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Hello dear readers! I was taking a walk the other day when I noticed some ornamental plum trees in an open space area. I recalled reading that they could be used for dye so I plucked a few leaves. The color of the leaves was really gorgeous and the leaf shape was pleasingly simple so I decided that a leaf printing technique would be fun to try on a silk chiffon scarf. My next thought was that the pretty purple would look great contrasted against the orange from eucalyptus leaves. Lucky for me, there was a eucalyptus tree just down the hill from the plum tree so I picked a few stems.
- Ornamental Plum Leaves
- Eucalyptus leaves – not all species are created equal, so please be sure that you are using leaves from a tree that will dye your fabric
- Protein fiber such as silk or wool – I'm using an 11 x 90 inch silk chiffon scarf
- Paper towels
- Stick or dowel
- Artificial sinew, twine or dental floss
- Dye pot – please use a pot that is exclusively used for dyeing!
- Steamer basket – again for dyeing purposes only!
- Alum
Step 1: Wet your fabric and fold it in half so that you can find the middle. Lay one half of your fabric on some paper towels and bunch up the remainder (see pic below).
FYI – I am doing this because I would like the same image on both sides of the scarf. By "sandwiching" your leaves your print will be repeated on either side of your piece.
Step 2: Lay out your leaves to create a pattern of some sort.
Step 3: Carefully place the second half of your fabric on top of the first. I'm not going to lie, this is a pain in the butt. You will probably have to go back and rearrange your leaves along the length of your fabric more than one time. I noticed that I would get one section right and then move on only to find that the prior section had shifted. Grrr! Hang in there, with a little patience and persistence you will get it done!
Here are steps 1-3:
Step 4: Place a stick or a dowel at one end of your scarf and roll tightly and smoothly making sure to include your paper towel. The paper towel will act as a barrier so that your fabric doesn't bleed back onto itself. For a more eco friendly alternative you could use a scrap piece of fabric in place of the paper towels.
Step 5: Now that you have your cute little bundle, you will need to tie it tightly to hold everything together and to insure that the fabric and the leaves are nice and cozy. I'm using artificial sinew but you could easily use twine or dental floss (It probably goes without saying, but you will need to use the white stuff, no blue colored mint dental floss).
Step 6: Add an inch or so of water to your dedicated dye pot, put your steamer basket inside, add your bundle and put a lid on your pot. Turn your heat to high and bring your water to a boil. Once your water is boiling turn your heat to low and steam for 2 hours. I typically turn my bundle about half way through. I'm not sure if this does anything, but it makes me feel better. 🙂
Step 7: Let your bundle cool in the pot and let it sit overnight.
Step 8: Unwrap your bundle and take a look. This is always my favorite part! However, my results were less than spectacular. 😦
Okay, so here's where I messed up. First I assumed that the tree that I got my leaves from was the same variety as the tree that I had previously obtained leaves from (they looked very similar). After this result, I took a closer look at my leaves and stems and I could clearly see that this was not the same species of eucalyptus (there are over 900 varieties!). Here they are side by side:
The leaves and stems on the right came from a red ironbark or sideroxylon tree that sits just behind my back fence. The leaves on the left were the ones that I used for this scarf. Below is an example of the result that I got from the red ironbark tree, quelle difference!
And another thing…I failed to consider the fact that natural dyes fall into two categories, substantive and adjective. Substantive dyes don't require a mordant or fixative to be permanent and light fast. Examples of substantive dyes are eucalyptus, turmeric, tea and onion skins. However, most natural dyes fall into the adjective category and require a fixative of some sort. The most basic mordants are salt and vinegar but natural dyers often use fixatives such as tannin or alum which are quite low in terms of their toxicity. This information is relevant to this discussion because while the eucalyptus is a substantive dye, the plum is not and it will most certainly fade if I don't "fix" it.
Last but not least, although this doesn't qualify as something that I messed up, I noticed that I got a good depth of color and detail from the front sides of the plum leaves while the backsides are pale and blobby. So, I'm back to the drawing board!
*To avoid having to make any corrections and to get a beautiful result from the get go I would do the following:
First, use the correct eucalyptus leaves! This may require a little research. Red ironbarks are relatively easy to spot because of their bright red stems (yes, I know that I screwed this up, please don't remind me!). Silver dollar eucalyptus are also a good choice and you can generally pick them up at Trader Joes (in the US).
Now as for the plum leaves, I would simply double them up so that the face of the leaf is facing the fabric on both sides. With regard to "fixing" the plum leaves, you have a few options. You can pre-mordant your fabric or you can add your mordant to your dye bath. The second option is much faster and easier so I vote for that one! Instead of steaming your fabric bundle place it in a water bath that contains one gallon of water and one tablespoon of alum (or vinegar and tea – see below). Bring it to a boil and let it simmer for one hour. Turn off your heat and let your bundle soak for about 2-24 hours.
Alright, if you're interested in hearing the rest of this saga, sigh, here's how I corrected my errors. First I laid out the half of my scarf with the "good' plum print. Then I gathered a bunch of eucalyptus leaves that had fallen into my yard from the nearby tree and I placed them along the length of my scarf. Next I carefully put the second half of the fabric on top. This was still a bit tricky but it wasn't as hard as it was the first time that I did it. I then put some plum leaves onto the side of the fabric that didn't print well. My guess is that they may bleed a bit onto the "good" side…so my fingers are crossed that this doesn't totally mess that side up. I then laid more paper towels on top, placed my stick at one end and rolled the whole thing up.
After binding my bundle with sinew, I put it in a water bath that contained one part vinegar to four parts of water (I ran out of alum, so although alum would be my preference, I'm using vinegar instead). I also added a tea bag to help soften the color and to aid in fixing the plum (the tannin in tea is a natural fixative). I then brought it to a boil, turned down the heat and let it simmer for one hour. Finally, I turned off the heat and I let the bundle soak for about 5 hours.
This is how it looked when I unwrapped my bundle and let it dry:
So the good news is that the eucalyptus is much better! The not so great news is that my plan to improve the plum leaves didn't work out very well. They actually look worse. Because I am a perfectionist (which is truly a curse) and I simply can't leave well enough alone, I got out some Inktense sticks and a little brown fabric paint and I went to work defining those plum leaves.
After I was (finally) satisfied with my scarf, I let it cure for 24 hours and I heat set it before giving it a wash and hanging it to dry. Another quick press with my iron and it's done…
I think it's really pretty and I learned a lot, so alls well that ends well. Thanks for hanging in there with me through this one!


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After growing up in Massachusetts and New Jersey, Robin Palmer graduated from Boston University in 1990 and moved to Hollywood where she worked in television for ten years before regaining her sanity and quitting her job to write. In addition to the middle grade series Yours Truly Lucy B. Parker, she is also the author of several modern retellings of fairy tales, Cindy Ella, Geek Charming (which was recently made into a movie for Disney Channel), Little Miss Red, and Wicked Jealous, as well as various screenplays, television pilots, and misplaced To Do lists. After four years in New York City, she regained her sanity again and now lives in Louisiana.
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Dive Bonaire: November 2018
November 3, 2018 - November 10, 2018
Why Dive Bonaire?
We are headed back to our favorite island November 3rd – 10th, 2018. For over 30 years Undersea Divers has been running trips to this "Diver's Paradise" and divers have been coming back year after year. If you've never been to Bonaire, don't miss out on this opportunity to experience pure diving freedom. Bonaire's pristine reefs and diverse marine life are unique to the Caribbean. Because the waters around Bonaire are designated as an official marine park, diving Bonaire is like diving the Caribbean the way it used to be – untouched and unspoiled. The island's location in the south Caribbean gives it an arid climate with little rainfall; consequently, the waters are exceptionally clear of silt, calm, and divable year round. It is an ideal destination for underwater photographers. Water temps average a warm 78–84° with visibility often over 80 feet and frequently up to 150 feet. Few destinations offer the photographic opportunities that you will find in Bonaire. With incredible visibility, abundant fish life and healthy reef system, wide angle opportunities are naturally abound. But it is the bounty of macro life visible both day and night, that truly sets Bonaire apart.
Divi Flamingo Resort
The studio units are located in a charming, sky- blue, gingerbread- style complex with a private pool. It offers guests two double beds with a queen sleeper sofa, fully equipped kitchen with refrigerator and coffee maker, and spacious screened porch. All studio units offer pool views.
Divi Flamingo Beach Resort Hotel and Casino reflects the casual mood and rich natural beauty of Bonaire, with a modern and comfortable atmosphere. "Barefoot Elegance" is the theme of this resort, one of the island's best! There are 150 rooms, each tastefully decorated in an island theme and each with a sheltered patio or balcony. All rooms are air-conditioned and have daily maid service.
The Flamingo Beach Resort has 2 restaurants on the property. Pure Ocean is a beach-side restaurant open for breakfast and lunch daily. They have a wonderful made-to-order breakfast buffet and a delicious variety of food for lunch. Dinner is served at the Chibi Chibi restaurant a casual yet elegant over-the-water restaurant. The Player's Bar is located next to the Flamingo Casino, and serves cocktails and light snacks in the afternoon and evenings. There are many fine restaurants located within walking distance from the hotel. The restaurants in town are quite amazing. Tell Whitney what you want and she will find the perfect restaurant for you!
The Flamingo Casino is a great place to try your luck at various casino games. There is black jack, roulette, craps, and a good assortment of slot machines. You can also rent a car from the on-property rental agency or get pampered at the resort's beauty salon.
There are 2 swimming pools at the resort with plenty of lounge chairs to relax. Beach towels are provided in your rooms. The water in your rooms is safe to drink and the electricity is 110 volts. There are no hair dryers in the studio rooms and the dive shop has a charging station for video and camera equipment. Some of the activities available, in addition to diving, include renting a bicycle to ride the two miles to the historic capital of Kralendijk or hiking with resort guides to the top of Seroe Largoe, a high point of any visit to Bonaire.
Other options include visiting Lake Gotomeer, a saltwater hideaway where a number of the island's 15,000 pink flamingos strut their stuff, taking a water taxi to the nearby island of Klein Bonaire, or taking a mountain bike ride on some of the island's over 300 kilometers of trails.
The waters around Bonaire are home to more than 500 species of fish, as well as more than 120 kinds of coral. These waters have been designated a national park and are managed by the Bonaire National Park, which protects them year round. Divers and snorkelers alike can gaze in wonder as colorful creatures, large and small, feast on a reef that serves as an underground water banquet table. Because of Bonaire's unique location in the south Caribbean near Aruba, Bonaire's climate is arid with little rainfall, making the waters clear, calm and diveable year round. Water temperatures average a warm 78-84 degrees and water visibility often averages over 100 ft. The marine life you will find are green and spotted morays, turtles, spotted eagle rays, frogfish, seahorses, peacock flounder and so many kinds of fish.
Resort: DIVI Flamingo Resort
Cost: Diver: $1,295 (Double Occupancy)
Non-Diver: $995
Single: $1,595 (Private Room)
Package Includes:
- 7 nights at the Divi Flamingo Beach Resort & Casino
- Daily Breakfast Buffet
- 2 Dinners (Taco & BBQ)
- Daily 2 tank morning boat dive
- Daily 1 tank afternoon boat dive
- Unlimited shore diving and snorkeling 24 hours a day
- Tank, weights, weight belts for boat and shore dives
- Hotel taxes/charges
- Airport/Hotel Transfers
- Group Leader Whitney Boyle
Package Does Not Include:
- Air Fare – We can suggest flights – call the store for details
- Trip/Dive Insurance ( We highly recommend)
- Personal Dive Equipment
- Airline Baggage Fees
- Gratuity for DiveMasters
- Bonaire Marine Park Tag ($25)
- Nitrox ($130/week – to be prepaid)
- Meals not specified above
- All beverages
Payment Options:
Payment Plan: Pay a $500/per person deposit at the time of registration and pay the remaining balance 90 days (August 3rd) before the trip date.
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As excited as I was when the Summer Games released their special collectible skins and what not. This Halloween one is an omen of amazing things to come from Blizzard. I can't get over how awesome this patch is.
It's so good! So ghoul?
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Book to Review: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Stars: ★★★★ (4.5/5)
Source: c/o NetGalley
Synopsis: A young woman finds herself unemployed after the cafe she's worked at for several years closes. She must find work, but her only option looks to be caregiving… You know, wiping the butts of the elderly. Lou is not a fan. But, the job agency finds a young quadriplegic man who needs a companion for 6 months. Louisa interviews and is totally unqualified as a caregiver, yet somehow still gets the job. Enter Will Traynor, the 35 year old wheel-chair-bound-quadriplegic who's sick of being held back by his disability, and he's got the bad attitude to prove it. Will Lou turn his life around, or will he turn hers into something she could never imagine?
Review: Wow! Loved this book. It was just what I wanted. Touching and sweet, but not totally cheeseball. And no, there is no romance. It is NOT a romance novel. It's a love story that goes much deeper than the "she-melted-at-the-sight-of-his-dreamy-green-eyes" type books.
I really like Lou as a character. She's scared of life. Of making a mistake, or being turned down, so she just skates by working a low paying job, helping her family and not doing anything for herself.
I liked Will too. He was a total jerk. He was the spoiled kid, that beautiful boy you knew in high school that had everything going for him. But then, tragedy struck and now he's stuck in a wheelchair, relying on Nathan, his caregiver and his family to take care of him. And he wants to be done with life.
There were other minor characters as well, Lou's sister, her mother and father, Will's parents, Lou's self-absorbed boyfriend Patrick.
But really, that's not what the book was about. The book was about falling in love with the wrong person and making mistakes. And learning and growing from them, and becoming the person you were meant to be.
I would highly recommend reading this!


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Ask Digital Humanities Questions and Answers! The Association for Computers and the Humanities is building a problem solving forum where scholars can pose questions, trouble-shoot, and learn more about the Digital Humanities. Here's an article about it from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
DH Forum Articles
Collaborating Digitally: Engaging Students in Faculty Research
Allegra Swift
Notes from Bucknell University's conference on
Collaborating Digitally: Engaging Students in Faculty Research,
14-16 November 2014
Note: There were concurrent papers sessions, so please check the program schedule to read about the topics of the talks I was not able to attend.
Reoccurring themes: DH and disconnect to Tenure & Promotion, importance and benefits of exploratory scholarship and its support, the student experience, and discussion in and about public scholarship.
Twitter #BUDSC14
Chris Long gave an inspiring keynote. Long is the Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Education in the College of the Liberal Arts and Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Penn State. Long live tweets (@cplong) during his presentations, so you can pick up on the slides and the sound bites from his keynote and paper presentation.
Long spoke about open peer review, affecting tenure and promotion with new processes, the undergraduate experience, performing collaborative scholarship and committing to open access.
The Public Philosophy Journal: Performing public philosophy as the mode of publication. @PubPhilJ
- Scholarship that extends beyond campus. Engagement of the public. Reaching the wider public. Spirit of public engagement. Ability to blur the boundaries on the hill/academy with the wider world.
- Performative publication. The mode of publication and the ideas for which publication advocates. Amplifying information can be a gift economy
- Cooperative scholarship, the academy and wider public become more porous and should be reciprocal and asymmetrical.
Paper Session (#s1): Multi-modal Narratives and Cultural Engagement
- "Visualizing Holocaust Testimony" Anne Knowles, Laura Strom, and Levi Westerveld (Middlebury College)
- Students spoke about their collaborative process, how they explored and arrived at choosing and implementing visualizations for the data.
- Anne Knowles teaches Historical Geography, Historical GIS, History of Cartography, The Holocaust, American industrialization and immigration, Cultural and economic landscapes. Her use and understanding of GIS in historical contexts was really interesting. Knowles's pedagogical methods seemed to work really well in the context of the small liberal arts setting.
- http://sfi.usc.edu/news/2014/01/holocaust-geographies-collective-explores-visual-history-archive
- http://www.ushmm.org/learn/mapping-initiatives/geographies-of-the-holocaust/
- http://www.ushmm.org/learn/mapping-initiatives/geographies-of-the-holocaust/landscapes-of-experience-evacuations-auschwitz
- "Building Communities of Collaborators at Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive" Alicia Peaker (Middlebury College) and Joanne DeCaro (Northeastern University)
- https://prezi.com/k2y1flylu7hv/building-communities-of-collaborators-at-our-marathon-the-boston-bombing-digital-archive/
- The librarians spoke about their planning, process, and what they learned from this involved and emotionally charged project. They discussed project management from a humanist perspective and spoke about lessons learned from shepherding the many moving parts, interactions with the public, and multiple collaborators and volunteers.
- "Archiving Hindu Gaya: Temples, Shrines and Images of a sacred center in India" Abhishek Amar and Lauren Scutt (Hamilton College)
- http://dsconf.blogs.bucknell.edu/2014/09/18/archiving-hindu-gaya-temples-shrines-and-images-of-a-sacred-center-in-india/
- http://www.dhinitiative.org/projects/sacredcenters
- Professor Amar and his student, Lauren Scutt worked closely with a metadata librarian to develop the best schema for the organization and dissemination of this collection. They discussed the workflow and lessons learned. I spoke with the professor about a possible collaboration on a similar collection we are building at the Claremont Colleges on religious sites in Myanmar/Burma.
Paper Session (#s4): Digital Space, Place, and the Public Humanities
- "Harrisburg's City Beautiful Movement: Mapping the Growth and Transformation of the Pennsylvania State Capital" David Pettegrew, Jeff Erikson, Rachel Carey, and Rachel Morris (Messiah College), Albert Sarvis and Dan Stolyarov (Harrisburg University of Science and Technology)
- "St. Bonaventure Cemetery: Introducing History Students to GIS" Phillip Payne, Dennis Frank, Jason Damon, and Michael Specht (St. Bonaventure University)
- "Between Public History and Geohistory: Teaching From, and About, Lost Urban Landscapes" Linda Aleci (Franklin & Marshall College)
- "Advancing Research, Learning and Digital Collection Building in the College with Collaboration and Partnership" Sabra Statham, Eric Novotny, and Katie Falvo (Pennsylvania State University)
"Researching Out Loud: Public Scholarship as a Process of Publishing Before and After Publishing" @zeynep #BUDSC14 #kn2
Zeynep Tufekci (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Online presence, Twitter username gives credibility, the public can check you out and know that "I live in this world too, will not just disappear."
"Zeynep's work on TechnoSociology was fascinating as she reflected on how her work studying the intersection of technology, and in particular social media, and social movements, transformed her thinking about the role of public writing and scholarship. As an untenured professor, it was revealing to hear her talk about how she wrestles with how to balance her time between her tweeting and blogging and her 'traditional' scholarship." Mike Roy (Middlebury College), Notes from the Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference on Digital Incunabula.
New publics and academia
"The Google scholarship page is what pays my rent."
Coding for everybody? Not so much. Somewhat advanced digital literacies, like algorithmic literacy should be for everyone. How to deal with trolls and harassment is the new digital competency. This is the video that tries to show how her students handled the troll in PHIL200.
Silicon Valley does not have it together as everyone would suppose, everybody is in over their head. When Google bought YouTube, they never thought they'd have to make decisions about beheading videos.
Roundtable (#s5): Institutional Models for Digital Scholarship and Collaboration
"This session was useful as we embark on building up our own capacity to do this work, as it provided insights and connections with individuals, individual schools, and consortial efforts to develop DS programs that are sustainable, and provide meaningful experiences for undergraduates. It also points to the real challenges in developing sufficient technical and methodological expertise on any one campus." Mike Roy (Middlebury College), Notes from the Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference on Digital Incunabula.
- "Imagining the Global: Digital Field Scholarship on Global Themes in the Northwest Five Consortium" Jim Proctor (Lewis & Clark College) @doctorproctor
- Professor Proctor asked how would you support and sustain these projects?
- "Long-Distance Dedication: Consortial Collaboration at Scale" Jacob Heil (The Five Colleges of Ohio)
- Consortial collaboration at scale, Dr. Heil discussed how he supported the five college collaboration.
- digitalscholarship.ohio5.org
- #oh5ds @dr_heil
- "Collaboration and Outreach through the Center for Digital Scholarship at the University of Notre Dame" Matthew Sisk and Alexander Papson (University of Notre Dame)
- Notre Dame – Center for Digital Scholarship (The CC's could model a site after this)
- Metadata librarian has gotten a lot of traffic
- They reclaimed tech skills from science and social sciences for DH
- The general data use and GIS are the most highly attended workshops
- Undergraduate research partnerships have developed
- Other partnerships have developed including campus partners, academic course partners and project partners
- Talked about competing departments and
- "Collaboration, Not Chaos: Managing Collaborative Project Work" Mike Zarafonetis and Laurie Allen (Haverford College) http://library.haverford.edu/services/digital-scholarship/
- Mike Zarafonetis is the digital scholarship librarian
- Laurie Allen is the digital scholarship coordinator
- Focused on preventing chaos
- Used GIT for version control and web
- Used Asana
- Employes student workers for support
- Clear about separating the database from the interface
- Stressed importance of giving students clear directions and discrete project
- Librarians are seen as a partners rather than service providers
- Digital scholarship at Haverford is about bringing digital methods into classrooms
- "Undergraduate Digital Scholarship: CLASS as a Model for Digital Humanities Scholarship in the Liberal Arts" Janet Thomas Simons, Gregory Lord, and Kerri Grimaldi (Hamilton College)
The program: Students commit to 15 mos., undergrads apply in their first year, go through DH immersion series, they own a piece of the research, the skills they've demonstrated and work that they've done are then matched for career placement after graduation, many students are accepted into graduate schools and have won Fulbrights.
Hamilton CLASS initiative – DH immersion
- Survey of DH projects
- Evaluate and provide IL instruction
- Metadata and info architecture instruction
- Diversity across disciplines and tech skill bases
Greg Lord is the HDi lead designer & software engineer
- Teaches 3D modeling & virtual environment design workflow
- Uses: Blender – fully free/open source 3D creation pipeline > Unity– a game development ecosystem: a powerful rendering engine fully integrated with a complete set of intuitive tools and rapid workflows to create interactive 3D and 2D content.
- DH Immersion
- It took a semester for students to learn each tool
- Immersion:
- terms were defined
- work frequencies highlighted
- storyboards sketched
- students are taught html5 and CSS, video editing and lit theory
- Student project example : This project traces the depth of Emily Dickinson's influence in Shahid's poem, "A Nostalgist's Map of America," by placing his poem side-by-side with Dickinson's "A Route of Evanescence" in four stages of analysis, each increasing in depth of explication.
Supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Tri-Co Digital Humanities initiative (Tri-Co DH) is a research and teaching collaboration of Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges. We study the uses of new media and computing technologies in humanities-based scholarship and teaching, across the liberal arts. We seek to understand the expertise students, faculty and staff need as citizens and professionals in a networked world.
The consortium serves as a clearinghouse for new initiatives, funding:
- faculty research (including college-university collaborations)
- training in new research tools and practices
- curriculum development (including college-university collaborations)
- undergraduate internships and research fellowships
Pyramid/ tiered support of digital scholarship at the enterprise level, referenced "Supporting Digital Scholarship in research Libraries: Scalabilities and Sustainability."
Projects have to include an undergraduate in the research, must have a curricular component, and have to write grants.
There is funding for summer research projects, but they have learned that some of these projects cannot' be concluded in the summer.
Question during discussion: How do we collectively negotiate the bang for buck re: tools?
Answer: Leverage each other (skills and capacity, focusing it back into the classroom.
Embed faculty with experience in digital projects on T&P committees.
The process is devalued, we need to point out that the process can lead to learning, research and scholarly communication outputs. "Brilliant things do not plop out of nowhere."
Paper Session (#s8): Public Digital Scholarship: Engaging Faculty in Student Research
- "The Digital Lives and Afterlives of Collaborative Classroom Knowledge" Adam Haley (Pennsylvania State University)
- "Online Hub as Individual and Public Springboard" Benjamin Rowles (Pennsylvania State University)
- "Integrating Public Scholarship into the Undergraduate Curriculum" Chris Long (Pennsylvania State University) @cplong #BUDSC14 #s8
- Raised money for fellow, there is support for students who perform/make the grade and then have to meet additional qualifications of the Schreyer Honors College.
- Liberal Arts Voices – internship abroad : blog when they went abroad and videotape an interview. Student respond that the blog and tape interviews caused them to, "slow down and unpack those reflections" and the that experience was "unique and life changing."
- Long and company are deliberating general education reform through the first year experience: They are seeking to combine writing and speaking general education courses, engaging the public, multimodal literacy in a digital age.
- Assignments are often TedTalks, This I Believe or Mutimedia e-portfolios format.
- Long advocates performing what you are advocating.
Public Digital Scholarship: Engaging Faculty in Student Research Benjamin Rowles, Adam Haley and Chris Long (Penn State)
Adam Haley @noendofneon spoke about the digital lives and afterlives of collaborative classroom knowledge, the digital ghosts of an analog or digital lifespan.
- What happens when a class ends?
- Utilized the Ketterling model of curricula building and built a curriculum prototype that benefited more often than not from digital scholarship and showed the liberal arts hass its own inherent value.
- The class explored communicative practices in different forms of mediums. Digital scholarship can produce students comfortable communicating in all spaces: online & in-person
Trolls (internet) study – undergraduate study
Discovery grant looking at other forms of undergraduate scholarship than the usual research paper.
The Troll Bridge http://thetrollbridge.net
- A hub format was decided on
- A historical interactive timeline (timeline.js) was built
- Incorporated images, video, links to examples
- Intended to be a public resource on trolling
- Incorporated academic publications
- Is a blog, an encyclopedia, an online forum
- Produced sample syllabi, policy briefs etc
- Fostered mentors and networking : dr.troll
- Providing scholarship before a wider audience seems to force great focus and attention
- Collecting, organizing and analyzing done in an existing hub makes the lives of those studying trolling a little easier.
- Described as a research level contribution
Realizing Lessons of the Last 20 Years
Realizing Lessons of the Last 20 Years: A Manifesto for Data Provisioning & Aggregation Services for the Digital Humanities (A Position Paper)
Article by Dominic Oldman, British Museum, London; Martin Doerr, FORTH-ICS, Crete; Gerald de Jong, Delving BV, Barry Norton, British Museum, London and Thomas Wikman, Swedish National Archives
Volume 20, Number 7/8
Open Access and DH goodness from Michelle Dalmau at Indiana University
In honor of Open Access Week, and motivated by a recent mock keynote debate, "A Matter of Scale," presented by Matt Jockers and Julia Flanders as part of the Boston Area Days of Digital Humanities Conference, I present for exploration, re-use and re-mixing outside of their native interfaces TEI (P4 & P5) and plain text files of the following e-text collections published by the Indiana University (IU) Libraries:
- Indiana Magazine of History, one the nation's oldest scholarly historical journal, 1905-2011 (TEI P4)
- Victorian Women Writers Project, 1830-1929 (TEI P5)
- Indiana Authors and Their Books, 1850-1929 (TEI Lite P4)
- Brevier Legislative Reports, transcripts from Indiana State Legislature, 1858-1887 (TEI P5)
- Wright American Fiction,1851-1875 (TEI P5)
These files are made available for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 (CC BY-NC 3.0) license and can be downloaded or forked from githib, https://github.com/iulibdcs/tei_text, which includes a detailed readme file that you should, um, read, about this initiative.
I encourage you to share your uses (intended, past, and future) of this data on our repository's wiki space: <https://github.com/iulibdcs/tei_text/wiki> so we can track your magic.
Have fun!
Michelle Dalmau, Interim Head
Digital Collections Services
Indiana University
Herman B Wells Library
1320 East 10th Street, Rm W501
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
Web: http://michelledalmau.com
Twitter: @mdalmau
An Open Discussion about Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality in Digital Humanities Work
An Open Discussion about Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality in Digital Humanities Work
Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam of dhpoco have started a wonderful conversation by posing the question: "are the digital humanities a 'refuge' from race/class/gender/sexuality/disability?" There has been extensive international discussion and it's worth a read.
Stop Calling it 'Digital Humanities' – Chronicle article
William Pannapaker writes about a backlash DH'ers (aaah, not supposed to say that) have brought on themselves and what liberal arts colleges can due to turn things in their favor, leveraging their "significant advantages over research universities."
DH tools, methods, and technologies have the potential to help enhance and evolve a wealth of professional practices beyond academia
Jefferson Bailey, "Digital Humanities & Cultural Heritage, or, The Opposite of Argumentation,"
Jefferson Bailey's post on the new dh+lib website examines "how DH tools, methods, and technologies have the potential to help enhance and evolve a wealth of professional practices beyond academia and across all of cultural heritage."
Stories of the Susquehanna: Digital Humanities, Spatial Thinking, and Telling the historia of the Environment recap
Stories of the Susquehanna: Digital Humanities, Spatial Thinking, and Telling the historia of the Environment, 2012-10-09
~ Allegra Swift Gonzalez
Access is only available to the colleges participating in NITLE, so if you are from Scripps College, Pomona College or Harvey Mudd College and you are interested in viewing the slides and recording, please contact Mary McMahon at Pomona ITS.
Katherine Faull, professor of German and humanities, Bucknell University, and seminar leader
Alf Siewers, associate professor of English, Bucknell University, and seminar leader
"Collaborative student-faculty research projects centered in the locale of residential liberal arts colleges let students engage in a variety of learning experiences and high impact practices including undergraduate research, civic engagement, and multidisciplinary approaches to complex problems. Students at Bucknell University, as part of the Stories of the Susquehanna Valley Project, gathered stories from the Marcellus Shale region in the Susquehanna watershed of how the boom in natural gas drilling is transforming communities and cultural landscapes." NITLE announcement.
Professors Fauli and Siewers spoke about the successful course they devised with considerations of institutional administrative requirements and engaging interdisciplinary undergraduates. In building the course, the professors were aware that this course was only fulfilling a requirement for some students and that it did not necessarily credit their major. They also took into account the politics of introducing a course to administration and the necessities required for continued support. The structure and support systems for this intensive course helped to engage the students and ended up benefiting the community, the students, and the aligned researchers.
Instead of making this an online course or maybe in reaction to, this course was designed to accentuate outdoor regional based instruction.
The course required 5 hours a week + a "running reading and reaction journal"
- 1 hour discussion on T-TH
- 3 hour lab on W
- field trips (40 students, outside funding and residential college funds)
In addition, there were workshops on using tools and methods:
- ArcGIS
- video essay
- Final Cut Pro
- blogging
- Arcmap and google map – kmz files and embed images
Collaborations included support from faculty and staff with English, Environmental Science, Geography, and GIS specialties.
Fauli and Siewers were able to motivate students who are coming from multiple disciplinary backgrounds from sciences to humanities by engaging them with collaborative problems solving, outdoor and cultural adventure including kayaking and entre to Native American communities. Outreach to Native American communities was mentioned as having enriched faculty research and student experience as well as garnered relationships built on mutual trust and respect.
- became agents of change
- learned new ways of thinking of cause and effect
- related primary sources as spatial constructs
- won internships with National Geographic and the National Parks due to relationships built by projects
- contributed to the studied area being registered as protected historic place
Scholarly student output included:
- narrative maps
- critical cartography and GIS layers map produced
- database of historical GiS layers
- work from precious year informs the next
- interest in careers in historic preservation, local and national conservancies.
Funding was garnered from multiple sources and looked to be quite the endeavor in itself. I was curious to know if they had help with gathering the financial support. Some f the funding aspects mentioned were a NEH collaborative research grant, a foundation for summer writers, and the Mellon Foundation.
The Stories of the Susquehanna Valley Project is really well organized and thought out course model that brought about many levels of benefits and engagement.
Art Center Site Visit
Art Center – South Campus visit 2012-09-21
-Allegra Gonzalez
The next visit on the site design tour was Art Center College of Design South Campus to talk to Elizabeth Chin. Students and faculty here are working on everything from vibrant data (library/ info professionals perk up) to an anthropology/design project in Uganda. We learned much from looking at this center that had taken over CalTech's old wind tunnel. While South Campus is a decidedly larger space than our proposed future home, we saw some design elements and intentions that could work for us, and as you learn from living in a space, some experiments to avoid.
We especially liked the use of (recycled?) material for sound such as felt-board walls.
While sound can still be an issue, at least it is not reverberating off the walls as one would expect in such a cavernous space. The walls also double as pin boards for self-expression and project planning
Even here space is at a premium and Art Center is looking at building a tower within the tunnel. While this is not an option in Claremont, we can look to the simple, mobile space dividers/cable drops and walls to maximize our space constraints. We began to envision large worktables that can fold up and out of the way as well as projection screens sliding along light cables when looking at the clever utilization of space. No element seemed to be just decorative, but more utilitarian if not multiple-use or at the least, repurposed.
Elizabeth mentioned the intent to provide space design that facilitates and inspires faculty conversation came about in a room designed by Sean Donahue. This concept was intriguing and we look forward to speaking with Sean, as well as another Art Center faculty member, Tim Durfee, an architect who "thinks in a much more wide-open manner than many or most in his line of work and training."
The projects in process at Art Center South Campus can be simple to more complex. Many of the tools for image and video manipulation we already work with, and it will be interesting to learn if some of the tech tools used here would find application in Claremont. There is already talk of Arduino interest and giant plotters. Thankfully, there are large format plotters on campus and we don't have to worry about those big machines eating up ink and our little space.
Another nice perk besides the toys for Art Center faculty is the guarantee of 100 hours of student help per faculty member. That would be nice, as well as a staff person to manage schedules and time cards. Once the CCDH Center is up and running, I am sure we'll have to turn away student help. Now if only we can have a Big Ass fan and a rooftop garden.
Site Visit 1: UCLA Research Commons
Part of our work this fall is to learn from other people who have created spaces designed to foster or enable digital humanities work. Our first trip took us down to the bright and open Research Commons in the YRL Library at UCLA. Zoe Borovsky and Michael Samojlik – to whom we are most grateful for the time and good conversation — very graciously hosted us for a half-day visit.
The Commons space was part of a major two-floor renovation at the YRL and was designed to foster collaboration and innovative pedagogy. We spent some time talking to Susan Parker, Deputy University Librarian, about the planning process and part of what struck me was the willingness to move forward, despite not being sure how the space would be used and what kinds of needs it might address. As she put it – the University Librarian's answer to many questions was "I don't know." Rather than a lack of planning or research (of which there was a lot!), I think the UL's response correctly signaled the ways in which it is difficult to predict use for collaborative, open places. While this kind of approach enables fluid future use, that fluidity can pose challenges.
The Research Commons was initially conceived as a collaborative and pedagogical space, but usage thus far has largely been individual. With a real lack of seating on the UCLA campus for studying (approx 3% of need!), it's easy to see why this open, inviting, and comfortable space has become an undergraduate favorite. While usage is great (no space should be empty)– the regular use of the space by individual students studying and enjoying their coffees, means that the space is not available for the seminars and research collaborations that were initially envisioned. Part of what the Research Commons needs, and is getting, is a better reservation system. The Commons is an evolving project and the staff has been attentive to actual use and imaginative in their approaches to the gaps between hopes/dreams/goals and current practice. They've also been honest about what does and doesn't work – like some of that lovely furniture. Our hosts shared their hard won realization that tables that are too low are hard to work at and those sexy, highly mobile desks that make for great modular rooms aren't so great when you need to spread out and pour over books, pages, or screens.
Part of the lesson learned here is that space management can be a full time task. The central area pictured above is just one of four areas in the commons, each of which has its own restrictions and usage needs. For example, a separate funding stream has enabled a BEAUTIFUL workstation with a rear projection screen.
This enables large-scale presentation of 3D mapping and data visualization, with ports in from the five work-stations in the room. This is a drool-worthy space to be sure, but it's also technology heavy, which means it has the potential to be technician heavy. Where there are tools, there must be people who can trouble-shoot and operate. Adding to the labor concerns is the lack of clear architectural demarcation, which means that monitoring use and mediating noise expectations has been part of the new work of YRL staff. I share the surprise of YRL librarians that students are deeply wedded to the notion of a quiet library – going so far as to "shhh" staff!
Just behind this space is the Digital DH Hub and sandbox space, where Johanna Drucker and Jan Reiff have been experimenting with studio/workshop approaches to collaborative DH work and pedagogy. With locking doors, the space enables long-term work with materials from special collections and the ability to leave behind one's computer etc. when you run out for some fresh air and sunshine. Which, it turns out, is crucial for a happy working environment. However much we imagine the scholar laboring in the dark shelter of archive or computer lab, she needs sunshine and air. Windows, we learned, are very important.
Maybe we should all take a page from the MITH redesign and get garage doors! We've taken notes, an album full of pictures, and our heads are abuzz with ideas. Thanks again to the YRL and UCLA DH crew!
-Jacque with Allegra Gonzalez, who also provided photos.


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On March 19, Martin Shkreli posted an article on the investing blog Seeking Alpha urging readers to "short" shares of San Diego-based Cytori (NASDAQ: CYTX)—essentially telling them they should bet that the company would falter and its share price would drop. Cytori is developing so-called regenerative treatments, using stem cells from fat, for example, to try to rebuild damaged heart tissue. Shkreli, who manages the MSMB hedge fund in New York, declared, "regenerative medicine is a meaningless and embarrassing buzzword that means nothing."
Shkreli didn't stop there. He criticized the company for its "meager sales" and losses, writing, "I believe management had a plan of benefitting from being associated with this growing field, and it backfired."
Shkreli disclosed up front that his fund has a short interest in Cytori.
Cytori's stock, which closed at $3.13 just before Shkreli's post, has since fallen to $2.40, a 23 percent drop. Hedge funds don't have to disclose details of their short positions, so it's impossible to estimate how much MSMB has gained by shorting Cytori. Suffice it to say, Shkreli's fund, which he founded in 2006, probably did all right on that bet.
It's just such antics that have made 29-year-old Shkreli the target of angry life sciences executives, not to mention Washington watchdogs that are urging the SEC to investigate what they fear might be deliberate stock-price manipulation by an overzealous hedge-fund manager. But Shkreli embodies about as big a dichotomy as you're likely to find in life sciences. That's because in the midst of the storm of criticism that seems to follow him everywhere he goes, some physicians and notable Big Pharma veterans are hailing him as a hero for starting his own biotech company, Retrophin, which is pursuing treatments for rare diseases. The company launched earlier this year with $3 million in funding from MSMB and notable private investors, including Fred Hassan, former CEO of Schering-Plough.
In a meeting with Xconomy at his mid-town Manhattan office recently, Shkreli was as eager to talk up Retrophin as he was to sound off on life sciences companies that he thinks are on the wrong track. Shkreli, who raced through college and got his first job in finance at age 17, has been working in hedge funds his entire career. But he believes Retrophin is a better outlet for his skills. "The last 10 years of finance and swashbuckling stuff has been fun," he says, "but I'm ready for a more interesting way of helping people and making money. Solving the world's diseases one at a time is my new mission."
Before we get to Retrophin, though, it's worth taking a closer look at that swashbuckling. Shkreli, who considers himself to be an amateur biologist, is not shy about criticizing other companies' scientific pursuits. Witness Cytori. In his 10-paragraph Seeking Alpha post, Shkreli reviews Cytori's clinical-trial program in excruciating detail, comparing it with that of other companies pursuing cell therapies, before coming to a rather blunt conclusion: "Despite some diehard faith from Cytori investors and seemingly, management, there is limited clinical proof of concept for Cytori's approach."
Tom Baker, Cytori's director of investor relations, isn't amused. "I wonder how one could so summarily dismiss an entire field," he says. "We're very bullish on the whole stem cell sector. We don't dwell on someone's doubts."
Some of Shkreli's sparring has extended far beyond his blog posts, however. On Christmas Day 2010, Shkreli wrote a letter to 10 FDA officials urging them to reject an inhaled insulin product made by MannKind (NASDAQ: MKND), a Valencia, CA-based company founded by billionaire octogenarian and medical-device veteran Al Mann. A few weeks later, at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Shkreli went to an investors' meeting led by Mann and "asked a lot of questions that I think annoyed him," Shkreli says.
Shkreli's main problem with the product, he says, was "a very, very deficient clinical trial program." Specifically, he says, the company redesigned the inhaler but didn't run trials to prove it worked.
On January 20 of this year, the FDA issued a "complete response" letter to MannKind, requesting that the company run two trials of the new inhaler. The company's stock has lost half its value in the past year and has been trading recently at about $2.45.
And yes, Shkreli freely admits he was shorting MannKind's stock at the time of his battle with the company. "I thought it was important to bring attention to this idea that the company hadn't done its trials in the way it should have. So I shorted the stock and made my position clear," Shkreli says. "I think the short is one of the greatest investments we've ever made."
MannKind declined to comment.
A more recent FDA correspondence has gotten Shkreli in hot water with a Washington, DC, outfit called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). After blasting Dublin, OH-based Neoprobe (AMEX: NEOP) in four Seeking Alpha postings, Shkreli wrote a petition to the FDA last June requesting that the agency not consider approving the company's product, which is a radioactive agent used to detect lymph nodes. Shkreli suggested that the FDA should require the company to test its drug against another radioactive product that's currently used in combination with blue dye for lymph node mapping.
On January 26, after months of collecting supporting documents from the FDA—and some from Shkreli himself—CREW sent a letter to the SEC asking the commission to open an investigation into Shkreli's short-selling activities. The 60-page letter includes multiple examples of Shkreli's correspondences with the FDA, and requests that the SEC require Shkreli to disclose MSMB's holdings. CREW suggests in its letter that the SEC then compare Shkreli's trading patterns with his attempts "to influence the outcome of the FDA's approval process."
Anne Weismann, chief counsel for CREW, says in an interview with Xconomy that her organization isn't alleging Shkreli engaged in collusion, but rather demanding further investigation into his trading activities. "With hedge funds, there's limited information publicly available," Weismann says. Comparisons of Shkreli's FDA petitions to his trades "should be done by someone who has greater access than we do."
Shkreli was more than happy to help CREW with its investigation, sending the organization copies of some of his FDA correspondences, all the while contending that shorting stocks is perfectly legal. Weismann doesn't dispute him on that point. "We're not asking to ban hedge funds," she says. "But there's no transparency. That's troubling."
Neoprobe, which has since changed its name to Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, is expecting a verdict from the FDA later this year. The agency has not responded to Shkreli's petition. Still, Navidea's stock has been under pressure: Shares have fallen from $5.48 last June, when Shkreli started harassing the company on Seeking Alpha, to $3.29 today. Navidea did not respond to e-mail and phone requests for comment.
Shkreli has made ten short recommendations so far on Seeking Alpha, all of them accompanied by blistering comments. On Cambridge, MA-based Zalicus, (NASDAQ: ZLCS), which is testing anti-inflammatory drug, he declared: "This asset is worthless. It's worse than worthless—it will eat up $10 to $20 million in cash as the [study] reads out in the next year." Of Seattle-based Oncothyreon (NASDAQ: ONTY), he suggested that its experimental lung cancer vaccine "is not a well-designed drug and is likely to be inert in humans. "
Zalicus declined to comment in an e-mail to Xconomy. Oncothyreon, which raised $47 million in an underwritten stock offering on March 29, also declined to comment.
Because MSMB does not have to report every trade it makes, it's hard to determine just how much the fund has made on Shkreli's short bets. As a whole, MSMB returned 20 percent in 2011, according to an investor presentation obtained by Xconomy.
But Stephen Brozak, president of WBB Securities in Clark, NJ, believes MSMB's returns are less important than the doubts Shkreli might be raising among other investors. "When you're dealing with stocks that are not well known, perception can be devastating to the extreme," Brozak says. "The biotech and medical device world is fragile. It requires the munificence of investors not for one quarter, not for one year, but perhaps for as long as 10 years. If someone yells 'fire,' what do you think the effect will be?" WBB is an investor in Navidea, Brozak says.
Shkreli sometimes becomes so disgusted with companies that he goes to extremes to try to fix their management issues. When Lexington, MA-based AMAG Pharmaceuticals announced last July its plan to merge with Allos Therapeutics, Shkreli thought the merger was such a bad idea he made an unsolicited bid to buy the company. He offered AMAG $18 a share on August 3, 2011—a 25 percent premium to the company's closing price the day before—then led an effort to overthrow the board and have CEO Brian Pereira ousted.
Shkreli had never been a Pereira fan. The CEO, a physician by training, had been attempting to advance the company's lead product, ferumoxytol to treat iron deficiency, ever since he was named CEO in 2006. Shkreli and other critics of AMAG's proposed merger with Allos suggested there were few synergies between the two companies. Allos sells a drug to treat T-cell lymphoma. "When [Pereira] joined AMAG, he had not one day of experience at any corporation at all, which I thought was unacceptable for a CEO," Shkreli says. "I think the decisions he made told that story very clearly."
Shareholders voted down the Allos acquisition plan, and in November, Pereira stepped down. But MSMB is still trying to buy the company. A spokeswoman declined to comment, instead pointing to a series of SEC documents pertaining to the battle for control. In one such filing, dated November 17, 2011, AMAG urges its shareholders to revoke any consent they or their brokers might have given to MSMB's takeover attempt. "MSMB Capital's own statements in filings made with the SEC indicate that MSMB Capital does not understand AMAG's existing business," AMAG said in the filing. "MSMB Capital has not given AMAG stockholders a clear and concrete path as to how MSMB Capital intends to improve AMAG's performance or realize value for your investment…."
Shkreli declined to comment further on AMAG due to "ongoing discussions" with the company. MSMB currently owns 1.2 million shares of AMAG worth a total of about $20 million, according to Bloomberg.
When it comes to larger pharmaceutical companies, MSMB doesn't generally hold enough shares for Shkreli to throw his weight around. But that doesn't stop him from trying. In a letter to some shareholders of New York-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in December 2010, Shkreli said he was pleased to see former CEO Jeffrey Kindler retire, but that he believed "Pfizer's board of directors has been largely composed of the same value destroyers for more than a decade." He suggested that the company discontinue its policy of promoting insiders to executive roles and instead consider outsiders with track records of "creating or preserving value."
Shkreli says he's still a Pfizer shareholder and is largely pleased with the company's recent progress under CEO Ian Read, a 34-year veteran of the company who was promoted to CEO in 2010. But in true Shkreli fashion, he can't help tossing out one remaining gripe about the company. "I don't see them acquiring biotech companies, I don't see them making any proteins in the clinic that are of any use," he says. He acknowledges that Pfizer's acquisition of Wyeth in 2009 brought some biotech molecules to its pipeline, but he still wishes the company would do more. "It doesn't seem like they're creating novel proteins, which is sad."
In an e-mail, a spokeswoman for Pfizer points to the company's recent efforts to fine-tune its biotech partnering strategy. "Pfizer is more strategic, focused and creative in its deal structures to help ensure the appropriate balance of risk and reward," she says. "For example, in December 2011, Pfizer completed the acquisition of Excaliard Pharmaceuticals, which included an upfront payment, and contingent payment if certain milestones are met."
Shkreli had some early training in the art of being outspoken. He started his collegiate career at Columbia University, but transferred to New York's Baruch College to pursue a bachelor's in business administration because "it was more advantageous for me to complete my degree quickly," he says. At 17, he landed a job with Jim Cramer—the high-energy finance pro who was a hedge fund manager before starting TheStreet.com and starring on CNBC's Mad Money. After about four years with Cramer's hedge fund, Shkreli says, he moved on to Intrepid, a hedge fund that's part of the Tiger fund family.
Cramer declined to comment on Shkreli in an e-mail, saying he has "no desire to be affiliated with him in any way."
After a decade of criticizing—and sometimes profiting from—how other people manage life sciences companies, Shkreli decided to start his own: Retrophin. He says he was partly inspired to become a biotech entrepreneur when the 15-year-old son of one of MSMB's investors died of a rare muscle disorder called myotubular myopathy. "I think the pharmaceutical industry has dismissed a lot of these [rare] diseases as too small to make money in, or too difficult to understand scientifically," Shkreli says. "That doesn't sit well with me. It's one thing to invest in companies, it's another thing to give to charity. It's a whole other thing to build a company yourself—that's real dedication to patients."
The name Retrophin is short for "recombinant dystrophin," an engineered form of a protein that's lacking in patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), a genetic muscle disease. Shkreli says he wrote the genetic sequence himself for a form of recombinant dystrophin after reading about research done in academia. Retrophin is currently in discussions to license key patents on the molecule from the University of Minnesota. Shkreli says he has an agreement with a Swiss manufacturer to make the drug and he hopes to begin animal trials soon.
On February 21, Retrophin suddenly moved closer to becoming a commercial-stage company when it licensed a drug from San Diego-based Ligand that has already been tested in humans. The drug, called DARA (for dual acting receptor antagonist of angiotensin and endothelin receptors), was originally developed to treat hypertension. But Shkreli, who was once one of Ligand's largest shareholders, suspected that the drug's ability to filter excess protein from the urine could make it even more useful in treating some kidney diseases.
So Retrophin is now developing DARA for focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), a rare kidney disorder for which there are no FDA-approved treatments. The kidneys of patients who have the disease are unable to filter out excess protein and ultimately fail, forcing patients to go on dialysis.
When Shkreli first came up with the idea to test the drug for FSGS, he called Howard Trachtman, professor of clinical pediatrics at New York University, and one of the nation's best-known FSGS specialists. "I was thrilled, because historically FSGS has been a somewhat neglected entity," says Trachtman, who will be the lead investigator in Retrophin's phase 2 trial, which should begin imminently. "Biotech companies have been unwilling to take the risk, because it's a rare disease. Martin is different."
Shkreli is being guided by some of the pharmaceutical industry's best-known strategists. In addition to Hassan, the former Schering-Plough CEO, the startup counts among its investors Brent Saunders, another Schering-Plough veteran who is now CEO of Bausch & Lomb. James MacDonald, who worked in early-stage drug development at Schering and is now an industry consultant, is helping Retrophin manage its clinical trials. "Martin has done a good job of selecting diseases in which there is a single element missing—a deletion of a single gene or protein," MacDonald says. "That will make it easier to test his hypotheses. It's not like you have to do clinical trials that go on for years. Either the drugs will work, or they won't."
MacDonald acknowledges that Shkreli's reputation as a rabble-rouser gave him some pause at first, but he was swayed by the hedge fund manager's passion for rare diseases. "He recognizes he has strongly held views, but if you have a strong argument, he listens to you," MacDonald says. "That's the mark of a smart person."
MSMB could fund Retrophin indefinitely, Shkreli says, though he's quick to acknowledge he'll eventually have to find other sources of capital. Towards that end, Shkreli says Retrophin will probably "embark on an important strategic transaction in the future," such as merging with a public company that is cash-rich and has expertise in drug development.
And Shkreli says he's already thinking about finding someone to replace him as CEO of Retrophin. "I'm the largest shareholder, and I want to support the company and help it create drugs," he says. "But the company and these patients deserve someone who's been in the drug business for 20 or 30 years. We're going to look for someone with tremendous pharmaceutical experience—a world-class executive."
Judging from Shkreli's history beating up on what he sees as the industry's ineffective managers, it's a fair bet he'll likely put the next CEO of Retrophin through a pretty tough interview process.
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Shkreli should be incarcerated for trying to manipulate the FDA.
He should also take handwriting lessons. Have you seen his personal signature! It looks like something a 2nd grader would sign.
I've got an idea: Let's SHORT this psychopathic, clown's Retrophin.
Taste of his own medicine should be good for him and divine retribution for all the desperate diabetics who were hoping Afrezza would have come to market by now.
Shrekeli may be smart, but if one uses that genius to deliberately harm companies, break the bank accounts of innocent shareholders, and keep vital therapies away from people who need them then you're the worst human on the planet.
Marty Shkreli is pathetic. Anyone that would associate themselves with this person has to be questioned based on the pathetic and bad manipulating things he's done out of greed and selfishness. He's not to be trusted from what I've seen and I believe he's up to no good yet again! A shame!!
The pipeline for Retrophin contains the dumbest ideas I have come across in the biotech industry. Trying to deliver recombinant dystrophin to the right subcellular localization in muscle is a pie in the sky. First of all dystrophin is one of the largest proteins known (>400kDa). Trying to deliver that into a cell is like a person trying to swallow a basketball-sized T-bone steak. I'm guessing they'll try to bilk some ignorant investor on the virtues of the drug by showing that they can deliver this protein to damaged muscle cells. Little will these people know that damaged muscle cells will take up pretty much anything.
DARA for FSGS? WTF?!? You do not want protein to be excreted in your urine. That is a clear sign of kidney diseseae. This drug is going to increase protein clearance in the kidney?!?!
hilarious how martin is ripped apart. the service he provides to the imbeciles who invest in the companies he shorts is invaluable but they ignore him. the ONTY dopes are particularly funny. and what's wrong with voicing an opposing opinion when asses like brozak are spewing egregiously deficient "research".
and by the way, i'm not martin. i wish i were.


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i am signed by the man u team. my first game is at home to leeds. i am so cute and skill.
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i meet posh spice, we shag, she makes me wear a dress, then we wed. look, two boys!
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(There are no spoilers here, but this post assumes you have seen season one of the U.S. version of House of Cards.)
I woke up this morning expecting headlines about Amazon servers crashing as everyone rushed to watch the new season of Netflix's mega-hit House of Cards. Since the first episode cut out on me once while trying to watch last night, I feared it would for others as well.
Luckily, things seem to be chugging along.
Which is about the only positive thing I can say about the opening episode.
Why season one worked
Season one had great moments of characters struggling with their weakness while aiming for power:
- Peter Russo balancing his family, alcoholism and quest to be governor
- Frank's role in Peter's death
- Claire's infidelity
- Zoe's confusion over if she has feelings for Frank or is using him like he's using her
Granted, things seemed to fall off the rails in the second half of the season. (Frank playing "the alphabet game" on CNN? Come on, that was weak.) Still, there was a lot of story there to deal with.
Season two is a soap opera
Season two seems to have dropped that subtlety in favour of awful people doing awful things to each other. Frank, Claire and Doug Stamper are evil, cruel, unrepentant sociopaths. (Tiny spoiler: has Stamper trained in Krav Maga?) Meanwhile, the journalist trifecta of Zoe, Lucas and Janine spend the episode biting their nails and then screaming at each other over how powerful Frank has become. As a story outline, there is room for great drama. Instead, we got soap opera melodramatics. I didn't care what happened to any of them. I hope there's a 24 cross-over where the whole lot of them gets nuked, leaving only Christina (Russo's assistant/girlfriend) for Jack Bauer to lead out of the rubble.
True, having a sociopath in the mix adds drama. Even an unrepentant asshole like Walter White (or Jack Bauer) amps up the tension. But the sociopath must be among characters we care about. And Walter White's loyalty to Jesse and love for his family, twisted as it all became, made him sympathetic. There was none of that here. It almost seemed like the writers sat around thinking "No, we need to make ________ even more evil. We need to shock the audience! Character development and consistency? Nope. Shock the audience."
Yeah, about "the twist"
It's not a spoiler to say the episode has a "shocking" moment/twist/game changer. The Web is no doubt buzzing about it already.
So I'll call it a shameless attempt to generate buzz. No spoilers here, but man is it a cheap, weak cop-out. If you watch the episode, ask yourself if that character would really take such a reckless risk. It makes no sense unless it's an easy way for the writers to generate tension. It is as contradictory as Lori on The Walking Dead telling Rick he needs to do something about Shane because Shane is putting everyone at risk, then being horrified when Rick tells her he killed Shane in self-defense.
That's not to say I don't think the character is capable of the motivation, but the execution is not in keeping with what we have seen so far. Unless the second episode spends time deconstructing it from a character perspective, it spells bad news for the direction of the series. No doubt, it will affect plot but not character leaving us to think __________ is just a shell of a person who takes actions that are convenient to move the plot from A to B.
Where is Fincher?
What scares me the most is (according to Wikipedia) it looks like David Fincher is not involved this season. He remains in the credits as Executive Producer, but that's it. Like Frank Darabont on The Walking Dead and Dan Harmon on Community, my fear is without a talented guiding hand this show will drift into the great sea of TV mediocrity.
Judging by season one's uneven quality, House of Cards might becoming Washinton D.C.: 20510.


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