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Tell us a little about yourself
I joined the Dallas office of Andersen Consulting in August 1995 after graduating from Tulane University in New Orleans, La. with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
Most of the time, I have been in the Products Travel Practice, but I also have worked in SI Solution Architecture and Product Sales organizations. Currently, I am the Client Account Lead for a Dallas-based airline, and I'm the Dallas Employee Resource Group Executive Sponsor.
From a personal perspective, I can track my career in consulting alongside major life milestones. When I started dating my husband, Matt, I was working on a Canadian airline project; planned my wedding (10 years ago) while working on a federal government assignment; had my first child (Allie, now 8) while I worked for both an international airline and a global hotel company; and took on client account lead responsibilities for a North American focused airline when I returned from maternity leave with Ryan, who is now 3.
What are you seeing in the market when it comes to inclusion and diversity?
I am seeing an absolute commitment to diversity as strategic driver of businesses. I see it both at Accenture and at my current client. I'm seeing companies shift the focus from creating diverse teams to creating truly inclusive teams. It is not good enough to have a diverse workforce. If you are not involving and sponsoring all resources to harvest diversity of thought, innovation will be lost.
You recently participated in a diversity event in Dallas with an airline industry partner and Southern Methodist University. Can you share what it was about?
In September 2016, we partnered with Southwest Airlines for their annual Inclusion & Innovation Summit, where they seek to highlight thought leaders across business, arts, media and academics to advance the dialogue around issues of diversity and inclusion. SMU Cox School of Executive Education helped us co-sponsor the event and brought a tremendous academic perspective to the table about the changing demographics of the business landscape.
Our theme was The Ultimate Playbook: How do high performing teams come together and win? We "drafted" thought leaders from academia, industry and professional sports to illustrate how diverse teams, when nurtured by sponsorship and created to be inclusive, can spark innovation and achieve greater results. We took a deeper dive to explore how diversity of thought drives innovation, and how sponsorship is vital to furthering inclusion.
It was eye (and brain) opening to hear the comparison of traditional business organizations to sports teams and locker room dynamics. To make a winning team, the best athletes are chosen regardless of ethnicity, socioeconomic circumstances, religion, etc., but in business we are still moving toward that goal.
You conducted some research recently that examined the level of diversity in the airline industry. What did you find?
We analyzed DiversityInc.'s top 5 most diverse companies at the C-Suite and board level, with focus on gender and ethnicity. Essentially, we crafted an index of data and compared where the top 10 North American airlines are in comparison. A lot of industries and companies aspire to reach those diversity benchmarks, and our analysis indicated that it's no different for the top 10 North American airlines. They have a long way to go to reach parity in terms of both gender and ethnic diversity in the C-Suite and at the board of director level.
How can a diverse workforce contribute to the strength of an airline?
Diversity affects the strength of all companies and governments, not just airlines. But airlines do find themselves in a unique position as the traveling public represents a diverse set of people—a true cross section of our world today. To understand how to best serve all of their customers, regardless of gender, ethnicity, disabilities and socioeconomics, I believe you need a diverse set of employees to contribute to the customer strategy. A diverse set of employees brings different life experiences and a cross-section of empathies, which provoke thoughts for the whole group to consider as they look for ways to create innovative, customer-focused solutions. For example, do you know the challenges of a person in a wheel chair who is traveling on an airplane? How does a company create the best customer experience possible for persons with disabilities if their employees do not have the life experiences to draw upon?
Speaking of diversity, you are a managing director, and you are also mom to two kids. How do you balance it all?
First, I am grateful to work for a company that places emphasis on work-life integration. I feel that Accenture provides many options for me to utilize. And, honestly, sometimes I don't balance it all. I take our client and family plans week-by-week. I try to arrange my schedule such that I can be with Allie and Ryan for important school events and love to plan their birthday parties. Most of the time I can juggle my client commitments and work events with my commitments to my family and it works out, and sometimes it does not. I believe a successful work-life balance is unique to each of us. We must take into account our significant other, extended family, client and project timing and our own health.


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U.S. soldier to be charged in Afghan shooting spree
WASHINGTON — A 38-year-old Army staff sergeant could be charged as early as today in the killings of 16 Afghan civilians in southern Kandahar province, a U.S. military official said Monday.
The Army soldier, whose identity wasn't yet being released, is based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, officials said. He was in military custody and was expected to be charged in Kabul.
The staff sergeant had done three tours of duty in Iraq before deploying to Afghanistan, renewing the question of whether the multiple deployments — which have become the norm for U.S. service members over the past decade — contributed to emotional stress that set off the shooting spree, the worst of its kind in the decade-long U.S. war in Afghanistan.
Afghan officials said that a U.S. soldier killed 16 civilians in the pre-dawn hours Sunday, including three women and nine children. Five more people also were wounded in the shooting at Belandi-Pul village of the Panjway district when the soldier entered homes and opened fire.
While the attack raised fears of a new surge of anti-American violence in Afghanistan, there were no reports Monday of widespread protests or violence. The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, said in a statement that a coalition service member died Monday as "a result of a non-battle related injury in southern Afghanistan," but the circumstances of that death weren't immediately clear.
The shooting spree has cast greater uncertainty on President Barack Obama's strategy to transition U.S. soldiers to a supporting role in the Afghan conflict, and threatens to further worsen relations between ISAF and Afghans, which were already badly strained by the recent burning of Korans and other religious material by U.S. military personnel. That incident, at the U.S.-run Bagram airbase, north of Kabul, sparked a series of demonstrations and attacks on bases belonging to the U.S. coalition that left at least 30 Afghans killed and 100 injured.
Obama called Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday to express his condolences and issued a statement saying he "was deeply saddened by the reported killing and wounding of Afghan civilians," calling the incident "tragic and shocking."


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MONTELLO, Wis. — When walking in the footsteps of greatness, it is of equal importance to follow where they lead and to discover where they began.
In celebration of the life of the fervent conservationist John Muir in the year of his 175th birthday (April 21, the day before Earth Day), I made the three-hour journey from suburban Chicago to Marquette County, Wis., to traverse the land of his youth and discover the place that made the man.
An intrepid world traveler, prolific writer, "father" of America's national parks and co-founder of the Sierra Club, Muir left a lasting imprint on the natural world. Through his published writings, his words have inspired generations, and his environmental causes have helped salvage the truth behind the lyrical phrase "America the beautiful." Muir's conservation efforts helped lead to the designation of some of America's most majestic national parks, including Yosemite and Sequoia.
Born in Dunbar, Scotland, in 1838, Muir and his family immigrated to the American Midwest when he was 11. His love of nature was seemingly derived from a childhood spent wandering his family's homesteaded land, Fountain Lake Farm, in a largely untamed Wisconsin.
Those who study Muir say that Fountain Lake Farm was to him what Walden Pond was to Henry David Thoreau, according to the Sierra Club's website (sierraclub.org).
To better understand his love affair with the land, I hiked the 2.3-mile section of Ice Age Trail in John Muir Memorial Park near Montello in a wintry early spring. The trail meanders through the former acreage of Fountain Lake Farm.
Along the trail, I looked up at a sky skewed by crooked branches devoid of leaves and stopped to feel the ephemeral warmth of the peeking sun upon my face. Flecks of falling snow enraptured by the sun's light appeared to be dancing amid a sea of trees. The white lilies normally rimming the banks of Ennis Lake (formerly Fountain Lake) were replaced by a blanket of snow. Muir would take to the woods surrounding the Ice Age Trail to escape the tyrannical reign of his father, Daniel Muir, a strict Calvinist, who worked the eight children who made up the Muir brood 17 hours a day.
Muir spent his formative years on Fountain Lake Farm and as an adult tried to purchase his childhood home on several occasions without success. He posthumously got his wish in 1990, when the farm to which he longed to return was designated a National Historic Landmark.
The Muir family's second Wisconsin home, Hickory Hill, a few miles from Fountain Lake, is where Muir started to become intellectually astute through his inventions, said Kathleen McGwin, vice president of the Muir preservationist group Wisconsin Friends of John Muir. It's also where he placed higher stock in reading.
The original Hickory Hill home still stands, its clapboard facade now replaced by brick. Facing a row of windows on the side of the house, I imagined his father practicing sermons on the main floor as Muir created inventions in the basement. I turned toward the crimson barn, which largely remains the same, though it has been elevated to accommodate cows, and parts of the original roof had to be replaced. In the foreground sits the 90-foot-deep well Muir dug using a pick and chisel at the command of his father, a feat that supposedly nearly killed the young man because of "choke damp," a lack of oxygen that causes suffocation. A windmill stands atop the well, giving the site a slightly sunnier disposition.
Hickory Hill was sold by Daniel Muir to the great-grandfather of current owner Maurice Kearns, who continues to operate the property as a working farm with the help of his sons. Therefore, it is not normally open to tourists.
Observatory Hill, Muir's favorite escape, also is Marquette County's highest point, rising 300 feet above the surrounding terrain. Hiking the designated trail in what is now Observatory Hill State Natural Area to the summit, I weaved through staggered red and white oak beset by plots of protruding rock as the perpetual hum of nature eased my senses. The trail ceased at an outcropping that revealed the wild Wisconsin that Muir wrote about. Red cedar bordered a scattering of grassy patches interspersed with slabs of igneous rock overlooking a vast horizon. I couldn't imagine a more peaceful place to gather my thoughts. Scanning the miles of forest sprawling beneath my feet, I could imagine Muir pondering life's important questions while possibly sitting in this very spot.
"Muir called this state the 'glorious Wisconsin wilderness,' and I think every person needs to experience that at least once in their life," said local naturalist and Friends of Muir board member Daryl Christensen.
Marquette County sits about 45 minutes northeast of the part of Wisconsin that screams tourism, the Wisconsin Dells, yet the unspoiled terrain here is teeming with wildlife. And its unspoiled land granted me a real breath of fresh air during my immersive walk. The loud, laborious gurgle of the sandhill cranes, a species that mates for life; deer as prevalent as squirrels; and the equally ubiquitous wild turkeys that scuttle across roadways — all of them presented the same palette of sights and sounds that Muir would have experienced roaming this land.
Muir may have lived a life of adventure, trekking 1,000 miles on foot from Indiana to Florida; sailing to Panama, then up to California; hiking the Sierra Mountains; gallivanting across glaciers in Alaska; camping alongside Theodore Roosevelt in Yosemite; and traveling to every corner of the earth. But it was his boyhood home in central Wisconsin that bewitched his thoughts during his final years. Muir committed those memories to paper when he wrote "The Story of My Boyhood and Youth," which is celebrating its 100th year in print.
Of Fountain Lake and its meadow, Muir wrote, "Even if I should never see it again, the beauty of its lilies and orchids is so pressed into my mind that I shall always enjoy looking back at them in imagination, even across seas and continents and perhaps after I am dead."
Muir died on Christmas Eve 1914, a year after the book was published. But his spirit still thrives in the "glorious Wisconsin wilderness."
If you go
Getting there: Montello, Wis., is 3 to 31/2 hours northwest of the Chicago area, mostly via Interstate Highway 90 west.
Where to stay: In and around Montello are an array of overnight options from lakeside campgrounds, cozy cabins, bed-and-breakfasts, hotels and motels. Visit montellowi.com for local listings. Many campgrounds in the area may not open until Memorial Day weekend, so call ahead.
Where to eat: Once in a Blue Moon in historic Princeton, Wis. (538 W. Water St., 920-295-6100), is well worth the 15-minute drive from Montello, serving inexpensive "California cuisine." Morning mimosas or cappuccinos, crab cakes or pancakes, pasta bowls, sandwiches and flatbread pizzas create a well-rounded menu. A tip: Don't skip dessert; order the bread pudding.
More information: For information on John Muir-related sites and events, visit the Wisconsin Friends of John Muir's website at johnmuir.org/wisconsin. For lodging, area attractions and dining options, visit the Montello site at montellowi.com (888-318-0362), the Marquette County site at co.marquette.wi.us (877-627-6767), the Princeton site at princetonwi.com (920-295-3877) or marquettecountywisconsinlodging.com.


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Does she love a good Bear Hug ale? And can he not get enough of English bubbly from Kent? Please everyone in your group with the equally thoughtful beer and wine lists at this welcoming, well-heeled, up-tempo bar. Tables are likely to be booked up by diners (especially the cosy alcove spots), but there are plenty of seats for drop-ins at the unfussy wooden bar – plus a heated front porch with a view of the south side of the Common (albeit across a multi-lane road).
The bar-dining room has a warm atmosphere set by the benevolent presence of a smartly dressed manager, who flits about and chats with guests. Slightly tucked away from the hullabaloo that is Clapham at the weekend, this is a place to get merry with your well-behaved friends. And you can bring the dog.
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|Main courses £12-£16. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £60
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|Bar Open 5.30-11pm Mon-Thur; 12.30-midnight Fri, Sat; 12.30-11pm Sun. Restaurant Lunch served noon-4pm Fri, Sat. Dinner served 6.30-10pm Mon-Sat. Meals served 12.30-8pm Sun
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Average User Rating
4.1 / 5
Rating Breakdown
- 5 star:22
- 4 star:4
- 3 star:4
- 2 star:0
- 1 star:5
Great spot, better food than expected, lovely relaxed atmosphere
Dogs are welcome and so are humans! There is a great atmosphere where the locals are super friendly. The wine and food are also fab!
The food, the wine, the staff, the manager, the ambience; all 5 stars across the board. I was blown away by the quality at the Rookery. Thank you!
Excellent Sunday roast.
I had lunch at the rookery yesterday and had a really great meal. Chicken wings followed by the most delicious lamb. The wings were the right side of spicy and the lamb was served pink with a very delicate anchovy flavour. A really exceptional lunch served by knowledgable staff and in a really relaxing environment. I'll definitely go to The Rookery again next time I'm south of the river.
Fantastic. I can't recommend highly enough. Service was just the right balance of attentive and friendly - consistent across all of the staff. The food was superb - fresh, well presented and delicious. The fries come very highly recommended! The atmosphere was also great. Even with plenty of customers, the tables are arranged in such a way that there is plenty of space between each and it doesn't feel crowded, nor do you have to push past people to get to the bar. Will definitely be back.
As the owner of The Rookery I'd like to respond to Charlotte P's review below. Apologies that I have had to award stars, the site wouldn't let me leave a response / review without doing so. We are a small business and have been operating for less than two years. As you can imagine, building a business in hospitality is not easy, especially in the current climate, so we listen closely to customer feedback. The vast amount of that feedback is very positive, and any quick trawl of the web will reveal that we have been roundly praised for both food and service by critics and customers alike. However, we all know that things can go wrong, and of course, we are not perfect. When things do go awry, we apologise fully and do all we can to put things right. On this occasion it is of huge regret that the evening ended it way it did. However, I feel strongly that the restaurant and the team do not deserve this kind of treatment. Having spoken to all of the highly-trusted members of the team involved, I'm afraid they find it hard to recognise much of your perspective on how the night unfolded. I'd therefore like to respond to some of your points: The lamb, as stated on the menu, was served with salsa verde, a integral component of which is anchovy. Whilst I fully understand that may not be widely known, it was explained to you when you returned the lamb. The lamb was a new dish that had gone on just two nights before, so on previous evenings, I had taken even more care in soliciting feedback, which was very positive indeed. Tellingly, other diners at nearby tables who witnessed the event, later asked our staff to please convey to the chef that they thought the lamb fantastic. Nonetheless, as always, we were more than happy to replace the dish, as we obviously want our guests to enjoy their meal. It is not possible to cook, rest, and serve a steak within a very short space of time, but we were trying our best. It is emphatically not the case, as you suggest, that the chef was not prepared to send it as an alternative. When you asked for a salad, we must apologise as it seems a misunderstanding did occur, and the waitress thought you wished to cancel the steak, in order to get some food as quickly as possible. Rather than simply serve a plain salad and without time to create a new dish during a busy service, our head chef served some of our popular Coronation chicken with toasted coconut with it in an effort to make the dish more substantial in a timely manner, as speed was obviously of the essence. Apologies that you weren't consulted on the chicken, but the gesture was meant in all good will. I'm afraid our chef, and the staff standing nearby have quite a different recollection of the exchange that took place when you entered the kitchen to personally return your food. All of the staff concerned vigorously deny many of the words you have attempted to place in their mouths, be that by supposedly quoting them or drawing inferences from the way they supposedly looked. I fully accept that mistakes were made, mainly concerning communication, and it is a failure for us that the situation was able to develop the way it did. Customers are, of course, our life-blood, and it is in our DNA to do anything we can to ensure that everyone leaves very happy indeed. Sadly, I'm just not sure that would have been possible on this occasion, no matter what we'd done.
We had a horrible time at The Rookery on Clapham Common last night. I ordered the lamb which, when it arrived, tasted and smelt of fish. I said that I didn't like it and asked the waitress to replace it with the steak dish my husband had just started. The waitress came back conveying the chef's message that the lamb was 'deliberately' flavoured with anchovy so did I want it back now I knew this? No, I would still prefer the steak thanks. No food came during the entire time my husband and our 2 friends were eating their dinner. I asked the waitress to at least bring me a salad quickly just so that I could have something to eat before they finished. As they all completed their dinners she arrived with a chicken dish. We asked what had happened to the steak and she said the chef had been too upset at me sending his lamb back and too busy with other tables to make me one! When I told her I never eat chicken she nearly cried in terror at the thought of having to take another dish back to the chef, so I said I would do it myself. When I went to the kitchen hatch open to the restaurant, the chef in question told me loudly and clearly before all his kitchen staff, several of the surrounding waiting staff and other diners, that I was "Ignorant" for not liking the lamb flavoured with anchovy. Now, while I may not be a trained chef, I have eaten at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, Chez Bruce and The Ivy amongst many other top restaurants so know the difference between good and bad dishes and I believe the purpose of using anchovy with lamb is to bring out the flavour of the lamb itself and not make the lamb taste and smell of fish! Unfortunately I was too taken aback by his insult at the time to tell the chef this, and just asked what had happened with the steak. He said he was too busy with other tables to make me one and then had been told to just get me something quickly so had sent the chicken. When I told him I didn't eat chicken he aggressively pushed the chicken dish aside and stated "Well you wont be getting any more food here tonight!". When I asked the nearby front of house man why he was letting the chef treat me like this, he merely said defensively and rudely, "Well there was nothing actually wrong with the lamb, you just didn't like it." Unfortunately the manager was off last night as he may well have been able to prevent such awful behaviour by his chef and certain other staff, which was so unbelievably bad it was quite possibly being filmed for an episode of Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares!
We decided to give The Rookery another go after having a dissapointing meal about a year ago. The restaurant itself is lovely, quite quirky with amazing views of the common. Unfortunately that's where it ends. We ordered a Charcuterie board and a rare beef salad for starters. It was clear that nothing on the board was homemade and the salad was a Sunday roast left over - and rather chewy at that. For our mains we had ordered pork belly with slaw and sweet potato. It was covered in BBQ sauce and completely lacked any balance or technical cooking skill. My boyfriend had the guest burger and only ate a couple of bites as it was overcooked (he ordered it rare). We were not asked until we actually paid the bill how the meal was, it was all a bit full overpriced student food in a really bland environment. £75 for a Monday night. Not impressed.
With regards to my review below - I did not put 5 stars as the rating and meant too...loved this place, and will be having all my parties here in the future if they will have us back! Thanks again for an amazing day...it was top class.
Finally got back to the Rookery, enjoyed a nice table and a absolutely delicious food. Maybe as good as one these nice little Parisian fooddy bistrot we so miss here. Partridge pie, pork shoulder, hake (one of my favourite fish): the proof that Brits can enjoy food as much as Frogs! Definitely have a go
Food was quite good, but quite small portions and the service was poor. They had no bitters on tap at all, just a couple of largers! There was 7 of us who went for Sunday lunch and I between meals we had to keep going to the bar to ask for more drinks and ask someone to clear the plates as it was a good 20 mins before anybody came to the table each time. When we got dessert, the crumble contained nuts which was never acknowledged on the menu. When we sent the one dessert back the owner was rather short and snappy with us and claimed that although it was not pointed out on the menu, "crumble always has nuts in it". (Erm, not sure that's totally true, I thought) but anyway, after we complained about his manner he later apologised and offered an alternative dessert on the house. Good food but poor selection of beer, bad service, doubt we would ever return.
I really like this place. It has a very cool feel - good music and relaxed atmosphere. The food is really good too, definitely some of the best that I have had for the price. And I am with the review below on the service - friendly and attentive. Definitely worth giving a go if you've not been.
This place never disappoints. The food is lovely and is also reasonably priced. I am suprised to see the comments below re service as every time that I have been have found the staff to be friendly and attentive. It's a good option for just a drink too with a good wine list and range of cocktails. It's also lovely when the sun is shining as there is outside space at the front with great views over the common.
I went there two weeks ago. It took 40mins for someone to bring us a menu. Another table of three men complained about the quality of the wine at which point the owners basically went nuts. He was arrogant and rude to them and threw them out....even though they wanted to pay for the food and drink they had had so far. Not sure when all the 'good reviewers' went, but I will never return.
Absolutely LOVE this restaurant. Sat just off the Common the food is always lovely, staff friendly and beer crisp and refreshing. Easily the best place for a nice meal in Clapha Common. Highly recommend to anyone.
Excellent bar, since it opened I've been many times and always enjoyed myself. The drinks are excellent, especially the cocktails and exceptionally well priced. And the one time we had a main meal it was delicious and again, very well priced. Also, gotta give credit to the music selections. Previously heard Beach House, Portico Quartet and great soul tunes, really adds to the location. A few months ago there was the problem of loads of tables being reserved for drinkers, which threatened to spoil the fun and turn it into somewhere you wouldn't want to risk for fear of nowhere to sit, but it looks like they've turned away from doing that. Great looking place, friendly staff, definitely somewhere to try out (but please don't all go, I want to make sure I've got somewhere to sit!)
My girlfriend and I went here on Saturday night and after reading some of the more recent reviews decided to give it a go anyway. So pleased we did, the menu was brilliant, for a hot day, it was fresh and light whilst still be wholesome! I could not fault a thing and the price was very reasonable. We will definitely be going again.
Bad surprise when we arrived 8 of us @ The Rookery last Friday. The booking, made 2 months in advance, has been made for the following day! Their mistake... How to meet kind and concerned people. The manager (or whoever he was) really tried to find us a table despite a 20 people party (which extended to 25 in last minute, not good for our issue...) He was very concerned and trying hard to find a solution. We finally has a good diner in the outside, a lot too late and a lot chilly. But they offered the meal! And 2 days after, I received a long and concerned email to explain me how the thing happened. I can only recommend this very nice restaurant despite my unlucky experience. The Rookery @ Clapham South
Been a few times now, food has been faultless on each occasion. Menu is always different, though there is a similar feel to it. Great ingredients, there's always something exciting or unusual on there in addition to some great classical cooking. Service always attentive and well humoured, and if the sun is setting outside across the common, the views can be terrific. And the puddings are sensational.
Must admit I was a little Worried when my wife said she had booked this after I had read the reviews below. But too be honest I am fairly easy going and good quality food means more to me than service so thought we should give it a go. I was pleasantly surprised by three things, the food was really reasonable ( two courses each and a brilliant bottle of wine for two for 55 quid), the staff were attentive and the atmosphere was cosy and laid back but not pushy and the quality of food was brilliant, I thought for the price it might be a bit rubbish but was very impressed. I think the other people might have been unlucky or just have had such a good first time that the next let them down? Anyway I wouldn't dream in a million years of not recommending this bar, go to the weather spoons in balham, then you will see a sh@t pub!
To start with the usual disclaimers - I do not work at the Rookery, nor do I own it. I do not think either that I have ever written an on-line review, good or bad for a restaurant/bar, yet I spend a far greater amount of time and money in them than I should. I am moved to write this by just checking in on how the place has been reviewed since it opened last year and noting the couple of poor accounts amongst the otherwise very positive. I would say that over their first 6 months I have visited the Rookery at least a dozen times (and it is probably a lot more). I am huge fan of the place. Whilst I don't doubt that during the course of these months there have been people that have been disappointed, I think these experiences must be almost infinitesimal in comparison to those who have been enthusiastic. Certainly those who I have recommended go back time and again. I have posted a 5 star review for the Rookery for what it is trying to be as much as for what it is. Exceptional food, good beer, excellent very reasonable wine in a friendly relaxed atmosphere, is hardly a new idea but it is one that very few places achieve to the extent the Rookery does. If it falls short of 5 stars on any occasion (as it inevitably will) I know, because I have become friendly with the owner and staff, that it will never be through any indifference of the management. This is a cracking place and a very refreshing break from the norm.
I've eaten at the Rookery on six or seven occasions since it's been open and it's always been brilliant. I've been in just for drinks and also with friends to eat and the owner's a very nice chap and really knows his onions when it comes to food and wine. The food's been top quality and the wine and service have also been great. I think some of the other commentators must have been really unlucky on the night's when they've gone as I've always found the service to be pretty quick and the waiting staff very decent and knowledgeable about their recomendations for wines and beers. Give it a go, it's defiitely worth a punt.
I have been to The Rookery several times and eaten there on a number of occasions. Off the back of mine and my husbands rave reviews of the food my friend recently booked it on a Tuesday night for her birthday. Though the food lived up to the standards we expected, the service really was very disappointing. We were one of the only large groups in there on what was a very quite Tuesday night and yet still the service was very slow. Our waiter was more like a petulant teenager than an enthusiastic owner of a popular new bar/restuarant. Getting the staffs attention was a struggle particularly when we required more drinks, when they wouldn't even wait for the rest of the table to give their drinks orders! When we first visited the Rookery the thing we liked most was the enthusiasm of the staff to tell you about the produce and beers etc. Bring that back and continue the high standard of food and this really would be a superb place to visit.
High expectations, low results. Service was the shambles. They couldn't tell if we were coming or going. Changed tables to sit in the sun (literally moving no more than four feet), and was told by a waitress they thought we had left so had cancelled the food order. Actually saw and heard a least two couples come and go without food as they decided it would be easier to eat down the road. Honestly should have refunded what was paid and followed suit. Waited it out and the roast was average, if not disappointing. There was a piece of pork that was nothing but gristle. No apologies for bad cut of meat or cancelling the order. First time I have gone out of my way to not recommend a pub in London. This venue was better when it was Firefly. Better options for eating and drinking are a stones throw away.
food was great, service pleasant and good beer and the winner that it is100 metres from my house unlike the windmill which is none of the above.... Well except from beign 100 metres from my house!! Summer will be brilliant with the garden and hopefully none of the ' gangstas' from the windmill!!
Terrible experience: Stuck in a dingy, drafty (several guests kept their coats on) room at the top. Took about an hour to even order the food. Then it turned out that they'd run our of half of our orders. Offered some "free" olives for the ridiculous wait (which they then realised they'd actually run out of and charged us for on the bill). When the food eventually arrived it was ok- but nothing special. Took another hour to then get the main course-which was also ok but just not really good enough to lift the mood. All in all, just a disappointing experience. Made me feel sorry for the waiting staff as they had to cope with such terrible staff management.
My star rating would have been 5 based on my first visit, which was exceptional. Quality wine in carafes (ideal as I drink red and the girlfriend white), great selection of beers , fantastic interior (not sure what the reviewer below was suggesting as "naff" - clearly does not understand New York style) and staff exceptional. Generous portions and great quality. However, based on that visit I went a second time and classic - I invited friends - and wouldn't you just know it would be diffrerent. Don't get me wrong the night was great and the atmosphere buzzing. However, besides the initial pint of Meantime Lager the rest was seriously downhill. It seems clear to me that this place has grown in popularity and the quality must be maintained with that growth. Whoever orders food needs to be shot for starters. And before you say it I fully appreciate that fresh produce runs out but this is much more than that. We sat down at 8pm and there where no starters avialable at all! So we all had to go with Humous and bread. Now the Humous was fantastic but it is not what you want to start with when there are other great options. The main course was also a huge, huge dissapointment - probably the worst Pork Belly I have ever had in both lack of taste and size. It was literally like eating 2 pieces of Asda budget streaky bacon on top of a tasteless barley mix. No consistency in the meat and no quality with no taste. My fellow diners mains where no better. We then opted for cheese, which was decent but the crumble at desert was clearly frozen and re heated as it had water residue in the bottomof the bowl. The cream was simply tasteless. I really wanted to love it here and I did on first try but unless the ordering of food is better (they ran out of all the starters, all the lamb for the main and all the Moules M as a main by 8pm on a Saturday evening!) and the quality is maintained you will loose people who want to remain. The staff and owner are simply fantastic and I would definitely try this place out as I am sure it will get it right but if nothing else I hope this is a push to get things better! I will unfortunately not return after spending £450 between 6 (we did have great wine) as I simply expect if you charge this price you better make the food right.
I've been there twice now and I have to admit I found it to be quite the NY inspired local neighbourhood joint, that Mr Dimond suggests. Where we differ is that I don't see this as something to sneer about. In my opinion the guys behind The Rookery have set out to be a stylish, laid back venue for Clapham hipsters and have achieved it with considerable heart and style. Coupled with genuine care and attention to both the food and drink I personally think they shoudl be applauded. My only criticism is that they don't do breakfast.
Just done Sunday lunch and don't normally add stuff to these websites but had a great experience so felt I should. Decor is new and not inherited... Glamour gal must have missed it as a claphamite I went 2 months ago and was naff and boring. Infact exactly the same as the first time I went in 2002! The food was ace but more than that, I have never been anywhere so designed for me! Forget Stella, teachers. They had black velvet for 5.50! Laguvlin (bad spelling), London lager ( meantime) and Havana 7...., an open fire, light airy space and pleasant staff. Bring it on! I see lots of Sunday's here enjoying the winter in a good atmosphere.
We needed somewhere like this in the area. Well done to Mark, he's the owner apparently - had a brief chat with him on my first visit last week (opposite of brusque); very open, seemingly clued-up and I thought motivated to do this best he can in his first venture - this shows well in The Rookery.
Very., very cool vibe to this place.. topped off with the excellent range of meantime beers and reasonably priced but unreasonably delicious food. I think I'll be coming here a lot more in future. The prospect of a sunday lunch is one I look forward to with relish. Only negative is the somewhat expensive spirits, but the beers and winelist more than make up for that.
Soon as I walked in I thought I was in a trendy New York bar!! Fantastic beers on tap and a great selection of reasonable wines. FOH are calm and friendly and help the buzzing atmosphere. The food was superb I started with the bath chaps which were slightly crisp with great flavour and my partner had the salmon which was delicate and presented lovely. For mains I had the crispy lamb shoulder which just melted in my mouth with a lamb and mint sauce to die for and my partner had the duck with the punchy salsa verde which was fantastic with the broth. We shared a rice pudding which was something else, hints of orange and cinnamon and a dark caramelisation on top served warm with a apple puree under the topping which was chilled and gave a fantastic hot and cold sensation. Couldn't recommend this place anymore. Will defo be going back soon!!
They've inherited the decor from the former bar and they're in an odd location, bang between Clapham Common and Clapham South and opposite the hugely popular Windmill Pub. But they make up for the location and slightly naff interior with charming staff and really good food. The Bath Chaps were beyond compare and the Mallard (though it could have done with 5 more minutes resting) was a delicous and a great change from the ubiquitous duck breast. Prices were fair, wine list not hugely imaginative but not greedy - a great local place, I hope they make it work for them.
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Thursday Threads: OCLC Moves to Dismiss SkyOCLC, UCLA Sued For Streaming, Paving Cow Paths, Origins of #
This week's Thursday Threads highlights includes two legal cases that bear watching. The first is the case of SkyRiver/Innovative Interfaces versus OCLC (covered on DLTJ previously); now that the case has been moved to OCLC's home court (the federal district court located in Columbus, OH), it is asking for the case to be dismissed. The second legal cases is the UCLA streaming media case, with issues ranging from fair use to licensing terms to DMCA violations; if this one goes to trial we might get some new case law surrounding the intersection of copyright and libraries. The remaining two pieces are a look at how publishers (and librarians) should avoid paving cow-paths and the origins of the hash symbol.
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OCLC Files Motion to Dismiss SkyRiver/Innovative Lawsuit
This case arises because Plaintiffs believe they are entitled to free access to OCLC's proprietary WordCat service, a comprehensive database of library records, developed over the past forty years. While framed as an antitrust case, Plaintiffs' Complaint alleges only that OCLC has engaged in the types of appropriate behaviors expected of competitors: compete vigorously on price (or, at worst, price a product too high), work with libraries to develop new products, introduce innovative new products that threaten Plaintiffs' profitability, and sell less expensive subscriptions than à la carte services. In short, even taking the Complaint's allegations as true, the antitrust laws encourage OCLC's behavior: vigorous competition against a company offering less expensive, but inferior products, is perfectly lawful. It is axiomatic that "[t]he antitrust laws are for the benefit of competition, not competitors." Under these laws, OCLC is not obligated to give away its investment, to subsidize Plaintiffs' prices by lowering its own, or to refrain from seeking to keep its subscriber libraries. Because Plaintiffs fail to plausibly plead that OCLC has done anything other than appropriately behave as any competitor would, and thus Plaintiffs have not suffered any antitrust injury and lack antitrust standing, the threshold requirements to proceed with an antitrust case have not been met, and this Court should dismiss the Complaint. Legal citations removed
OCLC's Motion deliberately mischaracterizes the allegations in SkyRiver's Complaint for OCLC's own public relations purposes. Our legal team will respond in due course. Our position remains as it was in July when we filed suit – that OCLC has engaged in business practices which ultimately will be found to be illegal.
The goal of our lawsuit is to create a level playing field for competitors in the library technology marketplace—opening the doors to competition will lead to greater innovation and technological advancement. We look forward to proving our case in court.
So goes the latest round of legal maneuvering with a motion to dismiss filed by OCLC and a public statement by Leslie Straus of SkyRiver. Karen Coyle has two posts that dissects the OCLC motion. The timeline now in play is that SkyRiver/Innovative has until January 14th to file a reply to the motion to dismiss and OCLC has until January 31st to reply to that reply. There is also a "preliminary pretrail conference" set for January 4th that will likely take place by phone. The place to go for a comprehensive view of what's happening with the case is Marshall Breeding's SkyRiver versus OCLC page on Library Technology Reports. If you want more of the legal nitty-gritty (and don't have a PACER account), look at the copy of the case docket on the Internet Archive RECAP service. (It doesn't look like Justia is getting documents out of PACER.)
UCLA Sued Over Streaming of Educational Videos
This case involves the Defendants' assertion that UCLA, one of the largest educational providers in the United States, can take copy-protected DVDs, produced and/or distributed by [Ambrose Video Publishing] and other AIME members, stream these DVDs via the Internet or the UCLA intranet to faculty and students enrolled in their courses in derogation of existing licenses and established copyright law.
The Association for Information and Media Equipment (AIME) followed through on its threat to sue the University of California at Los Angeles over the latter's streaming of copyrighted videos through the university's course management system. UCLA argued that since the course websites are limited to registered students that converting the videos to streaming is equivalent to showing them in class. That wasn't good enough for AIME and co-plaintiff Ambrose Video Publishing (AVP), and they announced [PDF] that the lawsuit had been filed in a California federal district court. A copy of the complain is on the AIME website [PDF], and some ancillary material is in the Internet Archive RECAP copy of the case docket.
This case should be interesting because UCLA is claiming (according to the complaint filed by AIME) to rely on a couple of exemptions in copyright law: the public performance exemption for "face-to-face" teaching (17 U.S.C §110(1)), fair use (17 U.S.C. §107), and the public performance exemption for certain digital distance learning uses (17 U.S.C §110(2)). AIME/AVP is also claiming that UCLA is violating the provisions of AVP's DVD license. It isn't clear from the complaint whether this was a "click-through" license (taking effect by the act of ordering videos from the website) or an actual signed license between AVP and UCLA. Throw into the mix that AIME/AVP claim that UCLA violates the illegal-to-bypass-digital-rights-managment provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and the outcome of this case -- if it indeed does go to trial -- one to watch.
Publishers, don't pave that cow path
What we realized was that the market and the industry are shifting so quickly that trying to focus on the product too much will get you into the "death wobbles," as we call them in Australia. In traditional publishing we tend to "concrete the cow path" -- if the cow is going from the paddock to the waterhole this way, let's concrete it so the cow goes faster. Then the cow decides there's actually another way that's quicker, and you realize that you've concreted the cow path for no reason whatsoever. Our instinct in publishing is to say: "What is your new pathway? I'll concrete that one."
The lesson is that you don't want to concrete your cow paths. It is all about how you do things. You need to remain incredibly flexible. You need to intuitively understand your industry and your customer. Focusing on how you do things rather than focusing on exactly what it is that you're doing is something we learned over the last few years.
As a profession, are librarians paving cow-paths? This metaphor early in an interview article with Gus Balbontin of Lonely Planet resonated with me. I'm also studying how software developers and operations staff can work together in a concept called "Continuous Delivery" -- the notion that software in development should always be production-ready. If we can move so nimbly as to not "pave a cow-path" with software release schedules measured in months or years, we will likely be able to better respond to changes in the environment and user expectations.
How the # became the sign of our times
The term octothorpe was coined by engineers at Bell Laboratories in the early 1960s, who wanted a name for one of two non-number function symbols on the first touch-tone keypads (the other was the *, which they called a sextile). It didn't catch on, and the # key became famous as an ineffectual way of interacting with the robots who work at your bank.
The Guardian newspaper in the U.K. has this historical treatment of that symbol we call the cross-hatch, the hash, the pound sign, and the octothorpe. Just like how the at-sign ('@') became important in e-mail addresses and later as the signal for an account name, the '#' symbol has taken on a new life as the 'hashtag' that brings together topics on Twitter. This is a fun look at the origins of the symbol.
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Chapter 3 – Technical Data and Manufacturing Plants Analysis of Halogen Headlamps for Men , Capacity and Commercial Production Date, Manufacturing Plants Distribution, R&D Status and Technology Source, Raw Materials Sources Analysis;
Chapter 4 – Overall Market Analysis, Capacity Analysis (Company Segment), Sales Analysis (Company Segment), Sales Price Analysis (Company Segment);
Chapter 5 and 6 – Regional Market Analysis that includes United States, China, Europe, Japan, Korea & Taiwan, Halogen Headlamps for Men Segment Market Analysis (by Type);
Chapter 7 and 8 – The Halogen Headlamps for Men Segment Market Analysis (by Application) Major Manufacturers Analysis of Halogen Headlamps for Men;
Chapter 9 – Market Trend Analysis, Regional Market Trend, Market Trend by Product Type including Type 1, Type 2, Type 3, Market Trend by Application 1, Application 2;
Chapter 10 – Regional Marketing Type Analysis, International Trade Type Analysis, Supply Chain Analysis;
Chapter 11 – The Consumers Analysis of Global Halogen Headlamps for Men ;
Chapter 12 – Halogen Headlamps for Men Research Findings and Conclusion, Appendix, methodology and data source;Halogen Headlamps for Men
Chapter 13, 14 and 15 – Halogen Headlamps for Men sales channel, distributors, traders, dealers, Research Findings and Conclusion, appendix and data source.
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Ensuring a behaviorally healthy pet-child relationship
First, discuss behavior at every nonemergency appointment. Ask clients if they have any behavior questions or concerns. This is especially important if you know there are children in the house. Take a moment to discuss zoonotic diseases, such as parasite control and rabies vaccination, as well as the No. 1 risk to children from pets, bite wounds. Provide handouts and other information, such as a poster in your waiting room, describing your ability to help clients with their pets' behavior problems. Some good sources for behavior handouts are Lifelearn ( http://www.lifelearn.com/) and the Handbook of Behavior Problems of the Dog and Cat, 2nd Ed. (W.B. Saunders Co). Also see the client handout "Bringing home baby: Introducing a pet to your new arrival." In addition, carry and display humane behavior modification products, such as head collars and food enrichment toys.
Regardless of whether a pet has previously displayed behavior problems related to children, well in advance of a baby's arrival expectant parents should start preparing their pets for the many changes a new baby brings. It is much easier for pets to begin adjusting before an infant arrives than to get used to household changes and the baby all at once. This preparation also gives owners an early chance to see how their pets are adjusting and may help owners avoid assuming that any problems seen are due solely to the new baby.
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Expectant parents may ask you if it will be safe to have their pets, especially dogs, around a new baby. To advise these parents, first find out about the pet's history with babies, toddlers, and children. If there has never been such exposure or if there has been fear or aggression in the past, advise owners to be extremely careful. In such cases, schedule an appointment with the owners specifically devoted to discussing this problem rather than trying to fit it in at the end of a 15-minute annual examination, heartworm test, and vaccine booster appointment. Even if you don't treat a lot of behavior cases, you, your clients, and your patients will be well-served if you take the time to sit down, get complete historical details about the problem, and discuss the different aspects of the situation with the owners. If your clients have already brought the baby home and cannot make an appointment with you right away, help them make arrangements to board the animal until the appointment, or advise them to keep the pet and child separated until you can talk further.
Defining what problems can occur
Most aggression to children is caused by fear. Cats may be fearful of newborn infants and usually react by hiding. With dogs, aggression usually appears when the baby becomes mobile. Even dogs that have a history of behaving well with visiting children may show some aggression to toddlers they live with. This is why it is so important to have measures in place to separate children from pets before problems arise (see "Setting up barriers" ).


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Not many places are safe from job losses these days. But the nation's college towns have fared better than most.
Of the six cities where the unemployment rate stood at four percent for Jan., three housed colleges or universities, the Wall Street Journal reported.
In contrast, the national unemployment rate for Jan. charted 8.5 percent.
College towns like Gainesville, Fla., Ann Arbor Mich., Manhattan, Kan., and Boulder, Colo. made the list of places with the lowest unemployment rates, the Journal found.
West Virginia University, in Morgantown, W. Va., is currently hiring hundreds of workers.
When adults with college degrees increased a city's population by 10 percent, wages went up 7.8 percent., Harvard economics professor Edward Glasser told the Journal.
"Apart from weather, human capital has been the best long-run predictor of urban success in the last century," Glasser said.
To be sure, college towns might not weather the recession as well as in the past. School endowments have taken a beating and states are cutting funding to education, the Journal reported. The longer the recession lasts the more jobs could vanish.
But for now, it's not a bad idea to relocate near your alma mater. No finals this time -- or keg stands, either.


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CLEVELAND: Officials have acknowledged that they may never know how many people were released from Ohio prisons without having their DNA entered into databases that could help link them to other crimes.
Officials know that more than 300 inmates got out without submitting DNA samples in 2012 alone, the Plain Dealer newspaper of Cleveland reported Tuesday. And that includes only the ones who were in prison or on parole when officials began trying to figure out whose DNA was missing.
State law requires that DNA be collected from felons, and law enforcement agencies say it increasingly is allowing them to solve more crimes. The samples can help them put a name to DNA evidence collected at crime scenes or link together multiple crimes by the same person.
State officials say they started looking into the lapse in 2011 when they learned that that DNA collected from convicted Cleveland serial killer and rapist Anthony Sowell was never entered into databases. Sowell was convicted of killing 11 women at his home between 2007 and 2009.
After it was discovered that Sowell�s DNA never made it into the system, the state crime lab undertook a major effort to identify any other lapses, according to Thomas Stickrath, who oversees the Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Identification.
Stickrath said it was a tedious process for his staff to compare hundreds of documents by hand over several months to verify which inmates did or didn�t have their samples in the system.
�It was a one-time thing, very specifically to see if there were any errors,� Stickrath said. He said the thought was �let�s not have another Sowell.�
That effort led to the list of more than 300 people who were in the prison system at the time. The prisons agreed to re-collect samples so the state lab could enter them into the databases.
One of the inmates on the list of 300 to be re-sampled was Larry McGowan, 37, who Cleveland police announced last week had been linked to rapes reported by women on Cleveland�s southeast side in 1996, 1998 and 2010, and a 1997 slaying.
Stickrath said state prisons will be responsible for collecting fewer samples in the future because the responsibility has shifted to hundreds of local law enforcement agencies under the new Ohio law that requires DNA to be collected from anyone arrested for a felony offense.


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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Joe Paterno, the longtime Penn State coach who won more games than anyone in major college football but was fired amid a child sex abuse scandal that scarred his reputation for winning with integrity, died Sunday. He was 85.
His family released a statement Sunday morning to announce his death.
"He died as he lived," the statement said. "He fought hard until the end, stayed positive, thought only of others and constantly reminded everyone of how blessed his life had been. His ambitions were far reaching, but he never believed he had to leave this Happy Valley to achieve them. He was a man devoted to his family, his university, his players and his community."
Paterno built his program on the credo "Success with Honor," and he found both. The man known as "JoePa" won 409 games and took the Nittany Lions to 37 bowl games and two national championships. More than 250 of the players he coached went on to the NFL.
"He will go down as the greatest football coach in the history of the game," Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said after his former team, the Florida Gators, beat Penn State 37-24 in the 2011 Outback Bowl.
Paterno's son Scott said on Nov. 18 that his father was being treated for lung cancer. The cancer was diagnosed during a follow-up visit for a bronchial illness. A few weeks after that revelation, Paterno also broke his pelvis after a fall but did not need surgery.
Paterno had been in the hospital since Jan. 13 for observation for what his family had called minor complications from his cancer treatments. Not long before that, he conducted his only interview since losing his job, with The Washington Post. Paterno was described as frail then, speaking mostly in a whisper and wearing a wig. The second half of the two-day interview was conducted at his bedside.
"As the last 61 years have shown, Joe made an incredible impact," said the statement from the family. "That impact has been felt and appreciated by our family in the form of thousands of letters and well wishes along with countless acts of kindness from people whose lives he touched. It is evident also in the thousands of successful student athletes who have gone on to multiply that impact as they spread out across the country."


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U.S. Department of Defense funds SPR's device therapy for post-amputation pain
CLEVELAND, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SPR Therapeutics and NDI Medical, its parent company, have received a $2.77 Million Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program Clinical Trial Award to advance SPR's peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) therapy to relieve post-amputation pain. The research grant is from the U.S. Department of Defense office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, which funds "innovative, high-impact, clinically relevant research to advance optimal treatment and rehabilitation from musculoskeletal injuries sustained during combat or combat-related activities."
"The funding of our project for improving the functional outcomes of combat-injured warfighters using SPR's PNS Therapy is a significant milestone for SPR and NDI," said Geoff Thrope, NDI's founder, president and CEO. "We are grateful to the U.S. Department of Defense as this grant further validates the strength of our team and our work in developing innovative neurodevice technologies to address significant unmet health conditions and improve patients' lives."
"For those who have undergone amputation, pain, rather than the loss of a limb, is frequently what most negatively impacts their daily lives and prevents their return to active duty or employment," said Principal Investigator Richard Rauck, MD, of the Center for Clinical Research, Winston-Salem. "Having studied SPR's pain therapy among multiple study participants to date, I'm eager to support this next phase of the research to advance the therapy towards commercialization. There are thousands of military personnel and civilian candidates seeking an effective solution for post-amputation pain."
The grant award is a result of the successful completion of SPR's post-amputation pain feasibility study, in which the majority of study participants reported substantial pain relief, with the early results recently published in Pain Practice. Furthermore, a significant impact on the study participants' quality of life was reported.
"There are very few effective options in the management of post-amputation pain," said Dr. Christopher Gilmore, an Anesthesiologist at Center for Clinical Research, who served as one of the study's investigators. "There aren't many therapies that produce positive results, so it's great when something like this has promise. The SPR approach is less invasive than other nerve stimulation therapies for pain that require an incision and surgery overlying or near the nerve to implant the electrodes, and the lead placement methods are like other procedures we do routinely."
As the Department of Defense recently reported, the number of troops who lost limbs reached a wartime high in 2011. In addition to these wounded warriors, there are approximately 1.7 million people living with limb loss in the United States alone, according to the National Limb Loss Information Center. According to recent studies, post-amputation pain occurs in up to 85% of major limb amputees and is a significant treatment challenge.
SPR's technology platform is being developed to address a spectrum of pain indications affecting over 116 million Americans. The SPR PNS System uses a proprietary method of nerve stimulation to treat pain without requiring the electrodes to be surgically implanted or in direct contact with the peripheral nerves that carry the pain signal. SPR's PNS System is an investigational device that is limited by U.S. law to investigational use. The grant award from the US Department of Defense will support the next phase of the clinical research for SPR's PNS System and will be conducted by the excellent research teams at Carolinas Pain Institute and Center for Clinical Research, Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.
"The objective of SPR's research program is to develop a minimally invasive PNS pain therapy that will ultimately enable thousands of combat-injured service members to obtain significant pain relief and functional improvement, and to allow them to remain on active duty or to seek gainful employment," said Maria Bennett, president and CEO of SPR Therapeutics. "SPR's pain therapy platform is non-narcotic and reversible and clinical studies in multiple pain indications suggest significant pain relief and improvement in quality of life may be achieved."
About SPR™ Therapeutics and NDI Medical
SPR Therapeutics (Stimulation for Pain Relief) is a medical device company that has developed a proprietary peripheral nerve stimulation therapy platform to address a critical unmet need for less invasive, longer lasting, and cost effective treatment for acute and chronic pain. The company is sponsoring clinical studies to evaluate this technology in several pain indications. SPR Therapeutics was formed in January 2010 as a portfolio company of NDI Medical, LLC, a leading commercialization firm that focuses on innovative neurodevice technologies to address significant unmet health conditions. For more information, visit www.sprtherapeutics.com.
SOURCE SPR Therapeutics