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Editorial Volume 121 | Issue 11-12 | Nov-Dec 2013
Environ Health Perspect; DOI:10.1289/ehp.1307676
Reporting of Results from Animal Studies
Hugh A. Tilson1 and Jane C. Schroeder2
1Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Health Perspectives, email@example.com; 2Science Editor, Environmental Health Perspectives, firstname.lastname@example.com
Citation: Tilson HA, Schroeder JC. 2013. Reporting of results from animal studies [Editorial]. Environ Health Perspect 121:A320–A321; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1307676
The authors declare they have no actual or potential competing financial interests.
Published: 27 November 2013
One of the key elements of the scientific process is reproducibility: Experimental results generated in one laboratory must be reproducible by others working independently. Therefore, it is of concern to us as editors of a major scientific journal to learn that only 6 of 53 "landmark" preclinical cancer studies could be reproduced (Begley and Ellis 2012). In addition, Prinz et al. (2011) reported that almost two-thirds of 67 in-house preclinical cancer projects did not replicate data previously published by others. These observations are based on preclinical cancer studies, and it is not known how pervasive this problem may be in other disciplines, including environmental health research.
Vasilevsky et al. (2013) pointed out that the reproducibility of scientific research depends in large measure on whether the "materials and methods" of a paper are described such that other investigators are able to independently replicate effects observed in the original study. Unfortunately, the degree to which sufficient methodological details are provided can be problematic. For example, Kilkenny et al. (2009) published the results of a systematic review of original in vivo research involving laboratory animals. Of the 271 papers they evaluated, only 60% provided information about the number of animals used or described in detail the species, strain, sex, age, or weight of the animals. The authors also noted that about 30% of the papers lacked sufficient details concerning the statistical analyses. Findings such as these indicate that the lack of methodological detail could be a major barrier to subsequent attempts to replicate the work of others.
According to Ransohoff and Gourlay (2010), "any study's reliability is determined by [the] investigators' choices about critical details of research design and conduct." Some choices could lead to bias or the "systematic erroneous association of some characteristic with a group in a way that distorts a comparison with another group" (Ransohoff 2005). Key approaches to reduce bias include the randomization of groups and blinding (Krauth et al. 2013). However, randomization and blinding are not used universally in preclinical research. Van der Worp et al. (2005) reported that fewer than half of the 45 preclinical studies they reviewed included randomization of treatment, blinded administration of treatment, and blinded outcome evaluation. In addition, Kilkenny et al. (2009) found that most papers they surveyed did not use randomization or blinding.
Addressing concerns about the reproducibility of research findings will require cooperation and collaboration from major segments of the scientific community. From our perspective, it seems clear that many authors are not sufficiently trained in experimental design or the importance of controlling for sources of bias in their studies. We believe that courses on the principles of experimental design should be included at the graduate level. Many academic departments and governmental institutions now require students and employees to take courses on ethics. We believe that it is equally important to train students and young investigators about experimental design and how to be transparent in reporting their results in the peer-reviewed literature. In addition, we believe that it is important for study sections and funding agencies to critically evaluate experimental designs described in grant proposals under consideration. Finally, journals can be more proactive by insisting that critical methodological details be included in papers submitted for possible publication. Associate editors and reviewers need to be instructed to consider experimental design as part of the peer-review process.
Kilkenny et al. (2010) suggested that the scientific community would benefit from guidance about the information needed in a research article. As an example, they describe the CONSORT Statement for randomized clinical trials (Moher et al. 2001). Many journals have endorsed the CONSORT guidelines, and there is some evidence that use of these guidelines has improved the quality of papers on clinical trials (Kane et al. 2007).
In June 2009, an expert working group consisting of researchers, statisticians, and journal editors met to develop a checklist that could be used improve the reporting of research using animals (Kilkenny et al. 2010). The product of this effort is the Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments (ARRIVE) guidelines (http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/ARRIVE). These guidelines consist of 20 items identifying minimum information required for scientific research reporting results from animal studies. According to Kilkenny et al. (2010), the guidelines were developed "to maximise the output from research using animals by optimising the information that is provided in publications on the design, conduct, and analysis of the experiments."
With this editorial, EHP joins the growing list of journals that endorse the ARRIVE guidelines for animal research. We encourage authors to review these guidelines when designing their studies and to use them in writing papers for submission to EHP. We encourage our Associate Editors and peer reviewers to keep in mind the principles articulated in the ARRIVE guidelines when evaluating papers involving animal research. We believe that by adhering to the guidelines, the quality of the papers will improve and the potential for reproducibility of findings will increase.
The ARRIVE guidelines focus on in vivo animal research; other types of research not covered by the ARRIVE guidelines also need to be considered. There is a need for clear and complete descriptions of methods across all disciplines.
Begley CG, Ellis LM. 2012. Drug development: raise standards for preclinical cancer research. Nature 483:531–533.
Kane RL, Wang J, Garrard J. 2007. Reporting in randomized clinical trials improved after adoption of the CONSORT statement. J Clin Epidemiol 60(3):241–249.
Kilkenny C, Browne WJ, Cuthill IC, Emerson M, Altman DG. 2010. Improving bioscience research reporting: the ARRIVE guidelines for reporting animal research. PloS Biol 8:e1000412; doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000412.
Kilkenny C, Parsons N, Kadyszewski E, Festing MFW, Cuthill IC, Fry D, et al. 2009. Survey of the quality of experimental design, statistical analysis and reporting of research using animals. PloS One 4:e7824; doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007824.
Krauth D, Woodruff TJ, Bero L. 2013. Instruments for assessing risk of bias and other methodological criteria of published animal studies: a systematic review. Environ Health Perspect 121:985–992; doi:10.1289/ehp.1206389.
Moher D, Schulz KF, Altman DG, for the CONSORT group. 2001. The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel-group randomised trials. Lancet 357:1191–1194.
Prinz F, Schlange T, Asadullah K. 2011. Believe it or not: how much can we rely on published data on potential drug targets? Nat Rev Drug Discov 10:712; doi:10.1038/nrd3439-c1.
Ransohoff DF. 2005. Bias as a threat to the validity of cancer molecular-marker research. Nat Rev Cancer 5:142–149.
Ransohoff DF, Gourlay ML. 2010. Sources of bias in specimens for research about molecular markers for cancer. J Clin Oncol 28:698–704.
van der Worp HB, de Haan P, Morrema E, Kalkman CJ. 2005. Methodological quality of animal studies on neuroprotection in focal cerebral ischaemia. J Neurol 252:1108–1114.
Vasilevsky NA, Brush MH, Paddock H, Ponting L, Tripathy SJ, LaRocca GM, Haendel MA. 2013. On the reproducibility of science: unique identification of research resources in the biomedical literature. PeerJ 1:e148; doi:10.7717/peerj.148.
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What should you pray for? The Bible tells us to pray for opportunities to witness, for courage to speak up, for those who will believe, for the rapid spread of the message, and for more workers. Prayer helps us do what God calls us to do, and it makes you a partner with others around the world.
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Ignition Switch
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19 deaths now attributed to faulty GM ignition switches
Recalls at General Motors, Chrysler raise questions about the safety of auto parts
The ignition switch recalls now engulfing General Motors and Chrysler are raising new questions about the safety of the parts across the American auto industry.
GM recall: No limit on compensation for ignition switch crash victims
Compensation expert Kenneth Feinberg is prepared to pay out billions of General Motors' money to victims of crashes in GM small cars - provided they can prove the cars' ignition switches caused the crash.
Federal grand jury now investigating General Motors' use of faulty ignition switches
A federal grand jury is now investigating General Motors recall of 2.6 million small cars tied to faulty ignition switches and has subpoenaed documents relating to the case, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday evening.
Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, grilled by House committee over ignition switch recalls
Amid a massive recall involving ignition switches and the scandal over the long delay in doing so, the CEO of General Motors appeared before a House committee Wednesday.
GM recalls 3.2 million additional cars for ignition problems
General Motors recalling 3.2 million additional cars in the U.S. for ignition switch problems.
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ABC7 News discovered many area dealerships where the management didn't even know the cars they were selling had recalls for serious, life-threatening issues on them.
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The ZigBee Alliance is making the Green Power feature set available to ZigBee manufacturers by the end of the year. Products such as light dimmers, switches and motion sensors for residential, commercial and industrial use could follow several months later.
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CHICAGO —Marco Belinelli showed he can also be a force off the bench for the Chicago Bulls. Joe Montana Jersey . Belinelli returned to his role as a reserve and led the Bulls with 17 points in an 87-77 victory over the Washington Wizards on Saturday night. Carlos Boozer added 15 points and 12 rebounds for the Bulls (16-12), who snapped a two-game losing streak. Luol Deng scored 11 points after injuring his right ankle Tuesday in a loss to Houston. Bradley Beal led the NBA-worst Wizards (4-24) with 14 points. Belinelli made 7 of 16 shots in a reserve role as Richard Hamilton returned to the starting lineup. Hamilton had missed 12 games because of a torn plantar fascia in his left foot. "Marco was terrific," Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said. "He has been playing well for a long time. He hit big shots and made big plays." When Hamilton was sidelined, Belinelli averaged 15.3 points per game in 12 starts, compared to just five points in 14 games as a reserve. 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Time for a new Bretton-Woods conference?
02 Feb 2009
The 2008 financial crisis has revealed the inadequacy of the institutional structure inherited from the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. Theories that our financial system had little need for regulatory oversight have proved to be false, and responses have been improvised at best. Speaking at the 21st Century School on 29 January, Dr Augusto Lopez-Claros laid out his views on the need for substantial institutional reforms in light of the current crisis.
He began by tracing the origins of the current institutional system, and the IMF in particular, to the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. Pointing out that the Bretton Woods system is incapable of delivering the global financial governance which the highly integrated financial markets of the 21st century seem to require, he argued that today's financial system needs stronger regulation and oversight. Dr Lopez-Claros agreed that calls for a new Bretton Woods conference were sensible enough, but argued that the G20, which has so far taken the lead on this issue, did not have the credibility, or the expertise necessary for the task. Instead he would give the job to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
While the IMF in its current form is woefully unprepared to manage global financial crises, it is still a far more inclusive organisation (with 185 member countries) than the G20, and it has the advantage of an existing bureaucracy with unparalleled expertise in the field of global financial governance. Its main problems, according to Dr Lopez-Claros, stem from a lack of influence. He went on to outline the weaknesses of the IMF's current structure and to make some suggestions about how to turn it into an organisation capable of providing oversight to the global financial system.
As Dr Lopez-Claros noted, the IMF's central problem is a lack of resources. Firstly, the IMF does not have sufficient resources to work with. Although it can create small amounts of liquidity, its funds (as of Nov. 2008) amount to about $241bn, which does not compare favourably with the larger figures involved in recent bailouts.
Secondly, its members are sovereign nations and, as such, the IMF has few powers of enforcement. If a particular path is unsustainable, as with the Asian crisis of 1997, or the recent US housing bubble, the most the IMF can do is to issue warnings.
Lastly, Dr Lopez-Claros mentioned the governance issues undermining the IMF's credibility. A comparison of voting powers reveals that Europe has 32.4% of the vote, while the combined votes of the US, China, India, Brazil and Russia amount to only 26.9%.
His suggestions for improving the quality of global financial governance include:
- A degree of simplification with regard to the proliferation of innovative new financial instruments. Regulators need to be able to understand balance sheets in order to enforce a level of oversight and global governance.
- Including everybody in the process of creating this system, in order to create a more sustainable and equitable system.
- Giving appropriate consideration to long-term proposals for increasing the stability of the global economy.
- Increasing the powers and resources of the IMF. For example by giving it the authority to create special drawing rights (SDRs) in the way that a central bank can create currency, which would give the IMF more leverage over those using its resources.
Responding to a question about the cause of the 2008 crisis, Dr Lopez-Claros brought attention back to the overriding need for an institution to regulate today's globalized financial market. He warned against complacency in the event of financial recovery, reminding the audience that the system was simply not as capable of self-regulation as had been previously assumed. He urged politicians to seize the opportunity to implement institutional reforms in order to guard against future global crises.
This blog comes from the seminar series on "Global Governance Challenges"
Dr Lopez-Claros is the founder of EFD-Global Consulting Network advising on economic, financial, and development issues. Previously he has served as a Professor of economics at the University of Chile, the IMF's resident representative in the Russian Federation, a senior international economist with Lehman Brothers and Director of the Global Competitiveness Programme at the World Economic Forum.
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Speaking of Joe Roche, despite all the mishaps I was eventually (at 4:30 AM! Thursday) able to catch Joe on the Michael Reagan show taped Wednesday. So it is time to mention Joe's other good news: Joe has been contacted by A&E Television Network, which is asembling a new permanent exhibit for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, A&E asked Joe to give for permission to include in the exhibit this quote:
"I'm not trying to sound like a big tough guy. I'm scared everyday and pray before every mission for our safety and success. This is a combat zone."The exhibit, titled "The Price of Freedom," is to examine the role of the American military in war.
So Joe's having quite a month, quote-wise. And this one blog post by Joe is now doubly destined for the history books.
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Unlike blogger Galen, I'm no physician, but I have to suspect that world famous, ultra popular TV personalities such as Ritter generally get decent attention in medical facilities.
Needless lawsuits drive up medical costs for everyone. I hope the Ritter family thought long and hard about the merits of this lawsuit before filing it.
Joe Roche was quoted in a page one Washington Post story Thursday.
I guess the Post, not a notoriously right-wing outfit, does not concur with the leftist souless wonders who think that when a soldier such as Joe relates his honest opinion it constitutes a "PR missive" (Daily Kos), call Joe a "phony" and a "professional propagandist" (Oliver Willis) or, like Democrats.com in April, claim Joe isn't real.
I guess I should not harp on this issue but I just can't believe people act this way toward our combat soldiers. While all Americans enjoy First Amendment rights equally, I can't help but think that those who put their lives on the line to defend those rights should be treated, ceremonially at least, as first among equals.
Sean at Everything I Know Is Wrong puts Bush's National Guard Service in context.
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Joe Roche will be a guest on Mike Reagan's national radio show this evening.
Joe's various emails from the front in Iraq have been quoted, linked to and re-posted by over 200 blogs since April, which I think is wonderful (more than wonderful). If any of you would like to listen in, you can visit Mike Reagan's website to find a station in your area or to listen in via Internet. Joe is to appear at either 6:30 PM Eastern or 7:30 PM Eastern. The website broadcasts the show live 6-9 PM Eastern and rebroadcasts the entire three-hour show at 9 PM Eastern and again at 1 AM Eastern.
This will be Joe's first radio interview, save some interviews he did with his college radio station when he was an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota. Given the prominence of Mike's show, Joe is starting at the top!
Joe's had some major good news since we last posted major good news about Joe last week. I'll post more about it after the radio broadcast tonight, so Joe has a chance to tell everyone about it first himself on the radio show, but here is a hint: Think Smithsonian Institution.
Addendum: Well, no "after the broadcast" for me. Because we had company for dinner I was unable to listen to the show during 6-9 PM nor during most of the 9-12 rebroadcast, so I relied on the Radio America website's information that it rebroadcasts the show at 1 AM. It doesn't. So I spent the rest of the night hooking up an XM radio home satellite system. Next time, I'll have options. Or at least I hope I will. I got the XM hardware up great, but their website says it is too busy to process new activation requests just now. More customers than they can handle, I guess.
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Iowans are seeing tourism revenues fall because of low temperatures.
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New Zealand doctors are complaining that record low temperatures there are causing a spike in influenza cases and other medical problems.
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Meanwhile, many new highway projects are stymied because environmental organizations claim that building them will hurt the environment.
Jeff Blogworthy and Joseph Farah say Alan Keyes didn't say what you think he said.
Powerline is suggesting that readers send polite letters to the Associated Press, asking how the AP made its now blogfamous error reporting that a GOP crowd booed President Bush's well wishes for former President Clinton.
Powerline also provides another example of dubious AP reporting.
At the risk of piling on, here's my contribution to the AP reporting debate. A little dated now -- I wrote this five months ago -- but it reviews an AP story published in many newspapers worldwide that the AP managed to screw up royally.
I'm glad to see these thoughts about the politicization of National Geographic on the Bill's Comments blog.
Ideally, National Geographic -- which we read at our home -- should be the kind of magazine one can share with confidence with one's children (please, no jokes about half-dressed natives!) for educational purposes. Once upon a time, it was.
New blogger David Limbaugh has some interesting quotes from Vladimir Putin regarding his own government's understanding of the global war on terror.
Thanks to the nice people who have favorably mentioned President Bush quoting Joe Roche in their blogs, including the incomparable Michelle Malkin, The American Mind, Sparse Matrix, Enter Stage Right, The Insider Online, Who Moved My Truth?, Jeff Blogworthy.com. Q&O and The Commons at Paulie World.
No thanks to the not-so-nice people, though, such as Daily Kos, who somehow thinks a genuine letter from a real soldier writing from actual combat is a "PR missive" just because we here at The National Center are conservatives and say so proudly. We have known Joe since he was a college student in the 1980s. We read an email he sent us and instantly knew it deserved to be shared with others, so we shared it. That's not PR, Kossy, that's patriotism. Yes, The National Center is a conservative foundation, just as Daily Kos is a left-wing something, but we know the genuine article when we see it -- more than we can say for the Daily Kos. How embittered do you have to be to read an uplifting letter from a soldier who is putting his life on the line for his country and for freedom and to bring liberty to the oppressed people of a foreign land and think "PR missive"? Do these people have no souls?
OK, another souless wonder: Oliver Willis. His comment about Joe (at least I think he is referring to Joe, the quality of his writing is such that the reference in the sentence is not clear): "What a phony." Joe spent 15 months in combat in Iraq (yes, he had a combat job there) in 2003 and 2004. What did Oliver "What a phony" Willis do?
One Joe Roche (or any one of the American servicemen and women fighting proudly alongside him) is worth a thousand of these little weasels.
Addendum: The Progress Report doesn't like Joe either, just because he's associated with us. They didn't actually bother to contact us first to determine the extent of his association, but their main page today says Joe "doubles as a scholar at the National Center for Public Policy Research - a far right-wing organization..." Well, not really. We did give Joe the title of "adjunct fellow" in 2000 when Joe was working in Israel because he sent us some interesting and useful information, but he has never been on our payroll. I suppose we could have taken the "adjunct fellow" title away when Joe joined the army after 9/11 and couldn't wear two hats, but somehow, it seemed churlish. For the record, Joe has never been on our payroll or been paid to write (or do anything else) for us.
OK, I admit, this blogger did not go to the Republican National Convention. We're not in Blogger's Corner. But there is a little bit that happened to us with regard to the convention anyway.
The President quoted this blog -- Army Specialist Joe Roche's April 7 entry -- in his acceptance speech.
How cool is that?
President Bush's Acceptance Speech, September 2, 2004:
Our troops know the historic importance of our work. One Army Specialist wrote home: "We are transforming a once sick society into a hopeful place ... The various terrorist enemies we are facing in Iraq," he continued, "are really aiming at you back in the United States. This is a test of will for our country. We soldiers of yours are doing great and scoring victories in confronting the evil terrorists."National Center April 7, 2004 Blog Entry of Spc. Joe Roche, writing from Iraq: A Soldier Assures Us: Our Progress is Amazing:
That young man is right -- our men and women in uniform are doing a superb job for America. Tonight I want to speak to all of them -- and to their families: You are involved in a struggle of historic proportion. Because of your service and sacrifice, we are defeating the terrorists where they live and plan, and making America safer. Because of you, women in Afghanistan are no longer shot in a sports stadium. Because of you, the people of Iraq no longer fear being executed and left in mass graves. Because of you, the world is more just and will be more peaceful. We owe you our thanks, and we owe you something more. We will give you all the resources, all the tools, and all the support you need for victory.
We are transforming a once very sick society into a hopeful place... The various terrorist enemies we are facing in Iraq are really aiming at you back in the United States. This is a test of will for our country. We soldiers of yours are doing great and scoring victories in confronting the evil terrorists.Joe's a great guy. I'm thrilled for him, and expect he is -- or will be, if he hasn't learned about this yet -- rather thrilled himself.
The National Center will be sending an e-mail about this development to friends and supporters, but I just had to mention it on the blog first. Congratulations to Joe and, echoing the President, thanks to all the men and women of the Armed Services of the United States of America for your service and sacrifices.
For more about Joe, including a list of his writing as published by us and some photos of him, see here. For a hilarious screenshot of Democrats.com speculating (on 4/8/04 regarding the exact comments President Bush quoted tonight) that Joe isn't real, see here. Back in April, Joe wrote me that some of his fellow soldiers felt very, very insulted by Democrats.com's post. I think it is safe to say that, tonight, those soldiers need not feel insulted any longer. They definitely got the last word.
The New Republic Online is running an interesting daily series by Alan Wirzbicki this week critiquing the Fox News Channel's coverage of the GOP convention. It is interesting because the author -- whom I had not heard of before -- does not seem to be a Fox fan, yet his assessment is mostly positive.
A short sample from the September 1 entry in the series:
...interestingly it's on Fox News, the most Republican-friendly of stations, where the difference between the convention's platform and podium is getting the most critical TV attention.My opinion is that Fox's coverage of the convention rightly is picking up on the simple fact that conservatives are very much engaged in policy debates. This is true in D.C. and in state legislatures but also in private conversations, blogs, etc.
Fox's anchors have raised the issue early and often. Shepard Smith, one of the channel's talking heads, has been sounding practically like Terry McAuliffe. "Can moderates like a Schwarzenegger really be represented by a platform that is so far to the right?" Smith asked yesterday. "Are you just telling lies in these billion-dollar extravaganzas?" Meanwhile Bill O'Reilly interviewed conservative pundit Michelle Malkin, who complained that the Republican speaker's lineup had a "metrosexual" tilt. Even Sean Hannity was on the case, criticizing the GOP's golden boy of the moment, John McCain, from the right for his campaign finance reform bill. Fox, unlike CNN, was running the quixotic Log Cabin Republican advertisements yesterday, another sign that the network was the place where some version of an internal GOP conversation on touchy, intra-party issues was happening.
Hmmm, maybe Schwarzenegger didn't mean "girlie men" as a compliment after all...
Based on the response of the GOP convention delegates to his re-use of the phrase in his convention speech Tuesday, the average delegate isn't any more PC than he is.
Blogger Captain Ed, blogging at the Republican National Convention, just met Pittsburgh Steelers great Lynn Swann.
The Club for Growth now has a blog.
I wonder how long it will be before nearly every conservative and free market organization has one?
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Vt Health Department urges testing children for leadThe Associated Press | October 26,2013BURLINGTON The Vermont Health Department is urging parents to make sure their children are tested for lead poisoning.
Statistics show that testing rates for 1-year-olds increased from 80 percent in 2006 to 81 percent in 2012, but they are still short of the 100 percent goal.
The Health Department says that about 300 Vermont children are found to have elevated levels of lead in their blood. Early detection and prevention of further exposure are critical to keeping children from suffering lifelong health effects, such as lowered IQ.
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Sebelius: Obamacare sign-up glitches a 'great problem to have'
**Written by Doug Powers
Glitch-fest 2013 got under way this morning.
According to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius it was a positive sign of things to come:
ANDREA MITCHELL: [...] And [the president said] "there have been glitches but Apple has glitches." What is your response to the Republicans and other critics that say it's not going to work and there are too many problems and it needs to be fixed, delayed until it's fixed?
KATHLEEN: SEBELIUS: [...] So we have had a few slowdowns, a few glitches, but it's sort of a great problem to have. It's based on the fact that the volume has been so high and the interest is so high. We're working quickly to fix that.
Is "it's a great problem to have" going to be her answer to people who will end up waiting forever to see a doctor?
Here's the ridiculous Apple comparison from Obama's address today:
And we're going to be speeding things up in the next few hours to handle all of this demand that exceeds anything that we had expected. Consider that just a couple of weeks ago, Apple rolled out a new mobile operating system, and within days, they found a glitch, so they fixed it. I don't remember anybody suggesting Apple should stop selling iPhones or iPads or threatening to shut down the company if they didn't. That's not how we do things in America. We don't actively root for failure. We get to work, we make things happen, we make them better, we keep going.
If the Obama administration helped start Apple they would have gone bankrupt before getting out of Steve Jobs' garage, blamed his parents for the failure and then lobbied the Carter administration to make the purchase of malfunctioning computers the size of Buick LeSabres mandatory.
Also, there's this excellent but brief explanation: Three reasons Obamacare is not Apple.
Obamacare online sign-up: It's this easy:
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Tich (singer)
|Rachel Furner (Tich)
|Background information
|Birth name
|Rachel Furner
|1 July 1993
|Northampton, England
|Piano, violin
|Years active
|Gravity Digital, AATW
"Tich" (born Rachel Furner, 1 July 1993) is a British singer. She originally performed under her real name 'Rachel Furner' and was signed to Mercury Records in the UK having had huge success as a YouTube artist. After performing at events such as the iTunes Festival and releasing a few singles it was decided that the current incarnation wasn't working out.
'Tich' emerged two years later and under her new guise released an EP titled Candelight, which was released on 20 December 2012 via Gravity Digital. Tich later signed a record deal with AATW and began working on her debut album. She released her debut single "Dumb" on 12 May 2013 and it reached number 23 on the UK Singles Chart. Her second single "Obsession" was released on 19 August 2013 and peaked at nunber 56 in the UK. Her second EP Candlelight II was released on 8 December. She has also had some small success with her personal YouTube channel, iamtichmusic, which has 3.9 million views and 45,000 subscribers as of 1 January 2014.[1]
Early life[edit]
Furner grew up in Northampton together with her sister Kat, and began to learn to play the piano at the age of six. By age 10 she started to write some of her own songs and perform these three later, assisted by her parents. She gained valuable experience and "had some eventful gigs, you know like forgetting halfway through how to play a song and just a lot of big lessons I learned early on".[2] She attended Northampton High School[3] before moving to London at the age of 16.
Music career[edit]
Tich has toured with Stooshe, Paolo Nutini, Pixie Lott, Justin Bieber, JLS, Olly Murs and James Arthur. She also played at a host of the major UK festivals including Glastonbury, T in the Park, Oxegen, Osfest and V Festival. She toured with Olly Murs early 2013. She has also performed at The Buttermarket (Shrewsbury) on many of occasions, including supporting Loveable Rogues, Union J and headlining her very own night.
Tich has also had two headline tours, the first one was in October 2013 and was called the What I Meant To Say tour, she was joined by her supporting act called Joe Miles. Her other tour was in February 2014 and was called the No One But Us tour on this tour she was joined by Mike Dignam.
2012–present: Extended plays and What I Meant To Say[edit]
Tich in her latest form, having previously been recording and playing as 'Rachel Furner' to which she was signed to Universal Mercury records first came to prominence in 2012, when she independently released her debut EP Candlelight, via Gravity Digital. In 2013 she signed a record deal with AATW, and began working on her debut album with a number of songwriters, including Nick Jonas.[4] Her debut single "Dumb" was released in May and reached No.23 on the UK Singles Chart.[5] In June, she unveiled the music video for her second single "Obsession", written by Tich, with Harry Sommerdahl (The Saturdays) and Ki Fitzgerald & Chris Young (The Wanted, Lawson), and it was also announced she would headline her first solo tour in October.[6] In August, she released covers of Lana Del Rey's "Summertime Sadness and Tom Odell's "Another Love" online.[7] In an interview with Digital Spy Tich revealed details about her upcoming new single: "The next single has got a lot more depth to it. It's not about love but another experience I went through. I think it's becoming a bit more autobiographical, which is what the whole album is."[8] Her second EP, Candlelight II was released on 6 December 2013.[9] On 6 January 2014, Tich announced her new single "Breathe in Breathe Out" which was released on 6 April, and is co-written by Nick Jonas (Jonas Brothers) and Tim Powell.[10]
Studio albums[edit]
|Album details
|What I Meant to Say
Extended plays[edit]
|Album details
|Candlelight II
|Peak chart positions
|What I Meant to Say
|"Breathe in Breathe Out"
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/user/Iamtichmusic/about/
- ^ "Press Release" Management Press Release, Huffington Post, 5 August 2013.
- ^ "School newsitem" Report on Tich performance at her old school. Accessed 24 April 2014.
- ^ "Tich interview: I asked Nick Jonas if he had any brothers'". Digital Spy. 7 May 2013.
- ^ "Daft Punk stay at number one with 'Get Lucky' for fourth week". Digital Spy. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ "Tich premieres new single 'Obsession' music video". Digital Spy. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ "Tich covers Lana Del Rey, Tom Odell". Digital Spy. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ "Tich interview: 'I cried through a whole Britney concert". Digital Spy. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ a b iTunes – Music – Candlelight – EP by Tich
- ^ http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/tich-breathe-in-breathe-out-single-premiere/
- ^ Peak positions in the United Kingdom:
- For all except noted: "Tich – UK Charts". officialcharts.com/ Official Charts Company.
- For "Breathe in Breathe Out": "CHART: CLUK Update 19.04.2014 (wk15)". Zobbel.de/.
- ^ Peak positions for singles in Scotland:
- For "Dumb": "Chart Archive > May 25, 2013". Official Charts Company. 25 May 2013.


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Thomas Sully: Painted Performance
So how does one make the leading successor to Gilbert Stuart's Federal portrait style relevant in the age of #selfies? Curators William Keyse Rudolph and Carol Eaton Soltis, the organizers of Thomas Sully: Painted Performance at the San Antonio Museum of Art, argue that Sully—who grew up in the theater and launched his career painting actors and actresses, often in character—was instinctively in sync, even presciently so, with the 21st-century truism that all portraiture is performative. Sully, the curators write, often "constructs his figures … literally as if they were onstage," even when he's not painting theater people.
"These sitters dominate the front of their settings, as if playing to the galleries, while behind them various details suggest activity in the backgrounds," Rudolph and Soltis write. "Never static, their postures, attitudes, and expressions imply the possibility of motion or a momentary cessation of ongoing activity."
Certainly Sully could wield a brush with great deftness and sensuousness, as the show's earliest work, a brooding 1807 self-portrait owned by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, establishes. But while some paintings fit the curators' description of "active portraiture," more often the sitters' "momentary cessation of ongoing activity" looks static indeed, even awkward, as in the 1818 portrait Elizabeth Eichelberger Ridgely (Lady with a Harp).
"The twist of the Maryland teenager's head versus the turn of her arms, opposed against the slight rotation of her torso, reflects the influence of Anglo-Swiss painter Heinrich (Henry) Fuseli, whose Royal Academy lectures Sully attended during his trip to England in 1809-10," according to the wall text. "Sully further exaggerated the distance between Elizabeth's waist and her knees, creating a direct visual relationship to the harp." A letter to Ridgely from her father highlights the not-so-liberating way women of a certain social standing were expected to perform.
"I am very glad Mr. Sully sees no resemblance to the character I mentioned in your person … that you have exerted yourself and conquered the propensity to stoop, which I have so often check'd you for," Ridgely's father wrote. Then there's this gem from the wall text: "He had also criticized his daughter for not having had her teeth cleaned, which is probably why Sully represented her with a closed mouth." Such details undermine Soltis's claim in the catalogue that Sully "allowed" his women to perform—as the wall text notes, Ridgely would have been expected to master the harp at finishing school—and that "they were free to show up in unusual poses" that one could more readily read as suggesting a lack of freedom.The lack of psychology in the overwhelming majority of Sully's portraits—the Wadsworth self-portrait is a rare exception—may explain why his posthumous reputation has never reached the heights it scaled during his heyday. As beautifully painted as his portraits can be, they're rarely memorable; most of his sitters, especially the women and children, are cast as types rather than individuals we care about. The show's performance angle is so easily applied to nearly any portraitist that we're never quite sure why Sully, and not some other 19th-century American painter, deserves reappraisal.
The exhibition has greater success in demonstrating that Sully's previously forgotten "fancy pictures"—imaginative fusions of history paintings and genre scenes painted on spec when business was slow or he wanted to experiment—deserve a higher status within his oeuvre than they've enjoyed. Rudolph, now SAMA's chief curator and American art curator, worked at the Dallas Museum of Art eight years ago when it acquired one of Sully's most remarkable fancy pictures, Cinderella at the Kitchen Fire (1843), and Rudolph and Soltis's desire to understand how it fit into his career planted the seeds for Painted Performance. Even if Sully's limitations sometimes get in the way of his champions' efforts, it's great to see collection-building in Texas museums trigger such a concerted scholarly effort.


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Outdoor seating - London
Seeing as the weather is so nice, could anyone reccomend any good restaurants which have outdoor seating in London?
We just had a delightful lunch at Caraffini on Lower Sloane Street. They have an enclosed outdoor area in front. Very good Italian food, cost us 42£ for 2 courses each + veg + drinks.
Olive Magazine recently had a feature on the best al fresco spots in London. I've not eaten at some of them _ and some I can't remember _ but off the top of my head:
1) Inn The Park, in St. James' Park. There's a covered terrace and two different dining experiences; one's more cafeteria-style while the other is more fine-dining.
2) Coq d'Argent, Poultry, above Bank station. Conran resto. I've had drinks and snacks here but never dinner. Weekend brunches are supposed to be a bit more reasonable.
3) Gun, Docklands. Never been but intend to try on a sunny day. Barbecue outside on weekends.
There was also a restaurant mentioned in Holland Park that I've not been to but which looked lovely. The Belvedere, maybe?
re: mighty_ one
I'm not sure if you can actually sit outside at the Belvedere. It does have large window doors which open out.
Hush Brasserie has a pretty terrace - you can see a picture here:
If you want to watch tourists milling about, you can eat on the terrace at Chez Gerard in Covent Garden or, nearby, The Cove - which is the pub above a cornish pasty shop. It's not a restaurant, but you can order pasties from downstairs!
The Eagle on Farringdon Road is a gastro pub with a garden done out in mirrors, fairy lights and hand-painted glass. Again, it's not fine dining but they do decent burgers, calamari strips, Moroccan chicken sandwiches, etc.
Others that spring to mind are Le Pont de la Tour, Babylon @ the Roof Gardens, Le Coq d'Argent, and the Garden Cafe.
This link has some good ideas:
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The Fox in Shoreditch has a nice outdoorsy courtyardy bit upstairs. It's pretty small though so make sure you specifically request it when booking!
I can also vouch for the Gun, a lovely terrace overlooking the O2 arena and the river.
My local Fox and Hounds in Battersea has a great garden too.
I have a hazy recollection that Ishbilia (Lebanese) near Hyde Park Corner had a few outdoor tables.
A number of the Lebanese places on Edgware Road have outside seating (or the smokers' ghetto if you prefer).
The Belvedere in Holland Park has a terrace upstairs with lovely views of the park and the food is pretty good.
So far as I remember a lot of the restaurants on Charlotte Street have tables outside.
Regents Park and St James's Park both have good restaurants.
In Putney the Phoenix on Lower Richmond Road has a pretty terrace and good modern, vaguely Italian food.
Lola Rojo in Northcote Road, Battersea, has outside seating at lunchtime. Delicious modern tapas, breakfast on Saturdays, snacky things like acorn-fed ham and other Spanish meats.
Franklins in Kennington has a nice courtyard and unpretentious food (the beef cheek, pig trotter and mushroom stew was delicious). .
re: Jenny Sheridan
A lovely hidden space is the courtyard at L'Oranger. Food's not what it was, though. I think the Design Cafe opens up its terrace - but I don't think you can reserve one - it's pot luck when you get there. And the Orrery has a wonderful roofspace...
i've had a few good recommendations from here, so I owe one back, its nothing exciting, profiled by all the guides, but seems to have been forgotten about. it deserves better, El Parador on Eversholt St, between Euston and Mornington Crescent. Great mix of old school and inventive tapas, well priced sherry and a garden. Lovely.
I had dinner outside at Fredrick's in Camden passage last night and the ambiance and service were lovely. People had mixed feelings about the food, but everyone agreed that it was at least decent. Certainly a nice relaxing outdoor dining experience.


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