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A new outpatient procedure allows doctors to remove pre-cancerous tissue in the esophageal lining
The Department of Gastroenterology at La Peer Health Systems in Beverly Hills is proud to offer an innovative new treatment for Barrett's esophagus, a disorder of the esophageal lining that can lead to esophageal cancer.
"We're very excited to be able to offer this revolutionary treatment for Barrett's esophagus," says Dr. Siamak Tabib, a board-certified gastroenterologist at La Peer and specialist in disease prevention. "Eradicating this condition early can prevent patients from developing esophageal cancer later in life."
Recently spotlighted in a New England Journal of Medicine article, the treatment utilizes the HALO System's endoscopic radiofrequency ablation therapy to remove the pre-cancerous esophageal lining. Doing this may prevent patients from developing a fast-killing form of cancer known as esophageal adenocarcinoma. Studies suggest that people with Barrett's disease are 40-130 times more likely to develop esophageal cancer than the general population.
According to Dr. Tabib, Barrett's disease develops as a result of gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD, which exposes the esophagus to a constant barrage of acid from the stomach. Over time, the acid can prompt the esophageal cells to undergo a genetic change, becoming pre-cancerous in some cases.
"Ablation therapy works by destroying the abnormal lining of the esophagus," says La Peer's Dr. Arash Ari Nowain, who is double board-certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine. "Once the abnormal tissue is gone, new, healthy tissue can grow back in its place. Research suggests that this is an incredibly effective means of preventing esophageal cancer in people with Barrett's disease."
During ablation therapy, the doctors at La Peer will utilize a Halo Ablation Catheter to direct ablative energy at the pre-cancerous esophageal tissue. Performed on an outpatient basis, the procedure lasts just 30 minutes and requires no surgery or incisions.
Although ablation therapy is not a new procedure for treating Barrett's disease, previous technologies made it difficult to target the unhealthy tissue without injuring nearby healthy esophageal cells. One of the benefits of the HALO System is that it offers doctors more control and precision in treating Barrett's disease.
The procedure offers new hope for Barrett's esophagus sufferers, who were previously told to "wait and see" while doctors monitored their condition for signs of cancer. Because it can be difficult to diagnose esophageal cancer in its early stages, the disease has a five-year survival rate of just 16 percent.
If you think you may be suffering from chronic heartburn of GERD, or if you are interested in learning more about this exciting treatment for Barrett's disease, feel free to contact La Peer's Department of Gastroenterology for a consultation.
La Peer Health Systems is an outpatient surgery center in Beverly Hills, founded by doctors and focused on providing excellent patient care alongside the most cutting-edge medical treatments available. With 40 world-renowned physicians in 13 specialties, we offer comprehensive medical treatment that takes patients from consultation to diagnosis, treatment, surgery, and ultimately aftercare. Our 13 medical departments include orthopedics & sports medicine, gastroenterology, head & neck surgery, colorectal & general surgery, podiatry, ophthalmology, pain management, plastics & reconstructive surgery, gynecology, spine surgery, interventional cardiology, bariatric surgery, and anesthesiology. Unlike large hospitals, La Peer's unique structure offers extremely personal care in a safe and controlled environment. More information about La Peer Health Systems can be found at LaPeerHealth.com.
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I'm looking for a desktop search engine for finding images on my local hard drive with high visual similarity. I've only found paid for ones so far. It could be Linux or Windows software; either would be helpful. A Google Desktop plugin would be nice!
My first use case is being able to organise all the processed versions of a photo based on it's original, or finding the original of a processed image.

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Continuing to release more teasers for 2011, STX gives us a taste of the 2011 Assault gloves. Below are an assortment of different colorways you can expect the glove to offer.
Custom Sample UNC – Just a sample, not the actual glove UNC will wear in 2011.
The STX Assault glove is made with High Def Polymer for lightweight protection. It is equipped with direct inject impact ribs for increased protection on fingers, back of hand and wrist. There is also a five-part knuckle design and four-part split thumb for increased hand and finger flexibility.
Four-part cuff for maximum wrist mobility as well as a new moisture-wicking inner liner for unmatched comfort.
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Example of Construction Site Runoff Controls: silt fence, sediment pond
Construction projects are required to have temporary and permanent erosion and sediment control measures incorporated into their design. Sediment can be controlled using measures such as silt fences, coir logs, sediment traps, check dams, and sandbag barriers. Erosion can be prevented using measures such as vegetation/sod, mulch/straw and geotextiles. In addition, sites should be free from loose trash and debris.


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Operation: Whole Foods Hidden Camera GMO Sting – Bait Organic, Switch to GM
Whole Foods Hidden Camera GMO Sting
Organic Spies conducted an undercover hidden camera sting of Whole Foods Market for selling unlabeled GMO foods.
This film shows why Whole Foods has given no money to Proposition 37, the California ballot initiative to label genetically engineered foods.
Whole Foods has sold unlabeled GMOs created by Monsanto for over a decade.


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This Five-Year Trend is in Jeopardy
It is no secret the Nasdaq (NASDAQGIDS:^IXIC) and Russell 2000 (NYSEARCA:IWM) have been hit much harder than the larger cap indices the last two months, still down over 6% and 8% each from their March price tops.
This is a big difference from pullbacks of the past when the higher beta indices holding technology companies and small caps performed much better in market pullbacks.
This is so different, in 35 years of history the performance difference of 6% between the Dow after making new 52 week highs and the Russell 2000 is one of the largest spreads in history.
Beyond a simple risk off scenario, there may actually be a larger theme at play.
Shift into Safety Sustainable?
The chart below is similar to one provided along with commentary to our ETF Profit Strategy Newsletter subscribers that shows the iShares S&P 500 Value ETF (NYSEARCA:IVE) compared to the iShares S&P 500 Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:IVW).
Recently, there has been a massive shift out of growth and into value stocks over the last month.
As highlighted by the blue circles that show overbought status, the expectation outlined to our subscribers was for a cooling of that shift, which indeed has occurred as things have settled down the last few weeks and growth makes up some lost ground.
But, is this shift to value part of a longer term theme?
Tech mini-bubble?
If the current correction in previously hot sectors and companies, such as Biotech (NYSEARCA:IBB) and Amazon (NASDAQGS:AMZN) are any clue, this could be just the beginning.
The ETF that tracks Biotech companies has risen over 300% since the 2009 market lows and over 200% since the market's last 20% pullback in 2011, greatly outperforming the broader markets.
This outperformance may mean these companies are due just a normal correction of the trend. But it could also mean they were indeed in some kind of bubble, rising beyond any rational explanation.
The chart below shows this verdict is still up in the air as Biotechs so far have equaled the 2011 decline, the largest pullback since the financial crisis, now a 24% peak to trough move.
But prices have also found support at a long term trendline shown in dashed blue that shows buyers have entered the market where expected, keeping the uptrend in place.
WATCH: How we used sentiment to snag a +65% gain in gold
Another chart provided in our May 2014 Newsletter shows that the value versus growth trend, although much changed over the last few months and certainly short term overbought, remains in a longer-term five year sideways consolidation where growth and value have performed similarly.
In other words, over the last five years whether you chose growth stocks or value stocks, your returns would have been similar. That trend has not changed, technically, but the shift over the last few weeks certainly suggest the longer term trend may be changing from growth oriented to value focused.
If Biotech, a good proxy for growth and momentum shares, breaks its uptrend, this will only strengthen the case. That will mean shifting your assets into safer classes would be prudent as value breaks out of its five year trend, continuing its outperformance of growth.
The ETF Profit Strategy Newsletter uses technical, sentiment, and fundamental data to stay ahead of the global asset markets. We provide our subscribers actionable insight in our monthly Newsletter, twice weekly Technical Forecast, and weekly ETF Picks where we are watching closely the relationship between growth and value to warn of a larger shift in the market's winds.


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Make Reading Fun!
Reading is one of the most important skills a child can acquire. Giving your child a head start in reading leads to myriad benefits later on in life – from improved writing and vocabulary skills, to better listening comprehension and speaking.
As Ms Karen Wong, Senior Learning Support Facilitator at KK Woman's and Children's Hospital's Department of Child Development, says, "Reading is a fundamental skill which helps to stimulate children's imagination in association with print, pictures and the real-life situations.
"It helps to foster listening, speaking and writing in print, and it brings about positive outcomes in reading comprehension and vocabulary in later years." According to Ms Wong, "Reading helps children to understand print in the environmental context (such as logos, posters, advertisements, food labels)."
Start by making reading part of daily life, no matter how young your child is. Ms Wong suggests establishing a daily routine that incorporates some reading time, setting aside a minimum of 10 minutes a day. Choose an optimum time with no distractions or interruptions – often before nap time or bedtime is ideal.
Choose age appropriate books – young babies enjoy cloth or felt books with pictures of animals or things related to their daily routine. Look for books with added sensory experiences – flaps they can lift, crinkly materials they can grip, textured surfaces they can touch and feel. Do not worry about words too much at this point – the main point is to get your child used to the act of reading by turning the pages of books from start to finish.
"For toddlers, try ABC books, counting books, shapes and colours books, wordless picture books, and early concept books," says Ms Wong.
"Young children enjoy predictive books such as 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?', 'The Hungry Caterpillar', 'Monkey and Me', or simple books of facts."
Other books to introduce include graded readers and popular easy to read books (Dr Seuss, for example).
And don't forget to model good reading behaviour – your child is a little mimic, and will want to do what you do. If he sees you reading, chances are, he will want to pick up a book and read too!
Ms Erin Lihou, a mother of two, says: "I try to read every night with my children. As they got older, I got them to read part of the story. Then, after a period of time, I would read a story then they would read a story. Plus, I am always reading so they seem to have picked up the habit, which makes me very happy!"
Start off with picture books with few words, suggests Ms Wong, so that your child can begin to associate print with pictures. Talk about the book cover to encourage the child to interact with the book. Look at the pictures inside the book together, and talk about what you see.
Ask your child questions about the pictures – make the reading experience as interactive as possible. Reading is so much more than just sounding out words, and asking questions about the book helps your child expand his vocabulary and increase his reading comprehension skills.
Read the book to your child, pointing to each word as you read it, and as your child learns, slowly encourage your child to participate by taking turns to read.
"Depending on the age range of your child, you can read aloud with your child, take turns to read a page in the book, or have your child echo each phrase or sentence after you read it," says Ms Wong.
Once your child is a toddler, start asking even more questions when reading. Show him the cover of the book and ask him to predict what it is going to be about, ask him to infer character choices or emotions, and at the end, ask him to tell you what he remembers about the book.
Once your child has moved on to ABC books and has begun to show an interest in learning the alphabet, you can start incorporating other methods to teach him letters. Other than charts and books, Ms Wong recommends using "a range of multisensory materials such as styrofoam letters, felt letters, embossed letter cards, or even a sand tray".
Other fun ways to learn about letters is by using real objects or visual pictures to represent letters.
"For example, use a doughnut or orange to represent 'O'," explains Ms Wong. Or the McDonald's sign to represent "M", or a toy snake to represent "S"".
"Remember, reading does not necessarily need to be a book – you can read the print on milk cartons, cereal boxes, sign boards and so on," she says. In fact, looking for letters and words when you are out and about with your child is one way to make learning to read a daily experience – in technical terms, this is known as reading "environmental print".
"Phonics help a child to identify the letters in a word and translate each letter or letter cluster into speech sound," says Ms Wong. Take, for example, the word "cat". Point and sound out "c" "a" "t" before blending the sounds together to read the word. This can get a little tedious, but you can mix things up by using finger puppets to point to the letters.
Once your child has learned a few simple words, start teaching him about word families. Word families are made out of words that rhyme – cat, bat, mat, hat and so on. This is a great phonemic awareness activity that helps your child spot patterns in words, and enables him to begin reading by grouping sets of letters together – once he can read cat, then reading bat, mat and hat become much easier, as only one letter changes!
Throw away the flash cards and delete the mobile apps – there are plenty of other ways to introduce a love of letters in a fun and exciting way. Here's a list of activities suggested by Ms Wong:
Use songs
Other than the alphabet song, try "A, you're Adorable" (made famous by Perry Como) or "ABC-DEF-GHI" (sung by Big Bird on Sesame Street) to get your child familiar with the letters A to Z.Alphabet crafts
Combine literacy and art with creative alphabet crafts. Surf on over to Pinterest for more ideas – think about using stamps, collages, glitter, stickers and more to create artwork with the alphabet.Play games
Make reading a competitive sport by creating fun literacy games! Try 'Spot The Alphabet' (see who can spot each letter from A to Z first) or 'I Spy (on road trips)', 'Hangman' or 'Word Search' games.
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Most of us sit around claiming that we're busy people. We pack tons of different things into our schedules and then gloat about how busy we are. However, over at the NY Times, author Tim Kreider suggests busyness is almost an addiction and it's best to to embrace idleness instead.
Kreider acknowledges that we're all busy sometimes because that's just how life works, but he also suggests we do it to ourselves on purpose:
Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.
Kreider's solution? Sit back and relax. When he started feeling overwhelmed from busyness, he escaped so he could actually work:
Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration - it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done.
So, we want to hear from you. Are you one of those people that fills up every hour of every day, or are you more like Kreider—content to be productive for a few hours and then enjoy your idle time? If you are too busy, whose fault is it?
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On his day, Kimi Raikkonen is untouchable. Blisteringly quick over a single lap, relentlessly consistent over a stint, irrepressibly smart when it comes to the cut and thrust of wheel-to-wheel racing.
And then he turns up at the 2008 Monaco Grand Prix and puts in the kind of performance that makes you wonder whether Nelson Piquet Jnr has taken over his car. Or he meekly follows team mate Felipe Massa around for an afternoon before zipping back to Switzerland.
Raikkonen had a tough start to last season but he turned it around and was the driver to beat over the final races. With the title under his belt I expected him to assert himself at Ferrari and lead Massa home more often than not. And yet we're still not seeing that kind of consistency from him. Why is that?
For me, Raikkonen is easily F1's most impenetrable driver. And I know others feel the same way – back in April Clive at F1 Insight asked:
Why does he throw it off the road so needlessly sometimes? Why has he not blown Massa into the weeds yet? Why does he look so determined at one race and then apathetic at the next?
That sums it up quite neatly. In six races this year we've seen three different Raikkonens: the masterful world champion who blew everyone away at Sepang and Catalunya, the muted runner-up to his team mate at Bahrain and Istanbul, and the error-prone mess that showed up at Melbourne and Monte-Carlo.
Over the balance of 2007 we saw muxh more of the first two Raikkonens than the third. And as Massa, despite the odd wobble, continues to gradually improve, so we must revise our expectation that Raikkonen will beat him week in, week out.
But over the first six races of it's starting to look as though Massa is overtaking him – and the championship points standings are beginning to bear that out.
Perhaps part of the picture has been distorted by the absence of Michael Schumacher. In his peak years of 2001-3 mistakes from Schumacher were quite rare and the thought of him turning up at a race weekend and just being off the pace was unthinkable.
Schumacher, of course, was afforded every advantage a number one driver was entitled to. Neither Raikkonen nor Massa have that at Ferrari today. So it's possible that I'm judging the current drivers too harshly.
However I really don't think it's unreasonable to expect the reigning Formula 1 world champion not to lose control of his car four times in six races.
Last year's explanation that he was having trouble acclimatising to the new Bridgestone tyres is gone. And he has the best car on the grid. So what is going on with Kimi Raikkonen?


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Back in 1967, I was working at IBM as a mail clerk in the office products division on Madison Avenue in NYC. Another employee helped me get some Marijuana rolled up in joints. Right after work, I walked down to the East River dressed in my three-piece suit and tie and lit up my first joint. I instantly fell in love with the calm feeling it brought to my whole being. I was 18 years old.
In the 45 years that passed since my first joint I have found cannabis to be one of the most positive forces in my life.
How it started I started growing cannabis in 1971 in southern Vermont. I owned and ran a vegetarian restaurant and bakery. As I became more aware of my diet, a deeper knowledge of ecology and its effect on the enviroment came with the territory. This naturally led to my growing cannabis in an organic eco-friendly manner. From that point on, I have been finding different ways to make my thumbs greener.
Through the years This magnificant plant species has helped teach me the art of having and taking care of houseplants, the art of murturing, and the art of photography to name but a few. Far from being a demotivator, marijuana has become interwoven with many of my interests, and its influence has opened my mind to explore many I might have never other wise pursued. Although marijuana laws are never fair around the planet, I refuse to give up my right to have my sacrament and medicine constantly near me in the form of clothing, food, plants, paper and smoke. In this way I do my part to overgrow the whole darn place.
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Capers have been part of most of our culinary vocabulary for years now, but they're still somewhat of a mystery.
What exactly are they?
The caper bush is a spiny shrub that flourishes wild all over the Mediterranean. The aroma and appearance of the pink blossoms is part of the landscape. Unfortunately for a caper, if the pink blossom appears, then the caper has outlived its usefulness. It's the bud that's prized.
The buds are harvested when they're about the size of a kernel of corn, then covered in salt for twenty days. After that, they're aged for a couple months. It's during this time that the floral aroma and flavor we recognize in good capers come out.
Unfortunately, most capers in the U.S. are jarred in a brine, which overwhelms them. Brined capers just taste salty. These are different. Packed in sea salt—which comes off easily when soaked in warm water for five minutes—they retain their nuanced flavors.
Add these big fat juicy capers to pasta sauces. Or sprinkle a handful over freshly broiled fish. Their flavor is remarkable.


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Creating Pyramid Scaffolds¶
Deprecated since version 1.8: Scaffolds and the pcreate
script used to generate Pyramid projects from scaffolds have been deprecated. Use Pyramid cookiecutters instead.
You can extend Pyramid by creating a scaffold template. A scaffold
template is useful if you'd like to distribute a customizable configuration of
Pyramid to other users. Once you've created a scaffold, and someone has
installed the distribution that houses the scaffold, they can use the
script to create a custom version of your scaffold's template.
Pyramid itself uses scaffolds to allow people to bootstrap new projects. For
example, pcreate -s alchemy MyStuff
causes Pyramid to render the
scaffold template to the MyStuff
A scaffold template is just a bunch of source files and directories on disk. A
small definition class points at this directory. It is in turn pointed at by a
setuptools "entry point" which registers the scaffold so it can be
found by the pcreate
To create a scaffold template, create a Python distribution to house
the scaffold which includes a setup.py
that relies on the setuptools
package. See Packaging and Distributing Projects for more information
about how to do this. For example, we'll pretend the distribution you create
is named CoolExtension
, and it has a package directory within it named
Once you've created the distribution, put a "scaffolds" directory within your
distribution's package directory, and create a file within that directory named
with something like the following:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | # CoolExtension/coolextension/scaffolds/__init__.py
from pyramid.scaffolds import PyramidTemplate
class CoolExtensionTemplate(PyramidTemplate):
_template_dir = 'coolextension_scaffold'
summary = 'My cool extension'
Once this is done, within the scaffolds
directory, create a template
directory. Our example used a template directory named
As you create files and directories within the template directory, note that:
- Files which have a name which are suffixed with the value
will be rendered, and replacing any instance of the literal string{{var}}
with the string value of the variable namedvar
provided to the scaffold. - Files and directories with filenames that contain the string
will have that string replaced with the value of thevar
variable provided to the scaffold. - Files that start with a dot (e.g.,
) are ignored and will not be copied over to the destination directory. If you want to include a file with a leading dot, then you must replace the dot with+dot+
Otherwise, files and directories which live in the template directory will be
copied directly without modification to the pcreate
output location.
The variables provided by the default PyramidTemplate
include project
(the project name provided by the user as an argument to pcreate
(a lowercasing and normalizing of the project name provided by the
user), random_string
(a long random string), and package_logger
name of the package's logger).
See Pyramid's "scaffolds" package
(https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/tree/master/pyramid/scaffolds) for concrete
examples of scaffold directories (zodb
, alchemy
, and starter
, for
After you've created the template directory, add the following to the
value of your distribution's setup.py
For example:
def setup(
entry_points = """\
Run your distribution's setup.py develop
or setup.py install
After that, you should be able to see your scaffolding template listed when you
run pcreate -l
. It will be named coolextension
because that's the name
we gave it in the entry point setup. Running pcreate -s coolextension
will then render your scaffold to an output directory named
See the module documentation for pyramid.scaffolds
for information about
the API of the pyramid.scaffolds.Template
class and related classes.
You can override methods of this class to get special behavior.
Supporting Older Pyramid Versions¶
Because different versions of Pyramid handled scaffolding differently, if you want to have extension scaffolds that can work across Pyramid 1.0.X, 1.1.X, 1.2.X and 1.3.X, you'll need to use something like this bit of horror while defining your scaffold template:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | try: # pyramid 1.0.X
# "pyramid.paster.paste_script..." doesn't exist past 1.0.X
from pyramid.paster import paste_script_template_renderer
from pyramid.paster import PyramidTemplate
except ImportError:
try: # pyramid 1.1.X, 1.2.X
# trying to import "paste_script_template_renderer" fails on 1.3.X
from pyramid.scaffolds import paste_script_template_renderer
from pyramid.scaffolds import PyramidTemplate
except ImportError: # pyramid >=1.3a2
paste_script_template_renderer = None
from pyramid.scaffolds import PyramidTemplate
class CoolExtensionTemplate(PyramidTemplate):
_template_dir = 'coolextension_scaffold'
summary = 'My cool extension'
template_renderer = staticmethod(paste_script_template_renderer)
And then in the setup.py of the package that contains your scaffold, define
the template as a target of both paste.paster_create_template
paster create
) and pyramid.scaffold
(for pcreate
Doing this hideousness will allow your scaffold to work as a paster create
target (under 1.0, 1.1, or 1.2) or as a pcreate
target (under 1.3). If an
invoker tries to run paster create
against a scaffold defined this way
under 1.3, an error is raised instructing them to use pcreate
If you want to support Pyramid 1.3 only, it's much cleaner, and the API is stable:
1 2 3 4 5 | from pyramid.scaffolds import PyramidTemplate
class CoolExtensionTemplate(PyramidTemplate):
_template_dir = 'coolextension_scaffold'
summary = 'My cool_extension'
You only need to specify a paste.paster_create_template
entry point target
in your setup.py
if you want your scaffold to be consumable by users of
Pyramid 1.0, 1.1, or 1.2. To support only 1.3, specifying only the
entry point is good enough. If you want to support both
paster create
and pcreate
(meaning you want to support Pyramid 1.2 and
some older version), you'll need to define both.


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XOMA Transfers Perindopril Franchise Rights to Symplmed
BERKELEY, Calif., July 3, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- XOMA Corporation (Nasdaq:XOMA), a leader in the discovery and development of therapeutic antibodies, announced today it has transferred U.S. development and commercialization rights to the perindopril franchise to Symplmed Pharmaceuticals, LLC ("Symplmed"). Under the terms of the agreement, XOMA will receive an equity position in Symplmed and up to double-digit royalties on sales of the fixed-dose combination ("FDC") containing perindopril arginine and amlodipine besylate, if it is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"). Symplmed will, under a sublicense agreement, immediately assume U.S. marketing responsibilities for ACEON® (perindopril erbumine), and XOMA will continue to manage and be reimbursed for sales and distribution within its established commercial infrastructure.
Symplmed was founded by former XOMA employees, Erik Emerson and Jeffrey Feldstein, MD, who serve as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer, respectively, and Dr. August J. Troendle. Both Mr. Emerson and Dr. Feldstein have significant experience developing and marketing FDA-approved cardiovascular therapeutics and have been directly involved with the ACEON commercialization activities. In addition, Mr. Emerson and Dr. Feldstein managed the 837-patient Phase 3 PATH trial (Perindopril Amlodipine for the Treatment of Hypertension), which demonstrated that the FDC of perindopril arginine combined with amlodipine besylate is statistically significantly superior to either compound alone in reducing both sitting diastolic and sitting systolic blood pressure after six weeks of treatment. Servier markets the FDC product, COVERAM®, in 91 countries outside the U.S. Symplmed intends to complete the New Drug Application for the FDC and submit it to the FDA for review by year-end 2013. Symplmed will be responsible for all future FDC development costs, and XOMA will have no further financial obligations related to the FDC product or Symplmed's operations.
"Our partner, Servier, and we recognize the importance of this valuable franchise. Erik and Jeff have demonstrated strong dedication to the perindopril franchise and are leaving XOMA to launch Symplmed and move the franchise forward in a focused manner. This structure provides XOMA the opportunity to share in their success, while retaining our focus on developing innovative therapeutic options for the specialist prescriber under the leadership of Tom Klein, our newly appointed Chief Commercial Officer," commented John Varian, Chief Executive Officer of XOMA. "The experience the XOMA team gained by establishing a commercial infrastructure backbone will serve the company well as we move closer to commercializing novel therapeutics discovered by XOMA's scientists."
About ACEON®
ACEON is indicated for the treatment of patients with essential hypertension. ACEON may be used alone or given with other classes of antihypertensives, especially thiazide diuretics. In clinical studies, the most common adverse events (incidence greater than or equal to 5%) were cough, dizziness and back pain.
ACEON is indicated for treatment of patients with stable coronary artery disease to reduce the risk of cardiovascular mortality or nonfatal myocardial infarction. ACEON can be used with conventional treatment for management of coronary artery disease, such as antiplatelet, antihypertensive or lipid-lowering therapy. In clinical studies, the most common adverse events leading to discontinuation were cough, drug intolerance, and hypotension.
Perindopril erbumine has been available as a generic product in the U.S. since November 2009.
Boxed Warning
When pregnancy is detected, discontinue ACEON as soon as possible. Drugs that act directly on the renin-angiotensin system can cause injury to or death of the developing fetus.
ACEON is contraindicated in patients known to be hypersensitive (including angioedema) to this product or to any other ACE inhibitor.
ACEON is also contraindicated in patients with hereditary or idiopathic angioedema.
For complete prescribing information, please visit www.aceon.com.
About Hypertension
Hypertension affects approximately one billion individuals worldwide. As the population ages, the prevalence of hypertension will increase even further. Hypertension is a major risk factor for atherosclerotic vascular diseases. The relationship between blood pressure and risk of cardiovascular events is continuous, consistent, and independent of other risk factors. Despite this evidence, current control rates of hypertension remain far below the Healthy People 2010 goal of 50%.
Recent clinical trials have demonstrated that effective blood pressure control can be achieved in most patients with hypertension; however, for many patients this can only be accomplished with a combination of multiple antihypertensive drugs.1,2,3 The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC7), issued under the auspices of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Pressure Institute in the United States, recommends that consideration be given to initiating treatment with two drugs in combination if the patient's blood pressure is more than 20/10 mmHg above goal (i.e., Stage 2 hypertension).4 The primary objectives of this recommendation are to accelerate patients to goal and to avoid multiple drug titration steps and multiple patient visits.
About XOMA
XOMA combines a portfolio of innovative therapeutic antibodies, both in late-stage clinical development and in preclinical research, with its commercial operations. XOMA focuses its antibody research and development on allosteric modulation, which offers opportunities for new classes of therapeutic antibodies to treat a wide range of human diseases. XOMA is developing its lead product gevokizumab (IL-1 beta modulating antibody) with Servier through a global Phase 3 program in non-infectious uveitis and ongoing proof-of-concept studies in other IL-1-mediated diseases. XOMA's scientific research also produced the XMet program, which consists of three classes of preclinical antibodies, including Selective Insulin Receptor Modulators (SIRMs) that could have a major effect on the treatment of diabetes.
More detailed information can be found at www.xoma.com.
About Symplmed
Symplmed Pharmaceuticals commercializes pharmaceutical products with a focus on helping patients achieve treatment goals. Symplmed's pharmaceutical portfolio is anchored by the perindopril franchise, which has generated powerful clinical outcomes data from over 54,000 patients participating in 7 landmark trials. In order to better serve physicians, patients and payers, Symplmed has developed a patent pending technology, known as DyrctAxess. Symplmed's combination of technology and well-established clinical products provide the opportunity to commercialize more efficiently with a stronger focus on patient, physician and payer benefits.
For more information on Symplmed and DyrctAxess, please refer to www.symplmed.com.
About Servier
Servier is a privately-run French research-based pharmaceutical company. Current therapeutic domains for Servier medicines are cardiovascular, metabolic, neurological, psychiatric and bone and joint diseases, as well as oncology. Servier is established in 140 countries worldwide with over 20,000 employees and a 2012 turnover of €3.9 billion. Servier invests 25% of its turnover in R&D.
More information is available at www.servier.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements contained in this press release including, but not limited to, statements related to anticipated ability to license the perindopril/amlodipine fixed-dose combination to a third-party, continued sales of approved products, the success of Symplmed's business, and anticipated regulatory approval of unapproved product candidates, or that otherwise relate to future periods are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on assumptions that may not prove accurate, and actual results could differ materially from those anticipated due to certain risks inherent in the biotechnology industry and for companies engaged in the development of new products in a regulated market. Potential risks to XOMA meeting these expectations are described in more detail in XOMA's most recent filing on Form 10-K and in other SEC filings. Consider such risks carefully when considering XOMA's prospects. Any forward-looking statement in this press release represents XOMA's views only as of the date of this press release and should not be relied upon as representing its views as of any subsequent date. XOMA disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required by applicable law.
1. Cushman WC, Ford CE, Cutler JA, et al. Success and predictors of blood pressure control in diverse North American settings: The Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT). J Clin Hypertens 2002;4:393-404.
2. Julius S, Kjeldsen SE, Weber M, et al. Outcomes in hypertensive subjects at high cardiovascular risk treated with regimens based on valsartan or amlodipine: the VALUE randomised trial. Lancet 2004;363:2022-2031.
3. Sever PS, Dahlöf B, Poulter NR et al. Rationale, design, methods and baseline demography of participants of the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial (ASCOT). J Hypertens 2001;19:1139-1147.
4. Chobanian AV, Bakris GL, Black HR, et al. The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure: the JNC7 report. JAMA 2003;289:2560-2572.
CONTACT: XOMA Corporation Company and Investor Contact: Ashleigh Barreto 510-204-7482 firstname.lastname@example.com Juliane Snowden The Oratorium Group, LLC email@example.com Media Contact: Canale Communications Carolyn Hawley 619-849-5375 firstname.lastname@example.com Servier Servier Communication Department +33 1 55 72 60 37 email@example.com: XOMA Corporation
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Currency: Euro (EUR)
Region, in which Thessaloniki is located, is called Macedonia. The city was founded by the king of Macedonia, and its name comes from the name of the ruler's wife – Tessaloniki.
If you are still missing some vibe of the Greek city – go to the district Ladadika, the old, harbour, Jewish district. You will find there a lot of great restaurants and vibrant eateries.
Did you get lost during wonderful walks around the city? Don't worry! All you need to do is to follow whichever path downside and you will definitely reach the sea and from there you can go wherever you want to.
Thessaloniki – the second biggest city in Greece. Located in the northern part of the country, by the Thessalonian Gulf, by the Aegean Sea. It is also being referred to as the second capital of Greece.
One of the most recognizable places in Thessaloniki is Aristotle square, characterized by unique architecture – make sure to put it on your list of worth seeing places. From the square goes a boardwalk, all the way to the Rotunda, known also as the church Agios Georgios. It is the oldest building of this kind in the city. By aforementioned boardwalk there were placed umbrellas in 1997 as temporary decoration connected to celebration of the Cultural Capital of Europe. They have become so popular among locals and tourists that they stayed there to this day.
If you fancy to take a look at the city from a bit higher perspective, we recommend a trip to the White Tower. It was built by Turks as part of defending walls by the sea. Nowadays, it is worth to climb this not-so-high building and admire from its top the panorama of the city and the port.
It is worth to go for a walk through narrow streets to feel the vibe of the city. Drivers treat their cars completely different than in the majority of others European cities. They are only mean of transportation, that have to guarantee you getting to your destination and finding a parking spot, which often is Thessaloniki is nearly impossible. No one there cares about scratches, those smaller and bigger ones.
Speaking about the vibe of the city, it is hard to omit a subject of a local market, where you can feel it best. In Thessaloniki it is placed by Vlali 40 and you can get there everything, from souvenirs to clothes, but above all it is worth to pay attention to spices and fresh, local products.
Tasting local dishes while travelling is one of the most important part of it? Thessaloniki isn't short of places worth visiting. Locals and tourists recommend among others, restaurant Bazagiazi, which can be find at
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Franchising for Entrepreneurs: An Entrepreneur Growth Conference Panel Preview From answering "why franchising?" to facing the future of the industry, here's what to expect at Entrepreneur's Growth Conference's franchising panel.
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
Interested in breaking into business ownership? Wondering if franchising is for you? Get your questions answered at the "Break into Business Ownership with a Franchise" panel discussion at Entrepreneur's Growth Conference.
For the sixth year running, Entrepreneur's Growth Conference will address everything from hands on tools for success to opportunities to pitch editors your business to be featured in Entrepreneur. This year, the conference will take place in New Orleans on Jan. 22.
While breakout sessions will cover everything from branding to dealing with failure, if you have any interest in the franchise industry, be sure to check out "Break into Business Ownership with a Franchise." Here's what potential franchisees and franchisors, as well as veterans of the industry have to look forward to in the panel:
Tips of the trade from experts: The panelists are three individuals from across the industry, to provide an array of experiences and advice. Stephen Caldeira brings a sharp awareness of the in's and out's of the business and politics of the industry as the President and CEO of the International Franchise Association. Chris Adkins is VP Franchise Sales for the UPS Store, providing on-the-ground knowledge about the benefits and challenges of franchising. Raymond Areaux offers a deeper understanding of the legal side of franchising, as the chair of his law firm's intellectual property practice group.
Related: 10 New Franchises to Watch
An answer to the question, "Why franchising?": For entrepreneurs eager to run their own companies, franchising provides a different path for success than striking out alone to open a business. The panel will cover issues of affordability and support that franchises provide, and describe some merits they provide over independent companies. Plus, expect discussion of how to figure out what franchise would be right for you: do you want a global brand? Somewhere with a low-cost start-up fee? A business you can manage from home?
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In a teleconference Monday, Cmdr. Teresa Hatfield estimated that the investigation of the disabled ship would take six months.
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Charles L. Sawyers, Chair of Memorial Sloan Kettering's Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, is one of 15 patient-oriented researchers to be appointed a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator.
Dr. Sawyers' work examines how signaling pathway abnormalities in cancer cells can be exploited as targets for new cancer drugs. His current focus is on developing new treatments for patients with prostate cancer who have developed resistance to drugs that fight the cancer by blocking male sex hormones, called androgens. A promising new drug is now in clinical trials.
Dr. Sawyers came to Memorial Sloan Kettering in 2006 after nearly two decades at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was instrumental in the development of two drugs for leukemia, imatinib (Gleevec®) and dasatinib (Sprycel®). His awards include the Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award, the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the David A. Karnofsky Award. He holds the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
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Anne of Avonlea

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 An Adventure on the Tory Road

"Anne," said Davy, sitting up in bed and propping his chin on his hands, "Anne, where is sleep? People go to sleep every night, and of course I know it's the place where I do the things I dream, but I want to know WHERE it is and how I get there and back without knowing anything about it . . . and in my nighty too. Where is it?"

Anne was kneeling at the west gable window watching the sunset sky that was like a great flower with petals of crocus and a heart of fiery yellow. She turned her head at Davy's question and answered dreamily,

"'Over the mountains of the moon,
 Down the valley of the shadow.'"

Paul Irving would have known the meaning of this, or made a meaning out of it for himself, if he didn't; but practical Davy, who, as Anne often despairingly remarked, hadn't a particle of imagination, was only puzzled and disgusted.

"Anne, I believe you're just talking nonsense."

"Of course, I was, dear boy. Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?"

"Well, I think you might give a sensible answer when I ask a sensible question," said Davy in an injured tone.

"Oh, you are too little to understand," said Anne. But she felt rather ashamed of saying it; for had she not, in keen remembrance of many similar snubs administered in her own early years, solemnly vowed that she would never tell any child it was too little to understand? Yet here she was doing it . . . so wide sometimes is the gulf between theory and practice.

"Well, I'm doing my best to grow," said Davy, "but it's a thing you can't hurry much. If Marilla wasn't so stingy with her jam I believe I'd grow a lot faster."

"Marilla is not stingy, Davy," said Anne severely. "It is very ungrateful of you to say such a thing."

"There's another word that means the same thing and sounds a lot better, but I don't just remember it," said Davy, frowning intently. "I heard Marilla say she was it, herself, the other day."

"If you mean ECONOMICAL, it's a VERY different thing from being stingy. It is an excellent trait in a person if she is economical. If Marilla had been stingy she wouldn't have taken you and Dora when your mother died. Would you have liked to live with Mrs. Wiggins?"

"You just bet I wouldn't!" Davy was emphatic on that point. "Nor I don't want to go out to Uncle Richard neither. I'd far rather live here, even if Marilla is that long-tailed word when it comes to jam, 'cause YOU'RE here, Anne. Say, Anne, won't you tell me a story 'fore I go to sleep? I don't want a fairy story. They're all right for girls, I s'pose, but I want something exciting . . . lots of killing and shooting in it, and a house on fire, and in'trusting things like that."

Fortunately for Anne, Marilla called out at this moment from her room.

"Anne, Diana's signaling at a great rate. You'd better see what she wants."

Anne ran to the east gable and saw flashes of light coming through the twilight from Diana's window in groups of five, which meant, according to their old childish code, "Come over at once for I have something important to reveal." Anne threw her white shawl over her head and hastened through the Haunted Wood and across Mr. Bell's pasture corner to Orchard Slope.

"I've good news for you, Anne," said Diana. "Mother and I have just got home from Carmody, and I saw Mary Sentner from Spencer vale in Mr. Blair's store. She says the old Copp girls on the Tory Road have a willow-ware platter and she thinks it's exactly like the one we had at the supper. She says they'll likely sell it, for Martha Copp has never been known to keep anything she COULD sell; but if they won't there's a platter at Wesley Keyson's at Spencervale and she knows they'd sell it, but she isn't sure it's just the same kind as Aunt Josephine's."

"I'll go right over to Spencervale after it tomorrow," said Anne resolutely, "and you must come with me. It will be such a weight off my mind, for I have to go to town day after tomorrow and how can I face your Aunt Josephine without a willow-ware platter? It would be even worse than the time I had to confess about jumping on the spare room bed."

Both girls laughed over the old memory . . . concerning which, if any of my readers are ignorant and curious, I must refer them to Anne's earlier history.

The next afternoon the girls fared forth on their platter hunting expedition. It was ten miles to Spencervale and the day was not especially pleasant for traveling. It was very warm and windless, and the dust on the road was such as might have been expected after six weeks of dry weather.

"Oh, I do wish it would rain soon," sighed Anne. "Everything is so parched up. The poor fields just seem pitiful to me and the trees seem to be stretching out their hands pleading for rain. As for my garden, it hurts me every time I go into it. I suppose I shouldn't complain about a garden when the farmers' crops are suffering so. Mr. Harrison says his pastures are so scorched up that his poor cows can hardly get a bite to eat and he feels guilty of cruelty to animals every time he meets their eyes."

After a wearisome drive the girls reached Spencervale and turned down the "Tory" Road . . . a green, solitary highway where the strips of grass between the wheel tracks bore evidence to lack of travel. Along most of its extent it was lined with thick-set young spruces crowding down to the roadway, with here and there a break where the back field of a Spencervale farm came out to the fence or an expanse of stumps was aflame with fireweed and goldenrod.

"Why is it called the Tory Road?" asked Anne.

"Mr. Allan says it is on the principle of calling a place a grove because there are no trees in it," said Diana, "for nobody lives along the road except the Copp girls and old Martin Bovyer at the further end, who is a Liberal. The Tory government ran the road through when they were in power just to show they were doing something."

Diana's father was a Liberal, for which reason she and Anne never discussed politics. Green Gables folk had always been Conservatives.

Finally the girls came to the old Copp homestead . . . a place of such exceeding external neatness that even Green Gables would have suffered by contrast. The house was a very old-fashioned one, situated on a slope, which fact had necessitated the building of a stone basement under one end. The house and out-buildings were all whitewashed to a condition of blinding perfection and not a weed was visible in the prim kitchen garden surrounded by its white paling.

"The shades are all down," said Diana ruefully. "I believe that nobody is home."

This proved to be the case. The girls looked at each other in perplexity.

"I don't know what to do," said Anne. "If I were sure the platter was the right kind I would not mind waiting until they came home. But if it isn't it may be too late to go to Wesley Keyson's afterward."

Diana looked at a certain little square window over the basement.

"That is the pantry window, I feel sure," she said, "because this house is just like Uncle Charles' at Newbridge, and that is their pantry window. The shade isn't down, so if we climbed up on the roof of that little house we could look into the pantry and might be able to see the platter. Do you think it would be any harm?"

"No, I don't think so," decided Anne, after due reflection, "since our motive is not idle curiosity."

This important point of ethics being settled, Anne prepared to mount the aforesaid "little house," a construction of lathes, with a peaked roof, which had in times past served as a habitation for ducks. The Copp girls had given up keeping ducks . . . "because they were such untidy birds". . . and the house had not been in use for some years, save as an abode of correction for setting hens. Although scrupulously whitewashed it had become somewhat shaky, and Anne felt rather dubious as she scrambled up from the vantage point of a keg placed on a box.

"I'm afraid it won't bear my weight," she said as she gingerly stepped on the roof.

"Lean on the window sill," advised Diana, and Anne accordingly leaned. Much to her delight, she saw, as she peered through the pane, a willow-ware platter, exactly such as she was in quest of, on the shelf in front of the window. So much she saw before the catastrophe came. In her joy Anne forgot the precarious nature of her footing, incautiously ceased to lean on the window sill, gave an impulsive little hop of pleasure . . . and the next moment she had crashed through the roof up to her armpits, and there she hung, quite unable to extricate herself. Diana dashed into the duck house and, seizing her unfortunate friend by the waist, tried to draw her down.

"Ow . . . don't," shrieked poor Anne. "There are some long splinters sticking into me. See if you can put something under my feet . . . then perhaps I can draw myself up."

Diana hastily dragged in the previously mentioned keg and Anne found that it was just sufficiently high to furnish a secure resting place for her feet. But she could not release herself.

"Could I pull you out if I crawled up?" suggested Diana.

Anne shook her head hopelessly.

"No . . . the splinters hurt too badly. If you can find an axe you might chop me out, though. Oh dear, I do really begin to believe that I was born under an ill-omened star."

Diana searched faithfully but no axe was to be found.

"I'll have to go for help," she said, returning to the prisoner.

"No, indeed, you won't," said Anne vehemently. "If you do the story of this will get out everywhere and I shall be ashamed to show my face. No, we must just wait until the Copp girls come home and bind them to secrecy. They'll know where the axe is and get me out. I'm not uncomfortable, as long as I keep perfectly still . . . not uncomfortable in BODY I mean. I wonder what the Copp girls value this house at. I shall have to pay for the damage I've done, but I wouldn't mind that if I were only sure they would understand my motive in peeping in at their pantry window. My sole comfort is that the platter is just the kind I want and if Miss Copp will only sell it to me I shall be resigned to what has happened."

"What if the Copp girls don't come home until after night . . . or till tomorrow?" suggested Diana.

"If they're not back by sunset you'll have to go for other assistance, I suppose," said Anne reluctantly, "but you mustn't go until you really have to. Oh dear, this is a dreadful predicament. I wouldn't mind my misfortunes so much if they were romantic, as Mrs. Morgan's heroines' always are, but they are always just simply ridiculous. Fancy what the Copp girls will think when they drive into their yard and see a girl's head and shoulders sticking out of the roof of one of their outhouses. Listen . . . is that a wagon? No, Diana, I believe it is thunder."

Thunder it was undoubtedly, and Diana, having made a hasty pilgrimage around the house, returned to announce that a very black cloud was rising rapidly in the northwest.

"I believe we're going to have a heavy thunder-shower," she exclaimed in dismay, "Oh, Anne, what will we do?"

"We must prepare for it," said Anne tranquilly. A thunderstorm seemed a trifle in comparison with what had already happened. "You'd better drive the horse and buggy into that open shed. Fortunately my parasol is in the buggy. Here . . . take my hat with you. Marilla told me I was a goose to put on my best hat to come to the Tory Road and she was right, as she always is."

Diana untied the pony and drove into the shed, just as the first heavy drops of rain fell. There she sat and watched the resulting downpour, which was so thick and heavy that she could hardly see Anne through it, holding the parasol bravely over her bare head. There was not a great deal of thunder, but for the best part of an hour the rain came merrily down. Occasionally Anne slanted back her parasol and waved an encouraging hand to her friend; But conversation at that distance was quite out of the question. Finally the rain ceased, the sun came out, and Diana ventured across the puddles of the yard.

"Did you get very wet?" she asked anxiously.

"Oh, no," returned Anne cheerfully. "My head and shoulders are quite dry and my skirt is only a little damp where the rain beat through the lathes. Don't pity me, Diana, for I haven't minded it at all. I kept thinking how much good the rain will do and how glad my garden must be for it, and imagining what the flowers and buds would think when the drops began to fall. I imagined out a most interesting dialogue between the asters and the sweet peas and the wild canaries in the lilac bush and the guardian spirit of the garden. When I go home I mean to write it down. I wish I had a pencil and paper to do it now, because I daresay I'll forget the best parts before I reach home."

Diana the faithful had a pencil and discovered a sheet of wrapping paper in the box of the buggy. Anne folded up her dripping parasol, put on her hat, spread the wrapping paper on a shingle Diana handed up, and wrote out her garden idyl under conditions that could hardly be considered as favorable to literature. Nevertheless, the result was quite pretty, and Diana was "enraptured" when Anne read it to her.

"Oh, Anne, it's sweet . . . just sweet. DO send it to the 'Canadian Woman.'"

Anne shook her head.

"Oh, no, it wouldn't be suitable at all. There is no PLOT in it, you see. It's just a string of fancies. I like writing such things, but of course nothing of the sort would ever do for publication, for editors insist on plots, so Priscilla says. Oh, there's Miss Sarah Copp now. PLEASE, Diana, go and explain."

Miss Sarah Copp was a small person, garbed in shabby black, with a hat chosen less for vain adornment than for qualities that would wear well. She looked as amazed as might be expected on seeing the curious tableau in her yard, but when she heard Diana's explanation she was all sympathy. She hurriedly unlocked the back door, produced the axe, and with a few skillfull blows set Anne free. The latter, somewhat tired and stiff, ducked down into the interior of her prison and thankfully emerged into liberty once more.

"Miss Copp," she said earnestly. "I assure you I looked into your pantry window only to discover if you had a willow-ware platter. I didn't see anything else—I didn't LOOK for anything else."

"Bless you, that's all right," said Miss Sarah amiably. "You needn't worry—there's no harm done. Thank goodness, we Copps keep our pantries presentable at all times and don't care who sees into them. As for that old duckhouse, I'm glad it's smashed, for maybe now Martha will agree to having it taken down. She never would before for fear it might come in handy sometime and I've had to whitewash it every spring. But you might as well argue with a post as with Martha. She went to town today—I drove her to the station. And you want to buy my platter. Well, what will you give for it?"

"Twenty dollars," said Anne, who was never meant to match business wits with a Copp, or she would not have offered her price at the start.

"Well, I'll see," said Miss Sarah cautiously. "That platter is mine fortunately, or I'd never dare to sell it when Martha wasn't here. As it is, I daresay she'll raise a fuss. Martha's the boss of this establishment I can tell you. I'm getting awful tired of living under another woman's thumb. But come in, come in. You must be real tired and hungry. I'll do the best I can for you in the way of tea but I warn you not to expect anything but bread and butter and some cowcumbers. Martha locked up all the cake and cheese and preserves afore she went. She always does, because she says I'm too extravagant with them if company comes."

The girls were hungry enough to do justice to any fare, and they enjoyed Miss Sarah's excellent bread and butter and "cowcumbers" thoroughly. When the meal was over Miss Sarah said,

"I don't know as I mind selling the platter. But it's worth twenty-five dollars. It's a very old platter."

Diana gave Anne's foot a gentle kick under the table, meaning, "Don't agree—she'll let it go for twenty if you hold out." But Anne was not minded to take any chances in regard to that precious platter. She promptly agreed to give twenty-five and Miss Sarah looked as if she felt sorry she hadn't asked for thirty.

"Well, I guess you may have it. I want all the money I can scare up just now. The fact is—" Miss Sarah threw up her head importantly, with a proud flush on her thin cheeks—"I'm going to be married—to Luther Wallace. He wanted me twenty years ago. I liked him real well but he was poor then and father packed him off. I s'pose I shouldn't have let him go so meek but I was timid and frightened of father. Besides, I didn't know men were so skurse."

When the girls were safely away, Diana driving and Anne holding the coveted platter carefully on her lap, the green, rain-freshened solitudes of the Tory Road were enlivened by ripples of girlish laughter.

"I'll amuse your Aunt Josephine with the 'strange eventful history' of this afternoon when I go to town tomorrow. We've had a rather trying time but it's over now. I've got the platter, and that rain has laid the dust beautifully. So 'all's well that ends well.'"

"We're not home yet," said Diana rather pessimistically, "and there's no telling what may happen before we are. You're such a girl to have adventures, Anne."

"Having adventures comes natural to some people," said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't."

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Episode-1301- Gary Collins on Primal Nutrition and Entrepreneurship
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What started out as a conversation on primal nutrition with Gary Collins also led to a pretty deep discussion on entrepreneurship. Gary really is an awesome guy and has become a great friend. I think you will really enjoy or discussion today.
Gary Collins, MS was born in Southern California and raised in the High Desert at the basin of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. He has been involved in organized sports, nutrition and fitness for over 30 years.
A self-declared sports junkie, he participated and excelled in various organized sports since the age of seven. He is extremely passionate about the pursuit of optimal health in mind, body and soul. Collins has two goals: To make being healthy as simple and enjoyable as possible and to give people the truth.
Collins' background is very unique and brings a much-needed perspective to today's fields of both health and nutrition. He holds an AS degree in Exercise Science, BS in Criminal Justice and a MS in Forensic Science.
After an exciting career in military intelligence Collins worked for the U.S. State Department, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a Special Agent. His career took him around the world and gave him a unique perspective on not only how the United States, but the world is affected by our food, drug and healthcare policies.
The highlights of his career took him from protecting some of the most powerful people in the world to investigations involving the biggest tainted pet food death case in the U.S. to the intricate dealings of one of the largest counterfeit prescription drug rings in the world. He has often said, "If American's really knew what was going on in the area of healthcare and nutrition in this country, they would be appalled."
It can be safely said no one in the health and fitness industry has the inside knowledge and background that Collins has. He is a hybrid of a high intensity health expert and an investigator rolled into one.
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Happy Turkey Day Weekend, everyone! Here's a bit-o-news to start your week.
- There's one more day to nominate your favorites for a DFB Choice Award! Voting begins on Wednesday, December 1st.
- The dates for the 2010 Disneyland Candy Cane making schedule are now available. Remember, tickets can be obtained on cane-making mornings at Candy Palace, but will go quickly.
- The Tomorrowland Terrace Noodle Station has lost its noodle!
- New Year's Eve parties at Magic Kingdom's Tomorrowland Terrace have been announced.
- Wondering what to get for your favorite Disney foodie this year? Check out the first of our holiday gift ideas posts!
Eating (and Drinking) Around the World
has a photo-filled review of the Swan and Dolphin Food & Wine Classic tasting stations.
OC Register takes us inside Disneyland's Club 33 and reports on the first day of Disneyland Candy Canes this year.
Theme Park Insider reviews Disney's Hollywood Studios' Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant.
Touring Plans' blogger Todd Perlmutter reviews Disney World's Kouzzina, Le Cellier, and The Wave…of American Flavors. And, oh, by the way, he got to meet Cat Cora!
The Disney Chick makes Apple Caramel Pie from Wilderness Lodge's Whispering Canyon Cafe.
Main Street Gazette has a mouth-watering review of his Aloha Pork Sandwich at Captain Cook's in Disney's Polynesian Resort. Just goes to show, deliciousness is around every corner in WDW!
AllEarsNet blogger Jack Spence has some great food pics from Pollo Campero in Disney World's Downtown Disney.
Magical Kingdoms has a great review of their free Disney Dining Plan usage, including how much it saved them over a 19-day trip to Disney World.
Watch Me Eat heads to Earl of Sandwich in Disney World's Downtown Disney!


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Insight: Egypt's army tiptoes through democracy's minefield
By Marwa Awad and Alexander Dziadosz
CAIRO | Thu Feb 28, 2013 7:29am EST
CAIRO (Reuters) - As cities along the Suez Canal erupted in violence in late January, the leader of Egypt's armed forces feared for the future of the fledgling democracy. General Abdel Fattah Sisi told the elected president, Mohamed Mursi, that the situation was critical, according to Egyptian security sources familiar with the events.
"The military leadership advised the president that national security was threatened following the chaos and vandalism that befell the cities of Suez and Port Said," a security source with links to the military told Reuters.
The two men discussed ways to contain the unrest along the Canal, which is vital to Egypt and global trade, agreeing the army could not stand by and let the turmoil spread. Early on Saturday January 26 troops deployed in the riot-torn cities; in Suez armored vehicles arrived to protect government buildings. Mursi announced a night-time curfew in the towns.
It was a telling moment in Egypt's struggle to establish a real democracy. When popular uprisings overthrew the former regime of Hosni Mubarak two years ago, the army, which had played a central role in the state for decades, determined to stand back as political parties vied for power. Many analysts believe that after Mursi was elected in June 2012, he and the military came to an understanding: the new Islamist government would not interfere in the army's interests, nor seek to change its long-standing vision of national security, while the military would give qualified support to Mursi and his backers in the Muslim Brotherhood.
But that deal has limits, as Egyptians are discovering. The army felt compelled to intervene to quell the January riots, according to security sources, though they were at pains to say it did not do so unilaterally. "The president and the national defense council made the decision to impose the state of emergency and a curfew until the situation stabilizes," said the security source with links to the military.
Security and political sources told Reuters that Sisi, the defense minister, also privately urged political leaders to set aside their differences in the face of a social and financial crisis.
Though the armed forces say they want to remain neutral, they believe they cannot ignore the situation on the streets.
"We are not political, we don't want to participate in the political situation because we suffered a lot because of this in the last six months," Major General Sedki Sobhi, the army chief of staff, told Reuters at an industry event in Abu Dhabi. "But sometimes we can help in this problem, we can play this role if the situation became more complicated."
As Egypt heads towards new parliamentary elections beginning on April 22, and as the Muslim Brotherhood and the military eye each other closely, Mursi finds himself caught in the middle.
Essam Haddad, Mursi's aide on foreign affairs, told Reuters that the relationship between the armed forces and the presidency had "been developing in a very positive direction."
Nevertheless, there has been recent speculation in Egyptian media and on social networking sites of tensions between Brotherhood members and the military. Haddad blamed the Egyptian media for creating "a sort of a gap, an artificial gap, an artificial misunderstanding ... If you follow some of the Egyptian media, you will find some unprecedented claims of a military coup coming."
An unfortunate confluence of events brought popular unrest to the boil in late January. As the country headed towards the second anniversary of its revolution, opponents of Mursi stepped up protests. At the same time a court was preparing to deliver verdicts on police, officials and other suspects charged with murder after 74 people died during a stampede at a football stadium in Port Said last year.
It was a combustible mix. When judges in the football case sentenced 21 people to death, fury erupted in Port Said. As street protests left at least 32 people dead, the army moved in. General Osama Askar, commander of the third army division in Suez, said at the time: "This is an emergency deployment to assist the police ... this is not the army's role but we are assisting the police force in imposing law and order for now."
Behind the scenes Sisi, a former head of military intelligence, went further than merely assisting the police. On January 28, according to security sources, he spoke to Mursi's political rivals in the National Salvation Front: Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the U.N. nuclear agency; Hamdeen Sabahy, seen by some as a leftist firebrand; and Amr Moussa, a former chief of the Arab League.
Sisi treated each of the politicians with friendliness and respect, said security sources, but made his point clear: chaos in the Suez cities endangered the Canal and threatened the stability of the state. He told the political leaders they must compromise over their differences.
"The country was facing a political stalemate that had to be ended to prevent a downward spiral of events. Now is not the time to dissolve a newly elected state institution (the presidency)," said the security source with links to the military.
To ram the point home, Sisi went public with his message the next day, warning that political unrest was pushing the state to the brink of collapse. The military leadership also played a role in bringing political leaders together two days later, under the auspices of the head of the venerable Azhar university. The party leaders met and signed a document renouncing violence.
In a continuation of a system operated by Mubarak, the new Islamist government has agreed that decisions on the military budget will continue to be discussed in the national defense council, not parliament. In the council - which includes the president, parliament speaker and military leaders - security officials have the upper hand over civilian members.
The government has also guaranteed the armed forces control over provinces along the border with Israel and along the Suez Canal, according to a Muslim Brotherhood source.
Egyptian authorities announced at the end of January that shipping fees for the Canal would rise between two and five percent from May 1. The waterway is an important source of funds for the country and for the military, generating revenue of about $5 billion a year in hard currency.
On Sunday February 3, Sisi dined in private with Mursi at the president's home near Cairo. The army chief acknowledges the prestige of Mursi's position as president, said two security sources. At the same time, Mursi respects Sisi, according to the president's office, army officials and the Muslim Brotherhood source. At 59, Sisi is the youngest member of the government's military council made up of commanders from various branches of the armed forces.
"Generally, the alliance of convenience was that the Brotherhood would respect the military's autonomy, and that would include their economic position in the country, and in return the military would give up its opposition to Brotherhood rule," said Shadi Hamid, director of research at the Brookings Doha Centre, a think-tank based in the Gulf.
At present there seem few other options, said Hamid. "It's not as if there's a more stable alternative to Brotherhood rule right now or in the foreseeable future. I see no reason for the military to reduce its support for the Brotherhood or to undermine the Mursi government right now."
In Hamid's view, the street protests are a "generalized expression of anger over the status quo" but it is unclear whether they will translate into significant electoral support for Mursi's opponents. This week an alliance of opposition parties said they would boycott the parliamentary elections.
Some foreign powers appear to take the view that amid uncertain political times Egypt's armed forces remain a constant. On Tuesday February 5, then U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spoke to Sisi about the political situation in Egypt, discussing the "importance of continued security assistance for Egypt so that the Egyptian armed forces can continue to address shared security objectives while modernizing their equipment and capabilities," according to a statement issued by the Pentagon.
Egypt's military has worried that political instability might be used as an excuse by other countries to cut aid; some members of the U.S. Congress had tried to block a deal, agreed when Mubarak was in power, to give Egypt F-16 fighters. But U.S. and Egyptian officials announced this month that the U.S. had gone ahead with delivery of four F-16 fighter jets as part of their continuing co-operation.
An Egyptian military official told Reuters: "The military leadership has told the American counterparts that the armed forces is a national institution and has nothing to do with politics ... and that supplying the Egyptian army with weapons is the strongest strategic link between Egypt and the United States."
(Additional reporting by Raissa Kasolowsky in Abu Dhabi, Yasmine Saleh in Cairo and Phillip Stewart in Washington; editing by Richard Woods and Simon Robinson)


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Grey beards seize power at Big Blue
Software and systems get merged
In the wake of reporting IBM's second quarter financial results yesterday afternoon, Sam Palmisano, the company's president, chief executive officer, and chairman sent an email to all the employees saying that Big Blue was reorganizing its operations to better reflect the modern IT world.
In the moves announced yesterday, a number of independent IBM groups were consolidated, giving certain IBM executives more power and others less. Most of the executives who have increased power at Big Blue are not much younger than Palmisano, who turns 59 in July and is approaching the traditional 60 retirement age for IBM chairmen, so the reorganization is not meant to anoint a successor to Palmisano. If anything, it makes it pretty clear that there really isn't a successor to Palmisano and that the whole team may just stay together and keep working past retirement age.
The most significant shift announced in the reorganization is putting IBM's formerly independent Systems and Technology Group inside its Software Group. The Software Group was spun out of IBM's hardware business nearly two decades ago as a free-standing unit when the company started positioning itself as a provider of middleware, groupware, databases and development tools that spanned many platforms, not just its own.
Now Software Group is considerably larger than Systems and Technology Group. In the second quarter, Software Group had $5.28bn in sales and 87.1 per cent gross margins, while Systems and Technology Group had just under $4bn in sales and only 36.1 per cent gross margins. Steve Mills, 58, takes control of both software and hardware units as senior vice president and group executive. Rod Adkins, who took the helm of STG last October after Robert Moffat was caught in the Galleon insider trading scam, reports to Mills. Moffat was widely believed to be in the hunt for the top job at Big Blue, and in his wake so was Adkins. It is hard to say now. Presumably IBM will rename the merged unit something like Software and Systems Group or, in a blast from the past, Systems Group, to reflect the merger of the businesses.
The reorganization also sees the two parts of Global Services - Global Technology Services and Global Business Services, which raked in $9.23bn and $4.48bn in the most recent quarter respectively - brought back together. Mike Daniels, 56, who has been running the larger unit, has control of the whole Global Services enchilada now. Frank Kern, who was in charge of Global Business Services is still a senior vice president, but reports to Daniels.
"We know that IT infrastructure performance is greatly enhanced when every element - from microprocessors and storage through operating systems and middleware - is designed and brought to market as tightly integrated, optimized systems," Palmisano wrote in the email to IBM employees.
"There are logical synergies across our services units, including the increasing value of leveraging our intellectual property in business process management and transformation projects for our clients. In this way we can help them achieve quantifiable value sooner. And we know that in order to achieve the productivity goals of our 2015 EPS roadmap we need to drive both efficiency and process transformation throughout the company."
So IBM is taking its own medicine. And guess who is now holding the spoon? Mark Loughridge, IBM's chief financial officer. Loughridge is getting some more control over IBM itself, expanding from controlling the finances out to the "enterprise transformation" efforts the company has used to wring profits out of itself, by which Big Blue means cutting costs through partnering, outsourcing, offshoring and otherwise "rebalancing" its workforce and working its supply chain. Linda Sanford, who had been reporting to Palmisano as senior vice president of enterprise transformation, and Bob Zapfel, general manager of IBM's Global Financing arm who also reported to Palmisano, now report to Loughridge. IBM's CFO is 57, by the way, and not a likely contender to run Big Blue - even if he was younger.
That leaves Ginni Rometty, a former General Motors exec who ran Global Business Services for a while and who has been running its sales and distribution business. She is now senior vice president and group executive in charge of sales, marketing and strategy. Erich Clementi, who has run many IBM divisions over the years, is still vice president of strategy and general manager of enterprise initiatives, but he reports to Rometty, not Palmisano. Ditto for Jon Iwata, who is senior vice president of marketing and communications. Rometty, 52, now seems a likely contender for the top job, but only if Palmisano decides to retire next year.
When Palmisano took over IBM's Server Group in 1999 and spearheaded the company's move into open source and Linux, he was 48. Within a year, Lou Gerstner, who back then held the same three titles that Palmisano does now, tapped Palmisano to be president - the formal way that IBM has of anointing a successor. Palmisano had run IBM's PC, services, and systems business prior to this, and had the deepest experience of any of the other executives on the bench at the time - and was young enough to be groomed for succession. It is important to note that Palmisano did not name a president today. But this time next year, it could happen, and he could stay on a few years, eventually relinquishing the CEO and then the chairman roles, as Gerstner did over a number of years. But it is still not obvious who that future IBM president might be. If Rometty had experience in software or hardware divisions prior to her services and sales experience, at this point she would be the likely heir.
Perhaps one of the new traditions Palmisano will start at IBM will be that everyone can work longer, including himself, as the executive bench gets some depth. ®


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Gibson, Al. "Bunker Bill's Bruins" football scrapbook. 1968-1988.
Finding aid prepared by University Archives staff, 1996 June; finding aid revised by Katharine A. Lawrie, 2013 September;
machine-readable finding aid created by Katharine A. Lawrie, 2013 September.
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Title: Gibson, Al. "Bunker Bill's Bruins" football scrapbook.
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Date: 1968-1988
Gibson, Al
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[Identification of item], Gibson, Al. "Bunker Bill's Bruins" football scrapbook (University Archives Record Series 533). UCLA
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William H. Spaulding ("Bunker Bill") was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. Spaulding
coached at UCLA from 1925 to 1938.
Record Series 533 contains a scrapbook of photographs of UCLA football players, who were coached by William ("Bunker Bill")
Spaulding, at reunion events.
This is an inactive record series; no additional University records are expected to be added.
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