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Yearlings are a funny bunch. Gangly and half-grown they're at that gawky stage where hips are higher than withers and where legs seem all knobby knees and hocks. Sometimes it seems that designing a correct feeding program for them is almost as awkward as the yearlings themselves. You want your youngsters to achieve their maximum height and full athletic potential–but you don't want to overdo the nutritional support and create all sorts of growth-related problems. What's an owner to do?
Feeding yearlings actually follows many of the same principles you applied the previous year when these same youngsters were weanlings. The main difference is that while they still have quite a bit of growing to do the rate at which growth proceeds has slowed somewhat. Horses achieve about 90% of their full height by 12 to 15 months of age as well as 95% of their mature bone length and 70% of their adult weight. The remaining growth happens more gradually over the next few seasons. (Some breeds mature more quickly than others of course; many Quarter Horses have pretty much finished their growing by the time they're 2 1/2 while some warmblood and draft breeds still have significant filling out to do even in their fourth or fifth year.)
Because the growth rate has slowed there is less risk of developmental joint problems; if your yearling hasn't developed them by now it's likely that with continuing correct nutritional support he's out of the woods.
Still it's important to design your program for your youngster's optimum growth–not necessarily his fastest growth. Studies have confirmed that a fast growth rate will not increase the mature size of a horse and it puts undue strain on developing bones and joints. Instead your goal should be to achieve a steady growth rate from birth to maturity avoiding any severe growth depressions or spurts by maintaining a good balance of nutrients in the diet and minimizing stress.
A healthy yearling doesn't look like a slick miniature version of an adult. He should resemble the teenager he is–angular somewhat unbalanced and perhaps even a little on the lean side. Don't despair if he doesn't particularly please the eye at this stage; as long as he is growing and gaining weight has a shiny hair coat and a bright attitude and your veterinarian gives him a clean bill of health he's right on track. It's a good bet he will become more balanced and proportionate as he approaches the age of two.
Good Grazing A Healthy Start
During the spring and summer months a good mixed grass and legume pasture might be all a yearling needs to achieve a moderate growth rate. To ensure that your pasture provides sufficient nutrients get an analysis done of the forage growing on it; your local feed store or agriculture extension specialist should be able to provide this service and the information it returns can be invaluable. For example if your pasture is largely legume-based (alfalfa or clover for example) it might not deliver enough phosphorus to meet the requirements of yearlings. In this case you might need to supplement this mineral so as to provide the correct calcium/phosphorus balance for good bone growth.
Because you want to aim for an average weight gain of one to 1 1/4 pounds (450-600g) daily up to 18 months of age you also want to determine whether your pasture has enough grazing to achieve that. Generally speaking you want to provide at least 60 to 80 pounds of forage dry matter per 100 pounds of your yearling's body weight–which can be achieved with a stocking rate of about three yearlings per acre while forage is actively growing.
Of course even if you are lucky enough to have that much safely fenced grazing space a hot dry summer can scorch your pasture and leave you with withered grass that has little nutritional value. (Compare the nutritional content of mature grasses with the nutritional requirements of yearlings in the chart on page 79; you can see that they fall short of the daily requirements in several places including the digestible energy values.) If your pasture is poor the growth rate of your youngsters will suffer. In this case you will want to supplement the diet with hay and concentrates (grain) to ensure optimum growth.
Although it is difficult to make blanket recommendations for different breeds most yearlings of light-horse breeding will need their diets supplemented with about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 pounds per 100 pounds body weight of a balanced grain mix daily when grazing on poor pasture. (This usually works out to about five to six pounds of grain a day for horses somewhat less for ponies–but do make an effort to monitor your yearling's weight by measurement and calculation or by the regular use of a heartgirth weight tape.) The type of grain you feed is less important than whether it is nutritionally balanced to support growth with high levels of calcium and phosphorus copper and zinc. This usually is much easier to achieve with a commercially balanced sweet feed pellet or extruded ration than it is by mixing your own.
Look for a crude protein level that will complement your forage. The overall level of crude protein a yearling should be getting is about 12.5% (12% for a "long yearling" one over 18 months old). So if your pasture is low in protein–as it will be if it is winter or fall–if you are experiencing a drought or anytime if it is largely grass rather than legumes select a higher-protein grain to balance the diet. If on the other hand your pasture is rich and lush and largely alfalfa or clover choose a lower-protein grain mix. Many feed companies manufacture rations specifically designed to meet the needs of young growing horses; it is far better to choose one of these even if the cost is a little higher than to feed a maintenance ration for mature horses which might not provide sufficient nutrients and eventually will compromise your horses' growth.
In addition to grain good-quality legume or mixed hay should be provided free-choice. Avoid strictly grass hays which often don't deliver enough crude protein or digestible energy to support optimum growth. (Providing hay also can give herds of young horses an alternative to a habit they sometimes develop out of boredom–chewing each other's manes and tails.)
When grazing is non-existent as it might be in the winter months yearlings should receive a high-quality legume or 50/50 mixed (legume and grass) hay making up 50% of the total daily ration. For an average 700 pound 12-month-old yearling that should be about seven to 10.5 pounds of hay per day (with an equal weight in grain provided on a daily basis too).
Adding some supplemental fat to the diet can be as beneficial for yearlings as it is for mature horses. Not only does fat (usually vegetable sources such as corn or soy oil) contribute to a shiny haircoat it also is easily digested and is an efficiently burned energy source providing almost 2 1/2 times as much energy pound for pound as carbohydrates. Like any other change to the diet however you should introduce added fat gradually working up to a maximum of about a cup of oil a day split over several meals.
Yearling For Show Or Sale
Somewhat at odds with the principle of letting a yearling be a gawky kid are the standards expected for youngsters being prepared for the show ring or sales pavilion. "Sales" yearlings (largely Thoroughbred or Standardbred racehorses) and youngsters destined to show at halter are expected to be slick well-filled-out eye-catching individuals. Unfortunately the trend in recent years has been toward over-fat over-developed youngsters (perhaps because fat hides a multitude of conformational sins!). Some of these horses have paid the price by suffering musculoskeletal problems associated with too much weight and restricted exercise; they often are poor performers in adulthood. There is some indication that this preference is now on the wane and if so it can only be good news for the welfare of the yearlings. A well-grown healthy strong yearling should not need to be over-conditioned to catch the attention of a knowledgeable buyer or judge.
Producing that strong and healthy yearling is a combination of solid nutrition and a sensible exercise regime. Twenty-four hour group turnout in a large hilly pasture is the most effective way to condition yearlings naturally; the result is wonderful muscle tone and a grace and balance that stabled horses usually do not possess. However at some point it will be necessary to bring yearlings into the barn and accustom them to the handling grooming and leadline skills they will need to acquire before the upcoming sale or show. You will need four to six weeks as a bare minimum to prepare each youngster keeping in mind that shaping of the hoofs (to trim away or grow out any unsightly chips and cracks) will take considerably longer than that.
Because you will want to minimize blemishes (cuts and scrapes acquired in the normal course of juvenile horseplay) a yearling being aimed for the sale or show ring likely will have to be separated from his group and will have to settle for individual turnout–or at least turnout with fewer individuals of compatible personalities. Many farms continue to turn out fillies with fillies but put colts with their more aggressive tendencies in individual paddocks. In addition you might have to restrict the number of daylight hours your yearlings spend outside especially if you are trying to avoid (or correct) a sunburned hair coat. The restriction of confined stall-time and limited turnout might make your yearlings frustrated and stir-crazy at first so it's important to continue to provide as much exercise as possible–introducing hand-walking or gentle longeing (on a large diameter of circle and only at a walk and trot so as to minimize joint strain) as necessary.
It's also a good idea not to introduce larger concentrate meals until your horses have adapted to their new routine. When your yearlings first "come inside" they might be nervous–or they might become anxious and temporarily lose their appetites. Either way feeding grain at this point is likely to be detrimental. Provide free-choice legume or mixed hay to reduce the risk of boredom and the development of stable vices such as cribbing or stall walking. Then gradually introduce a grain ration over a period of one to two weeks in proportion to the exercise program you've mapped out and the horse's individual body condition.
Even if your aim is a slick and well-covered yearling it is unwise to push for maximum weight gain. Taking an underdeveloped yearling and placing it on high-energy rations in the hopes of building it up quickly can result in nutritional disaster; joint problems or contracted tendons might be the unfortunate result. Instead stick with the basic guideline of your horses gaining one to 1 1/4 lb. of body weight a day.
Jack McNiven longtime farm manager of Ontario's Killean Acres a large Standardbred operation that sends more than 20 yearlings to the sales every year notes "You don't want them getting to the sale too fat. It's easier to put weight on than take it off and of course you have to factor in that they need less feed when they're in their stalls (as opposed to turned out)."
"Fortunately" McNiven adds "people are presenting yearlings much better than they used to 20 years ago. They tend to be much fitter now."
If you have a yearling who is a poor doer begin by having his teeth examined by your veterinarian. Sharp edges or "hooks" baby-tooth caps on molars and abscesses all can make a youngster reluctant to polish off his ration. And of course it goes without saying that all of your yearlings should be thoroughly dewormed on a regular basis. Once those bases are covered you often can persuade an excessively thin yearling to eat by offering a little extra-tempting feed (in the United Kingdom boiled barley or hot soaked grains are a favorite solution)–but the amount of exercise should be increased in proportion to the extra feed to avoid any sudden forced growth spurts. Adding some corn or soy oil to the ration can also help sale or show yearlings gain weight as well as develop a shiny coat.
On the other hand if your horses are over-fat it's best to reduce the amount of grain they receive and gradually increase the amount of exercise they get. (Even longeing at a trot for an extra five minutes daily can help achieve a steady weight loss without causing undue musculoskeletal injury.) And on any day when yearlings are not exercised their grain rations also should be reduced and replaced with an equivalent amount of hay.
Part of the preparation for the sale or show ring is of course lots of gentle handling. Each youngster must learn to lead and tie if he hasn't already done so as a foal and he must stand quietly for shoeing and grooming. In the end although proper nutrition lays the groundwork a truly brilliant haircoat comes with many hours of elbow grease and a soft body brush.
The end result of your carefully balanced nutritional program at the end of the year should be rapidly maturing healthy and fit two-year-olds who are starting to very much resemble the adult horses they will become. By the time your yearlings have reached the 24-month stage they will have accomplished much of their growing at least with regard to skeletal length and height although there is often quite a bit of filling out still to do. Their nutritional needs will be leveling off now to those required by mature horses and many of them will be ready to begin training for their future careers. And that's the best possible pay-off for your attention to nutritional detail during those vulnerable formative years.


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The British Bankers' Association, apparently distancing itself from controversy, has deleted links from its website that refer to its role in setting the London interbank rate as investigations over charges of rate manipulation swirl across the globe.
Bloomberg reported late Wednesday that the links were removed the previous week. On Tuesday the BBA met with bankers and regulators, and in a statement said, "The intention of contributors and the BBA is to engage in a sensible and structured discussion on options for developing Libor for a changing environment. We and the contributors intend to undertake this work in a manner that is conducive to market confidence."
According to an unnamed source in the report, if it is determined that the BBA, which helped to design Libor 26 years ago, is not appropriate to oversee the benchmark, that duty could be taken over by the Bank of England's proposed Prudential Regulation Authority.
Allegations of rate manipulation, so that banks could disguise that they had difficulty in borrowing funds, first surfaced in a March 2008 report from the central bank for banks, the Bank for International Settlements, which indicated that institutions were "wary of revealing" any data that could indicate their struggles.
Three months after the report was issued, the BBA made the first changes to the way Libor was calculated since 1998; the group increased the number of banks that contributed figures to the calculation and also said it would require justification for any discrepancies between any bank's rate submissions and those of its competitors, with the caveat that it would remove repeat offenders from participating in the process.
Brian Mairs, a spokesman for the BBA, was cited as saying that responsibility for setting the rate belongs to Thompson Reuters. Thompson Reuters spokesman Calvin Mitchell was quoted saying, "Thomson Reuters continues to calculate and distribute Libor on behalf of the BBA and in accordance with its governance procedures. We'll support the BBA should any changes be recommended."

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What color was Enzo's white horse? It was the same color as this here 599 GTB tuned by Germany's Edo Competition. The company's released new information on the prancing tuner, including a top ECU tweak to 750 horsepower. Purists may balk, but Edo knows what he's doing. In a sense. [World Car Fans]
Specifications - standard version
* Engine: V12
* Power: 620 hp (456 kW) at 7600 rpm
* Max. Torque: 608 Nm (448 ft-lb) at 5600 rpm
* Performance: Top speed > 330 km/h (> 205 mph)
0 - 100 km/h (0 - 62 mph) est. 3.7 s
Features as opposed to the production car:
Engine available in 2 output levels:
* Level 1 - F599 GTB
Recalibrated ECU, modified intake system, performance exhaust system and high-flow catalytic converters; Realized output: est. 650 hp.
Level 2 - 630 GTB
* 6.3 ltr. FXX - engine conversion; Realized output: est. 750 hp.
* 20" racing wheels
* Front: 9.0x20, offset 27 with Pirelli tires 245/35R20
Rear: 11.0x20, offset 42 with Pirelli tires 305/35R20, painted wheel face and stainless steel outer rim. Upon request the wheels can be painted in custom colors.
edo/KW sport suspension:
* Racing suspension technology for the road with adjustable compression and rebound damping. Independently adjustable compression and rebound damping permits truly individual suspension setups. The unique system, with its three different adjustments, allows for low-speed compression damping characteristics to be altered while the highspeed settings, having a strong influence on ride-quality, remain constant.
Sport spring set
* Color red,
* lowering rear: 40 mm, front: 20 mm
edo performance exhaust system
* Newly developed high-flow exhaust system with electronic butterfly valve control (remote control to adjust the sound intensity available upon request).


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So much great TV, so little time. With more and more networks putting out more and more quality original programming, it's next to impossible to keep up, but we've done our best with our stable of TV series blogs. Whether you're strictly a network TV viewer, a basic cable connoisseur, an HBO junkie or all of the above, you're bound to find some of your favorite shows below.
Be sure to come back each week to comment on new episodes of the currently active shows in our list, and don't forget to pick things back up when your favorite series return for their new seasons. Finally, relive the glory of classics like "Lost," "The Sopranos" and "The Wire" by reading through our archived series blogs. And for more on your favorite shows, including interviews, features and DVD reviews, check out our growing list of TV Fan Hubs!
Series finale: March 10, 2008
Some say "The Wire" tops "The Sopranos" as the best show in HBO's history. High praise, indeed. It's certainly one of our favorites and we see it as one of the best TV shows ever along with "Breaking Bad" and "The Sporanos."
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The network that brought us "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad" is at it again with a comic book adaptation of the emotionally gripping and delightfully gory "The Walking Dead." Check out blog posts for the early episodes here.
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Series finale: June 10, 2007
Controversial finale aside (the most reviled in TV history?), "The Sopranos" still stands as one of the most compelling shows to ever hit the airwaves.
Series finale: September 29, 2013
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"24" lost some of its luster after a great first few seasons before rebounding nicely for a fitting final run. Then it returned for a solid "Live Another Day" run for 12 episodes. Find the older blog entries here.
Series finale: September 11, 2011
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Series Finale: December 9, 2014
"The Sopranos" on motorcycles. Do we have your attention now? We loved this show when it first came out, but then all the melodrama started to get old. Visit our Sons of Anarchy Fan Hub to see more.
Series finale: October 26, 2014
Put Martin Scorsese together with Terence Winter ("The Sopranos") and Steve Buscemi, and you should have another HBO hit on your hands. Of course, until the writers eliminate a critical character for no reason in Season 2. This one lost our interest after a lame third season.
Finished its eighth season
There's no telling what Larry David will do next, but he never made us laugh harder than in the show's seventh season featuring the highly-publicized "Seinfeld" reunion.
Series finale: August 27, 2006
On the long list of shows that were canceled too early, "Deadwood" has few peers. And you can forget about those rumored movies too. Sigh.
Series finale: March 25, 2007
Another in the long line of great HBO original series, "Rome" deserved more than a brief (albeit fascinating) two-season run.
Series finale: November 25, 2008
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Series finale: August 24, 2014
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Currently on BBC America
Where do we get our own time-traveling police box? Because we can't wait to see what the good Doctor's been up to when the second half of Season Six resumes later this year.
Series finale: May 24, 2010
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Series finale: May 20, 2009
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What happens when the honeymoon ends and the everyday stresses of children, work and life take over a marriage? MARRIAGE 911 comes to the aid of one real-life husband and wife who struggle to cope with their hectic life while trying to maintain a healthy marriage. From the creators of NANNY 911, MARRIAGE 911 will send an expert to help solve this marriage in crisis. Tune in to see the dramatic turns this relationship takes on Monday, April 25 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
Meet Chris and Laura King. Chris Sr. is a chiropractor and a self-proclaimed "old-fashioned guy" who leaves all the household "chores" to his wife, including raising their children. He spends a limited amount of time (about an hour a day) with his kids and prefers sitting at his computer with earplugs on while the kingdom clashes around him. His wife Laura, now a stay-at-home mom, tries to run a household in cramped quarters with their five mischievous children, three dogs, three cats, two rabbits and a hamster, all while being a wife as well.
On Monday, April 18 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), the King family will be featured on NANNY 911, as Nanny Stella tries to restore order in their hectic home. The following week, on MARRIAGE 911, the Kings will meet with Jamie Greene, a licensed marriage, family and child therapist for the past 16 years. Greene has been through it all: he's had relationship problems, been an '80s rock star and had friends with addiction problems. His own experiences have enabled him to empathize with others and guide them out of extraordinary situations. Things heat up as Greene observes Chris and Laura at home and helps them address the fundamental issues in their marriage. With over 50 percent of all marriages ending in divorce, Greene has a challenge ahead of him in trying to salvage this troubled relationship. See what the marriage specialist has to say about the Kings' union and what steps they can take to improve it.
MARRIAGE 911 is produced by Granada Entertainment. Paul Jackson, Bruce Toms and Gerry McKean serve as executive producers.


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Ok so forgive me if this is already in here somehow.
TLDR: Want a visible, configurable feature to show easily what I am currently doing - Useful for streaming/video recording etc. Would also help learning a bit. Also I think this would be good idea. Yes? No? Yes.
I am fooling around, and pressing the buttons as a professional, not knowing what key does what, so I can figure out what key does what. Right? ok good. So this is really cool, I learn what happens.
But I don't receive any confirmation on what i pressed is really what i pressed, until i do anything. And sometimes then, i dont actually immidiately know what i just did. But ok so then i realize what i did.
But I believe this can be better.
I would like it to be a configureable placement, opacity, to be locked in the interface or not. Someplace I can see it
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About X-FAB
X-FAB is the world's largest analog/mixed-signal foundry group
manufacturing silicon wafers for mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs). Its marketing network and client base span the Americas, Europe and Asia, offering manufacturing capacity of approximately 1.2 million 200mm-equivalent wafers per year. The largest specialty fab group, X-FAB is unlike typical foundry services because of its specialized expertise in advanced analog and mixed-signal process technologies.
These technologies are not intended for digital applications with the smallest possible structure sizes, but rather are targeted for analog applications that can be integrated with additional functions such as high voltage, non-volatile memory or sensors. By combining solid, specialized expertise in advanced analog and mixed-signal process technologies with excellent service, a high level of responsiveness and first-class technical support, X-FAB optimally manages the product development flow and supply chain for its customers' semiconductor products.
Six manufacturing sites in Germany, France, Malaysia and the U.S.
At its six manufacturing sites in Germany, France, Malaysia and the U.S., X-FAB manufactures wafers on modular CMOS processes with technologies ranging from 1.0 to 0.13 µm, SOI and MEMS long-lifetime processes. The sites can handle approximately 100,000 8-inch equivalent wafer starts per month in total. Always endeavoring to create long-term customer relationships based on stability, reliability and confidence in X-FAB's expertise, X-FAB adds value to the wafer manufacturing process by offering customers outstanding technical support.
X-FAB customers benefit from high-performance technologies, excellent technical design and prototyping services; and fast, easy and flexible foundry access worldwide. Privately held and headquartered in Erfurt, Germany, X-FAB has sustained steady growth year over year, often exceeding that of the industry at large. It currently employs about 3,800 people worldwide.
Key Facts:
The X-FAB Group is organized under the umbrella of X-FAB Silicon Foundries SE, a holding company located in Tessenderlo, Belgium.
Manufacturing Sites:
Erfurt, Dresden & Itzehoe in Germany
Corbeil-Essonnes, France
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about 3,800 worldwide
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approx. 100,000 eight inch equivalent wafer starts per month
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Hook Handle Tea Infuser and Dish Set Black
Staff Pick!
We've tested many awesome tea accessories. Some are fun gadgets that we really enjoyed but the beauty in this Hook Handle Infuser is its simplicity. With no moving parts, there's no twisting, screwing, cranking, dunking or dipping necessary. Just clip the basket to the inside of your mug and spoon in some tea. The nice open basket allows the leaves to unfurl and release their full flavor while you're busy multitasking. The stainless steel basket easily rinses clean when you're done. This is the accessory we recommend more than any other because of its ease, simplicity and, of course, its low price!
Simple! Easy! Fast! Clean!
Use this Hook Handle Tea Infuser & Dish Set to make your favorite tea in your favorite tea cup in a few minutes! This extra-fine 0.3 mm hole stainless-steel tea infuser gives you a perfect even steep every time, and enables you to steep fine loose-leaf teas such as Rooibos tea to large whole-leaf teas like Oolong tea.
The dish is included to store your infuser after steeping, to keep your counter top clean.
Care Instruction & Warning:
- Dishwasher-safe.
- Microwave-safe, infuser holder only.
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OncoEthix the Swiss-based specialist in oncology drug development announces that it has closed a Series B financing raising 18 Million CHF (~US$19 Million). SV Life Sciences (SVLS) led the financing joined by new investor Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners. Existing investors including Index Ventures and Endeavour Vision also participated in the round.
The proceeds will be used to progress OncoEthix' novel BET bromodomain inhibitor OTX015 into Phase II proof of concept studies.
OTX015 is an orally administered synthetic small molecule which targets BET bromodomain proteins 2/3/4. The BET proteins are considered potential cancer targets because of their pivotal role in regulating the transcription of growth-promoting and cell cycle regulators especially c-MYC. A two strata Phase 1 study in acute leukemia and other hematologic malignancies started in January 2013. Dr Esteban Cvitkovic Founder and CSO of OncoEthix said "this financing will help us fast forward and expand our preclinical pharmacological and clinical development programs which are already proceeding very well."
Bertrand Damour CEO of OncoEthix added "We are delighted and very fortunate to have attracted these world-class life sciences investors and we believe this financing will support an exciting next chapter in the development of OTX015."
As a result of the investment Dr Michael G Carter Venture Partner with SVLS will join OncoEthix' Board of Directors. In addition Dr Thierry Hercend has been appointed as an independent expert to OncoEthix.
Commenting on their investment Kate Bingham Managing Partner at SVLS said: "OncoEthix is focused on developing first-in-class drugs that can improve and extend the lives of patients with neoplastic diseases. OTX015 has made excellent progress so far and we believe that it has the potential to be a very important new drug."
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About OncoEthix
Founded in 2009 OncoEthix is a Swiss-based privately held biotechnology Company that is developing a small portfolio of oncology drug candidates. The Company's lead product OTX015 is an orally administered synthetic small molecule targeted to BET bromodomain proteins 2/3/4. OTX015 was in-licensed from Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation in March 2012 following completion of Phase I clinical studies in healthy volunteers.
OncoEthix has raised a total of 28 Million CHF (~US$30 Million) in venture capital to date: investors include Index Ventures Endeavour Vision SV Life Sciences and Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners.
For more information please see: www.oncoethix.com
About SV Life Sciences
SV Life Sciences is a leading international life sciences venture capital firm with five private venture capital funds with approximately $1.6 billion of capital under management. SVLS affiliated funds have been investing in life sciences companies since the early 1980s and the firm closed its first dedicated life sciences fund in 1994.
With a team of 31 professionals located in three offices – Boston San Francisco and London. The SV Life Sciences team combine leading venture capital expertise with deep domain expertise across the life sciences sector spanning hands-on operational management experience to scientific and clinical accomplishment. The SVLS team identifies investment opportunities structures and executing transactions actively working with portfolio companies on development and growth initiatives and achieving investment realizations. The firm employs a diversified strategy within life sciences in order to selectively capitalise on an expanding opportunity in biotech medical devices and health-care services.
About Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners
Paris-based Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners is dedicated to minority investments into privately-owned companies. It currently has close to €1 billion under management which is being invested primarily as life sciences venture capital and growth capital.
Its Life Sciences Team of eight professionals brings together over 60 years of experience in the Life Science industry and more than 100 years of private equity and venture capital experience. The team has €360 million under management through its Biodiscovery franchise.
BioDiscovery Funds including BioDiscovery 4 are venture capital funds registered via the fast-track procedure. These funds are not authorized by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers and may adopt special investment rules. BioDiscovery 4 a Capital Venture Funds registered via the fast-track procedure invests mainly in private companies which involves specific risks such as a risk of capital loss a discretionary management risk and a liquidity risk.
Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners is the private equity affiliate of the Edmond de Rothschild Group which is specialised in asset management and private banking (EUR 130bn under management 2900 employees and 30 offices throughout the world). Founded in 1953 the Group has been chaired since 1997 by Baron Benjamin de Rothschild.
About Index Ventures
Index Ventures is a leading global venture capital firm active in technology and biotechnology venture investing since 1996. In the life sciences field Index invests in companies with disruptive platform technologies capable of growing into global leaders. It has also pioneered the "asset-centric" investment model focused on investing in single assets with the potential to be first or best in class.
In March 2012 Index launched its first fund dedicated to life sciences. The $200 million fund includes investment from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the venture capital affiliate of the Janssen pharmaceutical companies part of Johnson & Johnson.
About Endeavour Vision
Endeavour Vision combines a team of experienced venture capital professionals who have collectively invested in over 80 companies in 12 countries in both the Life Sciences and Information/Communication Technology sectors for the last 20 years. The firm invests in early and late stage companies which have the potential to become global leaders. For more information please visit www.endeavourvision.com.


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Thursday, March 10, 2005
Yesterday, I was warning of government threats to regulate your i-Pod and video game platforms. Today I'm going to talk about the looming threat of cell phone censorship.
We live in a multi-media, multi-screen world. That is, video content is no longer the exclusive property of the clunky old living room television set. Today, we can view content on numerous types of devices and screens.
If you want to take a DVD on a long plane ride with you, you grab your portable DVD player and watch it on that screen. Or you just watch the in-flight video on the drop-down screen. You want to watch videos in your car? Generally not a good idea if you're driving, but numerous video devices are on the market for your dashboard (or even your steering wheel) that will allow you to watch TV. And as millions of parents like me can attest, there's no bigger lifesaver on long road trips than a portable (or built-in) DVD player to keep the kids quiet.
Care to watch video anywhere else? Well, with cell phones quickly becoming an all-purpose, "Swiss Army Knife of consumer electronics," you can do it. In today's Wall Street Journal (p. B4), Donna Fuscaldo provides a wonderful overview of all the video services that cell phone providers are currently rolling out to offer on-the-go content along with the other voice and data services we want. She quotes Peter Sharzynski, a senior VP of Samsung, who correctly notes that, "People are looking at entertainment in really broad ways. It's just not going home and sitting in front of your TV. It's TV on the go."
So the mobile network providers are ready to roll this stuff out; now it's up to content providers to deliver content. And they are responding. Fox, for example, recently started developing a cell phone "mobisode" version of their hit drama "24" as well as others. And news programs are next. You can already get a variety of news updates zapped directly to your cell phones or other mobile devices, but it's all fairly low-tech at this stage; mostly just text messages or poor quality, pre-taped video clips. All that will soon change with crisp, live video feeds being beamed directly to your handheld devices.
So, to borrow a wonderful headline that recently appeared in the New York Times, what this all means is that, "Thanks to Cellphones, TV Screens Get Smaller." But as TV screens get smaller it raises a very interesting question: Will traditional TV screen regulations follow? Obviously, our old TV screens are still fairly heavily regulated, both in an economic and content sense. As wireless video becomes more popular, will regulators consider applying the old legacy rules--and indecency regulations in particular--to all our mobile devices?
Well, we didn't have to wait long for an answer. While no one at the FCC is calling for cell phone censorship just yet, you get the hint that they're at least thinking about it. In a February 14th letter to the CTIA (the wireless industry's trade association), John Muleta, Chief of the FCC's Wireless Bureau, outlined the agency's concerns about "giving parents access to the tools needed to protect their children from inappropriate content" via wireless devices. Again, to Mr. Muleta's credit, the letter never directly threatens any form of federal regulation should the CTIA and its member companies not take steps to do so. But with letters like this from regulators to trade associations, that's the implicit threat that always hangs in the air.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor of more industry self-regulation and parental empowerment tools in particular. With my oldest child learning how to dial grandma and grandpa on my cell phone right now, I am already fearing the day when she learns to how to access more than just family phone numbers. I expect everyone in the wireless industry is keenly aware of this problem and already taking steps to respond to what will be a legitimate market need for filtering tools.
But what happens if lawmakers don't think those tools are good enough? We already know that despite the availability of wonderful channel-by-channel set-top box blocking technologies on digital cable and satellite TV systems, policymakers are preparing to censor "indecent" content on at least the basic tier. And despite having the best voluntary ratings system ever devised for parents, the video game industry has come under constant attack by politicians for supposedly not doing enough for parents.
So, will cell phones be next on the feds' censorship wish list? You better believe it. I'll make a prediction now: Within the next two years, legislation will be introduced proposing the extension of the FCC's current clear-as-mud indecency rules to mobile content and devices. Welcome to our bold new world of ubiquitous media and ubiquitous media censorship! But hey, don't forget, it's all "for the children" so that makes it all OK.
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Newly Embroidered by the Chontalá Women's Cooperative
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Striped Backing. Thick Lining. Black nylon loop closure.
Includes small dust bag. Artisan card. Friendship bracelet.
Secure and designed with heavy duty camera equipment in mind.
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Poor Tony Todd, he's been needing work lately what with all his TV appearances and movies and such. Thankfully, he's going to be adding another film to his resume when he returns to the "Final Destination" franchise for the fifth installment.
Paramount has decided they need some original horror projects in their stable as they prepare the new property "School of Horrors". With the writer/director team of George Kay and Jim Field Smith already tapped, the movie is described as "Home Alone" in Hogwarts with it's plot of a young boy left in a haunted school by his parents.
Namco's busy preparing for the release of the old school re-do "Splatterhouse" and this trailer and game play clip promises that the game is going to be a bloody good time.
There's a new still from "Paranormal Activity 2" floating around out there that gives us a taste of... not much.
I woke up this morning thinking, "I sure would love to see a movie about a bunch of Nazi's in a giant take fighting a giant demon". Good thing there's movie in the works called "Panzer 88" about nazi unit in a King Tiger (Read: Big Ass Tank) running into a demonic force on the frozen Russian border!
John Landis steps into the producer's chair for a new serial killer movie aptly titled Some Guy Who Kills People. Even odder than the title, the film will be directed by "Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus" director Jack Perez.
The marketing machine for Breck Eisner's "The Crazies" remake is kicking into gear with two new viral marketing sites that just launched.
The first dates for the the midnight movie re-release of Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead" have been announced. While the list is small, more dates are expected to be announced soon.
New screenshots of the long delayed "Splatterhouse" game remake are now online. At first glance, it looks like the wait will be well worth it.
Need some Joel Schumacher directed horror? Then check out the official trailer for "Blood Creek".


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White wine and briny shellfish juices marry in the pot, then are puréed with parsley to create a light sauce so flavorful, it needs only a touch of butter.
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- Makes 4 to 6 servings
- 1 1/4 pounds small new or baby Yukon Gold potatoes
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt plus more
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 fennel bulb, trimmed, diced
- 2 shallots, finely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 3/4 cup dry white wine
- 1 pound littleneck clams, scrubbed
- 1 pound mussels, scrubbed, debearded
- 1 pound cockles or small Manila clams, scrubbed
- 6-8 razor clams, scrubbed (optional)
- 1 cup (packed) flat-leaf parsley leaves, coarsely chopped, plus whole leaves for garnish
- 1 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- Freshly ground black pepper
- Place potatoes in a medium saucepan. Add cold water to cover by 2". Add 1 tablespoon salt. Bring to a boil; reduce heat to low and simmer until potatoes are tender, about 15 minutes. Drain; set aside.
- Meanwhile, heat oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add fennel, shallots, and garlic and cook, stirring often, until soft and fragrant, about 5 minutes. Remove pot from heat; add wine. Return pot to heat; increase heat to high, add littleneck clams, cover, and cook for 1 minute. Add mussels, cockles, razor clams (if using), and potatoes. Cover; cook until all shellfish have opened (discard any that do not open), 4-5 minutes longer.
- Using a slotted spoon, transfer shellfish and potatoes to a warm bowl and transfer any remaining vegetables from pot to a blender. Pour liquid from pot into blender, leaving any sediment behind. Add 1 cup parsley and butter to blender; purée on high until sauce is bright green and thickened, about 2 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Pour over shellfish; stir to coat. Garnish with whole parsley leaves.
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Odin and Halla
The deal announced in early 2000 with Motorola was wide ranging. Not only would the two jointly develop a range of pen-based smartphones under the umbrella name "Odin", with the first of which scheduled to hit the market in mid-2001, they'd use an entirely new silicon architecture developed by Psion, a young Irish semiconductor company called Parthus, and Samsung. The "Halla" chip (officially known as InfoStream) would be the first ARM9 based processor, and was packed with multimedia features. In an extensive cross-licensing deal, Motorola would have first dibs on the resulting silicon.
According to Gretton, and his account is corroborated by others, much of Psion management and almost all the Psion staff, strongly opposed the deal.
"I was deeply against the Motorola contract — for me it was the final nail in the coffin," he says.
In addition to funding the burgeoning Symbian operation, Psion was now officially in the semiconductor business. So overnight, it placed itself in competition with two of the largest and fastest-growing companies on the planet. From duking it out with unproven newcomer Palm and Casio's handheld division, Psion was now set head on against Nokia and Ericsson on one side, and Texas Instruments and other chip manufacturers on the other. An even more dangerous enemy existed in its new partner's camp: Motorola had its own semiconductor division and began moving at once to kill the Psion deal.
Fear of competition is often cited by former staff as a Psion characteristic. But for an insane moment, Psion appeared to stand on the table and want to fight everybody in the pub.
The relationship with Ericsson deteriorated. Ericsson had long nurtured the idea of a pen-based smartphone, and was the first phone vendor to ship an Epoc device in 2000. The Swedish giant cancelled Psion's contract as its preferred PDA supplier. Ericsson had rebranded the Psion 5MX, with some additional phone-friendly software, as the MC218. The next stage would have seen Ericsson rebadge Psion's Revo. The cancellation of the deal was costly for Psion.
Odin brought a fresh set of anxieties. Psion management was paralysed as the prospect of the scale of the battle it had bought into, and fatalism set in.
"There was a feeling of 'what's the point?' Nokia's going to kill us anyway," says Gretton in an view echoed by many executives at the time. "Which was totally self-fulfilling and which I don't subscribe to, then or now."
He points out that Nokia has yet to master enterprise IT channel sales even today. By the time of Odin, Psion had amassed 15 years' experience selling handhelds as part of an IT infrastructure sale. He regarded the Motorola deal as one backstab away from termination — and in January 2001, his worst fears were confirmed.
"I was in Germany…when Margaret Rice-Jones took the call from Motorola — and her face went white. She told me Motorola had cancelled Odin, and that we were on our own," he recalls.
"I knew that was the end of our business. We had no other roadmap."
As a cathartic gesture, Psion staff made a bonfire of their Motorola mobile phones.
Nevertheless, the product pipeline was at last full, and would give a long-overdue lift to Psion's PDA business. A colour Bluetooth Revo and a cost-reduced model were in an advanced stage: a TV documentary filmed Psion's marketing team auditioning advertising agencies for the launch.
(One of the agencies, clearly having failed to read the brief, hilariously proposed to market the new Revo as a "one box solution").
However Levin had no intention to pursue this option. He moved quickly to abandon the Psion Computer moniker, moving the staff to the more ambiguously named Psion Digital.
A statement issued on 11 July 2001 read:
"The decision to implement a significant restructuring of Psion Digital has been driven by the division's continuing poor performance in weak and oversupplied markets for handheld computers and related cellular phone markets. Further commoditisation of these markets is expected next year. As a result of the Board's decision and in the light of slower than anticipated establishment of a mass market for Bluetooth products, Psion Digital will not launch its Bluetooth PDA or range of Bluetooth connectivity products planned for the second half of 2001.
David Potter is quoted:
"The IT industry is experiencing its worst downturn since 1985. Against this background, it is essential that we take the hardest approach to costs, control and a return to profitability while avoiding exposure to oversupplied commodity markets. The enterprise markets of Psion Teklogix offer sound long-term growth opportunities, while Psion Digital will be focusing on its core assets in innovation and exploiting new premium markets for mobile networked devices."
"It had been an awful two years," says Gretton, who'd had to build up Psion's software expertise after the Symbian spin-off. "We were getting to the stage where we had programming resources at last, a stable platform, and were able to start turning out some product at last. There was great spirit there — then people scattered far and wide."
Davies now agrees that Psion "overestimated the competition".
Psion's strategy had been established the previous autumn. The markets had finally smiled on the Psion Group's "horizontal" strategy, and thanks to its 28 per cent stake in Symbian, they gave it an astronomical valuation. Psion was trading on the FTSE 100, and its 28 per cent stake would give it a handsome reward from a Symbian IPO: some guesstimated at least £1bn.
But instead of using Psion's astronomical FTSE valuation to move into a new area, Levin shored up the defences to buy the established industrial IT vendor Teklogix for around £240m.
Setting a torch to 18 years of consumer electronics success wasn't cheap.
Levin spent £29.2m exiting the consumer business, while a further £11.2m was written off to general restructuring — adding up to over £40m in exit costs in the first half of 2001 alone. Two hundred and fifty of Psion's 1,200 staff were lost, in addition to the 100 shed when Odin was cancelled.
Psion's users have mourned the decision ever since, and subsequent events suggest the decision wasn't so much rational, as driven by fear.
"We had a pile of cash that the company didn't want to spend," bemoans one of Psion product development team.
"The arrogance came back to haunt us. Psion was offered Palm on a plate and we didn't believe in it — so we told them to get lost. We still didn't believe in it even when we were being hammered by them."
"In the end we got ourselves," says Gretton.
"There was so much we could have done; we could have been a handset and yes, we could have been TomTom, we could have been a handset vendor; we could have been RIM — but all the appetite and all the aggression was gone," says one manager who left at the time.
Potter, Davies, and many other senior management now agree Psion left the business too early. The "depression" that hit global telecoms sales so hard in 2001, turned out to be barely a frown on a credit-powered British economy. UK sales of PDAs rose again in 2003 to their highest level for three years — but Psion wasn't there to take advantage of the Indian summer.
Psion's unreleased Revo, with Bluetooth
Scheduled products such as the Bluetooth Revo and the modem-equipped Series 5MX would have made the product viable for much longer. Levin's anticipated "commoditisation" took much longer than a year to materialise. Even today, Palm sells two PDAs based on a a mainboard and OS whose spec hasn't changed since it was launched five years ago. Palm's belated addition of rich colour and Bluetooth in 2002 gave it a lasting lease of life. It's pure profit.
"David Levin had no feel for consumer electronics," says Gretton.
"The great stuff was done out of a can-do spirit that was gradually lost in the latter years… Psion died by a succession of blows, people with less and less ambition — and more fear."
Asked why management lost its confidence, Gretton suggests: "They got too rich probably and too involved in the City — that's another world that didn't understand Psion."
"There was so much waste, so many ideas, and so many talented people. It's amazing what was achieved — and then thrown away." ®
After Protea: Psion from 1997 to 2001
In their own words: Mark Gretton; Martin Riddiford; Nick Healey; David Tupman; Sir David Potter;


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HAMPTON — Seacoast United Soccer Club recently completed its transformation to a for-profit organization, a move it hopes will help it expand facilities and perhaps even spawn a Major League Soccer team someday.
HAMPTON — Seacoast United Soccer Club recently completed its transformation to a for-profit organization, a move it hopes will help it expand facilities and perhaps even spawn a Major League Soccer team someday.
"I know this might sound crazy," said Executive Director Paul Willis, who helped found the club in 1992, beginning with two youth soccer teams. The club has since grown to more than 100 teams and training programs in multiple sports, ranging from the youngest age levels to semi-pro and competing locally, regionally and nationally.
The change from a nonprofit to Seacoast United Sports Clubs Inc. began nearly a year ago for the Hampton-based club. It was finalized Dec. 16 with a property transfer of the club's four-field outdoor complex in Epping and its 70,000-square-foot indoor facility in Hampton. The properties were sold to SUSC Hampton Realty Trust and leased back to the soccer club. The indoor facility was purchased for $2.55 million and the outdoor facility for $1.1 million. Willis and Ian Burgess are listed as trustees of the SUSC Hampton Realty Trust.
Willis said it was challenging as a nonprofit for the club to access capital for expansion and improvements of its existing facilities.
"It was very difficult for us to borrow money and be able to do some of the things that we ultimately want to do," Willis said. "By doing this, it will allow the club to continue its growth."
Willis said the move will better position the club to compete with regional for-profit clubs such as Mass Premier Soccer, North Shore United and the Black Bear United.
He said the hundreds of families whose children are involved in the club's teams and programs won't notice much of a difference. The club is also continuing to run programs at indoor facilities in Kingston and in York, Maine.
"The only thing they will see is us trying to make it better and improve the facilities," Willis said.
Willis said the for-profit group will manage the business of the club, explore future capital improvement opportunities and raise the profile of the organization in the region and beyond.
The club's outdoor fields complex in Epping, which opened in 2006, has professional-quality FieldTurf playing surfaces, but no bathrooms or locker rooms. There are portable toilets and one small concession stand for the thousands of kids and parents who pass through the complex off Route 101 each month from early spring to late fall.
"We don't have stands or bleachers to watch the game," Willis said.
The group is also looking at opportunities to further develop the Hampton indoor facility.
Dave Baker, who was the chairman of the nonprofit club's board of directors before the transformation, is president of the Seacoast United Foundation, which will continue the club's interests in fund-raising, charity golf tournaments, scholarships and its annual dinner/auction at the Wentworth by the Sea Hotel in New Castle.
"The idea behind the foundation is for that foundation to act 100 percent like a charity," Willis said.
Scholarships, he said, will be awarded to support players in Seacoast United, as well as soccer players in other organizations in Rockingham and Strafford counties.
"So this goes beyond Seacoast United," Willis said.
Seacoast United unveiled its first semi-pro men's team in the spring of this year. The Seacoast United Phantoms began play in May at Portsmouth High School as a member of the Premier Development League, the fourth tier of soccer in the United States.
Seacoast United's youth teams compete in elite regional leagues around New England and the Northeast, and two of its girls teams recently won United Soccer League Super Y titles at the North American Finals.
Seacoast United's ultimate goal is to field at team in Major League Soccer.
Willis noted there are more than 100 professional teams at various levels in England. There are only 18 teams in MLS, including the New England Revolution.
"We will never be D.C. United or New York Red Bull because we are not a city or big metropolitan area," Willis said. "But if you look everywhere else in the world, there are smaller clubs, but they are professional and play professional soccer."
Willis said it's only a matter of time.
"Down the road, I have enough faith in soccer in this country that I generally believe that is where it will ultimately go," Willis said. "It could be 10 or 20 years down the road, I don't know. But you have to start somewhere. I would love for this place to be a MLS club and be the first one that was started from scratch."


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I have Controlled Substance and various other preset banks but I can't get it to load any banks at all. It will load SINGLE presets but nothing more, and it's very frustrating. I copied everything into Data/Patches/Plugin Presets/VST/Banks.
Surely I'm missing something, and I'm damned sure I could just tap through them all before with the right and left arrows. Someone please help, it's driving me crazy selecting one at a time.
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Worker shot during robbery attempt at Leawood McDonald's
No arrests in case
Leawood, Kan., police said a a manager at a McDonald's restaurant at 119th Street and Roe Avenue was shot in the leg during a robbery attempt late Saturday night.
Police said two men came into fast-food restaurant and hid in the restroom until they thought the business had closed. Police said they emerged and confronted employees.
"The manager physically forced both suspects out of the restaurant during the course of that confrontation, that scuffle, that's when the shots were fired," said Maj. Troy Rettig of the Leawood Police Department.
The manager was rushed to a hospital. Police said his injuries were not considered life-threatening.
Police said the men fled in a white or silver SUV.
Witnesses told police the robbers were black in their 20s and had medium builds. One man had dreadlocks and was wearing a dark gray zip-up sweatshirt. The second man was wearing a red sweatshirt with a hood.
Police said they were scouring through the restaurant's surveillance tapes in hopes of finding video of the men before the shooting happened.
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I've found it really difficult to settle down and make much whilst we've had the builders in (yes, they started in February, yes, they're still here). One day though, (I think during one of the many long periods when they failed to turn up), I felt the urge just to make something simple and reached for the stash and my favourite colours of pink and aqua/green. Simple squares were all that was called for.
I decided to have another go at free motion quilting. I wouldn't say I have done a great job but it is not bad for a beginner and you know what they say, practise makes perfect, and it really isn't easy, especially on a large quilt. The only problem is that I'm not sure I really like the look FMQ gives, it doesn't look that vintage to me. It also makes the quilt go very wrinkly which in my opinion, can detract from the fabrics themselves. It was quite nice to do, though, it is indeed quite liberating and makes a nice change.
I used some fabrics which I haven't used in ages. Amazing what you find in your stash when you look. I absolutely love this fabric you see in the centre of this photo. It's a pretty old Amy Butler design, in fact it was already old when I first got back into sewing and started looking for it, probably five years ago, and I bought it after much searching, in a lucky eBay auction. I have a skirt made from it and now only very little is left.
It struck me that it is not dissimilar from one of her more recent ranges, the fabric you can see in the middle of the photo below (on sale in John Lewis, by the way). I also really like this fabric but once I put them side by side, I much preferred the older one. I really like Amy Butler, she's very talented and was one of my first sewing inspirations, and having met her, I can say what a truly lovely person she is. I haven't liked her more recent fabric ranges as much, though, not as I've liked those from 5 or so years ago. I think this is because they've had a more modern and graphic vibe in very bold colours. Funnily enough, she has just reprinted her early Gypsy Caravan range. Oh dear, there I go, warbling on about fabrics again.
Inside then, it is a welcome change on the bed from the eidy and thick furry flanelette quilt now the temperatures have improved.
I backed the quilt with one side of an Ikea duvet cover, a pretty rosy fabric, and a cost effective way to find backing fabric which is wide enough and doesn't break the bank. The binding is a pink polka dot from The Cotton Patch and there is a name patch made from a patch of vintage embroidered table cloth.
"Where's my eidy?" says lion.
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Lately, there's been much clamoring around the internet about tennis steamstress Ashley Harkleroad's upcoming Playboy spread this month. With good reason, of course. Based on her recent ESPN the Mag interview about the shoot, she seems affable, confident, and very into herself:
"I'm not a very modest person, so I was really feeling it. I was having a good time and trying to feel sexy in my own body; I think it worked. The pictures and the layout came out very classy. Playboy is a very classy operation all around. It was important to me, because I'm representing an athlete and her body, so I wanted it to come out showcasing that."
Yes, ma'am. Harkleroad hopes this shoot will "broaden" her profile and to let people know that she's not just another hot chick on the WTA. No, she's proud of her body and works hard for it, and it was probably a nice payday. Apparently, she saw Ana Ivanovic's relatively tame FHM cover shoot and raised her, well, full-frontal nudity. No word on whether this profile-broadening will help Harkleroad's world ranking, currently at 65.
The photos in their censored form can be seen at the WTA Tennis blog, with convenient little boxes that cover up most of Harkleroad's boobocity. If you're looking for bare-assed Ashley, well, there are apparently a few scumbags floating around the Tennisforum.com who've got themselves a scanner(the pages load slowly, so, if you're in a rush to get out for summer hours, it might not be worth it. Oh, and probably not safe for work unless you are Justin Gimelstob. )
The sun-shaped tramp stamp is a predictable, yet pleasant surprise.
Ah, Fridays...
An Interview With Ashley Harkleroad [ESPN The Mag]


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Sprint recently announced another Android powered smartphone, the Motorola Titanium. This handset runs on the old Android 2.1 (Eclair) Operating System. We are still not sure, if the handset will get the Android Froyo or Gingerbread update. It comes with a 3.1 inch touchscreen display, 5 megapixel camera, 32 GB expandable memory and more.
Motorola Titanium is the successor of the popular Motorola i1 smartphone. This handset allows you to access more than 150,000 apps from the Android Market. Motorola Titanium is designed to meet Military Specification 810G for dust, shock, vibration, low pressure, solar radiation, high temperature and low temperature.
We are pleased to extend our portfolio of products directed at business-users with these two powerful and versatile Android devices,said Paget L. Alves, president Sprint Business. Motorola XPRT delivers the security features enterprise customers demand without scrimping on the latest in technology, while Motorola Titanium is a rugged Android smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect's sub-second Push-to-Talk.
Motorola Titanium comes with a 3.1 inch HVGA TFT touchscreen display with 320 x 480 pixels resolution, Android 2.1 (Eclair) OS, full QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, 5 megapixel camera with camcorder, 4x zoom and flash, microSD slot, 2 GB memory card included, 32 GB expandable memory, Integrated GPS, Corporate email, Quickoffice, Android Market, up to 275 minutes talk-time and a 1820 mAh Lithium-ion battery. This handset measures 62.2mm x 119.7mm x 13.5mm and weighs 147.2 grams.
Motorola Titanium comes with support for Nextel Direct Connect Services including Direct Connect, Group Connect, International Direct Connect, DirectSendSM, Group Messaging and NextMail. The price and release date of this handset is not announced yet. Stay tuned for more updates.


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On Tuesday night, I walked into the Local 662 near the end of Vintage Trouble's set, and the dancefloor was in a frenzy. Turns out singer Ty Taylor was there in the middle, dancing and sweating and singing up a storm.
This was a homecoming show for Tampa-born, Brandon-raised bassist Rick Barrio Dill, and you could tell the funk, rock and soul quartet was ready to bring the party to a sold-out show. Fans craned their necks in from the street to get a glimpse of the relatively no-name band that's toured with The Who and Bon Jovi, and just played the mainstage at Coachella.
The best part? After their encore, Vintage Trouble took a bow, jumped offstage into the crowd and marched straight back to the merch tent to sign autographs. That's how a professional band does business, baby.
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Click on the headline of this post to see a slideshow of photos from Tuesday's Vintage Trouble show.
-- Jay Cridlin, tbt*


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Spicy Refried Bean & Cheese Quesadilla
These classic bean quesadillas get a kick with some jalapeños, cumin and Monterey Jack cheese.
1 bag Santiago Seasoned Vegetarian Refried Beans
1 3/4 qt. boiling water
2 lbs. jack cheese, shredded
3 tbsp. nacho-style jalapeño slices, finely chopped
2 tsp. ground cumin
32 10-in. flour tortillas
2 lbs. chicken, cooked, diced
2 lbs. bacon, cooked, crumbled
1 cup Monterey Jack cheese, shredded
1. Refresh refried beans with boiling water. Sprinkle refried beans with jack cheese, chopped jalapeño and ground cumin. Blend in thoroughly.
2. For each quesadilla, spread 1/3 cup bean filling on half of tortilla. Sprinkle filling with 1 oz. chicken, 1 oz. bacon and 1 oz. Monterey Jack cheese. Fold in half to cover filling ingredients.
3. Heat filled tortillas on well-greased 325°F griddle until golden on one side, about 1 min. Flip and heat second side until golden and cheese melts, about 1 min. more. Hold covered in warm oven or steamtable. Cut each tortilla into 3 wedges to serve.
Recipe by Basic American Foods


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Autosomal Recessive Congenital Ichthyosis - Congenital Ichthyosiform Erythroderma (CIE) Type
Other names: autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis (ARCI); congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma (CIE); non-bullous CIE (n-CIE)
Inheritance: autosomal recessive in most cases
Incidence: 1:100,000
Key findings:
- skin: generalized, fine, light-colored scale; skin is always red, sometimes intensely so; ectropion present, but often mild; thickening of palms, soles and flexures common; may have overlap with ARCI-lamellar ichthyosis type due to shared gene mutations
- hair: normal or sparse; abnormal-appearing hairs suggest other diagnoses
- nails: usually normal; may become dystrophic
Associated findings: often no other findings; however, the CIE phenotype is seen in many well-defined genetic abnormalities that do have associated findings, such as neutral lipid storage disease and trichothiodystrophy, and Sjogren-Larsson syndrome
Age at first appearance: birth, often as collodion baby
Long-term course: lifelong; skin appearance may evolve and fluctuate with age, increased susceptibility to infections of the skin; heat intolerance is common
Diagnostic tests: genetic testing of the blood
Abnormal gene(s): mutations have been identified in a variety of genes including transglutaminase 1 (TGM1), 12R-lipoxygenase (ALOX12B), lipoxygenase-3 (ALOXE3), ATP-binding cassette sub-family A member 12 (ABCA12), cytochrome P450 4F22 (CYP4F22), ichthyin (NIPAL4) and patatin-like phospholipase (PNPLA1).
Clinicians seeking to confirm a diagnosis should visit FIRST's TeleIchthyosis site to submit a case to experts in ichthyosis.
To learn more about ARCI-CIE type ichthyosis, follow this link.
Learn more about FIRST's Regional Support Network - connecting affected individuals and families with each other. Or call the FIRST office at 800.545.3286.
This information is provided as a service to patients and parents of patients who have ichthyosis. It is not intended to supplement appropriate medical care, but instead to complement that care with guidance in practical issues facing patients and parents. Neither FIRST, its Board of Directors, Medical & Scientific Advisory Board, Board of Medical Editors nor Foundation staff and officials endorse any treatments or products reported here. All issues pertaining to the care of patients with ichthyosis should be discussed with a dermatologist experienced in the treatment of their skin disorder.