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If Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi seems markedly different this season of Jersey Shore, it's with good reason. Seemingly overnight, the reality-television supernova has made a stunning transformation from famously ditzy, malapropism-prone, seemingly illiterate space cadet into published author.
I haven't caught the debut of the new season of Jersey Shore yet, but I suspect we'll be seeing a new Snooki this year, a woman of letters who has traded in her signature pouf for a prim librarian bun, and her sparkly shades for reading glasses. While her housemates stumble blearily from one drunken bacchanal to another, Snooki will undoubtedly stay home with a quill pen and nothing but the exquisite agony and eternal challenge of a blank page waiting to be filled with words, beautiful, beautiful words, to keep her company. At 23, Snooks is ready to let go of childish things and commit herself wholly to the refinement of her authorial voice. Don't be surprised if hunky Michael Chabon replaces the quintessential juicehead gorilla as Snooki's ideal man. (She'll have to steal him away from Ayelet Waldman first!)
A Shore Thing, Polizzi's maiden foray into the world of literature, is the most chaste smutty book ever written. It's a novel in a frenzied state of perpetual arousal, not unlike the cast of Jersey Shore. Everyone thinks about sex, talks about sex, thinks up creepy ways to trick people into having sex, plays bizarre psychosexual games, and oozes sex from every pore of their being. But for hundreds of pages, no one actually has sex.
That's because A Shore Thing is a book for 12-year-old girls for whom the idea of having sex with a hot, ripped beach-buff is exciting in the abstract, but vaguely terrifying when reduced to specifics. (You're really expected to put that gross, slimy thing inside you?) The seemingly incongruous sexlessness of A Shore Thing is partly attributable to its underlying social conservatism.
The novel's vacationing protagonists want nothing more than to head to the Jersey Shore for some hot, casual, anonymous, no-strings-attached sex with juicehead gorillas, but hot-damned if they don't end up finding the men of their dreams and entering serious relationships at the end of a long, not-so-hot summer. And hot-damned if the men in question aren't salt-of-the-earth, blue-collar, Italian-American guys with smoking bods who love their families and selflessly serve their communities.
A Shore Thing's protagonist is Gia, a diminutive pickle-lover renowned for her revealing wardrobe, signature pouf hairstyle, glowing orange tan, wacky spoonerisms, fuzzy bunny slippers, and irrepressible lust for life. Gia's partner in crime, Bella, is an idealized, more ambitious version of Snooki's Jersey Shore castmate JWoww: a knockout 21-year-old with fake tits, a brown belt, a sexual history that includes but a single solitary soul, and plans to attend NYU after a summer of debauchery.
The drama begins when Gia and Bella hit up a club and Gia unknowingly ends up grinding with the boyfriend of her high-school arch-nemesis Linda Patterson. Once upon a time, Linda and Gia ruled the cheerleading squad until a prank involving a climactic group display of thongs at a big game (a plot point far too stupid to go into here) made Linda hate Gia with an intensity most folks reserve for child molesters and Nazis.
Linda calls Gia a whore and physically abuses her hapless boyfriend/sentient plot point Rocky for flirting with Gia. Yet the next time Gia sees Linda, she unthinkingly accepts Linda's offer of a Jell-O shot as a peace offering. Linda's scheme is to hide a powerful laxative in the shot so Gia will experience explosive public diarrhea in the middle of a nightclub, which Linda will film for posterity and post on YouTube so Gia will be the laughingstock of the Jersey Shore. In A Shore Thing's alternate universe, the Snooki-like protagonist is already locally famous for appearing in a YouTube video in which she trips over a sand shark, another plot point far too stupid to go into.
That may sound idiotic in the abstract, but it's even stupider and more puerile in practice. A Shore Thing's overstuffed plot leans heavily on misunderstandings, implausible coincidences, and characters whose intelligence and savvy varies wildly from scene to scene. For example, Linda succeeds in getting Gia to take the shot with the laxatives, but before Gia can humiliate herself, Rocky scoops her up and bulldozes his way into the men's room (it's less crowded) and nobly stands by the door while she wrestles with explosive diarrhea.
Here's a taste of the novel's prose:
Gia danced around a little, shaking her peaches for show. She shook it hard. Too hard. In the middle of a shimmy, her stomach cramped. A fart slipped out. A loud one. And stinky.
The DJ said, "Whoa, girl, what'd you eat?"
Oh, Jeez. Another one threatened to escape. The devil had possessed her guts! Had the microphone picked up her fart? Gia was hit by another major gut twist. She glanced at Bella. Her eyes must have been desperate.
En route to the bathroom, Gia experiences the magic of being groped by strangers. And loves it!
Meanwhile, like 10 guys grabbed her boobies. If she weren't about to paint the room brown, she would have loved it. A few grabbed at her butt, too. "Not the ass!" A too tight squeeze and she might explode.
Rocky turns out to be an idiot meathead lunk with a heart of gold. Later in the novel, he tells Gia about Linda's evil scheme, because—well, see for yourself:
"Linda and Janey spiked your Jell-O shots with laxatives." [Rocky said]
Gia froze mid-shimmy. "What?"
"They wanted to embarrass you. Don't ask me why. It's jealousy, or revenge, girl bullshit. Two guys would just pound each other bloody and be done with it."
"I can't believe it," said Gia, her party bubble instantly deflating. "I thought they were my friends."
"I'm only telling you because, once, when I was in junior high, during a football game, I got hit so hard by a linebacker, I shit myself. I swore on that day that if I could help anyone in the future not poop themselves, I would."
Alas, the Jell-O laxative shot/men's-restroom situation causes Frankie, the impossibly perfect fireman with whom Gia falls in love, to assume that Rocky publicly carried her into the bathroom to have sex with her.
Bella, meanwhile, becomes the target of Bender Newberry III and his equally loathsome preppie-cad pal Ed Caldwell. Newberry III and Caldwell come to the Jersey Shore every summer and pick a random girl to seduce, then abandon, for sport. It's a Guido version of In The Company Of Men, with a soupcon of the Neil Strauss pickup manual The Game thrown in for good measure.
Ed's game is to get a hot woman's attention, then drive her to distraction by intentionally ignoring her. This nearly works on Bella, who is depicted as both a smart, savvy, ambitious woman and an oblivious idiot who stops just short of shoving her vagina in Ed's face in a desperate attempt to get him to acknowledge her hotness. But ultimately, Bella proves too sharp to fall for Ed's mind games.
Thankfully, Bella has a professional mentor, boss, friend, and soulmate all wrapped up in one devastatingly handsome package in the form of Tony "Trouble" Troublino: Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino crossed with Jesus. As a handsome, ripped gym-owner, Troublino can have any woman he wants, but he's so instantly smitten by Bella that he does things like steal her beat-up car so he can surprise her by pimping it out and returning it to her in near-new condition. It's a testament to the novel's raging contempt for verisimilitude that Bella never reports the car stolen, while Tony doesn't think stealing his crush-object's car might be a pretty counterproductive seduction technique.
Ah, but Tony's feelings for Bella go way beyond sex: When Bella tries to fuck him, he slams on the brakes. He's perfectly content to pound out every other girl in the world, but when it comes to Bella, he magically turns into a bulked-up Prince Charming. (Though it should be noted that he most assuredly does not approve of the deplorable practice of taking steroids.) He's also preternaturally patient and understanding. When Bella tells him she has a good feeling about this charming, demure, intriguingly emotionally unavailable Ed Caldwell fellow, Tony replies diplomatically, "With respect, Bella, you also thought Bender was cool." His polite rejoinder enrages Bella to the point where she hurls a beer bottle at his impeccably sculpted face. And that still isn't enough to scare him away.
Considering the way A Shore Thing handles sex, it's probably a good thing it's largely devoid of explicit content. Here's an account of Frankie the Firefighter and Gia hooking up:
Frankie moaned and pressed Gia's body hard against his. His chest felt like a brick wall against her softness. Gia imagined herself melting, turning to mush against his rock-hard muscles.
He was granite elsewhere, too. No steroid shrinkage here, obviously. "I could hang my entire summer wardrobe on that," she said.
"We have to lie down. Right now." he said, his eyes shining like black diamonds.
"On the beach? I'll get sand in my thong!"
"I'll get it out," he promised.
She considered it. "Well, then, okay."
Bella and Gia end up getting double-plus revenge on Bender and Ed and Linda and her evil lieutenant Janey. They terrify Bender and Ed into promising they won't date-rape or psychologically abuse any more women by shooting them with paint guns while they're in a compromising position, and enact cold-blooded revenge on Linda and Janey by promising them free tans, then stenciling—or "tan-tagging"—words like "Useless Twat" on their faces.
Linda and Janey don't take too well to the treatment, and the four women end up in the hoosegow, where, like fellow author Malcolm X before her, Snooki—I mean Gia—has a jailhouse epiphany:
Gia felt another sparkling wave of clarity wash over her. Maybe it was the sugar rush, but whatever. Life might knock her off her stilettos. She might lose more often than she won in the softball basket toss of life. But even in her bleakest hour, Gia could reach into her soul and pull out a nugget of joy. This was her special and unique talent. Having fun and raising the spirits of people around her just might be what she was born to do, how she could contribute to society in a meaningful way.
It was as if a thousand neon lights flickered on in her head.
Whew, she thought. How awesome to have figured out her life's real purpose. She thought her purpose was to fall in love with a hot Guido. But Gia was already in love—with life itself.
Life and Gia/Snooki are indeed enjoying a passionate love affair right now, but something tells me life's infatuation with her, along with the general public's, is close to peaking, if it hasn't already. Snooki's art form is being Snooki, but her shtick's expiration date is rapidly approaching. Heaven knows Polizzi, or rather her ghostwriter (in the acknowledgments, Polizzi thanks "Valerie Frankel, my collaborator, who helped translate my ideas onto the page," which is almost certainly Snooki-speak for "writing my book for me for a fraction of my advance"), isn't contributing to society in a meaningful—or even non-meaningful—way with this curdled cotton candy of a beach read.


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The food scientists of the Jersey turnpike may churn out impressive artificial flavors, but are they as wacky as Japanese candy makers?
I found these soba drops recently at a toy store in Tokyo. If you've seen these before, excuse my piqued interest; I spent the past two years in China, where candy is just candy. (Although Chinese Lay's potato chips come in such impressive flavors as Peking Duck, Italian Red Meat, Mexican Tomato Chicken, and Lychee.)
Other candy flavors from the same company included Udon, Yaki-soba, Okonomiyaki, Miso, and Sapporo Beer.
As for the taste, I'll just say it's like eating a bowl of preservative-laden noodles with sugar sprinkled on top. Not too bad, but one a week is my limit. _________________________________________
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Tax credits paid by North Carolina are expected to be more than double than the previous year.
Film, television and commercial productions spent more than $275 million in North Carolina and employed about 14,000 people in the past fiscal year, according to N.C. Department of Revenue records.
According to a film production tax credit report released this week, 30 productions looking to defray filming costs could collect nearly $70 million in tax credits from the state's general fund, thanks to North Carolina's film tax incentives.
Film companies collected a little more than $30 million in credits from the state in 2011, and about $2.4 million in 2010.
Under state law, production companies can claim a 25 percent tax credit – up to $20 million – if they spend more than $250,000 on items purchased in-state.
So far this year, however, only about $51 million in rebates have been claimed by productions because some have not filed 2012 tax returns, N.C. Film Office Director Aaron Syrett said Tuesday.
The tax credit report is based the state's fiscal calendar and only takes into account data from productions that submitted paperwork after filming wrapped, but haven't been audited by the Dept. of Revenue, Syrett said.
A handful of productions that filmed in Wilmington in 2012, including NBC's "Revolution," New Line's "We're the Millers," the Lifetime pilot "Witches of East," and the independent thriller "Jessabelle," do not appear in the report.
Once those productions have been accounted for, the total spending for the 2012 calendar year should meet the film office's earlier projections of $376 million, according to Syrett.
By far the biggest spender in 2012 was "Iron Man 3," which sunk about $81 million into North Carolina businesses and employed about 2,300 people while filming in various counties, including New Hanover and Duplin. The Marvel production, which wrapped in November after 13 months of work, also received the largest tax break of any locally filmed production – $20 million. The superhero sequel hits theaters on Friday. Hours before the state's tax credit report hit the Internet, Hollywood's main trade association, the Motion Picture Association of America, released an independent economic impact analysis that focused solely on "Iron Man 3." The study argues that the film, the state's largest production to date, was a shot in the arm to its economy. The trade association, which is composed of six major Hollywood studios, including Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, asserts that "Iron Man 3" was responsible for nearly $180 million of spending in the state and put about 2,043 residents to work.
Other large productions in the report include "Hunger Games," which filmed in nine Northwestern North Carolina counties in 2011 and spent about $55 million, and "Homeland," which spent about $30 million in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. Those productions collected about $14 million and $8 million in credits, respectively.
Others, such as "One Tree Hill," which wrapped filming in 2011, are included in the report because producers filed tax returns in 2012.
The CW series spent $25.2 million region, earning it a $6.3 million credit, the report said.
Besides being Wilmington's longest running TV series, "One Tree Hill" put local businesses like construction material retailer Bruce Watkins Supply to work during lean times.
The supply company at 1940 Dawson St. has long done business with TV series and movies, supplying to the likes of "Super Mario Bros." and "Dawson's Creek," but this may be its best show biz year yet, said owner Scott Harry.
"They're great customers all the time, but right now they are of more value to us than ever before, especially in this economy," Harry said. "I give them my home number – you never know when they're going to call."
Those who are employed directly by productions say the state's film incentive program has been an essential boost to the industry.
Many local film workers spent the 2000s roaming between out-of-state productions or shifting to other fields.
Construction buyer Connie Stewart was one of them.
"I started as a driver on 'Firestarter' in 1983 and was lucky enough to be employed by different productions every year," she said. "I had to leave the business about 12 years ago when the work dried up and I couldn't leave home like so many others did. The incentives are necessary and now that they're back, they're essential to keep people at home to watch their kids grow up."
Stewart returned to the industry in 2012 and was quickly snapped up to work on "The Conjuring" and "Iron Man 3."
She turned to Bruce Watkins for supplies.
"I always like to stick with the mom and pops when I can and I try and keep it as close to home as possible," she said.
Here are numbers behind some of the other productions based in Southeastern North Carolina this past year:
"The Conjuring": $17 million in qualifying expenses; $4.2 million credit earned
"Safe Haven": $16 million in qualifying expenses; $4 million credit earned
"The Occult" (aka "Where the Devil Hides"): $7.6 million in qualifying expenses; $1.9 million credit earned
"Writers" (aka "Stuck in Love"): $3.7 million in qualifying expenses; $920,000 credit earned
Go to StarNewsOnline.com/filmaudit to search our database for information on productions throughout North Carolina since 2008.
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"We are pleased that Silver Airways has chosen to offer more choices for passengers at Hartsfield-Jackson," said Aviation General Manager Louis Miller. "Our partnership with Silver Airways continues to grow, and the result is a greater array of choices for travelers."
The new daily destinations are in Mississippi (Greenville, Tupelo, Hattiesburg-Laurel and Meridian) and Alabama (Muscle Shoals).
Silver Airways began service at Hartsfield-Jackson in August, when it launched service to Gainesville, Fla., on Sundays through Fridays and to Greenbrier, W.Va., daily.
Florida-based Silver Airways operates passenger service in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, the Bahamas, Pennsylvania, New York, Montana, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia.
To get more information or to make a reservation, visit www.gosilver.com or call (800) 499-7450.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Hartsfield-Jackson is the world's busiest airport, serving more than 92 million passengers annually with nonstop service to 160 U.S. destinations and nearly 70 international destinations in more than 45 countries. The Airport is a frequent recipient of awards of excellence for concessions, operations, architectural engineering and construction - including the 2011 Global and North American Airport Efficiency Excellence Award from the Air Transport Research Society (for more information, go to www.atrsworld.org). It is undergoing $6 billion-plus in capital improvements, which include a new, energy-efficient rental car center; a new, 12-gate international terminal (for more information, go to www.atlanta-airport.com/internationalterminal/;and aesthetic and functional upgrades to its concourses, people movers and parking services. For more information, go to www.atlanta-airport.com. Check out the Airport's YouTube channel by visiting http://www.youtube.com/AtlantaHartsfield, and become a fan on Facebook.


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Raina Rose and Rebecca Loebe - Sunday Breakfast - 2013
12.16.13 10:59am
Raina Rose and Rebecca Loebe are two of contemporary folk's finest singer-songwriters. Raina, originally from Portland, OR, and Rebecca, from Atlanta, both live in Austin now. They got to know each other at the Kerrville Folk Festival and have been fast friends ever since. Although Raina was missing her young son back at home, they had a good time sharing songs and stories in Studio A.


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The Open IoT Platform with MATLAB Analytics
ThingSpeak™ is an IoT analytics platform service that allows you to aggregate, visualize, and analyze live data streams in the cloud. You can send data to ThingSpeak from your devices, create instant visualizations of live data, and send alerts using web services like Twitter® and Twilio®. With MATLAB® analytics inside ThingSpeak, you can write and execute MATLAB code to perform preprocessing, visualizations, and analyses. ThingSpeak enables engineers and scientists to prototype and build IoT systems without setting up servers or developing web software. Key capabilities of ThingSpeak include:
- Configure devices to send data to ThingSpeak using a REST API or MQTT.
- Aggregate data on-demand from devices and third-party sources.
- Get instant visualizations of live or historical sensor data.
- Preprocess and analyze your collected data using integrated MATLAB.
- Run your IoT analytics automatically based on schedules or events.
- Act on your data and communicate using third-party services like Twilio or Twitter.
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Conflict: Denied Ops download PC
When the US government needs intelligence but wants no association with an operation, deniable operatives are dispatched. Responsible for covert paramilitary actions, the Special Activities Division is a division of the Central Intelligence Agencys former Directorate of Operations, now the National Clandestine Service. Members of the unit must bear no identity; no objects, papers or clothing that could associate them in any way with their employees, CROSSFIRE draws its inspiration from this group of highly skilled individuals.
An innovative new two player co-op FPS from award-winning developers, Pivotal Games, CROSSFIRE is set in todays delicately balanced political climate, focusing on two covert field operatives, experts in weapons and military tactics. CROSSFIRE allows players the freedom to switch seamlessly, at any point, between these two operatives to lay down cover fire, explore different paths through levels, create a distraction or pin down the enemy under crossfire. The intuitive command system encourages the player to focus 100% on action, without a moment to catch their breath. Featuring full destructible environments and Hollywood-esque explosive moments, the game takes place in politically sensitive areas across South America, Africa and Siberia.


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It just seems right that in the dark, chilly days of winter here in the Northwest, citrus with its eternal sunshine and health giving properties is at its peak. I love to cook up a pot of black beans, redolent of warmer Latino climes, full of spice and fire and accompany them with this bright and colorful salad.
(Serves 4-6)
1 organic pink grapefruit
2 organic navel or blood oranges
2 organic Cara Cara oranges
2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
1 tablespoon chopped mint
1 tablespoon minced green onion
1 tablespoon sesame oil
Sea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Splash hot sauce to taste
1 ripe organic avocado, peeled and cut into 3/4-inch chunks
Cut a small slice off each end of the grapefruit and stand it upright on a cutting surface. With a knife, remove the peel from the grapefruit in strips, maintaining the curved shape. Holding the grapefruit in one hand, cut out the segments of fruit between the membranes. (This is called supreming.) Repeat this process with the navel oranges and the Cara Cara oranges.
Very gently toss together all of the ingredients except the avocado. Season the mixture to your taste and then fold in the avocado. Serve as a lively side dish to Spicy Black Beans.


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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's shocking defeat isn't likely to have much effect on U.S. financial markets -- unless his departure emboldens Tea Party Republicans to again threaten a government shut-down over the debt ceiling next year, investment strategists said.
Even though most of the items on Wall Street's legislative wish list, particularly corporate tax reform, were already viewed as non-starters over the next two years, Cantor's departure may roil the relative calm that's prevailed since the bipartisan budget deal of December 2013.
"It underscores total political dysfunction," said Doug Kass, president of Seabreeze Partners Management in Palm Beach, Florida. "At some point the danger of no deal on the debt limit or increased wrangling raises the likelihood of a major repricing in stocks."
The Tea Party Republicans who supported the 2013 government shutdown may believe that Cantor's defeat opens the door to another such battle, according to Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at Potomac Research Group in Washington. Dave Brat, the professor of economics who beat Cantor in Virginia's 7th Congressional district, has said in the past that he doesn't support raising the federal debt limit.
"An ugly, market-rattling debt ceiling fight now looms in March 2015," potentially undermining the record-breaking run the S&P 500 has put together over the last couple of years, Valliere said in a Wednesday note.
Stocks slumped during the last debt ceiling battle in October 2013, only rebounding once negotiations to pass a budget and "suspend" the debt ceiling turned more constructive. Since Oct. 10, 2013, the S&P 500 has gained 17.3 percent.
The 2013 deal set spending limits through the end of 2015, and the 2011 Budget Control Act also set spending caps through the end of the decade. Still, the Tea Party's focus on the debt limit as a symbol of government spending run amok serves as a key rallying point.
Cantor is stepping down as House majority leader at the end of July. Other investors were less sure that new House leadership would want to risk losing more public support by fighting the debt ceiling again, saying that they would more likely focus their battle on the growth in entitlement spending.
"I don't think there's any consensus in the House to try to take on that (debt limit) again," said Dan Alpert, managing director at Westwood Capital in New York. "Most people are focused on maintaining the pressure on entitlements going forward."
Issues such as immigration reform or a corporate tax holiday allowing companies to repatriate overseas earnings without penalty were already long-shots, and a re-energized Tea Party smelling possible November victories in Senate races in Mississippi or Iowa could move the GOP even further right.
"There's this tangible disquiet and Cantor's loss shows a lot of discontent among Republican voters on spending, debt, and budget issues," said Loren Smith, research analyst at Capital Alpha Partners in Washington.
Favorite Politician
Though most investors don't see a real problem for the broader stock market, unless a debt battle materializes, Wall Street is losing one of its favorite politicians.
With contributions of $1.4 million, Cantor received more donations from the finance, industry and real estate sector in the 2014 election cycle than any other House member other than House Speaker John Boehner, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Top donors include Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Citigroup, Blackstone Group and hedge fund Canyon Partners.
"I thought it was stunning," Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein told CNBC this morning. "I hope it doesn't mean that it'll be impossible from this point forward to compromise on issues like the budget, on immigration policy or on any of the other issues wracking the economy."
To be sure, Cantor's potential replacement as majority leader, Jeb Hensarling of Texas, the current chair of the House Financial Services Committee, isn't far behind with contributions of $1.09 million for this cycle. His top contributors come from insurance companies, as well as banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co and Zurich-based UBS AG.
"A basic lesson of markets is that all politicians are replaceable instantly, except the President who is replaceable almost instantly," said Ken Fisher, founder and president of Fisher Investments. "Cantor? He will be forgotten faster than you can say [former Virginia Representative] Tom Bliley (his predecessor you may recall)."
(Reporting by David Gaffen; additional reporting by Andy Sullivan in Washington, editing by John Pickering)


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Royalty Board Shuns Rate Hike. iTunes Saved!
Fear not, iTunes fans. Rumors about the death of iTunes were a tad premature.
The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) ruled Thursday that the royalty rate for permanent downloads, like those found via Apple's iTunes, will remain at 9.1 cents per download.
The CRB also ruled that rates for physical CDs will be 9.1 cents while sellers of ringtones will be charged 24 cents per selection.
For each 99-cent song sold on iTunes, Apple hands over about 70 cents to the record companies. Those companies must give 9.1 cents, or a mechanical royalty rate, to songwriters, composers, and publishers.
"We're pleased with the CRB's decision to keep royalty rates stable," Apple said in a Thursday statement.
The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA), which represents those songwriters and music publishers, was pushing for a rate closer to 15 cents per song "because the costs involved [with digital downloads] are much less than for physical products," NMPA president and CEO David Israelite wrote on the group's Web site.
Apple was fiercely opposed to this proposal, and threatened to shut down its iTunes store if the CRB approved a royalty rate the company deemed financially ruinous.
"An excessive royalty rate would stifle any effective competition with piracy or the physical retailers, as we would either be forced to raise prices, limit further investment in present and future services or even simply drop out of the market," Eddy Cue, vice president of iTunes, said in written testimony submitted last year to the CRB. "Any increase in the royalty rates we pay for musical works would have a significant adverse impact on the commercial viability of iTunes."
If anything, the CRB should lower the rates, Cue said. "To the contrary, to make the tremendous investments necessary to create and grow this market more reasonable, the costs associated with our business need to be reduced," he said.
Despite pushing for an increased rate, the NMPA said it was pleased by the decision.
"These events will bring clarity and order to an environment that for the past decade has been hampered by litigation and uncertainty on all sides," Israelite said in a statement.
The Nashville Songwriters Association International and Songwriters Guild of America also issued their support for the ruling.
The CRB opened a formal inquiry into the matter in January.
Also on Thursday, the CRB approved a deal between songwriters, the recording industry, and the digital media industry that sets the mechanical royalty rate for interactive streaming and limited downloads at 10.5 percent of annual revenue.


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Nutrition and Renal Disease
The kidneys' job is to keep the body's fluids, electrolytes, and organic solutes in a healthy balance. Their functional units are the million or so nephrons in the renal cortex which filter most constituents of the blood other than red blood cells and protein, reabsorb needed substances, secrete hydrogen ions to maintain acid-base balance, and secrete wastes.1
Urine formation consists of three basic processes: glomerular filtration, tubular secretion, and tubular reabsorption. Several disease conditions can interfere with these functions. Inflammatory and degenerative diseases can involve the small blood vessels and membranes in the nephrons. Urinary tract infections and kidney stones can interfere with normal drainage, causing further infection and tissue damage. Circulatory disorders, such as hypertension, can damage the small renal arteries. Other diseases, such as diabetes, gout, and urinary tract abnormalities can lead to impaired function, infection, or obstruction. Toxic agents such as insecticides, solvents, and certain drugs may also harm renal tissue.
Nephrotic Syndrome
In nephrotic syndrome, an injury to the glomerular basement membrane causes an increased glomerular permeability, resulting in the loss of albumin and other plasma proteins in the urine. Urinary protein losses greater than 3-3.5 grams per day usually indicate nephrotic syndrome.
Although albumin synthesis in the liver is increased in nephrotic syndrome, it is not enough to compensate for losses in the urine. The loss of albumin leads to edema.
Low albumin levels also trigger cholesterol and lipoprotein synthesis in the liver, resulting in hyperlipidemia. At the same time, hepatic catabolism of serum lipoproteins is reduced and urinary excretion of HDL is increased. These lipid abnormalities can be exacerbated by medications often used to treat nephrotic syndrome, such as steroids, diuretics, and anti-hypertensive agents.
Diet for Nephrotic Syndrome
A well-planned diet can replace lost protein and ensure efficient utilization of ingested proteins through provision of adequate calories. Dietary changes can also help control hypertension, edema, and hyperlipidemia, and slow the progression of renal disease.
Protein: High-protein diets are not recommended as they may encourage damage to the nephrons, leading to a progression of renal insufficiency. Since albumin losses in nephrotic patients are due to increased catabolism, rather than a reduction in protein synthesis, low-protein diets, which decrease catabolism, may be more beneficial.2
The optimal amount of dietary protein necessary to prevent protein catabolism and progression of renal disease has not been established. A common recommendation is 0.6 grams of protein per kilogram of ideal body weight, adjusted depending on the glomerular filtration rate and nutritional status, plus gram-for-gram replacement of urinary protein losses.
A vegetarian diet, often used for lipid-lowering, also offers a convenient way to provide adequate, but not excessive, protein. In a 1992 study, a group of 20 nephrotic syndrome patients were put on a vegetarian diet for eight weeks. Protein intake averaged 0.7 grams per kilogram per day, which was more appropriate to their needs than the 1.15 grams per kilogram provided in their usual diet.3
Sodium and Fluid: A limit on sodium of 1-3 grams per day is usually recommended to control edema and hypertension. Diuretics may also be used. A fluid restriction is not warranted unless renal failure occurs.
Lipids: A diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, combined with loss of excess weight, is recommended to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. Many clinicians recommend limiting cholesterol to less than 300 milligrams per day and fat intake to 30 percent of calories. However, research has shown that such recommendations lead to only minimal lipid lowering. As noted in detail in Section 1, low-fat vegetarian diets are much more effective for lipid control and usually lead to the reversal of atherosclerotic disease. Cholesterol-lowering drugs can be used adjunctively if needed.
An eight-week trial in 13 men and 7 women with hyperlipidemia and nephrotic syndrome showed that a vegetarian diet significantly reduced cholesterol, triglycerides, and phosphorus.3
Energy: Calorie intake should be adequate to achieve and maintain ideal body weight and maintain protein stores. Foods rich in complex carbohydrates should provide the majority of calories.
Supplements: Patients with nephrotic syndrome are often low in B vitamins and zinc, and can benefit from supplements. In addition, since a significant portion of serum calcium is protein-bound, it tends to be low when serum proteins are reduced. No modification is routinely needed for potassium, but potassium losses due to secondary hyperaldosteronism may require replacement.4
The following clinical values should be monitored:4
Acute Renal Failure
Acute renal failure, manifested by oliguria or anuria, usually occurs suddenly and is often reversible. It is marked by a reduction in the glomerular filtration rate and a modification in the kidneys ability to excrete metabolic wastes.
Its causes can be prerenal, intrinsic, and postrenal. Prerenal causes include severe dehydration and circulatory collapse. Causes intrinsic to the kidney include acute tubular necrosis, nephrotoxicity, vascular disorders, and acute glomerulonephritis. Obstructive (postrenal) causes include benign prostatic hypertrophy and bladder or prostate cancer.1
The most common form of intrinsic renal disease is acute tubular necrosis, accounting for about 75 percent of cases. Acute tubular necrosis may be due to posttraumatic or surgical shock or to the toxic effects of drugs, metals, or organic compounds.
Nutrition strategies in acute tubular necrosis vary depending on its stage. During phase one, oliguria, less than 400 milliliters of urine is produced per day. This phase usually lasts one to three weeks. Signs and symptoms include nausea, vomiting, fluid overload, and elevation of BUN, creatinine, phosphorus, and potassium levels. Dialysis may be needed during this stage to reduce acidosis, control hyperkalemia, and correct uremia.
The diuretic phase of acute tubular necrosis lasts one to two weeks, and is characterized by increased urine output and a return of the ability to eliminate wastes. Fluid and electrolyte balance should be monitored and replacements made as necessary. The convalescent phase occurs over the next two to six months.1,2
Diet in Acute Renal Failure
Diet plays a critical role in the care of patients with acute renal failure. Clinicians should plan diets with an eye toward the possibility of uremia, metabolic acidosis, fluid and electrolyte imbalances, infection, and tissue destruction. Nutritional support of dialysis will be discussed below in the section on chronic renal failure.
Protein: A low-protein diet (0.5-0.6 grams per kilogram) is recommended initially. Protein may be increased in the diet as the glomerular filtration rate increases to normal. If dialysis is initiated, the protein level may be increased to 1.0-1.5 grams per kilogram per day if necessary to compensate for protein losses in the dialysate.
Calories: Calorie needs are generally elevated (35-50 kilocalories per kilogram) in order to provide positive nitrogen balance under stressful conditions. As protein is usually quite restricted, calorie needs may be met by providing greater amounts of carbohydrate and fat in the diet.
Sodium and Fluid: Sodium is restricted depending on urinary excretion, edema, serum sodium levels, and dialysis needs. During the oliguric phase, sodium may be restricted to 500-1000 milligrams per day, and fluid requirements are based on replacing losses via urine, vomitus, and diarrhea, plus approximately 500 milliliters per day.
Potassium: Potassium requirements vary depending on hemodynamic status and the degree of hypermetabolism due to stress, infection, or fever. High potassium levels are treated by dialysis or with kayexalate, an exchange resin which substitutes sodium for potassium in the gastrointestinal tract. During the oliguric phase, potassium may be restricted to 1,000 milligrams per day.3
Chronic Renal Failure
Approximately 90 percent of cases of end-stage renal disease are attributable to diabetes mellitus, glomerulonephritis, or hypertension. Kidney failure results in fluid and electrolyte imbalances, the build up of nitrogenous wastes, and reduced ability to produce renal hormones. The two treatment options are transplantation or dialysis.1
Mild renal insufficiency is defined as 40-80 percent of renal function. Moderate insufficiency is defined as 15-40 percent, and severe renal insufficiency is below these figures.2
Diet in Chronic Renal Failure
Low-protein diets may slow the progression of mild and moderate renal insufficiency. Therapeutic diets using plant sources of protein are more effective in delaying the progression of renal insufficiency, compared to those using animal proteins.5
Vegan (pure vegetarian) diets have been shown to provide adequate protein. A study of 22 patients with mild renal failure compared a vegan diet to a conventional low-protein diet. All patients were followed for at least six months. There was no sign of protein insufficiency and inorganic phosphorus levels remained normal.6
Dialysis Patients
Dialysis changes dietary needs. Patients undergoing typical hemodialysis, involving about three treatments per week, follow diets that are restricted in protein, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, and fluid. Patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, involving several dialysate exchanges per day, can be more liberal in protein, sodium, potassium, and fluid intake.
Sodium: Sodium intake must be modified to prevent hypertension, congestive heart failure, and pulmonary edema. Limiting intake will help avoid thirst and maintain acceptable fluid balance. Restrictions range from 1,000-3,000 milligrams per day with hemodialysis and 2,000-4,000 milligrams per day for peritoneal dialysis. Major salt sources are described below.
Fluid: Fluid consumption should be controlled to avoid congestive heart failure, pulmonary edema, hypertension, and swelling of the legs and feet. Fluid allowances are 1,000-1,5000 milliliters per day and are based on urine output and type of dialysis.
Protein: Protein requirements range from 1.1-1.5 grams per kilogram, depending on the type of dialysis used and the patient's nutritional status. It is important to ensure sufficient protein to maintain visceral protein stores, but to avoid excesses that could lead the accumulation of nitrogenous waste products in the blood (uremia).
Phosphorus: Kidney failure causes high levels of phosphorus to build up in the blood and disrupts calcium/phosphorus balance. Elevated phosphorus levels can lead to metastatic calcification (soft tissue calcification), secondary hyperparathyroidism, and renal osteodystrophy. Recommended intakes usually range from 800-1,000 milligrams per day with hemodialysis and less than 1,200 milligrams per day with periotoneal dialysis.
Potassium: Potassium restrictions depend on serum potassium levels, the type of dialysis, medications, and residual renal function. Patients on hemodialysis are usually restricted to 2,000-3,000 milligrams per day to prevent hyperkalemia between treatments. Patients on peritoneal dialysis may follow a more liberal dietary potassium intake, as potassium is lost in the dialysate solution during daily exchanges.
Kidney Stones
About 12 percent of Americans develop a kidney stone at some point in their lives. Stones usually result from the crystallization of calcium (which originally came in foods or supplements) and oxalate, a part of many plant foods. Some people have a tendency to lose excessive amounts of calcium or oxalate through their kidneys, and they have a greater likelihood of a stone.7-10 Kidney stones can also form from uric acid, which is a breakdown product of protein, or from struvite (ammoniomagnesium phosphate) or cystine.
The prevalence of kidney stones is three times higher in men than women, and is higher among Caucasians than Asians or African Americans, for reasons that are not clear. They are especially likely to strike between the ages of 40 and 60.
Nutritional steps are important in preventing stones and can also help prevent recurrences, which is important given that 30-50 percent of people diagnosed with a renal stone have a recurrence within five years.
Preventing stones is like keeping a salt crystal from forming in a glass of salty water. You can either reduce the concentration of salt or add more water. Epidemiologic studies have shown that certain parts of the diet help reduce the amount of calcium that filters into the urine. It is a simple matter to put these factors to work clinically.
Protective Foods
Certain parts of the diet clearly help reduce the risk. The first is no surprise.
Water. Water dilutes the urine and keeps calcium, oxalates, and uric acid in solution. In research studies, those subjects whose total fluid intake (from all sources) over 24 hours was roughly 2.5 liters, the risk of a stone was about one-third less than that of subjects drinking only half that much.7 (They do not need to drink 2.5 liters of water per day; rather this is the total fluid consumption, including juices, soups, etc.) Patients need to understand that their thirst sense can lag behind their hydration status, and they may need to develop a routine for extra water consumption.
High-Potassium Foods. A study of 46,000 men conducted by Harvard University researchers found that a high potassium intake can cut the risk of kidney stones in half. Potassium helps the kidneys retain calcium, rather than sending it out into the urine. Potassium supplements are not generally necessary. Rather, a diet including regular servings of fruits, vegetables, and beans supplies plenty of potassium.
Calcium. Although most stones contain calcium, the calcium in foods does not necessarily contribute to stones. Calcium supplements taken between meals may increase the risk of stones, because about 8 percent of any extra dietary calcium passes into the urine.9,11 On the other hand, calcium consumed with meals has the opposite effect, reducing the risk of stones. The reason, apparently, is that calcium binds to oxalates in foods and holds them in the digestive tract, rather than allowing them to be absorbed.
Caffeine. Caffeinated beverages reduce the risk of stones. Caffeine's diuretic effect causes the loss of both water and calcium, but the water loss is apparently the predominant effect. Similarly, alcoholic beverages are associated with a reduced risk of kidney stones, again presumably due to a diuretic effect. This is not a compelling reason to drink either coffee or alcohol, but their diuretic actions do present this advantage.
Problem Foods
Animal Protein. Animal proteins cause calcium to be leached from the bones and excreted in the urine where it can form stones. Diets rich in animal proteins also increase uric acid excretion. In a controlled research study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, research subjects on a diet eliminating animal protein had less than half the calcium loss that they had on their baseline diet.12
The Harvard study mentioned earlier found that even a modest increase in animal protein, from less than 50 grams to 77 grams per day, was associated with a 33 percent increased risk of stones in men.7 The same is true for women. The Nurses' Health Study, a long-term study of health factors in a large group of women, revealed an even greater risk of stones from animal protein than was found in previous studies in men.9
The association between animal proteins and stones probably relates both to the amount of protein they contain and to their content of the sulfur-containing amino acids. In particular, the sulfur in cystine and methionine is converted to sulfate, which tends to acidify the blood. As a part of the process of neutralizing this acid, bone is dissolved, and bone calcium ends up in the urine. Meats and eggs contain two to five times more of these sulfur-containing amino acids than are found in grains and beans.11,13
Between 1958 and the late 1960s, there was a sharp increase in the incidence of kidney stones in Great Britain. During that period, there was no substantial change in the amount of calcium or oxalate-containing foods consumed. However, the consumption of vegetables decreased, and the use of poultry, fish, and red meat increased. Statistical analyses showed a strong relationship between the incidence of stones and animal protein consumption.14
Sodium. Sodium increases the passage of calcium through the kidney and increases the risk of stones.9 When people cut their salt (sodium chloride) intake in half, they reduce their daily need for calcium by about 160 milligrams.15
Plants of any kind—grains, vegetables, legumes, and fruits—contain almost no sodium at all unless it is added during canning or other processing. Dairy products and meats contain more salt than plant products, and table salt, frozen meals, and canned and snack foods are the highest-sodium food products. For more information, see the sodium/potassium chart in Section 5.
Sugar. Sugar accelerates calcium losses through the kidney.16 In the Nurses' Health Study, those who consumed, on average, 60 grams or more of sugar (sucrose) per day had a 50 percent higher risk of stones than those who consumed only about 20 grams.9
Climate. Kidney stones are also more common in warm climates, presumably because perspiration leads to dehydration and a more concentrated urine, and because sunlight increases the production of vitamin D in the skin which, in turn, increases calcium absorption from the digestive tract.17
Surprisingly, oxalate-rich foods, such as chocolate, nuts, tea, and spinach, are not associated with a higher risk of renal stones,7 nor is vitamin C, even though it can be converted to oxalate. A large study of men taking vitamin C supplements found that they had no more kidney stones than men who do not take them.8
Helping Patients Avoid Kidney Stones
Here are simple steps to help your patients avoid kidney stones.
Cranberry Juice: An Old Remedy Is Clinically Tested
Cranberry juice has long been used as a folk remedy for urinary infections. A 1994 report in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that it does indeed have at least a preventive effect. In a test involving 153 elderly women in Boston, half the subjects drank 300 milliliters (about one and one-quarter cups) of cranberry juice cocktail each day, using the same bottled beverage that is commonly sold in grocery stores.18 The other subjects consumed a drink that looked and tasted like cranberry juice, but had no real juice in it.
Over the next six months, urine samples were collected and tested for signs of bacteria. The women consuming cranberry juice had only 42 percent as many urinary infections as the control group. The number of cases that had to be treated by antibiotics was also only about half, which is a real advantage, since antibiotics can sometimes lead to yeast infections and other problems. It takes about four to eight weeks for the preventive effect to be seen.
The explanation for the effect of cranberry juice is probably not an acidification of the urine, because the placebo drink also reduced urinary pH. Rather, cranberries contain a substance that stops bacteria from being able to attach to cells, and this is probably true whether the cranberry juice reaches the bacteria in the digestive tract or the urinary tract. Substances that interfere with bacterial adhesion have also been found in blueberry juice, but not in orange, grapefruit, pineapple, mango, or guava juice.
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KCTV5 Investigates visited a dozen different fast food restaurants, convenience stores and a café on both sides of the state line to find out what might be on the self-serve machines that dispense drinks.
A study published in 2010 by the International Journal of Food Microbiology discovered soda machines harboring micro organisms like e-Coli and staph. Bacteria, including coliform, were found in nearly half the samples, sometimes in high levels.
Researchers say those substances can cause gastric distress in most people and bigger problems for those with weakened immune systems.
If someone is wondering what might be found on soda machines closer to home, KCTV5 filed an open records request for the Kansas City, MO, Health Department inspection reports of bars, restaurants and convenience stores.
The documents revealed city food inspectors have cited area businesses for extra growths appearing on their soda fountains.
"It's a critical violation, mold build up on a food contact surface," Environmental Public Health program manager, Naser Jouhari, said.
Jouhari pointed out his health inspectors can only issue violations for problems they can see with the naked eye.
To find out exactly what those inspectors might not be detecting, KCTV5 sent an undercover producer, armed with sterile swabs, to wipe down the nozzles of a dozen different machines.
The swabs were put into a styrofoam cooler, packed and shipped overnight to the EMSL analytical lab in St. Louis for testing.
EMSL microbiologist Nikki Palen gathered samples from each of the 12 sponges and dropped them onto plates, which were loaded into the incubator.
Within 48 hours, evidence of contamination began to show.
Signs of yeast and mold appeared on 75 percent of the plates with telltale growths of black and green.
KCTV5 investigative reporter Eric Chaloux met with Palen at the EMSL analytical lab to go over the results.
"Anything surprise you? That some of these were growing on soda fountains?" Chaloux asked.
"A little bit surprised at some of them," Palen replied.
The lab also detected high levels of bacteria on a quarter of the soda machines swabbed by KCTV5.
One sample in particular, from a Lenexa convenience store at West 86th Street parkway and Quivera Road, produced some special scrutiny.
"Is this one ... safe to touch, without the gloves?" Chaloux asked.
"I wouldn't," Palen said. "This definitely can cause food poisoning and things of that nature."
"It originates from?" Chaloux asked.
"Typically a source of fecal contamination," Palen said. "That means somebody brought it from human feces somewhere,"
"Eww." Chaloux reacted.
"Yeah, something you wouldn't want to eat," Palen said.
"It means bathroom usually ... didn't wash their hands," said Rebecca Horvat, a microbiologist at the University of Kansas Medical Cancer center upon reviewing KCTV5's lab results.
"No matter how healthy you are, certain strains out there can knock you down?" Chaloux asked.
"Yes, that is right," Horvat said. "There are certain strains that are pathogenic so speak. Those are bad."
As for microorganisms making people sick, Horvat says problems are usually caused by the kinds of bacteria rather than the amount.
"It's common to have bacteria everywhere," Horvat said. But not in certain things. You don't want them in your food."
KCTV5's test results did not specify the type of coliform that was discovered on the soda machine at that Lenexa store.
A spokeswoman associated with that location says it has taken steps to investigate and address the issue.
In the meantime, to determine whether or not a soda fountain is safe for to use, food inspectors suggest people get in the habit of looking up at each dispenser. Any discoloration of the inner, white nozzle could indicate mold and a reason to move on.
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Case study details the right way and the wrong way to successfully develop and market a new drug
Beginning with the untimely death of a young mother, A History of a cGMP Medical Event Investigation unfolds a fictitious case study that captures how unchecked human flaws during the development and launch of a new drug can lead to disastrous consequences. Moreover, it illustrates how and why Six Sigma principles and methods should be applied to fully comply with FDA regulations at every stage of drug development and commercialization.
From initial transgenic mouse studies to the FDA fatality investigation, this case study introduces all the key regulations and practices that govern the development, manufacture, and marketing of a new drug, including:
- FDA Investigational and New Drug Application Processes
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Readers will also be introduced to a variety of managers and researchers whose personal agendas conflict with best practices and therefore compromise the safety and effectiveness of a new drug product. Throughout the case study, the author offers tested and proven practices and tips so that these human flaws are not translated into drug product flaws. These practices and tips are critical and typically can only be learned through years of experience working in competitive drug development environments.
A History of a cGMP Medical Event Investigation is ideal for students in biotechnology, pharmacology, engineering, and business management as well as professionals in biomedical and drug development. All readers will discover what can go wrong in developing and bringing a new drug to market. Most importantly, they will also learn how to apply Six Sigma principles and methods to ensure safe and effective product design, development, and manufacturing.
Preface xi
Part One The Event 1
1 Francesca 3
Part Two Drug Discovery: Five Years Earlier 9
2 Katlin Bioscience: Transgenic Mouse Study 11
3 Oxy–Fox Inhaler 21
3.1 Kinnen Laboratories 21
3.2 Kinnen Laboratories: Oxy–Fox Transfer 22
3.3 Due–Diligence Team and Katlin Data Acceptance 23
Part Three Kinnen Oxy–Fox Inhaler Market Launch Program 25
4 Agency IND and NDA Requirements, Six Sigma Charter, and Device Master Record 27
4.1 Launch Team Meeting Number 1 27
4.2 Meeting with Medical Affairs: Toxicity Studies 46
5 Meeting Minutes Guidelines 49
5.1 Launch Team Meeting Number 2 49
6 Project Timing, Marketing Plan, and Offshore Molding 55
6.1 Launch Team Meeting Number 3 55
6.2 Project Financial Review 61
6.3 Progress Meeting: Who Takes Credit for What? 64
6.4 Morning Meeting: Just–in–Time Manufacturing 65
7 cGMP Process Validation Requirements 69
7.1 Launch Team Meeting Number 4 69
8 Failure Mode Effects Analysis 81
8.1 Launch Team Meeting Number 5 81
9 Design for Manufacturability, Design for Six Sigma, Concurrent Design 93
9.1 Product Development Meeting Number 1 93
9.2 Update Meeting with Ed Chase and Gordon Taylor 102
10 Design Fishbone Diagram 105
10.1 Launch Team Meeting Number 6 105
11 Product Specifications 111
11.1 Product Development Meeting Number 2 111
12 Design Control 115
12.1 Design Team Meeting Number 7 115
12.2 Product Development Staff Meeting 118
12.3 Engineering One–on–One 119
12.4 Program Update 120
13 Design of Experiments (DOE) 123
13.1 Molding Team Meeting 123
14 Start–Up Issues 129
14.1 Oxy–Fox Inhaler Wrap–Up and Equipment Start–Up 129
14.2 The Final Management Review 135
Part Four Present Day: Funeral 139
15 Grief 141
16 The Autopsy Results 145
17 The Agency 151
Part Five Agency Medical Event Letter 155
18 Kinnen Notification 157
18.1 Another Agency Letter 157
18.2 Medical Event Review Meeting 158
19 Investigation Team Management 161
19.1. Morning Meeting with Gail Strom, Marcia Hines, and Dan Garvey 161
20 DMAIC Investigation Process 163
21 Internal Quality Review 171
21.1 Meeting with Gail Strom and Marcia Hines 171
21.2 Executive Management Review 174
22 The Agency Audit Letter 179
23 Agency Arrival 183
24 The Audit 187
24.1 Agency Meeting to Review Qualification Documents and the Quality Acceptance Records of First Lot to Stock 187
24.2 Agency Meeting to Review the Oxy–Fox Inhaler Lot Used in the NDA Clinical Studies 189
24.3 Agency Meeting to Review the Design and Program Team Meeting Minutes 190
24.4 Agency Meeting to Review the Due–Diligence Report Katlin Studies, and Oxy–Fox Design History File, 192
25 End–of–Day Agency Wrap–Up Meeting 197
26 Kinnen Management Review 201
Part Six Reckoning 207
27 Blame and Responsibility 209
27.1 The Investigation Is a Public Record 209
27.2 Kinnen Wrap–Up 210
28 Closure 213
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23 Kan. App. 2d 580
No. 75,578
STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. CHADWICK A. CASHMAN, Appellant.
1. K.S.A. 21-4618 provides if a firearm is "used" during the commission of certain crimes, a mandatory prison sentence must be imposed.
2. The requirement of imprisonment for the use of a firearm in committing involuntary manslaughter and the imposition of an additional consecutive sentence for the unlawful possession of a firearm do not constitute either multiplicity or double jeopardy.
Appeal from Shawnee District Court; JAMES P. BUCHELE, judge. Opinion filed February 28, 1997. Affirmed.
Edward G. Collister, special appellate defender, and Steven R. Zinn, deputy appellate defender, for the appellant.
Gwynne E. Harris, assistant district attorney, Joan M. Hamilton, district attorney, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, for the appellee.
Before BRAZIL, C.J., PIERRON and ROYSE, JJ.
PIERRON, J.: On May 15, 1991, Chadwick D. Cashman was charged with first-degree murder. On September 9, 1991, he pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter, as defined by K.S.A. 21-3404 (Ensley 1988), and unlawful possession of a firearm, as defined by K.S.A. 1990 Supp. 21-4204.
On October 30, 1991, Cashman was sentenced to 3 to 10 years for involuntary manslaughter and 2 to 5 years for unlawful possession of a firearm. The sentencing court ordered consecutive sentences; it did not grant any jail time credit. After sentencing, Cashman asked the court to grant him credit for time served. The court indicated it would credit Cashman with the time he had been in custody.
After the involuntary manslaughter conviction but prior to the October 30, 1991, sentencing, Cashman's probation on a misdemeanor conviction was revoked and he was serving time for that conviction. On August 16, 1991, Cashman had been sentenced to 1 year in the county jail on the misdemeanor charge, back dated to July 16, 1991.
On February 6, 1992, Cashman filed a motion to modify sentence in which he asked for credit for time held in pretrial confinement between May 4, 1991, and October 30, 1991. On the same date, Cashman also filed a motion to amend sentence, asking the court to run his sentences concurrently rather than consecutively.
Cashman filed another motion for jail time credit on August 16, 1993, asking for the jail time credit from May 11, 1991, to sentencing on October 30, 1991, for a total of 172 days. On May 22, 1995, he again filed a motion to credit jail time, asking the court to credit him with jail time for the period of May 11, 1991 to July 16, 1991.
On July 11, 1995, the court granted Cashman 65 days of credit for the period from May 11, 1991 to July 16, 1991. On August 29, 1995, the court denied Cashman's motion to modify sentence where he asked that his sentences be run concurrently rather than consecutively.
Cashman claims the district court erred in calculating his jail time credit. The court partially granted Cashman's motion to credit jail time on July 11, 1995. Cashman's notice of appeal from this order was filed on September 8, 1995. Cashman did not file within 10 days of the order. His appeal is not timely, and this court does not have jurisdiction to review this issue.
Cashman also claims the district court erred by denying his motion to modify. He claims that since he was given a mandatory imprisonment sentence for involuntary manslaughter because a firearm was involved, his sentence for possession of a firearm should at least run concurrent with the involuntary manslaughter sentence; otherwise, he is being punished twice for the same act. The State offers no argument on this double jeopardy/multiplicity issue.
|"Multiplicity in a criminal pleading is the charging of two or more counts where only a single criminal act is involved. K.S.A. 21-3107(1) provides that an individual may be charged with multiple violations arising from a single transaction when the same conduct may establish the commission of more than one crime. The principles for determining whether charges are multiplicitous are: (1) A single offense may not be divided into separate parts; generally, a single wrongful act may not furnish the State with the basis for more than one criminal prosecution. (2) If each offense charged requires proof of a fact not required in proving the other offense, the offenses do not merge. (3) Where offenses are committed separately, at different times and at different places, they cannot be said to rise out of a single wrongful act. [Citation omitted.]" State v. Manzanares, 19 Kan. App. 2d 214, 220, 866 P.2d 1083 (1994).
K.S.A. 21-4618 states that if a firearm is "used" during the commission of certain crimes, a mandatory prison sentence must be imposed. See also State v. Rasler, 216 Kan. 582, 533 P.2d 1262 (1975); State v. Coleman, 19 Kan. App. 2d 412, 870 P. 2d 695, rev. denied 255 Kan. 1004 (1994). Cashman was properly charged with two different crimes, involuntary manslaughter and unlawful possession of a firearm. The involuntary manslaughter sentence contained mandatory imprisonment because a firearm was used during the commission of the crime, not because Cashman possessed a firearm. Therefore, there are no multiplicity or double jeopardy issues.
K.S.A. 21-4608 leaves it within the district court's discretion to run sentences consecutively or concurrently. The district court did not abuse its discretion.


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In sports, everybody is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like Curtis Granderson, who no longer has to carry the hopes and dreams of a shattered city on his shoulders. Plus, there's less running to do.
The Yankees, Tigers and Diamondbacks are inching oh so ever closer to a maybe possible not there just yet—almost got it!; no, not quite!—but definitely a done deal that will have multiple baseball players calling the moving company. At the center is Granderson, the heart of Detroit's late-decade resurgence into respectability. The player who seemed birthed specifically to bat leadoff and patrol the gigantic centerfield acreage of Comerica Park for the rest of his days. Instead, he's just another Starting Lineup figurine to be placed on George Steinbrenner's beautiful oak shelves.
Oh, sure the Tigers are being well-compensated for their troubles and contract extensions, blah blah. Maybe it's not a fire sale, maybe it's not exactly the rich robbing the poor. (More like the ultrarich taking from the slightly less rich.) But it sure feels like it. Everybody likes Granderson. He could have been the face of the Tigers for many, many years ... a nice respectable, un-juiced, non-wife beating guy—and now ... just like that ... he's a fucking Yankee. Good for him.
Honorable Mention: The Memphis Grizzlies. Seriously, they actually won something. Savor it, fellas.


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WASHINGTON (AP) The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose just 1,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 308,000, hovering near six-year lows. The tiny increase suggests companies are still cutting very few jobs.
The Labor Department says the less volatile four-week average for applications fell to 305,000. That's the lowest since May 2007, seven months before the recession began. The average has been distorted by an artificially low number four weeks ago when California and Nevada weren't able to process all their applications due to computer upgrades.
Applications are a proxy for layoffs. They have fallen steadily in the past three months as companies have cut fewer workers. That's typically followed by more hiring. But instead, job gains have slowed in recent months.


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Maybe the word "homeward[s]" comes into it.... [Still thinking (is there an icon for that?)...]
English Teacher
A common error the (Thai) students in my school make is "I go to home". There was a discussion in our teachers room today about explaining this but none of us could come up with a reason why this is incorrect.
You can go to school, go to church etc but you can't go to home. We know it's wrong but can't come up with reason beyond "it just is"
Any ideas?
Maybe the word "homeward[s]" comes into it.... [Still thinking (is there an icon for that?)...]
My guess is that 'home' in the phrase 'go home' takes on an adverbial value, rather like saying 'to go south'. You couldn't possibly say 'to go to south', could you?
Whose explanation is 'entirely respectable'?
Look at the post above yours - there's a box of blue colour containing the previous poster's comments to which Raymott was referring in his post.
Look at this post and what can you see now? Again, there's a blue box, but this time with your comments from your previous post, and I am referring to your post in my post now.
that was an 'entirely respectable' (and detailed) reply!
Thanks for the replies.
Given that some of the students struggle to understand the difference between a noun and a verb when asked, even if they can otherwise communicate fairly well, I'll stick with "just is" for now.
Well, maybe it would be advisable to present them parts of the speech. This could help them a lot. Why don't you compair English with Thai? If they are not advanced enough to learn it in English, it would be easy in Thai.


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Characterisation of extreme winter precipitation in Mediterranean coastal sites and associated anomalous atmospheric circulation patterns
We present an analysis of daily extreme precipitation events for the extended winter season (October–March) at 20 Mediterranean coastal sites covering the period 1950–2006. The heavy tailed behaviour of precipitation extremes and estimated return levels, including associated uncertainties, are derived applying a procedure based on the Generalized Pareto Distribution, in combination with recently developed methods. Precipitation extremes have an important contribution to make seasonal totals (approximately 60% for all series). Three stations (one in the western Mediterranean and the others in the eastern basin) have a 5-year return level above 100 mm, while the lowest value (estimated for two Italian series) is equal to 58 mm. As for the 50-year return level, an Italian station (Genoa) has the highest value of 264 mm, while the other values range from 82 to 200 mm. Furthermore, six series (from stations located in France, Italy, Greece, and Cyprus) show a significant negative tendency in the probability of observing an extreme event. The relationship between extreme precipitation events and the large scale atmospheric circulation at the upper, mid and low troposphere is investigated by using NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data. A 2-step classification procedure identifies three significant anomaly patterns both for the western-central and eastern part of the Mediterranean basin. In the western Mediterranean, the anomalous southwesterly surface to mid-tropospheric flow is connected with enhanced moisture transport from the Atlantic. During ≥5-year return level events, the subtropical jet stream axis is aligned with the African coastline and interacts with the eddy-driven jet stream. This is connected with enhanced large scale ascending motions, instability and leads to the development of severe precipitation events. For the eastern Mediterranean extreme precipitation events, the identified anomaly patterns suggest warm air advection connected with anomalous ascent motions and an increase of the low- to mid-tropospheric moisture. Furthermore, the jet stream position (during ≥5-year return level events) supports the eastern basin being in a divergence area, where ascent motions are favoured. Our results contribute to an improved understanding of daily precipitation extremes in the cold season and associated large scale atmospheric features.מידע נוסף
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contents of a Background Paper that was prepared for the meeting.
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Using the Nook App for iPhone/iPod touch and iPad
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Mark memorable passages: Do you want to cite a particular section in a term paper or discuss it in book club? Highlight the text by dragging your finger across it. You can even type in a note. Nook provides the e-version of writing in the margins.
Customize the look of your book: Tap the center of the screen from any page you're reading and a controls bar appears at the top. From this bar you can change the font, screen tint, type colors, and line spacing to suit your personal visual tastes. For those of you who like to read into the wee hours of the morning, you can adjust the screen brightness so your partner can enjoy uninterrupted slumber right next to you.
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Although the Nook's functionality is similar in the iPhone/iPad touch version and the iPad version, the apps are not the same. If you want Nook on all of these devices, you have to download two separate apps.
Dictionary on demand: If you come across a word you don't know, just touch it and Nook's dictionary will bring up the definition. If the app dictionary doesn't contain the word, Nook gives you the option of looking it up on Google or Wikipedia.
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Loan your library: If you've downloaded a book that Barnes & Noble designates as a "LendMe" selection, you'll be able to e-loan it out to your friends for two weeks.
Rate what you've read: If you're an iPhone/iPod touch Nook user, you can assign a rating from none to five stars for the books you read, but this rating is basically for your own reference. Whereas iPad Nook users can actually provide ratings and comments that other iPad Nook users can read. This public rating feature seems to be the biggest difference in functionality between the two Nook app versions.


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Wide Color Enhancer Plus - With Wide Color Enhancer Plus, you'll witness a wider spectrum of colors on your screen, just like the director intended. You'll enjoy enriched colors while watching your favorite movies, and shows, even if it's older, non-HD content.
720p HD - Experience a great picture with Samsung HD 720p LED TV. You can catch all the details of your favorite films and games.
Clear Motion Rate 120 - View every detail of action-packed movies and sports with Clear Motion Rate 120, a great level of motion-clarity. The Samsung CMR uses the frame refresh rate, image processor speed and backlight technology to measure fast action.
Eco Sensor - With Eco Sensor, your TV can intelligently adapt its picture according to the intensity of the light in the room. This technology measures the amount of existing light and automatically adjusts the brightness of the image on the TV.
ConnectShare Movie - Watch videos, play music or view photos from a USB connection with ConnectShare Movie. You don't need a PC or special equipment-just plug your USB directly into your Samsung TV's USB Port and entertain family and friends.
HDMI - High-quality single-cable digital audio/video interface for connecting the TV to a digital cable box, satellite box, DVD & Blu-ray Player, PC computers, PC portable devices, new generation tablets and devices featuring the HDMI output.
Dolby Digital Plus - Optimizes the TV sound quality when viewing and listening to Internet movies, Internet music and other content played back from wired or wireless mobile phones, PCs, and tablet devices.
DTS Studio Sound - Processes standard 2-channel stereo audio tracks to deliver a full range surround sound effect with enhanced bass and dialog clarity. Digital Out means the device can also output the DTS bitstream via digital outputs (S/PDIF or HDMI) to a receiver to decode DTS audio.
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Series - H4000
Type - LEDBezel Width - 0.5"Stand Type (Color) - Square Stand (Black)
Screen Size - 23.6" Measured DiagonallyResolution - 1366 x 768Clear Motion Rate - 120
Dolby - YesSound Effect - DTS Studio SoundDTS Premium Sound - DTS 2.0Sound Output (RMS) - 3W x 2Speaker Type - Down Firing + Full Range
Wide Color Enhancer - YesConnectShare - MovieOSD Language - English, Spanish, FrenchV-Chip - YesGame Mode - YesEco Sensor - Yes
Inputs & Outputs
HDMI - 2USB - 1Component - 1Composite In (AV) - 1 (Common Use for Component Y)RF In (Terrestrial/Cable Input) - 1Digital Audio Out (Optical) - 1
Product Size (W x H x D) Without Stand - 22.1" x 13.7" x 1.9"Product Size (W x H x D) With Stand - 22.1" x 15.1" x 6.4"Shipping Size (W x H x D) - 29.3" x 16" x 4.5"
Product Weight Without Stand - 8.6 lb.Product Weight With Stand - 9.0 lb.Shipping Weight - 11.2 lb.
Power Supply (V) - AC110-120V 60HzStandby Power Consumption - Under 0.3W
DTV Tuner - DTV Tuner: ATSC / Clear QAMAnalog Tuner - Yes
Remote - Standard Remote Control (TM1240B)Remote Control Battery - YesVesa Wall Mount Compatibility - Yes (75 x 75)Slim Gender Cable - YesPower Cable - YesUser Manual - YesE-Manual - Yes