turn our product into the great and inspiring experience we envisioned it to be. VR still requires major technological leaps to achieve the visual and haptic quality we need to create the visionary productive and social environment of Hexkraft Haus.
We are however 100% sure that these advancement will be made by Oculus, HTC, Unreal and all the other pioneers of VR over the next few years and we cannot wait for that day to finally arrive.
In the wake of this decision, Hexkraft will halt the development of Haus.
With all the valuable experience we gained over the last year and our still unshaken enthusiasm for VR we decided to focus our energy towards a new project called Beyond Matter Studio.
Beyond Matter will offer high quality VR visualizations for unprecedented marketing and development options for businesses in the field of architecture, entertainment and industrial design. For those interested in a behind the scenes look of our work, stay tuned for more information about Beyond Matter at beyondmatterstudio.com
We are excited to dive into this new journey within VR and are happy to share the experience and insights we gain along the way.
A happy 2017 to all of you!
Kind regards,
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'Palmbardi' - Charming and immaculately kept, three bedroom family cottage set close to the water with stunning views of Lower Buckhorn Lake. Open concept kitchen/dining/living room finished in knotty pine with new laminate wood floors. Large walk out deck with new plexi-glass railings (gated deck for child safety). Gentle grassy slope to water's edge where there is a firepit, stone steps into the water and a dock. Located about five minutes from Buckhorn.
E exposure
60 ft lakefrontage
3 Bedrooms & 1 Bathrooms
Three bedrooms - one with a double and a walk out to the deck, the other two have queen beds and ceiling fans. Three piece bathroom (shower, toilet & sink).
Kitchen has 'fridge/freezer, stove/oven, microwave. Living room has woodstove fireplace, 24' flat screen tv and dvd. Deck, patio furniture, gas bbq. Campfire. Dock.
Waterfront & Swimming
Approximately 60' of shoreline, accessed by six steps from the deck and a gentle grassy slope to the shore. There are stone/cement steps into the water off to the right of the dock - approx. 1' deep depending on water levels., sandy/gravel bottom. Dock is 30' long, approx. 3' depth at end. Water can be weedy as you proceed out, depending on the time of year.
60 ft lakefrontage
Conditions of Rental
Maximum Occupancy: 6 persons (6 adults)
Check in is 2pm. Check out is 11am.
Minimum Booking Duration: High Season - 1 Week(s), Low Season - 1 Week(s) .
Security/Damage Deposit: $700
Approx. 160 km from Toronto (Yonge & 401)
10 km to Buckhorn
35 km to Peterborough Regional Hospital
Please note that a wide-angle lens is used for many interior photos, making some rooms look larger than they actually are.
If you would like to be notified when summer 2018 dates are made available, please enter your email address below.
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Complete the "Cottage Request Form". If you have any questions, we can be reached by email [mail(at)cottagerental(dot)com] or by telepone at 905.862.0252 or at 1.877.862.0254 (Toll-Free). One of our staff will be happy to answer any questions that you have, verify cottage availability, rate, etc. At this time we will create/update a file for you with the information needed to respond to your booking request.
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Once we have put the cottage on "Hold", we will email you our Booking Application Form for completion and return to our office by fax or email within 2 days. A payment of 30% of the cost of the cottage plus our $90.00 + HST agency service fee (plus the cost of Trip Cancellation Insurance, if purchased) will be charged to the credit card provided with the Booking Form. A post-dated cheque for the balance payment of 70%, (plus any optional charges such as Accidental Damage Waiver, Cleaning Service, Linens Service) dated 6 weeks prior to occupancy, is forwarded to our office by mail within 5 business days. The Travel Package will be forwarded to you within 15 days of our having processed your booking.
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After receipt and processing by our office, a Booking Confirmation and Travel Package are mailed to the Booking Applicant. Please note that, no booking is considered 'confirmed' until a written Booking Confirmation has been produced by our office. In addition to the Booking Confirmation, the Travel Package will include a copy of the Cottage/General page from our website listing the cottage inventory, bedsizes, etc., a map to the cottage and a set of Cottage Instructions/Rules.
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