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A prominent Palestinian Arab billionaire has earned the scorn of the Palestinian Authority for the heinous crime of talking peace with Jews who make their homes and conduct business in Judea and Samaria (the so-called "West Bank").
Last month, Munib al-Masri, a Palestinian tycoon and former minister in the Palestinian Authority, led a private effort to get Israelis back on board with the Saudi-authored Arab League Peace Initiative first introduced in 2002.
Israelis viewed the proposal with suspicion because it called for the nearly unconditional surrender of all Judea, Samaria and the eastern half of Jerusalem, while Palestinians were unhappy that the plan stated any solution to the claimed "refugee crisis" must be agreed upon by Israel. The Palestinian Authority continues to insist that Israel open its borders to millions of "Palestinian refugees."
And so, the initiative died before ever really being negotiated. But al-Masri believes it is the only realistic starting point for a lasting peace deal, and has started meeting with influential Israelis to convince them of his position.
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In a legal notice published Wednesday, the board announced a special meeting Friday to consider the resolution of a personnel matter. According to the board's website, it is only responsible for one position at the school: the president.
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Flickr photo by Carbon NYCFrom the moment the average American child is born, their future is mapped out by their parents:
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The research is clear: children whose parents pursued higher education have higher rates of success in life.
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My husband's graduation is a relief -- because it means we will each represent a path for our daughter Just as my parents did -- one has her master's degree, one went the military route. Both are successful; the latter as a small business owner, the former in the medical field, one where a college degree is still very much a must have.
We can't have doctors or nurses who haven't been to college. It's a physical impossibility. But are doctor, lawyer the only "success" stories in America?
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The mood is positively electric in Lucie Stern Community Theatre's large backstage green room. Singers in plain clothes, partial- and full-costume run through last-minute exercises; across the hall, a thick cloud of hairspray hangs in the air of the small dressing room where a pair of makeup artists are adjusting wigs and feverishly applying the final touches to the actors' already paint-caked faces; fancifully dressed children and adults rush to and fro, and the orchestra begins playing.
It's the first of two "full-orchestra dress rehearsals" in the run up to the May 23 debut of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera, "The Magic Flute" -- the third and final production of the Palo Alto-based West Bay Opera's 58th season.
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Since joining West Bay Opera eight years ago, Moscovich has brought both laser focus and grand, sweeping ambition to the company, Blank says.
In an interview with the Weekly shortly after he was hired, Moscovich said that he keeps track of all company costs -- no matter how small. "I know the cost of buttons," he told former A&E editor Rebecca Wallace.
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Recalling his decision to push for more established, bigger-name singers, as opposed to younger, local talent, and to tackle tougher, larger-scale productions, Moscovich remembers the backlash he faced. "People thought I was out of my mind," he says with a chuckle. But his gambit payed off. "That not only kept a good portion of our audience with us, it also attracted a great deal more people to see what we do."
In addition to the budgetary concerns currently facing West Bay Opera and other companies around the country, attracting new, younger audiences is another major challenge.
Kirk Eichelberger, a bass singer who plays the role of Sarastro in the upcoming West Bay Opera production, acknowledges the problem.
"The issue is that opera in our culture has been painted this way -- as something that is for a fuddy-duddy, moneyed, upper crust crowd that the people who are young and poor have no business with," Eichelberger says.
In a sense, those who perceive opera to be old and somewhat inflexible are correct. The art form dates back to the 16th century and hews tightly to many of the traditions established by its forebears.
The players, whom a lay person might simply call "extras" -- those who come on and off stage, infrequently and have no speaking or singing roles -- are referred to as "supernumeraries" in the world of opera; while most modern theaters are equipped with sound systems capable of amplifying the human voice, an opera is not an opera unless all of the singers perform without the aid of microphones; this tradition necessitates a method of singing, which results in a tone quite unlike the nasal voices to which fans of popular music are accustomed.
However, while Eichelberger acknowledges all this, the singer sees no reason that opera should be perceived as old and stuffy. Opera, he says, just like all good art, confronts the human condition and has the power to move audiences. All it takes is one strong performance. "If we can get people to the opera, they will come back," he says.
Even if those people are boys on the edge of adolescence.
At 11 years old, Aidan Bannon might not seem like someone who would enjoy the opera. And yet, the Palo Alto boy's eyes light up when talking about his role in "The Magic Flute."
Aidan is a member of the San Francisco-based Ragazzi Boys Chorus. While many of his peers spend their after-school hours playing sports, engaging in clubs or in front of a PlayStation 4, Aidan practices hitting harmonies.
"I wouldn't really call singing a tough sport," Aidan says, before changing his mind. "Actually, it's probably harder than sports. There's so much more that you can mess up on."
Aidan is one of six Ragazzi Boys who were invited to be a part of the West Bay Opera production. From its very first production, "The Magic Flute" has always called for a small chorus of boys to play the characters known as the Three Spirits, who sing the treble lines in the opera.
As such, Stefanie Wilen, the mother of another Ragazzi boy, Jesse, notes that singing in this production is a "once in a lifetime opportunity."
The vast majority of males can only hit notes on the treble cleft prior to adolescence. And considering their age and experience level, Wilen notes that her son and his peers are "at the top of their game as trebles" right now.
Moscovich is certainly pleased to be able fill the role of the Three Spirits with the Ragazzi Boys -- and not only because it is what the original opera calls for. He hopes that having the boys in the performance will help to perpetuate the operatic tradition he loves so much.
"If you come into the theater with your kids, and ... they see other kids on stage, they can automatically imagine themselves on stage," Moscovich says. "It demystifies opera for children, because it shows that other kids are not just able to be on stage, but also can sing very well and can be in it with the grown ups."
Read Mort Levine's review of "The Magic Flute."
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What: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
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It's been a long time, a very long time, since I posted here. A lot has changed/happened in that time.
My oldest is on the brink of proposing to his girl friend, and he works as grill chef at a Cracker Barrel. My daughter is working at a McDonald's, and lives with me. My middle son got his GED, moved to another state and lives with my brother. And my youngest, the one with special needs, is about to begin high school. Oh, and I am once again a single mom...
I am trying to figure out how to plan for his high school course. I feel like I want to focus on preparing him with life skills, focus on hands-on, vocational training, etc. Yet, because I am a single mom, I feel the need for some source of income, and may need to find work out of the home. In this case, he may need something that requires less of my time along side him (maybe video courses or something, since he is still a struggling reader/writer).
What have you all done for your high school aged special needs students?
As a reminder: he is mildly hearing impaired; speech impaired; has expressive receptive language disorder; he's even been "diagnosed" as being "mildly mentally retarded" through a psych eval. He is cognitively challenged.


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Willis Cohoon Campbell opened the Campbell Clinic and helped organize the UT Medical Units. The use of sulfanilamide to prevent infections was his major innovation.
Born in Jackson, Miss., W.C. Campbell was part of the group of prominent Memphis physicians who founded the second Memphis Medical School, which formed a part of the 1911 merger into the University of Tennessee College of Medicine.
William Krauss introduced the oil immersion microscope as a diagnostic tool and would become a faculty member at the UT Medical Units
Dr. William Krauss, who was Memphis' most famous pioneer clinical pathologist, graduated from the Memphis Medical College's two-year program in 1889.
Abraham Flexner's Medical Education in the United States and Canada was published
In 1908 distinguished educator Abraham Flexner was commissioned by Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to complete and the American Medical Association to prepare a report on medical education.
The Medical Units are located in two buildings, Lindsley Hall, formerly the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Y.M.C.A. Building
Lindsley Hall was renamed in honor of J. Berrien Lindsley, M.D., the principal organizer of the University of Nashville Medical Department.
Eve Hall was built behind Lindsley Hall
The right end of the four-story laboratory, Eve Hall, was named for the famous Paul Fitzsimmons Eve, M.D., who aided in establishing the original Medical Schools in Nashville.
The Baptist Hospital opened its doors
A small group of Southern Baptists sweltered in 90-degree temperatures when they formally opened their 150-bed hospital on the edge of town in 1912.
The UTMU acquired Rogers Hall from the Memphis Hospital Medical College, which housed the College of Dentistry until 1919.
Rogers Hall is named after founding dean William E. Rogers, M.D.
Sara Conyers York was the first woman to graduate with an M.D. degree.
After convincing school authorities of her desire to become a physician, York was admitted into medical school at the age of 32.
August H. Wittenborg hired Orren W. Hyman as an assistant professor of histology and embryology.
Emma Hutson Hutchingson was the first woman to graduate from the College of Pharmacy.
When Hutchingson graduated in 1914 the College of Pharmacy was a part of the College of Medicine.
Minnie Enyeart McClellan was the first woman to receive a D.D.S. degree from the College of Dentistry.
Dr. McClellan from the 1915 Volunteer.
Many faculty request leave to enter the military for deployment during World War I; 3 graduates or alumni lost their lives.
A group portrait of UT volunteers.
O.W. Hyman and A.H. Wittenborg donate part of their salaries to keep the College of Medicine open.
It was a time of crisis for the university, as the College of Medicine was in dire financial straits and about to be closed due to lack of students.
Dental Hygiene courses began.
The UT Doctors Football Team was formed by enthusiastic medicine, dental and pharmacy students, which stimulated the declining student enrollments.
Formed with no financial assistance, increased enrollment was credited to the team, which first year's record was three victories, two losses and a tie.
O.W. Hyman became Administrative Director of the UT Medical Units and would exercise control of the campus for the next 40 years.
Dr. Hyman exerted a tremendous influence over the university, raising its profile and standards for more than 48 years of association.
Methodist Hospital opened its doors.
Methodist Hospital held its opening ceremonies for the first Methodist Hospital Building on All Saints' Day, November 1, 1921.
O.W. Hyman appointed Dean of the College of Medicine.
Dr. Hyman remained in the position until 1957.
Winifred Atkinson appointed Director of Nurses for the Memphis City Hospital.
Atkinson immediately improved the curriculum and worked diligently to raise nursing standards. She was instrumental in moving the Nursing School into the University of Tennessee.
The College of Dentistry required one year of college pre-dental work for admission.
In 1924 Robert Sherman Vinsant, DDS was appointed as the Dental Dean and remained in that position until 1932.
Wittenborg Anatomy Building and Goodman House Dormitory were constructed.
The Memphis Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital building opened.
The Memphis Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital was a three-floor brick building located at 1060 Madison Avenue and was opened by several prominent local ophthalmologists and otolaryngologists. E.C. Ellet was prominent in this hospital.
Mooney Library constructed.
The building was named after C.P.J. Mooney, editor of The Commercial Appeal and a UT Trustee.
Crowe Pharmacy Building constructed.
The building was named after Robert L. Crowe Ph. C, whose name is synonymous with the profession of Pharmacy in Tennessee.
The School of Biological Sciences was established, and the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology are divided into the Department of Physiology and the Department of Pharmacology.
This school was ably led by T.P. Nash from 1928 to 1960.
Hyman institutes the four-quarter system that meant all courses were taught in every semester.
Hyman's Four-Quarter Semester system permitted medical and dental students the opportunity to complete their education in three years or sit out one year to earn money. This system kept enrollment consistent.
The School of Pharmacy began to offer a bachelor's degree.
The Crowe Building housed the College of Pharmacy beginning in 1928.
The UTMU acquired the Rex Club, formerly a private club, and renamed it the University Center.
Located at Dunlap and Madison, the Rex Club was the University of Tennessee-Student Alumni Center from 1933-1969.
College of Dentistry follows Medicine in requiring two years of college prior to enrollment.
The pre-dentistry requirements did not reduce the number of students wanting to become dentists. Rogers Hall housed the College.
John Gaston Hospital built with federal fundsto replace the Memphis City Hospital.
Built in 1898, the Memphis City Hospital was also called the City Hospital and provided clinical hospital training for numerous UT Memphis students for many years.
F. June Montgomery hired. He set the standards for student and alumni affairs.
Montgomery was a University of Tennessee Knoxville alumnus who is well known for offering financial aid, part-time jobs, encouragement and advice for students.
Raphael E. Semmes and Francis Murphey founded the Semmes-Murphey Clinic for Neurosurgery.
The Semmes-Murphey Clinic was the first neurosurgical clinic in Memphis and was located in Baptist Hospital.
Lemuel W. Diggs M.D., organized the first blood bank in the South at the John Gaston Hospital.
Dr. Diggs established the blood bank during a time when Memphis had the highest mortality rates for obstetrical patients in the United States caused by loss of blood.
The first edition of Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics published.
Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics is still the most trusted and widely used resource in orthopaedic surgery. It encompasses information about all of the very latest procedures, techniques and instruments.
Thomas F. Gailor Memorial Hospital built as a psychiatric hospital and diagnostic clinic.
The hospital was named for Bishop Thomas Frank Gailor, DD (1856-1935) who was the third Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee, the first president of the National Council of the Episcopal Church in North America and the Chancellor of the University of the South, Sewanee.
The U.S. Public Health Service Laboratory supported research on "sludged blood" of malaria leading to the recommendation of atabrine to replace quinine as the drug of choice.
Ducks were used in this research and their quacking could be heard throughout the Quadrangle.
Nationally acclaimed golfer, Cary Middlecoff, graduated from the UT College of Dentistry, as do many sports figures.
The professional golfer comes from a family of dentists. He won many golf tournaments and is most famous for the U.S. Open Golf Championship in 1949.
Bi-phase invented the External Skeletal Fixation Splint.
West Tennessee State Tuberculosis Hospital opened.
The West Tennessee State Tuberculosis Hospital played an important role in the clinical education of medical students and residents.
Alys Harris Lipscomb named first director of the Radioisotope Unit.
Dr. Lipscomb pioneered the planning and implementation necessary for diagnostic and therapeutic application of radio-nuclides in Memphis in collaboration with Dr. Carl Nurnberger-a U.T. radiation physicist.
College of Dentistry moved from Rogers Hall into the newly built College of Dentistry Building.
James N. Etteldorf, M.D. conducted first peritoneal dialysis studies in children.
Inspired by Dr. Houck, Dr. Etteldorf was an outstanding lecturer in physiology, making both his lectures and laboratory sessions interesting and stimulating to students.
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital opened.
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital functions as the principal teaching hospital for both pediatrics and pedodontics for the UT Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry.
"Pap" smear first used in Memphis in citywide screening for cervical carcinoma.
Dr. Cyrus C Erickson coordinated this project in Memphis that began with 200,000 tests on women between 20 and 50 years of age. Ultimately the project tested 500,000 women.
Lester VanMiddlesworth, M.D., Ph.D. discovered that the thyroid gland tended to store radioactive iodine.
Dr. VanMiddlesworth came to the University of Tennessee in 1946. His reports and methods provided an important, easily measurable method for determining the amount of radioactive fallout throughout the world after atomic or hydrogen bomb testing.
E.H. Crump Memorial Hospital was built.
The hospital was named for the famous Memphis Mayor and political leader, Edward Hull Crump. When the old maternity wing of John Gaston closed, the Crump Hospital became the primary maternity hospital for the City of Memphis.
J. N. Etteldorf began administering an NIH grant that served to develop the pediatric subspecialties in the Department of Pediatrics.
The NIH grant lasted eighteen years, one of the longest in UT history.
The Child Development Center was established.
The Child Development Center was originally called the Mental Retardation Clinic and was established in 1957 through a grant by the U. S. Children's Bureau.
James Hughes, M.D., was the first pediatrician in Memphis to evaluate the usefulness of jet injection.
Native Memphian, Dr. James Hughes, served his internship at John Gaston Hospital and his residency in Pediatrics at both the Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago and the John Gaston Hospital in Memphis.
Andrew Lasslo, M.D., developed and directed the UTHSC "Health Care Perspectives" television and radio series.
Dr. Lasslo was a productive and contributing faculty member to the College of Pharmacy. The television series carried by commercial and public service stations in Tennessee provided the audience with health care policy views of nationally prominent and internationally respected clinical specialists and research scientists.
O.W. Hyman, Ph.D., resigned after 48 years, of which 40 were spent as CEO.
Dr. Hyman retired in 1961 and was given a distinguished farewell dinner by his colleagues and friends. The Hyman Administration building was named for him. An audio recording of the retirement dinner is available on our History and Archives pages.
J.W. Runyan, M.D. developed the decentralized Clinic Network for Memphis and Shelby County.
Dr. Runyan has made outstanding contributions, both as a health professional and as a caring citizen for the Memphis community.
The Wassell Randolph Student-Alumni Center was opened.
The Student-Alumni Center, named for Wassell Randolph in honor of his long dedicated service as a University of Tennessee Trustee, provides private dining rooms, two student lounges, a reception area, student affairs offices and meeting rooms. It is also home to game rooms, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a weight room and an exercise/aerobic area.
Fred Hatch, M.D., developed the first chronic hemodialysis unit at the UTHSC.
Dr. Hatch came to Memphis in 1962. He was the first practicing nephrologist in Tennessee.
Billy S. Arant, Jr., M.D., and Shane Roy, III, M.D., opened the first pediatric hemodialysis unit at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital.
Dr. Roy graduated from the UT College of Medicine and was selected for the 21st Annual Headliners Award by the Memphis Gridiron Show in 1980.
Rhea Seddon, M.D., was selected as the first astronaut surgeon in space.
Dr. Seddon graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in 1973.
Al Farmer, M.D., moved the campus from a semi-annual to an annual admissions policy.
Dr. Farmer (1932-1984) served as Chancellor from 1975-1980. His practice specialty was Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases.
The E.P. and Kate Coleman College of Medicine Building dedicated.
Before her death, Mrs. Kate Coleman made this gift, one of the largest in UT (Memphis) history, in memory of her husband, E. P. Coleman who was a prominent Southeast Missouri farmer, landowner and philanthropist.
The G.H. Stollerman Clinical Branch Library opened its doors in the Coleman Building.
Dr. Stollerman was professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine from 1965-1981.
John Autian, Ph.D., proposed the Biomedical Research Zone in Memphis.
Dr. Autian was the vice chancellor for Research and dean of the Graduate School of Medical Sciences.
New library building completed, later named the Lamar Alexander Building.
This building came to be the home of the Health Sciences Library, the College of Nursing, and Information Technology Services.
The UT Mummy Team did a forensic examination of an Egyptian mummy head.
Using X-rays and other techniques that did not destroy any part of the mummy head, which was acquired from a local family, the team was hoping to discover more about the mummy's life, including questions about her health, diet, embalming methods and cause of death.
The Memphis Center for Stone Disease opened using extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy.
The center contained new advancements rendered to treat kidney stones. Located in the William F. Bowld Hospital, it was a collaborative medical service.
Dr. Peter Doherty of UT Memphis is the city's first Nobel Prize winner.
His pioneering research in immunology led to a better understanding of organ rejection after transplants, better comprehension of genetic susceptibility to disease, and new approaches to vaccines. He is honored with one of the world's first holographic monuments.
UTHSC and the University of Memphis issue first joint degrees from the UT School of Biomedical Engineering and the U of M Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Frank A. DiBianca is a 30-year UT employee and he chaired this department for many years.
Health Sciences Library presented with a work entitled, "Sickle Cell Disease Photographs and Photomicrographs from 60 Years of Study (1932 - 1993)" - a 12-volume compilation collected by Dr. Lemuel W. Diggs.
This work illustrates photographically the effects of sickle cell disease on every organ system of the body.
UT Memphis researchers announce brain stem cell breakthrough, successfully reproducing adult human brain cells in vitro.
Drs. Valery Kukekov (left) and Tatyana Ignatova are leading an effort to combine the fields of tumor cell and stem cell biology in a new program established at UTHSC.
Regional Biocontainment Lab funded
In 2003, UTHSC was awarded nearly $18 million in federal funding from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) to be used to build a laboratory on the UT-Baptist Research Park site for biomedical and biodefense research and research training. The UTHSC RBL is one of only 13 NIAID-funded Regional Biocontainment Laboratories in the country.
First streptococcal vaccine to be tested in humans in more than 25 years
Dr. James Dale is a co-author of a paper that will appear in the Journal of the American Medical Association describing a phase 1 clinical trial of a group A streptococcal vaccine that was invented in Memphis, Tennessee at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of Tennessee.
College of Pharmacy and Khon Kaen University of Thailand sign 10-year affiliation agreement to promote graduate study
This affiliation agreement will make it possible for Ph.D. students in the Pharmacy Administration Graduate Program at Khon Kaen University's College of Pharmacy to travel to Memphis for a three-month period and train under one of the professors in the UT College of Pharmacy Health Science Administration Graduate program.
UT Center of Excellence for Children in State Custody received a Psychiatric Services Achievement Award from the American Psychiatric Association.
The State of Tennessee has designated our program a Center of Excellence for Children in State Custody and our services extend to 16 East Tennessee counties.
For the fifth consecutive year, the Academy of Student Pharmacists (ASP) was named "Chapter of the Year" by the American Pharmacists Association.
The first ever Executive Dean for the College of Medicine -- Steve J. Schwab, M.D. -- joins UTHSC to supervise all three COM campuses statewide.
Cancer research building opens in Memphis
Opened in September 2007, our cancer research building is the first new building to be constructed on the University of Tennessee Health Science Center campus in 17 years. The building houses more than 65 investigators in 32 wall-less research labs, designed to encourage collaboration on interdisciplinary basic and translational cancer research.
The Honorable Howard H. Baker, Jr., former U.S. senator, received the first honorary degree ever conferred by UTHSC.
Baker was granted the Doctorate of Healthcare Leadership at the UTHSC graduation on Friday, May 25 at the FedEx Forum.
Groundbreaking for new College of Pharmacy on UT-Baptist Research Park, second building to be constructed on the site.
Dean Gourley and P4 student pharmacist Eboni Shipp discuss the location of the student auditorium in the new college of pharmacy building (left). An artist rendering of the new building (bottom right).
The Crisis Center, a 24-hour telephone hotline for those in distress, relocated to space on the UTHSC Memphis campus.
Located in the heart of the Memphis Medical Center near downtown, UTHSC is providing the space to the non-profit organization at no charge.
UTHSC raises nearly $16,000 in relief for Haiti earthquake victims and nearly $7,000 for flood relief in Pakistan.
Faculty, staff and students brought cash and checks to three different campus locations between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
First African-American Dean named in 99-year history of UTHSC.
Dr. Noma Bennett Anderson, PhD, will be the fifth permanent dean to lead the College of Allied Health Sciences since its founding in 1972. The college annually enrolls about 560 students in its 15 professional degree programs that offer career choices in Audiology and Speech Pathology, Clinical Laboratory Sciences (Cytotechnology, Histotechnology and Medical Technology), Dental Hygiene, Health Informatics and Information Management, Occupational Therapy, and Physical Therapy. Classroom choices include traditional, online and distance-learning options.
UT Baptist Research Park will be completed in six phases over a 10-year period.
UT-Baptist Research Park is a state-of-the-art campus designed for the highly specialized needs of Memphis' growing bioscience community. The park will feature 1.2 million square feet of laboratory, research, education, and business development space located on a 10-acre campus in the heart of the Memphis Medical Center.
New Pharmacy building in Memphis expected to open in the summer
In 2010, the Plough Foundation awarded a grant of $4.5 million to the College of Pharmacy. The grant will be used to establish the Plough Center for Sterile Drug Delivery Systems, a more than 5,800-square-foot facility on the sixth floor of the new UT College of Pharmacy Building. The building is under construction on the UT-Baptist Research Park, which is adjacent to the UTHSC main campus.


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Eating & Thinking…..
Well Memorial Day has come and gone so I guess it's officially "Season". However, we are still playing with food and using unsuspecting guests as guinea pigs.
Now many of you know that at Aysgarth (and in our own kitchen) we try to use local, scratch and organic food stuffs. Very little is premade here and if it is we tend to know more about it's origins than you might want to!
Our primary suppliers are Crown of Maine Co-op (http:/www.crownofmainecoop.com/), Native Maine Produce and Specialty Foods (www.nativemaineproduce.com). and of course our local Hannaford's (hey, at least it's a New England company!)
Crown of Maine is a grass roots distribution co-op for Maine Organic Farmers and products made from Maine ingredients. Crown covers most of our meat and cheese needs and fresh produce including my beloved Ramps and Fiddle heads. I guess they are my "farmers market" that delivers. It was a joy to discover Crown of Main as our local Farmer's market is Sunday mornings and that just doesn't fit into the B&B concept – maybe I could introduce DIY breakfasts on Sundays to go shopping myself.
I posted this picture on our Facebook page recently in pure celebration of getting these freshly (and sustainably) foraged beauties (not sure how they got this approved, but they did so happy, happy, joy, joy!). I only discovered these two seasonal gems on moving here to Maine and they herald the arrival of Spring – and boy was it slow in coming this year!
Anyway, it got me pondering on food and our local agricultural economy.
With the end of May we have seen the demise of MOO Milk and milk processing operation that was created out of necessity when HOOD Dairy cancelled their contracts with Maine Organic Milk Farmers. Unfortunately, the need to upgrade and improve their processing facilities has proved impossible financially (http://bangordailynews.com/2014/05/16/business/maine-organic-milk-producer-moo-milk-to-close/)
Our license requires us to obtain food from licensed producers, so it's a bit more complex than just feeding ourselves. Companies such as Crown of Maine and Native Maine Produce and Specialty Foods are essential to my being able to provide you with the food I want to serve – no Sarah Lee danish here – and support my Local Economy. We also participate in a Community Farm Share from Heart of Eden Farm right here on MDI (I've waited a couple of years to get onto this one) and participate in HUB of Bar Harbor's Healthy Main Streets Program through Steve's job at the Town.
It is sad and ironic to see our producers becoming a victim of their own success due to limited state resources, but encouraging to see that Mainers are all about supporting their farmers (http://http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=fe16bc4afebd5deb334a7c6ec&id=254d123357&e=acac7a44c4 – This is Marada's cover letter from my weekly Crown of Maine Co-op availability newsletter)
Of course having "waxed lyrical" about all this wonderful food, let see how I handle it all come summertime when everything kicks into high production – maybe you'll find a complimentary bunch of Kale to welcome you to your room!


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Continuing our occasional series of roundups of notable ineptitude in our world, how about the news that Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder is "very upset" by Mitt Romney's comments about the 47 percent. Now, my first mentor in Washington, the great M. Stanton Evans, explained to me when I was 22 years old that when there is a hot political controversy, the first thing to do is to find out what rock stars think about it—people like Bono (though Stan explained to me recently on the phone that he liked Bono better when he was still with Cher). Because rock stars are Very Important People. Just ask them—and their fans—and they'll tell you so. Stan reminded me that Katy Perry weighed in on Obamacare with the enlightened opinion that "health care should be free." Surely this is correct. On the other hand, Stan wanted to ask Katy Perry why Katy Perry concerts aren't free. Shouldn't rock concerts be free, too? Especially since the people who perform are So Important. And Wise. If Romney really wants to upset rockers, he should propose "Rockercare," with price controls on rock concerts, along with mandates and subsidies for less appreciated musical genres such as polka. Couldn't happen to a more deserving group of posers.
This story is just too much fun: Obama's (and Jerry Brown's) dreams of high-speed rail look to be coming undone by . . . environmental impact statements. Yup. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of do-gooders.
So, remember the old Milton Friedman/Ronald Reagan joke about how if the Soviet Union took over Saudi Arabia after a few years there'd be a shortage of sand? Well guess what? Venezuela, which has one of the largest proven oil reserves in the world, is having to import oil and petroleum products because their socialized oil industry is so corrupt and inept. Couldn't happen to a more loathsome bunch of socialist twits.
Finally, from our friends at the John William Pope Center in North Carolina, a list of the top ten most dubious majors: "You Majored in What?" Back in my college days people used to joke about "Underwater Basketweaving" as a frivolous major, but did you know that at Duke University you can major in Canadian Studies? Well, considering it is Duke, I suppose majoring in Canadian Studies would make you more sensible, and maybe more employable, than Criminology as it was taught there a few years back. The other nine on the list sound crazy, but actually might be useful, like Poultry Science at NC State University. I want my buffalo wings done by the best science available!


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Officers under fire
Officers from the Orange Police Department Narcotics Division, the Pinehurst Police Department and the Orange County Pct. 2 Constable's Office executed a search warrant at 2309 Riverside Dr. in Orange, only to be met with gunfire, according to reports from the OPD.
Information from the agency states that, upon officers knocking on the door and announcing their presence, someone inside of the residence fired a shot at the officers. No police personnel was injured, though, as the fired round lodged in the door frame. Officers "forcibly" entered the residence, which was fortified with iron security bars on the doors and windows, and subsequently arrested two subjects without further incident.
During the search, officers discovered crack cocaine, powder cocaine, marijuana, pills, stolen property and two semi-automatic pistols - one of which was determined to be the one used to fire at the officers. In addition, officers seized a digital scale, baggies and assorted paraphernalia used for the distribution of drugs, a report from OPD detailed. The occupants of the residence, 34-year-old David Glen Mays and 28-year-old Tiffany Thompkins were charged with a variety of offenses, including attempted capital murder and possession of a controlled substance.


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Send in the iPhone clones, and this one is the most blatant ripoff we've seen yet, even more so than the Meizu MiniOne. Seen on a Chinese auction site, this one touts itself as being "more formidable than the iPhone," calling itself the "Love Feng Mobile Phone." It's just the kind of cheap knockoff we love to hate. Take the jump for a gallery and more specs.
From what we can gather, its makers think this is better than the iPhone because it accepts microSD cards, and it says here it runs Windows XP and has a 2-megapixel camera on board. And hey, it has 3D sound! At least they're not claiming it's a smartphone. [Taibao.com]


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text: Vine-dripping Mayan ruins, active volcanoes and legendary point breaks—with attractions like these, you'd think El Salvador would be jam-packed with tour buses and resorts. But, due to a long-gone violent past and its proximity to bigger tourist draws, travelers tend to skip over this small Central American country—which means you'll get it all to yourself. Trek past wild orchids as you search for spider monkeys and pumas in the cloud-forest canopy of Parque Nacional Montecristo-el Trifinio. Hike through the colonial towns and wildflower-littered landscapes of the Ruta de Las Flores, making time to sip some famous coffee and relax in a hot spring. Hang out in leafy plazas and hip lounges in cosmopolitan San Salvador. Attempt to surf Central America's greatest break at Punta Roca, or just string up a hammock and kick back in Playa El Tunco. Do it all for a fraction of the fuss—and wash it down with a cup of Horchata. Now that's El Salvador living.


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Our seasonal menu offers the best classic British dishes to indulge in this Winter. So settle in at The Chequers in Oxford for some seriously tasty fayre. To view our Allergen information please see below.
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Big News from Washington tonight concerning Osama Bin Laden. Osama Bin Laden has been killed. Osama Bin Laden, the man presumed responsible for 9/11 on the World's Trade Center in New York City. The U.S. reports they have his body. Click here to see the statement from President Obama. Bin Laden was at the top of the US Most Wanted List. We will keep you updated as we get more information -- more after the jump.


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Science at the Museum: Building the Trees of Life main content.
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To walk the fourth floor of the Museum — peering at the jagged "teeth" of armored fish Dunkleosteus, ducking under the 23-foot wingspan of the flying reptile Pteranodon, studying the long curved tusks of the elephant relative Mammuthus — is, in a sense, to walk the tree of life.
Each branching point represents the arrival of an evolutionary innovation — jaws, water-tight eggs, hooves, respectively — that unites one group of animals and distinguishes them from lineages that lack the feature. Known as synapomorphies, or shared traits derived from a common ancestor, these are the tracks of evolution.
Scientists have used trees to order life since before Charles Darwin first scribbled a spiky diagram in his notebook. In the 1950s, German biologist Willi Hennig formally proposed that trees of life should reflect evolutionary relationships among organisms, founding cladistics: a method for grouping organisms into ancestor-descendent clades, from the Greek word for "branch," based on shared, derived features. But it took a Museum scientist, ichthyologist Gareth Nelson, to disseminate the idea among English-language biologists. Together with students and colleagues at the Museum — including another ichthyologist, Donn Rosen, paleontologists Eugene Gaffney and Niles Eldredge, ornithologist Joel Cracraft, and invertebrate specialists Norman Platnick and Randall T. Schuh – Nelson steadfastly argued the case for cladistics as the tool to test classification during academic talks, in research papers, and even on napkins over meals.
So began the "cladistics wars" of the 1960s and 1970s that pitted those who build trees with clades against biologists who favored competing schools of taxonomy: phenetics, which does not use evolutionary relationships and instead relies on an expert to determine groupings using observable traits; and evolutionary systematics, which considers evolutionary relatedness in a less rigorous way.
"The Museum was the hub of the taxonomy universe during the 1970s and 1980s," says Curator Ward Wheeler. "Cladistics changed everything and brought true hypothesis testing that maps evolutionary paths onto the Tree of Life."
Seminal work that applied cladistics to classification during this time included Gaffney's paper on fossil turtles, which was published by the Museum.
"I was a grad student in Arizona when Gene Gaffney's 1975 Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History was published," says Curator Darrel Frost, a herpetologist. "It blew everything out of the water."
Cladistics is now the commonly used taxonomic system, and many Museum scientists have spent their careers using evolutionary relationships to refine the Tree of Life, from trunk to the twigs. While cladistics was initially limited to analyzing morphological, or observable, characteristics, two recent technological leaps — DNA sequencing and the power of supercomputing — have allowed scientists to produce ever-more intricate and testable cladograms, with significant applications that include drug development and conservation initiatives.
"We couldn't design drugs or vaccines for pathogens without understanding the relationships of organisms and the evolutionary process that produced the tree," says Curator Rob DeSalle.
New streams of funding from federal initiatives such as the Assembling the Tree of Life (AToL) project from the National Science Foundation, secured in part by the efforts of Museum scientists, is furthering these research efforts.
"Building trees is now a big enterprise," says Cracraft. "It is also spawning a huge amount of work in comparative behavior, community evolution, and comparative biology. The ink was barely dry on our tree for South American birds last year when ecologists asked us for help to address key questions in environmental science."
For more about research at the Museum, visit amnh.org/science.
A version of this story originally appeared in the Winter issue of Rotunda, the magazine for Museum Members.


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What a special year! Not only is this the 25th anniversary of the Festival but it is also a 100th birthday celebration for the famous playwright.
Tennessee Williams held New Orleans dear to his heart and often referred to her as his spiritual home.
Each year, actors, playwrights, poets, writers, and fans come together celebrate his life and works.This 5 day event is filled with art, live music, panel discussions, poetry readings, movies and much more. One of the most cherished event is the famous Stanley and Stella Shouting contest.


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CIA Says Area 51 Exists, But Forget About UFOs
The storied spot in the Nevada desert known by science-fiction fans, UFO chasers and plane-spotters as Area 51 is real, according to a document recently declassified by the Central Intelligence Agency.
George Washington University's National Security Archive obtained a document from the CIA about the history of the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft under a public records request and released it this week. While it acknowledges Area 51's existence, there is no mention of the government storing wrecked alien spacecraft there as movies like "Independence Day" have fantasized.


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Joint stag
Fergie and Josh Duhamel are getting married this weekend. Apparently they're treating it like Brad and Jen styles back in the day. Top secret, location to be determined, guests will only be text messaged the morning of for the venue details.
For Fergie and Josh? Who the hell are you?
So anyway, last night the two celebrated their stags together at the Dakota Bar in Santa Monica. Fergie stayed true to herself, hitting it so hard she had to be held up by 4 people as she was leaving. Reminds me of the Junos in Halifax three years ago. She and Filthy Scab Pamela Anderson got so blow cranked that the next morning, at the airport, she also had to be assisted onto the plane.
Given that she's probably not eating to starve herself down to wedding dress weight, and working out like a fiend, I can't imagine it took very long to bomb her out of her mind last night.
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If you're a fan of Legos and robots — and, really, who isn't? — you'll love Lego's new Mindstorms EV3 robot set.
The EV3 represents Lego's second major update to its Mindstorms system since it first started selling robot kits some 15 years ago. The update represents a conscious effort by the company to make Mindstorms both more fun for kids and a more powerful system for robotics enthusiasts.
The company has succeeded on both counts. The EV3 is a bit pricier than I'd like, but it offers a lot of play, educational and creative opportunities for everyone from young kids to adults.
Like previous Mindstorms systems, the EV3 is built around an electronic "brick" that contains a computer processor, onboard memory, a small display and various ports. The brick serves as the brains of your robots, storing programs that drive attached motors and directing their reactions to information from connected sensors.
The EV3's brick has a more powerful processor than its predecessor, meaning it should be able to run more complicated programs. Perhaps more importantly, it has significantly more storage space, plus the ability to add even more through a miniSD card slot. On previous versions, you couldn't store more than a handful of programs on the brick before you had to start deleting some to make space for new ones; that shouldn't be a problem any longer.
The EV3 comes with two large motors that were basically designed for turning wheels and a midsized one that's designed to rotate attachments, like arms or propellers. Some Mindstorms fans may miss having the third large motor that Lego shipped with the previous model, but I think most users will appreciate the capabilities of the new, smaller motor. For example, one of the sample robots for which Lego provides building instructions uses the new motor to turn a snakelike head, something that would have been more difficult with the bigger motor.
Lego ships the EV3 with three sensors: a color-detecting camera, a touch sensor and an infrared detector. The first two sensors are basically iterations of ones that came with the previous model and allow users to create robots that respond when seeing particular colors or when touching an object.
The infrared sensor is new. When paired with an included infrared remote control, it allows users to create their own remote-controlled vehicles, creatures and robots without having to get deeply into programming. The remote control includes four channels, which allows it to send signals to up to four motors attached to the EV3's brick. So you can move a vehicle forward and backward, rotate an attachment or make a creature turn its head.
My kids and I had fun steering a Lego snake that we made and driving around a robot with treads and a spinning propeller.
The EV3 takes the idea of remotely controlling robots an extra step with a new app that will be available for iPhones, iPads and Android devices. You can use the app, which connects to the EV3 over Bluetooth, to control any one of five robots for which Lego provides instructions.
You can also customize it to control any robot you create. The app utilizes the touch-screens and motion detectors in smartphones and tablets, allowing you to trigger different functions on your vehicle or robot by shaking the device or tilting it one way or another. For example, the snake we built rattled its tail when we shook our iPad.
Lego is releasing another app that could prove useful to robot builders. The app, which at launch will only be able for Apple (AAPL) and Android tablets, provides 3-D building instructions for the five basic Lego-designed robot models.
If you've ever pored over a Lego building guide with your kids and struggled to distinguish particular pieces or determine their placement, you'll appreciate being able to rotate a virtual model on a screen, zoom in on particular sections and tap on particular parts to identify them. I only wish the app provided instructions on how to build more than just five models.
In addition to releasing new apps, Lego has also revised the software you use to create programs for the EV3 to make it easier to use. One cool new trick: The new software can keep track of a robot's progress through a particular program, allowing users to figure out more easily the cause of any errors.
The new kit isn't perfect. At $350, it's not only pricey but $70 more expensive than its predecessor. While it supports Wi-Fi, it doesn't have a built-in Wi-Fi radio. Instead, you'll have to plug a Wi-Fi radio into its USB port. Unfortunately, depending on how you build your robot, you can easily block that port, because it's located on one of the sides of the brick. The battery compartment has a similar problem; it's located on the back of the brick, an area which is often inaccessible in completed robots.
But the EV3 is worthy update to the Mindstorms line. I wish it were less expensive, but my kids and I are still eager to get one of our own.
Contact Troy Wolverton at 408-840-4285 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him at www.mercurynews.com/troy-wolverton or Twitter.com/troywolv.
What: Lego Mindstorms EV3 robot-making kit
Likes: New "brick" includes more powerful processor, far more storage and supports Wi-Fi; new IR sensor and remote allow users to make remote-controlled creatures and vehicles; new remote-control app allows users to create custom controls for their own robot designs; new tablet provides cool 3-D building instructions for basic robot models.
Dislikes: Pricey; Wi-Fi isn't built-in; placement of battery compartment and USB ports makes them hard to access in completed robots.
Specs: Includes one robotic brick; two large and one medium-sized servomotors; three sensors; cables; infrared remote control and more than 550 Lego pieces
Price: $350
Web: www.lego.com


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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — With so much focus on Dwight Howard's back and whether or not he would be ready for the start of the Los Angeles Lakers' regular season, few people worried about Kobe Bryant.
But with the opening night contest against the Dallas Mavericks just days away, it's Bryant who could be in danger of missing the game with injury. Both of the Lakers' stars sat out Wednesday night's preseason loss to the Clippers and Bryant could, according to Lakers coach Mike Brown (via ESPNLosAngeles.com), be held out of the game against the Mavericks with a strained right foot:
"I don't know if he'll be ready," Brown said after the Lakers 97-91 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday. "So yeah, I guess there is question. I'm just going to wait for [Lakers trainer] Gary Vitti to tell me he can play because there's nothing I can do about it until they release him anyway."
Bryant sat out of Wednesday's game and has already been ruled out of Thursday's exhibition finale in San Diego against the Sacramento Kings. According to a team spokesman, he spent most of Wednesday's game getting treatment on his foot in the training room, and did not come out to the Lakers bench during the game.
… Bryant's injury means that the Lakers' new-look starting five with him, Howard, Steve Nash,Pau Gasol and Metta World Peace will have played just one game together in the preseason before the regular season opens at home against the Dallas Mavericks on Oct. 30. Jodie Meeks started in Bryant's place on Wednesday.
"Obviously it would have been great if they would have had more on-court time against a different-colored jersey," Brown said. "But, again, I'm a long-term guy and not a short-term guy, so, they'll be ready when it counts."
That clearly excludes the preseason. The loss to the Clippers dropped the Lakers to 0-7, the worst preseason start in franchise history. Of course, none of the wins or losses accumulated before the start of regular season mean anything for a team with designs on competing for a championship.
But the one game played together for the Lakers' projected starting five is not a whole lot of time to work out whatever kinks there might be. Now they'll have to get that done at some point during the first month or so of the real season.


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Interop: HP Talks Virtual Application Networks with DreamWorks
In her Interop keynote, HP Networking General Manager Bethany Mayer pushed HP's vision of software-defined networks.
Above: HP Networking General Manager Bethany Mayer
It takes too long to deploy applications on legacy networks, Mayer said, because there are so many different discrete steps that it takes. Today's networks are rigid and are designed for a single tenant, user type, and location. In addition, each box in a network has to be managed manually, which takes time and is prone to errors.
The company instead pushed its FlexNetwork Architecture and its recently-announced network virtualization plans. This uses a single end-to-end control plane across the entire network, with the goal of setting up "virtual application networks."
As part of this, each application needs to be characterized—for instance, understanding that Exchange is very "chatty" on the network. Networks need to be virtualized, creating multitenant, on-demand topology and device-independent provisions. Networks also need automated orchestration so devices can be managed as a group.
Mayer explained this allows an Exchange VM in minutes rather than months.
As part of her talk, she brought up Derek Chan, head of global technology operations for DreamWorks Animation.
Above: Chan and Mayer
Chan explained that DreamWorks now has five releases every two years, with eight to 10 films in production concurrently. Each frame has hundreds of assets and can have thousands of control points, so it requires a lot of computing power. The company has been an HP customer for 10 years, and is now moving to HP networking.
It has studios in Redwood City and Glendale CA, as well as Bangalore, India, and these will all be connected using an HP switch cloud in Las Vegas. Chan talked about using features such as "virtual switches," where multiple physical switches look like a single device to the network to eliminate downtime.
He showed two clips from the company's upcoming Madagascar 3.


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File of a view of the Merck & Co. campus in Linden, New Jersey
By Ransdell Pierson
(Reuters) - Merck & Co (NYS:MRK), taking a cue from rival drugmakers that have slashed research spending to bolster earnings, said it will cut annual operating costs by $2.5 billion (1.5 billion pounds) and eliminate 8,500 jobs, or more than 10 percent of its global workforce.
Merck, whose shares rose 2.3 percent, said it aims to narrow its focus to products with the best chance of winning regulatory approval and achieving substantial sales.
It will jettison research products with less likelihood of success. It plans to pull the plug on some drugs already in late-stage trials, and will license some products to other companies.
The job cuts would be in addition to expected remaining cuts of 7,500 positions from a 2011 restructuring that involved elimination of 13,000 positions - largely of administrative personnel but also related to sale or closure of manufacturing sites.
Merck, like Pfizer Inc (NYS:PFE), AstraZeneca Plc (LSE:AZN) and Sanofi (PAR:SAN) in recent years, is reaching again for its axe because of competition from generic medicines, stalled sales growth of its important drugs and failures or delays for high-profile experimental drugs.
But half the job cuts from Merck's new restructuring will come from research and development, which has been a protected sphere for the drugmaker, which has long been renowned for its research prowess but has stumbled in recent years.
"We're not doing indiscriminate cuts in research and development, we're doing surgery around where we should invest," Merck Chief Executive Kenneth Frazier said in an interview.
Frazier said the company is now evaluating which drugs or disease areas to discard and which to keep, but few decisions have yet been made.
"And by attacking our cost bases, we will free up resources for mergers and acquisitions and business development," Frazier said, noting the company's strong interest in buying new drugs or licensing them from other drugmakers.
About 40 percent of the cost-cutting from the new initiative, or $1 billion, will be realized by the end of 2014. The cuts will come equally from marketing and administrative areas and from research and development, Merck said. The rest of the cuts will be completed by the end of 2015, it said.
One of the more worrisome challenges facing Merck is slowing sales growth for its biggest franchise, the diabetes drugs Januvia and Janumet which have combined annual sales of $6 billion. They have been Merck's growth engine over the past three years but are stalling due to similar rival drugs and newer classes of diabetes treatments.
And sales of Merck's former top seller, its asthma drug Singulair, have plunged 80 percent due to generic competition, and other Merck medicines will also face cheaper generics soon. Singulair sales reached $6 billion a year at their peak.
Pfizer Inc (NYS:PFE) became an industry trendsetter in aggressive cost-cutting in early 2011 when it announced plans to chop annual research spending by as much as $3 billion. It went on to close numerous research sites and has halted or curtailed spending for research on drugs for allergy, urology, internal medicine and other therapeutic areas requiring large sales forces.
Wall Street has cheered Pfizer's moves, especially since the company has launched many new medicines since the changes, including cancer drugs. Moreover, it has divested its animal health and infant formula businesses, and plans to return much of the proceeds to investors through share buybacks.
Merck dug in its heels after Pfizer's dramatic streamlining, saying it planned to hold steady with its research spending in order to advance its promising medicines through clinical trials.
Alex Arfaei, an analyst with BMO Capital Markets, said the cost-cutting will be helpful in the short term, especially next year, when he expects Merck revenues to be flat due to increased pressure on Januvia.
But he said he was concerned that Merck was putting too much faith in a handful of experimental drugs, including a new type of cancer drug called a PD-1 inhibitor that works by boosting the immune system, a new type of treatment for Alzheimer's disease called a BACE inhibitor, and improved versions of its Gardasil vaccine to prevent cervical cancer and its treatment for hepatitis C.
"Overall, today's announcement makes us more cautious about the potential of Merck's pipeline" of experimental drugs, Arfaei said.
Merck in April replaced its long-time research chief, Peter Kim, with Roger Perlmutter, a former Amgen Inc (AMGN.O) research head who is expected to better acquaint Merck with biotech drugs - injectable drugs made in living cells that have become standard treatments for a wide array of diseases, including cancer and rheumatoid arthritis.
Merck has focused mainly on development of conventional drugs, or pills, although it is a also leader in vaccines.
The company had several triumphs under Kim, including development of Januvia, its Gardasil vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, its Zostavax shingles vaccine, and its Isentress treatment for HIV.
But more recently, it has been hurt by failed trials of cholesterol treatment Tredaptive and migraine drug telcagepant, and a regulatory delay for a new type of osteoporosis medicine called odanacatib.
Moreover, cost savings from Merck's 2009 purchase of rival Schering Plough have mostly dried up and are no longer able to boost company earnings.
Merck said it still expects full-year 2013 earnings of $3.45 to $3.55 per share, excluding special items. It earned $3.82 per share last year.
It plans to take restructuring charges of $900 million to $1 billion this year, mostly in the third quarter.
The company on Tuesday also said it plans by 2015 to move its global headquarters from Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, to existing facilities in Kenilworth, New Jersey. It previously planned to move its headquarters to Summit, New Jersey.
Merck said it decided it could achieve more cost savings by closing its Summit site and its main Whitehouse Station facility.
Merck shares have risen 17.3 percent this year, in line with advances seen for the ARCA Pharmaceutical Index of large U.S. and European drugmakers.
(Reporting by Ransdell Pierson; Editing by John Wallace, Bernard Orr)