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Newspapers/Serials (in Portuguese) - Catolicismo, v. 15, no. 176: Aug. 1965; no. 178-179: Nov. 1965; no. 180: Dec. 1965; v. 16, no. 185: May 1966
Fonseca, Hermes da
Jornal do Commercio, Rio de Janiero: September 8-9, 1956 - Newspaper contains an article entitled "Marshal Hermes da Fonseca," commemorating the 33rd anniversary of his death
Invitation and program for the centennial birthday celebration of Marshal Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca
Printed speech of Marshal Ilha Moreira for the Inaugration of the "Monumento do Generalissimo," Nov. 15, 1937
Program for the "Dia de Deodoro," Nov. 15, 1944
Telegram booklet for the night of November 14, 1904 - contains about 30 telegrams
Booklet - Mario Hermes da Fonseca: O Jose do Brasil, 1953 - with newspaper clipping, "Manobras Militares" mentioning Hermes da Fonseca, 1906
Booklet - Mobilizemos as riquezas minerais para vencer a crise Brasileira, Aug. 18, 1947
Music sheets for the "Deodoro Hymno," July 1927
Booklet commemorating Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca, November 15, 1889-1919
Gabriel, Jose
Miscellaneous notes and memos
Correspondence between Peterson and Gabriel, Feb. 27-Dec. 4, 1967
Document - "Os Monarquistas de Hoje e o Herminismo," from the Ministry of Justice and Internal Affairs
Document - "Sebastianismo," includes a handwritten note from Jose Gabriel, 1966
"Guide to Research in Rio: Preliminary Listing" by Robert M. Levine - contains several handwritten suggestions by John D. Peterson and a mention of Peterson in the personal thank you section (Peterson was a contributor)
Miscellaneous notes and memos about interviews
"Lunch with Joe Love," Rio, Sept. 16, 1965
Eduardo K. and Maria do Carmo: Sao Paulo (S.P.): Sept. 9, 1965
Dave Carneiro: July 29, 1965
Roberto P. da Fonseca
Liga da Defesa Nacional
Monthly bulletin - Boletim do Diretorio Central da Liga da Defesa Nacional (in Portuguese), no. 2: Oct. 1962-no. 29: Mar. 1965 (incomplete)
Booklet - Campanha de Educacao Para a Cidadania, 1964 (in Portuguese)
Monarchist Papers, Revistas - Various newspapers, bulletins, and booklets: "Amanha," "Da Menagem e da Lesa Majestade," "Diario de S. Paulo," "Auctoridade," "Monarquia," "Patria Nova," "O Cetro"
Dissertation: Conclusions and Generalizations - Includes handwritten and typed notes regarding conclusions
Notes - Includes handwritten notes and edits of printed works
UCLA - Dissertation mss prep guides
Microfilm Reels
Number 2 - 1. Com de S.P.; 2. Ed Prado Doc.; 3. Meseu imperial. Canister also contains a few folded, handwritten notes.
Number 3 - 1. Pedro Velko - Rio Grande, Do Norte; 2. Hermes Doc.; 3. Patria Nova. Canister also contains a folded, handwritten index for the reel.
Number 4 - 1. Monarchist Revista


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Redszone's Top Prospects
Prospect #1 - Yonder Alonso
Prospect #2 - Todd Frazier
Prospect #3 - Neftali Soto
Prospect #4 - Drew Stubbs
Prospect #5 - Chris Valaika
Prospect #6 - Kyle Lotzkar
Prospect #7 - Daryl Thompson
Prospect #8 - Juan Francisco
Redszone's Top Prospects
Prospect #1 - Yonder Alonso
Prospect #2 - Todd Frazier
Prospect #3 - Neftali Soto
Prospect #4 - Drew Stubbs
Prospect #5 - Chris Valaika
Prospect #6 - Kyle Lotzkar
Prospect #7 - Daryl Thompson
Prospect #8 - Juan Francisco
I'm gonna go with Juan Duran at #9. He's very, very young, but Duran has been described as being one of the best hitting prospects to ever come out of the Dominican Republic. That's very impressive when you look at all the great hitters to come from that island. He's probably five years from helping the Reds but his potential is so high it's enough for me to put him in the top ten. You don't find too many 16 years old described as having plus-plus power potential. And it's not like he's just a big slugger, some scouts have said he's athletic enough to play center field. While that's doubtful, the fact that scouts say that just goes to show how talented Duran is.
I wanted to vote Mesoraco here but I accidentally clicked on Dickerson apparentally because of the runoff.
"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."
--Woody Hayes
Should add Ryan Hanigan and Adam Rosales
Been voting Duran since #4 and will keep it up til he gets it
"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"
I like Duran a lot but voted Dorn based on closeness to the majors. Time to add Evan Hildenbrandt in my view. I don't know how others feel about him but I'd rate him higher than at least half the current list.
That's Dorn's minor league career OPS.
915 would lead the Reds in OPS by a wide, wide margin. And he plays LF.
His only problems are:
1) He's not a high enough draft pick to warrant extra attention
2) He's not RH
Dorn can help neither. All he can do is to continue to hit.
Here's betting he will do just that.
"You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat."
-- Christy Matthewson
"Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot."
-- Leo Durocher
Chris Heisey because of his combination of speed, power and hitting ability
I know its not necessarily conventional thinking, but I went with Zach Stewart.
I like his combination of potential, ability to advance quickly, and his stuff and potential impact at the MLB level the most out of anyone on the list.
Ramon ramirez is closer and I considered him too, but I'm still not entirely sure what to make of him.
Dickerson also is solid, but I fear he is overrated by some here in the same mold as a Chris denorfia. I'm hoping he proves me wrong, I just have doubts I can't rid my self of.
I think Stewart has a high ceiling, the potential to advance rapidly, and a real ability to have an impact and be a difference maker.
"I hate to advocate chemicals, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone... But they've always worked for me."
-Hunter S. Thompson
After Duran here, it's time for the relievers. The Reds have a number of excellent relief prospects. I'd put Roenicke first since he is close the majors and will, in my view, mow them down throwing gas for a few years. Stewart is a less advanced candidate but also high up.
I see Fisher as more of a setup guy/middle man, but also deserves top fifteen mention.
I know there is debate about the order of these guys, but it's their time to be mentioned on this list. One of the strengths of the Reds system.
All Dickerson has done in his minor league career is provide excellent defense at a key position and have an above average bat for that position.
And of course when he went to a higher level this past season, he was a dominant bat.
If his average OPS is 200 points lower than his first go around in the majors, he's likely one of the better CF's in the game. That may be rose colored glasses talking, but his OBP has always been pretty good, and I figure that will translate pretty well in the majors.
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-- Joseph Daniel Votto 7/10/2017
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Tap the icon in the digital edition of AW&ST to watch a video of the X-47B's seven back-to-back carrier touch-and-go landings, or go to AviationWeek.com/video
The level of precision and repeatability the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) achieved during at-sea landings and touch-and-go trials indicates the autonomy used to prove this unmanned aircraft's ability to operate on an aircraft carrier could have implications for future manned Navy aircraft and, possibly, commercial airliners.
"The system is extremely repeatable," says U.S. Navy Capt. Jaime Engdahl, UCAS program manager, of touch-and-goes and landings of the X-47B during flight trials.
That precision and repeatability could provide the Navy with a tool for other, manned, fixed-wing aircraft that operate on the carrier. Pilots have to conduct hours of training to remain current for landings and bolters, a touch-and-go that occurs if the pilot misses the arresting wires on the carrier deck, forcing an emergency takeoff. Unmanned technology advocates say autonomous landing systems such as that used for the X-47B could be retrofitted onto other manned aircraft, reducing the cost of hours of training for pilots, while increasing safety.
The most obvious near-term candidate for such a system would be the Lockheed Martin F-35C, which is still in development and has not yet achieved a carrier landing. The Navy is also developing the Northrop Grumman E-2D Hawkeye and exploring options for a C-2 Greyhound replacement to shuttle cargo and passengers onto carriers.
Beyond carrier aviation, unmanned technology advocates also posit that such a system could be used for commercial applications. The end result could be a more efficient air traffic system that allows for reduced distances in safe separation among aircraft on approach. And, it could permit more efficient stacking of commercial airliners as they await landing clearances. Obviously such an application would require further testing and a significant turnabout in civil aviation policy globally. But, these advocates point out that the maturity of the technology sheds new light on the art of the possible.
"The reliability of the aircraft to hit the spot on the deck is almost impossible to repeat with a man in the cockpit" at the controls, says one industry official.
Together with UCAS prime contractor Northrop Grumman, the Navy team proved the aircraft's ability to land safely on the deck of the USS George H.W. Bush twice on July 10. Though a significant first in aviation history, the team also demonstrated the aircraft's ability to land in all conditions up to sea state 5, including waves up to 13 ft. high, and various crosswind conditions in flight and simulated testing quietly conducted ashore at NAS Patuxent River, Md.
The two sea-based landings were seminal for the program and carrier aviation, but perhaps more revealing about the system's capabilities was a series of seven successive touch-and-goes done during a single day's worth of trials on the USS Bush May 21, says Carl Johnson, Northrop Grumman UCAS vice president. These trials were conducted in advance of the carrier landings to prove the bolter logic—an autonomous function that kicks in to conduct a quick—safe takeoff in the event one the X-47Bs were to miss all three wires on the Bush. In a manned aircraft, the pilot engages the throttle to gain enough speed and manually directs the aircraft down the centerline of the runway.
During the bolter trials for the X-47B, engineers collected video of the landings to analyze not only how precise the touchdowns were based on predictions, but also to study how precisely the air vehicle accelerated down the centerline on its takeoff.
For the touch-and-goes, the nose gear landed all seven times with no more than 1 ft. in lateral deviation and 8 ft. in longitudinal deviation, a space slightly larger than a yoga mat. These seven landings are representative of thousands of simulations and other trials done ashore to vary the wind conditions and other factors. "Our performance at sea was equivalent to our performance on shore-based landings," Johnson says. Also notable is the consistency with which the nose gear rolls precisely along the centerline as the aircraft speeds up for its takeoff to rejoin the carrier's traffic pattern, Johnson says.
In a video of clips showing the seven touch-and-goes compiled by Northrop Grumman, the air vehicle shows a slight deviation in its sixth landing, where the nose gear touches down slightly closer to the centerline. This was a result of a shift in crosswinds, Johnson says. The aircraft, however, compensated and conducted its takeoff precisely along the centerline as shown in the video.
The precision on landing is the culmination of calculations performed by the air vehicle's software far in advance of touchdown. The X-47B uses a relative GPS system that constantly judges its position in space relative to equipment onboard the carrier, which is often moving at more than 20 kt. and rolling with the sea. By comparison, a UAV landing ashore would have a fixed GPS target point on which to home and would not require a "relative" reading.
In the case of the Bush trials, the X-47B engaged its relative GPS system a half-mile from the ship. At that point, the aircraft tracked its position relative to the precise spot on the deck it is programmed to impact. "If your eyes were good enough, you would see the airplane move like it is on water," Johnson says, noting the vehicle mirrors the carrier's motion as it rolls on the waves owing to the relative GPS readings. The aircraft then travels on a straight line, gliding to that point until touchdown. "It is never much more than a foot off of that line" during the approach, he says.
At this point in the operation, latency is a major issue, so the system is designed to constantly update the relative positions of the carrier and aircraft. Once aloft, if an operational unmanned aircraft were on a mission far from the carrier, that latency in communications could be dramatically different.
Through the $1.4 billion experimental UCAS program, the Navy proved that a tailless, unmanned aircraft can operate on the carrier and interoperate with the carrier wing. "From December 2012 until now, we were out there putting the aircraft into the real environment and validating that the real environment acted exactly like the simulations," Engdahl says. "One thing we have done is to show we can characterize naval aviation digitally and take electronic commands and send them to autonomous vehicles [that] operate like an aircraft in an air wing."


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Morbier is a semisoft, Gruyère-like cheese with a striking vein of ash through the middle. Photo courtesy Murray's Cheese.
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To make Morbier cheese, fresh milk is collected every day. It is placed in massive mixing kettles, into which lactic ferments are added. The milk is then allowed to rest for an hour, at which time the rennet is added, and the mixture gets heated to 100°F. Once the milk has curdled and become solid, the cheesemaker cuts it into small pieces, and mixes the curds. The next process is called délactosage in French: The whey is extracted from the kettle and is replaced by an equal part of salted water.
When it's ready, the curd "bread" is cut and placed in round, flat molds. Next, the cheese wheels are removed from the molds and cut in half, into two flat rounds. A layer of ash gets poured on top of one round, and the other round is placed on top of that. A plate of casein is then put on top of the cheese, and the cheese is placed in a press for a day. Finally, the cheese is transferred to a cellar to complete the aging process. While aging, the cheese is washed and rubbed with
salted water three to four times a week. The maturation period of A.O.C.-accredited Morbier is at least 45 days (though to be imported into the U.S., it must be aged for at least 60 days since the cheese is made from raw milk).
Then, this delicious cheese is ready to enjoy!
Photo: Wheels of Morbier aging. Courtesy of Fromage-Morbier.com.
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A.O.C. (Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée): Controlled designation of origin, the AOC mark guarantees, among other things, that the cheese originates from a specific region of France and has been produced in a traditional way.
Curds: Cheese is made of curds, which are obtained by curdling (coagulating) milk with rennet (an enzyme) or an acid such as lemon juice or vinegar; then draining off the whey. The milk solids become curds when an acid (vinegar, lemon juice) or enzymes are added.
Casein: The element of milk which solidifies when coagulation takes place. Caseins are insoluble milk proteins which form suspended masses in milk, and thus create emulsions.
Gruyère: Gruyère is both the name of one of the best-known Swiss cheeses and a general name for large cheeses made in France, such as Beaufort, Emmentaler and Gruyère de Comté.
Raw Milk Cheese: Cheese that has been made from milk that has not been pasteurized. The sale of raw milk cheeses is not allowed in the U.S., except those which have been aged 60 days or longer.
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NEW YORK >> A costumed Spider-Man was convicted Wednesday of harassing a woman in a Times Square spat that involved him swearing, her hurling snow and him taking a swing at her.
But a judge acquitted Phillip Williams of a more serious charge of attempted assault. It's a misdemeanor, while harassment is a non-criminal violation. Williams has to pay a $250 fine or serve seven days in jail.
At least three other people in Times Square's self-styled cast of comic book characters have been arrested in the last two years. But Williams' trial was a close-up on a clash between one of the costumed figures and their target audience of passers-by.
It got "ugly," he told a judge earlier this week.
Williams, 36, and Victoria Goreaciuc, 46, both said he cursed while complaining that she didn't tip him for posing for a photograph with her children in February 2013. She left but returned about an hour later, confronted him — after initially accosting another sidewalk Spidey — and tossed a handful of snow at Williams.
She said he then punched her in the face, knocking her to the ground, and fled. Williams said he swung in self-defense after a cold chunk hit his head.
Police arrested him in a nearby parking garage, with his shirt off but the rest of his Spider-Man costume on.
Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Anthony Ferrara presided over the non-jury trial, which featured a Spider-Man suit among the evidence and questioning about whether a costumed Batman had also been on the scene.


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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - FY 2011 Testimony
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is pleased to submit the following testimony on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 appropriation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The ASM is the largest single life science organization in the world with more than 40,000 members.
The ASM is very concerned that the proposed CDC budget of $6.6 billion for FY 2011 is 2 percent below the FY 2010 appropriation. The Administration's proposed budget is inconsistent with the need to adequately fund the agency acknowledged to be the principal federal driver in meeting our nation's goals for enhanced prevention and wellness. Focusing only on the infectious disease component of the CDC budget, the ASM notes that the Administration has proposed a $19.6 million increase in this area. However, such a modest increase does not adequately address the growing complexity and challenges of emerging infectious diseases. These challenges have been abundantly evident over the past year with the H1N1 influenza pandemic. Furthermore, the proposed budget substantially decreases two priority program areas: the CDC's vector-borne diseases program (by $26.7 million, which will essentially eliminate the program), and the CDC's antimicrobial resistance program (by $8.6 million). In the FY 2011 budget, both programs are to be supported out of emerging infectious disease funds. Therefore, the proposed increase of $19.6 million for emerging infectious diseases is insufficient to offset the $35 million in proposed reductions for vector-borne diseases and antimicrobial resistance, resulting in a net decrease of $15 million for emerging infectious diseases.
Eliminating funding for the vector-borne diseases program will impair CDC's collaborations with state and local partners consisting of vector-borne disease surveillance, outbreak response, the development of new diagnostics, diagnostic training and proficiency testing, as well as applied research and prevention efforts to address arboviral diseases. In the proposed budget, it is unclear what, if any, support will be available in FY 2011 for prevention and control of vector-borne pathogens. This funding reduction will essentially destroy the infrastructure developed in the past decade in response to the importation of West Nile virus in 1999 and its subsequent spread across the United States, and will leave the country vulnerable to similar importation of other vector-borne diseases.
In view of the net reduction for infectious diseases of approximately $15 million, the ASM recommends that Congress increase the budget for emerging infectious diseases and for CDC by at least 8 to 10 percent, to restore and strengthen funding for infectious disease prevention and control and other priority public health programs.
Vector-borne Diseases. The Administration's proposed elimination of funding (-$26.7 million) for vector-borne diseases, including West Nile virus, in its FY 2011 budget will have serious repurcussions. Many emerging or reemerging infectious diseases are tied to pathogens transmitted from animals to humans, often through insect vectors. CDC programs protect public health through "one health" strategies, based on the understanding that human health is intertwined with the health of animals and the environment. The vector-borne program not only supports the West Nile virus activities, but also supports work on agents like plague, tularemia, Lyme disease, dengue fever, and Japenese encephalitis. Lyme disease is by far the most common tickborne infection in the United States and exacts an enormous toll in health care costs and lost productivity. The US mainland is constantly threatened by the potential for establishment of dengue virus, as occurred last year in the Florida keys. Emerging public health risks like chikungunya virus in south Asia and the Indian Ocean are an ongoing concern similar to West Nile. To appropriately address vector-borne infections requires a vibrant infrastructure for detection, diagnosis, response and prevention at the national, state and local level. The proposed budget cuts will substantially dismantle the system developed in response to West Nile virus, causing much of the $200 million investment over the last decade to disappear. The ASM urges the Administration to restore the vector-borne disease funding.
Antimicrobial Resistant Infections. The Administration's proposed budget reduces the antimicrobial resistance program by $8.6 million. The ASM disagrees with the proposed FY 2011 decreases for crucial CDC efforts at a time when drug-resistant pathogens continue to emerge in both the community and healthcare setting. The decrease will, among other negative outcomes, substantially cut funding to states for surveillance and control programs. As a partner in the Federal Interagency Action Plan to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance, the CDC has been instrumental in tracking the grim increase in microbial pathogens resistant to antimicrobial drugs, like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Invasive MRSA infections attack about 94,000 Americans annually, contributing to 19,000 deaths. MRSA is an increasing problem in community settings where different control strategies are necessary than in the hospital environment. A similar trend is being seen with Clostridium difficile, an organism once largely confined to hospital and nursing home settings but now associated with increasing severity in the community. Microbial drug resistance is driven by various factors, from pathogens' natural evolution to the growing use of antimicrobials in human and animal healthcare. One estimate suggests that between 5 and 10 percent of all hospitalized US patients acquire a drug-resistant infection, adding $5 billion in annual healthcare costs. CDC either leads or collaborates in multiple projects against antimicrobial resistance, like the World Health Organization (WHO) effort to reduce the global spread of cephalosporin-resistant gonorrhea. Reduced funding would seriously impact the ability to mount and sustain programs to confront the problem of antimicrobial resistant pathogens.
CDC Funding: The Need for Increased Resources
Preventable diseases persist as major causes of illness and death in the United States. While life expectancy has steadily increased, influenza, pneumonia and septicemia caused by microbial pathogens remain among the top ten causes of death. The sudden emergence of pandemic H1N1 in the spring of 2009 in Mexico, California and Texas highlights the profound impact infectious diseases can have on our well being and economy. In addition to such emergent threats, other infectious diseases are on the rise. Reported cases of sexually transmitted Chlamydia infections have more than tripled since 1990, making it the most commonly reported infectious disease in the United States. Each year, children are absent 38 million school days due to influenza. About 43,000 Americans still develop acute hepatitis B annually, despite effective vaccines. The estimated annual cost to US hospitals of treating healthcare associated infections ranges from $28.4 billion to $45 billion. Foodborne illnesses continue to produce tens of millions of infections annually. And each year, Americans visit physician offices, hospital outpatient units or emergency rooms for infectious and parasitic diseases an estimated 30 million times.
Infectious disease prevention saves lives and dollars. The CDC Office of Infectious Diseases (OID) has three programs to prevent numerous microbial diseases: the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases and the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention. The CDC's Center for Global Health and other agency offices add expertise to the fight against disease pathogens here and abroad. In the past year, CDC personnel have contributed to the fight against H1N1 influenza and identified or confirmed the causes of disease outbreaks nationwide, like the two recent salmonellosis episodes tied to pet frogs and to black pepper. They also watched for drug-resistant tuberculosis and other communicable diseases at US ports of entry, and collaborated with local, state, federal and international partners to protect and promote good health in all 50 states, as well as nations like Haiti in response to the recent catastrophic earthquake.
Monitoring Disease, Protecting Public Health
HIV/AIDS. CDC estimates that about 1.1 million persons in the United States are living with HIV or AIDS; an estimated 21 percent do not know that they are infected. With life saving antiretroviral treatments now available, earlier diagnosis is the goal of recent CDC guidances on opt-out testing in correctional institutions and other settings and for routine screening in all health care settings for those aged 13–64 years and pregnant women, and retesting at least annually for all at high risk. In November, CDC reported that HIV incidence among intravenous drug users had declined by nearly 80 percent since the late 1980s, a positive public health outcome, yet late diagnosis of new infections persists. The FY 2011 budget increases funds for a National HIV/AIDS strategy under development, to include renewed efforts toward HIV risk reduction.
Hepatitis. Two percent of the US population or an estimated 5.3 million are living with chronic hepatitis B (HBV) or hepatitis C (HCV), most unaware of their infection unless they later develop liver disease or cancer. Last year, a CDC study concluded that in the previous decade, failures by health care workers to follow basic infection control practices had placed more than 60,000 US patients at risk for HBV or HCV infection. In January, the Institute of Medicine called for a new, improved national strategy to prevent and control these infections. Each year an estimated 25,000 persons become infected with hepatitis A (HAV), even though rates of acute symptomatic cases have declined by 92 percent since a vaccine first became available in 1995. CDC now recommends HAV vaccine for all children at age one, since children are a major source of infection for adults who can develop more serious symptoms. CDC reported last year that vaccination among US children increased from about 26 percent in 2006 to over 47 percent in 2007, but this means that still over half of our children are needlessly at risk of a fully preventable disease like hepatitis A. They also serve as a source of infection to vulnerable adults.
Tuberculosis. In a new CDC report, preliminary statistics from the agency's National TB Surveillance System reveals that 2009 saw the largest single year decrease in US cases since data collection began in 1953. The 11,540 cases reported last year were roughly 11 percent fewer than the previous year, with declines in both US and foreign born persons, although the TB rate among foreign born was still nearly 11 times higher. Possible explanations for the unprecedented drop, which CDC is investigating, include failure to recognize, diagnose, or report the disease due to weakening infrastructure or diversion of public health resources to the H1N1 response. This would represent a serious setback to TB disease control and elimination efforts in the United States. The emergence of tuberculosis bacteria resistant to available antimicrobial drugs has alarmed health organizations worldwide. CDC scientists identified genetic mutations associated with drug resistance in tuberculosis bacteria, which are now included in CDC laboratory testing available to state public health laboratories. CDC also is working with international partners in clinical trials of alternative drug treatments, and field trials of newer molecular-based diagnostic tests for resistance that provide results in hours to days, rather than the current weeks to months.
Foodborne/Waterborne Illness. A recent study estimates that the total economic impact of foodborne illness in the United States reaches $152 billion annually. Last April, CDC reported that progress in foodborne illness prevention had reached a plateau, with the incidence of the most common foodborne illnesses stagnating over the previous three years after several years of decline in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Data came from the FoodNet surveillance network, a collaborative project of CDC, 10 state sites and the nation's two food safety regulatory agencies (the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture). Of particular concern is the incidence of Salmonella infections, which persists at 14–16 cases per 100,000 Americans and periodically causes well-publicized disease outbreaks. This rate is stubbornly above the Healthy People 2010 target. Shortly thereafter, CDC released another report on illnesses linked to specific types of foods. Results included the following: 1) of the 1,270 outbreaks in 2006, 621 had a confirmed single cause, most often norovirus (54 percent), followed by Salmonella (18 percent); and 2) foods tied to the largest number of outbreak cases were poultry (21 percent), leafy vegetables (17 percent) and fruits-nuts (16 percent). Extensive CDC surveillance, done with multiple public health partners, has helped shape the current federal food safety initiative.
The ASM commends the appreciable increases in FY 2011 funding for food safety activities that will boost CDC capabilities, such as expanded outbreak surveillance and standardized investigations at the state and local level. The proposed FY 2011 budget specifically supports CDC water quality programs, including expansion of its Safe Water System and Water Safety Plan to additional countries to reduce waterborne diseases like cholera, giardiasis and cryptosporidioisis. The agency sustains multiple water quality projects, both domestically and elsewhere, ensuring safe drinking water and clean recreational waters free from microbial contamination.
Preventing Disease, Protecting Public Health
Collaborations with multiple stakeholders greatly increase the impact of CDC prevention programs. CDC grants to states and universities help build public health infrastructures against preventable illness; for instance, last fall the agency awarded over $4 million to fund new Centers of Excellence in Public Health Informatics, and another $5 million for biomonitoring programs in three states. In 2009, CDC joined other units of HHS in a new national initiative against healthcare-associated infections (HAI). It also announced plans last fall to distribute $40 million in Recovery Act funding to state health departments to reduce HAIs, and is collaborating with states to demonstrate that implementing CDC's HAI prevention guidelines can achieve major improvement. CDC estimates that every year US patients acquire 1.7 million infections while being treated in hospitals, the cause of approximately 99,000 deaths annually and an estimated $30 billion in added healthcare costs.
Over the past year, considerable CDC resources focused on preventing H1N1 influenza, the agency's top priority in 2009. Americans have received 97 million doses of H1N1 vaccine via distribution systems established by CDC and its public health partners. Although the pandemic has been less severe than originally feared, it has still resulted in an estimated 55 million US cases since April 2009, 246,000 hospitalizations and 11,000 deaths, many in infants, children and young adults. In addition to its extensive vaccine related efforts, CDC's influenza program identified higher H1N1 death rates among American Indians and Alaska Natives, and more serious illness among pregnant women in the United States. CDC testing determined that many Americans who died from H1N1 had co-infections with the common pneumonia bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae, which likely contributed to their death. Unfortunately, vaccine preventable pneumococcal infections still kill an estimated 40,000 Americans each year. CDC officials are currently assessing the lessons learned during the 2009–2010 influenza season.
In February, CDC recommended universal use in children of an updated pneumococcal vaccine just approved by the Food and Drug Administration, which should greatly reduce S. pneumoniae infections and stop a leading cause of bacteremia, meningitis and pneumonia. Pneumonia kills nearly 2 million children each year, most in impoverished nations. CDC is active globally in the detection, prevention and treatment of pneumonia and other childhood infectious diseases, collaborating with WHO and dozens of nations to reduce child mortality by two thirds by 2015. WHO estimates that if all currently available vaccines against childhood diseases were widely administered, an additional two million deaths could be prevented per year.
Improving Preparedness and Response
Being prepared for the unexpected is one of CDC's primary responsibilities in protecting health and well-being. During an emergency, CDC can quickly convene expert teams and deploy both personnel and medical supplies anywhere in the world. CDC leads federal efforts to detect and contain biothreats and to ensure availability of medical countermeasures. It operates the Strategic National Stockpile, a repository of countermeasures for rapid deployment, as well as its quarantine stations at the nation's borders. It distributes grants to state and local health departments to build capacity against public health emergencies. The ASM supports additional FY 2011 funds to improve CDC's preparedness and response efforts, including the Laboratory Response Network and Select Agent Program.
In light of the significant role played by the CDC as the nation's first line of defense against a host of infectious disease threats and its leadership in national efforts to promote wellness and prevention, these efforts should not be handicapped by a funding reduction as proposed in the 2011 budget. The ASM supports an 8 to 10 percent increase in infectious disease activities to assure critical programs are not reduced or eliminated and that opportunities to prevent and control infectious diseases are not curtailed. The ASM appreciates the opportunity to comment on the FY 2011 budget for the CDC.


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So couple of weeks back the 2013 winter season for animé started, as always there are loads of new shows starting and it's really hard to keep up and know which one you should commit to watching because so many lack potential in their opening episode and end up being great with the later episodes. Well have no fear! For I am here to shepherd you through the new animé jungle.
I figure I'll start off by recommending the animé that I think has shown most promise of being truly worth while watching this season namely Kotoura-san. There are currently 2 episodes out of this show and I will spoil a little bit of the show's premise for you but if you do not want spoilers, the gist of what I will say is that it's good, I mean really good, go watch it…NOW!
Kotoura is you everyday high-school girl except for one thing…She's a mind-reader, she has had this ability from the day she was born and unfortunately has no way to control it and anyone in her presence will have their mind read and she will respond to what they are thinking as if they said it out loud, this in turn leads her being alienated and bullied at her school and home (if you've seen animé before you know Japanese kids can be really cruel). She eventually transfers to a new school and isn't much happier for it since she's expecting the same treatment, and she is right until she meets Manabe-san who not only welcomes her ability but has fun with it and show goes on from there.
Now what the show does really well is that it pulls on your heart strings from episode one showing Kotoura coping with her day-to-day life but manages to take the edge off in a smooth transition to physical humour like with Kotoura bumping into a wall because she was distracted by Manabe's sexy fantasy about her. Another thing the show does well is that the characters are well thought through and work well with their respective counter-parts, Manabe's good guy idiot thing works well with Kotoura intial doom and gloom attitude and other characters serve their purpose without overstepping boundaries and the fact that I don't hate Manabe after 2 episode is a huge plus, because guys in animé, especially of this type of animé tend to suck…I mean worse than a rocket in space that had the airlock blown off it.
As far as the animation goes, it's ok, this show seems to have the budget of a regular 12-24 episode animé and doesn't stand out. The art style does a good job of having this type of make everything look cute, but then sad when sad stuff happens thing. What did catch my eye though was the character design, when you see Kotoura she has a certain s cuteness that makes you care about her, with her short red-orange hair, short stature and not over sexifying her makes you really care about the character and not just the portrait of her and Manabe isn't your average bowl-cut/20 tons of hair-gel douche he has a somewhat unique look and as a character is likeable. The fan-service in this show is perfect, I know some people are against fan-service at all, but I kinda like it, in small doses. Mainly these appear when Kotoura reads Manabes mind, Manabe knowing this thinks of perverse stuff involving her to make her freak-out, but it's not overly done as of yet, she has yet to have ice-cream knocked over her making it look like…..yeah.
All in all Kotoura-san is a show plays on your emotions by an elegant mix of humour and some really deep dark sad stuff, while there are a lot of clichés it does them in a that makes you feel they are new. The animation is decent and there aren't major flaws but nothing to really hang your hat on, the overall art style is cute but not overly glossy. If you commit to seeing one show this Winter Season 2013 Kotoura-san is definitely a strong pick.


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S 2611 - Immigration Reform Bill - National Key Vote
Barbara Mikulski voted Yea (Passage With Amendment) on this Legislation.
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- S Amdt 3965 - Employment-based Immigrant Visa Amendment
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Vote to pass a bill that increases border security and enforcement laws, establishes criteria for U.S. citizenship, and provides financial assistance programs for areas of immigration.
- Provides funds to increase the number of port-of-entry inspectors, Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators, and border patrol agents (Sec. 101).
- Allocates funds for a "virtual fence" along the southern U.S. border and for vehicle barriers on the Tucson and Yuma, Arizona, borders (Secs. 102, 106).
- Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a surveillance and strategy plan in order to observe and secure U.S. land and maritime borders (Secs. 111, 112).
- Calls upon the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to develop a visa policy and an information exchange plan to track individual immigrants who enter each country (Sec. 113).
- Provides financial assistance for tribal, state, and local law enforcement within 100 miles of the US border with Canada or Mexico or in high impact areas (Sec. 153).
- Includes interior enforcement provisions against undocumented immigrants thought to be involved in gang-related crimes, terrorism, fraud, immigrant smuggling, sexually offensive crimes, or who were denied entry by other countries (Secs. 201-205).
- Establishes criminal penalties for immigrants who illegally enter or are present in the U.S., those who employ undocumented immigrants, and those who participate in undocumented immigrant harboring or smuggling (Sec. 274, 275).
- Requires the Electronic Employment Verification System to be implemented and used by employers to ensure that undocumented immigrants are not employed and makes it illegal to hire or continue to employ undocumented immigrants (Sec. 274).
- Creates a guest worker program (H-2C visa program) allowing no more than 200,000 immigrants annually to enter the U.S. and fill vacant jobs for a three-year admission period with the possibility of a three-year extension granted by the Secretary of Homeland Security after proof of employment and proof that the job can not be filled by an American (Sec. 403).
- Exempts widows, orphans, minor children, spouses, and students with advance degrees from the annual cap of 480,000 for family sponsored immigrant visas (Secs. 501, 504, 506, 507).
- Allows immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for the past five years to be eligible for U.S. citizenship as long as they pass a background check, pay all back taxes and fines, maintain a job for six additional years, learn English, and pay a fine (Sec. 601).
- Requires any immigrant who has lived and worked in the U.S. for two years to register with the Homeland Department and must then leave the country three years after registration in order to apply for a visa and pass a background check (Sec. 601).
- Establishes the Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits, and Security Act of 2006, which allows immigrants to receive permanent resident status through the Blue Card Program if they prove agricultural employment in the U.S. for two years prior to December 31, 2005 (Sec. 613).
Legislation - Introduced (Senate) - April 7, 2006
Title: Immigration Reform Bill
- Arlen Specter (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Samuel D. 'Sam' Brownback (KS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Lindsey O. Graham (SC - R)
- Charles T. 'Chuck' Hagel (NE - R) (Out Of Office)
- Edward M. 'Ted' Kennedy Sr. (MA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Melquiades Rafael 'Mel' Martinez (FL - R) (Out Of Office)
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After creating a project on the American Dream within the country's society and people, I came across several unique discoveries.
The first, and perhaps most surprising, was the immediate thoughts held by the youngest generation regarding the American Dream. Through my interviewing and research, I found the younger generation (fifth graders specifically) to hold a very negative and pessimistic view on the American Dream. Most didn't believe their parents were living out the American Dream, and most didn't think it possible for the current Millennial Generation, let alone for themselves.
The second, which vastly contrasts the first discovery, was the thoughts held by the oldest generation regarding the American Dream. In contrast, the older generation was very optimistic of the American Dream, suggesting not only does it still exist, but also they achieved it within their lifetime. They do not dismiss the current Millennial Generation in their pursuit of the American Dream, but instead encourage that they will achieve and surpass their expectations.
This obvious opposition in thought was not only drastic, but also somewhat discouraging.
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The Heritage Days Steering Committee is bringing back the bed race as part of the annual festivities.
The bed race is open to any interested participants with no entry fee.
A "bed building" clinic will be held in the near future and the time and location will be announced when the date is set.
The bed race will take place Saturday, June 22, in front of Huntington North High School during the Balloon Launch and Glow. The race start time will be 6 p.m. and all participants will need to be signed in by 5:30 p.m. The entry deadline is Friday, June 14, 2013. Entry forms are available at the Huntington County Chamber of Commerce office, 305 Warren St., or online at www.hunt [1] ingtoncountychamber.com.
All ages may take part in the event but due to the fast-paced nature it is recommended that children under the age of 15 be accompanied by a parent or older sibling who will play a part in the race and be on the same team. Participants are required to wear good running shoes. Flip-flops, sandals or bare feet will not be allowed. All participants must also sign a waiver relinquishing the Huntington County Chamber of Commerce and the city of Huntington of all responsibility.
Teams are required to have five people including four runners and one person riding on the bed. Pajamas will be provided for the rider(s) to wear over their regular clothing.
Beds leave the starting line and halfway through the block, beds come to a complete stop and complete a "Chinese Fire Drill" then continue to the end of the block. The race is an elimination race with two beds racing at once. Winners of a race will race the winner of the next race with the last winner of the final race declared the winner.
Monetary prizes will be awarded to the first three winning places.
Dan Juergens, of Juergens Do-It-Best and the Heritage Days steering committee is the event organizer.
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THE department store rivalry between Myer and David Jones is on again.
Myer opened its autumn-winter 2013 collection launch last night with former David Jones model Alexandra Agoston strutting the catwalk alongside Myer's regular Jennifer Hawkins.
Agoston opened the show - a position generally reserved for the top model talent.
Nicole Naccarella, Myer's general manager of womenswear said she was thrilled Agoston was on board.
"I think she adds a level of elegance to the catwalk, she is a beautiful girl; and she and Jen [Hawkins] complement each other."
Agoston opened the show in a white Toni Maticevski gown with sequined embellishments.
Trends on the runway included winter florals, peplum features and leather styles.
Ms Naccarella says leather is a key trend this season "in everything from skinny pants, dresses, skirts and jackets".
"It is very popular with our customers, it's so versatile as it can be dressed up or down and it's great for the Australian climate," she said.
Last night's appearance of Agoston for Myer follows a series of tit-for-tat raids between the two leading fashion department stores.


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July saw another unexpected CEO resignation with Polycom chief executive Andrew Miller, who stepped down after an audit committee commissioned by Polycom's board of directors discovered "irregularities" in Miller's expense reports. The videoconferencing company is currently searching for a full-time replacement. Miller had served as CEO since 2010; he joined the company in 2009 as executive vice president of global field operations and previously served as CEO of Polycom rival Tandberg.


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The Federal Government will be closed as current funding expired on Sept. 30.
Due to this event, Coastal Delaware National Wildlife Refuge Complex (Bombay Hook and Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuges) will be closed to the public. For programs experiencing a lapse in appropriated funding, only limited functions would continue, such as those necessary to respond to emergencies and to protect human life or property. While a lapse in appropriations remains in effect, public access to Service properties will be prohibited and fish and wildlife management activities and public programs will be cancelled. This includes the Youth Waterfowl Hunt scheduled for Oct. 5.
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It's only week 2 of
The Bachelor,
and already we're on the move. We open on the bucolic fields of Sonoma, California, then cut to a home video of teenage Ben Flajnik walking his little dog down the street. Oh, that's Ben
? My mistake. But in my defense, he's wearing cargo shorts and tinted sunglasses.
Ben says he's excited to share his hometown with the 18 remaining women, whom we then see drinking champagne in the back of three convertibles as they drive through the countryside on their way to Sonoma. Wait, is that legal? Maybe there's a law in Sonoma that says if your passenger is already drunk when she enters the car, she can continue drinking in the car. It really IS paradise!
The girls arrive in their street clothes, and it's disorienting to see last week's fancy monsters in t-shirts and jeans. Don't let your guard down, Ben! A messy bun don't make her
any less messy.
Ben presents the first date card to Kacie B., the Southern cutie pie who may just be the Luke Skywalker to our Leia. No, not our secret twin brother. Our ONLY HOPE.
The first date of the season is always a big one. Let's see what Ben has (sat back and let a bunch of producers) come up with!
Date #1: Kickin' It Homestyle with Kacie
The date starts with a very dark, very deserted nighttime walk through Sonoma. Uh, what the hell? A walk? Remember when Brad took Ashley Hebert
? Now
was a first date.
It takes about three storefronts and Kacie is already like, "I want to move here! Let me move here! I love it, love it, love it!" Here's a thought: What if she's being honest, and even if Ben doesn't pick her, Kacie STILL moves to Sonoma, her new favorite perfect dream paradise? And then they run into each other all the time? It's weird how that still sounds less awkward than 99% of what happens on this show.
They go into a toy store, and Kacie sneaks back in to grab something. It's a prop to reveal her deepest, darkest secret:
She used to twirl a baton!!!!!!!!!!!
Haha, look at that face! It earned all those exclamation points. So Kacie teaches Ben how to twirl in the middle of a deserted street, and Ben teaches her how to let go and let love in or whatever, just like
that scene in
The Notebook
At dinner, Ben talks about his late dad a lot. It's one of the few times we see him light up and actually volunteer interesting information, rather than just awkwardly reacting to everything. At the end of dinner, Ben offers Kacie the rose. Then she accepts the rose. Then they kiss.
Then she calls her post office about getting her mail forwarded.
But the date's not over yet. Ben escorts Kacie to a deserted movie theater (what is this, a ghost tour of Sonoma?) and they have a private screening of their own home movies! Aw, that's actually a really cute idea, especially for two people who want to get engaged before getting to know each other very well.
It's America's Funniest Home Videos, starring US!
In the home movies, we learn that Kacie has always been a sweetie pie, and we see Ben's bare butt for what will NOT be the last time this season. Ben tears up when his dad is on screen, and says that sharing such an intimate experience has bonded them together. More like bonded their MOUTHS TOGETHER!
"I feel like my dad would really like Kacie B.," Ben says, partially negating the sweetness of the whole thing by using her last initial.
Date #2: Child's Play with Brittney, Rachel, Jennifer, Blakeley, Emily, Jenna, Shawn, Monica, Samantha, Jamie, Nicki and Jaclyn
"I've got 12 women coming on the date today and that is ... a lotta pairs of legs," says Ben. Why does it seem like he's not taking this seriously? And why the leg fetish? And why didn't the producers cast any girls with peg legs? I demand ANSWERS!
The group "date" is performing a play by "the best playwrights in town," says Ben ... who are actually a bunch of spunky little kids. Cute! Wait, no --
There is literally no scenario in which a
date should involve children, especially one that includes 24 total legs and 40 total boobs (by mass). Where's the PTC when we
need them?
The women take turns "auditioning" for the kids, which means that the kids call out difficult dares like "act like a weasel!" or "be a gingerbread man!" or "read a book!" and the women have to do it. Ben enjoys laughing at the women with the children, which means he would be a good dad, and that's "such a turn-on," says Nicki.
One of the kids asks for a "sexy dance." The best thing right now would be for the police to come to this park and arrest ALL the adults.
When it's Blakeley's turn to audition, her massive milk jugs almost fall out of her postage-stamp-sized "romper."
"Be trivial! As a person!"
A little girl playwright says that she didn't like Blakeley and her big exposed boobs (future
contestant in the making!), while a little boy playwright says that she was great. They have just inadvertently illustrated Hollywood gender bias in a nutshell.
Meanwhile, Back at Wherever They Are:
Courtney, wearing a heart sweartshirt that's clearly ironic because
she doesn't have one of those
, tries to undermine Lindzi and her first impression rose, saying that the horse got it, not Lindzi. And so her reign of monotone terror begins.
Back on the Date:
The ladies get their roles for the fairytale play, and Ben hands out the costumes, which include a hippie, a weasel, a princess, a donkey and a tree. Jenna's the wizard, because she has the power to make any good vibe magically disappear.
Not her first time playing a beard... :{(>
(I tried to make a frowny face with a mustache and a beard. Did it work?)
Blakeley's a gingerbread man. She's also a slut who tries too hard, according to the other girls. At least, that's what I'm gathering from Samantha the bitchy bunny, who says, "What do you get when you cross a gingerbread man and a hooker? Blaaaakeley!" I was going to answer "Christmas in Vegas," which is pretty close! Both are very shiny and very sad.
It's time to put on the show! But wait, did they actually ever
the show? But wait, what am I saying? Rehearsal is for things that matter, and audiences that have a high enough standard not to see a
play in the first place. On with the show!
All it takes is the play's title, "Prince Pinot of Bachelor-Ville," to know that there's no way a bunch of kids wrote it. It's actually
too stupid for kids to have written.
And way too much kissing. The play is about a prince (Ben) named Pinot (like the wine, which is illegal for the people who "wrote" this) who needs a wife in order to be truly happy. What a creative and positive message for the kids. I mean, FROM the kids!
The play begins with something about how Emily "the hippie" and Rachel "the valley girl" are supposed to kiss Ben on the cheek, but he runs off stage and ruins their big moment. That is the first scene, and that's also when I lose the thread of the "plot." Later, Ben becomes a sheep? Who hangs out with Nicki the donkey and Jennifer the weasel? And he has to kiss them in order to ... kiss them? I begin to think that the producers wrote the play Mad Lib style, and then just told the kids to fill in the blanks with nonsense. Monica shows up as the dragon (
that's apt
) who sees the sheep-prince and "blows his clothes off." So now it is
offensive that they're claiming a bunch of children wrote this.
"And then the dragon blows the sheep, and the sheep rips off his shirt like a craigslist stripper!"
And that's how the play ends, I guess? "And they all tolerated each other unhappily never after! The end, thank God!" To close out the worst community theater production of all time, and that includes prison plays, Ben, dressed as a sheep who's dressed as a knight who's not wearing pants, claps like a seal. Perfect.
Then it's time for the WRAP PARTY! Right off the bat, Rachel and Emily drag Ben away and force him to make up for those missed cheek-kisses. Nothing's sexier than a woman who's so secure that she travels as part of a pair and counts kisses.
Everyone hates Blakeley because, as Samantha says, "she's such, like, a cougar. She's so, so desperate." Blakeley hates them all back
because they're probably right
because she's HERE FOR BEN! So she corners Ben for some alone time, and makes the excuse for her boob-bearing romper, "I'm blessed in certain places." Well, at least it's not like she's claiming it's in her brain.
Samantha is so upset by how over-the-top and desperate Blakeley is that she runs away and cries in the bathroom. That's like the pot running away and crying in the bathroom about how black the kettle is.
Meanwhile, Back at Courtney's Evil Lair:
Courtney says a couple more aggressive and terrible things, including "winning" like Charlie Sheen, and then the date card arrives. Kacie, who had the first date, reads it aloud:
"Courtney, let's spin the bottle... Ben."
Courtney brags, "He wants to kissss meee!" and then asks Kacie, "How'd that taste comin' out of your mouth?" Kacie is like, "Uh, what?" so she asks again.
"How'd that taste comin' out of your mouth?"
Then she cackles. But even when she cackles, it's with this face:
I like my models' faces like I like my slushees: FROZEN AND SOUR.
That is some bone-chilling bitchiness, y'all. I hope the "how'd that taste?" line gets tied back in later, when one of the girls punches Courtney SO HARD in the mouth that her tooth falls out.
Erika, who didn't get a date this week and therefore has no reason to live, leans way too far forward and gives the camera CRAZY EYES as she says that Courtney isn't human and is getting under everyone's skin. That paints the picture that Courtney is, in fact, a giant tick in a human suit who feasts on sorrow and the [erectile] blood of adult men. That sounds accurate enough. Let's go with this tick thing.
Back on the Date:
The women play a rousing game of Bouncy Implant Chicken in the pool while Blakeley plots her next move. Honestly, she seems too dumb to be an actual threat to anybody.
Jennifer grabs Ben for some one-on-one time. I'm probably biased because I, too, possess the ginger gene, but doesn't Jennifer seem refreshingly normal? Ben kisses the understated but strikingly beautiful Jennifer in a private alcove of the pool, and then he whispers,
"Even our kisses echo..."
I think he means they echo ... through the halls of HISTORY! (Pop Culture Wing; "What Went Wrong?" Room.)
Blakeley says that,
"being a Scorpio,"
she's a passionate, great lover, and she wants to show that off to Ben. She's making it
really hard
for me to want to defend her. She corners Ben in the pool and tries to eat him while Jaclyn and Jennifer peek at the action over some bushes. Jennifer feels betrayed, as she was kissing Ben in the pool not 10 seconds earlier. It's like these women are goldfish, and every 8 seconds they forget that they're not the only one in the bowl.
The Giving of the Group Date Rose:
Ben gives his rose to the woman who "owned the day and the night," and that woman is ... Blakeley? Eww. I mean, whatever. I still think she's too obviously dumb to be threatening, but Blakeley doesn't "own the night." She owns a striped romper that she stole from a Raggedy Ann doll.
But it's also tough to fully dislike Blakeley, because all the other women dislike her so passionately and so offensively, and they're all
so awful, too!
This is a lose-lose for us: Do we go with the mean women who would call another woman "a candy-striping horse-faced tranny hooker," or do we go with the ... one who earned the name of candy-striping horse-faced tranny hooker?
Quick, let's table that and move on to someone we can ALL get behind disliking...
Date #3: Cuddlin' Up with Courtney
Ben arrives for his third and final date, and he's already in putty-form: "She's one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. I mean, she's a model for cryin' out loud!" But he wants to see if this connection is more than skin-deep. Like, what are those things that go deep inside the skin? Orifices! He wants to see if their connection can be orifice-deep.
They drive to a part of the redwoods, where there's a cute scene in which Ben shows off his adorable dog Scotch's howling abilities. Can this show be about SCOTCH's quest for love? Sort of like
for adults?
Scotch the Dog, will you accept this rahhhhOOOOOOOoooose?
During their picnic, Courtney's majestic hair blows in the wind as she claims that she doesn't get asked out on dates. LIAR. Then they chat about how they both want to travel and settle down, and other oxymorons that go well together when you're speaking hypothetically in platitudes.
"Courtney's the full package," Ben says. "It's almost too good to be true." And you know what they say,
"If it seems too good to be true, it probably ... is because she's an evil tick from space who's come to feast on your guts!"
They make out and, not coincidentally, the sun vanishes from the sky. Ben drives Courtney around on his tractor (not a euphemism) in the dark for a while, and then takes her to a romantic candlelit dinner using a haybale for a table. Aw, no one
takes me to a romantic candlelit dinner using a haybale for a table!
At dinner, Courtney says "winning" again, which is too awful to bear. I like that she's evil, but the Sheen thing is TOO MUCH. Ben reveals that he used to be a party boy until
The Bachelorette
, which was a "cathartic" experience that opened him up to real love. I know he's being sincere, but that's one of the stupidest defenses of
The Bachelorette
that I've ever heard. Maybe they deserve each other?
Courtney says she's too "picky" for the fake and empty guys in Los Angeles (
), and she has "some trust issues" (BECAUSE OF JESSE METCALFE'S BETRAYALS?). This is just a half-true way of saying that she's really judgmental and superficial, isn't it? Ben, once again, calls her "too good to be true." I think he was just staring at her face and nodding.
Ben gives Courtney the rose. They kiss while sitting on a quaint little tree swing, and then, later and in private, she pulls a Michelle Money and rubs the rose all over her face, for its energy shall nourish her inner darkness.
And, much like Michelle Money, I am now dementedly obsessed with her.
The Cocktail Party
It's time for the desperation marathon, when everyone who doesn't already have a rose tries to hold it together long enough to actually be eligible for one.
First up is Lindzi, who spent her free time this week applying extra fake tanner and eyeliner. "Normally dirt's my makeup," she says as a reminder that she likes horses. She likes them so much that apparently she lives in the stables with them.
Samantha the bitchy bunny is in the middle of telling Ben how much she "hates drama" when Blakeley waltzes in and grabs him. But she already HAS a rose, that no-good skankmeister! Samantha runs back to the other girls and they take turns calling Blakeley ugly and slutty. Then Blakeley steals Ben away again, this time from Erika. The laser-like power of their collective disgust could wilt any rose in the vicinity. "Everyone's about to elbow this bitch in the face," someone says.
"It's a war out there," Courtney says calmly while sipping a glass of red wine that, in
hand, more closely resembles a goblet of blood.
Uh oh, it's crazy blogger Jenna's turn to crash and burn with Ben. Again. First, she thanks him for giving her a second chance after her meltdown the first night. And that's how far Jenna gets before she implodes. One sentence in. "I feel like I'm a guy," she says. "I'm not a good ... girl, if that makes any sense." She's talking about how she's not good with cattiness, but it sounds like she wants a sex change. That was bad. But not so bad as to explain what happens next: All of a sudden, she darts away, too drunk to keep her eyes open or articulate a logical thought. She starts sobbing and saying incoherent, sad things and crawls into her bed. Either this is some masterful, time-jumping editing, or Jenna just broke the Drunk Idiot Land Speed Record.
9:42: Normal.
9:43: Slobby Sh*tshow of the Century.
The other girls blame "toxic" Blakeley for Jenna's second meltdown, but the cameras caught nothing to support that. They just want any excuse to bitch about her. Blakeley pretends to be above it all, but then a lone camera man finds her in the corner and slowly zooms in on her pitiful, huddled frame as she sobs behind a packed suitcase. On the
Second-Hand Sadness Scale, we've officially hit BLEAK.
Suitcase, suitcase, basketcase.
It finally dawns on Ben that there's some "tension" in the house, so he asks around and finds Blakeley hiding behind the suitcase and comforts her. Then he finds Jenna, curled up in the fetal position and sniffling in her bed, and literally drags her out of it. He's not The Bachelor. He's The Babysitt-achelor.
Rose Ceremony
the Cutie Pie,
the Snakeley and
the Cruel already have roses. Ben has 13 to hand out, which means only two women are getting dumped tonight. Only two? C'mon Ben, you KNOW you have more dead weight than that.
The roses go to:
the Red
the Rapper
the Who's That?
the "I Don't Want Her Horse Face in My Horse Face" Horse-Face
the Crazy-Eyed
, One of the Blondes
the Horse Girl
the Spunky Young Divorcee
Casey S.
the Who Now?
the Sash-Slash-Bitch
the Switch-Hitter
the Nervous Nurse
the Granddaughter
Which means that
Shawn the Mom
Jenna the Soon to be on Oxygen's
are eliminated. NOOOOOOOOOOO! Just wait until Jenna's blog hears about this!
Jenna hugs herself and cries so much that it kind of seems fake. Like she's auditioning for the role of "Trauma Victim #2" on
Law & Order: SVU.
"Are you kidding me? I'm in shock! SHOCK, I SAY!" But it's probably not fake. It's just Jenna. And she will be missed. But at least we'll always have
her terrible, mostly-empty blog
Next Week:
Ben and his top 16 head to San Francisco, where they go skiing in their underwear. Then Brittney quits for whatever reason, and the SECRET MYSTERY BITCH (Shawntel of the Dead from Brad's season) shows up and undertakes everyone straight to Hell. Can't wait!
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Marvel Universe
Real Name
Abner Ronald "Abe" Jenkins
Beetle, MACH-I, MACH-II, Matthew "Matt" Davis, MACH-III, Aaron Jeffries, Mach-IV
Publicly Known
U.S.A. with a criminal record, pardoned
Place of Birth
Baltimore, Maryland
First Appearance
(Beetle) Strange Tales #123 (1964); (MACH-I) Incredible Hulk #449 (1997); (MACH-II) Thunderbolts #37 (2000); (MACH-III) Thunderbolts #57 (2001); (MACH-IV) New Thunderbolts #1 (2005)
Thunderbolts: Distant Rumblings #-1 (1997), Strange Tales #123 (1964), Daredevil #34 (1967)
175 lbs
As the Beetle, Jenkins wore body armor that enhanced his strength and durability. The armor's gloves had suction-grip fingers and could release electro-static energy discharges. The armor's rear-mounted shell housed extendable ultra-tough Mylar wings which allowed the wearer to fly by mimicking the motions of an actual beetle's wings (originally, the Beetle armor employed huge, bulky metallic wings that could only be operated through use of the wearer's superhuman strength; these wings could also be used as shields, battering weapons and digging devices). The Beetle armor had a constantly replenishing power supply that utilized microwaves at many prevalent frequencies, and an internal mini-computer that fed tactical data to the heads-up displays (HUD) in the armor's helmet.
When Baron Zemo formed the Thunderbolts, Jenkins made a new armor, the Mobile Armored Cyber-Harness, and took on the name of MACH-I. Zemo's plan was to gain the favor of the citizens of New York, which was in need of heroes after the disappearance of the Avengers and Fantastic Four after Onslaught's attack, only to gain access to classified S.H.I.E.L.D. files and eventually control the world. Jenkins and several of his teammates began to like the hero life, and decided to leave their villainous pasts behind. Zemo instead revealed that the Thunderbolts were actually ex-Masters of Evil members to the public, leaving the new heroes with a public unwilling to trust them.
The murder he committed eventually came back to haunt Abe. When Hawkeye took over leadership of the team, he convinced Jenkins to serve out his prison sentence as a gesture of good will to the public. While in prison, someone used the Beetle armor to frame Jenkins, so he broke out. Abe was given a new face and appearance by Fixer along with the alias of Matthew Davis.
Eventually Jenkins returned his features to normal and returned to prison to finish his sentence. Spending time as a hero seemed to change his outlook on life. After being released from prison, Jenkins reformed the Thunderbolts with the funding of Baron Strucker. With Songbird now in charge of the team, Abe is working with Fixer once again.
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MONTREAL (AP) - David Desharnais' shootout goal snapped the slumping Montreal Canadiens out of a long losing streak and saved them from what could have been the worst defeat of them all.
Desharnais scored in regulation and in a shootout as the Canadiens pulled out a 5-4 win over the Minnesota Wild, despite blowing a three-goal lead in the third period on Thursday night.
The Wild trailed 4-1 and scored three times in the final 3:53 of regulation time. Matt Kassian got his second of the game, and Dany Heatley scored before Devin Setoguchi tied it with the Wild playing with six attackers with 10 seconds to play.
``That was a strange one,' Montreal coach Randy Cunneyworth said. ``It wasn't textbook but those things happen. I'm just glad for the W.'
Boos poured down from the seats for a team that has blown leads repeatedly this season. But Desharnais got the only shootout goal and Setoguchi lost the puck, then fell on the Wild's last attempt to give Montreal the win, ending a season-high five-game losing streak.
``They were desperate,' Montreal goalie Carey Price said. ``They came at us hard, threw pucks at the net and they got fortunate a couple of times. It happens. It was pretty wild. It was tough emotionally, I guess.'
P.K. Subban, Lars Eller and Max Pacioretty scored as Montreal's 29th-ranked power play got three for the first time this season.
Desharnais, who had three points, added a goal with both teams a man short.
Kassian scored his first two NHL goals for Minnesota, 3-7-3 in its last 13 games.
Montreal played the Wild for the first time since an 8-1 win in Minnesota last season sparked by Subban's hat trick.
Subban said the Wild seemed to gain momentum after Pacioretty was checked to the ice while skating in for what would have been an easy empty-net goal late in the third. There was no call in a game that had featured some diving earlier on.
``That was quite a game,' said Wild coach Mike Yeo, whose team salvaged a point to move to five points behind Dallas for eighth place in the Western Conference. ``It's too bad we couldn't get that second point.
``I'm impressed with how our guys battled in the third. We overcame a lot of adversity. A tough call early and we were down 5-on-3 for quite some time. Then we lost our starting goalie. So we were in a hole.'
A sellout of 21,273 was announced, but there were hundreds of empty seats on a snowy night for a Montreal squad that started the day in last place in the Eastern Conference.
It was an eventful game from the start as Ryan White and Stephane Veilleux squared off for a fight only 10 seconds in.
A couple of minor penalties later, Subban scored on a two-man advantage with a point blast at 2:33.
Only 19 seconds later, Wild goalie Niklas Backstrom seemed to pull something in a leg or groin and left the game in favor of Josh Harding, who was beaten at 4:28 on Eller's first power-play goal as a Canadiens. There was no immediate word on Backstrom's condition.
Minnesota got one back as Alexei Emelin was felled by an uncalled cross-check that left Kassian open to poke in Darroll Powe's pass. It was Kassian's first goal in 21 career NHL games.
White got another fighting major and a misconduct later in the period for throwing punches at Veilleux, who had slashed goalie Carey Price.
Pacioretty, on his off wing to the right of Harding, put in his 26th of the season midway in the second period.
Desharnais tapped in a rebound of Pacioretty's short in the third period for his third goal in as many games.
Kassian, back in the lineup after sitting out two games, skated to the net and banged in his own rebound with a backhander with 3:53 left.
Coach Randy Cunneyworth's starting lineup included Blake Geoffrion, grandson of Habs great Bernard (Boom Boom) Geoffrion and great-grandson of Howie Morenz. He played his first home game as a Canadien since he was acquired from Nashville two weeks ago.
Canadiens winger Brad Staubitz, claimed off waivers Monday, played against his former team.
Notes: Linesman Pierre Champoux was honored for working his 1,500th career game. His family joined him at center ice as he received a crystal trophy in a pregame ceremony. . . Montreal forward Aaron Palushaj, cut by a high-stick, left the game in the first period. . . Montreal scratched defenseman Rafael Diaz. Erik Christensen didn't play for the Wild.


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This nation's national security experts cannot determine whether North Korea's Kim Jong-un is crazy like a fox or just crazy. That conundrum has paralyzed and rendered ineffective our attempts to deal with the mounting crisis on the Korean Peninsula.
In fact, it doesn't matter. What does matter is that his regime presents a clear and present danger to the vital interests of the United States.
History has taught us that appeasement not only does not work, it serves as an incitement to those who would harm us or our allies. It acts as a deadly accelerant. Thinking otherwise flies in the face of history.
On Sept. 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Germany, where he had signed the Munich Agreement that permitted Nazi Germany to annex a portion of Czechoslovakia that bordered Germany, known as the Sudetenland. At 10 Downing St. that day, Chamberlain proclaimed, "My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British prime minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time."
When he heard of the Munich Settlement, President Franklin Roosevelt sent a two-word telegram to Chamberlain. It read, "Good man." Good man, indeed! Less than a year later, the Nazis invaded Poland, and World War II had begun. By the summer of 1940, the Wehrmacht had overrun most of Europe. England stood alone.
President Roosevelt, wary of the strong isolationist and anti-interventionist feeling in America, remained timid in the face of aggression. He would not endanger his plan to seek an unprecedented third term in 1940. It would take Pearl Harbor to stiffen America's resolve.
By August 1945, Germany had been defeated, but Japan, having been pushed back to its home islands, showed no signs of surrender.
President Harry Truman faced a terrible decision — use the atomic bomb or risk upward of 1 million casualties in an allied invasion of Japan. President Truman authorized the use of the bomb, and a month thereafter, Japan signed the Instrument of Surrender on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
The lesson is obvious. Appeasement pays no dividends. The use of overwhelming force does. However, with respect to North Korea, this is a lesson the United States has refused to learn.
The American government has known for decades that North Korea is a militaristic, closed society that brutalizes its people and sells armaments, including missiles and missile technology, to the enemies of the United States. It has sold armaments to Pakistan, Iran, Syria and Yemen, to name a few. Armament sales are its principal source of hard currency.
North Korea successfully conducted nuclear tests in 2006, 2009 and 2013. In 2007, it announced that it had nuclear weapons. In 2009, it expelled inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency, which had stated that North Korea had become a full-fledged nuclear power. It is not a member of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. And about 10 days ago, our Defense Intelligence Agency reported that it had concluded with "moderate confidence" that North Korea was capable of launching a missile with a nuclear warhead.
In the face of this growing threat, America has dithered. Its ineffective efforts are tantamount to appeasement. We chase ourselves in a circle, having offered food and energy assistance to a pariah regime that gets those commodities from its principal ally, China. We have failed to convince China that it needs to bell the North Korean cat.
China hasn't been willing to take that action because it prefers a buffer between itself and South Korea, because it doesn't want to have to deal with millions of North Korean refugees streaming into China were it to disrupt the North's dependence on China's supply of oil and food, and because it has learned that America will not take the steps necessary to change the status quo ante. Even a village idiot can figure out that our foreign policy gives carte blanche to Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions and recklessness.
One only needs to look at Secretary of State John Kerry's recent talks in Seoul, Beijing and Tokyo to see the barrenness of our approach. In a joint news conference with the South Korean foreign minister, Kerry said, "We are all united in the fact that North Korea will not be accepted as a nuclear power."
Hello! It already is a nuclear power. This issue has nothing to do with "acceptance." It has to do with eliminating that nuclear power and the existential threat it poses.
In The Washington Post, David Ignatius reported that M.J. Chung, the controlling shareholder of Hyundai, urged the U.S. to redeploy the tactical nuclear weapons it removed from South Korea in 1991, and said the South should begin to develop nuclear weapons.
The way out of this madness is clear. Beijing needs to be told that either it replace Kim Jong-un and insist that the Korean Peninsula be denuclearized, or we will. My guess is that when Beijing hears that message, things will change for the better in Pyongyang, pronto.
If it doesn't, then we can send 500,000 American troops halfway around the world to fight a five-year ground war, incur 100,000 casualties, and spend $3 trillion to $5 trillion, or we can use nuclear weapons to get the job done in a couple of weeks. I wonder which choice President Truman would make?
The Shadow's headed to Beijing, but Goldman can be reached at email@example.com.
Appeasement pays no dividends
This nation's national security experts cannot determine whether North Korea's Kim Jong-un is crazy like a fox or just crazy. That conundrum has paralyzed and rendered ineffective our attempts to deal with the mounting crisis on the Korean Peninsula.


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Context or comparison?
New ways of governing often entail the development of indicators, benchmarks and other instruments of comparison. These risk failing to take into account the specificities of particular interests, particular situations and particular times with particular groups. How and why has comparison become so powerful? How might we take account of the idiosyncrasies of context?


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|Matt Rhule motions to his PSU teammates to get a good look at the worst
helmet in the history of college football after a sack of a Temple QB.
Some people dream about Jessica Cristobal, I dream of Matt Rhule.
(Hey, I can't pick my dreams, they just happen.)
In this latest one (true dream, not a made-up one), Rhule is addressing a group of Temple supporters and members of the press at his "introductory" press conference in the Howard Gittis Room at the Liacouras Center.
The team is going wild in the background and all during the conference nobody can hear what Rhule is saying because of the noise the group is making amongst themselves.
|Jessica, we hardly knew ye
Suddenly, Bill Bradshaw goes to the podium, takes the microphone from Matt and says: "Guys, I know you are excited but please give Matt a chance to talk. This is his day. It's rude to be talking while he's talking. OK, Matt."
Then Bradshaw hands the microphone back to Rhule and a spitball flies by Bradshaw's ear.
Then I wake up.
Unless Temple re-opens its coaching search, something like this will happen on Monday around noontime, with or without the noise or the spitballs.
This just in: Temple won't be re-opening the coaching search and Matt Rhule will be named head coach on Monday. Rhule is the current assistant offensive line coach of the Super Bowl champion New York Giants.
Just as there were red flags surrounding past hirings (like Jerry Berndt going 0-11 before he was hired and DC Ron Dickerson giving up 55 points in his last game), a coach this well-liked being hired is a huge red flag to me.
I would like someone to ask Bradshaw why Temple didn't reach out to Ball State coach Pete Lembo (it didn't), but I doubt that question is going to come up or be answered on Monday.
"The biggest thing I would say: I am blessed to be at Temple and I love Temple"I'd rather have an ass-kicking Bill Belichick-type than a "players' friend" Andy Reid-type any day of the week.
_ Matt Rhule
_ Matt Rhule
People tell me Matt can be quite the disciplinarian but I will have to see that for myself in the next few months.
I keep hoping something good comes out of this. Maybe Matt brings in Adam DiMichele to be his QB coach. Maybe he brings back Bruce Francis to show the wide receivers how it is done. Maybe he can convince DC Chuck Heater and Heater's son-in-law, Sean Cronin, to stay. Give Heater Kevin Newsome to play free safety and Heater becomes the best DC in the country again and Temple gets another first-round NFL draft pick.
Still, it all comes down to winning. To me, that's all that matters.
I felt even in Steve Addazio's final days that nothing short of seven wins in 2013 was acceptable.
I'm holding Matt Rhule to those same standards. I hope he holds himself to that standard.
I hope he holds the players to those standards.
To me, the success or failure of Matt Rhule's selection as next Temple coach rests on that record. Nothing else.
Until then, when it comes to Matt Rhule, I've moved from Northeast Philly to Missouri: Show me.
Jessica Cristobal, we hardly knew ye.


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A group of UT MBA students left their desks and took to the front of
the classroom, becoming teachers to students at nearby Stewart Middle
Magnet School. The volunteers spent the morning teaching
budgeting, personal finance and insurance as a program of Junior
Achievement, the largest and oldest nonprofit organization that teaches
the principles of market based economics and entrepreneurship to
students in grades kindergarten to 12. "It is important that our
community is involved in educating children," said Carla Prescott,
senior education director for Junior Achievement. "Having the MBA
students involved shows that what you learn in school is relevant and
important in the real world." H.L. Prindle III, an MBA student
with a concentration in management, had volunteered with Junior
Achievement through his undergraduate alma mater's alumni club. As the
vice president of business development for UT-GOLD,
the University's Graduate Organization of Leadership and Development,
Prindle thought, "Who better to teach economics-related lessons than MBA
students?" "It doesn't take a lot to make an impact," said Prindle '10. Not
only does it give the middle schoolers an interaction they might not
otherwise have, Prindle said, it gives the graduate students an
opportunity to develop their leadership skills. "It feels good
to be able to teach kids new lessons and life skills," said Felicity
Carey '11, a Marketing of Science in Accounting student who previously
volunteered with Junior Achievement with UT's Beta Alpha Psi, an honorary organization for financial information students and professionals. "The students have a good time too." The
goal of UT-GOLD is to further enrich and develop the lives of all
graduate students, and this is just one opportunity, said Prindle.
Another is a recent leadership forum where several high-powered
businesspeople, including Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio, interacted with about
90 attendees on what it means to be a leader. UT-GOLD members have also
volunteered at the Ronald McDonald House and participated in an ALS
walk. "Part of UT-GOLD's mission is to be out in the community,"
said Emily Ghosh '10, an MBA student and president of UT-GOLD, who was
excited to be volunteering with Junior Achievement. "We've been blessed
to go to school and to graduate school. To show these students who may
not be as fortunate that it's possible is really rewarding." Prescott
said the UT students are role models who show that college is
attainable and worth striving toward. While the school is less than 2
miles away, the distance in opportunity between UT and the middle school
is much greater. Stewart is a Title I school, which means the
majority of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch. The number
of economically disadvantaged students account for 73 percent of
Stewart's population.
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Watch Broadway's Judy Blazer as Bessie Thomashefsky and Shuler Hensley as Boris Thomashefsky re-create early Yiddish Theater. Recorded in April 2011 at the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center, The Thomashefskys is written and hosted by Michael Tilson Thomas and stars Blazer and Hensley with Ronit Widmann-Levy and Eugene Brancoveanu and the New World Symphony.
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A new study shows that it is more difficult to "move up" in America than other developed countries. In America, kids are more likely to stay at the bottom of the economic ladder if their parents had low socio- economic status. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz talks with Erin Currier, manager of the Economic Mobility Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts, about why the U.S. ranked worst for economic mobility among the countries in the study.
Moving On Up More Difficult In America
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Alexza Secures a $20 Million Committed Equity Financing Facility with Azimuth Opportunity, L.P.
Jul 23, 2012, 09:00 ET from Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALXA) announced today that it has obtained a committed equity financing facility under which it may sell up to $20 million of its registered common stock to Azimuth Opportunity, L.P., over an approximately 24-month period. Alexza is not obligated to utilize any of the $20 million facility and remains free to enter into and consummate other equity and debt financing transactions, subject to certain restrictions. This facility replaces a similar facility that was established in May 2010 and expired after its 24-month term. No shares were issued under the previous facility.
"This flexible financing facility is an important component of our portfolio of financing options, giving us the potential ability to raise capital efficiently by potentially issuing shares in multiple tranches at times of our choosing over the next 24 months," said Thomas B. King, President and CEO of Alexza. "We believe this facility benefits Alexza and our stockholders, as we continue to plan our transition from a development stage company into the commercialization of Adasuve™ (Staccato® loxapine)."
Alexza will determine, at its sole discretion, the timing, the dollar amount and the floor price per share of each draw under this facility, subject to certain conditions. When and if Alexza elects to use the facility, Alexza will issue shares to Azimuth at a discount to the volume weighted average price of Alexza's common stock over a preceding period of trading days. Financial West Group, Member FINRA/SIPC, will act as placement agent and receive a fee for its services at the time of any draw under the facility. Any shares sold under this facility will be sold pursuant to a shelf registration statement declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 3, 2012. Alexza also issued 80,429 shares of common stock to Azimuth as consideration for entering into the facility.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any state.
About Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Alexza is a pharmaceutical company focused on the research, development and commercialization of novel, proprietary products for the acute treatment of central nervous system conditions. Alexza's technology, the Staccato® system, vaporizes unformulated drug to form a condensation aerosol that, when inhaled, allows for rapid systemic drug delivery through deep lung inhalation. With the Staccato system, a drug is quickly absorbed through the lungs into the bloodstream, providing speed of therapeutic onset that is comparable to intravenous administration, but with greater ease, patient comfort and convenience. (Click here to see an animation of how the Staccato system works.)
ADASUVE (Staccato loxapine) is Alexza's lead program, which is being developed for the acute treatment of agitation associated with schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder in adults. Alexza completed and announced positive results from both of its Phase 3 clinical trials and initially submitted the ADASUVE New Drug Application (NDA) in December 2009. In October 2010, the Company received a complete response letter (CRL) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the application. The Company completed an end-of-review meeting with the FDA in December 2010, a REMS guidance meeting with the FDA in April 2011, and the ADASUVE NDA was resubmitted in August 2011. In December 2011, the ADASUVE NDA was the subject of an advisory committee meeting. In January 2012, Alexza received notice of a 90-day extension of the PDUFA goal date, from February 4, 2012 to May 4, 2012. In May 2012, Alexza received a second CRL from the FDA regarding the ADASUVE NDA and on June 22, 2012, the Company resubmitted the ADASUVE NDA. The resubmitted ADASUVE NDA has a PDUFA goal date of December 21, 2012.
In October 2011, the Company established a commercial partnership for ADASUVE with Grupo Ferrer Internacional, S.A. Grupo Ferrer is a leading pharmaceutical company in Europe with extensive operations in the Americas, and is Alexza's partner in the commercialization of ADASUVE in Europe, Latin America, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States countries. Alexza filed its ADASUVE Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in October 2011. In July 2012, Alexza submitted is responses to the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use Consolidated List of Questions (Day 120 List of Questions).
For more information about Alexza, the Staccato system technology or the Company's development programs, please visit www.alexza.com. ADASUVE is a registered trademark of Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Safe Harbor Statement This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve significant risks and uncertainties. Any statement describing the Company's expectations or beliefs is a forward-looking statement, as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and should be considered an at-risk statement. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, particularly those inherent in the process of developing and commercializing drugs, including the adequacy of the Company's capital to support the Company's operations, the timing of the FDA's review of the resubmitted ADASUVE NDA, the eventual prospects that ADASUVE will be approved for marketing in the U.S., and the timing and prospects for regulatory approval to market ADASUVE in Europe, Latin America, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States countries. The Company's forward-looking statements also involve assumptions that, if they prove incorrect, would cause its results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These and other risks concerning Alexza's business are described in additional detail in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011 and the Company's other Periodic and Current Reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are made as of this date, and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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