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It doesn't seem that long ago that everything in my bedroom consisted of pink ballet slippers, tutus, and music. I can even imagine the light switch plate I had with a pair of pointe shoes painted on it! One tradition I have continued is that my Christmas tree is always decorated with ballet ornaments
My world was ballet. For two summers in junior high, I left my family for five weeks in the summer to study at an intensive youth ballet program. I loved it. I performed in several ballets including The Nutcracker and Cinderella. My family was supportive of my love for the arts. My father even performed as a parent at the party in The Nutcracker alongside me and my mother was always there to cheer me on.
There's something about dancing I can't explain. I always loved expressing myself through the classical art of ballet. The style, the beauty, the romance, the music, and the stories. I really danced from the heart and it still speaks to my heart.
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Here is a note from Zeichner about the expanded article and following that is his original Answer Sheet piece:
In October 2013, I published a short essay on The Answer Sheet blog that focused on the role of the NewSchools Venture Fund in shaping and promoting the GREAT Act that would promote the establishment of charter teacher and principal preparation programs across the nation that would not be subject to the same level of accountability as other programs. I argued that there was a need for more transparency about these efforts by NSVF and for a trenchant public discussion and debate about the wisdom of this policy.
Recently, a paper that I wrote with one of my doctoral students Cesar Pena-Sandoval, was published in Teachers College Record. This paper, which has undergone independent and blind peer review, elaborates on the arguments that I made in my brief blog essay and situates the efforts of the NSVF with regard to the GREAT Act in relation to the broader impact of venture philanthropy to disrupt and replace much of the largely university- based teacher education system in the United States.
Despite historical weaknesses in our teacher education system, we argue that the characterization of university teacher education as a failure that needs to be replaced by a market economy, and the replacement of this system by entrepreneurial programs like the RELAY Graduate School of Education are not warranted by the evidence and that a more productive approach would be to transform the system in ways that maintain strong university involvement.
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During the last few years, The NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF), a major private funder of K-12 charter schools, has been intensely involved in creating and promoting a bill (the GREAT Act) in the U.S. Congress. This bill, if passed, would lead to the establishment of teacher and principal preparation programs that would not be subject to the same level of accountability as other state-approved programs. The bill is a part of a broader movement to disrupt the current system of college and university teacher education and replace it with deregulation, competition, and a market economy.
There is a need for greater transparency of these private efforts to influence public policy in teacher education so that the consequences of the proposed legislation can be more clearly understood, discussed, and debated. Discussion and debate of public policy issues are cornerstones of a healthy democratic society. There is reason to believe that the adoption of the GREAT Act would only worsen the current inequitable distribution of teachers where the least prepared and least experienced teachers are often assigned to teach our most vulnerable students.
We should be concerned over the lack of public discussion about the assumptions underlying the proposed legislation for it would have a major impact on how teachers and principals are prepared. The questions of whether or not deregulation, competition and markets are the ways to improve teacher education, how to assess the quality of teaching and teacher education programs, and what the peer-reviewed research shows about the impact of different pathways into teaching – these are all matters that remain unsettled among serious scholars. They warrant trenchant public discussion and debate.
NSVF was founded in 1998 by social entrepreneur Kim Smith and venture capitalists John Doerr and Brook Byers. According to its 2012 annual report NSVF operates 331 charter schools that enroll 130,500 students (83 percent of whom are low income). If these schools were put together they would make up one of the largest 20 districts in the United States. To date, 350,000 students have been taught by teachers trained in NSVF ventures. Its K-12 ventures include ASPIRE, the Achievement Network, KIPP, MATCH, Rocketship, Uncommon Schools and the Academy for Urban School Leadership.
Although NSVF's role in teacher education has been relatively minor to date, it has provided funding to a number of the most visible entrepreneurial programs including Teach For America (TFA), The New Teacher Project (TNTP), Relay Graduate School of Education (RGSE), the Urban Teacher Center, and MATCH Teacher Residency. The goal of NSVF's investments has been to promote deregulation and privatization in K-12 and in teacher education so that there will be opportunities for new entrepreneur-developed programs to emerge in what would be a market economy.
In March 2011, four people came together in Washington D.C. with several sympathetic legislators to discuss ways to further the deregulation of teacher education: Norm Atkins, the founder of RGSE; Tim Knowles, the director of the Urban Education Institute in Chicago; and Julie Mikuta and Ben Riley of the NSVF.
The result of these conversations was a bi-partisan legislative proposal in the Senate and in the House. This bill, the "Growing Excellent Achievement Training Academies for Teachers and Principals Act" (GREAT Act) would establish state-based competitive grant programs to create charter teacher and principal preparation programs called academies that would free of many of the state regulations that are used to monitor the quality of traditional preparation programs.
In June of 2011, NSVF circulated a letter seeking endorsements for the bill. Among those who signed the letter are entrepreneurial organizations, some of which have been financially supported by NSVF (e.g., KIPP, TFA TNTP, MATCH, RGSE). Other backers included individuals and advocacy groups such as Stand for Children and Democrats for Education Reform. While this bill was introduced in the 112th Congress, it was not enacted.
On May 23rd, 2013, the GREAT Act was reintroduced and was included in Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization proposals in both chambers. The teacher preparation programs that would result from passage of the GREAT Act would be required to prepare teachers to serve in "high-needs" areas and hard-to-staff subjects. They would also have to include the requirement that program completion be based on candidates' abilities to improve student academic achievement. Another key element of the proposed bill is that states and state authorizers of the charter programs must agree to enable these programs to be free of "unnecessary input-based regulations," meaning those that currently exist and apply to university-based programs. The NSVF continues to promote the GREAT Act and to add to its list of supporters.
While on the surface, requiring programs to ensure that its graduates can raise students' achievement may seem desirable, as educator Mike Rose has pointed out, this narrow way of defining success masks many potential complexities and may actually serve to widen opportunity gaps. For example,
You can prep students for a standardized test, get a bump in scores, yet not be providing a very good education. The end result is the replication of a troubling pattern in American schooling: poor kids get an education of skills and routine, a lower-tier education, while students in more affluent districts get a robust course of study.
Advocates of the GREAT Act have downplayed the significance of the legislation, but it has major ramifications for American education. States that choose to participate will have to lower teacher education accountability requirements for those programs that become academies.
It is clear that NSVF is working to position its own current and future ventures in teacher education as the prototypes to be scaled up when the GREAT Act passes. In 2012, a media blitz kicked off promoting RGSE. Jonathan Schorr, a former NSVF staffer, now a U.S. Education Department communications specialist, published an article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review in which RGSE is featured as the future for the field. A 2012 College Board report asserted with regard to the RGSE:
The vision is to keep expanding so that in a decade from now, 10,000 teachers in cities around the country are enrolled in an umbrella of Relays.
Additional articles appeared that same year in The New York Times, and Education Next asserting that RGSE is bold and innovative. Recently, the program was promoted on American Radio Works. Yet another indication of NSVF's efforts to position its own ventures for expansion after the passage of the GREAT Act and its adoption by states is its "Learning to Teach Entrepreneur in Residence Program" in partnership with TFA. This program will fund two potential entrepreneurs or teams of entrepreneurs to spend six to ten months "laying the groundwork for a new organization that will prepare teachers for schools in low income communities." These residents will be mentored by staff in NSVF-funded programs such as TFA, and RGSE.
The self-declaration of these entrepreneur developed programs like the RGSE as innovative and pioneering is without peer-reviewed empirical support beyond individual anecdotes. Saying something over and over again does not make it true. Even one of their most enthusiastic supporters, Jonathan Schorr, concluded in 2012 that "it is too soon to call these programs a success." The so-called accomplishments of competition and markets in K-12 education do not bode well for the assertion that this approach will improve teacher education.
Like the efforts to dilute the meaning of highly qualified teachers in No Child Left Behind, the growth of these programs will further fuel the situation where the least qualified and most inexperienced teachers are teaching the neediest students.
Instead of accepting the status quo as permanent by increasing the supply of under-prepared and inexperienced, and short-term teachers in high-poverty schools, we should seek to eliminate this situation. A more ethical and empirically warranted course of action would include investing in strengthening the college and university system of teacher education as has been done in leading education systems in the world. It would also include greater incentives for fully certified, and experienced, teachers to work for more than a few years in schools attended primarily by students living in poverty. Finally, it would make sure the public resources in these schools and communities are comparable to those in wealthier communities.
Rushing into the expansion of these allegedly innovative programs based on an effective marketing campaign and behind-the-scenes political maneuvering without thorough public scrutiny of the evidence is irresponsible. It uses children living in poverty as guinea pigs for the "entrepreneurial revolution" in teacher education. A democratic society cannot tolerate this behavior.


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MORROW — A man police say robbed the Bank of America in Morrow was apprehended Thursday, just hours after police said he robbed a bank in Augusta.
Eddie Adonis Garnett was arrested in Richmond County around 9 p.m., at a Travelodge hotel in Augusta. Police said Garnett was alone at the hotel when he was taken into custody.
"He was arrested by U.S. Marshals and Richmond County Sheriff's Office without incident," said Morrow Police Capt. James Callaway, whose investigators also played a role in the capture. "He was also charged for a bank robbery earlier that same day in Augusta. He was active with warrants from Morrow for robbery."
Callaway said Garnett, 42, may also be a suspect in a Sept. 14 Riverdale bank robbery.
The Morrow police captain said on Oct. 2, Garnett robbed the Bank of America located at 1200 Mt. Zion Road in Morrow. Police arrested Renard Stafford Wednesday, and charged him as the driver of the getaway car in that robbery.
"We have been working non-stop since the robbery to find this bank robbery suspect," Callaway said. "We were able to develop a lot of leads early on and we quickly apprehended the getaway driver. We were able to determine through different investigative resources the identity of 'Eddie' and were able to track him to Augusta. When we arrived in Augusta, we had an active warrant for his arrest in Clayton County."
The police captain said Garnett robbed a SunTrust bank in Richmond County around 11 a.m., the same day he was arrested.
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Carcar City's Kabkaban Festival, with its giant musical notes, piano and young conductor, was back to entertain the crowd at the Pasigarbo sa Sugbo Festival of Festivals last night. Carcar still amused the crowd at the CICC but had to slide down to second place among 31 contingents this year from being the grand champion in 2011. The photo above shows that the young conductor from last year's presentation was back but this time, he head an old friend with him who played the piano. Carcar also placed second in this year's street dancing competition.
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Why I may have to boycott this week's episode of Top Chef
This week, I have to decide if my love for the Voltaggio brothers out weighs my dislike of Natalie Portman.
Until recently, I didn't particularly feel one way or the other about Natalie Portman, who's set to be the guest judge on Top Chef this week, but after reading her recent editorial preaching the upside of vegetarianism on Huffington Post, I'm ready to add her to my small but intense list.
First of all, let me say that I am a very strict, life-long vegetarian. And I mean my entire life. So, I don't come to this with some anti-vegetarian agenda. And even as someone who has never knowingly put a piece of meat in her mouth, Portman's pretentious proselytizing irks me to no end.
She's preachy and her essay makes it sound like everyone who still eats meat hasn't yet been "enlightened." If it's annoying to me, it's got to be condescending as hell to the chefs who make their living out of preparing all kinds of food.
This attitude is on display in her HuffPo essay, where she compares eating meat to rape. Seriously. She argues that "being polite to your tablemates [rather] than sticking to your own ideals, would be absurd if applied to any other belief (e.g., I don't believe in rape, but if it's what it takes to please my dinner hosts, then so be it)."
Since this is a TV blog, I'm not going to get into the politics of that sentence, other than to say that comparing animal cruelty to violent attacks on women doesn't particularly stand up as a nuanced argument. Especially when the sentence was written by someone who's openly signed a petition in support of convicted child rapist, Roman Polanski.
So, I get it. Portman believes strongly in being a vegetarian and now considers herself a "vegan activist." Whatever, fine. But, it's possible to hold onto your own convictions without berating everyone else for theirs.
I'm not spoiled in the least about tomorrow night's Top Chef, so I have no idea what the elimination challenge will actually be, but my guess is that, with Portman there, the chefs will have to go all vegetarian. I just don't know if I'll be able to watch.


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Chicago-based billionaire and Tribune Co. honcho Sam Zell doesn't take too kindly to uppity ink-stained wretches reminding him about what's important in the newspaper business besides the bottom line. Here, an Orlando Sentinel journo grapples with him in a lively exchange that ends with Zell letting fly with an F-bomb.
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Yeah, he made his point. I don't get why he needed to throw the bomb. It seemed a little misplaced. And bullshit, Mr. Zell. You aren't trying to increase your profits so you can "afford" journalists, you increase your profits because that's what makes rich people feel more human or manly or whatever feeling they're after…by making vast amoounts of money and flaunting it.
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to confront your ink brothers at the NYTimes and ask them how hard it was to overlook the charges going off at the trade center?
Sam you're just another fraud at the end of a keyboard, what's that like?


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RGB vs. RYB/CMYK: what's the difference?
RGB and RYB/CMYK are two of many color spaces. These two engross folks who work in web and print.
RGB (Red, Green, Blue) is used for computer screens, scanners, digital cameras and other devices that give out light. RYB/CMYK (Red, Yellow, Blue and/or Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black) is used for paintings, magazines, fabrics, cars, and actually all materials around us that reflect light rather than emit light. "Red, Yellow, Blue" is the traditional painter's palette. ColorJack uses the acronym RYB to also represent CMYK. Let's delve deeper into these color models.
Our eyes see the visible world by light. The colors we see are made of merging red, green, and blue light. So, our eyes see in RGB? Yeah – you could say that – but CMYK comes into play too. Color is visible due to the RGB light that our eye sees, but that light is mainly reflected light – light reflected off our world of CMYK colored objects.
Subtractive Color – RYB/CMYK
Imagine some light shining on an object. The pigment – i.e., colorants like ink, paint, dye, etc. – on the surface of the object determines which colors are reflected and which are absorbed. Pigment acts as a filter that absorbs (subtracts) different amounts of red, green, and blue light, and that bounces back the remaining colors for us to view. So, our eyes see the pigments – RYB/CMYK – that reflect off an object, and we do not see those that absorb light into the object. This is why RYB/CMYK is referred to as a "subtractive" color system. Like, when white light shines on red paint, the pigment absorbs – or "subtracts" – the blue and green light and reflects the red. As a painter, I tend to think of RYB/CMYK as "adding" colors, because we start with a white surface and add colored pigment to build up colors. But the term "subtractive" refers to the light waves rather than the pigment/colorants.
Additive Color – RGB
"Additive" color systems create color with light. Visualize a black screen, then add varying amounts of red, green, and blue lights. Colors "mixed" together create the appearance of more colors. For instance, red and green light shine together to create yellow.
Add more colors of light, and the color becomes lighter. When red, green, and blue are added in equal intensity, they combine to make white light. The previous three sentences seem strange to those of us who grew up mixing paints, where adding colors usually creates darker colors! Those with hands-on painting experience may feel more natural using RYB/CMYK for adjusting and mixing colors.
Converting RGB to CMYK and vice-versa
The human eye perceives more colors than possible on either RGB screens or in RYB/CMYK colorants. And the gamut (range of colors) in RGB and RYB/ CMYK varies slightly from one to the other. When converting digital files from one color space to another, RGB/CMYK translators make as close a match as possible. Color info can be lost if it's not present in the other color space, so, it's best to switch back and forth as little as possible. Try to stay in RGB for a final destination that is digital; and CMYK has traditionally been the choice for the destination of professional printing (ask your printer).
This article got kinda deep for me – hey, my degree's in fine arts, not physics – but I've enjoyed researching color modes in hopes of clearer understanding for artists /designers… it is really quite wonderful to think about.
That's it, for colorful spaces, until next time.


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From a technical perspective, the rising wedge formation we've seen over the past few weeks seems to have broken in the bulls' favor. It appears perhaps we now have an upside target of 2000 for the S&P 500 Index. Is that a big deal from current levels? Not really. Since markets are looking to get to those levels from here, there must be some supporting news. What could it be? Better earnings for the quarter starting in July would help, along with improving economic data and news.
The last three major bull markets included the dot-com bubble bursting in 2000, followed by the subprime housing bubble in 2008. Now it's the central bank bubble, which will burst eventually. Until then, you have to go with the flow.
Many investors hate this market and are looking for shorting opportunities that haven't existed. Sure, there are trading opportunities, but they've been of the short-term variety.
Stocks become more and more expensive when other opportunities like cash are unrewarding. Central banks are forcing investors to be long risk (stocks) given how low yields are in less risky (bonds) investments. It's also allowed or forced corporations to take advantage of low rates to borrow money and buy back shares. This makes earnings look better on reduced float.
Stocks rallied on Friday as the employment report came in roughly as expected, with 217K new jobs created versus 282K the previous month. But, within the data, 806K workers disappeared and the labor participation rated remained stuck at a low 62.8. Most new jobs were in low-paying services sectors including leisure, education, health, and temporary help. It took six years for the economy to reach the same level of jobs as in 2008, but the population has grown during that period.
Consumer credit soared to $26.8 billion vs. $15 billion expected and prior $19 billion with most of this auto and student loans. That said, revolving debt (credit cards) expanded $8.8 billion as consumers maxed out their credit cards. That's the highest since November 2007. What happened next was (ahem) 2008 and the subprime bust. And where did they spend this money? Most earnings from retail companies were weak. Perhaps this money was used to pay bills?
Leading market sectors higher included: small caps (IWM) IWM, +0.20% , Industrials XLI, +0.34% Financials XLF, -0.64% , Banks KBE, -1.19% , Regional Banks KRE, -1.22% , Energy OIH, +0.06% , Transports IYT, +0.78% , Consumer Discretionary XLY, +0.12% , Retail XRT, -0.15% , Semiconductors SMH, -1.15% , Small Cap Value VBR, -0.02% , Homebuilders ITB, -0.11% , Brazil EWZ, +1.16% , Mexico EWW, +0.68% , India EPI, +0.05% , South Korea EWY, +0.91% , Russia RSX, -0.06% , Spain EWP, +0.93% , Europe VGK, +0.02% , Germany EWG, +0.84% , Turkey TUR, -0.98% , Italy EWI, +0.53% , International Dividend DWX, +0.22% , Agriculture DBA, +0.14% , Coal Producers KOL, +1.71% and many more.
Leading market sectors lower included: Solar TAN, -0.25% , REITs IYR, -0.11% , Utilities XLU, -0.48% , China FXI, -0.46% , Hong Kong EWH, -0.69% , Copper JJC, +2.97% and Gold Miners GDX, +5.52% .
The top 20 market movers by percentage change in volume whether rising or falling is available daily.
Chart of the day
SPDR Financial Sector ETF (XLF) has been struggling in a trading range for some time as this weekly chart shows. But now we see a breakout higher. This is significant given the large weighting financials have in the S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.07% . Weekly chart annotations below include, from top to bottom: Relative Strength Index; Proprietary MACD Histogram Moving Average, five- & 10-day Simple Moving Averages and a Money Flow Index. We entered a long XLF position at the open of trading on Monday.
Volume continues to be ultra-light while breadth per the WSJ was quite positive.


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Great news. Iran and Hezbollah are no longer terrorism threats
As we've been warning, the fix is in on the Iran nuclear negotiations. The administration has decided that Iran is the logical and preferred ally of the United States in the Middle East and that Iranian help in fighting ISIS is worth letting the Islamic extremists in Iran have a nuclear weapon. Yesterday we posted on how the letter by White House chief of staff | Read More »


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A young man at the bus stop
turns to me and softly asks
"Why aren't you wearing shoes?"
He taps the faded leather
of his suedo-skin
and his eyes smile in a gentle lilt
before his mouth does.
I tell him that I like
to feel the earth breathe.
That textures keep my mind alive
and ticking like a clock.
I tell him that I'm trying to grow roots
so my pale limbs can twist into a tree
(the way L and I talked about it in therapy).
I tell him that my soul is lonely
and the ground is the only thing that's always there.
I tell him that bare skin is sensitive
and stroking it with every (twelfth) step
is a soothing form of self-care.
I tell him that I walk on water
and if I had shoes; I'd drown.
I tell him that my soles bruise
until they match my soul.
I tell him that my bones are soft
and the soil sews them back into reality
when I'm losing grip on sanity.
I tell him that I'm praying
one day I'll step on a syringe.
I shrug my shoulders,
open my mouth and say
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Holly Drown was named the head coach of the BSU women's lacrosse team in the summer of 2013. A 2009 University of Massachusetts graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in Sport Management, Drown was a four-year lacrosse player for the Minutewomen. She played in 69 career games for UMass, tallying 80 goals and 13 assists for 93 career points.
As a senior, Drown was selected to the Atlantic 10 All-Tournament Team and the All-Conference Second Team. Additionally, she was named to the 2009 All-Conference Academic Team and she was a member of Chi Alpha Sigma, the National College Student-Athlete Honor Society.
A native of Nashua, New Hampshire, Drown most recently served as the head women's lacrosse coach at Division II Saint Anselm College from 2010 to 2013. In three years at Saint Anselm, she compiled an overall record of 22-25, including a 17-19 mark in Northeast-10 play. She improved upon her win total each season, culminating with a 10-7 campaign in 2013 that netted her Northeast-10 Coach of the Year honors. The 7-5 mark in conference play earned the Hawks their first berth into the Northeast-10 Championship since 2006, while the 10 wins are the most for Saint Anselm in the 14-year history of the program.
Drown, who was also the Fitness Center Coordinator and Director of Intramurals at Saint Anselm, guided the Hawks to an 8-8 record (6-6 NE-10) as well as the program's first ever national ranking in 2012. The team narrowly missed a playoff berth, but finished the season ranked 13th in the country.
Drown has also served as head coach for the Granite State Elite Lacrosse Club in Amherst, New Hampshire since the summer of 2008, where she coached top New Hampshire high school lacrosse players and assisted them with the college recruiting process. She presently works for the Laxachusetts club lacrosse program, which had its inaugural season this past year, coaching all ages out of the Boston area.
Drown, who presently resides in Hull, Massachusetts, is also a 200-hour certified yoga instructor and has taught yoga at various camps and gyms throughout New England including the Open Doors Yoga Studios in nearby Weymouth, Massachusetts.


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The Schecter Hellraiser C-7 FR electric guitar sports seven stings and has a long 26.5" scale length 24-fret...
Schecter Guitar Research has a decades-long history going back to 1976 when David Schecter opened his shop in Van Nuys, California. Originally, Schecter manufactured parts for other guitars, but by 1979 the company was building its own instruments from scratch. That kicked off a tradition that continues to this day with a wide variety of guitars in their catalog and Schecter has a lot to offer in extended-range electric guitars, with a significant number of models available in 7 and 8-string versions. With so many to choose from, it can be hard to know where to begin with Schecter's extended-range guitars. You might start your search with the Hellraiser models, which have become a mainstay of rock and metal since they were first introduced in 2006. The C-7 FR and C-8 FR are loaded with EMG 707-TW and EMG-808 active humbuckers, respectively, as well as genuine Floyd Rose tremolo bridges. There are also the Hellraiser Hybrids, which blend together features from the standard Hellraiser and Schecter's SLS models, including a redesigned maple top paired with the compound-radius ultra-slim neck borrowed from the SLS. Both extended-range Hellraiser Hybrids feature EMG 57/66 active humbucking pickups.
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It is affecting traffic on the westbound carriageway between junctions 29 and 31.
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Whole Roast Red Snapper with Tomatoes, Lemon, and Thyme
- Active Time 5m
- Total Time 40m
Makes 6 servings
This fish dish--quick, delicious, and presented whole--makes an impact. It requires just 15 minutes of preparation and 30 minutes of cooking time. The ingredients are simple. Just prep the fish, place it in the oven, and--presto!--it actually makes its own colorful sauce, replete with Provencal flavors.
I learned this recipe on my first day working in Michel Guerard's three-star restaurant in France. Toward the end of the morning's preparation, the chef stunned me when he handed me a whole snapper and casually told me to prepare lunch for him and the entire staff. Lunch for the whole staff . . . at Guerard's restaurant? I was, to say the least, terrified. When I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, a young French chef showed me the simple preparation for this dish, as well as his method for boning cooked fish. I've made my own adjustments over the years, but this still remains very much as he taught me. The recipe was tested with a 6-pound snapper, but you may also make it with a group of smaller fish, cooking them in the same pan.
- 1 (6-pound) whole red snapper, cleaned and scaled
- Coarse salt and freshly ground white pepper
- 3/4 cup thinly sliced shallots
- 6 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 1 cup peeled, seeded, and chopped ripe tomatoes (or use canned tomatoes if ripe are not available)
- 1 small lemon, thinly sliced, seeds removed
- 1 tablespoon coarsely cracked coriander seeds
- 4 sprigs thyme
- 4 sprigs flat-leaf parsley; plus 2 tablespoons chopped, for garnish
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly oil the bottom of a roasting pan
large enough to hold the whole fish. (If necessary, trim the fins with
scissors to get a better fit.) Rinse the red snapper inside and out with
cold running water and pat it dry with paper towels. Slash 4 X's about 1/4
inch deep into the thickest parts on both sides of the fish to ensure even
cooking. Season well with salt and pepper. Place the fish in the roasting
pan, and scatter a few of the shallots and garlic in the cavity.
Strew the tomatoes, lemon, the remaining shallots and garlic, the coriander
seeds, thyme and parsley sprigs over the fish, and drizzle with olive oil.
Cover with aluminum foil.
Roast until the fish is cooked, 35 to 40 minutes. To test the fish for
doneness, make a small incision near the head. It should be just opaque
near the bone. Using 2 large metal spatulas, transfer the fish to a warmed
serving platter. Spoon the vegetable garnish over the fish, sprinkle with
the chopped parsley, and present the whole fish at the table.
TO SERVE: Use a long, thin-bladed knife to cut vertically through the top
fillet to the backbone. Make an incision down the backbone, and remove the
back and dorsal fins. Use a large fork to lift off the 2 portions of the
top fillet and place on warmed dinner plates. Lift off the bone structure
and head and discard. Cut the bottom fillet in half horizontally. Transfer
to dinner plates. Serve with the vegetables.
VARIATIONS: Substitute a whole wild striped bass for the red snapper. Or
use smaller, farm-raised striped bass (about 2 pounds each), cooking the
smaller fish for 20 to 30 minutes.
FLAVOR BUILDING: Nicoise or green olives enhance this dish very well;
use approximately 1 cup pitted olives. Sage, rosemary, and/or thyme may
also be added to taste.
Recipe reprinted by permission of Doubleday. All rights reserved.
RecID 3212
nutrition information per serving
502 calories; 23g total fat; 112mg cholesterol; 201mg sodium; 7g carbohydrates; 1g fiber; 63g protein
These nutrition facts are calculated according to the ingredients listed in this recipe. Any substitutions will change these facts. Although we strive for accuracy, please note that food manufacturers occasionally change their food formulas, which could affect the calculations as shown.
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In a season that started off filled with hope, the results for 2012 on the Shore (52-86) can only be described as disappointing. No roster in the O's organization started the season with more "must see" prospects than the Shorebirds, but after a quick start, promotions, poor defense, and a lack of timely hitting led to a long season for fans.
A season that began with Dylan Bundy, Tim Berry and Bridwell anchoring the rotation along with Johnny Ruettiger, Glynn Davis, Nick Delmonico and Jason Esposito in the field; ended with Steel Russell, Juan Guzman and Alex Schmarzo. Nothing against those players, but it just shows the revolving door Delmarva was.
Below is a recap of some of the names and faces that came through the Shore this season. So everyone is aware I am a season ticket holder and attend about 55-60 games a season, so many of these players I saw about 50% of the total games they played. I could not fit everyone on here, but I would welcome any discussion on the players not listed on the forums.
Parker Bridwell
I was hoping Parker would get a late season promotion to Frederick to give him a glimpse into next season. Statistically, you won't see much improvement from month to month and second half over first half, but trust me, I saw a lot of change in him during the final weeks of the season. All season I spoke about the fact Parker was not challenging hitters, which he began to do with much success. The fastball and sinker are both heavy pitches with lots of movement. I would like to see the organization give him a little more freedom and input on pitch sequence in Frederick next year. Potential and tools are still there.
Matt Taylor
Matt moved from the pen to the starter roll in late May. I think his calling is more in the pen as his delivery has too much shoulder action for long term starter status. He is effective when he keeps the ball down in the zone, but doesn't do that enough. He was shut down late season but should be healthy in time for camp.
Zach Davies
If you are in Frederick with Zach next season, please buy him a meal. Listed at 6′ and 150 lbs, I think he must have had about 20lb shoes when these numbers were taken. Focus for him is on the off speed stuff, and he works it very well. Another arm that moved from the pen to the rotation in May. The delivery is smooth and with the right weight program, could remain a starter in the future.
Jesse Beal
It is hard to believe Jesse has been in the organization since 2008. He is still only 22, and his size and delivery are intimidating from 60 ft away. Classic pitching style who settled in well at the end of the season with a 20/3 K/BB ratio in his last 10 appearances. A healthy off season should see him in the Frederick pen next year.
Alex Schmarzo
This is my diamond in the rough player. Alex is 23 so he needs to progress quickly, but as a 48th round pick, little was expected here. Over his last six outings covering 11.2 IP, he allowed 3 ER with 2 BB and 14K. Alex has some of the oddest habits both entering the game and while on the mound, but it makes him fun to watch.
Sammie Starr
One of the few bright spots this season, Sammie moved on to play the final few games of the season in Frederick and one in Norfolk. At 24, Starr is in no way a prospect, but if you are a true fan of the guys that go out and give everything everyday, this is the player for you. Hard nose defense and never saw a ball he didn't think he could get to, he plays bigger than his 5'8″ frame.
Connor Narron
Son of Jerry Narron, Connor showed exceptional flashes this year. Connor hit 10 HR over 119 games, with half of them coming in a 30 game stretch in which he hit .330. He is still a player without a position as this club was loaded with both SS and 3B type players. Also turning 21 off season, the O's have a lot of options with him for 2013 as they could allow him to repeat Low A but with a position or continue to use him as a super utility player (ala Buck Britton) at Frederick.
Wynston Sawyer
Hard to imagine taking a second look at someone that hits .221 for the season with no power, but Wyston made great strides once Gabriel Lino was traded and he received more regular playing time. Struggling to hit just .169 prior to the AS break, Sawyer hit .264 after, and raised his OPS more than .200. He will turn 21 during the off season, and advancing his skills at handling duties behind the plate are the next key for him.
Michael Ohlman
I'm planning on doing a separate full story on Michael in the next couple weeks, because his story needs to be told. If the O's gave a comeback MiLB player award, he would have been a unanimous selection this year. After hitting just .224 last season, Michael came back from an off season injury and 50 game suspension to appear in 51 games on the Shore hitting .304 with an OBP of .400. Additionally, Michael, who had struggled behind the plate in 2011, improved his handling of pitchers and in limited appearances, threw out 38% of runners. I had talked after last season of the need to move him to another position (LF or 1B) and hope the bat continued to develop. Now I see him as the C in Frederick next season.


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For the first time ever, both the opening and closing night parties have been inspired by the premieres of entertaining films with our events team creating "theme-events", G.B.F. (Gay Best Friend) with a mock prom theme on opening night and Hot Guys with Guns with a spoof murder mystery thriller.
Both venues for these parties are also new spaces for QFest events. Lit Ultra Bar, with its all-white leather décor with a dash of '90s accessories seems like a perfect match for prom queens and their faux dates, their best gay boyfriends; Underground Arts, with its cavernous atmosphere and dark corners enhances plenty of hot gay guys with guns in pursuit of criminals and murderers and sexy suspects of all kinds.
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Despite the billions of dollars we've poured into foreign wars, homeland security, and disaster response, we are fundamentally no better prepared for the next terrorist attack or unprecedented flood than we were in 2001. Our response to catastrophe remains unchanged: add another step to airport security, another meter to the levee wall. This approach has proved totally ineffective: reacting to past threats and trying to predict future risks will only waste resources in our increasingly unpredictable world.
In Learning from the Octopus, ecologist and security expert Rafe Sagarin rethinks the seemingly intractable problem of security by drawing inspiration from a surprising source: nature. Biological organisms have been living — and thriving — on a risk-filled planet for billions of years. Remarkably, they have done it without planning, predicting, or trying to perfect their responses to complex threats. Rather, they simply adapt to solve the challenges they continually face.
Military leaders, public health officials, and business professionals would all like to be more adaptable, but few have figured out how. Sagarin argues that we can learn from observing how nature is organized, how organisms learn, how they create partnerships, and how life continually diversifies on this unpredictable planet.
As soon as we dip our toes into a cold Pacific tidepool and watch what we thought was a rock turn into an octopus, jetting away in a cloud of ink, we can begin to see the how human adaptability can mimic natural adaptation. The same mechanisms that enabled the octopus's escape also allow our immune system to ward off new infectious diseases, helped soldiers in Iraq to recognize the threat of IEDs, and aided Google in developing faster ways to detect flu outbreaks.
While we will never be able to predict the next earthquake, terrorist attack, or market fluctuation, nature can guide us in developing security systems that are not purely reactive but proactive, holistic, and adaptable. From the tidepools of Monterey to the mountains of Kazakhstan, Sagarin takes us on an eye-opening tour of the security challenges we face, and shows us how we might learn to respond more effectively to the unknown threats lurking in our future.
"A marine biologist applies his expertise to national security, delivering some ingenious ideas. He points out that 3.5 billion years of evolution have given plants and animals tactics that can serve us in dealing with terrorism, hurricanes, and epidemics. Sagarin, environment policy analyst at the University of Arizona, writes that, confronted with a threat, governments, inherently unadaptable, gather specialists to anticipate the next disaster and devise an often clunky plan. Organisms, on the other hand, never plan or anticipate; they adapt and also learn to live with a tolerable level of insecurity. Security in nature is never centralized; every herd animal keeps an eye out. Eradicating risk is impossible because the threat also adapts, e.g., insurgencies adapt faster than standing armies. Sagarin proposes that governments are too cumbersome to adapt, and that we should devise an 'adaptable cascade' with decentralized multiple problem solvers. Occasionally, the theory misfires (a politician who advocates tolerating a modest level of terrorism will enjoy a short career), but few readers will deny that Sagarin is onto something. Agent: Esmond Harmsworth, Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency." Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Ohio State University's Organic Food and Farming Education and Research program invites farmers, scientists and anyone else interested in organic food and farming to attend its autumn symposium, "Future Directions for Organic Agriculture Research."
The event is from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center's Shisler Conference Center, 1680 Madison Ave., in Wooster. Registration is free. Lunch will be provided.
Ohio State scientist Larry Phelan, the event's lead organizer, calls the symposium "a summit for stakeholders and researchers to discuss the future of organic farming and how we can anticipate research and education needs to help producers and processors be successful."
Future market trends, consumer demand, policy and regulatory issues, production and processing challenges and the proposed Organic Research and Promotion Program will be among the topics.
Speaking at the symposium will be:
? Laura Batcha, executive vice president of the Organic Trade Association.
? Maureen Wilmot, executive director of the Organic Farming Research Foundation.
? Mike Anderson, sustainable agriculture educator of the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association.
? Deb Stinner, panel manager of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative and retired former head of OFFER.
To reserve a place in the symposium, register online in advance at http://oardc.osu.edu/offer/registration.asp. Space is limited. For more information, call 330-202-3528 or email email@example.com.
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Ultimate Edition 3.8, a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, has been released into the wild, breathing new life into this old operating system.
The distribution was built from the ground up, and it comes with an assortment of desktop environments, including Unity.
"Ultimate Edition 3.8 was built from the ground up debootstrapped from the Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail tree. Many of the issues I faced with the development of Ultimate Edition 3.6 & 3.7 just faded away. Finally in my humble opinion a release worthy of the Ultimate Edition title," reads the official announcement.
The developer of this distro has tried to make Ultimate Edition as secure as possible, but he also simplified everything by reducing the number of available desktop environments to just one, MATE 1.6.
"My main focus on this distribution, was your privacy and security. I have taken steps beyond the call of duty to ensure that is exactly what happens. These integrated features may become a new de facto or standard with future releases of Ultimate Edition."
"No more 'Big Brother' watching over your shoulder and tracking your every move. Funny how other O/S's want to spy on you or target you for ads," the dev said.
Another interesting new feature is the Software Center, which has been heavily modified in order to better fit the distribution.
Ultimate Edition 3.8 has been deemed as a stable distribution, and users are encouraged to use with confidence. The new 4.0 version is still some time away and you should not wait for it, as the current one will be sufficient until then.
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Actress Elaine Stritch dies at 89
Actress Elaine Stritch attends the 'Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me' screening at Paley Center For Media on February 19, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)
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Actress and singer Elaine Stritch, who conquered Broadway, films and TV, died Thursday at her home in Birmingham, Alabama, at the age of 89. Her friend, Julie Keyes, confirmed the news to The New York Times, which describes Stritch as a "brassy, tart-tongued" actress who was "perhaps the leading interpreter of Stephen Sondheim's wryly acrid musings on aging."
Before moving to Birmingham last year, Stritch lived for many years at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan, the Times reports.
In her nearly 70-year career. Stritch appeared in films such as Woody Allen's "September" (1987) and "Small Time Crooks" (2000), as well as "Cocoon: The Return" (1988), "Cadillac Man" (1990), "Autumn in New York" (2000), and "Monster-in-Law" (2005). Her television series included "My Sister Eileen," "Wagon Train," and most recently, NBC's "30 Rock," where she played the crotchety mother of Alec Baldwin's character. She also made guest appearances on "The Cosby Show," "Head of the Class," "Law & Order," "Oz" and "3rd Rock from the Sun."
On Broadway, she appeared in "Pal Joey," "Goldilocks," "Sail Away," "Bus Stop," "Company," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "A Delicate Balance" "Endgame" and "Show Boat." She earned multiple Tony nominations.
A one-woman show titled "Elaine Stritch at Liberty" became a Broadway smash, according to The Times. The show won a Tony Award for best special theatrical event. When "Elaine Stritch at Liberty" was broadcast on HBO in 2004, Stritch added an Emmy to her collection of awards, the Times reports.
She made her final Broadway appearance in 2010, the Times reports, replacing Angela Lansbury in a Broadway revival of "A Little Night Music."
"In April 2013, before she left the Carlyle, in whose cabaret lounge, Café Carlyle, she had frequently performed, she gave one last show: 'Elaine Stritch at the Carlyle: Movin' Over and Out,'" according to The New York Times. "A documentary about her, 'Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me,' was released this year."
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The next five years of CSR - some progress
An Article from Business Respect, Issue Number 46, dated 29 Dec 2002
By Mallen Baker
This time last year, we made a number of predictions about what would happen in the world of corporate social responsibility over the coming five years. It may not be five years later just yet - but it's worth nevertheless fearlessly casting an eye back on each of these to see whether trends since that time suggest the predictions will ultimately hold up or not.
1. There will be a growing emphasis on the quality of management of corporate social responsibility - not just whether you do it at all.
This prediction centred of the heart of the business case for CSR. People ask the question whether you can draw a correlation between socially responsible business practice and economic performance or share price.
But there is no other aspect of management where you would expect such a link to be automatic, regardless of the quality of your work.
Progress: Not much yet. Whether a company 'does' CSR remains pretty much a yes / no question. However, the factors that led to the prediction remain in place, and we think it still holds pretty good.
2. CSR will increasingly be defined by core business issues, managed strategically across the business.
Last year, we said "this is already happening, and happening fast. The days when CSR could be seen as the philanthropic work of the business are gone. The speed of this varies depending on where you are in the world - but the companies which are the trailblazers are often those who have faced serious problems or are particularly exposed. For them CSR means hard choices about how the company does business, not about what it does as an add-on extra."
Progress: Significant over the last year. Many companies that had dealt predominantly with social investment programmes have moved around to look at their performance across the agenda. British American Tobacco produced their report this year that focused on product responsibility issues. The pharmaceutical industry, the alcohol and gambling industries, even utilities and service companies have started to address product responsibility seriously.
NGO initiatives are now starting to reflect the state of the marketplace on this as well.
What hasn't yet been achieved is a body of best practice case studies of companies successfully integrating the issues across their business. There have been a number of statements of intent that set out the challenge, however.
3. Companies will become much more sophisticated about how they communicate with stakeholders
Last year, we said "[CSR] reports are most impressively defined by who does not read them. Customers don't read them. Mainstream shareholders don't read them. Often, employees don't read them either - although some will.
"But a report is really just a means of communication - and if a company wants to enjoy the real benefits of enhanced corporate reputation as a result of solid positions and work on areas that matter to their most important stakeholders, they will need to find ways which communicate simply, whilst building trust and - ideally - real engagement."
2002 has been the year when companies began to realise that there isn't one development path for CSR reporting that would solve this problem. The Global Reporting Initiative began to be seriously challenged as the route that would legitimise stakeholder reporting.
What we haven't yet seen is a vision of the future. There are companies producing larger and larger reports - many of which purport to follow the GRI guidelines. No-one yet is really showing how the company takes the dialogue out to its major stakeholders. Maybe it can't be done. If not, it will be the death of social reporting.
4. The growing expectations on business will survive recession (and even war, if need be)
This time last year, things looked very bleak. There was a lot of uncertainty about whether the CSR movement would survive the downturn at all. And war was in the year.
Progress: This year, things look pretty bleak and - well, that whiff of war is in the air again. Some of the CSR consultancies have had a tough time of it, but by and large the drivers for social responsibility haven't been much affected by changed circumstances. This prediction seems spot on (so far!).
The real test remains how well the CSR community has done its job. Those that have introduced companies to an integrated, core-business approach to CSR will see commitment continue to grow. The continuing spread of information around the world makes it impossible for companies to ignore this agenda. However, those who have been sold a CSR-as-philanthropy line - where good things are done with a community budget as a complete sideline of how the business makes its money - these areas will be the ones to be cut. Because they cost money, but don't measure or demonstrate their value.
5. How you downsize and what you make will become the two most significant benchmarks
Last year we said "there will be a lot of downsizing going on over the next year or two. All those companies who have declared their values-driven approach are about to find that approach tested. It is not, after all, what you do during the good times that is the measure of your character.
"Equally - the current controversies for business are about their core products. GM foods, AIDS drugs, tobacco, you name it. That isn't to say that you cannot be socially responsible if you sell harmful products. But you certainly can't if you don't seriously engage in the harm that your products cause - and seek to resolve the problems at source."
Progress: The issues around downsizing have neither retreated nor much advanced during the last year. Issues of product responsibility however certainly have. GM products have been in the news consistently in the last year, as has tobacco. In the latter case, we have seen the first instance of a tobacco company seeking serious engagement.
6. There will be growing tension between business-led CSR and NGO demands for better globalisation
Last year, we said "many NGOs support CSR because it is "going in the right direction" - but this support is qualified and time-limited. When the often unrealistically high expectations of NGOs of what would constitute companies "doing the right thing" are not met, there will be a backlash against CSR by those who therefore decide it has no value or substance."
Progress: We do believe 2002 has seen the heightening of tensions. NGO attacks on businesses are not new - but the focus has increasingly been those companies that have made the most progress rather than the least. There is an inherent rejection of CSR if it falls short of anything other than the full unvarnished values of the NGO community - which it always necessarily will. There is more to come on this.
7. The business of social accountability is professionalising there will be firmer standards in the future
The rise of AA1000 and the Institute for Social and Ethical Accountability will lead to the growth of expectations on CSR professionals - in much the same way as has taken place with the environmental standards for business. This ought to be a good thing - although the problems of the quality movement are ones to learn from - too few good quality assessors and too many company approaches bolted on using off-the-shelf bureaucratic systems. Really what's needed is better quality leadership - and it's difficult to plan a system to provide it.
Progress: The revised AA1000S and SA8000 standards represent progress in this area. The growing use of third party verification for social reports likewise - although there is still something of a crisis in the definition of the value of this verification that needs to be resolved.
8. Governments will largely refrain from legislation on CSR
Last year, we said "By and large, when governments look at this area in any detail, they are brought back to the basic truth that regulation can only defend against bad practice - it can never promote best practice. Add that to the fact that there are no obvious legislative measures to bring in for this area that any campaign group is highlighting - and you come to the conclusion that moves will be limited to the kind of thing in the UK company law review - moves to encourage, and to pressure companies on disclosure."
Progress: So far, this has been borne out by events. The EU White Paper certainly pulled back from any of the intrusive activity that some featured, and attempts in the UK to introduce requirements for CSR reporting have been fruitless so far. France has been the exception - with legislation there to require reporting.
9. Political lobbying is a landmine waiting to explode
Last year, we said "few of the CSR frameworks in circulation draw attention to the need for transparency on the attempts of companies - for better or ill - to influence the public policy process. It may well be a tobacco company can defend its existence in the market for an adult product which people buy from free choice. But it makes a big difference to that equation if said tobacco company has been engaged in lobbying to obstruct laws that would improve the public health.
"But whatever the starting point expectations may be, the company's record on lobbying will increasingly be expected to be a part of what the company reports related to social responsibility. And here I think you will find companies at their most defensive - and their most unwilling to allow full disclosure. It will also be a key flashpoint for the NGOs and the campaigners."
Progress: Some companies - notably BP - have made high profile statements that they will refrain from political donations in all the areas they operate. Certainly, the role of political lobbyists has come under some scrutiny following the wave of corporate corruption scandals. The role of companies like Exxon in lobbying around the leadership of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has also been an issue this year.
There remains some way to go on this one, however.
So overall? No predictions that have proved to be way off the mark to the extent that they would be retracted. A good number that described trends that have certainly proved themselves over the last year - and a number whose value remains to be proven. Not bad for the first year!


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The 10th Iran Petrochemical Forum opened in Tehran today. Investment program currently under way will lead to the country's share of petrochemicals output rising from 24% to 38% of the Mideast's total by 2015, said Ramezan Oladi, planning manager of National Iranian Petrochemical Co. (NIPC; Tehran). Petrochemical exports accounted for 37.5% of Iran's nonoil exports in the past Iranian calendar year, which ended 20 March, Oladi said. The country exported $12 billion worth of petrochemicals last year. China and some countries in Western Europe are...
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals' novel cystic fibrosis treatment VX-770 has demonstrated strong efficacy in a Phase III trial, meeting the primary endpoint and key secondary endpoints. VX-770 targets the underlying cause of the disease, and, if approved, would offer a novel treatment approach.
A Datamonitor report has identified that the leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies face a major slowdown in sales growth out to 2014, primarily a result of the imminent patent expiries facing many blockbusters and the subsequent threat from generics. Prescription sales are expected to rise at a compound annual growth rate of just 1.2% over 2008-14, compared to a historical rate of 10.5%.
Roche's Q3 2010 and year-to-date sales are down on the year prior, due primarily to a large decline in demand for the antiviral Tamiflu, although the company's impressive MAb trio of Avastin, Herceptin and MabThera continue to provide strong sales. However, Roche is looking to lower its dependency on these blockbusters, having inked a deal with InterMune for hepatitis C small molecule danoprevir.
New data show that immediate treatment with Rituxan provides an impressive reduction in follicular lymphoma progression rates. These results could lead to a change in the management of newly diagnosed asymptomatic follicular lymphoma patients and increased uptake of Rituxan in the seven major markets.
Despite being one of the two hallmarks for Alzheimer's disease for over a century, little drug development has focused on tau as a therapeutic target. At this year's International Conference for Alzheimer's Disease, two groups presented data suggesting the viability of tau as a target for vaccine development, offering an alternative target for companies keen to boost their neurology pipelines.
In recent years, the annual International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease has become the foremost event on the Alzheimer's disease calendar. As a primary hallmark of the disease, beta-amyloid production and deposition have become the focus for drug development. At this year's meeting progress was reported on several beta-amyloid targeted clinical stage pipeline drugs.
Multi-blockbuster Avastin has once again failed to show improved disease-free survival in a Phase III study for early-stage colon cancer. Although this will not impact Avastin's dominance in already approved indications, it is a major setback for development in the lucrative adjuvant therapy market and provides an opportunity for Erbitux.
Already a widely used therapy in HER-2-positive breast cancer patients, Herceptin now has the potential to establish itself in the equivalent gastric cancer subset following positive survival results in a pivotal trial. However, with other top-selling targeted therapy drugs also in late-stage development for the same indication, competition is on the horizon.
This year's meeting of the American Urological Association saw several major pharmaceutical players presenting new data and discussing potential new pathways for disease treatment. Among the areas of focus was prostate cancer, with Dendreon presenting new data for its groundbreaking vaccine Provenge and Amgen highlighting the potential of Prolia in the treatment of this disease.
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POJOAQUE – Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino officially opened under a gentle rain near midday on Wednesday.
George Rivera, tribal governor for the Pueblo of Pojoaque, said it was a blessing, just like the rain that fell on Aug. 12, when the complex held its "soft" opening," at least two months ahead of schedule and in time for Indian Market, the biggest tourist attraction for the region.
Rain is a propitious sign in an arid land.
Rivera dedicated Buffalo Thunder to the tribal members "past, present and future."
Construction began on the 586-acre site at the beginning of last year, but there were other beginnings that figure into the story.
The pueblo cites archeological evidence that their Tewa-speaking ancestors have inhabited the area for at least a thousand years.
There are currently 386 enrolled tribal members who live on the land that now sports a $280 million-or-so Las-Vegas-style hotel casino and recreational destination with 395 rooms, golf courses, restaurants, boutiques and vast halls for banquets and entertainment.
Rivera recalled the last hundred years, which included a period when the pueblo was abandoned and then slowly reconstituted.
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