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Thus, Halloween was born.
Today, the funny costumes remain, but the rituals are generally limited to knocking on doors and asking for candy.
And as children all across Calhoun and Gordon County venture out in search of the best treats, there are a few things worth knowing.
What to do
If you don't want to wait until it gets dark to start the candy hunting, the City of Calhoun is offering an alternative.
From 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. the city will host its annual Halloween trick-or-treat event.
"Find a parking place and trick-or-treat with the merchants," said Suzanne Roland, director of the Calhoun Downtown Development Authority. "You start on one end and make your way around the block."
Following the city event, participating merchants at the Calhoun Premium Outlets will also host trick-or-treaters from 5 to 7.
Many area churches are offering alternatives to traditional Halloween activities. See the church calendar in today's paper for details.
What to know
Expect a heightened police and sheriff's office presence throughout the area tonight.
Law enforcement officials also advise parents to make sure their children are supervised at all times. They also encourage children to wear bright clothing and pay close attention while crossing streets.
Law enforcement will also visit every registered sex offender in Gordon County to make sure they are following the law.
The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta offer the following tips on keeping your kids safe was they trick-or-treat:
For more tips on Halloween safety, visit http://www.cdc.gov/family/halloween.
Further Halloween history can be found here: http://www.history.com/topics/halloween.

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"An International is like no other Jitsu event."
An exciting opportunity to train with instructors and students from around the Jitsu world including countries like Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and the USA.
The International starts off with two full days of small seminars and workshops run by top international instructors and you choose which seminars you want to attend
The 2013 International will be held over four days in July here in the UK and will be hosted in Edinburgh, capital city of Scotland.
3-4 July Workshops & Seminar
For two whole days senior instructors will take small groups of Jitsuka through specialised & rarely taught topics.
- Advance Ukemi master class
- Henka-waza & Kaeshi-waza
- Three levels of awareness
- Close Combat
- Sutemi-waza
- No-gi Jitsu
- Situational Training
5 July Edinburgh
Normally when we travel to a Jitsu event we see the inside of a sports centre and then go home.
So day three will be your chance to relax, recharge the batteries and explore ScotlandÆs capital city.
Edinburgh has many attractions to entice the visitor with history and culture. Tour Edinburgh Castle, shop on the Royal Mile & visit the Palace of Holyrood House.
For the brave there are famous ghost walks through the historic streets, once roamed by the infamous Burke and Hare.
Visit the hidden city catacombs or the Edinburgh Dungeon. Child friendly tours are also available at both these attractions.
The æWorld of IllusionsÆ has optical illusions and plenty of æhands onÆ activities for the younger visitors.
You could try the ōScottish Whisky Experienceö a chance to explore and understand the history, how itÆs made and the difference between Scotch, Irish Whiskey & Bourbon.
Things to do in Edinburgh
6 July The Gathering
The final day brings everyone together on one mat. to train under top Shorinji Kan Jiu Jitsu instructors from around the world.
Juniors International Demonstration competition
Members of junior jitsu clubs will present short showcases of their skills, before one final training session.
Farewell Dinner
A final celebration and awards dinner, followed by a traditional Scottish ceildh. Black tie and kilts optional
Jitsu International
You may not realise that the Jitsu you are taught in your club is taught in many other parts of the world. There are many associations set up by instructors who learnt Jitsu here in the UK. The most recent addition to the family was set up in 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The first official ōInternationalö or gathering of students and Instructors from these various branches was held in Canada in 2003.
Internationals have been held in Amsterdam, Holland in 2006 and Spartanburg, USA in 2009.
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- Tickets for ALL training and the farewell dinner cost
- Ż 100 Senior
- Ż 70 Junior
- Tickets for Training on Saturday 6th July and the farewell dinner cost
- Ż 60 Senior
- Ż 50 Junior
- Tickets for Saturday 6th July farewell dinner only cost
- Ż 50 (over 12 yrs)
- Ż 30 (6 -12 yrs)
- Tickets for Training only on either Wednesday 3rd July, Thursday 4th July or Saturday 6th July
- Ż 20 Senior
- Ż 15 Junior
Places for this event will be strictly limited so you are urged to book quickly once tickets go on sale.
- A special rate for the event has been arranged with Edinburgh First.
- Ż 79 B+B per twin / double room per night.
- You can add on extra days to extend your stay at same rate.
Please do NOT book any accommodation or transport until your place is confirmed.
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To book your place at the 2013 International please pay in full.
To pay by BACS please just put Int2013F-*yourclub or yoursurname if individual* as the transfer ref, complete and email the Excel Booking Form. If you are paying by cheque please print off the form, complete and send signed for (so that royal mail track it) with a the cheque to the The Jitsu Foundation Ltd, PO Box, Bath, BA1 0QD.
For those who have already paid deposits the balance is required by 1st June 2013.
To pay the balance by BACS please just put Int2013B-*yourclub or yoursurname if individual* as the transfer ref and send a quick email notifying us that you've paid the balance. If you are paying by cheque please write International2013 balance payment and the names of everyone you are paying the balance for on the back of the cheque and send signed for (so that royal mail track it) the cheque to the The Jitsu Foundation Ltd, PO Box, Bath, BA1 0QD.
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Yeah, the goddess of badassery's rare because she kicks ass without looking like a supermodel who would never be able to lift a sword (she's transgendered?). IMO it's not enough to give a female a role where she's somehow able to beat everyone if it's a completely ridiculous depiction of scantily clad supermodel physique... Which as you say is what it is in most RPGs and movies. It's better than nothing, but not by much. I wouldn't expect a 'feminist' to be satisfied with the way it's getting done. I know I find them annoying because it's just so stupid most of the time. The chick in borderlands isn't bad. They show her ass a bit but she's not completely tits and ass.
I will be sad when the goddess of badassery meets her inevitable death because ~George RR Martin~.
Originally Posted by Loire
Care to explain how you came to that conclusion? The pre-GenX was all about societal and gender roles. The younger generations starting with GenX have since moved to objectifying women and have been fed a steady diet of sexualized content.
Oh and apparently, the next Lara Croft game will tell about her past including when she almost gets raped. From interviews it appears that the devs wanted the audience to root for her and make a closer bond. Chew on that one for a bit.
Ive come to that conclusion because none of my friends are sexist, no one I meet in my age range (20s) are generally sexist or care about gender roles. Women are objectified in media all the time sure, but that media is mostly being produced by the previous generations stuck in that mind set. People seem pretty open to everything in my experience, since I Started university and worked at a few places.
As for the Lara Croft thing I guess that's not exactly a great reflection on video games, but rape is dramatic and its a story about a woman so its probably just there for that reason. I think you'll find there's a lot more TV shows and even shitty soaps that involve women getting raped for stupid plot points and story arcs. Its not good that this happens, but the people making the game are obviously uncreative in their efforts to find something that will be hard for the character to experience and get players to root for her more.
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Fortunately for your Georgie knows how to write good female characters. Seeing as how you probably just follow the tv series, at some point the Mormonts get a bit more focus and you are introduced to the wifes and daughters of Mormont family who are all quite badass and bear(ish).
Seeing as how sexual differentiation is ingrained within our culture, and I'm grasping towards the colour and types of toys and hobbies that parents are supposed to subscribe I find it hard to believe that unless you spent a lot of time observing yourself and how you react to certain situations involving the different sex it is hard to grasp. Although most guys I know are completely reasonable in terms of sexism I've also known guys who to me cross the line. For example I think there is nothing wrong with looking at a good looking women. However if you stare at every girl that comes by and comment how hawt she is or not is, like you need some kind of confirmation that this person indeed looks good then you have a problem. In the end it all boils down to what kind of social circles you move in. Although I'm not big on clubbing, I've been dragged along several times by friends to random clubs and although it is not a regular sight you do sometimes see packs of guys purely hunting girls so they can add another +1 to their how many fleshy bits they've wrapped around their baby injection apparatus.
The thing with Lara Croft is that I do like that they are moving towards a more mature way of representing her. Because really there is no point in having someone who raids tombs, runs through jungles and does all acrobatic shit to be running around in hot pants. It is a sexual fantasy, which is easy to get away with because games are escapism apparently. But to be fair storytelling in mainstream games is on really low par when you compare it to movies. Movies have their big action blockbuster but there also high budget movies which have good stories, although they might not be gems they are worth going to the cinema for. For some reason the stories in games only come in standard action/fantasy format, the odd gem or indie project and the crossover is few and far in between. However this mostly has to do with the budgets games take to make and when money is involved and people do become oh so conservative on story.
That said I think it is a good step for the writers to explore more mature games because actually realistic sex and sexual relationships is uncommon in games. Rape does not have to be condemned to solely shitty soap writing, the anime Akira is one good example that comes to mind. However if they want to make Lara Croft a more mature and realistic person then they should be allowed to do that by the fans. And not start silly little flame wars about the "legacy" of the tomb raider games. Which does not at all means that they weren't good gameplay wise, they aren't some kind of holy heritage that must never be changed or tampered with.
Georgie writes good everything, it seems.
I don't agree with Keorythe, we've come a long way. We're not like the middle east any more. In most affluent parts of western countries it's socially unacceptable to be openly sexist and if you grow up in a place like that your friends probably won't be overtly sexist. You can safely write off the occasional shit heads as the inevitable few bad apples.
I think it's a bad thing, though, to dust off your hands and declare it done. When people respond to women's issues with something like "they have equality now so stop whining and go away" it almost proves the opposite. There's open hostility toward the suggestion that we haven't completely solved these problems. That ain't right, man. If we were talking about some social problems affecting young nerdy guys and how they have trouble fitting in or finding social affirmation, you probably wouldn't see this kind of hostile response. You know, because we're guys and we can relate. But girls? Oh those fucking feminists need to shut up. Lets come up with examples of feminazis to prove how they're all man hating dykes. Not that we're sexist. They just need to shut up.
Also I know at least 3 guys, who are pretty good friends of mine, who are flat out sexist. It took some time, and some conversations with them, to realize it. I blame bitterness for that, but I wonder if enough 'education' could have put them down a different path. By education I mostly mean pointing out to them that most girls who wear tons of makeup and dress slutty are pitiable, confused and insecure, not just dumb attention seeking whores.... although some of them are. We've kind of trained them to do that, and then seem oblivious to why they would.
Originally Posted by Loire
I feel as if in a lot of ways, many women don't help with the perception of their own rights and equality. Many want to be treated the same as men but alternatively still expect the traditional treatment from their male counterparts and I've yet to meet a girl who is adverse to using her female-unique traits to get ahead day to day. These aren't necessarily bad things, I don't personally see equal rights and paying for a girls dinner as diametrically opposed but it can create a growing sense of dissatisfaction amongst less understanding males. It's sort of the whole "Well there's no Male Lit. course" thing. Sometimes it feels as if the whole process is pushing to go beyond equality even though it isn't (yet).
I may be misunderstanding your meaning but:
If 'bitterness' is at fault would it not be a good idea to address where that came from? Again assuming a lot here, but seeing as you're writing on a forum about internet spaceships i'm going to assume your friends are of a certain (i hesitate to say class so will go with....) demographic, which historically aren't treated very well by the opposite sex during the stages of growing up because they themselves don't conform to the (sexist) notion of what a male should be at that age. This, at least in my head, explains a lot about why gamers treat women badly, although it by no means excuses it.
I for one am looking forward to playing games featuring middle-aged, conservatively dressed, slightly overweight, asexual women. I've always felt that the one thing missing from modern games was more characters that look like Rachel Maddow. I can just see her, realistically-sized sword in hand, getting ready to take on the legions of the dead while her suit jacket rippling in the slight breeze.
Not all of them fit into that category. Actually I was probably the most rejected by females and hoplessly ~forever alone~ of all of them until recently. I'm sure you're right about certain parts of the industry/gamer community but also keep in mind if we're talking about games we're talking about things aimed largely at children as well.
Speaking of children, the irony of Wall responding to an accusation of following false dichotomies by presenting another false dichotomy is absolutely golden.
Originally Posted by Loire
It's cute to see him struggle, man. He's got this absolutist brain where anything more complex than one or two ideas overloads the system and gets pushed outside of his worldview. And he gets all mad because people are talking about stuff he thinks is totally wrong.
Also jesus was a black woman.
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November 13, 2012 · Updated 2:40 PM
A Kirkland judge dropped the domestic violence assault case against former Husky Jerramy Stevens on Tuesday due to insufficient evidence.
Kirkland police arrested Stevens on Monday for allegedly assaulting and injuring former Husky and Olympic gold medalist Hope Solo during a house party altercation between eight people. Solo, who was at the Kirkland Municipal Court Tuesday afternoon, is believed to be Steven's fiance, but his attorney wouldn't confirm.
"The issue here is whether the crime was committed and the answer is 'no,'" said Steven's lawyer, Todd Maybrown. "No crime was committed, she was not assaulted (by him)."
Kirkland police officers were dispatched to a disturbance call in the 6400 block of N.E. 138th Place at 3:45 a.m. on Monday.
The call involved a physical altercation between eight people during a house party and the use of a stun gun.
Upon arrival, officers contacted several people at the residence who appeared to be intoxicated and were uncooperative as officers began their investigation.
Officers found a 31-year-old female suffering from a laceration to the elbow, a 32-year-old female suffering from a hip injury, and a 34-year-old male suffering from multiple bumps, scrapes and contusions. Kirkland Fire Department personnel treated the injuries.
Based on information provided by those involved and upon the officers' observations of the scene and visible evidence present, officers arrested Stevens on investigation of fourth-degree domestic violence assault on the female resident who suffered a laceration to her elbow, believed to be Solo. The victim was reported to be the fiancée of Stevens, according to Kirkland police. The investigation was forwarded to Kirkland's Family Violence Unit Detective for further investigation.
The female with the hip injury and the male with multiple scrapes and bruises indicated they had been assaulted by a male who had come to the party and fled prior to police arrival. They could only provide a vague description of this subject and stated they did not know him.
Stevens has a history of prior convictions.
"Perhaps he doesn't get a fair shake because people look at that past history, whatever it is, and reach conclusions that they shouldn't reach," said Maybrown.
Stevens will be released from the Kirkland jail at some point Tuesday.
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I was really looking forward for this month's cookie carnival – Mini Pumpkin Whoopie Pies, it sounded so cool to me. Steve was a bit weary when I told him about this month cookies, the idea of adding pumpkin in the cookies sounds "Yuck" to him.
Well, I got myself all set up today. Yeah, I simply can't wait to try this recipe. I couldn't find the solid pack pumpkin in the supermarket, hence I replaced it with ½ cup of mash pumpkin (Smart me, hey ;-p). I replaced the vegetable shortening with butter as I don't have any shortening handy. The result was ….. Da-Lah .. another kitchen disaster. All the cookies are now "resting peacefully" in my rubbish bin.
The cookies turned out rather dry and thick, as you can see in the pictures. Sandwich two of those cookies together will give you a giant ball. The filling tasted ok to me, but a bit "watery". It was impossible to sandwich the filling in between the cookies.
Well, my dear cookie carnival gang, please tell me where I went wrong. My "smart ass" ideas of replacing the butter and mashed pumpkin or .. hehe.. We can blame my kitchen "feng shui" again ;-))
Makes about 20.
* 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
* 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (not Dutch-process)
* 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
* 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
* 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, softened
* 1/4 cup vegetable shortening
* 1/2 cup granulated sugar
* 1/2 cup packed dark-brown sugar
* 1 large egg
* 1 cup whole milk
* 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
* 4 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
* 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
* 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
* 1/4 cup canned solid pack pumpkin
* Pinch of cinnamon
* Pinch of nutmeg
1. Prepare cookies: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt into a medium bowl; set aside.
2. Place butter, shortening, and sugars into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on high speed until smooth, about 3 minutes. Add egg; mix until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Mix in half the flour mixture, then the milk and vanilla. Mix in remaining flour mixture.
3. Drop about 2 teaspoons dough onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper, spacing 2 inches apart. Bake until cookies spring back when lightly touched, 12 to 14 minutes. Transfer baking sheets to wire racks and let cool 10 minutes. Remove cookies from baking sheets and transfer to wire racks using a spatula; let cool completely.
4. Prepare filling: In the bowl of a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, whip together cream cheese, butter and confectioners' sugar on medium speed until smooth, about 3 minutes. Add pumpkin, cinnamon, and nutmeg; whip until smooth, scraping down the bowl as necessary.
5. Pipe or spoon about 2 teaspoons filling on the flat sides of half the cookies. Sandwich with remaining cookies, keeping the flat sides down.
**** This is my entry for this month Cookie Carnival held by the clean plate club ******


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" If you want to go to Pristines Web site and learn about their process you may do so; they offer comparison listening, and they explain a great deal about their methods (carefully avoiding giving away trade secrets). It would seem that they have developed a method of extracting a wider frequency response from older material than has been possible before, and doing it without also bringing forth noise. The method is based on computer analysis of what might be called a harmonic fingerprint unique to every piece of musicno matter who the performers and where the recording was made. This is done using modern digital recordings of a specific piece of music, which apparently match each other very closely. Again, using computer technology, Pristine then equalizes old recordings to match, at a fine resolution, the harmonic profile of each piece. It is clear from the Web site and, more important, from listening to these discs that Pristine has managed a more evenly distributed and fuller range of frequency response than has been possible in prior restorations of historic material.
...In every single case here I found myself astonished at the naturalness and richness of the orchestral, instrumental, and vocal sound that came from these transfers. In some cases (Furtwänglers Beethoven Fourth from 1953, for instance) the sound was a revelation."
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Happy Birthday Dr Seuss!!
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You DID good! Way to go mom!
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- Michelle (michabella) said...
You are the coolest mom!!! Soooo crafty! Love it!
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- Shelly said...
Awesome! I love Dr. Seuss and have given this book as a gift for many a baby shower so I LOVE what you did!
- March 2, 2012 at 9:04 AM
- angie said...
Oh man! Your kindergarten class does some fun stuff! I emailed my daughters K teacher asking if I could make the kids a snack, so I did jello with swedish fish for One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. I wrapped the cups in a clear treat bag and printed a tag of Cat in the Hat. They were cute :)
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I just pinned this on my "School" board for once I start teaching.
So awesome!
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ok. dude. this is literally the coolest thing in the world. if i could nominate you for a coolest-person-award. i would and you would win.
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- Brittany said...
This is SOOO cute! So creative, Amy! I love it :)
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You ROCK momma! so awesome!!!! love it! I bet those kids loved it more!
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Hi Amy, just stopping by to say how delightful your blog is. Thanks so much for sharing. I have recently found your blog and am now following you, and will visit often. Please stop by my blog and perhaps you would like to follow me also. Have a wonderful day. Hugs, Chris
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This project is so cool and turned out just awesome!
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KYIV, Ukraine, 5 April 2013 - UNHCR welcomes that Mr. Abdoumalik Abdoulladjanov, a US recognized refugee, is in good health upon his release from detention since February 5, 2013.
The Regional Representation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees encourages the Ukrainian authorities to extend protection to a US recognized refugee who has been detained at Boryspil airport on February 5, 2013, in response to an Interpol red flag. The person is currently being held under temporary arrest while the General Prosecutor's Office is considering the request for his extradition.
10 December 2012
The Supreme Court of Hungary (Kúria) issued an official opinion on 10 December 2012 in order to promote a harmonised practice at Hungarian courts regarding the application of the safe third country concept in asylum cases. The concrete reason for issuing such a guidance document was that in recent years, different Hungarian regional courts applied different approaches upon reviewing administrative decisions which deny admission to the in-merit asylum procedure based on the fact that the asylum-seeker arrived in Hungary from a safe third country. This also meant a diverging evaluation of the asylum situation in Serbia (the target country of most safe third country returns of asylum-seekers from Hungary).
UNHCR welcomes the fact the Ukrainian authorities are continuing their efforts to improve the quality and harmony of legislation in the area of asylum. As the Visa Liberalization Action Plan between the Ukraine and the European Union stipulates that such legislation should meet both international and European standards, UNHCR continues to support the authorities in understanding and applying these standards. In this regard, we note that the Law on amendments to some legislative acts of Ukraine in connection with adoption of the Law of the Law of Ukraine on the Legal Status of Foreigners and Stateless Persons came into power on 15 November 2012.
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On August 31, 2012, Social Action Centre made a statement on behalf of the Coalition of NGOs at the pre-session for the UPR in Geneva (see full text of the statement here). Within 10 days that passed since the pre-session, the situation dramatically changed – Ukrainian Parliament adopted the anti-discrimination law. Now this document awaits the President to sign it before it will enter into full force.
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Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI)
Title of proposed idea Centers for Research and Training in Quantitative and Systems Pharmacology
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Major obstacle/challenge to overcome: The focus of most of modern drug discovery has been on creating Ehrlich's "magic bullet," a drug that would hit only one target in the body effecting the desired change. This model has been enormously helpful and led to many drug successes. Yet even today, ninety percent of investigational drugs—i.e., those approved for trial—fail before being approved for use in patients. Many of these failures occur at the Phase II clinical trial level of development, making the failures very costly, and the majority fail for reasons of lack of efficacy. Furthermore, all drugs have unintended effects as well as intended ones, and drugs show person to person variability in their effectiveness and toxicities. Clearly, we can identify potential targets and make high affinity ligands for those, but we lack 1) a comprehensive knowledge of the role of these targets in human physiology and disease, 2) a quantitative and multi-scale understanding of how the targets modulate each other, and 3) how hitting more than one target sums to produce an observable phenotypic change. Industry scientists confirm that these are major impediments for drug discovery and development in most therapeutic areas.
We submit that there is a profound need to make a major shift in our approach to drug discovery and understanding drug action to fill in the context within which targets operate and how they produce their therapeutic action and side effects. This proposal is not meant to encompass all of systems biology or pharmacology, but to add a more quantitative and integrative perspective to allow a systems level understanding of drug action. Academic pharmacology, for the past thirty to forty years, has been largely focused on molecular pharmacology, providing an in depth understanding of individual molecular targets within the body. There has also been a diminished level of academic research in clinical pharmacology, the discipline most aligned with understanding drug action. There is now a timely and urgent need to stimulate Quantitative and Systems Pharmacology (QSP), an emerging discipline that proposes to build from an understanding of a drug's molecular interactions to an understanding of its temporal and dynamic modulation of cellular networks, impact on human pathophysiology, and optimal use in the clinic. QSP builds upon classical and molecular pharmacology by adding omics approaches not available in earlier periods and recent modeling approaches that enable the deciphering of high volume data analysis. It adds the horizontal integration and numerical quantitation of biological processes and mechanisms provided by systems biology and the vertical integration and statistical approaches characterized by PD/PK modeling and clinical pharmacology. It is necessarily multi-disciplinary and highly integrative, operating across the biological hierarchy from biochemistry and cells to tissues and whole organs to animal studies and human patients. Furthermore, for research to move rapidly in this emerging area, there must be a scientific workforce to drive it; currently, this is also an underserved need.
Emerging scientific opportunity ripe for Common Fund investment: This recommendation arises from two workshops and a follow up white paper held at the NIH in 2008 and 2010 (http://meetings.nigms.nih.gov/?ID=8316) with participants from academia, industry and government. The stimulus for the workshops was the lack of integration taking place between the pharmacology and the systems biology being supported by NIH and the need to address the poor success rate in drug discovery and development. The workshops brought together researchers in pharmacology, systems biology, pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics, computer modeling and related areas with a focus on how systems biology was contributing to drug discovery and understanding of drug action now and in the future. The major result of the first meeting was a strong recommendation to repeat the workshop. The attendees recognized that they had something to offer each other, but felt they were currently far apart. The second workshop focused on three different therapeutic areas with the idea that they could learn from each other's successes and failures. That QSP encompasses cells, organs, and virtually all therapeutic areas, with underlying principles to be discovered that span all these makes it highly appropriate for a Common Fund proposal. The opportunity now exists to bring together researchers in these various areas in a common effort to expand our knowledge of drug action beyond drug target interactions to an understanding of how to use drugs alone or in combination to control biological systems that can produce shifts between disease and healthy phenotypes.
Common Fund investment that could accelerate scientific progress in this field: The purpose of this Common Fund idea is to promote the use of QSP approaches for the study and elimination of a major roadblock in drug discovery and development, the complexity of drug targeting. The centers mechanism is recommended to facilitate collaborative development of pioneering research, research training, and outreach programs in this emerging area and therefore stimulate the field as a whole. The focus of the centers should be the generation and testing of new ideas in QSP. The primary justification for centers is the need for integration of research plus training, and integration across levels of biological organization, across scientific disciplines, and across therapeutic areas. We believe that a community is emerging from the cognate disciplines that is highly motivated and ready for this effort to begin. Initially, there will be limiting factors as outlined below in areas for exploration, but there exists the opportunity to package what exists and leverage it to greatly boost research in this area. It is also suggested that the opportunity exists to employ industry academic partnerships to fully engage the expertise and creativity of industrial partners in idea generation and testing that will benefit all sectors.
Some of the immediate needs in QSP include the following areas thought to be ripe for exploration via collaborative/integrative centers: 1) the quantitative characterization of drug targets; 2) factors affecting patient response variability; 3) better animal and tissue models; 4) re-connection of medicinal chemistry and tissue pharmacology; 5) information exchange formats extending from chemistry to electronic medical records; 6) better computational models with pharmacological mechanisms; 7) development of systems approaches to failure analysis; 8) defining of core competencies for training in QSP; 9) development of pedagogical resources; 10) novel formats for training, including that for established investigators; and 11) novel academic industry partnerships covering research and training.
Potential impact of Common Fund investment: The primary results of a successful QSP centers program are expected to include: 1) major advances in the fundamental understanding of how drugs act; 2) more direct translation of discoveries made in cells to patients; 3) improved biomarkers that assay directly the effects of drugs in tissues and patients; 4) a stronger scientific basis for multi-drug therapy and re-purposing of existing drugs and drug candidates abandoned in development; 5) a more rational basis for polypharmacy and predicting drug-drug interactions; 6) a higher success rate for new drug candidates successfully entering the market place with acceptable toxicities and predictive variability among patient types; 7) higher rates of success of clinical trials; and 8) a stronger investigator pool for academia and industry and a new generation of leaders in academic and industrial pharmacology.
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