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The 7th Annual Charles I. Jarowski Industrial Pharmacy SymposiumEmerging Technologies in the Development of Nano-Particulate Systems
Robert K. Prud'homme, Ph.D.Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering Director, Program in Engineering Biology Princeton University, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Robert K. Prud'homme is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University and Director of the Engineering Biology Program. He received his BS at Stanford University and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison under Professor Bob Bird. He has served on the executive committees of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Materials Science Division and the U.S. Society of Rheology and was the President of the U.S. Society of Rheology. He has served as the chair of the Technical Advisory Board for Material Science Research for Dow Chemical Company, which directs Dow's materials research programs, and he was on the Board of Directors of Rheometric Scientific Inc., the leading manufacturer of rheological instrumentation. He also served on the Nanotechnology Scientific Advisory Committee for BASF, which provided guidance for future trends in nanotechnology for the company. His awards include the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science Outstanding Teaching Award, the Sydney Ross Lectureship at RPI, the Bird,Stewart and Lightfoot Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, the Dinesh Shah lectureship at the University of Florida, and the Midland Macromolecular Institute Visiting Professor in Midland Michigan. He has been the organizer and Chair of the Gordon Conference on Ion Containing Polymers, and the Society of Petroleum Engineers Forum on Stimulation Fluid Rheology, in addition to organizing numerous sessions at AIChE, ACS, and SOR meetings. He directed the Princeton-University of Minnesota-Iowa State NSF NIRT Center on nanoparticle formation. His research interests include rheology and self-assembly of complex fluids. Systems of interest are biopolymer solutions and gels, surfactant mesophases, and polymer/surfactant mixtures. The goals of the studies are to understand how weak molecular-level interactions can be used to tune macroscopic bulk properties and phase behavior. Application of the work is directed at nanoparticle formation for the drug delivery, controlled release, targeting, and imaging.
Neil Desai, Ph.D.Vice President, Strategic Platforms Abraxis BioScience, Celgene Corporation
Neil Desai is currently Vice President of Strategic Platforms at Abraxis Bioscience/Celgene. Prior to its acquisition by Celgene in Oct 2010, he was Sr. Vice President of Global Research and Development at Abraxis Bioscience, in Los Angeles, California, USA, where he was responsible for the development of the company's growing product pipeline and the development of the company's intellectual property portfolio. These responsibilities included the development of products from the early discovery phase through preclinical testing, late stage clinical studies and development for commercial manufacturing. Dr. Desai is an inventor of ABI's nanotechnology and nanoparticlealbumin bound (nabTM) drug delivery platform, was primarily responsible for the development of its nanotechnology drug, Abraxane® and the discovery of the novel targeted biological pathway utilized by nab®-drugs. This platform has been clinically proven to enhance the efficacy and safety of cytotoxic drugs through a novel targeted biological pathway and is the first protein-based nanotechnology product to be approved by the FDA for the treatment of cancer. Abraxane is now approved in as a new class of nanotherapeutic for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer, lung cancer, and in phase III trials for pancreatic cancer and melanoma. Abraxis was recently acquired by Celgene for over $3B.
Prior to joining ABI in 1999, Dr. Desai was Senior Director of Biopolymer Research at VivoRx, Inc and VivoRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (predecessor companies of ABI), where he worked on the early discovery and development of Abraxane, developed novel encapsulation systems for living cells and was part of the team that performed the world's first successful encapsulated islet cell transplant in a diabetic patient. Dr. Desai has more than 20 years of experience in the research and development of novel drug delivery systems and biocompatible polymers. He holds over 100 issued patents and peer-reviewed publications, has made over 150 presentations at scientific meetings and is also active in the research community having organized and chaired symposia in the areas of biocompatible polymers and nanotechnology-based delivery systems. He has served as reviewer for several scientific journals in the area of cancer therapeutics and drug delivery. He has also been an active participant in the FDA Nanotechnology task force, FDA-Alliance for Nanohealth initiatives, FDA CDRH Nanotechnology Panel and the European Union Technology Program for Nanomedicine. Dr. Desai holds an M.S and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai, India.
Sinjan De, Ph.D.Senior Research Scientist Scientific Affairs Project Leader Perrigo Company
Sinjan De is a Senior Scientist in the Formulation Research and Development Department of the Perrigo Company and has over 7 years of industrial experience in both solid and liquid dosage forms. In addition, he is also a part-time Scientific Affairs project manager in the same company. Prior to joining Perrigo, he was an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics at the Ohio Northern University.
Sinjan De has received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. His Ph.D. dissertation was on "Formulation, uptake, and cytotoxicity of biodegradable particulate delivery systems of paclitaxel" and specializes on nanoparticulate delivery sytems. During his Ph.D., he has done extensive research on the formulation and delivery of various cancer and AIDS drugs entrapped in biodegradable nanoparticles and microparticles. He has also studied the effect of particle size and cytotoxicity on the cellular uptake and cancer suppression of these drug loaded particles, in vitro and in vivo. Dr. De is proficient in various techniques such as, SEM, TEM, DSC, TGA, ITC, and analytical techniques such as, HPLC, particle size, surface area analyzer, MTT, ELISA, and NMR. In addition, Dr. De holds a Master's in Biotechnology from Jadavpur University, India and a Bachelor's in Pharmacy from Birla Institute of Technology, India.
Sinjan De has several book chapters and has authored several manuscripts in peer reviewed journals. He is the holder of Perrigo CEO Achievement Award in 2011 amongst several other awards. Sinjan De has also received Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award in AAPS 2004 Annual Meeting.
Navnit H. Shah, `73GP, `81Ph.D.President Chief Science Officer Kashiv Pharma, LLC
Navnit H. Shah is President and Chief scientific Officer at KashivPharma LLC. A drug delivery company in Piscatway, NJ. Prier to joining Kashiv, Dr shah was a Distinguished Scientist in the Pharmaceutical R&D Department at Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. Nutley, N.J. He was heading the oral dosage form development group. He has received his B.S. in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology from the Gujarat and Bombay University Respectively in India and M.S. and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from St. John's University in New York. Dr. Shah has accumulated over 38 years of experience on the research and development of oral dosage forms and published and presented over 85 papers and 150 abstracts in drug delivery area covering improving bioavailability of poorly water soluble molecules, Lipid based delivery and controlled release. He is inventor and co-inventor of 20 issued patents and 13 patent applications. Dr shah was an invited speaker for many national and international conferences for presentation of his work in drug delivery area. He has received numerous awards for his original research in drug delivery area. He was elected as fellow of American association of pharmaceutical sciences (AAPS fellow) in 1998, He received Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award in 2005, distinguished Alumni award in 2008 and Research Leadership award from NJ association of biomedical research( NJBR) in 2010. He has recently received New jersey Inventor of the year award by New Jersey inventor Hall of fame ( NJIHoF) for The drug delivery technologies in October 2011. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Rhode Island and responsible for mentoring graduate students for their Ph.D thesis. Thus far he mentored 12 graduate students for their thesis.
Ankita Shah, `11GPDoctoral Graduate Student St. John's University, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Ankita Shah is a graduate student and teaching fellow in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at St. John's University, New York, where she is currently working on her PhD thesis on the solubility and dissolution enhancement of poorly water-soluble drugs. She has extensive experience in the development of lipid-based drug delivery systems. She published a paper in the journal Pharmaceutical Research entitled "Development of Solid Self-Emulsifying Drug Delivery System (SEDDS) I: Use of Poloxamer 188 as Both Solidifying and Emulsifying Agent for Lipids". She was the invited speaker in two workshops organized by ABITEC Corporation in Basel, Switzerland and Frankfurt, Germany in 2012, where she made multiple presentations on the formulation development strategies for lipid-based drug delivery systems. Ankita Shah received her Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from L.M. College of Pharmacy, India, in 2008 and her MS degree in Industrial Pharmacy from St. John's University in 2011.
Dr. Abu T. Serajuddin, '82Ph.D.Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences St. John's University, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Abu Serajuddin, Ph.D., joined St. John's University, Queens, NY, as Professor of Industrial Pharmacy in September 2008 after working for three decades in the pharmaceutical industry. In his latest positions in the industry, Dr. Serajuddin served as the Executive Director and US Head of Drug Product Development (1999-2003) and the Global Head of Science and Technology Development within Technical R&D (2003-2008) for Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. For his scientific achievements, he attained Fellow status in American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), American Pharmacists Association (APhA), International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), and American Association of Indian Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAiPS). Dr. Serajuddin received the AAPS Research Achievement Award in Formulation Design and Development (FDD) in 2010, and he was named the Novartis Leading Scientist in 2005. He serves in the Editorial Advisory Boards of Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Journal of Excipients and Food Chemicals. A graduate in pharmacy from Dhaka University, Bangladesh, Serajuddin received his M.S. in Pharmaceutics from Columbia University and Ph.D. in Industrial Pharmacy from St. John's University, both in New York.
Robert J. Fisher, Ph.D.Consultant Microfluidics International, IDEX Senior Faculty Member, Department of Chemical Engineering Director, David H. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert J. Fisher, Ph.D., is a senior faculty member in the Chemical Engineering Department at MIT and a station director for the David H. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice. He also is director of the SABRE Institute for the Engineering Biosciences, a non-profit research affiliate in collaboration with multiple academic institutions and industrial partners. All his degrees are in Chemical Engineering: BS/MS from SUNY at Buffalo and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. His 25 year academic career began at the University of Delaware with the Chemical Engineering Department's Center for Catalytic Science and Technology after several years with Mobil R & D Corporation. His current research efforts in nano-technology include bio-processing, biomimetics, drug delivery, targeting, imaging, and cell therapy.
Over 200 published documents, including per reviewed journal articles, book chapters and patents, are a result of research conducted under his direction and/or in collaboration with his distinguished colleagues. He has also done extensive consulting for a broad range of industries requiring expertise in stability of transport and reacting systems. As a consultant for MFIC he helped develop innovative Process Intensification systems and novel applications for nanotechnology. Included is the use of "bottom-up" processing to control crystal size and morphology of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients. These collaborations earned a NANO-50 award ('07) for advances in impinging jet technology and reaction engineering. Dr. Fisher's numerous honors and awards have been for excellence in both research and teaching.


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The Oregon Supreme Court is reviewing two cases that involve the role Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems can play in the state's foreclosure processes, the Statesman Journal reported Jan. 10.
In Niday v. GMAC Mortgage, Rebecca Niday filed suit against MERS seeking a declaratory judgment and an injunction to stop a trustee's sale of her home on the basis of Oregon's statutory, nonjudicial foreclosure process for trust deeds, the Statesman Journal reported.
The issue before the court is whether MERS can be considered a "beneficiary" under a 1959 law regulating real estate deeds in Oregon. The national database was launched in 1997 to track home mortgage loans bundled and sold as packages to investors but it does not actually lend or collect money.In July 2012, the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled that individual lenders — not the national system — are required to file deed assignments with counties prior to commencing out-of-court foreclosures. The decision would obligate lenders to file each change of ownership of a loan, the Statesman Journal reported. Combined with new state legislation from the 2012 session, the ruling halted most out-of-court foreclosures.
Based on how the 1959 Oregon Trust Deed Act defines "beneficiary," the database "cannot be a beneficiary under any circumstances," argued Jeff Barnes, the attorney representing Niday, who has challenged a foreclosure action initiated by GMAC Mortgage, the Statesman Journal reported.
Only the lender or a successor can be a "beneficiary" under the law, Barnes said, the Statesman Journal reported. "What MERS does is provide a service," he said, but it has limited legal authority.
"Everyone who was involved in a transaction knows where to go for information," said Greg Chaimov, a Portland lawyer who represents GMAC Mortgage, the Statesman Journal reported.
As a stand-in possessing legal title to property, he said, "it allows MERS to exercise all the legal rights of lenders," including rights to collect loan payments and to foreclose on borrowers who miss payments.
The second proceeding involves MERS cases where the United States District Court has filed an Order Certifying Questions to the Supreme Court of Oregon in the following actions: Brandrup v. Recontrust Company, NA, 311CV1390; Powell v. Recontrust Company, NA, 311CV1399HZ; Mayo v. Recontrust Company, NA, 311CVI533PK; and Mirararbshani v. Recontrust Company, NA, 312CVOOJOHA, the Statesman Journal reported.
The certified questions are: can an entity such as MERS, which isn't a lender or a successor to a lender, be a "beneficiary" as that term is defined in the Act; can MERS be designated as beneficiary under the Act where the trust deed says that MERS "holds only the legal title to the interests granted by Borrower in the Security Instrument, but if necessary to comply with law or custom, MERS (as nominee for Lender and Lender's successors and assigns) has the right: to exercise any or all of those interests"; does the transfer of a promissory note from the lender to a successor result in an automatic assignment of the securing trust deed that must be recorded prior to the commencement of nonjudicial foreclosure proceedings under the statute, ORS 86.735(1); and whether the Act permits MERS to retain and transfer legal title to a trust deed as nominee for the lender, after the note secured by the trust deed is transferred from the lender to a successor or series of successors.
The Oregon Supreme Court has no deadline to decide the cases, but justices typically issue a decision within nine months to one year following oral arguments, the Statesman Journal reported.


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Tuesday 11.01.11
This afternoon, we closed our office and cancelled any outstanding appointments as our building was quietly evacuated because of the threatening flood waters. As I drove out of the doctors' car park, I was confronted with streets flooded with water and after a tentative attempt to drive through it I turned around and hoping that the car would not stall; I drove along the footpath which was higher and returned to the car park.
I then drove it to the highest level and went back and told my wife who was finishing consulting. No one had realised how bad things had become and we still had some patients in the waiting rooms. We sent all our staff home in the hope they would be able to get home in time before nightfall. The water had risen so quickly and the main road outside was in the process of being closed as it runs parallel to the Brisbane River.
I am not one to become frightened easily as I have been in war zones as a soldier but today I had a genuine concern for our safety and thought of our children at home and my daughter who lives in a river-side suburb which can flood.
On the way home near the hospital, road were closed with the flashing blue lights of police cars blocking off roads that were lakes.
After a few detours we managed to get onto the main road home which was still clear although water was lapping the verge and we knew that the high tide was not yet here. We drove along a main road along the river a few miles downstream from the hospital and noticed the surging river with logs and debris rushing past.
When we got to our suburb which is on high ground we went to a supermarket where there were long queues of people lining up with trolleys full of provisions. My wife and I headed straight for the tins of Italian tomatoes and pasta and as well as baker's flour and packets of yeast while most were buying "normal" stuff. We had a giggle as we know how to survive on the basics.
So far nine have drowned including 4 children and over 70 people are missing in SE Queensland. Even brick houses have been washed away. This is proving to be a bigger flood than the big one in 1974 and rivalling the "big wet" in the 1890′s.
This is an unprecedented natural disaster. Regardless of who you are and where you live in Queensland, it is touching everyone.
There will be some very high tides in the next few days and people are expecting the worst. The central business district has been closed and even our hospital has cancelled all elective work. I don't know how many nurses and doctors will get to work.
Many doctors' surgeries have gone under. And this is just the beginning. The area underwater is bigger than France.
Wednesday 12.01.11
I awoke this Wednesday morning to an eerie silence. The arterial road not far from us was deserted. It was like Good Friday and for some, their Golgotha has come. I then heard the distinctive sound of a Black Hawk overhead. Its rotors sound different from the "chocka-chocka" of Iroquois which I used to go in on Army Exercises. The RAAF are sending in C130′s (Hercules) and but the Army was unable to get to flood victims in the Lockyer Valley west of Brisbane as even their high wheeled trucks were not up to it. It was over to the helicopters.
We are thankfully still dry and we have our daughter and partner staying with us as they moved out of their flat which may be by now underwater. As university students all they managed to save were their laptops and a few clothes, so this is touching all of us. We thought of the contents of their fridge as there will be no power. Fortunately they had only a few slices of ham in it. Meat a week old can devastate a fridge. It has happened to us before. You never get the smell out.
I have been through cyclones before but flooding gives a different feel with the water rising silently and spreading as an insidious force like something in a science-fiction movie.
The next few days will be critical as the "modelling" of the hydrologists predict that the waters will be at their highest.
Another helicopter passes overhead. The media now talk of helicopter "assets" as our leaders now speak the double-talk of "jargonese" and "economic collateral damage" as if we can reduce human misery to a profit and loss statement as reporters ask the PM whether this will affect the government's projected return to "surplus" by 2013. We have descended into the banality of reporters and politicians; a flood of media verbosity, and constant prattle while the world goes on.
After the "Big One" in 1974 they built the Wivenhoe dam in the foothills to the north-west of Brisbane to mitigate against the risk of flooding. However, since then people have forgotten and a new generation has grown up; Generation "What Flood?". Houses have been built in lower-lying areas as people felt sure that the "100 year flood", the event which insurance companies and city councils allow for, would not occur on their watch. There was money to be made in real estate in this primaeval flood plain of the Brisbane River we call greater Brisbane.
After the recent seven year drought when the dams were nearly empty, they are now brimming over but ironically we are still on water restrictions (no sprinklers!). Over the past few days Wivenhoe Dam has been taking in the equivalent in volume of twice that of Sydney Harbour. To avert disaster (a breached dam), the water authorities have released water "in a controlled way" into the Brisbane River but in such a way as not to coincide with the high tide as the river is tidal all the way up to Ipswich about fifty miles upstream; more ice bergs to the sinking Titanic.
There is an air of unreality at our place a bit like being in the bunker at the Reichstag in Berlin in 1945 while a battle rages outside. We watch the television and see our mayor giving us the low down on stuff like how many thousand streets are underwater and how many thousand businesses are…. Then we cross over a reporter with lip gloss poking a black microphone in some hagged bloke's face, asking him how he felt when he was inside his house with his wife and kids as it was ripped off its stumps and became a boat rushing for half a mile before a 20 foot wall of water and the floor boards lifting with the pressure as they are not designed as a hull….more questions…"and what were you thinking at the time…was it scary…." and so it goes on, such is the genre of reporters' rhetorical questions before we cross over for the latest update from the MET (Bureau of Meteorology) which is a form of modern astrology based on portents from meteors, Star's of Bethlehem. They gave us no warning when I went to work yesterday morning that by lunchtime my hospital was on Orange Alert and that our medical suites would need evacuation but I suppose none of the fiscal Magi picked the signs of the impending implosion from the GFC in the sky above Wall Street.
Another helicopter flies over…a Squirrel.
0910 hrs.
We drive into New Farm, an inner city suburb to see if my daughter's flat is under water. Her partner comes with me as she is at work.
We find a street cordoned off and police cars and blue and white tape across the road. I count five policemen doing squat all as far as I can see apart from chatting with the locals about "the water". Surely they could do it with maybe one or two cops?
We do a detour and find that her flat is dry still. Then we gathered up armfuls of clothes and the accoutrements of domesticity into the back of my 4×4. We empty the fridge of things which could stink if the power dies. I unplug plugs and raise things off the floor to a new high water level realising that if it goes "pear-shaped" that book cases and tables will float and spill their contents. It is a sort of moral statement; the triumph of optimism, human spirit and chance above chaos, "shit happening" and the whim of the River Spirit.
The sun has come out temporarily bringing a sense of surrealism to the city. I see people leaving shops with white plastic bags laden with essentials. A post-man is delivering the mail on his scooter and when we get home the garbage has been collected. "Normalcy" at last or the quiet of the "Phony War". The next few days will tell.
A patient rings me on my mobile. He has an appointment today and has flown down 1000 miles from Townsville to see me. He is staying across the road from the hospital. I give him some advice and tell him to sit it out for a few days…
The State Premier, Anna Bligh, we call Captain Bligh is on ABC TV again surrounded by expressionless "heavies"; the State Emergency Service Minister, the Police Commissioner in light blue shirt and dark blue epaulettes, the mayor and then we cross to the PM, Julia Gillard. Both women look drawn as they respond to the moronic questions of reporters wanting air time and asking the usual questions of which no one knows the answers…God knows…
The flies have been bad presumably because of rotting debris and the sodden earth like the Plagues of Egypt. I suppose a few million sheep and cattle would be a factor and no doubt when the water has subsided there will be some grizzly findings in flood-ravaged cars.
Entomologists in the local paper explain the plague of spiders and insects washed from their burrows while snakes and other animals fight for their lives too. A farmer describes a small dry plot of land on his property where animals have found a sanctuary where wild dingoes coexist with kangaroos, wallabies and sheep in an unscripted truce until the flood waters subside; the lion with the lamb.
Yachts and pontoons have been wrenched from their moorings and swept down the river like dead leaves in a storm water drain. On the Hamilton Reach near my home I see the fin of a yacht and can't make out whether it is the hull or a rudder. As it is stationery I assume that the boat is still at anchor although submerged. Debris accumulating around anchor chains acts as the final straw until the boat breaks loose or goes under from perforate hulls from collisions with logs, errant pontoons or shipping containers.
And so we wait. I made bread last night and we have plenty of provisions. I filled up three jerry cans with water as we have been warned that if the power goes, so does the water. I ring my mother and tell her to fill her bath and laundry tubs. She acquiesces and tells me she doubts it will get to this. However, we just don't know. I see how fragile modern society it with its reliance on power, water, and food supply from third parties. We don't have a well and would not survive on our current vegetable garden. It has been too wet. Armageddon is really only a few meals away for most. And that is why we have compost bin and cake bake bread and live on basics but even this, in the long run, is not enough. Perhaps such catastrophes are salient lessons for us all.
1400 hrs.
One of my two secretaries sent me a text this afternoon saying that they had to evacuate their house which has water lapping the gutters of her roof. She had broken her arm last week which gives being in a POP cast new dimension. If only she had two good arms. She got only a few things out.
In a street in Ipswich, some neighbours saw a bull shark swimming in their flooded street.
In Brisbane, in the last few days 190,000 sand bags have been used and 80,000 since last night.
1600 hrs.
A long floating river walk pontoon in the inner city is posing a serious safety risk as it is threatening to rise up over the pylons and come loose. The mayor is ordering its scuttling lest it wreck boats and other structures downstream. They would weigh hundreds of tons.
A ferry is holding on with only one mooring line as men work to secure it as the river rises inexorably over the next 36 hours.
The radio is on 24/7 as we get updates. In many areas the power has been turned off. The bus services are being ceased and the main inner city free way I came home on yesterday is now cut. The inner city business area is now a ghost town as many places go under and most of the bridges have been closed. About 250, 000 people are without power including 60,000 in the inner city. Last time this happened a lot of people were electrocuted when they returned to their homes.
Electricity substations have been turned off as rising water would cause explosions.
Raw sewerage is now getting into the flood water as sewerage plants go under and sewers are flooded. Our garbage has not been collected as I had thought. We are told to sandbag our toilets and drains e.g. in showers to prevent sewerage coming back up. People are being assisted in halls and churches all over the city. It is to be one all mighty sleep over.
Society in crisis. We have a Volunteer Help Line which is being overwhelmed with offers of assistance.
More helicopters pass over. God bless the ADF.
1800 hrs.
I saw our former PM, The Hon Kevin Rudd walking through flooded streets carrying bags on his head belonging to people in his electorate whose streets were going under. He had been doing this since late last night. This was no media stunt. He even got the TV interviewer to pitch in and give a hand.
I went down to the river this evening at 1800 hrs to see what was happening. Indeed I had gone to return some library books and was amazed that the librarians were still there, 100 yards from the river and had sandbagged the library and put plastic over all the air vents in the wall on the building. They seemed calm and resolute. I checked in my audio books and asked for an extension on two.
Across the road was a bistro full of people eating and drinking while in all the shops next door and down the street there were sandbags against their walls and door. It was surreal like the last day in Pompeii.
I walked down to the river where there is usually a busy arterial road which parallels its banks. It was silent and the police had cordoned off the road to traffic. Sight seers were walking to see the river which was an awesome sight of swirling brown with trees passing, then a pontoon, and then a large blue tarpaulin covering what was probably a boat. Its sullen power was frightening.
A riverside seafood restaurant was closed, its margins lined with sandbags. There was almost a carnival atmosphere for a Wednesday but people only spoke with hushed voices and no one was laughing.
When I first got there I noticed than the tide was rushing in along the shallower water along the stone embankment but the current was rushing downstream in the deeper water. It was a mix of vectors with both tide and current deciding the fate of men and women in its path.
This surpasses the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans but the support services are doing us proud. We are doing well.
Thursday 13 Jan 11
0800 hrs
We awoke this morning to sunny sky notwithstanding gathering rain clouds. The river had peaked on the high tide at 0400 at about 4.5 metres which is the height above sea level. There was a slight sigh of relief as it was not quite as high as expected, for each metre means a few thousand more houses, more businesses and more disruption. It is a hydrologist's statistic with "flow on" implications.
We still don't know whether my daughter's place went under as we can't get to it. However, the riverside suburb of New Farm was one of the worst hit. We expect the worst. She is going to London with her partner in two weeks. At least we got out their winter clothes and shoes and they are safe.
I watched the morning television to see that a hundred metres of the city walk pontoon had been wrenched from its mooring and was floating down the river. There are all sorts of things heading down stream. Someone's pontoon with chairs still standing on it, as if time has frozen a once tranquil vista of life by the river.
The port has been closed until they can survey the river and those with boats have been told to keep avoid the water as there are so many navigation hazards. I was going in a sailing race from the southern end of the bay at Southport to Brisbane next weekend but I fear that sailing into the night may be foolish with so much debris around. As there are about 100 boats in the race, it will be interesting to see if common sense prevails for this year's "Surf to City".
A riverside beer garden on a barge which was once a large vehicular ferry has come adrift. Bridges have been threatened as debris hits their cut waters and most have been closed.
Over 120,000 houses are without power which was cut off on purpose for safety reasons. The reservoirs in the hills of Brisbane, although full need power to pump more water to them. There are a few days worth of water in them we have been told to conserve water until the crisis has passed as there will be a massive need for water when the clean-up starts. Our bath is still full of water for drinking just in case.
The Wesley Hospital where I work is surrounded by water as it is on a hill less than 100 yards from the river. The only access is by a pedestrian bridge from the station next door. I wonder how staff can get there to work as we lucky ones who are dry are marooned on our suburban islands of hilly suburbs while just down the road muddy waters lurk. Brisbane has about seventy hills a bit like Rome only more. Luckily, as I only returned from vacation on Monday, I have only one patient in hospital and he is also under an oncologist who is seeing him. I would be a drama queen to try to see him.
I turn the pages of our paper, The Courier Mail to see the faces of men, women and children who have perished. I read their tragic stories. A four year old boy washed away during a rescue, his parents surviving.
There are still a lot missing and unaccounted for. 13 dead so far, about 50 more somewhere. There is a photo of a woman waist deep in the flood waters carrying a tray of fruit cake serving people in a conga line of workers passing things salvaged from shops and houses in Rosalie, a suburb near the Wesley.
There were some nice things said about Kevin Rudd and his genuine and tireless efforts in his electorate. He is now our Foreign Minister and it is good to see people leading from the front, up to their waist in water and talking about the need for everyone to pitch in, for bipartisanship in government, and the need for coordinated plans for recovery and reconstruction. This will cost tens of billions not to mention the human cost.
Now we can only sit and wait. The flood waters will remain high all day today. There is still an air of unreality for those who are "unaffected". Somehow, it almost feels unfair not to have suffered more; "flood guilt" or is it "survivor guilt"? I can now understand how those in war feel when they see others go down when they remain untouched.
The land lines are not responding so we don't try the phone. Even the mobile net yesterday was overloaded so we only text and have been told to use phones only sparingly. The Internet went down too last night just after I posted to doc2doc. Sort of dramatic in a way to be deprived of these things we take for granted.
There are many tales of neighbours and strangers working tirelessly to help one another. That is what is so wonderful about humanity when push comes to shove. I feel proud to be a Queenslander for as in our rugby match, The State of Origin Series against NSW, the maroon jersey means we fight until the final whistle.
There is a photo of a railway bridge in the Lockyer Valley at Grantham where 30 cars are piled up against it, revealed by the falling flood waters. The ABC interviewer ironically is Paul Lockyer. They suspect that many will have bodies in them. At this place, one young woman managed to get onto the bonnet of her car as it was swept headlong towards the bridge. A man seeing this waded out into the torrent to help. She jumped off just before the car was sucked under and landed in his arms. Many, he said laconically, were not so lucky.
There is an air of cohesion in the place; neither panic nor despair. I have not heard anyone grumble and all over town there are refuges set up by the Red Cross, Salvation Army and social agencies, each to house a thousand people give or take a few. People were warned not to forget their medications when they evacuate especially diabetics. There are scenes of young people in these places playing Monopoly or cards while the displaced elderly eat with plastic knives and forks while other people sleep on a sea of mattresses across the varnished floor of a sports centre; sleep a brief reprieve from what the flood has taken from them.
I see on the MET forecast this morning the rain fall totals. I have a cottage in the hills north of Brisbane at Maleny. This month, in the last 12 days they have had 792mm rain. No wonder our rivers are swollen. The rain is now falling heavily in South Australia and NW Victoria and Northern New South Wales. This is an area as large as Europe.
My daughter has gone to work again this morning at the local Clayfield Market, a fruit and vegetable market which is one of the few places in town with any fresh produce. She unwittingly has become an Essential Service according to the Mayor. As a doctor, I am not needed.
When I went to pick her up last night after work, many of the shelves were bare. A semi-trailer-load of fresh produce has been consigned from Sydney, 1000 km south but as many of the rivers in Northern NSW are flooded, we don't know if it will get through. So far, it appears it can't get through.
Our markets at the suburb of Rocklea are now a lake and our CBD (Central Business District) deserted. Most of the inner city freeways are cut too. Ironically, the new Clem7 Tunnel under the river is still open. The M1 freeway which goes past the iconic Breakfast Creek Hotel is underwater and the hotel has been inundated as in the last flood. (There is a drawing of this lovely French Renaissance style hotel in my book).
My son, who is 14, is excited as there has been another sighting of a bull shark in a suburban street. These are aggressive sharks which attack and attack. He has an encyclopaedic fascination with sharks and I never argue with him on this topic. It seems funny to think these brutes are swimming where a few days ago the postman did his run.
ABC TV last night interviewed the manager of a well-known Brisbane hotel near the river, just near our botanical gardens. They had sensibly instituted a flood plan as they had been through it in '74. We are not called the River City for nothing.
He was composed and showed the swimming pool which was full of pool furniture and desk chairs lest the torrent sweep them away and become a hazard to others. In the lobby was the long expanse of new carpet still untouched and the wood panelling and the concierge's desk and half way up the wall, a graphic line showing where the water came up to in 1974.
…the calm before the storm.
You may be becoming bored with this account of the flood. In a way, I am too. We want to get back to work, but my hospital is an island. I am not used to sitting around on weekdays while the world is in standstill mode but for many it has crumbled before their eyes like prized sandcastles washed away by the surge of a rising tide.
Friday 14 Jan 11
0730 hrs
Although it is sunny today, I still can't get to the Wesley Hospital as the main roads are cut. The river is going down slowly and houses are emerging but I can't move.
An email from my one of my secretaries forwarded from the other who has lost her house, tells me she has been able to go back in to assess the damage. The ceilings have caved in and all the walls are buckled. It will all have to be stripped out.
As the flood waters rose, her husband let all his homing pigeons go and locked the cage door lest they return and drown. Some neighbours took care of their chooks and chocolate Labradors which she breeds.
Where do you start when you return? Electricians have to certify that the house is safe after the power has been restored to the area. She will live in a caravan in the backyard while her house is fixed. It will be a long stay. The police arrested a few looters in her street but by and large this sort of behaviour is an aberration. There will always be "low lives" in any society; parasites on the back of the noble elephant.
Yesterday, 150 metres of concrete and steel pontoon riverside walk way broke loose and headed down stream threatening the Gateway Bridge which is a huge bridge about 100 metres above the river not far from the port. Seeing this, two private tug boat skippers in their mid sixties, got in their 40 year old tug boat, Mavis, and with considerable courage and skill, shepherded the massive structure under the bridge by making it float parallel to the pylons and then deposited on at Nudgee Beach just to the north of the mouth. This was not done at the instigation of the authorities but by the demands of insight and common sense. There was also a marina just below the bridge full of yachts and boats. If it had hit this, there would have been chaos. These men have done something heroic but they were quite surprised at the fuss being made of their actions.
Another email yesterday; the QCYC Marina on Cabbage Tree Creek has so much debris that a working bee has been organised for tomorrow. We are asked to bring chain saws, wheel barrows, axes etc. It is a job for sailor boys.
Another walkway pontoon was scuttled yesterday with explosive charges as it also was a threat if it broke loose.
We met with friends last night and ate out at a cheap Thai Restaurant which was opened for business as it was not affected by the floods. All our friends there shared a feeling of agitation during this time. I listened to ABC radio most of the time as the drama unfolded. Both my wife and I could not settle as there is so much misery going on about us. You start to resonate with the sorrow. We feel we would like to help but until the flood passes, it is not yet time. Perhaps it is why I am writing this post to you all. Please forgive me.
This reminds me of what it must have been like on the Eastern Front in WW2 as the distance is large. To the north 400 miles away on the coast, Rockhampton is underwater, and between us and them, Bundaberg and Gympie and to the west of the Great Divide, a few hundred miles west (I still like miles), the town of Goondiwindi has been evacuated along with the hospital as the townsfolk wait at the evacuation point at the show grounds while the McIntyre River creeps ever upwards on the levy which is 11 metres high. The water is now only a hand span width below the top of the levy as we wait by our radios to hear. These towns may seem remote to you, but I know GP's in these areas and patients who come down to see me and I think of the man I see who is on a wheat and sheep property outside Goondiwindi and whether he and his wife are all right. Last time I saw him he recounted carry sheep in his car to higher ground.
The water in the rivers west of the Great Divide all head south-west eventually to the Darling which later joins the Murray to empty at Lake Alexandrina and then into the Southern Ocean near the South Australian border. So vast are the distances that it will take 6-8 weeks for the Queensland flood waters to reach the sea.
We still don't know if my daughter's flat has survived. We are waiting to hear if the roads are open.
I had an email from the Maritime Museum yesterday that the replica Dutch caravel, the Duyfken (Dove) moored there was still intact and floating and the WW2 corvette, HMAS Diamantina which was in dry dock was now floating. One man had stayed up all night adjusting mooring lines as the ship rose. The old lighthouse ship alas had sunk and the steam tug, Forceful was OK.
As I am self-employed, the impact of this flood will affect us as well even though we escaped unscathed. The aftermath of flood will be considerable social dislocation, financial ruin for many, physical and mental illness.
Soon the restless mass media, like industrious honey bees, will go off in search of the next newsworthy disaster, leaving unwritten and untelevised, the small print of devastation in the lives of men and women. There will be wrangles with insurance companies, the problems of insolvency, unpaid bills, how and where to get tradesmen, quotes and building material, the problems of cars which have been flood damaged and whatever became of my carrier pigeons?
Sure, the governance of this disaster has been commendable and the social agencies are coming in to help with financial support and the ADF has been mobilised to help clean up and look for missing people and so it goes on…
I think of two patients with lung cancer I had diagnosed just before Christmas and whom I was going to start on treatment this week. Even cancer has to wait….
For those of you who have read this post, I thank you. I wrote to tell you, not so much of my tale, but of how a natural disaster affects a community. This is not Haiti or Pakistan but in a way it is. It is like a war when the only war you see is how it affects you or for a soldier, at the level of a section of seven or ten men and not on the grand scale of an Army Group of a million men as in Russia in WW2. Only a historian or government supremo can see it in this scale.
My wife who is a psychiatrists will no doubt see patients downstream from this event as will I; depressed and anxious patients, those who have witnessed grizzly scenes of decaying bodies or a limp body of a dead child or lost loved ones who are never found along with all their worldly possessions or how their pets were carried away. Only yesterday a man in Brisbane was sucked down a storm water drain when he went to help his elderly father.
The country people are tough here but their support services less than that of "city-slickers". As most farmers were reeling from the effect of seven years of drought, I fear that for some, this flood will be the end. Some will blow their brains out but most will be OK.
However, on an optimistic note, human resilience and the life force is something to be wondered at and life will for most, will soon resume some level of normality. Those who have experience the 2011 flood, this January will remain both dark and wide among the annual tree rings of their lives.
Sunday, 16th January
I read in the paper of the dead and missing. There have been five cases of melioidosis since the flood; mostly from Rockhampton 400 miles north as this organism lives in the soil and is a common cause of pneumonia in the tropics. I once wrote an article about this in a French journal. There have been Flavi virus infections which the paper says includes Kunjin virus (apparently a local version of West Nile Fever) and other forms of encephalitis. Murray Valley encephalitis was the first encephalitis where a virus was isolated. I am sure that arboviruses will flourish with the stagnant water everywhere, ideal for mosquitoes and insects. Our Foreign Minister, Kevin Rudd had to go to hospital with an infected cut. Bacteria do not discriminate between the legs of politicians or plebeians. He has valvular heart disease which may be another consideration.
I read in the paper (Courier Mail) of a system called the Walker Circulation which brings easterly air currents from South America and hence warm moist air. The whole world's weather is governed by a phenomenon called Rossby Waves which are both atmospheric eg in the jet stream and deep oceanic currents due to the spinning of the earth, shear stresses and the Coriolis effect. We are in reality all clinging onto a giant wobbling spinning top and live in side a gigantic cosmic kitchen blender. It is not surprising therefore to see that Brazil and Australia are connected and even Africa through the same flow-on effect in the Indian Ocean viz. Sri Lanka. The weather is also affected by sunspot activity and solar wind and more. Do you know that the annual background radiation from solar gamma rays is equivalent to 100 chest radiographs (2 mSv/annum and one radiograph is 0.02 mSv). Why the La Niña dances so methodically with El Niño I think is still in the realm of the semi-unknown. I'll leave it to the boffins.
Whatever the reason, it shows the fragility of human existence and how homes with "riverside frontages" or "ocean views" are somewhat limited in long-term vision. Since human habitation of Australia, Brisbane's Moreton Bay has been a dry paddock several times and the same with the North Sea. The perspective of modern men and real estate agents as well as global warming pundits tend to be a little meiopic.
I hope to bore you no more about floods and the state of the world. The world resumes on Monday.
Monday, 17th Jan.
50,000 volunteers worked all weekend in Brisbane where so far 30,000 tons of debris and flood damaged material has been moved.
The Premier tells us that 500,000 square km of Queensland is flooded.
A former disaster worker arranges the shipment of 1500 gum boots by QANTAS and Toll Freight free of charge from New Zealand. We have run out of gum boots.
20,000 homes are still without power.
I resume work this morning not knowing how many patients will turn up. The roads are in a bad way and one main road is a concern as it could fall into the river as in the last flood.
Yesterday I went on a bike ride with my son along the muddy river where we found a 30 foot yacht by the bank, unsecured, wedged into some errant pontoons and debris. I called the Water Police as it needed to be taken to a safe mooring. Another yacht at a mooring looked a sorry sight.. as if it had sailed around the world without a stop. Mine sweepers are surveying the bay and river still.
Another body has been found; 18 so far which is small compared with Brazil. There are about as many still missing. An infirm old lady was found dead in her house as she was unable to get out in time.
We see the plight of Brazil… they are doing it tough. All the same stuff but there's is more to do with terrible mudslides which have wiped out whole villages and with disastrous loss of life.
There is more flooding in Victoria another world away to the south. It is their worst flooding ever. Says something about global warming??
The two cyclones off the coast seem to be less of a threat now as they are well out to sea.
Life resumes.
Tuesday, 18th Jan 11.
In my book, Ballina Boy, I describe such flooding which occurred in Australia between 1954-6. One night we had 13 inches of rain. These things are cyclical (La Niña) and I feel that the global warming zealots sometimes overlook cyclical events and also long-term events of geological time scales.
Senator Bob Brown, our Greens Senator has just blamed our coal industry for this disaster which is a bit like blaming the iron ore producers which made the Titanic for its sinking. It is not so simple and his message went over like a lead balloon. This does no credit to their cause and he even suggested that the coal industry pay for the some of the damage.
I have been asked to talk on ABC Radio today on the dangers of asbestos in the flood clean-up. This is a tricky one.
The city and state is bouncing back quickly. Our markets which were under 3 metres of water last week are now operational. The amount of rubbish being taken away in big trucks is staggering.
We learn today that during the flood, the Brisbane River was taking away an excess 9,500 cubic metres/second but it would have been 13,000 without the dams. The Wivenhoe Dam was taking it its whole capacity daily at the height of the flooding and it had to be released to prevent catastrophe. Last year we were on water restrictions.
Yesterday we had our hottest day for a year (33 degrees C) which is very unusual for Brisbane. It has been an unusually cool 12 months which may be linked with your cold winter?


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Experimental Cocktail Club
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Experimental Cocktail Club 13A Gerrard Street
- Venue phone:
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- Venue website:
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Experimental Cocktail Club
- 13A Gerrard Street
- www.chinatownecc.com
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- 13A Gerrard Street
Experimental Cocktail Club
Reviews & ratings
I visited this place in October 2013 under a recommendation from a friend.
The entrance to this place is easily missed, it is extremely non-descript and even as I was going up the stairs I was doubting if I had gone through the wrong door. Fortunately, I found myself in a swanky little bar with a buzzing atmosphere.
The cocktails are without a doubt very delicious, priced at about 12 quid each and there is quite a good selection. The combinations may sound strange but trust me, they work!. The ambiance is great, with a nice buzz. There are different bars on two floors so be sure to check them both out. Seating space is limited so good luck finding a place to perch.
My only critique would be the staff. I found them to be very arrogant and rude. Minimise the amount of interaction with them and you'll be fine!Saladsas About 10 days agoRated as: 4/5 -
Intriguing to find the location of this secret bar with a discreet entrance manned by a small Bouncer outside. However, the fun soon stopped there. Bar staff didnt offer to take my gf's coat, despite apparently a service available. Cocktail list was uninspired and unexperimental. Cocktails were highly average, and with service charge on top. Seating was not thought out well enough, the music was terrible, and I definitely won't be returning. I honestly dont even normally consider myself a harsh critic, but the ECC was a disappointment and not worthy of the 4* Timeout rating.
Joseph Mon Nov 25Rated as: 1/5 -
I found the Experimental Cocktail Club a while ago and have loved it ever since. It has some really great cocktails which change every few months. The atmosphere is cool and relaxed and you feel as if the bar is a secret only you know. The service is great - you even have your coat hung up for free and escorted to a table on arrival.
The only negative would be that you often have to book well in advance if you want to go in on Friday/Saturday, sometimes you have to stand and it's a pricey night out.Philippa Wed Nov 20Rated as: 4/5 -
Great fun place, but make sure you try to book before hand. Cocktails are definitely experimental so bring an open mind, a healthy thirst and plenty of cash!
Lucy Fri Nov 15Rated as: 4/5 -
Go in lightly with a pocketfull of cash.
At the door your greeted with smiling staff, hidding in the heart of China town.
Wear your best old fashioned clothes, called 'Vintage' in the modern style.
Upon entering the lighting is golden and inviting for a sence of fun.
Order your first drinks, the barperson delivers them with ease, they go down easily, too easily.
Music fills your ears as the drinks fill your head, after a couple of hours the crunch time comes, with trepedation you ask for the bill! You dont need to be at a Halloween party or film to be scared, still it would be the same in an expensive hotel, it is worth the price as you woun't get the Hoi Polloi and any fights, people want to and have fun and the staff are lovely.
I would recomend it for a strong cocktail or two to set your evening up!.Jaime Balbontin Thu Oct 31Rated as: 4/5 -
Pretty cool place hidden in the heart of Chinatown. Great cocktails and friendly staffs. THe prices are alright for cocktails. but make sure you look at the price of the drinks first, my friend almost ordered a £150 vintage martini. The staff was kind enough to come back and ask him if this was he really wanted. lol
I like the way the place is decorated, prohibition era kinda way. The dj was funny and friendly.Tommy Sun Oct 6Rated as: 4/5 -
mrs Thu Sep 19Rated as: 5/5 -
Had such a great time here. Hadn't booked but they found a table for us, the waitress was friendly and helpful. Great atmosphere, great drinks. My cocktail was just perfect, one of the best I've ever had. Will be going back!
Lizzie Tue Sep 17Rated as: 4/5 -
London is a great city, that's why people love to be there. London is where everything that is good comes from. That why people from other country's love London.
I love London so much kisses for her.Elizabeth chijioke okeke Tue Sep 10Rated as: 1/5 -
Favourite bar in London.. Relaxed atmosphere and amazing cocktails! It can however be too busy at times, and not always easy to find a place to sit
Alex Tue Aug 20Rated as: 4/5


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My name is Rishika Krishna; I am 28 years old and live in Durban, South Africa. In October 2001, I was 19 weeks pregnant when I was admitted to hospital because I was experiencing severe epi- gastric pain, and my blood pressure was elevated with the presence of protein in my urine and the level of my platelets was under 100. I was told that I would not be able to carry my baby to term and that there was nothing that could be done to prolong my pregnancy any longer. I had to have an immediate termination of pregnancy done. At 19 weeks of pregnancy my baby boy was born at 450 grams and I was devastated as there was nothing that could have been done to save him as I was too early in my pregnancy for him to survive outside the womb and my condition was too far into pre-eclampsia, so that was my only option. I did not know at the time about pre-eclampsia as there was not much information known to people that I had known. All I was told was that there was a possibility that it could happen in my next pregnancy. After what had happened to me I was too scared to even think of getting pregnant, but I also still longed to have my baby kick and move inside me and I so badly wanted what I had lost. Two years later I decided it was time to try again, maybe God would bless me with a child I so badly wanted. I started taking iron and folic acid supplements as soon as my husband and I decided to get pregnant. Six months later we discovered that I was pregnant. How excited we were yet on the other hand so scared too. |
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There is no formula for generating beliefs in people. There are plenty of people with access to the same facts who end up believing different things. But for many Christians—like the ones I heard from this week—access to information about the position we call "evolutionary creation" could make a significant difference for reconciling science and Christian faith.
In this series, Ryan Pettey offers several clips from his powerful documentary "From the Dust". This feature-length film is divided up into various sections, each of which wrestles with the difficult problems that arise when reconciling Scripture with the theory of evolution. A light of hope dawns on the science-faith conversation, however, as scientists and theologians engage in honest dialogue about tough issues such as the interpretation of Genesis, the nature of the Fall, and the idea of random design. Their profound insights are sure to enlighten all minds, raise deeper questions, and provoke new thought.
We're pleased to introduce the first official commercials for BioLogos, produced by Ryan Pettey of Satellite Pictures and featuring BioLogos vice president Jeff Schloss, philosopher Alister McGrath, and theologian NT Wright.
Last month, we announced the 37 grantees from our Evolution & Christian Faith program! This month, we take a closer look at the projects and what's "in the pipeline" over the coming years from these grantees!
Congratulations to the 37 winners of the Evolution & Christian Faith (ECF) grants competition! ECF is a new BioLogos program designed to support projects and network-building among scholars, church leaders, and parachurch organizations.
A common argument leveled against the theory of evolution is that scientists have not been able to produce transitional fossils that show the change of one species into another. In this podcast, we address a common misconception about what transitional fossils actually are.
People hold clearly discordant points of view, and it would be dishonest to ignore the conflict. Yet some voices emphasize the dissonance without any note of harmony to put it in context. Too often, science and faith becomes a hostile battle of worldviews, sounding angry, dissonant chords even among fellow Christians. But civil, gracious dialogue is possible.
With great pleasure, the Board of Directors of The BioLogos Foundation announces the appointment of Deborah Haarsma to become our next President, and of Jeffrey Schloss to the role of Senior Scholar. Professor Haarsma assumes leadership from our outgoing President Darrel Falk, to whom we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude.
In this series, James Kidder provides an intriguing study on transitional fossils and the evolutionary history of modern humans. He begins by discussing the fossil record, explaining how new forms are classified. He then explains the physically distinguishing trait of humankind—bipedalism. From the discovery of Ardipithecus, the earliest known hominin, to the australopithecines, the most prolific hominin, Kidder focuses on the discovery, the anatomy, and the interpretation of these ancestral remains.
My goal in leading this organization for these past three and a half years has been to lay the groundwork to help my fellow evangelicals see that the conflict between our faith and mainstream science is not as great as they thought it was. In the process, my thinking has been significantly shaped by listening to people who think differently than I do
Part of BioLogos mission is to show how all things hold together in Christ—to show how a Christian worldview integrates the knowledge we have of God through the Scriptures with the knowledge we have of God through the other areas in which He reveals himself as Creator and Redeemer.
If God himself is willing to die, particularly in such a gruesome way, then perhaps we should at least consider the possibility of God allowing the death of other creatures, too. But would this really be compatible with what we know of God through Scripture?
Throughout my various conversations with fellow believers, the most-mentioned anxiety over accepting an evolutionary creationist paradigm is the fear of losing the Bible as one's spiritual anchor and source of authority.
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In this talk, originally delivered at the BioLogos President's Circle meeting in October 2012, Dr. John Walton discusses the origin stories of Genesis 1-3, and why their focus on function and archetypes mean there is no Biblical narrative of material origins.
As he endeavored to learn more, David was intrigued by Francis Collins book The Language of God because Francis did not present evolution as a rival theory to Christian faith, but as something that described God's method of creation.
We find no compelling evidence that the earth's geological features can be explained by a global Flood. Here we consider three lines of evidence: global salt deposits, the order of deposition of sediment layers in the Grand Canyon, and the sequence of fossils in geological strata.
Since the BioLogos/Highway Media collaboration From the Dust made its worldwide debut this year, we've been excited to hear how others have been using the film to jump start their own conversations with fellow Christians about science and faith .


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While the exchange traded funds for gold (NYSEARCA: GLD TRADING - GLD QUOTE) and copper (NYSEARCA: JJC) fell Wednesday due to investors expressing disappointment at the modest response of the Federal Reserve to declining economic growth, it was silver (NYSEARCA: SLV Trading, SLV Quote) that was off the most.
SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) fell in trading by 0.89%. IPath Dow Jones Copper (JJC) dropped 1.89%. Plunging the deepest was iShares Silver Trust (SLV), off by 2.14%.
Traders were hoping for more aggressive action by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. But that will not come until after the November elections in the United States. Remember that Quantitative Easing 2 did not begin until November 2010, though it was announced at the Jackson Hole economic policy summit in August of 2010.
Silver is in what would seem to be the "sweet spot" between gold and copper. Almost all of gold is used for investment or decorative purposes. Almost all of the Red Metal goes for industrial needs. For silver, it comes almost down right in the middle between commercial and a commodity for investments or jewelry. The charts below show the trading relationship for each of the exchange traded funds when paired against each other.
JJC Copper ETF Trading
Even though silver has a much higher industrial usage, the SLV moves along with the GLD. As a result, it soared during Quantitative Easing 2. Obviously, the charts reveal that most of the trading is from speculators as the JJC should move in an inverse relationship with the GLD. That is due to gold being used almost entirely for non-industrial end uses while copper is used most for industrial uses.
Up slightly for the week as traders thought more dramatic economic stimulus efforts would result from the Federal Open Market Committee meeting other than an extension until the end of the year for Operation Twist, the SLV is down for the last month, quarter, six months and 52 weeks of market action. Year to date, the SLV is off by 1.48%.
For the last year, however, the SLV is down 33.35%. Volume was up Wednesday, with the SLV below its 20-day, 50-day and 200-day moving averages. In the most obvious trend, it is trading much lower under its 200-day day moving average at 11.67% down, than under the 20-day moving average, beneath it by only 0.17%. The only move worth noting in the technical indicators for silver were the long engulfing green bodies last week after Treasury Secretary Geithner's gloomy testimony on Capitol Hill and more bad economic news from the US peaked buying as traders thought Quantitative Easing 3 was coming.
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To start the ball of I'd like to ask the GTD staff ... are the 43 folders made of the same material as the travelling folders?
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(2012-04-11 13:55)`Black Wrote: And you shouldn't hide it since you sometimes need it if you're using a control with very few buttons like the Apple remote for example.
Isn't menu button mapped to previous menu on Apple remote?
(2012-04-11 23:39)jmarshall Wrote: There was some discussion in the development forum (my post on iPad experience) as to whether it makes sense to be determined in part by the skin or not (perhaps incorporated with the type of interface used for navigation). If your skin has an "Up" or "Back" button, there's probably no need for parent folder items, after all.
I guess everybody knows that I just hate this ".." item
May I ask what's the reason it's in XBMC at all?
Apart from skinning problems (lots of checks to hide info parts when this is focused, Container(id).NumItem not always working...) experience looks like browsing file system, not library. Furthermore, sometimes it is there and takes you step back, but sometimes it is not there and you still have to use remote/keyboard button.


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Here is everything your fire fighter needs in an emergency: a bright red, machine-washable jacket trimmed with reflective material, a fire chief helmet, a "fire extinguisher", a bullhorn with sound effects, a shiny badge and a name tag for personalizing.In 1989 The Melissa & Doug Company started in the garage of the home where Doug grew up! Thanks to your support, the Melissa & Doug Company grew and was able to move into a real office down the road. Their philosophy has remained the same over the years-to make each and every customer a happy and permanent member of the Melissa & Doug family, while offering products with tremendous value, quality and design. Melissa & Doug have always welcomed customer suggestions, and they continually strive to make improvements to their products. Melissa & Doug are honored by the faith you place in them and view it as their responsibility to continue to earn your trust in the years to come! Melissa and Doug range of products include puzzles, preschool, play food, puppets, stuffed animals and gardening toys.
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The Fire Chief Role Play set is just as I had hoped it would be. The Bullhorn however, came broken.
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Great Costume/Dress Up Outfit
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My sone was always jealous of my daughter having "dress-up" clothes, but we never found anything of decent quality that would qualify as boy "dress-up." We ordered this after a number of failed attempts to find a fireman costume for Halloween and were thrilled at the quality. This not only will make an excellent Halloween costume, but will be soemthing our son can use again and again. We look forward to purchasing some of the other outfits for him.
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I purchased 2 of these for 2 of my grandsons. I have to say that they were the hit of the day. All day long the boys were in and out of the suits and entertaining everyone.
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My 3 year old loves Firefighters and when he opened this for his birthday he couldn't have been more excited!! The fit is great and the personalized name tag is a great addition! The bullhorn comes complete with a siren and the fire extinguisher makes him feel like a "real" fire fighter.
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My grandson loves fire engines, so I had bought my grandson some fireman boots at a local retailer, and a Honolulu Fire Dept. T shirt on our trip to Hawaii. I was looking for a fire fighter's helmet to go with my other treasures when I came across this. My grandson really got a kick out of it! I put a battery in the bullhorn before giving it to him, so that he could hear the siren noise, he loved it!
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