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The Royal Air Force (RAF) was created by mistake in the 11th century, when King Edward the Second was heard by three knights, to mutter "Who will rid me of this troublesome wig?" Instead of rushing off to Canterbury to murder Thomas Beckett, they invented hair transplants. King Edward was so impressed he created the "Royal Hair Force" immediately.
The Chief Of The Air Staff is Air Chief Marshal Sir Russell Brand DFC he has been serving in the Air Force for two years but was so good they had promote him
The RAF was actually renamed the Royal Air Farce on the 1st April 1918 as a whimsical joke by Baron David Lloyd von George the inventor of the treadmill. Since patrons of this elite flying club either didn't realise the joke or couldn't give a monkey's left testicle as they were "too blotto in the mess", subsequently the name stuck. In later discussions it was advised that further funding from the government was required for all officers to get an expensive new blue suit made in Covent Garden for their parading around in public. This would enable the general public to recognise them and distinguish them from the other poor buggers that had to fight in the trenches. It was later found that they couldn't afford any aeroplanes and had to default on their loan and borrow aircraft from the Germans.
The first non-stop transatlantic crossing is made by British RAF aviators Alcock (snigger) and Brown (Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown). As usual, the fucking Yanks completely ignored this event and only ever talk about Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh makes his crossing over the Atlantic. Only eight fucking years after the British did it.(the Yanks are real cunts) Meanwhile, the RAF cleans up 1st and 2nd at the Schneider Trophy races with their Supermarine seaplanes (woop woop!).
Using the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines from the Schneider Trophy race Supermarines, the first 1000 horse-power hair dryers enter service with the RAF. Able to dry the most voluminous hair from 20 miles away. A whole new era of home visit hairdressing begins.
The Second World Hairdressing War Begins. With cries of "chase me sweetie!", the British Expeditionary Hairdressing Force heads for Dunkirk. The Germans could have easily cut off their retreat, but the salons and boutiques of Paris proved too much of a temptation. Almost 20,000 hairdressers and 280,000 trainees were successfully evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk. Unfortunately 250,000 hair technicians fell into German hands, they refused to swim out to the boats without a hairnet. Great Britain sank into a dark era of overgrown fringes and bad comb-overs. Only the slap-headed Winston Churchill was immune to the privations of wartime. Despite being bombarded with leaflets showing the latest hairstyles from Paris, morale in Britain remained high. Women from all over the land, armed with pudding basins and crimping shears, fought valiantly to keep hair out of the nation's eyes.
Red Arrows[edit]
The R.A.F. Scampton All-Singing-All-Dancing Display Team (commonly known as the Red Arrows) represent the egotistic men (and women, yeah, that's what its come to...) of the RAF. All pilots on the squadron have flown more than 74 hours of fast jet flying, operating in the North Pole and Jamaica. Known for wearing their iconic red flying suits, they blend into the jets' overall colour to avoid thousands of fans and monks. Applicants to the team often have a patriotic streak and a predilection for winter breaks in Cyprus. When they are in the air, Red 1 uses radio calls such as "Smoke on...Go" which can be heard during their display. Other calls include "Reds 1,2,3 don't move! 7 and 8 f**k off!" This was heard for the first time at the Fairford Air Tattoo of 1997. The team developed a new aerobatic manoeuvre for 2009 - the Penis Bend. This involves all 9 jets arranging themselves into a penis shape. This represents the head of USA ex-president George W. Bush.
The Modern RAF[edit]
The RAF is becoming most effective in terms of aircraft. Recently been signed for a £836bn contract with WeDontCrash airlines, the RAF have become more of a powerful fighting force. The most recent aircraft to enter service was the Eurofighter, which came on RAF strength with a formal flypast yesterday. This turned into the type's retirement flypast, leaving the RAF solely to provide inspiration for Frank Spencer and to turn up at ceremonial events.
The RAF have designed new career options for people with such talent and unique qualifications: hairdressers, magicians, tattooists and even photosynthesis therapists are just some of the many jobs that have been introduced. The Chief of air staff said: "Well my hair needs to look amazing since I am, well the boss! Also I was pissed at the time and made a inaccurate mistake for the photosynthesis therapists but who really does care?"
The Future of the RAF[edit]
In 2011, as part of an income generation scheme devised by Civil servants at the MoD a fleet of Nimrods was smashed up to build liferafts for HMS Ark Royal, following its decomissioning and lease to the French Naveee. This glorious vessel now patrols the Dover-Calais shipping route renamed HMS Joan of Arque Royale and provides an emergency runway for Lydd Airfield in heavy fog.
In 2012, the RAF plans to buy another fighter to add to the five it already has.
The RAF is gradually losing its pilots as most use the RAF to gain their pilot's licence and depart to FlyBE or Virgin Atlantic soon afterwards. Thus the RAF has no future as an independent fighting force and it will be sold to New Zealand as soon as possible, since the Kiwis are desperate to fly somewhere.
See also[edit]
- Biggles, the quintessential butch RAF flyboy.


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Sure, there are enough hooker, victim, and doormat roles around Hollywood to keep Lindsay Lohan in Louboutins, but those aren't the only stereotypical female characters swimming in the brains of underpaid screenwriters. There's another cliché almost every actress over 30 has played: The Shrew. So, in honor of the revival of Kristen Johnston's career (and the popularity of shrews in the newest announcements of castings) we are declaring "Shrew" a new category to our Hookers, Doormats, & Victims feature! After the jump: Allison Janney and Kristen Johnston square-off to see who's baddest bitch in new comedies; Sigourney Weaver teams up with James Cameron again; and a remake of Friday the 13th promises to hack all of the popular girls to pieces.
• Kristen Johnston, Bride Wars: Johnston will play a self-absorbed, opportunist friend of Ann Hathaway's character. The film revolves around the shenanigans that occur when two BFFs (Hathaway and Kate Hudson) have their weddings on the same day and at the same place. Verdict: Ah, the annoying friend character, almost always a Shrew.
• Allison Janney, This Must Be The Place and A Thousand Words: In This Must Be The Place, Janney will play a loud and brassy woman who has "a few screws loose." In A Thousand Words, she will play Eddie Murphy's money-grubbing literary agent. Verdict: Wow! Two Shrews in two separate movies! Now that Janney is getting "old" by Hollywood standards she'll probably see a lot more abrasive female characters coming her way.
• Danielle Panabaker, Friday the 13th: Panabaker (who plays James Woods' daughter in Shark) will co-star in this remake of the horror classic. She will be playing an "adventurous, athletic type" who is dating a rich boy. Verdict: A young girl in a Hollywood horror movie? She is definitely a Victim.
• Uma Thurman, Motherhood: Thurman will star as a mother of two who faces "a myriad of urban challenges" as she tries to plan her daughter's sixth birthday party. Not sure if this is supposed to be a comedy or a drama. Verdict: While the details are skimpy, a "harried mother" role is usually an emotional Victim of some kind. But we will wait until the movie comes out to impose a real verdict.
• Jessica Chastain, Tree of Life: Chastain has been cast to play Brad Pitt's wife in the upcoming Terrence Malick flick about the loss of innocence, as seen by the son of Pitt and Chastain's characters as different individuals race to find the mythical "tree of life." Verdict: There isn't much information about the characters in the film so we will hold off on judgment for now.
• Sigourney Weaver, Avatar: Weaver will play a character in a new James Cameron film that was originally supposed to be a man. The plot is about a band of humans colonizing and warring with a distant planet's indigenous population. Weaver describes the character as being "driven, idealistic, perfectionist, but with great heart underneath" and a "great woman character."Verdict: While our intuition tells us that "driven" female characters in Hollywood are almost always portrayed as evil, we will trust ex-Yalie Weaver on this one.
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Tuesday, November 13th, we assembled transformation reactions with our gene/vector ligation and actually performed the transformation reaction. We plated all reactions on the respective media with selective antibiotic (Ampicillin). The plates incubated overnight and we found the following results. Our 3 ligation tests (L1, L2, L3) all had different insert:vector ratios and all had ample growth. We used these to put together tube cultures (4 replicates of our 3 ligation test reactions). Each tube contained 5mL of LB with 5μL of Amp. One colony was used to inoculate each tube. We had 3 ligation control experiments that tested plasmid without insert and insert without plasmid. There were very few (less than 5) colonies on the latter, the other had no colonies. We believe this to be our plasmid growing, either because it was not properly digested or it somehow was able to be ligated back together - which is highly unlikely.


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Don't be surprised to read and hear in the next few days about how the superhero extravaganza "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" is one of the most, if not the most character-driven Marvel movies to date. Expertly crafted by "Captain America: The First Avenger" screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, "The Winter Soldier" is stacked deep with rich character portrayals that merely begin with Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans).
To be sure, the visual effects and action are as spectacular as you would expect out of a Marvel superhero movie. But not once do those effects outweigh the presence of the characters in the film, which deftly plays like a classic political conspiracy thriller. Better yet, layered in between the action and intensity are brilliantly subtle performances, starting with Evans as the titular character.
Having the benefit of working with Evans on the first "Captain America" film, Markus and McFeely told me in an interview this week that they could definitely sense the growth in the actor, even though it's been a mere three years since the first film. In particular, McFeely said, it's amazing to see Evans play the role with such a "quiet strength," while Markus noted it is another great example of an actor "doing more with less."
"In a vacuum, you get nervous as writers seeing characters just standing there in certain situations, but with Chris Evans, he knows what the power of standing there is going to do on-screen," Markus said. "Chris is very good of letting his weight speak for him, even though he's a slim, young man."
Opening in theaters nationwide on Friday, "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" finds World War II-bred Rogers after the events of "The Avengers," still trying to adjust to the modern world. Trying to live a quiet life in Washington, D.C., Rogers suddenly finds himself on the wrong side of S.H.I.E.L.D. after the organization has been greatly compromised by unknown forces -- and millions of lives, including his own, are at stake because of it.
With little time and few people he can trust, Captain America embarks on a perilous trek with Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) in an effort to ferret out the mystery, even if it means destroying the very organization that the Avengers were built upon.
"Captain America: The Winter Solider" is interesting in that it addresses a contemporary threat that will resonate with modern audiences, yet it manages to tie events from the first film to the second that creates a sprawling and engaging narrative.
A big part of that storyline is the emergence of the Winter Soldier, who for people not familiar with the comic books, was once Rogers' best friend, Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), before he was transformed into a killing machine by the Nazi organization Hydra during World War II.
The interesting thing is, even though the Winter Soldier storyline is a fan favorite, getting Marvel to agree to do it wasn't an automatic for Markus and McFeely.
"To be honest, there was some back and forth on it because some people thought it was too soon to bring him back," McFeely said. "One of the reasons it works in the comics is because Bucky has been gone for so long and it's haunted Steve Rogers for so long. But in the movie universe, he's only been gone for three years in movie time. We tried to crack other storylines, but nothing was ever as compelling as the Winter Soldier coming back and kicking his best friend's a--."
While Markus and McFeely try to remain as faithful to the Captain America comics as possible, they also realize that sometimes changes need to be made to make the stories more contemporary. One such change came with the introduction of the character of Sam Wilson/The Falcon (Anthony Mackie), whose story is updated to fit the tone of "The Winter Soldier," and the duo is confident fans of the character won't balk at the portrayal.
"I think the fans have embraced the fact that the Marvel cinematic universe is going to be different than the comic book universe," McFeely observed. "So in the cinematic world, you may not wear a red-and-white outfit and talk to birds, but you'll still be able to fly. There are some concessions made to realism and I think Marvel has found a lot of good will among the fans in the eight or nine movies they've done with the decisions we've made."
"Plus, comic books allow for five different origins," Markus added. "So, if anybody is going to be tolerant of changing the facts to fit the current needs, it is the comic book fans."
Another such case of changing the facts to fit the needs -- or maybe enhancing them, is the introduction of Alexander Pierce, a smaller player in the comics who was elevated to the top of the character ranks of S.H.I.E.L.D. for "The Winter Soldier."
"The name Alexander Pierce exists in the comics, but he's more of a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who kicks a lot of butt and we needed an elder statesman who Nick Fury could look up to, and perhaps have shifting allegiances to," McFeely said. "So Pierce is an example of a character where we went looking in the Marvel Universe for a name and some characteristics."
As Markus and McFeely learned, the creation of Pierce for the cinematic universe was an evolving one that remarkably ended with the casting of film icon Robert Redford.
The interesting thing about Redford's involvement in the picture is, he was solicited by the production because of the political conspiracy thriller tone Markus and McFeely were creating for "The Winter Soldier." But thinking Redford would be great for the role and actually getting him to do the role are two different things, the scribes said.
"(The film's co-producer) Nate Moore stopped us in the hall one day and said, 'So we're going after somebody who's been in the kind of movie you're patterning our movie after,'" Markus recalled. "We were like, 'What the hell are you talking about? We're not trained to think Robert Redford could be in a movie we're writing. That's crazy talk.'"
As it turned out, Markus and McFeely were quick learners.
"We re-wrote the part to get Redford, and once we had Redford, we re-wrote it again because he very wisely pointed things out, like, 'You have three lines there and I only have to say one of them because you're going to see the rest of it on my face,'" McFeely said. "It was great to tailor the part to his legendary presence."
Fans of Redford's films will no doubt feel the presence of the actor's "Three Days of the Condor" and "All the President's Men" in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," except with a decidedly different twist.
"It has this smaller noble man vs. this huge machine feel, except this time Redford is the machine," McFeely said. "The film screams 'political thriller' when Redford is put in there. He brings the gravitas and the presence from his previous films with him."
Tim Lammers is a nationally syndicated movie journalist and the author of the new ebook Direct Conversations: The Animated Films of Tim Burton (Foreword by Tim Burton).


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BP agreed to pay the largest criminal fine ever brought against a single corporation; the U.S. government in turn agrees not to press more charges against the oil company responsible for the 2006 oil spill. NBC's Pete Williams reports.
Updated at 2:45 p.m. ET: BP will pay approximately $4.5 billion and plead guilty to manslaughter and other criminal charges as part of a settlement with the U.S. government over the deadly Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the London-based oil giant and federal officials said Thursday.
The settlement total, to be paid out over five years, includes more than $1.25 billion in criminal fines -- the largest such penalty ever.
In addition, two BP employees have been indicted on manslaughter charges and a BP executive has been indicted on charges he lied to authorities about his work estimating the Gulf spill rate.
At an afternoon news conference in New Orleans, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called the wide-ranging settlement "the latest step forward in our ongoing efforts to achieve justice for those whose lives and whose livelihoods were impacted by the largest environmental disaster in the history of the United States."
He said the settlement amounts mark "both the largest single criminal fine … and the largest total criminal resolution" in U.S. history.
BP has agreed to plead guilty to 11 counts of felony manslaughter, one count of felony obstruction of Congress and violations of the Clean Water and Migratory Bird Treaty Acts, Holder said.
The agreement, subject to court approval, resolves all federal criminal charges and all claims by the Securities and Exchange Commission against the company stemming from the explosion and leak, the largest accidental marine oil spill in history.
"All of us at BP deeply regret the tragic loss of life caused by the Deepwater Horizon accident as well as the impact of the spill on the Gulf coast region," Bob Dudley, BP's group chief executive, said in a statement announcing the settlement.
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A hard hat from an oil worker lies in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana in this June 8, 2010 photo.
"From the outset, we stepped up by responding to the spill, paying legitimate claims and funding restoration efforts in the Gulf. We apologize for our role in the accident, and as today's resolution with the U.S. government further reflects, we have accepted responsibility for our actions."
"We believe this resolution is in the best interest of BP and its shareholders," added Carl-Henric Svanberg, BP's chairman. "It removes two significant legal risks and allows us to vigorously defend the company against the remaining civil claims."
In addition, a federal indictment unsealed Thursday charges David Rainey, who was BP's vice president of exploration for the Gulf of Mexico, with obstruction of Congress and making false statements. He is accused of lying to federal investigators when they asked him how he calculated a flow rate estimate for BP's blown-out well in the days after the disaster.
Two BP well site leaders, Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine, were indicted on manslaughter and involuntary charges, accused of disregarding abnormal high-pressure readings that should have glaring indications of trouble just before the deadly blowout.
Rainey's lawyer said his client did "absolutely nothing wrong." And attorneys for the two rig workers accused the Justice Department of making scapegoats out of them.
"Bob was not an executive or high-level BP official. He was a dedicated rig worker who mourns his fallen co-workers every day," Kaluza attorneys Shaun Clarke and David Gerger said in a statement, The Associated Press reported. "No one should take any satisfaction in this indictment of an innocent man. This is not justice."
Before Thursday, the only person charged in the disaster was a former BP engineer who was arrested in April on obstruction of justice charges, according to AP. He was accused of deleting text messages about the company's response to the spill.
The Deepwater Horizon rig, 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, sank after the fiery explosion. The well on the sea floor spewed an estimated 206 million gallons of crude oil, soiling sensitive tidal estuaries and beaches, killing wildlife and shutting vast areas of the Gulf to commercial fishing.
On the docks in Louisiana, fishermen and oystermen say the effects of the BP oil spill remain today. NBC's Anne Thompson has more.
After several attempts failed, engineers finally managed to cap the gushing well on July 15, 2010, halting the flow of oil into the Gulf after more than 85 days.
The spill exposed lax government oversight and led to a temporary ban on deepwater drilling while officials and the oil industry studied the risks, worked to make it safer and developed better disaster plans.
Thirteen of the 14 criminal charges to which BP plans to plead guilty pertain to the accident itself and stem from the negligent misinterpretation of a negative pressure test conducted on board the Deepwater Horizon, BP said. The company said it acknowledged this misinterpretation more than two years ago when it released its internal investigation report.
The remaining criminal count of obstruction pertains to allegations that company officials lied to Congress about how much oil was pouring out of the ruptured well during the spill response.
As part of its resolution of criminal claims with the U.S. government, BP will pay $4 billion in installments over five years and has also agreed to five years' probation.
The amount includes about $1.25 billion in criminal fines, nearly $2.4 billion to be paid to the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation and $350 million to be paid to the National Academy of Sciences.
BP said it will also pay the SEC $525 million over three years to settle all securities claims.
The $1.25 criminal penalty is the largest in U.S. history, eclipsing the nearly $1.2 billion paid by Pfizer Inc. for marketing fraud related to its Bextra pain medicine in 2009, according to Bloomberg and AP.
BP has also agreed to take more steps to boost safety of drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico, including third-party auditing and verification, training and well control equipment and processes such as blowout preventers and cementing.
Under U.S. law, companies convicted of certain criminal acts can be debarred from contracting with the federal government. BP says it has not been told of any intent by government agencies to suspend or debar the company in connection with the plea agreement.
Still pending is a separate civil court action in which the federal government contends BP was grossly negligent in causing the spill. "We've been in negotiations with BP. We have not reached a number that I consider satisfactory to resolve those claims that we have," Holder said.
The criminal deal announced Thursday with the Justice Department is also separate from a March settlement in which BP agreed to pay $7.8 billion to more than 100,000 businesses and individuals who say they were harmed by the spill.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Archival video: The people of the Gulf Coast have survived hurricanes, but 128 days after the BP oil spill disaster, they're struggling to see a way forward. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.
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Damn that Jack Baruth and his uncanny ability to awaken the latent spiritual needs and carnal passions sorely missing in my life. I'm talking about the love of owning a 99-cent Caddy Limo from a strong bloodline, sporting a nearly perfect black leather interior. With 25 years of historical flaws in full sight, this 3800lb lightweight is still a charmer in the Cadillac Tradition. The designation as "The Cadillac of Tomorrow" holds true, have you driven the latest poseur sedans to wear the Wreath and Crest? Torqueless V6 motors, tall buffalo butts and Euro-wannabe interiors only above that of a Hyundai Sonata. I can hear it now:
"LULZ OMG you are nuts because the CTS-V is awesome and that thing's a POS. The new Caddies even come in a wagon with a stick! Who wouldn't want a Cadillac that can do all that?"
My bad, they still make one coupe/sedan that's somewhat worthy of the Fleetwood 75's halo effect, but don't be talkin' that Euro-Caddy station wagon mess to me. This Houstonian spends too much time watching southern hip-hop music videos with proper American Iron getting the respect it deserves. Where else can we embrace the best remnants of Detroit in popular media? But I digress…


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Update: Watch party planned in Vines for men's NCAA Tournament First Four
UPDATE: A watch party has been planned in the Vines Center for Liberty fans wanting to watch the men's basketball team take on North Carolina A&T in the opening game of the 2013 NCAA Tournament on Tuesday at 6:40 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Admission is free. Liberty Athletics will give away t-shirts and have contests during commercial breaks, similar to a men's basketball home game during the regular season. Concessions will be available at regular game day prices.
|Head coach Dale Layer, the Flames men's basketball team, and fans celebrate as Liberty's position in the NCAA Tournament bracket is announced.
The Liberty University men's basketball team will face North Carolina A&T in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament Tuesday at 6:40 p.m., in Dayton, Ohio. The Flames learned their position in the tournament during Sunday night's Selection Show on CBS.
Liberty and NC A&T were both tabbed 16 seeds and will face off in the First Four with Tuesday's winner earning the right to head to Lexington, Ky., on Thursday for a meeting with overall No. 1 seed Louisville. Game time at Rupp Arena is to be announced.
The matchup will be the first-ever between Liberty and the Aggies. It will be broadcast live from inside UD Arena on Tru TV, with Marv Albert serving as play-by-play announcer and former NBA player Steve Kerr handling color analysis.
Liberty (15-20) punched its ticket to the Big Dance last Sunday, defeating Charleston Southern, 87-76, to claim the 2013 Big South Championship. The Flames are only the second team in tournament history to earn a bid with 20 losses, a feat that has garnered national media attention from major outlets such as the New York Times.
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Neonatal laparoscopy
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IIM.B. Ch.B., F.C.S. (S.A.) (cert. Paed. Surg.); Department of Paediatric Surgery, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and University of Cape Town
Until recently minimally invasive surgery was not performed in neonates. This was because of their small size and distinct physiological characteristics. Since the introduction of fine laparoscopic instruments, improvements in the surgical technique and a better understanding of the unique anaesthetic requirements of laparoscopy, more complex operations have been performed.
While certain operations such as laparoscopic pyloromyotomy have become routine in many centres, others require significant infrastructure and experience. Advantages of minimally invasive surgery seen in older children and adults, such as shortened hospital stay and less pain, also apply to neonates.
There is no doubt that minimally invasive surgery for neonates is still in its infancy. For many neonatal conditions requiring surgery, the benefits of minimally invasive surgery have yet to be established with well-designed studies.
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Milk producers joined milk processors yesterday in supporting the Food and Drug Administration's proposed regulations on the safe shipment of food, saying the draft rules largely write into regulations what the dairy industry is already doing.
"Dairy foods are safely transported already, and there is no need to improve on current practices," said Beth Briczinski, vice president for dairy foods and nutrition for the National Milk Producers Federation. "As a result, we basically support what the FDA is proposing."
NMPF, the voice of 32,000 dairy farmers in Washington, submitted comments on the draft regulations issued in February as part of efforts to implement a major update of the nation's food safety laws enacted in 2011.
NMPF did note several areas where the proposal could be clarified or modified. In particular, it urged expanding waivers from the regulation for dairy products if a shipper is licensed under the Grade "A" milk program. NMPF urged including outbound shipments of finished products – such as yogurt, cottage cheese and sour cream – as well as inbound shipments of unpasteurized milk under the waiver.
Other areas NMPF suggested clarifying included language regarding short or intra-company food shipments and the transportation of frozen dairy desserts. On the latter, the organization said the final regulations should specify that ice cream and other frozen dairy desserts should not be included under the proposed regulations because when ice cream is temperature-abused it doesn't present a food safety risk. Instead, it melts.
The proposed rules were issued under the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act, as well as a separate 2005 law covering safe transportation of foods.
"We supported the FSMA and have been pleased to work with the FDA to implement its provisions," said Briczinski. "We share the desire for food transportation rules that are broad, goal-oriented, aligned with current practices, and adaptable to the many transportation activities conducted in our industry.
"For the most part, FDA's draft regulations are just that," Briczinski added.
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), based in Arlington, VA, develops and carries out policies that advance the well being of dairy producers and the cooperatives they own. The members of NMPF's cooperatives produce the majority of the U.S. milk supply, making NMPF the voice of more than 32,000 dairy producers on Capitol Hill and with government agencies. For more on NMPF's activities, visit our website at www.nmpf.org.


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Mucoadhesive Oral Wound Rinse in Preventing and Treating Stomatitis in Patients With ER- or PR-Positive Metastatic or Locally Recurrent Breast Cancer That Cannot be Removed by Surgery Receiving Everolimus
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02015559
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : December 19, 2013
Last Update Posted : May 7, 2019
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|Condition or disease
|Estrogen Receptor-positive Breast Cancer HER2-negative Breast Cancer Oral Complications Progesterone Receptor-positive Breast Cancer Recurrent Breast Cancer Stage IIIB Breast Cancer Stage IIIC Breast Cancer Stage IV Breast Cancer
|Drug: mucoadhesive oral wound rinse Other: laboratory biomarker analysis
|Phase 2
I. Evaluate whether use of prophylactic MuGard (mucoadhesive oral wound rinse) in participants being treated with everolimus will reduce the rate of stomatitis.
I. Compare symptoms from mouth sores in patients receiving MuGard compared with those receiving best supportive care.
II. Evaluate the rate of everolimus dose adjustment or therapy discontinuation as a result of stomatitis in participants treated with MuGard prophylaxis versus best supportive care.
OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 arms.
ARM I: Patients receive mucoadhesive oral wound rinse orally (PO) as a gentle swish for 30-60 seconds 3-6 times daily beginning on day 1 of everolimus therapy and continuing for up to 6 months in the absence of unacceptable toxicity.
ARM II: Patients receive no intervention.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up within 7 days.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|61 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Supportive Care
|Official Title:
|Phase II Randomized Trial of Mugard Compared With Best Supportive Care for Prevention and Treatment of Stomatitis in Women With Hormone Receptor Positive Breast Cancer Initiating Treatment With Everolimus-based Endocrine Therapy.
|Actual Study Start Date :
|October 8, 2014
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|November 30, 2018
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|November 30, 2018
Experimental: Arm I (mucoadhesive oral wound rinse)
Patients receive mucoadhesive oral wound rinse PO as a gentle swish for 30-60 seconds 3-6 times daily beginning on day 1 of everolimus therapy and continuing for up to 6 months in the absence of unacceptable toxicity.
Drug: mucoadhesive oral wound rinse
Given PO
Other Names:
Other: laboratory biomarker analysis
Correlative studies
No Intervention: Arm II (no intervention)
Patients receive no intervention.
- Rate of grades 1-4 stomatitis assessed using Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 4.03 [ Time Frame: Up to 7 days after completion of treatment ]Will be estimated and the 95% confidence interval (CI) will also be obtained. Chi-square test will be used to compare the stomatitis rates between the two study arms.
- Rate of grade 3/4 stomatitis assessed using CTCAE version 4.03 [ Time Frame: Up to 7 days after completion of treatment ]Will be estimated and the 95% CI will also be obtained. Chi-square test will be used to compare the stomatitis rates between the two study arms.
- Rate of everolimus dose adjustment or discontinuation related to stomatitis [ Time Frame: Up to 7 days after completion of treatment ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Metastatic or locally recurrent unresectable breast cancer
- Histological or cytological confirmed ER and/or PR positivity
- Progression through at least one prior line of endocrine therapy
- Participant is scheduled to initiate treatment with everolimus combined with exemestane or another form of endocrine therapy
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1.5 x 10^9/L
- Platelets >= 100 x 10^9/L
- Hemoglobin (Hgb) ≥>= 8.0 g/dL
- International normalized ratio (INR) =< 2
- Serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) =< 2.5 X upper limit of normal (ULN) (or =< 5 X ULN if hepatic metastases are present)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-overexpressing breast cancer by local laboratory testing (immunohistochemistry [IHC] 3+ staining or fluorescent in situ hybridization [FISH] positive)
- Baseline presence of oral ulcers
- Prior treatment with everolimus or another mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor (temsirolimus)
- Patients on warfarin (patients on injectable blood thinners, such as Lovenox, are able to continue those)
- Patients currently receiving chemotherapy or who have received chemotherapy less than 4 weeks of the start of everolimus (including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, antibody based therapy, etc.)
- Known impairment of gastrointestinal (GI) function or GI disease that may significantly alter the absorption of oral everolimus
- Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus as defined by hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) > 8% despite adequate therapy; patients with a known history of impaired fasting glucose or diabetes mellitus (DM) may be included, however blood glucose and antidiabetic treatment must be monitored closely throughout the trial and adjusted as necessary
Patients who have any severe and/or uncontrolled medical conditions such as:
- Unstable angina pectoris, symptomatic congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction =< 6 months prior to start of everolimus, serious uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmia, or any other clinically significant cardiac disease
- Symptomatic congestive heart failure of New York heart Association class III or IV
- Active (acute or chronic) or uncontrolled severe infection, liver disease such as cirrhosis, decompensated liver disease, and chronic hepatitis (i.e. quantifiable hepatitis B virus [HBV]-deoxyribonucleic acid [DNA] and/or positive hepatitis B virus surface antigen [HbsAg], quantifiable hepatitis C virus [HCV]-ribonucleic acid [RNA])
- Known severely impaired lung function (spirometry and diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide [DLCO] 50% or less of normal and oxygen [O2] saturation 88% or less at rest on room air)
- Active, bleeding diathesis
- Chronic treatment with corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive agents; topical or inhaled corticosteroids are allowed
- Known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seropositivity
- Patients who have received live attenuated vaccines within 1 week of start of everolimus and during the study; patient should also avoid close contact with others who have received live attenuated vaccines; examples of live attenuated vaccines include intranasal influenza, measles, mumps, rubella, oral polio, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), yellow fever, varicella and TY21a typhoid vaccines
- Patients with a history of non-compliance to medical regimens or who are considered potentially unreliable or will not be able to complete the entire study
- Patients who are currently part of or have participated in any clinical investigation with an investigational drug within 1 month prior to dosing
- Pregnant or nursing (lactating) women
Women of child-bearing potential (WOCBP), defined as all women physiologically capable of becoming pregnant, must use highly effective methods of contraception during the study and 8 weeks after; highly effective contraception methods include combination of any two of the following:
- Use of oral, injected or implanted hormonal methods of contraception or
- Placement of an intrauterine device (IUD) or intrauterine system (IUS)
- Barrier methods of contraception: condom or occlusive cap (diaphragm or cervical/vault caps) with spermicidal foam/gel/film/cream/ vaginal suppository
- Total abstinence or
- Male/female sterilization Women are considered post-menopausal and not of child-bearing potential if they have had 12 months of natural (spontaneous) amenorrhea with an appropriate clinical profile (e.g. age appropriate, history of vasomotor symptoms) or have had surgical bilateral oophorectomy (with or without hysterectomy) or tubal ligation at least six weeks prior to randomization; in the case of oophorectomy alone, only when the reproductive status of the woman has been confirmed by follow up hormone level assessment is she considered not of child-bearing potential
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02015559
|United States, California
|Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095
|Principal Investigator:
|Parvin Peddi
|Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Responsible Party:
|Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2013-02384 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) )
TRIO-US B10 ( Other Identifier: JonssonCCC )
P30CA016042 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|December 19, 2013 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|May 7, 2019
|Last Verified:
|May 2019
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Neoplasms by Site
Breast Diseases
Skin Diseases
Mouth Diseases
Stomatognathic Diseases
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Anti-corruption crusader Arvind Kejriwal Friday launched a scathing attack on Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar calling his controversial amendments to the Lokayukta law "stupid".
Addressing a press conference, Kejriwal, founder of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), also wondered why Parrikar, whose image was that of an honest person, was looking to protect corrupt people.
"Manohar Parrikar is said to be an honest person. Why is he doing this? Why is he trying to protect corrupt people? What are the pressures on him? Is he giving a message that development is linked to corruption," said Kejriwal, asking people to outright reject the amended law.
"The BJP and the Parrikar government has cheated the people of Goa. His government's amendments are weakening the Goa Lokayukta act," he said, adding that the pre-poll promise made by the BJP to bring in a strict and strong Lokayukta had been betrayed after coming to power in March last year.
The bureaucrat-turned-crusader-turned-politician also said that post-amendments, the public ombudsman would serve as a "puppet" of the incumbent government and not punish, but protect the corrupt.
How can anyone expect a government, accused of corruption, to act against its own members on the basis of a Lokayukta recommendation, he asked.
"How stupid can it be," Kejriwal said.
He also called another controversial amendment, a three-month deemed rejection clause, as a first in history.
"If the Goa government does not accept the decision of the Lokayukta for three months, then it is deemed rejected. Anywhere else, it is a case of being deemed accepted," Kejriwal said, adding that the clause would enable a corrupt government to close ranks behind a corrupt minister and ignore the public ombudsman's verdict for three months, before conveniently setting it aside.
Parrikar has come under severe pressure from civil society over the amendments made to the public ombudsman law during the assembly session earlier this month.


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- As you start the second breath, clear your mind of expectations.
- Write, full on, whatever comes to you, for five minutes. Do not stop to correct anything – just go.
- When the time is up, you have to stop.
- Get up and wiggle. Move. Laugh. Growl. Pat self on back.
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But when ESPN columnist Jemele Hill put herself in a similar predicament, referencing Hitler in a column on the Celtics this past summer, all hell broke loose. ESPN suspended her, and she was forced to write an apology. So what do our ladies think of all of this? Let's take a look. By the way, if you'd like to be part of the Waxing Off writing staff, email myself at email@example.com, or Mr. Daulerio at email@example.com Head Chick In Charge: Of course it's a double standard. A Nazi is a Nazi is a Nazi Shark. If it is wrong to ever utter that "N-word", it is certainly more wrong to do so on national TV on the flagship rather than in one column out of hundreds on the dot com. A larger audience would be offended from exposure to such a vile reference on TV than from Page 2. Because Jemele actually wrote something vile and offensive? Yeah, right. ESPN punishes Jemele on the regular. Disney is the dom and Jemele is the submissive. She obviously likes it rough with no safe word. She voluntarily spends several days a month with Skip Bayless and she allowed ESPN to humiliate her by putting her byline on that ridiculous apology which really should have solely been contrition for writing a trite and mediocre column. Lou Holtz is an old man. He can't endure too strong a retaliation. A light rapping might finish him. But Jemele is a woman, young and sturdy. Put on earth for abuse. A Black woman at that. Especially made for abuse! Maybe there is more to it than just double standard. Maybe, in retrospect, ESPN knew the suspension was an overreaction. Maybe some sane and thoughtful management types took a deep breath and prospectively pulled an anti-Goodell. That is, prospectively calmed their hypersensitive asses down and reneged on insisting empty political correctness. Indeed, the politically correct are the real Nazis. Holtz may have merely been the first beneficiary of a new policy. 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I'm the old man who's out to change our history! Heil myself! Raise your hand! There's no greater magician in all the land! Everything I do, I do for you! If you're looking to fellate, here's a non-BCS school that can't wait! Heil myself! Raise your beer! Every hotsy-totsy Domer stand and cheer! Hooray! Lou Holtz is causing a furor! He's got ESPN on the run, you gotta love that wacky hun! Lou Holtz is causing a furor. They can't say "no" to his demands, they're freaking out in foreign lands. He's got the whole world in his hands. Lou Holtz is causing a furor! I was just a lispy man, no one more senile. Got a phone call from the Bristol, told me I was vital. Notre Dame was blue, what, oh, what to do? Hitched up my Depends and made amends, now ND's smiling through! Springtime for Lou Holtz and ND Irish Guard's the new step today! Springtime! Irish Guard! BCS bids falling from the skies again. ND is on the rise again! Springtime for Lou Holtz and ND! Leprechauns are dancing once more! Springtime for Lou Holtz and ND! Means that soon we'll be going … We've got to be going … You know we'll be going … You bet we'll be going … You know we'll be going to a booooowl! — Andrea is a contributor at Ladies ... and Bugs & Cranks and has recently started writing TV recaps for Zap 2 It. You can find some of her other columns here. She also is now proudly flying her Cardinal flag next door to Wrigley Field. It helps keep the Cubs Cooties away. ————- Nikki: One of the most prominent differences between live on-air banter and a written column is the oh-shit factor. The oh-shit factor is significantly larger in on-air chatter than it is in column-writing. The former involves talking on the fly with no kind of erase button — at best, you've got a 5- or 7-second delay (if you're lucky, and then you've gotta hope somebody actually catches and gets rid of your oh-shit moment). The latter involves the backspace/delete button that you can hit whenever you damn well please, plus presumably more time — time to think over what you've written, or to run an idea or phrase past someone else, before you submit your piece. As a girl who currently works in publishing but came from the world of radio, I know plenty about the varying levels of oh-shit-ness in these types of jobs. Anybody in broadcasting's had his or her share of oh-shit moments. My moment to shine in all my oh-shit glory came one morning when I was reading a Very Serious News Story live on the air at a country radio station. This Very Serious News Story was about fetuses. In the middle of me giving my news report, a cat flew in the studio window. Seriously. A cat. Flew through. The freakin' window. While I was on-air. (Turns out the general manager's cat, which lived at the radio station, had escaped outside. It decided the way to get back in would be to jump into the window screen from the outside, thus knocking the screen into the studio and sending itself hurtling through the air.) So I did what any normal person would do when she sees a cat flying through the air: I cracked the hell up. So did my morning show partner. I'd stopped, in the middle of a sentence about fetuses, to laugh my ass off. The listeners didn't have a clue what was going on. I had to stop laughing and calm down enough to explain on-air that a cat randomly flew in the window, and then attempt to carry on with the Very Serious News Story like nothing outrageous had happened. The thing any professional broadcaster would have done would have been to ignore the flying, startled cat and keep talkin' the fetus talk, but I was fresh out of college at that point, not exactly a seasoned broadcaster, and was totally prone to giggle fits. Oh-shit, indeed. When you're live on-air and stuff is more or less unscripted, shit happens. You talk (or laugh) without thinking things through. You're on the fly, you're thinking on your feet … and sometimes you stick one of those feet squarely in your mouth, like Lou Holtz did when, on a recent edition of College Football Live, he compared Rich Rodriguez's leadership skills to those of … Hitler. Yeah. Major oh-shit. And while Holtz shouldn't have said what he said, 'cause Hitler comparisons really tend to spark the ire of, like, everyone, I can at least empathize with him. I know what an oh-shit moment's like, and it's not a good feeling. In that moment right after the oh-shit comment has been sent off to cause mass chaos in the world, you get that awful feeling in your belly, that sickening drop in your stomach, and you know you screwed up big-time and you can't take it back. That's in no way an excuse for saying some sort of royally stupid comment — but it's at least understandable how it happened. I have less sympathy for Jemele Hill, who wrote in one of her columns that rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim. It's pretty well-known that making Hitler references is just one of those Things You Don't Do, much like snortin' blow off a dead prostitute, gettin' a little too friendly with your neighbor's pet billy-goat, or admitting you've seen Clay Aiken in concert. Yet Hill did it anyway. She wrote those words and then submitted them for publication. She had every opportunity to reconsider those words, edit those words, ask for someone else's feedback about those words, or omit those words from her column. Perhaps she did one or more of those things and still decided to submit her little Hitler simile; perhaps she didn't. This wasn't an instance of "oops, guess what just slipped out of my mouth?" She made a conscious decision to write those words, keep those words in her column, and then send that column off. Unlike a broadcaster, who (due to time constraints and the urgency to respond when he's live on the air) sometimes can't think his words (and their implications) through all the way before he says them, Hill thought about those words as she wrote them, and in the end, she must have thought they were OK enough to submit for publication. (Note: What baffles me is that Hill must have an editor, who really should have had the good sense to keep the Hitler comment out of the column. Her editor should get some of the blame for this incident, too. That being said, that doesn't excuse Hill's lack of good judgment in writing those words in the first place.) Is there a double standard here, where men get fewer punishments and reprimands than women do for making these oh-shit sorts of mistakes? Maybe. I'm not gonna say there isn't. But in this instance, the woman had opportunities and tools at her fingertips to go back and fix this mistake before it ever got loose in the public, while the man in question was pretty much screwed the moment he opened his mouth. In this case, the crime of what Holtz and Hill said was similar, but the crime of being able to fix said mistake and not doing so was committed only by Hill. Yeah, she got the worse end of the punishment stick, but in my eyes, she's the one who committed the more egregious of the crimes. — NIKKI is the snarky little so-and-so behind the humor website RED PEN, INC. A die-hard Phillies fan, she also talks baseball, cute pitchers, and pinstriped derrieres at THE BILF REPORT. ————- Ciara: When I first heard about the Hitler-Holtz-Hill double-standard fiasco, I started to think about the day that I decided that I wasn't going to pursue a Journalism degree in college. I had this dream of being a sportswriter since I was 12; to interview players and to eventually have a column in the Washington Post. But when I looked around and discovered that no one looked like me, I came to conclusion that maybe I wasn't meant to be a sportswriter. To this day, I regret that. I let the phrase: "How dare this Black woman come up in here and think she can do this?!", a phrase that Jemele felt from some the day she went up on ESPN.com, kill my hopes and dreams. I feel those sentiments every time someone discovers that I'm Black. It's the look of awe and astonishment. The phrases are like clockwork: "I wouldn't have known" "Seriously?!" "How the hell did you get involved in this?!" They can get past the 'girl' thing but it's the 'Black' thing that they can't seem to comprehend. I've been fortunate in my journey to have met people who can look past my race/gender, see some potential, and give me a chance. But for every one person that does, there are twenty people who don't. I have to fight that everyday: to prove to people that this is not a game to me. I'm aware of what I'm up against. I know I have to work twice as hard, be twice as accurate and be the ultimate scribe. I can't afford to make ill-timed references to Hitler. People expect me to fail. Hell, people don't even expect me to be here in the first place. But guess what, I belong here. I'm not a mutant, alien or weirdo. This is my love. I'm not going to let some invisible boundary keep me from achieving my goals. Not this time. Because I know there's another Ciara out there who thinks she can't do it. I'm writing to show her that she can. — Ciara has a love-hate relationship with the Eagles' DeSean Jackson. One day, she wants him to father her seed. The next, she wants to castrate him. What's a girl to do?! Despite that dilemma, she spends her time learning at the alleged ugliest campus in America while plotting to take over the world, Brain-style. Wish her luck! ————- Trouble: Both Lou Holtz and Jemele Hill made egregious and well-documented comparisons to Adolf Hitler within the scope of their profession. In both cases, they abused the meme of Hitler=Really Bad and violated Godwin's Law. Only one was thrown under the bus. Hill is 33, Holtz 71. Lou Holtz remembers when Adolf Hitler was alive and subjugating undesirables across Europe, Jemele Hill probably read that chapter in World History and has seen movies about the Holocaust. Holtz's comment reflected his knowledge of the effective and relatively successful campaigns of Adolf Hitler's regime (albeit compared wholly inappropriately to Coach Rodriguez) indicating he probably knows better than to say something so stupid. Yet Hill, who likely has only a bar trivia knowledge of the horrors of Nazism, was the one suspended, castigated and disgraced. ESPN was disingenuous to discipline Hill after her column was (assumed) passed by copyeditors and web editors and interns who do the actual story posting before going live. Check the safety before jumping the gun, guys. Holtz is a lot like my dad: a 70-something man, who worked hard his whole life, survived failure and racked up successes. He feels he's earned the right to say whatever the hell he feels like saying and talks right over whatever pitiful argument you have to offer. My dad is not a revered football coach, nor has he been quoted in sports publications saying the outrageous things he says everyday. Lou Holtz issued a public apology for his remarks and that's that. ESPN, shame on you. — Trouble was given that nickname as a toddler. She is an automotive journalist for Forbesautos and one of those Philly fans. When not engaged in taunting local Broncos or misguided Cowboys fans in Denver, she writes about luxury cars, drives racecars, and teaches web editing classes. ————- Tara Crawford: Let me start by saying this: Hitler has no place in a sports discussion unless your intrepid journalism efforts have just turned up photos of him in a Yankees jersey or documents proving he only has one nut as a result of his steroid use while trying to make the German Olympic basketball team. Seriously – Hitler? That's sort of like claiming that the old "lipstick on a pig" cliché is a sexist attack against a ... oh. Never mind. Anyway, my point is it makes you look like a moron and you should leave Hitler out of your sports commentary. Moving on. I think the main difference between Holtz's comments and Hill's is context. Holtz uses an ill-conceived comparison to make a salient point: that leadership quality does not necessarily yield a desirable result. You can be a good leader and still get the shaft from those following you ('sup, Jerry Manuel?). You can be functionally retarded and still get lucky. It's a good point made badly. Hill, on the other hand, seems to be making the point that rooting for a particular sports team is the philosophical equivalent of sympathizing with genocide. That's a bad point made badly. Every team has jackass players and jackass fans – it's one of the (debatable) joys of sports. The implication that the type of people who root for Team X are the same type of people who would cheer on war crimes or nuclear winter is so logically vacant I can't even come up with a decent line of ridicule. So, let's sum up! Don't invoke Hitler to discuss sports. If you feel you must do this, please at least do your best to make a comparison that makes sense. And please wear a big scarlet "G" on your chest so we can all point and laugh at you like the Godwinning idiot that you are. — Tara Crawford is an aspiring writer currently working as a print production artist. She is a die-hard New York Mets fan still in mourning. When not rooting on her team she can be found whittling away her hours online and/or indulging mildly manic obsessions with Anderson Cooper, Tim Gunn, and "Lost;" or posting bits of news and commentary at: http://sassette_news.livejournal.com. ————- Meghan: More trouble for an 81. No, it's not T.O. mouthing off or lifting weights in his driveway. It's not Randy Moss sitting out plays and not running routes. Eighty-one is the number of years Lou Holtz has been alive. And the trouble is his recent Hitler reference on live TV. This reference did not cause as much stir as the Hitler analogy made by Jemele Hill in a Page 2 column this summer. She was suspended and had to make a formal apology. Holtz made one of those half hearted apologies where he didn't really apologize. But the question here is why didn't Holtz face a harsher punishment? Where's the public outcry against Holtz? It's just not there. I think this is because the man is older than dirt. And lets be honest, old people can say whatever they want. It's the privilege they get for being feeble of mind and body. Or maybe because we assume they are senile. People say stuff like "He's from a different time" but they really mean "He's old and has no idea what's going on." Once someone hits 70 I start to question their mental soundness. By 80 I just assume they are totally out of it. I respect my elders, I just don't trust that after 80 years of living, dementia hasn't taken its toll, no matter how many crossword puzzles they do or how much ginkgo biloba they ingest. Jemele Hill caused such a controversy because we expect her to be aware of what she's writing. ESPN made an example of her and hoped they wouldn't have to deal with anymore unfortunate evil dictator references again for a while. It's a double standard. But it's not about treating white men different from black women, it's about treating old people different than young people. The robots who run ESPN must have done this same calculation. Otherwise they'd be accused of being insensitive to black women. And the ESPN robots are nothing if not sensitive to many viewpoints. They leave the insensitivity to Deadspin and the Nazi Shark. — Meghan hopes there is a cure for old age by the time she gets there. Until then she blogs at Girlsdon'tknowsports.
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"The issuance of these patents in the U.S. positions Saladax as the leader in chemotherapy dose management and we believe that Saladax has been issued more patents in the therapeutic dose management (TDM) space than any other diagnostic company," said Salvatore J. Salamone, founder and CSO of Saladax. "Of particular note, our patent for Resperidone marks a significant milestone for Saladax as this is our first patent in the CNS field."
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Saladax's first commercially available test for innovative dose management, My5-FU, measures levels of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), a widely prescribed chemotherapy drug used in conjunction with other drugs in first-line therapy for colorectal cancer and other solid tumors. The assay technology enables oncologists to determine the optimal dose of 5-FU for each individual patient, thereby increasing the effectiveness of the drug and lessening the risk of severe toxicity and other side effects.
About Saladax Biomedical, Inc.
Saladax Biomedical develops and commercializes novel diagnostic assays to achieve the promise of personalized medicine through dose management and companion diagnostic products for existing and new therapeutics. The Company's dose management technology enables physicians to optimize drug dosing to meet individual patient needs, leading to improved response and quality of life. The Company's 15 MyCare™ dose management assays are comprised of proprietary, automated and cost-effective in vitro diagnostic tests, with a principal focus in oncology. The first MyCare assay available is for one of the most common anticancer drugs, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). This assay is sold by Saladax in Europe as a CE-marked product and will be distributed in Japan by FALCO biosystems. In the United States and Canada, Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. provides testing for 5-FU dose optimization under the trademark OnDose® through a license to Saladax proprietary technology. In addition the company is finalizing development of its next two oncology drug assays for paclitaxel and docetaxel. Saladax also works with pharmaceutical companies to develop companion diagnostics to provide important clinical information to assist in developing and administering new and existing compounds. For more information, visit www.saladax.com, or follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Saladax.
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NYC: Perla's Pizzas Not Quite on Par
Pizza reviews in NYC.
I have just about nothing but good things to say about Perla, Gabe Stulman's Italian restaurant with Michael Toscano running the kitchen. I love the beef tongue and the lamb breast and the garganelli with tripe. I love the audacity of a man who puts foie gras on pancakes and serves a beef cheek sandwich for lunch. I like the cocktails, I like the potato chips all'amitriciana, and the burger makes me see funny and stutter out sentences I don't complete.
So far, there's only one thing I'd call even a little bit inconsistent: the pizza.
Toscano cooks a great deal of the menu in a wood-burning oven: roast rabbit, chicken cacciatore, a bone-in rib eye. (And gets more creative, too. "Sometimes he cooks whole animal heads as specials," a waitress told us in a hushed, delighted breath. "They're amazing, but you walk by the oven and there are just heads staring at you—it's something out of a horror movie.") So if you've got a wood-burning oven in this pizza-crazed city, pizza makes an awful lot of sense. Toscano first served his pies on a late-night bar menu, but recently moved them to their Friday-Saturday-Sunday lunch menu instead. There are five, which span a reasonably typical new-school, whole-pie spectrum: a Margherita, one with soppressata, one with mushrooms, one with sausage and a broccoli rabe pesto.
We've been three times for pizza (and Toscano was there each time), and we found very good pizza twice, somewhat disappointing pizza once. What happened? Let's break it down.
Every time the toppings of the pie worked well; well proportioned tasty ingredients. On one, sautéed brown beech mushrooms with garlic, tons of melty mozzarella and no small pour of olive oil; on another, a salty broccoli rabe pesto, crumbles of sausage, and caciocavallo cheese. On one visit, the crust was the equal of those toppings: well-charred and pliant, it had that satisfying crackle when the slices were pulled apart, the crust airy and steaming-hot with an audible crunch as you bite through with light, bready innards. But on another, the crust suffered a few problems—the underside was quite pale, with no blistering or bubbles to speak of; the flavor was fine, the salting of the dough sufficient, but it didn't have enough rise and lift to it. It was the sort of pie where you leave the crusts on your plate uneaten.
That pie also arrived less than crisp-hot: it was warm enough, sure, but the cheese had set a bit and the crust was barely warm. Even then, it wasn't bad; if we were at a less exciting restaurant, we would've been happy enough. It's just that Perla sets its standards so high that it does come off seeming a bit of a disappointment.
Still, right now, we're batting two for three. While acknowledging the inconsistencies, we're pretty happy with how they average out. Perla is young yet, and we look forward to a day when all the pizzas are as tasty as the better ones we had. Either way, there are still any number of things on this lunch menu that'll make you happy.
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In Pakistan over two thousand Asiatic black bears and sloth bears are forced to dance for public entertainment.
Young cubs are stolen by poachers while their mother is away from the den or by killing her when she returns.
This illegal killing and capture of bears is seriously threatening populations in the wild.
Many cubs die from neglect or dehydration before they are sold for training.
For years sloth bear cubs in India have been poached and tortured through brutal training methods to become "Dancing Bears", forced to perform for tourists. At less than 4 weeks of age, the cub is stolen from its mother who is often killed while trying to protect her cubs. Sold to traders and middlemen at underground markets, trauma, malnutrition and shock accounts for a mortality rate of more than 50%. The surviving bear cubs are sold to gypsies who will teach them to dance.
At the tender age of 4 months, the cub's canine teeth are knocked out. A red hot iron needle pierces its muzzle, and a coarse rope is pulled through. The wound is never allowed to heal, and the cub will live in fear, hunger and pain, tied to a stake for the rest of its life.
No anaesthetic is used for this highly painful operation and, to make matters worse, teeth are often removed or broken to prevent injury to the handlers.
Tugging on the rope prevents these fresh wounds healing, and the bears find no relief from raw, painful infections.
The agony goes on, and the bear learns to 'dance' in an attempt to avoid the pain.
Poor diet has a disastrous effect on the health of dancing bears.
Many suffer from cataracts and go blind due to lack of nutrition.
The trauma of this unnatural life drives many bears mad and they display the repetitive, pacing movements, characteristic of mental damage.
WILDLIFE SOS in India is the foremost authority on this matter and with them overseeing the end of dancing bears in India, the future looks good for these gentle bears.
At the Agra Bear rescue Facility, in Agra India, the shelter sits on 15 acres of land, and there are currently 600 rescued bears living a new life in the sanctuary.
As each rescued bear is brought into the centre, their rope is cut and the wound is treated by the vets. Painkillers and antibiotics are administered, thereby giving much needed relief to the bear. The bear is then housed in a quarantine area where a healthy diet of wheat porridge, seasonal fruits, multigrain baked bread, honey and feed additives provide the bear with a composite scientific diet to bring it to good health. During the quarantine period (minimum 90 days) the bear's overall health is monitored carefully. The bear is also treated for potential tuberculosis and leptospirosis and vaccinated against rabies.
Once the quarantine period is completed, the bear is moved to a large socialisation pen, where it learns to interact with other bears and to deal with wide open spaces and trees to climb. After this, the bear is then moved to one of 7 enclosures within the sanctuary, to finally enjoy it's new life of freedom and quality.
Please visit WILDLIFE SOS for more information
Watch this video here to see the surrender of the LAST dancing bear in India!


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This week has certainly been a HEALTHY one. Not in terms of food, though I have had the odd bit of salad every now and then, but musically speaking. That is because the Californian group have a) released a video b) have confirmed a new remix record, entitled DISCO2. Part C of this trilogy of news is that the promised new track from the album of reworkings is available to download. NOW.
But before that, I'll furnish you with the tracklist and album art, because we didn't do so the other day.
- USA Boys
- Before Tigers (CFCF)
- In Heat (Javelin)
- Die Slow (Tobacco)
- Severin (Small Black)
- Before Tigers (Gold Panda)
- Eat Flesh (Crystal Castles vs. Health 2)
- In Violet (Salem)
- Nice Girls (Blondes)
- Die Slow (Pictureplane)
- Nice Girls (Little Loud)
- Before Tigers (Blindoldfreak)
And now, onto matters important and pressing. Get the 9.4MB file of 'USA Boys' in mp3 format by clicking here and releasing it on this Friday afternoon. Mmmmm. Beauteous.
19 - Brighton, Audio
20 - Glasgow, Captains Rest
21 - Liverpool, Korovo
22 - London, Ether Festival