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It's no secret that we're all about the beauty products — the more luxe, the better. So, we couldn't help but turn simply giddy at the news of super-insider-y skincare label Jabonería Marianella Soap's revamped collection. With five years of experience and success under its belt — the company has been praised by Vogue-ettes and Vice-ers alike — Jabonería Marianella 2.0 is better — and prettier — than ever.
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The Common Core State Standards Initiative is coordinated by the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). The common core state standards were released in draft form in 2009. The standards are internationally benchmarked and backed by evidence showing that students' mastery of them leads to preparedness for higher education and the workforce. The initiative defines college and career readiness as the ability "to succeed in entry-level, credit-bearing academic college courses and in workforce-training programs" (Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010).
The NGA and the CCSSO say the standards were developed with input from teachers, school administrators, and experts. The groups also received nearly 10,000 comments providing insight that shaped the final drafts of the English language arts and mathematics standards released in June 2010.
In a statement on the standards, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (2010) says, "The [common core standards] will help teachers, students and parents know what is needed for students to succeed in college and careers, and will enable states, school districts and teachers to more effectively collaborate to accelerate learning and close achievement gaps nationwide."
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Curriculum issues pose one of the biggest unknowns for educators, with some advocating for a stronger curricular framework, curriculum guides, or just more guidance, while others think the standards should stand alone, leaving educators to make appropriate curricular decisions for their students.
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Furthermore, although standards in science and social science are being considered, the common core standards currently address only English language arts and mathematics. Effectively integrating all content areas into instruction is essential for students to receive a comprehensive education.
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It's been a while since I last posted here, but here is the lamp-post in Lantern Waste. I used acrylic paint on a sort of canvas.
(To tell the truth, it wasn't supposed to be the lamp-post, but I think it looked somehow very Narnian and wanted to share it with you all.)
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Oh, that's really nice Mehinen! Did you have a real lampost to model after, or just freestyle? It's really nice, I like it alot, escpecially how the colors of the trees just blend into one another. May I ask how long you've been painting, and what kind of a canvas did you use? (You had said a "sort of" canvas...I wasn't sure what that meant. )
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That is a very beautiful picture. Might not have been originally intended to be THE lamp-post but it sure looks good, and works for me as if it were the "real" thing.
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AslansChild: Thank you, I'm glad you like the colours! No, I didn't use any kind of reference, just tried to remember what modern lamp-posts look like and then un-modern it a bit. As to how long I have been painting, well, this kind of paintings for about three and a half years (acrylics on canvas) and other kinds of art for nearly all my life. The canvas is a bit difficult to describe, it's like a sketch pad with A3 size canvas instead, so you can just tear the canvas from it, tape it on a hard surface and start painting. The pad doesn't anymore have any kind of text on it, so I have no idea what the canvas is made of (or even if it is canvas and not thick paper with canvas-like texture! but no, I think it really is canvas...).
narnian1: Thanks! I'm happy to hear that you like it (and think it like THE lamp-post!).
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It's beautiful, and it really has a magical look to it. I love the colors of the trees and the glint of light on the snow ground. Also very life like in a way where I wish I can jump right into it. Great job!
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Oh wow. That's beautiful, Mehinen! I love how the scene is set in evening/dusk, with the branches of the trees softly lit by the light of the lamp. What a lovely, relaxing, thoughtful-looking painting. It almost looks as though it were waiting for the Pevensies to stumble upon it, all grown up.
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It's been a rough couple of days for Barbara Walters. Last week, the ABC News host fell down at an inauguration party at an ambassador's home in Washington, D.C. She suffered a cut on her temple and was sent to the hospital, where she remained for treatment of an ongoing fever. And now, it turns out that she's got a case of the chicken pox, ABC News reports.
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"We want to give you an update on Barbara," Whoopi Goldberg, Walters' co-host on The View, said on the show Monday:
"You all know that she fell and cut her head 10 days ago, and then was running a temperature, but it turns out it is all the result of a delayed childhood. Barbara has the chicken pox. She'd never had it as a child. So now she's been told to rest, she's not allowed any visitors. And we're telling you, Barbara, no scratching."
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A Closer Look At The Marburgers' Plan To Save Newspapers Via Copyright Law
from the not-as-bad...-but...-still... deptA few weeks back, I wrote an article based on a column written by Connie Schultz of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, where she discussed and endorsed a proposal by two brothers (David and Daniel Marburger) -- one a First Amendment lawyer and the other an economist -- supposedly on ways to change copyright law to protect newspapers. I found this troubling for a variety of reasons -- not the least of which is the idea that a First Amendment lawyer and an economist together would agree to a protectionist policy that limits free speech! The story itself got lots of attention when Jeff Jarvis called attention to the fact that Schultz happens to be married to U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, leading to a counter attack from Schultz, but not necessarily a clear discussion of the actual proposal. I don't care one way or the other about Schultz, but I was interested to receive an email from one of the Marburgers suggesting that Schultz greatly misrepresented their analysis. I had based my own analysis on what Schultz had written, and they suggested that the full report was quite different. They sent over a copy and said that I could share it with the readers here as well, so click on through to read it (if you'd like to download it, you can go directly to the Scribd page, where there's a download option:
To be fair, they do attempt to distinguish between "pure aggregators" that just do snippets and "parasitic aggregators" that do much more. But their examples of "parasitic aggregators" is also quite odd. It's basically any competitor who has real staff that writes a story that competes with the original reporting. That's not an aggregator. It's competition. And if someone who was not on the scene can actually add so much value to the news that the original reporter doesn't provide enough value, the problem is in the original publication for doing a poor job in providing enough scarce value beyond the basic facts. However, the Marburgers conveniently conflate these two types of "aggregators" despite the fact that it doesn't make much sense. Later in the paper they admit that a "pure aggregator" like Google News is not doing anything wrong, and shouldn't be impacted, but the first third of the paper does not make that clear, and many readers naturally assume that the aggregators being discussed include Google News.
Furthermore, the report (again mistakenly) assumes that the aggregators are siphoning away advertising dollars from the newspapers -- but again, there's little evidence there. Instead, we've seen that aggregators don't tend to make very much money at all from news aggregation, and -- if anything -- it simply acts as a loss leader. Since much of the proposals seems based on the faulty idea that aggregators are getting unfair "profits" from aggregating the news, this is equally problematic. The "pure" aggregators that the Marburgers' discuss tend to use news aggregation as a loss leader, so it's not taking away much ad revenue. The "parasitic aggregators" (i.e., actual competitors) are simply other news sites -- and the ones named (The Daily Beast and Newser) are so tiny that if they're taking away any revenue from newspapers, it's at best a rounding error. Honestly, the newspapers aren't complaining about The Daily Beast. They're complaining about Google News, which the Marburgers eventually absolve, but that's deeply buried in the report.
Next, the Marburgers continually, incorrectly, focus on aggregators "free riding" on the content of newspapers. This is incorrect. It is a relationship where benefit goes in both directions. If you believe the Marburgers' view, then the newspapers are, in fact, "free riding" on all of the traffic that aggregators send them. They're also "free-riding" on whoever they write about and whoever they quote, since they don't pay those people either. In fact, this is a big part of the problem. The Marburgers only focus on the flow of value in a single direction, quoting an analysis from 1942 suggesting that "free-riding" in the news would cause trouble in the industry. But that ignores the realities of the market, and that smart publications can learn to benefit and profit from traffic sent to them for free. It's not about free-riding, it's about learning to capitalize on promotion.
Oddly, the Marburgers then use the fairy tale of the Little Red Hen, to suggest that a market involving free riding is not a free market. This is wrong. There may always be some kind of free riding. Nearly all products and markets give off some externalities that involve free riding. While formerly assumed to be a small part of the market, these days economists are learning that externalities can often be a very large part of the market -- and unlike what the Marburgers' claim, that's not necessarily a bad thing if you take the time to understand the larger market. It's only a problem if you so narrowly define your market as the single product that gives off the externalities -- which is a major flaw in the Marburgers' analysis. They assume, incorrectly, that the "free-riding" does not lead to any externalities that can be monetized back by the newspapers. That's wrong. And, from this, the Marburgers simplify the world of news production to an unrealistic level, that may prove their point, but does not represent the actual market.
So while the Marburgers appear to have spent a lot of time detailing how newspapers make money, they incorrectly assume that this is the only way to make money from newspapers. On top of that, they seem to assume that newspapers cannot fund reporting -- but there is little evidence to support that. Almost all of the newspapers currently discussed as being in "trouble" are actually still profitable (i.e., they can fund reporting from advertising), but are in trouble because they cannot meet their debt obligations (i.e., management took out too many loans that they can't repay). And, from that, they get to their questionable challenges concerning how to "remedy" a situation that does not appear to actually need a remedy.
Their real focus is not actually on "aggregators" so much as it is on direct competitors who don't have a reporter on the scene, but tend to write an analysis based on what original reporters have written. Of course, that's almost as expensive as the original reporting, in that it still requires human bodies to write up the news -- and it's always (by definition here) delivered late. Anyone who's spent time online playing with traffic stats of news reporting pretty quickly learns that the first publication to break a story is much more likely to get the majority of the traffic. Sometimes that fails, but in the long run, if you're first, you're more likely to get a substantial amount of traffic. Furthermore, having actual reporters on the scene should give the original source better material with which to add more value to the community on the site. The failure to do so isn't because of "parasites" but because of a weak understanding by many newspaper execs of the importance of community.
As for the specific proposals, then, Schultz incorrectly stated the Marburgers' proposal to be:
- Aggregators would reimburse newspapers for ad revenues associated with their news reports.
- Injunctions would bar aggregators' profiting from newspapers' content for the first 24 hours after stories are posted.
But this, too, is not a particularly good solution, and makes little economic sense to me. Putting barriers into a market almost always makes that market less efficient, not more, and leads to less production, not more. Furthermore, in a world where anyone can be a reporter, forcing every publication to do a deal with every other publication is a legal nightmare. The false assumption the Marburgers seem to make is that all "real" news will be published by a small group of big name newspapers (The NY Times, The Washington Post, USA Today etc.) and everyone else will pay them for their "journalism." Also, it's worth noting that the Marburgers appear to not necessarily focus on changing copyright law to officially state all of this, but merely adjust copyright law to allow common law to make this happen.
So, while Connie Schultz' description of the Marburgers' paper was wholly inaccurate, the paper itself has many problems and does not seem like a reasonable suggestion either. It's based on too many faulty assumptions that do not appear to be accurate.
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She's the essence of relaxed, trend-setting sophistication. Now, you can explore the latest pieces from Kate Hudson's fashion line, HappyxNature. Kate always expresses her personal style, no matter where her roles take her. Now, her new clothing brand helps you effortlessly transport yourself from work to play, to every place in between with styles that include:
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"Eat what we tell you to eat."
New federal nutritional guidelines for school cafeterias has meant the end of a favorite – and locally famous – treat in one northeast Ohio school district.
The federal government's edict to provide healthier foods and cut fats and cholesterol put an end of the sale of the traditional Elyria pink cookie – a buttery sweet treat with pink icing.
The pink cookie has been a favorite for four decades. The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram reports the treat gained a cult following through the years and was once named the "Best Cafeteria Cookie" by Cleveland magazine.
Food services director Scott Teaman said the recipe could have been changed to better meet nutritional standards, but it just wouldn't be the same.


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Friday, September 04, 2009
Breakfast Of Champions
This is one of my new favorite breakfast items. I can't believe that I enjoy this shake or smoothie or whatever it is more than my past favorite breakfast item of oats. I loved oats! I am now choosing a green drink each morning instead because I love it more than the oats! No one is more surprised than I at this change in breakfast love.
The drink above is 1 frozen banana, 1 peach, 1 handful of baby lettuces, 1 handful of spinach, 5 leaves of kale and a tablespoon of ground flax. It tastes light, fresh and amazing. Really. I feel fabulous drinking this. I can't believe it. It's a great pre run drink-chock full of good carbohydrates and vitamins.
Yesterday I had an avocado, kale, collards, spinach, mango and pineapple with flax seeds blended to perfection. Yum. It's quick and easy. If it is too thick to drink I add a cup of water and blend.
I'm no longer afraid of fats. I might eat 1 or 2 avocado a day as well as using olive oil in my salads and I am eating plenty of nuts and seeds. This rocks.
3 comments:
- SteveQ said...
Good to hear you're over the fear of fats, but "avocado, kale, mango and flax" actually made me gag when I read it. Individually, I might eat all of those in a day, but together? Ick.
- Unknown said...
That looks delicious! I think people would be amazed at how great they taste. I am a little sad the husband and daughter finally tasted my green concoctions because now I have to share.
Truly amazing this raw, vegan thing.
- Steve said...
Natural fats are indeed healthy and tasty. I have a bowl of chopped almonds and walnuts, with berries or raisins, all swimming in almond milk. Delicious! If you eat a low-carb diet, fear not the fats!!
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Thai food is pretty ubiquitous in New York City, and it remains a hotly debated topic amongst us city dwellers (in true New York form… since everything, really, is a hotly debated topic). I think we can all agree that Queens is still pretty much the Thai motherland of cheapest and most authentic Thai food, from Sripraphai to Zabb Queens. But what about on the mainland? Well, we've got Zabb Elee, sister restaurant of Zabb Queens--the original location.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if my grandmother were to open up a restaurant, this would be it. This Isan (Northeast Thailand) Thai spot has a comprehensive menu that will impress anyone that knows their Thai food… or anyone that knows Thai--the names of the dishes are enough to scare you away, but don't fret, the English descriptions included will give you an idea of what is to come.
From Tod to Toam to Larb to Som Tum (Still following? It's okay, just go with it--it's worth it), the dishes are superbly authentic with the typical acidic, pungent, spicy flavors of Northeast Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. There are several varieties of the popular Larb dish, from chicken to beef to duck, and even catfish. This cold minced-meat dish has strong flavors of fish sauce, mint, lime and powdered roasted rice. Som Tum, or green papaya salad, is another popular dish, not for the faint of heart, as it contains fermented fish sauce. Finally, you can't have a meal here without one of the stews, or Gang. Gang Som is a favorite, a sour, spicy, flavorful concoction with bamboo and shrimp.
And then there's mok, my personal favorite, a steamed curry custard-y fish wrapped in banana leaves. Zabb Elee makes theirs similarly to my grandmother's recipe. It's a must-try. In true Southeast Asian style, all dishes are best eaten with sticky rice… and, with your hands.
Be prepared for robust and pungent bites with enough spice to make you take more than a few sips of of your Beerlao. And, if you're looking for Pad Thai or Mee Krop, this is not the place. Strong stomachs and adventurous palettes recommended.
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i'm naming all my familiars the goofiest names i can.
I kind of like the constant reiteration of how things are done. It's nice to get that feeling of handholding right now, because fighting can be a kick in the groin. Also, as awesome as the wizard's compendium is, I think the writing may have been rushed somewhat. I found a typo in one of the stories (prince and the lion). Not huge, but it's a statement to the editor for not catching it. I have renamed all of my familiars except Esther's and Swaine's initial familiar. My mighty mite is known as Dingus, and true to his name, he has accidentally attacked a number of catchable familiars on me....fucking Dingus.
Finally got an update on my Wizard's Edition. UPS says it should come in by the end of the day on Monday.So let's recap; I pay nearly 110 dollars for a special edition that comes in six days after release. Yeah...


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By Anne Thomas
(Ed. Note: The following letter was received March 17 by Karen Hadalski of Mt. Airy. It was sent by Anne Thomas, originally from Oregon, who has been teaching English in Japan for the last 10 years and has lived in Japan for 22 years.)
I am writing this as I make the decision whether to leave Sendai or not. I have just heard that a bus will be available to evacuate American citizens from Sendai tomorrow morning. I have not yet made up my mind what I will do. I have been in this city for 22 years. My life is here.
Things here in Sendai have been rather surreal. But I am very blessed to have wonderful friends who are helping me a lot. Since my shack is even more worthy of that name, I am now staying at a friend's home. We share supplies like water, food and a kerosene heater. We sleep lined up in one room, eat by candlelight, share stories. It is warm, friendly, and beautiful.
Earlier this evening I wrote the following essay about my experiences during the day:
Life here has become one of living day to day. I am staying with the mother of my best friend, Izumi. Her home is two minutes from my unlivable shack. Izumi has moved in there, too, as her own home is in shambles after the major quake. She goes there daily to straighten things out.
Each morning and evening we watch the news. Our daily lives are nose to nose with the immediate world around us, so seeing a larger picture is important. But even so, we are much more focused on day-to-day living. During the day we help each other clean up the mess in our homes.
As I said, in the morning Izumi usually heads to her home, while I set out to find food. Lack of rice is a big problem. But vegetables and protein are also high on the list. I know of a small four-generation grocery store tucked way back in a neighborhood with narrow, twisting alleyways. The chain stores on main streets are closed or only open a few hours each day due to lack of supplies. But smaller ones off the beaten track are more promising.
To my utter amazement and delight, this place was to open at 3 p.m. So, I joined the line of people waiting for that hope-filled hour. The wind was fiercely cold and the wait almost two hours before I was able to enter the shop.
Very wisely, the owners were allowing only five people in at one time. They had food because of farmer relatives who had brought in a large truck of vegetables and fruit earlier in the day. Most places permit people to buy only five or 10 items, but in this beautiful place, the owners, deep with understanding, did not set a limit.
It was such a delight to watch people come out of the shop with bags full of such items as potatoes, cabbage, daikon, carrots, yams and other such sturdy vegetables. The look of joy on their faces was palpable. I got my share, too, and as I pedaled home on my bicycle, I found another wee shop selling two-kilo bags of rice. So it was indeed a fortunate day. When I got back to Izumi's mom's home, we all laughed and clapped for joy.
Since I will have to move from this shack of mine, I wandered over to a real estate office nearby to let them know my desires. Miraculously it was open. The woman was there to clean up and also because there was running water. There was none in her home and with her daughter's newborn child, washing diapers was a problem. So she scrubbed nappies while we discussed housing for me.
Shifting focus off my immediate experiences, please let me continue sharing beautiful, life-affirming things that are happening all around. I am ceaselessly in awe of the emergency infrastructure here. There are not enough supplies, which everyone knows, but the excellently organized system is running like clockwork to the best of its stretched abilities.
To give a few examples, evacuation shelters are all over every city. Food, water and heat are there, although very limited. Mats and blankets, again in short supply, are also there. People are collecting wood from damaged buildings and making fires for heating and cooking. Volunteers welcome evacuees and help in whatever way they can. Firefighters and policemen carry the old and injured into shelters on their backs. And shelters have designated leaders to head meetings and make decisions.
People in the shelters are supporting one another. They massage each others' legs and shoulders, sit in close circles for human contact, read stories to kids or simply hold hands. They are grateful for whatever goodness comes their way. "I feel so fortunate. We are able to eat at least once a day," one woman said.
And people are being very creative. Some are out collecting snow in plastic bags. The water from it can be used to flush toilets or wash dishes.
Today one young able man, who was helping his parents clean up the remains of their home, was called into the reserves. He had no choice, but was not happy about this turn of events. But his mother said, "We need him here, of course, but his service to others, to many, is more important than for only us."
During the day people go out to search for missing family members. TV crews are there, of course, and often stop people for interviews. Emotional wounds are deep and vast. People's intense efforts to contain grief is painful to witness. No overt wailing. But tears and silence everywhere.
"Shigata ga nai" is a Japanese expression that roughly translated means, "It cannot be helped." It also implies a sense of enduring what is happening and of making the best of whatever situation you are in. That concept is an integral part of everyday life here, not only now, but always. This emergency situation is surely one of "shigata ga nai." And everywhere people are saying, "We have to soldier on. There is no other way."
"Gambarimashou" (with Love). Anne Karen Reed Hadalski, who received this letter, is a freelance writer, columnist for Pet Tails Magazine and author of the award-winning novella, "Enduring Destiny." Formerly an educator, she worked for 10 years in the field of Family Literacy. You may purchase copies of her book, "Make Your Dreams Come True," through Internet bookstores such as BarnesandNoble.com, Amazon.com or other online bookstores.


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Shri Nitin Gadkari, President of the BJP, and Shri Naveen Jindal, Member of the Lok Sabha belonging to the Congress, are businessmen who have entered politics and have continued to be associated with decision-making relating to their business companies even while playing their political role.
2. Mrs.Sonia Gandhi, President of the Congress, which is in power in the Government of India, is the mother-in-law of Shri Robert Vadra, who has prospered in business after marrying Ms.Priyanka Gandhi, daughter of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi.
3.Mr. Mitt Romney is a member of the US Republican Party belonging to a well-known business family of Massachusetts. He entered politics to become the Governor of his State. He is now contesting the US Presidential elections against President Barack Obama.
4. Shri Gadkari has got involved in a huge controversy because of his continued association with his business companies when he was the PWD Minister in the Maharashtra Cabinet in the 1990s and now as the President of the BJP.
5. Shri Jindal has got involved in an embarrassing controversy because of his continued association with his steel business even while serving as a Member of the Parliament belonging to the Congress. He has allegedly benefitted from a coal mining block allotted to him by the Government of India.
6. There is nothing wrong in businessmen entering politics provided they do not profit in their businesses as a result of their political position and they do not allow their political role to influence their business decision-making. How to enforce political and business rectitude when businessmen take to politics?
7.It would be useful to make a case study of Mr.Romney in the US. He was associated with some business companies of his State investing in and trading with China. One of the companies was allegedly even dealing with telecommunications which is a sensitive area from the national security point of view.
8.Before Mr.Romney decided to enter politics and contest as Governor of his State, he made a public statement of all his business interests and holdings, formed a public trust in respect of each of his companies and dissociated himself from all decision-making in respect of these companies.
9. Those who had watched the second Presidential debate between Mr.Romney and Mr.Obama, would have noticed that Mr.Obama questioned Mr.Romney's association with business companies investing in and trading with China. Mr.Romney replied that the affairs of these companies are managed by a public trust and that he is not associated with their decision-making. Mr.Obama was satisfied with his reply and did not pursue the matter.
10.In India, huge controversies have arisen relating to the business background of Sri Gadkari and Shri Jindal because they did not dissociate themselves from decision-making relating to their business companies while functioning as political leaders holding key positions. The public perception is and will be that they have benefitted in their businesses as a result of their political role and influence.
11.Shri Gadkari was a public servant when he was the PWD Minister. He is not a public servant now as the President of the BJP. Shri Jindal is a public servant as a member of the Parliament and is subject to the jurisdiction of the Prevention of Corruption Act. Had he been a member of the US Congress and had he been allotted a coal mining block, the legal and public assumption in the US would have been that he did not get the block on merits, but by virtue of his being in the Congress. To avoid such perceptions, all public servants in the US form public trusts of their businesses and dissociate themselves from decision-making.
12. In the case of Mrs.Sonia Gandhi, the wrong-doing was of a different kind. When the Congress was elected to power in 2004, political rectitude demanded that she should inform all Government departments of the Government of India and all State Governments where the Congress is in power, that her son-in-law is a real estate businessman and he should not be shown any favours because of his being her son-in-law. She did not do so.
13. When the controversy regarding the real estate wheeling and dealing of Shri Vadra recently broke out, she should have immediately written to the Prime Minister to look into all his real estate dealings in which departments of the Government of India and State Governments were involved and satisfy himself that there was no wrong-doing.
14. She did not do that either. Instead, allegedly at her prodding, a number of senior Ministers of the Cabinet of Dr.Manmohan Singh holding sensitive portfolios embarked on a cover-up and damage control exercise to prevent any political embarrassment to her and to deny any criminal liability of Shri Vadra.
15. The controversies relating to Shri Gadkari, Shri Jindal and Mrs.Sonia Gandhi call for follow-up action at two levels. An enquiry into all allegations made to rule out civil or criminal wrong-doing and introduction of conflict of interest provisions in our laws to enforce rectitude when businessmen want to enter public life. ( 26-10-12)
(The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Associate of the Chennai Centre For China Studies. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter @SORBONNE75)


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Three years ago Chris Cotton, H. Foley and Conrad Roth started a new Thursday night open mic at The Raven Lounge. They saw Philly as a city with a lot of talent, and a shortage of stage time – and decided to take matters into their own hands. In the three years that have passed a lot of mics have come and gone but Center City Comedy is still going strong as ever on Thursday nights. Roth has since moved to San Francisco, but his departure made way for Tom Cassidy to join the group in helping run the open mic. The Thursday night mic at The Raven Lounge has been a place where more established comedians can work on new bits, where new guys can get up and join the Philly comedy community, and has become a room where visiting comedians love to do drop in sets. Various comedians from out of town have commented on how great the crowd is, and how lucky Philly comics are to have a spot like the Raven as an open mic room. The guys have also branched out, helping other comics start their own rooms at various places in the city and Philly has gained a strong open mic scene since. Center City Comedy has also started to produce their own sketch videos, and has become an LLC.
Tonight, the third anniversary of Center City Comedy at the Raven Lounge will be celebrated with a show in which favorite comics from the past three years as well as hosts of other open mics around the city will perform. The guys will also give out awards throughout the night, and the show will end with a party in the upstairs room at the Raven. Festivities start, as usual, at 9pm and the party will probably last all night.
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tHe_pEsTiLeNcE wrote:This just proves all Bob cared about was his own interest and his own thread. If he really cared about this message board he would still want to a member and talk about Warriors basktetball. But since no one wants his annoying thread around anymore he quits the message board? True colors showing.
I agree, I don't see how he can be defended any more
I was about to make that exact same comment; if this doesn't prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that SoCoolBob was purely interested in his own free throw pitch (and not the Golden State Warriors - which this board is about), than nothing will.
Hell, in all realism, Bob's thread probably would have landed safely in the Sports Section, but that was never his goal. He cared nothing about free throws. He purely cared about his own agenda. And if he couldn't spout his propaganda in the most popular forum we had, he was gonna leave (which he did).
When his thread is ended, he jumps ship. 'Nuff said.


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17AAG to Treat Kidney Tumors in Von Hippel-Lindau Disease
This study will examine whether the drug 17AAG (17-allylamino 17-demethoxygeldanamycin) can shrink kidney tumors in patients with Von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL), a rare, inherited syndrome in which patients develop tumors in certain parts of the body. 17AAG contributes to the destruction of proteins in cells that may play in role in causing cancer and spurring tumor growth. The study will also look at the effect of 17AAG on other tumors patients may have that are caused by VHL, on the amount of blood vessels in the tumors, on the biologic activity of the tumor, and on cells circulating in the bloodstream, as well as the safety of the drug and its impact on the kidney tumor in patients whose tumor(s) is removed.
Patients 18 years of age and older with von Hippel-Lindau disease who have at least one kidney tumor large enough to pose a risk of metastasis (spread of cancer to other parts of the body) may be eligible for this study. Candidates are screened with a medical history and physical examination, computed tomography (CT) scan, brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), see below), and blood and urine tests. Additional tests, including a 24-hour urine collection, ultrasound of the testicles in men, hearing test, eye exam, and MRI of the spine, may be done if recent test results are not available.
Participants undergo the following tests and procedures:
MRI: This test uses a strong magnetic field and radio waves to show structural and chemical changes in tissue. During the scan, the patient lies on a table in a narrow cylinder containing a magnetic field, wearing earplugs to muffle loud noises that occur with electrical switching of the magnetic fields. A catheter (plastic tube) is inserted into the patient's arm to administer a contrast dye that enhances the images.
17AAG treatment: Patients receive 17AAG infusions into a vein once a week for 3 weeks out of every 4, for 3 months. The infusions last up to 1 to 2 hours.
Repeat testing: After 3 months, patients have repeat MRI scans to measure changes in tumor activity, blood flow, and number of blood vessels in the tumor since the pretreatment scans. They may have additional tests, including a CT scan, eye exam, and other tests to evaluate the effect of 17AAG on the tumors.
Full Title of Study: "A Phase II Study of 17-Allylamino-17-Demethoxygeldanamycin in Patients With Von Hippel Lindau Disease and Renal Tumors"
Study Type
- Study Type: Interventional
- Study Design
- Allocation: Non-Randomized
- Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
- Study Primary Completion Date: January 2009
Detailed Description
Von Hippel-Lindau disease is a hereditary cancer syndrome in which affected individuals are at risk for developing tumors in a number of organs, including the brain, spine, adrenal glands, eyes and pancreas.
The molecular hallmark of VHL is inactivation of the VHL gene which leads to accumulation of the hypoxia inducible factors (HIF); this, in turn results in overexpression of several genes including vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), glucose transporter 1 (GLUT-1), transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-α), platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and erythropoietin, which play an important role in tumorigenesis, tumor growth and metastasis.
17-allylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin (17AAG) is an inhibitor of the cellular chaperone heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90), and its interaction with Hsp90 leads to destabilization and degradation of several proteins, that depend on Hsp90 for their stability.
The alpha subunit of HIF1 is one such Hsp90 client protein' and is susceptible to VHL independent, 17AAG-induced degradation.
To evaluate the efficacy of 17 AAG administered as a single agent in von Hippel Lindau patients with renal tumors. The primary endpoint of the trial is response of renal tumors following 3 cycles of therapy.
To study the safety and tolerability of 17 AAG. To evaluate PD modulation of hsp90, and to explore the utility dynamic contrast enhanced MRI in evaluation of blood flow and metabolic changes in renal tumors before and during therapy
Adults with clinical diagnosis of von Hippel Lindau disease Presence of one or more localized renal tumors for which surgical resection would be considered the standard approach
Patients will receive 17 AAG as an intravenous infusion at a dose of 300mg/m(2) on days 1, 8, and 15 of 28 day cycles.
The study will follow a two-stage MinMax phase II design and will accrue a maximum of 26 patients.
- Drug: 17 allylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin
- 17 allylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin (17 AAG) given intravenously at a dose of 300 mg/m2 on days 1,8 and 15 of 28 day cycles.
- Drug: 18 FDG (Fludeoxyglucose 18F)
- 18FDG PET performed at baseline and 12 weeks after treatment. At each timepoint participants can receive 250mCi 0-15 water and 15 mCi F18-FDG.
- Drug: [15-O] H2O
- [15-0] H20 performed at baseline and 12 weeks after treatment. At each time point participants can receive 250mCi 0-15 water and 15 mCi F18-FDG. The water scans were done as several intravenous injections for several scans but not over a total of 250 mCi.
- Drug: EPL diluent
- 17AAG is formulated with this diluent. Supplied in a 50 mL flint vial containing 48 mL of 2% egg phospholipids, and 5% dextrose in Water for Injection, USP. Patients with a history of serious allergic reactions to eggs should not receive this agent.
Arms, Groups and Cohorts
- Experimental: Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) associated renal tumors
Clinical Trial Outcome Measures
Primary Measures
- Number of Participants With a Renal Tumor Response
- Time Frame: 12 weeks
- Response is defined as the number of patients who experience a disease response (complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) of renal tumors)per RECIST criteria. CR is the disappearance of all target lesions. PR is at least a 20% decrease in the sum of the longest diameter (LD) of target lesions, taking as reference the baseline sum LD. See the protocol Link module for the full criteria if desired.
Secondary Measures
- Number of Participants With a Non-renal Tumor Response
- Time Frame: Baseline and 12 weeks
- Number of patients who have a PR or CR of non-renal lesions (pancreatic tumors, pheochromocytomas, and hemangioblastomas). The effect of treatment on the lesions will be evaluated at baseline and at the time of restaging (12 weeks) per RECIST criteria. RECIST is defined as changes in only the largest diameter (unidimensional measurement) of the tumor lesions. Lesions are either measurable or non-measurable using the criteria. See the protocol Link module for the full criteria if desired.
- The Number of Participants With Adverse Events
- Time Frame: 1 yr, 364 days
- Here are the total number of participants with adverse events. For the detailed list of adverse events see the adverse event module. The descriptions and grading scales found in the revised NCI Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 3.0 will be utilized for adverse event reporting. For a detailed description see the link in the Protocol Link module.
- The Number of Participants With HIF, HSP90, and HSP70 Modulation in Resected Tumor Tissue and/or Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes
- Time Frame: Baseline and 12 weeks
- Measurement of HIF, HSP90 and HSP70 levels by Western Blot in tumor tissue and/or lymphocytes to assess modulation of these biomarkers in response to 17 AAG treatment. Pretreatment tumor samples (when available) and resected tumors (in those patients who did not have a response and underwent surgical resection of their tumor) were to be used for this analysis. Levels of Hsp90, Hsp70, HIF and HIF transcriptional targets in resected tumor will be compared to respective levels in tumors previously resected from other VHL patients (not treated with 17AAG).
- Number of Patients in Whom Renal Tumors Could be Identified by Positron Emission Tomography (PET)Based on Fludeoxyglucose 18F (18FDG) Uptake
- Time Frame: Baseline and at 12 weeks
- Images were acquired after the intravenous administration of 18FDG and H2015 and used to analyze glucose uptake and estimate blood flow. The parameter to be measured is SUV (standard uptake value(s)) and/or mL/min/gm.
- Number of Participants With Flow Dynamics Measured by DCE MRI Within the Renal and Non-renal Tumor
- Time Frame: Baseline and during therapy (12 weeks)
- Dynamic images will be acquired before and after the intravenous administration of 0.1 mmol/kg of Gadolinium Diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid (DTPA). Time activity curves will be generated over a period of ten minutes. The parameter to be measured is the forward contrast transfer rate (Ktrans), the reverse contrast transfer rate (Kep), and/or the extravascular extracellular space volume fraction (Ve). Flow dynamics are a measure of blood flow changes in the tumor and are determined using the parameters we had previously defined (Ktrans, Kep, etc.).
Participating in This Clinical Trial
Inclusion Criteria
- Patients must satisfy all of the following inclusion criteria to be eligible for study enrollment.
- Clinical diagnosis of von Hippel Lindau disease.
- Presence of one or more localized renal tumors for which surgical resection would be considered the standard approach.
- Age greater than or equal to 18 years. Because no dosing or adverse event data are currently available on the use of 17 AAG in patients less than 18 years of age, children are excluded from this study.
- Life expectancy less than 3 months.
- Performance status Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) 0-2.
- Patients must have normal organ and marrow function as defined below: white blood cells (WBC)count greater than or equal to 3,000/microliter, absolute neutrophil count greater than or equal to 1,500/microliter, platelet count greater than or equal to 100,000/microliter, Hgb greater than 10Gm/dl, serum creatinine less than or equal to 1.0 upper limit of normal (ULN) or measured 24 hour creatinine clearance greater than 60 ml/min,aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) less than 1.0 times the ULN, total bilirubin less than or equal to ULN(less than 3 times the normal limit (NL) in patients with Gilbert's disease).
- Negative hepatitis B surface antigen (HbsAg), human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and nonreactive hepatitis C virus (HCV).
- No history of serious intercurrent illness.
- At least four weeks from completion of any surgical or investigational therapy for von Hippel Lindau disease.
- Willingness to undergo resection of renal tumor at the time point defined in the protocol.
- All men and women of childbearing potential must use effective contraception as determined by the principal investigator or protocol chair.
- Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.
Exclusion Criteria
- Prior or concomitant non-von Hippel Lindau associated malignancy with the exception of adequately treated basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or any other malignancy from which the patient has remained disease free for more than five years.
- Any renal tumor greater than 4cm in size.
- Patients who have had chemotherapy or radiotherapy within 4 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) prior to entering the study or those who have not recovered from adverse events (to grade 1 or less toxicity according to Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 3.0 (CTCAE 3.0) due to agents administered more than 4 weeks earlier.
- Patients may not be receiving any other investigational agents.
- Patients with known metastatic renal cell cancer.
- Patients with a history of serious allergy to eggs.
- Concomitant therapy with cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4) potent inhibitors.
- Patients who are on CYP3A4 substrates and inducers qualify for enrollment for this study.
- Pregnant women are excluded from this study because 17 AAG has the potential for teratogenic or abortifacient effects, and no data regarding its safety in pregnant women is available. Because there is an unknown but potential risk for adverse events in nursing infants secondary to treatment of the mother with 17 AAG, breastfeeding should be discontinued if the mother is treated with 17 AAG.
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients are excluded from the study because of unknown but potential pharmacokinetic interactions of anti-retroviral drugs with 17 AAG.
- Use of any medications that prolong or may prolong corrected QT interval (QTc).
- Patients who have significant cardiac disease including heart failure that meets New York Heart Association (NYHA)class III and IV definitions, uncontrolled dysrhythmias requiring anti-arhythmic drugs, or patients with active ischemic heart disease including myocardial infarction and poorly controlled angina within 12 months of study entry.
- Patients who have a history of serious ventricular arrhythmia (ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF),greater than or equal to 3 beats in a row), QTc greater than or equal to 450msec for men and 470msec for women, or left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) below lower limit of normal by multi gated acquisition scan(MUGA).
- Patients with a history of prior chest radiation or radiation that potentially included the heart in the treatment field.
- Patients with congenital long Q wave, T wave (QT) syndrome.
- Patients with left bundle branch block.
- Patients with symptomatic pulmonary disease requiring medication, including the following:dyspnea, dyspnea on exertion, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, oxygen requirement and significant pulmonary disease, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, patients meeting Medicare criteria for home oxygen.
- Carbon monoxide diffusing capacity (DLCO) less than or equal to 80%.
- Patients with a prior history of cardiac or pulmonary toxicity after receiving anthracyclines, such as doxorubicin, daunorubicin, mitoxantrone, bleomycin, or carmustine (BCNU).
- Patients with greater than or equal to grade 2 baseline pulmonary or cardiac symptoms.
Gender Eligibility: All
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: N/A
Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: No
Investigator Details
- Lead Sponsor
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
- William M. Linehan, M.D., National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
- Overall Official(s)
- William M Linehan, M.D., Principal Investigator, National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Linehan WM, Lerman MI, Zbar B. Identification of the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) gene. Its role in renal cancer. JAMA. 1995 Feb 15;273(7):564-70. Review.
Clifford SC, Maher ER. Von Hippel-Lindau disease: clinical and molecular perspectives. Adv Cancer Res. 2001;82:85-105. Review.
Maher ER, Kaelin WG Jr. von Hippel-Lindau disease. Medicine (Baltimore). 1997 Nov;76(6):381-91. Review.
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Last month, Goddard announced the layoff of 20 employees. With the furloughs, no additional layoffs are needed to meet the reduced Attorney General's Office budget, he said.
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The $50,000 threshold was chosen, he said, because employees with higher incomes would, in most cases, be better able to handle the financial burden and should have more flexibility in adjusting their schedules.
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McDonald's Debuts Mighty Wings in Atlanta, They're Actually Mighty Good
Would you like fries (or onion rings or chicken tenders) with that?
I'll admit, I wasn't expecting much. I started seeing signage at the McDonald's locations around Atlanta advertising Mighty Wings, and—much like you're doing right now—wondered, "WHY?!?"
Then I learned that the deep-fried bone-in wings were a limited-time test item available only in metro Atlanta, and—much like you are thinking at this moment—thought, "Well, THAT's weird." Then I found myself devouring a huge pile of them on a recent Friday night, and—much like you will if they ever make it out of the trial-market phase—admitted, "Holy crap, those are really freakin' good."
Mighty Wings debuted at Atlanta-area McDonald's locations in early August and will be available here (and nowhere else) for an unspecified length of time. The company is making no promises, though, about when or even if they'll roll the wings out nationally. (Make of that what you will... but it's hard to imagine that this is just a one-time gift bestowed upon the people of Atlanta "just because.")
Longtime fans of the Golden Arches may remember that Mighty Wings did appear intermittently in a few U.S. markets in the 1990s, but the current iteration is supposedly bigger and meatier. Judging from the official publicity shot, the emphasis isn't on the fry job, despite the use of the word "crispy" right in the marketing materials.
Those look lightly fried at best, with a thin skin-coat that certainly wouldn't offer much in the way of crunch or taste. Or so I can only assume... because in actuality, this is what I was given:
Yowza. That's some seriously-craggy crispiness, with lots of little nooks and crannies of deep golden brown awesomeness. I daresay that's a more saliva-inducing piece of fried chicken than you'll find at many "real" restaurants in Atlanta, a town that has a well-documented love affair with the stuff.
Either I need to be the one shooting McDonald's official PR pics or the ad team needs Store 5043 to be supplying the props for the next photo shoot, but that is sexy, no?
Thankfully, the beauty here is more than just skin-deep. Prying into one of the almost-absurdly huge drumettes revealed juicy, tender meat. And lots of it. None of that pressed-and-processed extruded-chicken-goo. These are, true to the McDonald's literature, "big and meaty... high-quality" bone-in wings.
The skin is crackly and crunchy, good enough that I found myself scrabbling after the bits and pieces of shrapnel that fell away. And perhaps surprisingly, they have a genuinely spicy kick. They wouldn't qualify as "hot wings" in my estimation, but they bring enough heat that neither of my kids would eat them. Put it this way: the skin around my lips felt a gentle burn for much longer than I would would have expected.
Both the drums and flats (10 drumettes and 8 flats in the 18-piece meal; a nice ratio) boasted lots of juicy meat and tender morsels of fat hidden around the joints, waiting to be discovered as you pick the bones clean. Though I didn't put Mighty Wings in a side-by-side taste test of fast-food wings, I'd unquestionably rank them in the top tier, surely better by far than the pizza chains' offerings, and perhaps on par with what the big chicken shacks are cranking out.
A word about sauces. While wings that drip with red-hot buffalo dip are what many wing nuts hold in highest regard, I'm a dry guy who prefers that the chicken and the skin do the talking instead of the atomic jet fuel they're tossed in. But you saucy types do have some choices for wings-drenching: Creamy Ranch, Honey Mustard, Spicy Buffalo, BBQ, and Sweet & Sour. Oddly enough, bleu cheese—the quintessential wing accompaniment—is nowhere to be found.
My Mighty Wings weren't perfect; there were some disappointing moments here and there. Some wings showed patchy bare spots, but considering that's what I had half-expected the entire wing to look like, I could chalk this up as an occasional inevitability.
A few wings sported what almost looked like an unattractively-scorched burn mark. Not the end of the world, but these were certainly the wings I picked around. Luckily, I had 18 to choose from; had I ordered a 3-piecer and seen a black patch on even one, I would have been pretty pissed.
I realize we're talking about a brand-new menu item that's just two weeks old, but I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that I had a wait for mine. Mighty Wings are available as a 3-, 5-, or 10-piece*, and I requested one of each. The 3- and 5-packs ($3.19 and $4.99, respectively) were boxed immediately, but I was told that I'd have to wait for the order of 10 ($9.19) to be "dropped." It took nearly 10 minutes to get all 18 wings bagged up and in my hot little hands. That's not fast enough for a fast food order.
Beginner's curve? Of course, that's to be expected, but in a primetime dinner rush, an order of 18 wings shouldn't bring the kitchen to a grinding halt. Wings need to be coming out in huge multiples without hassle, and plenty of places do it without missing a beat. If McDonald's is hoping to lure the tailgating crowd, Ronald better have a gameplan to get his team to churn out an order of 50 or 100 before a Georgia Tech Saturday or Atlanta Falcon Sunday.
*Mighty Wings are such an experimental item that there isn't even real packaging for them. The 3-piece comes in a Chicken Selects box, and the 5-piece comes in a plain white carton... with only a numbered sticker labeling them as wings. And Mickey D's doesn't even have packaging for a 10-piece order; I was given two boxes of five.
While I thoroughly enjoyed my Mighty Wings, I feel like McDonald's could have a perception problem to overcome if they are to go wide. You can't eat these things while you're driving, so all of us grabbing road food in the drive-thru line are out of luck. Mighty Wings are a dine-in or carryout option. And who dines in at the Golden Arches long enough to mess around with a platter of bone-in chicken wings?
This isn't Hooters or Buffalo Wild Wings, where my buddies and I could conceivably camp out for an entire afternoon. And while I'd go so far as to put McDonald's Mighty Wings equal with—and maybe even ahead of those places in the taste department—there's simply no amount of restaurant redesign that's getting me to sit through an NFL doubleheader at Mickey D's.
So that leaves carryout. I can see this as a legitimate option, because again, the wings really are that good. But we're back to the quantity thing. They need to speed up the process so I can be back home with the grub before kickoff.
I hope McDonald's irons out these issues. They have something pretty damn good here. I hope the rest of you get to try Mighty Wings at some point in the future (although the chain has said no other city will sell them in 2012).
About the Author: Todd Brock lives the glamorous life of a stay-at-home freelance writer in the suburbs of Atlanta. Besides being paid to eat cheeseburgers for AHT and pizzas for Slice, he's written and produced over 1,000 hours of television and penned Building Chicken Coops for Dummies. When he grows up, he wants to be either the starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys or the drummer for Hootie & the Blowfish. Or both.
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