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International Harmonization of Regulation of Nanomedicine
Gary E. Marchant
Arizona State University - College of Law
Douglas J. Sylvester
Arizona State University - College of Law
Kenneth W. Abbott
Arizona State University
Tara Lynn Danforth
Center for Law, Science, & Technology
October 20, 2009
Studies on Ethics, Law, and Technology, 2009
Nanomedicine holds enormous promise for the improved prevention, detection and treatment of disease. Yet, at the same time, countervailing concerns about the potential safety risks of nanotechnologies generally, and nanomedical products specifically, threaten to derail or at least delay the introduction and commercial viability of many nanomedicine applications. All around the globe, national governments are struggling with balancing these competing benefits and risks of nanotechnology in the medical and other sectors. It is becoming increasingly clear that reasonable, effective and predictable regulatory structures will be critical to the successful implementation of nanotechnology. The question examined in this paper is whether there are mechanisms of international harmonization or cooperation that can facilitate the development of more effective and efficient regulatory regimes for nanomedicine?
Part I of this paper briefly summarizes the promise of nanomedicine as well as potential concerns about the risks of nanomedical applications that will require regulatory oversight. In Part II, we analyze the various factors weighing for and against attempts to harmonize regulatory requirements at the international level. Finally, in Part III we identify some specific existing or feasible mechanisms that may be useful for fostering international harmonization in the regulation of nanomedicine.
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Keywords: nanotechnology, regulation, technology, biotechnology, EPA, FDA, NIOSH, risk, medicine, nanomedicind, ethics, harmonization
Date posted: October 21, 2009 ; Last revised: March 30, 2013
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Robert Adams planned on a quiet family vacation in Laguna Beach this winter, but when the popular Canadian book reviewer was asked if he'd be willing to do just one lecture during his two-month stay in Orange County he says he couldn't resist.
"I miss the speaking," says Adams, who with his wife Pearl travels here often to visit their daughter and granddaughter in Laguna. "And when a friend of a friend got in touch with me and said, 'Would you like to speak in the program,' I thought, 'Yes, yes, yes!'"
And so on Wednesday, Adams will deliver one of the theatrical book talks for which he is known, discussing Elie Wiesel's 1992 novel "The Forgotten" at an Irvine school.
"I like 'The Forgotten' because it has to do with memory," Adams says of his choice for the talk. "And as I get older the possibility of memory fading and forgetting becomes real to me."
The novel revolves around a father who survived the Holocaust sharing his fading memories with his son, and in the process launching his child on a mission that combines both past and present.
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Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning author perhaps best known for the memoir "Night," is sometimes unfairly criticized as creating only one mood – melancholy – in his fiction and non-fiction works, many of which focus on the Holocaust which he himself survived as a teenager. Adams says "The Forgotten" offers much more to its readers.
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Adams, who for years sold more than 20,000 tickets a year to book talks, and whose recommendations could spark sales in Canadian bookstores, on several past trips to Orange County delivered lectures in Laguna Beach. In recent years, though, he'd scaled back some of his speaking schedule, instead developing a niche as a lecturer for Crystal Cruises, which allowed him to travel the world with his wife while also talking about his best-loved books.
When we spoke five years ago before his last appearance in Orange County, Adams had declared himself a diehard believer in physical books, extolling the joys of reading a book whenever and wherever in contrast to being tied down to a computer to read digital versions. Since then, of course, Kindles and Nooks and iPads have made sweeping changes in the ways readers consume their literature, so we wondered whether he was still an old-school aficionado of the printed word on paper.
"I'm watching across the room my wife reading on her iPad," he says. "But I've resisted it. Of course, it's the wave of the future, they're wonderful things. But I am still used to the physical presence of a book. It's hard to change. I'll read a Kindle over my wife's shoulder. I'll read an iPad over her shoulder. She shows me things. But my experience is entirely with books."
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On Rebuilding - Part 5, The Los Angeles Kings
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(Rex continues his rebuilding Odyssey series. Today he looks at the Cup champs.)
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What is the common belief about the Kings rebuild? Was it injuries that annihilated them and put them into a high draft position to which they then became addicted? Did ownership want to cut costs? Was it repeated failure to win a Stanley Cup after years of trying to import high-end talent?
For the sake of this series let us agree that the general theory about the rebuild in L.A. is that Lombardi was hired to do it right, regardless of the timeline, after many years of failing to win a championship by other means. Based on that premise would it be reasonable to hypothesize that Philip Anschutz and AEG hired Lombardi in order to gradually draft and develop a top-flight team that would bring a Stanley Cup to Los Angeles?
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AEG purchased the Kings from Jeffrey Sudikoff and Joseph Cohen in 1995, ending a short-lived rebound relationship for that franchise after Bruce McNall sold the team in 1994*.
*(As an interesting footnote to history, it was McNall's leadership of the Board of Governors at the time that shifted the vote in favour of Gary Bettman as the league's commissioner)
AEG, for what it is worth, seems to be largely a hands-off owner, in NHL terms. Aside from hirings and firings, there appears to be little else that they directly influence in the day-to-day workings of the Kings team. They have multiple other sports franchise ventures, including heavy involvement in Major League Soccer. This diversification may lead to giving the Kings a welcome degree of autonomy.
AEG hired Dean Lombardi after firing Dave Taylor as President and GM of the Kings at the end of the 2005-2006 season. Following Taylor out the door was the coaching staff, assistant coaches and the CEO of the Kings, Tim Leiweke. Lombardi had worked most recently as a scout for the Flyers and was formerly the GM of the San Jose Sharks, so he came to the job with experience and a recent tutorial in the draft process.
The Draft Acquisitions
Prior to Lombardi's hiring the Kings had already drafted players such as Dustin Brown, Jonathan Quick, and Anze Kopitar. All were players that would eventually give the team the bones around which to build in the future. Lombardi's early tenure with the organization bears some telltale marks of an organization prioritizing the draft. There were very few bodies that the Kings could have offered in trade as they had all more or less already been traded away due to financial concerns following McNall's ownership. Or had left in free agency.
However, Lombardi's first trade was to send Pavol Demitra to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for Patrick O'Sullivan and a 1st round pick that became Trevor Lewis. Lombardi's moves during the initial phase of his rebuild were, in what is now a standard rebuilding fashion, to move bodies for draft picks. In fact, following the trade with Carolina that sent Eric Belanger and Tim Gleason east for Oleg Tverdovsky and Jack Johnson, Lombardi made 18 consecutive trades (save a deadline day free agent rental of Jamie Heward where the Kings offered only a conditional draft pick that was not exercised) where LA received draft picks as their primary return.
Most of Lombardi's moves were to target the peripheral players that wouldn't be part of a new core and/or who would only have unrealized value on a fading team. Lombardi was trading away players like Sean Avery, Brent Sopel, Mattias Norstrom, Craig Conroy, Brad Stuart, and Michael Cammalleri. All of them were were solid NHL players to varying degrees, but had they remained on the Kings roster they would only have served to falsely inflate the performance of a fundamentally poor team.
Los Angeles turned some of those picks into Colten Teubert, Alec Martinez, and Wayne Simmonds. After emphasizing the draft Lombardi spent a great deal of time wheeling and dealing his way through the draft order. On June 20th 2008, Lombardi was a key architect of a deal that saw the Flames acquire Cammalleri and a 2nd round pick (Mitch Wahl), the Buffalo Sabres get the 12th pick overall (Tyler Myers – originally the 1st round pick that the Oilers forfeited to Anaheim in the Dustin Penner offer sheet), the Ducks would receive two first round picks, 17th and 28th overall that were used on Jake Gardiner and Viktor Tikhonov, respectively, and the Kings got a first round pick, 13th overall (Colten Teubert), a 2nd round pick (Brian Dumoulin) and a 2009 3rd round pick later sent to the Flames (Ryan Howse) for two more picks in the 3rd and 4th round of that year's draft.
When Lombardi is accused of being a used-car salesman it is not entirely without some merit based on his aggressiveness in dealing players and picks. In spite of all this, the Kings never reached the levels of draft day bonanza that the Blackhawks did in 2004. In the 2007 and 2009 draft years, the Kings had ten picks in the seven rounds. In 2006 and 2008 they had nine. Both are rates higher than most playoff-level and championship teams, but not in the realm of a meltdown-rebuild similar to Chicago in 2004 (17 picks) or Washington in 2002 and 2004 (13 picks in each of those years).
So while Lombardi has been aggressive in his acquisition of draft picks for his team, often loading up on selections beyond the standard one pick per round, he has never exceeded the usual upper limit for rebuilding teams of ten picks in a given year.
With all those selections, did the Kings have any more success than other rebuilding teams at the draft table? Between 2005 and 2009, LA made 46 selections in the amateur draft: seven 1st round picks, seven 2nd round picks, eight in the 3rd round, five in the 4th, seven in the 5th, five in the 6th, and seven in the 7th. Ten of those picks have had an impact on the NHL level in Kopitar, Quick, Lewis, Jonathan Bernier, Wayne Simmonds, Alec Martinez, Drew Doughty, Brayden Schenn, Vyacheslav Voynov and Kyle Clifford. That is a 21.7% success rate, well above the league average of approximately 13%.
The Kings have never won the draft lottery, despite being in the top five three times in the last five years. They have been fortunate in the emergence of some of their depth draft selections in Jonathan Quick and Alec Martinez. However, it should be noted that many of the impact players the club drafted and developed have been selected in the first, second or third rounds.
During this rebuilding period the Kings had the misfortune of being a terrible team in an era of terrible teams. In 2007, they were only bad enough to be able to draft as high as 4th overall where they (mistakingly) took Thomas Hickey. The following year the Kings were bad enough, and their draft-day competitors in Pittsburgh, Chicago and Washington had improved enough, that they were able to draft 2nd overall (Drew Doughty). The year after, they climbed as high as 5th overall and selected Brayden Schenn.
Out of those lottery picks, only Doughty has had any direct impact on the team. Hickey is still developing but at this point appears unlikely to cover the Kings bet in taking him so high, while Schenn was part of the exchange that brought in Mike Richards. For those who believe the lottery is an uncertain, or unnecessary, path to building a team, the Kings provide a confirmational case study.
Nevertheless, the success rate of the Kings drafting and the talent that they were able to add throughout the draft in a relatively short period of time (seven years from the hiring of Dean Lombardi to their appearance in a Stanley Cup final as a favoured team after a dominant playoff performance) should speak to how a draft-and-develop strategy can work when well-executed. The Kings have also suffered their fair share of prospect defections with Oscar Moller, Bud Holloway, John Zeiler and Corey Elkins all leaving the AHL to play in Europe. Their value as prospects can be debated given the team's success without them, however, the fact that all four played for the Monarchs just prior to leaving suggests that there are some issues to resolve, either with the AHL franchise or with the character assessments by the Kings' scouts.
My Kingdom for a Kovalchuk
In 2009-2010 Lombardi finally stopped selling and started buying.
Or at least he tried to.
When Ilya Kovalchuk went on the market during the February trade deadline in 2010, LA was one of the final bidders, losing out to New Jersey. Lombardi was very displeased with missing out on Kovalchuk, and instead acquired first Alexei Ponikarovsky as a free agent, then traded for Ryan Smyth in the same off-season. He also added Jeff Halpern and Fredrik Modin, then Dustin Penner, Mike Richards and most recently Jeff Carter.
When Lombardi has chosen a direction for the Kings he has pursued it aggressively. As an example, recently trading 1st round draft picks in consecutive years* for forwards Carter and Penner. Lombardi has never shied away from making roster moves and is seemingly fearless about moving nearly any asset, be it a roster player or highly-coveted prospect, for what he perceives as a net gain for the franchise.
*(Columbus had the option of deferring the L.A. draft pick in the Carter deal to 2013)
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The Manchester Monarchs of the AHL, the Kings' affiliate, are also owned by AEG. This connection should not be understated as it provides the franchise with an opportunity for a great deal of control and consistency in the player and prospect experience. If run well, this kind of partnership can strengthen a franchise and give it a valuable competitive edge in the area of roster depth and continuity.
The Kings management has been largely unfettered by an intrusive ownership. Dean Lombardi has had a free financial hand with no internal player budget to consider outside of the salary cap. The ownership group controls both the NHL and AHL teams and thus has a single, continuous voice throughout the player development process. Drafting has been a strength of the franchise for the last decade and the Kings have benefited from some timely player acquisitions. The Kings Stanley Cup win this year was too late to make good on the goal of being the first Californiam, but it was still the culmination of many years of slow (at during more recent times, frantic), deliberate building.
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Thanks. The agreement is simple. I keep sending those suitcases of nonsequential, unmarked small denominations to Kent, and he keeps putting up my delusional rants.
It's a symbiotic arrangement.
I am writing a similar article on the Flames that will run at the end of the series. I'll be looking at long-term versus short-term and impacts and such.
That being said, I think you have some good points here and I'll probably add that perspective to my analysis, if you don't mind. ;-)
"Ten of those picks have had an impact on the NHL level in Kopitar, Quick, Lewis, Jonathan Bernier, Wayne Simmonds, Alec Martinez, Drew Doughty, Brayden Schenn, Vyacheslav Voynov and Kyle Clifford. That is a 21.7% success rate, well above the league average of approximately 13%."
The combination of procuring picks and finding and keeping a good amateur scouting staff is a credit to the Kings organization. A model we should have adopted 2 or 3 years ago. Continuing to try to be a middling and likely non playoff team yet again is handicapping and protracting the development path of this team. The Summer Olmypics begin in one week. There will be many insprirational stories about the pursuit of excellence. This organization is not inspired by the same kind of passion. I blame ownership for not reaching for excellence.
"Most of Lombardi's moves were to target the peripheral players that wouldn't be part of a new core and/or who would only have unrealized value on a fading team. Lombardi was trading away players like Sean Avery, Brent Sopel, Mattias Norstrom, Craig Conroy, Brad Stuart, and Michael Cammalleri. All of them were were solid NHL players to varying degrees, but had they remained on the Kings roster they would only have served to falsely inflate the performance of a fundamentally poor team."
Maybe you can send that to Feaster and King.
That aside, the general crux I've taken from all of these articles is that teams take different and often very difficult paths towards a rebuild, but that a well-thought out and managed rebuild has a reasonable chance of bringing ultimate success. Versus, you know, just hanging-on and hoping for different results.
I think the Flames ownership and management truly believe that they are pursuing excellence. The problem with that statement is that it is easy to make and somewhat easy to fabricate evidence of an effort while deflecting a lack of finish as attributable to outside forces (injuries, lack of trade partners, the freemasons, etc).
There are 28 teams in the league that say they are pursuing excellence (Toronto is just pursuing the market and, well, the Islanders?). They can't all be right and they can't all be excellent. This isn't elementary school, and not everyone can win.
I'm not a fan of Feaster and I am very grateful that he isn't the GM of the team I cheer for. That being said, he has brought one significant new aspect to the Flames that was lacking under Sutter's reign, which is a willingness to look at new areas and information for insight into hockey talent.
In that regard alone, I think Feaster has lived up to the definition of intellectual honesty.
The rest of his actions, though, I feel fall somewhat short of that mark.
Hey, long time no comment.
Yeah, there are a few common elements. Toronto, to date, sticks out like a sore thumb, but much of that has to do with the approach taken, or not taken depending on your point of view.
We also have the Islanders and Panthers to cover, as teams that haven't made the transition from terrible to told-ya-so.
Having a plan and sticking to it is definitely a requirement for any management group in a rebuild. It could arguably be tougher to do than to have a plan for a playoff contending team, as L.A. was up until this year, as it takes longer and the optics are so much worse.
To that end, I believe that Feaster has a plan, but it is a strategic plan to maximize their current situation, rather than to objectively assess their current situation and plot out a strategy that looks five or ten years down the road. Nothing inherently wrong with that, but it tends to translate as a deferred cost for continued perseverance and potential mediocrity.
Honestly, I don't think it would be so bad for Flames fans if the teams wasn't constantly compared to the Oilers.
@Rex - out of the country for 4 weeks, still catching up on all the hockey news.
"To that end, I believe that Feaster has a plan, but it is a strategic plan to maximize their current situation, rather than to objectively assess their current situation and plot out a strategy that looks five or ten years down the road. Nothing inherently wrong with that, but it tends to translate as a deferred cost for continued perseverance and potential mediocrity."
That's the problem. The denial that there is a problem at all or least that the problem isn't as big as it actually is.
The Flames believe they can compete and rebuild at the same time, but history would seem to indicate that the two are mutually exclusive.
Feaster isn't the first Flames GM to try it and won't be the last. While the varying Calgary GMs have had different styles, the philosophy remains unchanged since it comes from ownership.
The difference now, or so they hope, is that Feaster has put a ton more resources into scouting and development, implemented advanced stats, etc. So, in that way, he's progressive.
The idea being that Iginla, Hudler, Cvervenka and company keep the team competing for 8th until the improvement in drafting/development can take hold.
IMO it's not enough, the age gap is still too great between the fading stars and the propsects and I don't think Hudler and Cverenka really change that. They may be in their mid-20's, but they're not difference-makers.
July 20 2012, 01:17PM
"Honestly, I don't think it would be so bad for Flames fans if the teams wasn't constantly compared to the Oilers."
I think you're probably right, it's irritating hearing about how the Oilers are doing it, in light of the fact they haven't accomplished anything or are really trending upwardly, at this point.
Having a plan is important. Without one, setting goals for yourself or an organization is a useless waste of time. What is interesting to me is the amount of luck that organization's seem to need in order to right the ship. In the King's case a 21% drafting record in the last few years is outstanding. Now let's see if they can keep that up.
@chinook arch -
"I think you're probably right, it's irritating hearing about how the Oilers are doing it, in light of the fact they haven't accomplished anything or are really trending upwardly, at this point."
Yeah, but tell me that the Oilers getting Justin Schultz on top of Yakupov, Hall, Eberle, Nuge and Gagner doesn't stick in your craw.
You can rebuild on the fly while remaining competitive. Numerous teams have done it. Vancouver, Rangers, Boston, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Minnisota etc... Often these teams spent one year well out of the playoffs, but in general were in the mix year in and year out.
Why not have a look, in this series, at teams that have rebuilt without sucking? This is the model the flames seem to be trying to do. Each of these teams you are covering were bottom feeders for years.
How does these teams rebuild have any barring on wether the flames can rebuild and remain competitive? This series seems focused on the oiler style rebuild trying to show that it is valid. Sure it might be but it would be nice to see another style of rebuild looked at.
I generally agree with what you're saying about the feasibility of Feaster's plan, but just want to make the small point that I think it's too early to say whether or not Cervenka is (or is going to be) a difference-maker.
I'm not saying the kid is a guaranteed world-beater or anything like that, just that he seems to be getting criticized a lot already (not necessarily by you, but in general around here) for something that he hasn't done yet (i.e., be a disappointment, fail to make an impact, etc.). I just think it's a bit unfair to the guy.
Great article once again, and I hope the Nations Overlords see fit to run more of your work in the future even after the rebuilding series is done.
With that said, I think it bears mentioning that Feaster's compromise approach - aiming for 8th while the youngins ripen - may not be in the best long-term interest of the franchise, but it's clearly in the best interest of one J. Feaster. GM tenures tend to be much shorter than 10 years, especially for GMs of non-playoff teams.
In light of this fact, the compromise approach at least has the benefit of trying to improve the franchise's future fortunes, even if that effort is hindered somewhat by the win-now mandate.
July 20 2012, 02:36PM
@chinook arch -
"I think you're probably right, it's irritating hearing about how the Oilers are doing it, in light of the fact they haven't accomplished anything or are really trending upwardly, at this point."
Yeah, but tell me that the Oilers getting Justin Schultz on top of Yakupov, Hall, Eberle, Nuge and Gagner doesn't stick in your craw.
Let's just hope Shultz is way overrated. They also don't seem to appreciate Gagner much either.
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The two, rebuilding and competing, aren't mutually exclusive. But it does appear as though rebuilding and actually winnning a championship are.
smith mentions this, and most seem to like the Philadelphia, or more recently Florida and Ottawa, comparison. While these teams had one bad year, and have subsequently returned to playoff contention, the assets gained in that bad year had little or no impact on their resurgence.
Crosby, the best player in the world by many people's estimation, took four years to take his team from the draft floor to Stanley Cup Champions. He had some help along the way. Is it reasonable to think that any other team can draft first overall for one year and then magically rebound to playoff contention?
I'm just starting to write the Flames article in this series and many of the topics you've mentioned are coming up in my initial research.
The accomplishments of the Oilers will be covered in detail (I apologize about the length in advance) in their article.
The short version is that they improved dramatically in the areas peripheral to the standings. The farm team is competing for the Calder Cup, the coaching ranks have been settled, the development stream has been reinforced and is getting rave reviews, the professional scouting has improved (it wasn't going to get much worse: they traded FOR Patrick O'Sullivan), and the powerplay, penalty kill and goals against all took dramatic steps forward this year.
I agree, at some point it is time to put up or shut up, but remember, much of the ballyhoo is coming from national media. If Flames fans are sick of it then keep these two things in mind: Edmonton fans had to hear nothing but how good Iginla, Phaneuf, Kiprusoff, Regehr and Sutter were for the Flames and that it isn't, generally, Oiler fans doing the hyping aside from Oiler sites.
As Kent would probably say, the Kings are due to return, at some point, to the league average. They're lack of draft picks these past two years will eventually take its toll. We shall see how their drafting and management holds up when this team needs to refuel and try for another run next season and the one after that.
About Gagner...
The Oilers have had an organizational fixation with big centers since a certain St. Albert son left town. Jason Arnott was a temporary fix, but they have spent generations trying to scratch that itch. Isbister, Daze, Hulbig, Bonsignore, etc, etc. Funny thing about that, historically, the team has had the most success with the diminutive yet creative centers. Go figure.
Schultz was overrated by the media, but most people in hockey realize what he is. Essentially the Oilers got an NHL-ready prospect as though they had an extra 1st round pick in the top ten of this year's draft. I suspect he will be a player of similar potential impact as Jeff Petry. Probably a great second pairing when all is said and done.
His first season or two should see some time perhaps in the AHL or as a 3rd pairing guy with plenty of powerplay time. If he graduates to 2nd pairing this season then either he is a quick study or the Oilers are hit by injuries. Nah, that never happens.
Thanks for another great article in the series Rex, I've quite enjoyed reading them.
As far as Schultz playing in the AHL next season, I don't see it happening unless he completely bombs in the NHL. There's a reason he didn't want to play for Anaheim (besides many glaringly obvious ones) - he was probably going to play for their AHL team to start and didn't want to. I get a sense of arrogance from him.
I think part of the attraction to Edmonton, besides playing with some really good, flashy young players, is that Schultz will likely make the team out of camp. If he wasn't directly promised that by the Oilers' management, I'm sure it was implied.
His contract is the maximum possible amount they could give him. Why pay $3.78M for a player you're going to just stick in the AHL?
Thanks. I'm actually flattered that they are getting such a positive response (outside of Toronto, of course).
Schultz had said that his primary motive in leaving Anaheim was a desire to play in Canada. I know, as a fellow Canadian this is a bit of a shock, but looking through his final teams they were all Canadian after the Rangers were eliminated early.
Obviously he can read a depth chart and knows that the Oilers have a dearth of NHL-ready defensive talent right now, but it was communicated ad nauseum by both he and his agent, as well as Ralph Krueger and Tambellini after the fact, that development was his next focus. While the depth chart of the Oilers certainly gives him plenty of latitude, he recognized the change that he could start the season in Oklahoma City and said that he would accept that assignment willingly.
I know that you can always second guess what a player says, but at some point, after the same message is repeated over and over again, one has the choice to either take them at their word or discount everything they say out of hand.
Looking at this with a skeptical eye, I think he saw that at his age he fit into the learning curve of the Oilers perfectly and felt that, at the worst, he would spend two years here before moving on to another (presumably Canadian) team for a better opportunity. At best he has a chance to sign a significant contract and perhaps be a member of a championship-caliber team (I did say, "at best").
One thing I will point out is that Krueger was insistent that he would do what was best for the long-term development of players like Schultz and Yakupov.
We'll see when they finally decide to get back to playing the game on the ice rather than the one in the boardroom.


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Disney's new show, Shake it Up, starring Bella Thorne and Zendaya, is about two best friends (CeCe and Rocky) who land roles as background dancers on a teen dance show "Shake it Up, Chicago." It's got a lot of buzz, and premieres on the Disney Channel Sunday, November 7th at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT.
We sat down with the two new stars to get you the inside scoop! First we spoke to Bella Thorne, who plays Cece:
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Bella: Well CeCe is very outgoing. She has a heart for dance. She will stop at nothing to reach any of her goals. She also has dyslexia. I'm exactly like her, except my mom is not a cop. Her mom is a cop.
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Q: What's the best part of being in Shake It Up?
Bella: Being able to dance with great friends and being able to be so close to everyone on the set.
Q: Did you know any of your co-stars before you got the show?
Bella: Yes, I knew Kenton Duty. He plays Gunther. He plays my arch-rival, and we're just so close. We're such good friends.
Ratha: Good to know! So when they look like they can't stand each other, they're really just utilizing their acting skills.
Q: What's your dressing room like? Did you decorate it yourself?
Bella: Yes, I did. I was the first one to decorate my room. And it's pink and black – the walls are pink and black. I've got a bean bag that says Bella on it, which is so cool! And a lot of pictures of my family and friends. I have a frog in my room.
Q: A real frog?
Bella: Yes, a real frog. Her name is Señorita. And she had a Señor, but he didn't make it.
Ratha: I guess he couldn't handle the fame.
Q: What book would you recommend to a friend?
Bella: The Ghost Girl series (for ages 12 and up). Oh, and The 39 Clues!
Ratha: Awesome picks!
Q: When you were younger did you want to be anything other than an actress?
Bella: I wanted to be a news telecaster. Other than acting, it was the news for me. I don't know why.
Q: What's your favorite thing to do when you have time off, when you're not working or in school? Bella: Reading. Still reading, I'm telling you. Reading and dance!
Ratha: Great combo!
Then we spoke to Zendaya, the TV newcomer who plays Rocky:
Q: Did you take dance classes when you were young?
Zendaya: When I was eight, I was in a hip hop dance troupe called Future Shock Oakland (California). It really helped me understand choreography and how to move my body. Then I also did Hula, which is kind of the opposite of hip hop, but it was really fun, and it helped me with my body's fluidity.
Ratha: That will come in handy if you take a vacation to Hawaii!
Q: Is there any style of dance that you prefer?
Zendaya: A mixture of hip hop pop – which is actually kind of what we do on the show. It's really fun and upbeat. Like if you're in the living room watching it on TV, you're gonna want to get up and start dancing with us.
Q: What's the schedule like for the show's dance choreography?
Zendaya: Well, some episodes we don't have any dancing and some episodes we have a lot of dancing. It varies on the episode. But when we do have a lot of dancing we have dance rehearsals with our choreographer, Rosero McCoy, who's actually from Camp Rock the Final Jam, which is really cool.
Ratha: Not a bad job to have!
Zendaya: Sometimes we don't have very much time to learn the choreography but when we have little time we just keep going over and over and over again and just work it into our bodies, kind of like muscle memory!
Q: You have a huge background in theatre. Was it hard to adapt to television?
Zendaya: It wasn't too bad but it's definitely a complete difference from theatre and television! With our show, we have live tapings, and it kind of resembles being onstage at a theatre.
Q: Describe Rocky.
Zendaya: She's shy, but I just love how warm and kind and generous she is. Her goals in life are to help people, and to dance. She's a really wonderful girl. I would love to be friends with her.
Q: Do you have an all time favorite book that you would recommend?
Zendaya: Actually there is a book that I read in fifth grade called So B. It. It's such a good book. I'm not gonna give it away too much but it's just about this girl and she has a pretty tough life. Her mom has a mental disability and so it's kind of about her growing up and trying to find out who she is. It's a really great book and I love it so much.
Q: If you could play a character in a novel, who would it be?
Zendaya: That's a tough choice. I think the character of the girl in So B. It because it has these funny moments and she's a really funny quirky girl, but sometimes it has drama moments. So it kind of has comedy and drama at the same time – my two favorite aspects of acting.
And there you have it! Will you be watching the show? Let us know in the Comments!
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Each of the distance races includes relay events, which are divided into men's women's and mixed relays.
In the men's sprint relay division, Paul, Blake and Taylor Jensen of Ferron won the men's event out of six teams.
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Skip to comments.5 Messages for 'Elite' Republicans
Posted on 10/27/2009 4:05:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
Conservatives are sick and tired of being taken for granted, misrepresented, and talked down to by the same "elite" Republicans in Washington who hopelessly screwed everything up during the Bush years.
Everybody knows exactly whom we're talking about here. The same snobby, elitist, stuffed shirt, squishy, poll-obsessed Country Club Republicans who went to D.C., forgot who put them there, wasted the incredible opportunity they had to change this country for the better, and are now pointing the finger at everyone except themselves for their mistakes.
Here are five messages for those people:
We're not going back to the Bush years: Conservatives are sick and tired of hearing Republicans talk about conservatism to get our support and then watching them immediately move to the center once they get elected.
Stop making promises to us that you don't intend to keep. Don't tell us how fiscally conservative you are and then vote for the TARP Program. Don't talk about limited government and then support big government programs. Don't tell us you care about the rule of law and then support amnesty.
We expect you to govern the way you campaign when you need our support. If you don't do it, we're going to make sure you catch hell for it.
This country can't survive if you're as childish as the Democrats: For the last few decades, we've had an "adult" party that deals in the real world and a "children's party" that promises everyone everything for nothing. Unfortunately, the "adult party" has been acting a little too much like a 40 year old going through a mid-life crisis for the last few years. Newsflash: This country cannot remain a super power or even a great nation if the Republican Party doesn't start acting like an adult party again.
Yes, the Democrats' "something for nothing" election promises may seem appealing at times, but the country can't thrive with two parties like that -- and what good does it do anyone to be elected king of the crap pile? We don't expect the Republican Party to be ideologically perfect or to please conservatives in every way on every issue. That's not the real world. But, if the Republican Party isn't willing to draw a line in the sand over the things that have made this a great country, then the party just isn't worth a flat damn. There have to be SOME lines that can't be crossed without paying a terrible price.
Stop sabotaging our candidates: It is absolutely infuriating that Republican Party organizations talk incessantly about conservative principles, rely on conservatives for the overwhelming majority of their funding, and then turn around and sabotage conservative candidates like Doug Hoffman and Marco Rubio. Who the hell do you think you are?
We're not telling the Republican Party to endorse conservative candidates over moderate candidates or demanding that middle-of-the-road candidates be tossed from the party. What we are saying is, "Don't take our money, use it against us, and then take a haughty 'we know best' attitude." If you do, we're going to take you to the woodshed and show you why it's a bad idea.
"There will be no elite in a bankrupt America." -- Jonathan Hunter: If fiscal conservatism doesn't work any more, then America doesn't work any more because we can't live like this long term. If even the Republicans look at government as just another way to distribute as much borrowed money as they can get by with to their supporters, then this country is going to look like Argentina after the crash in twenty years. This is do or die for the future of this country and Republicans, including Republican members of Congress from blue states, need to understand that.
You're not as smart as you think you are: It must be grand to be a Congressman or senator. Your fellow citizens elect you to office. Then you go to D.C. where your staff spends all day fretting over you and telling you how wonderful you are. Everywhere you go, all you hear from consultants, your fellow members of Congress, and all the people who want things from you is that you can do no wrong. If only people understood how SMART you really are. It's like being five years old all over again except everyone shares your mother's opinion of what a brilliant genius her little man is going to turn out to be.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, Republicans just spent two straight elections getting splattered like bugs on a windshield. That happened despite the fact that their constituents were screaming at the top of their lungs about the oncoming danger. Yes, that's right; the political novices in NoWhereville, South Dakota were more accurately predicting the problems ahead than the Republican politicians and political consultants in D.C. How in the world we got to a place where so many politicians have such a shallow understanding of politics, I don't know, but Republicans in D.C. need to wake up and smell the coffee. YOU GUYS blew it in 2006 and 2008, not us.
Eat your crap sandwich Newt and McCain!
I'm not going to do it anymore!
Stop sabotaging our candidates: It is absolutely infuriating that Republican Party organizations talk incessantly about conservative principles, rely on conservatives for the overwhelming majority of their funding, and then turn around and sabotage conservative candidates like Doug Hoffman and Marco Rubio. Who the hell do you think you are?
The so called Republican Party in NJ campaigned against Bret Schundler for Governor because he wasn't part of the "establishment" also know as corrupt crooks and thieves who make tons of money being "politicians" with their good friends the democrats. We had "Republicans" calling Bret Schundler too extreme and un-electable, etc.
That betrayal is why I'm not sure I'll vote for Christie, he's one of "them", not one of us.
NJ is fighting Illinois and Massachusetts for the most corrupt, crony, one party rule state in the country.
If Lonegan won the primary I'm sure they would be working to sabotage him too, we only "all pull together" when it's one of the "establishment" candidates running as a Republican.
Newt was on Fox News last night on Greta's show, discussing health care. I turned the TV off. I refuse to listen to him. Some use the term Faux News when speaking of Fox News. Gingrich, to me, is a Faux Republican.
Please send this to Michael Steele, Newt Gingrich and the other idiots that keep throwing their support behind people like Scovazza(?)! I am sick of them saying we have to hold our nose and elect the moderate because they are more electable and after all we need repubs. to slow down Obama. Why slow his policies down, why not stop them and change course? Because honestly they don't want to stop them and that is disheartening. Thanks for posting this! Good article
This article speaks for me!!!
NO MORE RINOs.....even if it means the 'Rat wins.....I don't vote RINO.
Amen. If we build it, they will come.
[Conservatives are sick and tired of being taken for granted, misrepresented, and talked down to by the same "elite" Republicans in Washington who hopelessly screwed everything up during the Bush years.]
Unfortunately, they and their comrades of the left do not care what the majority thinks.
While I would normally agree with, this I make an exception in this case and say the voters of Upstate New York should choose Douglas Hoffman
Resign or be assimilated.
And then there was the ridiculous strategy of backing Arlen Specter in the primary so that the Republicans could avoid a Democratic majority in the Senate. Boy, that worked great, didn't it?
Something I can really get behind.
Republicans act like Democrats and then are surprised when folks go for the real thing. Who doesn't prefer real to counterfeit?
Obama is unelectable next time around, so Newt's arguments are baseless.
We are after them till we are blue in the face they STILL (by and large) will have NONE OF IT.
Their moderate RINO Republican candidates in the Presidential campaign all got conservative suddenly on that issue, the true conservatives were pushed out, and then they reverted to either their silence, or their out right pandering the Hispanic vote by talking about Gods Children and tolerance, despite our country being overrun and burdened to death with taxes, crime and disease.
I also think if Doug Hoffman wins next week in upstate New York's 23rd District, everyone copy this brilliant article, staple your local newspaper's story about Hoffman's win, and mail it to the Republican National Committee in D.C. (and especially the NRCC). Put in a blank check, cancel/void it out on the face, but write in "Republican National Committee" as payee, and put in "ZERO 0/00" as the amount.
This is a great article. I just sent a copy along with my own sentiments to email@example.com. Everyone here should do the same and let these jackasses know how you feel!
"We're not telling the Republican Party to endorse conservative candidates over moderate candidates or demanding that middle-of-the-road candidates be tossed from the party. What we are saying is, "Don't take our money, use it against us, and then take a haughty 'we know best' attitude." If you do, we're going to take you to the woodshed and show you why it's a bad idea."
Snowe is screwing us!
Specter screwed us!
Jeffords screwed us!
We are not going to take it anymore NEWT!
If these so-called journalists do not understand what the TARP Program is/was a year later, they need to retire their pens.
As Mark Levin would say "Conservatives are just a little bit tired of taking it in the throat."
"Newt was on Fox News last night on Gretas show, discussing health care. I turned the TV off."
Ditto! I have heard all I want from that RINO clown.
The RINO elites have picked a fight with conservatives while kissing up to the left.
The RNC or their affiliates do not "take our money" at the point of a gun. Morons send them their money of their own free will then expect to dictate how it is to be used.
End the problem -- send money to the candidates of YOUR CHOOSING!
If Scuzzy won NY-23 how long until she jumps ships?
The GOP no longer represents conservatives, and it would seem they have no intention of winning the next elections.
The Oldest Con in the world...is Good Cop-Bad Cop....its how the Oligarchy maintains control..
Absolutely brilliant observation of what is going on in this country.
I followed your lead and did the same.
Addon. Just off the top of my head.
The author is describing, and addressing,
elitIST Republicans.
There's nothing wrong with being "elite" - we love having those who achieve and have great thinking skills on our side (Thomas Sowell, your ears are itching).
But, we DON'T want those who are elites, or think they are elites, to get the idea that they have a right and duty to make our decisions for us. That's elitISM.
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power."
Thomas Jefferson
As opposed to today's elitist view of
intentionally dumbing down the education system so that the elites have an excuse for making all the decisions and having all the power.
Amen. Newt and McKennedy, shove it up your Obama.
Well, McCain would be to old in 2012, so he can forget it right there. Besides I would not make the same mistake twice in a row and vote for him again should he run
A great rant, but it offers no solutions. We have an election barely a year into the future and there are NO replacement CONSERVATIVES that we can send to Washington to get rid of the horrible crop of Republicans AND Democrats already there!! THAT'S the problem!!
The disease is Washington politics and the Democrats AND Republicans are merely its symptoms. Politicians from BOTH sides learned long ago that all they have to do is tell us what we want to hear and they have a lifetime job filled with money, graft, corruption, power and the "good" life!!
Expecting to fix Washington by having the Republican Party suddenly change its stripes overnight is unrealistic and not a solution. Washington is not going to fix itself. The politicians are not going to fix the ills of the political system. WE, the people who own this government from its corrupt, lying top to its corrupt, lying bottom are the ONLY ones who can fix it!! And we fix it by hitting the "Reset" button, dumping everyone of the current crop of liars and crooks and starting over with honest, principled, honorable and ethical people!!
The definition of insanity os doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result!! We have elected and re-elected the same people to the same Congressional seats time and time again and we keep expecting to see improvements!! That makes US the insane ones!!
Right on Brother, my sentiments exactly.
Tired of being crapped on by my own party.
Force the RINO's from the party.
Today, it's everyone in Congress with an "R" after their name.
Don't foget Orrin Hatch. Who grieved so marvelously at Ted Kennedy's funeral.
Outstanding message.
John McCain
Lindsay Graham
Mike Castle (RINO-DE)
Mitt Romney
Oympia Snowe
Susan Collins
Newt Gingrich
Richard Shelby
Billy Tauzin (RINO-LA)
Lisa Murkowski (RINO-AK)
Richard Lugar
Thad Cochran
Robert Bennett(RINO-UT)
Chuck Hagel
George Voinich
Lincoln Chaffee
Mel Martinez
Charlie Crist
and anyone to the left of Attilla the Hun
Mr.Newt has a very good view on what needs to be done with the health care system, and for at least a year has been pushing for the right solutions: portability, medical savings accounts plus high-deductable insurance, cross-state buying of insurance policies, tort reform. Please go to his web site, and find out what he has been pushing for. I've heard his position at many interviews, and his position is right in line with that of most of us here at FR.
GOP/RNC. Washington is not the problem. I wish it was 'a problem'. Washington is a threat. It, and you, and the Democrats, and all the bureaucrats, are becoming my physical enemy. You already are my philosophical and economical enemy and enemy to my few remaining liberties that you have traded, sold, outlawed.
Wake the F up. We've had two wars in this country to settle intractable political logjams. We might well have a third.
Want to charge me as seditious? Traitor? Go ahead. Clear out the BS, and light the tinder. I'll meet the cadre in prison, and we'll start from there.
What you, and Newt are talking about is finding a way to finance/pay for a system that's prices are driven by government spending( try competing as a customer against that ), rent seeking, lobbyists, forced mandates on nearly everyone involved.
Doesn't matter what, or how it is financed, paid, or insured. With so much anti-free market, anti-free labor, anti-free customer purchase costs will as they are, outstrip the general 2 percent growth in wealth .
Newt is for a good water based vinyl Spackle on the rotted political/economic framework that is collapsing under it's own self made contradictions.
Its leadership must take action to announce what are the party's core principles. That act is necessarily exclusive: you can be a Republican if you support and believe (these key things) but not, if you do not subscribe to them.
I believe that until the Republican Party makes it clear to all just what are its principles, it will continue to drift; conservatives will remain unsure of their allegiance, much less dominance of the party, while "moderates" will likewise be uncertain of their stature with it.
So what will it be? Drift and incoherence or determination and consistency? One of those groupings is a winner and the other, well, you know what it is. Isn't that right Senator McCain?
elite republican = democrat
I frankly don't care about his views on healthcare, because he's jumped ship on too many vital issues; GW and this particular race for instance.
I refuse to listen further to those who promote 'moderate' (aka liberal) candidates and RINOS over true conservatives.
I may not trust the demonrats, but I can always trust them to BE demonrats.
With republicans, you donate money to and vote for them only to have them vote with the 'rats.
Speaking of...WTF is up with Newt? I think he's possessed. You'd never know it today, but once upon a time, he was a force for conservatism and the Republican party.
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The Friday before Easter, commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Among some sects of Christianity and in many countries today is a day of fasting.
In Dutch the day is called "Goede Vrijdag", which can literally be translated as "Good Friday". In Israel, Good Friday is known as "Big Friday." In Germany it is "Karfreitag", an Old German word meaning "Friday of lamentation", although this meaning is not obvious to speakers of modern German. In Malta, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia (and in the Eastern Orthodox Church generally) the day is called Great Friday. In Armenia it is called "High Friday". In Russia they call it "Passion Friday (Strastnaja Pjatnitsa)". In Latin America, Spain, France, Italy and Portugal the day is called "Holy Friday"; in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Faroe Islands and Iceland it is "Long Friday". In Portuguese language it is called "Sexta-Feira Santa" meaning "Holy Friday" while the day is named "Mahal na Araw" or Biyernes Santo"(Holy Friday) in the Philippines.*
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Shirley Temple was a pint-sized star who turned into a box office dynamo. We challenge you to take this Shirley Temple Movie Quiz and test your knowledge of this miniature movie star.
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Question 1 of 30
When was Shirley Temple born?
Shirley Temple was born on April 23, 1928, at 9 p.m. to George and Gertrude Temple. Shirley Temple once joked about the late hour of her birth saying, "Too late for dinner, and so I started life one meal behind. Ever since I've tried to make up for that loss."
Question 2 of 30
How old was Shirley Temple when she began dance lessons?
Shirley Temple was 3 years old when she began dance lessons at Mrs. Meglin's Dance Studio in Los Angeles.
Question 3 of 30
Which film studio offered Shirley Temple her first acting contract?
Educational Pictures
Shirley Temple was discovered at Mrs. Meglin's Dance Studio by producers from Educational Pictures. Temple received a contract to appear in a string of famous film parodies with all-child casts, dubbed the "Baby Burlesques."
Question 4 of 30
Shirley Temple had two older sisters.
Shirley Temple had two older brothers -- John Stanley Temple, born in 1915, and George Francis Temple Jr., born in 1919.
Question 5 of 30
Which major Hollywood studio signed Shirley Temple after she gained popularity for her role in the "Baby Burlesques?"
Fox Film Corp.
The Fox Film Corp. signed Shirley Temple to a studio contract with a salary of $150 per week in 1933.
Columbia Pictures
Warner Bros.
Question 6 of 30
What was Shirley Temple's first feature film?
"Change of Heart"
"Little Miss Marker"
The movie "Carolina," released Feb. 2, 1934, was Shirley Temple's first feature film.
Question 7 of 30
How old was Shirley Temple when the movie "Carolina" was released?
Shirley Temple was 5 when the film "Carolina" was released.
Question 8 of 30
Who was Shirley Temple's dance partner in four early films, including "The Little Colonel?"
Fred Astaire
Bill Robinson
Bill Robinson was Shirley Temple's dance partner in four of her earliest films, including "The Little Colonel." Temple and Robinson became the United States' first interracial on-screen dance partners with the release of the 1935 film "The Little Colonel."
Gene Kelly
Question 9 of 30
Which Shirley Temple movie featured the song and dance routine "On the Good Ship Lollipop?"
"Curly Top"
"The Little Princess"
"Bright Eyes"
The 1934 film "Bright Eyes," featured Shirley Temple performing the song and dance routine "On the Good Ship Lollipop." Many of the aviators in the scene were volunteers from the University of Southern California football team.
Question 10 of 30
When not on-set, what school did Shirley Temple attend?
Westlake School for Girls
When not filming, Shirley Temple attended the Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles.
Flintridge Preparatory School
Westridge School
Question 11 of 30
Which movie features Shirley Temple and Rochelle Hudson as orphaned sisters?
"Poor Little Rich Girl"
"Curley Top"
The 1935 film "Curley Top" features Shirley Temple and Rochelle Hudson as orphaned sisters.
Question 12 of 30
Shirley Temple is the youngest entertainer to win an Oscar.
In 1935, at the age of 6, Shirley Temple received an Oscar in recognition of her contributions to the film industry the previous year. To date, Temple holds the record as the youngest Oscar winner ever.
Question 13 of 30
Which 1936 movie features Shirley Temple as a girl who is rescued by a lighthouse keeper?
"Captain January"
In the 1936 film "Captain January," Shirley Temple stars as a young girl who is rescued by a lighthouse keeper. At the time of the release of "Captain January," Time Magazine reported the film had broken box office records in Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati and Milwaukee.
Question 14 of 30
How many pin curls did Shirley Temple's hair usually have?
Shirley Temple's mother, Gertrude, set Shirley's hair for each of her earliest movies. The result? Fifty-six pin curls that gave Shirley Temple her signature locks.
Question 15 of 30
Which film stars Shirley Temple as a Swiss orphan living in the mountains with her grandfather?
"Just Around the Corner"
Shirley Temple plays a Swiss orphan who lives with her grandfather in the mountains in the movie "Heidi." While the movie is set in Europe, the filming was done exclusively in California.
Question 16 of 30
What was the nickname President Franklin Roosevelt gave to Shirley Temple?
"Little Miss Shirley"
"Little Miss Sunshine"
"Little Miss Miracle"
President Franklin D. Roosevelt dubbed Shirley Temple "Little Miss Miracle" for raising morale during the Depression. President Roosevelt once said, "As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right."
Question 17 of 30
Actor Cesar Romero appeared in which movie with Shirley Temple?
"Just Around the Corner"
"The Little Princess"
Actor Cesar Romero appeared in the 1939 film "The Little Princess" with Shirley Temple. The movie was Shirley Temple's first all-Technicolor film.
Susannah of the Mounties"
Question 18 of 30
In 1934 at age 6, Shirley Temple made 10 full-length films.
Although two films were uncredited and one film was released after her scenes had been deleted, Shirley Temple starred in 10 full-length films, in addition to two film shorts, in 1934.
Question 19 of 30
Shirley Temple performed the song "Be Optimistic" in which movie?
"The Blue Bird"
"Ali Baba Goes to Town"
"Little Miss Broadway"
Shirley Temple performed the song "Be Optimistic" in the 1938 movie "Little Miss Broadway."
Question 20 of 30
Shirley Temple had her first on-screen kiss in this movie.
"Miss Annie Rooney"
Shirley Temple had her first on-screen kiss in the 1942 film "Miss Annie Rooney." Actor Dickie Moore later revealed that the scene was extremely difficult as it was his first time to ever kiss a girl.
"Kiss and Tell"
Question 21 of 30
Which actor co-stars as Shirley Temple's leading man in the 1947 film, "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer?"
Rock Hudson
Cary Grant
Actor Cary Grant plays the leading man opposite Shirley Temple in the 1947 movie "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer."
Gary Cooper
Question 22 of 30
Shirley Temple co-starred with actor and future U.S. President Ronald Reagan in this 1947 film.
"That Hagen Girl"
In 1947, Shirley Temple appeared in the movie "That Hagen Girl" with actor and future U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
"Kiss and Tell"
Question 23 of 30
Which U.S. president appointed Shirley Temple as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations?
President Ford
President Carter
President Nixon
President Richard Nixon appointed Shirley Temple as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1969.
Question 24 of 30
Which actor did not co-star with Shirley Temple in the 1948 film "Fort Apache?"
Jimmy Stewart
Shirley Temple co-starred in the 1948 movie "Fort Apache" with Henry Fonda and John Wayne. Jimmy Stewart did not appear in the film.
Henry Fonda
John Wayne
Question 25 of 30
Shirley Temple served as the U.S. ambassador to which two countries?
France and Ghana
Czechoslovakia and Ghana
Shirley Temple served as the U.S. ambassador to Ghana from 1974 to 1976, and as U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992.
Czechoslovakia and France
Question 26 of 30
What is the title of Shirley Temple's last feature film?
"The Story of Seabiscuit"
"Adventure in Baltimore"
"A Kiss for Corliss"
Released Nov. 25, 1949, "A Kiss for Corliss" was Shirley Temple's last feature film.
Question 27 of 30
Which film industry organization honored Shirley Temple with the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006?
Directors Guild of America
Screen Actors Guild
On Jan. 29, 2006, Shirley Temple was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Screen Actors Guild.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Question 28 of 30
Shirley Temple was the first woman to be named Chief of Protocol of the United States.
In 1976, President Gerald Ford selected Shirley Temple as the first female Chief of Protocol of the United States.
Question 29 of 30
How many movies did Shirley Temple make?
Over the course of her career, Shirley Temple made 43 feature films. In addition, Temple appeared in 14 short films and 25 storybook films.
Question 30 of 30
How old was Shirley Temple at the time of her death?
Shirley Temple died at her home near San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2014. She was 85.


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A glucagon test measures the amount of a hormone called glucagon in your blood. Glucagon is produced by cells in the pancreas. It helps control blood sugar levels.
Blood is typically drawn from a vein, usually from the inside of the elbow or the back of the hand.
In infants or young children, a sharp tool called a lancet may be used to puncture the skin to draw blood. The blood collects into a small glass tube called a pipette, or onto a slide or test strip. A bandage may be placed over the area if there is any bleeding.
The blood is sent to a laboratory. There, a test called radioimmunoassay (RIA) is used to check for the hormone glucagon in the blood.
Your health care provider will tell you if you need to fast (not eat anything) for a period of time before the test.
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, some people feel moderate pain. Others feel only a prick or stinging sensation. Afterward, there may be some throbbing.
Glucagon stimulates the liver to release glucose. As the level of blood sugar decreases, the pancreas releases more glucagon, and vice versa.
The health care provider may measure glucagon level if a person has symptoms of:
The normal range is 50 - 100 pg/mL.
Note: pg/mL = picograms per milliliter
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
The examples above show the common measurements for results for these tests. Some laboratories use different measurements or may test different specimens.
Abnormal results may indicate that the person may have a condition described above under Why the Test Is Performed.
Veins vary in size from one patient to another and from one side of the body to the other. Obtaining a blood sample from some people may be more difficult than from others.
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